Frack

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For the vulgar term in the Re-imagined Series, see frak.


"Frack" is a Colonial expletive, roughly analagous to "shit" or even the milder "rats" or "darn". Its subversive value, exploited far more extensively in the Re-imagined Series, is that it sounds like a variant of "fuck", and in the latter series it actually conveys that meaning.

There are two main ways to spell the term, but "frack" is how it appears in the Writer's Guide, dated October, 2, 1978.

Usage by episode[edit]

"Frack" appears only seventeen times in the Original Series. Most of the time, the expression is used by Starbuck.

  • In "Greetings from Earth", Boxey says, "Oh, frack," in a classroom where Athena is teaching a group of children, loudly enough for the entire room to hear, but there is no indication that he was punished or reprimanded.