Battlestar Galactica

Mr. President, there remain many hostile feelings amongst our warriors. The likelihood of an unfortunate incident with all those pilots in the sky at once?

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Good luck! [To Adama's incredulous/cynical look] If they don't succeed, I die, too.

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Starbuck: Yes! I do understand! I just don't see the sense of dwelling on what might go wrong! (quieter) It's a lousy way to live. Lieutenant Starbuck: [realizing] You – think it came from Earth, don't you? Captain Apollo: [chuckling] Well, what would you expect, a momentous message? No, we'll just pick up routine radio or video scans. Nothing extraordinary... to them, anyway.

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Asimov: Well, I liked Star Wars. I thought Battlestar Galactica was such a close imitation of Star Wars, emphasizing the less attractive portions, that I was a little impatient with it. Asimov: Battlestar Galactica for instance, started off with twenty to thirty minutes of space battles which looked exactly like air battles in World War I. You could swear that the space ships were surrounded by air the way the maneuvered. One felt it was unworthy. SWA Magazine: The Vipers in Battlestar Galactica look like jets. Is this a realistic design for the future? Asimov: It is as if people in the 1880s were writing fantasy stories about airplanes of the future and they had the pilots lean back at the wheel and yell "whoa" and the airplane came to a halt in mid-air.

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