I enjoy that the Vipers went from a clusterfuck to an organized attack formation in about three seconds as soon as someone said there was a Raider.

Saul both disparages and commends Starbuck in the same breath haha.

Fun Info: For those who don't read the BSG comics and novels, Admiral Cain (while using the Pegasus) ended up actually losing in the war games repeatedly against older smaller Battlestars. The reason? Because she was incredibly inflexible, and not able to adapt to changing/unconventional tactics. She was too by the book. Other Captains, and ship commanders secretly made fun of her for inability to win with a larger more modern ship. Also, we find out that even though it's almost twice as big as the Jupiter class, the Mercury class's extra interior is mostly taken up by fabrication facilities (not weapons). So being bigger in this case is not necessarily an advantage. The Mercury class was considered a "test-bed" for new technologies (like on-board Viper factories), but was never intended to be mass produced as it was absurdly expensive. So only a few were made. Many Admirals considered the Mercury-class to be bloated, and preferred the smaller and cheaper Valkyrie-class (and older Jupiter class refits). Being posted to a highly expensive Mercury-class was considered a "prestige" post (but one with no fleet command authority). The Fleet Admirals stuck Admiral Cain on the Pegasus to "honor" her, but secretly they all thought she was crazy and unfit for commanding large fleets. They wanted her someplace where she wouldn't be able to make important decisions.

Love the difference in reaction in Adama and Cain when Starbuck jumps in. Adama "Identify." is simple, effective, "Let's deal with this new problem right now." Cain on the other hand takes time to chew out one of the crew for not detecting it sooner.

I love how Col is relieved instead of furious that it's just Starbuck on "another one of her crazy stunts"

Beautiful shot when all the Vipers rotate to engage the "Cylon"

You gotta love Apollo in this scene, he was like: "how do i stop these fool's from kill us all? Oh, i know I am just gonna throw all of them onto Starbuck, she can take them!" XD

"We are all friendlies! So lets just be....FRIENDLY!"

I just love that exasperated look on Kara's face when she jumps back and witnesses the passive-aggressive furball that's going on between the Vipers of Galactica and Pegasus. "I was gone for ten minutes ffs..."

Lee smiles for he knows, one way or the other, he’s gonna wreck Pegasus.

0:55 I love Apollo's face when he gets pulled on. Like, "dude, that so unnecessary!"

In the original script, the vipers were supposed to actually shoot at each other. But Moore decided that would be a step way too far. The crews would never be able to work together after that.

3:11 That's one of my favourite moments in the entire series. I love how both groups of fighters are prepared to start shooting holes in one another, but immediately turnabout face and group together to engage the enemy.

What happens at 3:10 when all ships reorient is on of the most perfect moments in Sci Fi. Ever.

I love that shot where they all change course to engage the "Raider," they just drop everything.

Great example where a common enemy causes humans to set aside their differences

"His wingman kept requesting permission to fire; somebody screws up in a situation like this, we're going to be in the biggest naval battle since the Jutland." -Admiral Josh Painter, "The Hunt for Red October" This line went through my mind watching this scene.

I just noticed that they only picked up Blackbird on DRADIS because it transmitted a message, which is also why they couldn’t immediately ID it. As Kara said “It’s a frakin’ stealth ship”

3:03 - it's so satisfying to see them joining hand to hand in the end the moment they heard the "cylon raider" was on top of them xdd

I love Saul’s face @ 1:45. Great acting! Despite the alcoholism and all the other struggles, Saul is a dutiful officer and Bill’s best friend. He just stands quietly at the ready. He knows if Bill gives the order, it will destroy humanity and yet he is ready to execute without hesitation. Unlike Cain’s officer’s who follow out of fear, Galactica follow Adama out of respect, brotherhood, and mutual caring.

The mark 2 vipers from Galactica vs the mark 7’s from Pegasus was a nice touch. Under scores the tech difference between the battestars while making it easier for the audience to track who is who.

"Starbuck to all Vipers! DO NOT FIRE. REPEAT, DO NOT FIRE! I am a friendly, okay? We're all friendlies! So let's just be.... friendly!!! 🤣 Classic Kara Thrace!

I love the way the radio messages sound, just that right amount of garbled to make it sounds cool but still understandable.

There's just something so emotionally amazing watching the Vipers, that had previously been flying around in utter chaos and threatening one another, all turn in concert and then fly together as one unit against their perceived common enemy. A statement of common humanity and a recognition that the pettiness of the conflict of the moment is insignificant to the threat we share. There's a lot of something there, methinks.

For those of you wondering how those Vipers were doing tight maneuvers without colliding, each fleet command, meaning all Vipers from the same Battlestar have auto proximity avoidance system. This is for tactical purposes during combat engagements where the last thing you want to worry about is bumping into your wingman. It's also designed to prevent friendly fire from making contact. This system can be manually turned off, at the discretion of the fighter pilot. Please note, all vipers from Galactica and Pegasus had their proximity avoidance system active. They never intended to shoot each other, which the director purposely didn't inform the viewer to falsely heighten the stress tension.

this part 3:06 always gives me chills watching them join back up again as a team

I pitty whatever aliens end up trying to enslave humanity. This is a perfect view of human nature, when you interrupt our internal in fighting, we get pissed and all unite just long enough to take out the threat then return to infighting. You don't interrupt humanity's infighting lmao

One of the few times Saul Tye (sp) is glad that Starbuck is as crazy as she is and the she disregards the rules the way she does.

This show (at the very least the first couple of seasons) was a masterclass in science fiction and story telling.

Well written script, well written music, wonderful acting, and an imaginary F word. Best frak'n show ever

2:55 this scene was produced by *Newtonian Physics Gang*

What a great show. I can't believe it's over 10 years ago. My God does time fly.

Humans...close to extinction and still fight each other.

This was the very height of the show. Fantastic writing, the very best and tense in sci-fi TV. I love it. So. Much.

As a military officer this scene is actually quite painful to watch. In the last episode both Adama and Cain steeled themselves to launching their squadrons at one another. Amazing military decision making by both, snap decisions. Here, just minutes later, those squadrons are both flailing as they approach and must react to one another without clear mission or rules of engagement. The pilots call back for direction, for permission to engage. Response from both CICs: absofuckinglutely nothing. Putting your troops out on a dangerous ambiguous mission, without a clear understanding of what they are and are not authorized to perform….and sitting there while in weapons range of the enemy…with no guidance. CICs fail. Neither Adama nor Cain, thankfully, could in fact threaten the existence of the fleet as a whole over the lives of two crewmen.

One of my favorite scenes of all time as we join together to fight a common enemy.

3:06 Like a comment once said: This situation is perfect for this quote: The Colonials hate each other, but they absolutely LOATHE the Cylons.

Rewatching this, "Thats no raider that's that stealth ship of yours! Whoever's flying it wasn't cleared to launch!" Gee ya think? Like, even if it was cleared to launch how would he know? Hell no one on Pegasus knew Galactica cleared anything to launch until they showed up on dradis.

2:25 I can watch that scene over and over again

Who needs Cylons when you can kill each other

All these clips are making me want to watch the show

lol that derpy Lee thumbnail

That's one way to bring Vipers to work together, just present a possible Cylon raider into the mix

Such a great episode :)

3:13+ is EXACTLY the right image. The Colonies all in one straight line doing exactly one thing TOGETHER. 13 of them? One right answer.

3:00 "On my lead !" As long as secondary character goes, Kat was awesome.

The three episodes that introduced the Pegasus are my favorite in the show. ITS SO GOOD!

Always makes me smile, up and down the line.

Best scifi series EVER.

Kinda nice attention to details the editing/postedit had there, for the stealth-ship was undetected until Starbuck replied (which would ping an active signal away from her ship)

By far one of the most tense moments. I wonder which ship would actually win? or more accurately, which crew?

3:11 to 3:16, beautiful.

were friends. lets all be friendly. just imagine coming to seeing the last of humanity nearly kill each other.

Best TV Show ever ... still in 2022

"Can't we all just get along?!?!" -Rodney King 1992

Kara Thrace (Starbuck): what the hell is going on? Me and the bois: nothing to see here, just some random Viper party going on here.

Lloyd Bridges played the original Commander Cain from the original BG series. He was the equal to Commander Adama played by Lorne Green.

Let me be the first to say I AM COMING FOR MY MEN

Another one of her crazy stunts..thank the gods :)

Michelle Forbes as Admiral MFKING Cain was AWESOME SO SAY WE ALL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can't wait to get this on Blue Ray. I tried to watch Stargate Universe but it was hard to follow the story.

This situation shows us as humans, perfectly.. we will fight eachother over almost nothing but when a real threat comes.. we smarten up real quick (or atleast a perceived real threat)

"Let's just... be friendly!"

The more I watch this, the more I notice details. And now I really wonder, what is the "vertical cross" and why do you need to request your mothership before executing it ?

Those vipers were like a spirit animal to the Balkans. Like a swarm of angry hornets fighting each other to the moment a turkish walks in.

Allegedly an old friend.

Man I loved KAT! Starbuck light.

Delta Flyers also it is our trade mark. Yes you have to unlock the ship, and be able to repair it.

My favorite role that she ever played.

Yeah we are friendlies.

SGUniverse is an Andromeda Tier Spacecruiser.

Haven’t they uploaded this scene already but with a longer version

If Maverick was in BSG, Peg's vipers would be toast

ensign ro became an admiral look at that

One of these days...I'll understand why Kat was ever cast...all she does is shout when in the cockpit. However, today is not that day. GALACTICA THINGS AREN'T WHAT I'M EXPECTING! GALACTICA I THINK I'M BETTER THAN STARBUCK! GALACTICA MY NOSE IS ITCHY! GALACTICA AM I SHOUTING LOUD ENOUGH?

YAY FOR STARBUCK! =D

Power rangers where approximately near same year as Starship Troopers. I was preping for Gundam deployment, in acknowledgement of the parasite situation similar to mystarfox days on deployments in different area.

I was on sight when my Pegasus Rocket Liifted me... I Did evasive tactics upon realization I was Blind after Police were swatting me, and I Eye Blasted six Planets from Earth...

People do swoop bike racing on Narshada.

great tv show, going to watch it again i think

Tense.

Good scene. Except for the one Galactica pilot who kept requesting weapons free. Hothead was just so anxious to start a war between the few humans left and destroy their only defense against the cylons.

Spartan CLASS. OLder spacejet modeL allegedly from The Klingon front Line which is past Tatooine. East of Balmora.

Just what we don't need inflexible commanders,especially on space warships,since both Pegasus,and Galactica carried warheads 10x more lethal than ones we've now in 2023,the cylons just get Cain to launch her missles on us here on our earth,and we,and the colonials would be fried,then in the 1978 series baltar would be the last human,even in 2008,unless the cylons let him live.

Thank the Gods!!!!!!!

Interesting the actor that played hotdog was one of Edward James Olmos's real sons,even if fiction both of them must have been seriously stressed during these episode,I remember a later podcast where Edward was excited but nervous for his son,reminds me of being on team,when the father was coaching one of my teammates,it was like get fried like a hot dog on 7-4th,lucky we had alot of Gatorade,and pills to chill us out,that was a very tough soccer game,and league,lucky I only hurt my knees playing defender,than goalie

But Adam diver was near me in a Cruiser...

12 Mecha deployments.

They only got a dradis contact after she sent the message.

More engines more gas.

We done service together. I was clearing out the areas nearby on HALO test deployments, and Power rangers prototype tests... and starlight tests with HALO tier soccer's. I'AM on fire usually inside my Spaxejet... my ability activates as registered with Sergeant Kimmy of NASA. Starship Troopers are deployment in future... 2354 years from now...

This was a great episode full of drama but a missed opportunity. Jain should not have been killed off but should have become a rival, sometimes friend sometimes foe popping up from time to time throughout the remaining series. I always thought the same thing about Star Trek. Whichever iteration the Enterprise needed a rival ship and crew like the Excelsior.

I love these clips 🥰

3:15 is as Right as the Rain on the windshield of my viper../ all as one Force on ward../

Unpopular opinion: vipers are useless here. They wouldn't deal any significant damage to both ships. So idk why they were launched. Tbh, that's true for many scenes in the show. Okay, maybe I've been watching too much of The Expanse

My ship does not abandon me. A bunch of idiots are trying to eat me.

I Know!

T85-Wing.

Tootsieroll.

Raptors.... Are they like AWACS? I didn't think they carried weapons except when they are mounted