Battlestar Galactica (TV Series)

The Hand of God (1979)

Lorne Greene: Adama

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Quotes 

• Count Baltar : What do you want, Adama?

  Commander Adama : Information.

  Count Baltar : They found you.

  Commander Adama : We found them.

• [Baltar has just bartered his knowledge of the Cylons in exchange for freedom] 

  Commander Adama : Apollo, Starbuck, see you soon.

  Count Baltar : Good luck.

  [Apollo and Starbuck are taken aback by Baltar's response, but proceed to begin their mission] 

  Count Baltar : If they don't succeed, I die too.

• Count Baltar : Destroy them? A basestar? Not likely.

  Commander Adama : With your help.

  Count Baltar : Why would I possibly help you?

  Commander Adama : To regain your freedom.

• Count Baltar : And when am I to be set free?

  Commander Adama : After the basestar has been destroyed.

  Count Baltar : What if they destroy you? And me along with you?

  Commander Adama : Then that's the risk you'll have to take.

  [Baltar realizes that Adama intends to keep him on the Galactica when she engages a Cylon basestar] 

  Commander Adama : Do we have an agreement?

  [Baltar reluctantly shakes Adama's hand in agreement] 

• Commander Adama : Tigh, do you realise this is the first time since we fled the Colonies that we have the advantage?

  [pause] 

  Commander Adama : But even if we didn't have the advantage, I'm tired of running.

  Colonel Tigh : [deeply agrees]  Adama... so am I.

  Commander Adama : Then let's take her on. We do have one advantage - the element of surprise. And I intend to make to most of it.

• Colonel Tigh : [the Cylon basestar has been destroyed]  You did it, Adama!

  Commander Adama : We all did it, Tigh, we all did it! Damage report!

  Omega : It's extensive, Commander! But all fires are controllable, and the landing bays are intact!

  Commander Adama : Thank God for that! Recall all Vipers!

• Commander Adama : I'd forgotten all about that, er, celestial dome topside. What were you four doing up there?

  Lieutenant Starbuck : [awkward pauses]  Just taking in the view, Commander...

  Commander Adama : [clearly surprised]  Oh.

  Colonel Tigh : What were you doing in that dome?

  Cassiopeia : [clearly shocked]  Colonel!

• [last lines] 

  [as Starbuck and Apollo leave the dome, the equipment, inadvertently left on, receives another gamma transmission: a spacecraft approaching a barren, cratered surface, casting its own shadow upon it as it comes ever closer] 

  Buzz Aldrin : Bearing down three and a half. Forty-seven forward. Fifty down at two and a half. Nineteen forward. A hundred feet, three and a half down. Nine forward. Forty feet down, two and a half. Picking up some dust. Faint shadow.

  [comm beep] 

  Mission Control : We copy you down, Eagle.

  [comm beep, and another] 

  Neil Armstrong : Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.

  [standard ending shot of the fleet] 

  Commander Adama : [narrative]  Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag fugitive fleet on a lonely quest: a shining planet... known as Earth.

• Commander Adama : [Cylon base star looming]  I thought we'd lost them for good.

  Lieutenant Sheba : We all did, Commander.