Battlestar Galactica (TV Series)

The Hand of God (1979)

Dirk Benedict: Lieutenant Starbuck

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Quotes 

• [Apollo and Starbuck prepare to fly a Cylon raider] 

  Captain Apollo : You know how to fly this thing?

  Lieutenant Starbuck : I thought you did.

• Lieutenant Sheba : Where in heaven's name are we?

  Captain Apollo : [climbing into the chair]  As high as you can get on the Galactica. We're directly over the main thrusters.

  [he starts pushing comm buttons] 

  Captain Apollo : It's a great spot to get away from everyone to think.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : A cozy little place like this could be used for more than just thinking.

  Cassiopeia : [giggles]  Starbuck!

• Colonel Tigh : [pointing at the model of a Cylon basestar]  She has 300 fighters, carries two long-range mega pulsars, here and here, and over a hundred defensive laser turrets. She's an orbiting killer, capable of destroying every ship we have, including the Galactica.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : [to Boomer]  That's what I like about the Colonel. His optimism.

• 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!

• Lieutenant Starbuck : You still don't think that transmission was a lure, do you?

  Captain Apollo : No. Only now we'll never know. Wilker's lab was destroyed in the battle and the recording with it.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : So you're waiting here for another transmission?

  Captain Apollo : Yeah. Boomer rigged a gamma signal booster. If anything's out there, I should pick it up.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : [realizing]  You... think it came from Earth, don't you?

  Captain Apollo : I hope it did. Our first contact should be a transmission, something similar to what we saw.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Just looked like an old spacecraft on a routine run to me.

  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.

• Captain Apollo : [Apollo, Starbuck and Sheba are exploring the planets of an unknown solar system]  The first planet's a giant. 80% compressed hydrogen, 12% helium, no lifeforms. But it sure is pretty.

  Lieutenant Sheba : So's number two. Beautiful but deadly. The atmosphere is almost totally comprised of compressed carbon dioxide. No lifeforms.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Well, leave it to me to get the ugly one. No atmosphere, just barren rock. No life could possibly...

  [computer bleeps] 

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Wait!

  Captain Apollo : What is it?

  Lieutenant Starbuck : I'm picking up something. Just rising on the back side of the planet. Oh, no. No!

  Captain Apollo : Starbuck?

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Get out of here! It's a Cylon basestar!

• Cassiopeia : So why does it always have to be you?

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Apollo's going...

  Cassiopeia : I'm not in love with Apollo!

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Cass, you know me, I'll make it.

  Cassiopeia : Huh, yeah, knowing you, you'll probably some beautiful female prisoner to rescue on that basestar.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Come on, that's crazy. I'll be back, I promise.

  Cassiopeia : [tearfully]  If you're not, I'm gonna kill you.

• Lieutenant Boomer : Now whatever you do, don't lose that transmitter. It's the only way we'll be able to tell you from the Cylons.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Well, if they do, we'll just waggle our wings.

  Lieutenant Boomer : You would.

• Lieutenant Starbuck : [to Apollo]  Told ya we didn't need any of that electronic felgercarb!

• Cylon scan centurion : [as the Galactica's Viper phalanx enters the solar system]  Vipers bearing Omega Seven.

  First Centurion : Vipers?

  Cylon scan centurion : Confirmed. Two squadrons.

  First Centurion : Launch all fighters to intercept. Scan for the Galactica.

  [as Starbuck plants solonite explosives to the computer banks, a signal blares loudly through the station] 

  Captain Apollo : They must have spotted out vipers.

  [the First Centurion suddenly enters the computer banks station and is fired on by Apollo] 

  Captain Apollo : [desperately]  Let's go!

  [Starbuck plants the last charge and the two warriors flee with two heavily armed centurions dispatched by the First Centurion in pursuit, but as they climb the scaffolding an object slips out of Apollo's pocket] 

  Captain Apollo : The transmitter!

  [Starbuck vainly reaches for the falling transmitter] 

  Captain Apollo : Let it go!

  [the pursuing centurions reach the scaffolding just as the solonite explosives detonate and the computer banks are obliterated, the blast nearly knocking Apollo and Starbuck off the scaffolding as the two centurions are blown to a corner] 

  Captain Apollo : Without that transmitter the squadrons can't tell us from the Cylons!

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Forget it! We don't need that electronic felgercarb! We'll think of something!

  Captain Apollo : The Galactica should be attacking any micron.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Well then what are we waiting for?