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Line 1: {{work}} [[File:oBSG.jpg\|frame]] {{quote\|''"There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans. They may have been the architects of the great pyramids, or the lost civilizations of Lemuria or [[Atlantis]]. Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man who even now fight to survive somewhere beyond the heavens..."''}} Line 14 ⟶ 13: In the face of a massive write-in campaign, the executives decided to [[Retool]] the series into a less expensive spinoff, and so ''Galactica'' was promptly resurrected as ''[[Galactica 1980]]''. ~~----~~ {{tropelist}} * [[A-Team Firing]] Line 23 ⟶ 22: * [[Apocalypse How]] * [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: Applied quite generously, in fact. * [[Arbitrary Maximum Range]] * [[Aristocrats Are Evil]] * [[Battle Couple]]: Apollo and {{spoiler\|Serina, his wife, for one two-part episode. Apollo's wife [[Cartwright Curse\|dies heroically, mostly to get her out of the way]].}} Line 66: * [[Fighter Launching Sequence]] * [[Forgiveness]] * [[God Test]]: In "War of the Gods Part 1''", Count Iblis claims to have great powers and knowledge. The Council of Twelve gives him three challenges: to deliver their greatest enemy (Baltar) to them, to lead the fleet to Earth, and one more to be named later. * [[Greater Need Than Mine]] * [[Guilt -Free Extermination War]]: Between humans and cylons. And the Ovians, the only aliens to appear actually are exterminated. But then they eat people. * [[Head-in-The-Sand Management]]: President Adar, with disastrous results. * [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold]]: Cassiopeia. * [[Humans Are Their Own Precursors]]: The Twelve Colonies believe themselves to be descended from humans from an ancestral homeworld called Kobol, which the ''Galactica'' visits in an attempt to find the location of the thirteenth colony, Earth. * [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]: You'd think intelligent computers would be better shots. Hey, you try to shoot when your eye is constantly darting back and forth! * It's their own fault. They should make more efficient eyes. * [[I'm Aa Humanitarian]]: The Ovians in the first episode. * [[Infinite Supplies]] ** Averted in the pilot, when resources were so scarce that the fleet practiced Forced Socialism against Sire Uri, and braved the Nova Matigon so as to make it to Carillon for resupply before they starved. Line 97 ⟶ 98: * [[Photoprotoneutron Torpedo]]: Pulsar cannons. * [[Planet of Hats]] * [[Planet Terra]]: Subverted. {{spoiler\|Despite multiple layers and episodes of teasing ("Terra" being a Geminese term for "Earth", the Terran political situation being based on the [[Cold War]]), the planet called Terra turns out to ~~NOT~~''not'' be Earth.}} * [[Precursors]]: The Lords of Kobol. * [[The Promised Land]]: Earth. Line 108 ⟶ 109: * [[Robot Buddy]]: Muffet, Cy. * [[Robot War]] * [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: The writers simply didn't understand the difference between a system orand a galaxy. Made worse by the fact that only the ''Galactica'' has FTL. ** Even worse, the ''Galactica'' only has L, without the FT. * [[Space Based Weapon Has Cutoff Range]] * [[Space Is Magic]] * [[Space Mines]]: In the pilot, they have to go through a Cylon minefield. Line 118: * [[Stock Footage]]: The special effects were based on optically overlaying stock footage (spacecraft, explosions, and so on), and several completed scenes were used more than once. Some of the completed effects from ''Galactica'' were used in the B-movie ''[[Space Mutiny]]''. The beginning and end of one establishing shot (in a city) became two establishing shots in ''[[Buck Rogers in the 25th Century]]''. * [[Straw Civilian]]: Sire Uri and the Quorum of the Twelve. * [[Supernatural Aid]] Line 133: {{reflist}} {{Battlestar Galactica Franchise}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Science Fiction Series]] [[Category:The Seventies]] Line 139 ⟶ 141: [[Category:TV Series]] [[Category:Pages with working Wikipedia tabs]] [[Category:~~{{PAGENAME}}~~Cult Classic]] [[Category:Live-Action TV of the 1970s]]