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* [[Adam and Eve Plot]]: Helo and Athena have some parallels when they conceive Hera, the first (known) Cylon/Human Hybrid, after the Fall of Caprica.
* [[Affably Evil]]: The Cavils, at least during their early appearances. As the series progresses they become more evil and less affable.
* [[AIA.I. Is a Crapshoot]]: The Cylons rebelled and fought against humanity. Even the more-mechanical Cylon centurions are liable to rebel against their [[Artificial Human]] masters unless kept in check. The inevitability of conflict between organic and artificial life, and various character's attempts to break the cycle of violence, form the spine of the series.
* [[All Just a Dream]] / [[Ship Tease]]: Baltar is {{spoiler|forgiven for his treason and Roslin expresses her desire for him.}}
* [[Almost-Lethal Weapons]]: A major character in the season one finale takes two bullets to the chest at close range and lives. A minor season four character is shot once by the same weapon at longer range and dies in a minute or so.
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* [[Author Appeal]]: A ''lot'' of people smoke, with lip-smacking enjoyment, on this show. Listening to one of the podcast commentary tracks with Ronald D. Moore will make it readily apparent why.
* [[Author Filibuster]]: All of this has happened before, and will happen ''to us'' if we aren't careful with our technology.
* [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Kara Thrace was killed, then mysteriously returned (complete with a shiny new Viper)}}.
** Cylons, of course,
* [[Backstory]]: Quite a lot.
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* [[The Missing Faction]]: The Thirteenth Tribe from both versions.
* [[Mission Control]]: Dualla and Gaeta, pretty much.
* [[Mission Fromfrom God]]: {{spoiler|Head Six, Head Baltar, and an unknowing Kara.}}
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Dear Lord, this series has it down to an art form. Best when done intentionally, as in season 4.5 when {{spoiler|a happy Dualla rekindles the romance with her ex-husband, has an uplifting talk with her friend, then ''puts a gun to her head and commits suicide''.}}
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Six.
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* [[Scenery Porn]]: {{spoiler|the second Earth.}}
** And don't get me started with Kobol...
* [[SchrodingerSchrödinger's Gun]]: Who is a Cylon? No named character is safe! ...Although all the bullets in that ''particular'' gun are fired by the middle of season four.
* [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: One million light-years, the alleged distance from the Colonies to Earth, is well outside the Milky Way. In fact, it's about 40% of the way to our nearest galactic neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy.
** The science advisor weighed in: Adama was using hyperbole.
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* [[Stock Footage]]: Footage of the Viper launches and landings.
* [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]]: One proposed explanation for the "angels" and "God" <ref>You know it doesn't like to be called that...</ref>
* [[Sunglasses Atat Night]]: Romo Lampkin.
* [[Sure Why Not]]: After stumbling across a fanfic that teased with the idea of a Helo/Racetrack pairing, the actress portraying the Raptor pilot decided to incorporate the unrequited feelings for Helo and the jealousy towards his wife into her character's backstory.
* [[Surprise Incest]]: {{spoiler|Cavil and Ellen}}. She doesn't know at the time, but he does and is even aware {{spoiler|the Cavil model was shaped in the image of her father and that she saw Cavil as a son}}.
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* [[Survivalist Stash]]: Helo and "Boomer" find one on Caprica.
* [[Sympathetic POV]]: This gets used ''a lot'', especially with the Cylons and with Gaeta when he {{spoiler|spearheads a failed mutiny. He's ultimately executed for this role, but he's far more sympathetic than his co-conspirator Zarek, and the viewers get the sense that he was trying to do what he thought was the right thing.}}
* [[Take That]]: Ronald D. Moore had previously worked on ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' and ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]]'', and briefly worked on ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Voyager]]'' before quitting out of dissatisfaction with how the producers were running the show. He subsequently wrote a long rant about all the problems the series had, notably the lack of continuity, reliance on [[Techno Babble]] to solve everything, and failure to accurately depict a [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] without a consistent source of supplies on a long, grueling voyage to reach home. He then produced this series, incorporating most of his suggested changes to [[Star Trek: Voyager|Voyager]] along the way.
* [[Techno Babble]]: Military jargon more than SFisms. Lampshaded when Tigh accuses Baltar of "weaselly technobabble". An accurate accusation, as Baltar's first "Cylon detection method" was entirely made up. There is deliberate avoidance on the writers' part of "this works because of the Cylon hypersilly system" and so on.
** The lack of technobabble and the downscaling of technology in general were probably deliberate moves by Moore, who was [[Take That|fed up with]] [[Techno Babble]] [[Take That|being used to solve everything on]] [[Star Trek: Voyager|Star Trek Voyager]].
* [[Theme Naming]]: Completely unintentional, but: {{spoiler|The names of the Final Five all have prominent T sounds in them: Saul and Ellen ''T''igh, Galen ''T''yrol, ''T''ory Foster, and Samuel ''T''. Anders}}.
* [[There Is Another]]: As in the original series, the battlestar Pegasus is discovered. {{spoiler|The reunion [[Tyrant Takes the Helm|wasn't *quite* as happy as you might imagine]]...}}
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