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{{quote|''"[[Creating Life|The Cylons were created by man.]] [[Turned Against Their Masters|They rebelled.]] [[Mechanical Evolution|They evolved.]] [[They Look Like Us Now|They look - and feel - human.]] [[Tomato in Thethe Mirror|Some are programmed to believe they are human.]] [[Cloning Blues|There are many copies.]] And they have [[Evil Plan|a plan.]]"''|'''Opening title card''', season one of ''Battlestar Galactica (2004 series)''}}
 
(For the original 1978 series, see ''[[Battlestar Galactica Classic]]'')
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The 2000s series picks up forty years after the end of the first war between the humans and Cylons, in this continuity sentient machines created as soldiers by the human race. As the story begins, the Cylons, now led by a group of [[Artificial Human|artificial humans]], launch a surprise nuclear attack that obliterates almost the entire human race. Like the original series, the survivors form a fleet led by ''Galactica'' in search of the lost thirteenth colony, Earth, with the subversion that whether Earth even exists or not is completely unknown to the fleet. Religious symbolism and revelation play a great role in the new series, as the fleet follow signs and omens that may lead them to Earth while wondering whether or not they're just wasting their time. The polytheistic religion of the humans, based on classical Greek/Roman mythology, also comes into conflict with the monotheistic, vaguely Christian faith of the humanoid Cylons, with the occasional dropped hint that both groups are receiving revelation from the same source.
 
The new series has been favorably compared to ''[[Babylon 5]]'' and ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]'' for its character-driven storylines and for attempting to portray space physics in a realistic manner despite the occasional excess. It has even been the subject of [http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2009/03/battlestar-galactica-united-nations.html a panel discussion at the UN].
 
The newer series avoided some obvious space opera cliches (such as [[Fashions Never Change|Space Clothes]], [[Teleporters and Transporters]], [[Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better|Lasers]], even communicators).
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''[[Caprica]]'', a [[Prequel]] set 58 years before the events of the Mini-Series, portrays life in the Twelve Colonies and shows the story behind the creation of the Cylons. It premiered in January 2010, and was cancelled after just one season. There is also a movie or movie-length event planned for 2012, called ''Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome'', that might serve as a backdoor pilot for yet another series.
 
There is also a browser-based spaceflight action MMO based on the series, ''[[Battlestar Galactica Online (Video Game)|Battlestar Galactica Online]]'', set in an AU where a jump accident pre-New Caprica sends both Colonials and Cylons into uncharted space filled with the leftovers of mysterious precursors.
 
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* [[Clear My Name]]: "Six Degrees of Separation"
* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: "Flesh and Bone"
* [[Day in Thethe Life]]: "Final Cut" (but not "A Day in the Life")
* [[Disaster Democracy]]: "Colonial Day", later with "Lay Down Your Burdens"
* [[Grand Finale]]: "Daybreak"
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* [[Ascended Extra]]: Dualla, Gaeta, Cally, Hoshi, Anders, Tory, Doc Cottle, Seelix, Romo, Hotdog, and Kat to name a ''few''.
** Helo is probably the most obvious example, he was supposed to die in the pilot.
* [[Ascend to Aa Higher Plane of Existence]]: {{spoiler|Starbuck in season 3, though she doesn't realize it until the finale.}}
* [[Ass Pull]]: Due to being imaginative and an extremely talented liar, Baltar can pull a plausible excuse, idea, and once an ''entire religion'' out of his ass at the drop of a hat.
* [[Ate His Gun]]: Cavil at the end. Whether it was simple suicide as his plans crashed down around him, or a reflexive escape attempt forgetting he couldn't resurrect anymore, will never be known.
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* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Starbuck habitually indulges in self-destructive and disrespectful behaviour that would get her kicked out of any real-world military. Among other things she misses her scheduled flight due to heavy drinking and punches her executive officer.
* [[Cain and Abel]]: The Ones/Cavils wiped out the Sevens/Daniels because their parents favored them.
* [[Call a Rabbit Aa Smeerp]]: DRADIS, "carom", "krypter krypter krypter".
* [[Captain's Log]]
* [[Canadian Series]]: The Canadian involvement in this series (and references, I'm talking to all you C-Bucs fans) is undeniable.
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* [[Cartwright Curse]]: Chief Tyrol may be a cutie, but it sure is dangerous being his main squeeze.
* [[Casual Interstellar Travel]]: "JUMP!"
* [[Caught Withwith Your Pants Down]]: Gaius Baltar is haunted by visions of his Cylon ex that nobody else can see. She frequently gets romantic with him. It's shown that this looks like exactly what you'd expect it to look like when Starbuck drops by his lab and catches him "doing his exercises." She ''almost'' lets this pass without comment ... then she asks him to zip up his fly.
* [[Character Development]]: [[Loads and Loads of Characters|Every. Single. Character.]] For the most part this is handled supremely well, other than a few [[Ass Pull|duds.]]
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]
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** {{spoiler|Coincides with the loss of the ressurection-tech. Mortality adds to the increased [[Individuality Is Illegal|awareness of individuality in the models.]]}}
* [[Dogfighting Furballs]]: One the changes form the original, massive space fighter battles were added.
* [[Doing It for Thethe Art]]: The production of "Someone to Watch Over Me" went to ridiculous lengths in order to realistically depict a man playing and composing music on an old and beat-up piano. Having a basic knowledge of how to play a piano was a casting requirement for {{spoiler|Dreilide Thrace}} - this enabled the crew to film from any angle without having to hide the actors' hands or use a "stunt performer." Because the prop piano was intentionally left out of tune and due to the specific acoustics of the set, any re-creation of the sound in post-production would've sounded incredibly different (and thus rather fake). As a result, composer [[Bear McCreary]] sampled every note on the prop so that he could later duplicate the sound of that exact piano in that exact room. Once they actually arrived at post-production, it was pointed out that production recordings of the prop piano were in mono, while any music re-created would be in stereo. What did [[Bear McCreary]] do? He rerecorded '''every''' piece of music played by the actors down to the last note, syncing his recordings with the actors' exact hand movements at the same time. The final product is just simply amazing.
* [[Double Vision]]
* [[Double Standard]]: Averted when Starbuck punches Lee, and he throws a haymaker right back at her with no hesitation.
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* [[Earpiece Conversation]]: Head-Six feeds Baltar a bunch of his lines, especially in the early episodes.
* [[Earth-That-Was]]: Kobol and Earth, both of whose locations were lost.
* [[The End of the World Asas We Know It]]
* [[Enemy Civil War]]: The Cylon Civil War in the fourth season, although we began to see differences between Cylon models as early as Season 2.
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Apollo, Helo, Anders.
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* [[A Form You Are Comfortable With]]: The messengers.
* [[Gangsta Style]]+ [[Guns Akimbo]]: Starbuck's preferred method of ground combat. She does this [[Rule of Cool|cool "X" thing with her arms.]]
* [[Gecko Ending]]: A rare live action example. Pretty much everything post-New Caprica was the writers desperately trying to paint themselves out of the corner they stranded themselves in and plug as many plot holes as they could along the way. Also, the original series had no real ending (''Galactica 1980'' was [[Canon Dis Continuity|de-canonized]] by both the fans and [[The Powers That Be]]) so the writers had to make of their own ending. Considering that the original is basically [[The Book of Mormon (Literaturenovel)|The Book of Mormon]] in space, they did a very nice job and maybe even actually what the original director intended.
* [[Gender Flip]]: Starbuck, Boomer, and Cain were males in the original, females in this one.
* [[General Ripper]]: Admiral Cain.
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*** [[Break the Cutie|Well, he used to be.]]
** Zarek is accused of terrorism, abuse of office, political manipulation, and conspiracy to commit murder. By the time the series is over we've seen Roslin commit every one of those crimes.
* [[Is That What He Told You?]]: Bulldog, in his stand-alone episode, after which he's never heard from again.
** He was meant to become recurring, but Carl Lumbly's scheduling and traveling distance got in the way.
* [[It Got Worse]]: A whole lot of episodes do this, but holy hell, the last episode of season "4.0" and the first of season "4.5" take the cake. The show gets ''very'' bleak.
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** Inverted with Dee. Anastasia means "resurrection", which is quite ironic, as {{spoiler|Dee kills herself and isn't a Cylon, so it sticks}}. Furthermore, speculation that she was a Cylon was {{spoiler|supported by the fact that her last name, Dualla, indicated a "dual" nature. Nope, she's just a human.}}
** The Biblical Saul lost his sight on the road to Damascus, only regaining it when he stopped persecuting the monotheistic Christians. Saul Tigh {{spoiler|had his eye plucked out by Cavil as punishment for his guerrilla war against the monotheistic Cylons.}}
** "Ellen" means "light" or "torch." {{spoiler|[[Fling a Light Into Thethe Future]] much?}}
** Lee Adama: "Lee" is of Old English origin, and means "pasture" or "meadow." {{spoiler|Lee is the one who comes up with the [[Ludd Was Right|return-to-the-land plan]] in the finale.}}
** "Zarek" is a Polish derivation of Belshazzar, son of Babylonian monarch Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar is perhaps best remembered for Bible story of the feast in which God's hand wrote a warning on the wall that the monarchy would soon be overturned; Zarek seeks to overturn the Colonial government.
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* [[Mobile Factory]]: The Tylium refining ship for one.
** For more than one: Pegasus can produce fighters, Galactica has been shown making ammunition, there is a ship growing food (algae) for the fleet - everyone chips in.
* [[More Dakka]]: "''Standby for [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Enemy Suppression Barrage]]!''"
* [[Motivational Lie]]: Adama initially uses the story of searching for Earth as this.
* [[Multitasked Conversation]]: Many involving Baltar and Head-Six. Incompetently on Baltar's part.
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* [[Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book]]: Hera's coloring book, which is filled with nothing but drawings of Angel Six.
* [[Nobody Poops]]: Averted with "alarming regularity".
* [[No Delays for Thethe Wicked]]: Subverted in the post-series movie ''The Plan'', which shows what the Cylons were up to behind the scenes during the original run. Although in the series they were seen as a nigh-omniscient, unstoppable army, here it is shown that, in essence, [[Big Bad|Cavil]] has ''the worst luck in the world''. Not that you pity him, vile wretch that he is.
* [[No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine]]: Leoben's imprisonment of Starbuck on New Caprica is an unusually prolonged example of this.
* [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup]]: The Resurrection Hub - a single failure point for the whole resurrection system.
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* [[Phlebotinum Pills]]: Roslin's cancer treatment-- a drug which is also used by holy oracles and priests to induce hallucinations-- triggers visions which chart the course of the first several seasons of the show.
* [[Planet of the Apes Ending]]: {{spoiler|The fleet finds Earth - millennia after a nuclear war apparently wiped out the inhabitants.}}
** In the season finale {{spoiler|They find our Earth about 150,000 years ago. Yes. '''''Two Earths'''''. Not in the ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' identical planet sense, but in the sense of our planet being named after another.}}
* [[Plucky Girl]]: Starbuck, Cally, Athena, ... hell, even Roslin.
* [[Pound of Flesh Twist]]: The episode about abortion. A girl wants to have an abortion; her parents won't let her, and the religious beliefs of the colony she was from before the Cylon attack forbade it despite its legality. Though pro-choice herself, President Roslin understands that there are less than fifty thousand humans left in the universe, and that they will have to grow their numbers if they're to survive as a species. In the end, she outlaws abortion via executive order... after the girl has had her abortion and has applied for asylum aboard Galactica so she doesn't have to go back to her parents.
{{quote| '''Roslin''': [[Discussed Trope|You have your pound of flesh.]] }}
* [[POV Sequel]]: "The Plan."
* [[Powered Byby a Forsaken Child]]: President Roslin's cancer is cured by {{spoiler|injecting her with the blood of Helo and Sharon's unborn daughter}}. Thankfully, they don't need all of it.
* [[The Power of Love]]: Despite numerous attempts by the Cylons to create a Cylon/Human hybrid, the conception of the first successful one was attributed to the love her parents have for each other.
** The above is the implied reason {{spoiler|Caprica-Six ultimately miscarried. Not only did Ellen Tigh make her doubt Saul's love for her, but the first signs of miscarriage showed up the moment when Saul frakked his wife.}}
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** The Pegasus manages to knock out two basestars in the Battle of New Caprica by doing this.
** {{spoiler|Galactica also does this in the [[Grand Finale]] in order to punch a hole in the colony for her assault teams to board.}}
* [[Rape Asas Drama]]: Gina-Six, Athena.
* [[Reckless Gun Usage]]: In "Valley of Darkness", Dualla tells Billy (a civilian) that [[Pants-Positive Safety|sticking a pistol in his pants]] with the safety off is a [[Groin Attack|bad idea]]. Later Billy has an accidental discharge when taking the safety off, giving away their position to the Cylons.
** At one point, a very pissed off Adama throws a loaded gun on the table, causing Tigh to jump back and angrily remark that there's a live round in the chamber.
** For the most part, however, this trope is averted. We're treated to several shots of characters making very damn sure that their weapon is safe before putting it down by ejecting the magazine and pulling the slide to eject any rounds that may be chambered. This is a military setting after all, and even the side-arms are capable of punching a bullet through the armour plating of a Centurion.
* [[Recycled in Space]]: Hmm... the twelve <s>tribes</s> colonies, originated from <s>Eden</s> Kobol, was forced to move from their homeland to find <s>a promised land</s> Earth that only was known from legend, all due to the actions of a certain man, who after receiving visions and power from a higher being, eventually become the founder and leader of a monothestic religion and preach about grace, and after wandering around <s>the desert</s> space for <s>forty</s> four years, manage to arrive on a lush green <s>place</s> planet {{spoiler|that is eventually OUR Earth}}, all according to the plan of the higher being. Hmm, sounds like a [[The Bible (Literature)|familiar book]]...
** The original series was heavily influenced by the Book of Mormon. Most of these points are echoes of that, since the general plot and mythology is the same, although the execution, and final resolution, differed greatly.
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Kendra Shaw, Boomer, Simon O'Neill in ''The Plan''.}}
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* [[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.
* [[Screwed Byby the Network]]: While [[Sci Fi]] was nothing but supportive of the show during its production, they had some strange ideas when it came to broadcasting it, such as allowing the UK to air the first season six months ahead of North America, splitting the DVD releases of seasons two and four in half, fiddling with the show's time slot for the first three years, mandating the opening sequence be curtailed to make room for more commercials (this one was eventually vetoed by a fan outcry), and airing the two halves of season four a full year apart to eke out a ''de facto'' fifth season.
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections]]: There is an argument to be made that Lee has benefited from this, even if he does not blatantly utilize it.
* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]]: Helo might as well have this tattooed on his forehead.
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* [[Shout-Out]]:
** Boomer's mission to destroy the Cylon ship at the end of Season 1 is almost exactly the same as the mission pulled off at the end of Independence Day.
** The term "skinjob" is comes from ''[[Blade Runner (Film)|Blade Runner]]'', which has been openly admitted as an influence. It's also an [[Actor Allusion]], as Edward James Olmos was in Blade Runner.
*** The standard Colonial Sidearm, at least in the first season, is also a replica of Deckard's gun from the same film. This can be seen quite clearly in many scenes and was apparently confirmed in a DVD commentary.
** From "Colonial Day":
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** [[Arc Words|"The shape of things to come"]] is from a 1933 novel by H. G. Wells of the same name.
*** "All this has happened before, and all of it will happen again" is the first line of the 1953 Disney [[Peter Pan]] animated film.
*** How about the Cylon Basestar command systems referencing the MCP from [[Tron (Film)|Tron]] by finishing off their sentences with "End Of Line"?
** [[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]] references:
*** The [[Star Trek: theThe Original Series (TV)|original Enterprise]] appears as part of the rag tag fleet in the Miniseries, and in the openings of seasons 1 and 2 due to recycled footage.
*** The Astral Queen is a shout out to the Original Series episode "The Conscience of the King," which Ron Moore has described as his favorite Original Series episode. The producers later admitted that "Astral Queen" was a ''terrible'' name for a ''prison ship.''
*** In "The Ties That Bind," members of the Final Five meet in a weapons locker [[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation (TV)|1701D]].
** In "Sacrifice" a shadowy silhouetted picture of "alleged Cylon prisoner Sharon Valerii" is seen in the terrorist's [[Room Full of Crazy]], possibly a reference to the similar "Photo believed to be Col. W. E. Kurz". A similar ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'' shout out is the Shore Patrol picking up a drunken Tigh for his assignment (including the "What are the charges?" line).
** In "Litmus" Head-Six delivers an oh-so-menacing yet oh-so-sexy tip of the hat to [[Incredible Hulk|The Incredible Hulk]]:
{{quote| '''Head-Six''': "Don't make me angry, Gaius... You wouldn't like me when I'm angry..."}}
** In "The Oath" someone uses the expression "within the hour", which is frequently heard in ''[[Twenty Four|24]]'' (the episode had a pseudo-Real Time format.).
** Episode Titles:
*** "Bastille Day" is named after, well, [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Bastille Day]], the holiday commemorating the storming of the infamous prison during [[The French Revolution]].
*** "Valley of Darkness" paraphrases Psalm 23 from [[The Bible (Literature)|The Bible]].
{{quote| '''Psalm 23:4''': Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou ''art'' with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.}}
*** "Taking a Break From All Your Worries" quotes the theme song to [[Cheers]]. The episode's plot originally focused on Joe's Bar, thus explaining its seemingly out of place title.
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** "Boomers" are the robots from ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]'' that could be disguised as humans.
*** Although the character Boomer having been in the 1978 series would suggest that Bubble Gum Crisis is giving a shout out to the old series, rather than the other way around.
* [[Shrine to Thethe Fallen]]: The Galactica had a rather large one aboard it commemorating all of those who died.
* [[Small Annoying Creature]]: Averted. Boxey was in the pilot miniseries and Bastille Day, but cut from Water and Kobol's Last Gleaming, then vanished into the ether. So no Muffit whatsoever!
* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Everybody smokes. Everyone.
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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: theThe Next Generation (TV)|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' and ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV)|Deep Space Nine]]'', and briefly worked on ''[[Star Trek: Voyager (TV)|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 (TV)|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 (TV)|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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** In ''Razor'', Admiral Cain awards Kendra Shaw the eponymous title, which she applies to the most loyal and merciless of her soldiers.
** In ''The Plan'', it's first used in print on Brother Cavil's religious flyers, and subsequently in spoken lines by the Cylons.
* [[Tomato in Thethe Mirror]]: Boomer, plus four other characters as of the S3 finale.
** {{spoiler|Kara may be a whole 'nother veggie (fruit, whatever) altogether.}}
* [[Tomato Surprise]]: Happens twice: Once with {{spoiler|Tigh, Tyrol, Tory, and Anders}}, then again with {{spoiler|Ellen}}.
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* [[Verbal Tic]]: Whenever you hear Gaius Baltar say "Quite frankly," he's [[Ass Pull|asspulling]] like a madman.
* [[Wagon Train to Thethe Stars]]
* [[Watching Troy Burn]]: The destruction of the colonies.
* [[Waxing Lyrical]]: {{spoiler|Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" recited by the final five Cylons}}
* [[We Will Use Manual Labor in Thethe Future]]: The original Cylons being intended as manual laborers and soldiers before they rebelled. The scarcity of advanced equipment means humans in the fleet getting worked to the bone, too.
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: The Cylons' main motivation, shading over into [[Knight Templar]] in some cases. And then there's the anti-Cylon New Caprican suicide bombers.
** {{spoiler|Felix, during the mutiny.}}
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* [[Wham! Episode]]: Used frequently throughout, but after {{spoiler|the humans find a destroyed earth,}} every episode after that hits you harder than the last, taking the shock value into [[Serial Escalation|every increasing]] territory.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: If what Ronald D. Moore says on the podcast commentary for "Kobol's Last Gleaming Part 1" is to be believed, how he originally wanted it to end was for Baltar to go down a long dark tunnel in the ruins on Kobol, at the end of which he finds Dirk Benedict, who introduces himself as "God". Oh, and Baltar also hears an actual Jimi Hendrix recording playing during all this, and when "God" asks him if he recognizes the tune, he says "yes". And Moore claims to have had absolutely no idea what any of this was supposed to have meant, but the other PTB were barely able to talk him out of it.
* [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?]]: The reaction fans had with Helo during the miniseries and why the writers ultimately retconned his off screen death.
** In addition, {{spoiler|roughly a thousand people were left on [[Crapsack World|New Caprica]].}}
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: Done over and over again between the humans and Cylons of all types. The standard philosophical debate is complicated by attempted genocide against one side and slavery of the other in the backstory, so each side has a reason to hate and fear the other, and also by the bizarre bio...mecha...chemistry of the Cylons.
* [[Why Don't You Marry It?]]: The initial reaction to Helo and Athena's courtship. {{spoiler|Eventually, he ''does'' marry her.}}
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Kara/Lee, Adama/Roslin.
* [[With Due Respect]]: The standard preface to anything guaranteed to piss Adama off.
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* [[Wrench Wench]]: Cally and Seelix. Starbuck and Dee even have moments of this, Starbuck moreso; she's shown covered in grease and fixing a Viper during the Miniseries.
* [[Writers Cannot Do Math]]: Averted. The fleet keeps track very closely of its numbers, and this is even a recurring plot device in a number of episodes.
* [[Writing Byby the Seat of Your Pants]]: Confirmed by [[Word of God]].
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: {{spoiler|Cavil}} is a master of this. Nearly every one of his plans spectacularly explodes in his face, yet he's quick enough on the rebound with a with a backup plan to make you think he almost planned it that way. {{spoiler|He manages to hold things together until his last viable option goes up in smoke and then, well... [[Driven to Suicide|FRAK!]]}}
** Baltar spends the entire ''series'' playing XSC. But he couldn't have done it without the help of [[Good Angel, Bad Angel|Head-6]].
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