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** It was explicitly stated in the pilot miniseries that the only ships that were not falling victim to Cylon hacking were ships that were either being refitted or were older models. Presumably a few other ships were being refitted, remained active, and were able to fight back, but got overwhelmed by the Cylons.
** A fairly large number of Battlestars were immune to the hacking. They got listed fairly early on, but the Pegasus and Galactica were the only two that didn't attempt a head on confrontation with the Cylon fleet.
* They might have been strapped for resources while making ''The Plan'', but recognizing the Middle East (more specifically the Persian Gulf), the Vancouver urban area and Europe in orbital views of Caprica is a bit unnerving. And so is finding the ''[http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=84 Emirates Office Tower]'' in [https://web.archive.org/web/20130625170937/http://media.battlestarwiki.org/images/6/63/Impending_Doom.png the Caprican skyline].
* Small but irksome - you're telling me Baltar and Six never had sex doggy-style? That he never once looked at her back when she was feeling hot and heavy? Human spines do not glow red during sex no matter how turned on the individual, and apparently the effect with Cylons is quite noticeable. Seems like this is a big hole in the idea of Cylons being exactly like people, and something that should have rooted them out.
** This glowing backbone thing kind of disappeared after the first season, didn't it? I don't remember seeing it after that.
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***** ^^ I also noticed this, but it led me to another thing that bugs me. Anyone who has ever been aboard a ship knows how fast gossip and rumor can travel among tightly packed and bored people. Now, given the number of people who have witnessed Baltar talking to his imaginary friends, about how long would this have taken to spread across the fleet? Days? A week at the outside? However, I realize the reason this was never followed up on in the show was because the civilian population knowing that he talked to an imaginary person would have made Baltar's candidacy for president utterly implausible (as it was implausible enough to begin with).
****** And how often are wild-sounding rumors about a political candidate completely ignored by all their supporters, because they're obviously just slanders being spread by their opposition? That only happens ''every election cycle'' around here. Yes, even the true rumors.
* The case of Galactica's missing ventral turrets. Do they exist or don't they? The strange disappearance of the ventral guns makes me think their canon status is debatable. They're clearly visible in the Miniseries several times as well as in [https://web.archive.org/web/20130626113517/http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/File:BSG_Ortho_Top_%26_Bottom.jpg this] Zoic rendering, but were never depicted in the show. Dialogue in "Resurrection Ship Part II" may have referred to them, but usually only the eight dorsal turrets were shown in action, though the batteries located on the fore- and mid-bow made some easy-to-miss appearances as well. These weapons were probably destroyed during the attack on New Caprica, but they were never illuminated like the other 14 turrets are, except in the Miniseries. They also don't appear in [http://media.battlestarwiki.org/images/2/2f/BSG_Blue_prints.png this]{{Dead link}} blueprint, (though there are numerous reason why this image should not be considered canon). I suppose it's okay, since their positioning makes it seem as though they don't have a field of fire as good as the other mountings do (a problem fixed with ''Pegasus''). And I know I should feel bad for actually thinking about these things; I just wish they had found more opportunities to explore Galactica from different angles, something they finally started to do more of late in Season 3, but that was too little too late.
** It may also be worth mentioning that the ''Galactica'' is an awesome-looking ship from all angles, except from below it, where it looks downright ridiculous.
* Could they at least try to make Caprica not look like Vancouver?
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*** It's slightly better than that, but the fundamental point still stands - our methods of planet detection are biased towards finding gas giants and "super-earths" in very close orbits around small stars (such as red dwarfs). The current telescopes - such as Kepler - ''can'' detect "super-earths" around stars more like the Sun, but it's very difficult.
*** Habitable planets seem to be rare in-universe. Outside of the 12 Colonies, the Colonials find five of them: 1)Kobol, 2)The devastated "Earth", 3)"Our" Earth, 4)the Algae Planet, and 5)New Caprica. New Caprica and the Algae Planet were marginally habitable at best.
** They don't. The Twelve Colonies are in a dual binary star system, for a total of [https://web.archive.org/web/20130819182717/http://media.battlestarwiki.org/images/9/98/Quantum_Mechanix_The_Twelve_Colonies_of_Kobol.jpg four solar systems].
* In 'No Exit' Cavil threatens to extract the secrets of resurrection directly from Ellen's brain. It is unclear, judging by subsequent events, if he would actually have been able to do this, but surely if he could 'read' information from a human-like brain he would already be a long way towards reinventing resurrection already. It seems that this might theoretically have been possible as Ellen does not protest that what he is doing is pointless.
* Okay yes it's a show about an aircraft carrier [[In Space]] but the writers seem to have left out ''every'' implication of the [[In Space]] part when it comes to launching and recovering Vipers and other small craft. It's difficult to land an aircraft on a sea-going ship because the ship is a moving target, the landing surface is moving in complex ways, and because of the way non-V/STOL aircraft behave in atmosphere. Specifically, they fall out of it if they fail to maintain airspeed greater than the aircraft's stall speed. Thus landing becomes a very complex operation. ''Very few'' of these conditions apply in interstellar space. A spacecraft isn't going to fall ''anywhere'' if it doesn't maintain velocity and docking manoeuvres become a much simpler manner with as large and durable a target as a Battlestar's landing bay. (Docking manoeuvres for contemporary spacecraft are complicated as they are in orbit/freefall rather than zero gravity and are rather fragile machines.) All the flight training bits with respect to landing operations were pure [[You Fail Physics Forever|YouFailPhysicsForever]].
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