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* [[Aliens Speaking English]]: The survivors of the Twelve Colonies inexplicably speak late 20th Century North American English.
* [[Aliens Steal Cable]]: How Dr. Zee finds out about Earth cultures.
* [[Always Night]]: Had several episodes filmed completely at night for no apparent reason. The real reason is probably scheduling difficulties related to [[Executive Meddling]].
* [[Apocalypse Wow]]: Starts with a computer simulation of one, and goes downhill from there.
* [[Armor-Piercing Question]]: In one episode, a Cylon states that their goal and purpose is to organize the entire universe. Another character asks what they'll do after that. The Cylon hesitates and finally admits that no one has ever asked that question.
* [[Back for the Finale]]: {{spoiler|Starbuck, in a rather sad [[Flash Back]] episode.}}
* [[Baseball Episode]]: One episode had a baseball game that is critical to the plot.
* [[Benevolent Alien Invasion]]: Galactica's plan for {{spoiler|bringing Earth up to their level of technology.}}
* [[Big Applesauce]]: In the episode, "The Night the Cylons Landed".
* [[The Big Board]]: In one episode, some of the Colonial Warriors on Earth find a scientist's chalkboard with various formulas on it. One of them writes information on the chalkboard that will improve the scientist's knowledge (disposing of nuclear waste?).
* [[The Bus Came Back]]: Dirk Benedict's Starbuck character reappearing in one episode.
* [[Canon Discontinuity]]: For the continuation comics and novels, at least.
* [[Culture Clash]]: Invokes [[Fridge Logic]] since Dr. Zee is monitoring Earth's transmissions.
* [[Flying Car]]: Or rather, flying motorcycles.
* [[Giving Radio to the Romans]]: Commander Xavier's plan to advance Earth to a state where they could help against the Cylons involved using [[Time Travel]] to give advanced technology to the Nazis.
* [[Godwin's Law of Time Travel]]: In play during the pilot arc.
* [[Human Aliens]]: The Colonials, of course.
* [[In a Single Bound]]: One of the powers gained when Colonials visit "low-gravity" Earth.
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** Which is pretty amazing, considering we've seen crew members wrestle and/or drop things in the original series, and they didn't seem to fall any faster than they would on Earth.
* [[Plot Hole]]: Caused by the [[Time Skip]] between ''Galactica'' and ''Galactica 1980'': the original series ended with a video transmission being picked up by the ''Galactica'' from the Apollo moon landing, meaning that the original series would have to have taken place sometime after 1969 by Earth's calendar (and probably many years after, given light-speed propagation of radio waves). A thirty-year journey would mean that the Colonial Fleet could not have possibly reached Earth until 1999 at the ''earliest'', rather than in 1980 -- and ''that'' assumes some kind of magic let them receive the Apollo signals at essentially the same moment they were sent.
* [[Retool]]: Forced by [[Executive Meddling]]. It was originally planned out as a tense adult drama based around a "time war" concept explored in short arcs of two or three episodes at a shot, but nervous executives invoked [[Viewers are Morons]] and the [[Sci Fi Ghetto]], and demanded the show be dumbed down to what they thought was the only audience it would have -- kids. One part of the Retool was not because of the executives, though -- the [[Time Skip]] was applied to explain new leads after Dirk Benedict and Richard Hatch declined to return to the new series.
* [[Robot Buddy]]: Cy, Starbuck's Cylon companion in "The Return of Starbuck".
* [[Super Strength]]: Another power gained when Colonials visit "low-gravity" Earth.
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* [[Time Skip]]: ''Galactica 1980'' is set thirty years after the events of ''Battlestar Galactica''.
* [[Time Travel]]: Involved the first episodes, where Troy and Dillon must travel back to Nazi Germany to prevent a rogue member of the Fleet from giving the Nazis advanced technologies, the better to make "modern" Earth capable of defending against the Cylons.
* [[Weaponized Car]]: Those flying motorcycles? Laden with weapons, too.
* [[Whole-Plot Reference]]: Like its predecessor, ''Galactica 1980'' managed to indulge in this during its brief run: "The Return of Starbuck" bears a striking resemblance to ''[[Enemy Mine]]'', which had first appeared in short story format in 1979.
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