Battlestar Galactica Dialog

0:02:15
NARRATOR: 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. That 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.

0:03:27
ADAR: Noble delegates. I realize you are all anxious to get back to your ships before our rendezvous with the Cylons, but I think it appropriate to toast the most significant event in the history of mankind. I would like to raise my chalice to you. Not merely as the Quorum of Twelve, representing the twelve colonies of man, but as my friends, the greatest leaders ever assembled. As we approach the seventh millennium of time, the human race at last will find peace, thanks to you.

EVERYBODY: Peace!

0:04:15
ZAC: Starbuck, he's coming. What are you gonna say?
STARBUCK: Zac, now just calm down, why are you so nervous?
ZAC: He still thinks of me as his little brother.
STARBUCK: Yeah well you're acting like one... now it's... it's just a routine patrol, why is it so important to you?
ZAC: Because it is. Look, I'm a Warrior, I earned that. I wanna prove that to him.
STARBUCK: I know Zac, but this may not be the best time.
ZAC: It's a peace envoy! What possible trouble could there be?
STARBUCK: That's not the point.
ZAC: Starbuck! You promised!
STARBUCK: I know.
APOLLO: Hey Starbuck, what are you doing? We're going on patrol.
STARBUCK: Uh...
ZAC: He... can't make it. Starbuck is not feeling well.
APOLLO: Oh?
STARBUCK: Yeah... uh... well... it's... you know.
APOLLO: Well that's... kind of short notice... I mean with everybody... not wanting to go on this patrol, everybody wants to celebrate the armistice... I wonder who I'm gonna be able to find.
ZAC: Uh... hrm...
APOLLO: Yes Zac. You have a suggestion?
ZAC: Aw come on! I mean I've studied the co-ordinates from here to the Cylon cartel. My ship's ready to go.
APOLLO: Well that's lucky! Isn't it Starbuck?
STARBUCK: Yeah, that's a real stroke of luck!
APOLLO: Well, I guess you're just gonna have to pull Starbuck's patrol with me.
ZAC: WOW!

0:05:30
RIGEL: Launch bay Alpha, stand by to launch fighter probe.
ZAC: Acknowledged. Input recorded and functioning.
RIGEL: Vector co-ordinates coded and transferred. Acknowledge.
APOLLO: Acknowledged. Ready to launch.
RIGEL: Core systems transferring control to probe craft. Launch when ready.

ZAC: I forget how different it is out here.
APOLLO: This is nothing. When the war is officially over we may be able to go back to deep star exploration, that's the challenge, Zac. Let's roll over and take a look at the Meus vector.

0:06:30
ADAR: Baltar my friend. This armistice conference would not have been possible without your tireless work. You have secured for yourself a place in the history books.
BALTAR: That the Cylons chose me as their liaison to the Quorum of Twelve was an act of Providence, not skill.

ADAR: I see the party is not a huge success with all my children.
ADAMA: What awaits us out there's what troubles me.
ADAR: Well surely you don't cling to your suspicions about the Cylons. They asked for this armistice, they want peace.
ADAMA: Forgive me Mr President, but they hate us with every fiber of their existence. We love freedom, we love independence, to feel, to question, to resist oppression and... to them it's an alien way of existing they will never accept.
ADAR: But they have, through Baltar. They have sued for peace.
ADAMA: Yes.

0:07:50
ZAC: Apollo, two targets on my scanners, above the old moon Cimtar.
APOLLO: Could be a storm. I think we'll be coming on right through it. Look, you hold positions and cover me while I take a look. Hitting my turbos.
Well, look at that.
ZAC: What is it?
APOLLO: Tell you in a flash.
Warbook says a Cylon tanker. Her containage is empty.
ZAC: Apollo, I have a funny feeling about this.
APOLLO: Well, we take to look.
There's the other ship, tucked in nice and neat. I don't know what she is doing. I can't bring anything up inside, she's jamming us.
ZAC: Warbook says she's a freighter.

APOLLO: My foot! If she's jamming us, she's hiding something. I'm going around there.
Nothing but a harmless mist, not heavy at all. I don't see why they seem to bother with electronic jamming.
Let's get out of here!!
ZAC: Why?
APOLLO: I'll explain later!

CYLON: Colonial Viper in quadrant. Intercepting.

ZAC: I see what you mean!
APOLLO: It's an ambush, and they've got enough fire power to destroy the entire fleet!
They're jamming our transmission. Were not gonna make it giving them our backs. How many of them can you make out?
ZAC: Four.
APOLLO: When I hit three, you hit your reverse thrusters and maximum braking flaps, we'll give them a little surprise.
One... two... three!
Turbos full, forward thrust. Now!
Right here you creeps!
Hey, not bad little brother! OK, you go after the guys on the right.
Yahoo!
ZAC: Apollo, I'll get this one.
APOLLO: Zac! Look out behind you!
ZAC: I can't loose him, he's right on my tail!
APOLLO: Steady...
ZAC: Hurry Apollo!
Nice shooting, but... they hit my high engine.
APOLLO: That's OK, little brother, we got all of them. Now, do you think those guys can outfight us about a ten to one march?
ZAC: Apollo... you better look at your scanner...
APOLLO: Oh, but a thousand to one, that's not fair!
ZAC: What does it mean?
APOLLO: It means there isn't going to be any peace! There might not be much of anything if we don't warn the fleet!
ZAC: Do it! I'm short an engine, you know I won't be able to keep up with you.
APOLLO: Zac, I'm not gonna leave you!
ZAC: You have to! I'm putting my foot in that turbo, I'll make it back ahead now go on, you gotta warn the fleet! I'll be allright!
APOLLO: You can fly with me anytime, little brother! Good luck!

0:12:43
ADAMA: Galactica control, this is Commander Adama returning from Atlantia, request permission to land.
RIGEL: Permission granted.
ATHENA: Something's wrong...
ADAMA: What is it?
ATHENA: I don't know, they just put the ship on alert!

0:13:10
ADAMA: Colonel, what's been happening?
TIGH: Our patrol ran into trouble. We picked up some signals, but they're being jammed. Could be smugglers or pirates or...
ADAMA: Get me the President, please.

ADAMA: Mr President. Our patrol is under attack, we don't know by whom. As a precautionary measure I would like to launch intercept fighters.
BALTAR: Why I should think that's highly inadvisable, in view of the delicacy of our situation.
ADAR: Quite right, Baltar. Commander, as a precautionary measure I insist upon restraint. If this turns out to be an encounter with some outlaw traffic, we could jeopardize the whole cause of peace by displaying fighters when we are so close to our rendezvous.
ADAMA: Mr President. Two of my star fighters are under armed attack!
ADAR: By forces unknown. You are not to launch until the situation is more clear.
ADAMA: Sir, may I at least urge you to bring the fleet to a state of alert?
ADAR: I will consider that. Thank you Commander.

TIGH: He'll consider it... He'll consider it! I'm sorry Commander, but it's just that... well...
ADAMA: What?
TIGH: The patrol is under the command of Captain Apollo.
ADAMA: Well, if I can't have confidence in my first-born son, who can I depend on?
TIGH: Commander, Zac is with him, it's his first patrol.
ADAMA: Thank you.

ZAC: Come on baby, give me all you've got...

TIGH: Still no word from our fighters Sir, their transmission is being deliberately jammed. If we don't launch...
ADAMA: We can not launch, it's been expressly forbidden. However... This might be a very good time for battle-stations drill. Sound the alert Colonel.
TIGH: Yes Sir!

0:15:10
STARBUCK: You may never see another one fellows. A perfect Pyramid. Unless there's a better hand, the pot's mine...
Wait! Wait!

0:15:45
OMEGA: Sir, our long-range scanner shows a large number of ships headed this way at a high speed.
ATHENA: A single patrol craft is approaching, Commander.
ADAMA: Get that pilot up here as soon as he lands. Get me the President.
TIGH: Yes Sir.

TECHNICIAN: What's going on?
STARBUCK: It's nothing to worry about. Probably some kind of aerial salute for the President while he signs the armistice. Sure ruined a good card game...

ADAR: Commander?
ADAMA: Mr President. A wall of unidentified craft is closing in on the fleet.
BALTAR: Possibly a Cylon welcoming committee. ADAMA: Sir, may I suggest we... launch a welcoming committee of our own?
BALTAR: Mr President. There remain many hostile feelings amongst our Warriors. The likelihood of an unfortunate incident with all those pilots in the sky at once...
ADAR: Commander.
ADAMA: Sir. Did Baltar suggest that our forces sit here totally defenceless!
ADAR: My friend. We are on a peace mission. The first peace man has known in a thousand years.

0:16:58
CYLON: Stand by to attack.

ZAC: Come on baby! Not much further...
Patrol flight two in trouble! Request emergency approach.

ADAMA: Mr President.
TIGH: Commander, one of our patrol ships is under attack from the main force approaching the fleet!
ADAMA: Mr President. Your "welcoming committee" is firing at our patrol!
ADAR: Baltar... Baltar?

ZAC: Made it!
Patrol to fleet. Patrol to fleet! I need help!

ADAR: What was that?
ADAMA: That was my son, Mr President...
Positive shield, now! Launch fighters!
All batteries, commence fire!
OMEGA: All fire control stations prepared and operational.
RIGEL: Launch all remaining Vipers.
OMEGA: Sir, they're off.
TIGH: Fighters launched, Sir!
ADAMA: Have the other ships made it to launch their fighters?
TIGH: Negative, Sir.
ADAMA: Lord, help us...

COM VOICE: Engineering reporting laser hit on starboard engines. Power reduction...
APOLLO: Cylons, it's an ambush. I had to leave Zac, he's disabled. I'd like to go back and lead him in.
ADAMA: That won't be possible...
APOLLO: Father, I didn't know what else to do, if I don't go back, he doesn't stand a chance!
Zac?
TIGH: His ship was destroyed just short of the fleet...

JOLLY: Hey, heads up Boomer, there's a pair on your tail!
Pull up Boomer! I'll try to get him off.
BOOMER: Nice Shooting!!

TIGH: Captain, we have to know how many base ships we're dealing with.
APOLLO: No base ships...
TIGH: You must be mistaken Captain. Fighters couldn't function this far from Cylon without base ships, they...
APOLLO: No base ships!!
TIGH: ... don't carry enough fuel.
APOLLO: Just fighters, maybe a thousand!
ADAMA: How do you account for that Apollo?
APOLLO: I don't know... We picked up an empty tanker on our scanner. It's my guess the Cylons used it to refuel for the attack after flying to that point from wherever their base ships are.
TIGH: Why operate this far from Cylon without base ships when it isn't necessary... They would have been well out of our range at the old moon.
ADAMA: Unless it was necessary... for them to be somewhere else! Get me the President!!

VIPER PILOT: Hey Starbuck, it's dangerous around here!

ADAMA: Mr President. I request permission to leave the fleet. I have reason to suspect that our home planets may face imminent attack!
ADAR: How could I have been so completely wrong! I have lead the entire human race to ruin.
ADAMA: Mr President...

0:21:10
CYLON: Arm and attack Atlantia.

BOOMER: I got him on the left.
STARBUCK: I got him on the right.
The main attack is on the Presidents ship!

CYLON: Atlantia death squadron, attack.

ADAMA: Negative shield, now.
Oh my God...
TIGH: Commander. Our long-range scanner have picked up Cylon base ships. Grid 035, 126 and 258. That puts them well within striking range of the planets Virgon, Sagitara and...
ADAMA: ... Yes... and Caprica...

0:22:45
IMPERIOUS LEADER: Speak, Centurion.
CYLON: All base ships are now in range to attack the colonies.
IMPERIOUS LEADER: The final annihilation of the life form known as man... Let the attack begin!

0:23:05
ADAMA: We're withdrawing. Flank speed for home!
OMEGA: Commander, the long-range scanner picks up wave after wave of small ships heading towards all inner planets.

STARBUCK: Hey, Boomer.
BOOMER: I see it.
STARBUCK: Where's she going?
BOOMER: Don't ask me. The Commander's calling the shots.
GREENBEAN: Hey you guys. What's going on? The Galactica's pulling out.
STARBUCK: There's got to be a good reason.

OMEGA: The electronic jamming has stopped.
APOLLO: They're clearing the air for their electronic guidance systems.
TIGH: That means the attack is under way.
OMEGA: No Sir. We're picking up long range video satellite signals. Everything looks perfectly normal at home. We have a civil broadcast transmission coming up here shortly.
TIGH: Perhaps we're in time, Commander.

SERINA: Preparations continue through the night here at the Caprica Presidium. We can see at the moment it is somewhat deserted, but with the new dawn it will be full of Capricans coming here, eagerly and joyfully, to usher in a new era, the era of peace. So far, details of the armistice meeting going on at this very moment on the Star Kobol, are not coming in as we had hoped for. It seems that this is due to unusual electrical interferences which are blocking out all interstellar communications. However, as soon as they are available, we will be showing you the first pictures of something that has been described as the most significant event in history.
Oh, my God! It's a tremendous explosion... Are we getting this on the camera... People are running everywhere and they... are running in all different directions. Ladies and gentlemen... It's terrible! They're bombing the city...
Boxey!!
No! Boxey!
MAN: Please, lady. The building's gonna topple! Everybody! .....
BOXEY: My daggit. My daggit! Where is it!?

0:27:55
ATHENA: Oh Zac! ... and all the others! They trusted us to protect them...
APOLLO: There really wasn't any choice...
OMEGA: Commander... Cylon base ships on long-range scanner, launching to all outer planets...
TIGH: No hope, Commander...
ADAMA: What about Sagitara?
OMEGA: The planet's in flames, Commander.
ADAMA: Have my shuttle craft prepared, please.
TIGH: Shuttle craft?
ADAMA: I'm going down on the surface of Caprica.
TIGH: Commander, that is out of the question! If the Cylon scanner should pick up...
ADAMA: You'll continue to rendezvous with the survivors of the fleet.
APOLLO: I'll take you in my fighter. You're the last surviving member of the Council, father, if we should run into a Cylon attack ship at least you'll have a chance.
TIGH: I insist on that, Commander.
ADAMA: Very well...

0:29:15
RIGEL: Core systems transferring control to probe craft. Launch when ready.

OMEGA: Ships are coming in on both decks, Sir.
TIGH: What's the count?
RIGEL: 67 fighters at all, Sir. 25 of our own.
TIGH: How many Battlestars?
OMEGA: None...
TIGH: What!?
OMEGA: We're the only surviving Battlestar.
TIGH: Oh my God!

STARBUCK: Red leader in trouble. Repeat, in trouble!
ATHENA: We read you red leader. How can we assist you?
STARBUCK: Battle damage. I have control curcuits shot away on my landing gear.
ATHENA: I'm on the line, Starbuck. What's your condition?
STARBUCK: This is no time for training, Athena, I'm in trouble, I mean I'm in real trouble!
TIGH: Bring him in full throttle. We'll shut down at the outer marker, there's no choice.
STARBUCK: I heard him. Get everyone out of the way, I'm coming in hot!
OMEGA: Prepare to land.
STARBUCK: Roger. I hope you guys are'nt counting on .....
OMEGA: He'll be coming in like a missile.

TECHNICIAN: Stay back! He could loose it!
ATHENA: Starbuck!
TECHNICIAN: Get out fast! The ship might blow any minute!
ATHENA: Are you all right?
STARBUCK: Fine! Fine. No thanks to your father! Here, give it a good wash.
ATHENA: What are you saying about my father! Do you realize what we've just been through!?
STARBUCK: Oh yeah? You should have seen our day! We mananged to singlehandedly keep the Cylons off your neck, while you took off on a little cruise!
ATHENA: Starbuck! Don't you realize what's happened!?
STARBUCK: Oh yeah, sure, I realize what happened. You should see this baby from the air when it takes off across the sky, it's a beautiful sight, beautiful, as it happens to be your base ship!
ATHENA: Starbuck! Listen to me! The colonies are gone... all of them...
STARBUCK: What are you talking about gone!

0:32:50
ADAMA: I'm sorry Ila. I was never there when it mattered, never...
APOLLO: Father... there are crowds coming, they probably saw our ship land.
ADAMA: I was just... gathering a few things here... This likeness of you and Zac...
APOLLO: Father, we can't stay... Maybe mother wasn't here...
ADAMA: Oh, she was here... She was here...

MAN #1: Where were they? Where were they!? Where are the rest of you fancy flyers!?
MAN #2: Where were you, when they killed the rest of us!? What were you doing boy!?
SERINA: Wait! Wait, let him talk. I wanna know where you were as well! All of you! We waited, we watched and prayed... And you never came...
APOLLO: Most of us are dead... The fleet is all but destroyed...
SERINA: But you're here.
APOLLO: From the Battlestar Galactica.
SERINA: It survives?
APOLLO: Yes.
SERINA: What of the President, and the Council of Twelve and... and all the other colonies?
ADAMA: All destroyed...
SERINA: Commander Adama...
ADAMA: Yes, Serina...
SERINA: It's true then... We're defeated, doomed...
BOXEY: Can I ride in your ship, Sir?
APOLLO: Fighter planes are no place for little boys...
SERINA: They're going to have to be if our people are going to survive...We must fight back!
ADAMA: Yes, we are going to fight back. But not here, not now. Not in the colonies, not even in this star system... Let the word go forth to every man, woman and child who survived this holocaust. Tell them to set sail at once in every as sort of vehicle that will carry them...
And the word went forth to every outpost of human existence. And they came... The Aeries, the Gemons, the Virgos, the Scorpios, the Piscons and the Sagitarians. In all: 220 ships, representing every colony, color and breed in the star system.
The human race might have one more chance. But first it would have to survive the Alliance, the elements, and the unknown dark and sinister threats that would lie ahead...

0:37:20
BALTAR: Their destruction is complete.
CYLON: Our forces have taken prisoners near the space drome, they tell of survivers who escaped in ships.
BALTAR: What ships! How far can they go... If a handfull of survivors did indeed escape, they would have neither fuel nor food for a prolonged voyage...
CYLON: The information is not complete. It is offered in exchance for life.
BALTAR: And what is the standing order for humans from your Imperious Leader?
CYLON: Extermination.
BALTAR: Then carry out your orders. If they exist, they're doomed...

0:38:08
ADAMA: We gather here as representatives of each ship in our fleet, to answer that single question: Where will we go?
Our recorded history tells us that we descended from a mother civilization, a race that went out into space to establish colonies. Those of us here assembled now represent the only known surviving colonies, save one. A sister world, far out in the universe, remembered to us only through ancient writings... It is my intention to seek out that remaining colony, that last outpost of humanity in the whole universe.
SERINA: Commander Adama. This thirteenth colony, this other world, were is it and what is it called?
ADAMA: I wish I could tell you that I know precisely where it is, but I can't. However, I do know that it lies beyond our star system, in a galaxy very much like our own, on a planet called... Earth...

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