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090721-N-4995K-002 GULF OF OMAN (July 21, 2009) Aviation Electronics Technician Airman Patricia Hansen moves aircraft templates around the Ouija board in flight deck control aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Flight deck control is responsible for all movement of aircraft on the flight deck. The Ouija board is a scale model of the flight deck. Ronald Reagan is deployed in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Chelsea Kennedy/Released)
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http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season2/galactica-212.htm
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
2X12 - RESURRECTION SHIP (2)
Original Airdate (SciFi): 13-JAN-2006
Raptor
Racetrack is defibulating Apollo.
Racetrack: Clear. (Apollo is brought back to life) He's all right. He's a little shaken. But, I say again, Apollo is all right.
From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) To 10/15/1978 ( premiere US TV episode "Battlestar Galactica"::"The Long Patrol" ) is 5570 days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Patrol_(Battlestar_Galactica)
The Long Patrol (Battlestar Galactica)
"The Long Patrol" is an episode of the original Battlestar Galactica television series.
Starbuck is picked to test a new prototype Viper
Running recon ahead of the fleet, Starbuck encounters an old starfighter chasing a small cargo shuttle. Starbuck intervenes by distracting the fighter so that the shuttle can escape. The fighter breaks off and Starbuck follows the shuttle to a nearby world where he discovers the pilot is a smuggler hauling crates of ambrosia – a very expensive beverage and a favorite of Starbucks. While Starbuck admires the drink, the shuttle pilot strikes him from behind and knocks him out. The Smuggler then steals the Viper.
Aboard Galactica, Athena picks up a signal from the prototype Viper, but oddly, it is an unrecognizable code being aimed back at the Colonies. Fearing these signals will alert the Cylons to their position, Commander Adama orders Apollo and Boomer to intercept and destroy the Viper.
Starbuck regains consciousness, and seeing his Viper gone, takes off in the smuggler's shuttle. Upon reaching orbit, he is attacked by the same fighter he drove off earlier. The fighter pilot calls him "Robber", but Starbuck eventually convinces him that he is not the man he thinks he is. The fighter orders Starbuck to follow him to a nearby planet. Upon landing, guards inspect the shuttle and find the ambrosia. They arrest Starbuck for bootlegging despite his pleas of innocence.
On Galactica, Cassiopeia learns of Starbuck's situation. She also recognizes the unfamiliar signal as an old Arien merchant code. Adama has Apollo and Boomer spare the Viper and track it to the planet called Aries. Upon landing, they search for the pilot amongst some abandoned buildings. When Boomer finds the Smuggler's wife and child, the man surrenders.
Meanwhile, Starbuck is thrown in a cell and given the new name of "Bootlegger 137". After conversing with other prisoners – who are likewise named for their crime and a number (such as Embezzler 10, Murderer 7 etc) – Starbuck learns they are actually the decedents of the original inmates and being held for the crimes committed by their ancestors. He then realizes he is on a long forgotten Colonial penal colony called Proteus. The prison uses penal labor to manufacture munitions and large amounts of ambrosia for the Colonial military, but Colonial government eventually lost contact with the colony and assumed it destroyed. Starbuck also learns that there is a sizable stockpile of ambrosia that has been sitting on the docks for over a century and he dreams of the money it could bring.
Back on Aries, Apollo and Boomer converse with the smuggler and learn of the inhuman conditions on Proteus and that Starbuck has been taken there. They convince the smuggler to help rescue Starbuck and fly the prototype Viper with them to Proteus.
Back on Proteus, Starbuck has an altercation with a guard and realizes the locks on the cell doors haven't worked in ages. The guard runs away and Starbuck convinces the inmates that they are being duped into making ambrosia and unjustly being held as slaves. This causes an uprising and the inmates quickly seize the control of the prison.
Soon, just as Adama had feared, a Cylon patrol has intercepted the old merchant signal and traced it back to the advanced Viper, which is now on its way to Proteus. As soon as the Apollo and Boomer arrive, Starbuck is reunited with the Viper just as the Cylons begin attacking the colony. Starbuck, Apollo and Boomer manage to destroy the Cylons, but Starbuck's dreams of riches go up in flames when he sees the Cylons had destroyed all the ambrosia when they attacked the docks.
Once the fleet arrives at Proteus, Starbuck's safe return is celebrated with a dinner aboard the Rising Star. There Boxey presents his father, Apollo, with a drawing of Earth's solar system as described to him by his grandfather Adama. When Starbuck sees the "map" he notices it is similar to a drawing he saw in his cell at the prison. The smuggler friend, who also attends the dinner, says the drawing in the cell was made by "the silent one" – a mysterious prisoner that had long since died. Adama wonders if the man had found Earth.
http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Blackbird
Blackbird
Crew 1 pilot
Role Prototype stealth infiltrator
Weapons Normally unarmed
The Blackbird is a short-lived, prototype Colonial stealth fighter designed by Galen Tyrol and built by many deckhands and officers on Galactica.
Frustrated at the dwindling number of available Vipers due to loss and wear-and-tear, Galen Tyrol begins to build a new fighter from scratch. The fighter design evolves due to supply shortages as well as improvisation and the imagination of participating crew members. The new fighter becomes more a reconnaissance vehicle than an actual fighter craft.
http://www.tv.com/Lost/The+Variable/episode/1237161/trivia.html
Lost
Season 5, Episode 14
The Variable
Air Date
Wednesday April 29, 2009
Quotes
Faraday:
But then I finally realized... I had been spending so much time focused on the constants, I forgot about the variables. Do you know what the variables in these equations are, Jack?
Jack: No.
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season2/galactica-212.htm
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
2X12 - RESURRECTION SHIP (2)
Original Airdate (SciFi): 13-JAN-2006
Blackbird
Apollo is flying the blackbird up to the Resurrection Ship.
Apollo: Don't anyone look out of the window right now, please.
Apollo destroys the FTL engines
Apollo: Starbuck, Apollo, target's ftl is history. She's all yours.
Starbuck: Roger that, Apollo--
A raider collides with the blackbird.
Apollo: Frakk! Drifter, drifter, drifter. I've been hit. Ejecting.
Galactica - CIC
Dualla: Sir, I just received an emergency transponder from the blackbird. It's the auto-distress beacon.
Adama: Alert the search and rescue raptor. See if he had time to eject.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71
SR-71 Blackbird
The Lockheed SR-71 was an advanced, long-range, Mach 3 strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed from the Lockheed A-12 and YF-12A aircraft by the Lockheed Skunk Works as a Black project. The SR-71 was unofficially named the Blackbird, and called the Habu by its crews
A defensive feature of the aircraft was its high speed and operating altitude, whereby, if a surface-to-air missile launch were detected, standard evasive action was simply to accelerate.
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season2/galactica-211.htm
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
2X11 - RESURRECTION SHIP (1)
Original Airdate (SciFi): 06-JAN-2006
Colonial One
Rolsin: Let's start this by admitting an ugly truth. What happened out there today was the result of failure in leadership of everyone in this room. We are the leaders of this fleet. As such, we need to set an example. We cannot continue to let the conflicts between--
Cain: Oh, let's just cut through the handholding, shall we. Two of his men murdered one of my officers while protecting a cylon. They're guilty, they admitted it. And under regulations, I have complete authority to try, convict, and sentence them. And you and I both know that the penalty for that crime is death. Admiral, surely...
Rolsin: The spirit of the law requires something here more than summary executions.
Cain: Is this what the two of you have been doing for the past six months? Debating the finer points of colonial law? Well, guess what, we're at war! And we don't have the luxury of academic debate over these issues.
Rolsin: You wanna cut through it, fine. You have Pegasus, he has Galactica. Two heavily armed, very powerful warships. Now, I am sure that Pegasus would prevail in any fight.
Adama: I wouldn't count on that.
Rolsin: But certainly, there'd be heavy damage and you'd take significant casualties. So you can go out there a fight it out with Galactica or you can compromise. And those are the only two options on the table, period.
Cain: How the two of you have survived this long, I will never know. All right. Lieutenant Thrace has sent me detailed recon information on the cylon fleet. I want that fleet. And I need Galactica to get it. So I'm willing to go this far. I'll suspend the execution until after the attack.
Adama: And I want them back on Galactica.
Cain: I don't give a damn what you want. You frakking lucky you're staring at your own warrant.
