Battlestar Galactica Quotes

Laura Roslin: I don't know why I have to keep telling you this, but the war is over.

Adama: It hasn't begun yet.

Helo: Aren't you Gaius Baltar?

Baltar: I haven't done anything.

[Starbuck's in the brig]

Apollo: What's the charge this time?

Starbuck: Striking a superior asshole.

Adama: Saul, take personal command of the DC units.

Tigh: [Looks incredulous] Me?

Lt. Felix Gaeta: [to Adama] Sir, the stern thruster's still locked open. We need you.

Adama: [Still to Tigh] You're either the XO, or you're not.

[first spoken lines in the show]

Number Six: Are you alive?

Boxey's Father: Yes.

Number Six: Prove it.

Apollo: Are you sure this is a good idea?

Starbuck: No... not really.

Adama: [watching Dualla and Keikeya flirting across the bridge] They better start having babies.

Tigh: Is that an order?

[Talking to Starbuck over the radio]

Adama: Morning, Starbuck, what do you hear?

Starbuck: Nothin' but the rain.

Adama: Grab your gun and bring the cat in.

Starbuck: Aye-aye, sir.

Baltar: So now you're telling me, um, now you're telling me you're a machine?

Number Six: I'm a woman.

Baltar: You're a machine. You're a synthetic woman, a robot.

Number Six: I've said it three times now.

Baltar: Well, forgive me, I'm having the tiniest little bit of trouble believing that because the last time anybody saw the Cylons they looked more like walking chrome toasters.

Number Six: Those models are still around. They have their uses.

[to a baby she later kills]

Number Six: There, there. It's okay. You're not gonna have to cry much longer.

Number Six: What are you doing?

Baltar: Phoning my attorney.

Number Six: That won't be necessary.

Baltar: Nah, he'll know what to do. He'll sort this out. He's the best in the business.

Number Six: It won't be necessary because in a few hours no one will be left to charge you with anything.

Baltar: What exactly are you saying?

Number Six: Humanity's children are returning home. Today.

[a nuclear detonation flares in the distance]

[his decommissioning speech]

Adama: The Cylon War is long over, yet we must not forget the reasons why so many sacrificed so much in the cause of freedom. The cost of wearing the uniform can be high, but...

[very long pause]

Adama: sometimes it's too high. You know, when we fought the Cylons, we did it to save ourselves from extinction. But we never answered the question "Why?" Why are we as a people worth saving? We still commit murder because of greed and spite, jealousy, and we still visit all of our sins upon our children. We refuse to accept the responsibility for anything that we've done, like we did with the Cylons. We decided to play God, create life. And when that life turned against us, we comforted ourselves in the knowledge that it really wasn't our fault, not really. You cannot play God then wash your hands of the things that you've created. Sooner or later, the day comes when you can't hide from the things that you've done anymore.

[on the Galactica's 1-MC after news of the attack came in]

Adama: This is the Commander. Moments ago, this ship received word of a Cylon attack against our homeworlds is under way. We do not know the size or the disposition or the strength of the enemy forces, but all indications point to a massive assault against Colonial defenses. Admiral Nagala has taken personal command of the Fleet aboard the battlestar Atlantia following the complete destruction of Picon Fleet Headquarters in the first wave of the attacks. "How? Why?" doesn't really matter now. What does matter is that as of this moment, we are at war. You've trained for this. You're ready for this. Stand to your duties, trust your fellow shipmates, and we'll all get through this. Further updates as we get them. Thank you.

Adama: We're in a shooting war. We need something to shoot.

Tigh: I'll start checking munitions depots.

[looting the display Viper Mk.2s from the museum for combat duty]

Starbuck: You sure they'll fly?

Tyrol: Well, the reactor's still hot, so all we have to do is pull the rad buffers from the engine, refuel it, load the ordnance, and you're ready to go. The biggest problem is getting them over to the port launch bay.

Starbuck: Why can't we use the starboard launch?

Tyrol: It's a gift shop now.

Starbuck: Frak me.

Apollo: Sir, "Apollo"'s just my call sign. My name's Lee Adama.

Laura Roslin: I know who you are, but "Captain Apollo" has a nice ring to it, don't you think?

[a hallucinatory Number Six has shown Baltar an odd device on the DRADIS display console in the Galactica's CIC]

Baltar: You're not helping.

Number Six: I'm sorry. How can I help?

Baltar: Well, for a start you can tell me what that is.

Number Six: Honestly, I don't know.

Baltar: Well, it hasn't exploded.

Number Six: Yet.

[Baltar gives her a shocked look]

Number Six: I'm just guessing.

Baltar: I have to warn them.

Number Six: How do you propose to do that? "Oh look, a Cylon device." "Really? Well, how do you know what a Cylon device looks like, Doctor?" "Oh, I forgot to mention I'm familiar with their technology because I've been having sex with a Cylon for the last two years now."

Starbuck: Permission to speak off the record, sir?

Tigh: Granted.

Starbuck: You're a bastard.

Laura Roslin: There's no Earth. You made it all up. President Adar and I once talked about the legends surrounding Earth. He knew nothing about a secret location regarding Earth, and if the President knew nothing about it, what are the chances that you do?

Adama: You're right. There's no Earth. It's all a legend.

Laura Roslin: Then why?

Adama: Because it's not enough to just live. You have to have something to live for. Let it be Earth.

Laura Roslin: They'll never forgive you.

Adama: Maybe. But in the meantime I've given all of us a fighting chance to survive. And isn't that what you said was the most important thing, the survival of the human race?

Starbuck: I thought you were dead.

Apollo: Well, I thought you were in hack.

Starbuck: It's - it's good to be wrong.

Apollo: Well, you should be used to it by now.

Starbuck: Everyone has a skill.

Apollo: [both of their Vipers are attached together while trying to land on the Galactica] We're coming in a little hot, don't you think?

Starbuck: [lying] No, not really.

[Number Six has just informed Baltar that she has used the access he has given her to the Defense Mainframe in order to commit espionage]

Baltar: I had nothing to do with this. You know I had nothing to do with this.

Number Six: You have an amazing capacity for self-deception. How do you do that?

Aaron Doral: [the Cylons cut through the doors to Ragnar Anchorage, and a crowd of humanoid Cylon copies walk through to find the Doral-copy Adama stranded there] We have to get out of this storm. The radiation affects our silica relays.

Leoben Conoy: Where did they go?

Aaron Doral: I don't know. They were prepared for a big jump.

Aaron Doral: [a second copy of Doral in the Cylon crowd] We can't let them go.

Number Six: Hmm, unfortunately I agree.

Leoben Conoy: [a second copy of Conoy] If we do, they'll return one day and take revenge

Number Six: [a second copy of Number Six] It's in their nature.

Aaron Doral: We have no choice.

Leoben Conoy: [a third copy of Conoy] It may take several decades to track them down.

Lt. Sharon 'Boomer' Valerii: [Boomer walks into the room. Boomer is a Cylon] Don't worry, we'll find them.

Number Six: By your command.

Captain of Colonial Heavy 798: Geminion liner 1701, this is Colonial Heavy 798.

Captain of Colonial Heavy 798: [realizes that the newly-vowed president is behind him] No, strike that. This is Colonial One.

Adama: [sensing despair at the funeral service after the battle at Ragnor] Are they the lucky ones? That's what you're thinking, isn't it? We're a long way from home. We've jumped way beyond the Red Line into uncharted space. Limited supplies. Limited fuel. No allies. And now no hope! Maybe it would have been better for us to have died quickly back on the colonies with our families instead of dying out here slowly in the emptiness of dark space. Where shall we go? What shall we do? "Life here began out there". Those are the first words of the sacred scrolls. And they were told to us by the Lords of Kobol many countless centuries ago. And they made it perfectly clear that we are not alone in this universe. Elosha, there's a 13th colony of humankind, is there not?

Priest Elosha: Yes. The scrolls tell us a 13th tribe left Kobol in the Early Days. They traveled far and made their home upon a planet called Earth, which circled a distant and unknown star.

Adama: It's not unknown. I know where it is! Earth - the most guarded secret we have. The location was only known by the senior commanders of the fleet, and we dared not share it with the public. Not while there was a Cylon threat upon us. For now we have a refuge to go to. A refuge that the Cylons know nothing about! It won't be an easy journey. It will be long and arduous. But I promise you one thing. On the memory of those lying here before you, we shall find it. And Earth will become our new home. So say we all!

Galactica Crew: So say we all!

Adama: [louder] So say we all!

Galactica Crew: So say we all!

Adama: [very much louder] So say we all!

Galactica Crew: [louder] So say we all!

Adama: [standing at attention with the crew] So say we all.

Priest Elosha: So say we all.