Battlestar Galactica (TV Series)

Saga of a Star World (1978)

Dirk Benedict: Lieutenant Starbuck

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• Cassiopeia : My name is Cassiopeia

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Cassiopeia. It's beautiful. It means fairy queen, doesn't it?

  Cassiopeia : I think so.

• Cassiopeia : That woman is a member of the Otori sect amongst the Gemonese. They don't believe in physical contact between genders except when sanctified by the priests during the high worship of the sunstorm, which comes once only every seven years.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Hmm... no wonder those little buggers are such good card players.

• Lieutenant Starbuck : [entering the female crew's quarters]  Anybody here?

  Lieutenant Athena : [scantily dressed, ducking behind locker door]  Starbuck...

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Oh!

  [standing back] 

  Lieutenant Starbuck : I'm looking for you. I came to, uh, apologize... for how I treated you. It's just...

  [sighs] 

  Lieutenant Starbuck : I've seen so many of the guys from my squadron

  [sighs] 

  Lieutenant Starbuck : burnt up. I guess I was looking to take it out on somebody, I wish it hadn't been you.

  Lieutenant Athena : [shielded by locker door, shaking her head]  It wasn't important, Starbuck.

  [sighs] 

  Lieutenant Athena : I don't know what is.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Look... I'm sorry about... Zac... and your mother.

  Lieutenant Athena : Starbuck, you don't have to say anything...

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Zac pulled my patrol.

  Lieutenant Athena : [quickly]  He wanted to go.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Yeah. Athena... this is a time for sticking together.

  [walks past her, and she retreats further behind locker door] 

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Maybe... maybe we could talk, uh, about... things...

  Lieutenant Athena : Us, you mean?

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Well, I guess... it is a little overdue.

  Lieutenant Athena : Starbuck, I don't know.

  [sighs, shaking her head] 

  Lieutenant Athena : I don't think any of us has any kind of future anymore.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Hey, don't say that, things... things are gonna be all right. Look, if we could handle what we've just been through... we can handle anything.

  Lieutenant Athena : [scoffs]  Later maybe, when... when things aren't so fresh in my mind.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Athena, I... I said... I was sorry.

  Lieutenant Athena : Starbuck... I don't want to care about anybody. Especially you.

  [sighs] 

  Lieutenant Athena : Zac couldn't wait to get out there. Get shot up. And you, you're worse than Zac.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Uhm, I think of it... as an obligation.

  Lieutenant Athena : [little laugh]  No, you don't... Oh, you like to pretend that they're out there, dragging you by your bootstraps, but...

  [scoffs] 

  Lieutenant Athena : you really can't wait to get up there... in that machine of yours.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : I... I guess we... see things differently.

  Lieutenant Athena : I guess we do.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : I said... what I came to say.

  [leaves] 

• Lieutenant Starbuck : Ah, look at it this way, Boomer, this isn't the worst duty in the fleet, asking a lot of questions. I hear they're sending some poor guys from Beta section crawling around on the outside of an old skybus looking for a solium leak.

  Lieutenant Boomer : Hmm, wonder how they missed us for that detail?

• Captain Apollo : The Nova of Madagon is not a nova at all, but a starfield so bright, our cockpits will be sealed to prevent blindness. We'll navigate by scanner and clear everything out of our path with turbo lasers. Are you feeling alright, Starbuck? You're fidgeting around like a daggit on a sunspot.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Well, it's my bio-pulse line, sir. You see, it's a bad time for me to be cooped up in a cockpit.

  Lieutenant Boomer : Starbuck's being polite... since he got a steam burn.

  Captain Apollo : I don't think I want to ask you how you got it, because I need you on this mission. I didn't choose you to help lead us through without a great deal of anguish. But it'll do any good, let me assure you that should we fail... no one will survive. The rest of our friends must sit in anticipation of our skill.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Or lack thereof...

• Captain Apollo : When these fires reach hyper-combustion, the whole planet's gonna blow! Let's get outta here!

  Lieutenant Starbuck : [sees that his blaster has used up while shooting the Cylons in the mine]  Oh, frack!

• [Zac wants to take Starbuck's place on patrol, and has talked Starbuck into faking an upset stomach] 

  Lieutenant Zac : Aw, come on, Apollo! I've studied my coordinates from here to the Cylon capital - my ship's ready to go!

  Captain Apollo : Well, that's a real stroke of luck! I guess you're gonna have to pull Starbuck's patrol with me!

  Lieutenant Zac : Woo! See you at the launch!

  [Zac leaves Apollo and Starbuck] 

  Captain Apollo : [watching Zac]  Were we ever that young?

  Lieutenant Starbuck : I don't know - I can't remember that far back!

• [Apollo and Starbuck are running from the Cylons in the mine] 

  Lieutenant Starbuck : I guess it's a little too late to talk to these fellas.

  Captain Apollo : [agrees]  I think so.

• Lieutenant Starbuck : [to Cassiopeia]  You certainly have a way of cutting through the felgercarb.