Battlestar Galactica (TV Series)

Saga of a Star World (1978)

Herbert Jefferson Jr.: Lieutenant Boomer

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• 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...