Battlestar Galactica (TV Series)

The Living Legend (1978)

Dirk Benedict: Lieutenant Starbuck

Quotes 

• Lieutenant Starbuck : Yeah, well, I er... I guess I never did like to admit that I form... eh... attachments.

  Captain Apollo : You don't even like to admit it to yourself. You know, I've never understood that about you.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : You were always part of a very big family and I never had that. So, I just grew up keeping, er, the number of people around me as, er, large as I could.

  Captain Apollo : So you couldn't be hurt by any particular one?

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Look, I don't care if Cassiopeia... feels something for this Cain. I just don't understand the, um, combination. He's uh... he's uh...

  Captain Apollo : Too old?

  Lieutenant Starbuck : [agrees]  Yeah.

  Captain Apollo : Starbuck, I think you'd better read up on your Book of the Word. Some of the Elders of Kobol were married to some very young wives.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Wives? Aren't we getting a little ahead of ourselves here? She wouldn't marry him. Anyway... who cares? *Not me!*

• Captain Apollo : [on their way to speak to Cassiopeia]  What are you gonna do?

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Find a way to let him down easy. You don't, uh, jump on a hero.

  Captain Apollo : [they halt]  You're assuming Cassiopeia isn't gonna be as excited as everybody else in the fleet that he's back.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : [shaking his head]  Apollo...

  [they walk on] 

  Captain Apollo : Oh, sorry, I forgot. I mean, once they've experienced the aura of Starbuck...

  Lieutenant Starbuck : I never said that. It's true, but, uh, I never said it.

  [they reach the door] 

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Let's face it, Apollo, he is an older man.

  Captain Apollo : You're on your own.

  [pats him on the shoulder, walks off] 

• Captain Apollo : Bojay, if that's really you, tell us what happened. How did you survive?

  Lieutenant Sheba : You will maintain silence until we land on the Battlestar Pegasus.

  Captain Apollo : Pegasus...! That's just not possible...

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Apollo! Do you *know* whose ship that was?

  Captain Apollo : Cain, the greatest military commander that ever lived. He was my idol.

  Lieutenant Sheba : Your idol will order you blasted out of the sky if you do not shut off your transmitters! In case you clowns don't know it, you're right in a quadrant controlled by Ceylons.

  Captain Apollo : Oh, my Lord.

  [spots the Pegasus] 

  Captain Apollo : This isn't a dream. And we're certainly not dead. It is the Pegasus.

  Lieutenant Sheba : They won't shut up...! They act like they've seen an apparition!

  Captain Apollo : I'm not sure I haven't.