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Lee as XO makes no sense in military parlance, as you can't have family members as part of any ship or base's top chain of command. With D and H hanging around, if Tigh were incapacitated (though the previews suggest otherwise), there are a few choices for XO beyond your own son.
What I'd like to see is the gang find, or adapt another smaller ship to be used on missions where the Galactica is too big to go. They supposedly have a fandom warship design in the fleet; I say build that up and give our heroes more options to get into dark, grim trouble.
quote:Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: Lee as XO makes no sense in military parlance, as you can't have family members as part of any ship or base's top chain of command. With D and H hanging around, if Tigh were incapacitated (though the previews suggest otherwise), there are a few choices for XO beyond your own son.
Under normal circumstances that would make sense. But these aren't normal circumstances. 12, no, 13 worlds now have been devestated and/or overran by the enemy and all of humanity (from their point of view) are huddled for survivle in a rag-tag fleet.
No home port. No base. No top brass. It's a different ballgame.
Plus, this is television. When has any TV series stuck true with military parlance and protocol for the entire run?
quote: What I'd like to see is the gang find, or adapt another smaller ship to be used on missions where the Galactica is too big to go. They supposedly have a fandom warship design in the fleet; I say build that up and give our heroes more options to get into dark, grim trouble.
Mark
I agree. I'd love to see some of these ships in the fleet converted to more "military" ships and not civillian vessels. A fleet like this would need more military support than one battlestar and fighters.
Something else I was wondering today. Where are they getting their food? Do they have enough space on the agro ships to grow enough to feed everyone? We've not seen many episodes dealing with food shorages or other supply issues. This is something we should see from time to time. I did love the tylium mining episode from the first season. We should have more episodes like that from time to time.
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Look, they're not going to start playing "rotating XOs." I think Adama is convinced that Tigh is going to return to his post as XO, and he's not going to demote Tigh to a lesser post on the ship. I think Helo will remain as XO -- for the sake of consistancy for the crew -- until Tigh is ready to resume his post.
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Yeah, that was very cool when they got General Ryan and General Jumper to be on the show when they were the Air Force Chief of Staff.
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I knew what Ryan looked like before, and I actually (briefly) met Jumper once before his cameo. And I'm not even in the Air Force!
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