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"Doesn't the Raptor have it's own jump drive?"
Remember that the Cylons are capable of jumping much farther and more accurate than the Colonials -- I think its just as much a result of more accurate computing and more advanced tech on part of the Colonials. I don't think the Raptor could've made it without being a passenger on the Basestar.
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Plus I don't think the Cylons especially want Baltar to go jumping on his own. Short leash and all that.
As far as the technology goes, who's to say that the technology that brought the tribes from Kobol to Earth & the other colonies was theirs to begin with? It's more likely the "Star Gallion" or whatever it wa scalled belonged to the Lords of Kobol, whom/what ever they really were. And has already been mentioned, the Cylon war itself is going to have an impact on how much "high-tech" (read automated) gadgets are going to be in use. Doubtless there was a cultural backlash against automation that set the general use of machines back quite a bit. Indeed in the Miniseries they only just seam to be complacent enough to start using intigrated systems again.
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That probe looked to me like a cross between Nomad and the Valiant's recorder beacon. I'm a bit suprised that they didn't destroy the infected Basestar.
It was a bit creepy looking seeing all those Raiders' prongs sticking out of their berths.
Did anyone make out what the other suggestions for Athena's callsign were? The only one that I can remember was "Chrome Dome" (I think).
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I'm still missing chunks of season 2, but has the interior of the baseship changed? Were corridors like this before? I remember in season 1 Boomer was infiltrating away, and the place looked more like the Gigered terraformer set from "Aliens" than these antiseptic corridors...
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No? I've seen it both ways, but mostly Basestar.
As for the interior, weren't they just in the hangar area before? Sure it looks a lot different, but there's no reason it should look the same as the corridors and control center.
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quote:Originally posted by B.J.: That probe looked to me like a cross between Nomad and the Valiant's recorder beacon.
B.J. you read my mind. When I saw the probe I said to myself, "Is that a Trek reference?". It could be considering that Moore worked on TNG.
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quote:Originally posted by B.J.: No? I've seen it both ways, but mostly Basestar.
Aye, but has it been called "Basestar" in dialogue, in either series? In this episode, it was definitely called "Baseship" by the Cylons, and I can recall the same from the recent Exodus battle dialogue.
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I'm pretty sure it was Basestar in the original series. I was just wondering the same thing about whether they'd changed it.
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quote:Originally posted by B.J.: No? I've seen it both ways, but mostly Basestar.
As for the interior, weren't they just in the hangar area before? Sure it looks a lot different, but there's no reason it should look the same as the corridors and control center.
Those were the docking bays and if you watch where Baltar's Raptor landed, it did indeed still look all soft an gooey in the hanger. As for the black corridors and funky disco command centre, I imaging that is just in the central core of the ship, between the the dorsal and ventral halves. I think this episode had a closeup of that bit and you could see it was the only area with windows.
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I'd have to rewatch but I think they might be referred to as Basestars on the DRADIS displays: I think the second part of "Lay Down Your Burdens" would be the best bet, when the Pegasus picks up the Cylons jumping into the nebula. I might be wrong though - can always check.
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