[ZylonBane]

We must all be nerds or fanboys. Only nerds or fanboys take up a page with back-and forth arguement over the presence of radiers during a battle... 

He was safe.
He was out.
He was safe!
He was out!
HE WAS SAFE!
HE WAS OUT!

Yeah, only nerds argue about things... 

[IceFire]

Despite what we want to believe, the strenght of Raiders seems to change a lot between different episodes. In Mini they carried nukes which caused severe damage to Galactica's out hull.

In the mini they were involved in an attack they had been planning for the last 40 years. It's quite probably they used a rather large portion of their supply of nukes in that attack.

Good point. But nukes are not very difficult to build, at least for someone who controls 12 radiated demolished colonies. Maybe it's just the "Good TV" again or something. No idea.

But, as shown by the miniseries, they are somewhat easy to pick up with a radiological scanner.  I guess not if its concealed but thats not the case with the raiders as Galactica instantly knew that the raiders were going to be throwing nukes at them.

[WMCoolmon]

It might also be a trust thing. Would kind of suck if the Raiders decided to go humanoid-Cylon hunting.

A Centurion rebellion might be bad, but then imagine a swarm of nuke-equipped Raiders....

On a side note, that sequence that pans out to show the Battlestar, the Resurrection Ship, the Fleet...was pure genius.

[Iron Wolf]

He was safe.
He was out.
He was safe!
He was out!
HE WAS SAFE!
HE WAS OUT!

Yeah, only nerds argue about things... 

Those are sports fanatics you see. Very distinct difference.

[Ashrak]

It might also be a trust thing. Would kind of suck if the Raiders decided to go humanoid-Cylon hunting.

A Centurion rebellion might be bad, but then imagine a swarm of nuke-equipped Raiders....

On a side note, that sequence that pans out to show the Battlestar, the Resurrection Ship, the Fleet...was pure genius.

you ofcourse mean Basestar

[karajorma]

Those are sports fanatics you see. Very distinct difference.

He does raise a good point which I've always complained about though. Why is it that you're a nerd if you spend an hour debating the finer points of a TV show but not a nerd if you spend the same amount of time debating the abilities of a football team, the nuances of a Chekov play or the cimematography of a Bergman film?

Is there really any difference between spending time debating the motivations of Admiral Adama in Exodus Part II and spending it examining the motivations of the characters in Little Women? Cause people make careers out of the latter

[Mefustae]

...and spending it examining the motivations of the characters in Little Women? Cause people make careers out of the latter

****ing english teachers.

[Iron Wolf]

He does raise a good point which I've always complained about though. Why is it that you're a nerd if you spend an hour debating the finer points of a TV show but not a nerd if you spend the same amount of time debating the abilities of a football team, the nuances of a Chekov play or the cimematography of a Bergman film?

Is there really any difference between spending time debating the motivations of Admiral Adama in Exodus Part II and spending it examining the motivations of the characters in Little Women? Cause people make careers out of the latter

I agree. It's obvious now that sarcasm doesn't travel well over the internet.

[Ashrak]

FTL is faster than light movement, its not teleportation is it?

[Ford Prefect]

He does raise a good point which I've always complained about though. Why is it that you're a nerd if you spend an hour debating the finer points of a TV show but not a nerd if you spend the same amount of time debating the abilities of a football team, the nuances of a Chekov play or the cimematography of a Bergman film?

I seriously can't believe you just grouped football with Chekov and Bergman. That makes me want to do inappropriate things.

[Ace]

FTL is faster than light movement, its not teleportation is it?

All teleportation is FTL, not all FTL is teleportation.

[Mefustae]

Do you practice being vague?

[aldo_14]

Do you practice being vague?

It's pretty simple; all teleportation entails instantaneous ergo faster-than-light movement, but not all faster than light travel is instantaneous.

[Mefustae]

Oh, I get the concept alright, it's just he said it in a somewhat vague fashion.

Anyway, the great thing about BSG is that how things like FTL works doesn't really matter. It's damned refreshing to get a nice sci-fi show that conciously tries to stay away from techno-babble.

[aldo_14]

Oh, I get the concept alright, it's just he said it in a somewhat vague fashion.

Anyway, the great thing about BSG is that how things like FTL works doesn't really matter. It's damned refreshing to get a nice sci-fi show that conciously tries to stay away from techno-babble.

Equally amazing considering Ron Moore worked heavily on Star Trek The Next....blah... too.

[Mefustae]

To be fair, considering that was a show where Tech saved the day every week, the writing can be considered rather good given the context. Just as technobabble would be out of place on BSG, it is also true that BSG's down-and-dirty strategies of saving the day would be equally misplaced on TNG:

*Title sequence*
Picard - "We need to find a way to subdue this renegade Starfleet captain before he can cause any more trouble. Perhaps we could use our Deflector Dish to create an Interplexing beacon which would reverse the polari-"
Worf - "Sir, if I may object: couldn't we just shoot him?"
Picard - "...Sounds good to me, i'll be in my ready-room."
*Roll credits*

See? Just not the TNG we all know and [mostly] love.

[aldo_14]

To be fair, considering that was a show where Tech saved the day every week, the writing can be considered rather good given the context. Just as technobabble would be out of place on BSG, it is also true that BSG's down-and-dirty strategies of saving the day would be equally misplaced on TNG:

*Title sequence*
Picard - "We need to find a way to subdue this renegade Starfleet captain before he can cause any more trouble. Perhaps we could use our Deflector Dish to create an Interplexing beacon which would reverse the polari-"
Worf - "Sir, if I may object: couldn't we just shoot him?"
Picard - "...Sounds good to me, i'll be in my ready-room."
*Roll credits*

See? Just not the TNG we all know and [mostly] love.

2 words.

Wesley Crush....

nope, can't say it without vomiting.

[Mefustae]

Aaaahh, touché.

[ZylonBane]

Anyway, the great thing about BSG is that how things like FTL works doesn't really matter. It's damned refreshing to get a nice sci-fi show that conciously tries to stay away from techno-babble.

Actually, there was an episode that hinged entirely on how the FTL drives work. The one where the Galactica "lost" the fleet, remember?

Appropriately enough, it was a rather bad episode because it asked us to believe that--

1. Cylons can remotely hack any computer, as long as it's connected to another computer.
2. Colonials can compute an FTL jump from A -> B, but not from C -> B.

Yeesh. I think Moore avoids tech-based plots because frankly, he sucks at it. The resurrection ship wasn't even his idea. The writing staff came up with it.

[Ashrak]

navigation on galactica = teh suck


they assume that stars change position by HUGE ammounts every time they need to calculate a jump and so theyr afraid to miss?


its like mkay well jump out 100 000km away from fleet instead of in the middle of it, not so bad....