History Series / BattlestarGalacticaClassic

* CallARabbitASmeerp: They don't have dogs, they have ''daggets''.

** Averted in the pilot, when resources were so scarce that the fleet practiced Forced Socialism against Sire Uri, and braved the Nova Matigon so as to make it to Carrolon for resupply before they starved.

* TheChamberlain: President Adar, with disastrous results.

* CrystalSpiresandTogas: to the Nth degree.
* CuteKidsAndRobots: Boxey and Muffet

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Justified with the Colonial outposts the Rag-tag Fleet encountered earlier; becomes blatant with the Terrans, who were explicitly ''not'' Colonial, but whose only problem communicating with the main cast is not understanding [[{{Microt}} what a "centon" is]].

* DemotedToExtra: Athena ends up getting this treatment. She starts out as a BridgeBunny, but isn't shown on the bridge after the pilot. Then she's used as part of a triangle with Starbuck and Cassiopea, but that plot is dropped fast. The only time after this she's given any significant screen time is when she's one of the characters trapped in the fire during "Fire In Space"

* HookerWithAHeartOfGold (Cassiopeia)

* TonightSomeoneDies: Jane Seymour, in the second episode

* PlanetTerra: Subverted. [[spoiler: The planet called Terra turns out to NOT be Earth.]]

* FanonDiscontinuity: with the possible exception of the episode, "The Return of Starbuck".

* BenevolentAlienInvasion: Galactica's plan for [[spoiler:ringing Earth up to their level.]]
* CanonDisContinuity: ''Galactica 1980''

For the 2004 series, see ''BattlestarGalacticaReimagined''.

* BattleCouple: Apollo and [[spoiler:his wife for one two-part episode. Apollo's wife dies heroically of course to get her out of the way.]]

* BattleCouple: Apollo and his wife for one two-part episode. Apollo's wife dies heroically of course to get her out of the way.

* DaddysGirl: Sheeba.

* DeadpanSnarker: In one episode when Baltar is attacking Gallactica while Pegasus is pulling round, his cylon pilot says, "I really think you should take a look at the other battlestar."

* TheDragon: Baltar, to the Cylons' Big Bad, then, later, Count Iblis.

* LadyOfWar: Sheeba. Also Apollo's short lived wife.

* LostColony

* ThereIsAnother: The battlestar Pegasus
* TonightSomeoneDies: Jane Seymour in the second episode

* BlackBestFriend: Boomer and Commander Tigh.

* NewSuperPower: In ''Galactica 1980'', we discover that the artificial gravity they've been living with in the fleet is several times the surface gravity of Earth; so, when they land on Earth, they can jump several meters in the air.
** Which is pretty amazing, considering we've seen crew members wrestle and/or drop things in the original series, and they didn't seem to fall any faster than they would on Earth.

* TimeTravel: ''Galactica 1980''

* TeenGenius: Dr. Zee.

* CanonDisContinuity: ''Galactica 1980''

* ExecutiveMeddling: Part of the reason why ''Galactica 1980'' was such a disaster. The show was originally supposed to be based around TimeTravel stories, as seen in the three-part pilot. The network on the other hand thought that science fiction should appeal primarily to kids, and so forced the producers drop the time travel aspect, have children making up over half the main cast (resulting in the Super Scouts), and give the series a primarily educational focus.

* TeenGenius: Dr. Zee, in ''Galactica 1980''

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