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**Colonials who encounter Data feel some understandable, if unfair, discomfort around him once they learn he's an android rather than a flesh and blood alien.
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**Also played straight, in that Gaeta genuinely appreciated the anonymity living in the Twelve Colobies granted him.
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**At one point, Riker wonders if the Federation would have done any better than the Colonial Fleet if the Borg had taken Earth. The Next Generation episode Parallels shows his concern is entirely justified.
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* ShoutOut: The Starfleet crewman who lets slip Felix's heritage while drunk is named [[Literature/SpaceCadet Tex Jarman]].
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* ShoutOut: The Starfleet crewman who lets slip Felix's heritage while drunk is named [[Literature/SpaceCadet [[Literature/SpaceCadetHeinlein Tex Jarman]].
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* NotSoDifferent: Riker compares Gaeta's situation to being similar to that of his Transporter Clone, Thomas Riker- out of contact with the rest of the Federation for many years, and ending up psychologically damaged as a result.
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** Riker compares Gaeta's situation to being similar to that of his Transporter Clone, Thomas Riker- out of contact with the rest of the Federation for many years, and ending up psychologically damaged as a result.
** Riker compares Gaeta's situation to being similar to that of his Transporter Clone, Thomas Riker- out of contact with the rest of the Federation for many years, and ending up psychologically damaged as a result.
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* YouAreNumberSix: Played straight and averted. While this was ''definitely'' the case with Cylons in the original show, in the sequel many have started to take on human names to differentiate themselves... though many still retain their numbers as identifiers. Some even fuse the names, such as Lt. Amy Eight, A Model Eight Cylon, and some even take on numbers as family names through marriage (a Leoban, a Model Two, takes on the last name of "Three" when he marries a Model Three).
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* WillfullyWeak: Felix deliberately hid his special gifts, like the fact that he's smarter, stronger, and faster than most humans, specifically because those are also traits shared by the human-model cylons. It wasn't perfect, though- he did allow himself a great jump in intellect when the first attack came because he didn't want to die, and people noticed that he never got sick- he was accused of being a cylon several times.
* YouAreNumberSix: Played straight and averted. While this was ''definitely'' the case with Cylons in the original show, in the sequel many have started to take on human names to differentiate themselves... though many still retain their numbers as identifiers. Some even fuse the names, such as Lt. Amy Eight, A Model Eight Cylon, and some even take on numbers as family names through marriage (a Leoban, a Model Two, takes on the last name of "Three" when he marries a Model Three). This does, however, mean that some of the names are ''shockingly'' uncreative, like a married couple taking the last name "Twothree." Guess what models those two are.
* YouAreNumberSix: Played straight and averted. While this was ''definitely'' the case with Cylons in the original show, in the sequel many have started to take on human names to differentiate themselves... though many still retain their numbers as identifiers. Some even fuse the names, such as Lt. Amy Eight, A Model Eight Cylon, and some even take on numbers as family names through marriage (a Leoban, a Model Two, takes on the last name of "Three" when he marries a Model Three). This does, however, mean that some of the names are ''shockingly'' uncreative, like a married couple taking the last name "Twothree." Guess what models those two are.
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** The Federation people do note, though, that the Beta Quadrant is notably lacking in the resources that are needed to build lots of their technology, so not only was Felix forbidden from doing so, but he also physically ''couldn't'' build them photon torpedoes or warp drives.
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* YouAreNumberSix: Played straight and averted. While this was ''definitely'' the case with Cylons in the original show, in the sequel many have started to take on human names to differentiate themselves... though many still retain their numbers as identifiers. Some even fuse the names, such as Lt. Amy Eight, [[CaptainObvious A Model Eight Cylon]], and some even take on numbers as family names through marriage (a Leoban, a Model Two, takes on the last name of "Three" when he marries a Model Three).
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* HumanResources: The big reason that the Cylons fled their system is that it's possible to turn their nanites into the same type that the Hybrids use, which greatly increase the range and accuracy a Colonial[=/=]Cylon FTL drive has. Given the reports that the Cylons have received from the Dominion, they didn't want to risk the chance.
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* HumanResources: The big reason that the Cylons fled their system is that it's possible to turn their nanites into the same type that the Hybrids use, which greatly increase the range and accuracy a Colonial[=/=]Cylon FTL drive has. Given the reports that the Cylons have received from about the Cardassians and the Dominion, they didn't want to risk the chance.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: While Felix's powers are proven time and again that they're not magic or godly, he does suspect that ''something'' is helping the Colonial Fleet to survive in their journey, specifically, making it fit the prophecy from the Scroll of Apollo (pointing out the sheer ludicrous odds against someone descended from Apollo being the ''only person'' who could help with an experiment that ''happened'' to shoot him through a wormhole to a friendly human society that still worshiped the Greco-Roman Pantheon).
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: While Felix's powers are proven time and again that they're not magic or godly, he does suspect that ''something'' is helping the Colonial Fleet to survive in their journey, specifically, making it fit the prophecy from the Scroll of Apollo (pointing out the sheer ludicrous odds against someone descended from Apollo being the ''only person'' who could help with an experiment that ''happened'' to shoot him through a wormhole to a friendly human society that still worshiped the Greco-Roman Pantheon).Pantheon, in the Beta Quadrant, which is known to be barren of life and resources).
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** [[spoiler: The Colonials are in much the same situation, if much lessened. Their culture is going to be slowly eroded away by outside influences, they'll never return to the Twelve Colonies, and all they can do is try to cling desperately to what they have left. It is lessened in that they can still keep their culture, but it will be very difficult. In addition, the stress of surviving the long flight from the Colonies means that the Federation's counselors and mental hospitals are all working overtime, with multiple suicide attempts and incurably insane patients.]]
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** ''Galactica,'' which gets upgraded with Federation technology, now is capable of pulling MoreDakka with Photon Torpedoes.
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* DoomedHometown: While we don't get to see it, the Cylons are forced to abandon their new homeworld once the Dominion starts to advance from Bajor.
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* HumanResources: The big reason that the Cylons fled their system is that it's possible to turn their nanites into the same type that the Hybrids use, which greatly increase the range and accuracy a Colonial[=/=]Cylon FTL drive has. Given the reports that the Cylons have received from the Dominion, they didn't want to risk the chance.
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** In the sequel, the Cylons arrive in the Colonial's system without any warning (nearly causing Felix's ship to crash). While the Colonials assume the worst (and it's not like they don't have the justification to think so), some of the cast note that given the penalties that the Federation would lay on the Cylons if they broke the treaty (which included coming to the Colonial's system), it would be a ''very'' bad idea for them unless they had no other choice.
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* YouAreNumberSix: Played straight and averted. While this was ''definitely'' the case with Cylons in the original show, in the sequel many have started to take on human names to differentiate themselves... though many still retain their numbers as identifiers. Some even fuse the names, such as Lt. Amy Eight, [[CaptainObvious A Model Eight Cylon]], and some even take on numbers as family names through marriage (a Leoban, a Model Two, takes on the last name of "Three" when he marries a Model Three).
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** Lee puts a darker turn on things in relation to the organic Cylons- the organic Cylons are an endangered species, slowly dying out. Even if they do have babies, said children won't be Cylons, they'll be humans who just call themselves Cylons.
* BaitAndSwitch: Early in ''Going Forward'', there's a scene where Adama is talking to "Chief Tyrol," and the audience is led to believe that it's Galen, the one who answered to that name in the main series. It turns out that it's Cally, who took Galen's name (and still has a job since Galen metaphorically self-destructed not long after the Colonials arrived on New Atlantis).
* BaitAndSwitch: Early in ''Going Forward'', there's a scene where Adama is talking to "Chief Tyrol," and the audience is led to believe that it's Galen, the one who answered to that name in the main series. It turns out that it's Cally, who took Galen's name (and still has a job since Galen metaphorically self-destructed not long after the Colonials arrived on New Atlantis).
* MoreDakka: Starfleet vessels tend to rely on speed, shields, and maneuvering. The ''Galactica,'' post-Starfleet Refit, can't fight like that, as it's old and slow. That being said, ''it is absolutely covered in guns and torpedo launchers.''
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* ActorAllusion: The call-sign Kara bestows on Barclay, "Mad Dog", is an oblique reference to the fact that Barclay's actor had previously played "Howling Mad" Murdock on Series/TheATeam. Perhaps a double allusion- while on The A-Team, he co-starred with Dirk Benedict, who played the ''original'' Starbuck.
** Three Jem'Hadar fighters versus the ''Galactica'' post-Starfleet refit. ''Galactica'''s first action in the fight (after jumping in) was to fire ''one hundred'' photon torpedoes. It is also the ''last'' thing it does in the fight, because after that, there is no more fight.
** Starbuck mentions that Sam doesn't have the right "Feel" for flying, that he'd be okay flying a Raptor, but not a Viper. [[spoiler: Couple what was said above with the "Palamas Indicator people can sense one another," with the fact that Cylons have ''no'' Palamas Indicators...]]
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** Reg Barclay, after his ill-fated Raptor patrol, is given the call sign "Mad Dog" by Starbuck. This references the character that his actor played over in [[Series/TheATeam The A Team]], "Howlin' Mad" Murdock. To make the connection better, Dwight Shultz (said actor) played the role alongside Dirk Benedict, who was Starbuck in the ''original'' Battlestar Galactica.
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* TakeThat: there are a few towards Battlestar Galactica, such as the nepotism that Adama shows or how the Colonials are more violent than starfleet... but for the most part, these are very minor things, and most of them are done from the perspective of a very pacifistic, aethiestic society- the Federation. For the most part, the Federation shows great respect for the Colonials and their troubles, and especially their endurance. In addition, it shows that some of those problems are not because the Colonials are bad people, but in their situation, some of the problems become far more likely (such as Lee Adama serving directly under his father; which isn't ''great'' but understandable as ''there is no one else alive to transfer him to''). Riker even comments that he wonders if this is what the Federation might have turned out like if the Borg hadn't been stopped in "The Best Of Both Worlds."
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* TakeThat: there are a few towards Battlestar Galactica, such as the nepotism that Adama shows or how the Colonials are more violent than starfleet...Starfleet... but for the most part, these are very minor things, and most of them are done from the perspective of a very pacifistic, aethiestic society- the Federation. For the most part, the Federation shows great respect for the Colonials and their troubles, and especially their endurance. In addition, it shows that some of those problems are not because the Colonials are bad people, but in their situation, some of the problems become far more likely (such as Lee Adama serving directly under his father; which isn't ''great'' but understandable as ''there is no one else alive to transfer him to''). Riker even comments that he wonders if this is what the Federation might have turned out like if the Borg hadn't been stopped in "The Best Of Both Worlds."
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* BabiesEverAfter: In the sequel, it's explicitly noted that many of the ''Galactica'' characters now have offspring.
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* HumansAreWarriors: Oh yes.
** The Centurions are aware that humans are the best at killing other humans, which is why they created the biocylons to begin with
** Twenty Romulan Centurions (marines, not cyclopic robots) beam onto the ''Galactica.'' End result: 19 fatalities for the Romulans, with the only survivor getting nerve-pinched by a Vulcan before the humans can get to him. The human cost? One injured, and he was brought back to full health on the ''Enterprise.''
** The Centurions are aware that humans are the best at killing other humans, which is why they created the biocylons to begin with
** Twenty Romulan Centurions (marines, not cyclopic robots) beam onto the ''Galactica.'' End result: 19 fatalities for the Romulans, with the only survivor getting nerve-pinched by a Vulcan before the humans can get to him. The human cost? One injured, and he was brought back to full health on the ''Enterprise.''
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* NotSoDifferent: Riker compares Gaeta's situation to being similar to that of his Transporter Clone, Thomas Riker- out of contact with the rest of the Federation for many years, and ending up psychologically damaged as a result.
** Upon seeing the Fleet, Riker also wonders if this is what the Federation could have turned out like had the Borg succeeded in "The Best Of Both Worlds."
* MamaBear: Felix's older sister Sophia roughs Kara up for mistreating Felix and warns her against doing so again.
** Upon seeing the Fleet, Riker also wonders if this is what the Federation could have turned out like had the Borg succeeded in "The Best Of Both Worlds."
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: While Felix's powers are proven time and again that they're not magic or godly, he does suspect that ''something'' is helping the Colonial Fleet to survive in their journey, specifically, making it fit the prophecy from the Scroll of Apollo (pointing out the sheer ludicrous odds against someone descended from Apollo being the ''only person'' who could help with an experiment that ''happened'' to shoot him through a wormhole to a friendly human society that still worshiped the Greco-Roman Pantheon).
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* {{Expy}}: While unintentional, the series stars a part-human being worshiped by the natives who has suffered a great loss in the past, being assigned to a station near said natives, arrives with a custom ''Defiant''-class ship, and has ongoing problems with the Dominion... are we talking about Felix Gaeta in "Going Forward," or Benjamin Sisko of Deep Space Nine? Okay, so there are more differences than similarities, but it is somewhat odd.
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** Many Colonials don't exactly like it either, viewing it less as "The only enlightened path to preserve pre-warp cultures" and more as "Let's sit on our asses and watch people die while we feel smug about it."
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** Saul Tigh mentions that he feels awful going through transporters. [[spoiler: It turns out that this is a very common trait among Cylons.]]
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* CoolShip: The ''Surprise,'' which was constructed under Felix's supervision. It's a ''Defiant''-class starship with a Colonial FTL drive.
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** Twenty Romulans beam over to the ''Galactica''. One survives only because a Vulcan got to him before the Colonials could, with only one person injured on the Colonial's side.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: anyone who died after mid-season 3 of Battlestar Galactica, due to meeting the Federation.
** [[spoiler: Thanks to Starbuck, the crew of the ''Valient'' never goes on their suicide mission and are absorbed into Felix's mini-fleet.]]
** [[spoiler: Thanks to Starbuck, the crew of the ''Valient'' never goes on their suicide mission and are absorbed into Felix's mini-fleet.]]
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* PreAssKickingOneLiner: "Welcome to Sick Bay. Do you need a bandage?" Spoken by Cottle before he [[LudicrousGibs blows open a Romulan's torso with explosive ammo.]]
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** Some paranoia is shown towards human-looking aliens among the Colonial Fleet- which is understandable, given that until recently they had to worry about human-looking ''robots'' that wanted to murder them all in their beds.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: Starbuck can "feel" which pilot candidates will do well or not, and later on, it's revealed that those with Pallamas Indicators have a limited ability to sense one another.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: Starbuck can "feel" which pilot candidates will do well or not, and later on, it's revealed that those with Pallamas Indicators have a limited ability to sense one another.]]
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