Battlestar Galactica (1978)

Dirk Benedict: Lieutenant Starbuck

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• Captain Apollo : The Nova of Madagon is not a nova at all, but a starfield so bright, our cockpits will be sealed to prevent blindness. We'll navigate by scanners and clear everything out of our path with turbo lasers. Are you feeling alright, Starbuck? You're fidgeting around like a daggit on a sunspot.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Well, it's my bio-pulse-line, sir. You see, it's a bad time for me to be cooped up in a cockpit.

  Lieutenant Boomer : Starbuck's being polite... since he got a steam burn.

  Captain Apollo : I don't think I want to ask you how you got it, because I need you on this mission. I didn't choose you to help lead us through without a great deal of anguish. But if it'll do any good, let me assure you that should we fail... no one will survive. The rest of our friends must sit in anticipation of our skill.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Or lack thereof...

• [Exploring the dark surface of the planet Carillon] 

  Lieutenant Starbuck : I wonder what this looks like in the daytime?

  Lieutenant Boomer : Hey, this *is* the daytime.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Oooh... lovely...

• Lieutenant Boomer : [after being chastised by Apollo]  Just keep it up, old buddy. You're going to get us into real trouble.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : 10,000 light years from nowhere, our planets shot to pieces, people starving, and *I'm* gonna get us in trouble?

  Lieutenant Boomer : Look, all I'm saying is...

  Lieutenant Starbuck : What's the matter with you? I tell you... yeah, well, we may as well live for today! We might not have many left!

• Lieutenant Starbuck : I'm just curious about what all that excitement was about back on the barge.

  Cassiopeia : That woman is a member of the Otori sect amongst the Geminese. They don't believe in physical contact between genders, except when sanctified by the priest during High Worship of the Sun Storm, which comes once only every seven years!

  [Starbuck remembers a card game he was playing before the Galactica ordered battle-stations drill, which had suddenly turned into the real thing] 

  Lieutenant Starbuck : No wonders those little buggers are such good card players.

• Lieutenant Athena : What are you saying about my father? Do you realize what we've just been through?

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Oh, yeah? Well, you didn't see how we spent our day! We just single-handedly managed to keep the Cylons off your neck while you took off on a little cruise!

  Lieutenant Athena : Starbuck, don't you realize what's happened?

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Oh, yeah! Sure, I realize what's happened! You should see this baby when it takes off across the stars! It's a beautiful sight! Beautiful! Unless, it happens to be your base ship!

  Lieutenant Athena : Starbuck, listen to me! The Colonies are gone! All of them!

  Lieutenant Starbuck : What are you talking about, gone?

• [Admiring Starbuck's space fighter] 

  Cassiopeia : It's beautiful, isn't it? It's a perfect machine! Born to dance amongst the stars!

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Yeah, it's bumping into them that has me worried.

  Cassiopeia : Why did you volunteer, Starbuck?

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Well, *somebody* has to do it.

  Cassiopeia : Did Apollo make you?

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Yes... you certainly have a way of cutting through the felgercarb.

  Cassiopeia : Do you ever take that smoldering weed out of your mouth?

  Lieutenant Starbuck : [Cassiopeia kisses him]  I had this wonderful speech all prepared...

  Cassiopeia : About this being your last night here? About possibly not seeing another night as this one, or another girl as beautiful as I am, ever again?

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Yeah, well, that speech is a little better than the one I had. Would you mind if I borrowed it on some future occasion?