Battlestar Galactica (1978)

Herbert Jefferson Jr.: Lieutenant Boomer

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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!

• Flight Corporal Rigel : Core systems, transferring control from probe craft to Galactica. We will guide you through, using scanners.

  Lieutenant Boomer : [to Apollo]  What if we miss a mine?

  Captain Apollo : One of us will be the first to know. Let's go.