You rock. I assume it’s the Caprican calender since Adama is Caprican.
That’s awsome. Thanks!
So what can we make of this date system? What does the leading alpha-numeric signify?
The five digits after that would seem to be years. So their calendar is somewhere around 21,400 years old?
Adama was commissioned at 21, mustered out at 24, recommissioned at 41 and is now 58 plus however long he’s been Commander of Galactica?
How does 45 years of distinguished service fit in? What am I missing?
The current Caprican year is 21,356?
OK…Galactica is non-specific as to origin. Pegasus and Atlantia fit the pantheon. But Columbia? Valkyrie? I don’t think so!
Roslin didn’t realize he was out of the military for 20 years and nobody bothered to correct her. When I made my last post I didn’t realize it was 5 digits :eek: . Since their calender is in it’s 22nd millennium it seems safe to assume it was carried over from Kobol. Which makes sense; given that each Colony would at least need a different orbit and would it’s own days and years they’d use the old Kobolian calender for intercolonial communication. Of course one wonders; did the Kobolians also carry their calender over from another place 
? Each Colony probally has it’s own calender for local use.
Yes, it does make sense they carried their calendar over from Kobol and as you suggest, Kobolians may have carried their calender over from someplace else.
Why do I feel like RDM knew full well we’d break out the calendar and he’s yanking our chains?
Even if he does want to screw with us using an ambiguous Star Date that still doesn’t excuse Adama’s 45-year award.
Turns out in the Sci-Fi Galactica fora there is a topic dedicated to questions aimed at RDM. Many of the observations we’ve made have been made there as well, though I see scant evidence anyone is responding.
One entry I particularly liked:
I think I’m definitely going to go bitch over there, if the next episode is as bad as the past couple have been.
If it’s of any help, RDM used to post on an AOL board when he still worked for DS9, fielding questions from fans. Once, someone asked him a similar question about some similar discrephencies in the Star Trek timeline referenced in his episodes.
The answer, which I think could apply to Galactica as well?
Mister Moore said he’s bad at math, and it sometimes shows in his writing. That’s it.
:smack: 
Moving away from the 45 years of service debate or the upcoming boxing episode, does anyone else ever find the actions of the humans pointless? No matter how many Cylons are killed, they will simply wake up in new bodies. Even when Pegasus took out three basestars, what the hell did it matter. The Cylons will simply crank out a few more and keep hunting the humans. The disease story line seemed like it gave the humans a glimmer of hope in winning but that appears to have been dropped after one episode. They are searching for Earth but as soon as the humans find it, the Cylons will follow them there and wipe it out too. Blah! Anyway, I always worry about the pointless things.
Cervaise , is that your question that Mary McDonnell answers on scifi.com? It’s in the sixth part.
-Lil
Escaping the Cylons seems pointless. With their superior FTL technology and ability to manufacture thousands of Raiders they could eventually scout out every single star in the galaxy and they probably don’t really need humans to lead them to earth. They might find earth quicker than way, but how much longer could it take them to find it on their own?
It seems they have two rays of hope.
One, they develop the means to effectively defend themselves indefinitely. It’s unlikely they’ll do this on their own but there’s the possibility the Colonial calendar is based on earth’s calendar and we’re now in the year 21356 and a pesky little Cylon infestation is not a problem for us.
Two, humans and Cylons learn to live together. That’s still a possibility since Cylons have religion and they could at any moment reinterpret their god’s will to live peaceably with humanity.
Also, Sharon has willingly chosen to live as a person, among people. Way back in season one, while she was with Helo but he didn’t know she was a Cylon yet, she opined that maybe Cylons are just indoctrinated to hate humans and if they were indoctrinated differently maybe they wouldn’t.
So somehow, some way the Colonials get their hands on a resurrection ship and let Sharon indoctrinate a new generation of Sharons to share her experiences and beliefs. Voila. Potentially you’ve got a Cylon culture along with its technology, manufacturing ability and military industrial complex working with you instead of against you. This gives humans the ability to live peaceably with Cylons and defend themselves indefinitely.
So, not all hope is lost. 
I vaguely recall something from the original series (or maybe the Marvel BSG comics?) that there was a “Columbia” among the 12 BattleStars, along with “Galactica,” “Pacifica,” “Atlantia,” etc. You got me on “Valkyrie” though.
On New Caprica the Cylon’s mentioned they’d been having supply issues, and were over-stretched for resources. No matter how many times they resurrect, the rag-tag fleet has destroyed, what, six or seven BaseStars by now? More? That has to be a severe impact to their total resources – and chasing the humans apparently isn’t the only thing that the Cylons need the BaseStars for.
“A wizard did it. Whatever continuity problem you ask, that’s the answer.”
Hey, it’s still Lucy Lawless, right?
I’m just happy to have an SF show based on the characters. If they’re good, and the acting is good, I can let a lot of side stuff go. There’s enough outlets for continuity nitpickers (and their cousins, continuity-repairing plot-device-dreamer-uppers) on the many formulaic space operas we’ve been given over the decades.
Really? :dubious: Which SF shows are you thinking of where the characters took a back seat to continuity and things like, I dunno… science and plausibility?
SF shows are always about the characters continuity be hanged (except maybe B5, but that was heavily character driven yet the writer took the time to actually think about continuity).
Star Trek was all about the characters and letting the side stuff go. BSG is just Star Trek with a dark edgy feel.
No, Star Trek was not at all character-driven – except, maybe, DS9. Star Trek was about the set-up, the scenario not the characters. On all the shows – particularly in their early seasons – you see the personalities of the characters shifting. Things important to the characters are dropped with nary a thought in the episodes after they’re introduced.
Which isn’t surprising, since Gene’s goal was to tell stories about a hopeful future; it wasn’t about the individuals in that future, so much.
B5 and Firefly were definately more character-driven, and even they had continuity issues. This bobble in Adama’s fleet record is more on the scale of the fiddly nitpicks in continuity of these two, than the wholesale ignoring of continuity that Star Trek has been known for.
Pretty much all of them ever made.
Both those shows were mainly about settings, with the space-opera plots secondary. The characters were just cartoons filled in to advance the plots and settings.
Which characters on either show did you think were realistically drawn? When were their actions, even lines, not utterly predictable based on the setting and story line, and the long-established other conventions of pulp sf? Other than Patrick Stewart, which actor on either show was ever worth a damn? They were virtyally all hacks playing comic book characters in the video versions of comic books, sorry.
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Yes. Yes it is.
posts to reduce my degrees of seperation from the lovely Mary
Which thread?
He asks her if the President is “strangely attracted to Starbuck.”
Interesting answer.