Season one, episode four, “Act of Contrition,” is where Starbuck crashes; episode five, “You Can’t Go Home Again,” is the rescue show. I don’t recall which episode includes the commentary in question but I do recall that it’s mentioned during one of them.
Oh, and returning to the original question, it occurs to me that another use of missiles by Colonial forces is seen in “Resurrection Ship part 2,” when Apollo, in the Blackbird, destroys the FTL drive on the titular vessel while the base stars are distracted. It’s clearly a missile launch, and not unpowered ballistics of some sort.
Which, to address another item above, is what was used on the Olympic Carrier, the nuke-bearing passenger liner destroyed in “33.” Looks to me like Apollo and Starbuck use standard ordnance to rupture the liner’s engines, and that’s what destroys the ship.
With notable exceptions such as the episode 33, where the Olympic Carrier didn’t jump in time. Felt really sorry for the Ops officer, you could tell he felt like shit when that happened.
Incidentally, has anyone noticed just how freaking SOLID the Galactica is? In the miniseries, she takes a direct hit to a hanger pod from a tactical nuke, and is able to shrug it off relatively easily (well, fires on multiple decks, numerous casualties, etc., but still: A NUKE)
Actually that was at the very front of the flight deck , towards the bow. Had that same nuke gone off , inside the flight deck then it would have been a more interesting effect.
