# Battlestar Galactica Tonight! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 9, 2003, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-tonight/217811 "2003-12-09T00:57:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-tonight/217811/161 "2003-12-12T21:33:36Z")
I got the impression (possibly because of my earlier complaints of the _Galactica_ having no defenses in part one except her fighters) that all of the bullets/ammunition they picked up at Ragnar were for the _Galactica_’s ship-mounted weapons. Remember, it’s only after all of these munitions are loaded aboard that the _Galactica_ herself gets into the fight and unleashes an impressive amount of firepower from dozens of gun batteries. The Vipers never seemed to run short of ammunition and seemed to be firing energy weapons all through both episodes in rapid-fire bursts. Viper weapons fire looked different from the _Galactica_’s artillery fire - could just be the effects guys adding variety, or it could represent different types of weapons. Maybe large explosive projectile weapons have a higher destructive yeild than energy weapons, but a much slower rate of fire, so fast-cycling energy weapons are the choice for fighters while projectile weapons are used for the big guns? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-tonight/217811/162 "2003-12-13T00:27:53Z")
If you are defending Galactica against incoming missiles, couldn’t you just throw all sorts of solid junk out for them to run into at speed? I sem to recall that BBs sitting still in relation to an orbiting satellite would take it out. Just fire buckshot out there in huge clouds. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-tonight/217811/163 "2003-12-13T01:34:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hammer \* > Actually there was FTL travel but not all of the ships had that capability so they traveled at the speed of the slowest ship. The casino thing seemed goofy but the original story was based on the exodus bible story. Which, called for them falling pretty quickly back into sin, yada, yada, maybe the cylons won’t kill us if we just lay down our arms to prove we are no threat, yada, yada. I liked the fact that new story just skips that all together, and leaving the slowest ships behind was more intense. I still think that switching to bullets was a style choice that wasn’t thought out very well. It’s pretty easy to just say that the lasers are generated through the engine power somehow and long as you can continue to locate fuel you have weapons. Bullets have to be manufactured and as far as we know they have jumped far past known space. It’ll be interesting to see how they deal with that should a series be produced. > > \*\*Can someone enlighten me on the Far Valley reference? They seemed to be refering to the Botany ship with the little girl which just reminded me of the one in the original series? \*\* I believe the original ship was called the Valley Forge , in the movie silent running , with Bruce Dern and a bunch of robots that liked to cheat in poker by talking with each other in binary. Anyways ,the ship got resurrected in the original galactica series and premiered in the episode The Magnificigent Warriors. It would appear that at least a very good CGI version is around , if that was not the original model. Declan ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-tonight/217811/164 "2003-12-13T01:36:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Long Road \* > I e-mailed Sci Fi asking for a series. I figured the people who hate the idea of a new series are making their voice knows. Anyone wanting drop a line about this can do so by e-mailing [program@www.scifi.com](mailto:program@www.scifi.com) > > \*\*I guess I am desperate for some decent science fiction on tv. \*\* Check your local listings and see if one of the stations is carrying a show called Starhunter Declan ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-tonight/217811/165 "2003-12-13T01:45:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by carnivorousplant \* > \*\*If you are defending Galactica against incoming missiles, couldn’t you just throw all sorts of solid junk out for them to run into at speed? I sem to recall that BBs sitting still in relation to an orbiting satellite would take it out. Just fire buckshot out there in huge clouds. \*\* With the shipboard weapons that the galactica used at the end , the ball bearings seem kind of superflous, it looked like it did just well against all incoming missiles. As a last ditch effort it might have worked if they had something to throw at it , which worked in Space Above and Beyond , but stuff like that needs to be prepackaged and ready to launch on a moments notice , and there was no garuntee that the leaker was not armored. Shotgun style attacks work right now in space cause with the launch weight of the sats ,there is no such thing as armor, but in a universe where the weapons are launched in space ,from a space faring race , armor on the weapons as well as decent penaids would be the order of the day. Declan [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-tonight/217811.md?page=8)