"We Can't Let Her Get Off This Ship!" | Battlestar Galactica

[@sammileham9334]

I love how quickly the flight pods retract in juxtaposition to during the battle at Ragnar Anchorage Station in the Miniseries.

[@socialcommentary1014]

Well, the jettisoned all of the excess cargo from the one that had been converted into a gift shop....

[@bigbitehood1353]

The flight pods move at the speed of plot

[@umarumarhata5671]

@@socialcommentary1014 x

[@TrueNubinator]

Plus after years of fighting I’m sure they eventually repaired and cleaned the flight pod systems

[@PetersaberHD]

Those retractors weren't used for decades by the time of the Ragnar battle, so they're probably faster now, with proper maintenance, and I'm pretty sure such a critical system would have more controls (including speed) than just "push in, push out)

[@GlamorousTitanic21]

I absolutely love the retracting flight pods and I really wish we had seen more awesome clips from different angles. Apparently, in universe the Jupiter Class’s design was such that there were several reasons why the pods retracted. One was to make the ships size smaller, because not all of the ship would fit inside the bubble of bent space when the FTL drive engaged, and thus the flight pods would be ripped apart after jumping. The second was because the ship was not built to deal with the stress of repeatedly jumping with the flight pods all the way out; thus, the frame had to be more compact to retain a greater sense of rigidity.

[@jeros8258]

"Sir, with all due respect, unless your planning to jump these things repeatedly every week, shes is a strong as she needs to be, we are already over budget!"

[@icarus_falling]

She does jump with the pods extended to escape the cylon colony however it breaks her spinal structures. I think they retract to reduce stress on the frame of the ship more than anything as we know she can jump with them out. But its more efficient/less stress on the ship to be more compact

[@GlamorousTitanic21]

@@icarus_falling yeah. That’s what I said.

[@AWriterWandering]

@@icarus_falling considering how the Galactica eventually broke her back, I can see why they wanted to reduce stress on the frame as much as possible.

[@Phoenixesper1]

Saul: "If she jumps insde this ship the spacial disruption could tear galacticas guts out..." Which begs the question. Why didn't cylon raiders just jump next to galacticas hull and immediately jump again and just devastate its hull untill the ship tore apart. Look at the damage one raptor jumping at point blank did to galactica. imagine a swarm of a dozen raiders jumping all around galacticas hull, each disruption as powerful as a nuke strike. Hell they could have wiped out the entire civilian fleet with this tactic before galactica could have even reacted.

[@drtidrow]

Nobody came up with the idea until this ep, most likely.

[@Necromonger69]

then the show would have ended..duh.

[@jamesxiaolong2199]

Because raiders aren’t suicide craft, some cylons see them as pets.

[@danielhaire6677]

Not all cultures view a suicide operation as a good thing. Most see them as acts of desperation not valid strategy.

[@dotmatrix7383]

That would have taken too much time. Galactica at this point was 5 years in space without a refit or repair. The battle damage had taken it's toll. Slamming into New Caprica's atmosphere didn't help either.

[@MinaSana98]

One of my favorite scenes in the whole show. Dont know how many times i watched this part back in days over and over again. Here is a random goof: At first Hoshi calls her raptor as 719 (0:06) then he calls same raptor as 219 (0:46)

[@phaiz55]

I never understood how a raptor jumping did this much damage to Galatica but the fuel ship jumping with a raptor basically soft docked barely pushed it away.

[@ThatDutchPerson]

This was explained elsewhere I believe. Its the fact that these spatial disruptions Tigh talks about are basicly shockwaves. A raptor and Viper are small and casually tag along for the ride on such shockwaves. However, Galactica is much larger and has far less flexabillity in that regards. Its too massive and heavy to absorb the shockwaves, and thus, the shockwaves rip the sections they hit apart instead.

[@BattlestarZenobia]

@@ThatDutchPersonadd in all the metal fatigue and accumulated damage

[@kitkun7669]

I love Tyrol's reaction here.

[@AdeptKing]

The face of "I screwed up real bad".

[@michaelmajewski8796]

Let me get this straight. Galactica survives a nuclear impact, an unstable gravitational and atmospheric re-entry, the radiation of a star going nova, a fight with the Cylon Capital, and untold numbers of battles against diminishing odds...and even the enemy doesn't show respect or hommage to their foes that thwy vanquished "in a night?" Long live Galactica. Glory to the Colonies. Requiestat im Pacem.

[@Woedric]

2:40 Poor Adama

[@Burnout1701]

Mr. Hoshi appreciation comment.

[@tomosko2669]

This seems like a good weapon. Why didn't the Cylons do it, when they got a whole boarding party on Galactica?

[@pazil888]

If I remember corectly their plan was to flush out to space the entire crue and then turn Galactica's guns to the fleet and if that worked it was game over ...

[@cb-gz1vl]

Yes or just make unmanned suicide drone jumpers that just FTL straight into the interior of the ship.

[@GameslordXY]

@@cb-gz1vl It's easy to be a general after the battle

[@cb-gz1vl]

@@GameslordXY They've been fighting for decades.

[@tyguy6296]

@@cb-gz1vl you could say the same kind of thing about pretty much any FTL tech in any franchise. why build a deathstar when you could hyperspace a slug of metal into a planet? if you can generate enough artificial gravity to bend space, why can't you weaponize that? couldn't you FTL jump nuclear bombs directly into the center of a ship? etc. the answer is always the same... "it would be a short story"

[@callmeishmael2415]

Definitely time to re-watch the series

[@Spacegoat92]

Frack yeah!!!

[@dotdashdotdash]

Where are the Romo Lampkin clips?

[@MonteLeeMyPOV]

Yea! Bsg Content! Loved this show!

[@dibbsutd]

"You'll see her again Chief".

[@ianbrewer4843]

Powerful scene

[@SportyMabamba]

I was under the impression that Galactica couldn’t retract the Flight Pods, hence why she eventually broke her back by jumping with them extended - or did that happen later?

[@danielhaire6677]

All Battlestars can retract the pods. This is because Raptors and Shuttles need to take off from them and all recovered ships need to land on them. As such when extended out, they are exposed to vacuum and any threats in the area.

[@unknown9126]

@@danielhaire6677 That was only for the older ships. Pegasus and the Valkryie types don't have moving flight pods

[@henrycooper3431]

@@unknown9126 even Artemis class (the first class of Battlestar) dont need to retract pods For some reason only Jupiter class need to do so

[@unknown9126]

@@henrycooper3431 Maybe it was the size of the Jupiter class with some tech limitations of that time period?

[@henrycooper3431]

@@unknown9126 thats the most used theory And it make sense tbh, they go from 1000m to 1400m ish in one go, and consider those are brand new (the ideas of seperated flight pods) problems are sure to come

[@cb-gz1vl]

So if FTL that close can cause that much damage the cylons should have made FTL drones that fly up, jump, cause damage and jump back to be redeployed. Heck just jump next to or into the ship. Doesn't seem like they have any EM counter measures to this.

[@jamesxiaolong2199]

The cylons also should have mounted some cannons on their ships too.

[@tred6292]

Next can this channel please post the scene where Adama speaks to the fleet and gives them hope after they find earth and it doesn’t work out for them.

[@tienshan9819]

I really didn't like the post-mutiny episodes of the final season. Suddenly the proximity of a jumping vessel is an issue when it was never mentioned before, suddenly Hera matters, Tory who was a last-minute second season plot contrivance to replace Billy not only matters but becomes a villain, the Zodiac symbols of the 13th tribe sort of don't matter, Baltar's cult becomes a police force but then that gets dropped, on and on. The only cool thing was the theme of blending Cylon and human inside Galactica.

[@proudamerican183]

What in the frak is going on?

[@matttiberius1900]

I hate the retcon of how jumps work.

[@iantolyczak8411]

Why did her jump mess up galactica? The ships jumped before with other colonial ships in close proximity and I'm sure there jump drives are stronger

[@jamesxiaolong2199]

Other Colonial vessels weren’t 20 feet away when they jumped.

[@masterchief119-i9p]

Hey here's an idea...how about Retracting Flight Pods while engaging the Cylon fighters so when a suicide Cylon trys to blow up a Battlestar ship by crashing inside of one of the pods then it will be denied. Just a thought.

[@cmj0929]

They can’t, the fighters have to be able to land after a battle

[@masterchief119-i9p]

@@cmj0929 Yes,yes after a battle but during...keep them closed to stop the battlestars from exploding!

[@mgDuckyyy]

@@masterchief119-i9p What if the Vipers need to make an emergency landing? Plenty of times more baseships turn up after Galactica has launched vipers.

[@masterchief119-i9p]

@@mgDuckyyy Easy, the Vipers have a jump range of 15 light years...rendezvous then land inside the pods. But this situation would be really rare.

[@Logarithm906]

@@masterchief119-i9p I don't believe the Vipers have FTL in the series (they did in BSGO though about 15 LY). Maybe the mark VII did but the IIs didn't.

[@BigChungus123-abc]

If she jumped into the ship how did Hera survive?

[@endangkurniawan1437]

👍🙂🤔 0:13

[@OgaugeTrainsplusslotCars]

Very nicely done.1st♐♐♐