1x01 33 - Battlestar Galactica Episode Guide

Battlestar Galactica

- Episode 01x01

Episode: 01x01 (pilot)
Title: 33
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 101
First Aired: Jan. 14, 2005

Season 1 » Episode #01 - 33

Summary: The fleet's exodus has not been clean and easy. After every jump, the Cylons appear exactly 33 minutes later to send them on the run again. Working with little to no sleep, everyone is being pushed to their limit.Baltar himself is put into stress when someone from the Olympic Carrier claims to have evidence he fears could link him to the Cylons' successful attack on the Twelve Colonies.

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Who appeared in this episode?

Commander William Adama	played by Edward James Olmos
Lt. Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace	played by Katee Sackhoff
Chief Galen Tyrol	played by Aaron Douglas
Officer Anastasia Dualla	played by Kandyse McClure
Crashdown	played by Sam Witwer
Crewman Specialist Socinus	played by Alonso Oyarzun
Crewman Specialist Cally Henderson	played by Nicki Clyne

Episode Quotes

Season 1 / Episode 1: - 33

Petty Officer 2nd Dualla: [to Adama] Comm traffic two from the President.
Commander William Adama: [to Tigh] Is this my ten minutes or is this yours?
Col. Saul Tigh: Yours. I took ten last time.
Commander William Adama: All right, I'll see you guys in combat.

Petty Officer 2nd Dualla: I believe it was your ten minutes, sir.
Col. Saul Tigh: The old man's so tired he can't remember, then it's his turn.

Season 1 / Episode 1: - 33

Lt. Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace: Why are we arguing about this?
Captain Lee 'Apollo' Adama: I have no idea.
Lt. Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace: Neither do I! You're the CAG, act like one.
Captain Lee 'Apollo' Adama: What the hell does that mean?
Lt. Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace: It means that you're still acting like you're everyone's best friend. We're not friends, you're the CAG. "Be careful out there"? Our job isn't to be careful, it's to shoot Cylons out of the frakking sky! "Good Hunting" is what you say. And now one of your idiot pilot is acting like a child and refusing to take her pills. So she either says 'Yes, sir' and obeys a direct order, or you smack her in the mouth, and you drag her sorry ass down to sickbay, and you MAKE her take those pills.

Captain Lee 'Apollo' Adama: Well, I'm glad I'm not working for you.
Lt. Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace: You're damn right you're glad...
Captain Lee 'Apollo' Adama: So, do I have to smack you on the mouth, Lieutenant?
Lt. Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace: No sir, I'll take my pills.

Lt. Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace: Oh. Perfect...

Captain Lee 'Apollo' Adama: Carry on.

Lt. Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace: Yes, sir!

Lt. Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace: WHAT?

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

MISC: When the clock in CIC is kept running after the Cylons fail to make the 240th appearance, the Electronic display above the Situation Table is shown counting up to 45 minutes. However after +44:49:99, the numbers roll over to show +45:00:00, completely skipping the last 10 seconds.
SYNC: When the Olympic Carrier returns, Cmdr. Adama calls out "Mr. Gaeta!" Lt. Gaeta turns and goes to Parade rest. When the camera switched back to Adama, and he calls out "Restart the clock, thirty-three minutes", Gaeta is in the background, going to parade rest again. When the camera switches back to Lt. Gaeta, he turns and opens the clock face in front of him. When the camera refocuses on Adama, Gaeta is in the background, opening the clock face again.
SYNC: The clock counts down to the next Cylon attack. It reads 10 seconds, then we see Adama and Tigh looking off-screen at the clock as we hear ten seconds tick off, followed by a shot of the clock reading 7 seconds.
CONT: As Dee admits to Commander Adama that she's lost the Olympic Carrier, her headphone changes sides in the middle of the conversation.

TRIVIA

Won 'Hugo Award' for Dramatic Presentation, Short Form at the World Science Fiction Convention (LACon IV) in Anaheim, August 26, 2006.
Won 'Hugo Award' for Dramatic Presentation, Short Form at the World Science Fiction Convention, Interaction, at Glasgow, UK (Scotland), in August 2005.
The pilots in the briefing room touch a picture of a man looking out at the destruction of his city. Although not explained in the episode that aired, the picture was introduced in a scene cut from the episode where it was presented to President Roslin ('Mary McDonnell'). It was supposed to have been taken on the roof of the capitol building in Aerilon City during the Cylon attack. Executive Producer Ronald D. Moore said that the picture was inspired by the famous picture of the fireman raising the American flag at the World Trade Center site in New York City following the terrorist attacks on the USA of 11 September 2001.
Sci-Fi Channel offered the entire episode #1.1, "33", uncut and commercial-free from its Web site, along with deleted scenes. It was taken down roughly a year later and replaced by the entire season finale episode #1.13 "Kobol's Last Gleaming", in anticipation of Season 2.