Lt. Starbuck Quotes in Battlestar Galactica (1978)

Lt. Starbuck: [having been invited into a fighter launch tube by Cassiopeia] Lord, I'll do anything you ask tomorrow... just, uh, don't call an alert tonight!

[Exploring the dark surface of a planet]

Lt. Starbuck: I wonder what this looks like in the daytime?

Lt. Boomer: Hey, this *is* the daytime.

Lt. Starbuck: Oooh... lovely...

Lt. Boomer: Just keep it up, old buddy, you're going to get us into real trouble.

Lt. Starbuck: Ten thousand light years from nowhere, our planets shot to pieces, people starving, and *I'm* gonna get us in trouble? What the matter with you? I tell you... yeah, well, we may as well live for today! We might not have many left!

Lt. Starbuck: I'm just curious about what all that excitement was about back on the barge.

Cassiopeia: That woman is a member of the Otori sect amongst the Geminese. They don't believe in physical contact between genders, except when sanctified by the priest during High Worship of the Sun Storm, which comes once only every seven years!

[Starbuck remembers a card game he was playing before the Galactica ordered battle-stations drill, which had suddenly turned into the real thing]

Lt. Starbuck: No wonders those little buggers are such good card players.

[Admiring Starbuck's space fighter]

Cassiopeia: It's beautiful, isn't it? It's a perfect machine! Born to dance amongst the stars!

Lt. Starbuck: Yeah, it's bumping into them that has me worried.

Cassiopeia: Why did you volunteer, Starbuck?

Lt. Starbuck: Well, *somebody* had to do it.

Cassiopeia: Did Apollo made you?

Lt. Starbuck: Yes... you certainly have a way of cutting through the felgercarb.

Cassiopeia: Did you ever take that smoldering weed out of your mouth?

Lt. Starbuck: I had this, uh, wonderful speech all prepared...

Cassiopeia: About this being your last night here? About possibly not seeing another night as beautiful as this one, or another girl as beautiful as I am, ever again?

Lt. Starbuck: Yeah, well, that speech is a little better than the one I had. Would you mind if I borrowed it on some future occasion?

Capt. Apollo: The Nova of Madagon is not a nova at all, but a starfield so bright, our cockpits will be sealed to prevent blindness. We'll navigate by scanners and clear everything out of our path with turbo lasers. Are you feeling alright, Starbuck? You're fidgeting around like a daggit on a sunspot.

Lt. Starbuck: Well, it's my bio-pulse-line, sir. You see, it's a bad time for me to be cooped up in a cockpit.

Lt. Boomer: Starbuck's being polite... since he got a steam burn.

Capt. Apollo: I don't think I want to ask you how you got it, because I need you on this mission. I didn't choose you to help lead us through without a great deal of anguish. But if it'll do any good, let me assure you that should we fail... no one will survive. The rest of our friends must sit in anticipation of our skill.

Lt. Starbuck: Or lack thereof...