Scrax
1621
The only reason they included the Gaeta sexuality storyline were to appeal to the hardcore fans who wanted that storyline to exist. The same kind of fans who would go onto the scifi website to watch the webisodes. Which is why they didn’t even bring up the fact on the main show. Most of Galactica’s viewers wouldn’t give a damn.
Fans wanted the self-pitying whiner airlocked in the quickest way possible. New plot points would have just slowed it down.
Airlocked? He was executed by firing squad.
It was in an airlock though!
MikeJ
1626
I thought it was a Viper launch tube…
…which contains an airlock…?
Work with me here, I’m trying as hard as I can. :)
Jag
1628
They really should airlock people on Starships, makes more sense than firing squad.
MikeJ
1629
Yeah, the tube clearly works as an airlock. Plus when I think when Calley was airlocked it was also a viper launch tube. Actually now that I think about it, it didn’t look the same (with the control room off to the side), so now I’m confused. Damnit, that just ruins the whole series for me.
Wait, yeah, don’t scifi stories constantly warn against bullets causing hull breaches? Or maybe danger of ricochet?
Hugin
1631
Enh, low velocity rounds, soft nose rounds, frangible rounds, there’s a lot of ways to kill someone and not hurt the bulkhead wall behind them.
I see you’ve thought this through…
Hugin
1633
More that a lot of sci-fi writers have thought through how to do guns in space.
That’s why most sci-fi, er, syfy movies and TV shows don’t have guns that shoot bullets and go BANG. They have weapons that shoot beams of light and go PEW PEW.
Nice, slow, visible beams of light. I’m still waiting for slow light technology to become commercially viable.
How powerful would a laser shot in an atmosphere have to be to create an accompanying blast of thunder?
That’s kind of up in the air, since the cause of thunder isn’t 100% settled (current consensus is that heating and pressure changes create a vacuum which is subsequently filled, making a big noise). If you’re operating in a closed chamber, I would think it would be trivial to figure out how much thermal energy needs to be applied to heat a column of air something like 25,000 degrees in a fraction of a second, and that would be your answer, but I suspect that it would also vary based on air pressure.
See what you did?
If Galactica’s hull can absorb the impact of a nuclear warhead, I don’t think a small bullet is going to punch a hole through it.
Oh hush, now you’re just applying logic to the situation!
Aleck
1640
Ah, but that was before the hull started shearing itself in two for no apparent reason.
