Battlestar Galactica

Season 2

Scattered

1. Kerry Norton, who plays the medic who stabilized Commander Adama's condition (and will become a semi-regular), is the real life wife of Jamie Bamber (Apollo).
2. Opening credits say there were 47,875 human survivors.

Valley of Darkness

1. The challenge & response used by the party on Kobol is "Flash" and "Thunder", the same challenge/response pair used during the Allied invasion of France in World War II.
2. Opening credits say there were 47,874 human survivors.
3. The song that Starbuck plays and attributes to her father is "Metamorphosis Five," from Philip Glass's album "Solo Piano".

Fragged

1. The rifle used by the stranded Kobol crew is the Beretta CX4 Storm.
2. In a deleted scene, Laura Roslin has a dream where Billy disagrees with her plan of recovering the Arrow of Apollo from Caprica and attacks her.
3. Opening credits say there are 47,862 human survivors.

Resistance

1. Opening credits say there are 47,861 human survivors.
2. In the scene after the shuttle with Apollo, Pesident Roslin and Elosha lands on Cloud 9, they meet Tom Zarek on the flight deck, then proceed to leave the shuttle bay, if you watch closely you see a brief shot of one of the original shuttles used on the original series.
3. The weapon carried by Sue-Shaun when first meeting "Starbuck" and "Helo" is a British Army L85 Rifle 5.56mm (commonly known as the SA-80). Not a weapon generally used in film and TV making but futuristic looking enough for the show.
4. Cally shooting Boomer at point blank range while Boomer is being transferred is a historical reference to Jack Ruby murdering Lee Harvey Oswald (the accused assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy) while being transferred from his cell, Aaron Douglas stated that he wanted the scene to resemble the video of the famous shooting as much as possible.

The Farm

1. Opening credits say there are 47,857 human survivors.

Home: Part 1

1. Opening credits say there are 47,858 human survivors.
2. When Commander Adama is listening to the pilots during their asteroid weapons training his "Listening Device" is actually an AM-7162 which is the Master Control Station for the AN/VIC-2, mechanized military vehicle intercom system. It also has a modified LS-685 loud speaker connected to it where Receiver/Transmitter #1 should connect which would also power this device. He turns the center knob to increase the volume; this is actually the switch to turn on the "Internal Accent" which activates a noise filter.
3. The voice inter-communications devices used on the "Galactica" are actually the TA-1/PT field telephone, as used by the military for decades.

Home: Part 2

1. Opening credits say there are 47,855 human survivors.

Final Cut

1. The music accompanying the end of D'anna Biers documentary video on the Galactica, which starts with a janitor whistling the tune and ends in a triumphant fanfare, is the theme song from the original "Battlestar Galactica" (1978). It was last heard during a Viper air show ceremony in the new series' pilot miniseries; within the new series' storyline, the old theme song is the national anthem of sorts for the Colonials.
2. The documentary crew's camera is actually a cosmetically altered Panasonic DVX-100 (or possibly the 100A). Also, the video tape that Biers conceals is a regular MiniDV cassette.
3. Opening credits say there are 47,853 human survivors.
4. Lucy Lawless' first appearance on the show and one of the few times she uses her own native Kiwi accent on a US show.

Flight of the Phoenix

1. Opening credits say there are 47,853 human survivors.
2. This is the only episode of Battlestar Galactica, besides the first season episode #1.5, "You Can't Go Home Again", in which you see the biological insides of a Cylon Raider.
3. Carbon composite AKA carbon fiber is commonly used in airplanes and F1 race cars because it's lighter and stronger than steel. .

Pegasus

1. The interior sets used for the Battlestar Pegasus are actually leftover sets from the abortive John Woo remake of "Lost in Space". Woo's series never got off the ground, but its sets were placed in storage. They were then heavily remodeled and reused in this series for all scenes on the Pegasus.
2. The story for episode #2.10 "Pegasus" is loosely based on the Original Series episode "The Living Legend" which also features the Galactica discovering the Pegasus.
3. Opening credits say there are 49,605 human survivors.
4. The Pegasus is a Mercury Class battlestar, with several notable differences from the Galactica. It has four launch bays, smoother hull design, and attendant robots in its bays capable of both fighter repair and manufacture. Also, the landing pods do not have to be retracted prior to FTL jump.
5. A 59 minute Extended Edition of this episode is included on some commercial releases of Season 2.

Resurrection Ship: Part 1

1. Opening credits say there are 49,604 human survivors.

Resurrection Ship: Part 2

1. The experience of Apollo in "Resurrection Ship Pt. 2" was based on the real life experience of Ensign George Gay. Ensign Gay watched the entire Battle of Midway while floating in the ocean.
2. Opening credits say there are 49,604 human survivors.

Epiphanies

1. Opening credits say there are 49,598 human survivors.

Black Market

1. When Apollo boards the "Prometheus", the first black market item seen being sold are cartons of cigarettes with the brand name "Sarcoma". A sarcoma is a form of cancer that develops in the connective tissue.

Scar

1. Starbuck's use of her thumb to block the sun in order to see if Scar was coming had originally been done by Gregory H. 'Pappy' Boyington in World War Two, where he discovered that doing so would allow him to see incoming Zeroes.
2. Opening credits say there are 49,593 human survivors.

Sacrifice

1. Opening credits say there are 49,590 human survivors.

The Captain's Hand

1. The "previously in Battlestar Galactica..." scene in which Adama tells Tigh he's chosen Garner as the new Commander of Battlestar Pegasus hadn't actually appeared in an earlier show.
2. The loss of life after the battle between Pegasus and the three base-stars is only five (two Raptor crews plus Garner), according to Roslin's population tally which drops from 49,584 to 49,579.
3. First appearance of President Roslin's new aide, Tory Foster (Rekha Sharma).
4. Opening credits say there are 49,584 human survivors.
5. The ranking system for officers in the Colonial Fleet are, from bottom to top: ensign; lieutenant (junior grade); lieutenant (senior grade); captain; major; colonel; commander; admiral. Lee jumps one grade when he gains command of the Pegasus.

Downloaded

1. The cars in the basement are all European classic models. Among them is a Citroën DS. This was done to create a slightly less familiar look of Caprica toward US viewers (but will look more familiar to European viewers).
2. Ronald D. Moore told in the podcast commentary for "Downloaded" that they had started to develop an episode called "The Raid", where the humans infiltrated into a Cylon space station where a conference about how to solve the human problem was taking place. The Colonials had to get more information about the Earth. Caprica Six, who started having visions about Gaius Baltar, discovered them but finally let them go. This idea was dropped, but Ron Moore wanted to show the Cylon point of view and it was finally shown in "Downloaded". The return of Caprica Six, who died in the miniseries, and she having visions about Gaius was also kept from "The Raid".
3. For the first time in the show, D'anna refers to the Number 6 copy who infiltrated into Caprica to disable the Colonies' defenses as "Caprica Six".
4. D'anna (the character who is played by Lucy Lawless) reveals her model is Number 3, Sharon's is Number 8, and Doral's is Number 5.
5. "Downloaded" features the Cylon point of view of the show and shows an established society in the planet of Caprica. However, the staff didn't want to reveal yet the identity of the remaining Cylon models, so they decided to focus just on three characters: D'anna Biers (Lucy Lawless), Sharon Valerii (Grace Park) and Caprica Six (Tricia Helfer). The presence of Aarol Doral (Matthew Bennett) is very limited, and despite seeing what presumably are some copies of Simon, the actor who usually plays him, Rick Worthy, didn't actually appear in the episode and they used a double actor instead.
6. Opening credits say there are 49,579 human survivors.
7. The other car in the underground garage is a Tatra 87, produced by the Czechoslovakian car company Tatra between 1936 - 1950. One of the breakthrough cars of its era due to its aerodynamic (steamlined) bodywork.
8. Despite Sharon the Cylon agent giving birth, the number of survivors written on the board of Colonial One is the same: 49.579.
9. Caprica Six killing D'anna with a rock is considered the first act of violence "Cylon versus Cylon" in history. Later in the show she'll be scolded for it.

Lay Down Your Burdens: Part 1

1. Opening credits say there are 49,579 human survivors.
2. When Cavill is counseling the Chief we don't know until nearly the end of the show how much he is manipulating him. When he tells the Chief "Of course you're not a cylon" and the Chief asks, "How do you know?" He says, "Maybe because I'm a cylon and I've never seen you at any of the meetings." This is ultimately all a lie. Because Cavill is really a cylon and is the only one of the 7 that knows the Chief actually is a cylon as well (one of the final 5) and is keeping it as a closely guarded secret. At the end it truly shows how deeply manipulative Cavill really was.

Lay Down Your Burdens: Part 2

1. Opening credits say there are 49,550 human survivors.
2. Chief Tyrol speech to some of the people on New Caprica is an almost word for word quote of Mario Savio's famous "Bodies Upon the Gears" intervention during the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, 1964.
3. The Cylon occupation of New Caprica is inspired by the Nazi occupation of Paris in World War II.