Battlestar Galactica terminology

Battlestar Galactica terminology

This is a list of terms used in the Battlestar Galactica television series.

Dialect

* boxing or to be boxed - originally a cylon term. To download a cylon's consciousness into a storage device instead of a new body. This can happen either as a punishment or for safety reasons, when said consciousness is deemed corrupted or too unstable to be downloaded into a new body.
* Code Blue! - internal security alarm call.
* felgercarb - profanity. Same meaning as "shit", only used in the original "Battlestar Galactica" series.
* frack - profanity. Same meaning as "fuck", used in the original "Battlestar Galactica (1978)" series. See frak.
* frak - new spelling for "frack" used in the new "Battlestar Galactica". (Same meaning as "fuck"). Same usage as the original series, but greatly expanded, and it also seems to carry the same "social weight" as fuck, as characters sometimes apologise for their language after using it.
** frak-head - from the new "Battlestar Galactica" miniseries, derived from "frak", substitution for "asshole" or "fuck-head": when the miniseries originally aired on SciFi channel the phrase "superior asshole" was used by Starbuck (Kara Thrace) - when later aired on NBC the phrase became "superior frak-head".
** frakwit/frakwad - Used once by Chief Tyrol when explaining to the Pegasus deck chief why the Galactica deck crew was so angry. He said that Admiral Cain had assigned "some frakwad from the Pegasus" to be Galactica's new deck chief. As it turns out, the person who he was explaining it to was that frakwad, but he did not seem in any way offended.
** motherfrakker - derived from "frak" in parallel to "motherfucker". Used first by Specialist Cally in Season 2 and later by Lieutenant Kat and Starbuck, but apparently not standard usage, as Chief Tyrol finds Cally's usage quite amusing, though this may also be because Cally rarely (if ever) curses.
** toasterfrakker - by extension, someone, like Helo, who's had sexual congress with a human-model Cylon.
* galmonging - derogative term only used in the original series. Roughly the same meaning as "bastard" or "asshole". First used in Part 1 of "Living Legend".
* Krypter! - distress call equivalent to "MayDay". Usually repeated in quick succession: "Krypter! Krypter! Krypter!". First heard used by Lee Adama in the miniseries.
* Oh my Gods!, - derived from real life offensive phrase "Oh My God", plural usage due to the main faith of the Twelve Colonies.
* projecting - cylon term. To create a virtual reality in someone's own mind. Cylon human-models use projecting as a break from reality, a rough equivalent to daydreaming. Another application of projecting is to make travelling around basestars easier for human-model Cylons. Because all the corridors and hallways in a Basestar look very similar, Cylons "project" familiar surroundings in order to find their way more easily. For example, Number Six sees the inside of a basestar as a large forest. When Baltar first hears of projecting in the season three Torn episode, he realises that projecting is strikingly similar to the hallucinations involving Number Six he's experiencing, thus reinforcing his suspicions that he might be a Cylon himself.
* wireless - essentially an alternate term for a radio or a device that transfers and receives radio wave band transmissions. In real life this usage was encountered during (and in some places after) World War II in England.
* sitrep - 'situation report'
* Sierra Alpha - suspicious activity (derived from NATO phonetic alphabet codewords for S and A)
* tylium - mineral that can be refined to a powerful fuel
* ambrosia - a type of alcoholic beverage
* carom - term used in conjunction with a DRADIS contact read; analogous to the term "mark".
* wilco - 'will comply'

lang and nicknames

*Beast, the - nickname of battlestar Pegasus, given by the crew of Galactica. See Bucket.
*Big G, the - nickname given by Viper pilots to Galactica.
*bird farm - a battlestar, in colonial military jargon. Borrowed from contemporary American slang for aircraft carriers.
*blackshirt - profane term for Council Security. Only used in the original series.
*Bucket, the - nickname of battlestar Galactica, given by the crew of Pegasus. See Beast.
*chrome job - pejorative term used by Humans to describe Cylon centurions. See skin job.
*Download City - slang term used by Humans to describe a place where Cylons are resurrected. Usually refers to a Resurrection ship. First used in the season 3 episode "Exodus".
*jock smock - flight suit.
*knuckle-dragger - slang term for enlisted personnel. Roughly equivalent to the Earth military slang "grunt", it can be taken as a somewhat snobbish pejorative when used by an officer, but many NCOs use the term with a touch of pride (particularly Galen Tyrol).
*nugget - nickname given to rookie pilots.
*rain - The sound of the metal scrap hitting fighter in space after combat.
*skin job - pejorative term used by Humans to describe human-model Cylons. Originally a Blade Runner term, it was first used in Season 2. See chrome job.
*toaster - pejorative term used by Humans to describe Cylon centurions.

Acronyms

*AAA: Anti-aircraft artillery ("Triple-A"), such as a battlestar's point defense batteries.
*BSG: Battlestar Group. The "Galactica" leads BSG 75, and the "Pegasus" leads BSG 62.
*CAG: Commander of the Air Group (commanding officer of a battlestar's pilsots).
*CBDR: Constant Bearing, Decreasing Range (a collision course between two objects).
*CIC: Combat Information Center.
*CMO: Chief Medical Officer.
*CNP: Command Navigation Program. Designed by Gaius Baltar.
*CO: Commanding Officer.
*DRADIS: "Direction, Range, and Distance". Colonial equivalent of radar, but space-based.
*ECO: Electronic Countermeasures Officer.
*EMI: Electro-Magnetic Interference.
*FTL: Faster Than Light.
*FNG: Frakking New Guy (sometimes "foon-gee").
*FUBAR: Frakked Up Beyond All Recognition.
*IFF: Identification Friend or Foe transponder.
*RFN: Right Fraking Now (as in ASAP).
*XO: Executive Officer (second in command).
*CAP: Combat Air Patrol.

Measurements

* cubit - denomination of Colonial currency (used in original and reimagined series)
* solar unit - this is abbreviated to "SU". Has a similar meaning to that of our use of "AU" which is the measurement of distance between the Sun and Earth.

These units of measurement appear solely in the original series:

* centar - an hour of Colonial time.
* centon - a minute of Colonial time.
* metric - a Colonial meter.
* metron - another name for metric.
* microncenton - another name for micron.
* micron - one hundredth of a centon.
* radion - a Colonial unit of radiation.
* sectar - a month of Colonial time.
* section - a week of Colonial time.
* volton - Colonial unit of voltage.
* yahren - a year of Colonial time.

External links

* [http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page Battlestar Wiki]
* [http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/List_of_terms_(TOS) List of terms from the original series]
* [http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/List_of_terms_(RDM) List of terms from the reimagined series]


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