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Latest episode - "You Can't Go Home Again" was another good episode, I thought. I liked Adama and Apollo's moment at the end - "We'd never leave."

Quite good. And the continuing military/political turf war is great.

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I've watched the last few episodes, and it's been decent overall with some good ship scenes. However I can't seem to shake the feeling of Starship Troopers when it comes to the various pilots' storylines etc.

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Other than the fact that everybodies hometowns got obliterated, I see absolutly no common themes with Starship Troopers. What are you refering to?

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Not that there backstories are the same, but the way they look and act etc.

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Hey I have a question, if the Viper MK2 is just as good as the Viper Mk 7 why retire the Mark 2? Because from what we've seen the Mk7 is and MK2 are roughly equal in taking on Cylon Fighters.

Oh and is Apollo's Mk7 the last one left on Galactica? Because to be honest I LOVE the mk 7 design.

P.S> Please no spoilers, as I'm in the states we just got "You Can't Go Home Again."

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My impression from the miniseries was that the Viper VII was faster and more manuverable. So that would explain why they were replacing the Mark II's. Much of the increased performance was computer aided, which turned out to be a huge weakness when the Cylons launched their cyber attack. The surviving Mark VII's on Galactica have been retrofitted to manual controls, which explains why the Mark II's seem to do as well as the Mark VII's in combat now.

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one thing i would wish to know: the MK 7 were disabled by the cylons because of the heavy use of computeers in them or because the software in the computers was holed?

As we see in the miniseries, Dr. Baltar programmed all the computers used by the military, and Six inserted a lot of backdoors in the programs, so if the reason the Cylons disabled the Mk7 was because of the backdoors, maybe they can be still used if someone re-programmed the computers...

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I seem to recall seeing some Mk 7's during some of the larger fight scenes. I seem to recall from somewhere in one of the episodes that they had retro-retrofitted the remaining Mk 7's so that the cylons couldn't interfere, but the reason there are so many Mk 2's is because Galactica was to become a museum ship and had all remaining Mk 2's transfered to it from the other Battlestars.

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It's also why they never launch from the other side of the ship.

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I think you guys are clearing up my confusion. with the Mark VII's out of action in the mini-series, Adama recalled having about 30 mark II's in the museum part of the ship. Now, last week, Apollo commented he had about 40 ships and only 20+ pilots to man them. Now, unless the chief could scratch build 10 extra ships out of thin air, I was wondering where those extra ships came from. Also, I haven't counted, but with the few scrapes they've had with the Cylons, they must have lost at least 5-6 of the Mark II's. HOw is the Galactica going to defend itself and the fleet with only a limited amount of fighters? Adama doesn't seem too concerned over this issue now, but eventually it's going to become a concern. Especially if they can't make any more fighters. Maybe there's a manafacturing ship of some sort in the fleet that can be converted to produce more, but as was mentioned in this last issue, they're running out of fuel for the ships also. Maybe they can find a source of fuel like they did water.