I'm agreeing with you about the Starbuck thing, Starhawk. I read an interview with them that said they were only changing the gender; the buddy relationship between Starbuck and Apollo would be about the same or similar. Whether Starbuck's still a womanizer, I don't know.
I'm not familiar with most of the cast, but Olmos as Adama wasn't even recognizable. The moustache does a lot. heh heh
And a few more things: Wilma Deering kicked mucho ***, Sheba looked like she was going cry at any given time, Athena was Apollo's sister assigned to the Command Bridge, and that episode with all the female pilots (apparently they were converted cargo pilots and whatnot) I think he married Serina, played by Jane Seymour, no less. She probably made a better pilot than Sheba so they killed her off 50 minutes later. Or something.
No, the women of sci-fi didn't influence my growing up. Really.
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