Are Basestars edible?

[Neakal]

Gotta have a weird name for the topic :lol:

To be more serious, this came to me while watching "Faith" and Natalie mentioning their ship could heal itself as well as Leoben asking Natalie how long it would take before fuel and food runs out. Leoben is obviously playing into Natalies concerns the food bit intrigued me.

Cylons seem to have a taste for the food humans eat which is understandable. It can also be assumed that they not only can eat what humans can, they probably can eat more hazardous things since some episodes show us that they are resistant to radiation, some diseases and certain physical damage. We know that humans were able to eat pretty icky things when they absolutely had to. One example I know is the leather sections of shoes and paper (also mentioned in "The Passage").

So, considering Basestars are semi-organic, capable of regeneration and possessing "fleshy" bits quite visibly, do you think it would be possible to eat a Basestar (or pieces in the Basestar) under extreme desperation?

[Shane]

And you were abused as a child. :lol:

[Seanathin]

So how I get a feeling that it would be akin to canablism for them to eat parts of the basestar.

[Shane]

The Silence of the Raiders :lol:

[britboyj]

Looks like the fleet just solved their food problem...

[Jason1975]

LOL. I do not think that Basestar are edible. Cylons said that the basestar heals itself. However, I just trying to figure out how the basestars get their materials and energy to heal the ship. Do they need food? Do they need materials? Where do they get them?

[The Dirt]

Mmmm, that's some good Basestar! Pass me another drumstick!

[Gougef]

The Silence of the Raiders :lol:

don't forget the favre beans and a nice Chanti.

[Dzonatas]

I'll take a resurrection-ship hot wing to go!

And make sure there are no 2s on it... but with extra 8s please!

[DrWho42]

Not that it is the same thing, but... I think the Lexx (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexx#The_Lexx) would be easier to eat, seeing since it's pretty much all organic and it would eat itself when it couldn't have its usual dish: planets.

[Sparrow]

ROFL

Best tech post ever!! :thumbsup:

[ShadowEnigma]

You people are just strange :lol:

[Gort]

I'll give you an answer once an oven big enough is created... and once I work out which gas setting is appropriate for something that big. Gravy, anyone?

[stavrosg]

Cmon! You don't have to bake it in one piece.
You would have to remove all that metal and plastic before cooking, so why not chop it in pieces in the proccess?

[Neakal]

Why not cook it with the metal shell and than crack open the shell when cooked to reveal the soft, cooked meat inside? Like its done in some seafoods.

Or maybe cram it between two pieces of sandwich bread.

Next topic: How to Basestars taste? :p

[The Dirt]

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh162/dmatrixone/KFCGalactica.jpg

[Jason1975]

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh162/dmatrixone/KFCGalactica.jpg

LMAO.
So, How much is for a piece of basestar anyway? That ia great picture, Dirt.

[Neakal]

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh162/dmatrixone/KFCGalactica.jpg

That picture is beyond awesome :lol:

[buerger23]

This is sweet. This is photoshop though, isn't it?

[The Dirt]

Yeah, I made it last night when I was bored. Starbuck could use a "Starbucks Coffee"
spoof picture of her own.

[ShadowEnigma]

lol! That's great, I gotta hold onto that one.

[Dzonatas]

dugg! http://digg.com/comedy/Are_basestars_edible

lol

[BaltarstarGalactica]

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh162/dmatrixone/KFCGalactica.jpg

:lol: Would you like fries with that?

[Xenon242]

Hold the Cavil gravy ...

[genji2000]

Hold the Cavil gravy ...

Was that really necessary?

[Xenon242]

Yes.

[Joe Beaudoin Jr.]

Definitive evidence that the Five have been to to the home of the Thirteenth! Read all about it! (http://wiki.frakr.com/en/Colonial_Fried_Basestar)

[genji2000]

Yes.

You have a dangerous mind. The image of colonial maids milking Cavils for their gravy has scarred me for life.

[Neakal]

You have a dangerous mind. The image of colonial maids milking Cavils for their gravy has scarred me for life.

Now YOU scarred me! I had understood the joke completely differently.:yikes:

Oh well. Down it goes to the mental-folder of scarring images to accompany the others.

Definitive evidence that the Five have been to to the home of the Thirteenth! Read all about it! (http://wiki.frakr.com/en/Colonial_Fried_Basestar)

Woot!

[Sharon.Valerii]

I'll take a resurrection-ship hot wing to go!

And make sure there are no 2s on it... but with extra 8s please!

Sorry, no, I hate to be eaten......

[Sharon.Valerii]

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh162/dmatrixone/KFCGalactica.jpg


LOOOOOOOOOL....okay you won guys......some part of basestar please.
Make it crusty and with some curry......but without any 8s, okay ^^

[The Dirt]

Does this guy read our boards?

Battlestar Galactica improv helps fill galactic gap
ROB SALEM
TV CRITIC
The last I saw of Battlestar Galactica's wandering "rag-tag fleet," the chicken ship was revolting.

You'd be revolted too, with a ship full of chickens. Imagine all the... Never mind. Bad Dog Theatre is here to imagine it for you.

The first half of the final season of TV's sci-fi cult hit is now several months behind us, with the mystery-shrouded 10-episode conclusion still several months ahead. What the frak is the space-starved BSG fan expected to do till then?

You could head over to the Danforth Ave. comedy collective, a plucky little theatre company currently celebrating its fifth anniversary as "Toronto's improv hub," to help fill that galactic gap. Continuing tonight at 10 p.m. and the next two Saturdays after that, Bad Dog's in-house improv veterans present Battleawesome Awesomestar, an off-the-cuff goof on the sombrely portentous genre favourite.

A couple of decades ago, another local comedy troupe did much the same thing with Star Trek, in their case enacting scripts from TV episodes and movies. Before that, The Brady Bunch Live stage show became an unexpected hit in the U.S., inspiring the tongue-in-cheek film spoofs that followed.

Battleawesome takes the concept one step further with an entirely improvised performance, based on an initial audience-suggested "crisis" – at the opening show I caught last week, it was an egg shortage, driving the caricatured characters into a frenzy over, among other repercussions, an absence of omelettes at the breakfast buffet.

Another added improv innovation brings a pre-selected audience member up on stage as the evening's designated "Gaius Baltar," the show's most eccentric character, guided here, as on TV, by his imaginary friend in an evening gown, the sexy Cylon infiltrator Six.

There is also, at the evening's end, the revelation of yet another hidden Cylon – whose identity not even the actors onstage know in advance.
Even if none of this makes sense to you, it will in no way hinder your enjoyment of the evening. A good improviser can take on any subject unfazed (un-phasered? – sorry, wrong show), and somehow make it screamingly funny, armed with only their quick wits, some thrown-together costumes and a couple of generic chairs.

This particular improv group is among the best I've ever seen, many of them familiar faces from the Second City stage – or familiar in another sense, like Marcel St. Pierre, whose Colonel Saul Tigh characterization is so dead-on that the actual actor, Michael Hogan, can just go ahead and retire. Or sue. Or both.

Also familiar is local comedy fixture Lisa Merchant (March of Dames), who, quite by coincidence, also performed in those aforementioned Star Trek shows at Big City Improv way back when.

Incredibly, she has never been a genre fan. "(The) Star Trek (stage show) became this huge hit," Merchant recalls, doffing her BSG "President Laura Roslin" wig for an after-show chat. "But before that I really wasn't at all familiar with it.

"And now, here I am, back in space with another science-fiction show I knew absolutely nothing about that I really had to bone up on, and really quickly.

"But now I've seen, like, eight entire episodes. So I'm an official nerd."
Be that as it may, where the Star Trek show was all retro-scripted, Battleawesome Awesomestar is basically play-as-you-go. A much tougher challenge.

"This one is all improvisation," she says, "built around the concepts, all the patterns of the show, and, of course, all those great characters."

The through-line here is how well science-fiction tends to lend itself to satire – for example, some of early Saturday Night Live's most memorable moments were the Coneheads sketches and The Last Voyage of the Enterprise, with John Belushi, Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd as Kirk, Spock and Dr. McCoy.

"You know, I think it's because (science-fiction) tends to take itself so seriously," Merchant suggests. "They are just so earnest, and everything is so tragic, it just kind of lends itself to being made fun of. It's kind of like, the more serious you play it, the funnier it is.

"We don't really have to do a lot to bend it to get the laugh."

Neither will they have to exaggerate much for their next improv TV target, HBO's Rome.

"We're hoping," says Merchant's co-star, St. Pierre, "to get the whole audience to show up in togas."

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/Theatre/article/515008