Starboard Pod

[ShadowEnigma]

I apologize if there is a thread about it; I did a search and found nothing. Whatever happened to the Starboard Pod on Galactica? I know it was a museum to begin with, and it wasn't working. I swear I remembered them saying something about using the Starboard Pod in one episode for a landing in Season 2 or 3? (I think Lee said something).

I also know there are people in the pod, but if it's working, wouldn't they have kicked them out to use the pod?

[Catrope]

I believe this is addressed in the Flight pod article on Battlestar Wiki. You're probably referring to "A Measure of Salvation" (Season 3), in which the Raptors with the sick Cylons arrive in the starboard pod.

[james968]

I remember reading on the SciFi web site (the article was written from the perspective of the Colonials), they were working on getting it working again.

Though now that there are so many refugees (and no place else to put them), it may be that they can't use it anymore.

[ShadowEnigma]

I believe this is addressed in the Flight pod article on Battlestar Wiki. You're probably referring to "A Measure of Salvation" (Season 3), in which the Raptors with the sick Cylons arrive in the starboard pod.

Ah you are right. I was looking in Galactica's article. Thank you. I still find it interesting they used the Starboard that one time though.

I remember reading on the SciFi web site (the article was written from the perspective of the Colonials), they were working on getting it working again.

Though now that there are so many refugees (and no place else to put them), it may be that they can't use it anymore.

That's what I thought too. I thought they were trying to get it back to an operational state. With all of the refugees that they have, they never be able to use it. :( It'd be cool to see both pods launching at the same time. Get Galactica back up to the power she should be at.

[JDS]

There must be a better place to put the refugees...hell, if I were in command, I'd airlock 'em sooner than let 'em keep my starboard launch pod out of operation.

[ShadowEnigma]

There must be a better place to put the refugees...hell, if I were in command, I'd airlock 'em sooner than let 'em keep my starboard launch pod out of operation.

And this is why you're not in command :p

But yeah, I wonder why they don't move them to someplace else so they can use that pod. It would make tactical sense.

[buerger23]

They had a leak in that pod for a while didn't they? And I thought during the episode 'Woman King' doesn't the Chief say that the refugee's are backing up his Viper and Rptor repairs (or something along those lines). Then wouldn't that mean they are using the Starboard Flight Pod as essentially a repair shop.

The Heavy Raider that brought Centurions aboard didn't that crash thruogh the outer hull and into the Starboard Pod as well?

[JDS]

No that crashed through the big stupid glass window.

[buerger23]

Are you sure? Usually I won't contradict but I'm pretty sure it landed in the Starboard Pod or at the very least in the Port Pod? Because wasn't that a Viper that crashed through the Glass in the front of the ship. To me that even seems more useless than having a window in an airlock door. What's the point of having a 'viewing' port there wouldn't they have one like in the bottom of the ship where it is more protected?

[JDS]

"the big stupid glass window" is the huge expanse of glass enclosing the end of the starboard flight pod, thus allowing it to be pressurized for use as a gift shop.

[buerger23]

Oh! I thought you meant that viewing port at the front of the ship where that Viper or Raptor crashed into.

[JDS]

When did it crash into the viewing port? I remember a very close call, but never anything actually impacting the window.

[Xenon242]

Yeah, that viewport incident was just a close call; Raider came in for a suicide pass, but got greased at the last second.

[Sparrow]

The stupid glass windows are the windows that covers the entrance and exists to the starboard landing pad..

And i still cant understood why they dont remove them yet..
the pod within may be unussable but the could use the landing pad for emergencyes.. for example now they have to recover more than 40 Vipers.. up to 100 maybe.. if they get ambushed again like the Ionic Nebula and have to launch every bird and then getaway in the last moment.. it would be a mess to recover 100 Vipers in one pod..

Also funny is how poor Galactica has holes in virtually every square meter and the stupid window is there intact in all its glory

[JDS]

Maybe the Cylons just don't bother targetting the useless flight pod?

Maybe one of the point-defense gunners should just fire off a flak shell just a little tiny bit too close to the glass, then be like "OOPS, just sucked all the Saggitarons out into space...oh well, might as well use the empty space for Vipers, now!" :lol:

[ShadowEnigma]

Once again, why you aren't in command :p

[Sparrow]

Maybe the Cylons just don't bother targetting the useless flight pod?

Maybe one of the point-defense gunners should just fire off a flak shell just a little tiny bit too close to the glass, then be like "OOPS, just sucked all the Saggitarons out into space...oh well, might as well use the empty space for Vipers, now!" :lol:

unfortunately they are in the hangar bay bellow.. not in the landing pad..

I wonder what happened with the old Cylon raider, the Landram and the Viper mk.1 that were stored there

I would love the colonial one or one of the Geminon Traveller type ships flying into the glass by mistake..

Also its fun how they did nothing to that flight pod even during the entire year Galactica spent orbiting New Caprica along with Pegasus and other ships..
they could had used the time to do refits

[ShadowEnigma]

Nobody wanted to do repairs. Baltar had people on the planet trying to start their lives over again. Galactica and Pegasus were falling apart.