Transfer Orders

After being discovered by Pegasus in Season 2’s “Pegasus“, members of the Fleet and Galactica are initially joyed to see another battlestar survive the attack on the Colonies. That is until Admiral Helena Cain makes many decisions that include ignoring the civilian fleet to having officers transferred between the surviving battlestars. After reviewing Commander William Adama’s logs, Cain decides that having Lee Adama as CAG and Kara Thrace as a pilot on Galactica is a mistake.

When presented with the transfer orders in Commander Adama’s office, Kara Thrace and Lee Adama react unfavorably to the orders, but ultimately follow them. The orders themselves are never seen on screen as they are being held in their hands, until now.

 

Cally’s deckhand helmet

Deckhands on Galactica, and any other battlestar worth its weight in salt, will typically wear helmets with their deckhand outfits. Each jumpsuit has its own accompanying helmet. These helmets come with goggles (which are Oakleys), earmuffs (which are actually JVC headsets, obviously modifed aesthetically), and the panelling/sections.

We’ll focus on Cally, since she’s dead. As seen in the picture below, she’s wearing a helmet (along with Prosna and Chief Tyrol) when repairing Starbuck’s Viper.

Adama’s reinstatement letter

In the flashback scenes from “Scattered” that show Saul Tigh and William Adama’s lives 20 years in the past, Tigh recalls Adama’s reinstatement in the Colonial Fleet. Onboard the tramp freighter they both serve on, Tigh reads a letter that Adama received from the Colonial Fleet about his reinstatement, thanks to Carolanne’s father’s friend in the defense sub-committee. That letter, in all its glory, is below.

Munitions Key

In the Miniseries, a scene that is later deleted has Commander Adama destroying Galactica’s munitions as part of the decommissioning ceremony. When shot, Adama uses the munitions key in the Weapons Room (off the CIC) to remotely detonate the munitions.

However, it would not be until Season 3’s “The Eye of Jupiter” until this prop sees the light of day, as Adama opens the munitions key storage box and removes the key before arming the nuclear weapons, themselves aimed at the algae planet.

Here are the contents that are inside that box. Note that while the munitions key and the FTL key look similar, the FTL key is one piece without any glowing lights. And no, when you go to bid on the prop, just remember that it won’t arm any nukes. Sorry.

Colonial Raptor flight manual

Here’s a pretty cool prop that you’ve never seen on screen, or at least up close—or in whole. It’s a Colonial Raptor flight manual that was created in the Miniseries. Below is a photo of the cover for the small handbook.

And for the more astute fan, you’ll note that after the attack in the Miniseries, Boomer asks Helo to tear pages from her flight manual. This is the untorn version, obviously.

Prescription Pads

In the Season 3 episode, “The Woman King“, Doctor Michael Robert is introduced a civilian doctor who—as it turns out later—murders Sagittarons due to his hatred of them. As a then-practicing doctor in Dogsville, he has access to the medicine dispensary, and as such can write out prescriptions. Pictured below is a never-before-seen prescription pad carried by Doctor Robert.

Dualla’s knife

In Season 2’s “Flight of the Phoenix“, the future Sharon Agathon—then known as “Caprica-Boomer” or “Caprica-Sharon”—saves the Fleet from certain destruction after a Cylon virus enters Galactica’s systems. (The virus itself infects the ship in “Scattered“, when Colonel Saul Tigh essentially loses the Fleet and is forced to network Galactica’s systems in order to recompute the coordinates that the Fleet had jumped to, while simultaneously attempt to survive an entanglement with a Cylon basestar in orbit around Kobol.)

In order to save the ship, Sharon cuts a fiber optic connection to the ship and then cuts an opening in the palm of her hand, so as to access Galactica’s systems, hoping to contain the virus while Dr. Gaius Baltar and Junior Lieutenant Felix Gaeta simultaneously wipe the ship’s hard drives. In order to cut open her hand, Sharon asks Dualla for the knife that Dualla received from her father. Despite the argument that Dualla had with her father before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies (as she herself reveals in her interview to D’Anna Biers in “Final Cut“, Dualla carries this knife with her, which she gives to Sharon at Commander Adama’s behest.

Medal of Valor

Season 3 is the season of medals. For astute viewers who have watched the episode, “Maelstrom“, they will have noticed that there’s a medal hanging in Socrata Thrace’s apartment. This is most prominent during the flashback scene where Kara visits her mother six years.

Here is a close up of that medal.

CIC – During the Strike

As I promised, here are the photos that I’ve taken two of the days that they’ve been striking the CIC set. As you can see, most of the set pieces that are going into the auction from this set were removed, with exception of the navigation plot (at least on the first day they were dismantling the set).

CIC: Before the Strike

Yes, it’s true. CIC has been struck. Fortunately, our premier photographer, Josef Philipp, took great pictures of the CIC before it was struck. Many of the consoles featured here, such as the helms, the tables, and even Gaeta’s and Dee’s stations, will be available for the future auction (and will be featured as blog posts in the future).

Tomorrow, we will show you some behind-the-scenes photos from the strike. Stay tuned.

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