Six’s First Miniseries Costume

The first costume that Number Six is seen wearing in the series is a two-piece, custom made red velvet jacket and skirt with orange iridescence.

This costume is first seen at the beginning of the Miniseries as worn by the Six who boards the Armistice Station, much to the Armistice Officer’s astonishment. It is in this costume that the Six asks him if he is alive and then proceeds to kiss him as a Cylon basestar above the station launches missiles at it.

It is worn later by Sixes that board Ragnar Anchorage to retrieve Aaron Doral, who Gaius Baltar—by mere chance—outed as a Cylon.

Tom Zarek’s Prison Jumpsuit

In Season 1’s “Bastille Day” we learn that an infamous Sagittaron terrorist—or, as Billy Keikeya portends, a freedom fighter—survives the attack on the Colonies aboard Astral Queen. This character, portrayed by Richard Hatch (Captain Apollo from the 1978 Battlestar Galactica), is introduced in this episode as a so-called prisoner of conscience who the Fleet has to contend with in that episode and in future episodes as a recurring character.

In his first apperance, Zarek is seen in a red prison jumpsuit with his assigned prisoner identification number, “893893″, which is the only time that Zarek wears this costume.

This costume is a simple two piece costume, consisting of a black t-shirt that’s worn underneath and a red one-piece jumpsuit, and will be auctioned off in our first auction.

Colonial One Captain pin

As seen in the Miniseries, the captain of Colonial One—then called Colonial Heavy 798—wears a pin on his uniform. The pin looks similar to the senior flight wings worn by Commander Adama and Colonel Tigh.

In fact, if you were to say that the pin is just a modified version of the senior flight pin, you would be right. In fact, it is made out of two different pins: the pin for a Master Chief Petty Officer (the green one) affixed to the top of the flight wings. The other noticeable difference with these flight wings are that the wings have two black lines over each wing.

Blue Duty Uniform from “Razor Flashbacks”

During the “Razor Flashbacks” depicting the events of the Cylon War over 40 years before, you will see—for brief instances in the background—of uniformed crew members who are wearing blue uniforms that look quite similar to something you’d see from the 1978 Battlestar Galactica. Of course, despite the fact that “Razor” is on DVD, there have not been very good shots of this BDU.

Until now.

This BDU is basically a sleeveless shirt thrown over your regular uniform jacket. The silver stripe design around the neck and cuffs, as well as the general look of the vest are nods to Jean-Pierre Dorléac’s design for the blue command uniforms from the 1978 series. The 1978 blue uniforms were worn by characters like Commander Adama (Lorne Greene) and Colonel Tigh (Terry Carter).

The Adama from the 1978 series wearing the blue uniform.

The uniform’s tunic. The vest is an overlay from the standard BDU jacket used in the “contemporary” events of the series.

The collar embroidery used in the 1978 series. Picture above is of Colonel Tigh from the old BSG. Note the lack of inebriation, the presence of hair, and the lack of an eyepatch.

The neck of the sleeveless shirt.

The general cuff design from the 1978 series blue uniform.

The cuff design.

Cylon War-era Flight Suit

As seen in “Razor“, the First Cylon War-era flight suit is the predecessor to the flight suits in use during the “present” events of the show. Taking visual cues from the Original Series uniforms, namely with the necklines and segmented pattern, this suit has noteworthy visual differences between its “successor”.

Alec was able to snap a few shots of this flight suit today. Here are those photos.

Athena’s flight suit

On Thursday, Alec took a few minutes to run to the costume department. There, he spoke to Katherine, one of the super stars of the costuming department, who took the time to pull out Sharon “Athena” Agathon’s flight suit so that he could photograph it. He posted pics of it for reference at the awesome Colonial Fleet website, which I am reposting here as well.

Here are some of those pictures.

Gaius Baltar’s robes

In his alleged post-trial reformation as a spiritual leader, spurred by the “nymph squad” that saves him after the end of his controversial trial in “Crossroads, Part II“, Gaius Baltar begins to wear robes of a religious nature. While their origin is unknown, these robes first appear in the Season 4 episode “Escape Velocity“, and are featured in later episodes while with his followers.

Usually, Baltar wears these robes while preaching the belief that “everyone is perfect” and that the Lords of Kobol are false gods. These sermons are recorded and then transmitted over the Talk Wireless so as to reach other listeners, including terminal cancer patient Emily Kowalski, herself featured in the Season 4 episode, “Faith“.