Battlestar Galactica (TV Series)

The Young Lords (1978)

Dirk Benedict: Lieutenant Starbuck

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• [after crashing on a Cylon held swamp planet, Starbuck has been captured by a Cylon patrol] 

  Cylon Centurion : These humanoids are not well constructed. They damage easily.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : At least we don't rust!

  Cylon Centurion : Silence.

• Lieutenant Starbuck : [his beautiful nurse is also a teacher]  Well, I always wanted to meet a woman as long on brains as she was on beauty.

  Miri : [smiles]  You think I'm pretty?

  Ariadne : [playfully annoyed by sister's vanity]  Oh, Miri!

  Miri : Eat!

  [the children scamper back to theIr place in the hearth] 

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Miri, when you get back to the Galactica, you'll have every Viper pilot in the place battling it out over you. You'll drive 'em crazy!

  Miri : Back to the Galactica?

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Yes. Yes, you can't stay here when the rescue team from the fleet comes to pick me up. You'll come with us.

  Ariadne : All of us?

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Ah, of course all of you.

  Kyle : [interrupting]  We have a mission!

• Lieutenant Starbuck : Miri, when you get back to the Galactica, you'll have every Viper pilot in the place battling it out over you. You'll drive them crazy.

• Miri : Perhaps they won't...

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Kill me? Miri, you saw what the Cylons did to the people here.

  Miri : They haven't executed father...

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Cause you've been a laser in their side.

• Lieutenant Starbuck : Do you really expect the Cylons to go through with this trade?

  Kyle : I certainly do. I planned it rather well.

• Lieutenant Starbuck : Ah yes, Miri. You could've broken half the hearts on the Galactica... including mine.

  [kisses Miri] 

  Lieutenant Boomer : I, um... I don't know how he does it.

  Captain Apollo : Neither do I. Starbuck, we have to go... Starbuck!

• Lieutenant Starbuck : A Viper pilot only flies three fighters--the one he trains in, the one he escapes from, and the one he dies in.

• Lieutenant Starbuck : [she brings him food]  Oh, that smells good. I didn't realize I was so hungry.

  [looks up at her] 

  Lieutenant Starbuck : You're also their teacher?

  Miri : It's very important to keep their education going.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : I always wanted to meet a woman as long on brains as she was on beauty.

  Miri : [smiles graciously]  You think I'm pretty?

  Ariadne : Oh, Miri...

  Miri : [shouting over her shoulder at the children]  Eat!

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Miri, when you get back to the Galactica, you'll have every Viper pilot in the place battling it out over you. You'll drive them crazy.

  Miri : [doesn't understand]  Back to the Galactica?

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Yes. You can't stay here. When the rescue team from the fleet comes to pick me up, you'll come with us.

• Kyle : Well, you're looking fit, Lieutenant.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Whatever Miri put on my leg, it's working. Thanks, Miri.

• Miri : [tending him]  Please... please, try... try not to move. You have been hurt.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : [remembering through the pain]  There were others...

  Miri : My brothers and sister.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : And the Cylons.

  Miri : Don't worry. We can handle them. Kyle is very, very smart.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Kyle?

  Miri : My brother. He's our leader.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Leader? But he's only a boy, and the others were just... children.

  Kyle : [entering]  We are not children. We are warriors. Miri, prepare some food. The others will soon return from patrol.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Patrol? Those boys and that little girl... out there with Cylons crawling around? You realize what can happen?

• Miri : [guiltily, as she tends the hostage]  You need not worry about an infection. It looks much better.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : [sighs]  Terrific. I can walk to my execution.

  Miri : Oh, please don't, Starbuck. Perhaps they won't...

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Kill me? Miri, you saw what the Cylons did to the people here.

  Miri : [struggling with emotions]  They haven't executed father.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : 'Cause you have been a laser in their side. They're probably trying to find your location through him. Or wait for just what happened - a trade.

  Miri : We will continue to attack them. Perhaps we can get you back too.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : How? Trade another human for me? Huh? No thanks, Miri. I couldn't live with that.

• Miri : [reaching up to kiss him, a peck on the cheek]  I... I think what you're doing is wonderful. And I just wanted to thank you.

  Lieutenant Starbuck : Well, we don't have your father yet, but, uh... you're welcome.

  [returns the kiss, a peck on the cheek]