Galactica 1980 (TV Series)

The Return of Starbuck (1980)

Ellen Gerken: Girl

Quotes 

• [Amid attack by a huge armada of Cylon raiders, Boomer lands on the besieged Galactica and confronts Adama within the battlestar's interior command chamber] 

  Boomer : But sir, we can't just leave him there!

  Commander Adama : Boomer, don't you think I want to go back for him? You think I want to leave someone I love like a son, knowing we'll never see him again? Take a look out there!

  [Adama gestures to off-screen scan images of Cylon raiders slaughtering Fleet ships and vipers and the heroic resistance of the Galactica's vipers] 

  Commander Adama : We'll be lucky if we can save our Fleet!

  Boomer : You mean we can never go back?

  Commander Adama : That is correct! There is no going back! Our enemy pushes us on and on and on! And until we're strong enough or can find Earth and get help, we can never stop or turn away or look back!

  [Boomer turns away from Adama, choking back tears and seeing more scan images of the massacre of Colonial ships, before turning back to Adama] 

  Boomer : [his voice cracking with suppressed grief]  Thank you, sir. I appreciate your honesty.

  [Boomer leaves the command chamber as a female scan officer turns to Adama] 

  Scan Officer : First enemy wave has been taken back. They're running with our fighters in pursuit.

  Commander Adama : Order our fighters to break off and let them run! Fleet is to proceed ahead at flank speed!

  [Adama then turns away, his eyes shut in grief as the Fleet assembles to escape the quadrant] 

  Commander Adama : [to himself]  Goodbye, Starbuck. I love you. We all love you.