#captain apollo

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Richard Hatch as Captain Apollo - Battlestar Galactica (1978)

#richard hatch #battlestar galactica #captain apollo #70s sci-fi #70s tv series #seventies #1978

[gameraboy2]

Lorne Greene and Richard Hatch stopping by for Thanksgiving dinner on The Love Boat (1977), "Thanksgiving Cruise"

#my gif #thanksgiving #the love boat #lorne greene #commander adama #richard hatch #captain apollo #battlestar galactica #thanksgiving cruise #vintage #television #vintage television #gif #gifs #gifset #1970s

[kadi219]

Chapter 57 is posted! Enjoy.

#fanfic #bsg #laura roslin #roslin x adama #roslin/adama #bill adama #Captain Apollo

[vancruejovi]

Quick Starbuck and Apollo sketches 🌟 (art by me)

#my art #lt starbuck #captain apollo #battlestar galactica 1978 #bsg 1978 #richard hatch #dirk benedict

[akysi]

Every so often I get a piece that is a struggle to finish, so I’ve had this one in the works for a while! It was more the colour balancing and layering on the strokes and gradients that took the most time, as I’ve had the clean lines for the rest done for about as long as the idea itself. I’m used to wrestling with colour, but oh boy did this one fight me this time! That said though, I’m happy with the result :)

After coming up with an idea for a rival to Captain Artemis, I felt like making a logo for him in the same way I did for her. So this is Captain Apollo, the sun to Artemis’s moon. I deliberately made his logo have some opposites to Artemis, but still keep the general structure to show their duality in some way. His character sheet is also in the works so stay tuned for that, but I hope you enjoy this for now ^_^ Available on my Redbubble! With BG: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/151521104 No BG + Glow: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/151521183 No Glow: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/151521282

#art #artists on tumblr #Akysi #Art by Akysi #Katie MacKenzie #Katie MacKenzie Art #logo #design #logo design #graphic design #Captain Apollo #Captain Artemis #Moth to the Flame #sun #archer

[nimuetheseawitch]

The deification of Captain Apollo

Throughout Battlestar Galactica, all of the major characters are placed on pedestals, they become symbols more than people, and it slowly strips their humanity away. But Apollo has possibly the earliest solidification into a godlike character (as opposed to a prophet), and it really starts to firm up in Bastille Day (S01E03).

Lee Adama is first introduced in the miniseries as a stereotypical cocky, over-privileged flyboy with major daddy issues. He is flawed and damaged and a prime candidate for our hero’s journey, but that is not his fate. The first person to make him a symbol is Laura Roslin, first by glorifying his position as their official escort, and then by branding him Captain Apollo. This is a shrewd move on her part to separate from his father, and when he corrects her that Apollo is only his call sign and it would be more accurate to refer to him as Captain Adama, she smiles and says Captain Apollo has a nice ring to it. It’s made very clear that she knows she’s trying to both claim him and turn him into a symbol of hope.

Lee continues his transformation into a symbol when he takes over the role of CAG and then is appointed as the military advisor to the President - both very powerful roles that place him on a pedestal. No matter that he’s the only pilot with the rank of Captain left, or that Roslin is using him for his insight into his father. And then he meets Tom Zarak.

Zarak is the one to point out Lee’s power as a symbol (as well as his fortune and privilege to be doing what he’s doing). He points out that Apollo is a pretty cocky call sign, and that it’s incredibly apt as the son of Zeus. Zarak’s casting of Commander Adama as Zeus, the moody and vengeful king of the gods, also says a lot about how he views the power structure of the fleet. But while Zarak is definitely poking at Lee’s unearned place of power and privilege, he also sees him as a symbol. Apollo is an excellent hostage for him, and he intends to make Commander Adama look like a bloody tyrant for killing the prisoners of the Astral Queen. Giving symbolic power to Apollo is a mixed bag for Zarak, since Apollo manages to take that and use it to come to a compromise solution that both Roslin and Adama seem to hate, but one that he can enforce by being a fairly public figure and standing on the side of the Colonial Charter.

It’s fascinating to see Lee Adama turn into Apollo, a figure with far more power and influence than a mere viper pilot. It continues to shape his story. Apollo is a god of truth and prophecy, the Sun and light. He’s the prophetic deity of the Delphic Oracle and wards off evil. We see Lee continue to to stand for truth, to protect the people, and to lead in his role as Apollo. Those times when he returns to his more deeply human characterization are also the times he sheds the mantle of his call sign, but he’s still forging ahead with the promotion of those ideals. No matter how human and flawed and broken he may feel, he is deeply entrenched in the symbolism of Apollo, and he takes on a larger than life role from the very beginning.

#bsg #lee adama #captain apollo #his flaws and messy bullshit fit right into the greek pantheon of messy bitches too #battlestar galactica #bsg meta #i kinda want to do this for every character who gets deified/mythologized in the show #but that's also most of them so we'll have to see

[facedock]

okay what thirsty hoe designed these ridiculous outfits i just wanna talk

#gender equality <333333333 #someone behind the scenes of this series said men should be sluttier in sports #and they were RIGHT #but girl WHAT are these outfits oh my god #battlestar galactica #battlestar galactica 1978 #starbuck #lt starbuck #dirk benedict #richard hatch #captain apollo #apollo

[sharpestasp]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Battlestar Galactica (1978) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Captain Apollo/Starbuck [Battlestar Galactica] Characters: Captain Apollo, Starbuck [Battlestar Galactica] Additional Tags: Drabble, POV First Person, Character Study Summary:

Apollo reflects on Starbuck

#filly formed #bsg'78 #captain apollo #starbuck #queuety

[atwas-meme-ing]

Man, I haven't watched the Classic Battlestar Galactica in years, and I'm thinking maybe I need to. I was obsessed with the show in my teens (and having crushes on both Starbuck and Apollo certainly helped with that XD), but lately I've been remembering a lot of scenes and lines and realizing that Apollo was a Really Great Guy. May end up doing some character analyses, I dunno yet.

#battlestar galactica #captain apollo #did not honestly expect to get a gif of richard hatch by typing in 'captain apollo' #expected that if i did it would be the new bg #was pleasantly surprised #classic battlestar galactica

[coreyndanian]

My BSG rewrite is returning

Good news to any who care :) Or are just interested in Battlestar Galactica content in general. Now, a few years ago, I made a post telling everyone interested about my own version of Battlestar Galactica I've been working on for ages. I decided to reluctantly abandon it because I felt it wasn't working. But I kept the notes and then began a massive blitzkrieg as it were to rebuild it from scratch.

The first was of course, what am I doing?

Well, it required a few re-watches of both the classic and the re-imagined series. Then it was expanding in my head who the characters were and what I am doing. Then developing the world in general, the story before, the story during, the story after. Then came the locations, the technologies, the cultures and the main characters. And my notes expanded. I realised I didn't want to do an analog to the real world, given recent events, so I decided to find a different direction. This is a story based on Glen A. Larson, Richard D. Moore and David Eick's own works but finding a new way to tell it. Some of the beats are the same as the re-imagined series (heck, two-thirds of the ships in the fleet along with Viper Mark II's, Raptors and Shuttles are of the RDM versions while my Galactica is a close resemblance externally but internally, well, I had to change it), but the story has its own direction to follow. As to the characters, well, I think Tigh, Apollo, Starbuck and Number Six (Baltar's gets a real name) will resemble them somewhat in terms of some backstory but they are off in another direction entirely.

The main cast and supporting are split even: Main: Commander Adama The new President Apollo Starbuck Baltar Number Six Shadow -- new character

Supporting: Colonel Tigh The female deck chief Boomer The President's assistant The non-comm comm officer The Tactical Officer Serina

Yes, Serina and Boxey are coming back. And Serina is a supporting character throughout Season 1 with an arc that is almost simultaneous to Apollo which will culminate in tragedy on a certain world. She'll be introduced as a young up-coming reporter and single mother in the Pilot. In Episode 4, she decides to sign up for the Colonial Fleet as they are in need of ECOs as well as pilots which as she studying electronic signals in University as a minor to her journalism degree. In Episode 10, almost a month later, she's Boomer's replacement ECO.

Another surprise return was the Imperious Leader. I felt that the Humanoid Cylons bickering amongst each other in the re-imagined, while sometimes amusing, didn't have any sign of being a resemblance of leadership. So returns the original ruler of the Cylons, a mysterious robotic entity who's form we insinuate resembles the original form but will not see for quite some time. He'll only appear in the pilot twice and then at the conclusion of Season 1 Episode 13 "Kobol, Part II" but really we have his shadow looming and his voice as he speaks to the Number Six character before the attacks in the Pilot and at the end of E13 and the Number Five character at the end of the Pilot. "Speak, Number Six," indeed. Also, "By Your Command" is to be a common feature spoken by any of the Humanoid Cylon Models when in the presence of their leader.

Also, Boomer and Tigh are back to their original interpretations by Herb Jefferson, Jr., and Terry Carter since it fits to me in some form. This Boomer is also not a Cylon (nor is Tigh as the Final Five don't exist) and he is engaged in an indiscreet relationship with the female deck chief that causes issues until Season 1 Episode 6 "Inquiry" when they both suspect the other of being a Cylon. Though (spoiler) they aren't, the real Cylon agent on Galactica that causes messes will be revealed in a special I plan for in the future between seasons. In reality, only one Cylon is a main cast member: Number Six.

This Number Six character is intriguing. The one who manipulates and falls in love with Baltar, her name is Natasha, is a smart seductive woman but also displays emotions of regret as her time on Caprica clouds her somewhat. She'll only appear in the first third of the Pilot, seemingly dying trying to make sure Baltar will survive, and then at the conclusion of "Kobol, Part II" before appearing onward in Season 2 and beyond. But the main Six is who I dub "Illusion-Natasha". Think she's the angelic temperamental jealous creature we know and love/loath in RDM's BSG played by the wonderful Tricia Helfer, well, it's a bit more complicated. In Season 1 after she first appears seemingly out of nowhere, she'll help Baltar in creating the Cylon Detection Device (which will not end up disappearing like it did in the Re-imagined Series) and then in pointing out directly where to strike in my own version of the fuel ore asteroid in Episode 10 "The Flying Colours" and pushing him to become Vice President in Episode 11 "The Other Battlefield" but we get hints she is not what she seems, particularly in "Kobol, Part II" where she makes him hallucinate that human sacrifice occurred on Kobol, thus why it was abandoned two millennia ago (not true, it was for another reason). In Season 2, after Baltar is led to believe he has been pushed the side, turns him into an arrogant piece of trash willing to murder to take credit for things or cover up things and somehow not get detected whilst ignoring the right way of doing things, thus leading to my own New Caprica arc and how he ends up briefly with the Cylons when some of the Models will (spoiler) overthrow the Imperious Leader (which will cost them everything). This "Illusion-Natasha" will be responsible for this. She isn't an angel but more like Count Iblis. Heck, I look forward to, when I get round to it, doing that Season 4 episode where, thanks to some potent exotic plants, allows Natasha and Shadow (who is involved in Baltar's arc a couple of times in S1 and S2 whilst going on his own journey) to see what "Illusion-Natasha" really is: a demon manipulating a human down the path to bloodshed. The price to settle New Caprica is blood, both human and Cylon.

"Human, Cylon, we're all just pawns in a game played by higher beings." -- Shadow (Season 4)

Another thing that'll change and be somewhat toned down is the religious and higher powers thing, particularly with the strange direction RDM took it (and was mocked by George R.R. Martin for). But in amongst this are some changes. Adama in this series I see more as a spiritualist character and someone who believes in a higher power but doesn't conform to any organised religion, most of the other characters either reject it entirely or pay lip-service as you do, the President goes from lip-service to full spiritualist at her journey's arc as she ends up becoming an Oracle of sorts. No, not by drugs for cancer treatment, though she has a heart condition that requires certain medications that will run out by Season 4 and the one alternative she tries in Season 1 and early Season 2 actually triggers her first set of visions whilst sparing her from the withdrawals of a dangerous exotic plant thought extinct for a reason -- it caused some soldiers to massacre a village without remorse or morals about sixty years before the series begins (about a decade before the Colonies finally unified into a single entity) -- used by a Cylon agent to make her and Adama aggressive and almost tear the fleet apart. Her visions continue through the series without outside help long afterwards. Her assistant (a sort-of Billy character that survives and has a steady relationship with the sort-of Dualla character to the point of marriage and kids) will follow her along the path. Starbuck herself remains the quiet believer praying to the Olympian deities in private whilst being the smarty-pants and tough-as-nails pilot she is. Shadow, the new character, is an open devotee of a single deity. As to the Cylons, Natasha is effectively the only Six to really believe while the sort-of Leoben Models (one who gets interrogated and induced with truth-telling plants provided by Shadow since he's doing the questioning and not Starbuck -- she had her episodes in Season 1) remain the crazy devotees we know and loath. Not to worry, Baltar doesn't get a harem in this or becomes some messianic figure. Kudos to James Callis in his role but...it didn't suit Baltar.

Other things nailed down is the timeline to avoid too many retcons, character ages, Pilot Rosters (for Galactica, Pegasus and the third Battlestar survivor) and the Ships of the Fleet with their names, type, captains and complement. I hate when dialogue doesn't match props or special effects so I nailed them down immediately. Heck, if this was ever made, I would probably make sure the background material matches what needs to be seen on-screen. It needs to be tight, it needs to make sense, and no retconning is necessary (unless I want to change something on a whim).

The fleet itself will consist of ONLY 64 ships - of which 42 of them are known designs (and have been named) while the remaining 22 are my own designs. One thing I eliminated from the pilot is that for a trinary star system that the Twelve Colonies inhabit, the only sublight-only ships are really Vipers, orbital shipyard modules and space stations. Every other ship has Faster-than-light drives. It's essential to all space flight for the Colonies so it makes sense (something tells me this plot was dropped in RDM Season 1 considering the large number of sublight ships conveniently turn up in Galactica's fleet all fitted with FTL drives -- the most notable being the Botanical Cruiser, the so-called Bulbous Ship and the Alligator-headed Ship). It is only lamented by the President and Apollo that out of the 10,000+ registered civilian vessels across all Twelve Colonies, they could only find 63 civilian ships. (Spoiler) Pegasus itself will find 5 ships which they then scrap for parts and bring the 400 civilians aboard their Battlestar and, due to it being a time of war, conscript those between 17 and 64 into service with minimal objection (there are a few kids but luckily some of the elderly agree to watch over them) while the third Battlestar, Hyperion, will gather over 30 more. The tales of Pegasus and Hyperion will be interesting ones to write and tell.

Anyways, if I haven't bored you to death and left you intrigued by this, I shall endeavour to start posting (either here or elsewhere and I'll post a link to it). In between my other projects, this is one of the most complicated ones so that's why I take long breaks in between updates. So don't hold out for consistent timelines because it is taking time. I'm one man with a job, obligations, no real private life, inconsistent time managing to see friends and family and alot going on in my skull.

But I'll do my best.

Stay tuned.

#battlestar galactica #battlestar tos #battlestar rdm #original battlestar galactica #reimagined battlestar galactica #glen a larson #ronald d moore #david eick #fanfiction #my own AU #see previous postings on profile for original notes #adama #commander adama #apollo #captain apollo #starbuck #lieutenant starbuck #tigh #colonel tigh #baltar #gaius baltar #cylons #number six #boomer #lieutenant boomer #ranting #updates #personal project

[hi-intrepid-heroes]

someone protect my boy

#LOSING my mind #dimension 20 #d20 #originals #dimension 20 spoilers #d20 a court of fey and flowers #a court of fey and flowers spoilers #a court of fey and flowers #dimension 20 a court of fey and flowers #dimension 20 acofaf #d20 acofaf #acofaf #acofaf spoilers #d20 spoilers #kp hob #captain hob #delloso de la rue #brennan lee mulligan #aabria iyengar #prince apollo #squak airavis

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Battlestar Galactica - art by Matt Busch (1999)

#matt busch #battlestar galactica #70s tv series #70s sci-fi #sci-fi art #comic art #realm press #captain apollo #lieutenant starbuck #1978 #1990s #1999

[gameraboy2]

Commander Adama and Captain Apollo Battlestar Galactica (1978)

#commander adama #apollo #captain apollo #bsg #battlestar galactica #1978 #1970s #vintage #television #vintage television

[vancruejovi]

Captain Apollo ⭐️

#apollo #battlestar galactica 1978 #bsg 1978 #70s #richard hatch #Captain apollo

[akysi]

Happy October everybody! :D While I’ve had this character in the works for months and thus didn’t plan his colour palette to match the season, it sort of worked out that way anyway huh? Can’t go wrong with orange and black!

This is Captain Apollo, aka Eli, the sun to Captain Artemis’s moon. As such, he’s based on the golden sun moth, though I’ve since discovered that the Apollo butterfly is also a thing, so I’ll definitely make a character out of that one at some point too! Like Artemis, Apollo has a caterpillar companion of his own so stay tuned for that, but hope you like this for now :)

#art #artists on tumblr #Akysi #Art by Akysi #Katie MacKenzie #Katie MacKenzie Art #oc #original character #character #design #character design #Apollo #Captain Apollo #Helios #Eli #sun #archer #moth #golden sun moth #bug #insect #fire #Captain Artemis

[dc-marvel-crossovers]

DC/Marvel parallels + Ao3 tags, part 3:

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#marvel #dc #ao3 funny #funny ao3 tags #ao3 tags #Batman #iron man #captain america #damian wayne #wolverine #daredevil #dc constantine #apollo #captain marvel #dick grayson #the flash #sylvie