No Takebacks

Believe it or not, it took me a while to understand that "pilots" was the fandom term for "Kara/Lee" in stories and comments. In most of my other fandoms ships are named by smushing characters' names together ("Spuffy") or just pairing them up ("Snape/Lily"). I haven't come across a commonly acknowledged nickname like "pilots" since Buffy's "Scooby Gang." It's fun, I like it.

From:

They were always pilots in my head, so I had no trouble adjusting to that here. And anyway, I don't think Kee or Lara really work or them. :)

Edited Date: 2010-06-15 01:23 pm (UTC)

From:

callmeonetrack.livejournal.com

Very very occasionally I've seen them called Starpollo, but pilots is more common or even (for a while there around S4) Piloticians!

From:

Of the two, I prefer Piloticians. Sounds classy! *g*

From:

Oh, and there are tons of military terms and acronyms from the show itself that I'm still in the process of figuring out. For example:

*CAG - I'm pretty sure this is "Commander of the Air Group"
*CAP - "Combat Air Patrol"
*sitrep - report on your situation
*CIC - I'm sure one of those Cs is for Command and the other is probably for Center, and maybe the I is for Information?
*DRADIS - no clue, but I assume it's an acronym, like radar
*Wilco - again, no clue, though it seems to mean "affirmative" or something like that
*RFN - "right frakking now"
*"el tee" - it took me an embarassingly long time to realize that this is just saying the letters "Lt." and means "Lieutenant."
*snipes - engineering workers (thank you commentary track!)
*"You have the con/com" - I can't tell if they are saying "con" or "com" ~ but obviously it means "you're in command," so "com" would make sense there, or if it's "con" then it's probably short for "control center" or whatever it is that CIC stands for

Ah, Battlestar Galactica, you teach me a lingo I would never otherwise have known.

Also, because I knew nothing about the military it took me a while figure out how the ranks were ordered on BSG, and it seems to be:

Admiral
Commander
Colonel
Major
Captain
Lieutenant
Sergeant
Non-Commissioned Officers
(I think sergeants and NCOs are on a different career track than all the officers from Lieutenants on up, but I could be wrong about that).

Because the top rank is Admiral it seems like they are following Navy ranks rather than Air Force or Army ones (wouldn't you get Generals in that case?), but I don't think they do so consistently ~ they seem to mix things up between services. And again, I know nothing about the services, so I could be way off.

From:

thrace-adama.livejournal.com

Yes, Starpollo! I think that was one of the earlier terms, until Rawles' "pilots" caught on--thank the LoK!

Which reminds me! LoK is another abbreviation we used a lot on skiffy (the nickname of the SciFi site and fan forums and maybe even the network) for Lords of Kobol.

From:

thrace-adama.livejournal.com

Wilco = will comply. :)

From:

Thank you, that had been bugging me! Good to know :)

From:

Oh, for the love of God... Skiffy is Scifi. I just assumed there was a website named SKIFFY. LOL

From:

thrace-adama.livejournal.com

LOL, nope!

From:

I've always been a military TV/movie buff (Dad was a stateside Marine during Vietnam and we watched everything Vietnam that came out), so my military lingo was pretty solid. I'm pretty sure they're saying "You have the con," since the same was used on Star Trek. And everything else I ever needed to know, I learned from Star Trek. :)

From:

stripes13.livejournal.com

With the exception of Admiral and Commander, the officer's ranks are consistent with the US Army/Marine Corps. BattlestarWiki has a rundown (with insignia) of the Colonial Military including both officers and enlisted rank order.

And DRADIS is Direction Range and Distance (I think)

From:

So now we see why I wanted to do this topic! Sometimes, I think I know what something is/means and I don't look it up.

From:

Yup, DRADIS is Direction, Range, and Distance according to BattlestarWiki (http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/DRADIS)

From:

Me too!:)

From:

CIC = Combat Information Center.

From:

*cue soundtrack* The more you know.*

*Trademark NBC.

8'P

From:

Thank you! I should clearly check out BattlestarWiki, but it's nice to have those more knowledgeable sum up the confusing bits for me. I appreciate it!

From:

Thank you! I would not have guessed right on that.

From:

Cool!

And I'm hip to the Star Trek lingo, though in my case it has less to do with military terms and more to do with knowing that there is no Vulcan Death Grip :)

But since it turns out that CIC means "Combat Information Center," what is this "con" that they are having?

From:

I always assumed controls, which is what the internet seems to agree on, at least for Star Trek. Naval folks have said it means being in charge of the movement of the ship, which seems about right for all my fandoms.

From:

LOL!:D

From:

I still forget it sometimes! I think they only said that whole thing once in the entire series.

From:

stripes13.livejournal.com

BattlestarWiki is such a huge time suck I've spent days clicking around there.

From: