Battlestar Galactica

Only the second episode featuring a ship-to-ship battle between a Battlestar and a Cylon Basestar. The previous episode being The Living Legend, part 2.

When talking about taking on the newly discovered Basestar, Sheba talks about how her father took on two - referring to events from "Living Legend" episodes.

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If the NASA transmissions Apollo picks up are happening live, then they are out of order. The image in scene 1 is of the LEM during its return from the lunar surface, yet we see the landing at the end of the episode. The transmissions were not supposed to be live. Gamma transmissions are still bouncing around our solar system from 30 years ago, the idea that they could go even further out and bounce for an indefinite period of time is an accepted theory in the scientific community

Goof: During the funeral service at the end of the episode, as Adama is giving the tribute, Kronus can be clearly seen breathing in his transparent casket though he's supposed to be dead.

Goof: The shuttle belonging to Commander Kronus is described as being a non-military version, differently equipped than are the Galactica shuttles. But an exterior shot shows the shuttle to be 'GAL 356' yet again, which is the most-often-used Galactica shuttle.

Kronus commanded the Battlestar Rycon earlier in his career and was apparently retired when the events of "Saga of a Star World" occured. Kronus came out of retirement at that point to take command of the Celestra.

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While on the mysterious white ship, Apollo asks John what he is. John replies that he is a "reflection of intelligence". In using this language, Glen A. Larson is drawing on Mormon theology yet again: the term "intelligence" is a more basic term in Mormonism for the soul.

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Goof: When Apollo asks Brenda her name, she responds, "Amnesia," meaning that she thinks the individual in whose place Apollo is had lost his memory. Apollo responds that it's a "pretty name," as if he'd never heard the term. Yet Fred Astaire's character in The Man with Nine Lives used the term, "amnesiac," referring to his earlier loss of memory, and Apollo understood.

Despite not appearing in the opening credits or guest stars, Sheba ( Anne Lockhart) does indeed appear in the episode.

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Goof: When Adama goes to interrogate the prisoner, the door begins to open before the guard uses the controls to open it.

"Greetings from Earth" was originally aired as a 2 hour TV movie.

Goof: When the decontamination chamber door is opened and the crew step into the ship, absolutely nothing happens. The doctor made it clear that the ship had zero atmosphere inside, which means it was a vacuum. When the door opened, air from the Galactica should have been sucked in to equalize the pressure, which would at the very least have tousled their hair or capes as it rushed around them.

Closing credits are shown in a different style than previous episodes in the series. The credits scroll from bottom to top as they roll which may suggest that the episode could have been intended as part of a movie at some point.

Highlights from Greetings from Earth (2) are shown prior to closing credits of episode.

Highlights from episode are shown prior to opening credits of episode.

Goof: Considering that Galactica is on a mission to locate planet Earth, there should have been some kind of protocol in place regarding the possibility of contact with extra-colonial humans. The faulty decision-making and infighting depicted here is, sadly, probably closer to reality.