Battlestar Galactica: The Plan

Battlestar Galactica: The Plan

Battlestar Galactica: The Plan

Battlestar Galactica: The Plan

Commander William Adama

Samuel Anders

Lt. Sharon 'Boomer' Valerii

Colonel Saul Tigh

Chief Galen Tyrol

Leoben Conoy

Ellen Tigh

Simon

Giana O'Neill

Aaron Doral

Jean Barolay

Hybrid

Specialist Socinus

Nowart

Hillard

Coach

Wheeler

Sue Shaun

Kai

Marine

Boy

Jemmy

Rally

Lt. Margaret 'Racetrack' Edmondson

Cally Henderson

Felix Gaeta

D'Anna Biers

Anastasia Dualla

Karl Agathon

Kara Thrace

The planet behind the Universal Studios logo in the beginning of the film is not Earth but instead the planet Caprica.

Director Edward James Olmos stated in the DVD commentary that he made several homages to The Boy with Green Hair (1948), which starred a then twelve year old Dean Stockwell. Stockwell portrayed Peter Fry, a war orphan whose hair inexplicably turned green when he discovered that his parents had been killed during the Second World War. One example was when Cavil asked the boy John "Are you a war orphan?" This question was asked of Peter Fry several times in The Boy with Green Hair (1948). Olmos also used a still shot picture of Peter Fry from the movie when casting for the character of John the Boy, because he wanted the actor to bear a strong resemblance to how Stockwell looked in his adolescence. Alex Ferris resemblance to Stockwell's picture helped get him cast. At one point, Olmos wanted John the Boy's hair color to be green like Peter Fry's character, but was ultimately overruled by the producers.

Close up shots of the rubble on Picon are actually the remains of the Battlestar's hanger bay set shortly after the set was struck and bulldozed.

Ellen Tigh: Oh, now, now, don't tense up, Mysterious. I'm just saying there's no point in judging anybody. No one changes who they really are.

Brother Cavil: [finds a young boy in his makeshift chapel] Are you a war orphan?

Ellen Tigh: If you let someone change you or make you apologize, then your selling yourself out, you know.