Didn't see this in first airing. Nice catch! --Spencerian 17:07, 17 October 2006 (CDT)
- =P I always love it when we get to see new Cylon technology or facts--Sauron18 17:20, 17 October 2006 (CDT)
Speculation?
Is there any confirmation that the Cylon data port operates on a similar mechanic to what Sharon did in Flight of the Phoenix? It seems like a reasonable assumption, but it seems fairly speculatory to me. -- Alpha5099 11:16, 26 October 2006 (CDT)
- Logical deduction. See Great Cylon Turkey Shoot. Agathon's cells are light-sensitive in her arm. She uses an optic cable in "Flight of the Phoenix" and touches a table of lights that illuminate the same arm (and spot where the cable met in her arm in the past) in "Exodus, Part II." She can't have a mechanical device there; it would be a tip-off for Colonials to easily find agents. Further, she uses the same arm. Unlike other shows that talk their technology to death, it is highly unlikely somebody will explain the process (unless Baltar finds a way to have sex with it), but it is likely we will see the use of it this season with all the reported Cylon story arcs. --Spencerian 15:41, 26 October 2006 (CDT)
Water
There's some stuff in Podcast:Torn in act 2 about Cylon control interfaces:
"This is the control room in the Cylon world. You'll see that we're- there was a lot of discussion in terms of, "How do the Cylons control their ship?" I knew that one thing I didn't want to do was I didn't want the classic consoles and monitors and buttons, because that's what we do on our ships and how boring is it going to be if they do the same thing. After all, they are robots and you would think that they would have some heightened way of dealing with one another. I felt, on some level, the Cylons didn't just plug in. They didn't just stick fingers into sockets to interact with their environment. I mean, they have chosen to emulate the human form. They have- there's been a deliberate evolutionary choice that part of the Cylons to emulate mankind. And that means that they talk to one another. They don't wirelessly send messages to one another. So there's a value in their culture to the idea of speech. There's a value to how they communicate and interact with their environment. They wear clothes. They act- they ape the human form in many, many ways 'cause they decided it 'cause that's the way God wanted it. So even on their baseship they would not just be plugging in, but if felt like there had to be some more heightened way of them dealing with their environment and controlling their environment than just pushing buttons and reading things off of monitors. So we came up with this idea that there was- that water is a theme. You'll see that- the Hybrid is in a wa- is in a tank. There's little droplets of water falling down from the ceiling in these wires and there's a big "Y"-shaped table in the middle of the control room that has a thin pool of water on it and lights and controls- blinking things underneath it that make you feel like it's controlling stuff. And the Cylons put their hands into what they call the datastream. And that's essentially how they communicate and control and interact with their environment. But they still talk to one another."
I almost linked "datastream" to this, but I'm not sure about that.--Steelviper 09:03, 9 November 2006 (CST)
- Sharon also used that word in "Exodus II", but I gathered she was talking about the actual information stream rather than the literal port. Maybe we should make a page with "Datastream" and include the data port as well as the ones in the Basestar. --Sauron18 15:57, 9 November 2006 (CST)
- There is now an article on the datastream. Now that Cylon computer systems are getting fleshed out, I'm getting stronger articles and subarticles updated. --Spencerian 13:14, 16 November 2006 (CST)
"Data-font"
In a SFC Q&A thread (that was brought up by ThPrime at Battlestar Forum), Ron Moore refers to these as "data-fonts". Now that we have an official name for these things, I suggest we move this article to "data-font". -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus 01:56, 12 April 2008 (UTC)