Are they still the good guys? The men had three-piece suits with pinstripes that look just like ours. It is a bowdlerized version of the real-life expletive "fuck", and can be used in the same ways: From Battlestar Wiki, the free, open content Battlestar Galactica encyclopedia and episode guide, https://en.battlestarwiki.org/index.php?title=Frak&oldid=226237. Wired.com: One thing I was still wondering is, what happened to Kara, when she died and came back? Di Justo: Yes. Together with the show's science advisor, NASA scientist Kevin Grazier, Di Justo jumps beyond the red line to delve into the science behind the story -- and discovers that some things lie beyond what science can reach. Then they show the robots we're doing right now. That's the only official mistake. This whole deal with mitochondrial Eve was a misunderstanding of terms, and it just made it on to the show. That sounds really cool, but when you start to look into it, we, the people on the planet Earth in 2010, we are not immune to lymphocytic encephalitis. Radiological alarm!" When these things wore out, probably within the lifetime of the first Colonial generation, they were going to be gone forever. That was very good from a dramatic point of view, but it did leave a lot of science unexplored and unexplained in the show. "Frak" is a potent profanity in the language of the Twelve Colonies. How can a humanoid robot plug directly into a spaceship? [ frak-that.com ] your BATTLESTAR GALATICA screencaps source, providing you with DVD screencaps from the tv and mini series. Wired.com: What are some other parallels and differences between Colonials, Cylons and Earth humans? But Baltar says in that last scene that mitochondrial Eve had a human father and Cylon mother. And the show never explains how that works, how that happens -- it just happens. Read a Wired.com exclusive excerpt from the new book by Patrick Di Justo and Kevin Grazier, *The Science of Battlestar Galactica.*. Frak or frack is a fictional version of "fuck" first used in the 1978 Battlestar Galactica television series. Although, the mitochondrial Eve section, they do admit to a misprint. "Frak" is a potent profanity in the language of the Twelve Colonies. What are these angel creatures? A ragtag bunch of people, barely able to hold their technological civilization together, it's not too much to expect that they would not be able to keep that level of technology for 150,000 years. It continues to be used throughout different versions of the Battlestar Galactica franchise as a profanity in science fiction. We do seem to be a link, somehow, between them. "You know what? That's really outside the realm of the science of Battlestar Galactica. DiJusto: Very basically, how could Cylons pass medical tests? She wasn't a Cylon, but was she a Colonial? The term, as a pejorative, can be used to curse someone you vilify or find disgusting: The term can be used in several variations and compound words: The term also is used as an adjective to describe an action or object that is subjectively considered outrageous, extreme, or ill-advised. All rights reserved. Battlestar Galactica Frak Me Juniors Black T-Shirt. It certainly seemed like she did, people had sex with her. To find out, Wired.com spoke with Patrick Di Justo, Wired magazine contributing editor and co-author of the new book, The Science of Battlestar Galactica. Wired.com: Is there anything that is still left as a mystery? The big difference was that they had developed practical interplanetary spaceflight. That is the first step to making our own Cylons. Until Dr. Grazier pointed out that a fiber-optic cable is also a silica pathway. Wired.com: Is that a comment on our civilization's addiction to technology? So we thought, hey, no one's really building up the science in the show, and it's there. Wired.com: It's interesting that the show was so careful with its science, but only up to a point. People were seeing terrorists under every bridge, it seemed. frak-that.com is © banshee & Nadia. Its subversive value, exploited far more extensively in the Re-imagined Series, is that it sounds like a variant of "fuck", and in the latter series it actually conveys that meaning.