he information in the Battlestar Galactica glossary is almost entirely taken from the episodes or the scripts themselves. Information in various official publications about BG, including the novelizations, the BG Poster Magazine, the BG Scrapbook and the Encyclopedia Galactica, is often contradictory of the episodes. I also have not included information from unshot scripts (unless noted) or, God help us, Galactica 1980. Spellings have been deduced from pronunciation or, in other cases, adopted from the novelizations which, although sometimes not accurate, were written from the scripts and so presumably use their spellings.
When a piece of information is taken directly from a specific episode, that episode is identified by an abbreviation in parentheses. The episode abbreviations are as follows: