Space Swap

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space_swap is in search of creators for four pinch hits, here (#2) and here (#4-6).

The fandoms are:
#2 Captain America, The Avengers, MCU, Star Trek: AOS, Guardians of the Galaxy, Edge of Tomorrow
#4 MCU, Firefly, Guardians of the Galaxy, BSG
#5 Darkangel Trilogy - Meredith Ann Pierce, Alliance-Union - C. J. Cherryh, Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold, The Uplift Saga - David Brin
#6 DCU, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Mass Effect, Surge Concerto, Young Wizards - Diane Duane

Request #2 is for art or vid as well as fic, and request #5 is open to art as well as fic.

If anyone's feeling creative, you can offer to pinch at at the linked posts.

Comments

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The new PTB may have felt it would be verging on "The Scottish Play" unlucky to go near any of that.

Ha! Perhaps that's why they decided to reincarnate Starbuck and Boomer as women instead...creating space for women while trying to escape the curse.

And of course, they do eventually have an Athena, but I don't know that she was terribly similar to the original. I suspect not, but I don't know what role the original played. Were there female military pilots in the original series?

Adama's wife--ex-wife in the new version--does get a name and a face, but she only appears in flashbacks and in one or perhaps two episodes, so it's hardly a major role.

ETA: I certainly understand the someday-watchlist. I think we all have one of those. So much television, so few hours in which to watch! (Plus the fact that it's probably better not to devote all of one's time to television.)

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>"Were there female military pilots in the original series?"

Short Overall Answer: Yes, but. ;-)

Long Canon Answer: Yes.

• Sheba, daughter of the legendary Commander Cain, is an ace pilot. She was the premier pilot on the Battlestar Pegasus; on the Galactica, she can't compete with the matchless Starbuck.
• Many civilian women, including Serina (who was a reporter), become shuttle pilots as the Galactica flees after the annihilation of the Colonies and civilian survivors got sucked up into military roles by necessity.
• At one point, so many military fighter pilots are dead or injured that the former-civilian shuttle pilots have to get trained to fly fighters.
• Athena, Adama's daughter, is a bridge officer, the only member of her family (except her civilian mother) who has never been a fighter pilot, but she has past certification as a shuttle pilot. She jumps in with the shuttle pilot training group and becomes a fighter pilot... but she's not good at it and never flies again (on-screen, anyway) after the staffing crisis passes.
• Serina is shot by a Cylon on a mission as a fighter pilot. They get her back to the Galactica, but she dies.

Medium Meta Answer: It's 1978 OMG. They make SUCH A BIG DEAL about allowing women to be fighter pilots and it's SO SEXIST and there's even a SKIN-TIGHT SEE-THROUGH PRESSURE SUIT SCENE. (The male pilots are never, in the whole series, seen with these supposed pressure suits.) ~hysterical laughter~ ~deep breath~ We do have 3 named women pilots besides the regular opening-credits characters, and one of them is black.

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Hahahahahahaha...wow.

But I guess that is progressive for 1978. I'm actually a little impressed they did better than a single token female pilot. Although I do have to wonder how they thought a skin-tight see-through pressure suit would be a good idea for anyone.

(Female pilots are common and not worth mentioning in the 2003 version, of course. The nod to progressiveness comes in the form of unisex bathrooms and barracks, although only on military ships. And of course, we got the infamous towel scene, so the straight women--and gay men--got their fan service too.)