Yeah, I'm watching 'The Hand of God" right now, and Red Squadron is specifically mentioned. Also, in "War of the Gods" Silver Spar Squadron continued to exist even after it was transferred to the Galactica, but with Bojay now in command (Sheba had transferred to Blue Squadron).
Yeah they had Blue and Red. In the pilot 3 episodes when Starbuck and Apollo were trying to fake out the Cylon Basestar, they added/mentioned Orange, Purple and Green squadrons, but those never existed.
Actually I think it was just Purple and Orange. And it wasn't the pilot, either. The big trick there was they were rounding up random people throughout the fleet, putting ill-fitting Viper uniforms on them, and sending them down to the big party so Sire Uri would think all of the warriors were there. The thing with Purple & Orange Squadrons was a diferent episode - can't remember which one but I know it was NOT the pilot. And the trick there was being played on the Cylons.
Yes, Purple and Orange was in the "Pilot". It was the last part of Saga of a Star World. Starbuck and Apollo are trying to convince the Cylon Base Star over Carillon that there are far more vipers than there really are, so the Base Star goes lower to the planet (which is about to explode).
My favorite bits of tos cylons is when they drop biting remarks in their robot voices Imperious Leader: All destroyed? How? We took them by surprise. Cylon: Apparently it was not as big of a surprise as we had hoped for.
Not to mention that season 2 was very blatantly a Star Trek ripoff, complete with a Spock character (Hawk.) Seeking out the 'lost tribes of Earth' premise was little different from seeking out 'strange new worlds, new life and new civilizations.' etc. Ironically, though, they never actually found any lost tribes of Earth.
If I remember correctly, in one episode they found one, but it was almost by accident and they didn't realize that in theory that was their mission.
That's the best Cylon moment, though I do like the bit where a Cylon tells Baltar to look at the other Battlestar!
It is indeed an excellent episode but as a big fan of Starbuck when I was a kid, I always hated the idea of him just being left on that planet.
That would have been taken care of in "The Wheel of Fire". Spoiler The whole thing was a test by the people on the Ship of Lights (Angela was one of them) to see if Starbuck was worthy of joining them. Which he did.