I've probably already done a post about the Star Trek reboot, but that was then and this is now, as a famous Slayer once said.
See, the first time I saw it (and numerous subsequent times, because though it is a fairly brainless action-fest, it is a very good fairly brainless action fest), there was always one shot in the movie that really annoyed me. It was during the space-jump sequence, when the camera does a shaky zoom-in and takes a second to correctly frame the divers. At the time, I thought it was a kind of heartless tribute to Firefly, which was full of shots like that, whereas Star Trek was not.
In actual fact, it was one of several little homages to Battlestar Galactica. Let's count the others.
2) The corridors on the Kelvin. You only see the Kelvin's corridors for a few brief seconds as the Captain is talking to George Kirk, but they do look... familiar. They're slanted the way Galactica's are, and they've got the same kind of lights on them. Granted they're on a much smaller scale (because in a world where mass is your enemy, why on Caprica would you have ceilings as high as the ones on Galactica), but still, they look pretty similar.
3) The DRADIS console in the Kobayashi Maru simulator. It's not an actual BSG prop (read on), but there is this round thing full of computer screens attached to the center of the ceiling.
4) The small, free-standing stack of computer screens. This is a BSG prop. It appears in the Starfleet hangar bay.
5) The Federation Seal. For the first time in the franchise's history, it's done in gold and black, and it dominates the back wall of the Starfleet hangar bay. The color scheme and placement reminds me of the Seal of the Colonies in BSG, and given the other things I've mentioned, I don't think this is a coincidence. But even if it was...
6) The communications officer is a tall thin (the original Uhura was neither of these) black chick who got shoved awkwardly into a relationship with one of the more important characters.
Yup. That pretty much does it.
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