The lesson learned here is not to ask follow-up questions, but simply to say “Thank you, Captain Apollo, for saving our collective asses.”

More from Battlestar Galactica (2003)

• It won’t be an easy journey. It’ll be long, and arduous. But I promise you one thing: on the memory of those lying here before you, we shall find it, and Earth shall become our new home. So say we all!
• There there. It’s okay. You’re not gonna have to cry much longer.
• You have your pound of flesh. I suggest you take your victory and move on.
• Barely competent and paranoid. There’s a hell of a combination.
• He doesn’t seem the type, and I don’t remember seeing him at any of the Cylon parties.