In the early scenes of Saga of a Star World (1978), five battlestars appear, although only two are clearly named: the Galactica and the Atlantia. Faint background radio voices can be heard identifying the other three: Pacifica, Triton, and Acropolis. In The Gun on Ice Planet Zero (1978), Cree mentioned the Columbia. In "The Living Legend," a sixth battlestar, the Pegasus, is named. The other six remained unnamed.
Lloyd Bridges' character Commander Cain is wearing on his jacket collar US Navy Command Ashore insignias (a trident surrounded by a laurel wreath.
A year earlier Richard Hatch (Apollo) and Jack Stauffer (Lt. Bojay) appeared together in The Canine Collar (1977), the final episode of The Streets of San Francisco (1972).
In the reboot series Battlestar Galactica (2004), Commander Cain is an Admiral portrayed by Michelle Forbes and outranks Commander Adama played by Edward James Olmos