Dirk Benedict

Dirk Benedict’s Lt. Starbuck is Battlestar Galactica at a swagger: the flyer who treats a fleeing civilization like a card game he still expects to win. Among 1980s and 2000s tags, he is heat in a uniform, not a speech. The fleet needed a cynic with timing; Starbuck supplied the grin that made the model kit look like a night out.

The 2000s stop is Battlestar Galactica, and Dirk Benedict occupies it as Lt. Starbuck. He does not float above the hour; he is how the hour walks. Hour codes from a later pack are not Benedict’s close-up; the desk files Lt. Starbuck on the title itself, 2000s tag and all.

The A-Team turned that polish into Faceman — Peppard’s Hannibal, Mr. T as weather, scrap-built tanks, bloodless mayhem, a plan that always comes together. Benedict is the con in the ensemble, handsome enough to talk them through the door. On TV Flash he is 1980s action charm with a Galactica aftertaste: the face you hire when the mission needs flirt and a fast exit.

The A-Team is why this card is a route, not a souvenir still as Templeton "Faceman" Peck. Start that title at s01e01 — Mexican Slayride: Part 1 assembles the plan: Peppard, Mr. T, Benedict, Schultz — wrongfully accused commandos as Friday-night cheese with immortal. s01e02 still shows a later grip: Mexican Slayride: Part 2 is the two-parter's second hour: I love it when a plan comes together, already a ritual, not a line. Benedict does not visit this floor; he works it.