[Woahhs]

From same link:

The idea of making Starbuck a woman was literally one of the first things I thought of, and it was in my original pitch to both the studio and the network.

On paper, the Starbuck character, as originally conceved, was a bit of a cliche, even in the 1970s -- the hotshot who does things his own way, chases women, smokes, gambles, drinks, etc., but then always pulls it together in time for a mission and is the best gall-darn pilot anyone's ever seen.

If you know anything about writers, you know how much they love cliche' [/sarcasm]

[RandallFlagg]

Starbuck was modeled after Han Solo.

[JustAnAmerican]

(sigh), you know this "PC is good" garbage is getting kind of old, guess you missed Moore's assertion that the Original series was Sexist? If Moore had made an entirely different cast, say after the original reign of BSG (Like STNG was to ST) and used different names then the show would have been watchable, but to suggest that a Man is somehow now a Woman is to say the least Idiocy. Sexist is the wanna be liberal's version of Racist.