Other Questions from War of the Gods

It may have been a conscious decision to omit Patrick McNee's voiceover for this particular episode, War of the Gods because they probably wanted to distance Count Iblis, an evil character, from the person who does the voice over.

I would surmise they were supposed to come up with a special effect to depict 4 vipers, but decided to reuse the same old effect with 5 vipers. By then, they couldn't reshoot the scenes to indicate 5 vipers.

They probably sent a shuttle with an extra pilot, back to the planet to retrieve Sheba's viper.

Sheba probably borrowed some clothes from Cassieopia, or Athena. Or maybe Apollo gave her all of the clothes in Serena's wardrobe.

Warriors who are single, probably have to bunk in the barracks. Warriors who are sealed or have families, probably have their own private quarters near the barracks. Starbuck and Boomer would bunk with the rest of their squadron in the barracks, but Apollo probably has his own quarters.

The whole ship of lights arc is such a huge part of the Battlestar Galactica mythos, but I was never crazy about it. The whole "non interference" was a convenient plot device to keep these superior beings from helping the Galactica find Earth.

Patrick Macnee's opening intro stopped 7 episodes earlier, last one they used it for was Gun on Ice Planet Zero Part 1. I always loved that intro, he had the perfect voice for it. As far as the angel thing goes do you not know the history of this show? Glen A Larson was LDS (Mormon) and lots of the things he has in this show are kind of based on that. Even though there are goofs in this episode like all the questions you bring up I do think it's a pretty cool episode. I always liked that crystal ship that captures the fighter pilots. Was just kind of cool to me then and still is now.