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Galactica 1980Re-imagined Series

Alonzo FarmSteadman Acres

The Alonzo's residence ^{(1980: "Space Croppers")}.

The Alonzo Farm is a locale in California, U.S.A. circa 1980 CE and is notable for being the first clandestine Galactican settlement on Earth.

The beleaguered farm was established by Hector Alonzo and his family sometime in the late 1970s CE. Due to backhanded tactics of John Steadman and his influence over the local grower's association, Alonzo's attempts to make the farm sustainable were continually undermined.

Following the loss of various agro ships at Cylon hands, the Galacticans find themselves in need of a food source with Captain Troy and Lieutenant Dillon leading the charge to establish a new agro community. In doing so, they happen upon Alonzo's advertisement in the newspaper for farm hands.

With the assistance of Jamie Hamilton, the The Super Scouts, and Doctor Zee, the Galacticans are able to make the farm viable, after obtaining additional seed and a horse by Galactican means. Trained agro specialists from the Galactican Fleet conveyed via the anti-gravity ship, along with the Super Scouts, begin permanent settlement there. The Alonzos promise Troy and Dillon that they'll treat them as if they were members of his own family, thankful for their assistance ^{(1980: "Space Croppers")}.

References

This is a list of locations on Earth that are visited by the Warriors in Galactica 1980.

Germany

Peenemünde

Peenemünde is the location of a weapons research and test facility where Xaviar works on adapting Colonial technology to the Germans' V-2 rockets.

With Major Stockwell, Troy, Dillon and Jamie Hamilton manage to thwart the Nazis' V-2 program and Xaviar's attempt to help the Germans win World War II ^{(1980: "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II")}.

In the non-canonical Galactica Discovers Earth novelization, the events that occur in Peenemünde occur in Obersalzberg.

For more information, see: Peenemünde at Wikipedia.

Smite's Buchhandlung

The outside of the bookstore where Stockwell's contact is ^{(1980: "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II")}.

Smite's Buchhandlung is a bookstore owned by Smite, Major Stockwell's contact from the local German resistance effort. Major Stockwell's initial passphrase makes a reference to a book, although this turns out to be a false password as an attempt by Stockwell to indicate that he was under duress. The Gestapo later storm the bookshop and take Smite, his compatriots, and the Jeiwsh girl the Galacticans earlier saved and sent them to a train station where they would be shipped out to nearby concentration camps ^{(1980: "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II")}.

United States of America

California

Troy and Dillon encounter a scarecrow ^{(1980: "Space Croppers")}.

Alonzo Farm

Main article: Alonzo Farm

After the Cylons attack and destroy the Galactican Fleet's food supply, Troy and Dillon assume the task of establishing an agro colony on Earth. They happen upon Hector Alonzo's ad and lend their aid to the beleaguered farm ^{(1980: "Space Croppers")}.

General Store

The General Store where Troy and Dillon help the Alonzos get supplies for their beleaguered farm ^{(1980: "Space Croppers")}.

Troy and Dillon are able to provide the necessary funds to purchase seed and other supplies from a general store. During a shopping run for these supplies, Maze and Barrett observe this and decide to harass them as they return from the general store; Maze throws his lit cigar into Alonzo's truck bed, beginning a fire that destroys most of the seeds ^{(1980: "Space Croppers")}.

Note

The General Store's name is obfuscated, as the first known word of its proper name is cut off due to the framing of filmed footage ^{(1980: "Space Croppers")}.

Griffith Park Observatory

For more information on this real-world location, see: Griffith Observatory at Wikipedia.

Front exterior of the Griffith Observatory and its park ^{(1980: "The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I")}.

Troy, Dillon and the Super Scouts go here after visiting a local movie theater that screened a 1955 CE movie, This Island Earth. The Scouts see a Foucault pendulum and later listen (and comment) on a presentation presented by a tour guide named Marcy.

Troy and Dillon talk to Jamie Hamilton in the scope room of this observatory regarding the unpowered craft heading toward Earth, which isn't a Colonial craft as originally assumed ^{(1980: "The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I")}.

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  Griffith Park Observatory's building at night.

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  Griffith Park Observatory's building at night.
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  Jamie Hamilton waiving over Troy and Dillon.
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  The Super Scouts chaperoned by Dillon and Troy inside of the Griffith Park Observatory.
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  The Foucault Pendulum inside of the Griffith Park Observatory.
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  Dillon, Troy and Jamie Hamilton enter the inside of the Zeiss telescopes room in Griffith Park Observatory.
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  The Zeiss telescopes in Griffith Park Observatory.
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  Dillon, Troy and Jamie Hamilton enter the inside of the Zeiss telescopes room in Griffith Park Observatory.
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  Jamie Hamilton talking to Troy and Dillon inside of the Griffith Park Observatory's Zeiss telescopes room.

Home Furnishings

Dillon crashes Dr. Mortinson's car into the building ^{(1980: "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II")}.

Dillon crashes into his building to end a hopeless car case caused by the United Broadcasting Company's Mr. Brooks. After crashing Donald Mortinson's car into the store front of this building, Troy, Dillon and Jamie Hamilton make good on their escape using the invisibility field ^{(1980: "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II")}.

This building appears earlier during Doctor Zee's hypothetical Cylon attack scenario ^{(1980: "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I")}.

Los Angeles International Airport

Main article: Los Angeles International Airport

Troy and Dillon travel to this airport to get a flight to New York to intercept a craft not of Earth. They get acquainted with the concept of "hijacking," "smoking or non-smoking" and "metal detectors" here ^{(1980: "The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I")}.

Maggies Truck Heaven

The front of Maggies Truck Heaven ^{(1980: "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III")}.

After thwarting Xaviar in 1944, Troy and Dillon drop off Hamilton at this diner, which doesn't accept personal checks. It is here that they damage a jukebox with their laser pistols and discover that they are all wanted fugitives ^{(1980: "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III")}.

Mortinson's House

Dr. Donald Mortinson's house on a cliff ^{(1980: "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III")}.

After meeting Xaviar at the United Broadcasting Company's main building, Mortinson brings Xaviar back to his house, residing on a cliff overlooking a California beach. The house has a study with a book on history, which Xaviar takes in order to further his plans of advancing Earth's technology ^{(1980: "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III")}.

Oak's Garage

The trio first meet outside this garage ^{(1980: "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I")}.

Troy and Dillon meet Jamie Hamilton outside this garage and gas station, where they manage to convince her to give them a ride to the Pacific Institute of Technology. Hamilton does so, clearly impressed that they are going to meet the reclusive Dr. Donald Mortinson ^{(1980: "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I")}.

Police Station

After being captured by a security guard at the Pacific Institute of Technology, Troy and Dillon are brought to a police station, where they are booked by Sergeant James and fellow officer Dorbin. However, they make good on their escape from the holding pen, using their handy invisibility field ^{(1980: "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I")}.

At day's end, Dr. Donald Mortinson fulfills his agreement to meet Jamie Hamilton in front of the police station, where the two Warriors appear and introduce themselves to Mortinson. They leave the front of this station in a vain attempt to talk to Mortinson quietly ^{(1980: "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II")}.

San Angelo Mountains

Troy, Dillon, and John Stockton make their way up to a peak of this mountain near an old U.S. Nike base in order to obtain advanced medical attention from Galactican Fleet. It is here where the anti-gravity ship makes its first land fall ^{(1980: "The Super Scouts, Part II")}.

Steadman Acres

Steadman Acres is the largest farm land in the area of California that Troy and Dillon visit. Their first visit to this land is to see the dam that Steadman constructed for the sole purpose of ruining smaller farms who relied on it as the only source of water. The second time they visit this land is to confront Steadman over the behavior of two of his lackeys, Barrett and Maze, where they not only make arrangements for replacement seed but also manage to win Satan, a mentally disturbed horse that they manage to calm using the use of alpha waves ^{(1980: "Space Croppers")}.

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  A dam on Steadman's property used to force other farmers' hands ^{(1980: "Space Croppers")}.

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  A dam on Steadman's property used to force other farmers' hands ^{(1980: "Space Croppers")}.
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  Seen as Troy and Dillon drive to meet Steadman ^{(1980: "Space Croppers")}
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  Steadman Acres' sign ^{(1980: "Space Croppers")}.

Van Nuys A.N.G. Base

Xaviar's Viper flies over the A.N.G. Base.

Troy, Dillon, and Xaviar's Vipers are taken to the Van Nuys Air National Guard Base after Willy Griffin runs across them again. After finding out their location, the Warriors and Hamilton go to the base; Hamilton distracts the guards while the Warriors sneak in capture Xaviar (who's already infiltrated the base, disguised as an airman). Troy is unsuccessful in stopping Xaviar, who manages to recharge the Viper's energizers and lifts off ^{(1980: "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III")}.

New York

Bellevue Hospital Center

The hospital where the Halloween party guests are sent to after the fire.

The victims from the fire started by Andromus' blowing up a microwave are sent here. It is here where Mildred and her brother Arnie, as well as Shirley and Norman Blore, are questioned about the incident by Colonel Briggs, Clifford and Grover ^{(1980: "The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II")}.

Central Park

Four muggers attempt to steal money from Troy and Dillon here, who are en route Arnie's apartment, where they track the Cylon distress beacon. However, they are able to leap up on trees and avoid them. Later, Centuri, Andromus, and Wolfman Jack walk through here as well and the muggers try another attempt at mugging people, but this fails as well ^{(1980: "The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I")}.

See also: Central Park at Wikipedia.

Hudson River Parkway

The police car that Troy and Dillon steal from State Police officers Max and Leroy is reported to be here when the all-points bulletin is issued ^{(1980: "The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I")}.

International Trade Center

Andromus, Centuri and Wolfman Jack enter this building, which houses the WQSL radio station. The Cylons are nearly successful in using the 150,000 watt transmitter to broadcast their distress signal to their battle fleet, but are thwarted by Troy and Dillon ^{(1980: "The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II")}.

John F. Kennedy International Airport

Troy and Dillon's airplane lands here and, despite the authorities wanting to question them about the Cuban hijackers' attempt to hijack the plane, they manage to escape via their invisibility field and grab a cab ^{(1980: "The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I")}.

Port of New York

The NYPD's chase of Dillon and Troy in the stolen Highway Patrol car ends on Pier 60 of the Port of New York. This results in the capsizing of the stolen vehicle and the need of the Warriors to change out of their soaked clothing ^{(1980: "The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II")}.

Remos Club

As Troy and Dillon attempt to find their way around New York City, avoiding cops in the process, they pass by this street-corner establishment. They hide in an arched entry way next to it when the NYPD Sergeant arrives to free a kid who has locked himself in the bathroom of a domicile ^{(1980: "The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II")}.

The Town House

Troy and Dillon rush toward The Town House.

Arnie, program director at WQSL, has a residence at The Town House nearby Central Park. Andromus and Centuri make a stop here and, as they have a distress beacon, are tracked to this location by Troy and Dillon. Instead, they find that Arnie's apartment, which had been the site of a Halloween party, is ablaze and Troy manages to save a boy in the process ^{(1980: "The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II")}.

FarmThe FarmSkirmish at the Farm

A Caprican Farm.

A "farm" is a facility constructed by the Cylons in an effort to solve their difficulties with sexual reproduction using both male and female human test subjects. There are multiple farms, with a notable one existing on occupied Caprica at the original Delphi Convalescent Institute.

Such facilities are overseen by the Fours, although Number One doesn't agree with the religious tract that the research has taken on to the Cylons ^{(TRS: "The Plan", "No Exit")}.

Delphi Farm

Kara "Starbuck" Thrace finds Sue-Shaun hooked up to equipment ^{(TRS: "The Farm")}.

Kara Thrace and Sue-Shaun are taken to a farm after being wounded in an ambush orchestrated by Caprica-Cavil ^{(TRS: "The Farm", "The Plan")}. Inside, the farm held hundreds of women hooked up to medical equipment, used as living incubators. Thrace is cared for separately under the guise of mending from her injuries and her case reviewed by a Four using his human name, Simon.

According to Sharon Agathon neé Valerii, the Farms haven't produced viable Human/Cylon hybrid offspring, ergo the experiment that manipulates Karl "Helo" Agathon into falling in love with Valerii. Some Cylons theorize that the farms failed because a child must be conceived in love (in keeping with the Cylon belief that "God is love"), and as a result Caprica-Valerii carries the first and only successful hybrid pregnancy.

After Thrace escapes the farm where she is held, Caprica Resistance leader Samuel Anders promises her that his band of fighters would attempt to destroy as many of the remaining farms as they could ^{(TRS: "The Farm")} before they are rescued months later ^{(TRS: "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I")}.

The farms are abandoned after the Cylons decide to leave the Colonies ^{(TRS: "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II")}. It remains unknown how the captured humans are dealt with as a result of this decision.

References

"The Farm" An episode of the Re-imagined Series
Episode No.	Season 2, Episode 5
Writer(s)	Carla Robinson
Story by
Director	Rod Hardy
Assistant Director
Special guest(s)	Richard Hatch as Tom Zarek
Production No.	205
Nielsen Rating	2.0
US airdate	2005-08-12
CAN airdate	2006-02-11
UK airdate	2006-02-07
DVD release	20 December 2005 US 28 August 2006 UK
Population	47,857 survivors ( 4)
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Resistance	The Farm	Home, Part I
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Kara Thrace is shot and wakes up in a remote hospital facility on Caprica, and learns that her friendly doctor has his own plans for her future.

Summary

On Caprica

• Kara "Starbuck" Thrace, Karl "Helo" Agathon, and two members of the Resistance (Samuel Anders and Sue-Shaun, who were introduced in the last episode) devise a plan to escape from Caprica by commandeering a Heavy Raider from a nearby airstrip. They will fit as many people as possible onto the craft, and will dispatch a rescue mission for the remainder upon return to Galactica.
• As the team is about to assault the airstrip, they are ambushed, and Thrace is hit by a bullet that grazes off her head and gets lodged in her abdomen. She loses consciousness.
• Thrace wakes up in a hospital. She is being attended to by a doctor named Simon, who tells her that she was brought into the hospital by Anders, and that Anders died from a shrapnel wound. Thrace is devastated.
• Thrace spends the next few days conversing with Simon, who muses that women capable of bearing children are a rare "commodity" now that the Cylons have nuked the Colonies, and suggests that Thrace should consider giving birth to a child.
• Simon speculates that Thrace's reluctance to have children stems from her mother having abused her when she was young, as evidenced by a pattern of fractures in her fingers. This topic upsets her.
• Thrace wakes to discover a new scar on her abdomen. Simon tells her it's from an operation he did to stop some bleeding, but Thrace doesn't believe him, particularly after he calls her "Starbuck"--her pilot call sign, which she has never told him.
• Simon lied about Anders being dead: he, Helo and the other resistance fighters return to the scene of the ambush to try to figure out where Thrace and Sue-Shaun were taken. Caprica-Valerii appears and offers her help, saying she knows where they are and Helo decides to hear her out.
• Thrace fakes sleep after crimping her intravenous drip filled with sedative. When Simon leaves, she follows him into the hallway, where she overhears him having a conversation with a copy of Number Six about the "complete removal" of her ovaries scheduled for the next day.
• A short time later, Thrace stabs Simon with a broken mirror shard and escapes the room. Lurching around the deserted hospital, she stumbles upon a room full of semi-conscious women wired horrifically to machines. Among them is Sue-Shaun, who begs Thrace to destroy the "baby machines" and end their misery. She obliges with a prayer, a pair of medical tongs, and a primal scream.
• Thrace staggers outside, braining a Six model with a fire extinguisher in the process, only to find a another Simon standing there to greet her. At that moment, Agathon and the rest of the resistance emerge from the woods. They pepper Simon with bullets, but soon get bogged down in a firefight with a squad of Centurions. A second rescue occurs in as many minutes: Caprica-Valerii swoops down in a stolen Heavy Raider and blows the Centurions away.
• Thrace relates her experiences in the hospital to the others. Valerii explains that the humanoid Cylons have a flaw which renders them unable to reproduce biologically. The Cylons have been holding human women in "farms" to try to implant them with human/Cylon embryos. This effort has failed, however, leading the Cylons to believe that conception requires "love." Based on this theory, Valerii was able to conceive with Agathon because of their love for each other.
• Agathon, Sharon, and Thrace leave Caprica on the Heavy Raider. Thrace promises Anders to return someday to rescue the Resistance. In the meantime, Anders says he will try to destroy as many farms as he can.

On Galactica and in the Fleet

• Commander Adama returns to duty, and is greeted with applause in CIC. He tells the crew that he loves them all.
• To try to rally support to the president, Zarek wants Lee Adama to make a recording denouncing his father. Adama stops in the middle of it and says he can't go through with it. It's left to Laura Roslin to win over the Fleet.
• Roslin plays the "religious card." She transfers to Astral Queen from where she transmits a message imploring the Fleet to follow her and the path the Lords of Kobol have set out for her. An infuriated and staunchly secular Adama doesn't board Astral Queen because he thinks only three or four ships would seriously listen to her "religious nonsense." Instead, 24 ships ("almost a third of the Fleet") leave with her.
• Cally is thrown in the brig for killing Sharon "Boomer" Valerii, now known as a Humanoid Cylon and traitor. Chief Tyrol implores Commander Adama to release her, due to her trauma by events on Kobol. Adama gives her a light sentence of charging her with discharging a firearm without permission: Cally will spend only one month in the brig.
• Adama asks Tyrol if he could love Boomer despite the fact that she was a machine. Tyrol isn't quite sure, but it becomes apparent that Adama is asking himself the question as much as he is Tyrol; Adama loved all of his pilots like his children.
• Adama visits Boomer's body in the morgue. He asks "Why?" then breaks down crying over her body.

Notes

General

• This episode's opening credits marks the return of the "blipvert" effect used in the first season episodes, which Ron D. Moore borrowed from Space: 1999.
• As of the opening credits, the Fleet population is now 47,857, a net loss of 4 since "Resistance". This reflects the deaths of four civilians on board Gideon in that episode, but apparently not that of Valerii, which may be the result of her being removed from the count after the assassination attempt on William Adama.
• According to Felix Gaeta, this episode takes place "a week" after Lee Adama docked at Cloud 9 in the last episode, although apparently William Adama hasn't been well enough to resume command until very recently. Furthermore, according to a deleted scene, this episode takes place a week after "Fragged".
• 24 ships, almost a third of the Fleet, have left with Roslin for Kobol.
  • This would mean the total Fleet consists of over 72 ships. In the Miniseries, there are only about 40 FTL-capable ships able to rendezvous with Galactica at Ragnar Anchorage. This retcon is similar to the 500-1500 prisoner error from the Miniseries to "Bastille Day".
• This episode introduces the fifth confirmed humanoid Cylon, Simon, whose numerical designation won't be revealed until "Six of One".
• The concept of women connected to machines for the purposes of controlled reproduction is a venerable one in science fiction; the Dune universe showcases a classic example where a specific political and religious faction (the Bene Tleilax) uses the technology to produce clones.
• Thrace has the last line in this episode: "Let's go home!"
• The scene of Thrace's rescue where the second Number Four appears was overdubbed in "The Plan" and a line by Anders is inserted ordering Barolay to return to base and kill "the doc." "The Plan" reveals that the Buccaneers' team doctor is a Number Four model Cylon.

Characters

• Boomer's body is now in the morgue. The "Y" shape scar suggests that she has undergone an autopsy.
• According to Simon's information, derived from either a Cylon dossier or from medical exams, Thrace was the victim of frequent physical abuse as a child; she's suffered many bone fractures in childhood, and all of her fingers have been broken. This is consistent with the comments made by Leoben Conoy to Thrace during their interrogation scenes in "Flesh and Bone". The reasons and events for such abuse are later revealed in the episode "Maelstrom" as the result of abusive rearing by Thrace's mother, Socrata Thrace.
• Karl "Helo" Agathon and Caprica-Valerii's child is the first Human/Cylon hybrid conceived in love, and as a result is the first successful hybrid; no other embryo survived nearly as long, since the embryo is approximately five weeks old ^{(TRS: "Six Degrees of Separation")}.
• Sharon "Boomer" Valerii served aboard Galactica for two years prior to the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, which implies that the Cylons' infiltration began around or before that time. This matches the length of time of Caprica-Six's affair with Gaius Baltar while on Caprica.

Behind the scenes

• David Eick's Video Blog, "Episode 5 - Day 2," covers the shooting of this episode, including various production issues.
• After the end of the third act, as Simon enters Thrace's room (right before she stabs him), her room number is "254". Interestingly, Thrace's stabbing Simon takes place in the second season (2), of episode five (5) and this is the start of the fourth act (4).
• The hospital room is on a "swing set," an extra set that's kept open so that it can be used for special, one-time interior sets.

Analysis

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  Laura Roslin, Elosha, and Tom Zarek in cold storage aboard Kimba Huta ^{(TRS: "The Plan")}.

  The scenes in the cold storage compartment with Roslin, Elosha, Zarek and Lee Adama were not shot in a real freezer according to the episode's podcast. This is also noticeable as a viewer. For example the characters' breath isn't visible. Ron Moore notes that the setting isn't entirely convincing.
• What exactly did the Cylons do to Thrace's ovaries? (Possible answer) Simon tells Six: "...pending lab test results on sample for ovaries, complete removal will proceed tomorrow". Thrace escapes right after this, which means that the opportunity to "completely remove" her ovaries did not occur. This suggests at the very least that Thrace can still have children. However, female humans only have two ovaries: how can you have a "sample" one? The sample could just mean that Simon took several eggs from one of Thrace's ovaries to see if they were viable for conceiving children.
• It would seem that the Cylons at least obtained several sample egg cells from Thrace. Will this lead to developments later on?
• In Ron D. Moore's blog entry for October 14, 2005, after finishing the last scripts for season two he jokingly says he has "the reward of time spent thinking about something besides Kara's missing ovaries ("Now, where did I leave those ovaries? They were right here a minute ago...") ". What is meant by this?
• Love serves as a theme in this episode. First, we find out how important love is for the Cylons: it is considered essential for Cylon procreation. In the first episode, Number Six asked Dr. Baltar several times if he loved her. Number Six also said that "God is love". That was after she tried to conceive from him. Love is also the reason Sharon aids Agathon and the reason Agathon accepts her help. Also we hear that Thrace was abused as a child. In the last episode she said that everyone seems to fight to get their old life back and she fights because it's all she knows how to do. In this episode she seems to develop affections to Anders. Will Thrace find 'reason' in love? Commander Adama tells his subordinates that he loves them. He asks Chief Tyrol if one could love a machine. Ultimately, Commander Adama weeps over Galactica-Sharon's body because he loved her.
• Number Six mentioned that "procreation is one of God's commandments" in the first episode, "33". This could mean that the Cylons are trying to procreate out of a feeling that they are sinning by not being able to have children on their own.
• Caprica-Valerii is aware of Leoben Conoy #2's interrogation by Thrace in "Flesh and Bone," even of specific things he said during it, suggesting that humanoid Cylons sometimes have a collective knowledgebase (not a collective consciousness; see "Downloaded" for this confirmation) to occasionally draw from. This is supported by Boomer telling Gaius Baltar the number of humanoid Cylons remaining in the Fleet in "Resistance," as only such a knowledgebase would allow Boomer to know of this data.
• As depicted in the Caprica episode "The Imperfections of Memory," the hospital appropriated by the Cylons for a farm was once the Delphi Convalescent Institute, a facility specializing in treating mental illness.

Questions

Answered

• Caprica-Valerii says that she knows that Leoben Conoy told Kara Thrace she was special during his interrogation aboard Galactica. How could she know this? How do the humanoid Cylons communicate to each other? (See Analysis)
• Will Simon be seen again? (Answer) Is he one of the eight humanoid Cylons hiding in the Fleet? (Answer)
• How does Simon know Anders's name? (Answer)

Unanswered

• What does Kara whisper to Sue-Shaun before she "pulls the plug" on the Farm machinery?
• Why does the Caprica resistance seem more concerned about Thrace's disappearance than Sue-Shaun's? Does Thrace's love interest generate the greater concern?
• Would any viable embryos harvested by the Cylons be accelerated into mature adults or placed in vitro into a host? Would the host be Cylon or human?

Noteworthy Dialogue

• Cylons discussing the surgical testing they are performing on Thrace:

Simon: ...pending lab test results on ovaries, complete removal will proceed tomorrow. They've lab tested positive and subject will be removed to processing facility for final disposition.

Number Six: Is that regret I hear in your voice, Simon?

Simon: If it is, it certainly is none of your concern.

• Explanation of the Human/Cylon hybrid project:

Caprica-Valerii: They were conducting research, into Human/Cylon breeding programs.

Kara Thrace: Human/Cylon?

Karl Agathon: 'Call them "Farms"...your gunshot wound looks fine...

Thrace: So "Farms," that's great...what were they going to do, 'knock me up with some Cylon kid?

Valerii: They were going to try to. We haven't been very successful so far.

Anders: Supposedly they can't reproduce...you know, biologically, so they've been trying every which-way to produce offspring.

Thrace: Why?

Valerii: Procreation. It's one of God's commandments; "be fruitful". We can't fulfill it, we've tried. So we decided--

Thrace: To rape human women?!

Valerii: You know, if you agreed to bear children it would be voluntary, maybe even set you up with someone you like.

Thrace: Like you two kids? (looking at Agathon and Caprica-Valerii)

Valerii: We're different.

Thrace: What the frak is that supposed to mean?

Agathon: They have this theory; maybe the one thing they were missing was love. So Sharon and I...were set up...

Thrace: To fall in love?! They didn't ask Sue-Shaun if she wanted to fall in love, alright! They put a tube in her, and they hooked her up to a machine!

Valerii: They know who you are, Kara. You're special. Leoben told you that. You have a destiny.

Agathon: (pointing out the other scar on Thrace's lower abdomen) Starbuck, what's the second scar?

Thrace: I don't know. I don't think I want to know now. You know?

Valerii: No.

Anders: Alright, how many women do they have in these "Farms"?

Valerii: Hundreds, maybe thousands. I don't know, I haven't accessed that data.

• Adama wonders aloud about the nature of Cylons and humans

Tyrol: I don't believe she [Cally] was in her right mind when she shot Boomer--

Adama: Did you love her, Chief?

Tyrol: 'Scuse me?

Adama: Boomer. Did you love her?

Tyrol: Thought I did.

Adama: Well, when you think you love somebody, you love them. That's what love is. Thoughts... She was a Cylon. A machine! Is that what Boomer was, a machine? A thing?

Tyrol: That's what she turned out to be.

Adama: She was more than that to us. She was more than that to me. She was a vital, living person aboard my ship for almost two years! She couldn't have been just a machine. Could you love a machine?

Tyrol: No, sir. Guess I couldn't have.

Adama: Cally discharged a firearm without permission, endangering life of her fellow shipmate. 30 days in the brig. Dismissed.

Tyrol: Thank you, sir.

Adama: You'll see her again, Chief.

Tyrol: Excuse me?

Adama: There are many copies. You'll see her again.

• Simon, talking about Thrace's reluctance to have children but also perhaps talking about the Cylons' view of themselves (and maybe the "human" Cylons).

Simon: Children of abusive parents often fear passing along that abuse to their own children.

Guest stars

• Michael Hogan as Colonel Saul Tigh
• Aaron Douglas as Chief Galen Tyrol
• Tahmoh Penikett as Lt. Karl "Helo" Agathon
• Nicki Clyne as Specialist Cally Henderson
• Alessandro Juliani as Lt. Felix Gaeta
• Kandyse McClure as Petty Officer Anastasia Dualla
• Michael Trucco as Samuel Anders
• Rick Worthy as Simon
• Lorena Gale as Elosha
• Tamara Lashley as Sue-Shaun

Skirmish at the Farm
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Summary
Conflict:	Second Cylon War
Date:	Shortly after the Battle of Kobol
Related Episode(s):
Place:	Caprica Cylon Farm
Result:	Colonial victory Kara Thrace rescued Farm destroyed Theft of a Heavy Raider
Combatants Remnants of the Colonial Fleet Caprica Resistance Cylons Commanders Samuel Anders Lieutenant Kara Thrace Number Six Strength Lieutenant Kara Thrace Lieutenant Karl "Helo" Agathon Caprica-Valerii Caprica Resistance 1 captured Heavy Raider 2 Number Fours 1 Number Six Several Cylon Centurions Materiel Losses None All Centurions Cylon farm Casualties Sue-Shaun Other women captured for experimentation 1 Number Six 2 Number Fours All Centurions
Battle Chronology
Previous Next Battle of Kobol Skirmish at the Farm Great Cylon Turkey Shoot

The Skirmish at the Farm was an engagement between the Caprica Resistance aided by Lieutenant Kara "Starbuck" Thrace Lieutenant Karl "Helo" Agathon, and a Cylon defector against Cylon forces at a breeding farm.

Background

After being sent to Caprica by President Laura Roslin to retrieve the Arrow of Apollo, Lieutenant Thrace met up with long-missing Lieutenant Agathon and his lover, an apparent copy of Kara's friend Sharon Valerii. When Thrace repeatedly threatened to kill her, Caprica-Valerii fled in Thrace's stolen Cylon Raider, leaving Thrace and Agathon stranded on Caprica. Sometime afterwards, the two met up with the Caprica Resistance and as they were planning an assault to steal a Heavy Raider, the group was ambushed and Thrace and Sue-Shaun were captured by Cylon forces and taken to a breeding farm. While Sue-Shaun was attached a "baby machine" along with other women, Thrace was experimented on directly by a Number Four going by the name of Simon under the guise of treating her injuries from the ambush. During this time, at least one of her ovaries were removed. However, the Number Four accidentally broke his cover to the suspicious Thrace by calling her by her call-sign of Starbuck which she hadn't told him. After seeing him discussing his plan to remove her ovaries completely with a Number Six, Thrace realized that Simon was actually a Cylon agent and she had to escape.

At the same time, the Caprica Resistance returned to the ambush point to look for clues to Thrace's location. Caprica-Valerii, who had been tracking Agathon for days, appeared and offered her help to rescue Thrace. With the help of Valerii, the Caprica Resistance stole a Heavy Raider and launched a rescue mission for Thrace (TRS: "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I," "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II," "Scattered," "Resistance," "The Farm").

Skirmish

Needing to escape, Thrace breaks a bedside mirror and waits for Simon to return. When he does, she reveals her suspicions to him and then proceeds to kill the Cylon by stabbing him in the neck with the mirror shard. Sneaking her way through the facility, Thrace spots a Number Six and kills her by smashing her head in with a fire extinguisher. To Thrace's horror, she finds Caprica Resistance member Sue-Shaun and other women hooked up to "baby machines." Not wanting to live like this and unable to be unhooked without being killed, Sue-Shaun asks Thrace to destroy the machines and mercy-kill the women. Thrace reluctantly smashes the machines, ending the women's suffering. Getting outside the facility, Thrace is confronted by another Number Four who greets her. Before Thrace or the Four can do anything, the Caprica Resistance and Lieutenant Karl "Helo" Agathon arrive and kill the Four. As Thrace attempts to escape to the Resistance, Centurions on higher levels of the facility open fire, pinning her and the Resistance down, but Caprica-Valerii arrives in a captured Heavy Raider and destroys the Centurions. The Cylon forces and their farm destroyed, the Resistance retreats in the Heavy Raider before anymore Cylons can arrive. ^{(TRS: "The Farm")}

Aftermath

Having identified their doctor as a copy of Number Four, Samuel Anders dispatches Jean Barolay to get rid of the Cylon agent, not aware that there is also a Number One in the Resistance's midst. At their base, Lieutenant Kara Thrace interrogates the Number Eight about what was done to her at the farm. Eight explains that the Cylons are unable to have children naturally which they attribute to a lack of love and along with the experiment to impregnate her, they are using the farms to attempt to artificially impregnate human women. She is unaware of exactly what was done to Thrace, though. Hearing about the farms and angry about what was done to her, Thrace proposes that the Resistance use their captured Heavy Raider to destroy all of the farms. However, Anders tells her she has a mission to complete and gives her the Arrow of Apollo. Anders tells Thrace to find Earth, and the Resistance will destroy all of the farms they can. Thrace agrees and after promising to be back to rescue him, she, the Eight, and Agathon leave in the Heavy Raider to return to the fleet. The three jump the Heavy Raider to Kobol where they meet up with the Laura Roslin faction (TRS: "The Farm," "The Plan," "Home, Part I," "Home, Part II").

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Galactica 1980 definition: a member of the Fleet; Hamilton first uses the term when replying to Stockwell's question regarding Xavier's affiliation ^{(1980: "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II")}

Original Series definition: agriculture ^{(TOS: "The Magnificent Warriors")}

Galactica 1980 definition: Troy and Dillon look up this word after the desk clerk explains the reasons for the metal detectors. Unsurprisingly, a hijacking by Cuban nationals subsequently occurs on their flight ^{(1980: "The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I")}.

Galactica 1980 definition: When John Steadman asks if the Warriors know anything about these creatures, Dillon looks this up ^{(1980: "Space Croppers")}

Galactica 1980 definition: type of signals used in correcting disturbed brainwave patterns ^{(1980: "Space Croppers")}

Galactica 1980 definition: Dillon goes to look up this term when the stewardess announces that the delayed passengers will be at their Halloween parties in plenty of time, but is stopped by Troy who tells him to look up the term FBI ^{(1980: "The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I")}.

Galactica 1980 definition: the Cylon variant of the automatic beacon; a portable version of this is taken from the A-B Raider and attached to Centuri before Andromus and the Centurion escape the crash ^{(1980: "The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I")}

Re-imagined Series definition: used to signify a civilian transport vessel over a certain gross weight/mass, i.e. Colonial Heavy 798

Re-imagined Series definition: technology enabling travel across distances faster than the speed of light would permit, see: FTL

Re-imagined Series definition: all-purpose vulgarism; Colonial version of "fuck" (see: frak)