There were many stories that were proposed for a second season of the Original Series. A majority of them were in Glen Larson's proposal for a second season of the series, before it was canceled (and resurrected, in a different fashion, in Galactica 1980).
The Return of the Pegasus[edit]
ブーマー中尉がブリッジに出頭し、サイロンがギャラクティカに急速に接近中で充分な防御体制を整える時間が無いことを伝える。スターバック、アポロ、シェバは発進準備を整える。スターバックはシェバが任務に就くことに反対し、シェバは悔しがる。だがアポロは却下し、彼らは発進する。戦闘でシェバは死亡し、敗北するかに見えたとき、ペガサスからのコロニアル・バイパーが現れ形成は一変する。
ペガサスを船団に先導した後、彼らはアテナは全身に大火傷を負ったことを知る。アテナを助けようとしてアダマも腕に火傷を負った。スターバックとカシオピアはアテナをライフ・センターに運び極性熱ユニットに安置する。アダマの治療しながら、カシオピアは彼に投薬と痛み止めでアテナを命を救えるが、彼女の顔を元に戻すには大掛かりな形成外科手術が必要だと報告する。
アダマの悲劇はこれだけでは終わらなかった。息子のアポロはシェバの死に責任を感じ、ブルー中隊の指揮官を降りることを望んでいた。さらに、アダマ自身も罪悪感に苦しみ船団のリーダーとしての役を降り、信頼できるケイン司令官に代わること望んでいた。
しかし、アポロはケインが最後に会った時から何かが変わっていると疑念を抱いていた。だが、その疑念もケインの上級士官のレナタによって払拭される。彼女は"温かく、献身的で、男性に自信を持たせる方法をしっていた"。アポロは自分の使命は"彼女をあらゆる危険から守ること"だと信じるが、アポロとスターバックの反発は最高潮に達する。スターバックがペガサスとケインの欠点を挙げても、アポロは真面目に取り合おうとはしない。
スターバックは疑惑を晴らそうと船内を探索し、"陰謀の迷宮と（アルフレッド）・ヒッチコックからコーマまでを合わせた様な最高にサスペンスな世界で奇妙なことが進行中"であることを発見する。ペガサスの乗員は"奇妙な複数のラボ"を出入りしていた。スターバックは乗員は全てサイロンのアンドロイドに置き換えられようとしていることを発見する。ケインも既に置き換わっていた。スターバックはアポロに知らせようと急ぐ。その間、アポロはレナタにうかつにスターバックの"馬鹿げた用心深さ"を話していた。
レナタにスターバックの所在を聞かれたアポロは答える。彼女は乗員に"危険な侵入者"が船内に潜んでいると伝える。そして、彼女は自分は半分機械で半分人間のアンドロイドで、サイロンの新種であることを明かす。典型的な陳腐なやり方で、彼女とコロニアルがケイン司令官だと信じているアンドロイドは船団を徹底的に破壊すると明かす。
そのことが明らかになると、彼女はアポロを"光よりも速い"動きで絞め殺そうとするが、"不意を突いたカラテ・チョップ"で配線を破壊する。彼は腕を負傷しながらも、レーザー・ピストルで無力化する。スターバックの助けを得て、彼らはレナタを宇宙へ放り出す。彼女は通常の方法では殺すことはできない。
アポロとスターバックは肉弾戦でランチ・ベイまで辿りつき、ギャラクティカを"敵と化した伝説の司令官ケイン"から護る。
疑問点[edit]
- How did the Cylons manage to infiltrate Pegasus? Was this a result of the Battle of Gamoray?
- What happened to Colonel Tolan?
A Woman's Power[edit]
With Athena's appearance "restored through long and painstaking hours of plastic surgery and skin grafts" by both Cassiopeia and Lieutenant Boomer, she appears "prettier than before, but her looks are quite different". However, her body is badlyscarred and she thus resorts to clothing to cover the rest of her body.
Adama meets with the male members of his crew, handing out duty assignments and promoting Starbuck to Captain of Blue Squadron. The women, on the other hand, are organizing a campaign to change the way the Fleet has been run. Tired of war and its ill-effects, they want to achieve peace: to do this, they decide they will "withhold their favors and dispense with their domestic and fleet duties until peace is finally achieved".
Once more, Athena is asked by her fellow women to lead a meeting aboard Galactica, which she more than willingly accepts. As they debate this with themselves, activity within the Fleet has come to a standstill.
A furious Adama storms into Athena's meeting, notes the fact that they live in a militant society thanks to the Cylons, and lays down his ultimatum: resume their duties or be jailed. The women refuse and the movement's leaders are subsequently jailed, including Athena.
However, one of the leaders succeeds in extricating herself from the cell and, with a bomb strapped to her body, runs to the bridge, despite Athena's protestations.
The unnamed bomb-strapping woman makes it to the bridge, demanding that all prisoners be released. Additionally, she demands that the ships and provisions be relinquished for the purpose of getting their supporters away from the Fleet. Otherwise, she will destroy the bridge and cripple Galactica.
Apollo decides to speak to his sister, who explains the situation to her and inevitably convinces Athena to overcome her anger at what happened to her. She does so, admitting that her support for the women's cause was out of bitterness and anger, and convinces both sides to work together.
Questions[edit]
- In what capacity is Cassiopeia involved in this movement?
- Where exactly do these women believe they will go?
Island in the Sky[edit]
During a routine mission, Captain Starbuck and Apollo find themselves stuck on a "tiny barren planet with an incredibly strong gravitational pull". While they manage to land their Vipers on the ground, they immediately discover that they cannot move or live on the planet, until they are aided by humans equipped with a "protective aura about them" that shields them from the adverse gravity.
Starbuck and Apollo find themselves ushered to a beautiful valley with "green trees, brilliantly-colored flowers and a sparking blue river". Protected from the adverse gravity, the Warriors try to communicate with their saviors, only to find that they are a docile people who reply with smiles and "strange, changing songs".
Ushered to a small village that is "dominated by a handsome alabaster palace," they are presented to Prince Choi-Ling and Princess Quoi-Ling, both beautiful, Oriental-looking humans that appear to be only nineteen yahren. Quoi-Ling warmly welcomes them to the planet, but her brother does not share her same welcomeness.
In the resulting time on the planet, Apollo falls in love with Quoi-Ling and has easily resigned himself to the fact that they'll never leave. On the other hand, Starbuck finds himself unchallenged and seeks to understand where they are. In asking around, he discovers that the inhabitants of the strange paradise are outcasts from Earth and that the Lings know Earth's coordinates.
Through "his humor and guile," Starbuck learns how to counteract the field and their "dark secret ... one which even the most trusting will not reveal".
Starbuck convinces Apollo that they must leave; Apollo desires to take Quoi-Ling with him. Quoi-Ling reveals that such a thing is not possible, since she is nearly a thousand-yahren old and will die after leaving. Apollo and Starbuck regard this claim with disbelief, the latter believing that it's a trick to prevent them from leaving.
Having learned of their plans, Choi-Ling orders their imprisonment. However, this imprisonment is short-lived, as they escape with the help of Quoi-Ling. They reach their Vipers and leave the planet, taking Quoi-Ling with them. True to her claim, she rapidly ages and dies.
Questions[edit]
- Why do the Warriors need the Lings' knowledge of Earth's coordinates, given the events of "War of the Gods, Part II"?
- Why are they outcasts from Earth?
The Bad and the Brave[edit]
A devastating battle finds both Galactica and a Cylon baseship retreating from battle to repair their damaged ships.
To worsen matters, the battle resulted in damage to the Orphan Ship, which crashes on a small, tropical planet. After locating the ship, Adama is appalled that the baseship has also sought this planet as refuge to repair the ship.
To rescue the children, Starbuck and three Warriors equipped with armed turboscooters (the turbine, which is better known as the "turbocycle" from Galactica 1980) go to the planet. With the turboscooters, the Warriors are able to hamper the Cylons' efforts to repair their ships using guerrilla tactics.
Seeing this as successful, Starbuck desires to press on with the attacks, much to Athena's chagrin. Athena believes that Starbuck's grandstanding jeopardizes the children's lives. However, Starbuck finds that he cannot, for if the Cylons repair the basestar, it may spell doom for the entire Fleet.
A Plague in Space[edit]
Cassiopeia finds herself treating a young crew member who exhibits puzzling symptoms. The crew member, brought to the Life Station by Boomer, experiences swelling of the glands in his neck, a raging fever, and severe muscle cramps in the extremities. Unable to determine the cause of these symptoms, she instead treats the symptoms themselves.
Still curious about the cause, she pours through the medical knowledge in her library, where she discovers that a disease of a similar nature once existed on Kobol. The disease, a combination of the black plague and cholera, appears to have spread throughout the ship. Despite her quarantine of the crew member, another man was found dead in his bed, and Athena develops the sickness.
At Adama's behest, Boomer takes blood samples from everyone aboard and discovers that disease is spreading... and that Cassiopeia is Patient Zero.
A Queen's Ransom[edit]
Galactica needs to replace her solenium crystals, which are crucial to navigation. Apollo and Starbuck are ordered to investigate the planet, Sirenus, a planet that has these crystals. With a mining party of twenty men, they discover a female-dominated civilization where men are treated like slaves, who perform the menial work. While this civilization is cooperative and peaceful, the society's balance is overturned by the miners who incite the males to demand equal rights, and revolt as a result.
Galactica's men are ordered off Sirenus and its "lovely leader," Areola, holds the crystals. She uses these crystals to make a bargain: she will provide the crystals to Galactica in exchange for Starbuck, who wants him to be one of her concubines.