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Teaser

RDM: Hello, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Ronald D. Moore, executive producer and developer of the new Battlestar Galactica, here to welcome you to the podcast for what we call episode seventeen, "The Son Also Rises". I am joined here in my lovely home by my equally lovely wife, Mrs. Ron-

Terry: Love her or hate her.

RDM: Love her, or hate her.

Terry: (Chuckles.)

RDM: Just- but don't call her ditzy. Mrs. Ron- Say hello, Mrs. Ron.

Terry: Hello, Mrs. Ron. I'm gonna be very intellectual this time, I'm sure.

RDM: Yes. There are various dogs and cats wandering the room, randomly. The Scotch tonight is Highland Twentyfive, a very nice bottle of Scotch my wife lovely gave me.

Terry: For Valentine's Day.

RDM: For Valentine's Day. The smoking lamp is, unfortunately, out. Mrs. Ron-

Terry: Sorry.

RDM: Mrs. Ron doesn't join us when the smoking lamp is on- is lit.

OK. "Son Also Rises". This is the beginning of the finale, really. We snuck this in as a making the finale of the season a bit of a three parter, even though we never really said officially to the network that we were making a three parter. But it kinda is a three parter when all is said and done. And this is the first piece of it. As we approach the trial of Gaius Baltar, we knew that a couple of the things that we were pretty determined to do was to somehow bring one or more of our cast members into the courtroom, as participants. We knew that that was gonna be difficult and we came up with various and sundry ideas for how to legitimize the idea of some of our people being participants in the trial. And this was where we ultimately ended up. Initially, we had talked about Lee being the sole attorney for Baltar, and finding a way to justify that.

Terry: But that seemed a stretch?

RDM: That seemed too much of a stretch. We just couldn't really get there. But we also knew that as a practical matter, to do a TV series like this, to get to a place where we're gonna do a trial episode, in a series that's not setup to do a trial episode, it seemed wrong to have all the players in the courtroom. Players being the lawyers on either side and the judges, have them all be guest stars, 'cause none of your major characters would be utilized very well, and the drama would essentially- you'd be constantly pulling away from the trial to go service the other characters and find other things for them to do, where the meat of this story is really what's happening in the courtroom. So, we bit the bullet and said, "OK. There's gotta be a way to get Lee into that courtroom in a plausible scenario." And this was the scenario that we came up with, which is to start off as a guy doing security for Lampkin, and ultimately have him aid in Lampkin's defense. It also raised the question of how do we get anyone else. We all quickly loved the idea of having Adama be one of the judges, or be a judge.

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 Terry: Hello, Mrs. Ron. I'm gonna be very intellectual this time, I'm sure.
-RDM: Yes. There are various dogs and cats wandering the room, randomly. The Scotch tonight is Highland Twentyfive, a very nice bottle of Scotch my lovely got
+RDM: Yes. There are various dogs and cats wandering the room, randomly. The Scotch tonight is Highland Twentyfive, a very nice bottle of Scotch my wife lovely gave me.
+Terry: For Valentine's Day.
+RDM: For Valentine's Day. The smoking lamp is, unfortunately, out. Mrs. Ron-
+Terry: Sorry.
+RDM: Mrs. Ron doesn't join us when the smoking lamp is on- is lit.
+OK. "Son Also Rises". This is the beginning of the finale, really. We snuck this in as a making the finale of [[Season 3 (2006-07)|the season]] a bit of a three parter, even though we never really said officially to the network that we were making a three parter. But it kinda is a three parter when all is said and done. And this is the first piece of it. As we approach the trial of [[Gaius Baltar]], we knew that a couple of the things that we were pretty determined to do was to somehow bring one or more of our cast members into the courtroom, as participants. We knew that that was gonna be difficult and we came up with various and sundry ideas for how to legitimize the idea of some of our people being participants in the trial. And this was where we ultimately ended up. Initially, we had talked about [[Lee Adama|Lee]] being the sole attorney for Baltar, and finding a way to justify that.
+Terry: But that seemed a stretch?
+RDM: That seemed too much of a stretch. We just couldn't really get there. But we also knew that as a practical matter, to do a TV series like this, to get to a place where we're gonna do a trial episode, in a series that's not setup to do a trial episode, it seemed wrong to have all the players in the courtroom. Players being the lawyers on either side and the judges, have them all be guest stars, 'cause none of your major characters would be utilized very well, and the drama would essentially- you'd be constantly pulling away from the trial to go service the other characters and find other things for them to do, where the meat of this story is really what's happening in the courtroom. So, we bit the bullet and said, "OK. There's gotta be a way to get Lee into that courtroom in a plausible scenario." And this was the scenario that we came up with, which is to start off as a guy doing security for [[Romo Lampkin|Lampkin]], and ultimately have him aid in Lampkin's defense. It also raised the question of how do we get anyone else. We all quickly loved the idea of having [[William Adama|Adama]] be one of the judges, or be a judge.