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Nicholas Tyrol

2009-01-25T22:44:18Z

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| age=
| colony= [[New Caprica]]
| birthname= Nicholas Stephen Tyrol
| nickname=Nicky
| seen= Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance#Episode 1
| pseen= Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance, Part I
| death=
| parents= [[Galen Tyrol]] (father)<br/>[[Cally Tyrol]] (mother) †<br/>[[Hotdog|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]] (biological father)
| siblings=
| actor=[[Finn R. Devitt]]
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'''Nicholas Stephen Tyrol''' is the infant son of [[Cally Tyrol]] and [[Brendan Costanza]], originally believed to be the son of [[Galen Tyrol]].

He was born some time between the end of "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]" (c. day 680) and "[[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance#Episode 1|Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance, Part I]]" (c. day 727), and is [[Dedication ceremony|dedicated]] to the service of [[Ares]] and [[Apollo, Lord of Kobol|Apollo]] ([[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance#Episode 10|Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance, Part X]]).

Chief Tyrol tells [[Sharon Agathon]] that Nicholas is named after [[Cally Tyrol (grandfather of)|Cally's grandfather]] ([[Exodus, Part I]]).

When Cally finds out that her husband is a Cylon, she attempts to kill herself and her son. However, [[Tory Foster]], under the guise of dissuading her from her actions, takes Nicholas into her arms, only to [[Airlock|space]] Cally herself ([[The Ties That Bind]]).

He was originally thought to be a Cylon/human hybrid<ref>{{cite_rdm_podcast|episode=Frak Party Q and A|act=|id=hybridnick|timestamp=22:41|totalrunning=78:27}}</ref>, because his father Galen Tyrol is a [[Final Five|type of Cylon]] ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).

Following the days after they leave Earth, Galen Tyrol rushes into sickbay with Nicholas telling them he is "peeing blood" ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). Nurse [[Ishay]] and [[Dr. Cottle]] inform Galen Tyrol that his son is suffering from early renal failure but that treatment should prevent a damaged kidney. Things get more complicated when Tyrol corrects the medical team that his child is half-Cylon, and requires half-Cylon blood not human blood. Ishay tries to tell Cottle to inform Tyrol of something important only to be dismissed by Cottle. Cottle then proceeds to tell Tyrol privately that his late wife, Cally Tyrol, hid a secret: little Nicky is not Galen's biological child. When Tyrol asks who the father is, Cottle angrily declines that request until he can tell the birth father himself. Later Galen Tyrol and the biological father [[Brendan Costanza]] erupt into a fist fight at one of Baltar's services.

Later back in sickbay Nicholas is asleep in a hospital bed while Tyrol instructs Constanza on the very basics of being a father, then turns and leaves him to tend to his son. When Costanza asks how long he must sit at Nicky's bedside, Tyrol answers, "Until I get back. That'll be after I sober up."

== Notes ==
*Nicholas Tyrol was named after producer [[David Weddle]]'s maternal grandfather.<ref>{{cite companion|season=3|page=36}}</ref>

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Nicholas Tyrol

2009-01-25T22:43:28Z

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{{Character Data
| photo= Cally and Baby.png
| age=
| colony= [[New Caprica]]
| birthname= Nicholas Stephen Tyrol
| nickname=Nicky
| seen= Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance#Episode 1
| pseen= Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance, Part I
| death=
| parents= [[Hotdog|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]] (biological father)<br/>[[Cally Tyrol]] (mother) †<br/>[[Galen Tyrol]] (father)
| siblings=
| actor=[[Finn R. Devitt]]
}}
'''Nicholas Stephen Tyrol''' is the infant son of [[Cally Tyrol]] and [[Brendan Costanza]], originally believed to be the son of [[Galen Tyrol]].

He was born some time between the end of "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]" (c. day 680) and "[[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance#Episode 1|Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance, Part I]]" (c. day 727), and is [[Dedication ceremony|dedicated]] to the service of [[Ares]] and [[Apollo, Lord of Kobol|Apollo]] ([[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance#Episode 10|Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance, Part X]]).

Chief Tyrol tells [[Sharon Agathon]] that Nicholas is named after [[Cally Tyrol (grandfather of)|Cally's grandfather]] ([[Exodus, Part I]]).

When Cally finds out that her husband is a Cylon, she attempts to kill herself and her son. However, [[Tory Foster]], under the guise of dissuading her from her actions, takes Nicholas into her arms, only to [[Airlock|space]] Cally herself ([[The Ties That Bind]]).

He was originally thought to be a Cylon/human hybrid<ref>{{cite_rdm_podcast|episode=Frak Party Q and A|act=|id=hybridnick|timestamp=22:41|totalrunning=78:27}}</ref>, because his father Galen Tyrol is a [[Final Five|type of Cylon]] ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).

Following the days after they leave Earth, Galen Tyrol rushes into sickbay with Nicholas telling them he is "peeing blood" ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). Nurse [[Ishay]] and [[Dr. Cottle]] inform Galen Tyrol that his son is suffering from early renal failure but that treatment should prevent a damaged kidney. Things get more complicated when Tyrol corrects the medical team that his child is half-Cylon, and requires half-Cylon blood not human blood. Ishay tries to tell Cottle to inform Tyrol of something important only to be dismissed by Cottle. Cottle then proceeds to tell Tyrol privately that his late wife, Cally Tyrol, hid a secret: little Nicky is not Galen's biological child. When Tyrol asks who the father is, Cottle angrily declines that request until he can tell the birth father himself. Later Galen Tyrol and the biological father [[Brendan Costanza]] erupt into a fist fight at one of Baltar's services.

Later back in sickbay Nicholas is asleep in a hospital bed while Tyrol instructs Constanza on the very basics of being a father, then turns and leaves him to tend to his son. When Costanza asks how long he must sit at Nicky's bedside, Tyrol answers, "Until I get back. That'll be after I sober up."

== Notes ==
*Nicholas Tyrol was named after producer [[David Weddle]]'s maternal grandfather.<ref>{{cite companion|season=3|page=36}}</ref>

==References==
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Awards and Honors (RDM)

2008-09-14T18:06:30Z

Frór: /* 2008 Emmy Awards (Season 4) */

Ever since the [[Miniseries]] first aired, the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|re-imagined ''Battlestar Galactica'']] has been repeatedly honored both from within the sci-fi genre and from television critics with a wider scope. As well as the series as a whole, individual episodes, cast and crew have also been nominated for, and have also won, various '''awards and honors''' listed below.

==[[Wikipedia:Emmy Award|Emmy Awards]] ==
[[Image:Emmy.gif|right|100px]]
The Emmy® Awards are United States television production awards, similar to the [[Wikipedia:Peabody Awards|Peabody Awards]] but more focused on entertainment. The nominations below are for the annual '''Creative Arts''' Emmy awards, presented by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

===2004 Emmy Awards===
*'''Nominated''': The Battlestar Galactica [[Miniseries]], for ''Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special''

===2005 Emmy Awards (Season 1)===
*'''Nominated''': The season and series premiere "[[33]]", for ''Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series''
*'''Nominated''': The episode "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]", for ''Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series''

===2006 Emmy Awards (Season 2)===
*'''Nominated''': The season finale, "[[ Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]", for ''Outstanding Costumes for a Series''
*'''Nominated''': The episode "[[Scattered]]", for ''Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing for a Series''
*'''Nominated''': The episode "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]", for ''Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series''

===2007 Emmy Awards (Season 3)===
*'''Nominated''': The episodes "[[Occupation]]" and "[[Precipice]]", for ''Outstanding Writing For A Drama Series''
*'''Nominated''': The episode "[[Exodus, Part II]]", for ''Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series''
*'''Winner''': The episode "[[Exodus, Part II]]", for ''Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series''
*'''Nominated''': The episode "Exodus, Part II", for ''Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series''

===2008 Emmy Awards (Season 4) ===
*'''Nominated''': "[[Razor]]", for ''Outstanding Cinematography For A One-Hour Series''
*'''Nominated''': "Razor", for ''Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (One-Hour)''
*'''Nominated''': The episode "[[He That Believeth In Me]]", for ''Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Drama Series''
*'''Winner''': The episode "He That Believeth In Me", for ''Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series''
*'''Nominated''': The episode "[[Six of One]]", for ''Outstanding Writing For A Drama Series''
*'''Winner''': The "[[Razor Flashbacks#Episode 4: Free Fall|Razor Featurette #4]]", for ''Outstanding Special Class - Short-Format Live-Action Entertainment Programs''

==[[Wikipedia:Hugo Award|Hugo Awards]]==
[[Image:Hugo 05.JPG|right|100px]]
The '''Hugo Award''' is presented each year in recognition of outstanding work in science fiction. They are given for the best science fiction or fantasy works of the previous year and the awards are handed out at the annual [[Wikipedia:World Science Fiction Convention|World Science Fiction Convention, or "WorldCon"]].

===2005 Hugo Awards===
*'''Winner''': The first season premiere episode "[[33]]", for ''Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form''

===2006 Hugo Awards===
*'''Nominated''': The mid-season 2 cliffhanger episode "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]", for ''Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form''

===2007 Hugo Awards===
*'''Nominated''': The Season 2 episode "[[Downloaded]]", for ''Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form''

===2008 Hugo Awards===
*'''Nominated''': The Season 4 episode "[[Razor]]" (televised version) for ''Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form''

==[[Wikipedia:Peabody Award|Peabody Award]]==
[[Image:Peabodyaward.jpg|right|100px]]
The '''Peabody Awards''' are annual international awards given for excellence in radio and television broadcasting and cable television. The awards are generally regarded as "the most prestigious awards within the fields of broadcast journalism, documentary making, educational programming, children's programming, and entertainment."

===2006 Peabody Awards===
*'''Winner''': ''Battlestar Galactica'' and Sci Fi Channel received a 2006 Peabody Award for its "revitalized sci-fi television with its parallax considerations of politics, religion, sex, even what it means to be human." [http://www.peabody.uga.edu/news/pressrelease.asp?ID=135 Press release of winners].

==[[Wikipedia:Visual Effects Society Awards|Visual Effects Society Awards]]==
[[Image:Vesaward.jpg|right|100px]]
===2003 2nd Annual VES Awards===
*'''Winner''': [[Zoic|Zoic Studios]] for ''Outstanding Visual Effects in a Television Miniseries, Movie or a Special'', [[Miniseries]]
*'''Nominated''': Zoic Studios for ''Outstanding Compositing in a Televised Program, Music Video or Commercial'', Miniseries

===2004 3rd Annual VES Awards===
*'''Nominated''': Zoic Studios for ''Outstanding Performance by an Animated Character in a Live Action Broadcast Program'', episode "[[33]]", "[[Cylon Centurion|Cylon Character]]"

===2005 4th Annual VES Awards===
*'''Winner''': Zoic Studios for ''Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Broadcast Program, Commercial, or Music Video'', episode "[[Fragged]]", "Cylon Centurion"
*'''Nominated''': Zoic Studios for ''Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Broadcast Program, Commercial, or Music Video'', episode "[[Valley of Darkness]]", "Cylon"

===2006 5th Annual VES Awards===
*'''Winner''': [[Gary Hutzel]], Michael Gibson, Alec McClymont and Brenda Campbell for ''Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Series'', episode "[[Exodus, Part II]]"
*'''Winner''': Steve Graves, Jose Peretz, Mark Shimer and Steve Gravese Peretz for ''Outstanding Models and Miniatures in a Broadcast Program, Commercial, or Music Video'', episode "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]"
*'''Nominated''': Ryan Cronin, Louie Hinayo, Andy Asperin and Trevor Adams for ''Outstanding Performance by an Animated Character in a Live Action Broadcast Program, Commercial, or Music Video'', episode "[[Downloaded]]"
*'''Nominated''': Lane Jolly, Don Kim, Matt Smith and Chris Zapara for ''Outstanding Compositing in a Broadcast Program, Commercial, or Music Video'', episode "Resurrection Ship, Part II"

===2007 6th Annual VES Awards ===
*'''Winner''': Mike Gibson, Gary Hutzel, Sean Jackson and Pierre Drolet for ''Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Miniseries, Movie or a Special'', episode "[[Razor]]"
*'''Nominated''': Mike Gibson, Gary Hutzel, Michael J. Davidson and Kyle Toucher for ''Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Series'', episode "[[Maelstrom]]"

==[[Wikipedia:Saturn Award|The Academy of Science Fiction Fantasy & Horror Films Awards]]==
[[Image:Saturnaward.JPG|right|100px]]
The '''Saturn Award''' is an award presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films to honor the top works in science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film, television, and home video.

===2004 30th Annual Awards===
*'''Nominated''': [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Battlestar Galactica]] TV Series, for ''Best Television Presentation''
*'''Nominated''': [[Katee Sackhoff]] for ''Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series''
*'''Nominated''': [[Battlestar Galactica 1978 - The Complete Epic Series (Region 1 DVD)|"Battlestar Galactica Complete Epic Series"]] DVD Collection, for ''Best DVD Television Release''

===2005 31st Annual Awards===
*'''Winner''': Battlestar Galactica TV Series, for ''Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series''

===2006 32nd Annual Awards===
*'''Winner''': Battlestar Galactica TV Series, for ''Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series''
*'''Winner''': [[James Callis]] as [[Gaius Baltar]], for ''Best Supporting Actor on Television''
*'''Winner''': [[Katee Sackhoff]] as [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]], for ''Best Supporting Actress on Television''
*'''Nominated''': [[Jamie Bamber]] as [[Lee Adama|Lee "Apollo" Adama]], for ''Best Supporting Actor on Television''
*'''Nominated''': Battlestar Galactica, for ''Best DVD Television release'' Season 1 & 2.0 (Universal)

===2007 33rd Annual Awards ===
*'''Winner''': Battlestar Galactica TV Series, for ''Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series''
*'''Nominated''': [[Edward James Olmos]] as [[William Adama]], for ''Best Actor in a Television Program or Series''
*'''Nominated''': Katee Sackhoff as Kara "Starbuck" Thrace, for ''Best Actress in a Television Program or Series''
*'''Nominated''': James Callis as Gaius Baltar, for ''Best Supporting Actor on Television''

=== 2008 34th Annual Awards ===
*'''Nominated''': Battlestar Galactica TV Series, for ''Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series''
*'''Nominated''': "[[Razor]]", for ''Best Presentation on Television''
*'''Nominated''': Edward James Olmos as William Adama, for ''Best Actor in a Television Program or Series''

==[[w:Leo Awards|Leo Awards]]==
===2006 Leo Awards===
*'''Winner''': [[Tricia Helfer]] in ''Battlestar Galactica'' episode "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]" for [http://www.leoawards.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=61 Best Lead Performance By A Female in a Dramatic Series]

==[[w:Nebula Award|Nebula Awards]]==
===2007 Nebula Awards===
*'''Nominated''': "[[Unfinished Business]]", for ''Best Script''

==Miscellaneous==
===2005===
*[[Wikipedia:American Film Institute|American Film Institute's]] top 10 Television shows of the year 2005
*[[Wikipedia:American Film Institute|American Film Institute's]] Moments of significance 2005: Movies and Television Picture a Post 9/11 World
*[[Wikipedia:Time Magazine|Time Magazine's]] Best of 2005: Television (Position: #1) <ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1141640,00.html|title=Best of 2005: Television|date=2005-12-15|accessdate=2006-10-27|last=|first=|format=HTML|language=English}}</ref>
*[[Wikipedia:TV Guide|TV Guide's]] and [[Wikipedia:TV Land|TV Land's]] ''The 100 Most Unexpected TV Moments'' for "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]" (Position: #98)

===2006===
*[[Wikipedia:Salon.com|Salon.com]] recipient of the Buffy Award for Season 3 of Battlestar Galactica "the most underappreciated show in all of TV land"<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2006/08/26/buffy/|title=And the Buffy goes to...|date=2006-08-26|accessdate=2006-11-23|last=|first=|format=HTML|language=English}}</ref>

*[[Wikipedia:American Film Institute|American Film Institute's]] top 10 Television shows of the year 2006 (Position: #1)<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6169477.stm|title=BBC reports the American Film Institute's top 10 TV shows of the year|date=2006-12-11|accessdate=2006-12-12|last=|first=|format=HTML|language=en}}</ref>

*[[Wikipedia:Time Magazine|Time Magazine's]] Best of 2006: Television (Position: #7) <ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1570781,00.html|title=Best of 2006: Television|date=2006-12-17|accessdate=2007-01-14|last=|first=|format=HTML|language=English}}</ref>

*[[Wikipedia:IGN|IGN.COM Awards]]
**'''Winner:''' "Best Television Program", "Best Sci-Fi Series" and "Best storyline" (for the [[New Caprica]] arc)
**[[Wikipedia:IGN|IGN.com's]] recipient of the Editor's Choice Award for the Season 3 premiere "[[Occupation]]."<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://tv.ign.com/articles/737/737506p1.html|title=Battlestar Galactica: "Occupation/Precipice" Advance Review|date=2006-10-19|accessdate=2006-10-27|last=|first=|format=HTML|language=English}}</ref>
**[[Wikipedia:IGN|IGN.com's]] recipient of the Editor's Choice Award for the Season 3 episode "[[Exodus, Part II]]". <ref>{{cite_web|url=http://uk.tv.ign.com/articles/740/740459p1.html|title=Battlestar Galactica: "Exodus, Part 2" Advance Review|date=2006-10-19|accessdate=2006-10-27|last=|first=|format=HTML|language=English}}</ref>

===Various critic's Best of 2006===

*Arizona Republic (Position: #7)
*Chicago Tribune (Position: N/A)
*Entertainment Weekly's (Position: #3)
*Metacritic (Position: #2)
*Newsday (Position: #3)
*Pittsburgh Post Gazette (Position: #3)
*San Jose Mercury-News (Position: #5)
*TV Guide (Position: #5)
<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/tv/bests/2006/|title=Bests of 2006 Television|date=2006-12-17|accessdate=2007-01-14|last=|first=|format=HTML|language=English}}</ref>

===2007===
*[http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/calvins/ Calvin Awards] ''Best TV Show'' (Position: #1)

== Comments and Quotes ==

''I didn't get into this business to get awards or get acclamation. I did it because I was searching for my own sense of who I was as a human being....''<br/>
-- Edward James Olmos, (''[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/bts/interviews/olmos_QA.html Scifi.com] interview'')

==See Also==
*[[Awards and Honors (TOS)]]
*[http://www.emmys.tv/ The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences], home of the Emmy Awards
*[http://www.wsfs.org/hugos.html The Hugo Awards] information from the World Science Fiction Society, its official servicemark holder
*[http://www.peabody.uga.edu/ The Official Peabody Awards site]
*[http://www.vesawards.com/ The Visual Effects Society Awards]
*[http://www.saturnawards.org/index.html The Academy of Science Fiction Fantasy & Horror Films Awards] (Saturn Awards)

== References ==
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Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank

2008-06-16T12:35:56Z

Frór: /* Current ideas */

{{project|Think Tank|image=BSG WIKI ThinkTank.png|shortcut=BW:TANK}}

The '''Think Tank''' is a way to [[BW:BOLD|be bold]] and get other people to help in your quest to make bold actions on the wiki. The following are items that are considered major decisions which must go through the Think Tank vetting process prior to '''any''' implementation:

* New policy proposals.
* New projects.
* New templates.
* Extensive modifications to already existing policies.
* Anything considered major by administrator (and/or community) consensus.

Any of these must be proposed prior to implementation. This process ensures that the originator of the idea receives the proper feedback and that all ideas are properly fleshed out prior to any wiki-wide implementation. Basically, "let's make a plan before we hit the ground running".

= Procedures =

To propose a new idea, add the name of the idea below:

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#Save page, then re-edit. Fill out all applicable fields.
#Once you're done, save the page and add the following to '''Current ideas''':
#: <tt><nowiki>* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/name of idea]]</nowiki></tt>

== Instructions ==

The input of all interested members of the community is needed for the Think Tank to operate properly. Any user may comment on proposed ideas on the discussion page of the proposal. (Comments should not be added to the actual proposal itself. Also, do note that changes to the proposal itself should be made when consensus on debated items is determined.)

Should a vote be necessary to determine consensus, all administrators are required to vote on the proposal, using {{tl|oppose}}, {{tl|support}} or {{tl|neutral}}, with explainations on their vote.

For voting, a reasonable time frame must be put into place; the default deadline for voting on proposals should be seven days. When indicating a deadline, please include the date ''and'' time in UTC. Deadlines can be extended, but only if the necessity of such an action is determined by a majority.

== Administrator instructions ==

To determine consensus at the end of voting, add up the total number of support votes and divide by the total number of votes. Should the number meet or exceed 80%, then the Think Tank proposal passes. Anything between 45-55% of support will be considered as not having achieved consensus. '''Proposals that have not achieved consensus are to be shelved for a period time until it can be brought back into the light.'''

Once done, the proposals are to be archived for future reference, and separated into three groups: '''Successful proposals''', '''Unsuccessful proposals''', and '''Proposals without consensus'''.

To archive a page, add ''one'' the following to the top of each page:

# For successful proposals: {{tl|ttp}}
# For unsuccessful proposals: {{tl|ttu}}
# For proposals without consensus: {{tl|ttnc}}

And to all proposals, add the following to the ''bottom'': {{tl|ttf}}

= Ideas =

This is where all the ideas are located and, when applicable, archived.

== Current ideas ==
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Leaked Policy]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/"Answered Questions" section]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Family Trees]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Ticket System]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Episode airdate information]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Character Bio Project]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/References accessible to anyone]]

== Current ideas under Vote ==

== Past ideas ==

=== Successful proposals ===

* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Admin name change]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Translations Standards and Conventions]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Separate continuity change]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/TOS Article Pips]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Deletion Archives]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Red Link Policy]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/News Policy]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Video Ext]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/MySpace Presence]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/TV Companies]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Portal:Merchandise]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Username policy]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Episode pages are not forums]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Audio Clip Project]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Wiki Blog]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Things you just don't do, not even in war]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Leave of Absence]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Affiliate Stores]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Wikipedia Policies]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/DVD Project]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Audio Project]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Star of Kobol]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Episode Standardization]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Move Squad]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Cite Templates]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Official Representation]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Episode number links]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Biography Standardization]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/CSS Layout]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Separate continuity]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Fanwanking]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Q and A, Video Blogs, Etc. Project]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Galactica 1980 Improvement Project]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Sidebar Redesign]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Hulu Episodes]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Forum implementation]]

=== Unsuccessful proposals ===

* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Poll Template]] - Failed July 19, 2006
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Episode Transcripts]] - Failed October 10, 2006
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/RC Patrol]] - Failed October 23, 2006
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Image Cropping Promo Images]] - Failed September 20, 2006
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Rating System]] - Failed February 15, 2007
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Copyright Strategy]] -''de facto'' failure, April 11, 2007
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Errors Policy]] - Failed June 18, 2007
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/WGA Strike]] - Failed November 15, 2007

=== Proposals without consensus ===
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/User Spotlight]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/IRC]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Birthday in Quotes]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Links Discretion]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Lists of Unnamed characters]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/RfA Amendments]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/New User Survey]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Image Naming Conventions]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Goofs and Mistakes series]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Deletion discussions]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Research proposal for Cylon name]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Female Involvement]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Promotional Images]]
* [[Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/Archivestarwiki]]

: '''''Note:''' These proposals are rendered inactive. It is recommended that they are to stay that way for a pre-determined period of time, until they can be revisited with refreshed minds.''

Battlestar Wiki:Think Tank/References accessible to anyone

2008-06-16T12:19:40Z

Frór: New page

Currently the references section of a page is visible only for registered users, not to anyone.

=== {{SUBPAGENAME}} ===

When you're connected, there's no problem to see the references. But once disconnected, you can't have access to them without looking at the source of the page. My proposal means that, according to me, the references are so important to ensure the quality of this wiki that anyone should be able to see them, and to check the information.

; What is the benefit of this proposal to the wiki?
: More transparency to anyone, not just registered users.
; What is involved in implementing this idea?
: Don't know
; Who is going to do it?
: A programmer, or right manager : I don't know how all this is managed.
; Why should we do it at all?
: Because references are very important for BSGWiki, simple users should be able to verify statements as well.
; How will we use the idea?
: ?
; Should the proposal pass, when will work start on this idea?
: Any time. Even if it's something interesting to do, it's not urgent.
; Where will this idea be implemented? (e.g. Will it be on certain types of pages or the entire Wiki in general?)
: Entire Wiki

'''See also'''

[[Category:Think Tank proposals|{{SUBPAGENAME}}]]

List of character appearances (TRS)

2008-03-25T20:12:09Z

Frór: /* Season 3.0 */ Lucy Lawless was not in the 305 episode.

This page serves as a table matrix for when all supporting and minor cast members are ''seen'', not heard. One-shot characters are not in this list.

== Central Characters ==
{{mainarticle|Central character absences (RDM)}}
The central characters appear in most episodes, their absence being the exception rather than the rule.

==Supporting and minor characters==

'''X''' - Seen<br/>
''Empty Boxes'' - Not Seen<br/>

=== Season 1 ===

{| class="messagebox" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Episode → !! [[101]] !! [[102]] !! [[103]] !! [[104]] !! [[105]] !! [[106]] !! [[107]] !! [[108]] !! [[109]] !! [[110]] !! [[111]] !! [[112]] !! [[113]]
|-
| class="infoboxheader" align="center" | '''Character''' ↓
| colspan="13" | 
|-
| colspan="14" class="infoboxheader" | '''Supporting'''
|-
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Karl Agathon|all=Y}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Cottle|4=X|5=X|6=X|7=X|12=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Anastasia Dualla|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X|11=X|12=X|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Felix Gaeta|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X|7=X|9=X|10=X|11=X|12=X|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Cally Henderson|1=X|2=X|3=X|7=X|10=X|11=X|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Billy Keikeya|all=Y}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Saul Tigh|all=Y}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Galen Tyrol|all=Y}}
|-
| colspan="14" class="infoboxheader" | '''Minor'''
|-
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Leoben Conoy|8=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Brendan Costanza|4=X|5=X|6=X|10=X|12=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Crashdown|1=X|2=X|4=X|5=X|6=X|10=X|12=X|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Aaron Doral|3=X|6=X|8=X|9=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Margaret Edmondson|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Elosha|4=X|10=X|12=X|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Sergeant Hadrian|4=X|6=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Sekou Hamilton|6=X|7=X|8=X|10=X|11=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Louanne Katraine|4=X|10=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Playa Palacios|6=X|7=X|8=X|10=X|11=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Sarah Porter|10=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Diana Seelix|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Socinus|1=X|3=X|5=X|6=X|12=X|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Ellen Tigh|9=X|11=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Tom Zarek|3=X|11=X}}
|}

=== Season 2 ===

==== Season 2.0 ====

{| class="messagebox" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Episode → !! [[201]] !! [[202]] !! [[203]] !! [[204]] !! [[205]] !! [[206]] !! [[207]] !! [[208]] !! [[209]] !! [[210]]
|-
| class="infoboxheader" align="center" | '''Character''' ↓
| colspan="13" | 
|-
| colspan="11" class="infoboxheader" | '''Supporting'''
|-
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Karl Agathon|all=Y}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Cottle|3=X|4=X|7=X|8=X|9=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Anastasia Dualla|all=Y}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Felix Gaeta|all=Y}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Cally Henderson|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Billy Keikeya|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Saul Tigh|all=Y}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Galen Tyrol|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X}}
|-
| colspan="11" class="infoboxheader" | '''Minor'''
|-
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Noel Allison|10=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Samuel Anders|4=X|5=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Brendan Costanza|1=X|2=X|4=X|6=X|8=X|9=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Crashdown|1=X|2=X|3=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Aaron Doral|8=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Margaret Edmondson|1=X|3=X|4=X|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Elosha|4=X|5=X|6=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Anthony Figurski|9=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Sekou Hamilton|6=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Layne Ishay|1=X|2=X|3=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Louanne Katraine|1=X|2=X|6=X|8=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Aaron Kelly|1=X|2=X|8=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Playa Palacios|6=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Sarah Porter|3=X|6=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Diana Seelix|1=X|2=X|3=X|9=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Simon|5=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Socinus|1=X|2=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Ellen Tigh|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|8=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Tom Zarek|3=X|4=X|5=X|6=X|7=X}}
|}

==== Season 2.5 ====

{| class="messagebox" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Episode → !! [[211]] !! [[212]] !! [[213]] !! [[214]] !! [[215]] !! [[216]] !! [[217]] !! [[218]] !! [[219]] !! [[220]]
|-
| class="infoboxheader" align="center" | '''Character''' ↓
| colspan="13" | 
|-
| colspan="11" class="infoboxheader" | '''Supporting'''
|-
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Karl Agathon|11=X|12=X|13=X|15=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Cottle|11=X|13=X|14=X|17=X|18=X|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Anastasia Dualla|11=X|12=X|13=X|14=X|15=X|16=X|17=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Felix Gaeta|11=X|12=X|13=X|15=X|16=X|17=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Cally Henderson|11=X|13=X|17=X|19=X|20=X}}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Billy Keikeya|12=X|13=X|14=X|16=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Saul Tigh|all=Y}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Galen Tyrol|11=X|12=X|13=X|15=X|17=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
| colspan="11" class="infoboxheader" | '''Minor'''
|-
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Noel Allison|11=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Samuel Anders|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Jean Barolay|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Number Three|8=X|18=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Cavil|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Leoben Conoy|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Brendan Costanza|13=X|15=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Margaret Edmondson|13=X|14=X|19=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Tory Foster|17=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Hoshi|11=X|12=X|17=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Layne Ishay|18=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Louanne Katraine|11=X|12=X|13=X|15=X|16=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Hamish McCall|19=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Sarah Porter|17=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Ellen Tigh|16=X|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Tom Zarek|14=X|17=X|19=X|20=X}}
|}

=== The Resistance ===
{| class="messagebox" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Episode → !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! 9 !! 10
|-
| class="infoboxheader" align="center" | '''Character''' ↓
| colspan="13" | 
|-
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Jean Barolay|2=X|3=X|6=X|10=X}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Tucker Clellan|1=X|2=X|3=X|5=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Aaron Doral|7=X|8=X}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=James Lyman|1=X|2=X|3=X|5=X|6=X|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Nora|1=X|3=X|4=X}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Saul Tigh|1=X|2=X|3=X|6=X|7=X|10=X}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Cally Tyrol|1=X|4=X|5=X|10=X}}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Galen Tyrol|1=X|2=X|3=X|5=X|7=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Sister Tivenan|2=X|10=X}}
|}

=== Season 3 ===
==== Season 3.0 ====
{| class="messagebox" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Episode → !! [[301]] !! [[302]] !! [[303]] !! [[304]] !! [[305]] !! [[306]] !! [[307]] !! [[308]] !! [[309]] !! [[310]] !! [[311]]
|-
| class="infoboxheader" align="center" | '''Character''' ↓
| colspan="13" | 
|-
| colspan="12" class="infoboxheader" | '''Supporting'''
|-
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Karl Agathon|all=Y}}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Cottle|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Anastasia Dualla|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Felix Gaeta|1=X|2=X|4=X|5=X|6=X|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Cally Tyrol|1=X|2=X|3=X|5=X|6=X|9=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Saul Tigh|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X|6=X|8=X|9=X|10=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Galen Tyrol|all=Y}}
|-
| colspan="12" class="infoboxheader" | '''Minor'''
|-
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Noel Allison|3=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Samuel Anders|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X|9=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Jean Barolay|5=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Number Three|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|6=X|7=X|8=X|10=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Cavil|1=X|2=X|3=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Charlie Connor|3=X|4=X|5=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Leoben Conoy|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|6=X|7=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Brendan Costanza|6=X|7=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Margaret Edmondson|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|6=X|7=X|10=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Anthony Figurski|9=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Tory Foster|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X|8=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Hoshi|1=X|2=X|3=X|10=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Louanne Katraine|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|6=X|8=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Aaron Kelly|3=X|4=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Hamish McCall|1=X|2=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Diana Seelix|3=X|5=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Simon|1=X|2=X|4=X|6=X|7=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Ellen Tigh|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|9=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Tom Zarek|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X}}
|}

==== Season 3.5 ====
{| class="messagebox" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Episode → !! [[312]] !! [[313]] !! [[314]] !! [[315]] !! [[316]] !! [[317]] !! [[318]] !! [[319]] !! [[320]]
|-
| class="infoboxheader" align="center" | '''Character''' ↓
| colspan="13" | 
|-
| colspan="10" class="infoboxheader" | '''Supporting'''
|-
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Karl Agathon|12=X|13=X|14=X|15=X|17=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Cottle|13=X|14=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Anastasia Dualla|all=Y}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Felix Gaeta|12=X|13=X|14=X|15=X|17=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Cally Tyrol|12=X|14=X|15=X|16=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Saul Tigh|12=X|13=X|14=X|15=X|17=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Galen Tyrol|all=Y}}
|-
| colspan="10" class="infoboxheader" | '''Minor'''
|-
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Noel Allison|15=X|18=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Samuel Anders|12=X|13=X|14=X|17=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Jean Barolay|12=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Number Three|12=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Cavil|12=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Charlie Connor|14=X|19=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Leoben Conoy|12=X|17=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Brendan Costanza|15=X|17=X|18=X|19=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Margaret Edmondson|13=X|14=X|16=X|17=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Anthony Figurski|15=X|16=X|17=X|18=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Tory Foster|14=X|16=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Hoshi|12=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Layne Ishay|13=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Aaron Kelly|18=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Hamish McCall|14=X|16=X|18=X|19=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Playa Palacios|18=X|19=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Diana Seelix|15=X|16=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Tom Zarek|14=X}}
|}

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[[Category:Characters (RDM)|*]]
[[Category:Lists]]
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[[fr:Liste des apparitions des personnages (RDM)]]

Talk:List of character appearances (TRS)/Archive 1

2008-03-07T10:53:30Z

Frór: New section: Number Three ?

== Going to stop with these two ==
Because people need to be made aware of how to do these. [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 00:36, 15 February 2007 (CST)
:I like the format :) --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 05:30, 15 February 2007 (CST)
::Oh yeah. Tough list to do. :-) [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 08:04, 15 February 2007 (CST)

It looks messy having a little side table with Adama and Tigh in it. If youre going to do it properly in tables then include everyone. Also i think you should remove the circles so the gap is blank unless there is an X there. --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 08:30, 15 February 2007 (CST)
:Also why is season 2 split up? It was onl in the US that there was a 2.5, every other country in the world aired the series in full both as broadcast and on dvd. --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 08:34, 15 February 2007 (CST)
:1) To Long... 2) Circles Gone... 3) No more "Seen In Every Episode" table. :-) [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 08:37, 15 February 2007 (CST)

==Matrix Templates==
Nice work with the matrix templates, Shane, Catrope, et al. Can I ask what the distinction is between a "Major" and a "Minor" appearance? Credited in the opening vs. credited at the end? If so, since characters can alternate back and forth (Kat, for example) why not use a special icon or color code to indicate the size of the role, rather than use two rows? For example, we could use different colors for "Appears, but with body double", "Appears, but no lines", "Credited at end", "Credited at beginning" and "Special Guest". --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 12:08, 15 February 2007 (CST)
:If we really need a distinction, we could use the one from the character template: [[Template:Characters]]
:Anyone who has a large regular role, but isn't in the main credits is major. Tyrol, Helo, Cally, Gaeta, etc. Though maybe we should group them into "main", "supporting" and "recurring" too. That makes a bit more sense --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 12:13, 15 February 2007 (CST)
::What I'm saying is that that isn't possible to do objectively. When did Racetrack and Kat go from "recurring" to "supporting"? --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 12:15, 15 February 2007 (CST)
:::I'd say they are still supporting characters. I like Racetrack, but the number of scenes she carries is very low. Kat is more debatable as she had 1 1/2 episodes with a very large role. But you're right. It's hard to do in some cases --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 12:20, 15 February 2007 (CST)
::::Is it even an important distinction? I mean... when this thing gets going full steam splitting them into only two categories is still going to leave a VERY large list on one of the categories (whichever way you split it). Fortunately, it's pretty flexible such that we can easily subdivide it as needed. So... throw out all categories and sort by some criteria (first appearance then last name then first name, just names, etc.)? Add more categories? I think it'd help me visualize it better the more it gets filled out. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 12:21, 15 February 2007 (CST)
:::::Nah, we might as well drop it and just have "main cast" and "supporting cast". For now we should just fill it up and worry about this later --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 12:23, 15 February 2007 (CST)
::::::I agree with Serenity. If we want to get serious about this, we should get around to getting more data in there. Once we've got that, we can spend the upcoming nine-month break debating who's major and who isn't. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]] 14:37, 15 February 2007 (CST)
:BTW, Shane deserves credit for most of this stuff, I just copied his season 1 template and tweaked it a little to fit with Seasons 2 and 3. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]] 14:37, 15 February 2007 (CST)
::And... [[User:Darth Tytis|Darth Tytis]] gets the idea credit :-0 [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 19:40, 15 February 2007 (CST)
:::Don't forget he compiled the list of episodes Leoben appeared in in the first place. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]] 06:28, 16 February 2007 (CST)

== Similar article ==

I'll update this list a bit and use this as reference: [[List of Recurring Character Appearances (RDM)]]. When we're done here, that article will be redundant. Should we delete it then? Or maybe change it into an article for rare guest characters only like Hadrian, Ishay, Seelix and the like? --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 08:47, 18 February 2007 (CST)
:Now.. this should be better than that one. This is much easier to read. Transfer all. [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 09:03, 18 February 2007 (CST)

== Major/Minor distinction ==

Well, above we said that it's not really necessary, but I think it makes it easier to read. The problem is that the distinction isn't always that clear. I went large with the size of the role and its importance to the episode, so it's more or less recurring vs supporting. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 09:21, 18 February 2007 (CST)

: I think the distinctions are definitely useful, and generally well-made. I wonder at Cottle being "Major." I love the guy, and he's appeared in a lot of episodes, but his appearances are scarce enough that I'd consider him minor. And personally, I think Anders could probably be considered Major for Season Three. We probably want people fluctuating like that, going between Major and Minor between seasons, as it might confuse finding them in the tables. But considering his prominence in Season Three and his almost ensured importance for the rest of the series now that he's a Cylon, it seems reasonable to give him the nod as Major, even if it means his slot in Season Two will largely be blank. [[User:Alpha5099|Alpha5099]] 00:11, 9 May 2007 (CDT)

== Erm, Shane ==

Any particular reason why you removed Helo and Billy from Season 1? Btw, sorry I didn't continue this after doing seasons 1 and 2.0. If noone else does, I'll do it in the next few days. I just hope the [[List of Recurring Character Appearances (RDM)|reference]] I used is correct. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 17:36, 11 March 2007 (CDT)
:They were there the WHOLE season. :-) [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 17:49, 11 March 2007 (CDT)
::Yeah, but that's no reason to not note that somehow. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 17:55, 11 March 2007 (CDT)
:::Maybe a <code>|all=Y</code> var that just makes it fill up. [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 18:02, 11 March 2007 (CDT)
::::Yeah, that would be helpful, but it's also not hard to copy-paste it from somewhere else once such a case exists. I don't think there are many - aside from the main characters - who've been in all episodes --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 18:09, 11 March 2007 (CDT)

== Should there be a Main Character category? ==

Nothing in the title specifies only supporting cast, so it seems strange that the seven main characters aren't included. I realize that they appear in almost every episode, but there are occasional episodes without some of them, and I see no reason not to note those.

One issue this would raise, of course, is the distinction between Cylons. Do Boomer and Athena get separate lines? I think so. And if so, probably Gina should be added to Minor Characters. [[User:Alpha5099|Alpha5099]] 14:06, 8 May 2007 (CDT)
:We could and should include them. Reality is most people are too lazy to update this page. I might take a shot at it when I have time. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 15:39, 8 May 2007 (CDT)
:Yes, we are lazy, but it might also clutter up the page. Yeah, there are some episodes where someone is missing, but they are in 90+ % of the episodes. Basically I'm against adding them, but I wouldn't mind if there were a consensus for adding them either. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 15:48, 8 May 2007 (CDT)
::It's only 7 rows. We have tens of rows in there already. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 15:54, 8 May 2007 (CDT)
:::Five times 7 rows! That adds up. I see the point in not excluding them, but are in most episodes after all. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 15:56, 8 May 2007 (CDT)
::::But the same argument could be made for many of the "Major" characters. Helo, Chief, and Tigh have missed almost no episodes. The number they've missed is comparable to the number missed by "Main" characters. You could just as easily take them out. An episode without Apollo is just as noteworthy as an episode without Tigh. [[User:Alpha5099|Alpha5099]] 00:05, 9 May 2007 (CDT)
::::It should be noted that Season 2.0 alone lists 23 characters. We might as well list 30 there. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 08:35, 9 May 2007 (CDT)
:Not to drag and old horse, but include the top 6 main characters, Starbuck, Apollo, Husker, Roslin, Six, and Baltar, would just add a mess. Not including them was our correct approach in the end. [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 23:11, 29 December 2007 (CST)
::Because absence of the seven main characters was more the exception than the rule, I've created a subpage; [[Central Character absences (RDM)]]. It probably needs a check for its accuracy. [[User:OTW|OTW]] 10:55, 30 December 2007 (CST)
:::Good idea :) --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 10:57, 30 December 2007 (CST)
::::Should we do the same matrix idea, but mark X where they do not appear? [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 11:28, 30 December 2007 (CST)
:::::In my view, that's unnecessary, since it's fine the way it is now. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki — ''New'']</sup> 12:38, 30 December 2007 (CST)

== Number Three ? ==

Where is she ? She appears in at least 12 episodes. Why isn't she in the list ? Could you please add her ? [[User:Frór|Frór]] 04:53, 7 March 2008 (CST)

List of character appearances (TRS)

2008-03-07T10:51:51Z

Frór: /* Season 2.5 */

This page serves as a table matrix for when all supporting and minor cast members were ''seen'', not heard. One-shot characters are not in this list.

== Central Characters ==
{{mainarticle|Central character absences (RDM)}}
The central characters appear in most episodes, their absence being the exception rather than the rule.

==Supporting and minor characters==

'''X''' - Seen<br/>
''Empty Boxes'' - Not Seen<br/>

=== Season 1 ===

{| class="messagebox" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Episode → !! [[101]] !! [[102]] !! [[103]] !! [[104]] !! [[105]] !! [[106]] !! [[107]] !! [[108]] !! [[109]] !! [[110]] !! [[111]] !! [[112]] !! [[113]]
|-
| class="infoboxheader" align="center" | '''Character''' ↓
| colspan="13" | 
|-
| colspan="14" class="infoboxheader" | '''Supporting'''
|-
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Karl Agathon|all=Y}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Cottle|4=X|5=X|6=X|7=X|12=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Anastasia Dualla|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X|11=X|12=X|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Felix Gaeta|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X|7=X|9=X|10=X|11=X|12=X|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Cally Henderson|1=X|2=X|3=X|7=X|10=X|11=X|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Billy Keikeya|all=Y}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Saul Tigh|all=Y}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Galen Tyrol|all=Y}}
|-
| colspan="14" class="infoboxheader" | '''Minor'''
|-
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Leoben Conoy|8=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Brendan Costanza|4=X|5=X|6=X|10=X|12=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Crashdown|1=X|2=X|4=X|5=X|6=X|10=X|12=X|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Aaron Doral|3=X|6=X|8=X|9=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Margaret Edmondson|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Elosha|4=X|10=X|12=X|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Sergeant Hadrian|4=X|6=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Sekou Hamilton|6=X|7=X|8=X|10=X|11=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Louanne Katraine|4=X|10=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Playa Palacios|6=X|7=X|8=X|10=X|11=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Sarah Porter|10=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Diana Seelix|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Socinus|1=X|3=X|5=X|6=X|12=X|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Ellen Tigh|9=X|11=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Tom Zarek|3=X|11=X}}
|}

=== Season 2 ===

==== Season 2.0 ====

{| class="messagebox" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Episode → !! [[201]] !! [[202]] !! [[203]] !! [[204]] !! [[205]] !! [[206]] !! [[207]] !! [[208]] !! [[209]] !! [[210]]
|-
| class="infoboxheader" align="center" | '''Character''' ↓
| colspan="13" | 
|-
| colspan="11" class="infoboxheader" | '''Supporting'''
|-
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Karl Agathon|all=Y}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Cottle|3=X|4=X|7=X|8=X|9=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Anastasia Dualla|all=Y}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Felix Gaeta|all=Y}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Cally Henderson|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Billy Keikeya|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Saul Tigh|all=Y}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Galen Tyrol|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X}}
|-
| colspan="11" class="infoboxheader" | '''Minor'''
|-
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Noel Allison|10=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Samuel Anders|4=X|5=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Brendan Costanza|1=X|2=X|4=X|6=X|8=X|9=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Crashdown|1=X|2=X|3=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Aaron Doral|8=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Margaret Edmondson|1=X|3=X|4=X|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Elosha|4=X|5=X|6=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Anthony Figurski|9=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Sekou Hamilton|6=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Layne Ishay|1=X|2=X|3=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Louanne Katraine|1=X|2=X|6=X|8=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Aaron Kelly|1=X|2=X|8=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Playa Palacios|6=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Sarah Porter|3=X|6=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Diana Seelix|1=X|2=X|3=X|9=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Simon|5=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Socinus|1=X|2=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Ellen Tigh|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|8=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Tom Zarek|3=X|4=X|5=X|6=X|7=X}}
|}

==== Season 2.5 ====

{| class="messagebox" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Episode → !! [[211]] !! [[212]] !! [[213]] !! [[214]] !! [[215]] !! [[216]] !! [[217]] !! [[218]] !! [[219]] !! [[220]]
|-
| class="infoboxheader" align="center" | '''Character''' ↓
| colspan="13" | 
|-
| colspan="11" class="infoboxheader" | '''Supporting'''
|-
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Karl Agathon|11=X|12=X|13=X|15=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Cottle|11=X|13=X|14=X|17=X|18=X|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Anastasia Dualla|11=X|12=X|13=X|14=X|15=X|16=X|17=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Felix Gaeta|11=X|12=X|13=X|15=X|16=X|17=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Cally Henderson|11=X|13=X|17=X|19=X|20=X}}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Billy Keikeya|12=X|13=X|14=X|16=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Saul Tigh|all=Y}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Galen Tyrol|11=X|12=X|13=X|15=X|17=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
| colspan="11" class="infoboxheader" | '''Minor'''
|-
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Noel Allison|11=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Samuel Anders|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Jean Barolay|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Cavil|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Leoben Conoy|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Brendan Costanza|13=X|15=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Margaret Edmondson|13=X|14=X|19=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Tory Foster|17=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Hoshi|11=X|12=X|17=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Layne Ishay|18=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Louanne Katraine|11=X|12=X|13=X|15=X|16=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Hamish McCall|19=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Sarah Porter|17=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Ellen Tigh|16=X|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Tom Zarek|14=X|17=X|19=X|20=X}}
|}

=== The Resistance ===
{| class="messagebox" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Episode → !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! 9 !! 10
|-
| class="infoboxheader" align="center" | '''Character''' ↓
| colspan="13" | 
|-
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Jean Barolay|2=X|3=X|6=X|10=X}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Tucker Clellan|1=X|2=X|3=X|5=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Aaron Doral|7=X|8=X}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=James Lyman|1=X|2=X|3=X|5=X|6=X|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Nora|1=X|3=X|4=X}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Saul Tigh|1=X|2=X|3=X|6=X|7=X|10=X}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Cally Tyrol|1=X|4=X|5=X|10=X}}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Galen Tyrol|1=X|2=X|3=X|5=X|7=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Sister Tivenan|2=X|10=X}}
|}

=== Season 3 ===
==== Season 3.0 ====
{| class="messagebox" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Episode → !! [[301]] !! [[302]] !! [[303]] !! [[304]] !! [[305]] !! [[306]] !! [[307]] !! [[308]] !! [[309]] !! [[310]] !! [[311]]
|-
| class="infoboxheader" align="center" | '''Character''' ↓
| colspan="13" | 
|-
| colspan="12" class="infoboxheader" | '''Supporting'''
|-
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Karl Agathon|all=Y}}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Cottle|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Anastasia Dualla|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Felix Gaeta|1=X|2=X|4=X|5=X|6=X|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Cally Tyrol|1=X|2=X|3=X|5=X|6=X|9=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Saul Tigh|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X|6=X|8=X|9=X|10=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Galen Tyrol|all=Y}}
|-
| colspan="12" class="infoboxheader" | '''Minor'''
|-
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Noel Allison|3=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Samuel Anders|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X|9=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Jean Barolay|5=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Cavil|1=X|2=X|3=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Charlie Connor|3=X|4=X|5=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Leoben Conoy|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|6=X|7=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Brendan Costanza|6=X|7=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Margaret Edmondson|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|6=X|7=X|10=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Anthony Figurski|9=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Tory Foster|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X|8=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Hoshi|1=X|2=X|3=X|10=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Louanne Katraine|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|6=X|8=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Aaron Kelly|3=X|4=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Hamish McCall|1=X|2=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Diana Seelix|3=X|5=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Simon|1=X|2=X|4=X|6=X|7=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Ellen Tigh|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|9=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Tom Zarek|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X}}
|}

==== Season 3.5 ====
{| class="messagebox" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Episode → !! [[312]] !! [[313]] !! [[314]] !! [[315]] !! [[316]] !! [[317]] !! [[318]] !! [[319]] !! [[320]]
|-
| class="infoboxheader" align="center" | '''Character''' ↓
| colspan="13" | 
|-
| colspan="10" class="infoboxheader" | '''Supporting'''
|-
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Karl Agathon|12=X|13=X|14=X|15=X|17=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Cottle|13=X|14=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Anastasia Dualla|all=Y}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Felix Gaeta|12=X|13=X|14=X|15=X|17=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Cally Tyrol|12=X|14=X|15=X|16=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Saul Tigh|12=X|13=X|14=X|15=X|17=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Galen Tyrol|all=Y}}
|-
| colspan="10" class="infoboxheader" | '''Minor'''
|-
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Noel Allison|15=X|18=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Samuel Anders|12=X|13=X|14=X|17=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Jean Barolay|12=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Cavil|12=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Charlie Connor|14=X|19=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Leoben Conoy|12=X|17=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Brendan Costanza|15=X|17=X|18=X|19=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Margaret Edmondson|13=X|14=X|16=X|17=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Anthony Figurski|15=X|16=X|17=X|18=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Tory Foster|14=X|16=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Hoshi|12=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Layne Ishay|13=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Aaron Kelly|18=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Hamish McCall|14=X|16=X|18=X|19=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Playa Palacios|18=X|19=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Diana Seelix|15=X|16=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Tom Zarek|14=X}}
|}

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Characters|*]]
[[Category:Characters (RDM)|*]]
[[Category:Lists]]
[[Category:RDM|*]]

[[fr:Liste des apparitions des personnages (RDM)]]

List of character appearances (TRS)

2007-05-31T08:56:21Z

Frór:

:''This page serves as a table matrix for when all major and minor cast members were ''seen'', not heard. One-shot characters are not in this list.''

'''X''' - Seen<br/>
''Empty Boxes'' - Not Seen<br/>

== Season 1 ==

{| class="messagebox" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Episode → !! [[101]] !! [[102]] !! [[103]] !! [[104]] !! [[105]] !! [[106]] !! [[107]] !! [[108]] !! [[109]] !! [[110]] !! [[111]] !! [[112]] !! [[113]]
|-
| class="infoboxheader" align="center" | '''Character''' ↓
| colspan="13" | 
|-
| colspan="14" class="infoboxheader" | '''Major'''
|-
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Karl Agathon|all=Y}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Cottle|4=X|5=X|6=X|7=X|12=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Anastasia Dualla|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X|11=X|12=X|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Felix Gaeta|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X|7=X|9=X|10=X|11=X|12=X|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Cally Henderson|1=X|2=X|3=X|7=X|10=X|11=X|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Billy Keikeya|all=Y}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Saul Tigh|all=Y}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Galen Tyrol|all=Y}}
|-
| colspan="14" class="infoboxheader" | '''Minor'''
|-
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Leoben Conoy|8=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Brendan Costanza|4=X|5=X|6=X|10=X|12=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Crashdown|1=X|2=X|4=X|5=X|6=X|10=X|12=X|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Aaron Doral|3=X|6=X|8=X|9=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Margaret Edmondson|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Elosha|4=X|10=X|12=X|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Sergeant Hadrian|4=X|6=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Sekou Hamilton|6=X|7=X|8=X|10=X|11=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Louanne Katraine|4=X|10=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Playa Palacios|6=X|7=X|8=X|10=X|11=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Sarah Porter|10=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Diana Seelix|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Socinus|1=X|3=X|5=X|6=X|12=X|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Ellen Tigh|9=X|11=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Tom Zarek|3=X|11=X}}
|}

== Season 2 ==

=== Season 2.0 ===

{| class="messagebox" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Episode → !! [[201]] !! [[202]] !! [[203]] !! [[204]] !! [[205]] !! [[206]] !! [[207]] !! [[208]] !! [[209]] !! [[210]]
|-
| class="infoboxheader" align="center" | '''Character''' ↓
| colspan="13" | 
|-
| colspan="11" class="infoboxheader" | '''Major'''
|-
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Karl Agathon|all=Y}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Cottle|3=X|4=X|7=X|8=X|9=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Anastasia Dualla|all=Y}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Felix Gaeta|all=Y}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Cally Henderson|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Billy Keikeya|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Saul Tigh|all=Y}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Galen Tyrol|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X}}
|-
| colspan="11" class="infoboxheader" | '''Minor'''
|-
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Noel Allison|10=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Samuel Anders|4=X|5=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Brendan Costanza|1=X|2=X|4=X|6=X|8=X|9=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Crashdown|1=X|2=X|3=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Aaron Doral|8=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Margaret Edmondson|1=X|3=X|4=X|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Elosha|4=X|5=X|6=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Anthony Figurski|9=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Sekou Hamilton|6=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Layne Ishay|1=X|2=X|3=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Louanne Katraine|1=X|2=X|6=X|8=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Aaron Kelly|1=X|2=X|8=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Playa Palacios|6=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Sarah Porter|3=X|6=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Diana Seelix|1=X|2=X|3=X|9=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Simon|5=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Socinus|1=X|2=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Ellen Tigh|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|8=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Tom Zarek|3=X|4=X|5=X|6=X|7=X}}
|}

=== Season 2.5 ===

{| class="messagebox" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Episode → !! [[211]] !! [[212]] !! [[213]] !! [[214]] !! [[215]] !! [[216]] !! [[217]] !! [[218]] !! [[219]] !! [[220]]
|-
| class="infoboxheader" align="center" | '''Character''' ↓
| colspan="13" | 
|-
| colspan="11" class="infoboxheader" | '''Major'''
|-
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Karl Agathon|11=X|12=X|13=X|15=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Cottle|11=X|13=X|14=X|17=X|18=X|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Anastasia Dualla|11=X|12=X|13=X|14=X|15=X|16=X|17=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Felix Gaeta|11=X|12=X|13=X|15=X|16=X|17=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Cally Henderson|11=X|13=X|17=X|19=X|20=X}}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Billy Keikeya|12=X|13=X|14=X|16=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Saul Tigh|all=Y}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Galen Tyrol|11=X|12=X|13=X|15=X|17=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
| colspan="11" class="infoboxheader" | '''Minor'''
|-
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Noel Allison|11=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Samuel Anders|18=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Jean Barolay|18=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Cavil|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Leoben Conoy|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Brendan Costanza|13=X|15=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Margaret Edmondson|13=X|14=X|19=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Tory Foster|17=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Hoshi|11=X|12=X|17=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Layne Ishay|18=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Louanne Katraine|11=X|12=X|13=X|15=X|16=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Hamish McCall|19=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Sarah Porter|17=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Ellen Tigh|16=X|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Tom Zarek|14=X|17=X|19=X|20=X}}
|}

== The Resistance ==
{| class="messagebox" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Episode → !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! 9 !! 10
|-
| class="infoboxheader" align="center" | '''Character''' ↓
| colspan="13" | 
|-
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Jean Barolay|2=X|3=X|6=X|10=X}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Tucker Clellan|1=X|2=X|3=X|5=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Aaron Doral|7=X|8=X}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=James Lyman|1=X|2=X|3=X|5=X|6=X|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Nora|1=X|3=X|4=X}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Saul Tigh|1=X|2=X|3=X|6=X|7=X|10=X}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Cally Tyrol|1=X|4=X|5=X|10=X}}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Galen Tyrol|1=X|2=X|3=X|5=X|7=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Sister Tivenan|2=X|10=X}}
|}

== Season 3 ==
=== Season 3.0 ===
{| class="messagebox" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Episode → !! [[301]] !! [[302]] !! [[303]] !! [[304]] !! [[305]] !! [[306]] !! [[307]] !! [[308]] !! [[309]] !! [[310]] !! [[311]]
|-
| class="infoboxheader" align="center" | '''Character''' ↓
| colspan="13" | 
|-
| colspan="12" class="infoboxheader" | '''Major'''
|-
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Karl Agathon|all=Y}}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Cottle|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Anastasia Dualla|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Felix Gaeta|1=X|2=X|4=X|5=X|6=X|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Cally Tyrol|1=X|2=X|3=X|5=X|6=X|9=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Saul Tigh|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X|6=X|8=X|9=X|10=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Galen Tyrol|all=Y}}
|-
| colspan="12" class="infoboxheader" | '''Minor'''
|-
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Noel Allison|3=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Samuel Anders|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X|9=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Jean Barolay|5=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Cavil|1=X|2=X|3=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Charlie Connor|3=X|4=X|5=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Leoben Conoy|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|6=X|7=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Brendan Costanza|6=X|7=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Margaret Edmondson|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|6=X|7=X|10=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Anthony Figurski|9=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Tory Foster|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X|8=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Hoshi|1=X|2=X|3=X|10=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Louanne Katraine|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|6=X|8=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Aaron Kelly|3=X|4=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Hamish McCall|1=X|2=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Diana Seelix|3=X|5=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Simon|1=X|2=X|4=X|6=X|7=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Ellen Tigh|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|9=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Tom Zarek|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X}}
|}

=== Season 3.5 ===
{| class="messagebox" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Episode → !! [[312]] !! [[313]] !! [[314]] !! [[315]] !! [[316]] !! [[317]] !! [[318]] !! [[319]] !! [[320]]
|-
| class="infoboxheader" align="center" | '''Character''' ↓
| colspan="13" | 
|-
| colspan="10" class="infoboxheader" | '''Major'''
|-
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Karl Agathon|12=X|13=X|14=X|15=X|17=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Cottle|13=X|14=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Anastasia Dualla|all=Y}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Felix Gaeta|12=X|13=X|14=X|15=X|17=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Cally Tyrol|12=X|14=X|15=X|16=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Saul Tigh|12=X|13=X|14=X|15=X|17=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Galen Tyrol|all=Y}}
|-
| colspan="10" class="infoboxheader" | '''Minor'''
|-
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Noel Allison|15=X|18=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Samuel Anders|12=X|13=X|14=X|17=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Jean Barolay|12=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Cavil|12=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Charlie Connor|14=X|19=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Leoben Conoy|12=X|17=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Brendan Costanza|15=X|17=X|18=X|19=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Margaret Edmondson|13=X|14=X|16=X|17=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Anthony Figurski|15=X|16=X|17=X|18=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Tory Foster|14=X|16=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Hoshi|12=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Layne Ishay|13=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Aaron Kelly|18=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Hamish McCall|14=X|16=X|18=X|19=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Playa Palacios|18=X|19=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Diana Seelix|15=X|16=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Tom Zarek|14=X}}
|}

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[[fr:Liste des apparitions des personnages (RDM)]]

List of character appearances (TRS)

2007-05-07T19:25:34Z

Frór: /* Season 1 */

:''This page serves as a table matrix for when all major and minor cast members were ''seen'', not heard. One-shot characters are not in this list.''

'''X''' - Seen<br/>
''Empty Boxes'' - Not Seen<br/>

== Season 1 ==

{| class="messagebox" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Character !! [[101]] !! [[102]] !! [[103]] !! [[104]] !! [[105]] !! [[106]] !! [[107]] !! [[108]] !! [[109]] !! [[110]] !! [[111]] !! [[112]] !! [[113]]
|-
| colspan="14" class="infoboxheader" | '''Major'''
|-
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Karl Agathon|all=Y}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Cottle|4=X|5=X|6=X|7=X|12=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Anastasia Dualla|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X|11=X|12=X|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Felix Gaeta|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X|7=X|9=X|10=X|11=X|12=X|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Cally Henderson|1=X|2=X|3=X|7=X|10=X|11=X|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Billy Keikeya|all=Y}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Saul Tigh|all=Y}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Galen Tyrol|all=Y}}
|-
| colspan="14" class="infoboxheader" | '''Minor'''
|-
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Leoben Conoy|8=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Brendan Costanza|4=X|5=X|6=X|10=X|12=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Crashdown|1=X|2=X|4=X|5=X|6=X|10=X|12=X|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Aaron Doral|3=X|6=X|8=X|9=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Margaret Edmondson|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Elosha|4=X|10=X|12=X|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Sergeant Hadrian|4=X|6=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Sekou Hamilton|6=X|7=X|8=X|10=X|11=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Louanne Katraine|4=X|10=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Playa Palacios|6=X|7=X|8=X|10=X|11=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Sarah Porter|10=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Diana Seelix|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Socinus|1=X|3=X|5=X|6=X|12=X|13=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Ellen Tigh|9=X|11=X}}
{{Season 1 Matrix|name=Tom Zarek|3=X|11=X}}
|}

== Season 2 ==

=== Season 2.0 ===

{| class="messagebox" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Character !! [[201]] !! [[202]] !! [[203]] !! [[204]] !! [[205]] !! [[206]] !! [[207]] !! [[208]] !! [[209]] !! [[210]]
|-
| colspan="11" class="infoboxheader" | '''Major'''
|-
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Karl Agathon|all=Y}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Cottle|3=X|4=X|7=X|8=X|9=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Anastasia Dualla|all=Y}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Felix Gaeta|all=Y}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Cally Henderson|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Billy Keikeya|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Saul Tigh|all=Y}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Galen Tyrol|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X}}
|-
| colspan="11" class="infoboxheader" | '''Minor'''
|-
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Noel Allison|10=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Samuel Anders|4=X|5=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Brendan Costanza|1=X|2=X|4=X|6=X|8=X|9=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Crashdown|1=X|2=X|3=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Aaron Doral|8=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Margaret Edmondson|1=X|3=X|4=X|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Elosha|4=X|5=X|6=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Anthony Figurski|9=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Sekou Hamilton|6=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Layne Ishay|1=X|2=X|3=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Louanne Katraine|1=X|2=X|6=X|8=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Aaron Kelly|1=X|2=X|8=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Playa Palacios|6=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Sarah Porter|3=X|6=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Diana Seelix|1=X|2=X|3=X|9=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Simon|5=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Socinus|1=X|2=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Ellen Tigh|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|8=X}}
{{Season 2.0 Matrix|name=Tom Zarek|3=X|4=X|5=X|6=X|7=X}}
|}

=== Season 2.5 ===

{| class="messagebox" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Character !! [[211]] !! [[212]] !! [[213]] !! [[214]] !! [[215]] !! [[216]] !! [[217]] !! [[218]] !! [[219]] !! [[220]]
|-
| colspan="11" class="infoboxheader" | '''Major'''
|-
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Karl Agathon|11=X|12=X|13=X|15=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Cottle|11=X|13=X|14=X|17=X|18=X|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Anastasia Dualla|11=X|12=X|13=X|14=X|15=X|16=X|17=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Felix Gaeta|11=X|12=X|13=X|15=X|16=X|17=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Cally Henderson|11=X|13=X|17=X|19=X|20=X}}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Billy Keikeya|12=X|13=X|14=X|16=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Saul Tigh|all=Y}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Galen Tyrol|11=X|12=X|13=X|15=X|17=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
| colspan="11" class="infoboxheader" | '''Minor'''
|-
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Noel Allison|11=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Samuel Anders|18=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Jean Barolay|18=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Cavil|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Leoben Conoy|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Brendan Costanza|13=X|15=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Margaret Edmondson|13=X|14=X|19=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Tory Foster|17=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Hoshi|11=X|12=X|17=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Layne Ishay|18=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Louanne Katraine|11=X|12=X|13=X|15=X|16=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Hamish McCall|19=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Sarah Porter|17=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Ellen Tigh|16=X|20=X}}
{{Season 2.5 Matrix|name=Tom Zarek|14=X|17=X|19=X|20=X}}
|}

== The Resistance ==
{| class="messagebox" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Character !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! 9 !! 10
|-
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Jean Barolay|2=X|3=X|6=X|10=X}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Tucker Clellan|1=X|2=X|3=X|5=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Aaron Doral|7=X|8=X}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=James Lyman|1=X|2=X|3=X|5=X|6=X|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Nora|1=X|3=X|4=X}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Saul Tigh|1=X|2=X|3=X|6=X|7=X|10=X}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Cally Tyrol|1=X|4=X|5=X|10=X}}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Galen Tyrol|1=X|2=X|3=X|5=X|7=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{The Resistance Matrix|name=Sister Tivenan|2=X|10=X}}
|}

== Season 3 ==
=== Season 3.0 ===
{| class="messagebox" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Character !! [[301]] !! [[302]] !! [[303]] !! [[304]] !! [[305]] !! [[306]] !! [[307]] !! [[308]] !! [[309]] !! [[310]] !! [[311]]
|-
| colspan="12" class="infoboxheader" | '''Major'''
|-
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Karl Agathon|all=Y}}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Cottle|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Anastasia Dualla|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Felix Gaeta|1=X|2=X|4=X|5=X|6=X|7=X|8=X|9=X|10=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Cally Tyrol|1=X|2=X|3=X|5=X|6=X|9=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Saul Tigh|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X|6=X|8=X|9=X|10=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Galen Tyrol|all=Y}}
|-
| colspan="12" class="infoboxheader" | '''Minor'''
|-
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Noel Allison|3=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Samuel Anders|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X|9=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Jean Barolay|5=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Cavil|1=X|2=X|3=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Charlie Connor|3=X|4=X|5=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Leoben Conoy|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|6=X|7=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Brendan Costanza|6=X|7=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Margaret Edmondson|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|6=X|7=X|10=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Anthony Figurski|9=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Tory Foster|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X|8=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Hoshi|1=X|2=X|3=X|10=X|11=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Louanne Katraine|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|6=X|8=X|9=X|10=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Aaron Kelly|3=X|4=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Hamish McCall|1=X|2=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Diana Seelix|3=X|5=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Simon|1=X|2=X|4=X|6=X|7=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Ellen Tigh|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|9=X}}
{{Season 3.0 Matrix|name=Tom Zarek|1=X|2=X|3=X|4=X|5=X}}
|}

=== Season 3.5 ===
{| class="messagebox" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Character !! [[312]] !! [[313]] !! [[314]] !! [[315]] !! [[316]] !! [[317]] !! [[318]] !! [[319]] !! [[320]]
|-
| colspan="10" class="infoboxheader" | '''Major'''
|-
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Karl Agathon|12=X|13=X|14=X|15=X|17=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Cottle|13=X|14=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Anastasia Dualla|all=Y}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Felix Gaeta|12=X|13=X|14=X|15=X|17=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Cally Tyrol|12=X|14=X|15=X|16=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Saul Tigh|12=X|13=X|14=X|15=X|17=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Galen Tyrol|all=Y}}
|-
| colspan="10" class="infoboxheader" | '''Minor'''
|-
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Noel Allison|15=X|18=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Samuel Anders|12=X|13=X|14=X|17=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Jean Barolay|12=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Cavil|12=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Charlie Connor|14=X|19=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Leoben Conoy|12=X|17=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Brendan Costanza|15=X|17=X|18=X|19=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Margaret Edmondson|13=X|14=X|16=X|17=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Anthony Figurski|15=X|16=X|17=X|18=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Tory Foster|14=X|16=X|18=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Hoshi|12=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Layne Ishay|13=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Aaron Kelly|18=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Hamish McCall|14=X|16=X|18=X|19=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Playa Palacios|18=X|19=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Diana Seelix|15=X|16=X|19=X|20=X}}
{{Season 3.5 Matrix|name=Tom Zarek|14=X}}
|}

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Crossroads, Part II

2007-04-27T14:28:23Z

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{{Episode Data
| title= Crossroads, Part II
| image= 3x20-CrossroadsPartII-BaltarSixHera.jpg
| season= 3
| episode= 20
| guests=
| writer= [[Mark Verheiden]]
| story=
| director= [[Michael Rymer]]
| production= 320
| rating=1.2
| US airdate= 2007-03-25
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| podcast=y
| extra= '''Season Finale - 50 Minute Episode'''
| prev= [[Crossroads, Part I]]
| next= [[4.00]]
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== Overview ==
:''As Gaeta testifies against Baltar about the execution list that the accused signed on New Caprica, Roslin finds a disturbing link between her dreams and the [[Opera House]] on Kobol. Lee Adama turns around the trial with an unusual move, and several people make a disturbing discovery about themselves.''

== Summary ==

===Teaser===
*[[Admiral Adama]] shaves, cutting himself when the lights flicker.
*[[Laura Roslin]] calls, seeking a bit of humorous motivation to get out of bed and face the [[Crossroads, Part I|trial]] again, which she does not relish.
*After one feeble attempt, Adama manages "get your fat, lazy ass out of that rack, Roslin!" which makes Roslin laugh and give a heartfelt thank you. Adama tells her, "Don't let 'em see you sweat, Laura."
*[[Samuel Anders]] and [[Tory Foster]] are sexually engaged when she hears a [[The Music|strange music]]. When she notes it to Anders, he's surprised at the revelation, having heard it before himself.
*[[Diana Seelix]] knocks on the duty locker door and Anders opens it. An uncomfortable silence between Seelix, Anders and Foster begins.
*[[Galen Tyrol]] is half-asleep, humming the music. He leaves his bed and quarters and goes to a section of ventilation to hear the music elsewhere on ''[[Galactica]]''.
*[[Lee Adama]] recommends pursuing a mistrial for [[Gaius Baltar]], using his grandfather's written advice, believing that their successes are actually worsening the issue. Baltar is incensed at the suggestion, believing that Adama wants to leave the case.
*[[Romo Lampkin]], Baltar's attorney, is inclined to agree with Adama, but young Adama's comment about his father's words about the "treacherous" Baltar leaves him to ponder.
*Baltar doesn't want to repeat the terror he's experienced in the time before the trial.
*[[Racetrack]] is training Seelix, Anders, and other [[Raptor]] [[nugget]]s, when Anders overhears Chief Tyrol humming. Together, they realize that the melody feels like something out of childhood, and they hear only a part of the melody.
*Before they can analyze further, Racetrack yells for Anders to return to the group.

===Act 1===
*Roslin takes [[diloxin]] treatment in [[sickbay]]. As she lies down and dreams, she experiences the same dream as [[Sharon Agathon]], also in sickbay with [[Hera Agathon|her daughter]], and both scream simultaneously. The two ask to talk privately.
*Later, Roslin and Sharon Agathon meet with [[Caprica-Six]], who has also experienced the dreams. When asked why Six is trying to reach Hera, she says that she felt she had to protect her "with (my) life."
*[[Saul Tigh]] tells Admiral Adama about the music. The admiral tells Tigh that he will look into it later as he leaves for court.
*The trial resumes. Lt. [[Felix Gaeta]] is on the stand. The [[Precipice|execution order]] from [[New Caprica]] is admitted as evidence by [[Cassidy]], the prosecutor.
*Gaeta lies, as viewers are shown the actual events where Baltar is forced to sign at gunpoint, where Gaeta says that Baltar did not resist.
*Lampkin chooses not to cross-examine, to Baltar's great horror. The prosecution rests.

===Act 2===
*After a recess, the defense begins its case.
*Lampkin motions for a mistrial, as Baltar objects, due to prejudicial comments by Admiral Adama four days before. He asks for Mr. Lee Adama to take the stand.
*The prosecuting attorney strongly objects, but after Lampkin warns of much case law (he can think of seven examples off the top of his head) that permits such a procedure, the tribunal allows Mr. Adama to testify.
*Mr. Adama refuses to confirm his father's comments. As Lampkin tries to intimidate Mr. Adama, he restates, asking if Baltar deserves a fair trial.
*Asked why, Mr. Adama believes Baltar is not guilty, but Admiral Adama asks for the questioning to continue.
*Pressed for more clarification, Mr. Adama states that Baltar did not commit treason. He asks the tribunal what anyone else would do in that situation. He notes that all other conspirators and resistance fighters were pardoned, as were many, many other mistakes of the past, from [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I|Roslin]], to [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|Admiral Adama]], and himself in the destruction of the ''[[Olympic Carrier]]'' and running from [[New Caprica]], recommending never to return with [[Pegasus (RDM)|his battlestar]].
*Mr. Adama believes that new laws are needed because they are less of a civilization now and more of a gang. He states that, unlike everyone else, Baltar is being prosecuted because of his arrogance and other considerable character flaws and is not being accorded the same forgiveness as others.
*Adama believes that the trial is built on emotions and shame from the events of New Caprica, and the shame of those that ran away. Mr. Adama looks to his father as he speaks.
*He believes that Baltar is a scapegoat for all the guilt of the people.
*The prosecuting attorney does not cross-examine, and the defense rests.
*The tribunal steps out to deliberate as Roslin steps down to congratulate Cassidy for her work.

===Act 3===
*Baltar is acquitted, 3 votes to 2 against. Yelling turns into a riot in the gallery as marines try to get Baltar to safety while the [[Fleet News Service|press]] tries to interview many players.
*Baltar is happily discussing the victory but makes a mistake in insulting Admiral Adama. Lee Adama warns him, "Don't push it, doctor."
*When Baltar asks Lampkin to aid him in a book tour and other profitable matters, Lampkin tells him that his association with Baltar is over.
*Baltar suddenly realizes that, despite his apparent freedom, he is a man without a country, without work, friends, or even quarters.
*Lampkin and Mr. Adama say their goodbyes. Lee Adama, on seeing Lampkin walking away without his cane, realizes that he had used the cane as yet another psychological tactic.
*Gaius Baltar tries to be inconspicuous as he moves files elsewhere, but all eyes are on him.
*Roslin and Admiral Adama speak in [[CIC]]. She is incensed at the verdict. Adama reminds Roslin that "not guilty" does not mean "innocent."
*Roslin assumes that Adama cast a guilty vote, when, to Roslin's shock and anger, the admiral states he voted not guilty, feeling that the prosecution failed to make their case.
*Adama tells Roslin that no one is asking anyone to forgive or forget, but they must look to the future.
*Adama orders the last jump to the [[Ionian nebula]]. The jump is successful, and Adama orders a [[DRADIS]] scan when Roslin becomes immediately dazed and stunned.
*As Admiral Adama looks to Roslin to check on her health, main power on every ship of the Fleet fails, leaving each one, including ''Galactica'', drifting dangerously close to each other.

===Act 4===
*Pilots scramble with [[flashlight]]s to their stations while CIC tries to get to auxiliary power, but battery power is the best they can muster.
*The scene shifts to a dream in the [[Opera House]] again, with Gaius Baltar holding Hera and Caprica-Six next to him. Above them, the glowing images of the [[Final Five]] appear. Caprica-Six awakens from the dream.
*Baltar tries to take advantage of the darkness and chaos when three women confront him. Frightened, Baltar is told by the women that they will take him to safety.
*The mysterious music gets louder, and Tigh, Galen Tyrol, Tory Foster and Anders begin quoting lyrics from an [[The Music|increasingly coherent melody]].
*As viewers watch, the music becomes louder and more dynamic. Each of the four are drawn to the gym on ''Galactica'', where they discover each other. Each are stunned and shocked.
*Tyrol believes the impossible; that all of them are [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]. Each of them begin to hum the music, together, coherently, in full. Tigh angrily stops them and closes the hatches while they talk.
*Tigh states his time in service, and his history, trying to believe that none of it was in vain. Anders objects as well.
*As power is restored, DRADIS picks up a large Cylon fleet coming their way. [[Viper (RDM)|Vipers]] manage to scramble. [[Helo]], as acting XO, notes the mass power outage will mean that it will take at least 20 minutes for the [[FTL]] jump drives on the civilian ships to be ready. The admiral doesn't believe they have the time.
*In the closed room, Tigh states that, despite what they believe about themselves, that he is going to do his job as a Colonial officer, and heads to CIC. The others follow suit.
*The hangar deck is abuzz with activity as Chief Tyrol tries to resume his usual work.
*Lee Adama, after watching other pilots run from duty lockers to flight preparation, heads there himself to prep.
*Admiral Adama orders the preparation of the battlestar's nuclear weapons. Tigh reports on station, keeping his face stony, as does Tory Foster, offering any help to President Roslin.
*The Vipers launch. [[Helo]] is confused about the pilot of Viper 3.
*Apollo, identifying himself in Viper 3, picks up a target on his [[Viper Mark VII|Viper's]] DRADIS, and tracks it down. As he looks around, an image of a [[Viper Mark II]] keeps appearing and disappearing in the clouds and on DRADIS. The image buzzes overhead and alarms the pilot momentarily.
*Pulling alongside in her undamaged Viper, [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] greets Apollo. She tells him not to "freak out," that it really is her.
*The [[Maelstrom|believed-dead]] pilot tells Apollo that she has been to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], and that she can guide the Fleet there.
*The music's mood and intensity changes from a [[w:sitar|sitar]] blend into an extremely loud rock-fusion version.
*As the music continues to play, the episode concludes as the shot pulls swiftly and violently away from Apollo and Starbuck's Viper, past the Colonial fleet, the Cylon fleet and several planets to show an arm of the galaxy.
*The shot suddenly zooms forward and into roughly the same spot in the galaxy to the familiar blue-green planet of Earth, showing what is known to viewers as the North American continent (in its current shape, long after the tectonic drift that split the [[w:Pangaea|Pangaea]] super-continent millions of years earlier in the planet's history). Also, due to the orbital altitude of the vantage point and that all visible landmasses are in sunlight, no trace of a highly advanced technological civilization can be detected by visual means even if it existed.

== Notes ==
* Four of the "[[Final Five]]" are revealed to be [[Galen Tyrol]], [[Samuel Anders]], [[Saul Tigh]], and [[Tory Foster]].
* Lee Adama points out a string of incidents throughout the series that would have resulted in serious consequences under normal circumstances, but where the persons involved weren't punished: his destruction of the ''Olympic Carrier'' ([[33]]), William Adama's coup against Roslin, Lee putting a weapon to Colonel Tigh's head and supporting a munity ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]), Helo and Chief Tyrol killing Lt. [[Thorne]] ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]), Tigh's use of suicide bombers on New Caprica ([[Occupation]]), people supporting the Cylons on New Caprica ([[Collaborators]]).
* Bob Dylan stated his song "[[w:All Along The Watchtower|All Along the Watchtower]]" is better understood when viewed in reverse order. This song has been covered by numerous artists with Jimi Hendrix recording the definitive version. The song's [http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/watchtower.html lyrics] can be interpreted as holding many parallels to the situation that Tigh, Anders, Tyrol, and Foster find themselves in.
* The [[Viper Mark II|Viper Mk. II]] piloted by [[Kara Thrace]] does not have a nameplate and appears to be brand new, unlike ''Galactica''’s battle-worn Mk. II's.

== Analysis ==

* With the revelation that [[Galen Tyrol]] is a [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylon]], the second known Human-Cylon hybrid known to exist is in the form of [[Nicholas Tyrol]]. His birth reinforces the Cylon belief that love is a necessary component to successful procreation. This would make one male and one female hybrid born to date. There may be significant biological differences between the two hybrids; one was carried to term by a human while the other was carried to term by a Cylon.
* The reason for Tyrol's discovery of the [[Temple of Five]] on the [[algae planet]] is better explained here, however it is clearly apparent that his conscious mind is unable to rationalize the reason he discovers it.
* It is also reaffirmed that none of the original seven are aware of the Final Five. As demonstrated by [[Sharon Valerii]]'s lack of knowledge about Galen Tyrol's true nature during her relationship with him in [[Season 1 (2004-05)|Season 1]] and the torture of Saul Tigh on New Caprica by the Cylons.
* Intrepid viewers are quick to note that Tigh and Tyrol demonstrate no ill affects to the radiation from [[Ragnar]] in the [[Miniseries]]. However, [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]] was also exposed to Ragnar's radiation, and suffered no ill effects. It should also be noted that ''Galactica'' herself has radiation shielding, which is designed to protect her crew from hard nuclear-class radiation, as demonstrated in the Miniseries after the nuclear warhead's impact. As [[Ragnar Anchorage]] likely did not have this type of shielding, due to its nature as an ammunition reserve for the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]], it is extremely likely that ''Galactica'' was able to diminish the effects of the radiation, thus either delaying symptoms or the radiation received is too minuscule to invoke sickness.
* Saul Tigh has been known to physically exist for roughly 23 years as of this episode. While Tigh claims to have fought in the first Cylon War, aside from likely military documentation about his service in the war, there are no supporting non-Cylon witnesses to support his claim. This predates the two-year marker previously indicated by two known infiltrators, [[Caprica-Six]] and [[Sharon Valerii]].
* The final scene of the episode depicts Earth, notably the North America content, definitively indicating the existence of this planet.
* As described by Tyrol when the four meet, the music and the Fleet's arrival to the nebula set off a switch within the minds of the four Cylons. However, unlike Boomer, their Cylon natures did not come with a different set of memories or personality.
* The four new Cylons all hold very important or potentially important roles within the Fleet. Tigh is the right hand man for Adama. Foster is the right hand woman for Roslin. Tyrol is the chief in charge of all military maintenance and repairs on the Vipers and Raptors, and is also head of the Colonial labor union. Anders is a new pilot amongst the soldiers of the Fleet and previously a key figure in the resistance movements on both Caprica and New Caprica.
* According to Lampkin, Joseph Adama was a brilliant defense attorney, but not an honest man. This may allude to one of the reasons why Lampkin despised Joseph Adama, but explains Lampkin's tactics as he also respected Joseph as a mentor.
* Lee Adama finally realizes the full extent of how he was manipulated once he sees Lampkin walk off on his own with no cane. Lampkin's ruse was successful in putting a wedge between the Adamas to allow Baltar to be pronounced not guilty.
* Another tendency for the younger Adama is that when faced with the option of completely severing and opposing his father, he will relent and attempt to return to his father's good graces. This has been seen when Lee Adama was given the chance to denounce his father to the Fleet during the military coup, but eventually told Zarek that he couldn't.
* Ironically, it was Roslin who originally wanted Lee Adama to lead a panel to determine who is fit to be on the tribunal. Her reasons being that she believed Lee Adama has a sense of right and wrong that others don't have at that time. Her belief about Lee comes back to haunt her as he rightly pointed out that her broad forgiveness policy for all within the Fleet after the second Exodus should be applied to Baltar as well. Her fear and knowledge of Baltar's involvement with the genocide of the Colonies has clouded her judgment to extend her original act of grace to Baltar.
* Lampkin, apparently was telling the truth that all he had wanted was to have the glory of being the attorney for the most hated man of the Fleet. Once his job is accomplished, he cleans his hands of Baltar, and makes it clear that besides the trial, he does not want to be associated with Baltar.
* Starbuck's last words in the episode allude back to "[[Maelstrom]]" as she is taking on the role of the [[Aurora, Goddess of the Dawn|Aurora]] idol that she gave to Adama before her "death". She claims that, like the idol placed on the model ship, she will be leading the way to Earth.
* Baltar's determined investigation into whether he was one of the Final Five was rooted in a desperation of figuring out who he was. For Baltar, if he were a Cylon, then he never was a traitor to his people and his self-identity would be cemented forever. However, for the four newly discovered Cylons, the revelation of their underlying natures leave them confused and their self-identity fundamentally shaken. While Baltar would have embraced this revelation with joy, the four new Cylons tremble with horror.
* The loss of Tigh's eye on [[New Caprica]] now has a kind of dark humor to it, as the [[Cylon Centurion|Centurions]] on both the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original]] and [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined]] Series are characterized by having only a single eye.
* Tigh states that if he dies today, he will be remembered as a human officer of the Fleet and a patriot. But if death for the Final Five is similar to that of the other humanoid Cylon models, if he dies he will be downloaded into a new body, surrounded by Cylons intending to manipulate him to their side or box his consciousness, and should he ever come in contact with those who knew him as a human they would instantly regard him as a Cylon and therefore an enemy.
* If the Final Five are capable of resurrecting and assuming that Kara Thrace is the last of them, this could provide an explanation for how she comes to the Ionian nebula. Her Viper could have been provided in the same way as the Raptor Baltar uses to get to the disabled basestar in "[[Torn]]".
* [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raiders]] launched from the incoming basestars appear on Apollo's [[DRADIS]]. They can also be seen during the final zoom-out. This could mean that the incoming Cylon fleet is in fact hostile.

== Questions ==
* What is the source of the music?
* Are we supposed to interpret the music as the actual Dylan song, and therefore a connection to Earth? ([[#Official Statements|Answer]])
* Is [[Saul Tigh]] the oldest [[humanoid Cylon]] model?
* Who is the twelfth Cylon?
* Did the Cylons develop humanoid models before the first [[Cylon War]]? ([[#Official Statements|Answer]])
* Why does [[Caprica Six]] feel the need to protect [[Hera]] with her life?
* How are [[Laura Roslin]], [[Hera]], [[Sharon Agathon]], and [[Caprica Six]] spiritually connected, and what is the nature of said connection?
* Assuming they choose to reveal their true natures, how will those close to the four revealed Cylons react when they learn the truth about their friends and loved ones? Can they reveal their natures?
* With the revelation that they are Cylons, will their allegiances to the Colonials change or will they continue to identify themselves as humans?
* Will Colonel Tigh's hatred of the Cylons persist in light of his discovery of his Cylon nature?
* Will Cally's hatred of the Cylons persist if she discovers that her husband is a Cylon and that [[Nicholas Tyrol|her son]] is a human-Cylon hybrid?
* What is the importance of the [[Opera House]]?
* Who are the women who spirit [[Gaius Baltar]] to safety and what are their plans?
* What is the current state of [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]?
* How far is the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] away from the Solar System?
* What phenomenon causes the simultaneous power loss and equally simultaneous power restoration throughout the Fleet after jumping to the [[Ionian nebula]]? Are the pursuing Cylons also affected?
* Why does the Fleet jump into the nebula when it is obvious that the Cylons were following them, had probably inferred their trajectory, and could well set up a trap?
* As [[William Adama]] is the deciding vote for Baltar's 'not guilty' verdict, how will this act (and [[Lee Adama]]'s testimony) affect their relationship with each other?
* How will [[Kara Thrace]]'s "resurrection" from the dead be viewed by the Colonials?
* What convinces [[Laura Roslin]] to take the [[diloxin]] treatments she scoffed earlier?
* Will Roslin's physical appearance change drastically because of her cancer treatments?
* How were Kara Thrace and her [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]], unharmed and without any explicable means, able to survive the events of "[[Maelstrom]]" and transport from the "interior" of a gas planet to Earth and then to the Ionian nebula within a relatively short span of time?
* Does Apollo truly see Starbuck in a Viper or has she become an apparition, similar in nature to Baltar's internal Six? ([[#Official Statements|Answer]])
* Did the Six (in "[[Torn]]") say that the [[Final Five]] are "complicated" because they aren't just "deeper" cover agents but rebels or otherwise outcasts from Cylon society? Or are she and the known 7 the outcasts?
* If any of the Final Five were to die, would they be resurrected in a Cylon Resurrection Ship?
* Are any of their histories, such as Tigh's 40 years of service and Tyrol's memories of his parents, true? ([[#Official Statements|Answer]])
* Do the [[final five]] have the same physiology as the other seven, such as their innate immunology, the ability to interface with computer equipment via [[Cylon data port|optical link]], and general inability to conceive children?
* Will the six other active Cylon models discover the identities of the final five?
* Given the small number of survivors from the Colonies, were the members of the final five preprogrammed in order to facilitate their escape with the Fleet?
* Is there any significance to Roslin's disorientation after the jump?
* Did other copies of the newly-revealed Cylons exist in the Colonies? Do other copies exist anywhere else in the universe, or are the ones aboard ''Galactica'' the only versions?
* Why does Tigh ask "What about Ellen?" in the midst of stating his memories of two Cylon Wars and two decades of service?
* Why did Tyrol and Tigh show no ill affects during their time in the Ragnar Anchorage? ([[#Analysis|Possible Reason]])
* What does Starbuck know that makes her assure Apollo "It's gonna be OK" when a Cylon fleet is closing fast?
* Was Baltar also experiencing the visions of the [[Opera House]], or was that Caprica Six's internal Baltar?
* Which of the [[final five]] Cylons did [[Number Three]] ask for forgiveness from in the [[Temple of Five]]?

== Official Statements ==

===Notes from the podcast===

*It was originally purposed to display Anders as a new nugget, but including the fact that he had taken over Thrace's bunkbed, locker, and possessions. This was to highlight the strong pull that Anders feels towards Starbuck, even after her death. This was also meant to indirectly cause the audience to wonder what is the connection between Starbuck and Anders now once it was revealed that he is a Cylon.
*After Jamie Bamber (Apollo) delivered his character's courtroom speech for the first take, the entire cast (who were sitting amongst the stands) and crew gave him a standing applause.
*Gaeta's perjury originally was discovered in the initial drafts of the show, though it was never filmed. Lampkin was able to find evidence that at the time Baltar signed the death warrant, Gaeta was away doing a dead drop for the Resistance.
*When the power in the Fleet went down, Baltar was originally filmed to being chased down by some from the courtroom who intended to murder him with knives. Due to time constraints, the chase part was cut out and only the encounter of his women followers who save him remain in the final version.
*There was another version of how Apollo was to encounter Starbuck in the final scene. When Apollo enters his quarters to grab his flight suit, as he turns around he was suppose to see Starbuck standing in front of him as she says "Hi Lee." RDM changed his mind because he felt that it would imply that it was a supernatural event.
*During the final weeks of production for this episode, fake pages and false information was purposely leaked out to maintain the secrecy of the final scenes of the Final Four and Starbuck's reappearance. This practice will probably continue as the series draws closer to its conclusion.
*The Final Five Cylons, as stated by RDM, are essentially different from the Significant Seven Cylons. Thus, all the rules and observations made about the Significant Seven Cylons can not necessarily be applied to the Final Five.
*When the cast and crew discovered that Starbuck was to be killed in 'Maelstrom', the atmosphere on the set reached a state of near mutiny. Eventually Moore and Eick had to reveal the secret of Starbuck's return to the cast and key crew members to calm people down.
*The TV network was willing to pay the royalties of the Hendrix version of "All Along the Watchtower", but RDM wanted the song to be a cover to prove that there was a connection between the BSG universe and Earth's.
*Lines from "All Along the Watchtower" were purposely sprinkled throughout the dialog before the final revelation of the Final Four.

=== Other information ===

* ''[[Jamie Bamber]] discusses the finale:''
: It is a different finale in the sense that the previous ones have been about fragmenting the characters and spreading them all over different parts of space, and this one, everyone is really on board ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. Every major character is on ''Galactica'', and the stuff going on down on ''Galactica'' is where the drama is.<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/News-Views/Interviews-Features/Article/default.aspx?posting=%7BAC4FC1D4-115F-457C-8E4A-01A539D77D39%7D|title=''Galactica'''s Jamie Bamber Visits a Heavenly ''Ghost''|date=2007-02-23|accessdate=2007-02-23|last=Cohn|first=Angel|format=|language=}}</ref>
* ''SciFi.com Forums Admin discusses the running time:''
: The Sunday, March 25, season finale of ''Battlestar Galactica'' will run five minutes longer than usual. If you plan on recording the episode, set your DVR or VCR to continue for five to 10 minutes after the end of the hour so you do not miss anything.<ref>{{cite_news|first=|last=|url=http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2266869|title=BSG Season Finale on March 25 will run 5 minutes overtime|publisher=|page=|date=2007-03-07|accessdate=2007-03-08|language=English}}</ref>
* Bear McCreary discusses the use of the [[w:Bob Dylan|Bob Dylan]] song:
: ''I learned that the idea was not that Bob Dylan necessarily exists in the characters' universe, but that an artist on one of the colonies may have recorded a song with the exact same melody and lyrics. Perhaps this unknown performer and Dylan pulled inspiration from a common, ethereal source.''<ref>Bear McCreary's blog, {{cite_web|url=http://www.bearmccreary.com/html/blog/blogmain.htm|title="Crossroads, Pt. II"|date=2007-03-25|accessdate=2007-03-27}}</ref>
*Ron Moore has confirmed in [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07085/770732-352.stm this] interview that Tyrol, Tigh, Tory, and Anders are indeed Cylons and members of the Final Five. When asked whether Starbuck was real or a hallucination, he did not provide a conclusive answer. Also in that interview he states that Tigh "fought in two wars."
*In [http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2270103&st=0 20 Answers] Ron Moore states that the issues regarding Tigh's service in the first Cylon War has a complex rationale already built out from "a lot of time and effort," strongly implying that it is not simply a false memory.
*In an interview with [http://www.vh1.com/movies/news/articles/1556508/20070405/story.jhtml VH1], Ron Moore confirmed Starbuck isn't a hallucination like Head Six or Head Baltar.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==
* ''Lt. '''[[Felix Gaeta]]''' has just committed [[w:perjury|perjury]] on whether Baltar was forced to sign the order of execution or not. Prosecutor [[Cassidy]] puts the document Baltar signed in evidence and on the defense table in front of Baltar:''
: '''Baltar:''' Get that out of my face before I....! (He grabs the document on the table and crumples it slightly and flings it away.)
: '''Lee:''' "Gaius, Gaius, we'll get him in the cross."
: '''Judge Franks''': Counselor will you control your client!:
: '''Baltar (to the judge):''' Look, Its no secret....
: '''Romo:''' Quiet!
: '''Baltar:''' ...the whole Fleet knows that this man tried to stab me through the neck... (to Gaeta) ...'''And you missed! Butterfingers!'''

* ''[[Saul Tigh]], [[Tory Foster]], [[Samuel Anders]] and [[Galen Tyrol]] decide what to do now they know they're Cylons:''
: '''Felix Gaeta''': (over the intercom) Inbound Cylon fleet. I repeat. Action stations, action stations. Set condition one throughout the ship. This is not a drill.
: '''Tory Foster''': My Gods, what are we going do?
: '''Saul Tigh''': The ship is under attack, we do our jobs. Report to your stations.
: '''Galen Tyrol''': Report to stations?
: '''Saul Tigh''': My name is Saul Tigh, I am an officer in the Colonial Fleet. Whatever else I am, whatever else it means, that's the man I want to be. And if I die today, that's the man I'll be.
* ''[[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] pulls alongside [[Lee Adama|Apollo]] in her undamaged Viper:''
: '''Starbuck''': Hi, Lee.
: '''Apollo''': (his eyes widen in disbelief) Kara?
: '''Starbuck''': Don't freak out, it really is me (laughs). It's going to be okay. I've been to Earth. I know where it is. And I'm going to take us there.

*''Prior to the clarification of what [[The Music|the song]] is, two of the four Cylons ([[Saul Tigh]] and [[Samuel Anders]]) each speak a line of the lyrics in conversational context:''
:* ''While Anders is supposed to be learning about Raptor flight systems during a pilot training session, he catches Chief Tyrol humming the tune and asks him about it. When Racetrack, who is the training officer, sees Anders off talking to the Chief:''
:: '''Racetrack''': Yo, Anders! Do you need a frakking invitation? Move it!
:: '''Anders''': Alright. '''''No reason to get excited.'''''
:* ''Tigh and [[William Adama]] discuss the music Tigh hears:''
:: '''Saul Tigh''': You'll look into it? You'll look into it? I am here telling you there is Cylon sabotage aboard our ship.
:: '''William Adama''': Sabotage? With music?
:: '''Saul Tigh''': I know, I know. I can't quite understand it myself. '''''There's too much confusion'''''.

*''Lee Adama taking the witness stand:''
:'''[[Lee Adama]]''': Did the defendant make mistakes? Sure. He did. Serious mistakes. But did he actually commit any crimes? Did he commit treason? No. I mean, it was an impossible situation. When the Cylons arrived, what could he possibly do? What could anyone have done? (looking at the audience) Ask yourself, what would you have done? (looking at the judges) What would you have done? If he had refused to surrender, the Cylons would have probably nuked the planet right then and there. So did he appear to cooperate with the Cylons? Sure. So did hundreds of others. What's the difference between him and them? The President issued a blanket pardon. They were all forgiven, no questions asked. Colonel Tigh. Colonel Tigh [[Occupation|used suicide bombers]], killed dozens of people. Forgiven. Lieutenant Agathon and Chief Tyrol. They [[Pegasus (episode)|murdered]] an officer on the ''Pegasus''. Forgiven. The Admiral. The Admiral [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|instigated a military coup d'état]] against the President. Forgiven. And me? Well, where do I begin? I [[33|shot down]] a civilian passenger ship, the ''Olympic Carrier''. Over a thousand people on board. Forgiven. I [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|raised my weapon]] to a superior officer, [[Resistance (episode)|committed an act of mutiny]]. Forgiven. And then on the very day when Baltar surrendered to those Cylons, I as commander of ''Pegasus'' jumped away. I left everybody on that planet, alone, undefended, for months. I even tried to persuade the Admiral never to return, to abandon you all there for good. If I'd had my way nobody would have made it off that planet. I'm the coward. I'm the traitor. I'm forgiven. I'd say we are very forgiving of mistakes. We make our own laws now; our own justice. And we've been pretty creative in finding ways to let people off the hook for everything from theft to murder. And we've had to be, because...because we're not a civilization anymore. We are a gang, and we are on the run, and we have to fight to survive. We have to break rules. We have to bend laws. We have to improvise. But not this time, no. Not this time. Not for Gaius Baltar. (looking at Baltar) No, you...you have to die, because, well, because we don't like you very much. Because you're arrogant. Because you're weak. Because you're a coward, and we, the mob, want to throw you out of the airlock, because you didn't stand up the Cylons and got yourself killed in the process. That's justice now. You should have been killed back on New Caprica, but since you had the temerity to live, we're going to execute you now. That's justice. [...] This case...this case is built on emotion, on anger, bitterness, vengeance. But most of all, it is built on shame. (looking at his father) It's about the shame of what we did to ourselves back on that planet. It's about the guilt of those of us who ran away. Who ran away. And we're trying to dump all that guilt and all that shame on one man and then flush him out the airlock, and hope that just gets rid of it all. So that we could live with ourselves. But that won't work. That won't work. That's not justice; not to me. Not to me.

== Guest Stars ==

*[[Michael Hogan]] as [[Saul Tigh]]
*[[Aaron Douglas]] as [[Galen Tyrol]]
*[[Nicki Clyne]] as [[Cally Tyrol]]
*[[Tahmoh Penikett]] as [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]
*[[Alessandro Juliani]] as [[Felix Gaeta]]
*[[Kandyse McClure]] as [[Anastasia Dualla]]
*[[Michael Trucco]] as [[Samuel Anders]]
*[[Mark Sheppard]] as [[Romo Lampkin]]
*[[Donnelly Rhodes]] as [[Dr. Cottle]]
*[[Rekha Sharma]] as [[Tory Foster]]
*[[Chelah Horsdal]] as [[Cassidy]]
*[[Katee Sackhoff]] as [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]]
*[[Leah Cairns]] as [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]]
*[[Jen Halley]] as [[Diana Seelix]]
*[[Brad Dryborough]] as [[Hoshi]]
*[[Alison Matthews]] as [[Karen Fallbrook|Fallbrook]]
*[[Susan Hogan]] as [[Doyle Franks]]
*[[Stephen Holmes]] as Reporter #2
*[[Keegan Connor Tracy]] as [[Young Woman]]
*[[William Samples]] as Judge #2
*[[Lily Duong-Walton]] as [[Hera Agathon]] (uncredited)

== References ==
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Crossroads, Part II

2007-04-27T14:28:02Z

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== Overview ==
:''As Gaeta testifies against Baltar about the execution list that the accused signed on New Caprica, Roslin finds a disturbing link between her dreams and the [[Opera House]] on Kobol. Lee Adama turns around the trial with an unusual move, and several people make a disturbing discovery about themselves.''

== Summary ==

===Teaser===
*[[Admiral Adama]] shaves, cutting himself when the lights flicker.
*[[Laura Roslin]] calls, seeking a bit of humorous motivation to get out of bed and face the [[Crossroads, Part I|trial]] again, which she does not relish.
*After one feeble attempt, Adama manages "get your fat, lazy ass out of that rack, Roslin!" which makes Roslin laugh and give a heartfelt thank you. Adama tells her, "Don't let 'em see you sweat, Laura."
*[[Samuel Anders]] and [[Tory Foster]] are sexually engaged when she hears a [[The Music|strange music]]. When she notes it to Anders, he's surprised at the revelation, having heard it before himself.
*[[Diana Seelix]] knocks on the duty locker door and Anders opens it. An uncomfortable silence between Seelix, Anders and Foster begins.
*[[Galen Tyrol]] is half-asleep, humming the music. He leaves his bed and quarters and goes to a section of ventilation to hear the music elsewhere on ''[[Galactica]]''.
*[[Lee Adama]] recommends pursuing a mistrial for [[Gaius Baltar]], using his grandfather's written advice, believing that their successes are actually worsening the issue. Baltar is incensed at the suggestion, believing that Adama wants to leave the case.
*[[Romo Lampkin]], Baltar's attorney, is inclined to agree with Adama, but young Adama's comment about his father's words about the "treacherous" Baltar leaves him to ponder.
*Baltar doesn't want to repeat the terror he's experienced in the time before the trial.
*[[Racetrack]] is training Seelix, Anders, and other [[Raptor]] [[nugget]]s, when Anders overhears Chief Tyrol humming. Together, they realize that the melody feels like something out of childhood, and they hear only a part of the melody.
*Before they can analyze further, Racetrack yells for Anders to return to the group.

===Act 1===
*Roslin takes [[diloxin]] treatment in [[sickbay]]. As she lies down and dreams, she experiences the same dream as [[Sharon Agathon]], also in sickbay with [[Hera Agathon|her daughter]], and both scream simultaneously. The two ask to talk privately.
*Later, Roslin and Sharon Agathon meet with [[Caprica-Six]], who has also experienced the dreams. When asked why Six is trying to reach Hera, she says that she felt she had to protect her "with (my) life."
*[[Saul Tigh]] tells Admiral Adama about the music. The admiral tells Tigh that he will look into it later as he leaves for court.
*The trial resumes. Lt. [[Felix Gaeta]] is on the stand. The [[Precipice|execution order]] from [[New Caprica]] is admitted as evidence by [[Cassidy]], the prosecutor.
*Gaeta lies, as viewers are shown the actual events where Baltar is forced to sign at gunpoint, where Gaeta says that Baltar did not resist.
*Lampkin chooses not to cross-examine, to Baltar's great horror. The prosecution rests.

===Act 2===
*After a recess, the defense begins its case.
*Lampkin motions for a mistrial, as Baltar objects, due to prejudicial comments by Admiral Adama four days before. He asks for Mr. Lee Adama to take the stand.
*The prosecuting attorney strongly objects, but after Lampkin warns of much case law (he can think of seven examples off the top of his head) that permits such a procedure, the tribunal allows Mr. Adama to testify.
*Mr. Adama refuses to confirm his father's comments. As Lampkin tries to intimidate Mr. Adama, he restates, asking if Baltar deserves a fair trial.
*Asked why, Mr. Adama believes Baltar is not guilty, but Admiral Adama asks for the questioning to continue.
*Pressed for more clarification, Mr. Adama states that Baltar did not commit treason. He asks the tribunal what anyone else would do in that situation. He notes that all other conspirators and resistance fighters were pardoned, as were many, many other mistakes of the past, from [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I|Roslin]], to [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|Admiral Adama]], and himself in the destruction of the ''[[Olympic Carrier]]'' and running from [[New Caprica]], recommending never to return with [[Pegasus (RDM)|his battlestar]].
*Mr. Adama believes that new laws are needed because they are less of a civilization now and more of a gang. He states that, unlike everyone else, Baltar is being prosecuted because of his arrogance and other considerable character flaws and is not being accorded the same forgiveness as others.
*Adama believes that the trial is built on emotions and shame from the events of New Caprica, and the shame of those that ran away. Mr. Adama looks to his father as he speaks.
*He believes that Baltar is a scapegoat for all the guilt of the people.
*The prosecuting attorney does not cross-examine, and the defense rests.
*The tribunal steps out to deliberate as Roslin steps down to congratulate Cassidy for her work.

===Act 3===
*Baltar is acquitted, 3 votes to 2 against. Yelling turns into a riot in the gallery as marines try to get Baltar to safety while the [[Fleet News Service|press]] tries to interview many players.
*Baltar is happily discussing the victory but makes a mistake in insulting Admiral Adama. Lee Adama warns him, "Don't push it, doctor."
*When Baltar asks Lampkin to aid him in a book tour and other profitable matters, Lampkin tells him that his association with Baltar is over.
*Baltar suddenly realizes that, despite his apparent freedom, he is a man without a country, without work, friends, or even quarters.
*Lampkin and Mr. Adama say their goodbyes. Lee Adama, on seeing Lampkin walking away without his cane, realizes that he had used the cane as yet another psychological tactic.
*Gaius Baltar tries to be inconspicuous as he moves files elsewhere, but all eyes are on him.
*Roslin and Admiral Adama speak in [[CIC]]. She is incensed at the verdict. Adama reminds Roslin that "not guilty" does not mean "innocent."
*Roslin assumes that Adama cast a guilty vote, when, to Roslin's shock and anger, the admiral states he voted not guilty, feeling that the prosecution failed to make their case.
*Adama tells Roslin that no one is asking anyone to forgive or forget, but they must look to the future.
*Adama orders the last jump to the [[Ionian nebula]]. The jump is successful, and Adama orders a [[DRADIS]] scan when Roslin becomes immediately dazed and stunned.
*As Admiral Adama looks to Roslin to check on her health, main power on every ship of the Fleet fails, leaving each one, including ''Galactica'', drifting dangerously close to each other.

===Act 4===
*Pilots scramble with [[flashlight]]s to their stations while CIC tries to get to auxiliary power, but battery power is the best they can muster.
*The scene shifts to a dream in the [[Opera House]] again, with Gaius Baltar holding Hera and Caprica-Six next to him. Above them, the glowing images of the [[Final Five]] appear. Caprica-Six awakens from the dream.
*Baltar tries to take advantage of the darkness and chaos when three women confront him. Frightened, Baltar is told by the women that they will take him to safety.
*The mysterious music gets louder, and Tigh, Galen Tyrol, Tory Foster and Anders begin quoting lyrics from an [[The Music|increasingly coherent melody]].
*As viewers watch, the music becomes louder and more dynamic. Each of the four are drawn to the gym on ''Galactica'', where they discover each other. Each are stunned and shocked.
*Tyrol believes the impossible; that all of them are [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]. Each of them begin to hum the music, together, coherently, in full. Tigh angrily stops them and closes the hatches while they talk.
*Tigh states his time in service, and his history, trying to believe that none of it was in vain. Anders objects as well.
*As power is restored, DRADIS picks up a large Cylon fleet coming their way. [[Viper (RDM)|Vipers]] manage to scramble. [[Helo]], as acting XO, notes the mass power outage will mean that it will take at least 20 minutes for the [[FTL]] jump drives on the civilian ships to be ready. The admiral doesn't believe they have the time.
*In the closed room, Tigh states that, despite what they believe about themselves, that he is going to do his job as a Colonial officer, and heads to CIC. The others follow suit.
*The hangar deck is abuzz with activity as Chief Tyrol tries to resume his usual work.
*Lee Adama, after watching other pilots run from duty lockers to flight preparation, heads there himself to prep.
*Admiral Adama orders the preparation of the battlestar's nuclear weapons. Tigh reports on station, keeping his face stony, as does Tory Foster, offering any help to President Roslin.
*The Vipers launch. [[Helo]] is confused about the pilot of Viper 3.
*Apollo, identifying himself in Viper 3, picks up a target on his [[Viper Mark VII|Viper's]] DRADIS, and tracks it down. As he looks around, an image of a [[Viper Mark II]] keeps appearing and disappearing in the clouds and on DRADIS. The image buzzes overhead and alarms the pilot momentarily.
*Pulling alongside in her undamaged Viper, [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] greets Apollo. She tells him not to "freak out," that it really is her.
*The [[Maelstrom|believed-dead]] pilot tells Apollo that she has been to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], and that she can guide the Fleet there.
*The music's mood and intensity changes from a [[w:sitar|sitar]] blend into an extremely loud rock-fusion version.
*As the music continues to play, the episode concludes as the shot pulls swiftly and violently away from Apollo and Starbuck's Viper, past the Colonial fleet, the Cylon fleet and several planets to show an arm of the galaxy.
*The shot suddenly zooms forward and into roughly the same spot in the galaxy to the familiar blue-green planet of Earth, showing what is known to viewers as the North American continent (in its current shape, long after the tectonic drift that split the [[w:Pangaea|Pangaea]] super-continent millions of years earlier in the planet's history). Also, due to the orbital altitude of the vantage point and that all visible landmasses are in sunlight, no trace of a highly advanced technological civilization can be detected by visual means even if it existed.

== Notes ==
* Four of the "[[Final Five]]" are revealed to be [[Galen Tyrol]], [[Samuel Anders]], [[Saul Tigh]], and [[Tory Foster]].
* Lee Adama points out a string of incidents throughout the series that would have resulted in serious consequences under normal circumstances, but where the persons involved weren't punished: his destruction of the ''Olympic Carrier'' ([[33]]), William Adama's coup against Roslin, Lee putting a weapon to Colonel Tigh's head and supporting a munity ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]), Helo and Chief Tyrol killing Lt. [[Thorne]] ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]), Tigh's use of suicide bombers on New Caprica ([[Occupation]]), people supporting the Cylons on New Caprica ([[Collaborators]]).
* Bob Dylan stated his song "[[w:All Along The Watchtower|All Along the Watchtower]]" is better understood when viewed in reverse order. This song has been covered by numerous artists with Jimi Hendrix recording the definitive version. The song's [http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/watchtower.html lyrics] can be interpreted as holding many parallels to the situation that Tigh, Anders, Tyrol, and Foster find themselves in.
* The [[Viper Mark II|Viper Mk. II]] piloted by [[Kara Thrace]] does not have a nameplate and appears to be brand new, unlike ''Galactica''’s battle-worn Mk. II's.

== Analysis ==

* With the revelation that [[Galen Tyrol]] is a [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylon]], the second known Human-Cylon hybrid known to exist is in the form of [[Nicholas Tyrol]]. His birth reinforces the Cylon belief that love is a necessary component to successful procreation. This would make one male and one female hybrid born to date. There may be significant biological differences between the two hybrids; one was carried to term by a human while the other was carried to term by a Cylon.
* The reason for Tyrol's discovery of the [[Temple of Five]] on the [[algae planet]] is better explained here, however it is clearly apparent that his conscious mind is unable to rationalize the reason he discovers it.
* It is also reaffirmed that none of the original seven are aware of the Final Five. As demonstrated by [[Sharon Valerii]]'s lack of knowledge about Galen Tyrol's true nature during her relationship with him in [[Season 1 (2004-05)|Season 1]] and the torture of Saul Tigh on New Caprica by the Cylons.
* Intrepid viewers are quick to note that Tigh and Tyrol demonstrate no ill affects to the radiation from [[Ragnar]] in the [[Miniseries]]. However, [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]] was also exposed to Ragnar's radiation, and suffered no ill effects. It should also be noted that ''Galactica'' herself has radiation shielding, which is designed to protect her crew from hard nuclear-class radiation, as demonstrated in the Miniseries after the nuclear warhead's impact. As [[Ragnar Anchorage]] likely did not have this type of shielding, due to its nature as an ammunition reserve for the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]], it is extremely likely that ''Galactica'' was able to diminish the effects of the radiation, thus either delaying symptoms or the radiation received is too minuscule to invoke sickness.
* Saul Tigh has been known to physically exist for roughly 23 years as of this episode. While Tigh claims to have fought in the first Cylon War, aside from likely military documentation about his service in the war, there are no supporting non-Cylon witnesses to support his claim. This predates the two-year marker previously indicated by two known infiltrators, [[Caprica-Six]] and [[Sharon Valerii]].
* The final scene of the episode depicts Earth, notably the North America content, definitively indicating the existence of this planet.
* As described by Tyrol when the four meet, the music and the Fleet's arrival to the nebula set off a switch within the minds of the four Cylons. However, unlike Boomer, their Cylon natures did not come with a different set of memories or personality.
* The four new Cylons all hold very important or potentially important roles within the Fleet. Tigh is the right hand man for Adama. Foster is the right hand woman for Roslin. Tyrol is the chief in charge of all military maintenance and repairs on the Vipers and Raptors, and is also head of the Colonial labor union. Anders is a new pilot amongst the soldiers of the Fleet and previously a key figure in the resistance movements on both Caprica and New Caprica.
* According to Lampkin, Joseph Adama was a brilliant defense attorney, but not an honest man. This may allude to one of the reasons why Lampkin despised Joseph Adama, but explains Lampkin's tactics as he also respected Joseph as a mentor.
* Lee Adama finally realizes the full extent of how he was manipulated once he sees Lampkin walk off on his own with no cane. Lampkin's ruse was successful in putting a wedge between the Adamas to allow Baltar to be pronounced not guilty.
* Another tendency for the younger Adama is that when faced with the option of completely severing and opposing his father, he will relent and attempt to return to his father's good graces. This has been seen when Lee Adama was given the chance to denounce his father to the Fleet during the military coup, but eventually told Zarek that he couldn't.
* Ironically, it was Roslin who originally wanted Lee Adama to lead a panel to determine who is fit to be on the tribunal. Her reasons being that she believed Lee Adama has a sense of right and wrong that others don't have at that time. Her belief about Lee comes back to haunt her as he rightly pointed out that her broad forgiveness policy for all within the Fleet after the second Exodus should be applied to Baltar as well. Her fear and knowledge of Baltar's involvement with the genocide of the Colonies has clouded her judgment to extend her original act of grace to Baltar.
* Lampkin, apparently was telling the truth that all he had wanted was to have the glory of being the attorney for the most hated man of the Fleet. Once his job is accomplished, he cleans his hands of Baltar, and makes it clear that besides the trial, he does not want to be associated with Baltar.
* Starbuck's last words in the episode allude back to "[[Maelstrom]]" as she is taking on the role of the [[Aurora, Goddess of the Dawn|Aurora]] idol that she gave to Adama before her "death". She claims that, like the idol placed on the model ship, she will be leading the way to Earth.
* Baltar's determined investigation into whether he was one of the Final Five was rooted in a desperation of figuring out who he was. For Baltar, if he were a Cylon, then he never was a traitor to his people and his self-identity would be cemented forever. However, for the four newly discovered Cylons, the revelation of their underlying natures leave them confused and their self-identity fundamentally shaken. While Baltar would have embraced this revelation with joy, the four new Cylons tremble with horror.
* The loss of Tigh's eye on [[New Caprica]] now has a kind of dark humor to it, as the [[Cylon Centurion|Centurions]] on both the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original]] and [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined]] Series are characterized by having only a single eye.
* Tigh states that if he dies today, he will be remembered as a human officer of the Fleet and a patriot. But if death for the Final Five is similar to that of the other humanoid Cylon models, if he dies he will be downloaded into a new body, surrounded by Cylons intending to manipulate him to their side or box his consciousness, and should he ever come in contact with those who knew him as a human they would instantly regard him as a Cylon and therefore an enemy.
* If the Final Five are capable of resurrecting and assuming that Kara Thrace is the last of them, this could provide an explanation for how she comes to the Ionian nebula. Her Viper could have been provided in the same way as the Raptor Baltar uses to get to the disabled basestar in "[[Torn]]".
* [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raiders]] launched from the incoming basestars appear on Apollo's [[DRADIS]]. They can also be seen during the final zoom-out. This could mean that the incoming Cylon fleet is in fact hostile.

== Questions ==
* What is the source of the music?
* Are we supposed to interpret the music as the actual Dylan song, and therefore a connection to Earth? ([[#Official Statements|Answer]])
* Is [[Saul Tigh]] the oldest [[humanoid Cylon]] model?
* Who is the twelfth Cylon?
* Did the Cylons develop humanoid models before the first [[Cylon War]]? ([[#Official Statements|Answer]])
* Why does [[Caprica Six]] feel the need to protect [[Hera]] with her life?
* How are [[Laura Roslin]], [[Hera]], [[Sharon Agathon]], and [[Caprica Six]] spiritually connected, and what is the nature of said connection?
* Assuming they choose to reveal their true natures, how will those close to the four revealed Cylons react when they learn the truth about their friends and loved ones? Can they reveal their natures?
* With the revelation that they are Cylons, will their allegiances to the Colonials change or will they continue to identify themselves as humans?
* Will Colonel Tigh's hatred of the Cylons persist in light of his discovery of his Cylon nature?
* Will Cally's hatred of the Cylons persist if she discovers that her husband is a Cylon and that [[Nicholas Tyrol|her son]] is a human-Cylon hybrid?
* What is the importance of the [[Opera House]]?
* Who are the women who spirit [[Gaius Baltar]] to safety and what are their plans?
* What is the current state of [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]?
* How far is the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] away from the Solar System?
* What phenomenon causes the simultaneous power loss and equally simultaneous power restoration throughout the Fleet after jumping to the [[Ionian nebula]]? Are the pursuing Cylons also affected?
* Why does the Fleet jump into the nebula when it is obvious that the Cylons were following them, had probably inferred their trajectory, and could well set up a trap?
* As [[William Adama]] is the deciding vote for Baltar's 'not guilty' verdict, how will this act (and [[Lee Adama]]'s testimony) affect their relationship with each other?
* How will [[Kara Thrace]]'s "resurrection" from the dead be viewed by the Colonials?
* What convinces [[Laura Roslin]] to take the [[diloxin]] treatments she scoffed earlier?
* Will Roslin's physical appearance change drastically because of her cancer treatments?
* How were Kara Thrace and her [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]], unharmed and without any explicable means, able to survive the events of "[[Maelstrom]]" and transport from the "interior" of a gas planet to Earth and then to the Ionian nebula within a relatively short span of time?
* Does Apollo truly see Starbuck in a Viper or has she become an apparition, similar in nature to Baltar's internal Six? ([[#Official Statements|Answer]])
* Did the Six (in "[[Torn]]") say that the [[Final Five]] are "complicated" because they aren't just "deeper" cover agents but rebels or otherwise outcasts from Cylon society? Or are she and the known 7 the outcasts?
* If any of the Final Five were to die, would they be resurrected in a Cylon Resurrection Ship?
* Are any of their histories, such as Tigh's 40 years of service and Tyrol's memories of his parents, true? ([[#Official Statements|Answer]])
* Do the [[final five]] have the same physiology as the other seven, such as their innate immunology, the ability to interface with computer equipment via [[Cylon data port|optical link]], and general inability to conceive children?
* Will the six other active Cylon models discover the identities of the final five?
* Given the small number of survivors from the Colonies, were the members of the final five preprogrammed in order to facilitate their escape with the Fleet?
* Is there any significance to Roslin's disorientation after the jump?
* Did other copies of the newly-revealed Cylons exist in the Colonies? Do other copies exist anywhere else in the universe, or are the ones aboard ''Galactica'' the only versions?
* Why does Tigh ask "What about Ellen?" in the midst of stating his memories of two Cylon Wars and two decades of service?
* Why did Tyrol and Tigh show no ill affects during their time in the Ragnar Anchorage? ([[#Analysis|Possible Reason]])
* What does Starbuck know that makes her assure Apollo "It's gonna be OK" when a Cylon fleet is closing fast?
* Was Baltar also experiencing the visions of the [[Opera House]], or was that Caprica Six's internal Baltar?
* Which of the [[final five]] Cylons did [[Number Three]] ask for forgiveness from in the [[Temple of Five]]?

== Official Statements ==

===Notes from the podcast===

*It was originally purposed to display Anders as a new nugget, but including the fact that he had taken over Thrace's bunkbed, locker, and possessions. This was to highlight the strong pull that Anders feels towards Starbuck, even after her death. This was also meant to indirectly cause the audience to wonder what is the connection between Starbuck and Anders now once it was revealed that he is a Cylon.
*After Jamie Bamber (Apollo) delivered his character's courtroom speech for the first take, the entire cast (who were sitting amongst the stands) and crew gave him a standing applause.
*Gaeta's perjury originally was discovered in the initial drafts of the show, though it was never filmed. Lampkin was able to find evidence that at the time Baltar signed the death warrant, Gaeta was away doing a dead drop for the Resistance.
*When the power in the Fleet went down, Baltar was originally filmed to being chased down by some from the courtroom who intended to murder him with knives. Due to time constraints, the chase part was cut out and only the encounter of his women followers who save him remain in the final version.
*There was another version of how Apollo was to encounter Starbuck in the final scene. When Apollo enters his quarters to grab his flight suit, as he turns around he was suppose to see Starbuck standing in front of him as she says "Hi Lee." RDM changed his mind because he felt that it would imply that it was a supernatural event.
*During the final weeks of production for this episode, fake pages and false information was purposely leaked out to maintain the secrecy of the final scenes of the Final Four and Starbuck's reappearance. This practice will probably continue as the series draws closer to its conclusion.
*The Final Five Cylons, as stated by RDM, are essentially different from the Significant Seven Cylons. Thus, all the rules and observations made about the Significant Seven Cylons can not necessarily be applied to the Final Five.
*When the cast and crew discovered that Starbuck was to be killed in 'Maelstrom', the atmosphere on the set reached a state of near mutiny. Eventually Moore and Eick had to reveal the secret of Starbuck's return to the cast and key crew members to calm people down.
*The TV network was willing to pay the royalties of the Hendrix version of "All Along the Watchtower", but RDM wanted the song to be a cover to prove that there was a connection between the BSG universe and Earth's.
*Lines from "All Along the Watchtower" were purposely sprinkled throughout the dialog before the final revelation of the Final Four.

=== Other information ===

* ''[[Jamie Bamber]] discusses the finale:''
: It is a different finale in the sense that the previous ones have been about fragmenting the characters and spreading them all over different parts of space, and this one, everyone is really on board ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. Every major character is on ''Galactica'', and the stuff going on down on ''Galactica'' is where the drama is.<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/News-Views/Interviews-Features/Article/default.aspx?posting=%7BAC4FC1D4-115F-457C-8E4A-01A539D77D39%7D|title=''Galactica'''s Jamie Bamber Visits a Heavenly ''Ghost''|date=2007-02-23|accessdate=2007-02-23|last=Cohn|first=Angel|format=|language=}}</ref>
* ''SciFi.com Forums Admin discusses the running time:''
: The Sunday, March 25, season finale of ''Battlestar Galactica'' will run five minutes longer than usual. If you plan on recording the episode, set your DVR or VCR to continue for five to 10 minutes after the end of the hour so you do not miss anything.<ref>{{cite_news|first=|last=|url=http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2266869|title=BSG Season Finale on March 25 will run 5 minutes overtime|publisher=|page=|date=2007-03-07|accessdate=2007-03-08|language=English}}</ref>
* Bear McCreary discusses the use of the [[w:Bob Dylan|Bob Dylan]] song:
: ''I learned that the idea was not that Bob Dylan necessarily exists in the characters' universe, but that an artist on one of the colonies may have recorded a song with the exact same melody and lyrics. Perhaps this unknown performer and Dylan pulled inspiration from a common, ethereal source.''<ref>Bear McCreary's blog, {{cite_web|url=http://www.bearmccreary.com/html/blog/blogmain.htm|title="Crossroads, Pt. II"|date=2007-03-25|accessdate=2007-03-27}}</ref>
*Ron Moore has confirmed in [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07085/770732-352.stm this] interview that Tyrol, Tigh, Tory, and Anders are indeed Cylons and members of the Final Five. When asked whether Starbuck was real or a hallucination, he did not provide a conclusive answer. Also in that interview he states that Tigh "fought in two wars."
*In [http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2270103&st=0 20 Answers] Ron Moore states that the issues regarding Tigh's service in the first Cylon War has a complex rationale already built out from "a lot of time and effort," strongly implying that it is not simply a false memory.
*In an interview with [http://www.vh1.com/movies/news/articles/1556508/20070405/story.jhtml VH1], Ron Moore confirmed Starbuck isn't a hallucination like Head Six or Head Baltar.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==
* ''Lt. '''[[Felix Gaeta]]''' has just committed [[w:perjury|perjury]] on whether Baltar was forced to sign the order of execution or not. Prosecutor [[Cassidy]] puts the document Baltar signed in evidence and on the defense table in front of Baltar:''
: '''Baltar:''' Get that out of my face before I....! (He grabs the document on the table and crumples it slightly and flings it away.)
: '''Lee:''' "Gaius, Gaius, we'll get him in the cross."
: '''Judge Franks''': Counselor will you control your client!:
: '''Baltar (to the judge):''' Look, Its no secret....
: '''Romo:''' Quiet!
: '''Baltar:''' ...the whole Fleet knows that this man tried to stab me through the neck... (to Gaeta) ...'''And you missed! Butterfingers!'''

* ''[[Saul Tigh]], [[Tory Foster]], [[Samuel Anders]] and [[Galen Tyrol]] decide what to do now they know they're Cylons:''
: '''Felix Gaeta''': (over the intercom) Inbound Cylon fleet. I repeat. Action stations, action stations. Set condition one throughout the ship. This is not a drill.
: '''Tory Foster''': My Gods, what are we going do?
: '''Saul Tigh''': The ship is under attack, we do our jobs. Report to your stations.
: '''Galen Tyrol''': Report to stations?
: '''Saul Tigh''': My name is Saul Tigh, I am an officer in the Colonial Fleet. Whatever else I am, whatever else it means, that's the man I want to be. And if I die today, that's the man I'll be.
* ''[[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] pulls alongside [[Lee Adama|Apollo]] in her undamaged Viper:''
: '''Starbuck''': Hi, Lee.
: '''Apollo''': (his eyes widen in disbelief) Kara?
: '''Starbuck''': Don't freak out, it really is me (laughs). It's going to be okay. I've been to Earth. I know where it is. And I'm going to take us there.

*''Prior to the clarification of what [[The Music|the song]] is, two of the four Cylons ([[Saul Tigh]] and [[Samuel Anders]]) each speak a line of the lyrics in conversational context:''
:* ''While Anders is supposed to be learning about Raptor flight systems during a pilot training session, he catches Chief Tyrol humming the tune and asks him about it. When Racetrack, who is the training officer, sees Anders off talking to the Chief:''
:: '''Racetrack''': Yo, Anders! Do you need a frakking invitation? Move it!
:: '''Anders''': Alright. '''''No reason to get excited.'''''
:* ''Tigh and [[William Adama]] discuss the music Tigh hears:''
:: '''Saul Tigh''': You'll look into it? You'll look into it? I am here telling you there is Cylon sabotage aboard our ship.
:: '''William Adama''': Sabotage? With music?
:: '''Saul Tigh''': I know, I know. I can't quite understand it myself. '''''There's too much confusion'''''.

*''Lee Adama taking the witness stand:''
:'''[[Lee Adama]]''': Did the defendant make mistakes? Sure. He did. Serious mistakes. But did he actually commit any crimes? Did he commit treason? No. I mean, it was an impossible situation. When the Cylons arrived, what could he possibly do? What could anyone have done? (looking at the audience) Ask yourself, what would you have done? (looking at the judges) What would you have done? If he had refused to surrender, the Cylons would have probably nuked the planet right then and there. So did he appear to cooperate with the Cylons? Sure. So did hundreds of others. What's the difference between him and them? The President issued a blanket pardon. They were all forgiven, no questions asked. Colonel Tigh. Colonel Tigh [[Occupation|used suicide bombers]], killed dozens of people. Forgiven. Lieutenant Agathon and Chief Tyrol. They [[Pegasus (episode)|murdered]] an officer on the ''Pegasus''. Forgiven. The Admiral. The Admiral [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|instigated a military coup d'état]] against the President. Forgiven. And me? Well, where do I begin? I [[33|shot down]] a civilian passenger ship, the ''Olympic Carrier''. Over a thousand people on board. Forgiven. I [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|raised my weapon]] to a superior officer, [[Resistance (episode)|committed an act of mutiny]]. Forgiven. And then on the very day when Baltar surrendered to those Cylons, I as commander of ''Pegasus'' jumped away. I left everybody on that planet, alone, undefended, for months. I even tried to persuade the Admiral never to return, to abandon you all there for good. If I'd had my way nobody would have made it off that planet. I'm the coward. I'm the traitor. I'm forgiven. I'd say we are very forgiving of mistakes. We make our own laws now; our own justice. And we've been pretty creative in finding ways to let people off the hook for everything from theft to murder. And we've had to be, because...because we're not a civilization anymore. We are a gang, and we are on the run, and we have to fight to survive. We have to break rules. We have to bend laws. We have to improvise. But not this time, no. Not this time. Not for Gaius Baltar. (looking at Baltar) No, you...you have to die, because, well, because we don't like you very much. Because you're arrogant. Because you're weak. Because you're a coward, and we, the mob, want to throw you out of the airlock, because you didn't stand up the Cylons and got yourself killed in the process. That's justice now. You should have been killed back on New Caprica, but since you had the temerity to live, we're going to execute you now. That's justice. [...] This case...this case is built on emotion, on anger, bitterness, vengeance. But most of all, it is built on shame. (looking at his father) It's about the shame of what we did to ourselves back on that planet. It's about the guilt of those of us who ran away. Who ran away. And we're trying to dump all that guilt and all that shame on one man and then flush him out the airlock, and hope that just gets rid of it all. So that we could live with ourselves. But that won't work. That won't work. That's not justice; not to me. Not to me.

== Guest Stars ==

*[[Michael Hogan]] as [[Saul Tigh]]
*[[Aaron Douglas]] as [[Galen Tyrol]]
*[[Nicki Clyne]] as [[Cally Tyrol]]
*[[Tahmoh Penikett]] as [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]
*[[Alessandro Juliani]] as [[Felix Gaeta]]
*[[Kandyse McClure]] as [[Anastasia Dualla]]
*[[Michael Trucco]] as [[Samuel Anders]]
*[[Mark Sheppard]] as [[Romo Lampkin]]
*[[Donnelly Rhodes]] as [[Dr. Cottle]]
*[[Rekha Sharma]] as [[Tory Foster]]
*[[Chelah Horsdal]] as [[Cassidy]]
*[[Katee Sackhoff]] as [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]]
*[[Leah Cairns]] as [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]]
*[[Jen Halley]] as [[Diana Seelix]]
*[[Brad Dryborough]] as [[Hoshi]]
*[[Alison Matthews]] as [[Karen Fallbrook|Fallbrook]]
*[[Susan Hogan]] as [[Doyle Franks]]
*[[Stephen Holmes]] as Reporter #2
*[[Keegan Connor Tracy]] as [[Young Woman]]
*[[William Samples]] as Judge #2
*[[Lily Duong-Walton]] as [[Hera Agathon]] (uncredited)

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Crossroads, Part I

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== Overview ==
:''Baltar's trial commences, with the prosecution presenting evidence of treason committed on [[New Caprica]] amid controversial testimonies from Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] and President Roslin.''

== Summary ==
===Teaser===
*[[Laura Roslin]], significantly different in dress and hairstyle, is walking through what appears to be the [[Opera House]]. She searches for and finds little [[Hera Agathon]] walking through the hallways, unable to reach her.
*Also following Hera is her mother [[Sharon Agathon]], who does not appear pleased to see Roslin in pursuit. Both women run down the stairs towards Hera.
*As they turn the corner, a [[Number Six]] in white clothing catches Hera and starts a movement as if to turn. There is a dark figure in the indistinct shadows behind her.
*Roslin wakes up. This has been a dream, though it bears a strong resemblance to Roslin's [[Chamalla|Chamalla extract]]-induced visions of the past.
*The [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] is enroute to the [[Ionian nebula]], but it is still several days away.
*Colonel [[Saul Tigh]] is trying to tune into [[Talk Wireless]] or music in [[Joe's bar]]. [[Brendan Costanza]], [[Diana Seelix]] and [[Samuel Anders]] are playing [[Pyramid (RDM)|Pyramid]]. Anders notes Tigh's attempts to find the music.
*[[Tory Foster]] speaks with [[Cassidy]], the prosecuting attorney in [[Gaius Baltar]]'s trial. Foster's assertion that [[Epiphanies|Roslin witnessed Baltar and a Six on Caprica]] doesn't convince Cassidy, who stresses the need for hard evidence and the fact that Baltar is only being tried for the charges that can be proved.
*Meanwhile, in the brig, Baltar is visited by a member of the press, who wants to give him a picture of her son, who she claims is sick—she also claims, much to Baltar's bemusement, that Baltar is capable of saving her son by Baltar's simply blessing him. He refuses until she forces it onto him before the [[Colonial Marine Corps|marine]]s remove her.
*Baltar comments that she is the 5th or 6th person to visit in such a manner while [[Virtual beings|virtual Six]] appears to console the emotionally tortured Baltar, noting that an additional 30 to 40 people have written him letters.

===Act 1===
*[[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]] and [[Hamish McCall|Hamish "Skulls" McCall]] are conducting reconnaissance to see if any Cylons are following the Fleet's jumps. Her [[Raptor]] hides behind an asteroid as they play [[Triad (RDM)|cards]] and wait.
*The trial begins. Cassidy asks the courtroom how loss is measured.
*She notes the number of people who settled on New Caprica, the number who escaped in the [[Second Exodus]] and the number lost: 5,197 left behind, killed or otherwise missing.
*The attorney claims that the trust put in Baltar was gravely misplaced, and that the ultimate price must be paid.
*[[Romo Lampkin]], Baltar's attorney, immediately asks to change the plea to guilty as a ploy to use reverse psychology to claim that the power of [[w:Mob rule|mob rule]] is trying to sway opinion in the court.
*Lampkin claims that President Roslin is seeking vengeance on Baltar for [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|her lost election]], and claims that the [[New Caprica]]ns were victims of a hopeless battle. Baltar's decision to surrender to the Cylons had saved lives, he claims, versus what Lampkin claims Roslin would have done -- stand and fight.
*Back on Racetrack's Raptor, five [[Basestar (RDM)|baseships]] suddenly appear and attack. Racetrack's [[FTL]] drive barely comes online in time to allow them to escape an incoming missile.
*Back on ''[[Galactica]]'', in [[CIC]], Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]] orders a scan for any [[Cylon transponder|tracking devices]] that may have been left on Fleet ships during the New Caprica siege. At the same time [[Tory Foster]] hands Roslin a cup and a thermos can. Roslin insists on asking the incarcerated [[Caprica-Six]] for information. When Tigh objects, Roslin snaps back, uncharacteristically.
*[[Lee Adama]] enters CIC near Roslin, who is collecting herself in the Weapons Control station. He notices Roslin's cup, which she left on the table, and smells it, detecting something unexpected.
*Caprica-Six is questioned. She suggests that the [[Daru Mozu|fuel ship]] is being tracked by a unique radiation signature emitted by the ship. The [[Virtual beings|virtual Baltar]] appears and convinces her not to cooperate further. Caprica Six retaliates to Tigh's interrogation by recalling [[Ellen Tigh]], inciting Tigh to strike her, and Six to strike back before [[Marine]]s intervene and shackle the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]].

===Act 2===
*In court, Tigh is questioned, and asked if Baltar appeared to help the [[New Caprica Resistance|resistance]] in any way. Tigh is noticeably drunk. When questioned about Ellen, Tigh acknowledges her involvement but becomes more withdrawn.
*Lampkin cross-examines about the [[NCP]] [[Precipice|initiation bombing]] and how the resistance attempted to target Baltar. Lampkin continues to question about Ellen Tigh's [[Exodus, Part I|collaboration]] by asking Colonel Tigh if his wife was a collaborator, muddying the differences between Ellen Tigh and Baltar. Lampkin points out that Tigh appears drunk. Matters turn to the worst when Tigh begins to hear the music.
*Tigh is asked the nature of Ellen's death, and Tigh resolutely answers, claiming that Baltar's inaction made him kill his wife. He reflects a portion of his wife's [[Exodus, Part II|last words]] to tell how he would do anything to have Baltar killed. Tigh begins to show increasingly signs of anger as the music in his head continues to increase in volume.
*In Joe's Bar, Anders turns a eye to strange noises from the bar's public wireless and shares a look with Foster.
*Under testimony, Roslin notes the execution of 200 people under Cylon tyranny.
*Lampkin attempts to get Lee Adama to give some insight about Roslin's testimony and Roslin herself, instead of being a passive observer who is simply satisfied in embittering his father.
*Lampkin attempts to play to Lee Adama's sense of justice by putting him between two difficult decisions. One being the betrayal of Roslin and his father, or putting his words about justice into action by sharing the personal information with Lampkin.

===Act 3===
*Admiral Adama drags the drunken Tigh to his quarters. The Fleet is nine jumps away from the nebula, and repairs are being made to the fuel ship to keep it from being tracked.
*Tigh says that he can't "smell her anymore" and apologizes for his actions in court. Adama replies that, as his [[Scattered|oldest friend]], he could never embarrass him.
*In the admiral's quarters, Major Adama suggests the idea of sending the fuel ship on a different course to throw off the Cylons temporarily, and the admiral coldly takes it under advisement.
*The two Adamas verbally spar. Admiral Adama angrily accuses his son of helping Lampkin by telling him about what Tigh did to Ellen.
*In response, Major Adama resigns from military duty, while his father accepts the resignation in anger.
*The mood is tense in court when, instead of Lampkin, Lee Adama asks to address the court.
*Lee Adama (in civilian dress) questions President Roslin, but asks if it was Baltar that [[Epiphanies|saved her from cancer]]. When Admiral Adama objects, Lampkin asks for hostile witness latitude, which is given.
*Roslin tells how the cancer was cured. When asked what medications she was currently taking, she says "I don't remember." Asked specifically about [[chamalla]] use, and if she has had hallucinations recently, Roslin counters in the affirmative but notes how it [[Home, Part II|provided the first clues to Earth]] as well as noting Lee Adama's own involvement.
*Before Lee Adama asks his next question, Roslin whispers to him: "Don't do this." He then asks if she was taking chamalla again.
*Admiral Adama tries to overrule the line of questioning but other tribunal judges overrule him, forcing Roslin to answer. She recalls [[Miniseries, Night 1|her fondness for Lee Adama's early leadership]], how calling him "Captain Apollo" way back then had a nice ring to it, but how sad she was at how his behavior has changed.
*Adama notes that chamalla can be sweetened to mask its bitter taste, recalling the cup of tea that Tory gave Roslin at ''Galactica'''s CIC, which gave him the clue to her use of the drug.
*Roslin confirms that she is taking chamalla again. She then challenges counselor Adama to finished what he had started with his last question. When he asks her why was taking the drug again, she tells the court that she is taking the drug again because her cancer has returned.

===Act 4===
*[[Anastasia Dualla]] packs her bags and leaves her husband in disgust over his questioning of Roslin and his usage of the justice system she believes should be dismantled and rebuilt to make it work again.
*On ''[[Colonial One]]'', reporters pepper President Roslin about her cancer, how it will be treated, and if she planned on using Hera Agathon's blood again. The line of questioning infuriates Foster, but Roslin asks her to leave the press conference. When [[Karen Fallbrook]] asks how long the President has to live, an unflinching Roslin repeats the same question at the reporter, leaving Fallbrook speechless.
*After the press conference, Roslin angrily criticizes her aide, complaining that Foster is off her game. Foster claims that she hasn't been sleeping well.
*In his quarters, the drunken Tigh still hears the mysterious music and tries to track its source.
*[[Helo]] arrives in CIC as interim [[Executive officer]] and finds Lt. [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]], who briefs him. The [[tylium]] fuel ship decoy plan is nearing completion, but there are no further reports of Cylon forces. Three jumps from the nebula.
*Helo remembers a certain smell in the air when trouble was brewing, recalling the weather on Caprica. He believes "something over the horizon" is coming, something that doesn't bode well for the Fleet. "A storm is coming," he says.
*The music that Tigh, Anders, and Foster are hearing appears to be coming from the ship itself.

===Bonus Scene===

* Lee Adama asks Lampkin, "You know he's guilty, right?". Lampkin appeals to Adama's sense of justice, stating that everyone is guilty of something and there is a difference between guilt and criminality.

== Notes ==

*The episode has one of the most sparse musical score yet. The only major pieces are during Roslin's dream at the beginning and the music Tigh keeps hearing. According to a [http://bearmccreary.com/html/blog/blogmain.htm blog entry] by composer [[Bear McCreary]], director [[Michael Rymer]] and the editors decided not to use any music during the court room part, in order to let the scenes speak for themselves.
*It's the first episode without an intro sequence, thus increasing the effective running time a little bit. Because of that, no updated [[Survivor Count]] is available.
*The bitterness of chamalla and that it can be sweetened to make it taste better, is first mentioned by the oracle [[Dodona Selloi]] in "[[Exodus, Part I]]".
*One of the shots of others listening to the trial on the [[wireless]] shows the [[refinery ship]] from "[[Dirty Hands]]".
*A storm is often used as a metaphor for a battle, conflict, or massive upheaval in science fiction. Helo's final line in this episode is almost an exact duplicate of the ending of the movie ''"[[w:The Terminator|The Terminator]]"'', and is very similar to the warning issued by the prophetess in ''"[[w:The Stand|The Stand]]"''. A huge storm (a sandstorm) also takes place during the climax of the novel ''"[[w:Dune (novel)|Dune]]"''.

== Analysis ==

* [[Samuel Anders]] wears a uniform with rank insignia and hangs around with Seelix and Costanza. Together with being addressed as "you [[nugget]]s", this indicates that he joined the pilot training program.
* The Cylons have apparently been tracking the fleet since the destruction of the Temple of Five. Their strategy was to delay jumping into any system that the Fleet has been until after six plus hours to ensure that the Fleet would not realize that they were being tracked.
* Adama's military experience comes into play again when he orders that the decoy Raptor stay for a total of 12 hours. This is reminiscent of his previous strategies such as the decision to attack the Cylon tylium factory in "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]." When he changes the regular pattern and stays longer than the Cylons had expected, he finally catches them in the act.
* Lee Adama immediately displays signs of fear once Roslin challenges him to "finished what you(he) started" after asking her if she is taking chamalla again. This indicates that either he suspected that Roslin's cancer has returned or he was beginning to feel that his actions are treacherous.
*This is not the first time that a belief in taking a principled but unpopular stand in fact leads Lee Adama into a morally dubious area. Ironically one such decision also involves Laura Roslin - Lee's decision to mutiny against his father when the then Commander Adama tries to remove Roslin from office during the events of "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]". He almost precipitates a gun battle aboard ''Colonial One'' when he mutinies against Colonel Tigh, who is commanding the strike team sent to arrest Roslin, who ultimately surrenders and does not back the younger Adama's move. This suggests a continuous personality trait of failing to judge the consequences of a headstrong pursuit of a perceived moral cause. Soon after, Lee exhibits a similar late realization of the dangerous moral territory he wandered into when he hesitates and ultimately finds himself unable to advocate a widespread mutiny against his father's leadership over the wireless ([[The Farm]]).
**The tendency to try and stand on principle (and thus assuage one's own conscience) over practicality seems to be an Adama family trait. The elder Adama has also done this on numerous occasions, some of which had tragic results ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).
* Helo's comment to Gaeta about a "'storm is coming'" highlights Adama's comment to him at the end of "[[The Woman King]]", specifically to how Helo has been many times the voice in the wilderness. His ability to sense or remember certain details hails back to the final scene in "[[Rapture]]" when he remembers that Thrace had painted the picture of the mandala. It's also similar to his wife predicting that "Something dark is coming" in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]".
* Lampkin's opening statement is another prime example of his rhetorical skill. He uses reverse psychology to goad the mob to respond and eventually lead one man in the audience to state his desire to see Baltar die. This display of emotion played in Lampkin's favor as it would make the judges wary of giving into the mob mentality. Secondly, he cleverly paints Roslin as a fanatic by proposing that had Roslin been president when the Cylons invaded New Caprica, the entire human race would have been exterminated. However, as [[Precipice|Zarek has stated to Roslin]], if she had been President, the settlement and eventual invasion of New Caprica would have never taken place.
** The opening statement opens like the opening statement in the film "[[Wikipedia:The Devil's Advocate (film)|The Devil's Advocate]]".
* It appears the closer the Fleet is to the nebula, the more Tigh, Anders, and Foster hear the music. Even, at least in the case of Foster, to the point of exhaustion.
* Tory Foster appears to be losing it to some extent based on her declining grooming and snappish attitude toward the reporters. Roslin tells her she can be replaced by someone that can handle the pressure and at least run a comb through their hair once a week.
* There is a growing movement in the Fleet that believes Baltar has some sort of healing or divine abilities. His internal-Six doesn't want him to brush off these devoted followers, indicating that his belief that he is the "Chosen One" is coming true.
* Lee Adama's actions towards his father and Roslin have led to another impasse between himself and Dualla. Lee Adama has come to a point where he has been alienated from his father, from Roslin, and his wife, in an attempt to gain some sort of respect from Lampkin and to act in accordance with his noble conceptions of justice by following in his grandfather's footsteps.
* Lee Adama's words to the pilots in "[[A Day in the Life]]" come back to haunt Racetrack when the Cylons jump on top of her Raptor right after the end of a card game. The ship's systems apparently had been powered down as Racetrack can't even maneuver or evade the missile to give the FTL drive a few more moments to spin up.
* Baltar is only being tried for crimes that the prosecution believes can be proven. He is therefore not being tried for the genocide of humanity that occurred during the [[Miniseries]]. Although the show's audience knows his involvement, none of the primary characters in the series who give testimony have to date any hard evidence of his complicity, beyond Laura Roslin's hallucination whilst dying of cancer in "[[Epiphanies]]". This is acknowledged before, when she tries to challenge Baltar about the settlement of New Caprica. She tells him that she saw him together with Six, but knows that she has no concrete evidence ([[Lay Down Your Burdens]]).
* [[Cassidy]]'s numbers for the surviving human population are contradictory. It seems that the number the writers arrived at for the surviving humans only refers to the ''civilian'' population of the Fleet, excluding the military personnel. The regular survivor count in "[[Collaborators]]" is higher. The second confusion stems from her saying "the sum total of survivors [...] who settled on New Caprica". This clearly means only the people down on the planet. However her number of 44,035 also includes the ''total'' population left in orbit, both military and civilian. This writing error makes her statement that 5,197 people were lost entirely inaccurate, but aside from that the numbers fit with what has been established before (see: [[Survivor Count]]):
**41,435 (Collaborators) - 38,838 = 2,597 (the military personnel in the Fleet)
**44,035 - 39,192 (the inhabitants of [[New Caprica City]]) = 4,835 (the total population in orbit)
**4,835 - 2,597 = 2,238 (Lee Adama refers to roughly 2,000 civilians who escaped New Caprica in "[[Precipice]]")
**49,550 (count in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]") - 39,192 - 4,835 (total population in orbit) = 5,523 (the death toll prior to the occupation, mostly incurred with the destruction of ''Cloud Nine'')
**49,550 - 5,523 - 41,435 = 2,592 (the causalities of the Cylon occupation and the escape from New Caprica)

== Questions ==

* Did Tigh continue drinking all the time, or did he stop for a while after he seemingly pulled himself together again?
* Why does Anders pursue being a pilot?
* Is there a budding romance developing between Anders and Seelix? ([[Crossroads, Part II|Answer]])
* What will Seelix and Anders' callsigns be?
* What is the mysterious music and where is it coming from? ([[Crossroads, Part II|Partial answer]])
* Why are Tigh, Anders, and Foster apparently the only ones who can hear the ever-increasing music? ([[Crossroads, Part II|Answer]])
* Is the music's loudness and clarity increasing because the Fleet is approaching the Ionian nebula?
* Is Roslin back on using chamalla extract because of prescription from Cottle or is she attempting to receive visions of the future again?
* Did Athena or Caprica-Six receive the same vision that Roslin found herself in during the teaser of the episode? ([[Crossroads, Part II|Possible answer]])
* Who is the shadowy figure behind the Six in Roslin's vision?
* Who is the Six in Roslin's vision? Caprica-Six or Baltar's virtual Six?
* Would Athena and Helo be willing to donate some of Hera's blood to save Roslin from her cancer?
* Barring any effective treatment, how long does Roslin have to live?
* With Helo temporarily assigned as XO, who has replaced him as CAG? Or is he temporarily holding down both posts?
* Why does Roslin look so different in her dream?
* Will Baltar take the stand? ([[Crossroads, Part II|Answer]])
* Will Caprica Six take the stand? ([[Crossroads, Part II|Answer]])
* Where is Zarek in the midst of the trial proceedings?
* How is Caprica's virtual Baltar aware of the details of Saul and Ellen Tigh's relationship and Ellen's death?
* Why has Adama waited so long to order a sweep of tracking devices throughout the Fleet?

== Official Statements ==
Notes from the podcast:

* The opening teaser is indeed set in the Kobol Opera House that has been seen numerous times. This particular scene in the teaser was a late addition as the director and producers wanted to create a foreboding atmosphere to the episode. This was influenced by the fact that the studio executives were not favorable to the idea of ending the season with Baltar's trial.

* RDM goes more into the original trial storyline that involved the Saggitarons and Baltar. In summary, during their time on New Caprica, the food supply had been contaminated and a famine had fallen on most of the colonists, except the Saggitarons, who had been very careful with their harvests and supplies. This alienation between the Saggitarons and the rest of the colonies came to a collision when Baltar was attempting to have the Saggitaron leadership share their food with the other colonists. Unfortunately, Baltar is forced to kill one of the leaders, and thus began the riots and slaughter directed towards the Saggitarons. This killing was to be eventually revealed that it was a necessity instead of an act of genocide.

* Another component of the original storyline was to have Lee Adama be Baltar's only attorney and Lee's morals come into play when he obtains a video recording of Baltar actually shooting the Saggitaron leader. The cliff hanger of the episode was suppose to leave the audience wondering what will Lee do now that he believes Baltar is guilty.

* Over time, RDM and the director agreed that this storyline involved too many plot elements that the audience had never witnessed about Baltar. Once the decision was made, RDM completely revised the whole trial and rewrote the episodes.

* RDM hints that Athena and Roslin did indeed see each other during the dream sequence. A deleted scene had Roslin in the the restroom attempting to cool her head down while Athena comes out from one of the stalls. They looked at each other briefly in a silent acknowledgment that they did see each other in the dream.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

* ''The showdown of the Adamas:''
: '''[[Lee Adama]]''': I refuse to serve under someone that questions my integrity.
: '''[[William Adama]]''': And I refuse to have an officer under my command that doesn't have any.

*''Cassidy's indictment of Baltar''
:'''[[Cassidy]]''': How do we measure loss? (pauses) How do we measure loss? We measure it in the faces of the dead. The faces that haunt our memories and our dreams. How do we measure loss? We measure it in our own faces, the ones we see in our mirror every day, because it has marked each of us. So how do we measure loss? When the scale of it becomes too hard to absorb any other way we use numbers. How many killed, how many maimed, how many missing. And when those numbers become too vast to comprehend, as they did two years ago, we had to turn it around. We began to count the living. Those of us who survived to continue the saga of the human race. (walks to a white board and begins to write down.) 44,035; the sum total of survivors from the Twelve Colonies who settled on New Caprica with President Gaius Baltar as their leader and protector. 38,838; our number the day after we escaped. And the missing number, the one noone wants to face? 5,197. 5,197 of us killed, left behind or simply disappeared. 5,197 of all that remains of the human race; lost. The citizens of the Twelve Colonies entrusted their fate and their lives to Gaius Baltar. What we received was a reign of terror that staggers our mind and breaks our hearts. Instead of guidance, we got tyranny. Instead of justice, we got oppression. Instead of a president, we got a murderer. Today humanity holds him accountable for his crime. Gauis Baltar is not a victim. Gauis Baltar chose to side with the Cylons and to actively seek the deaths of his fellow citizens. For that he must pay the ultimate price.

== Guest Stars ==
*[[Michael Hogan]] as [[Saul Tigh]]
*[[Aaron Douglas]] as [[Galen Tyrol]]
*[[Alessandro Juliani]] as [[Felix Gaeta]]
*[[Tahmoh Penikett]] as [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]
*[[Nicki Clyne]] as [[Cally Tyrol]]
*[[Rekha Sharma]] as [[Tory Foster]]
*[[Jen Halley]] as [[Diana Seelix]]
*[[Michael Trucco]] as [[Samuel Anders]]
*[[Bodie Olmos]] as [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Brendan Costanza]]
*[[Leah Cairns]] as [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]]
*[[Colin Lawrence]] as [[Hamish McCall|Hamish "Skulls" McCall]]
*[[Mark Sheppard]] as [[Romo Lampkin]]
*[[Ryan Robbins]] as [[Charlie Connor]]
*[[Keegan Connor Tracy]] as Young Woman
*[[Chelah Horsdal]] as [[Cassidy]]
*[[Susan Hogan]] as [[Doyle Franks]]
*[[William Samples]] as Judge Number Two
*Lily Duong-Walton as [[Hera Agathon]]

== References ==
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The Son Also Rises

2007-04-27T14:27:23Z

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== Overview ==
:''With [[Gaius Baltar]]'s trial merely two weeks away, [[Lee Adama]] is tasked with protecting [[Romo Lampkin]], Baltar's second lawyer, and finds himself going up against [[William Adama|his own father]], who himself is appointed as one of the five judges in Baltar's trial.''

== Summary ==

=== Teaser ===

[[Image:Adama's b-day card.jpg|thumb|right|Adama happens upon an old, self-made birthday card from [[Kara Thrace]], while reviewing her jacket.]]
* [[William Adama]] reviews [[Kara Thrace]]'s service record file, which includes various disciplinary notices, commendations, and citations.
* Meanwhile, on ''[[Colonial One]]'', [[Laura Roslin]] presides over a drawing of ship captains who will comprise of the five judges of [[Gaius Baltar]]'s tribunal. [[Tory Foster]] picks up a folded card from the bowl, handing it to Roslin. It reads: Captain [[Elias Meeker]], ''[[Gideon]]''.
* Adama happens upon more records, including a commendation for bravery regarding her actions in recovering the civilians from [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]].
* Foster draws out one last name from the bowl. When Roslin opens it, she initially begins to read the card aloud, but stops herself as she reads the name, clearly shocked.
* As Adama continues to slowly run through the jacket, he happens across a self-made birthday card she made for him. The cover reads: "You were always like a father to me...". Upon opening the card, he sees a picture of Thrace, who is wearing his glasses and has a hand-drawn [[Adamastache|mustache]]. Above the picture are the words: "See the resemblance?"; below: "Happy birthday, <u>young</u> <u>man</u>" signing it with "much love, Kara". This elicits a laugh from Adama, who begins to tear up and sniffle.
* On the flight deck, a grieving and inebriated [[Samuel Anders]] stands on top of a [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]], who is tossing a coined-[[cubit]], calling "heads" correctly for the fourth time in a row. Watching him are [[Anthony Figurski]], [[Hamish McCall]] and [[Margaret Edmondson]].
* In the [[memorial hallway]], [[Lee Adama]] stands in front of the section containing [[Louanne Katraine|Kat's]] picture. He thumbs with a photo of Thrace, keeping it close to his belly, then pocketing it as he hears the sound of Racetrack's footsteps. Edmondson then gets his attention by calling Adama by his rank.
* Still standing above the cockpit of the Viper, Anders holds out the cubit, saying that his "girl is too lucky to check out". Adama and Edmondson approach; Adama joins Anders on top of the Viper and attempts to talk him down. Emotionally distraught, he initially sits down, then jumps up, saying he has somewhere to go, but he doesn't complete his words as he slips and falls from the Viper. Adama climbs down from the Viper as some of the spectators begin to cluster near the fallen Anders, who says "I think I fell".
* As Adama checks Anders over for injuries, Anders asks him: "She's still alive, right?" Adama replies in the negative, which Anders tearfully claims he knows.
* In [[CIC]], Colonel [[Saul Tigh]] tells Adama he's been selected as one of the five ship captains that form Baltar's tribunal.
* On the hangar deck, Racetrack complains about having to fly [[Alan Hughes|Baltar's lawyer]] back and forth from the ''[[Zephyr]]'', saying he whispers into her ear and takes his shoes off on board.
* Skulls wonders why Baltar is even given a trial while he's obviously guilty, to which Cally replies it's justice.
* An explosive charge detonates aboard the [[Raptor]]. Racetrack walks out unharmed, but Baltar's lawyer is dead.

===Act 1===
*A press conference on Baltar's fate on ''[[Colonial One]]'' asks questions about the trial, a lawyer replacement, and other matters. Roslin stands firm against any terrorist acts affecting the trial.
*In the [[Pilot ready rooms|pilot ready room]], the mood is also somber. Major Adama is making mistakes and distracted. A reconnaissance operation is planned.
*After a joke, Adama says "Starbuck" and not "Racetrack" after the [[Raptor]] pilot makes a joke to [[Sharon Agathon]] about checking under her seat, and an overwhelming awkwardness settles within the room. Adama dismisses the group hurriedly.
*Roslin interviews the new attorney, [[Romo Lampkin]] with Admiral Adama present. Lampkin abruptly introduces the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet leaders]] to his [[Lampkin's cat|cat]], who is in a foul mood.
*Adama asks his son to aid with attorney's affairs. When the younger Adama objects to being grounded as [[CAG]] and indicating that he's "okay", the admiral tells him that he knows that his son isn't okay because the admiral himself is also still in grief over Thrace's death.
*Lampkin is given his quarters and asks to see Baltar. Lampkin wants to choose a room that is unlikely to be wired for surveillance. He tells Major Adama that he was a student of his grandfather, [[Joseph Adama]].
*The scene shifts to see someone's hands preparing explosive charges.

===Act 2===
*Baltar, in a bulletproof vest, is escorted by [[marine]]s to his attorney in Major Adama's quarters. The major is present under client confidentiality.
*Baltar is agitated as he writes more quick notes for his [[My Triumphs, My Mistakes|manifesto]]. He knows that the tribunal will use [[Caprica Six]] against him.
*When Lampkin asks to be taken to ''Colonial One'', Adama objects. When he insults Adama, the major reacts violently, his stress over the events of the last two weeks coming forth briefly.
*Adama manages to convince Captain [[Aaron Kelly]] to fly the Raptor with [[Sharon Agathon|Athena]] and Lampkin aboard, despite the admiral's grounding order for the major.
*As the Raptor's door is almost closed, Lampkin's cat escapes through the hatchway, and the door is reopened while other deckhands scramble to chase the cat.
*As Chief Tyrol crawls under the Raptor to reach the cat, he discovers the bomb, and everyone madly scrambles away.
*Later, Admiral Adama is infuriated at his son for disobeying orders, noting how everyone is out of sorts since Thrace's death two weeks prior. The admiral orders his son to do his job, properly, for he will be on the other side of the courtroom as a tribunal member.

===Act 3===
*The bomb is dissected and analyzed. Deck crew and officers discuss the problem: One of them is a conspirator. [[Cally Tyrol]] states her opinion, and accuses the Cylons, and more indirectly Sharon Agathon, for the bombings and inciting the riots within the Fleet.
*Major Adama warns Lampkin to watch himself, but Lampkin is philosophical, realizing that someone will eventually get to him, no matter what.
*On ''Colonial One'', Roslin grants Lampkin permission to interview [[Caprica-Six]] in the usual interrogation room. [[Tory Foster]] apologizes to Apollo for the difficulty and delay in getting the files Lampkin requested shipped to him.
*As Lampkin interviews Six, she notes her love for him. Lampkin relates his experiences in love, which moves Six. On asking if Baltar asked about her, Lampkin removes his glasses and shows Baltar's pen, telling her that his sacrifice of his one limited freedom is an expression of his love.
*Lampkin tells her, that unlike Baltar, she won't get a trial.
*Later, [[Anthony Figurski]] delivers the papers Lampkin requested from ''[[Colonial One]]'', noting that Captain Kelly had inspected them. The [[marine]] escort is suspicious, and both they and Lampkin inspect the paper box to their satisfaction.
*As Lampkin enters his key code for opening his quarter's hatch, marine [[Cheadle]] notices a screw on the floor, and realizes that the key lock had been tampered with. He tackles Lampkin, pushing him to safety just as the hatchway explodes, taking the full force of the explosion.

===Act 4===
*Lampkin survives the bomb attack, but is in [[sickbay]]. Major Adama speaks with him and has brought a bag containing Lampkin's possessions.
*Lampkin states that he is a kleptomaniac, and master slight-of-hand thief. Major Adama begins to remove the items with Lampkin commenting on the significance of each: Roslin's glasses, a shoe from the prosecuting attorney, a button from the admiral's jacket. "I borrow things," he says. When the major asks what Lampkin took from him, he tells him that he found Thrace's picture, but didn't take it.
*Adama discovers a special object that could only come from an officer. He asks who Lampkin burgled to get this object.
*Major Adama interview Captain Kelly, who admits to be the bomber, warning that he would continue the attacks if left on duty.
*The admiral reinstates his son as [[CAG]], but the younger Adama wants to help Lampkin, to his father's repeated objections. Eventually, the admiral, furious with the major, orders that the major be removed from the board and re-instate [[Helo]] as temporary CAG.
*Thrace's picture makes it on the memorial board as she requested, next to [[Kat]]. Anders, on crutches and with his left leg in a cast, comes in. The two come to terms with Thrace's death and possibly mend their friendship.
*Baltar finds an envelope with his pen, and a note from his attorney.
*The note contains a poetic line, telling Baltar that there is no more powerful ally than a son who decides to step away from his father's shadow.

===Bonus Scene===

*The scene begins with Athena and Cally Tyrol in the hangar deck while the rest of the deck gang is away.
*Athena begins to ask Cally why she accused her of being the bomber, upon which Cally denies ever making a direct accusation.
*Athena responds that she didn't accuse or even indirectly imply that Cally is the bomber, even though Cally was the last deck hand to inspect the Raptor.
*Athena allows Cally to take her gun and hold it to her chest, while Athena states why she knows Cally, despite her intense hatred for the Cylons, wouldn't shoot her. It is because she knows Athena loves her husband, her daughter, and ''Galactica''. Cally, according to Athena, would never dare take a child's mother away.
*After a few tense moments, Athena grabs the gun, points it next to Cally's head and states in unambiguous terms that if Cally is discovered to be the bomber, Athena will kill Cally herself.

== Notes ==
*This episode's title is a pun on the title of the 1926 [[w:Ernest Hemingway|Ernest Hemingway]] novel "[[w:The Sun Also Rises|The Sun Also Rises]]".
*Starting with this episode, [[Katee Sackhoff]]'s name is no longer listed in the opening credits.
*The population count at the start of this episode is 41,399, accounting for [[Kara Thrace]]'s death in "[[Maelstrom]]". At least one birth must have occurred to set off [[Alan Hughes]]'s death in the teaser. Assuming that marine [[Cheadle]] died in the explosion that almost kills Lampkin, the population count would be 41,398, a number that does not take into account any births or other deaths that occurred off-screen.
*[[Karl Agathon]] is temporarily assigned as [[CAG]], despite not having any previously known experience as a [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilot. This might have been done for production reasons. After Apollo, Helo is the highest-ranking established pilot left. In-universe [[Marcia Case]] or [[Ricky Richardson]] are probably better qualified for the position. [[Hotdog]], who has at least as much experience as former CAG [[Kat]], is also passed over.
*The model ship which [[William Adama|Adama]] destroyed in [[Maelstrom|the previous episode]] is still sitting on a shelf in his quarters.
*[[Romo Lampkin]] exhibits symptoms of [[w:Kleptomania|kleptomania]]. Over the course of the episode he steals many objects Lampkin views as important to their owner from a psychological perspective, and thus provides him with knowledge of a person. Among the objects stolen:
** Gaius Baltar's worn fountain pen
** Laura Roslin's glasses
** Admiral Adama's uniform button, which Adama first searches for when Lampkin talks to [[Caprica-Six]]
** Ms. [[Cassidy]]'s sandal
** [[Aaron Kelly]]'s magnetic component, used in his bomb-making
* The door code to Romo Lampkin's temporary quarters on ''Galactica'' is 1234.
* [[Samuel Anders|Sam Anders]]' flipping a coin and continually coming up with heads is reminiscent of the early moments of Tom Stoppard's play ''Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead'', in which Rosencrantz has the same result on a coin flip over a dozen times. This leads Guildenstern to comment "Consider - One: Probability is a factor which operates within natural forces. Two: Probability is not operating as a factor. Three: We are now held within un-, sub-, or supernatural forces." The moral is that two minor characters within a play (namely, ''Hamlet'') have no control over their fate, and are condemned to carry out their role in the story regardless of their desperate attempts to change events.

== Analysis ==
* A noticeable pattern between the two Adamas can be seen whenever both are going through a stressful or traumatic situation. Whereas the [[William Adama|elder Adama]] has the experience and the desire to focus on the job that he has to do, the [[Lee Adama|younger Adama]] consistently displays an inability to cope and process his emotions. This difference between the two has often led to sharp divisions, causing another tear in their damaged relationship:
** In the [[Miniseries]], Bill Adama is trying to get on with his life after the loss of his son Zak, but Lee is still full of rage over the incident and quite unambiguously holds his father responsible for what happened.
** When the two Adamas do not agree on the same method of coping with the destruction of the ''Olympic Carrier'' in "[[33]]". This eventually leads to Lee Adama becoming [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]]'s military adviser and eventual co-conspirator during the hunt for the [[Arrow of Apollo]].
** During the planning for the [[Battle of New Caprica]], the two Adamas butt heads again over strategy and whether it is worth the risk of losing the last remnants of humanity that were with [[Galactica (RDM)|''Galactica'']] and [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus'']] at the time.

* Lee Adama has consistently shown a tendency to prove that he is not like his father, even though both are described as stubborn by [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] and [[Carolanne Adama]]. This tendency is evident in the last argument between the two when Apollo accuses Adama of not wanting him to become like his grandfather.

* When Lee Adama mistakenly calls [[Racetrack]] "Starbuck", his mental state is reminiscent of "[[Black Market]]" when he constantly found himself recollecting events on Caprica before the genocide.

* William Adama's failure to listen to Carolanne Adama's pleas and advice to tell his son how proud he is of him comes back with a vengeance when Apollo repeatedly asks his father if he is giving him an order, the implication being that Apollo wanted to know if his father is treating him as a son or as a soldier. Adama's refusal to ask Apollo to obey his orders as his son will probably lead to further dissension between the two.

* [[Romo Lampkin]], though he appears to be a lawyer with little courtroom experience, has demonstrated a deep understanding of the human psyche. He takes Roslin's glasses to prevent her from being taken seriously during the trial. His other feats such as raising doubt and bringing out [[Caprica-Six]]'s feelings for [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]], and his slow but sure persuasion of Lee Adama into helping with Baltar's case, give hints to a man who obviously has immense experience with the art of manipulation.

* Lee Adama honors [[Kara Thrace|Thrace]]'s request of having her photo posted next to [[Louanne Katraine|Kat]]'s. His inability to let go of the photo may represent a possible marriage conflict with Dualla if he is unable to truly move on.

* [[Cally Tyrol]] correctly states that the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] wouldn't need to even fire one shot because they may find the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] had torn itself apart because of humanity's tendency towards self-destruction. However, it is also clear that she has not realized that she and the many workers are just as much a part of the problems when they essentially risked the existence of the Fleet with their work strikes, refusal to refine [[tylium]], and disobedience toward military orders ([[Dirty Hands]]). The summary of all those acts cannot be attributed to Cylon intervention as Cally Tyrol is implying that [[Sharon Agathon|Athena]] is responsible for the bombings.

* Two weeks have passed since the events of "[[Maelstrom]]". During this time, Adama apparently has been mulling over his memories of Starbuck, including a review of her military record. The audience sees, amongst the items in the folder, a hand-made birthday card which Thrace gave Adama for his birthday once. It jokingly shows Thrace with a color pen mustache and glasses, and asks if Adama can see the resemblance. This moment reinforces the theme that Starbuck was very much a daughter to Adama, even though he stated otherwise in "[[Torn]]". It is very clear that he still sees Thrace as a daughter to him.

* After the events of "[[The Woman King]]", Helo has been reinstated amongst the pilots of ''Galactica'', as the original purpose of assigning him to [[Dogsville]] was in response to his objections and sabotage of the Cylon biological weapon. Starting with "[[Dirty Hands]]", Helo is present at briefings in the ready room, and by the implications of this episode, he appears to be one of the four squadron leaders. Thus, once Apollo's flight status is revoked it is only natural for Adama to promote Helo to the CAG position because of seniority and trust.

* It is unclear whether Helo has experience with a Viper, but numerous Viper pilots have been flying Raptors so far. Whether this goes both ways it yet to be seen, but with Helo's position as head of a squadron and now CAG, it appears that he has at least enough operational and tactical knowledge to do the necessary organizational and administrative duties. His previous experience as Galactica's [[XO]] may also have been a factor in his appointment.

* Though Kelly tells Apollo that he would have never detonated the bomb with him inside, the fact that the bomb had been planted and that Kelly couldn't anticipate Apollo's impromptu decision to join Lampkin, makes it clear that Kelly's original intention was to kill Lampkin ''and'' Athena. Whether this is an indirect statement on Kelly's view on Athena's Cylon heritage or his desire to raise the stakes by not only killing Baltar's lawyer, but sacrifice a member of the crew, is unclear.

* This is the first episode since the end of Season 2 that any member of the "[[The Colonial Gang]]", specifically [[Playa Palacios]] has been seen in the series. This episode and the nature of the remaining episodes may indicate a return to the President-news press relationship that the audience has seen in the past.

== Questions ==
* Is Lampkin's statement to Roslin and Adama that he is seeking the fame (or infamy) of being Baltar's lawyer true, or is there an ulterior motive?
* Will Captain Kelly be punished and if yes, how?
* Besides the attacks caused by Kelly, have there been any other incidents of violence on the scale that Zarek warned Roslin about?
* Will the death of Thrace bring Lee Adama and Sam Anders closer as friends in the future?
* Would the bomb on the Raptor have gone off if Tyrol hadn't discovered it? Is Kelly telling the truth that he would not have triggered it with Lee Adama inside?
* Is Cally's hatred of the Cylons truly towards all Cylons or is she afraid of Athena because of her connection to Tyrol's former lover, Boomer?
* Why does Lampkin wear sunglasses in most of his encounters with people?
* What caused the rift between William Adama and his own father?
* Given Karl Agathon's temporary promotion to CAG, does he have previous flight experience as a Viper pilot?
* Given the reappearance of [[Playa Palacios]] in this episode, what of her other fellow "[[The Colonial Gang]]" correspondents, [[James McManus]] and [[Sekou Hamilton]], or the program itself?

== Official Statements ==

Information from the podcast:
* Ron Moore admits that it's a stretch to have both Adamas involved intimately in the trial and even on opposite sides. But the writers decided to go for increased drama, since the trial would otherwise only be carried by guest stars with the show's main characters sidelined. Moore also believes that Admiral Adama is capable to make fair and rational decisions.
* Romo Lampkin's cat was supposed to be run out of the Raptor, but when shooting the cat only strolled. Since it's difficult to teach cats what to do, the film was sped up instead.
* That Lampkin always wears sunglasses was a decision made by the writer that was ultimately supported, despite concern on the part of the actor and the director.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

* ''[[Romo Lampkin]] replies to [[William Adama]]'s question regarding his qualifications for defending [[Gaius Baltar]]:''
: '''Lampkin:''' I was born for this. That, and the fact I have a pulse.

* ''Lampkin's cat jumps on [[Laura Roslin]]'s desk:''
: '''Lampkin:''' Lance belonged to my wife. Don't worry, he doesn't scratch or bite like she did. If it's any comfort, I despise him as much as you do, having to hire me. So, there it is. Shall we get started?

* ''Admiral Adama rips [[Lee Adama]] another one:''
: '''William Adama:''' What the hell were you doing out there? I gave you an order. To do a job.
: '''Lee Adama:''' Excuse me, I was ''doing my job''.
: '''Bill:''' Yeah, being led around by the nose! This [[Romo Lampkin|bastard]] yanks your chain and you jump.
: '''Lee:''' He wanted files from ''[[Colonial One]]''–
: '''Bill:''' It was the middle of the night.
: '''Lee:''' Well, you assigned me to security.
: '''Bill:''' Yeah. And there was a bomb on [[Raptor|that ship]]. And you ''missed it''. Security? I gave you ''explicit orders''.
: '''Lee:''' [[Sharon Agathon|Athena]] was piloting.
: '''Bill:''' You coulda died. Plain and simple. ''You're a soldier. Live like one. Start acting like one!''
: '''Lee:''' [[Kara Thrace|She]]'s [[Maelstrom|been gone]] two weeks. I didn't realize the clock was running.
: '''Bill:''' (softly) Stop.
: '''Lee:''' No, I'm sorry. Maybe because we're just built differently.
: '''Bill:''' You stop. Don't you dare quantify my loss.
: '''Lee:''' You have no idea. ''You have no frakking idea.''
: '''Bill:''' What, you think yours is deeper?
: '''Lee:''' Well–
: '''Bill:''' Yours is greater? (Lee doesn't respond) ''In two weeks, there's going to be a trial. And I'm going to do what I was chosen to do, and so are you! You build a frakking nest around this man and you '''protect his ass'''!''

* ''[[Aaron Kelly]] opines on shuttling [[Gaius Baltar]]'s [[Romo Lampkin|lawyer]]:''
: '''Kelly:''' Every day I wave jocks out there. A lot of them are my friends. People I care for and love. It's hard enough watching them die in battle, but rickshawing Baltar's frakking attorney around? Frak that.

* ''[[Cally Tyrol]] apparently learns from her [[Dirty Hands|mistakes]]:''
: '''Tyrol:''' I believe that the Cylons want us to destroy ourselves and this is how they're doing it. By planting bombs, making us suspicious of each other. You know what's funny? By the time the Cylons catch up with us, they won't even have to attack. They'll just clean up the mess we made.

* ''Baltar muses over adding to his [[My Triumphs, My Mistakes|manifesto]], before discovering his pen has gone missing:''
: '''Baltar:''' The nature of modern life is obsession.

* ''Lee Adama discovers Lampkin's kleptomania:''
: '''Adama:''' So what did you take from me?
: '''Lampkin:''' I was thinkin' the photograph that you carry. [[Kara Thrace|The girl. The pilot.]] The one you carry [in your pocket]. But... you've had enough stolen from you already.

* ''Lee Adama confronts Kelly about the bomb:''
: '''Kelly:''' I would have never let [[Sharon Agathon|Athena]] airborne with you on the Raptor. I would have stopped it. You know that.
: '''Adama:''' Yeah, I know that.
: '''Kelly:''' You better lock me up. And I don't want any trial. I won't stop. I will keep trying. I'll keep at it, I will. I did my job, sir. And I have done my job for two years. Every day I've sent people out to fight. I cleared them all to die. So many people... I just got tired of living with that. You ask that man, if you had to choose between giving up his life for a Cylon or human, what do you think he'd say? I had to do somethin'.

* ''Baltar reads a note from Lampkin, after retrieving his pen from the envelope:''
: '''Lampkin:''' There's no greater ally, no force more powerful, no enemy more resolved than [[Lee Adama|the son]] who chooses to step from [[William Adama|his father's shadow]].

== Guest Stars ==
* [[Michael Hogan]] as Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]
* [[Aaron Douglas]] as Chief [[Galen Tyrol]]
* [[Nicki Clyne]] as Specialist [[Cally Tyrol]]
* [[Tahmoh Penikett]] as Capt. [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]
* [[Alessandro Juliani]] as Lt. [[Felix Gaeta]]
* [[Kandyse McClure]] as Lt. [[Anastasia Dualla]]
* [[Michael Trucco]] as [[Samuel Anders]]
* [[Rekha Sharma]] as [[Tory Foster]]
* [[Sebastian Spence]] as Lt. [[Noel Allison|Noel "Narcho" Allison]]
* [[Mark Sheppard]] as [[Romo Lampkin]]
* [[Colin Lawrence]] as [[Hamish McCall|Hamish "Skulls" McCall]]
* [[Leah Cairns]] as Lt. [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]]
* [[Ty Olsson]] as Cpt. [[Aaron Kelly]]
* [[Bodie Olmos]] as Lt. [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hotdog" Costanza]]
* [[Don Thompson]] as [[Anthony Figurski]]
* [[Tyler McClendon]] as [[Alan Hughes]]
* [[Stephen Holmes]] as Reporter #1
* [[Christina Schild]] as [[Playa Palacios]]
* [[Alison Matthews]] as [[Karen Fallbrook|Fallbrook]]
* [[Chris Boyd]] as Marine [[Cheadle]]
* [[Colin Corrigan]] as Marine [[Nowart]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Episode Guide|The Son Also Rises]]
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[[Category:Episodes written by Michael Angeli]]
[[Category:Episodes directed by Sergio Mimica-Gezzan]]
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Maelstrom

2007-04-27T14:26:59Z

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{{Episode Data
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| season= 3
| episode= 17
| guests=
| writer= [[David Weddle]] <br/> [[Bradley Thompson]]
| story=
| director= [[Michael Nankin]]
| production= 317
| rating=1.1
| US airdate= 2007-03-04
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| population= 41400
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| prev= [[Dirty Hands]]
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== Overview ==
:''[[Kara Thrace]]'s past comes back to haunt her when [[William Adama|Adama]] has doubts about her fitness for duty.''

== Summary ==

===Teaser===

*[[Kara Thrace]] is dreaming of her old apartment, trying to paint over the [[Eye of Jupiter|strange mandala]]. The dream is augmented when a [[Leoben Conoy]] comes behind her, and the two embrace and begin to have sex, rolling through the white paint that Thrace attempted to use to cover up the mandala. The mandala "pushes" itself through the white paint to reveal itself.
*[[Hot Dog]] looks over to question what Thrace was dreaming in her bunk.
*Thrace meets [[Helo]] in the head. He notes that [[Hera Agathon]] wakes up from frightening dreams as well. Helo suggests a psychologist, but when Thrace declines, he also suggests an [[oracle]] living in [[Dogsville]]. As Helo speaks, Thrace see in her mirror an image of a little girl standing by the hatchway, who appears bruised and beaten. When Thrace looks again for the child, she has disappeared.
*Thrace enters the oracle's tent and finds a small golden figurine of the angelic [[Aurora, Goddess of the Dawn]].
*The oracle, [[Yolanda Brenn]], appears, and tells Thrace to keep the figurine. She asks Thrace to sit before a pool of water. Brenn holds Thrace's hand and begins a reading.
*Brenn knows of the Cylon [[Leoben]] and the dreams. When she repeats the destiny foretold by Leoben, verbatim, Thrace is angered. The oracle continues to repeat Leoben's words which were originally spoken under interrogation ([[Flesh and Bone]]).
*Thrace wonders how the oracle could know what was said. The oracle tells her that her mother, [[Socrata Thrace]], was trying to tell her something.
*The oracle notes that Leoben is the answer, who can see the answers to Thrace. Thrace angrily leaves the tent.

===Act 1===

*[[The Fleet (RDM)|The Fleet]] is orbiting a cloudy gas giant planet as they refuel various ships after the fuel crisis had passed ([[Dirty Hands]])
*[[Samuel Anders]], after the two had a lovemaking session, is asking Thrace to join him for some leave time on another ship.
*He complains that the oracle wasn't helpful, and neither was her mother.
*Thrace notes how the two fought, and the injuries she sustained. Thrace recounts her mothers fear of insects, a holdover from the first Cylon war.
*To get revenge on her mother, Thrace placed rubber ants in her mother's closet, causing her to have a panic attack as she furiously tries to stamp the rubber bugs to death. In retaliation, her mother placed her hand in a door jamb and slammed the door on it, breaking Thrace's hand. Thrace states that it "was worth it".
*During a refueling operation, Starbuck and [[Hot Dog]] are on [[CAP]] when she believes she sees an enemy.
*''[[Galactica]]'' can't see the contact, but Starbuck identifies it as a [[Heavy Raider]]. Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] notes that [[DRADIS]] information is hard to rely on as [[synchrotron radiation]] around the planet affects DRADIS performance.
*As Starbuck goes closer, she sees a storm system that looks remarkably like the mandala. The Raider flies close and, to Starbuck, appears to strike her fighter.
*Starbuck keeps descending into the storm, against [[Lee Adama|Apollo]]'s continuous attempts to warn her back up.
*Eventually, Starbuck struggles successfully to return to space, but not after, during the descent, she sees flashes of sights of an apartment with her mother standing there.

===Act 2===
*Starbuck is back aboard, but as [[Galen Tyrol]] and his deck crew inspect her Viper for damage, there is none.
*Starbuck's gun camera shows nothing, as several pilots including [[Sharon Agathon]], [[Lee Adama]], and [[Racetrack]] review it. They don't see Starbuck firing at anything but clouds.
*Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]] speaks with his son and questions Thrace's competency. The admiral believes she is close to burnout, but the younger Adama believes her "steely-eyed Viper jock" mentality is all that holds Thrace together. The admiral repeats the question: Can she handle the strain?
*Lee Adama and Thrace are standing in the [[memorial hallway]]. Starbuck asks Major Adama to place her photo next to [[Kat]] if she meets her end before him. Likewise, Adama asks to have his photo next to [[Duck]] and his sweetheart, [[Nora]], both lost on [[New Caprica]] ([[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance]]).
*Thrace asks what Lee and Admiral Adama think of her flight readiness. Major Adama tries to give her encouragement but Thrace is distracted by a wax dripping that looks like the mandala.
*Thrace passes by the Admiral and President [[Laura Roslin]] without noticing them when Adama greets her with an [[Nothing but the rain|old tag line]] they shared before the new Cylon War ([[Miniseries]]). Before moving on, Thrace gives him the Aurora figurine from the oracle's tent as a masthead for his sailing ship models.
*As Thrace goes through inspection of her Viper, she again sees a little girl, this time in her cockpit--Thrace as a girl. Her face is bruised and bleeding. Thrace has flashbacks of her mother and is shocked into stopping her inspection.

===Act 3===
*A visibly shaken Thrace sits by her Viper when Lee Adama goes back to check on her.
*Thrace says she is not going back out to fly, not trusting herself. Adama volunteers to be her wingman to give her confidence.
*Thrace asks about [[Anastasia Dualla|Adama's wife]] and how their relationship was going. After a moment of discomfort after he notes things are going well, Thrace tells him that she is happy that things are working out. Thrace says that, as it was in the beginning, the two are back to being platonic.
*During Apollo and Starbuck's CAP, Starbuck sees another bogey and engages, but no one can confirm it on [[DRADIS]] again.
*Admiral Adama chooses caution and orders the Fleet to [[Action Stations|Condition One]] status, stopping refueling once more.
*Apollo is again trying to flag down Starbuck, but she is entranced once more and again flying downward in the clouds.
*Starbuck's Viper is hit by debris. Her forward canopy window is punctured, she is knocked unconscious, and her fighter begins to tumble. An alarm sounds in the cockpit, and the scene blurs to find a sleeping Thrace shutting off a radio alarm and awaking in her apartment, with [[Virtual Leoben|who appears to be a Leoben Cylon]] greeting her.
*Thrace believes she is being tricked again, unconscious or on a Cylon ship, but Leoben states otherwise.
*Leoben keeps noting how the mandala shape cloud attracts her, and that she has told anyone little about it.
*Leoben tells her of her tendency to cheat death ever since a day with her mother as they materialize to a small apartment, reliving an event six years ago, where Lieutenant Thrace stands before her mother as she reads a letter from a veterans administration. On the wall is a [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] medal of honor, ostensibly from the first [[Cylon War]].
*[[Socrata Thrace]] first congratulates her daughter for being the first of her family to become an officer, then berates her for being only 16th in her class and having many demerits.
*Kara Thrace retaliates by discussing her mother never reaching officer status despite serving in the Cylon War.
*The lieutenant sees a doctor's report that tells that her mother has cancer that has spread rapidly.
*Socrata rejects any attempts of her daughter's sympathy, and Kara Thrace runs out the door, vowing never to return. The "real-world" Starbuck begins to cry as she relives the moment.
*Socrata Thrace stares at a filled dish of cigarette butts.

===Act 4===
*The scene shifts. Leoben tells Thrace how her mother waited at her apartment and died five weeks later.
*When Thrace tells her reluctance to return, Leoben presents her with another image, where she is able to walk to her mother's deathbed, Socata has a scrapbook of every doodle and letter that Thrace made, including one with the mandala.
*Thrace tells her mother that something is about to happen, the thing that her mother was preparing her for. Socrata tells her daughter that she is ready as she holds her mother's hand. As she presses Socrata's hand to her face, her mother takes her last breath. Starbuck cries and then smiles at being able to be there to hear her mother's final words.
*Leoben tells her that death is not hard to embrace, that this was the lesson her mother was trying to teach her daughter.
*When Thrace realizes that the entity that has shown her these images [[Virtual Leoben|is not actually a Leoben]]. When asked, he replies that he never claimed to be - he is there to be her guide to see what lies "between life and death."
*The scene shifts back to the cloud where Starbuck fails to climb. She reawakens, but continues to drop and chase the Raider image. The planetary cloud boundary, the point of no-return, also called the "hard deck", is getting closer, upon which the air pressure would crush the Viper.
*Apollo finds Starbuck in her dive and the Heavy Raider appears briefly.
*Starbuck finally calls out to Apollo: "Lee, I'll see you on the other side." As Apollo frantically calls her to wave off, she repeats, in a whisper, "Just let me go."
*Starbuck sees a vision of white light in her cockpit, and she smiles. Viewers also see an image of her as a young girl in the same white light.
*A view from the tail of Apollo's Viper clearly shows the Raider, then Starbuck's Viper appears, chasing it. The bogey vanishes into the clouds, and the view cuts to Apollo, looking straight forwarding, declaring "Visual!"
*Shortly after Apollo gains visual of Starbuck, her Viper explodes. There is no ejection or rescue chute.
*Apollo reports the grim news to [[CIC]]. Everyone, from [[Saul Tigh]] to [[Gaeta]] to Admiral Adama, is visibly heartbroken.
*William Adama tries to work on his sailing ship model, with the Aurora figurine now attached, which fits perfectly. But his anger and grief over the loss of Kara Thrace leads him to destroy the model and begin to cry heavily.

==Bonus Scene==
*The scene begins shortly before Act 3, where, as Starbuck inspects her Viper, she finds hydraulic fluid, and becomes visibly angry at Chief Tyrol. Major Adama moves in to attempt to calm her down.

== Notes ==
*Katee Sackhoff had to sign a confidentiality agreement relating to what happened to her character in this episode.
*Adama can be seen building his model ship in "[[Home, Part I]]".
* The introduction of the goddess Aurora increases the number of known gods within the Colonial religion. As before with the use of names such as Mars and Jupiter, Aurora is the Romanized name for the Greek goddess [[w:Eos|Eos]].
* An [[w:Aurora (astronomy)|aurora]] is a radiant emission from a planet's upper atmosphere that occurs sporadically over the middle and high latitudes of both hemispheres in the form of luminous bands, thus forming the pattern of the mandala that Thrace sees in her first flight over the planet.
*[[Ron D. Moore]] has a reputation in ''[[w:Star Trek|Star Trek]]'' circles in killing characters in stories that he wrote for the series. The death of a central character such as Kara Thrace appears to uphold this reputation in ''Battlestar Galactica''.
*According to an official statement by Ron Moore, in the scene where viewers show the Heavy Raider image, Starbuck's Viper, and Apollo's Viper, Apollo did ''not'' see the Raider, having visual only on Starbuck.

== Analysis ==

* Although Starbuck contemplated ejecting from her damaged Viper, the planet is a gas giant and doesn't have a solid surface. A Jovian planet has [[w:Jupiter|winds of up to 700 km/hour]] and may have extreme temperatures in the depths. The duration which her ejection system could sustain her life is unknown.
* The episode brings many story elements of Starbuck's history to a close as everything comes to a full circle, which is a general meaning of a mandala in spiritual contexts. A few of these elements include:
** Admiral Adama and Thrace's interchange of "What do you hear? - [[Nothing but the rain]]". This is first scene that introduced Kara and her overall relationship with Adama at the beginning of the [[Miniseries]].
** The scene between Apollo and Starbuck where she states that they've reached full circle as she is again the hotshot pilot who gives nothing but grief to her CAG.
** Admiral Adama's proposed rescue of her is similar to his actions in "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]" when Thrace's Viper goes down over a hostile moon. However, this time, Lee dissuades his father from the attempt because of the futility of looking for Starbuck's destroyed Viper within a gas giant.
**Thrace's initial reaction and eventual denial to pull the ejection handle illustrated the completion of her endless cycle of fleeing death, which she now embraced with joy.
** Her continued hostility and bitterness towards her mother finally reaches its close as Thrace is finally able to witness her mother's death and hear her final words.
** The final moment before Thrace's Viper explodes, an image of a younger Thrace being engulfed in light could either be symbolism or an event that represents Thrace's return to her childhood innocence.
** Her hostility towards Leoben comes to a close as she comes to welcome the help and guidance of her "Leoben" guide.

*It should be noted that the Leoben in her vision is ''not'' a Cylon, but an [[Virtual Leoben|unidentified manifestation]]. Thrace says, "You're not Leoben." and the manifestation replies, "I never said I was." What this aspect of Thrace's vision means remains unknown.

* Thrace's death can be seen as the close of her original desire to die during the episode "[[Scar]]". However, here she is ready to embrace death and see a new beginning with it, while in "[[Scar]]" her original desire is fuel over despair of her belief that Anders was dead on Caprica. Both episode plots are motivated by a mysterious Cylon pilot.

* Admiral Adama is shown in the middle of building his model ship after the failed assassination attempt and the division of the Fleet ([[Home, Part I]]). The ship is finally completed at the moment of Adama coming to grips with his grief of Thrace's death. In reaction, the ship that was begun during a period of great personal turmoil within Adama is destroyed in the midst of another episode of intense grief and anger.

* Even though Lee Adama and Thrace decided to forge on with their marriages, it is Adama who has found contentment with Dualla while Thrace remained in turmoil with Anders. The scene after another love making session indicates that their relationship hadn't improved much since "[[Taking a Break from All Your Worries]]".

* The figurine that Thrace gives to Adama is an idol of the goddess Aurora, the goddess of the dawn and gentle breeze. The relationship between this goddess and Thrace seems to be highlighted prior to her Viper's explosion as she apparently is engulfed in light and wind within her cockpit.

* The connection and parallels between Major Adama and Thrace are furthered strengthened during Socrata Thrace's death scene. When Thrace confesses to her mother about her fear of taking the next step towards her destiny, her mother remarks that she knows that her daughter can meet the task. When asked how she knows this, her response is almost word for word exactly what William Adama said to his son in "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]": "'You are my daughter (son).'" Thus, similar to Adama's son, Thrace is finally able to bury the hatchet with her mother.

* The "Leoben" guide explains that his role is to help Thrace take the next step to the place "between life and death." Interestingly, this is the same "place" that the model [[Number Three|D'Anna]] describes in "[[Hero]]" when she begins her suicide/resurrection chamber sessions in order to discover who the [[Final Five]] are.

== Questions ==
* Will Anders blame Apollo for the loss of Starbuck once the news of her death reaches him? ([[The Son Also Rises|Answer]])
* Who is the being that is Starbuck's "spiritual" guide during her dream? Is he somehow connected to the makers of the mandala in the Temple of Five? Is he in any way related to Baltar's [[Virtual beings|virtual Six and Six's virtual Baltar]]?
* Is the cockpit truly damaged from space debris, or is it imagined just as the supposed damage that Starbuck initially believed happened at the first encounter with the Raider?
* Will Helo experience any form of guilt or regret for showing the picture of the mandala to Starbuck?
* What does Starbuck mean when she tells Apollo: "See you on the other side"?
* Will Starbuck return as one of the final five Cylons?
* Who will take Starbuck's place as ''Galactica's'' Viper ace?
* Will Starbuck's death have any lasting effect on Lee Adama and Dualla's marriage?
* Considering the white light that appears to shine into Starbuck's cockpit and what the Leoben-figure mentioned about showing her what lies between life and death, is it possible that she is experiencing the same event that [[Number Three]] had on several occasions ("[[Hero]]", "[[Rapture]]")?
* Is the placement of Starbuck's Aurora figurine on Adama's model ship symbolic to Starbuck, in some way, guiding the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] on their path to Earth?
* Did the real Socrata Thrace see Kara come to her before she died?
* Did Kara Thrace really die? If not, how did she survive? ([[Crossroads, Part II|Possible answer]])

== Official Statements ==

Information from the [[Podcast:Maelstrom|podcast]]:

*The original script had Kara do three trips to the gas giant. It is during the second trip that she sees the Heavy Raider again, but panics and fakes a hydraulics problem with her Viper, which allows her to return to ''Galactica''. This was the original reason, not the lack of visual evidence of a Heavy Raider, that Lee and Adama had their conversation about her competency as a pilot.
*The model ship Adama was building over the course of the series was a very expensive rental prop which [[Edward James Olmos]] destroyed in an ad-lib expression of Adama's grief over the loss of Starbuck, much to the props crew's dismay as the model was valued in the range of the $100,000s. Thankfully, the ship was insured.
*The original script was meant to be a payoff for the end of "[[Rapture]]" when Helo showed Thrace the mandala. It was supposed to have Thrace face her fear of death and resist its call, while at the same time the overall payoff would be somehow linked to furthering the Fleet's voyage to Earth. After several iterations of the script, [[Ronald D. Moore|RDM]] and company decided to go down the dangerous avenue of killing off one of the major characters.
*The original script had an interior scene of the Heavy Raider as the first place that Kara would wake up from after she is knocked unconscious. There she would find Leoben using a device that would delve into her memories. At the time, however, RDM didn't know if it was possible if the show could revisit Thrace's apartment. Once that possibility was available, the interior of the Heavy Raider was abandoned because of cost and storyline suitability.
*The last scene between Adama and Thrace was originally to have ended on a more sour note. Thrace was supposed to be in a meeting between Adama, Lee, and Roslin, upon which Thrace noted out loud the possible romantic undertones between Adama and Roslin. Afterwards, Adama would dress Thrace down and those would have been his last words to her before her death. The director argued with RDM about cutting this scene out and eventually RDM gave way to allow a more comforting departure between the two characters.
*According to Moore, "Maelstrom" is, for him, the first page of the third act in the series overall. He believes that with this episode, the show is well on its way to completion and is now on act three out of a 4 act series.

Additional information from the [[Podcast:Frak Party Q and A|Frak Party Q&A]]:
*Initially RDM only told Katee Sackhoff that Starbuck would return in the [[Crossroads, Part II|season finale]]. When the episode script was published the cast and crew who were in the dark about it become particularly upset, Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell in particular. RDM described the mood as almost a "state of mutiny". Eventually Moore and David Eick had to call them and let them in on the secret that Starbuck was not really dead.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==
''[[Kara Thrace]] sees [[Socrata Thrace]] die in a vision guided by something appearing to be [[Leoben Conoy]]:''
:'''Thrace''': "Momma, something's about to happen, you know that thing you were trying to prepare me for, I don't know if I can do it."
:'''Socrata''': "Oh yes you can, you can."
:'''Thrace''': "How can you be sure?"
:'''Socrata''': "You're my daughter."
:'''Leoben''': "See there's nothing terrible about death, when you finally face it, it's beautiful. You're free now, to become who you really are."
:'''Thrace''': "You're not Leoben."
:'''Leoben''': "I never said I was. I'm here to prepare you to pass through the next door, to discover what lies in the space between life and death."

== Guest Stars ==

*[[Michael Trucco]] as [[Samuel Anders]]
*[[Callum Keith Rennie]] as [[Leoben Conoy]]
*[[Dorothy Lyman]] as [[Socrata Thrace]]
*[[Bodie Olmos]] as [[Brendan Costanza]]
*[[Leah Cairns]] as [[Margaret Edmondson]]
*[[Don Thompson]] as [[Anthony Figurski]]
*[[Samantha Ferris]] as [[Pollux]]
*[[Georgia Craig]] as [[Brenn|Oracle Brenn]]
*[[Erika-Shaye Gair]] as Child [[Kara Thrace|Kara]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Episode Guide|Maelstrom]]
[[Category:Episode Guide (RDM)|Maelstrom]]
[[Category:Episodes written by David Weddle]]
[[Category:Episodes written by Bradley Thompson]]
[[Category:Episodes directed by Michael Nankin]]
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Dirty Hands

2007-04-27T14:26:42Z

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{{Episode Data
| title= Dirty Hands
| image= 3x16-DirtyHands-TyrolSelix.jpg
| season= 3
| episode= 16
| guests=
| writer= [[Anne Cofell Saunders]] <br/> [[Jane Espenson]]
| story=
| director= [[Wayne Rose]]
| production= 316
| rating=1.1
| US airdate= 2007-02-25
| UK airdate=
| dvd=
| podcast = y
| population= 41400
| oldpopulation= 41398
| prev=[[A Day in the Life]]
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== Overview ==

: ''Amidst unsafe and harsh conditions in the maintenance and production areas of the Fleet, as well [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]]'s [[My Triumphs, My Mistakes|personal diatribe]] stirring feelings of dissent amongst the working class, Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] must wrestle whether or not to resurrect the worker's union he began on [[New Caprica]].''

== Summary ==
===Teaser===

*A group of deckhands, with Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] at the head, are prepping [[Margaret Edmondson|Racetrack's]] [[Raptor]] for a mission.
*Tyrol reminds [[Anthony Figurski|Figurski]], [[Pollux]] and [[Sanchez]] not to leave as they have to work on additional engine refits. A number of deckhands, one literally missing a hand and using a prosthetic arm, are busy with their work. Complaints about fatigue are deflected by Tyrol.
*Viewers see [[tylium]] fuel, refined from its ore state into a gasoline-like liquefied state, being pumped into the Raptor.
*[[Diana Seelix|Seelix]] is returning bags of cleaned laundry to Figurski, Pollux, and [[Redford]]. She's not too happy as, despite high marks on the written exam for [[Viper (RDM)|Viper pilot]] flight training, Seelix has been denied promotion because she was considered to have mission-essential duties and could not be transferred. Pollux is left surprised, believing that others don't want the "knuckledraggers" to rise in rank.
*Tyrol, who heard about the failed promotion from the [[CAG]], apologizes to Seelix. Figurski teases too much about Seelix's fate and her unglamorous laundry work, which causes Seelix to attack Figurski before Chief Tyrol breaks it up. Seelix goes back to laundry delivery, obviously depressed in spite of Tyrol's attempt to have her look at her work on the [[hangar deck]] as critical to the Fleet's safety.
*Racetrack and [[Skulls]], her [[ECO]], launch from the lift from the hangar deck to the port [[flight pod]]. They fly through the motley of civilian ships and begin plotting their course, passing the [[Space Park]], when a malfunction occurs in the reaction control jets and one of the main engines. The vehicle is out of control.
*Racetrack yells for Skulls to sit in the copilot seat and moments later, both eject from the wayward vehicle. The Raptor tumbles on a collision course with ''[[Colonial One]]'' at the same area of the ship where President [[Laura Roslin]] and [[Tory Foster]] are handling their daily business.

=== Act 1 ===
*Admiral [[William Adama]] is assisting President Roslin with moving her office area to another section of ''Colonial One'' while the damaged bulkhead of the ship is repaired. The presidential flagship suffered only a glancing blow from Racetrack's Raptor, but hit with sufficient force to cause a dozen injuries, including to Tory Foster. No one was killed, fortunately.
*When Roslin notes the cramped confines, Adama offers Roslin any of his beds on ''[[Galactica]]''. A moment of humorous silence hangs as Adama realizes the unintended double-meaning and Roslin smiles.
*The two leaders of the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] discuss the cause of the Raptor's malfunction. So far, the investigation suggests a fuel contamination problem. Roslin finds the matter unsettling since, before, the refinery ship was always reliable and timely.
*The leaders discuss [[Xeno Fenner]], who has complained about numerous labor-related problems despite the overall significance of the overall survival of humanity. Adama is impatient with Fenner's effectiveness over the last two weeks and wants to get the Fleet back on its path to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]].
*Roslin, who [[Home, Part II|began the serious quest for Earth]], can't resist teasing Adama, a [[Home, Part I|skeptic about the legends of Earth]] despite his claims of [[Miniseries, Night 2|knowing where it was]]. Adama plays along with Roslin, asking "Have I ever doubted it?"
*Fenner meets with President Roslin and Admiral Adama. Fenner complains of exhaustion, very long shift hours and other problems that go unheeded throughout his operation by the senior staff. Adama reminds Fenner that, because of the backlog of fuel processing and distribution between the ships of the Fleet, they have fuel for maybe one or two [[FTL|jumps]]. Both leaders warn that safety is in danger and that fuel resupply is imperative.
*Fenner questions if intentionally causing a slowdown or other problems with the fuel processing would yield some results.
*When Fenner quotes a passage from an underground book written by [[Gaius Baltar]] to reinforce his case ("If you hear the people, you never have to fear the people") Roslin is incensed by the quote and has the [[marine]]s in the room arrest Fenner.
*Roslin explains to Adama that Baltar's lawyer had smuggled out the book, called ''[[My Triumphs, My Mistakes]]'', which has been copied about the Fleet. Roslin and Adama discuss how it is causing class strife throughout the Fleet. A visibly angered Roslin, her voice quieting to almost a whisper in her usual manner when in such a state, says, "I am thinking of having a good old-fashioned book burning."
*In their quarters, the Tyrols are having a meal. [[Cally Tyrol]] admonishes her husband from eating too much, recalling their recovery from [[A Day In The Life|vacuum exposure]] and apparent diet requirements to aid in it.
*The two eventually discuss the recent labor problems. Cally, reciting passages from Baltar's book, notes how work throughout the Fleet is divided by class lines, which also happen to be related to how work was culturally based on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]]. Prosperous colonists from Caprica, Tauron and Virgon were mostly in administrative or professional jobs such as politicians and pilots, while colonists from places such as Gemenon, Sagittaron, and Aerelon, which were agrarian or otherwise raw-material sources, had primarily blue-collar populations. When Galen comments that [[Anastasia Dualla|Lieutenant Dualla]] was from Sagittaron, Cally answers that she was promoted only because of her [[Lee Adama|husband's Caprica status]].
*Chief Tyrol gets a call from Admiral Adama, who tells him of Fenner's arrest for "pissing off the President." Adama orders him to get to the refinery ship and get the fuel supply running. Cally recalls the old union on [[New Caprica]] and that, while the scenery has changed, the people who desired change in then-President Baltar's leadership were still around.
*Roslin visits Gaius Baltar with marine contingent, intent on confiscating any further passages of his clandestine book. She lies to Baltar, telling him that the book was intercepted before it could be mass-produced, and that she was dying to read the latest entries. Roslin objects to Baltar's portrayal as a "man of the people" in his book.
*She forces a strip search of Baltar before his [[Cylon-Related Hallucinations|virtual Six]] convinces him to give up the passages to save his dignity.
*Tyrol arrives to investigate the refinery ship's operation and meets with [[Cabott]], who remembers Tyrol's work as the union leader. He shows him a large cavernous room with a single comparatively small pile of tylium in its center. When asked about the amount of tylium available, Cabott notes that the Fleet would be lucky to get out of this system.
*Cabott notes that the ship is as loud as an "A-bomb" when in full production, and as equally safe.
*The conditions are squalid at best, as many workers move the granular tylium through its conversion process from ore to precursor and fuel. The working conditions are less of the problem, as workers are tired and have very little time off. Work is going much too slowly, and Cabott reminds Tyrol of the harsh work schedules that have greatly reduced fuel production.
*The group enters a conveyor area, where many workers appear to be cleaning or making minor repairs. The refining process appears to have stopped. Despite Cabott's pleas, Tyrol asks him to start up the process. A laborer named [[Milo]] tells Tyrol that the system won't work. When pressed as to the reason, Milo is silent.
*Tyrol looks around to find that several critical pressure relief seals are missing, making the machinery unusable. The workers have intentionally hidden the seals as a protest for Fenner's arrest and an attempt to get improved working conditions.
*Later, on ''Galactica'', Tyrol reports to Admiral Adama and Roslin on his initial investigations on the refinery ship. A search has not turned up the seals. Since the group did not harm him or contaminate the existing fuel, he believes that the workers are buying time to get their pleas heard.
*He notes that some of the people on the refinery ship have been working almost continuously since the original [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack on the Colonies]] with no chance to transfer or take a break.
*Roslin acknowledges the hard work, but notes that work is equally hard on the algae processing, or munitions or waste processing teams. When Tyrol asks to cede to some labor demands to get things working again, Roslin objects, calling it extortion, and asks for the names of the leaders to put them under arrest, after which Tyrol reluctantly notes Cabott. Roslin curtly dismisses Tyrol when he tries to continue his pleas.

===Act 2===
*Tyrol visits Fenner and Cabott. Cabott, who was incarcerated on New Caprica by the Cylons, is experiencing hallucinations and is injuring himself. Tyrol asks for the seals, to Fenner's anger.
*Tyrol yells at both to tell him where, and Fenner relents and tells the location of the seals.
*The seals are replaced. Milo asks to flip the switch. Tyrol asks Milo's age: 12. The production resumes. Tyrol looks around to see many very young faces; many of the refinery workers are children and adolescents.
*On ''Colonial One'', Tyrol explains that the parents are passing down their skills to their children, and that the children are thus automatically stuck in their parent's careers instead of choosing an own path for their future. Roslin understands the problem, and offers to gather a list of colonists with any relevant experience that can be used to supplement the workers on the refinery ship.
*A young man named [[Danny Noon]], pulled from [[Dogsville]], questions Tyrol on the hangar deck on why he is tasked to work on the refinery ship. As Figurski tells Tyrol of the young man's farming experience, Noon denies any actual experience, having worked for one summer for money for college before the Cylon attack on the Colonies. Before Tyrol can consider reassigning the man, Figurski warns that letting the young man go may cause more to deny their experience as well, setting back the conscription process. Tyrol does not interfere.
*As Tyrol walks away, he finds a copy of Baltar's underground manifesto. Turning the page, he notes one page entitled "The Emerging Aristocracy and the Emerging Underclass." He decides to go to Baltar.
*Interviewing Baltar (who now knows that his book has circulated), Tyrol tries to separate fact from fiction. Baltar (now possessing only a mattress on the floor, with no bed frame) explains that he is really born on a dairy farm outside of [[Cuffle's Breath Wash]] on Aerelon. When Tyrol questions further, particularly Baltar's posh accent, Baltar explains (as he begins to speak in his native Aerelon voice) that he began to mimic Caprican speech starting at 10 years old so that people would not believe he was from Aerelon, a "drab, ugly rock condemned to be the food basket for the twelve worlds." Baltar left Aerelon after his 18th birthday.
*When Tyrol indicates that the strife was left on the Colonies and begins to leave the [[brig]], Baltar disagrees, indicating that the social strife has followed the people, and that the aristocracy will continue to hold on to their power.

===Act 3===
*The fresh labor on the refinery ship is helping and tylium ore is again being refined, per Fenner. He notes that some problems in the process was where the contaminants were accumulating and that work is being done to clean up the process.
*A malfunction occurs on the refinery ship conveyor, but Fenner warns that the belt has to be repaired while running, else, shutting it down will seize the whole system. Worse, not fixing the problem soon could cause an explosive chain reaction with the ore stuck in the system.
*Tyrol tries to get the problem part, but can't reach it. Danny Noon manages to reach underneath to restore the belt to operation but suffers a piercing injury as he exits from under the belt.
*Watching this suffering becomes too much for Tyrol. He slowly walks over to the belt systems main power levers and pulls them, shutting down the entire fuel operation. He tells everyone that the plant is offline and that the workers are on strike.
*Several pilots, including [[Kara Thrace]], are trying to get a flight, but Pollux tells them that they are on strike, and that only vital missions are being serviced.
*Chief Tyrol is arrested and placed in ''Galactica's'' brig. Admiral Adama tells him that the Colonial Fleet shoots mutineers like Tyrol and the deckhands.

===Act 4===
*Tyrol tries to explain his side, but Adama warns that no one on this ship can disobey orders. To prove how far he will go, he makes a phone call.
*Adama orders Cally Tyrol to be taken to the starboard hangar deck. When the Chief asks why, Adama tells him he is taking her there to be shot as a mutineer. He then states that he will continue with the executions, starting with the rebellious deck crew, if he has to.
*Tyrol is terrified, but Adama continues to elaborate: Orders, no matter how one feels about them, must be adhered to. If even one person hesitates to fulfill an order or feels that orders are optional, everyone will perish, including Tyrol's [[Nicholas Tyrol|son]]. Adama tells him that this is not his desire, but that he would put ten Callys against the wall to be shot to ensure the survival of the Fleet.
*Tyrol concedes. Adama releases him and lets him speak to Cally, who mistakenly believes that Tyrol has won. Adama releases her. Adama releases the Chief as well, reminding him that he wanted to speak with the President on the labor issues.
*On ''Colonial One'', Tyrol and President Roslin talk over drinks about the cultural vocations that some colonists are locked into by birth, which Roslin understands but cannot see how to change. Tyrol suggests a plan where other colonists, including professional types who inhabit ''Colonial One,'' get their hands dirty with many tasks, allowing some sharing of low-level chores. For high-stress jobs, Tyrol recommends crew rotations. Roslin agrees.
*Tyrol recommends a training program, but Roslin defers it and wants Tyrol's union to give some ground in collective bargaining. When Tyrol is confused about the mention of a union he believed long gone, Roslin explains the necessity of the union and his leadership to ensure that the Fleet doesn't tear itself apart.
*Later, back on the hangar deck, Chief Tyrol is announcing work assignments when Captain Thrace arrives to complain about a missing [[nugget]] who did not report for training. She asks for Diana Seelix, who is both visibly confused and excited.
* After berating Seelix for not checking the duty roster to see where she should have reported, Thrace then tells her that she is "out of uniform". Tyrol, in on the ruse, states that he can fix that part of the problem and presents Seelix with ensign pins, promoting her to the basic officer's rank needed to train as a pilot.
*Thrace continues to play the nasty drill officer and orders the smiling Seelix off to the pilots ready room. Thrace herself cracks a smile as Tyrol asks her to "be nice" to her new recruit.

===Bonus Scene===
*Chief Tyrol has finished sorting out a handful of children who were mistakenly picked in the pool of conscripts to aid on the refinery ship. He returns to his quarters to pick up some paperwork.
*Cally Tyrol notes that most of the conscripts are from poor colonies, and that the work involved actually doesn't involve any genuine skills. She noticed that no one from ''Colonial One'' was in the list of conscripts.
*Galen berates Cally for what he feels is yet another recitation from Gaius Baltar's book. He warns her that, if he pushes too hard with the Fleet's leadership, they may pull him off of the assignment of assigning conscripts, where someone like Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] may be ordered to manage, with more dire results for everyone.
*Cally tries to encourage her husband to continue fighting for the rights of the workers as he did as the union leader on [[New Caprica]]. As she continues to press for his support, he tells her that the New Caprica union is over and leaves without further discussion.

== Notes ==
* A number of main characters are not present at all during this episode: [[Lee Adama]], [[Sharon Agathon]], [[Karl Agathon]], [[Saul Tigh]], [[Felix Gaeta]], and [[Anastasia Dualla]].
* According to [[Bradley Thompson]], this episode was originally a different story titled "Our Enemies, Ourselves". When developing "[[The Woman King]]", it was felt that both episodes dealt with the same themes. As a result, "Dirty Hands" was created instead.
* The [[w:79th Academy Awards|79th Academy Awards]] were shown during the episode. The ratings should be taken ''lightly''.
* The prop department still hasn't produced any Ensign [[Military Ranks (RDM)|rank insignia]] yet. Like in "[[Scar]]", Lieutenant j.g. insignia are used instead.
* While [[Galen Tyrol]] has completely recovered, his wife is still dealing with the injuries she sustained in "[[A Day in the Life]]".
* One of the deckhands has lost an arm, but is using a prosthesis to work.
* [[Dogsville]] is still in use.
* Baltar reveals that he is from [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Aerelon|Aerelon]]. He displays his native accent, traces of which he claimed to have heard in Sharon Valerii's voice in "[[Flesh and Bone]]".
* The Fleet's reserves of refined [[tylium]] have become dangerously low.
* [[Cally]] notes [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Tauron|Tauron]] and [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Virgon|Virgon]] as two of the more affluent colonies.
* The Raptor accident is reminiscent of the [[:wikipedia:Gemini 8|Gemini 8]] incident, where a jammed thruster spun the spacecraft up to dangerous rates. The crew only managed to regain control by using some of the fuel intended for re-entry.
*While not seen in this episode, it is revealed in "[[The Son Also Rises]]" that Baltar's book was smuggled off ''Galactica'' by his lawyer, [[Alan Hughes]].

== Analysis ==
* Not having any real options for defending his actions during the Cylon occupation of New Caprica, Baltar has opted to use class warfare as a distraction from the crimes for which he will stand trial and to drum up support as a victim of "the aristocracy".
* Adama's explanation and pending orders to execute Cally and the rest of the knuckledraggers to force Tyrol to call off the strike is reminiscent of the style of leadership found with Admiral Cain. However, once Tyrol relented and called off the strike, Adama immediately displayed his familiar style of leadership by informing Tyrol of his meeting with Roslin.
* This is the first time that an emergency cockpit ejection from a Raptor is shown during the series. When the craft is fully manned, only the pilots could eject, leaving the crew in the aft compartment behind. However, the cockpit canopy is probably the only part of the hull that can be detached. Whether the remaining crew would survive is debatable as usually the pilots - including the [[ECO]] - are the only ones who have pressurized suits equipped. If the rest of the crew, such as marines or passengers, were suited up, it might be possible for the aft crew to survive if the side entrance door to the Raptor is also designed to blow out in such an emergency.
* Ever since her murder of Boomer and following detention and eventual release, Cally has displayed an attitude of disrespect towards the Fleet leadership, especially to Adama recently. Her recent demeanor and naive assumption that Adama would not do anything more than arrest the strikers may highlight a growing problem amongst the military workers that are beginning to dissent from the leadership.
* This episode, as well as "[[The Woman King]]" display an ongoing theme since Season 2 that focuses on how human beings are self-destructive by nature without any Cylon intervention. As was stated in "[[A Day In The Life]]", the Fleet hadn't encountered any Cylon forces for approximately 2 months. This state of complacency has allowed the typical in-fighting amongst the colonials to resume, especially with the depreciating state of quality of life amongst the ships in the fleet.

== Questions ==
* Will Baltar's book help his image among the working class of the [[the Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] in his upcoming trial? ([[Crossroads, Part II|Answer]])
* Is it possible that [[Tom Zarek]] somehow assisted Baltar in the writing and distribution of his book?
* Has the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]]'s [[tylium]] reserve been re-stocked at all since "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]"?
* Have these class differentiations amongst the colonies been problematic before the destruction of the Twelve Colonies?
* Besides occupations that are related to the "working class" and other professions such as news reporters, what other occupations exist within the Fleet besides those positions found on ''Colonial One'' and ''Galactica''?
* Have the Colonials truly lost the Cylons or are the Cylons continuing on different plans? ([[Crossroads, Part II|Answer]])
* Why isnt't [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] mentioned along with [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] as another member of the "working class" that rose to be part of the Fleet leadership, as he was born on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Aerelon|Aerelon]] and started his career as an enlisted man?
* Besides Baltar's testimony, is there any real solid evidence that Baltar was born on Aerelon? Official statements by Ronald D. Moore confirm the truth of this backstory, but can Baltar actually prove it to his fellow Colonial citizens?
* With the information provided by "[[Unfinished Business]]" and "[[A Day in the Life]]", have the attitude and admiration towards Admiral Adama changed significantly to the point that his crew feel more indifferent or resentful of him?
* Besides the six colonies that were mentioned, how were the other colonies, such as Picon, considered?
* Will Tyrol tell Cally about what really happened between his meeting with Adama? Will Cally be told that Adama originally planned on executing her?
* Besides the damage to the bulkheads on ''Colonial One'', are any other ships damaged by the runaway Raptor? Does it actually explode as Racetrack was afraid that it would do before the ejection?
* What is the actual rationale behind the rejection of Seelix's application for flight training, and how is the decision made to have her accepted in the end?

== Official Statements ==
Information from the podcast:

* This episode was originally focused on [[Anastasia Dualla]] and the Saggitaron storyline that had started in "[[The Woman King]]". Story ideas that were considered included a scene where two ships within the Fleet would fire upon each other because of a conflict that dealt with the Saggitaron problem. However, it was realized that there were many hurdles and issues that had to be dealt with regards to the Saggitaron idea, and it was this episode that finally broke the storyline idea.
* The stripping scene within Baltar's cell originally had Roslin completely strip Baltar of all his clothes and having the last pages of his book fall out. RDM wanted the conflicting feelings for Baltar in which he felt a victory that he did not break, but also humiliation of being completed stripped down. The actors, though, persuaded RDM that the scene would work if Baltar did maintain his dignity.
* The refinery ship scene in the shop was originally a sugar processing factory that was redressed to appear as a tylium refinery. RDM goes into detail about how difficult it is to show different vessels within the Fleet simply because it would require these ships to "look right" within the Fleet.
* RDM confirmed that in the [[series bible]], Baltar did in fact come from a rural community. When the story originally focused on [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]], Baltar was written to be from Sagittaron. However, once the story concept changed, RDM wanted to still keep the scene that had Dualla meet Baltar in his cell, but change Dualla with Tyrol. Because the story no longer needed a connection to the Sagittarons, Baltar's home planet was changed to Aerelon.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

*''Adama offers Roslin accommodations aboard ''Galactica
:'''Adama''': If the quarters become cramped, you're always welcome in one of my beds…in a manner of speaking.

* ''[[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] talking to [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] about his [[My_Triumphs%2C_My_Mistakes|book]]:''
: '''Tyrol''': Why do I have such a hard time picturing you milking cows and shoveling manure?
: '''Baltar''': Lack of imagination.
: '''Tyrol''': Or maybe that your little tale is manure.
: (...)
: '''Baltar''': I don't sound like I'm from [[Aerelon]]?
: '''Tyrol''': No.
: '''Baltar''': Well you know I take that as a particular compliment. I don't know about you, but I've always found the Aerelon dialect to be particularly hard on the ears.
:''(Baltar begins speaking with an Aerelon accent)''
: '''Baltar''': Something about the consonants that scrape the back of the throat. Course I should know an awful lot about my native tongue, I spent hours on it in trying to overcome it. Do you have any idea how hard it is for a ten year old boy to change the way he speaks? To unlearn everything he ever learned, so that one day, one day there might be the small hope that he might be considered as not comin' from Aerelon.
:''(Baltar speaks with his usual accent)''
: '''Baltar''': Maybe I don't know, [[Caprica]]... Caprica... oh to be Caprican, the seat of politics, culture, art, science, learning. And what was Aerelon, just a drab ugly rock condemned to be the food basket for the twelve worlds, and that's how we were treated, like servants, like laborers, like working-class. You know you would have fitted right in there Chief, lots of men who like to work with their hands, and uh, grab a pint down at the pub and...
:''(Baltar again speaks with his Aerelon accent)''
: '''Baltar''': ...finish off the evenin' with a good old fashioned fight.
:''(Baltar returns to speaking as he normally does)''
: '''Baltar''': Oh yes, I left Aerelon after my eighteenth birthday, I turned my back on my family, my heritage, all of them, of course it doesn't matter though, they're all dead now...

== Guest Stars ==
*[[Aaron Douglas]] as Chief [[Galen Tyrol]]
*[[Nicki Clyne]] as Specialist [[Cally Tyrol]]
*[[Rekha Sharma]] as [[Tory Foster]]
*[[Jen Halley]] as [[Seelix]]
*[[David Patrick Green]] as [[Xeno Fenner]] (uncredited)
*[[Don Thompson]] as [[Anthony Figurski]]
*[[Leah Cairns]] as [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]]
*[[Colin Lawrence]] as [[Hamish McCall|Hamish "Skulls" McCall]]
*[[Samantha Ferris]] as [[Pollux]]
*[[Wesley Salter]] as [[Redford]]
*[[Colin Corrigan]] as Adama's Marine
*[[Jerry Wasserman]] as [[Cabott]]
*[[Samuel Chu]] as [[Milo]]
*[[Bryce Hodgson]] as [[Daniel Noon]]

== External Links ==

{{Episode list (RDM season 3)}}

[[Category:Episodes written by Anne Cofell Saunders]]
[[Category:Episodes written by Jane Espenson]]
[[Category:Episodes directed by Wayne Rose]]
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A Day in the Life

2007-04-27T14:26:13Z

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== Overview ==
:''[[William Adama|Adama]] faces the memory of his late wife and their marriage as he marks his wedding anniversary. Meanwhile Cally and Galen Tyrol are trapped in a depressurizing airlock with no way to leave it, and President Roslin is pushing ahead with Baltar's trial.

== Summary ==
===Teaser===
*[[Galen Tyrol]], looking haggard, is carrying a baby bottle to his small, but private accommodations for his wife, [[Cally Tyrol|Cally]] and their infant son, [[Nicholas Tyrol|Nicholas]].
*The Tyrols are beginning their day. While Cally was expecting a day off, Galen tells her of needed maintenance on an [[airlock]] that cannot wait. Cally is frustrated by Galen's insistance that she assist him instead of enlisting others from the deck crew.
*Admiral [[William Adama]] dreams of his late wife, [[Carolanne Adama|Carolanne]], at a home on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]]. When his quarter's intercom awakens him, Adama's grogginess shows him rising from his bunk, and Carolanne's image appears, asleep, in the bunk as well.
*Colonel [[Saul Tigh]] enters with papers to sign for needed maintenance on the ship. The XO notices the empty bunk and is quite aware that today is Adama's wedding anniversary with his wife.
*Private [[Stewart Jaffee|Jaffee]] arrives to drop off the admiral's coffee, and Adama, deep in thought with memories of his ex-wife, is unable to remember the crewman's name.
*Chief Tyrol arrives in a crew head to talk through the work schedules with his deck crew. He tells [[Seelix]] to join the Tyrols at airlock 12, an airlock located on the port aft side of ''[[Galactica|Galactica's]]'' "alligator head".
*The Tyrols enter the airlock; equipment and pallets are strewn about, and the observation deck has been unused for over a year. A previous [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon attack]] had left this airlock unusable, and minor hull breeches here had been temporarily patched and left for a later repair.
*The Tyrols were to fix the gearing systems of the airlock's doors. As Cally tries to get Galen to discuss their marital problems, specifically Galen's desire to handle workloads as usual despite their marriage, a klaxon activates and the inner airlock doors quickly close. Seelix is confused; she didn't initiate the airlock close. She notifies the Chief of a pressure differential in the compartment; a leak has developed.
*Galen Tyrol, despite Cally's surprise, isn't fazed; he knows that the airlock closure is an automatic safety mechanism. He instructs his wife to search for the leak, knowing that the doors will open once the leak is again patched.

===Act 1===
*Adama envisions himself at his home on Caprica as Carolanne's image asks him if he is going to continue repeating events to exercise his memory.
*Carolanne's image accuses him of using his position to exalt himself and President [[Laura Roslin]].
*Roslin and Adama meet for a quick briefing. She admits that it could have been over [[wireless]] but she had to get off of [[Colonial One|her ship]]. Adama explains her mood as being "O.B.E." - overcome by events.
*Roslin suggests that [[Lee Adama]] lead the process in organizing the necessary resources for [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar's]] trial, noting Lee's [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|past with just causes]] against the ''status quo'' as well as the Adama family history in [[Joseph Adama|law]]. Admiral Adama agrees to ask Lee about the matter.
*Roslin asks to stay aboard ''[[Galactica]]'' and tells Adama that she is going to the gym. Adama smiles and mentions something about the smell, to which Roslin laughs heartily.
*Pilots conduct their [[CAP]] briefing in their [[Pilot ready rooms|ready room]], chatting between themselves with some satisfaction that the Cylons haven't been seen for 49 days.
*[[Helo]] handshakes [[Hot Dog]], who complains about a strange rash as he scratches near his genitals. Helo smiles and, implying the questionable worthiness of a probable illicit (and inadvisable) sexual union by Hot Dog, wipes his hands on the armrests and moves a seat away from the scratching pilot. As Major [[Lee Adama]] steps up to begin his briefing, one [[Tattooed pilot|last pilot]] takes the seat next to Helo.
*Major Adama begins his pilot briefing, berating the pilots' celebration. He tells the pilots that the number "1" is all they need to remember, reminding them that it takes only 1 slip-up to begin a major disaster for the Fleet. Admiral Adama is outside of the ready room, and stands quietly and out of eyesight to anyone as he listens, with a faint level of pride appearing on his face, to his son's stern lecture.
*Carolanne's image tells Adama to express his love for Lee as how a father would to his son, not as an Admiral to a Captain.
*[[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] sticks around for a few seconds after the pilots are dismissed to tease Major Adama about mimicking his father's ultimatum command style. The younger Adama replies that if he has to copy, it should be from the best. Admiral Adama enters the room as Starbuck leaves for her duties.
*Admiral Adama asks his son to head the legal organization processes for Baltar's trial. Major Adama is flattered and will consider the idea. He tells his father that, as a child looking through his grandfather's office and the various books strewn about, he considered a profession as a lawyer amongst his many other career considerations, something that his father never knew. The major notes that his [[CAG]] duties are 24/7 as it is, even with the Cylon down time.
*The Tyrols' patching of the breach appears to work initially, but when the pressure test is done, the new patches fail. The leak worsens greatly.

===Act 2===
*Admiral Adama has been alerted about the worsening airlock emergency with the Tyrols in airlock 12 and makes his way there with Colonel Tigh and their [[marines|marine]] escort in tow. He assesses the damage personally and later consults with his command staff in [[CIC]]. There is approximately 30 minutes of air in the lock, and the temperature is dropping considerably as frost begins to form inside the airlock.
*Major Adama notes extensive damage in the airlock that has damaged the redundancies that could manually open the door, leaving no way to open it. Tigh suggests blowing the glass in the airlock's observation deck, but Major Adama warns that the reinforced glass is designed to handle a [[tylium]] explosion, and that a detonation sufficient to blow the glass would kill the Tyrols as well. Admiral Adama is angered by the lack of options and demands more thought.
*The pilots prep for an extraordinary rescue attempt; to blow the external door, where the Tyrols, exposed to vacuum, will have to leap into [[Sharon Agathon|Athena's]] [[Raptor]]. Admiral Adama briefs the Tyrols on the plan shortly after the two don emergency breathing gear.
*After retrieving the Tyrols, it will take seven seconds to close the Raptor's external door and another 10 seconds to re-pressurize the rescue vessel.
*Cally is visibly upset after hearing the plan. The Chief asks if a docking collar will be used, to which Adama states in the negative; there is not enough time. The Tyrols try to prep the area so that the evacuation of the airlock will not pummel them or their rescue ship with flying pallets or other equipment.
*Cally Tyrol worries who will take care of their [[Nicholas Tyrol|son]] if things go wrong. Galen suggests that [[Anastasia Dualla]] and her husband would be suitable foster parents, but Cally knows of a reputation throughout the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] of how orphaned children fare there. Fearing that pilots (with their hazardous life) would leave Nicky orphaned a second time, she asks Admiral Adama to give their son to [[Susan Deckler]], a civilian mother with one daughter.

===Act 3===
*The Raptor is in position, with Athena as pilot and Apollo and [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] inside, ready to catch the two. Apollo warns everyone of shrapnel and other turbulence that will affect the mission.
*Galen Tyrol apologizes to his wife for being selfish in asking her to join him in the repair. The order was his way of wanting to have her companionship. He instructs her to hold tight as they prepare to leave the airlock.
*Admiral Adama orders the door blown. The Tyrols are flung from the airlock and the Raptor manages to fend off debris from the door, catch the entwined Tyrols, then re-pressurize. Apollo notes the Tyrols are in rough shape but alive.
*Later, Admiral and Major Adama talk about Carolanne, who haunts the elder Adama's memory, accusing him of never being there, able to lead men but not his own family.
*Lee Adama tells his father that, after their divorce, Carolanne made many promises that she didn't keep, particularly once she took to drinking. Over time, she wouldn't apologize for her neglect in fulfilling the promises. The young Adama believes that, despite his love of his mother, he did not believe that she truly loved his father.

===Act 4===
*Seelix arrives in [[sickbay]] with baby Tyrol in her arms after retrieving him from day care. Galen Tyrol is in a bunk, resting, but exerts himself to stand and hold his son. He tells Seelix that Cally will be fine, although Dr. [[Cottle]] notes it will be some time before she is up to full strength. He slowly walks to Cally, who is recuperating inside a hyperbaric chamber to treat the effects of vacuum exposure.
*Cally Tyrol awakens to glimpse at her family. Her eyes show distress from the vacuum and she is too weak to smile, but holds her hand to the interior window. Galen presses his son's hand to the glass; Admiral Adama is nearby and has watched the entire event.
*Major Adama returns to his quarters to find his wife resting. She points to a box that his father had shipped to his quarters; the young Adama facetiously asks if the box is ticking. On inspecting it, he finds a library of Caprican criminal law books, the same ones he looked at from his grandfather's collection. The admiral leaves a note for his son.
*Admiral Adama completes yet another meeting with Laura Roslin. Adama steers the conversation back to New Caprica, specifically, their time together during then-President Baltar's [[Unfinished Business|groundbreaking ceremony and party]]. Roslin admits to [[New Caprican leaf|feeling a little silly]] that evening.
*Adama fondly recalls her red dress and the good feelings each had that day. When Roslin laughs, Adama tells her how happy it is to see her do so. He asks her, if the Cylons hadn't attacked, if she would have built that cabin in the woods that she wanted.
*Roslin temporarily evades the question by answering that Baltar's inept leadership and New Caprica's terrain would have prevented such a building, but is pleased by Adama's attention. She asks if he would have stayed on ''Galactica'' or eventually settled himself, to which Adama evades an answer by stating that their questions were all hypothetical in any case.
*Adama, with a smile, states that the two of them have "certain responsibilities," apparently attempting to return a professional distance to what was becoming a very intimate conversation. Roslin replies, with another smile, to the affirmative.
*As she begins to leave, she tells Adama that, in a few days, she'll return to the battlestar, where they can continue their conversation and reminisce of their brief time on New Caprica and its possibilities. As she crosses the hatchway, Roslin tells Adama that she would have definitely built her cabin if time and circumstance would have allowed.
*Adama returns to his quarters, holding his wedding picture. He returns it to its storage until next year.

===Bonus Scene===
*The complete bonus scene (which was available on the [http://www.scifi.com Sci Fi Channel web site for U.S. viewers after the episode]) takes place just before Colonel Tigh visits Admiral Adama's quarters at the start of the episode.
*Lieutenants [[Felix Gaeta]] and Anastasia Dualla walk towards Adama's quarters for signatures of maintenance orders as part of their daily briefing. As he makes some notes on the orders, Gaeta volunteers the observation that President Roslin and Adama have had many meetings together recently.
*When Dualla asks what he's implying, Gaeta suggests that there might be something more intimate going on between the senior Fleet leadership. Dualla grimaces at the possibility, replying that the idea of Roslin and Adama together in her head was not a particularly desirable one to imagine.
*When the two think deeply and briefly of the two commanders together, both begin to laugh, and continue to do so when Colonel Tigh intercepts them and asks what was so funny.
*The two formally note their briefing, but Tigh takes the folder to deliver himself and dismisses the two back to CIC. Dualla and Gaeta's composure fails as they turn to CIC and begin laughing uncontrollably as Tigh heads to his friend's quarters, which connects to the original scene of his arrival.

== Notes ==
* "A Day in the Life" is also [[w:A Day in the Life|the title of a song]] by [[w:The Beatles|The Beatles]]. It is not known whether this has any particular meaning to the episode.
* Two of the names Admiral Adama is heard memorizing are "Neeson" and "Kinsey", an obvious reference to Liam Neeson who portrayed Alfred Kinsey in the 2004 film, ''Kinsey''.
* There are two births that occurred between "[[The Woman King]]" and "A Day in the Life", as the population count after "The Woman King" was 41,396.
* A day care center exists on ''Galactica''.
* [[Number Six]] ([[Tricia Helfer]]) and [[Gaius Baltar]] ([[James Callis]]) do not appear in any scene in this episode.
* The set used for the airlock - in particular the observation booth - is the same as for the [[Launch tube (RDM)|launch tubes]].
* In reality, humans have been exposed to near-vacuum conditions for up to thirty seconds without permanent injury. Some sources state that survival is possible for up to two minutes, but the injury the body sustains becomes severe after approximately one minute of exposure. The biggest danger is damage to the lungs, as the sudden pressure differential can burst the alveoli. That is why a person should exhale and not hold their breath. As the Tyrols were exposed to gradual decompression prior to the blowing of the airlock hatch, decompression injury may actually be reduced compared to what would otherwise be expected.
* When Apollo uses his watch to time the hatch on Athena's Raptor, it makes a beep in the manner of a digital stopwatch. However, the watch in question, inherited from [[Barry Garner]] in "[[The Captain's Hand]]", is an analog device.

== Analysis ==
* The argument referenced in "[[Taking a Break From All Your Worries]]" between the Tyrols focuses on how Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] acts as if nothing has changed since marrying [[Cally Tyrol|Cally]], particularly as he ignores his family's needs over the needs of his job. Cally, on the other hand, is concerned about [[Nicholas Tyrol|Nicky]], and has apparently gone to great lengths to think about his future, notably when Cally asks Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]] to give Nicky to a civilian family whom she knows.
* There was much patchwork done to ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' after the [[Battle of New Caprica]]. Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] notes that ''Galactica'' would need six weeks in dry dock "just for the dents", making it sound likely that ''Galactica'' would not survive another battle like New Caprica.
* The cinematic flashbacks or imaginary melding of Adama's memories of Carolanne, including recollections or imaginings of sitting with her and touching her, and what he believed she would say in the various situations of the day were curiously similar to how [[Gaius Baltar]] imagines his [[Cylon-Related Hallucinations|virtual Number Six]]. However, Adama's likelihood of being a [[Humanoid Cylon speculation|Cylon]] are practically refuted by the existence of his memories (as well as two characters, Lee Adama and Saul Tigh, who also share in the same memories).
* Through his internal conversations / arguments with Carolanne, it appears Adama has regrets with his decision to marry her. The regret has become a nagging question and buffer on his ability to make decisions and to not question them.
* Carolanne appears to have been an undiagnosed/untreated person with bipolar disorder, and was an alcoholic. Once divorced and left raising her two sons, she fell into heavy drinking and was clinically depressed for several years, apparently with bouts of anger/violence.
* Dealing with Carolanne's personality defects most likely gave the Admiral insights into dealing with Colonel Tigh's alcoholism.

== Questions ==
* Since it is not connected to the larger port [[flight pod]] and its [[hangar deck]], what would airlock 12 normally be used for?
* Was Carolanne Adama's only wife? Was she the same wife whose father had the connections that allowed Adama to be re-enlisted into the fleet?
* Will the potential romance between Roslin and Adama be consummated or left as a "what could have been" scenario?
* How many different types of court and law codes are there within the Colonies? Is there not a unified "Federal" equivalent set of laws that could be used for Baltar's trial?
* Will Lee take on the position offered by Roslin?
* Is Helo no longer in charge of taking care of living arrangements for Dogsville?
* Will ''Galactica'' ever be able to fight up to the capacity as she did during the [[Battle of New Caprica]]?
* Is there any greater significance to [[Brendan Costanza|Hotdog's]] rash?

== Official Statements ==
Information from the podcast:

* Carolanne's name was originally Caroline. RDM and the other editors in the podcast note that the change occurred when Olmos used the name Carolanne instead of Caroline. Ever since, Adama's wife has been called Carolanne by the staff.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==
*''[[Karl Agathon|Helo]] and [[Brendan Costanza|Hot Dog]] are at a briefing in the ready room. Sitting next to each other, Helo notices Hot Dog scratching near his groin area:''
:'''Helo''': "What's the matter with you?"
:'''Hot Dog''': "Sorry, I've got the weirdest rash."
:'''Helo''': "Really?" (Helo looks askance at Hot Dog) "I hope she was worth it buddy!"
:(Helo gets up and moves one seat over to the aisle seat. [[Athena]], overhearing the exchange, moves with her husband simultaneously over to her aisle seat directly behind Helo while also giving Hot Dog a humorously wary look and a smile.)

== Guest Stars ==
* [[Alessandro Juliani]] as Lt. [[Felix Gaeta]]
* [[Kandyse McClure]] as Lt. [[Anastasia Dualla]]
* [[Michael Hogan]] as Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]
* [[Aaron Douglas]] as Chief [[Galen Tyrol]]
* [[Nicki Clyne]] as Specialist [[Cally Tyrol]]
* [[Tahmoh Penikett]] as Capt. [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]
* [[Lucinda Jenney]] as [[Carolanne Adama]]
* [[Bodie Olmos]] as Lt. [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hotdog" Costanza]]
* [[Jen Halley]] as Specialist [[Seelix]]
* [[Sebastian Spence]] as Lt. [[Noel Allison|Noel "Narcho" Allison]]
* [[Don Thompson]] as [[Anthony Figurski]]
* [[Mike Leisen]] as Private [[Stewart Jaffee]]
* [[Finn Devit]] as [[Nicholas Tyrol]] (uncredited)

== References ==
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Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II

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{{Episode Data
| image =bsg-klg2-1.jpg
| title=Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II
| series=
| season=1
| episode=13
| guests=
| writer=[[Ronald D. Moore]]
| story=[[David Eick]]
| director=[[Michael Rymer]]
| production=113
| rating= 2.5
| US airdate=2005-04-01
| UK airdate=2005-01-24
| dvd= {{Season 1 NTSC DVD release date}} '''US'''<br/>{{Season 1 PAL DVD release date}} '''UK'''
| podcast=y
| population=47887
| oldpopulation=47897
| extra= '''Season Finale'''
| prev=[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]
| next=[[Scattered]]
}}

== Overview ==
:''Starbuck has gone to Caprica. Adama insists Roslin must stand down as President. When she refuses, he is forced to deal with that situation while simultaneously adapting the plan to rid themselves of the Cylon baseship over Kobol.''

== Summary ==

=== In the Fleet ===

* [[William Adama|Adama]] challenges [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] over [[Kara Thrace]]'s actions with the [[Cylon Raider]] (which occurred in the last episode) and she admits her role in helping [[Kara Thrace]].
* Adama requests her resignation as President. Roslin refuses. He states he is terminating her presidency. When she reveals the press is recording the conversation, he hangs up.
* He isolates ''[[Colonial One]]'' using the [[CAP]] to physically isolate it, and by jamming all communications from it. He then orders [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]] and [[Lee Adama]] to set-up a strike force to take ''Colonial One''.
* Visiting [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Boomer]] in sickbay, Adama asks her to fly a dangerous mission: take a Raptor fitted with a Cylon [[IFF]] transponder, jump to the Cylon [[Baseship|baseship]] orbiting Kobol and drop a nuclear bomb into its landing bay before jumping clear.
* Roslin refuses Adama's final request to yield and her security team ready themselves for an assault.
* The strike team flies to an isolated ''Colonial One'' aboard two Raptors, lead by Tigh and Lee Adama, and they start cutting their way into the ship.
* A confrontation ensues between Colonial forces and Roslin's security. It is broken only when Lee Adama sides with his conscience, and turns on Tigh. Afraid of a bloodbath, Roslin surrenders and Lee Adama is arrested.
* Roslin is returned to the ''Galactica'' after the failed standoff and is placed in the brig, while Lee Adama is in irons in CIC for mutiny.
* [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Boomer]] and [[Margaret Edmondson|Racetrack]] arrive in CIC following the success of the attack on the baseship near [[Kobol]], and as he thanks them, Boomer shoots Adama twice in the chest at point blank range, seriously wounding him.

=== On Kobol ===

*[[Raptor]] 1 has crashed down on [[Kobol]] and is on fire, as the crew struggle to get out and remove the bodies of the dead and injured, [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] becomes trapped by fire in the back of the vehicle.
* [[Crashdown]] tries to help him, but Baltar is too terrified to move. [[Number Six|Six]] appears and gives Baltar the strength to escape by giving the impression ''she'' is helping him out of the ship.
* As they get clear, the ship explodes, and Baltar wanders into the long grass before collapsing, as the rest of the crew start checking on their injured.
* Boomer's Raptor makes it through the Cylon perimeter around the baseship situated above Kobol, but the bomb release mechanism fails, forcing them to land inside the basestar and attempt a manual removal of the bomb.
* While there, Boomer encounters a number of her "sisters". While she tries to claim she is human, they inform her she cannot escape destiny.
* After she leaves on the Raptor, her "sisters" make no attempt to disarm or remove the bomb. The baseship is destroyed in a massive nuclear explosion.
* On Kobol, Baltar recognises Six "saved" him, and she takes him to see exactly why he has been chosen by God, and she walks him towards the ruined [[Opera House]].
* Entering it, he is shown the "face of things to come", apparently a baby in a crib, the "first of the new generation of God's children" - and he is to be their protector.

=== On Caprica ===

* [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Valerii]] has taken [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] to hide near the [[Delphi]] Museum of the Colonies.
* She is aware of the importance of the [[Arrow of Apollo]].
* They have discussed the fact that she is a Cylon (rather than a Cylon-created human clone as Helo suggested ([[Colonial Day]])).
* She reveals her relationship with him is important as it brings the Cylons closer to God. She also reveals she is pregnant.
* Starbuck completes her long-range jump and arrives over [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]]. Passing through Cylon lines, she sets down in Delphi and heads for the museum.
* Locating the [[Arrow of Apollo]] she is confronted by [[Number Six|Six]] and a fight ensues in which Starbuck is initially badly beaten, before a last-minute rush sends them both over a landing, killing Six.
* Helo comes to Starbuck's aid, and she panics when she sees Valerii, immediately realizing that Valerii is a Cylon. Helo stops Starbuck from shooting her, citing that she's pregnant.

== Questions ==
* Are Adama's wounds fatal? ([[Resistance_(episode)|Answer]])
* What will be the public reaction when news of [[Laura Roslin|Roslin's]] arrest finally breaks through the communication's embargo? ([[Home, Part I|Answer]])
* Who will take over as the civil leader with Roslin in the brig and [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] "lost" somewhere on the surface of [[Kobol]]? ([[Fragged|Answer]])
* How will [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] rise to the demands of command? ([[Fragged|Answer]])
* What is the baby in the crib? ([[Home, Part II|Answer]])
* If the Cylons understand the significance of the Arrow of Apollo (and by extension, the Tomb of Athena), why don't they use them themselves to find [[Earth]]?
* Are the Cylons genuinely interested in Earth, or has it simply been a means to bring them to Kobol? ([[Torn|Answer]])
* Why didn't the sound of Starbuck's Raider landing attract Helo's attention sooner? He is across the road from the museum, and so could hardly fail to see it touch down, or see Starbuck climb the steps to the museum itself.
* How did Six know Starbuck's name so readily? Is this a pointer to her being in communication with her "sister" in Baltar's head? Or having been in communication with Conoy ([[Flesh and Bone]])?
* Did Boomer sabotage the bomb release mechanism, thus forcing herself into landing on the baseship?
* Why didn't [[Margaret Edmondson|Racetrack]] raise concerns about [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer's]] ability to survive in a vacuum on their return to ''Galactica'' (although there is no indication that there was a vacuum outside)? ([[Scattered|Answer]])
*Is there a breathable atmosphere inside Cylon basestars? ([[Torn|Answer]])
*Why do the Eights do nothing to stop the nuke?

== Analysis ==
*Caprica-Sharon is indeed pregnant; yes love and procreation were the keys to Cylon desire with her and Helo; yes her true nature would be revealed to her crewmates – if not directly through her actions in shooting Adama, then certainly through Starbuck’s return to the Galactica. While Starbuck is liable to be thrown into the brig on her return, that’s no reason for Tigh and others not to believe claims about Boomer in light of what she has seen on Caprica and what has happened in CIC.
*That he was seeing into the future is clear: but is the child he sees the product of Helo’s relationship with Valerii, or his own (future) relationship with a corporeal Six? On the one hand, much of what is seen points to the child being born of Valerii: she admits her condition to Helo (and thus opens the door to him remaining on Caprica with her while Starbuck returns to the Galactica with the Arrow) and the Cylons were apparently aiming for her to become pregnant by Helo (or at least, Doral and Six showed no surprised when she reported her lovemaking with him). But – Six’s words to Baltar as she prepares him to see the future are interesting: “You are the guardian and protector of a new generation of God’s children,” – a somewhat neutral explanation that comes before she smiles, catches her breath and adds, “The first member of our family will be with us soon, Gaius.” This could be a reference to the fact that Valerii is pregnant; however the shift to the possessive “our family” and “with us” could be seen to indicate the child could be Baltar’s own. And again, how much more of an effective guardian and protector will Baltar be, if he is in fact protecting his own offspring, rather than that of another Cylon / human relationship? And if this is the case, where does that leave the Valerii / Helo relationship?
*This episode reveals some more about Number Six: if the offspring on the crib she sees with Baltar is that of Valerii and Helo, then it would more or less confirm that she is in contact with corporeal Cylons elsewhere – how else would she know of the developing Valerii / Helo situation otherwise as it started after her “death”? Similarly, it is interesting to note the degree of savagery involved in the beating Six gives Starbuck. In many respects, it mirrors the beating she gave Valerii in “Litmus”; at the time, the viciousness she showed seemed to be linked to the jealousy evident between her and Valerii. We now know that Six has been affected by Baltar’s reaction to sleeping with Starbuck (“Kobol’s Last Gleaming, Part 1”); could the physical beating Starbuck receives be a manifestation of the jealousy she feels for what happened on the Galactica, transmitted to her corporeal sister?
*How will the fleet react once word of Roslin’s arrest breaks through the communications blackout the Galactica inflicted on Colonial One? What can the civilians do? In many respects Adama holds all the cards – or would do, were he in a fit condition. His ship is the key to the protection of the fleet, and she is pretty much unassailable. Therefore, it is hard to see anyone stepping too far out of line when it comes to making major decisions: where the fleet will go, what it will do, etc. But within the civilian community, it is hard not to see repercussions: Roslin has been arrested; Baltar is missing, possibly dead. Who is available to take the civil reigns? Wallace Gray ([[Colonial Day]])? Tom Zarek ([[Bastille Day]]; [[Colonial Day]]). Is it a coincidence that not too long before, at the Quorum of Twelve, Zarek himself raised the spectre of a military coup – and that’s more-or-less what they now have on their hands?

== Notes ==
* This episode takes place directly after those of "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]"
* There are now 47,887 survivors in the Fleet, a net loss of 10 since "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I".
* Cylon vessels are indeed capable of very long-range jumps
* [[Delphi]] was once a cultural center on Caprica, and apparently held a lot of historical / religious artifacts
* Cylon basestars appear bio-mechanical, like Raiders
* In "[[Water]]" it was established that the ''Galactica'' had at least 5 [[Raptor|Raptors]] on board: [[William Adama|Adama]] orders Raptors to survey local star systems for water bearing planets, 5 are dispatched. This episode reveals ''Galactica'' has at least 6: 1 is destroyed over [[Kobol]], one crashes on Kobol; three take part in the raid on ''[[Colonial One]]'', 1 simultaneously carries a nuclear warhead to the Cylon basestar,
*The use of [[IFF]] transponders by the Cylons is an indirect nod to [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|the original series]], in which [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]] and [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]] use an IFF-type device to identify their [[Cylon Raider#Original Series Raider|Raider]] to Colonial forces when they launch an attack on a Cylon Basestar ([[The Hand of God (TOS)]])
*According to RDM's podcast, during the Starbuck/Number Six fight in the Delphi Museum, Katee Sackhoff and Tricia Helfer themselves actually perform the entire fight scene, with no stunt doubles.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

* ''When Adama congratulates Boomer for destroying the basestar over Kobol:''
:'''Commander Adama:''' Congratulations to both of you. You carried out a very difficult and dangerous mission, and you did it...despite any...personal misgivings you may or may not have had...and for that I'm very proud. Thank you.
:'''Racetrack:''' Thank you, sir.
:'''Boomer:''' Thank you, sir. (pulls out a gun and shoots Adama in the chest)

* ''In the Opera House on Kobol:''
:'''Gaius Baltar:''' I don't understand.
:'''Number Six:''' Life has a melody, Gaius. A rhythm of notes that become your existence once played in harmony with God's plan. It's time to do your part and realize your destiny.
:'''Gaius Baltar:''' Which is what, exactly?
:'''Number Six:''' You are the guardian and protector of the new generation of God's children. The first member of our family will be with us soon, Gaius. It's time to make your choice.
:'''Gaius Baltar:''' But I don't understand what you're talking about. Really, I don't understand-
:'''Number Six:''' Come. See the face of the shape of things to come.

* ''On the Colonial One:''
:'''Colonel Tigh:''' Madam President, no one needs to get hurt here.
:'''Laura Roslin:''' Then why don't you get off my ship, Colonel.
:'''Colonel Tigh:''' I'm placing you under arrest.
:'''Lee Adama:''' No...no, we're not doing this.
:'''Colonel Tigh:''' I'm in command here, Captain.
:'''Lee Adama:''' Colonel, this is wrong!
:'''Colonel Tigh:''' You're relieved! Fall back. Madam President, I would-
:'''Lee Adama:''' (pulls a gun on Tigh) Men, lay down your weapons.
:'''Colonel Tigh:''' Have you lost your frakking mind?
:'''Lee Adama:''' Colonel, tell these Marines to fall back!
:'''Colonel Tigh:''' This is mutiny. You know that.
:'''Lee Adama:''' Yes I do, but you can tell my father that I'm listening to my instincts, and my instincts tell me that we cannot sacrifice our democracy just because the President makes a bad decision.

== Official Statements ==

* ''Regarding [[Lee Adama]] and his development (and setbacks) incurred over the course of [[Season 1 (2004-05)]], as stated by [[Jamie Bamber]]:''

: I think he's his own man. I think he's a natural leader, but I don't think he's realised that yet. We are exploring it.

:At the end of the first season he's on his own again. I mean, he's always been an isolated figure in the first place because he doesn't really belong on the ''[[Galactica]]''. He doesn't even intend to be there but then the end of the world sort of catches him on the hop and that's where he has to make a start. He cuts a role out for himself as the "[[CAG]]," something he perhaps wasn't intending to do.

:And I think he comes into his own gradually. He surprises himself. But then again, at the end of the first season he disobeys an order, so that's basically burned all his bridges that he had with the crew of the ''[[Galactica]]''.

:So he's a lone thinker in many respects, but I think more and more you'll see him start to come out with true leadership qualities. <ref name="gateworld">[http://gateworld.net/galactica/articles/bamber01.shtml Gateworld Article on Jamie Banber]</ref>

* ''Jamie Bamber on Lee Adama's evolution from this episode into the second season:''

: The difference fundamentally is that one moment in "Kobol's Last Gleaming" when he finally realizes that he's sense (sic) of duty and responsibility can and must extend beyond the [[Colonial Fleet|military hierarchy]] and include his own conscience and the law. The moment he turns his weapon on [[Saul Tigh|his superior]]. And that that is not wrong.

: As a result he finds himself [[brig|behind bars]], in exile, out of uniform and essentially orphaned, but through all this he finds out who he really is and he trusts it. Suddenly, with [[William Adama|his father]] dying, he sees people turn to him for leadership and that brings a realization that he must rise to the occasion and he does so through trusting his own judgment. He is surprised that his mutinous act aboard ''[[Colonial One]]'' has not marginalized him in [[the Fleet (RDM)|the fleet]]; just the opposite—it has actually highlighted him as a man of conscience, capable of impossibly difficult decisions. <ref name="inside_bsg_p50">"Inside Battlestar Galactica", <u>Sci-Fi Magazine</u> February 2006: [http://bsgmedia.org/gallery/albums/userpics/10017/0008a1hf.jpg 50]</ref>

== Guest stars ==
*[[Michael Hogan]] as Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]
*[[Aaron Douglas]] as Chief [[Galen Tyrol]]
*[[Tahmoh Penikett]] as Lt. [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]
*[[Kandyse McClure]] as Petty Officer [[Anastasia Dualla]]
*[[Paul Campbell]] as [[Billy Keikeya]]
*[[Alessandro Juliani]] as Lt. [[Felix Gaeta]]
*[[Samuel Witwer]] as [[Crashdown]]
*[[Lorena Gale]] as [[Elosha]]
*[[Alonso Oyarzun]] as Specialist [[Socinus]]
*[[Nicki Clyne]] as Specialist [[Cally Tyrol|Cally Henderson]]
*[[Jim Shield]] as [[Karma]]
*[[Warren Christie]] as [[Tarn]]
*[[Jen Halley]] as [[Diana Seelix]]
*[[Leah Cairns]] as Lt. [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]]

==References==
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[[de:Kobol, Teil II]]
[[fr:À la recherche de la Terre - 2e partie]]

Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I

2007-04-10T16:28:15Z

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{{Episode Data
| image =Home_pt1-Kobol.jpg
| title=Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I
| series=
| season=1
| episode=12
| guests=
| writer=[[Ronald D. Moore]]
| story=[[David Eick]]
| director=[[Michael Rymer]]
| production=112
| rating= 2.2
| US airdate=2005-03-25
| UK airdate=2005-01-17
| dvd= {{Season 1 NTSC DVD release date}} '''US'''<br/>{{Season 1 PAL DVD release date}} '''UK'''
| population= 47897
| oldpopulation= 47898
| prev=[[Colonial Day]]
| next=[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]
| podcast=Y
}}

== Overview ==
:''Battlestar ''Galactica'' discovers Kobol, and a chain of events are set in motion that threatens to change everything.''

== Summary ==
* Following the [[Colonial Day (holiday)|Colonial Day]] celebrations, [[Gaius Baltar]] finally beds [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]], but as they make love, she cries out for [[Lee Adama]], shattering Baltar's mood.
* Stricken by her apparent rejection of him in their coupling, Baltar in turn comes close to rejecting [[Number Six|Six]] and find it impossible to concentrate on anything – including his duties as Vice President.
* Elsewhere on ship, [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]] attempts to take her own life, but breaks down in tears before she can shoot herself. She is called to the Ready Room for a pre-flight briefing.
* [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] discovers that her cancer treatment is not going well. Her cancer has spread to her lymphatic system, giving her perhaps 6 months to live.
* Baltar verbally fences with Lee Adama and is somewhat insulting to Thrace, tipping Lee off that the doctor has slept with Thrace. Later, still thinking about Thrace, Baltar cracks in front of Roslin.
* Following a recon mission, Boomer and [[Crashdown]] return to ''[[Galactica]]'' with evidence they have stumbled upon [[Kobol]].
* Determined to have things out with Thrace, Lee confronts her in the [[Hangar Deck]], and the two come to blows. Thrace realizes that her actions with Baltar have hurt Lee Adama.
* Reviewing the evidence returned by Boomer and Crashdown, Roslin has a vision which [[Elosha]] confirms to be the [[City of the Gods]] on Kobol.
* Roslin has two further visions – the [[Arrow of Apollo]] and the [[Tomb of Athena]], and accepts the scriptures as fact.
* Boomer, still confused, attempts to take her own life – “encouraged” by Baltar in defiance of Six.
* When [[William Adama|Adama]] reviews the evidence, he orders an extensive surface survey of the planet, seeing it as an opportunity for them to settle. Warned he should get off ''Galactica'' by Six, Baltar assigns himself to the survey.
* Roslin tries to convince Adama that Kobol will point the way to [[Earth]], but they must use the captured [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raider]] to return to [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] and retrieve the Arrow of Apollo.
* Three Raptors depart ''Galactica'' for Kobol, but on arrival they find themselves in the midst of a Cylon force of Raiders – and a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]].
* One Raptor is destroyed, and one - carrying Baltar – crash-lands on Kobol.
* Before a rescue mission can be launched, the basestar must be taken out – and Starbuck hatches a plan to do just this using the captured Raider.
* Hearing this, Roslin meets with Starbuck and convinces her into going to Caprica instead to retrieve the Arrow, by telling her that Adama does not actually know where Earth is.
[[Image:bsg-klg1-1.jpg|thumb|right|Adama studies ancient documents on Kobol.<br>(c) Universal]]
===On Caprica===
* [[Karl Agathon|Helo]], alone and on the run, encounters “his” [[Sharon Agathon|Valerii]]. He shoots and wounds her. Unable to kill her outright, he takes her with him.
* When Valerii tries to talk to him, Helo cuts her off and insists that to him she is only a way off the planet.

== Questions ==
* Why did the Thirteen Tribes leave [[Kobol]]? (Answer: In a [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)|deleted scene]], Col. Tigh asks [[Elosha]] this same question, and she says that one God decided that he should be raised up above all others, and rebelled, and this triggered the cataclysm that drove humans off of Kobol.)
* What happened to the gods who lived on Kobol “with man”?
* Did the gods remain on Kobol after humanity left?
* Given the similarities with the Greek pantheon, did the gods decide to follow the 13th tribe to Earth, thus establishing the myths of the Olympian gods?
* Do the Cylons consider Kobol as their spiritual home as well (“The birthplace of us all” – [[Leoben Conoy]], "[[Flesh and Bone]]")?
* Did Boomer's Cylon personality interfere in her attempt at suicide, resulting in her wounding herself, or did her human personality lack the conviction of the act, resulting in the wound? Or was it simply an accident that she missed?
* Given that [[Cylon transponder]]s were aboard ''Galactica'', why did the Cylons make such an attempt to destroy ''Galactica'' during their first attack - up to and including deploying nuclear weapons against her? Was the device inactive - if so, why was it in [[CIC]] in the first place ([[Miniseries]])?

== Analysis ==
*''Why would Starbuck have sex with Baltar?'' As Starbuck said, she feels she is a screwup. Based on what we have seen and heard of Starbuck throughout the season, and specifically Apollo's comments in this episode, she has a history of recklessly diving into physical relations with no thought whatsoever as to the consequences; Starbuck instinctively starts thinking something must be wrong when things are going right, such as her growing relationship with Apollo, because she's so used to things going wrong. Also, Lee left her dancing with Baltar in the last episode.
*When Sharon shoots herself, she is holding an automatic pistol, but the sound was that of the larger sidearms carried by pilots when flying off-ship missions (only slightly suppressed), rather than the report of a "normal" pistol being fired.
*When Roslin tells Starbuck that she is dying from breast cancer, she says that she only told three people. However, four people ([[Cottle|Doctor Cottle]], [[Billy]], [[Apollo]], and [[Elosha]]) actually knew of Roslin's illness by this time. Whether this was a continuity error or whether Roslin simply misspoke is unknown.
**Billy inferred her condition before she told him, ([[Miniseries]]), so maybe she is being very particular, since he did not learn of it through her telling him.

== Notes ==
*Kara leaves Baltars quarters at the start of the episode with her blue dress from "[[Colonial Day]]". It seems like this episode continues directly on from the previous episode.
*There are now 47,897 survivors in the fleet, a net loss of 1 since "Colonial Day".
*[[The Fleet (RDM)|The Fleet]] is beginning to run short of supplies.
*Humans departed Kobol for the Twelve Colonies some 2,000 years prior to the setting of the series .
*Kobol is a place where the "gods and man lived ''together' in paradise".
*Some of the "gods" appear to be buried on Kobol, as demonstrated by the [[Tomb of Athena]].
*[[Socinus]] has been released from the brig and returned to duty; Socinus' release from the brig by [[Galen Tyrol|Chief Tyrol]] was filmed, but ended up on the [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)|cutting room floor]].
*[[Ellen Tigh]] does not appear in this episode, but she is present in deleted scenes.
*The [[Cylon transponder]] is an indirect nod to the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|the Original Series]], in which [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]] and [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]] use an IFF-type device to identify their [[Cylon Raider#Original Series Raider|Raider]] to Colonial forces when they launch an attack on a Cylon basestar ([[The Hand of God (TOS)]]).

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

* ''In the bunk room, when Gaius Baltar interrupts Sharon Valeri’s second attempt at suicide:''
:'''Sharon Valerii:''' (as she pretends to be cleaning her hand gun) What’s going on?
:'''Gaius Baltar:''' (cautiously) Well, I was going to ask you the same question. Actually, I was looking for Lieutenant Thrace but...sometimes it’s good to...talk these things over.
:'''Number Six:''' (feigning pity) Deep down she knows she’s a Cylon, but her conscious mind won’t accept it.
:'''Sharon Valerii:''' Sometimes I have these dark thoughts.
:'''Gaius Baltar:''' What kind of dark thoughts?
:'''Number Six:''' Her model is weak, always has been. But in the end she’ll carry out her mission.
:'''Sharon Valerii:''' I don’t know, but I’m afraid I’m going to hurt someone. I feel like I ought to be stopped.
:'''Number Six:''' (moving to the other side of Boomer) She can’t be stopped. She’s a Cylon. You can’t help her, Gaius...but you could probably sleep with her. That’s what you want, right?
:'''Gaius Baltar:''' (to Boomer) I’m not sure why...sometimes...we must embrace that which opens up for us...
:'''Sharon Valerii:''' Embrace?
:'''Gaius Baltar:''' Life can be a curse as well as a blessing. (his voice becomes more intense) You will believe me when I tell you: there are far worse things than death in this world.
:'''Sharon Valerii:''' So you’re saying…?
:'''Gaius Baltar:''' No. No, no, no. What I say...is meaningless. Listen to your heart. Embrace that which you know to be the right decision.
:(They look at each other as Six regards Baltar with a look of complete incomprehension, then Baltar stands and kisses Boomer on the forehead before walking out of the bunkroom. Seconds later there is the sound of a single gunshot from inside.)

* ''On the hangar deck:''
:'''Lee Adama:''' Going hunting?
:'''Kara Thrace:''' (loading ammunition into the Cylon Raider) I'm manning the gunnery for the Jump test tomorrow. See if our boy here can shoot anything with our ammo.
:'''Lee Adama:''' So it's a boy now.
:'''Kara Thrace:''' I changed my mind.
:'''Lee Adama:''' You ever wonder why everyone else calls it a "she", but to you, it's a "he"?
:'''Kara Thrace:''' That's fascinating, Lee. You should write a paper.
:'''Lee Adama:''' Well, that's not really my style. I'm not as smart as...say, Doctor Baltar. How is the Vice President, by the way?
:'''Kara Thrace:''' I don't know. Haven't seen him.
:'''Lee Adama:''' (thinks for a second) So...he's a love-them and leave-them kind of guy, I guess.
:'''Kara Thrace:''' I guess.
:'''Lee Adama:''' Ships just pass in the night...
:'''Kara Thrace:''' Yep.
:'''Lee Adama:''' Didn't mean a thing.
:'''Kara Thrace:''' No.
:'''Lee Adama:''' You were just bored, looking for something to do. So frakking the Vice President of the Colonies seemed like a great waste of time!
:'''Kara Thrace:''' Do you want something from me?
:'''Lee Adama:''' Not a thing-
:'''Kara Thrace:''' -because I don't owe you anything.
:'''Lee Adama:''' No, you don't owe me anything. because I'm just a CAG, and you're just a pilot. A pilot who can't keep her pants on! Oh, it's just like old times, Kara. Like when you got drunk and you couldn't keep your hands off the Major-
:(Kara turns around and swings a punch at Lee, but Lee returns the favor by punching Kara in the eye)
:'''Lee Adama:''' Why'd you do it, Kara? Just tell me why.
:'''Kara Thrace:''' Because I'm a screwup, Lee. Try to keep that in mind.

* ''As Kara Thrace pilots the Cylon Raider in a weapons test, she contacts Commander Adama:''
:'''Commander Adama:''' (to Kara) Go ahead.
:'''Kara Thrace:''' I believed you. Believed in Earth.
:'''Commander Adama:''' What are you doing, Starbuck?
:'''Kara Thrace:''' Bringing home the cat, sir.
:'''Commander Adama:''' We can talk about this.
:'''Kara Thrace:''' No, I don't think so.
:'''Commander Adama:''' I want you to remember one thing. I do not regret anything that I did. Be sure that whatever you're going to do, you don't regret it later. Do you understand me?
:'''Kara Thrace:''' I guess we'll find out. (Starbuck uses the FTL computer to Jump to Caprica)
:'''Lee Adama:''' Galactica, Apollo. Starbuck has jumped away. Repeat, Starbuck has jumped away.
:'''Colonel Tigh:''' She wasn't scheduled for a Jump test! Where the hell did she go?
:'''Commander Adama:''' Home.

== Official Statements ==

=== Regarding Lack of Definitive Information Regarding [[Kobol]] ===
{{from_RDM_blog}}

:"In the last two episodes it is noted by the priestess that the thirteen tribes left [[Kobol]] about "2000 years ago" and the initial estimate of the age of the ruins is the same, but nothing is concrete of course. This is where I have a problem: They were obviously a star faring civilization to leave Kobol to being with. To do so requires information technology. Why is their history of that time so sketchy and lacking of concrete records? Yes it was 2000 years in the past but come on, it's not like they only had [[Wikipedia:papyrus|papyrus]] to write on. "

:I've been presupposing some kind of cataclysm or crisis that occurred soon after mankind settled on the 12 worlds which either wiped out the knowledge base or had it deliberately destroyed for some reason. This doesn't seem that implausible when one considers that a tremendous amount of knowledge from the Greco-Roman tradition was lost after the fall of the [[Wikipedia:Roman Empire|Roman Empire]] and plunged the western world into the so called [[Wikipedia:Dark Ages|Dark Ages]]. Clearly, the Colonials did not fall all the way back to papyrus, and they do in fact, know that they are descendants of refugees from Kobol, hence the term "[[Colonies]]." They must have possessed star-faring technology at the time of the exodus, but I don't know how far we'll go into this specific backstory in the series, however.

=== Other Statements ===

* ''[[Jamie Bamber]] talks about his response to the argument held between [[Kara Thrace]] and [[Lee Adama]] in this episode:''

: It's sort of an explosion of jealousy that is a complete surprise to him because I don't think he's ... he's not fully aware of what he feels. There's something quite like a gut reaction that really was exciting to play. It was a surprise to me. [http://gateworld.net/galactica/articles/bamber01.shtml]

== Guest stars ==
*[[Michael Hogan]] as Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]
*[[Aaron Douglas]] as Chief [[Galen Tyrol]]
*[[Tahmoh Penikett]] as Lt. [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]
*[[Kandyse McClure]] as Petty Officer [[Anastasia Dualla]]
*[[Paul Campbell]] as [[Billy Keikeya]]
*[[Alessandro Juliani]] as Lt. [[Felix Gaeta]]
*[[Samuel Witwer]] as [[Crashdown]]
*[[Lorena Gale]] as [[Elosha]]
*[[Donnelly Rhodes]] as Dr. [[Cottle]]
*[[Alonso Oyarzun]] as Specialist [[Socinus]]
*[[Bodie Olmos]] as Lt. [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]]
*[[Stephen Spender]] as Pilot
*[[James Bell]] as [[ECO]]

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[[de:Kobol, Teil I]]
[[fr:À la recherche de la Terre - 1re partie]]

Colonial Day

2007-04-10T16:26:53Z

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: ''This article refers to the [[List of All Episodes|episode]] "Colonial Day". For the holiday itself, see [[Colonial Day (holiday)]].''
{{Episode Data
| image =bsg-1-11.jpg
| title=Colonial Day
| series=
| season=1
| episode=11
| guests=[[Richard Hatch]] as [[Tom Zarek]]
| writer=[[Carla Robinson]]
| story=
| goof= Y
| director=[[Jonas Pate]]
| production=111
| rating= 2.3
| US airdate=2005-03-18
| UK airdate=2005-01-10
| dvd= {{Season 1 NTSC DVD release date}} '''US'''<br/>{{Season 1 PAL DVD release date}} '''UK'''
| population= 47898
| oldpopulation= 47898
| podcast=y
| prev=[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]
| next=[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]
}}

== Overview ==

: ''Colonial Day is due, and [[Laura Roslin]] is using the occasion to institute an interim [[Quorum of Twelve]]; then [[Tom Zarek]], duly selected as the representative of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Sagittaron|Sagittaron]], stands for the post of Vice President, a position Roslin is determined he will not hold.''

== Summary ==

*[[Colonial Day (holiday)|Colonial Day]], the annual anniversary of the signing of the [[Articles of Colonization]], has arrived. President [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] has formed a new [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]], the legislative branch of the Colonial [[Government]], and has decided to have her unveiling of the new Quorum coincide with the patriotic holiday
*A tension erupts when terrorist/criminal [[Tom Zarek]] wins nomination as [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Sagittaron|Sagittaron]] representitive on the Quorum. Roslin feels she cannot remove him, as he won the election fairly (many on Sagittaron view him as a hero of their downtrodden Tribe).
*At the first meeting of the Quorum, Zarek creates a crisis by insisting that the vacant post of Vice President be filled by a special vote of the Quorum, in case anything should happen to Roslin – a move that is surprisingly seconded by [[Gaius Baltar]] (when prodded by Number Six)– Tom Zarek is thereupon nominated as a vice presidential candidate. He has been using his men on the Astral Queen to perform technical favors for several other ships, to the support of several, plus he plays on various disatisfactions in the refugee fleet.
*Roslin responds by pushing [[Wallace Gray]], a presidential aide, into standing as an alternative candidate.
*Manipulating the [[Colonial Gang|media]], Zarek makes headway in his desire to secure the position as Vice President, while a man named [[Valance]] plots in secret to carry out an assasinate plot against her – possibly orchestrated by Zarek.
*Surprisingly, it is Gaius Baltar who comes to her aid: flashing his pre-attack charsima, he gives an eloquent speech to the media that reminds the people of Roslin’s qualities and Zarek’s questionable background (trying to look supportive of Roslin and look more favorable). Roslin realizes that Baltar is quite popular in the Fleet (particularly following the unmasking of a [[Six Degrees of Separation|Cylon plot to discredit him]] and has Gray relinquish his position as her nominee in favor of Baltar.
*Baltar wins the nomination through a close vote, as the Quorum is evenly split, but as president Roslin is allowed to cast the tie breaking vote which enables Baltar's victory – but Zarek makes it clear matters are far from over: there is still the presidential elections due in 6 months. Roslin introduces Baltar as the victor at the Colonial Day Celebration.

=== On Caprica: ===
*[[Karl Agathon|Helo]] and [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Valerii]] have reached the outskirts of [[Delphi]]
*Helo ponders how he could have seen two women who look exactly the same helping the Cylons, after recently seeing a Number Six copy leading a squad of Centurions. Quickly putting two and two together (the Cylons had probably tried to make sure that Helo never saw humanoid Cylons before, so he wouldn't suspect Caprica-Sharon) and considers the [[Humanoid Cylon|Humanoid Cylons]] to be some sort of human "replicants", created by the Cylons using human DNA. Helo realizes that this would explain the rapid fall of the Twelve Colonies, as the humanoid Cylons must have infiltrated the Colonies to soften them up for an invasion.
*Caprica-Sharon uses this idea as a means of testing his possible feelings towards her, should she reveal her true identity. She starts to say that maybe the humanoid Cylons are mislead or that their attack on the Colonies were wrong and they might doubt that it was the right thing to do (her own current thoughts), but Helo dismisses this as he feels they're just more Cylons.
*Later, as they try to enter the Cylon base at Delphi, Helo sees another Valerii copy, and instantly realises the truth, flashing through his adventures on Caprica and all of the coincidences surrounding his escape – at which point he immediately runs away from both Caprica-Sharon and the base.

== Questions ==

*Just how much freedom of movement within the fleet have Zarek’s people gained since the events of [[Bastille Day]]? ([[The Farm|Answer]]: While Zarek seems to be allowed unrestricted access to any vessel in the fleet his fellow inmates still appear to be confined to the [[Astral Queen]]. He is probably one of the prisoners that has been paroled after earning "freedom points" for work performed for the Fleet).
*Will Zarek be able to use this apparent freedom to rally support for the forthcoming elections? ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Answer]])
*Was Zarek really behind the suspected attempt on Roslin’s life?
*How does the Quorum of Twelve relate to the Office of the President? Does it function in a similar manner to the US Congress? [[Government of the Twelve Colonies|Answer]]
*Who killed Valance?
*When exactly is Colonial Day, the day? Reporter [[James McManus]] states that it will coincide with the first meeting of the interim [[Quorum of Twelve]], but Commander Adama also gives the day as "Colonial Day" at Baltar's victory gala, two days later.

== Analysis ==
*By this point in the late first season, the writers and actors seem to have gained an increasingly better grasp of the story they are trying to tell, and the dialogue, characterization, and plot developments are flowing much more smoothly than in the early learning-curve period of "[[Water]]" and "[[Bastille Day]]".
*It seems a small cheat that Cloud Nine has not been seen before, but this is explained as that she was heavily damaged and undergoing repairs until now.
*It is slightly odd that [[Wallace Gray]] is supposedly one of Roslin's top aides and has played a large role in the work of her administration, but has not been seen until now. Of course, this is the mechanics of introducing new characters on a tv series at play. However, Roslin ''is'' often followed around by many nameless aides with the implication that there are more working for her "off screen" than a given episode focuses on (in the podcasts, Ron Moore and David Eick have said that they feel they make Roslin seem more official onscreen).
*It is ironic that Baltar himself makes no drive to put himself on the road to power; Roslin (and other major characters) make him vice president because they prefer him over Zarek (even though Roslin admits that she does not like Baltar or particularly trust him, and admits that it is a "choose the devil you know" situation.
*Despite being a clever manipulator of human emotion, Number Six seems also capable of immature self-delusion by convincing herself that Baltar can have sex with whoever he wants, such as [[Playa Palacios]], but this is irrelevant because his "heart" is hers: this goes to show how "human" the biomechanical Cylons can be, as even though they are "machines" they have advanced to the point that they exhibit human emotional foibles.
*Caprica-Sharon is showing more symptoms of being pregnant, as well as guilt over the Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies. She now feels the attack was wrong and the Cylons are misguided/self-deluded.
*During Season 1, several critics and fans expressed that they thought it odd that Helo never suspected Caprica-Sharon of being a [[Humanoid Cylon]] at all. However, this is an unfair criticism: Helo was not present on ''Galactica'' when the existence of humanoid Cylon models was revealed, and very probably during their experiment the Cylons attempted to avoid exposing Helo to humanoid Cylon models (after his initial "capture" by a single Number Six). Helo only sees a second Number Six copy in this episode because it is after he and Caprica-Sharon went on the run from the Cylons for real, after Caprica-Sharon's change of heart. —— Putting these accusations of Helo's unperceptiveness to rest, in this episode immediately after seeing a second Number Six (when last we saw him in "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]") within minutes Helo ''on his own'' theorizes that the Cylons must have created human models or DNA replicants of some sort, who must have been infiltrating Colonial society as Trojan Horses, explaining the rapid fall of the Twelve Colonies. Later, when Helo sees another Sharon-model Cylon copy, after recovering from his shock the events of the past two months instantly fit together in his mind, he realizes he has been duped, and he (prudently) runs away.

== Notes ==
*10 days have passed since the events of [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]].
*The office of the President operates in conjunction with the Quorum of Twelve, a council of representatives of the Twelve Colonies.
*The Articles of Colonisation were signed 52 years ago.
**Given the Twelve Colonies have been inhabited for millennia, the Articles therefore don't directly relate to the settlement of these worlds.
**However, given the timeframe (52 years) and its proximity to the first Cylon War, perhaps the original articles were the document that united the Twelve Colonies to fight the threat of the Cylons, and became the basis for their peaceful co-operation after the war.
*Issues surrounding the distribution of food and medical supplies are beginning to cause concern within the fleet.
*Despite being "isolated" aboard the ''[[Astral Queen]]'' ([[Bastille Day]]), Zarek has managed to use his time to build up contacts within the fleet and offer assistance to other vessels - so much so that the representative from Virgon is only too willing to throw his support behind Zarek.
*Apparently convicted felons lose their citizenship under Sagittarian penal law but have it automatically reinstated after they finish serving their sentences. This included the right to vote and to stand for election.
*This episode contains the first glimpse of the Cylon [[Heavy Raider]], which is seen landing on Cylon-occupied [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]].
*After Valance's assassination, the whiteboard on ''[[Colonial One]]'' shows 47,898 survivors in the fleet, a net loss of 7 since [[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]].
*This episode is the first to show (however briefly) a version of [[Number Eight]] that isn't "Sharon Valerii".
*Boomer-Valerii only appears in this episode briefly, dancing with [[Felix Gaeta]] at the gala after Baltar's election.
*Dr. Baltar apparently didn't give consent or even know of his nomination to a seat in the Quorum of Twelve, thus making it a little unclear how exactly the elections took place without a preexisting list of candidates.
*[[James McManus]], host of [[The Colonial Gang]], doesn't seem to mind using [[frak|the F-word]] on the air.
*The controversy surrounding whether [[Laura Roslin]] would shake [[Tom Zarek]]'s hand intentionally mirrored that at the signing of the [[wikipedia:Oslo Accords|Oslo Accords]] in 1993 about whether [[wikipedia:Yitzhak Rabin|Yitzhak Rabin]] would shake hands with [[wikipedia:Yasser Arafat|Yasser Arafat]].
*Tom Zarek's statement "I shaved very close this morning in preparation for getting smacked by you." to Laura Roslin is a direct quote from the 1970 movie ''Patton''.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

* ''Helo and Valerii have arrived in the vicinity of the Cylon base at Delphi, and the talk turns to the two women "helping" the Cylons:''
:'''Helo:''' (Standing as Valerii crouches with her back to him, getting some food) I'm trying to make sense out of two women we saw with the Cylons.
:'''Sharon Valeri:''' (keeping her back to him) And?
:'''Helo:''' I can't fathom why anybody would want to help the toasters...and they just happen to be twins? It's too weird.
:'''Sharon Valeri:''' You got a better explanation?
:'''Helo:''' Do you think the Cylons could be messing with human DNA? (Valerii reacts, mouth opening as she looks away). Cloning people or something?
:'''Sharon Valeri:''' (gathering herself and looking over her shoulder at Helo) Could be.
:'''Helo:''' (nodding and crouching) That would explain how they took us by surprise. They had these...replicated humans infiltrating the colonies, laying the groundwork for the surprise attack.
:'''Sharon Valeri:''' (pausing, as if considering this) You know, if they were human clones, that means they're capable of...complex emotions - maybe even love. Maybe they were misguided in the way they were indoctrinated...
:'''Helo:''' (interrupting) Whatever they are, they're not human! No human could do the things they've done - killed billions of innocent people (Valerii looks away, hurt)
:'''Helo:''' They've got to be frakking Cylons, just like the rest of them...

* ''Gaius Baltar is interviewed by [[The Colonial Gang]]:''
:'''[[James McManus]]:''' We're here with Dr. Gaius Baltar, representative of Caprica. Dr. Baltar, I have one question: is President Roslin's political career terminal, or is there hope of resuscitating it?
:'''Gaius Baltar:''' Laura Roslin's political career is very much alive, and to underestimate her would be a very serious mistake.
:'''Number Six:''' You miss the loud mic, don't you Gaius?
:'''Gaius Baltar:''' Yes, I have.
:'''James McManus:''' You have what, Dr. Baltar?
:'''Gaius Baltar:''' Nothing. You were saying?
:'''James McManus:''' Yes. So you seriously believe that this schoolteacher is able to handle the job of presidency?
:'''Gaius Baltar:''' Well I'm glad to hear it, because I think all of us have had teachers who have made a profound impact on our lives. History is full of examples of leaders who have come from the most humble beginnings, and have risen to meet the challenge posed by cataclysmic events. It's very easy to be sitting there in your armchairs ... criticize Laura Roslin for the tough decisions that she has to make every day - especially if you're someone like Tom Zarek, who's never shouldered any real responsibility in your life. To be fair to Tom, how could he? He's been in prison for the last twenty years. Now that he's had a drastic personality makeover, he's posing like he's the savior to all your ills! I think you all have a short memory, really. ... What I have to say is, we must survive, and we will survive. And we will do so through the values that have made our colonies great: courage, truth, justice, liberty, with a firm and deep resolve to make tomorrow better, not just for ourselves, but for our children.

* ''Baltar and Six discuss jealousy and women, prompted by [[Playa Palacios]]'s behavior:''
: '''Gaius Baltar''': She's only human. (notes Six's reaction) You're not jealous?
: '''Number Six''': Love isn't about sex, Gaius.
: '''Gaius Baltar''': Now there's an enlightened point of view.
: '''Number Six''': I've been thinking... and as far as I'm concerned, you can have any woman you want. But always remember, I have your heart.
: '''Gaius Baltar''': Yes, of course you do.
: '''Number Six''': (deadly serious) I can always rip it out of your chest if I need to.
: '''Gaius Baltar''': (coughs, as if in reaction to a pain in his chest)

== Official Statements ==

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* ''"I'm part of the nitpick brigade, but since the Colonies are obviously modeled after the US system of government, right down to the line of succession, are legislative and judicial branches? If so what are they called and will we see any manifestation of either branch take shape as series progresses?"''

:In Episode 11, "Colonial Day" we'll see the reinstatement of the [[Quorum of Twelve]], a political body established in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|original series]], which seems to be a cross between a US style Senate and the UN Security Council, where each Colony has a single vote. Presumably there was also a larger representative legislative body and some kind of separate judiciary. There is also a religious body, (unnamed thus far) that acts in some advisory capacity to the government, along the lines of the British House of Lords. Although we haven't dealt with it yet, [[Elosha]] was probably a member of this body.

== Guest stars ==
*[[Michael Hogan]] as Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]
*[[Aaron Douglas]] as Chief [[Galen Tyrol]]
*[[Tahmoh Penikett]] as Lt. [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]
*[[Kandyse McClure]] as Petty Officer [[Anastasia Dualla]]
*[[Paul Campbell]] as [[Billy Keikeya]]
*[[Alessandro Juliani]] as Lt. [[Felix Gaeta]]
*[[Kate Vernon]] as [[Ellen Tigh]]
*[[Robert Wisden]] as [[Wallace Gray]]
*[[David Kaye]] as [[James McManus]]
*[[Alex Zahara]] as [[Valance]]
*[[Patrick Gallagher]] as [[Leon Grimes]]
*[[Malcolm Stewart]] as [[Marshall Bagott]]
*[[Nicki Clyne]] as Specialist [[Cally Tyrol|Cally Henderson]]
*[[Cailin Stadnyk]] as Ensign [[Davis]]
*[[Christina Schild]] as [[Playa Palacios]]
*[[Biski Gugushe]] as [[Sekou Hamilton]]
*[[James Ashcroft]] as Spectator #1
*[[Patricia Idlette]] as [[Sarah Porter]]
*[[Mario Battista]] as Gardner

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The Hand of God (RDM)

2007-04-10T16:25:42Z

Frór:

:''This article details an episode of the [[Re-imagined Series]]. For information on the [[Original Series]] episode of the same name, see [[The Hand of God (TOS)]].''

{{Episode Data
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| title=The Hand of God
| series=
| season=1
| episode=10
| guests=
| writer=[[David Weddle]] <br/> [[Bradley Thompson]]
| story=
| director=[[Jeff Woolnough]]
| production=110
| rating= 2.2
| US airdate=2005-03-11
| UK airdate=2005-01-03
| dvd= {{Season 1 NTSC DVD release date}} '''US'''<br/>{{Season 1 PAL DVD release date}} '''UK'''
| population= 47898
| oldpopulation= 47905
| prev=[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down|Tigh Me Up,<br>Tigh Me Down]]
| next=[[Colonial Day]]
| podcast=Y
| podtitle=The Hand of God
}}

== Overview ==

: ''With the Fleet short of [[tylium|fuel]], ''[[Galactica]]'' launches a daring attack on a Cylon base.''

== Summary ==
* [[The Fleet (RDM)|The Fleet]] is almost out of fuel, and ''[[Galactica]]'' has [[Raptor|Raptors]] out scouting nearby star systems to find tylium ore - if they don't, the fleet can make two more [[FTL|jumps]] at best
* Aboard one of the Raptors, [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Boomer]] and [[Crashdown]] find an asteroid filled with years worth of tylium ore — unfortunately, the Cylons found it first and have built a [[Cylon Refinery|refinery base]] on it.
* Faced with hoping to locate tylium elsewhere using their remaining supplies of fuel, or taking the asteroid from the Cylons, [[William Adama|Adama]] opts to attack the asteroid to take the tylium from the Cylons.
* On ''[[Colonial One]]'', [[Laura Roslin]] reveals she is being affected by taking [[Chamalla]] extract to [[Elosha]], having prescient visions – her dreams about [[Leoben Conoy]] which occurred immediately before he was found on the ''[[Gemenon Traveler]]'' ([[Flesh and Bone]]), and her hallucination about snakes
* On hearing about the snakes, Elosha reveals that it matches a prophecy in an ancient text written by [[Pythia]] 3,600 years ago concerning the exodus of humankind, which foretells that a dying Leader will lead the remnants of humanity to the promised land of Earth.
* Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] and [[Lee Adama|Apollo]] draw up an initial plan to take the asteroid, but Commander Adama decides to turn to [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] to come up with an unconventional idea to accomplish the mission, as she has a penchant for thinking "outside the box", and as machines the Cylons tend to predict more logical plans.
* Plans are drawn up for the attack on the Cylon base on the asteroid, and [[Gaius Baltar]] is involved in preparations when Starbuck and Tigh show him recon photos of the refinery. They cannot simply nuke the base, as the radiation would render the tylium inert, so the best plan would be to destroy the containers holding the volatile unrefined tylium precursor. Tigh and Starbuck want Baltar to point out what it is, even though he has no idea what it looks like. In his mind, Baltar asks his virtual Number Six for help, but she tells him it is in God's hands and He will "tell" Baltar where to point. Baltar picks an object in the base, simply as a wild guess (though he doesn't tell the others that). Baltar is terrified, telling Six he didn't hear God's voice, but she reassures him that "God doesn't always speak in ''words''".
* Apollo is concerned that everyone thinks Starbuck is a better pilot than he is and would be better leading the mission. Starbuck cannot fly in the attack, because in the [[Weight Room|weight room]] Commander Adama demonstrates that her knee has not yet fully recovered from its [[You Can't Go Home Again|injury]]. On the hangar deck, Commander Adama encourages Apollo, telling him he thinks Apollo really can pull off this mission, because he is his son.
* The attack is launched, and [[Battle for the Tylium Asteroid|the battle]] commences: civilian mining ships jump in on one side of the Cylon base pretending to be on a survey mission, drawing off some Raiders from the base, while ''Galactica'' jumps in on the other side and launches a squadron of Vipers against it, which are confronted by the base's reserve Raiders. The Raiders sent against the mining ships peel off and advance with the others on ''Galactica''. Everything seems to be going wrong, but then Adama reveals that this was a feint, apparently only he and those directly involved in implementing the plan aware of the real plan.
*A second squadron of Vipers, led by Apollo, launches from inside of the mining ships. While appearing to be merely bait, and dismissed as such by the Cylons, the ships are the real thrust of the attack. With the raiders lured out of position by ''Galactica'', Apollo and his wing have a clear flight to the base.
*Once the Vipers reach the moon, however, things are far from easy: the Cylon base has a formidable anti-air defense system, and the Vipers' missle attack fails as the Cylons are able to jam the missiles' tracking systems.
*In a move of reckless improvisation worthy of Starbuck, Apollo avoids the Cylon defense grid by flying through its tylium mining tunnels to the center of the base, then dropping a pair of explosive charges at the supposed tylium-precursor container.
*Much to Baltar's surprise, his wild guess at which container held the volatile tylium-precursor was correct: as Apollo flies away, the entire base explodes with the force of a 3 kiloton nuclear warhead.
*With their base destroyed, the Cylon Raiders go into a panic and are easy prey for ''Galactica''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Vipers to mop up. All planes return to ''Galactica'' in a moment of celebration. Civilian mining ships will be able to get enough tylium fuel from the asteroid to last the Fleet several years.
*In Baltar's dream world, he expresses his astonishment to Number Six: Baltar "realizes" that the only "logical" explanation is that God truly did guide his hand to the right point on the Cylon base. The formerly atheist Baltar now accepts the possibility that he might truly be an instrument of God...

[[Image:bsg-1-10.jpg|thumb|Adama and staff plan the attack.]]
=== On Caprica: ===
*[[Karl Agathon|Helo]] and [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Valerii]] are hiding-out on a farm on their way to [[Delphi]].
*When Helo offers to prepare a meal, Valerii is uncharacteristically sick, leading them to try and settle down for some sleep.
*They are interrupted by the arrival of a troop of [[Cylon Centurion]]s - lead by another copy of Number Six.
*Forcing a stunned Helo into action - he cannot believe the woman he saw Sharon kill is coming after them - Sharon forces him back on the run.

== Questions ==

* Why did [[William Adama|Commander Adama]] order the fighters to pursue the fleeing [[Cylon Raiders]], instead of securing the area? One possibility for attacking the remaining fighters to prevent them from getting reinforcements from a distant [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]]. ''(Although Adama will not have discovered this until later episodes, Raiders have the ability to make a jump ''much'' farther than any Colonial vessel.)''
* How many Vipers does ''Galactica'' actually have? Do they have a contingency plan should the majority (or all) of the Vipers be destroyed? Or are they simply fraked? (See [[Galactica (RDM)#Running Tallies|this article for a running tally by episode to-date]])
* Are the Colonials able to build ships, such as [[Viper (RDM)|Vipers]], from scratch? Or can they take destroyed hulks and rebuild off them? (Answer: Vipers are frequently salvaged, but only to a point. [[Flight of the Phoenix|Yes, they can build from scratch]], although the result [[Blackbird|may not be a Viper]]. However, [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus'']] is able to build Vipers from scratch, when she has the raw materials (metal ore, etc) to do so. ([[Scar]]))
* How exactly can a 3,600 year old text foretell the exodus of humanity, and the leadership of [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]]? ([[Sacred Scrolls|Answer]].)
* Does someone have time on their hands to build miniatures of the ''new'' Cylon Raiders for the [[Situation Room]]!?
* If [[Gaius Baltar]] read the Sacred Scrolls in "... the 6th grade", why, in spite of being the former Secretary of Education, doesn't [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]] know who [[Pythia]] is? Possibly it is because Gaius Baltar is a genius and he was reading very advanced material in the 6th grade, and Laura Roslin wasn't very religious prior to becoming president.
**Answer: According to RDM, the Sacred Scrolls are much like modern Earth religions, i.e. the vast majority of the general populace often knows many often-quoted phrases and the general philosophy of a religion, but that doesn't mean every person is a theology scholar. Also, like Earth different sections of the Twelve Colonies are more religious than others. [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]], for example, is quite secular in regards to religion, while [[Gemenon]] is religiously fundamentalist, believing in the literal truth of the Sacred Scrolls.
*Is Baltar truly an instrument of "God"?

== Analysis ==
*The introduction of the prophesy of [[Pythia]] further link the series' mythology to the ancient Greece of our own planet. In Greek mythology, the Pythia was the priestess at Apollo's oracle in Delphi. The name itself comes from Python, the dragon slain by Apollo. The Pythia operated as a vehicle for Apollo's will to be known to those on earth. A believer would make a sacrifice and present a question to a priest. The priest would then present the question to the Pythia. The Pythia sat on a bronze tripod in the adytum, or inner chamber of Apollo's temple. In this sacred chamber the spirit of Apollo overcame the Pythia and inspired the prophecy.
**Pythia in ancient Greece was the Oracle of Delphi – and on Caprica, Helo and Sharon are making for the religious center of [[Delphi]].
*Following his seeking God’s forgiveness ([[33]]) and his repentance of his sins ([[Six Degrees of Separation]]), Baltar finally becomes God’s "instrument". He literally becomes the hand of God referenced in the episode title: he is the one that points out the target that will destroy the Cylon base.
*Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen Baltar move through the five emotional states that tend to guide our reactions to a new "truth" we’d rather not face:
**Denial (dismissing the "disappearance" of the ''Olympic Carrier'' after the call from Dr. Amorak as anything more than a serendipitous event - [[33]])
**Anger (his outright hostility towards Six as she continues to "bore" him with talk of God - [[Six Degrees of Separation]])
**Bargaining (praying to God for his safety in return for his obedience - [[Six Degrees of Separation]])
**Depression (leaving the Situation Room without having "heard" God’s voice & facing up to the fact that he had to – again - lie)
**Acceptance his messianic response to Six’s coaxing at the end of this episode.
*Did the Cylons ''allow'' the Colonials to find an asteroid filled with fuel?
**Executive producer [[Ron Moore]] has stated numerous times that the Cylons are not letting the Fleet escape, but are actively trying to destroy it.

== Notes ==
*Nine days have passed since the events of "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]".
*The celtic victory music played at the end of the episode after the Cylon base is destroyed is titled "Wander My Friends", written and composed by [[Bear McCreary]]. The lyrics and translation for the song given in the liner notes for the Season 1 soundtrack are reposted [[Soundtrack (Season 1)#Lyrics and Translations|on this page]], with permission.
*Tylium ore is used to power FTL systems, but probably not through any fissionable reaction.
*Tylium has an energy density of about 5e14 J/kg, comparable to that of nuclear fusion.
*Cylon technology is clearly a Colonial off-shoot, as one would expect: from the use of tylium down to the shape of doorways.
*William Adama’s father was Joseph Adama.
*Sharon Valerii on Caprica may well be pregnant.
*Lt. Gaeta makes mention in passing conversation to Apollo that the Colonials actually know where the [[Cylon homeworld]] is, or at least its rough location ("they'd build a refinery this far from their homeworld?" "Why not? They need fuel out here just as much as we do").
*There is an ancient text some 3,600 years old foretelling humanity’s flight – and apparently, Roslin’s leadership.
*Mark II Vipers can carry both missiles and munitions pods (bombs).
*The Mark VII Vipers all appear to be out of commission - even Apollo is now regularly flying a Mk II.
*Based on the conversation between Commander Adama and Starbuck in the gym, it appears that Mark II Viper thruster pedals use a mechanical flight control system rather than a "fly-by-wire" linkage. This fits the concept of minimizing the use of computers mentioned in the [[Miniseries]].
*The religious overtones to the human / Cylon struggle are becoming more pronounced, with a now-promised confrontation due at the "home of the Gods".
*The Fleet has a tylium refinery ship among its number.
*With the capture of the tylium mining facilities on the asteroid, the Colonials should be able to gather enough tylium to keep them going for about 2 years – assuming they can shift that much tylium to their refinery ship before the Cylons return.
*A railway line can be seen below the balcony of Baltar's Caprica house at the end of the episode. Single track, mounted on apparently wooden (as opposed to conrete sleepers), on a bed of gravel, without any form of electrifcation (3rd rail or overhead wires).
*The title of this episode was also that of the 21st episode of the original series. Aside from both Adamas launching an offensive strike against Cylon forces, there is little comparison between the two episodes. However this is a coincidence; the writers weren't aware of this Original Series episode.
*[[Ronald D. Moore]] says in his podcast that [[Lee Adama]]'s flight through the tunnel is an homage to ''[[wikipedia:Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope|Star Wars]]''.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

*''Lee Adama sits with a battered Viper before the mission. He is joined by his father, who after a short conversation, Adama hands Lee a lighter:''
:'''Commander Adama:''' It belonged to your grandfather. My mother bought it for him when he was in law school. See the engraving on it?
:'''Lee Adama:''' (reading the name "Joseph Adama") Yes I...can barely make it out...
:'''Commander Adama:''' He was a better father than I was. Dad used to carry that into court cases. He claimed he never lost unless he left it behind.
:'''Lee Adama:''' So you’re worried too.
:'''Commander Adama:''' About what?
:'''Lee Adama:''' Sometimes it feels like the whole ship thinks...Starbuck...would do better.
:'''Commander Adama:''' I don’t.
:'''Lee Adama:''' How can you be so sure?
:'''Commander Adama:''' Because you’re my son.

*''Commander Adama asks Starbuck to assist with developing a plan to attack the refinery:''
:'''Commander Adama:''' Captain Adama and Colonel Tigh are working on the plan now and I need some serious "out-of -the-box" thinking.
:'''Starbuck:''' "Out-of-the-box" is where I live.

*''During the briefing with Apollo, Tigh, Starbuck, Adama, and Roslin.''
:'''Commander Adama:''' Sometimes, you have to roll the hard six.

== Official Statements ==

*''[[Katee Sackhoff]] discusses her dislike for Viper scenes, and why she wanted the writers to "break [her] knee again, please":''

: I despise [the Viper cockpit scenes]. It is very uncomfortable in that tight space. All of a sudden, you’re claustrophobic, you’re hot and sweaty, and then you’re cold, you have to pee, you need water, but you can’t drink it because you’ll have to pee again… You have these rubber space suits and you get stuck to the seat. Gross! Then there’s wind in your face and you are falling asleep because it is so hot. You are trying to memorise all this dialogue – 50 pages – all this technical mumbo jumbo. You’re like, ‘Break my knee again, please.’ That was the best thing that happened to me in season one.<ref>{{cite_news|first=Cullen|last=Ian M.|url=http://scifipulse.net/battlestarnews/Sackhoff_Vipers.html|title=Sackhoff Admits To Hating The Viper Scenes|publisher=SciFi Pulse|page=|date=30 January 2007|accessdate=9 February 2007|language=}}</ref>

== Guest stars ==
*[[Michael Hogan]] as Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]
*[[Aaron Douglas]] as Chief [[Galen Tyrol]]
*[[Tahmoh Penikett]] as Lt. [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]
*[[Kandyse McClure]] as Petty Officer [[Anastasia Dualla]]
*[[Paul Campbell]] as [[Billy Keikeya]]
*[[Alessandro Juliani]] as Lt. [[Felix Gaeta]]
*[[Samuel Witwer]] as [[Crashdown]]
*[[Lorena Gale]] as [[Elosha]]
*[[Nicki Clyne]] as Specialist [[Cally Tyrol|Cally Henderson]]
*[[Cailin Stadnyk]] as Ensign [[Davis]]
*[[Bodie Olmos]] as Lt. [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]]
*[[Lucianna Carro]] as Lt. [[Louanne Katraine|Louanne "Kat" Katraine]]
*[[Terry Chen]] as [[Perry|"Chuckles" Perry]]
*[[Christina Schild]] as [[Playa Palacios|Playa Kohn]]
*[[Biski Gugushe]] as [[Sekou Hamilton]]
*[[Paul Cummings]] as [[Fireball]]
*[[Camille Sullivan]] as [[Stepchild]]

== References ==

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[[es:La Mano de Dios]]
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Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down

2007-04-10T16:24:37Z

Frór:

: ''This episode is also known under its draft title, "Secrets and Lies". Its official title is "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down".''
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| guests=
| writer=[[Jeff Vlaming]]
| story=
| director=[[Edward James Olmos]]
| production=109
| rating= 2.1
| US airdate=2005-03-04
| UK airdate=2004-12-13
| dvd= {{Season 1 NTSC DVD release date}} '''US'''<br/>{{Season 1 PAL DVD release date}} '''UK'''
| population= 47905
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| prev=[[Flesh and Bone]]
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== Overview ==

: ''[[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh's]] world is turned upside down when [[Ellen Tigh|his wife]] arrives on ''[[Galactica]]'' -- but is she all she claims to be?''

== Summary ==
* [[Laura Roslin]] comes aboard ''[[Galactica]]'' as [[William Adama|Adama]] receives a report that [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar’s]] [[Cylon detector]] is operational.
* Unable to shake off [[Leoben Conoy|Conoy’s]] words to her ([[Flesh and Bone]]), she wants Adama to take the test first; he reluctantly agrees.
* When a lone [[Cylon Raider]] shows up, [[Lee Adama]] is ordered to intercept, and [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] is stunned to learn Adama is off-ship.
* The Raider is crippled, and a [[Raptor]] is dispatched to gather intel on it, particularly how its [[FTL]] drive operates.
* Adama returns to ''Galactica'' on a [[Raptor]] with a further shock for Tigh: his wife, [[Ellen Tigh|Ellen]].
* Roslin calls Baltar to check on the progress of Adama’s Cylon test – only to find Adama has cancelled so that a woman called “Ellen” can be tested. Roslin orders Baltar to restart Adama’s test immediately.
* Roslin summons Tigh to ''[[Colonial One]]'', reveals her suspicions regarding Adama, and challenges a defensive Tigh over Adama’s behavior in leaving ''Galactica'' unannounced.
* Tigh takes the wind out of Roslin’s sails when he states Adama was off-ship so he could collect Tigh’s missing wife.
* After Tigh has left her office, Roslin calls Baltar and orders him to stop Adama’s test and resume Ellen’s.
* Later, at a dinner in Adama’s quarters, Ellen behaves with a mixture of her old self – trying to play footsie with Lee Adama under the table, and trying to flirt with him over the table – and a strange curiosity concerning [[Earth]].
* Adama deflects her probing by asking how it could be that she got aboard a ship, the ''[[Rising Star (RDM)|Rising Star]]'', without anyone having any knowledge of her or of treating her during her alleged 3 weeks of being unconscious.
* Ellen simply shrugs off the questions in her apparently drunken state and breaks up the party with her “drunken” playing.
* As she and her husband return to their quarters, they encounter Baltar, with whom she openly flirts, both annoying Tigh and raising [[Number Six|Six]]’s curiosity.
* After Baltar has departed, Ellen deflects her husband’s anger at her behavior by claiming Adama wants her, then dragging Tigh after Baltar.
* In Baltar’s lab, a row is brewing over the various tests that should have been carried out; things become more complicated when Tigh and his wife arrive, and the disagreements and suspicions become a three-way argument, which is broken up when Adama, Lee and Tigh are summoned to [[CIC]].
* The Cylon Raider has stopped behaving oddly, and is on a collision course for ''Galactica''. [[Alert Fighters]] are dispatched at Tigh’s order, and the Raider is destroyed.
* Later, back in Baltar’s lab, Ellen’s test results come through and are apparently green. Baltar, however simply states to Six that having everything turn up green makes life a lot easier.

=== On Caprica: ===
*[[Karl Agathon|Helo]] and [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Valerii]] are trying to avoid the Cylons by running through the storm drains under a city.
*Valerii has a plan -- she claims to have overheard the Cylons discussing a huge base at [[Delphi]], she believes they can steal a ship from there and get off the planet.
*[[Aaron Doral|Doral]] and [[Number Six|Six]] are definitely affected by the fact that even though Valerii has run off, she is experiencing emotions they have never had -- as is Helo.

== Questions ==
*Is [[Ellen Tigh]] a [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylon]]? ([[Exodus, Part II|Probable Answer]])
*What is [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] hoping to gain from keeping the test results secret?
**Answer: The official season 1 companion book explains this more fully. Basically, Baltar does not know if the Cylons in the Fleet are capable of communicating with each other. That's why in "[[Flesh and Bone]]" he didn't call in the Marines to grab Sharon as soon as she left his lab; if he reveals one or two of the Cylons, while more are still at large, he is afraid that the others will then target him for assassination. More or less, Baltar's plan is to screen out as many people as he can to find all of the Cylons, and then reveal them in one fell swoop. Even if they don't possess a communications net they might just realize his Cylon detector works if one of their number like Boomer is revealed by the test; he wants them to think it doesn't really work. Alternatively, as it might take years to test the entire Fleet, Baltar would do what he will do later on in "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]"; find one Cylon, then interrogate it to find out who the other Cylons are, etc. For the moment, he is biding his time.
** This does not, however, account for Six's apparent ignorance of whether or not Ellen is a Cylon. If her question on this to Baltar was not purely rhetorical, and if she does not know, what does this say about her nature? At the very least, it would indicate that she is not privy to all that Baltar does and knows. This has implications for her precise nature, what activates her appearances, and what happens when she is dormant.

== Analysis ==
*Could Ellen Tigh be a Cylon? ''See [[Humanoid Cylon speculation#Ellen Tigh?|Humanoid Cylon speculation]]''.
**In light of her death in [[Exodus, Part II]], her likelihood of being a Cylon is all but ruled out unless she is a copy of one of the "Final Five" unseen models. The likely explanation is that she is just a very blatant red herring.
*Continuing from the previous episode, Caprica-Sharon now seems to be honestly trying to lead Helo away from the Cylons and truly escape.
*This is the first mention of the city of [[Delphi]] and Helo's hostile reaction to the news of its being used as a Cylon hub. Plausibly the emotional reaction is due to Delphi being a spiritual center for the Twelve Colonies.
*The test apparently takes 11 hours to generate results (although Boomer’s result in “Flesh and Bone” was obtained in far less time than this – "a couple of minutes", according to Baltar, and about 60 seconds of screen-time.)
**Baltar claims in [[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]] that he allowed Boomer to believe she was human "for [his] own purposes". Does he have the ability to determine other Cylon infiltrators in a much shorter timeframe than he chooses to admit in this episode? Perhaps he was just going through the math in his head - but then why the half-serious jokes about suicide as he contemplates the task?
*Perhaps a "positive" result with a real Cylon takes much less time, but it takes 11 hours to be definitely sure someone isn't a Cylon.
*Is it possible that the Cylon Raider is there to transmit instructions to other Cylons within the fleet? In [[Final Cut]], we see that they can receive messages from their agents.
**In a deleted scene, they mention that they noticed a high-frequency burst which could have been a Cylon within the fleet sending out a signal, but they couldn't track which ship it came from.

== Notes ==
*The script was originally called "Secrets and Lies". However, "'''Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down'''" is the official title for the episode, according to [[Ronald D. Moore]].
*It is 3 days since the events of "[[Flesh and Bone]]".
*There are now 47,905 survivors in the fleet, a loss of 49 since "Flesh and Bone". Compared to other casualty figures in the first season, this is unusually high for a three-day period.
**Are Boomer (tested last episode) and Baltar himself included in this figure?
*Colonel Tigh's drinking problem became drastically worse because of his wife's infidelity and their divorce.
*Billy’s relationship with Dualla is picking up, despite his attempts to pump her for information
*Baltar apparently has no intention of being honest about the results of his Cylon tests.
*''Galactica'' has a forward [[observation deck|observation lounge]] that has become a much sought-after trysting-place, with individuals and couples rotated through it at regular intervals.
*The Cylons have established a major base at [[Delphi]], another major city on Caprica.
*Helo curses the Cylons for choosing Delphi as their base.
*The opera music that Baltar is listening to in his lab while talking to and getting intimate with Number Six is titled "Battlestar Operatica", and was written and composed by [[Bear McCreary]]. It is sung in Italian, and directly relates to Baltar's situation. The lyrics translate: "Woe upon your Cylon heart / There's a toaster in your head/ And it wears high heels / Number Six calls to you / The Cylon Detector beckons / Your girlfriend is a toaster / Woe upon your Cylon heart / Alas, disgrace! Alas, sadness and misery! / The toaster has a pretty dress / Red like its glowing spine / Number Six whispers / By your command" (translation given in the liner notes for the Season 1 soundtrack, reposted [[Soundtrack (Season 1)#Lyrics and Translations|on this page]], with permission).
*[[Edward James Olmos]], who portrays [[William Adama]], also directed this episode. He was originally to direct "[[Flesh and Bone]]" but could not do so due to scheduling conflicts.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

* ''As Commamder Adama and Laura Roslin talk in the CIC:''

:<b>Commander Adama:</b> Madame President, we are the proud owners of the universe's first bona fide Cylon detector.
:<b>Laura Roslin:</b> Well, that is great news. So... when do we begin?
:<b>Commander Adama:</b> Doctor Baltar would like to start widespread testing as soon as possible, but there are some serious limitations, because he can only do one person at a time and verification takes hours.
:<b>Laura Roslin:</b> So, who's going to go first?
:<b>Commander Adama:</b> (thinking for a second) The test... right. I think people in sensitive positions should go first.
:<b>Laura Roslin:</b> I completely agree. How about you?
:<b>Commander Adama:</b> Excuse me?
:<b>Laura Roslin:</b> If you're a Cylon, I'd like to know.
:<b>Commander Adama:</b> If I'm a Cylon, you're really screwed.
:(Adama and Roslin both start laughing)
:<b>Laura Roslin:</b> Seriously, I do think you should go first. Show everyone in the fleet that they can trust the people at the top.
:<b>Commander Adama:</b> Well then, maybe YOU should go first. (silence) All right... I'll go first.

* ''As Commander Adama, Colonel Tigh, Ellen Tigh, Apollo, and Laura Roslin are eating dinner:''
:<b>Ellen Tigh:</b> So Bill, now the question on everyone's mind -- and, I do mean everyone -- is "Where's Earth?" and "When are we going to get there?"
:<b>Commander Adama:</b> Yeah... that's classified information.
:<b>Ellen Tigh:</b> Oh, there's that word again!
:<b>Colonel Tigh:</b> Ellen, leave the man alone.
:<b>Ellen Tigh:</b> Come on! If there aren't privileges to being an XO's wife, then what's the point? I mean, Bill, we're all family here, so come on!
:<b>Laura Roslin:</b> The need for secrecy is paramount, Ellen. Oh, I'm sorry. Perhaps you don't know that the Cylons look like us now.
:<b>Ellen Tigh:</b> Oh... that. Yes. Yes, I knew that.
:<b>Laura Roslin:</b> It's recent news. Most people just found out a few days ago.
:<b>Ellen Tigh:</b> (thinking) A thing like that would travel fast.
:<b>Commander Adama:</b> Any one of us could be a Cylon.
:(the entire table goes silent)
:<b>Ellen Tigh:</b> BOO!
:(everyone jumps in their seat, but Ellen and Saul start laughing)

== Official Statements ==

*"'Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down' was originally called 'Secrets and Lies', or 'Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down' by Jeff Vlaming. And when I saw those titles on the script, I knew we had to go with 'Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down'. It was too good. Too good a title to let lie on the cutting room floor." -- Ronald D. Moore [[podcast]]
*"'Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down' began life as a very different episode than it ultimately came out to be. It was originally going to be a riff on 'Crimson Tide'." -- Ronald D. Moore [[podcast]]
*"It did feel right that, perhaps, there was one place; that perhaps there was one area of the ship, which accepted a window or a port to look out and that it would be a fairly confined space for the crew on these very long, deep space missions that probably lasted months, if not years. And that there might be a place where they can go to and just stargaze. And in this situation, it seemed like there would be a lot of people lining up to try and look out at the stars, you know, a break from the monotony of staring at metal walls." -- Ronald D. Moore [[podcast]], talking about the observation area of the ''[[Galactica]]''
*"The long and the short of it was that we had just come out of a very heavy, very dark, very [[Flesh and Bone|disturbing episode]]. And the very next episode was supposed to be 'Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down' which was all about a very disturbing, very dark, very (sort of) unhappy episode where our two -- two of our lead characters started pointing guns at one another. So there came a point when I just decided, well, let's just punt. Let's not do the dark and brooding episode. Let's try a different tone. Let's see if the show can withstand something lighter. Let's try something that's closer to a comedy, or as close to a comedy as ''Galactica'' can withstand." -- Ronald D. Moore [[podcast]]

== Guest stars ==
*[[Michael Hogan]] as Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]
*[[Aaron Douglas]] as Chief [[Galen Tyrol]]
*[[Tahmoh Penikett]] as Lt. [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]
*[[Kandyse McClure]] as Petty Officer [[Anastasia Dualla]]
*[[Paul Campbell]] as [[Billy Keikeya]]
*[[Alessandro Juliani]] as Lt. [[Felix Gaeta]]
*[[Kate Vernon]] as [[Ellen Tigh]]
*[[Matthew Bennett]] as [[Aaron Doral]]
*[[Alex Green]] as Deckhand

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Flesh and Bone

2007-04-10T16:23:22Z

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{{Episode Data
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| season=1
| episode=8
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| writer=[[Toni Graphia]]
| story=
| director=[[Brad Turner]]
| production=108
| rating= 2.5
| US airdate=2005-02-25
| UK airdate=2004-12-06
| dvd= {{Season 1 NTSC DVD release date}} '''US'''<br/>{{Season 1 PAL DVD release date}} '''UK'''
| population= 47954
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| prev=[[Six Degrees of Separation]]
| next=[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down|Tigh Me Up,<br>Tigh Me Down]]
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== Overview ==

: ''When a copy of [[Leoben Conoy]] is captured aboard a civilian ship, [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]] orders he is to be interrogated, and [[Kara Thrace|Lieutenant Thrace]] is assigned the job. She finds herself facing the possibility that Conoy may have planted a bomb somewhere in the fleet.''

== Summary ==
* [[Laura Roslin]] has a [[Chamalla]]-induced dream in which she sees [[Leoben Conoy]]. She is awakened by [[Billy Keikeya|Billy]], who informs her, that a [[Cylon agent]] has been captured aboard the ''[[Gemenon Traveler]]''.
* The Cylon turns out to be Leoben Conoy, and while [[William Adama|Adama]] wants him destroyed, Roslin insists he is interrogated.
* [[Kara Thrace]] is assigned the interrogation task. Meeting with her, Adama warns her that Conoy cannot be trusted. Not that he lies, but rather he twists everything into half-truths and masks fiction with the veneer of truth.
* They briefly discuss the [[Cylon Raider]] Starbuck is still working on ([[You Can’t Go Home Again]], [[Six Degrees of Separation]]), and Starbuck informs him good progress is being made: the avionics are now understood, and they are focusing on the [[FTL]] systems.
* Later, [[Sharon Valerii]] visits the Raider for a second time (the first being in [[Six Degrees of Separation]]), and appears to comfort it by humming.
* [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] arrives, and she asks if her previous comments help. He confirms they did, and asks how she came up with the idea. She claims it’s because she’s a Cylon -- something Tyrol doesn’t find remotely funny.
* Elsewhere, Thrace travels by Raptor to the ''Gemenon Traveler''. Once there, she observes Conoy, noting that he is sweating, before she enters the room in which he is being held, wanting to know what he is doing with his head on the table.
* Conoy claims to have been praying. Their religious differences are immediately outlined as she refers to “gods”, he to “God”.
* When he starts playing games with her over names, she tries to walk out – and Conoy reveals he knows who she is, which stops her. He then claims to have hidden a nuclear warhead somewhere in the fleet, which will go off in just under nine hours.
* Shaken by the fact he knows her name, Starbuck reports the news on the bomb to Adama and Roslin. Adama orders [[Radiological Alarm|radiological]] searches to be made aboard all ships and tries to reassure Starbuck that Conoy could have learned her name from anywhere.
* When she returns to the holding area, Conoy continues to question her about her beliefs, outlining the key difference between humans and their religion and Cylons. A meal arrives for Starbuck and she eats, allowing Conoy to finish what is left.
* As he finishes the food, a systematic beating commences, Starbuck convinced that because he is programmed to act completely like a human, Conoy will be forced to react like a human, take the beating until the pain forces him to start talking.
* As this starts, Boomer visits [[Gaius Baltar]] in his lab and demands he runs a test on her to determine whether or not she is human. Baltar is reluctant to do so, but [[Number Six|Six]] prompts him into doing it.
* Conoy’s beating fails to get him to talk about the bomb, only to talk more about God. As the subject of water has formed a lot of his analogies, Starbuck opts to up the torture by using it, and sends the guards from the room.
* When they are gone, Conoy demonstrates his supernatural strength, breaking the chains that bind his wrists and pins Thrace to the wall. He could kill her, but he doesn’t – he has something to tell her, soon. A surprise.
* On ''Galactica'', Adama visits the cadaver of the Conoy he encountered at [[Ragnar Anchorage]] ([[Miniseries]]), his rage almost causing him to beat the body with a telephone handset.
* On the ''Traveler'', Starbuck commences sessions that involve holding Conoy’s head underwater for increasingly lengthy periods to try and get him to talk – convinced that he is too far from Cylon influence to transfer his consciousness to another body, should this one die.
* Conoy talks – about Starbucks’s childhood and upbringing, demonstrating he somehow knows a lot about her. The dunkings continue.
* Baltar finishes a scan on a blood sample from Boomer – it confirms she is a Cylon. Terrified of what will happen if he tells her, he fakes the result to look human.
* In her private quarters on ''[[Colonial One]]'', Roslin has another vision of Conoy, prompting her to order a shuttle to take her to the ''Gemenon Traveler''.
* On the ''Traveler'', Starbuck halts the water torture and Conoy reveals his surprise to her: the humans will find [[Kobol]], and Kobol will lead them to [[Earth]]. What’s more, Starbuck’s specific role is to deliver his soul to God.
* At that moment, Roslin arrives and puts a stop to the torture, as it has failed to reveal the location of the bomb.
* When Conoy has been cleaned up and dried off, she tries to reason with him, and he confesses there is no bomb; grabbing her, he whispers that Adama is a Cylon.
* Shocked by this, but her mind made up, Roslin has him ejected into space – fulfilling the sequence of events in her dream.
* Later, on the ''Galactica'', Starbuck prays for Conoy’s soul, while Roslin meets with Adama, Conoy's words clearly having cast doubts deep in her mind.

===On Caprica===
* After sleeping with [[Karl Agathon|Helo]], [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Valerii]] meets with [[Aaron Doral|Doral]] and [[Number Six|Six]] and informs them of developments.
* Doral informs her that a little love nest is being set-up nearby. Six adds that she must lead Helo to it and keep him there – or kill him.
* Reacting to the instructions, Valerii returns to Helo – and goes on the run with him, leading him away from her Cylon colleagues.

== Questions ==
* Why is Thrace given the job of interrogating Conoy? Why not another officer?
*Is Conoy's comment to [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] concerning [[Kobol]] meant personally - that ''she'' will find Kobol - or at least recognize it for what it really is? ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I|Answer]])
*How will Roslin react to Conoy's claim about Adama? She has already demonstrated a willingness to readily accept the worst about a person without proof (her reaction to [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar's]] situation in [[Six Degrees of Separation]]). ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down|Answer]])
*Why is love so vital to the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]? ([[The Farm|Answer]])
*Was [[Troy]] destroyed in an genuine accident, making it a convenient "cover" for the Cylons to create [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer's]] "history", or were they responsible for the destruction of the colony? (A moot question: [[Humanoid Cylon#Ron Moore elaborates on the twelve models|Sharon Valerii was never an actual human]])
*Other than [[silica pathways]] and the substance discovered by Gaius Baltar in the cremation process of the genetic material of a [[Humanoid Cylon]], are there any other major differences between them and humans? (See the [[humanoid Cylon]] article for details)
*Why does Roslin run towards [[Leoben Conoy]] and away from the [[marines]] in her dream? She already knows what he looks like from the press conference in [[Litmus]].
*Do Conoy and the Cylons truly possess powers of prophesy?
* With resources in the Fleet at a premium, why isn't Conoy stripped of his clothing and then jettisoned?

== Analysis ==
*Originally, many might have labeled ''Galactica''-Sharon the "Good" Sharon and Caprica-Sharon the "Bad" Sharon. However, actress Grace Park has repeatedly said she never viewed one or the other as good or bad, and in this episode Caprica-Sharon switches from helping the Cylons, to actually aiding Helo and switching to the Colonials' side. Meanwhile, by the end of Season 1 ''Galactica''-Sharon becomes an increasingly darker character.
*Boomer's memory of leaving Helo behind on Caprica (in the [[Miniseries]]) appears amongst the other Sharon's flashbacks in this episode, indicating that she possesses Boomer's memories up to that point. She later states that to be the case in "[[Scattered]]", "[[Home, Part II]]", "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]", and "[[Scar]]".

== Notes ==
*This episode takes place within 24 hours of those portrayed in "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]".
*Doctor [[Cottle]] has apparently been successful in his quest for Chamalla – Roslin is now using it in her fight against cancer.
*There are 47,954 survivors in the Fleet, presumably including ''Galactica''’s crew, as the figure has fluctuated between 45,000 and 50,000 over the past few weeks in rounded figures. This represents a net loss of 18 since "33", with doubtlessly uncertain census counts throughout the interim.
*Laura Roslin may have precognition, and / or Cylons may be psychic.
*Boomer believes her family were all killed – together with almost her entire past - in a “tragedy” that destroyed the colony of Troy.
*Baltar’s Cylon detector works. It takes "a couple of minutes" to process Boomer's sample.
*Baltar now knows Boomer is a Cylon.
*Leoben Conoy's execution via ejection from an airlock is relatively "unspectacular" compared to similar sequences in many Science Fiction films. Whether the decision not to show his death in a more gruesome fashion may owe as much to [[Wikipedia:Standards & Practices|Standards & Practices]] as it does to scientific accuracy, it is at least more in line with what is known about human physiology and hard vacuum.
*At the beginning of this episode, Boomer is humming a melody when she touched the captured Cylon raider. The melody is from a Korean children's song, 'The spring pool on the mountain'.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==
*''Conoy to Starbuck, towards the end of his interrogation, just before Roslin's arrival:''

:'''Conoy:''' Each of us plays a role; each time a different role. Maybe the last time I was the interrogator and you were the prisoner. The players change, the story remains the same. And this time – this time – your role is to deliver my soul unto God. Do it for me. It’s your destiny. And mine. (He pauses) And I told you I had a surprise for you. Are you ready? You are going to find [[Kobol]], birthplace of us all. Kobol will lead you to Earth. This is my gift to you, Kara.

== Official Statements ==



== Guest stars ==
*[[Michael Hogan]] as Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]
*[[Aaron Douglas]] as Chief [[Galen Tyrol]]
*[[Tahmoh Penikett]] as Lt. [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]
*[[Kandyse McClure]] as Petty Officer [[Anastasia Dualla]]
*[[Paul Campbell]] as [[Billy Keikeya]]
*[[Callum Keith Rennie]] as [[Leoben Conoy]]
*[[Matthew Bennett]] as [[Aaron Doral]]
*[[Christina Schild]] as [[Playa Palacios|Playa Kohn]]
*[[Eric Breker]] as Gemenon Traveller Captain
*[[Biski Gugushe]] as [[Sekou Hamilton]]

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[[Category:Episodes directed by Brad Turner]]
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[[es:De Carne y Hueso]]
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Six Degrees of Separation

2007-04-10T16:22:24Z

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| title=Six Degrees of Separation
| series=
| season=1
| episode=7
| guests=
| writer=[[Michael Angeli]]
| story=
| goof=Y
| director=[[Robert Young]]
| production=107
| rating= 2.2
| US airdate=2005-02-18
| UK airdate=2004-11-29
| dvd= {{Season 1 NTSC DVD release date}} '''US'''<br/>{{Season 1 PAL DVD release date}} '''UK'''
| population=
| prev=[[Litmus]]
| next=[[Flesh and Bone]]
}}

== Overview ==

: ''A copy of the Humanoid Cylon [[Number Six]], in the form of a woman who calls herself "[[Shelly Godfrey]]," physically arrives on ''[[Galactica]]'' and accuses [[Gaius Baltar]] of treachery.''

== Summary ==

* [[Gaius Baltar]] is mocking [[Number Six|Six's]] belief in God, which quickly escalates into an explosion of anger on his part -- and Six vanishes from his head.
* Called to [[CIC]], Baltar "finds" her there, and is confronted by [[William Adama|Adama]], who claims that "[[Shelly Godfrey|Miss Godfrey]]" has made some disturbing claims against Baltar.
* With a shock, Baltar comes to realise that "Miss Godfrey" is in fact a copy of Six, and that everyone can see her.
* "Miss Godfrey" then produces photographic evidence she claims will show Baltar planting a bomb in the [[Computers|Colonial Defense Mainframe]] on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] - a claim he strenuously denies.
* The image itself requires a full day of processing to reveal whether it does in fact show Baltar as "Godfrey" claims. Until that time, Adama suspends all work on Baltar's [[Cylon detector]] and places an embargo on Baltar leaving the ship -- something even [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] is unwilling to override.
* But Roslin herself is far from well -- during her call with Baltar, she collapses, causing a fleet-wide scare when [[Billy Keikeya|Billy]] orders the flight deck to make a fleet-wide broadcast requesting medical assistance. It transpires that Roslin has been overdoing her [[Chamalla|cancer medication]] - but the truth is hidden by a story that she has the 'flu.
* As [[Felix Gaeta]] works on enhancing the image, Baltar becomes more and more desperate for news - even following Gaeta into the head (lavatory) for news on his progress.
* Elsewhere, "Miss Godfrey" meets with Adama in private, and behaves in typical Six fashion - coming on to him.
* "Godfrey's" behavior prompts Adama to order a watch be kept on her movements on the ship.
*Elsewhere on ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] and [[Cally]] are analysing the captured Cylon Raider, using [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]]'s notes, but not making much progress, despite comments to the contrary to [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]], who isn't fooled.
* Tigh visits Starbuck in sickbay, and despite her efforts not to fall for his reverse psychology, he goads her into getting out of her cot and going to help Tyrol and his crew.
* [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]] arrives at the Raider, and after an awkward moment with Tyrol, suggests that they might make better progress if they treated the Raider more like an animal – a hunter – than a machine. Her behavior with the Raider, stroking it as she speaks, spooks Tyrol.
* During a meeting with Adama, at which he protests his innocence and tries to get Adama to make "Shelly Godfrey" to submit to a test with his Cylon detector, Baltar learns that Adama plans to have the detector dismantled if the photographic evidence points to Baltar's guilt.
* During his conversation with Adama, he continues to search the house in his mind, trying to find "his" Six.
* Driven to extreme measures as the time required to enhance the image draws to a close, Baltar sets off a fire alarm as a distraction, breaks into the lab where Gaeta has been working and tries to destroy the evidence as it does indeed reveal his face - only to be stopped by Adama and arrested.
* Down on the [[hangar deck]], Kara Thrace joins [[Lee Adama]], Tyrol and Cally in their investigations of the Raider - even to the extent of climbing inside the craft despite her leg injury ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]).
* In the [[brig]], Baltar is visited by Roslin, whom he believes has come to oversee his release. Instead, she is uncharacteristically vindictive, stating she ''knew'' he was a traitor.
* In the pilots' locker room, a tired-seeming Boomer opens her locker door only to find that the word CYLON has been written in yellow on the mirror on the other side. She desperately rubs it off with her hands, declaring that it's not true.
* As a result of Roslin's visit, Baltar finally sees his only way out is to do what Six has been urging him to do: give himself over to God's will. He gets down on his knees and starts praying.
* He repeats his prayer several times, and suddenly "Six" is beside him once more, telling him everything will be all right.
* Gaeta enters the brig and throws Baltar into a wild panic: he is convinced he is about to be summarily executed.
* Calming Baltar, Gaeta tells Baltar he is a free man - the photographs delivered by "Shelly Godfrey" have proven to be fakes.
* As Baltar is released, Adama learns that "Shelly Godfrey" has literally vanished, her watchers reporting she turned a corner in a corridor, and when they got to it, she had simply disappeared.
* On ''[[Colonial One]]'', Roslin holds a press conference publicly exonerating Baltar.
* While acknowledging the act, Baltar meets with Six in his fantasy world, and she points out that he is now next to invincible: he's been through a trial by fire, and no-one would dare accuse him of acting against [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]] again. She then starts stripping as she climbs the stairs to the bedroom.
* Following her, Baltar can't help asking her one question: was "Shelly Godfrey" ever really "here"? Her response is a coy smile.

=== On Caprica: ===
* [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] and [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Valerii]] are on the run from [[Cylon]] [[Centurion|Centurions]].
* As they camp out for the night, Helo confesses he couldn't bear to see anything happen to her.
* Hiding a smile of victory, Valerii silences Helo's words with a kiss, and as a thunderstorm threatens, they make love.

== Questions ==
*Is Baltar's Six in communication with her "sisters" in the Fleet? ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I|Probable Answer]])
*Where did "Shelly Godfrey" go after her "disappearance"?
*If she is still on ''Galactica'', is Boomer unwittingly helping her?
*Will Baltar forgive Roslin for her condemnation of him? ([[The Captain's Hand|Answer]])
*Even if he completes his Cylon detector, will any results it gives be trustworthy? ([[Flesh and Bone|Answer]])
*What is the range of actions in Baltar's fantasy world that are translated over into the real world?
*Who wrote "CYLON" on Boomer's locker mirror? Could it have been Ms. Godfrey, a suspicious human crewmember, or Boomer herself?

== Analysis ==
*"Shelly Godfrey" herself is the clearest indication yet that Baltar's Six is not only an implant in Baltar's head - but that "she" is in direct contact with other Cylons scattered within the fleet, and they are working in concert with one another in order to fully subvert Baltar to their will. The idea that "Shelly Godfrey" is a Humanoid Cylon working to prevent Baltar from finalising his Cylon detector would make her arrival on the Galactica at the precise moment Six vanishes from Baltar’s head push coincidence to the limits of credibility.

== Notes ==
*A week has passed since "[[Litmus]]".
*Boomer is accidentally revealing more and more of her Cylon nature.
*Helo has passed another test on Caprica; he’s now sexually active with Valerii.
*Gaeta admires Baltar and may be his one true friend on ''Galactica''.
*Baltar appears very close to completing his Cylon detector.
*Cylon Raiders may well be purpose-bred, semi-intelligent bio-machines.
*The Colonials use QWERTY keyboards.
*According to the "[[Battlestar Galactica: The Story So Far|The Story So Far]]" special, which summarizes the first two seasons, it was another crewmember who wrote "Cylon" on Boomer's mirror. However this has not been stated by any other source.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

*''Baltar to Adama, confronting the accusation that he may be a traitor:''
:'''Baltar''': And I don’t like being accused of participating in the genocide of the human race based solely on the word of a woman whom I have already indicated to you may well be a Cylon agent...I did not conspire with the Cylons. I’m an innocent man who is being convicted in the court of public opinion without trial.

*''In sick bay, [[Kara Thrace]] is about to start walking after recovering from her knee injury, sustained in [[You Can't Go Home Again]]:''
:'''Lee''': C'mon Starbuck, you can do it.<br/>
:(Kara gets out of bed, using it as a support.)<br/>
:'''Lee''' (mockingly): Ah, that smarts. (walks over to Kara on crutches) That smarts. But I. Don't. Care.<br/>
:'''Kara''': You don't care?<br/>
:'''Lee''': I don't care. Because your pain is my entertainment. (hands crutches over to Kara) Your Crutches of Death, sir. Use them wisely.<br/>
:'''Kara''': Shut up.<br/>
:'''Doctor [[Cottle]]''': It's going to hurt like hell, but it's supposed to.<br/>
:'''Kara''': (wryly) Thanks doc.<br/>
:(Kara starts out, slowly)<br/>
:'''Lee''': No pain, no gain. No cliché left unturned as, as Kara Thrace returns to the world of the walking. Can she do it or will she fall on her ass?<br/>
:'''Kara''': I swear to the Gods that I'm going to beat the crap out of both of you as soon as I get better... (pauses, retreats) No, I can't.<br/>
:'''Lee''': Yes you can. You did it.<br/>
:'''Kara''': No I can't. I can't. I can't.<br/>
:'''Cottle''': You're not going to get better lying on your back.<br/>
:'''Kara''': (getting on the bed) Oh, frak off.<br/>
:'''Lee''': We'll just take a break for five minutes.<br/>
:'''Kara''': I don't want to do it again. I want a pill. Now. Please.<br/>
:'''Cottle''': Sorry, but we're weaning you off the magic pills starting today. Besides, I need them for myself. (ambles off)

== Official Statements ==



== Guest stars ==
*[[Michael Hogan]] as Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]
*[[Aaron Douglas]] as Chief [[Galen Tyrol]]
*[[Tahmoh Penikett]] as Lt. [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]
*[[Kandyse McClure]] as Petty Officer [[Anastasia Dualla]]
*[[Paul Campbell]] as [[Billy Keikeya]]
*[[Alessandro Juliani]] as Lt. [[Felix Gaeta]]
*[[Tricia Helfer]] as [[Shelly Godfrey]]
*[[Donnelly Rhodes]] as Dr. [[Cottle]]
*[[Nicki Clyne]] as Specialist [[Cally Tyrol|Cally Henderson]]
*[[Christina Schild]] as [[Playa Palacios]]
*[[Biski Gugushe]] as [[Sekou Hamilton|Journalist Eick]]

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[[Category:Episodes directed by Robert Young]]
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Litmus

2007-04-10T16:20:57Z

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{{Episode Data
| image =Litmus3.jpg
| title=Litmus
| series=
| season=1
| episode=6
| guests=
| writer=[[Jeff Vlaming]]
| story=
| director=[[Rod Hardy]]
| production=106
| rating= 2.5
| US airdate=2005-02-11
| UK airdate=2004-11-22
| dvd= {{Season 1 NTSC DVD release date}} '''US'''<br/>{{Season 1 PAL DVD release date}} '''UK'''
| population=
| prev=[[You Can't Go Home Again]]
| next=[[Six Degrees of Separation]]
}}

== Overview ==
:''When [[Aaron Doral]] turns up on ''[[Galactica]]'' and detonates a device made from the ship's own munitions, [[William Adama|Adama]] orders a full investigation - and [[Galen Tyrol]]'s relationship with [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Boomer]] becomes the focus of the investigation.''

== Summary ==

* A group of civilians board ''[[Galactica]]''. As they make their way through the ship, one of them slips away to make his way through the ship on his own.
* Elsewhere, [[Galen Tyrol|Chief Tyrol]] secretly meets with [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Boomer]] after their relationship had been forbidden by [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]] ([[You Can’t Go Home Again]]) – they meet in the inspection space above the refurbished water tanks.
* The visitor to ''Galactica'' is seen and recognised by Tigh, who calls security. At the same time, he is seen and challenged by Commander [[William Adama|Adama]].
* Turning to face them, the visitor turns to reveal himself as a copy of [[Aaron Doral]] – suspected Cylon ([[Miniseries]]) – who has a bomb strapped to his chest, which he detonates – almost killing Adama and Tigh.
* With three people killed in the blast, Adama orders an investigation into how Doral got aboard and accessed ''Galactica’s'' munitions store, and places his [[Master-at-Arms]], Sergeant [[Hadrian]], in charge of what becomes a public inquiry.
* Interviewing [[hangar deck]] personnel, including [[Cally]] and [[Socinus]], Sergeant [[Hadrian]] latches on to the fact that she is given three different locations for Tyrol’s whereabouts during the time when Doral came aboard the ship, as the time coincides with the time Tyrol was meeting Boomer.
* At the same time, [[Laura Roslin]] holds a press conference, revealing the truth about [[Humanoid Cylon]]s and releasing pictures of Doral and [[Leoben Conoy]]. The news is greeted with a stunned reaction throughout [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]].
* As a result of her investigations, Hadrian brings both Boomer and Tyrol before the board of inquiry for questioning.
* Boomer is questioned first – specifically about her relationship with Tyrol, which she claims has stopped on the orders of the [[XO]].
* Hadrian then focuses on Tyrol and his whereabouts at the time of the bombing, and Boomer claims she has no idea.
* Putting Tyrol on the stand, Hadrian focuses her questions around a hatchway that was left open – a hatchway he should have ensured was closed, and which lead directly to the small arms locker where the explosives had been stolen, and to which he had the access code.
* In response, Tyrol points out that several people have the access code to the locker – including Hadrian herself, who is also responsible for internal security aboard the ship.
* Hadrian challenges Tyrol as to whether Boomer may have left the hatch open. Remembering their meeting, in which she stated she had used the hatchway to avoid being seen on her way to him, Tyrol lies and states he has no idea.
* He is then challenged to explain why his claim to have been in his bunk at the time of the bombing is disputed by three of his own crew, who put him in different places, doing different things at the time Doral was aboard.
* When Hadrian accuses him of being a Cylon collaborator, Tyrol refuses to answer, citing his right to not self-incriminate himself under the [[Articles_of_Colonization|23rd Article of Colonization]].
* Specialist Socinus is next on the stand, and when he realizes his original statement has landed Tyrol in trouble, he changes his story: he actually left his post and went to the galley for food, using the companionway and hatch in question to get there.
* When challenged about the hatch, he admits he was the one who left it open, thus accidentally providing the Cylon with the means to get to the explosives.
* Hadrian still tries to involve Tyrol, demanding to know if he ordered Socinus to leave the hatch open. Socinus won’t be moved: he left the hatch open .
* In sickbay, [[Gaius Baltar]] visits [[Kara Thrace]], hoping to rekindle the attraction of their first card game ("[[Water]]"). She, however, is not in the mood. To get rid of him, she asks him about the bombing and whether he felt the Cylon was after his [[Cylon detector|super secret project]], which is located close to where the bomb went off.
* This scares Baltar to the point where he leaves Thrace alone, demanding to know from [[Number Six|Six]] as to why the Cylons are trying to kill him when he’s following her orders.
* Six points out the Cylon were probably after the detector – and that anyway, the Cylons don’t know about her and Baltar.
* With Socinus apparently the guilty party, Adama discusses the outcome of the inquiry with Roslin – when he is called before the board himself, where Hadrian comes close to building a picture of conspiracy rising all the way to Adama.
* Realizing things are out of hand, Adama calls a halt to things, confining Hadrian to her quarters and disbanding the board of inquiry.
* Roslin holds a second conference, issuing Socinus’ name and stating he has been removed from duty and placed in the brig for dereliction of duty.
* Hearing this, Tyrol goes to Adama to try and secure Socinus’ release. Instead, he is confronted by the truth: as a result of his unauthorized tryst with Boomer, he has created a poor example of leadership and can’t actually say where Socinus was or what he was doing. Socinus will remain in the brig.
* As a result, Tyrol meets with Boomer and ends their relationship. He then asks her if she left the suspect hatchway open the last time they met. She refuses to answer.

===On Caprica===
* [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] sets out to find his missing [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Sharon Valerii]].
* As a result of his decision, [[Number Six|Six]] gives Valerii a vicious beating to feign a fight with Cylons once he "finds" her.
* Helo later discovers a lone [[Cylon Centurion]] dragging a bound and apparently unconscious Valerii, whom he rescues.

== Questions ==
*Was Baltar's lab really Doral's intended target?
*If Baltar's lab wasn't the target, where was Doral heading??
*Why did Hadrian fixate on the Tyrol / Boomer relationship? This line of questioning was distinct from her attempts to expose Tyrol as a "Cylon conspirator."
*Will the "outing" of Doral and Conoy really make Cylon activities within the Fleet that much more difficult? What of Six? Will it mean we'll see other models swing into action? ([[Flesh and Bone|Answer]])
*Why is the concept of love so important to the Cylons? ([[The Farm|Answer]])

== Analysis ==
*According to [[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]], "Litmus" is a "cost saving episode", a pattern which happens several times on genre shows: the season premiere ([[33]]) is intentionally given a larger share of the special effects budget to try to attract new fans, but to balance this out an episode later in the season must involve little or no new special effects or new sets. Often these episodes are "filler", but "Litmus" strongly contributes to the ongoing storylines in the series and seems to have avoided these potential problems.
*This episode features the minor characters on the deck crew to a large degree, giving them scenes with actual substance. Their reactions show how the common people in the fleet are affected by the decisions of people at the "top", Roslin and Adama. Rather than being "redshirts" who do not appear again, these characters will continue to reappear throughout the season, demonstrating how the series features a large ensemble cast, and given time even many tertiary characters become fully fleshed out.

== Notes ==

*Some 24 hours have passed since the events of "[[You Can’t Go Home Again]]".
*There was at least one additional Doral in the Fleet.
*Underground activities are beginning to take place on ''Galactica'' – as shown by the creation of the still.
*Baltar’s Six claims not to be in contact with other Cylons in the fleet, but it is far from clear as to whether she is speaking the truth.
*Adama’s father was a civil liberties lawyer on Caprica.
*Adama has a hobby: constructing large models of sailing vessels.
*Baltar is now actively working on his [[Cylon detector]].
*Civilians routinely pass through ''Galactica''.
*Cultural oddity: when Adama sets down his glasses, a volume of the ''Reader's Digest Condensed Books'' series is clearly identifiable, including the ''Reader's Digest'' logo.
*Number Six intimidates Baltar with the line, "Don't make me angry, Gaius. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry." This is a possible play on the classic Bill Bixby line from the pilot episode of the ''Incredible Hulk''. The line is partially repeated in flashback in [[Six Degrees of Separation]] and again in [[Collaborators]] by Adama.
*The building seen prominently in the background of the first shots of the Caprican city can be clearly identified as a [[w:Scotiabank|ScotiaBank]] building in downtown Vancouver.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

*''Adama, to Sergeant Hadrian and her Board of Inquiry:''
:'''Adama''': You’ve lost your way, Sergeant. You’ve lost sight of the purpose of the law: to protect its citizens, not persecute them. Whatever we are, whatever’s left of us – we’re better than that. Now these proceedings are closed. You’ll be transported back to your ships and we appreciate your help.<br>
:'''Board Chair''': This is an independent board. You have no power to close our inquiries.<br>
:'''Adama''': This is a witch-hunt. I will not have it aboard my ship.

*''Adama to Tyrol, after Socinus has been incarcerated:''
:'''Adama''': What I can’t do is I can’t let someone who wears this uniform get up on the witness stand and lie under oath. And that’s what your man did. He either lied the first time or he lied the second time. And it doesn’t matter. He’s guilty, and he’ll pay the price. You? You’ll pay a different price. You’ll have to walk out on that hangar every day knowing that one of your men is in the brig because you couldn’t keep your fly zipped. You are the most experienced non-commissioned officer we have left. You keep my planes flying. I need my planes to fly.

== Official Statements ==

* ''"Major question: it looks like discipline hasn't really improved on the ship in the first few episodes. In some ways, it's getting worse. Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] didn't help matters at all in "Litmus" when he essentially declared himself to be above the law. "''

:Security and discipline are definitely problems on ''[[Galactica]]'' and they're not going away. The ship was far from the best of the best at the time of its retirement and the people on board weren't either. The discipline was lax and many procedures had been allowed to fall by the wayside. Now, this ship and its crew are forced to operate far above what they considered to be the norm and it's not an easy transition for any of them.

:This was a deliberate creative choice. It's one thing for the finest ship, with the finest crew to deal with the end of the world and a long flight from a relentless enemy, it's quite another when you were just a bunch of people trying to get by. I find it a more challenging and interesting environment to tell stories in and I find these people more heroic in their actions just by the nature of the obstacles they have to overcome in their day to day existence. {{from_RDM_blog}}

== Guest stars ==
*[[Michael Hogan]] as Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]
*[[Aaron Douglas]] as Chief [[Galen Tyrol]]
*[[Tahmoh Penikett]] as Lt. [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]
*[[Paul Campbell]] as [[Billy Keikeya]]
*[[Samuel Witwer]] as [[Crashdown]]
*[[Donnelly Rhodes]] as Dr. [[Cottle]]
*[[Jill Teed]] as Sergeant [[Hadrian]]
*[[Dominic Zamprogna]] as [[James Lyman|James "Jammer" Lyman]]
*[[Alonso Oyarzun]] as Specialist [[Socinus]]
*[[Nicki Clyne]] as Specialist [[Cally Tyrol|Cally Henderson]]
*[[Bodie Olmos]] as Lt. [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]]
*[[Matthew Bennett]] as [[Aaron Doral]]
*[[Christina Schild]] as [[Playa Palacios|Playa Kohn]]
*[[Raahul Singh]] as [[Kimmit]]
*[[Shaw Madson]] as Marine Corporal
*[[Nimet Kanji]] as [[Candace Myson]]
*[[Biski Gugushe]] as [[Sekou Hamilton]]
*[[Morris Chapdelaine]] as Reporter #2

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[[Category:Episodes directed by Rod Hardy]]
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You Can't Go Home Again

2007-04-10T16:19:40Z

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{{Episode Data
| image =Starbuck_cant_come_home.jpg
| title=You Can't Go Home Again
| series=
| season=1
| episode=5
| guests=
| writer=[[Carla Robinson]]
| story=
| director=[[Sergio Mimica-Gezzan]]
| production=105
| rating= 2.5
| US airdate=2005-02-04
| UK airdate=2004-11-15
| dvd= {{Season 1 NTSC DVD release date}} '''US'''<br/>{{Season 1 PAL DVD release date}} '''UK'''
| population= 47954
| oldpopulation= 47958
| prev=[[Act of Contrition]]
| next=[[Litmus]]
}}

== Overview ==

: ''Continuing from the events of "[[Act of Contrition]]", Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] and Captain [[Lee Adama]] risk the security of [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]] as they try to locate a downed Starbuck...''

== Summary ==

* [[Kara Thrace]] is missing following a dogfight with [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raiders]] ([[Act of Contrition]]). While he was forced out of the fight, [[Brendan Costanza|Hot Dog]] is convinced her [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] was not destroyed.
* [[William Adama|Adama]] immediately orders a search started, and [[Lee Adama]] leads it in a Viper.
* On the surface of a small moon, Starbuck awakes to find herself being dragged by a strong wind catching her parachute. Before she can cut herself free of the parachute lines, which have tangled about her legs, she is dragged a considerable distance, smashing her knee in the process.
* When the initial space search fails to locate Starbuck’s Viper, [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]] suggests she may be on a [[Red Moon|moon orbiting the gas giant]]. Adama orders a low-level search of the moon’s surface. At the same time he accepts an offer from [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] to have the ships of the Fleet continue the space search. Lt. Gaeta calculates that Starbuck has around 46 hours of air left in her oxygen tanks.
* [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] is worried that if they remain in the area too much longer, the Cylons might find them.
* Aware she is probably being searched for, Starbuck determines to try and make her way to high ground, where she stands a better chance of being seen. Along the way, she asks the [[Lords of Kobol]] for help, and comes across a downed [[Cylon Raider]] from the confrontation leading to her crash.
* As the search of the moon continues, the dust-laden atmosphere begins to have its effect on the ''[[Galactica|Galactica’s]]'' Vipers: 13 are grounded due to mechanical problems. The constantly flying is causing other problems: ''Galactica’s'' fuel reserves for her fighters are being used at an alarming rate.
* Tigh also points out that the Fleet is now spread right across the star system, leaving it vulnerable to attack should the Cylons show up.
* On the moon, Starbuck is determined to make the Raider space-worthy, and sets about accessing it – only to find it is bio-mechanical: inside the vehicle is a mass of organs, veins and tubes.
* As time passes, Adama and Lee further risks the Fleet by pulling in the [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]] Vipers to assist with the search.
* When the timer in the [[CIC]] indicates Starbuck’s air has (presumably) expired, Adama continues the search, relieving Tigh of his duties when he challenges the order.
* With her air supply all but gone, Starbuck manages to find an oxygen supply hose in the Raider and seals the insides of the vehicle so she can breathe. She then sets out trying to work out how the Raider flies.
* As Lee and Adama continue to monitor the search of the moon, Roslin arrives on ''Galactica''. Determined to put a stop to things, she challenges both Adama and Lee concerning their single-mindedness and the way it is putting the survival of the fleet and mankind at risk.
* Realising they have perhaps gone too far, Adama calls off the search and orders the Fleet readied to [[FTL|jump]].
* With the Fleet successfully away, ''Galactica'' is about to Jump herself when a Cylon Raider appears. Vipers are prepped for launch, however a malfunction with ''Galactica'''s launch tubes allows only Capt. Adama's Viper to launch.
* Making contact with the Raider, Lee discovers the truth – Starbuck is piloting the Raider; she used tape to write her name on the bottom of the Raider and flew formation with Lee's Viper. He escorts her back to ''Galactica'', where she lands and is taken to [[sickbay]].
* Visiting her in sickbay later, Adama congratulates her on her performance – an indirect way of letting her know she is forgiven for Zak.

===On Caprica===
* [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] and [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Valerii]] are still hiding in the “fallout shelter”, but Helo determines they must move on.
* [[Cylon Centurion]]s arrive, apparently conducting a search. A fight ensues.
* Helo is knocked unconscious, and when he comes-to, Valerii is gone.

== Questions ==

*With almost 50% of fuel reserves gone, can ''Galactica'' obtain additional supplies to keep her Vipers flying? ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|Answer]])
*What use will be made of the captured Raider? ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I|Answer]])
*How many more Cylon spacecraft include biological elements in their design? ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|Answer]])
*Will Helo now go in search of the “missing” Valerii? ([[Litmus|Answer]])
*Will he question why the Cylon Centurion left him unconscious in the restaurant, rather than taking him prisoner? ([[Colonial Day|Answer]])

== Analysis ==
*On Caprica, the Cylons have apparently stepped up their manipulations of Helo a notch: and they appear determine to test / increase his feelings for Valerii. "Love", and possibly "procreation" seems to be at the heart of their manipulations. The evidence for this comes from the last few episodes:
**<b>[[33]]</b>: Helo scans the airwaves, failing to find any other signals. Caprica-Sharon makes a comment about them being the only two people left on the planet, and the way she says it makes it hard to keep the words “Adam and Eve” from popping into one’s head – especially with all the other religious motifs that have surrounded our insight into Cylon aims (even if they are from "Six’s" perspective)
**<b>[[Act of Contrition]]</b>: As a result of the (clearly-planted) "radio broadcast", they come across a fully-equipped radiation shelter, which does not appear to have been used, and which is more than cozily set-up for a long duration stay for two people.
**<b>This episode</b>: When Helo suggests they pack up and leave the shelter, Sharon’s look is, for a moment, distinctly odd, and she challenges him with, "Unless you can think of a reason to stay here", which comes close to being sultry in its undertone. Helo takes this to mean remaining in the fallout shelter, which he refers to as "home". But they are in many ways already "home": on Caprica, and Valerii’s comment seems tilted in this regard – seeking if he has identified a reason to stay on Caprica (i.e. her). Disappointment is almost evident when he states they should move on
**<b>This episode</b>: No sooner is the decision made to move on than Cylon Centurions turn up. In the ensuing firefight the surviving Centurion only makes a half-hearted attempt to kill Helo, and does not confirm the kill, but simply shoots up the kitchen he's hiding in.
**<b>This episode</b>: When Helo comes-to, Caprica-Sharon is gone, and he’s no longer thinking about leaving the planet – he’s only concerned with what has happened to Sharon.
*That the attraction is there seems obvious, as evidenced by his embarrassment following Caprica-Sharon’s "spontaneous" hug when they first hear the radio broadcast ("33"). It is fair to say that Sharon’s disappearance is the first attempt to ratchet-up Helo’s feelings for her.
*During the fight in the restaurant, the Cylon Centurion clearly makes only a token attempt at killing Helo – although it is a pretty good effort in shooting up the kitchen as a whole. It seems a little odd that Helo doesn't wonder why it doesn't make sure it killed him. However, he is more concerned with finding Caprica-Sharon, and Helo has simply been given no outside reason to suspect that the Cylons want to keep him alive and that he is in an "experiment" of theirs. It must be remembered that viewers have a vantage point on the events of the series that Helo currently does not. However, as Season 1 progresses Helo ''does'' start to gradually suspect that something is amiss.
*This episode seems to suggest a subtile demarcation between Baltar's hallucinatory Number Six and the other Cylons. Previously, she has referred to them as "we" – implying she is still a part of them. Here she refers to the Cylons very much in the third person: "they". Is this indicative of a possible shift in her loyalties, that the Cylons truly are totally unaware of her presence, or is she simply manipulating Baltar?
*Are all Cylons bio-mechanical? Probably not, as Helo puts a shot straight through the head of a Cylon Centurion. Were there any organic matter to be contained therein, one would expect blood and/or gore to exit the wound. This does not appear to be the case.
*Did the Cylons develop bio-mechanical capabilities first in a basic form with the Raiders, before going on to develop the humanoid constructs?

== Notes ==
*[[Cylon Raider|Cylon Raiders]] are bio-mechanical in nature, and their biomass uses a breathable, oxygen-rich mix suitable for humans.
*[[Viper (RDM)|Vipers]] are atmospheric-capable - indeed, it appears they may have been regularly used in the atmospheres of Colonial worlds, given they are equipped with a parachute
*Vipers can be refueled in space (and presumably in relatively calm atmospheres).
* Starbuck's damaged [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] disintegrates around her upon re-entry, compelling her to eject. The [[Cylon Raider]] that she disables and forces down on the moon is, when she finds it, notably spaceworthy.
*Colonial [[flight suit]]s are capable of full life support, both planet-side (Starbuck) and in space ([[Brendan Costanza|Hot Dog]]). In the case of Vipers, the back section of the pilot’s seat appears in effect to be a life-support backpack that detaches from the rest of the seat following ejection.
*[[Raptor]] cabins can be depressurized and repressurized (Hot Dog’s rescue), adding to their versatility.
*[[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] has the same image that the pilots touch when leaving the Ready Room.
*Colonials play billiard pool.
*The messy, organic feel of inside the Raider was inspired by the ''[[wikipedia:Alien (film series)|Alien]]'' series, according to [[David Eick]] during the DVD commentary.
* A scene where [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] shaking off [[Lee Adama|Apollo]] in the [[Cylon Raider]] is remarkably similar to how [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]] and [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]] of the Original Series were waggling to not get shot down in a Cylon Raider in the episode [[The Hand of God (TOS)|The Hand of God]].
*Baltar is requisitioning something that requires the President’s authorization – the use of one of ''[[Galactica]]'s'' nuclear warheads for his research.
*[[William Adama]] is not above letting personal feelings rise above professional requirements.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

*''Kara to the crashed Cylon Raider:''

:'''Kara''': Are you... alive?

*''Kara upon entering the crashed Cylon Raider:''

:'''Kara''': You bite me, I'll bite you back

== Official Statements ==

* [[Bear McCreary]] discusses the "Cylon Theme" and its relation to this episode: "This theme was originally performed using pots, pans and [[toaster]]s for the metallic effects. It was composed before I had seen 'You Can't Go Home Again', which includes a scene where Helo battles centurions in a cafe kitchen and bullets ricochet off pots, pans and a toaster!"<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.bearmccreary.com/html/blog/blog013.htm|title=The Themes of Battlestar Galactica, Part II|date=10 November 2006|accessdate=25 November 2006|last=McCreary|first=Bear|format=blog|language=English}}</ref>

== Guest stars ==
*[[Michael Hogan]] as Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]
*[[Aaron Douglas]] as Chief [[Galen Tyrol]]
*[[Tahmoh Penikett]] as Lt. [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]
*[[Kandyse McClure]] as Petty Officer [[Anastasia Dualla]]
*[[Paul Campbell]] as [[Billy Keikeya]]
*[[Alessandro Juliani]] as Lt. [[Felix Gaeta]]
*[[Samuel Witwer]] as [[Crashdown]]
*[[Donnelly Rhodes]] as Dr. [[Cottle]]
*[[Alonso Oyarzun]] as Specialist [[Socinus]]
*[[Bodie Olmos]] as [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]]

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[[de:Kein Weg zurück]]
[[es:No Puedes Regresar a Casa]]
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Act of Contrition

2007-04-10T16:18:46Z

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{{Episode Data
| image =bsg-1-04.jpg
| title=Act of Contrition
| series=
| season=1
| episode=4
| guests=
| writer=[[Bradley Thompson]] <br/> [[David Weddle]]
| story=
| director=[[Rod Hardy]]
| production=104
| rating= 2.5
| US airdate=2005-01-28
| UK airdate=2004-11-08
| dvd= {{Season 1 NTSC DVD release date}} '''US'''<br/>{{Season 1 PAL DVD release date}} '''UK'''
| population= 47958
| oldpopulation= 47958
| prev=[[Bastille Day]]
| next=[[You Can't Go Home Again]]
}}

== Overview ==

:''When several [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilots are killed in a freak accident, [[William Adama|Adama]] turns to [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] for help - but her involvement in the aftermath of the accident and in training new pilots causes the truth surrounding [[Zak Adama]]'s death to finally surface.''

== Summary ==

=== On ''Galactica'' ===
* It is [[Dwight Saunders|Dwight “Flat Top” Saunder’s]] 1,000th deck landing, which brings ''Galactica’s'' pilots down to the [[hangar deck]] to celebrate.
* As the celebrations continue, a [[communication drone]] stowed on the hangar deck breaks loose from its restraints, falling to the deck and igniting its motor. The drone flies across the hangar, smashing into the celebrating pilots where it explodes, killing Flat Top and twelve others and putting seven more in [[sickbay]].
* As the surviving pilots prepare for a memorial service for their fallen comrades, [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] has flashbacks to her first meeting with [[William Adama]], following the death of his son, [[Zak Adama|Zak]].
* During the memorial service itself, she, [[Lee Adama]] and Bill Adama all have flashbacks – to Zak Adama’s funeral and (in Thrace's case) to her telling Zak he has qualified as a [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilot.
* Following the service, Commander Adama asks Thrace to oversee the training of any new pilots they can find in the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]].
* Thrace is initially hesitant, and the Commander guesses the cause is Zak's accident. He reassures her that his son’s death was not her fault – which causes Thrace to remember her admission to Lee Adama: that she passed Zak Adama through his basic training when he had in fact failed ([[Miniseries]]).
* She reluctantly accepts the duty, but memories of Zak Adama continue to haunt her as she plays cards with [[Gaius Baltar]], oblivious to a conversation that takes place between [[Crashdown]] and [[Felix Gaeta]] concerning Baltar’s [[Cylon detector]] – a conversation that leaves [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Boomer]] very uncomfortable.
* Elsewhere on ''Galactica'', President [[Laura Roslin]] is examined by the ship’s medical officer, Doctor [[Cottle]]. His diagnosis is not good: her cancer is inoperable. Roslin decides that she wants to try alternative therapy using [[Chamalla]] extract – something with entirely unproven effectiveness.
* Later, Thrace meets her first batch of recruits. They are all pilots – but none have ever flown a [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]]. With [[Computers#Colonial Fleet Computers|no simulators]] aboard ''Galactica'', the newbies – [[nugget]]s – are thrown straight into the cockpit of the real thing.
* Their performance during their first training flight is hardly stellar, and Thrace is uncompromisingly hard on the first batch of recruits, washing them all out.
* Captain Adama confronts her on her decision, and realizes it is caused more by guilt about Zak Adama than on the ability of the trainees. When she refuses to reinstate the trainees, he takes the matter up with Commander Adama.
* Commander Adama initially supports Thrace's decision, but a misunderstanding between him and Lee Adama causes him to meet with Thrace to discuss Zak’s death.
* When Starbuck tries to dodge the issue, Adama pins her down, and she admits the truth: Zak botched his final training flights, but she passed him because she was in love with him and they were engaged – but Zak really wasn’t the right material for flying Vipers.
* Angered and hurt, Adama orders her to reinstate the trainees and to get out of his cabin.
* Starbuck leads a handful of the trainees on a training flight, only to have a group of [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raiders]] show up.
* In the ensuing dogfight, Starbuck takes care of the Raiders (with [[Brendan Costanza|Hot Dog's]] aid), but her Viper is damaged after dispatching (but not destroying) the last Raider, losing first her transponder and then complete flight control. Her Viper goes into a flat spin as her Viper and the last dead Raider fall into the gravity well of a [[Red Moon|nearby moon]]. The moon's thin atmosphere tears the uncontrollable Viper apart, forcing her to eject.

===On [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]]===
* [[Karl Agathon]] and [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Sharon Valerii]] are tracking the source of the signal they previously picked up out in the woods ([[Water]]).
* The signal leads them to a restaurant in the city, which has a radiation shelter under it, stocked with everything they need to survive — water, food, blankets — even [[anti-radiation medication]].
* Their arrival at the restaurant is observed by a copy of [[Number Six|Six]].

== Questions ==
*Why does ''Galactica''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s doctor, Major [[Cottle]], ''smoke'', knowing full well the medical implications of cigarette smoking? ([[#Official Statements|Answer]])

== Analysis ==
*This episode emphasizes many of the [[Naturalistic science fiction|goals set at the series' creation]] to make a sci-fi series that is grounded in realism. The logistical limitations on the Fleet are readily apparent: this episode highlights how difficult it is for ''Galactica'' to train new combat-ready pilots, as there are no reserve pilots and civilians with little or no prior flying experience are all that they have to work with.
*Further, this episode shows that sometimes accidents simply happen on a battlestar: this is not a perfect, pristine in-story universe but a worn, run-down real world. The accident on the flight deck occurred not through sabotage or some sort of [[technobabble]] space anomaly, but simply because an old piece of equipment wore out.
*The realism highlighted by this episode is again apparent in the climactic scene between Starbuck and Commander Adama, in which she reveals that she was responsible for his son's death. The dramatic situation it focused on is not centered around some sci-fi concept, but the interactions between people which could have occurred on present-day Earth. If the script for this episode were ported onto another series set on a modern-day Navy aircraft carrier, there would be few if any changes to it; it is a drama script, which happens to be set in space, which was one of the goals of the series.

== Notes ==

*It is 48 hours since the prisoner uprising on the ''Astral Queen''.
*Water replenishment ops are still underway.
*''Galactica'' has a remaining contingent of 40 Vipers on top of her 5 Raptors (revealed in "[[Water]]"), but now only has 21 combat-ready pilots and a further 8 newbie “nuggets.”
*Cylon Raiders have guns of an apparently similar nature to those mounted on Vipers.
*Zak and Starbuck were engaged, and that led to her passing him for flight duty.
*Adama's relationship with Starbuck is not as long-standing as the miniseries appeared to suggest: they have only served together for 2 years.
*Word is leaking out about Baltar's “Cylon detector.”
*Helo and Valerii still appear to be the only “people” left alive on Caprica. Neither seem in any hurry to get off the planet. (More humans are discovered in the second season episode, "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]])."
*Small inconsistency in set dressing: The books on the shelf that covers the fallout shelter's entrance are rectangular. The books in Adama's study however all have their [[Arts and Literature of the Twelve Colonies#Octagons|corners cut]].
*The Colonial military use what appear to be [[w:High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle|HumVees]] and [[w:Deuce and a half|Deuce-and-a-half]] trucks.
*While the Viper is burning on entry into the atmosphere, the Viper's [[Wikipedia:Altimeter|altimeter]] is going in reverse, indicating altitude ''gain''.
*[[Ron D. Moore]] states on the DVD commentary that the munition activation that kills several pilots was inspired by a similar event on the [[wikipedia:USS Forrestal (CVA-59)|USS ''Forrestal'']] in 1967.
*Also according to the DVD commentary, the ejection sequence at the beginning of each chapter is an homage to ''[[wikipedia:The Right Stuff|The Right Stuff]]''.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

*''In Adama's Cabin, with Thrace and Adama, discussing comments made earlier by Lee Adama:''
:'''Adama''': He said something else. That you might have been feeling guilty about something you did for Zak. What did you do for him?
:'''Thrace''': I don't know. You'd have to ask Lee.
:'''Adama''': I'm asking you.
:'''Thrace''': Well I don't kn- I, ah...I don't really know what he was talking about, so...
:'''Adama''': Don't fence with me, Kara. I love you like a daughter. I don't deserve that.
:'''Thrace''': Ummm...Zak...failed...basic flight. He wasn't a bad pilot, he just had no feel for flying...and, um, when it came to his final check ride he...busted...three of the test manoeuvres, and I should have flunked him, but I didn't. The bottom line is your...son...didn't have the chops to fly a Viper...and it killed him.
:'''Adama''': (following a flashback) You did it because you were engaged.
:'''Thrace''': (breaking down) Because I made a mistake...because I was just...I was so in love with him...and I let that get in the way of doing my job...and um, and he um, he just wanted it so much, and I...I didn't want to be the one who crushed him...
:'''Adama''': Reinstate the trainees to flight status.
:'''Thrace''': I will...but I just want you to understand...that I...
:'''Adama''': Do your job.
:'''Thrace''': Yes sir...
:'''Adama''': And walk out of this cabin...while you still can...

== Official Statements ==

* ''[[Ron D. Moore]] discusses [[Cottle]]'s smoking:''
*: '''Moore:''' Because smoking is cool. Don't let anyone tell you different, kid. [...] Seriously, we're showing people doing what people really do and not all of their choices are smart ones. We smoke, we drink, we have sex with the wrong partners -- we make lots of bad choices and some of them we do knowingly and in full cognizance of the risks and consequences. Dr. Cottle obviously knows the risks associated with smoking and he elects to do it anyway — that's his choice.<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/02/|title=Ron D. Moore blog entry|date=19 February 2005|accessdate=18 February 2007|last=Moore|first=Ron D.|format=|language=}}</ref>

* ''[[Bodie Olmos]] talks about his most challenging day on-set:''
*: '''Olmos:''' Interesting[ly] enough, probably the first episode I was in, "Act of Contrition". I was so excited, nervous and amazed that I was on the show. That for me was a rough day, let me tell you! I could hardly sit still and the day seemed so long. I just wanted to be good, and make sure I knew what this character was all about, which is very difficult. I think it evolves. One minute you may think he is like this but then you see that he actually believes something else. So I was definitely glad to make it through that one.<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.thescifiworld.net/interviews/bodie_olmos_01.htm|title=The SciFi World: Bodie Olmos interview|date=20 January 2007|accessdate=18 February 2007|last=Craddock|first=Lisa|format=|language=}}</ref>

== Guest stars ==
*[[Michael Hogan]] as Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]
*[[Aaron Douglas]] as Chief [[Galen Tyrol]]
*[[Tahmoh Penikett]] as Lt. [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]
*[[Kandyse McClure]] as Petty Officer [[Anastasia Dualla]]
*[[Paul Campbell]] as [[Billy Keikeya]]
*[[Alessandro Juliani]] as Lt. [[Felix Gaeta]]
*[[Samuel Witwer]] as [[Crashdown]]
*[[Lorena Gale]] as [[Elosha]]
*[[Donnelly Rhodes]] as Dr. [[Cottle]]
*[[Jill Teed]] as Sergeant [[Hadrian]]
*[[Tobias Mehler]] as [[Zak Adama]]
*[[Colby Johannson]] as Lt. [[Dwight Saunders|Dwight "Flat Top" Saunders]]
*[[Bill Meilen]] as Caprica Cleric
*[[Bodie Olmos]] as [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]]
*[[Lucianna Carro]] as [[Louanne Katraine|Louanne "Kat" Katraine]]
*[[Terry Chen]] as [[Perry|"Chuckles" Perry]]

==References==

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Water

2007-04-10T16:17:59Z

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== Overview ==

: '' ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' loses over 60% of her water reserves due to sabotage, forcing the [[Fleet]] into a crisis and Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] to seek a new supply.''

== Summary ==
* [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Boomer]] finds herself dripping wet in her [[flight suit]], sitting in an equipment room on the flight deck. She is disoriented, and upon opening a duffel bag containing her uniform, she discovers [[G-4|explosives]], complete with detonators.
* After drying and dressing herself, Boomer goes to a small-arms locker and finds that a further six detonators are missing, throwing her into a panic and seeking [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol’s]] help.
* [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] visits ''[[Galactica]]'' to thank the crew for their hard work in defending the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] following the recent events ([[33]]).
* Protocol is observed during her visit, with officers in dress uniform, etc. Roslin believes this is because [[William Adama|Adama]] is trying to make her look an idiot; [[Lee Adama]] informs her that his father ordered the reception out of respect for her position as President.
* The ''[[Virgon Express]]'' arrives alongside, ready to take on new water supplies. Adama explains to Roslin of ''Galactica's'' near-perfect water reclamation, and tanking ability for those ships that don’t have recycling facilities themselves.
* In the equipment locker, Tyrol and Boomer, on the verge of a breakdown, discuss the missing explosives. Tyrol promises he’ll see her through the situation, convinced someone is trying to frame her.
* As the water transfer operation commences, a series of explosions rip through ''Galactica'', rupturing her water tanks and spewing most of her massive reserves of potable water into space.
* An investigation of the explosion begins. Over 60% of ''Galactica’s'' reserves of water have been lost, leaving the Fleet with a critical shortage. Because of its recycling/storage capabilities, 16,000 people are dependent on ''Galactica'' for drinkable water.
* Pushed to give a reason for the loss of the water, Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]] presumes that the detonation of a nuclear warhead close to the water tanks ([[Miniseries]]) may have weakened the tanks, causing them to rupture.
* During his presentation to investigators, Tyrol admits sabotage was the cause of the explosions, revealing the fact that explosives had been taken from a small-arms locker, but covering for Valerii by saying it is unlikely they will discover who took the explosives as security throughout the ship has been lax, and recordkeeping patchy, at best.
* Adama orders [[Raptor]] flights to the nearest star systems in an attempt to find an alternative source of water.
* Reducing the number of people in the inquiry to senior command staff, Roslin and Baltar, Adama reveals the truth about the [[Humanoid Cylon|Humanoid Cylon]] threat, stating his belief that there is a Cylon infiltrator aboard ''Galactica''.
* [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] is quizzed about his progress on constructing a working [[Cylon detector]]. He makes various excuses for his lack of progress, all of which Adama discerns as Baltar's need for assistance on the project. Adama assigns Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]] to aid him.
* Following the meeting, Gaeta leaves with Baltar, unhappy about having someone “watching” him. He escapes Gaeta by joining one of [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck’s]] card games and ends up flirting with her.
* Boomer locates water, but has problems trying to report the find while her Cylon sleeper personality tries to detonate explosives she has strapped to her chair.
* Boomer finally makes the report, and she and [[Crashdown]] return to ''Galactica'' to be greeted as heroes.
* Boomer gets Tyrol to check her seat, where he finds the explosives. He later reveals to Boomer he has handed the explosives to the [[Master-at-Arms]], assuring her that this is good, as it puts the Master onto the same lines of investigation they are now pursuing.
* On ''[[Colonial One]]'', impressed at the way Lee Adama helped her through the pomp of her reception on ''Galactica'' at the start of the episode, Roslin asks Captain Adama to become a special advisor to her, to help her understand military jargon and protocol. She also tries to help him come to terms with the destruction of the ''[[Olympic Carrier]]'' ([[33]]), which has been plaguing his conscience.

===On Caprica===

* [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Valerii]] and [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] have returned to Valerii's [[Raptor]], to find it crawling with Cylon warriors.
* Deciding they cannot use it to escape [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]], they head off to "find another ship".
* Later that night, over a meal and [[Anti-radiation medication|anti-radiation shots]], they receive a coded transmission, Valerii prompting Helo into the idea that someone else - probably military - is still alive on the planet.

== Questions ==

*Is Boomer completely unaware of her "Cylon" personality, which apparently planted the explosives? ([[Resistance (episode)|Answer]])
*Why did a part of Boomer attempt to blow-up her Raptor when the water-bearing moon was found? Surely she must have been aware that had the Raptor been destroyed, a search and rescue mission would have been initiated, with a good probability that the water would have been discovered anyway?
*Is the radio message picked-up by Helo on Caprica genuine, or a Cylon fake, designed to keep him on the planet? ([[Act of Contrition|Answer]])
*Do the Colonials have food recycling capabilities to match their water recycling capabilities? ([[The Passage|possible answer]])
*Why do the Cylons want to keep Helo on Caprica? ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|Answer 1]], [[The Farm|Answer 2]])

== Analysis ==
*It has already been established that some Cylons may not even know they are Cylons until they are "activated" (as stated by Six in the Miniseries). "Water" sees a new wrinkle added: that the Cylon "personality" within a Humanoid Cylon can be active without the apparent knowledge of the "human" personality. Boomer's "waking up" scene and subsequent reactions demonstrate that her human persona has no idea of what is going on. Her confusion is genuine and complete, right down to the fact that she has lost track of time (wishing Cally a "good evening", only for Cally to tell her it is early morning).
*This leads to another question: why did Boomer “wake up” while still sopping wet and hiding in the equipment locker? If her Cylon personality wished to remain hidden, why did it not stay in control until she had dried herself off, stowed the duffel bag and the explosives and returned to her bunk? That she finds herself in such a state would tend to suggest that her Cylon personality is not in full control when conscious. Could it be that Valerii’s “programming” as a human is a little too strong, and that there is some kind of internal struggle going on inside her?
**Given the events in "[[Home, Part II]]" and other second season episodes, it may well be that the Valerii model is really "flawed" (as Number Six will later in season one say she feels) and can change its programming, or may not have full defenses against its human personality plant).
***If this is the case, then might the same conflict overcome her "sister" on Caprica? If so, there is potential for whatever the Cylons have in mind for Helo to go awry. ([[Flesh and Bone|Answer 1]], and [[The Farm|Answer 2]])
*As promised at the shows outset, basic logistics and supply issues are a major concern on the series that the characters have to address.
**Some viewers may think that 600-odd tons of food a week is a lot of consumables to have available and wonder where it all comes from. However, the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] comprises many ships, apparently including many supply ships with such supplies like the ''[[Gideon]]''.
**At the start of the episode, Adama mentions that with their water recycling capability, ''Galactica'' can go "at least a few years" without needing a fresh supply. However, when they lose "only" 60% of their water, this time period decreases dramatically to just "2 days." This decrease does not add up mathematically.
***While ''Galactica'' herself may be able to go almost indefinitely without replenishing her water supplies, the episode clearly stated that many of the other ships in the fleet rely on ''Galactica'' for resupply.
*The violent water ejection from ''Galactica'' is mostly accurate. Presuming that the water tanks on ''Galactica'' were under some pressure (Baltar's comment that a human could not withstand the pressures within the tank collaborate this), the water would leave the ship in the manner shown. Water in a vacuum and in the absolute cold of space will both freeze ''and'' boil. The resulting ice crystals will then quickly sublimate (attain a vapor state directly from a solid state). In the episode, the water appears to sublimate instantly ([http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/may98/894512887.As.r.html See source from NASA]).
*Water is an excellent [http://www.adl.gatech.edu/research/tff/radiation_shield.html radiation shield], in particular for neutron radiation, possibly explaining why the water tanks are placed on the outside of the hull.

== Notes ==

=== Episode Notes ===

*This is the only episode to date to feature the deck crew's white EVA suits.
*''Galactica'' has at least 5 Raptors on board.
*Colonials have an equivalent plastic explosive to C-4 (called [[G-4]]).
*The Cylons have stood down from their attacks in "[[33]]".
*[[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] states that only three Marines know that the Cylons look human. [[Crashdown]]'s comment to [[Sharon]] in "33" indicates that at least one of them is responsible for leaking this information to others.

=== Production Notes ===

*When Season 1 premiered in the United States, "[[33]]" and "Water" aired back-to-back as a two hour TV event. This was also the case when [[Season 3 (2006-07)|Season 3]] first aired in the United States with the episodes "[[Occupation]]" and "[[Precipice]]".
*When the first few episodes of the series began airing on SciFi Channel, title cards were shown at the beginning of each episode, i.e. "33" or "Water" flashing in white letters on a black screen, and then the episode would begin. This stopped by mid-Season 1.
*Initially, the episode was to focus on a paper shortage in the Fleet.<ref>{{cite_book|last=Bassom|first=David|authorlink=|authorlinkurl=|coauthors=|year=2005|title=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]|pages=48|editor=ed. Adam "Adama" Newell|publisher=Titan Books|location=|id=ISBN 1-84576-0972}}</ref>
*According to [[Gary Hutzel]], the water tank was virtual set consisting of one wall and a ramp leading away from it.<ref>{{cite_book|last=Bassom|first=David|authorlink=|authorlinkurl=|coauthors=|year=2005|title=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]|pages=51|editor=ed. Adam "Adama" Newell|publisher=Titan Books|location=|id=ISBN 1-84576-0972}}</ref>

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==
*''Sharon outlines her "plan" with Helo:''
:'''Helo:''' I don't suppose we have a plan B?
:'''Sharon:''' Plans B, C, D and E are the same as plan A; get off the planet and get back to [[Galactica (RDM)|the ship]].

== Official Statements ==

{{from_RDM_blog}}
:One of the strange things about writing and producing television is the delay between action and reaction. Tomorrow night's episode was written almost a year ago. The battles, thoughts, emotions, disappointments, and victories happened in what seems like the distant past, so when I sit down to watch the show along with the rest of you (and I do watch them on the air) it's like seeing a page out of an old year book. I can remember bits and pieces of the production process, the early drafts of the script, the days spent in the editing bay playing with the footage and waiting for the visual effects to be completed, but none of it is current, all of it belongs to a season now firmly planted in the past.

:However, I do find that the same distance from the rigors of production also afford a better vantage point for watching the show with something approaching objectivity. You get so used to an episode during all the aspects of production that the simple pleasure of watching it as a piece of entertainment is slowly vacuumed away over time. Only now, months after the fact, can I watch these shows from a little remove and my impressions of the episodes are often not the same as when we produced them.

:For instance, during the shoot of "Water" and shortly afterward, I was acutely aware of just how long the script was and how much material was going to have to be lost along the way. I was fairly upset with myself for writing something so bloated and large that it was killing us on the stage and would later require major surgery in the editing room to make our mandated runtime. The first cut of "Water" ran 10-12 minutes long -- essentially an entire act that had to go -- and for a long time when I watched the final locked picture I was always uncomfortably aware of the "cheats" involved. That is, the dropped scenes, the internal cuts made to scenes that made a hash of some of the logic I'd tried to lay out, the half-expressed thoughts, the missing emotional beats, etc.

:However, when I saw the final aired episode, I was hard-pressed to even remember most of the cuts or why they had bothered me in the first place. (Although I still [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)|missed a nice bit]] with [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] in the [[Wardroom]], where he tossed off a theory of how six small charges could've blown open the water tank, as it was both helpful to the plot and an entertaining bit of grandstanding by the character.) Frankly, I used to think of "Water" as one of the weaker shows in the first season, but now it seems like a fairly coherent piece.

:Of course, this kind of shift in perspective after shedding the baggage of production works both ways, and I've found that sometimes revisited shows much later that I'd always considered to be "classics" turned out to lose their charm along with the experience of making it. So as we go forward, I'm both excited and vaguely terrified at how I'll view the rest of the season.

:Speaking of excited and terrified, I must admit to being overwhelmed by the response you've generated regarding this blog. There's a remarkable backlog of questions on the board and I'll try to both post here more often and answer more of your questions. I don't know what to tell you in terms of what will catch my eye, but I'll try to look for both the straight-ahead fan questions and the more off the wall questions -- don't be afraid to venture far off-topic, some of the more interesting discussions I had at ''Trek'' had nothing to do with the show itself.

* ''Moore discusses putting [[Sharon Valerii]]'s and [[Galen Tyrol|Chief Tyrol]]'s relationship in jeopardy:''
: At the start of the season, I intended to reveal things very slowly – Sharon was going to realize something was wrong over a longer period of time, and her relationship with Tyrol was going to be very solid. But when I got into "Water" I decided to speed things up by putting Sharon and her relationship with Tyrol in a crisis immediately.<ref>{{cite_book|last=Bassom|first=David|authorlink=|authorlinkurl=|coauthors=|year=2005|title=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]|pages=50|editor=ed. Adam "Adama" Newell|publisher=Titan Books|location=|id=ISBN 1-84576-0972}}</ref>

== Guest stars ==
*[[Michael Hogan]] as Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]
*[[Aaron Douglas]] as Chief [[Galen Tyrol]]
*[[Tahmoh Penikett]] as Lt. [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]
*[[Kandyse McClure]] as Petty Officer [[Anastasia Dualla]]
*[[Paul Campbell]] as [[Billy Keikeya]]
*[[Alessandro Juliani]] as Lt. [[Felix Gaeta]]
*[[Samuel Witwer]] as [[Crashdown]]
*[[Nicki Clyne]] as Specialist [[Cally Tyrol|Cally Henderson]]

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Bastille Day

2007-04-10T16:17:07Z

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== Overview ==

:After the events of "[[Water]]", ''[[Galactica]]'' and [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]] face a water shortage. Their only recourse: persuade 1,500 prisoners on the transport vessel ''[[Astral Queen]]'' to help them mine ice from a nearby moon. But the prisoners, led by the charismatic [[Tom Zarek]], refuse to cooperate.''

== Summary ==

===In the Fleet===
* ''[[Galactica]]'s'' fleet-critical water supplies have been sabotaged ([[Water]]).
* A source of water has been located on a nearby moon - but it is in the form of ice, and must be mined, which will require a crew of around 1,000.
* As that number cannot be spared from ''Galactica's'' crew, and it is unlikely civilians will volunteer, it is determined to try and enlist the help of the prisoners on the ''[[Astral Queen]]''.
* [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] won’t have the prisoners forced into the work, so [[Lee Adama]] suggests the prisoners who volunteer could be awarded points to go towards their freedom.
* This idea does not go down well with Commander [[William Adama|Adama]], who is already at odds with his son over his new position as "special advisor" to the President ([[Water]]).
* However, Roslin decides to send a delegation lead by Lee Adama to the ''Astral Queen'' to put the idea to the prisoners. To address Adama's fears that they might inadvertently release dangerous prisoners into the Fleet's community, [[Billy Keikeya]] is selected to go as well and screen the prisoners prior to selection.
* As a further snub to his son, Adama insists military personnel also go – one to assist in the screening, who will report directly to him – and one to ensure the selected prisoners can handle the equipment that will be used to extract the ice.
* [[Anastasia Dualla]] is "volunteered" by Billy for the first role, [[Cally]] is eventually selected for the second.
* Arriving on the ''Astral Queen'', Lee puts the situation to the prisoners, and outlines the deal: help us and earn points towards your freedom.
* No-one volunteers. Instead, the nominated leader of the prisoners politely refuses the offer. Billy Keikeya recognizes him as [[Tom Zarek]], a political agitator from [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Sagittaron|Sagittaron]].
* While Dualla and Billy argue the merits of Zarek as a "prisoner of conscience" or terrorist – Billy almost idolizing him, Lee meets with Zarek to try and persuade him to help the fleet.
* On ''Galactica'', Adama meets with [[Gaius Baltar]], who is still equivocating over his [[Cylon detector]]. When Adama pushes Baltar into a corner, the doctor tries to admit he can’t actually build the detector.
* This releases a torrent of anger from Baltar’s virtual [[Number Six|Six]], which terrifies him into submission. She then instructs him on what to ask for in order to make the detector: a nuclear warhead.
* When Six only reveals a part of how this can be used to make the detector, Baltar is forced to think things through himself, and realizes it will actually work. Adama agrees to let Baltar have a warhead.
* On the ''Astral Queen'', a planned break-out takes place, and ''Galactica’s'' delegation is taken hostage.
* With the ship in his control, Zarek demands the immediate resignation of Roslin and her government on the grounds that, having never been elected, they do not represent the people.
* As Zarek uses Lee to try and gain insight into the dynamic between Roslin and Adama, an assault mission, led by [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]], is put together using ''Galactica’s'' [[Raptor]]s and [[Marines|Marine]] contingent. As a crack sharpshooter, Starbuck is ordered by Adama to kill Zarek if she gets the chance.
* Adama then tries to negotiate with Zarek himself, but is rebuffed. Lee Adama realizes the truth: Zarek wants Adama to send in the troops, believing a bloodbath aboard the ''Queen'' will bring down Roslin’s government.
* The Marines and Starbuck arrive in the Raptors and start cutting their way into the ship.
* In the cells, one of the prisoners decides he doesn’t like the way Cally has been “mocking” him, and decides to teach her a lesson.
* As Starbuck and her Marines enter the ship, matters come to a head as the prisoner shoots Cally, wounding her, after he clearly tried to rape her, and she bit off a piece of his ear.
* Lee Adama and Zarek rush to the cell where the prisoner is holding Cally. In the confusion, Lee obtains a handgun and puts it to Zarek’s head, giving him a choice: die immediately, or work with his men to supply the Fleet with water, and in return he’ll get to keep the ''Astral Queen'' and get his elections.
* The Marines then make their presence felt, as Starbuck takes a shot at Zarek – who is saved by Lee Adama.
* Roslin and Adama are initially less than pleased at these arrangements. Lee doesn’t really care. The prisoners are helping with the water, even if they have control of the ''Astral Queen'' they are still reliant on the Fleet for supplies, and under Colonial law, Roslin would have to face elections in seven months anyway.
* Later, Lee informs Roslin that he didn’t mean to offend her with his views, and that when the elections come, he’ll vote for her. His honesty causes her to reveal the truth about her cancer and the fact that she might not be alive come the elections.

===On Caprica===
* [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] and [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Valerii]] reach a relatively undamaged city.
* As they explore the city, they are observed by [[Aaron Doral|Doral]] and [[Number Six|Six]] from a rooftop.
* Doral and Six discuss their heritage as Cylons - the "children of humanity", Six expressing regret that humans must be destroyed. Doral is less compassionate: parents need to die to let the children come into their own.

== Questions ==

*Both Six and Zarek make references to "humanity's children". Is there a connection?
*Is Zarek genuinely willing to die for his beliefs? ([[Precipice|Possible answer]])
*Can Baltar really use a nuclear warhead to build a Cylon detector, or does Six have some other plan? ([[Flesh and Bone|Answer]]).
*Will elections really be held in seven months? ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I|Answer]])

== Analysis ==
*The Cylons apparently did not nuke every single city on Caprica, such as they did [[Caprica City]], thought they did nuke most of them. Ron Moore points out in the podcast that at first this was just the plot expediency of needing an environment for Helo to interact in. Helo even asks self-referentially "Why are some cities not nuked?"
*It seems a little counter-intuitive that Helo would be shouting loudly to see if anyone might hear him, as the Cylons might find out his position. However, in Helo's defense the viewers are only coming in to see him at this instant; Caprica-Sharon and Helo might have spent many hours beforehand wandering through an empty city. Moreover, it has only been 12 days since the Cylon attack, and Helo has no idea how far over Caprica they have have spread yet.
*Starbuck's flight briefing she gives as acting-CAG seems a bit "out of character" with what the series would later develop as its "norm". Starbuck as a character is in full "Top Gun" mode, even wearing aviator sunglasses with a stogie cigar in hand, while giving a very irreverant briefing. Actress Katee Sackhoff and the writers have said that after the first few episodes they learned to start adding in "more of Katee into Starbuck", and Starbuck as a character smoothed out a great deal by the middle of the season.
*Another oddity with this scene is that it's the only scene after the Miniseries to include Boxey, and his presence seems a bit forced (Moore and Eick point this out in the podcast). Why would Starbuck bring a 10 year old to a flight briefing on a military ship? The concept pitch seems understandable on paper: Boxey is supposed to be the orphan kid the pilots adopted who lives with them and is sort of their mascot/gofer/helper. However Boxey didn't really get any buildup scenes to this, so here it seems that there's just a kid helping Starbuck give a briefing.
*At the end of the Miniseries Tigh chooses to quit drinking, which continues into "[[33]]", where Commander Adama notes how good it is that Tigh isn't anymore. However he has a relapse here, having few shots, and is a little tipsy in front of some crewmen (though he is not slurring his speech and stumbling over furniture. He is a functioning alcoholic). Throughout the series he oscilates back and forth in his struggle with alcoholism. This is a realization of the show's goal to write realistic characters. It would be unbelievable for Tigh to overcome his alcohol problem at once.
*Starbuck being a sharpshooter, "best shot in or ''out'' of the cockpit" stretches the credibility of these scenes: shooting in a Viper and shooting a sniper rifle are entirely different things. The force of moving the plot foward and trying to include a major character in becomes a bit obvious. Ron Moore conceded this point in his [http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/04/ April 11th, 2005 blog], saying that it would have been jarring to introduce a new Marine sniper, but they had to find a way to keep main character Starbuck as part of the action.

== Notes ==

* Events here take place 4 days after those of "[[Water]]".
* Richard Hatch played the character of [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]] in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|original ''Battlestar Galactica'']] television series.
*This is the only Season 1 episode to deal extensively with another ship in the Fleet. Originally this was planned to happen more often, but building new sets turned out to be much more expensive than anticipated.
*It also the only episode of the regular series that [[Boxey (RDM)|Boxey]] appears in (He appeared in the [[Miniseries]] beforehand). According to the podcast, when the Miniseries was created the writers envisioned Boxey as being a major recurring character in most episodes of the series. However, on a case by case basis they found that inserting a child like Boxey did not harmonize with many of the dark scripts on the series, and once they show got underway and found its flow, they simply couldn't think of ways to write him into upcoming scripts. By the beginning of Season 2, they realized they hadn't been using him, and officially decided to simply abandon the character and consciously never tried to use him again.
*Starting with this episode, [[Cally Henderson]] started to become a larger character on the series, as noted by Moore and Eick in the podcast (see [[Bastille Day#Official statements|Official Statements]], below). Originally she was supposed to die, but instead she shows "balls" and bites a man's ear off in an attention-grabbing moment. Many fans and critics started noticing her more after this point.
* In the [[Miniseries]] the ''[[Astral Queen]]'' is apparently a liner, rather than a prison ship.
** During a briefing, [[Billy Keikeya|Billy]] informs [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]] that: "The Captain of the ''Astral Queen'' wants you to know that he has nearly 500 convicted criminals under heavy guard in his cargo hold. They were being transported to a penal station when the attack happened."
** In the re-cap clip shown at the top of this episode, Billy's lines are re-dubbed so that he says, "The Captain of the ''Astral Queen'' wants you to know that he has 1,500 prisoners under heavy guard."
** Instead of being taken to a penal station, as in the [[Miniseries]], [[Lee Adama]] states that the prisoners were being transferred to [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] for parole hearings.
** For the purposes of the increased number of prisoners, the ''Astral Queen'' becomes a prison ship.
* [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] is an expert sharpshooter with a rifle.
* The Colonials are going to be facing a fuel shortage at some point ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|Resolved in a later episode]]).
* [[Raptor]]s are designed for Marine assault and include an extendable docking skirt in their underside that can be pressurized.
* ''Galactica'' has a small contingent of Marines on board.
* ''Galactica'' has five "remaining" nuclear warheads.
* The [[Lords of Kobol]] are modeled on / parallel the [[Greek Gods|Olympian gods]] of Greek mythology.
* The quip made by the ''[[Astral Queen]]'''s captain, "I'm a bus driver, not a warden", is a homage to the original ''Star Trek'' television series. It is similar to Doctor Leonard McCoy's trademark quote, "I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer", or whatever fits at the time in the latter portion of the statement.
* The setup for this plot might have been inspired by the TOS episode "[[The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I]]". In both episodes, a group of criminals was conscripted from a prison ship to work on the icy surface of a hostile planet. A notable difference between the two episodes lies in how the workers were chosen. While the workers in "Bastille Day" were chosen in part for their expendability, the conscripts in "[[The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I]]" were chosen for their expertise in harsh environments and in demolition work. Also different was the prisoners' motivation to take on the work. In "Bastille Day", the prisoners are offered the possibility of earning their freedom, whereas the prisoners in "[[The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I]]" were offered nothing overtly other than the fear that the fleet might be destroyed without their services. A number of them take the assignment in the hopes of escaping during the action.
*According to the DVD commentary for the episode, the startling scene when Number Six yells in Baltar's face that "they're going to throw you out of an airlock!" was a visual homage taken from the film "[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099871/ Jacob's Ladder]", which has a similar startling close up shot. Tricia Helfer was given scary makeup for the shot, but in such a slight way that it is difficult for the eye to see what's wrong with the shot, but the audience can tell on some level that something's wrong. If you pause during her close-up shot, you can see that she's wearing contact lenses that make her eyes look unnaturally bright, and a mouthpiece of fake teeth which are bent out of shape and unnaturally large.
*The building seen in the first scene with Helo and Sharon is actually the [[wikipedia:Vancouver Public Library|Vancouver Public Library]], one of the most recognizable buildings in the city of Vancouver.
*Major [[Cottle]], ''Galactica''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s ship doctor, is first mentioned in this episode, although he will not appear until next episode.
*President Roslin's hair style changes starting with this episode, from the straight-down hairstyle she had since the [[Miniseries]], to the swept-back style which she would sport through the end of season 2.
*The scene where [[Lee Adama]] holds his pistol to a kneeling [[Tom Zarek]] is a recreation of ''[[wikipedia:Dirty Harry|Dirty Harry]]'', according to [[David Eick]]'s comments in the DVD commentary. "That is the 'I know what you're thinking, punk' shot, down to the move, the lense, the distance of the camera away from the actor."
*''Galactica'' is referred to by Viper pilots as the "[[Big G]]". This mirrors the nickname pilots have given to the aircraft carrier [[w:USS Enterprise|USS Enterprise]], the "Big E".

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

*''On choosing sides:''
:'''Adama''': Every man has to decide for themselves which side they are on.
:'''Apollo''': I didn't know we were picking sides. (walks off)
:'''Adama''': That's why you haven't picked one yet.

*''On Cylon-occupied Caprica:''
:'''Doral''': She's good.
:'''Six''': So far.
:'''Doral''': Jealous?
:'''Six''': This all makes me so sad.
:'''Doral''': (matter-of-fact) They would have destroyed themselves anyway. They deserve what they got.
:'''Six''': We're the ''children of humanity''. That makes them our parents in a sense.
:'''Doral''': True - but parents have to die. It's the only way children come into their own.

*''Later, aboard the 'Astral Queen', in a broadcast by Tom Zarek:''
:'''Tom Zarek''': I make these demands not for me....but for you, the people. The survivors of the holocaust and the ''children of humanity''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s future. I am Tom Zarek, and this is the first day of a new era.

== Official Statements ==
*In the DVD commentary for "[[Bastille Day]]", David Eick and Ron D. Moore talk about Cally's character, and how initial drafts had her being killed:

:Eick: Nicki Clyne, who you see here playing Cally, was somebody who in the Miniseries, I remember Michael (Rymer) and I cast just on the basis of her look, 'cause we thought she was really cute, she kind of reminded us of a young [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001167/ Shelley Duvall]. [...] she turned out to be so good that we— in launching the series we started talking about ways to involve her and I'm very proud of a moment coming up where she does something rather nasty, that...
:RDM: Well she almost died! '''She was gonna die in the intial drafts of this'''.
:Eick: That's right! He kills her! He rapes and kills her! And they're telling us we're too dark ''this'' year.
:RDM: Oh, I know. The second season is so much darker. And I don't think they even care. Yeah, Cally, Nicki, I hate to tell ya, but the bullseye was on Nicki here. And I can't even tell you why we decided it was, no I take that back I think it was your note; you said you wanted Cally to fight back and really show some balls in this scene. She bit his ear off...
:Eick: I said, "She bites his frakking ear off" and I was totally being...you know, just ''illustrative''! I didn't really mean it!
:RDM: And I wrote, "she bites his ear off"!
:Eick: "And I got the draft, and she bites his ear off! I was like "that's great!"
:RDM: '''And from that moment on, I think, she really became part of the show'''. In a real sense, once she had gone through that and survived, and you know Tyrol and the gang come in and see her in the hospital at the end you kind of felt like she is one of the family.

*In issue #348 of ''Starlog'' magazine, p.31, Nicki Clyne (Cally) said:

:"They used this mixture of corn syrup and coloring for the blood, which was extremely sticky...I had to squeeze this sponge of icky goo all over myself, and I had it on the ''whole'' day. I couldn't wipe off the blood for lunchtime and put it back on, because of continuity reasons. So for the entire day I had my shirt completely stuck to me, and my face was all sticky — it ''wasn't'' a nice feeling. When I ate my lunch, no one wanted to sit with me. I even forgot I had this guck on me. I was walking around, throwing popcorn in my mouth and everyone was backing off and staring at me. I'm going "Hey, what's your problem?" Then it occurred to me, "Oh yeah, I look like Death! Right. OK!""




== Guest stars ==
*[[Michael Hogan]] as Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]
*[[Aaron Douglas]] as Chief [[Galen Tyrol]]
*[[Tahmoh Penikett]] as Lt. [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]
*[[Kandyse McClure]] as Petty Officer [[Anastasia Dualla]]
*[[Paul Campbell]] as [[Billy Keikeya]]
*[[Alessandro Juliani]] as Lt. [[Felix Gaeta]]
*[[Connor Widdows]] as [[Boxey]]
*[[Alonso Oyarzun]] as Specialist [[Socinus]]
*[[Nicki Clyne]] as Specialist [[Cally Tyrol|Cally Henderson]]
*[[Pat Adrien Dorval]] as [[Wilkens]]
*[[Ron Selmour]] as [[Seaborne]]
*[[Matthew Bennett]] as [[Aaron Doral]]
*[[Brent Stait]] as [[Mason]]
*[[Graham Young]] as Marine #1
*[[Curtis Hicks]] as Marine #2
*[[Colby Johannson]] as [[Dwight Saunders|Dwight "Flat Top" Saunders]]

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Samuel Anders

2007-03-27T09:46:58Z

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One-time leader of the human [[Caprica Resistance|resistance group]] on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]], '''Samuel T. Anders''' was also the captain of the professional [[Pyramid (RDM)|Pyramid]] team known as the [[Caprica Buccaneers]].

==Biography==
Anders was leading his team in high-altitude training in the mountains outside of [[Delphi]] when the [[Cylon Attack]] occurred and the planet was bombarded with nuclear weapons.

Being in a high-altitude rural area shielded Anders and his team from the blasts and most of the radioactive fallout that followed. He and the Buccaneers become ''ad hoc'' resistance fighters from that point forward, raiding armories and collecting caches of weapons, [[anti-radiation medication]], ammo and supplies in the hopes of staying alive and defending themselves against the Cylons.

[[image:Resistance-Anders_Starbuck.jpg|thumb|left|'''Anders''' and [[Kara Thrace]] play [[Pyramid (RDM)|Pyramid]] at the [[Caprica Resistance]]'s HQ on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] in "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]".]]
Anders was able to rally upwards of 100 people, mostly hikers and survivalists, to his resistance against the Cylons and from the former [[Delphi Union High School]] he was able to strike back at the Cylons for nine months. Unlike [[Karl Agathon|Helo]], the Caprica-based (and pregnant) [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Sharon Valerii]], and [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]], Anders seems to be focused more on surviving on Caprica than he is with leaving the planet.

Anders and his resistance members encounter Starbuck and Helo two months after the initial Cylon attack ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]).

Anders' main focus for a time is keeping himself and his resistance movement alive long enough for Kara Thrace to return to Caprica once again with reinforcements from ''Galactica'' and evacuate them. Thrace gives him her [[Identification tags|Fleet ID tags]] as a promise that she would come back for him. While waiting for rescue, Anders plans to locate and destroy as many Cylon hybrid-producing "farms" as possible ([[The Farm]]).

Anders and the resistance movement conduct acts of terrorism against the Cylons after they appropriate Delphi for their own. His aim was to scare the Cylons into believing there is no safe place for them and to kill them in the most gruesome way possible so they remember when they are reborn what it is like to die violently, like in an explosion ([[Downloaded]]).

Anders' physical features vaguely resemble [[Lee Adama]], which perhaps explains Thrace's immediate attraction to him. However, Anders appears much more self-assured than Adama.

Following the Cylon's reappropriation of Delphi, Anders and his fighters continue their insurgency, and carry out a series of attacks on the Cylons, the most notable of which was the destruction of a café which kill roughly 40 Cylons. After planting the bomb in a garage, Anders is trapped with the bomb after defending it from a Centurion. Hiding behind a car on the other side of the garage, Anders is mostly protected from the blast but buried under rubble. Later found by [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Boomer]] and [[Number Three]]. Anders is spared, as he would be a useful source of information. When [[Caprica-Six]] talks about genocide and God's love, Anders uses the opening to try and kill Number Three, but is stopped by Boomer. Three is more than willing to take revenge, but all were astonished when Caprica-Six kills Three. Heeding Six's orders to get out, Anders flees, still puzzled by what had transpired ([[Downloaded]]).

Anders survives an assault by the Cylons at the resistance's headquarters -- the same morning that the Caprica [[SAR]] team lands nearby. The Cylons assaulted the remnants of the Resistance as they head for the Raptors ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]), forcing them to go to higher ground. After the Cylons stop attacking them, Thrace (leading the rescue team) fears the worst. Anders and Thrace promise to kill each other so that the Cylons would be unable to put them in one of their [[farms]]. Miraculously, a [[Cavil|mysterious man]] appears to tell the team that the Cylons had left the Colonies.

Thrace and Anders' relationship picks up where it left off, forcing a rift to occur between Thrace and Lee Adama.

A year later, now married to Thrace on [[New Caprica]], Anders develops [[Wikipedia:pneumonia|pneumonia]], forcing Thrace to beg Lee Adama to release some [[antibiotics]] reserved for ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''' pilots.
[[Image:Anders LDYBPII.JPG|thumb|Ill Anders playing pyramid with his teammates, moments before being tackled from behind ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]])]]

After the Cylons occupy New Caprica, Anders is visited by a copy of [[Leoben Conoy]] who inquires on Kara Thrace's whereabouts ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]). Since the Cylons had forced ''Pegasus'' and the defense fleet away from New Caprica, the antibiotics are no longer avaliable to help Anders.

Anders recovers from his sickness and is a leader of the [[New Caprica Resistance]], along with [[Saul Tigh]] and [[Galen Tyrol]]. Thrace was taken from him sometime after the occupation, and he is unsure if she is still alive ([[Occupation]]).

Four months into the occupation, contact is made with a Raptor and a rescue plan is put in motion. Anders meets ''Galactica'''s liaison officer [[Sharon Agathon]] in [[Breeders Canyon]], and the group is ambushed by Cylon Centurions ([[Precipice]]).

After the Centurions are neutralized, a map is found on a dead [[Humanoid Cylon|'skinjob']]. Anders realizes that the map is the one given to [[Ellen Tigh]] to destroy in a heating fire. Tigh is then suspected of collaborating with the Cylons.

Later, Anders is charged by Laura Roslin with protecting [[Maya]] and the cylon-human hybrid baby [[Hera]] ([[Exodus, Part I]]).

Anders then tells [[Saul Tigh]] about his [[Ellen Tigh|wife]]'s betrayal. He tells Tigh that if he doesn't "take care" of the problem, someone else will. After ''Galactica'' jumps into orbit, Anders and a group of resistance fighters set off multiple bombs around New Caprica City. They then retrieve a cache of weapons hidden under the Pyramid court in order storm the [[New Caprica Detention Center]] and free the humans imprisoned within. Inside the detention center, Anders and a team of Marines find an unconscious Kara Thrace in her apartment style prison cell. Anders begins to carry Thrace out of the center but is interrupted after Thrace regains consciousness and runs back to retrieve her daughter, [[Kacey]]. Anders finds Thrace and Kacey back at the apartment, and leads both out of the detention center ([[Exodus, Part II]]).

Shortly following the Fleet's abandonment of New Caprica, Anders was brought into the [[The Circle|Circle]], a secret council assembled by President [[Tom Zarek]] for the purpose of judging and executing those who had collaborated with the Cylons during the occupation. Anders soon became uncomfortable with the Circle's actions and left the group. Thrace accepted the Circle's invitation to replace Anders, an act her husband saw as a personal betrayal. Anders handed back Thrace's ID tag, saying he didn't want it anymore. Thrace and Anders are still husband and wife, but the combination of Thrace's joining the Circle and her feelings for Lee Adama has heavily strained their marriage.

The death of his wife ([[Maelstrom]]) weighs heavily on Anders. Two weeks later he is found drunk on the hangar deck, standing atop of a Viper and playing with a [[cubit]]. When Lee Adama is tries to get Anders to come down, he slips, falls and breaks one of his legs. Later, Anders joins Adama at the [[memorial wall]] where Adama has put up Kara Thrace's picture ([[The Son Also Rises]]). Shortly after this, Anders decides to follow in his wife's footsteps, and becomes commissioned in the Fleet as a [[nugget|pilot in training]] ([[Crossroads, Part I]]).

==Notes==
*"Ander" is derived from a Greek term meaning "Man" (a well known example would be that "Anderson" means "Son of Andrew/Andreas/etc", the name being a descendant of Greek andreios ‘manly’, from aner ‘man’, ‘male’, genitive andros). Fitting, given that Anders is leading the last free humans alive on Caprica in a resistance against the Cylons: it's literally a fight of "Man" versus Machines.

*The tattoo that Anders has on his right arm in Season 3 is his "wedding band". He got it after he married [[Kara Thrace]], who also has a similar tattoo, but it is on her left arm. They match up to form one set of wings and the circles overlap when they're facing each other. Both of them have half of the constellation of Capricorn (a reference to [[Caprica]] obviously) and a small symbol of the planet as well.

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John Burke

2007-03-23T14:41:23Z

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'''John "Snitch" Burke''' is a [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilot in the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]], stationed on ''[[Galactica]]''.

The character's name is seen on the pilot's organization board as Admiral [[William Adama]] changes the [[CAG]] assignment in honor of Captain [[Louanne Katraine|Louanne "Kat" Katraine]] ([[The Passage]]).

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Julia Brynn

2007-03-23T14:40:55Z

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'''Julia Brynn''' is among the survivors of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], later settling down on [[New Caprica]] with most of the civilian population.

Shortly after the beginning of the Cylon occupation of New Caprica, her daughter [[Kacey]] is taken by [[Leoben Conoy]] and used very convincingly to psychologically torment [[Kara Thrace]] by passing the child off as Thrace's own daughter, allegedly the result of experiments with the pilot's [[The Farm|removed ovary]] ("[[Occupation]]," "[[Precipice]]").

[[image:kacey's_real_mother.jpg|thumb|left|Julia sees her daughter.]]
With the [[Second Exodus]], Brynn is shocked to discover Kacey alive and well, when Thrace returns to ''[[Galactica]]'' with Kacey in her arms. By pure chance, Brynn is among many civilians brought aboard ''Galactica'' and notices Kacey in Thrace's arms. The two are reunited after four months apart. She thanks Thrace and carries on with the other surviving civilians, making their way to their [[Camp Oil Slick|temporary homes]] on the hangar deck ([[Exodus, Part II]]).

Some weeks later, Brynn surprises a very angry and confused Thrace, letting her know that Kacey has been asking about her. Thrace rebuffs them initially, but after being rebuffed by [[Admiral Adama]], Thrace visits Brynn and Kacey on the hangar deck ([[Torn]]).

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[[Category:Characters|Brynn, Julia]]
[[Category:Characters (RDM)|Brynn, Julia]]
[[Category:RDM|Brynn, Julia]]

Season 4

2007-03-22T20:55:29Z

Frór: Redirecting to Season 4 (2008)

#REDIRECT [[Season 4 (2008)]]

Socrata Thrace

2007-03-15T16:52:00Z

Frór:

{{Character Data
|photo= Socrata Thrace.jpg
|age=
|colony=Caprica
|birthname= Socrata Thrace
|callsign=
|seen= Maelstrom
|death= Died from cancer
|parents=
|siblings=
|children= [[Kara Thrace]]
|marital status=
|role=
|rank= Corporal [[Colonial Marine Corps|CMC]], retired
|actor= [[Dorothy Lyman]]
|cylon=
}}

'''Socrata Thrace''' was a former member of the [[Colonial Marine Corps]] who fought in the first [[Cylon War]]. Thrace was stationed in a jungle planet or moon, after which she suffered from [[w:Entomophobia|entomophobia]] - the fear of insects. She retired at the rank of Corporal ([[Maelstrom]]).

While being interrogated by Kara Thrace, a copy of [[Leoben Conoy]] claims that she had been physically abused by her mother, long ago:

<blockquote>You were born to a woman who believes that suffering was good for the soul, so you suffered. Life is a testament to pain, injuries, accidents. Some inflicted upon others, some inflicted upon yourself. Surrounds you like a bubble but it's not... real it's just-- that's just something she put into your head. It's something that you wanna believe 'cause it means that you're the problem, not the world that you live in. You wanna believe it because... it means that you're bad luck. Like a cancer that needs to be removed. Because you hear her voice every day and you want her to be right ([[Flesh and Bone]]).</blockquote>

Later, a [[Simon]] copy notes that Kara Thrace's hands show indications of broken bones, speculating that she endured abuse at the hands of a parent ([[The Farm]]).

Thrace appeared to be a chain cigarette smoker. Her sparse apartment has only a handful of items, particularly a medal from her work in the Cylon War.

Leoben's claims of abuse are confirmed by her daughter when she discusses one incident to her husband, [[Samuel Anders]]. Kara Thrace reveals that her mother broke her hand by holding it against a door jamb and slamming the door shut, to punish her daughter for placing plastic insects in her clothes; in return payback for earlier abuse at the hands of her mother.

Thrace was diagnosed with a cancerous gastric tumor four years before the destruction of the Twelve Colonies by the [[Caprican Colonial Forces Veteran's Hospital]]. Vowing never to return to see her mother, Kara Thrace never saw her mother before her death.

She is given a mysterious opportunity to visit her mother at her deathbed ([[Maelstrom]]).

[[Category:A to Z|Thrace, Socrata]]
[[Category:Characters|Thrace, Socrata]]
[[Category:Characters (RDM)|Thrace, Socrata]]
[[Category:RDM|Thrace, Socrata]]

Battlestar Wiki:Translation Project

2006-07-14T12:20:34Z

Frór: /* Articles Translated */

{{project|Translation Project|image=BSG WIKI Globe.png|shortcut=BW:i18n}}

This project deals with converting articles from the '''Battlestar Wiki''' into other languages.

== Overview ==

Presently, all of the content on this wiki is in [[Wikipedia:English language|english]] -- American english, to be specific. We have people who view this Wiki from other countries, as far away as Europe. And likely further.

Therefore, this is a formal effort to recruit mutli-lingual contributors and organize these contributors to translate our documents in other languages.

== How to Begin ==

For the Spanish-language Battlestar Wiki, post or begin your Spanish translated articles on [[:es:Portada|the Spanish Battlestar Wiki]]. Do not use sub-pages any longer.

The same goes for [[:de:Hauptseite|the German Battlestar Wiki]]. Do not use sub-pages, create or modify articles there.

For all others, please follow the translation guide below.

=== For those that don't have wikis of their own ===

Since we don't have a setup similar to Wikipedia (where Wikipedia has individal German, Italian, and Portuguese editions of Wikipedia), here is how translated articles can be added.

To begin, create a subpage of the article you wish to translate. For instance, let's say you were going to tackle the article on [[The Fleet (RDM)|The Fleet]] and translate it into Spanish. Here's how you would begin:

* In the search box, type in:
*: The Fleet/es:La Flota
* Press "Go". Select "create this article" option.
* Begin translating the article. Once done, list the article on this page under Articles Translated.

Once there are a growing number of articles, Joe will then set up an invidiual BSG Wiki for that language. (i.e. de.battlestarwiki.org for German BSG Wiki, et al.).

== Contributors ==

Contributors to this project may be added here. Please include the languages you would be interested in translating our documents to, as well as your level of expertise in said language.

=== Brazillian Portuguese ===

* [[User:naio21|Ivan]] 00:57, 12 February 2006 (GMT -3h) - Brazilian Portuguese, native language
* [[User:Infestans|Infestans]] 18:43, 19 February 2006 (GMT -3h) - Brazilian Portuguese, native language

=== Chinese ===

*[[User:SuperMMX|SuperMMX]] - Chinese, Simplified Chinese

=== French ===

* [[User:Karoshi|Karoshi]] 11:22, 2 February 2006 (EST) - French, native language.
* [[User:Malcolm|Malcolm]] 10:29, 14 May 2006 (CDT) - French, native language.

=== German ===

* [[User:Astfgl|Astfgl]] 02:57, 04 February 2006 (CET) - German, native German
* [[User:$traight-$hoota|$traight-$hoota]] – native German
* [[User:sdfd|sdfd]] native German
* [[User:LaWa|LaWa]] native German
* [[User:rawfire|rawfire]] native German

=== Japanese ===

* [[User:Zarek Rocks|Zarek Rocks]] 21:23, 2 February 2006 (EST) Two years of Japanese, but a little rusty. I do have people that could help me edit for grammar though so I'm onboard for that.

* [[User:Yashiko|Yashiko]] 20:34, 7 March 2006 (CST) I'm currently in my first year as a Japanese language and Linguistics major at university, but I have lived in Japan for about a year. I'm willing to try and help out where I can since my grammar isn't back to the level it was when I was living there. I'll try to help out with vocabulary in the meanwhile.

=== Spanish ===

* [[User:Major Payne|Major Payne]] 23:42, 03 February 2006 (GMT -3h) - Spanish, native language
* [[User:Lindem Herz|Lindem Herz]] 10:08, 06 February 2006 (GMT -5h) - Spanish, native language
* [[User:Prometheus|Prometheus]] 2:16, 13 February 2006 (EST) - Spanish, native language
* [[User:Kestrel|Kestrel]] 13:16, 16 February 2006 (GMT -3h) - Spanish, native language
* [[User:Dancing_salad|Dancing Salad]] 00:24, 24 February 2006 (GMT +1) - Spanish, native language

=== Swedish ===

* [[User:turboemmis|turboemmis]] 17:48, 11 February 2006 (CET) - Swedish, native language
* [[User:mrpeachum|MrPeachum]] 19:47, 11 February 2006 (GMT -8h, PST) - Swedish, native language

=== Turkish ===

* [[User:Auroriel|Auroriel]] native Turkish
* [[User:Hudd|Hudd]] native Turkish

=== More than one non-American English language ===

* [[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 09:57, 27 January 2006 (EST) - Spanish, 4 years of Spanish and a year of Latin (a long time ago)
* [[User:Talos|Talos]] 20:46, 31 January 2006 (EST) -German, 3 years of German plus mother is a German major and a BSG fan. Can also help a little with Russian, and others.
* [[User:LeobenConoy|LeobenConoy]] 20:49 02 February 2006 (TST) - Spanish, 7 years plus foreign exchange to South America (Fluent, but a bit rusty); 2 years of Japanese (some conversational ability, minimal writing/reading ability)

=== Technical personel ===

: ''People who really don't translate anything, but will help in behind-the-scenes technical tasks. Or people who promote the effort. Things like that.''

* [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] 23:00, 13 February 2006 (EST) -- will set up new wikis as the number of documents translated increases and other BTS tasks (the Wizard of Oz, as it were)

* [[User:Shane|Shane]] 10:48, 5 March 2006 (CST) -- IT Specialist

== Articles Needing Translation ==

Obviously our eventual goal is to have just about everything translated. Rather than listing every page here, this can be used to request critical pages for translators to focus on.

*[[Battlestar Wiki:Spoiler Policy]] - All languages, but particularly German (to go with the spoiler templates below), and French.
*[[Battlestar Wiki:Standards and Conventions]] - All languages (to give new contributors a common reference to work from).

== Language Specific Spoiler Checkpoints ==
''Feel free to adjust the title of this section.'' <BR/>
This section is intended to be a handy place to keep track of how far the series has progressed in the particular languages, in order to avoid translating spoiler content over from the English side.
* German
**[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]] - 19 April, 2006.
* French
**[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]] - 26 February, 2006.

== Articles in Progress ==

Articles that have begun the translation process. They could use more content translated or another eye to look at it (or both).

*Français (French)
** [[Intersun/fr:Intersun]]
** [[Lee Adama/fr:Lee Adama]]
** [[Tom Zarek/fr:Tom Zarek]]

*German
**[[:de:Battlestar Wiki:Standards und Konventionen|Battlestar Wiki:Standards und Konventionen]]
**[[:de:Vorlage:Episodenliste|Vorlage:Episodenliste]]
**[[:de:Meuterei auf der Astral Queen|Meuterei auf der Astral Queen]]
**[[:de:Zeichen der Reue|Zeichen der Reue]]
**[[:de:Kein Weg zurück|Kein Weg zurück]]
**[[:de:Das Tribunal|Das Tribunal]]
**[[:de:Unter Verdacht|Unter Verdacht]]
**[[:de:Fleisch und Blut|Fleisch und Blut]]
**[[:de:Ellen|Ellen]]
**[[:de:Die Hand Gottes|Die Hand Gottes]]
**[[:de:Der Zwölferrat|Der Zwölferrat]]
**[[:de:Kobol, Teil I|Kobol, Teil I]]
**[[:de:Kobol, Teil II|Kobol, Teil II]]
**[[:de:Die verlorene Flotte|Die verlorene Flotte]]
**[[:de:Im Tal der Finsternis|Im Tal der Finsternis]]
**[[:de:Die Gesetze des Krieges|Die Gesetze des Krieges]]
**[[:de:Leben und Sterben|Leben und Sterben]]
**[[:de:Die Farm|Die Farm]]
**[[:de:Heimat, Teil I|Heimat, Teil I]]
**[[:de:Heimat, Teil II|Heimat, Teil II]]
**[[:de:Die Reporterin|Die Reporterin]]
**[[:de:Die Hoffnung lebt|Die Hoffnung lebt]]
**[[:de:Pegasus (Episode)|Pegasus (Episode)]]

*Spanish
**[[:es:Miniserie|Miniserie]] - (overview, backplot, questions, noteworthy dialogue and cast translated)
**[[:es:Battlestar Wiki:Estándares y Convenios|Battlestar Wiki:Estándares y Convenios]]
**[[:es:Plantilla:Characters|Plantilla:Characters]] (Character template) - almost complete but for the Characters link. Will go around it once that other page is translated. Will probably translate the page title too then.
**[[:es:Bajo la Mira|Bajo la Mira]] - (almost done, only the synopsis is left)
**[[:es:Dispersos|Dispersos]] - If anyone knows how to add the Contents to the page please do, I'm having a hard time getting it to work. Gracias

*日本語 (Japanese)
**[[Battlestar Wiki:Standards and Conventions/jp:バツスタ-ヰキ:標準及び大会]]
**[[Epiphanies/jp:啓示]]
**[[Black Market/jp:闇市]]
**[[Scar/jp:傷痕]]
**[[Sacrifice/jp:生け贄]]
**[[The Captain's Hand/jp:艦長の針]]
**[[Downloaded/jp:ダウンロード]]
**[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I/jp:あんたの負担を落とす, 部分一]]
**[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II/jp:あんたの負担を落とす, 部分ニ]]
**[[Lee Adama/jp:リー・アダマ]]

*Swedish
**[[Battlestar Wiki:Standards and Conventions/sv:Battlestar Wiki:Normer och konventioner]]

*Brazilian Portuguese
**[[33/pt:33]]

*中文 (Chinese)
**[[Battlestar Wiki:Portals/zh:银河战星维基:门户]]
**[[Portal:Battlestar Galactica (RDM)/zh:门户:银河战星卡拉狄加（RDM）]]
**[[Portal:Battlestar Galactica (RDM)/zh:门户:银河战星卡拉狄加（RDM）/人物]]
**[[Portal:Battlestar Galactica (RDM)/zh:门户:银河战星卡拉狄加（RDM）/剧集指南]]

== Articles Translated ==

List all articles that have been translated here. Also include the language that they were translated in.

*Français (French)
** [[33/fr:33 minutes]]
** [[Amorak/fr:Amorak]]
** [[Boxey (RDM)/fr:Boxey (RDM)]]
** [[Battlestar Wiki:Standards and Conventions/fr:Battlestar Wiki:Normes et Conventions]]
** [[Armistice Officer/fr:Officier d'armistice]]
** [[Battlestar Wiki:Spoiler Policy/fr:Battlestar Wiki:Politique du Spoiler]]
** [[Armistice Station/fr:Station d'armistice]]
** [[Stims/fr:Stims]]
** [[Olympic Carrier/fr:Transporteur Olympique]]
** [[Number_Six/fr:Num%C3%A9ro_Six]]

*[[:de:Hauptseite|German]]
** Please refer to [[:de:Spezial:Allpages|all pages]] for all completed pages on the German BSG-Wiki.

*[[:es:Portada|Spanish]]
** Please refer to [[:es:Especial:Allpages|all pages]] for all completed pages on the Spanish BSG-Wiki.

*日本語 (Japanese)
**[[Viper 0205/jp:ヴァイパー 0205]]
**[[Zak Adama/jp:ザック・アダマ]]
**[[Anne Adama/jp:アン・アダマ]]
**[[Evelyn Adama/jp:エヴリン・アダマ]]
**[[Joseph Adama/jp:ジョゼフアダマ]]

*中文 (Chinese)
**[[Battlestar Wiki:Standards and Conventions/zh:银河战星维基:标准和惯例]]

== Templates Translated ==

=== On English Battlestar Wiki ===

* '''Français (French)'''
** [[Template:Character Data (fr)]]
** [[Template:Episode List (fr)]]
** [[Template:Episode Data (fr)]]
** [[Template:Spoiler (fr)]]
** [[Template:Spoiltext (fr)]]

* '''日本語 (Japanese)'''
** [[Template:Spoiler (jp)]]
** [[Template:Episode Data (jp)]]
** [[Template:Episode List (jp)]]
** [[Template:Character Data (jp)]]

* '''中文 (Chinese)'''
** [[Template:Portal Browsebar (zh)]]

=== Individual Battlestar Wikis ===

* '''German'''
** All completed templates have been successfully moved to the [[:de:Hauptseite|German Battlestar Wiki]].

* '''Spanish'''
** All completed templates have been successfully moved over to the [[:es:Portada|Spanish Battlestar Wiki]].

Socinus

2005-10-17T22:26:59Z

Frór: indexation correction

{{Character Data|
|photo= [[Image:Socinus.JPG]]
|age= 20s
|colony= [[Aerelon]]
|birthname= Socinus
|callsign=
|death= [[Valley of Darkness]]
|parents=
|siblings=
|children=
|marital status= Single
|role= Viper and Raptor Maintenance, ''[[Battlestar]] [[Galactica]]''
|rank= Specialist
|actor= [[Alonzo Oyarzun]]
|cylon=
}}

Specialist '''Socinus''' was a deckhand aboard ''[[Battlestar]] [[Galactica]]'' assigned to Chief [[Galen Tyrol]]. At the time of the [[Cylon Attack]] on the [[Colonies]], he was attached to [[Deck Crew 5]], and was responsible for [[Viper]] and [[Raptor]] maintenance. ([[Mini-Series]])

After the events at the beginning of [[Litmus]], Socinus was charged with "conspiracy and collusion with a cylon agent" and arrested by [[Sergeant Hadrian|Master-At-Arms Sergeant Hadrian]]. In reality, Socinus had not conspired with a Cylon Agent, but had lied about leaving the hatch combing to causeway C aboard Galactica open to hide the relationship of Tyrol and [[Sharon Valerii]]. (During the time in question, the two were meeting for an intimate moment.) Valerii had entered through that hatch combing, leaving it open so a copy of [[Aaron Doral]] could gain access to explosives, which he then detonated prematurely in C Causeway (as opposed to his intended target, [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]]'s Lab on the same level).

[[William Adama|Commander Adama]] however had his doubts about Socinus' actions (being aware of Tyrol and Valerii's relationship). Tyrol eventually confessed to Adama that he was with Valerii at the time of the bombing, with the deck gang covering for him. This did not result in Socinus' release, as he did lie before the tribunal.

Socinus was released on parole for the scout mission to [[Kobol]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Pt. I]]) by request of Tyrol due to the extreme short-handedness of experienced crew. He subsequently became stranded on Kobol with the rest of the survivors of [[Raptor 1]].

He sustained critical injuries including severe smoke inhalation during the crash. He was treated with [[serisone]] to prevent fluid from building up in his lungs. Despite the efforts of [[Tarn]], [[Cally]] and [[Galen Tyrol]], ([[Scattered]]) to acquire another medkit from the crashsite to help keep him alive, he was in the end euthanized by [[morpha]] overdose when they realized that he was too severely injured to realistically think they could save him from a slow and agonizing death ([[Valley of Darkness]]).

==Notes==

Socinus has the zodiac sign for Aries tatooed on his right arm (deleted scene on season 1 DVD)

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