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2009-01-03T14:22:14Z

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2009-01-03T14:21:19Z

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--[[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [[bsp:|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 22:00, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

:You can delete this account, it is a duplicate for "Fredmdbud". It was created because I was always getting a blank screen, which turned out to be a glitch from not having a skin selected in the other user profile. That has been fixed. Thanks.== Welcome to Battlestar Wiki! ==

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As you may already know, Battlestar Wiki covers all the ''Battlestar Galactica'' series from past to present, in addition to authorized merchandise. Presently, we don't cover fan fiction, but our sister-site, [[bsp:|Battlestar Pegasus]], does so. We're also not a discussion site, although we do have an ever-growing [http://www.battlestarforum.com Battlestar Forum] where people can discuss the various shows and non-BSG topics as well!

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--[[User:Fredmdbud1|Fredmdbud1]] 14:21, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Combat Air Patrol

2009-01-02T22:52:38Z

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A '''Combat Air Patrol''', or "CAP", is a part of a [[battlestar]]'s early response and [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] defense posture.

CAPs typically consist of two [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]]s (lead and wingman) flying a designated pattern in and around the Fleet, providing an immediate spaceborne response to incoming threats. More than one CAP may be flown at a time, with Vipers positioned at different distances and "orbits" around the Fleet. CAP flights can be reinforced by a battlestar's [[Alert Fighters|alert fighters]] ([[33]]).

CAPs sometimes include [[Raptor]]s in a support role.

Despite the 40 Vipers at her disposal, Kara Thrace finds mounting full CAPs difficult in the episode "[[Sine Qua Non]]". It may be that on high alert ''Galactica'' mounts multiple simultaneous CAPS, along with the 2 Vipers sometimes seen on screen escorting ''Colonial One''. Flying continuous CAP shifts with alert fighters on standby could explain this strain on pilots and planes.

==See Also==
*[[List of terms (RDM)|List of terms in the Re-imagined Series]]

== Notes ==
*On Earth, the term "[[Wikipedia:Combat Air Patrol|combat air patrol]]" is most frequently applied to fighter aircraft patrols guarding a [[Wikipedia:Carrier battle group|carrier battle group]]; however, it applies equally to flights guarding a fixed land target, other vessels at sea, and (least commonly) slower, more vulnerable aircraft. Series information notes the existence of [[Battlestar Group|battlestar groups]], which are analogous to carrier battle groups, so the use of CAPs in the series likely a parallel to real CAPs.
*There are two other, less common, standard names for types of air patrols which may have parallels in the series:
**'''BARCAP''' or BARrier Combat Air Patrol: a patrol flown between the guarded and the likely origin of an attack
**'''TARCAP''' or TARget Combat Air Patrol: a patrol flown near a target to protect the attack aircraft from air-to-air attacks

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DRADIS

2009-01-02T22:26:43Z

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[[Image:Dradisscreen.jpg|thumb|A typical DRADIS read-out]]
'''DRADIS''' is a highly sensitive detection, identification, navigation and tracking system, analogous in function to [[Wikipedia:Radar|radar]]<ref>In "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]", some viewers believed that [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] said, "The decoy ships will jump into the enemy star system at extreme ''radar'' range from the Cylon asteroid." The use of "radar" would be a [[Continuity errors (RDM)|continuity error]] as official sources confirmed that "radar" does not exist in the Re-imagined Series. Others believed that actress [[Katee Sackhoff]] said "extreme ''Raider'' range", the range of the Raiders from the Cylon base, and the word was slurred so that it sounded vaguely like "radar". The matter was put to rest when Battlestar Wiki [[Battlestar Wiki:Official Communiques/Archive1#.22Radar.22_gaffe_in_.22The_Hand_of_God.22.3F|asked]] the writer of this episode, [[Bradley Thompson]], who confirmed that the line in the script was "...extreme ''Viper'' range...". The final line must have been looped in during post-production without his input (probably to keep from spoiling the plot). Thompson confirmed that the final line sounded like "Raider".</ref>, used aboard Colonial spacecraft.

DRADIS can be used in stationary configurations as well on ships. A group of [[Cylon Centurion]]s are able to jury-rig a DRADIS assembly from their [[Heavy Raider]] into a stationary tracking array in an attempt to eliminate any [[SAR]] missions from ''[[Galactica]]'' ([[Fragged]]).

Carbon composites are largely invisible to DRADIS scans ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).

A "DRADIS contact" is an object or objects detected by DRADIS. Contacts are typically identified by cross-referencing with an [[IFF]] system (in the case of ships) or an astronomical database (in the instance of planets or other celestial bodies).

The symbols used on Colonial DRADIS displays for the representation of [[battlestar (RDM)|battlestars]], [[Raptor|Raptors]], and [[Viper (RDM)|Vipers]] are visible in the picture to the right.
[[Image:Dradissymbol pegasus.JPG|thumb|DRADIS symbology for various Colonial Fleet units ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]])]]

[[Image:radalm_217_1080i.jpg|thumb|DRADIS warning of radiological materials ([[The Captain's Hand]])]] DRADIS is also used to report [[radiological alarm]]s.

DRADIS is likely a central component of the [[Computers|navigation computer]] on Colonial ships such as battlestars, as they do not navigate in [[sublight]] mode by visual means. ''Galactica's'' tactical and navigation data is displayed on a series of screens that form the [[DRADIS console]], suspended above the [[CIC]]'s Command and Control console.

The DRADIS can be blinded by external sources of electromagnetic radiation such as artificial radiation by [[EMP|EMP generators]] ([[Miniseries]]), nuclear detonations ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]), [[w:Pulsars|pulsars]] ([[Sacrifice]]), [[Passage (star cluster)|star clusters]] and [[w:Binary star|binary stars]] ("[[The Passage]]", "[[The Captain's Hand]]"), or other phenomenona such as the nebula around [[New Caprica]] ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]).

== Sourcing of the term ==

The "'''D'''irection, '''RA'''nge, and '''DIS'''tance" breakdown of the acronym "DRADIS" was listed in an early manuscript of the first half of the [[Miniseries]]. Since some major elements of this script were changed (such as Kobol being the sole home of the Colonies, and not separate worlds) in comparison to the completed teleplay, canonical use of this breakdown should be taken with some skepticism.

There is some evidence to suggest that the original breakdown is the canonical version. In "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]", [[Crashdown]] performs a DRADIS sweep of [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]]. The aerial survey is later presented to the [[Laura Roslin|President]]. For a brief moment, as Roslin takes the survey image out of [[Billy Keikeya]]'s hand, the DRADIS information printed on the image is visible. The letters on the image are clear and are as follows:

:Aerial Survey
:'''D.''' 41376
:'''Ra.''' 145.8
:'''Dis.''' 43.5

The letters represent numerical values. While this is not conclusive evidence, it is consistent with the original manuscript definition.

==Notes==
*The [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] counterpart to DRADIS is simply referred to as the [[scanner]].

==See Also==
*[[List of terms (RDM)|List of terms in the Re-imagined Series]]

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Talk:Sharon Valerii/Archive2

2009-01-02T22:14:36Z

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== Was she reprogrammed or especially created? ==

Was Sharon an 8 programmed for a mission to think she is human or was she created for this mission? This is something which has been never fully explained in the show. Though it seems unimportant at first, it partly defines Galactica Sharon's character.

If she was programmed to think she was human her orginal programming was either overridden or hidden deep in her core reduced to its basic, which made her actions during "Downloaded" seem like of a person who suffers heavy amnesia. If she was just created for her task it would really make her unique amongst the cylons who seem all to be created with some sort of standard personality just changing from model to model.

== Presumed Death? ==

While it's POSSIBLE that she died on the resurrection hub, given the fact that she bolted before Helo and the other Sharon arrived and then left again she should have had ample time to escape to one of the many other surrounding baseships. I don't mean to speculate (since her fate isn't shown onscreen), but given the fact that she's a fairly major character and that her death isn't explicitly shown, television conventions would usually hold that she likely survived. I may alter the text to note her fleeing of the room, but I'm betting we'll see her again. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:49, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
: Now that Leader Cavil's dead, she'll more than likely assume that mantle. Beyond speculating, I think it's safe to say that we'll see her again, since D'Anna let Boomer be. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin
Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [[bsp:|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 15:06, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
:: She may well be alive in many possible ways. We can speculate on a future role for her, but for now she was last seen on a ship that was destroyed. Would not want to write that she is certainly dead, but it seems reasonable to document that we were not shown any escape and presumptively she's dead.--[[User:Bradtem|Bradtem]] 18:31, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
:::Obviously, we'll go with what we've seen. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [[bsp:|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 20:07, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
:::Sounds good. Document the facts, let the reader to the interpreting/presuming/etc. I'm fine with the text as it is presently written, and this will likely be resolved more definitively within a week or two anyway. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 21:59, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
::::The [[Podcast:The Hub|Podcast]] has confirmed that she survived. -- [[User:Gordon Ecker|Gordon Ecker]] 09:26, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
:::::Erm... where? I don't see any confirmation of her being alive on that page. My own thought was that she was indeed dead, even though I would find the indirect death of one of the protagonists quite unsatisfying. Not so much because she's dead - wouldn't be the first time after all - but because I would want to really ''see'' her die, get a glimpse of her last thoughts when she realizes she's about to die, seeing the nuclear missiles incoming or so... She's - despite having 'fallen to the dark side' - my favourite character in the show. --[[User:Rabenschwinge|Rabenschwinge]] 18:02, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
:: I seriously doubt that Boomer - or any eight for that's worth - would "assume that mantle" (of leadership). The way I see the eights, including Boomer, they are simply too cute, naive and emotional for that, even Boomer in her anger when she threatens to "snap your little neck" to Hera in her cradle. "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned", but that doesn't make her a leader as the ones or manipulative as the sixes. In the initial episodes of season 3 she does not seem convince anyone of her opinion, and even before that I had the impression that Caprica-Six was the driving force in the reformation. --[[User:Rabenschwinge|Rabenschwinge]] 18:02, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
::: Quite a few Colonial characters have had their character go through wild gyrations, i.e. angsty Lee -> pudgy Lee -> gung-ho Lee -> politician Lee, so as far as storytelling goes, why not have the Cylon models go through some identity crises, too LOL And as far as temperaments and characteristics of models staying consistent, well, it's a whole new ballgame. In the theory that is evolution, stress and change will force organisms to adapt and change, or die; the breakout of civil war and the loss of the ability to resurrect and its attendant dwindling of the species are pretty big imperatives for change. And besides, would it be BSG without character twists? Just sayin' ... -- [[User:Fredmdbud1|Fredmdbud1]] 22:14, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

The Face of the Enemy

2009-01-02T16:34:04Z

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"'''The Face of the Enemy'''" is a webisode series featuring [[Felix Gaeta]] and two [[Number Eight]]s who, along with a handful humans, are stranded on a [[Raptor 718|Raptor]] and mysteriously begin to die one by one. These events take place six to nine days after "[[Revelations]]".

== Summary ==
===Episode 1===

* Release date: December 12, 2008
* Running time: ~4:11

[[Image:TFOTE1.jpg|thumb|Tigh tells Gaeta to take a vacation.]]
A blood-covered Felix Gaeta is in a Raptor adrift in deep space, nine days after the events of "Revelations". Flashbacks of a list of names being written on a pad, a Number Eight cutting into her palm, a pair of needle-nose pliers, and a struggle inside the Raptor segue to three days before (six days after "Revelations").

Over his protests, an exhausted Gaeta is ordered by Colonel [[Saul Tigh]] to take a week's leave aboard the ''[[Zephyr]]'' to recover. On his way to the hangar bay, Lt. [[Louis Hoshi]] catches up with him in the hallway, gives him [[morpha]] for his pain, then kisses him goodbye, evincing a romantic relationship. Joining Gaeta on the flight are [[deckhand]] [[Brooks_(RDM)|Brooks]], two Number Eights, and the Raptor shuttle flight crew, Lt. [[J. Finnegan|J. "Shark" Finnegan]] and [[Esrin|"Easy" Esrin]].

With the Raptor 15 minutes away from the ''Zephyr'', [[DRADIS]] picks up hostile [[Cylon (RDM)|Cylon]] contacts and the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] is forced to make an emergency [[Propulsion_in_the_Re-imagined_Series#Faster-Than-Light travel|jump]]. The Raptor completes its jump, but discovers that the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] is nowhere to be seen.

===Episode 2===

* Release date: December 15, 2008
* Running time: ~3:42

[[Image:TFOTE2.JPG|thumb|The occupants of the stranded Raptor.]]
Shark broadcasts on [[wireless]] to any ships that might be nearby, Easy says she entered the right coordinates, and Gaeta's stump starts to act up. A worried Brooks suggests jumping back, thinking the Fleet might have left a Raptor behind for a little while, but the Eights don't think so, since that could give away their position to Cavil's ships. Gaeta is sure that the Fleet knows that they are missing and sent someone back to look, but that they can't find out because the jump drive isn't responding. Brooks begins to pray to [[Poseidon]], puzzling the Eights since they are a long way from water, but Brooks replies they are in a ship after all. Shark discovers that the drive isn't responding because they have jumped over the [[red line]] and are thus unable to jump back to their starting point. The Eight in a Cylon [[flight suit]] ("Hard Eight") says she suspects as much, since she doesn't recognize the star patterns. Gaeta sits at the aft workstation and determines that the FTL computer's calculations were corrupted. Shark reasons that getting back to the Fleet is not impossible, just harder, and as Hard Eight and the others continue their discussion, the other Eight ("Sweet Eight") asks Gaeta if he recognizes her.

Back on ''[[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', Hoshi is clearly worried for Gaeta. The DRADIS contact was a false alarm, the Fleet has jumped back to their original coordinates, and there has been no sign of the missing Raptor for two days. He asks Tigh for a Raptor and a pilot to search for the missing Raptor, explaining that just as something in the universe led them to Earth, he knows he can find them. He stops short of revealing just how close he is to Gaeta and instead asserts that there has been too much loss already. Tigh agrees to Hoshi's request, but will have to run it by Admiral [[Adama (RDM)|Adama]].

Back aboard the Raptor, Shark determines how long they can last out there. The limiting factor is the air supply; since the Raptor was on shuttle detail, the CO<sub>2</sub> scrubbers were not fully functional. They have only 20 ½ hours with the air thinned out to 68% of ship-normal O<sub>2</sub>, so everyone must limit their exertion and sleep as much as they can to stretch out the supply. Easy points out that at that oxygen level people experience memory loss, irrational behavior, depression and dizziness.

===Episode 3===

* Release date: December 17, 2008
* Running time: ~2:42

[[Image:TFOTE3.jpg|thumb|Gaeta meets with an Eight on New Caprica.]]
Brooks offers to take a look at the Raptor's CO<sub>2</sub> scrubbers and opens a side panel. Meanwhile, Gaeta recognizes Sweet Eight. A flashback to 15 months earlier on Cylon-occupied [[New Caprica]] shows the two meeting in a tent, with Gaeta looking over a list of names and handing it to the Eight. Gaeta looks concerned as Sweet Eight leaves the tent.

Brooks finds a loose connection, but has trouble reaching it. Hard Eight offers to take over, and Brooks hands her his pliers. She reaches it, then stiffens as she is electrocuted. Esrin kicks her free, and Gaeta checks for a pulse before declaring her dead. Brooks is stunned, exclaiming, "My gods, I was just doing that! I was just doing that same thing!" Sweet Eight calls attention to the pliers. Gaeta finds that the insulating grip has been stripped off and asks, "Who did this?"

===Episode 4===

* Release date: December 22, 2008
* Running time: ~3:12

[[Image:TFOTE4.jpg|thumb|Gaeta asks what to do with the dead Eight's body.]]
Shark examines the pliers and observes they are old and that the grips wore off, but Sweet Eight suggests that it wasn't an accident, that "someone didn't like the idea of a machine breathing their air." Brooks points that the pliers were his and he was the one who was supposed to have been killed, but Sweet Eight replies not unless he was the one who stripped the grips and questions how he could not have noticed the bare metal. Gaeta quashes the growing argument, saying it was an accident, and asks what to do with the corpse. Sweet Eight wants to jettison her, noting that she will otherwise begin to decay and corrupt the air, and that the oxygen in the cabin can be sucked back into the tanks with only a little loss. As flight suits are broken out and put on, Sweet Eight whispers to Gaeta that she has an idea how to get them home, that she will tell him when the others are asleep, and asks her him to trust her.

In a flashback to New Caprica, Gaeta writes down a list of names and what look like serial numbers for Sweet Eight. He tells her he hasn't seen some of these people in a long time, and they may already be dead. Sweet Eight reassures Gaeta that the [[Number One]]s keep good records, and if some of them are locked up, she can find them and get them out, and reassures him that they can do this.

Back in the Fleet, Lt. [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]] and Hoshi launch from ''Galactica'' in [[Raptor 1029]].

===Episode 5===

* Release date: December 24, 2008
* Running time: ~4:42

[[Image:TFOTE5.jpg|thumb|The dead body is jettisoned.]]
The crew jettison Hard Eight's body. Afterwards, they settle down to sleep. Gaeta, apparently in pain, touches his stump and injects himself with a dose of morpha. Sweet Eight sees this but pretends to be asleep. Gaeta falls asleep as well and flashes back to New Caprica again, remembering Sweet Eight telling him she managed to get some of the people on his list out of detention. Others, she says, were already dead. She is particularly upset about a child whose fate is still a mystery and begins crying. Gaeta reassures her that they've done good and slowly leans in to kiss her.

In the present, Sweet Eight wakes Gaeta while the other three still sleep and proposes her plan. She will hook into the Raptor's systems much as [[Sharon Agathon]] once did on the rescue mission to Caprica ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]), in order to determine the corrupted memory address that made them jump to the wrong location. However, she is afraid that the others will think she is sabotaging the ship, so she asks Gaeta to cover for her while she works. Gaeta accidentally jars Brooks, who doesn't move. The two notice that Brooks has died of an overdose of Gaeta's morpha. Shark and Easy wake up and accuse Sweet Eight of having killed Brooks. Easy aims her pistol at Eight, who is shackled. Gaeta protests, but Eight tells them that she understands.

===Episode 6===

* Release date: December 29, 2008
* Running time: ~4:06

Raptor 1029 jumps into empty space on the first leg of Hoshi and Racetrack's search for the missing Raptor. They are disappointed to find nothing within DRADIS range, and make a second FTL jump to continue the search.

Back on the stranded Raptor 718, Easy and Shark are apparently asleep in the cockpit with the chronometer between them indicating the occupants’ available air supply counting down from nine hours and twenty-five minutes. A sleeping Gaeta dreams of Hoshi, then of his recent experiences aboard the Raptor. He awakes to find that Sweet Eight has freed herself from her bonds. When she asks if he’s going to restrain her again, he says his intention was to free her. After Eight cautions him against waking Shark and Easy, Gaeta hands her a scalpel and agrees to her earlier plan to physically interface with the Raptor’s systems. Eight slices open her palm and Gaeta helps her plug a data cable into the wound. Once Eight is connected, she says that the low oxygen levels in the compartment are making it difficult to project. When Gaeta asks what she is projecting, she replies, “You know where I am.” A flashback shows Gaeta and the Eight back on New Caprica, where the Eight gently kisses Gaeta. Back in the present, Eight attempts to do the same, but Gaeta interrupts her by saying he’s involved with someone. Though Eight tells him that she’s pleased and that he deserves his current happiness, the two kiss passionately until the Eight abruptly gasps, saying that she has found the Fleet. She then tells Gaeta to prepare for a jump, as she is about to take the Raptor home.

===Episode 7===

* Release date: December 31, 2008
* Running time: ~2:06

Aboard Raptor 1029, Racetrack mentions to Hoshi that she had hoped he and Gaeta would get together and was glad they finally did. Hoshi mentions Gaeta’s drive to do the right thing, which Racetrack inadvertently makes an offhand remark in response about the rarity and mortality attached to such a well-developed moral core and quickly admonishes herself for it. Hoshi absolves her of her slip of the tongue and encourages her to continue the search.

Raptor 718 completes its jump. The countdown on the occupants’ air supply reads eight hours and eleven minutes. Gaeta checks the rear console and finds to his chagrin that not only did the jump drain nearly all of the Raptor’s power reserves, but that neither the Fleet nor any other vessels are in DRADIS range. Gaeta surmises that the Fleet may still be nearby, but out of the Raptor’s DRADIS radius. Eight says she will send a pulse that will alert the Fleet to their position and estimates a ten-hour window for rescue. Gaeta heads to the cockpit to wake Shark and Easy, but is horrified to find them both dead, their throats slashed open. His hands are covered with their blood from his attempts to wake them. Gaeta then looks accusingly at Eight, whose only response is to silently meet his gaze.

===Episode 8===

* Release date: January 5, 2009
* Running time: ''Not yet available.''

''Plot breakdown not yet available.''

===Episode 9===

* Release date: January 9, 2009
* Running time: ''Not yet available.''

''Plot breakdown not yet available.''

===Episode 10===

* Release date: January 12, 2009
* Running time: ''Not yet available.''

''Plot breakdown not yet available.''

== Notes ==
* Felix Gaeta has a metal [[w:prosthesis|prosthetic]] leg.
* The two Number Eights are nicknamed "Sweet Eight" and "Pilot Eight" in the commentary by Jane Espenson, the latter being the one in a Cylon flight suit. However, the script for this webisode lists "Pilot Eight" as "Hard Eight."<ref>See: [[Sources: The Face of the Enemy]].</ref>

== Analysis ==
* The rebel Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] is still with the fleet.
* Saul Tigh has returned to duty, despite being outed as one of the [[Final Five]] Cylons.
* It now does not appear unusual to have Number Eights aboard ''Galactica'', or for them to be riding aboard Colonial shuttles.

== Questions ==
''Not yet available.''

== Official Statements ==
''Not yet available.''

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==
''Not yet available.''

== Cast ==

* [[Alessandro Juliani]] as Junior Lieutenant Felix Gaeta
* [[Grace Park]] as "Sweet Eight" and "Hard Eight"
* [[Michael Hogan]] as Colonel Saul Tigh
* [[Brad Dryborough]] as Junior Lieutenant Louis Hoshi
* [[Leah Cairns]] as Junior Lieutenant Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson
* [[Michael Rogers]] as Brooks
* [[Jessica Harmon]] as "Easy" Esrin
* [[William C. Vaughn]] as Lieutenant J. "Shark" Finnegan (credited as "Finn")




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