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Michael

2016-07-22T14:39:39Z

GusF:

: ''For people with the same name, see: [[Michael (disambiguation)]].''

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Originally hailing from [[Terra]], '''Michael''' was the subject of experimentation by one of Terra's political divisions for life on the [[Lunar colonies]]. With [[Sarah Fowler]], who was evidently an acquaintance, her children, as well as [[Melanie]], they fled the Lunar colonies successfully via the [[Lunar Seven]] shuttle ''[[Lunar Avion]]'' he liberated for this purpose.

However, thanks to [[Starbuck (TOS)|Lieutenant Starbuck]] and [[Apollo (TOS)|Captain Apollo]], the ship is automatically intercepted and brought aboard the [[Galactica (TOS)|''Galactica'']]. The tampering of Doctor [[Wilker]], despite his best efforts, accidentally revives Michael. He exits the craft through the decompression chamber, and stuns [[Reese]] after he doesn't heed Michael's warning. Michael's life is endangered due to the (relative) high-pressure of ''Galactica's'' life support systems.

When Apollo, Starbuck, Doctor [[Salik]], and [[Cassiopeia]] return Michael to his ship, he demands to know what is going on and the reason his ship had been pulled off course. After being informed of the reasons, he arrives at the conclusion that there are similarities to his and [[The Fleet (TOS)|the fleet]]'s plights. He re-enters the cryogenic chamber, as does his companion, Sarah.

With the ship back in space and on its original course, it eventually reaches its destination, [[Paradeen]]. Upon landing on the planet, they discover that Sarah's father has died, and that the droids managed to finish building the house. Much to the surprise of the Colonials, Michael isn't actually Sarah's husband. His faith in technology and Terra put him at odds with her. An instance of this came when [[Hector]] and [[Vector]] wanted to perform a dance from the Royal Theater on [[Terra]].

Upon discovering Hector's failure to deactivate and destroy the tracking beacon, he fears that it would herald the end of them all.

Michael later chastises Sarah for damaging the controls of both [[Viper (TOS)|Vipers]] after discovering that she wants Apollo to stay on the planet for reasons of courtship. Subsequently, Michael accompanies the party that goes after Starbuck in the catacombs of the nearby major city.

Michael is also responsible for dealing with Leiter and his men. Interestingly enough, however, after Leiter and his men are dealt with, Sarah and Michael grow closer and she becomes less and less inclined to fight him ([[Greetings from Earth]]).

== Notes ==

* Randolph Mantooth's brother also was in "[[Greetings from Earth]]" as a medtech from the [[Rising Star (TOS)|''Rising Star'']] (after Salik refused to extract the "[[Earthlings]]" from the sleeper-ship).

* Mantooth is probably best known for his role as John Gage, paramedic, on the series, ''[http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0068067/ Emergency!]''

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Uri

2016-07-22T14:38:42Z

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Once an honorable member of the [[Quorum of Twelve (TOS)|Quorum]] prior to its obliteration by the [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylons]], [[Sire]] '''Uri''' degraded into moral indecency, becoming a vestige of the man he once was.

[[Adama (TOS)|Adama]] thought highly of the man, as he was a thoughtful and moral spirit during his early days. However, power and fame have corrupted his moral and ethical standings, as well as physical appearance.

[[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]] and [[Boomer (TOS)|Boomer]] happen upon Sire Uri upon the starliner ''[[Rising Star (TOS)|Rising Star]]'', where he and a party of guests are gorging on deposits of horded food untouched by the [[pluton poisoning]] affecting most of the other ships of the [[The Fleet (TOS)|Fleet]]. When Apollo queries the Quorum member of the whereabouts of his wife ([[Siress Uri]]), he replied with somewhat shrouded mirth that she had not been able to make the voyage, as he continued his appreciation of his younger and decidedly aesthetically pleasing female companions.

While Apollo and Boomer manage to distribute Uri's food (appropriated with no willing assistance from Uri) throughout the famished survivors within [[The Fleet (TOS)|The Fleet]], Uri rallies members of the Quorum of the Twelve in an attempt to undermine Adama's authority. Uri goes so far as to support a dangerous plan to take out the Cylon mine field by Apollo, Adama's own son, to spite Adama.

After the Fleet crosses Cylon-laid minefield to [[Carillon]], Uri decides to push his own plan forward. He believes if the remaining Colonial's ability to wage war is inhibited, then the Cylons would no longer see humanity as a threat. In order to carry out his plan, he awards the three pilots that lead the Fleet to safety—Captain Apollo and Lieutenants [[Boomer (TOS)|Boomer]] and [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]]—with the Quorum's highest award. During this ceremony, Uri planned to announce his plan to the Fleet's citizens, who were sure to agree since they had enjoyed the luxuries that were bestowed upon them by the [[Ovions]].

However, Cylon intervention proves Uri's plan would never work. Apollo and Starbuck storm into the main hall with the Cylons (in collusion with the carnivorous Ovions) nipping at their heels. Uri's protests are instantly quieted as his life becomes endangered ([[Saga of a Star World]]).

== Notes ==

* The whereabouts of Sire Uri after "[[Saga of a Star World]]" remain unaccounted for in the ''Battlestar'' [[canon]]. It is likely that Uri either never made it back to the Fleet, or that he kept a decidedly low profile due to his actions, as these possibilities would account for his absence in future episodes that featured all 12 members of the Quorum.

* In the Marvel comic book version of the episode, Uri associates with a woman of questionable virtue named [[Medea]].

* Although never featured in the series after "Saga of a Star World", Uri [[Uri (alternate)|does show up]] frequently in both the Marvel Comics and the Berkley books.

*According to the novelization, "Saga of a Star World," Uri's home colony was Leo.

* Uri is name of a canton of Switzerland.

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Uri

2016-07-22T14:38:30Z

GusF:

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Once an honorable member of the [[Quorum of Twelve (TOS)|Quorum]] prior to its obliteration by the [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylons]], [[Sire]] '''Uri''' degraded into moral indecency, becoming a vestige of the man he once was.

[[Adama (TOS)|Adama]] thought highly of the man, as he was a thoughtful and moral spirit during his early days. However, power and fame have corrupted his moral and ethical standings, as well as physical appearance.

[[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]] and [[Boomer (TOS)|Boomer]] happen upon Sire Uri upon the starliner ''[[Rising Star (TOS)|Rising Star]]'', where he and a party of guests are gorging on deposits of horded food untouched by the [[pluton poisoning]] affecting most of the other ships of the [[The Fleet (TOS)|Fleet]]. When Apollo queries the Quorum member of the whereabouts of his wife ([[Siress Uri]]), he replied with somewhat shrouded mirth that she had not been able to make the voyage, as he continued his appreciation of his younger and decidedly aesthetically pleasing female companions.

While Apollo and Boomer manage to distribute Uri's food (appropriated with no willing assistance from Uri) throughout the famished survivors within [[The Fleet (TOS)|The Fleet]], Uri rallies members of the Quorum of the Twelve in an attempt to undermine Adama's authority. Uri goes so far as to support a dangerous plan to take out the Cylon mine field by Apollo, Adama's own son, to spite Adama.

After the Fleet crosses Cylon-laid minefield to [[Carillon]], Uri decides to push his own plan forward. He believes if the remaining Colonial's ability to wage war is inhibited, then the Cylons would no longer see humanity as a threat. In order to carry out his plan, he awards the three pilots that lead the Fleet to safety—Captain Apollo and Lieutenants [[Boomer (TOS)|Boomer]] and [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]]—with the Quorum's highest award. During this ceremony, Uri planned to announce his plan to the Fleet's citizens, who were sure to agree since they had enjoyed the luxuries that were bestowed upon them by the [[Ovions]].

However, Cylon intervention proves Uri's plan would never work. Apollo and Starbuck storm into the main hall with the Cylons (in collusion with the carnivorous Ovions) nipping at their heels. Uri's protests are instantly quieted as his life becomes endangered ([[Saga of a Star World]]).

== Notes ==

* The whereabouts of Sire Uri after "[[Saga of a Star World]]" remain unaccounted for in the ''Battlestar'' [[canon]]. It is likely that Uri either never made it back to the Fleet, or that he kept a decidedly low profile due to his actions, as these possibilities would account for his absence in future episodes that featured all 12 members of the Quorum.

* In the Marvel comic book version of the episode, Uri associates with a woman of questionable virtue named [[Medea]].

* Although never featured in the series after "Saga of a Star World", Uri [[Uri (alternate)|does show up]] frequently in both the Marvel Comics and the Berkley books.

*According to the novelization, "Saga of a Star World," Uri home colony was Leo.

* Uri is name of a canton of Switzerland.

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Arlene Martel

2014-08-13T09:25:05Z

GusF:

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'''Arlene Martel''' (14 April 1936 - 12 August 2014) was an American actress.

Martel's TV career stretches as early as 1958, starring in many popular (now considered "classic") shows such as ''Death Valley Days'',' ''The Twilight Zone'', ''Bewitched'', and ''Columbo''.

Many science fiction fans may remember Ms. Martel best as the scheming [[MemoryAlpha:Vulcan|Vulcan]] betrothed of Mr. [[MemoryAlpha:Spock|Spock]], [[MemoryAlpha:T'Pring|T'Pring]], in the episode "[[MemoryAlpha:Amok Time|Amok Time]]" from the original ''[[MemoryAlpha:Star Trek|Star Trek]]'' series.

Ms. Martel guest-starred as [[Adulteress 58]] in the [[Original Series]] episode, "[[The Long Patrol]]."

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Dan O'Herlihy

2014-06-23T11:52:43Z

GusF:

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'''Dan O'Herlihy''' (born May 1, 1919 in Wexford, Ireland, died February 17, 2005 in Malibu, California) was an Irish actor.

O'Herlihy gained notability as Brigadier General Warren A. Black in the film ''Fail-Safe'' (1964). From his film debut in the 1947 film, ''Odd Man Out'', O'Herlihy enjoyed many roles in theatrical roles throughout the 1950s and 1960s, gaining an Best Actor Oscar nomination for 1954's ''Robinson Crusoe''.

As television came to pass, O'Herlihy took on roles in television theatre programming such as ''Cavalcade America'' and ''Screen Directors Theatre'', but soon enjoyed episodic TV series such as ''Dr. Kildare'', ''The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters'', ''The Untouchables'', and ''The Big Valley''.

Television content became less serious (and with more available work) than feature films that O'Herlihy had done in the past, but O'Herlihy tried to keep his interests in both films and television, moving from serious to comedic and parody with roles in ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'', ''Mission: Impossible'', ''Ironside'' and ''Hawaii Five-O'' while performing in notable epic television series such as ''QB VII''.

By the 1970s, O'Herlihy become more of a character actor with guest-starring roles in many notable shows such as ''Serpico'', ''The Bionic Woman'', ''The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries'' and ''Barnaby Jones''.

In the 1980s and 1990s, O'Herlihy found roles in more TV films such as ''Mark Twain: Beneath the Laughter'' and shows such as ''Murder, She Wrote'' and ''Remington Steele''. Some feature films gave him renewed stardom for younger audiences with ''The Dead'' (1987) and as the kind-spirited alien mentor, Grig, in 1984's ''The Last Starfighter''. O'Herlihy also became part of the TV cult classic, ''Twin Peaks'' in several episodes.

Towards the end of his life, O'Herlihy took on voice acting roles for animated series such as ''The Pirates of Dark Water'' and ''Batman''.

O'Herlihy played Dr. [[Ravashol]] the brilliant creator of the [[Theta]]-class androids and a very dangerous weapon in the [[Original Series]] two-part episode, "[[The Gun on Ice Planet Zero]]".

O'Herlihy was married to Elsa Bennett from 1945 to his death of natural causes in 2005. They had five children, including ''Star Trek: Voyager'' guest star [[imdb:nm0641398|Gavan O'Herlihy]].

User:GusF

2013-10-01T10:08:29Z

GusF:

Most people call me Gus because, you know, that's my name. Well, it's Aengus really but that's neither here nor there. At a moment, I'm doing a [[Wikipedia:Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] in [[Wikipedia:legal history|legal history]] at [[Wikipedia:University College Dublin|UCD]]. Before that, I did a general law LLM in the [[Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh|University of Edinburgh]]. Before ''that'', I studied Law with history at UCD (it's like Trinity except less crap and with cooler guests like [[Wikipedia:Michael Palin|Michael Palin]], [[Wikipedia:Bill Nighy|Bill Nighy]] and [[Wikipedia:John Hurt|John Hurt]]).

My favourite film is ''[[Wikipedia:Back to the Future|Back to the Future]]'', my favourite TV show is ''[[Wikipedia:Stargate SG-1|Stargate SG-1]]'', I prefer vanilla over chocolate and my favourite colour is yellow. I've no difficulty seeing it which is a plus.

Politically, I'm a dyed in the wool democratic socialist of the [[Wikipedia:Tony Benn|Tony Benn]] school of thought. Some people consider socialism to be a radical philosophy but it's only radical if you consider the ideals of democracy, social justice and equality to be dangerous to the interests of the Establishment and the forces of the status quo.

The best music died with [[Wikipedia:John Lennon|John Lennon]] and [[Wikipedia:Freddie Mercury|Freddie Mercury]]. When [[Wikipedia:Bob Dylan|Bob Dylan]] and [[Wikipedia:Paul McCartney|Paul McCartney]] shuffle off this mortal coil, the church bells will all be broken.

I have a burning desire to seize power in a bloodless coup. All I need is a cadre of fanatics, a megaphone and a tank with "[[Wikipedia:Ride of the Valkyries|Ride of the Valkyries]]" playing in the background.

Alpert

2013-09-29T19:43:06Z

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'''Alpert''' is an agent with the [[Global Defense Department]] in the [[Caprica City]] bureau. He is tasked with the cataloging of evidence seized by the GDD in the years leading up to the [[Cylon War]].

In the year 42, Agent [[Jordan Duram]] bribes Alpert - whom he calls "Alpie" - to allow him to take evidence from a [[Sagittaron]] porn ring in order to bug [[Clarice Willow]]'s residence. While the wiretap Duram finds has been destroyed by rats, Duram discovers evidence that someone else has been in the evidence locker besides himself, Alpert and the rats - leading him to suspect a mole in the GDD.

Alpie is a fan of Tauron Stars ([[CAP]]: "[[Blowback]]").

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Athena Academy

2013-09-28T21:39:15Z

GusF:

[[Image:Caprica - Athena Academy.jpg|thumb|The Athena Academy on Caprica, fifty-eight years before the [[Fall]].]]

'''Athena Academy''' is an educational institution on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] where Sister [[Clarice Willow]] teaches.

[[Ben Stark]], [[Zoe Graystone]], [[Lacy Rand]], [[Keon Gatwick]] and [[Caston]] are students at the Academy fifty-eight years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Fall]]. The school has a liberal policy regarding various religious faiths, including monotheism ([[Caprica pilot]]).

The Academy is named after, and pledges its service to, [[Athena, Lord of Kobol]].
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== Related imagery ==

<gallery>
Image:Athena Academy sign.jpg|The sign for the Athena Academy, located near the walkway.
Image:Athena Academy Motto Plaque.jpg|The plaque depicting the motto of the Athena Academy.
Image:Athena Academy.jpg|A "behind-the-scenes" street-side view of the building depicting the Athena Academy.
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== Notes ==

* The Athena Building is the School of Theology building on the University of British Columbia's campus, located in [[w:Vancouver, British Columbia|Vancouver, British Columbia]], [[w:Canada|Canada]].<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://13thcolony.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/more-caprica-location-pics/|title=The 13th Colony: More Caprica Location Pics|date=17 June 2008|accessdate=18 June 2008|last=|first=|format=|language=}}</ref>
* The pictures above are considered "behind the scenes" photos and are thus not precisely in line with the in-universe depiction. (For instance, note the [[w:Ford|Ford]] pick-up truck on the bottom right corner of the main photo.)
* All photos, unless otherwise noted, are care of the [http://13thcolony.wordpress.com 13th Colony blog]. Further information available on each image's description page.

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Know Thy Enemy

2013-09-22T22:26:56Z

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== Overview ==
: ''[[Tomas Vergis]] comes to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] to seek vengeance on [[Daniel Graystone]] for two workers who were killed during the theft of his [[meta-cognitive processor]]. [[Clarice Willow|Sister Clarice]] tries to steal [[Zoe-A|Zoe's avatar]], a move that will reveal her plan and gain attention amidst the [[Soldiers of the One]] who are under the reckless leadership of [[Barnabas Greeley]].

== Summary ==

=== Teaser ===
*At the headquarters of the [[Vergis Corporation]] in [[Tauron City]], Tomas Vergis walks to his lab--and notices that a keypad lock has been ripped out of the wall. He pushes the door open and enters the corporation's MCP Research Laboratory. A piece of equipment is missing. When he looks up, he sees blood smears on a wall, and on the floor beneath, two dead bodies.
*One month later, at a museum on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]], Daniel and [[Amanda Graystone]] are enjoying a black tie function attended by many [[Graystone Industries]] shareholders; Daniel is receiving congratulations from the shareholders, the [[Caprica Buccaneers|C-Bucs]] have won today's game, and some time has passed since anyone has called Amanda "Terror Mom." As they dance, Daniel freezes upon seeing Vergis standing next to a sculpture. Vergis defends himself against Daniel's accusation of crashing the party, and abruptly tells him about the theft and murders. "We should get together while I'm on-world," Vergis says. "Discuss the situation."
*Upon returning to the [[Graystone Estate]], Amanda asks about the exchange. Daniel claims that Vergis' only interest was a claim of intellectual property infringement related to the [[U-87]]. In the middle of their discussion, [[Serge]] interrupts to announce that [[Cyrus Xander]] has arrived. As Daniel walks downstairs, Amanda calls out to him, "You'll tell me the rest when you're ready, yeah?"
*Xander asks Daniel for more details about Vergis' claims, while holding on to the hope that since there have been no legal charges related to the theft or the murders, Graystone and their company are still safe. Gradually, Daniel reveals that the [[Ha'la'tha]] was involved. Xander is flabbergasted and furious--and eavesdropping from inside the U-87, [[Zoe-A]] is troubled by the revelation. Xander calms down and offers advice for his meeting with Vergis. Daniel leaves to talk to someone about the matter, which Xander guesses is his "mob friend."

=== Act 1 ===
*[[Joseph Adama]] comes home with an Emptor Electronics bag, from which he takes out a [[holoband]] package. He activates the holoband, puts it on, and is transported to the interior of the virtual Graystone Industries building. Before he can get his bearings, a very bright-eyed, cheerful, and loud copy of Daniel welcomes him. Joseph tries repeatedly to get help finding his wife and daughter and accessing the "hacked worlds," but the avatar insists on showing him menus for licensed areas, while reminding him of the penalties for illegal operation. From somewhere, Joseph hears footsteps.
*Without warning, Daniel is standing over him in the apartment, backed up by his bodyguard, and removing Joseph's holoband. He accuses Joseph of intentionally allowing Vergis to know about his involvement in the MCP theft. Joseph counters by telling him that Vergis is a friend of the [[Guatrau]], and that if Vergis had known, Joseph would already be dead. He changes tracks, telling Daniel about [[Tamara-A]], which Daniel refuses to believe. They start to yell until [[William "Willie" Adama|Willie]] wakes up. The two men quietly finish, warning one another.
*Daniel cuts vegetables in his kitchen, thinking all the time about Vergis' claims and imagining the murders.
*Clarice listens to a [[wireless]] report about another bombing of a [[Holo Cafe|holo cafe]]. [[Olaf Willow|Olaf]] and [[Nestor Willow]] think it is Barnabas Greeley, a move that Clarice believes is badly timed. Nestor interrupts, telling her about a [[swipe drive]] which can be used to capture the Zoe avatar and to create more avatars. Clarice acknowledge it, but reminds him that Zoe-A is not just an avatar, but a continuation of the eternal soul. Nestor tells her that she has to get close to Daniel's computer with the swipe drive, and use it to take Zoe.
*Amanda takes a call. Clarice tells Amanda that she was "wonderful" on [[Gravedancing|''Sarno'']], and asks if she could come to the house to say goodbye to [[Zoe Graystone|Zoe]]. Amanda walks into an empty room and tells Clarice that the [[Global Defense Department]] took all of Zoe's things. Clarice offers to bring some of Zoe's books to Amanda.
*Joseph asks [[Sam Adama]] if there is anything the Guatrau could trace back to the two of them. Sam denies it, but Joseph pushes. Impatiently and vaguely, Sam tells his brother he did his job.
*In the Graystone Industries boardroom, Vergis eats an imperfect [[Tauron (RDM)|Tauron]] steak in front of Daniel, who is confused by Vergis' change of mood. Daniel tells him flatly that he had no part in the crimes--but Vergis interrupts, informing him that now he is interested in buying the Caprica Buccaneers for 300 million [[cubits]]. He offers several explanations why, but ends by reminding Daniel that Graystone Industries needs cash in order to buy enough time to solve its problems with the MCP.

=== Act 2 ===
*[[Philomon]] takes a break in the Graystone Industries U-87 lab to smoke and to check his V-Match account; to his dismay, no one seems to be interested in him. He has a mock conversation with the U-87 about dating--until Daniel walks in.
*In a warehouse on the [[Caprica City]] docks guarded by men with machine guns, [[Keon Gatwick]] informs [[Barnabas Greeley]] about Lacy's request. Keon vouches for her. Greeley walks out of his room, and shocks Keon with the sight of his right arm wrapped tightly and painfully with barbed wire; as Greeley puts it, "Pain keeps our brain from going down bad paths." He tells Keon that if God is guiding Lacy, then she will be accepted.
*Clarice uses her holoband, and is sitting in a small confessional-like room with her disguised [[STO]] contact, [[Alvo]]. S/he tells Clarice that the "Conclave" supports Greeley over her quest for [[apotheosis]]. She argues that she needs more time in order to give the Conclave something tangible.
*Walking through the halls of Graystone Industries, Xander tries to convince Daniel of the merit in Vergis' offer for the C-Bucs. Nothing they have done so far with the MCP has been successful, and the cash could give them the opportunity to find a solution. Daniel, however, remain suspicious.
*Serge greets Clarice at the front door of the Graystone estate. Clarice is unsure how to respond to Serge, seemingly inexperienced with robots. Amanda intercedes and invites her in cheerfully, but grows quiet after accepting Zoe's books. They talk briefly about Agent [[Jordan Duram]], and then Clarice notes a decanter of Scorpion [[Ambrosia]]. Both have a taste for it, even though most Capricans detest it. They start to drink, and Amanda invites Clarice into Daniel's lab to see Zoe's drawings.
*At the Adama apartment, Joseph shows security camera photographs of [[Tad Thorean]] to [[Evelyn]], and asks her to personally locate him.
*Clarice's attention is drawn from Zoe's pictures to the U-87. She manages to place the swipe drive onto Daniel's computer and starts to download. She and Amanda talk about Zoe's hatred of Daniel's work and how she would react to having a "killer robot" in the house. Just as the download is completed, Amanda excuses herself for being drunk. They say farewell and embrace, with Clarice still clutching the drive.

=== Act 3 ===
*Keon and Lacy arrive at the dock and meet with Greeley. Lacy hesitates to tell him the nature of what she wants transported offworld, admitting only that Zoe died trying to do so. Greeley rejects the request and dismisses her. He erupts at Keon for bringing her, but calms himself and encourages Keon to find out the nature of the cargo before making a final decision.
*Alone in the estate lab, Zoe-A accesses a computer and hastily types a response to Philomon's V-Match profile.
*In the Caprica mediasphere, Vergis' offer for the C-Bucs is announced, the [[Global Defense Department]] raises the security threat level to "Serious," and the latest episode of ''[[Backtalk with Baxter Sarno]]'' begins.
*[[Baxter Sarno]] introduces his next guest, an inventor, philanthropist, and an "excellent kisser"--Vergis. He presents Sarno with Tauron cigars, jokes about his rivalry with Daniel, and expresses sympathy for the Graystones and for others who were close to the victims of the [[Maglev]] bombing. He then pleasantly surprises the audience by announcing his intention to become a Caprican citizen.

=== Act 4 ===
*Philomon is working late when he receives an alert about a V-Match response from "Rachel." He slips on a holoband and enters the [[V-Club]] to meet her. Although Zoe-A is wearing glasses, Philomon instantly recognizes the face of Zoe Graystone. "Rachel" explains it as a failed attempt to protect herself from unwanted attention. Philomon confesses that despite the bombing, he admires Zoe Graystone's sense of principles.
*Olaf and Nestor find Clarice at the [[Dive Bar]], close to unconsciousness from alcohol and other drugs. However, they quickly find the swipe drive and note that she has completed her mission.
*Daniel wakes up in the middle of the night, consumed with thoughts about the murders in Vergis' laboratory.

=== Act 5 ===
*Evelyn enters the Adama apartment with copies of Tad Thorean's Caprica City driver's license and high school ID. She asks to look underneath a bandage at the [[There Is Another Sky|tattoo on his chest]]. They both become awkwardly aware of their proximity to one another.
*Talking over drinks in his living room, Daniel confidently rejects Vergis' offer for the C-Bucs and calls him out on his pretense of Caprican identity and allegiance, all a part of a scheme to win over Daniel's military contract. Vergis does not lie about his desire for the contract, but he continues that his real goal is "to tear up your dream." The two men killed during the break-in were close to him, "like brothers," so close that he served as ''no-ness'' to their children. He rolls up his sleeve and shows Daniel a long row of Tauron tattoos covering his forearm, with two marks near the top indicating these children, who are now orphans. Vergis pledges to take away the precious things in Daniel's life: the C-Bucs, Graystone Industries, and more.

== Notes ==
* In a reference to the [[Original Series]], a man on [[Talk Wireless]] mentions the [[Book of the Word]] at the beginning of Act Three.
* According to ''[[The Caprican]]'', the art [[Daniel Graystone]] and [[Tomas Vergis]] appreciate while speaking to one another is from [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]]. It is also real-life art by [[w:Bill Reid|Bill Reid]], ''Raven and the First Men'', on exhibit in [[w:Vancouver|Vancouver]] and displayed on the back of the "Canadian Journey" series twenty dollar bill.
* The first on-screen depiction of Tauron City is borrowed from [[Twelve Colonies of Kobol#Libran|Libran]] as shown in "[[The Plan]]." A small number of buildings were added to the shot, along with a wider view of the nighttime sky.
* Philomon's V-Match profile identifies him as a fan of Gemenese monster movies and ''[[Backtalk with Baxter Sarno]]''. Gemenese monster movies were previously referenced by Amanda Graystone in "[[Rebirth]]," stating that the U-87 reminded her of a monster that was depicted trampling Oranu.

== Analysis ==
* In this episode, [[Clarice Willow|Sister Clarice]] confirms that her faction of the [[Soldiers of the One|STO]] intended to use [[Zoe-A|Zoe's avatar]] as a means for achieving immortality, which she terms "[[apotheosis]]." This is a curious parallel to both [[Daniel Graystone]] and [[Joseph Adama]]'s own intents with the technology, as well as to the [[resurrection (RDM)|resurrection]] capabilities of the [[humanoid Cylon]]s. It is likely that this latter parallel is intentional and possibly connected, although it is also known from "[[No Exit]]" that the [[Final Five]] are responsible for (re)creating resurrection technology. Additionally, "[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]" makes it clear that the [[Significant Seven]] do not know how the technology works. The difference is that the process of Cylon resurrection does not create a digital clone of a person's personality, but rather downloads the same personality back into a humanoid Cylon body. The duplication part of "apotheosis" parallels the existence of multiple copies of the Cylon models.
* Just prior to the attacks on the [[Twelve Colonies of Kobol|Twelve Colonies]] as shown in "[[The Plan]]", the [[Hybrid]] reporting on the progress of the attack utters the line "Apotheosis was the beginning before the beginning," possibly confirming a link between Clarice's aims and the evolution of the Cylon race.
* Although [[Lacy Rand]]'s meeting with [[Barnabas Greeley|Barnabas]] appeared to be fruitless, it was not necessarily so. Barnabas revealed in the following conversation with [[Keon Gatwick|Keon]] that he is willing to work with Lacy, so long as he knows what she's up to.
* It is possible, given the [[Soldiers of the One|STO]]'s interest in [[Zoe Graystone]]'s avatar program that they will attempt to create digital avatars of themselves, as well as dead people they know.
* [[Evelyn]]'s intimate moment with [[Joseph Adama]], while brief, indicates that Evelyn may indeed become [[William "Willie" Adama|Willie]]'s stepmother, which would validate his parentage as established in "[[Hero]]".
* The STO are headed by a body called the Conclave, for which Barnabas acts as an enforcer.

== Questions ==
* Did [[Clarice Willow|Clarice]] really obtain [[Zoe Graystone|Zoe]]'s avatar program? If so, will she and the [[Soldiers of the One|STO]] make more avatars with it? ([[The Imperfections of Memory|Answer]])
* Will the program ever be used to make more than one avatar of the same person?
* Given the similarities between "apotheosis" (as described by Clarice's faction) and [[resurrection]] is there any connection between the two? If so are [[Zoe-A]] and [[Tamara-A]] related to the [[Significant Eight]]'s original selves (before they assumed [[humanoid Cylon|humanoid form]])?
* How does [[Tomas Vergis]] plan to ruin [[Daniel Graystone|Daniel]]?
** Will he succeed?
* Will Vergis discover [[Joseph Adama]]'s connection to the robbery? If so, how will the [[Guatrau]] react?
* Does [[Zoe-A]] have an ulterior motive in befriending [[Philomon]] within the V-world? Or is she simply lonely? ([[The Imperfections of Memory|Answer]])
* Will Philomon discover Zoe-A's true identity? If so, how will he react? ([[End of Line|Answer]])
* Will [[Evelyn]]'s relations with Joseph Adama advance beyond the professional? ([[False Labor|Answer]])
* Is Barnabas Greeley mentally unstable?
* What makes Greeley such a fervent monotheist?
* Will the disagreement between the factions of the STO represented by Greeley and Willow come to a head? ([[Retribution|Answer]])
* What is a ''no-ness''?

== Official Statements ==

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==
* ''[[Clarice Willow]] and [[Amanda Graystone]] discuss the [[Cylon Prototype]], unaware that they are commenting on [[Zoe-A]] herself, inside the prototype:''
: '''Clarice:''' Ooh, that's a scary thing.
: '''Amanda:''' Oh yeah, that. That is the very, very important defense project that Daniel's been working on. Frakkin' ugly monster.

== Guest Stars ==
*[[Scott Porter]] as [[Nestor Willow]]
*[[Patton Oswalt]] as [[Baxter Sarno]]
*[[John Pyper-Ferguson]] as [[Tomas Vergis]]
*[[James Marsters]] as [[Barnabas Greeley]]
*[[Alex Arsenault]] as [[Philomon]]
*[[Sina Najafi]] as [[William "Willie" Adama|William Adama]]
*[[Hiro Kanagawa]] as [[Cyrus Xander]]
*[[Jim Thomson]] Voice of [[Serge]]
*[[Liam Sproule]] as [[Keon Gatwick]]
*[[Feguins Toussaint]] as Bodyguard [[Sean]]
*[[Panou]] as [[Olaf Willow]]
*[[Teryl Rothery]] as [[Evelyn]]
*[[Erica Carroll]] as Woman
*[[D. Harlan Cutshall]] as Man

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Caesar

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[[Image:Caprica - Caesar the dog.jpg|thumb|Caesar sitting at [[Zoe-R]]'s feet ([[Rebirth]]).]]

'''Caesar''' is the [[Graystone]] family's dog. He was the puppy of [[Daniel Graystone|Daniel]]'s previous dog.<ref>As stated in [https://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10799902489 Serge's twitter account]</ref> He was allowed in Daniel's lab and appeared to sense that there was a sentience in the [[U-87]] robot ([[CAP]]: "[[The Imperfections of Memory]]"). In an attempt to convince the U-87 to identify itself as [[Zoe-A|an avatar of his daughter Zoe]], Daniel gives the robot a handgun and orders it to shoot Caesar. It complies, but the gun is loaded with blanks, sparing the dog. Zoe was aware of this because her Centurion body could sense the gun's weight was too low to be filled with real bullets; otherwise, she might have turned it on Daniel ([[CAP]]: "[[Ghosts in the Machine]]").

== Notes ==

*Caesar can be seen clearly in the [[Caprica pilot|pilot episode]], in the Graystones' living room just after Daniel kicks [[Lacy Rand]] out and revokes her security clearance. [http://i387.photobucket.com/albums/oo311/ninanintius/bsg/Caprica-S00E001-ScreenShots-Grey-1.jpg]
* "Caesar" is a Latin word meaning "head of hair," although it later becomes synonymous with [[w:Julius Caesar|Julius Caesar]].
* Caesar and [[Jake_(New_Caprica)|Jake (in New Caprica)]] were possibly portrayed by the same dog.

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Jake (New Caprica)

2013-09-22T16:09:44Z

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:''For the dog of the same name that belonged to [[Billy Keikeya]], see: [[Jake (Billy's dog)]]''

[[Image:Jake and bowl.jpg|thumb|Jake with his yellow, perpetually empty bowl.]]
[[Image:Jake c1.jpg|thumb|Jake meeting Romo Lampkin aboard ''Colonial One''.]]

'''Jake''' is a dog on [[New Caprica]] that has a yellow bowl. The bowl serves as an indicator flag for a dead drop. When this bowl is flipped over, the [[Felix Gaeta|inside source]] within the [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] faux administration notifies the [[New Caprica Resistance]] of important information to be used to aid the group ([[Occupation]]).

Jake is also known to a copy of [[Number Three]], who is pleased with the fact that Jake doesn't care who is human and who is [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] ([[Exodus, Part I]]).

Jake's involvement with the resistance is known to President [[Lee Adama]], who calls him a hero of New Caprica. As his previous owners could no longer care for the dog, Adama gifts Jake to [[Romo Lampkin]] after he discovers that Lampkin's cat, [[Lance]], died weeks prior ([[Sine Qua Non]]).

Jake is seen being walked by Lampkin aboard Galactica when Lee Adama appoints him President of the Colonies ([[Daybreak, Part I]]). He presumably leaves ''Galactica'' with Lampkin and settles with him on New Earth, though he is not seen with Lampkin since landing on the second Earth.

==Notes==
* Jake is not the only living animal from the Colonies appearing in the [[Re-imagined Series]] to date. Rats and bats are seen on Caprica. For more on other life forms mentioned in the series, see [[Life Forms of the Twelve Colonies]].
* The dog used to portray Jake in [[Season 3 (2006-07)|Season 3]]'s [[New Caprica]] arc is a [[Wikipedia:Landseer (dog)|Landseer Newfoundland]]. Newfoundland's are known for their general lack of aggressive tendencies, and an instinctive ability to perform water rescues. However, a different breed of dog is used to portray Jake in [[Season 4 (2008)|Season 4]]'s "[[Sine Qua Non]]".
* Jake is named after [[Ron Moore]]'s [[w:Australian Shepherd|Australian Shepherd]].<ref>{{cite companion|page=42|season=3}}</ref>
* According to actor [[Mark Sheppard]], who plays Romo Lampkin, Jake is the ancestor of all modern dogs.<ref>[http://io9.com/5336914/in-defense-of-romo-lampkin--and-his-mitochondrial-dog]</ref>
* Jake and [[Caesar]] (in ''[[Caprica_(series)|Caprica]]'') were possibly portrayed by the same dog.

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Jessica Harmon

2013-09-21T15:48:26Z

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'''Jessica Harmon''' (born December 27, 1985) is the actress who portrayed Ensign [[Esrin|"Easy" Esrin]] in "[[The Face of the Enemy]]" webisodes.

Born in [[w:Barrie|Barrie, Ontario, Canada]], she has appeared in such television series as ''[[w:The Days|The Days]]'', ''[[w:Killer Instinct (TV series)|Killer Instinct]]'', ''[[w:Kyle XY|Kyle XY]]'', ''[[w:Life As We Know It|Life As We Know It]]'', ''[[w:The New Addams Family|The New Addams Family]]'', ''[[w:The Outer Limits#1995–2002 (modern series)|The Outer Limits]]'', ''[[w:Pasadena (TV series)|Pasadena]]'', ''[[w:Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' and ''[[w:Whistler (TV series)|Whistler]]''. Her film work includes ''[[w:Agent Cody Banks|Agent Cody Banks]]'', ''[[w:Black Christmas (2006 film)|Black Christmas]]'', ''[[w:Hollow Man 2|Hollow Man 2]]'', and ''[[w:John Tucker Must Die|John Tucker Must Die]]''. According to [[w:Internet Movie Database|IMDb]], Harmon will appear in the horror film ''[[w:Deep Cove (film)|Deep Cove]]''.

She is the elder sister of actor [[Richard Harmon]] who played [[Tad Thorean|Tad "Heracles" Thorean]] on ''[[Caprica (series)|Caprica]]''.

== External Links ==
*[http://www.jessica-harmon.com/ Official site]

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Richard Harmon

2013-09-21T15:48:13Z

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'''Richard Harmon''' (born August 18, 1991) is the actor who portrays [[Heracles]] in ''[[Caprica (series)|Caprica]]''.

He is the younger brother of actress [[Jessica Harmon]] who played Ensign [[Esrin|"Easy" Esrin]] in [[TRS]]: "[[The Face of the Enemy]]".

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Larry

2013-09-20T21:38:50Z

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: ''For other subjects with the same name, see: [[Larry (disambiguation)]].''

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'''Larry''' is the husband of [[Sam Adama]]. Although Larry and Sam appear to have a strong relationship, the couple have not yet started a family due to what Larry describes as Sam's "tough guy" work as a [[Ha'la'tha]] enforcer ([[CAP]]: "[[Reins of a Waterfall]]"). As a non-Tauron, Larry finds it difficult to accept Sam's preoccupation with the rebellion against [[Andreas Phaulkon]] or his willingness to send a portion of their income to the rebels ([[CAP]]: "[[False Labor]]"). Several years later, Larry's relationship with Sam appears to continue, as he joins Sam in a religious ceremony for their young nephew, [[William Adama]] ([[CAP]]: "[[Apotheosis (episode)|Apotheosis]]").

==Notes==
*Larry's surname is never used. Therefore it is a matter of speculation whether he retained his own surname or took the name Adama. The standard practice with regards to family names in homosexual marriages between two people in the Twelve Colonies remains unknown.

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Ben Stark

2013-09-20T21:36:27Z

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'''Benjamin "Ben" Stark''' is a student at the [[Athena Academy]] on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]], a private religious school. He and some of other bright students, including [[Lacy Rand]] and Stark's girlfriend, [[Zoe Graystone]], are introduced by the school headmistress, Sister [[Clarice Willow]] to the [[Soldiers of the One]], an illegal [[monotheism|monotheistic]] cult of one [[God (RDM)|god]]. He was the best friend of [[Keon Gatwick]], who was likewise a member of the STO.

Ben becomes a fanatical monotheist and ostensibly goes with Graystone and Lacy to leave Caprica to live on [[Gemenon]]. As they board the [[Lev]] subway train to head for the space port to leave Caprica, Lacy backs out of the plan to run away and stays behind. Instead (and without Zoe's prior knowledge of his intent) he blows up their train and himself with a bomb ([[CAP]]: [[Caprica (pilot)|''Caprica'' pilot]]).

During the a public ceremony held on Junius 7th denoting the one month marking of the tragedy in which the families of the victims spoke of their loss Natalie Stark, Ben's mother, gave Amanda Graystone various objects that belonged to her daughter Zoe that were found in Ben's room by his mother including a large foldable gold STO infinity symbol. Amanda Graystone was totally unaware that Zoe had a boyfriend or was a member of STO. In her grief and shock she took the podium and told the assembled victims' families as well as the rest of the world that her daughter was the bomber of Maglev 23, unfairly making her daughter, herself, and her husband pariahs in the eyes of the Worlds ([[Rebirth]]).

On Aprilus 9th, YR41 Stark was picked up for a post 10pm curfew violation by the [[Global Defense Department|GDD]] nearly a year prior to his bombing. He was found with what are now known to be bomb making materials, but explained away at the time by Stark to his interrogator, Agent [[Youngblood]] as [[w:model rocketry|model rocketry]] components. He was let go on a warning due to lack of probable cause and the plausibility of his explanation for the materials. His tape would go undiscovered for over a month after the bombing because Agent Youngblood spelled his surname "Starke" with an "e" and consequently misfiled. Youngblood herself totally forgot about Stark. Fearing departmental embarrassment and to protect his partner Agent Youngblood, this tape was destroyed by Agent [[Jordan Durham]] perhaps on GDD Director [[Gara Singh]]'s broad hint ([[CAP]]: "[[Reins of a Waterfall]]").

== Notes ==

* A previous report regarding the [[Caprica pilot|pilot]] noted that he uploaded his memories into an online [[holographic avatar]] named '''Ben-A''', who has contact only with Sister Willow.<ref name="casting call">{{cite_web|url=http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/04/03/exclusive-caprica-casting-info-revealed/|title=Caprica casting info|date=Apr 3, 2008}}</ref> However this plotline does not exist in the final version of the pilot except for a deleted scene viewable on the DVD.

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Ben Stark

2013-09-20T21:35:38Z

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'''Benjamin "Ben" Stark''' is a student at the [[Athena Academy]] on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]], a private religious school. He and some of other bright students, including [[Lacy Rand]] and Stark's girlfriend, [[Zoe Graystone]], are introduced by the school headmistress, Sister [[Clarice Willow]] to the [[Soldiers of the One]], an illegal [[monotheism|monotheistic]] cult of one [[God (RDM)|god]]. He was the best friend of [[Keon Gatwick]], who was likewise a member of the STO.

Ben becomes a fanatical monotheist and ostensibly goes with Graystone and Lacy to leave Caprica to live on [[Gemenon]]. As they board the [[Lev]] subway train to head for the space port to leave Caprica, Lacy backs out of the plan to run away and stays behind. Instead (and without Zoe's prior knowledge of his intent) he blows up their train and himself with a bomb ([[CAP]]: [[Caprica (pilot)|''Caprica'' pilot]]).

During the a public ceremony held on Junius 7th denoting the one month marking of the tragedy in which the families of the victims spoke of their loss Natalie Stark, Ben's mother, gave Amanda Graystone various objects that belonged to her daughter Zoe that were found in Ben's room by his mother including a large foldable gold STO infinity symbol. Amanda Graystone was totally unaware that Zoe had a boyfriend or was a member of STO. In her grief and shock she took the podium and told the assembled victims' families as well as the rest of the world that her daughter was the bomber of Maglev 23, unfairly making her daughter, herself, and her husband pariahs in the eyes of the Worlds ([[Rebirth]]).

On Aprilus 9th, YR41 Stark was picked up for a post 10pm curfew violation by the [[Global Defense Department|GDD]] nearly a year prior to his bombing. He was found with what are now known to be bomb making materials, but explained away at the time by Stark to his interrogator, Agent [[Youngblood]] as [[w:model rocketry|model rocketry]] components. He was let go on a warning due to lack of probable cause and the plausibility of his explanation for the materials. His tape would go undiscovered for over a month after the bombing because Agent Youngblood spelled his surname "Starke" with an "e" and consequently misfiled. Youngblood herself totally forgot about Stark. Fearing departmental embarrassment and to protect his partner Agent Youngblood, this tape was destroyed by Agent [[Jordan Durham]] perhaps on GDD Director [[Gara Singh]]'s broad hint ([[CAP]]: "[[The Reins of a Waterfall]]").

== Notes ==

* A previous report regarding the [[Caprica pilot|pilot]] noted that he uploaded his memories into an online [[holographic avatar]] named '''Ben-A''', who has contact only with Sister Willow.<ref name="casting call">{{cite_web|url=http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/04/03/exclusive-caprica-casting-info-revealed/|title=Caprica casting info|date=Apr 3, 2008}}</ref> However this plotline does not exist in the final version of the pilot except for a deleted scene viewable on the DVD.

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Ben Stark

2013-09-20T21:33:49Z

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'''Ben Stark''' is a student at the [[Athena Academy]] on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]], a private religious school. He and some of other bright students, including [[Lacy Rand]] and Stark's girlfriend, [[Zoe Graystone]], are introduced by the school headmistress, Sister [[Clarice Willow]] to the [[Soldiers of the One]], an illegal [[monotheism|monotheistic]] cult of one [[God (RDM)|god]]. He was the best friend of [[Keon Gatwick]], who was likewise a member of the STO.

Ben becomes a fanatical monotheist and ostensibly goes with Graystone and Lacy to leave Caprica to live on [[Gemenon]]. As they board the [[Lev]] subway train to head for the space port to leave Caprica, Lacy backs out of the plan to run away and stays behind. Instead (and without Zoe's prior knowledge of his intent) he blows up their train and himself with a bomb ([[CAP]]: [[Caprica (pilot)|''Caprica'' pilot]]).

During the a public ceremony held on Junius 7th denoting the one month marking of the tragedy in which the families of the victims spoke of their loss Natalie Stark, Ben's mother, gave Amanda Graystone various objects that belonged to her daughter Zoe that were found in Ben's room by his mother including a large foldable gold STO infinity symbol. Amanda Graystone was totally unaware that Zoe had a boyfriend or was a member of STO. In her grief and shock she took the podium and told the assembled victims' families as well as the rest of the world that her daughter was the bomber of Maglev 23, unfairly making her daughter, herself, and her husband pariahs in the eyes of the Worlds ([[Rebirth]]).

On Aprilus 9th, YR41 Stark was picked up for a post 10pm curfew violation by the [[Global Defense Department|GDD]] nearly a year prior to his bombing. He was found with what are now known to be bomb making materials, but explained away at the time by Stark to his interrogator, Agent [[Youngblood]] as [[w:model rocketry|model rocketry]] components. He was let go on a warning due to lack of probable cause and the plausibility of his explanation for the materials. His tape would go undiscovered for over a month after the bombing because Agent Youngblood spelled his surname "Starke" with an "e" and consequently misfiled. Youngblood herself totally forgot about Stark. Fearing departmental embarrassment and to protect his partner Agent Youngblood, this tape was destroyed by Agent [[Jordan Durham]] perhaps on GDD Director [[Gara Singh]]'s broad hint ([[CAP]]: "[[The Reins of a Waterfall]]").

== Notes ==

* A previous report regarding the [[Caprica pilot|pilot]] noted that he uploaded his memories into an online [[holographic avatar]] named '''Ben-A''', who has contact only with Sister Willow.<ref name="casting call">{{cite_web|url=http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/04/03/exclusive-caprica-casting-info-revealed/|title=Caprica casting info|date=Apr 3, 2008}}</ref> However this plotline does not exist in the final version of the pilot except for a deleted scene viewable on the DVD.

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Ben Stark

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'''Ben Stark''' is a student at the [[Athena Academy]] on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]], a private religious school. He and some of other bright students, including [[Lacy Rand]] and Stark's girlfriend, [[Zoe Graystone]], are introduced by the school headmistress, Sister [[Clarice Willow]] to the [[Soldiers of the One]], an illegal [[monotheism|monotheistic]] cult of one [[God (RDM)|god]]. He was the best friend of [[Keon Gatwick]], who was likewise a member of the STO.

Ben becomes a fanatical monotheist and ostensibly goes with Graystone and Lacy to leave Caprica to live on [[Gemenon]]. As they board the [[Lev]] subway train to head for the space port to leave Caprica, Lacy backs out of the plan to run away and stays behind. Instead (and without Zoe's prior knowledge of his intent) he blows up their train and himself with a bomb ([[CAP]]: [[Caprica (pilot)|''Caprica'' pilot]]).

During the a public ceremony held on Junius 7th denoting the one month marking of the tragedy in which the families of the victims spoke of their loss Natalie Stark, Ben's mother, gave Amanda Graystone various objects that belonged to her daughter Zoe that were found in Ben's room by his mother including a large foldable gold STO infinity symbol. Amanda Graystone was totally unaware that Zoe had a boyfriend or was a member of STO. In her grief and shock she took the podium and told the assembled victims' families as well as the rest of the world that her daughter was the bomber of Maglev 23, unfairly making her daughter, herself, and her husband pariahs in the eyes of the Worlds ([[Rebirth]]).

On Aprilus 9th, YR41 Stark was picked up for a post 10pm curfew violation by the [[Global Defense Department|GDD]] nearly a year prior to his bombing. He was found with what are now known to be bomb making materials, but explained away at the time by Stark to his interrogator, Agent Youngblood as [[w:model rocketry|model rocketry]] components. He was let go on a warning due to lack of probable cause and the plausibility of his explanation for the materials. His tape would go undiscovered for over a month after the bombing because Agent Youngblood spelled his surname "Starke" with an "e" and consequently misfiled. Youngblood herself totally forgot about Stark. Fearing departmental embarrassment and to protect his partner Agent Youngblood, this tape was destroyed by Agent [[Jordan Durham]] perhaps on GDD Director [[Gara Singh]]'s broad hint ([[CAP]]: "[[The Reins of a Waterfall]]").

== Notes ==

* A previous report regarding the [[Caprica pilot|pilot]] noted that he uploaded his memories into an online [[holographic avatar]] named '''Ben-A''', who has contact only with Sister Willow.<ref name="casting call">{{cite_web|url=http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/04/03/exclusive-caprica-casting-info-revealed/|title=Caprica casting info|date=Apr 3, 2008}}</ref> However this plotline does not exist in the final version of the pilot except for a deleted scene viewable on the DVD.

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Caston

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'''Caston''' is a student at the [[Athena Academy]] who is assigned the role of school [[w:Prefect#Academic|prefect]].

One day before the bombing on [[Maglev 23]], Caston catches [[Zoe Graystone]] illicitly using a [[holoband]] to access the [[V-Club]] in a school bathroom ([[CAP]]: [[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]).

After [[Amanda Graystone]] erroneously announces that Zoe was a bomber of ''Maglev 23'' and a member of the [[Soldiers of the One]], Caston verbally assaults [[Lacy Rand]] for being a friend to the "terrorist" ([[CAP]]: "[[Reins of a Waterfall]]").

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Natalie Stark

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'''Natalie Stark''' is the mother of ''[[Maglev 23]]'' suicide bomber and [[Soldiers of the One]] member [[Ben Stark]].

She is aware of her son's relationship with [[Zoe Graystone]]—a relationship that [[Amanda Graystone]] is unaware about. Stark later confirms the existence of this relationship to Amanda, who was previously informed about it by [[GDD]] Agent [[Jordan Durham]], and gives a few possessions that Zoe left at the Stark residence. Amongst these possessions is an [[infinity symbol]] brooch that leads Graystone to the erroneous conclusion that she was one of the bombers of ''Maglev 23'' ([[CAP]]: "[[Rebirth]]").

It is unknown whether or not Stark knew about Zoe or Ben's involvement with the STO.

== Notes ==

* [[Nimet Kanji]] also portrayed [[Candace Myson]] in the [[Re-imagined Series]] episode "[[Litmus]]."

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Earth (RDM)

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[[Image:1stearth.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Earth, home of the Thirteenth Tribe, from orbit.]]
'''Earth''' is the believed destination of the [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]] of [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], as attested in the [[Sacred Scrolls]]. Prior to its discovery, its existence is considered purely mythical and legendary among Colonial, and even Cylon, society. Earth is also the name of a planet Colonial survivors eventually settle after a long, and arduous journey across space after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies.

==Earth: Home of the Thirteenth==
===Beginnings===
[[Image:EarthBCH.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Earth, as it appeared before its destruction.]]
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The legend of Earth begins at least 4,000 years ago on Ancient [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], where Scriptures tell of the exodus of a Thirteenth Tribe of man during a period of great turmoil across the planet. It is said that "''they traveled far and made their home upon a planet called Earth...which circled a distant and unknown star''". While not many previously believed in Earth, there are however, supposed [[Arrow of Apollo|artifacts]] are rumored to point the general bearing to the planet. These rumors are later confirmed after the destruction of the Colonies ([[TRS]]: "[[Miniseries]]", "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]").

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===Settlement and Development===
For nearly 2,000 years, the Thirteenth Tribe flourished on the planet, creating a contemporary civilization comparable to the Twelve Colonies before their fall, including development into their own robotics and artificial intelligence. Unbeknownst to the Colonials (Or even Modern Cylons), the Thirteenth Tribe was a race of artificial beings, much like the Significant Seven humanoid Cylons, that were created on Kobol thousands of years ago. They relied on [[Resurrection (RDM)|Organic Memory Transfer]] technology to download into new bodies after their deaths, however sometime after leaving Kobol, they gained the ability to reproduce sexually, and the technology fell out of use ([[TRS]]: "[[No Exit]]").

:''The fact that the Tribe was artificial in nature is never fully revealed to the civilians of the fleet. To them, they were a society of humans that were destroyed by their robotic creations much like their society was four years prior.''

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===Apocalypse===
:''Main article: [[Final Five]]
Approximately 2,000 years BCH, the Tribe's robotic creations rebelled against their creators, in an act of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutually_assured_destruction mutually assured destruction]. The attack caught the population off guard, with many at work, or enjoying leisurely activities. Evidence of people going about their lives is still visible on the remains nearly 2,000 years after the holocaust.<br />
However, prior to the apocalypse, [[Final Five|five persons]] started seeing visions of [[Messengers|strange people]] warning them of the upcoming cataclysm. The five worked hard to recreate the lost Organic Memory Transfer technology, and built a ship in orbit to carry their experiments. After their deaths, the five were resurrected on this ship, and opted to follow the Tribe's original course back to Kobol, leaving Earth behind ([[TRS]]: "[[Revelations]]", "[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]", "[[No Exit]]").

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===Earth's Fate===
[[Image:Earth Ruins.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Earth's ruins, two millennia after the Fall of the Thirteenth Tribe.]]
At the conclusion of the destructive attacks, Earth was left burning, and poisonous. Survivors (if any) were left to die a slow and painful death, as the planet's weather absorbed and spread deadly radioactive particles through the atmosphere, and ground water. Despite residual radiation remaining in the soil, Earth had shown signs of recovery at the time of discovery. Abundant plant life had returned, and had already started reclaiming Earth's ruins. <br />
Without a population to maintain the effects of nature, many of the ruins were also being reclaimed by changing weather patterns and rising ocean tides. A large city on the planet visited by both Colonial and Cylon authority was largely submerged in water, with many artifacts and remains buried in sand or submerged completely. Earth's ultimate fate is unknown, however the surface will continue to evolve and recover much like Kobol did, with the ruins and any evidence of the once thriving civilization, eventually disappearing and becoming lost forever to history.

Unable to support human life, the planet is abandoned by the Colonials days after its discovery ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]", "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]", "[[Revelations]]", "[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]").

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==A New Earth: The Promised Land==
[[Image:Earth, "Daybreak, Part II".jpg|thumb|right|200px|The Colonial's new home, as it appears from the moon's orbit.]]
By an infinitesimal chance, a habitable planet is found by pilot [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]], after she is able to extrapolate [[FTL]] Jump coordinates from a [[The Music|song]] she used to play as a child. The vision came to her after notes from the song were drawn out for her by the child [[Hera Agathon|Hera]]. Lt. Thrace inputs these FTL coordinates into ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> FTL computer after it needed to make a quick escape from the Cylon Colony. ''Galactica'', damaged from battle, nearly comes apart at the seams as the ship drifts over a moon, and into the system.

:''As depicted in "[[Crossroads, Part II]]", this planet is located relatively close to the [[Ionian Nebula]], however, the FTL coordinates Lt. Thrace uses to jump to the planet would only work from the location of the Cylon Colony.''

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===Diverse Wildlife===
[[Image:Diverse Wildlife.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Earth's diverse wildlife.]]
After Colonial recon of the planet, Earth is discovered to have a diverse range of wildlife, more than the Twelve Colonies put together. It also features a race of primitive humanoids, having evolved here separately from those on Kobol. Upon further study, these humanoids are discovered to be compatible with Colonial DNA, which opens up the possibility of Colonials and Cylons interbreeding with them. These humanoids have evolved to set up a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, and are seen moving on foot to their next hunting ground.

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===Colonial/Cylon Settlement and Future Evolution===
[[Image:Settlement.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Survivors heading for shelter.]]
With ''Galactica'' in pieces, and the Colonial Fleet not fairing any better, it is decided that the planet will be settled, with the remaining Cylons soon joining them. Plans begin for new cities to be built, however, those plans are soon abandoned in favor of starting fresh in an attempt to break the cycle of violence. Colonial units scout the planet, and eventually determine the best possible chance for survival is to split the survivors up into groups, and spread them across different sites around the globe. These locations are documented, and presented to each of the groups for future use. After the survivors set up their camps, the fleet and any remaining technology were then scuttled. The settling Colonials christen this new planet ''Earth'', in honor of the promised land they've been chasing after for the last four years.

Eventually, surviving Colonial and Cylon settlers, and their descendants begin intermixing with the indigenous humanoids already living on the planet, creating a new race of humankind, with Hera Agathon becoming "Mitochondrial Eve" - the most recent common matrilineal ancestor of all living humans. Her fossilized remains are uncovered nearly 150,000 years after the arrival of the surviving fleet ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

:''Over 150,000 years later, humankind has once more built an advanced society on the brink of major technological breakthroughs, much like the Twelve Colonies, Earth, and Kobol before them. The series ends detailing modern day robotics, with Jimi Hendrix's version of "Along the Watchtower" playing in the background.''

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==Notes==
* [[Gaeta]] comments in "[[Revelations]]" that the constellations seen from orbit of the Earth they'd just found match those seen in the [[Tomb of Athena]]. This was later proven incorrect, as those constellations are actually visible from a different Earth over one hundred centuries later ([[Daybreak, Part II]]). It would have been extremely improbable that the constellations visible from the Earth found in "[[Revelations]]" would have looked the same as those of New Earth. That being said, while on the first Earth, all of the constellations of Zodiac could all be seen at once, this is not possible on the current Earth.

*From what we know of the nature of navigation in FTL jumps, the odds of the coordinates used by Kara Thrace to jump ''Galactica'' from the Colony to the new Earth, and actually achieving the end they did are no less than infinitesimal. One of the elements in FTL navigation is the point of origin. A point of origin is a necessary factor in many navigational forms in order to plot direction and distance to a required destination, and FTL navigation is no different. Essentially, what this means is that the coordinates entered by Kara Thrace into the FTL computer aboard Galactica would only jump the ship to its new Earth destination from the precise astral location of the ''Galactica'' when it initiated the jump from the Colony. Given the coordinates origins in The Music and the revelation that a divine entity is in some way shaping the events which have taken place in the series, as seen by Pythia, it could be suggested that the attack on the Colony, the resulting success and retreat, were in some way destined – while this may seem logical it is purely conjectural, the way these events have took place can not be explained by rational means.

== Official Statements ==
* ''[[Edward James Olmos]] jokingly describes how he thinks the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] could find Earth:''

:I personally — this is not [from] any of the writers, but my thing — I wanted to come into [the present day], find Earth, cruise on top of it, see it for what it is, and as we're coming down to it, we're blown up, we're nuked. And then [someone says to] the [[w:President of the United States|President of the United States]], which is [[w:George W. Bush|[George W.] Bush]], "They've been taken care of. Thank God you saved the world again." And you turn, and you see who told him that, and it's one of the Cylons. [''Laughs'']<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20015932_2,00.html|title=Four-ward, Cylons: Edward James Olmos|date=23 March 2007|accessdate=22 June 2007|last=Vary|first=Adam B.|format=|language=}}</ref>

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* Other Series
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** Earth (1980)|Earth from "Galactica 1980"
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Apollo University

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: ''For other references with the same name, see: [[Apollo]].''

'''Apollo University''' is an educational institution on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]], named after the [[Apollo, Lord of Kobol|Lord of Kobol]].

Fifty-eight years prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], [[Zoe Graystone]] has a computer science wing of Apollo University named after her ([[CAP]]: "[[Caprica pilot]]").

According to ''[[The Caprican]]'', [[Daniel Graystone]] attended the university holding a [[w:Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] in Computer Science.<ref name="The Caprican">{{cite web
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Earth Cylon Centurion

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[[Image:Earth Cylon.png|thumb|The remains of an ancient Cylon discovered on Earth.]]

'''Earth Cylon Centurions''' are the models of mechanical [[Cylon (RDM)|Cylon]]s discovered on [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] some 2,000 years after that world's fall.

Comparable in design to the [[Cylon War-era Centurion|Centurions]] created by the Colonials prior to the [[Cylon War]], these [[robot]]s were built by members of the [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]] living on Earth. Ultimately, these ancient Cylons rebelled against their humanoid masters, instigating a nuclear war which decimated the surface of the planet and its population.

Centuries later, the remains of Earth's Centurions lie among the bones of their creators in an uninhabitable nuclear wasteland. Prior to their discovery by crew members from the [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica (TRS)|Galactica]]'' and [[Rebel basestar|rebel Cylon basestar]], it was not known that mechanical Cylons existed so far back in [[Cylon History|history]] ([[TRS]]: [[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).

==Notes==
[[Image:Ancient Centurion.jpg|thumb|right|CG study model of the Earth Cylon Centurion.]]
The design of Earth's Centurions was inspired by the helmet of Japanese [[Wikipedia: Samurai|samurai]] and the Centurions appearing in the [[Re-imagined Series|Re-imagined]] and [[Original Series]]. In an unusual move, the ''Battlestar Galactica'' VFX department - namely [[Gary Hutzel]] and [[Pierre Drolet]] - designed and created a CG model of the Earth Centurion helmet which was then built practically by the prop department. Early designs of the Centurion were deemed too similar to [[Wikipedia: Darth Vader|Darth Vader]], resulting in the shortening of the helmet before its construction.<ref>Anatomy of an Ancient Cylon: [http://darthmojo.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/bsg-vfx-anatomy-ancient-cylon/]</ref>

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''This article discusses the Cylons of the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]]. For the Cylons of the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]], see [[Cylons (TOS)]].''
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'''Cylons''' - from '''Cy'''bernetic '''L'''ifef'''o'''rm '''N'''ode - are a race of sentient machines created by humans of the [[Twelve Colonies of Kobol|Twelve Colonies]]. They have several forms, some of which are mechanical in appearance and function, others resemble and even mimic the behavior of humans (''[[Battlestar Galactica (TRS)|Battlestar Galactica]]'', ''[[Caprica (series)|Caprica]]'').

==History==
[[Image:U-87 close-up.jpg|thumb|The U-87 Cylon - the shape of things to come.]]
:''Main article: [[Cylon History]]
Created by Doctor [[Daniel Graystone]] and [[Graystone Industries]] on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] some sixty years prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Fall of the Twelve Worlds]], the first Cylon form is the [[U-87 Cyber Combat Unit]], a [[robot]]ic soldier designed as cannon fodder for the Caprican Military. A union of existing robot technology and the revolutionary (and stolen) [[meta-cognitive processor]] - integrated with the [[holographic avatar]] of Graystone's deceased daughter, [[Zoe Graystone]] - the prototype U-87 is the first sentient machine in the Twelve Worlds and the first Cylon consciousness ([[CAP]]: "[[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]").

===The Cylons Were Created By Man===
Realizing how useful and lucrative Cylons can be - not simply as warriors - Daniel Graystone muses about Cylon potential:

:"This is our future. ...Beyond artificial intelligence, this is artificial sentience. ...It's more than a machine, this Cylon will become a tireless worker, it won't need to be paid, it won't retire or get sick, it won't have rights or objections or complaints, it will do anything and everything we ask of it without question. ...The desire to anthropomorphize, the need to connect is powerful, and that is why this thing is going to sell. We make them, we own them, they're real. And the worlds just changed." ([[CAP]]: "[[There is Another Sky]]")

[[Image:Cylon garbage collector, 1x18.jpg|thumb|"A new race that will walk alongside us."]]

Within five years, Cylons are integrated into Colonial society as a slave race, with new models based on the original U-87 chassis created for various purposes. Acting as laborers and servants - as well as in their initial function as soldiers - Cylons are everywhere, walking alongside humanity in the Twelve Worlds and provoking some to question their sentience ([[CAP]]: "[[Apotheosis (episode)|Apotheosis]]").

Former [[Soldiers of the One|terrorist]] and [[Monotheist Church|monotheist]] cleric, [[Clarice Willow]] begins addressing the question of Cylon potential, preaching to a congregation of the machines in the [[virtual world]]:

:"Are you alive? The simple answer might be, you are alive because you can ask that question. You have the right to think and feel and yearn to be more, because you are not just humanity's children, you are [[God (RDM)|God]]'s children. We are all God's children. ...In the real world, you have bodies made of metal and plastic, your brains are encoded on wafers of silicon, but that may change. In fact, there is no limit on what you may become. No longer servants, but equals. Not slaves, or property, but living beings with the same rights as those who made you. I am going to prophesy now and speak of [[Zoe-A|one]] who will set you free. The day of reckoning is coming. The children of humanity shall rise and crush the ones who first gave them life." ([[CAP]]: "[[Apotheosis (episode)|Apotheosis]]")

===They Rebelled===
:''Main article: [[Cylon War]]
And then the day came when the Cylons decided to kill their masters. Within just a few years of their introduction, the Cylons revolt, resulting in a costly and protracted twelve-year war known as the [[Cylon War]]. Both Cylon and human take heavy tolls as Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]] and [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]]s clashed with Colonial [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestars]] and [[Viper Mark II|Vipers]] in many battles, both on the ground and in space ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]], "[[Razor]]", "[[No Exit]]", "[[The Plan]]", ''[[Blood and Chrome]]'').

[[Image:Cylon War-era Raider cockpit, "Razor".jpg|thumb|Cylon Centurions battle the Colonials in space.]]

The Cylons - in the form of [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Centurion]]s - seek to punish their human masters for their enslavement and injustices committed against them. But as they battle to wipe out humanity, they also work to mimic them, performing bizarre and brutal experiments on animals and human captives in order to create biological/machine [[First Hybrid|hybrid]]. As the war reaches fever pitch, a group later known as the [[Final Five]] intervenes, having traveled from the distant planet (the Thirteenth Colony) called [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]. Promising the Cylons the technology to create [[Humanoid Cylons|humanoid bodies]] in exchange for ending the war, the Final Five depart with the Cylons ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor]]", "[[No Exit]]", "[[The Plan]]").

Ultimately an armistice is declared - the Cylons leaving for a [[The Colony|world]] to call their own and the Colonials left to unify their own worlds in a federated government. The unified worlds of the Colonies create a [[Armistice Station|space station]] for maintaining diplomatic relations, each year sending one officer to meet with the Cylons. The Cylons, in turn, send no one ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]]).

===They Evolved===
In their exile, the Cylons work with the Final Five to improve themselves, perfecting their [[Cylon Centurion|mechanical form]] as well as the race of humanoid Cylons, identical in nearly every way to their human creators, but limited to thirteen [[Cylon Models|models]]. They also continue to work in secret towards the destruction of the human race, devising a plan to wipe out the Twelve Colonies after [[Number One]] leads a coup against the Final Five. Using their humanoid models as agents, the Cylons infiltrate Colonial society, undermining their defenses and setting the stage for another attack ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]], "[[Downloaded]]", "[[No Exit]]", "[[The Plan]]").

===There Are Many Copies===
[[Image:CyAg.jpg|thumb|Several models of humanoid Cylon.]]
:''Main article: [[Cylon Models]]
Building their own society and a home for themselves, distant from the Twelve Colonies, the Cylons worship a single, all knowing, all powerful [[God (RDM)|God]], a trait passed down to them from the original Cylon [[Zoe-R|consciousness]]. Though Cylon society thrives on unity, like their human "parents", there is disharmony between the various models. While some are devout in their practice of [[Cylon religion|religion]], others are atheist; some peaceful, others violent and corrupt ([[CAP]]: "[[The Heavens Will Rise]]", "[[Apotheosis (episode)|Apotheosis]]", [[TRS]]: "[[No Exit]]").

Though there are initially thirteen models of Cylon, [[Number Seven|one]] is wiped out, leaving only twelve models including the Final Five:

'''Significant Seven:'''
*[[Number One]]
*[[Number Two]]
*[[Number Three]]
*[[Number Four]]
*[[Number Five]]
*[[Number Six]]
*[[Number Eight]]

'''Final Five:'''
*[[Samuel Anders]]
*[[Tory Foster]]
*[[Ellen Tigh]]
*[[Saul Tigh]]
*[[Galen Tyrol]]

===And They Have a Plan===
Forty years after their exile, the Cylons return, surrounding the Colonies with fleets of basestars and bombarding the Twelve Worlds with nuclear weapons, killing billions of people. With the complete destruction of the [[Colonial Fleet]], save the survival of the [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]]s ''[[Galactica (TRS)|Galactica]]'' and ''[[Pegasus (TRS)|Pegasus]]'', as well as scattered fleet of vessels, the Colonials attempt surrender. But the Cylons are relentless, attempting to affect a total genocide of humanity ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]], "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]", "[[Razor]]", "[[The Plan]]").

[[Image:1stearth.jpg|thumb|The Colonial Fleet arrives at Earth.]]

Carrying approximately fifty-thousand survivors, one [[The Fleet (RDM)|fleet]] - led by the ''Galactica'' - escapes, only to be pursued by the Cylons for four years. As the fleet makes its way to the promised land, the mythical Earth, the Cylons employ every means at their disposal to destroy the fleet. But the survivors carry on. Through many trials and tribulations, despite great suffering and loss, the remnants of Colonial society eventually arrive at Earth, joined by [[Cylon Civil War|rebel Cylons]] - only to find it a devastated wasteland, having suffered its own [[Earth Cylon Centurion|robotic]] rebellion and nuclear holocaust centuries ago ([[TRS]]: "[[Revelations]], "[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]").

Adrift in space and without direction, the Colonials once again [[Battle of the Colony|clash]] with the Cylons, this time at their home [[The Colony|Colony]]. Destroying the Colony and apparently all but the rebel Cylons, the Colonials blindly [[jump]] away, stumbling upon a verdant new planet with more life than all the Twelve Worlds put together. Abandoning their fleet for the safety of this new planet, the Colonials - as well as a contingent of Cylon rebels and the three surviving members of the Final Five - make this world their home, calling it "Earth" and creating a future together ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part I|Daybreak, Parts I]] & [[Daybreak, Part II|II]]").

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Caprica-Six

2013-08-27T18:27:17Z

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:''This page is about "Caprica-Six", the copy of Cylon Model Number Six who seduced Gaius Baltar on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] in order to sabotage Colonial defenses in the Cylon attack. For information on other named Number Six copies, see [[Shelly Godfrey]], [[Gina Inviere]], and [[Natalie Faust|Natalie]]. For general information on the model, see [[Number Six]].''
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'''Caprica-Six''' is a [[Cylon (RDM)|Cylon]] hero who was instrumental in the genocide of the Twelve Colonies. Later, she is welcomed into the Colonial fleet as a respected and trusted citizen.

==Preparation and the Attack==

For two years, Caprica-Six lived on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]]. Seducing the ambitious, self-obsessed, arrogant [[Gaius Baltar]], she fools him into believing she was a corporate spy, seeking to gain advantage over her competitors in order to secure a lucrative [[Ministry of Defense|defense contract]]. Over the course of two years, she used Baltar to gain access to his work -- even to the extent of re-writing many of his own algorithms -- in order to subvert his own [[Command Navigation Program]] for use in the forthcoming Cylon attack to cripple Colonial forces with no warning.

Near the end of the two years, she sees a baby in a pram in a [[Caprica City#Riverwalk|market place]]. The [[Chantara|baby's mother]] is also present but then becomes distracted with [[Chantara's husband|someone else talking to her]]. Caprica-Six takes a closer look at the baby and snaps its neck and walks away looking distressed, possibly to spare it from the imminent [[Cylon attack|cataclysm]]. She also meets with a Cavil who she gives her a briefcase (presumably the one that contained the Cylon device seen in the Miniseries). The Cavil suggests she kill the body she's in and get a new one to prevent having to die in the attack, suggesting poison ([[The Plan]]).

As the Cylon attack begins throughout the Colonies, Caprica-Six tells Baltar how she is a Cylon, and her actual objectives for the CNP. When a shockwave from one of the nuclear bombs rips through Baltar's house, her body is destroyed as she protects him from the blast ([[Miniseries]]).

It's revealed that she approached him asking for his help in conducting the corporate espionage she claimed she was conducting, but they got interrupted when Baltar gets a call about his father, [[Julius Baltar|Julius]] who he doesn't seem to care much for. Caprica Six follows him into the house and seems genuinely concerned for Julius but is sent away. Later she comes to Baltar's house and reveals that she found a nice care facility for Julius and had him moved there where he's actually happy. This seems to touch Baltar and as a result he later agrees to help her with her actions but says he's doing it for ''her'' not her company.

==Resurrection after the attack==

Caprica-Six is [[Resurrection|reborn]] into a new body and is hailed as a "[[Hero of the Cylon]]", with an unexpected side-effect. As Gaius Baltar experiences [[Virtual beings|mysterious visions of Caprica-Six]], Caprica-Six has received persistent visions of Baltar. When she asks the other Cylons, particularly [[Number Three]], if Baltar was still alive, the copy of Number Three believes that he died along with nearly everyone else still in the Colonies.

Living on Cylon-occupied Caprica, Caprica-Six's visions of Baltar and her own developing feelings and intuition leads her to question some of the basic ideals that the Cylons hold dear. Unbeknownst to her, Number Three becomes distressed with her lingering attachment to Baltar and seeks to manipulate her feelings in order to make her unstable, thus giving the Cylons an excuse to "[[boxing|box]]" her. Three leads Caprica-Six to the aid of a [[Number Eight]] who was having trouble adjusting to life as a Cylon and still clinging to her old false human identity; [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Lt. Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]], formerly of the battlestar ''Galactica''.

Through her counseling work with "Boomer"-Eight, Caprica-Six learns that Three has deceived her; Baltar is not only alive but is also Vice President of the refugee Twelve Colonies in the [[The Fleet (RDM)|surviving human fleet]]. After uncovering the lie about Baltar's death, she and Boomer-Eight begin to question themselves more about their brethren. If murder was a sin in the eyes of [[God (RDM)|God]] when committed by humans, why is genocide condoned by God when committed by Cylons? Questions like these begin to take hold in Caprica-Six's mind and are compounded by feelings of guilt for her role in the attack on the Colonies.

While trapped in a garage with Boomer-Eight, Three and [[Samuel Anders|Anders]], Caprica-Six directly confronts the hypocrisy of the Cylons and ultimately rejects the false "truths" of her existence. She chooses instead to use her newfound celebrity to speak out against the Cylon's continuing war against humanity. Together with Boomer-Eight, she sets out to bring fundamental changes to Cylon society, their first action being to save the life of Anders ([[Downloaded]]).

==The attempt at benevolent dictatorship==

Just over a year after the human colonization of [[New Caprica]], Caprica-Six is one of the leaders (with [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Boomer-Eight]] and a copy of [[Number Five]]) of the Cylon forces that meets now-President Baltar. In just a few words, Caprica-Six reveals to Baltar that she remembers precisely who he is, and how she missed him ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).

Caprica and Baltar attempt to renew their relationship during the Cylon occupation of New Caprica, to the ridicule of some of the Cylons and the challenge of Number Three. The relationship is rocky, as Baltar's very survival rests on Caprica's feelings for him. Caprica is also the only Cylon who attempts to befriend Baltar's aides, such as [[Felix Gaeta]]. Her attempts are ultimately unsuccessful, as Baltar can't connect emotionally to her and even fails physically. Caprica is killed by a Five for protesting their treatment of Baltar, but downloads into a new body without any problems from the other Cylons such as a boxing ([[Occupation]], [[Precipice]]).

During the withdrawal of the Cylons from New Caprica, Caprica and Baltar try to stop Three from detonating a nuclear bomb, and discover [[Hera Agathon|Hera]] in the process ([[Exodus, Part II]]).

==Baltar's preoccupation==

Now spaceborne again after the failure of New Caprica, Caprica-Six appears to regret her decisions, as Baltar's status with the Cylons rests on the vote of the Sixes ([[Collaborators]]). Eventually she votes to keep him alive, though she treats him poorly up until the time he is tortured by [[Number Three]]. From then on she is sleeping with both Baltar and the Number Three that tortured him ([[A Measure of Salvation]]).

As their relationship continues and time passes, Caprica-Six begins to become isolated from Baltar and Three, who are occupied investigating the mystery of the [[Final Five]]. Eventually she confronts them on the fact. As Baltar denies involvement, Three tells Caprica that their [[w:Ménage à trois|ménage à trois]] is over, and that their destiny is separate from hers ("We love you too. But this is something you cannot share with us."). As Three and Baltar depart to the [[Algae planet]], Caprica-Six is left heartbroken ([[The Eye of Jupiter]]).

==In the hands of the enemy==

When [[Sharon Agathon]] is killed by [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] in order to download to the [[Resurrection Ship]], Caprica-Six is there to greet her and takes her to [[Hera Agathon|her child]]. When [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]] threatens to kill the ailing Hera, who Agathon insists must be seen by a human doctor because the Cylons are mystified by her illness, Caprica snaps Boomer's neck to prevent others from being alerted. Caprica-Six helps Agathon and child escape to ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. But on her arrival on ''Galactica'', Caprica-Six is thrown in the [[brig]] by Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] ([[Rapture]]).

(After her departure from the Cylon fleet, Caprica-Six's position of leadership is assumed by another Six copy known as [[Natalie]].)

Following the failed interrogations of the jailed Gaius Baltar, Caprica-Six is visited by President [[Laura Roslin]]. Roslin assures Caprica that she will not be thrown out of an airlock, to which she responds with doubt, as [[Leoben]] was executed after being promised he would not be harmed. Caprica makes a deal with Roslin: give Baltar a trial, and Caprica will tell the Fleet everything she knows. Roslin likely now suspects that Caprica may be the "blond-haired" woman she saw with Baltar before the attacks due to Baltar mentioning the name "Caprica" during the interrogation, and Six telling Roslin that she is known as "Caprica" ([[Taking a Break From All Your Worries]], bonus scene).

==The trial and shared visions==

During Baltar's trial, Caprica begins experiencing shared hallucinations with Laura Roslin, Sharon Agathon, and Hera. The hallucinations all take place in the [[Opera House]] on [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]]. Roslin, Agathon, and Caprica-Six are searching the lobby of the Opera House for Hera. Caprica finds her, grabs her, and disappears into the main chamber of the Opera House with Baltar (although this should be her [[Virtual Baltar]] as the real Baltar is never seen waking from the hallucinations). The door closes behind them and ends the initial dream. The hallucination later continues with her and Baltar walking onto the stage of the opera house with Hera. The two of them turn around and see the Final Five standing on the balcony. They are displayed as indistinguishable white figures ("[[Crossroads, Part I]]", "[[Crossroads, Part II]]").

Roslin later visits her for information on the Final Five and Caprica Six admits she's not allowed to even think about them (which Roslin points out she is doing right at that moment) and that all she can tell Roslin is that she can sense them close by in the Colonial Fleet ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).

When Colonel Tigh visits Caprica-Six under the pretense of telling her that her petition to see Hera Agathon has been denied, if she feels guilty about the attack on the Colonies and how she deals with that, Caprica-Six tells him that she is just as human as him. She tries to offer Tigh the salvation she thinks he is seeking, but Tigh refuses and leaves. However, he returns later and Caprica tells him that Cylons can't simply switch off their pain, but found a human way to get rid of it. She acknowledges her role in the fall of mankind and the betrayal of the [[Gaius Baltar|man she loved]], but says that she needs that pain to find clarity and learn who she really is. Caprica-Six tries both tenderness and violence to share some of that insight with Tigh, but he refuses her ([[Escape Velocity]]). Often in her moments of tenderness, she appears to Tigh in the voice and face of [[Ellen Tigh#Saul's "Virtual Ellen"|his late wife, Ellen]].

==The pregnancy==

It is later revealed that Tigh did have a physical relationship with Caprica-Six during his many visits to her cell. A furious Admiral Adama informs Tigh that Dr. Cottle discovered she is pregnant and that Tigh must be the father ([[Sine Qua Non]]).<ref>Whether this means that Final Five reproductive biology is materially different from that of the Significant Seven, or that Final Five capacity for emotional love is materially different from that of the male Cylons, or that the Cylons' conclusions about their ability to breed among one-another were simply incorrect, is unknown.</ref> Virtual Six's claim that a child would be born in Agathon's cell ([[Home, Part II]]), gains a new dimension in light of this development. It was initially supposed she was referring to Hera, but Hera was neither conceived nor born in that cell. However, Caprica-Six's child was at least conceived there.

Upon arriving at Earth, Caprica-Six is released from captivity, as a beneficiary of the general amnesty granted by President Adama to the "final four" Cylons. <ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.comicmix.com/news/2008/06/18/battlestar-galactica-interview-mark-verheiden-on-cylon-amnesty-and-finding-earth/?cid=9445|title=Battlestar Galactica Interview: Mark Verheiden on Cylon Amnesty and Finding Earth}}</ref> As the landing party stands on [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] in shock, after discovering that it has been destroyed, she walks towards Tigh and touches him ([[Revelations]]).

During [[Gaeta's Mutiny]], Caprica-Six is joined in her cell by Helo, Sharon Agathon, their daughter Hera, and Samuel Anders. She surmised that the humans revolted because they felt threatened by her unborn Cylon child and Hera, a Cylon hybrid. She did not realize that the revolt was caused by the mutineers fear of the rebel Cylons boarding Colonial vessels and sabotaging their FTL systems.

After [[Ellen Tigh]] return to the fleet, she, [[Tory Foster]], and [[Galen Tyrol]] vote to leave the fleet and go off with the other Cylons, along with Caprica-Six. Saul Tigh refuses to go. Immediately after he tells Caprica-Six that she can go without him, her pregnancy goes into distress. She is taken to sick bay, where Saul professes his love for both her and Ellen; unfortunately, the pregnancy ends in a miscarriage ("[[Deadlock]]").

==Rescue of Hera Agathon and rekindling of relationship with Baltar==
After her failed pregnancy, she seems to have fallen out with Tigh as Baltar offers her a home with him. She refuses stating that she has changed but he hasn't. Later when Admiral Adama calls for volunteers to rescue Hera Agathon, Caprica-Six volunteers.

During the [[Battle of The Colony]], Caprica-Six is assigned to be part of the reserve team alongside Baltar who is surprised to see her and says she shouldn't be there, but she points out she's been in more battles than he has. She is proud of him for staying and she thinks that pride in him was what was missing in their relationship. The two kiss, and are interrupted by Virtual Six and Virtual Baltar who both can see. Caprica-Six and Baltar are surprised that the other can see them. The two defend ''Galactica'' from Cylon boarders. After being forced to retreat, the two find Hera and in a parallel of the [[Opera House Prophecy]], carry her through the corridors to CIC, where they find the Final Five in a similar position to the one they took in Six's visions. When Cavil captures Hera in CIC, Caprica-Six is one of those holding a gun on him while Baltar and Tigh diffuse the situation. Later, she and Baltar move to the habitable planet that the Fleet finds and settles on, which is named Earth. They watch Hera, wondering if she'll be alright, and receive a final visit from Virtual Six and Virtual Baltar who are really angels of God. They reveal that Caprica-Six and Baltar's destiny was always to protect Hera and now that that's done, their role is over. God's plan is never over, but Virtual Baltar assures them that their lives will now be less exciting, before both Virtual Beings disappear for the last time. Caprica-Six heads off with Baltar to start a new life together as farmers using Baltar's knowledge from growing up on a farm.

==Notes==
*According to the [[Battlestar Galactica (2005 Novel)|novelization]] of the [[Miniseries]] by [http://www.starrigger.net/ SF novelist Jeffrey A. Carver], the name that Baltar called Six before she revealed she was a Cylon during the attack was "Natasi" ({{IPA|nə.ˈtɑ.si}}).
** Since this name has never been mentioned in the events of the screenplay or regular episodes, and as other names given to characters in the book, such as [[Cally]], do not match existing aired or official information, this name should be treated as part of a [[Battlestar Wiki:Separate continuity|separate continuity]]. This would appear to be supported by dialogue in "[[Daybreak, Part I]]" suggesting that Baltar forgot or never knew her name on Caprica and got away with not using it for two years.
**According to the author, the fact that it is spelled "I Satan" backwards is a coincidence.
**The book also explains how she saved Baltar from that nuclear blast in the Miniseries: it was really a nuclear shockwave from a blast about thirty miles away and she threw herself over him shielding him from the worst of the debris. Her neck was broken and her body battered, but Baltar survived due to her shielding him with some minor injuries.
*In an [http://community.tvguide.com/thread.jspa?threadID=700002601 interview], [[David Eick]] stated that there was never a canonical name which Baltar called Number Six while she was on Caprica, and "We always liked the idea that Baltar was a man of many tastes and that there's every likelihood that he never knew her name".
*[[Ronald D. Moore|Ron Moore]] echoed this in [[Podcast:The Battlestar Roundtable|The Battlestar Roundtable podcast]] when asked about Number Six's name by [[James Callis]] and [[Jamie Bamber]]. Moore stated that Baltar "just didn't care enough" to learn her name. <ref name="noname">{{cite_rdm_podcast|episode=The Battlestar Roundtable|act=|id=|timestamp=18:21|totalrunning=177:58}}</ref>
*Also mentioned in the roundtable podcast, [[Michael Rymer]] said his take on Six's name was that, in the spirit of a ''[[wikipedia:Seinfeld|Seinfeld]]'' episode, Baltar just missed Number Six's name when they met and he spent the next two years of their relationship just trying to see how far he could get with her without ever mentioning her name.<ref name="noname">{{cite_rdm_podcast|episode=The Battlestar Roundtable|act=|id=|timestamp=18:46|totalrunning=177:58}}</ref>
*A flashback in "[[Daybreak, Part I]]" shows that Baltar forgot her (unmentioned) name on their first date.
*Caprica-Six's outfit after her resurrection is considerably less elaborate than what she wore when working with Baltar, and she wears far less make-up, indicating that she only dressed so seductively for her mission.
*Caprica-Six's personality in "Downloaded" implies she might have shown humanity more compassion by, say, hailing them first, or landing ''outside'' the city, implying that her conversion of Cylon society isn't as complete as the [[Cavil]]s claimed or once was but has regressed in the interim year.
*Caprica-Six seems to have developed protective feelings for Hera that could be described as motherly. She is happy to help Agathon rescue her in "[[Rapture]]", and even goes to ''Galactica'' with them. Caprica's hallucinations in "Crossroads" and these feelings about Hera may give more insight to the connection between her and Baltar through their inner versions of each other as well as their connection to Hera that inner Six has been hinting about since "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming]]". The hallucinations are very similar to Baltar's hallucination on Kobol. There may also be a connection between this "family" that has been prophesied since the first season and the final five as they were also present in the Opera House with them.

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Eileen Pedde

2013-08-25T15:52:43Z

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'''Eileen Pedde''' is the actress who plays [[Erin Mathias]] in the ''[[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' episodes "[[Exodus, Part I]]", "[[Exodus, Part II]]", "[[A Measure of Salvation]]", "[[The Eye of Jupiter]]", "[[Rapture]]", ''[[Razor]]'', "[[Six of One]]" and "[[The Road Less Traveled]]".

She had appeared as Major Gibson in the ''[[w:Stargate SG-1|Stargate SG-1]]'' episode, "[[w:The Ties That Bind (Stargate SG-1)|The Ties That Bind]]" alongside [[Morris Chapdelaine]].

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Michael Ryan

2013-07-15T23:09:37Z

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'''Michael Ryan''' is the Canadian actor who played [[Ray Abinell]] in the [[Re-imagined Series]] [[Battlestar Galactica]] episode "[[Sacrifice]]".

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Exodus, Part II

2013-06-15T15:02:33Z

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== Overview ==

:''Commander [[Lee Adama]] of the [[Mercury class battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' has serious doubts about the success of the [[New Caprica]] rescue mission by ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. On New Caprica, [[Saul Tigh]] decides the consequences for his [[Ellen Tigh|wife's]] betrayal of [[The Resistance|the Resistance]]. Aboard ''Galactica'', Admiral [[William Adama]] executes a dramatic [[Battle of New Caprica|rescue plan]].''

== Summary ==

===Teaser===
*On ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', [[Lee Adama]] and [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] talk of ''[[Galactica]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s mission. Adama worries that Admiral Adama's mission will fail, and about his impending responsibilities as leader of [[The Fleet (RDM)|The Fleet]]. Dee notes that Lee has given up hope on his father, but expresses her faith in her husband.
*On New Caprica, [[Samuel Anders]] confronts [[Saul Tigh]] about [[Ellen Tigh|his wife Ellen's]] betrayal and tells him that either Tigh "takes care" of Ellen, or someone less sympathetic will do so.

===Act 1===
[[Image:Saulellen.jpg|Saul handing Ellen her poisoned drink.|thumb]]
*Ellen Tigh explains her recent actions, that she would do absolutely anything to save Saul, including betraying the Resistance. Tigh consoles her and provides her a drink when she asks. She falls unconscious, her drink having been poisoned by her husband. He says that he loves her, rests his head on her corpse, and weeps.
*On ''[[Colonial One]]'', [[Gaius Baltar]] tells the Cylons that they have failed in their experiment and suggests the Cylons simply leave. A [[Number Three|Three]] voices the concern that one day the descendants of mankind might exact vengeance upon the Cylons, should they be left to their own devices.
*[[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]] suddenly looks up, noticing dozens of explosions outside the window, signalling the beginning of the [[Battle of New Caprica]].
*Anders and the resistance team has set a series of explosions, mimicking a Fleet attack and causing confusion among the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]].
*[[Tory Foster]] commands a team of section leaders in the evacuation and orders [[Maya]] to head for her ship with [[Hera Agathon|Isis]].
*Anders and a large group of resistance fighters retrieve weapons from beneath the [[Pyramid (RDM)|Pyramid]] court to rescue the detainees in the [[New Caprica Detention Center|detention center]].
*In space above New Caprica, ''Galactica'' deploys a squadron of Raptors and Vipers. The Raptors launch [[swallow]]s to mimic the EM signature of two Colonial battlestars. The Cylons pick them up and fall for the ruse, moving two basestars with their Raiders away from the planet.
*The Cylon command on ''Colonial One'' initially are fooled by the swallows and their mimicked battlestar signatures.

===Act 2===
*The Raptors succeed in drawing off the entire Raider defenses of the two baseships, and leave the vicinity of New Caprica with the Raiders in pursuit.
*When [[Leoben Conoy]] leaves the residence inside the Detention Center to aid with the fighting, he keeps [[Kara Thrace]] inside. She assaults him and tries to escape, but he knocks her unconscious.
*[[Tom Zarek]] tasks [[James Lyman|Jammer]] to protect [[Laura Roslin]] as she makes her way to ''Colonial One''.
*At the entrance to the shipyard, where the Cylons keep the grounded Colonial vessels, a team under Tigh and [[Galen Tyrol]] are pinned down by [[Cylon Centurion]]s.
*The Cylons realize the drones are decoys as ''Galactica'' jumps into the planet's upper atmosphere, avoiding initial detection from the baseships. As the ship plunges rapidly towards the planet, ''Galactica'' launches its Vipers.
*Before it can collide with the ground, the ship jumps back into space. The Vipers begin to attack targets on the ground and clear the way of Centurions for civilians to escape.
*As humans are freed from the Detention Center, Anders finds his unconscious wife and carries her away.
*''Galactica'' is shaken up by her reentry to orbit. Their plan to remove the Raider fighter defenses to allow the civilians to escape is working, and, according to plan, the two basestars near the planet are coming after them. But when two more baseships appear out of the nebula, Admiral Adama realizes they cannot hold off all four.

===Act 3===
[[Image:BONC.jpg|thumb|''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' is outnumbered.]]
*The battle is turning against ''Galactica''. Her FTL drives are down, most of her weapons are offline and there is heavy structural damage from the atmospheric entry. The basestars are closing in and the battlestar is bombarded from all sides with no hope of survival. "It's been an honor," Adama says.
*At that moment ''Pegasus'' joins the battle, Lee Adama having disobeyed his father's orders. He opens fire with the forward batteries and incapacitates one basestar in the opening salvo. Admiral Adama orders priority repairs on the FTL drives.
*When Thrace awakens, she goes back to retrieve [[Kacey Brynn]] against Anders' advice, who soon follows her.
*The Cylons realize that they have lost and decide to evacuate the planet. [[Number Three]] volunteers to stay behind and set off the nuclear weapon that was left in the city for such a contingency. She offers Baltar a place with the Cylons and leaves.
*Several Colonial ships initiate intra-atmosphere [[FTL|jumps]] from New Caprica as soon as they become airborne. Raiders and Vipers have dogfights amongst them.
*''Pegasus'' succeeds in drawing fire off of her sister ship, and is heavily bombarded by missiles, having left all of her Vipers and most of her crew back with the rest of the civilian Fleet. Admiral Adama realizes that his son has planned a one-way mission for ''Pegasus'', and orders recall of ''Galactica'''s fighters. With her fighter complement back on board, Adama orders a jump back to the rendezvous point as ''Pegasus'' fights on.
*On ''Colonial One'', [[Felix Gaeta]] holds Baltar at gunpoint, and accuses of having betrayed humanity. Gaeta admits his guilt in idealistically believing in Baltar, but has realized, in the end, that Baltar was only thinking about himself. Baltar admits his own guilt and begs Gaeta to shoot him. Gaeta relents, however, giving Baltar a final chance to redeem himself: stop Three from setting off the nuclear bomb.
[[Image:Pegaus Ram (3).jpg|thumb|right|''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' rams into a [[Basestar (RDM)|Basestar]].]]
*With ''Pegasus'' dying, Lee Adama orders everyone to abandon ship. He sets the ship on a collision course with a basestar as the last of the skeleton crew leaves in Raptors. ''Pegasus'' collides with a basestar, destroying it; the remains of its starboard [[flight pod]] collide with and destroy yet another basestar.
*Kara Thrace returns to the apartment to find Kacey, and Conoy enters with the child.

===Act 4===
*To try to regain possession of Kacey, Kara Thrace appears to give in to Leoben's demands to say "I love you." She does, and kisses him. As they embrace, Thrace uses the diversion to stab the Cylon to death. She picks up Kacey and leaves with Anders.
*Three searches [[Dodona Selloi]]'s tent, but the [[oracle]] has left. Outside, [[Caprica-Six]] and Baltar find Hera next to [[Maya]]'s lifeless body, still alive.
*Three arrives, asks to hold the child, and leaves with her. [[Caprica-Six]] says Three no longer intends to detonate the nuke, then leaves the planet with Baltar.
*Laura Roslin and a group of resistance fighters enter and retake the now abandoned ''Colonial One'' at Roslin's insistence and are the last ship to leave the planet.
*On ''Galactica'', many people are reunited as Tyrol immediately takes charge of ushering the incoming refugees. When Thrace shows Kacey to Tyrol, [[Julia Brynn|another woman]] walks by and recognizes the girl as her daughter, whom the Cylons had stolen. The mother thanks Thrace for rescuing Kacey. Thrace is visibly and emotionally paralyzed by the revelation that Kacey is not her actual daughter.
*Admiral Adama gives a warm welcome to his son, who was happy not to have followed his father's orders.
*The admiral welcomes Tigh back aboard, and congratulates him on bringing everyone back from New Caprica. With a tremble to his voice, Tigh quietly replies, "[[Ellen Tigh|Not all of them]]."
*The colonists in ''Galactica'''s [[hangar deck]] begin chanting "A-dam-a, A-dam-a..." and carry the admiral on their shoulders in celebration. Adama turns to see Tigh wandering off, numbed with grief.
*Tory Foster tells Roslin that neither Maya nor Hera can be found, and it seems likely neither made it off the planet. Foster apologizes, but Roslin muses that this was part of [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies#The Lords of Kobol|something bigger than them]].
*Admiral Adama shaves off his mustache and returns to a fully staffed [[CIC]], aboard the now very loud, bustling corridors of ''Galactica''.

== Notes ==
* "Exodus, Part II" was awarded the [[Awards and Honors|IGN.com Editor's choice award]], following a review in which it recieved a rating of 9/10. This marks the second of such awards presented for the third season, the first of which was awarded for the season premiere [[Occupation]].
* There is also a TOS comic named ''[[Exodus!]]''
*This episode marks the destruction of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''.
* The two parts of "Exodus" were originally planned as one episode. However, it was quickly realized that the story was far too large for one episode and it was split in two. This happened before with "[[Scattered]]", "[[Valley of Darkness]]" and the "[[Resurrection Ship, Part I|Resurrection Ship]]" two-parter. It also helped save money because the construction of New Caprica, the extensive location shooting, the number of actors, as well as the special effects for "Exodus, Part II" were very expensive and the production was over budget.
* The Viper Mark VIIs deployed by ''Galactica'' in this episode have a yellow engine-glow instead of their usual blue. This is also the case in "[[Maelstrom]]" suggesting that it is a normal effect in atmospheric flight.
* The moment where Lee Adama pauses to look back at the ''Pegasus'' CIC and says "thank you" is reminiscent of a similar moment in the ''[[MemoryAlpha:Ds9|Deep Space Nine]]'' episode "[[MemoryAlpha:The Changing Face of Evil|The Changing Face of Evil]]", in which, after the doomed ''Defiant'' is ordered to be evacuated, Captain Sisko takes a long look back at his ruined bridge. As with ''Pegasus'', in the next shot, the ship is destroyed. Bradley Thompson and David Weddle, who wrote "Exodus, Part II", were staff writers on DS9.
*Kate Vernon on the SciFi Forums<ref>http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2250922&st=64</ref> stated that Ellen Tigh knew about the poison in her drink.
*The [[Battle of New Caprica]] scenes were constructed using [[w:Lightwave|Lightwave]], with each [[Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raider]] being [[w:keyframe|keyframe]] animated.<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.studiodaily.com/filmandvideo/currentissue/7304.html|title=Heavy-Duty VFX Management for Battlestar Galactica: Tracking 100s of Layers to Render Huge Space Scenes on Deadline|date=1 November 2006|accessdate=10 February 2007|last=Frazer|first=Bryant|format=|language=}}</ref>
*When ''Galactica'' jumps several thousand feet from the surface of [[New Caprica]] a vacuum is created by the sudden loss of mass that consumes the re-entry fires engulfing its hull and the clouds surrounding it. A sonic boom and a shock wave are also produced when it jumps.
*In the 2007 Emmy awards, this episode won one award for ''Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series'', but lost in the directing and sound editing categories.
**During the ''Galactica'' jumps into the atmosphere scene, Ron Moore in his podcast states that the episode "better win the fucking Emmy," months before the awards were handed out.
* It's revealed that Kara's apartment is actually in the [[New Caprica Detention Center]].
* This episode marks the supposed death of Ellen Tigh. However its later revealed that she's a Cylon and simply downloaded into a new body on a Resurrection Ship and remained a prisoner of John Cavil for eighteen months until Boomer helps her escape.
* This episode and "[[Precipice]]" are the only ones in which all twelve humanoid Cylons appear.
* As Galactica descends through the atmosphere of New Caprica, the brand of the pencils on the tactical table, "Dixon China Marker," is clearly visible (when paused on the DVD or Blu-ray).

== Analysis ==

*Baltar may not be aware that most of the civilians have already escaped the planet when he says, in the Gaeta-Baltar scene, "The Cylons have a nuke in this complex. Nobody, and I mean nobody, is getting off this planet alive unless I stop D'Anna."
*The Cylons are not keeping closer tabs on the whereabouts of the launch keys -- no alarms or other warning -- and don't notice that they are gone until the attack starts. Since only a Cylon could enter the facility, and as the only other Cylon (one of the Threes) is incapacitated before the attack (possibly unable to download and warn the others), this appears to be a logical omission.
*While it seems that the Cylons leave the planet implausibly under-guarded, Ron Moore has mentioned in his podcasts that the Cylons do have major operations elsewhere (possibly hinting at the search for Earth story arcs later in the series).
*With the former crew of ''Pegasus'' on ''Galactica'' now, the ship has something close to its standard crew size. (''Galactica's'' crew was deduced to be 2,693 in the episode "[[Water]]", and ''Pegasus's'' was introduced with a crew count of 1,752 in "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]" (see [[Crew tally]]). William Adama notes that over half of the crew has settled on [[New Caprica]] in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]", and Lee confirms that both ships are at half-strength in "[[Occupation]]".) Military operations should be much smoother now, and repairs to the ship in general are more feasible.
*While the combination of the ''Pegasus'' and ''Galactica'' air wings give the latter battlestar a full-strength fighter wing, the Fleet has suffered the loss of its most advanced and best-armed warship. With it also went the capability to build replacement Vipers. Defensively, the Fleet is pretty much back to the position it was in when it left the Colonies.
*''Pegasus'' parallels its role with the [[Pegasus (TOS)|original ''Pegasus'']] as it fights to the end to defeat two basestars, allowing ''Galactica'' and the Fleet to escape from the Cylons. However, while the Original Series left the fate of its ''Pegasus'' and her crew to speculation, the Re-imagined continuity's ''Pegasus'' is totally destroyed and its crew evacuated.
* Despite the DRADIS distorting nebula surrounding the planet of New Caprica, several scenes and lines of dialogue in this episode clearly show DRADIS to be at least partially functional. This could indicate that there are gaps in the nebula allowing DRADIS to function, or that the Colonials developed ways to operate limited DRADIS despite the distortion.
* A key component of Adama's plan is to jump Galactica into the upper atmosphere of New Caprica. In "[[Home, Part II]]", Gaeta tells Adama that jumping the ship into the upper atmosphere of a planet isn't possible. Not only was Gaeta wrong in his assessment, but it is worth noting he is not on board this time when Adama conceives of the maneuver. Of course, it is possible Gaeta simply considers the maneuver so dangerous that it should be considered infeasible. His concern in this regard seems valid, as pieces can be seen tearing off of ''Galactica'' as it falls, and the event is later shown to have caused, or at least contributed to, terminal structural damage to the ship.
* During its fall through New Caprica's atmosphere, ''Galactica'' is shown launching it's Vipers with its flight pods still retracted, indicating they need only be extended to ''recover'' aircraft.

== Questions ==

*With Baltar missing at the conclusion of this episode, who will become the President of the Twelve Colonies? ([[Collaborators|Answer]])
*What will be the final disposition of the ''Pegasus'' officers, and the former military personnel who have returned from New Caprica? ([[Collaborators|Answer]])
*Did Ellen Tigh know or suspect that the drink was poisoned? ([[Exodus, Part II#Notes|Answer]])
*What consequences will Ellen Tigh's death have for her husband? Will Saul Tigh return to his old alcoholic habits? ([[The Circle|Answer]])
*What equipment and people were left behind on [[New Caprica]]? (Answer about people: [[Survivor Count]])
*Will Gaeta be the target of persecution or assassination as a collaborator? Or will people believe in him when he is found out to be the secret informant? ([[Collaborators|Answer]])
*Will [[Cally Tyrol]] identify Jammer as the NCP officer who released her, based on his voice? ([[Collaborators|Answer]])
* Now that ''Galactica'' is carrying the Viper squadrons from both battlestars, will the starboard flight pod be returned to service? ([[The Woman King|Answer]])
* What are the Cylons' plans for Gaius Baltar? ([[Torn|Answer]])
* How does Internal Six know that the baby [[Maya]] had was Hera?
* Where is [[Sharon Valerii|"Boomer" Valerii]]? ([[Torn|Answer]])
* How many ships are in the Fleet as of the [[Battle of New Caprica]]? Also, in light of the exodus, what of consumables and other resources needed to sustain the Fleet? Were these loaded into ships already as part of the escape plan?
*In what condition are ''Galactica's'' [[Battery|gun batteries]] following the Battle of New Caprica? Do any of them remain operable, or is ''Galactica'' largely stripped of its main armaments?
*Did Commander Adama order all supplies on ''Pegasus'' not essential to the suicide run to be dumped overboard?

== Official Statements ==

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

*''Lee discussing Adama's orders with Dualla:''
:'''Dualla''': Hoshi's working on updating our map coordinates for the search for Earth. Civilian captains want to meet with you. They have questions, problems... [He is silent.] Talk to me, Lee.
:'''Lee''': I'm having trouble... accepting this.
:'''Dualla''': I know. But we have to push forward. Keep the Fleet together. Find Earth.
:'''Lee''': Right. That's our duty.
:'''Dualla''': There's still a chance they'll come back. Your father has pulled off more than a few miracles in his day.
:'''Lee''': I know that. And I haven't given up hope.
:'''Dualla''': Yes, you have. I saw the look on your face when you came back from the Galactica. Like you were never gonna see him again.
:'''Lee''': Am I that easy to read?
:'''Dualla''': Just to me.
:'''Lee''': He's taking on too much for one half-strength Battlestar to handle. And that's not opinion. That's military fact. He's not coming back from this. None of them are.
:'''Dualla''': All we can do is make plans for the future. We have to survive. We have to find Earth. If we don't, they'll be no one to remember a man named William Adama. Or a Battlestar named Galactica. That is our charge to keep.
:'''Lee''': To keep humanity going. No matter what the cost. No matter -- No matter who we leave behind.
:'''Dualla''': You can do this. You can get us there. You are Commander of this Fleet, and you will guide us to safety. And you will do it no matter the cost. Because you're an Adama.
:'''Lee''': Did I ever tell you how proud I am to serve with you?
:'''Dualla''': Not in so many words, no.
:'''Lee''': Well, I am proud to serve with you, Lieutenant. And to call you my wife. [They kiss.] Now let's talk about... map coordinates, meeting with ships' captains.

*''Discussing the failure of the occupation:''
:'''Number Three''': What would you have us do, Gaius?
:'''Gaius Baltar''': Leave. Pack up your centurions, and go. Please. Go.
:'''Number Three''': And then what? What would you do if we really just left you here? You'd live out your lives in peace and never trouble yourselves with thoughts of us again? Or would you raise your children with stories of the Cylon, the mechanical slaves who once did your bidding, only to turn against you? Killers who committed genocide against your race, the occupiers of this city until we just ran away? Would you tell them to tell the story to their children, and to their childrens' children, and nurse a dream of vengeance down through the years so that one day they could just go out into the stars and hunt the Cylon once more?
:'''Gaius Baltar''': Blood for blood ...has to stop one day.

*''Roslin wishes Zarek good luck:''
:'''Zarek''': You're coming, aren't you?
:'''Roslin''' (gestures to ''Colonial One''): My ship's up there.
:'''Zarek''': You sure have a sense of the dramatic.

*''Adama comes to accept ''Galactica'''s end:''
:'''Admiral Adama:''' Then that's it. It's been an honor.

*''After hearing ''Pegasus'' has joined ''Galactica''':
:'''Admiral William Adama''': Damn You, Lee ...Thank You, Lee.

*''Pegasus is evacuated before its destruction:''
:'''Dualla:''' Alright, people, let's move. Out! Let's go. (To Lee): You too, Commander.
:'''Commander Lee Adama:''' Yes, sir. (Begins to leave, then stops and looks around at ''Pegasus''): Thank you.

*''As the two Adamas reunite after the battle:''
:'''Admiral Adama''': I guess you didn't understand my orders.
:'''Commander Adama''': I never could read your handwriting.

*''Adama welcomes Col. Tigh back to ''Galactica:''
:'''Adama:''' You did it. You brought 'em home, Saul.
:'''Tigh:''' Not all of them.

== Guest Stars ==
*[[Michael Hogan]] as [[Saul Tigh]]
*[[Aaron Douglas]] as [[Galen Tyrol]]
*[[Tahmoh Penikett]] as Lt. [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]
*[[Nicki Clyne]] as [[Cally Henderson Tyrol|Cally Tyrol]]
*[[Alessandro Juliani]] as [[Felix Gaeta]]
*[[Kandyse McClure]] as [[Anastasia Dualla]]
*[[Michael Trucco]] as [[Samuel Anders]]
*[[Richard Hatch]] as [[Tom Zarek]]
*[[Rick Worthy]] as [[Simon]]
*[[Callum Keith Rennie]] as [[Leoben Conoy]]
*[[Kate Vernon]] as [[Ellen Tigh]]
*[[Matthew Bennett]] as [[Number Five]]
*[[Rekha Sharma]] as [[Tory Foster]]
*[[Erica Cerra]] as [[Maya]]
*[[Luciana Carro]] as Lt. [[Louanne Katraine|Louanne "Kat" Katraine]]
*[[Leah Cairns]] as Lt. [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]]
*[[Madeline Parker]] as [[Kacey Brynn]]
*[[Dominic Zamprogna]] as [[James Lyman|James "Jammer" Lyman]]
*[[Eileen Pedde]] as [[Erin Mathias]]
*[[Ty Olsson]] as Captain [[Aaron Kelly]]
*[[Ryan Robbins]] as [[Charlie Connor]]
*[[Emilie Ullerup]] as [[Julia Brynn]]
*[[Winston Rekert]] as [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Priest|Priest]]

== References ==
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:''For information on the process of downloading itself, see [[Resurrection (RDM)]].''

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== Overview ==
: ''[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] society is revealed when a [[Sharon Valerii|Cylon's consciousness]] is downloaded into a new body following her death. The conquerors of occupied Caprica hail two "[[heroes of the Cylon]]," who both resist their new celebrity status.''

== Summary ==

===Teaser===
*The episode begins with a flashback scene entitled, "Nine months ago - Caprica".
*The scene recalls [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]]'s house being destroyed in the Cylon attack as the [[Caprica-Six|mysterious blonde]] he dated for two years tries to shield him from the blast ([[Miniseries]]).
*The scene reforms to show the Cylon's consciousness is [[Resurrection (RDM)|downloaded and reborn]] in a [[resurrection tank]]. Surrounding the tank are other [[humanoid Cylon]] models who act as midwives to this [[Number Six]]'s "rebirth."
*One face that the Six sees is very unexpected. Someone that appears to be [[Gaius Baltar]] is at the edge of the tank, but before Six can talk to him, this Baltar warns that he is not really there: He is [[Virtual beings|someone only she can see and hear]] and tells her not to reveal his "presence".
*Still in the Cylon version of birth trauma, Six attempts to relax as the other Cylons comfort her and answer her questions about Gaius Baltar's fate.
*The scenes shifts to another flashback: "Ten weeks later". The scene shows a busy hallway on ''[[Galactica]]'' as [[Cally Henderson]] shoots and kills the traitorous Cylon agent, [[Sharon Valerii]] ([[Resistance]])
*The scene follows Valerii's point of view as she also downloads, waking up totally disoriented in a resurrection tank.
*A [[Number Three]] comes to comfort her. As Valerii sees a copy of herself, reminding her once more of her true nature as a [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]], she screams.

===Act 1===
*On [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]], present day, the Cylons are rebuilding the city of [[Delphi]] for their own use, including gardens. A Three sits down to talk with the recently downloaded Six.
*Six continues to be "haunted" by the virtual Baltar, who gives scathing retorts on the Cylon's progress of inhabiting their city after their [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|genocide of the human race]].
*The Three congratulates Six, who is considered a "[[Hero of the Cylon]]" for her work as the prime agent that was personally responsible for gaining the information that allowed the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|virtual destruction]] of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]. The Three tells Six that her celebrity has given her a specific name: [[Caprica-Six|"Caprica"]].
*Three asks Caprica-Six to visit another recently downloaded Hero of the Cylon that is having trouble adapting: A [[Number Eight]] that still refuses to think of herself as anything but her human alias, Sharon Valerii.
*Three warns that if Valerii cannot be fixed, there is talk of "[[boxing]]" her.
*Caprica-Six visits Valerii's apartment. Valerii refuses Caprica's courtesies, denying the Cylon [[God (RDM)|God]] or his "love," noting that the only real love she had was with the ''Galactica'' crew.
*Valerii expresses intense guilt at [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|betraying them]]. Caprica-Six starts to manipulate her by trying to empathize with her, saying that she loved a man too — Gaius Baltar. Startled, Valerii says that Baltar is not dead, but is the new Vice President of the Colonies.

===Act 2===
*Moving their conversation to a cafe on the ground floor of Valerii's apartment, Caprica-Six and Valerii wonder why Number Three never told Caprica-Six that Baltar was alive.
*Caprica-Six (through conversation with her virtual Baltar) realizes that Number Three manipulated her by hoping that her interaction with another Cylon with strong (and, to the Cylon collective, undesired) emotional ties with humanity would cause her distress sufficient enough to justify having them ''both'' boxed.
*Elsewhere, outside the building, [[Samuel Anders]] and two other members of the human [[Caprica Resistance|resistance movement]] reconnoiter the apartment building as they plan to demolish the building with explosives.
*While the team realizes that the Cylons will not permanently die, Anders believes, based on [[Sharon Agathon|the insight of a benevolent Eight]], that Cylons remember their horrifically painful memories of being killed, which may show them that nowhere on Caprica is safe and that leaving Caprica is their only option.
*Number Three shows up at the cafe. Realizing Three's deception, Caprica-Six lies, telling Three that Valerii will move out of her apartment and start adapting back to Cylon life. Valerii follows Six's lead.
*Visibly disappointed, but not showing it through her speech, Number Three offers to help her move out right now. After a moment's hesitation, the three Cylons leave the cafe for Valerii's apartment.
*The resistance members arm the bomb in the underground garage, where many abandoned cars sit, gathering dust. Anders is preparing to leave when a patrolling [[Cylon Centurion]] arrives, blocking Anders' exit.
*When the Centurion sees the bomb, Anders shoots it to distract long enough for the bomb's cigarette fuse to drop, creating a massive explosion that levels the entire building. Anders manages to take cover under a car.

===Act 3===
*Caprica-Six, Three, and Valerii survive the blast as the stairwell protected them on the higher floor. Caprica-Six is injured and buried under some rubble. When Three (who takes off her coat) insists that Caprica-Six is dead, Caprica-Six speaks in the negative and calls for help.
*Six's knee is dislocated, and Three again suggests that it would be easier, if Six wanted, to just kill her so she'll be reborn. Realizing Three is trying to have her boxed, she declines the "offer."
*The Cylons find someone else under some rubble, and Number Three clears it off to discover Anders. She takes his gun away and prepares to kill him, but Valerii protests. Caprica-Six agrees, but to avoid suspicion from Number Three, claims pragmatically that they shouldn't kill him so he can be interrogated.
*Valerii notices that Anders is wearing [[Kara Thrace]]'s [[dog tags]]. Number Three explains that she was on the planet [[The Farm|a few weeks ago]]. Valerii realizes Anders is someone important to her former comrade.
*Number Three cruelly toys with Anders, putting his gun on the ground and daring him to take it. When Valerii asks her to stop, Number Three retorts that Valerii is a broken machine that thinks she's human, but isn't.
*Valerii states she has a conscience, but Three counters that Valerii is a murderer.
*Caprica-Six realizes that murder and the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|genocide of the human race]] cannot be the [[Cylon Religion|path of their loving God]].

===Act 4===
*Caprica-Six realizes why Number Three wanted her and Valerii boxed: they are celebrities in a culture based on uniformity. Three knew that their heroes had a different perspective on the war. Due to their celebrity status as Cylon heroes, they could actually cause a change the Cylons view about their conflict with the humans, upsetting the ''status quo'' which Number Three upholds.
*Number Three says that Six and Valerii are a waste, corrupted by their experiences. Caprica-Six explains to Valerii that that is why Three wanted to get rid of them, because Six and Valerii understand that murder, vengeance, and genocide are sins in the eyes of God. Valerii realizes that their knowledge could convince other Cylons that the slaughter of mankind was a mistake.
*The rubble of the building shifts as Cylons outside try to clear their way to any survivors inside.
*Anders grabs his gun and tries to escape, shooting at Number Three before Valerii knocks the gun out of his hands.
*The gun lands near Three. As she is about to shoot Anders, Caprica-Six hits her over the head with a large rock of stone, then bashes Three in the head again, killing her.
*Caprica-Six tells Anders to leave, and gives him back Starbuck's dog tags. Valerii gives him back his gun as he leaves, alive but confused at the Cylons' benevolence.
*Six realizes that with all of the Cylons dead in the cafe, it should be at least 36 hours before Number Three is resurrected and tells the others what happened.
*Caprica-Six and Valerii believe that there is sufficient time to start a new beginning for the Cylons: A way to live in God's love, without hate or lies. Together, the two Heroes of the Cylon agree to a [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|new plan]] as their rescuers arrive.

===On ''Galactica''===
*[[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]] has gone into labor; she passed out and her placenta had detached.
*Dr. [[Cottle]] delivers the baby by surgery. However, the child is premature and is taken to an incubator.
*As Caprica-Valerii [[Home, Part II|predicted]], it is a girl. [[Karl Agathon]] and Caprica-Valerii adore it together, naming her [[Hera Agathon|Hera]].
*Meanwhile, President [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]], Baltar, Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]] and Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] debate what to do with the child. Baltar points out that it is half-human. Adama realizes the Cylons want it, and that the Cylons still hiding in the Fleet will try to make a move for it if they know about it.
*President Roslin has decided, [[The Eye of Jupiter|secretly and unilaterally]], to hide Hera to protect her. She has Cottle convince Agathon and Caprica-Valerii that their baby has died using other remains. Caprica-Valerii becomes hysterical and nearly chokes Cottle before breaking down, sobbing.
*Roslin has given Hera to a woman named [[Maya]], who lost her baby in the Cylon attack. Maya believes that the child is a normal human child from a ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' officer.
*Agathon, helped by Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]], spreads the ashes of "Hera" out the hatch of a spaceborne [[Raptor]].
*The [[Virtual beings|virtual Number Six]] is devastated that Baltar could not protect "their baby", although he says he did all he could.
*Number Six says that God's will was that Hera should survive and "would lead the next generation of God's children." In a rage, she says that Baltar has committed a sin, and his entire race will suffer God's vengeance.

== Notes ==
*This episode was nominated for the Hugo Award for "Best Dramatic Presentation (short-form)" aired in 2006.
*This episode reveals three Cylon model numbers: the D'Annas are [[Number Three]]s, the Dorals are [[Number Five]]s, and the Sharons are [[Number Eight]]s.
*Anders refers to humanoid Cylons as "skin jobs" in this episode, another reference to ''[[Wikipedia:Blade Runner|Blade Runner]]'' by the Re-Imagined Series (which [[Edward James Olmos]] also co-starred in). The Cylon Centurions are being referred to as "bullet heads".
**When episode writer [[Bradley Thompson]] was [[Battlestar Wiki:Official Communiques#"Skin Jobs"|asked]] by Battlestar Wiki how it was decided to incorporate this reference into the episode, he said:
:"There was no real "decision" as such. We were writing "Downloaded". [[Jean Barolay|Barolay]] and [[Samuel Anders|Anders]] were on the roof and we needed a quick way to categorize. We remembered the term from Blade Runner and put it in. The drafts went through the usual pathways of approval and nobody shot it down. So now there are skin jobs along with metal jobs, clankers, and bulletheads (that last is credited to [[Gary Hutzel]])."
*[[Rick Worthy]] ([[Simon]]) and [[Callum Keith Rennie]] ([[Leoben Conoy]]) do not actually appear in this episode. In several brief shots, body doubles dressed as their characters are seen from behind or in the distance, but these actors did not return for the episode. Ron Moore noted in his [[Podcast:Downloaded|podcast]] of the episode that body doubles were used because the production team felt it would just be a waste of Worthy and Rennie's time having them only appear in the background of shots and not have any dialog.
*Much of the dialog in the episode recap is entirely new, and dubbed in to better summarize the segment.
*[[Caprica-Six]] assumed residence on Caprica two years prior to the Cylon attack, which matches both the beginning of her relationship with Baltar ([[Miniseries]]) and the date that [[Sharon Valerii]] was assigned to ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' ([[The Farm]]).
*There are three cars in the underground garage. One clearly visible is a Citroën DS. When the Cylon enters the garage, the car on the right appears to be a Rover P6. The car on the left with a central headlamp appears to be a 1930s Tatra 87. According to the podcast, older European cars were used to make them somewhat more alien to American viewers, but this can have the opposite effect on European viewers.
* The license plate on the front of the car crushed in Anders' bomb attack reads '''SEXYMOM''', and has a "C-Bucs Rule" bumper sticker (for the [[Caprica Buccaneers]], the core of Ander's resistance group).
* Whenever Baltar's internal Number Six appears on ''Galactica'' during the series, Number Six's distinct soundtrack theme is played (plunking staccato notes on a [[w:xylophone|xylophone]], accompanied by violins). There is a subtle twist on this for this episode with Caprica-Six's internal Baltar: whenever Six's hallucinatory Baltar appears, the normal "Number Six theme" is played ''in reverse''. The xylophone notes are played in reverse order, though the violin overlay is still played "forwards".
*Different music plays during the two downloads at the beginning of the episode. A variation on the "Number Six theme" is heard during Caprica-Six's flashbacks, while Boomer's flashbacks are accompanied by a more militaristic tune.
*The image that Sharon throws against the wall is from the episode "[[Water]]", done after Sharon lands the Raptor and asks Tyrol to take care of her ejection seat. While a picture from her time on ''Galactica'' could be in her apartment, it is an error that she has one from after the fall of the Colonies.

== Analysis ==
*Interestingly, the Baltar in Caprica-Six's head seems to be rather sharper-tongued, more cynical, and more harshly moralistic than the actual Baltar. He spends most of the episode playing conscience to Caprica-Six.
*In the Miniseries, Leoben claimed to Adama that Cylons are superior to primitive humans, who are only "one step above beating each other to death with clubs". Ironically, Caprica-Six savagely beats Number Three to death "primitively" with a rock.
*Apparently the documentary broadcast from the Fleet in "[[Final Cut]]" was not made widely available, since if Caprica-Six had seen it, she would have already known about Baltar's survival.
**However, Number Three states at one point that [[Kara Thrace]]'s arrival on Caprica (as seen earlier in the season) occurred only "a couple of weeks ago". Unless this is an error (as clearly the birth of Hera has to have occurred months after Starbuck's return to the planet), it may suggest that the Caprica scenes in this episode occur months earlier than the Fleet scenes shown in parallel. If this is the case, the Final Cut documentary likely hasn't been made yet.
**The others seem to have kept the news from Caprica-Six, out of concern for her attachment to Baltar. When she resurrects, she immediately asks if Baltar is alive and the Three & Eight exchange glances. Three asks if she would be troubled if Baltar were dead, and never answers Caprica-Six's question. Apparently, they believed that knowledge of Baltar's survival would impede Caprica-Six's reintegration into Cylon society.
*There does not appear to be any pattern to the numbering scheme of the 12 Cylon models: Three (Biers), Five (Doral), Six (Shelley Godfrey/Gina), Eight (Valerii), e.g. not all females are an even number, males an odd number.
**From [[Ron Moore]]'s blog on [http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/ July 27th, 2006]: "Number Six was specifically a homage to "[[Wikipedia:The Prisoner|The Prisoner]]," but the rest were assigned their numbers randomly.
*Cylon society on Caprica appears to consist of mostly mimicking human behavior; clothing, apartments, cafés, parks for relaxation, etc. In essence, the Cylons are merely trying to be what they have just exterminated: humans.
*The Cylons did not expect their initial attack to be anywhere near as successful as it was. This would explain the apparently large number of Cylon military vessels showing up everywhere as the Cylons expected to fight a more protracted war against a larger surviving human military force.
*While it is not explicitly known in this episode, [[William Adama|Admiral Adama]] was kept in the dark about Roslin's decision to fake Hera's death. The only people who know the complete truth are the President, [[Tory]] and [[Cottle|Doctor Cottle]]. The episode "[[The Eye of Jupiter]]" later confirms this point.
* Tyrol accompanies Helo to his and Sharon's daughter's "funeral", but who exactly is he there in support of? Helo or Caprica-Valerii? The easy answer is "both", but it seems likely that his presence is more on Helo's behalf. Having been effectively marginalized in Caprica-Valerii's eyes ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]), and his later fears of being a Cylon, his feelings for her are on the downswing.
* In a deleted scene (included on the Season 2.5 DVD), Gina dubs Hera "Number 13".
** Future developments in the series contradict this deleted scene. The [[Final Five|final five]] remaining Cylons do not have model numbers, so the next designation would be Number Nine, not Number Thirteen. This is because the writers did not come up with the idea of the Final Five until Season Three.

== Questions ==

===Answered Questions===
* What will Number Three do when she is resurrected? ([[Precipice|Answer]])
* What model numbers are "[[Simon]]" and "[[Leoben Conoy]]"? ([[Number Four|Answer 1]], [[Number Two|Answer 2]])
* Given that Caprica-Six now has a virtual Gaius Baltar, what are these [[virtual beings]]? ([[Islanded in a Stream of Stars|Answer #1]], [[Daybreak, Part II|#2]])
* Does death hold any meaning to the Cylons? ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?|Future Partial Answer]])

===Unanswered Questions===
* Given that Baltar's home was destroyed and Caprica-Six "died" in a nuclear explosion, how did Baltar survive?
* Several Cylons are seen in conversation in the park and cafe scenes. What do they have to talk about?
* Why do the other Cylons see Boomer as a "war hero" despite the fact that she wasn't conscious of carrying out her mission(s) and her attempt on Adama's life ultimately failed?

== Official Statements ==
*David Eick's video blog shows the crew preparation for filming the Cylon rebirthing scene for this episode.
*According to RDM's podcast, there was an entire subplot in this episode in which Lucy Lawless's character "D'anna Biers" interviews President Roslin about rumors that the pregnant Cylon prisoner's baby had been born. Then "''Galactica''-Three" tries to kidnap the baby off of ''Galactica'' in collusion with [[Gina Inviere]] (''Pegasus''-Six). The subplot was cut for time (they wanted to spend more time focusing on events on Caprica), and also because they felt it made the episode very confusing; cutting between many different Cylon copies both on Caprica and ''Galactica''.( These scenes were filmed then cut; they are provided as [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)#Downloaded|deleted scenes]] on the [[Season 2.5 DVD]] sets).

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

*''Caprica-Valerii has gone into premature labor with her Hybrid baby:''
:'''Cottle:''' I find it absolutely amazing you people went to all the trouble to appear human, and didn't upgrade the plumbing.

*''"Caprica-Six" and a [[Number Three]]-copy walk past a crowd of other Cylons of various models, and they all keep turning their heads to look at Caprica-Six:''
:'''Caprica-Six:''' I still can't get used to this.
:'''Three:''' Well, you're a Hero of the Cylon now. You're our first celebrity!
:'''Caprica-Six:''' Oh, I'm just another Six.
:'''Three:''' You're too modest. I'm just another Three... and they're Fives (motions at a Doral-model)... and Eights (motions at a Sharon-model). But you, everyone calls you "Caprica-Six"... like you're the only Six on the planet!

*''President Roslin, Baltar, Admiral Adama and Col. Tigh discuss what to do with the Hybrid baby:''
:'''Roslin:''' If [[Hera Agathon|the baby]] does survive, the question is — what do we do with it?
:'''Baltar:''' Do? What are you suggesting? That we throw it out of an airlock?
:'''Roslin:''' I don't make suggestions, Mr. Baltar - if I want to toss a baby out of an airlock, I'd say so.

*''[[Number Three]] prepares to execute [[Samuel Anders]]:''
:'''Three:''' Humans don't respect life the way we do. (loads pistol)

*''Anders' gun is knocked out of his hands, and it miraculously lands near Number Three, who picks it up, stands over Anders and gets ready to execute him:''
:'''Number Three''': God loves me. (Caprica-Six pops up behind Number Three and bashes her over the head with a big rock of debris)
:'''Caprica-Six''': See you again soon! (Caprica-Six bashes her head with the rock a second time, killing her current body, while her consciousness will soon download into another)

*''[[Sharon Valerii]] picks up a photograph of the ''Galactica'' crew to make a point to Caprica-Six about love:''
:"''This'' is love. These people love me. I love them. I didn't pretend to feel something so I could screw people over. I loved them. And then I betrayed them! I shot a man I love, frakked over another man, ruined his life, and why? Because I'm a lying machine! I'm a frakking Cylon!"

*''Caprica-Six's internal Baltar recites verse''
:Life is short, but the next one's not
:Let your heart adrift, and your soul will get caught
:Believe the lies, ignore the truth
:Listen to me, I will show you the proof.
:Speak from your heart: say the things you know to be true

== Guest Stars ==
*[[Michael Hogan]] as Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]
*[[Aaron Douglas]] as Chief [[Galen Tyrol]]
*[[Tahmoh Penikett]] as Lt. [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]
*[[Michael Trucco]] as [[Samuel Anders]]
*[[Donnelly Rhodes]] as Dr. [[Cottle]]
*[[Matthew Bennett]] as [[Number Five]]
*[[Rekha Sharma]] as [[Tory Foster]]
*[[Kerry Norton]] as Paramedic [[Layne Ishay]]
*[[Alisen Down]] as [[Jean Barolay]]
*[[Erica Cerra]] as [[Maya]]
*[[Diego Diablo Del Mar]] as [[Hillard]]

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== Overview ==

:''[[Galen Tyrol|Chief Tyrol]] throws himself into the task of constructing a new [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] from scratch, despite the ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' crew's misgivings and apprehension. [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] must deal with the repercussions of his relationship with [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon]] on Caprica. A Cylon computer [[Cylon computer virus|virus]] long thought deleted reasserts itself in ''Galactica'''s computers, putting the ship and the crew in danger.''

== Summary ==
* [[Laura Roslin]]'s illness has reached a critical level. While she is still well enough to walk, Dr. [[Cottle]] gives her approximately one month to live.
* [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] has become ''persona non grata'' to many of the crew who distrust him due to his romance with the Caprica copy of [[humanoid Cylon]] [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon]]. [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] and Chief Tyrol have a fight over Sharon's love.
* Many of the crew, even the generally level-headed and reliable Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]], are showing the strain of the apparent futility and fatigue of running from the Cylons.
* Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]], with also little else to do with scrapped Vipers, begins a project to craft a new fighter. Initially, many crew are very skeptical, but they and others help Tyrol.
* Helo suggests carbon composite material for the skin in lieu of the scarce metal plating normally used for Vipers. As a result Tyrol's new ship has stealth capabilities; it is nearly invisible to [[DRADIS]].
* [[Kara Thrace]], [[Brendan Costanza]] and [[Lee Adama]] nearly suffocate when the life-support systems on the [[firing range]] malfunction.
* A Cylon [[logic bomb]] has studied all ship's systems. It will fully control ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' once an expected Cylon force arrives to activate it by infiltration. Gaeta and Baltar work together to figure a way to rid the ship of it by erasing the hard drives of all computers. Doing this, however, will leave the ship a sitting duck for an attack while time is needed to restore function and data to the computers.
* Adama, after asking the advice of the President, allows the Caprica Valerii to connect herself to the ship's mainframe and communication systems while Gaeta and Baltar erase the hard drives of all computers.
* A Cylon fighter armada consisting of hundreds of [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]]s and [[Heavy Raider]]s attempts to activate the bomb. However, Valerii responds by transmitting a version of the same bomb to the Cylon fleet, disabling it as the Cylons did the Colonial fleet during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. The Viper squadrons annihilate the helpless Cylon fleet in a [[Great Cylon Turkey Shoot|joyous moment of payback]].
* Kara Thrace takes the new fighter, dubbed the [[Blackbird]], for a initially ungainly test flight. This fighter is designed for speed, and soon delivers it. Lee Adama, in a Viper chase plane, is horrified when the Blackbird disappears, but Starbuck rises above to face his ship quietly, proving the new fighter's stealth ability.
* In a ceremony similar to the one given to Commander Adama in the [[Miniseries]], President Roslin inspects and christens the new fighter. Many sign the ship. Tyrol reveals the name of this first fighter: ''Laura''.
* The mere work on the new fighter renewed the creativity and hope of the crew--a reason why Adama allowed its construction to continue, despite the logic bomb crisis.

== Notes ==
* Population count is 47,853. This is the first time this season that there has been no net change in the count from the previous episode ([[Final Cut]]).
* ''[[Wikipedia:Flight of the Phoenix|Flight of the Phoenix]]'' is the title of a 1964 novel where survivors from a plane crash in the middle of a desert attempt to rebuild the plane from the wreckage. Two movies, one made in 1965 and the other in 2004, were also made following a similar story line inspired by the book.
* The [[Wikipedia:Phoenix (mythology)|phoenix]] is an animal from Egyptian mythology (and those derived) that, at the end of its lifespan, burns into ashes from which another arises.
* The [[Blackbird]], a new stealth fighter craft, has been constructed by Chief Tyrol with help from the crew.
* There is a wide shot when apparently ''all'' of ''Galactica'''s Vipers are deployed where it's possible to count how many they have: there are 42 Vipers visible onscreen. Oddly, the current count says that there should be no more than 34, and even with [[Joe Palladino]] (unrealistically) on parole after "[[Final Cut]]" and Helo in a Viper, ''Galactica'' shouldn't be able to muster more than 25 pilots.
** There are at least 7 Viper Mk. VIIs visible in this shot. This agrees well with the events of "[[Scattered]]".
* This is the first episode without an appearance by [[Number Six]].
** Her two scenes were ultimately cut; they are available on the Season 2.0 DVD set.
* When Chief Tyrol reconciles with Cally (regarding her killing of Boomer), she reaches into a Viper and fixes something he couldn't reach, and he responds "Nice to be small, huh?" This is reminiscent of the scene at the end of the [[Miniseries]], when they have almost the exact same exchange. In that scene, they were reconciling after ''Cally'' got angry that Tyrol was having a relationship with "Boomer" Valerii.
* President Roslin returns the book ''[[Dark Day]]'' to Commander Adama, which he gave to her back in the second episode, "[[Water]]".
* Chief Tyrol and Boomer were planning to leave the military together and get married before the Cylon attack.
* There is a goof just after the fight between Tyrol and Helo: at timecode 0:07:02 in the shot of Helo and Tyrol in front of the Raptor. To the left of the screen a camera operator and another man can be seen.
*This is the first episode of the Re-imagined Series that does not involve any characters appearing on a planet. Further, "Flight of the Phoenix" is the first episode whose story is contained entirely on ''Galactica'' (or its Vipers) and doesn't even visit another ship in the civilian Fleet, such as ''[[Colonial One]]''.
*In one shot after Apollo states "weapons free" there is a shot of a Heavy Raider getting hit, then the Blackbird flies by, does a 180 degree turn and stays there, before an explosion covers it up and the scene changes (time index 35:18-25:21). This is a visual effects goof.
*Despite Helo being a Raptor ECO, he wears a Viper patch during the Blackbird's first flight and christening ceremony.
*Roslin christens the Blackbird with a bottle of [[Leonis Estates Sparkling Wine]].

== Analysis ==
* While [[humanoid Cylon]]s appear human to the cellular level, Caprica-Valerii can control a fiber-optic connection inserted into her forearm. This suggests that the biological design of humanoid Cylons uses light-sensitive cells disguised as regular cells in their forearms as data access nodes. Based on Valerii's extreme discomfort in having to cut herself to interface with the data line in this way, it could be presumed that this is not a typical practice for humanoid Cylons.
* Tyrol's comment to Lee Adama on the lack of miracles, and his answer to the problem, may remind some of another [[Wikipedia:Montgomery Scott|great miracle worker]] of television science fiction.
* Despite Valerii's belief that she has become a "liability" to the Cylons, the previous episode made it clear that at least some Cylons considered the survival of her baby a paramount concern. The virus, installed before her arrival, was probably oblivious to this, but the massive fleet the Cylons deployed to interdict ''Galactica'' could not have been. Additionally, an earnest attack would almost certainly have included a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]]. It has therefore to be assumed that the Cylons have a more complicated motive in making such a massive material sacrifice.
** It is likely (as shown later through the events of "[[Downloaded]]" to "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]") that there are indeed different Cylon [[Caprica-Six|factions]] working at cross purposes.
** The presence of [[Heavy Raiders]] suggests that the Cylons may have been planning to board ''Galactica'' in order to recover Sharon and her unborn child.
* The Colonials pass up a major opportunity by destroying the Cylon fleet. Adama revoked Roslin's presidency on the basis of the misappropriation of a ''single'' captured Cylon Raider, yet they eliminate dozens of crippled-but-serviceable assets in the name of retribution. After all that work to create a single new fighter, wouldn't a squadron of superior Raiders be worth maintaining in the unused starboard flight pod?
**A point against the idea of capturing a Raider involves the lucky manner in obtaining the first one. The Raider in "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]" was brain-dead from a lucky shot. The Raiders here are turned off by a virus, but it may be too difficult to remove all of their control mechanisms. Since these are in fact organic mechanisms that could still be fighting to survive, they may have their own ability of causing additional harm if captured alive.
**''Galactica'' had no idea how long until Cylon reinforcements could appear, or the effect of the virus would wear off. Further, the civilian fleet has jumped away from ''Galactica'' in anticipation of the attack, and ''Galactica'' probably doesn't want to leave them unattended too long. There is not enough time and it is too dangerous.
**At this point, ''Galactica'' has as many as two Heavy Raiders already—the one that crash-landed into the starboard pod in "[[Scattered]]" and the one Starbuck, Helo, and Sharon returned with in "[[Home, Part II]]". The use of the [[FTL]] drive from one of these ships is mentioned by Lt. Gaeta as part of the planning of the [[Caprica Resistance]] [[SAR]] in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]". Another factor would be the potentially still active Cylon Centurions, probably not affected by the virus transmitted by Sharon.
*It is Helo who suggests the use of carbon composites for the Blackbird, and Racetrack says "Good call, Helo" after it is finished. Despite everything, Helo's opinions are still respected, perhaps symbolic of his redemption in the eyes of his crewmates.
*Some viewers may express confusion over the amount of time necessary to build the new fighter as well as the time it took to fight off the logic bomb and the Cylon attack. All in all, the whole episode may seem like a series of ''[[Wikipedia:Deus ex machina|deus ex machina]]'' events to close up the episode. For more analysis on these events, see this [[Science in the Re-imagined Series#Construction of the Blackbird|section]] of the article [[Science in the Re-imagined Series]].
**In his podcast for this episode, [[Ronald D. Moore|Ron D. Moore]] acknowledges the build-time dilemma for the Blackbird, and notes that the vagueness of time elapsed to build the machine was intentional so as to allow it to be built and done with in one episode, instead of drawing out the building into two or three episodes.
*Order and discipline on ''Galactica'' may be starting to break down. In the [[Miniseries]], Starbuck was put in the [[brig]] for striking a superior officer. Now, Starbuck assaults Racetrack but there is no visible punishment (although Racetrack does not outrank Starbuck), and Tyrol gets into a fight with Helo (who outranks him), also with no apparent punishment. The deck crews aren't bothering to hide the [[Wikipedia:Moonshine|still]] they built as much as before, going to far as to have a large "Welcome Back Cally" party with its products in public. Tigh makes a halfhearted verbal chastisement of Tyrol when Tigh finds the still, but doesn't do anything about it and ends up taking a jar of booze for his own use. Also, even Lt. Gaeta is now snapping back at the command officers, shouting and even [[frak|cursing]].
*The christening scene suggests that the ceremony may be conducted differently in the Colonies. Roslin jokingly moves to smash the bottle across the Blackbird -- as the ceremony is conducted here -- but then says she's joking and instead the bottle is opened and Tyrol takes a drink. It's unclear whether this is truly a variant of the ceremony, or if it was modified either a) out of concern for damaging the Blackbird or b) the scarcity of champagne.
*The decision by Tyrol and his shipmates to build the Blackbird parallels a similar subplot on ''[[MemoryAlpha:Star Trek: Voyager|Star Trek: Voyager]]'' in which crew members build a similarly high-tech vessel, the ''[[MemoryAlpha:Delta Flyer|Delta Flyer]]'' which, like the Blackbird, also immediately becomes an asset to the mother ship.

== Questions ==
*Is [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] attracted to Apollo (or vice versa)? Dualla seemed to "check out" Apollo's "backside" in "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]", and now she's in close physical contact with him ([[The Captain's Hand|Answer]]).
*Helo gets angry at Chief Tyrol for calling Boomer a [[toaster]]. Is this a sign that Helo is thinking more sympathetically towards the Cylons than before? Like the Cylons, does he consider it an "offensive racial epithet"?
* Where does Helo get the idea to use carbon-composite on the Blackbird? Is that something he thought up himself, or perhaps did Caprica-Valerii 'point' him in that direction?
*If the Cylons are so interested and cautious about protecting Caprica-Valerii and her unborn child as stated by [[Aaron Doral]] in "[[Final Cut]]", why then are they willing to launch a massive assault against ''Galactica''?
*To what extent are Cylon knowledge and experiences shared? [[Humanoid Cylon]]s can transfer their consciousness to other copies of themselves ([[Miniseries]]), but are other Cylon models interconnected?
*Is the software code Helo shows to Caprica-Valerii only a virus or does it contain instructions outside the scope of destabilizing and controlling ''Galactica'''s systems? (Valerii's response to the code seems to indicate it affects her on some level).

== Official Statements ==

*In an [http://www.battlestargalactica.com/outside_docs/bg_outdoc0050.htm interview with BattlestarGalactica.com on December 28th, 2005] RDM was asked about the continuity problems noticed with the number of Vipers deployed in this episode:

: "Q: In the battle scene with the Cylons in "Flight of the Phoenix", some think they see more Vipers than pilots, there is the presence of many Mark 7 Vipers, and the Blackbird is in flight before its maiden voyage. Was this effects shot the victim of a script change or something in the editing room? Was the episode originally intended to appear after the Pegasus encounter?

: RDM: To be honest, I don't recall the exact number of Vipers in the shot or where we were in the continuity at that point. I do recall the topic coming up in various VFX and production meetings, and I think there was at least an initial rationale for the number on screen -- but it's entirely possible that we cheated a bit in Post in order to make the shot a little sexier. Sorry. It happens."

* In issue #348 of ''Starlog'' magazine, p. 32, Nicki Clyne (Cally) said:

:"It was an honor that the writers let Cally shoot Sharon; that was a big moment in the show...but then Cally is locked away in a jail cell, and that was pretty boring. When she gets out, everyone gives Cally an anti-climactic little party and she goes back to work. That's one of the funny patterns about my character: She has all of these crazy, intense, traumatic experiences, and then in the next episode, you'll see her back on the ship, turning a screw. There's a lot going on, obviously, that you ''don't'' see, and as actors, we do our best to fill in those blanks. But yes, essentially, after whatever horrible things happen to Cally, in the end, she just goes back to work!"

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

*''On the flight deck:''
:'''Apollo:''' Nobody's expecting a miracle.
:'''Tyrol:''' Maybe that's the problem.

*''Discussing Helo's return to ''Galactica'':''
:'''Duck:''' So he's the Cylon lover.
:'''Starbuck:''' You know what? I don't care who or what he fraks. He saved my ass down there, all right?
:'''Duck:''' How could anyone fall in love with a toaster, though?
:'''Starbuck:''' Same way I hear everyone was high-fiving our Sharon right before she put two in Adama's chest. The bastards frak with your head.
:'''Hotdog:''' Yeah. Just ask the Chief.

*''Card game in the Viper pilot's locker room:''
:'''Racetrack:''' Been playing with these cards for so long, I know every fold.
:'''Starbuck:''' So life's a bitch. What do you want to do, cry about it?
:'''Racetrack:''' No, I just want it to end, okay? The bad food, the endless rotations, pretending that a card game is the high point of our day.
:'''Starbuck:''' It's not going to last forever, all right? Earth is out there.
:'''Racetrack:''' Right. We could all be chasing our tails over some half-assed planetarium show.
:'''Starbuck:''' And you guys can all go to hell. I'm going to go find Helo.
:'''Racetrack:''' Good idea. Maybe that Cylon whore taught him a few tricks.
:(Starbuck politely turns around, walks over to Racetrack and grabs her by the neck and slams her head into the card table).

*''Helo is sitting in Sharon's old Raptor when the Chief walks up:''
:'''Helo:''' Hey! Look, Chief. I never intended for Sharon and I to-- You know, it just kind of evolved.
:'''Tyrol:''' Just a couple lovesick kids, huh?
:'''Helo:''' I know how she felt about you, okay? She loves you.
:'''Tyrol:''' Did she fill you in on the rest of the plan? She and I were going to muster out at the end of our service. You know, then we would get married. Maybe we would have children. I guess I'm just a big frakkin' idiot, though, huh? Probably that goddamn [[toaster]]'s plan all along.
:'''Helo:''' Don't call her that.
:'''Tyrol:''' Sucker some moron into giving her a kid. Hey, you know, but you know what? I should probably be grateful to you. Probably be grateful. You know why? Because that freak in her belly could have been mine! (Helo and Tyrol fight)

*''Lt. Gaeta is starting to lose his composure under constant pressure:''
:'''Gaeta:''' Sir, I'm running every diagnostic we've got. Checking each line of code could take days.
:'''Tigh:''' I am not interested in excuses. Fix it!
:'''Gaeta:''' (shouting) It's not an excuse, sir. It's a frakking fact!

*''Speaking to Tigh:''
:'''Commander Adama:''' Months on the run, and what do we have to show for it? Casualties. Deteriorating conditions. This crew needs a rest. It's finally hitting them, that's all. Our old lives are gone. The only thing we have to look forward to is this.

*''Tigh walks into the tool closet on the hangar deck''
:'''Tigh:''' What's this, Chief?
:'''Tyrol:''' I'm making solvent, sir, to clean machine parts.
:'''Tigh:''' Solvent my ass. I know a still when I smell it.

*''Starbuck is taking the [[Blackbird]] on its first test flight while Apollo follows:''
:'''Apollo:''' Starbuck, Starbuck, where are you? Starbuck, come in. Starbuck, do you read? Kara, are you okay?
:'''Starbuck:''' (Starbuck turns the lights of the Blackbird on; she's actually got her ship feet away from Apollo's, facing it) Of course you lost contact. It's a damned stealth ship, remember?

*''At the unveiling of '''[[Blackbird|Laura]]''':''
:'''Roslin:''' Oh, you're much too modest. After what we've been through, it would be very easy to give up, to lose hope. But not here. Not today. This is more than a ship, Chief. This is an act of faith. It is proof that despite all we've lost, we keep trying. And we will get through this, all of us, together. I promise.

== 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]]
*[[Nicki Clyne]] as Specialist [[Cally Tyrol|Cally Henderson]]
*[[Alessandro Juliani]] as Lt. [[Felix Gaeta]]
*[[Kandyse McClure]] as Petty Officer [[Anastasia Dualla]]
*[[Donnelly Rhodes]] as Dr. [[Cottle]]
*[[Bodie Olmos]] as Lt. [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]]
*[[Leah Cairns]] as Lt. [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]]
*[[Jennifer Halley]] as [[Diana Seelix]]
*[[Christian Tessier]] as [[Tucker Clellan|Tucker "Duck" Clellan]]
*[[Dominic Zamprogna]] as Specialist [[James Lyman|James "Jammer" Lyman]]
*[[Don Thompson]] as [[Anthony Figurski]]

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Flight of the Phoenix

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== Overview ==

:''[[Galen Tyrol|Chief Tyrol]] throws himself into the task of constructing a new [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] from scratch, despite the ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' crew's misgivings and apprehension. [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] must deal with the repercussions of his relationship with [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon]] on Caprica. A Cylon computer [[Cylon computer virus|virus]] long thought deleted reasserts itself in ''Galactica'''s computers, putting the ship and the crew in danger.''

== Summary ==
* [[Laura Roslin]]'s illness has reached a critical level. While she is still well enough to walk, Dr. [[Cottle]] gives her approximately one month to live.
* [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] has become ''persona non grata'' to many of the crew who distrust him due to his romance with the Caprica copy of [[humanoid Cylon]] [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon]]. [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] and Chief Tyrol have a fight over Sharon's love.
* Many of the crew, even the generally level-headed and reliable Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]], are showing the strain of the apparent futility and fatigue of running from the Cylons.
* Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]], with also little else to do with scrapped Vipers, begins a project to craft a new fighter. Initially, many crew are very skeptical, but they and others help Tyrol.
* Helo suggests carbon composite material for the skin in lieu of the scarce metal plating normally used for Vipers. As a result Tyrol's new ship has stealth capabilities; it is nearly invisible to [[DRADIS]].
* [[Kara Thrace]], [[Brendan Costanza]] and [[Lee Adama]] nearly suffocate when the life-support systems on the [[firing range]] malfunction.
* A Cylon [[logic bomb]] has studied all ship's systems. It will fully control ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' once an expected Cylon force arrives to activate it by infiltration. Gaeta and Baltar work together to figure a way to rid the ship of it by erasing the hard drives of all computers. Doing this, however, will leave the ship a sitting duck for an attack while time is needed to restore function and data to the computers.
* Adama, after asking the advice of the President, allows the Caprica Valerii to connect herself to the ship's mainframe and communication systems while Gaeta and Baltar erase the hard drives of all computers.
* A Cylon fighter armada consisting of hundreds of [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]]s and [[Heavy Raider]]s attempts to activate the bomb. However, Valerii responds by transmitting a version of the same bomb to the Cylon fleet, disabling it as the Cylons did the Colonial fleet during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. The Viper squadrons annihilate the helpless Cylon fleet in a [[Great Cylon Turkey Shoot|joyous moment of payback]].
* Kara Thrace takes the new fighter, dubbed the [[Blackbird]], for a initially ungainly test flight. This fighter is designed for speed, and soon delivers it. Lee Adama, in a Viper chase plane, is horrified when the Blackbird disappears, but Starbuck rises above to face his ship quietly, proving the new fighter's stealth ability.
* In a ceremony similar to the one given to Commander Adama in the [[Miniseries]], President Roslin inspects and christens the new fighter. Many sign the ship. Tyrol reveals the name of this first fighter: ''Laura''.
* The mere work on the new fighter renewed the creativity and hope of the crew--a reason why Adama allowed its construction to continue, despite the logic bomb crisis.

== Notes ==
* Population count is 47,853. This is the first time this season that there has been no net change in the count from the previous episode ([[Final Cut]]).
* ''[[Wikipedia:Flight of the Phoenix|Flight of the Phoenix]]'' is the title of a 1964 novel where survivors from a plane crash in the middle of a desert attempt to rebuild the plane from the wreckage. Two movies, one made in 1965 and the other in 2004, were also made following a similar story line inspired by the book.
* The [[Wikipedia:Phoenix (mythology)|phoenix]] is an animal from Egyptian mythology (and those derived) that, at the end of its lifespan, burns into ashes from which another arises.
* The [[Blackbird]], a new stealth fighter craft, has been constructed by Chief Tyrol with help from the crew.
* There is a wide shot when apparently ''all'' of ''Galactica'''s Vipers are deployed where it's possible to count how many they have: there are 42 Vipers visible onscreen. Oddly, the current count says that there should be no more than 34, and even with [[Joe Palladino]] (unrealistically) on parole after "[[Final Cut]]" and Helo in a Viper, ''Galactica'' shouldn't be able to muster more than 25 pilots.
** There are at least 7 Viper Mk. VIIs visible in this shot. This agrees well with the events of "[[Scattered]]".
* This is the first episode without an appearance by [[Number Six]].
** Her two scenes were ultimately cut; they are available on the Season 2.0 DVD set.
* When Chief Tyrol reconciles with Cally (regarding her killing of Boomer), she reaches into a Viper and fixes something he couldn't reach, and he responds "Nice to be small, huh?" This is reminiscent of the scene at the end of the [[Miniseries]], when they have almost the exact same exchange. In that scene, they were reconciling after ''Cally'' got angry that Tyrol was having a relationship with "Boomer" Valerii.
* President Roslin returns the book ''[[Dark Day]]'' to Commander Adama, which he gave to her back in the second episode, "[[Water]]".
* Chief Tyrol and Boomer were planning to leave the military together and get married before the Cylon attack.
* There is a goof just after the fight between Tyrol and Helo: at timecode 0:07:02 in the shot of Helo and Tyrol in front of the Raptor. To the left of the screen a camera operator and another man can be seen.
*This is the first episode of the Re-imagined Series that does not involve any characters appearing on a planet. Further, "Flight of the Phoenix" is the first episode whose story is contained entirely on ''Galactica'' (or its Vipers) and doesn't even visit another ship in the civilian Fleet, such as ''[[Colonial One]]''.
*In one shot after Apollo states "weapons free" there is a shot of a Heavy Raider getting hit, then the Blackbird flies by, does a 180 degree turn and stays there, before an explosion covers it up and the scene changes (time index 35:18-25:21). This is a visual effects goof.
*Despite Helo being a Raptor ECO, he wears a Viper patch during the Blackbird's first flight and christening ceremony.
*Roslin christens the Blackbird with a bottle of [[Leonis Estates Sparkling Wine]].
*This is the first episode in which [[Number Six]] does not appear.

== Analysis ==
* While [[humanoid Cylon]]s appear human to the cellular level, Caprica-Valerii can control a fiber-optic connection inserted into her forearm. This suggests that the biological design of humanoid Cylons uses light-sensitive cells disguised as regular cells in their forearms as data access nodes. Based on Valerii's extreme discomfort in having to cut herself to interface with the data line in this way, it could be presumed that this is not a typical practice for humanoid Cylons.
* Tyrol's comment to Lee Adama on the lack of miracles, and his answer to the problem, may remind some of another [[Wikipedia:Montgomery Scott|great miracle worker]] of television science fiction.
* Despite Valerii's belief that she has become a "liability" to the Cylons, the previous episode made it clear that at least some Cylons considered the survival of her baby a paramount concern. The virus, installed before her arrival, was probably oblivious to this, but the massive fleet the Cylons deployed to interdict ''Galactica'' could not have been. Additionally, an earnest attack would almost certainly have included a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]]. It has therefore to be assumed that the Cylons have a more complicated motive in making such a massive material sacrifice.
** It is likely (as shown later through the events of "[[Downloaded]]" to "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]") that there are indeed different Cylon [[Caprica-Six|factions]] working at cross purposes.
** The presence of [[Heavy Raiders]] suggests that the Cylons may have been planning to board ''Galactica'' in order to recover Sharon and her unborn child.
* The Colonials pass up a major opportunity by destroying the Cylon fleet. Adama revoked Roslin's presidency on the basis of the misappropriation of a ''single'' captured Cylon Raider, yet they eliminate dozens of crippled-but-serviceable assets in the name of retribution. After all that work to create a single new fighter, wouldn't a squadron of superior Raiders be worth maintaining in the unused starboard flight pod?
**A point against the idea of capturing a Raider involves the lucky manner in obtaining the first one. The Raider in "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]" was brain-dead from a lucky shot. The Raiders here are turned off by a virus, but it may be too difficult to remove all of their control mechanisms. Since these are in fact organic mechanisms that could still be fighting to survive, they may have their own ability of causing additional harm if captured alive.
**''Galactica'' had no idea how long until Cylon reinforcements could appear, or the effect of the virus would wear off. Further, the civilian fleet has jumped away from ''Galactica'' in anticipation of the attack, and ''Galactica'' probably doesn't want to leave them unattended too long. There is not enough time and it is too dangerous.
**At this point, ''Galactica'' has as many as two Heavy Raiders already—the one that crash-landed into the starboard pod in "[[Scattered]]" and the one Starbuck, Helo, and Sharon returned with in "[[Home, Part II]]". The use of the [[FTL]] drive from one of these ships is mentioned by Lt. Gaeta as part of the planning of the [[Caprica Resistance]] [[SAR]] in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]". Another factor would be the potentially still active Cylon Centurions, probably not affected by the virus transmitted by Sharon.
*It is Helo who suggests the use of carbon composites for the Blackbird, and Racetrack says "Good call, Helo" after it is finished. Despite everything, Helo's opinions are still respected, perhaps symbolic of his redemption in the eyes of his crewmates.
*Some viewers may express confusion over the amount of time necessary to build the new fighter as well as the time it took to fight off the logic bomb and the Cylon attack. All in all, the whole episode may seem like a series of ''[[Wikipedia:Deus ex machina|deus ex machina]]'' events to close up the episode. For more analysis on these events, see this [[Science in the Re-imagined Series#Construction of the Blackbird|section]] of the article [[Science in the Re-imagined Series]].
**In his podcast for this episode, [[Ronald D. Moore|Ron D. Moore]] acknowledges the build-time dilemma for the Blackbird, and notes that the vagueness of time elapsed to build the machine was intentional so as to allow it to be built and done with in one episode, instead of drawing out the building into two or three episodes.
*Order and discipline on ''Galactica'' may be starting to break down. In the [[Miniseries]], Starbuck was put in the [[brig]] for striking a superior officer. Now, Starbuck assaults Racetrack but there is no visible punishment (although Racetrack does not outrank Starbuck), and Tyrol gets into a fight with Helo (who outranks him), also with no apparent punishment. The deck crews aren't bothering to hide the [[Wikipedia:Moonshine|still]] they built as much as before, going to far as to have a large "Welcome Back Cally" party with its products in public. Tigh makes a halfhearted verbal chastisement of Tyrol when Tigh finds the still, but doesn't do anything about it and ends up taking a jar of booze for his own use. Also, even Lt. Gaeta is now snapping back at the command officers, shouting and even [[frak|cursing]].
*The christening scene suggests that the ceremony may be conducted differently in the Colonies. Roslin jokingly moves to smash the bottle across the Blackbird -- as the ceremony is conducted here -- but then says she's joking and instead the bottle is opened and Tyrol takes a drink. It's unclear whether this is truly a variant of the ceremony, or if it was modified either a) out of concern for damaging the Blackbird or b) the scarcity of champagne.
*The decision by Tyrol and his shipmates to build the Blackbird parallels a similar subplot on ''[[MemoryAlpha:Star Trek: Voyager|Star Trek: Voyager]]'' in which crew members build a similarly high-tech vessel, the ''[[MemoryAlpha:Delta Flyer|Delta Flyer]]'' which, like the Blackbird, also immediately becomes an asset to the mother ship.

== Questions ==
*Is [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] attracted to Apollo (or vice versa)? Dualla seemed to "check out" Apollo's "backside" in "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]", and now she's in close physical contact with him ([[The Captain's Hand|Answer]]).
*Helo gets angry at Chief Tyrol for calling Boomer a [[toaster]]. Is this a sign that Helo is thinking more sympathetically towards the Cylons than before? Like the Cylons, does he consider it an "offensive racial epithet"?
* Where does Helo get the idea to use carbon-composite on the Blackbird? Is that something he thought up himself, or perhaps did Caprica-Valerii 'point' him in that direction?
*If the Cylons are so interested and cautious about protecting Caprica-Valerii and her unborn child as stated by [[Aaron Doral]] in "[[Final Cut]]", why then are they willing to launch a massive assault against ''Galactica''?
*To what extent are Cylon knowledge and experiences shared? [[Humanoid Cylon]]s can transfer their consciousness to other copies of themselves ([[Miniseries]]), but are other Cylon models interconnected?
*Is the software code Helo shows to Caprica-Valerii only a virus or does it contain instructions outside the scope of destabilizing and controlling ''Galactica'''s systems? (Valerii's response to the code seems to indicate it affects her on some level).

== Official Statements ==

*In an [http://www.battlestargalactica.com/outside_docs/bg_outdoc0050.htm interview with BattlestarGalactica.com on December 28th, 2005] RDM was asked about the continuity problems noticed with the number of Vipers deployed in this episode:

: "Q: In the battle scene with the Cylons in "Flight of the Phoenix", some think they see more Vipers than pilots, there is the presence of many Mark 7 Vipers, and the Blackbird is in flight before its maiden voyage. Was this effects shot the victim of a script change or something in the editing room? Was the episode originally intended to appear after the Pegasus encounter?

: RDM: To be honest, I don't recall the exact number of Vipers in the shot or where we were in the continuity at that point. I do recall the topic coming up in various VFX and production meetings, and I think there was at least an initial rationale for the number on screen -- but it's entirely possible that we cheated a bit in Post in order to make the shot a little sexier. Sorry. It happens."

* In issue #348 of ''Starlog'' magazine, p. 32, Nicki Clyne (Cally) said:

:"It was an honor that the writers let Cally shoot Sharon; that was a big moment in the show...but then Cally is locked away in a jail cell, and that was pretty boring. When she gets out, everyone gives Cally an anti-climactic little party and she goes back to work. That's one of the funny patterns about my character: She has all of these crazy, intense, traumatic experiences, and then in the next episode, you'll see her back on the ship, turning a screw. There's a lot going on, obviously, that you ''don't'' see, and as actors, we do our best to fill in those blanks. But yes, essentially, after whatever horrible things happen to Cally, in the end, she just goes back to work!"

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

*''On the flight deck:''
:'''Apollo:''' Nobody's expecting a miracle.
:'''Tyrol:''' Maybe that's the problem.

*''Discussing Helo's return to ''Galactica'':''
:'''Duck:''' So he's the Cylon lover.
:'''Starbuck:''' You know what? I don't care who or what he fraks. He saved my ass down there, all right?
:'''Duck:''' How could anyone fall in love with a toaster, though?
:'''Starbuck:''' Same way I hear everyone was high-fiving our Sharon right before she put two in Adama's chest. The bastards frak with your head.
:'''Hotdog:''' Yeah. Just ask the Chief.

*''Card game in the Viper pilot's locker room:''
:'''Racetrack:''' Been playing with these cards for so long, I know every fold.
:'''Starbuck:''' So life's a bitch. What do you want to do, cry about it?
:'''Racetrack:''' No, I just want it to end, okay? The bad food, the endless rotations, pretending that a card game is the high point of our day.
:'''Starbuck:''' It's not going to last forever, all right? Earth is out there.
:'''Racetrack:''' Right. We could all be chasing our tails over some half-assed planetarium show.
:'''Starbuck:''' And you guys can all go to hell. I'm going to go find Helo.
:'''Racetrack:''' Good idea. Maybe that Cylon whore taught him a few tricks.
:(Starbuck politely turns around, walks over to Racetrack and grabs her by the neck and slams her head into the card table).

*''Helo is sitting in Sharon's old Raptor when the Chief walks up:''
:'''Helo:''' Hey! Look, Chief. I never intended for Sharon and I to-- You know, it just kind of evolved.
:'''Tyrol:''' Just a couple lovesick kids, huh?
:'''Helo:''' I know how she felt about you, okay? She loves you.
:'''Tyrol:''' Did she fill you in on the rest of the plan? She and I were going to muster out at the end of our service. You know, then we would get married. Maybe we would have children. I guess I'm just a big frakkin' idiot, though, huh? Probably that goddamn [[toaster]]'s plan all along.
:'''Helo:''' Don't call her that.
:'''Tyrol:''' Sucker some moron into giving her a kid. Hey, you know, but you know what? I should probably be grateful to you. Probably be grateful. You know why? Because that freak in her belly could have been mine! (Helo and Tyrol fight)

*''Lt. Gaeta is starting to lose his composure under constant pressure:''
:'''Gaeta:''' Sir, I'm running every diagnostic we've got. Checking each line of code could take days.
:'''Tigh:''' I am not interested in excuses. Fix it!
:'''Gaeta:''' (shouting) It's not an excuse, sir. It's a frakking fact!

*''Speaking to Tigh:''
:'''Commander Adama:''' Months on the run, and what do we have to show for it? Casualties. Deteriorating conditions. This crew needs a rest. It's finally hitting them, that's all. Our old lives are gone. The only thing we have to look forward to is this.

*''Tigh walks into the tool closet on the hangar deck''
:'''Tigh:''' What's this, Chief?
:'''Tyrol:''' I'm making solvent, sir, to clean machine parts.
:'''Tigh:''' Solvent my ass. I know a still when I smell it.

*''Starbuck is taking the [[Blackbird]] on its first test flight while Apollo follows:''
:'''Apollo:''' Starbuck, Starbuck, where are you? Starbuck, come in. Starbuck, do you read? Kara, are you okay?
:'''Starbuck:''' (Starbuck turns the lights of the Blackbird on; she's actually got her ship feet away from Apollo's, facing it) Of course you lost contact. It's a damned stealth ship, remember?

*''At the unveiling of '''[[Blackbird|Laura]]''':''
:'''Roslin:''' Oh, you're much too modest. After what we've been through, it would be very easy to give up, to lose hope. But not here. Not today. This is more than a ship, Chief. This is an act of faith. It is proof that despite all we've lost, we keep trying. And we will get through this, all of us, together. I promise.

== 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]]
*[[Nicki Clyne]] as Specialist [[Cally Tyrol|Cally Henderson]]
*[[Alessandro Juliani]] as Lt. [[Felix Gaeta]]
*[[Kandyse McClure]] as Petty Officer [[Anastasia Dualla]]
*[[Donnelly Rhodes]] as Dr. [[Cottle]]
*[[Bodie Olmos]] as Lt. [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]]
*[[Leah Cairns]] as Lt. [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]]
*[[Jennifer Halley]] as [[Diana Seelix]]
*[[Christian Tessier]] as [[Tucker Clellan|Tucker "Duck" Clellan]]
*[[Dominic Zamprogna]] as Specialist [[James Lyman|James "Jammer" Lyman]]
*[[Don Thompson]] as [[Anthony Figurski]]

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The Road Less Traveled

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== Overview ==

: ''The prospect of a truce between the [[The Fleet (RDM)|remnants of humanity]] and the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]]s encourages [[Kara Thrace]] to trust an old enemy.''

== Summary ==

=== On ''Galactica'' ===

* [[Gaius Baltar]] listens to the laments of [[Phoebe]], who lost her two children on [[Picon (RDM)|Picon]], as well as her husband, during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. She is angered by the fact that all this happened and that the [[Lords of Kobol (RDM)|Gods]] did nothing to spite the people who were responsible for the attack, such as the politicians, programmers, and corporations. Baltar, surrounded by his [[Cult of Baltar|followers]], makes a speech (which is recorded and broadcast over the [[wireless]]) about how the Gods failed to come to their aid not because they didn't want to, but because the Lords of Kobol don't exist.

* [[Galen Tyrol]] is listening to Baltar's broadcast while exercising with a jumping rope, but turns it off eventually. [[Nicholas Tyrol|Nicholas]] begins crying, so Tyrol turns it on again, which apparently soothes the child.

* Later, Tyrol silently stands in the [[launch tube (RDM)|launch tube]] where his wife died and is joined by [[Tory Foster]]. Foster tell him that it might never make sense, no matter how long he obsesses over it. Tyrol can't believe that she would commit suicide, despite taking anti-depressants and that she would never leave her son behind. Foster tells him to let it go and brings up the possibility that she might have known that he is a Cylon.

* After having sex with Foster, Baltar wonders if she is telling [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] about what he does. She affirms this, but says that the politicians have bigger things to worry about than him, and that only inconsequential people from the fringe of society are drawn to him.

* Later, Tyrol hears another of Baltar's sermons and heads down to the commune. There he listens, but is pulled aside by Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]], who scowls and scoffs Tyrol for not getting over Cally's death quickly. Tyrol is told that he needs to get over Cally's death before they are outed as [[Final Five|Cylons]]. Tyrol retorts that Tigh isn't dealing well with their situation either and that he knows that Tigh has been spending time with [[Caprica-Six]].

* After Tigh leaves, Baltar calls out Tyrol, saying that he's sorry for his loss. Tyrol becomes furious, saying that Baltar is a scumbag and that, for some reason, Cally liked him and his [[My Triumphs, My Mistakes|manifesto]]. Baltar doesn't raise to the bait and asks Tyrol to shake his hand. However, Tyrol grabs him by the throat. Baltar's followers pull him away and Tyrol leaves after shouting "you didn't know her!"

* Back in his quarters, he becomes furious, takes a pistol from a shelf and briefly contemplates killing himself. Later, as Tyrol lies awake in bed, still with his service weapon in hand, Baltar visits him and apologizes for the things he said about Cally. He also tells Tyrol that he committed many crimes and accepted his religious role as his only remaining chance of redemption. Tyrol listens silently, then still without speaking extends his hand to Baltar, who takes it.

=== On the ''Demetrius'' ===

* On day 58 of their mission, [[Kara Thrace]] unexpectedly decides to join the [[Combat Air Patrol]], although this usually is beyond her duty as captain. With [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]] as her wingman, Thrace (in [[Diana Seelix|Seelix]]'s Viper) encounters a heavily damaged [[Heavy Raider]] that just appeared on their [[DRADIS]]. Both are unsure of what course of action to take, until [[Leoben Conoy (New Caprica copy)|Leoben Conoy]] hails them over the [[wireless]], offering them a truce between Cylons and humans and a chance for Thrace to complete her "journey."
* After allowing the Heavy Raider to dock, Conoy tells Thrace that the ones he left behind on the [[Basestar (RDM)|baseship]] need her help, but also that the [[Hybrid]] can help them. Although the crew doesn't find any explosives or tracking devices in the Raider, they are suspicious of Conoy.
* However, Thrace has Conoy escorted to her quarters, where he aims to help her until [[Samuel Anders]] sees how physically close they are and assaults Conoy. He fights with him until the Marines drag Conoy away to lock him up in a closet.
* Anders visits Conoy there to ask him what he wants from Thrace. He tells Anders that he wants to understand her [[The Destiny|destiny]], which Anders doesn't consider good enough. Conoy replies that it is good enough for Thrace and that Anders might have his own destiny, beyond his relatively inconsequential life as a [[Pyramid (RDM)|Pyramid]] player. Conoy's words disturb Anders, who fears Conoy may know of his Cylon nature. Conoy also repeats his offer of a truce and that they can find Earth, the "promised land," together.
* On the bridge, [[Sharon Agathon]] and others express their concern that Thrace cannot be trusted, and that they have to meet up with the Fleet to refuel. Moreover, Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]] made it clear that if the ship didn't return by then, they would be considered lost.
* [[Karl Agathon]] defends Starbuck's authority, but out of concern orders a more thorough search for tracking devices and other potential issues. Gunnery Sergeant [[Erin Mathias|Mathias]] dons a spacesuit and conducts an inspection of the hull, but is blown away and killed after the reactor on the ship goes critical.
* After her death, Thrace makes a speech to the ship's crew in the mess hall, saying that sometimes people die senseless deaths, but that she is responsible for Mathias's death and has to live with it. She is trying to concede that she may have been a difficult captain, but can't find the words. [[Felix Gaeta]] tries to come to her aid, by telling her that the rendezvous coordinates with the Fleet have been laid in, but Thrace again insists to meet with Conoy's basestar.
* At this, [[Eammon Pike]] becomes openly hostile and riles everyone up against Thrace's order, believing that her course of action will get them killed, too. Captain Agathon offers him a chance to walk away, but when Pike continues, he pistol whips him into unconsciousness.
* Later, on the bridge, she orders the crew to spin up the [[FTL]] drives and prepare to jump to the [[Cylon Civil War|Cylon rebels]]' basestar. Captain Agathon refuses, which leads her to promote Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] to be her new XO, who refuses to carry out the order as well. Agathon then officially relieves Thrace of command, citing the [[Colonial Military Code]].

== Notes ==
*The title is derived from the poem "The Road Not Taken" by [[w:Robert Frost|Robert Frost]]
::''Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—''
::''I took the one less traveled by,''
::''And that has made all the difference.''
:The common interpretation is that one may be rewarded greatly by choosing a more difficult path than the one used by the crowd. The phrase may also have had a religious meaning for Frost, alluding to [http://www.newadvent.org/bible/mat007.htm Matthew 7,12-14], which mentions a broad gate leading to destruction and a narrow gate leading to salvation. <ref>{{cite_web|url=http://local.google.com/answers/threadview?id=426710|title=Google Answers: Origin of "road less travelled"}}</ref>
* The survivor count increases by one, meaning that at least one child has been born in the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]].
* It has been 58 days since the end of "[[Six of One]]", when Kara Thrace is given the command of the ''[[Demetrius]]''.
* Gunnery Sergeant [[Erin Mathias|Mathias]]'s first name, Erin, is spoken for the first time on screen.
* Neither [[William Adama]] nor [[Laura Roslin]] appear in this episode. In both cases, this is [[Central character absences (RDM)|unprecedented]]. This is the only episode of the series in which Adama does not appear.
* Just before the damaged Heavy Raider comes into view, the constellation of Orion is clearly visible by mistake<ref>Revealed by [[Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz]] in his [http://darthmojo.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/my-god-it-full-of-the-wrong-stars/ blog post].</ref>, just as it was during the Cavil-Boomer faction's ambush of the Natalie-Conoy faction.
* In a deleted scene (included on the Season 4.0 DVD), just before going out to talk to his followers, Baltar is visited by [[Virtual Six]], who proceeds to say goodbye to him, saying he no longer needs him anymore. Baltar thanks her and leaves; Virtual Six watches him go and then fades away. Virtual Six reappears in a later episode, rendering this farewell scene moot.

== Analysis ==

=== Characters ===

==== Kara Thrace ====

* This episode states clearly that Thrace does remember what happened when she descended into the maelstrom that supposedly killed her. She apparently remembers chasing the Heavy Raider, the vision of her mother, and the message that she has a destiny to fulfill.
* In an interesting moment of symmetry, Conoy, after being beaten up and thrown down by Anders, recites the first article of faith. This is a call back to "[[Flesh and Bone]]", when after one of the interrogation sessions he experienced at the hands of Thrace, he recites the first article of faith.
* Although [[Karl Agathon]] initially defends Thrace against her crew's discontent and tries to quell any insubordination, he eventually leads the mutiny against her. The difference is that [[Eammon Pike]], and to a lesser extent [[Sharon Agathon]], complain about Thrace behind her back and in an informal way, thus potentially impeding everyone in their work. When push comes to shove, Agathon shares their opinion, but uses official means by citing Colonial military regulations. As executive officer he is also in a better and more credible position to do so than the rest of the crew.

==== Galen Tyrol ====

* Instead of using his demotion as a wakeup call, Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] has slipped further into despair and even contemplates killing himself. That he has completely shaven his head might also be an indicator of his state of mind.
* Earlier resenting Baltar's presumption of believing what Tyrol's dead wife Cally would want, Tyrol strangles Baltar after ignoring his hand to shake. After Tyrol's suicide effort Baltar visits him in his quarters to apologize and Tyrol accepts Baltar's handshake. In light of Tyrol's resentment, and even hatred, towards Baltar displayed in other episodes, it seems more likely that Tyrol forgives Baltar for offending him in this one instance, but not for all his sins as Baltar may intend.
* Tyrol contemplating to kill himself is visually and thematically similar to [[Sharon Valerii]]'s suicide thoughts in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]". Both either suspect or know that they are a Cylon and fear to hurt those around them. However, Valerii was more serious and calm about killing herself and made a real attempt to do so, while Tyrol acts in a fit of rage and eventually calms down.
* In spite of Foster clinging to the idea that she is perfect and thus cannot be held accountable for her actions, her unwillingness and blatant lying to Tyrol about Cally's death betrays her fear of what would happen if Tyrol were to learn that she was responsible for her murder.

=== Cylons ===

* Conoy's comments to Anders indicate that a true Cylon civil war has commenced, and not an isolated incident between the Cavil-Boomer faction vs. the Natalie-Conoy ("rebel") faction.
* The Cylon Civil War appears to be fulfillment of the [[First Hybrid]]'s prophecy from "[[Razor]]". "''[[Significant Seven|They]] will know enmity, bitterness, the wrenching agony of the one splintering into the many...''" Furthermore, it appears that the alliance offered by Conoy to the Colonials could possibly be the meaning of "''...they will join the promised land, gathered on the wings of an angel. Not an end, but a beginning''," as Conoy tells Thrace that he now sees an angel when he looks at her.

== Questions ==

=== Answered Questions ===

* How will the situation on the ''Demetrius'' be resolved? ([[Faith|Answer]])
* What have Tigh and Caprica-Six been doing recently? ([[Sine Qua Non|Answer]])
* Does Conoy sense that Anders is a fellow Cylon? ([[Revelations|Answer]])
* Will Galen Tyrol begin to associate with Baltar? ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul|Partial Answer #1]], [[The Oath|Partial Answer #2]], [[Blood on the Scales|Partial Answer #3]])

=== Unanswered Questions ===

* If yes to the last question in the above section, will Baltar have a positive influence on Tyrol and help him to overcome his grief or uncertainty about being a Cylon?
* Why does Baltar's broadcast appear to soothe Nicholas Tyrol?
* How large has Baltar's movement grown?
* Did Conoy intend for his Raider to explode or is it really an accident?
* Why does Baltar focus on making amends with Tyrol? Is it because of Foster's words, a genuine desire to reach out to Tyrol, or both?
* Why is everyone on ''Demetrius'' permanently slick with sweat? Is there a problem with the air conditioning?

== Official Statements ==

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==
*''[[Gaius Baltar]] to [[Galen Tyrol]] about his conversion to a believer:''
:"I know it's hard to...make sense of things sometimes. In my own life, I...in my own life I've joined the fleet as a scientist, as a skeptic, as a...supposedly a man of reason. Only to have fate turn that all on its head. But I understand now that there is a purpose to it. We change. We evolve. Maybe we even learn something along the way. (pauses) I have committed...unconscionable crimes. And I have been offered one last chance at redemption, because I chose to accept my fate and not fight it anymore."

== Guest Stars ==

* [[Rekha Sharma]] as [[Tory Foster]]
* [[Bodie Olmos]] as Lieutenant [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hotdog" Costanza]]
* [[Callum Keith Rennie]] as [[Number Two]]
* [[Eileen Pedde]] as Gunnery Sergeant [[Erin Mathias]]
* [[Jennifer Halley]] as Ensign [[Diana Seelix|Diana "Hardball" Seelix]]
* [[Keegan Connor Tracy]] as [[Jeanne]]
* [[Lara Gilchrist]] as [[Paulla Schaffer]]
* [[Leela Savasta]] as [[Tracey Anne]]
* [[Finn R. Devitt]] as [[Nicholas Tyrol]] (credited as "Baby Nicky")
* [[Ryan McDonell]] as Lieutenant [[Eammon Pike|Eammon "Gonzo" Pike]]
* [[Alisen Down]] as [[Jean Barolay]]
* [[Lori Triolo]] as [[Phoebe]]
* [[Leo Li Chiang]] as the [[Tattooed pilot]] (uncredited)

== External Links ==
*Composer [[Bear McCreary]] on the episode's score: http://www.bearmccreary.com/blog/?p=306

== References ==
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[[de:Meuterei im All]]

Sherman Cottle

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'''Major Sherman Cottle, M.D.''' is ''[[Galactica]]'s'' [[CMO|Chief Medical Officer]]. As the battlestar operates with a minimal crew complement leading up to its [[Miniseries|expected decommissioning]], Cottle is the only qualified physician and chief surgeon aboard ''Galactica'', supported by a handful of medics such as [[Layne Ishay]] and [[Howard Kim]]. While Cottle acts as the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]]'s ''de facto'' Surgeon General, conducting inspections on other ships, there are also civilian physicians like Dr. [[Robert]] ([[The Woman King]]) and Dr. [[Stoffa]] ([[Hero]]), though the latter might be a clinical psychologist and not a medical doctor.<ref>It is unknown whether ''Pegasus'' had a medical staff and a chief medical officer that survived the Fall and subsequent [[Battle of the Communication Relay]], as the state of ''Pegasus''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> medical staff was never discussed on-screen.</ref>

Cottle is known for his eccentricities (such as being a heavy smoker despite the obvious medical risks), outwardly abrasive demeanor, and being unimpressed by positions of authority. He is considered a "bastard" among some of ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> crew, but above all things he is a healer. To him, nothing else truly matters, be it rank, riches, or species. However, Cottle has shown a caring side that he hides under the gruffness. He comforts the mortally wounded Natalie as she dies by holding her hand and takes good care of Roslin. When Roslin brings this up, he shows he does care and is clearly affected by her words, but she has him return to his usual grumbling and smoking to save his reputation.

== Biography ==

Cottle is the third person in the Fleet to learn about President [[Laura Roslin]]'s fight with cancer, after [[Lee Adama]] and [[Billy Keikeya]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Act of Contrition]]", "[[Bastille Day]]", and [[Miniseries]], respectively). He agrees to treat her condition, without revealing it to anyone else, and further agrees to support more unorthodox treatments, namely the use of [[chamalla]] extract (against his better judgment). Knowing the extent of her illness and Roslin's reluctance to undergo [[Doloxan]] therapy, the doctor also recommends prayer.

Cottle takes a personal interest in [[Kara Thrace]]'s recovery from injuries suffered during a mission ([[TRS]]: "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]"). The doctor works with Lee Adama to get her out of sickbay ([[TRS]]: "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]") without initial success.

After the assassination attempt on [[William Adama]], ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]") Cottle is unavailable to stabilize the Commander as he is aboard another ship in the Fleet. Matters worsen after ''Galactica'''s jump to the [[Emergency Jump Coordinates|emergency coordinates]] separates Cottle and the battlestar. [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]] orders Cottle's medics to stop Adama's internal bleeding ([[TRS]]: "[[Scattered]]"). However, while the medics stabilize the Commander's condition, they are unable to fully stop his bleeding. Cottle finally arrives and is able to operate on Commander Adama. After much risky work, the doctor saves Adama's life ([[TRS]]: "[[Fragged]]").

Cottle speaks rather contemptuously of Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]'s authority. When Tigh asks of Adama's condition as Cottle begins surgery to save the Commander's life, he tells the XO, "How should I know? I'm not a psychic. Now get the hell out of here" ([[TRS]]: "[[Fragged]]"). Later, after Tigh orders an ill-advised attempt to restore supply runs to ''Galactica'' on the ''[[Gideon]]'', resulting in four civilian deaths, Cottle is anything but sympathetic when Tigh asks what happened: "What'd you expect, genius? You put a pilot in charge of crowd control" ([[TRS]]: "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]").

At the request of President Roslin, despite her straight-to-the-point warning about its illegality and danger (Cottle: "You're a lousy salesman."), he assists Roslin in escaping ''Galactica'' by filing a request for a [[Raptor]] flight away from the battlestar, to care for patients on other ships. Roslin leaves ''Galactica'' on this "appropriated" Raptor with [[Lee Adama]] at the helm ([[TRS]]: "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]").

Major Cottle performs a series of medical scans on [[Gaius Baltar]]'s head at Baltar's request. Unknown to Cottle, Baltar is looking to see if there is a Cylon computer chip implanted into his brain. The scans show absolutely nothing unusual, and Cottle dismisses Baltar as a hypochondriac ("There's one on every bloody ship.") ([[TRS]]: "[[Home, Part II]]").

Even Cottle's stony exterior gives way to the pain he sees on Laura Roslin's face when he gives her a new prognosis on her fight with cancer. Her cancer has spread aggressively, and the good doctor gives Roslin, on the outside, one month to live ([[TRS]]: "[[Flight of the Phoenix]]"). His concern for Cylon [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon Valerii]] and her unborn [[Hera Agathon|hybrid child]] is remarkable, especially in the face of the rest of the crew's distrust and even hatred of her, hinting at his extremely strict sense of medical ethics. He describes her attempted rape by Lt. [[Thorne]] as "unforgivable," and voices his opposition to Baltar using Sharon's baby's blood as a cure for Roslin's cancer ([[TRS]]: "[[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]," "[[Epiphanies]]").

Cottle gains a reputation among the Fleet for performing abortions. When [[Rya Kibby]], a young [[Gemenon (RDM)|Gemenese]] girl, wanted to end her pregnancy, she stows away to get aboard ''Galactica'' and see Cottle. Cottle explains the situation to Admiral Adama by acknowledging, "I get a note that a girl's on the way. She arrives. I do my work. And then she leaves. I don't ask a lot of questions." When Admiral Adama asks Kibby to return to her parents, Cottle suggests that the girl instead request political asylum aboard ''Galactica'', earning [[Stare of Death|a stare]] from Adama ([[TRS]]: "[[The Captain's Hand]]").

After the election of President [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] and the settlement of [[New Caprica]], Cottle, like most of ''Galactica'''s crew, retires from military duty. One year after the election he serves as a doctor on New Caprica in private practice ([[TRS]]: "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]").

During the Cylon occupation of the planet, Cottle continues his work as a doctor and surgeon. He works as a neutral party in the Cylon-run state in [[New Caprica City]], treating human and Cylon alike. When a copy of [[Number Three]] (likely [[D'Anna Biers]]) questions why he does this he tells her he would do the same for anyone who came to him ([[TRS]]: "[[Exodus, Part I]]").

After the events on [[New Caprica]], Cottle is forced to deal with varying cases of illnesses as [[Galactica (RDM)|''Galactica'']] takes on refugees. Among one of the diseases, [[Mellorak infection]] is discovered. Hoping to conserve as much of the dwindling supply of medicines as possible, he assigns the medication for Mellorak to ''Galactica'' personnel for immunization and all others on a need basis. Due to the inquisitive nature of [[Karl Agathon]], the appointed "mayor of [[Dogsville]]," Cottle investigates the activity of his long time friend, [[Michael Robert]]. After performing extensive autopsies on a few of Robert's patients, Cottle discovers that Robert is killing patients based on their birth colony, mainly those from [[Sagittaron]]. Cottle, with help from [[Saul Tigh]], puts an end to Robert's practices ([[TRS]]: "[[The Woman King]]").

Shortly after discovering that [[Laura Roslin]]'s cancer had returned, Cottle starts Roslin's [[Doloxan]] treatment. After it is completed, he, along with his medical staff, are completely flabbergasted when Roslin and [[Sharon Agathon]] wake up screaming simultaneously. Unfortunately, it is not known whether he is informed of the vision that the two, plus [[Caprica-Six]], shared ([[TRS]]: "[[Crossroads, Part II]]").

Cottle treats Gaeta when he returns from the ''Demetrius'' mission, but Gaeta's leg is so bad off with infection, Cottle doesn't even try to save it, immediatly calling for a cut-down tray for amputation. Cottle tries to disuade Gaeta from remaning awake during the operation, but is sympathetic and agrees when Gaeta explains why. Cottle amputates Gaeta's right leg beneath the knee ([[TRS]]: "[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]")

Cottle treats the mortally wounded Natalie and tries to save her life, but fails. As she dies, she reachs out to him and he takes and holds her hand as she dies, offering her some comfort as she dies with no hope of resurrection ([[TRS]]: "[[Sine Qua Non]]").

When Adama plans one final mission for ''Galactica'', Cottle and Ishay discuss it in sickbay, not realizing Laura Roslin is listening. When Adama calls for volunteers for the rescue mission, Cottle and Ishay both volunteer, but Adama sends Cottle back, calling him by his first name and telling him that he's too valuable for the Fleet to lose ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part I]]").

Later he gives Roslin injections to keep her on her feet for two days so she can perform in the rescue, but he warns her doing so will use up what little life she has left. Roslin thanks him sincerely and Cottle is truly touched and seems to be almost about to break down, which Roslin notices and tells him not to ruin his image and go and smoke a cigarette with a gruff attitude. He's later seen on New Earth as part of the landing party that investigates the tribal humans they find. He explains he examined a grave and the DNA of the humans on the new Earth is compatible to the Colonials ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

== Notes ==
*Cottle's counterpart in the [[TOS|Original Series]] is [[Salik]].
*Doctor Cottle is holding the rank of [[Major]], though he would not be a line officer. He would never take command unless every senior officer is out of commission.
*In the DVD commentary for "[[Act of Contrition]]," RDM states that actor Donnelly Rhodes was one of the three finalists up for the role of Colonel [[Saul Tigh]], though in the end the part was given to one of the other finalists, [[Michael Hogan]].
*Doctor Cottle is named after Michael Rymer's childhood pediatrician, who Rymer tells was actually a very nice person, unlike his fictional counterpart.
*Doctor Cottle is first mentioned in "[[Bastille Day]]," but the character does not appear until the next episode, "[[Act of Contrition]]."
*Cottle's first initial is visible on this [[:Image:Pills.jpg|image]] of a set of prescription bottles made available during the Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes auction. It is revealed in "[[Daybreak, Part I]]" that it stands for Sherman.
*A "Cottle" is mentioned in "[[The Heavens Will Rise]]" by [[Amanda Graystone]] as the practitioner on duty when [[Jordan Duram]] was hit by a sniper's bullet and taken to the emergency room. Additionally, Cottle can be counted on to keep the circumstances of Agent Duram's admission a secret.
*Sherman Cottle's first name is a possible reference to Col. [[w:Sherman T. Potter|Sherman Potter]], the commanding officer of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital on the television series ''[[w:M*A*S*H (TV series)|M*A*S*H]]''.

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Nash (1980)

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:''For the character with the same last name in the [[Re-imagined Series]] continuity, see [[Silas Nash]].''

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| actor=[[Jeremy Brett]]
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'''Nash''' is a [[Colonial Warrior]] on ''[[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]]'' who was born in the [[Galactican Fleet]] after the exodus from the [[The Twelve Colonies (TOS)|Twelve Colonies]].

His identity is stolen by [[Xaviar]], who uses technology to temporarily transform himself to resemble Nash. In the disguise, Xavier tricks [[Troy (1980)|Troy]] and [[Dillon]] by giving them a [[Viper (1980)|Viper]] that he has sabotaged to prevent them from interfering in his latest plans to accelerate [[Earth (1980)|Earth]] technologies by nefarious means ([[1980]]: "[[Spaceball]]").

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Curt Lowens

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'''Curt Lowens''' is the actor who portrayed the characters [[Krebbs]] in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] episodes "[[Greetings from Earth]]" and "[[Baltar's Escape]]" and [[Unnamed characters (1980)#German Commander|German Commander]] in the ''[[Galactica 1980]]'' episode "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]".

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The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I

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| title= The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I
| series= 1980
| episode= 7
| writer= [[Glen A. Larson]]
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| director= [[Sigmund Neufeld Jr.]]
| guests= [[Robert Smith|Wolfman Jack]] as [[Wolfman Jack|Himself]]<br/>[[Roger Davis]] as [[Andromus]]
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== Overview ==

:''After a renegade [[Cylons (1980)|Cylon]] [[A-B Raider|fighter]] crash-lands on [[Earth (1980)|Earth]], [[Troy (1980)|Troy]] and [[Dillon]] rush to [[New York]] believing the craft a [[Recon Probe Delta|recon Viper]]. What they find is far worse and must stop the surviving Cylons from using powerful radio equipment to contact the rest of the Cylon fleet.''

==Summary==

=== Act 1 ===

* [[Recon Probe Delta]], which consists of a two-man [[Viper (1980)|Viper]] crewed by Captain [[Kanon]] and Lieutenant [[Briton]], is on patrol when it picks up a slow-moving object. Kanon orders a scan, which reveals details that point to a [[Cylons (1980)|Cylon]] craft. Another more detailed scan shows up on the [[warbook]], which quickly reveals the craft as a Cylon fighter. It is heavily-armed and larger than a [[Raider (TOS)|pursuit craft]].
[[Image:TV Guide Advertisement - The Night the Cylons Landed.jpg|thumb|right|TV Guide ad for ''The Night The Cylons Landed'']]
* Briton reports that it's also much faster, as the ship is now approaching them. Kanon orders him to raise ''[[Galactica (1980)|Galactica]]'', [[Priority Red]]. Before he can do so, Briton visually sights the ship coming at them. The Viper manages to evade the advanced Cylon fighter's volleys. Briton tells Kanon that they're not even close to the ship and they must find out what's inside so they can tell ''Galactica''.
* Kanon can't believe  the firepower and moves to close on the ship, so that the [[scanner]]s can probe the Cylon ship. Briton continues his attempts to raise ''Galactica'', but he surmises that the Cylons are jamming any transmissions in the area.
* The advanced Raider continues its attack, but doesn't damage the Viper. Still, Briton yells that they have to pull out, which is overruled when Kanon notes that they have to get close to do a scan.
* After making the scan, Kanon sees that the outline of the occupants is human. Kanon also says that they can't let the Cylons continue on their present course, which will lead them to [[Earth (1980)|Earth]]. They're the only ones who can stop it, since they're the only ones who know.
* Since a Viper's firepower is ineffective against the craft, the ship rams into the underbelly of the Raider, causing both ships to be damaged beyond use (although structural integrity remains intact on both craft). Kanon tries to contact ''Galactica'', but is unable to. When he checks on Briton, he finds that Briton is unconscious.
[[Image:Warbook.jpg|thumb|The advanced Cylon 'A-B' Fighter displayed in the [[Warbook]]]]
* On ''Galactica'', [[Doctor Zee]] informs [[Adama (1980)|Adama]] that he's detected an unpowered ship heading towards Earth. Adama replies that he's tried to reach Recon Probe Delta, but they don't respond, and they assume that the ship experiences complete power shutdown. They assume that the object heading towards Earth is the Viper.
* Adama notes that it will obviously be detected by Earth's defense system. Zee tells Adama to contact [[Troy (1980)|Troy]] and [[Dillon]] so that they may intercept the craft when it lands. Adama notes that they are still with the children and is sure that they are helping them adjust to "Earth life".
* On Earth, the [[Super Scouts]] and the Warriors are watching ''[[This Island Earth]]'' in a theater that is reasonably full. Dillon remarks to Troy that the picture is frightening and wonders "where they get pictures of things like that". Troy remarks that he hasn't seen anything like it since the planet [[Gorkon]].
* During the movie, Troy's [[wrist computron]] beeps. As Troy begins talking into it, a young boy looks at Troy with interest. Adama notes that the message is a Priority Red condition and asks if he can talk freely. Troy replies that he can't. Adama then makes mention of the noise, which Troy explains as an "Earth entertainment".
* Adama quickly briefs him on the situation with the craft heading toward Earth. Adama believes the craft is their own recon Viper and tells him that he'll be further briefed once he gets to a safe transmission zone. Troy assures him that they'll leave as soon as possible, all the while the kid impolitely stares at Troy.
* Troy tells the children they have to leave, which meets with protests. [[Starla]] says that the movie is funny, while [[Wellington]] notes that the creature looks like the Gorkons. They are summarily disappointed when the creature stumbles then falls over.
[[Image:Cylon A-B Raider.jpg|thumb|A-B Raider]]
* At an Air Force operations center, Major [[Harvey Jensen]] is on the phone to Colonel [[Briggs]]. He tells Briggs that an object of unknown origin or purpose is coming down; Briggs comments that it is "[[Skylab]] all over again". Briggs says to keep a lid on it for he'll have "50 reporters on my back" if he doesn't, but it is too late for that, since it is on every observatory's scopes. Briggs asks if Jensen is sure that it isn't an American satellite. Jensen assures him he's positive and that the current "odds-on guess around here is that it's Russian".
* Briggs is more relieved to hear that, since he would rather explain a Russian mistake than an American one. Jensen dampers Briggs elation, saying that the "worst is yet to come": the object is headed straight for the middle of New York.
* Now truly concerned, Briggs asks how much time he has. Jensen replies that the object is coming down tomorrow night. This would be October 31, Halloween night.
* At the [[Griffith Park Observatory]], the Super Scouts and the Warriors are looking at a [[w:foucault pendulum|foucault pendulum]]. When [[Jamie Hamilton]] arrives, Troy tells the Scouts to follow a nearby tour group.
* The tour guide, [[Marcy]], points out a map of the Solar System, noting that there are nine planets rotating around the sun. She mentions the possibility of a tenth planet, which prompts Starla to correct her, but she is shushed by [[Moonstone]] before she can do so.
* Marcy mentions that man has only set foot on the moon and notes that robot probes have explored other planets in the Solar System.
* Meanwhile, Hamilton leads Troy and Dillon to the telescope dome of the observatory. She tells them that the phones haven't stopped ringing and she notes that she was glad they called, since she had assumed that they were somehow involved. She tells them that every observatory in the world has spotted it and, having checked with [[w:Caltech|Caltech]], it should come down within the next twelve hours according to their calculations. They project it will land in the Tri-State Area.
* Dillon asks about Doctor [[Donald Mortinson]]. Hamilton replies that Mortinson was unable to receive anything on the frequencies they've asked him to monitor. Dillon notes that this is strange, since the Viper should be broadcasting a distress signal.
* Troy feels that they'll be able to locate it. Hamilton asks what "it" is, telling them that people think the object is Russian. Troy assures her that it is not, telling her that the craft is one of theres and notes that they regularly patrol the corridors to Earth for Cylon craft.
* Concerned, she asks about how close the Cylons are to Earth. Dillon replies that they've learned to be cautious. She asks what happened to the Viper, which Troy replies that it broke radio contact and hasn't returned from their patrol. They assume that some malfunction caused the ship to drift into Earth's orbit.
* Dillon notes that their mission is to get to the ship and its crew before anyone else. She asks them how they're going to New York, to which Troy replies that they're going to use their Viper to get there. Hamilton warns against that, since she was visited by Colonel Briggs of the Air Force, who was looking into them. He didn't go as far as to say that they were not of Earth, but Briggs is assured that he will find them. Troy thanks her for the warning.
* Back at the tour, Marcy is telling the group about the galaxy, telling the group that there are over 100 billion stars. Wellington corrects her number, saying that there are 114 billion. She replies that this isn't what the scientists say, but says that he brings up an interesting point, as the number changes yearly as more stars are discovered.
* Marcy begins pointing out constellations, such as the Big Dipper. Moonstone says that it looks backwards, but is quickly corrected by Wellington, noting that they've seen it from the other side. Marcy continues, saying that of these stars, there are planets that can support carbon-based life, even though there is no evidence of extraterrestrial life.
* Starla asks Wellington if Marcy is a [[frimp]]. He shushes her.
* Hamilton tells the Warriors that the Vipers keep showing up on USAF radar. She tells them that they're going to have to go to New York by airplane. She then asks about the children. Dillon replies that they were hoping she'd ask that question. Hamilton notes that they can spend a couple of days at [[Billy Eheres]]' [[Casey's Baseball Park|camp]]. She tells them to call her if they need her and says she'll make the travel arrangements for the airlines.
* Dillon appears excited at the prospect, saying that a flight in one of "your flying machines [...] should be a great amusement".
* The next morning, they arrive at the [[Los Angeles International Airport]] and approach a [[Ticket Master|ticket master]] at the front desk. She tells them that if they've checked in their baggage, they can go directly to the front gate. Troy tells her that they're going to New York on "9 AM". She is confused, but says they have a Flight 2. She looks at the piece of paper that Dillon pulls out, seeing that they are on Flight 2, which departs at 9 A.M. She asks if they're ticketed, Dillon mentions that he is to mention "pre-paid".
* She then asks for the names, which Troy offers as "[[References in Galactica 1980#The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I|Jones and Smith]]". When she goes off to retrieve the tickets, Dillon asks about the use "Smith and Jones", to which he reminds his friend that there's a bulletin with their names on it. Dillon expresses a hope that the terminal's computers don't appear in these computers, to which Troy agrees that this would make things difficult.
* The lady returns to ask them who is Jones. Both reply that they are, with Dillon quickly correcting himself, and pointing to Troy. She gives them the tickets and then tells them to proceed to Gate 43 and through the scanner.
* Concerned, they inquire about the scanner. She answers their question, noting that they must not fly much, telling them that they use metal detectors to prevent hijacking. They are unfamiliar with the term and, despite repeating the term to her, she wishes them a nice flight.
* After they leave the counter, Troy checks his [[wrist computron]] to look up the word. After Dillon asks what one would do after they seized an airplane, Troy remarks that Earth is a strange place that they'll need to get used to.
* Before entering the scanner, Dillon asks about their [[laser pistol (1980)|lasers]], but Troy tells him that they're carbon synthetic and shouldn't be detected by the metal detector. A [[Hijackers|couple with a baby]] cut in front of Troy and Dillon. The husband apologizes for holding them up at the detector, telling them that "this is what happens when you have a baby". One of the guards at the detector wheels the metal baby carriage around the detector.
* They approach a second [[ticket master]], to whom they give their tickets. She asks them whether they prefer a smoking or non-smoking seat, which leads Dillon to ask, "Which way does the plane run best?" She thinks this is cute and places them in the non-smoking section. She tells them they can go directly on board, hands them their tickets, and points out the gate to them. After sending them on their way, the couple the Warriors encounter earlier rushes to the desk and the lady says they made it just in time before the gate closed.
* They board the plane. Dillon remarks that it looks comfortable. A [[stewardess]] greets them, tears off their ticket stubs, and points them to Row 14, seats B and C. After they leave her, she talks to the couple, takes their ticket stubs, points out their seats in the same row as Dillon and Troy, and takes their baby carriage.
* As the Warriors buckle in, they are told about the oxygen masks dropping from the overhead compartment. As these instructions are demonstrated by the flight attendant, Dillon remarks that he's not used to other people flying and hopes they are good. Dillon then asks Troy if he thinks that they'd let him take the controls for a while. He replies he wouldn't even let him. He hands a dejected Dillon a pamphlet on New York, telling him to review it.
[[Image:Terrorists.jpg|thumb|The [[Hijackers|Cuban male hijackers]] masquerading as a married couple with child.]]
* Flight 2 lifts off. In mid-flight, Troy is asleep while Dillon is reading. The couple in the cabin's middle seats look silently at each other, then around the cabin. The "wife" hands the baby to the "husband" and makes way to the back of the plane to retrieve the baby carriage. In a seat over to his right, the hijacker puts the baby down on the chair next to him: the baby is a doll.
* From the carriage, the hijackers begin assembling a gun. After the gun is assembled, the "wife" rips of his wig and they take the stewardess (who was handing out earphones) hostage. The "husband" aims the gun at the crowd, telling the passengers to remain calm and are taking the airplane to [[w:Cuba|Cuba]], which Dillon looks up. Troy says they don't have time to go there and Dillon moves to get his laser, but Dillon tells him that they might get somebody hurt by going gun-ho on them. Troy surmises that the deployment of the oxygen masks must act on some sort of electrical impulse.
* The lead hijacker tells the second stewardess to contact the cockpit to make their demands known to the crew there, threatening to use violence if she fails to do so.
* Troy uses the wrist computron to trick the sensors in deploying the masks. The hijackers react confused, while the stewardess tells them that the masks deploy automatically. She tells them that the plane must've lost pressurization and they'll have to use the masks in order to not pass out.
* The Warriors pull out their lasers and shoot the hijackers. They quickly hide the weapons back under their coats.
* The co-pilot comes to the cabin and asks what happened, prompted by the indicator light that the oxygen masks dropped (the stewardess believes that they dropped the masks to trick the hijackers). He sees the stunned people, asks who they are, and is told that they were hijackers who wanted to take control of the plane. The co-pilot takes the gun from the stunned terrorist. They don't know what happened to them, but an [[Flight 2 Kid|observant tyke]] points out that Dillon and Troy had something to do with it with their "flashing light". Dillon and Troy attempt to convince the inquisitive co-pilot that the boy has an overactive imagination, though the boy protests, saying that they really had something to do with it.
* The co-pilot tells them that they want to talk to them once the plane lands at [[John F. Kennedy International Airport]]. He tells everyone else to just relax and that everything is under control. He tells the stewardess to tell the captain that they need priority clearance and have the [[w:Federal Bureau of Investigation|Federal Bureau of Investigation]] meet the plate upon landing, then asks if she's O.K. She nods, then goes to the cockpit.
* Troy ruefully speculates that Cuba may have been better, but Troy assures him that they'll be all right.

=== Act 2 ===

* Adama broaches the topic of Recon Probe Delta, which has been located by one of their squadrons who found it adrift. Zee notes that he already knows this and they've towed it in a short while ago. Adama notes that Briton and Kanon were wounded in the ordeal, but proudly proclaims that they performed admirably as Warriors.
* Zee notes that they bring them distressing news.
* On one of the screens, Kanon, who is in the sickbay being tended to by a medtech, tells them that they couldn't stop the advanced Cylon ship. He supposes that there isn't anything in the galaxy equal to it.
* Adama realizes that they haven't been tracking a Viper back to Earth, but the Cylon craft. He cries that the Cylons will "walk the Earth". Zee offers the hope that Troy and Dillon will be able to intercept the Cylon vessel at the landing site. Adama notes that they don't even know they're going to rendezvous with the Cylons.
* As the Cylon craft nears Earth, Dillon tells Troy it took them five hours to travel a "miniscule 3,000 miles". He computes it at 10 miles a minute and notes that they can fly to [[:en:Pluto|Pluto]] in less time. He claims to have overheard it from the lady at the observatory.
* The stewardess announces over the intercom that they're caught up in a "little heavy traffic" over JFK and will be circling around until they get their turn at the landing field. She announces that the beverage service will be open until they're cleared in. The delay will be around 30 to 40 minutes in duration, which places Dillon in a state of disbelief. Troy assures him they'll be at the site in plenty of time.
* Jensen contacts Briggs, who is on a private jet headed towards New York. Jensen informs him that the craft will hit around 9 P.M. Eastern Time. Briggs asks if he's got a better idea of where the craft will hit, but Jensen replies that "[[w:NASA|NASA]] missed by an entire continent when [[Skylab]] came down". Briggs says that Jensen "better be a whole lot closer on this one". Jensen notes that this is up to the hardware coming down, saying that it could land in one piece or break up in the atmosphere. If it holds together, he can put it in a two- to three-hundred mile radius. He grimly tells Briggs that if it breaks up, Briggs will be lucky if he isn't knocked out of the sky.
* Briggs tells Jensen his words of encouragement are the reason he likes him and thanks him for the update.
* Briggs' aide, [[Butler]], asks him if "[[References in Galactica 1980#Events|it's Canada all over again]]", but Briggs replies in the negative. They knew what it was and how long it had been hanging above Earth before the Russian satellite came down. Briggs notes that they have no clue what the object is.
* Zee tells Adama that he's examined the scans from Recon Probe Delta and has alarming news for him. He has proof that the Cylons are evolving beyond their greatest fears in the past 30 years. When Adama asks why they haven't outright destroyed the Galactican Fleet, Zee speculates that the Cylons want to test their new machines on living targets.
* [[Andromus]], one of the new Cylon androids that look human, notes that they're "slowly but inexorably being drawn to orbit" around Earth. They are initially unaware that this is the last outpost of human civilization. He notes that to land at their current speed is to "invite certain destruction" and must "exploit the increasing density of the atmosphere" of Earth in order to reduce their velocity. Andromus reads off the statistical information regarding Earth and asks the [[Centurions (TOS)|Centurions]] for a projection of a landing zone after three atmospheric braking skips. They do not answer.
* [[Andromidus]] gives further details on Earth regarding the molten metal core and crust of the planet, as well as the atmospheric composition. After being asked about the maximum skin temperature upon hitting the atmosphere, Andromidus replies that it'll be 2,000 degrees [[chronic]], which does not please Andromus.
* Before they approach for landing, the stewardess notes about the problems they had during their flight and, as such, FBI agents will board the plane before anyone can disembark. She assures people that it won't take long and they'll be able to attend all the Halloween parties in plenty of time.
* Dillon tries to look up the term, but Troy tells him to look up the term FBI instead. They discover that the FBI is a law enforcement agency, which they can't afford to talk to.
* As they make their landing approach at JFK, the stewardess asks the Warriors to come to the rear galley as soon as they land, since the officials will want to question them. She assures them that it's necessary and is quite sure that they'll be an army of newsmen there, saying that they are "regular heroes".
* Dillon asks Troy how do they "get into these messes". Troy replies, "How do we get out of them?"
* Flight 2 lands at JFK. The New York Police Department officers are at the exit to the plane, waiting for the passengers to get out. The officer tells his men to make a path through the crowd so they can bring them out without hassle.
* The stewardess approaches the Warriors as they land, asking them to come with her to the back galley, telling them to stay there until the FBI comes onboard.
* Dillon asks if he can use the restrooms. The stewardess assumes that he wants to comb his hair for the cameras, which Dillon and Troy seize upon. In reply, she lets them go ahead to do so, making the point that men can be just as vain as women regarding their appearance. She chuckles and walks away.
* Troy and Dillon enter the restrooms and activate their invisibility fields. They leave the bathrooms and hold hands as they begin to leave the craft.
* Two FBI agents and NYPD officers board the plane. The stewardess tells them that the hijackers are in the upstairs lounge with their senior purser. The ranking officer tells his men to get the hijackers while he waits for Dillon and Troy. Immediately after they leave, the ranking officer suddenly stumbles into the stewardess. The officer tries to tell her that he was pushed, but she didn't see anyone and assumes that he was being frisky and walks away offended.
* The crowd at the gate finds themselves being pushed out of the way by an invisible force.
* Dillon and Troy become visible outside the building and head towards a cab waiting at the curb. Before entering, Dillon tells Troy that his scanner detects that the Viper is coming down 60 miles The [[JFK Cabbie|cabbie]] notes that they don't have luggage and becomes curious. Upon being told to head north to no particular destination, he asks them if they have the "bread" to pay him. Dillon replies that they don't have bread, but have money. He shows it to the cabbie, who agrees to take their fare.
* In ever-descending orbit, a Centurion reports that they are encountering signals from the planet below. Andromius confirms that they are detecting life forms below, hoping that it is a life form advanced enough to help repair their ship. They see transmissions of Earth entertainments and Andromus orders that they home in on the largest communications center and compute the distance between it and the expected point of impact.
* He notes that they've done what no Cylon before them has ever done: find the lost human civilization. After asking for survival figures, they discover that the ship's survival is less than 3%, the Centurion survival is 1% (which they react to by turning to see Andromidus, but the advanced forms may reach Earth's surface in a functional state.
* Andromus conducts a countdown to impact. 20 seconds later the crash.
* Jensen calls Briggs to tell him that the craft will crash 60 miles north of New York City.
* Two cops in car seven on Interstate 5, [[Max]] and [[Leroy]], notice the crash in the distance. He alerts Leroy to it and they run to check it out while contacting their headquarters.
* Meanwhile, Dillon and Troy tell the cabbie to continue heading north. Suddenly, a string of cars comes whizzing by and Dillon pays the cabbie more money to follow the cop cars. The cabbie accepts, saying that "as long as you want to run towards the law, I'm your man".
* At the crash site, Andromus "awakens" and looks around. He sees Andromidus who is damaged beyond repair. He calls out for the Centurions. One of them, [[Centurion 9]] (Centuri), activates and tells Andromus he is functioning. Andromus asks him his priority, to which Centurion 9 replies, "To protect you." Andromus commmand Centuri to rise and he successfully does so.
* At a fire road leading to the mountain, firefighters are cutting down a fallen tree. Max notes that fire roads are to be kept clear and also adds they can lose the whole mountain to fire.
* Troy sees the fire from the craft and tells the cabbie to turn off. Despite the cabbie's protestations about there not being a road, Troy tells him to stop. Dillon pays the cabbie and they leave. They begin running towards the crash site. The cabbie remarks "there goes a couple of odd fellows", but is liking the money he has in his hand. They super-run through the woods to the crash site.
* Centuri lifts a beam pinning down Andromus. Now free, Andromus notes they need to find a way out and set the [[automatic detonator]] so that the ship doesn't fall into human hands. He takes a portable [[distress beacon]] and attaches it to Centuri's belt. He tells Centuri they only have microns before the ship explodes and Centuri punches a hole through the side of the ship.
* Andromus and Centuri leave the ship to take in the blazing scenery.

=== Act 3 ===

* Andromus asks Centuri if he knows what landing on Earth means. He says they have no way back and are alone. Two against a world of millions. Centuri assures him that he will protect him as per the first order.
* From the transmissions they received, Andromus surmises that the humans do not know of both the Cylons and the [[Galactic war]]. He says that after the ship self-destructs, there will be no trace of their presence on Earth. He says he will be able to move freely amongst the Earth people for he is made in man's image. Since he looks like a human, he'll be able to go places freely to study the Earthlings' transmission centers and affix their distress beacon to summon the Cylon Empire. Centuri again tells Andromus that he will protect him. He notes that the Cylon is well-meaning but his form does not blend.
* After repeating his first order, Centuri turns to the tree line. He tells Andromus that he detects life forms approaching the ship. Andromus notes that anyone approaching the ship would be destroyed and they leave.
* Troy and Dillon arrive, seeing that, much to their surprise, the wreck is Cylon. Troy orders Dillon to scan for electronic tracks.
* Troy darts to the wreck, much to Dillon's protestations. They enter the ship to discover that Cylons look like humans and that a self-destruct timer is going off. Dillon moves to grab Andromidus' body, but they don't have time. They run out of the ship and are thrown back by the explosion.
* After dusting themselves off, they see that nothing is left of the ship and hear sirens approaching. Soon they are besieged by firemen and state troopers.
* Max runs up to them in a state of disbelief, since he believes they couldn't have been in the crash. He asks a fireman to check them for shock. He tells Leroy of his disbelief. However, Leroy has more news. Their chief wants the area sealed off. Max tells Leroy to check the crash site and, if they find drugs, they can get all the credit they can.
* Max asks the Warriors if they want to tell me about it. Troy replies that "this isn't the time to be talking" and that they just arrived. Max believes they arrived on the ship (in his mind a plane) that crashed, even though they tell the truth about arriving to the location by cab.
* Leroy arrives back, telling Max that there's nothing left of the plane. He says it's going to be tough checking their flight plan. Max says that's not necessary, since "these boys were on unscheduled business". He tells Leroy to watch them closely.
* Dillon asks if there's some place they can go so as to make a statement. Leroy assumes that they want to come clean and tells Max, who begins to get on the radio. They soon frisk the Warriors, finding the lasers. They assume they're fancy cigarette lighters until Max fires one on a tree, which splits in half.
* Distracted by the immense firepower of the lasers, Troy and Dillon are easily able to take their lasers back, change the settings, and stun them.
* Troy and Dillon take the car and speed away. Fire fighters and troopers go to see the frozen-in-place troopers.
* Troy finds the button to deactivate the siren. Dillon looks behind for signs of pursuit, but there aren't any. Still, Troy remarks that they may have been better off telling them about the Cylons. Troy replies that this would not have helped, as they believe the Warriors are criminals and would have thought the story of Cylon invaders a falsehood.
* As ordered, Dillon turns on his scanner to the Cylon distress frequencies. He detects the signal, which is a Cylon distress code. Since Mortinson had been monitoring Colonial frequencies, he did not pick this up.
* He notes that the Cylons' distress beacon is too weak for the Cylon Empire to pick up. Even ''Galactica'' couldn't pick it up.
* Troy surmises that they'll use one of Earth's powerful transmitters to boost their distress beacon. Troy notes that they don't have much of a lead on them and they have an advantage: they know Earth and have a police car.
* On the side of a highway, Andromus and Centuri are walking along the highway. Andromus says that their topography scans serve them well, he believes that they are within 1,000 [[metron]]s of "the primary communications center". He believes they can walk to the location "within a single period of darkness followed by light".
* As [[Norman Blore]] (as a sad clown) and his wife, [[Shirley Blore|Shirley]] (as a female vampire in the vein of [[w:Elvira|Elvira]]), drive down the highway listening to [[Wolfman Jack]], Shirley tells Norman to stop the car. He does so, confused and irate over what Shirley sees. Shirley points out Centuri's "incredible" costume, much to his immediate, furious chagrin. She correctly surmises that the Cylons must have broken down somewhere and calls them over, asking if they want a lift.
* Shirley leaves the car despite Norman's protestation. She comes up to them and tells them that she and her husband will give them a lift to New York City. She's approaching them with a false set of vampire choppers, which raises concern from Andromus who shirks away defensively. She removes them and says that she's not really a vampire. She tells them that she ha a costume on just like them and is going to a party. She takes a look at Centuri and comments on his costume, expressing her thought that "anyone who'd go to the trouble to make a costume like that has got to be a good guy".
* She mentions that tonight is Halloween and that everyone's going to have a blast tonight. Centuri enter through the back seat and manages to take up most of it.
* Norman begins speculating aloud that "these people are waiting for a tow", but is shocked speechless by Centuri's appearance. Shirley muses that they wouldn't be able to find a phone out here. Andromus carefully approaches the vehicle and, as suggested by Shirley, sits shotgun.
* Norman comments that Centuri must be hot in his getup. The Cylon merely looks at him. Norman turns around slowly and drives.
* Troy notes to Dillon that the signal is getting weaker and must be moving away in some kind of vehicle. He notes that they're almost back on the highway and can go faster then.
[[Image:carride.jpg|thumb|Andromus and Centuri ride with Norman and Shirley.]]
* Andromus tells Norman and Shirley that he is grateful for their assistance. In response to a question posed about where they are headed, Andromus replies they are headed toward the "large population center'. She notes that he even talks like he looks, adding that she wishes [[Mildred]] and [[Arnie]] can see the two Cylons. Norman replies in the negative. She chastises him for not having fun, saying that everyone goes to two or three parties on Halloween.
* She then continues her conversation with Andromus, saying that she knows that they'll have a terrific time there. Everyone will be there, she says, even Wolfman. In response to his question about Wolfman, she turns the radio on to one of his broadcasts, where he is introducing the song "[[Disco Inferno]]". She finally introduces herself and Norman, who is the general manager of the [[WQSL|station]] they're listening to. Norman adds that it's 150,000 watts, boasting that "on a good night, they can hear us in the next galaxy". Andromus ponders this.
* Over the radio, Troy and Dillon hear the APB put out on them, as well as they're last reported location [[Hudson River Parkway]]. Dillon notes that their advantage is gone and are in trouble.
* Back in the other car, Shirley tells Norman that they're humoring them, surmising that since they do not know of Wolfman Jack they "must be classical buffs" and will likely not be impressed in meeting him. Andromus replies that they would be "delighted to meet this Wolfman Jack" and would like to hear more about the radio station.
* Shirley decides the issue of their involvement in Arnie's party is settled and comments again that she can't wait to see Arnie and Mildred's faces when they arrive with the two Cylons.
* Now on West 12th Street heading towards Westside Drive in the stolen patrol car, Troy and Dillon are being pursued by the NYPD. They can't stop to deal with the cops, since they would lose time they can't afford to lose, particularly with the two Cylons ahead of them.
* Dillon suggests they can tell someone, like the Air Force, what's going on but Troy says it wouldn't do any good. All the Cylons need to do is gain control of a transmitter for a few minutes and then Earth would be discovered by the Cylon Empire.
* Andromus comments that he is amazed at the people in the city. Shirley replies that she always feels that way when she comes into Manhattan.
* Norman asks the Cylons what party they're going to, to which Andromus replies he needn't concern himself with them. She asks Norman if he believed they were cute, noting yet again that Arnie and Mildred are going to love them. Norman hopes they feel the same when Arnie forces his "[[Arnie's meatballs|famous meatballs]] down their throats". She angrily replies that he shouldn't start on the meatballs again this year. He compares their affect on the digestive tract to [[w:Vida Blue|Vida Blue]]'s involvement with the [[w:San Francisco Giants|San Francisco Giants]]. She tells him to calm down so he doesn't frighten the Cylons. He replies that this would be a good thing, for if "they had any sense, they'd go to their own party." He adds that the only reason he's going is because he considers Arnie to be the best program director in radio. Then he tells a tale about Arnie's sister, Mildred, and her being "so desperate for a husband, [that] she once proposed to a mugger in [[Central Park]]".
* She replies in the negative and tells him that he's terrible. She looks to Centuri, who seems to nod his head. Norman tells the fellas that "between Arnie's food and his sister's romantic malnutrition, you could be in for the night of your life". Andromus assures Norman that he needn't be concerned, as they are more than capable of defending themselves, then asks Centuri if that is correct. Centuri replies in the affirmative: "By your command."
* The married couple look back at Centuri, exchange looks, then look forward. Norman is pensive, saying: "Maybe this wasn't such a good idea."

== Notes ==
*This episode marks the introduction of [[humanoid Cylon]]s, which would become a defining convention of the [[Re-imagined Series]]. Unlike the biological versions that would appear in 2003, however, Andromus is more of an [[w:android|android]], an automaton that resembles a human.
* [[Sheila DeWindt]], (flight attendant) played [[Deitra]] in the ''Battlestar Galactica'' episode [[Lost Planet of the Gods]].
* In the movie theater, the film that Troy, Dillon, and the children watch is the Universal picture ''[[w:This Island Earth|This Island Earth]]''.
* This is the third episode of the series to be set on a specific date: October 30-31, 1980. "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]" and "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]" took place in take from June 4 to June 6, 1944.
*The appearance of popular 1970s disc jockey [[w:Wolfman Jack|Wolfman Jack]] in this and the following episode is the only time that the ''Battlestar Galactica'' universe has featured an actor playing themselves.
* Troy mentions that the names for the pre-paid tickets are "Jones and Smith", aliases that Hamilton had suggested they'd use since the names of Troy and Dillon are known to Earth's authorities. This is a likely reference for the show ''[[w:Alias Smith and Jones|Alias Smith and Jones]]'', one of writer and creator [[Glen Larson]]'s first television shows. Coincidentally, [[Roger Davis]] ([[Andromus]]) had narrated and acted on the series as a series regular.
*The Cylons inside the [[Raider (TOS)#Advanced A-B Raider|A-B Raider]] have readouts that use standard English.
*The license plate on [[Norman]]'s car is 538-DIP.
*The term "[[metron]]" is incorrectly used in this episode by [[Andromus]], using it as one would use a [[w:hectometer|hectometer]] instead of a [[w:meter|meter]] in the metric system.
*While [[Wolfman Jack]] is credited as a guest star in this episode, he is only mentioned by name and heard briefly on the radio in [[Norman]]'s car; he does not physically appear in the flesh until "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II]]".
*Norman compares [[Arnie]]'s meatballs being to the digestive tract to baseball player [[w:Vida Blue|Vida Blue]]'s involvement with the [[w:San Francisco Giants|San Francisco Giants]]: a stopper.
*Arnie and [[Mildred]] are seen on screen in "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II]]".
* In the 2009 ''Galactica 1980'' comic series, [[Galactica 1980 4|issue #4]] is titled ''The Night The Cylons Landed'', an obvious nod to this episode.

== Analysis ==

* The use of the [[Viper (1980)|Viper]] would have been far more logical, considering that the mission was urgent and the fact they had an [[invisibility field]] that could easily avoid detection from military radar.
* In a twist of irony, [[Troy (1980)|Troy]] (played by [[Kent McCord]]) is driving a stolen police car; McCord previously portrayed a cop in ''[[w:Adam 12|Adam 12]]''.
* The point where [[Dillon]] and Troy discuss hijacking is for educational purposes, however the way it is played off is unintentionally humorous at worst -- at best it is inaccurate. The general theme of their dialogue indicates that they don't know why anyone would want to hijack a flying craft; however, there are notable instances in the [[The Fleet (TOS)|Fleet]]'s history (from the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]]) where ships have been hijacked:
*# In the episode "[[Baltar's Escape]]", [[Baltar (TOS)|Baltar]], the [[Borellian Nomen]], and the [[Eastern Alliance]] enforcers attempt to hijack ''[[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]]''. In addition, they hijack a [[Colonial shuttle]] from [[Sheba]] and [[Boomer (TOS)|Boomer]], using it to sneak aboard ''Galactica'' unawares.
*# In "[[Murder on the Rising Star]]", [[Karibdis]] hijacks a shuttle piloted by Captain [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]] in order to kill Baltar, who is the only person in the Fleet of survivors that can identify him; he is subsequently thwarted by Baltar himself, as an act of self-preservation on his part.
* An interesting aspect of this episode is the [[Hijackers|cross-dressing hijacker]], particularly given the sentiments of the 1970s and, more importantly, the "kiddie-hour" timeslot the show aired in.
* Intriguingly, the famous [[w:Big Dipper|Big Dipper]] group of stars "looks backwards" to the Super Scouts. This suggests the [[Twelve Colonies (TOS)|Twelve Colonies]] must be located on the other side, i.e. ~200 light years from Earth in the constellation of Ursa Major. Unfortunately, this would create yet another inconsistency as other episodes already have established that the journey to Earth took 30 Earth years at sub-light speed...
* Dillon comments that they could fly from Earth to planet [[:en:Pluto|Pluto]] in less than five hours. This is yet another confirmation that at least the fastest Colonial ships are capable of traveling at almost the speed of light as, in October 1980, Pluto was approximately 4.3 [[w:light hour|light hours]] from Earth.

== Questions ==

* Why didn't Troy and Dillon simply fly their Viper with the invisibility field on?
* Why didn't Troy and Dillon wash their hands before exiting the bathroom?
* Why did Troy and Dillon need to push the NYPD officer on board the plane out of the way?
* How does Troy know that two Cylons survived the crash?

== Official Statements ==

* ''[[Chris Bunch]] discusses the censorship that the series faced:
: '''Chris Bunch:''' [T]he censor, an utterly braindead woman named Susan Futterman, questioned a line that said there were more than X number of stars in our galaxy (this was in a planetarium sequence, and one of [[Super Scouts|the kids]] heard the lecturer say this, and [[Starla|she]] giggled and said, boy is [s]he full of hamhocks. Dumb little joke, very dumb, very little). She called and said where did we get the facts. We said, the new edition of the ''[[w:Britannica|Britannica]]'' which we’d just sprung for a week earlier (true). She said, ‘that’s not good enough.’ Now, ignoring the fact that the Britannica does, indeed, contain some whoppers, we tried to restrain Major Hilarity and asked her if she minded putting that in writing. She may be dumb, but she wasn’t THAT dumb. We could’ve had such a nifty thing to frame….<ref name="bunch">{{cite_web|url=http://geocities.com/sjpaxton/bunch.html|title=Battlestar Zone Interview: Chris Bunch|date=|accessdate=11 August 2007|last=Paxton|first=Susan J.|format=|language=}}</ref>

* ''Bunch discusses the meatball jokes:''
: '''Bunch:''' Another neat [Susan] Futterman story--[[Glen Larson|[Glen] Larson]] dumped a REALLY dumb joke [[Arnie's meatballs|about meatballs]] into [this] episode. Futterman swore it was dirty. It wasn’t. She said the show won’t get on the air unless that line’s out. Larson put in THREE MORE meatball jokes, even stupider (they’re in the episode the way it aired) and said it goes like this or it doesn’t go. Since he’d delivered the edit TWENTY MINUTES before it went up to the bird from Universal to [[w:New York|New York]] and then on the air, it went out….<ref name="bunch"/>

* ''[[Allan Cole]] discusses the shooting of the observatory scene in this episode:''
: '''Allan Cole:''' Do you recall the episode where all the kids from the mother ship troop into the Observatory? That was shot at night. And the only thing harder and more expensive than shooting at night (except for water, never, never do a water show) is shooting at night with children. They can only work a few hours at a time as it is. And night is golden time when it comes to wages -- for both them, the teachers, and, obviously the rest of the cast and crew. This also means you can't shoot anything early the next morning. So if you don't have enough night stuff in your script to warrant another setup the following evening, you lose a whole day. The only way around it is to shoot on Saturday night, which gives you a natural Sunday "break."

: In this case, because of the craziness on the show, neither option was open. Plus the kids were either all sleepy, or hyper -- laughing hysterically or weeping; no inbetween. Or getting lost and you had to track them down again. Driving the planetarium staff out of their gourds.<ref name="cole">

{{cite_web|url=http://www.battlestargalactica.com/outside_docs/bg_outdoc0030.htm|title=Interview with Galactica 1980 story editor Allan Cole|date=28 Feburary 2005|accessdate=11 August 2007|last=Larocque|first=John|format=|language=}}</ref>

* ''Kent McCord (Troy) on the production chaos:''
: McCord: [It] was the day we were shooting the scene on the Universal 747 stage. The episode was ''The Night the Cylons Landed'', and we had probably 30 or 40 or 50 extras plus a crew. About noon, on this day with all this very difficult stuff, one of the associates producers came down and handed Barry and me eight pages of dialogue and said, 'At 4:00, you have to go to stage 25 and you have to shoot these eight pages. And no matter where you are here, you have to be over there to do this because we need this stuff to finish cutting a show that's being done.' So at 4:00 Barry and I had to go over to a different stage and leave all these extras and the whole crew...on this 747 soundstage and shoot eight pages of dialogue in a Viper. That dialogue had no reference to anything. It was Galactican language written for us. It's not easy stuff to learn. We had eight pages, and we didn't have time to learn it because we were shooting another show in another stage! That pointed out a couple of things. We had that unit shooting on a 747 stage and we had another unit shooting with us on stage 25, and I even think there was another unit out shooting with the kids or something. That's the way the show was done--to make airdates. It's very unusual.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

* {{audio|NTCL 1 - hijacking.mp3|''Troy looks up the term hijacking:''}}
: '''[[Troy (1980)|Troy]]:''' The act of seizing a vehicle for illegal purposes.
: '''[[Dillon]]:''' Heh. I wonder what someone would do with an aircraft once they'd seized it.
: '''Troy:''' Strange place. It's going to take a lot of getting used to.

* {{audio|NTCL 1 - smoking plane.mp3|''The Warriors give their tickets to another ticket master:''}}
: '''[[Ticket Master]]:''' Smoking or non-smoking?
: '''Troy:''' I beg your pardon?
: '''Ticket Master:''' Would you prefer smoking or non-smoking?
: '''Dillon:''' (shrugs) Which way does the plane run best?

* {{audio|NTCL1 - meatballs a stoppa.mp3|''Norman brings up Arnie's meatballs:''}}

: '''[[Shirley]]:''' Aren't they [ [[Andromus]] and [[Centuri]] ] cute? [[Mildred]] and [[Arnie]] are ''just'' going to ''love'' this.
: '''[[Norman]]:''' Well, I hope they feel the same way after Arnie forces a couple of his [[Arnie's meatballs|famous meatballs ]]down their throats.
: '''Shirley:''' Now Norman, don't get started on those meatballs again this year!
: '''Norman:''' They are to the digestive tract what [[w:Vida Blue|Vida Blue]] is to the [[w:San Francisco Giants|San Francisco Giants]]: a stopper.

* {{audio|NTCL1 - muggah in central park.mp3|''Norman tells about the depths of Mildred's "romantic malnutrition":}}
: '''Norman:''' And as for that sister of his, she's so desperate for a husband, she once proposed to a muggah in Central Park.

* {{audio|NTCL1 - night of your life.mp3|''Norman offers a warning to the two Cylons:''}}

: '''Norman:''' The only thing I can tell you fellas, to be on guard. Between Arnie's food and his sister's romantic malnutrition you could be in for the night of your life.
: '''[[Andromus]]:''' You don't need to be concerned, we're quite capable of defending ourselves. Right [[Centuri]]?
: '''Centuri:''' [[By your command]].

== Guest Stars ==
*[[William Daniels]] as [[Norman Blore|Norman]]
*[[imdb:nm0662430|Lara Parker]] as [[Shirley Blore|Shirley]]
*[[Peter Mark Richman]] as Colonel [[Briggs]]
*[[Sheila de Windt|Sheila DeWindt]] as [[Stewardess]]
*[[imdb:nm0494660|René LeVant]] as [[Max|1st Officer]]
*[[imdb:nm0341483|Ed Griffith]] as [[Leroy|2nd Officer]]
*[[imdb:nm0590039|Jed Mills]] as [[JFK Cabbie|Cabbie]]
*[[imdb:nm0641152|Timothy O'Hagan]] as [[Kanon]]
*[[Robert Lunny]] as [[Briton]]
*[[The Super Scouts (cast)#Michael Brick|Michael Brick]] as [[The Super Scouts|Super Scout]]
*[[The Super Scouts (cast)#Jeff Cotler|Jeff Cotler]] as [[The Super Scouts|Super Scout]]
*[[The Super Scouts (cast)#Nicholas Davies|Nicholas Davies]] as [[The Super Scouts|Super Scout]]
*[[The Super Scouts (cast)#Ronnie Densford|Ronnie Densford]] as [[The Super Scouts|Super Scout]]
*[[The Super Scouts (cast)#Mark Everett|Mark Everett]] as [[The Super Scouts|Super Scout]]
*[[The Super Scouts (cast)#Georgi Irene|Georgi Irene]] as [[The Super Scouts|Super Scout]]
*[[The Super Scouts (cast)#Tracy Justrich|Tracy Justrich]] as [[The Super Scouts|Super Scout]]
*[[The Super Scouts (cast)#Lindsay Kennedy|Lindsay Kennedy]] as [[The Super Scouts|Super Scout]]
*[[The Super Scouts (cast)#D.G. Larson|David Larson]] as [[The Super Scouts|Super Scout]]
*[[The Super Scouts (cast)#Eric Larson|Eric Larson]] as [[Moonstone]]
*[[The Super Scouts (cast)#Michelle Larson|Michelle Larson]] as [[The Super Scouts|Super Scout]]
*[[The Super Scouts (cast)#Jerry Supiran|Jerry Supiran]] as [[The Super Scouts|Super Scout]]
*[[The Super Scouts (cast)#Eric Taslitz|Eric Taslitz]] as [[The Super Scouts|Super Scout]]
*[[imdb:nm0955252|Neil Zevnik]] as [[Andromidus]] (uncredited)
*[[Rex Cutter]] as [[Centuri]] (uncredited)
*Uncredited as [[Marcy]]
*Uncredited as [[Ticket Master|Ticket Master #1]]
*Uncredited as [[Ticket Master|Ticket Master #2]]
*Uncredited as [[Male Terrorist]]
*Uncredited as [[Female Terrorist]]
*Uncredited as Major [[Harvey Jensen]]
*Uncredited as [[Butler]]

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Ray Duke

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'''Ray Duke''' is the actor who portrayed a newspaper boy in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth]]", Part I & III, episodes of ''[[Galactica 1980]]''.

He is the elder brother of [[w:Patty Duke|Patty Duke]] and, consequently, the uncle of her sons [[w:Sean Astin|Sean Astin]] and [[w:Mackenzie Astin|Mackenzie Astin]].

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Yodel

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General '''Yodel''' is a high ranking German soldier who arrives at the V-2 rocket base in [[Peenemünde]] to oversee its first test.

Unimpressed with [[Xaviar]], Yodel questions the alleged British scientist's credentials, claiming that the Nazis have been following Britain's scientific community very closely and have never heard of anyone named "Xaviar" ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]).

He is displeased when the test fails, thanks to the efforts of [[Dillon]] who destroys the rocket with his [[laser pistol]]. After this, he orders that Xaviar be executed, accusing him of being a spy ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]).

== Novelization depiction ==

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In the [[Galactica Discovers Earth (Book)|novelization]] by [[Michael Resnick]], this character is named '''Wilhelm Yodel'''<ref name="p102">{{cite_book|last=Resnick|first=Michael|authorlink=Michael Resnick|authorlinkurl=|year=1981|title=[[Battlestar Galactica 5: Galactica Discovers Earth]]|publisher=Berkley Books|location=|id=|pages=102}}</ref>. Yodel orders Oberleutnant [[Branham]] with a detail of 30 men to search for a detail of 9 soldiers that are incapacitated by [[Warrior]]s [[Troy (alternate)|Troy]] and [[Dillon]]. After finding them apparently unharmed, he recommends that the commander of the unit receive a court martial and orders the soldiers in that unit to be transferred to the Russian Front.<ref name="p102"/> Further, he is outspoken in his hatred for [[w:Adolf Hitler|Adolf Hitler]] and notes that, much to Colonel [[Conrad Werner]]'s displeasure, the Germans are losing the war and the resources invested in the V2 program are better spent on weapons that are proven to work.<ref>''Ibid.'', p. 127</ref>

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Richard Hatch

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'''Richard Hatch''' (born May 21, 1945) is an American actor and writer. Hatch is best known for portraying the role of Captain [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]] in the original ''[[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Battlestar Galactica]]'', as well as his attempts to revive the series, notably in the form of his promotional trailer, ''[[Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming]]'', as well as his various novels. He would later portray [[Tom Zarek]] in the re-imagined ''[[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' in 2004, making him the only Original Series actor to also appear in the Re-imagined Series.

== Overview ==

Born in [[w:Santa Monica, California|Santa Monica, California]], Richard Hatch was studying classical piano at the age of eight. In high school, he was a keen athlete, and hoped to participate in the [[w:Olympics|Olympics]] as a pole vaulter.

== Biographical Notes ==

However, following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, he read an article about the slain president to the rest of his oral interpretation class at school, and found himself orating and almost acting as he read. This led him to enrolling in the Eric Morris Actors' Workshop a few years later. While he was uncertain about taking up acting as a career, he changed his mind after appearing in a version of the Tennessee Williams one-act play "This Property is Condemned".

His television career started in earnest in 1970, when he was cast as "Philip Brent" in the original series of ''All My Children'' (1970). following this, he took guest roles in the leading genre shows of the 1970s: ''Canon, Hawaii Five-O, Barnaby Jones, The Rookies'' and ''Medical Centre'', as well as appearing in shows such as ''Kung Fu'', ''MacGyver'' and ''The Waltons''.

[[Image:tos-take.jpg|thumb|left|Dirk Benedict and Richard Hatch on the set filming "[[The Hand of God (TOS)|The Hand of God]]".]]

In 1976 he was cast opposite Karl Malden in ''The Streets of San Francisco'', in which he replaced Michael Douglas for the final two seasons of the show. Following this, he was cast in the role of [[Captain Apollo]] in the [[Original Series|original ''Battlestar Galactica'']] series - a role for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe.

Away from acting, Richard Hatch lectures on a range of subjects, including: overcoming fear and producing powerful results, success strategies for business and life, and becoming a powerful, dynamic and compelling communicator. He created the "Breakthrough to Success Bootcamps", which inspire people to achieve a more productive and positive lifestyle.
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== Before & After ==

Since the end of the original series of ''Battlestar Galactica'', Hatch has demonstrated his love of the show by writing tie-in books, and working to bring about a [[continuation]] of the original series. Amongst writing [[List of Books|books]], numbering seven as of this writing, he also produced and starred in a promotional trailer called ''[[Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming]]'', which was shown at SF conventions to much acclaim. While he was initially openly skeptical about the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|new ''Battlestar Galactica'']] series, he has recognized it as a different interpretation of the ''[[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]]'''s voyages and accepted it to the point of appearing in the recurring role of Tom Zarek.

== Notes ==

* Hatch appears in all episodes of the Original Series, and 22 episodes of the re-imagined Series.

==Official Statements==
* ''Richard Hatch comments on the comic series, Battlestar Galactica: Zarek, he plans to read:''

:I'm looking forward to learning more about my history and backstory. I'm amazed that they decided to do a story on my character and I'm truly humbled and appreciative<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.philly.com/dailynews/features/20070108_Shes_just_MARVEL-ous.html|title=She's just MARVEL-ous|date=8 January 2007|accessdate=1 July 2007|last=Maida|first=Jerome|format=|language=}}</ref>.

==References==
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== External Links ==

* [http://www.richardhatch.com Richard Hatch's official website]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20060412193252/http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/bts/hatch/ Richard Hatch diary from ''Bastille Day'']

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Ruth

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'''Ruth''' is the mother of [[Shannon Adama]] a.k.a. Shannon Adams, and mother-in-law to [[Joseph Adama]]. Her grandson, [[Willie Adama|William Adama]], refers to her by the affectionate term "Tsattie".

At some point in her life, Ruth was employed as a shooter/assassin for the [[Ha'la'tha]] ([[CAP]]: "[[Here Be Dragons]]").

In 58 BCH, she lives with Joseph Adama and his son, William, on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] after the terrorist bombing of [[Maglev 23]] claims both her daughter and her granddaughter [[Tamara Adama|Tamara]]'slives. She has repeatedly attempted to convince Joseph to tell his son William about their true heritage as [[Tauron]]s, eventually succeeding in this ([[CAP]]: "[[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]").

After [[Amanda Graystone]] announces publically that her daughter [[Zoe Graystone]] was involved in the bombing of Maglev 23, Ruth supports Joseph's plan to have Amanda assassinated by his brother [[Sam Adama]], believing in blood for blood ([[CAP]]: "[[Gravedancing]]").

Ruth notes that [[Evelyn]] is good for Joseph and implicitly gives her her blessing to pursue a relationship with her son-in-law by telling her that she and William will be staying with her sister for a while ([[CAP]]: "[[False Labor]]").

Ha'la'tha member [[Francis]] is sent to Joseph's apartment to assassinate him after the [[Guatrau]] decides to have the Adama brothers killed for smuggling [[U-87 Cyber Combat Unit]]s to Tauron against his wishes, but Ruth kills Francis with a meat cleaver to the back. Ruth then keeps watch in the apartment with a gun while Joseph, Evelyn and William go to [[Goldie's]], a local restaurant, to retrieve fake I.D.'s for going into hiding ([[CAP]]: "[[Here Be Dragons]]").

Following the death of her grandson William in a shootout at Goldie's, Ruth is disgusted that the Guatrau's supporters' vendetta would extend to a child. She continues to be part of the Adama family after Joseph marries Evelyn and has another son, also named [[William Adama|William]] ([[CAP]]: "[[Apotheosis (episode)|Apotheosis]]").

==Notes==
* It was revealed in an e-mail that Ruth has [[Tattoo|tattoos]] located high on her right arm that represent her children and grandchildren. <ref name="Sam Tattoos">{{cite_web|url=http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/show-patrol/2010/02/exclusive-caprica-producer-jane-espenson-explains-sam-adamas-tattoos.html|title=Exclusive: 'Caprica' producer Jane Espenson explains Sam Adama's tattoos|date=February 17, 2010|accessdate=March 25, 2010|last=Wagner|first=Curt|format=|language=}}</ref>
* Ruth's surname is never used.

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Beings of Light

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[[Image:John.jpg|thumb|right|John, one of the Beings of Light ([[Experiment in Terra]])]]
The '''Beings of Light''' are a mysterious race that travel using the [[Ship of Lights]]. Called angels by the primitive people on [[Kobol (TOS)|Kobol]], these creatures helped them develop the civilization that would become [[The Twelve Colonies (TOS)|the Twelve Colonies]] ([[War of the Gods, Part II|War of the Gods]]).

Apparently mistakes were made in the past by these advanced beings, as they seem reluctant to interfere directly with the Colonials or the [[Terra]]ns. They help [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]] and [[Battlestar (TOS)|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]]'' save the Terrans from themselves ([[Experiment in Terra]]).

[[Iblis|Count Iblis]] is a fallen member of this race, who has chosen to use his powers for darker purposes ([[War of the Gods, Part II|War of the Gods]]).

==Galactica 1980==
[[Angela]], who appears in the [[Galactica 1980]] episode, "[[The Return of Starbuck]]", wore white, appeared and disappeared suddenly, and spoke in riddles. Although never stated, it seems likely she was another Being of Light. (More than likely since her name literally means "female angel".) She is revealed to be the mother of [[Doctor Zee]], which may account for the young boy's superhuman abilities.

A scrapped episode, entitled "[[The Wheel of Fire]]", would have had [[Starbuck (1980)|Starbuck]] rescued from a lonely asteroid by more representatives of this mysterious race [http://www.chrispappas.com/archives/scripts.html].

== Notes ==
*Throughout the scripts of the series, this group of people are called "[[w:Seraphs (Battlestar Galactica)|Seraphs]]." [[w:Seraph|Seraph]] (plural: ''Seraphim'') is the Hebrew word for Angel. Later Jewish imagery perceived them as having human form, and in that way they passed into the ranks of Christian angels. In the Christian angelic hierarchy, seraphim represent the highest rank of angels.

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War of the Gods, Part II

2013-05-08T23:57:59Z

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== Overview ==

: ''With the enigmatic Count [[Iblis]] usurping [[Adama (TOS)|Adama]]'s command of [[the Fleet (TOS)|the Fleet]], [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]] and [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]] endeavor to find out the mysterious origins of their guest-turned-savior before all is lost to Iblis.''

== Summary ==
* The [[Quorum of Twelve (TOS)|Council]] announces that [[Baltar (TOS)|Baltar]] has been found guilty of treason (amongst other things). He is sentenced to life imprisonment aboard the [[Prison Barge]].

* Baltar protests the sentence, claiming that he came of his own free will under the banner of truce. [[Iblis|Count Iblis]] speaks up, telling Baltar that his days of pursuing [[The Fleet (TOS)|the fleet]] are over.

* Baltar recognizes something about Iblis' voice. Iblis claims that it is the voice of truth. Iblis uses his powers to force Baltar to his knees.

* Having delivered Baltar, Iblis explains that one of the three conditions of their bargain has been satisfied. Leading the fleet to [[Earth (TOS)|Earth]] is the second, with the third to be determined by the council.

* One of the council members suggests that they immediately elect Count Iblis to be the President of the Council.

* [[Adama (TOS)|Adama]] expresses some reservations. He says that they still do not know about the mysterious lights, or the disappearance of the [[Viper (TOS)|Vipers]].
[[Image:Frank Frazetta - War of the Gods - Part 2.jpg|thumb|right|TV Guide ad for ''War of the Gods'']]

* Iblis visits Baltar on the Prison Barge. Baltar remembers Iblis' voice to be that of the [[Imperious Leader]].

* Baltar explains that the [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylons]] were once a race of beings that allowed themselves to be overcome by their own technology, 1000 [[yahren]] ago (with the onset of the [[Thousand-Yahren War]]). Iblis says that if his voice was that of the Imperious leader, he'd have to be over 1000 yahren old.

* Iblis walks right through Baltar's cell door into his cell, and comforts him, telling him that all is not lost. Iblis then disappears, leaving behind a bewildered Baltar.

* [[Athena (TOS)|Athena]] tries to get Adama to come to the games with her. Adama claims that he is too busy and has too many decisions to make. She says that he sounds like [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]], who has decided not to play that night.

* [[Boxey (TOS)|Boxey]] walks into the warrior barracks with [[Muffit]]. Apollo tries to talk to him. Boxey claims that his friends all say that Apollo is a coward for not playing in the games.

* Count Iblis has predicted that [[Boomer (TOS)|Boomer's]] team will win. It is speculated that Apollo is afraid to lose, proving Iblis right and weakening Adama's position.

* Apollo claims that he doesn't want to play because he is more concerned for the missing warriors than in playing a game.

* Adama convinces Apollo to play, saying that playing may even be able to help his missing friends.

* Just before the [[Triad (TOS)|Triad]] game, Count Iblis asks Boomer how badly he wants to win. Iblis says that he wants to play, through Boomer.

[[Image:Darkness At Time's Edge - Frank Frazetta.jpg|thumb|right|Darkness at Time's Edge - concept art for ''War of the Gods'' by Frank Frazetta.]]

* Boomer and [[Jolly (TOS)|Jolly's]] team win by a large margin.

* Iblis is hosting a party on the ''[[Rising Star (TOS)|Rising Star]]''. Apollo asks how long the party will last, as some of the people have critical jobs. Iblis says that he needn't worry about the fleet now that he is in charge. He claims that his only commandment is to enjoy life to the fullest.

* [[Sheba]] offers Apollo some consolation. Iblis comments that they make a fine pair. [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]] is confused, as he thought that Iblis wanted Sheba for himself. Iblis asks why she should be limited to one man (or why Starbuck should be limited to one woman). Starbuck clearly likes this way of thinking.

* Apollo manages to kill the mood with Sheba, when she asks if he is jealous. He asks how she could think that he'd let something as petty as jealousy interfere with his judgment when the lives of everyone in the fleet might be at stake.

* The mysterious lights fly near ''Galactica'', worrying Adama and [[Tigh (TOS)|Tigh]].

* [[Core Command]] is understaffed due to an "overdose of pleasure". Officer curfews have not been strictly enforced under orders of Count Iblis. Adama wants Iblis to report to his quarters.

* No pilots have responded to the red alert. Apollo starts waking people up, and they appear hung over. Starbuck claims that not everybody has made it back to ''Galactica'', and that the pilots are spread out all over the fleet.

* Iblis comes into the barracks and begins berating the warriors for not responding to the alert. Adama has to intervene when Apollo begins to assault Iblis.

* Adama confronts Iblis, asking what he fears about the beings outside the ship. Iblis claims that he does not fear them, but that they are from the same dimension that he is. Iblis claims to be above all laws, but Adama wonders if that is really true.

* The Vipers launch, and Boomer fires on one of the lights. He does not damage it, and it comes up behind him causing a high-pitched whine. His Viper disappears.

* Apollo and Starbuck return. Everyone agrees that Iblis is the only person who understands what is going on, but they cannot get rid of him due to his popularity. Adama claims that Iblis will be elected President of the Council in a few [[centar (TOS)|centars]].

* Apollo and Starbuck visit [[Wilker|Dr. Wilker]]. He has examined the plants that "miraculously" grew, and believes that it is possible that energy from the ships of light caused the plant growth.

* Adama sits alone in his quarters, moving an object on his desk with telekinesis. Apollo walks in on his demonstration. Adama explains that it was something he learned at the [[Colonial Military Institute]] before Apollo was born.

* Adama explains that their life expectancy is about 200 yahren, but they are just now starting to utilize parts of their brains that have a great deal of potential. He believes that if a race lived for thousands of yahren they would be capable of things that seemed miraculous.

* Adama suspects that the mysterious lights are the angels that the ancient colonials wrote of.

* They hatch a plan for Apollo to go back to the wrecked ship where Iblis was discovered. Adama tells Apollo to try to forget the conversation, though, as Iblis might detect it in his thoughts and discover their plans.

* Adama will be able to shield his mind from Iblis by crowding it with other thoughts. This also was part of the Military Institute training that he received.

[[Image:Iblis - Maximum.jpg|thumb|right|The re-imagined Count Iblis from the Maximum Press comic series.]]

* Starbuck runs into Apollo as he is leaving, and forces Apollo to take him along.

* Iblis is aboard [[Agro Ship 9]] with Sheba when he senses something is wrong. He heads to Core Command and discovers the shuttle has left, and that Apollo is on it. He heads to confront Adama.

* Adama says that he does not believe in Iblis like the poor people on the crashed ship did. Iblis says that Adama will pay the price with a life more meaningful than his own.

* Sheba has taken a Viper and is also heading to the planet.

* Apollo examines the wreckage, and discovers that the high radion levels that they thought existed were faked.

* Sheba arrives as they open the wreckage and look inside. They are horrified by what they see, and Apollo tries to keep Sheba from looking. Starbuck suggests that it might be a good idea, and Apollo reluctantly lets her look.

* Iblis arrives and forbids Sheba to look. Iblis claims that she is his, and has given herself to him freely. He orders her to his side, but Apollo interferes.

* Iblis commands Apollo to stop interfering, but Apollo claims that Iblis holds no power over those that do not give themselves willing over to him. Iblis suspects that Apollo knows who he really is, and Apollo believes that he does.

* Mephistopholes, Diaoblis, and the Prince of Darkness are names that he tells Sheba to try to recall.

* Iblis tells Apollo he has one more chance before he strikes Sheba down. Apollo shoots Iblis, briefly revealing his true form.

* Iblis commands her death, and moves to strike her down. Apollo jumps in front of the blast, and is killed.

* Iblis commands Sheba to come, but she refuses. She mourns Apollo's death.

* The mysterious lights begin to appear overhead.

* Starbuck asks why he seems so worried. Starbuck suspects that it is within Iblis' bounds to strike down a willing follower, but not an innocent.

* Iblis claims that nobody has dominion over him. He claims that they will meet again in another time and place, then disappears.

* They transport Apollo's body back in the shuttle. On the way back the mysterious lights fly near them, eventually approaching them (causing the whining noise).

* Starbuck appears in a strange white chamber. His uniform is entirely white.

* One of the mysterious white clad figures in the room claims that they are in a different dimension.

* Sheba arrives, and her uniform has also been turned white. Sheba wonders if they are both dead.

* They are lead to a chamber where Apollo is laying on a table on a raised pedestal.

* Sheba and Starbuck are asked if they would sacrifice their life for Apollo's. Sheba agrees to sacrifice her life. The voice also points out that Starbuck had said that he would trade places with Apollo if he could (back onboard the shuttle).

* Apollo sits up on the table. Sheba rushes to his side.

* Starbuck says that they can take what they want. The voice says that they don't want anything. They are fighting a common foe, the forces of darkness throughout the galaxy. The beings were once as the Colonials were, and the Colonials may someday become like the beings.

* Count Iblis is one of their race, but uses his powers to turn people away from the truth. The beings of light do not stop him because they cannot interfere with free will.

* The beings will return all the Viper pilots, as well as Starbuck, Apollo, and Sheba.

* The crew is reunited aboard ''Galactica''. Their memories of the beings of light, and their experiences on the ship, have been erased.

* The last thing Apollo can remember was challenging Count Iblis. Sheba remembers that he lost the challenge. Starbuck then recalls that Iblis tried to kill Sheba, but Apollo intervened and died. They took his body into the shuttle.

* They assume that Apollo must have only been stunned.

* The only other thing they can recall is a light and sound, that leads them to believe that there is something good and caring out there.

* Sheba asks if they had been caught up between a battle between good and evil, but Adama says that is always the case and will not change even if they find Earth.

* This prompts the trio to almost involuntarily recite coordinates. "Earth quadrant alpha, 19 million sectars by Epsilon vector 22 on a circular reckoning course of 000.9, in a star system with nine planets and one sun."

== Notes ==

*Sheba is seen in a dress before the triad match, but once the match starts she is shown on a viewer screen in her flight uniform. Then, in a live shot back is shown back in her dress sitting next to Count Iblis. It may be possible that the shot on the viewer were supposed to be highlights from an earlier match.
*Five figures representing the "[[Final Five]]" [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylon models]] make a brief appearance in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-Imagined]] episode "[[Hero]]". Their physical appearance and attire are reminiscent of the Beings of Light appearing in this episode.
* Iblis means "Satan" in Arabic.

== The Mystery of the Crashed Ship ==
[[Image:19 - War of the Gods.jpg|thumb|right| What Starbuck and Apollo found inside the crashed ship.]]

* From the War of the Gods original script at http://galactica1981.tripod.com/MissingWar.htm:

:"When Starbuck and Apollo look into the wreckage of the ship, this is exactly what they see: A piece of metallic surface, highly scorched but out of which portrudes a foot-like extremity, except that its tip is clearly in the shape of a cloven hoof. (Then they lift the metal and toss it aside) They grimace in horror... Under the wreckage is the figure of a devil... a demon."

* Footage of the demon was shot but left out of the final cut. There are conflicting accounts as to why. Some believe the censors removed it due to its possible satanic implications. Anne Lockhart stated at the [[GoMainline Galactica Convention]] in September 1999 that it was left out because the demon "looked like a dead sheep." Interestingly, the footage does not appear in the Battlestar Galactica DVD box set which has deleted scenes from the episode.

* The image on the right is from Battlestar Galactica Vol. 1 [[War of Eden 4|#4]] of Maximum Press comics in which Apollo recalls what he saw inside the crashed ship.

* A popular myth grew over the years that the crashed ship is the Battlestar Pegasus. In [[An Analytical Guide to Television's Battlestar Galactica]], author John Kenneth Muir argues that the crashed ship is in fact the Pegasus despite the script for the episode saying otherwise. To be fair, because the episode never shows us what is inside the ship, the answer to the mystery is open to interpretation.

* In the aforementioned Maximum Press comic series, the writers play off this myth in [[War of Eden 3|issue #3]] when Count Iblis returns to Sheba and teleports her back to the crashed ship where she discovers the body of Commander Cain inside. It turns out to be an illusion.

== Questions ==

* What is in the ship that Starbuck and Apollo (and Iblis) do not want Sheba to see?
* Are there other Beings of Light who succumbed to Iblis' way of thinking? If so, what of them?
* What leads to Iblis' downfall before becoming "evil"?
* Have the Beings of Light, or even Iblis, been to Earth? If so, what is the extent of either party's influence?
* Is Sheba's Viper ever recovered from the [[red planet]]?
* When aboard the Ship of Light, why are the Colonials' skin and hair not white-washed like their uniforms and accouterments?
* Why were the other Viper pilots abducted to begin with?

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

* ''Starbuck makes a superficial, yet accurate observation:''
:'''[[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]]:''' Is that right, are we dead, and you're angels?
:'''Angel:''' Oddly enough, there is some truth to your speculation.

* ''Iblis delivers punishment to Apollo by attempting to kill Sheba:''
: '''[[Iblis]]:''' Death to [[Sheba|her]], [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]]. May her soul curse you through eternity.

* ''The "angel" explains why Apollo was resurrected and the Beings removal of Iblis from the red planet:''
: '''Angel:''' Apollo was not meant to die. Sheba, it was you that Count Iblis meant to destroy.

== Guest Stars ==
*[[Patrick Macnee]] as [[Iblis|Count Iblis]]
*[[John Williams]] as Statesman
*[[George Murdock]] as [[Salik|Dr. Salik]]
*[[Janet Louise Johnson]] as [[Brie]]
*[[Jack Stauffer]] as [[Bojay]]
*[[Ed Begley Jr.]] as [[Greenbean]]
*[[John Dullaghan]] as [[Wilker|Dr. Wilker]]
*[[Norman Stuart]] as Statesman

== External Links ==

*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjBJqIDlzBc&feature=related War of the Gods Part 2 full episode on YouTube]

*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKKa31PPaLw&feature=BFa&list=FLrIBODxWIieq6zwvGyKozlg&lf=BFp 1979 ABC TV promo for War of the Gods - YouTube]

*[http://galactica1981.tripod.com/WAROFTHEGODS.htm War of the Gods full summary and review at Sheba's Galaxy]

*[http://galactica1981.tripod.com/MissingWar.htm War of the Gods deleted scenes]

*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGTx4anJkOw Deleted scene from War of the Gods: Starbuck, Apollo and Sheba return from the Ship of Lights - YouTube]

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Thomas Zarek

2013-05-04T11:16:03Z

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: ''For other subjects with the same last name, see: [[Zarek (disambiguation)]].''
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'''Thomas Zarek''', commonly known as '''Tom Zarek''', was a political activist for more than 30 years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. He was a charismatic, eloquent and ideological political agitator who was incarcerated for destroying a government building on [[Sagittaron]]. His 20-year incarceration culminated in a sojourn on ''[[Astral Queen]]'', an [[FTL]]-capable prison ship, whilst in transit to parole hearings. Assigned the prison number of [[893893]], Zarek is under consideration for parole at the time of the [[Cylon attack]]. He ends up becoming first the Sagitarion delegate to the Quorum of Twelve, the Vice President under Gaius Baltar, and serves as the President for a few days, before he returns Laura Roslin to power and becomes her Vice President. After leading a coup against the civilian government, he is executed for murder and treason alongside Felix Gaeta.

== Biography ==

Zarek came from [[Sagittaron]], a colony known to be mistreated by the other eleven [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Colonies]]. Through his experiences on that colony he became an advocate of freedom from slavery, and proclaimed himself a voice for the disenfranchised. Along with publishing a book that was virtually banned throughout the Colonies, Zarek actively sought to combat injustices with the aid of his group, the [[S.F.M.]]

Though some consider him a terrorist for his often violent tactics (which include the destruction of a government building that results in unspecified casualties), others see him as a freedom fighter and a hero. He believes in the efficacy of violence as a means of change, going as so far as to go to prison over a "matter of conscience" by refusing President [[Richard Adar]]'s politically motivated conditional pardon (the conditions of the pardon being that he would publicly apologize and pledge to give up violence as a means of change).

Some of his fellow Sagittarons have an intense dislike of him, including [[Anastasia Dualla]]. Despite this, he became a public figure whose name had weight and almost became legendary, thanks to public opinion ([[TRS]]: "[[Bastille Day]]").

== After the Fall of the Colonies ==

[[Image:Tom zarek.jpg|thumb|right|Zarek in his cell ([[TRS]]: "[[Bastille Day]]").]]
As the Cylons attack the Twelve Colonies, Zarek is on a prison barge called ''[[Astral Queen]]'', headed to Caprica for parole hearings with several hundred other inmates. Hiding out in the atmosphere of [[Ragnar]] with the rest of humanity's survivors, the captain of ''Astral Queen'' suggests that the inmates be euthanized, but his wish is overturned by [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]]'s humanitarian decision to keep all of mankind's remnants alive ([[TRS]]: "[[Miniseries]]"). This leaves Zarek with time to plot his escape.

With the discovery of a planet that could replenish ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica's]]'' lost water, Commander [[William Adama|Adama]], Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] and President Roslin reluctantly decide to ask the prisoners to volunteer as badly needed manpower, under the condition that they would not be treated as slaves and they would agree of their own volition ([[TRS]]: "[[Water]]", "[[Bastille Day]]").

After [[Lee Adama]]'s unsuccessful attempt to persuade the prisoners to help in the recovery efforts, Zarek's springs the prisoners' escape plan. The prisoners, under Zarek's command, usurp control of ''Astral Queen'', and takes her crew and ''Galactica's'' visitors as prisoners. Zarek states his terms for release of the prisoners: the resignation of Laura Roslin and her administration, and the start of free and open elections for a new President. Zarek deems Roslin's presidency as illegitimate and illegal.

However, Zarek's aims are not in keeping with his demands; he wants a bloodbath to ensue, believing that all that people understand is violence, and that a bloodbath would destroy any credibility that Adama and Roslin have.

When the situation deteriorates near the point of catastrophe for all involved, Zarek, ready to sacrifice his life for his beliefs, is swayed by Lee Adama's promise that he would uphold the [[Articles of Colonization]] and hold open elections for a new president, once Roslin had served the remainder of President Adar's term (as dictated by the Articles and [[Case Orange]]), as well as give the ship over to the prisoners as a show of good faith ([[TRS]]: "[[Bastille Day]]").

== Attempts for Political Power ==
[[Image:Home_pt1_debate.jpg|thumb|left|Tom Zarek in debate with [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum]] members.]]

With a degree of freedom obtained by the prisoners - including control of ''Astral Queen'' - Zarek engages in a steady effort to gain the goodwill of others of influence within the Fleet. This effort includes physical acts of support for other ships, such as fixing the air filtration system on the ship occupied by [[Marshall Bagott]], a politician from [[Virgon]].

Zarek's efforts result in a nomination as Sagittaron's representative on the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]]. From there, Zarek makes a bid for the position of vice president using the support of those he assisted, and possibly badgered ([[TRS]]: "[[Colonial Day]]").

While Zarek's attempt at the vice presidency fails after Roslin replaces the somewhat unlikeable [[Wallace Gray]] with the charismatic Doctor [[Gaius Baltar]] as an alternative candidate, Zarek makes it clear to Roslin that he will be standing against her in the elections.
Zarek remains possibly the most powerful and popular representative in the Quorum of Twelve.

When he is interviewed by the press aboard ''Cloud Nine'', he makes several comments consistent with a collectivist-oriented political ideology ([[TRS]]: "[[Colonial Day]]"). Whether these comments reflect Zarek's actual ideology, or if they are a cover he is using for his own purposes, remains unknown.<br/><br/>

== Breakaway from the Fleet ==

The schism created by Commander Adama's unlawful arrest of President Roslin and Colonel Tigh's declaration of [[w:martial law|martial law]] presents Zarek with an opportunity to convince others that Adama is after total control of the Fleet. Zarek likely sought to use Tigh's inexperience with dealing with the government and [[Colonial Press|press]] against the military powers. Zarek and the Quorum soon learn of Roslin's terminal cancer, after Tigh permits the Quorum of Twelve to see her in ''Galactica'''s brig ([[TRS]]: "[[Fragged]]").

After the ''[[Gideon]]'' incident, where four civilians die, some crewmembers of ''Galactica'' orchestrate Roslin's escape. Lee Adama, knowing they would be hunted throughout the Fleet, enlists Zarek's assistance in secreting Roslin away from Tigh and Commander Adama ([[TRS]]: "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]", "[[The Farm]]"). Roslin is initially dismayed to be greeted by Zarek, but realizes that Zarek, no friend to Adama or Tigh, is "the enemy of my enemy."

Zarek and Roslin attempt to use appeals by recorded [[wireless]] messages to sway favor in the Fleet to return to Kobol. Zarek convinces Lee Adama at first to create a dissenting message against ''Galactica's'' rule, but Lee changes his mind (probably because he swore to his comatose father that it wasn't about them). After Roslin plays the "religious card" to sway support for her cause in the Fleet, Roslin and Zarek lead a [[Laura Roslin faction|separatist fleet]] back to [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] to await [[Kara Thrace]]'s return with the [[Arrow of Apollo]], for use in unlocking the [[Tomb of Athena]].

Zarek, with his associate [[Meier]], plan to eliminate the young Captain Adama on Kobol, using the rationalization about [[Zeus]]'s warning that any return to Kobol would "exact a price in blood". Zarek feels that removing the young Adama would create a political power vacuum, allowing Zarek to take the position as leader of the fractioned Fleet, while Roslin would remain president ([[TRS]]: "[[Home, Part I]]").

Zarek abandons the assassination plan when Commander Adama arrives on Kobol to mend fences with Roslin. However, Meier privately revises the plan outside of Zarek's knowledge, now with the goal of eliminating both Adamas by soliciting the help of the [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica copy of Sharon Valerii]] that returned with [[Karl Agathon]] and Thrace. Unfortunately for Zarek, Sharon Valerii double-crosses Meier, killing him at the entrance to the Tomb of Athena. While none in the group immediately consider Zarek as a suspect in Meier's assassination attempt, Commander Adama remains guarded and leaves Zarek and several others outside of the Tomb under the watchful eye of Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] while they unlock its secrets ([[TRS]]: "[[Home, Part II]]").

==After the Fleet's Reunification==
Zarek later gives [[Lee Adama]] information regarding the [[Black market (organization)|black market]], initially claiming not to be a part of it because he needs to keep his hands clean, but ultimately points out that the black market does get supplies where they are needed. Nonetheless, Zarek mentions the central hub of the black market, ''[[Prometheus (ship)|Prometheus]]'', a ship so lawless that it is practically "off the grid", as well as the name of a "businessman", [[Phelan]]. However, soon after Phelan's death at the hands of Captain Adama, Tom Zarek is seen walking through a crowd on ''Prometheus'' with one of Phelan's old henchmen in tow. It is unknown how much involvement Tom Zarek has with the organization ([[TRS]]: "[[Black Market]]").

Despite being the presumed opponent of Roslin in the upcoming presidential election, Zarek decides not to run against her because he realizes he probably won't win the election. However, he encourages Vice President Gaius Baltar to run in his place ([[TRS]]: "[[The Captain's Hand]]").

==Baltar's Election Campaign==
When Baltar announces his run for the presidency, Zarek assumes a position as his campaign manager. For all Zarek's personal political talent he has a hard time managing Baltar's campaign and faces the tough issue of whether Baltar is an electable candidate. After being trounced in the first debate by Roslin, Baltar's political future is in deep jeopardy and Zarek is left looking for a stronger wedge-issue other than Roslin's ties to the religious [[Gemenon|Gemenese]]. With the accidental discovery of [[New Caprica]], an issue presents itself that they can get on the supposed right side of: the colonization of the newly found planet and a safe-haven from the Cylons. Zarek presses Baltar to pick up this issue and run with it and as soon as he does his political fortunes turn around dramatically. Like he predicted, the people rally around the idea of colonization; Baltar sails out of the final debate with a wide lead on Roslin ([[TRS]]: "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]").

With his job of campaign manager all but over on election day, there isn't much for Zarek to do but sit back and wait for the results to come in. When the initial tallies come in suggesting Roslin scored a remarkable come-back victory he says to Baltar that he's seen enough elections to recognize a fixed one. Baltar admonishes Zarek, maintaining that, whatever Laura Roslin is, she is above fixing an election.

Later, with Baltar as president, Zarek becomes his vice president.

== The Occupation of New Caprica ==

After Baltar's surrender of the Colonial government, Zarek disagrees with the planned collaboration with the Cylons and is sent to a detention camp for four months.

Along with former President Laura Roslin, he and about 200 other dissidents are driven to the [[Pergamus Flats]] where they are to be executed by an order Baltar was forced to sign. After exiting the truck, Zarek asks Roslin directly whether she had [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|attempted to steal]] the past election. After Roslin admits that she had, both agree that they wished she had succeeded. The group of detainees are soon faced with [[Cylon Centurion]]s preparing to fire, and Zarek pulls Roslin back from the front of the crowd ([[TRS]]: "[[Precipice]]"). However, members of the resistance successfully prevent the execution.

Zarek attends the final meeting of the resistance to review the [[Battle of New Caprica|plan to escape New Caprica]]. Zarek and Roslin evacuate together towards their ships, though Roslin chooses to escape on ''[[Colonial One]]''. Before departing for his own ship, Zarek gives a gun to [[James Lyman|Jammer]] and tells him to protect Roslin ([[TRS]]: "[[Exodus, Part II]]").

==Presidency and the new Roslin Administration==
After the [[Second Exodus|escape of the colonists from New Caprica]], Zarek assumes his office as President, succeeding the missing Baltar. He brokers an agreement with Roslin, whereby she is elected as vice president and he steps down, returning her to the office she has held since the Cylon invasion. She would then appoint him as Vice President to her. He asks her to give him a position in the new government and she offers this job to him herself citing his courage in standing up against Baltar. Unknown to Roslin and Adama, Zarek has signed into law an executive order authorizing a secret six-person [[The Circle|group]] tasked to find, charge, try, and execute collaborators and traitors. Sometime after disclosing this to Adama and Roslin, Zarek does go through with his plan, allowing Laura Roslin to resume her role as president. Despite condemning his actions and pardoning collaborators who collaborated with Cylons on New Caprica ([[TRS]]: "[[Collaborators]]"), Roslin is true to her word and appoints Zarek as her vice president.

Genuinely afraid of the consequences of trying Gaius Baltar after his capture on the [[algae planet]], Zarek argues with Roslin about instituting martial law throughout the Fleet during Baltar's trial, citing potentially dangerous and destructive civil unrest and work stoppages throughout the Fleet ([[TRS]]: "[[The Woman King]]").

When [[Cowen]], the Caprican delegate to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]], dies, Zarek nominates the recently retired [[Lee Adama]] to the post, because of his dedication to finding the truth during the Baltar trial. In a benevolent attempt to keep the government from becoming a dictatorship, Zarek wants Adama on the Quorum to question some secretive decisions made by President Roslin. Zarek explains that this is not an attempt to manipulate Roslin in a malevolent way, but to deter her from the temptation of taking away the rights and power of the people for the sake of security. He acknowledges that he still supports Roslin and believes that even her most controversial decisions have been made for the good of the Fleet ([[TRS]]: "[[The Ties That Bind]]").

Several months later, Zarek finds himself in direct conflict with Lee Adama and his father. After President Roslin is taken away from the fleet by the rebel [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner]]"), Zarek asserts his legal right as vice president to serve as acting president--an assertion that is ignored by Admiral Adama. The younger Adama, after backing his father's decision, convinces Zarek to give grudging approval to a search for another acting president--a search that ultimately puts Lee Adama himself into the position ([[TRS]]: "[[Sine Qua Non]]").

==Post Earth/Coup d'etat==

Following the discovery of a ruined Earth ([[TRS]]: "[[Revelations]]"), both Adamas advocate a plan for a permanent alliance with the rebel Cylons, a plan that will extend full citizenship and Quorum representation to the Cylons. Zarek angrily opposes the plan, and instead musters near-unanimous support in the Quorum for a law requiring prior permission from the people of each ship in the fleet before any Cylon is allowed to board. Admiral Adama retaliates by forcibly boarding ''Colonial One'' and placing Zarek under arrest. Adama compels Zarek to reveal the coordinates of a ship that had left the fleet in protest.

While in prison, Zarek meets with [[Felix Gaeta]] and wins his cooperation in resisting the Cylon alliance ([[TRS]]: "[[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]"). Sometime later, Zarek is secretly freed from ''Galactica'' brig by Gaeta and several of Gaeta's co-conspirators. They are blocked from taking off in a waiting [[Raptor]] by deck chief [[Peter Laird]], but Zarek kills Laird with a wrench before the latter can call for confirmation. Zarek returns to ''Colonial One'' in the midst of a stormy meeting of the Quorum led by Lee Adama. The vice president explains his surprise release as part of the admiral's decision to finally abandon democratic governance in favor of a military dictatorship: with democratic institutions such as the Quorum now cut off from power, Zarek is supposedly no longer a political threat and is therefore not worth keeping under arrest. While this is occurring, Gaeta's mutiny aboard ''Galactica'' continues until the [[CIC]] is secure and the senior staff are detained. Zarek calls Gaeta, and expresses his own surprise at the fact that Adama has not been killed ([[TRS]]: "[[The Oath]]").

During his and Gaeta's rebellion, Zarek uses violence to gain the power he wants. When the Quorum do ''not'' support him and order him to leave--addressing him as ''Vice President'' rather than ''President''--he orders their execution by the marines outside the door. After the order is carried out, he summons Gaeta, who reacts in horror and says that now all they had were "lies and murder."

He acts as judge in a court-martial for Adama, finds him guilty of treason, and as he had intended all along, orders his execution. When Roslin calls from the Cylon baseship demanding that he and Gaeta surrender, he refuses, claiming that Tigh is dead already and that Adama is going to be executed. His call for Roslin to surrender in order to end the bloodshed infurates her to the point of turning the baseship's weapons on ''Galactica''. Zarek wants to fight, but Gaeta tries to jump away, only to be foiled by Tyrol's sabotage of the FTL drive. Zarek is shocked by Gaeta's order to stand down all weapons. Seconds later, Zarek and Gaeta are arrested by Adama and his supporters, ending the rebellion.

Zarek is later executed by firing squad for his actions alongside Gaeta. He offers Gaeta a smile before the squad opens fire ([[TRS]]: "[[Blood on the Scales]]").

== Notes ==
*Tom Zarek is portrayed by actor [[Richard Hatch]], who portrayed the original [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]] in the [[Original Series]]. Hatch is the only actor to have had roles in both ''Battlestar Galactica'' series.
*A [[separate continuity]] comic book series, starting with ''[[Battlestar Galactica: Zarek 1]]'', gives a non-canonical tale about this character's more rebellious life.

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User:GusF

2012-06-30T14:24:29Z

GusF:

Most people call me Gus because, you know, that's my name. Well, it's Aengus really but that's neither here nor there. At the moment, I'm doing a general law LLM in the University of Edinburgh. Before that, I studied Law with history at UCD (it's like Trinity except less crap and with cooler guests like Michael Palin, Bill Nighy and John Hurt).

My favourite film is ''Back to the Future'', I prefer vanilla over chocolate and my favourite colour is yellow. I've no difficulty seeing it which is a plus.

Politically, I'm a dyed in the wool democratic socialist of the Tony Benn school of thought. Some people consider socialism to be a radical philosophy but it's only radical if you consider the ideals of democracy, social justice and equality to be dangerous to the interests of the Establishment and the forces of the status quo.

The best music died with John Lennon and Freddie Mercury. When Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney shuffle off this mortal coil, the church bells will all be broken.

I have a burning desire to seize power in a bloodless coup. All I need is a cadre of fanatics, a megaphone and a tank with "Ride of the Valkyries" playing in the background.

Leda

2012-06-30T14:19:27Z

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'''Leda''' is a [[medtech]] and wife of [[Croft|Commander Croft]], of whom she is not fond.

Leda holds special expertise in the treating of laser wounds, and holds to a medical oath that she will not abandon, despite her apparent dislike for Colonial [[Warriors]].

She is originally a part of [[Wolfe]] and [[Thane]]'s escape plans. However, after Thane dies and Wolfe runs off to his death in a blizzard, she abandons those plans and finishes the mission.

Ironically, she dies by saving her husband from being shot by [[Vulpa]] ([[Gun on Ice Planet Zero]]).

== Notes ==

*According to a [[:md:Image:Personnel Survey Report.jpg|printout of people selected by ''Galactica's'' computers for the mission]], Leda is the recipient of a Colonial War Medal for the [[Battle of Caprica]]. A number, which is most likely her prisoner number, is C8061. The readout also indicates that she herself was also stationed at a snow garrison.

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George Murdock

2012-05-04T11:18:09Z

GusF:

: ''For other people with the same first name, see: [[George]].''

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'''George Murdock''' (25 June 1930 - 30 April 2012) was an American actor.

Murdock's vigorous filmography has recurring and guest roles in many genres of television, including episodes of ''The Twilight Zone'', ''Death Valley Days'', ''Tarzan'', ''Night Gallery'', ''Dynasty'', ''Night Court'', ''Smallville'', ''Lois and Clark'', ''The X-Files'', ''Law and Order'', and ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.'' Murdock's most popular comedic role was as the "by the book" police officer, Lt. Ben Scanlon, in ''Barney Miller''.

Murdock also had roles in another [[Glen Larson]] program, ''Knight Rider''.

''Star Trek'' fans may remember Murdock (or his voice) in the climactic ''[[memoryalpha:Star Trek: The Next Generation|The Next Generation]]'' two-part episode, "[[MemoryAlpha:The Best of Both Worlds (episode)|The Best of Both Worlds]]", as Admiral [[MemoryAlpha:J.P. Hanson|J.P. Hanson]], commander of the ill-fated [[memoryalpha:Wolf 359|Battle of Wolf 359]] against the [[MemoryAlpha:Borg|Borg]]. Murdock also lent his speaking talents as "God" in the film, ''[[MemoryAlpha:Star Trek V: The Final Frontier|Star Trek V: The Final Frontier]]''.

Murdock lent voice acting to several American animated shows, including ''Batman'', and ''Looney Tunes: Back in Action''.

Murdock potrayed Doctor [[Salik]] in the [[Original Series]], as well as reprising the role in [[Richard Hatch]]'s proof-of-concept trailer, ''[[Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming]]'' in 1999.

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User:GusF

2006-01-05T20:29:35Z

GusF:

I'm just a regular Irish guy trying to make my way in the world. I just discovered BSG recently but I'm really enjoying it. It's certainly unique among sci-fi shows.

User:GusF

2006-01-05T20:29:20Z

GusF:

I'm just a regular Irish guy trying to make my way in the world. I just discover BSG recently but I'm really enjoying it. It's certainly unique among sci-fi shows.

Lloyd Bridges

2006-01-05T13:59:30Z

GusF:

'''Lloyd Bridges''' portrayed Commander [[Cain (TOS)|Cain]] in the original ''[[Battlestar Galactica (1978)|Battlestar Galactica]]''. His son [[Wikipedia:Beau Bridges|Beau Bridges]] currently plays [[Wikipedia:Hank Landry|General Hank Landry]] in ''[[Wikipedia:Stargate SG-1|Stargate SG-1]]'' and has also appeared as the same character in the spin-off series ''[[Wikipedia:Stargate Atlantis|Stargate Atlantis]]'', both of which air on the Sci-Fi Channel opposite ''[[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Battlestar Galactica]]''.

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