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33

2009-03-24T06:42:07Z

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== Overview ==

: ''Continuing from the events of the [[Miniseries]], ''[[Galactica]]'' and the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] must avoid their [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] pursuers, which ambush them every 33 minutes after each successful [[FTL|jump]].''

== Summary ==

=== On ''[[Galactica]]'' ===
* The crew of battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'' have been on continuous alert for some 130.35 hours, during which time the Fleet has had to make an [[FTL|FTL jump]] every 33 minutes to escape their [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] pursuers shortly after their initial escape from [[Ragnar Anchorage]].
* Everyone in the Fleet is beginning to feel the strain – particularly [[Gaius Baltar]], who is also distracted by [[Number Six|Six’s]] repeated conversations about [[God (RDM)|God]] having a plan for him, and also her wanting to have his children.
* Vessels in the Fleet are also beginning to feel the strain: Jump engines and their controlling computers are starting to breakdown or malfunction, requiring ''Galactica'' to linger longer and longer in the Cylon line of fire while the rest of the fleet complete their jumps.
* Following jump number 237, [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]] receives word from a Dr. [[Amorak]] aboard the ''[[Olympic Carrier]]'' concerning information on how the Cylons overcame Colonial defenses.
* Overhearing the conversation, Baltar is worried: he knew Amorak at the [[Defence Ministry]]. As Six points out, Amorak might have information on Baltar's complicity with the Cylon attack.
* There is insufficient time before the next jump to bring Amorak aboard ''[[Colonial One]]'', but Roslin wants to see him directly after the jump has been completed.
*[[Anastasia Dualla]] finds time to visit a team of people who are [[Fleet registry|cataloging survivors]] in the Fleet. When she cannot leave her photos to aid in searching for her loved ones, she is amazed to see a corridor that has been [[Memorial hallway|converted into a makeshift memorial]].
* Elsewhere, [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]] is having problems accepting her new [[ECO]], [[Crashdown]], and is feeling guilty about leaving [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]] on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] to his fate.
* When the next jump is made, the ''Olympic Carrier'', complete with Dr. Amorak and 1,344 other souls, fails to appear with the rest of the Fleet. Six tries to convince Baltar that it is because God is watching over him.
* Thirty-three minutes later, the Fleet is ready to jump, but the Cylons don’t appear. Adama orders a stand-down from the immediate alert, but the Fleet is to maintain a readiness to jump, in case the Cylons do return.
* When Baltar continues to refuse the concept of God, the ''Olympic Carrier'' reappears; Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] orders the Fleet to [[Action Stations|Condition One alert]], fearing the worst. He orders the jump clocks reset in anticipation of the Cylons arriving.
*The [[Combat Air Patrol]] lead by [[Lee Adama]] intercepts the [[Intersun|starliner]]. Adama orders all communications with the ''Carrier'' jammed and the ''Carrier'' is ordered (through signal lamps) to remain at its current position. When the ''Carrier'' fails to heed orders not to approach the fleet, tensions rise, and a [[Radiological Alarm|radiological alarm]] reveals there is now a nuclear weapon on the liner.
*As the crisis deepens, the Cylons appear precisely 33 minutes after the return of the ''Carrier'', confirming that the ''Carrier'' was used somehow by the Cylons to track the Fleet. Adama wants to destroy the liner, but Roslin hesitates to give the order, as no one can be sure if the 1,345 people aboard the ''Carrier'' are still alive. Baltar is terrified she won't give the order for fear of Amorak's information.
*Six uses the hesitation to push Baltar into “repenting” before God. As soon as he does, Roslin gives the order to destroy the liner. Apollo and [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] (reluctantly) open fire, destroying the liner. After the Fleet makes a jump once more, the Cylon's relentless pursuit is halted.
*A day later, everyone is living with the consequences of their actions. Only [[Billy Keikeya]] has a small nugget of good news: at some point in the proceedings, a baby was born in the Fleet.

===On Caprica===
* [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] is on the run in the rainy woodland, and has [[Wikipedia:Claymore mine|Claymore-like ordnance]] he uses to blow up pursuing [[Cylon Centurion]]s.
* Helo's six days on the run comes to an end when he is captured by the Cylons, after being distracted by the appearance of a [[Number Six]], wearing a white raincoat.
*Helo is “rescued” by [[Sharon Agathon|a copy of Sharon Valerii]], who shoots Six and then leads Helo away into the woods. Helo mistakenly believes that this Valerii copy is actually the [[Sharon Valerii|"Boomer"]] copy that left Caprica and returned to rescue him.

== Notes ==

=== Episode Notes ===

*Continuous jumping badly affects the FTL drives and management systems aboard commercial Colonial vessels, which are not as rugged as ''Galactica's'' military-issue drives.
*The Cylons' FTL technology is more precise than the Colonials'. 238 times they manage to pounce on the Colonial fleet, arriving with precise momentum and trajectory to be able to close the distance and launch an attack. In the Season 2 episode "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]", it is explained that the Cylons have far better navigational computers which allow more accurate jump plots and a greater range.
*According to [[Socinus]], there are 5,251 people in the Fleet from [[Sagittaron]].
*As of "33", there are 60 civilian ships in the Fleet. This number is [[Continuity errors (RDM)#Retcon|retconned]] up from the Miniseries.
*The head count of Colonial citizens at the end of the episode is 47,273.
*At first glance, there appears to be an error with Billy Keikeya's math with the [[survivor count]]. The episode starts with the count being 50,298. He informs Roslin this is in error by 300 = 49,998 survivors. When the ''Olympic Carrier'' is destroyed (1,345 people), he reduces the total to 47,972 – that’s a reduction of 2026, or 681 people ''more'' than listed on the ''Carrier''. However, in [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)#33|deleted scenes]] from this episode, Keikeya is actually reducing the survivor count additional times set between the beginning of the episode and the destruction of the ''Olympic Carrier''. These other deaths just occur off-screen.
*[[Crashdown]] wears a patch of the battlestar ''[[Triton (RDM)|Triton]]'' on his flight suit, which fits to Boomer's comment that she has been saddled with a "refugee from ''Triton''". ''Triton's'' [[battlestar group]] number is ''39'', but is erroneously displayed on the patch as ''BS'''T'''-39'' instead of ''BSG-39''. The costuming department very likely assumed that "BSG" stands for "Battlestar Galactica" and changed the last letter accordingly. However, "[[Water]]" and the ''[[Pegasus]]'' patch establish that it stands for "battlestar group".

=== Production Notes ===

*This episode won the [[Awards and Honors|2005 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form]].
*When Season 1 premiered in the United States, "33" and "[[Water]]" aired back-to-back as a two hour TV event. This was also the case when [[Season 3 (2006-07)|Season 3]] first aired in the United States with the episodes "[[Occupation]]" and "[[Precipice]]".
*When the first few episodes of the series began airing in the US on the [[Sci Fi Channel]], title cards were shown at the beginning of each episode, i.e. "33" or "Water" flashing in white letters on a black screen, and then the episode would begin. These episode titles stopped midway in Season 1.
*[[Zoic]] visual effects artists hid small signs of movement within the ''Olympic Carrier'' in close-up effect shots as something of a morbid joke. Lights in the windows appear to flicker on and off rather rapidly and when slowed down there is some kind of movement visible on the inside of the ship. Originally, the scene was to confirm the existence of civilians inside the ship by showing civilians peering out the windows.<ref>{{cite_book|last=Bassom|first=David|authorlink=|authorlinkurl=|coauthors=|year=2005|title=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]|pages=47|editor=ed. Adam "Adama" Newell|publisher=Titan Books|location=|id=ISBN 1-84576-0972}}</ref>
*In the DVD commentary for this episode, Ron D. Moore states that during the scene when Dualla hands Commander Adama a set of reports that he reads aloud (including fuel shortages, dozens of crewmen breaking down from nervous exhaustion, etc), Edward James Olmos ad-libbed "and ten suicides" in one take. The production team really liked the ad-lib, and thought the way Olmos acted the scene was fantastic. However, there were concerns that the network would think this would make an already ''extremely'' "dark" episode far '''too''' dark and alienate the audience during the premiere, and the line was reluctantly cut.
*While waiting to film a Viper sequence for this episode at 11 or 12 o'clock at night, [[Katee Sackhoff]] fell asleep inside the Viper cockpit.<ref>{{cite_book|last=Bassom|first=David|authorlink=|authorlinkurl=|coauthors=|year=2005|title=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]|pages=44|editor=ed. Adam "Adama" Newell|publisher=Titan Books|location=|id=ISBN 1-84576-0972}}</ref>
*To add realism to the sleep deprivation motif, Olmos enlisted the aid of a sleep deprivation expert and also curtailed his sleeping habits to a maximum of three hours per night, noting how it affected him. With the help of this expert, he relayed to the rest of the crew how deprivation affects the human body and mind. Additionally, director [[Michael Rymer]] told the actors to choose one symptom to play, so as to avoid distracting repetition.<ref>{{cite_book|last=Bassom|first=David|authorlink=|authorlinkurl=|coauthors=|year=2005|title=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]|pages=46|editor=ed. Adam "Adama" Newell|publisher=Titan Books|location=|id=ISBN 1-84576-0972}}</ref>

== Analysis ==
*'''Why did the Cylons come "every 33 minutes"?''' Short answer: it was a number Ron Moore has stated he picked at random, with no other significance. The long answer is available on [http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/01/#a000012 Ron Moore's blog].
*The cast actually consulted with a sleep deprivation expert before this episode, making a large effort to accurately depict the effects of sleep deprivation on their characters, and it really comes through on screen. Rather than simply yawning alot and constantly saying "wow, I'm so tired", the cast met the series' goal of realistically portraying their symptoms: they behave aggravated, they start to forget things, their minds just start "slowing down".
*The [[Virtual beings|virtual Number Six]]'s motives, and her origins, become murkier, and Baltar's tendency to listen to her advice increases.
*Raptors are general purpose vehicles that handle reconaissance, electronic countersurveillance on [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]]s, troop deploys and other tasks. In a [[You Can't Go Home Again| later episode]] a Raptor is used for rescuing ejected pilots during combat.
*The [[Memorial hallway]] scene continues the writers' allusion to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States to the events of the Miniseries through the use of the many memorials, the confusion in finding lost loved ones, and Dualla's amazement at the size of the memorial. (A [[Lest We Forget|picture of a Colonial soldier]] on one of the Colonies during its destruction also plays on the intense feelings felt by many Americans when they saw similar pictures of New York City firefighters at the ruins of the World Trade Center.)
*Despite his age, [[Colonel Tigh]] seems to be taking the sleep deprivation better than others. He is shown waking people up in the CIC. [[Chief Tyrol]] is seen doing the same on the hangar deck. Perhaps this is an early clue to their true nature.

== Questions ==

*Billy Keikeya reports that the number of survivors is down by 300 - some lost through death from injuries, etc., some "lost" through initial inaccurate counts, and the rest have "disappeared". How can people simply "disappear" in the Fleet? ([[Black Market|Possible Answer]])
*Did [[Doctor Amorak]] truly have something on Baltar's involvement in the holocaust?
*Was Amorak even aboard the ''Olympic Carrier''?
*Is Six actually in contact with other Cylons, and thus involved in the disappearance / reappearance of the ''Olympic Carrier''?
*How long was the ''Olympic Carrier'' under Cylon control?
*What happened to the group of survivors [[Helo]] was left with in the [[Miniseries]]? ([[Battlestar Galactica: The Story So Far|Answer: Radiation sickness kills most survivors]])
*Was the person speaking over the wireless when the ''Olympic Carrier'' returned really its captain, or a humanoid Cylon?
*Were there any people aboard the ''Olympic Carrier'' when it was destroyed? ([[Olympic Carrier#Notes|Answer]])
*What is the Cylons' plan? ([[The Farm|Partial Answer 1]], [[Downloaded|Partial Answer 2]], [[No Exit|Partial Answer 3]], [[The Plan|Possible Answer]])

== Official Statements ==

=== Note on [["Lest We Forget"]] ===
{{From RDM blog}}

:"It's probably been asked before, but I'm curious as to whom[sic] is in the picture in the Viper Pilot's briefing room, facing away from the camera . . . the one the pilots, including [[William Adama|Commander Adama]], touch when they enter and leave? This is touching, and is a wonderful human element to the story. So who is it?"

:There was a scene cut from [[33|"33"]] where we saw [[Laura Roslin]] being given her copy of the photo along with a card that said it was taken on the roof of the capitol building on Aerilon during the attack. The photo was inspired by the famous shot of the fire-fighters raising the flag at Ground Zero that became iconic. I thought the Colonies would have their own version of this -- a snapshot taken in the moment that becomes a symbol of the day they can never forget and of all they had lost. The photo itself is of a soldier falling to his knees (possibly shot or simply overcome by emotion) as he stands on the rooftop overlooking the devastation of his city, while the Colonial flag waves at the edge of frame. The inscription below the photo on Laura's plaque reads, [["Lest We Forget"]] in itself a reference to the inscription on the watch presented to John Wayne's character in "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon."

=== Comments from the Cast ===

*"Insomnia. Nobody has slept. Everyone's just coming to terms with the fact that they have lost everybody that they've loved or relate to." -- [[Jamie Bamber]], [http://scifi.com/battlestar/bts/video/mov/video_06_320.mov]

*"It was a hard episode, because, you just had to basically fall apart." -- [[Katee Sackhoff]], [http://scifi.com/battlestar/bts/video/mov/video_06_320.mov]

*"Episode 1 is extremely docu-style because the characters haven't actually slept for five days (sic) and they have been running from the Cylons for the 250th time. And it's very stressful and they're about to lose the plot completely because of sleep deprivation." -- [[Michael Rymer]], [http://scifi.com/battlestar/bts/video/mov/video_06_320.mov]

* ''Bamber discusses why "33" is his favorite episode:''
: My favorite episode...I'd say "33"...the very first one, just because that was the unknown. We were in an unknown situation. We'd made a decent [[Miniseries|mini-series]] and we were all very excited. To read that script, I thought structurally it was really compelling. It was kind of a nutshell of what the whole of our story is, which is a nightmare, waking up constantly to find that the monster is on you again, and that's basically the modus operandi of the show, and Ron [Moore] captured it in one episode. I think that is really the perfect episode of ''Battlestar Galactica''.<ref name="acedmag">{{cite_web|url=http://acedmagazine.com/content/view/677/1/|title=ACED Magazine: Battlestar Galactica: Cast Interviews|date=24 November 2007|accessdate=25 November 2007|last=Bensoussan|first=Jenna|format=|language=}}</ref>

=== Excerpt from the Official Companion ===
In ''[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]'', the dedicated performance by the cast, trying to accurately and realistically depict extensive sleep deprivation on-screen, was explained:
:"''Battlestar Galactica<nowiki>'</nowiki>''s first season première required the show's cast members to depict their characters under extreme physical and emotional duress, as they faced sleep deprivation and the constant threat of Cylon attack. This unique and intriguing acting challenge prompted Edward James Olmos to enlist the assistance of a sleep deprivation expert, who met with the cast shortly prior to the starting of shooting. Olmos and several other cast members also restricted their sleeping patterns a few days before filming, to gain a better understanding of sleep deprivation.

:"I rested just before we actually shot the episode, because I didn't want to go on-camera exhausted," explains Olmos. "But in the week before shooting, I only had about three hours of sleep per night and I studied myself to get to know how to pay the symptoms of sleep deprivation. About two days away from shooting, I was sitting in this meeting and everyone was looking at me as I tried to make sense. I told everyone, "This is what happens when you go without sleep — you don't act funny or yawn all the time, it's more the case that your mind doesn't function correctly". The doctor later expanded on this, and pretty soon everyone was tuned in. So when we went into the episode, everyone knew exactly what they were doing, and it was beautiful to watch."" (page 46)

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

*''Baltar is having a vision of climbing into bed with Number Six''
:'''Six:''' You know you're not safe.
:'''Baltar:''' No, course not. The Cylons will follow us again, as they have the last two hundred and thirty seven times.
:'''Six:''' You're right, you know. There are limits. Eventually you'll make a mistake.
:'''Baltar:''' And then you'll kill us all. Yes. Yes, I know, but...not for another thirty-three minutes.

*{{audio|33tighspeech.mp3|''Tigh and Adama addressing the CIC crew:''}}
:'''Colonel Tigh''': Yes, we're tired. Yes, there is no relief. Yes, the Cylons keep coming after us time after time after time. And yes, we are still expected to do our jobs!
:'''Commander Adama''': We make mistakes, people die. There aren't many of us left.

* ''When Lee Adama and Kara Thrace are on ''Galactica's'' flight deck:''
:'''Lee Adama''': Hey, did you see the note from the XO?
:'''Kara Thrace''': I saw it. No way.
:'''Lee Adama''': Kara, everyone else--
:'''Kara Thrace''': I don't fly with stims. They fudge with your reflexes, your reaction time.
:'''Lee Adama''': Come on, Kara, give me a break. Just--
:'''Kara Thrace''': Why are we arguing about this?
:'''Lee Adama''': I have no idea.
:'''Kara Thrace''': Neither do I. You're the [[CAG]], act like one.
:'''Lee Adama''': What does that mean?
:'''Kara Thrace''': It means that you're still acting like everyone's best friend. We're not friends. You're the CAG. "Be careful out there?" Our job isn't to be careful, it's to shoot frakking [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] out of the sky. "Good Hunting" is what you say. And one of your idiot pilots is acting like a child and refusing to take her pills. So she either says "Yes, sir" and obeys a direct order, or you smack her in the mouth and drag her sorry ass to [[sickbay]] and you make her take those pills.
:(Lee and Kara both start laughing)
:'''Lee Adama''': Well, I'm glad I'm not working for you.
:'''Kara Thrace''': (laughing) Damn right you're glad.
:'''Lee Adama''': So do I have to smack you in the mouth, Lieutenant?
:'''Kara Thrace''': No sir, I'll take my pills. (takes pills from Lee) Perfect.
:'''Lee Adama''': Carry on.
:'''Kara Thrace''': (half-heartedly saluting) Yes, sir.

* ''When Commander Adama and Colonel Tigh are talking outside the [[CIC]]:''
:'''Colonel Tigh''': (grunting) Oh...a couple hours rack time does sound awfully sweet right about now...
:'''Commander Adama''': You deserve it.
:'''Colonel Tigh''': You know, the truth is, all this has me feeling...well, more alive than I have in years.
:'''Commander Adama''': You look that way too. It's good to see you without the cup in your hand.
:'''Colonel Tigh''': Ah, don't start.
:'''Commander Adama''': I know there's a whole lot of people on this ship, that wish you weren't feeling as good.
:'''Colonel Tigh''': (laughing) If the crew doesn't hate the XO, then he's not doing his job. Besides, I've gotta make the old man look good.
:'''Commander Adama''': I always look good.
:'''Colonel Tigh''': Look in the mirror.
:'''Commander Adama''': Seriously...
:'''Colonel Tigh''': Sir?
:'''Commander Adama''': It's one thing to push the crew. It's another thing to break them.

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

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Miniseries, Night 2

2009-03-05T23:41:29Z

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: ''For part 1 of this story, see [[Miniseries, Night 1]]'' 

: ''[[Galactica]], the last battlestar, is determined to join the fight against the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] that [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|attacked the Twelve Colonies]]. But the faces of the Cylons are changing, and the odds are against the last battlestar's survival.''

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== Summary ==

===Act 1===

*The second and final night of the miniseries shows [[Kara Thrace]] looking over her Viper after her first Cylon sortie. Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] is aghast at the heavy damage, while Thrace is rather nonplussed from the experience. When she complains about [[Prosna]]'s overdue work, Tyrol tells him of his death, and that of [[Lee Adama]]. She asks about the missing [[Sharon Valerii]] as well; there is no news.
*Elsewhere, Valerii and her civilian passengers float in space. She launches a [[communication drone]] to extend communication range from Cylon jamming.
*Commander [[William Adama]], unaware that his son is alive, orders his battlestar, ''[[Galactica]]'', to [[FTL|jump]] to [[Ragnar]]. The jump is successful, and ''Galactica'' enters the tenuous upper atmosphere of the gas giant, where [[Ragnar Anchorage]] awaited with needed supplies and munitions.
*A stunned [[Laura Roslin]] and pilots awakening aboard ''[[Colonial One]]''. The Cylon missile attack obviously failed. Roslin and the crew find [[Lee Adama]] collapsed on the floor of the cargo bar, next to the [[EMP|electric pulse generators]] that once belonged to ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''.
*Adama explains that he caused a EM burst that disabled the missiles as well as emitting enough energy to convince the Cylons that the missiles detonated. Happy to be alive, Roslin directs the immediate evacuation of passengers from the disabled civilian ships they encountered before the attack and leaving before the Cylon realize the deception.
*''Galactica'' enters the storm cloud and eventually docks with Ragnar Anchorage, located deep inside the upper atmosphere. In that time, Kara Thrace prays quietly for Lee Adama while [[Aaron Kelly]] somberly monitors the collection of the dead on the unused starboard [[hangar deck]].
*Inside Ragnar Anchorage, Chief Tyrol discovers an unauthorized occupant. He eventually calms him down and disarms him.
*Boomer's Raptor is found by ''[[Colonial One]]''. She lands inside the ship's cargo bay and offloads her survivors, including Baltar. She tells of the massive shutdowns of most of the Fleet to Captain Adama, who directs Baltar to see President Roslin.
*Baltar tries to figure out the means of how his [[CNP]] program was compromised while [[Virtual beings|the virtual Six]] speaks to him.
*Commander Adama visits the station while supplies and weapons are gathered up. The hideaway, [[Number Two|Leoben Conoy]], admits to being an arms dealer, and is apparently unaware of the events that have transpired in the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]].
*A munitions shell accidentally falls and detonates in the station, narrowly missing Adama and Conoy, who escape into a recessed hallway.

===Act 2===

*Commander Adama saves himself and Conoy from the blast but are trapped inside a corridor. Adama orders his crew to continue offloading the supplies while he and Conoy seek an alternate way back to the supply area.
*President Roslin's caravan of stranded ships has grown immensely to about 60 ships. It now includes a mixture of 20 [[sublight]] and 40 FTL-capable ships.
*The captain of a [[Botanical Cruiser]] pleads with President Roslin for help, which she promises. Roslin speaks briefly with a young girl, [[Cami]], who innocently looks forward to meeting her parents at the [[Caprica City]] spaceport, to some chicken pie and bed.
*[[Sharon Valerii|"Boomer" Valerii]] finds a needed [[tylium]] fueling ship just as a [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raider]] scout discovers the caravan and disappears.
*In a briefing with Roslin and others, Captain Adama recommends immediate escape for all [[FTL]]-capable ships to Ragnar Anchorage. When [[Aaron Doral]] and the [[Colonial One Captain|captain]] of ''Colonial One'' want to evacuate as many people from the sublight ships before an attack, Adama reminds everyone that the war has changed to the survival of the human race: taking time to evacuate the sublight ships could leave the entire caravan open to nuclear destruction.
*Roslin orders the jump. Afterwards, she tells her aide, [[Billy Keikeya]], that she has cancer. Billy tells Roslin that he had already guessed that she had cancer and then tells her that Cami will be killed because the [[Botanical Cruiser]] is not [[FTL]] capable. Roslin is upset.
*The sublight ships are left behind as the rest of the fleet jumps and subsequently destroyed by Cylon nuclear missiles. Cami remains sitting in the gardens of the Botanical Cruiser completely unaware of what is going on as a missle strikes, destroying the ship in a bright flash.

===Act 3===

*Deep in the station's bowels, Conoy speaks to Commander Adama, talking philosophically of mankind, its flaws, and questions if humanity deserved to survive. Conoy now appears in some kind of physical distress, which he dismisses to Commander Adama as "allergies."
*The loading of ordnance from the station is proceeding well, when [[DRADIS]] detects incoming vessels. Luckily, they are friendly spacecraft.
*Roslin's caravan arrives at Ragnar Anchorage. Later, aboard ''Galactica'', Roslin orders Tigh to help the stranded colonists, but he refuses the order. Lee Adama requests two [[disaster pod]]s to help the colonists. Tigh relents, knowing how happy his father will be that his son has survived. Captain Adama is assigned the role of [[CAG]] by Tigh.
*Tyrol reunites with Sharon Valerii, to [[Boxey (RDM)|Boxey's]] consternation at their affection.
*When [[Dualla]] sees Billy Keikeya in the hallway, who approaches her for directions, she impulsively kisses him, then leads him and Dr. Baltar to [[CIC]].
*Lee Adama greets [[Kara Thrace]], who is both surprised and thrilled that Adama is alive. They speak awkwardly about his promotion to CAG.
*Later, Conoy has another of painful attack from his "allergies." Commander Adama realizes that Leoben Conoy is some sort of new [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylon]] that looks like a human, but still relies on [[Silica Pathways|silica pathways]] and other Cylon technologies that, as the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] discovered, would be disrupted by the EM radiation emitted by Ragnar's cloud.
*Conoy appears to collapse from the radiation, then attacks Adama, throwing him about the dank, dark room filled with pipes and valves. Adama recovers long enough to fight Conoy off, eventually bludgeoning the Cylon to death with a [[flashlight]] that Adama carried.
*[[Gaius Baltar]], now aboard ''Galactica'', is tasked with finding any ships that are using the tainted [[CNP]] he created and erasing the tainted program. ''Galactica'' received the CNP, according to Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]], however, as the CNP required a network (which ''Galactica'' does not have), the program was never installed in any system on the battlestar. Baltar continues to be haunted by a [[Virtual beings|virtual image]] of [[Number Six]], who points out a [[Cylon transponder|curious device]] mounted on the DRADIS console. The discovery leads Baltar to realize that there is a [[humanoid Cylon]] agent aboard ''Galactica''.

===Act 4===

*Baltar watches [[Aaron Doral]] in CIC, believing him to be a Cylon agent on the premises that Doral is a civilian, an outsider who has been on the ship for weeks.
*Commander Adama returns to ''Galactica'' with Leoben Conoy's now lifeless Cylon body. While he ponders that problem, Tigh gives him the good news about his son. The two Adamas meet, and share a moment of closeness that they haven't experienced since Zak Adama's death.
*Tigh, Adama, and Baltar discuss the findings of Conoy's autopsy and the implication that any one of them could be a Cylon. Adama asks Baltar to begin work on a means of distinguishing humanoid Cylons from real humans.
*[[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] begins preparations for a reconnaissance mission to check for any enemy presence. As she preps, Thrace admits to Lee Adama that her former fiancee, [[Zak Adama]], failed basic flight training, but as his flight instructor, she passed him anyway. Adama is stunned, realizing that his father didn't pressure his brother as much as he believed.
*Doral is arrested. In the brig, Baltar makes up a [[technobabble|fake, yet matter-of-fact sounding]] argument for Doral's guilt as Colonel Tigh orders the Cylon device found by Baltar on the DRADIS console removed and studied.
*Starbuck's reconnaissance mission to the edge of Ragnar's EM cloud reveals danger. She spots at least two [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]], hundreds of Raiders and a handful of [[Cylon Reconnaissance Drone|other support ships]]. The Cylons choose not to enter the cloud, preferring to wait out the Colonials trapped inside.

===Act 5===

*Commander Adama meets with the new President. She tries to convince Adama that she and the ships of [[The Fleet (RDM)|her caravan]] are all that is left of humanity, and that taking one battlestar off to fight against such odds is suicide. She says, "We need to get out of here and we need to start having babies," but Adama dismisses her advice.
*As Commander Adama, Captain Adama, Gaeta, and Tigh discuss their offensive options, Commander Adama sees [[Billy Keikeya]] and [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]], talking ostensibly about anything ''except'' business. Adama remembers (out loud) President Roslin's last words to him: "We'd better start having babies."
*Adama changes his mind, realizing that a counterattack is hopeless, and that all that left of humanity may be in his hands. He decides that ''Galactica'' will take the civilians with her, towards the [[Prolmar Sector]], leaving the solar system of the devastated Colonies, never to return.
*Lee Adama concurs, but the commander has to determine a way to save everyone from a direct Cylon attack.
*Not wanting to take chances with their captive, Tigh leaves Aaron Doral marooned with basic rations inside Ragnar Anchorage.
*He chooses to bring the now-fully armed ''Galactica'' just outside the cloud boundary and provide a shielding cover fire while the civilian ships [[FTL|jump]] to safety behind the battlestar.
*The [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]] begins. The Fleet escapes, while ''Galactica'' desperately retrieves its Vipers (scrambled to aid in point defense) as quickly as possible. Apollo's Viper is struck, but Starbuck continues racking up Cylon kills while defending Apollo.
*Apollo's Viper loses all power. Commander Adama uses his [[Nothing but the rain|personal greeting]] with Starbuck to break her fighting trance and order her to the battlestar. Refusing to leave Apollo despite his orders to do so, she creatively rams the noses of the Vipers, locking them together, and flies both fighters into the [[flight pod]] of the battlestar just before they close completely in preparation for the jump.
*''Galactica'' escapes the last incoming Cylons.

===Epilogue===

*Some time later, [[The Fleet (RDM)|''Galactica'' and her new fleet]] cruise through space.
*During the [[service for the dead]], Commander Adama addresses the assembly of his crew. He uses [[Elosha|Elosha's]] knowledge about the [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]], telling the crew that he knows the location of [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]. The crew's hopes are revived.
*Privately, Roslin (knowing that President [[Richard Adar|Adar]] did not know Earth's location, or believed it existed) asks Adama why she told the crew a lie. Adama admitted that it was not enough for his crew to live, but gave the notion of Earth as something to live for.
*The two agree to share leadership responsibilities; Adama is to handle all military matters, and Roslin will manage civilian and government duties for the new spacefaring civilization.
*After Commander Adama retires for the night, he finds a note typed in his room with the message, "There are only 12 Cylon models."
*Later, inside Ragnar Anchorage, several copies of Number Six, Leoben Conoy and Aaron Doral rescue the ''Galactica''-based Doral. Baltar's guess was correct: Doral was indeed a Cylon. The group discuss their current strategy and agree to chase the Fleet down.
*One final Cylon arrives, who looks exactly like ''Galactica's'' [[Number Eight|Sharon Valerii]].

== Notes ==

* Adama's speech at the end of this night was one of the first sequences shot, at [[Edward James Olmos]]'s request.<ref name="page 36">{{cite_book|last=Bassom|first=David|authorlink=|authorlinkurl=|coauthors=|year=2005|title=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]|pages=36|editor=ed. Adam "Adama" Newell|publisher=Titan Books|location=|id=ISBN 1-84576-0972}}</ref> He also improvised the repeated use of "[[So say we all]]".
* An edited, three-hour version of the Miniseries was aired on NBC on 8 January 2005, prior to the airing of [[Season 1 (2004-05)|Season 1]] in the United States on the [[SciFi Channel]].<ref name="page 36"/>

==Analysis==
{{mainarticle|Miniseries, Analysis}}

:''See the series article, [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)]], for analysis of the miniseries and the central differences between the Re-imagined miniseries and the [[Original Series]].''

== Questions ==

* Does Earth truly exist, despite Cmdr. [[William Adama|Adama's]] disbelief? ([[Crossroads, Part II|Answer 1]], [[He That Believeth In Me|Answer 2]], [[Revelations|Answer 3]], [[Sometimes a Great Notion|Answer 4]])
* What happened to [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]? ([[33|Answer]])
* As of the Miniseries, viewers know of four of the twelve [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylon models]]: [[Number Eight|Sharon Valerii]], [[Number Six]], [[Number Five|Aaron Doral]] and [[Number Two|Leoben Conoy]]. What are the others? ([[Humanoid Cylon|Latest Update]])
* If the Cylons hate humanity with the passion that they do, why did they mimic human form? Was it for strategic purposes or was there something greater? ([[No Exit|Answer]]).
* Who left the note in Commander Adama's quarters about the 12 Cylon models?
* How come the Twos, Fives and Sixes seem to establish that the only Eight present is of significantly higher rank?

== Official Statements ==

* ''[[David Eick]] discusses the fight scene between [[William Adama]] and [[Leoben Conoy]] on [[Ragnar Anchorage]]:''

: We didn't want to do a big action scene. We wanted to do a brutal, ugly [[w:Martin Scorsese|Martin-Scorsese]]-circa-1970s murder. The network actually wanted a bigger fight scene originally. Neither [[Michael Rymer|Michael]], [[Edward James Olmos|Eddie]] nor I wanted to do that, because we didn't think it was about that. So we shot a few additional hits and misses and the steam pipe breaking, and they allowed us to keep everything else the way it was. I think it turned out great.<ref>{{cite_book|last=Bassom|first=David|authorlink=|authorlinkurl=|coauthors=|year=2005|title=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]|pages=35|editor=ed. Adam "Adama" Newell|publisher=Titan Books|location=|id=ISBN 1-84576-0972}}</ref>

* ''[[Grace Park]] talks about being surprised at [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]] being a [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylon]]:''

: I shouldn’t keep admitting this, but I didn’t know. In my defense, it’s because I originally went out for [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]], and I didn’t really understand the weight of ‘[[By your command]],’ which was said at the very end of the mini-series, which outed Sharon. When I read it again I did a double-take and I went to [[Ronald D. Moore|Ron Moore]] and said, ‘Why did you switch this?! Is it something about me that made you think you could do this?’ and he said, ‘No, it was always like this.’<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=interviews&id=9458|title=CHUD.com: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: GRACE PARK (BATTLESTAR GALACTICA)|date=22 March 2007|accessdate=23 March 2007|last=Faraci|first=Devin|format=|language=}}</ref>

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

*''Adama's speech at the funeral services on ''Galactica'':''
:'''Adama''': Are they the lucky ones? That's what you're thinking, isn't it? We're a long way from home. We've jumped way beyond the red line, into uncharted space. Limited supplies, limited fuel. No allies, and now, no hope? Maybe it would have been better for us to have died quickly, back on the Colonies with our families, instead of dying out here slowly, in the emptiness of dark space. Where shall we go? What shall we do? Life here began out there. Those are the first words of the [[Sacred Scrolls|sacred scrolls]], and they were told to us by the Lords of Kobol, many countless centuries ago. And they made it perfectly clear that we are not alone in this universe. Elosha, there's a thirteenth colony of humankind, is there not?
:'''[[Elosha]]''': Yes. The [[Sacred Scrolls|scrolls]] tell us a [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]] left [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] in the early days. They traveled far and made their home upon a planet called Earth, which circled a distant and unknown star.
:'''Adama''': It's not unknown. I know where it is! Earth. The most guarded secret we have. The location was only known by the senior commanders of the fleet, and we dare not share it with the public. Not while there was a Cylon threat upon us. For now we have a refuge to go to. A refuge the Cylons know nothing about. It won't be an easy journey. It'll be long, and arduous. But I promise you one thing: on the memory of those lying here before you, we shall find it, and Earth shall become our new home. So say we all!

*''On the empty [[Ragnar Anchorage]] with a group of [[humanoid Cylon]]s:''
:'''[[Number Eight|Sharon Valerii]]''': Don't worry. We'll find [[The Fleet (RDM)|them]].
:'''[[Number Six]]''': [[By your command]].

== Cast ==
===Starring===
* [[Edward James Olmos]] as Commander [[William Adama]]
* [[Mary McDonnell]] as President [[Laura Roslin]]
* [[Katee Sackhoff]] as Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]]
* [[Jamie Bamber]] as Captain [[Lee Adama|Lee "Apollo" Adama]]
* [[James Callis]] as Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]]
* [[Tricia Helfer]] as [[Number Six]]
* [[Callum Keith Rennie]] as [[Number Two|Leoben Conoy]]
* [[Grace Park]] as Lieutenant [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]]
* [[Michael Hogan]] as Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]
* [[Matthew Bennett]] as [[Aaron Doral]]
* [[Paul Campbell]] as [[Billy Keikeya]]
* [[Aaron Douglas]] as Chief Petty Officer [[Galen Tyrol]]
* [[Lorena Gale]] as [[Elosha|Priestess Elosha]]
* [[Barclay Hope]] as Transport Pilot (''[[Colonial One]]'')
* [[Kandyse McClure]] as [[Anastasia Dualla]]

=== Guest Stars ===
*[[Tahmoh Penikett]] as [[Karl Agathon|Karl C. Agathon/Helo]]
*[[Connor Widdows]] as [[Boxey (RDM)|Boxey]]
*[[John Mann]] as Captain [[Jackson Spencer]] ([[CAG]])
*[[Alessandro Juliani]] as Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]]
*[[Nicki Clyne]] as Deckhand [[Cally]]
*[[Michael Eklund]] as Deckhand [[Prosna]]
*[[Haili Page]] as [[Cami]]
*[[Alonso Oyarzun]] as Deckhand [[Socinus]]
*[[Ty Olsson]] as Captain [[Aaron Kelly]]
*[[Ron Blecker]] as [[Launch Officer]]
*[[Ryan Robbins]] as [[Armistice Officer]]
*[[Tim Henry]] as [[Caprica Doctor]]
*[[Kwesi Ameyaw]] as [[Botanical Cruiser captain|Liner Captain]] of [[Botanical Ship]]
*[[Brenda McDonald]] as [[Lady with glasses|Old Woman (who thought she forgot her glasses)]]
*[[Suleka Mathew]] as [[Kellan Brody]]
*[[Erin Karpluk]] as Woman #1
*[[Jenn Griffin]] as Woman #2
*[[BJ Harrison]] as Woman #3
*[[Moneca Delain]] as [[Blonde Woman]]
*[[Zahf Paroo]] as [[Bribing man|Man #1]]
*[[Robert Lewis]] as Man #2
*[[Denzal Sinclaire]] as Man #3
*[[Nadine Wright]] as [[Chantara]]
*[[Michael Soltis]] as [[Chantara's husband|Chantara's Husband]]
*[[Fred Keating]] as Junior Reporter
*[[Lymari Nadal]] as [[Giana]]
*[[Biski Gugushe]] as Pilot #1
*[[Nahanni Arntzen]] as Pilot #2
*[[Nigel Vonas]] as Pilot #3
*[[Ryan Nelson]] as Pilot #4
*[[Mike Mitchell]] as [[Desperate Man]] (uncredited)

== Related Topics==
* [[Soundtrack (Miniseries)]]
* [[Battlestar Galactica: The Lowdown (Miniseries)]]
* The Miniseries [[Battlestar Galactica (2005 Novel)|novelization]]

== References ==

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== External Links ==
*[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/mini/ Miniseries] at scifi.com
*[[imdb:tt0314979|Battlestar Galactica Miniseries]] at [http://www.imdb.com IMDB.com]

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The Fleet (TRS)

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QX100: likely FTL and not destroyed

:''This article involves the fleet of [[FTL|faster-than-light]]-capable civilian ships in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]]. For information on its [[Sublight Propulsion|sublight]] counterpart in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]], see [[The Fleet (TOS)]]. For general information on other articles pertaining to fleets, see: [[Fleet (disambiguation)]].''

'''The Fleet''' is a convoy of ships sheltering the human survivors of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]]. The Fleet forms the backdrop of the drama of the [[Re-imagined Series]].

[[Image:Mini side fleet.jpg|thumb|right|400px|The Fleet in formation ([[Miniseries]]).]]
==Overview==
"The Fleet" originates as a convoy of about 60 commercial and civilian ships in the space surrounding [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]. [[Laura Roslin]] - with the aid of [[Sharon Valerii]] - initiates the clustering of stranded vessels in the aftermath of the Cylon invasion of the Twelve Colonies, thus forming the convoy. Twenty of these ships are abandoned to a squadron of attacking [[Raider (RDM)|Raiders]] because they either lack [[FTL]] drives, or are damaged, like the sublight ''[[Botanical Cruiser]]'' and ''[[Gemenon Liner 1701]]''. The remaining vessels join battlestar ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' - the only Colonial warship [[Pegasus (RDM)|known]] to have survived the Cylon attack - in the upper atmosphere of the gas giant [[Ragnar]]. From here on, ''Galactica'' shoulders the role of the Fleet's protector ([[Miniseries]]).

[[Anastasia Dualla]] explains in "[[33]]" that 53 ships have jumped away from an attacking Cylon baseship, with 10 still reporting trouble with their FTL drives. Adding ''Galactica'' to this tally, results in a total number of 64 ships. [[Saul Tigh]]'s statement in "[[The Farm]]" that the 24 ships departing with the [[Laura Roslin faction]] represent "almost a third of the fleet", implies that the number of ships in the Fleet is approximately in the mid-70's. By "[[The Passage]]", there are likely fewer ships left in the Fleet because of the ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' destruction ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]) and the settlement and emergency exodus of [[New Caprica]] ([[Exodus, Part II]]).

The political and social troubles befalling the Fleet as it wanders through space, serve as a metaphor for all of humanity, since the Fleet literally ''is'' what is left of humanity in the television series.

The phrase "the Fleet" functions not only as a signifier for the actual ships of the convoy, but as an indicator of the people on board, and therefore for mankind. Often the term is used to refer to the civilian populations, as opposed to the military personnel of ''Galactica'' and ''Pegasus''. Usage of the term "the Fleet" has not gained more than an informal acceptance, as can be seen by President Roslin's continued use of the term ''President of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]]''. This may be interpreted either as an expression of hope that the people of the Fleet will re-establish themselves on a new world, or a psychological inability to accept the Fleet as the only home that humanity will know for a long time.

After three years of searching the Fleet eventually reaches [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], but are disappointed to find it a devastated wasteland as a result of a nuclear holocaust ([[Revelations]]). The fleet leave Earth in search of a new home, with the Rebel Cylon Basestar joining them ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]). By the time of Felix Gaeta's and Tom Zarek's mutiny aboard ''Galactica'' ([[Blood on the Scales]]), dialogue indicates that the Fleet is down to the very low figure of 35 civilian ships, a suprising loss of about half the iniital ships from [[33]]. Most of these losses remain unacounted for, as very few civilian ships have been seen or heard to be actually lost on screen. Given that the human population has only declined by about one fifth at this point rather than a similar half, this could be a continuity error or retcon, or the remaining ships would have had to nearly double the number of civilians aboard to compensate.

==Ships==
* Colonial ships use [[launch key]]s to activate the ship's systems ([[Precipice]]). The keys are unique to each vessel and are extremely difficult to copy.

==== Seen ====

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! Name !! Ship type / function !! Last Seen !! Notes
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| ''[[Astral Queen]]'' || Prison ship|| [[The Oath]] || [[Tom Zarek]] is found aboard this ship, along with 1,500 prisoners heading toward [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] for parole hearings. Later the lead ship in [[Laura Roslin]]'s [[Laura Roslin faction|faction]].
|-
| [[Botanical Cruiser]] || Agricultural ship ||A Disquiet Follows My Soul || A sister ship is destroyed in the [[Miniseries, Night 2|second night]] of the Miniseries.
|-
| ''[[Celestra (RDM)|Celestra]]'' || ''Celestra'' type || [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]] || Mentioned only. Seen in various fleet shoots
|-
| ''[[Chrion]]'' || [[Luxury liner]] || [[The Passage]] || Successfully shepherded to the [[algae planet]].
|-
| ''[[Colonial One|Colonial One/Colonial Heavy 798]]'' || Transport ship, government || The Oath || President [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]]'s flagship and seat of the spaceborne Colonial government since the Fall. As of Season 4, the ship also holds the Quorum of Twelve.
|-
| ''[[Demetrius]]'' || Sewage recycling || [[Sometimes a Great Notion]] || Given to [[Kara Thrace]] and a select crew to try to find Earth.
|-
| ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' || [[Battlestar (RDM)|Battlestar]], military || The Oath || This is the last remaining [[Galactica type battlestar|original battlestar]] dating back to the [[Cylon War]]. It is the main protector and flagship of the Fleet, under direct command of [[William Adama]].
|-
| ''[[Gemenon Traveller]]'' || ''Kimba Huta'' type || [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]] || A copy of [[Leoben Conoy]] is captured and held here for interrogation and, later, executed.
|-
| ''[[Gemini (RDM)|Gemini]]'' || Freighter || A Disquiet Follows My Soul || Used as a decoy in the [[Battle for the Tylium Asteroid]]. Joins Laura Roslin's separatist fleet. Is later part of the so-called defense fleet over [[New Caprica]].
|-
| ''[[Gideon]]'' || Supply ship || [[The Son Also Rises]] || A supply ship involved in an incident where four civilians are killed by ''Galactica'' [[Marines]]. Survives after [[New Caprica]].
|-
| ''[[Hitei Kan]]'' || [[Refinery ship]] || [[The Oath]] || The ship is the site of the worker's strike in the episode "[[Dirty Hands]]" and a mutiny authorized by [[Tom Zarek]] in [[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]].
|-
| ''[[Kimba Huta]]'' || Cold storage vessel || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II || Featured in "[[The Farm]]" where Tom Zarek, Laura Roslin and Lee Adama hide out after Roslin's escape from ''Galactica''.
|-
| ''[[Majahual]]'' || [[Mining ship]] || [[Scar]] || Mines crucial metals needed to build [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]]s.
|-
| ''[[Monarch]]'' || Mining ship || [[Collaborators]] || A mining ship that joins the [[Laura Roslin faction]]. Mentioned in "Collaborators".
|-
| ''[[Prometheus]]'' || Freighter || [[Face of the Enemy]] || Commanded by [[Doyle Franks]], ''Promethus'' has a reputation as an "off the grid" freighter involved in the [[black market (organization)|black market]].
|-
| ''[[Striker]]'' || ''Celestra'' type || [[Home, Part II]] || Damaged in a refueling operation overseen by Captain [[George Birch]].
|-
| ''[[Thera Sita]]'' || ''Kimba Huta'' type || [[The Woman King]] || Ship is successfully shepherded to algae planet and later temporarily transfers refugees to ''Galactica'' in "The Woman King".
|-
| ''[[Triton (civilian ship)|Triton]]'' || Unknown || [[Sine Qua Non]] || A ship having a "room with a view" for [[Romo Lampkin]].
|-
| ''[[Virgon Express]]'' || ''[[Flattop]]'' type || [[Downloaded]] || First introduced in "[[Water]]" as it undergoes underway water replenishment from ''Galactica'' <nowiki>'s</nowiki> stores. Seen in fleet until [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]].
|-
| ''[[Zephyr]]'' || Ringed ship || [[The Oath]] || Arguably the easiest identifiable civilian ship due to its large ring. It is severely damaged during the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula]], and is repaired en route to Earth. It is considered the hub of all civilian activity and rest-and-recreation in the Fleet, assuming the same role that ''Cloud 9'' had before its destruction by [[Gina Inviere]].
|}

==== Mentioned only ====

Unless otherwise mentioned, the following ships are only listed on the [[:Image:Tally chalkboard.jpg|voting tally board]] in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]".<ref>Note that the tally board in question contains inaccuracies regarding the number of votes, and thus should not be used to determine the population aboard each vessel.</ref> Many of these ships are mentioned or featured again, as the production generated a master list for reference.

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! Name !! Notes
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Adrasteia}}'' || In Greek mythology, [[w:Adrasteia|Adrasteia]] (also spelled Adrastia, Adrastea, Adrestea, and Adastreia) was a nymph who was charged by Rhea to raise the infant Zeus in secret to protect him from his father Cronus (Krónos) in the Dictaean cave.
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Amduatey}}'' || The ship is named after the [[Wikipedia:Ancient Egypt|Ancient Egyptian]] [[Wikipedia:Amduat|Amduat]], which literally means "That Which is in the Afterworld". It was an important funeral text usually inscribed in the tombs of pharoahs. The Amduat told the story of the sun god [[Wikipedia:Ra|Ra]], who set in the evening and traveled through the underworld at night, only to rise again in the morning. It was understood that the dead pharaoh was taking the same journey, through the underworld, only to rise again with Ra as an immortal in the morning.
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Aether}}'' || In Greek mythology, [[w:Aether (mythology)|Aether]] is one of the Protogenos (first-born). He is the personification of the "upper sky," space, and heaven, and the elemental god of the "Bright, Glowing, Upper Air." He is the pure upper air that the gods breathe, as opposed to regular air, the gloomy lower air of the Earth, which mortals breathe.
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Argo Navis}}'' || Captained by [[Simpson Markson]], who is selected to be a judge at Gaius Baltar's trial <ref>The name and the ship are noted in the [[Sources:The Son Also Rises|script]] for "[[The Son Also Rises]]", but not mentioned on screen.</ref>. [[w:Argo Navis|Argo Navis]] was a large southern constellation representing the Argo, the ship used by Jason and the Argonauts in Greek mythology.
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Aurora}}'' || In Roman mythology, [[w:Aurora (mythology)|Aurora]] is the goddess of dawn. This [[Aurora, Goddess of the Dawn|goddess]] also exists within the series's own mythology.
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Azimenarius}}'' || The ''Azimenarius'' is noted on the whiteboard voting tracker on ''Colonial One'', but is not on the master voting tally board on ''Galactica'' in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]".
|-
|''[[Baah Pakal]]'' || Holds a pair of engines used in the [[Blackbird]]'s construction ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Boreas}}'' || Named for the [[w:Boreas|god of the north wind]] in Greek mythology. ''Boreas'' is noted on the whiteboard voting tracker on ''Colonial One'', but is absent from the master tally board on ''Galactica'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Bretan}}'' || On the voting tally boards on both ''Colonial One'' and ''Galactica'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Carillian Trader}}'' || In the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]], [[Carillon]] is the infamous "casino planet" from "[[Saga of a Star World]]".
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Cassandra}}'' || Named for the [[w:Cassandra|daughter]] of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy who had the power of prophecy, but was cursed so that no one believed her.
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Coba}}'' || ''Coba'' is noted on the master tally board on ''Galactica'', but not on the whiteboard voting tracker on ''Colonial One'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Cybele}}'' || Escorted by [[Raptors]] through a very dense star cluster to the [[algae planet]] ([[The Passage]]).<br/>
Named for the [[w:Cybele|"Earth Mother" goddess]] of ancient Asia Minor.
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Clymene}}'' || Several women and deities in Greek myth are named [[wikipedia:Clymene|Clymene]]. ''Clymene'' is noted on the whiteboard voting tracker on ''Colonial One'', but is absent from the master tally board on ''Galactica'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Dahshur}}'' || ''Dahshur'' is noted on the master tally board on ''Galactica'', but not on the whiteboard voting tracker on ''Colonial One'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Diomedes}}'' || Presumably named for the ancient hero of the Trojan War of the [[w:Diomedes|same name]]. ''Diomedes'' is noted on the master tally board on ''Galactica'', but not on the whiteboard voting tracker on ''Colonial One'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Embla Brokk}}'' || The name ''Embla Brokk'' may be derived from the names of two figures in Norse mythology: Embla, the first woman, and [[w:Brokkr|Brokkr]], a dwarf who helped create Draupnir (a magical ring) and [[w:Mjolnir|Mjolnir]] (Thor's hammer). ''Embla Brokk'' is noted on the master tally board on ''Galactica'', but not on the whiteboard voting tracker on ''Colonial One'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Enkidu}}'' || Among the first ships to navigate the star cluster to the [[algae planet]] ([[The Passage]]). <br/>
Named after the [[wikipedia:Enkidu|Enkidu]] of the [[wikipedia:Sumerian mythology|Sumerian mythological]] [[wikipedia:Epic of Gilgamesh|epic of Gilgamesh]].
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Epheme}}'' || The Epheme may be named for a minor character in Greek mythology who was nurse to the [[w:Muse|Muses]].
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|''[[Faru Sadin]]'' || Successfully guided through the [[Passage (star cluster)|star cluster]] to the algae planet by [[Louanne Katraine]], who sacrifices her life in the process (The Passage).
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Freighter 212}}'' || A ship on which Louanne Katraine apparently has some "buddies" ([[Final Cut]]). Indications are that "Freighter 212" is merely the hull number for the ship, as this name is not written on either tally boards during the election in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Galatea}}'' || Probably named for a main character in the Greek myth of [[w:Pygmalion (mythology)|Pygmalion]]. Pygmalion, a sculptor, creates a statue of a woman, which is so beautiful that he falls in love with it, and the gods reward him by bringing her ([[w:Galatea (mythology)|Galatea]]) to life.
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|''[[Greenleaf]]'' || A freighter mentioned several times in the series ("[[Epiphanies]]", "[[Sacrifice]]", "[[Crossroads, Part I]]")
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Harrak}}'' || On the voting tally boards on both ''Colonial One'' and ''Galactica'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Hexare}}'' ||On the voting tally boards on both ''Colonial One'' and ''Galactica'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Inchon Velle}}'' || When [[Kara Thrace]] has disturbing dreams about [[Leoben]] and the [[Eye of Jupiter|mandala]] in her apartment, [[Karl Agathon]] suggests that she see a psychiatrist on the ''Inchon Velle'' ([[Maelstrom]]).
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Kara Nexal}}'' || On the voting tally boards on both ''Colonial One'' and ''Galactica'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Kiya}}'' || ''Kiya'' is noted on the master tally board on ''Galactica'', but not on the whiteboard voting tracker on ''Colonial One'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|McConnell}}'' || Commander [[Jack Fisk|Fisk]] made runs to this ship in order to build up a stock pile of supplies for the [[black market (organization)|black market]] ([[Black Market]]). The ship is on neither ''Colonial One'' nor ''Galactica'''s tally boards in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Mutem Wia}}'' || ''Mutem Wia'' is noted on the master tally board on ''Galactica'', but not on the whiteboard voting tracker on ''Colonial One'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Odysseus}}'' || Named for the [[w:Odysseus|hero]] in Greek mythology who fought in the Trojan War and was the subject of Homer's epic ''[[w:Odyssey|The Odyssey]]''.
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Persephone}}'' || ''Persephone'' is noted on the master tally board on ''Galactica'', but not on the whiteboard voting tracker on ''Colonial One'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II". <br/> [[w:Persephone|Persephone]] is the daughter of the goddess [[w:Demeter|Demeter]]. She is forced to marry the god of the underworld, [[w:Hades|Hades]], but Demeter works out a compromise where Persephone is allowed to return to the world of the living for a portion of the year.
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Picon Princess}}'' || On the voting tally boards on both ''Colonial One'' and ''Galactica'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Rhadamanthys}}'' || On the voting tally boards on both ''Colonial One'' and ''Galactica'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
|-
|''[[Rising Star (RDM)|Rising Star]]'' || Mentioned several times early in the series. A ship identical to its [[Original Series]] [[Rising Star (TOS)|counterpart]] can be seen in "[[Escape Velocity]]". It is not mentioned on either ''Colonial One'' or ''Galactica'''s tally boards in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Salpica}}'' || In the [[Unfinished Business (Extended Version)|extended cut]] of "[[Unfinished Business]]", the ''Salpica'' is mentioned as the ship [[Samuel Anders]] lives on after the escape from New Caprica and before moving permanently to ''Galactica''.
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Sargon}}'' || May be named after either [[w:Sargon I (Assyrian king)|Sargon I]] or [[wikipedia:Sargon II|Sargon II]], ancient Assyrian kings on Earth. Seen only on the voting tally boards in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Scorpia Traveller}}'' || After disembarking from the ''Scorpia Traveller'', a copy of the humanoid Cylon [[Aaron Doral]] evades security checkpoints, nearly succeeding in the assassination of [[William Adama]] in a suicide bombing ([[Litmus]]). The ship is not on either tally board in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Swordfish}}'' || On the voting tally boards on both ''Colonial One'' and ''Galactica'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Tarbadek}}'' || On the voting tally boards on both ''Colonial One'' and ''Galactica'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Tauranian Traveller}}'' || Mentioned in a deleted scene in "[[33]]". Later, its name is on the voting tally boards on both ''Colonial One'' and ''Galactica'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Tora Bashiri}}'' || "Tora bashiri" is Japanese for "tiger's run." It is a term used in [[wikipedia:Iaido|Iaido]], a Japanese martial art. The ship's name is on the voting tally boards on both ''Colonial One'' and ''Galactica'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Vena Capa}}'' || ''Vena Capa'' is on the master tally board on ''Galactica'', but not on the whiteboard voting tracker on ''Colonial One'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Virga}}'' || The ship's name implies that it is of [[Virgon (RDM)|Virgon]] origin. The ship's name is on the voting tally boards on both ''Colonial One'' and ''Galactica'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Ziusudra}}'' || On the voting tally boards on both ''Colonial One'' and ''Galactica'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
|}

====[[Luxury liner|Passenger and luxury liners]]====

* An unnamed [[Gemon Liners]] spaceliner ("33", "Exodus, Part II", "The Passage").
* An unnamed [[Pan Galactic]] spaceliner (Miniseries, "Exodus, Part II", "The Passage").
* An unnamed [[Saggitarian Spaceways]] spaceliner (same colour as ''[[Pyxis]]'') (Miniseries, "Revelations")
* An unnamed Saggitarian Spaceways]] spaceliner (deep orange coloured hull, this could be ''[[Chrion]]'') ("Guess What's Coming To Dinner?")

==== Additional ships ====
Originally

* At least seven [[Colonial Movers]] heavy transport ships
* At least seven [[mining ship]]s
* At least six ''[[Kimba Huta]]''-type transports
* At least one ''[[Gemini]]''-type heavy freighter

====Seen but unnamed====
* ''[[Five-engined vessel]]'', seen above [[Caprica City]] ([[Miniseries]]) and during the escape from [[New Caprica]] ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]])
* ''[[Wedge-shaped vessel]]'', seen briefly during the end of "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II"
* ''[[Tubed vessel]]'', seen throughout the Fleet and jumping away from New Caprica at the end of "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II"
* ''[[Rising Star (TOS)|Rising Star type vessel]]'', seen briefly in "[[Escape Velocity]]". Rising Star type vessel seen briefly also in [[Sometimes a Great Notion]] and [[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]] during ''[[Hitei Kan]]'''s mutiny.
*''[[Scylla|Scylla type vessel]]'', seen briefly in [[He That Believeth In Me]] during the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula]]. Also seen briefly in [[The Ties That Bind]].

:'''Note''': Any of these vessels is probably identical to one of the mentioned only ones above.

=== Destroyed ===

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! Name !! Ship type / function !! Destroyed in !! Notes
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|''[[Adriatic]]'' || Unknown || [[The Passage]] || A member of the Roslin faction armed with ship-to-ship missiles ([[Home, Part I]]). Lost in transit in a [[Passage (star cluster)|star cluster]].
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| ''[[Botanical Cruiser]]'' || Agricultural and transport vessel || [[Miniseries]] || A sublight-only vessel that is destroyed by the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] after the Fall, before Roslin's fleet rendezvous with ''Galactica'' at [[Ragnar]]. An FTL-equipped vessel of the same type remains in the Fleet.
|-
| ''[[Carina]]'' || ''[[Flattop]]''-type salvage and repair ship || The Passage || Lost in transit in a star cluster.
|-
| ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' || [[Luxury liner]], civilian/government || [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]] || Designed to mimic the environment of a habitable planet, ''Cloud Nine'' became the meeting place for the first [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] after the Fall. It is later home to legalized prostitution ([[Black Market]]) and [[Demand Peace]] ([[Epiphanies]]). The ship is destroyed by a nuclear warhead detonated by [[Gina Inviere]], resulting in the destruction of at least three other ships.
|-
| ''[[Daru Mozu]]'' || [[Refinery ship]] || Unknown || Damaged by a [[Demand Peace]] [[Epiphanies|suicide bomber]]. Its destruction cannot be confirmed, but the ''[[Hitei Kan]]'' is strongly implied to be the only existing refinery ship in "[[Dirty Hands]]".
|-
| ''[[Olympic Carrier]]'' || Luxury liner || [[33]] || Destroyed by [[Lee Adama]] and [[Kara Thrace]] after an apparent Cylon takeover.
|-
| ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' || [[Battlestar (RDM)|Battlestar]], military || [[Exodus, Part II]]<ref>Technically, "[[Razor]]" is the last time the ship is seen, but the events of that DVD movie occur in Season 2, whereas "Exodus" is set in Season 3.</ref> || This is the last remaining [[Mercury class battlestar]]. Formerly commanded by [[Helena Cain]] ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]), [[Jack Fisk]] ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]) and [[Barry Garner]] ([[The Captain's Hand]]). Under the command of Lee Adama when it is destroyed during the [[Battle of New Caprica]] ([[Exodus, Part II]])
|-
| ''[[Pyxis]]'' || Luxury liner || [[He That Believeth In Me]] || Commanded by Captain [[Jules Tarney]], this ship is successfully shepherded to the [[algae planet]], but later destroyed in the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula]] resulting in 600 deaths.
|}

==== Additional ships ====

*The following ships are destroyed together in the ''Cloud Nine'' disaster ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]):
* One [[Colonial Movers]] ship
* A ''[[yellow vessel]]''
* A ''[[long-necked vessel]]''

== Non-canonical ==

Initially, it appears that the production did not have a master list of ships in the first season, as evidenced by the numerical discrepancies to the later retconned numbers in Season 2. The following is a list of ships that have been mentioned in deleted scenes exclusively.

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! Name !! Notes
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Coronis}}'' || ''Coronis'' is mentioned in a deleted scene in "[[Litmus]]", as a ship carrying people who are unhappy about being last in food ration distribution. However, it is not present on either the master tally board on ''Galactica'' or the whiteboard tracker on ''Colonial One'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II". As ''Coronis'' has not been mentioned in any canonical capacity, it is considered totally abandoned by the producers .<br/>
In Greek mythology [[w:Coronis (Greek mythology)|Coronis]] is the name of several figures.
|}

==Demographics==
A few points of information are available concerning the demographics of the Fleet. In "[[33]]", before the destruction of the Olympic Carrier, there are 5,251 survivors from Sagittaron and 49,998 total survivors. In "[[Home, Part I]]", the [[Laura Roslin faction]] leaves the Fleet with 18,000 individuals, of which 9,500 ware Gemenese and 6,250 were Capricans. At that time the total population of the Fleet is 47,857.

This information is sparse, but it gives a general idea of the population breakdown of the Fleet if a few assumptions are made for the sake of argument.
*Note that Gemenon and Caprica have more citizens in the Roslin faction alone than Sagittaron has in the entire Fleet. The Twelve Colonies are clearly not represented in equal proportion.
*Before the destruction of the ''Olympic Carrier'', Sagittaron natives make up 10.50% of the Fleet. Solely for the purpose of argument, it is assumed that the ''Olympic Carrier'''s population breakdown was identical to the rest of the Fleet's and that Sagittaron continues to make up 10.50% of the Fleet's total population.
*The figures from the Roslin faction can be interpreted in several ways:
<div style="float:right; margin:10px">[[Image:Demographics1.png]]</div>
:*ASSUMPTION 1: All Gemenese and Capricans jump to Kobol with the Roslin faction.
::*Caprica: 6,250 persons (13%)
::*Gemenon: 9,500 persons (20%)
::*Sagittaron: 5,026 persons (11%)
::*Others: 27,081 (57%)<br clear="both">
<div style="float:right; margin:10px">[[Image:Demographics2.png]]</div>
:*ASSUMPTION 2: All Gemenese jump to Kobol with the Roslin faction, lured by the "religion card", but the Caprican portion of the Roslin faction is representative of the Fleet.
::*Caprica: 28,204 persons (59%)
::*Gemenon: 9,500 persons (20%)
::*Sagittaron: 5,026 persons (11%)
::*Others: 5,127 persons (11%)<br clear="both">
<div style="float:right; margin:10px">[[Image:Demographics3.png]]</div>
:*ASSUMPTION 3: Caprican and Gemenese portions of the Roslin faction are representative of the Fleet.
::*Caprica: 16,617 persons (35%)
::*Gemenon: 25,258 persons (53%)
::*Sagittaron: 5,026 persons (11%)
::*Others: 956 (2%)<br clear="both">
*Although it is plausible that the Caprican population is substantially larger than the other Colonies, as ''Colonial Heavy 798'' is in the vicinity when the attack begins, and is the nucleus around which the Fleet rallies, it is unlikely that the populations of each colony are grossly unequal, or else the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] would be a very poor system of government. The likeliest scenario is therefore somewhere in between assumptions 1 and 2, with nearly all of the Gemenon population (drawn by the "religion card") and a large portion of the Caprican population leaving with Roslin.
*Alternatively, it is possible that the population of the Colonies are grossly unequal. Although the structure of the Quorum of Twelve appears to maintain at least a fiction that the Colonies are roughly equal, next to nothing is known about how the [[Government|governmental]] system of the Colonies was established or how it evolved over time. Indeed, the United States Senate, for example, by design expressly assumes that the various states constituting it are 'equal' even though this is clearly not the case in terms of their respective populations. Furthermore, the fact that a system of government is 'poor' or else not representatively proportional does not mean it cannot actually be implemented and even survive for long periods of time.

As for the population distribution, the population of several ships is known: ''Galactica'' (2,693 as of "[[Water]]"), the ''Olympic Carrier'' (1,345 as of "[[33]]"), ''Astral Queen'' (1,500 as of "[[Bastille Day]]", [[List of retcons (RDM)|retconned]] up from 500 in the Miniseries) and ''Pyxis'' (600 when destroyed in "[[He That Believeth In Me]]"). There are 176 civilians in the cargo hold of ''[[Colonial One]]'' in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]". The Fleet is stated at about 75 ships in "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]", retconned up from 40 in the Miniseries.
*Going by the 75 ship count, the remaining ships besides ''Galactica'' and the ''Astral Queen'' each carry about 600 persons on average.
*The 23 ships that leave with the [[Laura Roslin faction]], apart from the ''Astral Queen'', would have an average population of about 720 persons per ship.

The Fleet's population has declined by about 8,000 since the above.

==Notes==
*Unofficially, many viewers refer to the Fleet as the "RTF"; "Rag Tag Fleet", or more fully, "RTFF." These nicknames come from the term "Rag Tag Fugitive Fleet," a name used in the opening credits voice over of the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] (performed by series creator [[Lorne Greene]]), describing the [[The Fleet (TOS)|civilian refugee fleet]].
* In the [[Miniseries]], astute viewers may recognize three spacecraft with notable resemblances of ships from other SF universes. The first two of these ships aren't considered a [[Canon|canonical]] part of the series or the Fleet, but their appearance adds a bit of humor and pays homage to other notable science fiction and their creative staff.
:* ''Serenity'', the central ship from the TV series ''[[Wikipedia:Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'' and the motion picture ''[[Wikipedia:Serenity (film)|Serenity]]'', [[:md:Image:SerenityBSGMini.JPG|appears briefly in the sky]] outside the window of a doctor's office where viewers first see [[Laura Roslin]]. The ship does not appear in the Fleet.
:* The original USS [[MemoryAlpha:USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)|''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701)]] from the original ''[[MemoryAlpha:Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]'' TV series makes a cameo in the [[:md:Image:Enterprise in fleet.jpg|last shot of the Fleet]] as [[Elosha]] chants a prayer in the memorial service near the end of the Miniseries. Look to the upper right corner for the ship in a still frame. All Season 1 [[opening credits]] use this shot, so ''Enterprise'' makes a very quick appearance with each of the first 13 episodes (This is best viewed from the [[Season 1 DVD]] set).
:*The ill-fated [[Botanical Cruiser]] in the Miniseries was added in homage to the [[Agro Ship]] from the Original Series, which in turn were the re-used models from the SF film ''[[Wikipedia:Silent Running|Silent Running]]'', a Universal/MCA movie that special effects guru [[John Dykstra]] worked on a few years prior. At least one FTL-capable version of this ship survives and exists in the Fleet ([[The Passage]]).

== References==
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==See Also==
*[[:Category:Colonial Craft|Colonial Craft]]

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Sine Qua Non

2008-05-31T18:44:38Z

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| title=Sine Qua Non
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== Overview ==
:''President [[Laura Roslin]]'s abduction by the Cylon [[Hybrid]] triggers a bitter power struggle within the Fleet. The [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum]] has little information and demands to know what happened, while [[Tom Zarek]] insists that he is to be declared interim president. [[Lee Adama]] opposes him and enlists the help of notorious lawyer [[Romo Lampkin]] to find a candidate for the post, leading to a surprising decision. Meanwhile, Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]] and Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] come to blows over Tigh's relationship with [[Caprica-Six]] and Adama's obsession to find Roslin.''

== Summary ==
=== Teaser ===
*With President [[Laura Roslin]] missing, a meeting is held by the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]]. Vice President [[Tom Zarek]], who informs them that the rebel [[basestar (RDM)|basestar]] jumped with Roslin and [[Gaius Baltar]]—and many of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> pilots—also notes that [[Natalie]] was shot by "one of ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> [[Marines]]"; he fuels the assumption that the basestar's sudden jump and abduction is related to Natalie's death. Zarek tells the delegates that with Roslin missing, he is to be sworn in as interim President.
*Upon hearing the news, [[Lee Adama]] contacts his [[William Adama|father]], who doesn't take it well.
*[[Natalie]], who has [[Guess What's Coming To Dinner?|just been shot]] by [[Sharon Agathon]], is taken to the [[sickbay|infirmary]]. She starts to [[projection|project]] that she is in a forest on a sunny day. In real life, she only focuses on the faces of those who are taking her to the infirmary.
*Dr. [[Cottle]] immediately starts to operate on her. When she tries to make physical contact, likely sensing that she is about to die, Cottle takes her hand. However, just as they operate, her image of the forest brightens to a bright flash. The second this happens, her heart monitor flatlines, and Cottle announces her death.
*Admiral Adama sees Sharon Agathon and is angered by her decision to kill an unarmed woman, even if she was a [[Cylon (RDM)|Cylon]]. Agathon starts to explain her dream about a [[Number Six|Six]] taking away her [[Hera Agathon|child]] at the [[Opera House]]. Eventually, Adama orders a guard to take her away to the [[brig]] and refuses her access to her daughter.
* When the topic of Adama's support of a Tom Zarek administration is raised, [[Jacob Cantrell]] pointedly asks Lee Adama whether Admiral Adama would support Zarek or the government. Delegate Adama replies in the negative, raising ire and outrage.

=== Act 1 ===

[[Image:410 room with a view.jpg|thumb|[[Romo Lampkin]] and [[Lee Adama]] haggle over the price of searching for an interim president.]]
*When Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]] returns to the [[CIC]], he hears that the [[Resurrection Hub]] has disappeared from its last known location, further the rebel baseship is not there either. Adama tells [[Saul Tigh]] to continue looking for the hub, since that's the only place the rebels can head given their objective: to [[Boxing|unbox]] the [[Number Three|Threes]].
* Tigh reports that [[Kara Thrace|Thrace]] (apparently [[CAG]], given her seniority) is having problems assembling a sufficient [[CAP]] to protect the Fleet; there are only 30 [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]]s left. As a result, Adama agrees with Thrace's recommendation (told via Tigh) of having the ships tighten their formation for easier defense, despite the inherent hazards posed by inexperienced civilian pilots.
* President [[Tom Zarek|Zarek]] and [[Lee Adama]] have a meeting, where Lee recommends that Zarek step down as president. Despite Zarek's vocal disbelief over this—correctly noting that he is the only public official in the executive branch to have been voted into office legally, a claim [[Laura Roslin]] is unable to make—Lee suggests enacting a Quorum provision that allows the Quorum to pick an interim president during a time of crisis to serve out the remainder of Roslin's term. Zarek reluctantly concedes after Lee points out that Admiral Adama will never recognize Zarek, and they need someone who Adama will recognize. Zarek gruffly wishes Lee luck in his search for an interim president.
* In a [[Talk Wireless]] interview conducted by [[James McManus]]<ref>The assumption is that the "Jim" Tom Zarek is speaking to is McManus, given his coverage of government affairs.</ref>, Zarek indicates that the government post-[[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Fall]] is not a true government, but a "tacit agreement between a military strong-man [Adama] and a political strong-woman [Roslin] to rule by fiat". Zarek also notes the creation of a civilian force to maintain order, noting that the government should not rely on the [[Marines]] due to the last political upheaval.
* Lee Adama visits [[Romo Lampkin]], asking for Lampkin's help in searching for potential presidential candidates. Despite his initial refusals, Lampkin accepts to work ''pro bono'' in search of a replacement with the right skills and abilities that meets with the approval of both the Quorum (who won't act, since Zarek has them "inhaling fear and exhaling anger") and Admiral Adama. Lampkin offers one more piece of advice, telling him that it's better to accept what they already have.

=== Act 2 ===

[[Image:410 Pike's corpsesicle.jpg|thumb|[[Eammon Pike]]'s body floating in the damaged [[Raptor]].]]

* In [[CIC]], Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]], noting that he has a rapport with [[Caprica-Six]], asks Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] to interrogate her about the [[Resurrection Hub]]. Before he leaves, he tells Adama that they'll find [[Roslin]] and the missing humans.
* In the brig, Tigh questions Six about the Hub. After telling him what she knows about the Hub, Tigh believes that she's lying; she assures him that she'd never lie to him. Tigh slips, telling her that the rebels took off with half an air wing and Roslin. Six ferrets out the fact that Admiral Adama's primary concern is for Roslin. Six, who then appears to Tigh in the form of [[Ellen Tigh|his dead wife]], asks if Tigh loves her. Before he can answer, [[Condition One]] is called. He grabs her neck and tells her that her mind games with him end at that moment, and he leaves.
* Tigh reports to CIC, learning that one of their missing [[Raptor]]s from the rebel baseship has jumped to the Fleet. A Raptor crewed by [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]] and [[Hamish McCall|Hamish "Skulls" McCall]] are en route to intercept the craft, which has not returned hails and does not appear to be emanating anything [[radiological alarm|radiological]]. Edmondson performs a spacewalk, discovering that the Raptor was jumped by its lone, now-dead occupant, [[Eammon Pike|Eammon "Gonzo" Pike]], whose carcass floats in the back compartment.
* After retrieving the Raptor, Adama investigates the Raptor himself, discovering the copy of ''[[Searider Falcon]]'' he gave to Roslin in burnt condition, identifying it as the craft she took over to baseship before it jumped. Tigh joins him, noting that [[Peter Laird|Laird]] retrieved [[Sector Delta 9|the coordinates]] that the Raptor jumped from. Adama orders a search to that location, ignoring Zarek's request for a briefing.
* In the Quorum meeting room on ''Colonial One'', Lampkin discusses how one achieves and wields power with Lee Adama. During this conversation, Lampkin and Lee see ''Galactica'' jump away. Lee is concerned over the abruptness of ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> departure.
* A Raptor reconnaissance party comes across a debris field, consisting of Cylon debris and damaged Vipers. Tigh informs Adama that the debris consist of a Cylon baseship and fragments indicative of resurrection technology, and notes that they detected radiation from nuclear weapons. Adama refuses to believe that the destroyed baseship was the rebels', insisting that Roslin has survived. Adama presses on with the search, until Tigh points out that the Fleet is left behind with "their asses hanging out in the wind". Adama thus revises his orders to include only four Raptors to stay behind to search until they "find something concrete".
* ''Galactica'' jumps back to the Fleet. Zarek notifies the Quorum of Adama's decision to reroute all [[tylium]] supplies to fueling the search efforts, along with requisitioning several civilian ships to aid in this endeavor. The delegates are furious over being bypassed.
* Back in Lampkin's "room with a view", Adama and Lampkin go over the list of candidates, among them [[Doyle Franks]] who has no aspirations for political office, however. As they brainstorm, Adama nearly trips over an overturned bowl, resulting in his quip of "do you ever feed that [[Lance|animal]]?" and inquires about the cat's whereabouts. From Lampkin's perspective, he sees Lance run around a swivel chair. Lampkin later begins to throw in the towel, erasing the names on the whiteboard, much to Adama's consternation.
* In [[sickbay]], Admiral Adama consults Doctor [[Cottle]] about how Roslin's sudden disappearance will affect her [[diloxin]] treatments. Cottle stresses that, with her weakened immune system and her cancer's ability to regroup, the sooner she's found, the better. He also provides Adama with a medical report on [[Caprica Six]]: she's pregnant.
* In Adama's quarters, Tigh reports to Adama about the Raptors lack of success in finding anything about the whereabouts of their missing people. Adama replies that he's not interested in the search, confronting Tigh about impregnating the Six and putting the Fleet at risk over his weaknesses. After Tigh broaches the topic of Adama's reckless search for Roslin, Adama brings up the question of what [[Ellen Tigh]] would say about Tigh impregnating a Cylon, which resorts in a brawl. After Tigh's fall cracks the [[H.M.S. Glutton o' Punishment|model ship]], the fight stops and they both ask each other what they'll do about their feelings for their respective women.
* In the brig, an upset and alone [[Sharon Agathon]] hums a lullaby to herself.
* Adama orders [[Kara Thrace]] to continue the search with additional Raptors. Thrace objects to this, citing a decreased [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]], but her objections are overruled.
* As Adama watches the goings-on in a part of the hangar deck, Lampkin joins him with writs of forfeiture for him to sign; the captains of the ships Adama's borrowing do not want to be held liable for any wrongdoing that may occur in the rescue operation. As Adama signs the papers, he and Lampkin converse about people giving up hope when it is most needed, and "while on a roll", he adds that Zarek is not the worst choice for president. Adama brushes him off thereafter.
* In his quarters, Lampkin changes the search to find someone who best suits an ideal candidate and, after hissing like a cat, settles on Lee Adama. He leaves with Lance's bag, and meets up with Lee Adama. Lampkin informs Adama that the Quorum has selected him to be the interim president, much to Adama's bemusement; Lampkin points out that Adama always wanted the position, which is why he had to cross out [[47]] candidates to prove it. Lampkin claims that Adama's the perfect choice for president, and, after pulling out a [[Stallion|pistol]], notes that he'll never get the chance to serve.

=== Act 3 ===

[[Image:410 Lampkin and pepperbox.jpg|thumb|Lampkin holds Lee Adama at gunpoint.]]

* Adama faces down the gun-wielding Lampkin, who explains that Adama's the perfect candidate for president and thus should die. However, Lampkin says that hope is the last thing they need; he says that humanity is a doomed race and should accept its fate. Lampkin kicks over the duffel bag, which has Lampkin's rationale for his actions. Adama opens it, discovering [[Lance]], who had been dead for weeks. Lampkin explains that "those debased dregs of humanity" killed Lance, and are looking for a place to "roost and ''rot'' again". Lampkin explains that the cat is immaterial, but it is the last physical connection he had with his [[Faye Lampkin|wife]]. Adama assures Lampkin that everyone that survived had to make difficult choices: there was nothing he could have done for his wife and two daughters (Jennifer and Kate), noting that only a handful of people elected to stay behind on [[Gemenon (RDM)|Gemenon]] who were on Lampkin's shuttle during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|attack]].
* Adama talks down Lampkin in a speech about having to make choices about their own survival at the cost of other people's lives, urging him to put the past behind him and move on. Adama believes that he can make a difference in the Fleet; Lampkin asks him if that's his final word, then asks him to swear by it.
* Leland Joseph Adama is sworn in as interim president in a ceremony on ''[[Colonial One]]'', attended by Admiral Adama, [[Tory Foster]], and [[Tom Zarek]], in addition to the [[Fleet News Service|press corps]]. Lampkin listens to the ceremony on the wireless in his quarters.
* Admiral Adama informs Colonel Tigh that he's stepping down as military leader of the Fleet, promoting Tigh to admiral, as Tigh's the only person he can trust to command ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. Tigh scoffs this, reminding Adama of the [[Resistance (episode)|last time]] he commanded the Fleet; Adama notes that Tigh is a different man who found out a lot about himself since that time. Adama tells Tigh to bring the people to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]. As his last order, Adama tells Tigh to give custody of [[Hera Agathon|Hera]] to the in-hack [[Sharon Agathon]], expressing a need for everyone to have a family.

=== Act 4 ===

[[Image:410 Adama sees the Fleet off.jpg|thumb|William Adama watches the Fleet [[FTL|jump]] away.]]

* On ''Colonial One'', President [[Lee Adama|Adama]] makes notes on [[:Image:410 IT upgrade press release.jpg|a press release]] relating to an information and technical services upgrade, which he gives to [[Tory Foster]] to correct. [[Romo Lampkin]] arrives, comically commenting that Adama already has a [[Jake (New Caprica)|first pet]]. Lampkin is told of Jake's exploits on [[New Caprica]] and Adama gives the dog to Lampkin—who hates dogs more than cats—as a "new pet to loathe".
* President Adama visits his father, who is packing things in his [[Officer's quarters|quarters]]. Adama doesn't agree with Lee's thinking on retaining [[Tom Zarek]] as vice president; Lee replies that he doesn't agree with his father's thinking on his one-man mission to find [[Laura Roslin]]. Adama recalls a "good memory" of his first mission in enemy space during the [[Cylon War]], then, when pressed, admits that the reason he undertakes his current mission is because he cannot live without Roslin. He has faith that Roslin will get to the rendezvous point.
* A [[flight suit|suited]] William Adama makes it to his Raptor in the [[hangar deck]]; he is seen off by his son and [[Kara Thrace]], the latter exchanging a [[Nothing but the rain|well-worn, friendly exchange]] before he boards the Raptor. Adama asks for them to keep the light on for him, to which they reply in the affirmative.
* Per Adama's final order, [[Hera Agathon|Hera]] is reunited with [[Sharon Agathon|her mother]] in the brig; Agathon hums a lullaby to her daughter.
* Adama launches from ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' as Admiral Tigh orders the Fleet to jump. After Adama watches all the ships [[FTL|jump]] away, he sits in his Raptor and reads the singed copy of ''[[Searider Falcon]]'' as he awaits Roslin's return.

== Notes ==

* ''[[w:Sine qua non|Sine qua non]]'' is a Latin phrase meaning "without which not"; usually appended to mean "without which it could not be". It is famously used by [[w:Andrew Jackson|Andrew Jackson]], who says the following after receiving an honorary degree from [[w:Harvard|Harvard]]: "[[w:E pluribus unum|E pluribus unum]], my friends. Sine qua non."
* While being taken to surgery, [[Natalie]] whispers to [[Prayer to the Cloud of Unknowing]], the second such instance of the prayer being said ([[A Measure of Salvation]]).
* The pistol Lampkin uses to threaten Adama is a [[Stallion]]. The model previously appeared prominently in "[[Home, Part II]]".
* The episode features the first explicit mention of [[Gravity in the Re-imagined Series|artificial gravity]] in dialogue.
* The book ''[[Searider Falcon]]'' makes another appearance. Adama finds it in the derelict Raptor, somewhat singed.
* The lullaby [[Sharon Agathon]] hums to [[Hera Agathon|Hera]] is the same one hummed by [[Sharon Valerii]] to a captured [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]] in "[[Flesh and Bone]]". It is a traditional Korean children's song.
* The infamous number, [[47]], appears in this episode as well: [[Romo Lampkin]] tells [[Lee Adama]] that they went through 47 candidates for interim president when confronting him on ''[[Colonial One]]''.
* While [[Tom Zarek]] claims that the government of the "past five years", it has only been about three and a half years since [[Laura Roslin]] and [[William Adama]] have risen to power.
* It can be inferred that [[James McManus]] is talking to Tom Zarek during the [[wireless]] interview, given that Zarek calls the interviewer "Jim".
* William Adama's comment about how often he had to repair his [[H.M.S. Glutton o' Punishment|model ship]] is a reference to the end of "[[Maelstrom]]", as well as a possible inside-joke about the fact that [[Edward James Olmos]] smashed the very expensive prop in an ad-lib during the shooting of that episode.

== Analysis ==

===General===
*Most civilians appear to have assumed that the basestar's disappearance was a deliberate act of kidnapping, possibly in retaliation for Natalie's shooting. It is as yet unclear if the [[Hybrid|Hybrid's]] jump at the end of the [[Faith|previous episode]] was an automatic response by the Hybrid, perhaps as a safety mechanism that returns an ostensibly critically damaged [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] to the resurrection hub, or if this Hybrid was specially programmed to jump immediately upon reactivation, perhaps by the [[Number Two]] who urged [[Natalie]] to stall the Colonials in the previous episode, in order to effect a kidnapping.
* The apparition of a loved one dredged up by a survivor—this time [[Lance]], the only remaining physical connection to [[Romo Lampkin]]'s wife, [[Faye Lampkin|Faye]]—is reminiscent of not only Adama's apparition of [[Carolanne Adama|his ex-wife]] in "[[A Day in the Life]]", but of Saul Tigh's apparition of [[Ellen Tigh]] during the fourth season, in which they cling to some memory of their wives.
* Despite the fact that ''[[Galactica]]'' has left the Fleet before to engage combat, this episode marks the first time that the [[The Fleet (RDM)|civilian Fleet]] is intentionally left without any defense. The only other time the Fleet was left without military aid was after [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer's]] assassination attempt of William Adama, when ''Galactica'' accidentally jumped to different coordinates than the rest of the Fleet ([[Scattered]]).

===Characters===
* [[William Adama]]'s actions in the search for [[Laura Roslin]], namely the unreasonable allocation of resources and putting the Fleet at unnecessary risk, are precisely the same actions he executed when searching for [[Kara Thrace]] in "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]". Similarly, it is Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] who helps bring the end to Adama's irrational actions, this time without Roslin's help and more violently.
* Odd as it seems, [[Romo Lampkin]]'s erratic behavior towards Lee Adama is not wholly uncontrolled. Throughout the encounter, Lampkin forces Adama to defend his willingness to make tough decisions, his courage, and his optimism. He uses his personal tragedies to full effect, confronting Adama with the dead cat just as he used the memory of his love for Faye to manipulate Caprica-Six. He tacitly admits his plan towards the end, in his response to Adama's determination to make a positive difference: "Is that your last word?....Then swear it." While there is still a streak of craziness in Lampkin's actions that goes beyond his usual eccentricities, this behavior is in line with his previous manipulations of people (e.g., through his kleptomania), including Lee Adama.
* Tigh mentions that [[Peter Laird]] - the former ''Pegasus'' deck chief - retrieved the navigational data from [[Eammon Pike|Pike]]'s Raptor, possibly indicating that Laird replaced [[Galen Tyrol]] after his demotion in "[[Escape Velocity]]".

=== Cylons ===
* The child of [[Caprica-Six]] and Tigh will be the first full-Cylon child, should it come to full term.
* The ability of Tigh to impregnate Six perhaps indicates a fundamental difference between the [[Final Five]] and [[Significant Seven]], as Significant Seven Cylons have been thus far unable to conceive with one another. That Tigh often sees Caprica-Six not as herself but as his [[Ellen Tigh|deceased wife]] could very well be a determinative factor. If this proves to be the case, then the conclusion is that Tigh learned how to love, as required for reproduction according to the Cylons' theory regarding their biological reproductive limitations ("[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]", "[[The Farm]]"), from his marriage to a human being.

== Questions ==
* Is there any significance to [[Natalie]]'s dying visions? If so, what?
* What exactly happened to the rebel baseship and the [[Resurrection Hub]]? Did the rebels and Colonials escape if their baseship was destroyed?
* How will the Fleet react to an [[Lee Adama|Adama]] as President?
* Will [[Caprica-Six]]'s child remain a secret?
** Will she be allowed or able to give birth to what would be the first fully Cylon child?
** If so, what will happen to the child? Will [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] take on fatherly responsibilities?
* How will [[Gaius Baltar]] react to Caprica-Six and Saul Tigh's child?
* How will the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum]] and the Fleet respond to Tigh being left in charge of ''Galactica'' and the military?
* Who will be Tigh's [[XO]]?
* Will Adama manage to find [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] by waiting out in deep space?
* Has [[Kara Thrace]] been re-accepted by her comrades?
* Did someone really kill [[Lance]], or did the cat die of natural causes or possibly neglect?
* Were the damaged Vipers from [[Sector Delta 9]] retrieved for salvage?

== Official Statements ==

* ''[[Michael Taylor]] discusses his spoiler-free impressions of a scene:''
: I was in the editing room, watching one of our talented editors assemble a rough cut of a single scene. Not a huge scene, just a relatively brief but quietly powerful scene between [[William Adama|Adama]] and [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] (you’ll see it in Episode 8, “Sine Qua Non”). What struck me is that while the dialogue was relatively simple, these two actors brought so much to it that the smallest looks and gestures carried immense weight. It made me realize anew how, after four seasons, these characters have accumulated so much history and nuance. As embodied by actors like [[Edward James Olmos|Edward J. Olmos]] and [[Michael Hogan]], they are wrenchingly human. Less characters than people I have now spent years with, and who still surprise me.<ref name="thewatcher">{{cite_web|url=http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2007/11/answers-to-your.html|title=Answers to your 'Razor' questions and clues about 'Battlestar Galactica's' final season|date=16 November 2007|accessdate=16 November 2007|last=Ryan|first=Maureen|format=|language=}}</ref>

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

* ''[[William Adama]] confronts [[Saul Tigh]] about [[Caprica-Six]]'s pregnancy:''
: '''William Adama:''' I know that you've been spending a lotta time interrogating the Six, but now the brig guards tell me that every time you order them out, you turn off the cameras.
: '''Saul Tigh:''' I'm not torturing her, if that's what you're worried about.
: '''Adama:''' I'm not. That I could almost understand. This I can't. [[Cottle]] tells me she's pregnant. What the frak have you been thinking, colonel? ''Do you deny it...? You don't... '''You can't.''''' What the hell have you been thinking? Who's interrogating whom? How many of our secrets have you told this thing?
: '''Tigh:''' ''How can you even ask me that?'' Question my loyalty?
: '''Adama:''' Your loyalty? I need more than your loyalty. You're my first officer, I need judgment. I need your ''competence''. You're jeopardizing this ship, putting it at risk because of your weaknesses.
: '''Tigh:''' ''My'' weaknesses?
: '''Adama:''' Yeah, your weaknesses!
: '''Tigh:''' You're risking all our lives—for what? Our missing pilots? ''No—for a frakking woman! '''A frakking woman!'''''
: '''Adama:''' ''You watch what you frakkin' say about that woman! She's the president! Not some frakkin' skinjob that I've been banging!'' What do you think [[Ellen Tigh|Ellen]] would say about this?
: '''Tigh:''' Leave Ellen out of this.
: '''Adama:''' What do you think Ellen would say about her husband impregnating a frakkin' Cylon prisoner?
: '''Tigh:''' '''You ''motherfrakker''!''' (violence ensues)

*''Admiral Adama chews out [[Sharon Agathon]] for murdering [[Natalie]]:''
:'''Adama:''' You murdered an unarmed woman, and by doing so you put the lives of every single person in this fleet at risk; and quite possibly cost the lives of the [[Laura Roslin|president]] and [[Karl Agathon|your husband]]. You disobeyed the direct orders of your superior officers, but more importantly, you betrayed a promise to me. I [[Precipice#Noteworthy Dialogue|trusted you]].
:'''Agathon:''' Sir, I will accept any form of punishment that you think I deserve. I just ask that you please don't take away [[Hera Agathon|Hera]].
:'''Adama:''' I'm afraid the [[brig]] is no place for a little girl. ''Guards!'' Get her out of my sight!

*''[[Romo Lampkin]] to [[Lee Adama]]:''
:"Lampkin's First Rule of Legal Dynamics: When an irresistible force meets a movable object, stand aside and wait for the class action suit."

*''More Lampkin:''
:'''Lampkin:''' So you can't be dissuaded, will you? Not even when you hear my fee?
:'''Lee Adama:''' Fee?
:'''Lampkin:''' Appearances to the contrary, I'm actually in this for the money. I have a reputation to maintain after all.
:'''Adama:''' OK, so what did Roslin offer you to defend Baltar?
:'''Lampkin:''' (pointing at a small window in the bulkhead) Room with a view.
:'''Adama:''' I'm not sure I can improve on that.
:'''Lampkin:''' Then pro bono it is, counselor. Word to the wise: sometimes it's better to settle for what you've already got.

*''Lampkin about political power and Lee Adama:''
:'''Lampkin:''' Quandary is, one doesn't generally get the chance to wield political power without the ambition to actively seek it. That same ambition often compromises the unselfish motives that began the quest. In other words, in a battle of id versus ego, that ego rarely wins.
:'''Adama:''' Roslin never sought power.
:'''Lampkin:''' Exception that proves the rule. One could argue that Laura Roslin is a study in ''repressed'' ambition, just like you, Mr. Adama. Never seeking out a job until it's handed to you. [[CAG|Flight leader]], [[Pegasus (RDM)|battlestar]] commander, [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum]] delegate. Man doesn't carve out a path like that through life without...
:'''Adama:''' Alright, enough of the psychoanalysis. Let's get back to the job at hand.

*''Lampkin and Admiral Adama on the hangar deck, watching the deck crew and pilots at work:''
:'''Lampkin:''' Writs of forfeiture. The captains want to be absolved of any blame should anything untoward happen. One of the less ennobling consequences of a legal culture. No one wants responsibility. (hands him a pen to sign) Lee said you [[The Hand of God (RDM)|once]] gave ''him'' something before a mission. A lighter, wasn't it?
:'''Adama''' It belonged to my [[Joseph Adama|father]]. Foolish to think a hunk of metal can keep him safe.
:'''Lampkin:''' And yet, that's what we do, isn't it? Hang on to hope in every hopelessly irrational way that we can. (watches the crew wishing each other luck) But not like ''those'' poor bastards. Giving away their luck just when they need it most. It's like they've given up.
:'''Adama:''' If you've never been in combat, you have ''no'' idea what they're thinking.
:'''Lampking:''' I've always imagined you were a realist, Admiral, not one to indulge a vain hope at the cost of lives. But then, everyone has his limits. "Sine qua non", as they say.
:'''Adama:''' Without which not.
:'''Lampkin:''' Yes. Those things we deem essential, without which we cannot bear living. Without which life in general loses its specific value, becomes abstract.
:'''Adama:''' You may have a point, counselor.
:'''Lampkin:''' And while I'm on a roll: [[Tom Zarek]] may not be an ideal president, but we could do worse.
:'''Adama:''' You're right. There are limits to my realism. Goodbye counselor.

*''Lampkin confronts Lee Adama after naming him the candidate for interim president:''
:'''Lampkin:''' Savor your victory Mr. Adama, because you'll never get the chance to serve (pulls out a gun and points it at Adama).
:'''Adama:''' What are you doing?
:'''Lampkin:''' Why? Because you're perfect for the job of course. Because after the vicious separation that was Baltar's presidency and the ''bitter'' disappointment that was Roslin's, you ''are'' a shining beacon of hope. Only hope is the last thing we need. We're a doomed race. It's time that we made our peace with that essential truth.
:'''Adama:''' Romo, what the hell are you talking...?
:'''Lampkin:''' Why? You want to know why? (drops his duffel bag and kicks it over to Adama) '''Open it!'''
:'''Adama:''' (Adama does so and finds [[Lance]]'s corpse inside) Lance.
:'''Lampkin:''' That's right. They killed my cat!
:'''Adama:''' They?
:'''Lampkin:''' They! Those debased dregs of humanity out there! Lost a tribe in search of a new home, so they can roost and rot ''again''!
:'''Adama:''' How long has the cat been dead?
:'''Lampkin:''' "''How long?''" It's irrelevant! It's immaterial! It wasn't even ''my'' cat!
:'''Adama:''' Romo, it's been dead for weeks.
:'''Lampkin:''' It belonged to my [[Faye Lampkin|wife]]. I just retrieved him from a vet on Gemenon when the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|bombs started to fall]] and fate presented me with a choice. I could get back on that shuttle, or...I could run home, try to save my family. How do you think I chose?
:'''Adama:''' Romo, we all had to make difficult choices. You don't think I know? Your wife's name was Faye. You had two daughters. Jennifer and Kate. There were over two hundred passengers on that shuttle! Only a handful chose to stay behind. (Lampkin stares at him questioning) Yeah, that's right. It was in your file when you were handed the job as Baltar's counsel. And no one blamed you Romo, because at a certain point, we all made decisions that saved ''our'' lives at the cost of others. You think you're unique, Romo? Think your sins are so special?
:'''Lampkin:''' Is that how it goes? You're gonna rest your entire case on that ''pathetic'' little bit of insight?
:'''Adama:''' No. Unless, the clean start, the fresh slate, maybe they're illusions like you said. But at a certain point, faith in ourselves, in our right to survive as a species, as a people...it's not a given, it's a choice. Well, I made mine. And if you can't stomach that, then you'd damn well better squeeze that trigger right now. Go on. What are you waiting for? Or you can make a choice. Put your past behind you. Put the gun down, and help me, because I'm telling you, I'm gonna make a difference in this fleet.
:'''Lampkin:''' Is that your final word?
:'''Adama:''' That's up to you.
:'''Lampkin:''' Then swear it. (the next scene shows Adama being sworn in as president)

== Guest Stars ==
* [[Michael Hogan]] as Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]
* [[Kandyse McClure]] as Lieutenant [[Anastasia Dualla]]
* [[Kate Vernon]] as [[Virtual Ellen]]
* [[Mark Sheppard]] as [[Romo Lampkin]]
* [[Richard Hatch]] as [[Tom Zarek]]
* [[Donnelly Rhodes]] as Doctor [[Cottle]]
* [[Rekha Sharma]] as [[Tory Foster]]
* [[Leah Cairns]] as Lieutenant [[Margaret Edmondson |Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]]
* [[Colin Lawrence]] as Lieutenant [[Hamish McCall|Hamish "Skulls" McCall]]
* [[Alexandra Thomas]] as [[Hera Agathon]]
* [[Donna Soares]] as [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Gemenon Delegate|Gemenon Delegate]]
* [[Andrew McIlroy]] as [[Jacob Cantrell]]
* [[Judith Maxie]] as [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Picon Delegate|Picon Delegate]]
* [[Iris Paluly]] as [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Speaking Delegate #2|Speaking Delegate #2]]
* [[Ryan McDonell]] as Lieutenant [[Eammon Pike|Eammon "Gonzo" Pike]]
* [[Veena Sood]] as [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Speaking Delegate #3|Quorum Delegate]]
* [[Laara Sadiq]] as [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Priestess|Priestess]]

== External Link ==
* Composer [[Bear McCreary]] on the episode's score: [http://www.bearmccreary.com/blog/?p=367]

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The Ties That Bind

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== Overview ==
:''[[Kara Thrace]] leads a [[Demetrius|ship]] in her search for [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], while ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> crew deals with political and marital issues. On the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] side, the [[Significant Seven]]'s solidarity is challenged.

== Summary ==

=== On ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' and the Colonial Fleet ===
* [[Cally Tyrol]], waking from [[Nicholas Tyrol|her son's]] cries, has dreams recalling arguments with her husband, [[Galen Tyrol|Galen]], of apparently finding herself spending more time alone with her child and Galen avoiding her through work or other activity. In one scene she is taking medication, perhaps to help her sleep, or to fight depression.
* The dark room is unkempt, and medication and baby formula bottles are stacked on a table.
* When Cally Tyrol realizes that Nicky is actually crying, she comforts him and returns him to his crib. She calls [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]], apparently to try to find her husband with no luck. She finds a napkin for [[Joe's bar]] in his clothing.
* At the bar, Galen Tyrol and [[Tory Foster]] are drinking [[ambrosia]] and other spirits. Galen laments that, before [[Final Five|their revelation]], he knew what he was: husband, crew chief, and father. Now, his identity is taking a beating.
* Foster flirts with Galen as Cally walks holding her son in a dreamy state (presumably drug related) to Joe's Bar. Cally's distorted vision believes she sees Foster touching Galen's arm seductively. Entering the bar, Cally angrily yells at Galen as he tries to explain. Angry and hurt, Cally takes her son and leaves the bar as Foster looks on, still drinking and not the least upset that she might have caused the Tyrol's strife.
*In [[sickbay]], Dr. [[Cottle]] administers to [[Laura Roslin]] another [[diloxin]] treatment, noting that the drug's nausea should go away in an hour.
* As Roslin tries to relax on the bed, [[William Adama]] sits by her bedside and begins to read from a book to her, ''[[Love and Bullets]]'', by Nick Talo, apparently a detective mystery novel.
* The book's passages of a character's lost love appear to reflect through Adama as he gazes at Roslin while he completes the passage: "From the moment I open my eyes, she's in my blood, bittersweet, tinged with regret. I'll never be free of her, nor do I want to be. For she is what I am, all that is, should always be."
* The scene shifts to a press conference on ''[[Colonial One]]'' where where [[Lee Adama]] accepts appointment to the [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprican]] seat to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum]]. Vice President [[Tom Zarek]] is also in attendance.
*The press asks about questions of loyality between Lee Adama and his role in the [[Gaius Baltar]] trial, which Roslin dismisses.
* Reporter [[Playa Palacios]] asks about the whereabouts of the ''[[Demetrius]]'', missing now three weeks, Roslin defers the question to Admiral Adama, who cryptically explains that the ship is on a military mission. When [[Sekou Hamilton]] asks if [[Kara Thrace]] was made captain of that ship, Adama dismisses that as rumor.
*Roslin quickly ends the press conference. In her office, Roslin tells Adama she is surprised that the press took as long to ask about the ''Demetrius'' as they did. When Adama tells Roslin he think the issue will "blow over," Roslin disagrees. Not told of the mission, Roslin is angered that she may have to help Adama cover the true mission of the ship for a long time. Adama explains that he had to give Thrace a chance and himself a chance to believe in the [[Maelstrom|presumed-dead]] pilot, but Roslin only says, "Apparently." Adama leaves her office in silence.
*Galen Tyrol tries to explain to Cally that he and Tory Foster aren't having an affair, but Cally all but ignores him, telling him to drop their son off to the day care area and to ask the caregivers not to feed Nicky any of the [[algae mash]] as she thinks Nicky is allergic. Frustrated by Cally's avoidance of the subject, he slams his fist down on the table, upsetting his son, and tries to comfort him.
*On ''Colonial One'', Lee Adama is in a conference room for the Quorum meeting. Spotting the nameplate for Caprica, he tentatively sits down. Tom Zarek arrives, his mood dark. When Adama tells Zarek that he wanted to see Roslin to discuss some projects that [[Cowan]], his predecessor as Caprican delegate, had before she died, Zarek counters, explaining that, like himself, Roslin is keeping Adama on the sidelines. Zarek believes that Roslin does not forgive and forget easily. When Adama asks Zarek why he nominated him for the Quorum's side, Zarek tells him that it was because Adama stood up to defend Baltar and confront Roslin, he believed Adama would make an effective ally.
*Zarek feels that Roslin's increasingly secretive nature, by refusing to allow meeting to be recorded, is a sign of a larger issue, despite claiming to Adama that he remains loyal to Roslin. When Adama tells Zarek that he won't be giving a repeat of his work in Baltar's trial to undermine Roslin, saying that having a "benevolent tyrant" is better than the opposite, Zarek strongly disagrees. He asks Adama to trust him to aid in his fight to uncover the secrets that Roslin hides. He leaves a classified folder with Adama and leaves.
*In sickbay, Cally Tyrol asks for another sedative and for sleep, but Cottle objects, not wanting to turn his sickbay in an "opium den." He asks about her family life, which Cally tells all is not well since reaching the [[Ionian Nebula]].
*Cottle does side with Cally about her husband's problems, asking her to bring him in for examination. Cally smiles at Cottle's "tough love" stance but Cottle warns that she might actually be imagining things as her fatigue and drug use could be influencing her thoughts. Cally counters that she might, indeed be crazy, considering she married a man who [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I|once broke her jaw]]. When Cottle asks if that was the last time that Galen had attacked Cally, she responds that she'd wished that he'd do so again (taking Cottle's cigarette from his hand and taking a drag), if only for her to gauge what Galen really felt about her. Cottle tells her to get some rest.
*On ''Colonial One'', the Quorum meeting continues. [[Sagittaron]] Quorum delegate [[Jacob Cantrell]] strongly questions Roslin about the ''Demetrius'' mission, which she defers to answer out of matters of security. Others are visibly upset with Roslin's answer and of each other when Roslin tries to steer the meeting back to other matters of the floor while Zarek, acting as the chair of the meeting, tries to establish order.
*Lee Adama speaks out, trying to calm the others through inferring, based on his own military experience, that the president and Admiral Adama are exploring all possible routes to Earth. The Quorum audibly relaxes at Adama's words, but Roslin sees Adama as trying to be her "spokesperson" and chastises him. She directs Cantrell to continue with his discussion on medical supplies.
* Lee Adama calls a point of order, which Zarek uses to compels Contrell to yield the floor for Adama to speak. Adama brings up Executive Order 112, which would concentrate more executive power. The Quorum angrily erupts when Roslin tries to bury the issue.
*On ''Galactica'', Cally Tyrol sadly recalls her good times with her husband. She kisses her son and goes to close a door when she sees a note stuck in the door that tells her to meet at Weapons Locker 1701D.
* When Cally arrives, she finds her husband, [[Saul Tigh]] and Tory Foster entering. She opens a maintenance panel, tiny and dangerous, and enters to listen in on the conversation.
*What Cally hears shocks her more than the suggestion that her husband is having an affair. Tigh had left the note to meet at the weapons locker for Galen, and suddenly realizes that Cally could have intercepted the note. Tigh warns of the complications if Cally discovered that her husband was a Cylon.
* Cally's shock knocks a metal plate, which tumbles noisily down the ship's interior, a series of pipes and conduits that run dangerously deep from where Cally is standing. The others in the room halt their discussion for a moment before leaving. Cally escapes the tunnel and runs back to her quarters, but Foster leaves and notices that the maintenance panel was ajar.
* Cally is back in her quarters, visibly upset, when her husband returns.
* He tries to apologize, tell Cally that the affair never happened, and that his commitment to his family is paramount. But Cally believes that Galen used her to have a hybrid child and strikes him with a wrench, knocking him unconscious. She takes her son and leaves but not before taking a key from Galen's pocket.
* Walking through the corridors to the [[hangar deck]], Cally (still holding Nicky) enters a [[launch tube]]. She looks at the stars through a window, then opens a maintenance door. Inserting the key she took from Galen, Cally activates the launch tube airlock. Tory Foster arrives, and approaches Cally and Nicky.
* Cally closes the launch tube airlock door, sealing them inside. Foster tries to reason with Cally, asking her to think about what she's about to do to herself and to her child. Foster explains that they only recently found out they were Cylons, and that they are still the same people, and that they are as scared and confused as everyone else. Cally breaks down and collapses on her knees, apologizing to Nicky for what she was about to do to him. Foster comforts Cally and takes Nicky in her arms, then suddenly strikes Cally, knocking her down to the deck and putting her in a daze.
* Foster retrieves the launch tube key and exits the launch tube, Nicky in her arms. When Cally comes to, she finds herself alone trapped in the airlock, and Tory inside the launch control booth. Tory uses the key to activate the launch controls and opens the outer airlock door, sending Cally to her death in open space.
* Admiral Adama breaks the news of Cally's death to a motionless, silent Tyrol.

=== On the ''[[Demetrius]]'' ===
* On day 22 of the mission, ''Demetrius'' continues on its mission to find [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], with as many as four [[Viper Mark II]] fighters are magnetically locked on its top hull.
* Inside, Kara Thrace appears frustrated as she pours through star charts and other navigation data, trying to gain her fix on the direction of Earth. [[Felix Gaeta]] enters the room as Thrace tells him of a decision.
* In a mess hall on the dark, dirty ship, [[Diana Seelix]] asks in frustration what they are looking for in deep space. A pilot named [[Eammon Pike|Pike]], looking at the centerfold of ''[[Nymph]]'' magazine, explains that they are searching for a gas giant with rings orbiting a trinary star cluster with a comet. Seelix angrily retorts that the search is more like a "[[frak|cluster-frak]]" to her when [[Helo]] admonishes her.
* [[Sharon Agathon]] and [[Samuel Anders]] are also in the room.
* Some of the group complains that Thrace's repeated course corrections are pointless. When Pike says that he thinks ''Galactica'' is hounding them in secret, waiting for Thrace to show her "true colors" as a Cylon, Anders defends her. When the mood darkens more, Helo orders everyone to be quiet.
*Thrace is quietly approaching, listening to the conversation from above the mess hall deck, and soon yells for Helo to talk to him. Anders looks above him to Thrace (standing on steel mesh decking) and asks if there is more that she can tell them about their destination, but Thrace coldly admonishes him by rank for asking. Thrace gives Helo new [[FTL]] coordinates.
*Anders meets with Thrace, as she paints what she has seen on a bulkhead. Anders complains that she needs to open up more about the mission with the rest of the crew, but Thrace disagrees. Reminding her that some of them volunteered for the mission, Thrace steers Anders's concerns to that of their failed marriage. Anders joins their marital arm tattoos., trying to remind her of what is real. Thrace angrily tells Anders that she married him only because he was a safe choice and he was naive enough to do so.
*The two exchange more words. Thrace explains to Anders that she's not the same woman he married. He pushes her into a bunk as their anger dissolves into sex.
*After sex, Thrace questions that she and Anders's marriage was real. She questions how her feelings, her perceptions of her past, as if she were watching it from another "alien" body far away. Ander's face suggests comprehension about [[Final Five|feeling unsure of identity]].

=== On the [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]]s ===
* On a [[Resurrection Ship]], a [[Number One]] is [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrected]]. Another One tells his confused brother that he was shot by one of their own [[Cylon Centurion]]s. [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]] is there with him.
* The first Number One wants to return to his baseship, but the second One tells him that he has been effectively kicked off from his own ship in a type of coup. Boomer apologizes that her swing vote to enforce the [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]] "reconfiguration" failed, and kisses him deeply.
*On the same baseship where the Centurions shot several [[humanoid Cylon]]s for their part in the Raider reconfiguration, a Number One returns to the conference room where a Centurion is busily cleaning up the mess caused by their shootout.
*The Number One tries to understand why [[Natalie]] shifted power, suggesting to reunify the group. Natalie explains that the Raiders were only a symptom of a larger problem: Cavil's [[Rapture|earlier pressure]] on the group to [[box]] all [[Number Three]]s. Natalie says that mere unification of the [[Significant Seven|seven]] is not enough. She and the Eights at the table tell Number One that unification with the [[Final Five]] is the desired goal. Natalie wants all the Threes unboxed and work on unifying with the Five to begin.
*Cavil dislikes the idea of resuming the D'Anna's "messianic quest" that seemed to lead the remaining Cylons to this juncture, but agrees to bring Natalie's case to the other models. Natalie orders a Centurion to escort Cavil off the ship, but it hesitates until she says, "please." Cavil warns her that removing the [[inhibitor]]s from the Centurions has caused a bigger problem than Natalie realizes.
*Later, two Number Ones tell Natalie and two Number Eights the result of the vote: The consensus is to unbox the Threes, although Cavil/One remains against the idea.
*An Eight tries to solicit the Ones' support since his side was outvoted, but Natalie agrees with the Ones that the vote does not give Natalie's side the right to change the feelings of the Ones and create more discord.
* Cavil/One tells Natalie that the Threes' consciousness is being downloaded in a central resurrection hub six jumps away. Still harboring bad feelings about the decision, the two sides agree to stay on different baseships as they make their way back to hear of the Threes' discovery on the [[algae planet]].
* Cylon baseships controlled by Cavil join the rest of the fleet at their destination, but without the [[Resurrection Ship]]. The newly-arrived baseships break formation and surround Natalie's baseships, then launch an attack.
* On Cavil's baseship, Boomer worries that murder, permanent killing of their own kind without chance of resurrection is wrong. Cavil says coldly that God will watch over the dying Cylons' immortal souls. When Boomer questions who will watch over their souls, Cavil says, "We're machines, dear. We don't have souls."

== Notes ==

* This episode sees no net loss of life in the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]], with the exception of [[Cally Tyrol]]'s death later in this episode, reducing the overall survivor count to 39,675.
* The number and alphabetical designation of the weapons locker, 1701D, is a ''[[MemoryAlpha:Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' reference. 1701-D is the registry number for the ''[[MemoryAlpha:USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)|USS Enterprise]]'' from that series, which Michael Taylor and [[Ronald D. Moore]] formerly worked on.
*Like "[[He That Believeth In Me]]" and "[[Valley of Darkness]]", this episode's title is derived from Christian traditions; [[w:Blessed Be the Tie that Binds|Blessed Be the Tie that Binds]] is a Protestant hymn celebrating the unity that comes from love.
* Prior to the episode airing, [[Michael Taylor]] stated: "we say goodbye to another longtime character, though who that is and the manner of his or her departure should come as a surprise."<ref name="thewatcher">{{cite_web|url=http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2007/11/answers-to-your.html|title=Answers to your 'Razor' questions and clues about 'Battlestar Galactica's' final season|date=16 November 2007|accessdate=16 November 2007|last=Ryan|first=Maureen}} </ref>
* The script was being written while "[[Razor]]" was still in pre-production.<ref name="thewatcher"/>
* For the first time since the second season, the journalists [[Playa Palacios]] and [[Sekou Hamilton]] make an appearance.

== Analysis ==
[[Image:Orion belt.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Orion's belt. [[:Image:Orion belt highlighted.jpg|View Highlighted Version]].]]
* The constellation [[w:Orion (constellation)|Orion]] appears twice in this episode. It is clearly visible in the background of the basestars shortly before Cavil's ships begin to attack, and again when Cally looks out the window in the launch tube shortly before she is confronted by Foster. This would indicate that both fleets are relatively close to Earth.
*The ringed gas giant [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] claims to have seen is shown in this episode, bearing a striking resemblance to [[w:Jupiter|Jupiter]].
* The force with which Tory hits Cally indicates that the Final Five possess the Cylons' superhuman strength and if they possess this trait it is likely that the have other, physical Cylon traits as well.
* Foster also seems to be calmer, cooler, and more calculating than in the recent past. She appears to be more accepting of her Cylon nature than the others.
* Cavil and Boomer apparently have some sort of relationship. This was hinted at in the previous episode, when she dances lightly attired in front of him, but unclear.
* Although [[Laura Roslin]] claims to have forgiven [[Lee Adama]] in public, and even to admire his convictions, she apparently still holds a grudge for how he treated her during Baltar's trial. Later, she snubs him in a Quorum session and ribs on his inexperience.

== Questions ==

* Are all of the "renegade" Cylon faction baseships destroyed?

* Will the renegade models be boxed?

* Has [[Hera Agathon|Hera]] been left in foster care by her parents? If so, who have they found to look after her?

* Does the vague warning given by Cavil to Natalie about removing the inhibitors hint towards a Centurion rebellion against the humanoid Cylons?

* Will Boomer abandon Cavil's side now that he has resorted to lethal measures against Natalie's faction?

* What is Foster's motivation for killing Cally Tyrol?

* Now that power has shifted to the more aggresive models, will the Cylon renew their attacks on the humans?

== Official Statements ==

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

== Guest Stars ==

* [[Michael Hogan]] as Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]
* [[Aaron Douglas]] as CPO [[Galen Tyrol]]
* [[Tahmoh Penikett]] as Captain [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]
* [[Michael Trucco]] as Ensign [[Samuel Anders]]
* [[Nicki Clyne]] as [[Cally Henderson Tyrol]]
* [[Alessandro Juliani]] as Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]]
* [[Richard Hatch]] as [[Tom Zarek]]
* [[Donnelly Rhodes]] as Doctor [[Cottle]]
* [[Matthew Bennett]] as [[Number Five]]
* [[Rekha Sharma]] as [[Tory Foster]]
* [[Dean Stockwell]] as [[Number One]]
* [[Jen Halley]] as Ensign [[Diana Seelix|Diana "Hardball" Seelix]]
* [[Christina Schild]] as [[Playa Palacios]]
* [[Biski Gugushe]] as [[Sekou Hamilton]]
* [[Finn R. Devitt]] as [[Nicholas Tyrol]] (credited as "Baby Nicky")
* [[Donna Soares]] as Speaking Delegate #1
* [[Andrew McIlroy]] as [[Jacob Cantrell]]
* [[Judith Maxie]] as [[Picon (RDM)|Picon]] Delegate
* [[Iris Paluly]] as Speaking Delegate #2
* [[Ryan McDonell]] as Lieutenant [[Eammon Pike|Eammon "Gonzo" Pike]]
* [[Marilyn Norry]] as [[Reza Chronides]]

== External Links ==
*Composer [[Bear McCreary]] on the episode's score: http://www.bearmccreary.com/blog/?p=245

== References ==
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Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance

2007-11-29T22:36:09Z

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:''This page covers the webisode series titled "The Resistance," which follows the exploits of the [[New Caprica Resistance]]. For other meanings, see "[[Resistance]]".''
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}}'''''Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance''''' is an online series that aims to fill in the gaps between seasons [[Season 2 (2005-06)|two]] and [[Season 3 (2006-07)|three]] of the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]]. The webisodes can be viewed through the official [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/video/webisodes/ web portal] at [http://www.scifi.com/ SciFi.com]. An official [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/video/webisodes/faq.html FAQ] deals with availability and technical issues.

The webisode series was written by ''Battlestar Galactica'' veterans [[Bradley Thompson]] and [[David Weddle]], and directed by [[Wayne Rose]]. The entire series is 25 minutes long in total, divided into 10 episodes. While the Webisodes are scheduled to be included in the [[Battlestar Galactica - Season Three (Region 1 DVD)|Season 3 (Region 1 DVD)]] Boxset, they were not included in the [[Battlestar Galactica - Season Three (Region 2 DVD)|Season 3 (Region 2 DVD)]] version.

In particular the webisodes chronicle [[Duck]]'s and [[Jammer]]'s motivations to become suicide bomber and traitor respectively.

== Summary ==
===Episode 1===
* Running time: ~3:19
* Release date: September 5, 2006
* Starts on the 67<sup>th</sup> day after [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]

Tyrol and Tigh organize the budding resistance movement on Cylon-occupied New Caprica, but they find recruiting new soldiers is becoming dangerous and difficult. The Cylons have instituted a curfew. Violators go to jail, which is the first thing the Cylons built on [[New Caprica]]. New Capricans are shot on the spot if weapons are found in their tents. A stash of weapons belonging to [[Longo]] was confiscated by the Cylons, but the resistance was able to retrieve some of them which were hidden underneath his latrine. The Cylons are also setting up a [[New Caprica Police|human police force]] to take over for the [[Cylon Centurion]]s, who are doing most of the police work.

===Episode 2===
*Running time: ~1:54
*Release date: September 7, 2006
[[Duck]] has refused to work with the resistance, on the grounds of his relationship and intended child with [[Nora]]. Tyrol is highly displeased at this, particularly his reasons, as they parallel Tyrol's own situation; Jammer suggests respecting Duck's decision.

A ritual for protection of the crops from blight is said in the temple. As Sister [[Tivenan]] leaves, [[Jean Barolay]] abruptly shifts the conversation to the movement of the weapons stash into the [[temple]]; [[Jammer]] strongly objects, but he is overruled by Tigh.

===Episode 3===
*Running time: ~2:42
*Release date: September 12, 2006

In the evening, Nora prays to [[Aphrodite]] to bless she and Duck with a child. He tells her his decision about joining the resistance. She is pleased that he refused Tyrol.

During the night, Tigh, Tyrol, Jammer, and Barolay move the weapons into the temple disguising them.

The next morning, Nora wakes Duck saying he will be late to work. She tries to convince him to go to temple after work with her. He refuses, saying he talks to the gods in his own way.

===Episode 4===
*Running time: ~1:57
*Release date: September 14, 2006

[[Cally]] and [[Nora]] visit the temple. Nora is holding Cally's baby while Cally is performing a ceremony. At that moment [[Cylon Centurion|Cylon Centurions]] can be heard outside, and a [[Number Five]] announces that they will enter the temple. Several men try to block them, but the Cylons force their way in and gunfire can be seen and heard. While trying to run away Cally falls to the ground protecting her baby, but Nora is shot and killed when she tries to retrieve her bag.

===Episode 5===
*Running time: ~1:56
*Release date: September 19, 2006

Tyrol, Cally and Jammer return Nora's bag to Duck, and inform him about the death of Nora. Duck is physically sickened by the news. He becomes angry and demands to know if there were weapons in the temple. Tyrol tries to avoid the question, but Duck doesn't relent until Tyrol admits the truth. At that point, Duck orders them out of his tent.

===Episode 6===
*Running time: ~1:37
*Release date: September 21, 2006
Three days after the attack on the temple, Tigh, Barolay, and Jammer discuss the results of the attack, which has brought about positive effects for the resistance. The general population has started to side with the resistance and 1,000 people protested outside ''[[Colonial One]]'' over the attack on the temple. Since the attack, recruitment has become easier with 150 Colonials signing up. Tigh thinks that this was a good deal because the loss of a few weapons was worth the propaganda victory. However, Jammer is upset that the loss of 10 lives was not worth it. Tigh comes down hard on Jammer, stating that people die in war, nice people, and the resistance has no room for crybabies.

===Episode 7===
*Running time: ~1:58
*Release date: September 26, 2006

[[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] and [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] discuss the capture of [[Jammer]] by the Cylons. Tyrol insists that Jammer won't reveal the work of the resistance. Jammer is imprisoned in the [[New Caprica Detention Center]] and is visited by a [[Number Five]], who frees him of his bonds and says he wants to talk to him about what happened in the temple.

===Episode 8===
*Running time: ~3:56
*Release date: September 28, 2006
[[Number Five]] proposes to [[Jammer]] that the massacre at the [[temple]] may have actually been planned by the [[Resistance]]. Number Five reminds Jammer of the good that has been accomplished by working together in peace. He offers Jammer the chance to stop further bloodshed by informing the [[Cylons]] of potentially life-threatening actions by the Resistance. Jammer balks at the idea of becoming a [[New Caprica Police|traitor]] to the Resistance, but accepts a key card which will let him enter the Cylon detention center to report the Resistance's secret plans if he chooses to become an informant.

===Episode 9===
*Running time: ~3:07
*Release date: October 3, 2006
[[James Lyman|Jammer]] is released from the [[New Caprica Detention Center]] and is met outside by [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]]. Tyrol notes that he was informed of Jammer's arrest by [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Boomer]], and then asks him what he told the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]. Jammer nervously explains that the Toasters questioned him about the [[temple]] massacre. Jammer reassures Tyrol that he did not tell the Cylons anything, but Tyrol appears doubtful.

Meanwhile, [[Tucker Clellan|Duck]] returns to his tent and begins to clean up the mess from his earlier outburst. He bursts into tears while gathering up a broken picture frame and an icon of the [[Lords of Kobol]].

===Episode 10===
*Running time: ~4:34
*Release date: October 5, 2006
After the [[dedication ceremony]] for [[Galen Tyrol|Galen]] and [[Cally Tyrol]]'s [[Nicholas Tyrol|son]], [[Tucker Clellan|Duck]] approaches Tyrol in the [[temple]]. Duck informs Tyrol that he has joined the [[New Caprica Police]], in hopes of finding out who tipped the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] off and is responsible for [[Nora]]'s death.

Afterwards, Tyrol meets in the backroom with [[Saul Tigh]], [[James Lyman|Jammer]] and [[Jean Barolay]] to discuss their next move against the Cylons. Tigh suggests hiding explosives in the grain silo, which Jammer points out is across from the hospital. When Tigh shows a lack of concern for the patients' safety, Jammer excuses himself "to patrol the perimeter."

Outside, Duck is smoking and examining his new NCP patch. He puts it away when Jammer comes out, and the two friends share a smoke together. Jammer notices that Duck said he was going to quit, to which Duck says "What frakking difference does it make now?" and leaves. Once alone, Jammer sits quietly, and reaches into his pocket to find the Cylon device [[Number Five]] gave him. 

== Notes ==
*The original title of the webisode series was "Crossroads".
[[Image:Chinese_characters.png|thumb|300px|The Chinese Characters behind Tyrol in Webisode 7]]
*Three [[Wikipedia:Chinese character|Chinese characters]] can be seen on a crate behind Tyrol at around 2:10 (in the countdown-style timer used by the SciFi.com Video Player) in the seventh episode. They are "盐", "油" and "姜", meaning "salt", "oil" and "ginger" (all cooking ingredients), respectively.
*Currently, for legal reasons, attempting to view the webisodes from outside of the USA will present you with a frozen video player stating either of two messages:
** "Your video will begin playing after a brief advertisement." (in the case of the webisode splash page currently on scifi.com)
** "We're sorry, but the clip selected isn't available from your location. Please select another clip." (if the user opens the video on Sci Fi's Pulse website)
:Users outside of America will have to wait until a DVD release, television broadcast, or some other means becomes available to view them. To date, the current, bare-bones DVD releases of season three do not have "The Resistance" content.
* In the sixth episode, Tigh states that 20 billion humans were "burned" by the Cylons. He also uses a new slang term for Centurions, "chrome jobs." This is likely inspired by the [[Caprica Resistance]]'s calling [[humanoid Cylon]]s "skin jobs".
*[[Number Five]] uses Jammer's real name for the first time: [[James Lyman]].
*Other ideas discussed were a day in the life of Doctor Cottle, Gaeta working in Baltar's administration and the domestic life of the Tyrols ([[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion Season Three]]).

== Analysis ==
*Jammer is unsurprised to hear that [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] and [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Boomer]] have been speaking. Apparently they have resumed some sort of contact since the occupation. How does this sit with other members of the resistance?

== Questions ==
* Who tipped off the Cylons?

== Official Statements ==

When ''[[Battlestar Wiki:Official Communiques/Archive3#Webisode series|Battlestar Wiki asked Bradley Thompson]]'' about the webisode series, he said:

:"It's true that David Weddle and I wrote the webisodes. Ron Moore and David Eick assigned them to us during the production of Exodus. The ten short segments combine to tell one story, which takes place during the Cylon Occupation that ended Season 2. The webisodes plant seeds that come to fruition in Season 3. They were all directed by Wayne Rose, the veteran director who's been doing 2nd Unit and 1stAD work for the series. The original title of the story was "Crossroads." The running lengths will vary with what's necessary to tell each segment of the story. The first cut I saw of all ten ran about 25 minutes. The run plan we were told was that they'd put up one a week as a countdown to the season premiere -- but SciFi may have other ideas on that by now."

"Nora is played by Emily Holmes. Longo is spelled the way you have it." -- contents of September 5, 2006 message from [[Bradley Thompson]]

"When they initially came to us we could have done just vignettes, and in fact the the staff thought of that approach to the webisodes. But when Brad and I got the assignment we thought, 'Let's just tell one story.' Network wanted it to play into the third season, so that gave us the inspiration to chronicle events that would pay off in the third season... [I remember Ron Moore saying] 'SciFi's ready to do it; they're ready to pay for them. You guys are doing it. Unless you don't want to. Have a story the day after tomorrow.' In a day or two Brad and I came up with the concept and a day after that we pitched them to SciFi. We wrote them in four days or something like that, and shot them the next week... The massacre in the temple has temp tracks we were going to loop and fix and make a lot better, but because we were forbidden to work on them anymore they went out as is. Of course people complained when they watched them and it just made us cringe because we very much wanted to correct that." -- David Weddle in a October 2, 2006 interview with [http://www.chud.com CHUD.com].

"We said that we wanted a story that goes about a half hour -- we wanted ten three minute things. Then it was like where does it naturally feel like we're going to get something exciting you're going to want to see more of in future webisode... They told us was that we could have anybody that was in Canada. All of our Canadian actors... Duck and Jammer perform actions in those episodes. Ron, when he wrote those, hinted at what put the characters in place to do those things and we thought, 'There's the story.'" -- Bradley Thompson in a October 2, 2006 interview with [http://www.chud.com CHUD.com].

"We came up with the idea of telling one story over the couse of ten webisodes that will fill in the motivations of some peripheral characters who nevertheless play pivotal roles in the opening episodes of Season 3. We wanted to tell the story of Duck and Jammer, who had become close friends while on New Caprica, and show how a single tragic event -- the temple massacre -- propels them on divergent paths toward actions that will affect the outcome of the battle to liberate the human race." -- David Weddle in a October 5, 2006 interview with [http://www.syfyportal.com SyFy Portal].

=== Contract Disputes and Production Delays===

In an interview covering the WGA picket line on November 6, 2007, [[Ron D. Moore]] indicated that NBC-Universal had wanted to produce a series of online webisodes, but didn't want to pay anyone for it, seeing as they considered such things as promotional material and were not actually covered under the Writers Guild of America contract. The ''Battlestar Galactica'' writing team embraced the new story opportunity, but other NBC-Universal series such as ''The Office'' felt that webisodes were nothing but extra filler they were being forced to crank out.

Initially refusing to do them, Moore and NBC-Uni hammered out a deal whereby people would be paid.<ref name="eonline">{{cite_web|url=http://www.eonline.com/gossip/kristin/detail/index.jsp?uuid=117e4468-9709-4b35-8f4d-dcefa652fc3e|title=Strikewatch: TV's Bosses Walk the Line—and We're There|date=7 November 2007|accessdate=8 November 2007|last=Dos Santos|first=Kristin|format=|language=}}</ref> According to [[Bradley Thompson]], the writing team was given extra pay for vaguely described "extra work" after but no long-term resolution was ever reached. However, while the deal for payment was made, Moore was later told that they wouldn't be credited for their work, and refused to hand over the episodes based on that fact.<ref name="eonline"/>

According to Bradley Thompson, the webisodes were originally meant to be aired once a week (in much the same fashion as the [[Razor Flashbacks]] that precede the airing of "[[Razor]]"), for the 10 weeks preceding the Season 3 premiere on October 6th. This would have resulted in the webisodes premiering in mid-August. However, their release was delayed due to a the aforementioned labor dispute between the Writer's Guild of America and NBC-Universal regarding extra pay for the writers doing the webisodes, despite the fact that they were mostly completed.

The WGA is concerned about the long-term implications of online content: writers are not specifically compensated for their work on them, and NBC-Uni might argue that they have no claim on redistribution profits if they try to classify it as "promotional" material. By August 2006 the negotiations between the WGA and NBC-Uni broke down, and the WGA ordered all series producing webisodes (such as ''Battlestar Galactica'' and ''The Office'') to refuse to physically deliver the webisodes to NBC-Uni for distribution online. NBC-Universal, who produces both shows, has filed a complaint with National Labor Relations Board, claiming that this writing is included in the current WGA contract and urging the NLRB to make the series release the material.

However, several weeks later the finished webisodes were taken by NBC-Uni, who did not resolve the issue of crediting the writers or people who produced the webisodes.<ref name="eonline"/> Thus Ron Moore took it upon himself to credit the people responsible via his blog on the official SCIFI Channel website.

The first of ten webisodes were released on Tuesday, September 5, 2006, and subsequent installments were released every Tuesday and Thursday until the Season 3 premiere on October 6, 2006.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

* ''From [[#Episode 1|Episode One]], Tigh and Tyrol discuss the remains of Longo's weapons cache:''

: '''[[Saul Tigh]]''': This is all that's left? This is frakkin' pathetic. This keeps up, we'll have nothing but rocks left to throw [[Cylons (RDM)|at the bastards]].
: '''[[Galen Tyrol]]''': Yeah, and nobody to throw them.

* ''From Episode 1, Tigh tells Lyman to be more forceful in recruiting Clellan:
: '''[[James Lyman]]''': [[Tucker Clellan|Duck]] hates the toasters, no doubt about that.
: '''Saul Tigh:''' He's also an ex-[[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] jock with 40 kills. Talk to him. Make him understand that we need him. Throw in some poetic crap about the struggle for liberty against the Cylon oppressors—whatever it takes! (Lyman exchanges looks with Tyrol) We need more people or this resistance movement is gonna die in its crib.

* ''From [[#Episode 6|Episode Six]]:''

:'''[[Jammer]]''': What about the ten innocent people? Why don't you tell [[Duck]] what a bargain you got for Nora's life?
:'''[[Saul Tigh]]''': You got that ass-backwards, sonny. We didn't shoot those people, the chrome jobs did...
:'''Jammer''': Because we hid weapons there!
:'''Tigh''': Hey! We're not playing pattycake here. These bastards burned up [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|twenty billion]] of us, you gonna say that's our fault, too? Instead of bawlin' like a little girl, you should focus on getting some payback.
:'''Jammer''': Is that all this is about to you? Blood for blood?
:'''Tigh''': We're at war! War is messy! People get killed—good people, nice people. Get that through your head, or get out! We don't need any cry-babies in this outfit.

== Cast ==
These are listed in the order they appeared during the 10 episodes.

{| class="messagebox" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
! class="infoboxheader" | '''Cast Member'''
! class="infoboxheader" | '''Character'''
! class="infoboxheader" colspan="10" | '''Episode(s)'''
|-
| [[Nicki Clyne]]
| [[Cally Tyrol]]
| 1
|
|
| 4
| 5
|
|
|
|
| 10
|-
| [[Aaron Douglas]]
| [[Galen Tyrol]]
| 1
| 2
| 3
|
| 5
|
| 7
|
| 9
| 10
|-
| [[Christian Tessier]]
| [[Tucker Clellan|Tucker "Duck" Clellan]]
| 1
| 2
| 3
|
| 5
|
|
|
| 9
| 10
|-
| [[Dominic Zamprogna]]
| [[James Lyman|Jammer]]
| 1
| 2
| 3
|
| 5
| 6
| 7
| 8
| 9
| 10
|-
| [[Michael Hogan]]
| [[Saul Tigh]]
| 1
| 2
| 3
|
|
| 6
| 7
|
|
| 10
|-
| [[Emily Holmes]]
| [[Nora]]
| 1
|
| 3
| 4
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| [[Alisen Down]]
| [[Jean Barolay]]
|
| 2
| 3
|
|
| 6
|
|
|
| 10
|-
| [[Carmen Moore]]
| [[Tivenan|Sister Tivenan]]
|
| 2
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 10
|-
| [[Matthew Bennett]]
| [[Number Five]]
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 7
| 8
|
|
|}

== Crew ==
In his September 6<sup>th</sup> 2006 [http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2006/09/#a001251 official blog post], [[Ronald D. Moore]] recognized all the crew involved in the production of the webisodes.

Director: [[Wayne Rose]].
Writers: [[Bradley Thompson]] & [[David Weddle]].
Executive Producers: [[Ron D. Moore]] and [[David Eick]].
Producer: [[Harvey Frand]].
Co-Producers: Bradley Thompson & David Weddle.
Producer, Post Production work: [[imdb:nm0502735|Paul Leonard]].
Director of Photography: John Drake.
Editors: [[Michael O'Halloran]], Tim Kinzy, Ian Kezbaum, and Harry Jierjian.
Music: [[Bear McCreary]].

Visual Effects Supervisor: [[Gary Hutzel]].
Unit Production Manager: Boris Ivanov.
First Assistant Directors: Shirley-Anne Parsons and Alexia Droz.
Second Assistant Director: Mindy Heslin.
Set Costumes Supervisor: Keith Parent.
Make-up Artist: Ankara Eden.
Second Assistant, Make-up: Liz Raman Nair.
First Assistant, Hair Stylist: Jamie McKay.
Prop Assistants: Glenn Hilworth, Gerry Thompson, and Robert Stecky.
Sound Mixer: Mark Noda.

Boom Operators: Keith Henderson and Tony Wyman.
First Assistant Camera: Shannon Abbott.
Digital Imaging Technician: Tracy Sim.
Gaffer: Guy Patterson.
Best Boy, Electric: Paul Bougie.
Genny Operator: Murray Chysyk.
Lamp Operator: Blair McDonald.
Key Grip: Mark Leiterman.
Best Boy Grips: Dave McKinlay and Ron Baran.
Script Supervisor: Carol Green-Lundy.
Medic and Craft Services: Tim Gunderson.

''Battlestar Galactica'' Main Title Theme by [[Richard Gibbs]].

Scoring and Orchestral Engineer: Steve Kaplan.
Music Editor: Michael Baber.
Special Effects Coordinators: Al Collis and Kevin Andruschak.

Studio Executive: Richard Rothstein.
Studio Executive in Charge of Production: Todd Sharp.
Network Executives: [[IMDB:nm2303904|Mark Stern]] and Erik Storey.

====Dedication====

Ron D. Moore added a special dedication to the credits:

<blockquote>''All of the above people worked above and beyond the call of duty to deliver these Webisodes to you and they did it while also working to deliver the regular episodes of the third season. They did it without any template of how these things were to be done and they did it in defiance of a limited budget and a extraordinarily truncated shooting schedule.''</blockquote>

<blockquote>''I'm proud of them and proud of their work. I hope you'll agree.''</blockquote>

== References ==
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Guardian basestar

2007-11-27T04:19:35Z

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| image= Guardian Basestar.png
| title=Guardian basestar
| race=Cylons
| type=Military
| role=Carrier/battleship hybrid
| ftl=Yes
| weapons=
| arm=
| status= Destroyed by Colonial forces
| img=
}}

The '''Guardian basestar'''<ref>{{bsgwiki term}}</ref> was a design developed by the Cylons at the end of the first [[Cylon War]] and represents the first step towards the [[Basestar (RDM)#Modern basestar|modern basestar]] design. The [[first Hybrid]] was developed for this basestar and integrated with it.

At the end of the Cylon War, Lieutenant [[William Adama]], then a Viper pilot, is shot down over an [[ice planet]] and encounters a facility where humans are being experimented on to create [[Hybrid]]s. Unable to free the captives, he witnesses the launch of this particular basestar, although he is unaware of its nature at the time.

According to [[Sharon Agathon]], a group of [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|old Centurions]] escaped being scrapped when they were replaced with the newer, non-sentient models, and made off with this basestar, the first Hybrid and other materiel. They became known as "Guardians" and have become a legend among the Cylons as no one knows for sure if they still exist.

Eventually, the Guardians come upon a science team from ''Pegasus'', using a [[Raptor]] to study a supernova, and capture them to experiment on. During a search and rescue mission for the Raptor, [[Starbuck]] and [[Showboat]] encounter Guardian [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raiders]] and engage them. Starbuck shoots one down in the landing bay, allowing it to be studied. After learning of the Guardians from Agathon, and connecting the information with his experiences 40 years ago, Admiral Adama orders an attack on them.

Having learned its likely location from the Raider's navigational computer, ''Pegasus'' jumps into the vicinity of the Guardian basestar and uses a Raptor to land a Marine strike team, led by Starbuck and [[Kendra Shaw]], on the basestar. They are successful in rescuing the civilians, but take several casualties. After she is wounded and the trigger of the team nuclear bomb is damaged, Shaw decides to stay back and detonate the bomb manually. Before she does so, she encounters the first Hybrid whom the Guardians worhship as a god. He claims to expect her and delivers a [[The Destiny#Warning from the First Hybrid|cryptic warning]] about Kara Thrace ([[Razor]]).

== Notes ==
* Given that only the standard Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)#Cylon War-era basestar|basestar]] is displayed in the [[Galactica Museum]], the Colonials might never have encountered another one like it. Considering this was the very end of the war, the model likely never saw combat. It is unknown if more ships like it were built, or if it is unique.

== See Also ==
*[[Battle of the Guardian Basestar]]
*[[First Hybrid]]
*[[Guardians]]

== References ==
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div>

Razor Flashbacks

2007-10-20T07:07:00Z

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:''This page covers the webisode series for "Razor," which follows the exploits of the young [[William Adama]] during the [[Cylon War]]. For the two hour television event, see: "[[Razor]]".''
{{Episode Data
| image=Cylon Facility - Razor Flashbacks.jpg
| title=Battlestar Galactica: Razor Flashbacks
| series=
| special= Y
| season=
| episode=
| guests=
| writer=[[Michael Taylor]]
| story=
| director=[[Wayne Rose]]<br/>[[Felix Alcala]]
| production=
| rating=
| US airdate= 2007-10-05 through 2007-11-16
| UK airdate=
| dvd=
| population=
| prev= [[Crossroads, Part II]]
| next= [[Razor]]
}}

'''''Battlestar Galactica: Razor Flashbacks''''' are an online series that aims provide the story of a young [[William Adama]]'s ([[Nico Cortez]]) discovery of a [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] experiment during his time in the first [[Cylon War]]. The webisodes are aimed to lay down the back story for events in [[Season 4 (2008)|Season 4]] that will "threaten him, the crew of the ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' and the survival of the human race". The webisodes can be viewed through the official [http://www.scifi.com/pulse Sci Fi Pulse] (SciFi.com's streaming service) or on the screen during airings of ''[[FlashGordonWiki:Flash Gordon (Sci Fi Channel)|Flash Gordon]]'' on Friday at 9/8 P.M. CT.

The webisode series was written by [[Michael Taylor]], and directed by [[Wayne Rose]] and [[Felix Alcala]]. In fact, these flashbacks were cut out of the "[[Razor]]" television movie due to time constraints, but will be reintegrated in the version of "Razor" for the [[Razor (Region 1 DVD)|Region 1 DVD]].

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

[[Image:Razor Flashback 1.jpg|thumb|Young [[William Adama|Bill Adama]] with [[Jaycie McGavin]] on ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''.]]

* Running time: ~00:02:30
* Day: 4,571 (First [[Cylon War]])
* SCI FI Pulse link: http://video.scifi.com/player/?id=163960

On board ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', [[Jaycie McGavin]] and [[William Adama]] are having sex in the [[duty locker]], during which McGavin asks if Adama left his boots out. Adama tells her that he ran into the Commander while he was taking off his boots, which leads into them mocking the commander with one of his apparently [[Nothing but the rain|well-known greetings]].

McGavin and Adama talk before joining a battle to attack an ice planet in the "ass end of nowhere", where a rumored [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] superweapon is allegedly being built. It is defended heavily by the Cylons: three [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]] wings, ground forces, defensive batteries and nuclear weapons.

Another rumor they talk about is that peace negotiations are in progress and that the Cylons may unexpectedly surrender, which McGavin scoffs as unlikely. She runs off to report to a briefing for [[Raptor Squadron 2]], leaving Adama alone as the ship readies itself for possible nuclear attack.

===Episode 2===
*Running time: ~00:02:41
* Day: 4,571 (First Cylon War)
* SCI FI Pulse link: http://video.scifi.com/player/?id=163980

McGavin returns from her mission badly wounded. Adama tries to reassure her that she will live, but she tells him that he was always a bad liar. After medics carry Gavin to [[sickbay]], Adama is filled with anger against the Cylons and cleared to launch in his [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]].

===Episode 3===
*Running time: ~00:02:41
* Day: 4,571 (First Cylon War)
* SCI FI Pulse link:

Adama and his flight lead, Bonzai, engage in bloody dogfights against raider as the battle of Operation Raptor commences all around them in orbit of a planet. During the battle, the Battlestar Columbia is pummeled from basetar fire and is subsequently destroyed. Adama then spots two Raiders entering the planet's atmoshpere. Out for bloodlust, Adama engages the two, he shoots down one in the high altitudes. Inside a cloud, he suddenly collides with the other and falls to the ground in his disentegrating craft.

===Episode 4===
*Running time: N/A

Not yet available.

===Episode 5===
*Running time: N/A

Not yet available.

===Episode 6===
*Running time: N/A

Not yet available.

===Episode 7===
*Running time: N/A

Not yet available.

== Notes ==

* With regard to Sci Fi Pulse, only those in the United States can see these Flashbacks, since the player is region-locked. This means that anyone with an [[w:IP address|IP address]] outside of the United States cannot see the Flashbacks via Sci Fi Pulse. However, there are likely "illegal" versions of these episodes onilne -- because of the illegality of these, Battlestar Wiki cannot and will not furnish links to these unauthorized sources.
* The "[[Nothing but the rain]]" greeting apparently originates with ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'s'' wartime commander, which would later be passed down by [[William Adama]] to [[Kara Thrace]].
* The [[Cylon War]] has lasted for the past twelve and a half years.
* Raptors were also in operation during the Cylon War.
* The reference to an ice planet with a superweapon based on it seems reminiscent of [[Arcta]] in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] episode "[[The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I]]".
* The braiding around the uniform collar of the pilots, in addition to the segmented uniform vest, appears inspired by the [[Uniforms (TOS)|Colonial uniforms of the Original Series]].
** In Episode 2, Adama passes a man in ''Galactica'''s hallway wearing the beige tunic of a [[Uniforms (TOS)#Warrior_uniforms|warrior uniform]] from the Original Series, without the brown jacket.
* Episode 3 displays the Raiders and Basetar in the original series with CG Models against Viper Nk. II

== Analysis ==

Not yet available.

== Questions ==

== Official Statements ==

Not yet available.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

Not yet available.

== Cast ==
These are listed in the order they appeared during the 7 episodes.

{| class="messagebox" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2"
! class="infoboxheader" | '''Cast Member'''
! class="infoboxheader" | '''Character'''
! class="infoboxheader" colspan="7" | '''Episode(s)'''
|-
| [[Edward James Olmos]]
| [[William Adama]]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| [[Nico Cortez]]
| Young [[William Adama]]
| 1
| 2
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| [[Allison Warnyca]]
| [[Jaycie McGavin]]
| 1
| 2
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| [[Jacob Blair]]
| Squad Leader [[Banzai]]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| [[Campbell Lane]]
| [[Hybrid]]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| [[Chris Bradford]]
| Ops Officer
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| [[Ben Cotton]]
| [[Terrified Man]]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|}

== Crew ==

The full list of cast and crew is up on [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/razor/credits/ the SciFi.com Razor website].

== References ==
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div>

[http://frakked.blogspot.com/2007/10/razor-flashback-1.html Full transcript of Razor Flashback - Episode 1]

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[[Category:Behind the Scenes]]
[[Category:Episode Guide]]
[[Category:Episode Guide (RDM)|*]]
[[Category:Episodes written by Michael Taylor]]
[[Category:Episodes directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá]]
[[Category:Episodes directed by Wayne Rose]]
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Razor Flashbacks

2007-10-20T07:04:21Z

QX100: /* Episode 3 */

:''This page covers the webisode series for "Razor," which follows the exploits of the young [[William Adama]] during the [[Cylon War]]. For the two hour television event, see: "[[Razor]]".''
{{Episode Data
| image=Cylon Facility - Razor Flashbacks.jpg
| title=Battlestar Galactica: Razor Flashbacks
| series=
| special= Y
| season=
| episode=
| guests=
| writer=[[Michael Taylor]]
| story=
| director=[[Wayne Rose]]<br/>[[Felix Alcala]]
| production=
| rating=
| US airdate= 2007-10-05 through 2007-11-16
| UK airdate=
| dvd=
| population=
| prev= [[Crossroads, Part II]]
| next= [[Razor]]
}}

'''''Battlestar Galactica: Razor Flashbacks''''' are an online series that aims provide the story of a young [[William Adama]]'s ([[Nico Cortez]]) discovery of a [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] experiment during his time in the first [[Cylon War]]. The webisodes are aimed to lay down the back story for events in [[Season 4 (2008)|Season 4]] that will "threaten him, the crew of the ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' and the survival of the human race". The webisodes can be viewed through the official [http://www.scifi.com/pulse Sci Fi Pulse] (SciFi.com's streaming service) or on the screen during airings of ''[[FlashGordonWiki:Flash Gordon (Sci Fi Channel)|Flash Gordon]]'' on Friday at 9/8 P.M. CT.

The webisode series was written by [[Michael Taylor]], and directed by [[Wayne Rose]] and [[Felix Alcala]]. In fact, these flashbacks were cut out of the "[[Razor]]" television movie due to time constraints, but will be reintegrated in the version of "Razor" for the [[Razor (Region 1 DVD)|Region 1 DVD]].

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

[[Image:Razor Flashback 1.jpg|thumb|Young [[William Adama|Bill Adama]] with [[Jaycie McGavin]] on ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''.]]

* Running time: ~00:02:30
* Day: 4,571 (First [[Cylon War]])
* SCI FI Pulse link: http://video.scifi.com/player/?id=163960

On board ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', [[Jaycie McGavin]] and [[William Adama]] are having sex in the [[duty locker]], during which McGavin asks if Adama left his boots out. Adama tells her that he ran into the Commander while he was taking off his boots, which leads into them mocking the commander with one of his apparently [[Nothing but the rain|well-known greetings]].

McGavin and Adama talk before joining a battle to attack an ice planet in the "ass end of nowhere", where a rumored [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] superweapon is allegedly being built. It is defended heavily by the Cylons: three [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]] wings, ground forces, defensive batteries and nuclear weapons.

Another rumor they talk about is that peace negotiations are in progress and that the Cylons may unexpectedly surrender, which McGavin scoffs as unlikely. She runs off to report to a briefing for [[Raptor Squadron 2]], leaving Adama alone as the ship readies itself for possible nuclear attack.

===Episode 2===
*Running time: ~00:02:41
* Day: 4,571 (First Cylon War)
* SCI FI Pulse link: http://video.scifi.com/player/?id=163980

McGavin returns from her mission badly wounded. Adama tries to reassure her that she will live, but she tells him that he was always a bad liar. After medics carry Gavin to [[sickbay]], Adama is filled with anger against the Cylons and cleared to launch in his [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]].

===Episode 3===
*Running time: ~00:02:41
* Day: 4,571 (First Cylon War)
* SCI FI Pulse link:

Adama and his flight lead, Bonzai, engage in bloody dogfights against raider as the battle of Operation Raptor commences all around them in orbit of a planet. During the battle, the Battlestar Columbia is pummeled from basetar fire and is subsequently destroyed. Adama then spots two Raiders entering the planet's atmoshpere. Out for bloodlust, Adama engages the two, he shoots down one in the high altitudes. Inside a cloud, he suddenly collides with the other and falls to the ground in his disentegrating craft.

===Episode 4===
*Running time: N/A

Not yet available.

===Episode 5===
*Running time: N/A

Not yet available.

===Episode 6===
*Running time: N/A

Not yet available.

===Episode 7===
*Running time: N/A

Not yet available.

== Notes ==

* With regard to Sci Fi Pulse, only those in the United States can see these Flashbacks, since the player is region-locked. This means that anyone with an [[w:IP address|IP address]] outside of the United States cannot see the Flashbacks via Sci Fi Pulse. However, there are likely "illegal" versions of these episodes onilne -- because of the illegality of these, Battlestar Wiki cannot and will not furnish links to these unauthorized sources.
* The "[[Nothing but the rain]]" greeting apparently originates with ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'s'' wartime commander, which would later be passed down by [[William Adama]] to [[Kara Thrace]].
* The [[Cylon War]] has lasted for the past twelve and a half years.
* Raptors were also in operation during the Cylon War.
* The reference to an ice planet with a superweapon based on it seems reminiscent of [[Arcta]] in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] episode "[[The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I]]".
* The braiding around the uniform collar of the pilots, in addition to the segmented uniform vest, appears inspired by the [[Uniforms (TOS)|Colonial uniforms of the Original Series]].
** In Episode 2, Adama passes a man in ''Galactica'''s hallway wearing the beige tunic of a [[Uniforms (TOS)#Warrior_uniforms|warrior uniform]] from the Original Series, without the brown jacket.

== Analysis ==

Not yet available.

== Questions ==

== Official Statements ==

Not yet available.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

Not yet available.

== Cast ==
These are listed in the order they appeared during the 7 episodes.

{| class="messagebox" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2"
! class="infoboxheader" | '''Cast Member'''
! class="infoboxheader" | '''Character'''
! class="infoboxheader" colspan="7" | '''Episode(s)'''
|-
| [[Edward James Olmos]]
| [[William Adama]]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| [[Nico Cortez]]
| Young [[William Adama]]
| 1
| 2
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| [[Allison Warnyca]]
| [[Jaycie McGavin]]
| 1
| 2
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| [[Jacob Blair]]
| Squad Leader [[Banzai]]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| [[Campbell Lane]]
| [[Hybrid]]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| [[Chris Bradford]]
| Ops Officer
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| [[Ben Cotton]]
| [[Terrified Man]]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|}

== Crew ==

The full list of cast and crew is up on [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/razor/credits/ the SciFi.com Razor website].

== References ==
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div>

[http://frakked.blogspot.com/2007/10/razor-flashback-1.html Full transcript of Razor Flashback - Episode 1]

{{episode list (RDM season 4)}}

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Behind the Scenes]]
[[Category:Episode Guide]]
[[Category:Episode Guide (RDM)|*]]
[[Category:Episodes written by Michael Taylor]]
[[Category:Episodes directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá]]
[[Category:Episodes directed by Wayne Rose]]
[[Category:RDM]]

Razor Flashbacks

2007-10-20T07:03:57Z

QX100: /* Episode 3 */

:''This page covers the webisode series for "Razor," which follows the exploits of the young [[William Adama]] during the [[Cylon War]]. For the two hour television event, see: "[[Razor]]".''
{{Episode Data
| image=Cylon Facility - Razor Flashbacks.jpg
| title=Battlestar Galactica: Razor Flashbacks
| series=
| special= Y
| season=
| episode=
| guests=
| writer=[[Michael Taylor]]
| story=
| director=[[Wayne Rose]]<br/>[[Felix Alcala]]
| production=
| rating=
| US airdate= 2007-10-05 through 2007-11-16
| UK airdate=
| dvd=
| population=
| prev= [[Crossroads, Part II]]
| next= [[Razor]]
}}

'''''Battlestar Galactica: Razor Flashbacks''''' are an online series that aims provide the story of a young [[William Adama]]'s ([[Nico Cortez]]) discovery of a [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] experiment during his time in the first [[Cylon War]]. The webisodes are aimed to lay down the back story for events in [[Season 4 (2008)|Season 4]] that will "threaten him, the crew of the ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' and the survival of the human race". The webisodes can be viewed through the official [http://www.scifi.com/pulse Sci Fi Pulse] (SciFi.com's streaming service) or on the screen during airings of ''[[FlashGordonWiki:Flash Gordon (Sci Fi Channel)|Flash Gordon]]'' on Friday at 9/8 P.M. CT.

The webisode series was written by [[Michael Taylor]], and directed by [[Wayne Rose]] and [[Felix Alcala]]. In fact, these flashbacks were cut out of the "[[Razor]]" television movie due to time constraints, but will be reintegrated in the version of "Razor" for the [[Razor (Region 1 DVD)|Region 1 DVD]].

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

[[Image:Razor Flashback 1.jpg|thumb|Young [[William Adama|Bill Adama]] with [[Jaycie McGavin]] on ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''.]]

* Running time: ~00:02:30
* Day: 4,571 (First [[Cylon War]])
* SCI FI Pulse link: http://video.scifi.com/player/?id=163960

On board ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', [[Jaycie McGavin]] and [[William Adama]] are having sex in the [[duty locker]], during which McGavin asks if Adama left his boots out. Adama tells her that he ran into the Commander while he was taking off his boots, which leads into them mocking the commander with one of his apparently [[Nothing but the rain|well-known greetings]].

McGavin and Adama talk before joining a battle to attack an ice planet in the "ass end of nowhere", where a rumored [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] superweapon is allegedly being built. It is defended heavily by the Cylons: three [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]] wings, ground forces, defensive batteries and nuclear weapons.

Another rumor they talk about is that peace negotiations are in progress and that the Cylons may unexpectedly surrender, which McGavin scoffs as unlikely. She runs off to report to a briefing for [[Raptor Squadron 2]], leaving Adama alone as the ship readies itself for possible nuclear attack.

===Episode 2===
*Running time: ~00:02:41
* Day: 4,571 (First Cylon War)
* SCI FI Pulse link: http://video.scifi.com/player/?id=163980

McGavin returns from her mission badly wounded. Adama tries to reassure her that she will live, but she tells him that he was always a bad liar. After medics carry Gavin to [[sickbay]], Adama is filled with anger against the Cylons and cleared to launch in his [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]].

===Episode 3===
*Running time: ~00:02:41
* Day: 4,571 (First Cylon War)
* SCI FI Pulse link:

Adama and his flight lead, Bonzai, Engage in bloody dogfights against raider as the battle of Operation Raptor commences all around them in orbit of a planet. During the battle, the Battlestar Columbia is pummeled from basetar fire and is subsequently destroyed. Adama then spots two Raiders entering the planet's atmoshpere. Out for bloodlust, Adama engages the two, he shoots down one in the high altitudes. Inside a cloud, he suddenly collides with the other and tumbles to the ground in his disentegrating craft.

===Episode 4===
*Running time: N/A

Not yet available.

===Episode 5===
*Running time: N/A

Not yet available.

===Episode 6===
*Running time: N/A

Not yet available.

===Episode 7===
*Running time: N/A

Not yet available.

== Notes ==

* With regard to Sci Fi Pulse, only those in the United States can see these Flashbacks, since the player is region-locked. This means that anyone with an [[w:IP address|IP address]] outside of the United States cannot see the Flashbacks via Sci Fi Pulse. However, there are likely "illegal" versions of these episodes onilne -- because of the illegality of these, Battlestar Wiki cannot and will not furnish links to these unauthorized sources.
* The "[[Nothing but the rain]]" greeting apparently originates with ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'s'' wartime commander, which would later be passed down by [[William Adama]] to [[Kara Thrace]].
* The [[Cylon War]] has lasted for the past twelve and a half years.
* Raptors were also in operation during the Cylon War.
* The reference to an ice planet with a superweapon based on it seems reminiscent of [[Arcta]] in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] episode "[[The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I]]".
* The braiding around the uniform collar of the pilots, in addition to the segmented uniform vest, appears inspired by the [[Uniforms (TOS)|Colonial uniforms of the Original Series]].
** In Episode 2, Adama passes a man in ''Galactica'''s hallway wearing the beige tunic of a [[Uniforms (TOS)#Warrior_uniforms|warrior uniform]] from the Original Series, without the brown jacket.

== Analysis ==

Not yet available.

== Questions ==

== Official Statements ==

Not yet available.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

Not yet available.

== Cast ==
These are listed in the order they appeared during the 7 episodes.

{| class="messagebox" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2"
! class="infoboxheader" | '''Cast Member'''
! class="infoboxheader" | '''Character'''
! class="infoboxheader" colspan="7" | '''Episode(s)'''
|-
| [[Edward James Olmos]]
| [[William Adama]]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| [[Nico Cortez]]
| Young [[William Adama]]
| 1
| 2
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| [[Allison Warnyca]]
| [[Jaycie McGavin]]
| 1
| 2
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| [[Jacob Blair]]
| Squad Leader [[Banzai]]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| [[Campbell Lane]]
| [[Hybrid]]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| [[Chris Bradford]]
| Ops Officer
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| [[Ben Cotton]]
| [[Terrified Man]]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|}

== Crew ==

The full list of cast and crew is up on [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/razor/credits/ the SciFi.com Razor website].

== References ==
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div>

[http://frakked.blogspot.com/2007/10/razor-flashback-1.html Full transcript of Razor Flashback - Episode 1]

{{episode list (RDM season 4)}}

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Behind the Scenes]]
[[Category:Episode Guide]]
[[Category:Episode Guide (RDM)|*]]
[[Category:Episodes written by Michael Taylor]]
[[Category:Episodes directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá]]
[[Category:Episodes directed by Wayne Rose]]
[[Category:RDM]]

Razor Flashbacks

2007-10-20T07:02:57Z

QX100: /* Episode 3 */

:''This page covers the webisode series for "Razor," which follows the exploits of the young [[William Adama]] during the [[Cylon War]]. For the two hour television event, see: "[[Razor]]".''
{{Episode Data
| image=Cylon Facility - Razor Flashbacks.jpg
| title=Battlestar Galactica: Razor Flashbacks
| series=
| special= Y
| season=
| episode=
| guests=
| writer=[[Michael Taylor]]
| story=
| director=[[Wayne Rose]]<br/>[[Felix Alcala]]
| production=
| rating=
| US airdate= 2007-10-05 through 2007-11-16
| UK airdate=
| dvd=
| population=
| prev= [[Crossroads, Part II]]
| next= [[Razor]]
}}

'''''Battlestar Galactica: Razor Flashbacks''''' are an online series that aims provide the story of a young [[William Adama]]'s ([[Nico Cortez]]) discovery of a [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] experiment during his time in the first [[Cylon War]]. The webisodes are aimed to lay down the back story for events in [[Season 4 (2008)|Season 4]] that will "threaten him, the crew of the ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' and the survival of the human race". The webisodes can be viewed through the official [http://www.scifi.com/pulse Sci Fi Pulse] (SciFi.com's streaming service) or on the screen during airings of ''[[FlashGordonWiki:Flash Gordon (Sci Fi Channel)|Flash Gordon]]'' on Friday at 9/8 P.M. CT.

The webisode series was written by [[Michael Taylor]], and directed by [[Wayne Rose]] and [[Felix Alcala]]. In fact, these flashbacks were cut out of the "[[Razor]]" television movie due to time constraints, but will be reintegrated in the version of "Razor" for the [[Razor (Region 1 DVD)|Region 1 DVD]].

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

[[Image:Razor Flashback 1.jpg|thumb|Young [[William Adama|Bill Adama]] with [[Jaycie McGavin]] on ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''.]]

* Running time: ~00:02:30
* Day: 4,571 (First [[Cylon War]])
* SCI FI Pulse link: http://video.scifi.com/player/?id=163960

On board ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', [[Jaycie McGavin]] and [[William Adama]] are having sex in the [[duty locker]], during which McGavin asks if Adama left his boots out. Adama tells her that he ran into the Commander while he was taking off his boots, which leads into them mocking the commander with one of his apparently [[Nothing but the rain|well-known greetings]].

McGavin and Adama talk before joining a battle to attack an ice planet in the "ass end of nowhere", where a rumored [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] superweapon is allegedly being built. It is defended heavily by the Cylons: three [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]] wings, ground forces, defensive batteries and nuclear weapons.

Another rumor they talk about is that peace negotiations are in progress and that the Cylons may unexpectedly surrender, which McGavin scoffs as unlikely. She runs off to report to a briefing for [[Raptor Squadron 2]], leaving Adama alone as the ship readies itself for possible nuclear attack.

===Episode 2===
*Running time: ~00:02:41
* Day: 4,571 (First Cylon War)
* SCI FI Pulse link: http://video.scifi.com/player/?id=163980

McGavin returns from her mission badly wounded. Adama tries to reassure her that she will live, but she tells him that he was always a bad liar. After medics carry Gavin to [[sickbay]], Adama is filled with anger against the Cylons and cleared to launch in his [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]].

===Episode 3===
*Running time: ~00:02:41
* Day: 4,571 (First Cylon War)
* SCI FI Pulse link:

Adama and his flight lead, Bonzai, Engage in bloody dogfights against raider as the battle of Operation Raptor commences all around them in orbit of a planet. During the battle, the Battlestar Columbia is pummeled from basetar fire and is subsequently destroyed. Adama then spots two Raiders entering the planet's atmoshpere. Out for bloodlust, Adama engages the two, he shoots down one in the high altitudes. Inside a cloud, he suddenly collides with the other and is tumbling to the ground in his disentegrating craft.

===Episode 4===
*Running time: N/A

Not yet available.

===Episode 5===
*Running time: N/A

Not yet available.

===Episode 6===
*Running time: N/A

Not yet available.

===Episode 7===
*Running time: N/A

Not yet available.

== Notes ==

* With regard to Sci Fi Pulse, only those in the United States can see these Flashbacks, since the player is region-locked. This means that anyone with an [[w:IP address|IP address]] outside of the United States cannot see the Flashbacks via Sci Fi Pulse. However, there are likely "illegal" versions of these episodes onilne -- because of the illegality of these, Battlestar Wiki cannot and will not furnish links to these unauthorized sources.
* The "[[Nothing but the rain]]" greeting apparently originates with ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'s'' wartime commander, which would later be passed down by [[William Adama]] to [[Kara Thrace]].
* The [[Cylon War]] has lasted for the past twelve and a half years.
* Raptors were also in operation during the Cylon War.
* The reference to an ice planet with a superweapon based on it seems reminiscent of [[Arcta]] in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] episode "[[The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I]]".
* The braiding around the uniform collar of the pilots, in addition to the segmented uniform vest, appears inspired by the [[Uniforms (TOS)|Colonial uniforms of the Original Series]].
** In Episode 2, Adama passes a man in ''Galactica'''s hallway wearing the beige tunic of a [[Uniforms (TOS)#Warrior_uniforms|warrior uniform]] from the Original Series, without the brown jacket.

== Analysis ==

Not yet available.

== Questions ==

== Official Statements ==

Not yet available.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

Not yet available.

== Cast ==
These are listed in the order they appeared during the 7 episodes.

{| class="messagebox" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2"
! class="infoboxheader" | '''Cast Member'''
! class="infoboxheader" | '''Character'''
! class="infoboxheader" colspan="7" | '''Episode(s)'''
|-
| [[Edward James Olmos]]
| [[William Adama]]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| [[Nico Cortez]]
| Young [[William Adama]]
| 1
| 2
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| [[Allison Warnyca]]
| [[Jaycie McGavin]]
| 1
| 2
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| [[Jacob Blair]]
| Squad Leader [[Banzai]]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| [[Campbell Lane]]
| [[Hybrid]]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| [[Chris Bradford]]
| Ops Officer
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| [[Ben Cotton]]
| [[Terrified Man]]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|}

== Crew ==

The full list of cast and crew is up on [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/razor/credits/ the SciFi.com Razor website].

== References ==
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div>

[http://frakked.blogspot.com/2007/10/razor-flashback-1.html Full transcript of Razor Flashback - Episode 1]

{{episode list (RDM season 4)}}

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Behind the Scenes]]
[[Category:Episode Guide]]
[[Category:Episode Guide (RDM)|*]]
[[Category:Episodes written by Michael Taylor]]
[[Category:Episodes directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá]]
[[Category:Episodes directed by Wayne Rose]]
[[Category:RDM]]

Galactica (TRS)

2006-12-16T22:48:01Z

QX100: /* Nuclear Warheads */ spelling error

:''For the Original Series ''Galactica'', see [[Galactica (TOS)]]. For the Video Game ''Galactica'', see [[Galactica (Video Game)]].''
{{Ship Data
| image= Bsg-bsg-1.jpg
| title= Galactica (BS 75)
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| ftl= Yes
| crew= Approximately 2,650
| co= [[William Adama]]
| xo= [[Saul Tigh]] (resumed position as of [[The Passage]])
| role= Carrier / battleship hybrid
| weapons= Primary and point-defence [[KEW|Kinetic Energy Weapons]], conventional missiles, nuclear warheads, Vipers, Raptors
| status= Active
| img= Y
}}
[[Galactica type battlestar|The veteran battlestar]] '''''Galactica'' (BS 75)''' is the most famous warship in the [[Colonial Fleet]]. Built in time to participate in the [[Cylon War]], she remained the only military vessel without integrated [[Computers|computer networks]]. Without networked computers, ''Galactica'' never upgraded to the new [[Command Navigation Program|integrated defence system software]] developed by Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] and his [[Number Six|team]]. Because of this and other fortunes, she became one of only [[Pegasus (RDM)|two]] battlestars to survive the renewed [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] on the [[Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]], some 40 years after the end of the first war. At the time of the attack, she was part of the [[75th Battlestar Group]] (BSG-75).

== History ==

''Galactica'' was one of the twelve first battlestars to be laid down by the Colonials. Initially they built a battlestar to represent each colony, where ''Galactica'' represented [[Caprica]]. As such, she is some 50 years old. Following the outbreak of Cylon hostilities several more battlestars were built. ''Galactica's'' first commander was named [[Nash]] ([[Miniseries]]).
[[Image:Mini gal top.jpg|left|thumb|A dorsal view of ''Galactica''. The starboard [[flight pod]] is covered by a window to form the [[Galactica Museum|museum area]].]]
The original battlestars were all designed with non-integrated computer systems to avoid the Cylons' demonstrated ability to override or subvert networked command and control systems early in the war ([[Miniseries]]). Rather than technological sophistication, the battlestar depended on its sheer bulk and defensive / offensive capabilities to ward off any threats to itself or the Colonies.

Following the [[Armistice Station|armistice]] with the Cylons, and their withdrawal from Colonial space, ''Galactica'' and her sister ships served the Twelve Colonies in a variety of roles. While her surviving sister ships were scrapped or upgraded to match the systems capabilities of newer Colonial vessels, ''Galactica'' continued in service without her systems being fully networked or integrated, making her unique among Colonial military vessels ([[Miniseries]]).

With her active career drawing to a close, a decision was taken to retire ''Galactica'' and decommission her from service. [[Colonial Fleet]] chose not to scrap her, but to turn her into a combination of living museum to the original Cylon War and an educational center, with her conversion being overseen by her final commander, [[William Adama]] ([[Miniseries]]).

At the time of her formal decommissioning ceremony, ''Galactica'' is stripped of all but one of her operational [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] Mark VII squadrons, her munitions are destroyed, and her starboard landing pod is a pressurized [[Galactica Museum|museum]] which houses (among other things) a full squadron of [[Viper Mark II|Mk. II Vipers]] as well as a Viper model that appears [[Viper (TOS)|older than the Mark II]] (Miniseries, also in Deleted Scenes).

With the renewed and unexpected Cylon hostilities, ''Galactica'' quickly proves her worthiness as a warship is far from over as she sorties several Mark IIs retrieved from her museum to challenge her first Cylon attack in over 40 years (her last Mark VII squadron was sent to Caprica for reassignment). The old battlestar withstands a direct hit from a tactical nuclear missile while unsuccessfully performing evasive maneuvers, but later [[FTL|Jumps]] successfully to [[Ragnar Anchorage]] to retrieve much-needed ammunition stores at this hidden depot.

''Galactica'' finally bares her teeth in this new Cylon war as she single-handedly engages two [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]] with her gun batteries, providing covering fire for [[The Fleet (RDM)|an assortment of 75 civilian ships]] containing the last survivors of the Twelve Colonies. All ships, with ''Galactica'' last to leave the engagement zone, escape to a destination past the [[Red Line]], never to return to Colonial space.

Since the exodus of the Colonials from their overrun homeworlds, ''Galactica'' becomes both protector and provider for the Fleet. She provides covering fire for the Fleet during Cylon attacks no fewer than 240 times ([[33]], [[Act of Contrition]]). The battlestar provides much of the Fleet with recycled water ([[Water]]) and she is the primary source of medical care, where groups of civilians are periodically brought aboard for check-ups and treatment ([[Litmus]]). ''Galactica'' also undertakes internal policing duties within the Fleet ([[Water]], [[Bastille Day]]).

''Galactica'' successfully goes on the offensive against the Cylons, capturing a [[tylium]] fuel mining and processing plant in the process ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]).

The [[Mercury class battlestar|advanced battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', commanded by Admiral [[Helena Cain]], joins ''Galactica'' approximately 6 months into their exile (See the series [[Timeline (RDM)|timeline]] for special information about this milestone).

''Pegasus'' and ''Galactica'' destroy two [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]] as well as a critical Cylon support ship known as the [[Resurrection Ship]]. After Admiral Cain's death, President [[Laura Roslin]] promotes William Adama to Admiral, restoring him to overall Fleet command, but now with two battlestars at his disposal ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).

==New Caprica==
Following the founding of [[New Caprica]], ''Galactica'' is assigned to the Orbital Defense Force that protects the planet. During this time the majority of its crew are sent to the surface in an effort to populate the planet and restore the human race — including most of its senior officers — seemingly convinced that the Cylons would never find New Caprica. The diminished staff inevitably results in basic maintenance becoming overlooked or ignored. Basic military responses, such as the launching of alert fighers and routine training exercises become difficult to execute. One year following the founding of New Caprica, a fleet of Cylon ships jump into orbit of the planet. Severely limited in its abilities, Admiral Adama and the Defense Fleet jumps away from New Caprica — vowing that they'd return to liberate the planet ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).

==[[Battle of New Caprica]]==
Four months after the escape, ''Galactica'''s staff is still in the process of developing a rescue strategy with 16 training exercises having been completed and a 17th underway when an accident causes its early ending ([[Occupation]]). This forces both a change in strategy and the reformulation of a rescue plan to deal with personnel who have not seen conflict in 16 months. While ''Galactica'' fights to liberate the Colonials on-planet, ''Pegasus'' is assigned to protect the remaining civilian fleet and continue its search for [[Earth]] ("[[Precipice]]", "[[Exodus, Part I]]").

Coordinating with the New Caprica Resistance, ''Galactica'' deploys several waves of Vipers and Raptors to launch an offensive against the Cylons. As the resistance bombs Cylon facilities on the ground, Raptors deploy decoy drones to make it appear as if both ''Galactica'' and ''Pegasus'' jumped into orbit. The Cylons reposition their forces to engage the decoys, while ''Galactica'' jumps into the atmosphere of the planet. ''Galactica'' deploys several squadrons as she falls to the surface, but takes severe damage from the atmospheric entry. Once back in orbit of the planet, the damage is ascertained as the Cylons close in. Close to death, ''Galactica'' survives thanks to the intervention of ''Pegasus''. Her [[FTL|FTL drives]] once again functioning, ''Galactica'' is able to escape from the system and reunites with the fleet, now the sole military vessel again after the destruction of ''Pegasus'' during the battle ([[Exodus, Part II]]).

== Equipment ==
[[Image:BSG-KEW-Turret.jpg|thumb|One of ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> large [[KEW|cannon]] turrets]]
''Galactica'' shares the same overall technical specifications as other original Colonial battlestars of [[Galactica type battlestar|her class]], with the following key differences and qualifications:

===Available Flight Pods===
Only ''Galactica's'' port [[flight pod]] is in service. The starboard flight pod was enclosed and pressurized as the main museum display facility for her pending decommission. It is violently depressurized after a [[Heavy Raider]] crashes into it ([[Scattered]]). By the time of the second exodus from [[New Caprica]]., the starboard hanger deck is being used as a temporary housing facility for refugees ([[Exodus, Part II]]). The starboard flight pod is appearantly brought back to working condition, as Major Lee Adama states his flight team is approaching the starboard pod in [[A Measure of Salvation]].

===Nuclear Warheads===
''Galactica'' had five nuclear warheads as of "[[Bastille Day]]." Commander [[William Adama]] uses one warhead to destroy a Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]). Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] cannibalizes one to use in his [[Cylon Detector]], which he later gives to [[Gina]], who detonates it aboard ''[[Cloud Nine]]''. This leaves ''Galactica'' with three warheads (It is unknown how many nuclear warheads ''Pegasus'' still had when it encountered ''Galactica'', and they may have pooled their nuclear ordnance stockpiles since then). As of "[[The Eye of Jupiter]]", Galactica has at least six warheads attached to missiles that can be used for ground assault.

===Vipers===
Prior to the arrival of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', ''Galactica'' has at maximum thirty-four Vipers, of which at least six are Mark VIIs (c.f. [[Viper tally]]).

''Galactica'' receives additional supplies from ''Pegasus'' since her arrival that helps in repair and refurbishment of her original fighter complement; more recently, she receives new Mark VII Vipers built aboard ''Pegasus'' using raw materials mined from an asteroid and the advanced battlestar's Viper construction facilities ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus,]] [[Scar]]).

===Raptors===
The number of [[Raptor|Raptors]] available to ''Galactica'' is portrayed inconsistently. The current assumption is that the battlestar has at least five Raptors, having left [[Ragnar Anchorage]] with at least eight (c.f. [[Raptor tally]]).

===Other Craft===
*''Galactica'' currently posesses two [[Heavy Raider|Heavy Raiders]]. One is hit by ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> defensive fire and crashes into the starboard flight pod with unknown damage ([[Scattered]]). The other returns in operational status from Caprica ([[Home, Part I]]). One of ''Galactica'''s [[Heavy Raider]]s is relieved of its FTL navigation system for use on the rescue mission to [[Caprica]] ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]).
*A second [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]] is in ''Galactica's'' possession after [[Daniel Novacek]]'s "escape" from a basestar ([[Hero]]), replacing the one retrieved by [[Kara Thrace]] and lost during the quest for the [[Arrow of Apollo]] ([[Scattered]]).
*An experimental stealth fighter, the [[Blackbird]], is constructed using spare parts ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]) and used in a critically successful reconnaissance mission to explore the nature of what comes to be known as the [[Resurrection Ship]]. The Blackbird is later destroyed after completing her last mission during the [[Battle of the Resurrection Ship]] ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).
*''Galactica'' possesses fuel tankers used to supply fuel to Vipers and Raptors inflight without the need to dock with the ship. These may be dedicated craft or specially fitted shuttles or Raptors ([[Occupation]]).

=== Crew ===
Before the attack, ''Galactica'' has approximately 2,800 crewmen, while awaiting its decommissioning. By the time of the arrival of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', attrition has reduced this number to about 2,660. (c.f. [[Crew tally]])
*Between "[[Act of Contrition]]," and "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]," ''Galactica's'' offensive capability is also greatly hampered by the number of [[List of Pilots|qualified pilots]] available, and their lack of flight simulators with which to train more. Since ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> reunion with ''Pegasus'', this has ceased to be an issue ([[Scar]]).

[[Image:Mini gal side viper.jpg|right|thumb|A stricken and slowly spinning ''Galactica'' after a nuclear missile strike. [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck's]] [[Viper Mark II|Viper]] closes in to survey.]]

====Senior Staff following the Battle of New Caprica====
*Admiral [[William Adama]] - Commanding Officer
*Colonel [[Saul Tigh]] - [[Executive Officer]]
*Major [[Lee Adama]] - [[CAG|Commander, Air Group]]
*Major (Doctor) [[Cottle]] - [[Chief Medical Officer]]
*Lieutenant Felix Gaeta - [[Tactical officer]], Senior Officer of the Watch
*Lieutenant [[Hoshi]] - Communications Officer
*Chief Petty Officer [[Galen Tyrol]] - Chief of the Deck

====Senior Staff before the founding of New Caprica====
*Admiral [[William Adama]] - Commanding Officer
*Colonel [[Saul Tigh]] - Executive Officer
*Captain [[Aaron Kelly]] - [[Landing Signal Officer]], Second Officer
*Major (Doctor) [[Cottle]] - [[Chief Medical Officer]]
*Captain [[Lee Adama]] - Commander, Air Group (Promoted to Commander and assigned as ''Pegasus'' CO)
*Captain [[Kara Thrace]] - Commander, Air Group
*Lieutenant Felix Gaeta - [[Tactical officer]], Senior Officer of the Watch
*Chief Petty Officer [[Galen Tyrol]] - Chief of the Deck
*Sergeant [[Hadrian]] - [[Master-at-Arms]]
*Petty Officer 2nd Class [[Anastasia Dualla]] - Communications Officer

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2006-10-25T03:44:27Z

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{{Episode Data
| image = 33mincount_101_1080i.jpg
| title= 33
| series=
| season= 1
| episode= 1
| guests=
| writer= [[Ronald D. Moore]]
| story=
| goof=Y
| director= [[Michael Rymer]]
| production= 101
| rating= 2.6
| US airdate= 2005-01-14
| UK airdate= 2004-10-18
| dvd= {{Season 1 NTSC DVD release date}} '''US'''<br/>{{Season 1 PAL DVD release date}} '''UK'''
| population=
| extra= '''Series Premiere'''
| prev= [[Miniseries]]
| next= [[Water]]
}}

== Overview ==

: ''Continuing from the events of the [[Miniseries]], [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'' and [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]] must avoid their [[Cylon]] pursuers, which ambush them every 33 minutes after each successful [[FTL|Jump]].''

== Summary ==

=== On ''[[Galactica]]'' ===
* The crew of battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'' have been on continuous alert for some 130.35 hours, during which time the Fleet has had to make an [[FTL|FTL Jump]] every 33 minutes to escape their [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] pursuers shortly after their initial escape from [[Ragnar Anchorage]].
* Everyone in the Fleet is beginning to feel the strain – particularly [[Gaius Baltar]], who is also distracted by [[Number Six|Six’s]] repeated conversations about [[God]] having a plan for him, and also her wanting to have his children.
* Vessels in the Fleet are also beginning to feel the strain: Jump engines and their controlling computers are starting to breakdown or malfunction, requiring ''Galactica'' to linger longer and longer in the Cylon line of fire while the rest of the fleet complete their Jumps.
* Following jump number 237, [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]] receives word from a Dr. [[Amorak]] aboard the ''[[Olympic Carrier]]'' concerning information on how the Cylons overcame Colonial defenses.
* Overhearing the conversation, Baltar is worried: he knew Amorak at the [[Defence Ministry]]. As Six points out, Amorak might have information on Baltar's complicity with the Cylon attack.
* There is insufficient time before the next Jump to bring Amorak aboard ''[[Colonial One]]'', but Roslin wants to see him directly after the Jump has been completed.
* Elsewhere, [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]] is having problems accepting her new [[ECO]], [[Crashdown]], and is feeling guilty about leaving [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]] on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] to his fate.
* When the next Jump is made, the ''Olympic Carrier'', complete with Dr. Amorak and 1344 other souls, fails to appear with the rest of the Fleet. Six tries to convince Baltar that it is because God is watching over him.
* Thirty-three minutes later, the Fleet is ready to jump, but the Cylons don’t appear. Adama orders a stand-down from the immediate alert, but the Fleet is to maintain a readiness to Jump, in case the Cylons do return.
* When Baltar continues to refuse the concept of God, the ''Olympic Carrier'' reappears; Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] orders the Fleet to [[Action Stations|Condition One alert]], fearing the worst. He orders the Jump clocks reset in anticipation of the Cylons arriving.
*The [[Combat Air Patrol]] lead by [[Lee Adama]] intercepts the [[Intersun|starliner]]. Adama orders all communications with the ''Carrier'' jammed and the ''Carrier'' is ordered (through signal lamps) to remain at its current position. When the ''Carrier'' fails to heed orders not to approach the fleet, tensions rise, and a [[Radiological Alarm|radiological alarm]] reveals there is now a nuclear weapon on the liner.
*As the crisis deepens, the Cylons appear precisely 33 minutes after the return of the ''Carrier'', confirming that the ''Carrier'' was used somehow by the Cylons to track the Fleet. Adama wants to destroy the liner, but Roslin hesitates to give the order, as no one can be sure if the 1,345 people aboard the ''Carrier'' are still alive. Baltar is terrified she won't give the order for fear of Amorak's information.
*Six uses the hesitation to push Baltar into “repenting” before God. As soon as he does, Roslin gives the order to destroy the liner. Apollo and [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] (reluctantly) open fire, destroying the liner. After the Fleet makes a Jump once more, the Cylon's relentless pursuit is halted.
*A day later, everyone is living with the consequences of their actions. Only [[Billy Keikeya]] has a small nugget of good news: at some point in the proceedings, a baby was born in the Fleet.

===On Caprica===
* [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] is on the run in the rainy woodland, and has [[Wikipedia:Claymore mine|Claymore-like ordinance]] he uses to blow up pursuing [[Cylon Centurion]]s.
* Helo's six days on the run comes to an end when he is captured by the Cylons, after being distracted by the appearance of a copy of [[Number Six]], wearing a white raincoat.
*Helo is “rescued” by [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|a copy of Valerii]], who shoots Six and then leads Helo away into the woods. Helo mistakenly believes that this Valerii copy is actually the "Boomer" copy that left Caprica and returned to rescue him.

== Questions ==

*Billy reports that the number of survivors is down by 300 - some lost through death from injuries, etc., some "lost" through initial inaccurate counts, and the rest have "disappeared." How can people simply "disappear" in the fleet?
**They cold have been the people on the Prometheus([[Black Market]])
*Does Doctor Amorak truly have something on Baltar's involvement in the holocaust?
*Is Six actually in contact with other Cylons, and thus involved in the disappearance / reappearance of the ''Olympic Carrier''?
*What happened to the group of survivors [[Helo]] was left with in the [[Miniseries]]?

== Analysis ==
*'''Why did the Cylons come "every 33 minutes"?''' Short answer: it was a number Ron Moore has stated he picked at random, with no other significance. Long answer: See the [[Numerology#33|Numerology]] article for in-depth analysis of the "mystery of 33".
*The cast actually consulted with a sleep deprivation expert before this episode, making a large effort to accurately depict the effects of sleep deprivation on their characters, and it really comes through on screen. Rather than simply yawning alot and constantly saying "wow, I'm so tired", the cast met the series' goal of realistically portraying their symptoms: they behave aggravated, they start to forget things, their minds just start "slowing down".
*With [[Number Six#Baltar's Internal Six|Baltar's internal Number Six]], three possibilities seem to suggest themselves:
**She is a creation of his own psyche; a reaction to his betrayal of his people to the Cylons. Certainly, his increasing psychosis in the episode would seem to point to this; but then, he has - like the rest - been five plus days without sleep, and some degree of paranoia is bound to result.
**She is, as she suggested in the Miniseries, created by an implanted chip in his head and possibly in communication with the Cylons. However, if this is the case, surely the Cylon hunt for the Fleet would continue despite the destruction of the ''Olympic Carrier'' - as the Cylons would be tracing the fleet through Baltar. Given the humans are to all intents and purposes "on the ropes", it seems odd that they would break off the attack when they have such a clear advantage.
***The brain scan on Baltar in "[[Home, Part II]]" dismisses the notion that a mechanical implant is in his head, although it may not be medically recognizable.
***At times through the series, Baltar's virtual Six ''claims'' that the other Cylons are totally unaware of her existence.
**Could Six be a complete download of "Six's" personality, captured at the point of destruction of Baltar's home, and now contained in his head, possibly occupying his subconscious, out of contact with her own kind, but able to fully interact with his thoughts and feelings – even manipulate his thoughts and feelings? This may suggest Baltar [[Gaius Baltar#Speculation: The Real Baltar?|could be a Cylon agent himself]].
*Why is Boomer's Raptor launched alongside Apollo's Vipers for what everyone is expecting to be an interdiction exercise against Cylon Raiders?
:* Based on events from the [[Miniseries]] and in later episodes, Raptors are occasionally used to support or augment Viper operations with strengthened [[DRADIS]] and perhaps [[Radiological Alarm|radiological]] detection. Normally, Raptors are not on [[CAP]] with Vipers and are frequently deployed alone or as a group, but the events of "[[33]]" suggest that Commander Adama wanted to ensure extra coverage with the Raptor's stronger [[Computers|avionics]] to ensure extra coverage of Cylon activity.
:* In a [[You Can't Go Home Again| later episode]] a Raptor is used for rescuing ejected pilots during combat.
*The Memorial Hallway scene continues the writers' allusion to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States to the events of the Miniseries through the use of the many memorials, the confusion in finding lost loved ones, and Dualla's amazement at the size of the memorial. (A [[Lest We Forget|picture of a Colonial soldier]] on one of the Colonies during its destruction also plays on the intense feelings felt by many Americans when they saw similar pictures of New York City firefighters at the ruins of the World Trade Center.)

== Notes ==
*This episode won the [[Awards and Honors|2005 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form]]
*When Season 1 premiered in the United States, "33" and "[[Water]]" aired back-to-back as a two hour tv event.
*When the first few episodes of the series began airing on Scifi Channel, title cards were shown at the beginning of each episode, i.e. "33" or "Water" flashing in white letters on a black screen, and then the episode would begin. This stopped by mid-Season 1.
*Continuous jumping badly affects the FTL drives and management systems aboard commercial Colonial vessels, which are not as rugged as the ''Galactica's'' military-issue drives
*The Cylons Jump ability is just as highly-accurate as the Jumps of the Colonials. In 238 times they manage to pounce on the Colonial fleet, arriving with precise momentum and trajectory to be able to close the distance and launch an attack
*According to Socinus, there are 5,251 people in the Fleet from [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Sagittaron|Sagittaron]]
*As of "33", there are 60 civilian ships in the Fleet, but [[Continuity errors (RDM)|errors in continuity of episode events]], especially from "[[Home, Part I]]", may place this initial information in question
*The head count of Colonial citizens at the end of the episode is 47,273
*[[Zoic]] visual effects artists hid small signs of movement within the ''Olympic Carrier'' in close-up effect shots as something of a morbid joke. Lights in the windows appear to flicker on and off rather rapidly and when slowed down there is some kind of movement visible on the inside of the ship
*In the DVD commentary for this episode, Ron D. Moore states that during the scene when Dualla hands Commander Adama a set of reports that he reads aloud (including fuel shortages, dozens of crewmen breaking down from nervous exhaustion, etc), Edward James Olmos ad-libbed "and ten suicides" in one take. The production team really liked the ad-lib, and thought the way Olmos acted the scene was fantastic. However, there were concerns that the network would think this would make an already ''extremely'' "dark" episode far '''too''' dark and alienate the audience during the premiere, and the line was reluctantly cut.
*During Season 1, ''Galactica''-Sharon parts her hair on the right side of her head, while Caprica-Sharon parts her hair on the left side of her head.
*At first appearance, there appears to be error with Billy's math with the [[Survivor count | survivor count]]. The episode starts with the count being 50,298. He informs Roslin this is in error by 300 = 49,998 survivors. When the ''Olympic Carrier'' is destroyed (1,345 people), he reduces the total to 47,972 – that’s a reduction of 2026, or 681 people ''more'' than listed on the ''Carrier''. However, in deleted scenes from this episode, Billy is actually reducing the survivor count additional times set between the beginning of the episode and the destruction of the ''Olympic Carrier''. These other deaths just occur offscreen.
**Not taking the deleted scenes into account, errors of math and logic are not uncommon for sleep-deprived people.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

*''Baltar is having a vision of climbing into bed with Number Six''
:'''Six:''' You know you're not safe.
:'''Baltar:''' No, course not. The Cylons will follow us again, as they have the last two hundred and thirty seven times.
:'''Six:''' You're right, you know. There are limits. Eventually you'll make a mistake.
:'''Baltar:''' And then you'll kill us all. Yes. Yes, I know, but...not for another thirty-three minutes.

*''Addressing the bridge crew:''
:'''Colonel Tigh''': Yes, we're tired. Yes, there is no relief. Yes, the Cylons keep coming after us time after time after time. And yes, we are still expected to do our jobs!

* ''When Lee Adama and Kara Thrace are on ''Galactica's'' flight deck:''
:'''Lee Adama''': Hey, did you see the note from the XO?
:'''Kara Thrace''': I saw it. No way.
:'''Lee Adama''': Kara, everyone else--
:'''Kara Thrace''': I don't fly with stims. They fudge with your reflexes, your reaction time.
:'''Lee Adama''': Come on, Kara, give me a break. Just--
:'''Kara Thrace''': Why are we arguing about this?
:'''Lee Adama''': I have no idea.
:'''Kara Thrace''': Neither do I. You're the [[CAG]], act like one.
:'''Lee Adama''': What does that mean?
:'''Kara Thrace''': It means that you're still acting like everyone's best friend. We're not friends. You're the CAG. "Be careful out there?" Our job isn't to be careful, it's to shoot frakking [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] out of the sky. "Good Hunting" is what you say. And one of your idiot pilots is acting like a child and refusing to take her pills. So she either says "Yes, sir" and obeys a direct order, or you smack her in the mouth and drag her sorry ass to [[sickbay]] and you make her take those pills.
:(Lee and Kara both start laughing)
:'''Lee Adama''': Well, I'm glad I'm not working for you.
:'''Kara Thrace''': (laughing) Damn right you're glad.
:'''Lee Adama''': So do I have to smack you in the mouth, Lieutenant?
:'''Kara Thrace''': No sir, I'll take my pills. (takes pills from Lee) Perfect.
:'''Lee Adama''': Carry on.
:'''Kara Thrace''': (half-heartedly saluting) Yes, sir.

* ''When Commander Adama and Colonel Tigh are talking outside the [[CIC]]:''
:'''Colonel Tigh''': (grunting) Oh...a couple hours rack time does sound awfully sweet right about now...
:'''Commander Adama''': You deserve it.
:'''Colonel Tigh''': You know, the truth is, all this has me feeling...well, more alive than I have in years.
:'''Commander Adama''': You look that way too. It's good to see you without the cup in your hand.
:'''Colonel Tigh''': Ah, don't start.
:'''Commander Adama''': I know there's a whole lot of people on this ship, that wish you weren't feeling as good.
:'''Colonel Tigh''': (laughing) If the crew doesn't hate the XO, then he's not doing his job. Besides, I've gotta make the old man look good.
:'''Commander Adama''': I always look good.
:'''Colonel Tigh''': Look in the mirror.
:'''Commander Adama''': Seriously...
:'''Colonel Tigh''': Sir?
:'''Commander Adama''': It's one thing to push the crew. It's another thing to break them.

* ''As the [[Olympic Carrier]] heads on a suicide run towards ''Galactica'', Lee Adama, Kara Thrace and Sharon Valerii are flying beside the liner:''
:'''Boomer''': (in a Raptor flying beside the ''Olympic Carrier'') We have...new orders. We are directed to...destroy the ''Olympic Carrier'', and return back to ''Galactica''.
:'''Kara Thrace''': (in a Viper flying beside the carrier) It's a civilian ship!
:'''Crashdown''': (inside the Raptor) Yeah...a civilian ship with nukes.
:(Lee Adama looks out the cockpit window of his Viper at the ship, which seems to be barren)
:'''Crashdown''': I don't see anybody in there. Do you?
:'''Lee Adama''': The Cylons will be here any second. If we're gonna do this, let's just do it. Starbuck, form up with me and we'll make one pass from astern.
:(Lee and Kara fall back a fair distance from the ship)
:'''Kara Thrace''': Lee, what if you're wrong? (silence) Lee, come on. Lee!
:'''Lee Adama''': Okay, fire on my mark.
:'''Kara Thrace''': No [[Frak|frakking]] way, Lee. Lee! Come on!
:'''Lee Adama''': ... ... mark.
:(Lee and Kara both open fire on the Olympic Carrier, and it explodes in a ball of flames.)

== Official Statements ==

=== Offical Statements: Note on [["Lest We Forget"]] ===
{{From RDM blog}}

:"It's probably been asked before, but I'm curious as to whom[sic] is in the picture in the Viper Pilot's briefing room, facing away from the camera . . . the one the pilots, including [[William Adama|Commander Adama]], touch when they enter and leave? This is touching, and is a wonderful human element to the story. So who is it?"

:There was a scene cut from [[33|"33"]] where we saw [[Laura Roslin]] being given her copy of the photo along with a card that said it was taken on the roof of the capitol building on Aerilon during the attack. The photo was inspired by the famous shot of the fire-fighters raising the flag at Ground Zero that became iconic. I thought the Colonies would have their own version of this -- a snapshot taken in the moment that becomes a symbol of the day they can never forget and of all they had lost. The photo itself is of a soldier falling to his knees (possibly shot or simply overcome by emotion) as he stands on the rooftop over looking the devastation of his city, while the Colonial flag waves at the edge of frame. The inscription below the photo on Laura's plaque reads, [["Lest We Forget"]] in itself a reference to the inscription on the watch presented to John Wayne's character in "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon."

=== Comments from the Cast ===

*"Insomnia. Nobody has slept. Everyone's just coming to terms with the fact that they have lost everybody that they've loved or relate to." -- [[Jamie Bamber]], [http://scifi.com/battlestar/bts/video/mov/video_06_320.mov]

*"It was a hard episode, because, you just had to basically fall apart." -- [[Katee Sackhoff]], [http://scifi.com/battlestar/bts/video/mov/video_06_320.mov]

*"Episode 1 is extremely docu-style because the characters haven't actually slept for five days (sic) and they have been running from the Cylons for the 250th time. And it's very stressful and they're about to lose the plot completely because of sleep deprivation." -- [[Michael Rymer]], [http://scifi.com/battlestar/bts/video/mov/video_06_320.mov]

=== Excerpt from the Official Companion ===
In [[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]], the dedicated performance by the cast, trying to accurately and realistically depict extensive sleep deprivation on-screen, was explained:
:"''Battlestar Galactica<nowiki>'</nowiki>''s first season premiere required the show's cast members to depict their characters under extreme physical and emotional duress, as they faced sleep deprivation and the constant threat of Cylon attack. This unique and intriguing acting challenge prompted Edward James Olmos to enlist the assistance of a sleep deprivation expert, who met with the cast shortly prior to the starting of shooting. Olmos and several other cast members also restricted their sleeping paterns a few days before filming, to gain a better understanding of sleep deprivation.

:"I rested just before we actually shot the episode, because I didn't want to go on-camera exhausted," explains Olmos. "But in the week before shooting, I only had about three hours of sleep per night and I studied myself to get to know how to pay the symptoms of sleep deprivation. About two days away from shooting, I was sitting in this meeting and everyone was looking at me as I tried to make sense. I told everyone, "This is what happens when you go without sleep — you don't act funny or yawn all the time, it's more the case that your mind doesn't function correctly". The doctor later expanded on this, and pretty soon everyone was tuned in. So when we went into the episode, everyone knew exactly what they were doing, and it was beautiful to watch."" (page 46)

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

== External Links ==
[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/episodes/season01/0101/ "33"] at SciFi.com

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Exodus, Part II

2006-10-24T03:21:58Z

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| episode= 4
| guests= [[Lucy Lawless]] as [[Number Three]]
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== Overview ==

:''Commander [[Lee Adama]] of the 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 rescue plan.''

== Summary ==

*On ''Pegasus'', [[Lee Adama]] and [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] talk of ''[[Galactica]]'s'' mission. Adama worries heavily that Admiral Adama's mission will fail and of what future responsibilities he may have as the leader of the rest of mankind. His wife tells him to not give up hope.
*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 else less sympathetic will do so.
*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.
[[Image:Saulellen.jpg|Saul handing Ellen her poisoned drink.|thumb]]

*Suddenly, dozens of explosions can be felt and seen. The [[Battle of New Caprica]] has begun.
*Anders and the resistance team has set a series of explosions that mimic a Colonial attack and causes chaos. [[Tory Foster]] commands a team of section leaders in the evacuation and orders [[Maya]] to head for her ship with [[Hera|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.
*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 detect the decoy drones, but ''Galactica'' jumps deep into the planet's atmosphere and launches its remaining Vipers. Before colliding with the ground, the ship jumps back into space. The Vipers begin to attack targets on the ground and clear the way.
*As others are freed from the Detention Center, Anders finds his unconscious wife and carries her away, but when Thrace awakens, she goes back to retrieve [[Kacey]].
*The battle is turning against ''Galactica''. Her FTL drives are down, weapons are offline and there is heavy structural damage from the atmospheric entry. Four Cylon basestars are closing in and the battlestar is soon bombarded from all sides with no hope of survival. At that moment ''Pegasus'' joins the battle, Lee Adama having disobeyed his father's orders. He opens fire with the forward batteries and destroys one basestar in the opening salvo.
*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.
*The Colonial ships initiate intra-atmosphere [[FTL|jumps]] from New Caprica as soon as they become airborne.
*''Pegasus'' is heavily bombarded by missiles, having left all of her Vipers 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.
*On ''Colonial One'', [[Felix Gaeta]] accuses Baltar at gunpoint of having betrayed everyone. Gaeta admits his guilt in idealistically believing in Baltar's initial vision, but realized in the end that Baltar was only thinking about himself. Baltar admits his own guilt and begs Gaeta to shoot him. However, Gaeta relents, giving Baltar a final chance to redeem himself: stop Three from setting off the nuclear bomb.
*With ''Pegasus'' dying, Lee Adama orders everyone to abandon ship. He sets the ship [[CBDR]] with a basestar as the last of the crew leaves in Raptors. ''Pegasus’'' collision destroys another basestar. The remains of ''Pegasus’'' starboard [[flight pod]] collides with and destroy another basestar.
*Kara Thrace retrieves Kacey, but Conoy has returned and confronts her. She appears to give in to his demands, says "I love you," and kisses him. However, Thrace uses the diversion to stab him. 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 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 the now abandoned ''Colonial One'' 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, another woman walks by and recognizes the girl as her daughter, whom the Cylons had taken away. The mother thanks Thrace for rescuing Kacey. Thrace is shocked by the relevation that Kacey is not her daughter after all, but gives her up.
*Admiral Adama welcomes Tigh back aboard, and tells him he brought everyone back. 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. 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 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''.

== Questions ==

*With Baltar missing at the conclusion of this episode, who will become the President of the Twelve Colonies?
**[[Tom Zarek]], as Vice President, seems to have the best claim. Since he chose to become a political prisoner rather than collaborate with the Cylons, he has probably retained his good standing in the public eye. If Baltar had him removed from office, he could probably make a good case that such an action was illegal.
**Laura Roslin's decision to evacuate on Colonial One may not have been an expression of her intent to claim the presidency. Colonial One had been her home for the first nine months that the fleet spent on the run. Zarek may have opted to evacuate aboard the ''[[Astral Queen]]'', as he has previously served as a leader and representative of that vessel and her passengers.
**However, [[Saul Tigh]] seemed to expect that Roslin would assume the presidency ([[Precipice]]), and when boarding Colonial One, she makes herself at home at Baltar's desk as if she intends to do so.
**The Colonial Government has scheduled elections ([[Bastille Day]]), although it has also called special elections before ([[Colonial Day]]). As of this episode, it has been about a year and five months since the last presidential election, so it is unlikely that another is scheduled in the near future.
*What will be the final disposition of the ''Pegasus'' officers, and the former military personnel who have returned from New Caprica?
**Saul Tigh's injuries may prevent him from resuming his post as XO of ''Galactica''. Additionally, he has been outranked by [[Lee Adama]] since "[[The Captain's Hand]]".
**Lee Adama's command, the ''Pegasus'', has been destroyed. Given Tigh's incapacity, he may begin service as XO of ''Galactica''. He has also expressed dissatisfaction with his military career ([[Final Cut]]) and may wish to retire from fleet service, or resume his earlier duties of military liaison to the civilian government.
**It will be difficult to justify replacing [[Louanne Katraine]] as CAG, given the length of her service since the foundation of New Caprica, and her skill as a pilot, shown to have rivaled or outstripped even that of Kara Thrace by the time of "[[Scar]]".
**[[Kara Thrace]] is separated from Fleet service, and although she will probably return to active duty, it is unlikely that she will resume her former duty position as CAG, ''Galactica'' so long as Katraine is serving competently in that position.
**[[Anastasia Dualla]] is now an officer, and will not be expected to resume NCO-level tasks. [[Hoshi]] held her former position on ''Pegasus'', and is now available to serve on ''Galactica''.
**[[Felix Gaeta]] is separated, and will have to answer for the crimes of Baltar's administration, despite his covert affiliation with the resistance. [[Karl Agathon]] and [[Aaron Kelly]] have both been shown performing Gaeta's duties in CIC on ''Galactica'', and one of them may replace him.
**[[Cally Tyrol]], [[Galen Tyrol]], or both may choose to remain separated (from fleet service) to raise their son, Nicholas. We have not yet seen young children being raised on board ''Galactica'', although there is a [[Boxey (RDM)|precedent]] for keeping a civilian minor onboard.
*What consequences will Ellen Tigh's death have for her husband?
*What equipment and personnel were left behind on [[New Caprica]]?
**In order to build [[New Caprica City]], the ships were at least partially stripped and supplies were offloaded.
**Medical supplies were running low as of "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]", although apparently the colonists were resupplied by the Cylons.
**Are there any people alive remaining on New Caprica after the exodus, due to wounds or infirmity? Were there any detention facilities which the [[New Caprica Resistance]] failed to liberate? Did anyone besides [[Gaius Baltar]] stay behind willingly?
*If the civilian ships only needed to get a few hundred feet off the ground in order to use their FTL drives and escape, why do ''Galcatica'' and ''Pegasus'' need to engage the basestars? Is this just to keep the Raiders, Heavy Raiders, and missiles from being used on the civilian fleet, on the surface below? (Note: it is not in dispute that having ''Galactica'' launch its fighters within the atmosphere is important so they could attack the Centurions and few raiders there.)
**As with the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], the Cylons could destroy the city with a single nuclear bomb in orbit. The plan appears to force the Cylons to be too distracted by the battlestar's offenses (Raptors at first, then the battlestar itself) to worry about the actions on the planet. ''Galactica'' jumps intra-atmosphere to minimize detection by the basestars.
**As part of Adama's strategy, after the intra-atmospheric jump, he probably wanted to jump the Galactica to the lowest possible orbit such that when the planetary rescue effort was complete that he could recover the vipers in the shortest possible time. To jump the Galactica to an extremely high orbit could add hours to viper recovery and allowing far too much time for Basestars and Raiders alike to close into their position.
*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?
*Will [[Cally Tyrol]] identify Jammer as the NCP officer who released her, based on his voice?
*''Galactica's'' escape seems questionable. Most or all of ''Galactica's'' Vipers were launched during the atmospheric maneuver. Later, after the four basestars start pummelling ''Galactica'', its situation is dire, facing explosive decompressions and with its FTL disabled. Adama says, "Then that's it. It's been an honor." ''Pegasus'' immediately appears and uses its superior weaponry to engage the basestars, destroying one in the first volley, so Adama orders the FTL to be fixed. Soon, Helo reports that most of the civilian ships have jumped, that FTL is back online, and that ''Pegasus'' is taking "a hell of a pounding." Adama orders his Vipers to land so that ''Galactica'' can leave. The next shot is Vipers landing, but weren't they all at the surface? How long does it take a Viper to climb into orbit? Real-world atmospheric escapes take several minutes, at least. How much damage were the basestars and battlestars doing to each other in this time?
**We aren't seeing events in real-time. Several minutes can lie between scenes that appear to happen right after another. Sometimes it is simply necessary to compress things in order to fit them into one episode.
**There may be several key differences at play between an escape from New Caprica's atmosphere and a real-world atmospheric departure, such as a lower [[Wikipedia:Karman line|atmospheric boundary]], more powerful thrusters on the Vipers, etc.
***In a real-world example, the [[Wikipedia:Space Shuttle|Space Shuttle]] takes approximately 10 minutes to attain escape velocity. The length of this time is partly due to the fact that the Space Shuttle's engines are occassionally throttled back to keep exceleration below 3 G to reduce discomfort to the crew. Additionally, typically it takes several hours for the Space Shuttle to attain the same orbit as the [[Wikipedia:International Space Station|ISS]]. For convenience of fiction, from the time of escape velocity of the vipers to attaining the same orbit of the Galactica could be said to be several minutes. Therefore, the entire sequence probably took in real-time 1/2 hour from the time the order was given by Adama to retrieve the Vipers to the time that all Vipers were aboard the Galactica. This is not taking into account that all craft can't land simultaneously on a carrier. The Pegasus probably took a pounding from 1/2 to 1 hour from the 3 remaining Basestars before it reached its final demise, a process that was beyond the timeframe of the show.
*Why did Kara Thrace wait so long to stab Leoben? She could have done it before even kissing him.
**Possibly, Thrace intended to insult to injury by her quick betrayal, but also, she needed to ensure that the Cylon agent was completely off his guard.
**It's also possible she is not as strong as we think, and truly felt something for Leoben in those few moments.
*What about the Cylons, such as Leoben, who were killed during the insurection? If they were dependant on a resurrection facility on New Caprica, is said facility still operational? If not, is there a resurrection ship in range?
*What, besides ''Galactica'' and her crew, was gained by the sacrifice of ''Pegasus''? Most of the civilian ships had already jumped to safety, and ''Pegasus'' did not bring any Vipers along to escort the remainder, opting instead to leave them to defend the small civilian fleet it had been protecting. If nothing was gained besides the survival of ''Galactica'', the sacrifice was a costly and foolish mistake - the fleet has lost the more advanced of its two battlestars, and along with it, its ability to manufacture new Vipers ([[Scar]]).
**From a purely military mission perspective that is correct. Pegasus' intervention seems to have been made solely because of the personal feelings of its commander. For the Cylons, the destruction of Pegasus and the retrieval of Hera compensate to an extent for the loss of three base stars and 30,000 human prisoners.
** Actually the mission was to rescue the 30,000 humans, the bulk of the survivors of the human race. The military perspective would be the sacrifice was worth the loss (though it would have been better, perhaps, if Galactica would have done the suicide run. It seems, though, that Pegasus would have jumped out if it could do so, but the ship lost its FTL drive during the pounding. This seems to happen relatively frequently for heavily defended warships designed to engage in brutal combat -- both Battlestars lost FTL during this battle. Also, Galactica's facilities to manufacture Vipers may have been greatly improved during the year at New Caprica.

== Analysis ==

*Either the scenes aren't in order or Baltar is not aware of what is going on. In the Gaeta-Baltar scene, Baltar says, "The Cylons have a nuke in this complex. Nobody, and I mean nobody, is getting off this planet alive unless I stop D'Anna." But this is after most of the civilian ships have already jumped.

*Further, until Hera is discovered by Baltar, Three is still looking to set off the nuke -- even though it is clear that the colonists are all long gone.
**It's possible Three wasn't seeking to set off the nuke, but said she was as a ruse to go seek answers about her premonitions concerning Hera.

*In general, the Cylons seem to have left the planet implausibly underguarded. Considering the strategic nature of the site, as well as the well-known fact that two battlestars remained at large, one would have expected the Cylons to have an overwhelming amount of protection for the planet -- perhaps dozens of basestars. Furthermore, it is hard to believe that the Cylons were not keeping closer tabs on the whereabouts of the launch keys.
**It has been established beforehand that the Cylons are overstretched with the occupation. This could account for the lack of protection. At any rate, four basestars against two battlestars is hardly an even match, let alone two half-strength battlestars.
***A Basestar does not seem to be a 1 to 1 match for a Battlestar. They lack offensive and defensive gun batteries, the ability to maneuver quickly, and have a critical design flaw that is easily exploited (central hub holding the six arms together). Basestars depend on missiles and large numbers of Raiders. Adama felt that the Galactica, even barely manned, could hold up to two Cylon Basestars.
****Additionally, RDM has mentioned in his podcasts that the Cylons do have major operations elsewhere hinting at future storylines in the season. It is possible that the Cylon higher command made a strategic decision to guard the planet with what they deemed the minimal required number of basestars to defend against 2 battlestars.
*When faced with their impending death, both Ellen Tigh and William Adama choose to accept it in a quiet, dignified manner.

*With the former crew of ''Pegasus'' onboard ''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.
**However, many repairs, such as structural, will require shipyard or dockyard facilities equiped with replacement parts and heavy repair machinery required for such repairs, and these facilities are no longer available. The Galactica may never again be the fighting force that it once was.

*While the combination of the ''Pegasus'' and ''Galactica'' air groups 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, unless one of the civilian ships can be converted for such a purpose. Defensively, the Fleet is pretty much back to the position it was in when it left the Colonies.
**However, the Galactica did take significant structural damage during the conflict, therefore, it currently isn't in the same state of battle readiness as it was at the time it left the Colonies.

*It appears during the whole conflict in atmospheric combat that the Raiders were spending most of their time running from the Vipers. This may be due to the fact that Colonial Vipers have a far superior atmospheric design where Raiders are optimized for space operations. The Viper has a stabilizing vertical wing which aids the pilot in manuevering through the atmosphere just like all real-life combat aircraft. The Raider lacks this stabilizer wing much reducing their effectiveness in aeronautic combat and manuevering thrusters are not as effective in air as in space due to resistance. This made the tactic of depositing the Galactica's Vipers into a solely air-support role for evacuating ships very effective once the Space-born Raiders were decoyed away from the planet so that the Galactica only had to face the Basestars, not the Raiders.
*Pegusas seemed to fulfill it's role just like the [[Pegasus (TOS)|original Pegasus]], as it fought to the end to defeat two basetars and allowed Galactica along with the last of the fleet to escape from the cylons.

== Notes ==

* There is also a TOS comic named ''[[Exodus!]]''
* Both 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]]" and "[[Valley of Darkness]]" and "[[Resurrection Ship, Part I|Resurrection Ship]]." 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.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

*''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 heads to Colonial One''
:'''Roslin''': 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.

*''The 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 William Adama''': I guess you didn't understand my orders.
:'''Commander Lee Adama''': I never could read your handwriting.

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

== Official Statements ==

== 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]]
*[[Luciana Carro]] as Lt. [[Louanne Katraine|Louanne "Kat" Katraine]]

== References ==
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[[de:Exodus, Part II]]

Exodus, Part II

2006-10-21T15:18:48Z

QX100: /* Questions */

Humanoid Cylon speculation

2006-07-23T06:23:42Z

QX100: /* Jammer? */

The [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon's]] transformation into [[Cylon agent|humanoid form]] introduces serious problems for the remnant of humanity known as [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]] to identify Cylon operative from human.

This article details plausible speculation on central and supporting characters in ''[[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' who, based on their behavior, motive, and background, could be in reality a Cylon agent.

=Needed Qualifiers for Speculation=

For a character to be logically considered a possible agent, there are a few established parameters to meet:

* '''The suspect must have a ''regular association'' with other Cylon agents''' (whether they realize the character is an infiltrator or not). A "regular" association means that the character speaks often (weekly, if not daily) to, or has/had direct duties with another agent. Suspects that speak regularly to other suspects in this list are, for the purposes of this article, not applicable to this qualifier. Many Viper pilots and ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' command staff who've worked with the [[Sharon Valerii]] copy known as "Boomer" would meet this qualifier.
* '''The suspect must not have any adult children or siblings.''' For purposes of this article, a pregnancy can be generally established as a disqualifier. However, as identical Colonial twins do exist (as mentioned in "[[Colonial Day]]"), it is conceivable that Cylon agents could disguise themselves by posing as twins.
* '''The suspect must not have a verifiable family history''' (marriages do not disqualify unless a child was conceived).
* '''The suspect cannot be old enough to have witnessed or participated in the [[Cylon War]].''' (or if they ''appear to be'', such as the Cylon [[Cavil]], no one can confirm that they ''actually'' lived during these events).
* '''The suspect does not have reliable histories''' that places them in direct association (working or personal relationship) with a disqualified (confirmed human) character for '''more than 2 years prior''' to the destruction of the Colonies.

Based on information from the [[Miniseries]], the Cylon agents began their infiltration and integration into Colonial society approximately 2 years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. If a character has a direct association with a character that cannot be a Cylon agent, that association excludes them since they are older than the stated time that the agents began to integrate themselves into Colonial society. Note that the 2-year period is based on information given by [[Number Six]] to [[Gaius Baltar]]: Their relationship lasted for 2 years prior to the Cylon attack. There is also supporting information that [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Boomer's]] tour of duty was also approximately 2 years in the Colonial Fleet.

According to [[Ron D. Moore]], the twelve humanoid models are based on human behavior and personality archetypes distilled into twelve varieties. Cylon agents are NOT copies or clones of any humans, living or dead.

With [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|one exception]], Cylon agents have extreme difficulty with human sexual reproduction to the point where they are effectively infertile. If a character has adult, biological children, it automatically excludes them as being a Cylon agent as the procreation of the child and the age of the child both violate the 2nd qualifier. Although humanoid Cylons have, eventually, proven to be capable of reproduction with humans, the birth of the hybrid child [[Hera]] was considered such a seminal event by the Cylons that it seems safe to conclude that no Cylon ever had a child before that point.

Based on these qualifiers, each assessment below is marked accordingly with their probability of being a Cylon infiltrator.

=Suspected Cylon infiltrators=
==High probability of being a Cylon==
=== Jammer? ===
* Regular association with other agents: Yes (Sharon Valerii, as deck specialist)
* Known siblings or adult children: No
* Known family members: No
* Witnessed/participated in Cylon War: No
* Association with known disqualifing character: No
* '''Chances of being a Cylon:''' High

[[Jammer]] has exhibited suspicious actions numerous times. Along with [[Cally]] and [[Socinus]], he serves under Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] on the [[hangar deck]]. Jammer consistently makes remarks that seem to be trying to divide the humans against each other. When it was revealed to the Fleet that Cylons now can look like humans in "[[Litmus]]", he kept arguing that everyone should stop trusting each other and that it was "every man for himself now", while Socinus said that if they didn't trust each other they wouldn't survive. Cally even pointed out that Jammer's kind of thinking is ''exactly'' what the Cylons want: for everyone to become suspicious and paranoid. Jammer keeps doing this through the second season: when Tyrol is accused of being a Cylon in "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]" he immediately yells at Cally that the Chief must be a Cylon. Whenever Jammer appears he seems to be trying to sow mistrust among the crew. Also, he told the emotionally unstable Cally that she should be angry at "Boomer" (the first Sharon Valerii copy) not himself, for Tyrol's being suspected, and that she should take it up with Boomer. Jammer can then be seen as having manipulated Cally into killing Boomer (Cally need not be a Cylon; Jammer could tell she was suffering from post-traumatic stress after Kobol and that she would go after Boomer if he suggested it to her).

Two of the biggest pieces of evidence against Jammer appear in the episode, "[[Valley of Darkness]]."

#Apollo and his group of marines found Jammer hiding in a small arms locker, completely unharmed, although the room was littered with the corpses of crewmen the Cylons had killed. He claims to have just hid then snuck inside, but perhaps he was already there and the Centurions spared him because they knew he was a Cylon as well. [[Anastasia Dualla]] was also found alive in a room filled with dead crewmen, but she was in the lavatory, which isn't a vital area of the ship, while Jammer was in a small arms locker. Further, Dualla was wounded; she had a light concussion and presumably a Centurion knocked her unconscious, assumed she was dead, and moved on. Jammer was just standing around inside of the weapons locker.

#Before the fight to protect [[Aft Damage Control]], Captain Adama says a phrase of his father's: "Sometimes you have to roll the hard six." Jammer asks what this means, and Adama explains. To date, no aired episode explains where [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Caprica-Valerii]], a known agent, learns of this phrase, which she uses in a pressing situation in her efforts to defend ''Galactica'' in "[[Flight of the Phoenix]]." Unwittingly, it is plausible that Valerii's knowledge of this phrase (and its origin) came from Jammer via the vague but tangible collective knowledge database of the Cylon agents. However, it is also plausible that [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Galactica-Valerii]] heard this phrase sometime prior to her memories being copied into Caprica-Valerii.

Jammer continues to exhibit pessimistic, counterproductive, and morale-draining behavior. When Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] was trying to construct the [[Blackbird]], he vocally tried to convince the other deckhands that it couldn't be done and it wasn't worth trying. He may have done this to undermine the military assets of ''Galactica'': the Cylons may be hoping to wear down ''Galactica's'' Viper numbers through gradual attrition, while because the Cylons have dedicated manufacturing capabilities for Raiders on the [[Cylon homeworld]] and possibly on basestars, Raiders are easily replaceable. With this in mind, the last thing the Cylons would want is for ''Galactica'' to start constructing her own replacement fighters ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).

==Moderate probability of being a Cylon==
===Anastasia "Dee" Dualla?===
* Regular association with other agents: Yes (Boomer)
* Known siblings or adult children: No
* Known family members: No
* Witnessed/participated in Cylon War: No
* Three-year or longer association with disqualifing character: Unknown
* '''Chances of being a Cylon:''' Moderate

[[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] seems to have a fairly well developed backstory regarding her past; she is a Sagittaron ([[Bastille Day]]), her father disapproved of her joining the military ([[Final Cut]]), but upon closer inspection none of this can be confirmed by a third party: the only source of information about Dualla's past in the series has been Dualla herself. Dualla's position in charge of ''Galactica's'' communications puts her in an ideal position for subversion. In "[[Valley of Darkness]]", Dualla is found in the enlisted head, having suffered a blow to the head from Cylon Centurions that passed through. The Centurions killed everyone else, and it does seem plausible that one merely swiped her in the head, knocking her out, and thus thought she was dead and moved on. However, it still seems odd that she was the only survivor. In addition, Number Six later demonstrated in "[[Downloaded]]" how she was willing to physically damage herself in order to manipulate ''Galactica''-Sharon's sympathy: perhaps Dualla hit ''herself'' in the head, to fake an injury, thus throwing suspicion off of herself. Dualla started a relationship with President Roslin's aide, Billy Keikeya, possibly to gain a foothold in the president's office, and then began a relationship with Lee Adama, CAG of ''Galactica'' and son of the military commander of the entire fleet. Eventually, Apollo was promoted to ''Pegasus'' commander and Dualla left ''Galactica'' to marry him and become his XO, further insinuating herself into the command structure.

=== Felix Gaeta? ===
* Regular association with other agents: Yes (Sharon Valerii)
* Known siblings or adult children: No
* Known family members: No
* Witnessed/participated in Cylon War: No
* Association with known disqualifing character: Yes (William Adama)
* '''Chances of being a Cylon:''' Moderate

Lt. [[Felix Gaeta]] is in a good position for a Cylon—not conspicuous but nonetheless in a position where he can help the Cylons quite a bit. Gaeta arguably seems to hand something to Boomer in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]" before she shoots Adama (a frame by frame analysis shows that their hands are not in frame dispite the camera intentionally panning down when he shakes her hand, leaving the question unanswered). However, he did not hand her a gun, because pilots always carry sidearms, and she walked into CIC with it. Gaeta can recognize Cylon devices, and is close to [[Gaius Baltar|Dr. Baltar]]. He admitted to ignoring the Cylon device installed on his console in the [[miniseries]], explaining that he thought it was unimportant. Gaeta has plotted coordinates to a water planet, a Cylon [[tyllium]] base, and [[Kobol]] with uncanny accuracy. He "forgot" to send updated [[emergency jump coordinates]] to the fleet in "[[Scattered]]", leaving ''Galactica'' vulnerable to Cylon electronic attack after having to network the ship [[Computers|computer]] systems together. In "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]" Gaeta helps the Cylon cause by uncovering the ballot tampering which leads to the election of Gaius.

Gaeta's recent behavioral changes from the stress of working at evading the Cylons shows by "[[Final Cut]]" as Gaeta is shown in his interview drunk, smoking, and wearing a new tattoo. By the following episode, "[[Flight of the Phoenix]]", Gaeta angrily snaps at Colonel Tigh for giving a difficult order, causing surprise throughout [[CIC]] since Gaeta is normally a calm, reserved officer even under the worst of conditions. Contrast this behavior with Boomer, the ''Galactica'' copy of Sharon Valerii, who still appeared quite alert after 5 continuous days of combat status. Note the following dialogue from the first regular series episode, "[[33]]":

::'''[[Lee Adama|Apollo]]''': Hey, how about you, Boomer? [[Cottle|Doc]] tells me you're holding up better than anybody in the squadron.
::'''Boomer''': I'm tired, like everybody else.
::'''Apollo''': You never seem it.
::'''[[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]]''': 'Cause she's a Cylon.
::'''Boomer''': You're just gonna make me come over there and kick your ass, aren't you?

While even Cylon agents develop severe behavioral and physiological issues after extended work and abuse ([[Number Six#Gina|Pegasus]]), Cylon agents appear to be more resilient than humans, which may limit the likelihood of Gaeta's possible Cylon connection. On the other hand, if he were a Cylon, Gaeta's human personality may have finally been overtaxed by that time, suggesting that an actual human might have snapped earlier in their exodus in contrast.

In the end, Gaeta's likelihood as a Cylon operative may be in doubt over one key element: The Cylons appear to have integrated human agents into the Colonies no earlier than 2 years before the events of the Miniseries. Gaeta has served on ''Galactica'' with Commander Adama for three years ([[Miniseries]]). Since humanoid Cylons are not clones of actual humans, the likelihood of Gaeta as a Cylon agent would depend on the start of Cylon agent introduction.

=== Ellen Tigh? ===
* Regular association with other agents: No
* Known siblings or adult children: None
* Known family members: None
* Witnessed/participated in Cylon War: Maybe (Character over 40 years of age)
* Three-year or longer association with disqualifing character: Seven-year marriage to [[Saul Tigh]]
* '''Chances of being a Cylon:''' Low to Moderate

In light of her statistic-defying survival of the Cylon holocaust and her manipulations of her husband during Commander [[William Adama]]'s incapacitation ([[Scattered]] through [[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]), [[Ellen Tigh]]'s actions have demonstrated the possibility that she may be a Cylon agent. For someone who seems so intelligent and far-sighted, she should be well aware that pushing her husband to strong-arm the rest of the Fleet to conform with his (and her) views would only end in chaos. If she ''is'' a Cylon looking to destroy the Fleet from within, then the best weapon in her arsenal is the man she's married to.

In an October 2005 webcast, [[Ronald D. Moore]] indicated that the likelihood of Ellen Tigh being a Cylon was low. Essentially, this was due to the feeling that having her be a Cylon agent would not only be convenient, but unrealistic from a story point-of-view as well. Moore's comments don't eliminate Ellen Tigh from consideration, but reduces the likelihood of this speculation. Some viewers surmise that Moore may have meant that revealing Tigh as a Cylon in her [[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down|debut episode]] in addition to the character's many other complexities, would stretch the overall believability or integrity of the character at that point, but that he was not refering to her actual status as a Cylon or not at the time.

Ellen Tigh's celebrated her seventh wedding anniversary with Saul Tigh in a [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/episodes/season01/112/deleted1.html deleted scene] from the episode "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]". If the canonicity of this scene stands, then Ellen's likelihood of being an agent drops dramatically. Else, the establishment of their wedding "date" should aid in increasing or reducing speculation on this intriguing character.

==Low probability of being a Cylon==
===Gaius Baltar?===
* Regular association with other agents: Yes (Three [[Number Six]] incarnations)
* Known siblings or adult children: None
* Known family members: None
* Witnessed/participated in Cylon War: No
* Three-year or longer association with disqualifying character: No
* '''Chances of being a Cylon:''' Very low

There is very low chance that [[Gaius Baltar]] is actually a Cylon. He has been a prominent public figure for years. Number Six earnestly wanted to have a hybrid child with him as the biological father and her as the biological mother, but had to change her plans to ''considering'' [[Hera]] to be "their child" even though it is not biologically theirs. Cylons talking amongst themselves in "[[Downloaded]]" continually referred to Baltar as a human.

To review a detailed breakdown of the whys and whatfors of the possibility of Baltar as a Cylon, see [[Baltar as Cylon speculation]]

=== Bell? ===
* Regular association with other agents: Yes ([[D'anna Biers]])
* Known siblings or adult children: No
* Known family members: No
* Witnessed/participated in Cylon War: No
* Association with known disqualifing character: No
* '''Chances of being a Cylon:''' Low

D'anna Biers' [[Bell|cameraman/assistant]] is another possible candidate for a Cylon infiltrator, as he has been shown willingly taking part in the same devious and manipulative activities as D'anna Biers ([[Final Cut]]). Whether he is a Cylon working in tandem with Biers, or just a nosy human journalist following his superior’s equally devious wishes has yet to be determined.

Bell's speculation as a Cylon agent is questionable based on some of his actions in "Final Cut." When he is free of D'anna Biers, he doesn't film sensitive, if seemingly trivial, data. He overlooks the carbon dioxide scrubbers (a potential Cylon infiltrator target). In addition, instead of filming the [[hangar deck]] after the destruction of the two [[Raider]]s, Bell focuses on Apollo's post-flight check. Since Bell has not been seen in the series since this episode, the lack of further appearances all but eliminates the likelihood for this character to be a Cylon agent.

===Cally?===
* Regular association with other agents: Yes (Boomer)
* Known siblings or adult children: No
* Known family members: No
* Witnessed/participated in Cylon War: No
* Three-year or longer association with disqualifing character: Unknown
* '''Chances of being a Cylon:''' Low to None

[[Cally]] shot Boomer in a "Jack Ruby-style" assassination, preventing the Fleet from interrogating her further. While this might benefit the Cylon agenda, Cally had a perfectly understandable reason for doing it, which she has openly stated: she hated Boomer for what she did to Chief Tyrol, hated her for betraying all of their trust and shooting Adama, and simply because she was a Cylon. Indeed, many other characters in "[[Flight of the Phoenix]]" ''congratulate'' Cally and say they would have done the same given the chance. Little can be confirmed about Cally's past, not even her first name yet, but this has not pointed to any Cylon origin. Finally, Cally is pregnant with Tyrol's child as of the end of season 2, meaning it is impossible for them both to be Cylons and improbable in the extreme that either of them is.

===Tory Foster?===
* Regular association with other agents: No
* Known siblings or adult children: No
* Known family members: No
* Witnessed/participated in Cylon War: No
* Three-year or longer association with disqualifing character: No
* '''Chances of being a Cylon:''' Low to Moderate

[[Tory Foster]]'s past is unconfirmed, and she seemed eager to work her way into President Roslin's administration. The odds that another aide with skills like Billy Keikeya would also happen to be alive in the Fleet is also tenuous.

=== Billy Keikeya? ===
* Regular association with other agents: No
* Known siblings or adult children: No
* Known family members: No
* Witnessed/participated in Cylon War: No
* Three-year or longer association with disqualifing character: No
* '''Chances of being a Cylon:''' Low

[[Billy Keikeya]] might also be a Cylon due to the relative lack of confirmation surrounding his character. In a deleted scene in the Miniseries, it is revealed that Roslin met Billy for the first time when she boarded Colonial One to travel to Galactica; thus he presence can only be "confirmed" immediately before the attack, far short of even the 2 years that Number Six and Boomer had infiltrated the Colonies. Virtually nothing can be confirmed about Billy; although he states in the Miniseries that his parents and siblings were living on Picon when it was nuked, we really only have his word for it and no way to confirm that these were actual facts. Everyone just takes Billy's word for it. Billy has also stated (in deleted scenes in "[[Home, Part II]]") that he is an atheist. Again, he could simply be behaving based on implanted false memories that form a fake personality crafted by the Cylons, and it would be an ironic twist if an atheist character was revealed to belong to a race of religious zealots. That being said, the most recently revealed Cylon agent, [[Cavil]], also exhibits atheistic or agnostic tendencies, explicitly stating that "there is no [[God]]" when interrogated by Roslin and Adama.

Billy could be a Cylon that was sent to keep tabs on Laura Roslin during the attack; Roslin was a viable target due to her status as a high-ranking government official. In an interesting deleted scene in "[[Fragged]]" Billy appears in one of Roslin's dreams as a manifestation of her own doubts and fears. In the dream he antagonistically taunts her for her faith in the [[Sacred Scrolls]] and [[Kara Thrace]] then stabs her in the heart with a knife after which she wakes up screaming in terror. Given the prophetic connotations of Roslin's previous dreams and visions this could ''possibly'' be taken as evidence for Keikeya being a Cylon, however like most deleted material its canonicity is tentative at best.

The character of Billy Keikeya dies in the episode, "[[Sacrifice]]." As only Cylon agents can "return from the dead," the argument for Keikeya as a Cylon agent is effectively invalid unless the character appears in a present-time (non-flashback) episode of the series, which would confirm Keikeya's true nature.

===Galen Tyrol?===
* Regular association with other agents: Yes (Boomer)
* Known siblings or adult children: No
* Known family members: No
* Witnessed/participated in Cylon War: No
* Three-year or longer association with disqualifing character: Yes (William Adama)
* '''Chances of being a Cylon:''' Low to None

Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] was in an illicit relationship with Boomer, and later had recurring nightmares based on his fear that he might also be a Cylon sleeper agent. However, he has served under William Adama on ''Galactica'' for 5 years, and as Adama put it, had he been a Cylon and they wanted the ship to be destroyed, he more than knew how to do it, and should have ''already'' done it by this point. Cally's expected child in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]", ostensibly that of Tyrol's, all but removes suspicion for this character (love does allow human-Cylon pregnancies to occur, however).

=Characters who cannot possibly be Cylons=
The following characters, for individual reasons below, have been disproven from any possibility of being humanoid Cylon sleeper agents.

===Lee "Apollo" Adama===
* Regular association with other agents: Yes (Sharon Valerii)
* Known siblings or adult children: Yes, with qualifier (See "[[Black Market]]")
* Known family members: Yes ([[William Adama]], [[Zak Adama]])
* Witnessed/participated in Cylon War: No
* Three-year or longer association with disqualifing character: Yes (William Adama)
* '''Chances of being a Cylon:''' None

In "[[Flesh and Bone]]", a copy of [[Leoben Conoy]], a Cylon agent, grabs [[Laura Roslin]] and tells her, "Adama is a Cylon," prior to his execution. If his statement is true, it leaves doubt on which Adama he is talking about, although Roslin's actions in the next episode, "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]", indicate that she believes Conoy spoke of Commander Adama.

Cylon agents are not copies (clones) of existing people. Evidence from [[Sharon Valerii]]'s and [[Number Six]]'s conversations indicate that humanoid Cylon infiltration began no earlier than 2 years prior to the events of the [[Miniseries]], although their respective backstories may suggest they have been "alive" for many years. As Lee Adama was alive long before this introduction, and his father knew him since he was born and can thus confirm this, the probability that Lee Adama is a Cylon is as low as that of his father.

Information from the episode, "[[Black Market]]" suggests that Adama was to be a father to a child he conceived on Caprica, but he left the unborn child's mother, his lover at the time. Such a pregnancy, if Lee Adama was indeed an agent, would introduce the ability of Cylon ''males'' to sire children (currently, episodes only show that it is possible for a Cylon ''female'' to conceive).

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===William Adama===
* Regular association with other agents: Yes (Sharon Valerii)
* Known siblings or adult children: Yes ([[Lee Adama]] and [[Zak Adama]])
* Known family members: Yes ([[Caroline Adama]] and [[Anne Adama]])
* Witnessed/participated in Cylon War: Yes (widely-known Veteran)
* Three-year or longer association with disqualifing character: Yes (Saul Tigh)
* '''Chances of being a Cylon:''' None

Of all the suspected infiltrators, the case against [[William Adama]] appears to be the weakest.

In the Miniseries, Adama seems to know that the Cylon agents have "silica relays" in their brains, and that they would be affected by the storm around [[Ragnar Anchorage]]. This knowledge is not explained, but the [[Number Five]] copy left on the station showed signs of being affected, whereas Adama did not. In "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]", Commander Adama disappears mysteriously and returns with Ellen Tigh. Around the same time, a Cylon Raider shows up. However, this was all explained later in the same episode, when Adama reveals that he was reluctant to openly announce Ellen's sudden appearance because he was afraid she could be a Cylon.

Adama also has exhibited strange behavior, from expressing vague Cylon sympathies (both in his speech in the Miniseries and in his discussion with Tyrol in "[[Home, Part I]]" where he seems to concede that Boomer was more than a machine). While not openly friendly to the Cylons, Adama seems to at least respect them as persons in that he does not treat the Caprica copy of Sharon Valerii inhumanely (despite an attempt at strangling her when they first met), despite what was done to him by the Valerii copy known as "Boomer". While this could indicate a Cylon nature, it's also extremely likely that Adama's strength of character and personality enable him to think that Valerii might actually have changed.

William Adama is the father of two children, [[Lee Adama|Lee]] and [[Zak Adama|Zak]]. Before the conception of Valerii's hybrid child the Cylons have been unable to produce children through sexual reproduction. Further, Adama is, by all accounts, a veteran of the well-documented [[Cylon War]], back at a time where Cylons were purely mechanical and not biosynthetic.

When the recent revelation by Ron Moore that Cylon agents are unique beings and not copies of existing humans is added to this, the likelihood of William Adama as a suspected infiltrator could be all but ruled out. This also throws the validity of Leoben Conoy's final words to Roslin accusing Adama as a Cylon in "[[Flesh and Bone]]" into question (which were almost certainly meant to just spread paranoia).

The strongest convincing evidence against Adama as a Cylon is that we have seen flashbacks of Adama and Saul Tigh set 20 years prior to the destruction of the Colonies, after the first Cylon War. Since Cylon agents aren't copies of humans, it is not possible for Adama (or Tigh) to be Cylon operatives (at least of the type used thus far).

===Samuel Anders===
* Regular association with other agents: Unknown (Lived on Cylon-occupied Caprica for several months)
* Known siblings or adult children: No
* Known family members: No
* Witnessed/participated in Cylon War: No
* Three-year or longer association with disqualifing character: Unknown (Was Pyramid Ball player but not known for how long)
* '''Chances of being a Cylon:''' None

As the leader of an anti-Cylon resistance movement on Cylon-occupied Caprica, [[Samuel Anders|Anders]] stands small chance of actually being a Cylon. He was a well known public figure as a sports star, and though this might have only happened recently, it lends credit against the idea that he is a Cylon. In "[[Downloaded]]", while he is unconscious [[Number Three]] and [[Number Six]] refer to him between themselves as a human.

===Helena Cain===
* Regular association with other agents: No
* Known siblings or adult children: No
* Known family members: No
* Witnessed/participated in Cylon War: No
* Three-year or longer association with disqualifing character: Yes (William Adama)
* '''Chances of being a Cylon:''' None

Admiral [[Helena Cain]] may have been ruthless and a danger to the Fleet, but she was a publicly known figure for years. Cain spent years rapidly rising through the ranks all the way up to Admiral. Adama has personally witnessed this rise, which must have taken longer than the 2 year cutoff for likely Cylon agent infiltration as defined in this article.

===Karl "Helo" Agathon===
* Regular association with other agents: Yes
* Known siblings or adult or hybrid children: Yes ([[Hera]])
* Known family members: No
* Witnessed/participated in Cylon War: No
* Three-year or longer association with disqualifing character: Unknown
* '''Chances of being a Cylon:''' None

[[Karl Agathon|Helo]] fathers a Cylon-human hybrid, [[Hera]], with a known Cylon agent, [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Sharon Valerii]]. As Cylon males cannot sire children with Cylon females (per data from "[[The Farm]]"), Helo cannot realistically be a Cylon himself.

===Laura Roslin===
* Regular association with other agents: No
* Known siblings or adult children: No
* Known family members: No
* Witnessed/participated in Cylon War: No
* Three-year or longer association with disqualifing character: Yes (President [[Richard Adar]])
* '''Chances of being a Cylon:''' None

President [[Laura Roslin]] may have prophetic moments, like [[Number Six]] and [[Leoben Conoy]], but she cannot possibly be a Cylon. Roslin was a public figure for 20 years ([[Litmus]]), working with later-President Adar and eventually serving as Secretary of Education: her past is totally confirmed. Cylon agents appear to be resistant to cancer, and Roslin was dying of cancer until she was cured by a blood transfusion from the Cylon-Human hybrid foetus ([[Epiphanies]]).

===Kara "Starbuck" Thrace===
* Regular association with other agents: Yes (Boomer)
* Known siblings or adult children: No
* Known family members: Yes (alluded to in "[[The Farm]]" by [[Simon]])
* Witnessed/participated in Cylon War: No
* Three-year or longer association with disqualifing character: No
* '''Chances of being a Cylon:''' None

[[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] has been disproven from being a Cylon: [[Simon]] wanted to use Starbuck's egg cells in Cylon/Human hybrid experiments, and it would be totally illogical for him to need to hold her against her will to obtain her genetic material, if the Cylons already have hundreds of copies of a Starbuck-model Cylon to obtain it from. Starbuck's incarceration in a Cylon [[Farms|Farm]] disqualifies her from being a Cylon. Further, reproduction between humanoid Cylons is impossible, and Starbuck would not have been captured for use in human-Cylon hybrid experiments if she was not human.

===Saul Tigh===
* Regular association with other agents: Yes (Boomer)
* Known siblings or adult children: No
* Known family members: None
* Witnessed/participated in Cylon War: Yes (widely-known Veteran)
* Three-year or longer association with disqualifing character: Yes (William Adama)
* '''Chances of being a Cylon:''' None

[[Saul Tigh]] is well known as a veteran of the first Cylon War, and has served as a non-obscure officer in the Fleet for decades. In many respects the case against Saul Tigh being a Cylon is similar to that of William Adama's (above).

The strongest convincing evidence against Tigh as a Cylon is that we have seen flashbacks of Tigh and William Adama set 20 years prior to the destruction of the Colonies, after the first Cylon War. Since Cylon agents aren't copies of humans, it is not possible for Tigh or Adama to be Cylon operatives (at least of the type used thus far).

===Tom Zarek===
* Regular association with other agents: No
* Known siblings or adult children: No
* Known family members: No
* Witnessed/participated in Cylon War: Unknown
* Three-year or longer association with disqualifing character: Yes (President Adar, publicly known to be held in prison for 20 years)
* '''Chances of being a Cylon:''' None

[[Tom Zarek]] may seem subversive to the status quo of the Fleet and opposed to President Roslin's administration, but he can't be a Cylon. Zarek has been a well-known terrorist/political dissident for decades. He is widely known for blowing up a government building on Sagittaron, leading to his arrest 20 years ago, and he was presumably a prominent Sagittaron leader for years beforehand. President Adar publicly offered him amnesty if he would renounce his campaign of violence to free Sagittaron and Zarek refused. Due to being such a publicly known figure for so many decades before the Cylon Attack, Zarek could not be a Cylon.

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Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II

2006-03-16T07:40:56Z

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{{Episode Data|
Image = [[Image:Baltarlaydownburdensii.jpg|300px]]
| Title= Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II
| Series= [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|The Re-imagined Series]]
| Season= [[Season 2 (2005-06)|2]]
| Episode= 20
| Guests= [[Richard Hatch]] ([[Tom Zarek]])<br>[[Kate Vernon]] ([[Ellen Tigh]])<br>[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001777/ Dean Stockwell] ([[Cavil|Brother Cavil]])
| Writer=[[IMDB:nm1093194|Anne Cofell Saunders]], [[IMDB:nm0894156|Mark Verheiden]]
| Story=
| Director=[[Michael Rymer]]
| Production=
| Rating=
| US Airdate= March 10, 2006
| UK Airdate=
| DVD=
| Population= 49,550
| Prev= [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]
| Next= TBA
}}

== Overview ==

: ''Everything turns on its head as the survivors vote for a new president -- and vote for their fate.''

== Summary ==

===On Caprica===

*[[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]], the marines, and the [[resistance (movement)|resistance]] continue to take fire from Cylon centurions and artillery. They make their way up a hill, and hold their position.
*The Cylons hold fire, and Sharon remarks that the Cylons will attempt to capture them with non-lethal weapons, such as gas.
*Eighteen hours later, they emerge to find that the Cylons have disappeared. [[Cavil]] -- who suddenly appears behind them -- announces that the Cylons have left the Twelve Colonies and that humanity was spared.

===In the Fleet===

*[[Cally]] is cleared back to work by [[Cottle|Dr. Cottle]], despite having her jaw wired shut. [[Tyrol|Chief Tyrol]] visits her, apologizing for the attack. Cally forgives him, saying that she's always cared for him.

*[[Gaius Baltar|Dr. Baltar]] continues to gain in the polls. On ''[[Colonial One]]'', Tory mentions there's always a victory plan. [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] later calls a private meeting with Dr. Baltar, asking to deliver a joint statement of [[Wikipedia:Table (verb)|tabling]] the issue of colonization until after the election, which Baltar rejects.

*[[Laura Roslin|Roslin]], fearing that she has indeed lost the presidential race, confronts [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] on whether he was with Six on Caprica before the Cylon attack. Baltar avoids answering the question & states that he may have saved her life, but he will not save her political life.

*[[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] returns to ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', with the resistance fighters, much to the delight of Admiral Adama. She mentions the fact that the Cylons have left Caprica, and a man appearing to be Brother Cavil confirms it. He also says he has a message, but is attacked by Chief Tyrol, who declares a "[[Code blue]]," claiming Cavil is a Cylon. Both Cavil and Caprica-Sharon are escorted to the brig under marine guard.

*The other Cavil (from last episode) is also taken to the brig, claiming he's not a Cylon, but changes his tune upon seeing his "brother", as he calls him. Both Cavils then talk about the fact that the “war heroes” (Caprica Six & ''Galactica''-Sharon) have talked about how the attack of the colonies and the pursuit of the fleet were mistakes. They were told to relay the message that man and Cylon will go their separate ways. Both Roslin and Admiral Adama are less than trusting regarding the message.

*In the brig, Caprica-Sharon is completely disillusioned and nihilistic, declaring that since her child's death, nothing - not Adama's trust, not even Helo - matters to her. A frustrated Helo insists that he's not giving up on her, but she seems disinclined to listen.

*Starbuck and Anders are getting extremely drunk when Apollo comes in to welcome them back. Starbuck makes a snide remark about Apollo and Dualla and goes back to drunkenly making out with Anders. Apollo, clearly upset with Starbuck, leaves without saying much.

*Election Day has arrived and Baltar has an apparent five thousand-vote lead over Roslin with only a few ships left. On ''Colonial One'', Tory makes a call to ''Galactica'', putting a plan into action.

*Amazingly, Roslin initially appears to have retained the presidency. While most are celebrating, Lt. Gaeta makes a startling discovery regarding the votes, and informs the Admiral that Col. Tigh may be involved in a conspiracy to throw the election.

*Admiral Adama confronts Roslin regarding the conspiracy, saying he has a confession to rig the vote. Roslin admits her involvement and Adama is disappointed.

*Baltar is informed of his election as President. He's less than pleased, vowing to have full investigation in time. President-elect Baltar then orders a course for “New Caprica”.

*[[Gaius Baltar]] is sworn in as the new President of the Twelve Colonies, and orders the immediate colonization of New Caprica.

*''[[Cloud 9]]'' is destroyed by a nuclear blast, Gina being present before the explosion; in addition to the ''Cloud 9'', at least three other ships are destroyed in the blast. Admiral Adama reports to the president that this may be a Cylon attack, but Baltar ignores him and presses forward with colonization.

===One Year Later===
[[image:burdens2.jpg|Kara and Cottle on New Caprica.|thumb]]
*[[Felix Gaeta|Mr. Gaeta]] is reporting to the President regarding a Union issue aboard Colonial One, now down on the planet. Baltar is upset, saying there have been no Cylon attacks but the people still complain. He has regressed, turning to alcohol, medication, and womanizing.

*Admiral Adama, now sporting a mustache, is walking around the near-empty Galactica, which is quickly falling into disarray. Over half of the crew have moved down onto the planet, and they are running on such a skeleton crew that they barely have enough pilots to fly training missions, much less a good CAP. Adama has a discussion with Tigh about going down to the planet, which Tigh reluctantly agrees to do.

*[[Samuel Anders|Anders]], now Kara’s husband, has pneumonia. Dr. Cottle is unable to treat Anders because there are no antibiotics available. He can only advise Kara to make sure Anders gets enough rest and with a little luck he "should" pull through.

*Kara runs into the Tighs as [[Tyrol]], now a union boss, is making a speech to begin a strike, with a very pregnant Cally by his side. Saul mentions that ''Pegasus'' keeps the backup medical supplies and that Apollo would spring some for Starbuck. Starbuck disagrees, which prompts Tigh to state that Apollo should be "over that by now".

*Roslin is doing what she does best, teaching the settlement's children, and manages to find enjoyment in her new position. [[Maya]] is with her, as is the now one year old [[Hera]], whom Maya has named "Isis".

*Kara calls Lee aboard ''Pegasus'', requesting the antibiotics. Dualla, now an officer and most likely Lee's XO, notices something on the [[DRADIS]].

*A fleet of [[Cylon]] [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]]s arrive in orbit around New Caprica. The Adamas discuss what to do in response, with Lee initially advocating that the fleet jump away, and Admiral Adama initially resisting the suggestion. However, Lee apparently brings the Admiral around to his way of thinking (or Admiral Adama comes to the conclusion on his own) when [[Helo]] asks if alert fighters should be launched. Admiral Adama keeps the alert fighters in and jumps the fleet ships remaining in orbit around [[New Caprica]] to an unknown location, vowing that he will return. ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]) (See also [[Fall of New Caprica]]).

*Mr. Gaeta informs the President of the Cylon approach. Later, before his assembled staff, copies of Numbers [[Number Five|5]], [[Number Eight|8]], and [[Number Six|6]] approach the President. The Cylons declare that as long as there’s no resistance, no harm will come. President Baltar, after learning that the Cylons discovered New Caprica because of the nuke explosion set off by Gina, declares surrender on behalf of the colonists. As Cylon armies occupy the planet, Kara vows to resist.

== Questions ==

*Who is Baltar's vice president?
*What "number" is Cavil?
*Was Roslin's threat to put the two Cavils into space actually carried out?
*Where did the defense fleet jump to?
*Where is Caprica-Sharon?
*What happened to Zarek?
*Why is Leoben looking for Starbuck, specifically?
*Why has the population (until Tyrol's recent union speech) accepted Baltar's imperious rule? People were hardly so passive under Roslin. Indeed, Adama executed a military coup over a rather less important issue than giving a nuclear weapon to a Cylon agent.
*Are the Six and Eight that Baltar surrendered to [[Caprica-Six]] and [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|''Galactica''-Sharon]]?
*Where did the Cylon fleets go, after they left the Twelve Colonies? Cavil was deliberately vague when asked if they simply returned to the [[Cylon homeworld]].
*Did the nuclear bomb ever get picked up by the fleet's radiological alarms?
*How many people died in the Cloud Nine explosion? (see [[#Analysis|Analysis]])
*Were the Quorum of Twelve killed on the Cloud Nine?
*When Gina-Six was instantly vaporized due to being only two feet from a nuclear detonation, did she still transmit her consciousness? Was she even capable of transmitting considering that any internal hardware responsible for this task would have been instantly destroyed?
*Given Roslin's memories of Baltar with Six, why didn't Admiral Adama suspect Baltar of handing over the nuke to the cylons? If he did suspect him, why not act on it?
*Did the events of "One Year Later" actually happen, or were they a dream or vision sequence given to Baltar?
*Did Baltar's internal Six disappear at any point during the New Caprica year? If so, when and why? If so, did the events of her disappearance contribute to Baltar's regression?
*Why was it so easy for Adama to hide the collusion of the rigged election from the press, and why were there no consequences?
*If the Cylons really left the Twelve Colonies, leaving behind a nuked-out wasteland, what happened to all of the human captives in the [[Farms]]?
*Why have the Cylons returned after suggesting that they were willing to go their "separate ways"?
*Did the Cavils lie about the pursuit of humanity being a mistake? Or were they telling the truth?
*Will the Cylons resume their pursuit of the Fleet?
*How many people are left in the Fleet? (see [[#Analysis|Analysis]])
*Will the Adamas resort to Cain's tactic of conscripting civilians to fill the gaps?
*What happened between Apollo and Starbuck?
*What led to Starbuck's reconciliation with Col. Tigh? The two had been in conflict since the [[Miniseries]], what led them to bury the hatchet and become the close friends they now appear to be?
*Has it become public knowledge that Baltar killed [[Crashdown]] on [[Kobol]]? Now that Chief and Cally are Baltar's open adversaries they could attempt to use this information against him.
*When Adama informs Baltar that the nuke used to blow up [[Cloud Nine]] was probably stolen form Gaius' lab, why is he not suspicious about the fact that Baltar never reported that it was missing? Had it really been stolen from his lab, he would surely notice.
*Are the Cylons that appear at the end representative of the whole Cylon race, or are they a faction that broke off after the two "Cylon Hereos" began to speak out against the war on the humans?
*If it is true that the Cylons now believe the attack on humanity was a mistake, is the occupation on New Caprica viewed by the Cylons as an act of mercy and kindness vs. oppression from the human perspective?

== Analysis ==
*Baltar's arrogance seems to have led to corrupt rule during his year on New Caprica—he replaces Roslin's modest desk with a larger, elaborate one, replaces the population count whiteboard with a portrait of himself, and keeps a harem aboard the landed Colonial One.
*After a whole year, everyone is still living in tents. There is a vital shortage of medicine, the military is of no use, and labor conditions are apparently intolerable. Baltar's administration is apparently as incompetent as Roslin feared.
**It is not clear whether these conditions are the result of admimistrative incompetence or the inherent difficulties of colonizing a marginally habitable planet.
***Of course, it was Baltar's idea to settle on a marginally habitable planet in the first place.
*It's ironic that the obligations of duty keep Lee Adama aboard Pegasus while everyone else goes planetside—he is a reserve officer, and promised to build his pilots a bar as soon as they found a habitable planet.
**Who says he didn't build a bar for them? However, despite building a bar, he would still command the Pegasus.
*Ron Moore has once again decided to play with viewer's expectations; in the podcast for "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]" Moore commented on how everyone assumed that ''Pegasus'' would be destroyed by the end of the episode, and thus he thought it would be a good twist to keep ''Pegasus'' alive as another ship in the Fleet. Here, many viewers assumed that the nuke that Baltar gave to Gina in "[[Epiphanies]]" would be used to destroy ''Pegasus'' this time, but it wasn't.
*29 people died between this episode and the preceding one? One or two Raptors were lost, and some Marines died on Caprica, but that doesn't seem high enough.
**Is it possible they took out all of the people who left in the raptors because they were not apart of the fleet at the end of the previous episode?
***They didn't remove Starbuck from the count when she left for Caprica at the beginning of Season 2.
****She left at the end of season one, before they started the count. But, they did not add her to the count when she returned with Helo, because the count rose by one.
**Maybe more people died during the attack on Caprica than was shown.
***Yet another possibility is the inclusion of the Caprica survivors in the count to offset many of the losses that had incurred in the rescue mission.
***Although they didn't actually talk about the losses, there was a shot of a wounded person being taken away on a stretcher after the Raptors returned from the [[Caprica]] [[SAR]] mission.
**There may have been a series of election-related riots or murders.
*The year gap for the Cylons to find the fleet at first seems odd. However, it was stated in the previous episode that the interference from the gas cloud surrounding it would hide the planet fairly well. The Cylons were slightly over a light year away, according to the Number Five. Searching something as large as the gas cloud likely is for a planet or fleet is, given the sensor range limitations, quite impressive to accomplish in months, even with general directional information from a light-year out. In addition, the radiation from the nuclear explosion aboard the ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' would, of course, only be traveling at the speed of light. Even a less catastrophic attempt to communicate the Colonial's new location would be limited to the speed of light. Of course, once the location was pinpointed, an FTL jump by the Cylons to pounce would be instantaneous.
*The population of New Caprica City is given as 39,192. There were just under 50,000 people in the Fleet before establishing the settlement, so that gives a figure of roughly 10,000 missing. It is uncertain how many were killed in the destruction of ''Cloud 9'' and surrounding Fleet ships but this loss along with any births and deaths that have taken place during the year since the election, leaves very few military personnel in the Orbital Defense. This almost certainly means that both ''Galactica'' and ''Pegasus'' will be extremely short on crew, as many military personnel will have been left on the planet. There was clearly no time to retrieve even selected members of the crews before the Fleet jumped.
**Watching the Fleet jump in slow-motion, you can count approximately 19 ships, which also gives a rough impression of the reduced size of the fleet. Other ships, including Colonial One and some Raptors, are landed on New Caprica and have presumably fallen into the hands of the Cylons.
**It is not explicitly said that all members of the New Caprica colony reside in New Caprica City. There may be outlying settlements, though none are named. One reason for this would simply be as a safeguard to keep a single nuclear strike from wiping out all of the fleet survivors.
***This would demonstrate Un-Baltar like prudence

== Notes ==
* '''According to Ron Moore's podcast, although Scifi Channel was willing to air this episode as a 90-minute special, it had to be heavily edited down for international distribution; outside of the United States, viewers will only see a 1 hour version of the episode, which Moore regards as "almost incomprehensible".''' Many plot threads, such as the entire Cally/Tyrol subplot, were completely removed from the one hour version. This may not be the case in the UK however as Skyone (the channel that broadcasts the show in that country) previously showed the full 90 minute version of Stargate SG1 episode 'Threads' and may well do the same for this episode.
* Ron Moore's podcast for episode 13, [[Epiphanies]], states that the Nuke given to Gina will come back in this episode, to the benefit of the Cylons.
*Admiral Adama watches Pyramid games and is a fan of the Picon Panthers.
*In RDM's podcast for the previous episode, he said that in early drafts of this special 90 minute long episode, the writers actually tried to make it a 2 hour special, but this was soon dropped (these times are including commercials).
*The election board appears to have a definitive list of the names of all of the ships in [[The Fleet (RDM)]]. Not all of them are clearly visible, but this would seem to indicate that the writers do have an actual list that they get new ship names from. Ship names visible on the chart are: Demetrius, Diomedes, Embla Brokk, Enkidu, Epheme, Galactica, Gideon, Gemenon Traveller, Greenleaf, Monarch, Odysseus, Pegasus, Persephone, Prometheus, Swordfish
*The framed photo of President Roslin and [[Billy Keikeya]] was still on her desk during the election.
*When Roslin "won" the rigged election results, Roslin received 24,265 votes, while Baltar recieved 22,266. This means that the elligible voters in the Fleet number 46,531. In the podcast, RDM explains that he quickly came up with these numbers, to try to reflect roughly how many survivors are below the voting age.
*Toward the end of the episode, President Baltar refers to a government body called the "People's Council". This may be the proportionally elected lower house mentioned in by RDM in his [http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/01/index.html#a000016 blog post] on January 30, 2005.
*[[Hera]] is seen on New Caprica in the same white cradle that Baltar had a vision of her being in in "[[Scattered]]", etc. According to RDM's podcast it's actually the exact same cradle.
*Tyrol's union speech is an almost word for word quote of Mario Savio's address during the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley in 1964. According to Ron Moore and David Eick in the podcast, they even got permission from Savio's widow to use it (even though, due to the way copyright laws work from back then, they could have just used it without permission, they felt they should get it). As a result, it's even listed in the credits: "Mario Savio speech excerpted courtesy of: Lynne Hollander Savio". Actor Aaron Douglas (Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]]) actually studied film of Savio, so all of the hand gestures Tyrol makes when he gives the speech are gestures that Savio actually used.
*Baltar's portrait of himself does not have the 'cut corners' as seen in most (all?) other papers and photos in the show.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==
*''Dr. Cottle decides Cally is ready to return to duty:''
:'''Cottle:''' You're done here. I'm kickin' you out of here and sending you back to work.
:'''Cally:''' (muffled, because her jaw is immobilized) Work??? Like this?
:'''Cottle:''' You gotta love a woman who can complain even with her jaw wired shut.

*"Would you mind telling me what's going on? I'm not a frakking Cylon, I'm not…(''sees the other Cavil in the cell'')…oh. Well, okay then."
*:—'''Brother Cavil'''

*"Gods help us."
*:-'''Admiral Adama''' over the objection of [[Edward James Olmos]] (podcast)

*''Trying to bring order to a Union meeting:''
:'''Tyrol:''' Everyone, please be quiet. (''crowd ignores him'')
:'''Cally:''' Hey! Shut the frak up! (''crowd quiets down'')

*'''Admiral Adama:''' We're leaving. But we'll be back.

*''On Caprica:''
::'''Anders:''' You got any great ideas in that military brain of yours?
::'''Starbuck:''' Do the same thing we always do; fight 'em 'till we can't.
:''The Cylons occupy New Caprica:''
::'''Tyrol:''' "What do you want to do now, Captain?"
::'''Starbuck:''' "The same thing we always do. Fight them until we can't."

== Official Statements ==

From the official site (http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/):
When Baltar wins the vote, Roslin considers stealing the election because she believes he is a Cylon collaborator.

== Guest Stars ==
*[[Richard Hatch]] as [[Tom Zarek]]
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001777/ Dean Stockwell] as [[Cavil|Brother Cavil]]
*[[Michael Trucco]] as [[Samuel Anders]]
*[[Kate Vernon]] as [[Ellen Tigh]]
*[http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0722413/ Donnelly Rhodes] as Dr. [[Cottle]]
*[[Callum Keith Rennie]] as [[Leoben Conoy]]
*[[Matthew Bennett]] as [[Aaron Doral]]
*Rekha Sharma as [[Tory Foster]]
*[http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0443286/ David Kaye] as [[James McManus]]
*Alisen Down as Jean Barclay
*Winston Rekert as Priest

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Blackbird

2006-03-09T02:19:00Z

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[[Image:Blackbird FotP.JPG|thumb|left|"Blackbird Commissioning" ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]) (c) Universal]]
The '''Blackbird''' is a prototype [[Colonial]] stealth fighter craft constructed by Chief Petty Officer [[Galen Tyrol]], his deck crews, and other members of ''[[Galactica]]''. This craft was meant to supplement the [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]], given the issues in maintaining the remaining craft aboard the [[battlestar]]. Chief Tyrol had originally intended just to build a standard Viper but ended up building a ship that was of more value to ''Galactica'' than another Viper.

== Design and Technology ==

The Blackbird is designed to use the Viper [[Launch tubes|launch tube]]s, and therefore shares the same general shape. It is built more for speed than for maneuverability. If it is armed, it likely fires the same ammunition as typical Vipers, though this has not yet been demonstrated.

It does not use metal for its skin since this metal was reserved for Viper repairs. Instead, on [[Karl Agathon]]'s suggestion, the Blackbird uses a carbon composite material, which makes it largely invisible to [[DRADIS]] scanning.

Along with the usual [[RCS]] mechanisms for directional control, the Blackbird is powered by obsolete [[DDG-62]] engines (designed by [[Peter Laird]], a civilian aeronautical engineer) that came from the flight deck of a Colonial fleet ship named ''[[Baah Pakal]]''. One must speculate that since a typical Viper's engines are vulnerable to heat-seeking missiles ([[Mini-Series]]), these must be as well. This would compromise its stealth features during powered flight. (This is less of a disadvantage in space than in atmospheric flight; a spacecraft's inertia is not affected by gravity, friction, and other factors an atmospheric-bound craft would be, and thus can fly indefinitely without firing its engines.)

[[image:Flight_of_the_Phoenix-Laura.jpg|thumb|A close-up of the cursive on the side of the Blackbird. (C. Universal Studios)]]

The Blackbird is [[FTL|Jump]]-capable, but is not equipped with a Colonial transponder, either for stealth purposes or due to supply shortages.

== ''Laura'' and Her Flight History ==

The first prototype is dubbed ''"Laura"'' in honor of President [[Laura Roslin]]. [[Kara Thrace]] pilots the maiden test flight, wherein she handily eludes her escort, [[Lee Adama]].

The following individuals aid CPO [[Galen Tyrol]] in ''Laura's'' construction:

* [[Anastasia Dualla]] improves communication systems.
* [[Anthony Figurski]]
* [[Cally]]
* [[Jammer]]
* [[Seelix]]
* [[Karl Agathon]] suggests the use of carbon composite materials for the Blackbird's skin.
* [[Saul Tigh]] offers the [[DDG-62]] engines.
* [[Kara Thrace]] aids in a few design principles and tests the craft.

Colonel Tigh originally denounces the project as frivolous, but later provides assistance in procuring the DDG-62 engines. Others among Tyrol's own deck crew also at first consider the project a waste of time, as noted through their initial reactions to Tyrol's proposal. However, Commander [[William Adama]] believes that the endeavor offers hope and purpose, and therefore permits it to continue despite the crisis with the [[Cylon]] [[logic bomb]] that has infected the ''Galactica'''s systems ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).

''Laura'' quickly proves her worth when Kara Thrace, by tacit request of Lee Adama, absconds with the Blackbird, claiming she is running a test flight for Admiral Cain. In reality, Starbuck has undertaken a reconnaissance mission to investigate a mysterious Cylon ship being escorted by two [[Basestar (RDM)|Basestars]] and many other support ships and fighters. ''Pegasus'' [[CAG]] [[Cole Taylor]] knows of the Blackbird but dismissed Thrace from the project and chose to use Raptors for his mission.

[[Image:Blackbird destroyed.png|thumb|left|The destruction of the ''Laura'' during the [[Battle of the Resurrection Ship]].]]

Starbuck is able to approach the Cylon fleet and the unknown ship completely undetected by the Cylons. She takes picture after picture while flying into and through the superstructure of the vessel, Jumping away just as the 'Bird clears the vessel's bow. The lack of a Colonial transponder causes the Battlestars ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' and ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' to turn their Vipers on Thrace as she approaches the Fleet, both Battlestars' DRADIS systems marking her as a [[Raider]] by mistake. The Blackbird is in visual range of the Fleet long before DRADIS detects her approach.

Moments later, Admiral Cain receives detailed pictures of the unknown vessel, and [[Gaius Baltar]] eventually details the name and purpose of the [[Resurrection Ship]] ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).

''Laura'' is later piloted by then-Lieutenant [[Lee Adama]] in the battle to disable the Resurrection Ship's FTL drive, preventing her escape so that Vipers can destroy it. While Adama is successful, a collision with a disabled [[Raptor]] seriously damages the Blackbird, requiring him to eject. While Adama is later rescued, it is likely that the ''Laura'' is destroyed ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).

==Notes==
* Since the Blackbird was designed for stealth, not manuverability, it was logical that an FTL drive was added for advanced reconnaissance. The unused FTL drive came perhaps from a [[Raptor 305|Raptor]] that was scrapped for parts in "[[Fragged]]."
* The Blackbird's ungainly handling characteristics are quite evident during Starbuck's first test flight, as she spends the first several seconds out of the launch tube attempting to gain control over the craft ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).
*[[Wikipedia:Reinforced carbon-carbon|Carbon composites]] are a family of materials used in lightweight or high-temperature-resistant construction, of which a type is used in the nose and leading edges of the wings of [[Wikipedia:NASA|NASA]]'s [[Wikipedia:Space Transportation System|Space Shuttle Orbiter]]. Carbon composites are somewhat fragile, so impacts (even one from a champagne bottle, which Laura Roslin jokingly attempted to do as she christened the ship) may cause the material to splinter or break. It was damage to this material that caused the destruction of Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' on [[Wikipedia:STS-107|STS-107]].
*Executive Producer [[David Eick]] stated in his video blog that the Blackbird is "not a Viper", so it is not classed as a modified Viper model ("Viper Mark VIII", etc), but is an entirely distinct craft.
*The fighter's nickname creates a curious comparison with her namesake, Laura Roslin. The ailing but influential President Roslin and her rapid, secretive actions in her quest for Earth's location (including diverting Lt. Thrace from her original mission to destroy the Kobol basestar) as well as her savvy political work in "[[Colonial Day]]", are humorously similar in perspective to the abilities of "Laura", a structually weak, but highly agile and initially underestimated stealth fighter. Like President Roslin (the only known surviving official of the pre-holocaust Colonial [[government]]), the Blackbird is a unique commodity.
*The Blackbird is undoubtly named after the [[Wikipedia:Lockheed SR-71|SR-71 Blackbird]], an actual highspeed reconnaissance aircraft.

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Commander Air Group

2006-03-04T07:18:01Z

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The most senior pilot aboard a [[Battlestar]], responsible for all "air" operations.

==Battlestar ''Galactica''==
* The current CAG of the [[Battlestar]] ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' is Captain [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]]. She followed [[Lee Adama| Lee "Apollo" Adama]], who has been promoted to Commander of [[Battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''. Apollo assumed the position as CAG following the death of Captain [[Jackson Spencer|Jackson "Ripper" Spencer]]. Spencer was killed in the opening minutes of the [[Cylon Attack]] on the [[Twelve Colonies]].
*During Lee Adama's brief defection, the role of CAG was temporarily given to Captain [[George Birch|George "Catman" Birch]]. Adama resumed the position upon his return. ([[Home, Part I]])

==Battlestar ''Pegasus''==
*The Current CAG of the [[Battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' is Captain [[Cole Taylor|Cole "Stinger" Taylor]]. For a while [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] was CAG on Pegasus, when Admiral [[Helena Cain|Cain]] promoted her from Lieutenant to Captain and made her the new ''Pegasus'' CAG after witnessing her daring reconnoiter of the Cylon [[Resurrection Ship]]. ("[[Resurrection Ship, Part I]])

== Note ==

''"CAG" is a US Navy term that has gained widespread recognition through films such as Top Gun and television series such as JAG. The term CAG is technically obsolete in the modern US Navy as Air Groups are now know as Air Wings, it is still used though, especially on an informal level.''

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Blackbird

2006-02-11T05:17:24Z

QX100: /* Notes */

[[Image:Blackbird FotP.JPG|thumb|left|"Blackbird Commissioning" ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]) (c) Universal]]
The '''Blackbird''' is a prototype [[Colonial]] stealth fighter craft constructed by Chief Petty Officer [[Galen Tyrol]], his deck crews, and other members of ''[[Galactica]]''. This craft was meant to supplement the [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]], given the issues in maintaining the remaining craft aboard the [[battlestar]]. Chief Tyrol had originally intended just to build a standard Viper but ended up building a ship that was of more value to ''Galactica'' than another Viper.

== Design and Technology ==

The Blackbird is designed to use the Viper [[Launch tubes|launch tube]]s, and therefore shares the same general shape. It is built more for speed than for maneuverability. If it is armed, it likely fires the same ammunition as typical Vipers, though this has not yet been demonstrated.

It does not use metal for its skin since this metal was reserved for Viper repairs. Instead, on [[Karl Agathon]]'s suggestion, the Blackbird uses a carbon composite material, which makes it largely invisible to [[DRADIS]] scanning.

Along with the usual [[RCS]] mechanisms for directional control, the Blackbird is powered by obsolete [[DDG-62]] engines (designed by [[Peter Laird]], a civilian aeronautical engineer) that came from the flight deck of a Colonial fleet ship named ''[[Baah Pakal]]''. One must speculate that since a typical Viper's engines are vulnerable to heat-seeking missiles ([[Mini-Series]]), these must be as well. This would compromise its stealth features during powered flight. (This is less of a disadvantage in space than in atmospheric flight; a spacecraft's inertia is not affected by gravity, friction, and other factors an atmospheric-bound craft would be, and thus can fly indefinitely without firing its engines.)

[[image:Flight_of_the_Phoenix-Laura.jpg|thumb|A close-up of the cursive on the side of the Blackbird. (C. Universal Studios)]]

The Blackbird is [[FTL|Jump]]-capable, but is not equipped with a Colonial transponder, either for stealth purposes or due to supply shortages.

== ''Laura'' and Her Flight History ==

The first prototype is dubbed ''"Laura"'' in honor of President [[Laura Roslin]]. [[Kara Thrace]] pilots the maiden test flight, wherein she handily eludes her escort, [[Lee Adama]].

The following individuals aid CPO [[Galen Tyrol]] in ''Laura's'' construction:

* [[Anastasia Dualla]] improves communication systems.
* [[Anthony Figurski]]
* [[Cally]]
* [[Jammer]]
* [[Seelix]]
* [[Karl Agathon]] suggests the use of carbon composite materials for the Blackbird's skin.
* [[Saul Tigh]] offers the [[DDG-62]] engines.
* [[Lee Adama]]

Colonel Tigh originally denounces the project as frivolous, but later provides assistance in procuring the DDG-62 engines. Others among Tyrol's own deck crew also at first consider the project a waste of time, as noted through their initial reactions to Tyrol's proposal. However, Commander [[William Adama]] believes that the endeavor offers hope and purpose, and therefore permits it to continue despite the crisis with the [[Cylon]] [[logic bomb]] that has infected the ''Galactica'''s systems ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).

''Laura'' quickly proves her worth when Kara Thrace, by tacit request of Lee Adama, absconds with the Blackbird, claiming she is running a test flight for Admiral Cain. In reality, Starbuck has undertaken a reconnaissance mission to investigate a mysterious Cylon ship being escorted by two [[Basestar (RDM)|Basestars]] and many other support ships and fighters. ''Pegasus'' [[CAG]] [[Cole Taylor]] knows of the Blackbird but dismissed Thrace from the project and chose to use Raptors for his mission.

Starbuck is able to approach the Cylon fleet and the unknown ship completely undetected by the Cylons. She takes picture after picture while flying into and through the superstructure of the vessel, Jumping away just as the 'Bird clears the vessel's bow. The lack of a Colonial transponder causes the Battlestars ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' and ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' to turn their Vipers on Thrace as she approaches the Fleet, both Battlestars' DRADIS systems marking her as a [[Raider]] by mistake. The Blackbird is in visual range of the Fleet long before DRADIS detects her approach.

Moments later, Admiral Cain receives detailed pictures of the unknown vessel, and [[Gaius Baltar]] eventually details the name and purpose of the [[Resurrection Ship]] ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).

''Laura'' is later piloted by then-Lieutenant [[Lee Adama]] in the battle to disable the Resurrection Ship's FTL drive, preventing her escape so that Vipers can destroy it. While Adama is successful, a collision with a disabled [[Raptor]] seriously damages the Blackbird, requiring him to eject. While Adama is later rescued, it is likely that the ''Laura'' is destroyed ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).

==Notes==
* Since the Blackbird was designed for stealth, not manuverability, it was logical that an FTL drive was added for advanced reconnaissance. The unused FTL drive came perhaps from a destroyed Raptor that crash-landed on [[Kobol]] from "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]."
* The Blackbird's ungainly handling characteristics are quite evident during Starbuck's first test flight, as she spends the first several seconds out of the launch tube attempting to gain control over the craft ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).
*[[Wikipedia:Reinforced carbon-carbon|Carbon composites]] are a family of materials used in lightweight or high-temperature-resistant construction, of which a type is used in the nose and leading edges of the wings of [[Wikipedia:NASA|NASA]]'s [[Wikipedia:Space Transportation System|Space Shuttle Orbiter]]. Carbon composites are somewhat fragile, so impacts (even one from a champagne bottle, which Laura Roslin jokingly attempted to do as she christened the ship) may cause the material to splinter or break. It was damage to this material that caused the destruction of Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' on [[Wikipedia:STS-107|STS-107]].
*Executive Producer [[David Eick]] stated in his video blog that the Blackbird is "not a Viper", so it is not classed as a modified Viper model ("Viper Mark VIII", etc), but is an entirely distinct craft.
*The fighter's nickname creates a curious comparison with her namesake, Laura Roslin. The ailing but influential President Roslin and her rapid, secretive actions in her quest for Earth's location (including diverting Lt. Thrace from her original mission to destroy the Kobol basestar) as well as her savvy political work in "[[Colonial Day]]", are humorously similar in perspective to the abilities of "Laura", a structually weak, but highly agile and initially underestimated stealth fighter. Like President Roslin (the only known surviving official of the pre-holocaust Colonial [[government]]), the Blackbird is a unique commodity.
*The Blackbird is most likely named after the [[Wikipedia:Lockheed SR-71|SR-71 Blackbird]], an actual highspeed reconnaissance aircraft.

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Armistice Station

2006-02-07T20:14:14Z

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==Introduction==
: <i>"The Cylons were created by Man. They were created to make life easier on the twelve colonies. And then the day came when the Cylons decided to kill their masters. After a long and bloody struggle, an armistice was declared. The Cylons left for another world to call their own. A remote space station was built where Cylon and human could meet and maintain diplomatic relations. Every year the Colonials send an officer. The Cylons send no one. No one has seen or heard from the Cylons in over forty years."</i>

With these words so begins the [[Mini-Series]] and, in turn, the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|re-imagined]] ''Battlestar Galactica'' regular series.

==Description==
[[Image:Photos seen on Armistice Station.jpg|thumb|Photos of Boxey and perhaps his mother<br/>Credit: Sci-Fi]]
Armistice Station was a remote space station. Annually it was attended by an [[Armistice Officer]], who happened to be [[Boxey (RDM)|Boxey]]'s father.

A few items of interest are visible in ''Armistice Station'':
* A photograph: [[Boxey (RDM)|Boxey]]
* A photograph: presumably the [[Armistice Officer]]'s wife and Boxey's mother
* A document: [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Cylon Centurian Model 0005 ''(sic)'']]
* A document: [[Cimtar Peace Accord]]

==Destruction==
Armistice Station was dwarfed in size by the Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] that paid it a visit. In a mysterious choice for the opening salvo of the [[Cylon Attack|Cylon attack]], the basestar attacked and destroyed Armistice Station, while on board a [[Humano-Cylon]] sexually assaulted the [[Armistice Officer]] as two [[Cylon Centurian]]s watched.
The [[Mini-Series#Armistice Station|Armistice Station section]] of the [[Mini-Series]] article discusses this peculiar circumstance.

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Armistice Station

2006-02-07T20:13:31Z

QX100: /* Description */

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==Introduction==
: <i>"The Cylons were created by Man. They were created to make life easier on the twelve colonies. And then the day came when the Cylons decided to kill their masters. After a long and bloody struggle, an armistice was declared. The Cylons left for another world to call their own. A remote space station was built where Cylon and human could meet and maintain diplomatic relations. Every year the Colonials send an officer. The Cylons send no one. No one has seen or heard from the Cylons in over forty years."</i>

With these words so begins the [[Mini-Series]] and, in turn, the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|re-imagined]] ''Battlestar Galactica'' regular series.

==Description==
[[Image:Photos seen on Armistice Station.jpg|thumb|Photos of Boxey and perhaps his mother<br/>Credit: Sci-Fi]]
Armistice Station was a remote space station. Anually it was attended by an [[Armistice Officer]], who happened to be [[Boxey (RDM)|Boxey]]'s father.

A few items of interest are visible in ''Armistice Station'':
* A photograph: [[Boxey (RDM)|Boxey]]
* A photograph: presumably the [[Armistice Officer]]'s wife and Boxey's mother
* A document: [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Cylon Centurian Model 0005 ''(sic)'']]
* A document: [[Cimtar Peace Accord]]

==Destruction==
Armistice Station was dwarfed in size by the Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] that paid it a visit. In a mysterious choice for the opening salvo of the [[Cylon Attack|Cylon attack]], the basestar attacked and destroyed Armistice Station, while on board a [[Humano-Cylon]] sexually assaulted the [[Armistice Officer]] as two [[Cylon Centurian]]s watched.
The [[Mini-Series#Armistice Station|Armistice Station section]] of the [[Mini-Series]] article discusses this peculiar circumstance.

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Season 2 (2005-06)

2006-01-24T20:13:37Z

QX100: /* Pivotal Plot Points */

[[Image:B000BNI90Y.jpg||thumb|Season 2.0]]
==Summary==

: ''Following the discovery [[Kobol]], the arrest of [[Laura Roslin]], and the attempted assassination of [[William Adama]], [[The Fleet (RDM)|The Fleet]] finds itself thrust in more peril than they originally imagined.''

== Pivotal Plot Points ==
*Colonel Tigh commands the Fleet while Adama is incapacitated, instituting [[Wikipedia:martial law|martial law]].
*After the "[[Gideon massacre]]", the Fleet divides into two factions: one which supports Adama, and one which supports [[Laura Roslin faction|Roslin/Zarek]].
*[[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] and [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]] discover a Colonial [[resistance (movement)|resistance movement]] on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]].
*The Cylons have been rounding up human females in order to artificially inseminate them with hybrid ovum, creating [[farms|breeding farm]]s over Caprica. Their attempts have been unsuccessful.
*An expedition to [[Kobol]] finds instructions that may lead the Fleet to [[Earth]] inside the [[Tomb of Athena]].
*Starbuck and Helo return to the ''Galactica'' from Caprica; Helo becomes ostracized due to his relationship with [[Sharon Valerii]], who is pregnant with the first successful [[Humano-Cylon|Human-Cylon hybrid]] child.
*''[[Galactica]]'' 's copy of [[Sharon Valerii]] is killed by [[Cally]].
*Roslin and the Quorum of Twelve are re-instituted.
*Two additional [[Humano-Cylon]]s are revealed: [[Simon]] and [[D'anna Biers]].
*Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] and his team build a prototype stealth fighter craft, the [[Blackbird]].
*The Fleet encounters another battlestar that survived the attack, the ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', which is commanded by Admiral [[Helena Cain]].
*William Adama becomes an admiral; the Pegasus apparently joins the Fleet.
*The Colonials find a large Cylon fleet guarding a massive "Resurrection Ship", which is responsible for boosting the consciousness-transmission range of [[Humano-Cylons]] when their bodies are destroyed.
*''Galactica'' and ''Pegasus'' engage in a massive battle with the Cylons and destroy the Resurrection Ship. This is a major blow to the Cylons and alters their entire strategy towards destroying the Rag Tag Fleet. As RDM stated in an interview with [[http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2006/01/president_rosli.html the Chicago Tribune on January 4th, 2006]], "“The destruction of the resurrection ship impacts the way the Cylons deal with Galactica and the colonial fleet the rest of the season. It alters their tactics. They stop trying to make full-blown, all-out assaults on the fleet, they retreat and go into a hit-and-run mode while they figure out a way to replicate the ship.”

==Cast==
===Stars===
* [[Edward James Olmos]] as Commander [[William Adama]]
* [[Mary McDonnell]] as President [[Laura Roslin]]
* [[Katee Sackhoff]] as Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]]
* [[Jamie Bamber]] as Captain [[Lee Adama|Lee "Apollo" Adama]]
* [[James Callis]] as Vice-President Doctor [[Gaius Baltar]]
* [[Tricia Helfer]] as [[Number Six]]
* [[Grace Park]] as [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]]

===Co-stars===
* [[Michael Hogan]] as [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Saul Tigh]]
* [[Aaron Douglas]] as [[Galen Tyrol|Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol]]
* [[Tahmoh Penikett]] as [[Karl Agathon|Lieutenant Karl "Helo" Agathon]]
* [[Kandyse McClure]] as [[Anastasia Dualla|Petty Officer 2nd Class Anastasia Dualla]]
* [[Richard Hatch]] as [[Tom Zarek|Representative Tom Zarek]]
* [[Paul Campbell]] as [[Billy Keikeya|Billy Keikeya]]
* [[Alessandro Juliani]] as [[Felix Gaeta|Lieutenant Felix Gaeta]]
* [[Samuel Witwer]] as [[Crashdown]]
* [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Leah+Cairns Leah Cairns] as [[Margaret Edmonson|Lt. Margaret "Racetrack" Edmonson]]
* [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Nicki+Clyne Nicki Clyne] as [[Cally|Specialist Cally]]
* [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Dominic+Zamprogna Dominic Zamprogna] as [[Jammer]]
* [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Luciana+Carro Luciana Carro] as [[Louanne Katraine|Lt. Louanne "Kat" Katraine]]
* [[Kate Vernon]] as [[Ellen Tigh]]
* [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Bodie+Olmos Bodie Olmos] as [[Brendan Constanza|Lt. Brendan "Hotdog" Constanza]]

==Production Crew==
===Producers===
* [[Moore, Ronald D.|Ronald D. Moore]] - Developer / Executive Producer / Writer
* [[Eick, David|David Eick]] - Executive Producer
* [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Toni+Graphia Toni Graphia] - Co-Executive Producer / Writer
* [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Harvey+Frand Harvey Frand] - Producer
* [[Larson, Glen A.|Glen A. Larson]] - Consulting Producer

===Directors===

===Writing Staff===

==Episodes==

*2.01: [[Scattered]]
*2.02: [[Valley of Darkness]]
*2.03: [[Fragged]]
*2.04: [[Resistance]]
*2.05: [[The Farm]]
*2.06: [[Home, Part I]]
*2.07: [[Home, Part II]]
*2.08: [[Final Cut]]
*2.09: [[Flight of the Phoenix]]
*2.10: [[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]
*2.11: [[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]
*2.12: [[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]
*2.13: [[Epiphanies]]
*2.14: [[Black Market]]
*2.15: [[Scar]]
*2.16: [[Sacrifice]]
*2.17: [[The Captain's Hand]]
*2.18: [[Downloaded]]
*2.19: [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]
*2.20: [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]

== Official Statements ==

* ''"Please do something about the consumables questions; fuel, food, ammo, clothing etc., where is this stuff coming from?"''
: Water is addressed in... uh, "[[Water]]." Fuel is addressed in "[[The Hand of God|Hand of God]]". Other consumables will be addressed in the second season. -- {{from_RDM_blog}}

* ''Regarding Second Season Renewal''

:So it's official: we're doing a second season.

:To say that this is happy news is to indulge in a display of understatement. The road to television success is a long one, littered with various hurdles, all of which must be vaulted: the studio pitch session, the network pitch, the story outline, the first draft script, the second draft script, the green-light to produce [[Mini-Series|the pilot]], casting the pilot, making the pilot, ordering the series, producing the series, getting the reviews, getting an audience, and then.... getting a second season. We've managed to clear that hurdle and it feels frakking good.

:We've been working on the first six episodes for a couple of months now and we're gearing up to prep them for filming, probably in late March. Season Two will be heavily influenced by the end of [[Season 1 (2004-05)|Season One]], so it's hard to get into anything remotely specific until the [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|last episode]] has aired in the US. I could say... well... er... not much. -- {{from_RDM_blog}}

* ''"Will we ever get any more of the back story to the Cylon Wars?, ie What started them and how did the [[Colonials|Colonists]] (sic) drive them away."''

:We will see more of this backstory as the series unfolds. Some of the inter-war period will be explored in the first few episodes of Season 2. Other tales of the first [[Cylon War]]s will be filled in eventually. -- {{from_RDM_blog}}

* ''"Will we see any of the original cast apart from Richard Hatch. "''

:It's possible, but not yet on the board. -- {{from_RDM_blog}}

* ''"Please show more of the blue collar guys keeping everything in check on the other ships. Guys that would have clocked out and gone home had the holocaust not happened. Not really a question sorry."''

:We have plans for this in the second season. [[Cally]], for instance, never planned to stay in the service and her enlistment was nearly up at the time of the attack. -- {{from_RDM_blog}}

*''"Will there be any development between characters on what distinguishes a Sagittaran from Caprican, Virgon, or any of the 12 Colonies? Did they develop separately their own cultures and even different religions on their worlds? I'm glad the element of different worlds or nationalities was kept in the show."''

:This is an area we didn't get a chance to get very far with in the [[Season 1 (2004-05)|first season]], and I'm hoping we explore more fully in the second. I think that some of the [[Colonies]] have developed very different cultures and attitudes from one another and that it's rich ground for us. We alluded to some differences here and there, but mostly we talked about the "Federal" (for lack of a better word) governmental structures. We do know that there was a sizable opposition to the Colonial government. [[Leoben Conoy|Leoben]] claimed to be an arms dealer supplying freedom fighters or terrorists, depending on your point of view, and [[Zarek, Tom|Tom Zarek]] was the jailed leader of a sometimes violent opposition, so it stands to reason that there are a wide variety of views, some of which come into violent conflict with one another. It's also worth bearing in mind that one of the uses for which the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] were originally used by the Colonies was as soldiers in their wars against one another. -- {{from_RDM_blog}}

* ''"Granted that a season two at this point is just ink on paper punctuated by a big question mark, but I have a “practical” question to ask. Should the series move forward, to what extent would you want to explore the practical issues of life in the fleet–you’ve touched on the basics of food, fuel and water, but how about problems such as finding enough doctors to treat the population, providing life support on ships not originally intended as passenger vessels and dealing with the inevitable fiefdoms arising on these mix and match metal life rafts? "''

:I would very much like to continue exploring these issues in the second year and beyond. I'm intrigued by playing the situation as realistically as dramatically possible and I think these sorts of questions are wonderful material for the show. -- {{from_RDM_blog}}

* ''[[Jamie Bamber]] discusses the results of [[Lee Adama]]'s actions in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]":'''

: I think I've read four scripts out of the 20, so I don't know that much. But the ''[[Galactica]]'' still needs him despite themselves. He's a prisoner because of what he's done, but he's still needed because when situations arise he's still one of the best pilots. There aren't that many pilots full stop.

: He's used to command, he's used to following orders. So when the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] are pressing [see: [[Valley of Darkness]]] he has to come out of the brig. But he has to give his word, his parole, that when he's off-duty he'll return to his prison. He's in a strange limbo of finding himself being given authority but having none, it's a strange situation he finds himself in. [http://gateworld.net/galactica/articles/bamber01.shtml]

==Related Topics==
* [[List of Season 2 Guest Actors (RDM)]]
* [[List of Recurring Characters (RDM)]]
* [[List of Recurring Character Appearances (RDM)]]
{{Episode List}}

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Pegasus (TRS)

2006-01-23T20:07:51Z

QX100: /* Pegasus Fleet */

:''For the second-season episode, see [[Pegasus (episode)]]. For the Original Series ''Pegasus'', see [[Pegasus (TOS)]].''

[[Image:BSPegasus.jpg|thumb|Battlestar Pegasus]]

'''''Pegasus''''' is a [[Mercury class battlestar]] commanded by Commander [[Jack Fisk]] that was stationed at the [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]] during the [[Cylon attack]]. Presumed lost with the rest of the Colonial military fleet, ''Pegasus'' actually managed to escape the destruction of the Colonies when Cain ordered a [[blind jump]]. While saving the battlestar, about 700 of her crew died in the initial attack. Although the ''Pegasus'' was advanced enough to have the [[Command Navigation Program]] which the Cylons used as a backdoor, ''Pegasus'' had just checked in for a three-month refit at the time of the Cylon attack, and as such, almost all of its networked [[Computers|computer]] systems were offline. Pegasus was formerly commanded by Admiral [[Helena Cain]], until her death in "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]".

== Fleet Details ==

'''Designation''': warship, [[battlestar]] type, [[Mercury class battlestar|''Mercury'' class battlestar]]

'''Deployment''': Formerly an element of [[62nd Battlestar Group]]

'''Current Status''': One of [[Galactica|two]] remaining Colonial military units, commanded by Commander [[Jack Fisk]]. (Formerly commanded by Admiral [[Helena Cain]])

==History==

At some point, a [[Humano-Cylon|Cylon]] infiltrator was discovered onboard - a woman named [[Number Six#Gina|Gina]]. She killed seven men when apprehended, and was then incarcerated, brutally interrogated and gang-raped by many of the crew.

After the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], ''Pegasus'' occupied itself with hit-and-run attacks on various Cylon assets. It participated in a bold assault on a staging area filled with fifteen squadrons of [[Raider]]s. When Cain's long-time [[Executive officer]] expressed hesitancy to launch the ships' fighters against such odds, Cain publically executed him on the bridge and promoted Colonel [[Jack Fisk]] to replace him. This, according to Colonel Fisk, who told this story (and later recanted) while drunk to Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]], which Tigh believed to be true when he recounted it to Commmander [[William Adama]].

Some time later, ''Pegasus'' discovered that a Cylon fleet it was tracking appeared to be jumping, not randomly, but to systems with natural resources. The battlestar then accidentally encountered [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]] led by battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'' when ''Pegasus'' jumped ahead to scout the Cylon target's projected next position (as it turned out, the Cylons were jumping to systems ''Galactica'' had been in). Cain assumed command of the fleet and began transferring supplies and many personnel between the two battlestars, including Captain [[Lee Adama]] and Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]]. Cain appeared unconcerned with the needs of the civilians and their ships, a problem noted to Commander Adama by President [[Laura Roslin]].

Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] mentioned during his interrogation by Colonel [[Saul Tigh]] that he served aboard a number of battlestars in his military career, including ''Pegasus'' ([[Resistance]]). If Admiral Cain ever knew him during this time, she made no mention of it, and had no reservations sentencing him and [[Karl Agathon]] to death when they inadvertently killed Lieutenant [[Thorne]], Cain's chief "Cylon interrogator". [[William Adama]], commander of ''Galactica'', refused to permit the execution, precipitating an armed standoff between the two ships ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).

==Pegasus Fleet==

It was later revealed that ''Pegasus'' originaly had its own small fleet of 15 civilian ships which it found about a week after the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], which actually had FTL drives and weapons. However, rather than defending them (as ''Galactica'' had at [[Ragnar Anchorage]]), Admiral Cain saw them as potential spare parts for ''Pegasus'', and decided that ''Pegasus' '' military needs were a priority over them. The civilian ships were stripped for parts, including their weapons and FTL drives, marooning them and leaving them completely at the mercy of the Cylons when Cain left. However not all of the civilians were left to die: after looking over the passenger lists, Cain seleted those civilians who she thought would be of value (such as [[Peter Laird]], an aeronautical engineer), forcibly drafting them into her crew. However, 15 'selectees' aboard the civilian transport ''[[Scylla]]'' were traveling with their families and refused to leave without them. Admiral Cain ordered her marines to kill two families (men, women, and children) to shock the rest into submission. ''Pegasus'' then abandoned the civilian ships to pursue Admiral Cain's campaign of hit-and-run attacks against Cylon forces. ("[[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]")

==Equipment==
[[Image:Pegasus1.jpg|thumb|right|Pegasus firing its main turrets]]
(Differences between the Mercury-class battlestar design and that of the original class of battlestar (to which ''Galactica'' belongs) will be further elaborated upon in a deleted scene in the episode "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]", which will be included in the upcoming DVD release of "Season 2.5")

==Notes==

According to David Eick's video blog, it would have been impossible to afford creating new sets for the entire interior of ''Pegasus'' on the budget of an episodic television show. This expense was circumvented when a year beforehand Ron D. Moore and David Eick bought (for next to nothing) the abandoned sets of the failed pilot for the FOX network's "Lost In Space" remake, directed by John Woo. The production team then held onto the sets hoping to find some later use for them, eventually using them for Pegasus. The sets were then radically redesigned and painted to give them the aesthetic look of ''Galactica'', but sleeker and more advanced.

=== Links ===

* [[Wikipedia:Pegasus|Pegasus]] (from Wikipedia)

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[[Category:Battlestars]]

Galactica type battlestar

2006-01-07T07:42:57Z

QX100: /* Flight Pods */

''This article discusses the original battlestar class (of which ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' is a member) of the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|re-imagined series]]. For information on the battlestars of the Original Series, see [[Battlestar (TOS)]]. For information on the newer ''Mercury'' class battlestars, see [[Mercury class battlestar]].''

[[Image:Bsg-bsg-1.jpg|thumb|Original Colonial Battlestar (credit: Zoic)]]

==Overview==
The '''battlestar''' is a capital Colonial warship that combines the functions of aircraft carrier and battleship. The first twelve battlestars were laid down in the early days of the [[Cylon War]], each representing one of the [[Twelve Colonies]] ([[Mini-Series]]). This article concerns that original, and unnamed, class.

Following the end of the war, the original battlestars remained in service, and many newer battlestars were built. At the time of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], the soon-to-be-decommissioned ''[[Galactica]]'' was the last of her kind still in service, and the newer [[Mercury-class Battlestar|''Mercury''-class]] represented the top of the line.

The original battlestars were space-going leviathans of some 4,640ft in length, housing 80 [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] space superiority fighters arranged in 4 squadrons of 20 apiece, and several nuclear warheads. A fully-armed battlestar is capable of a wide range of offensive actions, while her defensive armaments ensure she is fully capable of both protecting herself from attack, and of engaging an enemy at close quarters.

==Layout==
The design common to ''Galactica'' and her sister ships can be broken down into two main sections: the main hull, and the twin flight pods.

=== Main Hull ===

This comprises the bulk of a battlestar, and can, itself, be divided into three sections:

The "alligator head" contains the primary living space for the crew, recreational facilities, mess halls, shipboard operations centres (such as the [[CIC]] and [[Situation Room]]){{ref|nosource}}; water storage tanks ([[Water]]).

The midships area contains the pod retraction mechanisms, crossways linking the hanger pods for the transfer of equipment and personnel, as well as all the necessary hoists for such transfers ([[Mini-Series]]). Main munitions stores and distribution mechnanisms to "local" munitions stores for main and secondary batteries; fabrication facilities; etc {{ref_label|nosource|1|a}}.

The stern section contains sublight engines, [[FTL]] drive coils, etc. Note that 4 of the sublight engines are mounted externally in engine pods, with 2 more mounted between the pods, in the stern of the battlestar's main hull.

=== Flight Pods ===
The flight pods are mounted on either side of the hull and contain a battlestar's offensive [[Viper]] force. During normal operations, they are extended away from the main hull. During FTL jumps, the pods are retracted against the hull. Each pod comprises two main decks for flight operations: the upper landing bay, which extends the full length of the pod; and the lower launch bays, which provide some 40 launch tubes per pod.

The landing bay serves as a recovery area for incoming Vipers and [[Raptor]]s. Approaches are made from the stern. The preferred approach is a slow run into the landing bay, prior to making a vertical landing on a defined landing area. However, in emergencies, [[Combat Landing|combat landings]] can be made, in which a Viper or Raptor approaches at speed and makes a running landing on its undercarriage.

The forward end of the landing bay also serves as a launch area for Raptors and shuttles. The landing bay is large enough to accept a variety of other Colonial vessels, at least as large as "heavy" passenger ships such as ''[[Colonial Heavy 798]]''. Docking collars are located throughout the upper sections of the landing bay in order to provide a pressurised connection between a docked vessel and the battlestar. The Flight Pods also have docking ports to dock with larger ships or stations.

The [[Hangar Deck|hangar deck]] within the a flight pod are used as general dispersal areas for Vipers. The hangar deck is used for maintenance & repair of Vipers / Raptors, re-fuelling, re-arming and launch operations. A hangar deck runs the length of the flight pod, but can be divided and sealed off into five sections for damage control puroposes. Each hangar deck section has eight launch tubes, two launch control stations, and an elevator that leads to the landing bay above. Viper flight operations are overseen by a [[Landing Signal Officer]], with each launch supervisor being directly responsible for all launch operations for a group of four launch tubes{{ref_label|nosource|1|b}}.

==Specifications==

===Dimensions===
Hull:
* Length: 4,640ft or 1.414 km
* Beam: 1,820ft or 555 m (flight pod to flight pod - extended)
* Draft: 580ft or 177 m (source: [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/ships/ships/ SciFi.com])

Flight Pods:
* Length (approx): 2,019ft or 615 m
* Beam (approx): 360ft or 110 m
* Draft (approx): 211ft or 64 m {{ref|pods}}

[[Image:bsg-2-cvn.jpg|right|thumb|Battlestar / CVN comparison (credit: Zoic / VF)]]
''An appreciation of the size of an original battlestar can be gleaned from the following: A battlestar is over 4 times longer than a [[Wikipedia:USS Nimitz|''Nimitz'']]-class US Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. The flight pod of an original battlestar is almost twice the length of a ''Nimitz'' class carrier, is some 150ft wider and is approximately as tall as a ''Nimitz'' class carrier measured from the waterline to the top of the carrier's communications and [[ELINT]] tower. The beam of an original battlestar's "alligator head" is as broad as a ''Nimitz''-class carrier's flight deck is long. Each of the nacelles of an original battlestar's outer four sublight engines is large enough to house a ''Nimitz''-class carrier.''

===Propulsion===
[[Image:Sublight.jpg|thumb|right|''Galactica'' with all six sublight engines engaged ([[33]])]]
* 2 x FTL engines and drive coils{{ref|ftl}}
* 6 x sublight engines
** 2 x Hull-mounted
** 4 x outrigger engine pods
* 40 x maneuvering engines (10 clusters of 4 apiece){{ref|zoic}}.

Despite their massive size, battlestars are extremely maneuverable and can dock with space stations such as the [[Ragnar Anchorage]] depot. Battlestars are not designed for atmospheric flight, although their hulls can manage a tenuous upper atmospheric storm like that surrounding the gas giant [[Ragnar]] ([[Mini-Series]]). A battlestar's [[FTL]] systems are capable of very accurate Jumps, able to place them precisely in synchronous orbit above any point on a planet ([[Mini-Series]]) and of placing them in the midst of an asteroid field ([[The Hand of God]]) or dense fleet of ships ([[Scattered]]), without risk of a devastating impact. However, they are grossly inferior to [[Cylon]] systems in range ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).

===Endurance===
Battlestars are intended to operate for long periods without resupply. Their water purification capabilities alone are so efficient that, barring an emergency or unforeseen event, a battlestar can operate without re-tanking "for several years before replenishing" ([[Water]]). They also appear capable of undertaking large-scale repairs following battle damage ([[Mini-Series]], [[Water]]), and may have small manufacturing/fabrication facilities on-board ([[Litmus]]). Vegetable stores and canned goods are kept in [[Wikipedia:Titanium|titanium]] lockers ([[Final Cut]]).

===Computer Systems===
The original battlestar vessels deliberately avoided the use of networked computer systems and wireless devices, as the [[Cylon]] enemy were adept at infiltrating and subverting such systems ([[Mini-Series]]).

Although they do employ [[computers]] for such functions as [[FTL]] calculations, navigation, damage control and fire control ([[Scattered]]), these are not connected with each other. This design is intended to naturally quarantine individual systems in the event that one becomes compromised.

===Armament===
[[Image:Flakfield.jpg|thumb|right|Flak field from ''Galactica's'' large turrets ([[Scattered]])]]
[[Image:Bscap064.jpg|thumb|''Galactica's'' point defense turrets]]
*24 large flak turrets{{ref|flak}} (mounting 2 guns apiece)
These are mounted on the dorsal and ventral surfaces of the main hull and the ventral surface of the bow. The two guns on each turret fire explosive flak rounds in tandem at a rate of 2.23 seconds per round.

*Numerous{{ref|small}} smaller turrets (mounting 2 guns apiece)
These are smaller two-gun turrets mounted on the flight pods and other surfaces. Each barrel fires non-explosive rounds in bursts, with a rate of fire of 200 rounds per turret per second (estimate based on one tracer per four rounds).

*Multiple nuclear warheads{{ref|nukes}}.

*Four squadrons of 20 "[[Viper]]" air/space superiority fighters{{ref|vipers}}. Even the latest Mk. VII vipers remain compatible with this class's launch and recovery facilities.

*Numerous{{ref|raptors}} "[[Raptor]]" reconnaissance vehicles

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===Crew===
''Galactica's'' crew complement prior to her scheduled decommissioning was approximately 2,800{{ref|crew}}. This figure may be higher for a fully staffed and operational battlestar.

===Life Support===
Approximately twelve oxygen recirculation units are mounted throughout the ship, which replenish oxygen as well as remove ("scrub") carbon dioxide from the air. These devices work continuously ([[Final Cut]]).

==Sources==
# {{note|nosource}}{{note_label|nosource|1|a}}{{note_label|nosource|1|b}} No source provided. Figures and comments which are unsourced are being considered for deletion, in compliance with the [[Battlestar Wiki:Citation Jihad|Citation Jihad]].
# {{note|pods}} Calculated based on elevations made available by Zoic.
# {{note|ftl}} '''Tigh:''' "Engineering/Combat. Please spin up FTL drives One and Two." ([[Mini-Series]])
# {{note|zoic}} Originally sourced to [[Zoic]] without explanation.
# {{note|flak}} These have been referred to as railguns by some fan sources, but there is substantial evidence against this. See [[Railgun]] for more.
# {{note|small}} Unsourced figures have ranged from 252 to 512.
#{{note|nukes}} As of the episode "[[Bastille Day]]", ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' was equipped with five nuclear warheads. This may be lower than the typical number, since ''Galactica'' was in the process of being decommissioned and had already had most of its ammunition removed. If this is the case, we must conclude that ''Galactica'' was unable to reload its supply of nuclear arms at [[Ragnar Anchorage]] (a sensible proposition, given the ease with which purported arms smuggler [[Leoben Conoy]] was able to gain access to the facility).
# {{note|vipers}}After the destruction of 20 Vipers during the Cylon Attack, ''Galactica'' was still able to muster a 40-Viper strong defensive screen by combining their remaining squadron of Mk. VII vipers with a full squadron of Mk. II vipers from a museum exhibit in the starboard flight pod. This suggests that ''Galactica'', with a single operational flight pod, was fielding two squadrons from it, and that when fully operational it could have fielded an additional two squadrons from the starboard pod as well.
# {{note|raptors}}At the time of the Cylon Attack, ''Galactica'' was apparently equipped with at least eight. See [[Galactica (RDM)#endnote_raptors|Galactica Raptor tally]] for a running count.
# {{note|crew}} See [[Galactica (RDM)#endnote_originalcrew|Galactica crew count]].

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Talk:Resurrection Ship/Archive 1

2006-01-07T07:16:56Z

QX100:

I thought that the unknown cylon ship was shaped like a taurus? The ship that Starbuck took photos of in the blackbird was definintly not the same ship that was seen in Cain's earlier recon photos. Is this a completley different ship? Or did the writers just change the design of it because they didnt like the donut shaped one? --[[User:BMS|BMS]] 23:19, 6 January 2006 (EST)

:Good question. That original shot in Pegasus looked different to me too. If you listen to the podcast for this episode it only gets more confusing. RDM says that the design for the Reurrection Ship was finalized quite a while back. --[[User:Watcher|Watcher]] 23:27, 6 January 2006 (EST)

:: It is extremely blurred in the photos, as far as I can tell. Hence the recon op. -- [[User:Joe.Beaudoin|Joe Beaudoin]] 23:33, 6 January 2006 (EST)

Perhaps. After looking at it carefully, the ship in the recon photo looks like it could be the ship we saw in Res Ship part 1, if you put it "on its side" in relation to the basestars. --[[User:BMS|BMS]] 23:42, 6 January 2006 (EST)

:::That was what I was thinking. It may look different from a different angle. Perhaps we should use this [http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/935/resship5fk.jpg pic] as another pic? Unless, ofcourse, someone has a better pic (hopefully). [[User:Blacklight|Blacklight]]

:::: The Resurrection ship in The Pegasus episode look more like an original basestar rather than a triangalur Prism.

Talk:Resurrection Ship/Archive 1

2006-01-07T07:16:32Z

QX100:

I thought that the unknown cylon ship was shaped like a taurus? The ship that Starbuck took photos of in the blackbird was definintly not the same ship that was seen in Cain's earlier recon photos. Is this a completley different ship? Or did the writers just change the design of it because they didnt like the donut shaped one? --[[User:BMS|BMS]] 23:19, 6 January 2006 (EST)

:Good question. That original shot in Pegasus looked different to me too. If you listen to the podcast for this episode it only gets more confusing. RDM says that the design for the Reurrection Ship was finalized quite a while back. --[[User:Watcher|Watcher]] 23:27, 6 January 2006 (EST)

:: It is extremely blurred in the photos, as far as I can tell. Hence the recon op. -- [[User:Joe.Beaudoin|Joe Beaudoin]] 23:33, 6 January 2006 (EST)

Perhaps. After looking at it carefully, the ship in the recon photo looks like it could be the ship we saw in Res Ship part 1, if you put it "on its side" in relation to the basestars. --[[User:BMS|BMS]] 23:42, 6 January 2006 (EST)

:::That was what I was thinking. It may look different from a different angle. Perhaps we should use this [http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/935/resship5fk.jpg pic] as another pic? Unless, ofcourse, someone has a better pic (hopefully). [[User:Blacklight|Blacklight]]

*** The Resurrection ship in The Pegasus episode look more like an original basestar rather than a triangalur Prism.

The Farm

2005-10-22T03:51:50Z

QX100: /* On Caprica */

:''This page covers the episode "The Farm." For the Farms themselves, see [[Farms]].''

== Overview ==
[[Kara Thrace]] is shot and wakes up in a remote hospital facility on [[The Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]], and learns that her friendly doctor has his own plans for her future.

== Summary ==

=== On Caprica ===

*[[Starbuck]], [[Helo]], and two members of the Resistance ([[Samuel Anders|Anders]] and [[Sue-Shaun]], who were introduced in the last episode) devise a plan to escape from [[The Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]] by commandeering a [[Cylon Heavy Raider]] from a nearby airstrip. They will fit as many people as possible onto the craft, and will dispatch a rescue mission for the remainder upon return to [[Galactica]].
*As the team is about to assault the airstrip, they are ambushed, and Kara is hit by a bullet that grazes off her head and gets lodged in her abdomen. She loses consciousness.
*[[Kara]] wakes up in a hospital. She is being attended to by a doctor named [[Simon]], who tells her that she was brought into the hospital by Anders, and that Anders died from a shrapnel wound. Kara is devastated.
*Kara spends the next few days conversing with Simon, who muses that women capable of bearing children are a rare "commodity" now that the [[Cylons]] have nuked the colonies, and suggests that Kara should consider giving birth to a child.
*Simon speculates that Kara's reluctance to have children stems from her mother having abused her when she was young, as evidenced by a pattern of fractures in her fingers. This topic upsets her.
*Kara wakes to discover a new scar on her abdomen. Simon tells her it's from an operation he did to stop some bleeding, but Kara doesn't believe him.
*Kara fakes sleep, and when Simon leaves, she follows him into the hallway, where she overhears him having a conversation with a copy of [[Number Six]] about the "complete removal" of her ovaries scheduled for the next day.
*Back in bed, Kara stabs Simon and escapes the room. Lurching around the deserted hospital, she stumbles upon a room full of semi-conscious women wired horrifically to machines. Among them is Sue-Shaun, who begs Kara to destroy the "baby machines" and end their misery. She obliges with a prayer, a pair of medical tongs, and a primal scream.
*Kara staggers outside, braining the Six model with a fire extinguisher in the process, only to find a new Simon standing there to greet her. Just then, [[Helo]] and the rest of the resistance emerge from the woods. They pepper Simon with bullets, but soon get bogged down in a firefight with a squad of [[Cylon Centurion|Centurions]]. Time for the second rescue in as many minutes: Caprica-Boomer ([[Sharon Valerii]]) swoops down in a stolen [[Cylon Heavy Raider]] and blows the enemy away.
*Kara relates her experiences in the hospital to the others. C-Boomer explains that the [[Cylons]] have a flaw which renders them unable to reproduce biologically, and that they have been holding human women in "farms" to try to implant them with human/Cylon embryos. This effort has failed, however, leading the Cylons to believe that conception requires "love". According to this theory, C-Boomer was able to conceive with Helo because of their love for each other.
*Helo, Sharon, and Starbuck leave Caprica on the Heavy Raider. Starbuck has promised [[Samuel Anders|Anders]] to return someday to rescue the Resistance. In the meantime, Anders says he will try to destroy as many farms as he can.

===On Galactica===

*Commander Adama returns to duty, and is greated by applause in the CIC. He tells the crew that he loves them all.
*To try to rally support to the president, Zarek wants Apollo to make a recording denouncing his father. Apollo stops in the middle of it and says he can't go through with that. It's left to Roslin to win over the fleet.
* Roslin plays the "religion card" to convince a third of the fleet to jump with her to Kobol despite an infuriated and staunchly secular Adama. She transfers to the [[Astral Queen]] from which she transmits a message imploring the Fleet to follow her and the path the [[Lords of Kobol]] have set out for her. Adama didn't board the Astral Queen because he thought only three or four ships would seriously listen to her religious nonsense. Instead, 24 ships ("almost a third of the Fleet") go with her.
*Cally is thrown in the brig for killing Galactica-Boomer. Chief Tyrol implores Adama to release her, because she was traumatized by events on Kobol on not in her right mind when she did it. Adama agrees to let her off easy by charging her with discharging a firearm without permission, which gives her only one month in the brig.
*Adama asks Tyrol if he could love Boomer even though she was a machine. Tyrol isn't quite sure, but it becomes apparent that Adama is asking himself the question as much as he is Tyrol; Adama loved all of his pilots like his children.
*Adama visits Galactica-Boomer's body in the morgue. He asks "Why?" then breaks down crying over her body.

== Questions ==
*Caprica-Boomer says that she knows that [[Leoben Conoy]] told Kara she was special during his interrogation aboard the ''Galactica''; how could she have known this? How do the Cylon agents communicate to each other?
**Since it is confirmed that Humano-Cylon bodies do transmit their consciousness or updated information from body to body upon death, this implies that '''all''' models share memories between each other, no matter where they are. Caprica-Boomer seems to know much of Galactica's state of affairs when asked. If such communication is the case, wouldn't the relative strength of such a signal from the body be a tip-off for Colonials to locate the remaining Cylon infiltrators?
**Boomer also says that she "hasn't accessed that data" when asked how many farms there are. Does this mean that Cylons transmit information only upon death? She knew about Leoben during [[Flesh and Bone]] but she doesn't know the thoughts of the other Cylons on the planet who have not died. Conversely the Cylons seem unaware of her rebellious thoughts.
***Has the rebellious Caprica-Boomer severed her connection with the other Cylons? After she switched sides in [[Flesh and Bone]], the other Cylons seem unaware of her current thoughts and actions. Perhaps she only knows of events on ''Galactica'' before this point?
**Leoben appeared to acknowledge in "[[Flesh and Bone]]" that he was too far from Cylon forces for his personality to be recovered. Was he able to covertly transmit his memories to one of the Basestars encountered in [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]] or [[Scattered]] by way of another agent?
*Will we see Simon again? Is he one of the eight Cylon agents hiding in the fleet?
*How did Simon know Anders name?
**RDM's blog states that one of the member's of Anders' resistance was probably a Cylon (not necessarily any of the resistance members we saw on screen) who tipped them off to Anders, though this didn't make the final cut of the episode.
*Why does the Caprica resistance seemed more concerned about Kara's disappearance than Sue-Shaun's? Did Kara's love interest generated the greater concern?
*Could Commander Adama's evident grief upon viewing the corpse of Galactica-Boomer in the ship's morgue mean that they were personally involved at some point? Or, perhaps, did the level of humanity that this Boomer showed cause Adama to mourn her loss as he would a daughter or daughter-figure such as Kara? In any case, given her role in Adama's assassination attempt, this is strange and strong behavior.
*Would any viable embryos harvested by the Cylons be accelerated into mature adults or placed ''in vitro'' into a host? Would the host be humano-Cylon or human?
**Caprica-Boomer seemed to imply that no viable hybrid embryos had ever been produced by the Farms, at least up until this point. Then again, she said that they "weren't very successful", which is somewhat vague.

== Analysis ==
*What exactly did the Cylons do to Kara's ovaries? Simon tells Six (listen hard): "...pending lab test results on sample for ovaries, complete removal will proceed tomorrow". Starbuck escaped right after this, which means that they were ''not'' able to "completely remove" her ovaries, so at the very least Starbuck can still have children. However, female humans only have '''two''' ovaries: how can you have a "sample" one? -- Perhaps what was ''meant'' was "egg cells" or "ovum" but this didn't flow well in dialog, so the script was changed to read "ovaries" even though this was not intended. However, in either case it would seem that the Cylons at least obtained several sample egg cells from Starbuck. Will this lead to developments later on?
*In Ron D. Moore's blog entry for October 14, 2005, after finishing the last scripts for season two he jokingly says he has "the reward of time spent thinking about something besides Kara's missing ovaries ("Now, where did I leave those ovaries? They were right here a minute ago...") ". What is meant by this?

== Notes ==
*This episode's opening credits marks the return of the "blipvert" effect used in the first season episodes, which Ron D. Moore uses as an homage to "Space: 1999".
*As of the opening credits, the fleet population is now 47,857, a net loss of 4 since "[[Resistance]]". This reflects the deaths of four civillians on board the [[Gideon]] in that episode, but apparently not that of Boomer. Was she removed from the count immediately after her assassination attempt?
*According to [[Gaeta]], this episode takes place "a week" after Apollo docked at [[Cloud Nine]] in the last episode, although apparently Adama hasn't been well enough to resume command until very recently.
*24 ships, almost a third of the fleet, have left with Roslin for Kobol.
**This would mean the total fleet consisted of over 72 ships. In the [[Mini-Series]], there are only about 40 FTL-capable ships able to rendezvous with Galactica at Ragnar Anchorage.
*Cally has been put in the brig for 30 days for discharging a firearm without permission. Tyrol actually tried to help get her out immediately by telling Adama that she was traumatized by events on Kobol and not in her right mind. Adama agrees to be lenient and give Cally the short sentance, and Tyrol is grateful.
*Galactica-Boomer's body is now in the morgue.
*Number Six mentioned that "procreation is one of God's commandments" in the first episode, "[[33]]".
*The [[Humano-Cylon|Humano-Cylons]] cannot reproduce biologically with each other (they can produce more copies of the existing models, but a male and female Cylons cannot reproduce with each other). However, according to the Cylon religion it is a commandment of God that they procreate; "be fruitful and multiply". Therefore, the Cylons began a project to create a hybrid offspring of Humano-Cylons and Humans (who can easily reproduce biologically), basically trying any way they could to find some way to procreate their new race. To this end, the Cylons have created a large number of "[[Farms]]": breeding centers filled with captured Human women hooked up to medical equipment, being used as living incubators (a "baby factory"), which basically amounts to medically raping hundreds if not thousands of women. However, it seems that up to this point, the Farms have not been able to successfully produce any hybrid offspring. Trying to understand their failure, the Cylons developed a new theory: the element they were missing was love, and perhaps a hybrid baby conceived in love would succeed. This was the reason why [[Helo]] was set up by the Cylons into being trapped in a position where he would fall in love with the copy of [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]] and have sex with her. The Caprica-Boomer's unborn child is indeed unique: it is the first Human/Cylon hybrid conceived in love, and as a result appears to be the first and only successful hybrid; it seems that no other embryo survived nearly as long as it already has (it is now about five weeks old, since it's conception in "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]").
*The Galactica-Boomer was serving aboard the Galactica for two years, which means the Cylons had begun infiltrating Colonial society from at least that long ago. This matches the length of time of Six's affair with Baltar while on Caprica.
*Starbuck was the victim of frequent physical abuse as a child; she's suffered many bone fractures in childhood, and all of her fingers have been broken at some point.
*It has clearly been established that there are at least 5 remaining Raptors aboard the Galactica. Lt. Gaeta mentions that 5 Raptors were standing by to perform a mission. There might be more that they simply didn't want to use, or there might be more that are currently down for repairs.
*Caprica-Boomer is aware of [[Leoben Conoy]]'s interrogation by Starbuck in "[[Flesh and Bone]]", even of specific things he said during it.
*This episode introduces the 5th confirmed Humano-Cylon, [[Simon]].

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

*''Cylons discussion the surgical testing they are performing on Starbuck'':
:<b>Simon:</b>...pending lab test results on [sample for] ovaries, complete removal will proceed tomorrow. They've lab tested positive and subject will be removed to processing facility for final disposition.
:<b>Number Six:</b> Is that regret I hear in your voice, Simon?
:<b>Simon:</b> If it is, it certainly is none of your concern.

*''Explanation of the Human/Cylon hybrid project:''
:<b>Boomer:</b> They were conducting research, into Human/Cylon breeding programs.
:<b>Starbuck:</b>: Human/Cylon?
:<b>Helo:</b>: 'Call them "Farms"...your gunshot wound looks fine...
:<b>Starbuck:</b>: So "Farms", that's great...what were they going to do, 'knock me up with some Cylon kid?
:<b>Boomer:</b> They were going to try to. We haven't been very successful so far.
:<b>Anders:</b> Supposedly they can't reproduce...you know, ''biologically'', so they've been trying every which-way to produce offspring.
:<b>Starbuck:</b> Why?
:<b>Boomer:</b> Procreation. It's one of God's commandments; "be fruitful". We can't fulfill it, we've tried. So we decided--
:<b>Starbuck:</b> To rape human women?!
:<b>Boomer:</b> You know, if you agreed to bear children it would be voluntary, maybe even set you up with someone you like.
:<b>Starbuck:</b> And you two kids? [''Helo and Caprica-Boomer'']
:<b>Boomer:</b> We're different.
:<b>Starbuck:</b> What the frak is that supposed to mean?
:<b>Helo:</b> They have this theory; maybe the one thing they were missing was '''love'''. So Sharon and I...were set up...
:<b>Starbuck:</b> To fall in love?! They didn't ask [[Sue-Shaun]] if she wanted to fall in love, alright! They put a tube in her, and they hooked her up to a machine!
:<b>Boomer:</b> They know who you are, Kara. You're special. Leoben told you that. You have a destiny.
:<b>Helo:</b> [''pointing out the other scar on Starbuck's lower abdomen''] Starbuck what's the second scar?
:<b>Starbuck:</b> I don't know. I don't think I want to know now. You know?
:<b>Boomer:</b> No.
:<b>Anders:</b> Alright, how many women do they have in these "Farms"?
:<b>Boomer:</b> Hundreds, maybe thousands. I don't know, I haven't accessed that data.

*''Adama wonders aloud about the nature of Cylons and humans''
:'''Tyrol:''' I don't believe she [Cally] was in her right mind when she shot Boomer--
:'''Adama:''' Did you love her, Chief?
:'''Tyrol:''' 'Scuse me?
:'''Adama:''' Boomer. Did you love her?
:'''Tyrol:''' Thought I did.
:'''Adama:''' Well, when you think you love somebody, you love them. That's what love is. Thoughts... She was a Cylon. A machine! Is that what Boomer was, a machine? A thing?
:'''Tyrol:''' That's what she turned out to be.
:'''Adama:''' She was more than that to us. She was more than that to me. She was a vital, living person aboard my ship for almost two years! She couldn't have been just a machine. Could you love a machine?
:'''Tyrol:''' No, sir. Guess I couldn't have.
: '''Adama'''Cally discharged a firearm without permission, endangering life of her fellow shipmate. 30 days in the brig. Dismissed.
:'''Tyrol:''' Thank you, sir.
:'''Adama:''' You'll see her again, Chief.
:'''Tyrol:''' Excuse me?
:'''Adama:''' There are many copies. You'll see her again.

*''Simon, talking about Starbuck's reluctance to have children but also perhaps talking about the Cylons view of themselves (and maybe the "human" cylons).
:'''Simon:''' Children of abusive parents often fear passing along that abuse to their own children.

== Official Statements ==
[[Ronald D. Moore]] mentions in his [[Podcast]] that because of [[Starbuck]]'s promise to [[Anders]] to return with help, we'll probably return to [[The Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]].

== Statistics ==

=== Guest Stars ===
*[[Richard Hatch]] as [[Tom Zarek]]
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0941796/ Rick Worthy] as [[Simon]]

=== Writing & Direction ===

*Written by
*Story by
*Teleplay by
*Directed by

=== Production Notes ===

*Series 2 (2005/2006)
*Production Number: 2.5
*Airdate Order: 5 (of 20)

=== First Run Air Dates & Releases ===

*UK Airdate: September 2005
*US Airdate: August 12th, 2005
*DVD Release: Date

{{Episode List}}
[[Category:A to Z|Farm, The]]
[[Category: Episode Guide (RDM)|Farm, The]]

Six Degrees of Separation

2005-10-19T02:38:53Z

QX100: /* Questions */

[[Image:bsg-1-07.jpg|thumb|"Six Degrees of Separation" (credit: Sci-Fi Channel)]]

== Overview ==

: ''[[Six]] physically arrives on the ''[[Galactica]]'' and accuses [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] of treachery.''

== Summary ==

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

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

== Summary from scifi.com ==
When Baltar and the Number Six who lives in his head have a falling out, she abandons him, only to surface a short while later aboard the Galactica. But now she's called Shelley Godfrey, everyone can see her, and she's telling them that she has evidence, passed on by the late Dr. Amarak, that will prove Baltar sold out the human race to the Cylons.

With Baltar in a panic and trying to save himself, Number Six focuses her charms on Commander Adama. But the Commander is wary of this stunning stranger and has her followed while her evidence is analyzed.

Kara struggles to recover from her injuries while Chief Tyrol and the crew try to reverse-engineer the Cylon raider she piloted home.

Meanwhile, dual Sharons face their own challenges — on Caprica, she and Helo are on the run from Cylon centurions; on the Galactica, she's terrified of being exposed as a Cylon herself.
-- This section ©2005, [http://www.scifi.com SCI FI]. All rights reserved.

== Questions ==
*Is Baltar's Six in communication with her "sisters" in the fleet?
*Where did "Shelly Godfrey" go after her "disappearance"?
*If she is still on the ''Galactica'', is Boomer unwittingly helping her?
*Will Baltar forgive Roslin for her condemnation of him?
*Even if he completes his Cylon detector, will any results it gives be trustworthy? ([[Flesh and Bone|Answer]])
*What is the range of actions in Baltar's fantasy world that are translated over into the real world?

== Analysis ==

This is potentially the most powerful story yet to come out of the BSG fold, and [[James Callis]] – with due respect to [[Edward James Olmos]] – establishes himself as one of the prime reasons to watch the show. This is his episode, and he proves that he is not only every inch Olmos’ equal – albeit through vastly different means – but that his long shadow very much leaves the rest of the cast in darkness.

From start to finish, even knowing that ultimately, Baltar’s ego and sexual moirés did lead to the downfall of Colonial civilisation - that he is essentially a traitor, however unwittingly, one cannot help but root for his safe passage through the episode. Confidence, arrogance, pathos, fear, desperation, relief, confusion, hope, anger, disbelief – such is the range of emotions demonstrated by Baltar in this segment; some of them occurring so rapidly one after the other, that Callis seems to express them simultaneously.

As Six states during the epilogue, this is Baltar’s trial by fire – and the repercussions could be felt for some time to come. Who would dare accuse him of treason now? Even if her doubt – her gut instinct – is genuine, Roslin is going to have a hard time assailing Baltar’s new-found confidence and belief in himself. Adama is also caught between a rock and a hard place; any denial of resources for Baltar’s research could easily lead to he who was once branded traitor to make that claim of others in the name of protecting them all. In making his situation a matter of public debate, Roslin has potentially saddled herself with a new hero – as the standing ovation Baltar received from the press corps tends to demonstrate – and a potentially new political power. With elections only a few months off, and Tom Zarek’s return to the public stage mere weeks away (real time, in “Colonial Day”), Roslin may yet rue the day she made her uncharacteristic – and unwarranted, in some respects – personal attack on Baltar while he was in the brig.

"Shelly Godfrey" herself is the clearest indication yet that Baltar's Six is not only an implant in Baltar's head - but that "she" is in direct contact with other Cylons scattered within the fleet, and they are working in concert with one another in order to fully subvert Baltar to their will. Why?

The idea that "Shelly Godfrey" is a humano-Cylon working to genuinely trying prevent Baltar finalising his Cylon detector would make her arrival on the Galactica at the precise moment Six vanishes from Baltar’s head pushes coincidence to the limits of credibility.

Plus – if “Shelly Godfrey” was an attempt to stop the Cylon detector being completed, why was her evidence so clearly falsified? As Gaeta himself states: “Once the photos were fully resolved, it was almost too easy, like she wanted to be found out.” If “photographic evidence” can be manufactured by the Cylons, why not go for something that would genuinely condemn Baltar and which would be next to impossible for him to honestly deny: evidence that he allowed his [[Command Navigation Program]] to be tampered with?

No, the entire aim of "Shelly Godfrey's" arrival on the ''[[Galactica]]'' is to bring Baltar to that point in his life where his only salvation is to seek God's forgiveness and allow "Him" into his life. This is why her arrival is preceded by Six "vanishing" from Baltar's mind - thus leaving him without any form of inner support; and why "Shelly Godfrey" apparently "disappears" from the ''Galactica'' almost as soon as Baltar begs for God's forgiveness.

Taken together, these events all point to the fact that Six and her corporeal "sister" ("Godfrey") are in contact with one another. The Cylons within the fleet know that they cannot prevent Baltar from developing his detector indefinitely. Doing so would cause him to lose far too much credibility with Adama and Roslin - and possibly result in them assigning the work to someone else to complete. Better to have the device in the hands of a man they can influence.

This is why Six reacted with such anger when Baltar attempted to withdraw from the work when pressed by Adama ([[Bastille Day]]) - and gave him just enough clues for him to realise how his detector might work. Now, with the detector nearing completion, the Cylons must control its use - and the best way to control its use is to control the man responsible for it.

Thus, the entire episode is engineered to achieve the two goals they desire: Baltar is moved closer to their influence through his acceptance of "God", and they ensure he can be manipulated and managed where the detector itself is concerned.

So, if this is the case - and Baltar's Six is indeed in contact with her corporeal "sister" (and possibly other humano-Cylons in the fleet) what does it mean for the the series? The most obvious answer to this question is that the Cylons are clearly in control of events, whether or not they are precisely aware of the fleet's location. They are in a position to manipulate individuals and events within the fleet, and thus move things towards the ultimate goal of their plan.

Thus, Six Degrees of Separation - as in the "game" upon which it is based - begins to map the lines that interconnect the various elements of the story. And the idea of interconnectedness is exemplified elsewhere in the segment – most noticeably around Valerii / Boomer. And on Caprica, the interconnectedness is entirely physical as she and Helo pretty much get it on – thus passing another milestone in the Cylon’s plan - pointing the finger ever more clearly towards the subjects of procreation and love.

On ''Galactica'', Boomer’s interconnectedness with other Cylons is palpably demonstrated in her reactions to the captured Raider. Watching the sensual response she exhibits as she touches and describes the Raider, one cannot help but wonder how much longer she can be treated without considerable suspicion. The events of [[Water]], her involvement in events surrounding [[Litmus]] - Tyrol at the very least must be more than a little concerned at what she might actually be; indeed, going on the spooked look he gives her as she comes close to foreplay with the Raider, he must be questioning her sanity, if nothing else.

What is interesting in these two story elements is they way they mesh together while effectively moving in opposite directions: as Valerii on Caprica moves towards fulfilment of her mission with Helo, possibly achieving more than her original creation / formation could have aspired to – a human / Cylon relationship born of love and respect, rather than of lust and ego, as was the case with Baltar / Six; Boomer on Galactica is beginning to spiral out of control: she has had at least one “black out” that she knows of, in which Galactica’s water supply was crippled; she’s almost blown herself up; she’s been accused of collusion with the Cylons; she’s broken up with her lover, come close to a near-orgasmic experience with a Cylon device – and now someone is accusing her directly of being a Cylon. Contrast the way in which Valerii’s coupling with Helo on Caprica played out against Boomer’s desperation in her bunk room – a very powerful counterpoint.

One other character is worthy of mention in this episode – [[Alessandro Juliani]] (Lieutenant Gaeta). So far he’s had little chance to shine, but in this episode, shine he does, providing exactly the right amount of emotional support for Baltar – while also providing us with one of the most subtle moments of humour witnessed in television. The scene in the lavatory must be watched to be appreciated – especially Gaeta’s feet, which speak more clearly than any of the whispered conversation shared with Baltar, and the results are a joy to watch – as is the continued conversation with the camera peeking into each of the cubicles.

Overall, a cleverly-constructed episode that is as entertaining as it is intriguing, thanks to the aforementioned lavatory scene between Baltar and Gaeta, which loses none of its power with repeated watching.

== Notes ==
*A week has passed since “Litmus”
*Boomer is accidentally revealing more and more of her Cylon nature
*Helo has passed another test on Caprica; he’s now sexually active with Valerii
*Gaeta admires Baltar and may be his one true friend on the Galactica
*Baltar appears very close to completing his Cylon detector
*Cylon Raiders may well be purpose-bred, semi-intelligent bio-machines
*The Colonials use QWERTY keyboards

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

=== Baltar to Adama, confronting the accusation that he may be a traitor ===

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

=== Kara's Recovery in the Sick Bay ===

[[Thrace, Kara|Kara Thrace]] is about to start walking after recovering from her knee injury, sustained in "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]". [[Doctor Cottle]] and [[Lee Adama]] are present.

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

== Official Statements ==




== Statistics ==



=== Guest Stars ===


*[http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Donnelly+Rhodes Donnelly Rhodes] as [[Doctor Cottle]]
*[http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Nicki+Clyne Nicki Clyne] as [[Cally]]
*[http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Christina+Schild Christina Schild] as [[Playa Kohn]]
*[http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Biski+Guggushe Biski Gugushe] as [[Eick]]



=== Writing & Direction ===

*Written by [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Michael+Angeli Michael Angeli]
*Directed by [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Robert+Young Robert Young]




=== Production Notes ===
*Series 1 (2004 / 2005)
*Production Number: 1.07
*Airdate Order: 7 (of 13)

=== First Run Air Dates & Releases ===

*UK Airdate: 29 November 2004 (Sky One)
*US Airdate: 18 February 2005 (Sci-Fi Channel)
*DVD Release: 28 March 2005 (UK)

== External Links ==
[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/episodes/season01/107/ "Six Degrees of Separation"] at scifi.com
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Basestar (TOS)

2005-10-19T02:09:21Z

QX100:

''This article is about the Original Series basestar. For the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|re-imagined]] version, see [[Cylon Basestar]].''

[[Image:BasestarTOS.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A group of Cylon Basestars]]
In [[TOS|the Original Series]], a basestar is a large capital warship of the Cylon Alliance.

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The Fleet (TRS)

2005-10-18T03:04:27Z

QX100: /* Ships */

'''The Fleet''' is the convoy of ships that contain what is effectively the last survivors of humanity after the [[Cylon Attack]], and it forms the backdrop of the drama of the several television series all known as [[Battlestar Galactica]].

== Re-imagined Series ==

In the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|current series]], the fleet began as a convoy of about sixty stranded commercial and civilian ships assembled by [[Laura Roslin]] in the immediate aftermath of the [[Fall_of_the_Twelve_Colonies|Cylon Attack]] as depicted in the [[Mini-Series]]. It is not shown (and is unlikely) that any of these found ships were Colonial military craft, save [[Raptor 478]]. Of these, twenty ships were abandoned to an imminent Cylon attack because they lacked [[FTL]] drives. The remainder of the Fleet joined with battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'', the only [[Pegasus (RDM)|known]] surviving warship in the first months after the events of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. The Fleet represents the last vestige of humanity, protected by ''Galactica''. The political and social troubles of the fleet as it wanders through space function as a metaphor for all of humanity, since the Fleet literally ''is'' what is left of humanity in the television series.

In the series, '''The Fleet''' functions not only as a signifier for the actual ships of the convoy, but as a substitute for the people on board, and therefore for mankind. Usage of the term '''the Fleet''' has not gained more than an informal acceptance, as can be seen by President [[Laura Roslin]]'s continued use of the term ''President of the [[Twelve Colonies]].'' This may be interpreted as either an expression of hope that eventually the people on board the ships of the Fleet will reestablish themselves on a new colony permanently, or a psychological inability to confront that '''the Fleet''' may be the only home that humanity knows for a very long time.

Saul Tigh's assertion in "[[The Farm]]" that the twenty four ships which departed with the [[Laura Roslin faction]] during her insurrection represented "almost a third of the fleet" imply that the number of ships in the Fleet is approximately in the mid-70's.

===Ships===
* ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', last remaining [[Original battlestar (RDM)|Original Battlestar]] main protector of the fleet ([[Mini-Series]])
* ''[[Colonial One]]'', President [[Laura Roslin]]'s ship, previously known as ''[[Colonial Heavy 798]]'' ([[Mini-Series]])
* ''[[Olympic Carrier]]'' ([[33]], destroyed)
* ''[[Gemini]]'', FTL-capable freighter which Valerii escorts to the convoy. ([[Mini-Series]])
* ''[[Rising Star]]'', mentioned frequently and notable for several reasons:
**First (reported) human birth after the exodus from the Colonies ([[33]])
**Where [[Ellen Tigh]] was suddenly discovered three weeks after the attack ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]])
**Where Ellen Tigh intended her husband to meet with allies of [[Tom Zarek]] ([[Colonial Day]])
* ''[[Coronis]]'' ([[Litmus]], deleted scene)
* ''[[Virgon Express]]'' ([[Water]])
* ''[[Astral Queen]]'', prison ship noted for carrying 1500 prisoners, including [[Tom Zarek]] ([[Bastille Day]])
* ''[[Gemenon Traveller]]'', a civilian ship that a copy of [[Leoben Conoy]] was captured on ([[Flesh and Bone]])
* ''[[Aturian]]'', a refinery ship ([[The Hand of God]])
* ''[[Cloud Nine]]'', meeting place of the [[Quorum of Twelve]] ([[Colonial Day]])
* ''[[Zephyr]]'' ([[Fragged]])
* ''[[Gideon]]'' ([[Resistance]])
* ''[[Kimba Huta]]'', cold storage ([[The Farm]])
* ''[[Monarch]]'', a mining ship that joined the [[Laura Roslin faction]] ([[Home, Part I]])
* ''[[Adriatic]]'', a member of the Roslin faction armed with ship-to-ship missiles ([[Home, Part I]])
* ''[[Striker]]'', damaged in a refuelling operation overseen by Capt. [[George Birch]] ([[Home, Part I]])
* Unnamed [[fuel tanker]], same incident.
* ''[[Celestra]] (Scifi.com)
* ''[[Space Park]]'' (''Scifi.com'')
* ''[[Freighter 212]]'' ([[Final Cut]])
* ''[[Boppa Kala]]'', the ship from which the [[Blackbird]] gets its [[DDG-62]] engines. ([[Flight of the Phoenix]])
* ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', a [[Mercury class battlestar|Mercury class Battlestar]] commanded by [[Nelena Cain]] which then was added to the fleet ([[Pegasus (episode)]])

In the episode [[The Farm]], 24 ships leave the fleet to return to Kobol. [[Dualla]] provides the following breakdown:
*12 transports - incl. Astral Queen, Gemenon Traveller
*7 freighters
*3 construction platforms
*1 private cruiser
*1 mining ship - the Monarch.

===Demographics===

A few points of information are available concerning the demographics of the fleet. In "[[33]]", before the destruction of the Olympic Carrier, there were 5,251 survivors from Sagittaron and 49,998 total survivors. In "[[Home, Part I]]", the [[Laura Roslin faction]] left the Fleet with 18,000 individuals, of which 9,500 were Gemenons and 6,250 were Capricans. At that time the total population of the fleet was 47,857.

This information is sparse, but it gives a general idea of the population breakdown of the fleet if a few assumptions are made for the sake of argument.
*Note that Gemenon and Caprica had more citizens in the Roslin faction alone than Sagittaron had in the entire fleet. The Twelve Colonies are clearly not represented in equal proportion.
*Before the destruction of the ''Olympic Carrier'', Sagittaron natives made up 10.50% of the fleet. Solely for the purpose of argument, we assume that the ''Olympic Carrier'''s population breakdown was identical to the rest of the fleet's and that Sagittaron continues to make up 10.50% of the fleet's total population.
*The figures from the Roslin faction can be viewed in several ways:
<div style="float:right; margin:10px">[[Image:Demographics1.png]]</div>
:*ASSUMPTION 1: All Gemenons and Capricans jumped to Kobol with the Roslin faction.
::*Caprica: 6,250 persons (13.06%)
::*Gemenon: 9,500 persons (19.85%)
::*Sagittaron: 5,026 persons (10.50%)
::*Others: 27,081 (56.59%)<br clear="both">
<div style="float:right; margin:10px">[[Image:Demographics2.png]]</div>
:*ASSUMPTION 2: All Gemenons jumped to Kobol with the Roslin faction, lured by the "religion card", but Caprican portion of the Roslin faction was representative of the fleet.
::*Caprica: 28,204 persons (58.93%)
::*Gemenon: 9,500 persons (19.85%)
::*Sagittaron: 5,026 persons (10.50%)
::*Others: 5,127 persons (10.72%)<br clear="both">
<div style="float:right; margin:10px">[[Image:Demographics3.png]]</div>
:*ASSUMPTION 3: Caprican and Gemenon portions of the Roslin faction were representative of the fleet.
::*Caprica: 16,617 persons (34.72%)
::*Gemenon: 25,258 persons (52.78%)
::*Sagittaron: 5,026 persons (10.50%)
::*Others: 956 (2.00%)<br clear="both">
*Although it is plausible that the Caprican population is substantially larger than the other colonies, as ''Colonial Heavy 798'' was in the vicinity when the attack began, and was the nucleus around which the fleet rallied, it is unlikely that the populations of each colony are grossly unequal, or else the [[Quorum of Twelve]] would be a very poor system of government. The likeliest scenario is therefore probably somewhere in between Assumptions 1 and 2, with nearly all of the Gemenon population (drawn by the "religion card") and a large portion of the Caprican population leaving with Roslin.

As for population distribution, we know the population of ''Galactica'' (2,693 as of [[Water]]), the ''Olympic Carrier'' (2,026 despite Roslin's spoken figure ([[33]])) and ''Astral Queen'' (1,500 as of [[Bastille Day]], [[List of Retcons|retconned]] up from 500 in the mini-series). The fleet is stated at about 75 ships in "[[Resistance]]", retconned up from 40 in the mini.
*Going by the 75 ship count, the remaining ships besides ''Galactica'' and the ''Astral Queen'' each carry about 600 persons on average.
*The 23 ships that left with the [[Laura Roslin faction]], apart from the ''Astral Queen'', would have an average population of about 720 persons per ship.

== Original Series ==

In the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|original series]], the fleet comprised of the last surviving [[battlestar]], ''[[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]]'', and 220 ships. With the exception of ''Galactica'', the ships were not capable of [[FTL|lightspeed]]. The fleet was restricted in its speed for it had to accomodate the slowest ship within the fleet -- removing that ship (or ships) was not an option as all ships in the Fleet were filled to (or over) capacity.

Ships in the fleet include:

* [[Battlestar (TOS)|Battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'', the only military vessel capable of defensive and offensive actions
* ''[[Celestra]]'', electronics ship ([[Take the Celestra]])
* ''[[Prison Barge]]'', a prison ship operated by members of [[Council Security]]
* ''[[Rising Star]]'', a luxury liner and chancery
* ''[[Freighter Gemini]]''

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Space Park

2005-10-18T02:53:14Z

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A FTL-capable ship in [[The Fleet|the fleet]] which utilyzes a gravitational ring. (''Scifi.com'')

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The Fleet (TRS)

2005-10-18T02:52:35Z

QX100:

'''The Fleet''' is the convoy of ships that contain what is effectively the last survivors of humanity after the [[Cylon Attack]], and it forms the backdrop of the drama of the several television series all known as [[Battlestar Galactica]].

== Re-imagined Series ==

In the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|current series]], the fleet began as a convoy of about sixty stranded commercial and civilian ships assembled by [[Laura Roslin]] in the immediate aftermath of the [[Fall_of_the_Twelve_Colonies|Cylon Attack]] as depicted in the [[Mini-Series]]. It is not shown (and is unlikely) that any of these found ships were Colonial military craft, save [[Raptor 478]]. Of these, twenty ships were abandoned to an imminent Cylon attack because they lacked [[FTL]] drives. The remainder of the Fleet joined with battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'', the only [[Pegasus (RDM)|known]] surviving warship in the first months after the events of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. The Fleet represents the last vestige of humanity, protected by ''Galactica''. The political and social troubles of the fleet as it wanders through space function as a metaphor for all of humanity, since the Fleet literally ''is'' what is left of humanity in the television series.

In the series, '''The Fleet''' functions not only as a signifier for the actual ships of the convoy, but as a substitute for the people on board, and therefore for mankind. Usage of the term '''the Fleet''' has not gained more than an informal acceptance, as can be seen by President [[Laura Roslin]]'s continued use of the term ''President of the [[Twelve Colonies]].'' This may be interpreted as either an expression of hope that eventually the people on board the ships of the Fleet will reestablish themselves on a new colony permanently, or a psychological inability to confront that '''the Fleet''' may be the only home that humanity knows for a very long time.

Saul Tigh's assertion in "[[The Farm]]" that the twenty four ships which departed with the [[Laura Roslin faction]] during her insurrection represented "almost a third of the fleet" imply that the number of ships in the Fleet is approximately in the mid-70's.

===Ships===
* ''[[Colonial One]]'', President [[Laura Roslin]]'s ship, previously known as ''[[Colonial Heavy 798]]'' ([[Mini-Series]])
* ''[[Olympic Carrier]]'' ([[33]], destroyed)
* ''[[Gemini]]'', FTL-capable freighter which Valerii escorts to the convoy. ([[Mini-Series]])
* ''[[Rising Star]]'', mentioned frequently and notable for several reasons:
**First (reported) human birth after the exodus from the Colonies ([[33]])
**Where [[Ellen Tigh]] was suddenly discovered three weeks after the attack ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]])
**Where Ellen Tigh intended her husband to meet with allies of [[Tom Zarek]] ([[Colonial Day]])
* ''[[Coronis]]'' ([[Litmus]], deleted scene)
* ''[[Virgon Express]]'' ([[Water]])
* ''[[Astral Queen]]'', prison ship noted for carrying 1500 prisoners, including [[Tom Zarek]] ([[Bastille Day]])
* ''[[Gemenon Traveller]]'', a civilian ship that a copy of [[Leoben Conoy]] was captured on ([[Flesh and Bone]])
* ''[[Aturian]]'', a refinery ship ([[The Hand of God]])
* ''[[Cloud Nine]]'', meeting place of the [[Quorum of Twelve]] ([[Colonial Day]])
* ''[[Zephyr]]'' ([[Fragged]])
* ''[[Gideon]]'' ([[Resistance]])
* ''[[Kimba Huta]]'', cold storage ([[The Farm]])
* ''[[Monarch]]'', a mining ship that joined the [[Laura Roslin faction]] ([[Home, Part I]])
* ''[[Adriatic]]'', a member of the Roslin faction armed with ship-to-ship missiles ([[Home, Part I]])
* ''[[Striker]]'', damaged in a refuelling operation overseen by Capt. [[George Birch]] ([[Home, Part I]])
* Unnamed [[fuel tanker]], same incident.
* ''[[Celestra]] (Scifi.com)
* ''[[Space Park]]'' (''Scifi.com'')
* ''[[Freighter 212]]'' ([[Final Cut]])
* ''[[Boppa Kala]]'', the ship from which the [[Blackbird]] gets its [[DDG-62]] engines. ([[Flight of the Phoenix]])

In the episode [[The Farm]], 24 ships leave the fleet to return to Kobol. [[Dualla]] provides the following breakdown:
*12 transports - incl. Astral Queen, Gemenon Traveller
*7 freighters
*3 construction platforms
*1 private cruiser
*1 mining ship - the Monarch.

===Demographics===

A few points of information are available concerning the demographics of the fleet. In "[[33]]", before the destruction of the Olympic Carrier, there were 5,251 survivors from Sagittaron and 49,998 total survivors. In "[[Home, Part I]]", the [[Laura Roslin faction]] left the Fleet with 18,000 individuals, of which 9,500 were Gemenons and 6,250 were Capricans. At that time the total population of the fleet was 47,857.

This information is sparse, but it gives a general idea of the population breakdown of the fleet if a few assumptions are made for the sake of argument.
*Note that Gemenon and Caprica had more citizens in the Roslin faction alone than Sagittaron had in the entire fleet. The Twelve Colonies are clearly not represented in equal proportion.
*Before the destruction of the ''Olympic Carrier'', Sagittaron natives made up 10.50% of the fleet. Solely for the purpose of argument, we assume that the ''Olympic Carrier'''s population breakdown was identical to the rest of the fleet's and that Sagittaron continues to make up 10.50% of the fleet's total population.
*The figures from the Roslin faction can be viewed in several ways:
<div style="float:right; margin:10px">[[Image:Demographics1.png]]</div>
:*ASSUMPTION 1: All Gemenons and Capricans jumped to Kobol with the Roslin faction.
::*Caprica: 6,250 persons (13.06%)
::*Gemenon: 9,500 persons (19.85%)
::*Sagittaron: 5,026 persons (10.50%)
::*Others: 27,081 (56.59%)<br clear="both">
<div style="float:right; margin:10px">[[Image:Demographics2.png]]</div>
:*ASSUMPTION 2: All Gemenons jumped to Kobol with the Roslin faction, lured by the "religion card", but Caprican portion of the Roslin faction was representative of the fleet.
::*Caprica: 28,204 persons (58.93%)
::*Gemenon: 9,500 persons (19.85%)
::*Sagittaron: 5,026 persons (10.50%)
::*Others: 5,127 persons (10.72%)<br clear="both">
<div style="float:right; margin:10px">[[Image:Demographics3.png]]</div>
:*ASSUMPTION 3: Caprican and Gemenon portions of the Roslin faction were representative of the fleet.
::*Caprica: 16,617 persons (34.72%)
::*Gemenon: 25,258 persons (52.78%)
::*Sagittaron: 5,026 persons (10.50%)
::*Others: 956 (2.00%)<br clear="both">
*Although it is plausible that the Caprican population is substantially larger than the other colonies, as ''Colonial Heavy 798'' was in the vicinity when the attack began, and was the nucleus around which the fleet rallied, it is unlikely that the populations of each colony are grossly unequal, or else the [[Quorum of Twelve]] would be a very poor system of government. The likeliest scenario is therefore probably somewhere in between Assumptions 1 and 2, with nearly all of the Gemenon population (drawn by the "religion card") and a large portion of the Caprican population leaving with Roslin.

As for population distribution, we know the population of ''Galactica'' (2,693 as of [[Water]]), the ''Olympic Carrier'' (2,026 despite Roslin's spoken figure ([[33]])) and ''Astral Queen'' (1,500 as of [[Bastille Day]], [[List of Retcons|retconned]] up from 500 in the mini-series). The fleet is stated at about 75 ships in "[[Resistance]]", retconned up from 40 in the mini.
*Going by the 75 ship count, the remaining ships besides ''Galactica'' and the ''Astral Queen'' each carry about 600 persons on average.
*The 23 ships that left with the [[Laura Roslin faction]], apart from the ''Astral Queen'', would have an average population of about 720 persons per ship.

== Original Series ==

In the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|original series]], the fleet comprised of the last surviving [[battlestar]], ''[[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]]'', and 220 ships. With the exception of ''Galactica'', the ships were not capable of [[FTL|lightspeed]]. The fleet was restricted in its speed for it had to accomodate the slowest ship within the fleet -- removing that ship (or ships) was not an option as all ships in the Fleet were filled to (or over) capacity.

Ships in the fleet include:

* [[Battlestar (TOS)|Battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'', the only military vessel capable of defensive and offensive actions
* ''[[Celestra]]'', electronics ship ([[Take the Celestra]])
* ''[[Prison Barge]]'', a prison ship operated by members of [[Council Security]]
* ''[[Rising Star]]'', a luxury liner and chancery
* ''[[Freighter Gemini]]''

[[Category: A to Z]] [[Category: RDM]] [[Category: Terminology]] [[Category: TOS]]

The Fleet (TRS)

2005-10-18T02:52:06Z

QX100: /* Ships */

'''The Fleet''' is the convoy of ships that contain what is effectively the last survivors of humanity after the [[Cylon Attack]], and it forms the backdrop of the drama of the several television series all known as [[Battlestar Galactica]].

== Re-imagined Series ==

In the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|current series]], the fleet began as a convoy of about sixty stranded commercial and civilian ships assembled by [[Laura Roslin]] in the immediate aftermath of the [[Fall_of_the_Twelve_Colonies|Cylon Attack]] as depicted in the [[Mini-Series]]. It is not shown (and is unlikely) that any of these found ships were Colonial military craft, save [[Raptor 478]]. Of these, twenty ships were abandoned to an imminent Cylon attack because they lacked [[FTL]] drives. The remainder of the Fleet joined with battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'', the only [[Pegasus (RDM)|known]] surviving warship in the first months after the events of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. The Fleet represents the last vestige of humanity, protected by ''Galactica''. The political and social troubles of the fleet as it wanders through space function as a metaphor for all of humanity, since the Fleet literally ''is'' what is left of humanity in the television series.

In the series, '''The Fleet''' functions not only as a signifier for the actual ships of the convoy, but as a substitute for the people on board, and therefore for mankind. Usage of the term '''the Fleet''' has not gained more than an informal acceptance, as can be seen by President [[Laura Roslin]]'s continued use of the term ''President of the [[Twelve Colonies]].'' This may be interpreted as either an expression of hope that eventually the people on board the ships of the Fleet will reestablish themselves on a new colony permanently, or a psychological inability to confront that '''the Fleet''' may be the only home that humanity knows for a very long time.

Saul Tigh's assertion in "[[The Farm]]" that the twenty four ships which departed with the [[Laura Roslin faction]] during her insurrection represented "almost a third of the fleet" imply that the number of ships in the Fleet is approximately in the mid-70's.

===Ships===
* ''[[Colonial One]]'', President [[Laura Roslin]]'s ship, previously known as ''[[Colonial Heavy 798]]'' ([[Mini-Series]])
* ''[[Olympic Carrier]]'' ([[33]], destroyed)
* ''[[Gemini]]'', FTL-capable freighter which Valerii escorts to the convoy. ([[Mini-Series]])
* ''[[Rising Star]]'', mentioned frequently and notable for several reasons:
**First (reported) human birth after the exodus from the Colonies ([[33]])
**Where [[Ellen Tigh]] was suddenly discovered three weeks after the attack ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]])
**Where Ellen Tigh intended her husband to meet with allies of [[Tom Zarek]] ([[Colonial Day]])
* ''[[Coronis]]'' ([[Litmus]], deleted scene)
* ''[[Virgon Express]]'' ([[Water]])
* ''[[Astral Queen]]'', prison ship noted for carrying 1500 prisoners, including [[Tom Zarek]] ([[Bastille Day]])
* ''[[Gemenon Traveller]]'', a civilian ship that a copy of [[Leoben Conoy]] was captured on ([[Flesh and Bone]])
* ''[[Aturian]]'', a refinery ship ([[The Hand of God]])
* ''[[Cloud Nine]]'', meeting place of the [[Quorum of Twelve]] ([[Colonial Day]])
* ''[[Zephyr]]'' ([[Fragged]])
* ''[[Gideon]]'' ([[Resistance]])
* ''[[Kimba Huta]]'', cold storage ([[The Farm]])
* ''[[Monarch]]'', a mining ship that joined the [[Laura Roslin faction]] ([[Home, Part I]])
* ''[[Adriatic]]'', a member of the Roslin faction armed with ship-to-ship missiles ([[Home, Part I]])
* ''[[Striker]]'', damaged in a refuelling operation overseen by Capt. [[George Birch]] ([[Home, Part I]])
* Unnamed [[fuel tanker]], same incident.
* ''[[Celestra]] (''Scifi.com'')
* ''[[Space Park]]'' (''Scifi.com'')
* ''[[Freighter 212]]'' ([[Final Cut]])
* ''[[Boppa Kala]]'', the ship from which the [[Blackbird]] gets its [[DDG-62]] engines. ([[Flight of the Phoenix]])

In the episode [[The Farm]], 24 ships leave the fleet to return to Kobol. [[Dualla]] provides the following breakdown:
*12 transports - incl. Astral Queen, Gemenon Traveller
*7 freighters
*3 construction platforms
*1 private cruiser
*1 mining ship - the Monarch.

===Demographics===

A few points of information are available concerning the demographics of the fleet. In "[[33]]", before the destruction of the Olympic Carrier, there were 5,251 survivors from Sagittaron and 49,998 total survivors. In "[[Home, Part I]]", the [[Laura Roslin faction]] left the Fleet with 18,000 individuals, of which 9,500 were Gemenons and 6,250 were Capricans. At that time the total population of the fleet was 47,857.

This information is sparse, but it gives a general idea of the population breakdown of the fleet if a few assumptions are made for the sake of argument.
*Note that Gemenon and Caprica had more citizens in the Roslin faction alone than Sagittaron had in the entire fleet. The Twelve Colonies are clearly not represented in equal proportion.
*Before the destruction of the ''Olympic Carrier'', Sagittaron natives made up 10.50% of the fleet. Solely for the purpose of argument, we assume that the ''Olympic Carrier'''s population breakdown was identical to the rest of the fleet's and that Sagittaron continues to make up 10.50% of the fleet's total population.
*The figures from the Roslin faction can be viewed in several ways:
<div style="float:right; margin:10px">[[Image:Demographics1.png]]</div>
:*ASSUMPTION 1: All Gemenons and Capricans jumped to Kobol with the Roslin faction.
::*Caprica: 6,250 persons (13.06%)
::*Gemenon: 9,500 persons (19.85%)
::*Sagittaron: 5,026 persons (10.50%)
::*Others: 27,081 (56.59%)<br clear="both">
<div style="float:right; margin:10px">[[Image:Demographics2.png]]</div>
:*ASSUMPTION 2: All Gemenons jumped to Kobol with the Roslin faction, lured by the "religion card", but Caprican portion of the Roslin faction was representative of the fleet.
::*Caprica: 28,204 persons (58.93%)
::*Gemenon: 9,500 persons (19.85%)
::*Sagittaron: 5,026 persons (10.50%)
::*Others: 5,127 persons (10.72%)<br clear="both">
<div style="float:right; margin:10px">[[Image:Demographics3.png]]</div>
:*ASSUMPTION 3: Caprican and Gemenon portions of the Roslin faction were representative of the fleet.
::*Caprica: 16,617 persons (34.72%)
::*Gemenon: 25,258 persons (52.78%)
::*Sagittaron: 5,026 persons (10.50%)
::*Others: 956 (2.00%)<br clear="both">
*Although it is plausible that the Caprican population is substantially larger than the other colonies, as ''Colonial Heavy 798'' was in the vicinity when the attack began, and was the nucleus around which the fleet rallied, it is unlikely that the populations of each colony are grossly unequal, or else the [[Quorum of Twelve]] would be a very poor system of government. The likeliest scenario is therefore probably somewhere in between Assumptions 1 and 2, with nearly all of the Gemenon population (drawn by the "religion card") and a large portion of the Caprican population leaving with Roslin.

As for population distribution, we know the population of ''Galactica'' (2,693 as of [[Water]]), the ''Olympic Carrier'' (2,026 despite Roslin's spoken figure ([[33]])) and ''Astral Queen'' (1,500 as of [[Bastille Day]], [[List of Retcons|retconned]] up from 500 in the mini-series). The fleet is stated at about 75 ships in "[[Resistance]]", retconned up from 40 in the mini.
*Going by the 75 ship count, the remaining ships besides ''Galactica'' and the ''Astral Queen'' each carry about 600 persons on average.
*The 23 ships that left with the [[Laura Roslin faction]], apart from the ''Astral Queen'', would have an average population of about 720 persons per ship.

== Original Series ==

In the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|original series]], the fleet comprised of the last surviving [[battlestar]], ''[[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]]'', and 220 ships. With the exception of ''Galactica'', the ships were not capable of [[FTL|lightspeed]]. The fleet was restricted in its speed for it had to accomodate the slowest ship within the fleet -- removing that ship (or ships) was not an option as all ships in the Fleet were filled to (or over) capacity.

Ships in the fleet include:

* [[Battlestar (TOS)|Battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'', the only military vessel capable of defensive and offensive actions
* ''[[Celestra]]'', electronics ship ([[Take the Celestra]])
* ''[[Prison Barge]]'', a prison ship operated by members of [[Council Security]]
* ''[[Rising Star]]'', a luxury liner and chancery
* ''[[Freighter Gemini]]''

[[Category: A to Z]] [[Category: RDM]] [[Category: Terminology]] [[Category: TOS]]

Space Park

2005-10-18T02:51:14Z

QX100:

A FTL-capable ship in [[The Fleet|the fleet]] which utilyzes a gravitational ring. (''Sci-Fi.com'')

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Colonial Craft]]
[[Category:RDM]]

Space Park

2005-10-18T02:50:16Z

QX100:

A FTL-capable ship in the fleet which utilyzes a gravitational ring.(''Sci-Fi.com'')

Gemini

2005-10-18T02:44:55Z

QX100:

An FTL-capable freighter in [[The Fleet|the fleet]] which was Valerii escorted to the convoy after the cylon attack. ([[Mini-Series]])

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Colonial Craft]]
[[Category:RDM]]

Coronis

2005-10-18T02:44:26Z

QX100:

A ship in [[The Fleet|the fleet]] who where unhappy about being last in food ration distribution. ([[Litmus]], deleted scene)

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Colonial Craft]]
[[Category:RDM]]

Gemini

2005-10-18T02:39:33Z

QX100:

An FTL-capable freighter in [[The Fleet|the fleet]] which was Valerii escorted to the convoy after the cylon attack. ([[Mini-Series]])

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Colonial Craft]]

Gemini

2005-10-18T02:38:22Z

QX100:

An FTL-capable freighter in [[The Fleet|the fleet]] which was Valerii escorted to the convoy after the cylon attack. ([[Mini-Series]])

Gemini

2005-10-18T02:37:18Z

QX100:

An FTL-capable freighter which was Valerii escorted to the convoy. ([[Mini-Series]])

The Fleet (TRS)

2005-10-18T02:36:16Z

QX100:

'''The Fleet''' is the convoy of ships that contain what is effectively the last survivors of humanity after the [[Cylon Attack]], and it forms the backdrop of the drama of the several television series all known as [[Battlestar Galactica]].

== Re-imagined Series ==

In the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|current series]], the fleet began as a convoy of about sixty stranded commercial and civilian ships assembled by [[Laura Roslin]] in the immediate aftermath of the [[Fall_of_the_Twelve_Colonies|Cylon Attack]] as depicted in the [[Mini-Series]]. It is not shown (and is unlikely) that any of these found ships were Colonial military craft, save [[Raptor 478]]. Of these, twenty ships were abandoned to an imminent Cylon attack because they lacked [[FTL]] drives. The remainder of the Fleet joined with battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'', the only [[Pegasus (RDM)|known]] surviving warship in the first months after the events of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. The Fleet represents the last vestige of humanity, protected by ''Galactica''. The political and social troubles of the fleet as it wanders through space function as a metaphor for all of humanity, since the Fleet literally ''is'' what is left of humanity in the television series.

In the series, '''The Fleet''' functions not only as a signifier for the actual ships of the convoy, but as a substitute for the people on board, and therefore for mankind. Usage of the term '''the Fleet''' has not gained more than an informal acceptance, as can be seen by President [[Laura Roslin]]'s continued use of the term ''President of the [[Twelve Colonies]].'' This may be interpreted as either an expression of hope that eventually the people on board the ships of the Fleet will reestablish themselves on a new colony permanently, or a psychological inability to confront that '''the Fleet''' may be the only home that humanity knows for a very long time.

Saul Tigh's assertion in "[[The Farm]]" that the twenty four ships which departed with the [[Laura Roslin faction]] during her insurrection represented "almost a third of the fleet" imply that the number of ships in the Fleet is approximately in the mid-70's.

===Ships===
* ''[[Colonial One]]'', President [[Laura Roslin]]'s ship, previously known as ''[[Colonial Heavy 798]]'' ([[Mini-Series]])
* ''[[Olympic Carrier]]'' ([[33]], destroyed)
* ''[[Gemini]]'', FTL-capable freighter which Valerii escorts to the convoy. ([[Mini-Series]])
* ''[[Rising Star]]'', mentioned frequently and notable for several reasons:
**First (reported) human birth after the exodus from the Colonies ([[33]])
**Where [[Ellen Tigh]] was suddenly discovered three weeks after the attack ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]])
**Where Ellen Tigh intended her husband to meet with allies of [[Tom Zarek]] ([[Colonial Day]])
* ''[[Coronis]]'' ([[Litmus]], deleted scene)
* ''[[Virgon Express]]'' ([[Water]])
* ''[[Astral Queen]]'', prison ship noted for carrying 1500 prisoners, including [[Tom Zarek]] ([[Bastille Day]])
* ''[[Gemenon Traveller]]'', a civilian ship that a copy of [[Leoben Conoy]] was captured on ([[Flesh and Bone]])
* ''[[Aturian]]'', a refinery ship ([[The Hand of God]])
* ''[[Cloud Nine]]'', meeting place of the [[Quorum of Twelve]] ([[Colonial Day]])
* ''[[Zephyr]]'' ([[Fragged]])
* ''[[Gideon]]'' ([[Resistance]])
* ''[[Kimba Huta]]'', cold storage ([[The Farm]])
* ''[[Monarch]]'', a mining ship that joined the [[Laura Roslin faction]] ([[Home, Part I]])
* ''[[Adriatic]]'', a member of the Roslin faction armed with ship-to-ship missiles ([[Home, Part I]])
* ''[[Striker]]'', damaged in a refuelling operation overseen by Capt. [[George Birch]] ([[Home, Part I]])
* Unnamed [[fuel tanker]], same incident.
* ''[[Celestra]] (Scifi.com)
* ''[[Space Park]]'' (Scifi.com)
* ''[[Freighter 212]]'' ([[Final Cut]])
* ''[[Boppa Kala]]'', the ship from which the [[Blackbird]] gets its [[DDG-62]] engines. ([[Flight of the Phoenix]])

In the episode [[The Farm]], 24 ships leave the fleet to return to Kobol. [[Dualla]] provides the following breakdown:
*12 transports - incl. Astral Queen, Gemenon Traveller
*7 freighters
*3 construction platforms
*1 private cruiser
*1 mining ship - the Monarch.

===Demographics===

A few points of information are available concerning the demographics of the fleet. In "[[33]]", before the destruction of the Olympic Carrier, there were 5,251 survivors from Sagittaron and 49,998 total survivors. In "[[Home, Part I]]", the [[Laura Roslin faction]] left the Fleet with 18,000 individuals, of which 9,500 were Gemenons and 6,250 were Capricans. At that time the total population of the fleet was 47,857.

This information is sparse, but it gives a general idea of the population breakdown of the fleet if a few assumptions are made for the sake of argument.
*Note that Gemenon and Caprica had more citizens in the Roslin faction alone than Sagittaron had in the entire fleet. The Twelve Colonies are clearly not represented in equal proportion.
*Before the destruction of the ''Olympic Carrier'', Sagittaron natives made up 10.50% of the fleet. Solely for the purpose of argument, we assume that the ''Olympic Carrier'''s population breakdown was identical to the rest of the fleet's and that Sagittaron continues to make up 10.50% of the fleet's total population.
*The figures from the Roslin faction can be viewed in several ways:
<div style="float:right; margin:10px">[[Image:Demographics1.png]]</div>
:*ASSUMPTION 1: All Gemenons and Capricans jumped to Kobol with the Roslin faction.
::*Caprica: 6,250 persons (13.06%)
::*Gemenon: 9,500 persons (19.85%)
::*Sagittaron: 5,026 persons (10.50%)
::*Others: 27,081 (56.59%)<br clear="both">
<div style="float:right; margin:10px">[[Image:Demographics2.png]]</div>
:*ASSUMPTION 2: All Gemenons jumped to Kobol with the Roslin faction, lured by the "religion card", but Caprican portion of the Roslin faction was representative of the fleet.
::*Caprica: 28,204 persons (58.93%)
::*Gemenon: 9,500 persons (19.85%)
::*Sagittaron: 5,026 persons (10.50%)
::*Others: 5,127 persons (10.72%)<br clear="both">
<div style="float:right; margin:10px">[[Image:Demographics3.png]]</div>
:*ASSUMPTION 3: Caprican and Gemenon portions of the Roslin faction were representative of the fleet.
::*Caprica: 16,617 persons (34.72%)
::*Gemenon: 25,258 persons (52.78%)
::*Sagittaron: 5,026 persons (10.50%)
::*Others: 956 (2.00%)<br clear="both">
*Although it is plausible that the Caprican population is substantially larger than the other colonies, as ''Colonial Heavy 798'' was in the vicinity when the attack began, and was the nucleus around which the fleet rallied, it is unlikely that the populations of each colony are grossly unequal, or else the [[Quorum of Twelve]] would be a very poor system of government. The likeliest scenario is therefore probably somewhere in between Assumptions 1 and 2, with nearly all of the Gemenon population (drawn by the "religion card") and a large portion of the Caprican population leaving with Roslin.

As for population distribution, we know the population of ''Galactica'' (2,693 as of [[Water]]), the ''Olympic Carrier'' (2,026 despite Roslin's spoken figure ([[33]])) and ''Astral Queen'' (1,500 as of [[Bastille Day]], [[List of Retcons|retconned]] up from 500 in the mini-series). The fleet is stated at about 75 ships in "[[Resistance]]", retconned up from 40 in the mini.
*Going by the 75 ship count, the remaining ships besides ''Galactica'' and the ''Astral Queen'' each carry about 600 persons on average.
*The 23 ships that left with the [[Laura Roslin faction]], apart from the ''Astral Queen'', would have an average population of about 720 persons per ship.

== Original Series ==

In the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|original series]], the fleet comprised of the last surviving [[battlestar]], ''[[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]]'', and 220 ships. With the exception of ''Galactica'', the ships were not capable of [[FTL|lightspeed]]. The fleet was restricted in its speed for it had to accomodate the slowest ship within the fleet -- removing that ship (or ships) was not an option as all ships in the Fleet were filled to (or over) capacity.

Ships in the fleet include:

* [[Battlestar (TOS)|Battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'', the only military vessel capable of defensive and offensive actions
* ''[[Celestra]]'', electronics ship ([[Take the Celestra]])
* ''[[Prison Barge]]'', a prison ship operated by members of [[Council Security]]
* ''[[Rising Star]]'', a luxury liner and chancery
* ''[[Freighter Gemini]]''

[[Category: A to Z]] [[Category: RDM]] [[Category: Terminology]] [[Category: TOS]]

Coronis

2005-10-18T02:34:46Z

QX100:

A ship in [[The Fleet|the fleet]] who where unhappy about being last in food ration distribution. ([[Litmus]], deleted scene)

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Colonial Craft]]

Coronis

2005-10-18T02:33:22Z

QX100:

A ship in [[The Fleet|the fleet]] who where unhappy about being last in food ration distribution. ([[Litmus]], deleted scene)

The Fleet (TRS)

2005-10-18T02:31:05Z

QX100: /* Ships */

'''The Fleet''' is the convoy of ships that contain what is effectively the last survivors of humanity after the [[Cylon Attack]], and it forms the backdrop of the drama of the several television series all known as [[Battlestar Galactica]].

== Re-imagined Series ==

In the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|current series]], the fleet began as a convoy of about sixty stranded commercial and civilian ships assembled by [[Laura Roslin]] in the immediate aftermath of the [[Fall_of_the_Twelve_Colonies|Cylon Attack]] as depicted in the [[Mini-Series]]. It is not shown (and is unlikely) that any of these found ships were Colonial military craft, save [[Raptor 478]]. Of these, twenty ships were abandoned to an imminent Cylon attack because they lacked [[FTL]] drives. The remainder of the Fleet joined with battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'', the only [[Pegasus (RDM)|known]] surviving warship in the first months after the events of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. The Fleet represents the last vestige of humanity, protected by ''Galactica''. The political and social troubles of the fleet as it wanders through space function as a metaphor for all of humanity, since the Fleet literally ''is'' what is left of humanity in the television series.

In the series, '''The Fleet''' functions not only as a signifier for the actual ships of the convoy, but as a substitute for the people on board, and therefore for mankind. Usage of the term '''the Fleet''' has not gained more than an informal acceptance, as can be seen by President [[Laura Roslin]]'s continued use of the term ''President of the [[Twelve Colonies]].'' This may be interpreted as either an expression of hope that eventually the people on board the ships of the Fleet will reestablish themselves on a new colony permanently, or a psychological inability to confront that '''the Fleet''' may be the only home that humanity knows for a very long time.

Saul Tigh's assertion in "[[The Farm]]" that the twenty four ships which departed with the [[Laura Roslin faction]] during her insurrection represented "almost a third of the fleet" imply that the number of ships in the Fleet is approximately in the mid-70's.

===Ships===
* ''[[Colonial One]]'', President [[Laura Roslin]]'s ship, previously known as ''[[Colonial Heavy 798]]'' ([[Mini-Series]])
* ''[[Olympic Carrier]]'' ([[33]], destroyed)
* ''[[Gemini]]'', FTL-capable freighter which Valerii escorts to the convoy in the [[Mini-Series]]
* ''[[Rising Star]]'', mentioned frequently and notable for several reasons:
**First (reported) human birth after the exodus from the Colonies ([[33]])
**Where [[Ellen Tigh]] was suddenly discovered three weeks after the attack ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]])
**Where Ellen Tigh intended her husband to meet with allies of [[Tom Zarek]] ([[Colonial Day]])
* ''[[Coronis]]'' ([[Litmus]], deleted scene)
* ''[[Virgon Express]]'' ([[Water]])
* ''[[Astral Queen]]'', prison ship noted for carrying 1500 prisoners, including [[Tom Zarek]] ([[Bastille Day]])
* ''[[Gemenon Traveller]]'', a civilian ship that a copy of [[Leoben Conoy]] was captured on ([[Flesh and Bone]])
* ''[[Aturian]]'', a refinery ship ([[The Hand of God]])
* ''[[Cloud Nine]]'', meeting place of the [[Quorum of Twelve]] ([[Colonial Day]])
* ''[[Zephyr]]'' ([[Fragged]])
* ''[[Gideon]]'' ([[Resistance]])
* ''[[Kimba Huta]]'', cold storage ([[The Farm]])
* ''[[Monarch]]'', a mining ship that joined the [[Laura Roslin faction]] ([[Home, Part I]])
* ''[[Adriatic]]'', a member of the Roslin faction armed with ship-to-ship missiles ([[Home, Part I]])
* ''[[Striker]]'', damaged in a refuelling operation overseen by Capt. [[George Birch]] ([[Home, Part I]])
* Unnamed [[fuel tanker]], same incident.
* ''[[Celestra]] (Scifi.com)
* ''[[Space Park]]'' (Scifi.com)
* ''[[Freighter 212]]'' ([[Final Cut]])
* ''[[Boppa Kala]]'', the ship from which the [[Blackbird]] gets its [[DDG-62]] engines. ([[Flight of the Phoenix]])

In the episode [[The Farm]], 24 ships leave the fleet to return to Kobol. [[Dualla]] provides the following breakdown:
*12 transports - incl. Astral Queen, Gemenon Traveller
*7 freighters
*3 construction platforms
*1 private cruiser
*1 mining ship - the Monarch.

===Demographics===

A few points of information are available concerning the demographics of the fleet. In "[[33]]", before the destruction of the Olympic Carrier, there were 5,251 survivors from Sagittaron and 49,998 total survivors. In "[[Home, Part I]]", the [[Laura Roslin faction]] left the Fleet with 18,000 individuals, of which 9,500 were Gemenons and 6,250 were Capricans. At that time the total population of the fleet was 47,857.

This information is sparse, but it gives a general idea of the population breakdown of the fleet if a few assumptions are made for the sake of argument.
*Note that Gemenon and Caprica had more citizens in the Roslin faction alone than Sagittaron had in the entire fleet. The Twelve Colonies are clearly not represented in equal proportion.
*Before the destruction of the ''Olympic Carrier'', Sagittaron natives made up 10.50% of the fleet. Solely for the purpose of argument, we assume that the ''Olympic Carrier'''s population breakdown was identical to the rest of the fleet's and that Sagittaron continues to make up 10.50% of the fleet's total population.
*The figures from the Roslin faction can be viewed in several ways:
<div style="float:right; margin:10px">[[Image:Demographics1.png]]</div>
:*ASSUMPTION 1: All Gemenons and Capricans jumped to Kobol with the Roslin faction.
::*Caprica: 6,250 persons (13.06%)
::*Gemenon: 9,500 persons (19.85%)
::*Sagittaron: 5,026 persons (10.50%)
::*Others: 27,081 (56.59%)<br clear="both">
<div style="float:right; margin:10px">[[Image:Demographics2.png]]</div>
:*ASSUMPTION 2: All Gemenons jumped to Kobol with the Roslin faction, lured by the "religion card", but Caprican portion of the Roslin faction was representative of the fleet.
::*Caprica: 28,204 persons (58.93%)
::*Gemenon: 9,500 persons (19.85%)
::*Sagittaron: 5,026 persons (10.50%)
::*Others: 5,127 persons (10.72%)<br clear="both">
<div style="float:right; margin:10px">[[Image:Demographics3.png]]</div>
:*ASSUMPTION 3: Caprican and Gemenon portions of the Roslin faction were representative of the fleet.
::*Caprica: 16,617 persons (34.72%)
::*Gemenon: 25,258 persons (52.78%)
::*Sagittaron: 5,026 persons (10.50%)
::*Others: 956 (2.00%)<br clear="both">
*Although it is plausible that the Caprican population is substantially larger than the other colonies, as ''Colonial Heavy 798'' was in the vicinity when the attack began, and was the nucleus around which the fleet rallied, it is unlikely that the populations of each colony are grossly unequal, or else the [[Quorum of Twelve]] would be a very poor system of government. The likeliest scenario is therefore probably somewhere in between Assumptions 1 and 2, with nearly all of the Gemenon population (drawn by the "religion card") and a large portion of the Caprican population leaving with Roslin.

As for population distribution, we know the population of ''Galactica'' (2,693 as of [[Water]]), the ''Olympic Carrier'' (2,026 despite Roslin's spoken figure ([[33]])) and ''Astral Queen'' (1,500 as of [[Bastille Day]], [[List of Retcons|retconned]] up from 500 in the mini-series). The fleet is stated at about 75 ships in "[[Resistance]]", retconned up from 40 in the mini.
*Going by the 75 ship count, the remaining ships besides ''Galactica'' and the ''Astral Queen'' each carry about 600 persons on average.
*The 23 ships that left with the [[Laura Roslin faction]], apart from the ''Astral Queen'', would have an average population of about 720 persons per ship.

== Original Series ==

In the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|original series]], the fleet comprised of the last surviving [[battlestar]], ''[[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]]'', and 220 ships. With the exception of ''Galactica'', the ships were not capable of [[FTL|lightspeed]]. The fleet was restricted in its speed for it had to accomodate the slowest ship within the fleet -- removing that ship (or ships) was not an option as all ships in the Fleet were filled to (or over) capacity.

Ships in the fleet include:

* [[Battlestar (TOS)|Battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'', the only military vessel capable of defensive and offensive actions
* ''[[Celestra]]'', electronics ship ([[Take the Celestra]])
* ''[[Prison Barge]]'', a prison ship operated by members of [[Council Security]]
* ''[[Rising Star]]'', a luxury liner and chancery
* ''[[Freighter Gemini]]''

[[Category: A to Z]] [[Category: RDM]] [[Category: Terminology]] [[Category: TOS]]

Fall of the Twelve Colonies

2005-10-16T17:04:49Z

QX100:

{| border=1 width=300 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 align=right style="margin-left:1em;margin-bottom:1em"
|+ Battle before: First [[Cylon War]] <br> Concurrent Battle: [[Fall of the Scorpion Ship Yards]] <br>Battle after: [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]]
|colspan=2|[[Image:Header05.jpg|center|300px|Caprica during the Cylon Attack]] Cylon nuclear bombs detonating on Caprica
|-
!colspan=2 bgcolor=#aaaaee|Fall of the Twelve Colonies
|-
|Conflict||[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon war]]
|-
|Date||[[Re-Imagined Series Timeline|Zero Hour]]
|-
|Place||[[Twelve Colonies]] of [[Kobol]]
|-
|Result||Decisive Cylon victory, occupation of the Twelve Colonies
|-
|colspan=2|
{| border=1 width=300 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0
|-
!colspan=2 bgcolor=#aaaaee|Combatants
|-
| width=50%|Twelve Colonies of Kobol
| width=50%|[[Cylon]]s
|-
!colspan=2|Commanders
|-
|Admiral [[Nagala]]<br>Commander [[William Adama]]
|Unknown
|-
!colspan=2|Strength
|-
|Approx 120 [[battlestar]]s, [[Viper]]s, [[Raptor]]s, associated support cruisers
|Unknown number of [[Basestar]]s, [[Raider]]s, [[Heavy Raider]]s
|-
!colspan=2|Casualties
|-
|All but 2 Battlestars, near-total devastation of Colonial Fleet and civilian population
|Unknown, minimal
|}
|}

The devastating opening wave of the [[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon War]], in which the Cylons used a programming backdoor to infiltrate and shut down Colonial Fleet systems. Almost all ships that tried to engage the forces of the Cylon surprise attack suffered immediate and total power failure, "like someone turned off a switch". As a result the Cylon fleet suffered almost no losses and effortlessly destroyed practically all opposition.

Battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'', commanded by [[William Adama]], was the only Colonial ship unaffected by the Cylon's computer infiltration, because it's computer systems were never networked. As such, it was presumably the only ship that ever mounted any real defense against attacking Cylon ships. Though ''Galactica'' lost all 20 of her [[Viper]] Mark VII's in their first sortie against the Cylons because theier networked computers were vulnerable to infiltration, she also had 40 Viper Mark II's board as part of it's recent decommissioning ceremony. The Viper Mark II's were an old but robust design, but most importantly never contained the [[Command Navigation Program]] that doomed other fighters and were therefore unaffected by the Cylon computer [[Virus|virus]]. ''Galactica'' was able to re-arm and deploy its Viper Mark II's and repel several attacking squadrons of [[Cylon Raider]]s, even surviving a direct hit from a Cylon tactical nuclear warhead, but not without a loss of 85 of its ship's crew in the port [[flight pod]] and some internal damage.

The Cylons proceeded to start nuking each of the Twelve Colonies, including [[The Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]]. After [[The Twelve Colonies#Picon|Picon]] was nuked, the Colonials broadcast an unconditional surrender, which was completely ignored by the Cylons. President [[Adar (RDM)|Adar]] and all Colonial government officials, save for spacebound Secretary of Education [[Laura Roslin]], were presumed killed or missing. The [[Case Orange]] contingency mechanism activated to seek out the remaining government officials, of which only Roslin apparently acknowledged. Sworn in on the government passenger liner ''[[Colonial Heavy 798]]'', she became the new President of the Twelve Colonies. Roslin immediately began locating other stranded Colonial civilian and miliary vessels to form a convoy. Several ships without [[FTL|faster-than-light]] ability that were located by Roslin had to be left behind without a rescue option by the other FTL ships when the Cylons located the convoy and an attack was imminent. These ships and their passengers were destroyed by Cylons while the remaining survivors joined ''Galactica'' at her new location.

[[Picon Fleet Headquarters]] was destroyed in the opening wave of the attack, as were 30 battlestars, noted to be "a quarter of the Fleet" according to [[Kara Thrace]]'s comment to Commander Adama in the opening events of the attack. Admiral Nagala subsequently took command of the fleet aboard battlestar ''[[Atlantia]]''. Soon after, ''Atlantia'' was lost with all hands. [[Commander Adama]] aboard ''Galactica'' assumed command of whatever was left of the Colonial military fleet, and sent a [[wireless]] transmission to any surviving Colonial forces to rendez-vous at [[Ragnar Anchorage]] where desperately needed munitions were stored for the battlestar's guns and her fighters.

A [[Pegasus|second battlestar]] was unable to make the Rendezvous point or locate ''Galactica'' for many weeks after the attack, having escaped certain destruction by the Cylons at the [[Scorpion Ship Yards]] by a making a [[Blind jump|blind jump]] into space. ''Galactica'' had no knowledge of this other battlestar as the Colonies disintegrated and communications between other Colonial forces faded into static.

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Colonial Battles]]
[[Category:Colonial Military]]
[[Category:RDM]]

Fall of the Twelve Colonies

2005-10-16T16:52:48Z

QX100:

{| border=1 width=300 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 align=right style="margin-left:1em;margin-bottom:1em"
|+ Battle before: First [[Cylon War]] <br> Concurrent Battle: [[Fall of the Scorpion Ship Yards]] <br>Battle after: [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]]
|colspan=2|[[Image:Header05.jpg|center|300px|Caprica during the Cylon Attack]]
|-
!colspan=2 bgcolor=#aaaaee|Fall of the Twelve Colonies
|-
|Conflict||[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon war]]
|-
|Date||[[Re-Imagined Series Timeline|Zero Hour]]
|-
|Place||[[Twelve Colonies]] of [[Kobol]]
|-
|Result||Decisive Cylon victory, occupation of the Twelve Colonies
|-
|colspan=2|
{| border=1 width=300 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0
|-
!colspan=2 bgcolor=#aaaaee|Combatants
|-
| width=50%|Twelve Colonies of Kobol
| width=50%|[[Cylon]]s
|-
!colspan=2|Commanders
|-
|Admiral [[Nagala]]<br>Commander [[William Adama]]
|Unknown
|-
!colspan=2|Strength
|-
|Approx 120 [[battlestar]]s, [[Viper]]s, [[Raptor]]s, associated support cruisers
|Unknown number of [[Basestar]]s, [[Raider]]s, [[Heavy Raider]]s
|-
!colspan=2|Casualties
|-
|All but 2 Battlestars, near-total devastation of Colonial Fleet and civilian population
|Unknown, minimal
|}
|}

The devastating opening wave of the [[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon War]], in which the Cylons used a programming backdoor to infiltrate and shut down Colonial Fleet systems. Almost all ships that tried to engage the forces of the Cylon surprise attack suffered immediate and total power failure, "like someone turned off a switch". As a result the Cylon fleet suffered almost no losses and effortlessly destroyed practically all opposition.

Battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'', commanded by [[William Adama]], was the only Colonial ship unaffected by the Cylon's computer infiltration, because it's computer systems were never networked. As such, it was presumably the only ship that ever mounted any real defense against attacking Cylon ships. Though ''Galactica'' lost all 20 of her [[Viper]] Mark VII's in their first sortie against the Cylons because theier networked computers were vulnerable to infiltration, she also had 40 Viper Mark II's board as part of it's recent decommissioning ceremony. The Viper Mark II's were an old but robust design, but most importantly never contained the [[Command Navigation Program]] that doomed other fighters and were therefore unaffected by the Cylon computer [[Virus|virus]]. ''Galactica'' was able to re-arm and deploy its Viper Mark II's and repel several attacking squadrons of [[Cylon Raider]]s, even surviving a direct hit from a Cylon tactical nuclear warhead, but not without a loss of 85 of its ship's crew in the port [[flight pod]] and some internal damage.

The Cylons proceeded to start nuking each of the Twelve Colonies, including [[The Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]]. After [[The Twelve Colonies#Picon|Picon]] was nuked, the Colonials broadcast an unconditional surrender, which was completely ignored by the Cylons. President [[Adar (RDM)|Adar]] and all Colonial government officials, save for spacebound Secretary of Education [[Laura Roslin]], were presumed killed or missing. The [[Case Orange]] contingency mechanism activated to seek out the remaining government officials, of which only Roslin apparently acknowledged. Sworn in on the government passenger liner ''[[Colonial Heavy 798]]'', she became the new President of the Twelve Colonies. Roslin immediately began locating other stranded Colonial civilian and miliary vessels to form a convoy. Several ships without [[FTL|faster-than-light]] ability that were located by Roslin had to be left behind without a rescue option by the other FTL ships when the Cylons located the convoy and an attack was imminent. These ships and their passengers were destroyed by Cylons while the remaining survivors joined ''Galactica'' at her new location.

[[Picon Fleet Headquarters]] was destroyed in the opening wave of the attack, as were 30 battlestars, noted to be "a quarter of the Fleet" according to [[Kara Thrace]]'s comment to Commander Adama in the opening events of the attack. Admiral Nagala subsequently took command of the fleet aboard battlestar ''[[Atlantia]]''. Soon after, ''Atlantia'' was lost with all hands. [[Commander Adama]] aboard ''Galactica'' assumed command of whatever was left of the Colonial military fleet, and sent a [[wireless]] transmission to any surviving Colonial forces to rendez-vous at [[Ragnar Anchorage]] where desperately needed munitions were stored for the battlestar's guns and her fighters.

A [[Pegasus|second battlestar]] was unable to make the rendez-vous point or locate ''Galactica'' for many weeks after the attack, having escaped certain destruction by the Cylons at the [[Scorpion Ship Yards]] by a making a [[Blind jump|blind jump]] into space. ''Galactica'' had no knowledge of this other battlestar as the Colonies disintegrated and communications between other Colonial forces faded into static.

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Colonial Battles]]
[[Category:Colonial Military]]
[[Category:RDM]]

Fall of the Twelve Colonies

2005-10-16T16:51:38Z

QX100:

{| border=1 width=300 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 align=right style="margin-left:1em;margin-bottom:1em"
|+ Battle before: First [[Cylon War]] <br> Concurrent Battle: [[Fall of the Scorpion Ship Yards]] <br>Battle after: [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]]
|colspan=2|[[Image:Header05.jpg|center|250px|Caprica during the Cylon Attack]]
|-
!colspan=2 bgcolor=#aaaaee|Fall of the Twelve Colonies
|-
|Conflict||[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon war]]
|-
|Date||[[Re-Imagined Series Timeline|Zero Hour]]
|-
|Place||[[Twelve Colonies]] of [[Kobol]]
|-
|Result||Decisive Cylon victory, occupation of the Twelve Colonies
|-
|colspan=2|
{| border=1 width=300 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0
|-
!colspan=2 bgcolor=#aaaaee|Combatants
|-
| width=50%|Twelve Colonies of Kobol
| width=50%|[[Cylon]]s
|-
!colspan=2|Commanders
|-
|Admiral [[Nagala]]<br>Commander [[William Adama]]
|Unknown
|-
!colspan=2|Strength
|-
|Approx 120 [[battlestar]]s, [[Viper]]s, [[Raptor]]s, associated support cruisers
|Unknown number of [[Basestar]]s, [[Raider]]s, [[Heavy Raider]]s
|-
!colspan=2|Casualties
|-
|All but 2 Battlestars, near-total devastation of Colonial Fleet and civilian population
|Unknown, minimal
|}
|}

The devastating opening wave of the [[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon War]], in which the Cylons used a programming backdoor to infiltrate and shut down Colonial Fleet systems. Almost all ships that tried to engage the forces of the Cylon surprise attack suffered immediate and total power failure, "like someone turned off a switch". As a result the Cylon fleet suffered almost no losses and effortlessly destroyed practically all opposition.

Battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'', commanded by [[William Adama]], was the only Colonial ship unaffected by the Cylon's computer infiltration, because it's computer systems were never networked. As such, it was presumably the only ship that ever mounted any real defense against attacking Cylon ships. Though ''Galactica'' lost all 20 of her [[Viper]] Mark VII's in their first sortie against the Cylons because theier networked computers were vulnerable to infiltration, she also had 40 Viper Mark II's board as part of it's recent decommissioning ceremony. The Viper Mark II's were an old but robust design, but most importantly never contained the [[Command Navigation Program]] that doomed other fighters and were therefore unaffected by the Cylon computer [[Virus|virus]]. ''Galactica'' was able to re-arm and deploy its Viper Mark II's and repel several attacking squadrons of [[Cylon Raider]]s, even surviving a direct hit from a Cylon tactical nuclear warhead, but not without a loss of 85 of its ship's crew in the port [[flight pod]] and some internal damage.

The Cylons proceeded to start nuking each of the Twelve Colonies, including [[The Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]]. After [[The Twelve Colonies#Picon|Picon]] was nuked, the Colonials broadcast an unconditional surrender, which was completely ignored by the Cylons. President [[Adar (RDM)|Adar]] and all Colonial government officials, save for spacebound Secretary of Education [[Laura Roslin]], were presumed killed or missing. The [[Case Orange]] contingency mechanism activated to seek out the remaining government officials, of which only Roslin apparently acknowledged. Sworn in on the government passenger liner ''[[Colonial Heavy 798]]'', she became the new President of the Twelve Colonies. Roslin immediately began locating other stranded Colonial civilian and miliary vessels to form a convoy. Several ships without [[FTL|faster-than-light]] ability that were located by Roslin had to be left behind without a rescue option by the other FTL ships when the Cylons located the convoy and an attack was imminent. These ships and their passengers were destroyed by Cylons while the remaining survivors joined ''Galactica'' at her new location.

[[Picon Fleet Headquarters]] was destroyed in the opening wave of the attack, as were 30 battlestars, noted to be "a quarter of the Fleet" according to [[Kara Thrace]]'s comment to Commander Adama in the opening events of the attack. Admiral Nagala subsequently took command of the fleet aboard battlestar ''[[Atlantia]]''. Soon after, ''Atlantia'' was lost with all hands. [[Commander Adama]] aboard ''Galactica'' assumed command of whatever was left of the Colonial military fleet, and sent a [[wireless]] transmission to any surviving Colonial forces to rendez-vous at [[Ragnar Anchorage]] where desperately needed munitions were stored for the battlestar's guns and her fighters.

A [[Pegasus|second battlestar]] was unable to make the rendez-vous point or locate ''Galactica'' for many weeks after the attack, having escaped certain destruction by the Cylons at the [[Scorpion Ship Yards]] by a making a [[Blind jump|blind jump]] into space. ''Galactica'' had no knowledge of this other battlestar as the Colonies disintegrated and communications between other Colonial forces faded into static.

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Colonial Battles]]
[[Category:Colonial Military]]
[[Category:RDM]]

Cole Taylor

2005-10-15T03:30:00Z

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==Overview==
[[Image:Bscap168.jpg|thumb|Captain Cole "Stinger" Taylor]]
Captain '''Cole "Stinger" Taylor''' is the [[CAG]] of the [[Battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus]]''. ("[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]")

Like many officers from this ship, Taylor is a humorless officer that seems to regard ''[[Galactica]]'s'' officers as if tainted in some way. He may feel that Commander [[William Adama|Adama's]] son, [[Lee Adama|Lee]], has been given his CAG responsibilities through his father's influence.

When Lee was transferred to ''Pegasus'' on Admiral [[Nelena Cain]]'s orders, Taylor busted Lee Adama's role to a mere [[Raptor]] pilot to accompany him on a recon mission to the [[Unknown Cylon Ship]].

Cole Taylor

2005-10-15T03:27:49Z

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