The Hub

This article discusses the Re-imagined Series episode. For the eponymous resurrection facility, see: Resurrection Hub.

"The Hub" An episode of the Re-imagined Series
Episode No.	Season 4, Episode 9
Writer(s)	Jane Espenson
Story by
Director	Paul Edwards
Assistant Director
Special guest(s)
Production No.	411
Nielsen Rating
US airdate	06 June 2008
CAN airdate	06 June 2008
UK airdate	10 June 2008
DVD release
Population	39,673 survivors ( 1)
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Sine Qua Non	The Hub	Revelations
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Overview

Pursuing the Resurrection Hub at the whim of the Hybrid, a team of Viper pilots and Cylon rebels become uneasy collaborators as they formulate a battle plan to un-box the Threes and destroy Cylon resurrection forever. Meanwhile, Roslin and Baltar try desperately to communicate with the panicking Hybrid and Helo discovers a disturbing characteristic within one of the Eights.

Analysis

• Baltar, now having found a way to absolve all guilt for any action, takes his scheming to a new extremes while attempting to make an ally out of the Centurions.

• The dichotomy of experienced time when performing an FTL jump (it happens both instantaneously and is drawn out for what seems to be a long time) appears to be yet another avenue for the Lords of Kobol to interact with humans. Other examples are dreams, a hypnotic state, and between death and resurrection.

Questions

• Why do the Cylons have only one Resurrection Hub and the implied inability to build another?
• Apparently all of the Heavy Raider Cylon Pilots are Sixs and Eights. Where are the Twos, the Leobens?
• Are the Cylons capable of building a new Hub, and if so, how long it would it take them?
• Does Boomer make it off of the Hub before it is destroyed?
• Is there time to resurrect Cavil?
• How many other Eights have accessed Athena's memories, and how will this affect her relationship with Helo?

Noteworthy Dialogue

• Adama reading to Roslin during her vision:

"'Then I dug into the stump and pulled rocks from the ground until my fingers bled. I collected seeds from the few fruits the island offered and planted them in long straight furrows like the ranks of soldiers. When I finished I looked at what I had done. I did not see a garden; I saw a scar. This island had saved my life and I had done it no service.'"

• Roslin and Adama tenderly greeting each other in the Basestar hangar deck:

Roslin [Embracing Adama]: "I love you."

Adama [Breaking the embrace; looks into her eyes]: "About time."

Guest Stars

• Tahmoh Penikett as Captain Karl Agathon
• Lucy Lawless as Number Three/ D'Anna Biers
• Dean Stockwell as Number One/ Cavil
• Jennifer Halley as Ensign Diana "Hardball" Seelix
• Callum Keith Rennie as Number Two / Leoben Conoy (credited only)
• Donnelly Rhodes as Doctor Cottle
• Tiffany Lyndall-Knight as Hybrid
• Bodie Olmos as Lieutenant Brendan "Hotdog" Costanza
• Lorena Gale as Elosha
• Ryan McDonell as Lieutenant Eammon "Gonzo" Pike

External Links

• Composer Bear McCreary on the episode's score: [1]

Re-imagined Series definition: technology enabling travel across distances faster than the speed of light would permit, see: FTL

Re-imagined Series definition: the process of using the FTL engines to make an near-instantaneous apparent faster-than-light transport of a ship from one point in space to another

 derogatory term for a prisoner in a labor camp ^{(TRS: "Bastille Day")}