Escape Velocity
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| "Escape Velocity" An episode of the Re-imagined Series | |||
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| Episode No. | Season 4, Episode 4 | ||
| Writer(s) | Jane Espenson | ||
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| Director | Edward James Olmos | ||
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| Special guest(s) | |||
| Production No. | 406 | ||
| Nielsen Rating | |||
| US airdate |  25 April 2008
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| CAN airdate |  {{{CAN airdate}}}
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| UK airdate | 
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| DVD release | |||
| Population | 39,675 survivors ( 1)
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| Episode Chronology | |||
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| The Ties That Bind | Escape Velocity | The Road Less Travelled | |
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Overview
| Spoiler follows, click "expand" to read. |
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| Religious freedom is debated and defended as the messianic Gaius Baltar promotes his belief in one true God.[1] |
Summary
Teaser
Act 1
Act 2
Act 3
Act 4
Notes
- Cally Tyrol's full first name is Calandra.
- A costuming error in the teaser shows Saul Tigh wearing the neck pins of an admiral. This is noticeable in the scene where Tigh and Tory Foster confront Galen Tyrol in Tyrol's quarters after the ceremony.
- Another of the Lords of Kobol has been revealed: Asclepius. Asclepius is known to the Colonials as the god of healing.
- Escape velocity is the minimum initial velocity an unaccelerated object needs to escape a body's gravitational field.
- A Gemenon delegate has been cast[2], suggesting an appearance of the Quorum of Twelve, or at least part of it.
Analysis
- Hamish "Skulls" McCall and Margaret "Racetrack" Edmonson have notoriously bad luck with RCS systems on the Raptor that they're assigned to. A previous error with the RCS thrusters also occurs in "Dirty Hands", then attributed to impurities in the tylium fuel.
Questions
Official Statements
Noteworthy Dialogue
Guest Stars
- Michael Hogan as Colonel Saul Tigh
- Rekha Sharma as Tory Foster
- Aaron Douglas as Chief Galen Tyrol
- Michael Trucco as Ensign Samuel Anders
- Kate Vernon as Ellen Tigh
- Don Thompson as Anthony Figurski
- Leah Cairns as Lieutenant Margaret "Racetrack" Edmonson
- Colin Lawrence as Lieutenant Hamish "Skulls" McCall
- Keegan Connor Tracy as Jeanne
- Unknown as Lilly
- Unknown as "Redwing" McMan
External Links
References
- ↑ Episode description was unintentionally accessible on scifi.com until recently. Descriptions were noted on other websites before removed, and editor confirmed them several days ago before removal from scif.com.
- ↑ From a casting sheet originally posted on GoBetween Inc..A screenshot is available on Battlestar Wiki Media, because the data isn't available forever.
