Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II

"Kobol's Last Gleaming Part 2" (credit: Sci-Fi Channel)

Overview

Starbuck has gone to Caprica. Adama insists Roslin must stand down as President. When she refuses, he is forced to deal with that situation while simultaneously adapting the plan to rid themselves of the Cylon baseship over Kobol

Summary

• Raptor 1 is down on Kobol and is on fire, as the crew struggle to get out and remove the boides of the dead and injured, Baltar becomes trapped by fire in the back of the vehicle
• Crashdown tries to help him, but Baltar is too terrified to move. Six appears and gives Baltar the strength to escape by giving the impression she is helping him out of the ship
• As they get clear, the ship explodes, and Baltar wanders into the long grass before collapsing, as the rest of the crew start checking on their injured
• Adama challenges Roslin over Starbuck's actions with the Cylon Raider and she admits her role
• Adama requests her resignation as President. Roslin refuses. He states he is terminating her presidency. When she reveals the press are recording the conversation, he hangs up
• He isolates Colonial One' using the CAP to physically isolate it, and by jamming all communications from it. He then orders Colonel Tigh and Lee Adama to set-up a strike force to take Colonial One
• Visiting Boomer in sickbay, Adama asks her to fly a dangerous mission: take a Raptor fitted with a Cylon IFF transponder, jump to the Cylon baseship and drop a nuclear bomb into its landing bay before jumping clear
• The strike team flies to an isolated Colonial One aboard two Raptors, lead by Tigh and Lee Adama, and they start cutting their way into the ship
• Boomer's Raptor makes it through the Cylon perimeter around the baseship, but the bombe release mechanism fails, forcing them to land inside the basestar and attempt a manual removal of the bomb
• While there, Boomer encounters a number of her "sisters". While she tries to claim she is human, they inform her she cannot escape destiny
• After she leaves on the Raptor, her "sisters" make no attempt to disarm or remove the bomb
• On Kobol, Baltar recognises Six "saved" him, and she takes him to see exactly why he has been chosen by God, ans she walks him towards the ruined Tomb of Athena
• Entering it, he is shown the "face of things to come", apparently a baby in a crib, the "first of the new generation of God's children" - and he is to be their protector
• Roslin refuses Adama's final request to yield and her security team ready themselves for an assault and the strike team access the ship
• A confrontation ensues between Colonial forces and Roslin's security. It is broken only when Lee Adama sides with his conscience, and turns on Tigh. Afraid of a bloodbth, Roslin surrenders and Lee Adama is arrested
• Roslin is returned to the Galactica and placed in the brig, while Lee Adama is in irons in CIC
• Boomer and Racetrack arrive in CIC following the success of the attack on the baseship, and as he thanks them, Boomer shoots Adama twice at close range, seriously wounding him

On Caprica:

• Valerii has taken Helo to hide near the Delphi Museum of The Colonial (something)
• She is aware of the importance of the Arrow of Apollo
• They have discussed the fact that she is a Cylon (rather than a Cylon-created human clone as Helo suggested (Colonial Day))
• She reveals the her relationship with him is important as it brings the Cylons closer to God. She also reveals she is pregnant
• Starbuck completes her long-range jump and arrives over Caprica. Passing through Cylon lines, she sets down in Delphi and heads for the museum
• Locating the Arrow of Apollo she is confronted by Six and a fight ensues in which Starbuck is initially badly beaten, before a last-minute rush sends them both over a landing, killing Six
• Helo comes to Starbuck's aid, and she panics when she sees Valerii, but Helo stops Starbuck from shooting her, citing that she's pregnant

--Colonial Archivist 19:36, 24 Jan 2005 (EST)

Questions

• Are Adama's wounds fatal?
• What will be public reaction when the news of Roslin's arrest finally breaks through the communication's embargo?
• Who will take over as the civil leader with Roslin in the brig and Baltar "lost" somewhere on the surface of Kobol?
• How will Tigh rise to the demands of command?
• What is the baby in the crib?
  • The offspring from Valerii and Helo?
  • The future offspring of Baltar and a corporeal Six?
• If the Cylons understand the significance of the Arrow of Apollo (and by extension, the Tomb of Athena), why don't they use them themselves find Earth?
  • Are the Cylons genuinely interested in Earth, or has it simply been a means to bring them to Kobol?
• If they want the humans to find Earth, why try and prevent Starbuck from taking the Arrow in the first place?
• Why didn't the sound of Starbuck's Raider landing attract Helo's attention sooner? He's across the road from the museum, and so could hardly fail to see it touch down, or see Starbuck climb the steps to the museum itself.
• How did Six know Starbuck's name so readily? Is this a pointer to her being in communication with her "sister" in Baltar's head? Or having been in communication with Conoy (Flesh and Bone)?
• Did Boomer sabotage the bomb release mechanism, thus forcing herself into landing on the baseship?
• Why didn't Racetrack raise concerns about Boomer's ability to survive in a vacuum on their return to the Galactica?
• Did the IFF transponders genuinely work, or did the Cylons simply allow Starbuck's Raider to pass and the Raptor to reach the baseship in order for Starbuck and Boomer to continue along their "paths"?
• How many operational Raptor:Raptors does the Galactica have? Water give the impression she had five. A total of six are used in Part I and Part II of "Kobol's Last Gleaming".

Analysis

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--Colonial Archivist 19:36, 24 Jan 2005 (EST)

Notes

• This episode takes place directly after those of Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I
• Cylon vessels are indeed capable of very long-range jumps
• Delphi was once a cultural centre on Caprica, and apparently held a lot of historical / religious artefacts
• Cylon basestars appear bio-mechanical, like like Raiders

Statistics

Guest Stars

• Lorena Gale as Elosha
• Alonso Oyarzun as Socinus
• Nicki Clyne as Cally
• Jim Shield as Karna
• Leah Cairns as Racetrack
• Warren Christie as Gound Crew #1
• Jen Halley as Ground Crew #2

Writing & Direction

• Story by David Eick
• Teleplay by Ronald D. Moore
• Directed by Michael Rymer

Production Notes

• Series: 1 (2004 / 2005)
• Production Number: 1.13
• Airdate Order: 13 (of 13)

First Run Air Dates & Releases

• UK Airdate: 24 January 2005 (Sky One)
• US Airdate: (Sci-Fi Channel)
• DVD Release: N/A

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