I have doubts about the veracity of this claim:
- "At no time is it clear whether or not Amorak was aboard the Olympic Carrier, or whether the use of his name in these events was merely a Cylon ploy to further manipulate Baltar, drawing him further into their influence."
We do know that Dr. Amorak (or a humano-cylon) was initially onboard the Olympic before it failed to make jump 238. We know this because Billy informs President Roslin of the request received from the Olympic before the jump that someone onboard the Olympic calling themselves Dr. Amorak had urgent information for the President and had to be delivered in person. This was not simply in Baltar's head. It could be argued that the entire Olympic had be compromised at the time the request came across to Colonial One but this seems suspect as there would presumably have been direct contact with the people onboard the Olympic prior to the events we witness in 33. This would indicated that either Dr. Amorak was really aboard the Olympic before jump 238 failed, and was simply part of the passengers taken over after it failed to jump, or that Dr. Amorak was a humao-cylon before getting onboard the Olympic.
Or am I missing somethiing here? — Lestatdelc 21:26, 3 December 2005 (EST)
- No, I think you're right. Also consider the Cylons' actions in this episode: they were relentlessly pursuing the fleet, and essentially had it at their mercy - after a few more days, the fleet would have quickly seccumbed to attrition. However, as soon as the Olympic carrier had been captured, they broke off their pursuit.
- The only logical conclusion is that they didn't want to destroy the fleet at all, but rather something, or someone, on board the carrier. That person is Dr. Amorak, who stood poised to expose Dr. Baltar's role in the fall of the twelve colonies. After he had been captured, they sent the carrier back to the fleet with a nuclear weapon to force Galactica to destroy it, as a demoralizing tactic.
- Obviously this doesn't make an enormous amount of sense, but I haven't heard any other argument, and it certainly holds no water if Amorak didn't exist at all. --Peter Farago 22:14, 3 December 2005 (EST)