Baltar's Escape

"Baltar's Escape" An episode of the Re-imagined Series
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Overview

Joining forces with the imprisoned Borellians and the Eastern Alliance detainees, Baltar escapes from the prison barge, hijacks a shuttle, and kidnaps members of the ruling council.

Summary

• Adama is summoned before the Quorum of Twelve under the leadership of Sire Domra. Domra begins the meeting of the Quorum with the declaration that Adama is to receive the highest honor of the Quorum -- the Star of Kobol -- and also declares that the state of emergency has ended.
• Adama humbly refuses, claiming that there are still unforseen dangers facing the Fleet. Adama then bluntly states that the meeting was called not to offer him an award, but to retire him.
• Siress Tinia chimes in: martial law will be dissolved and the Fleet will be returned to civilian control. Adama is to retain his vote on the Quorum and the command of Galactica. In addition, Galactica will have an advisor from the Quorum. That advisor is none other than Tinia herself.
• Starbuck and Apollo vehemently disagree with the decision. Adama retorts that perhaps the council is correct in ending martial law, noting that both Warriors have forgotten their vows to serve and protect.

Questions

• Where is Sire Geller? (Sire Geller was the council leader in "Experiment in Terra".)
• Why were the weapons taken from the Borellian Nomen and the Eastern Alliance stored aboard the Prison Barge?

Notes

• Domra and the Quorum uses the same trick that Sire Uri used in "Saga of a Star World": offer awards to people who are deserving of them and then declare a radical edict. In this case, the edict of the council is to dissolve martial law, assign Adama an aide and offer peace to war-mongering, dangerous facists.

• The stunt that Boomer pulled in the shuttle could not have occurred in space. There is no such thing as "leveling out" in space and therefore such an occurance smacks in the face of science, given that the shuttle is not affected by gravity. (If the shuttle was in an atmosphere of a planet, then the trick to get the Council Security officers to shut up would have worked.)