Category: Battlestar Galactica (New Series)

After Duck’s suicide bombing of the graduation of the first class of New Caprica Police, The Cylon leaders demand a crackdown in the form of an executive order giving anyone even suspected of helping the resistance a mandatory death sentence. This includes Laura Roslin, Cally, and even Baltar’s former campaign manager, Tom Zarek, but Baltar refuses to sign the order until the Cylon literally put a gun to his head. Tigh, Tyrol and Anders finally get a signal from Galactica: Adama is sending an officer from the fleet to coordinate the resistance. But not everyone in the resistance may be inclined to follow Boomer’s lead. Nor is everyone in the New Caprica Police inclined to do what they’re told by the Cylons.

written by Ronald D. Moore
directed by Sergio Mimeca-Gezzan
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Michael Hogan (Colonel Tigh), Aaron Douglas (CPO Tyrol), Tahmoh Penikett (Helo), Nicki Clyne (Cally), Alessandro Juliani (Lt. Gaeta), Kandyse McClure (Dualla), Lucy Lawless (D’anna Biers), Michael Trucco (Anders), Richard Hatch (Tom Zarek), Rick Worthy (The Doctor), Callum Keith Rennie (Leoben Conoy), Kate Vernon (Ellen Tigh), Donnelly Rhodes (Doc Cottle), Matthew Bennett (Doral), Rekha Sharma (Tory Foster), Dean Stockwell (Brother Cavel), Erica Cerra (Maya), Luciana Carro (Kat), Christian Tessier (Duck), Brad Drybrough (Hoshi), Leah Cairns (Racetrack), Madeline Parker (Kacey), Dominic Zamprogna (Jammer), Mylenne Dinh-Robic (Officer #1), Ryan McDoneil (Pilot #3), Colin Lawrence (Skulls), Byron Lawson (Pilot #4), Larissa Stadnchuk (Suicide Bomber)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Tyrol puts together a team to rescue Cally and the other human captives of the Cylons who are due for an arbitrary execution – an execution intended to draw the resistance out of hiding. Nearby on New Caprica, Adama’s choice to coordinate resistance efforts on the ground arrives – Sharon. Tyrol manages to save Cally, and Tom Zarek yanks Roslin out of harm’s way, but others aren’t so lucky – including the human Cylon in charge of the execution. Evidence that the resistance was sold out also surfaces – and it leads straight to Ellen Tigh. Sharon uses her familiar face to her advantage, infiltrating the Cylon headquarters to retrieve the launch keys from the Colonial ships grounded on New Caprica, only to be confronted by a fellow Cylon, who tells her that her baby, who she thought died, is alive and well.

written by David Weddle & Bradley Thompson
directed by Felix Alcala
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Michael Hogan (Colonel Tigh), Aaron Douglas (CPO Tyrol), Tahmoh Penikett (Helo), Nicki Clyne (Cally), Alessandro Juliani (Lt. Gaeta), Kandyse McClure (Dualla), Lucy Lawless (D’anna Biers), Michael Trucco (Anders), Amanda Plummer (Oracle Selloi), Richard Hatch (Tom Zarek), octor), Callum Keith Rennie (Leoben Conoy), Kate Vernon (Ellen Tigh), Donnelly Rhodes (Doc Cottle), Matthew Bennett (Doral), Rekha Sharma (Tory Foster), Dean Stockwell (Brother Cavel), Erica Cerra (Maya), Luciana Carro (Kat), Brad Drybrough (Hoshi), Leah Cairns (Racetrack), Madeline Parker (Kacey), Dominic Zamprogna (Jammer), Eileen Pedde (Mathias), Jennifer Halley (Seelix), Ty Olsson (Captain Kelly), Ryan Robbins (Connor)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Three days after the fleet’s escape from New Caprica, repairs are still being carried out on Galactica, but nothing can repair the strained relations between those who collaborated with the Cylons and those who fought against them. A secret council presided over by Tigh, and including Anders and Tyrol, is quietly trying known collaborators in absentia, and once a unanimous guilty verdict is reached, the targets are rounded up, brought to an airlock, and spaced. Viper pilot Jammer, who signed up with the New Caprica Police, is only the latest, though in his defense he reveals to Tyrol that he was responsible for saving Cally – but still, the airlock is opened and the culling continues. Even when he’s back in uniform and back on duty, Tigh can’t let it go, insisting that guards remove Gaeta from CIC, even though Adama specifically asked for his help with communication systems. But when Gaeta’s name comes up in Tigh’s council, Anders and Tyrol can’t bring themselves to vote for his execution.

Baltar finds himself on a Cylon ship, where he learns that his own fate is also in the balance, with most of the Cylon models arguing for his execution – and the clones of Number Six as the only holdouts. But when one Six tells him that her affection for him can’t be allowed to get in the way of her duty, Baltar finds himself pleading for his existence and his continued importance to the Cylons.

When the missing victims of Tigh’s secret jury begin to add up, Adama and Roslin discover that the executions were signed into law by the president – Tom Zarek, serving in the vacuum left by the missing Baltar. Zarek picks Roslin as his vice president, and then steps down just as quickly so she can be sworn back into her old office. But can the roundup and execution of collaborators be brought to an end with nothing more forceful than an executive order?

written by Mark Verheiden
directed by Michael Rymer
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Michael Hogan (Colonel Tigh), Aaron Douglas (CPO Tyrol), Tahmoh Penikett (Helo), Nicki Clyne (Cally), Alessandro Juliani (Lt. Gaeta), Lucy Lawless (D’anna Biers), Michael Trucco (Anders), Richard Hatch (Tom Zarek), Rekha Sharma (Tory Foster), Dominic Zamprogna (Jammer), Jennifer Halley (Seelix), Ryan Robbins (Connor), Alisen Down (Barclay), Winston Rekert (Priest)

Notes: Apparently the Colonial fleet uses British measurements of weight, since Apollo says he’s dropped “half a stone.”

LogBook entry by Earl Green

On the Cylon ship, Baltar pleads for his continued survival, using the only bargaining chip he has – his conjectures about the location of Earth and the thirteenth colony. On Galactica, Baltar’s former chief of staff is back in uniform: Gaeta is also making use of Baltar’s notes, as well as the sacred scrolls, to find the way to Earth for the fleet. But Admiral Adama has weightier matters on his mind; Tigh and Starbuck have taken up residence in the rec room, telling anyone within earshot how much worse things were for the humans on New Caprica than they were for the members of the fleet who rescued them. Before long, a division appears among Galactica’s crew between those who were trapped on the planet and those who weren’t. En route to the site that he calls the road to Earth, Baltar finds himself with a new mission to investigate a Cylon ship harboring a disease that could spell the end to their entire race.

written by Anne Cofell Saunders
directed by Jean de Segoznac
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Michael Hogan (Colonel Tigh), Aaron Douglas (CPO Tyrol), Tahmoh Penikett (Helo), Nicki Clyne (Cally), Alessandro Juliani (Lt. Gaeta), Lucy Lawless (D’anna Biers), Rick Worthy (The Doctor), Callum Keith Rennie (Leoben Conoy), Matthew Bennett (Aaron Doral), Lucianna Carro (Kat), Bodie Olmos (Hotdog), Leah Cairns (Racetrack), Madeleine Parker (Kacey), Sebastian Spence (Narcho), Emilie Ullerup (Julia), Tiffany Lyndall-Knight (Hybrid), Rachel Hayward (Blonde Woman)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

After Baltar abandons the infected Cylon base ship – and deliberately neglecting to tell the Cylons about the unusual object he found aboard – a Raptor from Galactica finds the infected ship and calls for backup. Apollo leads a larger team into the heart of the ship, infiltrating the command center and finding the ship in shambles, with only a handful of survivors. Under interrogation, one of the Cylons says that they’ve been left to die with no resurrection ship nearby because the moment they die, the virus will download along with their personalities. Apollo suggests using this to wipe out the Cylons entirely – deliberately putting Galactica in the path of the Cylons, and executing the prisoners to force them to download the virus into the nearest resurrection ship. But Helo, who admits to being slightly biased because he’s married to Sharon, says that this would be genocide, making the Colonials no better than the Cylons themselves. Ironically, Sharon is immune to the virus because she had a half-human child, so she isn’t at risk. After much discussion, President Roslin orders Adama to go ahead with the plan, but when the time comes to kill the prisoners, Apollo finds that they’ve already been killed – long before the resurrection ship was in download range.

written by Michael Angeli
directed by Bill Eagles
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Aaron Douglas (CPO Tyrol), Tahmoh Penikett (Helo), Alessandro Juliani (Lt. Gaeta), Kandyse McClure (Dualla), Lucy Lawless (D’anna Biers), Rick Worthy (The Doctor), Callum Keith Rennie (Leoben Conoy), Donnelly Rhodes (Doc Cottle), Matthew Bennett (Aaron Doral), Bodie Olmos (Hotdog), Leah Cairns (Racetrack), Eileen Pedde (Mathias), Tiffany Lyndall-Knight (Hybrid)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Three Cylon fighters appear near Galactica, but rather than attacking the Colonial fleet, two of the Cylons are trying to destroy the third. Starbuck and Kat take out the two pursuers, but Adama orders them to stand down when a human voice is heard over the speakers, identifying himself as “Bulldog.” The Cylon ship is brought in for a landing on Galactica, and a human male tumbles out of it – Adama recognizes him as Bulldog, a pilot Adama selected for a top secret mission (and wound up abandoning when his fighter was shot down) over a year before the Cylon attacks on the Colonies. When Bulldog pays a social call to his old friend Tigh, who’s still off-duty, Tigh reveals the real nature of Bulldog’s mission. Adama confesses the same to his son, admitting that Bulldog’s real mission was to determine whether or not the Cylons were still out there and preparing for a strike on the Colonies – and that his capture by the Cylons could have been the event that sparked the attack that came later. Adama confesses that he feels the weight of responsibility for causing the attacks that nearly wiped out humanity. And analyzing the desperate flight that brought Bulldog back to Galactica, Starbuck begins to warn her superiors that she thinks it’s no accident that the lost hero has returned home.

written by David Eick
directed by Michael Rymer
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Michael Hogan (Tigh), Aaron Douglas (CPO Tyrol), Tahmoh Penikett (Helo), Alessandro Juliani (Lt. Gaeta), Kandyse McClure (Dualla), Lucy Lawless (D’anna Biers), Carl Lumbly (Bulldog), Donnelly Rhodes (Doc Cottle), Matthew Bennett (Aaron Doral), Rekha Sharma (Tory Foster), Lucianna Carro (Kat), Barry Kennedy (Admiral Corman), Tiffany Lyndall-Knight (Hybrid)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Admiral Adama introduces Galactica’s crew to a tradition he has carried with him since his earliest commands: the shipwide boxing match. Any member of the crew can step into the ring, point to another member of the crew, and the fight is on, hopefully relieving pent-up aggression along the way. But in the still uneasy aftermath of the evacuation of New Caprica, old grudges have become out-in-the-open rivalries, and many are finding it difficult to let go of them – and all too easy to try to beat those rivals into a bloody pulp. Even Adama hismelf puts on a pair of boxing gloves, challenging the person he feels is responsible for starting the tide of crew members who left Galactica to settle on the planet over a year ago. But the final match of the night promises to be the most explosive, because there’s still no one who knows what happened between Starbuck and Apollo before they parted ways.

written by Michael Taylor
directed by Robert Young
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Michael Hogan (Tigh), Aaron Douglas (CPO Tyrol), Tahmoh Penikett (Helo), Nicki Clyne (Cally), Alessandro Juliani (Lt. Gaeta), Kandyse McClure (Dualla), Michael Trucco (Anders), Kate Vernon (Ellen Tigh), Donnelly Rhodes (Doc Cottle), Luciana Carro (Kat), Bodie Olmos (Hotdog), Christian Tessier (Duck), Dominic Zamprogna (Jammer), Don Thompson (Figurski)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

The discovery that the Colonial food supply is tainted sets the clock ticking: everyone in the fleet will starve in about ten days. Sharon braves a highly radioactive nebula, finding a viable planet with plenty of food on the other side…but trying to take the Colonial fleet through would cost the lives of 80% of the civilian population, and their ships’ navigation systems couldn’t handle the radiation any better than their crews could. Worse yet, when she returns, she’s not as immune to the effects of radiation as everyone assumed a Cylon would be. Admiral Adama’s only solution is to pair each civilian ship with a Raptor from Galactica, whose systems are hardened against radiation; Galactica’s pilots will each have to make several trips through the nebula, leading the civilians through wave after wave, and exposing themselves to more radiation than anyone else. When Starbuck makes a disturbing discovery, it could sideline one of her best pilots during this mission – and calls their future loyalty into question as well.

written by Jane Espenson
directed by Michael Nankin
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Michael Hogan (Tigh), Aaron Douglas (CPO Tyrol), Tahmoh Penikett (Helo), Alessandro Juliani (Lt. Gaeta), Kandyse McClure (Dualla), Luciana Carro (Kat), Donnelly Rhodes (Doc Cottle), Patrick Currie (Enzo), Bodie Olmos (Hotdog), Brad Dryborough (Hoshi), Leah Cairns (Racetrack), Sebastian Spence (Narcho), Tiffany Lyndall-Knight (Hybrid), Sean Roche (Hungry boy), Ian Rozylo (Convulsing pilot)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

As the Colonials gather food from the planet, Tyrol ventures into the nearby mountains and discovers a thousand-year-old temple. Roslin believes it may be a relic of the lost thirteenth tribe of humanity, and a means to find Earth. But before anything can be done about this discovery, four Cylon base ships jump into close proximity – and then startle everyone by not launching an all-out attack. Instead, the Cylons request a face-to-face meeting with Adama, and they bring Baltar with them. The Cylons demand access to the temple in exchange for letting the humans go free. When Adama doesn’t take them up on the offer, they sweeten the pot by offering to hand over Baltar as well – and in reality, both sides realize, the Cylons have no intention of letting the human race survive. Adama sets his own terms: if the Cylons attack either Galactica or the planet, which still has a large contingent of people gathering food, he’ll nuke the temple so nobody can have it. But how ready is he to make good on that threat?

written by Mark Verheiden
directed by Michael Rymer
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Michael Hogan (Tigh), Aaron Douglas (CPO Tyrol), Tahmoh Penikett (Helo), Nicki Clyne (Cally), Alessandro Juliani (Lt. Gaeta), Kandyse McClure (Dualla), Lucy Lawless (D’anna Biers), Michael Trucco (Anders), Callum Keith Rennie (Leoben Conoy), Dean Stockwell (Brother Cavel), Brad Dryborough (Hoshi), Eileen Pedde (Sgt. Mathias), Alisen Down (Barclay), Tiffany Lyndall-Knight (Hybrid), Diego Diablo Del Mar (Dillard), Aleks Paunovic (Marine Sgt. Fischer), Tygh Runyan (Pvt. Byers)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

With Galactica’s nuclear weapons trained on the planet below, the Cylons agree to order their raiders not to land – all except for D’anna, who allows her opposite number to continue onward, risking the attack on the planet. D’anna believes that the Eye of Jupiter can lead her to the mystery of the missing five Cylon models, and Baltar goes with her. On the planet, Apollo keeps Anders from going to save Starbuck – but then orders Dualla to do it instead. Helo and Sharon decide to try their most desperate gambit yet to recover their child, but their plan – to kill Sharon on Galactica and have her resurrect into a new body on the Cylon ship – may put the Colonial fleet at even greater risk. Time is running out to decipher the runes at the 4,000 year old temple, but its true meaning may become clear on its own, with deadly effects for both humans and Cylons.

written by David Weddle & Bradley Thompson
directed by Michael Rymer
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Michael Hogan (Tigh), Aaron Douglas (CPO Tyrol), Tahmoh Penikett (Helo), Nicki Clyne (Cally), Alessandro Juliani (Lt. Gaeta), Kandyse McClure (Dualla), Lucy Lawless (D’anna Biers), Michael Trucco (Anders), Callum Keith Rennie (Leoben Conoy), Dean Stockwell (Brother Cavel), Brad Dryborough (Hoshi), Eileen Pedde (Sgt. Mathias), Alisen Down (Barclay), Diego Diablo Del Mar (Dillard), Aleks Paunovic (Marine Sgt. Fischer), Tygh Runyan (Pvt. Byers)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Captured by Tyrol at the temple on the algae planet, Baltar is now in the hands of the Colonial fleet. While many would happily see him dead – indeed, a suicide attempt in his cell is only narrowly averted – President Roslin wants to use this opportunity to find out more about the attack on Caprica and Baltar’s involvement in it, something she’s never been able to prove. Adama approves the use of a hallucinogenic interrogation drug that may be of more use in breaking Baltar’s resolve than Roslin’s shock tactics, over Doc Cottle’s objections, but even under intense questioning in an altered state, Baltar doesn’t surrender the information that his captors are hoping for…

written by Michael Taylor
directed by Edward James Olmos
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Michael Hogan (Tigh), Aaron Douglas (CPO Tyrol), Alessandro Juliani (Lt. Gaeta), Kandyse McClure (Dualla), Michael Trucco (Anders), Donnelly Rhodes (Doc Cottle), Kerry Norton (Paramedic Ibhay), Leah Cairns (Racetrack), Tom Bower (Joe), Steve Lawlor (Guard), Graeme Duffy (Adrien Bauer), Jason Dryden (Knucklehead Dragger #1)

Note: On its original broadcast, this episode included a “bonus scene” just before the end credits – with absolutely no context for placing it within the rest of the story – of Roslin questioning the captured Number Six.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

An outbreak of a contagious disease, which can kill its victims in just days if left untreated, is reported among the Saggitaron refugees still living aboard Galactica. A civilian doctor is treating most of the cases, but many are turning out to be fatal despite his treatments – or, as one Sagittaron woman claims, because of his treatments. Helo, assigned to protect the doctor and keep peace among the refugees, begins to wonder if the rumor is true. But when he runs into racism directed at the Saggitarons among the very officers whose help he needs to prove the accusations, Helo wonders if anyone would care if they turn out to be true.

written by Michael Angeli
directed by Michael Rymer
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Michael Hogan (Colonel Tigh), Aaron Douglas (CPO Tyrol), Alessandro Juliani (Lt. Gaeta), Tahmoh Penikett (Helo), Nicki Clyne (Cally), Kandyse McClure (Dualla), Richard Hatch (Tom Zarek), Donnelly Rhodes (Doc Cottle), Rekha Sharma (Tory Foster), Bruce Davison (Doctor Robert), Leah Cairns (Racetrack), Ryan Robbins (Connor), Colin Lawrence (Skulls), Chris Boyd (Cheadle), Colin Corringan (Nowart), Scott Little (Willie King), Gabrielle Rose (Mrs. King)

Note: The “bonus scene” aired with this episode involved Helo confessing to Adama that he had suffocated the Cylon prisoners in A Measure Of Salvation. Again, there’s no context as to where or when this scene took place relative to the rest of the episode.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

For the rest of Galactica’s crew, it’s a routine day, but for Admiral Adama, it’s a day he marks, and yet dreads, every year – his anniversary. Even all these years later, it seems he can only remember the arguments. For Tyrol and Cally, the day starts with a routine argument, but when the airlock they’re assigned to work on suddenly traps them due to a slight loss of pressure, their normal day becomes a life-or-death crisis. Even with their expertise, there’s no way to just open the door and return to the ship – the only way out is to blow the outer airlock hatch and try to catch them in a raptor just outside, a last-ditch maneuver that’s as like to kill them as it is to save them.

written by Mark Verheiden
directed by Rod Hardy
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Michael Hogan (Colonel Tigh), Aaron Douglas (CPO Tyrol), Alessandro Juliani (Lt. Gaeta), Tahmoh Penikett (Helo), Nicki Clyne (Cally), Kandyse McClure (Dualla), Lucinda Jenney (Caroline Adama), Bodie Olmos (Hotdog), Jennifer Halley (Seelix), Sebastian Speance (Narcho), Don Thompson (Figurski), Mike Leisen (Pvt. Stewart Jaffee)

Note: While dogs are known as daggits in the Galactica universe, apparently cats are – according to President Roslin’s “herding cats” comment – still cats in any universe. As well they should be.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

When a fuel impurity forces a raptor crew to ditch their ship – seconds before it slams into Colonial One – President Roslin and Admiral Adama launch an investigation, because it’s far from the only recent incident involving problems with the fleet’s fuel supply. That supply comes entirely from the fleet’s one mining ship, whose captain is tired of the working conditions and advocates an uprising against the fleet’s “ruling class” – according to the dictates of a book by Baltar, smuggled out of prison and into publication throughout the fleet. Roslin orders that captain’s arrest and Adama sends Tyrol to take over the mining ship and restore the flow of fuel. Once there, though, Tyrol finds himself more in agreement with the ship’s imprisoned captain than with Adama, and proposes a lottery system to bring fresh workers to the mining ship from elsewhere in the fleet. When that solution brings a teenage worker to the ship who is premanently maimed in the course of making an emergency repair, Tyrol brings the ship to a halt and declares a strike. There’s only one problem: what he calls a strike, Adama calls a mutiny.

written by Anne Cofell Saunders & Jane Espenson
directed by Wayne Rose
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Aaron Douglas (CPO Tyrol), Nicki Clyne (Cally), Rekha Sharma (Tory Foster), Jennifer Halley (Seelix), Don Thompson (Figurski), Leah Cairns (Racetrack), Colin Lawrence (Skulls), Samantha Ferris (Pollux), David Patrick Green (Xeno Fenner), Wesley Salter (Redford), Jerry Wasserman (Cabott)

Original Title: Our Enemies, Ourselves

LogBook entry by Earl Green