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| Regular Cast Edward James Olmos as Cmdr. William Adama Mary McDonnell as President Laura Roslin Tricia Helfer as Number Six Michael Hogan as Col. Paul Tigh Jamie Bamber as Capt. Lee "Apollo" Adama Katee Sackhoff as Lt. Kara "Starbuck" Thrace James Callis as Dr. Gaius Baltar Grace Park as Lt. J.G. Sharon "Boomer" Valerii |
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About The Show
It's been 40 years since the 12 colonies of mankind have heard from their
progeny, the Cylons -- robotic creatures who rose up and declared war on their
masters, then disappeared. In a sudden, devastating strike, the Cylons return
and lay waste to the colonies, aided by human-looking Cylon variants and an
unwitting fifth columnist. The attack forces Commander William Adama to call
into action his museum-piece warship, the Battlestar Galactica, and soon its
company of hotshot fighter pilots is blasting away at the invaders. But their
best efforts can't prevent the colonies' obliteration. Fleeing the Cylon
genocide, the Galactica leads a rag-tag fleet of survivors on a lonely quest to
find humanity's fabled 13th colony -- a planet known as Earth.
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Mini-Series & Season One (2003 - 2005) |
Season Two (2005) |
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Mini Series
Dec 08, 2003: Part One
Forty years after the Cylon Wars, humanity's deadliest enemies have
reemerged with a vengeance. In a sudden, devastating nuclear attack, the Cylon
robots who have now taken human form wipe out billions of people. Only a
ragtag fleet of Colonial forces is left to shepherd humanity's few survivors to
safety. Commander William Adama (Edward James Olmos), a veteran of the Cylon
Wars and the highest-ranking military officer left alive, reactivates the
Battlestar Galactica to once again face his greatest nemeses. His son, Lee
(Jamie Bamber), call sign "Apollo," joins the fight alongside the fleet's best
pilot, Kara Thrace (Katee Sackhoff), call sign "Starbuck." With the president
and most of his senior cabinet killed in the attack, Secretary of Education
Laura Roslin (Mary McDonnell) is sworn in as the new President of the 12
Colonies of Kobol. As Adama and Roslin debate whether to fight or flee, the
Cylons launch a sneak attack on the new president's ship.
Dec 09, 2003: Part Two
Forced into an uneasy alliance, President Roslin (Mary McDonnell) and
Commander Adama (Edward James Olmos) do their best to lead the military into
battle and the civilians to safety. Gaius Baltar (James Callis), the corrupt
genius who inadvertently helped the Cylons infiltrate the government's defense
systems, has been rescued, treasured as one of humanity's last great
intellectuals. No one has yet discovered Baltar's involvement in the Cylon
attack or that he is still haunted, and possibly controlled, by visions of the
seductive Cylon "Number Six" (Tricia Helfer). Aboard the Galactica, Baltar's
superior intellect ironically leads to his designation as the authority on all
things Cylon. Outnumbered and outarmed, Adama reluctantly concedes that
President Roslin was correct this battle was lost before it had begun. With no
choice but to flee, humanity's survivors set out in search of the mythic 13th
Colony of Kobol ... a legendary planet known as Earth.
Season One
Oct 18, 2004: 33
In the wake of the Cylon sneak attack, the ragtag
fleet of human survivors is forced to play a deadly game of
cat-and-mouse with their pursuers. Every 33 minutes, they make a jump
to a new location. And every 33 minutes, the Cylons manage to find
them. The pilots are on the brink of exhaustion, relying on artificial
stimulants to keep fighting, and the civilians are beginning to doubt
the leadership of Commander Adama and President Roslin.
When the Olympic Carrier, a commercial passenger ship, fails to
make a jump and then later mysteriously turns up unharmed, Adama fears
it has been infiltrated by the Cylons. His choice: destroy it and the
1,300 souls it might still be carrying, or risk the annihilation of
the entire fleet. Adama is not alone in fearing the mystery ship.
Baltar, who remains mentally connected with his beautiful and deadly
Cylon companion Number Six, panics when he learns one of the ship's
passengers has information about a traitor in the president's inner
circle.
Meanwhile, down on the ruined, Cylon-occupied colony of Caprica, Helo
is on the run from another group of Cylons. He's going to need help to
make it back to the Galactica but there's no help in sight
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Oct 25, 2004: Water
Lt. Sharon Valerii wakes up soaking wet in the tool
room with an explosive charge in her duffel bag. Shortly afterward, a
mysterious explosion destroys all the port-side water tanks on
Galactica, creating a crisis for the entire fleet. Sharon can't
remember a thing, but all the evidence points to her as a saboteur.
She confesses her concern to Chief Tyrol, but he can't believe she's
responsible.
As water riots erupt, Commander Adama and President Roslin struggle to
contain the crisis, putting all the ships on limited rations and
assigning Baltar the job of rooting out any Cylons who may have
infiltrated the crew.
Meanwhile, on Cylon-occupied Caprica, another avatar of Sharon
struggles to save Helo, her stranded Raptor crewmate.
Nov 01, 2004: Bastille Day
The fleet has found a source of water, but who will
take on the difficult and dangerous job of mining it from the icy
planet? Commander Adama and President Roslin send Lee to the Astral
Queen, a prisoner transport ship, with an offer for its inmates:
Volunteer for this mission and earn "freedom points."
The prisoners not only reject the offer but stage a uprising and hold
Lee and his crew hostage. Their leader is Tom Zarek, a freedom fighter
convicted of terrorism 20 years earlier. Zarek demands that Roslin
step down as president and call for immediate elections to choose a
new leader.
While Adama and Roslin organize an assault on the ship, Lee, who read
Zarek's radical manifesto while at college, negotiates with his
captor. Back on the Galactica, Adama pressures Baltar to
develop a device that can distinguish Cylons from humans.
Many light-years away on Caprica, Sharon and Helo struggle to evade
the Cylons, unaware that they are being observed by Doral and Number
Six.
Nov 08, 2004: Act of Contrition
After a flight deck accident kills 13 pilots and
wounds many others, Kara is thrust into service as a flight instructor
and ordered to turn a group of civilian pilots and academy washouts
into full-fledged Viper pilots.
The assignment brings back painful memories for Kara. She can't forget
how she let Zak Commander Adama's son and her lover pass Basic
Flight when he wasn't ready, and how it ultimately cost him his life.
Determined never to repeat the mistake, she flunks out the would-be
pilots on their first day.
She is immediately confronted, first by Lee, then by Adama, and forced
to admit to the Commander her role in Zak's death. Adama orders her to
continue training the "nuggets." Meanwhile, Sgt. Hadrian continues her
investigation into the detonators found in Sharon's spacecraft, and
President Roslin consults the ship's doctor about her cancer.
Far away on Cylon-occupied Caprica, Sharon and Helo find a secret
cache of food.
Nov 15, 2004: You Can't Go Home
Again
When Lt. Kara Thrace goes missing in action after
encountering a Cylon patrol while on a training mission, Commander
Adama feels responsible especially in light of her recent admission
that she blames herself for his son Zak's death.
Both Adama and Lee devote the full resources of the fleet to search
for their missing fighter ace, causing some to wonder if it's worth
risking the lives of 45,000 people to save one downed pilot. When
President Roslin questions their motives and points out that Kara's
oxygen was exhausted hours ago, they reluctantly call off the search.
But they haven't counted on Kara's resourcefulness and courage.
Stranded on a red moon, her knee a twisted wreck, she struggles to
relaunch a damaged Cylon fighter and return to Galactica.
Nov 22, 2004: Litmus
When a new copy of Doral, a Cylon who had been
previously exposed while serving as the Galactica's
public-relations officer, sneaks aboard and blows himself up, killing
three people, Commander Adama and President Roslin must finally make
public the terrifying secret known only to a select few: Cylons now
look like humans.
Adama also appoints an independent tribunal to investigate the recent
security breaches and names Sgt. Hadrian as lead investigator. When
Hadrian discovers a hatch was left open, even after Chief Tyrol had
reported that all were closed, she focuses the investigation on him
and his relationship with Sharon.
Tyrol's crew covers for their chief, taking the blame for his failure.
When Hadrian tries to expand the inquiry, haranguing Adama about his
decision not to reveal the truth about Cylons, the commander shuts
down the tribunal.
Meanwhile, on Caprica, a trio of Cylons observe Helo as he tries to
save himself and find the woman he thinks is Sharon.
Nov 29, 2004: Six Degrees of
Separation
When Baltar and the Number Six who lives in his
head have a falling out, she abandons him, only to surface a short
while later aboard the Galactica. But now she's called Shelley
Godfrey, everyone can see her, and she's telling them that she has
evidence, passed on by the late Dr. Amarak, that will prove Baltar
sold out the human race to the Cylons.
With Baltar in a panic and trying to save himself, Number Six focuses
her charms on Commander Adama. But the Commander is wary of this
stunning stranger and has her followed while her evidence is analyzed.
Kara struggles to recover from her injuries while Chief Tyrol and the
crew try to reverse-engineer the Cylon raider she piloted home.
Meanwhile, dual Sharons face their own challenges on Caprica, she
and Helo are on the run from Cylon centurions; on the Galactica,
she's terrified of being exposed as a Cylon herself.
Dec 06, 2003: Flesh and Bone
A Cylon, who calls himself Leobon, is discovered on
one of the ships in the fleet. Commander Adama sends Kara to
interrogate him or, rather, it. The Cylon tells Kara that he planted
a nuclear device on one of the ships. Although she doesn't believe it,
Kara passes on the warning.
As her colleagues search for the device, Kara engages Leobon in a
battle of wills. Theological debates about souls and the humanity of
Cylons lead to mind games, threats, and, ultimately, torture. Taking a
personal interest in what Leobon has to say, President Roslin joins
the interrogation.
On Galactica, Sharon asks Baltar to try out his new Cylon-detecting
technology on her.
Meanwhile, on far-off Caprica, another Sharon conspires with her Cylon
associates Doral and Number Six to convince Helo to remain on the
planet and start a new life.
Dec 13, 2003: Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me
Down
President Roslin's fears that Commander Adama is a
Cylon are stoked when she learns he's making secret wireless calls to
other ships. Then, to make things worse, a single Cylon raider appears
near the Galactica and begins acting strangely after being
damaged in battle.
When Adama returns to the ship with Tigh's wife, Ellen, an earthy
temptress and irrepressible flirt who claims to have been in a coma
since their civilization was destroyed, Roslin's suspicions increase.
She orders Baltar to screen both Ellen and Adama with his newly
completed Cylon-detector.
Meanwhile, Col. Tigh and the rest of the crew watch warily and gather
data as the wounded Cylon raider jumps in and out of space.
On Caprica, the Cylon overseers fear that the Cylon Sharon is
developing a strange feeling toward Helo love.
Jan 03, 2005: The Hand of God
As its fuel supply dwindles, the fleet must seek
out a new supply of tylium ore or risk becoming sitting ducks to any
Cylon attack. A recon patrol finds an asteroid full of the fuel, but
there's a catch the Cylons have found it first and established a
heavily guarded refining plant.
Kara devises a plan: Jump three decoy ships near the asteroid; when
the Cylons attack, destroy their bases, leaving them stranded in
space. It's a bold tactic, but it will take luck, skill and daring to
pull it off.
Meanwhile, President Roslin begins to hallucinate as a result of the
Chamalla she's taking to combat her breast cancer. When she consults
Elosha, a priestess who has used Chamalla to induce visions, she
learns that her circumstances fulfill a 3,600-year-old prophecy.
On Cylon-occupied Caprica, Sharon and Helo's flight from the Cylon
overseers suddenly becomes more complicated when Sharon discovers
she's pregnant.
Jan 10, 2005: Colonial Day
When President Roslin calls an Interim Quorum of
the Twelve Colonies, she discovers that democracy brings its ugly
stepsisters politics and deadly intrigue to the party. Tom Zarek,
the charismatic convicted terrorist, is elected as the delegate from
Sagittaron and immediately proposes elections for the vice-presidency.
Roslin encourages her trusted adviser, Wallace Gray, to run against
Zarek, but when he proves less than popular, she turns to the suddenly
popular Baltar as her candidate.
Meanwhile, two shady and heavily armed characters, Grimes and Vallance,
have infiltrated the Quorum site. Lee and Kara foil the assassins'
plot, but then Vallance mysteriously dies in custody.
Light-years away, on Cylon-occupied Caprica, Sharon must make an
impossible choice if she is to save Helo's life, she must finally
reveal to him that she is a Cylon.
Jan 17, 2005: Kobol's Last Gleaming
(Part 1)
While flying a supply patrol, Crashdown and Sharon
Valerii discover a bountiful planet that can support human life.
Indeed, it might be Kobol, the legendary "home of the gods." The
discovery prompts Commander Adama to send a ground team to
investigate; it also gives new life to President Roslin's belief that
she is a tool of destiny and that this discovery, like her rapidly
spreading cancer, is part of an ancient prophecy.
However, things are not well on the Galactica. Gaius Baltar,
the new vice-president, has a one-night stand with Kara Thrace and
finds himself at odds with both Lee Adama and a deeply jealous Number
Six.
Meanwhile, both Cylon Sharons struggle with their dual natures. On
Galactica, she contemplates suicide when she realizes her
programming will lead her to betray her comrades; on Caprica, she
tries to convince Helo that her love for him is stronger than her
loyalty to the Cylons.
After a Raptor carrying Vice-President Baltar is shot down over Kobol,
Commander Adama must find a way to destroy the Cylon basestar that
guards the planet before he can send a rescue team. He orders Kara to
fly a dangerous mission against the basestar, using the captured Cylon
Raider but Kara makes an unauthorized Jump home to Caprica instead,
abandoning Adama and the stranded Raptor crew.
Jan 24, 2005: Kobol's Last Gleaming
(Part 2)
When Commander Adama learns that Kara disobeyed
orders and Jumped to Caprica on orders from President Roslin, he
demands the president's resignation, with the implied threat of a
military coup. Roslin refuses his demand and sparks a confrontation.
As civil war simmers in the fleet, the conflict on Caprica heats up.
Kara completes her mission for Laura: She finds the Arrow of Apollo
that, according to prophecy, will lead the fleet to Earth. No sooner
does she pick it up, however, than she is thrust into a battle to the
death with Number Six.
Meanwhile, Adama sends Sharon and Racetrack in a Raptor equipped with
a Cylon transponder, to fire a nuclear warhead that will destroy the
basestar. But when the missile release jams, Sharon lands the Raptor
deep inside the basestar, to deliver the warhead manually.
Once outside her ship, however, Sharon is greeted by dozens of Sharon
avatars, all Cylons like her, welcoming her home. She retreats, but is
told that she and her fellow Cylons will meet again. She and Racetrack
escape the basestar, which explodes.
Mission accomplished, Sharon returns home to the Galactica. She
warmly accepts Commander Adama's thanks and praise for a job well done
then she coldly shoots him, point-blank, in the chest.
Season Two
Jul 15, 2005: Scattered
With Commander Adama fighting for his life after being shot
by the Cylon infiltrator Sharon, and President Roslin languishing in the
Galactica's brig after losing the power struggle with Adama, Col. Tigh is
thrust into the unfamiliar role of the sole leader in a time of crisis.
The situation worsens quickly. First, Tigh sends Lee to the brig for siding with
Roslin against Commander Adama. Then an emergency jump to escape an incoming
Cylon force goes wrong, leaving Galactica alone in space, separated from
the rest of the fleet and from the medical help needed to save Adama's life.
As Tigh struggles to come to terms with this crisis, he thinks back on his
relationship with Adama, who saved him from oblivion and from his own fierce
temper, and tries to tap into some of the wisdom that his old friend offered
him.
It soon becomes clear that to reconnect with the fleet, Galactica must
jump back into danger over Kobol and network its computers, a highly risky move
that will make the ship vulnerable to attack from both the Cylon fighters and
their crippling computer viruses.
Meanwhile, on the surface of Kobol, Chief Tyrol and the rest of the downed
Raptor crew fight for their lives against an unseen enemy while Vice President
Baltar seeks solace in his visions of Number Six, only to find those visions
turn dark and haunting.
Light-years away, on Cylon-occupied Caprica, Kara and Helo must find some way to
bring the Arrow of Apollo back to the fleet but first they have to get it back
from the avatar of Number Six who has found it in the Delphi Museum.
Jul 22, 2005: Valley of
Darkness
The Galactica has succeeded in reuniting with the
fleet, but it has paid a terrible price: A Cylon computer virus has penetrated
its computers, robbing the ship of power, and Cylon Centurions have boarded the
Galactica and are battling their way to the ship's vulnerable centers.
Lee Adama, in the brig with President Roslin, persuades some marines to release
them. He orders Billy and Vedder to take the president to the sickbay disaster
shelter, where she'll be safe, and heads off with a squad of marines to defend
the ship's magazines.
In the CIC, however, Col. Tigh knows from bitter experience what the Cylons are
planning. The Centurions aren't going to blow up the ship; they're going to kill
the crew by venting the ship's air and then turn its guns on the rest of the
fleet. And only Lee whom Tigh despises for his "disloyalty" to Commander Adama
(i.e., support for the president) and his small squad of marines are in
position to stop the Cylon boarding party.
Meanwhile, on Cylon-occupied Caprica, Starbuck and Helo break into her old
apartment and fire up her old pickup truck.
Light-years away on Kobol, Chief Tyrol and his crew return from their risky
mission to get medical supplies for Socinus, only to realize that the wounded
man isn't going make it. Number Six warns Baltar that Socinus won't be the last
of the stranded Raptor crew to die and that of all the humans, Baltar alone
will live to see Earth.
Jul 29, 2005: Fragged
As Doc Cottle works to save Commander Adama's
life, Col. Tigh is beginning to realize that there's more to being a leader than
giving orders. The press is clamoring for answers, everyone wants a decision
now, and he feels himself being drawn to his old friend and enemy, the bottle.
Worst of all, the Quorum of Twelve has arrived on the Galactica and is
demanding to see President Roslin. Tigh resists, but his wife Ellen convinces
him that the president has lost her mind and that letting her meet with the
Quorum will only cement Tigh's power.
The plan backfires: Roslin's odd behavior was only a symptom of chamalla
withdrawal, and when she meets the other leaders she has recovered her
composure. She condemns Adama's action and announces that she is the leader,
spoken of in the Scrolls of Phylia, who will lead the people to Earth. Livid,
Tigh orders the Quorum off his ship.
Meanwhile, Lee Adama leads a search-and-rescue mission to find the Raptor crew
lost on Kobol, unaware that the Cylons have set up a missile battery in
anticipation of such an effort. It falls to the beleaguered survivors on the
ground to knock out the Cylon artillery before Galactica's rescue team
flies into the trap.
Unfortunately, Chief Tyrol has serious misgivings about Crashdown's plan to
destroy the missile battery and about the lieutenant's ability to lead a team
of non-combat personnel against high-tech killing machines.
Vice President Baltar has even graver doubts because Number Six has warned him
that one of their number will betray the others on Kobol.
Aug 05, 2005: Resistance
Col. Tigh's imposition of martial law threatens to
split the crew and the fleet. He's thrown Chief Tyrol into the brig on suspicion
of being a Cylon and his dismissal of the Quorum has provoked the other ships to
refuse to send fuel and other supplies to the Galactica. His judgment
blurred by drink and the goading of his ambitious wife, Ellen, Tigh sends armed
troops to one of the ships to take supplies by force, a move that ends in
disaster when civilians are killed.
Amid this chaos, Lee schemes to free President Roslin to establish a democratic
opposition. He makes a break for freedom with Roslin, while Roslin's close aide
Billy chooses to stay behind. Tigh threatens to shoot down the Raptor carrying
Roslin away from the Galactica, but he can't bring himself to kill his
friend's only surviving son, and Lee and Roslin escape into the fleet at large.
Meanwhile, Baltar uses Sharon's love for Tyrol to intimidate her into revealing
how many Cylons are lurking in the fleet.
On Cylon-occupied Caprica, Kara and Helo find themselves in a standoff against
other humans. Cooler heads prevail, and the pilots meet their new allies: a
group of 53 survivors, led by Anders and Sue-Shaun, members of a professional
pyramid team that survived the nuclear holocaust because they were training in
the mountains. Kara enlists their help in her mission to get off Caprica.
Aug 12, 2005: The Farm
Commander Adama returns to a hero's welcome and an
unenviable task: In order to maintain control of the fleet, he must track down
his son, Lee, and President Roslin, who have escaped (with Tom Zarek's help)
into hiding somewhere in the fleet. Adama orders all ships in the fleet
searched.
Meanwhile, Lee and Roslin prepare to send a message to the rest of the fleet
seeking popular support. When the time comes, however, Lee can't bring himself
to publicly condemn his father.
With no other choice, Roslin plays "the religious card" to save the human race.
She declares herself to be the voice of the prophet Pythia. Her announcement
sends shockwaves throughout the fleet's population.
Finally, unable to hide any longer, her ship makes the jump back to Kobol, where
she plans to seek the road to Earth. To the surprise of many on the Galactica,
and to Roslin herself, nearly one-third of the fleet follows her to Kobol.
Far away, on Cylon-occupied Caprica, Kara goes on a recon with the resistance
fighters and is wounded in a firefight. She finds herself being nursed back to
health by Simon, an attentive doctor who tells that she can better serve the
human race by having babies than by fighting Cylons.
When Kara awakens with a new scar, though, she begins to suspect that neither
Simon nor the hospital are what they seem. Sneaking out of her locked room, she
discovers that Simon is a Cylon, and she kills him. Making a bid for freedom,
she stumbles upon a chilling sight: a room full of women, including resistance
fighter Sue-Shaun, wired up by the Cylons to serve as baby machines.
Aug 19, 2005: Home (1)
Following the lead of President Roslin and Tom
Zarek, more than one-third of the fleet has split from the Galactica and
jumped into orbit around Kobol. Tensions arise within the rebel ranks on the
Astral Queen as Zarek and his security chief, Meier, face off with Lee Adama.
Those tensions increase when Kara and Helo return from Caprica with Sharon, who
is now pregnant and a dead ringer for the Cylon who tried to assassinate
Commander Adama. Roslin orders Sharon put to death, but after meeting with her,
she learns that the Cylon might be their best hope for finding the Tomb of
Athena and the route to Earth.
Doubt nags at Roslin, however: Is Sharon motivated by love for Helo, or by a
desire to betray her captors? Regardless, she's a key player in Roslin's team as
it lands on Kobol. With Zarek and Meier plotting fresh treacheries, the
prophecies continue to unfold in bloody fashion.
On the Galactica, Adama and Col. Tigh weigh their losses and rebuild the
air group's chain of command, which has been plunged into disarray by the
defections of Lee and Kara. Adama selects Lt. George "Catman" Birch to replace
Lee as CAG (Commander, Air Group).
Birch's first day on the job begins with a harrowing mishap during a Viper-pilot
training exercise, then he turns a routine refueling operation into a
near-disaster.
Following an uncomfortable meeting with Dualla, Adama is forced to admit that
there is no substitute for the people the fleet has lost. He orders a Raptor be
prepped to take him and a small team back to Kobol, so that he can find Roslin
and Lee and put the fleet back together.
Aug 26, 2005: Home (2)
Following a firefight with Cylon Centurions and
the death of her spiritual advisor Elosha, President Laura Roslin treks onward
with her confederates in search of the Tomb of Athena. Heavy rain and Kobol's
rugged terrain make the journey difficult for all except the tireless Sharon.
Tom Zarek again butts heads with Lee Adama, inspiring Zarek's henchman Meier to
consider drastic measures that will clear the path to power for his old friend.
Meanwhile, aboard the Galactica, Gaius Baltar questions his sanity as
Number Six toys with him, and Commander Adama mounts a rescue mission to Kobol.
Adama enlists presidential aide Billy Keikeya to join his quest for peace with
the rebels. After discovering Elosha's grave on Kobol, the Galactica
landing party continues its search and finally intercepts Roslin and her group.
Putting aside old conflicts, Adama opens the door to peaceful reconciliation for
all.
Meier, however, sees the dιtente between Adama and Roslin as a renewed threat to
the rightful power of Tom Zarek, and he conspires with Sharon to murder Adama,
Lee and the president.
Finding the ransacked tomb, the unified team struggles to unlock its secrets
with the Arrow of Apollo. Before they can do so, however, Meier and Sharon
spring their ambush, leaving everyone's fates uncertain as the triggers are
pulled...
Sept 02, 2005: Final Cut
Now that the fleet is reunited, old conflicts
reignite. Criticism of the military reaches a fever pitch in the aftermath of
the massacre on the Gideon. During the period of martial law, a team of
Galactica's marines, led by pilot Lt. Palladino, had opened fire on
civilian protesters aboard the civilian freighter.
Col. Tigh, commanding officer during the incident which left four civilians dead
and a dozen others wounded, receives a death threat. Shortly afterward, he very
nearly falls victim to an act of sabotage. It is decided that steps must be
taken to ratchet down the rhetoric, on both sides of the dispute.
Intent on improving relations between the civilian fleet and the military,
President Roslin and Commander Adama offer Fleet News Service reporter D'Anna
Biers unlimited access to the Galactica officers and crew. With her cameraman in
tow, D'Anna interviews a series of stressed-out pilots, crew hands and officers.
Gaius Baltar, urged on by Number Six, hopes to gain D'Anna's support in his
political ambitions.
D'Anna stumbles onto one of the Galactica's most explosive secrets,
however, when she encounters the Cylon prisoner Sharon, whose unborn child is
saved by the quick actions of Dr. Cottle following a near-miscarriage. And when
Louanne "Kat" Katraine, wired on stimulants, crash-lands her Viper, D'Anna must
decide whether she'll fashion her report as a hatchet job or as a more nuanced
portrait of life aboard the Galactica.
The arrival of two Cylon attack ships clarifies D'Anna's thinking as does a
potentially deadly ambush that puts Tigh and his wife in the gunsights of a
crazed, would-be assassin.
Sept 09, 2005: Flight of
the Phoenix
Commander Adama is keenly aware that morale is at
a low point after what he terms "months on the run with little to show for it
but casualties and deteriorating conditions."
Chief Tyrol, still haunted by his memories of the first Cylon Sharon, is in a
bleak mood. He verbally spars with Capt. Lee Adama and gets into a drunken
punch-up with Helo, who remains romantically committed to the current avatar of
Sharon.
After sending one more dilapidated Viper to the scrap heap, Tyrol vents his
frustration by attempting to build a new plane from salvaged parts. His
seemingly impossible mission generates cynicism at first, then growing respect
and eventually a full team effort that pulls in even the skeptical Col. Tigh.
Meanwhile, a Cylon virus penetrates the Galactica's computers. It wreaks
havoc by creating dangerous power surges, an unscheduled engine ignition and a
near-fatal oxygen shut-down. Once the virus is identified by Gaius Baltar as a
Cylon "logic bomb," Sharon, who remains imprisoned in the Galactica's
brig, is enlisted to defuse a threat that she immediately recognizes as the
prelude to a Cylon assault.
Adama orders the fleet to jump to new coordinates while the Galactica
stays behind to wipe the virus from its computers and contend with a massive
assault by more than 200 Cylon Raiders. Though Sharon's motivations are in doubt
do the Cylons really pose a danger to her unborn child, or is she working some
deep Cylon agenda? she turns the computer virus against the attacking Cylon
fleet and enables the Galactica and her vastly outnumbered Viper
squadrons to win the battle without taking any casualties.
Flush with the thrill of victory, the crew's spirits soar higher still when
Tyrol's lab project takes flight as a powerful new model of stealth ship that
they name the Blackbird.
Sept 16, 2005: Pegasus
The mood aboard the Galactica turns jubilant when the
top-of-the-line battlestar Pegasus long thought to have been
annihilated with the rest of the colonial fleet appears out of nowhere.
The Galactica's relatively ragged crew meets their spit-and-polish
counterparts from the Pegasus, among them Admiral Helena Cain; her X.O.,
Col. Jack Fisk; and the ship's CAG, Capt. Cole "Stinger" Taylor. Cain warmly
greets Commander Adama, who chooses to yield command of the fleet to his
superior officer.
In private, Adama and Cain compare notes. Cain reveals that the Pegasus
crew had taken its computers offline for servicing shortly before the original
Cylon assault and therefore was able to escape the nuclear genocide. Since then,
the ship has been on a relentless search-and-destroy mission against the Cylons.
Each battlestar holds a single Cylon prisoner. Because Vice President Gaius
Baltar has successfully extracted information from Sharon, Cain invites him to
study her Cylon captive on the Pegasus a bruised and bloodied replica
of Six named Gina.
It is revealed that the Pegasus encountered the Galactica while
tracking a Cylon fleet, which itself appears to have been pursuing the
Galactica. Plans are laid for both battlestars to attack a mysterious vessel
guarded by this fleet.
However, Adama fumes when Cain announces that, due to rampant discipline
problems on the Galactica, she will be reassigning key crewmembers from
the Galactica to the Pegasus. Later, sparks fly quickly when
Stinger maps out a reconnaissance plan that Starbuck bluntly criticizes.
Meanwhile, Lt. Thorne, the chief interrogator from the Pegasus, sets out
to "break" Sharon like he broke Gina. Learning of Thorne's brutal tactics, Helo
and Tyrol rush to Sharon's aid. A fistfight ensues, and Thorne is accidentally
killed.
Cain orders a snap court-martial, and both Helo and Tyrol are sentenced to
death. Refusing to allow his men to be convicted and executed without a full
tribunal and the opportunity to mount a legal defense, Commander Adama initiates
a high-stakes game of chicken that leads to Vipers from both ships training
weapons on each other.
Jan 06, 2006: Resurrection
Ship (Part 1)
Lt. Kara "Starbuck" Thrace prevents a potentially deadly
face-off between the battlestars Galactica and Pegasus when she
returns at the last second from her unauthorized mission in the blackbird
stealth fighter, bearing stunning recon photos of the Cylons' "resurrection"
ship.
Unable to resist this tempting target, Commander William Adama and Admiral
Helena Cain establish an uneasy truce as they agree to prioritize the
destruction of the resurrection ship, and table their personal and professional
conflicts for now.
Adama remains distrustful, however, when he learns that Cain's
survive-at-all-costs attitude led her to order the Pegasus crew to
abandon its own civilian fleet months ago. Disturbed by this news, President
Laura Roslin suspects that, as soon as the resurrection ship is destroyed, Cain
will jettison Galactica's civilian fleet, as well.
As he continues his power struggle against Cain, Adama must make an impossible
decision, on the eve of a battle that could change the face of the Cylon war and
decide the fate of the human race.
Jan 13, 2006: Resurrection
Ship (Part 2)
The battlestars Pegasus and Galactica go
head-to-head with Cylon baseships in a battle that will change the face of the
war. But for Lt. Kara Thrace, the real war is with her conscience, as she steels
herself to carry out Commander Adama's order to assassinate Admiral Cain.
When Lee Adama hears from Kara of the order, he confronts his father and
challenges the morality and the legality of the order but Commander Adama
remains resolute. For the good of the fleet, he tells his son, Admiral Cain must
be eliminated.
Meanwhile, in the Pegasus brig, Pegasus crewmembers brutally
assault Galactica prisoners Chief Galen Tyrol and Lt. Karl Agathon, as
revenge for the murder of one of their officers. Only a timely intervention by
the Pegasus's XO halts the beating before it becomes fatal.
As the battle to destroy the Cylons' "Resurrection Ship" intensifies, members of
both battlestars' crews are forced to decide how much of their humanity they are
willing to sacrifice in order to survive. Ultimately, the fight that begins with
heroic self-sacrifice ends in a white-knuckle test of two Commanders' courage
and their character.
Jan 20, 2006: Epiphanies
Cancer-stricken President Laura Roslin lies near
death in the Galactica's sickbay. Still lucid and in command, she
orders that the pregnancy of the Cylon spy Sharon be terminated, after
inexplicable properties are discovered in a fetal blood sample.
Dr. Gaius Baltar, who, as vice president, is poised to assume the
presidency upon Roslin's death, protests that a half-human, half-Cylon
child would make an ideal case study; the child's father, Lt. Karl "Helo"
Agathon, also is outraged by Roslin's decision.
Admiral Adama is determined to carry out Roslin's final decree until
Baltar discovers that the hybrid fetus's blood cells might possess
fantastic healing properties.
Meanwhile, a secret group of Cylon sympathizers resorts to sabotage to
demand that humanity sue for peace with the Cylons. Adama arrests their
leader, Royan Jahee, but the group continues its violent revolt, bombing
the tylium refinery ship, leaving the fleet short of fuel and vulnerable
to enemy attack.
An even more ominous threat emerges when Baltar once again connects with
Gina, a flesh-and-blood version of the Number Six who lives in his head.
Gina has infiltrated the sympathizers' ranks, in an effort to promote
the Cylon agenda.
Baltar realizes that President Roslin doesn't trust him to succeed her
as president and that she might, in fact, know of his affiliation with
Caprica Six, who sabotaged the Colonial defenses. He discreetly arranges
for a nuclear warhead to fall into the hands of Gina and the Cylon
sympathizers, placing the entire fleet in mortal jeopardy.
Jan 27, 2006: Black Market
A thriving black market in food, medicine and luxury
items has developed within the fleet, serving the rich and depriving the
needy of essential goods.
When Pegasus's commanding officer, Commander Jack Fisk, is found
brutally murdered in his private quarters surrounded by a cache of
cigarettes, liquor and jewelry, Lt. Lee Adama is appointed chief
investigator.
Lee discovers that Fisk was fronting a racketeering operation that
ostensibly involves other prominent military and civilian authorities.
The suspects include Quorum representative Tom Zarek and Vice President
Gaius Baltar, who is angered by President Laura Roslin's suggestion that
he resign, for the good of the office.
The investigation becomes personal for Lee when a gang of black-market
thugs kidnaps Shevon a prostitute with whom he has developed an
intimate relationship and her young daughter, Paya. The gangsters
threaten to kill Shevon unless Lee abandons his investigation.
Intensifying his efforts, Lee tracks the gang's ringleader, Phelan,
to the Prometheus, a renegade freighter packed with contraband.
During a tense standoff, he brokers a Machiavellian deal with the
criminals while gaining unsavory insights into human nature including
the true depth of his own depression and the burden of a guilt he has
carried for far too long
.
Feb 03, 2006: Scar
The colonial mining ship Majahual has been
working around the clock for a month extracting essential metals from an
asteroid. The fleet has moved on, leaving Galactica behind to
guard the miners from persistent Cylon raids.
The viper pilots' deadliest foe is an enemy Raider that they've
nicknamed "Scar" the combat-savvy reincarnation of countless Cylon
warriors that boasts a growing list of human kills. Hiding out in the
asteroid belt, Scar is a master of hit-and-run attacks that are
decimating the war-weary Viper squadrons and forcing them to throw
inexperienced replacement pilots into the fray.
The shaken pilots, led by Capt. Lee "Apollo" Adama, cover their distress
at the mounting casualties by adopting a hardboiled demeanor. But
neither booze nor a lustful encounter with Lee can vanquish the
battle-fatigue or the demons that haunt Lt. Kara "Starbuck" Thrace.
Tempers explode between Kara and Lt. Louanne "Kat" Katraine, who insists
that Starbuck is dangerously off her game. A fierce competition ensues
as to which of them will obliterate Scar.
But when Scar traps both Starbuck and Kat in an ambush, Kara must
swallow her pride and support her brash young rival in a climactic
dogfight against the Cylons' top gun.
Feb 10, 2006: Sacrifices
Fleet-wide paranoia reaches a new peak when word
leaks out that the Cylon Sharon is secretly being kept alive aboard the
Galactica.
Sesha Abinell, a civilian who is grieving her husband's tragic death
during a Cylon raid several weeks earlier, is incensed by the thought of
a Cylon agent being trusted to provide intelligence to Galactica's
officers. She is convinced that the Cylon is manipulating Admiral Adama
and leading the fleet to its destruction.
Assisted by three sympathizers, Sesha takes drastic action. She pulls a
weapon in a bar aboard the luxury ship Cloud Nine and holds its
occupants hostage among them Ellen Tigh and the uneasy romantic
triangle of Lee Adama, Anastasia Dualla and Billy Kekeiya. Sesha's
demand is simple: Turn over the Cylon spy Sharon Valerii to be executed,
or else the hostages will die.
Lee is at first able to avoid detection; he tries to undermine Sesha and
her accomplices by triggering mechanical malfunctions. He is soon
flushed out, however, and Sesha makes it clear to Admiral Adama that if
Sharon isn't surrendered to her, she will kill his son.
Kara Thrace makes a bold move in an effort to rescue the hostages, but
the op goes terribly wrong and Lee is critically wounded. With time
running out, Admiral Adama endorses a desperate plan to end that
stalemate, with disastrous consequences. Sesha's wrath exacts a
heartbreaking toll when an innocent human life is sacrificed on her
altar of vengeance.
Feb 17, 2006: The Captains Hand
On the Galactica, movement inside a cargo
container draw the suspicion of Tyrol and his deck crew. When the box is
opened, a stowaway is found inside, a pregnant 17-year-old girl named
Rya Kibby. Once in custody, she asks to be brought to Doc Cottle.
Meanwhile, a pair of Raptors from the Pegasus, out on a training
exercise in a region of intense radiation that interferes with
communications, relay a garbled distress signal back to the Pegasus,
under the command of the recently promoted engine room chief, Commander
Barry Garner. Before Garner and his crew can verify the Raptors'
transmission, the Raptors jump away and vanish from the fleet's dradis
screens.
Ratcheting up the tension aboard the Pegasus is the running feud
between Garner and flight training supervisor Capt. Kara "Starbuck"
Thrace, a battle of wills that is only made worse by the arrival of
Garner's interim XO Lee "Apollo" Adama, newly promoted to the rank of
major.
Back on the Galactica, Rya Kibby's desire to exercise her legal
right to an abortion, and the revelation that Doc Cottle has been
providing this service to women in the fleet for the past few months,
becomes an incendiary political issue. The fleet's pro-life Gemenon
faction threatens to pull its support for President Laura Roslin unless
she condemns the practice of abortion and makes it illegal.
Aboard the Pegasus, Commander Garner proves unequal to the
responsibility of commanding a battlestar. He insists on mounting a
quixotic rescue mission, despite Starbuck's insistence that the signal
the Raptors followed was almost certainly a Cylon trap. But when Garner
disobeys a direct order from Admiral Adama and orders the Pegasus
to go after its missing aircraft, it's up to Apollo to take action and
prevent the Pegasus and her crew from becoming the Cylons' next
victims.
As the abortion debate flares throughout the fleet, Roslin is forced to
take a stand on the issue. Recognizing that every potential life counts
in a shrinking human population, Roslin ponders an executive order that
will create a wedge issue one which Gaius Baltar is almost certain to
exploit as he launches his own surprise bid for the Colonial presidency.
Feb 24, 2006: Downloaded
On Caprica, the reincarnated Number Six and Sharon
Valerii are hailed as "Heroes of the Cylon" for the key roles they
played in the near-destruction of the human race.
But these are tortured heroes. Six's thoughts are haunted by Baltar,
just as she haunts his thoughts on the Galactica. Sharon,
meanwhile, has so fervently embraced her love for Tyrol and the fake
human memories the Cylons created for her undercover mission, that the
Cylon leadership D'Anna and Doral are thinking of "boxing" her:
putting her consciousness into permanent cold storage, a living death.
Elsewhere on Caprica, the human resistance, under the leadership of Kara
Thrace's lover, Samuel Anders, is preparing to strike a savage blow,
however futile it might ultimately be, against the Cylon occupation. As
the fates of Caprica Sharon and Sam Anders converge, the future of two
peoples hinges upon an arbitrary twist of fate
.
On the Galactica, the captive Sharon gives premature birth to
Hera, the child she conceived with Helo. As the infant fights for her
life, she becomes the focus of intrigue. President Roslin and the Cylons
hidden within the fleet scheme against each other for control of the
newborn girl, and to determine whether she will become a symbol of hope
... or a harbinger of human extinction.
Mar 03, 2006: Lay Down Your Burdens (Part 1)
Aboard the Pegasus, Capt. Kara Thrace briefs a
room full of Raptor crews and marines for a dangerous, volunteer-only
mission to Caprica, to rescue the civilian survivors on the planet's
surface. Using information obtained from the captive Cylon Sharon,
they've linked their Raptors' navigation systems to the superior
navigational capabilities of their captured Cylon heavy raider.
Meanwhile, in separate private quarters on the Galactica,
President Roslin and Vice President Baltar each prepare notes for their
first presidential debate, to be televised to the fleet. As Roslin
memorizes her talking points, Baltar is hectored by Six's religious
exhortations to have faith that the election will unfold as "God
intends."
As the rest of the fleet watches the start of the presidential debate,
Specialist Cally finds Chief Tyrol asleep under a Viper. She reaches out
and wakes him and he explodes to consciousness, reflexively lashes out
and pummels her with a raging, brutal assault. Then he regains control,
is horrified by what he's done, and calls desperately for medical
assistance.
After the first debate, President Roslin enjoys a commanding lead over
Baltar in the polls. Then, as if in response to Baltar's sarcastic plea
for a miracle, one of the raptors from the Caprica rescue mission
returns early with stunning news: Because of a miscalculated jump,
they've accidentally discovered a habitable planet, in a region of space
that will hide them from the Cylons' sensors.
On the advice of Tom Zarek, Baltar uses the planet's discovery as a
political wedge issue. He fans the civilian population's desire for a
new home, a safe home, an end to the constant running. Popular opinion
swings sharply against Roslin, who is unprepared to give up the search
for Earth.
Tyrol seeks counseling from a priest named Brother Cavil, who gets the
chief to talk about the nightmares that have plagued him for weeks.
Finally, Cavil helps Tyrol confront what's really bothering him:
Somewhere deep down inside, Tyrol is afraid that he might, like Sharon,
really be a Cylon.
Light-years away on Caprica, the Colonial rescue mission reaches Sam
Anders and his surviving resistance fighters. No sooner are Kara and Sam
reunited, however, than they find themselves caught in the midst of a
Cylon ambush.
Mar 10, 2006: Lay Down Your Burdens (Part 2)
As the sun rises on Caprica, Starbuck and Anders
discover that the Cylons have vanished. Brother Cavil declares it to be
a miracle. But when the rescue team and civilian survivors return to the
Galactica, the real reason for their survival become clear:
Brother Cavil is a Cylon his duplicate counseled Tyrol and he has
come here to deliver a message: The "Heroes of the Cylon" Number Six
and Sharon Valerii have persuaded the Cylon leadership that trying to
destroy the humans was an error. From now on the two civilizations will
live apart, in peace.
At the same time, voting continues in the Colonial presidential
election. President Roslin approaches Baltar and proposes that, whoever
wins, colonization of the newly discovered planet should be postponed
until further study is done. Baltar spurns her offer, so she confronts
him about Number Six, but he remains unfazed by her accusation.
Panicked at the thought of Baltar taking control of humanity's fate,
Roslin instructs her aide to take all necessary steps to steal the
election. The plot, however, is discovered by Lt. Gaeta, and Laura and
Adama must choose between denying the will of the people and letting a
man they suspect to be a Cylon collaborator take power. For Laura, the
question is difficult, but the answer is never in doubt: she and Adama
allow their plot to unravel. Baltar wins.
As President Baltar is sworn in, his Cylon lover, Gina, enacts a final
vengeance against the fleet, detonating a nuclear warhead that destroys
the Cloud Nine luxury liner. Despite the tragic loss of several
ships, colonization of the planet dubbed "New Caprica" goes ahead
over Adama's objections.
Time passes; more and more of the fleet's population relocates to the
surface, leaving only skeleton crews aboard the Galactica and the
Pegasus. Through it all, Adama remains uneasy; he anticipates the
return of the Cylons. And a year later, his fears are borne out, as a
Cylon invasion force jumps into the system and lands on New Caprica.
Outflanked and overpowered, Adama and his son Lee order their
battlestars out of the system leaving the civilian colony defenseless
as a Cylon occupying force arrives to announce the dawn of a new era....
