"Battlestar Galactica" Six of One (2008)

User Rating:

8.0/10   

Director:

Anthony Hemingway

Writers:

Ronald D. Moore (developer)
Michael Angeli (written by)

TV Series:

"Battlestar Galactica" (2004)

Original Air Date:

11 April 2008 (Season 4, Episode 2)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Starbuck (Katee Sackhoff) and Laura Roslin (Mary McDonnell) face off with a gun between them, Lee Adama (Jamie Bamber) says goodbye to the Galactica, violent conflict breaks out between the seven models aboard Cylon Basestar, and Gaius Baltar (James Callis) is directly pulled into the "Final Five" situation.

Plot Keywords:

Cylon | Space | Guilt | Robot | Refugee

Cast

Edward James Olmos	...	Admiral William Adama
Mary McDonnell	...	President Laura Roslin
Katee Sackhoff	...	Captain Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace
Jamie Bamber	...	Lee Adama
James Callis	...	Dr. Gaius Baltar
Tricia Helfer	...	Number Six / Natalie
Grace Park	...	Lt. Sharon 'Athena' Agathon / Lt. Sharon 'Boomer' Valerii
Michael Hogan	...	Colonel Saul Tigh
Aaron Douglas	...	Chief Galen Tyrol
Tahmoh Penikett	...	Captain Karl 'Helo' Agathon
Michael Trucco	...	Ensign Samuel Anders
Alessandro Juliani	...	Lt. Felix Gaeta (credit only)
Kandyse McClure	...	Lt. Anastasia Dualla
Callum Keith Rennie	...	Leoben Conoy
Rick Worthy	...	Simon

Company:

David Eick Productions

Trivia:

During Apollo's send-off ceremony, the cases along the walls contain a mixture of props and real military insignia and awards. Most obvious is the rank insignia of a USAF Airman and a USAF Staff Sergeant directly behind Apollo and Admiral Adama.

Quotes:

The Hybrid: [montage of cross-fading images of various Cylon models listening to the Hybrid as she speaks] The excited state decays by vibrational relaxation into the first excited singlet state. Yes, yes, and merrily we go. Reduce atmospheric nitrogen by 0.03%. It is not much consolation that society will pick up the bits. Leaving us at eight modern, where punishment rather than interdiction is paramount. Please cut the fuse. They will not harm their own. End of line. Limiting diffusions to two dimensions increases the number of evolutionary jumps within the species. Rise and measure the Temple of the Five. Transformation is the goal. They will not harm their own.
[fade to a meeting of Cylons: a One, a Two, a Six and an Eight]
The Hybrid: Data-font synchronization complete.
Number Six: The Hybrid is clearly telling us something.
Brother Cavil: [seated authoritatively behind a desk] The Hybrid is always telling us something. They are supposed to maintain operations on each ship, not vomit metaphysics.
[looks for support from the others with no avail]
Brother Cavil: All right. I give up. What? What is she trying to tell us?
Lt. Sharon 'Athena' Agathon: They're in the Colonial Fleet with the humans.
Brother Cavil: They? They who?
Leoben Conoy: The Final Five.
[...]

Movie Connections:

Featured in The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards (2008) (TV)

Redemption and Self-Destruction

In this second episode of BSG's fourth and final season, the series returns to the innovative, desperate, emotional drama which has allowed it to succeed over the last few years. Starbuck, suspected of being a Cylon, is losing more of her sanity with each successive jump away from earth. Lee Adama is preparing to permanently leave the military, his father is deeply conflicted by competing reason and intuition, and the four recently revealed cylons aboard Galactica have begun to plan for flushing out the unknown last of their number. Baltar is number one on their list. Meanwhile, aboard a cylon base star, some very radical changes are taking place.

The episode opens new avenues of inquiry while expanding on the major story arcs which have already been cultivated for the fourth season. Outstanding performances by Sackhoff, McDonnell and McClure drive this wild, powerful episode.

BSG is back, in more ways than one.