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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mighty Blogger Snay: [QB] Wow. Where to begin � ? In brief: Galactica is more than happily surprised when the Battlestar Pegasus shows up. Too bad Adama didn�t order the FTL jump when he had the chance. Long story short, fleet command is taken from Adama by Admiral Cain, who outranks him. She also apparently doesn�t really care to respect the civillian government as evidenced by her snubbing of President Roslin. At first Cain is all, �Oh, everything is cool� � then she�s all, �We�re going to reassign people!� I.E.: Starbuck and Apollo to Pegasus. Later, after Helo and Tyrol intervene when a Pegasus officer tries to rape Sharon Mk II � killing that fat windbag in the process � she moves quickly to bring them back to her ship where she arranges their executions. Adama is really not happy about this and orders his Marines to suit up and head over to Pegasus with a full Viper escort. Cain responds by launching her own, newer, Vipers: she�s got a lot more. That�s where the episode ends. Son of a bitch! January, get here now! Here�s one big thing I don�t get � a big deal has been made in the way Galactica avoided the Cylon attack. See, the Cylons had access to the Colonial Defense Ministry and were able to sneak �sleeper viruses� into the computer programs that aid the operation of starships and fighters. This is demonstrated early in the miniseries when most of Galactica�s Viper Mark VIIs, preparing to engage Cylon fighters, suddenly experience complete system failure and are promptly destroyed. Aiding in Galactica�s survival were the many older Mark II fighters in her museum exhibit: fueled and armed, the Cylon fighters were unable to activate the sleeper virus and cause them to power down. Yet here we�ve got the Pegasus, and a ton of Mark VIIs in operating condition � I�m presuming that at some point some member of Pegasus� crew deduced what was causing the massive reports of losses and wiped the computer memory of the ship and her fighters. Still, it seems odd that the ship could survive even one encounter with the Cylons after their blind FTL jump. Is there a decent member of the Pegasus� crew? They all seem like a bunch of stuck up shitbags. I take that back � Fisk seems like a good guy, and a few of the pilots seem okay too, even the CAG (though he�s certainly got an ass-streak). Lt. Thorn certainly doesn�t get any points in my book � I think I know why he enjoys raping Cylonsit�s probably the only way he can get his tiny pecker serviced. I bet his off-duty passions include coercing young female enlisted crew into fucking him. Piece. Of. Shit. I wish he could have suffered a bit, though. I should explain that Pegasus also had a Cylon aboard � one of the Six models, although we don�t know in what capacity � crewmember? Part of the retrofit team? In any case, it is eventually aluded to that she was used to sexually pleasure the male crewmembers. When Baltar sees her, she looks quite unlike the glamerous Six we�ve all come to know and fear. There really is quite a contrast between these two ships � most noticeable is the technology level. The Pegasus has sliding doors! I also notice they like to keep their officers and enlisted folk segregated in the CIC. I don�t like the Pegasus � I like the atmosphere of Galactica, what with her manual doors, pressure valves, and un-Star Trek like interior. (According to the video blog of David Eick, many of the Pegasus sets were recycled from a FOX pilot that never made it into production: a remake of Lost in Space). Chills. Chills at seeing Adama march through Galactica�s corridors on his way to CIC to resolve the situation with Tyrol and Helo. I suppose if Cain was bothering to respect the office of the president, Adama could�ve made an appeal to Roslin to intervene. Regardless, the episode ends with one hell of a cliffhanger: a ton of Pegasus� Viper Mark VIIs, and a handful of Galactica�s Mark IIs, squaring off. Eep! ** Sci-Fi did an original series Battlestar Galactica marathon a few weeks ago. One of the episodes was �Living Legend�, where Lloyd Bridges played Commander Cain of the Battlestar Pegasus. The end of the episode, Cain committed his ship to a near suicidal run on a Cylon force so that the Galactica and the fleet could escape. Most of Pegasus� fighters were evacuated to Galactica. So, here�s my predicition for the conclusion: no shots are fired between Vipers for whatever reason � Cylons show up, pilots on both sides are reluctant to fire on each other, Cain heeds her XO�s advice, et al. Helo and Tyrol may well be executed. Apollo, Tyler, and Starbuck return from their mission with info on the mysterious Cylon ship: a joint attack is launched, and Pegasus is heavily damaged. Cain evacuates her fighters to Galactica, which rejoins the fleet, while Pegasus stays and fights to buy the survivors of humanity enough time to escape. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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