Galactica discovers sister ship in 'Pegasus' (http://www.gateworld.net/galactica/news/2005/06/galacticadiscoverssistersh.shtml)

TUESDAY - JUNE 28, 2005

The crew of the Battlestar Galactica will discover that theirs isn't the last surviving battlestar of the Twelve Colonies in an upcoming episode of the series, GateWorld has learned. Inspired by the original series episode "Living Legend" starring Lloyd Bridges as Commander Cain, "Pegasus" will air mid-way through the show's second season.

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President Laura Roslin, Apollo, and Starbuck have returned to the fleet, and apparently patched things up with Commander Adama. Roslin is recognized as the President again, and must step up to the plate when the Galactica encounters another battlestar roaming the stars. It is the Battlestar Pegasus, a Mercury-class battlestar more advanced than the Galactica, commanded by female Admiral Nelena Cain.

Cain tells Adama and Roslin that the Battlestar Pegasus was docking at the Scorpion Fleet Shipyard, its crew preparing for an extended shore leave when the Cylon attack began. The Cylons nuked the shipyard without warning, destroying other battlestars and killing a quarter of the Pegasus's crew in a moment. To save the ship and the surviving crew, Cain ordered a blind jump -- no calculations, no direction. The ship could have ended up anywhere.

In the many weeks since, Cain and the Pegasus have had their share of run-ins with the Cylons. A humanoid Cylon came on board the ship at Scorpion disguised as a civilian dock worker and became friends with the crew, only to betray them later. Another 800 died when the Cylons were tipped off and boarded the Pegasus.

After catching up, Cain and Adama begin to discuss the fleet's future -- and Roslin realizes that Adama reports to the Admiral. Cain is in charge now. Laura is somewhat trepidatious, but very glad to have the lost ship back with them. Cain informs the commander that a Cylon fleet they have been tracking -- including two base ships, support ships, and one massive vessel they could not identify -- has been following the Galactica.

Cain intends to combine their forces for an all-out attack on the large ship, and Adama doesn't hesitate to agree. But there is one catch: After reviewing the Galactica's mission logs, the Admiral intends to integrate the crews and reassign some personnel to the Pegasus ... including Starbuck and Apollo.

The decisions send tensions into the statosphere, as Kara and Lee balk at the new orders. And when a lieutenant is assaulted and killed, both Helo and Chief Tyrol are arrested for courts martial. The Admiral's decision regarding their trial and their fate fractures the tenuous relationship between the two battlestars, forcing Adama to take drastic measures for his men.

Guest characters include Admiral Nelena Cain, Stinger (a pilot from the Pegasus, perhaps its CAG), Fisk, Lieutenant Thorne (the assault victim), Gina (a female Cylon captured by the Pegasus and studied by Baltar), and Petty Officer Hoshi (a Pegasus CIC officer).

"Pegasus" is the first of a multi-part episode, ending on a tense cliffhanger. It is not yet known whether this will serve as the mid-season finale in September, though the gravity of the story makes this likely.

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Check out themonkeycabal's blog (http://www.livejournal.com/users/themonkeycabal/77963.html) for more in-depth info on what happened at the BSG Con, Katee's and Tricia's comments, funny season one goofs and moments, and their characters back stories.

Now on to the spoilers:

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* There's a new blonde on the set, and it's Lucy Lawless. She plays an investigative reporter doing a documentary on the military, in an effort to try and clean up the military's public image, which is not particularly great as the season opens. Gee, I wonder why.

* There was a cast bet on who would call LL "Xena" first. It was Katee. In a scene where Kara is punching a heavy bag, Katee manages to knock the bag off its hook to the floor. She decides that's a very impressive feat and pumps her arms in the air in victory. Then she tells Lucy, "you think you're so tough, Xena?" Lucy then proceeds to ride the fallen punching bag like a bronco. I ... yeah.

* Starbuck is extremely conflicted about her feelings towards Boomer. Boomer was her best friend for seven years. She may be a Cylon now, but Katee says that the things they did and shared during that time were real. Starbuck will find herself stepping between Boomer and various guns and/or things that might hurt Boomer, and she asks herself why she's willing to take a bullet for a Cylon.

* According to Tricia, Helo asks Boomer if the models Cylons are all connected, if they each know what the other knows. Boomer tells him it's tactile, they know what they can feel, smell, taste. They share a consciousness, but they are seperate beings. I took this to mean all of one model share a consciousness, rather than all the Cylons together.

* There will be a new love interest on BSG for Starbuck this year. Michael Trucco, who played Lt. Henry on "Pensacola: Wings of Gold", a show I've never, ever seen. Katee was quite insistant about MT's hotness.

* Tricia will be playing several more versions of Six in the flesh. She also says that Six is searching for feelings, how to feel things, and she almost reaches them but never quite manages to grab on. She is in love with Baltar in her way. Her agenda beyond that, continues to be an unknown.

* There was some brief and vague mention about the baby that Six and Baltar are looking at on Kobol. Tricia's only real comment about that was that the child was not Six's biological child (with a bit of a stress on the biological part). Whatever that will come to mean.

* Also, Tricia and Grace Park are planning on tying down Ron Moore and forcing him to tell them the Cylons' motives and back story.

* They've tried to get Callum Keith Rennie back, but he's just entirely too popular and they haven't managed yet.

* Tahmoh and Katee were filming some rather exhausting scenes under the rain towers (Pretty Helo's Rainy hell has not left us. Yay, though, dude, sucks to be Tahmoh. I'm sure he's got mildew in the most unfortunate places), and they apparently cracked a little bit and began speaking to each other in deeply hickified southern accents, firing their guns into the air, and riding around the Arrow of Apollo as though it was a toy horse. The camera crew helpfully caught it all on film.

* Katee and Jamie have something of a whose-is-bigger gun contest going on. If Apollo has two guns, Starbuck must have three. At one point they are together on the planet and Katee has on two guns, a la Lara Croft, the prop guys then hand a large machine gun to Jamie. Katee wants to know where her machine gun is, and eventually ends up taking Jamie's. Jamie's response was a sad, crestfallen, "well, felgercarb."

* Jamie did somewhat manage to get Katee back for the broken nose thing. There's a scene where they're both running full-speed down a corridor. The corridors have rather sharp turns and dead ends. At one point in the dash, Apollo is to toss Starbuck her gun belt, complete with two heavy guns. As Jamie goes to toss the belt, he ends up stepping on Katee's foot, knocking her down, then he steps on her hand and falls down on top of her. I'm not certain we should leave some of these folks unattended.

* Katee says Apollo and Starbuck will most likely shag at some point this season, but as with many things in life, you may get what you want but you may not want what you get. Oddly, I suddenly hear Mick Jagger in my head.

Ya know...

I dont know why they didnt just give ALL the male roles to women...

Sheesh.

Well, lets see:
Starbuck, boomer and now cain have been neutered.
Tigh was bleached.
Baltar geeked
Adama dulled
Athena and Cassi spaced.
But, they kept Boxey. >_<

Wonder if Sheba is going to be played by Mike Tyson?

GD Mid-season breaks! And not even any previews!!! ;_;

GD Mid-season breaks! And not even any previews!!! ;_;

Just watched the ep this morning looks good - hate the no preview or anything before and after the fact on the web site - want to see more hate the mid season break - le sigh

The Ensin Rofrom ST-TNG actually does a good job , curious to see where they take the role .