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Commander Adama (Lorne Greene) is stripped of most of his command over the Battlestar Galactica by the Council who figure with the Cylons no longer a threat, military rule is no longer necessary. And the Council also wants to launch negotiations with the Eastern Alliance and its Commandant Leiter (Lloyd Bochner), whom the Galacticans have captured last episode. For that of course Leiter has to be transferred to the Galactica from the prison ship, and on the prison ship there's of course the series recurring villain Count Baltar (John Colicos), who sees this as a chance to escape. So he, Leiter and the Nomens (Lance LeGault, Robert Feero, Anthony De Longis) - villains from episode The Man with Nine Lives - make a plan to take over the transfer shuttle to once on the Galactica dictate the terms for their release. The plan works beautifully at first as instead of guards the Council decided to welcome Leiter themselves and are quickly made hostages. Now Baltar dictates his demands, to give Leiter and the Nomens their ships back and him his ship and his two Cylons, plus they'll take the shuttle with the Council with them as insurance. There's only one small hitch in the plan, and that's that the Cylons have been disassembled on the Galactica, and re-assembling them proves more difficult than imagined - and that's exactly what ultimately spoils Baltar's plan as upon launch the Cylons wreck Baltar's ship rather than start it. Leiter's ship gets away though, as the Galacticans figure he might actually lead them to earth ...

Now this episode's insistance to favour militaristic over diplomatic efforts is irritating, especially since it seems to make fun over anything that's only slightly on the peace-loving side. But that said, this is one of the livelier episodes of the series, one that by and large ditches jarring soap opera moments for solid action and intrigue, and even though it's low on special effects (the series' forte), it's hardly ever boring. Not great TV maybe, and riddled with plotholes (including the final fate of the Nomens), but there are certainly worse ways to spend 50 minutes.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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