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The Galactica has the Eastern Alliance's battleship that escaped last episode stealthily followed by a squadron of Vipers to maybe determine the location of earth - when squadron leader Apollo (Richard Hatch) is snatched by the divine Ship of Light (from episode War of the Gods) where a benign being calling himself John (Edward Mulhare) - of all names - tells him he must go to Terra to save the planet from an attack by the Eastern Alliance. To that end, Apollo is given the appearance of an ace fighter pilot looking so exactly like him that even that man's wife Brenda (Melody Anderson) is fooled. However, she thinks something's wrong with his head and has him fetched by the authorities, and before he knows it he's imprisoned. Soon enough, so is Brenda and her father, high ranking General Maxwell (Ken Swofford). What you need to know here, Terra's president himself (Peter MacLean) is a good enough man, but he's surrounded by the wrong kind of advisors who have talked him into a peace treaty with the Eastern Alliance, and the Alliance is about to attack. Now should Apollo and General Maxwell have spoken in front of Terra's council, that would have made all the difference, but with things being as they are ... but fortunately, Starbuck (Dirk Benedict) has picked up Apollo's trail, and now he springs them from prison, then he hails the Galactica to Terra, in the nick of time, because the Eastern Alliance's nuclear missiles have already been launched and so have Terra's defense missiles - but the Galactica blows them all to Kingdom Come, preventing an all-anihilating war that way. So Terra's saved, but is it Earth which the Galactica is heading for. Well, John says no and bids the Galacticans a hearty farewell ...

An episode that shows how much steam the show as a whole has lost with abandoning the Cylons as Galactica's chief enemy, as storywise this one seems to be desparately searching for a conflict and consequently a villain, and it even employs a deus-ex-machina twist by bringing back the Ship of Light - which to be terribly honest didn't work all that well the first time around either as the science fiction style of the series doesn't work that well with esoteric elements thrown in. The result is somewhat silly and amusing for all the wrong reasons, but ultimately one of the more forgettable episodes of the series.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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