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The Galactica happens upon a spaceship they think is hailing from earth, and hauling her in to ask for directions, they find its passengers, a man and a woman later identified as Michael (Randolph Mantooth) and Sarah (Kelly Harmon) and four children in deep sleep in the cryogenic chambers. They try to thaw Michael, but soon realize the process would kill him as he's used to a less dense atmosphere. So they decide to send the ship back on its original course - but that's easier said than done as many of the Galacticans see the new arrival as the first sign of hope in an eternity and don't want to see the ship gone, at least not before they're told the exact location of earth. So, with the approval of Commander Adama (Lorne Greene), Apollo (Richard Hatch), Starbuck (Dirk Benedict) and Cassiopeia (Laurette Spang) come up with a ruse to smuggle the ship off board and accompany it to its destination - some rural planet that seems to be somewhat stuck in earth's 1950s and where the neighbours (Lesley Woods, Frank Marth) are at first not too pleased about the new arrivals, but where two bickering robots (Bobby Van, Ray Bolger) provide a diversion. Now Sarah has fallen in love with Apollo (it's only mentioned randomly that she and Michael are not a couple), so she soon sabotages the Galacticans' Vipers to make them stay as well, but the thing is, the atmosphere on the new planet is to thin for Apollo, Starbuck or Cassiopeia, so there's a bit of a problem. Starbuck makes a trip to the next long abandoned city to search the archives for the location of earth, but gets lost, and while the others go on a rescue mission, the baddies of this piece, Commandant Leiter (Lloyd Bochner) and his soldiers from the Eastern Alliance take Sarah captive. But of course, Michael, Apollo and Starbuck save her and take the Commandant and his men captive - and with their ship, they can make the trip back to the Galactica, while it seems Sarah has finally fallen in love with Michael.

A feature length episode of Battlestar Galactica, this one tries to tell quite an epic story to pad out its running time - and totally fails at it as it lacks a central conflict, falls into too many narrative pieces that have little connection to one another, and often narrative elements are only picked up and dropped according to the story's demands but seem random otherwise. Plus, the finale is very underwhelming, while the portrayal of too many characters and situations seems too clichéed and half-hearted. And the two bickering robots, looking like something out of a cheap 1950s kiddie program, really take the cake in terms of both incredible penny-pinching and utter camp, while their comedy's so bad it's almost funny again - for all the wrong reasons.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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