# Battlestar Galactica 1.7 — "Six Degrees of Separation" (spoilers ho) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 18, 2005, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-7-six-degrees-of-separation-spoilers-ho/290785 "2005-02-18T20:45:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-7-six-degrees-of-separation-spoilers-ho/290785/61 "2005-02-24T00:44:10Z")
> [@](#): > > Buzzards thrive on carrion. 45000 people left; every single one of them should be working - real work. Not lawyers or journalists or telephone salespeople. This isn’t Starship Titanic. Everyone needs to become an apprentice and learn how to build things relevant to their survival. Anything else is idiocy. Maybe so, but there needs to be a way for those 45,000 people to know what’s going on in the fleet outside their stateroom, and with Roslyn’s insistence on maintaining democracy and civil rights I don’t think she’d go for a government-run information service. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-7-six-degrees-of-separation-spoilers-ho/290785/62 "2005-02-24T01:03:46Z")
The insistence on retaining the trappings of civilization despite their desperate circumstances is one of the most interesting elements of the show, I think. ---
**Author:** ![YPOD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e99b99/32.png) [@YPOD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YPOD)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-7-six-degrees-of-separation-spoilers-ho/290785/63 "2005-02-24T03:48:47Z")
They seem to have a lot of reporters for a population of 50K or less. Maybe they are bloggers, not Dan Rather types. I once worked in Bell Labs and there were people there who would make Dr. Baltar seem perfectly normal. Some of them even had assistants who made sure that they occasionally bathed or reminded them to eat. But I definitely would be keeping at least one Mark I Eyeball on Gaius. Although it would be nice if Baltar found some sort of weakness in Number Sex they he could use against her and them. A highjack, but did they ever explain what that piece of Cylon equipment that was in Number Sex’s purse and on the bridge? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-7-six-degrees-of-separation-spoilers-ho/290785/64 "2005-02-24T18:07:55Z")
> [@YPOD](#): > > They seem to have a lot of reporters for a population of 50K or less. Maybe that’s all of them. 🙂 “Screw the farm report! There’s an opening on Colonial One!” ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-7-six-degrees-of-separation-spoilers-ho/290785/65 "2005-02-24T18:16:37Z")
> [@YPOD](#): > > A highjack, but did they ever explain what that piece of Cylon equipment that was in Number Sex’s purse and on the bridge? A holographic projector? ---
**Author:** ![Dob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Dob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dob)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-7-six-degrees-of-separation-spoilers-ho/290785/66 "2005-02-24T18:29:34Z")
How could number six have been a holograph? didnt she physically hand somone the security disk with the pictures on it? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-7-six-degrees-of-separation-spoilers-ho/290785/67 "2005-02-24T18:33:13Z")
Bet you don’t believe in the Enterprise/Voyager holodecks, either. ---
**Author:** ![Dob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Dob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dob)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-7-six-degrees-of-separation-spoilers-ho/290785/68 "2005-02-24T18:37:52Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Bet you don’t believe in the Enterprise/Voyager holodecks, either. Well the Enterprise also had teleporters! I havent seen anything on the show to give me the impression they have the kinda of technology needed to make a physical hologram. I mean, it took 8 hours to sharpen a picture! I dont think BSG is on the same technical level as Enterprise is. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-7-six-degrees-of-separation-spoilers-ho/290785/69 "2005-02-24T19:15:07Z")
Fresh from SciFi Wire: [Season Two starts shooting very soon, it will premiere this summer, and it’ll be up to 20 episodes from the first season’s 13](http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=30466). Yay! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-7-six-degrees-of-separation-spoilers-ho/290785.md?page=3)