# Battlestar Galactica 2.10 — "Pegasus" (no spoilers in OP: see scheduling note) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 23, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-2-10-pegasus-no-spoilers-in-op-see-scheduling-note/323126 "2005-09-23T21:10:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-2-10-pegasus-no-spoilers-in-op-see-scheduling-note/323126/61 "2005-09-25T02:58:44Z")
> [@John Mace](#): > > she’s just too young looking to be so senior an officer. Maybe she brought her good ship and crew back from the Delta Quadrant. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-2-10-pegasus-no-spoilers-in-op-see-scheduling-note/323126/62 "2005-09-25T03:12:08Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Ummmmm… **John**? This is only the half-way point in Season Two. We get Part Two in January (lousy Limeys). 😃 SciFi’s been advertizing this ep as the season finale. From a production standpoint, you’re right, but from a broadcast standpoint, it would seem that this si the end of Season Two, and the next new ep will be the Season Three premiere. Confusing, I know. I wonder how it’ll be labelled when it comes out on DVD. ---
**Author:** ![MackoUr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@MackoUr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MackoUr)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-2-10-pegasus-no-spoilers-in-op-see-scheduling-note/323126/63 "2005-09-25T03:23:13Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > Going retro for a minute, I remember back on the original _Battlestar Galatica_ series there was also an episode where a second battlestar appeared. But I don’t remember the outcome of the episode. Any old school sci-fi fans recall what happened the first time this happened? It is the only episode of the old series I remember very clearly; I think it was the best one they did. IIRC: The battlestar Pegasus, with Commander Caine (Loyd Bridges) shows up after having gone rogue in the war against the Cylons years before. Opposite the situation in the current series, Caine is outranked by Adama and, though there are tensions, defers to Adama’s authority. At some point, the Galactica is being attacked by Baltar who has two Cylon basestars under his command and things are going badly. The Pegasus swoops in and catches the Cylons off-guard. There is a huge explosion, Galactica escapes, and the fate of the Pegasus is left in the air. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-2-10-pegasus-no-spoilers-in-op-see-scheduling-note/323126/64 "2005-09-25T03:33:29Z")
Correction: 3 Cylon basestars. Cain transfers all of his Vipers to Galactica, including Sheba (his daughter) and Bo-Jay. He makes an attack run on the base stars. Baltar allows his basestar to fall behind. Cain sees this and goes for him, right between the other two basestars. Apollo and Starbuck disobey orders and launch strafing runs against the inside missle launchers of the two base stars. The Pegasus sails between the two, launching her missles. Starbuck and Apollo lose sight of her in the resulting explosions, and have to return to Galactica. The fleet escapes, and Apollo states that he is sure Cain escaped, and that the Pegasus is out there still, fighting the good fight. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-2-10-pegasus-no-spoilers-in-op-see-scheduling-note/323126/65 "2005-09-25T03:40:49Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > He’d be a good choice to play my blanket warmer. Oh, did I say that out loud?? Hey, don’t get me wrong, I liked _First Wave_, but I got the impression that he was, er, playing for the other team. ---
**Author:** ![2nd\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f475e1/32.png) [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-2-10-pegasus-no-spoilers-in-op-see-scheduling-note/323126/66 "2005-09-25T06:48:36Z")
I should think that the only solution to the Galactica/Pegasus conflict short of an all out battle (which one would have to think the Galactica would be likely to lose, seeing as it was about to become a museum, and took a hit from a nuke in the miniseries) would have to be Roslin stepping in and putting a stop to it. And how could Cain refuse? By Colonial law, Roslin is the president. If Colonial law no longer applies, how does Cain have authority to order anyone to do anything? In the miniseries, Roslin convinced Adama that “The war is over – we lost.” Cain can’t claim wartime powers if the war is over. If Cain denies Roslin’s authority, Cain is no more than a pirate, and her crew very well could recognize her as one. As for Pegasus Six, I also have to wonder what her backstory is. How did they determine she is a Cylon? Was she a member of the Pegasus crew before the attack? Or possibly a friend/lover of one of the crew members, visiting while the ship was in drydock? If this last one is the case, I wouldn’t be too surpised if she had been involved with Cain herself, with Six’s rape and torture being part of Cain’s revenge on Six for betraying her. ---
**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:** [September 25, 2005, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-2-10-pegasus-no-spoilers-in-op-see-scheduling-note/323126/67 "2005-09-25T08:29:07Z")
> [@2nd Law](#): > > And how could Cain refuse? By Colonial law, Roslin is the president. I agree with those who have so far asserted that Cain has no respect either for the office or the woman who holds it. If it were completely up to Cain, the civilian government would be swept aside entirely. However, my point above was that even a martinet (nice word, **c’plant** ) and a self-appointed dictator, for reasons of self-preservation, must be conscious of what his or her loyal followers are capable of. We saw a moment of hesitation – just a moment – from her crew when she ordered her vipers out in response to Galactica’s. We may infer from this that she’s on the line of control; the fact that she was forced to conduct an impromptu execution of an officer to maintain order further underlines her delicate state of control. There is always a line even the loyal will not cross, and the dictator needs to know what this is. And I do suspect that Cain wouldn’t want to roll the dice to see if peremptorily erasing the top civilian official would be over that line, at least until she has to. Unless she’s just batshit crazy, which is not outside the bounds of possibility, given a few things Ron Moore said in his podcast. ---
**Author:** ![SlyFrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@SlyFrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlyFrog)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-2-10-pegasus-no-spoilers-in-op-see-scheduling-note/323126/68 "2005-09-25T13:45:45Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > There is always a line even the loyal will not cross, and the dictator needs to know what this is. If only this were always true, the world would be a considerably better place. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-2-10-pegasus-no-spoilers-in-op-see-scheduling-note/323126/69 "2005-09-25T13:49:12Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Unless she’s just batshit crazy, which is not outside the bounds of possibility, given a few things Ron Moore said in his podcast. I must download the podcast. However, remember Voltaire’s comment on Admiral Byng, substituting ‘Executive Officers’ for ‘Admirals’: “The British occasionaly shoot a few admirals to encourage the others.” ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-2-10-pegasus-no-spoilers-in-op-see-scheduling-note/323126/70 "2005-09-25T15:23:33Z")
> [@](#): > > **Curate** 4. That whole story of escaping the Cylon attack by jumping to who-knows-where seems fishy. Just sayin’… > > **HPL** It does. And didn’t Adama account for the destruction of the fleet in the miniseries? There were reports coming about battlestars being lost all over and then an admiral aboard Atlantia(?) took command of the fleet, until that part was wiped out. Presumably he was the last admiral, and Adama’s last superior officer, so Adama took control of fleet. Well, if you recall the conversation Cain, Adama, and Roslyn have that first time in Adama’s quarters, Cain states: > [@](#): > > …And that’s when the Cylons attacked. > They hit the shipyard with three, maybe four nukes. > Five ships, two of them Battlestars, they were destroyed right there. > {…} > We were completely defenseless so I ordered a jump. > **Roslyn** : To where? > **Cain** : Wherever. Nowhere, just jump. There was no accounting for them because directly following three or four nukes going off, destroying a shitload of ships, Pegasus was gone. It’s not like there was going to be anyone sitting around to go through the debris and say “Hey, I can’t find anything from the Pegasus, they must have made it out of here!” > [@Cervaise](#): > > If I were writing the show, I’d resolve the cliffhanger not with a Cylon attack, which is a literal deus ex machina and just postpones the actual conflict, but by having Laura Roslyn just getting caught up with the facts of the situation and calling Cain directly… In hindsight, I agree, though in support of my original assertion, Cain did say that they had been tracking a Cylon fleet and jumping to where they thought that fleet would be going in attempts to get ahead of it and conduct hit & runs. Given that line of conversation, it would make perfect sense for the Cylons to appear. However, I do agree that Roslyn and Cain are going to have to have it out, and there was an interesting bit of foreshadowing. I’m not talking about the _“Secretary of Education?!”_ bit either. When everyone is making introductions in the hangar bay, and Adama and Cain shake hands, there is a definite emphasis given to the handshake, and that Cains hand is on top, specifically turned to a top-bottom grip. When Laura and Cain shake, their hands remain perpendicular. Cain respects the office of President, or at least considers it an equal. ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-2-10-pegasus-no-spoilers-in-op-see-scheduling-note/323126/71 "2005-09-25T15:34:08Z")
And to follow up on that handshake thing: when Roslyn is leaving Adama’s quarters, and she tkaes her leave saying (to Cain): _Thank you for finding us._ They shake hands and, though it’s ever-so-slight, Cains hands is on the down-turn. This is immediately after the whole “Chain-of-Command” and > [@](#): > > …This is your ship, and I have no desire to interfere with Galacticas internal affairs. > (Laura looks slowly down) > Madam President, you look like someone just shot your dog. (said with an ever-so-slight smirk, or smug-face) ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-2-10-pegasus-no-spoilers-in-op-see-scheduling-note/323126/72 "2005-09-25T15:42:41Z")
Everybody else has already covered the salient points about the ep (one of the best cliffhangers, right up there with BOBW in TNG, and “Bad Timing” in Farscape, i’d give the edge to Bad Timing, putting myself back into the mindset i was in when FS was being aired, after all, this is a show ('Scape) that appeared to have _killed_ the two main characters… this cliffhanger ep is a very close second, January is too long to wait, frak it! i did like the way they modeled the Pegasus, from the outside, it seemed to look older than the Galactica, i’d daresay it looked very close to the _original_ Galactica from the original series, however, from a thruster view, it looked more modern, what with the ring of engines around the stern of the spaceframe, internally CIC looked more advanced than Galactica, more “glowy glass (or maybe Transparent Aluminum? 😉 ) Panel Thingies” (yes, that’s a technical term 😉 ) i guess it would make sense, that the Pegasus could be _mechanically_ an older spaceframe that was retrofitted in the most critical areas to be more modern as far as Adm. Cain (and by extension, her crew) are extremely unsympathetic, nobody there to like, heck, they seem colder, emotionless, and more mechanical than the mechanical Toasters… it’s really a sign of good writing, characterizations, and acting if i start feeling sorry for characters that have killed a baby in cold blood, nuked an entire civilization to the brink of extinction, and shot the CO of a Battlestar in cold blood… seeing Six lying on the floor, in chains, bruised and covered by a simple cloth made the rage rise in my gut, yes, yes, i know she killed that woman’s baby in the mini, and her “people” nuked the Colonials to near extinction, but still, you _DO NOT_ abuse and rape prisoners, Humans are supposed to be better (or at least more moral/human) than the Toasters… (and seeing as PegaSix was raped numerous times, what are the chances of _her_ having a Pop-Tart in the oven, maybe _that’s_ what NeuroChipSix was referring to when she told Balty he was gonna’ be a daddy earlier in the series “i want _us_ to have a baby, Gaius”), this will be a test to see if _love_ was neccecary for the Meatbag Toasters to concieve with Humans) the attempted rape scene of Boomer, well, let me just say i was _glad_ the “interrogator” got a bolt thru the temple, two things are clear from this scene… Boomer _clearly_ wants to be Human, and hates her Toaster side, she _wants_ to be trusted by the crew of the Galactica again, and the crew of Galactica (esp. Adama, Tyrol and Helo) clearly _want_ to be able to trust her again, but know they can’t because she could go “Toaster” again at any moment… ---
**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:** [September 25, 2005, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-2-10-pegasus-no-spoilers-in-op-see-scheduling-note/323126/73 "2005-09-25T19:13:06Z")
> [@John Mace](#): > > But I think they should have cast an older woman-- she’s just too young looking to be so senior an officer. This is covered in the podcast: There was a cut scene commenting on her relative youth, and that she was on a peacetime promotional fast-track. Ron Moore specifically says “she must have been hell on wheels” as she was coming up. Actually, the podcast says that a **lot** of material got cut. On the first editing pass, they wound up with a full act of material, ~15 min, that would have to be cut to get it down to an airable hour. They found themselves with a choice: Either put **everything** in the show and ask Scifi to let them run a 90-minute finale, or be vicious with the scissors. They tried it both ways, and they decided they liked the relentless one-hour version over the flabby ninety-minute version. However, Moore indicates that the original one-hour-and-fifteen version (i.e. one hour even, minus commercials) will apparently be offered on the eventual DVD. They also sometimes offer a few cut scenes on the website, too. So for everyone who says this episode feels a bit overstuffed: That’s why. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SlyFrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@SlyFrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlyFrog)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-2-10-pegasus-no-spoilers-in-op-see-scheduling-note/323126/74 "2005-09-25T20:08:46Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > Boomer _clearly_ wants to be Human, and hates her Toaster side, she _wants_ to be trusted by the crew of the Galactica again, and the crew of Galactica (esp. Adama, Tyrol and Helo) clearly _want_ to be able to trust her again, but know they can’t because she could go “Toaster” again at any moment… I think to be fair, the most we can say is that she clearly wants the humans to think that she wants to be human and hates her toaster side. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-2-10-pegasus-no-spoilers-in-op-see-scheduling-note/323126/75 "2005-09-25T21:00:47Z")
> [@Alan Smithee](#): > > SciFi’s been advertizing this ep as the season finale. From a production standpoint, you’re right, but from a broadcast standpoint, it would seem that this si the end of Season Two, and the next new ep will be the Season Three premiere. Confusing, I know. I wonder how it’ll be labelled when it comes out on DVD. I assume it will all be labeled as Season 2. I saw Ron Moore on Attack of the Show and they were calling it “mid-season finale”. This whole “season finale” half-way through thing started when Sci-Fi cancelled Farscape after announcing a fifth season. Half-way through the fourth, they cancelled the show and announced the 11th episode as a “season finale”. They then ran the rest of fourth season calling it a fifth, even though that was a lie. When it came out on DVD, it was all called the fourth. It’s like Sci-Fi thinks we won’t notice that the seasons are way too short. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-2-10-pegasus-no-spoilers-in-op-see-scheduling-note/323126/76 "2005-09-25T21:04:37Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I must download the podcast. Got link? ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-2-10-pegasus-no-spoilers-in-op-see-scheduling-note/323126/77 "2005-09-25T21:08:47Z")
> [@Alan Smithee](#): > > we don’t actually know what Roslin’s constitutional powers are. But having been led to think of her as analogous to an American president (her title, her former cabinet position, the Johnsonesque swearing in ceremony, etc., all echo American conventions) I naturally _expect_ her to have these powers, and it would have been nice to see that dealt with. The shows near the end of the First Season convinced me that the President of the Colonies **DOES NOT** have the same powers as the President of the United States. Specifically, it is blatantly obvious that she is **not** , in fact, the Commander In Chief. Near the end of the first season, she wanted to use the captured Cylon Raider to jump back to caprica and retrieve the Arrow of Apollo. Commander Adama **refused.** And it was clear that the President **did not** have the power to order Adama around. Adama simply said “It’s a military decision,” and that was that. My guess is the relationship between the Colonial Military and the President is similar to the relationship between the Emperor of Ancient Rome and the Ancient Roman army. The army had the duty of protecting the Roman civilian population; but, while the Emperor was the head of the civilian population, the army had a considerable degree of autonomy, and would only follow the Emperor if they were on good terms with him. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-2-10-pegasus-no-spoilers-in-op-see-scheduling-note/323126/78 "2005-09-25T21:13:04Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > I seem to recall that when they were building the Blackbird there was a reference to installing an FTL drive. Wouldn’t surprise me at all, seeing as how the Blackbird is obviously the re-imagined **RECON VIPER** from the original 1970s _Galactica_ series. Any bets on how long it’ll be before Starbuck discovered that (A) the Blackbird has no weapon system, and (B) they’ve installed a Cylon-annoyance-level intelligent computer named C.O.R.A.? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-2-10-pegasus-no-spoilers-in-op-see-scheduling-note/323126/79 "2005-09-25T21:24:53Z")
> [@Oslo Ostragoth](#): > > Got link? Got dialup. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-2-10-pegasus-no-spoilers-in-op-see-scheduling-note/323126/80 "2005-09-25T22:49:05Z")
> [@thinksnow](#): > > You know what wouls save the day? Cylons showing up. That would unite the Viper pilots quickfastinahurry and firce everyone to focus on the important stuff. And man I hope it doesn’t happen. Far too neat and something we’ve all seen a bajillion times. On the other hand, that would give Starbuck a clean shot at the MegaMonsterShip which, I’m guessing, is the humanoid-cloning-assembly ship. Regarding the interaction of Roslin and Cain…well, it seemed pretty clear to me that if Roslin had tried to exercise any power Cain would have said, “Go frak yourself, schoolteacher. We important people have stuff to do here”. **Spiralscratch** - the XO over on Pegasus seemed decent - he’s just terrified of the boss. As for the deck chief, you have to wonder how much good he’d do over on the Galactica side. A population to put to work manufacturing fighters…real fighters, made by a true expert. Six’s reaction, well, she thinks of herself as the ultimate being, I think (short of God, of course). She continually refers to others as weak, flawed, etc. Seeing a Six like that must have really shaken her faith in her breed. And in her defense regarding the baby’s neck-snapping, she knew the planet was going to be nuked really soon. The neck was a certain instant death, a slow death from radiation poisoning wouldn’t have been. So, maybe she didn’t see it as being so bad. Let’s also remember that while raping the Cylons is bad…it’s not even a crime to murder one! **Ranchoth** - Roslin has also continually referred to Boomer (and Airlock Boy) as "it’ and “this thing”. So, it’s not just the Pegasus crew. Cain’s refernce to Starbuck’s ‘disobeying orders’ could refer to all sorts of things, but I suspect it means that Cain knows about her little joyride to Caprica. Which means she’d know the Earth thing…maybe she doesn’t care, and maybe this episode covered only a couple hours’ time. **Tracer** - I think you’re misunderstanding the deal between Adama and Roslin. I think that, originally, the President of the Colonies was the CinC of the armed forces. However, Adama and Roslin made a deal where they’d stay out of each other’s way in their respective spheres. It showed Adama’s loyalty to his oaths while showing Roslin’s sensiblity in that she understands that she is absolutely **not** a military commander. Adama obeys Roslin because he wants to have a true civilian government, but she’s not a military person and there’s no way in hell he’ll allow her to do anything he considers monumentally detrimental to their cause - such as letting Starbuck take the Raider. -Joe [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-2-10-pegasus-no-spoilers-in-op-see-scheduling-note/323126.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-2-10-pegasus-no-spoilers-in-op-see-scheduling-note/323126.md?page=5)