They could really be bad and have them find Earth before the dawn of Greek civilization. Then the arrivals could drop into a Dark Age, forget technology, and replace the indigenous population of hairdressers, telephone sanitizers, and realtors. They would start all of our myths, develop the toaster and advertising, and create Galactica 1980. This would spur development of space flight, the humans would venture forth and found the 12 colonies - and it would all begin again anew anon.
I thought they would arrive in prehistory and be responsible for Greek culture.
Puts a different light on those boys wrestling nude the Rabbis were annoyed about and which team Apollo is playing on.
Of course, the 13th colony could behind it instead.
But I digress.
Perhaps the probe was a weapon against some biological entity the Cylons based themselves on. I’m sure Moore will figure it out before they begin filming the episode concerned. 
Obviously happening in a parallel fantasy universe where this kind of thing happens.
Upon due consideration, perhaps we should start rooting for the toasters.
Does this mean Wolfman Jack is God?
As for the missing five models, maybe they are not part of the Cylon culture anymore. Could it be that five models did not want to attack humanity? Or for some other reason, split off from the other seven models to create their own civilization? That could be why the meatbags “Don’t like to talk about them.” A painful memory of a major schism in cylon history. Maybe the other five models decided to infiltrate humans to covertly help them. Hmmmm…
Hold on, what? We’re not rooting for the toasters?
couldn’t you have told me before i bought the giant “We’re Number One” foam finger? i never get the memos aroudn here…
The Cylons pulled a Resurrection ship away to prevent the contagion being spread through resurrection. This implies that no BioCylon died before that Basestar detected and analyzed the threat. The only evidence of a problem would then be loss of communication and/or irrational behaviour.
The other Cylons were made aware of the situation. Since they are worried about contamination by resurrection and direct contact, the infected Basestar must have sent out a distress call by a communication method that was less than Hive-to-Hive, e.g. simple radio. This is corroborated by the fact that Baltar talks via radio back to the Basestar and no one is worried.
The Cylons must have felt they had some level of knowledge of and security from the contagion, because they decontaminated Baltar’s suit sufficiently to allow him to return to the Basestar.
So the contagion seems to manifest something physical (the probe goo) though this could be an RDM red-herring - a symptom of or something unrelated to the contagion.
Baltar is not stupid. He woudl have taken a sample and hid it on himself as leverage. Fearful of D’Anna and her remarks that his usefulness has ended, he would consider it a weapon to use against her. He takes a drop and brushes lightly against her cheek during an exchange. She soon starts to develop paranoia and a sense of godhood. She has to be killed at one point and the Others determine they have to Box the model to prevent the spread.
Something thatt’s been bothering me - why didn’t the Cylons scuttle the contaminated Basestar? Why leave it for Galactica?
If the humans finding Earth means Galactica 1980 and flying motorcycles…Get hold of yourself, man!
People talk about “when will they show the Imperious Leader.” Well, I think they already have. For the life of me, I can’t remember any scene with Boxey in it, but he must be the Imperious Leader! Consider the insufferable ingratiating attitude. And he had that mechanical daggit - one step away from a Centurion. And all this talk of boxing Cylong models! Now we know what it means. [del]Bag daggit[/del] Dag nabbit, to be shut up in a room and listen to him for all eternity. What a fate worse than death!
Cylons weren’t willing to get close enough to it to scuttle it. Baltar had to jump in with a human-built Raptor. If the Cylons were waiting several light years away, it would take thousands of years for a nuclear missile to get there.
Why don’t Cylons strap FTL drives to nuclear missiles? Oh, don’t go there. 
Harrumph!
Cervaise gets lots of love and wondering about his whereabouts/wellbeing.
Where’s the love for Oakie? Ya bunch of frakkin anti-druidites…
In any event, I got the impression that the mysterious probe was Colonial in origin. Not from the Fleet, but perhaps from a previous attempt to find Earth that passed through the nebula. In that sense, it’s as good as a highway sign for saying the fleet is on the right path…or at least a path taken by a previous mission, anyway.
From the web preview/spoiler content,
Looks like Boomer is now infected with the plague. Either she’s gonna die, or the humans will develop a cure…but they’re all out of Magical Hera Blood of Healing. If they do manage a cure, then there’s potential to unmask a previously unknown cylon model to steal it to save the toasters. There’s also some indication that they’ll consider using it as a genocide weapon. I don’t see that happening. Either they get all preachy about it, or it just won’t work as a weapon–no way they kill off the Big Bad this soon, in a universe with no other known source of conflict.
PS–am I the only one who sometimes types [DonJardine] instead of the regular Spoiler tag? 
Were you gone?
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Totally unrelated, but is anyone else having trouble getting access to the Battlestar Wiki? It seems to have simply vanished, which would be too bad if true.
Great. Now I’m imagining the stands at a Cylon sporting event. I can’t decide whether the signs held up by the Sharon Valerii contingent should read “Number Eight is Number One” or “We’re Number Eight.”
And re the “scuttling the base star” question, it doesn’t have to be done by someone else. Seems reasonable that the sick and dying Cylons would look at one another, realize they’re frakked, and rather than taking the risk of their dead ship being found by human scouts, hit the big red button in order to scuttle themselves.
I was thinking skating and holding up cards that said “1010” for a perfect ten score.
The filmography for the basestar was…interesting, I’ll give you that. I want some of that music when they put out the season soundtrack. The control room, which could have seemed really cheesy sci-fi-ish if filmed in the ordinary way, was made to seem very alien by the constantly moving, swiftly-cutting camerawork, and the piano background. Don’t know if I could stand them doing it week after week though. And what happened to the meatiness of the basestars?
I was wondering the same thing. That and the squads of naked 8s. Just one nekkid Cylon on the whole ship? WTF? Bastards.
You reckon they pay her extra to git nekkid and they were on a close budget this week?