You know, there are all things on this show that we wish we could do in real life. Some of us would like to fly Vipers. Others would probably enjoy running a flight deck. And I’ve no doubt that many, many people - of both sexes - would like to frak Six.
Above all else though, I would love to serve as defense counsel for Gaeta. That would truly rock. Er, assuming they don’t shoot the defense counsel. People don’t take out their anger on lawyers, do they?
/law nerd
I know there’s a rule against aliens, but when I read this I flashed on Mr. Gaeta being defended by the giant chicken-lawyer from Futurama .
Exactly. I remember back in the mini-series Adama:
“Gaeta, can you calculate a jump beyond the redline?”
“That’s never been attempted before sir!”
“I know. Can you do it?”
“Sure! Scribble, scribble, scribble, tappity tap tap. Jump calculations ready sir!”
“Jump!”
I always thought they’d do more with that. Baltar’s genius is overrated, and Gaeta’s genius is understated/unrecognized.
I was wondering that too. Maybe Sharon was still a little pissed at Helo for awhile after she lost Hera. Maybe she’s just not ready to try again. Now she knows she can successfully produce a child that will live, but she’s going to be devoted to recovering the first one.
Indeed, one would think that he could just give a list of the info he left in the letter drop and clear himself.
Gaeta will be able to clear himself at the last minute, and it will be the realization that they almost spaced an innocent man that dials back Tigh’s little band of vigilantes. Jammer will then live with the knowledge of his treachery hanging over him, where it will be exploited later by un-named parties, maybe another of the collaborators who also survived.
I just watched the episode again, and teared up again when Adama saluted Tigh. That alone makes up for the deus ex machina of Kaycee’s mother walking by Starbuck at just the right time. Of course, if you really want to mess with your mind, what says that Kaycee’s “mom” isn’t a Cylon? 
Well, maybe, but the place looked pretty empty when they went outside.
What was with having the atmosphere, and indeed, weather extend for such a ridiculous height around New Caprica?
Uh, like duh. Magic nebula.
That was pretty much my first thought.
And here’s my thoughts on Roslyn taking charge: (1) when the puppet government puts the VP into detention, the puppet government removes the VP from the succession, (2) when the resistance overthrows the puppet government, they toss out the succession from the puppet government, anyway, and (3) Roslyn was, if not leading the resistance, then one of the leaders of the resistance – she’s pretty much ordering Anders and Tigh around, anyway.
Leader of the resistance taking charge after the resistance is victorious is not that big of a stretch. But, given the mileage they got out of politics in earlier seasons, I’m definately thinking it’ll be coming up again. Bot Roslyn and Zarek have built up a lot of political capital during the occupation.
But…shields and sensors would be useless!
So has Tigh. Might get interesting if he decided to run…
Hmmm. It is interesting that the Galactica could hide out in the nebula undetected, and yet monitor the Raptors, drones, Basestars and so forth with DRADIS. I’m assuming DRADIS is just RADAR with different name. I think the way it works with radar is if you can see them, they can see you, unless you’ve got some kind of stealth capability, or simply superior detectors. I doubt the Galactica has better remote sensing than a Basestar. In fact, if DRADIS is just radar, I should think the mere use of it would alert the enemy of one’s presence. I suppose it’s possible DRADIS is entirely passive, but the display seems to suggest that the area of interest is swept with EM radiation of some frequency, and the reflected energy is detected, just like radar.
It looked more like weather to me.
A nebula, even on Star Trek isn’t that dense. Heck, that would block sunlight.
I thought they were out of detection range of the Cylons with their aircraft mid way between them. But then, look how I messed up on the ambush last week. 
Perhaps. I suppose another possibility is Gaeta is the source, or at least a source, of info. about the police force. I’ve sometimes wondered when the squeaky-clean by-the-book Gaeta was finally going to lose it. We’ve seen him get close a couple times before this, and he revealed that he’s really a bit of a wreck sometimes (Final Cut I believe). That last scene with Baltar was a true turning point for Gaeta, maybe, triggered by the utter betrayal of his idealistic expectations.
It doesn’t really matter whether or not the BaseStars picked up a DRADIS ping from Galactica – they were supposed to think that there were two BattleStars incoming; they’d be expecting a DRADIS ping if such things exist.
I kind of suspect that DRADIS doesn’t quite work that way, though. Or, that the Cylons don’t use DRADIS. We’ve only had Gaeta (now, Helo) announce “DRADIS contact” when a new blip appears on the screen – not “we’re being pinged by DRADIS.”
I’m awfully glad that scene with the probes explained what Kat had been having them practice, though; it was all kinds of confusing to me when the practice foreshadowed it.
Well, sad to say, it looked like weather the first time. It’s just not a realistic nebula at all. I think a realistic nebula would be barely visually perceptible from inside, as a uniform and dim haze in the night sky; and anyway, the star New Caprica orbits would have blown out a bubble around, and the formation of planets would have additionally swept clean, the region of the nebula the New Caprical system inhabits. You just don’t get dense clouds of gas hanging there in space around stars and planets like that. If nothing else were around, it would collapse under its own gravity eventually. It’s a completely unstable arrangement. Nonetheless, those clouds were most certainly supposed to be the nebula.
[QUOTE=Loopydude Nonetheless, those clouds were most certainly supposed to be the nebula.[/QUOTE]
Did Moore work on Voyager?
Only for a few weeks.
Upon third watching, I am convinced that Ellen knew Tigh was offing her. She forgave him his actions and accepted her fate.
Are we ever going to see what happened to Hera’s guards?
Let’s not forget the cloudy asteroid field in Scar where it was so cloudy the Vipers left vapor trails and all the asteroids were so densely packed you had to actually dodge them.
Then there was the other magic nebula around the Ragnar Anchorage weapon’s depot which emitted radiation dangerous to Cylons only.
We’re working from the encyclopedia of:
Moore, Ron (2003-2006) What I Know About Space.
Are we going to find out why Anders shirked his duty and didn’t personally see to Hera & Maya’s safety? Or see him called to task for it?
Was Ragnar Anchorage in a nebula? I thought it was maybe in the upper atmosphere of Ragnar itself, which I guess is a planet in Caprica’s solar system. I could never understand why the whole thing didn’t just fall, so maybe it was a nebula.