Battlestar Galactica Episode Guide

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Series Synopsis

Re-imagined from the 1978 original film and series of the same name, Battlestar Galactica, the re-imagined series, premiered in 2003 as a Sci-Fi original mini-series. The cylons were originally created by man to act as soldiers and service machines. As the machines evolved, they grew tired of being slaves to mankind and began to rebel against their creators. This rebellion resulted in the first Cylon War.

At the beginning of the series, just over forty years have passed since the end of the Cylon War. The Battlestar Galactica, an old ship that served during the Cylon War, is ready to retire and become a museum. When an unexpected cylon attack wipes out the Twelve Colonies, the majority of survivors are those who were in space during the attack, and the Battlestar Galactica is the only military vessel left able to lead and protect the remaining human survivors..

Commander Bill Adama butts heads with the new president, Laura Roslin, who before the attacks was the Secretary of Education. Roslin's concern is in rescuing survivors, but the more realistic Adama knows that they are at war and the only chance of survival is retaliation.

Fleet intelligence soon discovers that the cylons are no longer the simple, metal machines human's call "toasters". They have evolved, and now they look just like everyone else. The humanoid cylon models had been living among the colonies for two years, plotting their plan to destroy humanity.

As the fleet moves through space in search of a mythological Thirteenth Colony called Earth, the cylon threat relentlessly pursues. One by one cylon infiltrators within the fleet are exposed and it is soon revealed that twelve models exist. By the end of season three, eleven of the twelve cylon models have been identified and season four eventually outs the hidden four models.

A cylon civil war breaks when a rift is created between six of the seven humanoid models over unethical treatment of the cylon raiders and centurions. Half of the cylon forces implore humanity to join them, and together the humans and the cylons they have made a treaty with discover Earth, only it isn't the inhabitable paradise they had hoped for. Evidence quickly reveals that it has been a wasteland for at least a thousand years.SciFiPedia: Battlestar Galactica

Season 4.5

The last ten episodes of the series, airing as Season 4.5, premier on SciFi and Space Cast on January 16, 2009 at 10 PM. With their hopes destroyed, the remainder of humanity must act quickly if they want to survive, but nothing is certain. The hostile cylons are still out there and there is still one model that has yet to be revealed.SciFiPedia: Battlestar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica Miniseries

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    • More than forty years after the end of the cylon war, the cylons have returned, only now they look exactly like humans. No one knows how long they've walked free among the Twelve Colonies working their plans of destruction, but when they wipe out the Colonies with nuclear warheads, the only known survivors are those in space. With less than fifty-thousand people left in the entire human race, a fleet of ships led by the Battlestar Galactica must fight to survive while they search in desperation for a world they can call home.
  • YouTube Video: Battlestar Galactica Miniseries Trailer (Time: 2:06)

Episode One - "33"

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    • Every thirty-three minutes the cylons appear and begin attacking the fleet. The crew is exhausted, as no one's had but more than a moment's rest for the last five days. When a passenger ship known as the Olympic Carrier is left behind the cylons seem unable to locate them, but then it reappears, seemingly empty, and Captain Lee Adama is faced with a choice that he may never forgive himself for making.

Episode Two - "Water"

Episode Three - "Bastille Day"

Episode Four - "Act of Contrition" Part One

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    • When a pilot and twelve others are accidentally killed during a celebration, Kara "Starbuck" Thrace begins lamenting over the mistake she made while training her dead fiance, Zak Adama. When Adama asks her to begin training new pilots, the guilt is more than she can stand, and it's only a matter of time before the secret she carries becomes too heavy.

Episode Five - "You Can't Go Home Again" Part Two

Episode Six - "Litmus"

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    • A suicide bomber forces Adama and President Roslin to announce to the public that the Cylons are no longer just the metal Centurions everyone calls "Toasters". Panic spreads throughout the fleet, as everyone begins eying their friends and neighbors, wondering who the cylons might be.

Episode Seven - "Six Degrees of Separation"

Episode Eight - "Flesh and Bone"

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    • Cylon Leoben Conoy has been captured and brought to Starbuck for questioning. This simple meeting begins a long obsession that execution out the airlock won't be able to quell.

Episode Nine - "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down"

Episode Ten - "The Hand of God"

Episode Eleven - "Colonial Day"

Episode Twelve - "Kobol's Last Gleaming" Part One

Episode Thirteen - "Kobol's Last Gleaming" Part Two

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    • Infuriated that Roslin has gone over his head and sent Starbuck back to Caprica to retrieve a religious artifact, Adama has Roslin arrested and terminates her presidency. Shortly thereafter, one of the cylons hidden in the fleet becomes exposed when the programming takes over and Adama ends up shot.

Episode Fourteen - "Scattered"

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    • With Adama out of commission, it's up to Tigh to keep things under control. Both Adama and Apollo have been locked up for treason. When cylons attack, the fleet makes a quick jump, leaving the Galactica stranded.

Episode Fifteen - "Valley of Darkness"

Episode Sixteen - "Fragged"

Episode Seventeen - "Resistance"

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    • Adama's still in a coma, and Tigh's imposed Martial Law to keep the fleet under control. The commitee of the Twelve Colonies has their ships refusing to supply the Galactica until Roslin is released. On Caprica, Helo and Starbuck meet up with a pack of refugees battling against the Cylons.

Episode Eighteen - "The Farm"

Episode Nineteen - "Home" Part One

Episode Twenty - "Home" Part Two

Episode Twenty-One - "Final Cut"

Episode Twenty-Two - "Flight of the Phoenix"

Episode Twenty-Three - "Pegasus"

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    • The Battlestar Pegasus appears, and Adama's rank is threatened by Admiral Helena Cain. The two crews merge, mostly to keep an eye on each other, and when Dr. Baltar is asked to evaluate the Pegasus' cylon prisoner, he finds his heart aching all over again at the sight of her familiar face.

Episode Twenty-Four - "Resurrection Ship" Part One

Episode Twenty-Five - "Resurrection Ship" Part Two

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    • The Pegasus and Galactica must unite to make the attack on a Cylon baseship, but both Cain and Adama struggle desperately to assert their power. Adama sends Starbuck on a special mission designed to help Galactica regain control, but Cain has her own secret plans.

Episode Twenty-Six - "Epiphanies"

Episode Twenty-Seven - "Black Market"

Episode Twenty-Eight - "Scar"

Episode Twenty-Nine - "Sacrifice"

Episode Thirty - "The Captain's Hand"

Episode Thirty-One - "Downloaded"

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    • Back on Caprica, the original Sharon "Boomer" Valerii's consciousness has been downloaded into a new body, and she is having a hard time adjusting to her life as a Cylon. Number Three sends in Caprica Six, who discovers that she has more in common with Sharon than she could have imagined. The Sharon on Galactica finally has her baby, but Roslin makes an abrupt decision about whether or not a cylon-human hybrid deserves to live.

Episode Thirty-Two - "Lay Down Your Burdens" Part One

Episode Thirty-Three - "Lay Down Your Burdens" Part Two

Episode Thirty-Four - "Occupation"

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    • Settled on New Caprica under the authority of President Baltar, it is only a matter of time before the Cylons invade and take over. Civilians resist under the leadership of Colonel Tigh, Samuel Anders and Galen Tyrol. Starbuck is the prisoner of Leoben Conoy, and they exist in a twisted love/hate cycle. Adama and Apollo wait with the Galactica and the Pegasus for the right time to return for their people.

Episode Thirty-Five - "Precipice"

Episode Thirty-Six - "Exodus" Part One

Episode Thirty-Seven - "Exodus" Part Two

Episode Thirty-Eight - "Collaborators"

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    • Rescued from New Caprica, and back on the run, a secret society has formed on the Galactica to punish those who they believe aided the Cylons. Baltar is a prisoner of the Cylons for the time being, but Six and Three see that he is kept comfortable.

Episode Thirty-Nine - "Torn" Part One

Episode Forty - "A Measure of Salvation" Part Two

Episode Forty-One - "Hero"

Episode Forty-Two - "Unfinished Business"

Episode Forty-Three - "The Passage"

Episode Forty-Four - "The Eye of Jupiter" Part One

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    • The colonists turn to a small planet to replenish their food and water supplies, and Tyrol discovers the Temple of the Five, and the Eye of Jupiter, which they believe could be a map to Earth.

Episode Forty-Five - "Rapture" Part Two

Episode Forty-Six - "Taking a Break From All Your Worries"

Episode Forty-Seven - "The Woman King"

Episode Forty-Eight - "A Day in the Life"

Episode Forty-Nine - "Dirty Hands"

Episode Fifty - "Maelstrom"

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    • Disturbed by an increase in dreams about the Cylon Leoben Conoy, Starbuck's mental stability comes into question. Conoy walks her through the past and finally helps her see the purpose he has been willing her to embrace all along. When her viper goes down right before Apollo's eyes, hope is shattered, and she is counted among the dead.

Episode Fifty-One - "The Son Also Rises"

Episode Fifty-Two - "Crossroads" Part One

Episode Fifty-Three - "Crossroads" Part Two

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    • Baltar's trial winds to a close, and four of the final five cylons are revealed when a strange radio signal drives them to meet up. Stunned and filled with disbelief, they return to their duties when cylons attack. Apollo joins the fight and is stunned when Starbuck pulls up beside him and tells him she's been to Earth, and knows how to get them there.

Episode Fifty-Four - "He That Believeth in Me"

Episode Fifty-Five - "Six of One"

Episode Fifty-Six - "The Ties That Bind"

Episode Fifty-Seven - "Escape Velocity"

Episode Fifty-Eight - "The Road Less Traveled"

Episode Fifty-Nine - "Faith"

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    • Roslin's faith is called into question as she sits by and watches a fellow cancer patient die. The woman tells Roslin why she believes in the One God Gaius Baltar has been preaching, and Roslin starts to question her own faith.

Episode Sixty - "Guess What's Coming to Dinner"

Episode Sixty-One - "Sine Qua Non"

Episode Sixty-Two - "The Hub"

Episode Sixty-Three - "Revelations"

Episode Sixty-Four - "The Face of the Enemy"

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    • In this webisode series bridging the gap between the first and second half of season four, Felix Gaeta is instructed by Colonel Tigh to take a week's R&R leave, but shortly after his ship leaves Galactica they are separated from the fleet. Out in space alone, the small crew (which consists of two Number 8 Cylon models,) discovers that they have less than twenty-four hours to live.
  • YouTube Video: "The Face of the Enemy" Part 1 (Time: 4:13)

Episode Sixty-Five - "Sometimes a Great Notion"

Episode Sixty-Six "A Disquiet Follows My Soul"

Episode Sixty-Seven - "The Oath"

Episode Sixty-Eight - "Blood on the Scales"

Episode Sixty-Nine - "No Exit"

Episode Seventy - "Deadlock"

Episode Seventy-One "Someone to Watch Over Me"

Episode Seventy-Two "Islanded in a Stream of Stars"

Episode Seventy-Three "Daybreak," Part One

Episode Seventy-Four "Daybreak," Part Two

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