Battlestar Galactica episode "The Living Legend"

Episode 12: "The Living Legend--Part One"

The Battlestar Pegasus! The irascible Commander Cain is played by Lloyd Bridges.

While on patrol, Starbuck and Apollo encounter a patrol from the Pegasus. "That's impossible! We're the only ones left alive in the entire star system!"

Starbuck says the Pegasus was destroyed two years ago in the Battle of Molocade with the Fifth Fleet. Starbuck and Apollo are taken aboard to meet Cain.

Meanwhile, the Galactica and the fleet are running out of fuel. We learn eventually that Cain turned his ship out to deep space after the Battle of Molocade and has been running raids and sorties on Cylon bases. Wouldn't he have to report? Is he renegade like Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now?

The Delphinian Empire?? The Cylons control an old Colonial fuel base, the most remote in the Colonies, named Gamore. Another inconsistency in that they have said before that nobody has been out this far.

Cain wants to attack--Adama wants to escape. Cain is apparently subordinate to Adama in this original series (she's an admiral in the new show).

Cassiopeia, one of Starbuck's girlfriends, finally has a small part to play in the show--she is apparently the old love of Cain. (Digress: That's actually interesting--what does a person do when their love who disappears in war comes back years later?) Cain's daughter Sheba doesn't like her father's cradle-robbing.

Cain leads a couple of squadrons in a raid to take two Cylon tankers. Then he blows up the tankers, saying he was shooting at Cylons. This is so Adama is now forced to attack the Cylon base like Cain wants.

(Sidebar: They are always talking about "getting out of the quadrant." Aren't there only four quadrants? Quadrant of what?)

Adama decides to distribute the fuel from Pegasus to escape the quadrant. Cain vehemently objects and Adama relieves him, putting Tigh in command of the Pegasus. This can't bode well...

Baltar is prepping another strike on the Galactica at Gamore. He is overconfident yet again. You'd think after previous defeats, he would use everything at his disposal, more Cylons than are necessary, just to crush them. But no, like a classic two-dimensional bad guy, he doesn't. And we all know he is going to get surprised by the new Battlestar.

This is Baltar from "Living Legend":

The Pegasus crew sort of mutiny from Adama's orders to support Cain. Guns are drawn but luckily the impending Cylon force makes them fast friends again.

How the hell does the Pegasus "go around" without being detected by the Cylons? Throughout this show, we are constantly shown a graphic of incoming ships, all clearly marked, and I know Cylon tech is good. Yet, the Pegasus can "go around" in this episode when back in "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero" going around wasn't an option. I tell ya...