Battlestar Galactica episode "The Long Patrol"

Episode 7: "The Long Patrol"

The Galactica is leaving its galaxy, its star system, they say. I honestly don't think they had any idea what those terms meant! Or the distances involved.

There is still no feeling that the entire human race has been extinguished. That must be the case because they find another planet of humans. Planet Crodin.

Starbuck's new patrol ship has a talking computer named C.O.R.A. that has a personality. She can run the ship on her own so I'm wondering what the hell Starbuck has to be there for at all! She is like Knight Rider's K.I.T.T. for a Battlestar Galactica Colonial Viper. I'm also sitting here wondering--just a couple episodes ago, they were worried about women flying the Vipers. If they had even half of the self-operating intelligence of C.O.R.A. anyone could fly the damn things.

Starbuck meets a smuggler and says he is from the "Sirinus Galaxy" but he may have been lying because he called himself a privateer. Long story short--Starbuck ends up at Proteus Prison where the inmates are imprisoned for crimes that their ancestors committed. Apparently, this is a penal asteroid that made ambrosia wine for the Colonies, ostentatiously forgotten about many, many years ago.

The obligatory Cylon attack of like three ships is repulsed. I swear, they just throw in a couple Cylons to blow up, making the Cylons seem really really stupid.

There is a brief mention at the end of the people on the asteroid joining the Galactica. Not much else is made of it.