Battlestar Galactica episode "Baltar's Escape"

"Baltar's Escape"


Captain's Log: The Fleet is buzzing about the opressive Eastern Alliance. Have they traded to Cylons for another bad guy? Adama does not want to release the prisoners from the Alliance because he does not want a rehash of the Cylon "peace" mission that went horribly wrong.


Adama, Apollo, and Starbuck go to interrogate the prisoners. The Alliance Commandant says, "We are at war with the Nationalists...people who want to change the natural order."


Baltar on the prison barge joins the Borellians in a jailbreak to get on the shuttle that is due to take the Alliance prisoners to the Galactica. The Borellians can fake death.


The Council of Twelve wants to give Adama the Star of Kobol, but he refuses because he knows it is just to take away military control, something he does not think is wise in their present situation. The Council does it anyway, taking away martial law. One of the Council, Siress Tinia, is to be Adama's civilian aide.


(Sidebar: a toilet is known as a turbo-flush.)


This Siress Tinia ends up directing Adama's decisions completely, almost taking away any security procedures. She thinks it is time for the diplomats to take over. It's exactly like the Cylon "peace" though they didn't even need Baltar to lead them astray this time.


The bad guys capture the Council waiting to speak to them. Apollo and Starbuck prevent the bad guys from taking the bridge of the Galactica. Now it's a hostage situation.


Part of Baltar's demands is the release of the two Cylon pilots who flew him to the Galactica. Unfortunately, the scientist Dr. Wilker has dismantled them as he was experimenting on them. So the really interesting question this poses is whether or not these Cylons have any kind of sentience in them then. Were they killed? Are they just robots gone astray?


Now Siress Tinia says, "Commander, I am not stupid" when she finally goes along with a military assault. You just wanted to slap her.


Baltar agrees to give them another [hour] to put the Cylons together if they take Adama as another hostage. Tinia says she is going too. Apollo changes Adama's planned attack because the Cylon pilots are rigged. They can't put them back together well enough and everything they touch gets destroyed. Baltar is captured. They let the Alliance ship go in order to track them back to Luna 7. Adama gets quite cozy with Siress Tinia.


Now, even after all this, Baltar is still not executed? Genocidal treason, jailbreak, and a hostage situation involving most of the members of the Council of Twelve. Boy, are they lenient.


According to the Battlestar Wiki page I like:


At the end of the show, Baltar is again captured, and the Eastern Alliance prisoners flee aboard their vessel, with the Borellian Nomen along for the ride.

The ulimate fate of the escapees is never dealt with, however. The episode ends with the capture of Baltar.

Although Blue Squadron, and Boomer in particular, pursue the Eastern Alliance cruiser back to Lunar 7 during the course of the
next episode, "Experiment in Terra," this plot detail is lost amidst the drama of the intervention at Terra, and we never learn what happens to the Alliance villains or the Nomen.