Battlestar Galactica episode "The Man With Nine Lives"

"The Man With Nine Lives"


Adama is using the coordinates and directions given by the Beings of Light to make the way to Earth. Adama mentions "following the trail" left by the 13th Colony on their way to Earth. I guess that kind of solves my problem of what all these humans are doing on all these different planets all over the place. However, now aren't there many more such "colonies"?

Starbuck is interviewed for a TV show to recruit new pilots. He is an orphan, his parents supposedly killed during a Cylon raid on Umbra on Caprica when he was a baby. There's an old con man amongst the fleet who decides to take advantage of that and "become" Starbuck's father. His name is Chameleon--but pronounced SHA-me-le-on. Amazing how all the information he has is exactly just what Starbuck did in his interview and he never wonders, but I guess he wants to believe.

Of course, everyone is going gambling and dancing! I know they need some R&R but...The dancing is in skin tight jumpsuits with some kind of triangular hula hoop.


The Borellians, who are amongst the survivors, have come on a "blood trail" for the con man. The best way to describe Borellians is to compare them to Star Trek Klingons.


Starbuck is using a late 70s calculator to compute the odds of the Pyramid card game, right out on the table. WTF?

The Borellians answer the TV commercial in order to chase down the con man on the Galactica.


Funny how the crew on board the Galactica are running tests on Starbuck's paternity not by DNA but by comparing brain cells. That's 1979 for you! DNA wasn't being compared yet, was it?


Starbuck acts like a little bitch when he fights with Apollo about not believing in his "father." He actually even plans on resigning his commission to be with his "father."


Chameleon (SHAmeleon) is running from the Borellians because he posed as Jackal Captain Dmitri--I've got no idea if the Jackal is just a curse or the name of a ship. They fight the Borellians and beat 'em. Of course. Then we find that Chameleon really is Starbuck's father! He makes Cassiopeia lie so Starbuck doesn't give everything up.


Actually, this wasn't a bad episode, but only if you are invested in the characters already.