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The Galactica has the Eastern Alliance's battleship that escaped last
episode stealthily followed by a squadron of Vipers to maybe
determine the location of earth - when squadron leader Apollo (Richard
Hatch) is snatched by the divine Ship of Light (from episode War
of the Gods) where a benign being calling himself John (Edward
Mulhare) - of all names - tells him he must go to Terra to save the planet
from an attack by the Eastern Alliance. To that end, Apollo is given the
appearance of an ace fighter pilot looking so exactly like him that even
that man's wife Brenda (Melody Anderson) is fooled. However, she thinks
something's wrong with his head and has him fetched by the authorities,
and before he knows it he's imprisoned. Soon enough, so is Brenda and her
father, high ranking General Maxwell (Ken Swofford). What you need to know
here, Terra's president himself (Peter MacLean) is a good enough man, but
he's surrounded by the wrong kind of advisors who have talked him into a
peace treaty with the Eastern Alliance, and the Alliance is about to
attack. Now should Apollo and General Maxwell have spoken in front of
Terra's council, that would have made all the difference, but with things
being as they are ... but fortunately, Starbuck (Dirk Benedict) has picked
up Apollo's trail, and now he springs them from prison, then he hails the
Galactica to Terra, in the nick of time, because the Eastern Alliance's
nuclear missiles have already been launched and so have Terra's defense
missiles - but the Galactica blows them all to Kingdom Come, preventing an
all-anihilating war that way. So Terra's saved, but is it Earth which the
Galactica is heading for. Well, John says no and bids the Galacticans a
hearty farewell ... An episode that shows how much steam the
show as a whole has lost with abandoning the Cylons as Galactica's chief
enemy, as storywise this one seems to be desparately searching for a
conflict and consequently a villain, and it even employs a deus-ex-machina
twist by bringing back the Ship of Light - which to be terribly honest
didn't work all that well the first time around either as the science
fiction style of the series doesn't work that well with esoteric elements
thrown in. The result is somewhat silly and amusing for all the wrong
reasons, but ultimately one of the more forgettable episodes of the
series.
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