In a far less interesting and much more absurd storyline, Gaius Baltar returns to his former followers hoping that his harem of women will bow before his feet. He’s a bit ticked off that they don’t all fall in line because they feel like he betrayed them, so a lady named Paula has taken up his role as leader. Baltar is desperate to regain his status as a prophet.

Baltar decides the best way is to give food to starving kids so he looks like a great humanitarian. It backfires when mercenaries show up and steal the food. Baltar hides behind his female posse and I’m starting to feel sad. This season was going so strong, and now they’re wasting our time with this wacky, pointless Baltar storyline. BSG has had absolutely no idea what to do with Gaius ever since the trial ended.

Head Six reappears to possibly make things better, but all she does is convince Baltar to fight for hope. So he gives a rousing speech, repeating what Head Six tells him, including the fact that they need to find more bigger and better guns. I honestly don’t know if this is supposed to be funny or not.

Baltar finally goes to Adama and asks him for guns by playing on his weakness, saying that he and his religious harlots are the last chance for humanity unless Adama wants to integrate the fleet with the Cylons. It makes no sense, but Adama’s ship is dying, he’s replacing it with Cylon goop, and his best friend, now a Cylon, is having a baby with another Cylon, so he’s more susceptible to Baltar’s trickery.

In the end, Adama gives Valtar the guns, provides comfort for his friend and then goes on a walk with Roslin. They see that the Cylons are putting photos of their dead on the wall with the humans. Adama says on a bit of a somber note that the integration has already happened.


Next week on Battlestar Galactica: Heopfully a much better episode than this one as we finally get back to Starbuck’s existential crisis after finding herself dead on Earth.


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