Battlestar Galactica:Season 2; Part 5 NSCR/8.12.05

[WizarDru]

I don't remember the details, but Boomer was (almost certainly - I don't think we see absolute proof) responsible for blowing up a significant part of Galactica's water supply, putting the fleet at severe risk. She appeared to have no memory of what she did, but the evidence was pretty damning. Chief covered for her. At this point, it was up in the air whether she was a Cylon or not, I think. This may be the episode that introduced Caprica-Boomer, at which point we knew she was a Cylon for certain. I'm not totally clear on that.

No, we already knew for certain. In one of the last scenes of the mini-series, several of the anthroform cylons show up at the arms depot the Galactica rearmed at...Boomer was present and accounted for, removing all doubt.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

Ah, right you are. I missed the first half of the mini-series, but I do remember that scene now...

 

[Fast Learner]

No she isn't. They've bumped off a few other anthroforms before.

Except that they spaced the rest. So they've had no corpse until now. Like he said.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

They say that they upload their memories when destroyed. I don't know if this has actually been confirmed.

While I sorely want to say it's a cruel mind trick played on the anthroforms ("Yeaaaah...we'll upload your consciousness, suuuuuure"), note that, in the season finale, Six recognized Starbuck. While that's not conclusive proof (they could've found her file in the Colonial Military Archives), the particular viciousness that Six displayed suggests she knew that Starbuck, um, "knew" Baltar.

Brad

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

Except that they spaced the rest. So they've had no corpse until now. Like he said.

Nope.

They have the one Adama killed on the space station in the morgue. Adama went and looked at it when they captured the one that Starbuck interrogated.

They also would've had the bits of the one that played suicide bomber up in the Witch Hunt episode, though his remains wouldn't've been especially useful, except inasmuch as the internal bits and pieces were somewhat more accessible.

Brad

 

[Safana Cain]

I would say that the humaniform Cylons are "constructed" humans in the sense that while they are completely organic - and even the glowing spine can be organic - they were built out of engineered tissue rather than grown as a whole piece like a person. I'm thinking of the replicants from Blade Runner, who were all meat but nevertheless assembled, probably because much of their components couldn't be grown together naturally.

Or something.

 

[Mercule]

Didn't know that about Blade Runner. Kinda icky, but I like it. It might also help to explain why they're looking at reproduction.