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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2603884" data-attributes="member: 14159">I'm listening to the podcast commentary now, there was a cut scene where it says that Admiral is one grade directly above Commander.  Commander is apparently equivalent to Commodore or one-star Rear Admiral, while Admiral refers to the higher flag ranks.Apparently the episode, as originally intended, ran 15 minutes over, and they almost made it into a 90 minute episode but it was just a little too short, so they trimmed what they could to get the slightly elongated broadcast cut, and that the 2nd Season DVD will have the extended 75 minute cut of the episode.In answering to my own query, the podcast makes it clear (it was explained in a cut scene) that Pegasus survived the CNP problem because most of its computers were offline for the refit, and since it survived the first strike and the blind jump, they were able to figure out that the CNP was a trap and disable it.There was also a cut scene where apparently the fleet was refusing to resupply Pegasus since Pegasus was not providing aid to the fleet, where Roslin confronts Cain and demands Pegasus provide aid to the fleet, where Cain outright says that she doesn't recognize her as president and thus not her presidential orders, as far as she's concerned the civilian government doesn't exist anymore and she's the sole goverment of the human race.In the uncut version, there was even more tension between the crews as they mixed.They almost made the engineer a Scotty homage, but decided not to.  James Doohan died when the episode was under production, and having the Pegasus having an engineer who was a pseudo-Scottish mechanical genius almost made it to screen as a tribute.Cains style of command (or at least certain specific quirks) was apparently inspired by a certain real-world political figure known for being abusive to subordinates.Yes, Starbuck's flight in the stealth fighter will apparently be key in what happens in part 2.</blockquote>

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