BattleStar Galactica:Season 3.0--11/10/06--Arc 6

[Truth Seeker]

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"A Measure of Salvation"








Original airdate: Nov 10th 2006
# Production Number: 306
# Executive Producers: R.D. Moore, David Eick
# Co-Executive Producer: Paul Leonard
# Producer: Harvey Frand
# Associate Producer: Trisha Brunner
# Written by: Michael Angeli
# Directed by: Bill Eagles

Starring: Mary McDonnell, Edward James Olmos, Jamie Bamber, Katee Sackhoff, James Callis, Tricia Helfer, Grace Park.

Co-Starring: Michael Hogan, Alessandro Juliani, Tahmoh Penikett, Kandyse McClure, Aaron Douglas, Nicki Clyne.

Admiral Adama and President Roslin debate the morality of deploying a potentially genocidal biological weapon against the Cylons. Meanwhile, Baltar is tortured by D'Anna, who is intent on determining who is responsible for creating the deadly virus that has imperiled the Cylon population.​

No good, no good...of leaving such a dangerous thing around.

 

[RangerWickett]

Yeah, that deadly virus? It's a cold. Too bad your entire race has never had to deal with diseases, Martians!

The episode was entertaining, but man, I got used to watching 2 seasons in a week, with 4 or more episodes a day. This one a week thing ain't cuttin' it.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Woahness.

I am disappointed by the lack of genocidal tendencies in future humans. Pansies. It's an eye for an eye, people. They kill a couple billion with nukes, you kill a couple billion with rat phlegm.

I was actually hoping for a bit of negotiation: "Stand back, Cylon, or I'll sneeze on you!"

I'm thinking this season may be the best so far.

(Note to the prop master/Lee Adama: Elcan called, and they want their M145 back.)

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

Mwaha! Chalk one up for the Grumpster! I called it in a post on last week’s episode. The plague was something simple, an accident and not a weapon. Someone just sneezed…

I wished they would torture Baltar even more. Even if there are no coincidences and all is part of Gods plan, that does not mean we mere mortals are privy to those plans. Mostly they just fall on us and we work our pitiful way through them as best we can. The assumption that Baltar did know about the plague was an irrational response on the part of the Cylons.

The cruel Apollo is cool.

Helo and Athena’s relationship has screwed things up in a major way. People will do anything and justify any crime or treachery, all for the sake of a good orgasm.

However, given what they now know about the plague it is possible they can try to deliberately infect the Cylons in the future. They won’t but I can dream…

 

[RangerWickett]

I'm honestly a little horrified that you guys are in favor of genocide. I don't think Helo did what he did to impress his wife. He did it because he's had his eyes opened that the enemy are people too. Now true, there's a risk of a slippery slope, that he might be hesitant of working on any aggressive action against the Cylons, but I think Helo has a good enough head to tell the difference between winning tactical conflicts against directly hostile Cylons, and genocide.

Eye for eye is, and always has been, a terrible doctrine. It only really works if you're in a position of tyranny already.

 

[shilsen]

I'm honestly a little horrified that you guys are in favor of genocide.

I'm not, but only because I realized a long time ago that humans are a pretty lousy bunch.

No wonder the Cylons want to exterminate them.

 

[DM_Matt]

1. It does not seem that Cylon civilians exist. Against humans, there is a difference between genocide and destroying the enemy's military. Against cylons, no such distinction exists.

2. Nuclear doctrine is generally that if a nation uses nuclear weapons against another who also has nclear weapons, that first country will be annihilated with nuclear weapons in response. This is necessary for deterrance to truly work. The cylons tried to destroy all of humanity with WMD. Thus, it is fair play to respond in kind. I seriously doubt that any earth nation would hesitate to use the virus.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

The genocide of the Cylons is the only way they will ever be stopped.

 

[Ahnehnois]

I dislike the senseless techno element that somehow says a virus travels to the resurrection ship, and the extended idea that this somwhow infects the entire cylon civilization, and the idea that they can't cure it and none of them is immune. Way too many stretches of scientific credibility for my taste.

I like the conflict of the episode. Genocide is bad. It's sort of a Hiroshima situation where you ask if saving your own lives is worth it. I couldn't do it. I'm not a murderer.

 

[Trickstergod]

The genocide of the Cylons is the only way they will ever be stopped.

Well that, or, you know. Breeding until the distinction between humanity and cylon no longer exists.

Of course, that situation is problematic to say the least. But it's certainly a better solution than genocide and, for that matter, gets around that whole, "If we just leave you alone, you'll resupply to come back and murder our faces off at a later date."