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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 3170821" data-attributes="member: 115">Humans aren't often the true disease pools, other animals are.  For example, with many of the European epidemics, it was rats that carried it, and gave it to humans living in dirty areas.  Cholera is thought to live in algal blooms in the ocean, hence cholera outbreaks in warm beach climates.  "Bird Flu", aka H5N1, has its disease pool in, well, birds.  Heck, the regular flu came from the bird-pig-human cycle, and the common cold is thought to have come from horses.  So, it's possible that the Cylons would get sick.Of course, hopefully, the thought you're having is something along the lines of sanitation stopping infection, which is true.  That doesn't mean there's not a supply of organisms that can be used... I'm sure there are rats and other animals that happen to be with the fleet.  Maybe not on Galactica, but probably on a ship like the Astral Queen or the *shudder* Black Market ship, whatever it was called.So while the original premise by Storm Raven is flawed (polio in the US, smallpox worldwide, neither have a disease pool in their respective populations, heck one barely exists anymore), there are plenty of pathogens out there that could be used.  You can go and find plague and black death in rat populations today - we just don't expose ourselves to it.It's a sloppy premise, plain and simple.That's why I don't like this episode.  Either your answer is yes, or your answer is no.  There is no "it depends".  It's trying to raise moral questions, but it doesn't work - just read the thread, almost no one here is indecisive.  It especially doesn't work as a premise because the Cylons are not sympathtic at all.  If we had met more than one nice Cylon, it might be, but that's not the scenario they've set up.</blockquote>

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