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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MaxKaladin" data-source="post: 2094859" data-attributes="member: 1196">I don't think Starbuck was being shown as the best strategist here, or best anything else for that matter.  Her plan was a tactical plan.  The strategic plan was to go to this place and take it from the Cylons.  The tactical plan is where you figure out the details.  Military officers are supposed to know how to make plans like that.  It's part of the training.  Also, she's not exactly a junior officer.  She is "Lieutenant" Starbuck.  There is a rank chart for the colonial fleet at scifi.com (in the producer's blog for February).  Assuming they aren't dropping "Junior Grade" from her rank for brevity, she has been promoted twice.  She's only one rank behind Apollo and is probably an appropriate rank to be a second in command to Apollo, which would mean she should have the skills necessary to step into his job, including planning tactical operations.  Further, the fact that she's been a flight instructor would imply to me that she is good enough to teach tactics to pilots as part of training pilots.  Granted, ship to ship tactics are different from unit tactics, but I think that would still have been part of her training as she went up in rank.  In fact, I suspect that Starbuck is the one of the highest ranking Colonial officer left unless there are higher ranking officers we don't know about yet.  Gaeta is the senior officer of the watch and is also a Lt. so depending on time in rank and the number of Lieutenants on the Galactica, she could possibly be the fourth highest ranking officer left.  I don't think it is unusual for Adama to call her in, especially as he's obviously grooming her for higher rank.  The fleet will need command officers and he's grooming her for one of those spots.  Is she the "best" because it was her plan?  No.  Her plan got used because Adama knew the Cylons would be expecting a conventional plan and he knew her thinking would be unconventional.  That doesn't make her better, just different.  I think a big part of her plan being used is Adama grooming her for command, partially because (as someone else already mentioned) Apollo seems to have divided loyalties and he believes he can trust Starbuck.  And, of course, as has been mentioned ad nauseum, she isn't the best.  The only shot she took as a sniper missed and her stint in an interrogator was a complete failure.  She got both jobs because Adama could trust her, not because she is the best at everything. =====Caprica Boomer has some 'splainin' to do, it seems.  Helo has seen Six die and then saw her alive.  Oops.And she seems to be pregnant.=====I really liked Baltar before he started getting all caught up in the whole religious thing.  =====I noticed a little undercurrent of mistrust on the military side last night.  They didn't reveal the details of the operation to the civilians and said it was just 'old habits dying hard', but I suspect it was quite deliberate.  =====Finally, I also think the manual board was used because it is impossible to hack.</blockquote>

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