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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MaxKaladin" data-source="post: 2421852" data-attributes="member: 1196">SPOILERS: if you haven't been keeping up with these shows, spoilers for the previous seasons follow.......................Battlestar Galactica:  The deal with the arrow is that the President has been, depending on your view of things, either going nuts or guided by a higher power.  As the first season progressed, she started having visions and dreams that eventually convinced her that she is some sort of prophet being guided by "the Gods".  She was aided in coming to this conclusion by the priestess who was with her on Colonial One (the one who presided over the memorial service at the end of the miniseries).  This may be true, it may be true that she is being influenced by the cylons and it may be true that the medication she has been taking for the cancer has been causing hallucinations.  In any case, she's been pretty circumspect about her beliefs.  She has not really let this out of the bag to too many people.In any case, they eventually find Kobol.  The president became convinced that she is some sort of prophet and could lead the colonists to Earth if she had the Arrow of Athena.  There is a minor complication -- it's in a museum on Cylon-occupied Caprica.  Adama and Tigh refuse to send anyone back to retrieve it so she brings Starbuck into her confidence and appeals to her to go get it using a captured cylon ship.  Starbuck has shown signs of being a person of faith under her tough exterior.  She is convinced and agrees to go.  During a test flight of the Clyon ship before a mission where it is to be used to take out a Cylon Basestar, she instead takes off for Caprica.  While there, she encounters "Six" just as she recovers the arrow and a fight ensues.  Helo shows up during the fight and Six is defeated.  Starbuck also discovers that Boomer is a cylon.  That's where the season ended for her.During all this, Baltar, Tyrol, Cally and some NPCs( <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ) are part of a survey mission to Kobol.  They are intercepted and shot down.  After a crash landing, they assess their sutation while Baltar has another hallucination/message from the cylon implant (take your pick).  Six was showing him a baby in a cradle and talking about it being the future and all that stuff.  This is where the season ends for them.  On the Galactica, Adama was very angry about Starbuck taking off with the ship and finds out the President is behind it.  He basically decides to terminate her presidency and assume military command of the government.  She refuses and Adama sends Tigh and Apollo with some marines to arrest her.  Apollo turns on Tigh in the middle of a standoff and is arrested along with the President.  She is taken to the brig on Galactica while Apollo is brough to the bridge to face his father.  Meanwhile, Boomer and her copilot have been sent to destroy the raider using a mcguffin I don't recall (Cylon IFF as I recall).  She lands on the basestar and plants a nuke.  She also confronts several of her own clones and has a converstation with them and then returns to Galactica knowing she is a cylon.  The nuke goes off, the basestar is destroyed and Boomer gets a heroes welcome.  She is taken to the bridge to get congratulations from Adama but as he is standing in front of her, she draws her pistol and puts two slugs in his chest instead.  Chaos erupts.  This is where the season ends.  Season two picks up from there.If nobody does Stargate, I'll pick up later.</blockquote>

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