He calls himself Count Iblis ( Patrick Macnee), the lone survivor of an attack by his enemies, that he only describes as “Great Powers” and he has no idea how he survived the crash. When our trio arrives at the lifeless planet they are shocked to discover wreckage of what once must have been a massive spacecraft, but more surprising is they run into a survivor. and we don’t see Boomer at this briefing, so I guess he went back to his bunk to cry over his lost game. So Apollo, Starbuck and Sheba ( Anne Lochart) are sent to investigate, because of course they are, no one else in the fleet can do much of anything. At the meeting they find out about Bojay’s missing patrol, and a seismic disturbance on a nearby planet, could all be connected. And is also the most embarrassing looking sport.īoomer is a bit depressed, as his Blue team has never been able to defeat Apollo and Starbuck’s Gold Team, but before he can get too maudlin Colonel Tigh ( Terry Carter) arrives to inform them all of an emergency meeting in the War Room. While all this drama was going on Apollo ( Richard Hatch), Starbuck ( Dirk Benedict) and Boomer ( Herbert Jefferson Jr.) are playing a game of Triad, a sport that is a mix of basketball, football and handball.
Needless to say the Galactica is quite concerned when shortly after hearing a distress call from Silver Spar Squadron the ships all vanish from their scanners. How can ships travel at such amazing speeds? Who could be behind such a powerful attack, and why? Shouldn’t this be hovering over Devils Tower? They are given no chance to escape, as a sonic attack incapacitates them as well as their craft, and in a blinding flash of light they are gone. The Viper pilots do their best to evade the strange “ships” but then a larger ship, one of pure light, appears behind them. Silver Spar Squadron was about to return to the fleet when they encountered strange lights that fly around them at incredible speeds. The episode begins with your standard space patrol, only instead of consisting of either Apollo or Starbuck running thing it is led by Bojay ( Jack Stauffer) and three anonymous pilots, making this more or less a “Red Shirts” patrol.
Battlestar Galactica’s entire premise is based on the idea that man’s origins lie in the stars and not on Earth itself, kind of a “ Screw you, Charles Darwin!” That idea is certainly nothing new as such books as Chariots of the Gods exposited such theories powerful beings from space with godlike abilities even popped up in several episodes of the original Star Trek, so an episode where the crew of the Galactica run into some gods was kind of inevitable.
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