"Battlestar Galactica" Still One of Television's Best Shows

"Battlestar Galactica" had its mid-season spring premier Sunday, January 21, 2007. The episode entitled Rapture picked up where the fall season ended with Adama threatening to launch nuclear missiles at the algae planet where they had discovered a temple presumably containing the Eye of Jupiter. According to legend, the eye is a marker to show where the 13^th tribe settled, which is presumably the planet Earth.

Down on the planet the Galactica's Chief is racing against time to locate the eye within the temple. Apollo and Anders are battling the Cylon "toasters" while Apollo's wife, Dualla, is attempting to rescue Starbuck, whose raptor went down in a Cylon attack. Everyone is rushing to complete his or her missions before the planet's star goes supernova.

On the Cylon baseship D'Anna is bucking the will of the Cylon council. She doesn't want to pull back the fighters headed toward the planet. However, she eventually gives in to most of their demands, insisting only that one ship be allowed through. She attempts to convince her comrades that Adama won't nuke the planet over one rogue ship. She is correct. Adama backs down and allows the single ship, which carries Baltar and D'Anna, through to the planet.

On Galactica, Helo and Athena try to persuade Adama to authorize a rescue mission to bring back their daughter, Hera who is on the Cylon baseship. He declines his permission so Athena convinces Helo to kill her so that she can be reborn on the baseship and rescue their child. When she is reborn and makes it to her daughter, she finds the baby deathly ill. She attempts to convince Sharon (Athena's duplicate) and Number Six, AKA Caprica, that the baby is going to die if she isn't seen by a human doctor. Sharon threatens to kill the little girl if Athena continues to push her agenda, but Caprica kills Sharon in order to protect the baby.

"Battlestar Galactica" sometimes paints a grim picture of the future.

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