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Tyrel isn't the only person affected by Sharon's re-emergence, however. I could see how Helo was one of the more popular officers. He selflessly gave himself up on Caprica so that Baltar would survive. Maybe one could argue that sort of altruism is nothing but a product of his circumstances, but I would have to believe that is not the case. That kind of leadership and sacrifice is the kind that make people want to follow you into battle, because they know you are not simply looking to cover your own ass. Well, Helo isn't exactly popular these days. When he goes to sit down for a game of poker or whatever they play, he is welcomed by taunts of "Cylon lover" and he decides that it's probably best for him to leave. Nobody really understands what happened between him and Sharon. OK, almost nobody. There is Chief, who is so lonely, we see that he is spending his time feeling up a Viper fighter while he has flashbacks to having sex with Boomer. If this guy doesn't find something to do soon, then, well, I would stay off of the Long Island Railroad.

Yes, Tyrel is quickly becoming more unhinged with his reality, and if there is one person he doesn't want to see, it is Helo. Unfortunately, Helo's only sanctuary appears to be the Raptor that he and Sharon piloted, which is in the hangar where the Chief spends all of his time. Helo is willing to listen to Tyrel talk about getting married and having kids with Sharon, but Tyrel also wants to fight, and Helo wants none of that, until Tyrel says he is happy he doesn't have Sharon because the freak baby isn't his. Nobody talks about Helo's freak baby like that and eventually things boil over until the point where we see Tyrel about to pound Helo's head in with a wrench. But the chief realizes that he really isn't mad at Helo, because his Sharon is not in the brig, his Sharon is dead, and he had better deal with it.

So Tyrel needs a hobby, but there is not much that he can do besides fix ships and distill alcohol. He could do a lot of the second, but selling bootleg booze only lines his pockets, and he would still be left feeling empty inside. Fixing airplanes is going to have to do, and he has a great idea. Because there are so few spare parts, a lot of the Vipers have been decommissioned. By why can't they build a new Viper? He calls in a bunch of his friends and tells them about the crazy idea. Let's build a new ship! And let's do it on our own time! Nobody else has quite the hard-on for the project that Tyrel does, but he decides to continue on with it himself.

I really can't blame the rest of the crew for being kind of skeptical about this whole brand new fighter ship thing. There is plenty of other important things to worry about on Galactica. Most of the crew is already behind on what they are doing, and just recently it has been revealed that the computer network that Gaeta created in the face of a Cylon attack has been compromised, and it looks like it is starting to have an effect on the ships systems.

At first, they notice a constant signal being sent from Galactica, which might be the perfect way for the Cylons to track them, but it gets worse from there. After doing some investigation, it turns out that what is infecting the systems is a Cylon logic bomb. As Baltar explains it, it is a heuristic virus that has probably been testing out which systems it can control before completely taking them over. There might not be one system that is safe.

To give you an idea of what the ramifications of the logic bomb, which BTW sounds like some sort of maneuver you attempt during the tag-team portion of Academic Decathalon, we cut to a scene of Apollo, Starbuck and random jab taking target practice. For some motivation, the human targets now have Sharon's face on them. During this target practice, Apollo is talking shit about Tyrel's plane. He has been unhappy that the chief seems like he is diverting his time away from other projects, like fixing planes. Starbuck says that she would test fly the plane if he ever gets it built, and then everybody starts giggling. Now, I am not sure how many areas of the plane have little oxygen meters, but the firing range had one, and it told us that the Oxygen was dropping, meaning there was more Nitrogen in the air, which meant that the people inside would laugh themselves to sleep and then die. Apollo and Starbuck manage to use an explosive round to open the blast door and save everybody, but this is obviously a situation that needs to be resolved.

Gaeta and Baltar get to work on the computer systems and Tyrel keeps chugging away at his plane. People want to laugh at him, and Colonel Tigh wants to shut him down, but Adama says that Tyrel needs something to keep him going. As long as it keeps him sane, he'll let the project continue. Perhaps taking a little pity on the poor guy, some other people start helping out. Starbuck is working on navigation control, and there is Dualla helping on com systems. And even Cally the Killer is helping on the engines.

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Posted by J-Unit on September 20, 2005 4:51 PM