Overall, BSG kind of sits apart from a bunch of TVgasm and it's normal Fantastic Super Terrific Funtime Happy Hour attitude we take with a lot of the programming here. Therefore, I am going to try and lighten things up a bit. And since there's nothing funnier than cancer, I am in luck. The President has cancer, and it looks it is really starting to take its toll. She is so delirious with pain that she begins to hallucinate a little bit. Roslin begins to remember the time on Caprica just before the Cylon attack. She just heard that her cancer was malignant, the teachers union was striking, and there was Gaius Baltar sucking face with a hot blonde.

Now, we all know that hot blonde as model Six (I believe the Caprica model was called Natasi), and although the President continues to see the two lovebirds in her dreams, nothing really comes up. Besides, what are these hallucinations supposed to tell her? She doesn't have much time on earth, and she is going to use it to make one last, very difficult decision. She gathers Adama, Billy, Dr. Baltar and Dr. Cottle, next to her hospital bed on the Galactica, and gives them a little bit of a heads up. They have been doing blood tests on Sharon's fetus, and the results had some anomalies. There was enough concern that she has decided that the Cylon pregnancy was going to have to be terminated.

I am not sure if it is the medication, but the President has changed a lot during the final days of her administration. Maybe she realizes that she wouldn't have to worry about the aftermath, but ordering the death of a Colonial officer and unborn baby, as dangerous as it might be, seems very out of character. If there was anything that Roslin learned from her time on Caprica as Education Secretary, it was that "the best thing about being president is that you don't have to explain yourself to anyone", so despite Baltar's protests that the Cylon baby was of strategic value, the order was going to be executed. OK, bad choice of words, but you get the idea.

Again, this sounds kind of crazy, but since the colonies apparently don't have a 25th Amendment, it looks like Roslin is going to get her way without the Quorum of Twelve deciding whether she is fit to make decisions or not. Gaius is second in command, and he obviously doesn't want this baby to die. He pleads with Adama, which is odd, because Baltar had a dream that Adama was drowning his baby (or at least a baby important to him) in the beginning of Season 2. Adama's reaction to the President's decision is not quite an endorsement, but he will follow his orders from the Commander in Chief, and tells Baltar to pull himself together After all, he will soon be President Dr. Gaius Baltar, and he is going to have to make tough decisions himself.

As hard as it is for Gaius to take this news, it is even more difficult for Six. First of all, she is not happy because she hasn't seen Dr. Baltar in a long time. Considering that Six is projected from Baltar's mind, this seems like a petty complaint to make, but I guess she is here to help Gaius in his time of need. When Gaius tells her about the plan to kill the baby, she reminds him that he already has the resources to get his point across. Six is talking about Baltar's nuclear warhead. Baltar had been given one in order to build his Cylon detector. And since we all know that there isn't a problem out there that you can't fix with some nuclear proliferation, it sounds like a winning strategy to me.

While Baltar was trying to figure out if violence was the answer, there is a growing faction among the colonies that believes that violence is NOT the answer, under any circumstances. While Starbuck and Lieutenant "Kat" Katraine (the second greatest Kat on TV after Iron Chef Cora, although neither hold a candle to our very own Kat) are preparing to land, Kat asks permission to "clean out her guns". No, that doesn't mean she has a little Jamie Lee Curtis in her, she actually trying to make sure her Viper's weapons work. After a few shots, her gun comes flying off, and actually hits Starbuck's Viper. The two are able to make it back to Galactica, and upon further examination, it looks like their ammunition was tampered with. I'm tellin' all of y'all, it's a sabotage! Sorry, my inner Beastie takes over every now and then.

Posted by J-Unit on January 23, 2006 9:30 PM