High Treason - 
by J-Unit
Once again, I must chastise myself for slacking on my Battlestar Galactica review. I know people don't like hearing excuses, but it really was difficult to blog from outside of Jack Murphy Qualcomm Stadium. I am also just very lazy. This episode marks the last installment of the second season and if we are taking the first season as a precedent, then we can expect an episode filled with a ton of anticipation and one crazy cliffhanger. But coming into this episode, things were actually calming down for the most part. The civilians and the military officers protecting them have started to come to an understanding and after some concerns with burnout, the crew rallied to build a fighter of their own design. Even their Cylon prisoner was cooperating with them and helped them escape near certain death. With the relative serenity, it might actually be time for the fleet to start thinking about what had inspired them to keep going in the first place - finding Earth.
You know something? If everything was too easy or there were no surprises, life just wouldn't be that fun. So not two minutes into the episode, the Galactica is already ready for battle. There is an unidentified ship coming straight for them. They assume it is a Cylon basestar, but it is sending a colonial signal. When they hail this ship, the people onboard identify themselves as the Battlestar Pegasus. By the time the intercept vipers can in fact confirm the identity of the ship, Commander Adama is already celebrating the arrival of Admiral Cain. That's right, it really was another colonial ship, and TVgasm readers should love captain of the ship. It's ranking officer is Admiral Cain, played by Michelle Forbes who starred as Lynne Kresge during the second season of 24 and took an unfortunate fall soon after she discovered a traitor among Palmer's staff, but we have loved her ever since her stint as the medical examiner with the odd mole in Homicide: Life on the Street.
The presence of another human ship is northing short of a miracle. One of the reasons why the Galactica was able to make it while the rest of the fleet was getting slaughtered was because of its age. It was old and didn't have a lot of the modern technology and weaponry that newer Battlestars enjoyed. This ended up being a blessing in disguise because the Cylons weren't able to exploit that technology for their own use. With this in mind, the crew of the Galactica waited in the hangar for the arrival of a landing party from the Pegasus.
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