A month has passed since the events of the previous episode and there have been a few changes; President Roslin has a new assistant, Apollo and Dee are a couple and Pegasus is back with the fleet. The last of these provides the main story for this episode. After the deaths of Cain and then Frisk the Pegasus's senior engineering officer, Commander Garner, has taken command; the problem is he is used to working with machines rather than people. Not surprisingly it isn't long before he clashes with his new CAG: Starbuck. When two raptors disappear and a distress signal is heard Garner wants to go with the Pegasus to rescue them; Starbuck fears that the distress call might be a Cylon deception and Apollo is inclined to agree with her. Admiral Adama orders Garner to launch a reconnaissance patrol first but he takes the Pegasus anyway; right into a trap! As if this wasn't enough there is a secondary story concerning a young Geminon woman who has fled to Galactica to seek a termination. Roslin refuses to hand her back to the staunchly anti-abortion Geminese but the issue does remind her that the population is falling and if she wants to halt that she may have to give up her life long belief in a woman's right to choose.
This was a good episode with some good action; it was good to see a battlestar go up against the Cylons again. John Heard did a fine job as Commander Garner; portraying him as a good man who was out of his depth as a battlestar commander but had what it took to save his ship in the engine room. While the secondary story wasn't as thrilling it did deal with the issue of the falling population and lead to the emergence of a viable contender in the upcoming elections.
This was a good episode with some good action; it was good to see a battlestar go up against the Cylons again. John Heard did a fine job as Commander Garner; portraying him as a good man who was out of his depth as a battlestar commander but had what it took to save his ship in the engine room. While the secondary story wasn't as thrilling it did deal with the issue of the falling population and lead to the emergence of a viable contender in the upcoming elections.
