#16: Take the Celestra

[Specter]

https://www.byyourcommand.net/cylongall ... play_media

Excellent!

[johnnybear]

Somehow that doesn't look right!
JB

[Croft2014]

This one centres around one of the ships in the fleet, the Celestra and it's commander Kronos (Paul Fix); former (retired) commander of the Battlestar Rikon, of the fourth fleet. The ship is a technical ship where vipers' scanners and other technical items are calibrated.

Also on the Celestra is Aurora (Ana Alicia) a former squeeze of Starbucks and one he thought had died in the attack on Caprica during the destruction of the colonies.

When he and Apollo fly to the Celestra they land right in the middle of a mutiny involving Aurora and others.

A solid episode although it does have two problems. The first is minor and that is that it's obvious when the two vipers land on the celestra in the shot of them coming to a halt, it's obvious that the full scale prop nearest the camera is a partial or at least missing skin on it's camera side.

The second is that some aspects of the plot like the fact the Colonial shuttles can't navigate by themselves seems blatantly daft and writer's convenience. I'm not even sure that it makes sense given what we know and have seen shuttles do in prior stories.

[johnnybear]

Basically a filler episode that a few channels showed much earlier in their run when they wanted to end the show for a brief break! Thames did this in Dec 1980 before recommencing with the show in Feb 81!
JB