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Battlestar Galactica Season 2: Scar
Air Date: 02/03/2006

Written by: David Weddle, Bradley Thompson
Directed by: Michael Nankin

Cast

Tricia Helfer (Number Six)
Mary McDonell (Laura Roslin)
Katee Sackhoff (Kara "Starbuck" Thrace)
James Callis (Gaius Baltar)
Grace Park (Sharon "Boomer" Valerii)
Edward James Olmos (William Adama)
Jamie Bamber (Lee "Apollo" Adama)

Plot Summary

Galactica protects miners who are extracting vital metals from an asteroid from Cylon attacks perpetrated by a deadly, battle-savvy Raider nicknamed Scar. Elsewhere, Kara Thrace butts heads with Lt. Katraine. Lt. Katraine: Luciana Carro.

The colonial mining ship Majahual has been working around the clock for a month extracting essential metals from an asteroid. The fleet has moved on, leaving Galactica behind to guard the miners from persistent Cylon raids.

The viper pilots' deadliest foe is an enemy Raider that they've nicknamed "Scar," the combat-savvy reincarnation of countless Cylon warriors that boasts a growing list of human kills. Hiding out in the asteroid belt, Scar is a master of hit-and-run attacks that are decimating the war-weary Viper squadrons and forcing them to throw inexperienced replacement pilots into the fray.

The shaken pilots, led by Capt. Lee "Apollo" Adama, cover their distress at the mounting casualties by adopting a hardboiled demeanor. But neither booze nor a lustful encounter with Lee can vanquish the battle-fatigue or the demons that haunt Lt. Kara "Starbuck" Thrace.

Tempers explode between Kara and Lt. Louanne "Kat" Katraine, who insists that Starbuck is dangerously off her game. A fierce competition ensues as to which of them will obliterate Scar.

But when Scar traps both Starbuck and Kat in an ambush, Kara must swallow her pride and support her brash young rival in a climactic dogfight against the Cylons' top gun.

Remarkable Scenes:

- The teaser outlining what Scar is and the conflict between Kat and Starbuck.
- Kat: "One Tigh on the ship's enough."
- Starbuck's meeting with Boomer. Starbuck: "Raiders reincarnate." Boomer: "Makes sense, doesn't it? It takes months for you train a nugget into an effective viper pilot. And then they get killed. And then you lose their experience, their knowledge, their skillsets. It's gone forever. So if you could bring them back and put them in a brand new body, wouldn't you do it? Death then becomes a learning experience."
- Starbuck: "Not bad. At least you hit the target." Duck: "Yeah, but that's a lot better than I did the first time. I think I took out that clock over there."
- Kat beating Starbuck's record in the vertigo test.
- Starbuck: "We go out over and over again until someday some metal motherfrakker is gonna catch us on a bad day and just blow us away."
- Starbuck's seduction scene with Apollo.
- Starbuck and Kat confronting one another in the wardroom.
- Starbuck: "I am gonna put him right in front of you. Do not miss you frakkin' stim junkie!"
- Kat taking out Scar. I love how Scar explodes in a ball of blood.
- Starbuck attempting to salute every pilot they've lost, but being unable to remember all the names.
- Helo, regarding why Starbuck didn't take out Scar like she said she could've: "So why didn't you do it?" Starbuck: "Probably would've died in the process. Bastard was too good. Couple months ago, I wouldn't've even thought about that. Woulda just gone for the glory hoping I could pull it outta the fire somehow."

Additional Notes

  • Survivors, according to the main title: 49593.

  • The Pegasus is capable of constructing vipers.

    • This episode establishes that Cylon raiders reincarnate just like the human models.

    • Baltar and Six do not appear in this episode.

    • According to his podcast Moore did not like the the original act break of Starbuck leaving Apollo's place. So in the rewrite he wanted an act break to show how Kara has become obssessed with Scar because of her messed up life. In his note his only example was the image of Starbuck naked with a revolver.This led to the scene of Kara watching the video while drinking.

    • Although credited, James Callis and Tricia Helfer did not appear in this episode.












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