DISQUS

Pat · 2 years ago

I don't understand how a deadly biological virus can be transmissed to the base ship when a Cylon dies????

I'm not understanding how Cylons are reborn (can't spell resurrection)...I thought the thoughts of dying Cylons are transmitted back to base ship, then a new Cylon was grown, and the memories implanted. I'm confused about this whole thing....help!

Amy · 2 years ago

They feared that the virus would mess up their brains-- and then the virally-damaged brains/thoughts/"souls" would get transmitted back, and eventually spread and crash the ships' drivers (which I guess would be the human/ship hybrids in pools of milky liquid we saw) as well as getting into the bodies of the others.

Note that it never actually happened, it was just a fear. It may have been paranoia, as opposed to a real problem. However, it does appear that the Colonial fleet now has a doomsday option to at least temporarily disable Cylon ships, and a President ready to let them use it. Roslin is a lot more of a hardass than her soft-spoken mein and education background let on...

I think they said the disease was some sort of meningitis (?). If so, the idea that they all access data by putting their hands in (or otherwise touching) liquid makes the fear of transmission a somewhat legit one.

Helo was ambivalent about the genocide because he loves his wife. Adama was ambivalent about it because he has some sympathy for Boomer/Athena/Sharon. They both probably wonder if there are others like her (that don't actively want to "destroy all humans"). I don't think this is unthinkable or irrational. It's a lot harder for a sane and decent person to kill someone they know (and beings that are at least superficially like her would account for 1/12 of their targets, right?) than to kill a faceless enemy, or turn off malfunctioning machines. I think Adama might have been relieved by the "out" that Helo provided.

webomatica · 2 years ago

Pat... yes technically it's a bit fuzzy how exactly a physical virus could be transmitted back to a ressurection ship. I'm thinking that since the cylons are part machine, part organic, maybe the physical virus somehow gets converted into a digital, computer type virus which could then infect all the hardware. Yeah, it's kind of bizarre but we don't know exactly how the Cylons work. It's kind of like how Sharon the Cylon jammed a Galactical computer cable into her arm... just kind of have to believe that the Cylon technology is so advanced it just dosen't completely make sense to us.

Amy... those are very good explanations for the Helo being sympathetic to the Cylons. It reminds me that Adama is obviously feeling more in touch with the Cylons, since he trusted Sharon to go down to New Caprica as part of his rescue plan.

Good drama means conflict, and maybe a huge conflict would be for the Galactica fleet to start working with the Cylons.

That would piss off a lot of the humans, especially Tigh and Starbuck, and probably a lot of viewers too, but it sure would be interesting.

Uh, and after all, Star Trek the Next Generation had a Klingon on the bridge, so anything is possible...

Pat · 2 years ago

Thanks Amy and Webomatica...your answers make sense.