Battlestar Galactica (2003)/The Hub

The Hub
Season 4, Episode 9
Airdate	June 6, 2008
Production Number	4A11
Written by	Jane Espenson
Directed by	Paul Edwards
Fleet Survivors	39,673
← 4x08 Sine Qua Non	4x10 → Revelations
Battlestar Galactica (2003) — Season Four

The Hub is the ninth episode of the fourth season of Battlestar Galactica, and the sixty-second episode overall.

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

Tahmoh Penikett (Captain Karl "Helo" Agathon)

Guest Star: Lucy Lawless (D'Anna)

Guest Star: Callum Keith Rennie (Leoben) (credit only)

Guest Stars: Donnelly Rhodes (Dr. Cottle), Lorena Gale (Elosha)

and Dean Stockwell (Cavil)

Co-Starring: Bodie Olmos (Hotdog), Tiffany Lyndall-Knight (Hybrid)

Cast: Jennifer Halley (Seelix), Colin Corrigan (Marine Norwat), Ryan McDonell (Lt. Eammon "Gonzo" Pike), Lee Jeffery (Redwing)

Uncredited: Leo Chiang (Tattooed pilot)

Plot Overview

As the rebel basestar jumps to the resurrection hub, the pilots onboard put their trust in the Cylons to help destroy their target while Roslin is faced with visions that could lead she and humanity to spiritual salvation.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• The Hybrid jumps the basestar back to the resurrection hub. Cylon and Colonial pilots work and successfully destroy the hub, effectively eliminating all Cylon downloading abilities.

• During the battle, Lt. Pike panics and attempts to jump but not before getting hit by a Raider. He musters enough strength to jump the Raptor.

• D'Anna is unboxed and recused by Helo and an Eight and brought aboard the basestar to Roslin. However, she refuses to give information out of necessity of her survival.

Characters

• During each jump, Roslin has vision of Elosha guiding her through an abandoned Galactica save for Adama, Lee, and Kara by her deathbed. Elosha talks to her about lack of empathy, urging her to just love someone.

• Baltar is seriously wounded. As he's under the influence of the morpha, he begins to talk to Roslin about religion and finally confirms her suspicions about his role in the attack on the Colonies, although he is no longer guilt-ridden, seeing his action analogous to a disastrous flood. Roslin reacts in horror and removes his bandages so he can bleed. During another jump, Elosha chastises Roslin, stating that humanity's survival cannot be on a case-by-case basis. When she comes out of it, she hurriedly tries to undo her damage and re-applies his bandage.

• The basestar finally returns and Adama boards. After confessing to missing each other, Roslin tells Adama she loves him to which he replies "About time."

Trivia

The Show

• The majority of the episode take place concurrently with the events of "Sine Qua Non".

Memorable Moments

• Baltar attempting to proselytise the Centurion.

Quotes

• Number Three: Boomer's an Eight. Shouldn't she be on the other side?

Number One: Boomer's my pet Eight. She's seen the light of reason. And an Eight can make a passionate ally.

Number Three: Until she sees something shiny.

• Elosha: The ancients used to say, "A people is only as strong as the body of its leader."

Roslin: If I follow that thought, are you saying that humanity died because I died? If you're my subconscious, I've gotta say you're a little full of myself.

• Baltar: There was this dog, see, and the master had placed a bit of food on the edge of its snout and the dog had to wait until he was told he could eat it.

(the Centurion tilts its head)

Baltar: I know. Pathetic. Pathetic, isn't it?

• Baltar: Do you know why I'm so serene right now?

Roslin: You're doped out of your mind?

Baltar: Because I know God. You need God, Laura. Really, you'd be a different woman. I know God. Therefore, I know myself. Truth is, I was harbouring the most awful, desperate guilt. A heavy, dark, unimaginable, soul-breaking guilt. Now it's gone. Now it's gone. It's been transformed into... I have been transformed.

Roslin: What was your guilt about?

Baltar: I have no guilt.

Roslin: What was your guilt about?

Baltar: I gave the access codes to the Cylons. They wiped out most of humanity. Of course, I didn't know that's what I was doing at the time exactly, but that's what I did. And when I realised what I had done, the magnitude, in that moment, I was saved. I was loved by God. Looking back, I think I was rewarded.

Roslin: Rewarded.

Baltar: Pythia talks about the flood that wiped out most of humanity. Nobody blames the flood. A flood is a force of nature. Through the flood, mankind is rejuvenated, born again. I was another flood, you see. I blamed myself. I blamed myself. But God made the man that made that choice. God made us all perfect. And in that thought, all my guilt flies away, flies away like a bird. I can give you that peace, Laura, that freedom.

• Elosha: I'm not saying Baltar's done more good than harm in the universe. He hasn't. The thing is, the harder it is to recognise someone's right to draw breath, the more crucial it is. If humanity is going to prove itself worthy of surviving, it can't do it on a case-by-case basis. A bad man feels his death just as keenly as a good man.

• Number Three: So you know about the Final Five?

Roslin: I know they're supposed to know the way to Earth.

Number Three: But you don't know that you're one of them.

(Roslin takes in the revelation when Three snickers)

Number Three: Your face! Oh, it's ridiculous.