Airdate:
10/22/78
Galactica gets “herded” towards a remote ice planet by the
Cylons; reasons for this odd maneuver become abundantly clear when an intense
laser beam emitting from the planet destroys a Viper and causes another one to
crash land. Adama orders a fleet to land on the planet’s surface to take out
the deadly beam – among those chosen for the mission are four unsavory prison
convicts (each has a special skill just perfect for the specialized objectives
of the mission). The Cylons, of course, are expecting such an action, so they
shoot down the fleet, ad now the crew and the cons must work together in order
to survive. Help does arrive, however, in the form of an exiled band of humans,
whose motives do seem to be benign, despite potential association with Cylons.
Despite a change in scenery, this is another episode
tediously laden with cardboard, techno-garble dialogue and devoid of any
rooting interest or challenging adversary. Worse, it rips off the WWII flicks Ice Station Zebra, The Guns of Navarone and
The Dirty Dozen (waiting for a bridge
to be blown up somewhere so they can plunder yet another). The show continues
to prove why it lasted only a season – it’s a sci-fi show as mechanical as the
Cylons (which also explains the problem with the villains). I’m not looking
forward to Part 2.
Rating: *1/2
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