Airdate: 4/1/79
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At an awards ceremony for Kronus, the commander of a fleet
spacecraft called the Celestra, Starbuck recognizes an old flame – Aurora, a
beautiful Celestea crew member who now appears to be part of a mutiny. It seems
she and a few others are a bit resentful of Kronus’s overly authoritarian ways.
Starbuck turns her and her cohorts in, escorting them on a shuttle along with
Kronus (who needs to be there for their hearing), but now the empty ship is a
prime target for another disgruntled crew member, Charka. This dude has far
more treasonous motives in mind, and now Starbuck, Apollo and Kronus need to
get aboard the hijacked ship and take out the garbage. With help from Aurora’s
gang (in exchamge for a fair trial), they seize the ship and overcome its
captors, but not before Kronus is mortally wounded – and now his awards
ceremony is succeeded by his funeral.
Meh episode really phones everything in – even the
Starbuck/Aurora plotline is awfully soapy (though she sure looks good). Kronus
is a hard-nosed Phillip Baker-Hall type character that has the potential for
furnishing of a Caine Mutiny updating,
but that goes pretty much nowhere once the good mutineers are captured and the
bad are on the Celestra most of the time. Overall pretty lifeliess, so much so
that it’s hard to write any more.
Rating: **
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