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Battlestar Galactica
"The Road Less Traveled"
TV episode
Written by Mark Verheiden
Directed by Michael Rymer
Original air date: May 2, 2008
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The Demetrius encounters
Starbuck’s old foe, Leoben, who has come to make an offer of
alliance with the rebel Cylons.
Read the summary of the episode at the Battlestar Wiki
Notes from the BSG
chronology
The episode opens on Day 58 of the Demetrius' mission.
Starbuck also remarks that it has been two months since she
reappeared to the fleet in her pristine Viper after her "death".
She returned at the end of
"Crossroads" Part 2.
Didja Know?
The title of this episode is inspired by the 1916 poem "The Road
Not Taken" by Robert Frost:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
The title (and even Frost's poem) may also have been inspired by
a passage from the Book of Matthew in the Bible:
Make your way in by the narrow gate. It is a broad gate and
a wide road that leads on to perdition, and those who go in that
way are many indeed; but how small is the gate, how narrow the
road that leads on to life, and how few there are that find it!
The opening titles show the fleet at a population of 39,676, up
one from the previous episode
"Escape Velocity".
Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode
Helo
Starbuck
Athena
Sam Anders
Phoebe
Jeanne
Baltar
Paulla Schaffer
Tracey Anne
Specialist Tyrol
Nicholas Tyrol
Jean Barolay
Sgt. Erin Mathias (dies in this episode)
Hot Dog
Hardball
Lt. Gaeta
Gonzo
Leoben
hybrid
Tory Foster
Cally (mentioned only, deceased)
President Roslin
(mentioned only)
Admiral Adama
(mentioned only)
Colonel Tigh
Didja Notice?
Tyrol remarks that Cally had been taking moxopan and cosapine,
antidepressants. These are fictitious drugs.
At 16:56 on the Blu-ray, a painting on paper of what appears to
be a Cylon Heavy Raider is seen hanging on the wall of
Starbuck's quarters on Demetrius. Presumably, she
painted this from a vision before the ship encountered Number
Two's Heavy Raider in this episode, which partially explains why
Starbuck is inclined to think Number Two has something of value
to offer them.
In his quarters, Tyrol holds a Vektor CP1 pistol to his head,
but is unable to pull the trigger.
Memorable Dialog