Battlestar Galactica "The Road Less Traveled" TV episode Written by Mark Verheiden Directed by Michael Rymer Original air date: May 2, 2008

The Demetrius encounters Starbuck’s old foe, Leoben, who has come to make an offer of alliance with the rebel Cylons.

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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