'I'm DEAD, as in crash-landed burnt to a crisp, dead' | Battlestar Galactica

Before Starbuck tries to 'mercy-kill' Anders, she accosts Gaius in the bathroom and hands over her dog tags in the hope that he'll prove one way or another, that she's really dead.

From "Islanded in a Sea of Stars" (Season 4, Episode 18): The ship continues to deteriorate as repairs continue, Hera is delivered to Cavil.

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[jeffburnham]

Good job, Gaius. As a scientist you're handed a set of tags with blood on them, that can be analyzed for DNA, and you wipe it off on a towel.

[elusiveeye]

Katee Sackhoff killed it in every scene of this series. She's so underrated.

[MrWisjew]

I actually met Katee Sackhoff at last years Megacon and told her what a great job she did with this character

[bobastu]

The fact that she knows she is not the real Starbuck. But feels like the real Starbuck. And makes it a believable thing.

[QuicksilverSG]

In Battlestar Galactica Season 3 episode "Maelstrom", Kara Thrace vanishes mysteriously along with her Viper within a violent maelstrom around a gas giant planet. In the final scene before Kara disappears into the maelstrom, it's clear that even if she were to somehow survive, her Viper is starting to break up and will not make it back to Galactica intact.

When Kara miraculously returns to Galactica several months later, she is piloting an undamaged Viper and claims she has been to Earth, but has no recollection of the months during which she had been missing. In the cockpit of her Viper a homing beacon flashes, presumably indicating the location of Earth. Galactica tracks the signal to a dead planet that had been nuked 2000 years earlier, where Kara finds a wrecked Viper containing her own corpse.

Galactica subsequently discovers a verdant planet indentified as a prehistoric version of our own Earth, where Kara once again vanishes without a trace. Whether Kara was a human, a Cylon, a ghost, or an angel is one of numerous puzzles left unexplained in the series finale.

Here is a theory that explains Kara Thrace's resurrection without resorting to supernatural intervention. It relies on relativistic time travel via wormhole, a not unreasonable conjecture in a universe where instantaneous Faster Than Light physics are employed for routine space travel.

1. After Kara vanishes into the maelstrom, she encounters a spacetime wormhole and blacks out as it transports her to a decaying orbit around nuked Earth. After recovering conciousness, she visually identifies the planet while her ship records its coordinates, activating its homing beacon. She then flies back through the wormhole, not realizing that months of time have relativistically elapsed during her return flight.

2. Galactica tracks down the nuked planet via the homing beacon, and there Kara discovers a wrecked Viper. In the Viper's cockpit she discovers a corpse and removes a charred copy of her own dogtags from around its neck. This is the corpse of her future self, who is destined to fly once more into the maelstrom. The wormhole will then hurl her back in time to crash on the nuked planet, a few months before it is tracked down by Galactica.

3. Kara gives her corpse's charred dogtags to Baltar on Galactica. Months later, Galactica discovers verdant Earth, and the colonists set about decomissioning their spacecraft. Kara realises that it is time for her to return to the maelstrom in her Viper and fulfill her destiny.

4. Kara uses the wormhole to travel back in time to rendevous with her past self in a decaying orbit around nuked Earth. At that point in time, her past self has blacked out, her Viper has suffered irreparable damage, and it is doomed to eventually crash into the planet. To prevent that fate from happening to past-Kara, future-Kara docks with the disabled Viper, drags unconscious past-Kara out of that ship and exchanges Vipers with her, leaving past-Kara to regain consciousness later in the undamaged Viper and discover nuked Earth. After past-Kara returns to Galactica through the wormhole, future-Kara rides the disabled Viper down to crash into the planet. It is only later that past-Kara will reconstruct what happened and recognize that she is destined to become her own guardian angel.

[stevewright]

While not explained, the "angels" do have a foundation in the original series as Seraphs. Kara's fate is pretty much a take on the original Starbuck's.

[lalaithan]

Haha, Six has the best expressions here.

[Oneyedrunk.]

Unimpressed Baltar is the best Baltar.

[brandonthesteele]

mannnn I was not mature enough to fully appreciate this show when it first aired.

[Oldspartan]

When she returned she was in a brand new modern spotless viper and everyone new she was a cylon

[Kassadinftw]

I find it fascinating that the cylons are religious, and it becomes apparent through very strange incidents that some outside force is guiding this story, or at least intervening in certain events. Human and Cylon becoming the same race was perhaps the goal? Or each repeating of the story is some kind of supernaturally inspired evolutionary guidance? I'm not sure but it makes a very interesting story.

[thomasb]

Holy frack! I think I understand it now!
Spoiler Alert!








Epilogue (150, 000 years later):
"You know it doesn't like that name"

[s.biertumpel]

SPOILER:



but she accually is an angel ....

[fukyuyuetoob]

You are tapped by the gods. For a mission to lead humanity to a new start, to end all this mess(12 colonies, cylon Civil War)

[weareorigin]

Was there free will in the BSG universe? With 2 messengers and 1 angel guiding humans & cylons towards a where's the free will

[darkrogue]

I'd love a new miniseries, based on our near future, where humanity creates mechanical Cylons and it all happens again. They could link it to the past series in some way, like having the angels come back. You could even have a character frozen in time in some way come forward. Apart from that I always had a hard time believing that all of humanity went all 'I can go without a warm shower and modern medicine to live like tribals on earth' in the final episode, or that every single survivalist on every colony perished and the only humans alive went sticks and stones on earth. Humanity must have in some way continued on in another part of the galaxy apart from earth 2.

[silvergalaxie]

which writer only previously wrote soap operas?

[Martiandawn]

At this point in the series I had lost interest in the story, and just kept watching out of habit. The acting and direction remained solid to the end, but the characters started to feel less like people with whom I could empathize and more like plot devices for advancing the narrative to a conclusion I ultimately found unsatisfying.

[michaelkenny]

Never saw this because the writers did something impressive. The show did an FTL jump over the Shark into crazy land.

[BarracudaBoy]

The ending absolutely ruined it for me. I never watched any of the spin off series because of it.