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Baltar’s monotheistic following continues to gain ground, and President Roslin pays him a personal visit to remind him that all has not been forgiven. Life is also troubled aboard the Demetrius, as Starbuck fights sinking crew morale and open discussion of mutiny. The ship strumbles across a heavily damaged Cylon ship containing a Leoben clone, who insists that Starbuck return with him to a Cylon base ship to meet its Hybrid controller. With her crew already on the verge of rebelling against her authority, this is a hard sell for Starbuck, especially when a member of the crew is killed during what should have been a routine look at Leoben’s Cylon ship. And Tyrol, still serving aboard Galactica at a reduced rank, finds himself drawn into Baltar’s orbit, but he uses the opportunity to vent his anger and grief on him rather than exploring more about his Cylon nature.

written by Mark Verheiden
directed by Michael Rymer
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Michael Hogan (Colonel Tigh), Aaron Douglas (CPO Tyrol), Tahmoh Penikett (Helo), Michael Trucco (Anders), Alessandro Juliani (Lt. Gaeta), Kandyse McClure (Dualla), Callum Keith Rennie (Leoben Conoy), Rekha Sharma (Tory Foster), Bodie Olmos (Hotdog), Keegan Connor Tracy (Jeanne), Alisen Down (Jean Barclay), Eileen Pedde (Mathias), Jennifer Halley (Seelix), Finn R. Devitt (Nicky Tyrol), Leela Savasta (Tracey Anne), Lara Gilchrist (Paulla Schaffer), Ryan McDonell (Lt. ‘Gonzo’ Pike), Lori Triolo (Phoebe)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

A worldwide crisis is declared as Atmos-equipped cars across the globe poison the atmosphere with toxic gases. Meanwhile, the Sontarans’ clone of Martha continues to undermine UNIT’s preparations for all-out war against the invaders, but she’s also been noticed by the Doctor, who uses her to find the real Martha and discover why the Sontarans - usually a race that craves all-out war - are sneaking around with tactics such as poisoning the atmosphere. But the TARDIS is not at his disposal: the Sontarans have teleported it to their ship, with Donna inside. As he uncovers the plan to terraform Earth into a world suitable for breeding more cloned Sontaran warriors, the Doctor has a life-or-death choice to make - and he has to offer one to the Sontarans as well.

written by Helen Raynor
directed by Douglas MacKinnon
music by Murray Gold

Guest Cast: Freema Agyeman (Dr. Martha Jones), Billie Piper (Rose Tyler), Bernard Cribbins (Wilfred Mott), Jacqueline King (Sylvia Noble), Ryan Simpson (Luke Rattigan), Rupert Holliday Evans (Colonel Mace), Christopher Ryan (General Staal), Dan Starkey (Commander Skorr), Clive Standen (Private Harris), Wesley Theobald (Private Gray), Christian Cooke (Ross Jenkins), Meryl Fernandes (Female Student), Leeshon Alexander (Male Student), Bridget Hodgson (Captain Price), Kirsty Wark (herself), Lachelle Carl (US Newsreader)

Notes: The Brigadier gets his first mention in the new series, even though he isn’t seen; apparently there’s only one Brigadier serving in UNIT, since Colonel Mace seems to instantly know who the Doctor is talking about.

LogBook entry & review by Earl Green (click here for review and more details…)

With her crew relieving her of command, Starbuck decides to let them go back to the fleet - after a 15-hour wait while she, Anders and Athena, with Leoben in tow, visit the nearest Cylon base ship to learn what they can - if anything - about the way to Earth. The entire time, Leoben claims that the base ship’s Hybrid has something of vital importance to tell Starbuck, but to get to her, the Cylons will have to trust the Colonials as they never have before…and only if Starbuck can produce the goods will her own crew trust her. In the meantime, President Laura Roslin leaves Colonial One and moves into her new full-time quarters: the cancer ward in Doc Cottle’s hospital aboard Galactica.

written by Kevin Fahey
directed by Michael Nankin
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Tahmoh Penikett (Helo), Michael Trucco (Anders), Alessandro Juliani (Lt. Gaeta), Callum Keith Rennie (Leoben Conoy), Donnelly Rhodes (Doc Cottle), Rekha Sharma (Tory Foster), Bodie Olmos (Hotdog), Alisen Down (Barolay), Tiffany Lyndall-Knight (Hybrid), Jennifer Halley (Seelix), Nana Visitor (Emily Kowalski), Alana Husband (Nurse Sashon)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

The Doctor and Donna - with Martha along as an unwitting passenger due to the TARDIS’ unexpected takeoff - arrive in a war-torn underground world where the Doctor is immediately held at gunpoint by soldiers and subjected to a mechanical tissue sampling process that uses his DNA to create a new soldier - a young girl with a brilliant mind, two hearts, and, like the rest of the human soldiers, a genetically-programmed knowledge of the long war between the humans and the fishlike Hath. She immediately joins in a pitched battle against the Hath, and winds up saving her human comrades - but not before the Hath have abducted Martha. The Doctor’s “daughter” - to whom Donna gives the name Jenny - is locked up with the time travelers for fear that she’s been swayed by the Doctor’s promise to stop the humans from committing genocide against the Hath, and vice-versa. Jenny proves to be as resourceful, and ultimately as compassionate, as the Doctor herself…but when she becomes the key to ending the bloodshed, she may also find out whether or not she can regenerate.

written by Stephen Greenhorn
directed by Alice Troughton
music by Murray Gold

Guest Cast: Freema Agyeman (Dr. Martha Jones), Georgia Moffett (Jenny), Nigel Terry (Cobb), Joe Dempsie (Cline), Paul Kasey (Hath Peck), Ruari Mears (Hath Gable), Akin Gazi (Carter), Olalekan Lawal Jr. (Soldier)

Notes: Actress Georgia Moffett really is the Doctor’s daughter - just not this Doctor. She’s the daughter of Peter Davison, who played the Doctor from 1982 through 1984, and only recently reprised his role on TV in the Children In Need special scene Time Crash. She guest starred in one of Davison’s Big Finish audios, Red Dawn, in 2000, and in 2004 she auditioned for the part of Rose Tyler. This title of this episode may or may not be a play on the classic production staff in-joke title of The Doctor’s Wife - a story title, fictitiously attributed to Robert Holmes, which was posted openly in the Doctor Who production offices circa 1985 by then-producer John Nathan-Turner in an attempt to find out which production staffer was leaking story details prematurely to fanzines. Though the mole in Nathan-Turner’s office was never pinpointed, some UK fanzines did indeed announce that The Doctor’s Wife was in production for the coming season.

LogBook entry & review by Earl Green (click here for review and more details…)

With Starbuck having gained the tenuous trust of the rebel Cylons aboard their damaged base ship, a jump back to the fleet is ordered, but there’s just one problem - the Demetrius is late in joining the party, putting the already weakened Cylon ship in the line of Galactica’s fire…until Colonel Tigh mysteriously countermands Adama’s orders and calls off the attack just in time. The Cylons propose a trade: they offer Adama and Roslin the coordinates to their Resurrection Hub, the mobile central repository of Cylon consciousness that makes it possible for their Resurrection Ships to function. But in exchange, the Cylons want the fleet’s help in reviving the “boxed” model known to the fleet as D’anna Biers, believing that her knowledge of the final five models will be a key revelation on the road to Earth. Tigh, already facing the uncomfortable question of how he knew to call off the attack, suggests that Adama shouldn’t keep up the fleet’s end of the bargain. Among themselves, fearing human treachery, the Cylons have a similar conversation. And as both forces prepare to betray one another, President Roslin decides to visit the Hybrid for herself and decipher the mystery of her opera house visions.

written by Michael Angeli
directed by Wayne Rose
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Michael Hogan (Colonel Tigh), Aaron Douglas (Tyrol), Tahmoh Penikett (Helo), Michael Trucco (Anders), Alessandro Juliani (Gaeta), Kandyse McClure (Dualla), Richard Hatch (Tom Zarek), Callum Keith Rennie (Leoben Conoy), Donnelly Rhodes (Doc Cottle), Rekha Sharma (Tory Foster), Brad Drybrough (Hoshi), Tiffany Lyndall-Knight (Hybrid)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

The TARDIS brings the Doctor and Donna to the 1920s, to an ordinary cocktail party with an extraordinary guest - murder mystery author Agatha Christie. And right on cue, a murder takes place at the party, and the Doctor tries to enlist the famed writer’s help in narrowing down a list of suspects whose alibis have no witness to back them up. Donna searches for clues, and discovers quite a big one - a huge wasp at least as big as a human being. She narrowly avoids its deadly stinger, and at the same time, a jewel thief is at large in the house. But is the killer related to the jewel thief…or the wasp? And after solving a mystery whose perpetrator is not of this Earth, will Agatha Christie ever be the same again?

written by Gareth Roberts
directed by Graeme Harper
music by Murray Gold

Guest Cast: Fenella Woolgar (Agatha Christie), Felicity Kendal (Lady Eddison), Tom Goodman-Hill (Reverend Golightly), Christopher Benjamin (Colonel Hugh), Felicity Jones (Robina Redmond), Adam Rayner (Roger Curbishley), David Quilter (Greeves), Daniel King (Davenport), Ian Barritt (Professor Peach), Leena Dhingra (Miss Chandrakala), Charlotte Eaton (Mrs. Hart)

Notes: Guest star Christopher Benjamin appeared in two much-loved adventures from classic Doctor Who, the 1970 Jon Pertwee epic Inferno, in which he played well-meaning bureaucrat Sir Keith Gold, and 1977’s Talons Of Weng-Chiang, in which he guest starred as irrepressible showman Henry Gordon Jago - a character who, with Talons sidekick Professor Litefoot, was briefly considered a candidate for an early Doctor Who spinoff which never - if you’ll pardon the pun - materialized. Agatha Christie’s amnesiac interlude actually happened, though generally history doesn’t record the whole giant wasp incident in connection with that.

LogBook entry & review by Earl Green (click here for review and more details…)

In the wake of the Cylon base ship’s unexpected jump - with Baltar, President Roslin and almost all of Galactica’s fighters and pilots aboard - Tom Zarek, as Vice President, tries to step in and fill the vacuum of power. However, neither Admiral Adama nor Lee Adama is prepared to acknowledge Zarek as the new President; feeling that Zarek is trying to assume the presidency too quickly, Lee begins the search for a new candidate that the entire quorum will approve. After shooting the leader of the Cylon rebels at point-blank range, Athena is separated from Hera and confined to the brig. A lone raptor appears, the ship that Roslin and Baltar took to the Cylon ship, but it’s now adrift and empty aside from a dead pilot. Following the FTL coordinates from the raptor’s black box, Adama orders a jump and finds the debris of a destroyed Resurrection Ship, possibly the hub ship, but no evidence that Roslin is alive - or dead. After nearly everyone around him suggests that he’s lost his perspective, Adama decides to resign as Galactica’s commander and let the fleet jump to its next destination…while he stays behind alone in a raptor at the rendezvous coordinates arranged for the pilots sent to the base ship. Before he embarks on this solo mission, however, he does see a new President sworn in - Lee’s search having produced a viable candidate, just not the candidate that Lee expected.

written by Michael Taylor
directed by Rod Hardy
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Michael Hogan (Colonel Tigh), Kandyse McClure (Dualla), Kate Vernon (Ellen Tigh), Richard Hatch (Tom Zarek), Mark Sheppard (Romo Lampkin), Donnelly Rhodes (Doc Cottle), Rekha Sharma (Tory Foster), Leah Cairns (Racetrack), Colin Lawrence (Skulls), Alexandra Thomas (Hera), Donna Soares (Gemenon Delegate), Jacob Cantrell (Andrew McIlroy), Judith Marie (Picon Delegate), Iris Paluly (Speaking Delegate #2), Ryan McDonell (Lt. Cannon “Gonzo” Pike), Laara Sadiq (Priestess), Veena Sodd (Quorum Delegate)

Notes: This episode’s title is a Latin phrase translating to an indispensible action or condition. Romo Lampkin’s family died aboard the Olympic Carrier, which Lee destroyed in the first hourly episode of the series, 33.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

The Doctor’s psychic paper receives a distress call from a library so huge it takes up an entire planet. But when he and Donna arrive, the entire library is deserted - they’re the only two humanoids there. The Doctor expands the sensors to detect other life forms, and this time millions of millions are picked up - but none that the time travelers can see. Another expedition arrives to solve the mystery of the empty library, and this provides another puzzle for the Doctor when he discovers that Professor River Song, the expedition’s archaeologist, has apparently met him and knows him quite well - but she knows him in his own future, and can’t say any more than that. An automated node in the library warns the Doctor and Donna to count the shadows - and then warns them to run. When two members of the expedition die, consumed by the shadows, the Doctor realizes what they’re up against…but that realization comes too late to save Donna. Meanwhile, somewhere across the galaxy, someone else seems to know exactly what’s happening in the library…

written by Steven Moffat
directed by Euros Lyn
music by Murray Gold

Guest Cast: Alex Kingston (Professor River Song), Colin Salmon (Dr. Moon), Eve Newton (The Girl), Mark Dexter (Dad), Sarah Niles (Node 1), Joshua Dallas (Node 2), Jessika Williams (Anita), Steve Pemberton (Strackman Lux), Talulah Riley (Miss Evangelista), O-T Fagbenle (Other Dave), Harry Peacock (Proper Dave)

Notes: Alex Kingston is best known to American audiences for a stint on the long-running hospital drama ER, while Colin Salmon took over the role of Avon in a recent audio drama revival of the classic BBC science fiction series Blake’s 7.

LogBook entry & review by Earl Green (click here for review and more details…)