From: techy@iastate.edu (Babylon 5)
Subject: B. Galactica: Return of Starbuck
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:31:33 GMT

Episode Synopsis by Troy A. Rutter

Battlestar Galactica:   The Return of Starbuck

Principals:
		Dr. Zee         Adama                   Starbuck
		"Cy"            Centurions              Angela
		Boomer

	The boy genius, Dr. Zee, reports to Adama that  during the 
night he had a dream that he was not born aboard the Galactica or aboard 
any ships in the fleet.  Adama tells him that he is right.  Following 
Dr. Zee's question of where he was born, Adama tells Zee to tell him about 
his dream.  Dr. Zee begins with a great space battle.

	While in a giant space battle with the fearless machines known as 
the Cylons, the great warrior named Lt. Starbuck, is hit by enemy fire.  
Deciding to try and find a "hospitable" enviornment instead of drifting, 
Starbuck gives his wingman Boomer the thumbs up sign and veers off to find 
a place to land.  Boomer returns to the Galactica to try and convince Adama 
to send a rescue party to try and find Starbuck.  Adama informs Boomer that 
the fleet can't afford to go look for Starbuck.  Following protests from 
Boomer, Adama confesses he loves Starbuck as a son but the Galactica must 
continue towards Earth.

	Starbuck's ship crash lands on a barren planet seconds after 
Starbuck's cockpit is ejected and lands on the planet's surface.  Following 
his emersion from the cockpit, he dubbs the planet Starbuck.  While making 
note of the planet's surface he comes upon a Cylon ship that has also crash 
landed on the planet.  Drawing his weapon, Starbuck enters the craft to find 
that all three Cylons are non-functional.

	Perhaps out of a human need for companionship, or perhaps simply 
fate, Starbuck begins to rebuild the Centurion from the downed Cylon ship.  
The work is painstaking, but aided by spec sheets on the Cylons, Starbuck 
believes he has repaired it.  Starbuck runs a line of wires out to the Cylon 
ship and connects the ship to a switch and then connects the Centurion to the 
switch.  Starbuck then presses the button to supply power to the Cylon.  
After a second or two, Starbuck is convinced that it will not work.  But 
just as his back is turned, the red light in the helmet of the Cylon begins 
to move back and forth.  Hearing the power of the Cylon, Starbuck draws his 
weapon and spins around to find the Cylon going for his weapon.  Starbuck 
tells the Cylon that he already checked the weapon and it didn't work but 
the Cylon could try it if he wanted.  The Cylon does and Starbuck is 
surprised that it actually tried to kill the person who put him back 
together. After several minutes of listening to the Cylon exclaim that 
Cylons and Humans are enemies, Starbuck asks why.  Starbuck notes that 
they are not enemies since they are the only two people on the planet.  It 
is their societies that are at war, not them individually.  The Cylon is 
confused and still proclaims that they are enemies.  Before Starbuck 
turns off the Cylon, possibly for good, the Cylon asks why Starbuck 
saved him.  Starbuck then begins to tell the Cylon, now named Cy, all 
about humans.

	Starbuck and Cy get along well to start off with, but then Starbuck 
begins to cheat at a card game called Pyramid, and Cy vanishes into the 
night looking for what Starbuck called a "Wo-man".  Starbuck is awakened 
from his sleep the next day by Cy carrying a pregnant woman into the shelter.  
After several days of not talking, the woman identifies herself as Angela, 
and asks if Starbuck would die for her.  During the time between Angela's 
arrival and her baby's birth, Cy becomes increasingly agitated that Starbuck 
does not consider him a friend.  After all, he's only a machine.  Starbuck 
is confused that a Cylon can actually have its feelings hurt.  Cy and 
Starbuck eventually come to an agreement and begin building a ship from their damaged ships.  When the ship is completed and the baby is born, a Cylon ship lands on the surface and attacks Starbuck.  Cy approaches the landing party and shoots two of them while he is also shot.  Cy tells Starbuck that friends help friends and then dies.
Angela and the child blast off in the ship and leave Starbuck behind.  The 
ship containing the child continues on into space and is eventually found by 
a Galactican ship.  Adama informs Dr. Zee that Zee is the child, Starbuck's 
spiritual son.  

	Back on the planet, Angela appears again and looks from the cliffs 
down towards Starbuck.  The scene fades out on Starbuck, looking into the 
vast distance, wondering if he'll ever see home again.
-- 
-Troy Rutter        |The future, always so clear to me had become like
Project Vincent     |a black highway at night.  We were in uncharted
____________________|territory now, making up future as we went along.
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