Ron Moore Blog/February 27, 2006

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"I've never understood Roslin's rationale for wanting to abort Sharon's baby in "Epiphanies". Why did she see the hybrid baby as a threat to the fleet? Dr. Cottle mentioned that the blood sample was 'odd', but how does that translate to dangerous? I've never been able to appreciate this episode because I couldn't really understand the character's motivations."
The idea was that Laura saw the upcoming birth of the baby as representing a risk to the fleet. She didn't know exactly what that risk was, but as Adama put it, "If it's good for the Cylons, then it's probably bad for us." The complicating factor was that Laura knew she was dying and that the presidency was about to be turned over to Baltar, whose judgement and abilities she had grown to have less and less faith in over the course of time. Faced with her seemingly imminent demise, Laura felt she couldn't gamble by leaving the decision of what to do with the child in the hands of Baltar and opted for the safer -- if harsher -- choice of aborting the child immediately.
"How were you able to deal with ramping up to more episodes per season? I recall hearing that HBO's "The Wire" even had to take breaks to ease new writers into the fold. BSG has a different model, with ads and other pressures... Maybe we will we see more character studies, which are more contained within themselves?"
We did take a month long break in between eps 10 & 11 in order to catch up on scripts. Doing 20 instead of 13 makes a big difference in terms of stamina and quality control. When you're concentrating on 13, you can essentially make each of them special and each of them gets a lot of attention. With 20, you're spreading yourself out more and trying to keep more balls in the air at once. I won't say that's the only reason why we had a couple of shows that I wasn't happy with this season, but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a contributing factor.
"Is [the blonde woman lying on her back getting belly-button shots in "Scar"] Starbuck? There is some controversy over this question."
No it isn't and we struggled with it in the editing room to tweak her hair color and other things to make it clear that it wasn't her, but we never licked the problem. We really wanted the shot because it directly ties into the flashback shot of Anders kissing her on the stomach, so we opted to keep it in rather than lose it altogether.
"Will there be anymore episodes that reflect one from TOS?
Also, I don't know if this has been asked yet but here it goes. In the mini series, part one before the attack, as Six and Baltar were leaving the Ministry of Defense, Six told Baltar that she was meeting somebody, a person/cylon walks up to her after Baltar leaves and Six says "I was wondering when you would show up".
Who was she talking to??"
We don't have any plans for redoing any more episodes from the original series. "Pegasus" was the one that translated the best and the others all seem too distant from our structure and universe.
In the miniseries, the presumption was that Six was meeting with another humanoid Cylon on Caprica, and I was using that moment to do a cut to the original series Cylon aboard Galactica. We've talked about various possibilities over the course of the last couple seasons as to who she might've been meeting with at that moment, but nothing's really grabbed us (although, there was a mad moment when we considered revealing that she was meeting with Laura! We talked about working that in as the reveal in the "Epiphanies" flashbacks, but we couldn't come up with any rational justification for why Laura wouldn't have reacted to the Shelley Godfrey Cylon in "Six Degrees of Separation").
"Thanks for a great show its one of my all time favorites. I have three questions. Why would Adama being an Admiral not change his flag to Pegasus which is arguably the most important and powerful ship in the fleet? When will 62 make it up on to the ships section of the web site i am curious to see her specs: size, weaps, ect. In the future will we have the honor of seeing some flashbacks to the 1st Cylon War? We only get the enjoyment of two Battlestars duking it out with Base Ships, it must have been quite a light and sound show when it was fleets. Of course it is probably out of the budget ballpark "
There's ample precedent for admirals to hoist their flags aboard vessels that are not necessarily the biggest and most powerful in the fleet. Sometimes communications gear is better aboard less powerful ships or sometimes the flag officer just feels more comfortable and at home aboard a familiar ship. Raymond Spruance, commander of the US Fifth Fleet in WWII, often kept his flag aboard the USS Indianapolis, a heavy cruiser, rather than one of the fleet's carriers or battleships simply because he used to command cruisers and felt more comfortable there. (The Indianapolis, of course, was sunk late in the war by a Japanese submarine after delivering the atomic bomb to Tinian, but Spruance was not aboard.) So Adama has kept his flag aboard Galactica because it's his ship and he doesn't want to move.
I don't know when or if they'll be putting the specs on Pegasus up on the website. I hope so -- I'd like to see them myself.
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