Bastille Day (Battlestar Galactica)

For other uses, see Bastille Day (disambiguation).

"Bastille Day"
Battlestar Galactica episode
Political radical Tom Zarek
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 3
Directed by	Allan Kroeker
Written by	Toni Graphia
Original air date	UK: November 1, 2004 US: January 21, 2005
Guest actors
Richard Hatch as Tom Zarek

"Bastille Day" is the third episode of the first season of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica television series.

Plot

President Roslin sends a delegation led by Apollo to the Astral Queen to solicit help from its 1,500 prisoners in extracting water from a recently discovered source on a nearby moon. Those who agree to help will earn "points" towards early freedom.

The prisoners refuse and manage to capture the delegation as hostages. Their leader, Tom Zarek (a political radical and terrorist from Sagittaron), demands an election among the human survivors and Roslin's immediate resignation. Commander Adama instead has a squad of marines infiltrate the prison ship. Apollo realizes that a bloodbath on the Astral Queen will play into Zarek's hands and destabilize the civilian government. He stops the assault and forces a compromise: in exchange for the prisoners' cooperation in retrieving the water, elections will be held within a year.

Apollo later points out to Roslin and Adama that her term is supposed to be up within a year, anyway. Both leaders believe that Apollo's choice shows greater loyalty to Roslin, with Commander Adama (already at odds with Apollo's appointed role as Roslin's "special advisor" that he sees as a conflict of interest) expressing discontent and Roslin informing him that she has cancer.

At the direction of his internal Number Six, Dr. Baltar convinces Commander Adama to give him a nuclear warhead, claiming he needs materials from it to build the Cylon detector.

Meanwhile, on Caprica, Helo and Caprica-Boomer continue their trek through a ruined city.

Original series connection

Richard Hatch, who plays prisoner Tom Zarek in this and future episodes, was the actor who played Captain Apollo in the original 1978 series.^[1]

References

↑ "Battlestar Galactica (1978-79) at IMDb". Retrieved August 20, 2012.

External links

"Bastille Day" at the Battlestar Wiki
"Bastille Day" at Syfy
"Bastille Day" at TV.com
"Bastille Day" at the Internet Movie Database

Battlestar Galactica episodes

Season 1	"33" "Water" "Bastille Day" "Act of Contrition" "You Can't Go Home Again" "Litmus" "Six Degrees of Separation" "Flesh and Bone" "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down" "The Hand of God" "Colonial Day" "Kobol's Last Gleaming"

Season 2	"Scattered" "Valley of Darkness" "Fragged" "Resistance" "The Farm" "Home" "Final Cut" "Flight of the Phoenix" "Pegasus" "Resurrection Ship" "Epiphanies" "Black Market" "Scar" "Sacrifice" "The Captain's Hand" "Downloaded" "Lay Down Your Burdens"

Season 3	"Occupation" "Precipice" "Exodus" "Collaborators" "Torn" "A Measure of Salvation" "Hero" "Unfinished Business" "The Passage" "The Eye of Jupiter" "Rapture" "Taking a Break from All Your Worries" "The Woman King" "A Day in the Life" "Dirty Hands" "Maelstrom" "The Son Also Rises" "Crossroads"

Season 4	Razor "He That Believeth in Me" "Six of One" "The Ties That Bind" "Escape Velocity" "The Road Less Traveled" "Faith" "Guess What's Coming to Dinner?" "Sine Qua Non" "The Hub" "Revelations" "Sometimes a Great Notion" "A Disquiet Follows My Soul" "The Oath" "Blood on the Scales" "No Exit" "Deadlock" "Someone to Watch Over Me" "Islanded in a Stream of Stars" "Daybreak"

Other	Battlestar Galactica (TV miniseries) The Resistance Razor Flashbacks The Face of the Enemy The Plan Blood and Chrome

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