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2 unusual facts about Baltar's Escape


Count Baltar

The episode "Baltar's Escape" features an attempt by Baltar and other imprisoned villains, Borellian Nomen and some Eastern Alliance officers, to escape from the prison barge.

Quorum of Twelve

All of the Council members seen in "Saga of a Star World" have been replaced by the time of "Baltar's Escape" wherein the entire Council is captured in the Galactica landing bay while greeting representatives of the Eastern Alliance.


Baltar

Count Baltar, of the original 1978 TV series Battlestar Galactica

Count Baltar

To this end, the Imperious Leader installs Baltar as the commander of a Cylon basestar, with an "I.L.-series" Cylon named Lucifer (body by Felix Silla, voice by Jonathan Harris) as Baltar's second in command; the two other basestars in Baltar's taskforce are also subservient to him.

In "Lost Planet of the Gods," however, the scene is modified, with Baltar being spared specifically to destroy the Colonial survivors.

# "Lost Planet of the Gods": Baltar realizes that Adama is taking the fleet into an immense void in order to find the "mother planet of humanity," Kobol, and has his fighters capture a Galactica patrol pilot--who happens to be Starbuck--telling him that he has a new "offer of peace to all humans."

Drifter's Escape

Biographer Clinton Heylin has noted that in writing "Drifter's Escape", Dylan found a new, economical style that allowed him to tell a five-act story in just three verses.

Gaius Baltar

Gaius Baltar is a fictional character in the TV series Battlestar Galactica played by James Callis, a reimagining of Count Baltar from the 1978 Battlestar Galactica series.

Having unintentionally brought about the near-annihilation of the human species, Baltar flees Caprica when Karl Agathon gives up his place on a Raptor, feeling that his own life is less important to save than a famed scientist's.

Governor Stirling Senior High School

It was also used as a primary filming location for the short film Ronan's Escape.

Quorum of Twelve

In "Lost Planet of the Gods", Baltar points out that his seal is the same as Adama's and so he was able to enter the pyramid.

Ronan's Escape

The film set in the rural wheat belt of Western Australia, provides a candid insight into the life of Ronan, a 14 year old boy who gets bullied at school and decides to make his escape.

David Lazarus as Ronan, a boy who is bullied by everyone at school leaving him friendless and no choice but to commit suicide.

At school during break Ryan (Ryan Cammiande), a bully kicks a ball at a young boy, Ronan (David Lazarus), sitting along by himself causing him to fall down and everyone laughs at him.

Sharpe's Escape

Sharpe's Escape is the tenth novel in Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series, finding the hero embroiled in the British retreat through Portugal in 1810 from the defence of the Ridge at Bussaco to the Lines of Torres Vedras, where the French offensive was successfully halted.

While the British and their Portuguese allies see off the French assault at Bussaco, Sharpe becomes embroiled in a private feud with the criminal Ferragus, whom he pursues from the abandoned town of Coimbra back towards the massive defensive works which Wellington has ordered built at Torres Vedras.

The Living Legend

After Pegasus thwarts Baltar's attack on the Fleet, Commanders Adama and Cain plan to attack Gamoray for its desperately needed fuel supplies, in the midst of this is a visit from the Imperious Leader himself.


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