Is Starbuck a Cylon?
“Battlestar Galactica” has lit up the blogs and message boards this week. The reason? A spirited discussion on the ‘Final Five’ (warning, linked site has been slow lately) membership and whether or not any of the current “Battlestar Galactica” regulars will be revealed to be a Cylon. To wit, Wired Magazine has posted an article the posits that Starbuck is the crew member that is a Cylon. The author lists eight reasons why she thinks this is so. I, of course, have added my rebuttals! She says: “Uncanny ability to sneak right up to the Resurrection Ships and get close-up pictures of them when she was on a secret mission for Admiral Cain.” I say: Bah! She had the stealth ship, build and designed by the good Chief Tyrol (more on him later). She says: “The Simon cylon was oddly unable to turn Starbuck into a baby-maker for the Cylon when he captured her and tried to stick her into the baby farm.” I say: Bah! That’s not exactly how I remember it. Looking at the script for that episode (“The
