Star Trek

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Oh my God, "Collaborators" (secret jury episode) is one of my *favorite* episodes. People who have just been through four months of occupation, oppression, torture, etc., get the chance to strike back at the "traitors" who were responsible? How is that not understandable (if irrational)? And Tyrol (not to mention Anders) were clearly uncomfortable with it (Anders quits, Tyrol refuses to vote), while the people gung-ho were two day players, Tigh, and Starbuck. Tigh murdered his own wife for collaborating just before everybody got rescued, so if the rest of the traitors don't die after the rescue then her death was meaningless, so he has to believe that they have to die in order to justify his own actions to himself. And Starbuck spent four months getting mind-raped... (Starbuck's monologue to Anders in that episode, about how she "sees the world in different colors", and "I want to stab your eyes out for just looking at me" is one of my favorite pieces of dialogue from the series. She's like the poster child for PTSD.)

Apollo is the worst character on the show (of the main cast, anyway). That's why I said I kind of ignore him, although he has moments of brilliance (e.g. standing up to the coup d'etat in season one, his speech at the end of season three).

To everyone else: sorry for hijacking this thread (what a way to come back from a year's absence).