Battlestar Galactica (TV Series)

War of the Gods (1979)

Lorne Greene: Adama

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• Colonel Tigh : I just received a word from the bridge - our visitor just left there with Sheba. We're tracking them down now.

  Commander Adama : Just left the bridge? What are we running here? A perfect stranger comes aboard the Galactica, and he's given access to a sensitive military control centre?

  Colonel Tigh : It does seem a bit out of the ordinary.

  Commander Adama : Out of the ordinary? Is that all you have to say?

• Commander Adama : Now where in the name of Hades is he, and how did he get free run of the ship? Which one of you has an answer?

  Captain Apollo : Father, I left him...

  Count Iblis : [enters unannounced]  Pardon me...

• Count Iblis : You're searching for a place called Earth.

  Commander Adama : [about Captain Apollo]  My son told you that.

  Count Iblis : You are of the House of Kobol. Your tribes are scattered. The thirteenth journeyed to Earth several millennia ago.

  Commander Adama : Tell me about their civilisation.

  Count Iblis : It has known great rises and falls.

  Commander Adama : Who are you? Where are you from?

  [dramatic pause] 

  Commander Adama : Is their civilisation strong enough to defeat the Cylons.

  Count Iblis : Your people will be safe... under my leadership.

  Commander Adama : Did I hear you correctly? Did you say under *your* leadership?

  Count Iblis : Of course, Adama. Why do you think I'm here? I've come to prepare your way to Earth.

• Commander Adama : He may be decended from the same roots as our own race. Freedom of choice, to choose between one thing or another, between one action or another, between good and evil, is the cornerstone of our civilisation.

• Commander Adama : [narrating]  This is an event unlike any we've experienced since the destruction of our civilization. Baltar's ship has reached our quadrant and is being intercepted by an elite squadron which will escort the treasonous instrument of our holocaust directly into our hands. Word is spreading like sunbursts through every corner of the fleet. It's a jubilation unprecedented as Baltar is brought before the Council of Twelve. It is just as Count Iblis promised. Our enemy has been delivered.