The last of the Eastern Alliance story arc, thank goodness, with it's fascist overtones. In this one they go to Terra, a planet where the baddies is the president but the goodies are the council... they're goodies because they distrust the alliance, so it's militaristic again.
This is a grab bag episode. It brings back the lights from War of the Gods which isn't a bad idea it's just wasted here. Why are they involved?
They send Apollo on a mission by hopping into someone's body (Donald Bellisario who wrote this reworked the concept for Quantum Leap) which isn't a bad idea, or is the fact he hops into the body of a Starbuck type officer... but they hardly do anything with it, despite Melody Anderson on hand as a gal of the guy. Why not have Apollo up to escapades?
Then they get Starbuck involved and... urgh. There's no point.
Edward Mulhare is in the Dean Stockwell role and he plays it with polish. Anderson is good as always.
The Alliance villains stand around a table and plot evilness like stock Nazis... they are such lousy characters and we spent four episodes on them.
Why don't the Galacticans stay on Terra? It's an Earth-like planet. It's civilised.
This episode is so annoying.
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