Dirty Hands
- Episode aired Feb 25, 2007
- TV-14
- 44m
When the head of the fuel production plant holds the fleet hostage by providing unsafe fuel, he's arrested for treason, which results in the Chief sent to the ship and held responsible for g... Read allWhen the head of the fuel production plant holds the fleet hostage by providing unsafe fuel, he's arrested for treason, which results in the Chief sent to the ship and held responsible for getting the plant back up and running.When the head of the fuel production plant holds the fleet hostage by providing unsafe fuel, he's arrested for treason, which results in the Chief sent to the ship and held responsible for getting the plant back up and running.
- Major Lee 'Apollo' Adama
- (credit only)
- Lt. Sharon 'Athena' Agathon
- (credit only)
- Crewman Specialist Diana Seelix
- (as Jennifer Halley)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaScenes aboard the tyllium refinery ship were actually filmed at a sugar mill. The tillium shown in the episode - including what's in the vast blimp-hangar-like room that's nearly empty, and the stuff dumped onto the conveyor belt - is actually raw, coarse, unrefined sugar.
- GoofsWhen President Roslyn and Chief Tyrol are talking about improving conditions on the tyllium refinery ship on board Colonial One, the President says "And we will take people from other vessels and we will put them on shifts on the refinery." When she says "Refinery," her lips said something else.
- Quotes
Dr. Gaius Baltar: I don't sound like I'm from Aerilon?
Chief Galen Tyrol: No.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Well you know I take that as a particular compliment. I don't know about you, but I've always found the Aerilon dialect to be particularly hard on the ears.
[Baltar begins speaking with an Aerilon accent]
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Something about the consonants that scrape the back of the throat. Course I should know an awful lot about my native tongue, I spent hours on it in trying to overcome it. Do you have any idea how hard it is for a ten year old boy to change the way he speaks? To unlearn everything he ever learned, so that one day, one day there might be the small hope that he might be considered as not comin' from Aerilon?
[Baltar speaks with his usual accent]
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Maybe I don't know, Caprica... Caprica... oh to be Caprican, the seat of politics, culture, art, science, learning. And what was Aerilon, just a drab ugly rock condemned to be the food basket for the twelve worlds, and that's how we were treated, like servants, like laborers, like working-class. You know you would have fitted right in there Chief, lots of men who like to work with their hands, and uh, grab a pint down at the pub and...
[Baltar again speaks with his Aerilon accent]
Dr. Gaius Baltar: ...finish off the evenin' with a good old-fashioned fight.
[Baltar returns to speaking as he normally does]
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Oh yes, I left Aerilon after my eighteenth birthday, I turned my back on my family, my heritage, all of them, of course it doesn't matter though, they're all dead now...
- SoundtracksMain Title Theme
Written by Richard Gibbs
One of the strengths of the production is it's ability, particularly in Seasons One and Two to deal with many difficult and challenging issues, which to my mind are relevant to a present day world audience, and human struggle in general. This, alongside the exciting, swash- buckling space saga has given the show a truly international and humanistic quality. Recently however, I have become unusually disappointed by the story lines. In "Dirty Hands", "The Woman King", and to some extent "A Day in the Life", the plots seem to have more to do with the internal politics of modern day America, than issues relating to the struggle of humanity at large - Labour disputes, the religious intolerance of a very American "Christian Science" like subgroup of society, seem provincial, small-town issues compared to the previously tackled questions of War, Torture, Genocide, Betrayal etc
Truly great Science Fiction, is able to see beyond the troubles of the time and place in which it is written, and this series does have the potential to be great, so long as it can veer away from falling into the trap of addressing parochial issues. Perhaps the writers need to look beyond the shores of their homeland, to prevent this great series becoming just another American Morality Tale.
- drnickyp
- Feb 27, 2007
Details
- Runtime44 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1