I think this is a fascinating moment for Lee, and it's awesome that we got to see it so early on, and that its aftermath lingered so long throughout the show.
There are so many things I enjoy about this scene:
1) I really like the fact that Lee disobeys orders at first, trying to give the civilian pilots every possible chance to comply with the order to halt. They've been ordered to keep radio silence for fear of Cylon viruses, but when the ship doesn't respond to Athena's blinking-light code, Lee decides to break radio silence on his own authority to make sure that the civilians know they are being ordered to stop. That was absolutely the right choice; it put himself and his own pilots at risk and involved the violation of a direct order, but he had to be sure that the ship's non-compliance was not the result of miscommunication. He goes through every possible warning, from semiphore to voice commands to Starbuck's warning shot, before he resigns himself to the fact that whoever is in control of that ship is not going to yield
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But, at that time, they knew enough to expect the worst at all times.Yes, I think you've hit the nail on the head, there. And that was basically Lee's argument, as I recall. We can't afford to assume that we have room to risk delay, because if we lose, we lose everything. Exactly. It's kind of amazing to me to think that it was that decision which saved the entire fleet which constitutes the human race for the rest of the series. I believe the only survivors were the ones that made that jump. Well, they found a few more scattered survivors later, like the Pegasus crew and the resistance fighters on Caprica, but for all practical purposes the FTL ships Lee and Roslin saved in that moment became the whole human race. Thank you, Lee, for winning that argument
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There are so many things I enjoy about this scene:
1) I really like the fact that Lee disobeys orders at first, trying to give the civilian pilots every possible chance to comply with the order to halt. They've been ordered to keep radio silence for fear of Cylon viruses, but when the ship doesn't respond to Athena's blinking-light code, Lee decides to break radio silence on his own authority to make sure that the civilians know they are being ordered to stop. That was absolutely the right choice; it put himself and his own pilots at risk and involved the violation of a direct order, but he had to be sure that the ship's non-compliance was not the result of miscommunication. He goes through every possible warning, from semiphore to voice commands to Starbuck's warning shot, before he resigns himself to the fact that whoever is in control of that ship is not going to yield ( ... )
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