The Young Lords

Infobox Television episode | Title = The Young Lords
Series = Battlestar Galactica (1978)
Season = 1
Episode = 12
Airdate = 19 November 1978
Production =
Writer = Donald Bellisario, Frank Lupo, Paul Playdon
Director = Donald Bellisario
Guests = Charles Bloom as Kyle, Bruce Glover as Megan, Audrey Landers as Miri, Brigitte Muller as Ariadne, Adam Mann as Nilz
Episode list = Episode chronology
Prev = The Magnificent Warriors
Next = The Living Legend

"The Young Lords" is an episode of the original "Battlestar Galactica" television series.

Plot Summary

Starbuck crash lands on the planet Attila where he finds a Cylon garrison battling with a group of human children.

Plot Synopsis

While on patrol in their vipers, Boomer and Starbuck are attacked by Cylons. In the battle, Starbuck's ship is damaged, and he is forced to crash on the planet Attila, as Boomer heads back to the fleet for help.

Pulling himself from the wreckage, Starbuck attempts to elude a Cylon patrol but is captured. However, the Cylon patrol is soon ambushed by a group of young warriors, who are in fact children, and Starbuck is rescued.

Going with the children to their camp, Starbuck learns that they are siblings who were kicked out of their castle homestead by the Cylons, who they refer to as 'tin cans'. Their father was also captured by their robot enemies, and ever since, the children have been battling the Cylons, led by the eldest son, Kyle.

After an abortive attempt to fake a prisoner swap of Starbuck for the father, Kyle agrees to allow Starbuck to lead the children on a raid of the Cylon garrison. The raid is successful, the Cylons, led by their commander, Spectre (an early I-L series Cylon, similar to Lucifer) bid a hasty retreat from the planet, and the children are reunited with their father.

Apollo and Boomer land the shuttle to bring Starbuck home to Galactica, arriving just in time to see Starbuck get a farewell kiss from the eldest daughter, Miri.

Trivia

Starbuck helps the children memorize the systematic strategy used in the final battle with the Cylons by teaching them a rhyming verse. This form of mnemonic was also used in learning the strategy for raiding the Nazi castle the 1967 film The Dirty Dozen. The fact that the Cylon stronghold was also a castle is yet another either intentional or unintentional reference to the Dirty Dozen. The verse that the children recite during the final battle with the Cylons is:

Through the tunnel, under the land, Starbuck and Miri creep hand on hand.

We swim the moat to the petro dump, And blow it up with a great big whump! At the bridge, the youngest daughter, Drops tin cans into the water.

And around the castle, the son firstborn, Rides at a gallop and blows his horn.

We go up the steps to the castle floor, And sneak a peek through the secret door.

Although the dump is double-guarded, We'll sneak across when the guards are parted.

Robus sets one bomb and then the other, Leaving the rest to his older brother.

When all is ready across the moat, Kyle will sound the signal note.

At the bridge, the youngest daughter, Drops tin cans into the water.

Through all the confusion, noise, and bother, Starbuck and Miri rescue father.

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Links

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References