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Battlestar Galactica
"Teacher's Pet"
Echoes of New Caprica GN
TokyoPop
Story by Emily Salzfass
Art by Chrissy Delk
April 2009
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Roslin struggles to educate her young
students with a human-centric curriculum under the oppressive
Cylon regime.
Story Summary
Laura Roslin is trying to teach the children of New Caprica
about the history and culture of the Twelve Colonies, but the
Cylons intervene, not allowing her to teach the old human
history, wanting humanity to start again with their existence on
New Caprica and their benevolent rulers. Laura keeps trying to
find ways to teach about the Colonies anyway, but soon realizes
that one of her students is an informant, notifying the Cylons
of her teachings. In addition, many of the children's parents
are exchanging information damaging to the underground
resistance for the Cylons' guarantee of safety for their kids.
The underground begins harassing and even killing suspected
collaborators, leaving some of the children orphans. Some of the
parents begin providing information to the underground, which
puts a Cylon target on them. The underground grabs one suspect,
the father of Laura's student Saskia, and it is revealed that
Saskia is the school informant, at her father's direction.
As hits between the underground and the Cylons escalate, the
Cylons finally gather a group of disloyal human parents and
begin shooting them in front of the school. But several
underground resistance members at the school uncover Saskia
and her father. The soldiers fire on the Cylon executioners,
defeating them and saving a number of the parents. During the
melee, Saskia saves another student.
At the end of the day, both sides thinking they have won a
victory,
things are calm. But for how long?
THE END
Notes from the BSG
chronology
This story does not fit well in between episodes of the series. It
basically takes place in segments concurrent with the events of
"Occupation".
Didja Know?
"Teacher's Pet" is one of three stories appearing in the Battlestar Galactica
manga graphic novel Echoes of New Caprica published by
TokyoPop. "Teacher's Pet" covers pages 5-59 of the graphic
novel.
Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode
Laura Roslin
President Baltar
Maya
Sam Anders
Galen Tyrol
Colonel Tigh
Spencer
Calista Ray
Phoebe Ray
Calista and Phoebe's father
(mentioned only)
Number Three
Kevin
Kevin's father
(mentioned only)
Hubera
(mentioned only)
Hera
Julius
Cole
Number One
Caprica Six
Boomer
Tory Foster
Cole's father
Becca Torria (mentioned only)
Lianne
(mentioned only)
Anthony
(mentioned only)
Billy
Quint (dies in this story)
Saskia
Candra
Didja Notice?
On the "Prologue..." text page, Baltar is said to have defeated
Roslin in the presidential election and then reluctantly
accepts the executive office. Yes, he defeated her in the
election in "Lay Down
Your Burdens" Part 2, but there was no reluctance on his
part in taking the office. He actively wanted to defeat her for
her slights against him as vice president in previous episodes.
On page 13, Laura Roslin's student Kevin mentions Hubera, a
woman who led a civil revolution on Aerilon in the past.
To cover up the sounds of a Cylon execution squad, Maya turns on
a radio, which plays a Colonial song. Some of the lyrics are:
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I took my true love's hand in mine
We fled from Thebes to Delphi
To have the oracle devine
Our gift from Aphrodite.
I took my true love's hand in mine
The temple trail to follow
To offer sacraments and wine
And gifts to great Apollo. |
On page 18, the first two panels seem to be Baltar's memory of
the beginning of the attack on the Twelve Colonies in
"Humanity's Children",
though the dialog seen here was not heard in that episode.
Cole's father meets with a human collaborating with the Cylons
and the collaborator says he's from the Brenner Valley on Picon,
"the heartland".
On page 27, Laura plays a piece of music by Becca Torria, whom
she says was one of Caprica's most famous renaissance musicians.
Page 44 reveals that Laura and Maya are sharing a tent as
roommates.
On page 46, Laura is teaching her students about the Sagittaron
civil war.
On page 58, Baltar jokingly(?) suggests changing the name of New
Caprica to Baltar's World.
