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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Baltar is my favourite character, and I too hope he's acquitted.
I was telling my wife when we watched the most recent episode that Balar's defense should do two things: the first, as you noted, would be to have Gaeta testify that Gaius signed the death warrant under duress and that the cylons threatened to kill even more colonists if he didn't sign it.
The second would be to call Chief Tyrol to the stand and have him testify about Col. Tigh's actions when Galactica was hit by a nuclear warhead during the initial Cylon attack. For those who don't remember, Tigh ordered Tyrol to vent certain sections of the ship into space to put out fires, even though there were still damage control teams there. Essentially, Tigh ordered the death of those men because it was necessary to save the lives of everyone else on the ship. How is that any different from what Baltar did on New Caprica?
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Remember what Tigh said. If they're wearing thier environmental suits, and they remember thier training, they have a chance to survive. Plus Tigh wasn't colluding with the fire, he was trying to put it out.
Baltar signed execution orders, its a big difference, even under duress with a gun to his head, he wasn't thinking of the survival of the human race, he was thinking of his own.