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The Best Episodes of Battlestar Galactica

Every episode of Battlestar Galactica ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Battlestar Galactica!

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When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of humanity - as they journey toward the fabled

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Battlestar Galactica Season 4 Episode 14 - Blood on the Scales
    8.7/10(2387 votes)

    #1 - Blood on the Scales

    S4:E14

    President Roslin faces off against Tom Zarek and Lt. Gaeta as they try to take control of the Colonial fleet. Both the alliance with the rebel Cylons and Adama's life are at stake.

    Director:Wayne Rose
    Writer:Michael Angeli

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  2. Battlestar Galactica Season 1 Episode 13 - Kobol's Last Gleaming (2)
    8.6/10(2611 votes)

    #2 - Kobol's Last Gleaming (2)

    S1:E13

    When Commander Adama learns that Kara disobeyed orders and Jumped to Caprica on orders from President Roslin, he demands the president's resignation, with the implied threat of a military coup. Roslin refuses his demand and sparks a confrontation.

    Director:Michael Rymer
    Writers:David Eick, Ronald D. Moore

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  3. Battlestar Galactica Season 2 Episode 11 - Resurrection Ship (1)
    8.6/10(2420 votes)

    #3 - Resurrection Ship (1)

    S2:E11

    The Battlestars Galactica and Pegasus face a new Cylon target, a "Resurrection" ship, while a power struggle threatens to result in all-out war among the human fleet.

    Director:Michael Rymer
    Writers:Anne Cofell Saunders, Ronald D. Moore, Michael Rymer

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  4. Battlestar Galactica Season 3 Episode 20 - Crossroads (2)
    8.6/10(3207 votes)

    #4 - Crossroads (2)

    S3:E20

    As Baltar's trial comes to a conclusion, key members of the fleet discover that they may be the Final Five Cylons. Tigh attempts to decipher the strange music he is hearing in his head, while a Cylon fleet approaches.

    Director:Michael Rymer
    Writer:Mark Verheiden

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  5. Battlestar Galactica Season 4 Episode 13 - The Oath
    8.6/10(2215 votes)

    #5 - The Oath

    S4:E13

    Loyalties are made clear when Gaeta orchestrates a coup d'état of the Adama regime. Both prisoners and lives are taken as many of the fed up people work to take over Galactica.

    Director:John Dahl
    Writer:Mark Verheiden

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  6. Battlestar Galactica Season 2 Episode 10 - Pegasus
    8.5/10(2746 votes)

    #6 - Pegasus

    S2:E10

    Battlestar Galactica was not the only Battlestar to have survived the cylon attack, The Battlestar Pegasus also survived.

    Director:Michael Rymer
    Writer:Anne Cofell Saunders

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  7. Battlestar Galactica Season 2 Episode 12 - Resurrection Ship (2)
    8.4/10(2500 votes)

    #7 - Resurrection Ship (2)

    S2:E12

    The struggle between Adama and Cain is temporarily put on hold while the two Battlestars combine forces for an assault on the Cylon Resurrection Ship. Apollo faces a momentous decision and Baltar takes an interest in Gina, the Cylon prisoner.

    Director:Michael Rymer
    Writers:Ronald D. Moore, Michael Rymer

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  8. Battlestar Galactica Season 2 Episode 20 - Lay Down Your Burdens (2)
    8.4/10(2355 votes)

    #8 - Lay Down Your Burdens (2)

    S2:E20

    When Baltar wins the vote, Roslin considers stealing the election because she believes he is a Cylon collaborator.

    Director:Michael Rymer
    Writers:Anne Cofell Saunders, Mark Verheiden

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  9. Battlestar Galactica Season 3 Episode 4 - Exodus (2)
    8.4/10(2933 votes)

    #9 - Exodus (2)

    S3:E4

    Tigh must decide the fate of his wife Ellen after the assistance she rendered to the Cylons. Lee struggles with his assignment to protect the civilian fleet on its journey toward Earth while Adama returns to New Caprica with just the Galactica. The Resistance coordinates an attack on the Cylons just as Galactica arrives. As the Cylons begin to lose control, Number Three vows to put a final end to the New Caprican experiment.

    Director:Félix Alcalá
    Writers:David Weddle, Bradley Thompson

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  10. Battlestar Galactica Season 4 Episode 11 - Sometimes a Great Notion
    8.4/10(2093 votes)

    #10 - Sometimes a Great Notion

    S4:E11

    Kara struggles with the foreboding prediction of the Cylon Hybrid, while Adama and the Colonial fleet face despair over their shocking discovery.

    Director:Michael Nankin
    Writers:David Weddle, Bradley Thompson

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  11. Battlestar Galactica Season 4 Episode 20 - Daybreak (2)
    8.4/10(3351 votes)

    #11 - Daybreak (2)

    S4:E20

    Adama and the Galactica crew stake the survival of the human race on their plan to rescue Hera from the Cylon colony in this, the series finale.

    Director:Michael Rymer
    Writer:Ronald D. Moore

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  12. Battlestar Galactica Season 4 Episode 10 - Revelations
    8.3/10(2344 votes)

    #12 - Revelations

    S4:E10

    D'Anna holds President Roslin and other Colonials hostage in order to draw out the Final Five from the Colonial fleet. Col. Tigh believes he has the solution to end the standoff.

    Director:Michael Rymer
    Writers:David Weddle, Bradley Thompson

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  13. Battlestar Galactica Season 1 Episode 1 - 33
    8.2/10(3830 votes)

    #13 - 33

    S1:E1

    In the wake of the Cylon sneak attack, the ragtag fleet of human survivors is forced to play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with their pursuers. Every 33 minutes, they make a jump to a new location. And every 33 minutes, the Cylons manage to find them. The pilots are on the brink of exhaustion, relying on artificial stimulants to keep fighting, and the civilians are beginning to doubt the leadership of Commander Adama and President Roslin.

    Director:Michael Rymer
    Writer:Ronald D. Moore

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  14. Battlestar Galactica Season 2 Episode 18 - Downloaded
    8.2/10(2293 votes)

    #14 - Downloaded

    S2:E18

    After Boomer's consciousness is downloaded into a new body following her death, she struggles with her new life on Cylon-occupied Caprica. Number Six is asked to help Boomer adjust to her new role in Cylon society.

    Director:Jeff Woolnough
    Writers:David Weddle, Bradley Thompson

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  15. Battlestar Galactica Season 4 Episode 9 - The Hub
    8.2/10(1911 votes)

    #15 - The Hub

    S4:E9

    Colonial Viper pilots plan an attack on the Resurrection Hub with their Cylon rebel allies.

    Director:Paul A. Edwards
    Writer:Jane Espenson

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  16. Battlestar Galactica Season 4 Episode 15 - No Exit
    8.2/10(1884 votes)

    #16 - No Exit

    S4:E15

    As Sam Anders recovers from his head injury onboard the Galactica, he begins to remember events from ancient Earth. The Final Cylon struggles with the fallout from the Final Five's former plans. One of the humanoid Cylons vows to get revenge for being created in the image of Man. Tyrol informs Admiral Adama about the extensive structural damage on the Galactica.

    Director:Gwyneth Horder-Payton
    Writer:Ryan Mottesheard

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  17. Battlestar Galactica Season 1 Episode 10 - The Hand of God
    8.1/10(2526 votes)

    #17 - The Hand of God

    S1:E10

    As its fuel supply dwindles, the fleet must seek out a new supply of tylium ore or risk becoming sitting ducks to any Cylon attack. A recon patrol finds an asteroid full of the fuel, but there's a catch — the Cylons have found it first and established a heavily guarded refining plant.

    Directors:Jeff Woolnough, Michael Rymer
    Writers:David Weddle, Bradley Thompson

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  18. Battlestar Galactica Season 1 Episode 12 - Kobol's Last Gleaming (1)
    8.1/10(2439 votes)

    #18 - Kobol's Last Gleaming (1)

    S1:E12

    While flying a supply patrol, Crashdown and Sharon Valerii discover a bountiful planet that can support human life. Indeed, it might be Kobol, the legendary "home of the gods." The discovery prompts Commander Adama to send a ground team to investigate; it also gives new life to President Roslin's belief that she is a tool of destiny and that this discovery, like her rapidly spreading cancer, is part of an ancient prophecy.

    Director:Michael Rymer
    Writers:David Eick, Ronald D. Moore

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  19. Battlestar Galactica Season 4 Episode 1 - He That Believeth in Me
    8.1/10(2136 votes)

    #19 - He That Believeth in Me

    S4:E1

    During the Cylon attack, Sam Anders has a strange encounter with a Cylon Raider. The crew of the Galactica view Starbuck's return with suspicion and doubt. Gaius Baltar takes refuge with a group of women who believe he has the power to heal others.

    Director:Michael Rymer
    Writers:David Weddle, Bradley Thompson

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  20. Battlestar Galactica Season 2 Episode 7 - Home (2)
    8.0/10(2241 votes)

    #20 - Home (2)

    S2:E7

    Adama heads to Kobol to find Roslin, reassembles the fleet and heads down to Kobol himself to find the presidential party in search of the "Tomb of Athena" which allegedly leads to Earth. Apollo hangs out with Starbuck , Zarek tries to keep his cronie off plotting with Boomer who is unaware of tension building between Helo and Tyrol.

    Director:Jeff Woolnough
    Writers:David Eick, Ronald D. Moore

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  21. Battlestar Galactica Season 3 Episode 2 - Precipice
    8.0/10(2217 votes)

    #21 - Precipice

    S3:E2

    Adama plans to return to New Caprica and drop off a surprising person to act as a liaison between Galactica and the Resistance. Tigh's insistence on the use of suicide bombers and ever escalating violence stuns even the fellow leaders of the Resistance. Eventually, the suicide bombings cause the Cylon occupiers to crackdown on their human subjects.

    Director:Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
    Writer:Ronald D. Moore

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  22. Battlestar Galactica Season 3 Episode 5 - Collaborators
    8.0/10(2118 votes)

    #22 - Collaborators

    S3:E5

    Tyrol participates in the Circle, a secret tribunal on Galactica that tries and convicts in absentia those accused of collaborating with the Cylons during the Occupation. The death sentences--administered without the knowledge of Roslin or Adama--begin to weigh on Tyrol's conscience. Baltar faces a similar jury among the Cylons, who must decide whether he is allowed to stay with them.

    Director:Michael Rymer
    Writer:Mark Verheiden

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  23. Battlestar Galactica Season 1 Episode 8 - Flesh and Bone
    7.9/10(2536 votes)

    #23 - Flesh and Bone

    S1:E8

    A Cylon, who calls himself Leoben, is discovered on one of the ships in the fleet. Commander Adama sends Kara to interrogate him — or, rather, it. The Cylon tells Kara that he planted a nuclear device on one of the ships. Although she doesn't believe it, Kara passes on the warning.

    Director:Brad Turner
    Writer:Toni Graphia

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  24. Battlestar Galactica Season 2 Episode 19 - Lay Down Your Burdens (1)
    7.9/10(2088 votes)

    #24 - Lay Down Your Burdens (1)

    S2:E19

    Chief Tyrol is plagued by terrifying dreams and seeks the aid of a priest. Kara leads a rescue mission to Caprica. Roslin and Baltar go head-to-head in a presidential debate that changes dramatically with the discovery of a habitable planet.

    Director:Michael Rymer
    Writer:Ronald D. Moore

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  25. Battlestar Galactica Season 3 Episode 19 - Crossroads (1)
    7.9/10(2096 votes)

    #25 - Crossroads (1)

    S3:E19

    Baltar's trial testimony threatens the very stability of the fleet. Lee assists Romo Lampkin in Baltar's defense. Some in the fleet begin to feel that Baltar is divine. Though he dismisses such beliefs, Number Six suggests that the followers may know more about his true nature than Baltar does himself.

    Director:Michael Rymer
    Writer:Michael Taylor

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Best Episodes Summary

"Blood on the Scales" is the best rated episode of "Battlestar Galactica". It scored 8.7/10 based on 2387 votes. Directed by Wayne Rose and written by Michael Angeli, it aired on 2/6/2009. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Kobol's Last Gleaming (2)".