Appearing in "Space-Mimic!"
Featured Characters:
- Colonial Warriors
- Commander Adama
- Colonel Tigh
- Captain Apollo
- Lieutenant Athena
- Lieutenant Boomer
- Lieutenant Starbuck
- Nurse Cassiopeia
- Commander Adama
- Boxey
Supporting Characters:
- Sire Uri
- Medea
- Dr. Spang
- Dr. Wilker
- Master-Tech Shadrak
- Junior-Tech Whittaker (First appearance) (Death)
- Chief-of-ship's stores Edik (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Space-Mimic (First appearance) (Death)
Other Characters:
- Seth (First appearance)
Locations:
- The Void
Items:
- Colonial Blaster
- Memory Inducer
- Stasis Sphere
- Fumarello (cigar)
Vehicles:
- Colonial Fleet
- Battlestar Galactica
- Agro-Ship (mentioned)
- Battlestar Galactica
Synopsis for "Space-Mimic!"
Sire Uri's guards have been arrested for attempting to deactivate the Memory Machine. Apollo and the recently returned Starbuck and Athena are scolding Uri for trying to take over command from Adama and causing the machine to be damaged. Colonel Tigh reminds them that Sire Uri is now the nominal President of the Council and cannot be judged until the Council reconvenes, but will be placed under house arrest until such time. Tigh himself takes command of the Galactica and the fleet. With the Agro-Ship missing, the fleet will run out of food in less than a week.
Master-Tech Shadrack is working overtime to convert the entire fleet to light-speed drive before they are located by the Cylons. Junior-Tech Whittaker is distracted by a strange silver sphere and can't resist touching it. When he does so, the silver glow momentarily shifts into an alien, inhuman form, and then becomes an identical copy of Whittaker himself. This alien is a Space-Mimic and was imprisoned in the Stasis Sphere for countless eons, forced to float in the cold and lifeless void. Now it has returned to it's living form, and by doing so, has killed Whittaker. It's next move is to attack Master-Tech Shadrack with a laser-torch.
Apollo, Athena and Starbuck meet with Chief-of-ship's stores Edik to discuss the fleet's food supply. Chief Edik notices that Starbuck is munching on a candy bar and disapproves. Boxey and Muffit appear behind them and ask Starbuck to share his candy with them. The group is startled when Shadrack enters, carrying Whittaker in his arms and explaining he had to knock him out or be killed himself. They take the assailant to Dr. Wilker in Sick bay, who concludes the man is dead, but not from a blow to the head. After the others depart, Spang is puzzled as his instruments reveal that Whittaker was actually never alive to begin with, despite him having examined the man before. Just when Spang concludes that the corpse on his examining couch cannot be the real Whittaker, the mimic touches his shoulders from behind and takes over Dr. Spang's form as well as his memories.
Muffit senses something is wrong in sick bay and returns to scratch at the door. The Colonial warriors enter just in time to witness Dr. Spang about to be murdered by himself. The evil doppelganger picks up a weighty med-analsys probe, exhibiting a strength that immediately brands him as an imposter. The Space-Mimic flees, leaving Dr. Spang alive. Apollo tells Boxey to stay with the Doctor while Muffit chases the mimic by scent. Next, the Mimic touches Boomer and becomes his double. He attacks nurse Cassiopeia who is monitoring Commander Adama inside the Memory Machine. Apollo and Starbuck find two versions of Cassiopeia, one of whom is unconscious. Muffit is able to distinguish between the real nurse and the alien. The Mimic attacks the robot Daggit and the warriors, but manages to escape when the lights go out because of a stray laser blast from Athena.
An outraged Sire Uri enters, saying that he just saw Commander Adama passing him on the way to the bridge. Somehow, the Space-Mimic has managed to take the Commander's identity through contact with the Memory Machine's circuitry. The warriors race towards the bridge. Meanwhile, the Space-Mimic is astonished to find many Collonial humans expressing their fondness and gratitude towards Commander Adama. It is almost too much emotions for the being to absorb. When Apollo, Starbuck and Athena catch up with the Mimic, it aims a laser pistol at them, but finds it impossible to harm those it now sees as it's own children. It ends up destroying itself instead in order to spare the lives of three beings for whom it now feels an overwhelming love.
Notes
- This issue contains a letters page: Battlestar Bulletins. Letters are published from: Russell Reeves, Jeanne Hutton, Scott E. Taylor and Alton G. York.