And not everything biological needs oxygen. In fact, most things don't. Something designed by robots to survive in deep space? Almost certainly shouldn't have. But whatever.

This actually gave me more pause than figuring out how to make it fly by poking it.

figuring out how to make it fly by poking it.

Even poking, I might have been okay with. It was the fact that (a) the controls worked with the thing's brain hacked out, and (b), the controls looked suspiciously like Viper controls covered in spaghetti sauce. If the ship flies itself, then it shouldn't have any manual controls. Everything should be electrical impulses. No pulling or grabbing of any kind should have worked.

t sits alone in the "it worked for me" corner

I did a lot of mental hand waving. I don't expect logic from this show anymore than I do from SG-1. This ain't Farscape or Babylon 5.

Starbuck: "Every flying machine has four basic flying controls: power, pitch, yaw, and roll. Where are yours?"

Also, she ripped out the robot brain when she first got in there, so she was probably grabbing and trying the various "wires" that had been attached to it, for a start.

Dude, Farscape is many things, but "logical" wouldn't be the first word to come to me in describing the show. There's tons more handwaving required for that show than BSG.

I mumbled past the not-sense-making Starbuck & Cylon ship bits for the emotional pay-off, since the the Lee/Kara, Lee/Adama and Adama/Starbuck bits around and after the rescue were so gorgeously handled. (I choked up at "If it were you, we'd never leave." Yeah, I'm a huge sap.) But since the whole plot sort of converged on how Kara survives after the oxygen runs out (and I agree with Jessica that what Kara was able to do with the Cylon ship makes no friggin' sense whatsoever), there had to be A LOT of suspension of disbelief for me to enjoy the pay-off.

Starbuck: "Every flying machine has four basic flying controls: power, pitch, yaw, and roll. Where are yours?"

Yeah, Starbuck said a lot of things I didn't buy this ep. (See above, re: biological organisms and oxygen.)

so she was probably grabbing and trying the various "wires" that had been attached to it, for a start.

Even if the brain weren't at the complete opposite end of the ship, she still wasn't doing anything that even came close to looking like rewiring anything. She was squeezing and pulling on things. If I lose my sense of propioception, and you cut out my brain? There ain't a damn thing you can squeeze to make me stand upright again.

Perhaps the raider was designed to be salvagable for the humanoid Cylons.

This may be the one of the more ridiculous things I have ever typed. And I was a member of the Lorne worships Illyria tinfoil hat sect.

Dude, Farscape is many things, but "logical" wouldn't be the first word to come to me in describing the show.

I was not being entirely serious.

I mumbled past the not-sense-making Starbuck & Cylon ship bits for the emotional pay-off, since the the Lee/Kara, Lee/Adama and Adam/Starbuck bits around and after the rescue were so gorgeously handled. (I choked up at "If it were you, we'd never leave." Yeah, I'm a huge sap.)

Oh, me too. Like I said, I liked the ep overall. I just wish they'd thought through the mechanics of the ship a little better. Or a lot better, even.

(But while I'm still ranting, how the hell could she have known that was its brain? Maybe it was the heart, or the liver, or an ovary. Or something with no parallel to mammalian physiology? Gah.)

[eta: Ah, Farscape. Now there was a show that knew how to do living ships.]