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Originally Posted by spcglider
...But quite frankly, judging by what we saw in the premiere, I can't imagine that Baltar OR Adar would have been any sort of success at commanding a battlestar.
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Well, it really depends. Just because no one ever mentions Baltar commanding anything, that doesn't remove the possibility of past experience. If the War were moving in fits and starts, "spurts" if you will, then that leaves open the possibility for Baltar having once held some kind of command, possibly even of having been a "rising star"(sorry!
) at some point, only to have something happen to crush his dreams of military glory.
As to the lack of uniform? Well, note that Ike never wore his uniform after retiring from the military, including his time as President; except on things like Veteran's Day, vets typically don't wear uniforms. Even if Baltar was a former officer, as a politician, wearing a uniform when not on active service might be seen as very gauchè.
Looking at Baltar's strategies as a Cylon commander strictly empirically, there's nothing really wrong with what he tries to do -- he keeps being undermined by poor intelligence, feuding subordinates, opaque superiors, the fact that Adama is a much better commander overall and the occasional "Wandering Legendary Military Hero Commanding A Supposedly-Destroyed Battlestar"©.....
