Battlestar Galactica (TV Series)

Saga of a Star World (1978)

John Colicos: Count Baltar

Quotes 

• Imperious Leader : Welcome, Baltar. I have grave news. I handful of Colonials prevail, but we will soon find them.

  Count Baltar : What of out bargain? My Colony was to be spared!

  Imperious Leader : I now alter the bargain.

  Count Baltar : How can you change one side of a bargain?

  Imperious Leader : When there is no other side. You have missed the entire point of the war.

• [Two centurions drag Baltar into the throne chamber of Imperious Leader] 

  Imperious Leader : You are Baltar?

  [Baltar laughs contemptuously at Imperious Leader's seeming ignorance] 

  Count Baltar : As if you don't remember.

  Imperious Leader : My predecessor has left me with a difficult choice.

  [Baltar's smirk disappears, as he is now genuinely surprised] 

  Count Baltar : Your... predecessor?

  Imperious Leader : Was destroyed by your peers. A foolish miscalculation of the will of your people.

• Imperious Leader : We thank you for your help, Baltar. Your time is at an end.

  Count Baltar : No! You can't...

  [a centurion seizes Baltar while a second begins to unsheath his sword] 

  Imperious Leader : No! Not now, centurion.

  [the centurion stops and resheaths the sword] 

  Imperious Leader : Remove him for public execution.

• President Adar : Baltar, my friend, this armistice conference would not have been possible without your tireless work. You have secured for yourself a place in the history books.

  Count Baltar : [smiling humbly]  That the Cylons chose ME as their liason to the Quorum of the Twelve was an act of... providence, not skill.