Episode 3 (or maybe even Pilot Part 2):
“...Who Goes There...”
Logline:
When a team of archaeologists breaches a glacial vault thought to contain early Colonial technology, they uncover a sealed datacore—and something that appears to respond to them. One of the researchers begins speaking in a voice not their own.
Themes:
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First contact with one’s own past.
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The horror of recognition—“we built this.”
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The Thing-like paranoia: has someone been overwritten, or awakened?
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Echoes of Starbuck, but not as resurrection—more like pattern interference.
What it sets up:
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The re-emergence of Colonial and Cylon code, intertwining with human DNA (a literal merger of myths).
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The “Deep Time” watchers realizing that the next cycle has begun prematurely.
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Questions of identity: are the explorers the trespassers, or the descendants the vault was meant to find?
You could imagine the tone as halfway between Arrival, The Thing, and 2001: A Space Odyssey:
quiet, scientific, eerie, reverent.
The phrase “Who Goes There” would resonate both as the scientist’s challenge when the door opens, and as the watchers’ question when they sense life stirring again in the archives.
