Battlestar Galactica 1978: Murder on the Rising Star Season 1, Episode 18

When Starbuck is implicated in a rival Triad-player's murder, Apollo and Boomer come to his defense as Protectors. They eventually uncover a plot involving Karibdis, a traitor who aided Baltar in the destruction of the Twelve Colonies.

Adama's Notes
Our scouts have sent back word of yet another planet along the coordinates given to us by our mysterious super race. More and more often, the planets we come across bear signs of the lost thirteenth tribe. We are getting closer to Earth. And once we have plotted her precise location, we will carefully formulate a plan for observing and sampling her culture. Too sudden an appearance from their relations in space could send our sister world into a wave of culture shock from which she might never recover. And are the inhabitants of Earth far in advance of us in their development or merely primitive animals fallen from a greater time? I feel we will soon know.

Notes
Very broadly based on an unshot script by Michael Sloan titled "Fire in Space." According to Jim Carlson and Terry McDonnell, they never saw the original but since Sloan had written a script with a murder, he received story credit.
This story loses points on continuity because Chameleon is not present. There should have been an explanation for his absense. Wouldn't he have shown up to give support to Starbuck who is his son?
When Chella flashes back to the pilot, the words "F--- Off" can be clearly seen spelled out in the lights of Caprica just to the right of the third Cylon fighter bearing down on the city.
Cassiopeia sports a different hair-style in this episode.
The cockpit hatch of the only full-scale viper used on the set was often in need of repair. In the scene when Starbuck is about to launch, the hatch of the viper closes very sloppily.
In yet another example of how rushed the series was, story editors Jim Carlson and Terrence McDonnell were forced to write this episode in 36 hours straight. One of the reasons they were so rushed was because Glen Larson was in Hawaii and took a long time to decide which story idea to give them.
During the triad game, Cassiopeia says "Everytime Starbuck plays against Ortega his body looks like a black and blue Orian hasher the next morning." The script for this episode has a key that defines an Orian hasher as a "bruised person."
Corporal Komma appears for the last time.
Cassiopeia wears the same dress she did when she was alone with Starbuck in the launch bay in Saga of a Star World. The dress was one of Laurette Spang's favorites.