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partywhipple's LJ, on Dr. Gaius Baltar, mostly because it includes some talk about my hallucinations while unconscious during my hospital stay after my bike accident last August.
Baltar is totally guilty of very high level corruption that led to the greatest military disaster in Colonial history and the near destruction of humanity - tho' he thought he was simply engaged in more normal, corporate-industrial complex corruption. He did know he was committing that crime.
But the question is, what do you know, and what can you show in court? And what do you even believe? The only Colonial who really, really believes Dr. Baltar had anything to do with the original disaster is President Roslyn, and I have to say, as someone who has in fact been hallucinating in a hospital while badly injured and drugged off my ass, I wouldn't take her testimony on that seriously for a second. Not if I knew where it came from.
Srsly. I have big chunks of a Mexican vacation in my head that I know I never took because I was unconscious in the hospital when it happened - that hit-and-run bike accident last summer - and I was hallucinating the whole thing. I remember walking around garden paths, examining flowers, noting layouts, the soil types and stones. I remember standing in the sun by a large artificial pond, looking across at trees on the far side, stinking hot, and thinking, god, that pond must cost a fortune to keep up in this climate. I remember a restaurant/bar near my hotel, with piñata decorations, where I hung out one night, thinking about where I was going the next day; I remember what my hotel room looked like (dimly). I remember waking up from my accident still thinking I was in Mexico; even from that, I remember the supposed Mexican hospital room; I remember trying to figure out what to do about my (absent) passport and US re-entry; I remember what what it looked like outside my Mexican hospital window. All of it the result of injury and drug-induced hallucination.
President Roslyn remembered seeing Baltar with Six back on Caprica in the same state. I wouldn't trust that testimony for a second.
More on things I "remember" from my "Mexican vacation";
The "hospital" in Mexico was a single-story building with a flat roof. The walls were some sort of rough plaster or cement, painted; they had that old-fashioned two-tone thing going on, with a dark colour halfway up (green), and a light colour (kind of a tan?) the rest of the way up to the ceiling. There were a couple of other beds, and the nurse's desk - a desk-desk, old-fashioned, metal office type - over by a large multipaned window looking out to a flat landscape, bright, without a lot of plants. Not a lot of traffic, either; it was pretty quiet. There was someone in a bed opposite me, and another window across the room and to my right. Across from me to the left, by the nurse's call desk, was an open passageway to another room that I had some idea was a waiting room or reception or something.
The rocks I remember above were rather more river-pebbles; they'd been brought in for landscaping. I remember one path that looked like someone had used bent 4x4s - ornamental grade wood, not pressure-lumber; without much rain to worry about, you can do stuff like that - as path edges, then had two different kind of stones, one for the path, and one for mulch on either side. I remember that there wasn't much use of any sort of groundcover at all, but there were ornamental grasses near water features, but only occasionally. There were a good number of succulents used.
The piñata I remember most was hanging from a post near the entry to the bar part of the restaurant, which was a couple of steps down from a plaza; it was night time and pretty dark. Step down three steps (?) and you got to kind of a covered walkway; beyond that were windows and the bar and restaurant inside. There were more decorations like that inside, mostly on the far side of the restaurant; I was closer to the windows. I don't remember ordering food, but I do remember drinking a bottle of some sort of lemony/citrusy soda outside. The place was fairly busy, with a decent bit of tourist trade.
My hotel room wasn't particularly interesting. A few stories up, a double bed; dresser and mirror on the opposite side - boring, international standard, hotel room. Mostly what I remember of that is the ridged texture of the woven bedcover, stripes of different kinds of weaved embroidery(?) running lengthway from the head to the foot of the bed, on a pale tan base fabric. Or something like that.
There's more, but that's more than this post needs anyway.
partywhipple's LJ, on Dr. Gaius Baltar, mostly because it includes some talk about my hallucinations while unconscious during my hospital stay after my bike accident last August.Baltar is totally guilty of very high level corruption that led to the greatest military disaster in Colonial history and the near destruction of humanity - tho' he thought he was simply engaged in more normal, corporate-industrial complex corruption. He did know he was committing that crime.
But the question is, what do you know, and what can you show in court? And what do you even believe? The only Colonial who really, really believes Dr. Baltar had anything to do with the original disaster is President Roslyn, and I have to say, as someone who has in fact been hallucinating in a hospital while badly injured and drugged off my ass, I wouldn't take her testimony on that seriously for a second. Not if I knew where it came from.
Srsly. I have big chunks of a Mexican vacation in my head that I know I never took because I was unconscious in the hospital when it happened - that hit-and-run bike accident last summer - and I was hallucinating the whole thing. I remember walking around garden paths, examining flowers, noting layouts, the soil types and stones. I remember standing in the sun by a large artificial pond, looking across at trees on the far side, stinking hot, and thinking, god, that pond must cost a fortune to keep up in this climate. I remember a restaurant/bar near my hotel, with piñata decorations, where I hung out one night, thinking about where I was going the next day; I remember what my hotel room looked like (dimly). I remember waking up from my accident still thinking I was in Mexico; even from that, I remember the supposed Mexican hospital room; I remember trying to figure out what to do about my (absent) passport and US re-entry; I remember what what it looked like outside my Mexican hospital window. All of it the result of injury and drug-induced hallucination.
President Roslyn remembered seeing Baltar with Six back on Caprica in the same state. I wouldn't trust that testimony for a second.
More on things I "remember" from my "Mexican vacation";
The "hospital" in Mexico was a single-story building with a flat roof. The walls were some sort of rough plaster or cement, painted; they had that old-fashioned two-tone thing going on, with a dark colour halfway up (green), and a light colour (kind of a tan?) the rest of the way up to the ceiling. There were a couple of other beds, and the nurse's desk - a desk-desk, old-fashioned, metal office type - over by a large multipaned window looking out to a flat landscape, bright, without a lot of plants. Not a lot of traffic, either; it was pretty quiet. There was someone in a bed opposite me, and another window across the room and to my right. Across from me to the left, by the nurse's call desk, was an open passageway to another room that I had some idea was a waiting room or reception or something.
The rocks I remember above were rather more river-pebbles; they'd been brought in for landscaping. I remember one path that looked like someone had used bent 4x4s - ornamental grade wood, not pressure-lumber; without much rain to worry about, you can do stuff like that - as path edges, then had two different kind of stones, one for the path, and one for mulch on either side. I remember that there wasn't much use of any sort of groundcover at all, but there were ornamental grasses near water features, but only occasionally. There were a good number of succulents used.
The piñata I remember most was hanging from a post near the entry to the bar part of the restaurant, which was a couple of steps down from a plaza; it was night time and pretty dark. Step down three steps (?) and you got to kind of a covered walkway; beyond that were windows and the bar and restaurant inside. There were more decorations like that inside, mostly on the far side of the restaurant; I was closer to the windows. I don't remember ordering food, but I do remember drinking a bottle of some sort of lemony/citrusy soda outside. The place was fairly busy, with a decent bit of tourist trade.
My hotel room wasn't particularly interesting. A few stories up, a double bed; dresser and mirror on the opposite side - boring, international standard, hotel room. Mostly what I remember of that is the ridged texture of the woven bedcover, stripes of different kinds of weaved embroidery(?) running lengthway from the head to the foot of the bed, on a pale tan base fabric. Or something like that.
There's more, but that's more than this post needs anyway.
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Date: 2007-03-20 06:03 pm (UTC)On the other hand, the Colonies do have internal enemies -- Tom Zarek was a terrorist, and there might be separatist movements. According to Wikipedia's entry on the Twelve Colonies, the Colonies were originally politically separate, and the Cylon were created for inter-Colony warfare, and the First Cylon War was the impetus for unification. With unification so recent, there must have been separatist movements.
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