Who's the fifth cylon? Answer 1: Felix Gaeta

This cat is one of the most mysterious of the regular recurring characters on Battlestar Galactica. What do we know about him? Not much:

a) He was involved in genetics research before joining the armed forces to push buttons in the control room and shout, "Dradis contact!"

b) He knows that Gaius Baltar entered the Temple of Jupiter and could have seen the Final Five cylons -- and then he tried to kill Baltar, and later lied on the witness stand to make Baltar look even less credible than he already seemed;

c) We know nothing of his childhood and young life. It's as if he appeared in the world as an adult.

d) He's probly an INTJ, and those people are frakkin' weird. It's like they come from another world.

e) When D'Anna Biers caught a glimpse of the last cylon, it was someone she recognized. D'Anna had known Gaeta.

Here are the arguments for Gaeta being a human being and not a cylon:

1) He supplied information to the insurgents on New Caprica. Let's ignore that some of the insurgents turned out to be cylons.

2) His balls don't clank when he walks.

3) Cylons frak like bunny rabbits. Gaeta doesn't frak anyone as far as we know, unless it's behind a closet door.

Next suspect: Anastasia Dualla

Introducing The Final Cylon

The fourth and final season of Battlestar Galactica begins Friday night. This blog exists to discuss all things Battlestar Galactica. We will talk about whether the fleet will find Earth. (Of course they will.) We will muse about what kind of childhood Col. Tigh had -- if he had one at all. (Were his memories implanted?) We will rank our favorite Baltar quotes (My personal No. 1, spoken to Romo Lampkin and Lee Adama at the end of the Season 3 finale: "What about me?") We will wonder how the Final Five cylons were inserted into the fleet.

And we'll kick it off with a series of posts wondering: Who is the final cylon? You could call it either the fifth of the Final Five, or the 12th cylon. We have our theories. We'll start with one crew member who, like Tory Foster, is a cipher with no discernable past.