Dr. Gaius Baltar, Cylon

The next human Cylon model is our very own Dr. Gaius Baltar. Now some of you may be thinking, "But he made a Cylon detector! Something in his programming would have stopped him from revealing his fellow Cylons." Remember that he changed the results of Boomer's test from a flashing red to the nice, bold green, telling her, "You couldn't be more human if you tried." Everyone passes his test, even though it is perfectly effective.

The first clue that he was a Cylon, or at least replaced by a Cylon occured at the beginning of the Mini-series, and re-occurs at the beginning of every episode. A nuclear explosion killed him. There's not much of a way for him to have survived. We see that Six shields him from the blast, but she isn't an impenetrable barrier from explosions and radiation. Helo has to have his radiation therapy or else he dies, and he didn't have the challenge of surviving a nuclear bomb.

If the obvious death of Dr. Baltar is not enough for you, what about Six? She lives inside his head and can be seen only by him, excepting, of course, the episode "Six Degrees of Separation". Not only does this cause moments of awkward and clever humor, it adds one more reason why Baltar is a Cylon. We know that when a human-Cylon dies, its consciousness is transferred to another body. Perhaps this version of the Baltar model has both his and Six's consciousness downloaded into the body.

There are Twelve Models

"There are twelve Cylon models." -Battlestar Galactica Mini-series

Keep in mind that this is not only talking about the human-Cylon models, but also the other, larger models. At the end of the miniseries we saw a number of human models.

First off, we know that the Cylon base star is one of the models. This large ship holds over 250 raiders and is more powerful than the Battlestar in every single way.

Second, there are the aforementioned Cylon raiders. These are basically equivalent to the humans' viper, but have more advanced hyperlight Jump capabilities. In "You Can't Go Home Again", we learned through Starbuck's actions that the raiders are not manned. They are their own individual Cylon unit.

Last of the more mechanical Cylons are the centurions. This is the basic land-fighting unit, and is often used as a sort of personal guard for Six while on Caprica.

So let's say that the mechanical ones are 1, 2, and 3. Six is obviously number six of the models. Four and Five can be Doral (the PR guy) and Leobon. Number seven will be Boomer, who was among the human models that walked out at the end of the Mini-series. Keep in mind that these are not their set model numbers. They are just for the purpose of keeping track of all of them.

Who are models 8-12? More to follow...