“The Magnificent Warriors” is episode ten of season one of the classic series of Battlestar Galactica.
Cylon Raiders are incoming and are intercepted by Vipers. Six get through and Apollo warns Galactica. The Vipers follow the Raiders in; the Raiders are going after the Agro ships. Four Raiders are destroyed, the others withdraw. Tigh tells Adama that two Agro ships were destroyed; the third suffered heavy damage and lost an airlock.
On the third ship, Tigh is told they lost their crop when they lost the airlock. They can’t force grow enough to feed the planters, let alone anyone else. They need new seed.
Adama tells Tigh a small human agricultural settlement has been discovered on a planet. He’s asked Apollo to get an energiser from one of the older ships in the fleet; there’ no outpost that doesn’t need more power, and they can trade it for seeds. Tigh suggests the energisers on Galactica; Adama wants an old one without Colonial markings so it isn’t known where it came from.
Apollo returns; he’s found an energiser. But the woman who owns it doesn’t want to give it up. Siress Belloby. Tigh says to appropriate it and to talk to her. Which is what Belloby apparently said. Only she wants to talk to Adama. Tigh suggests ordering her. According to Adam, no-one can order Siress Belloby to do anything.
He, Apollo and Tigh head to the freighter; Adama has flowers. He tries to bolt, but goes in to see Siress Belloby. He asks what she wants for the energiser. Him.
Adama is going on the mission, even though Apollo tries to argue him out of it. And Apollo realises that Adama has asked for provisions for more people than are going. Because Siress Belloby is going with them. Apollo asks his father what he promised. To court Siress Belloby. But he didn’t specify when or where.
Boxes ends up going with them and they leave on a shuttle. Adama wonders if the inhabitants are descendants of the Thirteenth Tribe. At Serenity colony on the planet, a man announces the moon is up. Everyone panics and bolts the doors. One man is told by another that it’s time; they’re herd creatures and he can drive them off. Non-human raiders are heading in and the constable heads out to stop them. The raiders are driven away, but he doesn’t survive, and no-one local is willing to take his place.
Adama wants Apollo to stay with him; Siress Belloby was hoping they’d be alone. Which is precisely why Adama wants Apollo to stay. Starbuck and Boomer head in and speak to a man, Bogan, about seeds. Bogan doesn’t want an energiser; he wants something else. Except he really does want the energiser, and steals it; what he really wants is to trick someone into being the new constable when they are raised again. It’s a lifetime job. But it doesn’t last very long.
As might be expected from the title, more than a few similarities to The Magnificent Seven. Except sillier.