Katee, what would you like to see happen to Starbuck next season?
SACKHOFF: We'd shot maybe one episode of the last season, and TV Guide asked me, can you tell us anything about the series, and I said as a joke, ''Yeah, I'm a Cylon, and I die.'' And then seven episodes [later] I get a phone call from David and [executive producer] Ron [Moore] going, ''Just so you know, we love you, but we're going to kill you.'' So I want to say I have no idea what's going to happen, and I just hope that it leaves the fans happy.

Is your presence on the show going to be what it was in previous seasons?
SACKHOFF: Unless I piss David off, yes. [Laughter]

Michael, is hard to act with one eye?
HOGAN: [Laughs] Yes it is. Television actors especially, your main tools are your eyes and I got 50 percent of my tools taken away at the beginning of last season. I think it's worked amazingly, but it does get frustrating. You're kind of in a tunnel. You have no peripheral vision. But I've got a friend in town here that's got a full prosthetic on his head. When I listen to him talk, I'm like ''S---, I'm alright.'' Ron wanted something [to remind us of] New Caprica, the occupation, something permanent. I appreciate that. It's fascinating, but to act with it is a real pain, man.

Katee, anything you'd like to see out of Tigh?
SACKHOFF: If the final four we found out from last season are Cylons, you know, there's a side to you that wants to be in the club. Really. You kind of go, ''Well, if they're Cylons....'' It makes you wonder if the Cylons aren't the good guys, if you can't kind of co-exist. I'd like to see that if these four are Cylons, that we don't pick up guns and kill them.
HOGAN: Yeah, and it's interesting to see if being a Cylon can not necessarily be a bad thing.
SACKHOFF: How interesting would it be, though, if Starbuck got back from Earth and she knew who the four Cylons were.
HOGAN: I have scenes with [Cylon] Number Six in [the first season four] episode, and I'm really looking forward to playing them. Tigh's going to be very curious to have meetings with her now. I'm going to want something completely different out of her.

Katee, at the end of last season, we're definitely left with impression that Starbuck could very well be the final unknown Cylon. Any resolution to that question?
SACKHOFF: No. I think there's better choices out there for the final Cylon, to be honest. Even if she was, I don't think she'd ever believe it. I just don't think that she would ever wrap her brain around that. It will be very interesting to find out.

It does appear that she's the Keanu Reeves of the Battlestar universe, the savior. Does that role sit well with you as an actor?
SACKHOFF: I don't know. I think Starbuck's used to carrying around a heavy load, and she can handle a lot of responsibilities. She may do it with a chip on her shoulder and she may not do it the most reasonable way, but she always seems to get things done.
HOGAN: There is no escape from this. There's only 30-something-thousand of us left. In any other walk of life, you'd kind of go somewhere else, but none of us have anywhere else to go. So that tempers your acceptance of things. We haven't hugged anybody in a long time. We're just in a battleship.
SACKHOFF: I'm going to tell [the producers] that I'm hugging you in the next episode. [Laughing] I'm just going to walk up to you in the [command center] and give you a big frakkin' hug!
HOGAN: And I'll say, ''Gee, I needed that!''

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