I love this discussion, and I'm glad there are people who sympathize with Boomer. The girl never got a chance. I'm with everyone who's annoyed that the cylons complicit in the genocide get forgiveness and are allowed to roam around the ship, but Boomer who had nothing to do with it or any choice in shooting Adama is denied even a chance to defend herself.

Admittedly, I'm not a big fan of Athena, so I wasn't too upset with what Boomer did to her. Athena must have known that Boomer had no choice when she was programmed to shoot Adama, but she never said anything in Boomer's defense. She just outed Boomer to Tigh so he wouldn't let her on the ship and once again, Boomer gets rejected by Galactica.