A couple of other reviewers have already mentioned most of the issues with this episode, but they include spoilers. So I thought I'd give a warning, and state that this is without a doubt the worse episode of the entire series. Almost everything about this episode is wrong. The lore, design, and tech of the Cylons introduced this episode really hurts the credibility of the Cylons as an intelligent species. While the motivations and behaviour of the colonies military and their leaders really hurts the credibility of humans as an intelligent species too. Seriously, the motivations and behaviour of the two Adamas this episode can only be defined as character assassination, and their actions were ridiculous.
It's no surprise that the writer of this episode, Carla Robinson only has three episodes of BSG to her solo writing credits. Then one story credit in an episode of a children's show before never finding writing work in the industry again. This episode is her first solo writing credit, and it was so bad I almost stopped watching the entire series half way through this episode.
When you introduce new technology and species designs into a series, the show runners really need to asses these concepts for their impact on canon, and influence on all future content. They really wanted the added suspense of a ticking clock episode, but they really hurt the logic and logistics of the Cylons by introducing some new concepts into the episode. Ticking clocks can work, but the resolution to this conflict was lazy and sloppy writing; like I'll never watch this show again bad.
Science fiction world building really relies on a strong, well structured foundation to build it's world upon. When the writing and world building is this bad, this early, it's never a good sign. Thankfully, the show does get better again, but the damage to canon and characters has already been done. There are issues with failures of understanding basic science and their logistics. Also, there's issues with plot contrivances and conveniences too. There's an issue or error, and sometimes multiple ones in almost every scene of this episode. Someone far more competent really needed to rewrite this episode before shooting started.