If you listen to the podcast, Ron Moore talks about the decision to kill her.
They were intending to have her snap out of it at the last minute and discover something that leads them on the way to earth, but Ron suggested to the writer's meeting, half as a joke, what if they killed her instead?
The writer's reacted nervously, and that was like waving a red flag at a bull, Ron and David decided to kill her off. After getting the ep aproved by the network, they called up Katee to tell her.
It's all in the Podcast.
Oh yes, and the model Adama broke was a museum rental piece, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Nobody told EJO this, and he ad libbed the destruction of it because he thought it was in character. Apparently the props guys went white.
