"A Day in the Life" is the fifteenth episode of the third season from the science fiction television series, Battlestar Galactica.

It has been over a month since the fleet last encountered the Cylons and the crew of the Galactica begins the tedious job of conducting repairs and maintenance to their battered ship.

Galen gets their infant son Nicky ready for daycare while Cally protests having to work when she hoped they could spend the day together.

As Seelix overhears the argument through the intercom, an alarm activates and the airlock doors seal shut.

Believing it to be a trivial problem, Galen begins to look for a leak and soon finds a small crack in a patch on the bulkhead.

She indicates the trial will be problematic because they'd have to pick a common set of laws for the process, but since the colonies each had their own systems of justice she doesn't know which one to use.

She scoffs at the fact that he never tells Lee how much he loves him and that he lets performance reviews express his feelings instead of words.

Apollo is flattered saying he remembers looking through his grandfather's legal textbooks and that he briefly considered becoming a lawyer instead of joining the military.

Adama is frustrated that the backup systems can't be activated, and Apollo explains that extensive battle damage to Airlock 12 knocked out the bypass.

She begins to worry about Nicky, telling her husband that she knows what happens to orphaned children in the fleet.

While Galen moves loose objects closer to the airlock so that they won't be struck during the decompression, Cally asks the Admiral that if anything should happen to them, would he see to Nicky being given to a woman in the fleet named Susan Settler.

Inside, Apollo and Starbuck open the side hatch and ready themselves to catch the Tyrols as they are blown out into space.

The Raptor narrowly avoids being struck by the debris and Apollo and Starbuck catch the Tyrols safely.

He finds the strength to get to his feet and carries Nicky to Cally, who is in a hyperbaric chamber recovering from decompression sickness.

He brings up a past conversation of hers where she said that if they'd have stayed on New Caprica, she would have found a nice secluded place to build a cabin.

Edward James Olmos submitted this episode for consideration in the category of "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series" on his behalf for the 2007 Emmy Awards.