Alright...moving on from my dislike for the previous episode (first one I truly didn't like in fact), I'm ready to give my thoughts on the future.
***SORRY I FORGOT THIS INITIALLY, IF I END UP BEING RIGHT THESE MAY BE SPOILERS
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The wormhole idea isn't terrible, but I don't think that's where the show is going. First, because for some reason I don't imagine wormholes as a part of BSG, and second, because the idea of a wormhole that sucks her out of her cockpit but leaves the ship to blow up is just silly. (Then again, it's about as silly as the Galactica outrunning a supernova explosion, which I quickly forgave.)
Next up, there's the possibility that Starbuck is a cylon. Not terrible, but certainly not great. Battlestar Wiki is down right now, but I'm pretty sure there are some facts of her character which exclude the possibility of her being a cylon.
Of course, there's also the possibility that she's just plain dead. This is the lamest possibility of them all.
Last, and the one I think (and hope) is most likely, is that RDM and DE are bringing in yet another plot line from the original series. Namely, the Ship of Lights, Seraphs, and Starbuck. From Wikipedia:
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Starbuck returned for one episode, "The Return of Starbuck", in Galactica 1980. This episode involved Starbuck crashing on a barren planet after fighting off a Cylon attack. Starbuck rebuilds one of the Cylons, 'Cy', who eventually sacrifices himself to defend against a second Cylon attack. Starbuck also rescues a woman, Angela, also marooned on the planet, and constructs a makeshift escape vessel to return Angela to the fleet.
"The Wheel of Fire", an unproduced Galactica 1980 episode, reveals that Starbuck was eventually rescued by the beings from the Ship of Lights and that the entire affair was set up by them, to test whether Starbuck was worthy to join them. Starbuck passes the test and becomes one of the Ship's crew.
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Obviously, the majority of the details would be changed, but my personal theory is that the "Head" characters (Six, Baltar, Leoben) are not actually those characters at all, but the Seraphs (aka The Lords of Kobol) speaking through those characters. Head Leoben, then, was a Seraph guiding Starbuck "to the space between life and death," where the Seraphs (or whatever they may be called in the new series) reside.
I think it's almost necessary that the Ship of Lights or some similar idea be brought into the series if they're going to explain some of the things that have happened, such as the two groups converging on the same planet, at the same time, as the star is about to go supernova.