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Agathon
Agathon

Name

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Age
Colony
Birth place {{{birthplace}}}
Birth Name Karl C. Agathon
Birth Date {{{birthdate}}}
Callsign Helo
Nickname {{{nickname}}}
Introduced Miniseries
Death Presumably, in or around Tanzania, c. 148,000 BCE
Parents
Siblings
Children Hera Agathon (Human-Cylon hybrid);
all modern Humans are his descendants through Hera
Marital Status Married to Sharon "Athena" Agathon
Family Tree View
Role Boomer's REO;
Raptor pilot;
XO of Galactica when New Caprica is settled;
CAG;
Raptor squadron leader;
father of humanity
Rank Captain
Serial Number PK-789934, 384182, 384162[1]
Portrayed by Tahmoh Penikett
Agathon is a Cylon
Agathon is a Final Five Cylon
Agathon is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
Agathon is an Original Series Cylon
Related Media
@ BW Media
Additional Information
[[Image:|200px|Agathon]]

Captain Karl C. "Helo" Agathon is the former Commander, Air Group (CAG) of Galactica. He is young, capable, and resourceful with an acute sense of right and wrong, something which he is prepared to articulate and act upon, even at risk to his own standing. After being stranded on Caprica after the attack he develops a relationship with a Number Eight copy later known as Athena. The two remain devoted to each other and have a child named Hera.

His closest friend among the crew is Kara Thrace. Agathon is almost always addressed by his callsign.

Biography[edit]

Before the Attack[edit]

Much of Agathon's life before the attack has not been touched, with a few exceptions. Before the decommissioning ceremony, he mentions an interest in pyramid and the fact that he has a relationship with a girl on Gemenon. Sharon "Boomer" Valerii's additional comments on this fact lend to his apparent reputation as a ladies' man (TRS: "Miniseries, Night 1").

In the Beginning[edit]

At the time of the Cylon attack, Lieutenant Karl Agathon serves as ECO aboard Raptor 312 with Valerii in Galactica's last fully-operational Viper squadron, and witnesses the squadron's destruction by Cylon Raiders, after the Raiders exploit the Command Navigation Program to disable the Vipers.

Following the attack, Agathon and Valerii attempt to return to Galactica, avoiding Cylon patrols, but are unsuccessful: their Raptor is damaged in a Cylon missile strike, and Agathon receives a leg wound from shrapnel that breaches the hull. As a result of the damage received, the Raptor is forced to land on Caprica, where Valerii makes emergency repairs. Moments after Valerii's repairs, their ship is mobbed by civilians desperate to get off the planet.

With limited space for survivors aboard the Raptor, Agathon volunteers his seat to Dr. Gaius Baltar and remains on Caprica in the hope that Baltar's great intelligence will be of benefit to the Colonials in their renewed fight against the Cylons. Both Helo and Boomer feel that there is no chance that he will survive the Cylon nuclear attack on Caprica, but he chooses to stay behind anyway, sacrificing his own life so Baltar can escape the planet. Agathon is forced to shoot a desperate man clinging to the departing Raptor.

Marooned[edit]

After Valerii's departure, Agathon apparently separates from the surviving refugees (who soon succumb to radiation poisoning[2]) and flees from Cylon ground forces. After six days on Caprica, surviving on anti-radiation medication from his survival pack, he is captured by Centurions after seeing a copy of Number Six.

Agathon is "rescued" by a copy of Sharon Valerii, unaware that this is not the same one who abandoned him on Caprica. She guides him across Caprica as part of an elaborate (if potentially hastily conceived) experiment designed to make this second Valerii the object of Agathon's affections. Several situations are engineered to make this happen:

Helo and Starbuck in her apartment in Delphi, Caprica in Valley of Darkness.
  • A "honey trap" offering reasonably secure accommodations (a "fall-out shelter") together with sufficient supplies for two people beneath a restaurant (TRS: "Act of Contrition")
  • Engineering Valerii's capture to test Agathon's loyalty towards her ("You Can't Go Home Again," "Litmus")
  • Establishing a further (long-term) "honey trap" for Agathon and Valerii in the wilderness of Caprica.

Agathon eventually admits that he has feelings for Valerii and that he would have gladly traded places with Chief Tyrol, whom he knew to be having an illicit relationship with her. Following this, the two have sex in a forest on Caprica. Afterwards, Valerii is instructed by the Five and Six overseeing the experiment to lead her lover to a nearby cabin, and to kill him if he refuses to settle there. However, the Cylon plan goes awry because Valerii has apparently fallen in love with Agathon. She forces them both on the run once more, this time genuinely seeking to escape from Caprica via the military base at Delphi, which is now under Cylon control.

During their attempts to reach Delphi, Agathon witnesses a troop of Cylon Centurions being led by Number Six - the woman he thought had been killed when Valerii rescued him. This draws him to the conclusion that the Cylons are using human clones they have created (TRS: "Colonial Day"). Once at Delphi, Agathon receives another shock: not only are further versions of Six on-hand - he comes face-to-face with another Valerii copy, revealing the full truth about the woman known as "Boomer" to him. Believing he was lured into a trap, Agathon goes on the run, leaving Valerii at the base.

The Valerii copy that Agathon has paired with later catches up with him, and while he shoots her in the arm, he does not kill her as she might be of use to him in escaping the planet. Caprica-Valerii then informs him that she is pregnant with his child, and that they should go to the Delphi Museum. There, Agathon is reunited with Kara Thrace (who just arrived from Galactica using a stolen Cylon Raider) immediately after she kills a copy of Number Six and retrieves the Arrow of Apollo. Thrace, realizing immediately that Valerii is a Cylon (knowing much earlier than Agathon that Cylons can mimic human form) tries to kill Valerii, but Agathon stops her because she is pregnant ("Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II," "Scattered").

Valerii runs away out of fear of Thrace, taking her Cylon Raider. Fearing that Number Six will finish transferring her consciousness to a new body and warn the Cylons about the humans' presence in Delphi, Agathon and Thrace make their way to Thrace's old apartment ("Scattered," "Valley of Darkness"). Later, the two join up with the human resistance on Caprica (TRS: "Resistance").

The Resistance and escape from Caprica[edit]

When Thrace is captured by the Cylons and taken to a "hospital," Valerii returns to aid Agathon and the resistance in rescuing her. Shortly afterward Agathon, Thrace, and Valerii leave Caprica en route to the Fleet (TRS: "The Farm"). The group lands on the Astral Queen, which has broken off from the rest of the Fleet. When Lee Adama grabs the new copy of Valerii and threatens to shoot her, Agathon raises his gun to Adama's head in response. They are calmed by Roslin, who then orders Valerii thrown out of an airlock. Valerii convinces Roslin of her usefulness before this happens, and later accompanies Agathon and others to Kobol to find the Tomb of Athena (TRS: "Home, Part I"). On the way to the tombs, Adama remarks to Thrace that he is disturbed that Agathon and this Valerii copy love each other, and Agathon admits to Valerii that he now loves and trusts her.

Home on Galactica[edit]

Agathon's welcome-home to Galactica, months after being declared missing on Caprica, isn't a generally warm one. Many in the crew find his romance with a Cylon disquieting or disgusting. A few crew warm up to him after his suggestion of using carbon composites on a newly contstructed fighter, the Blackbird, turns Tyrol's pet project into a significant asset (TRS: "Flight of the Phoenix").

Chief Tyrol is still nursing the loss of Boomer (Galactica copy of Valerii that left Helo on Caprica and later shoots Commander Adama), and now must deal with the return of another Valerii, her "memories" of him, and the fact that Agathon is romantically involved with her. The friction between Agathon and Tyrol becomes too much and a fight ensues before both realize that fighting will gain them little. The two tacitly appear to accept the awkward situation for what it is.

When Agathon and Tyrol learn of the gang-rape of the captured Cylon on Pegasus, they are shocked to learn that the "Cylon interrogator," Lieutenant Thorne, would be interrogating the incarcerated Valerii that day. Prior to this discovery, Agathon is prepared to fight the drunken Pegasus crewmembers over their disrespect, but Tyrol realizes what is coming for Valerii and convinces him to head to the brig to her aid. While they are successful in stopping the assault, Thorne is accidentally killed and the two are arrested and taken to Pegasus for trial. Admiral Cain conducts summary courts-martial on Agathon and Tyrol, finding them guilty and sentencing them to execution. When Commander Adama hears of this abrupt treatment, he launches a Raptor with Marines as well as his Viper squadrons to his men back. A standoff ensues, with not only Agathon's and Tyrol's lives in the balance, but thousands of others in the Fleet (TRS: "Pegasus").

Aboard Pegasus[edit]

After Starbuck returns with reconnaissance images of the Cylon Resurrection Ship, Adama and Cain agree to a truce. Agathon and Tyrol are given stays of execution. While they are imprisoned aboard Pegasus, a pair of deck hands, irate about Thorne's death, assault them. Jack Fisk, the XO of Pegasus, puts a stop to this by citing regulations, but rebuffs Agathon's thanks. Like the deck crew, Fisk's life had been saved by Thorne, and he has no sympathy for Valerii, whom he views as a machine.

After the destruction of the Resurrection Ship and the death of Admiral Cain, Fisk becomes the commander of Pegasus. He returns Agathon and Tyrol to Galactica, where the former is joyfully received by Valerii.

Cylon daughter[edit]

When the dying President Roslin orders his unborn child aborted, Agathon attempts to dissuade Adama from carrying out the order in private conversation in the admiral's office, but fails. When Valerii is being brought to the medical bay for the abortion, Agathon blocks the door, his hand on his pistol. He offers to take Valerii aboard a Raptor and leave the Fleet, but is rebuffed by Adama, who tells him, "You're a soldier". Agathon retorts that he is a father, like Adama. Baltar defuses the potentially violent incident by arriving with his report on the medically useful nature of the hybrid fetus. There are no apparent consequences from his actions.

Agathon is present when his child is born. He and Valerii marvel at their baby, and Agathon shocks Valerii when he says that it almost makes one believe in the Cylon God. When Valerii attacks Dr. Cottle, accusing him of murder after he informs her of the baby's "death", Agathon tries to restrain her but ends up with Marines pointing their weapons at him as Valerii is returned to her cell.

Caprica SAR & New Caprica[edit]

Despite Valerii's continued belief that Cottle and the other humans killed Hera, Agathon is able to convince her to assist Kara Thrace's plan for the rescue of Samuel Anders and his resistance group (TRS: "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I"). Agathon and the others manage to survive the Cylon assault after Cavil informs them that the Cylons have left the Colonies. With the happenstance discovery of New Caprica, the relationship between Agathon and Valerii becomes increasingly strained, due primarily to her growing depression over the loss of their child and the fact that Valerii did not inform the SAR team that Cavil is in fact a Cylon.

During the year in orbit around New Caprica, he and Sharon Valerii marry. Agathon is acting as a replacement to Felix Gaeta as Galactica's tactical officer (TRS: "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II"). He is then promoted to captain and becomes the ship's executive officer. During the plans for the rescue from New Caprica, Adama finally releases Sharon, her having gained his trust and makes her an officer in the Colonial Fleet. Both Agathons are pleased by this and Sharon, later given the callsign of Athena, promises Helo that she won't betray the trust put in her. He acts as XO during the Battle of New Caprica.

After the Second Exodus[edit]

Agathon relinquishes his position as XO after the Battle of New Caprica with Colonel Tigh's return to Galactica, but Tigh's actions and attitude cause him to be relieved of duty (TRS: "Collaborators"). Agathon finds himself once again acting as Adama's right-hand man (TRS: "Torn").

When a recently discovered virus is to be used as an agent for genocide againt the Cylons, Agathon pleads against the plan, which he sees as an atrocity. He sabotages the operation by rigging the Cylon prisoners' cells so they suffocate before they can be executed within range of a Resurrection Ship and thus download with the virus. Roslin and Adama both know the obvious culprit, but Adama, who felt the president was on shaky moral ground for using genocide as a military solution, decides not to take any action against Agathon (TRS: "A Measure of Salvation").

Agathon participates in the organized shipwide fights intended to boost morale (TRS: "Unfinished Business"). He fights a hard match against Major Lee Adama and is declared victorious in the match after Doctor Cottle removes a battered Adama.

He returns to flight duty and pilots a Raptor[3] during operations to replenish the Fleet's food stores (TRS: "The Passage"). It is during their time at the algae planet that a Cylon negotiation party aboard Galactica reveals to his wife that Hera is still alive. Though his wife initially denies the taunt, she and Agathon soon find out from Admiral Adama that it is true, much to their dismay (TRS: "The Eye of Jupiter"). His wife believes the only way to get their daughter back is to be resurrected inside the Cylon fleet, and begs Agathon to kill her. Being unable to dissuade her, he grants her wish. She resurrects and successfully retrieves Hera, aided by Caprica-Six (TRS: "Rapture").

Although not being officially sanctioned for his earlier insubordination, Agathon is punished by being placed in charge of the hundreds of civilians which have been transferred to a refugee camp on Galactica. Among the refugees are a large number of Sagittarons, many of whom display the first symptoms of Mellorak infection. Portia King comes to Agathon and accuses the civilian physician Dr. Robert of murder after the death of her son due to the Doctor's anti-Sagittaron bigotry. Agathon begins an investigation, made difficult by several factors. Not only is Dr. Robert held in high regard by Agathon's superiors, but the claims of the Sagittarons are dismissed due to a negative view of the religious fundamentalism and ancient traditions practiced by most Sagittarons. Agathon's personal conflict with Colonel Tigh over his marriage to a Cylon is exacerbated by the colonel's prejudices to a point where Agathon hits Tigh in a crowded corridor. When he is warned by King in the middle of the night about a seriously ill Dualla (also a Sagittaron) under Robert's care, he immediately goes to Dualla's aide and finds himself in a stand-off with Dr. Robert, Dr. Cottle intervenes and reports that toxicology tests done on the deceased Sagittarons revealed no antidote but rather toxic bisphosphonate. Agathon is ordered by Tigh to arrest Robert and a short time later, Admiral Adama personally apologizes to him for not believing his initial claims about Robert and the opposition he encountered in his investigation (TRS: "The Woman King"). During his private meeting with Adama, Agathon confesses his role in the failed biological attack on the Cylons, but stops short of committing his testimony to paper after Adama outlines the consequences of doing so (The Woman King bonus scene).

Agathon eventually returns to flight status and is one of the second highest ranking pilots after the deaths of Louanne "Kat" Katraine and Starbuck (together with Showboat and Two Times). Two weeks after Starbuck's death, Agathon takes over as CAG for a visibly distraught and emotionally unstable Lee Adama who is grounded and assigned to oversee the security detail for Baltar's defense attorney, Romo Lampkin (TRS: "The Son Also Rises").

After Colonel Tigh has an extreme fallback into his alcoholism at Gaius Baltar's trial, Agathon again replaces him as executive officer. He notes a feeling of apprehension, noting "something over the horizon" is coming and that it does not bode well for the Fleet (TRS: "Crossroads, Part I"). When Galactica jumps to the Ionian Nebula, a large Cylon force is detected closing in on them. With no means of escape the crew prepares to engage the enemy. Tigh resumes his post but Helo remains in the CIC with the command staff, noting that Viper #3 launches without a rostered pilot (TRS: "Crossroads, Part II").

The return of Starbuck and after Earth[edit]

Following the apparent resurrection of his old friend, Kara Thrace, Agathon adopts a supportive but guarded attitude towards her. He recognizes her voice over the wireless, but along with many other members of the crew, Agathon looks on suspiciously as she emerges from her Viper. He encourages Thrace to continue trying to get Earth, despite the fact that no one believes her story (He That Believeth in Me). When Thrace holds President Roslin at gunpoint, Agathon asks to be allowed to talk to her, likely hoping to appeal to her on the basis of their old friendship. When Admiral Adama gives Thrace the Demetrius to try to find Earth, Agathon joins her as her executive officer (TRS: "Six of One"). Although he initially defends her in front of the crew despite her eccentricities and strange behavior, his loyalty comes to a breaking point when Thrace orders her crew to rendezvous with a Cylon basestar. Agathon relieves Thrace of command (TRS: "The Road Less Traveled"), but reaches a compromise with her, wherein he commands the Demetrius while Thrace takes a Raptor to the basestar. After 15 hours, Agathon wrestles with himself about whether to jump away or give Thrace some more time to return. Just when the crew prepares to jump, Thrace returns and the two vessels return to the Fleet together (TRS: "Faith").

Agathon returns to the Fleet with the Demetrius and the rebel basestar. He travels to the basestar with Roslin and is there when it jumps away (TRS: "Guess What's Coming to Dinner?"). He teams up with an Eight that downloaded Athena's memories, which causes some awkwardness between them, but they come up with and to get D'Anna Biers and destroy the Resurrection Hub. When Roslin wants to double-cross the Cylons and keep Biers to herself, Agathon once again shows his idealism and argues that the humans should be honest and keep up their end of the deal. He relents when Roslin says that he is letting his relationship with a Cylon interfere with humanity's interests. During the battle for the Hub Agathon pilots a Raptor to the installation with the Eight and retrieves Biers. Once his Raptor is away from the Hub, he orders a nuclear strike on it by the Colonial Vipers which destroys the Hub (TRS: "The Hub").

During the mutiny aboard Galactica following the discovery of Earth, Agathon and his family are targeted by the mutineers. In the process of seizing the Agathons, one of the mutineers, Gage, beats Helo unconscious in revenge for the murder of Lt. Thorne (TRS: "The Oath"). He survives this attack and is later rescued from the brig by Kara Thrace and Lee Adama.

Weeks later, Helo has a sexual encounter with Boomer, who is posing as Athena. At the time, Helo is unaware that his real wife is bound and gagged in a nearby locker. He is later horrified to discover that Boomer has not only tricked him but has also kidnapped Hera.

Helo pleads with Admiral Adama to allow him to search for his daughter, but the Admiral refuses to risk what little they have left. Eventually, Adama agrees to take Galactica and a group of volunteers on a suicide mission to rescue Hera from The Colony.

Helo is wounded in the battle to rescue Hera from The Colony. However, he survives his injuries. Helo, Athena and their daughter settle on a habitable planet which the Colonials decide to call Earth. Karl Agathon is a direct ancestor of all modern-day humans through his daughter Hera (TRS: "Daybreak, Part II").

Notes[edit]

Name[edit]

The Re-imagined Battlestar Galactica plays heavily on Greek mythology and history; the use of names such as Delphi and those of the Olympian gods is an example. Agathon's names have many possible origins

  • Agathon was an ancient Greek tragic poet.
  • Agathos Daemon was of one of the spirits that lie between the gods and mortals in Greek mythology. He is associated with the cultivation of grapes and grain as well as luck and abundance.
  • The prefix "Agatho-" means 'good' in Greek.
  • Agathon Faberge was the son of Carl Faberge, patriarch of the famous family that served as court jewelers to the Czars of Russia. After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the Faberges fled Russia. All, that is, except Agathon. He stayed behind and was eventually imprisoned by the Bolsheviks. In 1927 he escaped to Finland.
  • Helios was the Greek god of the Sun associated most prominently with the myth of Phaëton.
  • "Helo" is slang for helicopter, and the Raptor craft Helo crews is visually based on an Apache helicopter. This fits with the callsign of his former co-pilot, "Boomer," which is slang for a ballistic missile submarine.

Character[edit]

  • In an interview, actor Tahmoh Penikett discussed the (unofficial) backstory he had worked out with Katee Sackhoff to explain her comment in "Scattered" that they "go way back":
"We are old friends and we have been through a lot together. I have been asked this question before, but I think it is pretty safe to bet that we were either in the academy together or we have known each other for years. Whether there has ever been a romantic relationship, that is definitely a possibility--especially with Starbuck...It could have been a one night stand, but there is in fact a relationship. We are more like brother and sister, and have been through a lot together. Helo really understands Starbuck and she understands him. They are a lot closer than most people think."
  • Helo's full name (or even his fate) wasn't revealed until "33". He was initially intended as an expendable character; originally, he was supposed to have actually died when the Raptor left him behind on Caprica. Penikett's performance convinced TPTB otherwise. Curiously, Helo's second replacement on Boomer's Raptor, Racetrack, was also intended as a one-shot character, but was retained by TPTB for similar reasons.
  • While he is shown in a Raptor during the funeral of his daughter in "Downloaded," "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I" is the first time he flies as ECO since the Miniseries.

References[edit]

  1. "PK-789934" is what he states when captured by the Cylons in "33". "384182" originates from his dogtags, while "384162" was given to QMX by the studio for the dogtag replicas. Given that only one digit differs from the dogtags seen in the show, this might be an accidental error.
  2. The fate of these refugees is noted briefly by Laura Roslin (Mary McDonnell's character acting as narrator) in the special program, "Battlestar Galactica: The Story So Far."
  3. At some point, Agathon is apparently reclassified as a pilot. It is unknown if, in what US naval jargon calls a "retread," he had to undergo a Raptor nugget pilot training course.


Preceded by:
Saul Tigh
Executive Officer, Galactica Succeeded by:
Saul Tigh
Preceded by:
Lee Adama
Commander, Air Group, Galactica Succeeded by:
Kara Thrace



Warning: Default sort key "Agathon, Karl C." overrides earlier default sort key "Agathon".


For information on the "sleeper agent" with the callsign of "Boomer," see Sharon Valerii.
For information on the Original Series character with a similar name, see Athena (TOS).
Agathon
Agathon

Human Name

Sharon Agathon
Age
Colony
Birth place {{{birthplace}}}
Birth Name
Birth Date {{{birthdate}}}
Callsign Athena
Nickname {{{nickname}}}
Introduced 33
Death 1. Shot by Helo so that she could download and rescue Hera.
2. Unknown cause presumably in or near Tanzania, c. 148,000 BCE.
Parents
Siblings
Children Hera (Human-Cylon hybrid);
all modern humans are her descendants through Hera
Marital Status Married to Karl Agathon
Family Tree View
Role Cylon experimental mother;
enemy prisoner of war/defector;
confidant of & consultant to, Adm. Adama;
liaison to New Caprica resistance;
Raptor pilot assigned to Battlestar Galactica;
mother of humanity
Rank Junior Lieutenant
Serial Number 312743[1]
Portrayed by Grace Park
Agathon is a Cylon
Agathon is a Final Five Cylon
Agathon is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
Agathon is an Original Series Cylon
Related Media
@ BW Media
Additional Information
[[Image:|200px|Agathon]]

The Cylon who eventually comes to be known as Sharon "Athena" Agathon is a Number Eight humanoid Cylon copy.

She is first encountered by Karl "Helo" Agathon when he is stranded on Caprica. Initially assigned to seduce him by impersonating Lieutenant Sharon "Boomer" Valerii, as part of a Cylon cross-breeding experiment, she turns against her people and helps him escape the planet. Pregnant with Helo's child, Helo is shocked by her true nature but ultimately accepts her lovingly as the mother of his child.

Once on Galactica, she is imprisoned and long seen as a mere object. She frequently provides intelligence, but is severely mistreated by an interrogator from Pegasus who beats and sexually assaults her. Over time, she earns Admiral Adama's trust by helping the Colonial Fleet escape peril several times, and she is eventually appointed as a Colonial Officer and marries Karl Agathon. Agathon gives birth on Galactica, but her daughter, Hera, is subsequently hidden from her, because President Roslin considers the baby a threat to the Fleet. Agathon believes Hera to be dead for more than a year, but after learning the truth about her child during a confrontation with Valerii, she is able to regain her daughter from the Cylons with the help of Caprica-Six.

She later has to deal with Boomer returning, beating her terribly, seducing Helo and kidnapping Hera. This causes her to fall into a depression until she finally rescues Hera during a final battle that destroys the Cylons. Also she gets some revenge for what Boomer did by being the one to permanently kill her. Afterwards, she gets to live out a peaceful existence on new Earth with her husband and daughter.

Biography[edit]

Cylon cross-breeding experiment on Caprica[edit]

Sharon is a Number Eight model first seen on Caprica shortly after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and the Cylons decide to use her in an elaborate experiment focused on Karl "Helo" Agathon who is stranded on the planet after an emergency landing in Raptor 314. She is an identical copy of the same model as Helo's friend and co-pilot, the Cylon sleeper agent Lieutenant Sharon Valerii, and the Cylons hope to explore the possibilities of Cylon-human procreation by getting Helo to fall in love with her (TRS: "The Farm"). Sharon appears to Helo to rescue him after he is captured by a Six and several Cylon Centurions. Unaware that Cylons have developed human models, Helo believes her to be Sharon Valerii from Galactica, returning to rescue him (TRS: "33"). Following this staged rescue, she leads Helo to a Raptor, now surrounded by Cylon Centurions, and convinces him that they have no direct way off the planet (TRS: "Water"). Sharon is able to impersonate Lieutenant Valerii convincingly, since she has accessed Valerii's memories at least up until the point of Helo being left behind on Caprica (TRS: "Flesh and Bone", "Scattered", "Home, Part II", "Flight of the Phoenix", "Scar").

After receiving a feigned Colonial signal on a radio receiver they carry, Sharon leads Helo to a city where they find a fully-equipped fallout shelter in which two people can live in reasonable security, hidden from above-ground Cylon operations, and with sufficient supplies to last a considerable period of time (TRS: "Act of Contrition"). The purpose in establishing this retreat is to elicit an emotional response in Helo towards his Cylon companion. When this fails and Helo continues to seek a way off Caprica, the Cylons lead him to believe that Sharon has been captured, concluding that if Helo does not seek to rescue her, the experiment has failed and he must be killed (TRS: "You Can't Go Home Again").

Helo does undertake a successful rescue attempt and shortly after, the two of them have sex for the first time in a nearby forest. Helo had always been fond of the original Valerii on Galactica, but his affection for her was stilled by her relationship with Chief Galen Tyrol (TRS: "Six Degrees of Separation"). Pleased with the progress, the Cylons set up a new hideout, a cabin in the woods, and Sharon is instructed to lead him there and have him stay with her – or kill him, if he attempts to leave (TRS: "Flesh and Bone"). But she begins to question the Cylons' overall goal. Realizing that she has herself fallen in love with Helo, Sharon disobeys her instructions and leads Helo to Delphi, where they hope to steal a vehicle and get off the planet (TRS: "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down"). On their way to Delphi, she shows signs of being pregnant, succumbing to a bout of morning sickness (TRS: "The Hand of God") and developing a ravenous appetite (TRS: "Colonial Day").

Revelation of her true identity and arrival at the Fleet[edit]

Karl "Helo" Agathon attempts to stop Lt. Thrace from shooting Sharon, in the Delphi Museum.

On reaching Delphi, Sharon and Helo break into the Cylon facilities to gain access to the spaceport. But as Helo encounters yet another Number Eight model, he draws the initial conclusion that Sharon is a human clone created by the Cylons and goes on the run alone (TRS: "Colonial Day"). When Sharon catches up with him, she tried to calm him down and eventually challenges him to shoot her, after he tells her to stay away (TRS: "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I"). Helo can only bring himself to wound her, and he takes Sharon with him to use her in some way to get off Caprica. While Helo keeps her at gunpoint, Sharon leads him to the Delphi Museum. Waiting out a storm in a nearby ruined building, she explains to him that she is “Sharon”, not a mere clone or a copy, and that she is as real as Sharon Valerii on Galactica. She also tells him that her love for him is real and that she is pregnant with his child.

When Sharon and Helo come across Lieutenant Kara Thrace who has landed near the museum to retrieve the Arrow of Apollo, Thrace realizes on-sight that Sharon is a Cylon (having left Valerii behind on Galactica) and she attempts to shoot her. Helo stops Thrace and reveals to her that Sharon is pregnant with his child (TRS: "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II"). Thrace also wrongly concludes that she must be a Cylon copy of the real Valerii on Galactica; Sharon's attempts to explain her identity to her are unsuccessful. While Thrace and Helo argue over her, Sharon escapes in Thrace's Cylon Raider to save herself and the life of her unborn child (TRS: "Scattered").

Several days later, Sharon returns to Helo who is now with a human resistance movement that has formed on Caprica. She offers her help in finding Thrace who was abducted during a Cylon ambush (TRS: "The Farm"). Thrace manages to escape to the outside of the hospital where she was imprisoned and Sharon arrives at the rescue scene in a stolen Cylon Heavy Raider, destroying several Cylon Centurions that attack the Resistance rescue party. Following the successful rescue, Sharon accompanies Helo and Thrace on their way back to the human Fleet in the Heavy Raider.

When they arrive at the Fleet and Sharon walks aboard the Astral Queen, Captain Lee Adama reacts violently. The son of Commander Adama who was shot by the Cylon "sleeper" agent Valerii grabs her and places his gun to her head. Helo draws his sidearm against Adama, forcing a standoff. President Laura Roslin urges both men to withdraw their weapons, but then immediately orders Sharon to be ejected out an airlock. Sharon tells Roslin she knows the location of the Tomb of Athena, an ancient place Roslin is trying to find, and she reconsiders, placing Sharon in the brig. Roslin later explains that she suspects Sharon is willing to cooperate, because she wants to protect Helo and her unborn child, something Roslin interprets as a mothering instinct.

Guide on Kobol[edit]

Sharon on Kobol, with Karl "Helo" Agathon, Priestess Elosha and President Roslin.

Sharon accompanies Roslin's party to Kobol. She recites specific passages of the Tomb of Athena in the scriptures of the Sacred Scrolls and plots the group's path on the planet. On their way they are ambushed by Cylon Centurions who open fire. As the others take cover and return fire, Sharon vaults away, with Captain Adama in pursuit, believing she is trying to escape. Sharon picks up a grenade launcher lying ahead, and as Adama thinks she is about to shoot him, she aims for the remaining Centurion and destroys it (TRS: "Home, Part I"). At camp, Adama voices suspicions about Helo who still loves Sharon, despite his awareness of her true nature as a Cylon. During the trek, Sharon casually tells Helo that their child is a girl.

Shortly after, Commander Adama’s search party arrives at Roslin's camp. When Adama sees Sharon, who looks exactly like the Cylon who shot him, he looks her over while remembering events that had happened and tries to choke her to death shortly thereafter. However, chest pain from his fresh wound forces him to release her. After the attempted strangulation, Sharon enigmatically references what Adama said over Sharon Valerii’s dead body, saying “and you asked why” aloud.

Later, one of Tom Zarek's followers, Meier, tries to convince Sharon to help him kill both Adamas, as part of a plan to gain control of the Fleet. Sharon initially believed that Sharon Valerii was being held in the brig, but Meier informs her that she was killed. She expresses her outrage to Helo that Cally received only a minor punishment for this murder. Sharon deduces that the Colonials do not see humanoid Cylons as people and that she must take matters into her own hands to prove her trustworthiness. Sharon appears to take up Meier's proposal to kill both Commander Adama and Captain Adama, but as Meier draws his weapon, she kills him instead, saving the lives of both Adamas. She announces to Commander Adama that she is not the same Cylon who shot him, and that she has no hidden protocols waiting to be activated; she makes her own choices. She then surrenders her weapon to Adama and successfully leads them to the Tomb of Athena.

Cooperation with the human Fleet[edit]

Sharon connected to Galactica's main computer.

Sharon is brought aboard Galactica and imprisoned in a new reinforced cell that was originally designed to incarcerate Sharon Valerii. The virtual Number Six tells Dr. Gaius Baltar that Sharon's baby will be born in that cell and that the child belongs to Baltar and her (TRS: "Home, Part II").

During her imprisonment, Sharon nearly has a miscarriage, and is brought to sickbay where Dr. Cottle succeeds in saving the fetus. A Number Three model who poses as the reporter D'anna Biers in the Fleet News Service, stumbles upon Sharon while filming a documentary on board Galactica and she manages to send footage of Sharon back to Caprica. The Cylons are surprised, yet overjoyed, that Sharon is still alive. They are concerned that her hybrid child survives; saying that it must be protected at all costs (TRS: "Final Cut").

When Galactica experiences mysterious computer failures and system malfunctions from a mutated version of a Cylon virus, Commander Adama orders Helo to show the incarcerated Sharon the strange Cylon code. Sharon identifies it as a virulent logic bomb that will take control of the ship and kill off the crew without her help. Reluctantly, on advice from President Roslin, Adama brings Sharon to CIC, where she cuts her arm open and connects herself to a fiber optic data line to communicate with Galactica's mainframe computer. On accessing the computer, she takes into her a portion of the logic bomb code, and then instructs Lieutenant Gaeta to wipe the system's hard drives to erase all Cylon virus traces. As the crew restarts the ship’s computers, a massive Cylon fighter force jumps into range, leaving Galactica defenseless. Sharon makes adjustments to the code and transmits the altered virus from Galactica to the Cylons, disabling the entire fleet of Cylon fighters allowing Galactica's fighters to easily destroy them (TRS: "Flight of the Phoenix").

Interrogation and abuse[edit]

Sharon is beaten and sexually assaulted during an interrogation by Lt. Thorne.

After Galactica reunites with battlestar Pegasus, Admiral Helena Cain sends Lieutenant Alastair Thorne to inspect the incarcerated Sharon. He beats and sexually assaults her with the help of several of his guards. Helo and Chief Tyrol find out about Thorne and what was done to his previous prisoner, and they arrive in time to stop him, but Tyrol accidentally kills Thorne in the process. Both Tyrol and Helo are arrested by the Pegasus guards and taken to Admiral Cain's Battlestar, where Cain hastily convenes courts-martial for them, sentencing both to death (TRS: "Resurrection Ship, Part I").

Sharon's attempted rape results in a hairline fracture in one of her ribs and minor bruising. Commander Adama who has reached a détente with Admiral Cain over Helo and Tyrol's execution personally apologizes to Sharon over the incident; this is also the first time that Adama refers to Sharon as "her," instead of "it." Later, Adama asks to speak with her in private, questioning her why the Cylons hate humanity. She responds by reminding him of a speech he gave before the attacks, in which he suggested that humanity is a flawed creation, and she implies that therefore humanity might not deserve to survive. This conversation causes Adama to decide not to go through with assassinating Admiral Cain. Cain similarly decides not to kill Adama but for an unknown reason. Sharon is later reunited with Helo and Tyrol (who she pointedly ignores) when the two are released after Cain's death, as Adama resumes full command of the Fleet (TRS: "Resurrection Ship, Part II").

Weeks later, President Roslin, on her deathbed, orders that Sharon's fetus be aborted, fearing the baby might be dangerous for the Fleet. On hearing this news, Sharon is enraged, having cooperated fully to aid the Fleet to save herself and her child, and to show that not all Cylons are dangerous. Marines are sent to take her to sickbay to forcibly perform the abortion procedure. At the last minute, Dr. Baltar learns that the fetal blood of Sharon's baby has the ability to destroy cancer cells. He takes a small blood sample and injects it into the dying Roslin; moments later, her cancer disappears. The abortion procedure is cancelled (TRS: "Epiphanies").

Despite her mistreatment, Sharon continues to support the Fleet and provides intelligence. She helps Captain Thrace to understand the behavior of Cylon Raiders (TRS: "Scar"), and frequently assists Admiral Adama to plot the Fleet's course in order to avoid Cylon confrontation. Colonel Tigh remains extremely skeptical of her increased involvement. Terrorists take hostages on Cloud Nine and demand her turned over in exchange for their lives. Adama questions Sharon if she'd tell him the names of the Cylons in the Fleet, but when she refuses, it just seems to reaffirm her value to him and he pretends to kill her himself and then turn over her body, in reality the Boomer copy of Sharon's dead body. Unfortunately the terrorists figure out the deception quickly and one hostage is killed, but the distraction allows marines time and a distraction to resolve the situation. (TRS: "Sacrifice").

Birth of her daughter Hera[edit]

Karl "Helo" Agathon comforts Sharon, as Dr. Cottle start to perform an emergency birth procedure.

When Sharon begins to bleed due to a detached placenta, Dr. Cottle performs an emergency birth procedure to save both her and the baby's life. Sharon and Helo name the baby girl Hera. After her parents believe Hera is out of danger, the baby apparently dies due to her underdeveloped lungs and Dr. Cottle's failure to intubate her in time. Sharon, suspecting her child was killed deliberately, nearly strangles Dr. Cottle before being subdued, and she subsequently falls into a deep depression.

However, unbeknownst to Sharon and Helo, Hera is still alive. President Roslin who still considers the child a danger for the Fleet had Sharon's baby switched with the body of a dead child and, with the help of Dr. Cottle and her aide Tory Foster, places Hera in the care of Maya, a foster mother. Maya is told a cover story that disguises Hera's true identity (TRS: "Downloaded"). Admiral Adama is not informed of Roslin's plan (TRS: "The Eye of Jupiter").

Sharon's depression over losing her child worsens and Helo convinces her to aid in the rescue of Samuel Anders and other survivors on Caprica, in part to try and draw her out of her depression. Sharon's knowledge of Cylon FTL technology makes the rescue possible. She acts as a conduit between the Colonial Raptors and the far more advanced FTL computer salvaged from the Cylon Heavy Raider she once brought back to Galactica (TRS: "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I").

On Caprica, Captain Thrace demonstrates a new level of trust for Sharon by handing her a gun during a firefight with ambushing Cylon Centurions. Later, Sharon is as perplexed as everyone else when the Cylons disengage and apparently leave the planet. She is aware, however, that Cavil, a man who approaches the group and loudly proclaims the end of the occupation to be a miracle, is a Cylon. On Galactica, Cavil is exposed by Chief Tyrol, and Admiral Adama sends Sharon back to the brig. When asked by a distraught Helo why she did not mention that Cavil is Cylon, she replies "They killed my baby. Do you think I care about you, or us, or whether or not Adama trusts me anymore?" Sharon withdraws further, shutting Helo out completely (TRS: "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II").

Officer of the Colonial Fleet[edit]

Sharon Agathon is commissioned as a Colonial Officer.

More than a year later, and four months after Galactica and Pegasus's retreat from New Caprica, Sharon Agathon is now married to Helo. In the year that has passed, Admiral Adama has taken Sharon into his confidence and she seems to have become his advisor of sorts having apparently fully gained his trust. The two periodically sit down to tea; her cell now has a couch, a table, and other amenities. She tells him that she has come to forgive herself for her actions against her race and losing her daughter and that he must forgive himself for leaving the people behind on New Caprica if humanity and the Fleet are to survive. (TRS: "Occupation"). Thanks to her giving him his confidence back, Adama decides to forgive himself for leaving most of the Fleet behind and go ahead with the rescue mission. As part of the plan Adama commissions Agathon into the Colonial Fleet as a lieutenant (junior grade). When she asks how he knows if she won't betray him, he simply replies he doesn't, but "that's what trust is." On her first mission, Agathon leads an insertion force that will serve as a liaison between the New Caprica Resistance and Galactica during the extraction of the population. She commands two Raptors in an intra-atmosphere jump and links up with Samuel Anders and his squad at the Breeders Canyon. Due to an ambush she is nearly killed, but is saved since her Marines anticipated a possible ambush and were in position to deal with the threat (TRS: "Precipice", "Exodus, Part I").

On the following day, Agathon covertly enters the Cylon detention center to recover the launch keys for the grounded Colonial ships, bypassing human and Centurion guards that cannot distinguish Agathon from other Eights. After interfacing with a data terminal and obtaining the keys, a Number Three enters the room and challenges her loyalty. The Three tells her that Hera is still alive, but Agathon rejects the notion saying that Adama wouldn't lie to her (he didn't: he didn't know the truth), shoots the Three in each leg to slow her eventual report back to other Cylons. When she hands over the launch keys to Chief Tyrol, she asks him if he had actually seen Hera's ashes, which he affirms (TRS: "Exodus, Part I").

Following the Battle of New Caprica, the Agathons and many other pilots eat in the mess hall. After Racetrack addresses Agathon as "Boomer," Helo asks the crew for suggestions for a more appropriate callsign. A number of humorous and affectionate responses, including "Chrome-dome" and "The Raptor Adaptor" arise, reflecting Agathon's grown trust and comfort amongst the human crew, but Helo opts for Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza's suggestion, "Athena" (TRS: "Torn").

Agathon undertakes a solo recon mission through a high radiation cluster to look for a planet with suitable material to replenish the Fleet's lost food supplies. Agathon's Cylon physiology withstands radiation levels that would have killed a human, although not without some discomfort. The successful mission confirms the foodstuffs on a planet with algae and gives needed data to safely attempt the guide the Fleet (TRS: "The Passage").

Reunion with her child[edit]

During a stand-off at the Algae planet, a Cylon delegation boards Galactica to negotiate for the Eye of Jupiter. Agathon, near the conference area, instantly identifies the Eight from the baseship delegation as Boomer. Valerii tells Agathon that her daughter, Hera, is still alive and also notes President Roslin's involvement in her daughter's disappearance. After confirming the matter with Roslin, Admiral Adama informs Agathon that Hera's death was indeed fabricated without his knowledge. Agathon angrily demands to see her child (TRS: "The Eye of Jupiter").

Agathon convinces Helo that the only way to rescue Hera is for her to download to the Cylon fleet and infiltrate the basestar where Hera is kept. Reluctantly, Helo agrees to shoot her and Agathon is subsequently downloaded into a new body and resurrected on the nearby resurrection ship where she is greeted by Caprica-Six upon rebirth. Agathon pretends that she wants to stay with the Cylons and Caprica-Six leads her to Hera as Caprica-Six is apparently at least somewhat sympathetic to her. Her daughter is ill and apparently rejecting Valerii who has been taking care of the child on board the Cylon vessel. Following Agathon's demand that Hera needs to see a human doctor, Valerii threatens to kill Hera, but Caprica-Six intervenes and kills Valerii instead. Accompanied by Caprica-Six, Agathon and her daughter leave the basetar in a captured Raptor and return to Galactica (TRS: "Rapture").

Strange visions and the search for Earth[edit]

Several weeks later Agathon is assigned to fly Major Adama and Gaius Baltar's new defense attorney Romo Lampkin to Colonial One to retrieve documents needed for the up-coming trial. Before take off, a remote-detonation bomb attached to the Raptor is fortuitously discovered. Cally Tyrol brings up Agathon's name and indirectly asserts she is the the unknown bomber. When confronted by Agathon, Tyrol denies making such an accusation, though Agathon goes on to note how she did not accuse her despite equal circumstantial evidence implicating her. Agathon points out Tyrol's deep hatred for all Cylons and hands over her sidearm, challenging Tyrol to shoot her. When she fails to pull the trigger, Agathon grabs the gun back and threatens to kill Tyrol if it is discovered she was responsible for the bomb on her ship. It is later revealed that the explosive was the work of fellow Galactica officer Captain Kelly and was designed to kill Lampkin (TRS: "The Son Also Rises"). During the time of Baltar's trial, Agathon is experiencing mysterious dreams of President Roslin, Caprica-Six and her child Hera in the Kobol Opera House. She later finds out that both Roslin and Caprica-Six deal with the same dreams, but their meaning remains unclear at first (TRS: "Crossroads, Part II").

Along with her husband, Agathon is among the crew of the Demetrius (TRS: "The Ties That Bind"). 58 days into their mission to find Earth, Sharon Agathon and others show concern that Thrace cannot be trusted, and that they have to meet up with the Fleet for refueling (TRS: "The Road Less Traveled"). She physically restrains Thrace to prevent her from executing an FTL jump to a Cylon fleet. When Thrace decides to take a Raptor instead, Agathon accompanies her assuring her that she can be trusted despite her mutinying. On the basestar she meets other Eights who ask her to lead a mutiny against Natalie, but Agathon is disgusted at their lack of conviction, saying that they have to stick with the side they chose. During the attempt to get information from the Hybrid, another Eight is shot by a Centurion. After the Hybrid gives Thrace a cryptic message, Agathon disconnects the Hybrid herself, but refuses to take the mortally wounded Eight's hand and offer her forgiveness and comfort as she dies. Anders does instead and once the baseship jumps back to the Demetrius, Agathon contacts her husband lets him know that they have control of the ship (TRS: "Faith").

After they return with the Cylon rebels, Agathon has another vision of the Opera House. She wakes up to see her daughter standing next to her bed and finds out that she has filled an entire scrapbook with drawings of a blond woman and the number "six". Shocked at the drawings, she notices that Hera has left the room and runs out into the hallways. Her search for Hera on Galactica parallels the Opera House visions. At the same time Natalie is escorted to a meeting with Admiral Adama and she and her guards run right into Hera. Fascinated, Natalie kneels down to be close to the child. When Agathon catches up to them, she draws her sidearm and tells Natalie to back off. Then, after ensuring that Hera is taken to safety, Agathon shoots Natalie, mortally wounding her, fearing that she would take her daughter from her, like the Six in the vision (TRS: "Guess What's Coming to Dinner?").

After the shooting she is taken to see Admiral Adama who demands an explanation from her. She describes the vision to Adama who finds the explanation from her inadequate and decides to send her to the brig. She requests to keep her child, but Adama declines, believing that the brig is no place for a child. After Adama goes through his own emotional turmoil and making questionable decisions vis a vis the abduction of President Roslin and many of his pilots by the rebel Cylons, he instructs Colonel Tigh to give her Hera back despite her being imprisoned (TRS: "Sine Qua Non"). She is later released from the brig to assist with a rescue plan during a hostage situation aboard the Cylon rebel baseship.

When the Fleet finally arrives at Earth, she is with her family in her quarters. She and her husband are among the first team to land on the planet, but, to their despair, only discover a destroyed city (TRS: "Revelations").

Athena is incarcerated in the Cylon brig with her husband, her daughter, Caprica-Six, Tigh, and Anders during the mutiny, and is released by Starbuck and Apollo to help put down the rebellion (TRS: "The Oath, Blood on the Scales"). After Boomer returns and escapes imprisonment, she assaults Athena and steals her uniform to impersonate her and abduct Hera (TRS: "Someone to Watch Over Me"). Even after a rescue mission for Hera is put into motion, Athena remains emotionally devastated as she does not expect to find her child alive (TRS: "Daybreak, Part I"). Athena, Helo, Starbuck, Apollo, and a force of free Centurions board the Colony to retrieve Hera. Boomer returns the child to her parents after a change of heart. Athena then shoots Boomer dead, which Boomer expected. The Agathon family settle on the newly discovered Earth. Athena is a direct ancestress of all modern-day humans through her daughter Hera (TRS: "Daybreak, Part II").

Notes[edit]

  • Fans have often speculated that the Eight seen on Ragnar Anchorage at the end of the Miniseries, who wears a Colonial flightsuit and receives a "by your command" from a Six, is this version of Sharon. However, this is unconfirmed, and there is no known reason why she would be present in a flightsuit at Ragnar before appearing on occupied Caprica; therefore, the character is considered to have been introduced in the episode "33".
  • This Number Eight is usually called "Sharon" and after the events of New Caprica "Athena," while Sharon Valerii is often just called "Boomer," as that callsign is more closely associated with her. This Sharon has only been called "Boomer" twice onscreen, once by Baltar in "Home, Part II" and once by Racetrack in "Torn". In the latter case, she requests to be called something else. Until Season 3, this copy was referred to by fans and members of the cast & crew as the Caprica copy ("Caprica-Sharon" or "Caprica-Boomer"), because she was first encountered on Caprica.
  • Sharon Agathon's callsign, "Athena," may be a reference to her nature as a Cylon, if the Colonists share the Greek myth that Pallas Athene sprung from the head of Zeus fully grown without ever having a childhood – much as a Cylon does.
  • Athena is one of the Lords of Kobol. In "Home, Part II," Sharon relates the death of Athena on Kobol, "Athena [threw] herself down [from the Gates of Hera] onto the rocks below, out of despair over the Exodus of the thirteen tribes."
  • Her callsign also creates a parallel with the Original Series character of Athena. In the Original Series, Athena was the daughter of Adama. In the Re-imagined Series, Agathon's relationship with Adama is very similar, as he develops a close fatherly bond to her.
  • Despite being in many episodes with Boomer, Athena only actually meets her four times and none are friendly meetings. The first meeting is when Boomer boards Galactica as part of a delegation and is stopped after Athena identifies her. Boomer tells Athena Hera is alive and is mean to her causing Athena to storm off. Their second meeting is when Athena downloads into the Cylon fleet to rescue Hera. Boomer is taking care of Hera and gladly passes her off to her mother, but refuses to let her take Hera to Galactica for treatmeant and threatens to kill her. Athena manages to convince Caprica-Six to help and she kills Boomer who later downloads into a new body. The third meeting is after Boomer has been captured and escaped. Boomer enters the same bathroom as Athena who doesn't realize who it is until too late and beaten severly by Boomer and is forced to watch as Boomer seduces Helo. The fourth and final meeting is during Hera's rescue where Boomer somewhat reedeems herself for her actions by returning Hera to her parents without a fight after saving her from disection. Athena refuses to forgive Boomer who knew she wouldn't and then kills her. Boomer lets Athena kill her, and with resurrection destroyed Boomer's death is final.

References[edit]

  1. This number was confirmed by the studios to QMX, who produces dogtags based off the show. It is the same number as Sharon "Boomer" Valerii, suggesting that she was not assigned another serial number to distinguish herself from "Boomer".



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Agathon
Alexandra Thomas as Hera.

Name

Hera Agathon;
Isis to adoptive mother;
Mitochondrial Eve to modern scientists
Age 3 Years Old
Born 9 months after the Cylon Attack (TRS: "Downloaded")
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Death Unknown cause as a relatively young mother in Tanzania, c. 148,000 BCE
Parents Sharon "Athena" Agathon (biological mother)
Karl "Helo" Agathon (biological father)
Maya (adoptive mother)†
Siblings
Children At least two daughters;
All modern humans are her matrilineal decendants
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Role "Lead the next generation of God's children"
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Portrayed by Lily Duong-Walton,
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Iliana Gomez-Martinez (older Hera)
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Agathon is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
Agathon is an Original Series Cylon
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Agathon
Lily Duong-Walton as Hera.

Hera Agathon is the first successful Human/Cylon hybrid, the culmination of the Cylons' experiments to achieve viable procreation. Being the only known successful progeny of a humanoid Cylon; the Cylons literally consider her a "miracle from God".

History[edit]

Conception[edit]

Her parents are the human Karl "Helo" Agathon and the Cylon Sharon "Athena" Agathon, both officers of Galactica.

Sharon, who at the time was posing as Sharon "Boomer" Valerii, was dispatched by her comrades to take part in a Cylon experiment involving setting up Karl to fall in love with and impregnate her.

Previous and other current attempts to create hybrids; most especially the forced cross-breeding experiments in the Cylon Farms met with complete failure, thus making the experiment necessary. The Cylons theorized that the key element to procreation they were missing was true love (itself an important element to Cylons, because they believe that "God is love").

Some time after the experiment began, Karl and Sharon finally conceived their daughter in a night of passionate sex, following Karl's "rescue" of Sharon (really a deceitful test by the Cylons to test his love for Sharon; which he passed). Immediately following her success, Sharon is ordered to convince Karl to stay in "hiding" on Caprica. Unfortunately for the Cylons, however, Sharon, by this time, had really fallen in love with Karl. To this end, Sharon began helping him to escape the Cylons; her love for Karl and their unborn child eventually leading her to switch her allegiance over to the Colonials.

Kara "Starbuck" Thrace, who arrived earlier on Caprica to retrieve the Arrow of Apollo, leaves with Caprica-Valerii and Agathon in a captured Heavy Raider. Caprica-Valerii is incarcerated in Galactica's brig for the next few months, as her pregnancy continues to advance.

Birth[edit]

Agathon is born by emergency surgery one month premature. President Laura Roslin arranges with Doctor Cottle—and without Admiral William Adama's involvement—to fake Agathon's death and secretly gives the child to a woman named Maya under the guise that the child is the daughter of a Pegasus officer. The subterfuge, Roslin presumes, is necessary to keep Agathon safe from humanoid Cylons that may be hiding in the Fleet (TRS: "Downloaded") [1]. Maya, unaware of her new child's past, names the girl Isis (TRS: "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II").

Hera Agathon as an infant, in the care of Maya.

Gaius Baltar's Messenger Six tells him he will someday raise this child, told to him in a vision he had while trapped on the planet Kobol. However, unaware of what President Roslin has done, Baltar, like the rest of the people who knew about her, believes Agathon to be dead.

When the Fleet settles on New Caprica under the rule of newly-elected President Baltar, Roslin begins teaching at a settlement elementary school with Maya. Roslin keeps Agathon and Maya close for observation in a cradle identical to the one Baltar saw in his vision.

Before the Battle of New Caprica, Roslin hides Maya and Agathon in the resistance's underground bunker. She then tasks Samuel Anders to have two of his best men protect them at all costs, and later make sure they get off the planet (TRS: "Exodus, Part I").

Time with the Cylons[edit]

In actuality, however, during the civilian evacuation, Maya is killed and Hera left behind. Later, when it is confirmed neither escaped with the Fleet, Roslin assumes Hera died on New Caprica. In actuality, however, Hera was found and rescued by President Baltar, Caprica-Six, and Number Three, and brought aboard a baseship (TRS: "Exodus, Part II"). She remains in the care of the Cylons, who are happy to welcome her.

Later, Hera begins to fall ill, and none of the Cylon physicians (who have no pediatric experience) understand why.

Return[edit]

Karl and Sharon finally learn of Roslin's duplicity when Adama reveals the truth (after learning it from Boomer and confronting Roslin with the knowledge). Naturally, Karl and Sharon take it hard, and immediately Sharon desires to see her. Later, she compels her extremely-reluctant husband to shoot her dead, so she can download to the Cylon ships. Later, Adama is convinced by Karl that Sharon will not be captured and forced to convey information on her mission, and when Roslin objects, Karl coldly reminds her if she hadn't lied and stolen Hera from them; the situation would never have developed, and so Roslin immediately capitulates.

Upon downloading, the sympathetic Caprica-Six brings Sharon to Hera, believing her story of how the humans wouldn't let her see her daughter and so felt it was the only way. Hera immediately recognized her mother despite Boomer being in the same room and Sharon tearfully reunited with her.

Sharon, through her Colonial training and maternal instinct, realizes that only Colonial medical care can save Hera Agathon, who appears to be suffering from an intestinal blockage. She persuades Caprica-Six to help her escape back to Galactica with Hera (TRS: "The Eye of Jupiter", "Rapture").

Agathon appears in several visions seen by Caprica-Six, Laura Roslin, and Sharon as the Fleet approaches the Ionian Nebula. In each vision, the three adults are compelled to save the child for motives not explained (TRS: "Crossroads, Part II").

Two months later, after returning from the Demetrius mission with a rebel Cylon basestar, Sharon discovers that Agathon has a fixation with Number Six, seeing that Hera's various crayon drawings of both the number itself and various depictions of Six, including one that looks like the Virtual Six in the red dress. Agathon then leaves after this discovery, leaving her mother to frantically search around Galactica's corridors for her. After Sharon sees Natalie with Agathon, she has Galen Tyrol take Agathon away before mortally wounding Natalie (TRS: "Guess What's Coming to Dinner?"). As a result of this action, Agathon is briefly taken away from her mother, herself incarcerated in Galactica's brig by Admiral Adama, but he reverses that decision days later (TRS: "Sine Qua Non").

Return to the Cylons, Rescue, and Destiny[edit]

Hera remains in the care of her parents, and soon it becomes apparent that she is a critical part of solving the mysteries of the Final Five's history and mankind's destiny. The Agathon family's tranquility is shattered when Boomer, having pretended to defect to the Colonials with Ellen Tigh, executed her mission to kidnap Hera and bring her to John Cavil. To this end, Boomer knocks out Sharon, seduces Karl (in full sight of a hidden and bound Sharon), who thinks she is his wife, and picks up Hera from the ship's daycare. She drugs the child and places her in a supply crate on her Raptor. Boomer is able to escape, as Adama cannot have her shot down without risk to Hera (TRS: "Someone to Watch Over Me").

Hera immediately misses her parents, tearfully and continually calling out for her mother. Boomer nearly forcefully sedates her to keep her quiet, but soon reconsiders, instead choosing to calm her with her projection ability (which Hera is discovered to share). Hera is brought to The Colony and handed over to Cavil (TRS: "Islanded in a Stream of Stars"). Cavil reveals to Boomer, who was reluctant to leave Hera (and vice-versa), that he plans to dissect and study her to discover the secret of her creation and use it to allow the Cylons to have hybrid children on their own and save their species.

Meanwhile, on Galactica, Karl and Sharon are devastated by their child's loss, with Sharon inconsolable and assuming Hera has already been dissected and killed by Cavil, but Karl, becoming increasingly unstable, still holds a shred of hope for seeing her again.

With Galactica dying, Adama assembles the crew for the ship's final mission; rescue Hera from Cavil (TRS: "Daybreak, Part I").

Boomer ultimately decides to kill the Simon operating on Hera and return her to her parents, who have boarded the Colony. Boomer is then killed by Sharon after handing Hera back to her parents. Thrace, Lee "Apollo" Adama, Karl, and Sharon return to Galactica with Hera, but, after her father is shot by a Doral model, they lose track of her. The wounded Karl then pleads with his wife to leave him and go find their daughter. Hera is sheltered by Roslin, and then by Caprica-Six and Baltar, who take her into CIC and protect her from Cavil, fulfilling the Opera House Prophecy.

Hera is among the survivors that settle on the new Earth, where she lives an agrarian and hunter/gatherer lifestyle with her parents in an area of Africa known later as Tanzania. She dies while a young woman. Her fossilized remains are discovered in 150,000 years and she is speculated to be the "Mitochondrial Eve," most recent common ancestress (when only purely female lines of descent are considered) of all living humans, by archaeologists from the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. Messenger Baltar and Messenger Six read an article about the discovery and indicate that the archaeologists' speculation is correct (TRS: "Daybreak, Part II").

Notes[edit]

  • The series' producers have noted, in a TV Guide interview, that this character will not "hyperage," that is, suddenly become much older than series-elapsed time (see the talk page of this article for more information).
  • If Hera really is Mitochondrial Eve, then that would imply that all present-day human mitochondria are descended from her, and thus, her mother, a Cylon. So that would mean we all have Cylon mitochondria, though in reality, human mitochondria closely match those of apes and all other Earth life. This is also presumably true in the Battlestar universe, otherwise a difference would have caused major scientific and religious upheaval.

References[edit]

  1. In a deleted subplot from "Downloaded," Gina Inviere and D'Anna Biers scheme to kidnap Agathon at Gaius Baltar's request. Gina expresses disgust at Agathon being named for a human god. When D'Anna asks Gina what they should call the baby, Gina suggests "Thirteen".



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Agathon

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Lieutenant Helena Agathon is an officer aboard Daidalos during the First Cylon War.

Her sister, Samanta Agathon, is assigned to Galactica and is considered missing-in-action after its disappearance two weeks after deployment (Battlestar Galactica Deadlock).

Reunited with Samanta, Agathon later volunteers in the failed Anabasis expedition (Battlestar Galactica Deadlock: Anabasis).

Concept Art[edit]

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

  1. Dev Diary #11 - 'New Frontiers' (backup available on Archive.org) . (25 September 2018). Retrieved on 18 August 2019.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Nilson, Sam. Battlestar Galactica Deadlock - Character Busts (backup available on Archive.org) (in English). Retrieved on 20 August 2019.
    Per artist, the bust was modeled in Maya, with additional sculpting and texture work done in w:ZBrush. Models were lit and rendered in ZBrush, then touched up in Adobe Photoshop.
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Agathon
[[Image:|200px|Agathon]]

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Colony Tauron
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Birth Name Samanta[1] Agathon
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Nickname Sam[2]
Introduced Battlestar Galactica Deadlock
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Parents
Siblings Helena Agathon, sister
Children {{{children}}}
Marital Status {{{marital status}}}
Family Tree View
Role
Rank
Serial Number {{{serial}}}
Portrayed by Bonnie Gordon
Agathon is a Cylon
Agathon is a Final Five Cylon
Agathon is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
Agathon is an Original Series Cylon
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Samanta Agathon is an officer aboard Galactica during the First Cylon War, and is considered missing-in-action two weeks after Galactica's disappearance.

Her sister, Helena Agathon, is assigned to Daidalos during Project Jupiter (Battlestar Galactica Deadlock).

Reunited with Helena, now-Praetor Agathon later leads the failed Anabasis expedition (Battlestar Galactica Deadlock: Anabasis).

Concept Art[edit]

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

  1. In some instances, her name is spelled incorrectly as "Samantha."
  2. Dev Diary #11 - 'New Frontiers' (backup available on Archive.org) . (25 September 2018). Retrieved on 18 August 2019.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Nilson, Sam. Battlestar Galactica Deadlock - Character Busts (backup available on Archive.org) (in English). Retrieved on 20 August 2019.
    Per artist, the bust was modeled in Maya, with additional sculpting and texture work done in w:ZBrush. Models were lit and rendered in ZBrush, then touched up in Adobe Photoshop.

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