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| death= | | death= Vaccum exposure while repairing FTL coolant line; [[The Captain's Hand]] | ||
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| role= | | role= Commander, battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' | ||
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'''Barry Garner''' is the third commanding Colonial officer on [[battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' after the deaths of Admiral [[Helena Cain]] and Colonel [[Jack Fisk]]. Before his promotion, he was the ship's chief engineer ([[The Captain's Hand]]). | |||
As | As a Commander, Garner does not inspire great confidence and treats his staff rather sternly, as if they are to be 100% consistent in their behavior. [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] considers Garner paranoid and barely competent. Garner holds a similar contempt for Thrace, leading him to order her eventual transfer back to ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', despite her work with the missing Raptors [[Raptor 718|718]] and [[Raptor 314|314]]. | ||
Garner's | Garner's lack of command insight jeopardizes ''Pegasus'' when he takes his battlestar, against [[Admiral Adama]] orders, into the binary stellar cloud to recover the missing crews instead of deploying an armed squadron of Raptors. | ||
As Adama suspects, three Cylon [[basestar (RDM)|basestar]]s ambush ''Pegasus'' | As Adama suspects, three Cylon [[basestar (RDM)|basestar]]s ambush ''Pegasus'', forcing Garner to decide on a hastily return to aid his old Engineering team to restore the damaged [[FTL]] drive (the ship's only means of escape or success), leaving Major [[Lee Adama]], the [[Executive officer|XO]], in command. Garner enters a compartment which is venting to space, sealing the hatch behind him and sealing the coolant leak damaged by the attack. Major Adama's actions severely damage one of the basestars, buying Garner time to fix the leak. Garner's repair allows ''Pegasus's'' "[[snipe]]s" to return the FTL drives to operation and the battlestar to escape a [[Battle of the Binary Star System|hopeless battle]]. However, Garner dies from vacuum exposure in the compartment due to a slow-leaking hull breach. | ||
The events surrounding Garner's death are reviewed by Lee and William Adama. Reports were also filed by both Lee and Kara Thrace; hers was considerably harsher. Major Adama understands that Garner's failure was in treating people as he would a machine. | |||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
*This character was originally named "Barry Trammel, | *This character was originally named "Barry Trammel", but at the last minute it had to be changed for legal reasons when the production team found that there was a real person with that name. | ||
*Unlike [[William Adama]], [[Helena Cain]], [[Saul Tigh]] and [[Jack Fisk]], Garner | *In subsequent episodes, Apollo is shown wearing a wristwatch. This may be the one that Garner wore during "The Captain's Hand", and left behind when he returned to the engine room. | ||
*Unlike [[William Adama]], [[Helena Cain]], [[Saul Tigh]] and [[Jack Fisk]], Garner's uniform not only lacks senior flight wings but junior flight wings as well. This seems to indicate that completing flight training is not a prerequisite for Commanding a battlestar. | |||
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