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| photo= Barry Garner.jpg
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| birthname= Barry Garner
    |birthname= Barry Garner
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| seen= The Captain's Hand
    |death= Restoring coolant pressure to the Pegasus' FTL drive during the [[Battle of the Binary Star System]]
| death= Vacuum exposure {{TRS|The Captain's Hand}}
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    |role= Commander, [[Battlestar]] [[Pegasus]]
| role= Chief Engineer, Commanding Officer; ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''
    |rank= Commander
| rank= Commander
    |actor= [http://imdb.com/name/nm0001334 John Heard]
| actor= [[John Heard]]
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Commander '''Barry Garner''' is the third commanding officer of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', appointed by Admiral [[William Adama]] after the deaths of Admiral [[Helena Cain]] and Commander [[Jack Fisk]].  Before his promotion, he was the ship's chief engineer.
'''Barry Garner''' was a Colonial officer on [[Battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' prior to the deaths of Admiral [[Helena Cain]] and Colonel [[Jack Fisk]].  Before his promotion, he had been the ship's chief engineer.


As commander, Garner does not inspire great confidence and runs the ship like a [[w:martinet|martinet]]. [[Kara Thrace|Kara Thrace]] considers him "paranoid and barely competent" {{TRS|The Captain's Hand}}, an opinion shared by [[Kendra Shaw]] {{TRS|Razor}}Garner holds a similar contempt for both women: he orders Thrace's transfer back to ''{{RDM|Galactica}}'' and reassigns Shaw to mess duty.
Barry Garner is the third officer to assume command of [[Battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' after the ship was integrated in Admiral [[William Adama]]'s [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]].  He assumed command after the suspect death of Commander [[Jack Fisk]] ([[The Captain's Hand]]).


Garner's rash judgment and lack of experience jeopardizes ''Pegasus'' when he disobeys [[Admiral Adama]]'s orders and takes the battlestar into the binary stellar cloud to recover the missing crews instead of an advance recon of Raptors as instructed.
Despite Garner's lack of command insight when jumping to recover Raptors [[Raptor 718|718]] and [[Raptor 314|314]], he died a rather heroic death by sealing the coolant leak causing a pressure drop in ''Pegasus's'' FTL Drive system, entering a compartment that was venting out to space and sealing the hatch behind him. The emergency repair allowed the ''Pegasus'' engineering crew to repair the ships [[FTL]] drive, thus escaping a [[Battle of the Binary Star System|hopeless battle]].


As Adama suspects, three Cylon [[basestar (RDM)|basestar]]s ambush ''Pegasus'' and damage her [[FTL]]. Garner momentarily freezes under the pressure, then decides that he needs to lead the repair team personally, handing the [[CIC]] over to Major {{callsign|Lee Adama}}. Garner enters a compartment which is venting air into space, seals the hatch behind him and finds the coolant leak disabling the FTL drive. Meanwhile, Major Adama's tactics severely damage one of the basestars and throw the others into disarray, buying Garner time to fix the leak. Garner's repair brings ''Pegasus's'' FTL back into operation and the battlestar escapes the [[Battle of the Binary Star System|lop-sided battle]]. However, Garner succumbs to [[w:hypoxia|hypoxia]] in the compartment and dies.
As a Commander, Garner did not inspire great confidence in his abilities.  He was considered paranoid and barely competent by [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]], and the events surrounding his death showed that he was needed more below-deck where his abilities and leadership in Engineering were apparently sorely missed. It is unclear how his absence will affect the engineering crew's proficiency during future crises.


After the battle, the events surrounding Garner's death are reviewed by both Adamas. Reports were also filed by both Major Adama and Thrace. Major Adama understands that Garner's failure was in treating people as he would a machine, whereas Thrace's assessment of him is considerably harsher {{TRS|The Captain's Hand}}.
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|width="30%" align="center" rowspan="{{{rows}}}" | Preceded by: '''[[Jack Fisk]]'''
|width="40%" style="text-align: center;" rowspan="{{{rows}}}" | Commander of the Battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''
|width="30%" align="center" rowspan="{{{rows}}}" | Succeeded by: <br/> '''[[Lee Adama]]'''
|-
|}


==Notes==
[[Category: A to Z|Gardner, Barry]] [[Category: Characters|Gardner, Barry]] [[Category: RDM|Gardner, Barry]]
*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 does not wear [[Uniforms (RDM)|flight wings]], indicating that a pilot background may not be a necessary prerequisite for command of a battlestar. Although Garner's background appears to be primarily in engineering, the lack of high-ranking ''Pegasus'' officers, to which Admiral Adama repeatedly alludes, might have persuaded him to waive this requirement.
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