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{{Character Data | {{Character Data | ||
|photo= Mini-Billy.jpg | |photo= Mini-Billy.jpg | ||
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|colony= Presumably [[ | |colony= Presumably [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] | ||
|birthname= Billy Keikeya | |birthname= Billy Keikeya | ||
|callsign= | |||
|seen= Miniseries | |seen= Miniseries | ||
|death= Shot by terrorist in [[Sacrifice]] | |||
|death= Shot by [[ | |parents= Living on Picon at time of attack | ||
|parents= | |siblings= Sisters and brother on the colony of Picon | ||
|siblings= | |children= | ||
|children= | |marital status= Dated Petty Officer [[Anastasia Dualla]] | ||
|marital status= | |role= Presidential Aide to [[Laura Roslin]] | ||
|role= Presidential | |rank= | ||
|actor= [[Paul Campbell]] | |actor= [[Paul Campbell]] | ||
| | |cylon= | ||
}}'''Billy Keikeya''' is a young, fairly good-looking member of [[Laura Roslin]]'s staff. At school, he was a member of the debate team. Possibly an intern, given his relative youth, he is nevertheless gifted and capable - and much more insightful than people might otherwise assume. | |||
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'''Billy Keikeya''' is | |||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
As a result of his abilities, Laura Roslin selects Keikeya to accompany her to the decommissioning ceremonies for | As a result of his abilities, [[Laura Roslin]] selects Keikeya to accompany her to the decommissioning ceremonies for [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]''. During this time, he recognises that not only is [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] ill, she is in fact suffering from cancer ([[Miniseries]]). | ||
His parents had moved to [[ | His parents had moved to [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]] two months prior to the Cylon attack to be with Keikeya's sisters and their families. It is assumed they died there. Keikeya mentions he had a brother that also died on Picon ([[Sacrifice]]). | ||
Following the loss of President [[Richard Adar]] | Following the loss of President [[Richard Adar|Richard Adar's]] cabinet, Roslin is sworn-in as President, and Keikeya finds himself promoted to the position senior aide to the President. One of his first tasks is to work with her to tally the number of survivors in the fleet ([[33]]) and establish records for the dead. Later, he engages in attempts to get the 1,500 prisoners aboard the ''[[Astral Queen]]'' to help [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]] obtain water supplies ([[Bastille Day]]), after ''[[Galactica]]'s'' water supplies are sabotaged ([[Water]]). Despite his dubious mathematical aptitude (as shown in "[[33]]"), Keikeya is an exceptionally organized individual, who also acts as the senior spokesperson for Roslin's administration ([[Litmus]]). | ||
[[ | [[Image:Dee and bee.jpg|thumb|left|Billy Keikeya and Anastasia Dualla on a date in the forward observation lounge ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]])]]Off-duty, Keikeya strikes up a friendship with Petty Officer 2nd Class [[Anastasia Dualla]], a member of ''[[Galactica]]'s'' command crew, which blossoms into romance ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]), despite the fact that Dualla and Keikeya share irreconciliable viewpoints about [[Tom Zarek]]. Keikeya believes that Zarek was a prisoner of conscience who saw his fellow Sagittarians being mistreated by the other [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Colonies]] ([[33]]). | ||
As Roslin continues the [[Chamalla|unconventional treatment]] of her cancer, Keikeya's concerns increase. When she passes out due to an overdose of | As Roslin continues the [[Chamalla|unconventional treatment]] of her cancer, Keikeya's concerns increase. When she passes out due to an overdose of Chamalla, he unknowingly makes a call for help on an open channel. The call is intercepted by the often irksome [[Colonial Press]]. | ||
Later, he questions Roslin's hallucinations and her actions during her search for the [[Arrow of Apollo]]. He believes that her actions would irreparably damage the Colonial [[Government | Later, he questions Roslin's hallucinations and her actions during her search for the [[Arrow of Apollo]]. He believes that her actions would irreparably damage the Colonial [[Government]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]). Still, Keikeya stands by her side as Roslin and her [[Presidential Security Service|personal security]] agents prepare to thwart [[William Adama|Commander Adama]]'s attempt to arrest her ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]). | ||
Roslin is arrested when she subverts the separation of military and civilian government by convincing | Roslin is arrested when she subverts the separation of military and civilian government by convincing [[Kara Thrace]] to purloin the captured [[Cylon Raider]] for a [[FTL|Jump]] back to Caprica. Other government aides and officers such as Keikeya, [[Gaius Baltar]] and the members of the [[Quorum of Twelve]] are still free to do as they wished within the Fleet. Keikeya rarely leaves Roslin's side during her internment in ''Galactica'''s brig and routinely keeps her briefed on the deteriorating situation within [[The Fleet (RDM)|The Fleet]] in the wake of the attempt on Commander [[William Adama|Adama]]'s life by a Cylon infiltrator. | ||
When | When [[Lee Adama]] formulates a plan to break the President out of the brig and fly her to safety on ''[[Cloud 9]]'', Keikeya is supportive of the effort, but ultimately does not follow her down the path she was about to take. The two part company in ''Galactica'''s hangar bay with Keikeya staying behind and Roslin hiding on other ships in the Fleet before Col. Tigh and Commander Adama can recapture her ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]). | ||
'' | ''In his Podcast for "[[Home, Part II]]", [[Ronald D. Moore|RDM]] indicated that Keikeya was an atheist, and that his reticence was motivated by a distaste for the cloak of prophecy Roslin had assumed.'' | ||
''Galactica'' prepares for a return to Kobol to find President Roslin, who go there with over a third of the Fleet in search of the [[Tomb of Athena]]. Commander Adama brings Keikeya along with him and his insertion team because he feels that, aside from himself and Lee Adama, Keikeya is the only other person that Roslin will listen to. When Keikeya humbly denies the assumption that Roslin placed any stock in his opinions, Adama stuns him by saying Roslin feels that he would become President himself some day. Adama tells him that Roslin said he reminded her of former President [[Richard Adar|Adar]] on his first campaign for public office. Keikeya had no idea how to respond to Adama's lofty comparison when Adama says, "Don't let it go to your head...Adar was a moron." | |||
On the surface of Kobol, Keikeya reunites with Roslin. She is overjoyed to see him once again. Keikeya is also one of the few people to enter the Tomb of Athena and see the map to Earth ([[Home, Part II]]). | |||
Keikeya later proposes to Dualla, giving her his high school debate ring. However, she rejects his proposal. Later, Keikeya witnesses Dualla on a date with [[Lee Adama]] on ''Cloud 9''. As Keikeya begins to criticize Dualla, the bar is taken hostage by a group of civilians demanding the transfer of [[Sharon Valerii]] into their custody. During a rescue attempt by ''Galactica'' marines, the terrorist [[Vinson]] attempts to shoot Dualla. Keikeya knocks one terrorist aside and shoots Dualla's would-be murderer in the chest. Unfortunately, Vinson gets off a burst as he falls, killing Keikeya. President Roslin tends to Keikeya's body in ''Galactica's'' morgue ([[Sacrifice]]). | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* In a [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)#Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I|deleted scene]], Billy remarked that he owned a dog named [[Jake (Billy's Dog)|Jake]]. | |||
* In a [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)#Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I|deleted scene]], Billy | * Billy's last name, Keikeya, is the name of one of the three queens of Ayodhya in the Hindu epic, ''[[w:Ramayana|Ramayana]]''. | ||
* Billy's last name, Keikeya, is | |||
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