Editing Boxey (RDM)

{{disline|This article is about the young orphan from the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]]. For more information on his {{TOS|Battlestar Galactica|Original Series}} counterpart, see [[Boxey (TOS)]].}}

{{Character Data
    |title=Boxey
    |photo= Boxey_2003_001.jpg
    |age= 10-13 (?)
    |colony= {{RDM|Caprica}}
    |birthname= Boxey
    |callsign=
    |seen= Miniseries
    |lastseen=Bastille Day
    |parents= [[Armistice Officer]]† (father)
    |role= Orphan
    |actor= [[Connor Widdows]]
    }}

[[Image:Photos seen on Armistice Station.jpg|thumb|left|Boxey and his possible mother on photos on [[Armistice Station]].]]
'''Boxey''' is the son of the [[Armistice Officer]] at [[Armistice Station]].

Following the [[Cylon attack]], Boxey and his aunt{{citation needed}} seek sanctuary when a [[Raptor]] manned by Lieutenants [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Valerii]] and [[Karl Agathon|Agathon]] makes an emergency landing on {{RDM|Caprica}}.

When it becomes evident that the Raptor cannot rescue all the terrified refugees who come to it, Boxey's aunt gives him up with other children for transport back to ''{{RDM|Galactica}}''. The child becomes unofficially adopted by members of the crew and is also seen eating with Valerii and other pilots on ''Galactica'' {{TRS|Miniseries}}.

Later, Boxey is following {{callsign|Starbuck}} around and copying her attitude and tone with [[Saul Tigh]]. During an exchange with Tigh, Boxey sarcastically reveals that his mother is dead {{TRS|Bastille Day}}.

== Life on the cutting room floor ==

[[Image:Kobol's Last Gleaming Pt 2 - Boomer and Boxey.jpg|thumb|Boxey's last appearance in the series.]]

Otherwise, the character is mostly found in [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)|deleted scenes]] and on the cutting room floor, with little further exposure. Boxey appears in [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)#Water|five deleted scenes]] included with the [[Season 1 DVD]] set.  The first four are from "[[Water]]":
* In the first, Boxey happens upon Boomer at her locker, and rummaging through it finds a rag which she used to wipe rust off of her hands from when she was planting the bombs in the water tanks.
* In the second (after the discovery of water by Boomer), Boxey and [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] pay a visit to Boomer in her quarters to congratulate her. Boxey is [[frak]]kin explicit, while Tyrol slaps him on the head to rebuke him and asks him to leave the room so he can take a moment with Boomer.
* In his third deleted scene in "Water," Boxey tries to sell some [[ambrosia]] he got from an engineer to [[Alex Quartararo|Crashdown]] (apparently one of the attempts to turn him into the "artful dodger" mentioned by the writers).
* The subplot of the second scene is followed up on in a fourth scene at the end of the episode where Tyrol finds Boxey with the rag, who tells him that he got it from Boomer's locker, and Tyrol recognizes the rust as being the same residue as he found in the water tank, raising his suspicions about Boomer (this entire subplot was dropped).
* Boxey's [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)#Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I|fifth deleted scene]] in the set is from "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]," in which Boomer is practicing drawing her weapon from its holster and pointing it, and after several times Boxey steps into the room just as she wheels around and points her gun in his direction, accidentally scaring him off.

== Behind the Scenes ==
Creator [[Ronald D. Moore]] included Boxey in the Re-imagined Series as a [[Boxey (TOS)|nod to the original]], but never intended for the character to have a central role. "While I thought Boxey was part of the family and decided it would be nice to include him in some peripheral way, I never considered keeping Boxey's dog for a second," Moore stated, referring to the original's [[Daggit]], [[Muffit II|Muffit]]. "The dog was just absurd!"<ref group="Book">{{Cite book|author=David Bassom|title=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]|year=2005|publisher=Titan Books|isbn=1845760972|page=14}}</ref>

The writers reconceived Boxey as a mischievous, "[[W:Artful Dodger|Artful Dodger]]-type character."<ref group="Book">{{Cite book|author=David Bassom|title=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]|year=2005|publisher=Titan Books|isbn=1845760972|page=131}}</ref> However, as the series progressed, particularly with the storyline revealing {{callsign|Boomer}} as [[Humanoid Cylon|a Cylon]], the writers found it increasingly difficult to fit him into the narrative, and the character was eventually dropped.

==Notes==
*Boxey is based on a {{TOS|Boxey|character of the same name}} from the {{TOS|Battlestar Galactica|Original Series}}. He shares some similarities with his TOS counterpart, in that he is a young boy orphaned by the [[Cylon attack]] who is adopted by members of ''Galactica''{{'|s}} crew. While Boxey was an often recurring character in the Original Series and the [[Troy (1980)|main character]] of the follow up series ''[[Galactica 1980]]'', in the Re-imagined Series he only appears in one episode of the first season, "[[Bastille Day]]". A number of other appearances were filmed, but cut from other episodes due to time considerations. By the start of Season 2, the writers realized they had never really used him and couldn't think of a way to fit him into the series, and the character has been essentially abandoned.
*In the original draft of the Miniseries, Boxey would form a family unit with [[Sharon Valerii]] and [[Galen Tyrol]], but it was then decided that Boomer would be a Cylon sleeper agent. The writers then toyed around with the idea of still having the three of them be a family unit (with Boomer completely unsuspecting that she was a Cylon) until the Season 1 finale, when Boomer would reveal herself. Instead, starting with the second episode, "[[Water]]," Boomer early on starts suspecting that she is a Cylon, and the writers found fewer and fewer ways for Boxey to fit in. An idea toyed around with was that Boxey would become the "artful dodger" on the show; running the [[black market (organization)|black market]], stealing things, etc., but it was decided that there wasn't even time for that.
*One of the problems with having a young character such as Boxey on the show is that while the actor naturally ages, the Re-imagined Series has progressed much more slowly; the series covers approximately [[Timeline (RDM)|one and a half years]] in fictional time from the Miniseries (2003) to the end of Season 2 (2006).
*In the non-canonical novel ''[[Sagittarius Is Bleeding]]'', Boxey's name is given as "[[Andrew Boxman]]" (or "Alex Boxman"). He is briefly suspected as a Cylon after talking with {{callsign|Athena}} against orders and helps to thwart a terrorist plot. His continuing absence in the main series is explained as Boxey living on another ship but being allowed to visit the pilots on ''Galactica''.


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