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{{Character Data | {{Character Data | ||
|photo= Peter Laird.jpg | |photo= Peter Laird.jpg | ||
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|birthname= Peter Laird | |birthname= Peter Laird | ||
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|seen= Pegasus (episode) | |seen= Pegasus (episode) | ||
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|death= | |parents= | ||
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|siblings= | |children= Unknown (implied) | ||
|children= Unknown (implied) | |marital status= Widower (probable) | ||
|marital status= Widower ( | |role= Deck Chief, battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' | ||
|role= Deck Chief, battlestar | |rank= Chief Petty Officer (conscripted) | ||
|rank= Chief Petty Officer ( | |actor= [[Vincent Gale]] | ||
|actor= [[Vincent Gale]] | |cylon= | ||
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'''Peter Laird''' is a civilian aeronautical engineer. When the [[Cylon Attack]] began, he was aboard the ''[[Scylla]]'', a civilian ship, when its passengers were "picked up" by the [[battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''. He became the ship's Flight-Deck Chief despite not being part of the Colonial military. When he comes aboard ''[[Galactica]]'', he meets his counterpart, [[Galen Tyrol|Chief Tyrol]]. Upon looking on the [[Blackbird]], Tyrol's new stealth fighter, he is both appalled and impressed, especially because he designed the old [[DDG-62]] engines used in the Blackbird ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]). | |||
Laird is assigned to ''Galactica'' during Admiral Cain's fleet integration and according to the the [[Pegasus (Extended Version)|Extended "Pegasus" Version]] replaces [[Chief Tyrol]] as deck chief even before he is charged with Lt. [[Thorne|Thorne's]] murder. Also shown in the extended episode, he makes a suggestion to ''Galactica'''s deck crew ,that increases fuel efficiency by two percent. | |||
While drinking with Col. [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]], ''Pegasus'''s XO [[Jack Fisk]] reveals that the ''Scylla'' was part of a civilian fleet that ''Pegasus'' encountered a few weeks after escaping the Cylon attack. Admiral Cain, with military priority on the mind, ordered that civilian ships be scavenged for anything that would be of aid to ''Pegasus'' militarily. Supplies, weapons and even people with potentially useful skills were taken. | |||
Laird | Laird, whose background in aeronautics served Cain's plan well, was selected by Cain to be drafted into her crew along with 14 other people on board. However, all 15 of them were traveling with their families, and resisted Cain's attempt to draft them. In response, Cain had two of the families executed to cow the civilians, and Laird was taken aboard ''Pegasus''. It is unclear if Laird's family was one of the two that Cain had executed, but if not, she still marooned them aboard the ''Scylla'' without an FTL drive (which left them at the mercy of the Cylons or the desert of space), making her ultimately responsible for their likely deaths. | ||
Laird is having difficulty in managing the hangar deck as Tyrol's substitute and lacks military decorum, but assures Commander Adama that all ships will be ready for "the [[Attack on the Resurrection Ship|attack thing]]" ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]). | |||
After Admiral Cain's death her crew transfers are reverted and Tyrol is re-installed as ''Galactica'''s deck chief. Laird likely returns to his previous post as the ''Pegasus'' deck chief ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]). | |||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
*Ron D. Moore said in his [[Podcast:Pegasus#Act 2|podcast]] that he was tempted to give Laird a Scottish accent as a tribute to [[Wikipedia:James Doohan|James Doohan]] | *Ron D. Moore said in his [[Podcast:Pegasus#Act 2|podcast]] that he was tempted to give Laird a Scottish accent as a tribute to [[Wikipedia:James Doohan|James Doohan]] at his recent death at the time of the episode's filming, but reluctantly decided against it. | ||
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