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{{Character Data | {{Character Data | ||
|photo= Peter Laird.jpg | |photo= Peter Laird.jpg | ||
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|colony= | |colony= | ||
|birthname= Peter Laird | |birthname= Peter Laird | ||
|callsign= | |callsign= | ||
|seen= Pegasus (episode) | |seen= Pegasus (episode) | ||
|pseen= Pegasus | |pseen= Pegasus | ||
|death= | |death= | ||
|parents= | |parents= | ||
|siblings= | |siblings= | ||
|children= Unknown (implied) | |children= Unknown (implied) | ||
|marital status= Widower ( | |marital status= Widower (probable) | ||
|role= Deck Chief, battlestar | |role= Deck Chief, battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' | ||
|rank= Chief Petty Officer ( | |rank= Chief Petty Officer (conscripted) | ||
|actor= [[Vincent Gale]] | |actor= [[Vincent Gale]] | ||
|cylon= | |cylon= | ||
|name= | |name= | ||
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'''Peter Laird''' is a civilian aeronautical engineer, impressed into military service after the [[Cylon attack]] on the Twelve Colonies. At the time of the attack, he is about the civilian transport ''[[Scylla]]'' which, together with several other vessels, is found the battlestar ''[[Pegasus]]'' about a week after the attack. Admiral [[Helena Cain|Cain]], with military priority on the mind, orders that the ships be scavenged for anything that would be of aid to ''Pegasus''. Supplies, weapons and even people with potentially useful skills. | |||
Laird, whose background in aeronautics would serve Cain's plan well, is selected to be drafted into her crew along with 14 other people on board. Colonel [[Jack Fisk|Fisk]] and Lieutenant [[Kendra Shaw|Shaw]] take a team of Marines to the ''Scylla'' to enforce the order, where Laird acts as the passengers' spokes person and refuses to cooperate. When Fisk's intimidation of the civilians fails, Cain orders that the families of the selectees are to be shot to coerce them. While Fisk still threatens to shoot them, Shaw takes the initiative and shoots one woman in the head, upon which the Marines kill nine more. This breaks all resistance on the ship, and Laird and the others are transfered to ''Pegasus''. Laird's wife and family are likely among the dead ([[Razor]]). | |||
He becomes the ship's deck chief despite not being part of the Colonial military. When he comes aboard ''[[Galactica]]'', he meets his counterpart, Chief [[Galen Tyrol|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 | Laird is assigned to ''Galactica'' during Admiral Cain's fleet integration and according to the the [[Pegasus (Extended Version)|extended "Pegasus" cut]] 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. | ||
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 reversed 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== | ||
*Laird's reaction to the dead civilians in "Razor" heavily implies that the woman killed by Shaw is his wife. Especially the shot at the end when he looks at the bodies and the camera pans from him to the woman. | |||
*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]] (''Star Trek'''s [[MemoryAlpha:Montgomery Scott|Montgomery Scott]]) at his recent death at the time of the episode's filming, but reluctantly decided against it. | *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]] (''Star Trek'''s [[MemoryAlpha:Montgomery Scott|Montgomery Scott]]) at his recent death at the time of the episode's filming, but reluctantly decided against it. | ||
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