Editing Salik

{{Character Data
| series=TOS
 | title=Salik
 | photo=Salik.jpg
 | age=
 | seen=Lost Planet of the Gods
 | role=Senior Life-Sciences Officer, battlestar ''{{TOS|Galactica}}''
 | rank=
 | actor=[[George Murdock]]
 | sepcon=Y
}}

'''Salik''', the senior life-sciences officer on ''{{TOS|Galactica}}'', is an aging male who had been with the battlestar prior to the [[Battle of Cimtar|destruction of]] the [[Twelve Colonies of Man|Colonies]]. He has a long and decorated history of abiding to the Hippocratic Oath.<ref>The [[Wikipedia:Hippocratic Oath|Hippocratic Oath]] is believed a creation of the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates of the planet Earth. A reference to a person on Earth (of which very little is known to the Colonials) is a sizable writing inconsistency.</ref> His high morals have made himself a logical friend of [[Adama (TOS)|Commander Adama]]'s for quite some time {{OS|Greetings From Earth}}.

Salik and a contingent of medtechs volunteer to take a medical [[Colonial shuttle|shuttle]] down to an asteroid where {{TOS|Jolly}} and {{TOS|Boomer}} are infected with a [[Otarsis virus|seemingly incurable disease]]. Although Salik attempts to do his best to cure all those infected, he is unable to do so without obtaining a living virus culture itself. Under escort by rookie shuttle-turned-{{TOS|Viper}} pilots trained by {{TOS|Apollo}} and {{TOS|Starbuck}}, he and his medtechs manage to devise a cure for the ailment ([[Lost Planet of the Gods]]).

Along with [[Cassiopeia]] and other medtechs, Salik later saves Adama's life, although not without a few scares first&mdash;particularly power-interruptions from destabilized [[energizer]]s {{OS|Fire in Space}}.

Sometime later, Salik attempts to gather readings on Count [[Iblis]], although that goes nowhere. However, despite his nature, Colonel [[Tigh (TOS)|Tigh]] notifies Adama that Salik was the first person to be enjoying the apparent good fortune that had fallen upon them in the form of inebriation ([[War of the Gods]]).

Later on, Salik is one of of several who attempt to determine what exactly [[Michael]] and his family/crew were. He does object to [[Wilker]]'s rather unscientific attempts to discern the technology in the [[Terra]]n-made [[Lunar Avion|craft]], and later on flat-out refuses to the [[Quorum of Twelve (TOS)|Quorum]]'s and [[Sire]] [[Geller]]'s edict to open up the cryogenic suspension chambers on the ''Lunar Avion''. Due to this act, Salik is relieved from duties regarding the "[[Earthlings]]."

In concert with Starbuck, Apollo, Adama, and Cassiopeia, they plot to put Michael and the other Terrans back in their craft and send them [[Paradeen|on their way]] with a Viper escort. Salik happens to be in the bay at the time the ''Avion'' launches. When Sire Geller inquires on being in the life-sciences station, he comments, barely able to withhold his laughter, that Geller had relieved him earlier {{OS|Greetings From Earth}}.

== Notes ==

* Salik's name is likely pronounced "sah-lik," although it has been pronounced in two other ways as well: "say-lick" and "say-leek".
* Murdock reprised his role as Salik in [[Richard Hatch]]'s ''[[Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming]]'' trailer. 
* The counterpart to Salik in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]] is [[CMO]] Major [[Cottle]].

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