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[[File:silentonemap.jpg|thumb|The map of a solar system that is on the wall in Starbuck's cell.]]
[[Image:silentonemap.jpg|thumb|The map of a solar system that is on the wall in Starbuck's cell.]]
The '''Silent One''' is the appropriate nickname of a prisoner that was found drifting in space in a space craft that met with disaster. Apparently a male by the sound of things, the "Silent One" rendered various items in wall painting and drawing, including various [[w:Ungulates|ungulates]] (including a [[unicorn]]) and a peculiar map of an unnamed solar system believed home [[Earth (TOS)|to a shining planet]], that confounded the perpetually [[Proteus prisoner|intoxicated prisoners]] on penal planetoid [[Proteus]].  
An appropriate nickname of a prisoner that was found drifting in space in, apparently, a space craft that met with disaster. The "Silent One", apparently a male by the sound of things, drew objects (in particular a map of a solar system) that confounded the [[Proteus prisoner|intoxicated prisoners]] on penal planetoid [[Proteus]]. When [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]] comments on [[Boxey (TOS)|Boxey]]'s drawing, saying that a planet was off an orbit, [[Robber]] remarks about the Silent One and his drawings in the cell that Starbuck -- a.k.a. [[Bootlegger 137]] -- was thrown in for the duration of his stay ([[The Long Patrol]]).


When [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]] comments on {{TOS|Boxey}}'s drawing, saying that a planet was off an orbit, [[Robber]] remarks about the Silent One and his drawings in the cell that Starbuck—a.k.a. [[Bootlegger 137]]—was thrown in for the duration of his stay {{OS|The Long Patrol}}.
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This is yet another clue that [[Earth]] was more than a fable of "half-drunken star voyagers", as [[Baltar (TOS)|Baltar]] spitefully commented ([[Lost Planet of the Gods]]). We can probably presume that the Silent One was Human, at least by appearance, and that the [[Earth]] he came from was advanced enough for intergalactic travel -- or maybe even extragalactic. It could also be that the Silent One was a humanoid who mimicked a Human appearance, but could not master the language, and that the alien mimicker might as well have been setting up clues for [[Galactica (TOS)|''Galactica'']]'s discovery of Earth. (Thus indicating that there was more to the rag-tag fleet's journey than avoiding the [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylon]] tyranny.)
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File:TOS - TLP - Silent One Cell with Unicorn and Animal Drawings.jpg|[[Bootlegger 137]] awakens in a cell formerly occupied by a silent artist, whose artistic depictions include a unicorn <sup>([[Original Series|TOS]]: "[[The Long Patrol]]")</sup>.
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== Notes ==
"Silent One" might have been a [[Being of Light]], akin to either [[John]] or [[Iblis]].


* This is yet another clue that [[Earth (TOS)|Earth]] might be more than a fable of "half-drunken star voyagers," as {{TOS|Baltar}} spitefully commented in the {{OS|Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II|prose=y}}.
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