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		<id>https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:NBC/Archive_1&amp;diff=39926</id>
		<title>Talk:NBC/Archive 1</title>
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		<updated>2006-03-19T07:23:18Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Aboris26: /* Rumors */&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Delete. This has nothing to do with Battlestar and Gossip should not be placed here. --[[User:Shane|Shane]] &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;([[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; 00:35, 19 March 2006 (CST)&lt;br /&gt;
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Delete this article.  It&#039;s a &amp;quot;flashlight&amp;quot; article, and further, there ARE no &amp;quot;rumors&amp;quot; that BSG is moving to NBC.  ONE GUY &#039;&#039;speculated&#039;&#039; that on a messageboard, before i corrected him that A) It means less Black Market episodes, and B) they want to air it with the second season of Doctor Who.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What would you do differently as an Administrator?&amp;quot; ---&amp;gt;I would have been able to delete this article immediately.  Instead, we&#039;re now going to have to wait six-12 hours for one of the other Administrators to get around to doing it. --[[User:The Merovingian|The Merovingian]] 00:43, 19 March 2006 (CST)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Yes, this is a rumor article, and not technically an encyclopedia article. However, with Season 2 ending, this is an interesting article for fans to review and contemplate while we wait for Season 3. There have been significant rumors to the validity of this subject, and with the NBC schedule not set until this summer, this is a possibly true article.--Aboris26&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
:No, it is not, for reasons I have cited above.  There is no move to NBC; I was there, I am a driving force on the messageboards; we all concluded that one buffoon who doesn&#039;t even watch Scifi Channel regularly started this rumor and is spread like telephone-game to a news website.  It has no basis in &amp;quot;fact&amp;quot; WHATSOEVER, and shall be removed ASAP.  I am sorry, I do not want to land on you hard about this and this is your first time here, but this is a sensitive matter and the handling you have given it here is quite irresponsible.  Please &amp;quot;lurk&amp;quot; around for a few days to get the flow of things around here and our Standards and Conventions. --[[User:The Merovingian|The Merovingian]] 00:47, 19 March 2006 (CST)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
::I apologize for the nature of this post, and I now more fully understand both the source of the rumors and the nature of the Standards and Conventions. I will remove this article as soon as you reply to this response and place it in the &#039;blogosphere&#039;, an understandably more appropriate location for an article of this nature. I do understand that there are ZERO facts behind a possible move, however, its possibility has to be discussed by Battlestar Galactica fans. As you can see, I have attempted to improve the accuracy of serveral other articles. I have included possibilities of relsoultions to uncertain topics which may be consider speculation in the past, but I felt these were appropriate topics to be included in the articles. In the future I will attempt not advoid crossing the line between expansion of article and sepculation. Please see the new location of the article on this [http://semireg.blogspot.com/2006/03/battlestar-galactica-season-3-on-nbc.html blog].--Aboris26&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
:::&#039;&#039;&#039;BattlestarWiki is not a blog, nor is it a messageboard&#039;&#039;&#039;.  I do not understand what you mean by &amp;quot;blogosphere entry&amp;quot;, etc.  I am sorry, but you&#039;ve actually made matters worse; there is no basis whatsoever for thinking BSG would move to NBC and it&#039;s utter speculation, and multiple press releases from SciFi Channel detailing &#039;&#039;why&#039;&#039; they did it contradict this view.  You&#039;ve actually made the matter worse (in my opinion as a fan, not a BSGwiki user) by posting it onto your Blog. ---&amp;gt;Think about it; Shane and I said it was total speculation, and your response was to post it up on your blog, spreading a probably false rumor even further.  Granted, this is &#039;&#039;your&#039;&#039; blog, and I would actually encourage you to say &#039;&#039;whatever&#039;&#039; you feel on the subject there, so long as it is not on BSGWiki; in fact, it&#039;s not really any of my business what you post on that blog; my point is that it was a not-so-great attempt at reconciliation.  What other articles have you been working on?--[[User:The Merovingian|The Merovingian]] 01:05, 19 March 2006 (CST)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
::::I am sorry my response was unacceptable. I have removed the article from BSGwiki, and have since added an addendum to my blog noting it as complete and total speculation. I understand you disagree with the subject of the article, and that is completely your right. I understand that you have previously, and correctly, rebuked a previous rumor of this sort. However, I do wish for this discussion to be open to the BSG fan community. I have removed all incorrect references to any rumors from the article. I feel that I have fairly responded to the mistake of posting a speculation article to this wiki. I openly welcome your opinion of this subject and your discussion of my article as a senior member of this community. I do not think this is a proper forum for doing so, so either comment on my updated blog post, or direct me to a message board. I have corrected the [[Lee Adama]] article with an edit of his predicesor as XO of Pegasus being Jack Fisk. This is due to the fact that it was my understanding that neither Fisk, nor Garner (prior to Lee&#039;s apoitment) had a delcared XO, as the XO would take command on event of their deaths. Since no XO&#039;s were mentioned after Fisk, it is speculation that there was a XO under Fisk or Garner&#039;s commands.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Aboris26</name></author>
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	<entry>
		<id>https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:NBC/Archive_1&amp;diff=39905</id>
		<title>Talk:NBC/Archive 1</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:NBC/Archive_1&amp;diff=39905"/>
		<updated>2006-03-19T07:00:49Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Aboris26: /* Rumors */&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Delete. This has nothing to do with Battlestar and Gossip should not be placed here. --[[User:Shane|Shane]] &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;([[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; 00:35, 19 March 2006 (CST)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Delete this article.  It&#039;s a &amp;quot;flashlight&amp;quot; article, and further, there ARE no &amp;quot;rumors&amp;quot; that BSG is moving to NBC.  ONE GUY &#039;&#039;speculated&#039;&#039; that on a messageboard, before i corrected him that A) It means less Black Market episodes, and B) they want to air it with the second season of Doctor Who.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What would you do differently as an Administrator?&amp;quot; ---&amp;gt;I would have been able to delete this article immediately.  Instead, we&#039;re now going to have to wait six-12 hours for one of the other Administrators to get around to doing it. --[[User:The Merovingian|The Merovingian]] 00:43, 19 March 2006 (CST)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Yes, this is a rumor article, and not technically an encyclopedia article. However, with Season 2 ending, this is an interesting article for fans to review and contemplate while we wait for Season 3. There have been significant rumors to the validity of this subject, and with the NBC schedule not set until this summer, this is a possibly true article.--Aboris26&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
No, it is not, for reasons I have cited above.  There is no move to NBC; I was there, I am a driving force on the messageboards; we all concluded that one buffoon who doesn&#039;t even watch Scifi Channel regularly started this rumor and is spread like telephone-game to a news website.  It has no basis in &amp;quot;fact&amp;quot; WHATSOEVER, and shall be removed ASAP.  I am sorry, I do not want to land on you hard about this and this is your first time here, but this is a sensitive matter and the handling you have given it here is quite irresponsible.  Please &amp;quot;lurk&amp;quot; around for a few days to get the flow of things around here and our Standards and Conventions. --[[User:The Merovingian|The Merovingian]] 00:47, 19 March 2006 (CST)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I apologize for the nature of this post, and I now more fully understand both the source of the rumors and the nature of the Standards and Conventions. I will remove this article as soon as you reply to this response and place it in the &#039;blogosphere&#039;, an understandably more appropriate location for an article of this nature. I do understand that there are ZERO facts behind a possible move, however, its possibility has to be discussed by Battlestar Galactica fans. As you can see, I have attempted to improve the accuracy of serveral other articles. I have included possibilities of relsoultions to uncertain topics which may be consider speculation in the past, but I felt these were appropriate topics to be included in the articles. In the future I will attempt not advoid crossing the line between expansion of article and sepculation. Please see the new location of the article on this [http://semireg.blogspot.com/2006/03/battlestar-galactica-season-3-on-nbc.html blog].&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Aboris26</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:NBC/Archive_1&amp;diff=39903</id>
		<title>Talk:NBC/Archive 1</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:NBC/Archive_1&amp;diff=39903"/>
		<updated>2006-03-19T06:59:21Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Aboris26: /* Rumors */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Delete. This has nothing to do with Battlestar and Gossip should not be placed here. --[[User:Shane|Shane]] &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;([[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; 00:35, 19 March 2006 (CST)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Delete this article.  It&#039;s a &amp;quot;flashlight&amp;quot; article, and further, there ARE no &amp;quot;rumors&amp;quot; that BSG is moving to NBC.  ONE GUY &#039;&#039;speculated&#039;&#039; that on a messageboard, before i corrected him that A) It means less Black Market episodes, and B) they want to air it with the second season of Doctor Who.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What would you do differently as an Administrator?&amp;quot; ---&amp;gt;I would have been able to delete this article immediately.  Instead, we&#039;re now going to have to wait six-12 hours for one of the other Administrators to get around to doing it. --[[User:The Merovingian|The Merovingian]] 00:43, 19 March 2006 (CST)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Yes, this is a rumor article, and not technically an encyclopedia article. However, with Season 2 ending, this is an interesting article for fans to review and contemplate while we wait for Season 3. There have been significant rumors to the validity of this subject, and with the NBC schedule not set until this summer, this is a possibly true article.--Aboris26&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
No, it is not, for reasons I have cited above.  There is no move to NBC; I was there, I am a driving force on the messageboards; we all concluded that one buffoon who doesn&#039;t even watch Scifi Channel regularly started this rumor and is spread like telephone-game to a news website.  It has no basis in &amp;quot;fact&amp;quot; WHATSOEVER, and shall be removed ASAP.  I am sorry, I do not want to land on you hard about this and this is your first time here, but this is a sensitive matter and the handling you have given it here is quite irresponsible.  Please &amp;quot;lurk&amp;quot; around for a few days to get the flow of things around here and our Standards and Conventions. --[[User:The Merovingian|The Merovingian]] 00:47, 19 March 2006 (CST)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I apologize for the nature of this post, and I now more fully understand both the source of the rumors and the nature of the Standards and Conventions. I will remove this article as soon as you reply to this response and place it in the &#039;blogosphere&#039;, an understandably more appropriate location for an article of this nature. I do understand that there are ZERO facts behind a possible move, however, its possibility has to be discussed by Battlestar Galactica fans. As you can see, I have attempted to improve the accuracy of serveral other articles. I have included possibilities of relsoultions to uncertain topics which may be consider speculation in the past, but I felt these were appropriate topics to be included in the articles. In the future I will attempt not advoid crossing the line between expansion of article and sepculation.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Aboris26</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:NBC/Archive_1&amp;diff=39894</id>
		<title>Talk:NBC/Archive 1</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:NBC/Archive_1&amp;diff=39894"/>
		<updated>2006-03-19T06:44:44Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Aboris26: Rumors&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Delete. This has nothing to do with Battlestar and Gossip should not be placed here. --[[User:Shane|Shane]] &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;([[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; 00:35, 19 March 2006 (CST)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Delete this article.  It&#039;s a &amp;quot;flashlight&amp;quot; article, and further, there ARE no &amp;quot;rumors&amp;quot; that BSG is moving to NBC.  ONE GUY &#039;&#039;speculated&#039;&#039; that on a messageboard, before i corrected him that A) It means less Black Market episodes, and B) they want to air it with the second season of Doctor Who.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What would you do differently as an Administrator?&amp;quot; ---&amp;gt;I would have been able to delete this article immediately.  Instead, we&#039;re now going to have to wait six-12 hours for one of the other Administrators to get around to doing it. --[[User:The Merovingian|The Merovingian]] 00:43, 19 March 2006 (CST)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Yes, this is a rumor article, and not technically an encyclopedia article. However, with Season 2 ending, this is an interesting article for fans to review and contemplate while we wait for Season 3. There have been significant rumors to the validity of this subject, and with the NBC schedule not set until this summer, this is a possibly true article.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Aboris26</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Season_3_(2006-07)&amp;diff=39888</id>
		<title>Season 3 (2006-07)</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Season_3_(2006-07)&amp;diff=39888"/>
		<updated>2006-03-19T06:37:24Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Aboris26: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;{{spoiler}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==Summary==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
: None yet available.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Pivotal Plot Points ==&lt;br /&gt;
*Rumors are abound of Season 3 being moved to SciFi&#039;s parent network, [[NBC]].&lt;br /&gt;
*According to an interview by Katee Sackhoff on Subject2Discussion.com on January 3rd, 2006, [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]]&#039;s &amp;quot;[[The Farm|missing ovaries]]&amp;quot; will be mentioned before Season 2 ends and be a pivotal theme to Season 3.&lt;br /&gt;
*At the official [http://www.ausxip.com/conventions/2006burbank/taipo-conlucy.html Xena 2006 Convention], Lucy Lawless stated that: &amp;quot;(They) turned around and asked her &amp;quot;Do you want to play [[God]]?&amp;quot;  There is a character who sets herself up as God, and Lucy would likely play her.  Her theory is that there&#039;s nowhere to go after playing Xena but to playing God!  But &#039;&#039;none of this is a done deal&#039;&#039;, she cautions, because they&#039;re still working out the logistics&amp;quot;. It is known, however, that Lawless will be in ten of the Season 3 episodes.&lt;br /&gt;
*According to Ron D. Moore&#039;s podcast of the Captain&#039;s Hand, Apollo will continue to be the Commander of the Pegasus well into Season 3.&lt;br /&gt;
*There will be some flashbacks that deal with events that occured during the year that was skipped over in the season 2 finale.  Caprica-Sharon is noticeably given no scenes in the &amp;quot;One Year Later&amp;quot; segment, and in the commentary for the episode Ron Moore said that the first episodes of season 3 would deal with this.  In addition, there will be flashbacks explaining how Dualla transfered to &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; to be with Apollo, but over time as more and more crewmen left, to the point that a skeleton crew was running the ship, she was left as the next highest ranking crewman on the ship and more or less his Executive Officer (although really, there&#039;s only about 3-4 people left &#039;&#039;including&#039;&#039; Apollo and Dualla even running the &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; CIC).&lt;br /&gt;
*In one brief shot at the end of the season 2 finale, [[Leoben Conoy]] arrives in Starbuck&#039;s tent and finds [[Samuel Anders|Anders]] and specifically asks where Kara Thrace is.  Moore said that this is a major plot point, and will feature in the first three episodes of season three.  It might have something to do with her missing ovaries, or it could have someting to do with the copy of Leoben encountered by Starbuck in the first season episode &#039;Flesh and Bone&#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
*In an [http://www.nowplayingmag.com/content/view/3300/2/ interview] with NowPlayingMagazine on March 11, 2006, Ron Moore said &amp;quot;Essentially, season three is going to deal with the Cylon occupation of the Colonials on New Caprica. The sort of archetype that we’re talking about is like [[Wikipedia:Vichy France|Vichy France]]: There’s a Colonial government run by President Baltar that is collaborating with the Cylons, while the humans put together an insurgent resistance against the occupation.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
*Moore goes on to say that:  &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; will be trying to figure out a way to save everyone trapped on New Caprica.&lt;br /&gt;
*A major plotline is that there is going to be &amp;quot;an ongoing Cylon story where we’re going to be cutting over to the Cylon world for the first time and running a complete arc within the Cylons&amp;quot;.  This probably refers to the planned Lucy Lawless ([[Number Three]]) storyarc.  It is unclear if by &amp;quot;Cylon world&amp;quot; Moore means &#039;&#039;the&#039;&#039; [[Cylon homeworld]], or just a Basestar, Cylon-occupied planet, etc.&lt;br /&gt;
*The resistance against the Cylons and Baltar&#039;s collaborationist government on New Caprica will take three to five episodes, probably four.  However, it will definately not take another seven episodes to wrap up the events of the season finale, as it did last time with &amp;quot;[[Kobol&#039;s Last Gleaming, Part II]]&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
*Not all of the Cylons may believe that Baltar is the Hand of God, &amp;quot;Guardian of the New Order&amp;quot;, etc.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Cast==&lt;br /&gt;
===Stars===&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Edward James Olmos]] as [[William Adama]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Mary McDonnell]] as [[Laura Roslin]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Katee Sackhoff]] as [[Kara Thrace|Kara &amp;quot;Starbuck&amp;quot; Thrace]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Jamie Bamber]] as [[Lee Adama|Lee &amp;quot;Apollo&amp;quot; Adama]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[James Callis]] as [[Gaius Baltar|Gaius Baltar]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Tricia Helfer]] as [[Number Six]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Grace Park]] as [[Number Eight|Sharon Valerii/Number Eight]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Co-stars===&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Michael Hogan]] as [[Saul Tigh]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Aaron Douglas]] as [[Galen Tyrol]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Tahmoh Penikett]] as [[Karl Agathon|Karl &amp;quot;Helo&amp;quot; Agathon]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Kandyse McClure]] as [[Anastasia Dualla]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Richard Hatch]] as [[Tom Zarek]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Alessandro Juliani]] as [[Felix Gaeta]] &lt;br /&gt;
* [[Leah Cairns]] as [[Margaret Edmonson|Margaret &amp;quot;Racetrack&amp;quot; Edmonson]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Nicki Clyne]] as [[Cally]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Dominic Zamprogna]] as [[Jammer]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Luciana Carro]] as [[Louanne Katraine|Louanne &amp;quot;Kat&amp;quot; Katraine]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Kate Vernon]] as [[Ellen Tigh]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Lucy Lawless]] as [[Number Three|D&#039;anna Biers/Number Three]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Dean Stockwell]] as [[Cavil]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Production Crew==&lt;br /&gt;
===Producers===&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Ronald D. Moore]] - Developer / Executive Producer / Writer&lt;br /&gt;
* [[David Eick]] - Executive Producer&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Toni Graphia]] - Co-Executive Producer / Writer&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Harvey Frand]] - Producer&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Glen A. Larson]] - Consulting Producer&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Directors &amp;amp; Writing Staff===&lt;br /&gt;
: &#039;&#039;To view the list of all the directors and staff, go to the [[Portal:Battlestar Galactica (RDM)/Crew#Directors|Battlestar Galactica Crew Guide]] page.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Episodes==&lt;br /&gt;
: &#039;&#039;To view the list of episodes, go to the [[Portal:Battlestar Galactica (RDM)/Episode Guide#Season 3: October 2006|Battlestar Galactica Episode Guide]] page.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Official Statements ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*An [http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&amp;amp;id=34893 official notice] of Season Three was announced on SciFi Wire on March 9, 2006.  Excerpt follows:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
SCI FI Channel announced that its hit original series &#039;Battlestar Galactica &#039;will return in October with a full 20-episode third season. Production on the third season begins in Vancouver, Canada, in &#039;&#039;&#039;April 2006&#039;&#039;&#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Related Topics==&lt;br /&gt;
* [[List of Season 3 Guest Actors (RDM)]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[List of Recurring Characters (RDM)]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[List of Recurring Character Appearances (RDM)]]&lt;br /&gt;
{{Episode List}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:A to Z]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Behind the Scenes]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:RDM]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Episode Guide (RDM)|*]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Leland_Adama&amp;diff=39863</id>
		<title>Leland Adama</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Leland_Adama&amp;diff=39863"/>
		<updated>2006-03-19T05:43:14Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Aboris26: /* Notes */&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;:&#039;&#039;The article discusses the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]] character with the pilot callsign of &amp;quot;Apollo.&amp;quot; For information on his [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] counterpart, see [[Apollo (TOS)]].&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{Character Data|&lt;br /&gt;
|photo=      [[Image:Lee Adama promo.jpg|200px]]&lt;br /&gt;
|age=&lt;br /&gt;
|colony=     [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]]&lt;br /&gt;
|birthname=  Lee Adama&lt;br /&gt;
|callsign= Apollo&lt;br /&gt;
|death= &lt;br /&gt;
|parents= [[Caroline Adama]] (mother, likely deceased), [[William Adama]] (father)&lt;br /&gt;
|siblings= [[Zak Adama]] (deceased)&lt;br /&gt;
|children=1 unborn child with Gianne (presumed deceased)&lt;br /&gt;
|marital status= Dating [[Anastasia Dualla]]&lt;br /&gt;
|role= Commander, battlestar &#039;&#039;[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Biographical Notes ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Background ===&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Lee &amp;quot;Apollo&amp;quot; Adama&#039;&#039;&#039; is the eldest son of [[Caroline Adama|Caroline]] and [[William Adama]]. Together with his younger brother, Zak, he was raised largely by his mother on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]], following his parents&#039; divorce when he was eight. &lt;br /&gt;
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Despite his father&#039;s estrangement from the family, Adama nevertheless inherited his passion for flying - a passion that saw him enrolling in the Colonial military reserves after graduating from college. Following his basic training, he graduated from the military academy third in his class and immediately applied for flight school. &lt;br /&gt;
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Not to be outdone by his elder brother, Zak Adama applied for military service, a move that eventually brought tragedy to the Adama household.&lt;br /&gt;
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Accepted into flight school, Adama proved himself a gifted and natural pilot, hampered only by his tendency to over-intellectualise things - a result of his upbringing with his mother, who encouraged him to read widely, and think freely (encouragement that lead him to read banned texts by the renegade [[Tom Zarek]] while at college ([[Bastille Day]])).    &lt;br /&gt;
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Graduating from flight school, Adama was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Colonial Reserve, flying the [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] Mark VII. During this time, he was also introduced to [[Kara Thrace|Kara &amp;quot;Starbuck&amp;quot; Thrace]], a training instructor at flight school, who was also involved with Zak Adama. While Adama was still at flight school, the three frequently spent time together, and Adama and Thrace developed a friendship through Zak Adama ([[Mini-Series]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Brother&#039;s Death ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Tragedy struck some two years prior to the renewed Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies when Zak Adama, recently graduated from flight school, was killed on a routine Viper mission. At the time, the cause of the accident was put down to pilot error. However, Lee Adama chose to blame the mishap on his father, whom he believed had pushed Zak into applying for military service and for applying for flight school ([[Mini-Series]]). &lt;br /&gt;
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Following Zak&#039;s death, Lee Adama became estranged from his father, seeking to build his career well away from any influence exerted by either William Adama or the legendary [[Original battlestar (RDM)|battlestar]] &#039;&#039;[[Galactica]]&#039;&#039;, his father&#039;s command. While he was successful in this - gaining promotion to Captain through his own abilities, the decision nevertheless placed a heavy strain on his friendship with Kara Thrace, as she applied for pilot duty aboard &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;. &lt;br /&gt;
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Adama spends much time on Caprica and becomes engaged to a woman named [[Gianne]].  She tells him she is pregnant with their child, causing him to run from her due to his own family issues.  Before he can speak with her again he is assigned to &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;. ([[Black Market]])  &lt;br /&gt;
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Adama is reunited with both his father and Kara Thrace when it was decided &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; should be decommissioned and handed over to civil authorities as a living museum and educational center of the [[Cylon War]]. As a part of the final ceremonies marking &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;s&#039;&#039; retirement, Lee Adama is ordered to participate in a final Viper flyby to salute both the ship and her commanding officer - an assignment he undertakes grudgingly, doing little to hide his true feelings from the moment he arrives on the battlestar ([[Mini-Series]]). Matters are not helped when he discovers he will fly not in his own Mark VII Viper, but in the newly-restored Mark II Viper his father had flown during the Cylon War ([[Mini-Series]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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Things worsen after the PR official aboard &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;, [[Aaron Doral]], sees Captain Adama&#039;s presence on &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; as a major PR opportunity and has Adama and his father pose for pictures together. Immediately following this, Adama confronts his father over Zak&#039;s death, during which he vents two years&#039; worth of anger, clearly expressing his belief that William Adama was responsible for the loss of his brother.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Surprise [[Cylon Attack]] ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Following the decommissioning ceremony, Lee Adama departs &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;, acting as a unofficial escort for &#039;&#039;[[Colonial Heavy 798]]&#039;&#039;, the official transport for Secretary of Education [[Laura Roslin]], who represented President [[Richard Adar|Adar]] at the ceremony. Mid-way through their return to [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]], Adama and the crew of &#039;&#039;Colonial Heavy 798&#039;&#039; hear of the Cylon attacks on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]], and soon find themselves under direct attack. While Adama is able to thwart the missile attack, his father&#039;s old Viper is disabled and is brought aboard &#039;&#039;Colonial Heavy 798&#039;&#039;. Adama becomes one of Laura Roslin&#039;s unofficial advisors, aiding her in her self-appointed rescue mission. Adama&#039;s annoyance of his father&#039;s old Viper comes back to haunt him when [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]], returning from her unexpected rescue mission on Caprica and disastrous attack on two [[Cylon Raider]]s, notes to him that other Vipers and other modern Colonial spacecraft like his Mark VII were [[Command Navigation Program|easily destroyed]] by Cylon attacks.&lt;br /&gt;
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Following his disobedience of a direct order from his father , Adama again saves &#039;&#039;Colonial Heavy 798&#039;&#039; from a nuclear missile attack with a failed experiment he toyed with in [[War College]], using &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;s&#039;&#039; [[EMP]] coils that were placed on the ship for return to Caprica and the Colonial Fleet - while simultaneously making it look like the ship had been destroyed. He supports Roslin in her rescue efforts. Adama persuades Roslin to lead the [[FTL]]-capable ships to follow &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; to the [[Ragnar Anchorage]]. &lt;br /&gt;
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As the ranking pilot aboard &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;, and despite his relative inexperience, Adama finds himself promoted to the position of CAG by Colonel [[Saul Tigh]].&lt;br /&gt;
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Apollo leads a Viper squadron in keeping [[Cylon Raider]]s at bay while the civilian [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] Jumps away from Ragnar Anchorage. His ship is badly damaged midway in the battle and Adama would have been killed by a missile were it not for the lightning-fast and highly-accurate shooting of Starbuck. Starbuck&#039;s highly unconventional flying force-fits her fighter and Adama&#039;s now-powerless Viper nose-to-nose and flies him back to the battlestar seconds before the port [[flight pod]] closes and &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; Jumps away.&lt;br /&gt;
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The attacks presumably kill Lee&#039;s fiancé [[Gianne]] and their unborn child before Lee can speak to her again.  This drives him into depression leading him to at an unknown time start seeing a prostitute named [[Shevon]] ([[Black Market]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Special Advisor ===  &lt;br /&gt;
[[image:Water_Apollo_Roslin.jpg|thumb|left|300px|[[Lee Adama|Adama]] and President Roslin shake hands after appointment as military advisor in &amp;quot;[[Water]]&amp;quot;. (c) Universal)]]&lt;br /&gt;
Lee Adama finds himself attached to Roslin as a &amp;quot;special advisor&amp;quot; to further help her understand military matters. This appointment does not sit well with his father ([[Bastille Day]]).   &lt;br /&gt;
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When tensions rise during a hostage crisis with prisoners aboard the &#039;&#039;[[Astral Queen]]&#039;&#039;, Adama resolves the situation with only one life lost through an arrangement reached between Adama and the leader of the convicts, [[Tom Zarek]]. While the solution is sensible, it is not to the liking of either Commander Adama or President Roslin. &lt;br /&gt;
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In the weeks following the Cylon attack, Adama finds time to re-evaluate his relationship with his father - due in no small part to Starbuck&#039;s admission of her involvement in Zak&#039;s acceptance as a fighter pilot ([[Mini-Series]]) and his subsequent death.  Father and son grow somewhat closer - even standing shoulder-to-shoulder when Starbuck is MIA ([[You Can&#039;t Go Home Again]]). Even so, Adama&#039;s former self-doubts and moodiness are not easily overcome and sometimes come back to haunt him when he is tasked to fill a role that others are unsure he can manage. As a Viper pilot, Adama is able to escape from Starbuck&#039;s shadow, proving himself capable in unconventional and skilled flying in the [[Battle for the Tylium Asteroid]] ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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After the tylium asteroid mission, Adama matures enormously, emerging from his shell as a somewhat disillusioned officer and becomes a practical leader who now comfortably straddles his responsibilities as [[CAG]] of &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; with his duties as advisor to Roslin. With few issues with either Roslin or his father, Adama demonstrates his maturity particularly well in his handling of security arrangements for the initial meeting of Roslin&#039;s [[Quorum of Twelve]] aboard the luxury liner &#039;&#039;[[Cloud Nine]]&#039;&#039; ([[Colonial Day]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Inner Conflicts at Kobol ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Unfortunately, Adama&#039;s beliefs in the need for democratic representation and civil government brings him in direct conflict with orders given him by Commander Adama. During the arrest of Laura Roslin following her [[Arrow of Apollo|interference with military operations]], Captain Adama draws his gun on [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]] in a direct act of mutiny, protesting his father&#039;s removal of Roslin from office. Arrested together with Roslin, Adama watches helplessly in [[CIC]] as [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Lieutenant Valerii]] shoots his father at point blank range, seriously wounding him ([[Kobol&#039;s Last Gleaming, Part II]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama is temporarily furloughed by Colonel Tigh so that he can continue his CAG responsibilities, For a time, Commander Adama&#039;s initiative lives on through his son. Young Adama leads a fight with Cylons to buy time for &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; to find its proper bearings to the civilian Fleet ([[Scattered]]), He leads a team of [[Marines]] to stop [[Cylon Centurion]]s from reaching [[Aft Damage Control]], saving the ship ([[Valley of Darkness]]). After that, Adama continues his initiative and leads a [[SAR]] mission with two [[Raptors]] to retrieve stranded Colonials on the surface of Kobol ([[Fragged]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama&#039;s desire to let democracy work without overt military action comes to a head once more as he plots with a handful of others to free Roslin and smuggle her away from &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; ([[The Farm]]). Before he leaves, he apologizes to his unconscious Commander Adama at his bedside for what he is about to do: Leave with Roslin and a [[Laura Roslin faction|faction]] of ships to search for data on Earth on Kobol. Commander Adama begins to awaken just as Adama leaves his side.&lt;br /&gt;
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On the &#039;&#039;[[Astral Queen]]&#039;&#039;, Adama is so happy to see Kara Thrace returned safely from Caprica with the Arrow of Apollo that he hugs and also impulsively kisses her, pleasantly surprising Thrace ([[Home, Part I]]). Moments later, as the Caprica copy of Sharon Valerii entered, Adama instantly grabs the known [[Cylon agent]] in anger and would have killed her if Helo and Roslin did not intervene.&lt;br /&gt;
[[image:Home_pt1-Apollo_Starbuck.jpg|thumb|[[Lee Adama|Adama]] and Kara Thrace speak aboard the &#039;&#039;Astral Queen&#039;&#039; in &amp;quot;Home, Part I&amp;quot;. (c) Universal)]]&lt;br /&gt;
Later, with their military protocols and attitudes temporarily relaxed, Adama playfully teases the brooding Kara Thrace by stealing a [[pyramid (RDM)|pyramid]] ball she took as a keepsake from her time with [[Samuel Anders|Anders]] on Caprica. He returns the ball after sensing her depressed mood and tells her that he would be happy to listen to what was on her mind. In the same conversation, he lets it slip out that he loves Thrace. Amused, Thrace cheers up a bit and teases Adama, telling him that there are no take-backs on what he said.&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama and Thrace join President Roslin and her other supporters on their quest to find the [[Tomb of Athena]] on Kobol. When Cylon Centurions ambush the group along an ancient trail, Adama and Thrace work well together in the fight, complementing each other for their fine shooting. During the incident, Adama chases what appeared to be an escaping Valerii, with Thrace calling Adama back in vain. Valerii takes a grenade launcher and aims it in the direction of Adama, but Valerii actually uses the weapon to destroy the last Centurion instead before dropping the weapon to a very surprised Adama.&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama&#039;s reunion with his recovered father on Kobol further mends the wounds between them, both politically and personally. Like Captain Adama had done on the &#039;&#039;Queen&#039;&#039;, his father reacts violently to the existence of a another copy of Valerii, leaving Captain Adama in the awkward position of defending her from his father.&lt;br /&gt;
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In the virtual planetarium created by the Tomb of Athena, Adama is the party member that completes the mystery of interpreting how to use the constellations as viewed from Earth to make a flight path. He spots the [[Wikipedia:Lagoon Nebula|Lagoon Nebula]] in the sky where the Scorpius constellation resided, a celestial body known to the Colonials which gives them a reference point to navigate to Earth. His father confirms Adama&#039;s observation, noting that the nebula is far away from their current location at Kobol.&lt;br /&gt;
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After the Fleet&#039;s reunification, Lee Adama is fully restored to flight status and his position as the Commander, Air Group ([[Final Cut]]).  Apollo doubts that [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] could successfully complete a prototype fighter later known as the [[Blackbird]], but in the end aids in its first test flight with Starbuck. Around this time, Adama begins to develop a peculiar attraction to Petty Officer 2nd Class [[Anastasia Dualla]] ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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===Reassignment===&lt;br /&gt;
Apollo is on [[CAP]] when the [[Mercury class battlestar|battlestar]] &#039;&#039;[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]&#039;&#039; reunites with &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;: he was one of the first to see it up close.  Soon afterwards, friction develops between Adama and the CAG of &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039;, Captain [[Cole Taylor|Cole &amp;quot;Stinger&amp;quot; Taylor]].  Taylor feels that Adama&#039;s pilots were undisciplined and implies that Adama has his position through his father&#039;s influence. Taylor recommends that Adama have his pilots focus on keeping a &amp;quot;killcount&amp;quot; of Raiders to encourage competition between his pilots, while Adama stresses that his first priority is to make sure that all of his pilots merely survive another day.&lt;br /&gt;
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To Adama&#039;s shock, Admiral [[Helena Cain]] re-assigns him and Lt. Thrace to &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039;, under Taylor&#039;s command.  Cain believes that having Commander Adama&#039;s son in the role of CAG was a mistake that had clouded Commander Adama&#039;s judgment, as young Adama had been insubordinate and even [[Kobol&#039;s Last Gleaming, Part II|mutinous]] in the past.  During a briefing on an upcoming scouting mission against the Cylon fleet following them, Thrace crassly points out that it would never work. She is grounded while Taylor orders Adama to perform the humiliating task of co-piloting a Raptor.  However, after the briefing, Adama surreptitiously gives Starbuck a surveillance package and tells her to take the Blackbird to carry out a recon mission on her own.  When Commander Adama and Admiral Cain turn on each other, Apollo is away in Taylor&#039;s Raptor on his recon mission ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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As the two battlestar commanders begin sparring with Vipers, &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; orders Taylor to relieve Adama of duty. Taylor pulls his sidearm and takes away Adama&#039;s. Now weaponless and with nothing more to do than to ride along, Adama asks permission to head to the rear of the Raptor. While Taylor is busy, Adama secretly sends an encoded [[wireless]] message to Starbuck on her whereabouts with the Blackbird and the secret stealth mission he tasked her with. It happened that Starbuck arrives back in the Fleet&#039;s space to see the furious and dangerous game of Viper-tag and replies to Adama, asking what was going on. Starbuck&#039;s return on the outer fringes of [[DRADIS]] activate proximity alarms on both &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;, whose Vipers unite as a team to intercept what they think is a [[Raider]]. Starbuck manages to identify herself before things get out of hand.&lt;br /&gt;
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Kara Thrace downloads her reconnaissance photos of what would be later known as the [[Resurrection Ship]] to a very surprised Admiral Cain, who promotes Thrace to Captain as well as assigning her as &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; [[CAG]], replacing Cole Taylor. Cain feels that persecuting Adama for authorizing Thrace&#039;s mission would be odd since she was promoting Thrace, so she decides to take Adama off flight status. In light of Thrace&#039;s new task of planning an attack on the Resurrection Ship, Thrace asks for and successfully returns Adama to flight status. He remains, however, demoted to Lieutenant ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama visits [[Karl Agathon]] and [[Galen Tyrol]] in the &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; brig, asking the two of them with a smile, &amp;quot;So, just how many kinds of stupid are you?&amp;quot; He informs them that their scheduled execution is on hold until at least after the battle operation, and tells how Commander Adama &amp;quot;went to the mat&amp;quot; for both of them in trying to get them back, almost going into a shooting war with &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
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After the battlestar commanders and their teams are briefed by Thrace on her attack plan, Commander Adama requests Thrace to stay to talk more on the plan and dismisses his son, asking him cryptically to &amp;quot;stay focused, son.&amp;quot; With young Adama gone, the elder Adama asks Thrace to kill Cain after the operation to prevent her from eventually having Commander Adama killed and, in turn, doom the Fleet to Cain&#039;s tyrannical commands. Commander Adama tells Thrace to take Lee Adama with her, to watch her back ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Battle of the Resurrection Ship ===&lt;br /&gt;
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With the recon photos from Starbucks mission in hand, Thrace plans an assault on the Resurrection Ship and the two [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]]s defending it.  At the same time, Starbuck told Apollo that his father had ordered her to kill Cain after the battle, and for Apollo to watch her back.  Outraged, Apollo confronted his father with this, who said that it wasn&#039;t something he wanted to do but that had to be done.  However, Apollo was shocked when his father told him that assassinating Cain was President Roslin&#039;s idea.  Apollo was in disbelief that as a society they had fallen to these levels.  Thrace assigns Adama the specific task of disabling the Resurrection Ship&#039;s [[FTL]] drive by sneaking up on it in the Blackbird and destroying it with a precision missile strike. Apollo is successful in his mission and disables the Resurrection Ship, however, he is then hit by a floating piece of debris. Apollo is able to eject, but the Blackbird is destroyed. Alive, but not unscathed, Apollo floats in space watching the battle take place, able to faintly hear the [[Dee]] calling for him over the wireless. A small hole in the leg on his flight suit allows most of his oxygen to escape into space. Drifting in and out of consciousness, he finds himself floating in a body of water, presumably on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] before the attack.&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama is found shortly afterwards by a [[SAR]] [[Raptor]] and is brought back from the brink of death on board. However Apollo becomes despondent and distant from his friends and family after his near death experience. In the pilots locker room, Thrace tells Adama &amp;quot;Lets just be glad that we both came back alive, alright?&amp;quot; to which Adama responds &amp;quot;Thats just it, Kara, I didn&#039;t want to make it back alive.&amp;quot; ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]])&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Black Market ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama (who has had his captains rank restored) and Thrace apprehend Viper saboteur [[Asha Janik]] of the [[Demand Peace]] group which is trying to make peace with the Cylons. ([[Epiphanies]]) &lt;br /&gt;
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After President Roslin is saved from her cancer ([[Epiphanies]]) she begins trying to put down the Fleet&#039;s [[Black market (organization)|Black Market]]. New Pegasus commander [[Jack Fisk]] is soon murdered leading the elder Adama (now an Admiral) to assign his son to investigate. After seeing prostitute [[Shevon]] and her daughter [[Paya]] on &#039;&#039;[[Cloud 9]]&#039;&#039; Adama is asked by [[Anastasia Dualla]] where the relationship between the two of them was going. After he can&#039;t answer Dualla takes it to mean it is over. Adama rushes back to Shevon&#039;s quarters after hearing a call for help from her, and is ambushed by thugs. Their leader [[Phelan]] warns him against investigating further. Lee is knocked unconscious and upon awaking finds everyone gone except the corpse of Fisk&#039;s murderer. &lt;br /&gt;
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With some help from [[Tom Zarek]] Adama finds the Black Markets main ship &#039;&#039;[[Prometheus]]&#039;&#039;, abroad which Paya and other children are locked up. He confronts Phelan who tells him a Black Market is needed in the Fleet since no supplies will ever reach the people any other way. Shevon is dragged out to admit she works for Phelan as a prostitute. Adama shoots Phelan and tells his bodyguards the market will continue unless it keeps holding back essential medicines, killing, and using child prostitution. &lt;br /&gt;
Shevon refuses to see Adama anymore, stating to him she and Paya are just replacements for his lost fiancé [[Gianne]] and their unborn child. ([[Black Market]])&lt;br /&gt;
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===Friendly Fire===&lt;br /&gt;
While on leave to [[Cloud 9]] with [[Anastasia Dualla]], a group of terrorists demanding they be allowed to kill [[Sharon Valerii]] held about a dozen people, including Dualla, Billy Keikeya, [[Ellen Tigh]] and Adama, hostage in a bar. Lee reacted quickly, sabotaging the bar&#039;s sensors so it appeared they were leaking atmosphere. The sabotage enabled Capt. Thrace to gather intelligence on the situation, but her cover was blown, and she was forced to lay down some fire to escape. One shot hit Adama in the chest. Dualla was able to care for Adama long enough for him to survive to Galactica&#039;s sickbay, and later sat at his bedside while he recovered. ([[Sacrifice]])&lt;br /&gt;
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===A Worthy Command ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama finds himself promoted to Major and assigned to battlestar [[Pegasus (RDM)|&#039;&#039;Pegasus]]&#039;&#039; as the [[Executive officer]] for new commander [[Barry Garner]], a former officer in Engineering. Garner finds an instant dislike for Starbuck and soon orders her to be sent back to &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;. Meanwhile, a Raptor recon mission near a binary star system becomes a [[SAR]] as the two craft go missing. Against orders from Admiral Adama, Garner takes &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; in to search for the Raptors. His impulsive and unwise efforts result in a Cylon ambush of three basestars.&lt;br /&gt;
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With the FTL drive damaged, he relegates command to Major Adama and heads below to help in FTL repairs. After a moment&#039;s hesitation (perhaps thinking what his father would do), Adama orders the forward guns to fire on the nearest basestar&#039;s central spire, critically damaging the basestar and forcing its retreat, while commanding the battlestar&#039;s fighters (led by Starbuck) to guard embattled areas damaged from nuclear pummeling. After Commander Garner successfully repairs a critical area and the FTL drive repaired, Major Adama retrieves the fighters and Jumps back to the Fleet and relative safety.&lt;br /&gt;
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Admiral Adama debriefs his son, and congratulates him by promoting him to the rank of Commander and giving him command of battlestar &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; ([[The Captain&#039;s Hand]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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Sometime later, Apollo wished Starbuck good luck in rescuing [[Anders]] and the rest of the [[Resistance]], despite his clear personal feeling towards her. ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]). After the two of them returned, Adama attempted to introduce himself politely, but was hampered by vast quantity of alcohol they had consumed.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Fatlee6as.jpg|thumb|left|Lee Adama in command of &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Just over a year later, Apollo was the Commander of a half-capacity, nearly unneeded Battlestar orbiting [[New Caprica]]. He was in the process of deciding whether or not to give Kara antibiotics for Anders (now her very ill husband) when Dualla (now an officer on the [[CIC]]) dicovered the Cylon fleet moving into the nebula. Adama and his father had a brief discussion over their course of action, before the Admiral ordered the Fleet, whose population now consisted less than ten thousand crew, to jump away, leaving New Caprica to the Cylons, for the time being. ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]])&lt;br /&gt;
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== Notes ==&lt;br /&gt;
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*From [[Ronald D. Moore]]&#039;s [[Wikipedia:blog|blog]], in response to a fan&#039;s question:&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;In my first draft of the [[Mini-Series|mini]], Lee Adama had just been accepted into test pilot school on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] and was not currently assigned to any [[battlestar]]. Presumably, he had been posted to at least a couple of battlestar [[CAG|air groups]] in his career, as well as several ground assignments as well. This isn&#039;t [[canon]] yet, however, and I&#039;m currently thinking of changing some elements of his specific backstory as I work on storylines for [[Season 2 (2005-06)|Season Two]]. Overall, I&#039;d say Lee was striving (perhaps too hard) to blaze a different path for himself in the fleet from that of his [[William Adama|father]]. I don&#039;t think Lee ever saw himself as a battlestar commander and was looking for a different way to make his mark.&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*According to Jamie Bamber, Adama&#039;s official character biography states that “Lee is never so happy as when he’s in his kitchen cooking.”&lt;br /&gt;
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*The subtitles under Apollo&#039;s name in &amp;quot;[[Final Cut]]&amp;quot; list him as &amp;quot;CFR&amp;quot;.  In the podcast, RDM explained that this stood for Colonial Fleet Reserves; likely analogous to the U.S. Army Reserve, the U.S. Air Force Reserve and such of the United States military; and Apollo is in that because, as stated above, he wasn&#039;t sure what he was doing with his life and wasn&#039;t sure if he was going to pursue a full career in the Fleet.&lt;br /&gt;
* Jamie Bamber is the husband of actress Kerry Norton, who portrays [[Layne Ishay]], the paramedic from &amp;quot;[[Scattered]]&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
* Bamber is actually a British citizen; he disguises his accent to play the role of Lee Adama.&lt;br /&gt;
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Here is SkyOne&#039;s summary of Lee Adama:&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Lee was born and raised on the colony of Caprica, where his family were born. A headstrong, scrappy boy, he was forever getting into fights at school.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;His parents divorced when he was just eight and his younger brother Zak was raised by their mother. His father visited him when he could, but military life often took him away for long periods. Nevertheless, both boys grew up worshipping this distant figure.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Lee always wanted to be a pilot; to follow in his father&#039;s footsteps and join the fleet. He studied hard at school, aced his entrance exams to the academy and graduated third in his class. But the boy&#039;s hero-worship eventually turned to resentment, and neither knew how to repair it.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;While Lee was at flight school, his younger brother was away at Viper Squadron and a plum assignment on Atlantia - flagship of the fleet. Lee tried to dissuade him, but Zak did not want to be the only Adama without wings on his uniform. Zak&#039;s application was turned down. As Commander Adama pulled a few strings to get his son in, Lee was furious.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Two weeks later, Zak&#039;s plane went down while he was flying a routine solo mission and he was killed. Lee spent the next two years focusing on his career, having no personal life and working to become the perfect fighter pilot.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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As this information does not come from the official Scifi.com site, it&#039;s authenticity is in question.  Further, it is contradicted by on screen evidence:  Zak was killed in an accident at flight school, and was never on a battlestar.  Further, Lee did not work hard (at least after Zak&#039;s death) to be the best Viper pilot or to improve his career; multiple cast interviews and RDM podcasts state that he was despondent, didn&#039;t know what to do with his life, and was considering leaving the service.  Further, in &amp;quot;[[Final Cut]]&amp;quot; we see that he is a member of the Colonial Fleet Reserves, not regular fleet, indicating that he wasn&#039;t particularly concerned with a lifelong career.&lt;br /&gt;
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== See Also ==&lt;br /&gt;
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* [[Apollo (TOS)]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Richard Hatch]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Tom Zarek]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;:&#039;&#039;The article discusses the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]] character with the pilot callsign of &amp;quot;Apollo.&amp;quot; For information on his [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] counterpart, see [[Apollo (TOS)]].&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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|parents= [[Caroline Adama]] (mother, likely deceased), [[William Adama]] (father)&lt;br /&gt;
|siblings= [[Zak Adama]] (deceased)&lt;br /&gt;
|children=1 unborn child with Gianne (presumed deceased)&lt;br /&gt;
|marital status= Dating [[Anastasia Dualla]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== Biographical Notes ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Background ===&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Lee &amp;quot;Apollo&amp;quot; Adama&#039;&#039;&#039; is the eldest son of [[Caroline Adama|Caroline]] and [[William Adama]]. Together with his younger brother, Zak, he was raised largely by his mother on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]], following his parents&#039; divorce when he was eight. &lt;br /&gt;
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Despite his father&#039;s estrangement from the family, Adama nevertheless inherited his passion for flying - a passion that saw him enrolling in the Colonial military reserves after graduating from college. Following his basic training, he graduated from the military academy third in his class and immediately applied for flight school. &lt;br /&gt;
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Not to be outdone by his elder brother, Zak Adama applied for military service, a move that eventually brought tragedy to the Adama household.&lt;br /&gt;
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Accepted into flight school, Adama proved himself a gifted and natural pilot, hampered only by his tendency to over-intellectualise things - a result of his upbringing with his mother, who encouraged him to read widely, and think freely (encouragement that lead him to read banned texts by the renegade [[Tom Zarek]] while at college ([[Bastille Day]])).    &lt;br /&gt;
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Graduating from flight school, Adama was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Colonial Reserve, flying the [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] Mark VII. During this time, he was also introduced to [[Kara Thrace|Kara &amp;quot;Starbuck&amp;quot; Thrace]], a training instructor at flight school, who was also involved with Zak Adama. While Adama was still at flight school, the three frequently spent time together, and Adama and Thrace developed a friendship through Zak Adama ([[Mini-Series]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Brother&#039;s Death ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Tragedy struck some two years prior to the renewed Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies when Zak Adama, recently graduated from flight school, was killed on a routine Viper mission. At the time, the cause of the accident was put down to pilot error. However, Lee Adama chose to blame the mishap on his father, whom he believed had pushed Zak into applying for military service and for applying for flight school ([[Mini-Series]]). &lt;br /&gt;
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Following Zak&#039;s death, Lee Adama became estranged from his father, seeking to build his career well away from any influence exerted by either William Adama or the legendary [[Original battlestar (RDM)|battlestar]] &#039;&#039;[[Galactica]]&#039;&#039;, his father&#039;s command. While he was successful in this - gaining promotion to Captain through his own abilities, the decision nevertheless placed a heavy strain on his friendship with Kara Thrace, as she applied for pilot duty aboard &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;. &lt;br /&gt;
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Adama spends much time on Caprica and becomes engaged to a woman named [[Gianne]].  She tells him she is pregnant with their child, causing him to run from her due to his own family issues.  Before he can speak with her again he is assigned to &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;. ([[Black Market]])  &lt;br /&gt;
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Adama is reunited with both his father and Kara Thrace when it was decided &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; should be decommissioned and handed over to civil authorities as a living museum and educational center of the [[Cylon War]]. As a part of the final ceremonies marking &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;s&#039;&#039; retirement, Lee Adama is ordered to participate in a final Viper flyby to salute both the ship and her commanding officer - an assignment he undertakes grudgingly, doing little to hide his true feelings from the moment he arrives on the battlestar ([[Mini-Series]]). Matters are not helped when he discovers he will fly not in his own Mark VII Viper, but in the newly-restored Mark II Viper his father had flown during the Cylon War ([[Mini-Series]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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Things worsen after the PR official aboard &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;, [[Aaron Doral]], sees Captain Adama&#039;s presence on &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; as a major PR opportunity and has Adama and his father pose for pictures together. Immediately following this, Adama confronts his father over Zak&#039;s death, during which he vents two years&#039; worth of anger, clearly expressing his belief that William Adama was responsible for the loss of his brother.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Surprise [[Cylon Attack]] ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Following the decommissioning ceremony, Lee Adama departs &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;, acting as a unofficial escort for &#039;&#039;[[Colonial Heavy 798]]&#039;&#039;, the official transport for Secretary of Education [[Laura Roslin]], who represented President [[Richard Adar|Adar]] at the ceremony. Mid-way through their return to [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]], Adama and the crew of &#039;&#039;Colonial Heavy 798&#039;&#039; hear of the Cylon attacks on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]], and soon find themselves under direct attack. While Adama is able to thwart the missile attack, his father&#039;s old Viper is disabled and is brought aboard &#039;&#039;Colonial Heavy 798&#039;&#039;. Adama becomes one of Laura Roslin&#039;s unofficial advisors, aiding her in her self-appointed rescue mission. Adama&#039;s annoyance of his father&#039;s old Viper comes back to haunt him when [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]], returning from her unexpected rescue mission on Caprica and disastrous attack on two [[Cylon Raider]]s, notes to him that other Vipers and other modern Colonial spacecraft like his Mark VII were [[Command Navigation Program|easily destroyed]] by Cylon attacks.&lt;br /&gt;
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Following his disobedience of a direct order from his father , Adama again saves &#039;&#039;Colonial Heavy 798&#039;&#039; from a nuclear missile attack with a failed experiment he toyed with in [[War College]], using &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;s&#039;&#039; [[EMP]] coils that were placed on the ship for return to Caprica and the Colonial Fleet - while simultaneously making it look like the ship had been destroyed. He supports Roslin in her rescue efforts. Adama persuades Roslin to lead the [[FTL]]-capable ships to follow &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; to the [[Ragnar Anchorage]]. &lt;br /&gt;
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As the ranking pilot aboard &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;, and despite his relative inexperience, Adama finds himself promoted to the position of CAG by Colonel [[Saul Tigh]].&lt;br /&gt;
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Apollo leads a Viper squadron in keeping [[Cylon Raider]]s at bay while the civilian [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] Jumps away from Ragnar Anchorage. His ship is badly damaged midway in the battle and Adama would have been killed by a missile were it not for the lightning-fast and highly-accurate shooting of Starbuck. Starbuck&#039;s highly unconventional flying force-fits her fighter and Adama&#039;s now-powerless Viper nose-to-nose and flies him back to the battlestar seconds before the port [[flight pod]] closes and &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; Jumps away.&lt;br /&gt;
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The attacks presumably kill Lee&#039;s fiancé [[Gianne]] and their unborn child before Lee can speak to her again.  This drives him into depression leading him to at an unknown time start seeing a prostitute named [[Shevon]] ([[Black Market]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Special Advisor ===  &lt;br /&gt;
[[image:Water_Apollo_Roslin.jpg|thumb|left|300px|[[Lee Adama|Adama]] and President Roslin shake hands after appointment as military advisor in &amp;quot;[[Water]]&amp;quot;. (c) Universal)]]&lt;br /&gt;
Lee Adama finds himself attached to Roslin as a &amp;quot;special advisor&amp;quot; to further help her understand military matters. This appointment does not sit well with his father ([[Bastille Day]]).   &lt;br /&gt;
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When tensions rise during a hostage crisis with prisoners aboard the &#039;&#039;[[Astral Queen]]&#039;&#039;, Adama resolves the situation with only one life lost through an arrangement reached between Adama and the leader of the convicts, [[Tom Zarek]]. While the solution is sensible, it is not to the liking of either Commander Adama or President Roslin. &lt;br /&gt;
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In the weeks following the Cylon attack, Adama finds time to re-evaluate his relationship with his father - due in no small part to Starbuck&#039;s admission of her involvement in Zak&#039;s acceptance as a fighter pilot ([[Mini-Series]]) and his subsequent death.  Father and son grow somewhat closer - even standing shoulder-to-shoulder when Starbuck is MIA ([[You Can&#039;t Go Home Again]]). Even so, Adama&#039;s former self-doubts and moodiness are not easily overcome and sometimes come back to haunt him when he is tasked to fill a role that others are unsure he can manage. As a Viper pilot, Adama is able to escape from Starbuck&#039;s shadow, proving himself capable in unconventional and skilled flying in the [[Battle for the Tylium Asteroid]] ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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After the tylium asteroid mission, Adama matures enormously, emerging from his shell as a somewhat disillusioned officer and becomes a practical leader who now comfortably straddles his responsibilities as [[CAG]] of &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; with his duties as advisor to Roslin. With few issues with either Roslin or his father, Adama demonstrates his maturity particularly well in his handling of security arrangements for the initial meeting of Roslin&#039;s [[Quorum of Twelve]] aboard the luxury liner &#039;&#039;[[Cloud Nine]]&#039;&#039; ([[Colonial Day]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Inner Conflicts at Kobol ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Unfortunately, Adama&#039;s beliefs in the need for democratic representation and civil government brings him in direct conflict with orders given him by Commander Adama. During the arrest of Laura Roslin following her [[Arrow of Apollo|interference with military operations]], Captain Adama draws his gun on [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]] in a direct act of mutiny, protesting his father&#039;s removal of Roslin from office. Arrested together with Roslin, Adama watches helplessly in [[CIC]] as [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Lieutenant Valerii]] shoots his father at point blank range, seriously wounding him ([[Kobol&#039;s Last Gleaming, Part II]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama is temporarily furloughed by Colonel Tigh so that he can continue his CAG responsibilities, For a time, Commander Adama&#039;s initiative lives on through his son. Young Adama leads a fight with Cylons to buy time for &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; to find its proper bearings to the civilian Fleet ([[Scattered]]), He leads a team of [[Marines]] to stop [[Cylon Centurion]]s from reaching [[Aft Damage Control]], saving the ship ([[Valley of Darkness]]). After that, Adama continues his initiative and leads a [[SAR]] mission with two [[Raptors]] to retrieve stranded Colonials on the surface of Kobol ([[Fragged]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama&#039;s desire to let democracy work without overt military action comes to a head once more as he plots with a handful of others to free Roslin and smuggle her away from &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; ([[The Farm]]). Before he leaves, he apologizes to his unconscious Commander Adama at his bedside for what he is about to do: Leave with Roslin and a [[Laura Roslin faction|faction]] of ships to search for data on Earth on Kobol. Commander Adama begins to awaken just as Adama leaves his side.&lt;br /&gt;
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On the &#039;&#039;[[Astral Queen]]&#039;&#039;, Adama is so happy to see Kara Thrace returned safely from Caprica with the Arrow of Apollo that he hugs and also impulsively kisses her, pleasantly surprising Thrace ([[Home, Part I]]). Moments later, as the Caprica copy of Sharon Valerii entered, Adama instantly grabs the known [[Cylon agent]] in anger and would have killed her if Helo and Roslin did not intervene.&lt;br /&gt;
[[image:Home_pt1-Apollo_Starbuck.jpg|thumb|[[Lee Adama|Adama]] and Kara Thrace speak aboard the &#039;&#039;Astral Queen&#039;&#039; in &amp;quot;Home, Part I&amp;quot;. (c) Universal)]]&lt;br /&gt;
Later, with their military protocols and attitudes temporarily relaxed, Adama playfully teases the brooding Kara Thrace by stealing a [[pyramid (RDM)|pyramid]] ball she took as a keepsake from her time with [[Samuel Anders|Anders]] on Caprica. He returns the ball after sensing her depressed mood and tells her that he would be happy to listen to what was on her mind. In the same conversation, he lets it slip out that he loves Thrace. Amused, Thrace cheers up a bit and teases Adama, telling him that there are no take-backs on what he said.&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama and Thrace join President Roslin and her other supporters on their quest to find the [[Tomb of Athena]] on Kobol. When Cylon Centurions ambush the group along an ancient trail, Adama and Thrace work well together in the fight, complementing each other for their fine shooting. During the incident, Adama chases what appeared to be an escaping Valerii, with Thrace calling Adama back in vain. Valerii takes a grenade launcher and aims it in the direction of Adama, but Valerii actually uses the weapon to destroy the last Centurion instead before dropping the weapon to a very surprised Adama.&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama&#039;s reunion with his recovered father on Kobol further mends the wounds between them, both politically and personally. Like Captain Adama had done on the &#039;&#039;Queen&#039;&#039;, his father reacts violently to the existence of a another copy of Valerii, leaving Captain Adama in the awkward position of defending her from his father.&lt;br /&gt;
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In the virtual planetarium created by the Tomb of Athena, Adama is the party member that completes the mystery of interpreting how to use the constellations as viewed from Earth to make a flight path. He spots the [[Wikipedia:Lagoon Nebula|Lagoon Nebula]] in the sky where the Scorpius constellation resided, a celestial body known to the Colonials which gives them a reference point to navigate to Earth. His father confirms Adama&#039;s observation, noting that the nebula is far away from their current location at Kobol.&lt;br /&gt;
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After the Fleet&#039;s reunification, Lee Adama is fully restored to flight status and his position as the Commander, Air Group ([[Final Cut]]).  Apollo doubts that [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] could successfully complete a prototype fighter later known as the [[Blackbird]], but in the end aids in its first test flight with Starbuck. Around this time, Adama begins to develop a peculiar attraction to Petty Officer 2nd Class [[Anastasia Dualla]] ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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===Reassignment===&lt;br /&gt;
Apollo is on [[CAP]] when the [[Mercury class battlestar|battlestar]] &#039;&#039;[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]&#039;&#039; reunites with &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;: he was one of the first to see it up close.  Soon afterwards, friction develops between Adama and the CAG of &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039;, Captain [[Cole Taylor|Cole &amp;quot;Stinger&amp;quot; Taylor]].  Taylor feels that Adama&#039;s pilots were undisciplined and implies that Adama has his position through his father&#039;s influence. Taylor recommends that Adama have his pilots focus on keeping a &amp;quot;killcount&amp;quot; of Raiders to encourage competition between his pilots, while Adama stresses that his first priority is to make sure that all of his pilots merely survive another day.&lt;br /&gt;
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To Adama&#039;s shock, Admiral [[Helena Cain]] re-assigns him and Lt. Thrace to &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039;, under Taylor&#039;s command.  Cain believes that having Commander Adama&#039;s son in the role of CAG was a mistake that had clouded Commander Adama&#039;s judgment, as young Adama had been insubordinate and even [[Kobol&#039;s Last Gleaming, Part II|mutinous]] in the past.  During a briefing on an upcoming scouting mission against the Cylon fleet following them, Thrace crassly points out that it would never work. She is grounded while Taylor orders Adama to perform the humiliating task of co-piloting a Raptor.  However, after the briefing, Adama surreptitiously gives Starbuck a surveillance package and tells her to take the Blackbird to carry out a recon mission on her own.  When Commander Adama and Admiral Cain turn on each other, Apollo is away in Taylor&#039;s Raptor on his recon mission ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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As the two battlestar commanders begin sparring with Vipers, &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; orders Taylor to relieve Adama of duty. Taylor pulls his sidearm and takes away Adama&#039;s. Now weaponless and with nothing more to do than to ride along, Adama asks permission to head to the rear of the Raptor. While Taylor is busy, Adama secretly sends an encoded [[wireless]] message to Starbuck on her whereabouts with the Blackbird and the secret stealth mission he tasked her with. It happened that Starbuck arrives back in the Fleet&#039;s space to see the furious and dangerous game of Viper-tag and replies to Adama, asking what was going on. Starbuck&#039;s return on the outer fringes of [[DRADIS]] activate proximity alarms on both &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;, whose Vipers unite as a team to intercept what they think is a [[Raider]]. Starbuck manages to identify herself before things get out of hand.&lt;br /&gt;
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Kara Thrace downloads her reconnaissance photos of what would be later known as the [[Resurrection Ship]] to a very surprised Admiral Cain, who promotes Thrace to Captain as well as assigning her as &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; [[CAG]], replacing Cole Taylor. Cain feels that persecuting Adama for authorizing Thrace&#039;s mission would be odd since she was promoting Thrace, so she decides to take Adama off flight status. In light of Thrace&#039;s new task of planning an attack on the Resurrection Ship, Thrace asks for and successfully returns Adama to flight status. He remains, however, demoted to Lieutenant ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama visits [[Karl Agathon]] and [[Galen Tyrol]] in the &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; brig, asking the two of them with a smile, &amp;quot;So, just how many kinds of stupid are you?&amp;quot; He informs them that their scheduled execution is on hold until at least after the battle operation, and tells how Commander Adama &amp;quot;went to the mat&amp;quot; for both of them in trying to get them back, almost going into a shooting war with &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
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After the battlestar commanders and their teams are briefed by Thrace on her attack plan, Commander Adama requests Thrace to stay to talk more on the plan and dismisses his son, asking him cryptically to &amp;quot;stay focused, son.&amp;quot; With young Adama gone, the elder Adama asks Thrace to kill Cain after the operation to prevent her from eventually having Commander Adama killed and, in turn, doom the Fleet to Cain&#039;s tyrannical commands. Commander Adama tells Thrace to take Lee Adama with her, to watch her back ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Battle of the Resurrection Ship ===&lt;br /&gt;
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With the recon photos from Starbucks mission in hand, Thrace plans an assault on the Resurrection Ship and the two [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]]s defending it.  At the same time, Starbuck told Apollo that his father had ordered her to kill Cain after the battle, and for Apollo to watch her back.  Outraged, Apollo confronted his father with this, who said that it wasn&#039;t something he wanted to do but that had to be done.  However, Apollo was shocked when his father told him that assassinating Cain was President Roslin&#039;s idea.  Apollo was in disbelief that as a society they had fallen to these levels.  Thrace assigns Adama the specific task of disabling the Resurrection Ship&#039;s [[FTL]] drive by sneaking up on it in the Blackbird and destroying it with a precision missile strike. Apollo is successful in his mission and disables the Resurrection Ship, however, he is then hit by a floating piece of debris. Apollo is able to eject, but the Blackbird is destroyed. Alive, but not unscathed, Apollo floats in space watching the battle take place, able to faintly hear the [[Dee]] calling for him over the wireless. A small hole in the leg on his flight suit allows most of his oxygen to escape into space. Drifting in and out of consciousness, he finds himself floating in a body of water, presumably on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] before the attack.&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama is found shortly afterwards by a [[SAR]] [[Raptor]] and is brought back from the brink of death on board. However Apollo becomes despondent and distant from his friends and family after his near death experience. In the pilots locker room, Thrace tells Adama &amp;quot;Lets just be glad that we both came back alive, alright?&amp;quot; to which Adama responds &amp;quot;Thats just it, Kara, I didn&#039;t want to make it back alive.&amp;quot; ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]])&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Black Market ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama (who has had his captains rank restored) and Thrace apprehend Viper saboteur [[Asha Janik]] of the [[Demand Peace]] group which is trying to make peace with the Cylons. ([[Epiphanies]]) &lt;br /&gt;
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After President Roslin is saved from her cancer ([[Epiphanies]]) she begins trying to put down the Fleet&#039;s [[Black market (organization)|Black Market]]. New Pegasus commander [[Jack Fisk]] is soon murdered leading the elder Adama (now an Admiral) to assign his son to investigate. After seeing prostitute [[Shevon]] and her daughter [[Paya]] on &#039;&#039;[[Cloud 9]]&#039;&#039; Adama is asked by [[Anastasia Dualla]] where the relationship between the two of them was going. After he can&#039;t answer Dualla takes it to mean it is over. Adama rushes back to Shevon&#039;s quarters after hearing a call for help from her, and is ambushed by thugs. Their leader [[Phelan]] warns him against investigating further. Lee is knocked unconscious and upon awaking finds everyone gone except the corpse of Fisk&#039;s murderer. &lt;br /&gt;
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With some help from [[Tom Zarek]] Adama finds the Black Markets main ship &#039;&#039;[[Prometheus]]&#039;&#039;, abroad which Paya and other children are locked up. He confronts Phelan who tells him a Black Market is needed in the Fleet since no supplies will ever reach the people any other way. Shevon is dragged out to admit she works for Phelan as a prostitute. Adama shoots Phelan and tells his bodyguards the market will continue unless it keeps holding back essential medicines, killing, and using child prostitution. &lt;br /&gt;
Shevon refuses to see Adama anymore, stating to him she and Paya are just replacements for his lost fiancé [[Gianne]] and their unborn child. ([[Black Market]])&lt;br /&gt;
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===Friendly Fire===&lt;br /&gt;
While on leave to [[Cloud 9]] with [[Anastasia Dualla]], a group of terrorists demanding they be allowed to kill [[Sharon Valerii]] held about a dozen people, including Dualla, Billy Keikeya, [[Ellen Tigh]] and Adama, hostage in a bar. Lee reacted quickly, sabotaging the bar&#039;s sensors so it appeared they were leaking atmosphere. The sabotage enabled Capt. Thrace to gather intelligence on the situation, but her cover was blown, and she was forced to lay down some fire to escape. One shot hit Adama in the chest. Dualla was able to care for Adama long enough for him to survive to Galactica&#039;s sickbay, and later sat at his bedside while he recovered. ([[Sacrifice]])&lt;br /&gt;
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===A Worthy Command ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama finds himself promoted to Major and assigned to battlestar [[Pegasus (RDM)|&#039;&#039;Pegasus]]&#039;&#039; as the [[Executive officer]] for new commander [[Barry Garner]], a former officer in Engineering. Garner finds an instant dislike for Starbuck and soon orders her to be sent back to &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;. Meanwhile, a Raptor recon mission near a binary star system becomes a [[SAR]] as the two craft go missing. Against orders from Admiral Adama, Garner takes &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; in to search for the Raptors. His impulsive and unwise efforts result in a Cylon ambush of three basestars.&lt;br /&gt;
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With the FTL drive damaged, he relegates command to Major Adama and heads below to help in FTL repairs. After a moment&#039;s hesitation (perhaps thinking what his father would do), Adama orders the forward guns to fire on the nearest basestar&#039;s central spire, critically damaging the basestar and forcing its retreat, while commanding the battlestar&#039;s fighters (led by Starbuck) to guard embattled areas damaged from nuclear pummeling. After Commander Garner successfully repairs a critical area and the FTL drive repaired, Major Adama retrieves the fighters and Jumps back to the Fleet and relative safety.&lt;br /&gt;
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Admiral Adama debriefs his son, and congratulates him by promoting him to the rank of Commander and giving him command of battlestar &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; ([[The Captain&#039;s Hand]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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Sometime later, Apollo wished Starbuck good luck in rescuing [[Anders]] and the rest of the [[Resistance]], despite his clear personal feeling towards her. ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]). After the two of them returned, Adama attempted to introduce himself politely, but was hampered by vast quantity of alcohol they had consumed.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Fatlee6as.jpg|thumb|left|Lee Adama in command of &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Just over a year later, Apollo was the Commander of a half-capacity, nearly unneeded Battlestar orbiting [[New Caprica]]. He was in the process of deciding whether or not to give Kara antibiotics for Anders (now her very ill husband) when Dualla (now an officer on the [[CIC]]) dicovered the Cylon fleet moving into the nebula. Adama and his father had a brief discussion over their course of action, before the Admiral ordered the Fleet, whose population now consisted less than ten thousand crew, to jump away, leaving New Caprica to the Cylons, for the time being. ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]])&lt;br /&gt;
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== Notes ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;Some of this information may not be [[canon]].&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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*From [[Ronald D. Moore]]&#039;s [[Wikipedia:blog|blog]], in response to a fan&#039;s question:&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;In my first draft of the [[Mini-Series|mini]], Lee Adama had just been accepted into test pilot school on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] and was not currently assigned to any [[battlestar]]. Presumably, he had been posted to at least a couple of battlestar [[CAG|air groups]] in his career, as well as several ground assignments as well. This isn&#039;t [[canon]] yet, however, and I&#039;m currently thinking of changing some elements of his specific backstory as I work on storylines for [[Season 2 (2005-06)|Season Two]]. Overall, I&#039;d say Lee was striving (perhaps too hard) to blaze a different path for himself in the fleet from that of his [[William Adama|father]]. I don&#039;t think Lee ever saw himself as a battlestar commander and was looking for a different way to make his mark.&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*According to Jamie Bamber, Adama&#039;s official character biography states that “Lee is never so happy as when he’s in his kitchen cooking.”&lt;br /&gt;
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*The subtitles under Apollo&#039;s name in &amp;quot;[[Final Cut]]&amp;quot; list him as &amp;quot;CFR&amp;quot;.  In the podcast, RDM explained that this stood for Colonial Fleet Reserves; likely analogous to the U.S. Army Reserve, the U.S. Air Force Reserve and such of the United States military; and Apollo is in that because, as stated above, he wasn&#039;t sure what he was doing with his life and wasn&#039;t sure if he was going to pursue a full career in the Fleet.&lt;br /&gt;
* Jamie Bamber is the husband of actress Kerry Norton, who portrays [[Layne Ishay]], the paramedic from &amp;quot;[[Scattered]]&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
* Bamber is actually a British citizen; he disguises his accent to play the role of Lee Adama.&lt;br /&gt;
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Here is SkyOne&#039;s summary of Lee Adama:&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Lee was born and raised on the colony of Caprica, where his family were born. A headstrong, scrappy boy, he was forever getting into fights at school.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;His parents divorced when he was just eight and his younger brother Zak was raised by their mother. His father visited him when he could, but military life often took him away for long periods. Nevertheless, both boys grew up worshipping this distant figure.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Lee always wanted to be a pilot; to follow in his father&#039;s footsteps and join the fleet. He studied hard at school, aced his entrance exams to the academy and graduated third in his class. But the boy&#039;s hero-worship eventually turned to resentment, and neither knew how to repair it.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;While Lee was at flight school, his younger brother was away at Viper Squadron and a plum assignment on Atlantia - flagship of the fleet. Lee tried to dissuade him, but Zak did not want to be the only Adama without wings on his uniform. Zak&#039;s application was turned down. As Commander Adama pulled a few strings to get his son in, Lee was furious.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Two weeks later, Zak&#039;s plane went down while he was flying a routine solo mission and he was killed. Lee spent the next two years focusing on his career, having no personal life and working to become the perfect fighter pilot.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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As this information does not come from the official Scifi.com site, it&#039;s authenticity is in question.  Further, it is contradicted by on screen evidence:  Zak was killed in an accident at flight school, and was never on a battlestar.  Further, Lee did not work hard (at least after Zak&#039;s death) to be the best Viper pilot or to improve his career; multiple cast interviews and RDM podcasts state that he was despondent, didn&#039;t know what to do with his life, and was considering leaving the service.  Further, in &amp;quot;[[Final Cut]]&amp;quot; we see that he is a member of the Colonial Fleet Reserves, not regular fleet, indicating that he wasn&#039;t particularly concerned with a lifelong career.&lt;br /&gt;
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== See Also ==&lt;br /&gt;
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* [[Apollo (TOS)]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Richard Hatch]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Tom Zarek]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;:&#039;&#039;The article discusses the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]] character with the pilot callsign of &amp;quot;Apollo.&amp;quot; For information on his [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] counterpart, see [[Apollo (TOS)]].&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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|parents= [[Caroline Adama]] (mother, likely deceased), [[William Adama]] (father)&lt;br /&gt;
|siblings= [[Zak Adama]] (deceased)&lt;br /&gt;
|children=1 unborn child with Gianne (presumed deceased)&lt;br /&gt;
|marital status= Dating [[Anastasia Dualla]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== Biographical Notes ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Background ===&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Lee &amp;quot;Apollo&amp;quot; Adama&#039;&#039;&#039; is the eldest son of [[Caroline Adama|Caroline]] and [[William Adama]]. Together with his younger brother, Zak, he was raised largely by his mother on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]], following his parents&#039; divorce when he was eight. &lt;br /&gt;
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Despite his father&#039;s estrangement from the family, Adama nevertheless inherited his passion for flying - a passion that saw him enrolling in the Colonial military reserves after graduating from college. Following his basic training, he graduated from the military academy third in his class and immediately applied for flight school. &lt;br /&gt;
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Not to be outdone by his elder brother, Zak Adama applied for military service, a move that eventually brought tragedy to the Adama household.&lt;br /&gt;
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Accepted into flight school, Adama proved himself a gifted and natural pilot, hampered only by his tendency to over-intellectualise things - a result of his upbringing with his mother, who encouraged him to read widely, and think freely (encouragement that lead him to read banned texts by the renegade [[Tom Zarek]] while at college ([[Bastille Day]])).    &lt;br /&gt;
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Graduating from flight school, Adama was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Colonial Reserve, flying the [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] Mark VII. During this time, he was also introduced to [[Kara Thrace|Kara &amp;quot;Starbuck&amp;quot; Thrace]], a training instructor at flight school, who was also involved with Zak Adama. While Adama was still at flight school, the three frequently spent time together, and Adama and Thrace developed a friendship through Zak Adama ([[Mini-Series]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Brother&#039;s Death ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Tragedy struck some two years prior to the renewed Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies when Zak Adama, recently graduated from flight school, was killed on a routine Viper mission. At the time, the cause of the accident was put down to pilot error. However, Lee Adama chose to blame the mishap on his father, whom he believed had pushed Zak into applying for military service and for applying for flight school ([[Mini-Series]]). &lt;br /&gt;
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Following Zak&#039;s death, Lee Adama became estranged from his father, seeking to build his career well away from any influence exerted by either William Adama or the legendary [[Original battlestar (RDM)|battlestar]] &#039;&#039;[[Galactica]]&#039;&#039;, his father&#039;s command. While he was successful in this - gaining promotion to Captain through his own abilities, the decision nevertheless placed a heavy strain on his friendship with Kara Thrace, as she applied for pilot duty aboard &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;. &lt;br /&gt;
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Adama spends much time on Caprica and becomes engaged to a woman named [[Gianne]].  She tells him she is pregnant with their child, causing him to run from her due to his own family issues.  Before he can speak with her again he is assigned to &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;. ([[Black Market]])  &lt;br /&gt;
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Adama is reunited with both his father and Kara Thrace when it was decided &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; should be decommissioned and handed over to civil authorities as a living museum and educational center of the [[Cylon War]]. As a part of the final ceremonies marking &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;s&#039;&#039; retirement, Lee Adama is ordered to participate in a final Viper flyby to salute both the ship and her commanding officer - an assignment he undertakes grudgingly, doing little to hide his true feelings from the moment he arrives on the battlestar ([[Mini-Series]]). Matters are not helped when he discovers he will fly not in his own Mark VII Viper, but in the newly-restored Mark II Viper his father had flown during the Cylon War ([[Mini-Series]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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Things worsen after the PR official aboard &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;, [[Aaron Doral]], sees Captain Adama&#039;s presence on &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; as a major PR opportunity and has Adama and his father pose for pictures together. Immediately following this, Adama confronts his father over Zak&#039;s death, during which he vents two years&#039; worth of anger, clearly expressing his belief that William Adama was responsible for the loss of his brother.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Surprise [[Cylon Attack]] ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Following the decommissioning ceremony, Lee Adama departs &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;, acting as a unofficial escort for &#039;&#039;[[Colonial Heavy 798]]&#039;&#039;, the official transport for Secretary of Education [[Laura Roslin]], who represented President [[Richard Adar|Adar]] at the ceremony. Mid-way through their return to [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]], Adama and the crew of &#039;&#039;Colonial Heavy 798&#039;&#039; hear of the Cylon attacks on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]], and soon find themselves under direct attack. While Adama is able to thwart the missile attack, his father&#039;s old Viper is disabled and is brought aboard &#039;&#039;Colonial Heavy 798&#039;&#039;. Adama becomes one of Laura Roslin&#039;s unofficial advisors, aiding her in her self-appointed rescue mission. Adama&#039;s annoyance of his father&#039;s old Viper comes back to haunt him when [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]], returning from her unexpected rescue mission on Caprica and disastrous attack on two [[Cylon Raider]]s, notes to him that other Vipers and other modern Colonial spacecraft like his Mark VII were [[Command Navigation Program|easily destroyed]] by Cylon attacks.&lt;br /&gt;
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Following his disobedience of a direct order from his father , Adama again saves &#039;&#039;Colonial Heavy 798&#039;&#039; from a nuclear missile attack with a failed experiment he toyed with in [[War College]], using &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;s&#039;&#039; [[EMP]] coils that were placed on the ship for return to Caprica and the Colonial Fleet - while simultaneously making it look like the ship had been destroyed. He supports Roslin in her rescue efforts. Adama persuades Roslin to lead the [[FTL]]-capable ships to follow &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; to the [[Ragnar Anchorage]]. &lt;br /&gt;
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As the ranking pilot aboard &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;, and despite his relative inexperience, Adama finds himself promoted to the position of CAG by Colonel [[Saul Tigh]].&lt;br /&gt;
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Apollo leads a Viper squadron in keeping [[Cylon Raider]]s at bay while the civilian [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] Jumps away from Ragnar Anchorage. His ship is badly damaged midway in the battle and Adama would have been killed by a missile were it not for the lightning-fast and highly-accurate shooting of Starbuck. Starbuck&#039;s highly unconventional flying force-fits her fighter and Adama&#039;s now-powerless Viper nose-to-nose and flies him back to the battlestar seconds before the port [[flight pod]] closes and &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; Jumps away.&lt;br /&gt;
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The attacks presumably kill Lee&#039;s fiancé [[Gianne]] and their unborn child before Lee can speak to her again.  This drives him into depression leading him to at an unknown time start seeing a prostitute named [[Shevon]] ([[Black Market]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Special Advisor ===  &lt;br /&gt;
[[image:Water_Apollo_Roslin.jpg|thumb|left|300px|[[Lee Adama|Adama]] and President Roslin shake hands after appointment as military advisor in &amp;quot;[[Water]]&amp;quot;. (c) Universal)]]&lt;br /&gt;
Lee Adama finds himself attached to Roslin as a &amp;quot;special advisor&amp;quot; to further help her understand military matters. This appointment does not sit well with his father ([[Bastille Day]]).   &lt;br /&gt;
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When tensions rise during a hostage crisis with prisoners aboard the &#039;&#039;[[Astral Queen]]&#039;&#039;, Adama resolves the situation with only one life lost through an arrangement reached between Adama and the leader of the convicts, [[Tom Zarek]]. While the solution is sensible, it is not to the liking of either Commander Adama or President Roslin. &lt;br /&gt;
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In the weeks following the Cylon attack, Adama finds time to re-evaluate his relationship with his father - due in no small part to Starbuck&#039;s admission of her involvement in Zak&#039;s acceptance as a fighter pilot ([[Mini-Series]]) and his subsequent death.  Father and son grow somewhat closer - even standing shoulder-to-shoulder when Starbuck is MIA ([[You Can&#039;t Go Home Again]]). Even so, Adama&#039;s former self-doubts and moodiness are not easily overcome and sometimes come back to haunt him when he is tasked to fill a role that others are unsure he can manage. As a Viper pilot, Adama is able to escape from Starbuck&#039;s shadow, proving himself capable in unconventional and skilled flying in the [[Battle for the Tylium Asteroid]] ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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After the tylium asteroid mission, Adama matures enormously, emerging from his shell as a somewhat disillusioned officer and becomes a practical leader who now comfortably straddles his responsibilities as [[CAG]] of &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; with his duties as advisor to Roslin. With few issues with either Roslin or his father, Adama demonstrates his maturity particularly well in his handling of security arrangements for the initial meeting of Roslin&#039;s [[Quorum of Twelve]] aboard the luxury liner &#039;&#039;[[Cloud Nine]]&#039;&#039; ([[Colonial Day]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Inner Conflicts at Kobol ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Unfortunately, Adama&#039;s beliefs in the need for democratic representation and civil government brings him in direct conflict with orders given him by Commander Adama. During the arrest of Laura Roslin following her [[Arrow of Apollo|interference with military operations]], Captain Adama draws his gun on [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]] in a direct act of mutiny, protesting his father&#039;s removal of Roslin from office. Arrested together with Roslin, Adama watches helplessly in [[CIC]] as [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Lieutenant Valerii]] shoots his father at point blank range, seriously wounding him ([[Kobol&#039;s Last Gleaming, Part II]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama is temporarily furloughed by Colonel Tigh so that he can continue his CAG responsibilities, For a time, Commander Adama&#039;s initiative lives on through his son. Young Adama leads a fight with Cylons to buy time for &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; to find its proper bearings to the civilian Fleet ([[Scattered]]), He leads a team of [[Marines]] to stop [[Cylon Centurion]]s from reaching [[Aft Damage Control]], saving the ship ([[Valley of Darkness]]). After that, Adama continues his initiative and leads a [[SAR]] mission with two [[Raptors]] to retrieve stranded Colonials on the surface of Kobol ([[Fragged]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama&#039;s desire to let democracy work without overt military action comes to a head once more as he plots with a handful of others to free Roslin and smuggle her away from &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; ([[The Farm]]). Before he leaves, he apologizes to his unconscious Commander Adama at his bedside for what he is about to do: Leave with Roslin and a [[Laura Roslin faction|faction]] of ships to search for data on Earth on Kobol. Commander Adama begins to awaken just as Adama leaves his side.&lt;br /&gt;
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On the &#039;&#039;[[Astral Queen]]&#039;&#039;, Adama is so happy to see Kara Thrace returned safely from Caprica with the Arrow of Apollo that he hugs and also impulsively kisses her, pleasantly surprising Thrace ([[Home, Part I]]). Moments later, as the Caprica copy of Sharon Valerii entered, Adama instantly grabs the known [[Cylon agent]] in anger and would have killed her if Helo and Roslin did not intervene.&lt;br /&gt;
[[image:Home_pt1-Apollo_Starbuck.jpg|thumb|[[Lee Adama|Adama]] and Kara Thrace speak aboard the &#039;&#039;Astral Queen&#039;&#039; in &amp;quot;Home, Part I&amp;quot;. (c) Universal)]]&lt;br /&gt;
Later, with their military protocols and attitudes temporarily relaxed, Adama playfully teases the brooding Kara Thrace by stealing a [[pyramid (RDM)|pyramid]] ball she took as a keepsake from her time with [[Samuel Anders|Anders]] on Caprica. He returns the ball after sensing her depressed mood and tells her that he would be happy to listen to what was on her mind. In the same conversation, he lets it slip out that he loves Thrace. Amused, Thrace cheers up a bit and teases Adama, telling him that there are no take-backs on what he said.&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama and Thrace join President Roslin and her other supporters on their quest to find the [[Tomb of Athena]] on Kobol. When Cylon Centurions ambush the group along an ancient trail, Adama and Thrace work well together in the fight, complementing each other for their fine shooting. During the incident, Adama chases what appeared to be an escaping Valerii, with Thrace calling Adama back in vain. Valerii takes a grenade launcher and aims it in the direction of Adama, but Valerii actually uses the weapon to destroy the last Centurion instead before dropping the weapon to a very surprised Adama.&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama&#039;s reunion with his recovered father on Kobol further mends the wounds between them, both politically and personally. Like Captain Adama had done on the &#039;&#039;Queen&#039;&#039;, his father reacts violently to the existence of a another copy of Valerii, leaving Captain Adama in the awkward position of defending her from his father.&lt;br /&gt;
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In the virtual planetarium created by the Tomb of Athena, Adama is the party member that completes the mystery of interpreting how to use the constellations as viewed from Earth to make a flight path. He spots the [[Wikipedia:Lagoon Nebula|Lagoon Nebula]] in the sky where the Scorpius constellation resided, a celestial body known to the Colonials which gives them a reference point to navigate to Earth. His father confirms Adama&#039;s observation, noting that the nebula is far away from their current location at Kobol.&lt;br /&gt;
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After the Fleet&#039;s reunification, Lee Adama is fully restored to flight status and his position as the Commander, Air Group ([[Final Cut]]).  Apollo doubts that [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] could successfully complete a prototype fighter later known as the [[Blackbird]], but in the end aids in its first test flight with Starbuck. Around this time, Adama begins to develop a peculiar attraction to Petty Officer 2nd Class [[Anastasia Dualla]] ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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===Reassignment===&lt;br /&gt;
Apollo is on [[CAP]] when the [[Mercury class battlestar|battlestar]] &#039;&#039;[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]&#039;&#039; reunites with &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;: he was one of the first to see it up close.  Soon afterwards, friction develops between Adama and the CAG of &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039;, Captain [[Cole Taylor|Cole &amp;quot;Stinger&amp;quot; Taylor]].  Taylor feels that Adama&#039;s pilots were undisciplined and implies that Adama has his position through his father&#039;s influence. Taylor recommends that Adama have his pilots focus on keeping a &amp;quot;killcount&amp;quot; of Raiders to encourage competition between his pilots, while Adama stresses that his first priority is to make sure that all of his pilots merely survive another day.&lt;br /&gt;
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To Adama&#039;s shock, Admiral [[Helena Cain]] re-assigns him and Lt. Thrace to &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039;, under Taylor&#039;s command.  Cain believes that having Commander Adama&#039;s son in the role of CAG was a mistake that had clouded Commander Adama&#039;s judgment, as young Adama had been insubordinate and even [[Kobol&#039;s Last Gleaming, Part II|mutinous]] in the past.  During a briefing on an upcoming scouting mission against the Cylon fleet following them, Thrace crassly points out that it would never work. She is grounded while Taylor orders Adama to perform the humiliating task of co-piloting a Raptor.  However, after the briefing, Adama surreptitiously gives Starbuck a surveillance package and tells her to take the Blackbird to carry out a recon mission on her own.  When Commander Adama and Admiral Cain turn on each other, Apollo is away in Taylor&#039;s Raptor on his recon mission ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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As the two battlestar commanders begin sparring with Vipers, &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; orders Taylor to relieve Adama of duty. Taylor pulls his sidearm and takes away Adama&#039;s. Now weaponless and with nothing more to do than to ride along, Adama asks permission to head to the rear of the Raptor. While Taylor is busy, Adama secretly sends an encoded [[wireless]] message to Starbuck on her whereabouts with the Blackbird and the secret stealth mission he tasked her with. It happened that Starbuck arrives back in the Fleet&#039;s space to see the furious and dangerous game of Viper-tag and replies to Adama, asking what was going on. Starbuck&#039;s return on the outer fringes of [[DRADIS]] activate proximity alarms on both &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;, whose Vipers unite as a team to intercept what they think is a [[Raider]]. Starbuck manages to identify herself before things get out of hand.&lt;br /&gt;
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Kara Thrace downloads her reconnaissance photos of what would be later known as the [[Resurrection Ship]] to a very surprised Admiral Cain, who promotes Thrace to Captain as well as assigning her as &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; [[CAG]], replacing Cole Taylor. Cain feels that persecuting Adama for authorizing Thrace&#039;s mission would be odd since she was promoting Thrace, so she decides to take Adama off flight status. In light of Thrace&#039;s new task of planning an attack on the Resurrection Ship, Thrace asks for and successfully returns Adama to flight status. He remains, however, demoted to Lieutenant ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama visits [[Karl Agathon]] and [[Galen Tyrol]] in the &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; brig, asking the two of them with a smile, &amp;quot;So, just how many kinds of stupid are you?&amp;quot; He informs them that their scheduled execution is on hold until at least after the battle operation, and tells how Commander Adama &amp;quot;went to the mat&amp;quot; for both of them in trying to get them back, almost going into a shooting war with &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
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After the battlestar commanders and their teams are briefed by Thrace on her attack plan, Commander Adama requests Thrace to stay to talk more on the plan and dismisses his son, asking him cryptically to &amp;quot;stay focused, son.&amp;quot; With young Adama gone, the elder Adama asks Thrace to kill Cain after the operation to prevent her from eventually having Commander Adama killed and, in turn, doom the Fleet to Cain&#039;s tyrannical commands. Commander Adama tells Thrace to take Lee Adama with her, to watch her back ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Battle of the Resurrection Ship ===&lt;br /&gt;
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With the recon photos from Starbucks mission in hand, Thrace plans an assault on the Resurrection Ship and the two [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]]s defending it.  At the same time, Starbuck told Apollo that his father had ordered her to kill Cain after the battle, and for Apollo to watch her back.  Outraged, Apollo confronted his father with this, who said that it wasn&#039;t something he wanted to do but that had to be done.  However, Apollo was shocked when his father told him that assassinating Cain was President Roslin&#039;s idea.  Apollo was in disbelief that as a society they had fallen to these levels.  Thrace assigns Adama the specific task of disabling the Resurrection Ship&#039;s [[FTL]] drive by sneaking up on it in the Blackbird and destroying it with a precision missile strike. Apollo is successful in his mission and disables the Resurrection Ship, however, he is then hit by a floating piece of debris. Apollo is able to eject, but the Blackbird is destroyed. Alive, but not unscathed, Apollo floats in space watching the battle take place, able to faintly hear the [[Dee]] calling for him over the wireless. A small hole in the leg on his flight suit allows most of his oxygen to escape into space. Drifting in and out of consciousness, he finds himself floating in a body of water, presumably on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] before the attack.&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama is found shortly afterwards by a [[SAR]] [[Raptor]] and is brought back from the brink of death on board. However Apollo becomes despondent and distant from his friends and family after his near death experience. In the pilots locker room, Thrace tells Adama &amp;quot;Lets just be glad that we both came back alive, alright?&amp;quot; to which Adama responds &amp;quot;Thats just it, Kara, I didn&#039;t want to make it back alive.&amp;quot; ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]])&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Black Market ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama (who has had his captains rank restored) and Thrace apprehend Viper saboteur [[Asha Janik]] of the [[Demand Peace]] group which is trying to make peace with the Cylons. ([[Epiphanies]]) &lt;br /&gt;
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After President Roslin is saved from her cancer ([[Epiphanies]]) she begins trying to put down the Fleet&#039;s [[Black market (organization)|Black Market]]. New Pegasus commander [[Jack Fisk]] is soon murdered leading the elder Adama (now an Admiral) to assign his son to investigate. After seeing prostitute [[Shevon]] and her daughter [[Paya]] on &#039;&#039;[[Cloud 9]]&#039;&#039; Adama is asked by [[Anastasia Dualla]] where the relationship between the two of them was going. After he can&#039;t answer Dualla takes it to mean it is over. Adama rushes back to Shevon&#039;s quarters after hearing a call for help from her, and is ambushed by thugs. Their leader [[Phelan]] warns him against investigating further. Lee is knocked unconscious and upon awaking finds everyone gone except the corpse of Fisk&#039;s murderer. &lt;br /&gt;
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With some help from [[Tom Zarek]] Adama finds the Black Markets main ship &#039;&#039;[[Prometheus]]&#039;&#039;, abroad which Paya and other children are locked up. He confronts Phelan who tells him a Black Market is needed in the Fleet since no supplies will ever reach the people any other way. Shevon is dragged out to admit she works for Phelan as a prostitute. Adama shoots Phelan and tells his bodyguards the market will continue unless it keeps holding back essential medicines, killing, and using child prostitution. &lt;br /&gt;
Shevon refuses to see Adama anymore, stating to him she and Paya are just replacements for his lost fiancé [[Gianne]] and their unborn child. ([[Black Market]])&lt;br /&gt;
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===Friendly Fire===&lt;br /&gt;
While on leave to [[Cloud 9]] with [[Anastasia Dualla]], a group of terrorists demanding they be allowed to kill [[Sharon Valerii]] held about a dozen people, including Dualla, Billy Keikeya, [[Ellen Tigh]] and Adama, hostage in a bar. Lee reacted quickly, sabotaging the bar&#039;s sensors so it appeared they were leaking atmosphere. The sabotage enabled Capt. Thrace to gather intelligence on the situation, but her cover was blown, and she was forced to lay down some fire to escape. One shot hit Adama in the chest. Dualla was able to care for Adama long enough for him to survive to Galactica&#039;s sickbay, and later sat at his bedside while he recovered. ([[Sacrifice]])&lt;br /&gt;
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===A Worthy Command ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama finds himself promoted to Major and assigned to battlestar [[Pegasus (RDM)|&#039;&#039;Pegasus]]&#039;&#039; as the [[Executive officer]] for new commander [[Barry Garner]], a former officer in Engineering. Garner finds an instant dislike for Starbuck and soon orders her to be sent back to &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;. Meanwhile, a Raptor recon mission near a binary star system becomes a [[SAR]] as the two craft go missing. Against orders from Admiral Adama, Garner takes &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; in to search for the Raptors. His impulsive and unwise efforts result in a Cylon ambush of three basestars.&lt;br /&gt;
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With the FTL drive damaged, he relegates command to Major Adama and heads below to help in FTL repairs. After a moment&#039;s hesitation (perhaps thinking what his father would do), Adama orders the forward guns to fire on the nearest basestar&#039;s central spire, critically damaging the basestar and forcing its retreat, while commanding the battlestar&#039;s fighters (led by Starbuck) to guard embattled areas damaged from nuclear pummeling. After Commander Garner successfully repairs a critical area and the FTL drive repaired, Major Adama retrieves the fighters and Jumps back to the Fleet and relative safety.&lt;br /&gt;
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Admiral Adama debriefs his son, and congratulates him by promoting him to the rank of Commander and giving him command of battlestar &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; ([[The Captain&#039;s Hand]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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Sometime later, Apollo wished Starbuck good luck in rescuing [[Anders]] and the rest of the [[Resistance]], despite his clear personal feeling towards her. ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]). After the two of them returned, Adama attempted to introduce himself politely, but was hampered by vast quantity of alcohol they had consumed.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Fatlee6as.jpg|thumb|left|Lee Adama in command of &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Just over a year later, Apollo was the Commander of a half-capacity, nearly unneeded Battlestar orbiting [[New Caprica]]. He was in the process of deciding whether or not to give Kara antibiotics for Anders (now her very ill husband) when Dualla (now an officer on the [[CIC]]) dicovered the Cylon fleet moving into the nebula. Adama and his father had a brief discussion over their course of action, before the Admiral ordered the Fleet, whose population now consisted less than ten thousand crew, to jump away, leaving New Caprica to the Cylons, for the time being. ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]])&lt;br /&gt;
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== Notes ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;Some of this information may not be [[canon]].&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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*From [[Ronald D. Moore]]&#039;s [[Wikipedia:blog|blog]], in response to a fan&#039;s question:&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;In my first draft of the [[Mini-Series|mini]], Lee Adama had just been accepted into test pilot school on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] and was not currently assigned to any [[battlestar]]. Presumably, he had been posted to at least a couple of battlestar [[CAG|air groups]] in his career, as well as several ground assignments as well. This isn&#039;t [[canon]] yet, however, and I&#039;m currently thinking of changing some elements of his specific backstory as I work on storylines for [[Season 2 (2005-06)|Season Two]]. Overall, I&#039;d say Lee was striving (perhaps too hard) to blaze a different path for himself in the fleet from that of his [[William Adama|father]]. I don&#039;t think Lee ever saw himself as a battlestar commander and was looking for a different way to make his mark.&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*According to Jamie Bamber, Adama&#039;s official character biography states that “Lee is never so happy as when he’s in his kitchen cooking.”&lt;br /&gt;
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*The subtitles under Apollo&#039;s name in &amp;quot;[[Final Cut]]&amp;quot; list him as &amp;quot;CFR&amp;quot;.  In the podcast, RDM explained that this stood for Colonial Fleet Reserves; likely analogous to the U.S. Army Reserve, the U.S. Air Force Reserve and such of the United States military; and Apollo is in that because, as stated above, he wasn&#039;t sure what he was doing with his life and wasn&#039;t sure if he was going to pursue a full career in the Fleet.&lt;br /&gt;
* Jamie Bamber is the husband of actress Kerry Norton, who portrays [[Layne Ishay]], the paramedic from &amp;quot;[[Scattered]]&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
* Bamber is actually a British citizen; he disguises his accent to play the role of Lee Adama.&lt;br /&gt;
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Here is SkyOne&#039;s summary of Lee Adama:&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Lee was born and raised on the colony of Caprica, where his family were born. A headstrong, scrappy boy, he was forever getting into fights at school.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;His parents divorced when he was just eight and his younger brother Zak was raised by their mother. His father visited him when he could, but military life often took him away for long periods. Nevertheless, both boys grew up worshipping this distant figure.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Lee always wanted to be a pilot; to follow in his father&#039;s footsteps and join the fleet. He studied hard at school, aced his entrance exams to the academy and graduated third in his class. But the boy&#039;s hero-worship eventually turned to resentment, and neither knew how to repair it.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;While Lee was at flight school, his younger brother was away at Viper Squadron and a plum assignment on Atlantia - flagship of the fleet. Lee tried to dissuade him, but Zak did not want to be the only Adama without wings on his uniform. Zak&#039;s application was turned down. As Commander Adama pulled a few strings to get his son in, Lee was furious.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Two weeks later, Zak&#039;s plane went down while he was flying a routine solo mission and he was killed. Lee spent the next two years focusing on his career, having no personal life and working to become the perfect fighter pilot.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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As this information does not come from the official Scifi.com site, it&#039;s authenticity is in question.  Further, it is contradicted by on screen evidence:  Zak was killed in an accident at flight school, and was never on a battlestar.  Further, Lee did not work hard (at least after Zak&#039;s death) to be the best Viper pilot or to improve his career; multiple cast interviews and RDM podcasts state that he was despondent, didn&#039;t know what to do with his life, and was considering leaving the service.  Further, in &amp;quot;[[Final Cut]]&amp;quot; we see that he is a member of the Colonial Fleet Reserves, not regular fleet, indicating that he wasn&#039;t particularly concerned with a lifelong career.&lt;br /&gt;
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== See Also ==&lt;br /&gt;
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* [[Apollo (TOS)]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Richard Hatch]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Tom Zarek]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;:&#039;&#039;The article discusses the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]] character with the pilot callsign of &amp;quot;Apollo.&amp;quot; For information on his [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] counterpart, see [[Apollo (TOS)]].&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Biographical Notes ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Background ===&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Lee &amp;quot;Apollo&amp;quot; Adama&#039;&#039;&#039; is the eldest son of [[Caroline Adama|Caroline]] and [[William Adama]]. Together with his younger brother, Zak, he was raised largely by his mother on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]], following his parents&#039; divorce when he was eight. &lt;br /&gt;
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Despite his father&#039;s estrangement from the family, Adama nevertheless inherited his passion for flying - a passion that saw him enrolling in the Colonial military reserves after graduating from college. Following his basic training, he graduated from the military academy third in his class and immediately applied for flight school. &lt;br /&gt;
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Not to be outdone by his elder brother, Zak Adama applied for military service, a move that eventually brought tragedy to the Adama household.&lt;br /&gt;
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Accepted into flight school, Adama proved himself a gifted and natural pilot, hampered only by his tendency to over-intellectualise things - a result of his upbringing with his mother, who encouraged him to read widely, and think freely (encouragement that lead him to read banned texts by the renegade [[Tom Zarek]] while at college ([[Bastille Day]])).    &lt;br /&gt;
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Graduating from flight school, Adama was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Colonial Reserve, flying the [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] Mark VII. During this time, he was also introduced to [[Kara Thrace|Kara &amp;quot;Starbuck&amp;quot; Thrace]], a training instructor at flight school, who was also involved with Zak Adama. While Adama was still at flight school, the three frequently spent time together, and Adama and Thrace developed a friendship through Zak Adama ([[Mini-Series]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Brother&#039;s Death ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Tragedy struck some two years prior to the renewed Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies when Zak Adama, recently graduated from flight school, was killed on a routine Viper mission. At the time, the cause of the accident was put down to pilot error. However, Lee Adama chose to blame the mishap on his father, whom he believed had pushed Zak into applying for military service and for applying for flight school ([[Mini-Series]]). &lt;br /&gt;
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Following Zak&#039;s death, Lee Adama became estranged from his father, seeking to build his career well away from any influence exerted by either William Adama or the legendary [[Original battlestar (RDM)|battlestar]] &#039;&#039;[[Galactica]]&#039;&#039;, his father&#039;s command. While he was successful in this - gaining promotion to Captain through his own abilities, the decision nevertheless placed a heavy strain on his friendship with Kara Thrace, as she applied for pilot duty aboard &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;. &lt;br /&gt;
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Adama spends much time on Caprica and becomes engaged to a woman named [[Gianne]].  She tells him she is pregnant with their child, causing him to run from her due to his own family issues.  Before he can speak with her again he is assigned to &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;. ([[Black Market]])  &lt;br /&gt;
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Adama is reunited with both his father and Kara Thrace when it was decided &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; should be decommissioned and handed over to civil authorities as a living museum and educational center of the [[Cylon War]]. As a part of the final ceremonies marking &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;s&#039;&#039; retirement, Lee Adama is ordered to participate in a final Viper flyby to salute both the ship and her commanding officer - an assignment he undertakes grudgingly, doing little to hide his true feelings from the moment he arrives on the battlestar ([[Mini-Series]]). Matters are not helped when he discovers he will fly not in his own Mark VII Viper, but in the newly-restored Mark II Viper his father had flown during the Cylon War ([[Mini-Series]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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Things worsen after the PR official aboard &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;, [[Aaron Doral]], sees Captain Adama&#039;s presence on &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; as a major PR opportunity and has Adama and his father pose for pictures together. Immediately following this, Adama confronts his father over Zak&#039;s death, during which he vents two years&#039; worth of anger, clearly expressing his belief that William Adama was responsible for the loss of his brother.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Surprise [[Cylon Attack]] ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Following the decommissioning ceremony, Lee Adama departs &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;, acting as a unofficial escort for &#039;&#039;[[Colonial Heavy 798]]&#039;&#039;, the official transport for Secretary of Education [[Laura Roslin]], who represented President [[Richard Adar|Adar]] at the ceremony. Mid-way through their return to [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]], Adama and the crew of &#039;&#039;Colonial Heavy 798&#039;&#039; hear of the Cylon attacks on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]], and soon find themselves under direct attack. While Adama is able to thwart the missile attack, his father&#039;s old Viper is disabled and is brought aboard &#039;&#039;Colonial Heavy 798&#039;&#039;. Adama becomes one of Laura Roslin&#039;s unofficial advisors, aiding her in her self-appointed rescue mission. Adama&#039;s annoyance of his father&#039;s old Viper comes back to haunt him when [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]], returning from her unexpected rescue mission on Caprica and disastrous attack on two [[Cylon Raider]]s, notes to him that other Vipers and other modern Colonial spacecraft like his Mark VII were [[Command Navigation Program|easily destroyed]] by Cylon attacks.&lt;br /&gt;
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Following his disobedience of a direct order from his father , Adama again saves &#039;&#039;Colonial Heavy 798&#039;&#039; from a nuclear missile attack with a failed experiment he toyed with in [[War College]], using &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;s&#039;&#039; [[EMP]] coils that were placed on the ship for return to Caprica and the Colonial Fleet - while simultaneously making it look like the ship had been destroyed. He supports Roslin in her rescue efforts. Adama persuades Roslin to lead the [[FTL]]-capable ships to follow &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; to the [[Ragnar Anchorage]]. &lt;br /&gt;
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As the ranking pilot aboard &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;, and despite his relative inexperience, Adama finds himself promoted to the position of CAG by Colonel [[Saul Tigh]].&lt;br /&gt;
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Apollo leads a Viper squadron in keeping [[Cylon Raider]]s at bay while the civilian [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] Jumps away from Ragnar Anchorage. His ship is badly damaged midway in the battle and Adama would have been killed by a missile were it not for the lightning-fast and highly-accurate shooting of Starbuck. Starbuck&#039;s highly unconventional flying force-fits her fighter and Adama&#039;s now-powerless Viper nose-to-nose and flies him back to the battlestar seconds before the port [[flight pod]] closes and &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; Jumps away.&lt;br /&gt;
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The attacks presumably kill Lee&#039;s fiancé [[Gianne]] and their unborn child before Lee can speak to her again.  This drives him into depression leading him to at an unknown time start seeing a prostitute named [[Shevon]] ([[Black Market]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Special Advisor ===  &lt;br /&gt;
[[image:Water_Apollo_Roslin.jpg|thumb|left|300px|[[Lee Adama|Adama]] and President Roslin shake hands after appointment as military advisor in &amp;quot;[[Water]]&amp;quot;. (c) Universal)]]&lt;br /&gt;
Lee Adama finds himself attached to Roslin as a &amp;quot;special advisor&amp;quot; to further help her understand military matters. This appointment does not sit well with his father ([[Bastille Day]]).   &lt;br /&gt;
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When tensions rise during a hostage crisis with prisoners aboard the &#039;&#039;[[Astral Queen]]&#039;&#039;, Adama resolves the situation with only one life lost through an arrangement reached between Adama and the leader of the convicts, [[Tom Zarek]]. While the solution is sensible, it is not to the liking of either Commander Adama or President Roslin. &lt;br /&gt;
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In the weeks following the Cylon attack, Adama finds time to re-evaluate his relationship with his father - due in no small part to Starbuck&#039;s admission of her involvement in Zak&#039;s acceptance as a fighter pilot ([[Mini-Series]]) and his subsequent death.  Father and son grow somewhat closer - even standing shoulder-to-shoulder when Starbuck is MIA ([[You Can&#039;t Go Home Again]]). Even so, Adama&#039;s former self-doubts and moodiness are not easily overcome and sometimes come back to haunt him when he is tasked to fill a role that others are unsure he can manage. As a Viper pilot, Adama is able to escape from Starbuck&#039;s shadow, proving himself capable in unconventional and skilled flying in the [[Battle for the Tylium Asteroid]] ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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After the tylium asteroid mission, Adama matures enormously, emerging from his shell as a somewhat disillusioned officer and becomes a practical leader who now comfortably straddles his responsibilities as [[CAG]] of &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; with his duties as advisor to Roslin. With few issues with either Roslin or his father, Adama demonstrates his maturity particularly well in his handling of security arrangements for the initial meeting of Roslin&#039;s [[Quorum of Twelve]] aboard the luxury liner &#039;&#039;[[Cloud Nine]]&#039;&#039; ([[Colonial Day]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Inner Conflicts at Kobol ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Unfortunately, Adama&#039;s beliefs in the need for democratic representation and civil government brings him in direct conflict with orders given him by Commander Adama. During the arrest of Laura Roslin following her [[Arrow of Apollo|interference with military operations]], Captain Adama draws his gun on [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]] in a direct act of mutiny, protesting his father&#039;s removal of Roslin from office. Arrested together with Roslin, Adama watches helplessly in [[CIC]] as [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Lieutenant Valerii]] shoots his father at point blank range, seriously wounding him ([[Kobol&#039;s Last Gleaming, Part II]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama is temporarily furloughed by Colonel Tigh so that he can continue his CAG responsibilities, For a time, Commander Adama&#039;s initiative lives on through his son. Young Adama leads a fight with Cylons to buy time for &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; to find its proper bearings to the civilian Fleet ([[Scattered]]), He leads a team of [[Marines]] to stop [[Cylon Centurion]]s from reaching [[Aft Damage Control]], saving the ship ([[Valley of Darkness]]). After that, Adama continues his initiative and leads a [[SAR]] mission with two [[Raptors]] to retrieve stranded Colonials on the surface of Kobol ([[Fragged]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama&#039;s desire to let democracy work without overt military action comes to a head once more as he plots with a handful of others to free Roslin and smuggle her away from &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; ([[The Farm]]). Before he leaves, he apologizes to his unconscious Commander Adama at his bedside for what he is about to do: Leave with Roslin and a [[Laura Roslin faction|faction]] of ships to search for data on Earth on Kobol. Commander Adama begins to awaken just as Adama leaves his side.&lt;br /&gt;
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On the &#039;&#039;[[Astral Queen]]&#039;&#039;, Adama is so happy to see Kara Thrace returned safely from Caprica with the Arrow of Apollo that he hugs and also impulsively kisses her, pleasantly surprising Thrace ([[Home, Part I]]). Moments later, as the Caprica copy of Sharon Valerii entered, Adama instantly grabs the known [[Cylon agent]] in anger and would have killed her if Helo and Roslin did not intervene.&lt;br /&gt;
[[image:Home_pt1-Apollo_Starbuck.jpg|thumb|[[Lee Adama|Adama]] and Kara Thrace speak aboard the &#039;&#039;Astral Queen&#039;&#039; in &amp;quot;Home, Part I&amp;quot;. (c) Universal)]]&lt;br /&gt;
Later, with their military protocols and attitudes temporarily relaxed, Adama playfully teases the brooding Kara Thrace by stealing a [[pyramid (RDM)|pyramid]] ball she took as a keepsake from her time with [[Samuel Anders|Anders]] on Caprica. He returns the ball after sensing her depressed mood and tells her that he would be happy to listen to what was on her mind. In the same conversation, he lets it slip out that he loves Thrace. Amused, Thrace cheers up a bit and teases Adama, telling him that there are no take-backs on what he said.&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama and Thrace join President Roslin and her other supporters on their quest to find the [[Tomb of Athena]] on Kobol. When Cylon Centurions ambush the group along an ancient trail, Adama and Thrace work well together in the fight, complementing each other for their fine shooting. During the incident, Adama chases what appeared to be an escaping Valerii, with Thrace calling Adama back in vain. Valerii takes a grenade launcher and aims it in the direction of Adama, but Valerii actually uses the weapon to destroy the last Centurion instead before dropping the weapon to a very surprised Adama.&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama&#039;s reunion with his recovered father on Kobol further mends the wounds between them, both politically and personally. Like Captain Adama had done on the &#039;&#039;Queen&#039;&#039;, his father reacts violently to the existence of a another copy of Valerii, leaving Captain Adama in the awkward position of defending her from his father.&lt;br /&gt;
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In the virtual planetarium created by the Tomb of Athena, Adama is the party member that completes the mystery of interpreting how to use the constellations as viewed from Earth to make a flight path. He spots the [[Wikipedia:Lagoon Nebula|Lagoon Nebula]] in the sky where the Scorpius constellation resided, a celestial body known to the Colonials which gives them a reference point to navigate to Earth. His father confirms Adama&#039;s observation, noting that the nebula is far away from their current location at Kobol.&lt;br /&gt;
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After the Fleet&#039;s reunification, Lee Adama is fully restored to flight status and his position as the Commander, Air Group ([[Final Cut]]).  Apollo doubts that [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] could successfully complete a prototype fighter later known as the [[Blackbird]], but in the end aids in its first test flight with Starbuck. Around this time, Adama begins to develop a peculiar attraction to Petty Officer 2nd Class [[Anastasia Dualla]] ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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===Reassignment===&lt;br /&gt;
Apollo is on [[CAP]] when the [[Mercury class battlestar|battlestar]] &#039;&#039;[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]&#039;&#039; reunites with &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;: he was one of the first to see it up close.  Soon afterwards, friction develops between Adama and the CAG of &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039;, Captain [[Cole Taylor|Cole &amp;quot;Stinger&amp;quot; Taylor]].  Taylor feels that Adama&#039;s pilots were undisciplined and implies that Adama has his position through his father&#039;s influence. Taylor recommends that Adama have his pilots focus on keeping a &amp;quot;killcount&amp;quot; of Raiders to encourage competition between his pilots, while Adama stresses that his first priority is to make sure that all of his pilots merely survive another day.&lt;br /&gt;
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To Adama&#039;s shock, Admiral [[Helena Cain]] re-assigns him and Lt. Thrace to &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039;, under Taylor&#039;s command.  Cain believes that having Commander Adama&#039;s son in the role of CAG was a mistake that had clouded Commander Adama&#039;s judgment, as young Adama had been insubordinate and even [[Kobol&#039;s Last Gleaming, Part II|mutinous]] in the past.  During a briefing on an upcoming scouting mission against the Cylon fleet following them, Thrace crassly points out that it would never work. She is grounded while Taylor orders Adama to perform the humiliating task of co-piloting a Raptor.  However, after the briefing, Adama surreptitiously gives Starbuck a surveillance package and tells her to take the Blackbird to carry out a recon mission on her own.  When Commander Adama and Admiral Cain turn on each other, Apollo is away in Taylor&#039;s Raptor on his recon mission ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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As the two battlestar commanders begin sparring with Vipers, &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; orders Taylor to relieve Adama of duty. Taylor pulls his sidearm and takes away Adama&#039;s. Now weaponless and with nothing more to do than to ride along, Adama asks permission to head to the rear of the Raptor. While Taylor is busy, Adama secretly sends an encoded [[wireless]] message to Starbuck on her whereabouts with the Blackbird and the secret stealth mission he tasked her with. It happened that Starbuck arrives back in the Fleet&#039;s space to see the furious and dangerous game of Viper-tag and replies to Adama, asking what was going on. Starbuck&#039;s return on the outer fringes of [[DRADIS]] activate proximity alarms on both &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;, whose Vipers unite as a team to intercept what they think is a [[Raider]]. Starbuck manages to identify herself before things get out of hand.&lt;br /&gt;
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Kara Thrace downloads her reconnaissance photos of what would be later known as the [[Resurrection Ship]] to a very surprised Admiral Cain, who promotes Thrace to Captain as well as assigning her as &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; [[CAG]], replacing Cole Taylor. Cain feels that persecuting Adama for authorizing Thrace&#039;s mission would be odd since she was promoting Thrace, so she decides to take Adama off flight status. In light of Thrace&#039;s new task of planning an attack on the Resurrection Ship, Thrace asks for and successfully returns Adama to flight status. He remains, however, demoted to Lieutenant ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama visits [[Karl Agathon]] and [[Galen Tyrol]] in the &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; brig, asking the two of them with a smile, &amp;quot;So, just how many kinds of stupid are you?&amp;quot; He informs them that their scheduled execution is on hold until at least after the battle operation, and tells how Commander Adama &amp;quot;went to the mat&amp;quot; for both of them in trying to get them back, almost going into a shooting war with &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
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After the battlestar commanders and their teams are briefed by Thrace on her attack plan, Commander Adama requests Thrace to stay to talk more on the plan and dismisses his son, asking him cryptically to &amp;quot;stay focused, son.&amp;quot; With young Adama gone, the elder Adama asks Thrace to kill Cain after the operation to prevent her from eventually having Commander Adama killed and, in turn, doom the Fleet to Cain&#039;s tyrannical commands. Commander Adama tells Thrace to take Lee Adama with her, to watch her back ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Battle of the Resurrection Ship ===&lt;br /&gt;
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With the recon photos from Starbucks mission in hand, Thrace plans an assault on the Resurrection Ship and the two [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]]s defending it.  At the same time, Starbuck told Apollo that his father had ordered her to kill Cain after the battle, and for Apollo to watch her back.  Outraged, Apollo confronted his father with this, who said that it wasn&#039;t something he wanted to do but that had to be done.  However, Apollo was shocked when his father told him that assassinating Cain was President Roslin&#039;s idea.  Apollo was in disbelief that as a society they had fallen to these levels.  Thrace assigns Adama the specific task of disabling the Resurrection Ship&#039;s [[FTL]] drive by sneaking up on it in the Blackbird and destroying it with a precision missile strike. Apollo is successful in his mission and disables the Resurrection Ship, however, he is then hit by a floating piece of debris. Apollo is able to eject, but the Blackbird is destroyed. Alive, but not unscathed, Apollo floats in space watching the battle take place, able to faintly hear the [[Dee]] calling for him over the wireless. A small hole in the leg on his flight suit allows most of his oxygen to escape into space. Drifting in and out of consciousness, he finds himself floating in a body of water, presumably on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] before the attack.&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama is found shortly afterwards by a [[SAR]] [[Raptor]] and is brought back from the brink of death on board. However Apollo becomes despondent and distant from his friends and family after his near death experience. In the pilots locker room, Thrace tells Adama &amp;quot;Lets just be glad that we both came back alive, alright?&amp;quot; to which Adama responds &amp;quot;Thats just it, Kara, I didn&#039;t want to make it back alive.&amp;quot; ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]])&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Black Market ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama (who has had his captains rank restored) and Thrace apprehend Viper saboteur [[Asha Janik]] of the [[Demand Peace]] group which is trying to make peace with the Cylons. ([[Epiphanies]]) &lt;br /&gt;
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After President Roslin is saved from her cancer ([[Epiphanies]]) she begins trying to put down the Fleet&#039;s [[Black market (organization)|Black Market]]. New Pegasus commander [[Jack Fisk]] is soon murdered leading the elder Adama (now an Admiral) to assign his son to investigate. After seeing prostitute [[Shevon]] and her daughter [[Paya]] on &#039;&#039;[[Cloud 9]]&#039;&#039; Adama is asked by [[Anastasia Dualla]] where the relationship between the two of them was going. After he can&#039;t answer Dualla takes it to mean it is over. Adama rushes back to Shevon&#039;s quarters after hearing a call for help from her, and is ambushed by thugs. Their leader [[Phelan]] warns him against investigating further. Lee is knocked unconscious and upon awaking finds everyone gone except the corpse of Fisk&#039;s murderer. &lt;br /&gt;
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With some help from [[Tom Zarek]] Adama finds the Black Markets main ship &#039;&#039;[[Prometheus]]&#039;&#039;, abroad which Paya and other children are locked up. He confronts Phelan who tells him a Black Market is needed in the Fleet since no supplies will ever reach the people any other way. Shevon is dragged out to admit she works for Phelan as a prostitute. Adama shoots Phelan and tells his bodyguards the market will continue unless it keeps holding back essential medicines, killing, and using child prostitution. &lt;br /&gt;
Shevon refuses to see Adama anymore, stating to him she and Paya are just replacements for his lost fiancé [[Gianne]] and their unborn child. ([[Black Market]])&lt;br /&gt;
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===Friendly Fire===&lt;br /&gt;
While on leave to [[Cloud 9]] with [[Anastasia Dualla]], a group of terrorists demanding they be allowed to kill [[Sharon Valerii]] held about a dozen people, including Dualla, Billy Keikeya, [[Ellen Tigh]] and Adama, hostage in a bar. Lee reacted quickly, sabotaging the bar&#039;s sensors so it appeared they were leaking atmosphere. The sabotage enabled Capt. Thrace to gather intelligence on the situation, but her cover was blown, and she was forced to lay down some fire to escape. One shot hit Adama in the chest. Dualla was able to care for Adama long enough for him to survive to Galactica&#039;s sickbay, and later sat at his bedside while he recovered. ([[Sacrifice]])&lt;br /&gt;
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===A Worthy Command ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama finds himself promoted to Major and assigned to battlestar [[Pegasus (RDM)|&#039;&#039;Pegasus]]&#039;&#039; as the [[Executive officer]] for new commander [[Barry Garner]], a former officer in Engineering. Garner finds an instant dislike for Starbuck and soon orders her to be sent back to &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;. Meanwhile, a Raptor recon mission near a binary star system becomes a [[SAR]] as the two craft go missing. Against orders from Admiral Adama, Garner takes &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; in to search for the Raptors. His impulsive and unwise efforts result in a Cylon ambush of three basestars.&lt;br /&gt;
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With the FTL drive damaged, he relegates command to Major Adama and heads below to help in FTL repairs. After a moment&#039;s hesitation (perhaps thinking what his father would do), Adama orders the forward guns to fire on the nearest basestar&#039;s central spire, critically damaging the basestar and forcing its retreat, while commanding the battlestar&#039;s fighters (led by Starbuck) to guard embattled areas damaged from nuclear pummeling. After Commander Garner successfully repairs a critical area and the FTL drive repaired, Major Adama retrieves the fighters and Jumps back to the Fleet and relative safety.&lt;br /&gt;
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Admiral Adama debriefs his son, and congratulates him by promoting him to the rank of Commander and giving him command of battlestar &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; ([[The Captain&#039;s Hand]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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Sometime later, Apollo wished Starbuck good luck in rescuing [[Anders]] and the rest of the [[Resistance]], despite his clear personal feeling towards her. ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]). After the two of them returned, Adama attempted to introduce himself politely, but was hampered by vast quantity of alcohol they had consumed.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Fatlee6as.jpg|thumb|left|Lee Adama in command of &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Just over a year later, Apollo was the Commander of a half-capacity, nearly unneeded Battlestar orbiting [[New Caprica]]. He was in the process of deciding whether or not to give Kara antibiotics for Anders (now her very ill husband) when Dualla (now an officer on the [[CIC]]) dicovered the Cylon fleet moving into the nebula. Adama and his father had a brief discussion over their course of action, before the Admiral ordered the Fleet, whose population now consisted less than ten thousand crew, to jump away, leaving New Caprica to the Cylons, for the time being. ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]])&lt;br /&gt;
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== Notes ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;Some of this information may not be [[canon]].&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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*From [[Ronald D. Moore]]&#039;s [[Wikipedia:blog|blog]], in response to a fan&#039;s question:&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;In my first draft of the [[Mini-Series|mini]], Lee Adama had just been accepted into test pilot school on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] and was not currently assigned to any [[battlestar]]. Presumably, he had been posted to at least a couple of battlestar [[CAG|air groups]] in his career, as well as several ground assignments as well. This isn&#039;t [[canon]] yet, however, and I&#039;m currently thinking of changing some elements of his specific backstory as I work on storylines for [[Season 2 (2005-06)|Season Two]]. Overall, I&#039;d say Lee was striving (perhaps too hard) to blaze a different path for himself in the fleet from that of his [[William Adama|father]]. I don&#039;t think Lee ever saw himself as a battlestar commander and was looking for a different way to make his mark.&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*According to Jamie Bamber, Adama&#039;s official character biography states that “Lee is never so happy as when he’s in his kitchen cooking.”&lt;br /&gt;
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*The subtitles under Apollo&#039;s name in &amp;quot;[[Final Cut]]&amp;quot; list him as &amp;quot;CFR&amp;quot;.  In the podcast, RDM explained that this stood for Colonial Fleet Reserves; likely analogous to the U.S. Army Reserve, the U.S. Air Force Reserve and such of the United States military; and Apollo is in that because, as stated above, he wasn&#039;t sure what he was doing with his life and wasn&#039;t sure if he was going to pursue a full career in the Fleet.&lt;br /&gt;
* Jamie Bamber is the husband of actress Kerry Norton, who portrays [[Layne Ishay]], the paramedic from &amp;quot;[[Scattered]]&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
* Bamber is actually a British citizen; he disguises his accent to play the role of Lee Adama.&lt;br /&gt;
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Here is SkyOne&#039;s summary of Lee Adama:&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Lee was born and raised on the colony of Caprica, where his family were born. A headstrong, scrappy boy, he was forever getting into fights at school.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;His parents divorced when he was just eight and his younger brother Zak was raised by their mother. His father visited him when he could, but military life often took him away for long periods. Nevertheless, both boys grew up worshipping this distant figure.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Lee always wanted to be a pilot; to follow in his father&#039;s footsteps and join the fleet. He studied hard at school, aced his entrance exams to the academy and graduated third in his class. But the boy&#039;s hero-worship eventually turned to resentment, and neither knew how to repair it.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;While Lee was at flight school, his younger brother was away at Viper Squadron and a plum assignment on Atlantia - flagship of the fleet. Lee tried to dissuade him, but Zak did not want to be the only Adama without wings on his uniform. Zak&#039;s application was turned down. As Commander Adama pulled a few strings to get his son in, Lee was furious.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Two weeks later, Zak&#039;s plane went down while he was flying a routine solo mission and he was killed. Lee spent the next two years focusing on his career, having no personal life and working to become the perfect fighter pilot.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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As this information does not come from the official Scifi.com site, it&#039;s authenticity is in question.  Further, it is contradicted by on screen evidence:  Zak was killed in an accident at flight school, and was never on a battlestar.  Further, Lee did not work hard (at least after Zak&#039;s death) to be the best Viper pilot or to improve his career; multiple cast interviews and RDM podcasts state that he was despondent, didn&#039;t know what to do with his life, and was considering leaving the service.  Further, in &amp;quot;[[Final Cut]]&amp;quot; we see that he is a member of the Colonial Fleet Reserves, not regular fleet, indicating that he wasn&#039;t particularly concerned with a lifelong career.&lt;br /&gt;
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== See Also ==&lt;br /&gt;
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* [[Apollo (TOS)]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Richard Hatch]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Tom Zarek]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;:&#039;&#039;The article discusses the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]] character with the pilot callsign of &amp;quot;Apollo.&amp;quot; For information on his [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] counterpart, see [[Apollo (TOS)]].&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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|parents= [[Caroline Adama]] (mother, likely deceased), [[William Adama]] (father)&lt;br /&gt;
|siblings= [[Zak Adama]] (deceased)&lt;br /&gt;
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|marital status= Dating [[Anastasia Dualla]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== Biographical Notes ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Background ===&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Lee &amp;quot;Apollo&amp;quot; Adama&#039;&#039;&#039; is the eldest son of [[Caroline Adama|Caroline]] and [[William Adama]]. Together with his younger brother, Zak, he was raised largely by his mother on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]], following his parents&#039; divorce when he was eight. &lt;br /&gt;
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Despite his father&#039;s estrangement from the family, Adama nevertheless inherited his passion for flying - a passion that saw him enrolling in the Colonial military reserves after graduating from college. Following his basic training, he graduated from the military academy third in his class and immediately applied for flight school. &lt;br /&gt;
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Not to be outdone by his elder brother, Zak Adama applied for military service, a move that eventually brought tragedy to the Adama household.&lt;br /&gt;
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Accepted into flight school, Adama proved himself a gifted and natural pilot, hampered only by his tendency to over-intellectualise things - a result of his upbringing with his mother, who encouraged him to read widely, and think freely (encouragement that lead him to read banned texts by the renegade [[Tom Zarek]] while at college ([[Bastille Day]])).    &lt;br /&gt;
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Graduating from flight school, Adama was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Colonial Reserve, flying the [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] Mark VII. During this time, he was also introduced to [[Kara Thrace|Kara &amp;quot;Starbuck&amp;quot; Thrace]], a training instructor at flight school, who was also involved with Zak Adama. While Adama was still at flight school, the three frequently spent time together, and Adama and Thrace developed a friendship through Zak Adama ([[Mini-Series]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Brother&#039;s Death ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Tragedy struck some two years prior to the renewed Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies when Zak Adama, recently graduated from flight school, was killed on a routine Viper mission. At the time, the cause of the accident was put down to pilot error. However, Lee Adama chose to blame the mishap on his father, whom he believed had pushed Zak into applying for military service and for applying for flight school ([[Mini-Series]]). &lt;br /&gt;
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Following Zak&#039;s death, Lee Adama became estranged from his father, seeking to build his career well away from any influence exerted by either William Adama or the legendary [[Original battlestar (RDM)|battlestar]] &#039;&#039;[[Galactica]]&#039;&#039;, his father&#039;s command. While he was successful in this - gaining promotion to Captain through his own abilities, the decision nevertheless placed a heavy strain on his friendship with Kara Thrace, as she applied for pilot duty aboard &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;. &lt;br /&gt;
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Adama spends much time on Caprica and becomes engaged to a woman named [[Gianne]].  She tells him she is pregnant with their child, causing him to run from her due to his own family issues.  Before he can speak with her again he is assigned to &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;. ([[Black Market]])  &lt;br /&gt;
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Adama is reunited with both his father and Kara Thrace when it was decided &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; should be decommissioned and handed over to civil authorities as a living museum and educational center of the [[Cylon War]]. As a part of the final ceremonies marking &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;s&#039;&#039; retirement, Lee Adama is ordered to participate in a final Viper flyby to salute both the ship and her commanding officer - an assignment he undertakes grudgingly, doing little to hide his true feelings from the moment he arrives on the battlestar ([[Mini-Series]]). Matters are not helped when he discovers he will fly not in his own Mark VII Viper, but in the newly-restored Mark II Viper his father had flown during the Cylon War ([[Mini-Series]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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Things worsen after the PR official aboard &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;, [[Aaron Doral]], sees Captain Adama&#039;s presence on &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; as a major PR opportunity and has Adama and his father pose for pictures together. Immediately following this, Adama confronts his father over Zak&#039;s death, during which he vents two years&#039; worth of anger, clearly expressing his belief that William Adama was responsible for the loss of his brother.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Surprise [[Cylon Attack]] ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Following the decommissioning ceremony, Lee Adama departs &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;, acting as a unofficial escort for &#039;&#039;[[Colonial Heavy 798]]&#039;&#039;, the official transport for Secretary of Education [[Laura Roslin]], who represented President [[Richard Adar|Adar]] at the ceremony. Mid-way through their return to [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]], Adama and the crew of &#039;&#039;Colonial Heavy 798&#039;&#039; hear of the Cylon attacks on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]], and soon find themselves under direct attack. While Adama is able to thwart the missile attack, his father&#039;s old Viper is disabled and is brought aboard &#039;&#039;Colonial Heavy 798&#039;&#039;. Adama becomes one of Laura Roslin&#039;s unofficial advisors, aiding her in her self-appointed rescue mission. Adama&#039;s annoyance of his father&#039;s old Viper comes back to haunt him when [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]], returning from her unexpected rescue mission on Caprica and disastrous attack on two [[Cylon Raider]]s, notes to him that other Vipers and other modern Colonial spacecraft like his Mark VII were [[Command Navigation Program|easily destroyed]] by Cylon attacks.&lt;br /&gt;
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Following his disobedience of a direct order from his father , Adama again saves &#039;&#039;Colonial Heavy 798&#039;&#039; from a nuclear missile attack with a failed experiment he toyed with in [[War College]], using &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;s&#039;&#039; [[EMP]] coils that were placed on the ship for return to Caprica and the Colonial Fleet - while simultaneously making it look like the ship had been destroyed. He supports Roslin in her rescue efforts. Adama persuades Roslin to lead the [[FTL]]-capable ships to follow &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; to the [[Ragnar Anchorage]]. &lt;br /&gt;
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As the ranking pilot aboard &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;, and despite his relative inexperience, Adama finds himself promoted to the position of CAG by Colonel [[Saul Tigh]].&lt;br /&gt;
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Apollo leads a Viper squadron in keeping [[Cylon Raider]]s at bay while the civilian [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] Jumps away from Ragnar Anchorage. His ship is badly damaged midway in the battle and Adama would have been killed by a missile were it not for the lightning-fast and highly-accurate shooting of Starbuck. Starbuck&#039;s highly unconventional flying force-fits her fighter and Adama&#039;s now-powerless Viper nose-to-nose and flies him back to the battlestar seconds before the port [[flight pod]] closes and &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; Jumps away.&lt;br /&gt;
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The attacks presumably kill Lee&#039;s fiancé [[Gianne]] and their unborn child before Lee can speak to her again.  This drives him into depression leading him to at an unknown time start seeing a prostitute named [[Shevon]] ([[Black Market]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Special Advisor ===  &lt;br /&gt;
[[image:Water_Apollo_Roslin.jpg|thumb|left|300px|[[Lee Adama|Adama]] and President Roslin shake hands after appointment as military advisor in &amp;quot;[[Water]]&amp;quot;. (c) Universal)]]&lt;br /&gt;
Lee Adama finds himself attached to Roslin as a &amp;quot;special advisor&amp;quot; to further help her understand military matters. This appointment does not sit well with his father ([[Bastille Day]]).   &lt;br /&gt;
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When tensions rise during a hostage crisis with prisoners aboard the &#039;&#039;[[Astral Queen]]&#039;&#039;, Adama resolves the situation with only one life lost through an arrangement reached between Adama and the leader of the convicts, [[Tom Zarek]]. While the solution is sensible, it is not to the liking of either Commander Adama or President Roslin. &lt;br /&gt;
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In the weeks following the Cylon attack, Adama finds time to re-evaluate his relationship with his father - due in no small part to Starbuck&#039;s admission of her involvement in Zak&#039;s acceptance as a fighter pilot ([[Mini-Series]]) and his subsequent death.  Father and son grow somewhat closer - even standing shoulder-to-shoulder when Starbuck is MIA ([[You Can&#039;t Go Home Again]]). Even so, Adama&#039;s former self-doubts and moodiness are not easily overcome and sometimes come back to haunt him when he is tasked to fill a role that others are unsure he can manage. As a Viper pilot, Adama is able to escape from Starbuck&#039;s shadow, proving himself capable in unconventional and skilled flying in the [[Battle for the Tylium Asteroid]] ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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After the tylium asteroid mission, Adama matures enormously, emerging from his shell as a somewhat disillusioned officer and becomes a practical leader who now comfortably straddles his responsibilities as [[CAG]] of &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; with his duties as advisor to Roslin. With few issues with either Roslin or his father, Adama demonstrates his maturity particularly well in his handling of security arrangements for the initial meeting of Roslin&#039;s [[Quorum of Twelve]] aboard the luxury liner &#039;&#039;[[Cloud Nine]]&#039;&#039; ([[Colonial Day]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Inner Conflicts at Kobol ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Unfortunately, Adama&#039;s beliefs in the need for democratic representation and civil government brings him in direct conflict with orders given him by Commander Adama. During the arrest of Laura Roslin following her [[Arrow of Apollo|interference with military operations]], Captain Adama draws his gun on [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]] in a direct act of mutiny, protesting his father&#039;s removal of Roslin from office. Arrested together with Roslin, Adama watches helplessly in [[CIC]] as [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Lieutenant Valerii]] shoots his father at point blank range, seriously wounding him ([[Kobol&#039;s Last Gleaming, Part II]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama is temporarily furloughed by Colonel Tigh so that he can continue his CAG responsibilities, For a time, Commander Adama&#039;s initiative lives on through his son. Young Adama leads a fight with Cylons to buy time for &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; to find its proper bearings to the civilian Fleet ([[Scattered]]), He leads a team of [[Marines]] to stop [[Cylon Centurion]]s from reaching [[Aft Damage Control]], saving the ship ([[Valley of Darkness]]). After that, Adama continues his initiative and leads a [[SAR]] mission with two [[Raptors]] to retrieve stranded Colonials on the surface of Kobol ([[Fragged]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama&#039;s desire to let democracy work without overt military action comes to a head once more as he plots with a handful of others to free Roslin and smuggle her away from &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; ([[The Farm]]). Before he leaves, he apologizes to his unconscious Commander Adama at his bedside for what he is about to do: Leave with Roslin and a [[Laura Roslin faction|faction]] of ships to search for data on Earth on Kobol. Commander Adama begins to awaken just as Adama leaves his side.&lt;br /&gt;
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On the &#039;&#039;[[Astral Queen]]&#039;&#039;, Adama is so happy to see Kara Thrace returned safely from Caprica with the Arrow of Apollo that he hugs and also impulsively kisses her, pleasantly surprising Thrace ([[Home, Part I]]). Moments later, as the Caprica copy of Sharon Valerii entered, Adama instantly grabs the known [[Cylon agent]] in anger and would have killed her if Helo and Roslin did not intervene.&lt;br /&gt;
[[image:Home_pt1-Apollo_Starbuck.jpg|thumb|[[Lee Adama|Adama]] and Kara Thrace speak aboard the &#039;&#039;Astral Queen&#039;&#039; in &amp;quot;Home, Part I&amp;quot;. (c) Universal)]]&lt;br /&gt;
Later, with their military protocols and attitudes temporarily relaxed, Adama playfully teases the brooding Kara Thrace by stealing a [[pyramid (RDM)|pyramid]] ball she took as a keepsake from her time with [[Samuel Anders|Anders]] on Caprica. He returns the ball after sensing her depressed mood and tells her that he would be happy to listen to what was on her mind. In the same conversation, he lets it slip out that he loves Thrace. Amused, Thrace cheers up a bit and teases Adama, telling him that there are no take-backs on what he said.&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama and Thrace join President Roslin and her other supporters on their quest to find the [[Tomb of Athena]] on Kobol. When Cylon Centurions ambush the group along an ancient trail, Adama and Thrace work well together in the fight, complementing each other for their fine shooting. During the incident, Adama chases what appeared to be an escaping Valerii, with Thrace calling Adama back in vain. Valerii takes a grenade launcher and aims it in the direction of Adama, but Valerii actually uses the weapon to destroy the last Centurion instead before dropping the weapon to a very surprised Adama.&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama&#039;s reunion with his recovered father on Kobol further mends the wounds between them, both politically and personally. Like Captain Adama had done on the &#039;&#039;Queen&#039;&#039;, his father reacts violently to the existence of a another copy of Valerii, leaving Captain Adama in the awkward position of defending her from his father.&lt;br /&gt;
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In the virtual planetarium created by the Tomb of Athena, Adama is the party member that completes the mystery of interpreting how to use the constellations as viewed from Earth to make a flight path. He spots the [[Wikipedia:Lagoon Nebula|Lagoon Nebula]] in the sky where the Scorpius constellation resided, a celestial body known to the Colonials which gives them a reference point to navigate to Earth. His father confirms Adama&#039;s observation, noting that the nebula is far away from their current location at Kobol.&lt;br /&gt;
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After the Fleet&#039;s reunification, Lee Adama is fully restored to flight status and his position as the Commander, Air Group ([[Final Cut]]).  Apollo doubts that [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] could successfully complete a prototype fighter later known as the [[Blackbird]], but in the end aids in its first test flight with Starbuck. Around this time, Adama begins to develop a peculiar attraction to Petty Officer 2nd Class [[Anastasia Dualla]] ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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===Reassignment===&lt;br /&gt;
Apollo is on [[CAP]] when the [[Mercury class battlestar|battlestar]] &#039;&#039;[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]&#039;&#039; reunites with &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;: he was one of the first to see it up close.  Soon afterwards, friction develops between Adama and the CAG of &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039;, Captain [[Cole Taylor|Cole &amp;quot;Stinger&amp;quot; Taylor]].  Taylor feels that Adama&#039;s pilots were undisciplined and implies that Adama has his position through his father&#039;s influence. Taylor recommends that Adama have his pilots focus on keeping a &amp;quot;killcount&amp;quot; of Raiders to encourage competition between his pilots, while Adama stresses that his first priority is to make sure that all of his pilots merely survive another day.&lt;br /&gt;
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To Adama&#039;s shock, Admiral [[Helena Cain]] re-assigns him and Lt. Thrace to &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039;, under Taylor&#039;s command.  Cain believes that having Commander Adama&#039;s son in the role of CAG was a mistake that had clouded Commander Adama&#039;s judgment, as young Adama had been insubordinate and even [[Kobol&#039;s Last Gleaming, Part II|mutinous]] in the past.  During a briefing on an upcoming scouting mission against the Cylon fleet following them, Thrace crassly points out that it would never work. She is grounded while Taylor orders Adama to perform the humiliating task of co-piloting a Raptor.  However, after the briefing, Adama surreptitiously gives Starbuck a surveillance package and tells her to take the Blackbird to carry out a recon mission on her own.  When Commander Adama and Admiral Cain turn on each other, Apollo is away in Taylor&#039;s Raptor on his recon mission ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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As the two battlestar commanders begin sparring with Vipers, &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; orders Taylor to relieve Adama of duty. Taylor pulls his sidearm and takes away Adama&#039;s. Now weaponless and with nothing more to do than to ride along, Adama asks permission to head to the rear of the Raptor. While Taylor is busy, Adama secretly sends an encoded [[wireless]] message to Starbuck on her whereabouts with the Blackbird and the secret stealth mission he tasked her with. It happened that Starbuck arrives back in the Fleet&#039;s space to see the furious and dangerous game of Viper-tag and replies to Adama, asking what was going on. Starbuck&#039;s return on the outer fringes of [[DRADIS]] activate proximity alarms on both &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;, whose Vipers unite as a team to intercept what they think is a [[Raider]]. Starbuck manages to identify herself before things get out of hand.&lt;br /&gt;
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Kara Thrace downloads her reconnaissance photos of what would be later known as the [[Resurrection Ship]] to a very surprised Admiral Cain, who promotes Thrace to Captain as well as assigning her as &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; [[CAG]], replacing Cole Taylor. Cain feels that persecuting Adama for authorizing Thrace&#039;s mission would be odd since she was promoting Thrace, so she decides to take Adama off flight status. In light of Thrace&#039;s new task of planning an attack on the Resurrection Ship, Thrace asks for and successfully returns Adama to flight status. He remains, however, demoted to Lieutenant ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama visits [[Karl Agathon]] and [[Galen Tyrol]] in the &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; brig, asking the two of them with a smile, &amp;quot;So, just how many kinds of stupid are you?&amp;quot; He informs them that their scheduled execution is on hold until at least after the battle operation, and tells how Commander Adama &amp;quot;went to the mat&amp;quot; for both of them in trying to get them back, almost going into a shooting war with &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
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After the battlestar commanders and their teams are briefed by Thrace on her attack plan, Commander Adama requests Thrace to stay to talk more on the plan and dismisses his son, asking him cryptically to &amp;quot;stay focused, son.&amp;quot; With young Adama gone, the elder Adama asks Thrace to kill Cain after the operation to prevent her from eventually having Commander Adama killed and, in turn, doom the Fleet to Cain&#039;s tyrannical commands. Commander Adama tells Thrace to take Lee Adama with her, to watch her back ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Battle of the Resurrection Ship ===&lt;br /&gt;
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With the recon photos from Starbucks mission in hand, Thrace plans an assault on the Resurrection Ship and the two [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]]s defending it.  At the same time, Starbuck told Apollo that his father had ordered her to kill Cain after the battle, and for Apollo to watch her back.  Outraged, Apollo confronted his father with this, who said that it wasn&#039;t something he wanted to do but that had to be done.  However, Apollo was shocked when his father told him that assassinating Cain was President Roslin&#039;s idea.  Apollo was in disbelief that as a society they had fallen to these levels.  Thrace assigns Adama the specific task of disabling the Resurrection Ship&#039;s [[FTL]] drive by sneaking up on it in the Blackbird and destroying it with a precision missile strike. Apollo is successful in his mission and disables the Resurrection Ship, however, he is then hit by a floating piece of debris. Apollo is able to eject, but the Blackbird is destroyed. Alive, but not unscathed, Apollo floats in space watching the battle take place, able to faintly hear the [[Dee]] calling for him over the wireless. A small hole in the leg on his flight suit allows most of his oxygen to escape into space. Drifting in and out of consciousness, he finds himself floating in a body of water, presumably on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] before the attack.&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama is found shortly afterwards by a [[SAR]] [[Raptor]] and is brought back from the brink of death on board. However Apollo becomes despondent and distant from his friends and family after his near death experience. In the pilots locker room, Thrace tells Adama &amp;quot;Lets just be glad that we both came back alive, alright?&amp;quot; to which Adama responds &amp;quot;Thats just it, Kara, I didn&#039;t want to make it back alive.&amp;quot; ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]])&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Black Market ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama (who has had his captains rank restored) and Thrace apprehend Viper saboteur [[Asha Janik]] of the [[Demand Peace]] group which is trying to make peace with the Cylons. ([[Epiphanies]]) &lt;br /&gt;
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After President Roslin is saved from her cancer ([[Epiphanies]]) she begins trying to put down the Fleet&#039;s [[Black market (organization)|Black Market]]. New Pegasus commander [[Jack Fisk]] is soon murdered leading the elder Adama (now an Admiral) to assign his son to investigate. After seeing prostitute [[Shevon]] and her daughter [[Paya]] on &#039;&#039;[[Cloud 9]]&#039;&#039; Adama is asked by [[Anastasia Dualla]] where the relationship between the two of them was going. After he can&#039;t answer Dualla takes it to mean it is over. Adama rushes back to Shevon&#039;s quarters after hearing a call for help from her, and is ambushed by thugs. Their leader [[Phelan]] warns him against investigating further. Lee is knocked unconscious and upon awaking finds everyone gone except the corpse of Fisk&#039;s murderer. &lt;br /&gt;
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With some help from [[Tom Zarek]] Adama finds the Black Markets main ship &#039;&#039;[[Prometheus]]&#039;&#039;, abroad which Paya and other children are locked up. He confronts Phelan who tells him a Black Market is needed in the Fleet since no supplies will ever reach the people any other way. Shevon is dragged out to admit she works for Phelan as a prostitute. Adama shoots Phelan and tells his bodyguards the market will continue unless it keeps holding back essential medicines, killing, and using child prostitution. &lt;br /&gt;
Shevon refuses to see Adama anymore, stating to him she and Paya are just replacements for his lost fiancé [[Gianne]] and their unborn child. ([[Black Market]])&lt;br /&gt;
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===Friendly Fire===&lt;br /&gt;
While on leave to [[Cloud 9]] with [[Anastasia Dualla]], a group of terrorists demanding they be allowed to kill [[Sharon Valerii]] held about a dozen people, including Dualla, Billy Keikeya, [[Ellen Tigh]] and Adama, hostage in a bar. Lee reacted quickly, sabotaging the bar&#039;s sensors so it appeared they were leaking atmosphere. The sabotage enabled Capt. Thrace to gather intelligence on the situation, but her cover was blown, and she was forced to lay down some fire to escape. One shot hit Adama in the chest. Dualla was able to care for Adama long enough for him to survive to Galactica&#039;s sickbay, and later sat at his bedside while he recovered. ([[Sacrifice]])&lt;br /&gt;
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===A Worthy Command ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Adama finds himself promoted to Major and assigned to battlestar [[Pegasus (RDM)|&#039;&#039;Pegasus]]&#039;&#039; as the [[Executive officer]] for new commander [[Barry Garner]], a former officer in Engineering. Garner finds an instant dislike for Starbuck and soon orders her to be sent back to &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;. Meanwhile, a Raptor recon mission near a binary star system becomes a [[SAR]] as the two craft go missing. Against orders from Admiral Adama, Garner takes &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; in to search for the Raptors. His impulsive and unwise efforts result in a Cylon ambush of three basestars.&lt;br /&gt;
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With the FTL drive damaged, he relegates command to Major Adama and heads below to help in FTL repairs. After a moment&#039;s hesitation (perhaps thinking what his father would do), Adama orders the forward guns to fire on the nearest basestar&#039;s central spire, critically damaging the basestar and forcing its retreat, while commanding the battlestar&#039;s fighters (led by Starbuck) to guard embattled areas damaged from nuclear pummeling. After Commander Garner successfully repairs a critical area and the FTL drive repaired, Major Adama retrieves the fighters and Jumps back to the Fleet and relative safety.&lt;br /&gt;
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Admiral Adama debriefs his son, and congratulates him by promoting him to the rank of Commander and giving him command of battlestar &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; ([[The Captain&#039;s Hand]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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Sometime later, Apollo wished Starbuck good luck in rescuing [[Anders]] and the rest of the [[Resistance]], despite his clear personal feeling towards her. ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]). After the two of them returned, Adama attempted to introduce himself politely, but was hampered by vast quantity of alcohol they had consumed.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Fatlee6as.jpg|thumb|left|Lee Adama in command of &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039;.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Just over a year later, Apollo was the Commander of a half-capacity, nearly unneeded Battlestar orbiting [[New Caprica]]. He was in the process of deciding whether or not to give Kara antibiotics for Anders (now her very ill husband) when Dualla (now an officer on the [[CIC]]) dicovered the Cylon fleet moving into the nebula. Adama and his father had a brief discussion over their course of action, before the Admiral ordered the Fleet, whose population now consisted less than ten thousand crew, to jump away, leaving New Caprica to the Cylons, for the time being. ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]])&lt;br /&gt;
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== Notes ==&lt;br /&gt;
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*From [[Ronald D. Moore]]&#039;s [[Wikipedia:blog|blog]], in response to a fan&#039;s question:&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;In my first draft of the [[Mini-Series|mini]], Lee Adama had just been accepted into test pilot school on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] and was not currently assigned to any [[battlestar]]. Presumably, he had been posted to at least a couple of battlestar [[CAG|air groups]] in his career, as well as several ground assignments as well. This isn&#039;t [[canon]] yet, however, and I&#039;m currently thinking of changing some elements of his specific backstory as I work on storylines for [[Season 2 (2005-06)|Season Two]]. Overall, I&#039;d say Lee was striving (perhaps too hard) to blaze a different path for himself in the fleet from that of his [[William Adama|father]]. I don&#039;t think Lee ever saw himself as a battlestar commander and was looking for a different way to make his mark.&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*According to Jamie Bamber, Adama&#039;s official character biography states that “Lee is never so happy as when he’s in his kitchen cooking.”&lt;br /&gt;
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*The subtitles under Apollo&#039;s name in &amp;quot;[[Final Cut]]&amp;quot; list him as &amp;quot;CFR&amp;quot;.  In the podcast, RDM explained that this stood for Colonial Fleet Reserves; likely analogous to the U.S. Army Reserve, the U.S. Air Force Reserve and such of the United States military; and Apollo is in that because, as stated above, he wasn&#039;t sure what he was doing with his life and wasn&#039;t sure if he was going to pursue a full career in the Fleet.&lt;br /&gt;
* Jamie Bamber is the husband of actress Kerry Norton, who portrays [[Layne Ishay]], the paramedic from &amp;quot;[[Scattered]]&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
* Bamber is actually a British citizen; he disguises his accent to play the role of Lee Adama.&lt;br /&gt;
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Here is SkyOne&#039;s summary of Lee Adama:&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Lee was born and raised on the colony of Caprica, where his family were born. A headstrong, scrappy boy, he was forever getting into fights at school.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;His parents divorced when he was just eight and his younger brother Zak was raised by their mother. His father visited him when he could, but military life often took him away for long periods. Nevertheless, both boys grew up worshipping this distant figure.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Lee always wanted to be a pilot; to follow in his father&#039;s footsteps and join the fleet. He studied hard at school, aced his entrance exams to the academy and graduated third in his class. But the boy&#039;s hero-worship eventually turned to resentment, and neither knew how to repair it.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;While Lee was at flight school, his younger brother was away at Viper Squadron and a plum assignment on Atlantia - flagship of the fleet. Lee tried to dissuade him, but Zak did not want to be the only Adama without wings on his uniform. Zak&#039;s application was turned down. As Commander Adama pulled a few strings to get his son in, Lee was furious.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;Two weeks later, Zak&#039;s plane went down while he was flying a routine solo mission and he was killed. Lee spent the next two years focusing on his career, having no personal life and working to become the perfect fighter pilot.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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As this information does not come from the official Scifi.com site, it&#039;s authenticity is in question.  Further, it is contradicted by on screen evidence:  Zak was killed in an accident at flight school, and was never on a battlestar.  Further, Lee did not work hard (at least after Zak&#039;s death) to be the best Viper pilot or to improve his career; multiple cast interviews and RDM podcasts state that he was despondent, didn&#039;t know what to do with his life, and was considering leaving the service.  Further, in &amp;quot;[[Final Cut]]&amp;quot; we see that he is a member of the Colonial Fleet Reserves, not regular fleet, indicating that he wasn&#039;t particularly concerned with a lifelong career.&lt;br /&gt;
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{{start box}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{succession box|before=&#039;&#039;[[Barry Garner]]&#039;&#039;|title=Commander of the Battlestar &#039;&#039;[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]&#039;&#039;|after=Incumbent}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{succession box|before=[[Barry Garner]]|title=Acting XO of the Battlestar &#039;&#039;[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]&#039;&#039;|after=&#039;&#039;[[Anastasia Dualla]]&#039;&#039;}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{succession box|before=&#039;&#039;[[Jackson Spencer|Jackson &amp;quot;Ripper&amp;quot; Spencer]]&#039;&#039;|title=Commander Air Group of the Battlestar &#039;&#039;[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]&#039;&#039;|after=&#039;&#039;[[Kara Thrace|Kara &amp;quot;Starbuck&amp;quot; Thrace]] (Temporarily [[George Birch|George &amp;quot;Catman&amp;quot; Birch]])&#039;&#039;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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== See Also ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Apollo (TOS)]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Richard Hatch]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Tom Zarek]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{Characters}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:A to Z|Adama, Lee]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Characters|Adama, Lee]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:RDM|Adama, Lee]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:People from Caprica|Adama, Lee]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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	<entry>
		<id>https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_all_episodes&amp;diff=39848</id>
		<title>List of all episodes</title>
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		<updated>2006-03-19T05:06:38Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Aboris26: /* Battlestar Galactica (&amp;quot;re-imagining&amp;quot;) */&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;== Overview ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The following are the listings of all known episodes of &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;[[Battlestar Galactica]]&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;.  Click on one to see (and possibly edit) the guide for that episode.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Battlestar Galactica (Classic)]] ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Season 1 (1978-79)]]&lt;br /&gt;
**1.01 [[Saga of a Star World (TOS)|Saga of a Star World]] (3 hours)&lt;br /&gt;
**1.02 [[Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I (TOS)|Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I]]&lt;br /&gt;
**1.03 [[Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II (TOS)|Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II]]&lt;br /&gt;
**1.04 [[The Lost Warrior (TOS)|The Lost Warrior]]&lt;br /&gt;
**1.05 [[The Long Patrol (TOS)|The Long Patrol]]&lt;br /&gt;
**1.06 [[The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I (TOS)|The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I]]&lt;br /&gt;
**1.07 [[The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part II (TOS)|The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part II]]&lt;br /&gt;
**1.08 [[The Magnificent Warriors (TOS)|The Magnificent Warriors]]&lt;br /&gt;
**1.09 [[The Young Lords (TOS)|The Young Lords]]&lt;br /&gt;
**1.10 [[The Living Legend, Part I (TOS)|The Living Legend, Part I]]&lt;br /&gt;
**1.11 [[The Living Legend, Part II (TOS)|The Living Legend, Part II]]&lt;br /&gt;
**1.12 [[Fire in Space (TOS)|Fire in Space]]&lt;br /&gt;
**1.13 [[War of the Gods, Part I (TOS)|War of the Gods, Part I]]&lt;br /&gt;
**1.14 [[War of the Gods, Part II (TOS)|War of the Gods, Part II]]&lt;br /&gt;
**1.15 [[The Man with Nine Lives (TOS)|The Man with Nine Lives]]&lt;br /&gt;
**1.16 [[Murder on the Rising Star (TOS)|Murder on the Rising Star]]&lt;br /&gt;
**1.17 [[Greetings from Earth (TOS)|Greetings from Earth]] (2 hours)&lt;br /&gt;
**1.18 [[Baltar&#039;s Escape (TOS)|Baltar&#039;s Escape]]&lt;br /&gt;
**1.19 [[Experiment in Terra (TOS)|Experiment in Terra]]&lt;br /&gt;
**1.20 [[Take the Celestra (TOS)|Take the Celestra]]&lt;br /&gt;
**1.21 [[The Hand of God (TOS)|The Hand of God]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== [[Galactica 1980]] ==&lt;br /&gt;
*Season 1 (1980)&lt;br /&gt;
**1.01 [[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]&lt;br /&gt;
**1.02 [[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]&lt;br /&gt;
**1.03 [[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]&lt;br /&gt;
**1.04 [[The Super Scouts, Part I]]&lt;br /&gt;
**1.05 [[The Super Scouts, Part II]]&lt;br /&gt;
**1.06 [[Spaceball]]&lt;br /&gt;
**1.07 [[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]&lt;br /&gt;
**1.08 [[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II]]&lt;br /&gt;
**1.09 [[Space Croppers]]&lt;br /&gt;
**1.10 [[The Return of Starbuck]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Battlestar Galactica (&amp;quot;re-imagining&amp;quot;)]] ==&lt;br /&gt;
===[[Mini-Series]] (2003)===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[Season 1 (2004-05)]]===&lt;br /&gt;
*1.01 [[33]]&lt;br /&gt;
*1.02 [[Water]]&lt;br /&gt;
*1.03 [[Bastille Day]]&lt;br /&gt;
*1.04 [[Act of Contrition]]&lt;br /&gt;
*1.05 [[You Can&#039;t Go Home Again]]&lt;br /&gt;
*1.06 [[Litmus]]&lt;br /&gt;
*1.07 [[Six Degrees of Separation]]&lt;br /&gt;
*1.08 [[Flesh and Bone]]&lt;br /&gt;
*1.09 [[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]&lt;br /&gt;
*1.10 [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]&lt;br /&gt;
*1.11 [[Colonial Day]]&lt;br /&gt;
*1.12 [[Kobol&#039;s Last Gleaming, Part I]]&lt;br /&gt;
*1.13 [[Kobol&#039;s Last Gleaming, Part II]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[Season 2 (2005-06)]]===&lt;br /&gt;
*2.01 [[Scattered]]&lt;br /&gt;
*2.02 [[Valley of Darkness]]&lt;br /&gt;
*2.03 [[Fragged]]&lt;br /&gt;
*2.04 [[Resistance]]&lt;br /&gt;
*2.05 [[The Farm]]&lt;br /&gt;
*2.06 [[Home, Part I]]&lt;br /&gt;
*2.07 [[Home, Part II]]&lt;br /&gt;
*2.08 [[Final Cut]]&lt;br /&gt;
*2.09 [[Flight of the Phoenix]]&lt;br /&gt;
*2.10 [[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]&lt;br /&gt;
*2.11 [[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]&lt;br /&gt;
*2.12 [[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]&lt;br /&gt;
*2.13 [[Epiphanies]] &lt;br /&gt;
*2.14 [[Black Market]]&lt;br /&gt;
*2.15 [[Scar]]&lt;br /&gt;
*2.16 [[Sacrifice]]&lt;br /&gt;
*2.17 [[The Captain&#039;s Hand]]&lt;br /&gt;
*2.18 [[Downloaded]]&lt;br /&gt;
*2.19 [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]&lt;br /&gt;
*2.20 [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[Season 3 (2006-07)]]===&lt;br /&gt;
*3.01 ???&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== TV Documentaries / Specials ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Sciography: Battlestar Galactica]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Battlestar Galactica: The Lowdown (Mini-Series)]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Battlestar Galactica: The Lowdown (Season 1)]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Sci-Fi Inside: Battlestar Galactica]] (Season 2.5)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== How To Create or Edit a Guide ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Each guide is essentially in the same format as those from the [http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html Lurker&#039;s Guide to &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Babylon 5&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;].  &lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:A to Z]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Episode Guide (TOS)|*]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Episode Guide (1980)|*]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Episode Guide (RDM)|*]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Episode Guide|*]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Lists]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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	<entry>
		<id>https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Number_Two&amp;diff=39794</id>
		<title>Number Two</title>
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		<updated>2006-03-18T22:42:54Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Aboris26: /* Ragnar Anchorage Copy */&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;    {{Character Data| &lt;br /&gt;
    |photo= [[Image:Leoben.jpg|200px]]&lt;br /&gt;
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    |colony=&lt;br /&gt;
    |birthname=&lt;br /&gt;
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    |death= &lt;br /&gt;
    |parents=&lt;br /&gt;
    |siblings= [[Number Three]], [[Number Five]], [[Number Six]], [[Number Eight]], [[Simon]], [[Cavil]]&lt;br /&gt;
    |children= &lt;br /&gt;
    |marital status=&lt;br /&gt;
    |role= Cylon Infilitrator, Prophet / Mis-informant&lt;br /&gt;
    |rank= &lt;br /&gt;
    |actor= [[Callum Keith Rennie]]&lt;br /&gt;
    |cylon= y&lt;br /&gt;
    |name= &lt;br /&gt;
    }}&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;Leoben Conoy&#039;&#039;&#039; is a [[Cylon agent]] first encountered at [[Ragnar Anchorage]].  He fancies himself as a prophet with predilections for enlightened monotheistic religious dogma, whereas he is more likely to sow the seeds of doubt or mis-information, weaving lies in the fabric of truth and faith.&lt;br /&gt;
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__TOC__&lt;br /&gt;
== Ragnar Anchorage Copy ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Conoy is first encountered at the [[Ragnar Anchorage]], where he poses as an arms dealer. It is likely that he was assigned with the monitoring of this depot station as the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|war]] began, gaining intelligence on battlestars that visited there. Alternatively, he may have been tasked with stealing away or destroying the ammunition (or the station itself) to prevent its use by the Colonials.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Conoy is already sick from the radiation around Ragnar, suggesting he had been there for several hours before &#039;&#039; Galactica&#039;s&#039;&#039; arrival.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Conoy becomes trapped aboard the station with [[William Adama|Commander Adama]] after a warhead is accidentally detonated. As they try to find another way out of the station, Leoben reveals his true nature to Adama through conversation, initially by claiming to be something of a philosopher. Identifying Conoy as a Cylon on the point of death, Adama challenges him and learns of the Cylon&#039;s ability to transfer their consciousness to another body when dying. Only Leoben can&#039;t -- the radiation of [[Ragnar]] is interfering with his ability.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It is unclear whether Adama figures out Leoben is a Cylon by his illness, however, it is also possible that he has seen Leoben before. Which explains why he is suspecious of Leoben from the start.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A fight ensues, during which Leoben exhibits unnatural strength and speed. Adama manages to kill Conoy by forcing his head over an outventing steam pipe then bludgeoning him to death with a [[flashlight]]. He then brings Leoben&#039;s body back to &#039;&#039;[[Galactica]]&#039;&#039; for examination.  Samples from this body, when burned, revealed synthetic materials -- which permitted Adama, [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]] and Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] to deduce that Cylons could mimic humans in appearance ([[Mini-Series]]).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The body is later stored in the ship&#039;s morgue ([[Flesh and Bone]]).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Later, three copies of Leoben are among the group of Cylons that rescue [[Number Five|Aaron Doral]], abandoned on Ragnar by the Colonials after Dr. Baltar fingers him as a Cylon agent, and debrief him.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Gemenon Traveller Copy ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Conoy is again encountered when a copy is found apparently stowing away aboard the &#039;&#039;[[Gemenon Traveller]]&#039;&#039;. Knowing the model&#039;s ability to weave fact, fiction and outright lies into a confusing fabric of truth, half-truths and deceit, Adama wants the copy destroyed. However, he is overruled by [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]], who demands the model be interrogated. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Kara Thrace|Lieutenant Kara &amp;quot;Starbuck&amp;quot; Thrace]] is assigned to interrogate Conoy aboard the &#039;&#039;Gemenon Traveller&#039;&#039;. Over the course of eight hours, Conoy demonstrates his ability to confuse and mix truth with lies: he claims to have planted a nuclear device somewhere in the fleet, but will not reveal where. He also mixes what appears to be religious mumbo-jumbo with penetrating insights into Colonial philosophy and Starbuck&#039;s own past ([[Flesh and Bone]]).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
While she resorts to ever-more drastic measures to obtain details on the alleged bomb&#039;s location, Starbuck finds herself being drawn into Leoben&#039;s vision of life. So much so that when Roslin orders his execution, Starbuck very much empathises with him. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Prior to his death, Conoy reveals there is no bomb, and uses a reason suggested by Starbuck in the initial stages of his interrogation: that since he is so far from other Cylon centers of influence, he cannot transmit his &amp;quot;soul&amp;quot; back to home should his body die. However, the real purpose of his mission is revealed when President Roslin arrives aboard the &#039;&#039;Traveller&#039;&#039; and he manages to whisper to her that Adama is in fact a Cylon -- thus planting a potentially dangerous seed of doubt between her and Adama. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Convinced now of the danger in keeping Conoy alive, Roslin orders him ejected from the &#039;&#039;Traveller&#039;s&#039;&#039; airlock. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Interestingly, Roslin had a premonition of Conoy&#039;s surfacing in the fleet when she had a dream about him at the time he was captured. Later, in her cabin on &#039;&#039;[[Colonial One]]&#039;&#039;, she had a vision of him talking to her which prompted her decision to visit him in person - thus allowing him to complete his mission. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
At the time of the dream and the vision, Roslin assumed both were the result of her using [[Chamalla]] to treat her cancer. However, both may have been the result of some form of psychic ability on the part of Conoy.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Other Copies ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Apparently the [[Resistance (movement)|resistance]] on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] captured and interrogated their own copy of Conoy, as [[Samuel Anders]] sarcastically quotes his philosophy to [[Kara Thrace]] ([[Resistance]]). This is speculation, of course. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During the Cylon invasion of [[New Caprica]] a Leoben copy slips into Kara Thrace and Samuel Anders&#039; tent and asks the ailing Anders where Thrace is ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]). It is uncertain if this is the Ragnor Ancorage Leoben, Kara&#039;s Leoben that she interogates, or another copy altogether.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Wikipedia:Conoy_Township%2C_PA|Conoy]] is the name of a township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.&lt;br /&gt;
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{{Characters}}&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:A to Z|Conoy, Leoben]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Characters|Conoy, Leoben]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Cylons|Conoy, Leoben]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:RDM|Conoy, Leoben]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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	<entry>
		<id>https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Season_3_(2006-07)&amp;diff=37522</id>
		<title>Season 3 (2006-07)</title>
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		<updated>2006-03-12T02:00:12Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Aboris26: /* Co-stars */&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;{{spoiler}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Summary==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
: None yet available.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Pivotal Plot Points ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*According to an interview by Katee Sackhoff on Subject2Discussion.com on January 3rd, 2006, [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]]&#039;s &amp;quot;[[The Farm|missing ovaries]]&amp;quot; will be mentioned before Season 2 ends and be a pivotal theme to Season 3.&lt;br /&gt;
*At the official [http://www.ausxip.com/conventions/2006burbank/taipo-conlucy.html Xena 2006 Convention], Lucy Lawless stated that: &amp;quot;(They) turned around and asked her &amp;quot;Do you want to play [[God]]?&amp;quot;  There is a character who sets herself up as God, and Lucy would likely play her.  Her theory is that there&#039;s nowhere to go after playing Xena but to playing God!  But &#039;&#039;none of this is a done deal&#039;&#039;, she cautions, because they&#039;re still working out the logistics&amp;quot;. It is known, however, that Lawless will be in ten of the Season 3 episodes.&lt;br /&gt;
*According to Ron D. Moore&#039;s podcast of the Captain&#039;s Hand, Apollo will continue to be the Commander of the Pegasus well into Season 3.&lt;br /&gt;
*There will be some flashbacks that deal with events that occured during the year that was skipped over in the season 2 finale.  Caprica-Sharon is noticeably given no scenes in the &amp;quot;One Year Later&amp;quot; segment, and in the commentary for the episode Ron Moore said that the first episodes of season 3 would deal with this.  In addition, there will be flashbacks explaining how Dualla transfered to &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; to be with Apollo, but over time as more and more crewmen left, to the point that a skeleton crew was running the ship, she was left as the next highest ranking crewman on the ship and more or less his Executive Officer (although really, there&#039;s only about 3-4 people left &#039;&#039;including&#039;&#039; Apollo and Dualla even running the &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; CIC).&lt;br /&gt;
*In one brief shot at the end of the season 2 finale, [[Leoben Conoy]] arrives in Starbuck&#039;s tent and finds [[Samuel Anders|Anders]] and specifically asks where Kara Thrace is.  Moore said that this is a major plot point, and will feature in the first three episodes of season three.  It might have something to do with her missing ovaries.&lt;br /&gt;
*In an [http://www.nowplayingmag.com/content/view/3300/2/ interview] with NowPlayingMagazine on March 11, 2006, Ron Moore said &amp;quot;Essentially, season three is going to deal with the Cylon occupation of the Colonials on New Caprica. The sort of archetype that we’re talking about is like [[Wikipedia:Vichy France|Vichy France]]: There’s a Colonial government run by President Baltar that is collaborating with the Cylons, while the humans put together an insurgent resistance against the occupation.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
*Moore goes on to say that:  &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; will be trying to figure out a way to save everyone trapped on New Caprica.&lt;br /&gt;
*A major plotline is that there is going to be &amp;quot;an ongoing Cylon story where we’re going to be cutting over to the Cylon world for the first time and running a complete arc within the Cylons&amp;quot;.  This probably refers to the planned Lucy Lawless ([[Number Three]]) storyarc.  It is unclear if by &amp;quot;Cylon world&amp;quot; Moore means &#039;&#039;the&#039;&#039; [[Cylon homeworld]], or just a Basestar, Cylon-occupied planet, etc.&lt;br /&gt;
*The resistance against the Cylons and Baltar&#039;s collaborationist government on New Caprica will take three to five episodes, probably four.  However, it will definately not take another seven episodes to wrap up the events of the season finale, as it did last time with &amp;quot;[[Kobol&#039;s Last Gleaming, Part II]]&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
*Not all of the Cylons may believe that Baltar is the Hand of God, &amp;quot;Guardian of the New Order&amp;quot;, etc.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Cast==&lt;br /&gt;
===Stars===&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Edward James Olmos]] as [[William Adama|Admiral William Adama]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Mary McDonnell]] as [[Laura Roslin|President Laura Roslin]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Katee Sackhoff]] as [[Kara Thrace|Captain Kara &amp;quot;Starbuck&amp;quot; Thrace]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Jamie Bamber]] as [[Lee Adama|Commander Lee &amp;quot;Apollo&amp;quot; Adama]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[James Callis]] as [[Gaius Baltar|Vice-President Doctor Gaius Baltar]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Tricia Helfer]] as [[Number Six]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Grace Park]] as [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon Valerii]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Co-stars===&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Michael Hogan]] as [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Saul Tigh]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Aaron Douglas]] as [[Galen Tyrol|Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Tahmoh Penikett]] as [[Karl Agathon|Lieutenant Karl &amp;quot;Helo&amp;quot; Agathon]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Kandyse McClure]] as [[Anastasia Dualla|Lieutenant Anastasia Dualla]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Richard Hatch]] as [[Tom Zarek|Representative Tom Zarek]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Alessandro Juliani]] as [[Felix Gaeta|Lieutenant Felix Gaeta]] &lt;br /&gt;
* [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Leah+Cairns Leah Cairns] as [[Margaret Edmonson|Lt. Margaret &amp;quot;Racetrack&amp;quot; Edmonson]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Nicki+Clyne Nicki Clyne] as [[Cally|Specialist Cally]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Dominic+Zamprogna Dominic Zamprogna] as [[Jammer]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Luciana+Carro Luciana Carro] as [[Louanne Katraine|Lt. Louanne &amp;quot;Kat&amp;quot; Katraine]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Kate Vernon]] as [[Ellen Tigh]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Lucy Lawless]] as [[D&#039;anna Biers]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Dean Stockwell]] as [[Cavil]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==Production Crew==&lt;br /&gt;
===Producers===&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Ronald D. Moore]] - Developer / Executive Producer / Writer&lt;br /&gt;
* [[David Eick]] - Executive Producer&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Toni+Graphia Toni Graphia] - Co-Executive Producer / Writer&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Harvey+Frand Harvey Frand] - Producer&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Glen A. Larson]] - Consulting Producer&lt;br /&gt;
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===Directors===&lt;br /&gt;
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== Official Statements ==&lt;br /&gt;
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*An [http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&amp;amp;id=34893 official notice] of Season Three was announced on SciFi Wire on March 9, 2006.  Excerpt follows:&lt;br /&gt;
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SCI FI Channel announced that its hit original series &#039;Battlestar Galactica &#039;will return in October with a full 20-episode third season. Production on the third season begins in Vancouver, Canada, in April.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Related Topics==&lt;br /&gt;
* [[List of Season 3 Guest Actors (RDM)]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[List of Recurring Characters (RDM)]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[List of Recurring Character Appearances (RDM)]]&lt;br /&gt;
{{Episode List}}&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:A to Z]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Behind the Scenes]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:RDM]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Episode Guide (RDM)|*]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Number Two</title>
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Leoben Conoy&#039;&#039;&#039; is a [[Cylon agent]] first encountered at [[Ragnar Anchorage]].  He fancies himself as a prophet with predilections for enlightened monotheistic religious dogma, whereas he is more likely to sow the seeds of doubt or mis-information, weaving lies in the fabric of truth and faith.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Ragnar Anchorage Copy ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Conoy is first encountered at the [[Ragnar Anchorage]], where he poses as an arms dealer. It is likely that he was assigned with the monitoring of this depot station as the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|war]] began, gaining intelligence on battlestars that visited there. Alternatively, he may have been tasked with stealing away or destroying the ammunition (or the station itself) to prevent its use by the Colonials.&lt;br /&gt;
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Conoy is already sick from the radiation around Ragnar, suggesting he had been there for several hours before &#039;&#039; Galactica&#039;s&#039;&#039; arrival.&lt;br /&gt;
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Conoy becomes trapped aboard the station with [[William Adama|Commander Adama]] after a warhead is accidentally detonated. As they try to find another way out of the station, Leoben reveals his true nature to Adama through conversation, initially by claiming to be something of a philosopher. Identifying Conoy as a Cylon on the point of death, Adama challenges him and learns of the Cylon&#039;s ability to transfer their consciousness to another body when dying. Only Leoben can&#039;t -- the radiation of [[Ragnar]] is interfering with his ability.&lt;br /&gt;
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A fight ensues, during which Leoben exhibits unnatural strength and speed. Adama manages to kill Conoy by forcing his head over an outventing steam pipe then bludgeoning him to death with a [[flashlight]]. He then brings Leoben&#039;s body back to &#039;&#039;[[Galactica]]&#039;&#039; for examination.  Samples from this body, when burned, revealed synthetic materials -- which permitted Adama, [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]] and Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] to deduce that Cylons could mimic humans in appearance ([[Mini-Series]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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The body is later stored in the ship&#039;s morgue ([[Flesh and Bone]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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Later, three copies of Leoben are among the group of Cylons that rescue [[Number Five|Aaron Doral]], abandoned on Ragnar by the Colonials after Dr. Baltar fingers him as a Cylon agent, and debrief him. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Gemenon Traveller Copy ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Conoy is again encountered when a copy is found apparently stowing away aboard the &#039;&#039;[[Gemenon Traveller]]&#039;&#039;. Knowing the model&#039;s ability to weave fact, fiction and outright lies into a confusing fabric of truth, half-truths and deceit, Adama wants the copy destroyed. However, he is overruled by [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]], who demands the model be interrogated. &lt;br /&gt;
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[[Kara Thrace|Lieutenant Kara &amp;quot;Starbuck&amp;quot; Thrace]] is assigned to interrogate Conoy aboard the &#039;&#039;Gemenon Traveller&#039;&#039;. Over the course of eight hours, Conoy demonstrates his ability to confuse and mix truth with lies: he claims to have planted a nuclear device somewhere in the fleet, but will not reveal where. He also mixes what appears to be religious mumbo-jumbo with penetrating insights into Colonial philosophy and Starbuck&#039;s own past ([[Flesh and Bone]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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While she resorts to ever-more drastic measures to obtain details on the alleged bomb&#039;s location, Starbuck finds herself being drawn into Leoben&#039;s vision of life. So much so that when Roslin orders his execution, Starbuck very much empathises with him. &lt;br /&gt;
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Prior to his death, Conoy reveals there is no bomb, and uses a reason suggested by Starbuck in the initial stages of his interrogation: that since he is so far from other Cylon centers of influence, he cannot transmit his &amp;quot;soul&amp;quot; back to home should his body die. However, the real purpose of his mission is revealed when President Roslin arrives aboard the &#039;&#039;Traveller&#039;&#039; and he manages to whisper to her that Adama is in fact a Cylon -- thus planting a potentially dangerous seed of doubt between her and Adama. &lt;br /&gt;
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Convinced now of the danger in keeping Conoy alive, Roslin orders him ejected from the &#039;&#039;Traveller&#039;s&#039;&#039; airlock. &lt;br /&gt;
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Interestingly, Roslin had a premonition of Conoy&#039;s surfacing in the fleet when she had a dream about him at the time he was captured. Later, in her cabin on &#039;&#039;[[Colonial One]]&#039;&#039;, she had a vision of him talking to her which prompted her decision to visit him in person - thus allowing him to complete his mission. &lt;br /&gt;
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At the time of the dream and the vision, Roslin assumed both were the result of her using [[Chamalla]] to treat her cancer. However, both may have been the result of some form of psychic ability on the part of Conoy.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Other Copies ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Apparently the [[Resistance (movement)|resistance]] on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] captured and interrogated their own copy of Conoy, as [[Samuel Anders]] sarcastically quotes his philosophy at [[Kara Thrace]] ([[Resistance]]). This is speculation and may be refering to the Caprica Resistance&#039;s idea of Cylon philosphy, as Anders does not react to seeing Leoben in his tent in New Caprica.&lt;br /&gt;
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During the Cylon invasion of [[New Caprica]] a copy askes for Kara Thrace  ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]). It is uncertain if this is the Ragnor Ancorage Leoben or Kara&#039;s Leoben that she interogates .&lt;br /&gt;
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==Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Wikipedia:Conoy_Township%2C_PA|Conoy]] is the name of a township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:RDM|Conoy, Leoben]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Humanoid Cylon</title>
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&lt;div&gt;[[Image:Humano-cylon_group.jpg|thumb|Cylon copies of [[Aaron Doral]], [[Number Six]], and [[Leoben Conoy]] at [[Ragnar Anchorage]]]] &lt;br /&gt;
== Overview ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Following the end of the [[Cylon War]], the Cylons withdrew from Colonial space to a planet of their own. For some 40 years, nothing was heard of them, and no apparent attempt was made by the Colonials to keep an eye on them. The only contact expected between the two was at annual meetings at [[Armistice Station]]. However, while the Colonials sent a repesentative to the station every year, the Cylons did not ([[Miniseries]]). &lt;br /&gt;
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During their forty years of isolation, the Cylons developed or evolved a &#039;&#039;humanoid form&#039;&#039; that very closely mimics human form, down to the cellular level, but not completely at a molecular level.&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Cylon agents&#039;&#039;&#039;{{ref|name}} have the capacity to emulate many human physical acts, including sex, as demonstrated by the Number Six and Sharon Valerii models.&lt;br /&gt;
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Cylon agents can be programmed to believe that they are truly human. These are known as &amp;quot;sleeper&amp;quot; agents. Sleeper agents appear to have a low-level Cylon personality that can conduct operations while placing the human sleeper personality &amp;quot;on-hold&amp;quot;. The [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|first copy of Sharon Valerii]], known by her callsign of &amp;quot;Boomer&amp;quot; on battlestar &#039;&#039;[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]&#039;&#039;, had little awareness of her true nature until her arrest for the attempted assassination of [[William Adama]] ([[Kobol&#039;s Last Gleaming, Part II]]). This sleeper agent conducted or aided in sabotage operations within the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] (&amp;quot;[[Water]]&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;[[Litmus]]&amp;quot;). Most agent copies, particularly [[Number Five|Numbers Five]] [[Number Six|and Six]], imitate human personalities, but are fully aware of their true nature.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Valerii_optic_input.jpg|left|thumb|A [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|copy of Sharon Valerii]] interfaces with &#039;&#039;[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica&#039;s]]&#039;&#039;  [[Computers|mainframe computer]] and communication systems by fiber-optic link.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;(c) Universal]]&lt;br /&gt;
Although they cannot do so remotely or wirelessly, Cylon agents can interface with a computer system or computer network through subdermal physical contact with input cables connected to the devices. Caprica-Sharon connected to the &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;&#039;s computers by this method in &amp;quot;[[Flight of the Phoenix]]&amp;quot; when she inserted a fiber-optic cable through her left palm and into her arm.&lt;br /&gt;
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Cylon agent brains are human in appearance, but are apparently still susceptible to damage from certain types of radiation. Upon the death of an agent&#039;s body, a Cylon agent transfers its consciousness into another copy of itself. This ability is limited by distance, signal integrity, and proximity to a resurrection node or, in space, a [[Resurrection Ship]] ([[Miniseries]], &amp;quot;[[Flesh and Bone]].&amp;quot; &amp;quot;[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]&amp;quot;). Based on [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Caprica Sharon Valerii]]&#039;s conversation with [[Kara Thrace]] in the episode, &amp;quot;[[The Farm]],&amp;quot; it appears that all Cylon agents may share a &#039;&#039;collective knowledgebase&#039;&#039; of data from other active or deactivated Cylon agents. Valerii spoke of a conversation between Thrace and a captured [[Leoben Conoy]] copy in the Fleet. This information would only be known to that now-dead Leoben copy if sharing were not possible. Kara Thrace&#039;s call sign, Starbuck, was also a likely bit of information gleaned from the collective knowledgebase that [[Simon]] knew of the Viper pilot, although Thrace never told him of her call sign and used it to strike back at her abductors ([[The Farm]]). Also, during &amp;quot;[[Flight of the Phoenix]],&amp;quot; Caprica-Valerii asked [[Anastasia Dualla]] if she still carried her pocket knife, a fact which would have been known only to the &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; copy. When under duress, the copy of Sharon Valerii known as &amp;quot;Boomer&amp;quot; on &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; was able to tell [[Gaius Baltar]] the number of remaining Cylon agent agents in the fleet, information that would be impossible to gather without a collective knowledgebase ([[Resistance]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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Some or all Cylon &amp;quot;female&amp;quot; models may have the capacity to bear children seeded by human males ([[33]], [[Flesh and Bone]], [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]], [[Kobol&#039;s Last Gleaming, Part II]]).  The Cylons tested numerous methods of sexual reproduction, yet these failed due to a known flaw in the Cylon agent design.  Cylon agents cannot reproduce with each other biologically, and, attempting to subvert this deficiency, they have been trying to interbreed with humans to create hybrid offspring.  &amp;quot;Farms&amp;quot; were apparently set up across all the occupied Colonies where survivors, specifically, young fertile women of child-bearing age, were rounded up, placed under heavy sedation and turned into &amp;quot;baby machines&amp;quot; through artificial insemination.  However, this method has not met with success. Another drastically different approach was taken by attempting to conceive a child through a bond of love.  It seems that [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] and [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Sharon Valerii]]&#039;s love-child is the lone success story of the relatively short history of Cylon sexual reproduction ([[The Farm]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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== Known Cylon Agent Models ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Cylonagentdossier.jpg|right|200px]]&lt;br /&gt;
There are twelve models of humanoid Cylons ([[Miniseries]]). Thus far, seven models have been revealed to &#039;&#039;viewers&#039;&#039; as Cylon agents{{ref|dossier}}. However, only &#039;&#039;&#039;six&#039;&#039;&#039; models are actually known to the Colonial &#039;&#039;characters&#039;&#039; as agents as of the episode, &amp;quot;[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]].&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== [[Number Three]] ===&lt;br /&gt;
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This model was witnessed by viewers posing as a reporter from the [[Fleet News Service]] and was revealed to be a Cylon at the end of &amp;quot;[[Final Cut]]&amp;quot; when a second copy was shown living on Caprica. Of all the Cylon agent models revealed to viewers, the Colonials are not yet aware that D&#039;anna Biers is a Cylon agent as of the mid-season 2 cliffhanger, &amp;quot;[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Part of Biers&#039; mission within &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;s&#039;&#039; fleet (which fits her work as a journalist) likely involves the relay of important intelligence within the Fleet, such as the status of the pregnant Caprica copy of Sharon Valerii.&lt;br /&gt;
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A copy of this model has appeared under the name/alias &amp;quot;[[D&#039;anna Biers]]&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== [[Number Five]] ===&lt;br /&gt;
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This model attempts to sow the seeds of discontent or confusion, particularly during crucial life-threatening situations, and endeavors to undermine authority that threatens his objectives.  ([[Miniseries]])  Doral models are more covert, assuming an ordinary &amp;quot;everyman&amp;quot; appearance that&#039;s blended in what may seem to be insignificant behind-the-scenes issues (such as converting &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; into a museum). Of all the models thus far, the Aaron Doral models are the most militant, fanatic and consistent in message and objectives to the Cylon objectives, whether he is dispassionately discussing the fate of humanity with his comrades or attempting to kill or maim Colonials in a suicide bomb attack ([[Litmus]]). Viewers first meet Doral during a tour of &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; with other Colonial citizens (possibly the press) as we see the battlestar for the first time at the start of the [[Miniseries]]. The viewers aren&#039;t sure of Doral&#039;s true identity as the second Cylon agent they&#039;ve seen until the end of the Miniseries, however.&lt;br /&gt;
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Copies of this model have appeared under the name/alias &amp;quot;[[Aaron Doral]]&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Number Five is seen with Capira Six and Sharon at the end of Season 2, and seems to be in command of the others. While Six and Sharon express concern and warning to Baltar and the New Capricans, Five expresses threat.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== [[Number Six]] ===&lt;br /&gt;
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This model utilizes the human need / desire for sexual relations to her advantage.  She is religious and monotheistic.  She desires to know what it is to be alive.&lt;br /&gt;
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Typically she is the alpha female, as demonstrated on multiple occasions ([[Miniseries]], &amp;quot;[[33]],&amp;quot; &amp;quot;[[Water]],&amp;quot; &amp;quot;[[Six Degrees of Separation]]&amp;quot;).&lt;br /&gt;
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Copies of this model have appeared under the names/aliases &amp;quot;[[Shelly Godfrey]]&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;[[Gina]]&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;[[Caprica-Six|Caprica]]&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== [[Number Eight]] ===&lt;br /&gt;
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The Valerii model is generally a saboteur designed to infiltrate Colonial military units and is likely programmed to use any Colonial munitions to cause havoc ([[Water]]). The Valerii model is the closest witnessed Cylon agent model to show its abilities as a soldier. This model has shown naiveté in many matters.  She is apparently not as religious as other Cylon models, but has demonstrated that she can love, and is capable of being impregnated by a human (&amp;quot;[[Six Degrees of Separation]],&amp;quot; &amp;quot;[[Kobol&#039;s Last Gleaming, Part II]]&amp;quot;).  She may be &amp;quot;defective&amp;quot;, as the Cylon programming within the sleeper agent known as &amp;quot;Boomer&amp;quot; on &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; conflicted multiple times with its human personality ([[Water]]). Also, the fully aware Sharon Valerii found by [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] on Caprica has fully switched alliances from Cylon to Colonial after falling in love with Helo and is now aiding the Colonials (several episodes, most notably &amp;quot;[[Flight of the Phoenix]]&amp;quot;). Valerii is the third Cylon agent introduced during the [[Miniseries]]. However, viewers do not discover her true identity until the very end of the Miniseries when a second copy appears at [[Ragnar Anchorage]] while retrieving the abandoned copy of Aaron Doral.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Copies]] of this model have appeared under the name &amp;quot;[[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Sharon Valerii]]&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== [[Leoben Conoy]] ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Leoben Conoy was the fourth model witnessed by viewers (although viewers would not know until the end of the [[Mini-Series]] that they had already met the &#039;&#039;third&#039;&#039; humanoid Cylon, Sharon Valerii). The Conoy model has shown to be religiously oriented, using dogma and intermixing truth with falsehoods.  It was first discovered on [[Ragnar Station]], claiming to be a scavenger / arms dealer ([[Miniseries]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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He can be likened to the serpent of the [[Wikipedia:Genesis|Genesis]] tale in the Earth [[Wikipedia: Christian Bible|Christian Bible]], taunting people with knowledge then watching as the negative consequences come into devastating fruition. Leoben copies have likely been encountered by the [[Resistance (movement)|Caprica Resistance movement]], as [[Samuel Anders]] recites in jest some comments made by another Leoben copy captured in [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]] (&amp;quot;[[Flesh and Bone]],&amp;quot; &amp;quot;[[The Farm]]&amp;quot;).&lt;br /&gt;
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=== [[Simon]] ===&lt;br /&gt;
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The Simon model was encountered by [[Kara Thrace|Kara &amp;quot;Starbuck&amp;quot; Thrace]] Cylon-occupied [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]]. Posing as a doctor, Simon was actually involved with the Cylon hybridization program.  Simon resembles a tall, somewhat thin middle-aged black man who speaks in a comforting strong voice ([[The Farm]]) Unlike other models, Simon doesn&#039;t seem to have many military aspects to his physical or mental configuration, and was easily overcome by a wounded Thrace. Simon may be a model based primarily on human intellectualism.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== [[Cavil]] ===&lt;br /&gt;
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Brother Cavil provided council to [[Chief Tyrol]] after his maddened attack against [[Cally]].  Despite his disdain in prayer and religous pomp and circumstance ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]), Cavil went through a prayer session with [[Laura Roslin]], the latter apparently hoping that prayer would aid her success in the elections.  Another copy of Cavil was seen on [[Caprica]], informing the [[SAR]] team some 18 hours after the Cylons ceased their attack that the Cylons had left the Colonies.  When the Caprica SAR team returned to &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;, Tyrol recognized and identified him as a Cylon agent.  For a priest and especially for a cylon, he displays an utter disdain for religion, both the human belief in many gods and the Cylon faith in a one true god.  &lt;br /&gt;
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[[Cavil#Caprica-Cavil|Caprica-Cavil]] alleges that he was sent to &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; as a messenger of peace.  He relayed what occurred after [[Caprica-Six]] and [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)]] were rescued from the wreckage of the cafe bombing (&amp;quot;[[Downloaded]]&amp;quot;).  That they had used their new found celebrity to voice what many in the Cylon population felt themselves... The Cylon annihilation of the human race and occupation of the Twelve Colonies was wrong.  Caprica-Cavil told [[William Adama|Admiral Adama]] and [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]] that the Cylons would go their own way, and leave the Fleet alone.&lt;br /&gt;
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This ended up not being true — whether or not the Cavils intentionally lied is a fact that remains unknown ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).&lt;br /&gt;
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== Speculated Infiltrators ==&lt;br /&gt;
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See the [[Cylon agent speculation]] article for analysis on characters and their likelihood of being a Cylon agent, based on episode information.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Ron Moore elaborates on the twelve models==&lt;br /&gt;
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In a 10/24/05 interview on &amp;quot;The Chase Show&amp;quot; on the SF webcast news site [http://www.thefandom.com/Article50.phtml TheFandom.com] with veteran &amp;quot;Star Trek: Deep Space Nine&amp;quot; actress [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0557732/ Chase Masterson], Ron D. Moore is interviewed and directly answers two key questions in the Twelve Models debate and the origin of Sharon Valerii in particular. Here is a transcription of that interview segment.&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;&#039;Chase&#039;&#039;&#039;: ... I just have to ask something... is there one Boomer that&#039;s just human? &lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;&#039;Ron&#039;&#039;&#039;: No, there&#039;s not. I mean, the idea is not there was one like an original human model that they were copied from. The idea was that these were... these models of Cylon were developed out of their own study of us. The Cylons on some level looked at humanity and said, &amp;quot;Well, you know what, there&#039;s really only twelve of you... and these are the twelve.&amp;quot;  And then if you look at them, they kind of represent different archetypes of what humanity is. Um, Sharon, in particular &amp;amp;mdash; Sharon-Boomer, went through quite a trans-metamorphosis because in the original mini-series script, in the first draft, she wasn&#039;t a Cylon at all. She was going to be just &amp;amp;mdash; I wrote her just &amp;amp;mdash; I wanted a youngish pilot, who was the rookie, who was sort of vulnerable in ways, who made mistakes in ways that you&#039;re not used to seeing your heroes on TV shows do, and I was really interested in this idea of the officer, the female officer in love with the male deck chief in violation of all the rules and I kinda thought, going forward, that she and the [[Galen Tyrol|chief]], in combination with [[Boxey (RDM)|Boxey]], who&#039;s really only in the mini-series and one or two other episodes, would form sort of our family unit, that that was kind of a family...&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;&#039;Chase&#039;&#039;&#039;: OK...&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;&#039;Ron&#039;&#039;&#039;: ... and actually, after that first draft was written, it was [[David Eick]], my producing partner, who said, &amp;quot;You know what, if at the end of this thing, at the very end when all the Cylons walk into Armistice &amp;amp;mdash; into the [[Ragnar Anchorage|Ragnar station]] at the end... if you turn around and Sharon is one of the Cylons, he said, we&#039;re definitely gonna get picked up for a series.&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;&#039;Chase&#039;&#039;&#039;: (laughs) OK... that did make... that really did seal the deal...&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;&#039;Ron&#039;&#039;&#039;: ... and I just really went... that&#039;s a great idea and I realized that, because I&#039;d had laid... I had written a story straight, I really hadn&#039;t cheated. There was no hint of who Sharon might be, and it really did suck you in, and really sort of, you believed her as a person first, and then we revealed her as a Cylon.&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;&#039;Chase&#039;&#039;&#039;: ... Right....&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;&#039;Ron&#039;&#039;&#039;: ... And so what happened after that was, I assumed going into the first season &amp;amp;mdash; well I didn&#039;t assume, I just planned... to slowly, over the course of the first year, peel back the layers &amp;amp;mdash; that Sharon would only start to sort of discover her Cylon nature by the end of the first year.&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;&#039;Chase&#039;&#039;&#039;: Oh, God... and it was heartbreaking, watching that unfold, because I loved her much as human, and she was just adorable, with him and then with the kid, it was like, oh, what a great girl, she&#039;s um... you know, young and cute, and &amp;amp;mdash; who&#039;s the actress &amp;amp;mdash; and that whole thing, and then you&#039;re like, WHAT?&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;&#039;Ron&#039;&#039;&#039;: Yeah...&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;&#039;Chase&#039;&#039;&#039;: ... She&#039;s the enemy...&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;&#039;Ron&#039;&#039;&#039;: I know then, she&#039;s the enemy, then she&#039;s the one that is your most worry, what&#039;s she gonna do next.&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;&#039;Chase&#039;&#039;&#039;: Yeah. You really took us on quite a journey there. I was still hoping for a human one running around somewhere, but no, huh?....&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;&#039;Ron&#039;&#039;&#039;: No.&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;&#039;Chase&#039;&#039;&#039;: Oh, well...&lt;br /&gt;
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With this information from the show&#039;s main creative leader, it is established as canon that:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* There are precisely twelve &#039;&#039;human&#039;&#039; Cylon models. The other varieties of Cylon spacecraft or fighters are not factored into this count of 12 models.&lt;br /&gt;
* Sharon Valerii was &#039;&#039;never&#039;&#039; an actual human, and neither were the other Cylon agent models.&lt;br /&gt;
* The twelve models are based on on archetypes determined by the Cylons that form what they perceive were the specific kinds of human behavior and/or personality, distilled into twelve varieties.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Note==&lt;br /&gt;
*{{note|name}}Viewers initially lacked an authentic term to call the humanoid Cylons during season 1 of the series. Here on the &#039;&#039;Battlestar Wiki&#039;&#039;, the descriptive term &amp;quot;Humano-Cylon&amp;quot; was used for a time. Dialogue in several episodes throughout season 2 have consistently used &amp;quot;Cylon agent&amp;quot; to describe the humanoid Cylons. Other names are also used, such as &amp;quot;humanoid-Cylons&amp;quot; (which [[Tricia Helfer]] often uses in interviews, but apparently more for convenience than an official name), or &amp;quot;Bio-Cylons&amp;quot; which is sometimes used derisively by fans of the Original Series.&lt;br /&gt;
*{{note|dossier}}The term &amp;quot;Known Cylon agents&amp;quot; is shown on a dossier on the models shown on [[Laura Roslin]]&#039;s desk on &#039;&#039;[[Colonial One]]&#039;&#039; in the episode &amp;quot;[[Epiphanies]].&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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		<title>Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II</title>
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| Title= Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II&lt;br /&gt;
| Series= [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|The Re-imagined Series]]&lt;br /&gt;
| Season= [[Season 2 (2005-06)|2]]&lt;br /&gt;
| Episode= 20&lt;br /&gt;
| Guests= [[Richard Hatch]] ([[Tom Zarek]])&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Kate Vernon]] ([[Ellen Tigh]])&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001777/ Dean Stockwell] ([[Cavil|Brother Cavil]])&lt;br /&gt;
| Writer=[[IMDB:nm1093194|Anne Cofell Saunders]], [[IMDB:nm0894156|Mark Verheiden]]&lt;br /&gt;
| Story= &lt;br /&gt;
| Director=[[Michael Rymer]]&lt;br /&gt;
| Production=&lt;br /&gt;
| Rating=&lt;br /&gt;
| US Airdate= March 10, 2006&lt;br /&gt;
| UK Airdate=&lt;br /&gt;
| DVD=&lt;br /&gt;
| Population= 49,550&lt;br /&gt;
| Prev= [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]&lt;br /&gt;
| Next= TBA&lt;br /&gt;
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== Overview ==&lt;br /&gt;
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: &#039;&#039;Everything turns on its head as the survivors vote for a new president -- and vote for their fate.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Summary == &lt;br /&gt;
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===On Caprica===&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]], the marines, and the [[resistance (movement)|resistance]] continue to take fire from Cylon centurions and artillery.  They make their way up a hill, and hold their position.&lt;br /&gt;
*The Cylons hold fire, and Sharon remarks that the Cylons will attempt to capture them with non-lethal weapons, such as gas.&lt;br /&gt;
*Eighteen hours later, they emerge to find that the Cylons have disappeared.  [[Cavil]] -- who suddenly appears behind them -- announces that the Cylons have left the Twelve Colonies and that humanity was spared.&lt;br /&gt;
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===In the Fleet===&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[Cally]] is cleared back to work by [[Cottle|Dr. Cottle]], despite having her jaw wired shut (which elicits a sexist observation from the doctor).  [[Tyrol|Chief Tyrol]] visits her, apologizing for the attack.  Cally forgives him, saying that she&#039;s always cared for him.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Gaius Baltar|Dr. Baltar]] continues to gain in the polls.  On &#039;&#039;[[Colonial One]]&#039;&#039;, Tory mentions there&#039;s always a victory plan.  [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] later calls a private meeting with Dr. Baltar, asking to deliver a joint statement of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_%28verb%29 tabling] the issue of colonization until after the election, which Baltar rejects. &lt;br /&gt;
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*[[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] returns to &#039;&#039;[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]&#039;&#039;, with the resistance fighters, much to the delight of Admiral Adama.  She mentions the fact that the Cylons have left Caprica, and a man appearing to be Brother Cavill confirms it.  He also says he has a message, but is attacked by Chief Tyrol, claiming he&#039;s a Cylon.  Both Cavill and Caprica-Sharon are escorted to the brig under marine guard.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*The other Cavill (from last episode) is also taken to the brig, claiming he&#039;s not a Cylon, but changes his tune upon seeing his &amp;quot;brother&amp;quot;, as he calls him.  Both Cavills then talk about the fact that the “war heroes” (Caprica Six &amp;amp; &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;-Sharon) have talked about how the attack of the colonies and the pursuit of the fleet were mistakes.  They were told to relay the message that man and Cylon will go their separate ways.  Both Roslin and Admiral Adama are less than trusting regarding the message.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*Election Day has arrived and Baltar has an apparent five thousand-vote lead over Roslin with only a few ships left.  On &#039;&#039;Colonial One&#039;&#039;, Tory makes a call to &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;, putting a plan into action.  &lt;br /&gt;
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*Amazingly, Roslin initially appears to have retained the presidency.  While most are celebrating, Lt. Gaeta makes a starting discovery regarding the votes, and informs the Admiral that Col. Tigh may be involved in a conspiracy to throw the election.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*Admiral Adama confronts Roslin regarding the conspiracy, saying he has a confession to rig the vote.  Roslin admits her involvement and Adama is disappointed.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*Baltar is informed of his nomination as President.  He&#039;s less than pleased, vowing to have full investigation in time.  President-elect Baltar then orders a course for “New Caprica”.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Gaius Baltar]] is sworn in as the new President of the Twelve Colonies, and orders the immediate colonization of New Caprica.&lt;br /&gt;
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*&#039;&#039;[[Cloud 9]]&#039;&#039; is destroyed by a nuclear blast, Gina being present before the explosion; in addition to the  &#039;&#039;Cloud 9&#039;&#039;, at least two other ships are destroyed in the blast.  Admiral Adama reports to the president that this may be a Cylon attack, but Baltar ignores him and presses forward with colonization.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===One Year Later===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Felix Gaeta|Mr. Gaeta]] is reporting to the President regarding a Union issue aboard Colonial One, now down on the planet.  Baltar is upset, saying there have been no Cylon attacks but the people still complain.  He has regressed, turning to alcohol, medication, and womanizing.&lt;br /&gt;
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*Admiral Adama, now donning a mustache, is walking around a near-empty Galactica, the ship falling into disarray.  Over half of the crew has moved down to the planet, and they are running on such a skeleton crew that they barely have enough pilots to fly training missions, much less a good CAP.  Adama has a discussion with Tigh about going down to the planet, which Tigh reluctantly agrees to.&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[Samuel Anders|Anders]], now Kara’s husband, is sick with pneumonia. Dr. Cottle is saying he can’t do much for him, saying there are no antibiotics available, but he is young and healthy, and with a little luck he &amp;quot;should&amp;quot; pull through.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*Kara runs into the Tighs as [[Tyrol]], now a union boss, is making a speech to begin a strike, a pregnant Cally by his side.  Saul mentions that &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; keeps the backup medical supplies and that Apollo would spring some for Starbuck.  Starbuck disagrees, which prompts Tigh to state that Apollo would be &amp;quot;over that by now&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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*Roslin is doing what she does best, teaching the settlement&#039;s school, and manages to find enjoyment in her old position.  [[Maya]] is with her, as is the now one year old [[Hera]], whom Maya has named &amp;quot;Isis&amp;quot;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*Kara calls Lee aboard &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039;, requesting the antibiotics.  Lee&#039;s gained a lot of weight in the past year.  Dualla is now an officer, serving by Lee Adama&#039;s side in &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039;&#039; CIC. Before Lee can reply, Dualla catches something on [[DRADIS]].  &lt;br /&gt;
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*A fleet of [[Cylon]] [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]]s arrive in orbit around New Caprica.  The Adamas are having a discussion about what to do, when [[Helo]] asks if alert fighters should be launched.   Admiral Adama keeps them in as the defense fleet jumps away.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*Mr. Gaeta informs the President of the Cylon approach.  Later, before his assembled staff, copies of Number [[Number Five|5]], [[Number Eight|8]], and [[Number Six|6]] approach the President.  The Cylons declare that as long as there’s no resistance, no harm will come.  President Baltar declares surrender on behalf of the colonists, and as Cylon armies occupy the planet, Kara vows to resist.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Questions ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*What &amp;quot;number&amp;quot; is Cavil?&lt;br /&gt;
*Was Roslin&#039;s threat to put the two Cavils into space actually carried out?&lt;br /&gt;
**Most likely not, she had the election on her mind, much to do, and didn&#039;t actually make it an order. Baltar would have been unlikely to vent them into space.&lt;br /&gt;
*Where did the defense fleet jump to?&lt;br /&gt;
**Likely a prearranged rendezvous point, similar to that of the miniseries.&lt;br /&gt;
*Where is Caprica-Sharon?&lt;br /&gt;
**Most likely, still in &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;&#039;s brig. This is probably why Helo is still aboard ship, having taken a CIC officer&#039;s position.&lt;br /&gt;
**In the podcast, Ron Moore vaguely hinted that they hadn&#039;t forgotten about Sharon, but that we&#039;d have to &amp;quot;wait and see&amp;quot;.  Apparently, several of the early season 3 episodes will have flashbacks dealing with events that took place in the year that passed.&lt;br /&gt;
*What happened to Zarek?&lt;br /&gt;
*Why is Leoben looking for Starbuck, specifically?&lt;br /&gt;
** Could it be the same [[Leoben Conoy]] that Starbuck interrogated in &amp;quot;[[Flesh and Bone]]&amp;quot;?&lt;br /&gt;
*** As seen with &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;-Sharon, it is distinctly possible that that particular Leoben was lying when he said he&#039;d actually die and not download.  &lt;br /&gt;
*Why has the population (until Tyrol&#039;s recent union speech) accepted Baltar&#039;s imperious rule?  People were hardly so passive under Roslin.  Indeed, Adama executed a military coup over a rather less important issue than giving a nuclear weapon to a Cylon agent.&lt;br /&gt;
**Admiral Adama wasn&#039;t conclusive as to how the weapon got on board Cloud Nine.&lt;br /&gt;
**Baltar pointed out there have been no attacks since he took office.  Under Roslin the attacks were common.  Perhaps for a year the people decided they preferred the safety Baltar gave them to their liberties.&lt;br /&gt;
**They did vote them in, and perhaps the struggle of trying to survive on this planet is distracting their attention, i.e. at first they weren&#039;t sure how much to blame on Baltar, or on the simple struggle of trying to rebuild.  Howevever, it hasn&#039;t been a particularly smooth or easy presidency, as shown by the recent Union strike.&lt;br /&gt;
*Are the Six and Eight that Baltar surrendered to [[Caprica-Six]] and [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|&#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039;-Sharon]]?&lt;br /&gt;
**Judging from Six&#039;s reaction to Baltar, almost definitely.&lt;br /&gt;
*Where did the Cylon fleets go, after they left the Twelve Colonies?  Cavil was deliberately vague when asked if they simply returned to the [[Cylon homeworld]].&lt;br /&gt;
*Did the nuclear bomb ever get picked up by the fleet&#039;s radiological alarms?&lt;br /&gt;
*How many people died in the Cloud Nine explosion?&lt;br /&gt;
**The Cloud Nine explosion also destroyed ships near it. Given the stated size of the New Caprica population along with subtracting the minimal crew sizes needed to maintain the ships in orbit, you can estimate that approximately 3000 to 5000 people died.&lt;br /&gt;
***Actually, we have no idea how many people were still crewing the civilian ships in the Fleet when &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; jumped away, so it could actually have been thousands less than that.&lt;br /&gt;
*When Gina-Six was instantly vaporized due to being only two feet from a nuclear detonation, did she still transmit her consciousness? Was she even capable of transmitting considering that any internal hardware responsible for this task would have been instantly destroyed?&lt;br /&gt;
**They have already established that with the [[Resurrection Ship]] destroyed, Cylons in the fleet that are killed will &#039;&#039;actually&#039;&#039; die. Gina expressed suicidal impulses as early as &amp;quot;[[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
**Additionally, since the Cylons found the planet due to the radiation, it is unlikely that Gina was resurrected, as she then would have told the Cylons the location of the planet.&lt;br /&gt;
*Given Roslin&#039;s memories of Baltar with Six, why didn&#039;t Admiral Adama suspect Baltar of handing over the nuke to the cylons? If he did suspect him, why not act on it?&lt;br /&gt;
**He had no real proof.&lt;br /&gt;
*Did the events of &amp;quot;One Year Later&amp;quot; actually happen, or were they a dream or vision sequence given to Baltar?&lt;br /&gt;
**Although Baltar has had elaborate visions in the past, this vision left Baltar&#039;s point of view several times, addressing issues such as the marriage of Kara to Sam Anders and Adama&#039;s friendship with Tigh that are of little knowledge or importance to Baltar.&lt;br /&gt;
***Ron D. Moore has stated in interviews that the first 4-5 episodes of season 3 will deal with the Cylon occupation of New Caprica, and unless a vast swath of episodes is going to be a dream sequence, all of these &amp;quot;one year later&amp;quot; events &#039;&#039;really&#039;&#039; happen.&lt;br /&gt;
***Moore actually discusses this in the podcast, saying that many people might just assume this is a dream, or a &#039;&#039;Dallas&#039;&#039;-like season-erasing shower-dream episode, but he thought it was a bold decision to jump ahead a full year, and have all of it be definitely real.&lt;br /&gt;
*Why was it so easy for Adama to hide the collusion of the rigged election from the press, and why were there no consequences?&lt;br /&gt;
**So far as we know, Adama, Tigh, Gaeta, Dualla, Dualla&#039;s two associates, Tory, and Roslin are the only people that knew; 6 are military personnel, 4 of whom would be implicated, and the other 2 were directly involved civilians. All are strongly motivated to conceal the information.&lt;br /&gt;
* Why would it take the Cylons over one year to find New Caprica, alerted by the nuclear detonation prior to the inhabitation of the planet?&lt;br /&gt;
**It was stated in the previous episode that the interference from the gas cloud surrounding it would hide the planet fairly well. The Cylons were slightly over a light year away, according to the Number Five. Searching something as large as the gas cloud likely is for a planet or fleet is, given the sensor range limitations, quite impressive to accomplish in months, even with general directional information from a light-year out.&lt;br /&gt;
***Actually with the Cylon base 1 light year away, it would take 1 year for the nuke to show up on the Cylon sensors.  Short of some FTL communication system, that&#039;s the only way the Cylons would have been able to detect the planet.  Since the fleet is all in within non-FTL distances, all the FTL devices, if any exist would likely have been destroyed or disabled.   &lt;br /&gt;
*If the Cylons really left the Twelve Colonies, leaving behind a nuked-out wasteland, what happened to all of the human captives in the [[Farms]]?&lt;br /&gt;
**Has it really been established that all that remains of the colonies are nuked-out wastelands? Yes, it&#039;s clear that they were nuked from the mini-series, yet in more recent episodes, it&#039;s also clear that the Cylons have been rebuilding them, in particular Caprica. The comment is bizarre in that Admiral Adama would know this as well, given the return of Anders who no doubt gave a full account of his experiences.&lt;br /&gt;
*Why have the Cylons returned? According to [[Cavil]], the two races were to go their &amp;quot;separate ways&amp;quot;. The Cylons may have been worried about the humans retaliating at some point in the future, but the location of the Cylon world(s) is still unknown to the humans, so ensuring the safety of their society presumably isn&#039;t the motive behind the occupation of [[New Caprica]].&lt;br /&gt;
**This assumes that the Cylons were being honest in their announcement of withdrawl from all Human contact and association.  It is possible that this was a tactical feint and the Cylons went looking for possible alternate locations where the Humans could have resettled.&lt;br /&gt;
*Did the Cavils lie about the pursuit of humanity being a mistake?  Or were they telling the truth?&lt;br /&gt;
** If they were telling the truth, perhaps not all Cylons are readily able to admit and rectify their mistakes as the Cavils believed.&lt;br /&gt;
** It seems that the intent was truthful, given that Caprica-Six and Sharon are taking an active leadership role in this new occupation. What seems unclear is how their positions has changed from Downloaded, where they clearly felt that the Cylon destruction of humanity was wrong. This is especially so for Sharon, who still considered herself human. Why would she go along willingly with this new course of action of occupation and presumably other forms of experimentation.&lt;br /&gt;
*Will the Cylons resume their pursuit of the Fleet?&lt;br /&gt;
*How many people are left in the Fleet?&lt;br /&gt;
**The population of New Caprica City is given as 39,192. There were just under 50,000 people in the Fleet before establishing the settlement, so that gives a figure of roughly 10,000 missing. It is uncertain how many were killed in the destruction of Cloud 9 and surrounding Fleet ships but this loss along with any births and deaths that have taken place during the year since the election, leaves very few military personnel in the Orbital Defense. This almost certainly means that both &#039;&#039;Galactica&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; will be extremely short on crew, as many military personnel will have been left on the planet. There was clearly no time to retrieve even selected members of the crews before the Fleet jumped. &lt;br /&gt;
***Will the Adamas resort to Cain&#039;s tactic of conscripting civilians to fill the gaps?&lt;br /&gt;
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== Analysis ==&lt;br /&gt;
*Baltar&#039;s arrogance seems to have led to corrupt rule during his year on New Caprica—he replaces Roslin&#039;s modest desk with a larger, elaborate one, replaces the population count whiteboard with a portrait of himself, and keeps a harem aboard the landed Colonial One.&lt;br /&gt;
*After a whole year, everyone is still living in tents. There is a vital shortage of medicine, the military is of no use, and labor conditions are apparently intolerable. Baltar&#039;s administration is apparently as incompetent as Roslin feared. &lt;br /&gt;
**It is not clear whether these conditions are the result of admimistrative incompetence or the inherent difficulties of colonizing a marginally habitable planet.&lt;br /&gt;
***Of course, it was Baltar&#039;s idea to settle on a marginally habitable planet in the first place.&lt;br /&gt;
*It&#039;s ironic that the obligations of duty keep Lee Adama aboard Pegasus while everyone else goes planetside—he is a reserve officer, and promised to build his pilots a bar as soon as they found a habitable planet.&lt;br /&gt;
*Ron Moore has once again decided to play with viewer&#039;s expectations; in the podcast for &amp;quot;[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]&amp;quot; Moore commented on how everyone assumed that &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; would be destroyed by the end of the episode, and thus he thought it would be a good twist to keep &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; alive as another ship in the Fleet.  Here, many viewers assumed that the nuke that Baltar gave to Gina in &amp;quot;[[Epiphanies]]&amp;quot; would be used to destroy &#039;&#039;Pegasus&#039;&#039; this time, but it wasn&#039;t.&lt;br /&gt;
*29 people died between this episode and the preceding one?  One or two Raptors were lost, and some Marines died on Caprica, but that doesn&#039;t seem high enough.&lt;br /&gt;
**Is it possible they took out all of the people who left in the raptors because they were not apart of the fleet at the end of the previous episode?&lt;br /&gt;
***They didn&#039;t remove Starbuck from the count when she left for Caprica at the beginning of Season 2.&lt;br /&gt;
****She left at the end of season one, before they started the count. But, they did not add her to the count when she returned with Helo, because the count rose by one.&lt;br /&gt;
**Maybe more people died during the attack on Caprica than was shown.&lt;br /&gt;
***Yet another possibility is the inclusion of the Caprica survivors in the count to offset many of the losses that had incurred in the rescue mission.&lt;br /&gt;
***Although they didn&#039;t actually talk about the losses, there was a shot of a wounded person being taken away on a stretcher after the Raptors returned from the [[Caprica]] [[SAR]] mission.&lt;br /&gt;
**There may have been a series of election-related riots or murders.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Notes ==&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;According to Ron Moore&#039;s podcast, although Scifi Channel was willing to air this episode as a 90-minute special, it had to be heavily edited down for international distribution; outside of the United States, viewers will only see a 1 hour version of the episode, which Moore regards as &amp;quot;almost incomprehensible&amp;quot;.&#039;&#039;&#039; Many plot threads, such as the entire Cally/Tyrol subplot, were completely removed from the one hour version.&lt;br /&gt;
* Ron Moore&#039;s podcast for episode 13, [[Epiphanies]], states that the Nuke given to Gina will come back in this episode, to the benefit of the Cylons.&lt;br /&gt;
*In RDM&#039;s podcast for the previous episode, he said that in early drafts of this special 90 minute long episode, the writers actually tried to make it a 2 hour special, but this was soon dropped (these times are including commercials).&lt;br /&gt;
*The election board appears to have a definitive list of the names of all of the ships in [[The Fleet (RDM)]].  Not all of them are clearly visible, but this would seem to indicate that the writers do have an actual list that they get new ship names from.  Ship names visible on the chart are:  Demetrius, Diomedes, Embla Brokk, Enkidu, Epheme, Galactica, Gideon, Gemenon Traveller, Greenleaf, Monarch, Odysseus, Pegasus, Persephone, Prometheus, Swordfish&lt;br /&gt;
*The framed photo of President Roslin and [[Billy Keikeya]] was still on her desk during the election.&lt;br /&gt;
*When Roslin &amp;quot;won&amp;quot; the rigged election results, Roslin received 24,265 votes, while Baltar recieved 22,266.  This means that the elligible voters in the Fleet number 46,531.  In the podcast, RDM explains that he quickly came up with these numbers, to try to reflect roughly how many survivors are below the voting age.&lt;br /&gt;
*Toward the end of the episode, President Baltar refers to a government body called the &amp;quot;People&#039;s Council&amp;quot;. This may be the proportionally elected lower house mentioned in by RDM in his [http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/01/index.html#a000016 blog post] on January 30, 2005.&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Hera]] is seen on New Caprica in the same white cradle that Baltar had a vision of her being in in &amp;quot;[[Scattered]]&amp;quot;, etc.  According to RDM&#039;s podcast it&#039;s actually the exact same cradle.&lt;br /&gt;
*Tyrol&#039;s union speech is an almost word for word quote of Mario Savio&#039;s address during the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley in 1964.  According to Ron Moore and David Eick in the podcast, they even got permission from Savio&#039;s widow to use it (even though, due to the way copyright laws work from back then, they could have just used it without permission, they felt they should get it).  As a result, it&#039;s even listed in the credits: &amp;quot;Mario Savio speech excerpted courtesy of: Lynne Hollander Savio&amp;quot;.  Actor Aaron Douglas (Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]]) actually studied film of Savio, so all of the hand gestures Tyrol makes when he gives the speech are  gestures that Savio actually used.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Noteworthy Dialogue ==&lt;br /&gt;
*&#039;&#039;Dr. Cottle decides Cally is ready to return to duty:&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;&#039;Cottle:&#039;&#039;&#039; You&#039;re done here. I&#039;m kickin&#039; you out of here and sending you back to work.&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;&#039;Cally:&#039;&#039;&#039; (muffled, because her jaw is immobilized) Work??? Like this?&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;&#039;Cottle:&#039;&#039;&#039; You gotta love a woman who can complain even with her jaw wired shut.&lt;br /&gt;
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*&#039;&#039;The Cylons occupy New Caprica:&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;&#039;Tyrol:&#039;&#039;&#039; &amp;quot;What do we do now, Captain?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;&#039;Starbuck:&#039;&#039;&#039; &amp;quot;Same thing we always do. Fight them until we can&#039;t.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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*&#039;&#039;Trying to bring order to a Union meeting:&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;&#039;Tyrol:&#039;&#039;&#039; Everyone, please be quiet. (&#039;&#039;crowd ignores him&#039;&#039;)&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;&#039;Cally:&#039;&#039;&#039; Hey! Shut the frak up! (&#039;&#039;crowd quiets down&#039;&#039;)&lt;br /&gt;
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*&#039;&#039;&#039;Admiral Adama:&#039;&#039;&#039; We&#039;re leaving.  But we&#039;ll be back.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Official Statements ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
From the official site (http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/):&lt;br /&gt;
When Baltar wins the vote, Roslin considers stealing the election because she believes he is a Cylon collaborator.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Guest Stars ==&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Richard Hatch]] as [[Tom Zarek]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001777/ Dean Stockwell] as [[Cavil|Brother Cavil]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Michael Trucco]] as [[Samuel Anders]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Kate Vernon]] as [[Ellen Tigh]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0722413/ Donnelly Rhodes] as Dr. [[Cottle]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Callum Keith Rennie]] as [[Leoben Conoy]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Matthew Bennett]] as [[Aaron Doral]]&lt;br /&gt;
*Rekha Sharma as [[Tory Foster]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0443286/ David Kaye] as [[James McManus]]&lt;br /&gt;
*Alisen Down as Jean Barclay&lt;br /&gt;
*Winston Rekert as Priest&lt;br /&gt;
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{{Episode List}}&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Episodes written by Mark Verheiden]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Episodes directed by Michael Rymer]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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