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Felix Gaeta

2006-10-10T21:21:20Z

Clee: Fixed minor spelling and grammatical errors.

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Lieutenant '''Felix Gaeta''' {{IPA|ˈgeɪ.tə}} is a young, capable officer in the Colonial military. For the three years prior to the [[Cylon attack]] on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]], he has served as [[William Adama]]'s Senior Officer of the Watch aboard battlestar ''[[Galactica]]''.

Prior to the attack, he was studying biogenetics and planned to get a degree through the military extension program ([[Water]]).

He exhibits a strong attention to detail and is highly efficient. These tendencies and his overall ability have led William Adama to rely heavily on him as a member of ''Galactica's'' command crew, despite his relative youth and junior rank.

As well as performing the role of Tactical Officer, Gaeta also manages the ship's [[FTL]] systems, including the calculation and initiation of Jumps. Gaeta also manages the needs of the various primary [[Computers|computer systems]] used on the battlestar.

==Remarkable Brillance==

As a result of his studies in biogenetics, Lt. Gaeta is selected by Adama to assist Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] in the development of the much-needed [[Cylon detector]] following the Cylon attack([[Water]]). During his time working with Baltar, Gaeta develops a certain respect and liking for the doctor - despite the latter's apparent eccentricities. When a woman called "[[Shelly Godfrey]]" arrives on-board ''Galactica'', Gaeta works hard to prove Baltar's innocence of the charges levelled against him ([[Six Degrees of Separation]]). Although he is ultimately successful, Gaeta fails to follow-up on the fact that the photographic evidence supplied by "Shelly Godfrey" looked as if the evidence itself had been faked in a way that ensured it was exposed as a forgery.

Gaeta shows his remarkable brilliance after ''Galactica'' mistakenly Jumps to a different set of coordinates than the rest of [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]] to escape a Cylon attack ([[Scattered]]). The [[FTL]] computers compensate for spatial changes, but due to the chaos after [[William Adama|Commander Adama]] is shot by [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Boomer]], Gaeta does not have time to synchronize the spatial positioning with the rest of the Fleet, whose FTL computers had collectively different information. Complicating the issue, if ''Galactica'' returns to their original position, the Cylons would destroy the ship before it could retrieve the correct Fleet coordinates using standard procedure.

Gaeta blames himself (although [[Saul Tigh]] did not), but later realizes that by networking four computers of the ship (something Commander Adama may never have approved), he could reduce the coordinate calculation time from hours to minutes. Knowing the Cylons would try to crack his ''ad hoc'' network, Gaeta sets up five [[Wikipedia:Firewall (networking)|firewalls]] in the network to slow their progress while the ship's guns and Vipers buy the needed time to calculate. Unfortunately for Gaeta, the firewalls are not completely effective. Several power and CIC systems were disabled by a Cylon infection while [[Cylon Centurion]]s board the ship ([[Valley of Darkness]]). Gaeta scrambles to purge the systems of any remaining traces of the [[Virus|virus]].

==Under Pressure==

Gaeta's calm exterior shows signs of wear when his interview with [[D'anna Biers]] shows him somewhat drunk, smoking, and brandishing a rather garish [[tattoo]] of a tiger ([[Final Cut]]). Viewers learn from the footage that Gaeta's first name is Felix.

The Cylon virus rears its ugly head once more a few weeks later when shipboard malfunctions increase to a point where consoles begin to sputter and short out. Gaeta confirms that the same virus they thought they had removed from the formerly-networked computers had metamorphized into a heuristic program--a [[Logic bomb|logic bomb]]--that studied and probed flaws in the battlestar's computers and the hardware that each system manages. The logic bomb threatened to disable the ship's human control on a Cylon fighter's command--and a Cylon attack force was imminent.

After Colonel Tigh's command to perform the daunting task of inspecting many lines of computer code for a Cylon virus, the young lieutenant completely loses his cool:

:'''Gaeta''': A power surge energized the board. System's been twitchy ever since the Cylons infiltrated our network. 
:'''Tigh''': Commander's right. I don't care if you have to go through this program line by line; fix it. 
:'''Gaeta''': Excuse me? 
:'''Tigh''': You heard me. 
:'''Gaeta''': Sir, I'm running every diagnostic we've got. Checking each line of code could take days. 
:'''Tigh''': I am not interested in excuses. Fix it! 
:'''Gaeta''': It's not an excuse, sir. It's a [[frak|frakking]] fact! 

Everyone on the bridge, especially Commander Adama, is shocked by Gaeta's highly uncharacteristic outburst, but Adama is not particularly surprised, knowing that everyone on ''Galactica'' has low morale after working for months with no relief or change to their routine.

Gaeta has a solution for the logic bomb: Wipe all computer hard drives and restore them from backups made before the Cylon attack. The problem in doing this is that ''Galactica'' will be completely vulnerable to attack, save for her Viper fighters, for several minutes as her computers are rebuilt.

Against his instincts and on [[Laura Roslin]]'s advice, Adama opts to use the unique abilities of the cooperative [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Caprica copy of Sharon Valerii]] to aid them. Gaeta gives the humanoid Cylon a fiber-optic data link with access to the battlestar mainframe computer and the ship's communications. After a few tense moments, Valerii asks Gaeta to perform the computer hard drive wipe after taking into her computer/brain a copy of the Cylon virus. She manipulates it and transmits to the massive incoming Cylon fleet, disabling the entire Cylon fleet in the same way that the Colonials suffered in the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. The Colonial forces [[Great Cylon Turkey Shoot|destroy the entire Cylon force]] without a single Colonial casualty ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).

Gaeta is among the tense officers and crew in CIC that witness a standoff between their battlestar and the heavily-advanced battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', whose commander, Admiral [[Helena Cain]], has opted to execute two ''Galactica'' crewmembers after she tried them herself and against Adama's requests for the rights of his crew to have a fair, open trial ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).

== The Presidental Election and New Caprica ==

During the presidental election, Gaeta was assigned to aid and oversee the ballot counting process on ''Galactica''. He also aided in thwarting Roslin's plans to steal the election (though he never apparently knew -- or indicated any knowledge of -- who exactly was behind it, other than Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]) by discovering the illegitimate ballots from the ''[[Zephyr]]''. The only reason he realized that the ''Zephyr'''s ballots were tampered with were due to the fact that the ''Zephyr''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s original, valid ballots had misspelled Gaius Baltar's name -- the fixed ballots did not share this error. (Gaeta had authorized the go-ahead to use the misspelled ballots due to the lack of time to print new ones prior to the opening of the polls.)
Unfortunately, due to this happenstance discovery, Baltar, who had been rightfully voted as President-Elect, was sworn in as president and ordered the Fleet to colonize [[New Caprica]].

A year later on [[New Caprica]], Gaeta seems to be an advisor to President [[Gaius Baltar]]. His previous post on ''Galactica'' was assumed by [[Karl Agathon]]. While Gaeta was pleased that there had been no Cylon attacks during Baltar's presidency, he disapproved of Baltar's womanizing and was secretly infuriated at Baltar's devil-may-care attitude towards the New Caprica City Worker's Union and the Quorum of Twelve. Gaeta later brought news of the Cylon invasion to the president and was present when Baltar surrendered New Caprica to [[Caprica-Six]] and [[Number Five]]. ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).

Gaeta is also the [[New Caprica Resistance]] inside source into the inner workings of the Cylons. He seems to favor an assassination of President Baltar as he provides the group with information that he was going to attend the [[New Caprica Police]] force graduation, which was disrupted by [[Duck]]'s suicide bombing. However, learning that Baltar was not attending, he rushed to contact the group to warn them Baltar was not going to be there. ([[Occupation]])

== Inside Man ==
Being the "inside man" allows him to help the [[New Caprica Resistance]] understand the inner Cylon related activies and secuirty procedures on [[New Caprica]]. For him to contact the group he flips [[Jake (New Caprica)|Jake]]'s yellow bowl upside down and leaves a note or information packet in a nearby tool bin for the [[New Caprica Resistance|resistance]] to find. [[Galen Tyrol]] doesn't know that he is the "inside man" and when they did talk, Tyrol accused of him being a Collaborator. ([[Precipice]])

==Note==
*While Gaeta is described as the "Tactical Officer", his role is closer to that of the US Navy's CIC Watch Officer (CICWO), combining it with elements of the Tactical Watch Officer (TAO), a role also partially fulfilled by [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]], both under the command of [[William Adama]]. According to the official SciFi.com character data file, Gaeta's title is "Senior Officer of the Watch", although the title of Tactical Officer may have a better "ring" to the ears of most viewers.
*The name "Felix" means "Happy" in Latin; the connotations of the Latin word imply being fortunate, lucky, prosperous, or "favored by the gods". It first appeared in the episode ''[[Final Cut]]''.
*[[Wikipedia:Gaeta|Gaeta]] is the name of a small seaport and resort in southern Italy. This goes well with his Latin first name.
*His counterpart in the original "Battlestar Galactica" is Sgt. [[Omega]], a [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Sagittaron|Sagittaron]] native.
*In the [[Miniseries]], Gaeta's name is usually pronounced "Guy-tah" {{IPA|ˈgaɪ.tə}}. However, in all subsequent installments of the regular series, everyone pronounces it as "Gay-tah" {{IPA|ˈgeɪ.tə}}; however, Col. [[Saul Tigh]] seems to vacillate between {{IPA|ˈgeɪ.tə}} and {{IPA|ˈgaɪ.tə}}.
*There is speculation among fans that Gaeta is another [[Cylon agent speculation|Cylon infiltrator]].

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Layne Ishay

2005-09-26T10:03:21Z

Clee:

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Paramedic '''Ishay''' is a medic serving aboard the [[Galactica]]. One of the many resource shortfalls of the ''Galactica's'' ongoing logistical nightmare is a shortage of medical personnel. Major [[Cottle]] is the only trained physician on board (perhaps in all of the [[fleet]]), supplemented by a handful of medics. As a result, Ishay has been required to step up to perform medical proceedures she wouldn't normally be expected to perform.

==Biography==
When [[Commander Adama]] was shot by [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]] in a failed assasination attempt, Cottle was not on board when the Fleet jumped to the wrong nav coordinates. Subsequently, Ishay, [[Layne]], and other medics tried their best to save Adama's life. Despite never having performed an operation in her life, Ishay operated on Adama and was eventually able to stablize his condition ("[[Scattered]]"). However, she had been unable to fully stop Adama's internal bleeding, and then aided the recently-arrived Major Cottle in another surgery with saved Commander Adama's life ("[[Fragged]]").

Ishay speaks with an accent similar to [[Gaius Baltar]]'s, which may be a local characteristic of one of the Twelve Colonies.

==Notes==
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0636244/ Kerry Norton] is also the wife of actor Jamie Bamber ([[Lee Adama]]).

Ishay's name was not given in dialogue, so the name used here is the actress's credited role on IMDB. Her character has also been referred to as "Kim", but it is not known where this originated.

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Final Cut

2005-09-26T09:46:10Z

Clee: Fixing typos and grammatical errors.

== Overview ==

: ''[[D'anna Biers]], an investigative journalist, makes a critical documentary on [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]]'s conduct during a "Kent State"-like crisis.''

== Summary ==
*Reporter D'anna Biers is preparing a special report on what she's hyped as the "[[Gideon]] massacre]], when she is escorted by Marines to Colonial One. President Roslin and Commander Adama meet her, and she complains that all of her requests to interview Marines involved with the Gideon incident have been denied. Roslin and Adama tell her that all that is about to change: they want to mend the relationship between the military and the civillian fleet by allowing D'anna to shoot a documentary on life on the ''Galactica'', with unrestricted access.
*D'anna and her cameraman [[Bell]] are flown to ''Galactica'' with Adama in [[Racetrack]]'s Raptor. On Galactica [[Dualla]] is given the task of showing them around, pointing out fairly everyday things like carbon dioxide scrubbers for atmosphere and vegetable refrigeration units and D'anna doesn't bother filming any of the boring information.
*D'anna starts filming her one on one interviews with several crewmen. She asks Dualla why she joined the Fleet, and she says her father didn't approve but she wanted to believe in something.
*D'anna and her cameraman are walking through the halls when [[Hot Dog]] and [[Kat]] chase each other out of the showers wearing towels. D'anna follows them into the pilot's locker room, where Apollo (who accidentally nearly drops his towel) tells her to respect their privacy and get out. Kat moons the documentary camera, and gets yelled at by Apollo.
*Ellen Tigh calls Col. Tigh down to their quarters, where someone has left a threat for Tigh by writing a line of Caprican poetry in red paint on their mirror.
*D'anna then interviews Apollo, and she accuses him of thinking the pilots deserve preferential treament. He tells her that he does think they deserve such treatment; they risk their lives every day for the fleet, and while they don't need pity, they do deserve respect.
*D'anna interviews Pvt. [[Scott Kelso]], one of the Marines that was on the Gideon. He insists that he and the other Marines were just doing their jobs, and that the "unarmed civillians" were attacking them, and that he has a scar on this head that required ten stitches to prove it. At the same time, Kelso thinks the whole thing was a "command frak-up"; that the Marines weren't trained for crowd control, and he isn't surprised that someone wants to kill Col. Tigh.
*D'anna then interviews a disheveled Lt. Gaeta, who is smoking a cigarette while displaying a level of frustration and fatigue that he doesn't normally show.
*On the flight deck, Kat yells at Tyrol when her Viper malfunctions, even though it wasn't the Chief's fault. Starbuck breaks it up (as D'anna follows her) and Kat storms out.
*D'anna is then allowed into the CIC, where Commander Adama orders Tigh to go to a big meeting of civillian leader on [[Cloud Nine]], which Adama thinks will be a good chance for them to vent their frustration instead of seething at Tigh in private. Howeveer, while leaving on a Raptor, it malfunctions and smokes until a damage control team can put it out. Tigh gets out and Tyrol tells him it looks like someone sabatoged the Raptor with a hammer, and if they had gotten into space the atmosphere would have vented, killing him.
*[[Racetrack]] lights a candle for her lost loved ones in the memorial hallway, and is then interviewed by D'anna. She tells D'anna that she assumes that she's already as good as dead going out on missions, and she just hopes she can kill as many Cylons as possible before her day comes. D'anna also interviews [[Helo]], who says that in combat you're supposed to turn off the human part of you because it will get you killed, but that nothing is that easy to do.
*Helo then visits [[Sharon Valerii|Caprica-Boomer]] in the [[brig]], where she in unresponsive in her bed until pulling a blood-stained hand from under her sheets and sobbing. Helo calls for Doctor [[Cottle]] to come right away.
*[[Kat]] gives an interview to D'anna in which which is emotionally unrestrained. She then freaks out while attempting to land her Viper, and despite Capt. [[Kelly]] and Stabuck trying to talk her down, she misses three passes, then on the final try crashes her Viper into the flight deck. D'anna follows Starbuck and Apollo to the flight deck. Getting out of her Viper, Kat is incomprehensible and disoriented. Starbuck reaches into her sleeve pocket and finds [[Stims]]: Kat had been taking them by the fistful to stay alert, and now she's finally OD'd. Kat is forcibly strapped down to a gurney while kicking and screaming and taken to [[Sickbay]].
*D'anna follows Kat to Sickbay, where she accidentally goes behind a curtain and sees Doctor Cottle arguing with the terrified Caprica-Boomer; Cottle is trying to save her baby before Boomer has a miscarriage. D'anna is then shoved away, but not before catching Caprica-Boomer on film.
*Later, Commander Adama arrives in Sickbay and demands that D'anna hand over the tape. D'anna nots that the woman she saw looked exactly like the deceased [[Sharon Valerii|Galactica-Boomer]], and that news that ''Galactica'' is harboring a Cylon aboard could turn the Fleet against him. Adama counters that after the Gideon incident this new revelation could devastate morale in the fleet, and whether that even matters to D'anna. Reluctantly, D'anna gives him the tape and he leaves, after which she pulls the ''real'' tape out of her shirt.
*Baltar begins a less than great interview with D'anna but is interupted when an alarm goes off. Two Raiders are on a collision course with the Galactica. D'anna heads to the CIC to film there while her cameraman covers the flight deck. We only see the fight from the perspective of those on the ship listening over the radio; the Raiders are destroyed.
*Tigh returns to his quarters to find Ellen tied up. It turns out that his would-be murder is Palladino, who is upset that Tigh's orders resulted in innocent people being killed by men under Palladino's command. He pulls a gun on Tigh, but Tigh presses the gun to his forehead and talks Palladino down, and Marines take him away.
*Back on Colonial One, Roslin, Adama, and Tigh review D'anna's finished documentary. Adama decides that he likes the accurate portrayal that she did, and lets them broadcast it across the entire fleet. In the documentary, D'anna does an ending voiceover where as the music swells in the backround she explains that the story of ''Galactica'' is that they'll never give up. We see people watching it on monitor screens throughout the Fleet.....
*...and cut back to see the humanoid Cylons watching it too in an abandoned movie theater on Cylon-Occupied [[Caprica]]. [[Number Six]] is impressed at the resilience of the humans, and asks about the fate of Caprica-Boomer's baby. A copy of D'anna Biers then turns around (D'anna is now revealed to have been a [[Humano-Cylon]] the whole time), and tells her that both Caprica-Boomer and her baby survived her near-miscarriage. [[Aaron Doral]] says that the baby must be protected at all costs, and they must proceed with caution.

== Questions ==
*The Cylons deployed two [[Raider]]s to the ''Galactica'' to transmit D'anna's video documentary back to Caprica. Does this mean the Cylons know ''exactly'' where the [[Fleet]] is, and have simply chosen ''not'' to intercept it? Is keeping the Fleet alive part of their "Plan"?
** Possibly, in the "de-briefing" towards the end of the episode, Caprica D'anna meant the two Raiders transmitted the footage she cut from the documentary (showing Helo's Boomer in the Sickbay). It is possible they meant that they picked up the whole "show" from fleet transmissions and the snippet from the two Raiders.
**Or, are the Cylons ''now'' refraining from sending in a full [[Basestar]] and Raider wing to attack the Galactica because they are worried that a direct attack on the Galactica will result in the death of Caprica-Boomer and her hybrid daughter? That is, they would have attacked it if Boomer wasn't on board, but was sending two Raiders in now simply a reconaissance mission? The Cylons did say that they want to proceed cautiously.
**Then again, the two Raiders didn't jump in to the Fleet's vicinity, they flew in normally. Perhaps the Cylons actually ''don't'' know exactly where the Fleet is, and these Raiders may have been searching for days to find them. Seeing as the Cylons on Caprica weren't aware that the Caprica-Boomer was still alive, perhaps they also trully aren't aware of the Fleet's location, and other Cylons in the Fleet cannot transmit messages back to Caprica because they are out of range (though a nearby Cylon ship might be close enough).
**In light of all this, have the Cylons''not'' been using their entire strength against the Colonials in combat? Have they, in effect, been "toying" with them? This could explain the relative lop-sidedness of the Colonials' military victories since the initial destruction of the Colonies.
*Did Biers discovery of pregnant Caprica-Valerii on the Galactica alter her intended goal with the documentary?
**Would the documentary have presented Galactica and her crew in a more negative light and thus perform a journalistic hatchet job on how the rest of the fleet perceived Adama and the military?
**Would Adama and Roslin still have allowed the documentary to be broadcast if it had been 'negative?'

== Analysis ==
At the end of the episode, D'anna says that the Cylons "lost two Raiders relaying the images back to ''the Fleet''" from the ''Galactica''. She didn't say "from the ''Galactica'' back to ''Caprica''". Does this imply that there is a main Cylon fleet following ''Galactica''?
*This will be covered in the episode ''[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]''.

== Notes ==
*Population count is now 47,853, a loss of two since [[Home, Part II]], to account for the two [[Tom Zarek]] henchmen killed in that episode.
*Onboard ''[[Colonial One]]'', Roslin is no longer surrounded by her Secret Service agents, but rather by ''Galactica'' marines - Adama's insurance against any more misbehavior, perhaps?
**Perhaps they were only there to escort Commander Adama while he was off of Galactica?
*D'anna Biers makes the same comment about Baltar that Roslin made in ''[[33]]''.
*We finally learn [[Dualla]]'s first name as she is interviewed by [[D'anna Biers]]: ''Anastasia''.
*Gaeta's first name is revealed as ''[[Felix Gaeta|Felix]]''. He also showed a wild side in the form of a tattoo on his chest he got when he was drunk. He's also taken up smoking. Perhaps this isn't so much a sign of a previously unrevealed wild side, but a sign that Gaeta's composure is starting to get frayed from constant stress.
*The [[ECO]] known as [[Racetrack]] has a full name: ''[[Margaret Edmondson]]''.
*The music aired at the end of the documentary is the Colonial Fanfare last heard in the [[Mini Series]]: the theme from the original "Battlestar Galactica" TV series. In the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, it is apparently the "national anthem" of the Twelve Colonies.
*Adama uses the phrase "warts and all." This was invented by 17th-Century English dictator ("Lord Protector") [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell Oliver Cromwell].
*Timeline-wise, Col. Tigh says there's been no Cylon contacts for 10 days. Col. Tigh was in command of ''Galactica'' for "over a week" (from "[[Scattered]]" to "[[Resistance]]").
*Colonial video feeds are octagonal, but video screens are (oddly) rectangular.
*Capt. [[Kelly]] appears fulfilling his duties as Landing Signal Officer by coordinating Viper landings. This scene further explains the "where was Kelly between the mini series and season 2?" question: he doesn't work in the [[CIC]], but in the flight pod itself.
*Goof: In the last scene, the Caprica Biers says that two Raiders were lost relaying the video back to the fleet, yet the documentary was not complete when the Raiders attacked. Indeed, the Caprican Cylons are shown watching the closing footage of the documentary, which shows Adama's outburst in the CIC ("Yes!"). This outburst was prompted by the destruction of the second Raider.
**Perhaps they launched a transmitter buoy before their destruction? Maybe they were just a diversion for another Raider transmiting from beyond DRADIS range?
**The video relayed to the Cylon fleet from the Raiders was just the part that was cut. The rest of the video was broadcast to the fleet so the Cylons could easily pick up that transmission.
*Roslin and Adama have not only buried the hatchet by this episode, but are working jointly and appear to have developed a comeraderie.
*This episode contains the first scene on Colonial One since [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]].
*Cultural/Linguistic oddity: Apollo refers to Kat and Hot Dog as "tweedledum and tweedledee", a reference to [[Wikipedia:Lewis Carroll|Lewis Carroll]].

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==
** ''After meeting Dr. Gaius Baltar for the first time:''
*:D'anna Biers: What a strange little man.

** ''D'anna Biers is filming an interview with Apollo:''
*:D'anna Biers: You seem to think that your pilots deserve special consideration.
*:Apollo: Actually, I do. Like everyone else, my pilots have lost their families, their friends, everyone they ever cared about; but on top of that they're asked to put their lives on the line every single day, for a fleet that seems more interested in what they do wrong than in what they do right. They're not asking for your pity, but they damn well deserve your respect.

** ''D'anna Biers is interviewing Racetrack:''
*:D'anna Biers: Are you afraid when you go into combat?
*:Racetrack: First thing they tell you is to assume you're already dead.
*:D'anna Biers: Well that sounds ghoulish.
*:Racetrack: Yeah, maybe. But dead men don't get scared and freeze up under fire. Me, I'm just worried that hell's gonna be a lonely place, and I'm gonna fill it up with every Toaster son of a bitch I find.

** ''D'anna Biers is interviewing Lt. Gaeta. Gaeta is slightly disheveled, and is smoking a cigarette:''
*:D'anna Biers: Does that help you cope with the stress?
*:Lt. Felix Gaeta: Not really. Look, um, all that I ever wanted was to be an officer on a Battlestar, okay? I trained my whole life, I trained harder than anyone in my unit. Basically, I put my life on hold until I was assigned to ''Galactica''. Then the Cylons hit and I realized that this is all that I know: tech manuals, commands, and tactics, you know? I'm not saying that I'm unhappy...I'm just wondering if there's something more.
*:D'anna Biers: And what have you discovered?
*:Lt. Felix Gaeta: ...[takes a long drag, coughs]...I hate cigarettes. Ambrosia's good with a chaser. And, if you have enough Ambrosia...[Gaeta pulls back his shirt to reveal an ugly tatoo of a tiger on his upper right chest]...it don't hurt that much.

** ''The closing voice-over narration to D'anna Biers' documentary on the Battlestar Galactica, which runs over a montage of images from the ship. The Colonial Anthem tinkles in the backround and gradually builds to up to a grand swell:''
*:D'anna Biers: I came to ''Galactica'' to tell a story. In all honesty I thought I knew what that story was before I ever set foot there: how an arrogant military let their egos get in the way of doing their jobs, safeguarding the lives of the civilian population. But I found out that the truth was more complex than that. These people aren't Cylons. They're not robots blindly following orders and polishing their boots. They're people. Deeply flawed, yes, but deeply human too, and maybe that's saying the same thing. What struck me most is that despite it all - the hardships, the stress, the ever present danger of being killed - despite all that, they never give up. They never lie down in the road and let the truck run them over. They wake up in the morning, put on their uniforms and do their jobs. Every day. No pay, no rest, no hope of ever laying down the burden or letting someone else do the job. There are no relief troops coming, no Colonial Fleet training new recruits every day. The people on ''Galactica'' are ''it''. They are the thin line of blue that separates us from the Cylons. Lt. Gaeta told me a remarkable statistic; not a single member of Galactica's crew has asked to resign, not one. Think about that. If you wore the uniform wouldn't you want to quit? To step aside and say "enough! Let someone else protect the fleet"? I know I would. But then, I don't wear a uniform. Most of us don't, most of us never will. The story of ''Galactica'' isn't that people make bad decisions under pressure, it's that those mistakes are the exception. Most of the time the men and women serving under Commander Adama get it right. The proof is that our fleet ''survives''. And with ''Galactica'' at our side, we ''will'' endure. This is D'anna Biers, Fleet News Service.

** ''The camera pulls back to show a movie theater on Cylon-occupied [[The Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]], where the humanoid Cylons are watching a copy of the documentary, as D'anna Biers' ending narration finishes:''
*:Aaron Doral: That was shown across their entire fleet.
*:Number Six: Their resilience is remarkable.
*:Sharon Valerii: Play the footage that was cut. [camera footage plays of Helo's Sharon in Galactica's Sickbay]
*:Sharon Valerii: I'm still alive?! She's still alive! I told you.
*:Number Six: That's incredible. And the baby?
*:D'anna Biers: [speaking without her usual New Zealand accent, but with a normal American accent] It was saved. We lost two Raiders relaying the images back to the Fleet, but I think the sacrifice was worth it.
*:Aaron Doral: We must proceed with caution. The child's life must be protected at all costs.
*:D'anna Biers: Yeah. Truly is a miracle of God.

== Official Statements ==

== Statistics ==

=== Guest Stars ===
*[http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0722413/ Donnely Rhodes] as [[Cottle]]
*[[Lucy Lawless]] as [[D'anna Biers]]
*[http://us.imdb.com/name/nm1382781/ Luciana Carro] as [[Kat]]
*[http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Leah+Cairns Leah Cairns] as [[Racetrack]]
*[[IMDB-person:Ty Olsson|Ty Olsson]] as Capt. [[Kelly]]
*[[Matthew Bennett]] as [[Aaron Doral]]
*[[Kate Vernon]] as [[Ellen Tigh]]

=== Writing & Direction ===

*Written by
*Story by
*Teleplay by
*Directed by

=== Production Notes ===

*Series 2 (2005/2006)
*Production Number: 2.8
*Airdate Order: 8 (of 20)

=== First Run Air Dates & Releases ===

*UK Airdate: 2005
*US Airdate: September 9th, 2005 (note - airdate had been planned for September 2nd, 2005, however, SciFi is running a Stargate SG-1 Viewers Choice Marathon for the Labor Day Weekend)
*DVD Release: Date

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[[Category: A to Z]]

Alastair Thorne

2005-09-26T09:27:26Z

Clee:

Lieutenant '''Thorne''' was stationed onboard the [[battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus]]''.

His role was well known amongst his fellow crew mates as the "Cylon Interrogator". His method of interrogation included torture and sexual assault, aided by ''Pegasus'' marines. Thorne and his men apparently raped the captured Cylon [[Gina]], a copy of [[Number Six]], on a routine basis (his men were "lining up for turns" with her), and this probably led to her mental condition.

He was accidentally killed by [[Galen Tyrol]] when Tyrol and [[Karl Agathon]] attempted to protect [[Sharon Valerii]] from him raping her.

Admiral [[Nelena Cain]], who may have been complicit in the behavior, summarily arrested Tyrol and Agathon. ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]])

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Alastair Thorne

2005-09-26T09:26:22Z

Clee: Fixing a typo.

Lieutenant '''Thorne''' was stationed onboard the [[battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus]]''.

His role was well known amongst his fellow crew mates as the "Cylon Interrogator". His method of interogation included torture and sexual assault, aided by ''Pegasus'' marines. Thorne and his men apparently raped the captured Cylon [[Gina]], a copy of [[Number Six]], on a routine basis (his men were "lining up for turns" with her), and this probably led to her mental condition.

He was accidentally killed by [[Galen Tyrol]] when Tyrol and [[Karl Agathon]] attempted to protect [[Sharon Valerii]] from him raping her.

Admiral [[Nelena Cain]], who may have been complicit in the behavior, summarily arrested them. ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]])

[[Category: A to Z]] [[Category: Characters]] [[Category: RDM]]