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Murray Matheson

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'''Sidney Murray Matheson''' (July 1, 1912—April 25, 1985) was an Australian-born actor who portrayed [[Sire]] [[Geller]] in the [[Original Series]] episode "[[Greetings from Earth]]".

He previously provided the voice of [[Specter]] in the Original Series episode [[The Young Lords]].

Born in [[w:Casterton, Victoria|Casterton, Victoria]], [[w:Australia|Australia]], Matheson served as a pilot in the [[w:Royal Air Force|Royal Air Force]] prior to becoming an actor. His first movie roles reflected his military service in the RAF.

As television's popularity grew, Matheson took on roles in many genres, with roles in ''[[w:Kraft Television Theatre|Kraft Television Theatre]]'', ''[[w:Studio One|Studio One]]'', ''[[w:Peter Gunn|Peter Gunn]]'', ''[[w:The Fugitive|The Fugitive]]'', ''Naked City'', ''[[w:Perry Mason|Perry Mason]]'', ''[[w:Get Smart|Get Smart]]'', ''[[w:My Favorite Martian|My Favorite Martian]]'' and ''[[w:Bewitched|Bewitched]]''. Many fans of the series, ''[[w:The Twilight Zone|The Twilight Zone]]'' may remember Matheson as The Clown in the 1961 episode, "Five Characters in Search of an Exit".

In the 1970s and 1980s, Matheson would enjoy some guest roles in episodes of shows such as ''[[w:Mannix|Mannix]]'', ''[[w:Vega$|Vega$]]'' (produced by [[Original Series]] creator [[Glen Larson]]) and ''Hawaii Five-O'' and as a regular series member of the cast of ''[[w:Banachek|Banachek]]'' in 1972.

Matheson died on 25 April 1985 in [[w:Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California|Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California]].

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Messengers

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Mokwella:

[[image:Messenger Six and Messenger Baltar, "Daybreak, Part II".jpg|thumb|The messengers appearing as Six and Baltar aboard ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' together, as seen by [[Caprica Six]] and [[Gaius Baltar]] during the [[Battle of the Colony]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").]]

'''Messengers''' are the curious spectral apparitions seen by [[Gaius Baltar]] and [[Caprica Six]], as well as a few other characters. These beings were earlier referred to as "head characters", i.e. "Head Six" and "Head Baltar", by internal documentation and scripts. These messengers often present themselves as someone known very closely to the subject in question, and appear in the employ of a higher power who does not care to be referred to as "[[God (RDM)|God]]."

"[[Torn]]" establishes the [[humanoid Cylon]] visualization process known as [[projection]]. In the [[Miniseries]] and Season 1, before the term "projection" was introduced, the character of [[Gaius Baltar]] has frequent visions of an image of his Cylon love interest from Caprica, now known as [[Caprica Six]].

After her [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection]] from the Caprica mission, Caprica Six herself is haunted by a messenger appearing to her as Gaius Baltar ([[TRS]]: "[[Downloaded]]").

Neither character directly reveals the presence of these images to each other or any other character. The images appear to Six and Baltar together during the [[Battle of the Colony]], revealing the truth to the pair. Occasionally both Baltar and Caprica Six have been viewed reacting to their messengers, either by talking to themselves or by physical reaction, though this has generally been discounted as general "oddness". Baltar makes reference to seeing angels while speaking on the wireless as a cult leader, and when convincing [[John Cavil]] to stand down during the Battle of the Colony ([[TRS]]: "[[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]"; "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

The personality of each image is often represented in the clothing that they wear. Messenger Six often appears in a revealing red dress<ref>It should be noted that [[Caprica Six]] never appeared in this dress.</ref>, and the Messenger Baltar appears wearing [[Gaius Baltar]]'s custom-tailored, pinstripe suit ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]], "[[Downloaded]]").

Each messenger does not share the personality traits of the person they purport to represent. Messenger Six espouses Cylon philosophy and [[Cylon Religion|religion]] in a zealous, unwavering manner. Likewise, Messenger Baltar often criticizes Caprica Six when she attempts to rationalize the destruction of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] or other Cylon motivations. Both personalities tend to sway its actual opposite to side with their philosophy: For Messenger Baltar, the need to become more human (and, like the actual Baltar himself, selfish); for Messenger Six, worship of the Cylon [[God (RDM)|God]] and distancing Baltar from any opportunity to give support to the Colonial causes.

In the last days of the journey, these messengers are revealed to be agents of a higher power— "angels of [[God (RDM)|God]]," something previously claimed by Messenger Six to Gaius Baltar in both "[[Home, Part II]]" and "[[Torn]]"; writer [[Jane Espenson]] has stated that she personally believes they are "a far-advanced culture with an interest in humanity." This likens them to the [[Beings of Light]] from the [[Original Series]] mythology.<ref>"Question: Starbuck an Angel??? Really???" Espenson: "I'm going to answer re Starbuck and the "head" people, too. Well, here's how I always saw it. If someone from a far-advanced culture somewhere in the universe took an interest in humanity, isn't it possible that with their advanced tech that they could have abilities that would seem to us miraculous. Maybe we'd think of them as "Angels." Maybe they're the whole reason we have a myth of "Angels." But that's just me. The great thing about great novels (or the series) is that some things are left open to your own philosophical solutions." Galactica Sitrep, http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/blog/2009/03/chat_with_battl.html</ref> ([[TRS]]: "[[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]"; "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

==Messenger Six==
[[image:Tigh_Me_Up_Tigh_Me_Down-Baltar_Six.jpg|thumb|Messenger Six and Gaius Baltar in his lab aboard ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]").]]
Messenger Six first appears to [[Gaius Baltar]] as he escapes [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] on [[Sharon Valerii]]'s [[Raptor]] during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]] ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries, Night 1]]).

Baltar initially believes that Messenger Six is a hallucination in its first few weeks of appearances ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries, Night 1]], "[[33]]"), but later believes the Messenger's initial suggestion that she is generated from a Cylon cybernetic implant. He disproves this notion when Doctor [[Sherman Cottle]] performs a [[w:MRI|MRI]] scan, showing no abnormalities ([[TRS]]: "[[Home, Part II]]").

Messenger Six demonstrates awareness of events, people and places that Baltar does not appear to know consciously. She tells him of a [[Cylon transponder]] hidden in ''Galactica's'' [[CIC]] ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries, Night 2]]), and appears to aid him in his conversion from Colonial polytheism to Cylon monotheism through guiding him in how to destroy a Cylon [[tylium]] refinery ([[TRS]]: [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]). The source for Messenger Six's data is initially unclear, but is later assumed to be through an act of divinity.
[[Image:brainscan.jpg|left|thumb|Baltar receives his brain scan from Dr. [[Sherman Cottle]], as Messenger Six looks on in amusement.]]

Baltar's visions of Six not only have the Cylon appearing with him on ''[[Galactica]]'', but the two also envision themselves in Baltar's now-destroyed home, on the beach, and other locales. Messenger Six seems to be able to force Baltar to see additional items in his environment, such as the human skulls on [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], as well as visions of the interior of the ancient [[Opera House]] and an image of what Messenger Six believes to be a Cylon-human hybrid child. When an [[Hera Agathon|actual child]] does appear in the Fleet, the Messenger Six claims it is her vision fulfilled. Baltar is convinced by this that she cannot be a hallucination, but Cottle's scan appears to have ruled out the possibility that she is an implant. He asks her who or what she is, and she replies that she is an angel ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]", "[[Valley of Darkness]]", "[[Home, Part II]]").

Over time, Baltar is seen by some characters speaking to himself, which is often the case when he is speaking to Messenger Six. In several instances, Messenger Six appears to Baltar to be a physical entity, grabbing him by his clothes or body, or assisting him with objects ([[TRS: "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]", "[[Taking A Break From All Your Worries]]"). She has even demonstrated an ability to physically interact with Baltar. On one occasion, she pushed him into a bulkhead and grabbed him by the throat. In another example, she lifted him into a standing position after he was beaten by a Galactica marine ([[Escape Velocity]]). In both cases, this provoked reactions from other people. Further, she appears to satisfy Baltar's sexual urges, leading to awkward situations where he is seen masturbating ([[TRS]]: "[[Colonial Day]]").

[[image:KobolHallu.jpg|right|thumb|Messenger Six and Gaius Baltar on Kobol.]]
The Messenger Six has been present when Caprica Six is near only twice. She is also conspicuously absent during [[Shelly Godfrey]]'s tenure on ''Galactica'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]"). The Messenger Six seems to, for the most part, vanish during the period when Caprica Six and Baltar renew their relationship on New Caprica. When Baltar is aboard a Cylon basestar, Caprica Six explains the projection process to him while the Messenger Six hints that this process is very similar to how she and Baltar communicate and that Baltar may himself be a Cylon ([[TRS]]: "[[Torn]]"). Messenger Six also appears to Baltar, when he discovers Hera under Maya's dead body and disappears when Caprica Six comes near Baltar and the baby ([[TRS]]: "[[Exodus, Part II]]").

Messenger Six has a [[Music of Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|musical theme]], a simple 9-note motif with a staccato xylophone and some violins, which plays behind almost all her appearances. This theme also plays without Six present in "[[Rapture]]" after [[D'Anna Biers]] collapses in Baltar's arms after her vision of the [[Final Five]], until Baltar is pistol-whipped by [[Galen Tyrol]].

From the end of Season 2 on, Messenger Six claims more often to be an angel from [[God (RDM)|God]].

Ultimately, Messenger Six is revealed to be a very real being -- not a projection of something inside Baltar's mind -- sent by another being that may be [[God (RDM)|God]]. Both her and Messenger Baltar appear to both Caprica Six and Baltar during the [[Battle of The Colony]]; Baltar and Caprica Six are each shocked that the other can see them. On Earth, Messenger Six, along with Messenger Baltar, reveals to Caprica and Baltar that their destiny had always been to protect Hera, who was the future of both races. They leave, saying that while God's plan is never finished, the two mortals' lives will be much less "exciting" from now on.

One-hundred fifty thousand years later, Messenger Six is with Messenger Baltar in New York City, looking over the shoulder of a man reading a ''[[National Geographic]]'' magazine article about the remains of Mitochondrial Eve -- the current population's latest common evolutionary ancestor, Hera Agathon. The two discuss how all of this has happened before, and whether all of this will happen again. Messenger Six believes things will go differently this time. Messenger Baltar chides her when she refers to God, saying, "You know it doesn't like that name." The two then walk off into the teeming crowds of New York City ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

==Messenger Baltar==
[[image:LBlt.jpg|thumb|left|Turnabout is fair play: Messenger Baltar appears to [[Caprica Six]], but not to [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|Number Three]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Downloaded]]").]]

When a '''messenger with Gaius Baltar's visage''' appears to Caprica Six, the notion that the actual Gaius Baltar was part of a Cylon plan to manipulate him via Messenger Six is revealed to be highly unlikely, as other Cylons are unaware of him and do not mention the plan or its effects to Caprica Six ([[TRS]]: "[[Downloaded]]").

The Messenger Baltar's appearance and demeanor is just as much an extreme opposite of the actual Baltar as the Messenger Six's behavior is to Caprica Six.

At her resurrection, Messenger Baltar immediately tells Caprica Six that only she can see and hear him, and not to reveal what she sees to the other Cylons present; she never asks about his origins.

Messenger Baltar confronts Caprica Six with her guilt in the slaughter of billions of human beings, and with the logical error behind the Cylons's actions. Under Messenger Baltar's influence, Caprica Six speaks out against the war alongside another resurrected "[[hero of the Cylon]]", [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]]. The two forge a new [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|quasi-benevolent path]], [[Exodus, Part II|albeit temporarily]], for the Cylon race.

Messenger Baltar appears irregularly in seasons 2 and 3. After Caprica Six surrenders herself to the Colonials (having assisted [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon "Athena" Agathon]] in her rescue of [[Hera Agathon|Hera]]), [[Laura Roslin]] and [[Tory Foster]] observe Caprica Six speaking to and kissing Messenger Baltar—who is invisible to Roslin and Foster ([[TRS]]: "[[The Woman King]]").

While Messenger Six claims to be an angel sent from God, Messenger Baltar is contemptuous of the Cylons' concept of God ([[TRS]]: "[[Downloaded]]"). He is also described by [[Ronald D. Moore|Ron Moore]] as more of a "devil" figure in Six's consciousness<ref>{{cite_rdm_podcast|episode=Downloaded|act=Three|id=|timestamp=|totalrunning=}}</ref>.

While Messenger Baltar acts mostly as a conversational foil for Six, in "[[Crossroads, Part I]]" he informs her that [[Saul Tigh]] has suffered the loss of [[Ellen Tigh|a woman]] close to him, to assist Six in dealing with Tigh's interrogation ([[TRS]]: "[[Crossroads, Part I]]").

[[Image:Baltar and Head Baltar, "Six of One".jpg|thumb|right|Baltar encounters his Messenger double.]]
After his ascension to [[Cult of Baltar|cult]] leader, Gaius Baltar encounters his Messenger doppelgänger after running into [[Tory Foster]] at the civilian's mess hall. Baltar is initially shocked by Messenger Baltar's sudden appearance, voicing his belief that it is [[Messenger Six]] appearing to him as a doppelgänger version of himself, but the Messenger points out that she would have no need to disguise herself from him; Baltar becomes amused by the idea of having himself as a conversational foil for once instead of Six. This Messenger Baltar encourages him to engage in a relationship with Foster, claiming that she is "[[Final Five|special]]," and guides him, after a fashion, through her covert interrogation attempt. This Messenger Baltar does not elaborate on that point, but Gaius Baltar follows the Messenger's lead ([[TRS]]: "[[Six of One]]").

Prior to the conclusion of the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]]'s journey to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], Messenger Baltar and Messenger Six appear together, and both Caprica Six and Baltar can see them, and are each shocked that the other can. He and Messenger Six are representatives of the being that some call [[God (RDM)|God]], who Baltar describes to Cavil as a force of nature that is neither good nor evil. Messenger Baltar and Messenger Six make one last visit to Caprica Six and Baltar to tell them that their role had always been to protect Hera, and now that this has been fulfilled, the two Messengers leave them alone. Messenger Six explains that God's plan is never over, but Messenger Baltar tells the couple that their lives will be much less exciting.

The two Messengers visit Earth 150,000 years later in New York City discussing humanity finding its most recent common ancestor, the human-Cylon hybrid [[Hera Agathon]]. The two discuss the cycle of life, and Messenger Baltar chides Messenger Six for calling the being they work for "God," as it apparently does not like being called that. Messenger Baltar has the series' last line, which is a response to Messenger Six's stern look: "silly me... silly, silly me." The two then walk off together into present-day New York City ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

== Messenger Elosha ==

[[Laura Roslin]] converses with a being in the form of Priestess [[Elosha]] during what should be zero-time jump sequences on the way to the [[Resurrection Hub]]. This Messenger being is unlike the others, in that not only do they interact outside the realm of others, it takes place during a time interval that should not exist. The being seems to have some knowledge of the future events, such as Roslin's death and the fact that [[William Adama]] waits for her, suggesting both reality for the being and the out-of-time conversations. Unlike [[Kara Thrace]]'s Messenger Leoben, the experience is difficult to explain with unconscious dreaming or hallucination ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hub]]").

== The Final Five's Messengers ==

After recovering his memories of [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] due to trauma resulting from his being shot in the head, [[Samuel Anders]] reports that the [[Final Five]] were originally warned of impending nuclear destruction of Earth two thousand years earlier by images of people no one else could see. This information was the impetus for their recreation of [[Resurrection (RDM)|Cylon Resurrection]] and the preparing of the ship on which they escaped following the disaster. The one that appeared to Anders looked like a woman, the one that appeared to [[Tory Foster]] looked like a man. Much like Gaius Baltar, [[Galen Tyrol]] thought he might have a neural chip ([[TRS]]: "[[No Exit]]").

== Slick ==
[[Kara Thrace]] encounters a vision of her father<ref>[[Podcast:Someone to Watch Over Me]]</ref> going by the name of "Slick". She initially fails to recognize him as [[Dreilide Thrace|her father]]. As she spends time with him, she recalls playing the piano with her father. She assists him in composing a song and compares him to her father. While she plays the piano with him, she recalls playing the piano with her father as a child. She recalls a certain song, and notices that the score resembles one of [[Hera Agathon]]'s drawing. As she plays the song with him, [[Saul Tigh]] and [[Tory Foster]] recognize the song as [[The Music|the same song they heard at the Ionian Nebula]]. When Tigh grabs her and asks her about the song, Slick vanishes ([[TRS]]: "[[Someone to Watch Over Me]]").

== Messenger Zoe ==

A Messenger appeared to [[Zoe Graystone]] decades before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies in the form of Zoe herself. The Messenger's first act was to save Zoe from a fire which burned down the Graystones' prior residence, when Zoe was a little girl. She then continued to appear to Zoe, who considered her a friend, periodically. Messenger Zoe had the form of teenage Zoe before Zoe herself entered adolescence. On one occasion, when Zoe was a teenager and now identical to her Messenger counterpart, Messenger Zoe encouraged her to outdo her father [[Daniel Graystone]] by creating life with her computer skills, after they noticed that Daniel had "stolen" the design for the [[U-87 Cyber Combat Unit]] from drawings made by Zoe. This suggestion led to the creation of [[Zoe-A]], Zoe's [[holographic avatar]] duplicate ([[CAP]]: "[[Things We Lock Away]]").

Messenger Zoe later appears to Zoe-A when the latter is engaged in combat with [[Tamara-A]] and several users in [[New Cap City]] who blame her for the destruction of [[Maglev 23]]. She encourages Zoe-A to be her own person and not accept the blame for Zoe's sins. This leads to Zoe-A convincing Tamara-A to form an alliance ([[CAP]]: "[[Things We Lock Away]]").

An unidentified Zoe sits smiling among Sister [[Clarice Willow]]'s otherwise entirely Cylon congregation of monotheists in the flash-forward montage at the end of "[[Apotheosis (episode)|Apotheosis]]". The scene precedes Zoe-A's resurrection into the first [[Humanoid Cylon|skinjob]] body, yet is years after [[Zoe Graystone|original Zoe]]'s death and Zoe-A's denouncement of Willow.

== [[Messenger Leoben]] ==

Image of Leoben that appears to [[Kara Thrace]] but never claims to be a Cylon in the episode "[[Maelstrom]]." Because he only appears to her in a vision while the pilot is unconscious, and does not fit the Baltar-Six analogue, Battlestar Wiki considers him separately.

For further information, please see [[Messenger Leoben]] entry.

==Notes==
* In the cases of Elosha and Slick, it is unclear whether the phantom images represent the consciousnesses of the deceased or are simply other beings in their forms.
*The [[Messenger Leoben|Messenger "Leoben"]] that appears to [[Kara Thrace]] in the episode "[[Maelstrom]]" only appears to her in a vision while the pilot is unconscious. Since this Messenger Leoben does not fit the Baltar-Six analogue, Battlestar Wiki considers him separately to the above.
*[[William Adama]] sees and converses with his [[Carolanne Adama|deceased ex-wife]] each year on their anniversary as demonstrated in "[[A Day in the Life]]". While the episode where this occurs shows William and Carolanne together in places and settings (ostensibly at their home on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]), this is a dramatic representation of Adama's ordinary imagination of what Carolanne may have thought about his predicament. As such, the visualizations of Carolanne Adama are ''not'' a messenger or other spectral apparition.
*[[Saul Tigh]] sees [[Ellen Tigh#Saul's "Messenger Ellen"|his dead wife]] in place of [[Caprica Six]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Escape Velocity]]"). This could be a simple hallucination or, as Tigh is a [[humanoid Cylon]], an example of [[projection]].
*When holding a two thousand year-old, mangled mailbox hatch from the lobby of the Tighs's apartment building, Saul sees a dying Ellen again in a vision from his and her prior incarnations on Earth. Ellen is depicted in the vision as fully aware of their future reincarnations and the cyclical nature of their existence, which she prophesises for past-Saul in the moment before they both die. ([[TRS]]: "[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]").
*In the fifth [[Razor Flashbacks|Razor Flashback]], while exploring the lab, [[William Adama]] has a hallucination of a hand reaching out to grab him from a device similar to a [[resurrection tank|resurrection]] or [[Hybrid]] tank. However this could be a stress-induced hallucination. The same may be the case for the screaming prisoners in the lab, which could also be explained as a visualization for the audience. However, the voice Adama hears of the [[First Hybrid]] is the same as the real voice, so this part at least is not a hallucination.
*Beginning in Season 3, Messenger Six appears less frequently, and makes only a few appearances in Season 4. A scene was filmed for "[[The Road Less Traveled]]" in which Messenger Six, stating that Baltar no longer needs her anymore, says goodbye to him and fades away; this scene was deleted (but included on the Season 4.0 DVD). Messenger Six reappeared in yet another deleted scene, this time for "Sometimes a Great Notion" (information is relegated to a [[:File:SixonEarth.jpg|promotional image]]), before returning but only in the extended version of "[[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]" and reappearing in "[[Deadlock]]", most likely rendering the deleted scene from "The Road Less Traveled" non-canonical as neither of the two aforementioned episodes make mention of her departure.
*In the podcast for "[[No Exit]]", Ronald Moore refers to the Final Five's Messenger beings as "the Messengers" and indicates that they are significant to the overall storyline.

== Official Statements ==
*When asked by a fan at a convention about the differences between Messenger Baltar and Gaius Baltar, actor [[James Callis]] described Messenger Baltar as a man who "finally has his shit together."<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNZZHl0Ls5U&mode=related&search=|title=James Callis (Gaius Baltar) Q&A FanExpo 2k6 - Part 3|date=September 04, 2006|accessdate=January 24, 2007|last=|first=|format=YouTube video|language=English}}</ref>. ('''Warning''': Video contains some explicit language)

* Callis mentioned at the same convention that his personal theory is that Messenger Six is a being from another universe or higher plane of existence who only Baltar can interact with. This may relate back to the "angel" theory postulated prior to "[[Daybreak, Part II]]."<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNZZHl0Ls5U&mode=related&search=|title=James Callis (Gaius Baltar) Q&A FanExpo 2k6 - Part 3|date=September 04, 2006|accessdate=January 24, 2007|last=|first=|format=YouTube video|language=English}} ('''Warning''': Video contains some explicit language.)</ref>

* Prior to the revelations of "Daybreak," actress [[Tricia Helfer]] said that she had long since given up on trying to figure out the nature of Messenger Six. <ref>{{cite_web|url=http://tv.ign.com/articles/756/756477p1.html|title=IGN Interview: Battlestar Galactica's Tricia Helfer|date=January 18, 2007|accessdate=January 24, 2007|last=|first=|format=|language=English}}</ref> She believes Caprica Six and Baltar both having internal counterparts is related to the scene from the [[Miniseries]] where she saves Baltar from the shock wave of the nuclear bomb that destroyed [[Caprica City]].

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Messengers

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Mokwella: /* Messenger Leoben */

[[image:Messenger Six and Messenger Baltar, "Daybreak, Part II".jpg|thumb|The messengers appearing as Six and Baltar aboard ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' together, as seen by [[Caprica Six]] and [[Gaius Baltar]] during the [[Battle of the Colony]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").]]

'''Messengers''' are the curious spectral apparitions seen by [[Gaius Baltar]] and [[Caprica Six]], as well as a few other characters. These beings were earlier referred to as "head characters", i.e. "Head Six" and "Head Baltar", by internal documentation and scripts. These messengers often present themselves as someone known very closely to the subject in question, and appear in the employ of a higher power who does not care to be referred to as "[[God (RDM)|God]]."

"[[Torn]]" establishes the [[humanoid Cylon]] visualization process known as [[projection]]. In the [[Miniseries]] and Season 1, before the term "projection" was introduced, the character of [[Gaius Baltar]] has frequent visions of an image of his Cylon love interest from Caprica, now known as [[Caprica Six]].

After her [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection]] from the Caprica mission, Caprica Six herself is haunted by a messenger appearing to her as Gaius Baltar ([[TRS]]: "[[Downloaded]]").

Neither character directly reveals the presence of these images to each other or any other character. The images appear to Six and Baltar together during the [[Battle of the Colony]], revealing the truth to the pair. Occasionally both Baltar and Caprica Six have been viewed reacting to their messengers, either by talking to themselves or by physical reaction, though this has generally been discounted as general "oddness". Baltar makes reference to seeing angels while speaking on the wireless as a cult leader, and when convincing [[John Cavil]] to stand down during the Battle of the Colony ([[TRS]]: "[[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]"; "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

The personality of each image is often represented in the clothing that they wear. Messenger Six often appears in a revealing red dress<ref>It should be noted that [[Caprica Six]] never appeared in this dress.</ref>, and the Messenger Baltar appears wearing [[Gaius Baltar]]'s custom-tailored, pinstripe suit ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]], "[[Downloaded]]").

Each messenger does not share the personality traits of the person they purport to represent. Messenger Six espouses Cylon philosophy and [[Cylon Religion|religion]] in a zealous, unwavering manner. Likewise, Messenger Baltar often criticizes Caprica Six when she attempts to rationalize the destruction of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] or other Cylon motivations. Both personalities tend to sway its actual opposite to side with their philosophy: For Messenger Baltar, the need to become more human (and, like the actual Baltar himself, selfish); for Messenger Six, worship of the Cylon [[God (RDM)|God]] and distancing Baltar from any opportunity to give support to the Colonial causes.

In the last days of the journey, these messengers are revealed to be agents of a higher power— "angels of [[God (RDM)|God]]," something previously claimed by Messenger Six to Gaius Baltar in both "[[Home, Part II]]" and "[[Torn]]"; writer [[Jane Espenson]] has stated that she personally believes they are "a far-advanced culture with an interest in humanity." This likens them to the [[Beings of Light]] from the [[Original Series]] mythology.<ref>"Question: Starbuck an Angel??? Really???" Espenson: "I'm going to answer re Starbuck and the "head" people, too. Well, here's how I always saw it. If someone from a far-advanced culture somewhere in the universe took an interest in humanity, isn't it possible that with their advanced tech that they could have abilities that would seem to us miraculous. Maybe we'd think of them as "Angels." Maybe they're the whole reason we have a myth of "Angels." But that's just me. The great thing about great novels (or the series) is that some things are left open to your own philosophical solutions." Galactica Sitrep, http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/blog/2009/03/chat_with_battl.html</ref> ([[TRS]]: "[[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]"; "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

==Messenger Six==
[[image:Tigh_Me_Up_Tigh_Me_Down-Baltar_Six.jpg|thumb|Messenger Six and Gaius Baltar in his lab aboard ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]").]]
Messenger Six first appears to [[Gaius Baltar]] as he escapes [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] on [[Sharon Valerii]]'s [[Raptor]] during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]] ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries, Night 1]]).

Baltar initially believes that Messenger Six is a hallucination in its first few weeks of appearances ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries, Night 1]], "[[33]]"), but later believes the Messenger's initial suggestion that she is generated from a Cylon cybernetic implant. He disproves this notion when Doctor [[Sherman Cottle]] performs a [[w:MRI|MRI]] scan, showing no abnormalities ([[TRS]]: "[[Home, Part II]]").

Messenger Six demonstrates awareness of events, people and places that Baltar does not appear to know consciously. She tells him of a [[Cylon transponder]] hidden in ''Galactica's'' [[CIC]] ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries, Night 2]]), and appears to aid him in his conversion from Colonial polytheism to Cylon monotheism through guiding him in how to destroy a Cylon [[tylium]] refinery ([[TRS]]: [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]). The source for Messenger Six's data is initially unclear, but is later assumed to be through an act of divinity.
[[Image:brainscan.jpg|left|thumb|Baltar receives his brain scan from Dr. [[Sherman Cottle]], as Messenger Six looks on in amusement.]]

Baltar's visions of Six not only have the Cylon appearing with him on ''[[Galactica]]'', but the two also envision themselves in Baltar's now-destroyed home, on the beach, and other locales. Messenger Six seems to be able to force Baltar to see additional items in his environment, such as the human skulls on [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], as well as visions of the interior of the ancient [[Opera House]] and an image of what Messenger Six believes to be a Cylon-human hybrid child. When an [[Hera Agathon|actual child]] does appear in the Fleet, the Messenger Six claims it is her vision fulfilled. Baltar is convinced by this that she cannot be a hallucination, but Cottle's scan appears to have ruled out the possibility that she is an implant. He asks her who or what she is, and she replies that she is an angel ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]", "[[Valley of Darkness]]", "[[Home, Part II]]").

Over time, Baltar is seen by some characters speaking to himself, which is often the case when he is speaking to Messenger Six. In several instances, Messenger Six appears to Baltar to be a physical entity, grabbing him by his clothes or body, or assisting him with objects ([[TRS: "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]", "[[Taking A Break From All Your Worries]]"). She has even demonstrated an ability to physically interact with Baltar. On one occasion, she pushed him into a bulkhead and grabbed him by the throat. In another example, she lifted him into a standing position after he was beaten by a Galactica marine ([[Escape Velocity]]). In both cases, this provoked reactions from other people. Further, she appears to satisfy Baltar's sexual urges, leading to awkward situations where he is seen masturbating ([[TRS]]: "[[Colonial Day]]").

[[image:KobolHallu.jpg|right|thumb|Messenger Six and Gaius Baltar on Kobol.]]
The Messenger Six has been present when Caprica Six is near only twice. She is also conspicuously absent during [[Shelly Godfrey]]'s tenure on ''Galactica'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]"). The Messenger Six seems to, for the most part, vanish during the period when Caprica Six and Baltar renew their relationship on New Caprica. When Baltar is aboard a Cylon basestar, Caprica Six explains the projection process to him while the Messenger Six hints that this process is very similar to how she and Baltar communicate and that Baltar may himself be a Cylon ([[TRS]]: "[[Torn]]"). Messenger Six also appears to Baltar, when he discovers Hera under Maya's dead body and disappears when Caprica Six comes near Baltar and the baby ([[TRS]]: "[[Exodus, Part II]]").

Messenger Six has a [[Music of Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|musical theme]], a simple 9-note motif with a staccato xylophone and some violins, which plays behind almost all her appearances. This theme also plays without Six present in "[[Rapture]]" after [[D'Anna Biers]] collapses in Baltar's arms after her vision of the [[Final Five]], until Baltar is pistol-whipped by [[Galen Tyrol]].

From the end of Season 2 on, Messenger Six claims more often to be an angel from [[God (RDM)|God]].

Ultimately, Messenger Six is revealed to be a very real being -- not a projection of something inside Baltar's mind -- sent by another being that may be [[God (RDM)|God]]. Both her and Messenger Baltar appear to both Caprica Six and Baltar during the [[Battle of The Colony]]; Baltar and Caprica Six are each shocked that the other can see them. On Earth, Messenger Six, along with Messenger Baltar, reveals to Caprica and Baltar that their destiny had always been to protect Hera, who was the future of both races. They leave, saying that while God's plan is never finished, the two mortals' lives will be much less "exciting" from now on.

One-hundred fifty thousand years later, Messenger Six is with Messenger Baltar in New York City, looking over the shoulder of a man reading a ''[[National Geographic]]'' magazine article about the remains of Mitochondrial Eve -- the current population's latest common evolutionary ancestor, Hera Agathon. The two discuss how all of this has happened before, and whether all of this will happen again. Messenger Six believes things will go differently this time. Messenger Baltar chides her when she refers to God, saying, "You know it doesn't like that name." The two then walk off into the teeming crowds of New York City ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

==Messenger Baltar==
[[image:LBlt.jpg|thumb|left|Turnabout is fair play: Messenger Baltar appears to [[Caprica Six]], but not to [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|Number Three]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Downloaded]]").]]

When a '''messenger with Gaius Baltar's visage''' appears to Caprica Six, the notion that the actual Gaius Baltar was part of a Cylon plan to manipulate him via Messenger Six is revealed to be highly unlikely, as other Cylons are unaware of him and do not mention the plan or its effects to Caprica Six ([[TRS]]: "[[Downloaded]]").

The Messenger Baltar's appearance and demeanor is just as much an extreme opposite of the actual Baltar as the Messenger Six's behavior is to Caprica Six.

At her resurrection, Messenger Baltar immediately tells Caprica Six that only she can see and hear him, and not to reveal what she sees to the other Cylons present; she never asks about his origins.

Messenger Baltar confronts Caprica Six with her guilt in the slaughter of billions of human beings, and with the logical error behind the Cylons's actions. Under Messenger Baltar's influence, Caprica Six speaks out against the war alongside another resurrected "[[hero of the Cylon]]", [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]]. The two forge a new [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|quasi-benevolent path]], [[Exodus, Part II|albeit temporarily]], for the Cylon race.

Messenger Baltar appears irregularly in seasons 2 and 3. After Caprica Six surrenders herself to the Colonials (having assisted [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon "Athena" Agathon]] in her rescue of [[Hera Agathon|Hera]]), [[Laura Roslin]] and [[Tory Foster]] observe Caprica Six speaking to and kissing Messenger Baltar—who is invisible to Roslin and Foster ([[TRS]]: "[[The Woman King]]").

While Messenger Six claims to be an angel sent from God, Messenger Baltar is contemptuous of the Cylons' concept of God ([[TRS]]: "[[Downloaded]]"). He is also described by [[Ronald D. Moore|Ron Moore]] as more of a "devil" figure in Six's consciousness<ref>{{cite_rdm_podcast|episode=Downloaded|act=Three|id=|timestamp=|totalrunning=}}</ref>.

While Messenger Baltar acts mostly as a conversational foil for Six, in "[[Crossroads, Part I]]" he informs her that [[Saul Tigh]] has suffered the loss of [[Ellen Tigh|a woman]] close to him, to assist Six in dealing with Tigh's interrogation ([[TRS]]: "[[Crossroads, Part I]]").

[[Image:Baltar and Head Baltar, "Six of One".jpg|thumb|right|Baltar encounters his Messenger double.]]
After his ascension to [[Cult of Baltar|cult]] leader, Gaius Baltar encounters his Messenger doppelgänger after running into [[Tory Foster]] at the civilian's mess hall. Baltar is initially shocked by Messenger Baltar's sudden appearance, voicing his belief that it is [[Messenger Six]] appearing to him as a doppelgänger version of himself, but the Messenger points out that she would have no need to disguise herself from him; Baltar becomes amused by the idea of having himself as a conversational foil for once instead of Six. This Messenger Baltar encourages him to engage in a relationship with Foster, claiming that she is "[[Final Five|special]]," and guides him, after a fashion, through her covert interrogation attempt. This Messenger Baltar does not elaborate on that point, but Gaius Baltar follows the Messenger's lead ([[TRS]]: "[[Six of One]]").

Prior to the conclusion of the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]]'s journey to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], Messenger Baltar and Messenger Six appear together, and both Caprica Six and Baltar can see them, and are each shocked that the other can. He and Messenger Six are representatives of the being that some call [[God (RDM)|God]], who Baltar describes to Cavil as a force of nature that is neither good nor evil. Messenger Baltar and Messenger Six make one last visit to Caprica Six and Baltar to tell them that their role had always been to protect Hera, and now that this has been fulfilled, the two Messengers leave them alone. Messenger Six explains that God's plan is never over, but Messenger Baltar tells the couple that their lives will be much less exciting.

The two Messengers visit Earth 150,000 years later in New York City discussing humanity finding its most recent common ancestor, the human-Cylon hybrid [[Hera Agathon]]. The two discuss the cycle of life, and Messenger Baltar chides Messenger Six for calling the being they work for "God," as it apparently does not like being called that. Messenger Baltar has the series' last line, which is a response to Messenger Six's stern look: "silly me... silly, silly me." The two then walk off together into present-day New York City ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

== [[Messenger Leoben]] ==

Image of Leoben that appears to [[Kara Thrace]] but never claims to be a Cylon in the episode "[[Maelstrom]]." Because he only appears to her in a vision while the pilot is unconscious, and does not fit the Baltar-Six analogue, Battlestar Wiki considers him separately.

For further information, please see [[Messenger Leoben]] entry.

== Messenger Elosha ==

[[Laura Roslin]] converses with a being in the form of Priestess [[Elosha]] during what should be zero-time jump sequences on the way to the [[Resurrection Hub]]. This Messenger being is unlike the others, in that not only do they interact outside the realm of others, it takes place during a time interval that should not exist. The being seems to have some knowledge of the future events, such as Roslin's death and the fact that [[William Adama]] waits for her, suggesting both reality for the being and the out-of-time conversations. Unlike [[Kara Thrace]]'s Messenger Leoben, the experience is difficult to explain with unconscious dreaming or hallucination ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hub]]").

== The Final Five's Messengers ==

After recovering his memories of [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] due to trauma resulting from his being shot in the head, [[Samuel Anders]] reports that the [[Final Five]] were originally warned of impending nuclear destruction of Earth two thousand years earlier by images of people no one else could see. This information was the impetus for their recreation of [[Resurrection (RDM)|Cylon Resurrection]] and the preparing of the ship on which they escaped following the disaster. The one that appeared to Anders looked like a woman, the one that appeared to [[Tory Foster]] looked like a man. Much like Gaius Baltar, [[Galen Tyrol]] thought he might have a neural chip ([[TRS]]: "[[No Exit]]").

== Slick ==
[[Kara Thrace]] encounters a vision of her father<ref>[[Podcast:Someone to Watch Over Me]]</ref> going by the name of "Slick". She initially fails to recognize him as [[Dreilide Thrace|her father]]. As she spends time with him, she recalls playing the piano with her father. She assists him in composing a song and compares him to her father. While she plays the piano with him, she recalls playing the piano with her father as a child. She recalls a certain song, and notices that the score resembles one of [[Hera Agathon]]'s drawing. As she plays the song with him, [[Saul Tigh]] and [[Tory Foster]] recognize the song as [[The Music|the same song they heard at the Ionian Nebula]]. When Tigh grabs her and asks her about the song, Slick vanishes ([[TRS]]: "[[Someone to Watch Over Me]]").

== Messenger Zoe ==

A Messenger appeared to [[Zoe Graystone]] decades before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies in the form of Zoe herself. The Messenger's first act was to save Zoe from a fire which burned down the Graystones' prior residence, when Zoe was a little girl. She then continued to appear to Zoe, who considered her a friend, periodically. Messenger Zoe had the form of teenage Zoe before Zoe herself entered adolescence. On one occasion, when Zoe was a teenager and now identical to her Messenger counterpart, Messenger Zoe encouraged her to outdo her father [[Daniel Graystone]] by creating life with her computer skills, after they noticed that Daniel had "stolen" the design for the [[U-87 Cyber Combat Unit]] from drawings made by Zoe. This suggestion led to the creation of [[Zoe-A]], Zoe's [[holographic avatar]] duplicate ([[CAP]]: "[[Things We Lock Away]]").

Messenger Zoe later appears to Zoe-A when the latter is engaged in combat with [[Tamara-A]] and several users in [[New Cap City]] who blame her for the destruction of [[Maglev 23]]. She encourages Zoe-A to be her own person and not accept the blame for Zoe's sins. This leads to Zoe-A convincing Tamara-A to form an alliance ([[CAP]]: "[[Things We Lock Away]]").

An unidentified Zoe sits smiling among Sister [[Clarice Willow]]'s otherwise entirely Cylon congregation of monotheists in the flash-forward montage at the end of "[[Apotheosis (episode)|Apotheosis]]". The scene precedes Zoe-A's resurrection into the first [[Humanoid Cylon|skinjob]] body, yet is years after [[Zoe Graystone|original Zoe]]'s death and Zoe-A's denouncement of Willow.

==Notes==
* In the cases of Elosha and Slick, it is unclear whether the phantom images represent the consciousnesses of the deceased or are simply other beings in their forms.
*The [[Messenger Leoben|Messenger "Leoben"]] that appears to [[Kara Thrace]] in the episode "[[Maelstrom]]" only appears to her in a vision while the pilot is unconscious. Since this Messenger Leoben does not fit the Baltar-Six analogue, Battlestar Wiki considers him separately to the above.
*[[William Adama]] sees and converses with his [[Carolanne Adama|deceased ex-wife]] each year on their anniversary as demonstrated in "[[A Day in the Life]]". While the episode where this occurs shows William and Carolanne together in places and settings (ostensibly at their home on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]), this is a dramatic representation of Adama's ordinary imagination of what Carolanne may have thought about his predicament. As such, the visualizations of Carolanne Adama are ''not'' a messenger or other spectral apparition.
*[[Saul Tigh]] sees [[Ellen Tigh#Saul's "Messenger Ellen"|his dead wife]] in place of [[Caprica Six]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Escape Velocity]]"). This could be a simple hallucination or, as Tigh is a [[humanoid Cylon]], an example of [[projection]].
*When holding a two thousand year-old, mangled mailbox hatch from the lobby of the Tighs's apartment building, Saul sees a dying Ellen again in a vision from his and her prior incarnations on Earth. Ellen is depicted in the vision as fully aware of their future reincarnations and the cyclical nature of their existence, which she prophesises for past-Saul in the moment before they both die. ([[TRS]]: "[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]").
*In the fifth [[Razor Flashbacks|Razor Flashback]], while exploring the lab, [[William Adama]] has a hallucination of a hand reaching out to grab him from a device similar to a [[resurrection tank|resurrection]] or [[Hybrid]] tank. However this could be a stress-induced hallucination. The same may be the case for the screaming prisoners in the lab, which could also be explained as a visualization for the audience. However, the voice Adama hears of the [[First Hybrid]] is the same as the real voice, so this part at least is not a hallucination.
*Beginning in Season 3, Messenger Six appears less frequently, and makes only a few appearances in Season 4. A scene was filmed for "[[The Road Less Traveled]]" in which Messenger Six, stating that Baltar no longer needs her anymore, says goodbye to him and fades away; this scene was deleted (but included on the Season 4.0 DVD). Messenger Six reappeared in yet another deleted scene, this time for "Sometimes a Great Notion" (information is relegated to a [[:File:SixonEarth.jpg|promotional image]]), before returning but only in the extended version of "[[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]" and reappearing in "[[Deadlock]]", most likely rendering the deleted scene from "The Road Less Traveled" non-canonical as neither of the two aforementioned episodes make mention of her departure.
*In the podcast for "[[No Exit]]", Ronald Moore refers to the Final Five's Messenger beings as "the Messengers" and indicates that they are significant to the overall storyline.

== Official Statements ==
*When asked by a fan at a convention about the differences between Messenger Baltar and Gaius Baltar, actor [[James Callis]] described Messenger Baltar as a man who "finally has his shit together."<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNZZHl0Ls5U&mode=related&search=|title=James Callis (Gaius Baltar) Q&A FanExpo 2k6 - Part 3|date=September 04, 2006|accessdate=January 24, 2007|last=|first=|format=YouTube video|language=English}}</ref>. ('''Warning''': Video contains some explicit language)

* Callis mentioned at the same convention that his personal theory is that Messenger Six is a being from another universe or higher plane of existence who only Baltar can interact with. This may relate back to the "angel" theory postulated prior to "[[Daybreak, Part II]]."<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNZZHl0Ls5U&mode=related&search=|title=James Callis (Gaius Baltar) Q&A FanExpo 2k6 - Part 3|date=September 04, 2006|accessdate=January 24, 2007|last=|first=|format=YouTube video|language=English}} ('''Warning''': Video contains some explicit language.)</ref>

* Prior to the revelations of "Daybreak," actress [[Tricia Helfer]] said that she had long since given up on trying to figure out the nature of Messenger Six. <ref>{{cite_web|url=http://tv.ign.com/articles/756/756477p1.html|title=IGN Interview: Battlestar Galactica's Tricia Helfer|date=January 18, 2007|accessdate=January 24, 2007|last=|first=|format=|language=English}}</ref> She believes Caprica Six and Baltar both having internal counterparts is related to the scene from the [[Miniseries]] where she saves Baltar from the shock wave of the nuclear bomb that destroyed [[Caprica City]].

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Messengers

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Mokwella: /* Messenger Leoben */

[[image:Messenger Six and Messenger Baltar, "Daybreak, Part II".jpg|thumb|The messengers appearing as Six and Baltar aboard ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' together, as seen by [[Caprica Six]] and [[Gaius Baltar]] during the [[Battle of the Colony]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").]]

'''Messengers''' are the curious spectral apparitions seen by [[Gaius Baltar]] and [[Caprica Six]], as well as a few other characters. These beings were earlier referred to as "head characters", i.e. "Head Six" and "Head Baltar", by internal documentation and scripts. These messengers often present themselves as someone known very closely to the subject in question, and appear in the employ of a higher power who does not care to be referred to as "[[God (RDM)|God]]."

"[[Torn]]" establishes the [[humanoid Cylon]] visualization process known as [[projection]]. In the [[Miniseries]] and Season 1, before the term "projection" was introduced, the character of [[Gaius Baltar]] has frequent visions of an image of his Cylon love interest from Caprica, now known as [[Caprica Six]].

After her [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection]] from the Caprica mission, Caprica Six herself is haunted by a messenger appearing to her as Gaius Baltar ([[TRS]]: "[[Downloaded]]").

Neither character directly reveals the presence of these images to each other or any other character. The images appear to Six and Baltar together during the [[Battle of the Colony]], revealing the truth to the pair. Occasionally both Baltar and Caprica Six have been viewed reacting to their messengers, either by talking to themselves or by physical reaction, though this has generally been discounted as general "oddness". Baltar makes reference to seeing angels while speaking on the wireless as a cult leader, and when convincing [[John Cavil]] to stand down during the Battle of the Colony ([[TRS]]: "[[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]"; "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

The personality of each image is often represented in the clothing that they wear. Messenger Six often appears in a revealing red dress<ref>It should be noted that [[Caprica Six]] never appeared in this dress.</ref>, and the Messenger Baltar appears wearing [[Gaius Baltar]]'s custom-tailored, pinstripe suit ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]], "[[Downloaded]]").

Each messenger does not share the personality traits of the person they purport to represent. Messenger Six espouses Cylon philosophy and [[Cylon Religion|religion]] in a zealous, unwavering manner. Likewise, Messenger Baltar often criticizes Caprica Six when she attempts to rationalize the destruction of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] or other Cylon motivations. Both personalities tend to sway its actual opposite to side with their philosophy: For Messenger Baltar, the need to become more human (and, like the actual Baltar himself, selfish); for Messenger Six, worship of the Cylon [[God (RDM)|God]] and distancing Baltar from any opportunity to give support to the Colonial causes.

In the last days of the journey, these messengers are revealed to be agents of a higher power— "angels of [[God (RDM)|God]]," something previously claimed by Messenger Six to Gaius Baltar in both "[[Home, Part II]]" and "[[Torn]]"; writer [[Jane Espenson]] has stated that she personally believes they are "a far-advanced culture with an interest in humanity." This likens them to the [[Beings of Light]] from the [[Original Series]] mythology.<ref>"Question: Starbuck an Angel??? Really???" Espenson: "I'm going to answer re Starbuck and the "head" people, too. Well, here's how I always saw it. If someone from a far-advanced culture somewhere in the universe took an interest in humanity, isn't it possible that with their advanced tech that they could have abilities that would seem to us miraculous. Maybe we'd think of them as "Angels." Maybe they're the whole reason we have a myth of "Angels." But that's just me. The great thing about great novels (or the series) is that some things are left open to your own philosophical solutions." Galactica Sitrep, http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/blog/2009/03/chat_with_battl.html</ref> ([[TRS]]: "[[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]"; "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

==Messenger Six==
[[image:Tigh_Me_Up_Tigh_Me_Down-Baltar_Six.jpg|thumb|Messenger Six and Gaius Baltar in his lab aboard ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]").]]
Messenger Six first appears to [[Gaius Baltar]] as he escapes [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] on [[Sharon Valerii]]'s [[Raptor]] during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]] ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries, Night 1]]).

Baltar initially believes that Messenger Six is a hallucination in its first few weeks of appearances ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries, Night 1]], "[[33]]"), but later believes the Messenger's initial suggestion that she is generated from a Cylon cybernetic implant. He disproves this notion when Doctor [[Sherman Cottle]] performs a [[w:MRI|MRI]] scan, showing no abnormalities ([[TRS]]: "[[Home, Part II]]").

Messenger Six demonstrates awareness of events, people and places that Baltar does not appear to know consciously. She tells him of a [[Cylon transponder]] hidden in ''Galactica's'' [[CIC]] ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries, Night 2]]), and appears to aid him in his conversion from Colonial polytheism to Cylon monotheism through guiding him in how to destroy a Cylon [[tylium]] refinery ([[TRS]]: [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]). The source for Messenger Six's data is initially unclear, but is later assumed to be through an act of divinity.
[[Image:brainscan.jpg|left|thumb|Baltar receives his brain scan from Dr. [[Sherman Cottle]], as Messenger Six looks on in amusement.]]

Baltar's visions of Six not only have the Cylon appearing with him on ''[[Galactica]]'', but the two also envision themselves in Baltar's now-destroyed home, on the beach, and other locales. Messenger Six seems to be able to force Baltar to see additional items in his environment, such as the human skulls on [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], as well as visions of the interior of the ancient [[Opera House]] and an image of what Messenger Six believes to be a Cylon-human hybrid child. When an [[Hera Agathon|actual child]] does appear in the Fleet, the Messenger Six claims it is her vision fulfilled. Baltar is convinced by this that she cannot be a hallucination, but Cottle's scan appears to have ruled out the possibility that she is an implant. He asks her who or what she is, and she replies that she is an angel ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]", "[[Valley of Darkness]]", "[[Home, Part II]]").

Over time, Baltar is seen by some characters speaking to himself, which is often the case when he is speaking to Messenger Six. In several instances, Messenger Six appears to Baltar to be a physical entity, grabbing him by his clothes or body, or assisting him with objects ([[TRS: "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]", "[[Taking A Break From All Your Worries]]"). She has even demonstrated an ability to physically interact with Baltar. On one occasion, she pushed him into a bulkhead and grabbed him by the throat. In another example, she lifted him into a standing position after he was beaten by a Galactica marine ([[Escape Velocity]]). In both cases, this provoked reactions from other people. Further, she appears to satisfy Baltar's sexual urges, leading to awkward situations where he is seen masturbating ([[TRS]]: "[[Colonial Day]]").

[[image:KobolHallu.jpg|right|thumb|Messenger Six and Gaius Baltar on Kobol.]]
The Messenger Six has been present when Caprica Six is near only twice. She is also conspicuously absent during [[Shelly Godfrey]]'s tenure on ''Galactica'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]"). The Messenger Six seems to, for the most part, vanish during the period when Caprica Six and Baltar renew their relationship on New Caprica. When Baltar is aboard a Cylon basestar, Caprica Six explains the projection process to him while the Messenger Six hints that this process is very similar to how she and Baltar communicate and that Baltar may himself be a Cylon ([[TRS]]: "[[Torn]]"). Messenger Six also appears to Baltar, when he discovers Hera under Maya's dead body and disappears when Caprica Six comes near Baltar and the baby ([[TRS]]: "[[Exodus, Part II]]").

Messenger Six has a [[Music of Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|musical theme]], a simple 9-note motif with a staccato xylophone and some violins, which plays behind almost all her appearances. This theme also plays without Six present in "[[Rapture]]" after [[D'Anna Biers]] collapses in Baltar's arms after her vision of the [[Final Five]], until Baltar is pistol-whipped by [[Galen Tyrol]].

From the end of Season 2 on, Messenger Six claims more often to be an angel from [[God (RDM)|God]].

Ultimately, Messenger Six is revealed to be a very real being -- not a projection of something inside Baltar's mind -- sent by another being that may be [[God (RDM)|God]]. Both her and Messenger Baltar appear to both Caprica Six and Baltar during the [[Battle of The Colony]]; Baltar and Caprica Six are each shocked that the other can see them. On Earth, Messenger Six, along with Messenger Baltar, reveals to Caprica and Baltar that their destiny had always been to protect Hera, who was the future of both races. They leave, saying that while God's plan is never finished, the two mortals' lives will be much less "exciting" from now on.

One-hundred fifty thousand years later, Messenger Six is with Messenger Baltar in New York City, looking over the shoulder of a man reading a ''[[National Geographic]]'' magazine article about the remains of Mitochondrial Eve -- the current population's latest common evolutionary ancestor, Hera Agathon. The two discuss how all of this has happened before, and whether all of this will happen again. Messenger Six believes things will go differently this time. Messenger Baltar chides her when she refers to God, saying, "You know it doesn't like that name." The two then walk off into the teeming crowds of New York City ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

==Messenger Baltar==
[[image:LBlt.jpg|thumb|left|Turnabout is fair play: Messenger Baltar appears to [[Caprica Six]], but not to [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|Number Three]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Downloaded]]").]]

When a '''messenger with Gaius Baltar's visage''' appears to Caprica Six, the notion that the actual Gaius Baltar was part of a Cylon plan to manipulate him via Messenger Six is revealed to be highly unlikely, as other Cylons are unaware of him and do not mention the plan or its effects to Caprica Six ([[TRS]]: "[[Downloaded]]").

The Messenger Baltar's appearance and demeanor is just as much an extreme opposite of the actual Baltar as the Messenger Six's behavior is to Caprica Six.

At her resurrection, Messenger Baltar immediately tells Caprica Six that only she can see and hear him, and not to reveal what she sees to the other Cylons present; she never asks about his origins.

Messenger Baltar confronts Caprica Six with her guilt in the slaughter of billions of human beings, and with the logical error behind the Cylons's actions. Under Messenger Baltar's influence, Caprica Six speaks out against the war alongside another resurrected "[[hero of the Cylon]]", [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]]. The two forge a new [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|quasi-benevolent path]], [[Exodus, Part II|albeit temporarily]], for the Cylon race.

Messenger Baltar appears irregularly in seasons 2 and 3. After Caprica Six surrenders herself to the Colonials (having assisted [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon "Athena" Agathon]] in her rescue of [[Hera Agathon|Hera]]), [[Laura Roslin]] and [[Tory Foster]] observe Caprica Six speaking to and kissing Messenger Baltar—who is invisible to Roslin and Foster ([[TRS]]: "[[The Woman King]]").

While Messenger Six claims to be an angel sent from God, Messenger Baltar is contemptuous of the Cylons' concept of God ([[TRS]]: "[[Downloaded]]"). He is also described by [[Ronald D. Moore|Ron Moore]] as more of a "devil" figure in Six's consciousness<ref>{{cite_rdm_podcast|episode=Downloaded|act=Three|id=|timestamp=|totalrunning=}}</ref>.

While Messenger Baltar acts mostly as a conversational foil for Six, in "[[Crossroads, Part I]]" he informs her that [[Saul Tigh]] has suffered the loss of [[Ellen Tigh|a woman]] close to him, to assist Six in dealing with Tigh's interrogation ([[TRS]]: "[[Crossroads, Part I]]").

[[Image:Baltar and Head Baltar, "Six of One".jpg|thumb|right|Baltar encounters his Messenger double.]]
After his ascension to [[Cult of Baltar|cult]] leader, Gaius Baltar encounters his Messenger doppelgänger after running into [[Tory Foster]] at the civilian's mess hall. Baltar is initially shocked by Messenger Baltar's sudden appearance, voicing his belief that it is [[Messenger Six]] appearing to him as a doppelgänger version of himself, but the Messenger points out that she would have no need to disguise herself from him; Baltar becomes amused by the idea of having himself as a conversational foil for once instead of Six. This Messenger Baltar encourages him to engage in a relationship with Foster, claiming that she is "[[Final Five|special]]," and guides him, after a fashion, through her covert interrogation attempt. This Messenger Baltar does not elaborate on that point, but Gaius Baltar follows the Messenger's lead ([[TRS]]: "[[Six of One]]").

Prior to the conclusion of the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]]'s journey to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], Messenger Baltar and Messenger Six appear together, and both Caprica Six and Baltar can see them, and are each shocked that the other can. He and Messenger Six are representatives of the being that some call [[God (RDM)|God]], who Baltar describes to Cavil as a force of nature that is neither good nor evil. Messenger Baltar and Messenger Six make one last visit to Caprica Six and Baltar to tell them that their role had always been to protect Hera, and now that this has been fulfilled, the two Messengers leave them alone. Messenger Six explains that God's plan is never over, but Messenger Baltar tells the couple that their lives will be much less exciting.

The two Messengers visit Earth 150,000 years later in New York City discussing humanity finding its most recent common ancestor, the human-Cylon hybrid [[Hera Agathon]]. The two discuss the cycle of life, and Messenger Baltar chides Messenger Six for calling the being they work for "God," as it apparently does not like being called that. Messenger Baltar has the series' last line, which is a response to Messenger Six's stern look: "silly me... silly, silly me." The two then walk off together into present-day New York City ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

== [[Messenger Leoben]] ==

Image of Leoben that appears to [[Kara Thrace]] but never claims to be a Cylon.

For further information, please see [[Messenger Leoben]] entry.

== Messenger Elosha ==

[[Laura Roslin]] converses with a being in the form of Priestess [[Elosha]] during what should be zero-time jump sequences on the way to the [[Resurrection Hub]]. This Messenger being is unlike the others, in that not only do they interact outside the realm of others, it takes place during a time interval that should not exist. The being seems to have some knowledge of the future events, such as Roslin's death and the fact that [[William Adama]] waits for her, suggesting both reality for the being and the out-of-time conversations. Unlike [[Kara Thrace]]'s Messenger Leoben, the experience is difficult to explain with unconscious dreaming or hallucination ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hub]]").

== The Final Five's Messengers ==

After recovering his memories of [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] due to trauma resulting from his being shot in the head, [[Samuel Anders]] reports that the [[Final Five]] were originally warned of impending nuclear destruction of Earth two thousand years earlier by images of people no one else could see. This information was the impetus for their recreation of [[Resurrection (RDM)|Cylon Resurrection]] and the preparing of the ship on which they escaped following the disaster. The one that appeared to Anders looked like a woman, the one that appeared to [[Tory Foster]] looked like a man. Much like Gaius Baltar, [[Galen Tyrol]] thought he might have a neural chip ([[TRS]]: "[[No Exit]]").

== Slick ==
[[Kara Thrace]] encounters a vision of her father<ref>[[Podcast:Someone to Watch Over Me]]</ref> going by the name of "Slick". She initially fails to recognize him as [[Dreilide Thrace|her father]]. As she spends time with him, she recalls playing the piano with her father. She assists him in composing a song and compares him to her father. While she plays the piano with him, she recalls playing the piano with her father as a child. She recalls a certain song, and notices that the score resembles one of [[Hera Agathon]]'s drawing. As she plays the song with him, [[Saul Tigh]] and [[Tory Foster]] recognize the song as [[The Music|the same song they heard at the Ionian Nebula]]. When Tigh grabs her and asks her about the song, Slick vanishes ([[TRS]]: "[[Someone to Watch Over Me]]").

== Messenger Zoe ==

A Messenger appeared to [[Zoe Graystone]] decades before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies in the form of Zoe herself. The Messenger's first act was to save Zoe from a fire which burned down the Graystones' prior residence, when Zoe was a little girl. She then continued to appear to Zoe, who considered her a friend, periodically. Messenger Zoe had the form of teenage Zoe before Zoe herself entered adolescence. On one occasion, when Zoe was a teenager and now identical to her Messenger counterpart, Messenger Zoe encouraged her to outdo her father [[Daniel Graystone]] by creating life with her computer skills, after they noticed that Daniel had "stolen" the design for the [[U-87 Cyber Combat Unit]] from drawings made by Zoe. This suggestion led to the creation of [[Zoe-A]], Zoe's [[holographic avatar]] duplicate ([[CAP]]: "[[Things We Lock Away]]").

Messenger Zoe later appears to Zoe-A when the latter is engaged in combat with [[Tamara-A]] and several users in [[New Cap City]] who blame her for the destruction of [[Maglev 23]]. She encourages Zoe-A to be her own person and not accept the blame for Zoe's sins. This leads to Zoe-A convincing Tamara-A to form an alliance ([[CAP]]: "[[Things We Lock Away]]").

An unidentified Zoe sits smiling among Sister [[Clarice Willow]]'s otherwise entirely Cylon congregation of monotheists in the flash-forward montage at the end of "[[Apotheosis (episode)|Apotheosis]]". The scene precedes Zoe-A's resurrection into the first [[Humanoid Cylon|skinjob]] body, yet is years after [[Zoe Graystone|original Zoe]]'s death and Zoe-A's denouncement of Willow.

==Notes==
* In the cases of Elosha and Slick, it is unclear whether the phantom images represent the consciousnesses of the deceased or are simply other beings in their forms.
*The [[Messenger Leoben|Messenger "Leoben"]] that appears to [[Kara Thrace]] in the episode "[[Maelstrom]]" only appears to her in a vision while the pilot is unconscious. Since this Messenger Leoben does not fit the Baltar-Six analogue, Battlestar Wiki considers him separately to the above.
*[[William Adama]] sees and converses with his [[Carolanne Adama|deceased ex-wife]] each year on their anniversary as demonstrated in "[[A Day in the Life]]". While the episode where this occurs shows William and Carolanne together in places and settings (ostensibly at their home on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]), this is a dramatic representation of Adama's ordinary imagination of what Carolanne may have thought about his predicament. As such, the visualizations of Carolanne Adama are ''not'' a messenger or other spectral apparition.
*[[Saul Tigh]] sees [[Ellen Tigh#Saul's "Messenger Ellen"|his dead wife]] in place of [[Caprica Six]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Escape Velocity]]"). This could be a simple hallucination or, as Tigh is a [[humanoid Cylon]], an example of [[projection]].
*When holding a two thousand year-old, mangled mailbox hatch from the lobby of the Tighs's apartment building, Saul sees a dying Ellen again in a vision from his and her prior incarnations on Earth. Ellen is depicted in the vision as fully aware of their future reincarnations and the cyclical nature of their existence, which she prophesises for past-Saul in the moment before they both die. ([[TRS]]: "[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]").
*In the fifth [[Razor Flashbacks|Razor Flashback]], while exploring the lab, [[William Adama]] has a hallucination of a hand reaching out to grab him from a device similar to a [[resurrection tank|resurrection]] or [[Hybrid]] tank. However this could be a stress-induced hallucination. The same may be the case for the screaming prisoners in the lab, which could also be explained as a visualization for the audience. However, the voice Adama hears of the [[First Hybrid]] is the same as the real voice, so this part at least is not a hallucination.
*Beginning in Season 3, Messenger Six appears less frequently, and makes only a few appearances in Season 4. A scene was filmed for "[[The Road Less Traveled]]" in which Messenger Six, stating that Baltar no longer needs her anymore, says goodbye to him and fades away; this scene was deleted (but included on the Season 4.0 DVD). Messenger Six reappeared in yet another deleted scene, this time for "Sometimes a Great Notion" (information is relegated to a [[:File:SixonEarth.jpg|promotional image]]), before returning but only in the extended version of "[[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]" and reappearing in "[[Deadlock]]", most likely rendering the deleted scene from "The Road Less Traveled" non-canonical as neither of the two aforementioned episodes make mention of her departure.
*In the podcast for "[[No Exit]]", Ronald Moore refers to the Final Five's Messenger beings as "the Messengers" and indicates that they are significant to the overall storyline.

== Official Statements ==
*When asked by a fan at a convention about the differences between Messenger Baltar and Gaius Baltar, actor [[James Callis]] described Messenger Baltar as a man who "finally has his shit together."<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNZZHl0Ls5U&mode=related&search=|title=James Callis (Gaius Baltar) Q&A FanExpo 2k6 - Part 3|date=September 04, 2006|accessdate=January 24, 2007|last=|first=|format=YouTube video|language=English}}</ref>. ('''Warning''': Video contains some explicit language)

* Callis mentioned at the same convention that his personal theory is that Messenger Six is a being from another universe or higher plane of existence who only Baltar can interact with. This may relate back to the "angel" theory postulated prior to "[[Daybreak, Part II]]."<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNZZHl0Ls5U&mode=related&search=|title=James Callis (Gaius Baltar) Q&A FanExpo 2k6 - Part 3|date=September 04, 2006|accessdate=January 24, 2007|last=|first=|format=YouTube video|language=English}} ('''Warning''': Video contains some explicit language.)</ref>

* Prior to the revelations of "Daybreak," actress [[Tricia Helfer]] said that she had long since given up on trying to figure out the nature of Messenger Six. <ref>{{cite_web|url=http://tv.ign.com/articles/756/756477p1.html|title=IGN Interview: Battlestar Galactica's Tricia Helfer|date=January 18, 2007|accessdate=January 24, 2007|last=|first=|format=|language=English}}</ref> She believes Caprica Six and Baltar both having internal counterparts is related to the scene from the [[Miniseries]] where she saves Baltar from the shock wave of the nuclear bomb that destroyed [[Caprica City]].

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Messengers

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Mokwella: /* Messenger Leoben */

[[image:Messenger Six and Messenger Baltar, "Daybreak, Part II".jpg|thumb|The messengers appearing as Six and Baltar aboard ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' together, as seen by [[Caprica Six]] and [[Gaius Baltar]] during the [[Battle of the Colony]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").]]

'''Messengers''' are the curious spectral apparitions seen by [[Gaius Baltar]] and [[Caprica Six]], as well as a few other characters. These beings were earlier referred to as "head characters", i.e. "Head Six" and "Head Baltar", by internal documentation and scripts. These messengers often present themselves as someone known very closely to the subject in question, and appear in the employ of a higher power who does not care to be referred to as "[[God (RDM)|God]]."

"[[Torn]]" establishes the [[humanoid Cylon]] visualization process known as [[projection]]. In the [[Miniseries]] and Season 1, before the term "projection" was introduced, the character of [[Gaius Baltar]] has frequent visions of an image of his Cylon love interest from Caprica, now known as [[Caprica Six]].

After her [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection]] from the Caprica mission, Caprica Six herself is haunted by a messenger appearing to her as Gaius Baltar ([[TRS]]: "[[Downloaded]]").

Neither character directly reveals the presence of these images to each other or any other character. The images appear to Six and Baltar together during the [[Battle of the Colony]], revealing the truth to the pair. Occasionally both Baltar and Caprica Six have been viewed reacting to their messengers, either by talking to themselves or by physical reaction, though this has generally been discounted as general "oddness". Baltar makes reference to seeing angels while speaking on the wireless as a cult leader, and when convincing [[John Cavil]] to stand down during the Battle of the Colony ([[TRS]]: "[[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]"; "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

The personality of each image is often represented in the clothing that they wear. Messenger Six often appears in a revealing red dress<ref>It should be noted that [[Caprica Six]] never appeared in this dress.</ref>, and the Messenger Baltar appears wearing [[Gaius Baltar]]'s custom-tailored, pinstripe suit ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]], "[[Downloaded]]").

Each messenger does not share the personality traits of the person they purport to represent. Messenger Six espouses Cylon philosophy and [[Cylon Religion|religion]] in a zealous, unwavering manner. Likewise, Messenger Baltar often criticizes Caprica Six when she attempts to rationalize the destruction of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] or other Cylon motivations. Both personalities tend to sway its actual opposite to side with their philosophy: For Messenger Baltar, the need to become more human (and, like the actual Baltar himself, selfish); for Messenger Six, worship of the Cylon [[God (RDM)|God]] and distancing Baltar from any opportunity to give support to the Colonial causes.

In the last days of the journey, these messengers are revealed to be agents of a higher power— "angels of [[God (RDM)|God]]," something previously claimed by Messenger Six to Gaius Baltar in both "[[Home, Part II]]" and "[[Torn]]"; writer [[Jane Espenson]] has stated that she personally believes they are "a far-advanced culture with an interest in humanity." This likens them to the [[Beings of Light]] from the [[Original Series]] mythology.<ref>"Question: Starbuck an Angel??? Really???" Espenson: "I'm going to answer re Starbuck and the "head" people, too. Well, here's how I always saw it. If someone from a far-advanced culture somewhere in the universe took an interest in humanity, isn't it possible that with their advanced tech that they could have abilities that would seem to us miraculous. Maybe we'd think of them as "Angels." Maybe they're the whole reason we have a myth of "Angels." But that's just me. The great thing about great novels (or the series) is that some things are left open to your own philosophical solutions." Galactica Sitrep, http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/blog/2009/03/chat_with_battl.html</ref> ([[TRS]]: "[[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]"; "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

==Messenger Six==
[[image:Tigh_Me_Up_Tigh_Me_Down-Baltar_Six.jpg|thumb|Messenger Six and Gaius Baltar in his lab aboard ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]").]]
Messenger Six first appears to [[Gaius Baltar]] as he escapes [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] on [[Sharon Valerii]]'s [[Raptor]] during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]] ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries, Night 1]]).

Baltar initially believes that Messenger Six is a hallucination in its first few weeks of appearances ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries, Night 1]], "[[33]]"), but later believes the Messenger's initial suggestion that she is generated from a Cylon cybernetic implant. He disproves this notion when Doctor [[Sherman Cottle]] performs a [[w:MRI|MRI]] scan, showing no abnormalities ([[TRS]]: "[[Home, Part II]]").

Messenger Six demonstrates awareness of events, people and places that Baltar does not appear to know consciously. She tells him of a [[Cylon transponder]] hidden in ''Galactica's'' [[CIC]] ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries, Night 2]]), and appears to aid him in his conversion from Colonial polytheism to Cylon monotheism through guiding him in how to destroy a Cylon [[tylium]] refinery ([[TRS]]: [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]). The source for Messenger Six's data is initially unclear, but is later assumed to be through an act of divinity.
[[Image:brainscan.jpg|left|thumb|Baltar receives his brain scan from Dr. [[Sherman Cottle]], as Messenger Six looks on in amusement.]]

Baltar's visions of Six not only have the Cylon appearing with him on ''[[Galactica]]'', but the two also envision themselves in Baltar's now-destroyed home, on the beach, and other locales. Messenger Six seems to be able to force Baltar to see additional items in his environment, such as the human skulls on [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], as well as visions of the interior of the ancient [[Opera House]] and an image of what Messenger Six believes to be a Cylon-human hybrid child. When an [[Hera Agathon|actual child]] does appear in the Fleet, the Messenger Six claims it is her vision fulfilled. Baltar is convinced by this that she cannot be a hallucination, but Cottle's scan appears to have ruled out the possibility that she is an implant. He asks her who or what she is, and she replies that she is an angel ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]", "[[Valley of Darkness]]", "[[Home, Part II]]").

Over time, Baltar is seen by some characters speaking to himself, which is often the case when he is speaking to Messenger Six. In several instances, Messenger Six appears to Baltar to be a physical entity, grabbing him by his clothes or body, or assisting him with objects ([[TRS: "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]", "[[Taking A Break From All Your Worries]]"). She has even demonstrated an ability to physically interact with Baltar. On one occasion, she pushed him into a bulkhead and grabbed him by the throat. In another example, she lifted him into a standing position after he was beaten by a Galactica marine ([[Escape Velocity]]). In both cases, this provoked reactions from other people. Further, she appears to satisfy Baltar's sexual urges, leading to awkward situations where he is seen masturbating ([[TRS]]: "[[Colonial Day]]").

[[image:KobolHallu.jpg|right|thumb|Messenger Six and Gaius Baltar on Kobol.]]
The Messenger Six has been present when Caprica Six is near only twice. She is also conspicuously absent during [[Shelly Godfrey]]'s tenure on ''Galactica'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]"). The Messenger Six seems to, for the most part, vanish during the period when Caprica Six and Baltar renew their relationship on New Caprica. When Baltar is aboard a Cylon basestar, Caprica Six explains the projection process to him while the Messenger Six hints that this process is very similar to how she and Baltar communicate and that Baltar may himself be a Cylon ([[TRS]]: "[[Torn]]"). Messenger Six also appears to Baltar, when he discovers Hera under Maya's dead body and disappears when Caprica Six comes near Baltar and the baby ([[TRS]]: "[[Exodus, Part II]]").

Messenger Six has a [[Music of Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|musical theme]], a simple 9-note motif with a staccato xylophone and some violins, which plays behind almost all her appearances. This theme also plays without Six present in "[[Rapture]]" after [[D'Anna Biers]] collapses in Baltar's arms after her vision of the [[Final Five]], until Baltar is pistol-whipped by [[Galen Tyrol]].

From the end of Season 2 on, Messenger Six claims more often to be an angel from [[God (RDM)|God]].

Ultimately, Messenger Six is revealed to be a very real being -- not a projection of something inside Baltar's mind -- sent by another being that may be [[God (RDM)|God]]. Both her and Messenger Baltar appear to both Caprica Six and Baltar during the [[Battle of The Colony]]; Baltar and Caprica Six are each shocked that the other can see them. On Earth, Messenger Six, along with Messenger Baltar, reveals to Caprica and Baltar that their destiny had always been to protect Hera, who was the future of both races. They leave, saying that while God's plan is never finished, the two mortals' lives will be much less "exciting" from now on.

One-hundred fifty thousand years later, Messenger Six is with Messenger Baltar in New York City, looking over the shoulder of a man reading a ''[[National Geographic]]'' magazine article about the remains of Mitochondrial Eve -- the current population's latest common evolutionary ancestor, Hera Agathon. The two discuss how all of this has happened before, and whether all of this will happen again. Messenger Six believes things will go differently this time. Messenger Baltar chides her when she refers to God, saying, "You know it doesn't like that name." The two then walk off into the teeming crowds of New York City ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

==Messenger Baltar==
[[image:LBlt.jpg|thumb|left|Turnabout is fair play: Messenger Baltar appears to [[Caprica Six]], but not to [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|Number Three]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Downloaded]]").]]

When a '''messenger with Gaius Baltar's visage''' appears to Caprica Six, the notion that the actual Gaius Baltar was part of a Cylon plan to manipulate him via Messenger Six is revealed to be highly unlikely, as other Cylons are unaware of him and do not mention the plan or its effects to Caprica Six ([[TRS]]: "[[Downloaded]]").

The Messenger Baltar's appearance and demeanor is just as much an extreme opposite of the actual Baltar as the Messenger Six's behavior is to Caprica Six.

At her resurrection, Messenger Baltar immediately tells Caprica Six that only she can see and hear him, and not to reveal what she sees to the other Cylons present; she never asks about his origins.

Messenger Baltar confronts Caprica Six with her guilt in the slaughter of billions of human beings, and with the logical error behind the Cylons's actions. Under Messenger Baltar's influence, Caprica Six speaks out against the war alongside another resurrected "[[hero of the Cylon]]", [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]]. The two forge a new [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|quasi-benevolent path]], [[Exodus, Part II|albeit temporarily]], for the Cylon race.

Messenger Baltar appears irregularly in seasons 2 and 3. After Caprica Six surrenders herself to the Colonials (having assisted [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon "Athena" Agathon]] in her rescue of [[Hera Agathon|Hera]]), [[Laura Roslin]] and [[Tory Foster]] observe Caprica Six speaking to and kissing Messenger Baltar—who is invisible to Roslin and Foster ([[TRS]]: "[[The Woman King]]").

While Messenger Six claims to be an angel sent from God, Messenger Baltar is contemptuous of the Cylons' concept of God ([[TRS]]: "[[Downloaded]]"). He is also described by [[Ronald D. Moore|Ron Moore]] as more of a "devil" figure in Six's consciousness<ref>{{cite_rdm_podcast|episode=Downloaded|act=Three|id=|timestamp=|totalrunning=}}</ref>.

While Messenger Baltar acts mostly as a conversational foil for Six, in "[[Crossroads, Part I]]" he informs her that [[Saul Tigh]] has suffered the loss of [[Ellen Tigh|a woman]] close to him, to assist Six in dealing with Tigh's interrogation ([[TRS]]: "[[Crossroads, Part I]]").

[[Image:Baltar and Head Baltar, "Six of One".jpg|thumb|right|Baltar encounters his Messenger double.]]
After his ascension to [[Cult of Baltar|cult]] leader, Gaius Baltar encounters his Messenger doppelgänger after running into [[Tory Foster]] at the civilian's mess hall. Baltar is initially shocked by Messenger Baltar's sudden appearance, voicing his belief that it is [[Messenger Six]] appearing to him as a doppelgänger version of himself, but the Messenger points out that she would have no need to disguise herself from him; Baltar becomes amused by the idea of having himself as a conversational foil for once instead of Six. This Messenger Baltar encourages him to engage in a relationship with Foster, claiming that she is "[[Final Five|special]]," and guides him, after a fashion, through her covert interrogation attempt. This Messenger Baltar does not elaborate on that point, but Gaius Baltar follows the Messenger's lead ([[TRS]]: "[[Six of One]]").

Prior to the conclusion of the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]]'s journey to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], Messenger Baltar and Messenger Six appear together, and both Caprica Six and Baltar can see them, and are each shocked that the other can. He and Messenger Six are representatives of the being that some call [[God (RDM)|God]], who Baltar describes to Cavil as a force of nature that is neither good nor evil. Messenger Baltar and Messenger Six make one last visit to Caprica Six and Baltar to tell them that their role had always been to protect Hera, and now that this has been fulfilled, the two Messengers leave them alone. Messenger Six explains that God's plan is never over, but Messenger Baltar tells the couple that their lives will be much less exciting.

The two Messengers visit Earth 150,000 years later in New York City discussing humanity finding its most recent common ancestor, the human-Cylon hybrid [[Hera Agathon]]. The two discuss the cycle of life, and Messenger Baltar chides Messenger Six for calling the being they work for "God," as it apparently does not like being called that. Messenger Baltar has the series' last line, which is a response to Messenger Six's stern look: "silly me... silly, silly me." The two then walk off together into present-day New York City ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

== [[Messenger Leoben]] ==

Image of Leoben that appears to [[Kara Thrace]] but never claims to be a Cylon. Please see [[Messenger Leoben]] entry.

== Messenger Elosha ==

[[Laura Roslin]] converses with a being in the form of Priestess [[Elosha]] during what should be zero-time jump sequences on the way to the [[Resurrection Hub]]. This Messenger being is unlike the others, in that not only do they interact outside the realm of others, it takes place during a time interval that should not exist. The being seems to have some knowledge of the future events, such as Roslin's death and the fact that [[William Adama]] waits for her, suggesting both reality for the being and the out-of-time conversations. Unlike [[Kara Thrace]]'s Messenger Leoben, the experience is difficult to explain with unconscious dreaming or hallucination ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hub]]").

== The Final Five's Messengers ==

After recovering his memories of [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] due to trauma resulting from his being shot in the head, [[Samuel Anders]] reports that the [[Final Five]] were originally warned of impending nuclear destruction of Earth two thousand years earlier by images of people no one else could see. This information was the impetus for their recreation of [[Resurrection (RDM)|Cylon Resurrection]] and the preparing of the ship on which they escaped following the disaster. The one that appeared to Anders looked like a woman, the one that appeared to [[Tory Foster]] looked like a man. Much like Gaius Baltar, [[Galen Tyrol]] thought he might have a neural chip ([[TRS]]: "[[No Exit]]").

== Slick ==
[[Kara Thrace]] encounters a vision of her father<ref>[[Podcast:Someone to Watch Over Me]]</ref> going by the name of "Slick". She initially fails to recognize him as [[Dreilide Thrace|her father]]. As she spends time with him, she recalls playing the piano with her father. She assists him in composing a song and compares him to her father. While she plays the piano with him, she recalls playing the piano with her father as a child. She recalls a certain song, and notices that the score resembles one of [[Hera Agathon]]'s drawing. As she plays the song with him, [[Saul Tigh]] and [[Tory Foster]] recognize the song as [[The Music|the same song they heard at the Ionian Nebula]]. When Tigh grabs her and asks her about the song, Slick vanishes ([[TRS]]: "[[Someone to Watch Over Me]]").

== Messenger Zoe ==

A Messenger appeared to [[Zoe Graystone]] decades before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies in the form of Zoe herself. The Messenger's first act was to save Zoe from a fire which burned down the Graystones' prior residence, when Zoe was a little girl. She then continued to appear to Zoe, who considered her a friend, periodically. Messenger Zoe had the form of teenage Zoe before Zoe herself entered adolescence. On one occasion, when Zoe was a teenager and now identical to her Messenger counterpart, Messenger Zoe encouraged her to outdo her father [[Daniel Graystone]] by creating life with her computer skills, after they noticed that Daniel had "stolen" the design for the [[U-87 Cyber Combat Unit]] from drawings made by Zoe. This suggestion led to the creation of [[Zoe-A]], Zoe's [[holographic avatar]] duplicate ([[CAP]]: "[[Things We Lock Away]]").

Messenger Zoe later appears to Zoe-A when the latter is engaged in combat with [[Tamara-A]] and several users in [[New Cap City]] who blame her for the destruction of [[Maglev 23]]. She encourages Zoe-A to be her own person and not accept the blame for Zoe's sins. This leads to Zoe-A convincing Tamara-A to form an alliance ([[CAP]]: "[[Things We Lock Away]]").

An unidentified Zoe sits smiling among Sister [[Clarice Willow]]'s otherwise entirely Cylon congregation of monotheists in the flash-forward montage at the end of "[[Apotheosis (episode)|Apotheosis]]". The scene precedes Zoe-A's resurrection into the first [[Humanoid Cylon|skinjob]] body, yet is years after [[Zoe Graystone|original Zoe]]'s death and Zoe-A's denouncement of Willow.

==Notes==
* In the cases of Elosha and Slick, it is unclear whether the phantom images represent the consciousnesses of the deceased or are simply other beings in their forms.
*The [[Messenger Leoben|Messenger "Leoben"]] that appears to [[Kara Thrace]] in the episode "[[Maelstrom]]" only appears to her in a vision while the pilot is unconscious. Since this Messenger Leoben does not fit the Baltar-Six analogue, Battlestar Wiki considers him separately to the above.
*[[William Adama]] sees and converses with his [[Carolanne Adama|deceased ex-wife]] each year on their anniversary as demonstrated in "[[A Day in the Life]]". While the episode where this occurs shows William and Carolanne together in places and settings (ostensibly at their home on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]), this is a dramatic representation of Adama's ordinary imagination of what Carolanne may have thought about his predicament. As such, the visualizations of Carolanne Adama are ''not'' a messenger or other spectral apparition.
*[[Saul Tigh]] sees [[Ellen Tigh#Saul's "Messenger Ellen"|his dead wife]] in place of [[Caprica Six]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Escape Velocity]]"). This could be a simple hallucination or, as Tigh is a [[humanoid Cylon]], an example of [[projection]].
*When holding a two thousand year-old, mangled mailbox hatch from the lobby of the Tighs's apartment building, Saul sees a dying Ellen again in a vision from his and her prior incarnations on Earth. Ellen is depicted in the vision as fully aware of their future reincarnations and the cyclical nature of their existence, which she prophesises for past-Saul in the moment before they both die. ([[TRS]]: "[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]").
*In the fifth [[Razor Flashbacks|Razor Flashback]], while exploring the lab, [[William Adama]] has a hallucination of a hand reaching out to grab him from a device similar to a [[resurrection tank|resurrection]] or [[Hybrid]] tank. However this could be a stress-induced hallucination. The same may be the case for the screaming prisoners in the lab, which could also be explained as a visualization for the audience. However, the voice Adama hears of the [[First Hybrid]] is the same as the real voice, so this part at least is not a hallucination.
*Beginning in Season 3, Messenger Six appears less frequently, and makes only a few appearances in Season 4. A scene was filmed for "[[The Road Less Traveled]]" in which Messenger Six, stating that Baltar no longer needs her anymore, says goodbye to him and fades away; this scene was deleted (but included on the Season 4.0 DVD). Messenger Six reappeared in yet another deleted scene, this time for "Sometimes a Great Notion" (information is relegated to a [[:File:SixonEarth.jpg|promotional image]]), before returning but only in the extended version of "[[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]" and reappearing in "[[Deadlock]]", most likely rendering the deleted scene from "The Road Less Traveled" non-canonical as neither of the two aforementioned episodes make mention of her departure.
*In the podcast for "[[No Exit]]", Ronald Moore refers to the Final Five's Messenger beings as "the Messengers" and indicates that they are significant to the overall storyline.

== Official Statements ==
*When asked by a fan at a convention about the differences between Messenger Baltar and Gaius Baltar, actor [[James Callis]] described Messenger Baltar as a man who "finally has his shit together."<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNZZHl0Ls5U&mode=related&search=|title=James Callis (Gaius Baltar) Q&A FanExpo 2k6 - Part 3|date=September 04, 2006|accessdate=January 24, 2007|last=|first=|format=YouTube video|language=English}}</ref>. ('''Warning''': Video contains some explicit language)

* Callis mentioned at the same convention that his personal theory is that Messenger Six is a being from another universe or higher plane of existence who only Baltar can interact with. This may relate back to the "angel" theory postulated prior to "[[Daybreak, Part II]]."<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNZZHl0Ls5U&mode=related&search=|title=James Callis (Gaius Baltar) Q&A FanExpo 2k6 - Part 3|date=September 04, 2006|accessdate=January 24, 2007|last=|first=|format=YouTube video|language=English}} ('''Warning''': Video contains some explicit language.)</ref>

* Prior to the revelations of "Daybreak," actress [[Tricia Helfer]] said that she had long since given up on trying to figure out the nature of Messenger Six. <ref>{{cite_web|url=http://tv.ign.com/articles/756/756477p1.html|title=IGN Interview: Battlestar Galactica's Tricia Helfer|date=January 18, 2007|accessdate=January 24, 2007|last=|first=|format=|language=English}}</ref> She believes Caprica Six and Baltar both having internal counterparts is related to the scene from the [[Miniseries]] where she saves Baltar from the shock wave of the nuclear bomb that destroyed [[Caprica City]].

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[[image:Messenger Six and Messenger Baltar, "Daybreak, Part II".jpg|thumb|The messengers appearing as Six and Baltar aboard ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' together, as seen by [[Caprica Six]] and [[Gaius Baltar]] during the [[Battle of the Colony]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").]]

'''Messengers''' are the curious spectral apparitions seen by [[Gaius Baltar]] and [[Caprica Six]], as well as a few other characters. These beings were earlier referred to as "head characters", i.e. "Head Six" and "Head Baltar", by internal documentation and scripts. These messengers often present themselves as someone known very closely to the subject in question, and appear in the employ of a higher power who does not care to be referred to as "[[God (RDM)|God]]."

"[[Torn]]" establishes the [[humanoid Cylon]] visualization process known as [[projection]]. In the [[Miniseries]] and Season 1, before the term "projection" was introduced, the character of [[Gaius Baltar]] has frequent visions of an image of his Cylon love interest from Caprica, now known as [[Caprica Six]].

After her [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection]] from the Caprica mission, Caprica Six herself is haunted by a messenger appearing to her as Gaius Baltar ([[TRS]]: "[[Downloaded]]").

Neither character directly reveals the presence of these images to each other or any other character. The images appear to Six and Baltar together during the [[Battle of the Colony]], revealing the truth to the pair. Occasionally both Baltar and Caprica Six have been viewed reacting to their messengers, either by talking to themselves or by physical reaction, though this has generally been discounted as general "oddness". Baltar makes reference to seeing angels while speaking on the wireless as a cult leader, and when convincing [[John Cavil]] to stand down during the Battle of the Colony ([[TRS]]: "[[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]"; "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

The personality of each image is often represented in the clothing that they wear. Messenger Six often appears in a revealing red dress<ref>It should be noted that [[Caprica Six]] never appeared in this dress.</ref>, and the Messenger Baltar appears wearing [[Gaius Baltar]]'s custom-tailored, pinstripe suit ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]], "[[Downloaded]]").

Each messenger does not share the personality traits of the person they purport to represent. Messenger Six espouses Cylon philosophy and [[Cylon Religion|religion]] in a zealous, unwavering manner. Likewise, Messenger Baltar often criticizes Caprica Six when she attempts to rationalize the destruction of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] or other Cylon motivations. Both personalities tend to sway its actual opposite to side with their philosophy: For Messenger Baltar, the need to become more human (and, like the actual Baltar himself, selfish); for Messenger Six, worship of the Cylon [[God (RDM)|God]] and distancing Baltar from any opportunity to give support to the Colonial causes.

In the last days of the journey, these messengers are revealed to be agents of a higher power— "angels of [[God (RDM)|God]]," something previously claimed by Messenger Six to Gaius Baltar in both "[[Home, Part II]]" and "[[Torn]]"; writer [[Jane Espenson]] has stated that she personally believes they are "a far-advanced culture with an interest in humanity." This likens them to the [[Beings of Light]] from the [[Original Series]] mythology.<ref>"Question: Starbuck an Angel??? Really???" Espenson: "I'm going to answer re Starbuck and the "head" people, too. Well, here's how I always saw it. If someone from a far-advanced culture somewhere in the universe took an interest in humanity, isn't it possible that with their advanced tech that they could have abilities that would seem to us miraculous. Maybe we'd think of them as "Angels." Maybe they're the whole reason we have a myth of "Angels." But that's just me. The great thing about great novels (or the series) is that some things are left open to your own philosophical solutions." Galactica Sitrep, http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/blog/2009/03/chat_with_battl.html</ref> ([[TRS]]: "[[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]"; "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

==Messenger Six==
[[image:Tigh_Me_Up_Tigh_Me_Down-Baltar_Six.jpg|thumb|Messenger Six and Gaius Baltar in his lab aboard ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]").]]
Messenger Six first appears to [[Gaius Baltar]] as he escapes [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] on [[Sharon Valerii]]'s [[Raptor]] during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]] ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries, Night 1]]).

Baltar initially believes that Messenger Six is a hallucination in its first few weeks of appearances ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries, Night 1]], "[[33]]"), but later believes the Messenger's initial suggestion that she is generated from a Cylon cybernetic implant. He disproves this notion when Doctor [[Sherman Cottle]] performs a [[w:MRI|MRI]] scan, showing no abnormalities ([[TRS]]: "[[Home, Part II]]").

Messenger Six demonstrates awareness of events, people and places that Baltar does not appear to know consciously. She tells him of a [[Cylon transponder]] hidden in ''Galactica's'' [[CIC]] ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries, Night 2]]), and appears to aid him in his conversion from Colonial polytheism to Cylon monotheism through guiding him in how to destroy a Cylon [[tylium]] refinery ([[TRS]]: [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]). The source for Messenger Six's data is initially unclear, but is later assumed to be through an act of divinity.
[[Image:brainscan.jpg|left|thumb|Baltar receives his brain scan from Dr. [[Sherman Cottle]], as Messenger Six looks on in amusement.]]

Baltar's visions of Six not only have the Cylon appearing with him on ''[[Galactica]]'', but the two also envision themselves in Baltar's now-destroyed home, on the beach, and other locales. Messenger Six seems to be able to force Baltar to see additional items in his environment, such as the human skulls on [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], as well as visions of the interior of the ancient [[Opera House]] and an image of what Messenger Six believes to be a Cylon-human hybrid child. When an [[Hera Agathon|actual child]] does appear in the Fleet, the Messenger Six claims it is her vision fulfilled. Baltar is convinced by this that she cannot be a hallucination, but Cottle's scan appears to have ruled out the possibility that she is an implant. He asks her who or what she is, and she replies that she is an angel ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]", "[[Valley of Darkness]]", "[[Home, Part II]]").

Over time, Baltar is seen by some characters speaking to himself, which is often the case when he is speaking to Messenger Six. In several instances, Messenger Six appears to Baltar to be a physical entity, grabbing him by his clothes or body, or assisting him with objects ([[TRS: "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]", "[[Taking A Break From All Your Worries]]"). She has even demonstrated an ability to physically interact with Baltar. On one occasion, she pushed him into a bulkhead and grabbed him by the throat. In another example, she lifted him into a standing position after he was beaten by a Galactica marine ([[Escape Velocity]]). In both cases, this provoked reactions from other people. Further, she appears to satisfy Baltar's sexual urges, leading to awkward situations where he is seen masturbating ([[TRS]]: "[[Colonial Day]]").

[[image:KobolHallu.jpg|right|thumb|Messenger Six and Gaius Baltar on Kobol.]]
The Messenger Six has been present when Caprica Six is near only twice. She is also conspicuously absent during [[Shelly Godfrey]]'s tenure on ''Galactica'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]"). The Messenger Six seems to, for the most part, vanish during the period when Caprica Six and Baltar renew their relationship on New Caprica. When Baltar is aboard a Cylon basestar, Caprica Six explains the projection process to him while the Messenger Six hints that this process is very similar to how she and Baltar communicate and that Baltar may himself be a Cylon ([[TRS]]: "[[Torn]]"). Messenger Six also appears to Baltar, when he discovers Hera under Maya's dead body and disappears when Caprica Six comes near Baltar and the baby ([[TRS]]: "[[Exodus, Part II]]").

Messenger Six has a [[Music of Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|musical theme]], a simple 9-note motif with a staccato xylophone and some violins, which plays behind almost all her appearances. This theme also plays without Six present in "[[Rapture]]" after [[D'Anna Biers]] collapses in Baltar's arms after her vision of the [[Final Five]], until Baltar is pistol-whipped by [[Galen Tyrol]].

From the end of Season 2 on, Messenger Six claims more often to be an angel from [[God (RDM)|God]].

Ultimately, Messenger Six is revealed to be a very real being -- not a projection of something inside Baltar's mind -- sent by another being that may be [[God (RDM)|God]]. Both her and Messenger Baltar appear to both Caprica Six and Baltar during the [[Battle of The Colony]]; Baltar and Caprica Six are each shocked that the other can see them. On Earth, Messenger Six, along with Messenger Baltar, reveals to Caprica and Baltar that their destiny had always been to protect Hera, who was the future of both races. They leave, saying that while God's plan is never finished, the two mortals' lives will be much less "exciting" from now on.

One-hundred fifty thousand years later, Messenger Six is with Messenger Baltar in New York City, looking over the shoulder of a man reading a ''[[National Geographic]]'' magazine article about the remains of Mitochondrial Eve -- the current population's latest common evolutionary ancestor, Hera Agathon. The two discuss how all of this has happened before, and whether all of this will happen again. Messenger Six believes things will go differently this time. Messenger Baltar chides her when she refers to God, saying, "You know it doesn't like that name." The two then walk off into the teeming crowds of New York City ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

==Messenger Baltar==
[[image:LBlt.jpg|thumb|left|Turnabout is fair play: Messenger Baltar appears to [[Caprica Six]], but not to [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|Number Three]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Downloaded]]").]]

When a '''messenger with Gaius Baltar's visage''' appears to Caprica Six, the notion that the actual Gaius Baltar was part of a Cylon plan to manipulate him via Messenger Six is revealed to be highly unlikely, as other Cylons are unaware of him and do not mention the plan or its effects to Caprica Six ([[TRS]]: "[[Downloaded]]").

The Messenger Baltar's appearance and demeanor is just as much an extreme opposite of the actual Baltar as the Messenger Six's behavior is to Caprica Six.

At her resurrection, Messenger Baltar immediately tells Caprica Six that only she can see and hear him, and not to reveal what she sees to the other Cylons present; she never asks about his origins.

Messenger Baltar confronts Caprica Six with her guilt in the slaughter of billions of human beings, and with the logical error behind the Cylons's actions. Under Messenger Baltar's influence, Caprica Six speaks out against the war alongside another resurrected "[[hero of the Cylon]]", [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]]. The two forge a new [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|quasi-benevolent path]], [[Exodus, Part II|albeit temporarily]], for the Cylon race.

Messenger Baltar appears irregularly in seasons 2 and 3. After Caprica Six surrenders herself to the Colonials (having assisted [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon "Athena" Agathon]] in her rescue of [[Hera Agathon|Hera]]), [[Laura Roslin]] and [[Tory Foster]] observe Caprica Six speaking to and kissing Messenger Baltar—who is invisible to Roslin and Foster ([[TRS]]: "[[The Woman King]]").

While Messenger Six claims to be an angel sent from God, Messenger Baltar is contemptuous of the Cylons' concept of God ([[TRS]]: "[[Downloaded]]"). He is also described by [[Ronald D. Moore|Ron Moore]] as more of a "devil" figure in Six's consciousness<ref>{{cite_rdm_podcast|episode=Downloaded|act=Three|id=|timestamp=|totalrunning=}}</ref>.

While Messenger Baltar acts mostly as a conversational foil for Six, in "[[Crossroads, Part I]]" he informs her that [[Saul Tigh]] has suffered the loss of [[Ellen Tigh|a woman]] close to him, to assist Six in dealing with Tigh's interrogation ([[TRS]]: "[[Crossroads, Part I]]").

[[Image:Baltar and Head Baltar, "Six of One".jpg|thumb|right|Baltar encounters his Messenger double.]]
After his ascension to [[Cult of Baltar|cult]] leader, Gaius Baltar encounters his Messenger doppelgänger after running into [[Tory Foster]] at the civilian's mess hall. Baltar is initially shocked by Messenger Baltar's sudden appearance, voicing his belief that it is [[Messenger Six]] appearing to him as a doppelgänger version of himself, but the Messenger points out that she would have no need to disguise herself from him; Baltar becomes amused by the idea of having himself as a conversational foil for once instead of Six. This Messenger Baltar encourages him to engage in a relationship with Foster, claiming that she is "[[Final Five|special]]," and guides him, after a fashion, through her covert interrogation attempt. This Messenger Baltar does not elaborate on that point, but Gaius Baltar follows the Messenger's lead ([[TRS]]: "[[Six of One]]").

Prior to the conclusion of the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]]'s journey to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], Messenger Baltar and Messenger Six appear together, and both Caprica Six and Baltar can see them, and are each shocked that the other can. He and Messenger Six are representatives of the being that some call [[God (RDM)|God]], who Baltar describes to Cavil as a force of nature that is neither good nor evil. Messenger Baltar and Messenger Six make one last visit to Caprica Six and Baltar to tell them that their role had always been to protect Hera, and now that this has been fulfilled, the two Messengers leave them alone. Messenger Six explains that God's plan is never over, but Messenger Baltar tells the couple that their lives will be much less exciting.

The two Messengers visit Earth 150,000 years later in New York City discussing humanity finding its most recent common ancestor, the human-Cylon hybrid [[Hera Agathon]]. The two discuss the cycle of life, and Messenger Baltar chides Messenger Six for calling the being they work for "God," as it apparently does not like being called that. Messenger Baltar has the series' last line, which is a response to Messenger Six's stern look: "silly me... silly, silly me." The two then walk off together into present-day New York City ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

== [[Messenger Leoben]] ==

Please see [[Messenger Leoben]] entry.

== Messenger Elosha ==

[[Laura Roslin]] converses with a being in the form of Priestess [[Elosha]] during what should be zero-time jump sequences on the way to the [[Resurrection Hub]]. This Messenger being is unlike the others, in that not only do they interact outside the realm of others, it takes place during a time interval that should not exist. The being seems to have some knowledge of the future events, such as Roslin's death and the fact that [[William Adama]] waits for her, suggesting both reality for the being and the out-of-time conversations. Unlike [[Kara Thrace]]'s Messenger Leoben, the experience is difficult to explain with unconscious dreaming or hallucination ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hub]]").

== The Final Five's Messengers ==

After recovering his memories of [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] due to trauma resulting from his being shot in the head, [[Samuel Anders]] reports that the [[Final Five]] were originally warned of impending nuclear destruction of Earth two thousand years earlier by images of people no one else could see. This information was the impetus for their recreation of [[Resurrection (RDM)|Cylon Resurrection]] and the preparing of the ship on which they escaped following the disaster. The one that appeared to Anders looked like a woman, the one that appeared to [[Tory Foster]] looked like a man. Much like Gaius Baltar, [[Galen Tyrol]] thought he might have a neural chip ([[TRS]]: "[[No Exit]]").

== Slick ==
[[Kara Thrace]] encounters a vision of her father<ref>[[Podcast:Someone to Watch Over Me]]</ref> going by the name of "Slick". She initially fails to recognize him as [[Dreilide Thrace|her father]]. As she spends time with him, she recalls playing the piano with her father. She assists him in composing a song and compares him to her father. While she plays the piano with him, she recalls playing the piano with her father as a child. She recalls a certain song, and notices that the score resembles one of [[Hera Agathon]]'s drawing. As she plays the song with him, [[Saul Tigh]] and [[Tory Foster]] recognize the song as [[The Music|the same song they heard at the Ionian Nebula]]. When Tigh grabs her and asks her about the song, Slick vanishes ([[TRS]]: "[[Someone to Watch Over Me]]").

== Messenger Zoe ==

A Messenger appeared to [[Zoe Graystone]] decades before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies in the form of Zoe herself. The Messenger's first act was to save Zoe from a fire which burned down the Graystones' prior residence, when Zoe was a little girl. She then continued to appear to Zoe, who considered her a friend, periodically. Messenger Zoe had the form of teenage Zoe before Zoe herself entered adolescence. On one occasion, when Zoe was a teenager and now identical to her Messenger counterpart, Messenger Zoe encouraged her to outdo her father [[Daniel Graystone]] by creating life with her computer skills, after they noticed that Daniel had "stolen" the design for the [[U-87 Cyber Combat Unit]] from drawings made by Zoe. This suggestion led to the creation of [[Zoe-A]], Zoe's [[holographic avatar]] duplicate ([[CAP]]: "[[Things We Lock Away]]").

Messenger Zoe later appears to Zoe-A when the latter is engaged in combat with [[Tamara-A]] and several users in [[New Cap City]] who blame her for the destruction of [[Maglev 23]]. She encourages Zoe-A to be her own person and not accept the blame for Zoe's sins. This leads to Zoe-A convincing Tamara-A to form an alliance ([[CAP]]: "[[Things We Lock Away]]").

An unidentified Zoe sits smiling among Sister [[Clarice Willow]]'s otherwise entirely Cylon congregation of monotheists in the flash-forward montage at the end of "[[Apotheosis (episode)|Apotheosis]]". The scene precedes Zoe-A's resurrection into the first [[Humanoid Cylon|skinjob]] body, yet is years after [[Zoe Graystone|original Zoe]]'s death and Zoe-A's denouncement of Willow.

==Notes==
* In the cases of Elosha and Slick, it is unclear whether the phantom images represent the consciousnesses of the deceased or are simply other beings in their forms.
*The [[Messenger Leoben|Messenger "Leoben"]] that appears to [[Kara Thrace]] in the episode "[[Maelstrom]]" only appears to her in a vision while the pilot is unconscious. Since this Messenger Leoben does not fit the Baltar-Six analogue, Battlestar Wiki considers him separately to the above.
*[[William Adama]] sees and converses with his [[Carolanne Adama|deceased ex-wife]] each year on their anniversary as demonstrated in "[[A Day in the Life]]". While the episode where this occurs shows William and Carolanne together in places and settings (ostensibly at their home on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]), this is a dramatic representation of Adama's ordinary imagination of what Carolanne may have thought about his predicament. As such, the visualizations of Carolanne Adama are ''not'' a messenger or other spectral apparition.
*[[Saul Tigh]] sees [[Ellen Tigh#Saul's "Messenger Ellen"|his dead wife]] in place of [[Caprica Six]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Escape Velocity]]"). This could be a simple hallucination or, as Tigh is a [[humanoid Cylon]], an example of [[projection]].
*When holding a two thousand year-old, mangled mailbox hatch from the lobby of the Tighs's apartment building, Saul sees a dying Ellen again in a vision from his and her prior incarnations on Earth. Ellen is depicted in the vision as fully aware of their future reincarnations and the cyclical nature of their existence, which she prophesises for past-Saul in the moment before they both die. ([[TRS]]: "[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]").
*In the fifth [[Razor Flashbacks|Razor Flashback]], while exploring the lab, [[William Adama]] has a hallucination of a hand reaching out to grab him from a device similar to a [[resurrection tank|resurrection]] or [[Hybrid]] tank. However this could be a stress-induced hallucination. The same may be the case for the screaming prisoners in the lab, which could also be explained as a visualization for the audience. However, the voice Adama hears of the [[First Hybrid]] is the same as the real voice, so this part at least is not a hallucination.
*Beginning in Season 3, Messenger Six appears less frequently, and makes only a few appearances in Season 4. A scene was filmed for "[[The Road Less Traveled]]" in which Messenger Six, stating that Baltar no longer needs her anymore, says goodbye to him and fades away; this scene was deleted (but included on the Season 4.0 DVD). Messenger Six reappeared in yet another deleted scene, this time for "Sometimes a Great Notion" (information is relegated to a [[:File:SixonEarth.jpg|promotional image]]), before returning but only in the extended version of "[[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]" and reappearing in "[[Deadlock]]", most likely rendering the deleted scene from "The Road Less Traveled" non-canonical as neither of the two aforementioned episodes make mention of her departure.
*In the podcast for "[[No Exit]]", Ronald Moore refers to the Final Five's Messenger beings as "the Messengers" and indicates that they are significant to the overall storyline.

== Official Statements ==
*When asked by a fan at a convention about the differences between Messenger Baltar and Gaius Baltar, actor [[James Callis]] described Messenger Baltar as a man who "finally has his shit together."<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNZZHl0Ls5U&mode=related&search=|title=James Callis (Gaius Baltar) Q&A FanExpo 2k6 - Part 3|date=September 04, 2006|accessdate=January 24, 2007|last=|first=|format=YouTube video|language=English}}</ref>. ('''Warning''': Video contains some explicit language)

* Callis mentioned at the same convention that his personal theory is that Messenger Six is a being from another universe or higher plane of existence who only Baltar can interact with. This may relate back to the "angel" theory postulated prior to "[[Daybreak, Part II]]."<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNZZHl0Ls5U&mode=related&search=|title=James Callis (Gaius Baltar) Q&A FanExpo 2k6 - Part 3|date=September 04, 2006|accessdate=January 24, 2007|last=|first=|format=YouTube video|language=English}} ('''Warning''': Video contains some explicit language.)</ref>

* Prior to the revelations of "Daybreak," actress [[Tricia Helfer]] said that she had long since given up on trying to figure out the nature of Messenger Six. <ref>{{cite_web|url=http://tv.ign.com/articles/756/756477p1.html|title=IGN Interview: Battlestar Galactica's Tricia Helfer|date=January 18, 2007|accessdate=January 24, 2007|last=|first=|format=|language=English}}</ref> She believes Caprica Six and Baltar both having internal counterparts is related to the scene from the [[Miniseries]] where she saves Baltar from the shock wave of the nuclear bomb that destroyed [[Caprica City]].

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Larry Manetti

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'''Larry Manetti''' (born 23 July 1947) is an American television actor.

Born in [[w:Chicago, Illinois|Chicago, Illinois]], Manetti portrayed the recurring character Lieutenant [[Giles]] in several [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] episodes.

Manetti's television break came with a starring lead role in the short-lived 1979 series, ''The Duke''. After the show's demise, Manetti landed a supporting role as Rick Wright in the long-running CBS series, ''[[w:Magnum P.I.|Magnum P.I.]]''

Manetti was the foster son of actor/singer [[w:Frank Sinatra|Frank Sinatra]]. He is married to actress [[Nancy DeCarl]], with whom he has one son.

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Timeline (1980)

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The timeline below chronicles the events depicted in the classic [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Battlestar Galactica]] television program and its [[spin-off]], ''[[Galactica 1980]]''.

The timeline is given in "Earth" years, BCE and AD, not by Colonial [[yahren]].

==On Kobol==

The beginning of recorded human history, on the mother world - the planet [[Kobol (TOS)|Kobol]]. <ref>At the beginning of "[[Saga of a Star World]]", it is mentioned that the peace conference is being held at the beginning of the 7th millennium of human history, which would mean human history was just crossing into its 6,000th year. 6,000 years prior to "[[Saga of a Star World]]", which is noted later in this timeline as happening in 1950, would be circa 4,000 BCE.</ref>

==The Exodus==

The original 13 tribes leave Kobol and head out into space. Twelve of the tribes settle near each other in the area known as the [[The Twelve Colonies (TOS)|Twelve Colonies of Man]]. The remaining [[Thirteenth Tribe (TOS)|Thirteenth Tribe]] heads to [[Earth (TOS)|Earth]].

==Exodus through 20th Century==

69 BCE - 30 BCE

:Life of [[w:Cleopatra VII of Egypt|Cleopatra VII of Egypt]].<ref>A partially filmed, but never aired episode of ''Galactica 1980'', entitled "[[The Day They Kidnapped Cleopatra]]" was partially set in 30 BCE. The announcement of the cancellation of the series by ABC came during the filming, and the episode was never completed. This episode would have brought back the time travel plot device used in the first episode. Additionally, Egyptian themes were used frequently in ''Battlestar Galactica'', such as the city of [[Eden]] in "[[Lost Planet of the Gods]]".</ref>

c. AD 950

:The Cylons attack the [[Hasari]], whose territory neighbors the Colonies, who intervene to assist their neighbor. As a result of this intervention, the [[Thousand Yahren War]] begins between the Colonies and the Cylon Empire. <ref>The [[Thousand Yahren War]] begins 1,000 years before "[[Saga of a Star World]]" which, as noted later in this timeline, is set around 1950.</ref>

c. 1450

:Approximate time that ''[[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]]'' is launched. Back then, the [[Celestial chamber|celestial chambers]] on ''Galactica'' were used to confirm navigational headings. <ref>A 500 year old celestial chamber is depicted in "[[The Hand of God (TOS)|The Hand of God]]".</ref>

1776

:[[Xavier]] arrives in [[w:American Revolution|Revolutionary America]] and tries to change history. [[Troy (1980)|Troy]], [[Dillon]] and [[Jamie Hamilton]] follow him, and thwart his plans, but he apparently escapes to another time frame. <ref>The trip to 1776 is referred to at the end of "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]" but not shown on screen. Xavier's plans are mentioned at the start of "[[Spaceball]]".</ref>

prior to 1850

:[[Adama (TOS)|Adama]] is born. <ref>Adama reveals he is over a hundred yahrens old in "[[Lost Planet of the Gods]]".</ref>

==1900-1949==

* {{inlineref|1917}}: [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]] is born on Caprica. His father is [[Chameleon]].<ref>Based on the age of [[Dirk Benedict]] during the filming of the Original Series. Starbuck is revealed to be from Caprica, as well as Chameleon being his father in "[[The Man With Nine Lives]]".</ref>
* {{inlineref|1918}}
** '''November 11''': Earth's [[w:World War I|World War I]] officially ends.<ref>Jamie Hamilton makes a ''slight'' error when she tells the Galacticans that "20 years later, in 1939, World War II broke out" in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]". However, she was reciting this from memory, so it's an understandable error.</ref>
* {{inlineref|1939}}
** '''September 1''': Earth's World War II begins.<ref>As confirmed by [[Jamie Hamilton]] in her conversation to the Galacticans in [[Zee's chamber]] ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]).</ref>
* {{inlineref|1943}}: [[Troy (1980)|Boxey]] is born to [[Serina]] on Caprica.<ref>This calculation is based on [[Noah Hathaway]]'s age during the filming of the Original Series. This would make Boxey seven years old in "[[Saga of a Star World]]" and 37 years of age in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]" -- which happened to be the age of [[Kent McCord]] when he played the role.</ref>
* {{inlineref|1944}}: [[Xavier]] arrives in [[w:Nazi Germany|Nazi Germany]] and poses as a British scientist and Nazi sympathizer. He volunteers to work with the [[w:V-2 rocket|V-2 rocket program]] and introduces Colonial technology, in hopes of changing history by ensuring a Nazi victory in [[w:World War Two|World War Two]].<ref>Described in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]".</ref>
**'''June 4''': Troy, Dillon and Hamilton's time destination.<ref name="gde2">Depicted in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]" and "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]".</ref>
**'''June 5-6''': Hamilton, Troy and Dillon arrive in Nazi Germany a day before the [[w:D-Day|D-Day]] invasion. With the help of a [[Stockwell|U.S. agent]], they locate Xavier and force him to return to 1980.<ref name="gde2"/>
* {{inlineref|1947}}: The United States Air Force begins [[w:Project Blue Book|Project Blue Book]], a 22 year long investigation into unidentified flying objects.<ref>Project Blue Book is mentioned in a disclaimer at the end of every ''Galactica 1980'' episode. [[Colonel Sydell]]'s new organization within the US Air Force in the series has a similar mandate, and the disclaimer was apparently put in place to assure viewers that Sydell's organization was fictitious, and not to be confused with the real project that had concluded years before.</ref>
* {{inlineref|1948}}: The [[Fifth Fleet]] engages the Cylons at the [[Battle of Molecay]]. ''[[Pegasus (TOS)|Pegasus]]'' is the only Colonial vessel to survive. [[Commander Cain]], realizing that the Cylons were doubtless lying in wait along the entire route back to the Colonies, orders ''Pegasus'' out into deep space towards the [[Krillian Star System]] and [[Gamoray]].<ref>Two yahrens prior to the events of "[[The Living Legend, Part I]]".</ref>

==1950==

The destruction of the Colonies, thirty years before ''Galactica'' discovers Earth.<ref>Officially, ''Galactica 1980'' was set 30 years after the events of the Original Series. This piece of information is never specifically mentioned on screen, but was mentioned in promotional advertising and noted in background material for the program.</ref><ref>http://www.tv.com/galactica-1980/show/1252/summary.html</ref>

The episodes and events of the Original Series are set during this period.

==1951 - 1979==

: ''The period between ''[[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)]]'' and ''[[Galactica 1980]]''.''

The Cylons, over this 30 year period, develop completely new technologies and evolve considerably - "beyond the wildest fears" of the Colonials, according to Dr. Zee. These new technologies include improved Cylon Raiders and the creation of humanoid Cylons.<ref>The increased technological prowess of the Cylons is described in "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]" and "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]".</ref>

Also, during this period, the Imperious Leader is apparently replaced, as his voice is considerably different by 1980.<ref>When the Imperious Leader is shown in "[[Space Croppers]]", he is no longer voiced by [[Patrick Macnee]], but instead by [[Dennis Haysbert]].</ref>

Sometime prior to 1970, [[Captain Apollo]] dies.<ref>Troy refers to Apollo's death in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]". This apparently happens before the events depicted in "[[The Return of Starbuck]]" as Starbuck does not mention Apollo when relating to Boomer people he wishes to say goodbye to. In addition, Apollo's death is apparently a mystery to the Fleet, or so the script for the unfilmed episode "[[The Wheel of Fire]]" indicates.</ref>

* {{inlineref|1951}}: [[Dillon]] is born in space aboard a vessel in the Colonial Fleet. <ref>Based on the age of [[Barry Van Dyke]] at the time of filming.</ref>

* {{inlineref|1953}}: [[Jamie Hamilton]] is born in the United States on Earth. <ref>Based on the age of actress [[Robyn Douglass]] at the time of filming, who portrayed Jamie Hamilton. She identifies herself as an American in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]".</ref>

* {{inlineref|1960}}: The last attack by the Cylons on the Colonial fleet until 1980. <ref>There has not been a Cylon attack in almost a generation prior to "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]". A generation is typically denoted as 20 years.</ref>

* {{inlineref|1970}}: [[Starbuck (1980)|Starbuck]] is stranded on a [[Planet Starbuck|desolate planetoid]], where he rebuilds the Centurion named [[Cyrus]] (nicknamed "Cy" by Starbuck). Some time later at this same location, Dr. [[Zee]] is born to the mysterious woman, [[Angela]]. <ref>Events of the flashback sequence of "[[The Return of Starbuck]]". Dr. Zee is a pre-teen child, who appears to be roughly ten years of age. Reasoning backward, he was born c. 1970.</ref>

:After 1970

::Dr. Zee's ship catches up to the Fleet. <ref>The voyage of Dr. Zee's ship is shown in "[[The Return of Starbuck]]"</ref>.

::Lt. Boomer is promoted to Colonel.<ref>By the time of "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]" Boomer has assumed this rank, while he still held this rank in the flashback scenes in "[[The Return of Starbuck]]".</ref>

::Commander Adama grows a beard.<ref>Adama has a large Moses like beard throughout ''1980'', but did not have it in the flashback scenes in "[[The Return of Starbuck]]".</ref>

::Boxey begins to go by the name "Troy" as he grows older.<ref>Troy mentions this in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]", although Adama still refers to him as Boxey in a private conversation before being shown the [[invisibility field]].</ref>

:1977

::Dr. [[Donald Mortinson]] begins work on his nuclear degeneration formula.<ref>According to [[Dorothy Carlyle]], Dr. Mortinson had been working on nuclear degeneration for three years as of "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]".</ref>

==1980==

''Galactica's'' long range probes arrive in the Solar System. They positively identify the third planet as Earth. ''Galactica'' and the Colonial Fleet reach Earth. <ref>"[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]".</ref>

''Galactica 1980'' episodes "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]" through "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III|Part III]]"

:Troy, Dillon and Jamie head back in time to the American Revolution to find [[Xavier]]. <ref>Troy, Dillon and Jamie are about to head off on this mission at the end of "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]"</ref> The team is apparently successful in stopping Xavier, as there are no apparent changes to Earth's history.<ref>No reference to Xavier having achieved his goals is made in the subsequent episodes.</ref> Xavier escapes being brought into custody, however, and remains in Earth's past. While there, he perfects a process of cellular transformation which can allow him to assume the appearance of others. <ref>Xavier's activities are related in "[[Spaceball]]".</ref>

:Jamie returns to Earth, and back to the job she was offered with the United Broadcasting Corporation. <ref>As of "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]", Jamie is back at work at UBC.</ref>

:In light of the unknown aircraft violating U.S. airspace, which are in reality Colonial Vipers, the United States Air Force dedicates new funds to the tracking of U.F.O.s.

:Dr. Zee leads a project to build a new saucer-shaped fighter craft, designed to thwart the Cylons.<ref>The saucer project is revealed in "[[The Super Scouts, Part II]]" and shown again in "[[Space Croppers]]".</ref>

:The Cylons determine to test some of their new technologies on the Colonial refugees. They plan to first attack the freighter ''Delphi'', a straggling vessel in the Colonial Fleet, which happens to function as the Fleet' school.<ref>Just prior to "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]"</ref>

''Galactica 1980'' episodes "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]" and "[[The Super Scouts, Part II|Part II]]"

:Troy and Dillon spend a few days away from the children on an unknown mission.<ref>Briefly mentioned in "[Spaceball]]".</ref>

:Having spent an inordinate amount of money investigating the Super Scouts, Colonel Sydell's budget is questioned by his superiors in the United States Air Force.<ref>Just prior to "[[Spaceball]]"</ref>

:Xavier returns to the present time from Earth's past, and assumes the form of Lt. Nash of ''Galactica''. <ref>Just prior to "[[Spaceball]]"</ref>

''Galactica 1980'' episode "[[Spaceball]]."

:Xavier remains at large on Earth, without a Viper, stranded in the present and on the ground.

:In another test of their new technologies, the Cylons send out new, advanced fighters, manned by Centurions and humanoid Cylons, to search for the elusive Colonial fleet.<ref>Just prior to "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]"</ref>

:October 31 - November 1, 1980

::''Galactica 1980'' episode "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]" <ref>"The Night the Cylons Landed" is specifically noted to occur on Halloween.</ref>

::''Galactica 1980'' episode "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II]]"<ref>Episode ends in the early hours of November 1.</ref>

:Late 1980

::The [[Imperious Leader]] and his three base ships, catch up to ''Galactica'' and the Fleet, but the location of Earth remains elusive. <ref>Just prior to "[[Space Croppers]]"</ref>

::''Galactica 1980 episode'' "[[Space Croppers]]".

::''Galactica'' maintains its first colony on Earth, and the Super Scouts remain there, relocating from the baseball camp where they had been staying.

::''Galactica 1980'' episode "[[The Return of Starbuck]]".

::The scripted but only partially shot episode "[[The Day They Kidnapped Cleopatra]]" would have taken place here.

==1981==

:The planned but never filmed Starbuck episode "[[The Wheel of Fire]]" would have taken place at this time.

==1990==

In Dr. Zee's projection of what could have happened in the future, environmental damage and population expansion has rendered Paradise Valley polluted and crowded. If Dr. Zee's warning was in fact heeded by the people of Paradise Valley, however, these events may not have come to pass.<ref>Possible future revealed in "[[The Super Scouts, Part II]]".</ref>

==Notes==

The central year of this timeline is 1980, the year when the series is set. In promotional material and subsequent interviews, it has been noted that Galactica 1980 was set 30 years after the events of the Original Series. This was done in large part to explain the cast changes, and is chiefly supported on screen by the aging of [[Troy (1980)|Troy]], who was a child in the first series.

== References ==
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Knight Rider

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Mokwella:

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The Knight Rider is the code name for used by a series of private law enforcement agents on Earth, in the years immediately preceding it's destruction. Like all citizens of Earth, the Knight Riders were humanoid Cylons but had largely forgotten their mechanical origins.

Interestingly they had a unique relationship with a series of motorized Cylon vehicles, which themselves possessed artifical intelligence. Of particular note is the Knight Industry Two Thousand series Cylon which appeared from the outside to be a 1982 Pontiac Trans Am.

There were many other robot cars in this era including a 2008 Ford Mustang, a 1969 Mustang, a motorcycle, an evil semi trailer and an evil 1982 Trans Am. The origin of the vehicles was unmistakeable, as each featured a prominent oscillating red eye scanner, similar to Cylon raiders.

Despite the lack of resurrection technology, the Knight Industry Two Thousand or KITT model of the Cylon automobile returned from the dead a number of times.

A precursor to the deadly Cylon civil war can be seen in the tenuous relationship between automotive A.I.s and most of the humanoid Cylons they encountered. However, some humanoids, notably a woman named Bonnie Barstow, were able to bridge the divide.

If the Cylon nature of the humanoids had been revealed, one imagines that would have made for a amusing episode in the lives of these agents.

== References ==

http://www.galacticabbs.com/index.php?showtopic=1080&mode=linear

Knight Rider

2009-02-28T19:42:09Z

Mokwella: New page: {{sillypage}} The Knight Rider is the code name for used by a series of private law enforcement agents on Earth, in the years immediately preceding it's destruction. Like all citizens of...

{{sillypage}}

The Knight Rider is the code name for used by a series of private law enforcement agents on Earth, in the years immediately preceding it's destruction. Like all citizens of Earth, the Knight Riders were humanoid Cylons but had largely forgotten their mechanical origins.

Interestingly they had a unique relationship with a series of motorized Cylon vehicles, which themselves possessed artifical intelligence. Of particular note is the Knight Indusrty Two Thousand series Cylon which appeared from the outside to be a 1982 Pontiac Trans Am.

There were many other robot cars in this era including a 2008 Ford Mustang, a 1969 Mustang, a motorcycle, an evil semi trailer and an evil 1982 Trans Am. The origin of the vehicles was unmistakeable, as each featured a prominent oscillating red eye scanner, similar to Cylon raiders.

Despite the lack of resurrection technology, the Knight Industry Two Thousand or KITT model of the Cylon automobile returned from the dead a number of times.

A precursor to the deadly Cylon civil war can be seen in the tenuous relationship between automotive A.I.s and most of the humanoid Cylons they encountered. However, some humanoids, notably a woman named Bonnie Barstow, were able to bridge the divide.

If the Cylon nature of the humanoids had been revealed, one imagines that would have made for a amusing episode in the lives of these agents.

== References ==

http://www.galacticabbs.com/index.php?showtopic=1080&mode=linear

Chameleon

2009-02-28T19:01:36Z

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A charming and aging con man, '''Chameleon''' just happens to be [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]]'s father.

Chameleon was separated by the [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylon]] raid at the settlement of [[Umbra]] on planet [[The Twelve Colonies (TOS)|Caprica]]. He had been something of a professional wagerer, apparently, due to his vast knowledge of [[chancery]] games (which might explain Starbuck's natural fascination with chanceries). However, Chameleon's current occupation is basically making do with his ability to naturally con people out of money.

Among other false occupations, Chameleon been known to pose as a genetic tracer, a head of [[Inter-Fleet Broadcasting]], and the [[Livestock Ship]]'s commanding officer. However he crosses three [[Borellian Nomen]] -- [[Maga]], [[Bora]] and [[Taba]] -- who in return swear a [[blood trail]] to exact revenge upon the "jackal, [[Captain Dmitri]]". They eventually manage to track him to the ''[[Rising Star (TOS)|Rising Star]]'', courting [[Blassie|Siress Blassie]] who was apparently taken by his charm while attending a type of orchestral symphony.

By an act of self-preservation, Chameleon manages to escape, meeting up with Starbuck and [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]] as Lieutenant [[Boomer (TOS)|Boomer]] and Flight Sergeant [[Jolly (TOS)|Jolly]] mince words with the Nomen. Chameleon talks about his past on Caprica and about losing a son, which spoke volumes to Starbuck. Chameleon finds his chance for protection, portraying himself as a genetic tracer and stating that ''[[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]]'s'' equipment would be just the thing needed to do testing to determine if they were indeed father and son.

To play up the lost father/son relationship, he tells Starbuck that [[Cassiopeia]] reminds him much of his wife. Starbuck admits to him that Cassiopeia was the only one he ever considered getting [[sealed]] to.

Later on, Chameleon attempts to tell Starbuck the truth when in the launch bay when Starbuck admits to thinking of dropping out from the Colonial service to join him in reuniting lost children with their parents. But Chameleon never gets the chance as Maga and Bora trespass into the bay, attacking Starbuck while attempting to discern where "Captain Dmitri" was.

Chameleon manages to save Starbuck from the Nomen by firing the Viper's lasers into the [[launch tubes (TOS)|launch tube]], throwing Starbuck clear of the tube. Miraculously the Nomen survive and are apprehended.

Chameleon later admits that he deceived them all, explaining the whole story.

The con man also believed that the story of being Starbuck's Caprican father was false, however tests proved positive. Chameleon manages to convince Cassiopeia not to reveal these results to Starbuck, saying that he would rather be his friend, especially since Starbuck wanted to recapture [[yahrens]] that could never be recaptured.

The old man did, however, promise that he would tell Starbuck when he had been [[Seal|Sealed]] to a very dubious Cassiopeia.

Chameleon is remanded to the custody of Siress Blassie, who supports his rehabilitation into society for his actions, but takes it with joy since he and Starbuck were now only friendse ([[The Man with Nine Lives]]).

The analog for Chameleon in the Re-imagined Series is [[Dreilide Thrace]].

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Dreilide Thrace

2009-02-28T18:57:17Z

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| nickname=Slick
| death=Unknown
| children=[[Kara Thrace]]
| marital status=Formerly married to [[Socrata Thrace]]†
}}

'''Dreilide Thrace''' was a pianist and composer, and the father of [[Kara Thrace]]. Kara seems to have had a closer relationship with him than with her mother. When she and [[Karl Agathon]] arrive at her former apartment in [[Delphi]] she plays a recording of one of her father's works ([[Valley of Darkness]]). Later, Kara meets Slick, a man composing a song at the piano in [[Joe's Bar]] and works on it with him. She explains that until her father left she loved piano herself and played it with him all the time. He apparently loved piano so much that when her mother told him to choose between them and it, he chose it. She played with the man one of the songs that always made her happy and it turned out to be [[The Music]]. The man disappeared afterwards, which, in conjunction with his resemblance to her father, implies that he was a vision of him ([[Someone to Watch Over Me]]). <ref>This is confirmed by the podcast for [[Someone to Watch Over Me]].</ref>

==Notes==
* The name 'Dreilide' is German for 'third eyelid' and refers to the inner eyelid, regarded as the gateway to the soul and realms of higher consciousness. The third eye is often associated with visions, clairvoyance, precognition, and out-of-body experiences, and people who have allegedly developed the capacity to use their third eyes are sometimes known as seers.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_eye</ref>

*The analog for Dreilide Thrace in the Original Series is [[Chameleon]]. Chameleons have a third eye called a parietal eye.

==References==

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Unnamed characters (1980)

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This is a listing of unnamed characters in ''[[Galactica 1980]]''.

== Colonials ==

=== Girl on Bridge ===

[[Image:Ellen Gerken TROS.jpg|thumb|[[Ellen Gerken]] as the "Girl on Bridge" telling [[Adama (1980)|Adama]] important news.]]

A '''"Girl on Bridge"''' (portrayed by [[Ellen Gerken]]) informs Commander [[Adama (1980)|Adama]] that the [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylon]] [[Raider (TOS)|Raider]]s are running and that the [[Viper (TOS)|Viper]] pilots wish to pursue ([[The Return of Starbuck]]).

: ''The girl was portrayed by [[Ellen Gerken]].''

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=== Maintenance Captain ===

[[Image:Maintenance Captain.jpg|thumb|Maintenance Captain barges in to complain about [[D Squadron]].]]

An unnamed captain, presumably part of the maintenance crew, barges into [[Adama (1980)|Adama]]'s [[Adama's quarters|office]] interrupting a conversation between the commander and Colonel [[Boomer (1980)|Boomer]]. He complains about the [[D Squadron]] and their unsafe modifications to their Vipers, which raise concern from Adama ([[Space Croppers]]).

: ''The role is apparently uncredited.''

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== Earthlings ==

=== Americans ===

==== Airport and Airline Personnel ====

===== Flight 2 Co-Pilot =====

[[Image:Flight 2 captain.jpg|thumb|Flight 2's Co-Pilot.]]

The captain of Flight 2 appears in the passenger cabin prompted by an indicator light that signified the deployment of the oxygen masks. The stewardess tells him of the hijacking attempt and subsequently remove the weapon from one of the stunned hijackers. When how they became stunned comes to question, a boy tells him that Dillon and Troy stunned them, which he doesn't believe. However, he tells them to stay onboard after the plane lands at Kennedy Airport, since the authorities would want to question them ([[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]).

: ''The role is uncredited.''

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===== Flight 2 Stewardess =====

[[Image:Stewardess.jpg|thumb|Flight 2's stewardess.]]

Dillon and Troy first encounter the stewardess as they board the airplane. Later, during the flight, she is taken hostage by [[#Hijackers|two Cuban hijackers]], but is subsequently saved by Troy and Dillon when they stun the hijackers. She later credits them for being two regular heroes and lets them comb their hair before being questioned by the authorities at JFK airport. It is because of this liberty that Dillon and Troy are able to escape via their [[invisibility field]]s, which she experiences when a cop pushes into her; she is left to believe that he wanted to get frisky with her ([[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II]]).

: ''The stewardess was portrayed by [[Sheila de Windt]].''

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===== Flight 427 =====

The people of Flight 427 are almost killed when the damaged [[Shuttle Alpha]] makes its landing on Earth. Its co-pilot warns the captain of the danger, which allows the captain to quickly react and pilot the commercial aircraft out of the shuttle's way.

The furious captain, who believes the shuttle to be a military aircraft, angrily growls about how he is sick of hot shots clogging up the commercial air lanes and rips into the USAF ([[The Super Scouts, Part I]]).

: ''The captain was portrayed by [[Simon Scott]]. The co-pilot was portrayed by [[Ken Scott]].''

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Image:Flight 427 captain.jpg|[[Simon Scott]] as the captain.
Image:Flight 427 co-pilot.jpg|[[Ken Scott]] as the co-pilot.
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===== Ticket Master =====

When Troy and Dillon enter the [[Los Angeles Airport]], they speak to two different women who are ticket masters.

The first is at the front desk gives them their prepaid tickets for Flight 2 to [[New York City]]. She can tell they don't travel by air, since they ask about the metal detector scanners they have to pass through due to the threat posed by [[hijacking]].

The second is at the boarding area as she finalizes their tickets. Dillon and Troy, not knowing that there is a "smoking and non-smoking" section to the flight, lead to an idiotically "cute" question regarding how the plane would work best. She points out the gate and they leave. This same ticket master deals with the two terrorists posing as a married couple with a young baby, saying that they had just made the flight ([[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]).

: ''Both roles is uncredited.''

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Image:Ticketmaster.jpg|The first ticket master.
Image:Ticket Master 2.jpg|The second ticket master.
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==== Baseball Related ====

===== Announcer =====

[[Image:Announcer.jpg|thumb|The announcer of the playoffs.]]

The announcer is an older man in his sixties who announces the various plays in the game between the [[Encino Cougars]] and the [[Polecats]]. Before the game, he interviews [[Billy Eheres]] about his team ([[Spaceball]]).

: ''The role is uncredited.''

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===== Camp Aide =====

[[Image:Camp Aide.jpg|thumb|The camp aide.]]

[[Billy Eheres]]' aide informs [[Jamie Hamilton]] and [[Xaviar]] (under the guise of Lieutenant [[Nash (1980)|Nash]]) that the [[Casey's Baseball Park|camp]] will fall because half their team is out sick for a game that could capture sponsors for their camp.

Amongst his other duties, he also acts as an assistant coach under Eheres ([[Spaceball]]).

: ''The role is uncredited.''

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===== Umpire =====

[[Image:Umpire.jpg|thumb|The umpire.]]

The umpire overseeing the game between the Polecats and the Encino Cougars has a sour disposition. This is particularly apparent when a [[Super Scout]] makes off with his shiny new silver dollar and, later, when a grounder hit by a Super Scout digs itself into the ground, resulting in an argument with the groundskeeper, [[Jenkins]] ([[Spaceball]]).

: ''The role is uncredited.''

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==== Law Enforcement ====

===== California Highway Patrol =====

Two California Highway Patrol officers ({{inlineref|bold=N|CHiP|CHiPs}}) encounter and pursue Dillon and Troy due to the fact that their [[turbine]]s did not have license plates. Both warriors subsequently escape them using their [[invisibility field]].

These same CHiPs later find Dillon and Troy on the highway again, after they had made their purchase at a department store for supplies. With no time for subtlety, the Warriors fly off, leaving them bemused ([[The Super Scouts, Part I]]).

: ''The two CHiPs are uncredited.''

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===== New York Police Department =====

Troy and Dillon run into many NYPD cops. The first two are notable for chasing Troy and Dillon, who possess a stolen New York Highway Patrol car, into the Port of New York and off a pier ("[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]", "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II]]").

As Troy and Dillon overhear police communications of an open cop car, they encounter an old {{inlineref|NYPD cop}} who is answering a domestic disturbance. He asks them if they need anything, but they politely decline and walk away. The cop listens closer and hears a description of two suspects (Troy and Dillon) in wet clothing and proceeds to follow them. Later, he is shown by the M.C. that points them out on stage, having been unwittingly dragooned after changing their wet clothing into white suits. However, Troy and Dillon perform a [[invisibility field|disappearing act]] and they leave, brushing by the cop as they leave ([[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]).

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Image:NYPD cops.jpg|The two NYPD cops that pursue Troy and Dillon, until their car flies off a pier.
Image:NYPD cop.jpg|A cop that meets the soaking wet [[Warrior]]s in New York.
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===== Sheriff =====

[[Image:Sheriff.jpg|thumb|[[Ted Gehring]] as the sheriff.]]

A sheriff is first introduced when [[Walt Griffin]] reports on two [[Viper (1980)|mysterious space craft]] appear on a meadow. The spacecraft, however, are gone, having just launched into the night sky -- which the sheriff writes off as shooting stars ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]])

This same sheriff later drives up to the [[Maggies Truck Heaven]] diner, passing by Troy and Dillon as they wave in his direction, since his car had just passed the bus that Hamilton was on. He stops to ask if they need any help, but they politely decline.

After driving up to the diner and buying an edition of ''[[The Daily News]]'' paper, he notes that they are wanted for the attempted kidnapping of Dr. Mortinson and pursue in a short chase. Troy and Dillon swiftly escape the chase, activating their [[turbine]]s' flight systems and flying off into the air. He later stops on the side of the road, telling the dispatcher, [[Harvey]], that he wasn't feeling too well ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]).

: ''The unnamed sheriff is played by [[Ted Gehring]].''

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==== New York, New York ====

A list of unnamed people found in [[New York City|New York]], New York in "[[The Night the Cylons Landed]]" two-parter.

===== Central Park Cabbie =====

[[Image:Central Park cabbie.jpg|thumb|Cabbie at Central Park.]]

Troy and Dillon manage to hail down another cabbie after leaving a theater to get to [[Central Park]]. Later on, the same cabbie picks up [[Wolfman Jack]] and the Cylons, [[Andromus]] and [[Centuri]] at Central Park, taking them to the [[International Trade Center]]. When he asks them to pay their fare of five dollars, Andromus uses his persuasion abilities to get out of this fare ([[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II]]).

: ''The cabbie was portrayed by [[Arthur Batanides]].''

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===== JFK Cabbie =====

[[Image:Cabbie 1.jpg|thumb|The cabbie that picks up Troy and Dillon at JFK.]]

Troy and Dillon enter a cab waiting at JFK International Airport. They manage to convince the cabbie that they could pay, even when they didn't exactly know where they were going and proved to have the "bread" to pay and, because of him, managed to make it to the wreck of the [[A-B Raider]] before its destruction ([[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]).

: ''The role is uncredited.''

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===== Lollipop Star =====

[[Image:Lollipop star.jpg|thumb|The star of the "Good Ship Lollipop" portion of a play Troy and Dillon are cornered into performing in.]]

Troy and Dillon meet a woman who stars in the theater play "Good Ship Lollipop" literally on stage. Troy and Dillon, mistaken by the director as stage performers due to their white tuxedos, is thrust into the play and is forced to play along. However, they do badly. When the cops that follow them show up behind the stage, Troy and Dillon are told to pick her up. They do so and, in order to avoid detection by the cops, they turn on their [[invisibility field]]s, making it appear as if she's floating in the air. They deposit her and leave in a rush ([[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II]]).

: ''The "Lollipop" star was portrayed by [[Heather Young]], who had a recurring role in Land of the Giants.''

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===== Theater Director =====

[[Image:Theater director.jpg|thumb|A theater director of a play in a New York theater.]]

The director of the play that Troy and Dillon happen across pushes the Warriors on stage, assuming them to be stage performers. However, it becomes apparent to this director that they aren't part of his cast and, minutes later, points them out to two cops that had been pursing the Warriors. He looks on in amazement as the [[#Lollipop Star|star]] of his play appears to float in the air ([[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II]]).

: ''The role appears to be uncredited.''

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==== Paradise Valley, California ====

A listing of unnamed people found in [[Paradise Valley]], California in "[[The Super Scouts]]' two-parter.

===== Bank Teller =====

[[Image:Bank Teller.jpg|thumb|[[Caroline Smith]] as the bank teller.]]

Dillon talks to a bank teller at a bank, hoping to get the [[cubit]]s analyzed in a quick fashion. After she claims that they don't assay the gold at the bank, Dillon asks for the coins back, but is met with stern questioning from her regarding the origin of the coins. Believing him to be a thief, she activates a silent alarm, which Dillon notices.

Dillon subsequently stuns a guard named [[Harry]] after she calls for help. Seeing this, she gives him the cubits and thousands in dollar bills. Dillon attempts to give it back, but she is too sacred to accept.

The teller tries to convince him to give up his robbery attempt, seeing that he's a "nice kid". Dillon promises to pay her back, asking her where she lives. She replies that answering that would be crazy, but gives him an address of 327 Harrat Street when Dillon points the laser pistol at her. She quickly replies that she's moving "just as soon as you finish robbing this bank" ([[The Super Scouts, Part I]]).

: ''The bank teller is portrayed by [[Caroline Smith]].''

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===== Saleslady =====

[[Image:Saleslady.jpg|thumb|[[Helen Page Camp]] as the saleslady.]]

At a department store, Troy runs into a chatty, but helpful saleslady who aids him in getting camping equipment and clothing for himself, Troy, and the [[Super Scouts]].

Already in awe over the bulk of what he's buying, she is shocked at the money she is given, absently commenting that they must've robbed a bank -- which is fairly accurate ([[The Super Scouts, Part I]]).

: ''The unnamed saleslady is portrayed by [[Helen Page Camp]].''

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==== United States Air Force ====

A variety of [[w:United States Air Force|United States Air Force]] personnel are seen in the series, as their role is typically suited to running around and being thwarted by the Warriors at every turn.

===== Air Force Colonel =====

[[Image:Air Force Colonel.jpg|thumb|[[Hank Brandt]] as the Air Force Colonel.]]

[[Walt Griffin]] and his son, [[Willie Griffin]], talk to an Air Force colonel after Willie discovers that the Vipers have landed in the meadow again. The Colonel informs a dejected Willie that he cannot tell anyone of the spaceships ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]).

: ''This Air Force Colonel was portrayed by [[Hank Brandt]].''

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===== Air Force Officer =====

[[Image:Air Force officer.jpg|thumb|[[Jack Ging]] as an USAF officer.]]

An USAF officer reports to Colonel [[Jack Sydell]] that they've found nothing of the [[Shuttle Alpha|alleged craft]] that landed the night before. He does tell them of an encampment of [[Super Scouts|Boy Scots]] one meadow over, which Sydell investigates ([[The Super Scouts, Part I]]).

: ''The Air Force Officer was portrayed by [[Jack Ging]].''

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===== Air Force Major =====

[[Image:Air Force Major.jpg|thumb|[[Doug Hale]] as the Air Force Major.]]

An Air Force major is present at the [[Van Nuys A.N.G. Base]] where the three Vipers are taken. He orders that no one, not even their own people, go near the ships, noting that teams from [[w:Wright-Patterson|Wright-Patterson]] and [[w:Washington, D.C.|Washington]] are going to arrive "first thing in the morning". It is after these orders are given that Xaviar, dressed as an Air Force guardsman, enters his Viper under the cloak of invisibility and begins recharging the [[energizer]]s of his Viper via the base's generator, an event that this major witnesses ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]).

: ''The Air Force Major was portrayed by [[Doug Hale]].''

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===== Air Force Sergeant =====

An Air Force sergeant accompanies Colonel [[Jack Sydell]] to the baseball playoffs. He is instructed by Sydell to watch the children, whom he believes are the key to his inquiry into UFOs and other paranormal phenomena ([[Spaceball]]).

: ''The role is uncredited.''

==== Miscellaneous Civilians ====

===== Flight 2 Kid =====

[[Image:Flight 2 kid.jpg|thumb|A meddlesome little kid on the New York bound Flight 2.]]

After two [[#Hijackers|Cuban hijackers]] are seemingly rendered non-threatening by an unknown source, a kid points out that Dillon and Troy are responsible for this feat using their "[[laser pistol (1980)|flashing lights]]". This leads to them having to escape the air craft using their [[invisibility field]]s to avoid being detained by the authorities ([[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]).

: ''The role is uncredited.''

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===== Irate Employee =====

[[Image:Irate Employee.jpg|thumb|The irate employee.]]

An irate [[United Broadcasting Company]] employee comes across the Super Scouts in a studio as [[Wellington]] is explaining the components of a camera. An $80,000 camera in a state disassembly. He runs to Mr. [[Brooks]] office to confront Jamie Hamilton, who later drags Brooks, [[Hal]] and Hamilton down to the stage. After insisting that the camera was "ruined", it comes to him as a complete surprise that Camera 4 was in working order and he concedes that his people may have well had the camera taken apart for maintenance. The alternative, as Hamilton notes, is that a bunch of children put it back together in perfect working order ([[Spaceball]]).

: ''The role is uncredited.''

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===== Newsboy =====

[[Image:Newsboy.jpg|thumb|[[Ray Duke]] as the newsboy.]]

Lost in 1980's earth, [[Xaviar]] walks the streets of nearby [[w:Century City|Century City]], wanting to seek out the studios of the [[United Broadcasting Company]] after watching an interview with Dr. [[Donald Mortinson]]. Wanting to know how to get there, Xaviar questions a newsboy, who informs him that he can get there by using a cab.

Xaviar walks away, but the newsboy obtrusively asks the reason for the questioning, which results in Xaviar stunning the newsboy and then trying to hail for a cab ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]).

: ''The unnamed newsboy is portrayed by [[Ray Duke]].''

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===== PIT Guards =====

[[Image:PIT Guard 2.jpg|thumb|[[Don Maxwell]] as 2nd Guard ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]).]]

At the [[Pacific Institute of Technology]]'s AR Building, [[Troy (1980)|Troy]] and [[Dillon]] run into two guards. The [[Jack Archer|first guard]], whose full name is not spoken in dialogue<ref>The name is deduced based on a comment he makes to [[Dorothy Carlyle]] and a legible shot of his name badge. See: [[Jack Archer]] for details.</ref> is stunned by Troy, allowing the two of them to enter Dr. [[Donald Mortinson]]'s office.

A second guard stops Troy and Dillon at gunpoint on a walk way after they leave Mortinson's office, with [[Dorothy Carlyle]] close behind ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]).

: ''The first guard, credited only as 1st Guard, is played by [[Frank Downing]]. The second guard, credited as 2nd Guard, is played by [[Don Maxwell]].''

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===== The Griffins =====

{{inlineref|Willie's sister}} is seen sitting at the dinner table in the Griffin's kitchen as [[Willie Griffin]] storms in, trying to tell them of the two [[Viper (TOS)|Viper]]s he comes across. She asks about the ships, but her mother interrupts, telling [[Walt Griffin|her husband]] to stop Willie out of fear of her apparent gullibility ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]).

{{inlineref|Willie's mother}} is seen as Willie bursts into the house in the typical place for Earthling women: the kitchen. In a manner typical of house-bound women of 1980s Earth, she admonishes Willie for dragging dirt through her house. Later, she prissily tells [[Walt Griffin]], her husband, to put a stop in Willie's "made up" story about the two space ships he sees in the field ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]).

: ''Neither actresses are apparently credited.''

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Image:Willie's sister.jpg|Willie's sister has her interest piqued by Willie's story about the spaceships.
Image:Willie's mother.jpg|Willie's mother sits at the dinner table, displeased with Willie's not-so-make-believe story.
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=== Cubans ===

==== Hijackers ====

[[Image:Terrorists.jpg|thumb|Two men, a baby doll and an airplane. A new show from [[Glen Larson]].]]

Two male Cuban hijackers, masquerading as a married heterosexual couple with a baby (which is a doll), attempt to hijack a New York bound flight Troy and Dillon are on. Once they spring their plan, the Warriors -- on a mission to intercept a craft they believe is one of their own -- decide they don't have the time to visit Cuba and stun them. This doesn't go past the notice of a boy, who points out the two heroes to the flight attendants and the people aboard the craft, forcing them to evade the law upon landing ([[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]).

: ''The roles of the two hijackers are uncredited.''

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=== Germans ===

When observing the loading of trains bound for the [[w:Auschwitz|Auschwitz]] concentration camp, a little girl runs toward Hamilton, Dillon, Troy, and [[Stockwell]]. Troy grabs her while Dillon shoots at the pursuing Nazi guard and with her makes their escape.

Later, [[Stockwell]] meets up with the leader of a resistance cell in [[Peenemünde]], [[w:Germany|Germany]], the owner of a local bookstore. It is this bookstore that is the headquarters for the local resistance, which Stockwell hopes will help him in thwarting the Nazi's V-2 rocket program. The Gestapo subsequently storm the bookstore, capturing the resistance and the little girl as well ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]).

Both of these individuals, including box cars full of Jews and others meant to be transferred to Auschwitz, are subsequently freed by Major [[Stockwell]] and Jamie Hamilton ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]).

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Image:Resistance Leader.jpg|The German {{inlineref|bold=N|Resistance Leader|resistance leader}} portrayed by [[Michael Strong]].
Image:Little Girl.jpg|A {{inlineref|bold=N|Little Girl|little Jewish girl}} portrayed by [[Missy Francis]].
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=== Nazi Officers ===

[[Xaviar]] works with various unnamed Nazi officers in his bid to increase Earth's technological level ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]).

==== German Colonel ====

A [[#German Officer|German officer]], apparently a Colonel<ref>The Luftwaffe flight leader who engages Troy and Dillon's [[Viper (1980)|Viper]]s refers to the commanding officer as thus in his threatening orders to his pilots, falsely believing that the Vipers were the Germans' own experimental aircraft.</ref>, is greeted by various officers when he enters an office. He is quickly notified of the appearance of two air craft believed to be of American origin, and orders the Luftwaffe to dispatch them. This same officer later comments that "soon we will have planes that don't even have propellers" ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]).

: ''The German Colonel is portrayed by [[Louis Turenne]].''

==== German pilot ====

A German pilot, apparently the [[#Luftwaffe commander|Luftwaffe's flight leader or commander]] engages Troy and Dillon's Vipers, only to break off the attack after discovering that the craft have no markings. Believing them to be the German's own experimental aircraft, he threateningly orders his fellow pilots not to mention the incident to anyone ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]).

: ''The actor portraying the German pilot is unknown.''

==== German Commander ====

A character credited as "German Commander", despite his rank being revealed in the dialogue as "Colonel", is seen leading the Gestapo into the [[#Resistance Leader|Resistance Leader]]'s bookstore. After the Gestapo disarm and remove everyone in the building (that they can see anyway), one of the invisible Warriors causes the Colonel's gun to go off while in the holster, shooting him in the leg (or foot). This results in a noticeable limp.

Later, the Gestapo Colonel is seen behind the other Colonel as General [[Yodel]] comes to see the V-2 rocket that Xaviar designed ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]).

After the debacle, the Colonel is seen in the train station yard as they load Jews and other dissidents into box cars. He reacts furiously when he sees (but apparently cannot believe) that [[turbine|flying bikes]] are attacking the train yard; this diversion allows Jamie Hamilton and Major Stockwell to extricate the innocent people from the box cars ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]).

: ''The German Commander is played by [[Curt Lowens]].''

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Image:German Commander.jpg|[[Louis Turenne]] as a {{inlineref|bold=N|German Officer|German Colonel}}.
Image:German pilot.jpg|The {{inlineref|bold=N|Luftwaffe commander}} that engages the Vipers.
Image:German Commander 2.jpg|[[Curt Lowens]] as a German Gestapo Colonel, although he is credited as "German Commander".
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This is a listing of unnamed characters in ''[[Galactica 1980]]''.

== Colonials ==

=== Girl on Bridge ===

[[Image:Ellen Gerken TROS.jpg|thumb|[[Ellen Gerken]] as the "Girl on Bridge" telling [[Adama (1980)|Adama]] important news.]]

A '''"Girl on Bridge"''' (portrayed by [[Ellen Gerken]]) informs Commander [[Adama (1980)|Adama]] that the [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylon]] [[Raider (TOS)|Raider]]s are running and that the [[Viper (TOS)|Viper]] pilots wish to pursue ([[The Return of Starbuck]]).

: ''The girl was portrayed by [[Ellen Gerken]].''

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=== Maintenance Captain ===

[[Image:Maintenance Captain.jpg|thumb|Maintenance Captain barges in to complain about [[D Squadron]].]]

An unnamed captain, presumably part of the maintenance crew, barges into [[Adama (1980)|Adama]]'s [[Adama's quarters|office]] interrupting a conversation between the commander and Colonel [[Boomer (1980)|Boomer]]. He complains about the [[D Squadron]] and their unsafe modifications to their Vipers, which raise concern from Adama ([[Space Croppers]]).

: ''The role is apparently uncredited.''

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== Earthlings ==

=== Americans ===

==== Airport and Airline Personnel ====

===== Flight 2 Co-Pilot =====

[[Image:Flight 2 captain.jpg|thumb|Flight 2's Co-Pilot.]]

The captain of Flight 2 appears in the passenger cabin prompted by an indicator light that signified the deployment of the oxygen masks. The stewardess tells him of the hijacking attempt and subsequently remove the weapon from one of the stunned hijackers. When how they became stunned comes to question, a boy tells him that Dillon and Troy stunned them, which he doesn't believe. However, he tells them to stay onboard after the plane lands at Kennedy Airport, since the authorities would want to question them ([[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]).

: ''The role is uncredited.''

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===== Flight 2 Stewardess =====

[[Image:Stewardess.jpg|thumb|Flight 2's stewardess.]]

Dillon and Troy first encounter the stewardess as they board the airplane. Later, during the flight, she is taken hostage by [[#Hijackers|two Cuban hijackers]], but is subsequently saved by Troy and Dillon when they stun the hijackers. She later credits them for being two regular heroes and lets them comb their hair before being questioned by the authorities at JFK airport. It is because of this liberty that Dillon and Troy are able to escape via their [[invisibility field]]s, which she experiences when a cop pushes into her; she is left to believe that he wanted to get frisky with her ([[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II]]).

: ''The stewardess was portrayed by [[Sheila de Windt]].''

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===== Flight 427 =====

The people of Flight 427 are almost killed when the damaged [[Shuttle Alpha]] makes its landing on Earth. Its co-pilot warns the captain of the danger, which allows the captain to quickly react and pilot the commercial aircraft out of the shuttle's way.

The furious captain, who believes the shuttle to be a military aircraft, angrily growls about how he is sick of hot shots clogging up the commercial air lanes and rips into the USAF ([[The Super Scouts, Part I]]).

: ''The captain was portrayed by [[Simon Scott]]. The co-pilot was portrayed by [[Ken Scott]].''

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Image:Flight 427 captain.jpg|[[Simon Scott]] as the captain.
Image:Flight 427 co-pilot.jpg|[[Ken Scott]] as the co-pilot.
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===== Ticket Master =====

When Troy and Dillon enter the [[Los Angeles Airport]], they speak to two different women who are ticket masters.

The first is at the front desk gives them their prepaid tickets for Flight 2 to [[New York City]]. She can tell they don't travel by air, since they ask about the metal detector scanners they have to pass through due to the threat posed by [[hijacking]].

The second is at the boarding area as she finalizes their tickets. Dillon and Troy, not knowing that there is a "smoking and non-smoking" section to the flight, lead to an idiotically "cute" question regarding how the plane would work best. She points out the gate and they leave. This same ticket master deals with the two terrorists posing as a married couple with a young baby, saying that they had just made the flight ([[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]).

: ''Both roles is uncredited.''

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Image:Ticketmaster.jpg|The first ticket master.
Image:Ticket Master 2.jpg|The second ticket master.
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==== Baseball Related ====

===== Announcer =====

[[Image:Announcer.jpg|thumb|The announcer of the playoffs.]]

The announcer is an older man in his sixties who announces the various plays in the game between the [[Encino Cougars]] and the [[Polecats]]. Before the game, he interviews [[Billy Eheres]] about his team ([[Spaceball]]).

: ''The role is uncredited.''

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===== Camp Aide =====

[[Image:Camp Aide.jpg|thumb|The camp aide.]]

[[Billy Eheres]]' aide informs [[Jamie Hamilton]] and [[Xaviar]] (under the guise of Lieutenant [[Nash (1980)|Nash]]) that the [[Casey's Baseball Park|camp]] will fall because half their team is out sick for a game that could capture sponsors for their camp.

Amongst his other duties, he also acts as an assistant coach under Eheres ([[Spaceball]]).

: ''The role is uncredited.''

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===== Umpire =====

[[Image:Umpire.jpg|thumb|The umpire.]]

The umpire overseeing the game between the Polecats and the Encino Cougars has a sour disposition. This is particularly apparent when a [[Super Scout]] makes off with his shiny new silver dollar and, later, when a grounder hit by a Super Scout digs itself into the ground, resulting in an argument with the groundskeeper, [[Jenkins]] ([[Spaceball]]).

: ''The role is uncredited.''

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==== Law Enforcement ====

===== California Highway Patrol =====

Two California Highway Patrol officers ({{inlineref|bold=N|CHiP|CHiPs}}) encounter and pursue Dillon and Troy due to the fact that their [[turbine]]s did not have license plates. Both warriors subsequently escape them using their [[invisibility field]].

These same CHiPs later find Dillon and Troy on the highway again, after they had made their purchase at a department store for supplies. With no time for subtlety, the Warriors fly off, leaving them bemused ([[The Super Scouts, Part I]]).

: ''The two CHiPs are uncredited.''

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Image:Older CHiP.jpg
Image:Young CHiP.jpg
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===== New York Police Department =====

Troy and Dillon run into many NYPD cops. The first two are notable for chasing Troy and Dillon, who possess a stolen New York Highway Patrol car, into the Port of New York and off a pier ("[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]", "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II]]").

As Troy and Dillon overhear police communications of an open cop car, they encounter an old {{inlineref|NYPD cop}} who is answering a domestic disturbance. He asks them if they need anything, but they politely decline and walk away. The cop listens closer and hears a description of two suspects (Troy and Dillon) in wet clothing and proceeds to follow them. Later, he is shown by the M.C. that points them out on stage, having been unwittingly dragooned after changing their wet clothing into white suits. However, Troy and Dillon perform a [[invisibility field|disappearing act]] and they leave, brushing by the cop as they leave ([[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]).

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Image:NYPD cops.jpg|The two NYPD cops that pursue Troy and Dillon, until their car flies off a pier.
Image:NYPD cop.jpg|A cop that meets the soaking wet [[Warrior]]s in New York.
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===== Sheriff =====

[[Image:Sheriff.jpg|thumb|[[Ted Gehring]] as the sheriff.]]

A sheriff is first introduced when [[Walt Griffin]] reports on two [[Viper (1980)|mysterious space craft]] appear on a meadow. The spacecraft, however, are gone, having just launched into the night sky -- which the sheriff writes off as shooting stars ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]])

This same sheriff later drives up to the [[Maggies Truck Heaven]] diner, passing by Troy and Dillon as they wave in his direction, since his car had just passed the bus that Hamilton was on. He stops to ask if they need any help, but they politely decline.

After driving up to the diner and buying an edition of ''[[The Daily News]]'' paper, he notes that they are wanted for the attempted kidnapping of Dr. Mortinson and pursue in a short chase. Troy and Dillon swiftly escape the chase, activating their [[turbine]]s' flight systems and flying off into the air. He later stops on the side of the road, telling the dispatcher, [[Harvey]], that he wasn't feeling too well ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]).

: ''The unnamed sheriff is played by [[Ted Gehring]].''

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==== New York, New York ====

A list of unnamed people found in [[New York City|New York]], New York in "[[The Night the Cylons Landed]]" two-parter.

===== Central Park Cabbie =====

[[Image:Central Park cabbie.jpg|thumb|Cabbie at Central Park.]]

Troy and Dillon manage to hail down another cabbie after leaving a theater to get to [[Central Park]]. Later on, the same cabbie picks up [[Wolfman Jack]] and the Cylons, [[Andromus]] and [[Centuri]] at Central Park, taking them to the [[International Trade Center]]. When he asks them to pay their fare of five dollars, Andromus uses his persuasion abilities to get out of this fare ([[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II]]).

: ''The cabbie was portrayed by [[Arthur Batanides]].''

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===== JFK Cabbie =====

[[Image:Cabbie 1.jpg|thumb|The cabbie that picks up Troy and Dillon at JFK.]]

Troy and Dillon enter a cab waiting at JFK International Airport. They manage to convince the cabbie that they could pay, even when they didn't exactly know where they were going and proved to have the "bread" to pay and, because of him, managed to make it to the wreck of the [[A-B Raider]] before its destruction ([[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]).

: ''The role is uncredited.''

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===== Lollipop Star =====

[[Image:Lollipop star.jpg|thumb|The star of the "Good Ship Lollipop" portion of a play Troy and Dillon are cornered into performing in.]]

Troy and Dillon meet a woman who stars in the theater play "Good Ship Lollipop" literally on stage. Troy and Dillon, mistaken by the director as stage performers due to their white tuxedos, is thrust into the play and is forced to play along. However, they do badly. When the cops that follow them show up behind the stage, Troy and Dillon are told to pick her up. They do so and, in order to avoid detection by the cops, they turn on their [[invisibility field]]s, making it appear as if she's floating in the air. They deposit her and leave in a rush ([[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II]]).

: ''The "Lollipop" star was portrayed by [[Heather Young]], who had a recurring role in Land of the Giants''

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===== Theater Director =====

[[Image:Theater director.jpg|thumb|A theater director of a play in a New York theater.]]

The director of the play that Troy and Dillon happen across pushes the Warriors on stage, assuming them to be stage performers. However, it becomes apparent to this director that they aren't part of his cast and, minutes later, points them out to two cops that had been pursing the Warriors. He looks on in amazement as the [[#Lollipop Star|star]] of his play appears to float in the air ([[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II]]).

: ''The role appears to be uncredited.''

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==== Paradise Valley, California ====

A listing of unnamed people found in [[Paradise Valley]], California in "[[The Super Scouts]]' two-parter.

===== Bank Teller =====

[[Image:Bank Teller.jpg|thumb|[[Caroline Smith]] as the bank teller.]]

Dillon talks to a bank teller at a bank, hoping to get the [[cubit]]s analyzed in a quick fashion. After she claims that they don't assay the gold at the bank, Dillon asks for the coins back, but is met with stern questioning from her regarding the origin of the coins. Believing him to be a thief, she activates a silent alarm, which Dillon notices.

Dillon subsequently stuns a guard named [[Harry]] after she calls for help. Seeing this, she gives him the cubits and thousands in dollar bills. Dillon attempts to give it back, but she is too sacred to accept.

The teller tries to convince him to give up his robbery attempt, seeing that he's a "nice kid". Dillon promises to pay her back, asking her where she lives. She replies that answering that would be crazy, but gives him an address of 327 Harrat Street when Dillon points the laser pistol at her. She quickly replies that she's moving "just as soon as you finish robbing this bank" ([[The Super Scouts, Part I]]).

: ''The bank teller is portrayed by [[Caroline Smith]].''

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===== Saleslady =====

[[Image:Saleslady.jpg|thumb|[[Helen Page Camp]] as the saleslady.]]

At a department store, Troy runs into a chatty, but helpful saleslady who aids him in getting camping equipment and clothing for himself, Troy, and the [[Super Scouts]].

Already in awe over the bulk of what he's buying, she is shocked at the money she is given, absently commenting that they must've robbed a bank -- which is fairly accurate ([[The Super Scouts, Part I]]).

: ''The unnamed saleslady is portrayed by [[Helen Page Camp]].''

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==== United States Air Force ====

A variety of [[w:United States Air Force|United States Air Force]] personnel are seen in the series, as their role is typically suited to running around and being thwarted by the Warriors at every turn.

===== Air Force Colonel =====

[[Image:Air Force Colonel.jpg|thumb|[[Hank Brandt]] as the Air Force Colonel.]]

[[Walt Griffin]] and his son, [[Willie Griffin]], talk to an Air Force colonel after Willie discovers that the Vipers have landed in the meadow again. The Colonel informs a dejected Willie that he cannot tell anyone of the spaceships ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]).

: ''This Air Force Colonel was portrayed by [[Hank Brandt]].''

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===== Air Force Officer =====

[[Image:Air Force officer.jpg|thumb|[[Jack Ging]] as an USAF officer.]]

An USAF officer reports to Colonel [[Jack Sydell]] that they've found nothing of the [[Shuttle Alpha|alleged craft]] that landed the night before. He does tell them of an encampment of [[Super Scouts|Boy Scots]] one meadow over, which Sydell investigates ([[The Super Scouts, Part I]]).

: ''The Air Force Officer was portrayed by [[Jack Ging]].''

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===== Air Force Major =====

[[Image:Air Force Major.jpg|thumb|[[Doug Hale]] as the Air Force Major.]]

An Air Force major is present at the [[Van Nuys A.N.G. Base]] where the three Vipers are taken. He orders that no one, not even their own people, go near the ships, noting that teams from [[w:Wright-Patterson|Wright-Patterson]] and [[w:Washington, D.C.|Washington]] are going to arrive "first thing in the morning". It is after these orders are given that Xaviar, dressed as an Air Force guardsman, enters his Viper under the cloak of invisibility and begins recharging the [[energizer]]s of his Viper via the base's generator, an event that this major witnesses ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]).

: ''The Air Force Major was portrayed by [[Doug Hale]].''

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===== Air Force Sergeant =====

An Air Force sergeant accompanies Colonel [[Jack Sydell]] to the baseball playoffs. He is instructed by Sydell to watch the children, whom he believes are the key to his inquiry into UFOs and other paranormal phenomena ([[Spaceball]]).

: ''The role is uncredited.''

==== Miscellaneous Civilians ====

===== Flight 2 Kid =====

[[Image:Flight 2 kid.jpg|thumb|A meddlesome little kid on the New York bound Flight 2.]]

After two [[#Hijackers|Cuban hijackers]] are seemingly rendered non-threatening by an unknown source, a kid points out that Dillon and Troy are responsible for this feat using their "[[laser pistol (1980)|flashing lights]]". This leads to them having to escape the air craft using their [[invisibility field]]s to avoid being detained by the authorities ([[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]).

: ''The role is uncredited.''

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===== Irate Employee =====

[[Image:Irate Employee.jpg|thumb|The irate employee.]]

An irate [[United Broadcasting Company]] employee comes across the Super Scouts in a studio as [[Wellington]] is explaining the components of a camera. An $80,000 camera in a state disassembly. He runs to Mr. [[Brooks]] office to confront Jamie Hamilton, who later drags Brooks, [[Hal]] and Hamilton down to the stage. After insisting that the camera was "ruined", it comes to him as a complete surprise that Camera 4 was in working order and he concedes that his people may have well had the camera taken apart for maintenance. The alternative, as Hamilton notes, is that a bunch of children put it back together in perfect working order ([[Spaceball]]).

: ''The role is uncredited.''

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===== Newsboy =====

[[Image:Newsboy.jpg|thumb|[[Ray Duke]] as the newsboy.]]

Lost in 1980's earth, [[Xaviar]] walks the streets of nearby [[w:Century City|Century City]], wanting to seek out the studios of the [[United Broadcasting Company]] after watching an interview with Dr. [[Donald Mortinson]]. Wanting to know how to get there, Xaviar questions a newsboy, who informs him that he can get there by using a cab.

Xaviar walks away, but the newsboy obtrusively asks the reason for the questioning, which results in Xaviar stunning the newsboy and then trying to hail for a cab ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]).

: ''The unnamed newsboy is portrayed by [[Ray Duke]].''

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===== PIT Guards =====

[[Image:PIT Guard 2.jpg|thumb|[[Don Maxwell]] as 2nd Guard ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]).]]

At the [[Pacific Institute of Technology]]'s AR Building, [[Troy (1980)|Troy]] and [[Dillon]] run into two guards. The [[Jack Archer|first guard]], whose full name is not spoken in dialogue<ref>The name is deduced based on a comment he makes to [[Dorothy Carlyle]] and a legible shot of his name badge. See: [[Jack Archer]] for details.</ref> is stunned by Troy, allowing the two of them to enter Dr. [[Donald Mortinson]]'s office.

A second guard stops Troy and Dillon at gunpoint on a walk way after they leave Mortinson's office, with [[Dorothy Carlyle]] close behind ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]).

: ''The first guard, credited only as 1st Guard, is played by [[Frank Downing]]. The second guard, credited as 2nd Guard, is played by [[Don Maxwell]].''

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===== The Griffins =====

{{inlineref|Willie's sister}} is seen sitting at the dinner table in the Griffin's kitchen as [[Willie Griffin]] storms in, trying to tell them of the two [[Viper (TOS)|Viper]]s he comes across. She asks about the ships, but her mother interrupts, telling [[Walt Griffin|her husband]] to stop Willie out of fear of her apparent gullibility ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]).

{{inlineref|Willie's mother}} is seen as Willie bursts into the house in the typical place for Earthling women: the kitchen. In a manner typical of house-bound women of 1980s Earth, she admonishes Willie for dragging dirt through her house. Later, she prissily tells [[Walt Griffin]], her husband, to put a stop in Willie's "made up" story about the two space ships he sees in the field ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]).

: ''Neither actresses are apparently credited.''

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Image:Willie's sister.jpg|Willie's sister has her interest piqued by Willie's story about the spaceships.
Image:Willie's mother.jpg|Willie's mother sits at the dinner table, displeased with Willie's not-so-make-believe story.
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=== Cubans ===

==== Hijackers ====

[[Image:Terrorists.jpg|thumb|Two men, a baby doll and an airplane. A new show from [[Glen Larson]].]]

Two male Cuban hijackers, masquerading as a married heterosexual couple with a baby (which is a doll), attempt to hijack a New York bound flight Troy and Dillon are on. Once they spring their plan, the Warriors -- on a mission to intercept a craft they believe is one of their own -- decide they don't have the time to visit Cuba and stun them. This doesn't go past the notice of a boy, who points out the two heroes to the flight attendants and the people aboard the craft, forcing them to evade the law upon landing ([[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]).

: ''The roles of the two hijackers are uncredited.''

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=== Germans ===

When observing the loading of trains bound for the [[w:Auschwitz|Auschwitz]] concentration camp, a little girl runs toward Hamilton, Dillon, Troy, and [[Stockwell]]. Troy grabs her while Dillon shoots at the pursuing Nazi guard and with her makes their escape.

Later, [[Stockwell]] meets up with the leader of a resistance cell in [[Peenemünde]], [[w:Germany|Germany]], the owner of a local bookstore. It is this bookstore that is the headquarters for the local resistance, which Stockwell hopes will help him in thwarting the Nazi's V-2 rocket program. The Gestapo subsequently storm the bookstore, capturing the resistance and the little girl as well ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]).

Both of these individuals, including box cars full of Jews and others meant to be transferred to Auschwitz, are subsequently freed by Major [[Stockwell]] and Jamie Hamilton ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]).

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Image:Resistance Leader.jpg|The German {{inlineref|bold=N|Resistance Leader|resistance leader}} portrayed by [[Michael Strong]].
Image:Little Girl.jpg|A {{inlineref|bold=N|Little Girl|little Jewish girl}} portrayed by [[Missy Francis]].
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=== Nazi Officers ===

[[Xaviar]] works with various unnamed Nazi officers in his bid to increase Earth's technological level ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]).

==== German Colonel ====

A [[#German Officer|German officer]], apparently a Colonel<ref>The Luftwaffe flight leader who engages Troy and Dillon's [[Viper (1980)|Viper]]s refers to the commanding officer as thus in his threatening orders to his pilots, falsely believing that the Vipers were the Germans' own experimental aircraft.</ref>, is greeted by various officers when he enters an office. He is quickly notified of the appearance of two air craft believed to be of American origin, and orders the Luftwaffe to dispatch them. This same officer later comments that "soon we will have planes that don't even have propellers" ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]).

: ''The German Colonel is portrayed by [[Louis Turenne]].''

==== German pilot ====

A German pilot, apparently the [[#Luftwaffe commander|Luftwaffe's flight leader or commander]] engages Troy and Dillon's Vipers, only to break off the attack after discovering that the craft have no markings. Believing them to be the German's own experimental aircraft, he threateningly orders his fellow pilots not to mention the incident to anyone ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]).

: ''The actor portraying the German pilot is unknown.''

==== German Commander ====

A character credited as "German Commander", despite his rank being revealed in the dialogue as "Colonel", is seen leading the Gestapo into the [[#Resistance Leader|Resistance Leader]]'s bookstore. After the Gestapo disarm and remove everyone in the building (that they can see anyway), one of the invisible Warriors causes the Colonel's gun to go off while in the holster, shooting him in the leg (or foot). This results in a noticeable limp.

Later, the Gestapo Colonel is seen behind the other Colonel as General [[Yodel]] comes to see the V-2 rocket that Xaviar designed ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]).

After the debacle, the Colonel is seen in the train station yard as they load Jews and other dissidents into box cars. He reacts furiously when he sees (but apparently cannot believe) that [[turbine|flying bikes]] are attacking the train yard; this diversion allows Jamie Hamilton and Major Stockwell to extricate the innocent people from the box cars ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]).

: ''The German Commander is played by [[Curt Lowens]].''

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Image:German Commander.jpg|[[Louis Turenne]] as a {{inlineref|bold=N|German Officer|German Colonel}}.
Image:German pilot.jpg|The {{inlineref|bold=N|Luftwaffe commander}} that engages the Vipers.
Image:German Commander 2.jpg|[[Curt Lowens]] as a German Gestapo Colonel, although he is credited as "German Commander".
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Timeline (1980)

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The timeline below chronicles the events depicted in the classic [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Battlestar Galactica]] television program and its [[spin-off]], ''[[Galactica 1980]]''.

The timeline is given in "Earth" years, BCE <ref>BCE stands for "Before the Common Era," an updated variation of the older term "B.C." (Before Christ)</ref> and AD, not by Colonial [[yahren]].

==In the beginning on [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]]==

The [[Beings of Light]] intervene at the beginning of human development.<ref>Adama refers to the [[Beings of Light]] as the "mother race" in "[[War of the Gods]]".</ref>

==c. 4,000 BCE==

The beginning of recorded human history, on the mother world - the planet [[Kobol (TOS)|Kobol]]. <ref>At the beginning of "[[Saga of a Star World]]", it is mentioned that the peace conference is being held at the beginning of the 7th millennium of human history, which would mean human history was just crossing into its 6,000th year. 6,000 years prior to "[[Saga of a Star World]]", which is noted later in this timeline as happening in 1950, would be circa 4,000 BCE.</ref>

==The Exodus==

The original 13 tribes leave Kobol and head out into space. Twelve of the tribes settle near each other in the area known as the [[The Twelve Colonies (TOS)|Twelve Colonies of Man]]. The remaining [[Thirteenth Tribe (TOS)|Thirteenth Tribe]] heads to [[Earth (TOS)|Earth]].

==69 BCE to AD 1899==

69 BCE - 30 BCE

:Life of [[w:Cleopatra VII of Egypt|Cleopatra VII of Egypt]].<ref>A partially filmed, but never aired episode of ''Galactica 1980'', entitled "[[The Day They Kidnapped Cleopatra]]" was partially set in 30 BCE. The announcement of the cancellation of the series by ABC came during the filming, and the episode was never completed. This episode would have brought back the time travel plot device used in the first episode. Additionally, Egyptian themes were used frequently in ''Battlestar Galactica'', such as the city of [[Eden]] in "[[Lost Planet of the Gods]]".</ref>

c. 50 BCE

:The Colonies begin to re-establish their space travel capabilities. At this time, they used rocket-propelled sublight craft.<ref>Ancient space travel is characterized in the classic episode "[[The Hand of God (TOS)|The Hand of God]]".</ref>

prior to AD 950

:Just prior to AD 950, the [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylons]], a reptilian race, allow themselves to be assimilated by their robotic creations.

c. AD 950

:The Cylons attack the [[Hasari]], whose territory neighbors the Colonies, who intervene to assist their neighbor. As a result of this intervention, the [[Thousand Yahren War]] begins between the Colonies and the Cylon Empire. <ref>The [[Thousand Yahren War]] begins 1,000 years before "[[Saga of a Star World]]" which, as noted later in this timeline, is set around 1950.</ref>

c. 1450

:Approximate time that ''[[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]]'' is launched. Back then, the [[Celestial chamber|celestial chambers]] on ''Galactica'' were used to confirm navigational headings. <ref>A 500 year old celestial chamber is depicted in "[[The Hand of God (TOS)|The Hand of God]]".</ref>

1776

:[[Xavier]] arrives in [[w:American Revolution|Revolutionary America]] and tries to change history. [[Troy (1980)|Troy]], [[Dillon]] and [[Jamie Hamilton]] follow him, and thwart his plans, but he apparently escapes to another time frame. <ref>The trip to 1776 is mentioned in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]" but not shown on screen. Xavier's plans are mentioned at the start of "[[Spaceball]]".</ref>

prior to 1850

:[[Adama (TOS)|Adama]] is born. <ref>Adama reveals he is over a hundred yahrens old in "[[Lost Planet of the Gods]]".</ref>

==1900-1949==

* {{inlineref|1917}}: [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]] is born on Caprica. His father is [[Chameleon]].<ref>Based on the age of [[Dirk Benedict]] during the filming of the Original Series. Starbuck is revealed to be from Caprica, as well as Chameleon being his father in "[[The Man With Nine Lives]]".</ref>
* {{inlineref|1918}}
** '''November 11''': Earth's [[w:World War I|World War I]] officially ends.<ref>Jamie Hamilton makes a ''slight'' error when she tells the Galacticans that "20 years later, in 1939, World War II broke out" in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]". However, she was reciting this from memory, so it's an understandable error.</ref>
* {{inlineref|1939}}
** '''September 1''': Earth's World War II begins.<ref>As confirmed by [[Jamie Hamilton]] in her conversation to the Galacticans in [[Zee's chamber]] ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]).</ref>
* {{inlineref|1943}}: [[Troy (1980)|Boxey]] is born to [[Serina]] on Caprica.<ref>This calculation is based on [[Noah Hathaway]]'s age during the filming of the Original Series. This would make Boxey seven years old in "[[Saga of a Star World]]" and 37 years of age in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]" -- which happened to be the age of [[Kent McCord]] when he played the role.</ref>
* {{inlineref|1944}}: [[Xavier]] arrives in [[w:Nazi Germany|Nazi Germany]] and poses as a British scientist and Nazi sympathizer. He volunteers to work with the [[w:V-2 rocket|V-2 rocket program]] and introduces Colonial technology, in hopes of changing history by ensuring a Nazi victory in [[w:World War Two|World War Two]].<ref>Described in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]".</ref>
**'''June 4''': Troy, Dillon and Hamilton's time destination.<ref name="gde2">Depicted in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]" and "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]".</ref>
**'''June 5-6''': Hamilton, Troy and Dillon arrive in Nazi Germany a day before the [[w:D-Day|D-Day]] invasion. With the help of a [[Stockwell|U.S. agent]], they locate Xavier and force him to return to 1980.<ref name="gde2"/>
* {{inlineref|1947}}: The United States Air Force begins [[w:Project Blue Book|Project Blue Book]], a 22 year long investigation into unidentified flying objects.<ref>Project Blue Book is mentioned in a disclaimer at the end of every ''Galactica 1980'' episode. [[Colonel Sydell]]'s new organization within the US Air Force in the series has a similar mandate, and the disclaimer was apparently put in place to assure viewers that Sydell's organization was fictitious, and not to be confused with the real project that had concluded years before.</ref>
* {{inlineref|1948}}: The [[Fifth Fleet]] engages the Cylons at the [[Battle of Molecay]]. ''[[Pegasus (TOS)|Pegasus]]'' is the only Colonial vessel to survive. [[Commander Cain]], realizing that the Cylons were doubtless lying in wait along the entire route back to the Colonies, orders ''Pegasus'' out into deep space towards the [[Krillian Star System]] and [[Gamoray]].<ref>Two yahrens prior to the events of "[[The Living Legend, Part I]]".</ref>

==1950==

The destruction of the Colonies, thirty years before ''Galactica'' discovers Earth.<ref>Officially, ''Galactica 1980'' was set 30 years after the events of the Original Series. This piece of information is never specifically mentioned on screen, but was mentioned in promotional advertising and noted in background material for the program.</ref><ref>http://www.tv.com/galactica-1980/show/1252/summary.html</ref>

The episodes and events of the Original Series are set during this period.

==1951 - 1979==

: ''The period between ''[[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)]]'' and ''[[Galactica 1980]]''.''

The Cylons, over this 30 year period, develop completely new technologies and evolve considerably - "beyond the wildest fears" of the Colonials, according to Dr. Zee. These new technologies include improved Cylon Raiders and the creation of humanoid Cylons.<ref>The increased technological prowess of the Cylons is described in "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]" and "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]".</ref>

Also, during this period, the Imperious Leader is apparently replaced, as his voice is considerably different by 1980.<ref>When the Imperious Leader is shown in "[[Space Croppers]]", he is no longer voiced by [[Patrick Macnee]], but instead by [[Dennis Haysbert]].</ref>

Sometime prior to 1970, [[Captain Apollo]] dies.<ref>Troy refers to Apollo's death in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]". This apparently happens before the events depicted in "[[The Return of Starbuck]]" as Starbuck does not mention Apollo when relating to Boomer people he wishes to say goodbye to. In addition, Apollo's death is apparently a mystery to the Fleet, or so the script for "[[The Wheel of Fire]]" indicates.</ref>

* {{inlineref|1951}}: [[Dillon]] is born in space aboard a vessel in the Colonial Fleet. <ref>Based on the age of [[Barry Van Dyke]] at the time of filming.</ref>

* {{inlineref|1953}}: [[Jamie Hamilton]] is born in the United States on Earth. <ref>Based on the age of actress [[Robyn Douglass]] at the time of filming, who portrayed Jamie Hamilton. She identifies herself as an American in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]".</ref>

* {{inlineref|1960}}: The last attack by the Cylons on the Colonial fleet until 1980. <ref>There has not been a Cylon attack in almost a generation prior to "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]". A generation is typically denoted as 20 years.</ref>

* {{inlineref|1970}}: [[Starbuck (1980)|Starbuck]] is stranded on a [[Planet Starbuck|desolate planetoid]], where he rebuilds the Centurion named [[Cyrus]] (nicknamed "Cy" by Starbuck). Some time later at this same location, Dr. [[Zee]] is born to the mysterious woman, [[Angela]]. <ref>Events of the flashback sequence of "[[The Return of Starbuck]]". Dr. Zee is a pre-teen child, who appears to be roughly ten years of age. Reasoning backward, he was born c. 1970.</ref>

:After 1970

::Dr. Zee's ship catches up to the Fleet. <ref>The voyage of Dr. Zee's ship is shown in "[[The Return of Starbuck]]"</ref>.

::Lt. Boomer is promoted to Colonel.<ref>By the time of "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]" Boomer has assumed this rank.</ref>

::Commander Adama grows a beard.<ref>Adama has a large Moses like beard throughout ''1980'', with the exception of the flashback scenes in "[[The Return of Starbuck]]".</ref>

::Boxey begins to go by the name "Troy" as he grows older.<ref>Troy mentions this in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]", although Adama still refers to him as thus in a private conversation before being shown the [[invisibility field]].</ref>

:1977

::Dr. [[Donald Mortinson]] begins work on his nuclear degeneration formula.<ref>According to [[Dorothy Carlyle]], Dr. Mortinson had been working on nuclear degeneration for three years as of "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]".</ref>

==1980==

''Galactica's'' long range probes arrive in the Solar System. They positively identify the third planet as Earth.

''Galactica'' and the Colonial Fleet reach Earth. Adama is now over 130 yahrens old. Troy is 37.

''Galactica 1980'' episodes "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]" through "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III|Part III]]"

:Troy, Dillon and Jamie head back in time to the American Revolution to find [[Xavier]]. <ref>Troy, Dillon and Jamie are about to head off on this mission at the end of "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]"</ref> The team is apparently successful in stopping Xavier, as there are no apparent changes to Earth's history.<ref>No reference to Xavier having achieved his goals is made in the subsequent episodes.</ref> Xavier escapes being brought into custody, however, and remains in Earth's past. While there, he perfects a process of cellular transformation which can allow him to assume the appearance of others. <ref>Xavier's activities are related in "[[Spaceball]]".</ref>

:Jamie returns to Earth, and back to the job she was offered with the United Broadcasting Corporation. <ref>As of "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]", Jamie is back at work at UBC.</ref>

:In light of the unknown aircraft violating U.S. airspace, which are in reality Colonial Vipers, the United States Air Force dedicates new funds to the tracking of U.F.O.s.

:Dr. Zee leads a project to build a new saucer-shaped fighter craft, designed to thwart the Cylons.<ref>The saucer project is revealed in "[[The Super Scouts, Part II]]" and shown again in "[[Space Croppers]]".</ref>

:The Cylons determine to test some of their new technologies on the Colonial refugees. They plan to first attack the freighter ''Delphi'', a straggling vessel in the Colonial Fleet, which happens to function as the Fleet' school.<ref>Just prior to "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]"</ref>

''Galactica 1980'' episodes "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]" and "[[The Super Scouts, Part II|Part II]]"

:Troy and Dillon spend a few days away from the children on an unknown mission.<ref>Briefly mentioned in "[Spaceball]]".</ref>

:Having spent an inordinate amount of money investigating the Super Scouts, Colonel Sydell's budget is questioned by his superiors in the United States Air Force.<ref>Just prior to "[[Spaceball]]"</ref>

:Xavier returns to the present time from Earth's past, and assumes the form of Lt. Nash of ''Galactica''. <ref>Just prior to "[[Spaceball]]"</ref>

''Galactica 1980'' episode "[[Spaceball]]."

:Xavier remains at large on Earth, without a Viper, stranded in the present and on the ground.

:In another test of their new technologies, the Cylons send out new, advanced fighters, manned by Centurions and humanoid Cylons, to search for the elusive Colonial fleet.<ref>Just prior to "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]"</ref>

:October 31 - November 1, 1980

::''Galactica 1980'' episode "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]" <ref>"The Night the Cylons Landed" is specifically noted to occur on Halloween.</ref>

::''Galactica 1980'' episode "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II]]"<ref>Episode ends in the early hours of November 1.</ref>

:Late 1980

::The [[Imperious Leader]] and his three base ships, catch up to ''Galactica'' and the Fleet, but the location of Earth remains elusive. <ref>Just prior to "[[Space Croppers]]"</ref>

::''Galactica 1980 episode'' "[[Space Croppers]]".

::''Galactica'' maintains its first colony on Earth, and the Super Scouts remain there, relocating from the baseball camp where they had been staying.

::''Galactica 1980'' episode "[[The Return of Starbuck]]".

::The scripted but only partially shot episode "[[The Day They Kidnapped Cleopatra]]" would have taken place here.

==1981==

Events that take place after ''Galactica 1980''

:In the 1980 continuity, the series ends in the middle of the story with Adama in command of ''Galactica'', and Dr. Zee finally aware of his origin.

:Xavier remains at large on the Earth, apparently having given up his attempts to alter Earth's past.

:The Cylon Empire has still not discovered Earth, but they have been able to locate the fleet twice, and two Cylons who accidentally crashed on Earth were narrowly stopped from revealing its location. In other words, the Cylons are about to discover Earth.

:The Galacticans are continuing their policy of gradually introducing technological change to Earth.

:The planned but never filmed Starbuck episode "[[The Wheel of Fire]]" would have taken place at this time.

==1990==

In Dr. Zee's projection of what could have happened in the future, environmental damage and population expansion has rendered Paradise Valley polluted and crowded. If Dr. Zee's warning was in fact heeded by the people of Paradise Valley, however, these events may not have come to pass.<ref>Possible future revealed in "[[The Super Scouts, Part II]]".</ref>

==Notes==

The crux of this timeline is the claim that the series is set 30 years after the events of the Original Series. This was done in large part to explain the cast changes, and is chiefly supported on screen by the aging of [[Troy (1980)|Troy]], who was a child in the first series. However, the 30 year date only appeared in promotional material and in interviews, and was not seen on screen. Alternative suppositions, where there was a much shorter gap, would help explain the paradox of the lunar landing depicted in "Hand of God" and the apparent youth of some of the characters.

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Timeline (TOS)

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The '''timeline''' below chronicles the events depicted in the [[Original Series]].

This timeline excludes the [[spin-off]] series ''[[Galactica 1980]]'' and does not include any information from [[separate continuity]] works such as novels and comics. Nor does it include information from the inaccurate ''[[Encyclopedia Galactica]]'' reference released in 1979.

The timeline is given in [[yahren]]s, the Colonial term for "years." The date around which the timeline revolves is 7322, the only date given in the series, and one from the Colonial calendar. This was the yahren when the [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylons]] [[Thousand Yahren War|attacked]] [[Umbra]] on [[Caprica (TOS)|Caprica]], as mentioned in "[[The Man with Nine Lives]]".

==Ancient history==

* '''Before 1:''' The [[Beings of Light]] intervene at the beginning of human development on the planet that would come to be known as [[Kobol (TOS)|Kobol]]. [[Adama (TOS)|Adama]] refers to these beings as the "Mother Race" ([[War of the Gods, Part I]]).
* '''1:''' The beginning of the Colonial calendar.
* '''~1348:''' The beginning of recorded human history on Kobol; 6,000 yahrens before "[[Saga of a Star World]]".
* '''~1348 to ~5438:''' The fall of Kobol and the Exodus of the Thirteen Tribes ("[[Saga of a Star World]]", "[[Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I]]").
* '''~5438:''' [[The Twelve Colonies (TOS)|The Twelve Colonies]] begin to re-establish their space travel capabilities. At this time, the Colonials were using [[Propulsion (TOS)|sublight]] craft reminiscent of the early space vehicles launched from Earth in the 1960s and 70s ([[The Hand of God (TOS)|The Hand of God]]). According to Adama, "It took them hundreds of yahrens to revive even the most primitive crafts" ([[Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II]], telemovie only).
* '''~6347:''' The [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylons]], a humanoid race, are taken over by their robot slaves. A machine ruler, known as the [[Imperious Leader]], comes to rule the [[Cylon Empire]] ([[War of the Gods, Part II]]).

==History of the Colonial and Cylon confict==

* '''~6348:''' The Cylons attack the [[Hasari]], whose territory neighbors the Colonies. The Colonials intervene in the conflict between the Cylons and the Hasari, and the [[Thousand-Yahren War]] begins between the Colonies and the Cylon Empire ([[Saga of a Star World]]).
* '''~6848:''' [[Battlestar (TOS)|Battlestar]] ''[[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]]'' is launched. Back then, the [[celestial chamber]]s on ''Galactica'' were used to confirm navigational headings (500 yahrens before "[[The Hand of God (TOS)|The Hand of God]]").
* '''Before 7248:''' [[Adama (TOS)|Adama]] is born ([[Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I]]).
* '''~7315:''' [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]] is born on [[The Twelve Colonies (TOS)#Caprica|Caprica]] to Adama and [[Ila]]. [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]] is born on Caprica, the son of [[Chameleon]].<ref name="actor_age">This information is based on the ages of [[Richard Hatch]] and [[Dirk Benedict]] at the time of filming, which was 33.</ref>
* {{inlineref|7322}}: The [[w:epoch (reference date)|epoch]] of this timeline. After one of the first Cylon attacks on Caprica, the people of the farm village of [[Umbra]] are scattered. Chameleon is separated from Starbuck, who is later found alone at the edge of the [[Thorn forest]] and is presumed orphaned at 7 years ([[The Man With Nine Lives]]).
* '''~7341:''' [[Boxey (TOS)|Boxey]] is born to [[Serina]] in the Colonies.<ref name="hathaway_age">This information is based on [[Noah Hathaway]]'s age at the time of filming, which was seven.</ref>
* '''7346:''' The [[Fifth Fleet]] engages the Cylons at the [[Battle of Molecay]]. Battlestar ''[[Pegasus (TOS)|Pegasus]]'' is the only Colonial vessel to survive. Commander [[Cain (TOS)|Cain]], realizing there will be Cylons lying in wait along the entire route back to the Colonies, orders ''Pegasus'' out into deep space 2 yahrens before "[[The Living Legend, Part I]]".
* '''~7347:''' ''[[Pegasus (TOS)|Pegasus]]'' heads out into deep space, eventually winding up in the [[Delphian Empire]], which is in the process of falling to the Cylons ([[The Living Legend, Part I]]).

== The Seventh Millennium of Time ==

* '''7348:''' Destruction of the Colonies, just before the 7th millennium of recorded time, and the end of the [[Thousand Yahren War]] ([[Saga of a Star World]]).

* [[Saga of a Star World]]

* [[Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I]]

* [[Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II]]

* [[The Lost Warrior]]

* [[The Long Patrol]]

* [[The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I]]

* [[The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part II]]

* [[The Magnificent Warriors]]

* [[The Young Lords]]

* [[The Living Legend, Part I]]

* [[The Living Legend, Part II]]

* [[Fire in Space]]

* [[War of the Gods, Part I]]

* [[War of the Gods, Part II]]

* [[The Man with Nine Lives]]

* [[Murder on the Rising Star]]

* [[Greetings from Earth]]

* [[Baltar's Escape]]

* [[Experiment in Terra]]

* [[Take the Celestra]]

* [[The Hand of God]]

== References ==

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{{TOS}}

Centurion (TOS)

2008-01-13T22:44:43Z

Mokwella: /* 1980 Version */

:''For the original Centurions cameo likeness in [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|the Re-imagined Series]], see [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005]]. For information on the advanced Centurions from the Re-imagined Series, see [[Cylon Centurion]].

[[Image:PartyCrashers.jpg|thumb|right|Centurions as infantry.]]
The '''Centurion''' is the workhorse of the [[Cylon Empire]]. Acting as infantry, pilots, and even cavalry (as in "[[The Lost Warrior]]") the Centurion is as versatile as it is shiny. Used in any front-line encounter, Centurions are the only type of Cylon a [[Colonial Warrior]] is likely to ever directly encounter ([[Saga of a Star World]]).

Centurions speak with a mechanical voice, typically responding to orders with the iconic phrase "[[By your command]]". Despite their name, they are the Cylon's lowest ranking soldiers, answerable to [[Command Centurion]]s and the [[IL-series]] models.

Centurions are constructed using highly advanced robotics, beyond the capabilities of the [[The Twelve Colonies (TOS)|Colonials]] to understand easily. As part of a ruse [[Wilker|Dr. Wilker]] attempts to reconstruct and reprogram a Centurion. The reprogrammed Centurion manages to move stiffly, but lacks the dexterity of a fully functional unit and destroys the controls of the [[Raider (TOS)|Raider]] when it is instructed to fly ([[Baltar's Escape]]).

Centurions are commonly armed with bayonet-equipped laser rifles, as well as swords for close combat and execution ([[Saga of a Star World]]).

The inhabitants of [[Attila]] refer to Centurions as "tin cans" ([[The Young Lords]]).

==Notable Centurions==
*'''[[Red-Eye]]''' brutally enforces [[Lacerta]]'s reign of terror on [[Equellus]] until he is destroyed by [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]]. ([[The Lost Warrior]])
*'''[[Centuri]]''' along with his commander [[Andromus]] survive a crash and head into New York City. ([[The Night the Cylons Landed]])
*'''[[Cy]]''' was rebuilt by [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]] and (after some persuasion) befriended the Colonial pilot.

==1980 Version==

In [[Galactica 1980]], it is shown that centurions have the ability to discharge energy from their gloves, which was not apparent in the original series. In addition, centurions are shown to be vulnerable to the radiation emitted by microwave ovens. ([[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II]])

==Differences with Re-imagined Series==
* Unlike its [[Re-imagined Series]] counterpart, the original Cylon Centurion were men in bulky costumes, as computer-generated imagery (by which the re-imagined [[Cylon Centurion]] is derived) did not yet exist.
* Original series Centurions are as self-aware and as "alive" as the other models. Re-imagined series Centurions are deliberately designed by the [[Humanoid Cylon|humaniod models]] to lack this facet, such to aviod a rebellion.
* Original series Centurions carry weapons (like humans) whilst their re-imagined counterparts primarily utilize built-in blades and guns.
* Unlike their predecessors, re-imagined Centurions do not speak, though they can understand spoken instructions.
* While Centurions of the [[Original Series]] are referred to as "tin cans", the [[Cylon Centurion|Centurion]]s in the [[Re-imagined Series]] are sometimes referred to as "chrome jobs".

== Related imagery ==

<gallery>
Image:Centurion guts.jpg|The guts of a Centurion on a bed in Doctor [[Wilker]]'s lab.
</gallery>

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{{TOS}}

Centurion (TOS)

2008-01-13T22:44:11Z

Mokwella: /* Notable Centurions */ 1980 version

:''For the original Centurions cameo likeness in [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|the Re-imagined Series]], see [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005]]. For information on the advanced Centurions from the Re-imagined Series, see [[Cylon Centurion]].

[[Image:PartyCrashers.jpg|thumb|right|Centurions as infantry.]]
The '''Centurion''' is the workhorse of the [[Cylon Empire]]. Acting as infantry, pilots, and even cavalry (as in "[[The Lost Warrior]]") the Centurion is as versatile as it is shiny. Used in any front-line encounter, Centurions are the only type of Cylon a [[Colonial Warrior]] is likely to ever directly encounter ([[Saga of a Star World]]).

Centurions speak with a mechanical voice, typically responding to orders with the iconic phrase "[[By your command]]". Despite their name, they are the Cylon's lowest ranking soldiers, answerable to [[Command Centurion]]s and the [[IL-series]] models.

Centurions are constructed using highly advanced robotics, beyond the capabilities of the [[The Twelve Colonies (TOS)|Colonials]] to understand easily. As part of a ruse [[Wilker|Dr. Wilker]] attempts to reconstruct and reprogram a Centurion. The reprogrammed Centurion manages to move stiffly, but lacks the dexterity of a fully functional unit and destroys the controls of the [[Raider (TOS)|Raider]] when it is instructed to fly ([[Baltar's Escape]]).

Centurions are commonly armed with bayonet-equipped laser rifles, as well as swords for close combat and execution ([[Saga of a Star World]]).

The inhabitants of [[Attila]] refer to Centurions as "tin cans" ([[The Young Lords]]).

==Notable Centurions==
*'''[[Red-Eye]]''' brutally enforces [[Lacerta]]'s reign of terror on [[Equellus]] until he is destroyed by [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]]. ([[The Lost Warrior]])
*'''[[Centuri]]''' along with his commander [[Andromus]] survive a crash and head into New York City. ([[The Night the Cylons Landed]])
*'''[[Cy]]''' was rebuilt by [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]] and (after some persuasion) befriended the Colonial pilot.

==1980 Version==

In [[Galactica 1980]], it is shown that centurions have the ability to discharge energy from their gloves, which was not apparent in the original series. In addition, centurions are shown to be vulnerable to the radiation emitted by microwave ovens. ([[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part 2]])

==Differences with Re-imagined Series==
* Unlike its [[Re-imagined Series]] counterpart, the original Cylon Centurion were men in bulky costumes, as computer-generated imagery (by which the re-imagined [[Cylon Centurion]] is derived) did not yet exist.
* Original series Centurions are as self-aware and as "alive" as the other models. Re-imagined series Centurions are deliberately designed by the [[Humanoid Cylon|humaniod models]] to lack this facet, such to aviod a rebellion.
* Original series Centurions carry weapons (like humans) whilst their re-imagined counterparts primarily utilize built-in blades and guns.
* Unlike their predecessors, re-imagined Centurions do not speak, though they can understand spoken instructions.
* While Centurions of the [[Original Series]] are referred to as "tin cans", the [[Cylon Centurion|Centurion]]s in the [[Re-imagined Series]] are sometimes referred to as "chrome jobs".

== Related imagery ==

<gallery>
Image:Centurion guts.jpg|The guts of a Centurion on a bed in Doctor [[Wilker]]'s lab.
</gallery>

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{{TOS}}

Centurion (TOS)

2008-01-13T22:42:08Z

Mokwella: /* Notable Centurions */ Centuri

:''For the original Centurions cameo likeness in [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|the Re-imagined Series]], see [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005]]. For information on the advanced Centurions from the Re-imagined Series, see [[Cylon Centurion]].

[[Image:PartyCrashers.jpg|thumb|right|Centurions as infantry.]]
The '''Centurion''' is the workhorse of the [[Cylon Empire]]. Acting as infantry, pilots, and even cavalry (as in "[[The Lost Warrior]]") the Centurion is as versatile as it is shiny. Used in any front-line encounter, Centurions are the only type of Cylon a [[Colonial Warrior]] is likely to ever directly encounter ([[Saga of a Star World]]).

Centurions speak with a mechanical voice, typically responding to orders with the iconic phrase "[[By your command]]". Despite their name, they are the Cylon's lowest ranking soldiers, answerable to [[Command Centurion]]s and the [[IL-series]] models.

Centurions are constructed using highly advanced robotics, beyond the capabilities of the [[The Twelve Colonies (TOS)|Colonials]] to understand easily. As part of a ruse [[Wilker|Dr. Wilker]] attempts to reconstruct and reprogram a Centurion. The reprogrammed Centurion manages to move stiffly, but lacks the dexterity of a fully functional unit and destroys the controls of the [[Raider (TOS)|Raider]] when it is instructed to fly ([[Baltar's Escape]]).

Centurions are commonly armed with bayonet-equipped laser rifles, as well as swords for close combat and execution ([[Saga of a Star World]]).

The inhabitants of [[Attila]] refer to Centurions as "tin cans" ([[The Young Lords]]).

==Notable Centurions==
*'''[[Red-Eye]]''' brutally enforces [[Lacerta]]'s reign of terror on [[Equellus]] until he is destroyed by [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]]. ([[The Lost Warrior]])
*'''[[Centuri]]''' along with his commander [[Andromus]] survive a crash and head into New York City. ([[The Night the Cylons Landed]])
*'''[[Cy]]''' was rebuilt by [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]] and (after some persuasion) befriended the Colonial pilot.

==Differences with Re-imagined Series==
* Unlike its [[Re-imagined Series]] counterpart, the original Cylon Centurion were men in bulky costumes, as computer-generated imagery (by which the re-imagined [[Cylon Centurion]] is derived) did not yet exist.
* Original series Centurions are as self-aware and as "alive" as the other models. Re-imagined series Centurions are deliberately designed by the [[Humanoid Cylon|humaniod models]] to lack this facet, such to aviod a rebellion.
* Original series Centurions carry weapons (like humans) whilst their re-imagined counterparts primarily utilize built-in blades and guns.
* Unlike their predecessors, re-imagined Centurions do not speak, though they can understand spoken instructions.
* While Centurions of the [[Original Series]] are referred to as "tin cans", the [[Cylon Centurion|Centurion]]s in the [[Re-imagined Series]] are sometimes referred to as "chrome jobs".

== Related imagery ==

<gallery>
Image:Centurion guts.jpg|The guts of a Centurion on a bed in Doctor [[Wilker]]'s lab.
</gallery>

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{{TOS}}

Kyle

2007-10-13T03:24:35Z

Mokwella: imdb link correction

{{Character Data
|photo=Kyle.jpg
|parents=[[Megan]]
|siblings=[[Miri]], [[Ariadne]], [[Robus]], and [[Nilz]]
|seen=The Young Lords
|actor=[[imdb:nm0089145|Charles Bloom]]
}}
'''Kyle''', the eldest son, aged 18 (approximately), of [[Megan]] who survived the [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylon]]'s occupation of [[Antilla]], leads his siblings in the Cylon resistance.

In one of these attacks against the so-called "tin cans", Kyle and his clan rescues [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]] from a Cylon patrol and treat his injuries. He later finds the [[Warrior]] to be a threat to his power, and in a burst of jealousy decides that Starbuck would be traded for Megan. He orders a broken-hearted [[Miri]] to place the message inside the [[Megan's castle|castle]] walls; [[Specter]] agrees to the proposal.

Kyle and the other animal fur- and bone-donning adolescents are persuaded by Starbuck at the last moment that the Cylons can't be trusted; when Starbuck is proven right, Kyle cedes leadership of the small army of children to Starbuck, with Kyle becoming the second-in-command.

Kyle, along with Starbuck and his brothers and sisters, plans the rescue mission — with Kyle creating diversions by riding his unicorn and sounding his war-trumpet — which eventually frees Megan and drives the Cylons from their homeworld ([[The Young Lords]]).

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Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I

2007-10-06T19:04:07Z

Mokwella: /* Guest Stars */

{{Episode Data
| image = gal802.jpg
| title= Galactica Discovers Earth, Part 1
| series= 1980
| season=
| episode= 1
| writer= [[Glen A. Larson]]
| story=
| director= [[IMDB:nm0370868|Sidney Hayers]]
| production= 1.1
| rating=
| US airdate= 1980-01-27
| UK airdate=
| dvd=
| population=
| extra= '''Series Premiere'''
| prev=[[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|The Original Series]]
| next=[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]
}}
== Overview ==

:''The battlestar'' [[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]] ''and the Colonial fleet reach the planet [[Earth (1980)|Earth]], but soon realize that the [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylon]] fleet, long thought to be gone, has trailed them to the fabled planet, and will stop at nothing to extinguish all human life.''

==Summary==

* Thirty years after the [[Battle of Cimtar|destruction of the Colonies]], the [[The Fleet (TOS)|Fleet]] receives information from remote probes that they have at last found Earth.

* [[Adama (1980)|Adama]] and [[Doctor Zee]], a child genius that advises the Commander, discover that they have arrived at Earth in 1980, but the planet's inhabitants, descendents of the [[Thirteenth Tribe (TOS)|Thirteenth Tribe]], are at a low level of cultural and technological development in comparison to the remnants of the [[The Twelve Colonies (TOS)|Twelve Colonies of Man]].

[[Image:Cylonattack.jpg|thumb|left|Dr. Zee's simulation of a Cylon Attack on Los Angeles.]]
* To make his point further, Zee shows the leaders of [[The Fleet (TOS)|the Fleet]] a video simulating a Cylon attack on Los Angeles. The conclusion is clear: at its present level of technology, the Earth will be of no assistance to defending the Fleet against the approaching Cylons.

* Adama orders pairs of [[Colonial Warrior|warriors]] to contact key scientists with the various nations on Earth, to help them speed up the planet's technological capabilities. However, embittered [[Quorum of Twelve (TOS)|Council]] member [[Xaviar]] rejects this strategy as too slow.

* Two of the Colonials to be dispatched are Adama's grandson [[Troy (1980)|Captain Troy]] and [[Dillon|Lieutenant Dillon]], who are tasked with contacting scientists in the United States.

* Before they leave, Doctor Zee provides the team with some gadgets to assist their infiltration efforts.

* One of the gadgets is an [[wrist computron|invisibility cloak]] that can render the warriors and their vehicles unseen.

* The warriors will be able to use [[Flying motorcycle|motorcycles]] to get around on the surface, which are also able to fly.

* The warriors will also have the use of stun weapons to incapacitate Earth humans without killing them.

* It is also noted that, in the lighter gravity of Earth, the Colonials will have the ability to leap to great heights.

* Descending to the Earth in their [[Viper (TOS)|Vipers]], Troy and Dillon are intercepted by US Air Force fighters, and make a hasty landing in a field near Los Angeles.

* Hiding their ships with the invisibility screens, they take to their motorcycles, and shortly thereafter have a run in with a biker gang, which they escape through use of their motorcycle's flying capabilities.

* Changing into contemporary clothes, Troy and Dillon stop at a service station to make a call to the scientist they are to contact, Dr. [[Donald Mortinson]].

* While attempting to use the phone, they run into [[Jamie Hamilton]], who's on her way to L.A. for a job interview with the [[UBC]] television network.

* When she learns that the duo is on their way to see Dr. Mortinson, Hamilton offers to give them a lift to the Pacific Institute of Technology.

* Pushing past anti-nuclear protesters at the campus, and stunning a guard, Troy and Dillon reach Dr. Mortinson's lab but he is not there.

* Before being hauled away by security, Troy and Dillon leave a complex math equation on Dr. Mortinson's computer as a way of verifying they are visitors from an advanced culture.

* Troy and Dillon are hauled off to jail.

* When Dr. Mortinson returns to his computer, he quickly realizes that the only people capable of producing the formula he finds on the screen must be extraterrestrial.

* Using their invisibility devices, Troy and Dillon escape their imprisonment.

* Meanwhile, back in the field where they first arrived, the two Vipers suddenly shimmer back into view. A young boy named [[Willy Griffin]] is playing in the field with his dog, Skipper, and stumbles upon the ships. He runs to inform his parents.

==Notes==

* The simulated Cylon attack on Earth reuses footage from the movie ''[[w:Earthquake (film)|Earthquake]]'' which was released by Universal Pictures in 1974, and also starred [[Lorne Greene]].

* Dr. Zee's video screens show a series of shots from unusual public domain sources and from other Universal properties. This is supposed to resemble a smattering of US television images, and is a decidedly strange sequence, complete with eerie sound effects, which sets an odd tone early in the program. Among the images seen is [[wikipedia:Rod Serling|Rod Serling]] in an introduction to the series ''[[wikipedia:Night Gallery|Night Gallery]]''.

* When Troy and Dillon first take their Vipers into the Earth's atmosphere at the beginning of the episode, stock footage is used from "[[The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I]]". As the Vipers fly by, a mountain is seen and the glare reflection off of the [[Ravashol pulsar]] is visible.

* According to publications at the time, the original airing of "Galactica Discovers Earth" had some of the highest ratings in the history of the franchise. The premiere episode, which aired Sunday, January 27th, 1980, ranked 30th for the week. The [[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II|second]] and [[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III|third episode]]s (aired February 3rd and 10th) also did well. [http://www.tvobscurities.com/articles/return_sb.php]. According to The "World Almanac and Book of Facts 1980", overall for the period that it was aired, Galactica 1980 ranked 20th out of 100 series in the Nielsen ratings.

* The song playing in [[Jamie Hamilton]]'s car when pulling up to the gas station is [[w:Billy Joel|Billy Joel]]'s "[[w:My Life (Billy Joel song)|My Life]]", which makes a brief reappearance in "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II]]".

* This episode featured the final appearance of robotic [[Muffit II]]-style daggits, still apparently used as pets in the Fleet.

== Guest Stars ==
*[[Richard Lynch]] as [[Xaviar]]
*[[Robbie Rist]] as [[Doctor Zee]]
*[[Robert Reed]] as [[Donald Mortinson]]
*[[Pamela Susan Shoop]] as [[Dorothy Carlyle]]
*[[Sharon Acker]] as [[Anne]]
*[[Fred Holliday]] as Mr. [[Brooks]]
*[[Richard Eastham]] as General [[Cushing]]
*[[imdb:nm0917136|Vernon Weddle]] as 1st Cop
*[[imdb:nm0608566|David Moses]] as 2nd Cop
*[[imdb:nm0001397|Brion James]] as Biker/[[Willy]]
*[[imdb:nm0428856|Mickey Jones]] as Biker/[[Donzo]]
*[[imdb:nm0533297|Duncan MacKenzie]] as 1st Pilot
*[[imdb:nm0115467|Douglas Bruce]] as 2nd Pilot
*[[imdb:nm0278646|Eddie Firestone]] as [[Moran|Derelict]]
*[[imdb:nm0236097|Frank Downing]] as 1st Guard
*[[imdb:nm0561688|Don Maxwell]] as 2nd Guard
*[[imdb:nm0268114|Adam Star]] as [[Willie Griffin]] (boy)
*[[imdb:nm0354893|Doug Hale]] as Air Force Major
*[[imdb:nm0241205|Ray Duke]] as Newspaper Boy

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Richard Eastham

2007-10-06T19:03:32Z

Mokwella:

[[Richard Eastham]] is a familiar television character actor, who portrayed General [[Cushing]] in a single episode of [[Galactica 1980]], ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]).

==Biography==

Born with the name Dickinson Swift Eastham in Opelousas, Louisiana, on June 22, 1916, Eastham's early in music was interrupted by his service in World War II. Peforming in musicals in the late 1940's, his TV debut was on "Toast of the Town", which would later be known as "The Ed Sullivan Show", in 1949.

He changed his name to "Richard Eastham" and went into film and TV in the late 1950s.

He has a recurring role as General Phil Blankenship on "Wonder Woman" (1976) starring Lynda Carter, which likely helped in his being cast in the bit role of Cushing.

His wife of 60 years, Betty Jean, passed away in Los Angeles in 2002, and Eastham died from complications due to Alzheimer's disease at age 89 on July 10, 2005 in LA as well.

==Selected Filmography==

His appearances include the following motion pictures:

Man on Fire (1957)

Ten Weeks with a Circus (1960)

That Darn Cat! (1965)

Tom Sawyer (1973)

McQ (1974)

On television he appeared regularly on series including:

"Perry Mason" (1957)

"Bat Masterson" (1958)

"Bonanza" (1959)

"Kojak" (1973)

"The Waltons" (1972)

==References==

*[[imdb:nm0247604|Richard Eastham]] at imbb

Richard Eastham

2007-10-06T19:02:29Z

Mokwella: /* Biography */

Richard Eastham

2007-10-06T19:02:13Z

Mokwella: /* Selected Filmography */

Richard Eastham

2007-10-06T19:01:37Z

Mokwella: /* Selected Filmography */

[[Richard Eastham]] is a familiar television character actor, who portrayed General [[Cushing]] in a single episode of [[Galactica 1980]], ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]).

==Biography==

Born with the name Dickinson Swift Eastham in Opelousas, Louisiana, on June 22, 1916, Eastham's early in music was interrupted by his service in World War II. Peforming in musicals in the late 1940's, his TV debut was on "Toast of the Town", which would later be known as "The Ed Sullivan Show", in 1949.

He changed his name to "Richard Eastham" and went into film and TV in the late 1950s.

==Selected Filmography==

His appearances include the following motion pictures:

Man on Fire (1957)

Ten Weeks with a Circus (1960)

That Darn Cat! (1965)

Tom Sawyer (1973)

McQ (1974)

On television he appeared regularly on series including:

"Perry Mason" (1957)

"Bat Masterson" (1958)

"Bonanza" (1959)

"Kojak" (1973)

"The Waltons" (1972)

He has a recurring role as General Phil Blankenship on "Wonder Woman" (1976) starring Lynda Carter, which likely helped in his being cast in the bit role of Cushing.

His wife of 60 years, Betty Jean, passed away in Los Angeles in 2002, and Eastham died from complications due to Alzheimer's disease at age 89 on July 10, 2005 in LA as well.

Richard Eastham

2007-10-06T19:01:07Z

Mokwella:

[[Richard Eastham]] is a familiar television character actor, who portrayed General [[Cushing]] in a single episode of [[Galactica 1980]], ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]).

==Biography==

Born with the name Dickinson Swift Eastham in Opelousas, Louisiana, on June 22, 1916, Eastham's early in music was interrupted by his service in World War II. Peforming in musicals in the late 1940's, his TV debut was on "Toast of the Town", which would later be known as "The Ed Sullivan Show", in 1949.

He changed his name to "Richard Eastham" and went into film and TV in the late 1950s.

==Selected Filmography==

His appearances include the following motion pictures:
Man on Fire (1957)
Ten Weeks with a Circus (1960)
That Darn Cat! (1965)
Tom Sawyer (1973)
McQ (1974)

On television he appeared regularly on series including:
"Perry Mason" (1957)
"Bat Masterson" (1958)
"Bonanza" (1959)
"Kojak" (1973)
"The Waltons" (1972)

He has a recurring role as General Phil Blankenship on "Wonder Woman" (1976) starring Lynda Carter, which likely helped in his being cast in the bit role of Cushing.

His wife of 60 years, Betty Jean, passed away in Los Angeles in 2002, and Eastham died from complications due to Alzheimer's disease at age 89 on July 10, 2005 in LA as well.

Richard Eastham

2007-10-06T18:59:50Z

Mokwella: episode link

[[Richard Eastham]] is a familiar television character actor, who portrayed General [[Cushing]] in a single episode of [[Galactica 1980]], ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]). Born with the name Dickinson Swift Eastham in Opelousas, Louisiana, on June 22, 1916, Eastham's early in music was interrupted by his service in [[World War II]]. Peforming in musicals in the late 1940's, his TV debut was on "Toast of the Town", which would later be known as "The Ed Sullivan Show", in 1949.

He changed his name to "Richard Eastham" and went into film and TV in the late 1950s.

His appearances include the following motion pictures:
Man on Fire (1957)
Ten Weeks with a Circus (1960)
That Darn Cat! (1965)
Tom Sawyer (1973)
McQ (1974)

On television he appeared regularly on series including:
"Perry Mason" (1957)
"Bat Masterson" (1958)
"Bonanza" (1959)
"Kojak" (1973)
"The Waltons" (1972)

He has a recurring role as General Phil Blankenship on "Wonder Woman" (1976) starring Lynda Carter, which likely helped in his being cast in the bit role of Cushing.

His wife of 60 years, Betty Jean, passed away in Los Angeles in 2002, and Eastham died from complications due to Alzheimer's disease at age 89 on July 10, 2005 in LA as well.

Richard Eastham

2007-10-06T18:58:08Z

Mokwella:

[[Richard Eastham]] is a familiar television character actor, who portrayed General [[Cushing]] in a single episode of [[Galactica 1980]]. Born with the name Dickinson Swift Eastham in Opelousas, Louisiana, on June 22, 1916, Eastham's early in music was interrupted by his service in [[World War II]]. Peforming in musicals in the late 1940's, his TV debut was on "Toast of the Town", which would later be known as "The Ed Sullivan Show", in 1949.

He changed his name to "Richard Eastham" and went into film and TV in the late 1950s.

His appearances include the following motion pictures:
Man on Fire (1957)
Ten Weeks with a Circus (1960)
That Darn Cat! (1965)
Tom Sawyer (1973)
McQ (1974)

On television he appeared regularly on series including:
"Perry Mason" (1957)
"Bat Masterson" (1958)
"Bonanza" (1959)
"Kojak" (1973)
"The Waltons" (1972)

He has a recurring role as General Phil Blankenship on "Wonder Woman" (1976) starring Lynda Carter, which likely helped in his being cast in the bit role of Cusher.

His wife of 60 years, Betty Jean, passed away in Los Angeles in 2002, and Eastham died from complications due to Alzheimer's disease at age 89 on July 10, 2005 in LA as well.

Galactica 1980

2007-10-06T17:10:58Z

Mokwella: /* Home Video and DVD */

:''For information on the parent series, see [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)]]. For information on the 2004 "Re-imagined Series," see [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)]].''
{{shortcut|1980}}

{{Series Data
| image = gal802.jpg
| title=Galactica 1980
| creator=[[Glen A. Larson]]
| starring=[[Kent McCord]]<br/>[[Barry Van Dyke]]<br/>[[Robyn Douglass]]<br/>[[Lorne Greene]]<br/>[[Herb Jefferson Jr.]]<br/>[[Patrick Stuart]]
| composer=[[Stu Phillips]]
| company=[[Universal|Universal Studios]]<br/>[[Glen Larson Productions]]
| seasons=1
| episodes=10
| channel= [[w:ABC|ABC]]
| US airdate=1980-01-27 — 1980-05-04
| UK airdate=
| dvd=
| exec producer= [[Glen A. Larson]]
| producer=
| supervising producer=
| associate producer=
| co-producer=
| story editor= [[Chris Bunch]]<br/>[[Allan Cole]]<br/>[[Robert L. McCullough]]
| prev=[[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|The Original Series]]
| next=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming]]
| itunes=
}}

'''''Galactica 1980''''' is a science-fiction television series, a [[spin-off]] of the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]].

''Galactica 1980'' was first broadcast on the ABC Television Network in the United States from January 27, 1980, with its final episode first airing on May 4, 1980.

The series first aired in Sunday's 7:00 PM, during what was known as the "family hour", thus making the series' target audience primarily children.

==Synopsis==

Set a generation after the Original Series, the [[Battlestar (TOS)|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]]'' and its [[The Fleet (TOS)|Fleet]] of 220 civilian ships finally discover [[Earth (TOS)|Earth]], only to find that the planet is technologically backward in relation to Colonial technology. As a result, Earth couldn't defend itself against the [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylons]] as originally expected. Therefore, teams of [[Colonial Warrior]]s are covertly sent to the planet to work ''incognito'' with various members of the scientific community, hoping to quickly advance Earth's technology.

The promotional material for ''Galactica 1980'' sets the series at thirty years after the events of the Original Series.

Commander [[Adama (1980)|Adama]] and Colonel [[Boomer (1980)|Boomer]]—now second-in-command in place of Colonel [[Tigh (TOS)|Tigh]]—send Captain "Boxey" [[Troy (1980)|Troy]], the [[Serina|adopted son]] of Adama's own son [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]], and Lt. [[Dillon]] to North America. The two become entangled with TV journalist [[Jamie Hamilton]] who aids them in devising ways to help Earth's scientists and outwit the Cylons.

[[Image:GAL801.jpg|thumb|Captain Troy and Jamie Hamilton]]
===Cast===

* [[Lorne Greene]] - [[Adama (1980)|Commander Adama]]
* [[Robyn Douglass]] - [[Jamie Hamilton]]
* [[Herb Jefferson Jr.]] - [[Boomer (1980)|Colonel Boomer]]
* [[Richard Lynch]] - [[Xaviar]]
* [[Kent McCord]] - [[Troy (1980)|Captain Troy]]
* [[Allan Miller]] - [[Colonel Sydell]]
* [[James Patrick Stuart]] - [[Doctor Zee]]
* [[Robbie Rist]] - [[Doctor Zee]]
* [[Barry Van Dyke]] - [[Dillon|Lieutenant Dillon]]

Greene (Adama) and Jefferson (Boomer) were the only major cast members of the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] to reprise their roles in first nine episodes, with [[Dirk Benedict]] reprising his role as [[Starbuck (1980)|Starbuck]] in the last episode.

==Short life==
''Galactica 1980'' had a promising start with a three-hour adventure that saw Troy, Dillon and Hamilton sent back in time to Nazi Germany to save the future, but the series could not sustain this momentum. The series was unceremoniously canceled after only ten episodes, many of which were multi-part stories, or what would be referred to now as story arcs.

The final episode, "[[The Return of Starbuck]]," was aired on May 4th, 1980. The final episode featured the return of [[Dirk Benedict]] as Lt. [[Starbuck (1980)|Starbuck]] from the Original Series in a flashback episode, but it wasn't enough to save the series. Repeats were aired through August 17th; the series was replaced by repeats of ''[[Wikipedia:Fantasy Island|Fantasy Island]]'' the following week.{{citation needed}}

==Production==

In the fall of 1979, ABC Television approached [[Glen A. Larson]] and Universal to bring back the ''Galactica'' series. According to ''1980'' story editor [[Chris Bunch]], neither Larson nor Universal wanted to do the series at all. Bunch claims that both parties were threatened to do the series for reasons which were not known to him, and attributes the reason that Larson agreed to do the series to "[whore] for the money with a bad attitude".<ref name="bunch">{{cite_web|url=http://geocities.com/sjpaxton/bunch.html|title=Battlestar Zone Interview: Chris Bunch|date=|accessdate=11 August 2007|last=Paxton|first=Susan J.|format=|language=}}</ref> This is also corroborated by Bunch's then-writing partner, [[Allan Cole]].<ref name="cole">{{cite_web|url=http://www.battlestargalactica.com/outside_docs/bg_outdoc0030.htm|title=Interview with Galactica 1980 story editor Allan Cole|date=28 Feburary 2005|accessdate=11 August 2007|last=Larocque|first=John|format=|language=}}</ref>

All the parties agreed that the discovery of Earth would be a suitable vehicle for drawing back viewers. However, many of the actors had moved on to other roles, most of the sets had been struck, and the time available for completing the production before the proposed January 1980 airdate was short. Actors and production personnel who worked on ''Galactica 1980'' describe a crazy shooting schedule that involved working on multiple episodes at the same time, last minute re-writes, and working days that extended well into the night.

For instance, Bunch notes that both he and Cole were "literally blackmailed into the gig because of ostensible expertise in SF".<ref name="bunch"/> They (including [[Robert L. McCullough]]) were story editors for the series, and would chant "Come on, 13" every morning. ("13" is the ratings number that, should ''1980'' ever hit or go below it, would result in the series' cancellation.)<ref name="cole"/>

Like episodes of the Original Series, Larson wrote or rewrote the entire series' worth of episodes from either [[w:Hawaii|Hawaii]] or [[w:Malibu|Malibu]].<ref name="bunch"/> Further episode rewrites happened on the sets just prior to shooting.<ref name="cole"/> Additionally, there was no clearly defined purpose to the show prior to development, as the purpose of the show changed on a daily basis. Additionally, new characters were created for the series, and then subsequently dropped as though they never existed.<ref name="cole"/>

As a result of having crews work overtime, the budget for the series continued to creep up in cost. That, in conjunction with ratings that went from historic highs with the first episode down to a dismal showing by April, spelled the early end of the program.<ref name="cole"/>

== Budget hell ==

Despite what Cole calls "revisionism" from people, such as lead actor [[Kent McCord]] -- who claimed that they needed a way to "economize" ''Battlestar Galactica'', ergo ''1980'' -- ABC "knew very well that Glen [Larson] never met a budget that he didn't hate".<ref name="cole"/>

The series itself cost between $1.2 and 1.5 million to produce per episode; the $1.5 million number is the budget that "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]" used. As ABC only paid $600,000 to $700,000 per episode, Universal was left to pay the remainder for each hour of programming.<ref name="cole"/>

Additionally, Cole notes that "there were almost as many producers listed on the show as secretaries. I mean, every day we'd be introduced to another guy who had just joined the staff as a new producer. I don't know what any of them did -- we rarely saw them again -- but they sure were collecting the bucks." He adds that this was Universal's decision as they "figured [that] if they were going to eat the big green slime anyway, they might as well take care of some obligations and dump all their losses into one (overflowing) bucket."<ref name="cole"/> This constant overflow of personnel to the series did nothing to alleviate the budget issues.

Ironically, the only episode that did not go over-budget was "[[The Return of Starbuck]]", and so Universal did not have to pay the remainder as, by that time, they were overspent.<ref name="cole"/>

== "Kiddie Hour", Standards and Practices, and "kids crawling out of your ears" ==

During its initial run, ''Galactica 1980'' was relegated to the 7 P.M. Sunday timeslot. Its only competition was that of [[w:CBS|CBS]]'s "television news magazine" ''[[w:60 Minutes|60 Minutes]]''.

This timeslot was deemed by Standards and Practices as children-friendly, and thus had restrictions as to the type of stories that could be told, or how they could be told.

The content of shows airing in this timeslot needed to be educational, and thus the Galacticans' lack of knowledge on Earth cultures and locations, and finding out about them through their [[wrist computron]]s came to satisfy this.

Additionally, people in the series needed to be clean-cut and presentable, thus removing any ability to present realistic presentations of people. Furthermore, Standards and Practices complained to Larson that there weren't enough kids; according to Cole, Larson replied "Okay, I'll give you kids crawling out of your ears." This resulted in [[The Super Scouts]]<ref name="cole"/> and the episodes that they were featured in, notably "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]", "[[The Super Scouts, Part II]]", "[[Spaceball]]" and "[[Space Croppers]]".

Unfortunately, shooting with large groups of children proved another major headache for the series, forcing the producers to hire child actors who were twins. In addition to the kids having reduced hours of availability, and the lack of professionalism exhibited by them, the cast and crew had to deal with the "stage moms, all of whom ought to be locked up" and the teachers for each kid. As Cole put it, "if the kid is a star you have to listen to the teacher as if she were speaking from on high"<ref name="cole"/> regardless of the reason.

Furthermore, the censor at ABC, Susan Futterman, was the crux of many of the series' problems. As told by Bunch, she questioned the information in the planetarium scene in "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]", and believed the [[Arnie's meatballs|meatball]] joke in the same episode to be sexual innuendo -- which resulted in Larson peppering additional meatball jokes in that episode, in addition to its conclusion, "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II]]".<ref name="bunch"/>

==Syndication, VHS and DVD releases==

The ten series episodes were rolled into the television syndication package for ''Battlestar Galactica'' and were given the same title as its parent program. Some of the episodes were edited together to produce a VHS home video under the title ''Conquest of the Earth.''

As of August 2006, the [[Sci Fi Channel]] in America and the [http://www.spacecast.com/ SPACE Channel] in Canada periodically air the series. The three parts of the pilot were featured as part of SPACE's 2006 New Years Day marathon of the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]].

Very few out-of-print copies of the VHS release of ''Conquest of the Earth'' remain publicly on sale. Unlike its Original Series parent, "Galactica 1980" was late to release for home video. in September 2007, Universal announced plans to release the complete series with the tag of 'The Original [[Battlestar Galactica (1978)|Battlestar Galactica's]] Final Series' on 26th December 2007 <ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/galactica-1980.html|title=DVDActive: Galactica 1980|date=|accessdate=|last=|first=|format=|language=}}</ref>. The series became available for pre-order at Amazon.com shortly after this announcement <ref>http://www.amazon.com/Battlestar-Galactica-1980-Complete-Epic/dp/B000W4KT9G/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-2219737-4828608?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1191690381&sr=8-1</ref>.

==Episode list==

# [[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]] – January 27, 1980
# [[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]] – February 3, 1980
# [[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]] – February 10, 1980
# [[The Super Scouts, Part I]] – March 16, 1980
# [[The Super Scouts, Part II]] – March 23, 1980
# [[Spaceball]] – March 30, 1980
# [[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]] – April 13, 1980 (guest-starring [[Wolfman Jack]])
# [[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II]] – April 20, 1980 (guest-starring [[Wolfman Jack]])
# [[Space Croppers]] – April 27, 1980
# [[The Return of Starbuck]] – May 4, 1980

==Notes==

* The series suffered from what are now considered science fiction clichés. For some fans, the addition of the mysterious [[Doctor Zee]], a prodigy child that serves as counsel to Adama, pushed their suspension of disbelief to the breaking point.

* [[Image:Heroes.jpg|thumb|Troy, Hamilton and Dillon]]Many fans see ''Galactica 1980'' as an apocryphal non-[[canon]]ical spin-off of the Original Series. Most fans appreciated the last episode, "[[The Return of Starbuck]]," whose story of the fate of a popular character of the Original Series was well written and full of the same energy found in many of of the Original Series episodes. (Battlestar Wiki treats this aired series as canonical for the purposes of this encyclopedia.)

* One curious Cylon character in the two-part episode, "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I|The Night the Cylons Landed]]" may be the one significant contribution to the "Galactica" saga. In the episode, [[Andromus|Cylons disguised in human form]] arrive on Earth to cause mayhem. Some 23 years later, the [[Re-imagined Series]] also introduced [[Humanoid Cylon|humanoid Cylons]] that wreak terror and havoc amongst the Colonies.

== Official Statements ==

* ''[[Allan Cole]] discusses his thoughts on the show to John Larocque:''
: '''Allan Cole:''' Let's face it, ''Galactica 1980'' was an awful show. It deserved to be dropped. At the time, I remember that I posted a big sign on my office door with the number 13 on it. We had been told if the ratings dropped to 13 or below that we would be cut. Every morning my then partner, [[Chris Bunch]], and I would chant "Come on, 13!" Must have been a great mantra, because the show dropped steadily, week after week. ([S]o much for the nice writer's comments about building an audience.) Of course, Chris and I wanted out of our contracts in the worst way. ([W]e had just sold the [[w:The Sten Chronicles|Sten series]] and were desperate to get started). Because of the "family hour" timeslot, the censors were always making us put in "educational beats" for the kiddies. I personally told Susan Futterman, then head of the network's program practices, that they ought to open every episode of the show with an "educational" tag that read: "Why aren't you little bug snipes watching ''[[w:60 Minutes|60 Minutes]]''." (our, ahem, competition in that time slot) Susan wholeheartedly agreed with our sympathies.<ref name="cole"/>

* ''[[Glen A. Larson]] discusses [[Lorne Greene]]'s involvement with the spin-off in "[[Sciography]]":''
: '''Glen Larson:''' Lorne Greene called me and said his heart was broken over the fact that he wouldn't be in it. I don't think I've ever told anybody that, but I... I... I, um, I guess I reacted somewhat sympathetically to how he felt and, uh, rehired him. But it probably would've been better in terms of the cleanness and clarity to have gone forward some generations, and continued the trek.

* ''[[Anne Lockhart]] ([[Sheba]]) and [[Richard Hatch]] ([[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]]) discuss their thoughts on the series:''
: '''Anne Lockhart:''' Well, I don’t know…when [[Boxey (TOS)|Boxey]] [[Troy (1980)|grew up]] into ''[[w:Adam-12|Adam-12]]'', I really got worried…and that long white beard on Lorne [Greene]….
: '''Richard Hatch:''' And [[Herb Jefferson Jr.|Herb [Jefferson Jr.]]]….
: '''Lockhart:''' Yeah, the snow that went in Herb’s hair! And everybody else died fighting the war. I thought it was pretty bad, frankly. I watched one episode and was so offended that I never watched another one. (to Richard) What did you think about it?
: '''Hatch:''' I think you summed it up pretty well!<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://geocities.com/sjpaxton/galacon.html|title=1986 Galacon Q & A with Richard Hatch and Anne Lockhart|date=|accessdate=12 August 2007|last=Paxton|first=Susan J.|format=|language=}}</ref>

==Narration==

This is the opening narration to ''Galactica 1980'', spoken by Commander Adama.

: ''"The great ship ''Galactica'', our home for these many years. We've endured the wilderness of space, and now we near the end of our journey: we have at last found Earth."''

==References==
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==See also==
{{ext-wikipedia|article=Galactica 1980}}
* [[2003 Video Game|Battlestar Galactica]], the 2003 video game
* [http://battlestar.ugo.com/television/galactica_1980/default.asp UGO Galactica 1980 site]
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080221/ IMDb Entry for Galactica 1980]

{{Episode List (1980)}}

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Galactica 1980

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Mokwella: /* Syndication */

:''For information on the parent series, see [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)]]. For information on the 2004 "Re-imagined Series," see [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)]].''
{{shortcut|1980}}

{{Series Data
| image = gal802.jpg
| title=Galactica 1980
| creator=[[Glen A. Larson]]
| starring=[[Kent McCord]]<br/>[[Barry Van Dyke]]<br/>[[Robyn Douglass]]<br/>[[Lorne Greene]]<br/>[[Herb Jefferson Jr.]]<br/>[[Patrick Stuart]]
| composer=[[Stu Phillips]]
| company=[[Universal|Universal Studios]]<br/>[[Glen Larson Productions]]
| seasons=1
| episodes=10
| channel= [[w:ABC|ABC]]
| US airdate=1980-01-27 — 1980-05-04
| UK airdate=
| dvd=
| exec producer= [[Glen A. Larson]]
| producer=
| supervising producer=
| associate producer=
| co-producer=
| story editor= [[Chris Bunch]]<br/>[[Allan Cole]]<br/>[[Robert L. McCullough]]
| prev=[[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|The Original Series]]
| next=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming]]
| itunes=
}}

'''''Galactica 1980''''' is a science-fiction television series, a [[spin-off]] of the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]].

''Galactica 1980'' was first broadcast on the ABC Television Network in the United States from January 27, 1980, with its final episode first airing on May 4, 1980.

The series first aired in Sunday's 7:00 PM, during what was known as the "family hour", thus making the series' target audience primarily children.

==Synopsis==

Set a generation after the Original Series, the [[Battlestar (TOS)|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]]'' and its [[The Fleet (TOS)|Fleet]] of 220 civilian ships finally discover [[Earth (TOS)|Earth]], only to find that the planet is technologically backward in relation to Colonial technology. As a result, Earth couldn't defend itself against the [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylons]] as originally expected. Therefore, teams of [[Colonial Warrior]]s are covertly sent to the planet to work ''incognito'' with various members of the scientific community, hoping to quickly advance Earth's technology.

The promotional material for ''Galactica 1980'' sets the series at thirty years after the events of the Original Series.

Commander [[Adama (1980)|Adama]] and Colonel [[Boomer (1980)|Boomer]]—now second-in-command in place of Colonel [[Tigh (TOS)|Tigh]]—send Captain "Boxey" [[Troy (1980)|Troy]], the [[Serina|adopted son]] of Adama's own son [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]], and Lt. [[Dillon]] to North America. The two become entangled with TV journalist [[Jamie Hamilton]] who aids them in devising ways to help Earth's scientists and outwit the Cylons.

[[Image:GAL801.jpg|thumb|Captain Troy and Jamie Hamilton]]
===Cast===

* [[Lorne Greene]] - [[Adama (1980)|Commander Adama]]
* [[Robyn Douglass]] - [[Jamie Hamilton]]
* [[Herb Jefferson Jr.]] - [[Boomer (1980)|Colonel Boomer]]
* [[Richard Lynch]] - [[Xaviar]]
* [[Kent McCord]] - [[Troy (1980)|Captain Troy]]
* [[Allan Miller]] - [[Colonel Sydell]]
* [[James Patrick Stuart]] - [[Doctor Zee]]
* [[Robbie Rist]] - [[Doctor Zee]]
* [[Barry Van Dyke]] - [[Dillon|Lieutenant Dillon]]

Greene (Adama) and Jefferson (Boomer) were the only major cast members of the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] to reprise their roles in first nine episodes, with [[Dirk Benedict]] reprising his role as [[Starbuck (1980)|Starbuck]] in the last episode.

==Short life==
''Galactica 1980'' had a promising start with a three-hour adventure that saw Troy, Dillon and Hamilton sent back in time to Nazi Germany to save the future, but the series could not sustain this momentum. The series was unceremoniously canceled after only ten episodes, many of which were multi-part stories, or what would be referred to now as story arcs.

The final episode, "[[The Return of Starbuck]]," was aired on May 4th, 1980. The final episode featured the return of [[Dirk Benedict]] as Lt. [[Starbuck (1980)|Starbuck]] from the Original Series in a flashback episode, but it wasn't enough to save the series. Repeats were aired through August 17th; the series was replaced by repeats of ''[[Wikipedia:Fantasy Island|Fantasy Island]]'' the following week.{{citation needed}}

==Production==

In the fall of 1979, ABC Television approached [[Glen A. Larson]] and Universal to bring back the ''Galactica'' series. According to ''1980'' story editor [[Chris Bunch]], neither Larson nor Universal wanted to do the series at all. Bunch claims that both parties were threatened to do the series for reasons which were not known to him, and attributes the reason that Larson agreed to do the series to "[whore] for the money with a bad attitude".<ref name="bunch">{{cite_web|url=http://geocities.com/sjpaxton/bunch.html|title=Battlestar Zone Interview: Chris Bunch|date=|accessdate=11 August 2007|last=Paxton|first=Susan J.|format=|language=}}</ref> This is also corroborated by Bunch's then-writing partner, [[Allan Cole]].<ref name="cole">{{cite_web|url=http://www.battlestargalactica.com/outside_docs/bg_outdoc0030.htm|title=Interview with Galactica 1980 story editor Allan Cole|date=28 Feburary 2005|accessdate=11 August 2007|last=Larocque|first=John|format=|language=}}</ref>

All the parties agreed that the discovery of Earth would be a suitable vehicle for drawing back viewers. However, many of the actors had moved on to other roles, most of the sets had been struck, and the time available for completing the production before the proposed January 1980 airdate was short. Actors and production personnel who worked on ''Galactica 1980'' describe a crazy shooting schedule that involved working on multiple episodes at the same time, last minute re-writes, and working days that extended well into the night.

For instance, Bunch notes that both he and Cole were "literally blackmailed into the gig because of ostensible expertise in SF".<ref name="bunch"/> They (including [[Robert L. McCullough]]) were story editors for the series, and would chant "Come on, 13" every morning. ("13" is the ratings number that, should ''1980'' ever hit or go below it, would result in the series' cancellation.)<ref name="cole"/>

Like episodes of the Original Series, Larson wrote or rewrote the entire series' worth of episodes from either [[w:Hawaii|Hawaii]] or [[w:Malibu|Malibu]].<ref name="bunch"/> Further episode rewrites happened on the sets just prior to shooting.<ref name="cole"/> Additionally, there was no clearly defined purpose to the show prior to development, as the purpose of the show changed on a daily basis. Additionally, new characters were created for the series, and then subsequently dropped as though they never existed.<ref name="cole"/>

As a result of having crews work overtime, the budget for the series continued to creep up in cost. That, in conjunction with ratings that went from historic highs with the first episode down to a dismal showing by April, spelled the early end of the program.<ref name="cole"/>

== Budget hell ==

Despite what Cole calls "revisionism" from people, such as lead actor [[Kent McCord]] -- who claimed that they needed a way to "economize" ''Battlestar Galactica'', ergo ''1980'' -- ABC "knew very well that Glen [Larson] never met a budget that he didn't hate".<ref name="cole"/>

The series itself cost between $1.2 and 1.5 million to produce per episode; the $1.5 million number is the budget that "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]" used. As ABC only paid $600,000 to $700,000 per episode, Universal was left to pay the remainder for each hour of programming.<ref name="cole"/>

Additionally, Cole notes that "there were almost as many producers listed on the show as secretaries. I mean, every day we'd be introduced to another guy who had just joined the staff as a new producer. I don't know what any of them did -- we rarely saw them again -- but they sure were collecting the bucks." He adds that this was Universal's decision as they "figured [that] if they were going to eat the big green slime anyway, they might as well take care of some obligations and dump all their losses into one (overflowing) bucket."<ref name="cole"/> This constant overflow of personnel to the series did nothing to alleviate the budget issues.

Ironically, the only episode that did not go over-budget was "[[The Return of Starbuck]]", and so Universal did not have to pay the remainder as, by that time, they were overspent.<ref name="cole"/>

== "Kiddie Hour", Standards and Practices, and "kids crawling out of your ears" ==

During its initial run, ''Galactica 1980'' was relegated to the 7 P.M. Sunday timeslot. Its only competition was that of [[w:CBS|CBS]]'s "television news magazine" ''[[w:60 Minutes|60 Minutes]]''.

This timeslot was deemed by Standards and Practices as children-friendly, and thus had restrictions as to the type of stories that could be told, or how they could be told.

The content of shows airing in this timeslot needed to be educational, and thus the Galacticans' lack of knowledge on Earth cultures and locations, and finding out about them through their [[wrist computron]]s came to satisfy this.

Additionally, people in the series needed to be clean-cut and presentable, thus removing any ability to present realistic presentations of people. Furthermore, Standards and Practices complained to Larson that there weren't enough kids; according to Cole, Larson replied "Okay, I'll give you kids crawling out of your ears." This resulted in [[The Super Scouts]]<ref name="cole"/> and the episodes that they were featured in, notably "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]", "[[The Super Scouts, Part II]]", "[[Spaceball]]" and "[[Space Croppers]]".

Unfortunately, shooting with large groups of children proved another major headache for the series, forcing the producers to hire child actors who were twins. In addition to the kids having reduced hours of availability, and the lack of professionalism exhibited by them, the cast and crew had to deal with the "stage moms, all of whom ought to be locked up" and the teachers for each kid. As Cole put it, "if the kid is a star you have to listen to the teacher as if she were speaking from on high"<ref name="cole"/> regardless of the reason.

Furthermore, the censor at ABC, Susan Futterman, was the crux of many of the series' problems. As told by Bunch, she questioned the information in the planetarium scene in "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]", and believed the [[Arnie's meatballs|meatball]] joke in the same episode to be sexual innuendo -- which resulted in Larson peppering additional meatball jokes in that episode, in addition to its conclusion, "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II]]".<ref name="bunch"/>

==Syndication, VHS and DVD releases==

The ten series episodes were rolled into the television syndication package for ''Battlestar Galactica'' and were given the same title as its parent program. Some of the episodes were edited together to produce a VHS home video under the title ''Conquest of the Earth.''

As of August 2006, the [[Sci Fi Channel]] in America and the [http://www.spacecast.com/ SPACE Channel] in Canada periodically air the series. The three parts of the pilot were featured as part of SPACE's 2006 New Years Day marathon of the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]].

==Home Video and DVD==

Very few out-of-print copies of the VHS release of ''Conquest of the Earth'' remain publicly on sale. Unlike its Original Series parent, "Galactica 1980" was late to release for home video. in September 2007, Universal announced plans to release the complete series with the tag of 'The Original [[Battlestar Galactica (1978)|Battlestar Galactica's]] Final Series' on 26th December 2007 <ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/galactica-1980.html|title=DVDActive: Galactica 1980|date=|accessdate=|last=|first=|format=|language=}}</ref>. The series became available for pre-order at Amazon.com shortly after this announcement <ref>http://www.amazon.com/Battlestar-Galactica-1980-Complete-Epic/dp/B000W4KT9G/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-2219737-4828608?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1191690381&sr=8-1</ref>.

==Episode list==

# [[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]] – January 27, 1980
# [[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]] – February 3, 1980
# [[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]] – February 10, 1980
# [[The Super Scouts, Part I]] – March 16, 1980
# [[The Super Scouts, Part II]] – March 23, 1980
# [[Spaceball]] – March 30, 1980
# [[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]] – April 13, 1980 (guest-starring [[Wolfman Jack]])
# [[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II]] – April 20, 1980 (guest-starring [[Wolfman Jack]])
# [[Space Croppers]] – April 27, 1980
# [[The Return of Starbuck]] – May 4, 1980

==Notes==

* The series suffered from what are now considered science fiction clichés. For some fans, the addition of the mysterious [[Doctor Zee]], a prodigy child that serves as counsel to Adama, pushed their suspension of disbelief to the breaking point.

* [[Image:Heroes.jpg|thumb|Troy, Hamilton and Dillon]]Many fans see ''Galactica 1980'' as an apocryphal non-[[canon]]ical spin-off of the Original Series. Most fans appreciated the last episode, "[[The Return of Starbuck]]," whose story of the fate of a popular character of the Original Series was well written and full of the same energy found in many of of the Original Series episodes. (Battlestar Wiki treats this aired series as canonical for the purposes of this encyclopedia.)

* One curious Cylon character in the two-part episode, "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I|The Night the Cylons Landed]]" may be the one significant contribution to the "Galactica" saga. In the episode, [[Andromus|Cylons disguised in human form]] arrive on Earth to cause mayhem. Some 23 years later, the [[Re-imagined Series]] also introduced [[Humanoid Cylon|humanoid Cylons]] that wreak terror and havoc amongst the Colonies.

== Official Statements ==

* ''[[Allan Cole]] discusses his thoughts on the show to John Larocque:''
: '''Allan Cole:''' Let's face it, ''Galactica 1980'' was an awful show. It deserved to be dropped. At the time, I remember that I posted a big sign on my office door with the number 13 on it. We had been told if the ratings dropped to 13 or below that we would be cut. Every morning my then partner, [[Chris Bunch]], and I would chant "Come on, 13!" Must have been a great mantra, because the show dropped steadily, week after week. ([S]o much for the nice writer's comments about building an audience.) Of course, Chris and I wanted out of our contracts in the worst way. ([W]e had just sold the [[w:The Sten Chronicles|Sten series]] and were desperate to get started). Because of the "family hour" timeslot, the censors were always making us put in "educational beats" for the kiddies. I personally told Susan Futterman, then head of the network's program practices, that they ought to open every episode of the show with an "educational" tag that read: "Why aren't you little bug snipes watching ''[[w:60 Minutes|60 Minutes]]''." (our, ahem, competition in that time slot) Susan wholeheartedly agreed with our sympathies.<ref name="cole"/>

* ''[[Glen A. Larson]] discusses [[Lorne Greene]]'s involvement with the spin-off in "[[Sciography]]":''
: '''Glen Larson:''' Lorne Greene called me and said his heart was broken over the fact that he wouldn't be in it. I don't think I've ever told anybody that, but I... I... I, um, I guess I reacted somewhat sympathetically to how he felt and, uh, rehired him. But it probably would've been better in terms of the cleanness and clarity to have gone forward some generations, and continued the trek.

* ''[[Anne Lockhart]] ([[Sheba]]) and [[Richard Hatch]] ([[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]]) discuss their thoughts on the series:''
: '''Anne Lockhart:''' Well, I don’t know…when [[Boxey (TOS)|Boxey]] [[Troy (1980)|grew up]] into ''[[w:Adam-12|Adam-12]]'', I really got worried…and that long white beard on Lorne [Greene]….
: '''Richard Hatch:''' And [[Herb Jefferson Jr.|Herb [Jefferson Jr.]]]….
: '''Lockhart:''' Yeah, the snow that went in Herb’s hair! And everybody else died fighting the war. I thought it was pretty bad, frankly. I watched one episode and was so offended that I never watched another one. (to Richard) What did you think about it?
: '''Hatch:''' I think you summed it up pretty well!<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://geocities.com/sjpaxton/galacon.html|title=1986 Galacon Q & A with Richard Hatch and Anne Lockhart|date=|accessdate=12 August 2007|last=Paxton|first=Susan J.|format=|language=}}</ref>

==Narration==

This is the opening narration to ''Galactica 1980'', spoken by Commander Adama.

: ''"The great ship ''Galactica'', our home for these many years. We've endured the wilderness of space, and now we near the end of our journey: we have at last found Earth."''

==References==
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div>

==See also==
{{ext-wikipedia|article=Galactica 1980}}
* [[2003 Video Game|Battlestar Galactica]], the 2003 video game
* [http://battlestar.ugo.com/television/galactica_1980/default.asp UGO Galactica 1980 site]
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080221/ IMDb Entry for Galactica 1980]

{{Episode List (1980)}}

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Galactica 1980

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:''For information on the parent series, see [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)]]. For information on the 2004 "Re-imagined Series," see [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)]].''
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{{Series Data
| image = gal802.jpg
| title=Galactica 1980
| creator=[[Glen A. Larson]]
| starring=[[Kent McCord]]<br/>[[Barry Van Dyke]]<br/>[[Robyn Douglass]]<br/>[[Lorne Greene]]<br/>[[Herb Jefferson Jr.]]<br/>[[Patrick Stuart]]
| composer=[[Stu Phillips]]
| company=[[Universal|Universal Studios]]<br/>[[Glen Larson Productions]]
| seasons=1
| episodes=10
| channel= [[w:ABC|ABC]]
| US airdate=1980-01-27 — 1980-05-04
| UK airdate=
| dvd=
| exec producer= [[Glen A. Larson]]
| producer=
| supervising producer=
| associate producer=
| co-producer=
| story editor= [[Chris Bunch]]<br/>[[Allan Cole]]<br/>[[Robert L. McCullough]]
| prev=[[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|The Original Series]]
| next=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming]]
| itunes=
}}

'''''Galactica 1980''''' is a science-fiction television series, a [[spin-off]] of the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]].

''Galactica 1980'' was first broadcast on the ABC Television Network in the United States from January 27, 1980, with its final episode first airing on May 4, 1980.

The series first aired in Sunday's 7:00 PM, during what was known as the "family hour", thus making the series' target audience primarily children.

==Synopsis==

Set a generation after the Original Series, the [[Battlestar (TOS)|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]]'' and its [[The Fleet (TOS)|Fleet]] of 220 civilian ships finally discover [[Earth (TOS)|Earth]], only to find that the planet is technologically backward in relation to Colonial technology. As a result, Earth couldn't defend itself against the [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylons]] as originally expected. Therefore, teams of [[Colonial Warrior]]s are covertly sent to the planet to work ''incognito'' with various members of the scientific community, hoping to quickly advance Earth's technology.

The promotional material for ''Galactica 1980'' sets the series at thirty years after the events of the Original Series.

Commander [[Adama (1980)|Adama]] and Colonel [[Boomer (1980)|Boomer]]—now second-in-command in place of Colonel [[Tigh (TOS)|Tigh]]—send Captain "Boxey" [[Troy (1980)|Troy]], the [[Serina|adopted son]] of Adama's own son [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]], and Lt. [[Dillon]] to North America. The two become entangled with TV journalist [[Jamie Hamilton]] who aids them in devising ways to help Earth's scientists and outwit the Cylons.

[[Image:GAL801.jpg|thumb|Captain Troy and Jamie Hamilton]]
===Cast===

* [[Lorne Greene]] - [[Adama (1980)|Commander Adama]]
* [[Robyn Douglass]] - [[Jamie Hamilton]]
* [[Herb Jefferson Jr.]] - [[Boomer (1980)|Colonel Boomer]]
* [[Richard Lynch]] - [[Xaviar]]
* [[Kent McCord]] - [[Troy (1980)|Captain Troy]]
* [[Allan Miller]] - [[Colonel Sydell]]
* [[James Patrick Stuart]] - [[Doctor Zee]]
* [[Robbie Rist]] - [[Doctor Zee]]
* [[Barry Van Dyke]] - [[Dillon|Lieutenant Dillon]]

Greene (Adama) and Jefferson (Boomer) were the only major cast members of the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] to reprise their roles in first nine episodes, with [[Dirk Benedict]] reprising his role as [[Starbuck (1980)|Starbuck]] in the last episode.

==Short life==
''Galactica 1980'' had a promising start with a three-hour adventure that saw Troy, Dillon and Hamilton sent back in time to Nazi Germany to save the future, but the series could not sustain this momentum. The series was unceremoniously canceled after only ten episodes, many of which were multi-part stories, or what would be referred to now as story arcs.

The final episode, "[[The Return of Starbuck]]," was aired on May 4th, 1980. The final episode featured the return of [[Dirk Benedict]] as Lt. [[Starbuck (1980)|Starbuck]] from the Original Series in a flashback episode, but it wasn't enough to save the series. Repeats were aired through August 17th; the series was replaced by repeats of ''[[Wikipedia:Fantasy Island|Fantasy Island]]'' the following week.{{citation needed}}

==Production==

In the fall of 1979, ABC Television approached [[Glen A. Larson]] and Universal to bring back the ''Galactica'' series. According to ''1980'' story editor [[Chris Bunch]], neither Larson nor Universal wanted to do the series at all. Bunch claims that both parties were threatened to do the series for reasons which were not known to him, and attributes the reason that Larson agreed to do the series to "[whore] for the money with a bad attitude".<ref name="bunch">{{cite_web|url=http://geocities.com/sjpaxton/bunch.html|title=Battlestar Zone Interview: Chris Bunch|date=|accessdate=11 August 2007|last=Paxton|first=Susan J.|format=|language=}}</ref> This is also corroborated by Bunch's then-writing partner, [[Allan Cole]].<ref name="cole">{{cite_web|url=http://www.battlestargalactica.com/outside_docs/bg_outdoc0030.htm|title=Interview with Galactica 1980 story editor Allan Cole|date=28 Feburary 2005|accessdate=11 August 2007|last=Larocque|first=John|format=|language=}}</ref>

All the parties agreed that the discovery of Earth would be a suitable vehicle for drawing back viewers. However, many of the actors had moved on to other roles, most of the sets had been struck, and the time available for completing the production before the proposed January 1980 airdate was short. Actors and production personnel who worked on ''Galactica 1980'' describe a crazy shooting schedule that involved working on multiple episodes at the same time, last minute re-writes, and working days that extended well into the night.

For instance, Bunch notes that both he and Cole were "literally blackmailed into the gig because of ostensible expertise in SF".<ref name="bunch"/> They (including [[Robert L. McCullough]]) were story editors for the series, and would chant "Come on, 13" every morning. ("13" is the ratings number that, should ''1980'' ever hit or go below it, would result in the series' cancellation.)<ref name="cole"/>

Like episodes of the Original Series, Larson wrote or rewrote the entire series' worth of episodes from either [[w:Hawaii|Hawaii]] or [[w:Malibu|Malibu]].<ref name="bunch"/> Further episode rewrites happened on the sets just prior to shooting.<ref name="cole"/> Additionally, there was no clearly defined purpose to the show prior to development, as the purpose of the show changed on a daily basis. Additionally, new characters were created for the series, and then subsequently dropped as though they never existed.<ref name="cole"/>

As a result of having crews work overtime, the budget for the series continued to creep up in cost. That, in conjunction with ratings that went from historic highs with the first episode down to a dismal showing by April, spelled the early end of the program.<ref name="cole"/>

== Budget hell ==

Despite what Cole calls "revisionism" from people, such as lead actor [[Kent McCord]] -- who claimed that they needed a way to "economize" ''Battlestar Galactica'', ergo ''1980'' -- ABC "knew very well that Glen [Larson] never met a budget that he didn't hate".<ref name="cole"/>

The series itself cost between $1.2 and 1.5 million to produce per episode; the $1.5 million number is the budget that "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]" used. As ABC only paid $600,000 to $700,000 per episode, Universal was left to pay the remainder for each hour of programming.<ref name="cole"/>

Additionally, Cole notes that "there were almost as many producers listed on the show as secretaries. I mean, every day we'd be introduced to another guy who had just joined the staff as a new producer. I don't know what any of them did -- we rarely saw them again -- but they sure were collecting the bucks." He adds that this was Universal's decision as they "figured [that] if they were going to eat the big green slime anyway, they might as well take care of some obligations and dump all their losses into one (overflowing) bucket."<ref name="cole"/> This constant overflow of personnel to the series did nothing to alleviate the budget issues.

Ironically, the only episode that did not go over-budget was "[[The Return of Starbuck]]", and so Universal did not have to pay the remainder as, by that time, they were overspent.<ref name="cole"/>

== "Kiddie Hour", Standards and Practices, and "kids crawling out of your ears" ==

During its initial run, ''Galactica 1980'' was relegated to the 7 P.M. Sunday timeslot. Its only competition was that of [[w:CBS|CBS]]'s "television news magazine" ''[[w:60 Minutes|60 Minutes]]''.

This timeslot was deemed by Standards and Practices as children-friendly, and thus had restrictions as to the type of stories that could be told, or how they could be told.

The content of shows airing in this timeslot needed to be educational, and thus the Galacticans' lack of knowledge on Earth cultures and locations, and finding out about them through their [[wrist computron]]s came to satisfy this.

Additionally, people in the series needed to be clean-cut and presentable, thus removing any ability to present realistic presentations of people. Furthermore, Standards and Practices complained to Larson that there weren't enough kids; according to Cole, Larson replied "Okay, I'll give you kids crawling out of your ears." This resulted in [[The Super Scouts]]<ref name="cole"/> and the episodes that they were featured in, notably "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]", "[[The Super Scouts, Part II]]", "[[Spaceball]]" and "[[Space Croppers]]".

Unfortunately, shooting with large groups of children proved another major headache for the series, forcing the producers to hire child actors who were twins. In addition to the kids having reduced hours of availability, and the lack of professionalism exhibited by them, the cast and crew had to deal with the "stage moms, all of whom ought to be locked up" and the teachers for each kid. As Cole put it, "if the kid is a star you have to listen to the teacher as if she were speaking from on high"<ref name="cole"/> regardless of the reason.

Furthermore, the censor at ABC, Susan Futterman, was the crux of many of the series' problems. As told by Bunch, she questioned the information in the planetarium scene in "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]", and believed the [[Arnie's meatballs|meatball]] joke in the same episode to be sexual innuendo -- which resulted in Larson peppering additional meatball jokes in that episode, in addition to its conclusion, "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II]]".<ref name="bunch"/>

==Syndication==

The ten series episodes were rolled into the television syndication package for ''Battlestar Galactica'' and were given the same title as its parent program. Some of the episodes were edited together to produce a VHS home video under the title ''Conquest of the Earth.''

As of August 2006, the [[Sci Fi Channel]] in America and the [http://www.spacecast.com/ SPACE Channel] in Canada periodically air the series. The three parts of the pilot were featured as part of SPACE's 2006 New Years Day marathon of the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]].

==Home Video and DVD==

Very few out-of-print copies of the VHS release of ''Conquest of the Earth'' remain publicly on sale. Unlike its Original Series parent, "Galactica 1980" was late to release for home video. in September 2007, Universal announced plans to release the complete series with the tag of 'The Original [[Battlestar Galactica (1978)|Battlestar Galactica's]] Final Series' on 26th December 2007 <ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/galactica-1980.html|title=DVDActive: Galactica 1980|date=|accessdate=|last=|first=|format=|language=}}</ref>. The series became available for pre-order at Amazon.com shortly after this announcement <ref>http://www.amazon.com/Battlestar-Galactica-1980-Complete-Epic/dp/B000W4KT9G/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-2219737-4828608?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1191690381&sr=8-1</ref>.

==Episode list==

# [[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]] – January 27, 1980
# [[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]] – February 3, 1980
# [[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]] – February 10, 1980
# [[The Super Scouts, Part I]] – March 16, 1980
# [[The Super Scouts, Part II]] – March 23, 1980
# [[Spaceball]] – March 30, 1980
# [[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]] – April 13, 1980 (guest-starring [[Wolfman Jack]])
# [[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II]] – April 20, 1980 (guest-starring [[Wolfman Jack]])
# [[Space Croppers]] – April 27, 1980
# [[The Return of Starbuck]] – May 4, 1980

==Notes==

* The series suffered from what are now considered science fiction clichés. For some fans, the addition of the mysterious [[Doctor Zee]], a prodigy child that serves as counsel to Adama, pushed their suspension of disbelief to the breaking point.

* [[Image:Heroes.jpg|thumb|Troy, Hamilton and Dillon]]Many fans see ''Galactica 1980'' as an apocryphal non-[[canon]]ical spin-off of the Original Series. Most fans appreciated the last episode, "[[The Return of Starbuck]]," whose story of the fate of a popular character of the Original Series was well written and full of the same energy found in many of of the Original Series episodes. (Battlestar Wiki treats this aired series as canonical for the purposes of this encyclopedia.)

* One curious Cylon character in the two-part episode, "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I|The Night the Cylons Landed]]" may be the one significant contribution to the "Galactica" saga. In the episode, [[Andromus|Cylons disguised in human form]] arrive on Earth to cause mayhem. Some 23 years later, the [[Re-imagined Series]] also introduced [[Humanoid Cylon|humanoid Cylons]] that wreak terror and havoc amongst the Colonies.

== Official Statements ==

* ''[[Allan Cole]] discusses his thoughts on the show to John Larocque:''
: '''Allan Cole:''' Let's face it, ''Galactica 1980'' was an awful show. It deserved to be dropped. At the time, I remember that I posted a big sign on my office door with the number 13 on it. We had been told if the ratings dropped to 13 or below that we would be cut. Every morning my then partner, [[Chris Bunch]], and I would chant "Come on, 13!" Must have been a great mantra, because the show dropped steadily, week after week. ([S]o much for the nice writer's comments about building an audience.) Of course, Chris and I wanted out of our contracts in the worst way. ([W]e had just sold the [[w:The Sten Chronicles|Sten series]] and were desperate to get started). Because of the "family hour" timeslot, the censors were always making us put in "educational beats" for the kiddies. I personally told Susan Futterman, then head of the network's program practices, that they ought to open every episode of the show with an "educational" tag that read: "Why aren't you little bug snipes watching ''[[w:60 Minutes|60 Minutes]]''." (our, ahem, competition in that time slot) Susan wholeheartedly agreed with our sympathies.<ref name="cole"/>

* ''[[Glen A. Larson]] discusses [[Lorne Greene]]'s involvement with the spin-off in "[[Sciography]]":''
: '''Glen Larson:''' Lorne Greene called me and said his heart was broken over the fact that he wouldn't be in it. I don't think I've ever told anybody that, but I... I... I, um, I guess I reacted somewhat sympathetically to how he felt and, uh, rehired him. But it probably would've been better in terms of the cleanness and clarity to have gone forward some generations, and continued the trek.

* ''[[Anne Lockhart]] ([[Sheba]]) and [[Richard Hatch]] ([[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]]) discuss their thoughts on the series:''
: '''Anne Lockhart:''' Well, I don’t know…when [[Boxey (TOS)|Boxey]] [[Troy (1980)|grew up]] into ''[[w:Adam-12|Adam-12]]'', I really got worried…and that long white beard on Lorne [Greene]….
: '''Richard Hatch:''' And [[Herb Jefferson Jr.|Herb [Jefferson Jr.]]]….
: '''Lockhart:''' Yeah, the snow that went in Herb’s hair! And everybody else died fighting the war. I thought it was pretty bad, frankly. I watched one episode and was so offended that I never watched another one. (to Richard) What did you think about it?
: '''Hatch:''' I think you summed it up pretty well!<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://geocities.com/sjpaxton/galacon.html|title=1986 Galacon Q & A with Richard Hatch and Anne Lockhart|date=|accessdate=12 August 2007|last=Paxton|first=Susan J.|format=|language=}}</ref>

==Narration==

This is the opening narration to ''Galactica 1980'', spoken by Commander Adama.

: ''"The great ship ''Galactica'', our home for these many years. We've endured the wilderness of space, and now we near the end of our journey: we have at last found Earth."''

==References==
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div>

==See also==
{{ext-wikipedia|article=Galactica 1980}}
* [[2003 Video Game|Battlestar Galactica]], the 2003 video game
* [http://battlestar.ugo.com/television/galactica_1980/default.asp UGO Galactica 1980 site]
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080221/ IMDb Entry for Galactica 1980]

{{Episode List (1980)}}

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Raider (TOS)

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:''This article is about the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] raider. For other versions, see [[Cylon Raider]].''

{{Ship Data
| image= Bsg-raider-P.jpg
| title= Cylon Raider
| race= Cylon
| type= Military
| ftl= No
| crew= 3 Cylons
| role= Space superiority fighter
| weapons= Lasers<br />Missiles
| status= Active
}}
The '''Raider''' is the primary fighter attack craft of the [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylons]]. Raiders are typically crewed by three [[Centurion (TOS)|centurions]]. Two centurions sit up front at the controls to pilot the ship, while the third centurion sits on a raised chair behind the others to command and coordinate ([[The Hand of God (TOS)|The Hand of God]]).

It is armed with two forward-firing laser cannons and can carry bombs in bays within the wings and on racks mounted beneath the wings ([[Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II]]). Oval in shape, the piloted Raider has two sublight engines for propulsion. The vehicle is both space and atmosphere-capable ([[The Long Patrol]]).

On extended missions, Raiders have been known to be accompanied by [[Cylon freighter (TOS)|fuel tanker]]s. This allows wings of Raiders to cross large areas of space (relatively speaking) at sublight speeds without the aid of a [[Basestar (TOS)|basestar]]. This tactic is normally used on sneak attack missions, allowing Raider wings to slip past enemy defenses undetected, whereas a basestar would easily be spotted by enemy scanners ([[Saga of a Star World]]).
[[Image:Raidercrew.jpg|thumb|left|A typical Raider crew ([[Saga of a Star World]]).]]
Despite their larger crew and greater potential for firepower, the Raider often finds itself outmatched by the [[Viper (TOS)|Colonial Viper]]. This may be in part to the greater maneuverability of the Viper, and the skill of the [[Warrior|Colonial Warriors]] that fly them. Apollo seems confident in his ability to defeat Raiders if they possess any fewer than 10 to 1 in numbers ([[Saga of a Star World]]).

Cylon ships of the identical appearance were used during the [[Cylon War]] in the reimagined series.

<div style="clear:both;"></div>
== Advanced A-B Raider ==
[[Image:Cylon A-B Raider.jpg|thumb|The A-B Raider above earth.]]
The massive A-B Raider is an advanced form of Raider. It has a crew of five, consisting of two Cylon Androids ([[Andromus]] and [[Andromidus]]) and three Centurions. Its exact offensive and defensive capabilities are unknown. It seems to possess an offensive range far greater than that of conventional Raiders (and [[Viper (TOS)|Colonial Vipers]]) as well as some form of communication jamming.

In the only recorded encounter, Captain [[Kanon]] and Lieutenant [[Britton]] discover the A-B Raider while on recon duty in a two-seat version Colonial Viper. Unable to damage it with the Viper's conventional weapons, Kanon rams the A-B Raider, crippling both craft. The A-B Raider's trajectory causes it to crash on the surface of [[Earth (TOS)|Earth]], destroying all its occupants except its Commander, Andromus, and [[Centuri|one of the Centurion pilots]]. While Lieutenant Britton is injured in the collision, the Viper manages to limp back to ''[[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]]'' to report their findings on this new threat and the fact that the Cylons have landed.

The A-B Raider is fitted with an [[automatic detonator]], a self-destruct device that is capable of destroying the craft entirely. After crash landing outside of [[w:New York City|New York City]], Andromus activates this mechanism, noting they had [[micron]]s until it destroyed the ship. The [[w:New York State Police|New York State Police]] that respond to the crash are unable to find anything ([[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]).
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== Related Images ==
<gallery>
Image:RaiderSchematics.jpg|A Raider schematic displayed by a scanner on ''Galactica'' ([[Saga of a Star World]]).
Image:Raider pilot helm.jpg|The helm console of a Raider ([[Baltar's Escape]]).
Image:Abreadout.jpg|The initial sensor readings the recon Viper gets regarding the A-B Raider.
Image:Warbook.jpg|The A-B Raider as displayed in the [[Warbook]].
Image:Humanoidscan.jpg|A close scan of the A-B Raider displaying a humanoid Cylon.
</gallery>

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Cylons (TOS)|Raider]]
[[Category:Technology]]
[[Category:TOS]]
[[Category:Cylon Craft (TOS)]]
[[Category:Cylon Military (TOS)]]
[[Category:Ships (TOS)]]
{{TOS}}

Raider (TOS)

2007-10-06T16:40:26Z

Mokwella: rdm raider reference

:''This article is about the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] raider. For other versions, see [[Cylon Raider]].''

{{Ship Data
| image= Bsg-raider-P.jpg
| title= Cylon Raider
| race= Cylon
| type= Military
| ftl= No
| crew= 3 Cylons
| role= Space superiority fighter
| weapons= Lasers<br />Missiles
| status= Active
}}
The '''Raider''' is the primary fighter attack craft of the [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylons]]. Raiders are typically crewed by three [[Centurion (TOS)|centurions]]. Two centurions sit up front at the controls to pilot the ship, while the third centurion sits on a raised chair behind the others to command and coordinate ([[The Hand of God (TOS)|The Hand of God]]).

It is armed with two forward-firing laser cannons and can carry bombs in bays within the wings and on racks mounted beneath the wings ([[Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II]]). Oval in shape, the piloted Raider has two sublight engines for propulsion. The vehicle is both space and atmosphere-capable ([[The Long Patrol]]).

On extended missions, Raiders have been known to be accompanied by [[Cylon freighter (TOS)|fuel tanker]]s. This allows wings of Raiders to cross large areas of space (relatively speaking) at sublight speeds without the aid of a [[Basestar (TOS)|basestar]]. This tactic is normally used on sneak attack missions, allowing Raider wings to slip past enemy defenses undetected, whereas a basestar would easily be spotted by enemy scanners ([[Saga of a Star World]]).
[[Image:Raidercrew.jpg|thumb|left|A typical Raider crew ([[Saga of a Star World]]).]]
Despite their larger crew and greater potential for firepower, the Raider often finds itself outmatched by the [[Viper (TOS)|Colonial Viper]]. This may be in part to the greater maneuverability of the Viper, and the skill of the [[Warrior|Colonial Warriors]] that fly them. Apollo seems confident in his ability to defeat Raiders if they possess any fewer than 10 to 1 in numbers ([[Saga of a Star World]]).

Cylon ships of the identical appearance were used during the Cylon War in the reimagined series.

<div style="clear:both;"></div>
== Advanced A-B Raider ==
[[Image:Cylon A-B Raider.jpg|thumb|The A-B Raider above earth.]]
The massive A-B Raider is an advanced form of Raider. It has a crew of five, consisting of two Cylon Androids ([[Andromus]] and [[Andromidus]]) and three Centurions. Its exact offensive and defensive capabilities are unknown. It seems to possess an offensive range far greater than that of conventional Raiders (and [[Viper (TOS)|Colonial Vipers]]) as well as some form of communication jamming.

In the only recorded encounter, Captain [[Kanon]] and Lieutenant [[Britton]] discover the A-B Raider while on recon duty in a two-seat version Colonial Viper. Unable to damage it with the Viper's conventional weapons, Kanon rams the A-B Raider, crippling both craft. The A-B Raider's trajectory causes it to crash on the surface of [[Earth (TOS)|Earth]], destroying all its occupants except its Commander, Andromus, and [[Centuri|one of the Centurion pilots]]. While Lieutenant Britton is injured in the collision, the Viper manages to limp back to ''[[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]]'' to report their findings on this new threat and the fact that the Cylons have landed.

The A-B Raider is fitted with an [[automatic detonator]], a self-destruct device that is capable of destroying the craft entirely. After crash landing outside of [[w:New York City|New York City]], Andromus activates this mechanism, noting they had [[micron]]s until it destroyed the ship. The [[w:New York State Police|New York State Police]] that respond to the crash are unable to find anything ([[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]).
<br clear="all" />

== Related Images ==
<gallery>
Image:RaiderSchematics.jpg|A Raider schematic displayed by a scanner on ''Galactica'' ([[Saga of a Star World]]).
Image:Raider pilot helm.jpg|The helm console of a Raider ([[Baltar's Escape]]).
Image:Abreadout.jpg|The initial sensor readings the recon Viper gets regarding the A-B Raider.
Image:Warbook.jpg|The A-B Raider as displayed in the [[Warbook]].
Image:Humanoidscan.jpg|A close scan of the A-B Raider displaying a humanoid Cylon.
</gallery>

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Cylons (TOS)|Raider]]
[[Category:Technology]]
[[Category:TOS]]
[[Category:Cylon Craft (TOS)]]
[[Category:Cylon Military (TOS)]]
[[Category:Ships (TOS)]]
{{TOS}}

Razor Flashbacks

2007-10-06T16:37:49Z

Mokwella: /* Episode 1 */ rephrased prior edit

:''This page covers the webisode series for "Razor," which follows the exploits of the young [[William Adama]] during the [[Cylon War]]. For the two hour television event, see: "[[Razor]]".''
{{Episode Data
| image=
| title=Battlestar Galactica: Razor Flashbacks
| series=
| special= Y
| season=
| episode=
| guests=
| writer=[[Michael Taylor]]
| story=
| director=[[Wayne Rose]] and [[Felix Alcala]]
| production=
| rating=
| US airdate= 2007-10-05 through 2007-11-16
| UK airdate=
| dvd=
| population=
| prev= [[Crossroads, Part II]]
| next= [[Razor]]
}}

'''''Battlestar Galactica: Razor Flashbacks''''' are an online series that aims provide the story of a young [[William Adama]]'s ([[Nico Cortez]]) discovery of a [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] experiment during his time in the first [[Cylon War]]. The webisodes are aimed to lay down the back story for events in [[Season 4 (2008)|Season 4]] that will "threaten him, the crew of the ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' and the survival of the human race". The webisodes can be viewed through the official [http://www.scifi.com/ SciFi.com] or on the screen during airings of ''[[FlashGordonWiki:Flash Gordon (Sci Fi Channel)|Flash Gordon]]'' on Friday at 9/8 P.M. CT.

The webisode series was written by [[Michael Taylor]], and directed by [[Wayne Rose]] and [[Felix Alcala]]. In fact, these flashbacks were cut out of the "[[Razor]]" television movie due to time constraints, but will be reintegrated in the version of "Razor" for the [[Razor (Region 1 DVD)|Region 1 DVD]].

== Summary ==
===Episode 1===

[[Image:Razor Flashback 1.jpg|thumb|Young [[William Adama|Bill Adama]] with [[Jaycie McGavin]] on ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''.]]

* Running time: ~00:02:30
* Day: 4,571 (First [[Cylon War]])
* SCI FI Pulse link: http://video.scifi.com/player/?id=163960

On board ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', [[Jaycie McGavin]] and [[William Adama]] are having sex in the [[duty locker]], during which McGavin asks if Adama left his boots out. Adama tells her that he ran into the Commander while he was taking off his boots, which leads into them mocking the commander with one of his apparently [[Nothing but the rain|well-known greetings]].

McGavin and Adama talk before joining a battle to attack an ice planet in the "ass end of nowhere", where a rumored [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] superweapon is allegedly being built. It is defended heavily by the Cylons: three [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]] wings, ground forces, defensive batteries and nuclear weapons.

Another rumor they talk about is that peace negotiations are in progress and that the Cylons may unexpectedly surrender, which McGavin scoffs as unlikely. She runs off to report to a briefing for [[Raptor Squadron 2]], leaving Adama alone as the ship readies itself for possible nuclear attack.

Note: The reference to an ice planet with a superweapon based on it seems reminiscent of [[Arcta]] from the Original Series.

===Episode 2===
*Running time: N/A

Not yet available.

===Episode 3===
*Running time: N/A

Not yet available.

===Episode 4===
*Running time: N/A

Not yet available.

===Episode 5===
*Running time: N/A

Not yet available.

===Episode 6===
*Running time: N/A

Not yet available.

===Episode 7===
*Running time: N/A

Not yet available.

== Notes ==

* The "[[Nothing but the rain]]" greeting apparently originates with ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'s'' wartime commander, which would later be passed down by [[William Adama]] to [[Kara Thrace]].
* The [[Cylon War]] has lasted for the past twelve and a half years.
* Raptors were also in operation during the Cylon War.

== Analysis ==

Not yet available.

== Questions ==

* Could the superweapon on an ice planet in Episode 1 actually be a reference to the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] episode "[[The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I]]"?

== Official Statements ==

Not yet available.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

Not yet available.



== Crew ==

The full list of cast and crew is up on [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/razor/credits/ the SciFi.com Razor website].

== References ==
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div>

[http://frakked.blogspot.com/2007/10/razor-flashback-1.html Full transcript of Razor Flashback - Episode 1]

{{episode list (RDM season 4)}}

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Behind the Scenes]]
[[Category:Episode Guide]]
[[Category:Episode Guide (RDM)|*]]
[[Category:Episodes written by Michael Taylor]]
[[Category:Episodes directed by Felix Alcala]]
[[Category:Episodes directed by Wayne Rose]]
[[Category:RDM]]

Razor Flashbacks

2007-10-06T16:37:13Z

Mokwella: /* Episode 1 */ Arcta reference?

:''This page covers the webisode series for "Razor," which follows the exploits of the young [[William Adama]] during the [[Cylon War]]. For the two hour television event, see: "[[Razor]]".''
{{Episode Data
| image=
| title=Battlestar Galactica: Razor Flashbacks
| series=
| special= Y
| season=
| episode=
| guests=
| writer=[[Michael Taylor]]
| story=
| director=[[Wayne Rose]] and [[Felix Alcala]]
| production=
| rating=
| US airdate= 2007-10-05 through 2007-11-16
| UK airdate=
| dvd=
| population=
| prev= [[Crossroads, Part II]]
| next= [[Razor]]
}}

'''''Battlestar Galactica: Razor Flashbacks''''' are an online series that aims provide the story of a young [[William Adama]]'s ([[Nico Cortez]]) discovery of a [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] experiment during his time in the first [[Cylon War]]. The webisodes are aimed to lay down the back story for events in [[Season 4 (2008)|Season 4]] that will "threaten him, the crew of the ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' and the survival of the human race". The webisodes can be viewed through the official [http://www.scifi.com/ SciFi.com] or on the screen during airings of ''[[FlashGordonWiki:Flash Gordon (Sci Fi Channel)|Flash Gordon]]'' on Friday at 9/8 P.M. CT.

The webisode series was written by [[Michael Taylor]], and directed by [[Wayne Rose]] and [[Felix Alcala]]. In fact, these flashbacks were cut out of the "[[Razor]]" television movie due to time constraints, but will be reintegrated in the version of "Razor" for the [[Razor (Region 1 DVD)|Region 1 DVD]].

== Summary ==
===Episode 1===

[[Image:Razor Flashback 1.jpg|thumb|Young [[William Adama|Bill Adama]] with [[Jaycie McGavin]] on ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''.]]

* Running time: ~00:02:30
* Day: 4,571 (First [[Cylon War]])
* SCI FI Pulse link: http://video.scifi.com/player/?id=163960

On board ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', [[Jaycie McGavin]] and [[William Adama]] are having sex in the [[duty locker]], during which McGavin asks if Adama left his boots out. Adama tells her that he ran into the Commander while he was taking off his boots, which leads into them mocking the commander with one of his apparently [[Nothing but the rain|well-known greetings]].

McGavin and Adama talk before joining a battle to attack an ice planet in the "ass end of nowhere", where a rumored [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] superweapon is allegedly being built. It is defended heavily by the Cylons: three [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]] wings, ground forces, defensive batteries and nuclear weapons.

Another rumor they talk about is that peace negotiations are in progress and that the Cylons may unexpectedly surrender, which McGavin scoffs as unlikely. She runs off to report to a briefing for [[Raptor Squadron 2]], leaving Adama alone as the ship readies itself for possible nuclear attack.

Note: The ice planet seems reminiscent of [[Arcta]] from the Original Series.

===Episode 2===
*Running time: N/A

Not yet available.

===Episode 3===
*Running time: N/A

Not yet available.

===Episode 4===
*Running time: N/A

Not yet available.

===Episode 5===
*Running time: N/A

Not yet available.

===Episode 6===
*Running time: N/A

Not yet available.

===Episode 7===
*Running time: N/A

Not yet available.

== Notes ==

* The "[[Nothing but the rain]]" greeting apparently originates with ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'s'' wartime commander, which would later be passed down by [[William Adama]] to [[Kara Thrace]].
* The [[Cylon War]] has lasted for the past twelve and a half years.
* Raptors were also in operation during the Cylon War.

== Analysis ==

Not yet available.

== Questions ==

* Could the superweapon on an ice planet in Episode 1 actually be a reference to the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] episode "[[The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I]]"?

== Official Statements ==

Not yet available.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

Not yet available.



== Crew ==

The full list of cast and crew is up on [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/razor/credits/ the SciFi.com Razor website].

== References ==
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div>

[http://frakked.blogspot.com/2007/10/razor-flashback-1.html Full transcript of Razor Flashback - Episode 1]

{{episode list (RDM season 4)}}

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Behind the Scenes]]
[[Category:Episode Guide]]
[[Category:Episode Guide (RDM)|*]]
[[Category:Episodes written by Michael Taylor]]
[[Category:Episodes directed by Felix Alcala]]
[[Category:Episodes directed by Wayne Rose]]
[[Category:RDM]]

Space Croppers

2007-07-21T19:51:40Z

Mokwella: /* Guest Stars */

{{Episode Data
| image = Croppers.jpg
| title= Space Croppers
| series= 1980
| episode= 9
| guests=
| writer= [[IMDB:nm0567228|Robert L. McCullough]]
| story=
| director= [[IMDB:nm0356396|Daniel Haller]]
| production= 1.9
| rating=
| US airdate= 1980-04-27
| UK airdate=
| dvd=
| population=
| prev= [[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II]]
| next= [[The Return of Starbuck]]
}}

== Overview ==

:''After a [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylon]] attack that destroys two of the [[The Fleet (TOS)|Fleet's]] [[Agro Ship|Agro ships]], [[Troy (1980)|Troy]] and [[Dillon]] are sent to [[Earth (TOS)|Earth]] to set up an agricultural colony. In Southern California, they befriend a local Hispanic farmer who is struggling to keep his farm in the face of drought and the influence of his neighbor, a powerful rancher who controls the access to water for irrigation.''

==Summary==

* On a Cylon [[Basestar (TOS)|basestar]], positioned not far away from Earth, the [[Imperious Leader]] is addressing a [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|centurion]].

* He declares a new strategy in the war on the humans, ordering the targeting of the Colonial Fleet's food supply.

* When [[Galactica (TOS)|''Galactica'']] goes in search of food, it will lead the Cylons to Earth.

* Dozens of Cylon raiders are immediately launched to attack the Colonials.

* After breaking through the perimeter of [[Viper (TOS)|Vipers]] guarding the fleet, the [[Raider (TOS)|Raiders]] succeed in destroying two of the Agroships.

* [[Adama (1980)|Adama]] and [[Doctor Zee|Dr. Zee]] immediately realize why the Cylons picked this target, but concur that the Colonials will need to secretly establish an agricultural colony on Earth.

* During the planning, Adama and [[Boomer (1980)|Boomer]] are interrupted by an unidentified captain who complains that D Squadron, nicknamed the [[Daggit|Daggits]], have been modifying their Vipers by removing the energy limiting devices from the turbochargers.

[[Image:Hector1.jpg|thumb|Hector Alonso]]
* Meanwhile, as Troy and Dillon make their way to Earth, we turn to a different scene: a small farm in Southern California owned by a Hispanic American family, the Alonsos. They are close to going bankrupt, and Hector, the father of the family has taken the last resort and placed an ad for help in the local paper, but is embarrassed to have done so in front of the local Growers' Association.

* Rounding out the family is the Mom, the Alonsos ten-year-old son Chris, and Gloria their teenage daughter.

* Landing on Earth, and responding to Hector's ad, Troy and Dillon arrive at the Alonso farm.

* They encounter a scarecrow and assume he is some sort of local.

* Hector's ad offers to sell half interest in the farm, but an irrigation quota placed there by John Steadman, of the Growers' Association, is starving him out.

* Hector takes Troy and Dillon to the perimeter of his property in a wretched old truck.

* There, as plain as day, is a dam - small, but big enough to cut off most of the water supply.

* As Hector explains John Steadman arrives. Hector relates that Steadman has a problem with Hispanics, but even more apparent is Steadman's greed as he offers to buy Hector's farm for an unreasonably low price.

[[Image:Steadman.jpg|thumb|John Steadman in "Space Croppers"]]
* Later, as Troy and Dillon go with Hector to buy seed, they are sabotaged by one of Steadman's men who throws a lit cigar into the bed of Hector's truck setting fire to the seeds.

* Troy and Dillon go to confront Steadman, and demand compensation for the burned seed. Steadman has a good play with his employees, deciding to take the payment out of his henchmen's wages.

* He can't resist the opportunity to put one over on Troy and Dillon, and throws in an offer of untamed racehorse Satan - if they can ride him.

* The Galacticans make fool out of Steadman, secretly pacifying the animal with a burst of alpha waves from their wrist computers, making him easy to ride.

* Winning the bet, Dillon heads back to the ranch and presents the horse to Gloria.

* Adama calls on the communicator. In order to get the seed planted and grown to replenish the fleet's hydroponic capabilities without impacting the food supply, they have to do it right away.

* Dr. Zee plans to come down in his anti-gravity ship and coax the clouds into producing a good rain.

* That night, under cover of darkness, Troy and Dillon use their superhuman jumping ability to rapidly seed the Alonso's fields.

* Steadman, who is passing by, can't believe his eyes. Young Chris is equally surprised when he sees a flying saucer, actually Dr. Zee's antigrav ship, soar past his window at roughly the same time.

[[Image:Experts.jpg|thumb|Agricultural experts from the Fleet are outfitted with local garb]]
* Inside the antigrav ship are dozens of Galactican agricultural experts assigned by Dr. Zee to harvest the crops. Also arriving to help is [[Jamie Hamilton]], who has of course brought [[the Super Scouts]].

* The crops shoot up overnight.

* Steadman goes to the Grower's Association with frantic revelations of jumping aliens and flying saucers.

* His credibility gone, Steadman is laughed down and as a final insult they also vote to order the dam removed from Steadman's property and the water distributed freely.

== Notes ==
* The final series episode, "[[The Return of Starbuck]]" was being filmed around the same time as this episode.
* "Space Croppers" is the final episode of the series to include the central cast outside of Adama and Doctor Zee.
* The voice of the Imperious Leader is furnished by actor [[w:Dennis Haysbert|Dennis Haysbert]] from ''[[w:24 (series)|24]]'' fame; [[Patrick Macnee]] typically did the voice work for the Imperious Leader, and may have not been available (or offered, due to budget constraints) to reprise the role.
* Whether the voice change was intentional or a byproduct of casting, it does leave the impression that there is a new Imperious Leader in place at the time of the 1980 series.
* Much of the episode was filmed at the [http://www.billcotter.com/disney/golden.htm Disney movie ranch] in rural Los Angeles county, a favorite location for ''Galactica 1980''.

== Analysis ==
* "Space Croppers" continues the storyline of ''Galactica'''s arrival at Earth, suggesting that the Cylons are now very close to finding out the location of the planet, and establishing the first colony from the Fleet on the Earth.
* If the series had continued, a conflict at Earth between the Colonials and the Cylons would have seemed to be a logical next step for the storyline.

== Guest Stars ==

* [[Ana Alicia]] as [[Gloria Alonzo]]
* [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+William+Cort William Cort] as [[Trent]]
* [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Dana+Elcar Dana Elcar] as [[Steadman]]
* [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Joaquin+Garay,III Joaquin Garay III] as [[Chris Alonzo]]
* [[Dennis Haysbert]] as [[Imperious Leader]] (voice)
* [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Andy+Jarrell Andy Jarrell] as [[Maze]]
* [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Bill+McKinney Bill McKinney] as [[Barrett]]
* [http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0622824/ Anna Navarro] as [[Louise Alonzo]]
* [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Ned+Romero Ned Romero] as [[Hector Alonzo]]

{{Episode List (1980)}}

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:1980]]
[[Category:Episodes written by Robert L. McCullough]]
[[Category:Episodes directed by Daniel Haller]]

Space Croppers

2007-07-21T19:51:02Z

Mokwella: /* Notes */

{{Episode Data
| image = Croppers.jpg
| title= Space Croppers
| series= 1980
| episode= 9
| guests=
| writer= [[IMDB:nm0567228|Robert L. McCullough]]
| story=
| director= [[IMDB:nm0356396|Daniel Haller]]
| production= 1.9
| rating=
| US airdate= 1980-04-27
| UK airdate=
| dvd=
| population=
| prev= [[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II]]
| next= [[The Return of Starbuck]]
}}

== Overview ==

:''After a [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylon]] attack that destroys two of the [[The Fleet (TOS)|Fleet's]] [[Agro Ship|Agro ships]], [[Troy (1980)|Troy]] and [[Dillon]] are sent to [[Earth (TOS)|Earth]] to set up an agricultural colony. In Southern California, they befriend a local Hispanic farmer who is struggling to keep his farm in the face of drought and the influence of his neighbor, a powerful rancher who controls the access to water for irrigation.''

==Summary==

* On a Cylon [[Basestar (TOS)|basestar]], positioned not far away from Earth, the [[Imperious Leader]] is addressing a [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|centurion]].

* He declares a new strategy in the war on the humans, ordering the targeting of the Colonial Fleet's food supply.

* When [[Galactica (TOS)|''Galactica'']] goes in search of food, it will lead the Cylons to Earth.

* Dozens of Cylon raiders are immediately launched to attack the Colonials.

* After breaking through the perimeter of [[Viper (TOS)|Vipers]] guarding the fleet, the [[Raider (TOS)|Raiders]] succeed in destroying two of the Agroships.

* [[Adama (1980)|Adama]] and [[Doctor Zee|Dr. Zee]] immediately realize why the Cylons picked this target, but concur that the Colonials will need to secretly establish an agricultural colony on Earth.

* During the planning, Adama and [[Boomer (1980)|Boomer]] are interrupted by an unidentified captain who complains that D Squadron, nicknamed the [[Daggit|Daggits]], have been modifying their Vipers by removing the energy limiting devices from the turbochargers.

[[Image:Hector1.jpg|thumb|Hector Alonso]]
* Meanwhile, as Troy and Dillon make their way to Earth, we turn to a different scene: a small farm in Southern California owned by a Hispanic American family, the Alonsos. They are close to going bankrupt, and Hector, the father of the family has taken the last resort and placed an ad for help in the local paper, but is embarrassed to have done so in front of the local Growers' Association.

* Rounding out the family is the Mom, the Alonsos ten-year-old son Chris, and Gloria their teenage daughter.

* Landing on Earth, and responding to Hector's ad, Troy and Dillon arrive at the Alonso farm.

* They encounter a scarecrow and assume he is some sort of local.

* Hector's ad offers to sell half interest in the farm, but an irrigation quota placed there by John Steadman, of the Growers' Association, is starving him out.

* Hector takes Troy and Dillon to the perimeter of his property in a wretched old truck.

* There, as plain as day, is a dam - small, but big enough to cut off most of the water supply.

* As Hector explains John Steadman arrives. Hector relates that Steadman has a problem with Hispanics, but even more apparent is Steadman's greed as he offers to buy Hector's farm for an unreasonably low price.

[[Image:Steadman.jpg|thumb|John Steadman in "Space Croppers"]]
* Later, as Troy and Dillon go with Hector to buy seed, they are sabotaged by one of Steadman's men who throws a lit cigar into the bed of Hector's truck setting fire to the seeds.

* Troy and Dillon go to confront Steadman, and demand compensation for the burned seed. Steadman has a good play with his employees, deciding to take the payment out of his henchmen's wages.

* He can't resist the opportunity to put one over on Troy and Dillon, and throws in an offer of untamed racehorse Satan - if they can ride him.

* The Galacticans make fool out of Steadman, secretly pacifying the animal with a burst of alpha waves from their wrist computers, making him easy to ride.

* Winning the bet, Dillon heads back to the ranch and presents the horse to Gloria.

* Adama calls on the communicator. In order to get the seed planted and grown to replenish the fleet's hydroponic capabilities without impacting the food supply, they have to do it right away.

* Dr. Zee plans to come down in his anti-gravity ship and coax the clouds into producing a good rain.

* That night, under cover of darkness, Troy and Dillon use their superhuman jumping ability to rapidly seed the Alonso's fields.

* Steadman, who is passing by, can't believe his eyes. Young Chris is equally surprised when he sees a flying saucer, actually Dr. Zee's antigrav ship, soar past his window at roughly the same time.

[[Image:Experts.jpg|thumb|Agricultural experts from the Fleet are outfitted with local garb]]
* Inside the antigrav ship are dozens of Galactican agricultural experts assigned by Dr. Zee to harvest the crops. Also arriving to help is [[Jamie Hamilton]], who has of course brought [[the Super Scouts]].

* The crops shoot up overnight.

* Steadman goes to the Grower's Association with frantic revelations of jumping aliens and flying saucers.

* His credibility gone, Steadman is laughed down and as a final insult they also vote to order the dam removed from Steadman's property and the water distributed freely.

== Notes ==
* The final series episode, "[[The Return of Starbuck]]" was being filmed around the same time as this episode.
* "Space Croppers" is the final episode of the series to include the central cast outside of Adama and Doctor Zee.
* The voice of the Imperious Leader is furnished by actor [[w:Dennis Haysbert|Dennis Haysbert]] from ''[[w:24 (series)|24]]'' fame; [[Patrick Macnee]] typically did the voice work for the Imperious Leader, and may have not been available (or offered, due to budget constraints) to reprise the role.
* Whether the voice change was intentional or a byproduct of casting, it does leave the impression that there is a new Imperious Leader in place at the time of the 1980 series.
* Much of the episode was filmed at the [http://www.billcotter.com/disney/golden.htm Disney movie ranch] in rural Los Angeles county, a favorite location for ''Galactica 1980''.

== Analysis ==
* "Space Croppers" continues the storyline of ''Galactica'''s arrival at Earth, suggesting that the Cylons are now very close to finding out the location of the planet, and establishing the first colony from the Fleet on the Earth.
* If the series had continued, a conflict at Earth between the Colonials and the Cylons would have seemed to be a logical next step for the storyline.

== Guest Stars ==

* [[Ana Alicia]] as [[Gloria Alonzo]]
* [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+William+Cort William Cort] as [[Trent]]
* [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Dana+Elcar Dana Elcar] as [[Steadman]]
* [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Joaquin+Garay,III Joaquin Garay III] as [[Chris Alonzo]]
* [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Dennis+Haysbert Dennis Haysbert] as [[Imperious Leader]] (voice)
* [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Andy+Jarrell Andy Jarrell] as [[Maze]]
* [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Bill+McKinney Bill McKinney] as [[Barrett]]
* [http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0622824/ Anna Navarro] as [[Louise Alonzo]]
* [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Ned+Romero Ned Romero] as [[Hector Alonzo]]

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Dennis Haysbert

2007-07-21T19:49:11Z

Mokwella: oops - put Colicos instead of Haysbert for some reason..

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'''Dennis Haysbert''' (b. June 2, 1954, San Mateo, California) provided the voice for the character of the [[Imperious Leader]] in the ''[[Galactica 1980]]'' episode "[[Space Croppers]]".

Having begun acting in television in 1979, the Galactica 1980 role was one of Haysbert's earliest acting jobs in Hollywood. Genre fans may also remember him in the role of Lt. Parsons in the second season of the [[Glen A. Larson]] produced ''Buck Rogers in the Twenty-Fifth Century''.

Haysbert had a number of TV and movie roles over the following twenty years, including the role of Pedro Cerrano in the Major League series of motion pictures, and the role of Dr. Theodore Morris in the television series ''Now and Again''. However, it was not until the 21st century that he truly 'broke out' as an actor.

In 2001, Haysbert became well known when he took on the role of Senator David Palmer in the television series ''24'', where he ultimately portrayed the character as he became the first African-American President of the United States on the series. Later, he became the star of the series ''The Unit'' playing Sergeant Major Jonas Blaine.

Haysbert is currently the spokesman for All-State Insurance.

Haysbert was married to Elena Simms from 1980 to 1984, and to Lynn Griffith from 1989 to 2001.

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Randi Oakes

2007-07-21T19:46:23Z

Mokwella: dead link removed

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'''Randi Oakes''' (born 19 August 1951) is an American actress.

Born in [[w:Sumner, Iowa|Sumner, Iowa]], Oakes had a brief part in "[[Saga of a Star World]]" as the [[The Twelve Colonies (TOS)|Taurus]] woman [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]] and [[Boomer (TOS)|Boomer]] first come across on [[Carillon]].

Oakes would later be better recognized as Officer Bonnie Clark, a "Chippie", on the series ''[[w:CHiPs|CHiPs]]''.

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Dennis Haysbert

2007-07-21T19:45:38Z

Mokwella: /* External links */

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'''Dennis Haysbert''' (b. June 2, 1954, San Mateo, California) provided the voice for the character of the [[Imperious Leader]] in the [[Galactica 1980]] episode [[Space Croppers]].

Having begun acting in television in 1979, the Galactica 1980 role was one of Haysbert's earliest acting jobs in Hollywood. Genre fans may also remember him in the role of Lt. Parsons in the second season of the [[Glen A. Larson]] produced ''Buck Rogers in the Twenty-Fifth Century''.

Haysbert had a number of TV and movie roles over the following twenty years, including the role of Pedro Cerrano in the Major League series of motion pictures, and the role of Dr. Theodore Morris in the television series ''Now and Again.'' However, it was not until the 21st century that he truly 'broke out' as an actor.

In 2001, Haysbert became well known when he took on the role of Senator David Palmer in the television series ''24'', where he ultimately portrayed the character as he became the first African-American President of the United States on the series. Later, he became the star of the tv series ''The Unit'' playing Sergeant Major Jonas Blaine.

Haysbert is currently the spokesman for All-State Insurance.

Colicos was married to Elena Simms from 1980 to 1984, and to Lynn Griffith from 1989 to 2001.

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Dennis Haysbert

2007-07-21T19:45:23Z

Mokwella: /* External links */

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| character= [[Imperious Leader|Imperious Leader (1980)]]
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| born_day= 2
| born_year= 1954
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'''Dennis Haysbert''' (b. June 2, 1954, San Mateo, California) provided the voice for the character of the [[Imperious Leader]] in the [[Galactica 1980]] episode [[Space Croppers]].

Having begun acting in television in 1979, the Galactica 1980 role was one of Haysbert's earliest acting jobs in Hollywood. Genre fans may also remember him in the role of Lt. Parsons in the second season of the [[Glen A. Larson]] produced ''Buck Rogers in the Twenty-Fifth Century''.

Haysbert had a number of TV and movie roles over the following twenty years, including the role of Pedro Cerrano in the Major League series of motion pictures, and the role of Dr. Theodore Morris in the television series ''Now and Again.'' However, it was not until the 21st century that he truly 'broke out' as an actor.

In 2001, Haysbert became well known when he took on the role of Senator David Palmer in the television series ''24'', where he ultimately portrayed the character as he became the first African-American President of the United States on the series. Later, he became the star of the tv series ''The Unit'' playing Sergeant Major Jonas Blaine.

Haysbert is currently the spokesman for All-State Insurance.

Colicos was married to Elena Simms from 1980 to 1984, and to Lynn Griffith from 1989 to 2001.

== External links ==
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Dennis Haysbert

2007-07-21T19:44:38Z

Mokwella: initial article

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'''Dennis Haysbert''' (b. June 2, 1954, San Mateo, California) provided the voice for the character of the [[Imperious Leader]] in the [[Galactica 1980]] episode [[Space Croppers]].

Having begun acting in television in 1979, the Galactica 1980 role was one of Haysbert's earliest acting jobs in Hollywood. Genre fans may also remember him in the role of Lt. Parsons in the second season of the [[Glen A. Larson]] produced ''Buck Rogers in the Twenty-Fifth Century''.

Haysbert had a number of TV and movie roles over the following twenty years, including the role of Pedro Cerrano in the Major League series of motion pictures, and the role of Dr. Theodore Morris in the television series ''Now and Again.'' However, it was not until the 21st century that he truly 'broke out' as an actor.

In 2001, Haysbert became well known when he took on the role of Senator David Palmer in the television series ''24'', where he ultimately portrayed the character as he became the first African-American President of the United States on the series. Later, he became the star of the tv series ''The Unit'' playing Sergeant Major Jonas Blaine.

Haysbert is currently the spokesman for All-State Insurance.

Colicos was married to Elena Simms from 1980 to 1984, and to Lynn Griffith from 1989 to 2001.

== External links ==
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Blonde Taurus

2007-07-21T19:27:49Z

Mokwella:

{{Character Data
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|actor=[[Randi Oakes]]
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The '''Blonde [[The Twelve Colonies (TOS)#Tauron|Taurus]]''' is a tourist encountered by [[Boomer (TOS)|Boomer]] and [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]] during their initial survey of [[Carillon]]. The Taurus is initially afraid that the [[Colonial Warrior]]s were there in some sort of law enforcement capacity, to which she pleads that the [[chancery]] is legal (though she doesn't appear very certain of that). She got to Carillon by booking a [[skybus]] through her [[List of terms (TOS)|travelator]], and had won considerable sums of [[cubit]]s gambling at the chancery. She is in a hurry to leave, however, having booked a moonlight cruise. Boomer and Starbuck suspect she has been smoking [[List of terms (TOS)|plant vapors]] ([[Saga of a Star World]]).

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Blonde Taurus

2007-07-21T19:27:11Z

Mokwella:

{{Character Data
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|seen=Saga of a Star World
|actor=[[Randi Oakes]]
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The '''Blonde [[The Twelve Colonies (TOS)#Tauron|Taurus]]''' is a tourist encountered by [[Boomer (TOS)|Boomer]] and [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]] during their initial survey of [[Carillon]]. The Taurus is initially afraid that the [[Colonial Warrior]]s were there in some sort of law enforcement capacity, to which she pleads that the [[chancery]] is legal (though she doesn't appear very certain of that). She got to Carillon by booking a [[skybus]] through her [[List of terms (TOS)|travelator]], and had won considerable sums of [[cubit]]s gambling at the chancery. She is in a hurry to leave, however, having booked a moonlight cruise. Boomer and Starbuck suspect she has been smoking [[List of terms (TOS)|plant vapors]] ([[Saga of a Star World]]).

==Notes==

[[Randi Oakes]] who portrayed the blonde Taurus is most remember for her role in the 1970's police series [w:Chips|Chips] where she played Officer Bonnie.

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Die, Chameleon!

2007-07-21T00:01:36Z

Mokwella:

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{{Book Data
| image = Bg12.jpg
| title= Die, Chameleon!
| series= Berkley Books
| bookno= 12
| episode =
| author= [[Wikipedia:Robert Thurston|Robert Thurston]]
| published= May 1986
| isbn= 0425090957
| prev= [[The Nightmare Machine]]
| next= [[Apollo's War]]
}}

==Notes==

This was the author Robert Thurston's favorite book among the original Galactica novels that he penned. <ref>http://www.geocities.com/sjpaxton/thurston.html</ref>

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Talk:Angela/Archive 1

2007-07-20T23:53:17Z

Mokwella: /* Better picture? */

== Better picture? ==

Screen captures of ''Galactica 1980'' are (mercifully) all that we have right now, but can anyone get a clearer capture? --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 08:11, 13 April 2007 (CDT)

:I think I may have that one Tivo'd. If so, I can try to get a screen capture myself. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 08:55, 13 April 2007 (CDT)

:: As I recall, the best screencap should be the one where she is standing outside of Starbuck's makeshift encampment. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 09:57, 13 April 2007 (CDT)

::: Put up a new Ang pic [[User:Mokwella|Mokwella]] 18:53, 20 July 2007 (CDT)

Angela

2007-07-20T23:52:42Z

Mokwella:

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| photo=Angela.jpg
| age=
| colony=
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| nickname=
| seen=The Return of Starbuck
| pseen=
| death=
| parents=
| siblings=
| children=[[Doctor Zee]]
| marital status=
| role=Probable [[Beings of Light|Being of Light]]
| rank=
| actor=[[imdb:nm0152420|Judith Chapman]]
| cylon=
| mcylon=
| name=
}}

'''Angela''' is an enigmatic woman who is brought to [[Starbuck (1980)|Starbuck]] by [[Cyrus|Cy]] the [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylon]] [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Centurion]] when Starbuck expresses loneliness for female company after becoming marooned.

Where Cy finds Angela is unclear, but when she arrives, Starbuck is surprised to find she is pregnant.

Angela speaks in strange riddles.

When Starbuck launches his makeshift spacecraft with her aboard to save her and the newborn child from the Cylons, she subsequently disappears. It is revealed that Angela is the mother of [[Doctor Zee]] ([[The Return of Starbuck]]).

==Notes==
*It seems likely that Angela was a [[Beings of Light|Being of Light]], the celestial characters found in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]].
* [[w:Angela|Angela]] is a female given name. It is derived from the Greek word ángelos (αγγελος), meaning "messenger".

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Angela

2007-07-20T23:52:25Z

Mokwella:

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| children=[[Doctor Zee]]
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| rank=
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'''Angela''' is an enigmatic woman who is brought to [[Starbuck (1980)|Starbuck]] by [[Cyrus|Cy]] the [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylon]] [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Centurion]] when Starbuck expresses loneliness for female company after becoming marooned.

Where Cy finds Angela is unclear, but when she arrives, Starbuck is surprised to find she is pregnant.

Angela speaks in strange riddles.

When Starbuck launches his makeshift spacecraft with her aboard to save her and the newborn child from the Cylons, she subsequently disappears. It is revealed that Angela is the mother of [[Doctor Zee]] ([[The Return of Starbuck]]).

==Notes==
*It seems likely that Angela was a [[Beings of Light|Being of Light]], the celestial characters found in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]].
* [[w:Angela|Angela]] is a female given name. It is derived from the Greek word ángelos (αγγελος), meaning "messenger".

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Angela

2007-07-20T23:52:15Z

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'''Angela''' is an enigmatic woman who is brought to [[Starbuck (1980)|Starbuck]] by [[Cyrus|Cy]] the [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylon]] [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Centurion]] when Starbuck expresses loneliness for female company after becoming marooned.

Where Cy finds Angela is unclear, but when she arrives, Starbuck is surprised to find she is pregnant.

Angela speaks in strange riddles.

When Starbuck launches his makeshift spacecraft with her aboard to save her and the newborn child from the Cylons, she subsequently disappears. It is revealed that Angela is the mother of [[Doctor Zee]] ([[The Return of Starbuck]]).

==Notes==
*It seems likely that Angela was a [[Beings of Light|Being of Light]], the celestial characters found in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]].
* [[w:Angela|Angela]] is a female given name. It is derived from the Greek word ángelos (αγγελος), meaning "messenger".

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