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|rank= Admiral (spot promotion from Junior Lieutenant)<ref>See: [[Sources:L. Hoshi]]</ref><br />
|actor=[[Brad Dryborough]]<br />
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Lieutenant '''Louis Hoshi''' is the [[communications officer]] on the [[Mercury class battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', and later becomes the communications officer on ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' in a similar role as Lieutenant [[Anastasia Dualla]]. During his time aboard ''Pegasus'', he at times carries out duties usually done by the [[tactical officer]]. <br />
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During the opening salvos of the Cylon attack on the [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]], Hoshi is showing Lieutenant [[Kendra Shaw]] to her quarters and explaining the basics of the ship's computer network to her before he is knocked unconscious when ''Pegasus'' is hit. He is later seen back on duty in the CIC when Cain announces the colonies' destruction to the crew. He is also there when Shaw orders the security camera feed pulled up, revealing a dead [[Number Six]] and unmasking [[Gina Inviere]] as a Cylon agent ([[Razor]]).<br />
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Hoshi handles the [[wireless]] traffic between ''Pegasus'' and her Vipers during the [[Standoff Between Galactica and Pegasus|stand-off between the two battlestars]] ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]), and between ''Pegasus'' and the strike team during the [[Battle of the Guardian Basestar|attack on the Guardian basestar]], where he also reports the damage control status. He also mans nuclear the launch key station when Commander [[Lee Adama]] prepares a nuclear strike on the basestar (Razor).<br />
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With the settlement of [[New Caprica]], Hoshi remains on ''Pegasus'' and is serving in the CIC when the Cylons arrive and force the remaining [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] to abandon the colony ([[Occupation]]). After the destruction of ''Pegasus'', Hoshi is assigned to ''Galactica'''s CIC ([[The Passage]]).<br />
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During a standoff with the Cylons above the [[algae planet]], Admiral [[William Adama]] orders Hoshi to arm missile tubes 4 through 10, threatening to destroy the [[Temple of Five]] ([[The Eye of Jupiter]]) with nuclear warheads.<br />
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Hoshi takes over Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]]'s duties when Gaeta joins Captain [[Kara Thrace]]'s search for [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] aboard the ''[[Demetrius]]''. When the [[Cylon Civil War|Cylon rebel]] [[basestar]] found by the ''Demetrius'' jumps to the Fleet without her, he relays Admiral Adama's order to the Fleet to make an [[Emergency jump coordinates|emergency jump]] and announces when the [[Battery|main batteries]] have acquired a firing solution on the baseship ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]).<br />
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After Lieutenant [[Anastasia Dualla]]'s death, Hoshi replaces her as ''Galactica'''s [[communications officer]] ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).<br />
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[[image:Louis Hoshi.jpg|thumb|left|Louis Hoshi in CiC. ([[The Oath]]).]]<br />
Hoshi is revealed to be in a romantic relationship with [[Felix Gaeta]]. When the Gaeta's [[Raptor]] goes missing en route to the ''[[Zephyr]]'', Hoshi and [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]] mount a [[SAR]] mission to find him, which they eventually do. Once back aboard ''Galactica'', Gaeta ends their relationship in order to protect Hoshi from any repercussions from his meeting with Admiral Adama. ([[The Face of the Enemy]]) Gaeta actually planned a [[Gaeta's Mutiny|mutiny]], which Hoshi is unaware of. Gaeta arranges sabotages, which Hoshi thought were just glitches on ''Galactica's'' old systems. After Gaeta announces that he is take over from Adama, Hoshi is taken away by a mutinying marine. ([[The Oath]]) <br />
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Hoshi elects not to go on the mission to rescue [[Hera]] from [[The Colony]], and is named Admiral by Adama should they not return with the child. He leaves on the last Raptor out and is saluted by the crew before he goes. Later, he is seen on the new planet with [[Cottle]], [[Tigh]], [[Lee]], and [[William Adama|Adama]] watching the natives. He returns the Admiral stars to Adama, saying that they were "too heavy", and that the happiest day of his life was when he saw Adama get out of that Raptor, echoing a statement Roslin made to Adama back in [[Resurrection Ship, Part I]] in regards to the return of Admiral [[Helena Cain]]. ([[Daybreak, Part II]])<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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* Hoshi means "star" in Japanese.<br />
* In a [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)#The Captain's Hand|deleted scene]] in "The Captain's Hand", Hoshi is relieved of his post by Commander [[Barry Garner]] and summarily replaced with Ensign [[Abel Thornton]]. Another deleted scene from "[[Black Market]]" shows him finding Commander Fisk's body.<br />
*In ''[[MemoryAlpha:Star Trek: Enterprise|Star Trek: Enterprise]]'', [[MemoryAlpha:Hoshi Sato|Hoshi Sato]] is the name of the communications officer aboard the ''[[MemoryAlpha:Enterprise (NX-01)|Enterprise]]''.<br />
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|colony= Indeterminate<ref>Lampkin is known to have resided on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] due to his association with [[Joseph Adama]]. However, he lived on Gemenon with his [[Faye Lampkin|wife]] and daughters.</ref><br />
|birthname= Romo Lampkin<br />
|seen= The Son Also Rises<br />
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|parents= Described as "missing"<br />
|children= 2 daughters; Jennifer and Kate <br />
|marital status= Widowed, [[Faye Lampkin]] (wife)<br />
|role= Acting President of the [[Twelve Colonies of Kobol]], public defender<br />
|actor= [[Mark Sheppard]]<br />
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'''Romo Lampkin''' is a highly capable yet ethically questionable lawyer in the [[the Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]]. He is a [[Wikipedia:kleptomania|kleptomaniac]] with penchants for deception and psychological manipulation.<br />
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Prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], he worked in the public litigation office on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]], where he likely met and learned from [[Joseph Adama]], a man whom he hated yet respected. His parents were kidnapped, robbed and murdered when he was nine. He was married for 10 years to [[Faye Lampkin]], with whom he had two daughters, Jennifer and Kate, and lived on [[Gemenon (RDM)|Gemenon]]. The only memento of his family is his wife's cat, [[Lance]], that he was picking up from the vet during the Fall; he claims to dislike Lance, but appreciates that at least it does not "scratch or bite like she did" ("[[The Son Also Rises]]", "[[Sine Qua Non]]").<br />
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Having survived the attack on the Colonies, he eventually settles on [[New Caprica]] and lives under the [[Cylon Occupation Authority|Cylon occupation]] ([[Crossroads, Part I]]). <br />
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Lampkin is appointed [[Gaius Baltar]]'s defense counsel after his previous lawyer, [[Alan Hughes]], is killed by a bomb planted in [[Margaret Edmondson]]'s [[Raptor]]. He claims to take the case for the fame and glory, and despite questions raised about his previous experience, appears insufferably self-confident and pompous (The Son Also Rises). Further, payment for his services is rendered in the form of a compartment on a ship with a view, which he receives (Sine Qua Non). <br />
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Lampkin becomes the next assassination target, but is only injured when the door to his room is rigged with an explosive device. Consequently, Lampkin walks with a cane after being saved by [[Colonial Marine Corps|Marine]] [[Henry Cheadle]]. A part he pocketed from Captain [[Aaron Kelly]], identical to one used in an earlier unexploded bomb, reveals Kelly is the assassin (The Son Also Rises).<br />
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When [[Didi Cassidy]], the prosecuting attorney, presents a compelling opening statement highlighting mankind's dwindling numbers, Lampkin changes Baltar's plea to "guilty". In another controversial and unusual move, he calls on Lee Adama, who joined the defense after a falling out with [[William Adama|his father]], to take the stand and testify on Baltar's behalf, gambling that Adama's testimony would be the best chance to sway the admiral's foregone verdict of guilty. Adama delivers an impassioned speech about how the Colonial Fleet and government forgave so many crimes and gave so many second chances, but not for Baltar, who is being offered up as a scapegoat for their own guilt, shame and failures. His testimony tips the tribunal's balance in favor of acquittal.<br />
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Lampkin says his goodbye to Adama after the trial and departs without his cane, walking without a limp, hinting to what extent the perceptions of both Adama and the court might have been manipulated ([[Crossroads, Part I]] & [[Crossroads, Part II|Part II]]).<br />
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After his "big win", Lampkin suffers the loss of Lance over a month later by "those debased dregs of humanity" who apparently kill the cat for reasons unknown and is withdrawn until Lee Adama requests Lampkin's help in a search for an interim president. After eliminating a list of [[47]] candidates, including [[Doyle Franks]], Lampkin submits Lee Adama's name to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] who ratify Adama's appointment, but not before testing him at gunpoint. He is given [[Jake (New Caprica)|Jake]], the dog that helped the Resistance on New Caprica, as a reward and as a new pet for him to loath as Lee Adama puts it. Lampkin says dogs are the only thing he hates more than cats, but he seems to accept Jake ([[Sine Qua Non]]).<br />
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After [[William Adama|Admiral Adama]] is taken prisoner during [[Felix Gaeta]] and [[Tom Zarek]]'s [[Gaeta's Mutiny|coup d'etat]], Lampkin is called aboard ''Galactica'' by Zarek to serve as his legal council for a [[w:drumhead court-martial|drumhead court-martial]]. Lampkin tries to get Adama to submit a testimony and stall for time while the military loyalists work to retake the ship and rescue the mutineers' hostages, but Adama refues. He convinces Lampkin instead that Zarek only brought him in to lend legitimacy to the process and intends to execute them both once Gaeta has been placated. When Adama is found "guilty" of his crimes, Zarek has marine [[Parr]] escort Lampkin away, presumably to his death, but along the way they happen upon the aftermath of [[Lee Adama]] and [[Kara Thrace]]'s rescue of the Cylon hostages. Using Thrace as a distraction, Lampkin kills Parr by repeatedly stabbing him with a fountain pen and breaks free of his bonds. He ponders fleeing for a moment, but instead helps Thrace then carry a critically wounded [[Samuel Anders]] to [[Cottle|Doc Cottle]] for medical treatment ([[Blood on the Scales]]). <br />
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In what he calls "poetic justice", Lee Adama names him the President of the Colonies should Galactica not return successfully from the rescue of [[Hera]]. He leaves on the last Raptor off the ship, where he is saluted by Adama and several of the crew members. He is later seen on the New Earth with the remaining survivors. ([[Daybreak, Part 2]])<br />
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== Legal Practices and Ego ==<br />
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One of the best (not to mention only) legal experts in the Fleet, Romo Lampkin is known for his various quirks. Among them, Lampkin claims that interrogation rooms give him "[[w:stage fright|stage fright]]". He also channels his kleptomania to his advantage by stealing objects he believes might give him insight or handicap his opponents. For instance he steals [[Laura Roslin]]'s glasses, figuring that without them the president would appear less serious during the trial; and steals [[Gaius Baltar]]'s pen to raises suspicions that Baltar is being silenced, and to use in a ploy on [[Caprica-Six]]. Romo Lampkin typically wears a pair of sunglasses, letting him observe and read those around him without giving anything away himself ([[The Son Also Rises]]).<br />
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Further, Lampkin is not above court room theatrics, which includes faking a limp during Baltar's trial and putting [[Lee Adama]] on the stand to sway the vote of [[William Adama]] ([[Crossroads, Part I]] & [[Crossroads, Part II|Part II]]).<br />
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Lampkin also codifies a set of "Lampkin's Legal Dynamics", the first of which he reveals to [[Lee Adama]]:<br />
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:''Lampkin's First Rule of Legal Dynamics: When an irresistible force meets a movable object, stand aside and wait for the class action suit.''<br />
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Further, he is not above testing people, as he does to Lee Adama, whom he threatens at gunpoint in an attempt to determine Adama's readiness for his role as interim president ([[Sine Qua Non]]).<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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* The name "Romo" comes from the first two letters of [[Ronald D. Moore]]'s first and last names, although [[David Eick]] believes that the name is a nod to [[w:Dallas Cowboys|Dallas Cowboys]] starting quarterback [[w:Tony Romo|Tony Romo]].<ref>{{cite_rdm_podcast|episode=The Son Also Rises Bonus|act=|id=|timestamp=~00:01:05|totalrunning=~00:47:39}}</ref><br />
* Romo Lampkin was originally envisioned as a "55-year old [[w:Alan Dershowitz|Alan Dershowitz]] character".<ref>{{cite_rdm_podcast|episode=The Son Also Rises Bonus|act=|id=|timestamp=~00:11:42|totalrunning=~00:47:39}}</ref><br />
*Lampkin has had two pets, both of whom he didn't like but took care of: a cat named Lance and a dog named Jake. He had picked up Lance from the vet before the attack and only took care of him since it had been his wife's beloved cat. Despite claiming to hate it, he apparently did care for the cat somewhat as he was angry about its murder. He was given Jake by Lee Adama to replace Lance, and while he claimed to hate dogs more than cats, he did take Jake as he later asked for someone to feed his dog when being led to Adama's court-martial by marines.<br />
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|photo= Romo Lampkin.jpg<br />
|colony= Indeterminate<ref>Lampkin is known to have resided on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] due to his association with [[Joseph Adama]]. However, he lived on Gemenon with his [[Faye Lampkin|wife]] and daughters.</ref><br />
|birthname= Romo Lampkin<br />
|seen= The Son Also Rises<br />
|death= <br />
|parents= Described as "missing"<br />
|children= 2 daughters; Jennifer and Kate <br />
|marital status= Widowed, [[Faye Lampkin]] (wife)<br />
|role= President of the [[Twelve Colonies of Kobol]], public defender<br />
|actor= [[Mark Sheppard]]<br />
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'''Romo Lampkin''' is a highly capable yet ethically questionable lawyer in the [[the Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]]. He is a [[Wikipedia:kleptomania|kleptomaniac]] with penchants for deception and psychological manipulation.<br />
<br />
Prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], he worked in the public litigation office on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]], where he likely met and learned from [[Joseph Adama]], a man whom he hated yet respected. His parents were kidnapped, robbed and murdered when he was nine. He was married for 10 years to [[Faye Lampkin]], with whom he had two daughters, Jennifer and Kate, and lived on [[Gemenon (RDM)|Gemenon]]. The only memento of his family is his wife's cat, [[Lance]], that he was picking up from the vet during the Fall; he claims to dislike Lance, but appreciates that at least it does not "scratch or bite like she did" ("[[The Son Also Rises]]", "[[Sine Qua Non]]").<br />
<br />
Having survived the attack on the Colonies, he eventually settles on [[New Caprica]] and lives under the [[Cylon Occupation Authority|Cylon occupation]] ([[Crossroads, Part I]]). <br />
<br />
Lampkin is appointed [[Gaius Baltar]]'s defense counsel after his previous lawyer, [[Alan Hughes]], is killed by a bomb planted in [[Margaret Edmondson]]'s [[Raptor]]. He claims to take the case for the fame and glory, and despite questions raised about his previous experience, appears insufferably self-confident and pompous (The Son Also Rises). Further, payment for his services is rendered in the form of a compartment on a ship with a view, which he receives (Sine Qua Non). <br />
<br />
Lampkin becomes the next assassination target, but is only injured when the door to his room is rigged with an explosive device. Consequently, Lampkin walks with a cane after being saved by [[Colonial Marine Corps|Marine]] [[Henry Cheadle]]. A part he pocketed from Captain [[Aaron Kelly]], identical to one used in an earlier unexploded bomb, reveals Kelly is the assassin (The Son Also Rises).<br />
<br />
When [[Didi Cassidy]], the prosecuting attorney, presents a compelling opening statement highlighting mankind's dwindling numbers, Lampkin changes Baltar's plea to "guilty". In another controversial and unusual move, he calls on Lee Adama, who joined the defense after a falling out with [[William Adama|his father]], to take the stand and testify on Baltar's behalf, gambling that Adama's testimony would be the best chance to sway the admiral's foregone verdict of guilty. Adama delivers an impassioned speech about how the Colonial Fleet and government forgave so many crimes and gave so many second chances, but not for Baltar, who is being offered up as a scapegoat for their own guilt, shame and failures. His testimony tips the tribunal's balance in favor of acquittal.<br />
<br />
Lampkin says his goodbye to Adama after the trial and departs without his cane, walking without a limp, hinting to what extent the perceptions of both Adama and the court might have been manipulated ([[Crossroads, Part I]] & [[Crossroads, Part II|Part II]]).<br />
<br />
After his "big win", Lampkin suffers the loss of Lance over a month later by "those debased dregs of humanity" who apparently kill the cat for reasons unknown and is withdrawn until Lee Adama requests Lampkin's help in a search for an interim president. After eliminating a list of [[47]] candidates, including [[Doyle Franks]], Lampkin submits Lee Adama's name to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] who ratify Adama's appointment, but not before testing him at gunpoint. He is given [[Jake (New Caprica)|Jake]], the dog that helped the Resistance on New Caprica, as a reward and as a new pet for him to loath as Lee Adama puts it. Lampkin says dogs are the only thing he hates more than cats, but he seems to accept Jake ([[Sine Qua Non]]).<br />
<br />
After [[William Adama|Admiral Adama]] is taken prisoner during [[Felix Gaeta]] and [[Tom Zarek]]'s [[Gaeta's Mutiny|coup d'etat]], Lampkin is called aboard ''Galactica'' by Zarek to serve as his legal council for a [[w:drumhead court-martial|drumhead court-martial]]. Lampkin tries to get Adama to submit a testimony and stall for time while the military loyalists work to retake the ship and rescue the mutineers' hostages, but Adama refues. He convinces Lampkin instead that Zarek only brought him in to lend legitimacy to the process and intends to execute them both once Gaeta has been placated. When Adama is found "guilty" of his crimes, Zarek has marine [[Parr]] escort Lampkin away, presumably to his death, but along the way they happen upon the aftermath of [[Lee Adama]] and [[Kara Thrace]]'s rescue of the Cylon hostages. Using Thrace as a distraction, Lampkin kills Parr by repeatedly stabbing him with a fountain pen and breaks free of his bonds. He ponders fleeing for a moment, but instead helps Thrace then carry a critically wounded [[Samuel Anders]] to [[Cottle|Doc Cottle]] for medical treatment ([[Blood on the Scales]]). <br />
<br />
In what he calls "poetic justice", Lee Adama names him the President of the Colonies should Galactica not return successfully from the rescue of [[Hera]]. He leaves on the last Raptor off the ship, where he is saluted by Adama and several of the crew members. He is later seen on the New Earth with the remaining survivors. ([[Daybreak, Part 2]])<br />
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== Legal Practices and Ego ==<br />
<br />
One of the best (not to mention only) legal experts in the Fleet, Romo Lampkin is known for his various quirks. Among them, Lampkin claims that interrogation rooms give him "[[w:stage fright|stage fright]]". He also channels his kleptomania to his advantage by stealing objects he believes might give him insight or handicap his opponents. For instance he steals [[Laura Roslin]]'s glasses, figuring that without them the president would appear less serious during the trial; and steals [[Gaius Baltar]]'s pen to raises suspicions that Baltar is being silenced, and to use in a ploy on [[Caprica-Six]]. Romo Lampkin typically wears a pair of sunglasses, letting him observe and read those around him without giving anything away himself ([[The Son Also Rises]]).<br />
<br />
Further, Lampkin is not above court room theatrics, which includes faking a limp during Baltar's trial and putting [[Lee Adama]] on the stand to sway the vote of [[William Adama]] ([[Crossroads, Part I]] & [[Crossroads, Part II|Part II]]).<br />
<br />
Lampkin also codifies a set of "Lampkin's Legal Dynamics", the first of which he reveals to [[Lee Adama]]:<br />
<br />
:''Lampkin's First Rule of Legal Dynamics: When an irresistible force meets a movable object, stand aside and wait for the class action suit.''<br />
<br />
Further, he is not above testing people, as he does to Lee Adama, whom he threatens at gunpoint in an attempt to determine Adama's readiness for his role as interim president ([[Sine Qua Non]]).<br />
<br />
== Notes ==<br />
<br />
* The name "Romo" comes from the first two letters of [[Ronald D. Moore]]'s first and last names, although [[David Eick]] believes that the name is a nod to [[w:Dallas Cowboys|Dallas Cowboys]] starting quarterback [[w:Tony Romo|Tony Romo]].<ref>{{cite_rdm_podcast|episode=The Son Also Rises Bonus|act=|id=|timestamp=~00:01:05|totalrunning=~00:47:39}}</ref><br />
* Romo Lampkin was originally envisioned as a "55-year old [[w:Alan Dershowitz|Alan Dershowitz]] character".<ref>{{cite_rdm_podcast|episode=The Son Also Rises Bonus|act=|id=|timestamp=~00:11:42|totalrunning=~00:47:39}}</ref><br />
*Lampkin has had two pets, both of whom he didn't like but took care of: a cat named Lance and a dog named Jake. He had picked up Lance from the vet before the attack and only took care of him since it had been his wife's beloved cat. Despite claiming to hate it, he apparently did care for the cat somewhat as he was angry about its murder. He was given Jake by Lee Adama to replace Lance, and while he claimed to hate dogs more than cats, he did take Jake as he later asked for someone to feed his dog when being led to Adama's court-martial by marines.<br />
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:''This article explains the legislative body in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]]. For information on its [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] counterpart, see [[Quorum of Twelve (TOS)]].''<br />
[[Image:4x03 Quorum of Twelve.jpg|thumb|The current Quorum of Twelve]]<br />
The '''Quorum of Twelve''' is a unicameral deliberative body<ref>The Quorum combines features from the [[w: U.N. Security Council|U.N. Security Council]], [[Wikipedia: United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] and the [[Wikipedia: Quorum of the Twelve Apostles|Quorum of the Twelve Apostles]] (a leadership body in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and some other Mormon sects).</ref> that grants each of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] one elected representative, who votes on and brings issues to be discussed. The scope of these issues, in the aftermath of the [[Cylon attack]], is likely to be quite broad due to the lack of any other organized political bodies.<br />
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In practice, the Quorum is the counterpoint to the [[Government of the Twelve Colonies#Executive Branch|President]] of the Twelve Colonies. While the executive branch has great power, the Quorum likely needs to ratify all laws devised by the president and the cabinet. It is also able to veto [[Law of the Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Presidential provisions|presidential provisions]].<br />
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It is believed that the Quorum was instituted by the [[Articles of Colonization]] 52 years prior to the final [[Cylon attack]]. <br />
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==First Roslin Administration==<br />
After the loss of the Quorum under President Adar, [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]] reestablishes a new Quorum on [[Colonial Day (holiday)|Colonial Day]]. Its representatives, elected by the populous, include:<br />
[[Image:Cloud 9 Ballroom.jpg|thumb|The Quorum of Twelve meets for the first time in the ''[[Cloud 9]]'' ballroom.]]<br />
* [[Alexander Amiet]] of [[Aerelon]]<br />
* [[Marshall Bagot]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Virgon|Virgon]]<br />
* [[Gaius Baltar]] of [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] <ref>As shown in "[[Dirty Hands]]", Baltar's colony of origin is actually [[Aerelon]]. However, this is not common knowledge to the Colonials at the time of his appointment to the Quorum seat.</ref> <br />
* [[Miska Burian]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Aquaria|Aquaria]] <ref name="agenda">This information comes from [[:Image:Names from agenda ep 111.jpg|this page]] from the Quorum agenda in "[[Colonial Day]]".</ref><br />
* [[Perah Enyeto]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Tauron|Tauron]]<br />
* [[Oswin Eriku]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Libran|Libran]] <ref name="agenda"/><br />
* [[Elrad Hunt]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]]<ref name="sanne">While [[:Image:Names from agenda ep 111.jpg|this page]] from the Quorum agenda in "[[Colonial Day]]" notes that [[Elrad Hunt]] represents Picon and [[Safiya Sanne]] represents Leonis, a production error leads to Sanne being depicted onscreen as the representative of both colonies. Because neither character appears subsequently, the actual representatives of these colonies under the first Roslin administration cannot be conclusively established.</ref> <br />
* [[Sarah Porter]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Gemenon|Gemenon]]<br />
* [[Eladio Puasha]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Scorpia|Scorpia]]<br />
* [[Safiya Sanne]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Leonis|Leonis]] or [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]] <ref name="sanne"/><br />
* [[Robin Wenutu]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Canceron|Canceron]]<br />
* [[Tom Zarek]] of [[Sagittaron]]<br />
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Secluded in his lab, [[Gaius Baltar]] seems unaware that he has even been nominated for the Caprican post until he is made aware of the decision. <br />
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One of the primary issues of the new Quorum was the election of a vice president as the Quorum was responsible for the confirmation of the successor to that office. If there is a tie, as is the case during the campaign of Tom Zarek and Gaius Baltar, the president was the one who casts the tie-breaking vote ([[Colonial Day]]).<br />
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This Quorum of Twelve assembled on ''[[Cloud 9]]''.<br />
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==Baltar Administration==<br />
With the loss of ''Cloud 9'' shortly after [[Gaius Baltar]]'s inauguration, the Quorum's meeting place is destroyed. A number of delegates may also have died in the disaster. The Quorum continued to meet throughout the Baltar administration until at least its surrender to the Cylons a year later on [[New Caprica]]<ref>Gaius Baltar: If it's not the union, it's the Quorum. And if it's not the Quorum, it's the People's Council. ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]])</ref>. It appears to have been dissolved at some point during the Cylon occupation<ref>Laura Roslin: So, [[Tom Zarek|Mr. President]], how long before the new Quorum of Twelve can be sworn in? ([[Collaborators]])</ref>.<br />
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==Zarek/Second Roslin Administration==<br />
President Tom Zarek oversees the appointment of a new Quorum, who later approves the transition of presidential powers from Zarek to [[Laura Roslin]] after the [[Second Exodus]] ([[Collaborators]]).<br />
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Meeting on ''[[Colonial One]]'' with the [[Fleet News Service|press]] in attendance, now-Vice President Zarek appears to act as chairman to an unruly Quorum ([[The Ties That Bind]]).<br />
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The representatives on this Quorum include:<br />
* [[Jacob Cantrell]] of Sagittaron<br />
* [[Lee Adama]] of Caprica (succeeding [[Cowen]])<br />
* [[Dahlia]] of Tauron<br />
* an unnamed female [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Picon Delegate|delegate]] from Picon<br />
* an unnamed female [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Gemenon Delegate|delegate]] from Gemenon<br />
* an unnamed male [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Aerilon Delegate|delegate]] from Aerilon <br />
* an unnamed male [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Libran Delegate|delegate]] from Libran<br />
* [[Reza Chronides]] (unknown colony)<br />
* four further [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Other delegates|unnamed delegates]] (two women and two men, one of which was temporarily replaced by another man in the Quorum for some time)<br />
* [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Quorum Delegate|Another female delegate]], presumably with a special function, who temporarily replaced three regular delegates on three different occasions<br />
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==Post Earth/Execution==<br />
Upon learning of Adama's plan to enter a permanent alliance with the Rebel Cylons in exchange for access to Cylon FTL technology to be installed on all civilian ships, Zarek takes advantage of Roslin's self-imposed absence from politics and agitates the Quorum into voting that no Cylon may board a civilian ship without the permission of its people ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]).<br />
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Later, Zarek collaborates with Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] of Galactica to stage a mutiny which quickly turns bloody ([[The Oath]]). When the Quorum (minus Lee Adama who is at large on ''Galactica'') doesn't support him and Cantrell orders him to leave, pointedly addressing him as the ''Vice'' President, he orders their execution by the marines outside the door. After they carry out this order, Zarek summons Gaeta who is shaken out of his naivete about Zarek's motives and mourns the resulting loss of the rebellion's perceived moral high ground ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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Instead of forming the colony-based Quorum again with new representatives, Lee Adama proposes that the Colonials are no longer defined by their home colonies but rather the respective ships they live on. President Roslin supports the idea and tasks Lee with restructuring the civilian government accordingly ([[No Exit]]).<br />
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'''Jacob Cantrell''' was [[Sagittaron]]'s representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] ("[[The Ties That Bind]]", "[[Escape Velocity]]", "[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]") prior to his assassination along with the other Quorum members during the Gaeta-Zarek mutiny ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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When Roslin goes missing after a Cylon baseship she visits unexpectedly jumps away, the Quorum squabbles over her successor. Cantrell pointedly asks [[Lee Adama]] whether Admiral Adama would support [[Tom Zarek]] or the government if he were to become president. After some hesitation Adama replies that he wouldn't, leading to more shouting ([[Sine Qua Non]]). <br />
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Following the discovery and evacuation of Earth, Roslin considers Cantrell the key to persuading the Quorum in favor of an alliance with the rebel Cylons, but he is one of the strongest voices against the plan ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). <br />
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Later, after Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] and Zarek stage a mutiny aboard [[Galactica]] and Zarek turns to the Quorum for support (minus [[Lee Adama]] who was at large aboard ''Galactica''), the Quorum rebuffs him and Cantrell orders him to leave, pointedly addressing Zarek as the Vice President. Zarek calmly leaves the room and orders the marines outside the door to execute all Quorum members present ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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'''Jacob Cantrell''' was [[Sagittaron]]'s representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] ("[[The Ties That Bind]]", "[[Escape Velocity]]", "[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]") prior to his assassination along with the other Quorum members during the Gaeta-Zarek mutiny ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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When Roslin goes missing after a Cylon baseship she visits unexpectedly jumps away, the Quorum squabbles over her successor. Cantrell pointedly asks [[Lee Adama]] whether Admiral Adama would support [[Tom Zarek]] or the government if he were to become president. After some hesitation Adama replies that he wouldn't, leading to more shouting ([[Sine Qua Non]]). <br />
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Following the discovery and evacuation of Earth, Roslin considers Cantrell the key to persuading the Quorum in favor of an alliance with the rebel Cylons, but he is one of the strongest voices against the plan ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). <br />
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Later, after Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] and Zarek stage a mutiny aboard [[Galactica]] and Zarek turns to the Quorum for support (minus [[Lee Adama]] who was at large aboard ''Galactica''), the Quorum rebuffs him and Cantrell orders him to leave, pointedly addressing Zarek as the Vice President. Zarek calmly leaves the room and orders the marines outside the door to execute all Quorum members present ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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'''Jacob Cantrell''' was [[Sagittaron]]'s representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] ("[[The Ties That Bind]]", "[[Escape Velocity]]", "[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]") prior to his assassination along with the other Quorum members during the Gaeta-Zarek mutiny ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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When Roslin goes missing after a Cylon baseship she visits unexpectedly jumps away, the Quorum squabbles over her successor. Cantrell pointedly asks [[Lee Adama]] whether Admiral Adama would support [[Tom Zarek]] or the government if he were to become president. After some hesitation Adama replies that he wouldn't, leading to more shouting ([[Sine Qua Non]]). <br />
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Following the discovery and evacuation of Earth, Roslin considers Cantrell the key to persuading the Quorum in favor of an alliance with the rebel Cylons, but he is one of the strongest voices against the plan ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). <br />
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Later, after Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] and Zarek stage a mutiny aboard [[Galactica]] and Zarek turns to the Quorum for support (minus [[Lee Adama]] who was at large aboard ''Galactica''), the Quorum rebuffs him and Cantrell orders him to leave, pointedly addressing him as the Vice President. Zarek leaves the room and orders the marines outside the door to execute all Quorum members present ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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'''Jacob Cantrell''' was [[Sagittaron]]'s representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] ("[[The Ties That Bind]]", "[[Escape Velocity]]", "[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]") prior to his assassination along with the other Quorum members during the Gaeta-Zarek mutiny ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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When Roslin goes missing after a Cylon baseship she visits unexpectedly jumps away, the Quorum squabbles over her successor. Cantrell pointedly asks [[Lee Adama]] whether Admiral Adama would support [[Tom Zarek]] or the government if he were to become president. After some hesitation Adama replies that he wouldn't, leading to more shouting ([[Sine Qua Non]]). <br />
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Following the discovery and evacuation of Earth, Roslin considers Cantrell the key to persuading the Quorum in favor of an alliance with the rebel Cylons, but he is one of the strongest voices against the plan ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). <br />
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Later, after Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] and Zarek stage a mutiny aboard [[Galactica]] and Zarek turns to the Quorum for support, the Quorum rebuffs him and Cantrell orders him to leave, pointedly addressing him as the Vice President. Zarek leaves the room and orders the marines outside the door to execute all Quorum members present ([[Blood on the Scales]]). [[Lee Adama]] was aboard Galactica at the time so his life was spared.<br />
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'''Jacob Cantrell''' was [[Sagittaron]]'s representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] ("[[The Ties That Bind]]", "[[Escape Velocity]]", "[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]") prior to his assassination along with the other Quorum members during the Gaeta-Zarek mutiny ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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When Roslin goes missing after a Cylon baseship she visits unexpectedly jumps away, the Quorum squabbles over her successor. Cantrell pointedly asks [[Lee Adama]] whether Admiral Adama would support [[Tom Zarek]] or the government if he were to become president. After some hesitation Adama replies that he wouldn't, leading to more shouting ([[Sine Qua Non]]). <br />
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Following the discovery and evacuation of Earth, Roslin considers Cantrell the key to persuading the Quorum in favor of an alliance with the rebel Cylons, but he is one of the strongest voices against the plan ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). <br />
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Later, after Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] and Zarek stage a mutiny aboard [[Galactica]] and Zarek turns to the Quorum for support, the Quorum rebuffs him and Cantrell orders him to leave, pointedly addressing him as the Vice President. Zarek leaves the room and orders the marines outside the door to execute them all (except [[Lee Adama]], the representative from [[Caprica]] who had left for Galactica earlier in the day) ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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'''Jacob Cantrell''' was [[Sagittaron]]'s representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] ("[[The Ties That Bind]]", "[[Escape Velocity]]", "[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]") prior to his assassination along with the other Quorum members during the Gaeta-Zarek mutiny ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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When Roslin goes missing after a Cylon baseship she visits unexpectedly jumps away, the Quorum squabbles over her successor. Cantrell pointedly asks [[Lee Adama]] whether Admiral Adama would support [[Tom Zarek]] or the government if he were to become president. After some hesitation Adama replies that he wouldn't, leading to more shouting ([[Sine Qua Non]]). <br />
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Following the discovery and evacuation of Earth, Roslin considers Cantrell the key to persuading the Quorum in favor of an alliance with the rebel Cylons, but he is one of the strongest voices against the plan ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). <br />
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Later, after Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] and Zarek stage a mutiny aboard [[Galactica]] and Zarek turns to the Quorum for support, the Quorum rebuffs him and Cantrell orders him to leave, pointedly addressing him as the Vice President. Zarek leaves the room and orders the marines outside the door to execute them all. [[Lee Adama]], the representative from [[Caprica]] was aboard Galactica at the time ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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'''Jacob Cantrell''' was [[Sagittaron]]'s representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] ("[[The Ties That Bind]]", "[[Escape Velocity]]", "[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]") prior to his assassination along with the other Quorum members during the Gaeta-Zarek mutiny ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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When Roslin goes missing after a Cylon baseship she visits unexpectedly jumps away, the Quorum squabbles over her successor. Cantrell pointedly asks [[Lee Adama]] whether Admiral Adama would support [[Tom Zarek]] or the government if he were to become president. After some hesitation Adama replies that he wouldn't, leading to more shouting ([[Sine Qua Non]]). <br />
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Following the discovery and evacuation of Earth, Roslin considers Cantrell the key to persuading the Quorum in favor of an alliance with the rebel Cylons, but he is one of the strongest voices against the plan ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). <br />
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Later, after Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] and Zarek stage a mutiny aboard [[Galactica]] and Zarek turns to the Quorum for support, the Quorum rebuffs him and Cantrell orders him to leave, pointedly addressing him as the Vice President. Zarek leaves the room and orders the marines outside the door to kill the entire Quorum. [[Lee Adama]], the representative from [[Caprica]] was aboard Galactica at the time ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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'''Jacob Cantrell''' was [[Sagittaron]]'s representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] ("[[The Ties That Bind]]", "[[Escape Velocity]]", "[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]") prior to his assassination along with the other Quorum members during the Gaeta-Zarek mutiny ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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When Roslin goes missing after a Cylon baseship she visits unexpectedly jumps away, the Quorum squabbles over her successor. Cantrell pointedly asks [[Lee Adama]] whether Admiral Adama would support [[Tom Zarek]] or the government if he were to become president. After some hesitation Adama replies that he wouldn't, leading to more shouting ([[Sine Qua Non]]). <br />
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Following the discovery and evacuation of Earth, Roslin considers Cantrell the key to persuading the Quorum in favor of an alliance with the rebel Cylons, but he is one of the strongest voices against the plan ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). <br />
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Later, after Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] and Zarek stage a mutiny aboard [[Galactica]] and Zarek turns to the Quorum for support, the Quorum rebuffs him and Cantrell orders him to leave, pointedly addressing him as the Vice President. Zarek leaves the room and orders their execution by the marines outside the door ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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'''Jacob Cantrell''' was [[Sagittaron]]'s representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] ("[[The Ties That Bind]]", "[[Escape Velocity]]", "[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]") prior to his assassination along with the other Quorum members during the Gaeta-Zarek mutiny ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
<br />
When Roslin goes missing after a Cylon baseship she visits unexpectedly jumps away, the Quorum squabbles over her successor. Cantrell pointedly asks [[Lee Adama]] whether Admiral Adama would support [[Tom Zarek]] or the government if he were to become president. After some hesitation Adama replies that he wouldn't, leading to more shouting ([[Sine Qua Non]]). <br />
<br />
Following the discovery and evacuation of Earth, Roslin considers Cantrell the key to persuading the Quorum in favor of an alliance with the rebel Cylons, but he is one of the strongest voices against the plan ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). <br />
<br />
Later, after Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] and Zarek stage a mutiny aboard [[Galactica]] and Zarek turns to the Quorum for support, the Quorum rebuffs him and Cantrell orders him to leave, pointedly addressing him as the Vice President. Zarek leaves the room and orders their execution by the marines outside the door.<br />
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'''Jacob Cantrell''' was [[Sagittaron]]'s representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] ("[[The Ties That Bind]]", "[[Escape Velocity]]", "[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]") prior to his assassination along with the other Quorum members during the Gaeta-Zarek mutiny ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
<br />
When Roslin goes missing after a Cylon baseship she visits unexpectedly jumps away, the Quorum squabbles over her successor. Cantrell pointedly asks [[Lee Adama]] whether Admiral Adama would support [[Tom Zarek]] or the government if he were to become president. After some hesitation Adama replies that he wouldn't, leading to more shouting ([[Sine Qua Non]]). <br />
<br />
Following the discovery and evacuation of Earth, Roslin considers Cantrell the key to persuading the Quorum in favor of an alliance with the rebel Cylons, but he is one of the strongest voices against the plan ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). <br />
<br />
Later, after Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] and Zarek stage a mutiny aboard [[Galactica]] and Zarek turns to the Quorum for support, the Quorum rebuffs him and Cantrell orders him to leave, pointedly addressing him as the Vice President. Zarek leaves the room and orders their execution by the marines outside the door.<br />
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'''Jacob Cantrell''' was [[Sagittaron]]'s representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] ("[[The Ties That Bind]]", "[[Escape Velocity]]", "[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]") prior to his assassination with the other Quorum members ([[Blood on the Scales]].<br />
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When Roslin goes missing after a Cylon baseship she visits unexpectedly jumps away, the Quorum squabbles over her successor. Cantrell pointedly asks [[Lee Adama]] whether Admiral Adama would support [[Tom Zarek]] or the government if he were to become president. After some hesitation Adama replies that he wouldn't, leading to more shouting ([[Sine Qua Non]]). <br />
<br />
Following the discovery and evacuation of Earth, Roslin considers Cantrell the key to persuading the Quorum in favor of an alliance with the rebel Cylons, but he is one of the strongest voices against the plan ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). <br />
<br />
Later, after Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] and Zarek stage a mutiny aboard [[Galactica]] and Zarek turns to the Quorum for support, the Quorum rebuffs him and Cantrell orders him to leave, pointedly addressing him as the Vice President. Zarek leaves the room and orders their execution by the marines outside the door.<br />
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'''Military:''' [[Helena Cain]] | [[Tucker Clellan|Tucker "Duck" Clellan]] | [[Anastasia Dualla]] | [[Jack Fisk]] | [[Felix Gaeta]] | [[Barry Garner]]<br>[[Louanne Katraine|Louanne "Kat" Katraine]] | [[Peter Laird]] | [[James Lyman|James "Jammer" Lyman]] | [[Erin Mathias]]<br>[[Alex Quartararo|Alex "Crashdown" Quartararo]] | [[Socinus]] | [[Callandra Tyrol|Cally Tyrol]] | ''[[Pilots#Deceased|List of Deceased Pilots]]''<br />
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'''Jacob Cantrell''' was [[Sagittaron]]'s representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] ("[[The Ties That Bind]]", "[[Escape Velocity]]", "[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]") prior to his assassination with the other Quorum members ([[Blood on the Scales]].<br />
<br />
When Roslin goes missing after a Cylon baseship she visits unexpectedly jumps away, the Quorum squabbles over her successor. Cantrell pointedly asks [[Lee Adama]] whether Admiral Adama would support [[Tom Zarek]] or the government if he were to become president. After some hesitation Adama replies that he wouldn't, leading to more shouting ([[Sine Qua Non]]). <br />
<br />
Following the discovery and evacuation of Earth, Roslin considers Cantrell the key to persuading the Quorum in favor of an alliance with the rebel Cylons, but he is one of the strongest voices against the plan ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). <br />
<br />
Later, after Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] and Zarek stage a mutiny aboard [[Galactica]] and Zarek turns to the Quorum for support, the Quorum rebuffs him and Cantrell orders him to leave, pointedly addressing him as the Vice President. Zarek leaves the room and orders their execution by the marines outside the door.<br />
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'''Jacob Cantrell''' was [[Sagittaron]]'s representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] ("[[The Ties That Bind]]", "[[Escape Velocity]]", "[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]") prior to his assassination with the other Quorum members ([[Blood on the Scales]].<br />
<br />
When Roslin goes missing after a Cylon baseship she visits unexpectedly jumps away, the Quorum squabbles over her successor. Cantrell pointedly asks [[Lee Adama]] whether Admiral Adama would support [[Tom Zarek]] or the government if he were to become president. After some hesitation Adama replies that he wouldn't, leading to more shouting ([[Sine Qua Non]]). <br />
<br />
Following the discovery and evacuation of Earth, Roslin considers Cantrell the key to persuading the Quorum in favor of an alliance with the rebel Cylons, but he is one of the strongest voices against the plan ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). <br />
<br />
Later, after Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] and Zarek stage a mutiny aboard [[Galactica]] and Zarek turns to the Quorum for support, the Quorum rebuffs him and Cantrell orders him to leave, pointedly addressing him as the Vice President. Zarek leaves the room and orders their execution by the marines outside the door.<br />
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'''Jacob Cantrell''' was [[Sagittaron]]'s representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] ("[[The Ties That Bind]]", "[[Escape Velocity]]", "[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]") prior to his assassination with the other Quorum members ([[Blood on the Scales]].<br />
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When Roslin goes missing after a Cylon baseship she visits unexpectedly jumps away, the Quorum squabbles over her successor. Cantrell pointedly asks [[Lee Adama]] whether Admiral Adama would support [[Tom Zarek]] or the government if he were to become president. After some hesitation Adama replies that he wouldn't, leading to more shouting ([[Sine Qua Non]]). <br />
<br />
Following the discovery and evacuation of Earth, Roslin considers Cantrell the key to persuading the Quorum in favor of an alliance with the rebel Cylons, but he is one of the strongest voices against the plan ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). <br />
<br />
Later, after Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] and Zarek stage a mutiny aboard [[Galactica]] and Zarek turns to the Quorum for support, the Quorum rebuffs him and Cantrell orders him to leave, pointedly addressing him as the Vice President. Zarek leaves the room and orders their execution by the marines outside the door.<br />
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'''Jacob Cantrell''' was [[Sagittaron]]'s representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] ("[[The Ties That Bind]]", "[[Escape Velocity]]", "[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]") prior to his assassination with the other Quorum members ([[Blood on the Scales]].<br />
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When Roslin goes missing after a Cylon baseship she visits unexpectedly jumps away, the Quorum squabbles over her successor. Cantrell pointedly asks [[Lee Adama]] whether Admiral Adama would support [[Tom Zarek]] or the government if he were to become president. After some hesitation Adama replies that he wouldn't, leading to more shouting ([[Sine Qua Non]]). <br />
<br />
Following the discovery and evacuation of Earth, Roslin considers Cantrell the key to persuading the Quorum in favor of an alliance with the rebel Cylons, but he is one of the strongest voices against the plan ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). <br />
<br />
Later, after Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] and Zarek stage a mutiny aboard [[Galactica]] and Zarek turns to the Quorum for support, the Quorum rebuffs him and Cantrell orders him to leave, pointedly addressing him as the Vice President. Zarek leaves the room and orders their execution by the marines outside the door.<br />
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'''Jacob Cantrell''' was [[Sagittaron]]'s representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] ("[[The Ties That Bind]]", "[[Escape Velocity]]", "[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]") prior to his assassination with the other Quorum members ([[Blood on the Scales]].<br />
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When Roslin goes missing after a Cylon baseship she visits unexpectedly jumps away, the Quorum squabbles over her successor. Cantrell pointedly asks [[Lee Adama]] whether Admiral Adama would support [[Tom Zarek]] or the government if he were to become president. After some hesitation Adama replies that he wouldn't, leading to more shouting ([[Sine Qua Non]]). <br />
<br />
Following the discovery and evacuation of Earth, Roslin considers Cantrell the key to persuading the Quorum in favor of an alliance with the rebel Cylons, but he is one of the strongest voices against the plan ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). <br />
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Later, after Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] and Zarek stage a mutiny aboard [[Galactica]] and Zarek turns to the Quorum for support, the Quorum rebuffs him and Cantrell orders him to leave, pointedly addressing him as the Vice President. Zarek leaves the room and orders their execution by the marines outside the door.<br />
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'''Jacob Cantrell''' was [[Sagittaron]]'s representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] ("[[The Ties That Bind]]", "[[Escape Velocity]]", "[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]") prior to his assassination with the other Quorum members ([[Blood on the Scales]].<br />
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When Roslin goes missing after a Cylon baseship she visits unexpectedly jumps away, the Quorum squabbles over her successor. Cantrell pointedly asks [[Lee Adama]] whether Admiral Adama would support [[Tom Zarek]] or the government if he were to become president. After some hesitation Adama replies that he wouldn't, leading to more shouting ([[Sine Qua Non]]). <br />
<br />
Following the discovery and evacuation of Earth, Roslin considers Cantrell the key to persuading the Quorum in favor of an alliance with the rebel Cylons, but he is one of the strongest voices against the plan ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). <br />
<br />
Later, after Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] and Zarek stage a mutiny aboard [[Galactica]] and Zarek turns to the Quorum for support, the Quorum rebuffs him and Cantrell orders him to leave, pointedly addressing him as the Vice President. Zarek leaves the room and orders their execution by the marines outside the door.<br />
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'''Jacob Cantrell''' was [[Sagittaron]]'s representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] ("[[The Ties That Bind]]", "[[Escape Velocity]]", "[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]") prior to his assassination with the other Quorum members ([[Blood on the Scales]].<br />
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When Roslin goes missing after a Cylon baseship she visits unexpectedly jumps away, the Quorum squabbles over her successor. Cantrell pointedly asks [[Lee Adama]] whether Admiral Adama would support [[Tom Zarek]] or the government if he were to become president. After some hesitation Adama replies that he wouldn't, leading to more shouting ([[Sine Qua Non]]). <br />
<br />
Following the discovery and evacuation of Earth, Roslin considers Cantrell the key to persuading the Quorum in favor of an alliance with the rebel Cylons, but he is one of the strongest voices against the plan ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). <br />
<br />
Later, after Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] and Zarek stage a mutiny aboard [[Galactica]] and Zarek turns to the Quorum for support, the Quorum rebuffs him and Cantrell orders him to leave, pointedly addressing him as the Vice President. Zarek leaves the room and orders their execution by the marines outside the door.<br />
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| colony=[[Sagittaron]]<br />
| callsign=<br />
| nickname=<br />
| seen=The Ties That Bind<br />
| death=Blood on the Scales<br />
| role=Delegate to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]]<br />
| actor=[[Andrew McIlroy]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''Jacob Cantrell''' was [[Sagittaron]]'s representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] ("[[The Ties That Bind]]", "[[Escape Velocity]]", "[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]") prior to his assassination with the other Quorum members ([[Blood on the Scales]].<br />
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When Roslin goes missing after a Cylon baseship she visits unexpectedly jumps away, the Quorum squabbles over her successor. Cantrell pointedly asks [[Lee Adama]] whether Admiral Adama would support [[Tom Zarek]] or the government if he were to become president. After some hesitation Adama replies that he wouldn't, leading to more shouting ([[Sine Qua Non]]). <br />
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Following the discovery and evacuation of Earth, Roslin considers Cantrell the key to persuading the Quorum in favor of an alliance with the rebel Cylons, but he is one of the strongest voices against the plan ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul)]]. <br />
<br />
Later, after Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] and Zarek stage a mutiny aboard [[Galactica]] and Zarek turns to the Quorum for support, the Quorum rebuffs him and Cantrell orders him to leave, pointedly addressing him as the Vice President. Zarek leaves the room and orders their execution by the marines outside the door.<br />
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| photo=Jacob Cantrell.jpg<br />
| caption=<br />
| colony=[[Sagittaron]]<br />
| callsign=<br />
| nickname=<br />
| seen=The Ties That Bind<br />
| death=Blood on the Scales<br />
| role=Delegate to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]]<br />
| actor=[[Andrew McIlroy]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''Jacob Cantrell''' was [[Sagittaron]]'s representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] ("[[The Ties That Bind]]", "[[Escape Velocity]]", "[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]") prior to his assassination with the other Quorum members ([[Blood on the Scales]].<br />
<br />
When Roslin goes missing after a Cylon baseship she visits unexpectedly jumps away, the Quorum squabbles over her successor. Cantrell pointedly asks [[Lee Adama]] whether Admiral Adama would support [[Tom Zarek]] or the government if he were to become president. After some hesitation Adama replies that he wouldn't, leading to more shouting ([[Sine Qua Non]]). <br />
<br />
Following the discovery and evacuation of Earth, Roslin considers Cantrell the key to persuading the Quorum in favor of an alliance with the rebel Cylons, but he is one of the strongest voices against the plan ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul)]]. <br />
<br />
Later, after Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] and Zarek stage a mutiny aboard [[Galactica]] and Zarek turns to the Quorum for support, the Quorum rebuffs him and Cantrell orders him to leave, pointedly addressing him as the Vice President. Zarek leaves the room and orders their execution by the marines outside the door.<br />
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<div>__NOTOC__<br />
:''This article explains the legislative body in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]]. For information on its [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] counterpart, see [[Quorum of Twelve (TOS)]].''<br />
[[Image:4x03 Quorum of Twelve.jpg|thumb|The current Quorum of Twelve]]<br />
The '''Quorum of Twelve''' is a unicameral deliberative body<ref>The Quorum combines features from the [[w: U.N. Security Council|U.N. Security Council]], [[Wikipedia: United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] and the [[Wikipedia: Quorum of the Twelve Apostles|Quorum of the Twelve Apostles]] (a leadership body in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and some other Mormon sects).</ref> that grants each of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] one elected representative, who votes on and brings issues to be discussed. The scope of these issues, in the aftermath of the [[Cylon attack]], is likely to be quite broad due to the lack of any other organized political bodies.<br />
<br />
In practice, the Quorum is the counterpoint to the [[Government of the Twelve Colonies#Executive Branch|President]] of the Twelve Colonies. While the executive branch has great power, the Quorum likely needs to ratify all laws devised by the president and the cabinet. It is also able to veto [[Law of the Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Presidential provisions|presidential provisions]].<br />
<br />
It is believed that the Quorum was instituted by the [[Articles of Colonization]] 52 years prior to the final [[Cylon attack]]. <br />
<br />
==First Roslin Administration==<br />
After the loss of the Quorum under President Adar, [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]] reestablishes a new Quorum on [[Colonial Day (holiday)|Colonial Day]]. Its representatives, elected by the populous, include:<br />
[[Image:Cloud 9 Ballroom.jpg|thumb|The Quorum of Twelve meets for the first time in the ''[[Cloud 9]]'' ballroom.]]<br />
* [[Alexander Amiet]] of [[Aerelon]]<br />
* [[Marshall Bagot]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Virgon|Virgon]]<br />
* [[Gaius Baltar]] of [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] <ref>As shown in "[[Dirty Hands]]", Baltar's colony of origin is actually [[Aerelon]]. However, this is not common knowledge to the Colonials at the time of his appointment to the Quorum seat.</ref> <br />
* [[Miska Burian]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Aquaria|Aquaria]] <ref name="agenda">This information comes from [[:Image:Names from agenda ep 111.jpg|this page]] from the Quorum agenda in "[[Colonial Day]]".</ref><br />
* [[Perah Enyeto]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Tauron|Tauron]]<br />
* [[Oswin Eriku]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Libran|Libran]] <ref name="agenda"/><br />
* [[Elrad Hunt]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]]<ref name="sanne">While [[:Image:Names from agenda ep 111.jpg|this page]] from the Quorum agenda in "[[Colonial Day]]" notes that [[Elrad Hunt]] represents Picon and [[Safiya Sanne]] represents Leonis, a production error leads to Sanne being depicted onscreen as the representative of both colonies. Because neither character appears subsequently, the actual representatives of these colonies under the first Roslin administration cannot be conclusively established.</ref> <br />
* [[Sarah Porter]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Gemenon|Gemenon]]<br />
* [[Eladio Puasha]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Scorpia|Scorpia]]<br />
* [[Safiya Sanne]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Leonis|Leonis]] or [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]] <ref name="sanne"/><br />
* [[Robin Wenutu]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Canceron|Canceron]]<br />
* [[Tom Zarek]] of [[Sagittaron]]<br />
<br />
Secluded in his lab, [[Gaius Baltar]] seems unaware that he has even been nominated for the Caprican post until he is made aware of the decision. <br />
<br />
One of the primary issues of the new Quorum is the election of a vice president as the Quorum is responsible for the confirmation of the successor to that office. If there is a tie, as is the case during the campaign of Tom Zarek and Gaius Baltar, the president is the one who casts the tie-breaking vote ([[Colonial Day]]).<br />
<br />
This Quorum of Twelve assembles on ''[[Cloud 9]]''.<br />
<br />
==Baltar Administration==<br />
With the loss of ''Cloud 9'' shortly after [[Gaius Baltar]]'s inauguration, the Quorum's meeting place is destroyed. A number of delegates may also have died in the disaster. The Quorum continued to meet throughout the Baltar administration until at least its surrender to the Cylons a year later on [[New Caprica]]<ref>Gaius Baltar: If it's not the union, it's the Quorum. And if it's not the Quorum, it's the People's Council. ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]])</ref>. It appears to have been dissolved at some point during the Cylon occupation<ref>Laura Roslin: So, [[Tom Zarek|Mr. President]], how long before the new Quorum of Twelve can be sworn in? ([[Collaborators]])</ref>.<br />
<br />
==Zarek/Second Roslin/Adama Administration==<br />
President Tom Zarek oversees the appointment of a new Quorum, who later approves the transition of presidential powers from Zarek to [[Laura Roslin]] after the [[Second Exodus]] ([[Collaborators]]).<br />
<br />
Meeting on ''[[Colonial One]]'' with the [[Fleet News Service|press]] in attendance, now-Vice President Zarek appears to act as chairman to an unruly Quorum ([[The Ties That Bind]]).<br />
<br />
The representatives on this Quorum include:<br />
* [[Jacob Cantrell]] of Sagittaron<br />
* [[Lee Adama]] of Caprica (succeeding [[Cowen]])<br />
* an unnamed female [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Picon Delegate|delegate]] from Picon<br />
* an unnamed female [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Gemenon Delegate|delegate]] from Gemenon<br />
* an unnamed female [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Tauron Delegate #1|delegate]] from Tauron, succeeded by [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Tauron Delegate #2|another female delegate]] <br />
* an unnamed male [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Aerilon Delegate|delegate]] from Aerilon <br />
* an unnamed male [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Libran Delegate|delegate]] from Libran<br />
* [[Reza Chronides]] (unknown colony)<br />
* four further [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Other delegates|unnamed delegates]] (two women and two men, one of which was temporarily replaced by another man in the Quorum for some time)<br />
<br />
==Post Earth/Execution==<br />
Upon learning of Adama's plan to enter a permanent alliance with the Rebel Cylons in exchange for access to Cylon FTL technology to be installed on all civilian ships, Zarek takes advantage of Roslin's self-imposed absence from politics and agitates the Quorum into voting that no Cylon may board a civilian ship without the permission of its people ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]).<br />
<br />
Later, Zarek collaborates with Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] of Galactica to stage a mutiny which quickly turns bloody ([[The Oath]]). When the Quorum don't support him and Cantrell orders him to leave, pointedly addressing him as the Vice President, he orders their execution by the marines outside the door. After they carry out this order, Zarek summons Gaeta who is shaken out of his naivete about Zarek's motives and mourns the resulting loss of the rebellion's perceived moral high ground ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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<div>__NOTOC__<br />
:''This article explains the legislative body in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]]. For information on its [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] counterpart, see [[Quorum of Twelve (TOS)]].''<br />
[[Image:4x03 Quorum of Twelve.jpg|thumb|The current Quorum of Twelve]]<br />
The '''Quorum of Twelve''' is a unicameral deliberative body<ref>The Quorum combines features from the [[w: U.N. Security Council|U.N. Security Council]], [[Wikipedia: United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] and the [[Wikipedia: Quorum of the Twelve Apostles|Quorum of the Twelve Apostles]] (a leadership body in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and some other Mormon sects).</ref> that grants each of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] one elected representative, who votes on and brings issues to be discussed. The scope of these issues, in the aftermath of the [[Cylon attack]], is likely to be quite broad due to the lack of any other organized political bodies.<br />
<br />
In practice, the Quorum is the counterpoint to the [[Government of the Twelve Colonies#Executive Branch|President]] of the Twelve Colonies. While the executive branch has great power, the Quorum likely needs to ratify all laws devised by the president and the cabinet. It is also able to veto [[Law of the Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Presidential provisions|presidential provisions]].<br />
<br />
It is believed that the Quorum was instituted by the [[Articles of Colonization]] 52 years prior to the final [[Cylon attack]]. <br />
<br />
==First Roslin Administration==<br />
After the loss of the Quorum under President Adar, [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]] reestablishes a new Quorum on [[Colonial Day (holiday)|Colonial Day]]. Its representatives, elected by the populous, include:<br />
[[Image:Cloud 9 Ballroom.jpg|thumb|The Quorum of Twelve meets for the first time in the ''[[Cloud 9]]'' ballroom.]]<br />
* [[Alexander Amiet]] of [[Aerelon]]<br />
* [[Marshall Bagot]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Virgon|Virgon]]<br />
* [[Gaius Baltar]] of [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] <ref>As shown in "[[Dirty Hands]]", Baltar's colony of origin is actually [[Aerelon]]. However, this is not common knowledge to the Colonials at the time of his appointment to the Quorum seat.</ref> <br />
* [[Miska Burian]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Aquaria|Aquaria]] <ref name="agenda">This information comes from [[:Image:Names from agenda ep 111.jpg|this page]] from the Quorum agenda in "[[Colonial Day]]".</ref><br />
* [[Perah Enyeto]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Tauron|Tauron]]<br />
* [[Oswin Eriku]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Libran|Libran]] <ref name="agenda"/><br />
* [[Elrad Hunt]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]]<ref name="sanne">While [[:Image:Names from agenda ep 111.jpg|this page]] from the Quorum agenda in "[[Colonial Day]]" notes that [[Elrad Hunt]] represents Picon and [[Safiya Sanne]] represents Leonis, a production error leads to Sanne being depicted onscreen as the representative of both colonies. Because neither character appears subsequently, the actual representatives of these colonies under the first Roslin administration cannot be conclusively established.</ref> <br />
* [[Sarah Porter]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Gemenon|Gemenon]]<br />
* [[Eladio Puasha]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Scorpia|Scorpia]]<br />
* [[Safiya Sanne]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Leonis|Leonis]] or [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]] <ref name="sanne"/><br />
* [[Robin Wenutu]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Canceron|Canceron]]<br />
* [[Tom Zarek]] of [[Sagittaron]]<br />
<br />
Secluded in his lab, [[Gaius Baltar]] seems unaware that he has even been nominated for the Caprican post until he is made aware of the decision. <br />
<br />
One of the primary issues of the new Quorum is the election of a vice president as the Quorum is responsible for the confirmation of the successor to that office. If there is a tie, as is the case during the campaign of Tom Zarek and Gaius Baltar, the president is the one who casts the tie-breaking vote ([[Colonial Day]]).<br />
<br />
This Quorum of Twelve assembles on ''[[Cloud 9]]''.<br />
<br />
==Baltar Administration==<br />
With the loss of ''Cloud 9'' shortly after [[Gaius Baltar]]'s inauguration, the Quorum's meeting place is destroyed. A number of delegates may also have died in the disaster. The Quorum continued to meet throughout the Baltar administration until at least its surrender to the Cylons a year later on [[New Caprica]]<ref>Gaius Baltar: If it's not the union, it's the Quorum. And if it's not the Quorum, it's the People's Council. ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]])</ref>. It appears to have been dissolved at some point during the Cylon occupation<ref>Laura Roslin: So, [[Tom Zarek|Mr. President]], how long before the new Quorum of Twelve can be sworn in? ([[Collaborators]])</ref>.<br />
<br />
==Zarek/Second Roslin/Adama Administration==<br />
President Tom Zarek oversees the appointment of a new Quorum, who later approves the transition of presidential powers from Zarek to [[Laura Roslin]] after the [[Second Exodus]] ([[Collaborators]]).<br />
<br />
Meeting on ''[[Colonial One]]'' with the [[Fleet News Service|press]] in attendance, now-Vice President Zarek appears to act as chairman to an unruly Quorum ([[The Ties That Bind]]).<br />
<br />
The representatives on this Quorum include:<br />
* [[Jacob Cantrell]] of Sagittaron<br />
* [[Lee Adama]] of Caprica (succeeding [[Cowen]])<br />
* an unnamed female [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Picon Delegate|delegate]] from Picon<br />
* an unnamed female [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Gemenon Delegate|delegate]] from Gemenon<br />
* an unnamed female [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Tauron Delegate #1|delegate]] from Tauron, succeeded by [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Tauron Delegate #2|another female delegate]] <br />
* an unnamed male [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Aerilon Delegate|delegate]] from Aerilon <br />
* an unnamed male [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Libran Delegate|delegate]] from Libran<br />
* [[Reza Chronides]] (unknown colony)<br />
* four further [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Other delegates|unnamed delegates]] (two women and two men, one of which was temporarily replaced by another man in the Quorum for some time)<br />
<br />
==Post Earth/Execution==<br />
Upon learning of Adama's plan to enter a permanent alliance with the Rebel Cylons in exchange for access to Cylon FTL technology to be installed on all civilian ships, Zarek takes advantage of Roslin's self-imposed absence from politics and agitates the Quorum into voting that no Cylon may board a civilian ship without the permission of its people ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]).<br />
<br />
Later, Zarek collaborates with Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] of Galactica to stage a mutiny which quickly turns bloody ([[The Oath]]). When the Quorum don't support him and Cantrell orders him to leave, pointedly addressing him as the Vice President, he orders their execution by the marines outside the door. After they carry out this order, Zarek summons Gaeta who is horrified by the bloodshed and the resulting loss of the rebellion's perceived moral high ground ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
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[[Category:Colonial]]<br />
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<div>__NOTOC__<br />
:''This article explains the legislative body in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]]. For information on its [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] counterpart, see [[Quorum of Twelve (TOS)]].''<br />
[[Image:4x03 Quorum of Twelve.jpg|thumb|The current Quorum of Twelve]]<br />
The '''Quorum of Twelve''' is a unicameral deliberative body<ref>The Quorum combines features from the [[w: U.N. Security Council|U.N. Security Council]], [[Wikipedia: United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] and the [[Wikipedia: Quorum of the Twelve Apostles|Quorum of the Twelve Apostles]] (a leadership body in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and some other Mormon sects).</ref> that grants each of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] one elected representative, who votes on and brings issues to be discussed. The scope of these issues, in the aftermath of the [[Cylon attack]], is likely to be quite broad due to the lack of any other organized political bodies.<br />
<br />
In practice, the Quorum is the counterpoint to the [[Government of the Twelve Colonies#Executive Branch|President]] of the Twelve Colonies. While the executive branch has great power, the Quorum likely needs to ratify all laws devised by the president and the cabinet. It is also able to veto [[Law of the Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Presidential provisions|presidential provisions]].<br />
<br />
It is believed that the Quorum was instituted by the [[Articles of Colonization]] 52 years prior to the final [[Cylon attack]]. <br />
<br />
==First Roslin Administration==<br />
After the loss of the Quorum under President Adar, [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]] reestablishes a new Quorum on [[Colonial Day (holiday)|Colonial Day]]. Its representatives, elected by the populous, include:<br />
[[Image:Cloud 9 Ballroom.jpg|thumb|The Quorum of Twelve meets for the first time in the ''[[Cloud 9]]'' ballroom.]]<br />
* [[Alexander Amiet]] of [[Aerelon]]<br />
* [[Marshall Bagot]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Virgon|Virgon]]<br />
* [[Gaius Baltar]] of [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] <ref>As shown in "[[Dirty Hands]]", Baltar's colony of origin is actually [[Aerelon]]. However, this is not common knowledge to the Colonials at the time of his appointment to the Quorum seat.</ref> <br />
* [[Miska Burian]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Aquaria|Aquaria]] <ref name="agenda">This information comes from [[:Image:Names from agenda ep 111.jpg|this page]] from the Quorum agenda in "[[Colonial Day]]".</ref><br />
* [[Perah Enyeto]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Tauron|Tauron]]<br />
* [[Oswin Eriku]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Libran|Libran]] <ref name="agenda"/><br />
* [[Elrad Hunt]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]]<ref name="sanne">While [[:Image:Names from agenda ep 111.jpg|this page]] from the Quorum agenda in "[[Colonial Day]]" notes that [[Elrad Hunt]] represents Picon and [[Safiya Sanne]] represents Leonis, a production error leads to Sanne being depicted onscreen as the representative of both colonies. Because neither character appears subsequently, the actual representatives of these colonies under the first Roslin administration cannot be conclusively established.</ref> <br />
* [[Sarah Porter]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Gemenon|Gemenon]]<br />
* [[Eladio Puasha]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Scorpia|Scorpia]]<br />
* [[Safiya Sanne]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Leonis|Leonis]] or [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]] <ref name="sanne"/><br />
* [[Robin Wenutu]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Canceron|Canceron]]<br />
* [[Tom Zarek]] of [[Sagittaron]]<br />
<br />
Secluded in his lab, [[Gaius Baltar]] seems unaware that he has even been nominated for the Caprican post until he is made aware of the decision. <br />
<br />
One of the primary issues of the new Quorum is the election of a vice president as the Quorum is responsible for the confirmation of the successor to that office. If there is a tie, as is the case during the campaign of Tom Zarek and Gaius Baltar, the president is the one who casts the tie-breaking vote ([[Colonial Day]]).<br />
<br />
This Quorum of Twelve assembles on ''[[Cloud 9]]''.<br />
<br />
==Baltar Administration==<br />
With the loss of ''Cloud 9'' shortly after [[Gaius Baltar]]'s inauguration, the Quorum's meeting place is destroyed. A number of delegates may also have died in the disaster. The Quorum continued to meet throughout the Baltar administration until at least its surrender to the Cylons a year later on [[New Caprica]]<ref>Gaius Baltar: If it's not the union, it's the Quorum. And if it's not the Quorum, it's the People's Council. ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]])</ref>. It appears to have been dissolved at some point during the Cylon occupation<ref>Laura Roslin: So, [[Tom Zarek|Mr. President]], how long before the new Quorum of Twelve can be sworn in? ([[Collaborators]])</ref>.<br />
<br />
==Zarek/Second Roslin/Adama Administration==<br />
President Tom Zarek oversees the appointment of a new Quorum, who later approves the transition of presidential powers from Zarek to [[Laura Roslin]] after the [[Second Exodus]] ([[Collaborators]]).<br />
<br />
Meeting on ''[[Colonial One]]'' with the [[Fleet News Service|press]] in attendance, now-Vice President Zarek appears to act as chairman to an unruly Quorum ([[The Ties That Bind]]).<br />
<br />
The representatives on this Quorum include:<br />
* [[Jacob Cantrell]] of Sagittaron<br />
* [[Lee Adama]] of Caprica (succeeding [[Cowen]])<br />
* an unnamed female [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Picon Delegate|delegate]] from Picon<br />
* an unnamed female [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Gemenon Delegate|delegate]] from Gemenon<br />
* an unnamed female [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Tauron Delegate #1|delegate]] from Tauron, succeeded by [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Tauron Delegate #2|another female delegate]] <br />
* an unnamed male [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Aerilon Delegate|delegate]] from Aerilon <br />
* an unnamed male [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Libran Delegate|delegate]] from Libran<br />
* [[Reza Chronides]] (unknown colony)<br />
* four further [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Other delegates|unnamed delegates]] (two women and two men, one of which was temporarily replaced by another man in the Quorum for some time)<br />
<br />
==Post Earth/Execution==<br />
Upon learning of Adama's plan to enter a permanent alliance with the Rebel Cylons in exchange for access to Cylon FTL technology to be installed on all civilian ships, Zarek takes advantage of Roslin's self-imposed absence from politics and agitates the Quorum into voting that no Cylon may board a civilian ship without the permission of its people ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]).<br />
<br />
Later, Zarek collaborates with Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] of Galactica to stage a mutiny which quickly turns bloody ([[The Oath]]). When the Quorum don't support him and Cantrell orders him to leave, pointedly addressing him as the Vice President, he orders their execution by the marines outside the door. After they carry out this order, he summons Gaeta who is horrified by Zarek's actions and the loss of the rebellion's perceived moral high ground ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
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[[Category:A to Z]]<br />
[[Category:Colonial]]<br />
[[Category:Colonial Society]]<br />
[[Category:Colonial Society (RDM)]]<br />
[[Category:Colonial Government]]<br />
[[Category:Colonial Government (RDM)]]<br />
[[Category:Organizations]]<br />
[[Category:RDM]]<br />
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[[fr:Quorum des Douze]]<br />
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:''This article explains the legislative body in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]]. For information on its [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] counterpart, see [[Quorum of Twelve (TOS)]].''<br />
[[Image:4x03 Quorum of Twelve.jpg|thumb|The current Quorum of Twelve]]<br />
The '''Quorum of Twelve''' is a unicameral deliberative body<ref>The Quorum combines features from the [[w: U.N. Security Council|U.N. Security Council]], [[Wikipedia: United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] and the [[Wikipedia: Quorum of the Twelve Apostles|Quorum of the Twelve Apostles]] (a leadership body in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and some other Mormon sects).</ref> that grants each of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] one elected representative, who votes on and brings issues to be discussed. The scope of these issues, in the aftermath of the [[Cylon attack]], is likely to be quite broad due to the lack of any other organized political bodies.<br />
<br />
In practice, the Quorum is the counterpoint to the [[Government of the Twelve Colonies#Executive Branch|President]] of the Twelve Colonies. While the executive branch has great power, the Quorum likely needs to ratify all laws devised by the president and the cabinet. It is also able to veto [[Law of the Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Presidential provisions|presidential provisions]].<br />
<br />
It is believed that the Quorum was instituted by the [[Articles of Colonization]] 52 years prior to the final [[Cylon attack]]. <br />
<br />
==First Roslin Administration==<br />
After the loss of the Quorum under President Adar, [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]] reestablishes a new Quorum on [[Colonial Day (holiday)|Colonial Day]]. Its representatives, elected by the populous, include:<br />
[[Image:Cloud 9 Ballroom.jpg|thumb|The Quorum of Twelve meets for the first time in the ''[[Cloud 9]]'' ballroom.]]<br />
* [[Alexander Amiet]] of [[Aerelon]]<br />
* [[Marshall Bagot]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Virgon|Virgon]]<br />
* [[Gaius Baltar]] of [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] <ref>As shown in "[[Dirty Hands]]", Baltar's colony of origin is actually [[Aerelon]]. However, this is not common knowledge to the Colonials at the time of his appointment to the Quorum seat.</ref> <br />
* [[Miska Burian]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Aquaria|Aquaria]] <ref name="agenda">This information comes from [[:Image:Names from agenda ep 111.jpg|this page]] from the Quorum agenda in "[[Colonial Day]]".</ref><br />
* [[Perah Enyeto]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Tauron|Tauron]]<br />
* [[Oswin Eriku]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Libran|Libran]] <ref name="agenda"/><br />
* [[Elrad Hunt]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]]<ref name="sanne">While [[:Image:Names from agenda ep 111.jpg|this page]] from the Quorum agenda in "[[Colonial Day]]" notes that [[Elrad Hunt]] represents Picon and [[Safiya Sanne]] represents Leonis, a production error leads to Sanne being depicted onscreen as the representative of both colonies. Because neither character appears subsequently, the actual representatives of these colonies under the first Roslin administration cannot be conclusively established.</ref> <br />
* [[Sarah Porter]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Gemenon|Gemenon]]<br />
* [[Eladio Puasha]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Scorpia|Scorpia]]<br />
* [[Safiya Sanne]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Leonis|Leonis]] or [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]] <ref name="sanne"/><br />
* [[Robin Wenutu]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Canceron|Canceron]]<br />
* [[Tom Zarek]] of [[Sagittaron]]<br />
<br />
Secluded in his lab, [[Gaius Baltar]] seems unaware that he has even been nominated for the Caprican post until he is made aware of the decision. <br />
<br />
One of the primary issues of the new Quorum is the election of a vice president as the Quorum is responsible for the confirmation of the successor to that office. If there is a tie, as is the case during the campaign of Tom Zarek and Gaius Baltar, the president is the one who casts the tie-breaking vote ([[Colonial Day]]).<br />
<br />
This Quorum of Twelve assembles on ''[[Cloud 9]]''.<br />
<br />
==Baltar Administration==<br />
With the loss of ''Cloud 9'' shortly after [[Gaius Baltar]]'s inauguration, the Quorum's meeting place is destroyed. A number of delegates may also have died in the disaster. The Quorum continued to meet throughout the Baltar administration until at least its surrender to the Cylons a year later on [[New Caprica]]<ref>Gaius Baltar: If it's not the union, it's the Quorum. And if it's not the Quorum, it's the People's Council. ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]])</ref>. It appears to have been dissolved at some point during the Cylon occupation<ref>Laura Roslin: So, [[Tom Zarek|Mr. President]], how long before the new Quorum of Twelve can be sworn in? ([[Collaborators]])</ref>.<br />
<br />
==Zarek/Second Roslin/Adama Administration==<br />
President Tom Zarek oversees the appointment of a new Quorum, who later approves the transition of presidential powers from Zarek to [[Laura Roslin]] after the [[Second Exodus]] ([[Collaborators]]).<br />
<br />
Meeting on ''[[Colonial One]]'' with the [[Fleet News Service|press]] in attendance, now-Vice President Zarek appears to act as chairman to an unruly Quorum ([[The Ties That Bind]]).<br />
<br />
The representatives on this Quorum include:<br />
* [[Jacob Cantrell]] of Sagittaron<br />
* [[Lee Adama]] of Caprica (succeeding [[Cowen]])<br />
* an unnamed female [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Picon Delegate|delegate]] from Picon<br />
* an unnamed female [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Gemenon Delegate|delegate]] from Gemenon<br />
* an unnamed female [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Tauron Delegate #1|delegate]] from Tauron, succeeded by [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Tauron Delegate #2|another female delegate]] <br />
* an unnamed male [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Aerilon Delegate|delegate]] from Aerilon <br />
* an unnamed male [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Libran Delegate|delegate]] from Libran<br />
* [[Reza Chronides]] (unknown colony)<br />
* four further [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Other delegates|unnamed delegates]] (two women and two men, one of which was temporarily replaced by another man in the Quorum for some time)<br />
<br />
==Post Earth/Execution==<br />
Upon learning of Adama's plan to enter a permanent alliance with the Rebel Cylons in exchange for access to Cylon FTL technology to be installed on all civilian ships, Zarek takes advantage of Roslin's self-imposed absence from politics and agitates the Quorum into voting that no Cylon may board a civilian ship without the permission of its people ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]).<br />
<br />
Later, Zarek collaborates with Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] of Galactica to stage a mutiny which quickly turns bloody ([[The Oath]]). When the Quorum don't support him and order him to leave, pointedly addressing him as the Vice President, he orders their execution by the marines outside the door. After they carry out this order, he summons Gaeta who is horrified by Zarek's actions and the loss of the rebellion's perceived moral high ground ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div><br />
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[[Category:A to Z]]<br />
[[Category:Colonial]]<br />
[[Category:Colonial Society]]<br />
[[Category:Colonial Society (RDM)]]<br />
[[Category:Colonial Government]]<br />
[[Category:Colonial Government (RDM)]]<br />
[[Category:Organizations]]<br />
[[Category:RDM]]<br />
<br />
[[fr:Quorum des Douze]]<br />
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:''This article explains the legislative body in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]]. For information on its [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] counterpart, see [[Quorum of Twelve (TOS)]].''<br />
[[Image:4x03 Quorum of Twelve.jpg|thumb|The current Quorum of Twelve]]<br />
The '''Quorum of Twelve''' is a unicameral deliberative body<ref>The Quorum combines features from the [[w: U.N. Security Council|U.N. Security Council]], [[Wikipedia: United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] and the [[Wikipedia: Quorum of the Twelve Apostles|Quorum of the Twelve Apostles]] (a leadership body in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and some other Mormon sects).</ref> that grants each of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] one elected representative, who votes on and brings issues to be discussed. The scope of these issues, in the aftermath of the [[Cylon attack]], is likely to be quite broad due to the lack of any other organized political bodies.<br />
<br />
In practice, the Quorum is the counterpoint to the [[Government of the Twelve Colonies#Executive Branch|President]] of the Twelve Colonies. While the executive branch has great power, the Quorum likely needs to ratify all laws devised by the president and the cabinet. It is also able to veto [[Law of the Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Presidential provisions|presidential provisions]].<br />
<br />
It is believed that the Quorum was instituted by the [[Articles of Colonization]] 52 years prior to the final [[Cylon attack]]. <br />
<br />
==First Roslin Administration==<br />
After the loss of the Quorum under President Adar, [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]] reestablishes a new Quorum on [[Colonial Day (holiday)|Colonial Day]]. Its representatives, elected by the populous, include:<br />
[[Image:Cloud 9 Ballroom.jpg|thumb|The Quorum of Twelve meets for the first time in the ''[[Cloud 9]]'' ballroom.]]<br />
* [[Alexander Amiet]] of [[Aerelon]]<br />
* [[Marshall Bagot]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Virgon|Virgon]]<br />
* [[Gaius Baltar]] of [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] <ref>As shown in "[[Dirty Hands]]", Baltar's colony of origin is actually [[Aerelon]]. However, this is not common knowledge to the Colonials at the time of his appointment to the Quorum seat.</ref> <br />
* [[Miska Burian]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Aquaria|Aquaria]] <ref name="agenda">This information comes from [[:Image:Names from agenda ep 111.jpg|this page]] from the Quorum agenda in "[[Colonial Day]]".</ref><br />
* [[Perah Enyeto]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Tauron|Tauron]]<br />
* [[Oswin Eriku]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Libran|Libran]] <ref name="agenda"/><br />
* [[Elrad Hunt]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]]<ref name="sanne">While [[:Image:Names from agenda ep 111.jpg|this page]] from the Quorum agenda in "[[Colonial Day]]" notes that [[Elrad Hunt]] represents Picon and [[Safiya Sanne]] represents Leonis, a production error leads to Sanne being depicted onscreen as the representative of both colonies. Because neither character appears subsequently, the actual representatives of these colonies under the first Roslin administration cannot be conclusively established.</ref> <br />
* [[Sarah Porter]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Gemenon|Gemenon]]<br />
* [[Eladio Puasha]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Scorpia|Scorpia]]<br />
* [[Safiya Sanne]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Leonis|Leonis]] or [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]] <ref name="sanne"/><br />
* [[Robin Wenutu]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Canceron|Canceron]]<br />
* [[Tom Zarek]] of [[Sagittaron]]<br />
<br />
Secluded in his lab, [[Gaius Baltar]] seems unaware that he has even been nominated for the Caprican post until he is made aware of the decision. <br />
<br />
One of the primary issues of the new Quorum is the election of a vice president as the Quorum is responsible for the confirmation of the successor to that office. If there is a tie, as is the case during the campaign of Tom Zarek and Gaius Baltar, the president is the one who casts the tie-breaking vote ([[Colonial Day]]).<br />
<br />
This Quorum of Twelve assembles on ''[[Cloud 9]]''.<br />
<br />
==Baltar Administration==<br />
With the loss of ''Cloud 9'' shortly after [[Gaius Baltar]]'s inauguration, the Quorum's meeting place is destroyed. A number of delegates may also have died in the disaster. The Quorum continued to meet throughout the Baltar administration until at least its surrender to the Cylons a year later on [[New Caprica]]<ref>Gaius Baltar: If it's not the union, it's the Quorum. And if it's not the Quorum, it's the People's Council. ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]])</ref>. It appears to have been dissolved at some point during the Cylon occupation<ref>Laura Roslin: So, [[Tom Zarek|Mr. President]], how long before the new Quorum of Twelve can be sworn in? ([[Collaborators]])</ref>.<br />
<br />
==Zarek/Second Roslin/Adama Administration==<br />
President Tom Zarek oversees the appointment of a new Quorum, who later approves the transition of presidential powers from Zarek to [[Laura Roslin]] after the [[Second Exodus]] ([[Collaborators]]).<br />
<br />
Meeting on ''[[Colonial One]]'' with the [[Fleet News Service|press]] in attendance, now-Vice President Zarek appears to act as chairman to an unruly Quorum ([[The Ties That Bind]]).<br />
<br />
The representatives on this Quorum include:<br />
* [[Jacob Cantrell]] of Sagittaron<br />
* [[Lee Adama]] of Caprica (succeeding [[Cowen]])<br />
* an unnamed female [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Picon Delegate|delegate]] from Picon<br />
* an unnamed female [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Gemenon Delegate|delegate]] from Gemenon<br />
* an unnamed female [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Tauron Delegate #1|delegate]] from Tauron, succeeded by [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Tauron Delegate #2|another female delegate]] <br />
* an unnamed male [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Aerilon Delegate|delegate]] from Aerilon <br />
* an unnamed male [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Libran Delegate|delegate]] from Libran<br />
* [[Reza Chronides]] (unknown colony)<br />
* four further [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Other delegates|unnamed delegates]] (two women and two men, one of which was temporarily replaced by another man in the Quorum for some time)<br />
<br />
==Post Earth/Execution==<br />
Upon learning of Adama's plan to enter a permanent alliance with the Rebel Cylons in exchange for access to Cylon FTL technology to be installed on all civilian ships, Zarek takes advantage of Roslin's self-imposed absence from politics and agitates the Quorum into voting that no Cylon may board a civilian ship without the permission of its people ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).<br />
<br />
Later, Zarek collaborates with Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] of Galactica to stage a mutiny which quickly turns bloody ([[The Oath]]). When the Quorum don't support him and order him to leave, pointedly addressing him as the Vice President, he orders their execution by the marines outside the door. After they carry out this order, he summons Gaeta who is horrified by Zarek's actions and the loss of the rebellion's perceived moral high ground ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div><br />
<br />
[[Category:A to Z]]<br />
[[Category:Colonial]]<br />
[[Category:Colonial Society]]<br />
[[Category:Colonial Society (RDM)]]<br />
[[Category:Colonial Government]]<br />
[[Category:Colonial Government (RDM)]]<br />
[[Category:Organizations]]<br />
[[Category:RDM]]<br />
<br />
[[fr:Quorum des Douze]]<br />
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<div>__NOTOC__<br />
:''This article explains the legislative body in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]]. For information on its [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] counterpart, see [[Quorum of Twelve (TOS)]].''<br />
[[Image:4x03 Quorum of Twelve.jpg|thumb|The current Quorum of Twelve]]<br />
The '''Quorum of Twelve''' is a unicameral deliberative body<ref>The Quorum combines features from the [[w: U.N. Security Council|U.N. Security Council]], [[Wikipedia: United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] and the [[Wikipedia: Quorum of the Twelve Apostles|Quorum of the Twelve Apostles]] (a leadership body in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and some other Mormon sects).</ref> that grants each of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] one elected representative, who votes on and brings issues to be discussed. The scope of these issues, in the aftermath of the [[Cylon attack]], is likely to be quite broad due to the lack of any other organized political bodies.<br />
<br />
In practice, the Quorum is the counterpoint to the [[Government of the Twelve Colonies#Executive Branch|President]] of the Twelve Colonies. While the executive branch has great power, the Quorum likely needs to ratify all laws devised by the president and the cabinet. It is also able to veto [[Law of the Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Presidential provisions|presidential provisions]].<br />
<br />
It is believed that the Quorum was instituted by the [[Articles of Colonization]]; 52 years prior to the final [[Cylon attack]]. <br />
<br />
==First Roslin Administration==<br />
After the loss of the Quorum under President Adar, [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]] reestablishes a new Quorum on [[Colonial Day (holiday)|Colonial Day]]. Its representatives, elected by the populous, include:<br />
[[Image:Cloud 9 Ballroom.jpg|thumb|The Quorum of Twelve meets for the first time in the ''[[Cloud 9]]'' ballroom.]]<br />
* [[Alexander Amiet]] of [[Aerelon]]<br />
* [[Marshall Bagot]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Virgon|Virgon]]<br />
* [[Gaius Baltar]] of [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] <ref>As shown in "[[Dirty Hands]]", Baltar's colony of origin is actually [[Aerelon]]. However, this is not common knowledge to the Colonials at the time of his appointment to the Quorum seat.</ref> <br />
* [[Miska Burian]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Aquaria|Aquaria]] <ref name="agenda">This information comes from [[:Image:Names from agenda ep 111.jpg|this page]] from the Quorum agenda in "[[Colonial Day]]".</ref><br />
* [[Perah Enyeto]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Tauron|Tauron]]<br />
* [[Oswin Eriku]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Libran|Libran]] <ref name="agenda"/><br />
* [[Elrad Hunt]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]]<ref name="sanne">While [[:Image:Names from agenda ep 111.jpg|this page]] from the Quorum agenda in "[[Colonial Day]]" notes that [[Elrad Hunt]] represents Picon and [[Safiya Sanne]] represents Leonis, a production error leads to Sanne being depicted onscreen as the representative of both colonies. Because neither character appears subsequently, the actual representatives of these colonies under the first Roslin administration cannot be conclusively established.</ref> <br />
* [[Sarah Porter]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Gemenon|Gemenon]]<br />
* [[Eladio Puasha]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Scorpia|Scorpia]]<br />
* [[Safiya Sanne]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Leonis|Leonis]] or [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]] <ref name="sanne"/><br />
* [[Robin Wenutu]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Canceron|Canceron]]<br />
* [[Tom Zarek]] of [[Sagittaron]]<br />
<br />
Secluded in his lab, [[Gaius Baltar]] seems unaware that he has even been nominated for the Caprican post until he is made aware of the decision. <br />
<br />
One of the primary issues of the new Quorum is the election of a vice president as the Quorum is responsible for the confirmation of the successor to that office. If there is a tie, as is the case during the campaign of Tom Zarek and Gaius Baltar, the president is the one who casts the tie-breaking vote ([[Colonial Day]]).<br />
<br />
This Quorum of Twelve assembles on ''[[Cloud 9]]''.<br />
<br />
==Baltar Administration==<br />
With the loss of ''Cloud 9'' shortly after [[Gaius Baltar]]'s inauguration, the Quorum's meeting place is destroyed. A number of delegates may also have died in the disaster. The Quorum continued to meet throughout the Baltar administration until at least its surrender to the Cylons a year later on [[New Caprica]]<ref>Gaius Baltar: If it's not the union, it's the Quorum. And if it's not the Quorum, it's the People's Council. ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]])</ref>. It appears to have been dissolved at some point during the Cylon occupation<ref>Laura Roslin: So, [[Tom Zarek|Mr. President]], how long before the new Quorum of Twelve can be sworn in? ([[Collaborators]])</ref>.<br />
<br />
==Zarek/Second Roslin/Adama Administration==<br />
President Tom Zarek oversees the appointment of a new Quorum, who later approves the transition of presidential powers from Zarek to [[Laura Roslin]] after the [[Second Exodus]] ([[Collaborators]]).<br />
<br />
Meeting on ''[[Colonial One]]'' with the [[Fleet News Service|press]] in attendance, now-Vice President Zarek appears to act as chairman to an unruly Quorum ([[The Ties That Bind]]).<br />
<br />
The representatives on this Quorum include:<br />
* [[Jacob Cantrell]] of Sagittaron<br />
* [[Lee Adama]] of Caprica (succeeding [[Cowen]])<br />
* an unnamed female [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Picon Delegate|delegate]] from Picon<br />
* an unnamed female [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Gemenon Delegate|delegate]] from Gemenon<br />
* an unnamed female [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Tauron Delegate #1|delegate]] from Tauron, succeeded by [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Tauron Delegate #2|another female delegate]] <br />
* an unnamed male [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Aerilon Delegate|delegate]] from Aerilon <br />
* an unnamed male [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Libran Delegate|delegate]] from Libran<br />
* [[Reza Chronides]] (unknown colony)<br />
* four further [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Other delegates|unnamed delegates]] (two women and two men, one of which was temporarily replaced by another man in the Quorum for some time)<br />
<br />
==Post Earth/Execution==<br />
Upon learning of Adama's plan to enter a permanent alliance with the Rebel Cylons in exchange for access to Cylon FTL technology to be installed on all civilian ships, Zarek takes advantage of Roslin's self-imposed absence from politics and agitates the Quorum into voting that no Cylon may board a civilian ship without the permission of its people.<br />
<br />
Later, Zarek collaborates with Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] of Galactica to stage a mutiny which quickly turns bloody. When the Quorum don't support him and order him to leave, pointedly addressing him as the Vice President, he orders their execution by the marines outside the door. After they carry out this order, he summons Gaeta who is horrified by Zarek's actions and the loss of the rebellion's perceived moral high ground.<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div><br />
<br />
[[Category:A to Z]]<br />
[[Category:Colonial]]<br />
[[Category:Colonial Society]]<br />
[[Category:Colonial Society (RDM)]]<br />
[[Category:Colonial Government]]<br />
[[Category:Colonial Government (RDM)]]<br />
[[Category:Organizations]]<br />
[[Category:RDM]]<br />
<br />
[[fr:Quorum des Douze]]<br />
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<div>__NOTOC__<br />
:''This article explains the legislative body in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]]. For information on its [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] counterpart, see [[Quorum of Twelve (TOS)]].''<br />
[[Image:4x03 Quorum of Twelve.jpg|thumb|The current Quorum of Twelve]]<br />
The '''Quorum of Twelve''' is a unicameral deliberative body<ref>The Quorum combines features from the [[w: U.N. Security Council|U.N. Security Council]], [[Wikipedia: United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] and the [[Wikipedia: Quorum of the Twelve Apostles|Quorum of the Twelve Apostles]] (a leadership body in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and some other Mormon sects).</ref> that grants each of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] one elected representative, who votes on and brings issues to be discussed. The scope of these issues, in the aftermath of the [[Cylon attack]], is likely to be quite broad due to the lack of any other organized political bodies.<br />
<br />
In practice, the Quorum is the counterpoint to the [[Government of the Twelve Colonies#Executive Branch|President]] of the Twelve Colonies. While the executive branch has great power, the Quorum likely needs to ratify all laws devised by the president and the cabinet. It is also able to veto [[Law of the Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Presidential provisions|presidential provisions]].<br />
<br />
It is believed that the Quorum was instituted by the [[Articles of Colonization]]; 52 years prior to the final [[Cylon attack]]. <br />
<br />
==First Roslin Administration==<br />
After the loss of the Quorum under President Adar, [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]] reestablishes a new Quorum on [[Colonial Day (holiday)|Colonial Day]]. Its representatives, elected by the populous, include:<br />
[[Image:Cloud 9 Ballroom.jpg|thumb|The Quorum of Twelve meets for the first time in the ''[[Cloud 9]]'' ballroom.]]<br />
* [[Alexander Amiet]] of [[Aerelon]]<br />
* [[Marshall Bagot]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Virgon|Virgon]]<br />
* [[Gaius Baltar]] of [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] <ref>As shown in "[[Dirty Hands]]", Baltar's colony of origin is actually [[Aerelon]]. However, this is not common knowledge to the Colonials at the time of his appointment to the Quorum seat.</ref> <br />
* [[Miska Burian]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Aquaria|Aquaria]] <ref name="agenda">This information comes from [[:Image:Names from agenda ep 111.jpg|this page]] from the Quorum agenda in "[[Colonial Day]]".</ref><br />
* [[Perah Enyeto]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Tauron|Tauron]]<br />
* [[Oswin Eriku]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Libran|Libran]] <ref name="agenda"/><br />
* [[Elrad Hunt]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]]<ref name="sanne">While [[:Image:Names from agenda ep 111.jpg|this page]] from the Quorum agenda in "[[Colonial Day]]" notes that [[Elrad Hunt]] represents Picon and [[Safiya Sanne]] represents Leonis, a production error leads to Sanne being depicted onscreen as the representative of both colonies. Because neither character appears subsequently, the actual representatives of these colonies under the first Roslin administration cannot be conclusively established.</ref> <br />
* [[Sarah Porter]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Gemenon|Gemenon]]<br />
* [[Eladio Puasha]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Scorpia|Scorpia]]<br />
* [[Safiya Sanne]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Leonis|Leonis]] or [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]] <ref name="sanne"/><br />
* [[Robin Wenutu]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Canceron|Canceron]]<br />
* [[Tom Zarek]] of [[Sagittaron]]<br />
<br />
Secluded in his lab, [[Gaius Baltar]] seems unaware that he has even been nominated for the Caprican post until he is made aware of the decision. <br />
<br />
One of the primary issues of the new Quorum is the election of a vice president as the Quorum is responsible for the confirmation of the successor to that office. If there is a tie, as is the case during the campaign of Tom Zarek and Gaius Baltar, the president is the one who casts the tie-breaking vote ([[Colonial Day]]).<br />
<br />
This Quorum of Twelve assembles on ''[[Cloud 9]]''.<br />
<br />
==Baltar Administration==<br />
With the loss of ''Cloud 9'' shortly after [[Gaius Baltar]]'s inauguration, the Quorum's meeting place is destroyed. A number of delegates may also have died in the disaster. The Quorum continued to meet throughout the Baltar administration until at least its surrender to the Cylons a year later on [[New Caprica]]<ref>Gaius Baltar: If it's not the union, it's the Quorum. And if it's not the Quorum, it's the People's Council. ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]])</ref>. It appears to have been dissolved at some point during the Cylon occupation<ref>Laura Roslin: So, [[Tom Zarek|Mr. President]], how long before the new Quorum of Twelve can be sworn in? ([[Collaborators]])</ref>.<br />
<br />
==Zarek/Second Roslin/Adama Administration==<br />
President Tom Zarek oversees the appointment of a new Quorum, who later approves the transition of presidential powers from Zarek to [[Laura Roslin]] after the [[Second Exodus]] ([[Collaborators]]).<br />
<br />
Meeting on ''[[Colonial One]]'' with the [[Fleet News Service|press]] in attendance, now-Vice President Zarek appears to act as chairman to an unruly Quorum ([[The Ties That Bind]]).<br />
<br />
The representatives on this Quorum include:<br />
* [[Jacob Cantrell]] of Sagittaron<br />
* [[Lee Adama]] of Caprica (succeeding [[Cowen]])<br />
* an unnamed female [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Picon Delegate|delegate]] from Picon<br />
* an unnamed female [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Gemenon Delegate|delegate]] from Gemenon<br />
* an unnamed female [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Tauron Delegate #1|delegate]] from Tauron, succeeded by [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Tauron Delegate #2|another female delegate]] <br />
* an unnamed male [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Aerilon Delegate|delegate]] from Aerilon <br />
* an unnamed male [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Libran Delegate|delegate]] from Libran<br />
* [[Reza Chronides]] (unknown colony)<br />
* four further [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Other delegates|unnamed delegates]] (two women and two men, one of which was temporarily replaced by another man in the Quorum for some time)<br />
<br />
==Post Earth/Execution==<br />
Upon learning of Adama's plan to enter a permanent alliance with the [[Rebel Cylons]] in exchange for access to Cylon FTL technology to be installed on all civilian ships, Zarek takes advantage of Roslin's self-imposed absence from politics and agitates the Quorum into voting that no Cylon may board a civilian ship without the permission of its people.<br />
<br />
Later, Zarek collaborates with Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] of Galactica to stage a mutiny which quickly turns bloody. When the Quorum don't support him and order him to leave, pointedly addressing him as the Vice President, he orders their execution by the marines outside the door. After they carry out this order, he summons Gaeta who is horrified by Zarek's actions and the loss of the rebellion's perceived moral high ground.<br />
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:''This article explains the legislative body in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]]. For information on its [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] counterpart, see [[Quorum of Twelve (TOS)]].''<br />
[[Image:4x03 Quorum of Twelve.jpg|thumb|The current Quorum of Twelve]]<br />
The '''Quorum of Twelve''' is a unicameral deliberative body<ref>The Quorum combines features from the [[w: U.N. Security Council|U.N. Security Council]], [[Wikipedia: United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] and the [[Wikipedia: Quorum of the Twelve Apostles|Quorum of the Twelve Apostles]] (a leadership body in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and some other Mormon sects).</ref> that grants each of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] one elected representative, who votes on and brings issues to be discussed. The scope of these issues, in the aftermath of the [[Cylon attack]], is likely to be quite broad due to the lack of any other organized political bodies.<br />
<br />
In practice, the Quorum is the counterpoint to the [[Government of the Twelve Colonies#Executive Branch|President]] of the Twelve Colonies. While the executive branch has great power, the Quorum likely needs to ratify all laws devised by the president and the cabinet. It is also able to veto [[Law of the Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Presidential provisions|presidential provisions]].<br />
<br />
It is believed that the Quorum was instituted by the [[Articles of Colonization]]; 52 years prior to the final [[Cylon attack]]. <br />
<br />
==First Roslin Administration==<br />
After the loss of the Quorum under President Adar, [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]] reestablishes a new Quorum on [[Colonial Day (holiday)|Colonial Day]]. Its representatives, elected by the populous, include:<br />
[[Image:Cloud 9 Ballroom.jpg|thumb|The Quorum of Twelve meets for the first time in the ''[[Cloud 9]]'' ballroom.]]<br />
* [[Alexander Amiet]] of [[Aerelon]]<br />
* [[Marshall Bagot]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Virgon|Virgon]]<br />
* [[Gaius Baltar]] of [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] <ref>As shown in "[[Dirty Hands]]", Baltar's colony of origin is actually [[Aerelon]]. However, this is not common knowledge to the Colonials at the time of his appointment to the Quorum seat.</ref> <br />
* [[Miska Burian]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Aquaria|Aquaria]] <ref name="agenda">This information comes from [[:Image:Names from agenda ep 111.jpg|this page]] from the Quorum agenda in "[[Colonial Day]]".</ref><br />
* [[Perah Enyeto]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Tauron|Tauron]]<br />
* [[Oswin Eriku]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Libran|Libran]] <ref name="agenda"/><br />
* [[Elrad Hunt]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]]<ref name="sanne">While [[:Image:Names from agenda ep 111.jpg|this page]] from the Quorum agenda in "[[Colonial Day]]" notes that [[Elrad Hunt]] represents Picon and [[Safiya Sanne]] represents Leonis, a production error leads to Sanne being depicted onscreen as the representative of both colonies. Because neither character appears subsequently, the actual representatives of these colonies under the first Roslin administration cannot be conclusively established.</ref> <br />
* [[Sarah Porter]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Gemenon|Gemenon]]<br />
* [[Eladio Puasha]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Scorpia|Scorpia]]<br />
* [[Safiya Sanne]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Leonis|Leonis]] or [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]] <ref name="sanne"/><br />
* [[Robin Wenutu]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Canceron|Canceron]]<br />
* [[Tom Zarek]] of [[Sagittaron]]<br />
<br />
Secluded in his lab, [[Gaius Baltar]] seems unaware that he has even been nominated for the Caprican post until he is made aware of the decision. <br />
<br />
One of the primary issues of the new Quorum is the election of a vice president as the Quorum is responsible for the confirmation of the successor to that office. If there is a tie, as is the case during the campaign of Tom Zarek and Gaius Baltar, the president is the one who casts the tie-breaking vote ([[Colonial Day]]).<br />
<br />
This Quorum of Twelve assembles on ''[[Cloud 9]]''.<br />
<br />
==Baltar Administration==<br />
With the loss of ''Cloud 9'' shortly after [[Gaius Baltar]]'s inauguration, the Quorum's meeting place is destroyed. A number of delegates may also have died in the disaster. The Quorum continued to meet throughout the Baltar administration until at least its surrender to the Cylons a year later on [[New Caprica]]<ref>Gaius Baltar: If it's not the union, it's the Quorum. And if it's not the Quorum, it's the People's Council. ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]])</ref>. It appears to have been dissolved at some point during the Cylon occupation<ref>Laura Roslin: So, [[Tom Zarek|Mr. President]], how long before the new Quorum of Twelve can be sworn in? ([[Collaborators]])</ref>.<br />
<br />
==Zarek/Second Roslin/Adama Administration==<br />
President Tom Zarek oversees the appointment of a new Quorum, who later approves the transition of presidential powers from Zarek to [[Laura Roslin]] after the [[Second Exodus]] ([[Collaborators]]).<br />
<br />
Meeting on ''[[Colonial One]]'' with the [[Fleet News Service|press]] in attendance, now-Vice President Zarek appears to act as chairman to an unruly Quorum ([[The Ties That Bind]]).<br />
<br />
The representatives on this Quorum include:<br />
* [[Jacob Cantrell]] of Sagittaron<br />
* [[Lee Adama]] of Caprica (succeeding [[Cowen]])<br />
* an unnamed female [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Picon Delegate|delegate]] from Picon<br />
* an unnamed female [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Gemenon Delegate|delegate]] from Gemenon<br />
* an unnamed female [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Tauron Delegate #1|delegate]] from Tauron, succeeded by [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Tauron Delegate #2|another female delegate]] <br />
* an unnamed male [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Aerilon Delegate|delegate]] from Aerilon <br />
* an unnamed male [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Libran Delegate|delegate]] from Libran<br />
* [[Reza Chronides]] (unknown colony)<br />
* four further [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Other delegates|unnamed delegates]] (two women and two men, one of which was temporarily replaced by another man in the Quorum for some time)<br />
<br />
==Post Earth/Execution==<br />
Upon learning of Adama's plan to enter a permanent alliance with the [[Rebel Cylons]] in exchange for access to Cylon FTL technology to be installed on all civilian ships, Zarek takes advantage of Roslin's self-imposed absence from politics and agitates the Quorum into voting that no Cylon may board a civilian ship without the permission of its people.<br />
<br />
Later, Zarek collaborates with Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] of Galactica to stage a mutiny which quickly turns bloody. When the Quorum don't support him and order him to leave, pointedly addressing him as the Vice President, he orders their execution by the marines outside the door. After they carry out this order, he summons Gaeta who is horrified by what Zarek did as he apparently didn't want it to go that far saying that before they had the truth on their side but now all they had was lies and murder.<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Colonial]]<br />
[[Category:Colonial Society]]<br />
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[[Category:Colonial Government]]<br />
[[Category:Colonial Government (RDM)]]<br />
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[[fr:Quorum des Douze]]<br />
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:''This article explains the legislative body in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]]. For information on its [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] counterpart, see [[Quorum of Twelve (TOS)]].''<br />
[[Image:4x03 Quorum of Twelve.jpg|thumb|The current Quorum of Twelve]]<br />
The '''Quorum of Twelve''' is a unicameral deliberative body<ref>The Quorum combines features from the [[w: U.N. Security Council|U.N. Security Council]], [[Wikipedia: United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] and the [[Wikipedia: Quorum of the Twelve Apostles|Quorum of the Twelve Apostles]] (a leadership body in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and some other Mormon sects).</ref> that grants each of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] one elected representative, who votes on and brings issues to be discussed. The scope of these issues, in the aftermath of the [[Cylon attack]], is likely to be quite broad due to the lack of any other organized political bodies.<br />
<br />
In practice, the Quorum is the counterpoint to the [[Government of the Twelve Colonies#Executive Branch|President]] of the Twelve Colonies. While the executive branch has great power, the Quorum likely needs to ratify all laws devised by the president and the cabinet. It is also able to veto [[Law of the Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Presidential provisions|presidential provisions]].<br />
<br />
It is believed that the Quorum was instituted by the [[Articles of Colonization]]; 52 years prior to the final [[Cylon attack]]. <br />
<br />
==First Roslin Administration==<br />
After the loss of the Quorum under President Adar, [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]] reestablishes a new Quorum on [[Colonial Day (holiday)|Colonial Day]]. Its representatives, elected by the populous, include:<br />
[[Image:Cloud 9 Ballroom.jpg|thumb|The Quorum of Twelve meets for the first time in the ''[[Cloud 9]]'' ballroom.]]<br />
* [[Alexander Amiet]] of [[Aerelon]]<br />
* [[Marshall Bagot]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Virgon|Virgon]]<br />
* [[Gaius Baltar]] of [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] <ref>As shown in "[[Dirty Hands]]", Baltar's colony of origin is actually [[Aerelon]]. However, this is not common knowledge to the Colonials at the time of his appointment to the Quorum seat.</ref> <br />
* [[Miska Burian]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Aquaria|Aquaria]] <ref name="agenda">This information comes from [[:Image:Names from agenda ep 111.jpg|this page]] from the Quorum agenda in "[[Colonial Day]]".</ref><br />
* [[Perah Enyeto]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Tauron|Tauron]]<br />
* [[Oswin Eriku]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Libran|Libran]] <ref name="agenda"/><br />
* [[Elrad Hunt]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]]<ref name="sanne">While [[:Image:Names from agenda ep 111.jpg|this page]] from the Quorum agenda in "[[Colonial Day]]" notes that [[Elrad Hunt]] represents Picon and [[Safiya Sanne]] represents Leonis, a production error leads to Sanne being depicted onscreen as the representative of both colonies. Because neither character appears subsequently, the actual representatives of these colonies under the first Roslin administration cannot be conclusively established.</ref> <br />
* [[Sarah Porter]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Gemenon|Gemenon]]<br />
* [[Eladio Puasha]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Scorpia|Scorpia]]<br />
* [[Safiya Sanne]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Leonis|Leonis]] or [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]] <ref name="sanne"/><br />
* [[Robin Wenutu]] of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Canceron|Canceron]]<br />
* [[Tom Zarek]] of [[Sagittaron]]<br />
<br />
Secluded in his lab, [[Gaius Baltar]] seems unaware that he has even been nominated for the Caprican post until he is made aware of the decision. <br />
<br />
One of the primary issues of the new Quorum is the election of a vice president as the Quorum is responsible for the confirmation of the successor to that office. If there is a tie, as is the case during the campaign of Tom Zarek and Gaius Baltar, the president is the one who casts the tie-breaking vote ([[Colonial Day]]).<br />
<br />
This Quorum of Twelve assembles on ''[[Cloud 9]]''.<br />
<br />
==Baltar Administration==<br />
With the loss of ''Cloud 9'' shortly after [[Gaius Baltar]]'s inauguration, the Quorum's meeting place is destroyed. A number of delegates may also have died in the disaster. The Quorum continued to meet throughout the Baltar administration until at least its surrender to the Cylons a year later on [[New Caprica]]<ref>Gaius Baltar: If it's not the union, it's the Quorum. And if it's not the Quorum, it's the People's Council. ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]])</ref>. It appears to have been dissolved at some point during the Cylon occupation<ref>Laura Roslin: So, [[Tom Zarek|Mr. President]], how long before the new Quorum of Twelve can be sworn in? ([[Collaborators]])</ref>.<br />
<br />
==Zarek/Second Roslin/Adama Administration==<br />
President Tom Zarek oversees the appointment of a new Quorum, who later approves the transition of presidential powers from Zarek to [[Laura Roslin]] after the [[Second Exodus]] ([[Collaborators]]).<br />
<br />
Meeting on ''[[Colonial One]]'' with the [[Fleet News Service|press]] in attendance, now-Vice President Zarek appears to act as chairman to an unruly Quorum ([[The Ties That Bind]]).<br />
<br />
The representatives on this Quorum include:<br />
* [[Jacob Cantrell]] of Sagittaron<br />
* [[Lee Adama]] of Caprica (succeeding [[Cowen]])<br />
* an unnamed female [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Picon Delegate|delegate]] from Picon<br />
* an unnamed female [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Gemenon Delegate|delegate]] from Gemenon<br />
* an unnamed female [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Tauron Delegate #1|delegate]] from Tauron, succeeded by [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Tauron Delegate #2|another female delegate]] <br />
* an unnamed male [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Aerilon Delegate|delegate]] from Aerilon <br />
* an unnamed male [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Libran Delegate|delegate]] from Libran<br />
* [[Reza Chronides]] (unknown colony)<br />
* four further [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Other delegates|unnamed delegates]] (two women and two men, one of which was temporarily replaced by another man in the Quorum for some time)<br />
<br />
==Post Earth/Execution==<br />
Upon learning of Adama's plan to enter a permanent alliance with the [[Rebel Cylons]] in exchange for access to Cylon FTL technology to be installed on all civilian ships, Zarek takes advantage of Roslin's self-imposed absence from politics and agitates the Quorum into voting that no Cylon may board a civilian ship without the permission of its people.<br />
<br />
Later, Zarek collaborates with Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] of Galactica to stage a mutiny which quickly turns bloody.<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div><br />
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[[Category:A to Z]]<br />
[[Category:Colonial]]<br />
[[Category:Colonial Society]]<br />
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[[Category:Colonial Government]]<br />
[[Category:Colonial Government (RDM)]]<br />
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[[Category:RDM]]<br />
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[[fr:Quorum des Douze]]<br />
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'''Military:''' [[Helena Cain]] | [[Tucker Clellan|Tucker "Duck" Clellan]] | [[Anastasia Dualla]] | [[Jack Fisk]] | [[Felix Gaeta]] | [[Barry Garner]]<br>[[Louanne Katraine|Louanne "Kat" Katraine]] | [[Peter Laird]] | [[James Lyman|James "Jammer" Lyman]] | [[Erin Mathias]]<br>[[Alex Quartararo|Alex "Crashdown" Quartararo]] | [[Socinus]] | [[Callandra Tyrol|Cally Tyrol]] | ''[[Pilots#Deceased|List of Deceased Pilots]]''<br />
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'''Cylons:''' [[First Hybrid]] | [[Gina Inviere]] | [[Natalie]] | [[Ellen Tigh]]<br />
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'''Cylons:''' [[First Hybrid]] | [[Gina Inviere]] | [[Natalie]] | [[Ellen Tigh]]<br />
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''See Also: [[Survivor Count]]''<br />
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'''Thomas Zarek''', commonly known as '''Tom Zarek''', was a political activist for more than 30 years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. He was a charismatic, eloquent and ideological political agitator who was incarcerated for destroying a government building on [[Sagittaron]]. His 20-year incarceration culminated in a sojourn on the ''[[Astral Queen]]'', an [[FTL]]-capable prison ship, whilst in transit to parole hearings. Assigned the prison number of [[893893]], Zarek is under consideration for parole at the time of the [[Cylon attack]]. <br />
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== Biography ==<br />
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Zarek came from [[Sagittaron]], a colony known to be mistreated by the other eleven [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Colonies]]. Through his experiences on that colony he became an advocate of freedom from slavery, and proclaimed himself a voice for the disenfranchised. Along with publishing a book that was virtually banned throughout the Colonies, Zarek actively sought to combat injustices with the aid of his group; the [[S.F.M.]]<br />
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Though some consider him a terrorist for his often violent tactics (which include the destruction of a government building that results in unspecified casualties), others see him as a freedom fighter and a hero. He believes in the efficacy of violence as a means of change, going as so far as to go to prison over a "matter of conscience" by refusing President [[Richard Adar]]'s politically motivated conditional pardon (the conditions of the pardon being that he would publicly apologize and pledge to give up violence as a means of change).<br />
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Some of his fellow Sagittarons have an intense dislike of him, including [[Anastasia Dualla]]. Despite this, he became a public figure whose name had weight and almost became legendary, thanks to public opinion ([[Bastille Day]]).<br />
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== After the Fall of the Colonies ==<br />
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[[Image:Tom zarek.jpg|thumb|right|Zarek in his cell ([[Bastille Day]]).]]<br />
As the Cylons attack the Twelve Colonies, Zarek is on a prison barge called the ''[[Astral Queen]]'', headed to Caprica for parole hearings with several hundred other inmates. Hiding out in the atmosphere of [[Ragnar]] with the rest of humanity's survivors, the captain of the ''Astral Queen'' suggests that the inmates be euthanized, but his wish is overturned by [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]]'s humanitarian decision to keep all of mankind's remnants alive ([[Miniseries]]). This leaves Zarek with time to plot his escape.<br />
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With the discovery of a planet that could replenish ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica's]]'' lost water, Commander [[William Adama|Adama]], Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] and President Roslin reluctantly decide to ask the prisoners to volunteer as badly needed manpower, under the condition that they would not be treated as slaves and they would agree of their own volition ("[[Water]]", "[[Bastille Day]]").<br />
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After [[Lee Adama]]'s unsuccessful attempt to persuade the prisoners to help in the recovery efforts, Zarek's springs the prisoners' escape plan. The prisoners, under Zarek's command, usurp control of the ''Astral Queen'', and takes her crew and ''Galactica's'' visitors as prisoners. Zarek states his terms for release of the prisoners: the resignation of Laura Roslin and her administration, and the start of free and open elections for a new President. Zarek deems Roslin's presidency as illegitimate and illegal.<br />
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Unfortunately, Zarek's aims are not in keeping with his demands; he wants a bloodbath to ensue, believing that all that people understand is violence, and that a bloodbath would destroy any credibility that Adama and Roslin have.<br />
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When the situation deteriorates near the point of catastrophe for all involved, Zarek, ready to sacrifice his life for his beliefs, is swayed by Lee Adama's promise that he would uphold the [[Articles of Colonization]] and hold open elections for a new president, once Roslin had served the remainder of President Adar's term (as dictated by the Articles and [[Case Orange]]), as well as give the ship over to the prisoners as a show of good faith ([[Bastille Day]]).<br />
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== Attempts for Political Power == <br />
[[Image:Home_pt1_debate.jpg|thumb|left|Tom Zarek in debate with [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum]] members.]]<br />
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With a degree of freedom obtained by the prisoners - including control of the ''Astral Queen'' - Zarek engages in a steady effort to gain the goodwill of others of influence within the Fleet. This effort includes physical acts of support for other ships (such as fixing the air filtration system on the ship occupied by [[Marshall Bagott]], a politician from [[Virgon]]).<br />
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Zarek's efforts result in a nomination as Sagittaron's representative on the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]]. From there, Zarek makes a bid for the position of vice president using the support of those he assisted, and possibly badgered ([[Colonial Day]]). <br />
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While Zarek's attempt at the vice presidency fails after Roslin replaces the somewhat unlikeable [[Wallace Gray]] with the charismatic Doctor [[Gaius Baltar]] as an alternative candidate, Zarek makes it clear to Roslin that he will be standing against her in the elections.<br />
Zarek remains possibly the most powerful and popular representative in the Quorum of Twelve.<br />
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When he is interviewed by the press aboard ''Cloud Nine'', he makes several comments consistent with a collectivist-oriented political ideology ([[Colonial Day]]). Whether these comments reflect Zarek's actual ideology, or if they are a cover he is using for his own purposes, remains unknown.<br/><br/><br />
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== Breakaway from the Fleet ==<br />
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The schism created by Commander Adama's unlawful arrest of President Roslin and Colonel Tigh's declaration of [[w:martial law|martial law]] presents Zarek with an opportunity to convince others that Adama is after total control of the Fleet. Zarek likely sought to use Tigh's inexperience with dealing with the government and [[Colonial Press|press]] against the military powers. Zarek and the Quorum soon learn of Roslin's terminal cancer, after Tigh permits the Quorum of Twelve to see her in ''Galactica'''s brig ([[Fragged]]).<br />
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After the ''[[Gideon]]'' incident, where four civilians die, some crewmembers of ''Galactica'' orchestrate Roslin's escape. Lee Adama, knowing they would be hunted throughout the Fleet, enlists Zarek's assistance in secreting Roslin away from Tigh and Commander Adama ("[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]", "[[The Farm]]"). Roslin is initially dismayed to be greeted by Zarek, but realizes that Zarek, no friend to Adama or Tigh, is "the enemy of my enemy." <br />
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Zarek and Roslin attempt to use appeals by recorded [[wireless]] messages to sway favor in the Fleet to return to Kobol. Zarek convinces Lee Adama at first to create a dissenting message against ''Galactica's'' rule, but Lee changes his mind (probably because he swore to his comatose father that it wasn't about them). After Roslin plays the "religious card" to sway support for her cause in the Fleet, Roslin and Zarek lead a [[Laura Roslin faction|separatist fleet]] back to [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] to await [[Kara Thrace]]'s return with the [[Arrow of Apollo]], for use in unlocking the [[Tomb of Athena]].<br />
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Zarek, with his associate [[Meier]], plan to eliminate the young Captain Adama on Kobol, using the rationalization about [[Zeus]]'s warning that any return to Kobol would "exact a price in blood". Zarek feels that removing the young Adama would create a political power vacuum, allowing Zarek to take the position as leader of the fractioned Fleet, while Roslin would remain president ([[Home, Part I]]).<br />
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Zarek abandons the assassination plan when Commander Adama arrives on Kobol to mend fences with Roslin. However, Meier privately revises the plan outside of Zarek's knowledge, now with the goal of eliminating both Adamas by soliciting the help of the [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica copy of Sharon Valerii]] that returned with [[Karl Agathon]] and Thrace. Unfortunately for Zarek, Sharon Valerii double-crosses Meier, killing him at the entrance to the Tomb of Athena. While none in the group immediately consider Zarek as a suspect in Meier's assassination attempt, Commander Adama remains guarded and leaves Zarek and several others outside of the Tomb under the watchful eye of Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] while they unlock its secrets ([[Home, Part II]]).<br />
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==After the Fleet's Reunification==<br />
Zarek later gives [[Lee Adama]] information regarding the [[Black market (organization)|black market]], initially claiming not to be a part of it because he needs to keep his hands clean, but ultimately points out that the black market does get supplies where they are needed. Nonetheless, Zarek mentions the central hub of the black market, ''[[Prometheus]]'', a ship so lawless that it is practically "off the grid", as well as the name of a "businessman", [[Phelan]]. However, soon after Phelan's death at the hands of Captain Adama, Tom Zarek is seen walking through a crowd on the ''Prometheus'' with one of Phelan's old henchmen in tow. It is unknown how much involvement Tom Zarek has with the organization ([[Black Market]]).<br />
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Despite being the presumed opponent of Roslin in the upcoming presidential election, Zarek decides not to run against her because he realizes he probably won't win the election. However, he encourages Vice President Gaius Baltar to run in his place ([[The Captain's Hand]]).<br />
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==Baltar's Election Campaign==<br />
When Baltar announces his run for the presidency, Zarek assumes a position as his campaign manager. For all Zarek's personal political talent he has a hard time managing Baltar's campaign and faces the tough issue of whether Baltar is an electable candidate. After being trounced in the first debate by Roslin, Baltar's political future is in deep jeopardy and Zarek is left looking for a stronger wedge-issue other than Roslin's ties to the religious [[Gemenon|Gemenese]]. With the accidental discovery of [[New Caprica]], an issue presents itself that they can get on the supposed right side of: the colonization of the newly found planet and a safe-haven from the Cylons. Zarek presses Baltar to pick up this issue and run with it and as soon as he does his political fortunes turn around dramatically. Like he predicted the people rally around the idea of colonization and Baltar sails out of the final debate with a wide lead on Roslin ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
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With his job of campaign manager all but over on election day, there isn't much for Zarek to do but sit back and wait for the results to come in. When the initial tallies come in suggesting Roslin scored a remarkable come-back victory he says to Baltar that he's seen enough elections to recognize a fixed one. Baltar admonishes Zarek, maintaining that, whatever Laura Roslin is, she is above fixing an election.<br />
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Later, with Baltar as president, Zarek becomes his vice president.<br />
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== The Occupation of New Caprica ==<br />
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After Baltar's surrender of the Colonial government, Zarek disagrees with the planned collaboration with the Cylons and steps down. In retaliation, he is sent to a detention camp for four months.<br />
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Along with former President Laura Roslin, he and about 200 other dissidents are driven to the [[Pergamus Flats]] where they are to be executed by an order Baltar was forced to sign. After exiting the truck, Zarek asks Roslin directly whether she had [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|attempted to steal]] the past election. After Roslin admits that she had, both agree that they wished she'd gone through with it. The group of detainees are soon faced with [[Cylon Centurion]]s preparing to fire, and Zarek pulls Roslin back from the front of the crowd ([[Precipice]]). However, members of the resistance successfully prevent the execution.<br />
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Zarek attends the final meeting of the resistance to review the [[Battle of New Caprica|plan to escape New Caprica]]. Zarek and Roslin evacuate together towards their ships, though Roslin chooses to escape on ''[[Colonial One]]''. Before departing for his own ship, Zarek gives a gun to [[James Lyman|Jammer]] and tells him to protect Roslin ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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==Presidency and the new Roslin Administration==<br />
After the [[Second Exodus|escape of the colonists from New Caprica]], Zarek assumes his office as President, succeeding the missing Baltar. He brokers an agreement with Roslin, whereby she is elected as vice president and he steps down, returning her to the office she has held since the Cylon invasion. She would then appoint him as Vice President to her. He asks her to give him a position in the new government and she offers this job to him herself citing his courage in standing up against Baltar. Unknown to Roslin and Adama, Zarek has signed into law an executive order authorizing a secret six-person [[The Circle|group]] tasked to find, charge, try, and execute collaborators and traitors. Sometime after disclosing this to Adama and Roslin, Zarek does go through with his plan, allowing Laura Roslin to resume her role as president. Despite condemning his actions and pardoning collaborators who collaborated with Cylons on New Caprica ([[Collaborators]]), Roslin is true to her word and appoints Zarek as her vice president. <br />
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Genuinely afraid of the consequences of trying Gaius Baltar after his capture on the [[algae planet]], Zarek argues with Roslin about instituting martial law throughout the Fleet during Baltar's trial, citing potentially dangerous and destructive civil unrest and work stoppages throughout the Fleet ([[The Woman King]]).<br />
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When [[Cowen]], the Caprican delegate to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]], dies, Zarek nominates the recently retired [[Lee Adama]] to the post, because of his dedication to finding the truth during the Baltar trial. In a benevolent attempt to keep the government from becoming a dictatorship, Zarek wants Adama on the Quorum to question some secretive decisions made by President Roslin. Zarek explains that this is not an attempt to manipulate Roslin in a malevolent way, but to deter her from the temptation of taking away the rights and power of the people for the sake of security. He acknowledges that he still supports Roslin and believes that even her most controversial decisions have been made for the good of the Fleet ([[The Ties That Bind]]).<br />
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Several months later, Zarek finds himself in direct conflict with Lee Adama and his father. After President Roslin is taken away from the fleet by the rebel basestar ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner]]), Zarek asserts his legal right as vice president to serve as acting president--an assertion that is ignored by Admiral Adama. The younger Adama, after backing his father's decision, convinces Zarek to give grudging approval to a search for another acting president--a search that ultimately puts Lee Adama himself into the position ([[Sine Qua Non]]). <br />
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==Post Earth/Coup d'etat==<br />
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Following the discovery of a ruined Earth ([[Revelations]]), both Adamas advocate a plan for a permanent alliance with the rebel Cylons, a plan that will extend full citizenship and Quorum representation to the Cylons. Zarek angrily opposes the plan, and instead musters near-unanimous support in the Quorum for a law requiring prior permission from the people of each ship in the fleet before any Cylon is allowed to board. Admiral Adama retaliates by forcibly boarding ''Colonial One'' and placing Zarek under arrest. Adama compels Zarek to reveal the coordinates of a ship that had left the fleet in protest. <br />
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While in prison, Zarek meets with [[Felix Gaeta]] and wins his cooperation in resisting the Cylon alliance ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). Sometime later, Zarek is secretly freed from the ''Galactica'' brig by Gaeta and several of Gaeta's co-conspirators. They are blocked from taking off in a waiting [[Raptor]] by deck chief [[Peter Laird]], but Zarek kills Laird with a wrench before the latter can call for confirmation. Zarek returns to ''Colonial One'' in the midst of a stormy meeting of the Quorum led by Lee Adama. The vice president explains his surprise release as part of the admiral's decision to finally abandon democratic governance in favor of a military dictatorship: with democratic institutions such as the Quorum now cut off from power, Zarek is supposedly no longer a political threat and is therefore not worth keeping under arrest. While this is occurring, Gaeta's mutiny aboard ''Galactica'' continues until the [[CIC]] is secure and the senior staff are detained. Zarek calls Gaeta, and expresses his own surprise at the fact that Adama has not been killed ([[The Oath]]).<br />
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During his and Gaeta's rebellion Zarek uses violence to gain the power he wants. When the Quorum ''don't'' support him and order him to leave, addressing him as the ''Vice President'' not the ''President'', he orders their execution by the marines outside the door. After they carry out this order, he summons Gaeta who is horrified by what Zarek did as he apparently didn't want it to go that far saying that before they had the truth on their side but now all they had was lies and murder. <br />
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He acts as the judge in a court-martial for Adama and orders his execution which was his intention when he and Gaeta held it. When Roslin calls from the Cylon baseship demanding his and Gaeta's surrender, he refuses claiming that Tigh was dead already and Adama was going to be executed and called for Roslin's surrender. Instead he just made her more angry and she turned all of the baseship's weapons on ''Galactica''. Zarek wanted to fight, but Gaeta, feeling enough blood was spilled, tried to run but was foiled by Galen Tyrol who manually disabled ''Galactica's'' FTL drive. Zarek was shocked by Gaeta's order to stand down all weapons and was arrested by Adama and his supporters seconds later who retook the ship from them, ending the rebellion. <br />
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Zarek was later executed by a firing squad for his actions alongside Gaeta.<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
*Tom Zarek is portrayed by actor [[Richard Hatch]], who portrayed the original [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]] in the [[Original Series]]. Currently, Hatch is the only actor to have had roles in both ''Battlestar Galactica'' series.<br />
*Hatch has written novels based on the Original Series, and also leads an effort to bring a Original Series [[continuation]] to a theatrical film in a project called ''[[Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming]]''.<br />
*A [[separate continuity]] comic book series, starting with [[Battlestar Galactica: Zarek 1]], gives a non-canonical tale about this character's more rebellious life.<br />
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'''Thomas Zarek''', commonly known as '''Tom Zarek''', was a political activist for more than 30 years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. He was a charismatic, eloquent and ideological political agitator who was incarcerated for destroying a government building on [[Sagittaron]]. His 20-year incarceration culminated in a sojourn on the ''[[Astral Queen]]'', an [[FTL]]-capable prison ship, whilst in transit to parole hearings. Assigned the prison number of [[893893]], Zarek is under consideration for parole at the time of the [[Cylon attack]]. <br />
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== Biography ==<br />
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Zarek came from [[Sagittaron]], a colony known to be mistreated by the other eleven [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Colonies]]. Through his experiences on that colony he became an advocate of freedom from slavery, and proclaimed himself a voice for the disenfranchised. Along with publishing a book that was virtually banned throughout the Colonies, Zarek actively sought to combat injustices with the aid of his group; the [[S.F.M.]]<br />
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Though some consider him a terrorist for his often violent tactics (which include the destruction of a government building that results in unspecified casualties), others see him as a freedom fighter and a hero. He believes in the efficacy of violence as a means of change, going as so far as to go to prison over a "matter of conscience" by refusing President [[Richard Adar]]'s politically motivated conditional pardon (the conditions of the pardon being that he would publicly apologize and pledge to give up violence as a means of change).<br />
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Some of his fellow Sagittarons have an intense dislike of him, including [[Anastasia Dualla]]. Despite this, he became a public figure whose name had weight and almost became legendary, thanks to public opinion ([[Bastille Day]]).<br />
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== After the Fall of the Colonies ==<br />
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[[Image:Tom zarek.jpg|thumb|right|Zarek in his cell ([[Bastille Day]]).]]<br />
As the Cylons attack the Twelve Colonies, Zarek is on a prison barge called the ''[[Astral Queen]]'', headed to Caprica for parole hearings with several hundred other inmates. Hiding out in the atmosphere of [[Ragnar]] with the rest of humanity's survivors, the captain of the ''Astral Queen'' suggests that the inmates be euthanized, but his wish is overturned by [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]]'s humanitarian decision to keep all of mankind's remnants alive ([[Miniseries]]). This leaves Zarek with time to plot his escape.<br />
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With the discovery of a planet that could replenish ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica's]]'' lost water, Commander [[William Adama|Adama]], Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] and President Roslin reluctantly decide to ask the prisoners to volunteer as badly needed manpower, under the condition that they would not be treated as slaves and they would agree of their own volition ("[[Water]]", "[[Bastille Day]]").<br />
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After [[Lee Adama]]'s unsuccessful attempt to persuade the prisoners to help in the recovery efforts, Zarek's springs the prisoners' escape plan. The prisoners, under Zarek's command, usurp control of the ''Astral Queen'', and takes her crew and ''Galactica's'' visitors as prisoners. Zarek states his terms for release of the prisoners: the resignation of Laura Roslin and her administration, and the start of free and open elections for a new President. Zarek deems Roslin's presidency as illegitimate and illegal.<br />
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Unfortunately, Zarek's aims are not in keeping with his demands; he wants a bloodbath to ensue, believing that all that people understand is violence, and that a bloodbath would destroy any credibility that Adama and Roslin have.<br />
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When the situation deteriorates near the point of catastrophe for all involved, Zarek, ready to sacrifice his life for his beliefs, is swayed by Lee Adama's promise that he would uphold the [[Articles of Colonization]] and hold open elections for a new president, once Roslin had served the remainder of President Adar's term (as dictated by the Articles and [[Case Orange]]), as well as give the ship over to the prisoners as a show of good faith ([[Bastille Day]]).<br />
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== Attempts for Political Power == <br />
[[Image:Home_pt1_debate.jpg|thumb|left|Tom Zarek in debate with [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum]] members.]]<br />
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With a degree of freedom obtained by the prisoners - including control of the ''Astral Queen'' - Zarek engages in a steady effort to gain the goodwill of others of influence within the Fleet. This effort includes physical acts of support for other ships (such as fixing the air filtration system on the ship occupied by [[Marshall Bagott]], a politician from [[Virgon]]).<br />
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Zarek's efforts result in a nomination as Sagittaron's representative on the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]]. From there, Zarek makes a bid for the position of vice president using the support of those he assisted, and possibly badgered ([[Colonial Day]]). <br />
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While Zarek's attempt at the vice presidency fails after Roslin replaces the somewhat unlikeable [[Wallace Gray]] with the charismatic Doctor [[Gaius Baltar]] as an alternative candidate, Zarek makes it clear to Roslin that he will be standing against her in the elections.<br />
Zarek remains possibly the most powerful and popular representative in the Quorum of Twelve.<br />
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When he is interviewed by the press aboard ''Cloud Nine'', he makes several comments consistent with a collectivist-oriented political ideology ([[Colonial Day]]). Whether these comments reflect Zarek's actual ideology, or if they are a cover he is using for his own purposes, remains unknown.<br/><br/><br />
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== Breakaway from the Fleet ==<br />
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The schism created by Commander Adama's unlawful arrest of President Roslin and Colonel Tigh's declaration of [[w:martial law|martial law]] presents Zarek with an opportunity to convince others that Adama is after total control of the Fleet. Zarek likely sought to use Tigh's inexperience with dealing with the government and [[Colonial Press|press]] against the military powers. Zarek and the Quorum soon learn of Roslin's terminal cancer, after Tigh permits the Quorum of Twelve to see her in ''Galactica'''s brig ([[Fragged]]).<br />
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After the ''[[Gideon]]'' incident, where four civilians die, some crewmembers of ''Galactica'' orchestrate Roslin's escape. Lee Adama, knowing they would be hunted throughout the Fleet, enlists Zarek's assistance in secreting Roslin away from Tigh and Commander Adama ("[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]", "[[The Farm]]"). Roslin is initially dismayed to be greeted by Zarek, but realizes that Zarek, no friend to Adama or Tigh, is "the enemy of my enemy." <br />
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Zarek and Roslin attempt to use appeals by recorded [[wireless]] messages to sway favor in the Fleet to return to Kobol. Zarek convinces Lee Adama at first to create a dissenting message against ''Galactica's'' rule, but Lee changes his mind (probably because he swore to his comatose father that it wasn't about them). After Roslin plays the "religious card" to sway support for her cause in the Fleet, Roslin and Zarek lead a [[Laura Roslin faction|separatist fleet]] back to [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] to await [[Kara Thrace]]'s return with the [[Arrow of Apollo]], for use in unlocking the [[Tomb of Athena]].<br />
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Zarek, with his associate [[Meier]], plan to eliminate the young Captain Adama on Kobol, using the rationalization about [[Zeus]]'s warning that any return to Kobol would "exact a price in blood". Zarek feels that removing the young Adama would create a political power vacuum, allowing Zarek to take the position as leader of the fractioned Fleet, while Roslin would remain president ([[Home, Part I]]).<br />
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Zarek abandons the assassination plan when Commander Adama arrives on Kobol to mend fences with Roslin. However, Meier privately revises the plan outside of Zarek's knowledge, now with the goal of eliminating both Adamas by soliciting the help of the [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica copy of Sharon Valerii]] that returned with [[Karl Agathon]] and Thrace. Unfortunately for Zarek, Sharon Valerii double-crosses Meier, killing him at the entrance to the Tomb of Athena. While none in the group immediately consider Zarek as a suspect in Meier's assassination attempt, Commander Adama remains guarded and leaves Zarek and several others outside of the Tomb under the watchful eye of Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] while they unlock its secrets ([[Home, Part II]]).<br />
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==After the Fleet's Reunification==<br />
Zarek later gives [[Lee Adama]] information regarding the [[Black market (organization)|black market]], initially claiming not to be a part of it because he needs to keep his hands clean, but ultimately points out that the black market does get supplies where they are needed. Nonetheless, Zarek mentions the central hub of the black market, ''[[Prometheus]]'', a ship so lawless that it is practically "off the grid", as well as the name of a "businessman", [[Phelan]]. However, soon after Phelan's death at the hands of Captain Adama, Tom Zarek is seen walking through a crowd on the ''Prometheus'' with one of Phelan's old henchmen in tow. It is unknown how much involvement Tom Zarek has with the organization ([[Black Market]]).<br />
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Despite being the presumed opponent of Roslin in the upcoming presidential election, Zarek decides not to run against her because he realizes he probably won't win the election. However, he encourages Vice President Gaius Baltar to run in his place ([[The Captain's Hand]]).<br />
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==Baltar's Election Campaign==<br />
When Baltar announces his run for the presidency, Zarek assumes a position as his campaign manager. For all Zarek's personal political talent he has a hard time managing Baltar's campaign and faces the tough issue of whether Baltar is an electable candidate. After being trounced in the first debate by Roslin, Baltar's political future is in deep jeopardy and Zarek is left looking for a stronger wedge-issue other than Roslin's ties to the religious [[Gemenon|Gemenese]]. With the accidental discovery of [[New Caprica]], an issue presents itself that they can get on the supposed right side of: the colonization of the newly found planet and a safe-haven from the Cylons. Zarek presses Baltar to pick up this issue and run with it and as soon as he does his political fortunes turn around dramatically. Like he predicted the people rally around the idea of colonization and Baltar sails out of the final debate with a wide lead on Roslin ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
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With his job of campaign manager all but over on election day, there isn't much for Zarek to do but sit back and wait for the results to come in. When the initial tallies come in suggesting Roslin scored a remarkable come-back victory he says to Baltar that he's seen enough elections to recognize a fixed one. Baltar admonishes Zarek, maintaining that, whatever Laura Roslin is, she is above fixing an election.<br />
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Later, with Baltar as president, Zarek becomes his vice president.<br />
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== The Occupation of New Caprica ==<br />
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After Baltar's surrender of the Colonial government, Zarek disagrees with the planned collaboration with the Cylons and steps down. In retaliation, he is sent to a detention camp for four months.<br />
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Along with former President Laura Roslin, he and about 200 other dissidents are driven to the [[Pergamus Flats]] where they are to be executed by an order Baltar was forced to sign. After exiting the truck, Zarek asks Roslin directly whether she had [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|attempted to steal]] the past election. After Roslin admits that she had, both agree that they wished she'd gone through with it. The group of detainees are soon faced with [[Cylon Centurion]]s preparing to fire, and Zarek pulls Roslin back from the front of the crowd ([[Precipice]]). However, members of the resistance successfully prevent the execution.<br />
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Zarek attends the final meeting of the resistance to review the [[Battle of New Caprica|plan to escape New Caprica]]. Zarek and Roslin evacuate together towards their ships, though Roslin chooses to escape on ''[[Colonial One]]''. Before departing for his own ship, Zarek gives a gun to [[James Lyman|Jammer]] and tells him to protect Roslin ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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==Presidency and the new Roslin Administration==<br />
After the [[Second Exodus|escape of the colonists from New Caprica]], Zarek assumes his office as President, succeeding the missing Baltar. He brokers an agreement with Roslin, whereby she is elected as vice president and he steps down, returning her to the office she has held since the Cylon invasion. She would then appoint him as Vice President to her. He asks her to give him a position in the new government and she offers this job to him herself citing his courage in standing up against Baltar. Unknown to Roslin and Adama, Zarek has signed into law an executive order authorizing a secret six-person [[The Circle|group]] tasked to find, charge, try, and execute collaborators and traitors. Sometime after disclosing this to Adama and Roslin, Zarek does go through with his plan, allowing Laura Roslin to resume her role as president. Despite condemning his actions and pardoning collaborators who collaborated with Cylons on New Caprica ([[Collaborators]]), Roslin is true to her word and appoints Zarek as her vice president. <br />
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Genuinely afraid of the consequences of trying Gaius Baltar after his capture on the [[algae planet]], Zarek argues with Roslin about instituting martial law throughout the Fleet during Baltar's trial, citing potentially dangerous and destructive civil unrest and work stoppages throughout the Fleet ([[The Woman King]]).<br />
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When [[Cowen]], the Caprican delegate to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]], dies, Zarek nominates the recently retired [[Lee Adama]] to the post, because of his dedication to finding the truth during the Baltar trial. In a benevolent attempt to keep the government from becoming a dictatorship, Zarek wants Adama on the Quorum to question some secretive decisions made by President Roslin. Zarek explains that this is not an attempt to manipulate Roslin in a malevolent way, but to deter her from the temptation of taking away the rights and power of the people for the sake of security. He acknowledges that he still supports Roslin and believes that even her most controversial decisions have been made for the good of the Fleet ([[The Ties That Bind]]).<br />
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Several months later, Zarek finds himself in direct conflict with Lee Adama and his father. After President Roslin is taken away from the fleet by the rebel basestar ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner]]), Zarek asserts his legal right as vice president to serve as acting president--an assertion that is ignored by Admiral Adama. The younger Adama, after backing his father's decision, convinces Zarek to give grudging approval to a search for another acting president--a search that ultimately puts Lee Adama himself into the position ([[Sine Qua Non]]). <br />
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==Post Earth/Coup d'etat==<br />
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Following the discovery of a ruined Earth ([[Revelations]]), both Adamas advocate a plan for a permanent alliance with the rebel Cylons, a plan that will extend full citizenship and Quorum representation to the Cylons. Zarek angrily opposes the plan, and instead musters near-unanimous support in the Quorum for a law requiring prior permission from the people of each ship in the fleet before any Cylon is allowed to board. Admiral Adama retaliates by forcibly boarding ''Colonial One'' and placing Zarek under arrest. Adama compels Zarek to reveal the coordinates of a ship that had left the fleet in protest. <br />
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While in prison, Zarek meets with [[Felix Gaeta]] and wins his cooperation in resisting the Cylon alliance ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). Sometime later, Zarek is secretly freed from the ''Galactica'' brig by Gaeta and several of Gaeta's co-conspirators. They are blocked from taking off in a waiting [[Raptor]] by deck chief [[Peter Laird]], but Zarek kills Laird with a wrench before the latter can call for confirmation. Zarek returns to ''Colonial One'' in the midst of a stormy meeting of the Quorum led by Lee Adama. The vice president explains his surprise release as part of the admiral's decision to finally abandon democratic governance in favor of a military dictatorship: with democratic institutions such as the Quorum now cut off from power, Zarek is supposedly no longer a political threat and is therefore not worth keeping under arrest. While this is occurring, Gaeta's mutiny aboard ''Galactica'' continues until the [[CIC]] is secure and the senior staff are detained. Zarek calls Gaeta, and expresses his own surprise at the fact that Adama has not been killed ([[The Oath]]).<br />
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During his and Gaeta's rebellion Zarek uses violence to gain the power he wants. When the Quorum ''don't'' support him and order him to leave, addressing him as the ''Vice President'' not the ''President'', he orders their execution by the marines outside the door. After they carry out this order, he summons Gaeta who is horrified by what Zarek did as he apparently didn't want it to go that far saying that before they had the truth on their side but now all they had was lies and murder. <br />
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He acts as the judge in a court-martial for Adama and orders his execution which was his intention when he and Gaeta held it. When Roslin calls from the Cylon baseship demanding his and Gaeta's surrender, he refuses claiming that Tigh was dead already and Adama was going to be executed and called for Roslin's surrender. Instead he just made her more angry and she turned all of the baseship's weapons on ''Galactica''. Zarek wanted to fight, but Gaeta, feeling enough blood was spilled, tried to run but was foiled by Galen Tyrol who manually disabled ''Galactica's'' FTL drive. Zarek was shocked by Gaeta's order to stand down all weapons and was arrested by Adama and his supporters seconds later who retook the ship from them, ending the rebellion. <br />
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Zarek was later executed by a firing squad for his actions alongside Gaeta.<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
*Tom Zarek is portrayed by actor [[Richard Hatch]], who portrayed the original [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]] in the [[Original Series]]. Currently, Hatch is the only actor to have had roles in both ''Battlestar Galactica'' series.<br />
*Hatch has written novels based on the Original Series, and also leads an effort to bring a Original Series [[continuation]] to a theatrical film in a project called ''[[Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming]]''.<br />
*A [[separate continuity]] comic book series, starting with [[Battlestar Galactica: Zarek 1]], gives a non-canonical tale about this character's more rebellious life.<br />
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'''Thomas Zarek''', commonly known as '''Tom Zarek''', was a political activist for more than 30 years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. He was a charismatic, eloquent and ideological political agitator who was incarcerated for destroying a government building on [[Sagittaron]]. His 20-year incarceration culminated in a sojourn on the ''[[Astral Queen]]'', an [[FTL]]-capable prison ship, whilst in transit to parole hearings. Assigned the prison number of [[893893]], Zarek is under consideration for parole at the time of the [[Cylon attack]]. <br />
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== Biography ==<br />
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Zarek came from [[Sagittaron]], a colony known to be mistreated by the other eleven [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Colonies]]. Through his experiences on that colony he became an advocate of freedom from slavery, and proclaimed himself a voice for the disenfranchised. Along with publishing a book that was virtually banned throughout the Colonies, Zarek actively sought to combat injustices with the aid of his group; the [[S.F.M.]]<br />
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Though some consider him a terrorist for his often violent tactics (which include the destruction of a government building that results in unspecified casualties), others see him as a freedom fighter and a hero. He believes in the efficacy of violence as a means of change, going as so far as to go to prison over a "matter of conscience" by refusing President [[Richard Adar]]'s politically motivated conditional pardon (the conditions of the pardon being that he would publicly apologize and pledge to give up violence as a means of change).<br />
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Some of his fellow Sagittarons have an intense dislike of him, including [[Anastasia Dualla]]. Despite this, he became a public figure whose name had weight and almost became legendary, thanks to public opinion ([[Bastille Day]]).<br />
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== After the Fall of the Colonies ==<br />
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[[Image:Tom zarek.jpg|thumb|right|Zarek in his cell ([[Bastille Day]]).]]<br />
As the Cylons attack the Twelve Colonies, Zarek is on a prison barge called the ''[[Astral Queen]]'', headed to Caprica for parole hearings with several hundred other inmates. Hiding out in the atmosphere of [[Ragnar]] with the rest of humanity's survivors, the captain of the ''Astral Queen'' suggests that the inmates be euthanized, but his wish is overturned by [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]]'s humanitarian decision to keep all of mankind's remnants alive ([[Miniseries]]). This leaves Zarek with time to plot his escape.<br />
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With the discovery of a planet that could replenish ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica's]]'' lost water, Commander [[William Adama|Adama]], Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] and President Roslin reluctantly decide to ask the prisoners to volunteer as badly needed manpower, under the condition that they would not be treated as slaves and they would agree of their own volition ("[[Water]]", "[[Bastille Day]]").<br />
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After [[Lee Adama]]'s unsuccessful attempt to persuade the prisoners to help in the recovery efforts, Zarek's springs the prisoners' escape plan. The prisoners, under Zarek's command, usurp control of the ''Astral Queen'', and takes her crew and ''Galactica's'' visitors as prisoners. Zarek states his terms for release of the prisoners: the resignation of Laura Roslin and her administration, and the start of free and open elections for a new President. Zarek deems Roslin's presidency as illegitimate and illegal.<br />
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Unfortunately, Zarek's aims are not in keeping with his demands; he wants a bloodbath to ensue, believing that all that people understand is violence, and that a bloodbath would destroy any credibility that Adama and Roslin have.<br />
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When the situation deteriorates near the point of catastrophe for all involved, Zarek, ready to sacrifice his life for his beliefs, is swayed by Lee Adama's promise that he would uphold the [[Articles of Colonization]] and hold open elections for a new president, once Roslin had served the remainder of President Adar's term (as dictated by the Articles and [[Case Orange]]), as well as give the ship over to the prisoners as a show of good faith ([[Bastille Day]]).<br />
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== Attempts for Political Power == <br />
[[Image:Home_pt1_debate.jpg|thumb|left|Tom Zarek in debate with [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum]] members.]]<br />
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With a degree of freedom obtained by the prisoners - including control of the ''Astral Queen'' - Zarek engages in a steady effort to gain the goodwill of others of influence within the Fleet. This effort includes physical acts of support for other ships (such as fixing the air filtration system on the ship occupied by [[Marshall Bagott]], a politician from [[Virgon]]).<br />
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Zarek's efforts result in a nomination as Sagittaron's representative on the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]]. From there, Zarek makes a bid for the position of vice president using the support of those he assisted, and possibly badgered ([[Colonial Day]]). <br />
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While Zarek's attempt at the vice presidency fails after Roslin replaces the somewhat unlikeable [[Wallace Gray]] with the charismatic Doctor [[Gaius Baltar]] as an alternative candidate, Zarek makes it clear to Roslin that he will be standing against her in the elections.<br />
Zarek remains possibly the most powerful and popular representative in the Quorum of Twelve.<br />
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When he is interviewed by the press aboard ''Cloud Nine'', he makes several comments consistent with a collectivist-oriented political ideology ([[Colonial Day]]). Whether these comments reflect Zarek's actual ideology, or if they are a cover he is using for his own purposes, remains unknown.<br/><br/><br />
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== Breakaway from the Fleet ==<br />
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The schism created by Commander Adama's unlawful arrest of President Roslin and Colonel Tigh's declaration of [[w:martial law|martial law]] presents Zarek with an opportunity to convince others that Adama is after total control of the Fleet. Zarek likely sought to use Tigh's inexperience with dealing with the government and [[Colonial Press|press]] against the military powers. Zarek and the Quorum soon learn of Roslin's terminal cancer, after Tigh permits the Quorum of Twelve to see her in ''Galactica'''s brig ([[Fragged]]).<br />
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After the ''[[Gideon]]'' incident, where four civilians die, some crewmembers of ''Galactica'' orchestrate Roslin's escape. Lee Adama, knowing they would be hunted throughout the Fleet, enlists Zarek's assistance in secreting Roslin away from Tigh and Commander Adama ("[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]", "[[The Farm]]"). Roslin is initially dismayed to be greeted by Zarek, but realizes that Zarek, no friend to Adama or Tigh, is "the enemy of my enemy." <br />
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Zarek and Roslin attempt to use appeals by recorded [[wireless]] messages to sway favor in the Fleet to return to Kobol. Zarek convinces Lee Adama at first to create a dissenting message against ''Galactica's'' rule, but Lee changes his mind (probably because he swore to his comatose father that it wasn't about them). After Roslin plays the "religious card" to sway support for her cause in the Fleet, Roslin and Zarek lead a [[Laura Roslin faction|separatist fleet]] back to [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] to await [[Kara Thrace]]'s return with the [[Arrow of Apollo]], for use in unlocking the [[Tomb of Athena]].<br />
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Zarek, with his associate [[Meier]], plan to eliminate the young Captain Adama on Kobol, using the rationalization about [[Zeus]]'s warning that any return to Kobol would "exact a price in blood". Zarek feels that removing the young Adama would create a political power vacuum, allowing Zarek to take the position as leader of the fractioned Fleet, while Roslin would remain president ([[Home, Part I]]).<br />
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Zarek abandons the assassination plan when Commander Adama arrives on Kobol to mend fences with Roslin. However, Meier privately revises the plan outside of Zarek's knowledge, now with the goal of eliminating both Adamas by soliciting the help of the [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica copy of Sharon Valerii]] that returned with [[Karl Agathon]] and Thrace. Unfortunately for Zarek, Sharon Valerii double-crosses Meier, killing him at the entrance to the Tomb of Athena. While none in the group immediately consider Zarek as a suspect in Meier's assassination attempt, Commander Adama remains guarded and leaves Zarek and several others outside of the Tomb under the watchful eye of Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] while they unlock its secrets ([[Home, Part II]]).<br />
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==After the Fleet's Reunification==<br />
Zarek later gives [[Lee Adama]] information regarding the [[Black market (organization)|black market]], initially claiming not to be a part of it because he needs to keep his hands clean, but ultimately points out that the black market does get supplies where they are needed. Nonetheless, Zarek mentions the central hub of the black market, ''[[Prometheus]]'', a ship so lawless that it is practically "off the grid", as well as the name of a "businessman", [[Phelan]]. However, soon after Phelan's death at the hands of Captain Adama, Tom Zarek is seen walking through a crowd on the ''Prometheus'' with one of Phelan's old henchmen in tow. It is unknown how much involvement Tom Zarek has with the organization ([[Black Market]]).<br />
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Despite being the presumed opponent of Roslin in the upcoming presidential election, Zarek decides not to run against her because he realizes he probably won't win the election. However, he encourages Vice President Gaius Baltar to run in his place ([[The Captain's Hand]]).<br />
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==Baltar's Election Campaign==<br />
When Baltar announces his run for the presidency, Zarek assumes a position as his campaign manager. For all Zarek's personal political talent he has a hard time managing Baltar's campaign and faces the tough issue of whether Baltar is an electable candidate. After being trounced in the first debate by Roslin, Baltar's political future is in deep jeopardy and Zarek is left looking for a stronger wedge-issue other than Roslin's ties to the religious [[Gemenon|Gemenese]]. With the accidental discovery of [[New Caprica]], an issue presents itself that they can get on the supposed right side of: the colonization of the newly found planet and a safe-haven from the Cylons. Zarek presses Baltar to pick up this issue and run with it and as soon as he does his political fortunes turn around dramatically. Like he predicted the people rally around the idea of colonization and Baltar sails out of the final debate with a wide lead on Roslin ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
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With his job of campaign manager all but over on election day, there isn't much for Zarek to do but sit back and wait for the results to come in. When the initial tallies come in suggesting Roslin scored a remarkable come-back victory he says to Baltar that he's seen enough elections to recognize a fixed one. Baltar admonishes Zarek, maintaining that, whatever Laura Roslin is, she is above fixing an election.<br />
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Later, with Baltar as president, Zarek becomes his vice president.<br />
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== The Occupation of New Caprica ==<br />
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After Baltar's surrender of the Colonial government, Zarek disagrees with the planned collaboration with the Cylons and steps down. In retaliation, he is sent to a detention camp for four months.<br />
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Along with former President Laura Roslin, he and about 200 other dissidents are driven to the [[Pergamus Flats]] where they are to be executed by an order Baltar was forced to sign. After exiting the truck, Zarek asks Roslin directly whether she had [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|attempted to steal]] the past election. After Roslin admits that she had, both agree that they wished she'd gone through with it. The group of detainees are soon faced with [[Cylon Centurion]]s preparing to fire, and Zarek pulls Roslin back from the front of the crowd ([[Precipice]]). However, members of the resistance successfully prevent the execution.<br />
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Zarek attends the final meeting of the resistance to review the [[Battle of New Caprica|plan to escape New Caprica]]. Zarek and Roslin evacuate together towards their ships, though Roslin chooses to escape on ''[[Colonial One]]''. Before departing for his own ship, Zarek gives a gun to [[James Lyman|Jammer]] and tells him to protect Roslin ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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==Presidency and the new Roslin Administration==<br />
After the [[Second Exodus|escape of the colonists from New Caprica]], Zarek assumes his office as President, succeeding the missing Baltar. He brokers an agreement with Roslin, whereby she is elected as vice president and he steps down, returning her to the office she has held since the Cylon invasion. She would then appoint him as Vice President to her. He asks her to give him a position in the new government and she offers this job to him herself citing his courage in standing up against Baltar. Unknown to Roslin and Adama, Zarek has signed into law an executive order authorizing a secret six-person [[The Circle|group]] tasked to find, charge, try, and execute collaborators and traitors. Sometime after disclosing this to Adama and Roslin, Zarek does go through with his plan, allowing Laura Roslin to resume her role as president. Despite condemning his actions and pardoning collaborators who collaborated with Cylons on New Caprica ([[Collaborators]]), Roslin is true to her word and appoints Zarek as her vice president. <br />
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Genuinely afraid of the consequences of trying Gaius Baltar after his capture on the [[algae planet]], Zarek argues with Roslin about instituting martial law throughout the Fleet during Baltar's trial, citing potentially dangerous and destructive civil unrest and work stoppages throughout the Fleet ([[The Woman King]]).<br />
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When [[Cowen]], the Caprican delegate to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]], dies, Zarek nominates the recently retired [[Lee Adama]] to the post, because of his dedication to finding the truth during the Baltar trial. In a benevolent attempt to keep the government from becoming a dictatorship, Zarek wants Adama on the Quorum to question some secretive decisions made by President Roslin. Zarek explains that this is not an attempt to manipulate Roslin in a malevolent way, but to deter her from the temptation of taking away the rights and power of the people for the sake of security. He acknowledges that he still supports Roslin and believes that even her most controversial decisions have been made for the good of the Fleet ([[The Ties That Bind]]).<br />
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Several months later, Zarek finds himself in direct conflict with Lee Adama and his father. After President Roslin is taken away from the fleet by the rebel basestar ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner]]), Zarek asserts his legal right as vice president to serve as acting president--an assertion that is ignored by Admiral Adama. The younger Adama, after backing his father's decision, convinces Zarek to give grudging approval to a search for another acting president--a search that ultimately puts Lee Adama himself into the position ([[Sine Qua Non]]). <br />
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==Post Earth/Coup d'etat==<br />
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Following the discovery of a ruined Earth ([[Revelations]]), both Adamas advocate a plan for a permanent alliance with the rebel Cylons, a plan that will extend full citizenship and Quorum representation to the Cylons. Zarek angrily opposes the plan, and instead musters near-unanimous support in the Quorum for a law requiring prior permission from the people of each ship in the fleet before any Cylon is allowed to board. Admiral Adama retaliates by forcibly boarding ''Colonial One'' and placing Zarek under arrest. Adama compels Zarek to reveal the coordinates of a ship that had left the fleet in protest. <br />
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While in prison, Zarek meets with [[Felix Gaeta]] and wins his cooperation in resisting the Cylon alliance ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). Sometime later, Zarek is secretly freed from the ''Galactica'' brig by Gaeta and several of Gaeta's co-conspirators. They are blocked from taking off in a waiting [[Raptor]] by deck chief [[Peter Laird]], but Zarek kills Laird with a wrench before the latter can call for confirmation. Zarek returns to ''Colonial One'' in the midst of a stormy meeting of the Quorum led by Lee Adama. The vice president explains his surprise release as part of the admiral's decision to finally abandon democratic governance in favor of a military dictatorship: with democratic institutions such as the Quorum now cut off from power, Zarek is supposedly no longer a political threat and is therefore not worth keeping under arrest. While this is occurring, Gaeta's mutiny aboard ''Galactica'' continues until the [[CIC]] is secure and the senior staff are detained. Zarek calls Gaeta, and expresses his own surprise at the fact that Adama has not been killed ([[The Oath]]).<br />
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During his and Gaeta's rebellion Zarek uses violence to gain the power he wants. When the Quorum ''don't'' support him and order him to leave, addressing him as the ''Vice President'' not the ''President'', he orders their execution by the marines outside the door. After they carry out this order, he summons Gaeta who is horrified by what Zarek did as he apparently didn't want it to go that far saying that before they had the truth on their side but now all they had was lies and murder. <br />
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He acts as the judge in a court-martial for Adama and orders his execution which was his intention when he and Gaeta held it. When Roslin calls from the Cylon baseship demanding his and Gaeta's surrender, he refuses claiming that Tigh was dead already and Adama was going to be executed and called for Roslin's surrender. Instead he just made her more angry and she turned all of the baseship's weapons on ''Galactica''. Zarek wanted to fight, but Gaeta, feeling enough blood was spilled, tried to run but was foiled by Galen Tyrol who manually disabled ''Galactica's'' FTL drive. Zarek was shocked by Gaeta's order to stand down all weapons and was arrested by Adama and his supporters seconds later who retook the ship from them, ending the rebellion. <br />
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Zarek was later executed by a firing squad for his actions alongside Gaeta.<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
*Tom Zarek is portrayed by actor [[Richard Hatch]], who portrayed the original [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]] in the [[Original Series]]. Currently, Hatch is the only actor to have had roles in both ''Battlestar Galactica'' series.<br />
*Hatch has written novels based on the Original Series, and also leads an effort to bring a Original Series [[continuation]] to a theatrical film in a project called ''[[Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming]]''.<br />
*A [[separate continuity]] comic book series, starting with [[Battlestar Galactica: Zarek 1]], gives a non-canonical tale about this character's more rebellious life.<br />
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'''Thomas Zarek''', commonly known as '''Tom Zarek''', was a political activist for more than 30 years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. He is a charismatic, eloquent and ideological political agitator who was incarcerated for destroying a government building on [[Sagittaron]]. His 20-year incarceration culminated in a sojourn on the ''[[Astral Queen]]'', an [[FTL]]-capable prison ship, whilst in transit to parole hearings. Assigned the prison number of [[893893]], Zarek is under consideration for parole at the time of the [[Cylon attack]]. <br />
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== Biography ==<br />
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Zarek came from [[Sagittaron]], a colony known to be mistreated by the other eleven [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Colonies]]. Through his experiences on that colony he became an advocate of freedom from slavery, and proclaimed himself a voice for the disenfranchised. Along with publishing a book that was virtually banned throughout the Colonies, Zarek actively sought to combat injustices with the aid of his group; the [[S.F.M.]]<br />
<br />
Though some consider him a terrorist for his often violent tactics (which include the destruction of a government building that results in unspecified casualties), others see him as a freedom fighter and a hero. He believes in the efficacy of violence as a means of change, going as so far as to go to prison over a "matter of conscience" by refusing President [[Richard Adar]]'s politically motivated conditional pardon (the conditions of the pardon being that he would publicly apologize and pledge to give up violence as a means of change).<br />
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Some of his fellow Sagittarons have an intense dislike of him, including [[Anastasia Dualla]]. Despite this, he became a public figure whose name had weight and almost became legendary, thanks to public opinion ([[Bastille Day]]).<br />
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== After the Fall of the Colonies ==<br />
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[[Image:Tom zarek.jpg|thumb|right|Zarek in his cell ([[Bastille Day]]).]]<br />
As the Cylons attack the Twelve Colonies, Zarek is on a prison barge called the ''[[Astral Queen]]'', headed to Caprica for parole hearings with several hundred other inmates. Hiding out in the atmosphere of [[Ragnar]] with the rest of humanity's survivors, the captain of the ''Astral Queen'' suggests that the inmates be euthanized, but his wish is overturned by [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]]'s humanitarian decision to keep all of mankind's remnants alive ([[Miniseries]]). This leaves Zarek with time to plot his escape.<br />
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With the discovery of a planet that could replenish ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica's]]'' lost water, Commander [[William Adama|Adama]], Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] and President Roslin reluctantly decide to ask the prisoners to volunteer as badly needed manpower, under the condition that they would not be treated as slaves and they would agree of their own volition ("[[Water]]", "[[Bastille Day]]").<br />
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After [[Lee Adama]]'s unsuccessful attempt to persuade the prisoners to help in the recovery efforts, Zarek's springs the prisoners' escape plan. The prisoners, under Zarek's command, usurp control of the ''Astral Queen'', and takes her crew and ''Galactica's'' visitors as prisoners. Zarek states his terms for release of the prisoners: the resignation of Laura Roslin and her administration, and the start of free and open elections for a new President. Zarek deems Roslin's presidency as illegitimate and illegal.<br />
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Unfortunately, Zarek's aims are not in keeping with his demands; he wants a bloodbath to ensue, believing that all that people understand is violence, and that a bloodbath would destroy any credibility that Adama and Roslin have.<br />
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When the situation deteriorates near the point of catastrophe for all involved, Zarek, ready to sacrifice his life for his beliefs, is swayed by Lee Adama's promise that he would uphold the [[Articles of Colonization]] and hold open elections for a new president, once Roslin had served the remainder of President Adar's term (as dictated by the Articles and [[Case Orange]]), as well as give the ship over to the prisoners as a show of good faith ([[Bastille Day]]).<br />
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== Attempts for Political Power == <br />
[[Image:Home_pt1_debate.jpg|thumb|left|Tom Zarek in debate with [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum]] members.]]<br />
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With a degree of freedom obtained by the prisoners - including control of the ''Astral Queen'' - Zarek engages in a steady effort to gain the goodwill of others of influence within the Fleet. This effort includes physical acts of support for other ships (such as fixing the air filtration system on the ship occupied by [[Marshall Bagott]], a politician from [[Virgon]]).<br />
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Zarek's efforts result in a nomination as Sagittaron's representative on the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]]. From there, Zarek makes a bid for the position of vice president using the support of those he assisted, and possibly badgered ([[Colonial Day]]). <br />
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While Zarek's attempt at the vice presidency fails after Roslin replaces the somewhat unlikeable [[Wallace Gray]] with the charismatic Doctor [[Gaius Baltar]] as an alternative candidate, Zarek makes it clear to Roslin that he will be standing against her in the elections.<br />
Zarek remains possibly the most powerful and popular representative in the Quorum of Twelve.<br />
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When he is interviewed by the press aboard ''Cloud Nine'', he makes several comments consistent with a collectivist-oriented political ideology ([[Colonial Day]]). Whether these comments reflect Zarek's actual ideology, or if they are a cover he is using for his own purposes, remains unknown.<br/><br/><br />
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== Breakaway from the Fleet ==<br />
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The schism created by Commander Adama's unlawful arrest of President Roslin and Colonel Tigh's declaration of [[w:martial law|martial law]] presents Zarek with an opportunity to convince others that Adama is after total control of the Fleet. Zarek likely sought to use Tigh's inexperience with dealing with the government and [[Colonial Press|press]] against the military powers. Zarek and the Quorum soon learn of Roslin's terminal cancer, after Tigh permits the Quorum of Twelve to see her in ''Galactica'''s brig ([[Fragged]]).<br />
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After the ''[[Gideon]]'' incident, where four civilians die, some crewmembers of ''Galactica'' orchestrate Roslin's escape. Lee Adama, knowing they would be hunted throughout the Fleet, enlists Zarek's assistance in secreting Roslin away from Tigh and Commander Adama ("[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]", "[[The Farm]]"). Roslin is initially dismayed to be greeted by Zarek, but realizes that Zarek, no friend to Adama or Tigh, is "the enemy of my enemy." <br />
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Zarek and Roslin attempt to use appeals by recorded [[wireless]] messages to sway favor in the Fleet to return to Kobol. Zarek convinces Lee Adama at first to create a dissenting message against ''Galactica's'' rule, but Lee changes his mind (probably because he swore to his comatose father that it wasn't about them). After Roslin plays the "religious card" to sway support for her cause in the Fleet, Roslin and Zarek lead a [[Laura Roslin faction|separatist fleet]] back to [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] to await [[Kara Thrace]]'s return with the [[Arrow of Apollo]], for use in unlocking the [[Tomb of Athena]].<br />
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Zarek, with his associate [[Meier]], plan to eliminate the young Captain Adama on Kobol, using the rationalization about [[Zeus]]'s warning that any return to Kobol would "exact a price in blood". Zarek feels that removing the young Adama would create a political power vacuum, allowing Zarek to take the position as leader of the fractioned Fleet, while Roslin would remain president ([[Home, Part I]]).<br />
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Zarek abandons the assassination plan when Commander Adama arrives on Kobol to mend fences with Roslin. However, Meier privately revises the plan outside of Zarek's knowledge, now with the goal of eliminating both Adamas by soliciting the help of the [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica copy of Sharon Valerii]] that returned with [[Karl Agathon]] and Thrace. Unfortunately for Zarek, Sharon Valerii double-crosses Meier, killing him at the entrance to the Tomb of Athena. While none in the group immediately consider Zarek as a suspect in Meier's assassination attempt, Commander Adama remains guarded and leaves Zarek and several others outside of the Tomb under the watchful eye of Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] while they unlock its secrets ([[Home, Part II]]).<br />
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==After the Fleet's Reunification==<br />
Zarek later gives [[Lee Adama]] information regarding the [[Black market (organization)|black market]], initially claiming not to be a part of it because he needs to keep his hands clean, but ultimately points out that the black market does get supplies where they are needed. Nonetheless, Zarek mentions the central hub of the black market, ''[[Prometheus]]'', a ship so lawless that it is practically "off the grid", as well as the name of a "businessman", [[Phelan]]. However, soon after Phelan's death at the hands of Captain Adama, Tom Zarek is seen walking through a crowd on the ''Prometheus'' with one of Phelan's old henchmen in tow. It is unknown how much involvement Tom Zarek has with the organization ([[Black Market]]).<br />
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Despite being the presumed opponent of Roslin in the upcoming presidential election, Zarek decides not to run against her because he realizes he probably won't win the election. However, he encourages Vice President Gaius Baltar to run in his place ([[The Captain's Hand]]).<br />
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==Baltar's Election Campaign==<br />
When Baltar announces his run for the presidency, Zarek assumes a position as his campaign manager. For all Zarek's personal political talent he has a hard time managing Baltar's campaign and faces the tough issue of whether Baltar is an electable candidate. After being trounced in the first debate by Roslin, Baltar's political future is in deep jeopardy and Zarek is left looking for a stronger wedge-issue other than Roslin's ties to the religious [[Gemenon|Gemenese]]. With the accidental discovery of [[New Caprica]], an issue presents itself that they can get on the supposed right side of: the colonization of the newly found planet and a safe-haven from the Cylons. Zarek presses Baltar to pick up this issue and run with it and as soon as he does his political fortunes turn around dramatically. Like he predicted the people rally around the idea of colonization and Baltar sails out of the final debate with a wide lead on Roslin ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
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With his job of campaign manager all but over on election day, there isn't much for Zarek to do but sit back and wait for the results to come in. When the initial tallies come in suggesting Roslin scored a remarkable come-back victory he says to Baltar that he's seen enough elections to recognize a fixed one. Baltar admonishes Zarek, maintaining that, whatever Laura Roslin is, she is above fixing an election.<br />
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Later, with Baltar as president, Zarek becomes his vice president.<br />
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== The Occupation of New Caprica ==<br />
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After Baltar's surrender of the Colonial government, Zarek disagrees with the planned collaboration with the Cylons and steps down. In retaliation, he is sent to a detention camp for four months.<br />
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Along with former President Laura Roslin, he and about 200 other dissidents are driven to the [[Pergamus Flats]] where they are to be executed by an order Baltar was forced to sign. After exiting the truck, Zarek asks Roslin directly whether she had [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|attempted to steal]] the past election. After Roslin admits that she had, both agree that they wished she'd gone through with it. The group of detainees are soon faced with [[Cylon Centurion]]s preparing to fire, and Zarek pulls Roslin back from the front of the crowd ([[Precipice]]). However, members of the resistance successfully prevent the execution.<br />
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Zarek attends the final meeting of the resistance to review the [[Battle of New Caprica|plan to escape New Caprica]]. Zarek and Roslin evacuate together towards their ships, though Roslin chooses to escape on ''[[Colonial One]]''. Before departing for his own ship, Zarek gives a gun to [[James Lyman|Jammer]] and tells him to protect Roslin ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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==Presidency and the new Roslin Administration==<br />
After the [[Second Exodus|escape of the colonists from New Caprica]], Zarek assumes his office as President, succeeding the missing Baltar. He brokers an agreement with Roslin, whereby she is elected as vice president and he steps down, returning her to the office she has held since the Cylon invasion. She would then appoint him as Vice President to her. He asks her to give him a position in the new government and she offers this job to him herself citing his courage in standing up against Baltar. Unknown to Roslin and Adama, Zarek has signed into law an executive order authorizing a secret six-person [[The Circle|group]] tasked to find, charge, try, and execute collaborators and traitors. Sometime after disclosing this to Adama and Roslin, Zarek does go through with his plan, allowing Laura Roslin to resume her role as president. Despite condemning his actions and pardoning collaborators who collaborated with Cylons on New Caprica ([[Collaborators]]), Roslin is true to her word and appoints Zarek as her vice president. <br />
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Genuinely afraid of the consequences of trying Gaius Baltar after his capture on the [[algae planet]], Zarek argues with Roslin about instituting martial law throughout the Fleet during Baltar's trial, citing potentially dangerous and destructive civil unrest and work stoppages throughout the Fleet ([[The Woman King]]).<br />
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When [[Cowen]], the Caprican delegate to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]], dies, Zarek nominates the recently retired [[Lee Adama]] to the post, because of his dedication to finding the truth during the Baltar trial. In a benevolent attempt to keep the government from becoming a dictatorship, Zarek wants Adama on the Quorum to question some secretive decisions made by President Roslin. Zarek explains that this is not an attempt to manipulate Roslin in a malevolent way, but to deter her from the temptation of taking away the rights and power of the people for the sake of security. He acknowledges that he still supports Roslin and believes that even her most controversial decisions have been made for the good of the Fleet ([[The Ties That Bind]]).<br />
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Several months later, Zarek finds himself in direct conflict with Lee Adama and his father. After President Roslin is taken away from the fleet by the rebel basestar ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner]]), Zarek asserts his legal right as vice president to serve as acting president--an assertion that is ignored by Admiral Adama. The younger Adama, after backing his father's decision, convinces Zarek to give grudging approval to a search for another acting president--a search that ultimately puts Lee Adama himself into the position ([[Sine Qua Non]]). <br />
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==Post Earth/Coup d'etat==<br />
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Following the discovery of a ruined Earth ([[Revelations]]), both Adamas advocate a plan for a permanent alliance with the rebel Cylons, a plan that will extend full citizenship and Quorum representation to the Cylons. Zarek angrily opposes the plan, and instead musters near-unanimous support in the Quorum for a law requiring prior permission from the people of each ship in the fleet before any Cylon is allowed to board. Admiral Adama retaliates by forcibly boarding ''Colonial One'' and placing Zarek under arrest. Adama compels Zarek to reveal the coordinates of a ship that had left the fleet in protest. While in prison, Zarek meets with [[Felix Gaeta]] and wins his cooperation in resisting the Cylon alliance ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). Sometime later, Zarek is secretly freed from the ''Galactica'' brig by Gaeta and several of Gaeta's co-conspirators. They are blocked from taking off in a waiting [[Raptor]] by deck chief [[Peter Laird]], but Zarek kills Laird with a wrench before the latter can call for confirmation. Zarek returns to ''Colonial One'' in the midst of a stormy meeting of the Quorum led by Lee Adama. The vice president explains his surprise release as part of the admiral's decision to finally abandon democratic governance in favor of a military dictatorship: with democratic institutions such as the Quorum now cut off from power, Zarek is supposedly no longer a political threat and is therefore not worth keeping under arrest. While this is occurring, Gaeta's mutiny aboard ''Galactica'' continues until the [[CIC]] is secure and the senior staff are detained. Zarek calls Gaeta, and expresses his own surprise at the fact that Adama has not been killed ([[The Oath]]).<br />
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During his and Gaeta's rebellion Zarek uses violence to gain the power he wants. When the Quorum ''don't'' support him and order him to leave, addressing him as the ''Vice President'' not the ''President'', he orders their execution by the marines outside the door. After they carry out this order, he summons Gaeta who is horrified by what Zarek did as he apparently didn't want it to go that far saying that before they had the truth on their side but now all they had was lies and murder. When he learns Tigh and the other prisoners escaped (they were rescued by Lee and Kara), he claims to Admiral Adama that Tigh was killed in the escape. He acts as the judge in a court-martial for Adama and orders his execution which was his intention when he and Gaeta held it. When Roslin calls from the Cylon baseship demanding his and Gaeta's surrender, he refuses claiming that Tigh was dead already and Adama was going to be executed and called for Roslin's surrender. Instead he just made her more angry and she turned all of the baseship's weapons on ''Galactica''. Zarek wanted to fight, but Gaeta, feeling enough blood was spilled, tried to run but was foiled by Galen Tyrol who manually disabled ''Galactica's'' FTL drive, leaving them stranded until it could be fixed. Zarek was shocked by Gaeta's order to stand down all weapons and was arrested by Adama and his supporters seconds later who retook the ship from them, ending the rebellion. Zarek was later executed by a firing squad for his actions alongside Gaeta.<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
*Tom Zarek is portrayed by actor [[Richard Hatch]], who portrayed the original [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]] in the [[Original Series]]. Currently, Hatch is the only actor to have had roles in both ''Battlestar Galactica'' series.<br />
*Hatch has written novels based on the Original Series, and also leads an effort to bring a Original Series [[continuation]] to a theatrical film in a project called ''[[Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming]]''.<br />
*A [[separate continuity]] comic book series, starting with [[Battlestar Galactica: Zarek 1]], gives a non-canonical tale about this character's more rebellious life.<br />
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Lieutenant '''Felix Gaeta''' ({{IPA|&#x02C8;ge&#x026A;.ɾ&#x0259;}} or "gay-tah") was a young, capable officer in the Colonial military. For the three years prior to the [[Cylon attack]] on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]], he served as [[William Adama]]'s Senior Officer of the Watch aboard ''[[Galactica]]''. <br />
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Prior to the attack, he was studying biogenetics and planned to get a degree through the military extension program ([[Water]]).<br />
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He exhibited a strong attention to detail and was highly efficient. These tendencies and his overall ability led Adama to rely heavily on him as a member of ''Galactica's'' command crew, despite his relative youth and junior rank.<br />
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As well as performing the role of Tactical Officer, Gaeta also managed the ship's [[FTL]] drive, including the calculation and initiation of jumps. Gaeta also managed the needs of the various primary [[Computers|computer systems]] used on the battlestar.<br />
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Following the fleet's discovery and evacuation of [[Earth]] and the controversial decision to install [[Cylon]] FTL technology on all ships in the fleet, Gaeta used his CIC role to co-lead a bloody mutiny of Galactica while collaborator Vice President [[Tom Zarek]] staged a coup d'etat of the government. He surrendered to Adama later that day and was executed for his crimes.<br />
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==Remarkable Brilliance==<br />
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As a result of his studies in biogenetics, Lt. Gaeta is selected by Adama to assist Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] in the development of the much-needed [[Cylon detector]] following the Cylon attack ([[Water]]). During his time working with Baltar, Gaeta develops a certain respect and liking for the doctor - despite the latter's apparent eccentricities. When a woman called "[[Shelly Godfrey]]" arrives aboard ''Galactica'', Gaeta works hard to prove Baltar's innocence of the charges leveled against him ([[Six Degrees of Separation]]). Although he is ultimately successful, Gaeta fails to follow-up on the fact that the photographic evidence supplied by Godfrey looked as if the evidence itself had been faked in a way that ensured it was exposed as a forgery.<br />
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Gaeta shows his remarkable brilliance after ''Galactica'' mistakenly jumps to a different set of coordinates than the rest of the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] to escape a Cylon attack ([[Scattered]]). The [[FTL]] computers compensate for spatial changes, but due to the chaos after Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] is shot by [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]], Gaeta forgets to synchronize the spatial positioning with the rest of the Fleet, whose FTL computers had collectively different information. Complicating the issue, if ''Galactica'' returns to their original position, the Cylons would destroy the ship before it could recalculate the correct Fleet coordinates using standard procedures.<br />
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Gaeta blames himself (although [[Saul Tigh]] does not), but later realizes that by networking four computers of the ship (something Commander Adama may never have approved), he could reduce the coordinate calculation time from hours to minutes. Knowing the Cylons would try to crack his ad hoc network, Gaeta sets up five [[Wikipedia:Firewall (networking)|firewalls]] in the network to slow their progress while the ship's guns and Vipers buy the time required for the calculations. Unfortunately for Gaeta, the firewalls are not completely effective. Without him realizing it, the Cylons break through the last firewall before he can disconnect the network. As a result, many vital systems are disabled throughout the ship while [[Cylon Centurion|Centurions]] board the battlestar ([[Valley of Darkness]]). At the end, he manages to purge the systems of any remaining traces of the [[Cylon computer virus|virus]].<br />
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==Under Pressure==<br />
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Gaeta's calm exterior shows signs of wear when his interview with [[D'Anna Biers]] shows him somewhat drunk, smoking, and brandishing a rather garish [[tattoo]] of a tiger. Viewers learn from the footage that Gaeta's first name is Felix ([[Final Cut]]).<br />
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The Cylon virus rears its ugly head once more a few weeks later when shipboard malfunctions increase to a point where consoles begin to sputter and short out. Gaeta confirms that the same virus they thought they had removed from the formerly-networked computers had metamorphized into a heuristic program--a [[logic bomb]]--that studied and probed flaws in the battlestar's computers and the hardware that each system manages. The logic bomb threatenes to disable the ship's human control on a Cylon fighter's command--and a Cylon attack is imminent.<br />
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[[Image:Gaeta tiger tatoo.jpg|thumb|right|Gaeta's tiger tattoo]]<br />
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After Colonel Tigh's command to perform the daunting task of inspecting many lines of computer code for a Cylon virus, the young lieutenant completely loses his cool:<br />
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:'''Gaeta''': A power surge energized the board. System's been twitchy ever since the Cylons infiltrated our network.<br/><br />
:'''Tigh''': Commander's right. I don't care if you have to go through this program line by line; fix it.<br/><br />
:'''Gaeta''': Excuse me?<br/><br />
:'''Tigh''': You heard me.<br/><br />
:'''Gaeta''': Sir, I'm running every diagnostic we've got. Checking each line of code could take days.<br/><br />
:'''Tigh''': I am not interested in excuses. Fix it!<br/><br />
:'''Gaeta''': It's not an excuse, sir. It's a [[frak|frakking]] fact!<br/><br />
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Everyone on the bridge, especially Commander Adama, is shocked by Gaeta's highly uncharacteristic outburst, but Adama is not particularly surprised, knowing that everyone on ''Galactica'' has low morale after working for months with no relief or change to their routine.<br />
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Gaeta has a solution for the logic bomb: Wipe all computer hard drives and restore them from backups made before the Cylon attack. The problem in doing this is that ''Galactica'' will be completely vulnerable to attack, save for her Viper fighters, for several minutes as her computers are rebuilt.<br />
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Against his instincts and on [[Laura Roslin]]'s advice, Adama opts to use the unique abilities of the cooperative [[Sharon Valerii|Caprica copy of Sharon Valerii]] to aid them. Gaeta gives the humanoid Cylon a fiber-optic data link with access to the battlestar mainframe computer and the ship's communications. After a few tense moments, Valerii asks Gaeta to perform the computer hard drive wipe after taking into her computer/brain a copy of the Cylon virus. She manipulates it and transmits to the massive incoming Cylon fleet, disabling the entire Cylon fleet in the same way that the Colonials suffered in the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. The Colonial forces [[Great Cylon Turkey Shoot|destroy the entire Cylon force]] without a single Colonial casualty ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).<br />
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Gaeta is among the tense officers and crew in CIC that witness a standoff between their battlestar and the heavily-advanced battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', whose commander, Admiral [[Helena Cain]], has opted to execute two ''Galactica'' crew members after she tried them herself and against Adama's requests for the rights of his crew to have a fair, open trial ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).<br />
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== The Presidential Election and New Caprica ==<br />
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During the presidential election, Gaeta is assigned to aid and oversee the ballot counting process on ''Galactica''. He also aids in thwarting Roslin's plans to steal the election (though he apparently never knew -- or indicates any knowledge of -- who exactly is behind it, other than Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]) by discovering the illegitimate ballots from the ''[[Zephyr]]''. The only reason he realizes that the ''Zephyr'''s ballots were tampered with is due to the fact that the ''Zephyr''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s original, valid ballots had misspelled Gaius Baltar's name -- the fixed ballots did not share this error. (Gaeta had authorized the go-ahead to use the misspelled ballots due to the lack of time to print new ones prior to the opening of the polls.) <br />
Due to this happenstance discovery, Baltar, who had been rightfully voted as President-Elect, was sworn in as president and ordered the Fleet to colonize [[New Caprica]].<br />
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A year later on [[New Caprica]], Gaeta seems to be an adviser to President [[Gaius Baltar]]. His previous post on ''Galactica'' is assumed by [[Karl Agathon]]. While Gaeta is pleased that there had been no Cylon attacks during Baltar's presidency, he disapproves of Baltar's womanizing and is secretly infuriated at Baltar's devil-may-care attitude towards the New Caprica City Worker's Union and the Quorum of Twelve. Gaeta later brings news of the Cylon invasion to the president and is present when Baltar surrenders New Caprica to [[Caprica-Six]] and [[Number Five]] ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
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Gaeta is also the [[New Caprica Resistance]] inside source into the inner workings of the Cylons. He seems to favor an assassination of President Baltar as he provides the group with information that he is going to attend the [[New Caprica Police]] force graduation, which is disrupted by [[Duck]]'s suicide bombing. However, upon learning that Baltar would not attend, he rushes to contact the group to warn them Baltar that is not going to be there ([[Occupation]]).<br />
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== Inside Man ==<br />
Being the "inside man" allows him to help the [[New Caprica Resistance]] understand the inner Cylon related activities and security procedures on [[New Caprica]]. For him to contact the group, he flips [[Jake (New Caprica)|Jake]]'s yellow bowl upside down and leaves a note or information packet in a nearby tool bin for the [[New Caprica Resistance|resistance]] to find. [[Galen Tyrol]] does not know that he is the "inside man" and when they talk, Tyrol accuses him of being a collaborator ([[Precipice]]).<br />
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Around the same time, Gaeta is seduced by a [[Number Eight]]. Believing that he can trust her, he gives her lists with names of human prisoners. The Eight promises to do what she can to save them, but only has a few token humans freed and the rest executed for being valuable to the humans. Gaeta only learns of her betrayal much later (''[[The Face of the Enemy]]'').<br />
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== End of the Baltar Administration ==<br />
As the Cylons are preparing to evacuate during the [[Battle of New Caprica]], Gaeta pulls a gun on a distraught President Baltar, clearly intending to kill him. [[Caprica-Six]] attempts to dissuade Gaeta from this course of action. In contrast to his companion's feelings, Baltar seems fully willing to die; but he tells Gaeta that he is the only one who could stop a [[Number Three]]-model Cylon from detonating a nuclear weapon hidden somewhere in the city of New Caprica. This convinces the reluctant Gaeta to let Baltar go, giving the disgraced leader a chance to redeem himself. Gaeta emerges from the same ship behind Colonel Tigh when Tigh asks Admiral Adama for permission to come aboard ''Galactica'' during the post-battle celebration ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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== Return to Duty ==<br />
Gaeta is initially isolated from ''Galactica'''s crew and those who were on New Caprica. Because of his high position in the collaborationist government, they believe he carried out the will of the Cylons. When he arrives in CIC to help with repairs on the communication systems damaged during the recent battle, former resistance leader Colonel Tigh is openly hostile towards him. Gaeta attempts to defend his actions in a tense conversation with [[Kara Thrace]] by revealing himself as Tyrol's mysterious informant. Starbuck doesn't know about the informant, since she was a captive of [[Leoben Conoy]] during the four-month Cylon occupation. She mocks her crewmate and dismisses his revelation as a poorly fabricated lie. <br />
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When Gaeta's name comes up for review in the the [[Circle]], he is convicted of collaborating with the enemy and sentenced to death, despite the lack of evidence against him. The six-person tribunal takes him to a Viper [[launch tubes (RDM)|launch tube]] to face his sentence. When asked to defend himself, Gaeta says that he already had and refuses to beg for his life. This infuriates [[Kara Thrace]], who lashes out at him in a physical attack and resumes the mocking she started in the mess hall. Upon hearing Thrace repeat information about the [[Jake (New Caprica)|dog bowl]], Galen Tyrol realizes that Gaeta was indeed the informant from inside the Baltar administration. Gaeta is released and allowed to go. He resumes his duties as a lieutenant, still shunned by most of his crewmates except Tyrol ([[Collaborators]]). <br />
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After his recommissioning, he takes over Baltar's scientific duties, concentrating on deciphering his notes and determining the course to Earth. Gaeta appears to have a grudge against Tigh for his part in the Circle that nearly ended in Gaeta's death, as he wears a scowl while everyone else celebrates Tigh's return from his self-exile.<br />
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== Animosity towards Baltar ==<br />
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Baltar is aware of Gaeta's relationship with the Eight on New Caprica. During an interrogation, he whispers to Gaeta, "I know what your Eight did".. Baltar's knowledge leads Gaeta to try to kill him by stabbing him in the neck. However, he is stopped and knocked out by Admiral Adama ("[[Taking a Break from All Your Worries]]", ''[[The Face of the Enemy]]'') <ref>In "Taking a Break From All Your Worries", Baltar's words can't be heard. This was originally the remnant of a subplot that was cut from the storyline and later retconned in order to provide an explanation for Gaeta's reaction. See [[Taking a Break From All Your Worries#From the podcast]] for the original idea.</ref>. <br />
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During Baltar's trial for which he faces the death penalty, Gaeta commits perjury, claiming that he was there when Baltar signed the death lists and that Baltar offered no resistance in approving them ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).<br />
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== Member of the ''Demetrius'' Crew ==<br />
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Later, Gaeta becomes part of the ''[[Demetrius]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s crew on its mission to find Earth ([[The Ties That Bind]]). After [[Kara Thrace]] orders [[Karl Agathon]] to jump to a Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|baseship]] to retrieve information regarding Earth, Agathon refuses the order believing it to be too risky. When he is relieved by Thrace, she appoints Gaeta as her new [[XO]] and gives him the same order. Like Agathon, Gaeta refuses to comply with the order, creating a standoff between the ship's officers which leads Agathon to relieve Thrace of command ([[The Road Less Traveled]]). During this standoff Anders shoots Gaeta in the leg before he can initiate a jump back to ''Galactica''. Having to wait 15 hours for a Raptor to return, Gaeta is worried that he will lose his leg because of the lack of proper medical treatement ([[Faith]]).<br />
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Returned to ''Galactica'', Gaeta does lose his leg. In recovery, he deals with the stress and phantom pain by singing a [[Gaeta's Lament|mournful ballad]] over and over ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]). Shortly later, he returns to duty, still in pain from his ordeal, but refusing to be relieved ([[Revelations]]).<br />
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==Post Earth/Mutiny==<br />
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In the webisodes "[[The Face of the Enemy]]" it is revealed that Gaeta has been in a romantic relationship with [[communications officer]] Lieutenant [[Louis Hoshi]], though their relationship does not survive the webisode series.<ref>Writer's commentary to webisode 10; Gaeta ends the relationship in order to protect Hoshi from the fallout of what Gaeta is about to do.</ref><br />
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After the formation of the Cylon-Human alliance, Gaeta leads a [[Gaeta's Mutiny|rebellion]] against Admiral Adama. As of the episode "[[The Oath]]", Gaeta is the de facto commanding officer of ''Galactica'' though fighting continues throughout the ship.<br />
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His rebelion ultimatly fails however. Adama and Tigh are captured helping Roslin and Baltar esacpe to the Cylon baseship, but Hotdog refuses to fire when he finds out Roslin is onboard the Raptor, allowing the two to escape to the baseship. Gaeta is horrified when Zarek has the Quorum executed as part of their rebellion, but ultimatly continues to support him. Gaeta, promoted to the rank of Commander, tries Adama for various crimes with Zarek as the judge and Romo Lampkin as Adama's lawyer. Adama refuses to betray his beliefs, is found guilty and sentenced to death. <br />
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Gaeta also has to deal with Roslin who broadcasts about his mutiny from the baseship with the help of a Number Two and ten ships join her. Roslin also becomes the de facto commander of the baseship for dealing with the rebellion and demands his and Zarek's surrender and the release of Adama and the other prisoners. When Zarek claims Tigh died in an escape attempt and Adama was executed, Gaeta tries to escape by jumping away, feeling that enough blood has been shed, but Galen Tyrol manages to manually disable the FTL drive preventing that. <br />
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As the rest his crew prepares to fire, Gaeta remembers what Adama said about there being a reckoning for his actions and orders Specialst Gage to stand down weapons. Seconds later CIC is stormed by Adama, Tigh, Lee, Athena, Caprica Six, Helo, Lieutenant Kelly, marines that switched sides and all of the crew that supported Adama with the prisoners having been rescued by Lee and Kara and Adama saved by the released prisoners and having convinced his firing squad to help him. <br />
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Gaeta gives up without a fight and he and Zarek are led away, their rebellion ended. Gaeta later discusses things with Baltar, admiting that he doesn't mind that he lost but making an unclear statement that Baltar understood about hoping Adama understood who he was someday and recounting some of his past to him. Gaeta and Zarek are later executed by firing squad for mutiny and Gaeta is shocked when his leg, which has hurt him ever since he was shot and it had to be amputated, no longer hurts him. His last words before being shot are "it doesn't hurt anymore!" said in surprise about his leg.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*Gaeta does not wear any junior pilot wings on his duty uniform during the [[Miniseries]], but has flight wings in nearly every appearance since the Miniseries.<br />
*While Gaeta is described as the "Tactical Officer", his role is closer to that of the US Navy's CIC Watch Officer (CICWO), combining it with elements of the Tactical Watch Officer (TAO), a role also partially fulfilled by Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]], both under the command of [[William Adama]]. According to the official SciFi.com character data file, Gaeta's title is "Senior Officer of the Watch", although the title of Tactical Officer may have a better "ring" to the ears of most viewers.<br />
*The name "Felix" means "happy" in Latin; the connotations of the Latin word imply being fortunate, lucky, prosperous, or "favored by the gods". It first appeared in the episode "[[Final Cut]]".<br />
*[[Wikipedia:Gaeta|Gaeta]] is the name of a small seaport and resort in southern Italy. This goes well with his Latin first name.<br />
*His counterpart in the Original Series is Sgt. [[Omega]], a native of [[The Twelve Colonies (TOS)|Sagitaria]].<br />
*In the Miniseries, Gaeta's name is usually pronounced "Guy-tah" {{IPA|ˈgaɪ.ɾə}}, while Colonel Tigh seems to vacillates between {{IPA|ˈgeɪ.ɾə}} and {{IPA|ˈgaɪ.ɾə}} - this may also be atributed to the varying severity of Michael Hogan's Canadian accent. However, in all subsequent episodes, everyone pronounces it as "Gay-tah" {{IPA|ˈgeɪ.ɾə}}.<br />
*In interview with out.com [[Jamie Bamber]] said Gaeta is "Almost definitely!" gay, referring to the fact that Gaeta has been single. When Bamber was asked about a possible gay storyline, he said "I've heard a specific rumor about a storyline, and it is on some level definitely gay. That would be exciting and probably overdue."<ref>[http://www.out.com/detail.asp?id=22449 http://www.out.com/detail.asp?id=22449]</ref> (Bamber was probably referring to the lesbian storyline in "[[Razor]]" concerning [[Helena Cain]] and [[Gina Inviere]]). Gaeta is later revealed to be gay in the webisode series ''[[The Face of the Enemy]]''. Although he does have a relationship with the [[Eight]], her line: "Felix, I'm a woman and a cylon, I did not seduce you, hope did" clearly suggests he was not actually interested in her.<br />
*Unlike most of the series' officers, Gaeta is usually addressed as "Mr. Gaeta", rather than by his rank. This appears to mirror real-world naval tradition, in which male officers with the rank of lieutenant or below are referred to and addressed as 'Mister.'<br />
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Lieutenant '''Felix Gaeta''' ({{IPA|&#x02C8;ge&#x026A;.ɾ&#x0259;}} or "gay-tah") was a young, capable officer in the Colonial military. For the three years prior to the [[Cylon attack]] on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]], he served as [[William Adama]]'s Senior Officer of the Watch aboard ''[[Galactica]]''. <br />
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Prior to the attack, he was studying biogenetics and planned to get a degree through the military extension program ([[Water]]).<br />
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He exhibited a strong attention to detail and was highly efficient. These tendencies and his overall ability led Adama to rely heavily on him as a member of ''Galactica's'' command crew, despite his relative youth and junior rank.<br />
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As well as performing the role of Tactical Officer, Gaeta also managed the ship's [[FTL]] drive, including the calculation and initiation of jumps. Gaeta also managed the needs of the various primary [[Computers|computer systems]] used on the battlestar.<br />
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Following the fleet's discovery and evacuation of [[Earth]] and the controversial decision to install [[Cylon]] FTL technology on all ships in the fleet, Gaeta used of his CIC role to co-lead a bloody mutiny of Galactica while collaborator Vice President [[Tom Zarek]] staged a coup d'etat of the government. He surrendered to Adama later that day and was executed for his crimes.<br />
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==Remarkable Brilliance==<br />
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As a result of his studies in biogenetics, Lt. Gaeta is selected by Adama to assist Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] in the development of the much-needed [[Cylon detector]] following the Cylon attack ([[Water]]). During his time working with Baltar, Gaeta develops a certain respect and liking for the doctor - despite the latter's apparent eccentricities. When a woman called "[[Shelly Godfrey]]" arrives aboard ''Galactica'', Gaeta works hard to prove Baltar's innocence of the charges leveled against him ([[Six Degrees of Separation]]). Although he is ultimately successful, Gaeta fails to follow-up on the fact that the photographic evidence supplied by Godfrey looked as if the evidence itself had been faked in a way that ensured it was exposed as a forgery.<br />
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Gaeta shows his remarkable brilliance after ''Galactica'' mistakenly jumps to a different set of coordinates than the rest of the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] to escape a Cylon attack ([[Scattered]]). The [[FTL]] computers compensate for spatial changes, but due to the chaos after Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] is shot by [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]], Gaeta forgets to synchronize the spatial positioning with the rest of the Fleet, whose FTL computers had collectively different information. Complicating the issue, if ''Galactica'' returns to their original position, the Cylons would destroy the ship before it could recalculate the correct Fleet coordinates using standard procedures.<br />
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Gaeta blames himself (although [[Saul Tigh]] does not), but later realizes that by networking four computers of the ship (something Commander Adama may never have approved), he could reduce the coordinate calculation time from hours to minutes. Knowing the Cylons would try to crack his ad hoc network, Gaeta sets up five [[Wikipedia:Firewall (networking)|firewalls]] in the network to slow their progress while the ship's guns and Vipers buy the time required for the calculations. Unfortunately for Gaeta, the firewalls are not completely effective. Without him realizing it, the Cylons break through the last firewall before he can disconnect the network. As a result, many vital systems are disabled throughout the ship while [[Cylon Centurion|Centurions]] board the battlestar ([[Valley of Darkness]]). At the end, he manages to purge the systems of any remaining traces of the [[Cylon computer virus|virus]].<br />
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==Under Pressure==<br />
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Gaeta's calm exterior shows signs of wear when his interview with [[D'Anna Biers]] shows him somewhat drunk, smoking, and brandishing a rather garish [[tattoo]] of a tiger. Viewers learn from the footage that Gaeta's first name is Felix ([[Final Cut]]).<br />
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The Cylon virus rears its ugly head once more a few weeks later when shipboard malfunctions increase to a point where consoles begin to sputter and short out. Gaeta confirms that the same virus they thought they had removed from the formerly-networked computers had metamorphized into a heuristic program--a [[logic bomb]]--that studied and probed flaws in the battlestar's computers and the hardware that each system manages. The logic bomb threatenes to disable the ship's human control on a Cylon fighter's command--and a Cylon attack is imminent.<br />
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[[Image:Gaeta tiger tatoo.jpg|thumb|right|Gaeta's tiger tattoo]]<br />
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After Colonel Tigh's command to perform the daunting task of inspecting many lines of computer code for a Cylon virus, the young lieutenant completely loses his cool:<br />
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:'''Gaeta''': A power surge energized the board. System's been twitchy ever since the Cylons infiltrated our network.<br/><br />
:'''Tigh''': Commander's right. I don't care if you have to go through this program line by line; fix it.<br/><br />
:'''Gaeta''': Excuse me?<br/><br />
:'''Tigh''': You heard me.<br/><br />
:'''Gaeta''': Sir, I'm running every diagnostic we've got. Checking each line of code could take days.<br/><br />
:'''Tigh''': I am not interested in excuses. Fix it!<br/><br />
:'''Gaeta''': It's not an excuse, sir. It's a [[frak|frakking]] fact!<br/><br />
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Everyone on the bridge, especially Commander Adama, is shocked by Gaeta's highly uncharacteristic outburst, but Adama is not particularly surprised, knowing that everyone on ''Galactica'' has low morale after working for months with no relief or change to their routine.<br />
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Gaeta has a solution for the logic bomb: Wipe all computer hard drives and restore them from backups made before the Cylon attack. The problem in doing this is that ''Galactica'' will be completely vulnerable to attack, save for her Viper fighters, for several minutes as her computers are rebuilt.<br />
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Against his instincts and on [[Laura Roslin]]'s advice, Adama opts to use the unique abilities of the cooperative [[Sharon Valerii|Caprica copy of Sharon Valerii]] to aid them. Gaeta gives the humanoid Cylon a fiber-optic data link with access to the battlestar mainframe computer and the ship's communications. After a few tense moments, Valerii asks Gaeta to perform the computer hard drive wipe after taking into her computer/brain a copy of the Cylon virus. She manipulates it and transmits to the massive incoming Cylon fleet, disabling the entire Cylon fleet in the same way that the Colonials suffered in the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. The Colonial forces [[Great Cylon Turkey Shoot|destroy the entire Cylon force]] without a single Colonial casualty ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).<br />
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Gaeta is among the tense officers and crew in CIC that witness a standoff between their battlestar and the heavily-advanced battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', whose commander, Admiral [[Helena Cain]], has opted to execute two ''Galactica'' crew members after she tried them herself and against Adama's requests for the rights of his crew to have a fair, open trial ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).<br />
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== The Presidential Election and New Caprica ==<br />
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During the presidential election, Gaeta is assigned to aid and oversee the ballot counting process on ''Galactica''. He also aids in thwarting Roslin's plans to steal the election (though he apparently never knew -- or indicates any knowledge of -- who exactly is behind it, other than Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]) by discovering the illegitimate ballots from the ''[[Zephyr]]''. The only reason he realizes that the ''Zephyr'''s ballots were tampered with is due to the fact that the ''Zephyr''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s original, valid ballots had misspelled Gaius Baltar's name -- the fixed ballots did not share this error. (Gaeta had authorized the go-ahead to use the misspelled ballots due to the lack of time to print new ones prior to the opening of the polls.) <br />
Due to this happenstance discovery, Baltar, who had been rightfully voted as President-Elect, was sworn in as president and ordered the Fleet to colonize [[New Caprica]].<br />
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A year later on [[New Caprica]], Gaeta seems to be an adviser to President [[Gaius Baltar]]. His previous post on ''Galactica'' is assumed by [[Karl Agathon]]. While Gaeta is pleased that there had been no Cylon attacks during Baltar's presidency, he disapproves of Baltar's womanizing and is secretly infuriated at Baltar's devil-may-care attitude towards the New Caprica City Worker's Union and the Quorum of Twelve. Gaeta later brings news of the Cylon invasion to the president and is present when Baltar surrenders New Caprica to [[Caprica-Six]] and [[Number Five]] ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
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Gaeta is also the [[New Caprica Resistance]] inside source into the inner workings of the Cylons. He seems to favor an assassination of President Baltar as he provides the group with information that he is going to attend the [[New Caprica Police]] force graduation, which is disrupted by [[Duck]]'s suicide bombing. However, upon learning that Baltar would not attend, he rushes to contact the group to warn them Baltar that is not going to be there ([[Occupation]]).<br />
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== Inside Man ==<br />
Being the "inside man" allows him to help the [[New Caprica Resistance]] understand the inner Cylon related activities and security procedures on [[New Caprica]]. For him to contact the group, he flips [[Jake (New Caprica)|Jake]]'s yellow bowl upside down and leaves a note or information packet in a nearby tool bin for the [[New Caprica Resistance|resistance]] to find. [[Galen Tyrol]] does not know that he is the "inside man" and when they talk, Tyrol accuses him of being a collaborator ([[Precipice]]).<br />
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Around the same time, Gaeta is seduced by a [[Number Eight]]. Believing that he can trust her, he gives her lists with names of human prisoners. The Eight promises to do what she can to save them, but only has a few token humans freed and the rest executed for being valuable to the humans. Gaeta only learns of her betrayal much later (''[[The Face of the Enemy]]'').<br />
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== End of the Baltar Administration ==<br />
As the Cylons are preparing to evacuate during the [[Battle of New Caprica]], Gaeta pulls a gun on a distraught President Baltar, clearly intending to kill him. [[Caprica-Six]] attempts to dissuade Gaeta from this course of action. In contrast to his companion's feelings, Baltar seems fully willing to die; but he tells Gaeta that he is the only one who could stop a [[Number Three]]-model Cylon from detonating a nuclear weapon hidden somewhere in the city of New Caprica. This convinces the reluctant Gaeta to let Baltar go, giving the disgraced leader a chance to redeem himself. Gaeta emerges from the same ship behind Colonel Tigh when Tigh asks Admiral Adama for permission to come aboard ''Galactica'' during the post-battle celebration ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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== Return to Duty ==<br />
Gaeta is initially isolated from ''Galactica'''s crew and those who were on New Caprica. Because of his high position in the collaborationist government, they believe he carried out the will of the Cylons. When he arrives in CIC to help with repairs on the communication systems damaged during the recent battle, former resistance leader Colonel Tigh is openly hostile towards him. Gaeta attempts to defend his actions in a tense conversation with [[Kara Thrace]] by revealing himself as Tyrol's mysterious informant. Starbuck doesn't know about the informant, since she was a captive of [[Leoben Conoy]] during the four-month Cylon occupation. She mocks her crewmate and dismisses his revelation as a poorly fabricated lie. <br />
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When Gaeta's name comes up for review in the the [[Circle]], he is convicted of collaborating with the enemy and sentenced to death, despite the lack of evidence against him. The six-person tribunal takes him to a Viper [[launch tubes (RDM)|launch tube]] to face his sentence. When asked to defend himself, Gaeta says that he already had and refuses to beg for his life. This infuriates [[Kara Thrace]], who lashes out at him in a physical attack and resumes the mocking she started in the mess hall. Upon hearing Thrace repeat information about the [[Jake (New Caprica)|dog bowl]], Galen Tyrol realizes that Gaeta was indeed the informant from inside the Baltar administration. Gaeta is released and allowed to go. He resumes his duties as a lieutenant, still shunned by most of his crewmates except Tyrol ([[Collaborators]]). <br />
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After his recommissioning, he takes over Baltar's scientific duties, concentrating on deciphering his notes and determining the course to Earth. Gaeta appears to have a grudge against Tigh for his part in the Circle that nearly ended in Gaeta's death, as he wears a scowl while everyone else celebrates Tigh's return from his self-exile.<br />
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== Animosity towards Baltar ==<br />
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Baltar is aware of Gaeta's relationship with the Eight on New Caprica. During an interrogation, he whispers to Gaeta, "I know what your Eight did".. Baltar's knowledge leads Gaeta to try to kill him by stabbing him in the neck. However, he is stopped and knocked out by Admiral Adama ("[[Taking a Break from All Your Worries]]", ''[[The Face of the Enemy]]'') <ref>In "Taking a Break From All Your Worries", Baltar's words can't be heard. This was originally the remnant of a subplot that was cut from the storyline and later retconned in order to provide an explanation for Gaeta's reaction. See [[Taking a Break From All Your Worries#From the podcast]] for the original idea.</ref>. <br />
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During Baltar's trial for which he faces the death penalty, Gaeta commits perjury, claiming that he was there when Baltar signed the death lists and that Baltar offered no resistance in approving them ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).<br />
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== Member of the ''Demetrius'' Crew ==<br />
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Later, Gaeta becomes part of the ''[[Demetrius]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s crew on its mission to find Earth ([[The Ties That Bind]]). After [[Kara Thrace]] orders [[Karl Agathon]] to jump to a Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|baseship]] to retrieve information regarding Earth, Agathon refuses the order believing it to be too risky. When he is relieved by Thrace, she appoints Gaeta as her new [[XO]] and gives him the same order. Like Agathon, Gaeta refuses to comply with the order, creating a standoff between the ship's officers which leads Agathon to relieve Thrace of command ([[The Road Less Traveled]]). During this standoff Anders shoots Gaeta in the leg before he can initiate a jump back to ''Galactica''. Having to wait 15 hours for a Raptor to return, Gaeta is worried that he will lose his leg because of the lack of proper medical treatement ([[Faith]]).<br />
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Returned to ''Galactica'', Gaeta does lose his leg. In recovery, he deals with the stress and phantom pain by singing a [[Gaeta's Lament|mournful ballad]] over and over ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]). Shortly later, he returns to duty, still in pain from his ordeal, but refusing to be relieved ([[Revelations]]).<br />
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==Post Earth/Mutiny==<br />
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In the webisodes "[[The Face of the Enemy]]" it is revealed that Gaeta has been in a romantic relationship with [[communications officer]] Lieutenant [[Louis Hoshi]], though their relationship does not survive the webisode series.<ref>Writer's commentary to webisode 10; Gaeta ends the relationship in order to protect Hoshi from the fallout of what Gaeta is about to do.</ref><br />
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After the formation of the Cylon-Human alliance, Gaeta leads a [[Gaeta's Mutiny|rebellion]] against Admiral Adama. As of the episode "[[The Oath]]", Gaeta is the de facto commanding officer of ''Galactica'' though fighting continues throughout the ship.<br />
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His rebelion ultimatly fails however. Adama and Tigh are captured helping Roslin and Baltar esacpe to the Cylon baseship, but Hotdog refuses to fire when he finds out Roslin is onboard the Raptor, allowing the two to escape to the baseship. Gaeta is horrified when Zarek has the Quorum executed as part of their rebellion, but ultimatly continues to support him. Gaeta, promoted to the rank of Commander, tries Adama for various crimes with Zarek as the judge and Romo Lampkin as Adama's lawyer. Adama refuses to betray his beliefs, is found guilty and sentenced to death. <br />
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Gaeta also has to deal with Roslin who broadcasts about his mutiny from the baseship with the help of a Number Two and ten ships join her. Roslin also becomes the de facto commander of the baseship for dealing with the rebellion and demands his and Zarek's surrender and the release of Adama and the other prisoners. When Zarek claims Tigh died in an escape attempt and Adama was executed, Gaeta tries to escape by jumping away, feeling that enough blood has been shed, but Galen Tyrol manages to manually disable the FTL drive preventing that. <br />
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As the rest his crew prepares to fire, Gaeta remembers what Adama said about there being a reckoning for his actions and orders Specialst Gage to stand down weapons. Seconds later CIC is stormed by Adama, Tigh, Lee, Athena, Caprica Six, Helo, Lieutenant Kelly, marines that switched sides and all of the crew that supported Adama with the prisoners having been rescued by Lee and Kara and Adama saved by the released prisoners and having convinced his firing squad to help him. <br />
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Gaeta gives up without a fight and he and Zarek are led away, their rebellion ended. Gaeta later discusses things with Baltar, admiting that he doesn't mind that he lost but making an unclear statement that Baltar understood about hoping Adama understood who he was someday and recounting some of his past to him. Gaeta and Zarek are later executed by firing squad for mutiny and Gaeta is shocked when his leg, which has hurt him ever since he was shot and it had to be amputated, no longer hurts him. His last words before being shot are "it doesn't hurt anymore!" said in surprise about his leg.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*Gaeta does not wear any junior pilot wings on his duty uniform during the [[Miniseries]], but has flight wings in nearly every appearance since the Miniseries.<br />
*While Gaeta is described as the "Tactical Officer", his role is closer to that of the US Navy's CIC Watch Officer (CICWO), combining it with elements of the Tactical Watch Officer (TAO), a role also partially fulfilled by Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]], both under the command of [[William Adama]]. According to the official SciFi.com character data file, Gaeta's title is "Senior Officer of the Watch", although the title of Tactical Officer may have a better "ring" to the ears of most viewers.<br />
*The name "Felix" means "happy" in Latin; the connotations of the Latin word imply being fortunate, lucky, prosperous, or "favored by the gods". It first appeared in the episode "[[Final Cut]]".<br />
*[[Wikipedia:Gaeta|Gaeta]] is the name of a small seaport and resort in southern Italy. This goes well with his Latin first name.<br />
*His counterpart in the Original Series is Sgt. [[Omega]], a native of [[The Twelve Colonies (TOS)|Sagitaria]].<br />
*In the Miniseries, Gaeta's name is usually pronounced "Guy-tah" {{IPA|ˈgaɪ.ɾə}}, while Colonel Tigh seems to vacillates between {{IPA|ˈgeɪ.ɾə}} and {{IPA|ˈgaɪ.ɾə}} - this may also be atributed to the varying severity of Michael Hogan's Canadian accent. However, in all subsequent episodes, everyone pronounces it as "Gay-tah" {{IPA|ˈgeɪ.ɾə}}.<br />
*In interview with out.com [[Jamie Bamber]] said Gaeta is "Almost definitely!" gay, referring to the fact that Gaeta has been single. When Bamber was asked about a possible gay storyline, he said "I've heard a specific rumor about a storyline, and it is on some level definitely gay. That would be exciting and probably overdue."<ref>[http://www.out.com/detail.asp?id=22449 http://www.out.com/detail.asp?id=22449]</ref> (Bamber was probably referring to the lesbian storyline in "[[Razor]]" concerning [[Helena Cain]] and [[Gina Inviere]]). Gaeta is later revealed to be gay in the webisode series ''[[The Face of the Enemy]]''. Although he does have a relationship with the [[Eight]], her line: "Felix, I'm a woman and a cylon, I did not seduce you, hope did" clearly suggests he was not actually interested in her.<br />
*Unlike most of the series' officers, Gaeta is usually addressed as "Mr. Gaeta", rather than by his rank. This appears to mirror real-world naval tradition, in which male officers with the rank of lieutenant or below are referred to and addressed as 'Mister.'<br />
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Lieutenant '''Felix Gaeta''' ({{IPA|&#x02C8;ge&#x026A;.ɾ&#x0259;}} or "gay-tah") was a young, capable officer in the Colonial military. For the three years prior to the [[Cylon attack]] on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]], he served as [[William Adama]]'s Senior Officer of the Watch aboard ''[[Galactica]]''. <br />
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Prior to the attack, he was studying biogenetics and planned to get a degree through the military extension program ([[Water]]).<br />
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He exhibited a strong attention to detail and is highly efficient. These tendencies and his overall ability led William Adama to rely heavily on him as a member of ''Galactica's'' command crew, despite his relative youth and junior rank.<br />
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As well as performing the role of Tactical Officer, Gaeta also managed the ship's [[FTL]] drive, including the calculation and initiation of jumps. Gaeta also managed the needs of the various primary [[Computers|computer systems]] used on the battlestar.<br />
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Gaeta co-led a brief mutiny of Galactica while collaborator Vice President [[Tom Zarek]] assumed control of the government following the controversial decision to install [[Cylon]] technology on the civilian ships after the fleet's evacuation of Earth. He surrendered to Adama later that day and was executed for his crimes.<br />
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==Remarkable Brilliance==<br />
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As a result of his studies in biogenetics, Lt. Gaeta is selected by Adama to assist Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] in the development of the much-needed [[Cylon detector]] following the Cylon attack ([[Water]]). During his time working with Baltar, Gaeta develops a certain respect and liking for the doctor - despite the latter's apparent eccentricities. When a woman called "[[Shelly Godfrey]]" arrives aboard ''Galactica'', Gaeta works hard to prove Baltar's innocence of the charges leveled against him ([[Six Degrees of Separation]]). Although he is ultimately successful, Gaeta fails to follow-up on the fact that the photographic evidence supplied by Godfrey looked as if the evidence itself had been faked in a way that ensured it was exposed as a forgery.<br />
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Gaeta shows his remarkable brilliance after ''Galactica'' mistakenly jumps to a different set of coordinates than the rest of the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] to escape a Cylon attack ([[Scattered]]). The [[FTL]] computers compensate for spatial changes, but due to the chaos after Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] is shot by [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]], Gaeta forgets to synchronize the spatial positioning with the rest of the Fleet, whose FTL computers had collectively different information. Complicating the issue, if ''Galactica'' returns to their original position, the Cylons would destroy the ship before it could recalculate the correct Fleet coordinates using standard procedures.<br />
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Gaeta blames himself (although [[Saul Tigh]] does not), but later realizes that by networking four computers of the ship (something Commander Adama may never have approved), he could reduce the coordinate calculation time from hours to minutes. Knowing the Cylons would try to crack his ad hoc network, Gaeta sets up five [[Wikipedia:Firewall (networking)|firewalls]] in the network to slow their progress while the ship's guns and Vipers buy the time required for the calculations. Unfortunately for Gaeta, the firewalls are not completely effective. Without him realizing it, the Cylons break through the last firewall before he can disconnect the network. As a result, many vital systems are disabled throughout the ship while [[Cylon Centurion|Centurions]] board the battlestar ([[Valley of Darkness]]). At the end, he manages to purge the systems of any remaining traces of the [[Cylon computer virus|virus]].<br />
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==Under Pressure==<br />
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Gaeta's calm exterior shows signs of wear when his interview with [[D'Anna Biers]] shows him somewhat drunk, smoking, and brandishing a rather garish [[tattoo]] of a tiger. Viewers learn from the footage that Gaeta's first name is Felix ([[Final Cut]]).<br />
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The Cylon virus rears its ugly head once more a few weeks later when shipboard malfunctions increase to a point where consoles begin to sputter and short out. Gaeta confirms that the same virus they thought they had removed from the formerly-networked computers had metamorphized into a heuristic program--a [[logic bomb]]--that studied and probed flaws in the battlestar's computers and the hardware that each system manages. The logic bomb threatenes to disable the ship's human control on a Cylon fighter's command--and a Cylon attack is imminent.<br />
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[[Image:Gaeta tiger tatoo.jpg|thumb|right|Gaeta's tiger tattoo]]<br />
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After Colonel Tigh's command to perform the daunting task of inspecting many lines of computer code for a Cylon virus, the young lieutenant completely loses his cool:<br />
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:'''Gaeta''': A power surge energized the board. System's been twitchy ever since the Cylons infiltrated our network.<br/><br />
:'''Tigh''': Commander's right. I don't care if you have to go through this program line by line; fix it.<br/><br />
:'''Gaeta''': Excuse me?<br/><br />
:'''Tigh''': You heard me.<br/><br />
:'''Gaeta''': Sir, I'm running every diagnostic we've got. Checking each line of code could take days.<br/><br />
:'''Tigh''': I am not interested in excuses. Fix it!<br/><br />
:'''Gaeta''': It's not an excuse, sir. It's a [[frak|frakking]] fact!<br/><br />
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Everyone on the bridge, especially Commander Adama, is shocked by Gaeta's highly uncharacteristic outburst, but Adama is not particularly surprised, knowing that everyone on ''Galactica'' has low morale after working for months with no relief or change to their routine.<br />
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Gaeta has a solution for the logic bomb: Wipe all computer hard drives and restore them from backups made before the Cylon attack. The problem in doing this is that ''Galactica'' will be completely vulnerable to attack, save for her Viper fighters, for several minutes as her computers are rebuilt.<br />
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Against his instincts and on [[Laura Roslin]]'s advice, Adama opts to use the unique abilities of the cooperative [[Sharon Valerii|Caprica copy of Sharon Valerii]] to aid them. Gaeta gives the humanoid Cylon a fiber-optic data link with access to the battlestar mainframe computer and the ship's communications. After a few tense moments, Valerii asks Gaeta to perform the computer hard drive wipe after taking into her computer/brain a copy of the Cylon virus. She manipulates it and transmits to the massive incoming Cylon fleet, disabling the entire Cylon fleet in the same way that the Colonials suffered in the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. The Colonial forces [[Great Cylon Turkey Shoot|destroy the entire Cylon force]] without a single Colonial casualty ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).<br />
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Gaeta is among the tense officers and crew in CIC that witness a standoff between their battlestar and the heavily-advanced battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', whose commander, Admiral [[Helena Cain]], has opted to execute two ''Galactica'' crew members after she tried them herself and against Adama's requests for the rights of his crew to have a fair, open trial ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).<br />
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== The Presidential Election and New Caprica ==<br />
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During the presidential election, Gaeta is assigned to aid and oversee the ballot counting process on ''Galactica''. He also aids in thwarting Roslin's plans to steal the election (though he apparently never knew -- or indicates any knowledge of -- who exactly is behind it, other than Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]) by discovering the illegitimate ballots from the ''[[Zephyr]]''. The only reason he realizes that the ''Zephyr'''s ballots were tampered with is due to the fact that the ''Zephyr''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s original, valid ballots had misspelled Gaius Baltar's name -- the fixed ballots did not share this error. (Gaeta had authorized the go-ahead to use the misspelled ballots due to the lack of time to print new ones prior to the opening of the polls.) <br />
Due to this happenstance discovery, Baltar, who had been rightfully voted as President-Elect, was sworn in as president and ordered the Fleet to colonize [[New Caprica]].<br />
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A year later on [[New Caprica]], Gaeta seems to be an adviser to President [[Gaius Baltar]]. His previous post on ''Galactica'' is assumed by [[Karl Agathon]]. While Gaeta is pleased that there had been no Cylon attacks during Baltar's presidency, he disapproves of Baltar's womanizing and is secretly infuriated at Baltar's devil-may-care attitude towards the New Caprica City Worker's Union and the Quorum of Twelve. Gaeta later brings news of the Cylon invasion to the president and is present when Baltar surrenders New Caprica to [[Caprica-Six]] and [[Number Five]] ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
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Gaeta is also the [[New Caprica Resistance]] inside source into the inner workings of the Cylons. He seems to favor an assassination of President Baltar as he provides the group with information that he is going to attend the [[New Caprica Police]] force graduation, which is disrupted by [[Duck]]'s suicide bombing. However, upon learning that Baltar would not attend, he rushes to contact the group to warn them Baltar that is not going to be there ([[Occupation]]).<br />
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== Inside Man ==<br />
Being the "inside man" allows him to help the [[New Caprica Resistance]] understand the inner Cylon related activities and security procedures on [[New Caprica]]. For him to contact the group, he flips [[Jake (New Caprica)|Jake]]'s yellow bowl upside down and leaves a note or information packet in a nearby tool bin for the [[New Caprica Resistance|resistance]] to find. [[Galen Tyrol]] does not know that he is the "inside man" and when they talk, Tyrol accuses him of being a collaborator ([[Precipice]]).<br />
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Around the same time, Gaeta is seduced by a [[Number Eight]]. Believing that he can trust her, he gives her lists with names of human prisoners. The Eight promises to do what she can to save them, but only has a few token humans freed and the rest executed for being valuable to the humans. Gaeta only learns of her betrayal much later (''[[The Face of the Enemy]]'').<br />
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== End of the Baltar Administration ==<br />
As the Cylons are preparing to evacuate during the [[Battle of New Caprica]], Gaeta pulls a gun on a distraught President Baltar, clearly intending to kill him. [[Caprica-Six]] attempts to dissuade Gaeta from this course of action. In contrast to his companion's feelings, Baltar seems fully willing to die; but he tells Gaeta that he is the only one who could stop a [[Number Three]]-model Cylon from detonating a nuclear weapon hidden somewhere in the city of New Caprica. This convinces the reluctant Gaeta to let Baltar go, giving the disgraced leader a chance to redeem himself. Gaeta emerges from the same ship behind Colonel Tigh when Tigh asks Admiral Adama for permission to come aboard ''Galactica'' during the post-battle celebration ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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== Return to Duty ==<br />
Gaeta is initially isolated from ''Galactica'''s crew and those who were on New Caprica. Because of his high position in the collaborationist government, they believe he carried out the will of the Cylons. When he arrives in CIC to help with repairs on the communication systems damaged during the recent battle, former resistance leader Colonel Tigh is openly hostile towards him. Gaeta attempts to defend his actions in a tense conversation with [[Kara Thrace]] by revealing himself as Tyrol's mysterious informant. Starbuck doesn't know about the informant, since she was a captive of [[Leoben Conoy]] during the four-month Cylon occupation. She mocks her crewmate and dismisses his revelation as a poorly fabricated lie. <br />
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When Gaeta's name comes up for review in the the [[Circle]], he is convicted of collaborating with the enemy and sentenced to death, despite the lack of evidence against him. The six-person tribunal takes him to a Viper [[launch tubes (RDM)|launch tube]] to face his sentence. When asked to defend himself, Gaeta says that he already had and refuses to beg for his life. This infuriates [[Kara Thrace]], who lashes out at him in a physical attack and resumes the mocking she started in the mess hall. Upon hearing Thrace repeat information about the [[Jake (New Caprica)|dog bowl]], Galen Tyrol realizes that Gaeta was indeed the informant from inside the Baltar administration. Gaeta is released and allowed to go. He resumes his duties as a lieutenant, still shunned by most of his crewmates except Tyrol ([[Collaborators]]). <br />
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After his recommissioning, he takes over Baltar's scientific duties, concentrating on deciphering his notes and determining the course to Earth. Gaeta appears to have a grudge against Tigh for his part in the Circle that nearly ended in Gaeta's death, as he wears a scowl while everyone else celebrates Tigh's return from his self-exile.<br />
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== Animosity towards Baltar ==<br />
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Baltar is aware of Gaeta's relationship with the Eight on New Caprica. During an interrogation, he whispers to Gaeta, "I know what your Eight did".. Baltar's knowledge leads Gaeta to try to kill him by stabbing him in the neck. However, he is stopped and knocked out by Admiral Adama ("[[Taking a Break from All Your Worries]]", ''[[The Face of the Enemy]]'') <ref>In "Taking a Break From All Your Worries", Baltar's words can't be heard. This was originally the remnant of a subplot that was cut from the storyline and later retconned in order to provide an explanation for Gaeta's reaction. See [[Taking a Break From All Your Worries#From the podcast]] for the original idea.</ref>. <br />
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During Baltar's trial for which he faces the death penalty, Gaeta commits perjury, claiming that he was there when Baltar signed the death lists and that Baltar offered no resistance in approving them ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).<br />
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== Member of the ''Demetrius'' Crew ==<br />
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Later, Gaeta becomes part of the ''[[Demetrius]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s crew on its mission to find Earth ([[The Ties That Bind]]). After [[Kara Thrace]] orders [[Karl Agathon]] to jump to a Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|baseship]] to retrieve information regarding Earth, Agathon refuses the order believing it to be too risky. When he is relieved by Thrace, she appoints Gaeta as her new [[XO]] and gives him the same order. Like Agathon, Gaeta refuses to comply with the order, creating a standoff between the ship's officers which leads Agathon to relieve Thrace of command ([[The Road Less Traveled]]). During this standoff Anders shoots Gaeta in the leg before he can initiate a jump back to ''Galactica''. Having to wait 15 hours for a Raptor to return, Gaeta is worried that he will lose his leg because of the lack of proper medical treatement ([[Faith]]).<br />
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Returned to ''Galactica'', Gaeta does lose his leg. In recovery, he deals with the stress and phantom pain by singing a [[Gaeta's Lament|mournful ballad]] over and over ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]). Shortly later, he returns to duty, still in pain from his ordeal, but refusing to be relieved ([[Revelations]]).<br />
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==Post Earth/Mutiny==<br />
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In the webisodes "[[The Face of the Enemy]]" it is revealed that Gaeta has been in a romantic relationship with [[communications officer]] Lieutenant [[Louis Hoshi]], though their relationship does not survive the webisode series.<ref>Writer's commentary to webisode 10; Gaeta ends the relationship in order to protect Hoshi from the fallout of what Gaeta is about to do.</ref><br />
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After the formation of the Cylon-Human alliance, Gaeta leads a [[Gaeta's Mutiny|rebellion]] against Admiral Adama. As of the episode "[[The Oath]]", Gaeta is the de facto commanding officer of ''Galactica'' though fighting continues throughout the ship.<br />
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His rebelion ultimatly fails however. Adama and Tigh are captured helping Roslin and Baltar esacpe to the Cylon baseship, but Hotdog refuses to fire when he finds out Roslin is onboard the Raptor, allowing the two to escape to the baseship. Gaeta is horrified when Zarek has the Quorum executed as part of their rebellion, but ultimatly continues to support him. Gaeta, promoted to the rank of Commander, tries Adama for various crimes with Zarek as the judge and Romo Lampkin as Adama's lawyer. Adama refuses to betray his beliefs, is found guilty and sentenced to death. <br />
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Gaeta also has to deal with Roslin who broadcasts about his mutiny from the baseship with the help of a Number Two and ten ships join her. Roslin also becomes the de facto commander of the baseship for dealing with the rebellion and demands his and Zarek's surrender and the release of Adama and the other prisoners. When Zarek claims Tigh died in an escape attempt and Adama was executed, Gaeta tries to escape by jumping away, feeling that enough blood has been shed, but Galen Tyrol manages to manually disable the FTL drive preventing that. <br />
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As the rest his crew prepares to fire, Gaeta remembers what Adama said about there being a reckoning for his actions and orders Specialst Gage to stand down weapons. Seconds later CIC is stormed by Adama, Tigh, Lee, Athena, Caprica Six, Helo, Lieutenant Kelly, marines that switched sides and all of the crew that supported Adama with the prisoners having been rescued by Lee and Kara and Adama saved by the released prisoners and having convinced his firing squad to help him. <br />
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Gaeta gives up without a fight and he and Zarek are led away, their rebellion ended. Gaeta later discusses things with Baltar, admiting that he doesn't mind that he lost but making an unclear statement that Baltar understood about hoping Adama understood who he was someday and recounting some of his past to him. Gaeta and Zarek are later executed by firing squad for mutiny and Gaeta is shocked when his leg, which has hurt him ever since he was shot and it had to be amputated, no longer hurts him. His last words before being shot are "it doesn't hurt anymore!" said in surprise about his leg.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*Gaeta does not wear any junior pilot wings on his duty uniform during the [[Miniseries]], but has flight wings in nearly every appearance since the Miniseries.<br />
*While Gaeta is described as the "Tactical Officer", his role is closer to that of the US Navy's CIC Watch Officer (CICWO), combining it with elements of the Tactical Watch Officer (TAO), a role also partially fulfilled by Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]], both under the command of [[William Adama]]. According to the official SciFi.com character data file, Gaeta's title is "Senior Officer of the Watch", although the title of Tactical Officer may have a better "ring" to the ears of most viewers.<br />
*The name "Felix" means "happy" in Latin; the connotations of the Latin word imply being fortunate, lucky, prosperous, or "favored by the gods". It first appeared in the episode "[[Final Cut]]".<br />
*[[Wikipedia:Gaeta|Gaeta]] is the name of a small seaport and resort in southern Italy. This goes well with his Latin first name.<br />
*His counterpart in the Original Series is Sgt. [[Omega]], a native of [[The Twelve Colonies (TOS)|Sagitaria]].<br />
*In the Miniseries, Gaeta's name is usually pronounced "Guy-tah" {{IPA|ˈgaɪ.ɾə}}, while Colonel Tigh seems to vacillates between {{IPA|ˈgeɪ.ɾə}} and {{IPA|ˈgaɪ.ɾə}} - this may also be atributed to the varying severity of Michael Hogan's Canadian accent. However, in all subsequent episodes, everyone pronounces it as "Gay-tah" {{IPA|ˈgeɪ.ɾə}}.<br />
*In interview with out.com [[Jamie Bamber]] said Gaeta is "Almost definitely!" gay, referring to the fact that Gaeta has been single. When Bamber was asked about a possible gay storyline, he said "I've heard a specific rumor about a storyline, and it is on some level definitely gay. That would be exciting and probably overdue."<ref>[http://www.out.com/detail.asp?id=22449 http://www.out.com/detail.asp?id=22449]</ref> (Bamber was probably referring to the lesbian storyline in "[[Razor]]" concerning [[Helena Cain]] and [[Gina Inviere]]). Gaeta is later revealed to be gay in the webisode series ''[[The Face of the Enemy]]''. Although he does have a relationship with the [[Eight]], her line: "Felix, I'm a woman and a cylon, I did not seduce you, hope did" clearly suggests he was not actually interested in her.<br />
*Unlike most of the series' officers, Gaeta is usually addressed as "Mr. Gaeta", rather than by his rank. This appears to mirror real-world naval tradition, in which male officers with the rank of lieutenant or below are referred to and addressed as 'Mister.'<br />
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Lieutenant '''Felix Gaeta''' ({{IPA|&#x02C8;ge&#x026A;.ɾ&#x0259;}} or "gay-tah") was a young, capable officer in the Colonial military. For the three years prior to the [[Cylon attack]] on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]], he has served as [[William Adama]]'s Senior Officer of the Watch aboard ''[[Galactica]]''. <br />
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Prior to the attack, he was studying biogenetics and planned to get a degree through the military extension program ([[Water]]).<br />
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He exhibited a strong attention to detail and is highly efficient. These tendencies and his overall ability led William Adama to rely heavily on him as a member of ''Galactica's'' command crew, despite his relative youth and junior rank.<br />
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As well as performing the role of Tactical Officer, Gaeta also managed the ship's [[FTL]] drive, including the calculation and initiation of jumps. Gaeta also managed the needs of the various primary [[Computers|computer systems]] used on the battlestar.<br />
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Gaeta co-led a brief mutiny of Galactica while collaborator Vice President [[Tom Zarek]] assumed control of the government following the controversial decision to install [[Cylon]] technology on the civilian ships after the fleet's evacuation of Earth. He surrendered to Admiral Adama later that day and was executed for his crimes.<br />
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==Remarkable Brilliance==<br />
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As a result of his studies in biogenetics, Lt. Gaeta is selected by Adama to assist Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] in the development of the much-needed [[Cylon detector]] following the Cylon attack ([[Water]]). During his time working with Baltar, Gaeta develops a certain respect and liking for the doctor - despite the latter's apparent eccentricities. When a woman called "[[Shelly Godfrey]]" arrives aboard ''Galactica'', Gaeta works hard to prove Baltar's innocence of the charges leveled against him ([[Six Degrees of Separation]]). Although he is ultimately successful, Gaeta fails to follow-up on the fact that the photographic evidence supplied by Godfrey looked as if the evidence itself had been faked in a way that ensured it was exposed as a forgery.<br />
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Gaeta shows his remarkable brilliance after ''Galactica'' mistakenly jumps to a different set of coordinates than the rest of the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] to escape a Cylon attack ([[Scattered]]). The [[FTL]] computers compensate for spatial changes, but due to the chaos after Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] is shot by [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]], Gaeta forgets to synchronize the spatial positioning with the rest of the Fleet, whose FTL computers had collectively different information. Complicating the issue, if ''Galactica'' returns to their original position, the Cylons would destroy the ship before it could recalculate the correct Fleet coordinates using standard procedures.<br />
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Gaeta blames himself (although [[Saul Tigh]] does not), but later realizes that by networking four computers of the ship (something Commander Adama may never have approved), he could reduce the coordinate calculation time from hours to minutes. Knowing the Cylons would try to crack his ad hoc network, Gaeta sets up five [[Wikipedia:Firewall (networking)|firewalls]] in the network to slow their progress while the ship's guns and Vipers buy the time required for the calculations. Unfortunately for Gaeta, the firewalls are not completely effective. Without him realizing it, the Cylons break through the last firewall before he can disconnect the network. As a result, many vital systems are disabled throughout the ship while [[Cylon Centurion|Centurions]] board the battlestar ([[Valley of Darkness]]). At the end, he manages to purge the systems of any remaining traces of the [[Cylon computer virus|virus]].<br />
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==Under Pressure==<br />
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Gaeta's calm exterior shows signs of wear when his interview with [[D'Anna Biers]] shows him somewhat drunk, smoking, and brandishing a rather garish [[tattoo]] of a tiger. Viewers learn from the footage that Gaeta's first name is Felix ([[Final Cut]]).<br />
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The Cylon virus rears its ugly head once more a few weeks later when shipboard malfunctions increase to a point where consoles begin to sputter and short out. Gaeta confirms that the same virus they thought they had removed from the formerly-networked computers had metamorphized into a heuristic program--a [[logic bomb]]--that studied and probed flaws in the battlestar's computers and the hardware that each system manages. The logic bomb threatenes to disable the ship's human control on a Cylon fighter's command--and a Cylon attack is imminent.<br />
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[[Image:Gaeta tiger tatoo.jpg|thumb|right|Gaeta's tiger tattoo]]<br />
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After Colonel Tigh's command to perform the daunting task of inspecting many lines of computer code for a Cylon virus, the young lieutenant completely loses his cool:<br />
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:'''Gaeta''': A power surge energized the board. System's been twitchy ever since the Cylons infiltrated our network.<br/><br />
:'''Tigh''': Commander's right. I don't care if you have to go through this program line by line; fix it.<br/><br />
:'''Gaeta''': Excuse me?<br/><br />
:'''Tigh''': You heard me.<br/><br />
:'''Gaeta''': Sir, I'm running every diagnostic we've got. Checking each line of code could take days.<br/><br />
:'''Tigh''': I am not interested in excuses. Fix it!<br/><br />
:'''Gaeta''': It's not an excuse, sir. It's a [[frak|frakking]] fact!<br/><br />
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Everyone on the bridge, especially Commander Adama, is shocked by Gaeta's highly uncharacteristic outburst, but Adama is not particularly surprised, knowing that everyone on ''Galactica'' has low morale after working for months with no relief or change to their routine.<br />
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Gaeta has a solution for the logic bomb: Wipe all computer hard drives and restore them from backups made before the Cylon attack. The problem in doing this is that ''Galactica'' will be completely vulnerable to attack, save for her Viper fighters, for several minutes as her computers are rebuilt.<br />
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Against his instincts and on [[Laura Roslin]]'s advice, Adama opts to use the unique abilities of the cooperative [[Sharon Valerii|Caprica copy of Sharon Valerii]] to aid them. Gaeta gives the humanoid Cylon a fiber-optic data link with access to the battlestar mainframe computer and the ship's communications. After a few tense moments, Valerii asks Gaeta to perform the computer hard drive wipe after taking into her computer/brain a copy of the Cylon virus. She manipulates it and transmits to the massive incoming Cylon fleet, disabling the entire Cylon fleet in the same way that the Colonials suffered in the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. The Colonial forces [[Great Cylon Turkey Shoot|destroy the entire Cylon force]] without a single Colonial casualty ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).<br />
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Gaeta is among the tense officers and crew in CIC that witness a standoff between their battlestar and the heavily-advanced battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', whose commander, Admiral [[Helena Cain]], has opted to execute two ''Galactica'' crew members after she tried them herself and against Adama's requests for the rights of his crew to have a fair, open trial ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).<br />
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== The Presidential Election and New Caprica ==<br />
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During the presidential election, Gaeta is assigned to aid and oversee the ballot counting process on ''Galactica''. He also aids in thwarting Roslin's plans to steal the election (though he apparently never knew -- or indicates any knowledge of -- who exactly is behind it, other than Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]) by discovering the illegitimate ballots from the ''[[Zephyr]]''. The only reason he realizes that the ''Zephyr'''s ballots were tampered with is due to the fact that the ''Zephyr''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s original, valid ballots had misspelled Gaius Baltar's name -- the fixed ballots did not share this error. (Gaeta had authorized the go-ahead to use the misspelled ballots due to the lack of time to print new ones prior to the opening of the polls.) <br />
Due to this happenstance discovery, Baltar, who had been rightfully voted as President-Elect, was sworn in as president and ordered the Fleet to colonize [[New Caprica]].<br />
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A year later on [[New Caprica]], Gaeta seems to be an adviser to President [[Gaius Baltar]]. His previous post on ''Galactica'' is assumed by [[Karl Agathon]]. While Gaeta is pleased that there had been no Cylon attacks during Baltar's presidency, he disapproves of Baltar's womanizing and is secretly infuriated at Baltar's devil-may-care attitude towards the New Caprica City Worker's Union and the Quorum of Twelve. Gaeta later brings news of the Cylon invasion to the president and is present when Baltar surrenders New Caprica to [[Caprica-Six]] and [[Number Five]] ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
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Gaeta is also the [[New Caprica Resistance]] inside source into the inner workings of the Cylons. He seems to favor an assassination of President Baltar as he provides the group with information that he is going to attend the [[New Caprica Police]] force graduation, which is disrupted by [[Duck]]'s suicide bombing. However, upon learning that Baltar would not attend, he rushes to contact the group to warn them Baltar that is not going to be there ([[Occupation]]).<br />
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== Inside Man ==<br />
Being the "inside man" allows him to help the [[New Caprica Resistance]] understand the inner Cylon related activities and security procedures on [[New Caprica]]. For him to contact the group, he flips [[Jake (New Caprica)|Jake]]'s yellow bowl upside down and leaves a note or information packet in a nearby tool bin for the [[New Caprica Resistance|resistance]] to find. [[Galen Tyrol]] does not know that he is the "inside man" and when they talk, Tyrol accuses him of being a collaborator ([[Precipice]]).<br />
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Around the same time, Gaeta is seduced by a [[Number Eight]]. Believing that he can trust her, he gives her lists with names of human prisoners. The Eight promises to do what she can to save them, but only has a few token humans freed and the rest executed for being valuable to the humans. Gaeta only learns of her betrayal much later (''[[The Face of the Enemy]]'').<br />
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== End of the Baltar Administration ==<br />
As the Cylons are preparing to evacuate during the [[Battle of New Caprica]], Gaeta pulls a gun on a distraught President Baltar, clearly intending to kill him. [[Caprica-Six]] attempts to dissuade Gaeta from this course of action. In contrast to his companion's feelings, Baltar seems fully willing to die; but he tells Gaeta that he is the only one who could stop a [[Number Three]]-model Cylon from detonating a nuclear weapon hidden somewhere in the city of New Caprica. This convinces the reluctant Gaeta to let Baltar go, giving the disgraced leader a chance to redeem himself. Gaeta emerges from the same ship behind Colonel Tigh when Tigh asks Admiral Adama for permission to come aboard ''Galactica'' during the post-battle celebration ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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== Return to Duty ==<br />
Gaeta is initially isolated from ''Galactica'''s crew and those who were on New Caprica. Because of his high position in the collaborationist government, they believe he carried out the will of the Cylons. When he arrives in CIC to help with repairs on the communication systems damaged during the recent battle, former resistance leader Colonel Tigh is openly hostile towards him. Gaeta attempts to defend his actions in a tense conversation with [[Kara Thrace]] by revealing himself as Tyrol's mysterious informant. Starbuck doesn't know about the informant, since she was a captive of [[Leoben Conoy]] during the four-month Cylon occupation. She mocks her crewmate and dismisses his revelation as a poorly fabricated lie. <br />
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When Gaeta's name comes up for review in the the [[Circle]], he is convicted of collaborating with the enemy and sentenced to death, despite the lack of evidence against him. The six-person tribunal takes him to a Viper [[launch tubes (RDM)|launch tube]] to face his sentence. When asked to defend himself, Gaeta says that he already had and refuses to beg for his life. This infuriates [[Kara Thrace]], who lashes out at him in a physical attack and resumes the mocking she started in the mess hall. Upon hearing Thrace repeat information about the [[Jake (New Caprica)|dog bowl]], Galen Tyrol realizes that Gaeta was indeed the informant from inside the Baltar administration. Gaeta is released and allowed to go. He resumes his duties as a lieutenant, still shunned by most of his crewmates except Tyrol ([[Collaborators]]). <br />
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After his recommissioning, he takes over Baltar's scientific duties, concentrating on deciphering his notes and determining the course to Earth. Gaeta appears to have a grudge against Tigh for his part in the Circle that nearly ended in Gaeta's death, as he wears a scowl while everyone else celebrates Tigh's return from his self-exile.<br />
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== Animosity towards Baltar ==<br />
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Baltar is aware of Gaeta's relationship with the Eight on New Caprica. During an interrogation, he whispers to Gaeta, "I know what your Eight did".. Baltar's knowledge leads Gaeta to try to kill him by stabbing him in the neck. However, he is stopped and knocked out by Admiral Adama ("[[Taking a Break from All Your Worries]]", ''[[The Face of the Enemy]]'') <ref>In "Taking a Break From All Your Worries", Baltar's words can't be heard. This was originally the remnant of a subplot that was cut from the storyline and later retconned in order to provide an explanation for Gaeta's reaction. See [[Taking a Break From All Your Worries#From the podcast]] for the original idea.</ref>. <br />
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During Baltar's trial for which he faces the death penalty, Gaeta commits perjury, claiming that he was there when Baltar signed the death lists and that Baltar offered no resistance in approving them ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).<br />
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== Member of the ''Demetrius'' Crew ==<br />
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Later, Gaeta becomes part of the ''[[Demetrius]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s crew on its mission to find Earth ([[The Ties That Bind]]). After [[Kara Thrace]] orders [[Karl Agathon]] to jump to a Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|baseship]] to retrieve information regarding Earth, Agathon refuses the order believing it to be too risky. When he is relieved by Thrace, she appoints Gaeta as her new [[XO]] and gives him the same order. Like Agathon, Gaeta refuses to comply with the order, creating a standoff between the ship's officers which leads Agathon to relieve Thrace of command ([[The Road Less Traveled]]). During this standoff Anders shoots Gaeta in the leg before he can initiate a jump back to ''Galactica''. Having to wait 15 hours for a Raptor to return, Gaeta is worried that he will lose his leg because of the lack of proper medical treatement ([[Faith]]).<br />
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Returned to ''Galactica'', Gaeta does lose his leg. In recovery, he deals with the stress and phantom pain by singing a [[Gaeta's Lament|mournful ballad]] over and over ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]). Shortly later, he returns to duty, still in pain from his ordeal, but refusing to be relieved ([[Revelations]]).<br />
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==Post Earth/ Mutiny==<br />
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In the webisodes "[[The Face of the Enemy]]" it is revealed that Gaeta has been in a romantic relationship with [[communications officer]] Lieutenant [[Louis Hoshi]], though their relationship does not survive the webisode series.<ref>Writer's commentary to webisode 10; Gaeta ends the relationship in order to protect Hoshi from the fallout of what Gaeta is about to do.</ref><br />
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After the formation of the Cylon-Human alliance, Gaeta leads a [[Gaeta's Mutiny|rebellion]] against Admiral Adama. As of the episode "[[The Oath]]", Gaeta is the de facto commanding officer of ''Galactica'' though fighting continues throughout the ship.<br />
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His rebelion ultimatly fails however. Adama and Tigh are captured helping Roslin and Baltar esacpe to the Cylon baseship, but Hotdog refuses to fire when he finds out Roslin is onboard the Raptor, allowing the two to escape to the baseship. Gaeta is horrified when Zarek has the Quorum executed as part of their rebellion, but ultimatly continues to support him. Gaeta, promoted to the rank of Commander, tries Adama for various crimes with Zarek as the judge and Romo Lampkin as Adama's lawyer. Adama refuses to betray his beliefs, is found guilty and sentenced to death. <br />
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Gaeta also has to deal with Roslin who broadcasts about his mutiny from the baseship with the help of a Number Two and ten ships join her. Roslin also becomes the de facto commander of the baseship for dealing with the rebellion and demands his and Zarek's surrender and the release of Adama and the other prisoners. When Zarek claims Tigh died in an escape attempt and Adama was executed, Gaeta tries to escape by jumping away, feeling that enough blood has been shed, but Galen Tyrol manages to manually disable the FTL drive preventing that. <br />
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As the rest his crew prepares to fire, Gaeta remembers what Adama said about there being a reckoning for his actions and orders Specialst Gage to stand down weapons. Seconds later CIC is stormed by Adama, Tigh, Lee, Athena, Caprica Six, Helo, Lieutenant Kelly, marines that switched sides and all of the crew that supported Adama with the prisoners having been rescued by Lee and Kara and Adama saved by the released prisoners and having convinced his firing squad to help him. <br />
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Gaeta gives up without a fight and he and Zarek are led away, their rebellion ended. Gaeta later discusses things with Baltar, admiting that he doesn't mind that he lost but making an unclear statement that Baltar understood about hoping Adama understood who he was someday and recounting some of his past to him. Gaeta and Zarek are later executed by firing squad for mutiny and Gaeta is shocked when his leg, which has hurt him ever since he was shot and it had to be amputated, no longer hurts him. His last words before being shot are "it doesn't hurt anymore!" said in surprise about his leg.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*Gaeta does not wear any junior pilot wings on his duty uniform during the [[Miniseries]], but has flight wings in nearly every appearance since the Miniseries.<br />
*While Gaeta is described as the "Tactical Officer", his role is closer to that of the US Navy's CIC Watch Officer (CICWO), combining it with elements of the Tactical Watch Officer (TAO), a role also partially fulfilled by Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]], both under the command of [[William Adama]]. According to the official SciFi.com character data file, Gaeta's title is "Senior Officer of the Watch", although the title of Tactical Officer may have a better "ring" to the ears of most viewers.<br />
*The name "Felix" means "happy" in Latin; the connotations of the Latin word imply being fortunate, lucky, prosperous, or "favored by the gods". It first appeared in the episode "[[Final Cut]]".<br />
*[[Wikipedia:Gaeta|Gaeta]] is the name of a small seaport and resort in southern Italy. This goes well with his Latin first name.<br />
*His counterpart in the Original Series is Sgt. [[Omega]], a native of [[The Twelve Colonies (TOS)|Sagitaria]].<br />
*In the Miniseries, Gaeta's name is usually pronounced "Guy-tah" {{IPA|ˈgaɪ.ɾə}}, while Colonel Tigh seems to vacillates between {{IPA|ˈgeɪ.ɾə}} and {{IPA|ˈgaɪ.ɾə}} - this may also be atributed to the varying severity of Michael Hogan's Canadian accent. However, in all subsequent episodes, everyone pronounces it as "Gay-tah" {{IPA|ˈgeɪ.ɾə}}.<br />
*In interview with out.com [[Jamie Bamber]] said Gaeta is "Almost definitely!" gay, referring to the fact that Gaeta has been single. When Bamber was asked about a possible gay storyline, he said "I've heard a specific rumor about a storyline, and it is on some level definitely gay. That would be exciting and probably overdue."<ref>[http://www.out.com/detail.asp?id=22449 http://www.out.com/detail.asp?id=22449]</ref> (Bamber was probably referring to the lesbian storyline in "[[Razor]]" concerning [[Helena Cain]] and [[Gina Inviere]]). Gaeta is later revealed to be gay in the webisode series ''[[The Face of the Enemy]]''. Although he does have a relationship with the [[Eight]], her line: "Felix, I'm a woman and a cylon, I did not seduce you, hope did" clearly suggests he was not actually interested in her.<br />
*Unlike most of the series' officers, Gaeta is usually addressed as "Mr. Gaeta", rather than by his rank. This appears to mirror real-world naval tradition, in which male officers with the rank of lieutenant or below are referred to and addressed as 'Mister.'<br />
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Lieutenant '''Felix Gaeta''' ({{IPA|&#x02C8;ge&#x026A;.ɾ&#x0259;}} or "gay-tah") is a young, capable officer in the Colonial military. For the three years prior to the [[Cylon attack]] on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]], he has served as [[William Adama]]'s Senior Officer of the Watch aboard ''[[Galactica]]''. <br />
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Prior to the attack, he was studying biogenetics and planned to get a degree through the military extension program ([[Water]]).<br />
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He exhibits a strong attention to detail and is highly efficient. These tendencies and his overall ability have led William Adama to rely heavily on him as a member of ''Galactica's'' command crew, despite his relative youth and junior rank.<br />
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As well as performing the role of Tactical Officer, Gaeta also manages the ship's [[FTL]] systems, including the calculation and initiation of jumps. Gaeta also manages the needs of the various primary [[Computers|computer systems]] used on the battlestar.<br />
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==Remarkable Brilliance==<br />
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As a result of his studies in biogenetics, Lt. Gaeta is selected by Adama to assist Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] in the development of the much-needed [[Cylon detector]] following the Cylon attack ([[Water]]). During his time working with Baltar, Gaeta develops a certain respect and liking for the doctor - despite the latter's apparent eccentricities. When a woman called "[[Shelly Godfrey]]" arrives aboard ''Galactica'', Gaeta works hard to prove Baltar's innocence of the charges leveled against him ([[Six Degrees of Separation]]). Although he is ultimately successful, Gaeta fails to follow-up on the fact that the photographic evidence supplied by Godfrey looked as if the evidence itself had been faked in a way that ensured it was exposed as a forgery.<br />
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Gaeta shows his remarkable brilliance after ''Galactica'' mistakenly jumps to a different set of coordinates than the rest of the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] to escape a Cylon attack ([[Scattered]]). The [[FTL]] computers compensate for spatial changes, but due to the chaos after Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] is shot by [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]], Gaeta forgets to synchronize the spatial positioning with the rest of the Fleet, whose FTL computers had collectively different information. Complicating the issue, if ''Galactica'' returns to their original position, the Cylons would destroy the ship before it could recalculate the correct Fleet coordinates using standard procedures.<br />
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Gaeta blames himself (although [[Saul Tigh]] does not), but later realizes that by networking four computers of the ship (something Commander Adama may never have approved), he could reduce the coordinate calculation time from hours to minutes. Knowing the Cylons would try to crack his ad hoc network, Gaeta sets up five [[Wikipedia:Firewall (networking)|firewalls]] in the network to slow their progress while the ship's guns and Vipers buy the time required for the calculations. Unfortunately for Gaeta, the firewalls are not completely effective. Without him realizing it, the Cylons break through the last firewall before he can disconnect the network. As a result, many vital systems are disabled throughout the ship while [[Cylon Centurion|Centurions]] board the battlestar ([[Valley of Darkness]]). At the end, he manages to purge the systems of any remaining traces of the [[Cylon computer virus|virus]].<br />
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==Under Pressure==<br />
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Gaeta's calm exterior shows signs of wear when his interview with [[D'Anna Biers]] shows him somewhat drunk, smoking, and brandishing a rather garish [[tattoo]] of a tiger. Viewers learn from the footage that Gaeta's first name is Felix ([[Final Cut]]).<br />
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The Cylon virus rears its ugly head once more a few weeks later when shipboard malfunctions increase to a point where consoles begin to sputter and short out. Gaeta confirms that the same virus they thought they had removed from the formerly-networked computers had metamorphized into a heuristic program--a [[logic bomb]]--that studied and probed flaws in the battlestar's computers and the hardware that each system manages. The logic bomb threatenes to disable the ship's human control on a Cylon fighter's command--and a Cylon attack is imminent.<br />
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[[Image:Gaeta tiger tatoo.jpg|thumb|right|Gaeta's tiger tattoo]]<br />
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After Colonel Tigh's command to perform the daunting task of inspecting many lines of computer code for a Cylon virus, the young lieutenant completely loses his cool:<br />
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:'''Gaeta''': A power surge energized the board. System's been twitchy ever since the Cylons infiltrated our network.<br/><br />
:'''Tigh''': Commander's right. I don't care if you have to go through this program line by line; fix it.<br/><br />
:'''Gaeta''': Excuse me?<br/><br />
:'''Tigh''': You heard me.<br/><br />
:'''Gaeta''': Sir, I'm running every diagnostic we've got. Checking each line of code could take days.<br/><br />
:'''Tigh''': I am not interested in excuses. Fix it!<br/><br />
:'''Gaeta''': It's not an excuse, sir. It's a [[frak|frakking]] fact!<br/><br />
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Everyone on the bridge, especially Commander Adama, is shocked by Gaeta's highly uncharacteristic outburst, but Adama is not particularly surprised, knowing that everyone on ''Galactica'' has low morale after working for months with no relief or change to their routine.<br />
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Gaeta has a solution for the logic bomb: Wipe all computer hard drives and restore them from backups made before the Cylon attack. The problem in doing this is that ''Galactica'' will be completely vulnerable to attack, save for her Viper fighters, for several minutes as her computers are rebuilt.<br />
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Against his instincts and on [[Laura Roslin]]'s advice, Adama opts to use the unique abilities of the cooperative [[Sharon Valerii|Caprica copy of Sharon Valerii]] to aid them. Gaeta gives the humanoid Cylon a fiber-optic data link with access to the battlestar mainframe computer and the ship's communications. After a few tense moments, Valerii asks Gaeta to perform the computer hard drive wipe after taking into her computer/brain a copy of the Cylon virus. She manipulates it and transmits to the massive incoming Cylon fleet, disabling the entire Cylon fleet in the same way that the Colonials suffered in the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. The Colonial forces [[Great Cylon Turkey Shoot|destroy the entire Cylon force]] without a single Colonial casualty ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).<br />
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Gaeta is among the tense officers and crew in CIC that witness a standoff between their battlestar and the heavily-advanced battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', whose commander, Admiral [[Helena Cain]], has opted to execute two ''Galactica'' crew members after she tried them herself and against Adama's requests for the rights of his crew to have a fair, open trial ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).<br />
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== The Presidential Election and New Caprica ==<br />
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During the presidential election, Gaeta is assigned to aid and oversee the ballot counting process on ''Galactica''. He also aids in thwarting Roslin's plans to steal the election (though he apparently never knew -- or indicates any knowledge of -- who exactly is behind it, other than Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]) by discovering the illegitimate ballots from the ''[[Zephyr]]''. The only reason he realizes that the ''Zephyr'''s ballots were tampered with is due to the fact that the ''Zephyr''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s original, valid ballots had misspelled Gaius Baltar's name -- the fixed ballots did not share this error. (Gaeta had authorized the go-ahead to use the misspelled ballots due to the lack of time to print new ones prior to the opening of the polls.) <br />
Due to this happenstance discovery, Baltar, who had been rightfully voted as President-Elect, was sworn in as president and ordered the Fleet to colonize [[New Caprica]].<br />
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A year later on [[New Caprica]], Gaeta seems to be an adviser to President [[Gaius Baltar]]. His previous post on ''Galactica'' is assumed by [[Karl Agathon]]. While Gaeta is pleased that there had been no Cylon attacks during Baltar's presidency, he disapproves of Baltar's womanizing and is secretly infuriated at Baltar's devil-may-care attitude towards the New Caprica City Worker's Union and the Quorum of Twelve. Gaeta later brings news of the Cylon invasion to the president and is present when Baltar surrenders New Caprica to [[Caprica-Six]] and [[Number Five]] ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
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Gaeta is also the [[New Caprica Resistance]] inside source into the inner workings of the Cylons. He seems to favor an assassination of President Baltar as he provides the group with information that he is going to attend the [[New Caprica Police]] force graduation, which is disrupted by [[Duck]]'s suicide bombing. However, upon learning that Baltar would not attend, he rushes to contact the group to warn them Baltar that is not going to be there ([[Occupation]]).<br />
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== Inside Man ==<br />
Being the "inside man" allows him to help the [[New Caprica Resistance]] understand the inner Cylon related activities and security procedures on [[New Caprica]]. For him to contact the group, he flips [[Jake (New Caprica)|Jake]]'s yellow bowl upside down and leaves a note or information packet in a nearby tool bin for the [[New Caprica Resistance|resistance]] to find. [[Galen Tyrol]] does not know that he is the "inside man" and when they talk, Tyrol accuses him of being a collaborator ([[Precipice]]).<br />
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Around the same time, Gaeta is seduced by a [[Number Eight]]. Believing that he can trust her, he gives her lists with names of human prisoners. The Eight promises to do what she can to save them, but only has a few token humans freed and the rest executed for being valuable to the humans. Gaeta only learns of her betrayal much later (''[[The Face of the Enemy]]'').<br />
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== End of the Baltar Administration ==<br />
As the Cylons are preparing to evacuate during the [[Battle of New Caprica]], Gaeta pulls a gun on a distraught President Baltar, clearly intending to kill him. [[Caprica-Six]] attempts to dissuade Gaeta from this course of action. In contrast to his companion's feelings, Baltar seems fully willing to die; but he tells Gaeta that he is the only one who could stop a [[Number Three]]-model Cylon from detonating a nuclear weapon hidden somewhere in the city of New Caprica. This convinces the reluctant Gaeta to let Baltar go, giving the disgraced leader a chance to redeem himself. Gaeta emerges from the same ship behind Colonel Tigh when Tigh asks Admiral Adama for permission to come aboard ''Galactica'' during the post-battle celebration ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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== Return to Duty ==<br />
Gaeta is initially isolated from ''Galactica'''s crew and those who were on New Caprica. Because of his high position in the collaborationist government, they believe he carried out the will of the Cylons. When he arrives in CIC to help with repairs on the communication systems damaged during the recent battle, former resistance leader Colonel Tigh is openly hostile towards him. Gaeta attempts to defend his actions in a tense conversation with [[Kara Thrace]] by revealing himself as Tyrol's mysterious informant. Starbuck doesn't know about the informant, since she was a captive of [[Leoben Conoy]] during the four-month Cylon occupation. She mocks her crewmate and dismisses his revelation as a poorly fabricated lie. <br />
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When Gaeta's name comes up for review in the the [[Circle]], he is convicted of collaborating with the enemy and sentenced to death, despite the lack of evidence against him. The six-person tribunal takes him to a Viper [[launch tubes (RDM)|launch tube]] to face his sentence. When asked to defend himself, Gaeta says that he already had and refuses to beg for his life. This infuriates [[Kara Thrace]], who lashes out at him in a physical attack and resumes the mocking she started in the mess hall. Upon hearing Thrace repeat information about the [[Jake (New Caprica)|dog bowl]], Galen Tyrol realizes that Gaeta was indeed the informant from inside the Baltar administration. Gaeta is released and allowed to go. He resumes his duties as a lieutenant, still shunned by most of his crewmates except Tyrol ([[Collaborators]]). <br />
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After his recommissioning, he takes over Baltar's scientific duties, concentrating on deciphering his notes and determining the course to Earth. Gaeta appears to have a grudge against Tigh for his part in the Circle that nearly ended in Gaeta's death, as he wears a scowl while everyone else celebrates Tigh's return from his self-exile.<br />
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== Animosity towards Baltar ==<br />
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Baltar is aware of Gaeta's relationship with the Eight on New Caprica. During an interrogation, he whispers to Gaeta, "I know what your Eight did".. Baltar's knowledge leads Gaeta to try to kill him by stabbing him in the neck. However, he is stopped and knocked out by Admiral Adama ("[[Taking a Break from All Your Worries]]", ''[[The Face of the Enemy]]'') <ref>In "Taking a Break From All Your Worries", Baltar's words can't be heard. This was originally the remnant of a subplot that was cut from the storyline and later retconned in order to provide an explanation for Gaeta's reaction. See [[Taking a Break From All Your Worries#From the podcast]] for the original idea.</ref>. <br />
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During Baltar's trial for which he faces the death penalty, Gaeta commits perjury, claiming that he was there when Baltar signed the death lists and that Baltar offered no resistance in approving them ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).<br />
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== Member of the ''Demetrius'' Crew ==<br />
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Later, Gaeta becomes part of the ''[[Demetrius]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s crew on its mission to find Earth ([[The Ties That Bind]]). After [[Kara Thrace]] orders [[Karl Agathon]] to jump to a Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|baseship]] to retrieve information regarding Earth, Agathon refuses the order believing it to be too risky. When he is relieved by Thrace, she appoints Gaeta as her new [[XO]] and gives him the same order. Like Agathon, Gaeta refuses to comply with the order, creating a standoff between the ship's officers which leads Agathon to relieve Thrace of command ([[The Road Less Traveled]]). During this standoff Anders shoots Gaeta in the leg before he can initiate a jump back to ''Galactica''. Having to wait 15 hours for a Raptor to return, Gaeta is worried that he will lose his leg because of the lack of proper medical treatement ([[Faith]]).<br />
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Returned to ''Galactica'', Gaeta does lose his leg. In recovery, he deals with the stress and phantom pain by singing a [[Gaeta's Lament|mournful ballad]] over and over ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]). Shortly later, he returns to duty, still in pain from his ordeal, but refusing to be relieved ([[Revelations]]).<br />
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==Post Earth/ Mutiny==<br />
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In the webisodes "[[The Face of the Enemy]]" it is revealed that Gaeta has been in a romantic relationship with [[communications officer]] Lieutenant [[Louis Hoshi]], though their relationship does not survive the webisode series.<ref>Writer's commentary to webisode 10; Gaeta ends the relationship in order to protect Hoshi from the fallout of what Gaeta is about to do.</ref><br />
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After the formation of the Cylon-Human alliance, Gaeta leads a [[Gaeta's Mutiny|rebellion]] against Admiral Adama. As of the episode "[[The Oath]]", Gaeta is the de facto commanding officer of ''Galactica'' though fighting continues throughout the ship.<br />
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His rebelion ultimatly fails however. Adama and Tigh are captured helping Roslin and Baltar esacpe to the Cylon baseship, but Hotdog refuses to fire when he finds out Roslin is onboard the Raptor, allowing the two to escape to the baseship. Gaeta is horrified when Zarek has the Quorum executed as part of their rebellion, but ultimatly continues to support him. Gaeta, promoted to the rank of Commander, tries Adama for various crimes with Zarek as the judge and Romo Lampkin as Adama's lawyer. Adama refuses to betray his beliefs, is found guilty and sentenced to death. <br />
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Gaeta also has to deal with Roslin who broadcasts about his mutiny from the baseship with the help of a Number Two and ten ships join her. Roslin also becomes the de facto commander of the baseship for dealing with the rebellion and demands his and Zarek's surrender and the release of Adama and the other prisoners. When Zarek claims Tigh died in an escape attempt and Adama was executed, Gaeta tries to escape by jumping away, feeling that enough blood has been shed, but Galen Tyrol manages to manually disable the FTL drive preventing that. <br />
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As the rest his crew prepares to fire, Gaeta remembers what Adama said about there being a reckoning for his actions and orders Specialst Gage to stand down weapons. Seconds later CIC is stormed by Adama, Tigh, Lee, Athena, Caprica Six, Helo, Lieutenant Kelly, marines that switched sides and all of the crew that supported Adama with the prisoners having been rescued by Lee and Kara and Adama saved by the released prisoners and having convinced his firing squad to help him. <br />
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Gaeta gives up without a fight and he and Zarek are led away, their rebellion ended. Gaeta later discusses things with Baltar, admiting that he doesn't mind that he lost but making an unclear statement that Baltar understood about hoping Adama understood who he was someday and recounting some of his past to him. Gaeta and Zarek are later executed by firing squad for mutiny and Gaeta is shocked when his leg, which has hurt him ever since he was shot and it had to be amputated, no longer hurts him. His last words before being shot are "it doesn't hurt anymore!" said in surprise about his leg.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*Gaeta does not wear any junior pilot wings on his duty uniform during the [[Miniseries]], but has flight wings in nearly every appearance since the Miniseries.<br />
*While Gaeta is described as the "Tactical Officer", his role is closer to that of the US Navy's CIC Watch Officer (CICWO), combining it with elements of the Tactical Watch Officer (TAO), a role also partially fulfilled by Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]], both under the command of [[William Adama]]. According to the official SciFi.com character data file, Gaeta's title is "Senior Officer of the Watch", although the title of Tactical Officer may have a better "ring" to the ears of most viewers.<br />
*The name "Felix" means "happy" in Latin; the connotations of the Latin word imply being fortunate, lucky, prosperous, or "favored by the gods". It first appeared in the episode "[[Final Cut]]".<br />
*[[Wikipedia:Gaeta|Gaeta]] is the name of a small seaport and resort in southern Italy. This goes well with his Latin first name.<br />
*His counterpart in the Original Series is Sgt. [[Omega]], a native of [[The Twelve Colonies (TOS)|Sagitaria]].<br />
*In the Miniseries, Gaeta's name is usually pronounced "Guy-tah" {{IPA|ˈgaɪ.ɾə}}, while Colonel Tigh seems to vacillates between {{IPA|ˈgeɪ.ɾə}} and {{IPA|ˈgaɪ.ɾə}} - this may also be atributed to the varying severity of Michael Hogan's Canadian accent. However, in all subsequent episodes, everyone pronounces it as "Gay-tah" {{IPA|ˈgeɪ.ɾə}}.<br />
*In interview with out.com [[Jamie Bamber]] said Gaeta is "Almost definitely!" gay, referring to the fact that Gaeta has been single. When Bamber was asked about a possible gay storyline, he said "I've heard a specific rumor about a storyline, and it is on some level definitely gay. That would be exciting and probably overdue."<ref>[http://www.out.com/detail.asp?id=22449 http://www.out.com/detail.asp?id=22449]</ref> (Bamber was probably referring to the lesbian storyline in "[[Razor]]" concerning [[Helena Cain]] and [[Gina Inviere]]). Gaeta is later revealed to be gay in the webisode series ''[[The Face of the Enemy]]''. Although he does have a relationship with the [[Eight]], her line: "Felix, I'm a woman and a cylon, I did not seduce you, hope did" clearly suggests he was not actually interested in her.<br />
*Unlike most of the series' officers, Gaeta is usually addressed as "Mr. Gaeta", rather than by his rank. This appears to mirror real-world naval tradition, in which male officers with the rank of lieutenant or below are referred to and addressed as 'Mister.'<br />
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