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Leland Adama

2005-12-06T12:20:46Z

Tobiasjacke: /* Special Advisor */

{{Character Data|
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|age= 28
|colony= [[The Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]]
|birthname= Lee Adama
|callsign= Apollo
|death=
|parents= [[Caroline Adama]] (mother, likely deceased), [[William Adama]] (father)
|siblings= [[Zak Adama]] (deceased)
|children=
|marital status= Single
|role=[[Commander Air Group]], [[Battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]''
|rank=Captain
|cylon=
|actor=[[Jamie Bamber]]
}}

== Biographical Notes ==

=== Background ===

'''Lee "Apollo" Adama''' is the eldest son of [[Adama, Caroline|Caroline]] and [[Adama, William|William Adama]]. Together with his younger Brother, Zak, he was raised largely by his mother on [[The Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]], following his parents' divorce when he was eight.

Despite his father's estrangement from the family, Adama nevertheless inherited his passion for flying - a passion that saw him enrolling in the Colonial military reserves after graduating from college. Following his basic training, he graduated from the military academy third in his class and immediately applied for flight school.

Not to be outdone by his elder brother, Zak Adama applied for military service, a move that eventually brought tragedy to the Adama household.

Accepted into flight school, Adama proved himself a gifted and natural pilot, hampered only by his his tendency to over-intellectualise things - a result of his upbringing with his mother, who encouraged him to read widely, and think freely (encouragement that lead him to read banned texts by the renegade [[Zarek, Tom|Tom Zarek]] while at college ([[Bastille Day]])).

Graduating from flight school, Adama was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Colonial Reserve, flying the [[Viper]] Mark VII. During this time, he was also introduced to [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]], a training instructor at flight school, who was also involved with Zak Adama. While Adama was still at flight school, the three frequently spent time together, and Adama and Thrace developed a friendship through Zak Adama ([[Mini-Series]]).

=== Brother's Death ===

Tragedy struck some two years prior to the renewed Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies when Zak Adama, recently graduated from flight school, was killed on a routine Viper mission. At the time, the cause of the accident was put down to pilot error. However, Lee Adama chose to blame the mishap on his father, whom he believed had pushed Zak into applying for military service and for applying for flight school ([[Mini-Series]]).

Following Zak's death, Lee Adama became estranged from his father, seeking to build his career well away from any influence exerted by either William Adama or the legendary [[Original battlestar (RDM)|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'', his father's command. While he was successful in this - gaining promotion to Captain through his own abilities, the decision nevertheless placed a heavy strain on his friendship with Kara Thrace, as she applied for pilot duty aboard ''Galactica''.

However, Adama is reunited with both his father and Kara Thrace when it was decided ''Galactica'' should be decommissioned and handed over to civil authorities as a living museum and educational center of the [[Cylon War]]. As a part of the final ceremonies marking ''Galactica's'' retirement, Lee Adama is ordered to participate in a final Viper flyby to salute both the ship and her commanding officer - an assignment he undertakes grudgingly, doing little to hide his true feelings from the moment he arrives on the battlestar ([[Mini-Series]]). Matters are helped when he discovers he will fly not in his own Viper, but in the newly-restored Mark II Viper his father had flown during the Cylon War ([[Mini-Series]]).

Things worsen after the PR official aboard ''Galactica'', [[Doral, Aaron|Aaron Doral]], sees Captain Adama's presence on ''Galactica'' as a major PR opportunity and has Adama and his father pose for pictures together. Immediately following this, Adama confronts his father over Zak's death, during which he vents two years' worth of anger, clearly expressing his belief that William Adama was responsible for the loss of his brother.

=== Surprise [[Cylon Attack]] ===

Following the decommissioning ceremony, Lee Adama departs ''Galactica'', acting as a unofficial escort for ''[[Colonial Heavy 798]]'', the official transport for Secretary of Education [[Laura Roslin]], who represented President [[Adar (RDM)|Adar]] at the ceremony. Mid-way through their return to [[The Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]], Adama and the crew of ''Colonial Heavy 798'' hear of the Cylon attacks on the [[Twelve Colonies]], and soon find themselves under direct attack. While Adama is able to thwart the missile attack, his father's old Viper is disabled and is brought aboard ''Colonial Heavy 798''. Adama becomes one of Laura Roslin's unofficial advisors, aiding her in her self-appointed rescue mission. Adama's annoyance of his father's old Viper comes back to haunt him when [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]], returning from her unexpected rescue mission on Caprica and disasterous attack on two [[Cylon Raider]]s, notes to him that other Vipers and other modern Colonial spacecraft like his Mark VII were [[Command Navigation Program|easily destroyed]] by Cylon attacks.

Following his disobedience of a direct order from his father instructing Adama to take command of the government-chartered [[Intersun|starliner]] and break-off from Roslin's rescue mission, Adama again saves ''Colonial Heavy 798'' from a nuclear missile attack with a failed experiment he toyed with in [[War College]], using ''Galactica's'' [[EMP]] coils that were placed on the ship for return to Caprica and the Colonial Fleet - while simultaneously making it look like the ship had been destroyed. (Adama does not know that ''Galactica's'' [[CIC]] interpreted his EMP burst (as did the Cylon fighters) as a nuclear detonation, so Commander Adama believes Captain Adama is now dead.) He supports Roslin in her rescue efforts, forming a large convoy of civilian ships, until it becomes clear that the [[sublight]]-only vessels cannot be rescued with another Cylon attack imminent. Adama pursuades Roslin to lead the [[FTL]]-capable ships to follow ''Galactica'' to the [[Ragnar Anchorage]]. Although she would be leaving thousands of Colonials in the sublight ships to their deaths at the hands of the Cylons, Adama reminds her (dispite Aaron Doral's insistance) that they they would save "tens of thousands" of refugees, and that further delay would lose all thats probably left of humanity.

On being reunited with ''Galactica'', Adama learns that ''Galactica's'' [[Commander Air Group|CAG]], Captain [[Spencer, Jackson|Jackson Spencer]], was killed in action, together with the members of ''Galactica's'' last fully-operational squadron of Mark VII Vipers. As the ranking pilot aboard, and despite his relative inexperience, Adama finds himself promoted to the position of CAG by Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]. This promotion doesn't initially sit easy with him, given the guilt separating him from his father, and is in stark contrast to Spencer's leadership - something that annoys Starbuck ([[33]]). Nevertheless, Thrace is happy to see that Adama was not killed as reported earlier to her. This reuniting of friends is the first of several frequently awkward moments of conversation between the two old friends.

Apollo leads a Viper squadron in keeping [[Cylon Raider]]s at bay while the civilian [[Fleet]] Jumps away from Ragnar Anchorage. His ship is badly damaged midway in the battle. Adama would have been killed by a missile were it not for the lightning-fast and highly-accurate shooting of Starbuck, who guards him while also adding more kills to her record. When ''Galactica'' is minutes away from leaving, his Viper's power fails, which would leave him stranded at the mercy of the Cylons were it not again for Starbuck's highly unconventional flying. She force-fits the two Vipers nose-to-nose and flies Adama back to the battlestar seconds before the port [[flight pod]] closes and ''Galactica'' Jumps away.

=== Special Advisor ===
[[image:Water_Apollo_Roslin.jpg|thumb|left|300px|[[Lee Adama|Adama]] and President Roslin shake hands after appointment as military advisor in "[[Water]]". (c) Universal)]]
Lee Adama complicates his duties when, after assisting President [[Laura Roslin]] in matters of protocol and other issues ([[Water]]), he finds himself attached to Roslin as a "special advisor" to further help her understand military matters. This appointment does not sit well with his father ([[Bastille Day]]).

When tensions rise during a hostage crisis with prisoners aboard the ''[[Astral Queen]]'', Adama resolves the situation with only one life lost through an arrangement reached between Adama and the leader of the convicts, [[Tom Zarek]]. While the solution is sensible, it is not to the liking of either Commander Adama or President Roslin.

In the weeks following the Cylon attack, Adama finds time to re-evaluate his relationship with his father - due in no small part to Starbuck's admmission of her involvement in Zak's acceptance as a fighter pilot ([[Mini-Series]]) and his subsequent death. Father and son grow somewhat closer - even standing shoulder-to-shoulder when Starbuck is MIA ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]). Even so, Adama's former self-doubts and moodiness are not easily overcome and sometimes come back to haunt him when he is tasked to fill a role that others are unsure he can manage. As a Viper pilot, Adama is able to escape from Starbuck's shadow, proving himself capable in unconventional and skilled flying in the [[Battle for the Tylium Asteroid]] ([[The Hand of God]]).

After the tylium asteroid mission, Adama matures enormously, emerging from his shell as a somewhat disillusioned officer and becomes a practical leader who now comfortably straddles his responsibilities as [[CAG]] of ''Galactica'' with his duties as advisor to Roslin. With few issues with either Roslin or his father, Adama demonstrates his maturity particularly well in his handling of security arrangements for the initial meeting of Roslin's [[Quorum of Twelve]] aboard the luxury liner ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' ([[Colonial Day]]).

=== The Inner Conflicts at Kobol ===

Unfortunately, Adama's beliefs in the need for democratic representation and civil government brings him in direct conflict with orders given him by Commander Adama. During the arrest of Laura Roslin following her [[Arrow of Apollo|interference with military operations]], Captain Adama draws his gun on [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]] in a direct act of mutiny, protesting his father's removal of Roslin from office. Arrested together with Roslin, Adama watches helplessly in [[CIC]] as [[Sharon Valerii|Lieutenant Valerii]] shoots his father at point blank range, seriously wounding him ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).

Adama is temporarily furloughed by Colonel Tigh so that he can continue his CAG responsibilities, For a time, Commander Adama's initiative lives on through his son. Young Adama leads a fight with Cylons to buy time for ''Galactica'' to find its proper bearings to the civilan Fleet ([[Scattered]]), He leads a team of [[Marines]] to stop [[Cylon Centurion]]s from reaching [[Aft Damage Control], saving the ship ([[Valley of Darkness]]). After that, Adama continues his initiative and leads a [[SAR]] mission with two [[Raptors]] to retrieve stranded Colonials on the surface of Kobol ([[Fragged]]).

Adama's desire to let democracy work without overt military action comes to a head once more as he plots with a handful of others to free Roslin and smuggle her away from ''Galactica'' ([[The Farm]]). Before he leaves, he apologizes to his unconscious Commander Adama at his bedside for what he is about to do: Leave with Roslin and a [[Laura Roslin faction|faction]] of ships to search for data on Earth on Kobol. Commander Adama begins to awaken just as Adama leaves his side.

On the ''[[Astral Queen]]'', Adama is so happy to see Kara Thrace returned safely from Caprica with the Arrow of Apollo that he hugs and also impulsively kisses her, pleasantly surprising Thrace ([[Home, Part I]]). Moments later, as the Caprica copy of Sharon Valerii entered, Adama instantly grabs the known [[Humano-Cylon|Cylon infiltrator]] in anger and would have killed her if Helo and Roslin did not intervene.
[[image:Home_pt1-Apollo_Starbuck.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Lee Adama|Adama]] and Kara Thrace speak aboard the ''Astral Queen'' in "Home, Part I". (c) Universal)]]
Later, with their military protocols and attitudes temporarily relaxed, Adama playfully teases the brooding Kara Thrace by stealing a [[pyramid]] ball she took as a keepsake from her time with [[Anders]] on Caprica. He returns the ball after sensing her depressed mood and tells her that he would be happy to listen to what was on her mind. In the same conversation, he lets it slip out that he loves Thrace. Amused, Thrace cheers up a bit and teases Adama, telling him that there are no take-backs on what he said.

Adama and Thrace join President Roslin and her other supporters on their quest to find the [[Tomb of Athena]] on Kobol. When Cylon Centurions ambush the group along an ancient trail, Adama and Thrace work well together in the fight, complementing each other for their fine shooting. During the incident, Adama chases what appeared to be an escaping Valerii, with Thrace calling Adama back in vain. Valerii takes a grenade launcher and aims it in the direction of Adama, but Valerii actually uses the weapon to destroy the last Centurion instead before dropping the weapon to a very surprised Adama.

Adama's reunion with his recovered father on Kobol further mends the wounds between them, both politically and personally. Like Captain Adama had done on the ''Queen'', his father reacts violently to the existance of a another copy of Valerii, leaving Captain Adama in the awkward position of defending her from his father.

In the virtual planetarium created by the Tomb of Athena, Adama is the party member that completes the mystery of interpreting how to use the constellations as viewed from Earth to make a flight path. He spots the [[Wikipedia:Lagoon Nebula|Lagoon Nebula]] in the sky where the Scorpius constellation resided, a celestial body known to the Colonials which gives them a reference point to navigate to Earth. His father confirms Adama's observation, noting that the nebula is far away from their current location at Kobol.

After the Fleet's reunification, Lee Adama is fully restored to flight status and his position as the Commmander, Air Group ("[[Final Cut]]"). Apollo doubts that [[Tyrol]] could successfully complete a prototype fighter later known as the [[Blackbird]], but in the end aids in its first test flight with Starbuck. Around this time, Adama begins to develop a peculiar attraction to Petty Officer 2nd Class [[Anastasia Dualla]] ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).

===Reassignment===
Apollo is on [[CAP]] when the [[Mercury class battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus]]'' reunites with ''Galactica'': he was one of the first to see it up close. Soon afterwards, friction develops between Adama and the CAG of ''Pegasus'', Captain [[Cole Taylor|Cole "Stinger" Taylor]]. Taylor feels that Adama's pilots were undisciplined and implies that Adama has his position through his father's influence. Taylor recommends that Adama have his pilots focus on keeping a "killcount" of Raiders to encourage competition between his pilots, while Adama stresses that his first priority is to make sure that all of his pilots merely survive another day.

To Adama's shock, Admiral [[Helena Cain]] re-assigns him and Lt. Thrace to ''Pegasus'', underneath Taylor's command. Cain believes that having Commander Adama's son in the role of CAG was a mistake that had clouded Commander Adama's judgment, as young Adama had been insubordinate and even [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|mutinous]] in the past. During a briefing on an upcoming scouting mission against the Cylon fleet following them, Thrace crassly points out that it would never work. She is grounded while Taylor orders Adama to perform the humiliating task of co-piloting a Raptor. However, after the briefing, Adama surreptitiously gives Starbuck a surveillance package and tells her to take the Blackbird to carry out a recon mission on her own. When Commander Adama and Admiral Cain turn on each other, Apollo is away in Taylor's Raptor on his recon mission ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).

== Notes ==

''Some of this information may not be [[canon]].''

*From [[RDM]]'s [[Wikipedia:blog|blog]], in response to a fan's question:

<blockquote>In my first draft of the [[Mini-Series|mini]], Lee Adama had just been accepted into test pilot school on [[The Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]] and was not currently assigned to any [[battlestar]]. Presumably, he had been posted to at least a couple of battlestar [[CAG|air groups]] in his career, as well as several ground assignments as well. This isn't [[canon]] yet, however, and I'm currently thinking of changing some elements of his specific backstory as I work on storylines for [[Season 2 (2005-06)|Season Two]]. Overall, I'd say Lee was striving (perhaps too hard) to blaze a different path for himself in the fleet from that of his [[Adama, William|father]]. I don't think Lee ever saw himself as a battlestar commander and was looking for a different way to make his mark.</blockquote>
*According to Jamie Bamber, Adama's official character biography states that “Lee is never so happy as when he’s in his kitchen cooking.”

*The subtitles under Apollo's name in "[[Final Cut]]" list him as "CFR". In the podcast, RDM explained that this stood for Colonial Fleet Reserves, not unlike our world's ROTC, and Apollo is in that because, as stated above, he wasn't sure what he was doing with his life and wasn't sure if he was going to pursue a full career in the Fleet.
* Jamie Bamber is the husband of actress Kerry Norton, who portrays [[Ishay]], the paramedic from "[[Scattered]]". Bamber is actually a British citizen; he disguises his accent to play the role of Lee Adama.

== See Also ==

[[Apollo (TOS)]]

[[Richard Hatch]]

[[Tom Zarek]]

[[Category:A to Z|Adama, Lee]]
[[Category:Characters|Adama, Lee]]
[[Category:RDM|Adama, Lee]]

User:Tobiasjacke

2005-12-06T12:15:26Z

Tobiasjacke:

''Yo.''

Currently all I'm really doing here are fixes in spelling and grammar, plus some stuff with links pointing in the right directions. I really don't have the BSG cred to do more than that.

Lorne Greene

2005-12-04T15:24:37Z

Tobiasjacke:

{{derivative2|
INTERWIKI=Wikipedia|
TITLE=Lorne Greene|
TITLE_TEXT=Lorne Green at Wikipedia|
LICENSE=GNU FDL}}

'''Lorne Greene''' ([[Wikipedia:February 12|February 12]], [[Wikipedia:1915|1915]]–[[Wikipedia:September 11|September 11]], [[Wikipedia:1987|1987]]) was a [[Wikipedia:Canada|Canadian]] [[Wikipedia:actor|actor]] best known for two iconic roles on [[Wikipedia:United States|American]] [[Wikipedia:television|television]].

Greene was born in [[Wikipedia:Ottawa, Ontario|Ottawa]], [[Wikipedia:Ontario|Ontario]] and began acting while attending [[Wikipedia:Queen's University, Kingston|Queen's University]] in [[Wikipedia:Kingston, Ontario|Kingston]]. He gave up on a career in [[Wikipedia:chemical engineering|chemical engineering]] and, upon graduation, found a job as a [[Wikipedia:radio|radio]] [[Wikipedia:broadcaster|broadcaster]] for the [[Wikipedia:Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] (CBC). He was assigned as the principal [[Wikipedia:newscaster|newsreader]] on the CBC National News. The CBC gave him the [[Wikipedia:nickname|nickname]] "The Voice of Canada"; however, his role in delivering distressing war news in sonorous tones following Canada's entry into [[Wikipedia:World War II|World War II]] in [[Wikipedia:1939|1939]] caused many listeners to call him "The Voice of Doom".

The first of his American television roles was as family [[Wikipedia:patriarch|patriarch]] [[Wikipedia:Ben Cartwright|Ben Cartwright]] on the long-running [[Wikipedia:TV Western|western]] [[Wikipedia:television series|series]] ''[[Wikipedia:Bonanza|Bonanza]]'' ([[Wikipedia:1959|1959]]–[[Wikipedia:1973|1973]]), making Greene a household name. He garnered the role after having turned in a highly-regarded performance as [[Wikipedia:Big Brother (1984)|Big Brother]] in a production of ''[[Wikipedia:Nineteen Eighty-Four|Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' for the [[Wikipedia:Columbia Broadcasting System|Columbia Broadcasting System]] (CBS).

Greene's next best-known role was [[Adama (TOS)|Commander Adama]] (another patriarchal figure) in the [[Wikipedia:science fiction|science fiction]] [[Wikipedia:film|film]] and series ''[[Battlestar Galactica (1978)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' ([[Wikipedia:1978|1978]]–[[Wikipedia:1979|1979]]). The part of leader of the surviving remnant of humanity seemed particularly well suited to Greene; he carried the role with a gravity not often found in television [[Wikipedia:acting|acting]].

He returned to the role of Commander Adama in the [[spin-off]], ''[[Galactica 1980]]'', which only lasted for seven episodes.

In [[Wikipedia:1964|1964]], Greene had a [[Wikipedia:Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1964 (USA)|No. 1]] [[Wikipedia:Single (music)|single]] on the music charts with his hit [[Wikipedia:ballad|ballad]], "Ringo." He was also known as the host and [[Wikipedia:narrator|narrator]] of the [[Wikipedia:Wildlife|nature]] series, ''[[Wikipedia:Lorne Greene's New Wilderness|Lorne Greene's New Wilderness]]''. He also appeared in the [[Wikipedia:HBO|HBO]] [[Wikipedia:spoof|spoof]] [[Wikipedia:Documentary film|documentary]] ''[[Wikipedia:The Canadian Conspiracy|The Canadian Conspiracy]]'', about the supposed subversion of the United States by Canadian-born media personalities. For nearly a decade, Greene co-hosted the [[Wikipedia:Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade|Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade]] on [[Wikipedia:NBC|NBC]]. He is also fondly remembered as the founder of [[Wikipedia:Toronto|Toronto]]'s Academy of Radio Arts which had been founded as the Lorne Greene School of Broadcasting.

Greene died in [[Wikipedia:1987|1987]] in [[Wikipedia:Santa Monica, California|Santa Monica]], [[Wikipedia:California|California]] of [[Wikipedia:pneumonia|pneumonia]] and was interred at [[Wikipedia:Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery|Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery]], [[Wikipedia:Culver City, California|Culver City]], [[Wikipedia:California|California]]. Only weeks before his death, he had been signed to appear in a revival of ''Bonanza''.

He was married twice, to Rita Hands ([[Wikipedia:1938|1938]]–[[Wikipedia:1960|1960]], divorced) and to Nancy Deale ([[Wikipedia:1961|1961]]–[[Wikipedia:1987|1987]], Greene's death). He has two children by Rita Hands, Belinda Susan Bennet (née Greene) and Charles Greene, and child by Nancy Deale, [[Gillian Greene]].

Lorne Greene has a Star on the [[Wikipedia:Hollywood Walk of Fame|Hollywood Walk of Fame]] at 1559 N. Vine Street.

== See also ==
* [[Wikipedia:Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]
* [[Wikipedia:Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood|Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood]]
* [[Dirk Benedict]]
* [[Wikipedia:Michael Landon|Michael Landon]]
* [[Richard Hatch]]
* [[Wikipedia:Western movie|Western movie]]

==External links==
*{{imdb name|id=0001296|name=Lorne Greene}}
*[http://bonanza1.com/lorne.html Lorne Green bio at Bonanza1.com]

[[Category: A to Z|Greene, Lorne]] [[Category: Cast (TOS)|Greene, Lorne]]

Lorne Greene

2005-12-04T15:24:03Z

Tobiasjacke:

{{derivative2|
INTERWIKI=Wikipedia|
TITLE=Lorne Greene|
TITLE_TEXT=Lorne Green at Wikipedia|
LICENSE=GNU FDL}}

'''Lorne Greene''' ([[Wikipedia:February 12|February 12]], [[Wikipedia:1915|1915]]–[[Wikipedia:September 11|September 11]], [[Wikipedia:1987|1987]]) was a [[Wikipedia:Canada|Canadian]] [[Wikipedia:actor|actor]] best known for two iconic roles on [[Wikipedia:United States|American]] [[Wikipedia:television|television]].

Greene was born in [[Wikipedia:Ottawa, Ontario|Ottawa]], [[Wikipedia:Ontario|Ontario]] and began acting while attending [[Wikipedia:Queen's University, Kingston|Queen's University]] in [[Wikipedia:Kingston, Ontario|Kingston]]. He gave up on a career in [[Wikipedia:chemical engineering|chemical engineering]] and, upon graduation, found a job as a [[Wikipedia:radio|radio]] [[Wikipedia:broadcaster|broadcaster]] for the [[Wikipedia:Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] (CBC). He was assigned as the principal [[Wikipedia:newscaster|newsreader]] on the CBC National News. The CBC gave him the [[Wikipedia:nickname|nickname]] "The Voice of Canada"; however, his role in delivering distressing war news in sonorous tones following Canada's entry into [[Wikipedia:World War II|World War II]] in [[Wikipedia:1939|1939]] caused many listeners to call him "The Voice of Doom".

The first of his American television roles was as family [[Wikipedia:patriarch|patriarch]] [[Wikipedia:Ben Cartwright|Ben Cartwright]] on the long-running [[Wikipedia:TV Western|western]] [[Wikipedia:television series|series]] ''[[Wikipedia:Bonanza|Bonanza]]'' ([[Wikipedia:1959|1959]]–[[Wikipedia:1973|1973]]), making Greene a household name. He garnered the role after having turned in a highly-regarded performance as [[Wikipedia:Big Brother (1984)|Big Brother]] in a production of ''[[Wikipedia:Nineteen Eighty-Four|Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' for the [[Wikipedia:Columbia Broadcasting System|Columbia Broadcasting System]] (CBS).

Greene's next best-known role was [[Adama (TOS)|Commander Adama]] (another patriarchal figure) in the [[Wikipedia:science fiction|science fiction]] [[Wikipedia:film|film]] and series ''[[Battlestar Galactica (1978)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' ([[Wikipedia:1978|1978]]–[[Wikipedia:1979|1979]]). The part of leader of the surviving remnant of humanity seemed particularly well suited to Greene; he carried the role with a gravity not often found in television [[Wikipedia:acting|acting]].

He returned to the role of Commander Adama in the [[spin-off]], ''[[Galactica 1980]]'', which only lasted for seven episodes.

In [[Wikipedia:1964|1964]], Greene had a [[Wikipedia:Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1964 (USA)|No. 1]] [[Wikipedia:Single (music)|single]] on the music charts with his hit [[Wikipedia:ballad|ballad]], "Ringo." He was also known as the host and [[Wikipedia:narrator|narrator]] of the [[Wikipedia:Wildlife|nature]] series, ''[[Wikipedia:Lorne Greene's New Wilderness|Lorne Greene's New Wilderness]]''. He also appeared in the [[Wikipedia:HBO|HBO]] [[Wikipedia:spoof|spoof]] [[Wikipedia:Documentary film|documentary]] ''[[Wikipedia:The Canadian Conspiracy|The Canadian Conspiracy]]'', about the supposed subversion of the United States by Canadian-born media personalities. For nearly a decade, Greene co-hosted the [[Wikipedia:Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade|Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade]] on [[Wikipedia:NBC|NBC]]. He is also fondly remembered as the founder of [[Wikipedia:Toronto|Toronto]]'s Academy of Radio Arts which had been founded as the Lorne Greene School of Broadcasting.

Greene died in [[Wikipedia:1987|1987]] in [[Wikipedia:Santa Monica, California|Santa Monica]], [[Wikipedia:California|California]] of [[Wikipedia:pneumonia|pneumonia]] and was interred at [[Wikipedia:Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery|Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery]], [[Wikipedia:Culver City, California|Culver City]], [[Wikipedia:California|California]]. Only weeks before his death, he had been signed to appear in a revival of ''Bonanza''.

He was married twice, to Rita Hands ([[Wikipedia:1938|1938]]–[[Wikipedia:1960|1960]], divorced) and to Nancy Deale ([[Wikipedia:1961|1961]]–[[Wikipedia:1987|1987]], Greene's death). He has two children by Rita Hands, Belinda Susan Bennet (née Greene) and Charles Greene, and child by Nancy Deale, [[Gillian Greene]].

Lorne Greene has a Star on the [[Wikipedia:Hollywood Walk of Fame]] at 1559 N. Vine Street.

== See also ==
* [[Wikipedia:Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]
* [[Wikipedia:Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood|Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood]]
* [[Dirk Benedict]]
* [[Wikipedia:Michael Landon|Michael Landon]]
* [[Richard Hatch]]
* [[Wikipedia:Western movie|Western movie]]

==External links==
*{{imdb name|id=0001296|name=Lorne Greene}}
*[http://bonanza1.com/lorne.html Lorne Green bio at Bonanza1.com]

[[Category: A to Z|Greene, Lorne]] [[Category: Cast (TOS)|Greene, Lorne]]

Virgon

2005-12-04T14:58:24Z

Tobiasjacke:

Virgon can refer to the following planets:

*[[The Twelve Colonies (TOS)|Virgon]] from the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|original series]]
*[[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Virgon|Virgon]] from the [[re-imagined series]]

{{disambig}}

Chamalla

2005-12-04T00:01:39Z

Tobiasjacke: /* Notes */

'''Chamalla''' {{IPA|kə.ˈmɑ.lə}} is probably a Colonial plant, root or vegetable, origins unknown.

Extracts from Chamalla are used by Priests, and as an alternative therapy for certain illnesses, including cancer. Chamalla withdrawl is highly acute, and resembles the symptoms of [[Wikipedia:Heroin|heroin]] addiction ([[Fragged]]). Roslin's dream vision in "[[Flesh and Bone]]" appeared to be induced by Chamalla withdrawl.

The benefits of the extract are viewed as questionable by those in the medical profession, as evidenced by Doctor [[Cottle]]'s reaction to [[Laura Roslin|Roslin's]] request to use it when he confirms her cancer is inoperable.

Chamalla has hallucinogenic effects, desirable in its role as an [[Wikipedia:Entheogen|entheogen]], but not in its medicinal applications. In Roslin's case, these have been remarkably prescient ([[Flesh and Bone]], [[The Hand of God]], [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).

==Notes==
''Kamala'' is a small tree native to southeast Asia (Mallotus philippinensis). Its fruit yields Kamala powder, which has two uses:
# As a dye which produces brilliant yellows and oranges on wool, mohair, and silk.
# As a vermifugal (causing the expulsion of parasitic intestinal worms), generally given mixed with honey, gruel, or treacle, or made into a draught with mucilage of gum acacia and water.

The historical [[Wikipedia:Delphic Sibyl|Oracles at Delphi]] (Pythia) of Greece took their visions from geothermal fumes and chewing [[Wikipedia:Laurel|laurel]] leaves. The use of entheogens is common to many other cultures.

Cottle's reticence at the prospect of Chamalla therapy calls to mind current debate on the issue of [[Wikipedia:Medical cannabis|medical marijuana]]. However, the two do not greatly resemble each other in other ways:
*Medical marijuana is used to manage pain and appetite in terminally ill patients, but has no ability to reverse the spread of cancer. Roslin is not told her condition is terminal, merely inoperable - Cottle would like to to attempt a course of [[Diloxin]] therapy. That Roslin rejects this in favor of Chamalla suggests that she believes her condition is hopeless, or that Chamalla may have a concrete ability to treat her illness.
*The visions inspired by Chamalla are more akin to [[Wikipedia:LSD|LSD]] or [[Wikipedia:Psychedelic mushroom]], if anything, although their prescience cannot be accounted for.
*Marijuana addiction is not well-attested, and the withdrawl symptoms suggested for it are not nearly as acute or severe as those displayed by Roslin in "[[Fragged]]".

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Leon Grimes

2005-12-03T23:25:25Z

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[[Image:Grimes.jpg|200px|thumb|Grimes, prior to his altercation with [[Lee Adama]]. (C. Sci-Fi Channel)]]

'''Grimes''' is a [[Sagittaron]] who survived the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. While it is not clear whether or not he was a prisoner aboard the ''[[Astral Queen]]'', he vocalized his support for [[Tom Zarek]], espousing that Zarek was a freedom fighter and hero. He was part of the Sagittaron delegation that boarded ''[[Cloud 9]]'' with [[Valance]], the believed-to-be assassin out for President [[Laura Roslin]].

Grimes first gained the attention of Captain [[Lee Adama]] when Grimes tried to rough up a person who called Zarek a murderer and terrorist. Later on, Grimes attemtped to assault the captain in a bar on ''Cloud 9'', only to be subdued by Adama (with assistance from [[Kara Thrace]]).

During Adama and Thrace's interrogation of Valance, Adama claimed that that Grimes gave him up; it remains unknown whether or not there is any truth to this, given their "good cop, bad cop" interrogation routine on Valance. What happened to Grimes after the altercation remains unknown as well ([[Colonial Day]]).

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Billy Keikeya

2005-12-03T23:15:19Z

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|role= Presidential Aide to [[Laura Roslin]]
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'''Billy Keikeya''' is a young, fairly good-looking member of [[Laura Roslin]]'s staff. Possibly an intern, given his relative youth, he is nevertheless gifted and capable - and much more insightful than people might otherwise assume.

==Biography==
As a result of his abilities, he is selected by [[Roslin]] to accompany her to the decommissioning ceremonies for [[battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]''. During this time, he recognises that not only is [[Roslin]] ill, she is in fact suffering from cancer ([[Mini-Series]]).

His parents had moved to [[The Twelve Colonies#Picon|Picon]] two months prior to the Cylon Invasion to be with Keikeya's sisters. It is assumed they died there.

Following the loss of President Adar's cabinet, Roslin is sworn-in as President, and Keikeya finds himself promoted to the position of her senior aide. One of his first tasks is to work with her to tally the number of survivors in the fleet ([[33]]) and establish records for the dead. Later, he is directly engaged in attempts to get the 1,500 prisoners aboard the ''[[Astral Queen]]'' to help the fleet obtain water supplies ([[Bastille Day]]), after ''[[Galactica]]'s'' water supplies are sabotaged ([[Water]]). Despite his dubious mathematical aptitude (as shown in "[[33]]"), Keikeya is an exceptionally organized individual who also acts as the senior spokesperson for her administration ([[Litmus]]).

[[Image:Dee and bee.jpg|thumb|left|Billy Keikeya and Anastasia Dualla on a date in the forward observation lounge ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]])]]Off-duty, Keikeya has struck up a friendship with Petty Officer 2nd Class [[Anastasia Dualla]], a member of ''[[Galactica]]'s'' command crew, which has recently blossomed into romance ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]). This is despite the fact Dualla and Keikeya share irreconciliable viewpoints about [[Tom Zarek]]. Keikeya believed that Zarek was a prisoner of conscience who saw his fellow Sagittarians being mistreated by the other [[The Twelve Colonies|Colonies]] ([[33]]).

As Roslin continued the [[Chamalla|unconventional treatment]] of her cancer, Keikeya's concern heightened. When she passed out due to an overdose of Chamalla, he made a call which he, unknowingly, did on an open channel - as such, it was intercepted by the often irksome [[Colonial Press]].

Later on, he questioned Roslin's hallucinations and her actions in her search for the [[Arrow of Apollo]]. He believed that her actions would irreparably damage the Colonial [[Government]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]) though he did stand by her side as Roslin and her [[Presidential Security Service|personal security]] agents were prepared to thwart [[Adama, William|Commander Adama]]'s attempt to arrest her ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).

Roslin was arrested when she subverted the separation of military and civilian government by convincing [[Kara Thrace]] to purloin the captured [[Cylon Raider]] for a jump back to Caprica. Other government aides and officers such as Keikeya, [[Gaius Baltar]] and the members of the [[Quorum of Twelve]] were still free to do as they wished within the fleet. Keikeya rarely left Roslin's side during her internment in ''Galactica'''s brig and routinely kept her up to date on the deteriorating situation within the [[Fleet]] in the wake of the attempt on Commander [[William Adama|Adama]]'s life by a Cylon infiltrator, a popular [[Raptor]] pilot known as [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]] (Events from "[[Scattered]]" through "[[Resistance]]").

When [[Lee Adama]] formulated a plan to break the President out of the brig and fly her to safety on ''[[Cloud 9]]'', Keikeya was supportive of the effort but ultimately could not follow her down the path she was about to take. The two parted company in ''Galactica'''s hangar bay with Billy staying behind and Roslin fleeing into the fleet before Col. Tigh and Commander Adama could recapture her ([[Resistance]]).

''In his Podcast for "[[Home, Part II]]", [[Ronald D. Moore|RDM]] indicated that Keikeya was an atheist, and that his reticence was motivated by a distaste for the cloak of prophecy Roslin had assumed.''

''Galactica'' prepared for a return to Kobol to find President Roslin, who had gone there with over a third of the fleet in search of the [[Tomb of Athena]]. Commander Adama brought Keikeya along with him and his insertion team because he felt that aside from himself and Lee, Keikeya was the only other person that she would listen to. When he humbly denied the assumption that Roslin put any stock in his opinions, Adama stunned him by saying Roslin felt that he would become President himself some day. He told him that Roslin said he reminded her of former President [[Adar (RDM)|Adar]] on his first campaign for public office. Keikeya had no idea how to respond to Adama's lofty comparison, but was quickly brought back to reality when Adama reminded him that Adar was a "moron".

On the surface of Kobol, Keikeya was reunited with Roslin and she was overjoyed to see him once again. He was also one of the few people that entered the Tomb of Athena and saw the map to Earth ([[Home, Part II]]).

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Felix Gaeta

2005-12-03T21:01:43Z

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

After being commanded by Tigh to perform the daunting task of inspecting many lines of computer code for a Cylon virus, the young lieutenant completely loses his cool:

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

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

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

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

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

==Note==
*While Gaeta is described as the "Tactical Officer", his role is closer to that of the US Navy's CIC Watch Officer (CICWO), combining it with elements of the Tactical Watch Officer (TAO), a role also partially fulfilled by [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]], both under the command of [[William Adama]]. According to the official SciFi.com character data file, Gaeta's title is "Senior Officer of the Watch", although the title of Tactical Officer may have a better "ring" to the ears of most viewers.
*The name "Felix" means "Happy" in Latin. It first appeared in the episode ''[[Final Cut]]''.
*[[Wikipedia:Gaeta|Gaeta]] is the name of a small seaport and resort in southern Italy. This goes well with his Latin first name.
*His counterpart in the original "Battlestar Galactica" is Sgt. [[Omega]], a [[The Twelve Colonies#Sagittaron|Sagittaron]] native.
*There is widespread speculation among fans that Gaeta is another [[Humano-Cylon#Felix Gaeta?|Cylon infiltrator]].

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