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The Destiny

2011-05-12T10:29:22Z

ViperWings:

:''For information on an Original Series [[BW:SEP|separate continuity novel]], see [[Destiny (book)]].''

The nature of '''[[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace's]] specific destiny''' began in the Season 1 episode, "[[Flesh and Bone]]", continues through "[[Maelstrom]]", where the character dies, and continues with theological ramifications in the season 3 cliffhanger, "[[Crossroads, Part II]]". Indications from the series' events strongly suggest that Thrace has an unknown connection to one or more locales or entities: The [[Temple of Five]], the Cylons' [[Final Five]], the [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]] and the [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies (RDM)|The Lords of Kobol]].

== Leoben Conoy interrogation ==

Thrace is told of her part in a destiny by the second copy of the Cylon [[Leoben Conoy]] in the season 1 episode "[[Flesh and Bone]]" during his interrogation. The lines suggest that Thrace's destiny also involves the Leoben himself:
<div style="font-size: 90%"><blockquote>"This is not your path, Starbuck. You have a different destiny."</blockquote><blockquote>"All this has happened before, and all of it will happen again."</blockquote><blockquote>"You kneel before idols and ask for guidance and you can't see that your destiny's already been written. Each of us plays a role, each time a different role. Maybe the last time I was the interrogator, and you were the prisoner. The players change, the story remains the same. And this time...this time, your role is to deliver my soul unto God. Do it for me. It's your destiny, and mine."</blockquote></div>
In this same dialogue, the Leoben talks of the abuse that Thrace suffered at the hands of her mother, [[Socrata Thrace]].

== The Eye of Jupiter ==

[[Image:Valley of Darkness-Starbuck Helo.jpg|thumb|Valley of Darkness-Starbuck Helo.jpg]] Fewer elements are noted about the destiny in season 2. In the episode "[[Valley of Darkness]]", [[Helo]] and Thrace enter Thrace's old apartment, where, among other paintings, a noticeable "bullseye"-like painting is seen. Several episodes later, in "[[The Farm]]", the Cylon later to be known as [[Sharon Agathon]] tells Thrace after her rescue from the [[Farm]]: "They know who you are, Kara. You’re special. Leoben told you that. You have a destiny." A [[Simon]] also reflects knowledge of Thrace's abuse as a child through a medical examination in the same episode.

[[Image:S3-eyeofjupiter.jpg|thumb|S3-eyeofjupiter.jpg]] By late into season 3, the episodes "[[The Eye of Jupiter]]" and "[[Rapture]]" reveal the [[Eye of Jupiter]], a symbol left by the [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]] in the [[Temple of Five]]. As the home star of the [[Algae planet]] goes nova, the star's discharge is very similar to one that was observed in the distant [[Ionian system]] at the time of the Thirteenth Tribe's journey, and greatly resembles the symbol of the Eye in the temple. Only Helo had seen what is now called the "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mandala mandala]" by the Fleet leadership before, and shows Thrace the photo of one mandala from the Temple of Five, comparing it to Thrace's symbol. Thrace remembers the words of the Leoben from "Flesh and Bone."

By "[[Maelstrom]]", Thrace is seeing the mandala in many objects: the dripping of wax, and as the colors of a gas giant's planetary storm. Thrace becomes increasing distracted by and attracted to the symbol whenever it appears. When she is knocked unconscious during her last flight and "awakens" in her old apartment (where the mandala appears again), a [[Messenger Leoben|person in Leoben's likeness]] greets Thrace and allows her to relive the last moments with her mother. This section vaguely alludes to information that Socrata knew about her daughter's path in life and tried to prepare her for it as best she knew how. The [[Podcast:Maelstrom|podcast]] for the episode by [[Ron D. Moore]] supports this by stating:
<div style="font-size: 90%"><blockquote><nowiki>[. . .]</nowiki>"(In) this episode, you could see that there was really something behind it. That Kara really does have a destiny. That Kara really was fated for a particular end. And that mom was trying to prepare her for that. And prepare her for those roles, on some level, even if she couldn't quite articulate why and what she was doing to her daughter, that her mother believed and had seen oracles and had felt that Kara was special, and that out of her desire to toughen her daughter and make her daughter strong enough to take on the challenges that she was gonna face one day, she had really stepped over the line and had abused the daughter and had created this really toxic relationship between mother and child."</blockquote></div>
Socrata Thrace's use of [[Oracle]]s strongly support the connection between Thrace and the Lords of Kobol.

== The Aurora Connection ==

When Thrace visits the oracle [[Yolanda Brenn]], the pilot finds a figurine of [[Aurora, Goddess of the Dawn|Aurora]], ostensibly a figure of worship in the Colonial faith, if not a Lord of Kobol itself. The oracle tells Thrace to keep the figure until Thrace realizes who should receive it. That person is [[William Adama|Admiral Adama]]. After Thrace's death, Adama places the Aurora figurine on his sailing ship model as a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/figurehead figurehead]. The figurehead on a ship given by Thrace may allude to a connection to the path to Earth through Thrace and her destiny, but little more can be determined by this aired information.

The most mysterious element towards the end of the episode involves the revelation by Thrace that the [[Messenger Leoben|Leoben in her vision]] is not in fact Leoben (nor does it claim to be). What or who the vision was that guided Thrace in the vision is unknown, but "Leoben's" presence with Thrace in her last moments before choosing to die reflects the "Flesh and Bone" line from an actual Leoben: "You have to deliver my soul unto God. Do it for me. It's your destiny, and mine." The "Leoben" claims to guide Thrace to what lies "between life and death". Thrace then reawakens in her cockpit, and finds herself rapidly losing altitude, endangering her Viper. After briefly saying goodbye to [[Lee Adama]], she intentionally lets her Viper drop below the critical altitude. Thrace sees a vision in a white light (viewers also see Thrace as a young girl) after which her Viper explodes.

In the [[Crossroads, Part II|Season 3 finale]], Kara Thrace's destiny as a possible [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar avatar] of Aurora appears to gain support when she reappears in a pristine Viper Mark II, flying alongside and speaking with Lee Adama. The fact that Apollo spots Thrace's Viper on his DRADIS suggests that it is a physical object, not a hallucination or [[Virtual beings|other vision]]. The method of Kara Thrace's resurrection is unclear. The [[Podcast:Crossroads, Part II|podcast]] for this episode confirms that Thrace ''did'' die, and has returned— something that, prior to this episode, only a [[Humanoid Cylon]] could do. The resurrected Thrace is ''not'' a [[Messengers|Messenger]] <ref name="ign-sackhoff">{{cite_web|url=http://tv.ign.com/articles/797/797776p1.html|title=Katee Sackhoff Talks Battlestar and Bionic Woman|date=19 June 2007|accessdate=21 June 2007|last=Goldman|first=Eric|format=|language=}}</ref>.

== The Hybrids' Warnings ==

=== The Warning from the First Hybrid ===

In the ending of "[[Razor]]", during the raid on the Cylon basestar, the Cylon [[First Hybrid|Hybrid]] tells [[Kendra Shaw]] that "all of this has happened before and will happen again" and that Kara Thrace "will lead the human race to its end. She is the herald of the [[:w:apocalypse|apocalypse]]. The harbinger of death. They must not follow her." Despite being unable to fully understand the importance of the Hybrid's warning, Shaw tries to warn Commander [[Lee Adama]] aboard ''Pegasus'', but Cylon jamming prevents Adama from receiving the full message.

=== Return of Leoben Conoy and the message from the Hybrid ===

While leading the ''[[Demetrius]]'' on a mission to find [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] flies a [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]] herself with [[Brendan Costanza|Hot Dog]] as her wingman. While in space they encounter a severely damaged [[Heavy Raider]] piloted by the [[Number Two]] copy that held her captive on [[New Caprica]] and is likely the same one from the ''[[Gemenon Traveler]]''. Thrace takes him prisoner and he tries to convince her to jump to his basestar to meet with the [[Hybrid]] and form a truce between the rebel Cylons and the Colonials. She ultimately agrees, but ends up in a power struggle for the ship that ends when [[Samuel Anders]] shoots [[Felix Gaeta]] in the leg. Thrace ends up taking a Raptor carrying herself, Leoben, Athena, Anders and Barolay to the baseship. There, Barolay is killed by a Six who is then killed by Natalie to appease the Colonials. Thrace meets with the Hybrid who leaves her with a cryptic message and who also tells her that she is the harbinger of death and will lead the human race to its end, echoing the words of the First Hybrid to [[Kendra Shaw]] before their deaths ([[Faith]]).

The "harbinger of death", spoken by Hybrids, may refer to Thrace's role in the chain of events which lead to the destruction of the [[Resurrection Hub]], rendering the humanoid Cylons mortal<ref>[[Podcast:Revelations]]</ref>.

Hybrids have historically shown to be able to sense or foretell momentous events for both Cylon and human characters<ref>The first Hybrid seen in the series tells [[Number Three]] and [[Gaius Baltar]] of the [[Eye of Jupiter]], sourcing nothing else save its own resources.</ref>. Colonials have similar individuals which have had the same ability and spoken to both Colonial and Cylon: [[Oracle]]s.<ref>[[Dodona Selloi]] was in apparent communication with ''both'' Cylon and Colonial deities when speaking to a [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|Number Three]] ([[Exodus, Part I]]).</ref>

In popular usage, the term "apocalypse" has incorrectly been used as a synonym for "armageddon", the end of the world through a great war between good and evil forces. The correct meaning of apocalypse is "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revelation revelation]", defined as an uncovering or disclosure via communication from a previously hidden or unknown divine source that could not be known apart from the very moment of the source's time of unveiling itself. The [[Hybrid utterances|babble of the Hybrid to Baltar]] also refers to the "five lights of the apocalypse," presumably the [[Final Five]] and/or the [[Five priests]].

If this stricter definition of apocalypse/revelation is used, Thrace's destiny may lead to an encounter with the Lords of Kobol, the Cylon god, or another divine source -- an event that neither side may be prepared to do as of the conclusion of "[[Revelations]]", based on previous events where both Colonials and Cylons have denied the existence or divinity (and, in short, the validity) of the Lords of Kobol and/or the Cylon god.<ref>Examples include the cynicism of the Cylon [[Cavil]], Gaius Baltar and his agnosticism to both Cylon and Colonial faith, the Cylon majority's decision to [[boxing|box]] all Number Threes after one discovered the identities of the Final Five ([[Rapture]]), and Commander [[William Adama|Adama's]] resistance to [[Laura Roslin]] and her quest for the mythical [[Tomb of Athena]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).</ref>

Starbuck finally fulfills her destiny in [[Daybreak, Part II]]: Lead the Fleet to a new home where human and Cylon can live in peace. She had previously learned that [[The Music|the song]] which activated four of the [[Final Five]] Cylons was in fact a song which her father had taught her when she was a child. In an attempt to make sense of the song, she tried assigning numbers to the notes and performing mathematical calculations on them, to no avail. At the conclusion of the [[Battle of The Colony]], as the Cylon ''[[The Colony|Colony]]'' and the battlestar ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' were falling towards the event horizon of a black hole, Thrace - who happened to be nearest to the FTL console - was ordered by [[William Adama]] to jump ''Galactica''. As she did not know the rendezvous coordinates for [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]], she input the numbers as a set of FTL coordinates and jumped the ''Galactica'' there. The ship ended up in orbit over the moon of a habitable planet. It was on this planet, which the Colonials christened [[Earth (RDM)#A_New_Earth|Earth]], that the remnants of humans and Cylons lived, abandoning their advanced technology and living with the early human natives of this second Earth. Shortly after settlement began, Starbuck declared to [[Lee Adama]] that her journey was now over, and disappeared, apparently some kind of angel sent back from the dead to finish guiding the Fleet home.

=== The "Harbinger of Death" Explained ===

Kara does not lead the human race to its end as one would initially think. It seems that by "end" the hybrid meant not their destruction but their goal, seeing as she actually leads Humanity to a new home and saves them from extinction. However, since all of today's humans are distant descendants of Hera Agathon, the "pure" human race did in fact come to an end over the generations that followed. Furthermore, by abandoning its advanced technology and making peace with the Cylons, Colonial Humanity came to an end and started over from scratch as Earth Humanity.

Kara being the "harbinger of death" can also be explained as her having died and then being brought back to life. Thus, she is "living proof" of the notion that everything dies and that there is life after death. This is evidenced by her role in the events leading up to the destruction of the Cylon Hub.

It is not entirely clear why the First Hybrid did not want the human race to follow Kara. One possibility is that he did not want humans and Cylons breeding together. Another possibility is that he wanted the Cycle of violence to continue for some reason. It is also not clear why Kendra Shaw was given this warning only to have her message to ''Pegasus'' jammed.

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Kara Thrace

2011-05-12T10:24:27Z

ViperWings:

:''This article discusses the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]] character with the pilot callsign of "Starbuck." For information on Kara Thrace's counterpart in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]], see [[Starbuck (TOS)]].''

:''For Kara Thrace's parents, see [[Dreilide Thrace]] and [[Socrata Thrace]].''

{{Character Data
|photo= Kara Thrace.jpg
|age=
|colony= [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]
|birthname= Kara Thrace
|callsign= Starbuck
|seen= Miniseries
|death= Viper destroyed near gas giant, crashing on [[Earth (RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|Cylon Earth]] ([[Maelstrom]]/[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]); Mysteriously reappears ([[Crossroads, Part II]]); Vanishes in Tanzania on [[Earth (RDM)#A_New_Earth|pre-historical 2nd Earth]] ([[Daybreak, Part II]])
|parents= [[Socrata Thrace]]† (mother) [[Dreilide Thrace]]† (father)
|siblings=
|children=
|marital status= Married to [[Samuel Anders]]† (formerly engaged to [[Zak Adama]]†)
|rank=Captain
|role= Viper pilot; flight instructor; ''Galactica'' [[Commander Air Group|CAG]]; angel-prophet; captain of ''[[Demetrius]]''
|actor= [[Katee Sackhoff]] [[Erika-Shaye Gair]] (child)
|cylon=
|serial = 462753 Confirmed number from QMX dogtags given to them by the studio.
}} '''Kara "Starbuck" Thrace''' is a gifted [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilot, with an attitude that has hindered her career in the Colonial Fleet. However, [[William Adama]] has confidence in Thrace's military skills, and she greatly aids the Fleet inside and out of the cockpit. She is the last [[Commander Air Group|Commander, Air Group]] (CAG) of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', and mysteriously vanishes in a region that will later be known as Tanzania on [[Earth (RDM)#A_New_Earth|the second Earth]] shortly after the Fleet's arrival on the planet ([[Daybreak, Part II]]).

== Background ==

[[Image:YoungKaraThrace.jpg|thumb|left|YoungKaraThrace.jpg]]

*Thrace's mother [[Socrata Thrace|Socrata]] was a former [[Colonial Marine Corps]] sergeant major. She beat her daughter so frequently that Thrace came to accept pain as a way of life ("[[Flesh and Bone]]", "[[Maelstrom]]").
*Her father [[Dreilide Thrace|Dreilide]] was a pianist and composer. Kara seems to have been closer to him than with her mother ([[Valley of Darkness]], [[Someone to Watch Over Me]]) until he left them.
*Thrace left home to join the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|military]]. During her training, she was disciplined for insubordinate conduct towards [[Mike Gibbons|superior officers]].
*She was a talented [[Pyramid]] player ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]), and was up for the pros, but an injured knee took her out of contention. However, she discovered a passion and skill for being a fighter pilot ([[Podcast:The Hand of God]]).
*One of her early posts was aboard the battlestar ''[[Triton (RDM)|Triton]]''. While there, she offended Commander [[Myron Ruth]], who initiated court-martial proceedings against her, but the charges were later dropped ([[The Son Also Rises]]).
*Thrace eventually returned to flight school as an instructor, where she fell in love with one of her students, [[Zak Adama]]. Despite his poor performance, she allowed him to pass his final check flight although he failed three of the required maneuvers ([[Act of Contrition]]).
*Thrace lost Zak Adama when he was killed during a routine mission shortly after graduating. [[Lee Adama]] ("Apollo"), Zak's elder brother, blamed their father for Zak's death, and Thrace, feeling guilty, kept quiet. She met [[William Adama]] shortly after the accident, and the two formed a strong rapport and stood together at the funeral ([[Act of Contrition]]).
*Thrace resigned as an instructor and returned to the Fleet as an operational pilot on the [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'' under the command of William Adama, where she served for some two years prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]]. Before the Cylon attack, she was second-in-command to the [[CAG]], [[Jackson Spencer]].
*She has a rarely-used run-down apartment in [[Delphi]] that overlooked a parking lot, and a Colonial version of a [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humvee Humvee] which she and Helo use to escape the city and get to the country where she meets Samuel Anders. She was also an avid painter, and her apartment is cluttered with her paintings and a [[Starbuck's Poem|poem]] written on a wall ([[Valley of Darkness]]). The apartment was neater when Thrace was with Zak Adama, although her [[Eye of Jupiter|mandala]] wall painting pre-dates that relationship. ([[Daybreak, Part I]])
*Thrace hides the fact that she is deeply spiritual. She frequently prays to the [[Lords of Kobol]], particularly [[Aphrodite]] and [[Artemis]] in dire situations ([[Miniseries]], "[[Flesh and Bone]]", "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]").

== Character History ==

=== Galactica and Pre-New Caprica ===

*Thrace's attitude quickly runs her afoul of Colonel [[Saul Tigh]], ''Galactica's'' [[Executive officer]]. Their open mutual dislike of one another leads to the point where blows are exchanged, with Thrace ending up in the brig. After the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] she is released from the brig and returns to duty as Viper pilot.
*Thrace manages to keep two of three nuclear missiles from striking ''Galactica'' in their first Cylon sortie, and saves Lee from doom in an innovative maneuver in the [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]].
*Her skills in saving Lee brings her grudging respect from Colonel Tigh, but she is unable to accept his offer of the olive branch—an act that will have repercussions for her later ([[Miniseries]]).

[[Image:Bastille Day-Starbuck Boxey.jpg|thumb|right|Bastille Day-Starbuck Boxey.jpg]]

*Thrace participates in a hostage rescue mission aboard the ''[[Astral Queen]]''. Following the successful mission, Thrace tries to mend fences between herself and Colonel Tigh with a toast (consisting of water), apologizing in much the same way as Tigh himself had tried after their initial escape from [[Ragnar Anchorage]]. But Tigh rejects Thrace's apology, stating that her flaws are professional, while his flaws were personal ([[Bastille Day]]).
*Thrace eventually admits her secret about Zak Adama to William Adama himself, an act that brings their close friendship almost to the breaking point ([[Act of Contrition]]).
*During a surprise encounter with Cylons during [[Nugget]] training, Thrace destroys several Cylon Raiders, but her ship is damaged and tumbles towards a small red moon with an unbreathable atmosphere. With her Viper in a fatal flat-spin, Thrace is forced to eject from her Viper ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]).
*Thrace (nursing a damaged knee) repairs the downed Cylon Raider found on the inhabitable moon and returns to ''Galactica'', giving the Fleet a vital piece of Cylon fighter technology for study and use.
*The recovering Thrace, off flight status, is asked by Commander Adama to plan a special attack on a Cylon [[Tylium]] refinery. The tactical planning role is not something she relishes, and she frequently shows resentment towards others for her condition ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]).
*During Thrace's undesired interrogation of a Cylon prisoner, a copy of a known [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylon]] named [[Leoben Conoy]], she uses some drastic acts to try to extract the information from the humanoid Cylon ([[Flesh and Bone]]).

[[Image:Starbuck-Kobols Last Gleaming pt2.jpg|thumb|right|Starbuck-Kobols Last Gleaming pt2.jpg]]

*Thrace is assigned to plant a nuclear device on board a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] in orbit around [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]]. She disobeys orders to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]] at the request of President Roslin, since she discovered Commander Adama's speech concerning knowledge of the location of Earth was a lie. She [[FTL|jumps]] to Caprica ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]), landing in [[Delphi]] in the captured Cylon [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]], depriving the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] of the valuable military asset.
*In the [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]] with the Arrow, she is violently attacked by a copy of [[Number Six]]. Despite being heavily outmatched in the fight, Thrace luckily defeats the Cylon.
*At the museum, she reunites with [[Karl Agathon]], whom she thought dead, and discovers [[Sharon Agathon|a second copy]] of [[Sharon Valerii]], realizing instantly that the woman is a Cylon.
*"Caprica Valerii", fearing for her child, steals Thrace's Raider. In exasperation, Thrace only mutters: "Bitch took my ride" ([[Scattered]]). Like Agathon, Thrace is left with no way to return to the Fleet unless she could find her Raider or another Cylon spacecraft, as only Cylon navigational computers are powerful enough to plot jumps over such large distances..
*Thrace berates Agathon's love for the Caprica copy of Valerii. Thrace finds the keys of her surplus military utility vehicle in her old jacket in her old apartment. Thrace has a ride again, if only to move more efficiently about Caprica ([[Valley of Darkness]]).

[[Image:ThraceAndersResistance.jpg|thumb|right|ThraceAndersResistance.jpg]]

*Thrace and Agathon meet a [[Caprica Resistance|resistance movement]] on Caprica. Thrace and [[Samuel Anders]] strike up a rapport as fellow [[Pyramid (RDM)|Pyramid]] players and end up having sex.
*During planning to steal a [[Heavy Raider]], Thrace is shot in a military action, waking up in a hospital on Caprica. Thrace is told by her doctor, [[Simon]], that Anders died from wounds he suffered in getting Thrace to safety.
*Thrace discovers that Simon is working with a [[Number Six|known humanoid Cylon]]. She overhears that the next day he plans to extract her ovaries for use in the Cylon's attempts to study and create a hybrid Cylon/human embryo. Simon also makes the mistake of calling Thrace by her callsign, Starbuck, which she had never revealed.
*Staggering and in pain, Thrace kills Simon and escapes the hospital, but not before clocking a Six copy with a fire extinguisher and destroying the local farm power supply, mercy-killing [[Sue-Shaun]] and several other women in the facility.
*Another Simon copy appears just as the Resistance attacks the facility. The second Simon, now revealed as a humanoid Cylon himself, is immediately killed by the Resistance, but a squad of [[Cylon Centurion]]s appear and pins the Resistance down. Luckily, [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]] swoops in with a stolen [[Heavy Raider]], destroys the Centurions and flies the Resistance and Thrace out of harm's way.
*Thrace promises Anders that she'll [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I|return with a rescue mission]] for the remaining survivors. Anders returns the Arrow of Apollo to Thrace, which he hid on the resistance grounds for safekeeping ([[The Farm]]).
*Thrace, Agathon and the pregnant "Caprica Valerii" land on the ''[[Astral Queen]]'' in the Heavy Raider. Finding the [[Laura Roslin faction]] in orbit of [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], Thrace is reunited with Lee. He kisses her impulsively, catching Thrace by pleasant surprise, but a tense standoff follows when Lee discovers that another Sharon copy has returned with them. Roslin helps defuse the situation, and Thrace delivers the Arrow of Apollo to the President.
*Temporarily removed from military protocol, Lee playfully teases Thrace by stealing a pyramid ball she took from Caprica. Adama senses her depression about Caprica and tells her that he'd be happy to hear about any problems she had. He also let slip that he loved her, which brightened Thrace's mood to the point where she teased him back about his slip.
*With a team led by Laura Roslin, Lee, and, later, joined by the recovered Commander Adama, Thrace enters the [[Tomb of Athena]] and successfully uses the Arrow of Apollo to activate a hologram that shows constellations of the Twelve Colonies' ancient symbols.
*Thrace realizes that they are on a recreation of Earth. Together with Lee, they locate the Lagoon Nebula, a celestial body known to Commander Adama and Lee, and gather sufficient information to begin an actual course to Earth ([[Home, Part II]]).
*Thrace shows off the impressive stealth abilities of the new [[Blackbird]] fighter in her maiden flight ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).
*With the arrival of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', Admiral [[Helena Cain]] summarily assigns Thrace (and Lee) to ''Pegasus'' after digesting the reports of ''Galactica'''s officers.
*[[Cole Taylor|The ''Pegasus'' CAG]] removes Thrace from the Cylon recon mission. Lee secretly tells her to use the [[Blackbird]] to take recon photos of the Cylon Unknown ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).
*Returning from her very successful mission, the [[Blackbird]]'s lack of a Colonial transponder is mistaken for a Cylon [[Raider]] on [[DRADIS]], and Thrace is nearly confronted and shot at by Vipers from ''Pegasus'' and ''Galactica''. After narrowly avoiding certain death by declaring herself a friendly, Thrace transmits her recon photos to ''Pegasus''.
*Admiral Cain is very impressed with Thrace's performance and promotes her to Captain and ''Pegasus'' CAG.
*Thrace is assigned the task of planning the joint attack on the Resurrection Ship, but successfully asks to have Lee on her team, restoring him to flight status.
*After she briefs Cain and Commander Adama on her battle plan, Adama asks Thrace privately to assassinate Cain after the battle is complete. Adama fears that if Cain continues to command, the Fleet would be in mortal jeopardy from Cain's draconian command ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).
*Thrace's battle planning, as before on the [[Tylium]] [[The Hand of God (RDM)|mine]], works to near-perfection, with the Resurrection Ship destroyed and its supporting basestars.
*As a result of the battle events, Thrace is left without backup as she walks to the ''Pegasus'' CIC to shoot Cain, obviously afraid and apprehensive. When Commander Adama calls, Thrace slowly moves her hand to her sidearm but, to her relief, Adama does not give the kill order and cryptically instructs her to stand down ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).
*Thrace and [[Louanne Katraine|Louanne "Kat" Katraine]] are involved in the protection of a mining operation from periodic Raider attacks. One Raider, nicknamed [[Scar (Raider)|Scar]], fuels an intensive rivalry for the pilot's "top gun" honor. Thrace, still depressed over her inability to convince Fleet command to initiate a rescue for Samuel Anders and his resistance, drinks heavily and obsesses over removing Scar from the sky, even at the cost of her life. Fortunately, Thrace realizes the futility of her actions, and works together with Katraine to destroy the remarkably dangerous Raider ([[Scar]]).
*A few weeks later, Thrace takes leave on ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' when she was dragooned into rescuing Lee and several other ''Galactica'' crew and residents after terrorists take them hostage in exchange for the incarcerated [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon Agathon neé Valerii]]. Thrace gathers intelligence on the situation, but her cover is blown. In the retreating firefight, Lee is caught in the crossfire. After the situation is resolved, Thrace intended to sit at Lee's bedside, only to discover that Dualla beat her to it ([[Sacrifice]]).
*Later, Thrace is assigned to ''Pegasus'' as a flight trainer. Though the pilots like her, Commander [[Barry Garner]] does not, eventually confining her to quarters for "insubordination." Following the [[Battle of the Binary Star System|ill-fated rescue and retreat]] from a Cylon ambush (where Thrace leads the fighters) and [[Battle of the Guardian Basestar|after a search, rescue and destroy mission to a Cylon-war era basestar]], Thrace informs Lee—now commander of ''Pegasus''—that she was taking over his old CAG post aboard ''Galactica'', joking that she has a problem with her commander wanting to send her off to get killed ("[[The Captain's Hand]]", "[[Razor]]").
*Thrace gets her wish: the Caprica rescue is approved, and she leads a large Raptor squadron to the planet. The group soon met up with Anders, who reports that their HQ had been destroyed and Thrace's timing was just perfect. A squad of Centurions ambush and pin down the group moments later ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]).
*Still pinned down from attack fire, Thrace and Anders agree to kill each other to avoid capture and internment at a [[Farms|farm]]. But the attack stops, and a [[Cavil|man]] appears, praising the [[Lords of Kobol|Gods]] as he announces that the Cylons not only have ceased fire, but are abandoning the Twelve Colonies. Thrace isn't really surprised to discover that the man, known as Brother [[Cavil]], was a Cylon upon their return to the Fleet.
*Thrace and Anders proceed to get drunk, and host a disastrous encounter with Lee. This apparently led to a rift between the two comrades.

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*The evening of the founding of [[New Caprica]], Kara slept with Lee and proclaimed her love for him as she was uncertain regarding her feelings toward Anders. The following morning she quickly married Anders in a ceremony near the river, despite declaring to Lee just the previous evening that she had no intention of getting married. This caused a rift between Kara and Lee that lasted for well over a year ([[Unfinished Business]]).
*Life on New Caprica tempered Thrace, and she often behaved in ways Thrace never would have, including hugging Colonel Tigh and pampering Anders during his bout with an illness.
*She watches in horror at the sudden arrival of hundreds of Cylon ships in the sky over New Caprica. A few of ''Galactica's'' former crew gather near Thrace, looking to her for guidance. She responds the only way she knows how: "Fight 'em until we can't" ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).

=== The New Caprica Ordeal and Her Death ===

*After Baltar's surrender of New Caprica, Conoy keeps Thrace prisoner in an apartment located within the Cylon-built [[New Caprica Detention Center]] in an attempt to convince Thrace that she loves him and also convert her to the [[Cylon Religion|Cylon monotheistic religion]]. She repeatedly kills Conoy a total of five times in an attempt to convince him to let her go ("[[Occupation]]", "[[Precipice]]").
*Conoy introduces Thrace to a small child named [[Kacey Brynn|Kacey]], who appears to be approximately two to three years in age, whom he claims is their biological daughter, created using one of Thrace's extracted ovaries ([[The Farm]]) and his genetic material. Conflicted, Thrace leaves the child unattended, which later results in Kacey falling down the apartment's stairs ([[Precipice]]). After the fall, Thrace begins to change her attitude towards the child and begins to offer affection towards Conoy ("[[Precipice]]", "[[Exodus, Part I]]").
*Upon her return to ''Galactica'' after Admiral Adama's [[Battle of New Caprica|daring rescue attempt]], Thrace heartbreakingly discovers that Kacey was simply another manipulation on Conoy's part; Kacey is merely a human child whom the Cylons had abducted from [[Julia Brynn|her mother]] ([[Exodus, Part II]]).
*Bearing the psychological scars of her four month ordeal with Leoben and Kacey, Thrace is recruited by [[Diana Seelix]] as a last minute replacement juror in the [[Circle]] after Anders' resignation. Thrace's involvement in the Circle precipitates the breakup of her marriage with Anders. Initially wondering about the legality of the tribunal, she is the fifth vote to find [[Felix Gaeta]] guilty of treason and collaboration. Later, when Gaeta is about to be killed in one of ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> [[Launch tubes (RDM)|launch tubes]], she demands that he beg for his life. Thrace physically assaults him and goes down the litany of "lies" that Gaeta told her earlier about him helping the [[New Caprica Resistance|insurgency]]. As she does so, [[Galen Tyrol]], one of the Circle's jurors, overhears this and confirms the story. In a sense of confusion after learning that Gaeta was telling the truth, Thrace leaves the launch tube ([[Collaborators]]).
*During a combat exercise between Vipers, Thrace breaks formation and collides with another pilot, forcing an end to the war games and causing Lee to revoke her flight status. Later, at her bunk she is met by Kacey and her mother, whom she dismisses, telling Kacey's mother not to visit her again. In the pilots' rec room, Thrace and Colonel Tigh begin to sow dissent between the survivors of New Caprica and the crew that stayed behind on ''Galactica'', insinuating that those who stayed behind did not suffer like those on New Caprica did, and that the crew of ''Galactica'' took too long to organize a rescue. Admiral Adama, upon learning of this from Karl Agathon, confronts Thrace and Tigh on their behavior. He challenges them to shoot him, as their constant complaining is tantamount to pulling the trigger. When neither do, Adama throws Thrace off her chair and demands that both she and Tigh shape up and move on with their lives. Spurred by Adama's words, Thrace cuts her hair and returns to duty. Later, in uniform, she visits Kacey and her mother on the [[Dogsville|converted hangar deck]] ([[Torn]]).
*Thrace enters an affair with Lee, rekindling their romance on New Caprica ([[Unfinished Business]]). Both Anders and Lee's wife, Lieutenant [[Anastasia Dualla]], are more than vaguely aware of the pair's sexual tension. Lee ends the affair and reconciles with his wife despite still being in love with Thrace, but Thrace refuses to give Anders any further attention than a periodic sexual fling.
*Thrace is involved with the defense of the incorrectly called "[[Temple of Five]]" but is severely injured, leaving her rescuer, Dualla, to return them to ''Galactica'' ([[Rapture]]). Agathon recognizes the strange circular [[Eye of Jupiter|mandala]] in the Temple, created 4,000 years before, and its resemblance to a symbol that Thrace painted in her apartment. When shown the symbol, the recovering Thrace is darkly reminded of Leoben's prophesy.
*During refueling operations above a gas giant, Thrace is continually attracted to what she believes is a Cylon contact, which she chases to find a planetary storm that resembles the mandala. She dives into it, almost losing control before coming to her senses and returning.
*Command staff and Thrace question her competency to continue flying, but Lee volunteers encouragement and offers to fly as her wingman on her next [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]].
*Thrace finds herself attracted by another apparent Cylon contact. As she descended, her Viper is struck by debris and she, while unconscious, experiences a revelation about her mother, [[Socrata Thrace]], and guided through the vision by what looks to be a Leoben copy.
*Starbuck regains consciousness but chooses to continue her descent despite Lee's desperate pleas to ascend. "I'll see you on the other side (...) Just let me go" were her last words as her Viper explodes. A grief-stricken Lee tells [[CIC]] that he did not see any ejection ([[Maelstrom]]).
*While preparing for a Cylon engagement near the [[Ionian nebula]], Lee (who has [[Crossroads, Part I|since left]] the Colonial Military) detects a bogey on [[DRADIS]]. While he searches for the target, Lee finds himself momentarily in a cat-and-mouse chase game with the mysterious target. As Lee attempts to regain sight of the bogey, it positions itself next to his Viper.

=== Return from the Dead and Suspicion ===

*The [[Starbuck's Viper|pristine Viper Mark II]] that comes alongside is flown by Thrace herself. A shocked and confused [[Lee Adama]] (now a civilian) listens to the apparently-resurrected Kara Thrace, who tells him that she has been to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] and she has returned to take the Fleet to it ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).
*After the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula|battle at the nebula]], she returns to ''Galactica'' where everyone is astounded to see her alive. While everyone believed her dead for over two months, only several hours have passed for her. She has returned with recon photography of [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], but no navigational data or knowledge of how she got there. Further complicating her claim is the fact that her Viper is nearly pristine, as if it had just been built. Despite her passing a medical examination by Doctor [[Sherman Cottle]], almost everyone, including Thrace herself, wonders if she could be a Cylon.
*When the Fleet jumps further away from the Ionian Nebula, she experiences headaches and says that she is losing the intuitive feeling of the way to Earth. Desperate to lead the Colonials there, she breaks into Adama's quarters and confronts Roslin at gun point ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).
*Thrace is eventually subdued by [[Colonial Marines]] and imprisoned in the [[Brig]]. Lee visits Thrace in the brig and tells her that he believes her. Thrace is happy that he does and they share a kiss before Lee leaves for ''[[Colonial One]]''. Although not sure what to make of her claims, Admiral Adama releases her later, and gives her command of ''[[Demetrius]]'', and a crew including [[Karl Agathon]] and Samuel Anders, telling her to try to find Earth ([[Six of One]]).
*Thrace irritates her crew by frequent, unexplained course changes and rarely leaving her quarters, where she holes herself up to study star charts. When her husband confronts her about her command style and their marriage, she tells him that she is not the same person he married and tries to throw him out of her cabin. However, when Anders holds her, she tells him that she wants to have sex in order to feel something. Afterwards, she says that she feels distanced from her body and the events around her ([[The Ties That Bind]]).
*When a [[Leoben Conoy]] copy comes aboard ''Demetrius'' with the offer of an alliance with the Cylons, a power struggle among the crew breaks out when Thrace orders to jump to his baseship ([[The Road Less Traveled]]). The fight ends with Gaeta getting shot in the leg by Anders. After standing down, Thrace decides to accompany Conoy with a small team. On his baseship she meets the Cylon [[Hybrid]], who repeats the [[First Hybrid]]'s [[The Destiny|prophecy]] ([[Razor]]) and gives her the next task: join the Cylons to unbox [[Number Three]] to learn what she knows of the Final Five ([[Faith]]).
*After the unboxing, Thrace reacts with shock and disbelief when she learns that her husband is a Cylon. She investigates the [[Starbuck's Viper|Viper she returned in]] and notices that it receives a strange signal, giving her a direct bearing to Earth. Her discovery stops the imminent execution of Colonel Tigh and leads to a truce with the [[Cylon Civil War|Cylon rebels]]. After arriving at Earth, Thrace is part of the first group on the surface, but finds only a destroyed city ([[Revelations]]).

=== The Thirteenth Colony and the Search for a New Home ===

*Thrace and [[Leoben Conoy]] explore the devastated Earth trying to find the source of the signal. They find pieces of wreckage belonging to a [[Viper (RDM)|Colonial Viper]]—the [[Viper 8757|same Viper]] that Thrace [[Maelstrom|flew into the gas giant]]. Finally, they come upon the cockpit of the crashed Viper, with its pilot still inside. Thrace is horrified to discover that the carcass inside the cockpit is hers. Thrace reveals to Conoy that the [[Hybrid]] aboard the rebel baseship called her the "Harbinger of Death." Conoy has no explanation for any of this and flees the scene, leaving Thrace alone to wonder who or what she really is. Thrace later retrieves the dog tags and wedding ring from the body. She then cremates the body and returns to ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. She does not tell anyone what she has discovered ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).
*After ''Galactica'' leaves Earth, Thrace is still trying to come to terms with her discoveries there. [[Felix Gaeta]], who is unhappy about the Fleet's alliance with the [[Cylon (RDM)|Cylons]] and for the events leading up to that point (including a [[The Face of the Enemy|certain revelation]] about his role on [[New Caprica]]), decides to pick a fight with her. Gaeta accuses Thrace of collaborating with the Cylons: Thrace responds by telling him she isn't afraid to beat up a cripple and storms out ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]).
*A withdrawn Thrace later has an altercation with [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]]. She teases him about his unexpected fathering of [[Nicholas Tyrol]]. Costanza is unamused, angrily retorting that Thrace slept with half the Fleet herself and has nothing to show for her efforts. This hits a nerve and Thrace throws a bowl of food at a retreating Costanza.
*An alarm goes off and Thrace is ordered by [[Noel Allison|Noel "Narcho" Allison]] to evacuate the area. Thrace is suspicious and when she presses Allison for more information, he snaps that no one even knows what she is any more.
*Thrace turns to see a group of marines and civilians led by [[Charlie Connor]] run past her, and she follows them. She sees the group break into a weapons locker and arm themselves. She hears Connor giving his men orders to take the [[Hangar deck]].
*Thrace rushes back to her barracks and grabs her weapons. She then tries to warn the CIC, but Gaeta blocks her calls. Realizing that Gaeta is also involved, Thrace takes off for the hangar deck.
*She arrives at the hangar deck just in time to rescue [[Lee Adama]] from Connor and his men, who are being assisted by [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]] and [[Hamish McCall|Hamish "Skulls" McCall]]. Thrace kills one of the marines and wounds Skulls, forcing the others to back off. She and Lee then hurry away.
*Thrace and Lee take refuge inside a storage compartment. Lee doesn't think they can defeat the mutiny alone. Thrace responds by kissing him. She then says that this is the first time in weeks that she feels right.
*Thrace and Lee head for the CIC. They find that the mutiny has spread all across the ship. They arrive at Admiral Adama's quarters, where they meet [[Laura Roslin]]. After learning of the mutiny, Roslin decides that she must come out and address the Fleet. However, the ship's communications are down, and the only working [[Wireless]] transmitter on the ship is in [[Gaius Baltar]]'s possession.
*Thrace, Adama, and Roslin make it to Baltar's compartment, where they find [[Galen Tyrol]] organizing a defense. Tyrol tells them that Admiral Adama has been arrested and is being escorted to the brig. Tyrol also tells them about a secondary storage airlock they can use to escape the ship. Thrace and Adama head off to rescue the admiral.
*At the brig, they find that [[William Adama]] and [[Saul Tigh]] have already escaped custody. They have also taken the rebel marine, [[Allan Nowart]], prisoner. Thrace tries to kill Nowart, but Adama thwarts her. As Nowart flees, Thrace argues that the mutineers are no longer his men, and as such are the enemy and that they can't afford to take prisoners.
*Thrace, Tigh and the Adamas arrive at the secondary storage airlock, where they find Tyrol, Roslin and Baltar waiting. A [[Raptor]] piloted by an [[Eight]] docks. After Roslin and Baltar board the Raptor, Thrace, Lee and Tyrol head off to continue the fight against Gaeta and [[Thomas Zarek]]'s forces ([[The Oath]]).
*Lee and Thrace head off to free the captives held in the brig, while Tyrol goes to sabotage the ship's FTL drive. They take out the mutineers guarding the brig and free Tigh, [[Sharon Agathon]], [[Karl Agathon]], [[Hera Agathon]], [[Caprica Six]] and [[Samuel Anders]].
*During the escape, a firefight ensues and Anders is shot in the back of the head by a mutineer. He is not killed but is in dire need of medical attention. Thrace yells at the others to go without her and she starts dragging Anders towards the infirmary.
*Thrace eventually exhausts herself trying to carry Anders and she collapses. Marine [[Parr]] escorting [[Romo Lampkin]] appears; Thrace attempts to shoot Parr, but her gun is empty— however, Lampkin suddenly stabs the marine twice in the neck with a pen, killing him.
*Thrace asks Lampkin to help her carry Anders to the infirmary. Lampkin is reluctant but eventually agrees to help ([[Blood on the Scales]]).
*In the immediate aftermath of the mutiny, Thrace learns from Doctor [[Sherman Cottle]] that the bullet is still stuck in Anders' skull. Anders' suppressed memories of his Cylon life back on Earth are also triggered. To Thrace's disappointment, Anders does not have an explanation as to who she really is or how she apparently came back from the dead.
*Cottle manages to remove the bullet, which he gives to Thrace. However, when Thrace goes to speak with Anders, she discovers that he has zero brain activity—which the medical personnel are unable to explain ([[No Exit]]).
*Thrace is later part of a joint Cylon-Colonial CAP which escorts [[Raptor 702|a Raptor]] carrying [[Ellen Tigh]] and [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]] onto ''Galactica''.
*Thrace is later seen in [[Joe's Bar]] drinking and toying with the bullet removed from Anders' skull. She and Tyrol have a brief discussion about Valerii, who is being held in the brig ([[Deadlock]]).
*Thrace gets a drawing of what seems to be stars from Hera and later visits Joe's Bar where she helps piano player [[Slick]] with the music he's composing. There she reveals that she used to play piano as a girl with her father until he left and then stopped and she had a song she used to play that made her happy. She realizes that Hera's drawing is of the notes for that song and she and Slick start playing it together. The music turns out to be [[The Music|the same music that activated the memories]] of the so-called [[Final Five]]. Slick, who was a manifestation of her father, disappears and Thrace later goes to Anders in the hope of finding out the reason she knew of the Music and its meaning, but is unsuccessful.
*When Admiral Adama comes to see Anders—now acting as ''Galactica's'' Hybrid—to find out the location of [[The Colony]], Thrace reveals to him that she has tried to make sense out of the notes by assigning numbers to them, but has had no luck in understanding it. She also tells him that she is dead, that she burned her own dead body on [[Sometimes A Great Notion|Earth]] and has no idea what she is. Adama tells her he knows what she is: she's his daughter. Later she and Adama spread red tape down the hanger deck to create a line for people to cross one way or the other to show whether or not they volunteer for the rescue mission for Hera. Thrace flanks the Admiral on the volunteers side of the line and doesn't move the whole time, having made her choice.
*During [[Battle of The Colony|the battle]], she leads a strike force that includes both Agathons into The Colony through Raptors. They encounter Sharon Valerii who gives them back Hera before being killed by Sharon Agathon. Thrace's team meets up with Lee's and they retreat to ''Galactica'', which has rammed itself into the Colony as part of the final assault.
*Thrace helps defend the ship and after an agreement is reached with Cavil, takes damage reports on their forces alongside Lee. After things go badly and the Colony starts to fall into the black hole with ''Galactica'', Thrace—the nearest person to the [[FTL]] console—is ordered to jump them away. Thrace doesn't know the rendezvous coordinates and, after Adama makes it clear that it doesn't matter, is inspired to input the numbers she assigned to [[The Music]]'s notes as the coordinates and jumps ''Galactica'' there. According to Thrace, Thrace jumps them to "the watchtower," which turns out to be the singular moon in orbit around another planet that the Colonials later dub [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]].
*Thrace says goodbye to Anders before he flies the Fleet into the sun, destroying ''Galactica'' and the other ships, and she and William Adama say their final goodbyes to William Adama. Then, looking relieved but still sad, she tells Lee that she isn't coming back, having fulfilled [[The Destiny|her destiny]] to bring the Fleet to the second Earth. He fails to comprehend her at first, but realizes what she means as they continue talking. Thrace finally asks Lee what he is going to do now that he is here, and disappears when he turns away momentarily to look at the scenery, surprising him. In a reference to their first ever meeting, after Lee realizes that she is really gone, he says goodbye to her and promises that she will not be forgotten.

== Lords of Kobol, Hear My Prayer ==

Despite her tough, rebellious exterior, Thrace is deeply spiritual and possesses a great deal of faith in the [[Lords of Kobol (RDM)|Lords of Kobol]]. She usually prays in moments of mourning or desperation, such as when she thinks Lee is dead ([[Miniseries]]), when she is trapped on a desolate moon with a broken knee and low oxygen ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]), and when she discovers she's in Cylon captivity ([[The Farm]]). This spirituality is put to the test as a series of events lead her towards a mysterious destiny.

== The Destiny ==

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From early in her life, Kara Thrace has been guided through her mother's actions for a special role in life, a plot point that begins with a [[Leoben Conoy]] copy in the Season 1 episode, "[[Flesh and Bone]]". In "[[Maelstrom]]", the character dies, but reappears as a guide for the Fleet at the end of Season 3.

A Cylon [[First Hybrid|Hybrid]], speaking to Major [[Kendra Shaw]] moments before their deaths, warns her that Thrace is the herald of the apocalypse and the harbinger of death, that she would lead the human race to its end, and that she is not to be followed ([[Razor]]). Similarly, another [[Hybrid]] describes her as the harbinger of death, and she would lead them to salvation and destruction ([[Faith]]).

This becomes the case, as she leads ''Galactica'' (and the Fleet) to a second, new planet the Colonials dub "Earth." There, both Colonials and both races of Cylon (the Kobollian-based "[[Final Five]]" and the remaining models from the "[[Significant Seven]]") are saved. However, as their blend in with the native humans on the new Earth, the distinctive natures of Colonial human and Cylon creations blur and merge. In a sense, the blurring results in the "death" of both races as a new human race begins. [[Hera Agathon]]'s body, a perfect human/Cylon merging, is later represented as the Mitochondrial Eve for the humans on the New Earth ([[Daybreak, Part II]]).

== Notes ==

*On the Sci-Fi Channel's preview for season 2.5 (US), Katee Sackhoff is quoted as saying that Starbuck is "the best Viper pilot...EVER."
*[http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrace Thrace] was a region in south-eastern Europe that was heavily influenced by the ancient Greeks and was eventually conquered by [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_II_of_Macedonia Phillip II of Macedonia]. Thracians were considered by most to be the most ferocious fighters and were often highly paid mercenaries for Greek kings.
*Thrace may have been named after [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrax_%28mythology%29 Thrax], the son of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ares Ares], the god of war, who was said to reside on the Thracian plain in Greek mythology.
*After auditioning for the role of [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]], [[Grace Park]] was asked by director [[Michael Rymer]] to audition for the role of Starbuck, and she was actually one of two finalists up for the role (the other obviously being [[Katee Sackhoff]], who got the part). Ultimately Park was cast as [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]].
*In a TV Guide [http://online.tvguide.com/newsearch/detail.aspx?id=4371595&sourcetype=S&progseriesparentid=4371595&tvobjectid=191395&keyword=Battlestar+Galactica&referrer=search1 photo shoot] at the BSG studios, Katee Sackhoff explained that the [[Tattoo]] that Starbuck bears on her left arm is a wing and a circle and has half of the constellation of Capricorn (a reference to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] obviously) and a small symbol of the planet as well. The tattoo on Anders' arm is the other half of the symbol and when they embrace, the tattoos form the whole symbol. According to Sackhoff, Kara and Anders had the tattoos done around the time of their wedding, a fact later confirmed in dialogue during Season 4.5.
*The license plate on Thrace's truck on Caprica is "FB 42 E3" ([[Valley of Darkness]]).

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List of pilots

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ViperWings:

:''For a list of [[Colonial Warrior]]s, the [[Viper (TOS)|original Viper]] pilots seen in the [[Original Series]], see [[List of Warriors]].''

:''This list was created to keep track of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'s''current and former [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilots, [[Raptor]] pilots and [[ECO]]s, and includes members of the crew of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''as well. When mentioned-only characters are linked to a separate article, they are either repeatedly mentioned, have some significance despite not being seen or the article includes a note about their name.''

[[Image:Final Cut-Thin Line of Blue.jpg|thumb|300px]] '''Pilots''' are officers in the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] trained and qualified to operate a [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] fighter or a [[Raptor]] multipurpose vehicle.

Pilot candidates, or "nuggets", normally start training in [[Computers in the Re-imagined Series#Viper_Flight_Simulators|simulators]], but after the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], ''Galactica'''s nuggets went from classroom straight into live aircraft until ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' (with its on-board flight simulators) joined the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]]. Once nuggets complete their basic flight and combat training, they are known as "[[Rook]]s".

A flight-qualified pilot wears basic [[Insignia (RDM)#Pilot_wings|pilot wings]] on the uniform's left breast. Senior-rated pilots (e.g. [[William Adama]], [[Saul Tigh]]) wear a variation with outstretched wings.

Pilot wings are a permanently-awarded skills badge; they do not necessarily indicate active flight status, only that the wearer has successfully qualified as a pilot. Officers who have moved into non-flying positions, such as [[Aaron Kelly]] and [[Felix Gaeta]], continue to wear them.

It shoud be noted the combat experience of the pilots. Which can be seen in the [[Battle of the Colony]] in which they were outnumbered at least 4 to 1 and lost only 4 Vipers and 7 Raptors which were abandoned and destroyed by the Cylons.

A [[Flight suit]], which protects a pilot during a decompression emergency, is standard apparel for all pilots.

'''Qualifications legend:'''

'''V''' - Viper pilot '''R''' - Raptor pilot '''E''' - Raptor ECO '''O''' - Other craft <ref>IE: The Colonial [[Stealthstar]], [[Blackbird]], [[Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raider]], or Cylon [[Heavy Raider]].</ref>

== Active ==

=== Seen ===

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! Rank
! Name
! Qualifications
! Last Seen (Mentioned)
|-
| Captain
| [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]
| RE
| [[Daybreak, Part II]]
|-
| Captain
| [[Marcia Case|Marcia "Showboat" Case]]
| V
| [[Razor]] (Someone to Watch Over Me)
|-
| Lieutenant
| [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon "Athena" Agathon]]
| RO
| Daybreak, Part II
|-
| Lieutenant
| [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]]
| VR
| Daybreak, Part II
|-
| Lieutenant
| [[Paolo McKay|Paolo "Redwing" McKay]]
| V
| [[Blood on the Scales]]
|-
| Lieutenant
| [[Noel Allison|Noel "Narcho" Allison]]
| V
| [[Blood on the Scales]]
|-
| Ensign
| [[Diana Seelix|Diana "Hardball" Seelix]]
| V
| [[The Oath]]
|-
|
| [[Tattooed pilot|An unnamed, tattooed pilot]]
| VR
| [[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]
|}

=== Mentioned Only ===

The following pilots' names can be seen on duty rosters in the [[Pilot ready rooms|pilots' ready room]] or on other documents following Gaeta's Mutiny. It may thus be presumed that they are on active duty.

{| class="messagebox sortable" style="width: 100%" align="center" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Rank
! Name
! Qualifications
! Last Mentioned
|-
| Captain
| [[George Birch|George "Catman" Birch]]
| V
| [[Home, Part I]] ([[Someone to Watch Over Me]])
|-
| Lieutenant
| [[Jarrell Kief|Jarrell "Fuzzy" Kief]]
| R
| [[Final Cut]] ([[The Passage]])
|}

The following pilots have been mentioned '''exclusively in dialogue'''.

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|- class="infoboxheader"
! Rank
! Name
! Qualifications
! Last Mentioned
|-
|
| "[[Bingo]]"
| V
| [[Occupation]]
|-
|
| "[[Hex]]"
| V
| [[The Son Also Rises]] (mentioned by [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]])
|-
|
| "{{inlineref|bold=N|Hotshot}}"
| V
| [[He That Believeth In Me]]
|-
|
| "Terra"
| V
| [[Miniseries]], Night 1 (combat comm chatter during 2nd combat sortie)
|-
|
| "[[Wally (pilot)|Wally]]"
| V
| Occupation
|}

The following pilots' names can be seen on duty rosters in the [[Pilot ready rooms|pilots' ready room]] or on other documents following the second exodus. Some of these names appear on the roster as early as the first season in episodes like "[[Act of Contrition]]" and "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]".

{| class="messagebox sortable" style="width: 100%" align="center" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Rank
! Name
! Qualifications
! Last Mentioned
|-
| Lieutenant
| [[Ricky Richardson|Ricky "Two Times" Richardson]]
|
| Six of One
|-
| Lieutenant
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Falcon|Delphi "Falcon" Birch}}
| V
| The Passage, [[:Image:Delphi Birch's Viper.jpg|Behind-the-scenes photo]]
|-
| Lieutenant
| [[Mei Firelli|Mei "Freaker" Firelli]] <ref>Firelli appears in the episode "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]", appearing to fulfill the role of [[tactical officer]]. It is possible that, after ''Pegasus's'' destruction, he switches roles from CIC to fight duty.</ref>
| V<ref>Role as Viper pilot derived from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/1218 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Lt. Mei "Freaker" Firelli's nameplate.</ref>
| Six of One
|-
| Lieutenant
| [[Steve Fleer|Steve "Red Devil" Fleer]]
| R
| Six of One
|-
| Lieutenant
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Feline|Analy "Feline" Amante}}<ref>Name and rank from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/1088 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Lt. Analy 'Feline" Amante's nameplate.</ref>
| V
| Six of One
|-
| Lieutenant
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Hiccup|River "Hiccup" Brigden}}<ref>Name and rank from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/863 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Lt. River "Hiccup" Brigden's nameplate.</ref>
| V
| Six of One
|-
| Captain
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Snitch|John "Snitch" Burke}}<ref>Name and rank from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/26 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Captain John "Snitch" Burke's nameplate.</ref>
| V
| The Passage
|-
| Lieutenant
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Chopper|Coran "Chopper" Dix}}<ref>In "[[Unfinished Business]]", Dix's name appears on the blackboard keeping track of the boxers. It is implied that he is the person fighting Sergeant [[Omar Fischer]]. Further, his name, rank, and Viper qualification are derived from his [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/981 Viper nameplate that was auctioned off].</ref>
| V
| Six of One
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Snicker|Ars "Snicker" Kelder}}
|
| The Passage
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Sever|Troy "Sever" Minos}}
|
| Six of One
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Spender|Anumanda "Spender" Salas}}
|
| Six of One
|-
| Lieutenant
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Tailgate|Bryan "Tailgate" Smith}}
|
| Six of One
|-
| Lieutenant
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Blindspot|Timo "Blindspot" Talamonte}}<ref>Name and rank from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/776 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Lt. Timo "Blindspot" Talamonte's nameplate.</ref>
| V
| From [[:Image:War Room chalkboard.jpg|War Room chalkboard]] (circa [[Season 4]]), assigned to [[Primus]] Squadron.
|-
| Lieutenant
| Drew "{{inlineref|bold=N|Bomber}}" Wilson<ref>Name and rank from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/2 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Lt. Drew "Bomber" Wilson's nameplate.</ref>
| V
| From War Room chalkboard (circa Season 4), Viper Mark VII pilot assigned to Primus Squadron.
|-
|
| "{{inlineref|bold=N|Brakes}}"
| V
| From War Room chalkboard (circa Season 4), assigned to Primus Squadron.
|-
|
| "{{inlineref|bold=N|Butch}}"
|
| [[Crossroads, Part II]] (on locker door in the [[Weight room]] <ref name="butch_and_dune">Butch and Dune's callsigns can first be seen on the locker doors in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]". It is likely that their names are on the lockers in all other appearances of the [[weight room]] as well (such as "[[Scar]]" and "[[Torn]]") even though they cannot be seen on screen. The last confirmed sighting is in "[[Crossroads, Part II]]".</ref> )
|-
| Lieutenant
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Buttermilk|Keenan "Buttermilk" Van Dyk}}<ref>Name and rank from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/776 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Lt. Keenan "Buttermilk" Van Dyk's nameplate.</ref>
| V
| From War Room chalkboard (circa Season 4), assigned to Primus Squadron.
|-
|
| "[[Catbird]]"
| V
| Six of One
|-
|
| "{{inlineref|bold=N|Chinman}}"
|
| Six of One
|-
|
| "{{inlineref|bold=N|Digger}}"
|
| Six of One
|-
|
| "{{inlineref|bold=N|Dune}}"
|
| Crossroads, Part II (on locker door in the weight room <ref name="butch_and_dune">_</ref> )
|-
|
| "{{inlineref|bold=N|Famous}}"
| V
| Six of One
|-
|
| "{{inlineref|bold=N|Hyper}}"
| V
| Six of One
|-
| Ensign
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Kingston|Seamus "Kingston" McCrae}}<ref>Name and rank from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1003/797 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Ens. Seamus "Kingston" McCrae's nameplate.</ref>
| V
| Six of One
|-
|
| "[[Ninja]]"
| V
| Six of One
|-
| Lieutenant
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Pookie|Lyn "Pookie" Zook}}<ref>Name and rank from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/122 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Lt. Lyn "Pookie" Zook's nameplate.</ref>
| V
| From War Room chalkboard (circa Season 4), assigned to Primus Squadron.
|-
|
| "{{inlineref|bold=N|Rash}}"
|
| [[Collaborators]] (on locker door)
|-
|
| "{{inlineref|bold=N|Rocket}}"
|
| Six of One
|-
| Lieutenant
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Ruins|Chac "Ruins" Choben}}<ref>Name and rank from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/122 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Lt. Chac "Ruins" Choben's nameplate.</ref>
| V
| From War Room chalkboard (circa Season 4), assigned to Primus Squadron.
|-
|
| "{{inlineref|bold=N|Sharky}}"
|
| Six of One
|-
|
| "[[Sniper]]"
| V
| Six of One
|-
|
| "Space-Katt"
| V
| Six of One
|-
|
| "[[Stinger]]"
| V
| Six of One
|-
|
| "{{inlineref|bold=N|Snaps}}"
|
| Six of One
|-
|
| "[[Thumper]]"
| V
| Six of One
|-
|
| "Toothbrush"
|
| Six of One
|-
| Lieutenant
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Trip|Jose "Trip" Montero}}
| V
| From War Room chalkboard (circa Season 4), assigned to Primus Squadron.
|}

== Inactive ==

{| class="messagebox sortable" style="width: 100%" align="center" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Rank
! Name
! Qualifications
|-
| Rear Admiral
| [[William Adama|William "Husker" Adama]]
| VR
|-
| Colonel
| [[Saul Tigh]]
| Unknown<ref>As Tigh's military record was falsified by [[John Cavil]], Tigh's "life" as a Colonial begins ''after'' the [[First Cylon War]] and approximately 20 years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. Therefore, Tigh's actual flight ability is unknown.</ref>
|-
| Major (ret.)
| [[Lee Adama|Lee "Apollo" Adama]]
| VRO
|-
| Captain
| [[Aaron Kelly]]
| Unknown, junior flight status indicated by [[Insignia (RDM)|junior flight wings]] on uniform.
|-
| Lieutenant (ret.)
| [[Daniel Novacek|Daniel "Bulldog" Novacek]]
| VO
|-
| Junior Lieutenant/Ensign
| [["Shooter"]]
| Unknown, junior flight status indicated by [[Insignia (RDM)|junior flight wings]] on uniform.
|}

== Deceased ==

=== Seen ===

{| class="messagebox sortable" style="width: 100%" align="center" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Rank
! Name
! Qualifications
! Death
|-
| Rear Admiral
| [[Helena Cain]]
| Unknown, senior flight status indicated by [[Insignia (RDM)|senior flight wings]] on uniform.
| [[Resurrection Ship, Part II]] (Murder)
|-
| Commander
| [[Jack Fisk]]
| Unknown, senior flight status indicated by senior flight wings on uniform.
| [[Black Market]] (Murder)
|-
| Colonel
| [[Jurgen Belzen]]
| Unknown, senior flight status indicated by senior flight wings on uniform.
| [[Razor]] (Execution)
|-
| Major
| [[Jackson Spencer|Jackson "Dipper" Spencer]]
| V
| [[Miniseries, Night 1]] (KIA)
|-
| Captain
| [[Louanne Katraine|Louanne "Kat" Katraine]]
| VR
| [[The Passage]] (Radiation poisoning)
|-
| Captain
| [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]]
| VRO
| [[Maelstrom]]/[[Daybreak, Part II]] (KIA / Vanished)
|-
| 
| 
| 
| 
|-
| Lieutenant
| [["Jolly" Anders]]
| V
| Miniseries, Night 1 (KIA)
|-
| Lieutenant
| [[Baker|Cohen "Karma" Baker]]
| R
| [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]] (KIA)
|-
| Lieutenant
| [[Richard Bayer|Richard "Buster" Bayer]]
| R
| [[The Captain's Hand]] (KIA)
|-
| Lieutenant
| [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]]
| RE
| [[Daybreak, Part II]] (KIA)
|-
| Lieutenant
| [[Hamish McCall|Hamish "Skulls" McCall]]
| RE
| [[Daybreak, Part II]] (KIA)
|-
| Lieutenant
| [[Alex Quartararo|Alex "Crashdown" Quartararo]]
| E
| [[Fragged]] (Fratricide)
|-
| Jr. Lieutenant (ret.)
| [[Tucker Clellan|Tucker "Duck" Clellan]]
| V
| [[Occupation]] (Suicide)
|-
| Jr. Lieutenant (ret.)
| [[Nora Farmer]]
| V
| [[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance#Episode_4|The Resistance, Episode 4]] (Assault)
|-
| Jr. Lieutenant
| [[J. Finnegan|Jay "Shark" Finnegan]]
| R
| [[The Face of the Enemy]] (Murder)
|-
| Jr. Lieutenant
| [[Felix Gaeta]]
| Unknown, junior flight status indicated by junior flight wings on uniform.<ref>Note: In the [[Miniseries]], Gaeta does not have flight wings on his uniform, but when the show went to series, the character is given flight wings from "[[33]]" and onward.</ref>
| [[Blood on the Scales]] (Execution)
|-
| Jr. Lieutenant
| [[Eammon Pike|Eammon "Gonzo" Pike]]
| VR
| [[Sine Qua Non]]/[[The Hub]] (KIA)
|-
| Jr. Lieutenant
| [[Dwight Saunders|Dwight "Flat Top" Saunders]]
| R
| [[Act of Contrition]] (Accident)
|-
| (former) Jr. Lieutenant
| [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]]
| RO
| [[Daybreak, Part II]] (KIA)
|-
| Ensign
| [[Samuel Anders|Samuel "Longshot" Anders]]
| V
| [[Daybreak, Part II]] (Suicide)
|-
| Ensign
| [[Brent Baxton|Brent "BB" Baxton]]
| V
| [[Scar]] (KIA)
|-
| Ensign
| [[Joseph Clark|Joseph "Jo-Jo" Clark]]
| V
| Scar (KIA)
|-
| Ensign
| [[Esrin|"Easy" Esrin]]
| R
| The Face of the Enemy (Murder)
|-
|
| "[[Stepchild]]"
| V
| The Hand of God (KIA)
|-
| Sergeant
| [[Donald Perry|Donald "Chuckles" Perry]]
| V
| The Hand of God (KIA)
|-
|
| [[Lyla Ellway|Lyla "Shark" Ellway]]
| E
| The Captain's Hand (KIA)
|-
| Lieutenant
| "[[S. Irvine|S. "Flyboy" Irvine]]"
| V
| [[Valley of Darkness]] (KIA)
|-
|
| "[[Fireball]]"
| V
| [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]] (KIA)
|}

=== Mentioned Only ===

{| class="messagebox sortable" style="width: 100%" align="center" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Rank
! Name
! Qualifications
! Death
|-
|
| "Sandman"
| V
| [[Sine Qua Non]] (KIA)
|-
|
| "[[Tough Guy]]"
| R
| [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]] (KIA)
|-
|
| "[[Carousel]]"
| E
| Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I (KIA)
|-
|
| [[Reilly]]
| V
| [[Scar]] (KIA)
|-
|
| "[[Beano]]"
| V
| Scar (KIA)
|-
|
| "{{inlineref|bold=N|Sheppard}}"
|
| KIA (mentioned by Kara Thrace in "Scar")
|-
| Captain
| [[Theo Oberon|Theo "Dash" Oberon]]
| V
| KIA (mentioned by Kara Thrace in "Scar")
|-
| Captain
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Puppet|Branuelle "Puppet" Bronte}}<ref>Name and rank from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/233 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Capt. Branuelle "Puppet" Bronte's nameplate.</ref>
| V
| KIA (mentioned by Kara Thrace in "Scar")
|}

=== Unnamed ===

*Pilot and ECO of [[Raptor 314]] - [[The Captain's Hand]] (KIA)
*(At most) 4 pilots - [[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]
*Pilot and ECO of [[Raptor 3]] - [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]] (KIA)
*1 unidentified Viper Mk. II pilot - [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]] (KIA)
*12 unidentified pilots - [[Act of Contrition]] (Accident)
*18 Viper Mk. VII pilots - [[Miniseries]], first sortie (KIA)
*1 Viper Mk. II pilot - Miniseries, second sortie (KIA)
*7 Viper Mk. II pilots - Miniseries, third sortie (KIA)
*1 Viper Mk. VII pilot - Miniseries, third sortie (KIA)

== Status Unknown after New Caprica ==

These characters have not been seen or mentioned since the settlement of [[New Caprica]], during which many military personnel mustered out of the service. As such, it is not known if they are still on active duty.

=== Seen ===

{| class="messagebox sortable" style="width: 100%" align="center" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Rank
! Name
! Qualifications
! Last Seen (Mentioned)
|-
| Captain
| [[Cole Taylor|Cole "Stinger" Taylor]]
| VR
| [[Resurrection Ship, Part I]] ([[The Captain's Hand]])
|-
| Lieutenant
| [[Joe Palladino|Joe "Hammerhead" Palladino]]
| V
| [[Final Cut]]
|-
| Lieutenant
| [[Emmitt Jones|Emmitt "Sweetness" Jones]]
| R
| Home, Part I
|-
|
| "[[Stubbs]]"
| R
| The Hand of God
|}

=== Mentioned Only ===

The following mentioned-only characters have been identified by name. They may be identical with any of the mentioned-only characters identified by call sign, listed below.

{| class="messagebox sortable" style="width: 100%" align="center" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Rank
! Name
! Qualifications
! Last Mentioned
|-
| Lieutenant
| [[Mueller (pilot)|Mueller]]
|
| [[Home, Part I]] (by [[William Adama]])
|-
| Lieutenant
| [[Olin Perry]]
|
| Home, Part I (by [[Saul Tigh]])
|-
| Lieutenant
| [[Simes]]
| V
| [[Fragged]] (by [[Saul Tigh]])
|}

 The following mentioned-only characters have been identified by callsign. They may be identical with any of the mentioned-only characters identified by name, listed above. All the pilots listed for "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]" are part of the rescue mission to Caprica and identify themselves during the wireless check-in prior to the first jump.

{| class="messagebox sortable" style="width: 100%" align="center" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Rank
! Name
! Qualifications
! Last Mentioned
|-
|
| [[Headcase]]
| R
| [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Swordsman}}
| R
| Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Anvil}}
| R
| Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Chinstrap}}
| R
| Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Gumball}}
| R
| Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Raw Meat}}
| R
| Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Toyon}}
| R
| Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Strakus}}
| R
| Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Playboy pilot|Playboy}}
| R
| Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Polo}}
| R
| Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Casey}}
| R
| Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Adonis}}
| R
| Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Gully Man}}
| R
| Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Star Cloud}}
| R
| Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Callan}}
| R
| Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
|
| [[Snake]]
| V
| [[Scar]]
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Crash pilot|Crash}}
|
| Scar (on locker door in the [[Galactica crew facilities (RDM)#Heads|head]])
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Bubba}}
|
| Scar (on locker door)
|-
|
| {{inlineref|Flash|bold=N}}
|
| Scar (on locker door)
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Spooky}}
|
| Scar (on locker door)
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Nuke}}
|
| Scar (on locker door)
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Rebel}}
|
| Scar (on locker door)
|-
| Lieutenant
| Ronald "Sonny" French
| V
| [[Black Market]] (on locker door in the weight room)
|-
|
| [[Rock Star]]
| V
| [[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]
|-
|
| [[Whiplash]]
| VR
| [[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]
|-
|
| [[Thumper (Pegasus)|Thumper]]
| VR
| Pegasus
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Grayshirt}}
| V
| Final Cut, later seen on [[:Image:War Room chalkboard.jpg|War Room chalkboard]] (circa [[Season 4]]), assigned to [[Primus]] Squadron.
|-
| Lieutenant
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Ranger|T "Ranger" Rogers}}
| R
| [[Fragged]] (on Raptor name plate)
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Honey Bear}}
| V
| [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]] (on roster<ref name="HOG roster">See [[:Image:Situation Room pilot board.jpg]] for the roster seen in "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]". Another column of the roster can be seen around time index 35:00 behind Baltar.</ref>)
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Moe}}
| V
| The Hand of God (on roster<ref name="HOG roster">_</ref>)
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Guy}}
| R
| The Hand of God (on roster<ref name="HOG roster">_</ref>)
|-
|
| [[Frosty]]
| R
| The Hand of God (on roster <ref name="HOG roster">_</ref>)
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Bobo}}
| V
| The Hand of God (on roster)
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Bash}}
| V
| The Hand of God (on roster)
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Hooper}}
| V
| The Hand of God (on roster)
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Bambit}}
| V
| The Hand of God (on roster)
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Jackson}}
| V
| The Hand of God (on roster)
|-
|
| [[Spinner]]
| V
| The Hand of God
|-
| Lieutenant
| [[Oein Parker|Oein "Deadbolt" Parker]]
| V
| The Hand of God
|-
|
| [[Buzzer]]
| V
| The Hand of God
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Beehive}}
| V
| [[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]
|-
|
| [[Joker]]
| V
| [[Act of Contrition]] (on roster)
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Greenback}}
| V
| Act of Contrition (on roster)
|-
|
| [[Thumper (Galactica)|Thumper]]
|
| Bastille Day (on roster)
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Ice Cap}}
| V
| [[33]] (on roster)
|-
|
| {{inlineref|bold=N|T-Bone}}
| V
| 33 (Part of Apollo's squadron, [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)#33|deleted scene]])
|-
|
| [[Wedge]]
| V
| 33 (Part of Apollo's squadron, [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)#33|deleted scene]])
|-
|
| [[Winger]]
| V
| 33 (Part of Apollo's squadron, [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)#33|deleted scene]])
|}

== Status Unknown ==

This is a listing of pilots and callsigns derived from the nameplates that were auctioned off. These nameplates were either used on the Vipers in the background or made for the production, and thus may or may never have been seen on-screen. Their status has been presently identified as "unknown."

{| class="messagebox sortable" style="width: 100%" align="center" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Rank
! Name
! Source
! Note
|-
| Lieutenant
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Beetle|Becca "Beetle" Andrewson}}
| [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/778 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction]
| [[Viper Mark II]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Dinger|Rosemary "Dinger" Bell}}
| [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/508 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction]
| [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Slick|Jacob "Slick" Calabos}}
| [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/25 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction]
| [[Viper Mark II]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Spiceman|Kirk "Spiceman" Donner}}
| [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/777 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction]
| [[Viper Mark II]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Scary|Brooks "Scary" Garner}}
| [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/124 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction]
| [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Ensign
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Stig|Oliver "Stig" Gittes}}
| [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/381 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction]
| [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Silverstep|Paz "Silverstep" Huang}}
| [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/17 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction]
| [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Lefty|Shirley "Lefty" Ingot}}
| [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/1087 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction]
| [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Ensign
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Singer|Breyon "Singer" Jaskaran}}
| [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/510 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction]
| [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant
| {{inlineref|bold=N|John "Bones" Lavell}}
| [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/4 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction]
| [[Viper Mark II]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Cody "Flea" Mandrake}}
| [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/9 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction]
| [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Flim-Flam|Clay "Flim-Flam" McKenzie}}
| [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/376 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction]
| [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Creeper|Erika "Creeper" Merchantele}}
| [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/775 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction]
| [[Viper Mark II]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Doom|Cole "Doom" Metzger}}
| [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/1846 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction]
| [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Melinda "Akbar" Montes}}
| [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/1 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction]
| [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Ensign
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Greybill|Emma "Greybill" Munroe}}
| [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/511 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction]
| [[Viper Mark II]] pilot.
|-
| Ensign
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Sleeper|Kraner "Sleeper" O'Kane}}
| [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/779 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction]
| [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Frank "I-Zyk" Pooley}}
| [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/8 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction]
| [[Viper Mark II]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Kitty-Kat|Liz "Kitty-Kat" Riedel}}
| [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/1953 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction]
| [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|}

== Homages to real persons ==

The following pilots are homages to people working on the show or related to its production. Since they may only exist in behind-the-scenes photos and not featured on screen, they don't necessarily exist within the show's continuity.

{| class="messagebox sortable" style="width: 100%" align="center" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Rank
! Name
! Source
! Note
|-
| Admiral
| Ronald D. "Caveman" Moore
| [[:Image:Caveman Mark II nameplate - wm.jpg|Behind-the-scenes photo]]
| A reference to show runner [[Ronald D. Moore]].
|-
| Captain
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Silent|Kevin "Silent" Smith}}
| [[:Image:Kevin Smith's Viper.jpg|Behind-the-scenes photo]]
| This is an homage to actor, director and writer [[Kevin Smith]], who was considered to direct an episode of the fourth season.
|}

== Non-Canon ==

This is a list of names of pilots who have been identified as not being in the series canon, based on the following conditions:

#The name is derived from a nameplate that was production made, and;
#The name directly contradicts known, established canon.

{| class="messagebox sortable" style="width: 100%" align="center" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Rank
! Name
! Source
! Note
|-
| Lieutenant
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Gwen Fleer|Gwen "Red Devil" Fleer}}
| [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/13 Nameplate auctioned off during the Official Battlestar Props and Costumes Auction.]
| A nameplate likely made for [[Steve Fleer]], who shares the same callsign, last name, and rank. Nameplate was likely made before production changes rendered it obsolete.
|}

== References ==
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List of pilots

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ViperWings: /* Seen */

:''For a list of [[Colonial Warrior]]s, the [[Viper (TOS)|original Viper]] pilots seen in the [[Original Series]], see [[List of Warriors]].''

:''This list was created to keep track of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'s'' current and former [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilots, [[Raptor]] pilots and [[ECO]]s, and includes members of the crew of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' as well. When mentioned-only characters are linked to a separate article, they are either repeatedly mentioned, have some significance despite not being seen or the article includes a note about their name.''

[[Image:Final_Cut-Thin_Line_of_Blue.jpg|thumb|300px|Pilots and other enlisted in a recreation room on ''Galactica.'']]
'''Pilots''' are officers in the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] trained and qualified to operate a [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] fighter or a [[Raptor]] multipurpose vehicle.

Pilot candidates, or "nuggets", normally start training in [[Computers in the Re-imagined Series#Viper Flight Simulators|simulators]], but after the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], ''Galactica'''s nuggets went from classroom straight into live aircraft until ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' (with its on-board flight simulators) joined the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]]. Once nuggets complete their basic flight and combat training, they are known as "[[rook]]s".

A flight-qualified pilot wears basic [[Insignia_(RDM)#Pilot_wings|pilot wings]] on the uniform's left breast. Senior-rated pilots (e.g. [[William Adama]], [[Saul Tigh]]) wear a variation with outstretched wings.

Pilot wings are a permanently-awarded skills badge; they do not necessarily indicate active flight status, only that the wearer has successfully qualified as a pilot. Officers who have moved into non-flying positions, such as [[Aaron Kelly]] and [[Felix Gaeta]], continue to wear them.

It shoud be noted the combat experience of the pilots. Which can be seen in the [[Battle of the Colony]] in which they were outnumbered at least 4 to 1 and lost only 4 Vipers and 7 Raptors which were abandoned and destroyed by the Cylons.

A [[flight suit]], which protects a pilot during a decompression emergency, is standard apparel for all pilots.

'''Qualifications legend:'''

'''V''' - Viper pilot 
'''R''' - Raptor pilot 
'''E''' - Raptor ECO 
'''O''' - Other craft <ref>IE: The Colonial [[Stealthstar]], [[Blackbird]], [[Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raider]], or Cylon [[Heavy Raider]].</ref> 

==Active==

===Seen===
{|class="messagebox sortable" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
!Rank !! Name !! Qualifications !! Last Seen (Mentioned)
|-
|Captain || [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]] || RE || [[Daybreak, Part II]]
|-
|Captain || [[Marcia Case|Marcia "Showboat" Case]] ||V || [[Razor]] (Someone to Watch Over Me)
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon "Athena" Agathon]] || RO || Daybreak, Part II
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]] ||VR || Daybreak, Part II
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Paolo McKay|Paolo "Redwing" McKay]] ||V || [[Blood on the Scales]]
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Noel Allison|Noel "Narcho" Allison]] ||V || [[Blood on the Scales]]
|-
|Ensign || [[Diana Seelix|Diana "Hardball" Seelix]] || V || [[The Oath]]
|-
| || [[Tattooed pilot|An unnamed, tattooed pilot]] ||VR || [[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]
|}

===Mentioned Only===
The following pilots' names can be seen on duty rosters in the [[Pilot ready rooms|pilots' ready room]] or on other documents following Gaeta's Mutiny. It may thus be presumed that they are on active duty.
{|class="messagebox sortable" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
!Rank !! Name !! Qualifications !! Last Mentioned
|-
|Captain || [[George Birch|George "Catman" Birch]] ||V || [[Home, Part I]] ([[Someone to Watch Over Me]])
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Jarrell Kief|Jarrell "Fuzzy" Kief]] ||R || [[Final Cut]] ([[The Passage]])
|}

The following pilots have been mentioned '''exclusively in dialogue'''.

{|class="messagebox sortable" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
!Rank !! Name !! Qualifications !! Last Mentioned
|-
| || "[[Bingo]]" || V || [[Occupation]]
|-
| || "[[Hex]]" || V || [[The Son Also Rises]] (mentioned by [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]])
|-
| || "{{inlineref|bold=N|Hotshot}}" || V || [[He That Believeth In Me]]
|-
| ||"Terra"|| V || [[Miniseries]], Night 1 (combat comm chatter during 2nd combat sortie)
|-
| || "[[Wally (pilot)|Wally]]" || V || Occupation
|-
|}

The following pilots' names can be seen on duty rosters in the [[Pilot ready rooms|pilots' ready room]] or on other documents following the second exodus. Some of these names appear on the roster as early as the first season in episodes like "[[Act of Contrition]]" and "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]".

{|class="messagebox sortable" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
!Rank !! Name !! Qualifications !! Last Mentioned
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Ricky Richardson|Ricky "Two Times" Richardson]] || || Six of One
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Falcon|Delphi "Falcon" Birch}} || V || The Passage, [[:Image:Delphi Birch's Viper.jpg|Behind-the-scenes photo]]
|-
| Lieutenant || [[Mei Firelli|Mei "Freaker" Firelli]] <ref>Firelli appears in the episode "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]", appearing to fulfill the role of [[tactical officer]]. It is possible that, after ''Pegasus's'' destruction, he switches roles from CIC to fight duty.</ref> || V<ref>Role as Viper pilot derived from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/1218 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Lt. Mei "Freaker" Firelli's nameplate.</ref> ||Six of One
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Steve Fleer|Steve "Red Devil" Fleer]] ||R || Six of One
|-
|Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Feline|Analy "Feline" Amante}}<ref>Name and rank from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/1088 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Lt. Analy 'Feline" Amante's nameplate.</ref> || V || Six of One
|-
|Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Hiccup|River "Hiccup" Brigden}}<ref>Name and rank from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/863 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Lt. River "Hiccup" Brigden's nameplate.</ref> || V || Six of One
|-
|Captain || {{inlineref|bold=N|Snitch|John "Snitch" Burke}}<ref>Name and rank from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/26 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Captain John "Snitch" Burke's nameplate.</ref> || V || The Passage
|-
|Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Chopper|Coran "Chopper" Dix}}<ref>In "[[Unfinished Business]]", Dix's name appears on the blackboard keeping track of the boxers. It is implied that he is the person fighting Sergeant [[Omar Fischer]]. Further, his name, rank, and Viper qualification are derived from his [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/981 Viper nameplate that was auctioned off].</ref> || V || Six of One
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Snicker|Ars "Snicker" Kelder}} || || The Passage
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Sever|Troy "Sever" Minos}} || || Six of One
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Spender|Anumanda "Spender" Salas}} || || Six of One
|-
|Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Tailgate|Bryan "Tailgate" Smith}} || || Six of One
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Blindspot|Timo "Blindspot" Talamonte}}<ref>Name and rank from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/776 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Lt. Timo "Blindspot" Talamonte's nameplate.</ref> || V || From [[:Image:War Room chalkboard.jpg|War Room chalkboard]] (circa [[Season 4]]), assigned to [[Primus]] Squadron.
|-
|Lieutenant || Drew "{{inlineref|bold=N|Bomber}}" Wilson<ref>Name and rank from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/2 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Lt. Drew "Bomber" Wilson's nameplate.</ref> || V || From War Room chalkboard (circa Season 4), Viper Mark VII pilot assigned to Primus Squadron.
|-
| || "{{inlineref|bold=N|Brakes}}" || V || From War Room chalkboard (circa Season 4), assigned to Primus Squadron.
|-
| || "{{inlineref|bold=N|Butch}}" || || [[Crossroads, Part II]] (on locker door in the [[weight room]] <ref name="butch_and_dune">Butch and Dune's callsigns can first be seen on the locker doors in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]". It is likely that their names are on the lockers in all other appearances of the [[weight room]] as well (such as "[[Scar]]" and "[[Torn]]") even though they cannot be seen on screen. The last confirmed sighting is in "[[Crossroads, Part II]]".</ref> )
|-
|Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Buttermilk|Keenan "Buttermilk" Van Dyk}}<ref>Name and rank from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/776 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Lt. Keenan "Buttermilk" Van Dyk's nameplate.</ref> || V || From War Room chalkboard (circa Season 4), assigned to Primus Squadron.
|-
| || "[[Catbird]]" || V || Six of One
|-
| || "{{inlineref|bold=N|Chinman}}" || || Six of One
|-
| || "{{inlineref|bold=N|Digger}}" || || Six of One
|-
| || "{{inlineref|bold=N|Dune}}" || || Crossroads, Part II (on locker door in the weight room <ref name="butch_and_dune"/> )
|-
| || "{{inlineref|bold=N|Famous}}" ||V || Six of One
|-
| || "{{inlineref|bold=N|Hyper}}" ||V || Six of One
|-
| Ensign || {{inlineref|bold=N|Kingston|Seamus "Kingston" McCrae}}<ref>Name and rank from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1003/797 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Ens. Seamus "Kingston" McCrae's nameplate.</ref> ||V || Six of One
|-
| || "[[Ninja]]" ||V || Six of One
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Pookie|Lyn "Pookie" Zook}}<ref>Name and rank from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/122 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Lt. Lyn "Pookie" Zook's nameplate.</ref> || V || From War Room chalkboard (circa Season 4), assigned to Primus Squadron.
|-
| || "{{inlineref|bold=N|Rash}}" || || [[Collaborators]] (on locker door)
|-
| || "{{inlineref|bold=N|Rocket}}" || || Six of One
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Ruins|Chac "Ruins" Choben}}<ref>Name and rank from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/122 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Lt. Chac "Ruins" Choben's nameplate.</ref> || V || From War Room chalkboard (circa Season 4), assigned to Primus Squadron.
|-
| || "{{inlineref|bold=N|Sharky}}" || || Six of One
|-
| || "[[Sniper]]" ||V || Six of One
|-
| || "Space-Katt" ||V ||Six of One
|-
| || "[[Stinger]]" ||V || Six of One
|-
| || "{{inlineref|bold=N|Snaps}}" || || Six of One
|-
| || "[[Thumper]]" ||V ||Six of One
|-
| || "Toothbrush" || ||Six of One
|-
|Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Trip|Jose "Trip" Montero}} || V || From War Room chalkboard (circa Season 4), assigned to Primus Squadron.
|}

==Inactive==
{|class="messagebox sortable" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
!Rank !! Name !! Qualifications
|-
|Rear Admiral || [[William Adama|William "Husker" Adama]] || VR
|-
|Colonel || [[Saul Tigh]] || Unknown<ref>As Tigh's military record was falsified by [[John Cavil]], Tigh's "life" as a Colonial begins ''after'' the [[First Cylon War]] and approximately 20 years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. Therefore, Tigh's actual flight ability is unknown.</ref>
|-
|Major (ret.) || [[Lee Adama|Lee "Apollo" Adama]] || VRO
|-
|Captain || [[Aaron Kelly]] || Unknown, junior flight status indicated by [[Insignia (RDM)|junior flight wings]] on uniform.
|-
|Lieutenant (ret.) || [[Daniel Novacek|Daniel "Bulldog" Novacek]] || VO
|-
|Junior Lieutenant/Ensign || [["Shooter"]] || Unknown, junior flight status indicated by [[Insignia (RDM)|junior flight wings]] on uniform.
|}

==Deceased==

===Seen===
{|class="messagebox sortable" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
!Rank !! Name !! Qualifications !! Death
|-
|Rear Admiral || [[Helena Cain]] || Unknown, senior flight status indicated by [[Insignia (RDM)|senior flight wings]] on uniform. || [[Resurrection Ship, Part II]] (Murder)
|-
|Commander || [[Jack Fisk]] || Unknown, senior flight status indicated by senior flight wings on uniform. || [[Black Market]] (Murder)
|-
|Colonel || [[Jurgen Belzen]] || Unknown, senior flight status indicated by senior flight wings on uniform. || [[Razor]] (Execution)
|-
|Major || [[Jackson Spencer|Jackson "Dipper" Spencer]] ||V || [[Miniseries, Night 1]] (KIA)
|-
|Captain || [[Louanne Katraine|Louanne "Kat" Katraine]] ||VR || [[The Passage]] (Radiation poisoning)
|-
|Captain || [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] ||VRO || [[Maelstrom]]/[[Daybreak, Part II]] (KIA / Vanished)
|-
|Lieutenant (deserted) || [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon"Boomer" Valerii]] ||RO || [[Resistance]]/[[Rapture]]/[[Daybreak, Part II]] (shot by Cally/neck broken by [[Caprica Six]]/ permanently killed by[[Sharon Agathon|Athena]])
|-
|Lieutenant || [["Jolly" Anders]] ||V || Miniseries, Night 1 (KIA)
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Baker|Cohen "Karma" Baker]] || R || [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]] (KIA)
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Richard Bayer|Richard "Buster" Bayer]] || R || [[The Captain's Hand]] (KIA)
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]] || RE || [[Daybreak, Part II]] (KIA)
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Hamish McCall|Hamish "Skulls" McCall]] || RE || [[Daybreak, Part II]] (KIA)
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Alex Quartararo|Alex "Crashdown" Quartararo]] ||E || [[Fragged]] (Fratricide)
|-
|Jr. Lieutenant (ret.)|| [[Tucker Clellan|Tucker "Duck" Clellan]] ||V || [[Occupation]] (Suicide)
|-
|Jr. Lieutenant (ret.) || [[Nora Farmer]] ||V || [[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance#Episode 4|The Resistance, Episode 4]] (Assault)
|-
|Jr. Lieutenant || [[J. Finnegan|Jay "Shark" Finnegan]] ||R || [[The Face of the Enemy]] (Murder)
|-
|Jr. Lieutenant || [[Felix Gaeta]] || Unknown, junior flight status indicated by junior flight wings on uniform.<ref>Note: In the [[Miniseries]], Gaeta does not have flight wings on his uniform, but when the show went to series, the character is given flight wings from "[[33]]" and onward.</ref> || [[Blood on the Scales]] (Execution)
|-
|Jr. Lieutenant || [[Eammon Pike|Eammon "Gonzo" Pike]] ||VR || [[Sine Qua Non]]/[[The Hub]] (KIA)
|-
|Jr. Lieutenant || [[Dwight Saunders|Dwight "Flat Top" Saunders]] || R || [[Act of Contrition]] (Accident)
|-
|(former) Jr. Lieutenant || [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]] || R || [[Daybreak, Part II]] (KIA)
|-
|Ensign || [[Samuel Anders|Samuel "Longshot" Anders]] || V || [[Daybreak, Part II]] (Suicide)
|-
|Ensign || [[Brent Baxton|Brent "BB" Baxton]] ||V || [[Scar]] (KIA)
|-
|Ensign || [[Joseph Clark|Joseph "Jo-Jo" Clark]] ||V || Scar (KIA)
|-
|Ensign || [[Esrin|"Easy" Esrin]] ||R || The Face of the Enemy (Murder)
|-
| || "[[Stepchild]]" ||V || The Hand of God (KIA)
|-
|Sergeant || [[Donald Perry|Donald "Chuckles" Perry]] ||V || The Hand of God (KIA)
|-
| || [[Lyla Ellway|Lyla "Shark" Ellway]] || E || The Captain's Hand (KIA)
|-
|Lieutenant || "[[S. Irvine|S. "Flyboy" Irvine]]" ||V || [[Valley of Darkness]] (KIA)
|-
| || "[[Fireball]]" ||V || [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]] (KIA)
|}

===Mentioned Only===

{|class="messagebox sortable" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
!Rank !! Name !! Qualifications !! Death
|-
| || "Sandman" ||V || [[Sine Qua Non]] (KIA)
|-
| || "[[Tough Guy]]" || R || [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]] (KIA)
|-
| || "[[Carousel]]" || E || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I (KIA)
|-
| || [[Reilly]] ||V || [[Scar]] (KIA)
|-
| || "[[Beano]]" ||V || Scar (KIA)
|-
| || "{{inlineref|bold=N|Sheppard}}" || || KIA (mentioned by Kara Thrace in "Scar")
|-
| Captain || [[Theo Oberon|Theo "Dash" Oberon]] ||V || KIA (mentioned by Kara Thrace in "Scar")
|-
| Captain || {{inlineref|bold=N|Puppet|Branuelle "Puppet" Bronte}}<ref>Name and rank from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/233 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Capt. Branuelle "Puppet" Bronte's nameplate.</ref> || V || KIA (mentioned by Kara Thrace in "Scar")
|}

===Unnamed===
*Pilot and ECO of [[Raptor 314]] - [[The Captain's Hand]] (KIA)
*(At most) 4 pilots - [[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]
*Pilot and ECO of [[Raptor 3]] - [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]] (KIA)
*1 unidentified Viper Mk. II pilot - [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]] (KIA)
*12 unidentified pilots - [[Act of Contrition]] (Accident)
*18 Viper Mk. VII pilots - [[Miniseries]], first sortie (KIA)
*1 Viper Mk. II pilot - Miniseries, second sortie (KIA)
*7 Viper Mk. II pilots - Miniseries, third sortie (KIA)
*1 Viper Mk. VII pilot - Miniseries, third sortie (KIA)

==Status Unknown after New Caprica==

These characters have not been seen or mentioned since the settlement of [[New Caprica]], during which many military personnel mustered out of the service. As such, it is not known if they are still on active duty.

===Seen===
{|class="messagebox sortable" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
!Rank !! Name !! Qualifications !! Last Seen (Mentioned)
|-
|Captain || [[Cole Taylor|Cole "Stinger" Taylor]] ||VR || [[Resurrection Ship, Part I]] ([[The Captain's Hand]])
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Joe Palladino|Joe "Hammerhead" Palladino]] ||V || [[Final Cut]]
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Emmitt Jones|Emmitt "Sweetness" Jones]] ||R || Home, Part I
|-
| || "[[Stubbs]]" ||R || The Hand of God
|}

===Mentioned Only===

The following mentioned-only characters have been identified by name. They may be identical with any of the mentioned-only characters identified by call sign, listed below.

{|class="messagebox sortable" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
!Rank !! Name !! Qualifications !! Last Mentioned
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Mueller (pilot)|Mueller]] || || [[Home, Part I]] (by [[William Adama]])
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Olin Perry]] || || Home, Part I (by [[Saul Tigh]])
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Simes]] || V || [[Fragged]] (by [[Saul Tigh]])
|}

The following mentioned-only characters have been identified by callsign. They may be identical with any of the mentioned-only characters identified by name, listed above. All the pilots listed for "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]" are part of the rescue mission to Caprica and identify themselves during the wireless check-in prior to the first jump.

{|class="messagebox sortable" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
!Rank !! Name !! Qualifications !! Last Mentioned
|-
| || [[Headcase]] || R || [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Swordsman}} || R || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Anvil}} || R || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Chinstrap}} || R || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Gumball}} || R || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Raw Meat}} || R || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Toyon}} || R || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Strakus}} || R || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Playboy pilot|Playboy}} || R || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Polo}} || R || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Casey}} || R || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Adonis}} || R || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Gully Man}} || R || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Star Cloud}} || R || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Callan}} || R || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
| || [[Snake]] || V || [[Scar]]
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Crash pilot|Crash}} || || Scar (on locker door in the [[Galactica crew facilities (RDM)#Heads|head]])
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Bubba}} || || Scar (on locker door)
|-
| || {{inlineref|Flash|bold=N}} || || Scar (on locker door)
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Spooky}} || || Scar (on locker door)
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Nuke}} || || Scar (on locker door)
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Rebel}} || || Scar (on locker door)
|-
|Lieutenant || Ronald "Sonny" French ||V || [[Black Market]] (on locker door in the weight room)
|-
| || [[Rock Star]] ||V || [[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]
|-
| || [[Whiplash]] ||VR || [[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]
|-
| || [[Thumper (Pegasus)|Thumper]] ||VR || Pegasus
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Grayshirt}} ||V || Final Cut, later seen on [[:Image:War Room chalkboard.jpg|War Room chalkboard]] (circa [[Season 4]]), assigned to [[Primus]] Squadron.
|-
|Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Ranger|T "Ranger" Rogers}} ||R || [[Fragged]] (on Raptor name plate)
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Honey Bear}} ||V || [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]] (on roster<ref name="HOG roster">See [[:Image:Situation Room pilot board.jpg]] for the roster seen in "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]". Another column of the roster can be seen around time index 35:00 behind Baltar.</ref>)
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Moe}} ||V || The Hand of God (on roster<ref name="HOG roster"/>)
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Guy}} ||R || The Hand of God (on roster<ref name="HOG roster"/>)
|-
| || [[Frosty]] ||R || The Hand of God (on roster <ref name="HOG roster"/>)
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Bobo}} ||V || The Hand of God (on roster)
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Bash}} ||V || The Hand of God (on roster)
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Hooper}} ||V || The Hand of God (on roster)
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Bambit}} ||V || The Hand of God (on roster)
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Jackson}} ||V || The Hand of God (on roster)
|-
| || [[Spinner]] ||V || The Hand of God
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Oein Parker|Oein "Deadbolt" Parker]] ||V || The Hand of God
|-
| || [[Buzzer]] ||V || The Hand of God
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Beehive}} ||V || [[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]
|-
| || [[Joker]] ||V || [[Act of Contrition]] (on roster)
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Greenback}} ||V || Act of Contrition (on roster)
|-
| || [[Thumper (Galactica)|Thumper]] || || Bastille Day (on roster)
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Ice Cap}} ||V || [[33]] (on roster)
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|T-Bone}} ||V || 33 (Part of Apollo's squadron, [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)#33|deleted scene]])
|-
| || [[Wedge]] ||V || 33 (Part of Apollo's squadron, [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)#33|deleted scene]])
|-
| || [[Winger]] ||V || 33 (Part of Apollo's squadron, [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)#33|deleted scene]])
|}

==Status Unknown==

This is a listing of pilots and callsigns derived from the nameplates that were auctioned off. These nameplates were either used on the Vipers in the background or made for the production, and thus may or may never have been seen on-screen. Their status has been presently identified as "unknown."

{|class="messagebox sortable" style="width:100%" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="4" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
!Rank !! Name !! Source !! Note
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Beetle|Becca "Beetle" Andrewson}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/778 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark II]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Dinger|Rosemary "Dinger" Bell}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/508 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Slick|Jacob "Slick" Calabos}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/25 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark II]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Spiceman|Kirk "Spiceman" Donner}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/777 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark II]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Scary|Brooks "Scary" Garner}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/124 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Ensign || {{inlineref|bold=N|Stig|Oliver "Stig" Gittes}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/381 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Silverstep|Paz "Silverstep" Huang}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/17 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Lefty|Shirley "Lefty" Ingot}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/1087 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Ensign || {{inlineref|bold=N|Singer|Breyon "Singer" Jaskaran}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/510 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|John "Bones" Lavell}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/4 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark II]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Cody "Flea" Mandrake}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/9 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Flim-Flam|Clay "Flim-Flam" McKenzie}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/376 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Creeper|Erika "Creeper" Merchantele}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/775 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark II]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Doom|Cole "Doom" Metzger}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/1846 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Melinda "Akbar" Montes}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/1 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Ensign || {{inlineref|bold=N|Greybill|Emma "Greybill" Munroe}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/511 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark II]] pilot.
|-
| Ensign || {{inlineref|bold=N|Sleeper|Kraner "Sleeper" O'Kane}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/779 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Frank "I-Zyk" Pooley}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/8 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark II]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Kitty-Kat|Liz "Kitty-Kat" Riedel}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/1953 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|}

== Homages to real persons ==

The following pilots are homages to people working on the show or related to its production. Since they may only exist in behind-the-scenes photos and not featured on screen, they don't necessarily exist within the show's continuity.

{|class="messagebox sortable" style="width:100%" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="4" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
!Rank !! Name !! Source !! Note
|-
|Admiral || Ronald D. "Caveman" Moore || [[:Image:Caveman Mark II nameplate - wm.jpg|Behind-the-scenes photo]] || A reference to show runner [[Ronald D. Moore]].
|-
|Captain || {{inlineref|bold=N|Silent|Kevin "Silent" Smith}} || [[:Image:Kevin Smith's Viper.jpg|Behind-the-scenes photo]] || This is an homage to actor, director and writer [[Kevin Smith]], who was considered to direct an episode of the fourth season.
|}

== Non-Canon ==

This is a list of names of pilots who have been identified as not being in the series canon, based on the following conditions:

# The name is derived from a nameplate that was production made, and;
# The name directly contradicts known, established canon.

{|class="messagebox sortable" style="width:100%" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="4" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
!Rank !! Name !! Source !! Note
|-
|Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Gwen Fleer|Gwen "Red Devil" Fleer}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/13 Nameplate auctioned off during the Official Battlestar Props and Costumes Auction.] || A nameplate likely made for [[Steve Fleer]], who shares the same callsign, last name, and rank. Nameplate was likely made before production changes rendered it obsolete.
|}

== References ==

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List of pilots

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ViperWings:

:''For a list of [[Colonial Warrior]]s, the [[Viper (TOS)|original Viper]] pilots seen in the [[Original Series]], see [[List of Warriors]].''

:''This list was created to keep track of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'s'' current and former [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilots, [[Raptor]] pilots and [[ECO]]s, and includes members of the crew of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' as well. When mentioned-only characters are linked to a separate article, they are either repeatedly mentioned, have some significance despite not being seen or the article includes a note about their name.''

[[Image:Final_Cut-Thin_Line_of_Blue.jpg|thumb|300px|Pilots and other enlisted in a recreation room on ''Galactica.'']]
'''Pilots''' are officers in the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] trained and qualified to operate a [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] fighter or a [[Raptor]] multipurpose vehicle.

Pilot candidates, or "nuggets", normally start training in [[Computers in the Re-imagined Series#Viper Flight Simulators|simulators]], but after the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], ''Galactica'''s nuggets went from classroom straight into live aircraft until ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' (with its on-board flight simulators) joined the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]]. Once nuggets complete their basic flight and combat training, they are known as "[[rook]]s".

A flight-qualified pilot wears basic [[Insignia_(RDM)#Pilot_wings|pilot wings]] on the uniform's left breast. Senior-rated pilots (e.g. [[William Adama]], [[Saul Tigh]]) wear a variation with outstretched wings.

Pilot wings are a permanently-awarded skills badge; they do not necessarily indicate active flight status, only that the wearer has successfully qualified as a pilot. Officers who have moved into non-flying positions, such as [[Aaron Kelly]] and [[Felix Gaeta]], continue to wear them.

It shoud be noted the combat experience of the pilots. Which can be seen in the [[Battle of the Colony]] in which they were outnumbered at least 4 to 1 and lost only 4 Vipers and 7 Raptors which were abandoned and destroyed by the Cylons.

A [[flight suit]], which protects a pilot during a decompression emergency, is standard apparel for all pilots.

'''Qualifications legend:'''

'''V''' - Viper pilot 
'''R''' - Raptor pilot 
'''E''' - Raptor ECO 
'''O''' - Other craft <ref>IE: The Colonial [[Stealthstar]], [[Blackbird]], [[Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raider]], or Cylon [[Heavy Raider]].</ref> 

==Active==

===Seen===
{|class="messagebox sortable" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
!Rank !! Name !! Qualifications !! Last Seen (Mentioned)
|-
|Captain || [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]] || RE || [[Daybreak, Part II]]
|-
|Captain || [[Marcia Case|Marcia "Showboat" Case]] ||V || [[Razor]] (Someone to Watch Over Me)
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon "Athena" Agathon]] || RO || Daybreak, Part II
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]] ||VR || Daybreak, Part II
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Paolo McKay|Paolo "Redwing" McKay]] ||V || [[Blood on the Scales]]
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Noel Allison|Noel "Narcho" Allison]] ||V || [[Blood on the Scales]]
|-
|Ensign || [[Diana Seelix|Diana "Hardball" Seelix]] || V || [[The Oath]]
|-
| || [[Tattooed pilot|An unnamed, tattooed pilot]] ||VR || [[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]
|}

===Mentioned Only===
The following pilots' names can be seen on duty rosters in the [[Pilot ready rooms|pilots' ready room]] or on other documents following Gaeta's Mutiny. It may thus be presumed that they are on active duty.
{|class="messagebox sortable" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
!Rank !! Name !! Qualifications !! Last Mentioned
|-
|Captain || [[George Birch|George "Catman" Birch]] ||V || [[Home, Part I]] ([[Someone to Watch Over Me]])
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Jarrell Kief|Jarrell "Fuzzy" Kief]] ||R || [[Final Cut]] ([[The Passage]])
|}

The following pilots have been mentioned '''exclusively in dialogue'''.

{|class="messagebox sortable" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
!Rank !! Name !! Qualifications !! Last Mentioned
|-
| || "[[Bingo]]" || V || [[Occupation]]
|-
| || "[[Hex]]" || V || [[The Son Also Rises]] (mentioned by [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]])
|-
| || "{{inlineref|bold=N|Hotshot}}" || V || [[He That Believeth In Me]]
|-
| ||"Terra"|| V || [[Miniseries]], Night 1 (combat comm chatter during 2nd combat sortie)
|-
| || "[[Wally (pilot)|Wally]]" || V || Occupation
|-
|}

The following pilots' names can be seen on duty rosters in the [[Pilot ready rooms|pilots' ready room]] or on other documents following the second exodus. Some of these names appear on the roster as early as the first season in episodes like "[[Act of Contrition]]" and "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]".

{|class="messagebox sortable" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
!Rank !! Name !! Qualifications !! Last Mentioned
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Ricky Richardson|Ricky "Two Times" Richardson]] || || Six of One
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Falcon|Delphi "Falcon" Birch}} || V || The Passage, [[:Image:Delphi Birch's Viper.jpg|Behind-the-scenes photo]]
|-
| Lieutenant || [[Mei Firelli|Mei "Freaker" Firelli]] <ref>Firelli appears in the episode "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]", appearing to fulfill the role of [[tactical officer]]. It is possible that, after ''Pegasus's'' destruction, he switches roles from CIC to fight duty.</ref> || V<ref>Role as Viper pilot derived from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/1218 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Lt. Mei "Freaker" Firelli's nameplate.</ref> ||Six of One
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Steve Fleer|Steve "Red Devil" Fleer]] ||R || Six of One
|-
|Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Feline|Analy "Feline" Amante}}<ref>Name and rank from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/1088 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Lt. Analy 'Feline" Amante's nameplate.</ref> || V || Six of One
|-
|Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Hiccup|River "Hiccup" Brigden}}<ref>Name and rank from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/863 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Lt. River "Hiccup" Brigden's nameplate.</ref> || V || Six of One
|-
|Captain || {{inlineref|bold=N|Snitch|John "Snitch" Burke}}<ref>Name and rank from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/26 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Captain John "Snitch" Burke's nameplate.</ref> || V || The Passage
|-
|Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Chopper|Coran "Chopper" Dix}}<ref>In "[[Unfinished Business]]", Dix's name appears on the blackboard keeping track of the boxers. It is implied that he is the person fighting Sergeant [[Omar Fischer]]. Further, his name, rank, and Viper qualification are derived from his [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/981 Viper nameplate that was auctioned off].</ref> || V || Six of One
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Snicker|Ars "Snicker" Kelder}} || || The Passage
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Sever|Troy "Sever" Minos}} || || Six of One
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Spender|Anumanda "Spender" Salas}} || || Six of One
|-
|Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Tailgate|Bryan "Tailgate" Smith}} || || Six of One
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Blindspot|Timo "Blindspot" Talamonte}}<ref>Name and rank from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/776 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Lt. Timo "Blindspot" Talamonte's nameplate.</ref> || V || From [[:Image:War Room chalkboard.jpg|War Room chalkboard]] (circa [[Season 4]]), assigned to [[Primus]] Squadron.
|-
|Lieutenant || Drew "{{inlineref|bold=N|Bomber}}" Wilson<ref>Name and rank from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/2 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Lt. Drew "Bomber" Wilson's nameplate.</ref> || V || From War Room chalkboard (circa Season 4), Viper Mark VII pilot assigned to Primus Squadron.
|-
| || "{{inlineref|bold=N|Brakes}}" || V || From War Room chalkboard (circa Season 4), assigned to Primus Squadron.
|-
| || "{{inlineref|bold=N|Butch}}" || || [[Crossroads, Part II]] (on locker door in the [[weight room]] <ref name="butch_and_dune">Butch and Dune's callsigns can first be seen on the locker doors in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]". It is likely that their names are on the lockers in all other appearances of the [[weight room]] as well (such as "[[Scar]]" and "[[Torn]]") even though they cannot be seen on screen. The last confirmed sighting is in "[[Crossroads, Part II]]".</ref> )
|-
|Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Buttermilk|Keenan "Buttermilk" Van Dyk}}<ref>Name and rank from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/776 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Lt. Keenan "Buttermilk" Van Dyk's nameplate.</ref> || V || From War Room chalkboard (circa Season 4), assigned to Primus Squadron.
|-
| || "[[Catbird]]" || V || Six of One
|-
| || "{{inlineref|bold=N|Chinman}}" || || Six of One
|-
| || "{{inlineref|bold=N|Digger}}" || || Six of One
|-
| || "{{inlineref|bold=N|Dune}}" || || Crossroads, Part II (on locker door in the weight room <ref name="butch_and_dune"/> )
|-
| || "{{inlineref|bold=N|Famous}}" ||V || Six of One
|-
| || "{{inlineref|bold=N|Hyper}}" ||V || Six of One
|-
| Ensign || {{inlineref|bold=N|Kingston|Seamus "Kingston" McCrae}}<ref>Name and rank from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1003/797 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Ens. Seamus "Kingston" McCrae's nameplate.</ref> ||V || Six of One
|-
| || "[[Ninja]]" ||V || Six of One
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Pookie|Lyn "Pookie" Zook}}<ref>Name and rank from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/122 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Lt. Lyn "Pookie" Zook's nameplate.</ref> || V || From War Room chalkboard (circa Season 4), assigned to Primus Squadron.
|-
| || "{{inlineref|bold=N|Rash}}" || || [[Collaborators]] (on locker door)
|-
| || "{{inlineref|bold=N|Rocket}}" || || Six of One
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Ruins|Chac "Ruins" Choben}}<ref>Name and rank from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/122 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Lt. Chac "Ruins" Choben's nameplate.</ref> || V || From War Room chalkboard (circa Season 4), assigned to Primus Squadron.
|-
| || "{{inlineref|bold=N|Sharky}}" || || Six of One
|-
| || "[[Sniper]]" ||V || Six of One
|-
| || "Space-Katt" ||V ||Six of One
|-
| || "[[Stinger]]" ||V || Six of One
|-
| || "{{inlineref|bold=N|Snaps}}" || || Six of One
|-
| || "[[Thumper]]" ||V ||Six of One
|-
| || "Toothbrush" || ||Six of One
|-
|Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Trip|Jose "Trip" Montero}} || V || From War Room chalkboard (circa Season 4), assigned to Primus Squadron.
|}

==Inactive==
{|class="messagebox sortable" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
!Rank !! Name !! Qualifications
|-
|Rear Admiral || [[William Adama|William "Husker" Adama]] || VR
|-
|Colonel || [[Saul Tigh]] || Unknown<ref>As Tigh's military record was falsified by [[John Cavil]], Tigh's "life" as a Colonial begins ''after'' the [[First Cylon War]] and approximately 20 years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. Therefore, Tigh's actual flight ability is unknown.</ref>
|-
|Major (ret.) || [[Lee Adama|Lee "Apollo" Adama]] || VRO
|-
|Captain || [[Aaron Kelly]] || Unknown, junior flight status indicated by [[Insignia (RDM)|junior flight wings]] on uniform.
|-
|Lieutenant (ret.) || [[Daniel Novacek|Daniel "Bulldog" Novacek]] || VO
|-
|Junior Lieutenant/Ensign || [["Shooter"]] || Unknown, junior flight status indicated by [[Insignia (RDM)|junior flight wings]] on uniform.
|}

==Deceased==

===Seen===
{|class="messagebox sortable" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
!Rank !! Name !! Qualifications !! Death
|-
|Rear Admiral || [[Helena Cain]] || Unknown, senior flight status indicated by [[Insignia (RDM)|senior flight wings]] on uniform. || [[Resurrection Ship, Part II]] (Murder)
|-
|Commander || [[Jack Fisk]] || Unknown, senior flight status indicated by senior flight wings on uniform. || [[Black Market]] (Murder)
|-
|Colonel || [[Jurgen Belzen]] || Unknown, senior flight status indicated by senior flight wings on uniform. || [[Razor]] (Execution)
|-
|Major || [[Jackson Spencer|Jackson "Dipper" Spencer]] ||V || [[Miniseries, Night 1]] (KIA)
|-
|Captain || [[Louanne Katraine|Louanne "Kat" Katraine]] ||VR || [[The Passage]] (Radiation poisoning)
|-
|Captain || [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] ||VRO || [[Maelstrom]]/[[Daybreak, Part II]] (KIA / Vanished)
|-
|Lieutenant || [["Jolly" Anders]] ||V || Miniseries, Night 1 (KIA)
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Baker|Cohen "Karma" Baker]] || R || [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]] (KIA)
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Richard Bayer|Richard "Buster" Bayer]] || R || [[The Captain's Hand]] (KIA)
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]] || RE || [[Daybreak, Part II]] (KIA)
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Hamish McCall|Hamish "Skulls" McCall]] || RE || [[Daybreak, Part II]] (KIA)
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Alex Quartararo|Alex "Crashdown" Quartararo]] ||E || [[Fragged]] (Fratricide)
|-
|Jr. Lieutenant (ret.)|| [[Tucker Clellan|Tucker "Duck" Clellan]] ||V || [[Occupation]] (Suicide)
|-
|Jr. Lieutenant (ret.) || [[Nora Farmer]] ||V || [[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance#Episode 4|The Resistance, Episode 4]] (Assault)
|-
|Jr. Lieutenant || [[J. Finnegan|Jay "Shark" Finnegan]] ||R || [[The Face of the Enemy]] (Murder)
|-
|Jr. Lieutenant || [[Felix Gaeta]] || Unknown, junior flight status indicated by junior flight wings on uniform.<ref>Note: In the [[Miniseries]], Gaeta does not have flight wings on his uniform, but when the show went to series, the character is given flight wings from "[[33]]" and onward.</ref> || [[Blood on the Scales]] (Execution)
|-
|Jr. Lieutenant || [[Eammon Pike|Eammon "Gonzo" Pike]] ||VR || [[Sine Qua Non]]/[[The Hub]] (KIA)
|-
|Jr. Lieutenant || [[Dwight Saunders|Dwight "Flat Top" Saunders]] || R || [[Act of Contrition]] (Accident)
|-
|(former) Jr. Lieutenant || [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]] || R || [[Daybreak, Part II]] (KIA)
|-
|Ensign || [[Samuel Anders|Samuel "Longshot" Anders]] || V || [[Daybreak, Part II]] (Suicide)
|-
|Ensign || [[Brent Baxton|Brent "BB" Baxton]] ||V || [[Scar]] (KIA)
|-
|Ensign || [[Joseph Clark|Joseph "Jo-Jo" Clark]] ||V || Scar (KIA)
|-
|Ensign || [[Esrin|"Easy" Esrin]] ||R || The Face of the Enemy (Murder)
|-
| || "[[Stepchild]]" ||V || The Hand of God (KIA)
|-
|Sergeant || [[Donald Perry|Donald "Chuckles" Perry]] ||V || The Hand of God (KIA)
|-
| || [[Lyla Ellway|Lyla "Shark" Ellway]] || E || The Captain's Hand (KIA)
|-
|Lieutenant || "[[S. Irvine|S. "Flyboy" Irvine]]" ||V || [[Valley of Darkness]] (KIA)
|-
| || "[[Fireball]]" ||V || [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]] (KIA)
|}

===Mentioned Only===

{|class="messagebox sortable" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
!Rank !! Name !! Qualifications !! Death
|-
| || "Sandman" ||V || [[Sine Qua Non]] (KIA)
|-
| || "[[Tough Guy]]" || R || [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]] (KIA)
|-
| || "[[Carousel]]" || E || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I (KIA)
|-
| || [[Reilly]] ||V || [[Scar]] (KIA)
|-
| || "[[Beano]]" ||V || Scar (KIA)
|-
| || "{{inlineref|bold=N|Sheppard}}" || || KIA (mentioned by Kara Thrace in "Scar")
|-
| Captain || [[Theo Oberon|Theo "Dash" Oberon]] ||V || KIA (mentioned by Kara Thrace in "Scar")
|-
| Captain || {{inlineref|bold=N|Puppet|Branuelle "Puppet" Bronte}}<ref>Name and rank from [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/233 Official Battlestar Galactica Props & Costumes Auction Archive] listing for Capt. Branuelle "Puppet" Bronte's nameplate.</ref> || V || KIA (mentioned by Kara Thrace in "Scar")
|}

===Unnamed===
*Pilot and ECO of [[Raptor 314]] - [[The Captain's Hand]] (KIA)
*(At most) 4 pilots - [[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]
*Pilot and ECO of [[Raptor 3]] - [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]] (KIA)
*1 unidentified Viper Mk. II pilot - [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]] (KIA)
*12 unidentified pilots - [[Act of Contrition]] (Accident)
*18 Viper Mk. VII pilots - [[Miniseries]], first sortie (KIA)
*1 Viper Mk. II pilot - Miniseries, second sortie (KIA)
*7 Viper Mk. II pilots - Miniseries, third sortie (KIA)
*1 Viper Mk. VII pilot - Miniseries, third sortie (KIA)

==Status Unknown after New Caprica==

These characters have not been seen or mentioned since the settlement of [[New Caprica]], during which many military personnel mustered out of the service. As such, it is not known if they are still on active duty.

===Seen===
{|class="messagebox sortable" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
!Rank !! Name !! Qualifications !! Last Seen (Mentioned)
|-
|Captain || [[Cole Taylor|Cole "Stinger" Taylor]] ||VR || [[Resurrection Ship, Part I]] ([[The Captain's Hand]])
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Joe Palladino|Joe "Hammerhead" Palladino]] ||V || [[Final Cut]]
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Emmitt Jones|Emmitt "Sweetness" Jones]] ||R || Home, Part I
|-
| || "[[Stubbs]]" ||R || The Hand of God
|}

===Mentioned Only===

The following mentioned-only characters have been identified by name. They may be identical with any of the mentioned-only characters identified by call sign, listed below.

{|class="messagebox sortable" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
!Rank !! Name !! Qualifications !! Last Mentioned
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Mueller (pilot)|Mueller]] || || [[Home, Part I]] (by [[William Adama]])
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Olin Perry]] || || Home, Part I (by [[Saul Tigh]])
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Simes]] || V || [[Fragged]] (by [[Saul Tigh]])
|}

The following mentioned-only characters have been identified by callsign. They may be identical with any of the mentioned-only characters identified by name, listed above. All the pilots listed for "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]" are part of the rescue mission to Caprica and identify themselves during the wireless check-in prior to the first jump.

{|class="messagebox sortable" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
!Rank !! Name !! Qualifications !! Last Mentioned
|-
| || [[Headcase]] || R || [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Swordsman}} || R || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Anvil}} || R || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Chinstrap}} || R || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Gumball}} || R || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Raw Meat}} || R || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Toyon}} || R || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Strakus}} || R || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Playboy pilot|Playboy}} || R || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Polo}} || R || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Casey}} || R || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Adonis}} || R || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Gully Man}} || R || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Star Cloud}} || R || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Callan}} || R || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
|-
| || [[Snake]] || V || [[Scar]]
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Crash pilot|Crash}} || || Scar (on locker door in the [[Galactica crew facilities (RDM)#Heads|head]])
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Bubba}} || || Scar (on locker door)
|-
| || {{inlineref|Flash|bold=N}} || || Scar (on locker door)
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Spooky}} || || Scar (on locker door)
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Nuke}} || || Scar (on locker door)
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Rebel}} || || Scar (on locker door)
|-
|Lieutenant || Ronald "Sonny" French ||V || [[Black Market]] (on locker door in the weight room)
|-
| || [[Rock Star]] ||V || [[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]
|-
| || [[Whiplash]] ||VR || [[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]
|-
| || [[Thumper (Pegasus)|Thumper]] ||VR || Pegasus
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Grayshirt}} ||V || Final Cut, later seen on [[:Image:War Room chalkboard.jpg|War Room chalkboard]] (circa [[Season 4]]), assigned to [[Primus]] Squadron.
|-
|Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Ranger|T "Ranger" Rogers}} ||R || [[Fragged]] (on Raptor name plate)
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Honey Bear}} ||V || [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]] (on roster<ref name="HOG roster">See [[:Image:Situation Room pilot board.jpg]] for the roster seen in "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]". Another column of the roster can be seen around time index 35:00 behind Baltar.</ref>)
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Moe}} ||V || The Hand of God (on roster<ref name="HOG roster"/>)
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Guy}} ||R || The Hand of God (on roster<ref name="HOG roster"/>)
|-
| || [[Frosty]] ||R || The Hand of God (on roster <ref name="HOG roster"/>)
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Bobo}} ||V || The Hand of God (on roster)
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Bash}} ||V || The Hand of God (on roster)
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Hooper}} ||V || The Hand of God (on roster)
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Bambit}} ||V || The Hand of God (on roster)
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Jackson}} ||V || The Hand of God (on roster)
|-
| || [[Spinner]] ||V || The Hand of God
|-
|Lieutenant || [[Oein Parker|Oein "Deadbolt" Parker]] ||V || The Hand of God
|-
| || [[Buzzer]] ||V || The Hand of God
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Beehive}} ||V || [[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]
|-
| || [[Joker]] ||V || [[Act of Contrition]] (on roster)
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Greenback}} ||V || Act of Contrition (on roster)
|-
| || [[Thumper (Galactica)|Thumper]] || || Bastille Day (on roster)
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|Ice Cap}} ||V || [[33]] (on roster)
|-
| || {{inlineref|bold=N|T-Bone}} ||V || 33 (Part of Apollo's squadron, [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)#33|deleted scene]])
|-
| || [[Wedge]] ||V || 33 (Part of Apollo's squadron, [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)#33|deleted scene]])
|-
| || [[Winger]] ||V || 33 (Part of Apollo's squadron, [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)#33|deleted scene]])
|}

==Status Unknown==

This is a listing of pilots and callsigns derived from the nameplates that were auctioned off. These nameplates were either used on the Vipers in the background or made for the production, and thus may or may never have been seen on-screen. Their status has been presently identified as "unknown."

{|class="messagebox sortable" style="width:100%" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="4" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
!Rank !! Name !! Source !! Note
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Beetle|Becca "Beetle" Andrewson}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/778 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark II]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Dinger|Rosemary "Dinger" Bell}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/508 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Slick|Jacob "Slick" Calabos}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/25 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark II]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Spiceman|Kirk "Spiceman" Donner}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/777 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark II]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Scary|Brooks "Scary" Garner}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/124 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Ensign || {{inlineref|bold=N|Stig|Oliver "Stig" Gittes}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/381 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Silverstep|Paz "Silverstep" Huang}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/17 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Lefty|Shirley "Lefty" Ingot}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/1087 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Ensign || {{inlineref|bold=N|Singer|Breyon "Singer" Jaskaran}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/510 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|John "Bones" Lavell}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/4 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark II]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Cody "Flea" Mandrake}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/9 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Flim-Flam|Clay "Flim-Flam" McKenzie}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/376 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Creeper|Erika "Creeper" Merchantele}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/775 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark II]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Doom|Cole "Doom" Metzger}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/1846 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Melinda "Akbar" Montes}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/1 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Ensign || {{inlineref|bold=N|Greybill|Emma "Greybill" Munroe}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/511 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark II]] pilot.
|-
| Ensign || {{inlineref|bold=N|Sleeper|Kraner "Sleeper" O'Kane}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1004/779 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Frank "I-Zyk" Pooley}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/8 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark II]] pilot.
|-
| Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Kitty-Kat|Liz "Kitty-Kat" Riedel}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/1953 Nameplate from Official Battlestar Props Auction] || [[Viper Mark VII]] pilot.
|}

== Homages to real persons ==

The following pilots are homages to people working on the show or related to its production. Since they may only exist in behind-the-scenes photos and not featured on screen, they don't necessarily exist within the show's continuity.

{|class="messagebox sortable" style="width:100%" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="4" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
!Rank !! Name !! Source !! Note
|-
|Admiral || Ronald D. "Caveman" Moore || [[:Image:Caveman Mark II nameplate - wm.jpg|Behind-the-scenes photo]] || A reference to show runner [[Ronald D. Moore]].
|-
|Captain || {{inlineref|bold=N|Silent|Kevin "Silent" Smith}} || [[:Image:Kevin Smith's Viper.jpg|Behind-the-scenes photo]] || This is an homage to actor, director and writer [[Kevin Smith]], who was considered to direct an episode of the fourth season.
|}

== Non-Canon ==

This is a list of names of pilots who have been identified as not being in the series canon, based on the following conditions:

# The name is derived from a nameplate that was production made, and;
# The name directly contradicts known, established canon.

{|class="messagebox sortable" style="width:100%" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="4" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
!Rank !! Name !! Source !! Note
|-
|Lieutenant || {{inlineref|bold=N|Gwen Fleer|Gwen "Red Devil" Fleer}} || [http://archive.battlestarprops.com/1002/13 Nameplate auctioned off during the Official Battlestar Props and Costumes Auction.] || A nameplate likely made for [[Steve Fleer]], who shares the same callsign, last name, and rank. Nameplate was likely made before production changes rendered it obsolete.
|}

== References ==

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

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Characters|*]]
[[Category:Characters (RDM)|*]]
[[Category:Lists]]
[[Category:Organizations]]
[[Category:RDM|*]]

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Commander Air Group

2011-05-12T08:47:20Z

ViperWings: /* Commander, Air Group battlestar Galactica */

__NOTOC__
The '''Commander, Air Group''' ('''CAG''') is the senior pilot aboard a [[battlestar]], responsible for [[Air Wing]] operations and personnel. The billet is filled by the senior flight officer with a [[Military Ranks (RDM)|rank]] of captain or higher.

==Commander, Air Group battlestar ''Galactica''==
:''For a complete list of all Galactica CAGs, see: [[Senior_Staff_of_Galactica#Commander.2C_Air_Group|Senior Staff of Galactica]]''

* Captain [[Lee Adama|Lee "Apollo" Adama]] ("[[Miniseries]]" to "[[Pegasus]]")
* Captain [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] ("[[Downloaded]]" to "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]")
* Major [[Lee Adama|Lee "Apollo" Adama]] ("[[Torn]]" to "[[The Son Also Rises]]")
* Captain [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]] ("[[The Son Also Rises]]" to "[[Six of One]]")
* Captain [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] ("[[Sine Qua Non]]" to "[[Daybreak, Part II]]")

==Commander, Air Group battlestar ''Pegasus''==
* Captain [[Cole Taylor|Cole "Stinger" Taylor]] (Relieved by Admiral [[Helena Cain|Cain]] in "[[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]")
* Captain [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] (Replaces Cole Taylor, but transfered back to ''Galactica'' by "[[Epiphanies]]". Temporarily transferred to ''Pegasus'' in "[[The Captain's Hand]]" and re-assigned to ''Galactica'' after "[[Razor]]")
* CAG at the time of destruction unknown

==Notes==
* CAGs have normally been captains throughout the series, but always senior to all other pilots. Captain [[Lee Adama]] is initially appointed CAG by virtue of his rank, and eventually is promoted to major with several captains serving under him as squadron commanders. Subsequent CAGs ([[Kara Thrace]], [[George Birch]], [[Louanne Katraine]]) are captains when appointed. In Thrace's case in "[[Pegasus]]", Lee Adama is demoted to a subordinate captain under her.
*"[[Wikipedia:Commander, Air Group|CAG]]" is a US Navy term that has gained widespread recognition through films and television series such as "Top Gun" and "JAG". The term "CAG" is obsolete as Air Groups are now known as Air Wings and the position is "Commander, Air Wing" (CAW), but it is still used, especially on an informal level. The term "Air Wing" is also used on ''Battlestar Galactica'' ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).
*The CAG's rank and place in the ship's hierarchy is one area where ''Battlestar Galactica'' diverges from the US Navy. In the real world, the CAG is a captain (O-6) of equal seniority to the ship's captain (or skipper), with both under the command of an admiral who commands the Carrier Strike Group. ''Battlestar Galactica'' places the CAG under the ship's commander, and at major or even captain he or she holds a relatively low rank.

==See Also==
*[[List of terms (RDM)|List of terms in the Re-imagined Series]]

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:RDM]]
[[Category:Colonial Military (RDM)]]
[[Category:Terminology]]
[[Category:Terminology (RDM)]]

[[de:Commander Air Group]]

Commander Air Group

2011-05-12T08:46:23Z

ViperWings: /* Commander, Air Group battlestar Galactica */

__NOTOC__
The '''Commander, Air Group''' ('''CAG''') is the senior pilot aboard a [[battlestar]], responsible for [[Air Wing]] operations and personnel. The billet is filled by the senior flight officer with a [[Military Ranks (RDM)|rank]] of captain or higher.

==Commander, Air Group battlestar ''Galactica''==
:''For a complete list of all Galactica CAGs, see: [[Senior_Staff_of_Galactica#Commander.2C_Air_Group|Senior Staff of Galactica]]''

* Captain [[Lee Adama|Lee "Apollo" Adama]] ("[[Miniseries]]" to "[[Pegasus]]")
* Captain [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] ("[[Downloaded]]" to "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]")
* Captain [[Lee Adama|Lee "Apollo" Adama]] ("[[Torn]]" to "[[The Son Also Rises]]")
* Captain [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]] ("[[The Son Also Rises]]" to "[[Six of One]]")
* Captain [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] ("[[Sine Qua Non]]" to "[[Daybreak, Part II]]")

==Commander, Air Group battlestar ''Pegasus''==
* Captain [[Cole Taylor|Cole "Stinger" Taylor]] (Relieved by Admiral [[Helena Cain|Cain]] in "[[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]")
* Captain [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] (Replaces Cole Taylor, but transfered back to ''Galactica'' by "[[Epiphanies]]". Temporarily transferred to ''Pegasus'' in "[[The Captain's Hand]]" and re-assigned to ''Galactica'' after "[[Razor]]")
* CAG at the time of destruction unknown

==Notes==
* CAGs have normally been captains throughout the series, but always senior to all other pilots. Captain [[Lee Adama]] is initially appointed CAG by virtue of his rank, and eventually is promoted to major with several captains serving under him as squadron commanders. Subsequent CAGs ([[Kara Thrace]], [[George Birch]], [[Louanne Katraine]]) are captains when appointed. In Thrace's case in "[[Pegasus]]", Lee Adama is demoted to a subordinate captain under her.
*"[[Wikipedia:Commander, Air Group|CAG]]" is a US Navy term that has gained widespread recognition through films and television series such as "Top Gun" and "JAG". The term "CAG" is obsolete as Air Groups are now known as Air Wings and the position is "Commander, Air Wing" (CAW), but it is still used, especially on an informal level. The term "Air Wing" is also used on ''Battlestar Galactica'' ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).
*The CAG's rank and place in the ship's hierarchy is one area where ''Battlestar Galactica'' diverges from the US Navy. In the real world, the CAG is a captain (O-6) of equal seniority to the ship's captain (or skipper), with both under the command of an admiral who commands the Carrier Strike Group. ''Battlestar Galactica'' places the CAG under the ship's commander, and at major or even captain he or she holds a relatively low rank.

==See Also==
*[[List of terms (RDM)|List of terms in the Re-imagined Series]]

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:RDM]]
[[Category:Colonial Military (RDM)]]
[[Category:Terminology]]
[[Category:Terminology (RDM)]]

[[de:Commander Air Group]]

Kara Thrace

2011-05-12T08:31:25Z

ViperWings:

:''This article discusses the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]] character with the pilot callsign of "Starbuck." For information on Kara Thrace's counterpart in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]], see [[Starbuck (TOS)]].''

:''For Kara Thrace's parents, see [[Dreilide Thrace]] and [[Socrata Thrace]].''

{{Character Data
|photo= Kara Thrace.jpg
|age=
|colony= [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]
|birthname= Kara Thrace
|callsign= Starbuck
|seen= Miniseries
|death= Viper destroyed near gas giant, crashing on [[Earth (RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|Cylon Earth]] ([[Maelstrom]]/[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]); Mysteriously reappears ([[Crossroads, Part II]]); Vanishes in Tanzania on [[Earth (RDM)#A_New_Earth|pre-historical 2nd Earth]] ([[Daybreak, Part II]])
|parents= [[Socrata Thrace]]† (mother) [[Dreilide Thrace]]† (father)
|siblings=
|children=
|marital status= Married to [[Samuel Anders]]† (formerly engaged to [[Zak Adama]]†)
|rank=Captain
|role= Viper pilot; flight instructor; ''Galactica'' [[Commander Air Group|CAG]]; angel-prophet; captain of ''[[Demetrius]]''
|actor= [[Katee Sackhoff]] [[Erika-Shaye Gair]] (child)
|cylon=
|serial = 462753 <ref name="serial"> Confirmed number from QMX dogtags given to them by the studio.</ref>
}}
'''Kara "Starbuck" Thrace''' is a gifted [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilot, with an attitude that has hindered her career in the Colonial Fleet. However, [[William Adama]] has confidence in Thrace's military skills, and she greatly aids the Fleet inside and out of the cockpit. She is the last [[Commander Air Group|Commander, Air Group]] (CAG) of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', and mysteriously vanishes in a region that will later be known as Tanzania on [[Earth (RDM)#A_New_Earth|the second Earth]] shortly after the Fleet's arrival on the planet ([[Daybreak, Part II]]).

== Background ==

[[Image:YoungKaraThrace.jpg|thumb|left|A young Kara Thrace in a vision ([[Maelstrom]]).]]
*Thrace's mother [[Socrata Thrace|Socrata]] was a former [[Colonial Marine Corps]] sergeant major. She beat her daughter so frequently that Thrace came to accept pain as a way of life ("[[Flesh and Bone]]", "[[Maelstrom]]").
*Her father [[Dreilide Thrace|Dreilide]] was a pianist and composer. Kara seems to have been closer to him than with her mother ([[Valley of Darkness]], [[Someone to Watch Over Me]]) until he left them.
*Thrace left home to join the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|military]]. During her training, she was disciplined for insubordinate conduct towards [[Mike Gibbons|superior officers]].
*She was a talented [[pyramid]] player ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]), and was up for the pros, but an injured knee took her out of contention. However, she discovered a passion and skill for being a fighter pilot ([[Podcast:The Hand of God]]).
*One of her early posts was aboard the battlestar ''[[Triton (RDM)|Triton]]''. While there, she offended Commander [[Myron Ruth]], who initiated court-martial proceedings against her, but the charges were later dropped ([[The Son Also Rises]]).
*Thrace eventually returned to flight school as an instructor, where she fell in love with one of her students, [[Zak Adama]]. Despite his poor performance, she allowed him to pass his final check flight although he failed three of the required maneuvers ([[Act of Contrition]]).
*Thrace lost Zak Adama when he was killed during a routine mission shortly after graduating. [[Lee Adama]] ("Apollo"), Zak's elder brother, blamed their father for Zak's death, and Thrace, feeling guilty, kept quiet. She met [[William Adama]] shortly after the accident, and the two formed a strong rapport and stood together at the funeral ([[Act of Contrition]]).
*Thrace resigned as an instructor and returned to the Fleet as an operational pilot on the [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'' under the command of William Adama, where she served for some two years prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]]. Before the Cylon attack, she was second-in-command to the [[CAG]], [[Jackson Spencer]].
*She has a rarely-used run-down apartment in [[Delphi]] that overlooked a parking lot, and a Colonial version of a [[Wikipedia:Humvee|Humvee]] which she and Helo use to escape the city and get to the country where she meets Samuel Anders. She was also an avid painter, and her apartment is cluttered with her paintings and a [[Starbuck's Poem|poem]] written on a wall ([[Valley of Darkness]]). The apartment was neater when Thrace was with Zak Adama, although her [[Eye of Jupiter|mandala]] wall painting pre-dates that relationship. ([[Daybreak, Part I]])
*Thrace hides the fact that she is deeply spiritual. She frequently prays to the [[Lords of Kobol]], particularly [[Aphrodite]] and [[Artemis]] in dire situations ([[Miniseries]], "[[Flesh and Bone]]", "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]").

==Character History==

=== Galactica and Pre-New Caprica ===

*Thrace's attitude quickly runs her afoul of Colonel [[Saul Tigh]], ''Galactica's'' [[executive officer]]. Their open mutual dislike of one another leads to the point where blows are exchanged, with Thrace ending up in the brig. After the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] she is released from the brig and returns to duty as Viper pilot.
*Thrace manages to keep two of three nuclear missiles from striking ''Galactica'' in their first Cylon sortie, and saves Lee from doom in an innovative maneuver in the [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]].
*Her skills in saving Lee brings her grudging respect from Colonel Tigh, but she is unable to accept his offer of the olive branch—an act that will have repercussions for her later ([[Miniseries]]).
[[image:Bastille_Day-Starbuck_Boxey.jpg|thumb|right|Thrace as acting [[CAG]] with [[Boxey (RDM)|Boxey]] as assistant ([[Bastille Day]]).]]
*Thrace participates in a hostage rescue mission aboard the ''[[Astral Queen]]''. Following the successful mission, Thrace tries to mend fences between herself and Colonel Tigh with a toast (consisting of water), apologizing in much the same way as Tigh himself had tried after their initial escape from [[Ragnar Anchorage]]. But Tigh rejects Thrace's apology, stating that her flaws are professional, while his flaws were personal ([[Bastille Day]]).
*Thrace eventually admits her secret about Zak Adama to William Adama himself, an act that brings their close friendship almost to the breaking point ([[Act of Contrition]]).
*During a surprise encounter with Cylons during [[nugget]] training, Thrace destroys several Cylon Raiders, but her ship is damaged and tumbles towards a small red moon with an unbreathable atmosphere. With her Viper in a fatal flat-spin, Thrace is forced to eject from her Viper ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]).
*Thrace (nursing a damaged knee) repairs the downed Cylon Raider found on the inhabitable moon and returns to ''Galactica'', giving the Fleet a vital piece of Cylon fighter technology for study and use.
*The recovering Thrace, off flight status, is asked by Commander Adama to plan a special attack on a Cylon [[tylium]] refinery. The tactical planning role is not something she relishes, and she frequently shows resentment towards others for her condition ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]).
*During Thrace's undesired interrogation of a Cylon prisoner, a copy of a known [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylon]] named [[Leoben Conoy]], she uses some drastic acts to try to extract the information from the humanoid Cylon ([[Flesh and Bone]]).
[[image:Starbuck-Kobols_Last_Gleaming_pt2.jpg|thumb|right|Thrace retrieves the [[Arrow of Apollo]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).]]
*Thrace is assigned to plant a nuclear device on board a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] in orbit around [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]]. She disobeys orders to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]] at the request of President Roslin, since she discovered Commander Adama's speech concerning knowledge of the location of Earth was a lie. She [[FTL|jump]]s to Caprica ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]), landing in [[Delphi]] in the captured Cylon [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]], depriving the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] of the valuable military asset.
*In the [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]] with the Arrow, she is violently attacked by a copy of [[Number Six]]. Despite being heavily outmatched in the fight, Thrace luckily defeats the Cylon.
*At the museum, she reunites with [[Karl Agathon]], whom she thought dead, and discovers [[Sharon Agathon|a second copy]] of [[Sharon Valerii]], realizing instantly that the woman is a Cylon.
*"Caprica Valerii", fearing for her child, steals Thrace's Raider. In exasperation, Thrace only mutters: "Bitch took my ride" ([[Scattered]]). Like Agathon, Thrace is left with no way to return to the Fleet unless she could find her Raider or another Cylon spacecraft, as only Cylon navigational computers are powerful enough to plot jumps over such large distances..
*Thrace berates Agathon's love for the Caprica copy of Valerii. Thrace finds the keys of her surplus military utility vehicle in her old jacket in her old apartment. Thrace has a ride again, if only to move more efficiently about Caprica ([[Valley of Darkness]]).
[[Image:ThraceAndersResistance.jpg|thumb|right|Thrace and Anders playing Pyramid on Caprica ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]).]]
*Thrace and Agathon meet a [[Caprica Resistance|resistance movement]] on Caprica. Thrace and [[Samuel Anders]] strike up a rapport as fellow [[Pyramid (RDM)|Pyramid]] players and end up having sex.
*During planning to steal a [[Heavy Raider]], Thrace is shot in a military action, waking up in a hospital on Caprica. Thrace is told by her doctor, [[Simon]], that Anders died from wounds he suffered in getting Thrace to safety.
*Thrace discovers that Simon is working with a [[Number Six|known humanoid Cylon]]. She overhears that the next day he plans to extract her ovaries for use in the Cylon's attempts to study and create a hybrid Cylon/human embryo. Simon also makes the mistake of calling Thrace by her callsign, Starbuck, which she had never revealed.
*Staggering and in pain, Thrace kills Simon and escapes the hospital, but not before clocking a Six copy with a fire extinguisher and destroying the local farm power supply, mercy-killing [[Sue-Shaun]] and several other women in the facility.
*Another Simon copy appears just as the Resistance attacks the facility. The second Simon, now revealed as a humanoid Cylon himself, is immediately killed by the Resistance, but a squad of [[Cylon Centurion]]s appear and pins the Resistance down. Luckily, [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]] swoops in with a stolen [[Heavy Raider]], destroys the Centurions and flies the Resistance and Thrace out of harm's way.
*Thrace promises Anders that she'll [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I|return with a rescue mission]] for the remaining survivors. Anders returns the Arrow of Apollo to Thrace, which he hid on the resistance grounds for safekeeping ([[The Farm]]).
*Thrace, Agathon and the pregnant "Caprica Valerii" land on the ''[[Astral Queen]]'' in the Heavy Raider. Finding the [[Laura Roslin faction]] in orbit of [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], Thrace is reunited with Lee. He kisses her impulsively, catching Thrace by pleasant surprise, but a tense standoff follows when Lee discovers that another Sharon copy has returned with them. Roslin helps defuse the situation, and Thrace delivers the Arrow of Apollo to the President.
*Temporarily removed from military protocol, Lee playfully teases Thrace by stealing a pyramid ball she took from Caprica. Adama senses her depression about Caprica and tells her that he'd be happy to hear about any problems she had. He also let slip that he loved her, which brightened Thrace's mood to the point where she teased him back about his slip.
*With a team led by Laura Roslin, Lee, and, later, joined by the recovered Commander Adama, Thrace enters the [[Tomb of Athena]] and successfully uses the Arrow of Apollo to activate a hologram that shows constellations of the Twelve Colonies' ancient symbols.
*Thrace realizes that they are on a recreation of Earth. Together with Lee, they locate the Lagoon Nebula, a celestial body known to Commander Adama and Lee, and gather sufficient information to begin an actual course to Earth ([[Home, Part II]]).
*Thrace shows off the impressive stealth abilities of the new [[Blackbird]] fighter in her maiden flight ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).
*With the arrival of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', Admiral [[Helena Cain]] summarily assigns Thrace (and Lee) to ''Pegasus'' after digesting the reports of ''Galactica'''s officers.
*[[Cole Taylor|The ''Pegasus'' CAG]] removes Thrace from the Cylon recon mission. Lee secretly tells her to use the [[Blackbird]] to take recon photos of the Cylon Unknown ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).
*Returning from her very successful mission, the [[Blackbird]]'s lack of a Colonial transponder is mistaken for a Cylon [[Raider]] on [[DRADIS]], and Thrace is nearly confronted and shot at by Vipers from ''Pegasus'' and ''Galactica''. After narrowly avoiding certain death by declaring herself a friendly, Thrace transmits her recon photos to ''Pegasus''.
*Admiral Cain is very impressed with Thrace's performance and promotes her to Captain and ''Pegasus'' CAG.
*Thrace is assigned the task of planning the joint attack on the Resurrection Ship, but successfully asks to have Lee on her team, restoring him to flight status.
*After she briefs Cain and Commander Adama on her battle plan, Adama asks Thrace privately to assassinate Cain after the battle is complete. Adama fears that if Cain continues to command, the Fleet would be in mortal jeopardy from Cain's draconian command ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).
*Thrace's battle planning, as before on the [[tylium]] [[The Hand of God (RDM)|mine]], works to near-perfection, with the Resurrection Ship destroyed and its supporting basestars.
*As a result of the battle events, Thrace is left without backup as she walks to the ''Pegasus'' CIC to shoot Cain, obviously afraid and apprehensive. When Commander Adama calls, Thrace slowly moves her hand to her sidearm but, to her relief, Adama does not give the kill order and cryptically instructs her to stand down ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).
*Thrace and [[Louanne Katraine|Louanne "Kat" Katraine]] are involved in the protection of a mining operation from periodic Raider attacks. One Raider, nicknamed [[Scar (Raider)|Scar]], fuels an intensive rivalry for the pilot's "top gun" honor. Thrace, still depressed over her inability to convince Fleet command to initiate a rescue for Samuel Anders and his resistance, drinks heavily and obsesses over removing Scar from the sky, even at the cost of her life. Fortunately, Thrace realizes the futility of her actions, and works together with Katraine to destroy the remarkably dangerous Raider ([[Scar]]).
*A few weeks later, Thrace takes leave on ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' when she was dragooned into rescuing Lee and several other ''Galactica'' crew and residents after terrorists take them hostage in exchange for the incarcerated [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon Agathon neé Valerii]]. Thrace gathers intelligence on the situation, but her cover is blown. In the retreating firefight, Lee is caught in the crossfire. After the situation is resolved, Thrace intended to sit at Lee's bedside, only to discover that Dualla beat her to it ([[Sacrifice]]).
*Later, Thrace is assigned to ''Pegasus'' as a flight trainer. Though the pilots like her, Commander [[Barry Garner]] does not, eventually confining her to quarters for "insubordination." Following the [[Battle of the Binary Star System|ill-fated rescue and retreat]] from a Cylon ambush (where Thrace leads the fighters) and [[Battle of the Guardian Basestar|after a search, rescue and destroy mission to a Cylon-war era basestar]], Thrace informs Lee—now commander of ''Pegasus''—that she was taking over his old CAG post aboard ''Galactica'', joking that she has a problem with her commander wanting to send her off to get killed ("[[The Captain's Hand]]", "[[Razor]]").
*Thrace gets her wish: the Caprica rescue is approved, and she leads a large Raptor squadron to the planet. The group soon met up with Anders, who reports that their HQ had been destroyed and Thrace's timing was just perfect. A squad of Centurions ambush and pin down the group moments later ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]).
*Still pinned down from attack fire, Thrace and Anders agree to kill each other to avoid capture and internment at a [[Farms|farm]]. But the attack stops, and a [[Cavil|man]] appears, praising the [[Lords of Kobol|Gods]] as he announces that the Cylons not only have ceased fire, but are abandoning the Twelve Colonies. Thrace isn't really surprised to discover that the man, known as Brother [[Cavil]], was a Cylon upon their return to the Fleet.
*Thrace and Anders proceed to get drunk, and host a disastrous encounter with Lee. This apparently led to a rift between the two comrades.
[[Image:Leobenkara.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Leoben with Kara Thrace ([[Exodus, Part I]]).]]
*The evening of the founding of [[New Caprica]], Kara slept with Lee and proclaimed her love for him as she was uncertain regarding her feelings toward Anders. The following morning she quickly married Anders in a ceremony near the river, despite declaring to Lee just the previous evening that she had no intention of getting married. This caused a rift between Kara and Lee that lasted for well over a year ([[Unfinished Business]]).
*Life on New Caprica tempered Thrace, and she often behaved in ways Thrace never would have, including hugging Colonel Tigh and pampering Anders during his bout with an illness.
*She watches in horror at the sudden arrival of hundreds of Cylon ships in the sky over New Caprica. A few of ''Galactica's'' former crew gather near Thrace, looking to her for guidance. She responds the only way she knows how: "Fight 'em until we can't" ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).

=== The New Caprica Ordeal and Her Death ===

*After Baltar's surrender of New Caprica, Conoy keeps Thrace prisoner in an apartment located within the Cylon-built [[New Caprica Detention Center]] in an attempt to convince Thrace that she loves him and also convert her to the [[Cylon Religion|Cylon monotheistic religion]]. She repeatedly kills Conoy a total of five times in an attempt to convince him to let her go ("[[Occupation]]", "[[Precipice]]").
*Conoy introduces Thrace to a small child named [[Kacey Brynn|Kacey]], who appears to be approximately two to three years in age, whom he claims is their biological daughter, created using one of Thrace's extracted ovaries ([[The Farm]]) and his genetic material. Conflicted, Thrace leaves the child unattended, which later results in Kacey falling down the apartment's stairs ([[Precipice]]). After the fall, Thrace begins to change her attitude towards the child and begins to offer affection towards Conoy ("[[Precipice]]", "[[Exodus, Part I]]").
*Upon her return to ''Galactica'' after Admiral Adama's [[Battle of New Caprica|daring rescue attempt]], Thrace heartbreakingly discovers that Kacey was simply another manipulation on Conoy's part; Kacey is merely a human child whom the Cylons had abducted from [[Julia Brynn|her mother]] ([[Exodus, Part II]]).
*Bearing the psychological scars of her four month ordeal with Leoben and Kacey, Thrace is recruited by [[Diana Seelix]] as a last minute replacement juror in the [[Circle]] after Anders' resignation. Thrace's involvement in the Circle precipitates the breakup of her marriage with Anders. Initially wondering about the legality of the tribunal, she is the fifth vote to find [[Felix Gaeta]] guilty of treason and collaboration. Later, when Gaeta is about to be killed in one of ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> [[launch tubes (RDM)|launch tubes]], she demands that he beg for his life. Thrace physically assaults him and goes down the litany of "lies" that Gaeta told her earlier about him helping the [[New Caprica Resistance|insurgency]]. As she does so, [[Galen Tyrol]], one of the Circle's jurors, overhears this and confirms the story. In a sense of confusion after learning that Gaeta was telling the truth, Thrace leaves the launch tube ([[Collaborators]]).
*During a combat exercise between Vipers, Thrace breaks formation and collides with another pilot, forcing an end to the war games and causing Lee to revoke her flight status. Later, at her bunk she is met by Kacey and her mother, whom she dismisses, telling Kacey's mother not to visit her again. In the pilots' rec room, Thrace and Colonel Tigh begin to sow dissent between the survivors of New Caprica and the crew that stayed behind on ''Galactica'', insinuating that those who stayed behind did not suffer like those on New Caprica did, and that the crew of ''Galactica'' took too long to organize a rescue. Admiral Adama, upon learning of this from Karl Agathon, confronts Thrace and Tigh on their behavior. He challenges them to shoot him, as their constant complaining is tantamount to pulling the trigger. When neither do, Adama throws Thrace off her chair and demands that both she and Tigh shape up and move on with their lives. Spurred by Adama's words, Thrace cuts her hair and returns to duty. Later, in uniform, she visits Kacey and her mother on the [[Dogsville|converted hangar deck]] ([[Torn]]).
*Thrace enters an affair with Lee, rekindling their romance on New Caprica ([[Unfinished Business]]). Both Anders and Lee's wife, Lieutenant [[Anastasia Dualla]], are more than vaguely aware of the pair's sexual tension. Lee ends the affair and reconciles with his wife despite still being in love with Thrace, but Thrace refuses to give Anders any further attention than a periodic sexual fling.
*Thrace is involved with the defense of the incorrectly called "[[Temple of Five]]" but is severely injured, leaving her rescuer, Dualla, to return them to ''Galactica'' ([[Rapture]]). Agathon recognizes the strange circular [[Eye of Jupiter|mandala]] in the Temple, created 4,000 years before, and its resemblance to a symbol that Thrace painted in her apartment. When shown the symbol, the recovering Thrace is darkly reminded of Leoben's prophesy.
*During refueling operations above a gas giant, Thrace is continually attracted to what she believes is a Cylon contact, which she chases to find a planetary storm that resembles the mandala. She dives into it, almost losing control before coming to her senses and returning.
*Command staff and Thrace question her competency to continue flying, but Lee volunteers encouragement and offers to fly as her wingman on her next [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]].
*Thrace finds herself attracted by another apparent Cylon contact. As she descended, her Viper is struck by debris and she, while unconscious, experiences a revelation about her mother, [[Socrata Thrace]], and guided through the vision by what looks to be a Leoben copy.
*Starbuck regains consciousness but chooses to continue her descent despite Lee's desperate pleas to ascend. "I'll see you on the other side (...) Just let me go" were her last words as her Viper explodes. A grief-stricken Lee tells [[CIC]] that he did not see any ejection ([[Maelstrom]]).
*While preparing for a Cylon engagement near the [[Ionian nebula]], Lee (who has [[Crossroads, Part I|since left]] the Colonial Military) detects a bogey on [[DRADIS]]. While he searches for the target, Lee finds himself momentarily in a cat-and-mouse chase game with the mysterious target. As Lee attempts to regain sight of the bogey, it positions itself next to his Viper.

=== Return from the Dead and Suspicion ===

*The [[Starbuck's Viper|pristine Viper Mark II]] that comes alongside is flown by Thrace herself. A shocked and confused [[Lee Adama]] (now a civilian) listens to the apparently-resurrected Kara Thrace, who tells him that she has been to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] and she has returned to take the Fleet to it ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).
*After the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula|battle at the nebula]], she returns to ''Galactica'' where everyone is astounded to see her alive. While everyone believed her dead for over two months, only several hours have passed for her. She has returned with recon photography of [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], but no navigational data or knowledge of how she got there. Further complicating her claim is the fact that her Viper is nearly pristine, as if it had just been built. Despite her passing a medical examination by Doctor [[Sherman Cottle]], almost everyone, including Thrace herself, wonders if she could be a Cylon.
*When the Fleet jumps further away from the Ionian Nebula, she experiences headaches and says that she is losing the intuitive feeling of the way to Earth. Desperate to lead the Colonials there, she breaks into Adama's quarters and confronts Roslin at gun point ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).
*Thrace is eventually subdued by [[Colonial Marines]] and imprisoned in the [[brig]]. Lee visits Thrace in the brig and tells her that he believes her. Thrace is happy that he does and they share a kiss before Lee leaves for ''[[Colonial One]]''. Although not sure what to make of her claims, Admiral Adama releases her later, and gives her command of ''[[Demetrius]]'', and a crew including [[Karl Agathon]] and Samuel Anders, telling her to try to find Earth ([[Six of One]]).
*Thrace irritates her crew by frequent, unexplained course changes and rarely leaving her quarters, where she holes herself up to study star charts. When her husband confronts her about her command style and their marriage, she tells him that she is not the same person he married and tries to throw him out of her cabin. However, when Anders holds her, she tells him that she wants to have sex in order to feel something. Afterwards, she says that she feels distanced from her body and the events around her ([[The Ties That Bind]]).
* When a [[Leoben Conoy]] copy comes aboard ''Demetrius'' with the offer of an alliance with the Cylons, a power struggle among the crew breaks out when Thrace orders to jump to his baseship ([[The Road Less Traveled]]). The fight ends with Gaeta getting shot in the leg by Anders. After standing down, Thrace decides to accompany Conoy with a small team. On his baseship she meets the Cylon [[Hybrid]], who repeats the [[first Hybrid]]'s [[The Destiny|prophecy]] ([[Razor]]) and gives her the next task: join the Cylons to unbox [[Number Three]] to learn what she knows of the Final Five ([[Faith]]).
* After the unboxing, Thrace reacts with shock and disbelief when she learns that her husband is a Cylon. She investigates the [[Starbuck's Viper|Viper she returned in]] and notices that it receives a strange signal, giving her a direct bearing to Earth. Her discovery stops the imminent execution of Colonel Tigh and leads to a truce with the [[Cylon Civil War|Cylon rebels]]. After arriving at Earth, Thrace is part of the first group on the surface, but finds only a destroyed city ([[Revelations]]).

=== The Thirteenth Colony and the Search for a New Home ===
*Thrace and [[Leoben Conoy]] explore the devastated Earth trying to find the source of the signal. They find pieces of wreckage belonging to a [[Viper (RDM)|Colonial Viper]]—the [[Viper 8757|same Viper]] that Thrace [[Maelstrom|flew into the gas giant]]. Finally, they come upon the cockpit of the crashed Viper, with its pilot still inside. Thrace is horrified to discover that the carcass inside the cockpit is hers. Thrace reveals to Conoy that the [[Hybrid]] aboard the rebel baseship called her the "Harbinger of Death." Conoy has no explanation for any of this and flees the scene, leaving Thrace alone to wonder who or what she really is. Thrace later retrieves the dog tags and wedding ring from the body. She then cremates the body and returns to ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. She does not tell anyone what she has discovered ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).
*After ''Galactica'' leaves Earth, Thrace is still trying to come to terms with her discoveries there. [[Felix Gaeta]], who is unhappy about the Fleet's alliance with the [[Cylon (RDM)|Cylons]] and for the events leading up to that point (including a [[The Face of the Enemy|certain revelation]] about his role on [[New Caprica]]), decides to pick a fight with her. Gaeta accuses Thrace of collaborating with the Cylons: Thrace responds by telling him she isn't afraid to beat up a cripple and storms out ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]).
*A withdrawn Thrace later has an altercation with [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]]. She teases him about his unexpected fathering of [[Nicholas Tyrol]]. Costanza is unamused, angrily retorting that Thrace slept with half the Fleet herself and has nothing to show for her efforts. This hits a nerve and Thrace throws a bowl of food at a retreating Costanza.
*An alarm goes off and Thrace is ordered by [[Noel Allison|Noel "Narcho" Allison]] to evacuate the area. Thrace is suspicious and when she presses Allison for more information, he snaps that no one even knows what she is any more.
*Thrace turns to see a group of marines and civilians led by [[Charlie Connor]] run past her, and she follows them. She sees the group break into a weapons locker and arm themselves. She hears Connor giving his men orders to take the [[hangar deck]].
*Thrace rushes back to her barracks and grabs her weapons. She then tries to warn the CIC, but Gaeta blocks her calls. Realizing that Gaeta is also involved, Thrace takes off for the hangar deck.
*She arrives at the hangar deck just in time to rescue [[Lee Adama]] from Connor and his men, who are being assisted by [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]] and [[Hamish McCall|Hamish "Skulls" McCall]]. Thrace kills one of the marines and wounds Skulls, forcing the others to back off. She and Lee then hurry away.
*Thrace and Lee take refuge inside a storage compartment. Lee doesn't think they can defeat the mutiny alone. Thrace responds by kissing him. She then says that this is the first time in weeks that she feels right.
*Thrace and Lee head for the CIC. They find that the mutiny has spread all across the ship. They arrive at Admiral Adama's quarters, where they meet [[Laura Roslin]]. After learning of the mutiny, Roslin decides that she must come out and address the Fleet. However, the ship's communications are down, and the only working [[wireless]] transmitter on the ship is in [[Gaius Baltar]]'s possession.
*Thrace, Adama, and Roslin make it to Baltar's compartment, where they find [[Galen Tyrol]] organizing a defense. Tyrol tells them that Admiral Adama has been arrested and is being escorted to the brig. Tyrol also tells them about a secondary storage airlock they can use to escape the ship. Thrace and Adama head off to rescue the admiral.
*At the brig, they find that [[William Adama]] and [[Saul Tigh]] have already escaped custody. They have also taken the rebel marine, [[Allan Nowart]], prisoner. Thrace tries to kill Nowart, but Adama thwarts her. As Nowart flees, Thrace argues that the mutineers are no longer his men, and as such are the enemy and that they can't afford to take prisoners.
*Thrace, Tigh and the Adamas arrive at the secondary storage airlock, where they find Tyrol, Roslin and Baltar waiting. A [[Raptor]] piloted by an [[Eight]] docks. After Roslin and Baltar board the Raptor, Thrace, Lee and Tyrol head off to continue the fight against Gaeta and [[Thomas Zarek]]'s forces ([[The Oath]]).
*Lee and Thrace head off to free the captives held in the brig, while Tyrol goes to sabotage the ship's FTL drive. They take out the mutineers guarding the brig and free Tigh, [[Sharon Agathon]], [[Karl Agathon]], [[Hera Agathon]], [[Caprica Six]] and [[Samuel Anders]].
*During the escape, a firefight ensues and Anders is shot in the back of the head by a mutineer. He is not killed but is in dire need of medical attention. Thrace yells at the others to go without her and she starts dragging Anders towards the infirmary.
*Thrace eventually exhausts herself trying to carry Anders and she collapses. Marine [[Parr]] escorting [[Romo Lampkin]] appears; Thrace attempts to shoot Parr, but her gun is empty— however, Lampkin suddenly stabs the marine twice in the neck with a pen, killing him.
*Thrace asks Lampkin to help her carry Anders to the infirmary. Lampkin is reluctant but eventually agrees to help ([[Blood on the Scales]]).
*In the immediate aftermath of the mutiny, Thrace learns from Doctor [[Sherman Cottle]] that the bullet is still stuck in Anders' skull. Anders' suppressed memories of his Cylon life back on Earth are also triggered. To Thrace's disappointment, Anders does not have an explanation as to who she really is or how she apparently came back from the dead.
*Cottle manages to remove the bullet, which he gives to Thrace. However, when Thrace goes to speak with Anders, she discovers that he has zero brain activity—which the medical personnel are unable to explain ([[No Exit]]).
*Thrace is later part of a joint Cylon-Colonial CAP which escorts [[Raptor 702|a Raptor]] carrying [[Ellen Tigh]] and [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]] onto ''Galactica''.
*Thrace is later seen in [[Joe's Bar]] drinking and toying with the bullet removed from Anders' skull. She and Tyrol have a brief discussion about Valerii, who is being held in the brig ([[Deadlock]]).
*Thrace gets a drawing of what seems to be stars from Hera and later visits Joe's Bar where she helps piano player [[Slick]] with the music he's composing. There she reveals that she used to play piano as a girl with her father until he left and then stopped and she had a song she used to play that made her happy. She realizes that Hera's drawing is of the notes for that song and she and Slick start playing it together. The music turns out to be [[The Music|the same music that activated the memories]] of the so-called [[Final Five]]. Slick, who was a manifestation of her father, disappears and Thrace later goes to Anders in the hope of finding out the reason she knew of the Music and its meaning, but is unsuccessful.
*When Admiral Adama comes to see Anders—now acting as ''Galactica's'' Hybrid—to find out the location of [[The Colony]], Thrace reveals to him that she has tried to make sense out of the notes by assigning numbers to them, but has had no luck in understanding it. She also tells him that she is dead, that she burned her own dead body on [[Sometimes A Great Notion| Earth]] and has no idea what she is. Adama tells her he knows what she is: she's his daughter. Later she and Adama spread red tape down the hanger deck to create a line for people to cross one way or the other to show whether or not they volunteer for the rescue mission for Hera. Thrace flanks the Admiral on the volunteers side of the line and doesn't move the whole time, having made her choice.
*During [[Battle of The Colony|the battle]], she leads a strike force that includes both Agathons into The Colony through Raptors. They encounter Sharon Valerii who gives them back Hera before being killed by Sharon Agathon. Thrace's team meets up with Lee's and they retreat to ''Galactica'', which has rammed itself into the Colony as part of the final assault.
*Thrace helps defend the ship and after an agreement is reached with Cavil, takes damage reports on their forces alongside Lee. After things go badly and the Colony starts to fall into the black hole with ''Galactica'', Thrace—the nearest person to the [[FTL]] console—is ordered to jump them away. Thrace doesn't know the rendezvous coordinates and, after Adama makes it clear that it doesn't matter, is inspired to input the numbers she assigned to [[The Music]]'s notes as the coordinates and jumps ''Galactica'' there. According to Thrace, Thrace jumps them to "the watchtower," which turns out to be the singular moon in orbit around another planet that the Colonials later dub [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]].
*Thrace says goodbye to Anders before he flies the Fleet into the sun, destroying ''Galactica'' and the other ships, and later says her final goodbye to William Adama. Then she says her final goodbye to Lee Adama, having fulfilled [[The Destiny|her destiny]] to bring the Fleet to the second Earth. He fails to comprehend her at first, but realizes what she means as they continue talking. Thrace finally asks Lee what he is going to do now that he is here, and disappears when he turns away momentarily to look at the scenery, surprising him. In a reference to their first ever meeting, after Lee realizes that she is really gone, he says goodbye to her and promises that she will not be forgotten.

==Lords of Kobol, Hear My Prayer==

Despite her tough, rebellious exterior, Thrace is deeply spiritual and possesses a great deal of faith in the [[Lords of Kobol (RDM)|Lords of Kobol]]. She usually prays in moments of mourning or desperation, such as when she thinks Lee is dead ([[Miniseries]]), when she is trapped on a desolate moon with a broken knee and low oxygen ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]), and when she discovers she's in Cylon captivity ([[The Farm]]). This spirituality is put to the test as a series of events lead her towards a mysterious destiny.

==The Destiny==
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From early in her life, Kara Thrace has been guided through her mother's actions for a special role in life, a plot point that begins with a [[Leoben Conoy]] copy in the Season 1 episode, "[[Flesh and Bone]]". In "[[Maelstrom]]", the character dies, but reappears as a guide for the Fleet at the end of Season 3.

A Cylon [[First Hybrid|Hybrid]], speaking to Major [[Kendra Shaw]] moments before their deaths, warns her that Thrace is the herald of the apocalypse and the harbinger of death, that she would lead the human race to its end, and that she is not to be followed ([[Razor]]). Similarly, another [[Hybrid]] describes her as the harbinger of death, and she would lead them to salvation and destruction ([[Faith]]).

This becomes the case, as she leads ''Galactica'' (and the Fleet) to a second, new planet the Colonials dub "Earth." There, both Colonials and both races of Cylon (the Kobollian-based "[[Final Five]]" and the remaining models from the "[[Significant Seven]]") are saved. However, as their blend in with the native humans on the new Earth, the distinctive natures of Colonial human and Cylon creations blur and merge. In a sense, the blurring results in the "death" of both races as a new human race begins. [[Hera Agathon]]'s body, a perfect human/Cylon merging, is later represented as the Mitochondrial Eve for the humans on the New Earth ([[Daybreak, Part II]]).

==Notes==
*On the Sci-Fi Channel's preview for season 2.5 (US), Katee Sackhoff is quoted as saying that Starbuck is "the best Viper pilot...EVER."
*[[Wikipedia:Thrace|Thrace]] was a region in south-eastern Europe that was heavily influenced by the ancient Greeks and was eventually conquered by [[Wikipedia:Philip II of Macedonia|Phillip II of Macedonia]]. Thracians were considered by most to be the most ferocious fighters and were often highly paid mercenaries for Greek kings.
*Thrace may have been named after [[w:Thrax (mythology)|Thrax]], the son of [[w:Ares|Ares]], the god of war, who was said to reside on the Thracian plain in Greek mythology.
*After auditioning for the role of [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]], [[Grace Park]] was asked by director [[Michael Rymer]] to audition for the role of Starbuck, and she was actually one of two finalists up for the role (the other obviously being [[Katee Sackhoff]], who got the part). Ultimately Park was cast as [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]].
*In a TV Guide [http://online.tvguide.com/newsearch/detail.aspx?id=4371595&sourcetype=S&progseriesparentid=4371595&tvobjectid=191395&keyword=Battlestar+Galactica&referrer=search1 photo shoot] at the BSG studios, Katee Sackhoff explained that the [[tattoo]] that Starbuck bears on her left arm is a wing and a circle and has half of the constellation of Capricorn (a reference to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] obviously) and a small symbol of the planet as well. The tattoo on Anders' arm is the other half of the symbol and when they embrace, the tattoos form the whole symbol. According to Sackhoff, Kara and Anders had the tattoos done around the time of their wedding, a fact later confirmed in dialogue during Season 4.5.
*The license plate on Thrace's truck on Caprica is "FB 42 E3" ([[Valley of Darkness]]).

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|age= ca. 30 <ref>This date is assumed as follows: [[Zak Adama]] died 2 years before the Cylon attack. Since he graduated from some kind of military academy, he would be at least 22 years old, following real world models. On a [[:Image:Primusphoto.jpg|photograph]] of William Adama with his sons, Lee seems to be about two years older than Zak, placing his birth at about 26 years prior to the Cylon attack</ref>
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|birthname= Leland Joseph Adama
|callsign= Apollo
|seen= Miniseries
|death= Unknown causes, presumably on Earth, c. 148,000 BCE
|parents= [[William Adama]] (father) [[Carolanne Adama]] † (mother)
|siblings= [[Zak Adama]] †
|children=1 unborn child with [[Gianne]] (presumed deceased)
|marital status= Widowed from estranged wife [[Anastasia Dualla]] †
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|role=Proto-[[wikipedia:Luddite|Luddite]] advocate on Earth; Acting President of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol; Caprican Delegate to the Quorum of Twelve; Commander of Battlestar ''Pegasus''; ''Galactica'' [[CAG]]
|rank=Major (ret.)
|serial=318742 <ref name="serial">Confirmed number from QMX dogtags given to them by the studio.</ref>
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'''Leland [[Joseph]] [[Adama]]''', commonly known as '''[[Lee (disambiguation)|Lee]] Adama''' or by his callsign, '''"Apollo"''', is a former [[Colonial Fleet Reserve]] officer who becomes the [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]n delegate to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]], then later the interim President of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies of Kobol]]. He is the sole surviving son of [[William Adama]].

Lee Adama's relationship with his father had always been strained, culminating with a fracture after the death of his younger brother, [[Zak Adama|Zak]], two years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. Various attempts at reconciliation occur over the following years, but even these produce conflict as Lee attempts step outside his father's shadow.

After the Fall, he is appointed ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' [[CAG]]. He is later promoted to executive officer, then commander of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''. After [[Battle of New Caprica|''Pegasus'''s destruction]], he resumes being ''Galactica'' CAG until he resigns from the Colonial Fleet to aid in [[Romo Lampkin]]'s defense of [[Gaius Baltar]].

During the post-Fall events, he has romantic relationships with [[Kara Thrace]], [[Shevon]], and [[Anastasia Dualla]], the latter whom he marries months after the discovery of [[New Caprica]]. His defense of Baltar, coupled with previous marital issues surrounding Thrace, contribute to his eventual, final split from Dualla.

== Biographical Notes ==

=== Background ===

Lee Adama is the elder son of [[Carolanne Adama|Carolanne]] and William Adama. He and his his younger brother, Zak, were raised largely by his mother on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] following his parents' divorce when he was eight.

As a child, Adama often visited his grandfather, [[Joseph Adama]], and read the law books in his study; he often followed his grandfather's cases, never understanding why Joseph Adama defended the worst of humanity ([[TRS]]: "[[The Son Also Rises]]").

Despite his father's estrangement from the family, Adama followed in his footsteps and joined the Colonial military after college, graduating third in his class at the military academy and applying to flight school.

In flight school, Adama proved himself a gifted and natural pilot, hampered only by his tendency to over-intellectualize, a trait instilled by his mother who encouraged him to read widely and think freely, such as reading the banned texts by the renegade [[Tom Zarek]] while at college ([[TRS]]: "[[Bastille Day]]").

After flight school, Adama was promoted to lieutenant and was assigned to pilot the [[Viper Mark VII]]. He was also introduced to [[Kara Thrace]], a flight instructor who had become involved with Zak. The three frequently spent time together, and Adama and Thrace formed a friendship ([[Miniseries]]).

=== Brother's Death ===

Two years prior to the Fall, Zak died while on a routine Viper mission, the cause attributed to pilot error. However, Lee Adama chose to blame the mishap on his father, believing Zak had been pushed by him into following his footsteps ([[Miniseries]]).

Estranged from his father, Lee sought to build a career apart from William Adama. This decision placed a heavy strain on his friendship with Kara Thrace, who got assigned to ''Galactica''.

Adama spent much time on Caprica and was in a relationship with a woman named [[Gianne]]. When she told him she was pregnant with their child, he ran from her due to his own family issues. Before he could speak with her again he received orders to take part in ''Galactica'''s decommissioning ceremony ([[TRS]]: "[[Black Market]]").

Despite having a natural knack for piloting, acceptance to test pilot school and being "well on his way to commanding a battlestar someday", Adama tells [[Frank Bruno]] at the [[Caprica Transfer Station]] that he is considering leaving the Colonial Fleet, as he is disinterested in achieving dreams that were his father's alone ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor]]", [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)#Razor|deleted scene]]).

Adama reunites with both his father and Kara Thrace at ''Galactica'''s decommissioning and conversion into a [[Galactica Museum|living museum and educational center]] of the [[Cylon War]]. As a part of the ceremonies, Lee Adama grudgingly participates in a final Viper flyby salute, doing little to hide his true feelings from the moment he arrives on the battlestar. Matters are not helped when he discovers he will fly in the restored [[Viper Mark II]] his father flew during the Cylon War ([[Miniseries]]).

Things worsen after the PR official aboard ''Galactica'', [[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 his brother's death, venting two years' worth of anger and belief that his father was responsible for the loss of his brother.

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

Following the decommissioning ceremony, Lee Adama departs ''Galactica'', acting as an unofficial escort for ''[[Colonial Heavy 798]]'', the official transport for Secretary of Education [[Laura Roslin]], who represented President [[Richard Adar|Adar]] at the ceremony. Midway through their return to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]], Adama and the crew of ''Colonial Heavy 798'' hear of the Cylon attacks on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]], and soon find themselves under direct attack, which he is able to thwart. Adama quickly becomes one of Laura Roslin's unofficial advisers, 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 disastrous attack on two [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raiders]], notes to him that other Vipers and other modern Colonial spacecraft like his Mark VII were [[Command Navigation Program|easily destroyed]] by Cylon attacks.

Adama again saves ''Colonial Heavy 798'' from a nuclear missile attack with a failed experiment he toyed with in [[War College]], using [[EMP]] coils kept in the cargo hold to make it look like the ship has been destroyed. He supports Roslin in her rescue efforts, persuading her to lead the [[FTL]]-capable ships to follow ''Galactica'' to [[Ragnar Anchorage]].

As the ranking pilot aboard ''Galactica'', and despite his relative inexperience, Adama finds himself appointed [[CAG]] by Colonel [[Saul Tigh]].

Apollo leads a Viper squadron in the [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]], keeping the Cylon Raiders at bay while the civilian [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] jumps to safety. His ship is badly damaged during in the battle, and is about to be destroyed by a Cylon missile when the missile is intercepted and shot by Starbuck's highly-accurate marksmanship. His Viper eventually loses power as the battle draws to a close and ''Galactica'' is preparing to retreat. Starbuck saves him with a crazy idea and her flying skills, bringing them back to ''Galactica'' shortly before the battlestar jumps away.

=== Special Advisor ===
[[image:Water_Apollo_Roslin.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Adama and President Roslin shake hands after appointment as military advisor ([[TRS]]: "[[Water]]").]]
Adama's work as Roslin's "special advisor" to further help her understand military matters does not sit well with his father, who is still harboring some reservations about Roslin ([[TRS]]: "[[Bastille Day]]").

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 admission of her involvement in Zak's acceptance as a fighter pilot and his subsequent death. Father and son grow somewhat closer - even standing shoulder-to-shoulder when Starbuck is missing in action and both going to great lengths to save her ([[TRS]]: "[[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]] ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|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 (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] aboard the luxury liner ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Colonial Day]]").

=== The Inner Conflicts at Kobol ===

Eventually, Adama's beliefs in the need for democratic representation and civil government brings him in direct conflict with orders given him by his father. 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 ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]").

Adama is temporarily furloughed by Colonel Tigh so that he can continue to carry out his duties. 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 civilian Fleet ([[TRS]]: "[[Scattered]]"), and leads a team of [[Marines]] to stop [[Cylon Centurion]]s that boarded the ship ([[TRS]]: "[[Valley of Darkness]]"). After that, Adama continues his initiative and leads a [[SAR]] mission with two [[Raptors]] to retrieve a stranded survey team on the surface of Kobol ([[TRS]]: "[[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'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]"). 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 young Adama leaves his side.

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

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.

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 ''Queen'', his father reacts violently to the existence of a another copy of Valerii, leaving Captain Adama in the awkward position of defending her from his father. 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 [[w: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 CAG ([[TRS]]: "[[Final Cut]]"). Apollo doubts that [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] could successfully complete a prototype fighter later known as the [[Blackbird]], but in the end aids in its first test flight with Starbuck. Around this time, Adama begins to develop an attraction to [[Anastasia Dualla]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Flight of the Phoenix]]").

===Reassignment===

Apollo is on [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]] when the [[Mercury class battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' reunites with ''Galactica'' and is one of the first to see it up close. Soon afterwards, friction develops between Adama and the CAG of ''Pegasus'', Captain [[Cole Taylor]]. Taylor feels that Adama's pilots are 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'', under Taylor's command. Cain believes that having Commander Adama's son in the role of CAG was a mistake that has clouded Commander Adama's judgment, as young Adama has been insubordinate and even [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|mutinous]] in the past. For an upcoming scouting mission against the Cylon fleet following them, Taylor orders Adama to perform the humiliating task of co-piloting a Raptor. Annoyed, Adama orders Starbuck to take the [[Blackbird]] and perform the mission alone. When Commander Adama and Admiral Cain turn on each other, Apollo is away in Taylor's Raptor on his recon mission ([[TRS]]: "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]").

As the two battlestar commanders begin sparring with Vipers, ''Pegasus'' orders Taylor to relieve Adama of duty. Taylor pulls his sidearm and takes away Adama's. Now weaponless and with nothing more to do than to ride along, Adama asks permission to head to the rear of the Raptor. While Taylor is busy, Adama secretly communicates with Starbuck over [[wireless]] text messages. This gives away her position to the Fleet, who think her to be a Cylon Raider. When the Vipers are ordered to disengage and pursue her instead, Starbuck manages to identify herself before things get out of hand.

Cain feels that persecuting young Adama for authorizing Thrace's mission would be odd since she is promoting Thrace for her work on her recon mission. Thrace successfully returns Adama to flight status, but demoted to lieutenant ([[TRS]]: "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]").

=== Battle of the Resurrection Ship ===

While Thrace plans an assault on the Resurrection Ship and the two [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]]s defending it, she tells Adama that his father has ordered her to kill Cain after the battle, and asks Adama to watch her back. Outraged, Adama confronts his father with this, shocked to learn it was President Roslin's idea. Thrace assigns Adama the specific task of disabling the Resurrection Ship's [[FTL]] drive by sneaking up on it in the [[Blackbird]] and destroying it with a precision missile strike. Apollo succeeds, but the Blackbird collides with a [[Raptor]]. Apollo is able to eject, but the Blackbird is destroyed. Alive, but not unscathed, Apollo floats in space watching the battle take place around him. A tear in his [[flight suit]] leaves him almost out of air. While having the means to stop the leak, he is overcome with a sense of sadness and nihilism, having learned that the two persons closest to him, Roslin and his father, resort to assassination to solve their conflict with Cain. Although hearing Dualla over the [[wireless]], he decides to let go and die, but is found by a [[SAR|SAR Raptor]] and resuscitated. Adama becomes despondent and distant from his friends and family after his near-death experience. In the pilot's locker room, Thrace tells Adama "Let's just be glad that we both came back alive, alright?" to which Adama responds "That's just it, Kara, I didn't want to make it back alive" ([[TRS]]: "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]").

=== The Black Market ===

After President Roslin is saved from her illness, she begins trying to put down the Fleet's [[Black market (organization)|black market]]. New ''Pegasus'' commander [[Jack Fisk]] is soon murdered, leaving the elder Adama (now an Admiral) to assign his son to investigate. With his association with prostitute [[Shevon]] and her daughter [[Paya]] on ''[[Cloud 9]]'', [[Anastasia Dualla]] asks where the relationship between the two of them is heading. After he hesitates, Dualla takes it to mean it is over. Rushing to help Shevon after her call for help, the captain is ambushed by Phelan's men. Waking up from the attack, he finds the Fisk's murder weapon, and the body of Fisk's murderer.

With some help from [[Tom Zarek]], unwilling to accept the neatly-wrapped up case of Fisk's murderer or the missing Shevon, Adama finds the black market's main ship, ''[[Prometheus (ship)|Prometheus]]''. He finds Paya and other children locked in a storage room. He confronts Phelan, who tells him a black market is necessary, since some supplies may never reach needy people any other way. After Phelan admits running a child prostitution ring, Adama shoots Phelan, and tells his bodyguards that the market can continue operations, unless it keeps holding back essential medicines, begins killing, or returns to child prostitution.

Shevon refuses to see Adama anymore, realizing that Adama has tried to use her and Paya as replacements in his mind for his lost fiancé [[Gianne]] and their unborn child, saying that she can never be her ([[TRS]]: "[[Black Market]]").

===Friendly Fire===

While on leave to ''Cloud 9'' with Dualla, a group of terrorists seize a bar and demand the second copy of [[Sharon Valerii]] for execution, while they hold hostage approximately a dozen people, including Dualla, [[Billy Keikeya]], [[Ellen Tigh]] and Adama. The captain secretly sabotages the bar's carbon dioxide sensors to appear as if it were leaking atmosphere. The sabotage enables Captain Thrace to enter the bar and gather intelligence on the situation, but her cover is blown by Ellen Tigh, and she is forced to draw her weapons. One shot accidentally hits Adama in the chest. After escaping, Thrace breaks down crying for having shot her friend; Dualla is able to care for Adama long enough for him to survive to ''Galactica's'' sickbay, and later sits at his bedside while he recovers. Thrace watches, but is unsure what to do and leaves ([[TRS]]: "[[Sacrifice]]").

===A Worthy Command ===

Adama finds himself promoted to Major and assigned to [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus]]''. He is assigned to the ship by Admiral Adama to assess ''Pegasus's'' crew and the the new commander [[Barry Garner]], the ship's former Chief Engineer.

His relationship with Dualla has become intimate following his promotion and recovery. Kara Thrace, still ''Pegasus'' CAG, soon comes to blows with Garner is confined to her quarters. When visiting her, Adama chides her for her behavior, stating that he is sick of cleaning up after her all the time. He confronts her about the friendly fire incident, resulting in a moment of uncomfortable silence, before the talk returns to business.

Against orders from Admiral Adama, Garner takes ''Pegasus'' in to search for two Raptors missing during a recon mission into a binary star system. His impulsive and unwise efforts result in the battlestar's [[Battle of the Binary Star System|ambush by three Cylon basestars]]. With the FTL drive damaged after successive nuclear missile strikes, Garner relegates command to Major Adama and heads below to help in FTL repairs. After a moment's hesitation (perhaps thinking what his father would do), Adama orders the forward guns to fire on the nearest basestar, critically damaging the basestar and forcing its retreat, while commanding the battlestar's fighters (led by Starbuck) to guard embattled areas damaged from nuclear pummeling. Adama's attack buys time for Commander Garner to repair the FTL drive, enabling ''Pegasus'' to escape back to the Fleet and relative safety.

Admiral Adama debriefs his son, who gave Garner a lot of credit for saving the ship, despite their disagreements. When asked about Garner's flaws, Lee says that he only knew machines, while command is about people. His father tells him to keep that in mind and gives him command of ''Pegasus'', together with a promotion to commander; possibly giving him his old rank insignia ([[TRS]]: "[[The Captain's Hand]]").

Sometime later, Adama wishes Thrace good luck in rescuing [[Samuel Anders]] and the rest of the [[Caprica Resistance|resistance group on Caprica]], despite his clear personal feelings towards her. After Thrace and Anders' return, Adama attempts to introduce himself politely, but is hampered by the couple's amorous and highly drunken behavior. When Thrace gives a rude comment, Adama bows out the area, beginning a quiet but palpable rift in their friendship ([[TRS]]: "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]").

[[Image:Apollo LDYBPII.JPG|thumb|left|Lee Adama in command of ''Pegasus'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]").]]

=== On New Caprica ===
Four months later, Commander Adama and his [[Executive Officer|XO]], Lieutenant Dualla, are granted shore leave to attend a groundbreaking ceremony on the surface of New Caprica. After the ensuing party, with Dualla and Anders gone, Adama sleeps with Kara Thrace and suggests they break up with their respective partners. Thrace and Adama declare their love for each other, and he assumes that she has agreed to their plan. He wakes up alone the next morning only to find out that Thrace has just married Anders. The rift between Adama and Thrace has widened ever larger. Hurt, he proposes to Dualla, who accepts ([[TRS]]: "[[Unfinished Business]]").

Another eight months later, a year after the settlement, a half-manned ''Pegasus'' is still orbiting New Caprica. Commander Adama has gained a considerable amount of weight in the intervening year. He is in the process of deciding whether or not to supply Kara Thrace with [[antibiotics]] for pneumonia-afflicted Anders when Dualla spots a massive Cylon fleet jumping into the nebula. Adama and his father briefly discuss their course of action; young Adama argues for an immediate emergency jump. Reluctantly, the Admiral orders the orbiting remains of the Fleet, whose population consists of around two thousand citizens, to escape, thus leaving New Caprica to the Cylons for the time being ([[TRS]]: "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]").
 

=== Battle of New Caprica and Destruction of ''Pegasus'' ===

Commander Adama and his father get into a disagreement over whether or not a rescue mission should be mounted to New Caprica. Lee believes that it would end with the destruction of both ''Galactica'' and ''Pegasus'', leaving the pitiful remnants of the Fleet at the mercy of the Cylons. Lee also objects to the Admiral's decision to reinstate [[Sharon Agathon]] as a Colonial Fleet officer to act as liaison between the New Caprica resistance and ''Galactica''. These disagreements lead to heated arguments between the two, prompting Admiral Adama to make a comment about Lee's weight by calling him a "fatass" and saying he has grown "soft" in the past year ("[[Occupation]]", "[[Precipice]]"). Due to his son's objections, Admiral Adama decides to take ''Galactica'' to rescue the people on New Caprica alone. He gives his son orders to wait 18 hours for his return; if he does not return by then, Lee is to resume the search for Earth with what is left of the civilian fleet. Despite their disagreement, the two have a heartfelt goodbye. Lee tries to talk his father out of the plan and explain himself, but the older Adama stops him. Instead the two embrace and the Admiral gives his son full military honors when departing ''Galactica'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Exodus, Part I]]").

Lee is certain that his father will not return, and he is conflicted between his duty to protect the civilians and his duty to his father. His wife's attempt at reassurance only serve to heighten his guilt. Leaving his ship's Vipers behind to protect the civilians, he takes ''Pegasus'' to assist ''Galactica'', fully aware that he may very well be on a suicide mission. He joins the [[Battle of New Caprica|battle]] just in time, saving his father's ship from certain destruction. Immediately destroying one basestar after exiting the jump, Adama uses ''Pegasus'' to draw fire, giving ''Galactica'' time to escape. This action damages ''Pegasus'' beyond repair. Adama orders the crew to evacuate and the ship's [[Battery|batteries]] to be set on autofire. He is the last person to leave the CIC, thanking the ship as he departs. The small crew evacuates on Raptors just as ''Pegasus'' rams a basestar, destroying itself in the process ([[TRS]]: "[[Exodus, Part II]]").

The Commander and his crew transfer to the last remaining battlestar, ''Galactica''. Dissatisfied with his round appearance, he had also taken up a rigid exercise regimen and starts losing weight rapidly ([[TRS]]: "[[Collaborators]]").

=== The Second Exodus ===

[[Image:Maj apollo in viper.jpg|thumb|right|Lee Adama back as a major in the role of ''Galactica's'' CAG ([[TRS]]: "[[Torn]]").]]
As of the episode "[[Torn]]", Lee has returned to the role of ''Galactica's'' CAG, with the rank of Major. When a dying basestar is discovered in the [[Lion's Head Nebula]], Adama leads a team of Marines on it and captures several humanoid Cylons. After Doctor [[Cottle]] discovers that they are infected with a virus lethal to the Cylons, Adama advocates to use the prisoners as biological weapons in an attempt to exterminate the Cylons. The plan is approved but ultimately fails due to the intervention of [[Karl Agathon]], who sabotages the mission ([[TRS]]: "[[A Measure of Salvation]]").

When [[Daniel Novacek|Bulldog]] arrives on ''Galactica'', Admiral Adama tells Lee about [[Valkyrie|the mission]] they executed together, and how he believes it has led to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon holocaust]]. Lee blames the admiralty instead, saying they wanted to provoke a war ([[TRS]]: "[[Hero]]").

After most of the Fleet has arrived safely on the [[algae planet]] following a [[Passage (star cluster)|harrowing journey]], Adama leads the food harvesting operations on the surface. Fourteen days into the harvesting mission, he meets with Kara Thrace and once again suggests they divorce their respective spouses. Thrace refuses to divorce and Adama refuses to cheat on his wife, deadlocking their relationship. When the [[Temple of Five]] is found on the planet and the Cylons show up, Adama is ordered to protect the temple from the Cylons, destroying it if necessary. He orders Starbuck to scout the terrain in her Raptor, which gets shot down by Centurions. After having sent Dualla to rescue Starbuck, the Major and his team attempt an ambush against a group of Centurions passing through a valley towards the temple. The ambush fails, and Adama orders to retreat and the temple to be blown. When trying to do so, he and his team witness the algae planet's star going supernova, and realize that the nova is in fact the [[Eye of Jupiter]]. After the Cylon fleet has jumped away to escape the destruction of the planetary system, the ground team is picked up by a rescue party ("[[The Eye of Jupiter]]", "[[Rapture]]").

Later Adama is treated by his friend [[Galen Tyrol]] to a little surprise: A number of crew have created a [[Joe's bar|bar]], on the starboard hangar deck, complete with a Pyramid arcade game and an old Viper Mark II hanging above for atmosphere. Tyrol and Adama have a drink as they discuss their marital problems; Tyrol and his wife Cally have had an argument that has apparently left him "in the doghouse". Adama is reluctant to interact with his wife, as his uncertainty over his love of Kara Thrace continues to fight with him. Adama returns to his quarters, quite drunk, to find Dualla still awake and doing some work, apparently drinking some type of [[alcohol]]. She tries to confirm if they are still going to have dinner later that day as Lee dozes off, leaving Dualla disappointed. Later on Adama and Dualla have an argument about Kara Thrace and the future of their marriage. Dualla says that she married Adama because she loved him, choosing to have him for as long as he or Kara Thrace would let him. She resigns herself to her marriage's failure and tells Adama that she will not stand in his way if he were to choose Thrace over her. Dualla then leaves. Thrace and Adama meet privately. When Thrace asks Adama if he loves her and would be with her if she were to leave Anders, Adama equivocates, remembering Thrace's fickleness [[Unfinished Business|after he declared his love a year before]]. Thrace leaves him to think about the situation.
[[Image:3x13-Taking a Break From All Your Worries-Apollo.jpg|thumb|right|Lee Adama drinking in Joe's Bar ([[TRS]]: "[[Taking a Break From All Your Worries]]").]]

Adama returns to the bar and drinks more, toying with his wedding band. He asks Chief Tyrol if he ever thought about what his future with [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]] would have been like, or had any regrets. With a quick drink, Tyrol replies in the negative. Adama stumbles back to his quarters, losing his wedding band somewhere in ''Galactica's'' corridors. Lee Adama and his wife meet in Joe's Bar. Adama, having since found his lost wedding ring, confesses that he loves Dualla and how dedicated she has been to him, never realizing how much he needed her affection. As the two embrace, Adama tries to avoid looking across the bar at Kara Thrace and Anders. Thrace returns the glance before Adama breaks it off ([[TRS]]: "[[Taking a Break From All Your Worries]]").

===Death of a Lover and Friend===

During refueling operations over a gas giant, Kara Thrace becomes mentally unstable, having [[Virtual Leoben|hallucinations]] about Leoben and her alleged [[The Destiny|destiny]]. When she refuses to fly another mission, Adama has a friendly talk with her. After all that happened two are back where they started; Thrace being the screwup pilot and Adama having to clean up after her as [[CAG]]. He also tells her that his relationship with Dee is better than ever. Adama offers to fly as her wingman to calm her. While on [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]], Starbuck sees a Cylon [[Heavy Raider]] and goes on alert, joined by Adama. However, from the vantage point of Adama, Thrace's [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] malfunctions and is drawn into the vortex of a storm. He gets sketchy information from Thrace when she says "I'll see you on the other side." Her Viper explodes, and Adama struggles to escape the vortex ([[TRS]]: "[[Maelstrom]]").

He is badly shaken by her death, as evidenced by his lack of concentration as CAG, confusing people and mission details. He is also shaken by a story told by [[Romo Lampkin]]. Eventually, he begins the healing process with [[Samuel Anders]] by putting Thrace's picture into the [[memorial hallway]] ([[TRS]]: "[[The Son Also Rises]]").

===The Trial of Gaius Baltar===

President [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] recommends that Major Adama be put in charge of the proceedings of the trial of [[Gaius Baltar]]. However, due to the pressures that he is under, Adama declines the position (despite his interest in law as a child). As a token of his affection, Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]] gives Lee his [[Joseph Adama|grandfather]]'s Caprican [[Arts and Literature of the Twelve Colonies#Law books|Law Code books]] ([[TRS]]: "[[A Day in the Life]]"). Later, his father places Adama in charge of security for Baltar's lawyer, [[Romo Lampkin]], claiming that he trusts him, but also pulling him off his duties of CAG after he shows that Thrace's death affects his job performance. While following Lampkin around, Adama develops a desire to help Lampkin defend Baltar. His father is not pleased with this idea, but allows him to do so ([[TRS]]: "[[The Son Also Rises]]").

After Adama contributes to humiliating Colonel Tigh in court, he and his father have a falling out, which leads to Lee's resignation from the Colonial Fleet and him becoming a civilian. Adama also learns that President [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] has resumed taking [[chamalla]], which he confronts her about in court, trying to discredit her credibility. Roslin pleads with him to not pursue his line of questioning, but he forces her to admit that her cancer has returned. Disappointed in Adama, she recollects times when the two were friends and she called him "Captain Apollo". After that, [[Anastasia Dualla|his wife]] packs her belongings in preparation for leaving Adama. She says that he should not have confronted the President, and that he was supporting a legal system that was trying to let a murderer walk. She leaves him alone, with him crying that she doesn't understand him ([[TRS]]: "[[Crossroads, Part I]]").

In an unusual move, Adama takes the stand himself and delivers a [[Crossroads, Part II#Noteworthy Dialogue|passionate speech]] in defense of Baltar. He points out a string of incidents, some involving himself, where people were forgiven for serious crimes, and defends those decisions, arguing that humanity is not a real civilization anymore. Adama thinks that executing Baltar for actions that he couldn't really prevent is not justice, and that Baltar is just the Fleet's scapegoat for everyone's misdeeds and failures on New Caprica. The speech plays a major role in Baltar's subsequent acquittal. When Romo Lampkin leaves Adama after their victory, he leaves behind his cane, which he used after being injured in an attempt on his life, and walks normally, thus showing how he manipulated both Adama and the court. Ultimately, Adama's sense of justice has [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|once again]] placed him at odds with his father, but this time he has alienated Roslin and his wife as well, leaving him seemingly alone.

===A New Beginning===

[[Image:Yet another frakking Adama talk.jpg|thumb|The Adamas attempt to reconcile after Baltar's trial ([[TRS]]: "[[He That Believeth In Me]]").]]

As Cylon forces converges on the Fleet in the [[Ionian Nebula]], Adama unofficially returns to duty and mans a Viper. Unexpectedly, he encounters [[Kara Thrace]], whom he [[Maelstrom|believed dead]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Crossroads, Part II]]"). Adama and Thrace join the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula|ensuing battle]] and help to defend the civilian ships from the Cylons. When Thrace returns to ''Galactica'', Adama is glad to see her again and believes her story to a certain degree, whereas most others are is distrustful and suspect a Cylon trap.

His father offers him his pilot wings back, and thus his commission, but Adama declines, saying that he felt the need for a change for some time, and that Baltar's trial was just the trigger. He thinks that he can gain a position in the Colonial government and make a contribution there ([[TRS]]: "[[He That Believeth In Me]]").

[[Tom Zarek]] nominates Adama as the Caprican delegate on the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]]. Adama is seen off ''Galactica'' with a party in the [[rec room]] and an official ceremony on the hangar deck, where many of the crew salute him and wish him good luck. He embraces Dualla and tells her that she "got the house", implying that their breakup is final ([[TRS]]: "[[Six of One]]"). Zarek appointed Adama because of his dedication to finding the truth during the Baltar trial, and because he wants Adama to fight against some or Roslin's proposed changes to the justice system, that are undemocratic in his eyes. Although in public, Roslin claims to have forgiven Adama and to admire his convictions, she snubs him by refusing to meet him and openly teases him about his inexperience in a Quorum session ([[TRS]]: "[[The Ties That Bind]]").

Adama once again shows his idealism when Baltar's new [[Cult of Baltar|cult]] violently clashes with other religious groups in the Fleet. Whereas Roslin wants to shut down the group and pleads to the Quorum to retroactively sign off an emergency measure that restricts their right of assembly, Adama and [[Reza Chronides]] think that they are doing nothing blasphemous and illegal. The Quorum eventually decides to rescind Roslin's decision. Roslin later tells his father, that she thinks that Adama maybe be right, but that he is too idealistic and doesn't understand the pragmatism that is sometimes necessary in politics ([[TRS]]: "[[Escape Velocity]]").

Following the unexplained disappearance of Laura Roslin on a rebel Cylon baseship ([[TRS]]: "[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]"), Adama leads a search for an interim president, knowing that his father would never support an administration under Tom Zarek. Despite consulting Romo Lampkin on a list of 47 candidates, it is Lampkin who ultimately decides that Adama should be the interim president; Adama thanks Lampkin by offering [[Jake (New Caprica)|Jake]] as a pet to replace the loss of [[Faye Lampkin]]'s cat, [[Lance]].

Even with his ascension to the presidency, Adama is unable to dissuade his father from stepping down as military leader, or his father's personal search for Roslin—a mission that Adama believes to be nothing short of suicide ([[TRS]]: "[[Sine Qua Non]]").

===No Exit===
After the failed coup d'état, in which Lee is the sole [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum]] delegate not killed in the massacre ordered by [[Tom Zarek]], President Laura Roslin puts Lee in charge of forming a new Quorum. Lee proposes the idea of making the new Quorum based not upon the individual Colonies but upon ships in the Fleet, as he reasons that the people are no longer defined by their Colonies but by their ships. Roslin approves of the idea and tells Lee that while she will remain President in title, she wants him to do the "heavy lifting" from then on ([[TRS]]: "[[No Exit]]"). Given this, its likely that Roslin has made him her new Vice President after the execution of Tom Zarek for his coup.

Lee is shown to have taken on the Presidential duties since then such as meeting with the new Quorum of Ship's Captains and organizing the stripping of ''Galactica'' which is hard for him as he loves the ship. When Admiral Adama calls for volunteers for a final mission, Lee is the first to volunteer despite it being likely one-way.

===Assault on the Colony===
While planning the mission, Lee re-dons the service uniform of a major (distinguished by its collar piping), but omits rank insignia.

''Galactica'' launches its attack on the Colony and rams right into it. Lee leads a team of Colonial Marines and Rebel Centurions into the Colony from through its breach their staging point at ''Galactica''’s bow. They fight their way past Cavil's forces and eventually link up with Kara Thrace and her team, who have rescued Hera Agathon. The two groups head back to ''Galactica'', but are followed by Cavil and his forces. Lee runs into Baltar and Caprica Six who are helping to repel the boarding parties. Lee and his men provide cover fire for Kara, Helo, Athena and Hera to make their way to safety.

===New Earth===
After ''Galactica'' jumps to the coordinates Kara Thrace provides, Lee is one of the first people to land on the lush, habitable planet the Colonials eventually decide to call "Earth". They discover that primitive human tribes have already evolved on the new Earth. Lee makes a radical suggestion: The Colonials will abandon their ships and most of their technology and start new lives using only essential supplies and the planet's resources. They will also teach the native humans about language and culture, but not about technology. This will hopefully prevent Humanity from repeating the same mistakes it made on Kobol and the Twelve Colonies. Surprisingly, this idea is well received.

Later, Lee and Kara say their final goodbyes to Adama, who has decided to live alone for the remainder of his life. After Adama departs in a Raptor, Kara tells Lee that she is also leaving. She doesn't know where she's going, but she knows that her job here is done. Kara then asks Lee what he's going to do now. Lee briefly turns his back and starts to talk about exploring the new world, but when he turns around, Kara is nowhere in sight. Realizing what Kara meant when she said she was leaving, Lee bids Kara goodbye for the last time and promises that she won't be forgotten.

==Family tree==
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== Notes ==

*From [[Ronald D. Moore]]'s scifi.com [http://blogs.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/01/lets-talk.php blog entry] of January 19, 2005:

<blockquote>In my first draft of the [[Miniseries|mini]], Lee Adama had just been accepted into test pilot school on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] and was not currently assigned to any battlestar. Presumably, he had been posted to at least a couple of battlestar [[Air Group]]s 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 [[William Adama|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>
*The caption under Apollo's name in "[[Final Cut]]" list him as "CFR". In the podcast, Ron Moore explaines that this stands for "Colonial Fleet Reserves"; and that Apollo was a reserve officer because he wasn't sure what he was doing with his life and if he was going to pursue a full career in the Colonial Fleet.
*According to Jamie Bamber, Adama's official character biography states that "Lee is never so happy as when he's in his kitchen cooking."
* Jamie Bamber is the husband of actress [[Kerry Norton]], who portrays [[Layne Ishay]], the paramedic from "[[Scattered]]" and "[[Taking a Break From All Your Worries]]".
* Bamber, who is British, plays Lee Adama with an American accent (presumably to more closely match [[Edward James Olmos]]'s).
* Bamber is a natural blond, but his hair is dyed brown to better resemble Olmos.
*While Edward James Olmos and [[Mary McDonnell]] were hand-picked for their roles, the rest of the characters were cast by audition: among those in the running for the role of Apollo was ''[[w:Farscape|Farscape]]'' and ''[[w:Stargate SG-1|Stargate SG-1]]'' star [[Wikipedia:Ben Browder|Ben Browder]], though the role ultimately went to [[Jamie Bamber]].<ref>{{cite_book|last=Bassom|first=David|authorlink=|authorlinkurl=|coauthors=|year=2005|title=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]|pages=23|editor=ed. Adam "Adama" Newell|publisher=Titan Books|location=|id=ISBN 1-84576-0972}}</ref>
*Admiral William Adama names his son to succeed him as commander of ''Galactica'' in his resignation letter ([[TRS]]: "[[Hero]]") indicating how close they have become prior to the events of [[Gaius Baltar]]'s trial.
*Lee Adama's watch is a [http://www.nixonnow.com/watches/mens/the-scout-A590.html Nixon Scout].
*Lee Adama's Colonial Fleet ID tag is marked "L. Adama/ser 318742. (Quantum Mechanix ID Replica)

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Kara Thrace

2011-05-12T08:12:28Z

ViperWings:

:''This article discusses the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]] character with the pilot callsign of "Starbuck." For information on Kara Thrace's counterpart in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]], see [[Starbuck (TOS)]].''

:''For Kara Thrace's parents, see [[Dreilide Thrace]] and [[Socrata Thrace]].''

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|birthname= Kara Thrace
|callsign= Starbuck
|seen= Miniseries
|death= Viper destroyed near gas giant, crashing on [[Earth (RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|Cylon Earth]] ([[Maelstrom]]/[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]); Mysteriously reappears ([[Crossroads, Part II]]); Vanishes in Tanzania on [[Earth (RDM)#A_New_Earth|pre-historical 2nd Earth]] ([[Daybreak, Part II]])
|parents= [[Socrata Thrace]]† (mother) [[Dreilide Thrace]]† (father)
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|marital status= Married to [[Samuel Anders]]† (formerly engaged to [[Zak Adama]]†)
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|role= Viper pilot; flight instructor; ''Galactica'' [[Commander Air Group|CAG]]; angel-prophet; captain of ''[[Demetrius]]''
|actor= [[Katee Sackhoff]] [[Erika-Shaye Gair]] (child)
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'''Kara "Starbuck" Thrace''' is a gifted [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilot, with an attitude that has hindered her career in the Colonial Fleet. However, [[William Adama]] has confidence in Thrace's military skills, and she greatly aids the Fleet inside and out of the cockpit. She is the last [[Commander Air Group|Commander, Air Group]] (CAG) of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', and mysteriously vanishes in a region that will later be known as Tanzania on [[Earth (RDM)#A_New_Earth|the second Earth]] shortly after the Fleet's arrival on the planet ([[Daybreak, Part II]]).

== Background ==

[[Image:YoungKaraThrace.jpg|thumb|left|A young Kara Thrace in a vision ([[Maelstrom]]).]]
*Thrace's mother [[Socrata Thrace|Socrata]] was a former [[Colonial Marine Corps]] sergeant major. She beat her daughter so frequently that Thrace came to accept pain as a way of life ("[[Flesh and Bone]]", "[[Maelstrom]]").
*Her father [[Dreilide Thrace|Dreilide]] was a pianist and composer. Kara seems to have been closer to him than with her mother ([[Valley of Darkness]], [[Someone to Watch Over Me]]) until he left them.
*Thrace left home to join the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|military]]. During her training, she was disciplined for insubordinate conduct towards [[Mike Gibbons|superior officers]].
*She was a talented [[pyramid]] player ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]), and was up for the pros, but an injured knee took her out of contention. However, she discovered a passion and skill for being a fighter pilot ([[Podcast:The Hand of God]]).
*One of her early posts was aboard the battlestar ''[[Triton (RDM)|Triton]]''. While there, she offended Commander [[Myron Ruth]], who initiated court-martial proceedings against her, but the charges were later dropped ([[The Son Also Rises]]).
*Thrace eventually returned to flight school as an instructor, where she fell in love with one of her students, [[Zak Adama]]. Despite his poor performance, she allowed him to pass his final check flight although he failed three of the required maneuvers ([[Act of Contrition]]).
*Thrace lost Zak Adama when he was killed during a routine mission shortly after graduating. [[Lee Adama]] ("Apollo"), Zak's elder brother, blamed their father for Zak's death, and Thrace, feeling guilty, kept quiet. She met [[William Adama]] shortly after the accident, and the two formed a strong rapport and stood together at the funeral ([[Act of Contrition]]).
*Thrace resigned as an instructor and returned to the Fleet as an operational pilot on the [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'' under the command of William Adama, where she served for some two years prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]]. Before the Cylon attack, she was second-in-command to the [[CAG]], [[Jackson Spencer]].
*She has a rarely-used run-down apartment in [[Delphi]] that overlooked a parking lot, and a Colonial version of a [[Wikipedia:Humvee|Humvee]] which she and Helo use to escape the city and get to the country where she meets Samuel Anders. She was also an avid painter, and her apartment is cluttered with her paintings and a [[Starbuck's Poem|poem]] written on a wall ([[Valley of Darkness]]). The apartment was neater when Thrace was with Zak Adama, although her [[Eye of Jupiter|mandala]] wall painting pre-dates that relationship. ([[Daybreak, Part I]])
*Thrace hides the fact that she is deeply spiritual. She frequently prays to the [[Lords of Kobol]], particularly [[Aphrodite]] and [[Artemis]] in dire situations ([[Miniseries]], "[[Flesh and Bone]]", "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]").

==Character History==

=== Galactica and Pre-New Caprica ===

*Thrace's attitude quickly runs her afoul of Colonel [[Saul Tigh]], ''Galactica's'' [[executive officer]]. Their open mutual dislike of one another leads to the point where blows are exchanged, with Thrace ending up in the brig. After the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] she is released from the brig and returns to duty as Viper pilot.
*Thrace manages to keep two of three nuclear missiles from striking ''Galactica'' in their first Cylon sortie, and saves Lee from doom in an innovative maneuver in the [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]].
*Her skills in saving Lee brings her grudging respect from Colonel Tigh, but she is unable to accept his offer of the olive branch—an act that will have repercussions for her later ([[Miniseries]]).
[[image:Bastille_Day-Starbuck_Boxey.jpg|thumb|right|Thrace as acting [[CAG]] with [[Boxey (RDM)|Boxey]] as assistant ([[Bastille Day]]).]]
*Thrace participates in a hostage rescue mission aboard the ''[[Astral Queen]]''. Following the successful mission, Thrace tries to mend fences between herself and Colonel Tigh with a toast (consisting of water), apologizing in much the same way as Tigh himself had tried after their initial escape from [[Ragnar Anchorage]]. But Tigh rejects Thrace's apology, stating that her flaws are professional, while his flaws were personal ([[Bastille Day]]).
*Thrace eventually admits her secret about Zak Adama to William Adama himself, an act that brings their close friendship almost to the breaking point ([[Act of Contrition]]).
*During a surprise encounter with Cylons during [[nugget]] training, Thrace destroys several Cylon Raiders, but her ship is damaged and tumbles towards a small red moon with an unbreathable atmosphere. With her Viper in a fatal flat-spin, Thrace is forced to eject from her Viper ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]).
*Thrace (nursing a damaged knee) repairs the downed Cylon Raider found on the inhabitable moon and returns to ''Galactica'', giving the Fleet a vital piece of Cylon fighter technology for study and use.
*The recovering Thrace, off flight status, is asked by Commander Adama to plan a special attack on a Cylon [[tylium]] refinery. The tactical planning role is not something she relishes, and she frequently shows resentment towards others for her condition ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]).
*During Thrace's undesired interrogation of a Cylon prisoner, a copy of a known [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylon]] named [[Leoben Conoy]], she uses some drastic acts to try to extract the information from the humanoid Cylon ([[Flesh and Bone]]).
[[image:Starbuck-Kobols_Last_Gleaming_pt2.jpg|thumb|right|Thrace retrieves the [[Arrow of Apollo]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).]]
*Thrace is assigned to plant a nuclear device on board a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] in orbit around [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]]. She disobeys orders to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]] at the request of President Roslin, since she discovered Commander Adama's speech concerning knowledge of the location of Earth was a lie. She [[FTL|jump]]s to Caprica ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]), landing in [[Delphi]] in the captured Cylon [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]], depriving the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] of the valuable military asset.
*In the [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]] with the Arrow, she is violently attacked by a copy of [[Number Six]]. Despite being heavily outmatched in the fight, Thrace luckily defeats the Cylon.
*At the museum, she reunites with [[Karl Agathon]], whom she thought dead, and discovers [[Sharon Agathon|a second copy]] of [[Sharon Valerii]], realizing instantly that the woman is a Cylon.
*"Caprica Valerii", fearing for her child, steals Thrace's Raider. In exasperation, Thrace only mutters: "Bitch took my ride" ([[Scattered]]). Like Agathon, Thrace is left with no way to return to the Fleet unless she could find her Raider or another Cylon spacecraft, as only Cylon navigational computers are powerful enough to plot jumps over such large distances..
*Thrace berates Agathon's love for the Caprica copy of Valerii. Thrace finds the keys of her surplus military utility vehicle in her old jacket in her old apartment. Thrace has a ride again, if only to move more efficiently about Caprica ([[Valley of Darkness]]).
[[Image:ThraceAndersResistance.jpg|thumb|right|Thrace and Anders playing Pyramid on Caprica ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]).]]
*Thrace and Agathon meet a [[Caprica Resistance|resistance movement]] on Caprica. Thrace and [[Samuel Anders]] strike up a rapport as fellow [[Pyramid (RDM)|Pyramid]] players and end up having sex.
*During planning to steal a [[Heavy Raider]], Thrace is shot in a military action, waking up in a hospital on Caprica. Thrace is told by her doctor, [[Simon]], that Anders died from wounds he suffered in getting Thrace to safety.
*Thrace discovers that Simon is working with a [[Number Six|known humanoid Cylon]]. She overhears that the next day he plans to extract her ovaries for use in the Cylon's attempts to study and create a hybrid Cylon/human embryo. Simon also makes the mistake of calling Thrace by her callsign, Starbuck, which she had never revealed.
*Staggering and in pain, Thrace kills Simon and escapes the hospital, but not before clocking a Six copy with a fire extinguisher and destroying the local farm power supply, mercy-killing [[Sue-Shaun]] and several other women in the facility.
*Another Simon copy appears just as the Resistance attacks the facility. The second Simon, now revealed as a humanoid Cylon himself, is immediately killed by the Resistance, but a squad of [[Cylon Centurion]]s appear and pins the Resistance down. Luckily, [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]] swoops in with a stolen [[Heavy Raider]], destroys the Centurions and flies the Resistance and Thrace out of harm's way.
*Thrace promises Anders that she'll [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I|return with a rescue mission]] for the remaining survivors. Anders returns the Arrow of Apollo to Thrace, which he hid on the resistance grounds for safekeeping ([[The Farm]]).
*Thrace, Agathon and the pregnant "Caprica Valerii" land on the ''[[Astral Queen]]'' in the Heavy Raider. Finding the [[Laura Roslin faction]] in orbit of [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], Thrace is reunited with Lee. He kisses her impulsively, catching Thrace by pleasant surprise, but a tense standoff follows when Lee discovers that another Sharon copy has returned with them. Roslin helps defuse the situation, and Thrace delivers the Arrow of Apollo to the President.
*Temporarily removed from military protocol, Lee playfully teases Thrace by stealing a pyramid ball she took from Caprica. Adama senses her depression about Caprica and tells her that he'd be happy to hear about any problems she had. He also let slip that he loved her, which brightened Thrace's mood to the point where she teased him back about his slip.
*With a team led by Laura Roslin, Lee, and, later, joined by the recovered Commander Adama, Thrace enters the [[Tomb of Athena]] and successfully uses the Arrow of Apollo to activate a hologram that shows constellations of the Twelve Colonies' ancient symbols.
*Thrace realizes that they are on a recreation of Earth. Together with Lee, they locate the Lagoon Nebula, a celestial body known to Commander Adama and Lee, and gather sufficient information to begin an actual course to Earth ([[Home, Part II]]).
*Thrace shows off the impressive stealth abilities of the new [[Blackbird]] fighter in her maiden flight ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).
*With the arrival of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', Admiral [[Helena Cain]] summarily assigns Thrace (and Lee) to ''Pegasus'' after digesting the reports of ''Galactica'''s officers.
*[[Cole Taylor|The ''Pegasus'' CAG]] removes Thrace from the Cylon recon mission. Lee secretly tells her to use the [[Blackbird]] to take recon photos of the Cylon Unknown ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).
*Returning from her very successful mission, the [[Blackbird]]'s lack of a Colonial transponder is mistaken for a Cylon [[Raider]] on [[DRADIS]], and Thrace is nearly confronted and shot at by Vipers from ''Pegasus'' and ''Galactica''. After narrowly avoiding certain death by declaring herself a friendly, Thrace transmits her recon photos to ''Pegasus''.
*Admiral Cain is very impressed with Thrace's performance and promotes her to Captain and ''Pegasus'' CAG.
*Thrace is assigned the task of planning the joint attack on the Resurrection Ship, but successfully asks to have Lee on her team, restoring him to flight status.
*After she briefs Cain and Commander Adama on her battle plan, Adama asks Thrace privately to assassinate Cain after the battle is complete. Adama fears that if Cain continues to command, the Fleet would be in mortal jeopardy from Cain's draconian command ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).
*Thrace's battle planning, as before on the [[tylium]] [[The Hand of God (RDM)|mine]], works to near-perfection, with the Resurrection Ship destroyed and its supporting basestars.
*As a result of the battle events, Thrace is left without backup as she walks to the ''Pegasus'' CIC to shoot Cain, obviously afraid and apprehensive. When Commander Adama calls, Thrace slowly moves her hand to her sidearm but, to her relief, Adama does not give the kill order and cryptically instructs her to stand down ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).
*Thrace and [[Louanne Katraine|Louanne "Kat" Katraine]] are involved in the protection of a mining operation from periodic Raider attacks. One Raider, nicknamed [[Scar (Raider)|Scar]], fuels an intensive rivalry for the pilot's "top gun" honor. Thrace, still depressed over her inability to convince Fleet command to initiate a rescue for Samuel Anders and his resistance, drinks heavily and obsesses over removing Scar from the sky, even at the cost of her life. Fortunately, Thrace realizes the futility of her actions, and works together with Katraine to destroy the remarkably dangerous Raider ([[Scar]]).
*A few weeks later, Thrace takes leave on ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' when she was dragooned into rescuing Lee and several other ''Galactica'' crew and residents after terrorists take them hostage in exchange for the incarcerated [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon Agathon neé Valerii]]. Thrace gathers intelligence on the situation, but her cover is blown. In the retreating firefight, Lee is caught in the crossfire. After the situation is resolved, Thrace intended to sit at Lee's bedside, only to discover that Dualla beat her to it ([[Sacrifice]]).
*Later, Thrace is assigned to ''Pegasus'' as a flight trainer. Though the pilots like her, Commander [[Barry Garner]] does not, eventually confining her to quarters for "insubordination." Following the [[Battle of the Binary Star System|ill-fated rescue and retreat]] from a Cylon ambush (where Thrace leads the fighters) and [[Battle of the Guardian Basestar|after a search, rescue and destroy mission to a Cylon-war era basestar]], Thrace informs Lee—now commander of ''Pegasus''—that she was taking over his old CAG post aboard ''Galactica'', joking that she has a problem with her commander wanting to send her off to get killed ("[[The Captain's Hand]]", "[[Razor]]").
*Thrace gets her wish: the Caprica rescue is approved, and she leads a large Raptor squadron to the planet. The group soon met up with Anders, who reports that their HQ had been destroyed and Thrace's timing was just perfect. A squad of Centurions ambush and pin down the group moments later ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]).
*Still pinned down from attack fire, Thrace and Anders agree to kill each other to avoid capture and internment at a [[Farms|farm]]. But the attack stops, and a [[Cavil|man]] appears, praising the [[Lords of Kobol|Gods]] as he announces that the Cylons not only have ceased fire, but are abandoning the Twelve Colonies. Thrace isn't really surprised to discover that the man, known as Brother [[Cavil]], was a Cylon upon their return to the Fleet.
*Thrace and Anders proceed to get drunk, and host a disastrous encounter with Lee. This apparently led to a rift between the two comrades.
[[Image:Leobenkara.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Leoben with Kara Thrace ([[Exodus, Part I]]).]]
*The evening of the founding of [[New Caprica]], Kara slept with Lee and proclaimed her love for him as she was uncertain regarding her feelings toward Anders. The following morning she quickly married Anders in a ceremony near the river, despite declaring to Lee just the previous evening that she had no intention of getting married. This caused a rift between Kara and Lee that lasted for well over a year ([[Unfinished Business]]).
*Life on New Caprica tempered Thrace, and she often behaved in ways Thrace never would have, including hugging Colonel Tigh and pampering Anders during his bout with an illness.
*She watches in horror at the sudden arrival of hundreds of Cylon ships in the sky over New Caprica. A few of ''Galactica's'' former crew gather near Thrace, looking to her for guidance. She responds the only way she knows how: "Fight 'em until we can't" ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).

=== The New Caprica Ordeal and Her Death ===

*After Baltar's surrender of New Caprica, Conoy keeps Thrace prisoner in an apartment located within the Cylon-built [[New Caprica Detention Center]] in an attempt to convince Thrace that she loves him and also convert her to the [[Cylon Religion|Cylon monotheistic religion]]. She repeatedly kills Conoy a total of five times in an attempt to convince him to let her go ("[[Occupation]]", "[[Precipice]]").
*Conoy introduces Thrace to a small child named [[Kacey Brynn|Kacey]], who appears to be approximately two to three years in age, whom he claims is their biological daughter. He explains that the child was created using one of Thrace's extracted ovaries ([[The Farm]]) and his genetic material. Conflicted, Thrace leaves the child unattended, which later results in Kacey falling down the apartment's stairs ([[Precipice]]). After the fall, Thrace begins to change her attitude towards the child and begins to offer affection towards Conoy ("[[Precipice]]", "[[Exodus, Part I]]").
*Upon her return to ''Galactica'' after Admiral Adama's [[Battle of New Caprica|daring rescue attempt]], Thrace heartbreakingly discovers that Kacey was simply another manipulation on Conoy's part — Kacey is merely a human child whom the Cylons had abducted months ago from [[Julia Brynn|their mother]] ([[Exodus, Part II]]).
*Bearing the psychological scars of her four month ordeal with Leoben and Kacey, Thrace is recruited by [[Diana Seelix]] as a last minute replacement juror in the [[Circle]] after Anders' resignation. Thrace's involvement in the Circle precipitates the breakup of her marriage with Anders. Initially wondering about the legality of the tribunal, she is the fifth vote to find [[Felix Gaeta]] guilty of treason and collaboration. Later, when Gaeta is about to be killed in one of ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> [[launch tubes (RDM)|launch tubes]], she demands him to beg for his life. Thrace physically assaults him and goes down the litany of "lies" that Gaeta told her earlier about him helping the [[New Caprica Resistance|insurgency]]. As she does so, [[Galen Tyrol]], one of the Circle's jurors, overhears this and confirms the story. In a sense of confusion after learning that Gaeta was telling the truth, Thrace leaves the launch tube ([[Collaborators]]).
*During a combat exercise between Vipers, Thrace breaks formation and collides with another pilot, forcing an end to the war games and causing Lee to revoke her flight status. Later, at her bunk she is met by Kacey and her mother, whom she dismisses, telling Kacey's mother not to visit her again. In the pilots' rec room, Thrace and Colonel Tigh begin to sow dissent between the survivors of New Caprica and the crew that stayed behind on ''Galactica'', insinuating that those who stayed behind did not suffer like those on New Caprica did, and that the crew of ''Galactica'' took too long to organize a rescue. Admiral Adama, upon learning of this from Karl Agathon, confronts Thrace and Tigh on their behavior. He challenges them to shoot him, as their constant complaining is tantamount to pulling the trigger. When neither do, Adama throws Thrace off her chair and demands that both she and Tigh shape up and move on with their lives. Spurred by Adama's words, Thrace cuts her hair and returns to duty. Later, in uniform, she visits Kacey and her mother on the [[Dogsville|converted hangar deck]] ([[Torn]]).
*Thrace enters an affair with Lee, rekindling their romance on New Caprica ([[Unfinished Business]]). Both Anders and Lee's wife, Lieutenant [[Anastasia Dualla]], are more than vaguely aware of the pair's sexual tension. Lee ends the affair and reconciles with his wife despite still being in love with Thrace, but Thrace refuses to give Anders any further attention than a periodic sexual fling.
*Thrace is involved with the defense of the incorrectly called "[[Temple of Five]]" but is severely injured, leaving her rescuer, Dualla, to return them to ''Galactica'' ([[Rapture]]). Agathon recognizes the strange circular [[Eye of Jupiter|mandala]] in the Temple, created 4,000 years before, and its resemblance to a symbol that Thrace painted in her apartment. When shown the symbol, the recovering Thrace is darkly reminded of Leoben's prophesy.
*During refueling operations above a gas giant, Thrace is continually attracted to what she believes is a Cylon contact, which she chases to find a planetary storm that resembles the mandala. She dives into it, almost losing control before coming to her senses and returning.
*Command staff and Thrace question her competency to continue flying, but Lee volunteers encouragement and offers to fly as her wingman on her next [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]].
*Thrace finds herself attracted by another apparent Cylon contact. As she descended, her Viper is struck by debris and she, while unconscious, experiences a revelation about her mother, [[Socrata Thrace]], and guided through the vision by what looks to be a Leoben copy.
*Starbuck regains consciousness but chooses to continue her descent despite Lee's desperate pleas to ascend. "I'll see you on the other side (...) Just let me go" were her last words as her Viper explodes. A grief-stricken Lee tells [[CIC]] that he did not see any ejection ([[Maelstrom]]).
*While preparing for a Cylon engagement near the [[Ionian nebula]], Lee (who has [[Crossroads, Part I|since left]] the Colonial Military) detects a bogey on [[DRADIS]]. While he searches for the target, Lee finds himself momentarily in a cat-and-mouse chase game with the mysterious target. As Lee attempts to regain sight of the bogey, it positions itself next to his Viper.

=== Return from the Dead and Suspicion ===

*The [[Starbuck's Viper|pristine Viper Mark II]] that comes alongside is flown by Thrace herself. A shocked and confused [[Lee Adama]] (now a civilian) listens to the apparently-resurrected Kara Thrace, who tells him that she has been to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] and she has returned to take the Fleet to it ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).
*After the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula|battle at the nebula]], she returns to ''Galactica'' where everyone is astounded to see her alive. While everyone believed her dead for over two months, only several hours have passed for her. She has returned with recon photography of [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], but no navigational data or knowledge of how she got there. Further complicating her claim is the fact that her Viper is nearly pristine, as if it had just been built. Despite passing a medical examination by Doctor [[Sherman Cottle]], almost everyone—especially Roslin—thinks she may be a Cylon or part of a Cylon trap, and thus don't believe her. Thrace herself wonders if she could be a Cylon.
*When the Fleet jumps further away from the Ionian Nebula, she experiences headaches and says that she is losing the intuitive feeling of the way to Earth. Desperate to lead the Colonials there, she breaks into Adama's quarters and confronts Roslin at gun point ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).
*Thrace is eventually subdued by [[Colonial Marines]] and imprisoned in the [[brig]]. Lee visits Thrace in the brig and tells her that he believes her. Thrace is happy that he does and they share a kiss before Lee leaves for ''[[Colonial One]]''. Although not sure what to make of her claims, Admiral Adama releases her later, and gives her command of ''[[Demetrius]]'', and a crew including [[Karl Agathon]] and Samuel Anders, telling her to try to find Earth ([[Six of One]]).
*Thrace irritates her crew by frequent, unexplained course changes and rarely leaving her quarters, where she holes herself up to study star charts. When her husband confronts her about her command style and their marriage, she tells him that she is not the same person he married and tries to throw him out of her cabin. However, when Anders holds her, she tells him that she wants to have sex in order to feel something. Afterwards, she says that she feels distanced from her body and the events around her ([[The Ties That Bind]]).
* When a [[Leoben Conoy]] copy comes aboard ''Demetrius'' with the offer of an alliance with the Cylons, a power struggle among the crew breaks out when Thrace orders to jump to his baseship ([[The Road Less Traveled]]). The fight ends with Gaeta getting shot in the leg by Anders. After standing down, Thrace decides to accompany Conoy with a small team. On his baseship she meets the Cylon [[Hybrid]], who repeats the [[first Hybrid]]'s [[The Destiny|prophecy]] ([[Razor]]) and gives her the next task: join the Cylons to unbox [[Number Three]] to learn what she knows of the Final Five ([[Faith]]).
* After the unboxing, Thrace reacts with shock and disbelief when she learns that her husband is a Cylon. She investigates the [[Starbuck's Viper|Viper she returned in]] and notices that it receives a strange signal, giving her a direct bearing to Earth. Her discovery stops the imminent execution of Colonel Tigh and leads to a truce with the [[Cylon Civil War|Cylon rebels]]. After arriving at Earth, Thrace is part of the first group on the surface, but finds only a destroyed city ([[Revelations]]).

=== The Thirteenth Colony and the Search for a New Home ===
*Thrace and [[Leoben Conoy]] explore the devastated Earth trying to find the source of the signal. They find pieces of wreckage belonging to a [[Viper (RDM)|Colonial Viper]]—the [[Viper 8757|same Viper]] that Thrace [[Maelstrom|flew into the gas giant]]. Finally, they come upon the cockpit of the crashed Viper, with its pilot still inside. Thrace is horrified to discover that the carcass inside the cockpit is hers. Thrace reveals to Conoy that the [[Hybrid]] aboard the rebel baseship called her the "Harbinger of Death." Conoy has no explanation for any of this and flees the scene, leaving Thrace alone to wonder who or what she really is. Thrace later retrieves the dog tags and wedding ring from the body. She then cremates the body and returns to ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. She does not tell anyone what she has discovered ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).
*After ''Galactica'' leaves Earth, Thrace is still trying to come to terms with her discoveries there. [[Felix Gaeta]], who is unhappy about the Fleet's alliance with the [[Cylon (RDM)|Cylons]] and for the events leading up to that point (including a [[The Face of the Enemy|certain revelation]] about his role on [[New Caprica]]), decides to pick a fight with her. Gaeta accuses Thrace of collaborating with the Cylons, while Thrace retorts that Gaeta is just bitter because [[Faith|he lost his leg]]. Gaeta makes a thinly-veiled threat against Thrace, who responds by telling him she isn't afraid to beat up a cripple. Thrace then storms off ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]).
*A withdrawn Thrace later has an altercation with [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]]. She teases him about his unexpected fathering of [[Nicholas Tyrol]]. Costanza is unamused, angrily retorting that Thrace slept with half the Fleet herself and has nothing to show for her efforts. This hits a nerve and Thrace throws a bowl of food at a retreating Costanza.
*An alarm goes off and Thrace is ordered by [[Noel Allison|Noel "Narcho" Allison]] to evacuate the area. Thrace is suspicious and when she presses Allison for more information, he snaps that no one even knows what she is any more.
*Thrace turns to see a group of marines and civilians led by [[Charlie Connor]] run past her, and she follows them. She sees the group break into a weapons locker and arm themselves. She hears Connor giving his men orders to take the [[hangar deck]].
*Thrace rushes back to her barracks and grabs her weapons. She then tries to warn the CIC, but Gaeta blocks her calls. Realizing that Gaeta is also involved, Thrace takes off for the hangar deck.
*She arrives at the hangar deck just in time to rescue [[Lee Adama]] from Connor and his men, who are being assisted by [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]] and [[Hamish McCall|Hamish "Skulls" McCall]]. Thrace kills one of the marines and wounds Skulls, forcing the others to back off. She and Lee then hurry away.
*Thrace and Lee take refuge inside a storage compartment. Lee doesn't think they can defeat the mutiny alone. Thrace responds by kissing him. She then says that this is the first time in weeks that she feels right.
*Thrace and Lee head for the CIC. They find that the mutiny has spread all across the ship. They arrive at Admiral Adama's quarters, where they meet [[Laura Roslin]]. After learning of the mutiny, Roslin decides that she must come out and address the Fleet. However, the ship's communications are down, and the only working [[wireless]] transmitter on the ship is in [[Gaius Baltar]]'s possession.
*Thrace, Adama, and Roslin make it to Baltar's compartment, where they find [[Galen Tyrol]] organizing a defense. Tyrol tells them that Admiral Adama has been arrested and is being escorted to the brig. Tyrol also tells them about a secondary storage airlock they can use to escape the ship. Thrace and Adama head off to rescue the admiral.
*At the brig, they find that [[William Adama]] and [[Saul Tigh]] have already escaped custody. They have also taken the rebel marine, [[Allan Nowart]], prisoner. Thrace tries to kill Nowart, but Adama thwarts her. As Nowart flees, Thrace argues that the mutineers are no longer his men, and as such are the enemy and that they can't afford to take prisoners.
*Thrace, Tigh and the Adamas arrive at the secondary storage airlock, where they find Tyrol, Roslin and Baltar waiting. A [[Raptor]] piloted by an [[Eight]] docks. After Roslin and Baltar board the Raptor, Thrace, Lee and Tyrol head off to continue the fight against Gaeta and [[Thomas Zarek]]'s forces ([[The Oath]]).
*Lee and Thrace head off to free the captives held in the brig, while Tyrol goes to sabotage the ship's FTL drive. They take out the mutineers guarding the brig and free Tigh, [[Sharon Agathon]], [[Karl Agathon]], [[Hera Agathon]], [[Caprica Six]] and [[Samuel Anders]].
*During the escape, a firefight ensues and Anders is shot in the back of the head by a mutineer. He is not killed but is in dire need of medical attention. Thrace yells at the others to go without her and she starts dragging Anders towards the infirmary.
*Thrace eventually exhausts herself trying to carry Anders and she collapses. Marine [[Parr]] escorting [[Romo Lampkin]] appears; Thrace attempts to shoot Parr, but her gun is empty— however, Lampkin suddenly stabs the marine twice in the neck with a pen, killing him.
*Thrace asks Lampkin to help her carry Anders to the infirmary. Lampkin is reluctant but eventually agrees to help ([[Blood on the Scales]]).
*In the immediate aftermath of the mutiny, Thrace learns from Doctor [[Sherman Cottle]] that the bullet is still stuck in Anders' skull. Anders' suppressed memories of his Cylon life back on Earth are also triggered. To Thrace's disappointment, Anders does not have an explanation as to who she really is or how she apparently came back from the dead.
*Cottle manages to remove the bullet, which he gives to Thrace. However, when Thrace goes to speak with Anders, she discovers that he has zero brain activity—which the medical personnel are unable to explain ([[No Exit]]).
*Thrace is later part of a joint Cylon-Colonial CAP which escorts [[Raptor 702|a Raptor]] carrying [[Ellen Tigh]] and [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]] onto ''Galactica''.
*Thrace is later seen in [[Joe's Bar]] drinking and toying with the bullet removed from Anders' skull. She and Tyrol have a brief discussion about Valerii, who is being held in the brig ([[Deadlock]]).
*Thrace gets a drawing of what seems to be stars from Hera and later visits Joe's Bar where she helps piano player [[Slick]] with the music he's composing. There she reveals that she used to play piano as a girl with her father until he left and then stopped and she had a song she used to play that made her happy. She realizes that Hera's drawing is of the notes for that song and she and Slick start playing it together. The music turns out to be [[The Music|the same music that activated the memories]] of the so-called [[Final Five]]. Slick, who was a manifestation of her father, disappears and Thrace later goes to Anders in the hope of finding out the reason she knew of the Music and its meaning, but is unsuccessful.
*When Admiral Adama comes to see Anders—now acting as ''Galactica's'' Hybrid—to find out the location of [[The Colony]], Thrace reveals to him that she has tried to make sense out of the notes by assigning numbers to them, but has had no luck in understanding it. She also tells him that she is dead, that she burned her own dead body on [[Sometimes A Great Notion| Earth]] and has no idea what she is. Adama tells her he knows what she is: she's his daughter. Later she and Adama spread red tape down the hanger deck to create a line for people to cross one way or the other to show whether or not they volunteer for the rescue mission for Hera. Thrace flanks the Admiral on the volunteers side of the line and doesn't move the whole time, having made her choice.
*During [[Battle of The Colony|the battle]], she leads a strike force that includes both Agathons into The Colony through Raptors. They encounter Sharon Valerii who gives them back Hera before being killed by Sharon Agathon. Thrace's team meets up with Lee's and they retreat to ''Galactica'', which has rammed itself into the Colony as part of the final assault.
*Thrace helps defend the ship and after an agreement is reached with Cavil, takes damage reports on their forces alongside Lee. After things go badly and the Colony starts to fall into the black hole with ''Galactica'', Thrace—the nearest person to the [[FTL]] console—is ordered to jump them away. Thrace doesn't know the rendezvous coordinates and, after Adama makes it clear that it doesn't matter, is inspired to input the numbers she assigned to [[The Music]]'s notes as the coordinates and jumps ''Galactica'' there. According to Thrace, Thrace jumps them to "the watchtower," which turns out to be the singular moon in orbit around another planet that the Colonials later dub [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]].
*Thrace says goodbye to Anders before he flies the Fleet into the sun, destroying ''Galactica'' and the other ships, and later says her final goodbye to William Adama. Then she says her final goodbye to Lee Adama, having fulfilled [[The Destiny|her destiny]] to bring the Fleet to the second Earth. He fails to comprehend her at first, but realizes what she means as they continue talking. Thrace finally asks Lee what he is going to do now that he is here, and disappears when he turns away momentarily to look at the scenery, surprising him. In a reference to their first ever meeting, after Lee realizes that she is really gone, he says goodbye to her and promises that she will not be forgotten.

==Lords of Kobol, Hear My Prayer==

Despite her tough, rebellious exterior, Thrace is deeply spiritual and possesses a great deal of faith in the [[Lords of Kobol (RDM)|Lords of Kobol]]. She usually prays in moments of mourning or desperation, such as when she thinks Lee is dead ([[Miniseries]]), when she is trapped on a desolate moon with a broken knee and low oxygen ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]), and when she discovers she's in Cylon captivity ([[The Farm]]). This spirituality is put to the test as a series of events lead her towards a mysterious destiny.

==The Destiny==
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From early in her life, Kara Thrace has been guided through her mother's actions for a special role in life, a plot point that begins with a [[Leoben Conoy]] copy in the Season 1 episode, "[[Flesh and Bone]]". In "[[Maelstrom]]", the character dies, but reappears as a guide for the Fleet at the end of Season 3.

A Cylon [[First Hybrid|Hybrid]], speaking to Major [[Kendra Shaw]] moments before their deaths, warns her that Thrace is the herald of the apocalypse and the harbinger of death, that she would lead the human race to its end, and that she is not to be followed ([[Razor]]). Similarly, another [[Hybrid]] describes her as the harbinger of death, and she would lead them to salvation and destruction ([[Faith]]).

This becomes the case, as she leads ''Galactica'' (and the Fleet) to a second, new planet the Colonials dub "Earth." There, both Colonials and both races of Cylon (the Kobollian-based "[[Final Five]]" and the remaining models from the "[[Significant Seven]]") are saved. However, as their blend in with the native humans on the new Earth, the distinctive natures of Colonial human and Cylon creations blur and merge. In a sense, the blurring results in the "death" of both races as a new human race begins. [[Hera Agathon]]'s body, a perfect human/Cylon merging, is later represented as the Mitochondrial Eve for the humans on the New Earth ([[Daybreak, Part II]]).

==Notes==
*On the Sci-Fi Channel's preview for season 2.5 (US), Katee Sackhoff is quoted as saying that Starbuck is "the best Viper pilot...EVER."
*[[Wikipedia:Thrace|Thrace]] was a region in south-eastern Europe that was heavily influenced by the ancient Greeks and was eventually conquered by [[Wikipedia:Philip II of Macedonia|Phillip II of Macedonia]]. Thracians were considered by most to be the most ferocious fighters and were often highly paid mercenaries for Greek kings.
*Thrace may have been named after [[w:Thrax (mythology)|Thrax]], the son of [[w:Ares|Ares]], the god of war, who was said to reside on the Thracian plain in Greek mythology.
*After auditioning for the role of [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]], [[Grace Park]] was asked by director [[Michael Rymer]] to audition for the role of Starbuck, and she was actually one of two finalists up for the role (the other obviously being [[Katee Sackhoff]], who got the part). Ultimately Park was cast as [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]].
*In a TV Guide [http://online.tvguide.com/newsearch/detail.aspx?id=4371595&sourcetype=S&progseriesparentid=4371595&tvobjectid=191395&keyword=Battlestar+Galactica&referrer=search1 photo shoot] at the BSG studios, Katee Sackhoff explained that the [[tattoo]] that Starbuck bears on her left arm is a wing and a circle and has half of the constellation of Capricorn (a reference to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] obviously) and a small symbol of the planet as well. The tattoo on Anders' arm is the other half of the symbol and when they embrace, the tattoos form the whole symbol. According to Sackhoff, Kara and Anders had the tattoos done around the time of their wedding, a fact later confirmed in dialogue during Season 4.5.
*The license plate on Thrace's truck on Caprica is "FB 42 E3" ([[Valley of Darkness]]).

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|age= ca. 30 <ref>This date is assumed as follows: [[Zak Adama]] died 2 years before the Cylon attack. Since he graduated from some kind of military academy, he would be at least 22 years old, following real world models. On a [[:Image:Primusphoto.jpg|photograph]] of William Adama with his sons, Lee seems to be about two years older than Zak, placing his birth at about 26 years prior to the Cylon attack</ref>
|colony= [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]
|birthname= Leland Joseph Adama
|callsign= Apollo
|seen= Miniseries
|death= Unknown causes, presumably on Earth, c. 148,000 BCE
|parents= [[William Adama]] (father) [[Carolanne Adama]] † (mother)
|siblings= [[Zak Adama]] †
|children=1 unborn child with [[Gianne]] (presumed deceased)
|marital status= Widowed from estranged wife [[Anastasia Dualla]] †
|familytree=Y
|role=Proto-[[wikipedia:Luddite|Luddite]] advocate on Earth; Acting President of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol; Caprican Delegate to the Quorum of Twelve; Commander of Battlestar ''Pegasus''; ''Galactica'' [[CAG]]
|rank=Major (ret.)
|serial=318742 <ref name="serial">Confirmed number from QMX dogtags given to them by the studio.</ref>
|cylon=
|actor=[[Jamie Bamber]]
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'''Leland [[Joseph]] [[Adama]]''', commonly known as '''[[Lee (disambiguation)|Lee]] Adama''' or by his callsign, '''"Apollo"''', is a former [[Colonial Fleet Reserve]] officer who becomes the [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]n delegate to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]], then later the interim President of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies of Kobol]]. He is the sole surviving son of [[William Adama]].

Lee Adama's relationship with his father had always been strained, culminating with a fracture after the death of his younger brother, [[Zak Adama|Zak]], two years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. Various attempts at reconciliation occur over the following years, but even these produce conflict as Lee attempts step outside his father's shadow.

After the Fall, he is appointed ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' [[CAG]]. He is later promoted to executive officer, then commander of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''. After [[Battle of New Caprica|''Pegasus'''s destruction]], he resumes being ''Galactica'' CAG until he resigns from the Colonial Fleet to aid in [[Romo Lampkin]]'s defense of [[Gaius Baltar]].

During the post-Fall events, he has romantic relationships with [[Kara Thrace]], [[Shevon]], and [[Anastasia Dualla]], the latter whom he marries months after the discovery of [[New Caprica]]. His defense of Baltar, coupled with previous marital issues surrounding Thrace, contribute to his eventual, final split from Dualla.

== Biographical Notes ==

=== Background ===

Lee Adama is the elder son of [[Carolanne Adama|Carolanne]] and William Adama. He and his his younger brother, Zak, were raised largely by his mother on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] following his parents' divorce when he was eight.

As a child, Adama often visited his grandfather, [[Joseph Adama]], and read the law books in his study; he often followed his grandfather's cases, never understanding why Joseph Adama defended the worst of humanity ([[TRS]]: "[[The Son Also Rises]]").

Despite his father's estrangement from the family, Adama followed in his footsteps and joined the Colonial military after college, graduating third in his class at the military academy and applying to flight school.

In flight school, Adama proved himself a gifted and natural pilot, hampered only by his tendency to over-intellectualize, a trait instilled by his mother who encouraged him to read widely and think freely, such as reading the banned texts by the renegade [[Tom Zarek]] while at college ([[TRS]]: "[[Bastille Day]]").

After flight school, Adama was promoted to lieutenant and was assigned to pilot the [[Viper Mark VII]]. He was also introduced to [[Kara Thrace]], a flight instructor who had become involved with Zak. The three frequently spent time together, and Adama and Thrace formed a friendship ([[Miniseries]]).

=== Brother's Death ===

Two years prior to the Fall, Zak died while on a routine Viper mission, the cause attributed to pilot error. However, Lee Adama chose to blame the mishap on his father, believing Zak had been pushed by him into following his footsteps ([[Miniseries]]).

Estranged from his father, Lee sought to build a career apart from William Adama. This decision placed a heavy strain on his friendship with Kara Thrace, who got assigned to ''Galactica''.

Adama spent much time on Caprica and was engaged to a woman named [[Gianne]]. When she told him she was pregnant with their child, he ran from her due to his own family issues. Before he could speak with her again he received orders to take part in ''Galactica'''s decommissioning ceremony ([[TRS]]: "[[Black Market]]").

Despite having a natural knack for piloting, acceptance to test pilot school and being "well on his way to commanding a battlestar someday", Adama tells [[Frank Bruno]] at the [[Caprica Transfer Station]] that he is considering leaving the Colonial Fleet, as he is disinterested in achieving dreams that were his father's alone ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor]]", [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)#Razor|deleted scene]]).

Adama reunites with both his father and Kara Thrace at ''Galactica'''s decommissioning and conversion into a [[Galactica Museum|living museum and educational center]] of the [[Cylon War]]. As a part of the ceremonies, Lee Adama grudgingly participates in a final Viper flyby salute, doing little to hide his true feelings from the moment he arrives on the battlestar. Matters are not helped when he discovers he will fly in the restored [[Viper Mark II]] his father flew during the Cylon War ([[Miniseries]]).

Things worsen after the PR official aboard ''Galactica'', [[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 his brother's death, venting two years' worth of anger and belief that his father was responsible for the loss of his brother.

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

Following the decommissioning ceremony, Lee Adama departs ''Galactica'', acting as an unofficial escort for ''[[Colonial Heavy 798]]'', the official transport for Secretary of Education [[Laura Roslin]], who represented President [[Richard Adar|Adar]] at the ceremony. Midway through their return to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]], Adama and the crew of ''Colonial Heavy 798'' hear of the Cylon attacks on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]], and soon find themselves under direct attack, which he is able to thwart. Adama quickly becomes one of Laura Roslin's unofficial advisers, 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 disastrous attack on two [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raiders]], notes to him that other Vipers and other modern Colonial spacecraft like his Mark VII were [[Command Navigation Program|easily destroyed]] by Cylon attacks.

Adama again saves ''Colonial Heavy 798'' from a nuclear missile attack with a failed experiment he toyed with in [[War College]], using [[EMP]] coils kept in the cargo hold to make it look like the ship has been destroyed. He supports Roslin in her rescue efforts, persuading her to lead the [[FTL]]-capable ships to follow ''Galactica'' to [[Ragnar Anchorage]].

As the ranking pilot aboard ''Galactica'', and despite his relative inexperience, Adama finds himself appointed [[CAG]] by Colonel [[Saul Tigh]].

Apollo leads a Viper squadron in the [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]], keeping the Cylon Raiders at bay while the civilian [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] jumps to safety. His ship is badly damaged during in the battle, and is about to be destroyed by a Cylon missile when the missile is intercepted and shot by Starbuck's highly-accurate marksmanship. His Viper eventually loses power as the battle draws to a close and ''Galactica'' is preparing to retreat. Starbuck saves him with a crazy idea and her flying skills, bringing them back to ''Galactica'' shortly before the battlestar jumps away.

=== Special Advisor ===
[[image:Water_Apollo_Roslin.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Adama and President Roslin shake hands after appointment as military advisor ([[TRS]]: "[[Water]]").]]
Adama's work as Roslin's "special advisor" to further help her understand military matters does not sit well with his father, who is still harboring some reservations about Roslin ([[TRS]]: "[[Bastille Day]]").

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 admission of her involvement in Zak's acceptance as a fighter pilot and his subsequent death. Father and son grow somewhat closer - even standing shoulder-to-shoulder when Starbuck is missing in action and both going to great lengths to save her ([[TRS]]: "[[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]] ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|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 (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] aboard the luxury liner ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Colonial Day]]").

=== The Inner Conflicts at Kobol ===

Eventually, Adama's beliefs in the need for democratic representation and civil government brings him in direct conflict with orders given him by his father. 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 ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]").

Adama is temporarily furloughed by Colonel Tigh so that he can continue to carry out his duties. 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 civilian Fleet ([[TRS]]: "[[Scattered]]"), and leads a team of [[Marines]] to stop [[Cylon Centurion]]s that boarded the ship ([[TRS]]: "[[Valley of Darkness]]"). After that, Adama continues his initiative and leads a [[SAR]] mission with two [[Raptors]] to retrieve a stranded survey team on the surface of Kobol ([[TRS]]: "[[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'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]"). 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 young Adama leaves his side.

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

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.

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 ''Queen'', his father reacts violently to the existence of a another copy of Valerii, leaving Captain Adama in the awkward position of defending her from his father. 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 [[w: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 CAG ([[TRS]]: "[[Final Cut]]"). Apollo doubts that [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] could successfully complete a prototype fighter later known as the [[Blackbird]], but in the end aids in its first test flight with Starbuck. Around this time, Adama begins to develop an attraction to [[Anastasia Dualla]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Flight of the Phoenix]]").

===Reassignment===

Apollo is on [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]] when the [[Mercury class battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' reunites with ''Galactica'' and is one of the first to see it up close. Soon afterwards, friction develops between Adama and the CAG of ''Pegasus'', Captain [[Cole Taylor]]. Taylor feels that Adama's pilots are 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'', under Taylor's command. Cain believes that having Commander Adama's son in the role of CAG was a mistake that has clouded Commander Adama's judgment, as young Adama has been insubordinate and even [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|mutinous]] in the past. For an upcoming scouting mission against the Cylon fleet following them, Taylor orders Adama to perform the humiliating task of co-piloting a Raptor. Annoyed, Adama orders Starbuck to take the [[Blackbird]] and perform the mission alone. When Commander Adama and Admiral Cain turn on each other, Apollo is away in Taylor's Raptor on his recon mission ([[TRS]]: "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]").

As the two battlestar commanders begin sparring with Vipers, ''Pegasus'' orders Taylor to relieve Adama of duty. Taylor pulls his sidearm and takes away Adama's. Now weaponless and with nothing more to do than to ride along, Adama asks permission to head to the rear of the Raptor. While Taylor is busy, Adama secretly communicates with Starbuck over [[wireless]] text messages. This gives away her position to the Fleet, who think her to be a Cylon Raider. When the Vipers are ordered to disengage and pursue her instead, Starbuck manages to identify herself before things get out of hand.

Cain feels that persecuting young Adama for authorizing Thrace's mission would be odd since she is promoting Thrace for her work on her recon mission. Thrace successfully returns Adama to flight status, but demoted to lieutenant ([[TRS]]: "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]").

=== Battle of the Resurrection Ship ===

While Thrace plans an assault on the Resurrection Ship and the two [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]]s defending it, she tells Adama that his father has ordered her to kill Cain after the battle, and asks Adama to watch her back. Outraged, Adama confronts his father with this, shocked to learn it was President Roslin's idea. Thrace assigns Adama the specific task of disabling the Resurrection Ship's [[FTL]] drive by sneaking up on it in the [[Blackbird]] and destroying it with a precision missile strike. Apollo succeeds, but the Blackbird collides with a [[Raptor]]. Apollo is able to eject, but the Blackbird is destroyed. Alive, but not unscathed, Apollo floats in space watching the battle take place around him. A tear in his [[flight suit]] leaves him almost out of air. While having the means to stop the leak, he is overcome with a sense of sadness and nihilism, having learned that the two persons closest to him, Roslin and his father, resort to assassination to solve their conflict with Cain. Although hearing Dualla over the [[wireless]], he decides to let go and die, but is found by a [[SAR|SAR Raptor]] and resuscitated. Adama becomes despondent and distant from his friends and family after his near-death experience. In the pilot's locker room, Thrace tells Adama "Let's just be glad that we both came back alive, alright?" to which Adama responds "That's just it, Kara, I didn't want to make it back alive" ([[TRS]]: "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]").

=== The Black Market ===

After President Roslin is saved from her illness, she begins trying to put down the Fleet's [[Black market (organization)|black market]]. New ''Pegasus'' commander [[Jack Fisk]] is soon murdered, leaving the elder Adama (now an Admiral) to assign his son to investigate. With his association with prostitute [[Shevon]] and her daughter [[Paya]] on ''[[Cloud 9]]'', [[Anastasia Dualla]] asks where the relationship between the two of them is heading. After he hesitates, Dualla takes it to mean it is over. Rushing to help Shevon after her call for help, the captain is ambushed by Phelan's men. Waking up from the attack, he finds the Fisk's murder weapon, and the body of Fisk's murderer.

With some help from [[Tom Zarek]], unwilling to accept the neatly-wrapped up case of Fisk's murderer or the missing Shevon, Adama finds the black market's main ship, ''[[Prometheus (ship)|Prometheus]]''. He finds Paya and other children locked in a storage room. He confronts Phelan, who tells him a black market is necessary, since some supplies may never reach needy people any other way. After Phelan admits running a child prostitution ring, Adama shoots Phelan, and tells his bodyguards that the market can continue operations, unless it keeps holding back essential medicines, begins killing, or returns to child prostitution.

Shevon refuses to see Adama anymore, realizing that Adama has tried to use her and Paya as replacements in his mind for his lost fiancé [[Gianne]] and their unborn child, saying that she can never be her ([[TRS]]: "[[Black Market]]").

===Friendly Fire===

While on leave to ''Cloud 9'' with Dualla, a group of terrorists seize a bar and demand the second copy of [[Sharon Valerii]] for execution, while they hold hostage approximately a dozen people, including Dualla, [[Billy Keikeya]], [[Ellen Tigh]] and Adama. The captain secretly sabotages the bar's carbon dioxide sensors to appear as if it were leaking atmosphere. The sabotage enables Captain Thrace to enter the bar and gather intelligence on the situation, but her cover is blown by Ellen Tigh, and she is forced to draw her weapons. One shot accidentally hits Adama in the chest. After escaping, Thrace breaks down crying for having shot her friend; Dualla is able to care for Adama long enough for him to survive to ''Galactica's'' sickbay, and later sits at his bedside while he recovers. Thrace watches, but is unsure what to do and leaves ([[TRS]]: "[[Sacrifice]]").

===A Worthy Command ===

Adama finds himself promoted to Major and assigned to [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus]]''. He is assigned to the ship by Admiral Adama to assess ''Pegasus's'' crew and the the new commander [[Barry Garner]], the ship's former Chief Engineer.

His relationship with Dualla has become intimate following his promotion and recovery. Kara Thrace, still ''Pegasus'' CAG, soon comes to blows with Garner is confined to her quarters. When visiting her, Adama chides her for her behavior, stating that he is sick of cleaning up after her all the time. He confronts her about the friendly fire incident, resulting in a moment of uncomfortable silence, before the talk returns to business.

Against orders from Admiral Adama, Garner takes ''Pegasus'' in to search for two Raptors missing during a recon mission into a binary star system. His impulsive and unwise efforts result in the battlestar's [[Battle of the Binary Star System|ambush by three Cylon basestars]]. With the FTL drive damaged after successive nuclear missile strikes, Garner relegates command to Major Adama and heads below to help in FTL repairs. After a moment's hesitation (perhaps thinking what his father would do), Adama orders the forward guns to fire on the nearest basestar, critically damaging the basestar and forcing its retreat, while commanding the battlestar's fighters (led by Starbuck) to guard embattled areas damaged from nuclear pummeling. Adama's attack buys time for Commander Garner to repair the FTL drive, enabling ''Pegasus'' to escape back to the Fleet and relative safety.

Admiral Adama debriefs his son, who gave Garner a lot of credit for saving the ship, despite their disagreements. When asked about Garner's flaws, Lee says that he only knew machines, while command is about people. His father tells him to keep that in mind and gives him command of ''Pegasus'', together with a promotion to commander; possibly giving him his old rank insignia ([[TRS]]: "[[The Captain's Hand]]").

Sometime later, Adama wishes Thrace good luck in rescuing [[Samuel Anders]] and the rest of the [[Caprica Resistance|resistance group on Caprica]], despite his clear personal feelings towards her. After Thrace and Anders' return, Adama attempts to introduce himself politely, but is hampered by the couple's amorous and highly drunken behavior. When Thrace gives a rude comment, Adama bows out the area, beginning a quiet but palpable rift in their friendship ([[TRS]]: "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]").

[[Image:Apollo LDYBPII.JPG|thumb|left|Lee Adama in command of ''Pegasus'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]").]]

=== On New Caprica ===
Four months later, Commander Adama and his [[Executive Officer|XO]], Lieutenant Dualla, are granted shore leave to attend a groundbreaking ceremony on the surface of New Caprica. After the ensuing party, with Dualla and Anders gone, Adama sleeps with Kara Thrace and suggests they break up with their respective partners. Thrace and Adama declare their love for each other, and he assumes that she has agreed to their plan. He wakes up alone the next morning only to find out that Thrace has just married Anders. The rift between Adama and Thrace has widened ever larger. Hurt, he proposes to Dualla, who accepts ([[TRS]]: "[[Unfinished Business]]").

Another eight months later, a year after the settlement, a half-manned ''Pegasus'' is still orbiting New Caprica. Commander Adama has gained a considerable amount of weight in the intervening year. He is in the process of deciding whether or not to supply Kara Thrace with [[antibiotics]] for pneumonia-afflicted Anders when Dualla spots a massive Cylon fleet jumping into the nebula. Adama and his father briefly discuss their course of action; young Adama argues for an immediate emergency jump. Reluctantly, the Admiral orders the orbiting remains of the Fleet, whose population consists of around two thousand citizens, to escape, thus leaving New Caprica to the Cylons for the time being ([[TRS]]: "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]").
 

=== Battle of New Caprica and Destruction of ''Pegasus'' ===

Commander Adama and his father get into a disagreement over whether or not a rescue mission should be mounted to New Caprica. Lee believes that it would end with the destruction of both ''Galactica'' and ''Pegasus'', leaving the pitiful remnants of the Fleet at the mercy of the Cylons. Lee also objects to the Admiral's decision to reinstate [[Sharon Agathon]] as a Colonial Fleet officer to act as liaison between the New Caprica resistance and ''Galactica''. These disagreements lead to heated arguments between the two, prompting Admiral Adama to make a comment about Lee's weight by calling him a "fatass" and saying he has grown "soft" in the past year ("[[Occupation]]", "[[Precipice]]"). Due to his son's objections, Admiral Adama decides to take ''Galactica'' to rescue the people on New Caprica alone. He gives his son orders to wait 18 hours for his return; if he does not return by then, Lee is to resume the search for Earth with what is left of the civilian fleet. Despite their disagreement, the two have a heartfelt goodbye. Lee tries to talk his father out of the plan and explain himself, but the older Adama stops him. Instead the two embrace and the Admiral gives his son full military honors when departing ''Galactica'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Exodus, Part I]]").

Lee is certain that his father will not return, and he is conflicted between his duty to protect the civilians and his duty to his father. His wife's attempt at reassurance only serve to heighten his guilt. Leaving his ship's Vipers behind to protect the civilians, he takes ''Pegasus'' to assist ''Galactica'', fully aware that he may very well be on a suicide mission. He joins the [[Battle of New Caprica|battle]] just in time, saving his father's ship from certain destruction. Immediately destroying one basestar after exiting the jump, Adama uses ''Pegasus'' to draw fire, giving ''Galactica'' time to escape. This action damages ''Pegasus'' beyond repair. Adama orders the crew to evacuate and the ship's [[Battery|batteries]] to be set on autofire. He is the last person to leave the CIC, thanking the ship as he departs. The small crew evacuates on Raptors just as ''Pegasus'' rams a basestar, destroying itself in the process ([[TRS]]: "[[Exodus, Part II]]").

The Commander and his crew transfer to the last remaining battlestar, ''Galactica''. Dissatisfied with his round appearance, he had also taken up a rigid exercise regimen and starts losing weight rapidly ([[TRS]]: "[[Collaborators]]").

=== The Second Exodus ===

[[Image:Maj apollo in viper.jpg|thumb|right|Lee Adama back as a major in the role of ''Galactica's'' CAG ([[TRS]]: "[[Torn]]").]]
As of the episode "[[Torn]]", Lee has returned to the role of ''Galactica's'' CAG, with the rank of Major. When a dying basestar is discovered in the [[Lion's Head Nebula]], Adama leads a team of Marines on it and captures several humanoid Cylons. After Doctor [[Cottle]] discovers that they are infected with a virus lethal to the Cylons, Adama advocates to use the prisoners as biological weapons in an attempt to exterminate the Cylons. The plan is approved but ultimately fails due to the intervention of [[Karl Agathon]], who sabotages the mission ([[TRS]]: "[[A Measure of Salvation]]").

When [[Daniel Novacek|Bulldog]] arrives on ''Galactica'', Admiral Adama tells Lee about [[Valkyrie|the mission]] they executed together, and how he believes it has led to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon holocaust]]. Lee blames the admiralty instead, saying they wanted to provoke a war ([[TRS]]: "[[Hero]]").

After most of the Fleet has arrived safely on the [[algae planet]] following a [[Passage (star cluster)|harrowing journey]], Adama leads the food harvesting operations on the surface. Fourteen days into the harvesting mission, he meets with Kara Thrace and once again suggests they divorce their respective spouses. Thrace refuses to divorce and Adama refuses to cheat on his wife, deadlocking their relationship. When the [[Temple of Five]] is found on the planet and the Cylons show up, Adama is ordered to protect the temple from the Cylons, destroying it if necessary. He orders Starbuck to scout the terrain in her Raptor, which gets shot down by Centurions. After having sent Dualla to rescue Starbuck, the Major and his team attempt an ambush against a group of Centurions passing through a valley towards the temple. The ambush fails, and Adama orders to retreat and the temple to be blown. When trying to do so, he and his team witness the algae planet's star going supernova, and realize that the nova is in fact the [[Eye of Jupiter]]. After the Cylon fleet has jumped away to escape the destruction of the planetary system, the ground team is picked up by a rescue party ("[[The Eye of Jupiter]]", "[[Rapture]]").

Later Adama is treated by his friend [[Galen Tyrol]] to a little surprise: A number of crew have created a [[Joe's bar|bar]], on the starboard hangar deck, complete with a Pyramid arcade game and an old Viper Mark II hanging above for atmosphere. Tyrol and Adama have a drink as they discuss their marital problems; Tyrol and his wife Cally have had an argument that has apparently left him "in the doghouse". Adama is reluctant to interact with his wife, as his uncertainty over his love of Kara Thrace continues to fight with him. Adama returns to his quarters, quite drunk, to find Dualla still awake and doing some work, apparently drinking some type of [[alcohol]]. She tries to confirm if they are still going to have dinner later that day as Lee dozes off, leaving Dualla disappointed. Later on Adama and Dualla have an argument about Kara Thrace and the future of their marriage. Dualla says that she married Adama because she loved him, choosing to have him for as long as he or Kara Thrace would let him. She resigns herself to her marriage's failure and tells Adama that she will not stand in his way if he were to choose Thrace over her. Dualla then leaves. Thrace and Adama meet privately. When Thrace asks Adama if he loves her and would be with her if she were to leave Anders, Adama equivocates, remembering Thrace's fickleness [[Unfinished Business|after he declared his love a year before]]. Thrace leaves him to think about the situation.
[[Image:3x13-Taking a Break From All Your Worries-Apollo.jpg|thumb|right|Lee Adama drinking in Joe's Bar ([[TRS]]: "[[Taking a Break From All Your Worries]]").]]

Adama returns to the bar and drinks more, toying with his wedding band. He asks Chief Tyrol if he ever thought about what his future with [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]] would have been like, or had any regrets. With a quick drink, Tyrol replies in the negative. Adama stumbles back to his quarters, losing his wedding band somewhere in ''Galactica's'' corridors. Lee Adama and his wife meet in Joe's Bar. Adama, having since found his lost wedding ring, confesses that he loves Dualla and how dedicated she has been to him, never realizing how much he needed her affection. As the two embrace, Adama tries to avoid looking across the bar at Kara Thrace and Anders. Thrace returns the glance before Adama breaks it off ([[TRS]]: "[[Taking a Break From All Your Worries]]").

===Death of a Lover and Friend===

During refueling operations over a gas giant, Kara Thrace becomes mentally unstable, having [[Virtual Leoben|hallucinations]] about Leoben and her alleged [[The Destiny|destiny]]. When she refuses to fly another mission, Adama has a friendly talk with her. After all that happened two are back where they started; Thrace being the screwup pilot and Adama having to clean up after her as [[CAG]]. He also tells her that his relationship with Dee is better than ever. Adama offers to fly as her wingman to calm her. While on [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]], Starbuck sees a Cylon [[Heavy Raider]] and goes on alert, joined by Adama. However, from the vantage point of Adama, Thrace's [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] malfunctions and is drawn into the vortex of a storm. He gets sketchy information from Thrace when she says "I'll see you on the other side." Her Viper explodes, and Adama struggles to escape the vortex ([[TRS]]: "[[Maelstrom]]").

He is badly shaken by her death, as evidenced by his lack of concentration as CAG, confusing people and mission details. He is also shaken by a story told by [[Romo Lampkin]]. Eventually, he begins the healing process with [[Samuel Anders]] by putting Thrace's picture into the [[memorial hallway]] ([[TRS]]: "[[The Son Also Rises]]").

===The Trial of Gaius Baltar===

President [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] recommends that Major Adama be put in charge of the proceedings of the trial of [[Gaius Baltar]]. However, due to the pressures that he is under, Adama declines the position (despite his interest in law as a child). As a token of his affection, Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]] gives Lee his [[Joseph Adama|grandfather]]'s Caprican [[Arts and Literature of the Twelve Colonies#Law books|Law Code books]] ([[TRS]]: "[[A Day in the Life]]"). Later, his father places Adama in charge of security for Baltar's lawyer, [[Romo Lampkin]], claiming that he trusts him, but also pulling him off his duties of CAG after he shows that Thrace's death affects his job performance. While following Lampkin around, Adama develops a desire to help Lampkin defend Baltar. His father is not pleased with this idea, but allows him to do so ([[TRS]]: "[[The Son Also Rises]]").

After Adama contributes to humiliating Colonel Tigh in court, he and his father have a falling out, which leads to Lee's resignation from the Colonial Fleet and him becoming a civilian. Adama also learns that President [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] has resumed taking [[chamalla]], which he confronts her about in court, trying to discredit her credibility. Roslin pleads with him to not pursue his line of questioning, but he forces her to admit that her cancer has returned. Disappointed in Adama, she recollects times when the two were friends and she called him "Captain Apollo". After that, [[Anastasia Dualla|his wife]] packs her belongings in preparation for leaving Adama. She says that he should not have confronted the President, and that he was supporting a legal system that was trying to let a murderer walk. She leaves him alone, with him crying that she doesn't understand him ([[TRS]]: "[[Crossroads, Part I]]").

In an unusual move, Adama takes the stand himself and delivers a [[Crossroads, Part II#Noteworthy Dialogue|passionate speech]] in defense of Baltar. He points out a string of incidents, some involving himself, where people were forgiven for serious crimes, and defends those decisions, arguing that humanity is not a real civilization anymore. Adama thinks that executing Baltar for actions that he couldn't really prevent is not justice, and that Baltar is just the Fleet's scapegoat for everyone's misdeeds and failures on New Caprica. The speech plays a major role in Baltar's subsequent acquittal. When Romo Lampkin leaves Adama after their victory, he leaves behind his cane, which he used after being injured in an attempt on his life, and walks normally, thus showing how he manipulated both Adama and the court. Ultimately, Adama's sense of justice has [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|once again]] placed him at odds with his father, but this time he has alienated Roslin and his wife as well, leaving him seemingly alone.

===A New Beginning===

[[Image:Yet another frakking Adama talk.jpg|thumb|The Adamas attempt to reconcile after Baltar's trial ([[TRS]]: "[[He That Believeth In Me]]").]]

As Cylon forces converges on the Fleet in the [[Ionian Nebula]], Adama unofficially returns to duty and mans a Viper. Unexpectedly, he encounters [[Kara Thrace]], whom he [[Maelstrom|believed dead]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Crossroads, Part II]]"). Adama and Thrace join the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula|ensuing battle]] and help to defend the civilian ships from the Cylons. When Thrace returns to ''Galactica'', Adama is glad to see her again and believes her story to a certain degree, whereas most others are is distrustful and suspect a Cylon trap.

His father offers him his pilot wings back, and thus his commission, but Adama declines, saying that he felt the need for a change for some time, and that Baltar's trial was just the trigger. He thinks that he can gain a position in the Colonial government and make a contribution there ([[TRS]]: "[[He That Believeth In Me]]").

[[Tom Zarek]] nominates Adama as the Caprican delegate on the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]]. Adama is seen off ''Galactica'' with a party in the [[rec room]] and an official ceremony on the hangar deck, where many of the crew salute him and wish him good luck. He embraces Dualla and tells her that she "got the house", implying that their breakup is final ([[TRS]]: "[[Six of One]]"). Zarek appointed Adama because of his dedication to finding the truth during the Baltar trial, and because he wants Adama to fight against some or Roslin's proposed changes to the justice system, that are undemocratic in his eyes. Although in public, Roslin claims to have forgiven Adama and to admire his convictions, she snubs him by refusing to meet him and openly teases him about his inexperience in a Quorum session ([[TRS]]: "[[The Ties That Bind]]").

Adama once again shows his idealism when Baltar's new [[Cult of Baltar|cult]] violently clashes with other religious groups in the Fleet. Whereas Roslin wants to shut down the group and pleads to the Quorum to retroactively sign off an emergency measure that restricts their right of assembly, Adama and [[Reza Chronides]] think that they are doing nothing blasphemous and illegal. The Quorum eventually decides to rescind Roslin's decision. Roslin later tells his father, that she thinks that Adama maybe be right, but that he is too idealistic and doesn't understand the pragmatism that is sometimes necessary in politics ([[TRS]]: "[[Escape Velocity]]").

Following the unexplained disappearance of Laura Roslin on a rebel Cylon baseship ([[TRS]]: "[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]"), Adama leads a search for an interim president, knowing that his father would never support an administration under Tom Zarek. Despite consulting Romo Lampkin on a list of 47 candidates, it is Lampkin who ultimately decides that Adama should be the interim president; Adama thanks Lampkin by offering [[Jake (New Caprica)|Jake]] as a pet to replace the loss of [[Faye Lampkin]]'s cat, [[Lance]].

Even with his ascension to the presidency, Adama is unable to dissuade his father from stepping down as military leader, or his father's personal search for Roslin—a mission that Adama believes to be nothing short of suicide ([[TRS]]: "[[Sine Qua Non]]").

===No Exit===
After the failed coup d'état, in which Lee is the sole [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum]] delegate not killed in the massacre ordered by [[Tom Zarek]], President Laura Roslin puts Lee in charge of forming a new Quorum. Lee proposes the idea of making the new Quorum based not upon the individual Colonies but upon ships in the Fleet, as he reasons that the people are no longer defined by their Colonies but by their ships. Roslin approves of the idea and tells Lee that while she will remain President in title, she wants him to do the "heavy lifting" from then on ([[TRS]]: "[[No Exit]]"). Given this, its likely that Roslin has made him her new Vice President after the execution of Tom Zarek for his coup.

Lee is shown to have taken on the Presidential duties since then such as meeting with the new Quorum of Ship's Captains and organizing the stripping of ''Galactica'' which is hard for him as he loves the ship. When Admiral Adama calls for volunteers for a final mission, Lee is the first to volunteer despite it being likely one-way.

===Assault on the Colony===
While planning the mission, Lee re-dons the service uniform of a major (distinguished by its collar piping), but omits rank insignia.

''Galactica'' launches its attack on the Colony and rams right into it. Lee leads a team of Colonial Marines and Rebel Centurions into the Colony from through its breach their staging point at ''Galactica''’s bow. They fight their way past Cavil's forces and eventually link up with Kara Thrace and her team, who have rescued Hera Agathon. The two groups head back to ''Galactica'', but are followed by Cavil and his forces. Lee runs into Baltar and Caprica Six who are helping to repel the boarding parties. Lee and his men provide cover fire for Kara, Helo, Athena and Hera to make their way to safety.

===New Earth===
After ''Galactica'' jumps to the coordinates Kara Thrace provides, Lee is one of the first people to land on the lush, habitable planet the Colonials eventually decide to call "Earth". They discover that primitive human tribes have already evolved on the new Earth. Lee makes a radical suggestion: The Colonials will abandon their ships and most of their technology and start new lives using only essential supplies and the planet's resources. They will also teach the native humans about language and culture, but not about technology. This will hopefully prevent Humanity from repeating the same mistakes it made on Kobol and the Twelve Colonies. Surprisingly, this idea is well received.

Later, Lee and Kara say their final goodbyes to Adama, who has decided to live alone for the remainder of his life. After Adama departs in a Raptor, Kara tells Lee that she is also leaving. She doesn't know where she's going, but she knows that her job here is done. Kara then asks Lee what he's going to do now. Lee briefly turns his back and starts to talk about exploring the new world, but when he turns around, Kara is nowhere in sight. Realizing what Kara meant when she said she was leaving, Lee bids Kara goodbye for the last time and promises that she won't be forgotten.

==Family tree==
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== Notes ==

*From [[Ronald D. Moore]]'s scifi.com [http://blogs.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/01/lets-talk.php blog entry] of January 19, 2005:

<blockquote>In my first draft of the [[Miniseries|mini]], Lee Adama had just been accepted into test pilot school on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] and was not currently assigned to any battlestar. Presumably, he had been posted to at least a couple of battlestar [[Air Group]]s 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 [[William Adama|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>
*The caption under Apollo's name in "[[Final Cut]]" list him as "CFR". In the podcast, Ron Moore explaines that this stands for "Colonial Fleet Reserves"; and that Apollo was a reserve officer because he wasn't sure what he was doing with his life and if he was going to pursue a full career in the Colonial Fleet.
*According to Jamie Bamber, Adama's official character biography states that "Lee is never so happy as when he's in his kitchen cooking."
* Jamie Bamber is the husband of actress [[Kerry Norton]], who portrays [[Layne Ishay]], the paramedic from "[[Scattered]]" and "[[Taking a Break From All Your Worries]]".
* Bamber, who is British, plays Lee Adama with an American accent (presumably to more closely match [[Edward James Olmos]]'s).
* Bamber is a natural blond, but his hair is dyed brown to better resemble Olmos.
*While Edward James Olmos and [[Mary McDonnell]] were hand-picked for their roles, the rest of the characters were cast by audition: among those in the running for the role of Apollo was ''[[w:Farscape|Farscape]]'' and ''[[w:Stargate SG-1|Stargate SG-1]]'' star [[Wikipedia:Ben Browder|Ben Browder]], though the role ultimately went to [[Jamie Bamber]].<ref>{{cite_book|last=Bassom|first=David|authorlink=|authorlinkurl=|coauthors=|year=2005|title=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]|pages=23|editor=ed. Adam "Adama" Newell|publisher=Titan Books|location=|id=ISBN 1-84576-0972}}</ref>
*Admiral William Adama names his son to succeed him as commander of ''Galactica'' in his resignation letter ([[TRS]]: "[[Hero]]") indicating how close they have become prior to the events of [[Gaius Baltar]]'s trial.
*Lee Adama's watch is a [http://www.nixonnow.com/watches/mens/the-scout-A590.html Nixon Scout].
*Lee Adama's Colonial Fleet ID tag is marked "L. Adama/ser 318742. (Quantum Mechanix ID Replica)

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{{Character Data
|photo= Lee Adama.jpg
|age= ca. 30 <ref>This date is assumed as follows: [[Zak Adama]] died 2 years before the Cylon attack. Since he graduated from some kind of military academy, he would be at least 22 years old, following real world models. On a [[:Image:Primusphoto.jpg|photograph]] of William Adama with his sons, Lee seems to be about two years older than Zak, placing his birth at about 26 years prior to the Cylon attack</ref>
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|birthname= Leland Joseph Adama
|callsign= Apollo
|seen= Miniseries
|death= Unknown causes, presumably on Earth, c. 148,000 BCE
|parents= [[William Adama]] (father) [[Carolanne Adama]] † (mother)
|siblings= [[Zak Adama]] †
|children=1 unborn child with [[Gianne]] (presumed deceased)
|marital status= Widowed from estranged wife [[Anastasia Dualla]] †
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|role=Proto-[[wikipedia:Luddite|Luddite]] advocate on Earth; Acting President of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol; Caprican Delegate to the Quorum of Twelve; Commander of Battlestar ''Pegasus''; ''Galactica'' [[CAG]]
|rank=Major (ret.)
|serial=318742 <ref name="serial">Confirmed number from QMX dogtags given to them by the studio.</ref>
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'''Leland [[Joseph]] [[Adama]]''', commonly known as '''[[Lee (disambiguation)|Lee]] Adama''' or by his callsign, '''"Apollo"''', is a former [[Colonial Fleet Reserve]] officer who becomes the [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]n delegate to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]], then later the interim President of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies of Kobol]]. He is the sole surviving son of [[William Adama]].

Lee Adama's relationship with his father had always been strained, culminating with a fracture after the death of his younger brother, [[Zak Adama|Zak]], two years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. Various attempts at reconciliation occur over the following years, but even these produce conflict as Lee attempts step outside his father's shadow.

After the Fall, he is appointed ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' [[CAG]]. He is later promoted to executive officer, then commander of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''. After [[Battle of New Caprica|''Pegasus'''s destruction]], he resumes being ''Galactica'' CAG until he resigns from the Colonial Fleet to aid in [[Romo Lampkin]]'s defense of [[Gaius Baltar]].

During the post-Fall events, he has romantic relationships with [[Kara Thrace]], [[Shevon]], and [[Anastasia Dualla]], the latter whom he marries months after the discovery of [[New Caprica]]. His defense of Baltar, coupled with previous marital issues surrounding Thrace, contribute to his eventual, final split from Dualla.

== Biographical Notes ==

=== Background ===

Lee Adama is the elder son of [[Carolanne Adama|Carolanne]] and William Adama. He and his his younger brother, Zak, were raised largely by his mother on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] following his parents' divorce when he was eight.

As a child, Adama often visited his grandfather, [[Joseph Adama]], and read the law books in his study; he often followed his grandfather's cases, never understanding why Joseph Adama defended the worst of humanity ([[TRS]]: "[[The Son Also Rises]]").

Despite his father's estrangement from the family, Adama followed in his footsteps and joined the Colonial military after college, graduating third in his class at the military academy and applying to flight school.

In flight school, Adama proved himself a gifted and natural pilot, hampered only by his tendency to over-intellectualize, a trait instilled by his mother who encouraged him to read widely and think freely, such as reading the banned texts by the renegade [[Tom Zarek]] while at college ([[TRS]]: "[[Bastille Day]]").

After flight school, Adama was promoted to lieutenant and was assigned to pilot the [[Viper Mark VII]]. He was also introduced to [[Kara Thrace]], a flight instructor who had become involved with Zak. The three frequently spent time together, and Adama and Thrace formed a friendship ([[Miniseries]]).

=== Brother's Death ===

Two years prior to the Fall, Zak died while on a routine Viper mission, the cause attributed to pilot error. However, Lee Adama chose to blame the mishap on his father, believing Zak had been pushed by him into following his footsteps ([[Miniseries]]).

Estranged from his father, Lee sought to build a career apart from William Adama. This decision placed a heavy strain on his friendship with Kara Thrace, who got assigned to ''Galactica''.

Adama spent much time on Caprica and was engaged to a woman named [[Gianne]]. When she told him she was pregnant with their child, he ran from her due to his own family issues. Before he could speak with her again he received orders to take part in ''Galactica'''s decommissioning ceremony ([[TRS]]: "[[Black Market]]").

Despite having a natural knack for piloting, acceptance to test pilot school and being "well on his way to commanding a battlestar someday", Adama tells [[Frank Bruno]] at the [[Caprica Transfer Station]] that he is considering leaving the Colonial Fleet, as he is disinterested in achieving dreams that were his father's alone ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor]]", [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)#Razor|deleted scene]]).

Adama reunites with both his father and Kara Thrace at ''Galactica'''s decommissioning and conversion into a [[Galactica Museum|living museum and educational center]] of the [[Cylon War]]. As a part of the ceremonies, Lee Adama grudgingly participates in a final Viper flyby salute, doing little to hide his true feelings from the moment he arrives on the battlestar. Matters are not helped when he discovers he will fly in the restored [[Viper Mark II]] his father flew during the Cylon War ([[Miniseries]]).

Things worsen after the PR official aboard ''Galactica'', [[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 his brother's death, venting two years' worth of anger and belief that his father was responsible for the loss of his brother.

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

Following the decommissioning ceremony, Lee Adama departs ''Galactica'', acting as an unofficial escort for ''[[Colonial Heavy 798]]'', the official transport for Secretary of Education [[Laura Roslin]], who represented President [[Richard Adar|Adar]] at the ceremony. Midway through their return to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]], Adama and the crew of ''Colonial Heavy 798'' hear of the Cylon attacks on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]], and soon find themselves under direct attack, which he is able to thwart. Adama quickly becomes one of Laura Roslin's unofficial advisers, 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 disastrous attack on two [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raiders]], notes to him that other Vipers and other modern Colonial spacecraft like his Mark VII were [[Command Navigation Program|easily destroyed]] by Cylon attacks.

Adama again saves ''Colonial Heavy 798'' from a nuclear missile attack with a failed experiment he toyed with in [[War College]], using [[EMP]] coils kept in the cargo hold to make it look like the ship has been destroyed. He supports Roslin in her rescue efforts, persuading her to lead the [[FTL]]-capable ships to follow ''Galactica'' to [[Ragnar Anchorage]].

As the ranking pilot aboard ''Galactica'', and despite his relative inexperience, Adama finds himself appointed [[CAG]] by Colonel [[Saul Tigh]].

Apollo leads a Viper squadron in the [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]], keeping the Cylon Raiders at bay while the civilian [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] jumps to safety. His ship is badly damaged during in the battle, and is about to be destroyed by a Cylon missile when the missile is intercepted and shot by Starbuck's highly-accurate marksmanship. His Viper eventually loses power as the battle draws to a close and ''Galactica'' is preparing to retreat. Starbuck saves him with a crazy idea and her flying skills, bringing them back to ''Galactica'' shortly before the battlestar jumps away.

=== Special Advisor ===
[[image:Water_Apollo_Roslin.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Adama and President Roslin shake hands after appointment as military advisor ([[TRS]]: "[[Water]]").]]
Adama's work as Roslin's "special advisor" to further help her understand military matters does not sit well with his father, who is still harboring some reservations about Roslin ([[TRS]]: "[[Bastille Day]]").

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 admission of her involvement in Zak's acceptance as a fighter pilot and his subsequent death. Father and son grow somewhat closer - even standing shoulder-to-shoulder when Starbuck is missing in action and both going to great lengths to save her ([[TRS]]: "[[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]] ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|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 (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] aboard the luxury liner ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Colonial Day]]").

=== The Inner Conflicts at Kobol ===

Eventually, Adama's beliefs in the need for democratic representation and civil government brings him in direct conflict with orders given him by his father. 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 ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]").

Adama is temporarily furloughed by Colonel Tigh so that he can continue to carry out his duties. 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 civilian Fleet ([[TRS]]: "[[Scattered]]"), and leads a team of [[Marines]] to stop [[Cylon Centurion]]s that boarded the ship ([[TRS]]: "[[Valley of Darkness]]"). After that, Adama continues his initiative and leads a [[SAR]] mission with two [[Raptors]] to retrieve a stranded survey team on the surface of Kobol ([[TRS]]: "[[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'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]"). 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 young Adama leaves his side.

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

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.

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 ''Queen'', his father reacts violently to the existence of a another copy of Valerii, leaving Captain Adama in the awkward position of defending her from his father. 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 [[w: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 CAG ([[TRS]]: "[[Final Cut]]"). Apollo doubts that [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] could successfully complete a prototype fighter later known as the [[Blackbird]], but in the end aids in its first test flight with Starbuck. Around this time, Adama begins to develop an attraction to [[Anastasia Dualla]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Flight of the Phoenix]]").

===Reassignment===

Apollo is on [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]] when the [[Mercury class battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' reunites with ''Galactica'' and is one of the first to see it up close. Soon afterwards, friction develops between Adama and the CAG of ''Pegasus'', Captain [[Cole Taylor]]. Taylor feels that Adama's pilots are 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'', under Taylor's command. Cain believes that having Commander Adama's son in the role of CAG was a mistake that has clouded Commander Adama's judgment, as young Adama has been insubordinate and even [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|mutinous]] in the past. For an upcoming scouting mission against the Cylon fleet following them, Taylor orders Adama to perform the humiliating task of co-piloting a Raptor. Annoyed, Adama orders Starbuck to take the [[Blackbird]] and perform the mission alone. When Commander Adama and Admiral Cain turn on each other, Apollo is away in Taylor's Raptor on his recon mission ([[TRS]]: "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]").

As the two battlestar commanders begin sparring with Vipers, ''Pegasus'' orders Taylor to relieve Adama of duty. Taylor pulls his sidearm and takes away Adama's. Now weaponless and with nothing more to do than to ride along, Adama asks permission to head to the rear of the Raptor. While Taylor is busy, Adama secretly communicates with Starbuck over [[wireless]] text messages. This gives away her position to the Fleet, who think her to be a Cylon Raider. When the Vipers are ordered to disengage and pursue her instead, Starbuck manages to identify herself before things get out of hand.

Cain feels that persecuting young Adama for authorizing Thrace's mission would be odd since she is promoting Thrace for her work on her recon mission. Thrace successfully returns Adama to flight status, but demoted to lieutenant ([[TRS]]: "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]").

=== Battle of the Resurrection Ship ===

While Thrace plans an assault on the Resurrection Ship and the two [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]]s defending it, she tells Adama that his father has ordered her to kill Cain after the battle, and asks Adama to watch her back. Outraged, Adama confronts his father with this, shocked to learn it was President Roslin's idea. Thrace assigns Adama the specific task of disabling the Resurrection Ship's [[FTL]] drive by sneaking up on it in the [[Blackbird]] and destroying it with a precision missile strike. Apollo succeeds, but the Blackbird collides with a [[Raptor]]. Apollo is able to eject, but the Blackbird is destroyed. Alive, but not unscathed, Apollo floats in space watching the battle take place around him. A tear in his [[flight suit]] leaves him almost out of air. While having the means to stop the leak, he is overcome with a sense of sadness and nihilism, having learned that the two persons closest to him, Roslin and his father, resort to assassination to solve their conflict with Cain. Although hearing Dualla over the [[wireless]], he decides to let go and die, but is found by a [[SAR|SAR Raptor]] and resuscitated. Adama becomes despondent and distant from his friends and family after his near-death experience. In the pilot's locker room, Thrace tells Adama "Let's just be glad that we both came back alive, alright?" to which Adama responds "That's just it, Kara, I didn't want to make it back alive" ([[TRS]]: "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]").

=== The Black Market ===

After President Roslin is saved from her illness, she begins trying to put down the Fleet's [[Black market (organization)|black market]]. New ''Pegasus'' commander [[Jack Fisk]] is soon murdered, leaving the elder Adama (now an Admiral) to assign his son to investigate. With his association with prostitute [[Shevon]] and her daughter [[Paya]] on ''[[Cloud 9]]'', [[Anastasia Dualla]] asks where the relationship between the two of them is heading. After he hesitates, Dualla takes it to mean it is over. Rushing to help Shevon after her call for help, the captain is ambushed by Phelan's men. Waking up from the attack, he finds the Fisk's murder weapon, and the body of Fisk's murderer.

With some help from [[Tom Zarek]], unwilling to accept the neatly-wrapped up case of Fisk's murderer or the missing Shevon, Adama finds the black market's main ship, ''[[Prometheus (ship)|Prometheus]]''. He finds Paya and other children locked in a storage room. He confronts Phelan, who tells him a black market is necessary, since some supplies may never reach needy people any other way. After Phelan admits running a child prostitution ring, Adama shoots Phelan, and tells his bodyguards that the market can continue operations, unless it keeps holding back essential medicines, begins killing, or returns to child prostitution.

Shevon refuses to see Adama anymore, realizing that Adama has tried to use her and Paya as replacements in his mind for his lost fiancé [[Gianne]] and their unborn child, saying that she can never be her ([[TRS]]: "[[Black Market]]").

===Friendly Fire===

While on leave to ''Cloud 9'' with Dualla, a group of terrorists seize a bar and demand the second copy of [[Sharon Valerii]] for execution, while they hold hostage approximately a dozen people, including Dualla, [[Billy Keikeya]], [[Ellen Tigh]] and Adama. The captain secretly sabotages the bar's carbon dioxide sensors to appear as if it were leaking atmosphere. The sabotage enables Captain Thrace to enter the bar and gather intelligence on the situation, but her cover is blown by Ellen Tigh, and she is forced to draw her weapons. One shot accidentally hits Adama in the chest. After escaping, Thrace breaks down crying for having shot her friend; Dualla is able to care for Adama long enough for him to survive to ''Galactica's'' sickbay, and later sits at his bedside while he recovers. Thrace watches, but is unsure what to do and leaves ([[TRS]]: "[[Sacrifice]]").

===A Worthy Command ===

Adama finds himself promoted to Major and assigned to [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus]]''. He is assigned to the ship by Admiral Adama to assess ''Pegasus's'' crew and the the new commander [[Barry Garner]], the ship's former Chief Engineer.

His relationship with Dualla has become very intimate following his promotion and recovery. Kara Thrace, still ''Pegasus'' CAG, soon comes to blows with Garner is confined to her quarters. When visiting her, Adama chides her for her behavior, stating that he is sick of cleaning up after her all the time. He confronts her about the friendly fire incident, resulting in a moment of uncomfortable silence, before the talk returns to business.

Against orders from Admiral Adama, Garner takes ''Pegasus'' in to search for two Raptors missing during a recon mission into a binary star system. His impulsive and unwise efforts result in the battlestar's [[Battle of the Binary Star System|ambush by three Cylon basestars]]. With the FTL drive damaged after successive nuclear missile strikes, Garner relegates command to Major Adama and heads below to help in FTL repairs. After a moment's hesitation (perhaps thinking what his father would do), Adama orders the forward guns to fire on the nearest basestar, critically damaging the basestar and forcing its retreat, while commanding the battlestar's fighters (led by Starbuck) to guard embattled areas damaged from nuclear pummeling. Adama's attack buys time for Commander Garner to repair the FTL drive, enabling ''Pegasus'' to escape back to the Fleet and relative safety.

Admiral Adama debriefs his son, who gave Garner a lot of credit for saving the ship, despite their disagreements. When asked about Garner's flaws, Lee says that he only knew machines, while command is about people. His father tells him to keep that in mind and gives him command of ''Pegasus'', together with a promotion to commander; possibly giving him his old rank insignia ([[TRS]]: "[[The Captain's Hand]]").

Sometime later, Adama wishes Thrace good luck in rescuing [[Samuel Anders]] and the rest of the [[Caprica Resistance|resistance group on Caprica]], despite his clear personal feelings towards her. After Thrace and Anders' return, Adama attempts to introduce himself politely, but is hampered by the couple's amorous and highly drunken behavior. When Thrace gives a rude comment, Adama bows out the area, beginning a quiet but palpable rift in their friendship ([[TRS]]: "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]").

[[Image:Apollo LDYBPII.JPG|thumb|left|Lee Adama in command of ''Pegasus'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]").]]

=== On New Caprica ===
Four months later, Commander Adama and his [[Executive Officer|XO]], Lieutenant Dualla, are granted shore leave to attend a groundbreaking ceremony on the surface of New Caprica. After the ensuing party, with Dualla and Anders gone, Adama sleeps with Kara Thrace and suggests they break up with their respective partners. Thrace and Adama declare their love for each other, and he assumes that she has agreed to their plan. He wakes up alone the next morning only to find out that Thrace has just married Anders. The rift between Adama and Thrace has widened ever larger. Hurt, he proposes to Dualla, who accepts ([[TRS]]: "[[Unfinished Business]]").

Another eight months later, a year after the settlement, a half-manned ''Pegasus'' is still orbiting New Caprica. Commander Adama has gained a considerable amount of weight in the intervening year. He is in the process of deciding whether or not to supply Kara Thrace with [[antibiotics]] for pneumonia-afflicted Anders when Dualla spots a massive Cylon fleet jumping into the nebula. Adama and his father briefly discuss their course of action; young Adama argues for an immediate emergency jump. Reluctantly, the Admiral orders the orbiting remains of the Fleet, whose population consists of around two thousand citizens, to escape, thus leaving New Caprica to the Cylons for the time being ([[TRS]]: "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]").
 

=== Battle of New Caprica and Destruction of ''Pegasus'' ===

Commander Adama and his father get into a disagreement over whether or not a rescue mission should be mounted to New Caprica. Lee believes that it would end with the destruction of both ''Galactica'' and ''Pegasus'', leaving the pitiful remnants of the Fleet at the mercy of the Cylons. Lee also objects to the Admiral's decision to reinstate [[Sharon Agathon]] as a Colonial Fleet officer to act as liaison between the New Caprica resistance and ''Galactica''. These disagreements lead to heated arguments between the two, prompting Admiral Adama to make a comment about Lee's weight by calling him a "fatass" and saying he has grown "soft" in the past year ("[[Occupation]]", "[[Precipice]]"). Due to his son's objections, Admiral Adama decides to take ''Galactica'' to rescue the people on New Caprica alone. He gives his son orders to wait 18 hours for his return; if he does not return by then, Lee is to resume the search for Earth with what is left of the civilian fleet. Despite their disagreement, the two have a heartfelt goodbye. Lee tries to talk his father out of the plan and explain himself, but the older Adama stops him. Instead the two embrace and the Admiral gives his son full military honors when departing ''Galactica'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Exodus, Part I]]").

Lee is certain that his father will not return, and he is conflicted between his duty to protect the civilians and his duty to his father. His wife's attempt at reassurance only serve to heighten his guilt. Leaving his ship's Vipers behind to protect the civilians, he takes ''Pegasus'' to assist ''Galactica'', fully aware that he may very well be on a suicide mission. He joins the [[Battle of New Caprica|battle]] just in time, saving his father's ship from certain destruction. Immediately destroying one basestar after exiting the jump, Adama uses ''Pegasus'' to draw fire, giving ''Galactica'' time to escape. This action damages ''Pegasus'' beyond repair. Adama orders the crew to evacuate and the ship's [[Battery|batteries]] to be set on autofire. He is the last person to leave the CIC, thanking the ship as he departs. The small crew evacuates on Raptors just as ''Pegasus'' rams a basestar, destroying itself in the process ([[TRS]]: "[[Exodus, Part II]]").

The Commander and his crew transfer to the last remaining battlestar, ''Galactica''. Dissatisfied with his round appearance, he had also taken up a rigid exercise regimen and starts losing weight rapidly ([[TRS]]: "[[Collaborators]]").

=== The Second Exodus ===

[[Image:Maj apollo in viper.jpg|thumb|right|Lee Adama back as a major in the role of ''Galactica's'' CAG ([[TRS]]: "[[Torn]]").]]
As of the episode "[[Torn]]", Lee has returned to the role of ''Galactica's'' CAG, with the rank of Major. When a dying basestar is discovered in the [[Lion's Head Nebula]], Adama leads a team of Marines on it and captures several humanoid Cylons. After Doctor [[Cottle]] discovers that they are infected with a virus lethal to the Cylons, Adama advocates to use the prisoners as biological weapons in an attempt to exterminate the Cylons. The plan is approved but ultimately fails due to the intervention of [[Karl Agathon]], who sabotages the mission ([[TRS]]: "[[A Measure of Salvation]]").

When [[Daniel Novacek|Bulldog]] arrives on ''Galactica'', Admiral Adama tells Lee about [[Valkyrie|the mission]] they executed together, and how he believes it has led to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon holocaust]]. Lee blames the admiralty instead, saying they wanted to provoke a war ([[TRS]]: "[[Hero]]").

After most of the Fleet has arrived safely on the [[algae planet]] following a [[Passage (star cluster)|harrowing journey]], Adama leads the food harvesting operations on the surface. Fourteen days into the harvesting mission, he meets with Kara Thrace and once again suggests they divorce their respective spouses. Thrace refuses to divorce and Adama refuses to cheat on his wife, deadlocking their relationship. When the [[Temple of Five]] is found on the planet and the Cylons show up, Adama is ordered to protect the temple from the Cylons, destroying it if necessary. He orders Starbuck to scout the terrain in her Raptor, which gets shot down by Centurions. After having sent Dualla to rescue Starbuck, the Major and his team attempt an ambush against a group of Centurions passing through a valley towards the temple. The ambush fails, and Adama orders to retreat and the temple to be blown. When trying to do so, he and his team witness the algae planet's star going supernova, and realize that the nova is in fact the [[Eye of Jupiter]]. After the Cylon fleet has jumped away to escape the destruction of the planetary system, the ground team is picked up by a rescue party ("[[The Eye of Jupiter]]", "[[Rapture]]").

Later Adama is treated by his friend [[Galen Tyrol]] to a little surprise: A number of crew have created a [[Joe's bar|bar]], on the starboard hangar deck, complete with a Pyramid arcade game and an old Viper Mark II hanging above for atmosphere. Tyrol and Adama have a drink as they discuss their marital problems; Tyrol and his wife Cally have had an argument that has apparently left him "in the doghouse". Adama is reluctant to interact with his wife, as his uncertainty over his love of Kara Thrace continues to fight with him. Adama returns to his quarters, quite drunk, to find Dualla still awake and doing some work, apparently drinking some type of [[alcohol]]. She tries to confirm if they are still going to have dinner later that day as Lee dozes off, leaving Dualla disappointed. Later on Adama and Dualla have an argument about Kara Thrace and the future of their marriage. Dualla says that she married Adama because she loved him, choosing to have him for as long as he or Kara Thrace would let him. She resigns herself to her marriage's failure and tells Adama that she will not stand in his way if he were to choose Thrace over her. Dualla then leaves. Thrace and Adama meet privately. When Thrace asks Adama if he loves her and would be with her if she were to leave Anders, Adama equivocates, remembering Thrace's fickleness [[Unfinished Business|after he declared his love a year before]]. Thrace leaves him to think about the situation.
[[Image:3x13-Taking a Break From All Your Worries-Apollo.jpg|thumb|right|Lee Adama drinking in Joe's Bar ([[TRS]]: "[[Taking a Break From All Your Worries]]").]]

Adama returns to the bar and drinks more, toying with his wedding band. He asks Chief Tyrol if he ever thought about what his future with [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]] would have been like, or had any regrets. With a quick drink, Tyrol replies in the negative. Adama stumbles back to his quarters, losing his wedding band somewhere in ''Galactica's'' corridors. Lee Adama and his wife meet in Joe's Bar. Adama, having since found his lost wedding ring, confesses that he loves Dualla and how dedicated she has been to him, never realizing how much he needed her affection. As the two embrace, Adama tries to avoid looking across the bar at Kara Thrace and Anders. Thrace returns the glance before Adama breaks it off ([[TRS]]: "[[Taking a Break From All Your Worries]]").

===Death of a Lover and Friend===

During refueling operations over a gas giant, Kara Thrace becomes mentally unstable, having [[Virtual Leoben|hallucinations]] about Leoben and her alleged [[The Destiny|destiny]]. When she refuses to fly another mission, Adama has a friendly talk with her. After all that happened two are back where they started; Thrace being the screwup pilot and Adama having to clean up after her as [[CAG]]. He also tells her that his relationship with Dee is better than ever. Adama offers to fly as her wingman to calm her. While on [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]], Starbuck sees a Cylon [[Heavy Raider]] and goes on alert, joined by Adama. However, from the vantage point of Adama, Thrace's [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] malfunctions and is drawn into the vortex of a storm. He gets sketchy information from Thrace when she says "I'll see you on the other side." Her Viper explodes, and Adama struggles to escape the vortex ([[TRS]]: "[[Maelstrom]]").

He is badly shaken by her death, as evidenced by his lack of concentration as CAG, confusing people and mission details. He is also shaken by a story told by [[Romo Lampkin]]. Eventually, he begins the healing process with [[Samuel Anders]] by putting Thrace's picture into the [[memorial hallway]] ([[TRS]]: "[[The Son Also Rises]]").

===The Trial of Gaius Baltar===

President [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] recommends that Major Adama be put in charge of the proceedings of the trial of [[Gaius Baltar]]. However, due to the pressures that he is under, Adama declines the position (despite his interest in law as a child). As a token of his affection, Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]] gives Lee his [[Joseph Adama|grandfather]]'s Caprican [[Arts and Literature of the Twelve Colonies#Law books|Law Code books]] ([[TRS]]: "[[A Day in the Life]]"). Later, his father places Adama in charge of security for Baltar's lawyer, [[Romo Lampkin]], claiming that he trusts him, but also pulling him off his duties of CAG after he shows that Thrace's death affects his job performance. While following Lampkin around, Adama develops a desire to help Lampkin defend Baltar. His father is not pleased with this idea, but allows him to do so ([[TRS]]: "[[The Son Also Rises]]").

After Adama contributes to humiliating Colonel Tigh in court, he and his father have a falling out, which leads to Lee's resignation from the Colonial Fleet and him becoming a civilian. Adama also learns that President [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] has resumed taking [[chamalla]], which he confronts her about in court, trying to discredit her credibility. Roslin pleads with him to not pursue his line of questioning, but he forces her to admit that her cancer has returned. Disappointed in Adama, she recollects times when the two were friends and she called him "Captain Apollo". After that, [[Anastasia Dualla|his wife]] packs her belongings in preparation for leaving Adama. She says that he should not have confronted the President, and that he was supporting a legal system that was trying to let a murderer walk. She leaves him alone, with him crying that she doesn't understand him ([[TRS]]: "[[Crossroads, Part I]]").

In an unusual move, Adama takes the stand himself and delivers a [[Crossroads, Part II#Noteworthy Dialogue|passionate speech]] in defense of Baltar. He points out a string of incidents, some involving himself, where people were forgiven for serious crimes, and defends those decisions, arguing that humanity is not a real civilization anymore. Adama thinks that executing Baltar for actions that he couldn't really prevent is not justice, and that Baltar is just the Fleet's scapegoat for everyone's misdeeds and failures on New Caprica. The speech plays a major role in Baltar's subsequent acquittal. When Romo Lampkin leaves Adama after their victory, he leaves behind his cane, which he used after being injured in an attempt on his life, and walks normally, thus showing how he manipulated both Adama and the court. Ultimately, Adama's sense of justice has [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|once again]] placed him at odds with his father, but this time he has alienated Roslin and his wife as well, leaving him seemingly alone.

===A New Beginning===

[[Image:Yet another frakking Adama talk.jpg|thumb|The Adamas attempt to reconcile after Baltar's trial ([[TRS]]: "[[He That Believeth In Me]]").]]

As Cylon forces converges on the Fleet in the [[Ionian Nebula]], Adama unofficially returns to duty and mans a Viper. Unexpectedly, he encounters [[Kara Thrace]], whom he [[Maelstrom|believed dead]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Crossroads, Part II]]"). Adama and Thrace join the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula|ensuing battle]] and help to defend the civilian ships from the Cylons. When Thrace returns to ''Galactica'', Adama is glad to see her again and believes her story to a certain degree, whereas most others are is distrustful and suspect a Cylon trap.

His father offers him his pilot wings back, and thus his commission, but Adama declines, saying that he felt the need for a change for some time, and that Baltar's trial was just the trigger. He thinks that he can gain a position in the Colonial government and make a contribution there ([[TRS]]: "[[He That Believeth In Me]]").

[[Tom Zarek]] nominates Adama as the Caprican delegate on the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]]. Adama is seen off ''Galactica'' with a party in the [[rec room]] and an official ceremony on the hangar deck, where many of the crew salute him and wish him good luck. He embraces Dualla and tells her that she "got the house", implying that their breakup is final ([[TRS]]: "[[Six of One]]"). Zarek appointed Adama because of his dedication to finding the truth during the Baltar trial, and because he wants Adama to fight against some or Roslin's proposed changes to the justice system, that are undemocratic in his eyes. Although in public, Roslin claims to have forgiven Adama and to admire his convictions, she snubs him by refusing to meet him and openly teases him about his inexperience in a Quorum session ([[TRS]]: "[[The Ties That Bind]]").

Adama once again shows his idealism when Baltar's new [[Cult of Baltar|cult]] violently clashes with other religious groups in the Fleet. Whereas Roslin wants to shut down the group and pleads to the Quorum to retroactively sign off an emergency measure that restricts their right of assembly, Adama and [[Reza Chronides]] think that they are doing nothing blasphemous and illegal. The Quorum eventually decides to rescind Roslin's decision. Roslin later tells his father, that she thinks that Adama maybe be right, but that he is too idealistic and doesn't understand the pragmatism that is sometimes necessary in politics ([[TRS]]: "[[Escape Velocity]]").

Following the unexplained disappearance of Laura Roslin on a rebel Cylon baseship ([[TRS]]: "[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]"), Adama leads a search for an interim president, knowing that his father would never support an administration under Tom Zarek. Despite consulting Romo Lampkin on a list of 47 candidates, it is Lampkin who ultimately decides that Adama should be the interim president; Adama thanks Lampkin by offering [[Jake (New Caprica)|Jake]] as a pet to replace the loss of [[Faye Lampkin]]'s cat, [[Lance]].

Even with his ascension to the presidency, Adama is unable to dissuade his father from stepping down as military leader, or his father's personal search for Roslin—a mission that Adama believes to be nothing short of suicide ([[TRS]]: "[[Sine Qua Non]]").

===No Exit===
After the failed coup d'état, in which Lee is the sole [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum]] delegate not killed in the massacre ordered by [[Tom Zarek]], President Laura Roslin puts Lee in charge of forming a new Quorum. Lee proposes the idea of making the new Quorum based not upon the individual Colonies but upon ships in the Fleet, as he reasons that the people are no longer defined by their Colonies but by their ships. Roslin approves of the idea and tells Lee that while she will remain President in title, she wants him to do the "heavy lifting" from then on ([[TRS]]: "[[No Exit]]"). Given this, its likely that Roslin has made him her new Vice President after the execution of Tom Zarek for his coup.

Lee is shown to have taken on the Presidential duties since then such as meeting with the new Quorum of Ship's Captains and organizing the stripping of ''Galactica'' which is hard for him as he loves the ship. When Admiral Adama calls for volunteers for a final mission, Lee is the first to volunteer despite it being likely one-way.

===Assault on the Colony===
While planning the mission, Lee re-dons the service uniform of a major (distinguished by its collar piping), but omits rank insignia.

''Galactica'' launches its attack on the Colony and rams right into it. Lee leads a team of Colonial Marines and Rebel Centurions into the Colony from through its breach their staging point at ''Galactica''’s bow. They fight their way past Cavil's forces and eventually link up with Kara Thrace and her team, who have rescued Hera Agathon. The two groups head back to ''Galactica'', but are followed by Cavil and his forces. Lee runs into Baltar and Caprica Six who are helping to repel the boarding parties. Lee and his men provide cover fire for Kara, Helo, Athena and Hera to make their way to safety.

===New Earth===
After ''Galactica'' jumps to the coordinates Kara Thrace provides, Lee is one of the first people to land on the lush, habitable planet the Colonials eventually decide to call "Earth". They discover that primitive human tribes have already evolved on the new Earth. Lee makes a radical suggestion: The Colonials will abandon their ships and most of their technology and start new lives using only essential supplies and the planet's resources. They will also teach the native humans about language and culture, but not about technology. This will hopefully prevent Humanity from repeating the same mistakes it made on Kobol and the Twelve Colonies. Surprisingly, this idea is well received.

Later, Lee and Kara say their final goodbyes to Adama, who has decided to live alone for the remainder of his life. After Adama departs in a Raptor, Kara tells Lee that she is also leaving. She doesn't know where she's going, but she knows that her job here is done. Kara then asks Lee what he's going to do now. Lee briefly turns his back and starts to talk about exploring the new world, but when he turns around, Kara is nowhere in sight. Realizing what Kara meant when she said she was leaving, Lee bids Kara goodbye for the last time and promises that she won't be forgotten.

==Family tree==
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== Notes ==

*From [[Ronald D. Moore]]'s scifi.com [http://blogs.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/01/lets-talk.php blog entry] of January 19, 2005:

<blockquote>In my first draft of the [[Miniseries|mini]], Lee Adama had just been accepted into test pilot school on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] and was not currently assigned to any battlestar. Presumably, he had been posted to at least a couple of battlestar [[Air Group]]s 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 [[William Adama|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>
*The caption under Apollo's name in "[[Final Cut]]" list him as "CFR". In the podcast, Ron Moore explaines that this stands for "Colonial Fleet Reserves"; and that Apollo was a reserve officer because he wasn't sure what he was doing with his life and if he was going to pursue a full career in the Colonial Fleet.
*According to Jamie Bamber, Adama's official character biography states that "Lee is never so happy as when he's in his kitchen cooking."
* Jamie Bamber is the husband of actress [[Kerry Norton]], who portrays [[Layne Ishay]], the paramedic from "[[Scattered]]" and "[[Taking a Break From All Your Worries]]".
* Bamber, who is British, plays Lee Adama with an American accent (presumably to more closely match [[Edward James Olmos]]'s).
* Bamber is a natural blond, but his hair is dyed brown to better resemble Olmos.
*While Edward James Olmos and [[Mary McDonnell]] were hand-picked for their roles, the rest of the characters were cast by audition: among those in the running for the role of Apollo was ''[[w:Farscape|Farscape]]'' and ''[[w:Stargate SG-1|Stargate SG-1]]'' star [[Wikipedia:Ben Browder|Ben Browder]], though the role ultimately went to [[Jamie Bamber]].<ref>{{cite_book|last=Bassom|first=David|authorlink=|authorlinkurl=|coauthors=|year=2005|title=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]|pages=23|editor=ed. Adam "Adama" Newell|publisher=Titan Books|location=|id=ISBN 1-84576-0972}}</ref>
*Admiral William Adama names his son to succeed him as commander of ''Galactica'' in his resignation letter ([[TRS]]: "[[Hero]]") indicating how close they have become prior to the events of [[Gaius Baltar]]'s trial.
*Lee Adama's watch is a [http://www.nixonnow.com/watches/mens/the-scout-A590.html Nixon Scout].
*Lee Adama's Colonial Fleet ID tag is marked "L. Adama/ser 318742. (Quantum Mechanix ID Replica)

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* See Also
** Apollo (TOS)|Apollo from the Original Series
** Richard Hatch|Richard Hatch
** Tom Zarek|Tom Zarek
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