Xaviar

Xaviar
Xaviar
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Introduced	Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I
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Role	Former member of the Quorum of Twelve
Rank	Commander
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Portrayed by	Richard Lynch, later Jeremy Brett
Xaviar is a Cylon
Xaviar is a Final Five Cylon
Xaviar is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
Xaviar is an Original Series Cylon
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		@ BW Media
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Commander Xaviar (hăv'ē-är') is a member of the Council of Twelve during the time where the Fleet has found the lost colony of Earth.

Xaviar differs with Commander Adama on how to best bring Earth's technology up to the level of the Colonials. He takes matters into his own hands and goes back in time to try to alter history and accelerate Earth's technological development.

Xaviar goes back to Nazi Germany to try to introduce advanced weapons technology to the Germans. Returning to 1980, he attempts to co-opt Professor Donald Mortinson, a nuclear physicist, to participate in his time travel plan.

The storyline implies that Xaviar also goes back to Revolution-era America to attempt to change history there, a scheme that also fails (Galactica Discovers Earth).

Xaviar returns to the present to try to ransom Galactica's children in an attempt to take control of the Fleet (Spaceball).

In the unproduced scripts

In two unproduced scripts, "The Wheel of Fire" and "The Day They Kidnapped Cleopatra", Xaviar makes a reappearance and is the antagonist in both, as is to be expected.

In "The Day They Kidnapped Cleopatra", a script that was being shot at the time Galactica 1980's cancellation order is handed down by ABC, Xaviar travels to 48 BC and attempts to change Earth's history from Egypt by convincing Cleopatra that he is a god, via the use of his invisibility field. After Cleopatra has his drink poisoned with asp venom so as to prove that he's indeed a god, Xaviar makes a fearful flight to 1980 AD to solicit the help of Troy, Dillon, and Jamie Hamilton, bringing Cleopatra along with him.

After the poison is neutralized by 1980 Earth's medicines, he escapes the Warriors and, with Cleopatra, returns to 48 BC. Troy, Dillon and Hamilton pursue him and thwart his plan to take over Cleopatra's kingdom, which fell some 18 years after, as stated in Earth's history.

In an episode that was written as a sequel to "The Return of Starbuck", Xaviar returns to 1980 and is pursued by a squadron of Vipers. During the pursuit, a phalanx of Cylon Raiders interfere and attempt to capture Xaviar, desiring to know why the Colonials are pursuing one of their own. Xaviar escapes back through time, but drags a Raider back to 592 BC. With Troy (who is sent back by Starbuck, now a Being of Light), they destroy the Raider before it can do any damage to Earth's past, and Xaviar evades capture.

Notes

• Xaviar is seen wearing a blue Warrior's tunic with cape in the first two installments of "Galactica Discovers Earth". Additionally, he is called "commander" by Adama (despite not having pins on his collar) and has experience in flying Vipers, lending to the likely assumption that he is a Colonial Warrior who is also on the Council. This is not without precedent, as Adama is in a similar relationship for both the Original Series and 1980.
• Xaviar is played by a different actor in "Spaceball", which is explained to be a kind of disguise that made him appear like Colonial pilot Lt. Nash.
• The most common misspelling of Xaviar is Xavier. However, the scripts for "The Day They Kidnapped Cleopatra" and "The Wheel of Fire" both spell the name as "Xaviar". This is further supported by on screen pronunciations of Xaviar's name as hăv'ē-är' (similar to "caviar") in "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I" by Dillon and others. Since these sources are superior in their association with the series from a behind-the-scenes standpoint, this is the spelling that is employed on Battlestar Wiki.