Peter Laird

Peter Laird
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Age	early 40s
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Children	Unknown (implied)
Marital Status	Widower (probable)
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Role	Deck Chief, Battlestar Pegasus
Rank	Chief Petty Officer, Drafted
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Portrayed by	Vincent Gale
Peter Laird is a Cylon
Peter Laird is a Final Five Cylon
Peter Laird is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
Peter Laird is an Original Series Cylon
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Peter Laird is a civilian aeronautical engineer. When the Cylon Attack began, he was aboard the Scylla, a civilian ship, when its passengers were "picked up" by the battlestar Pegasus. He became the ship's Flight-Deck Chief despite not being part of the Colonial military. When he came aboard Galactica, he met his counterpart, Chief Tyrol. Upon looking on the Blackbird, Tyrol's new stealth fighter, he was both appalled and impressed, especially because he designed the old DDG-62 engines used in the Blackbird (Pegasus).

Laird was assigned to Galactica in Admiral Cain's fleet integration and was later made deck chief after Tyrol was charged with the murder of Lt. Thorne. While drinking with Col. Tigh, Pegasus XO Jack Fisk revealed that the Scylla was part of a civilian fleet that Pegasus encountered a few weeks after escaping the Cylon attack. Admiral Cain, with military priority on the mind, ordered that the fleet be scavanged for anything that would be of aid to Pegasus militarily. Supplies, weapons and even people of certain backgrounds were taken. Laird, whose background in aeronautics served Cain's plan well, was selected by Cain to be drafted into her crew along with 14 other people on board. However, all 15 of them were traveling with their families, and resisted Cain's attempt to draft them. In response, Cain had two of the families executed to cow the civilians, and Laird was taken aboard Pegasus. It is unclear if Laird's family was one of the two that Cain had executed, but even if they were not, she still marooned them onboard the Scylla without an FTL drive (which left them at the mercy of the Cylons), making her ultimately responsible for their likely deaths. (Resurrection Ship, Part I)

Notes

• Ron D. Moore said in his podcast that he was tempted to give Laird a Scottish accent as a tribute to James Doohan, who played Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, as Doohan died around the time that the episode "Pegasus" was filming. Ultimately, he reluctantly decided not to.