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==Notes==
==Notes==
*[[Number Six]] rhetorically asks Baltar in "[[Flesh and Bone]]" why he thinks that Valerii got her callsign, "Boomer." As shown twice in "[[Water]]" and with her destruction of the basestar in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]", the ''Galactica'' Valerii appeared to have a penchant for blowing things up. This is inconsistent with her [[Boomer (TOS)|namesake]] from the Original Series, who did not show this tendency.
**Number Six could probably have been using sexual innuendo when she rhetorically asked why the ''Galactica'' Valerii's callsign was "Boomer"; for example, as demonstrated in "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]" (Actress Grace Park said in interviews that she was so determined to make an enthusiastic lovemaking scene, i.e. copious amounts of moaning, etc., that when the scene director finished they flat out said their footage would have to be ''heavily'' edited).
** Alternately, this may be an in-joke to the anime ''[[Wikipedia:Bubblegum Crisis|Bubblegum Crisis]]'' (and its spin-offs). ''Bubblegum Crisis'' generally focuses on a futuristic police force in conflict with rogue androids with a human appearance, or "synthetic humanoids", referred to as ''[[Wikipedia:boomer (anime term)|boomer]]s''. Some of these (such as Cynthia in BGC1 '''Tinsel City''') are completely unaware of their nature as synthetically created beings.  It should be noted that [[Boomer (TOS)|Boomer]] from the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|original ''Battlestar Galactica'']] predates this usage.
*As a matter of trivia, neither copy of Sharon refers to her lover by his first name onscreen. Galactica-Sharon calls Chief Tyrol "Chief" instead of "Galen" even when dying in his arms, and Caprica-Sharon has yet to call Lt. Agathon "Karl". Ron Moore explained in his blog that no one had every really called Tyrol "Galen" before, and hearing Sharon say it would have distracted from the emotional impact of her death (RDM revealed his first name in his blog, and it has only been mentioned on screen once, briefly at the beginning of "[[Resistance]]").  RDM compared it to the Seinfeld episode when Kramer's first name is revealed to be "Cosmo"; i.e. the viewers would be unused to Tyrol's previously unknown first name.  As for Agathon, everybody usually just calls him "Helo" (Starbuck has only briefly called him "Karl" once or twice).
*As a matter of trivia, neither copy of Sharon refers to her lover by his first name onscreen. Galactica-Sharon calls Chief Tyrol "Chief" instead of "Galen" even when dying in his arms, and Caprica-Sharon has yet to call Lt. Agathon "Karl". Ron Moore explained in his blog that no one had every really called Tyrol "Galen" before, and hearing Sharon say it would have distracted from the emotional impact of her death (RDM revealed his first name in his blog, and it has only been mentioned on screen once, briefly at the beginning of "[[Resistance]]").  RDM compared it to the Seinfeld episode when Kramer's first name is revealed to be "Cosmo"; i.e. the viewers would be unused to Tyrol's previously unknown first name.  As for Agathon, everybody usually just calls him "Helo" (Starbuck has only briefly called him "Karl" once or twice).
*[[Wikipedia:Valerii|Valerii]] is the male plural form of the Roman name of the family Valeria. Valerius is the singular form.
*[[Wikipedia:Valerii|Valerii]] is the male plural form of the Roman name of the family Valeria. Valerius is the singular form.
*In an interview for thefandom.com Ron D. Moore stated that "'''There is no original human Sharon.'''  The idea is not that there was likely an original human model that they were copied from. The idea was that these models of Cylon were sort of developed out of their own study of us. The Cylons on some level looked at humanity and said "You know what? There's really only 12 of you". If these are the 12, and sort of if you look at them they each represent different archetypes of what humanity is".
*In an interview for thefandom.com Ron D. Moore stated that "'''There is no original human Sharon.'''  The idea is not that there was likely an original human model that they were copied from. The idea was that these models of Cylon were sort of developed out of their own study of us. The Cylons on some level looked at humanity and said "You know what? There's really only 12 of you". If these are the 12, and sort of if you look at them they each represent different archetypes of what humanity is".


According to SkyOne, Sharon's memories were of growing up on the mining settlement of Troy.
Here is SkyOne's summary of Valerii:
:''Sharon's first memories are vivid and she occasionally revisits them in her dreams. As far as she knew she grew up with a happy, normal childhood, the product of loving parents on the mining settlement of Troy. Troy was a small, barren world of the Colonial system.''
:''Sharon always wanted to leave and seek a grander life. After passing the Colonial Acedemy's exams she left aboard a commercial transport ship.''
:''During the flight, her hometown was wiped out in a series of titanic explosions caused by volatile methane gas, which had ignited in a mining operation. The disaster stunned the colonies.''
:''She later applied for flight school and was accepted over more qualified candidates. Flight school was rough on Sharon. Not a born pilot, she laboured long and hard. By the time she had graduated. she managed to earn the second chances that she seemed fated to be given. Her first assignment was aboard the Battlestar Galactica, and by the time of the Cylon attack, she had been there for almost a year.''
As this information does not come from the official Scifi.com website, it's authenticity is questionable.  Further, it is blatantly contradicted by Sharon's statements that Troy was destroyed when she was a little girl, not in flight school, and Adama's comment in "[[The Farm]]" that she had been on ''Galactica'' for nearly ''two'' years, not almost one.


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Sharon Valerii initially appears as a young officer with a bright future in the Colonial Fleet. She is initially encountered aboard the battlestar Galactica, where she is integrated into Colonial military life, serving as a Raptor pilot (callsign of "Boomer") with the rank of Lieutenant (junior grade).

But "Boomer" Valerii is Cylon operative in hiding, a "sleeper agent." She has many copies. Other variants of the Valerii model are active on Cylon-occupied Caprica and were also aboard a Cylon basestar orbiting Kobol before its destruction. Of all the Cylon agents witnessed thus far, Sharon Valerii appears to behave with the strongest or genuine human qualities. This may be the cause of this model's tendency to have conflicts between its latent Cylon or active human personalities, or even turn against its own kind.

Galactica Copy[edit]

The Many Sides of "Sharon Valerii" (credit: Sky One / Sci-Fi Channel)

See the article Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)

Caprica Copy[edit]

See the article Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)

Other Copies[edit]

  • At the end of the Mini-Series, a copy of Valerii wearing the Colonial Raptor Pilot Uniform appears to be leading the group of Humano-Cylons who recover the PR Executive Copy of Aaron Doral from Ragnar Anchorage.
    • It is possible that the this is the same individual as the Caprica copy. While, at the time the Mini-Series had been filmed, there were no plans to have Tahmoh Penikett reprise the role of Helo, the ending of the Mini-Series forms a link to "33", establishing that the Cylons have developed a plan for Helo's presence on Caprica.
  • A copy of Valerii is witnessed wearing a grey coat at the spaceport at Delphi. However, she is immediately killed by Helo's Valerii copy (Colonial Day).
  • Multiple copies of the Valerii model were encountered on the basestar over Kobol. It is likely that they were dispatched to the Raptor in order to activate some latent portion of the Galactica copy's Cylon personality (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II).
  • A copy of Valerii is seen at the end of "Final Cut", also wearing a grey coat like other Sharons on Caprica, remarking in surprise that Caprica-Valerii is still alive.

Notes[edit]

  • As a matter of trivia, neither copy of Sharon refers to her lover by his first name onscreen. Galactica-Sharon calls Chief Tyrol "Chief" instead of "Galen" even when dying in his arms, and Caprica-Sharon has yet to call Lt. Agathon "Karl". Ron Moore explained in his blog that no one had every really called Tyrol "Galen" before, and hearing Sharon say it would have distracted from the emotional impact of her death (RDM revealed his first name in his blog, and it has only been mentioned on screen once, briefly at the beginning of "Resistance"). RDM compared it to the Seinfeld episode when Kramer's first name is revealed to be "Cosmo"; i.e. the viewers would be unused to Tyrol's previously unknown first name. As for Agathon, everybody usually just calls him "Helo" (Starbuck has only briefly called him "Karl" once or twice).
  • Valerii is the male plural form of the Roman name of the family Valeria. Valerius is the singular form.
  • In an interview for thefandom.com Ron D. Moore stated that "There is no original human Sharon. The idea is not that there was likely an original human model that they were copied from. The idea was that these models of Cylon were sort of developed out of their own study of us. The Cylons on some level looked at humanity and said "You know what? There's really only 12 of you". If these are the 12, and sort of if you look at them they each represent different archetypes of what humanity is".