Anastasia Dualla

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Anastasia Dualla
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Nickname	Dee
Introduced	Miniseries
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Marital Status	Married to Lee Adama (formerly dating Billy Keikeya † )
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Role	Communications Officer, battlestar Galactica
Rank	Lieutenant (Junior Grade)
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Portrayed by	Kandyse McClure
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Anastasia Dualla [du.ˈɑ.lə] is the Communications Officer of battlestar Galactica and wife of Major Lee Adama. Both her marriage to Lee and her promotion from Petty Officer 2nd Class to Lieutenant occurred during the year which the fleet spent in orbit above New Caprica. Dualla manages the main communications board in CIC, and works closely with Adama, Tigh, and Gaeta in serving as Galactica's eyes and ears to her fighters and The Fleet. Her responsibilities include:

• Monitoring fleet-wide communications, including all of Galactica's incoming and out-going communications
• Ensuring shipboard communications are properly logged (Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down)
• Relaying communications to all of Galactica's Vipers and Raptors during off-ship missions
• Managing other minor CIC operations in Lt. Gaeta's absence.

Biography

Dualla's father thought that her enlistment in the Colonial Fleet Reserve was crazy, and he viewed the military as a joke. She signed up anyway because she "wanted to believe in something." This rift with her father would continue throughout her service and the last time they spoke they got in a heated argument; three weeks later the Cylons attacked, and Dualla never got a chance to reconcile with him (Final Cut).

At the time of the Cylon attack she monitors fleet-wide communications. Dualla is among the first to notice the unusually high levels of shipboard malfunctions and failures aboard other battlestars (Miniseries).

After the Cylon attack, she coordinates Fleet activities like jumps with Tactical Officer Felix Gaeta. In this responsibility, she discovers that the Olympic Carrier fails to jump with the fleet after yet another jump to escape a 5-day long, relentless attack by the Cylons after their escape from Ragnar Anchorage (33).

Due to his attraction to Dualla, presidential aide Billy Keikeya "volunteers" her to join an off-ship mission to the Astral Queen (Bastille Day). Led by Captain Lee Adama, the mission is to attempt enlistment of prisoners aboard the Queen in resupplying Galactica with water following an act of sabotage (Water). During the mission, the team is taken hostage by prisoners during a jail break lead by fellow Sagittaron and political agitator Tom Zarek.

Dualla and Billy Keikeya in the observation deck on a date (Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down)

Freed without personal harm during this situation, Dualla returns Billy Keikeya's affections, and they date during off-duty periods (Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down).

When a party of Cylons boards the Galactica, Dualla suffers a concussion, but survives the engagement (Valley of Darkness). Later, Dualla aids in Laura Roslin's escape from Galactica after the President's arrest by covering up the tracks of their secret communications coordinating their movements in the Fleet, and getting Colonel Tigh to sign permission to close off a causeway which they use as an escape route. At this time, Dualla seems to take a greater personal interest in Apollo (Resistance).

Dualla is assigned to give D'anna Biers a tour around the battlestar as part of Biers' documentary of the ship (Final Cut). Lee Adama seems to return Dualla's personal attraction during a sparring exercise with the petty officer (Flight of the Phoenix).

Dualla's avionics training helps in building a stable communications package for the experimental Blackbird fighter (Flight of the Phoenix).

Keikeya, apparently attempting to solidify his relationship with the petty officer, proposes to Dualla, but she refuses. Keikeya later sees Dualla with Lee Adama on Cloud 9 and accuses her of leading him on. Shortly after Keikeya's accusation, four terrorists commandeer the lounge and its occupants and demand the surrender of Sharon Valerii. When a ruse by Admiral William Adama is discovered, the leader of the the terrorists orders Dualla's death. Keikeya intervenes and manages to shoot one of the terrorists, but his target fatally wounds Keikeya before dying. In the same battle, Lee Adama is left severely wounded from a friendly-fire incident during an ill-fated reconnaisance by Kara Thrace. Dualla promises to watch over Lee Adama until he recovers in sickbay. When he finally regained consciousness, Dualla was so happy that neither of them noticed Thrace leaving the sickbay with a heartbroken expression (Sacrifice).

Dualla as executive officer of battlestar Pegasus (Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II)

A few months later, still involved with Apollo, Dualla assists in the counting of ballots for the Presidential election. Dualla conspires with Tory Foster and Saul Tigh to rig the election in Roslin's favor, indicating that she comprehends the disaster that would follow if Baltar is elected. Though the plot initially succeeds, Lt. Gaeta's curiosity leads to Admiral Adama's discovery of the duplicity. Adama covers up the plot but returns the vote, for better or worse, to its actual result, with Baltar being elected to the Presidency.

A year later, Dualla serves as Communications and Executive Officer on Pegasus, part of its skeletal crew in orbit around New Caprica. Dualla and Lee Adama's relationship appears ongoing, given the look she gives young Adama when Kara Thrace calls in one day. It is revealed in the season three opener that Dualla is married to Lee Adama (Occupation). Dualla's keen eyes pick up DRADIS contacts, which gave the Fleet advance warning to the arrival of a large Cylon fleet. The remnants of the Fleet escape, hoping to return to liberate New Caprica another day (Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II).

Notes

• Dualla's counterpart in the Original Series is Rigel. According to Ron Moore's blog entry on April 18, 2006, Dualla is actually more or less directly inspired by Rigel, saying Dualla is "filling the role of another woman in the original BSG series who used to man the communication system on their bridge. That character was called "Rigel" but I didn't think that name worked in the remake, so I gave her the name of Dualla."
• Dualla was known throughout all of the first season and part of of the second season only as "Dualla" or "Dee". Her first name was finally revealed in the episode, "Final Cut" in an on screen caption during her documentary interview; her first name has yet to be spoken aloud. "Anastasia" means "resurrection" in Greek.
• Grace Park initially auditioned for the role of Dualla, before being asked to audition for the role of Starbuck, and finally being cast as Sharon "Boomer" Valerii.

References

Preceded by: (unknown, eventually Lee Adama)

Executive Officer of the battlestar Pegasus

Succeeded by: (none, ship destroyed)

Re-imagined Series definition: nerve center or "bridge" of a battlestar, see: Combat Information Center

Re-imagined Series definition: the process of using the FTL engines to make an near-instantaneous apparent faster-than-light transport of a ship from one point in space to another

Re-imagined Series definition: Battlestar Group ^{(TRS: "Water")}. It also doubles as an acronym for the television series itself.