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| Birth Name | Barry Garner | |
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| Introduced | The Captain's Hand | |
| Death | Vaccum exposure while repairing FTL coolant line; The Captain's Hand | |
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| Role | Chief Engineer, Commanding Officer; Pegasus | |
| Rank | Commander | |
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| Portrayed by | John Heard | |
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Barry Garner is the third commanding Colonial officer of Pegasus after the deaths of Admiral Helena Cain and Colonel Jack Fisk. Before his promotion, he was the ship's chief engineer.
As a Commander, Garner does not inspire great confidence and treats his staff rather sternly, as if they are to be 100% consistent in their behavior. Kara Thrace considers Garner paranoid and barely competent. Garner holds a similar contempt for Thrace, leading him to order her eventual transfer back to Galactica, despite her work with the missing Raptors 718 and 314.
Garner's lack of command insight jeopardizes Pegasus when he takes his battlestar, against Admiral Adama orders, into the binary stellar cloud to recover the missing crews instead of deploying an armed squadron of Raptors.
As Adama suspects, three Cylon basestars ambush Pegasus, forcing Garner to decide on a hastily return to aid his old engineering team to restore the damaged FTL drive (the ship's only means of escape or success), leaving Major Lee Adama in command. Garner enters a compartment which is venting to space, sealing the hatch behind him and sealing the coolant leak damaged by the attack. Major Adama's actions severely damage one of the basestars, buying Garner time to fix the leak. Garner's repair allows Pegasus's "snipes" to return the FTL drives to operation and the battlestar to escape a hopeless battle. However, Garner dies from vacuum exposure in the compartment due to a slow-leaking hull breach.
After the battle, the events surrounding Garner's death are reviewed by Lee and William Adama. Reports were also filed by both Apollo and Starbuck. Apollo understands that Garner's failure was in treating people as he would a machine, whereas Starbuck's assessment of him is considerably harsher (The Captain's Hand).
Notes[edit]
- This character was originally named "Barry Trammel", but at the last minute it had to be changed for legal reasons when the production team found that there was a real person with that name.
- In subsequent episodes, Apollo is shown wearing a wristwatch. This may be the one that Garner wears during "The Captain's Hand", and left behind when he returns to the engine room.
- Unlike William Adama, Helena Cain, Saul Tigh and Jack Fisk, Garner's uniform doesn't have any flight wings. This seems to indicate that completing flight training is not a prerequisite for commanding a battlestar. However, this can also be explained by Garner coming from an engineering background instead of the command track, and the lack of high-ranking officers, which might have made it necessary to bend the regulations.