Starbuck (TOS)

Starbuck (TOS)
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Name	{{{name}}}
Age	30s
Colony	Umbra, Caprica
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Birth Name	Starbuck
Birth Date	{{{birthdate}}}
Callsign
Nickname	{{{nickname}}}
Introduced	[[{{{seen}}}]]
Death
Parents	Chameleon (father)
Siblings	None
Children	None
Marital Status	Single
Family Tree	View
Role	Viper pilot, Battlestar Galactica
Rank	Lieutenant
Serial Number	{{{serial}}}
Portrayed by	Dirk Benedict
Starbuck (TOS) is a Cylon
Starbuck (TOS) is a Final Five Cylon
Starbuck (TOS) is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
Starbuck (TOS) is an Original Series Cylon
Related Media
		@ BW Media
Additional Information
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Biography

Lieutenant Starbuck is a handsome, fumarello-smoking, womanizing, smart-aleck of a human. He's also one of Battlestar Galactica's finest pilots.

Starbuck is close friends and frequent wingman of Captain Apollo, the son of Galactica's commander, Adama. Apollo frequently has to save Starbuck from himself and his schemes as much as Starbuck has saved Apollo on their fights with the Cylon Empire.

Starbuck is an amazing gambler and card player, a trait he shares with his father, Chameleon.

Starbuck seems attracted to almost any women he comes across. On Galactica, Apollo's sister and Galactica bridge officer Athena finds herself attracted to the young pilot despite his reputation and her brother's warnings. Likewise, medical corpsman Cassiopeia is also enamored with Starbuck.

As a Viper pilot himself, the older Boxey once recounted a lengthy list of Starbuck's female admirers.

Notes

• The original choice for Starbuck was Don Johnson, Edward James Olmos's Miami Vice co-star. It was the intervention of Glen A. Larson that ultimately had Dirk Benedict cast; Johnson was too short for the role and didn't fit in to the cast as Larson envisioned.
• The ABC Network had warned the show producers that if Benedict had smoked any more of the "small cigars" a.k.a. fumarellos he would be fired. They rapidly reversed the order as female admirers sent in many cigars to the studio and Benedict.