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Dr. Daniel Graystone is the founder and CEO of Caprica's Graystone Industries, the inventor of the holoband, and owner of the Caprica City Buccaneers in the years before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. He is the creator of the Cylons.

Early Life

Growing up on Caprica, Daniel Graystone was not born wealthy ^{(CAP: "There is Another Sky")}. Though he was interested in engineering as a child - experimenting in his parent's garage at a young age - Daniel was a pyramid player and dreamed of being a C-Buc ^{(CAP: "Know Thy Enemy")}. Still, Daniel later admits that he was not very good at pyramid and leaned towards science, graduating from Apollo University with a PhD in Computer Science.

Daniel met Amanda, his future wife, at a time in her life when she was recovering from serious psychological trauma, proving to be an important source of emotional stability for her ^{(CAP: "End of Line")}. Nevertheless, the Graystones' first years of marriage were financially and professionally difficult. When Amanda was pregnant with Zoe, the couple's only child, the Graystones lived in an apartment in Cloverdale, but struggled to pay the rent ^{(CAP: "There is Another Sky")}.

Eventually, Daniel would secure an important meeting with management at the MicroCap company. With his car not working, Daniel was forced to ride the bus, but fell in the rain getting off. Still, he persisted, attending the meeting soaking wet and with a broken wrist, and coming away with a deal that would begin his upward climb ^{(CAP: "There is Another Sky")}.

Five years later, the Graystones' first home burned down. Daniel later comments that it was his computers and the house's older, wooden construction that started the fire. Unable to reach Zoe - whose room was in the attic of the house - Daniel and Amanda struggled to save their daughter; however all three managed to survive ^{(CAP: "The Imperfections of Memory", "Ghosts in the Machine" and "Things We Lock Away")}.

Corporate Success

Building on these early successes, Daniel founded Graystone Industries and pioneered the development of the holoband, a user interface technology that allows users to enter the digital construct known as V-world. The success of the technology made Daniel a celebrity scientist, frequently appearing on television ^{(CAP: "Know Thy Enemy" and "End of Line")} and lead to the publication of an autobiography entitled The Man Who Could See the Future ^{(CAP: "Reins of a Waterfall")}. Despite this focus on consumer electronics, Daniel's company began vying for a contract with the Caprican Ministry of Defense for the creation of a robot soldier ^{(CAP: "Pilot")}.

While the development of the cybernetic body was successful, Daniel had considerably more difficulty with the programming of a true artificial intelligence and its related hardware. The project had originally been planned to take five years, but the increasing number of prototype failures led to the program falling five years behind schedule and five hundred million cubits over budget. Frustrated with Daniel's failures, the Caprican government threatened to cancel its contract with the company and take the project to the Vergis Corporation, Graystone Industries' Tauron competitor, which had announced the successful development of a meta-cognitive processor that could serve as an artificial intelligence ^{(CAP: "Pilot")}.

Personal Tragedy

Daniel suffered a personal loss when his daughter Zoe was killed in a suicide bombing aboard the Lev in Caprica City. However, he later discovered that before her death, Zoe had developed a method of uploading personal data onto the holoband that resulted in the creation of a holographic avatar of herself. Daniel believed it would be possible to use the U-87 prototype's body, combined with the processor developed by Vergis, to upload Zoe's avatar and allow her to live in the real world.

As a result, Daniel contacted Joseph Adama, a lawyer whose daughter and wife had also been killed in the terrorist bombing. Daniel asked Adama to use his ties to the Ha'la'tha crime syndicate on Tauron to steal the Vergis processor; in exchange, Daniel would reconstruct the personalities of Adama's daughter and possibly his wife. While Adama acquired the processor and handed it over to Daniel, he later became disgusted with the idea of resurrecting the personalities of the dead, leaving Daniel to pursue the matter himself.

Undaunted, Daniel tried to recreate Zoe as a robot, implanting Zoe's avatar in a U-87 unit. While the experiment initially seemed to work, with the robot calling Daniel "daddy" and taking a few steps forward, the avatar's data quickly became corrupted and the robot collapsed. Despite Daniel's efforts to recover his daughter's avatar, the program appeared to be irretrievable.

The moment the robot (Zoe-R) speaks was an idea conceived late in the editing process to heighten the scene's emotional impact, and was not in the original script.

Creation of the Cylons

Despite his failure to bring back his daughter, Daniel uses the stolen processor to perfect the military prototype for the government project. Dubbing the unit a Cybernetic Life-Form Node (acronym: "Cylon"), Daniel presents the completed unit to an impressed group of government officials. Graystone Industries was officially awarded a contract for the production of one hundred thousand U-87s ^{(CAP: "Pilot")}.

This success was short-lived, when it quickly became apparent that only the original U-87 prototype would function sufficiently; as described by Dr. Cyrus Xander, Daniel's assistant, attempts to produce copies or to transplant the stolen MCP into other robot bodies produced "morons" ^{(CAP: "Rebirth")}. For long weeks, Daniel and his company would struggle in vain to find an explanation for the problem. He briefly (and correctly) suspected that Zoe's avatar was still in the robot, but attempts meant to force Zoe to identify herself failed ^{(CAP: "Ghosts in the Machine")}. Faced with the plummeting price of Graystone Industries stock, a dwindling supply of cash, and an accelerated production schedule forced onto him by a suspicious military, Daniel decided to purge any anomalies from the MCP and to start with "clean" MCPs. The Cylon, however, killed a Graystone Industries employee and escaped from its laboratory before the procedure could be performed ^{(CAP: "End of Line")}.

Public and Personal Crises

Although Daniel and Amanda were arguably the highest profile relatives of the Lev bombing victims, the public attention given to them did not greatly exceed that of other survivors. All of this changed abruptly at a memorial service one month after the bombing, during which Amanda announced that Zoe was responsible for the bombing. Daniel was forced to whisk his wife away from an angry crowd ^{(CAP: "Rebirth")}. Almost instantly, attitudes on Caprica and across the Twelve Colonies turned against Daniel, his family, and Graystone Industries. Daniel himself was abducted and beaten by Sam Adama and compelled by a changed Joseph Adama to bring back the avatar of his daughter--a demand which Daniel could not meet ^{(CAP: "Reins of a Waterfall")}.

Public opinion continued to sour, and Daniel reluctantly decided to make a more active PR response by appearing on the Backtalk with Baxter Sarno late night talk show ^{(CAP: "Reins of a Waterfall")}. Despite coaching and high expectations for the interview, Daniel's attempts to defend himself and to present Zoe as a "troubled" teenager floundered, until he was unexpectedly joined on stage by Amanda. Together, the two of them created a more compelling narrative, of Zoe being yet another young victim of the dangers of life on the holoband--and continuing in the spirit of that narrative, Daniel spontaneously announced the creation of a fund for young holoband addicts and the end of the holoband as a profit-making enterprise for Graystone Industries ^{(CAP: "Gravedancing")}.

Stunned by the instant elimination of sixty percent of the corporation's revenue, the board of directors of Graystone Industries quickly maneuvered to remove Daniel from the board. Daniel countered with a dramatic presentation to the board, arguing that the holoband could not be sustained as a source of profit in any case, and that the future of the company lay in a new technology that would even more radically change the face of Colonial society: the Cylons. Daniel's position as CEO was saved ^{(CAP: "There is Another Sky")}.

Daniel's successes were threatened by the appearance on Caprica of his personal rival, Tomas Vergis, who revealed that not only did he know that Daniel was responsible for ordering the theft of the MCP, but also for the murder of two close friends during the theft. Rather than taking Daniel to court, Vergis promised to systematically take or destroy everything that was dear to him ^{(CAP: "Know Thy Enemy")}. Vergis' first target was the Caprica Buccaneers. Starved for funds to sustain the U-87 project, Daniel capitulated and made plans to sell the team. Even more damaging was Vergis' brief conversation with Amanda about Daniel's role in the theft and murders. Confronted by Amanda with the claim, Daniel could only respond that the situation was "complicated." Amanda had nothing else to say to him, leaving Daniel to face the loss of the U-87, the military contract, and potentially his company by himself, as well as the very real possibility of his wife's suicide ^{(CAP: "Ghosts in the Machine" and "End of Line")}.

Ultimately, Daniel Graystone revives from this crisis with his personal resourcefulness, his wife, and the help of the Ha'la'tha. By promising the Ha'la'tha partial ownership of Graystone Industries, he blackmails the board into reinstating him as CEO and removing Tomas Vergis. Amanda's involvement with the GDD surveillance of Clarice Willow alienates her from Willow and forces her to reconcile with her husband and seek his protection ^{(CAP: "Retribution" and "Blowback")}.

With her help, Daniel rediscovers his daughter's avatar in V-World, and the two convince Zoe to reconcile with them. He pledges to develop a lifelike mechanical body that will enable Zoe to inhabit the real world, a promise that he fulfills five years later. Daniel prevents the head of the Ha'la'tha from assassinating him and forms a firmer friendship with the Adamas and the rest of the Ha'la'tha's new leadership. Daniel and Amanda's thwarting of the STO terrorist attack do much to restore their public image and the fortunes of Graystone Industries. ^{(CAP: "The Heavens Will Rise", "Here Be Dragons" and "Apotheosis")}.

Notes

• The character of Daniel Graystone was inspired by real-world tech moguls like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, envisioned as a man who built an empire from his parents' garage.
• Graystone has an affinity for music, demonstrating his ability to play the piano at a competent level, performing such pieces as Nomion's 3rd Sonata. As with the piano, he also has a guitar in his own personal lab in Graystone Estate, likely using it in order to let his subconscious mind work out problems ^{(CAP: "Rebirth")}.
• As a sports aficionado, Graystone has not only an affection for pyramid itself, but also other sports such as tennis. So much so that his estate features a computerized tennis court overlooking Caprican Bay, where he plays the game with his wife ^{(CAP: "Pilot")}.

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Daniel Noon is a young man who is assigned to Hitei Kan because of his alleged skills in using heavy machinery, acquired by working on a farm. Previously he lived in Dogsville on Galactica. Noon himself objects to his assignment, claiming his only farming experience was during a summer job to earn money for architect college, and that he should not be considered a farmer just because of that. Later, when the conveyor belt in the refinery is jammed, Noon manages to take the jamming part out and restore the belt, but injures his arm as a result ^{(TRS: "Dirty Hands")}.

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Lieutenant Daniel "Bulldog" Novacek is a pilot who served under then-Commander William Adama aboard the battlestar Valkyrie, approximately 6 BCH (94YR). Novacek had family on Scorpia, including his mother who had recently moved to Aerilon to a retirement community.

Novacek was part of a covert mission from the admiralty of the Colonial Fleet as the sole pilot of a special fighter known as a Stealthstar. The mission was to fly over the Armistice Line for reconnaissance of Cylon activity.

Upon crossing the Line, Novacek was quickly interdicted by an unknown contact. Under fire, his fighter is severely damaged and was spinning out of control.

With two more unknown craft bearing down on him, Commander Adama ordered Novacek's fighter destroyed so as to eliminate any evidence of their incursion into Cylon space. Novacek ejected a split second before the incoming missile struck, and is subsequently captured and imprisoned by the Cylons ^{(TRS: "Hero")}.

The Escape

Novacek as a prisoner of war.

Around 3 ACH (2002BYR), Novacek is permitted to escape his imprisonment as part of an elaborate ruse by the Cylons. Two Raiders in pursuit of Novacek's escape Raider were apparently unable to shoot Novacek down. As Kara "Starbuck" Thrace later discovered, the Cylons deliberately missed an obvious kill shot, allowing him to escape and bring a measure of terror to the admiral.

Shortly after telling Novacek of Adama's actions, Saul Tigh finds Novacek in the process of killing Adama. After stopping him, Tigh berates Novacek for almost giving the Cylons the assassination they wanted.

Later, Novacek boards a Raptor to start a new life on a civilian ship. Admiral Adama presents Novacek with a Colonial uniform and assures him he will always have a place as an officer on Galactica ^{(TRS: "Hero")}.

His fate thereafter remains unclear.

Notes

Production History

David Eick's video blog "Introducing Bulldog" revealed that after agreeing to the role, Carl Lumbly stated that he wanted to keep his dreadlocks, much to the bemusement of director Michael Rymer.

In early drafts Novacek's first name was Seamus and then Eugene. When Cottle checks if Novacek is a Cylon, the computer screen shows Novacek's first name to be Eugene, an on-screen remnant of the prior name before its change to Daniel.

Michael Rymer considered Dennis Haysbert for the role of Novacek.

From Script to Screen

A remnant for the Novacek's earlier first name before its change to Daniel by production ^{(TRS: "Hero")}

Comparing the "Hero" script to the final aired episode reveals several significant differences:

• An extensive scene between Admiral Peter Corman and Adama establishing the mission's political context and reconnaissance objectives appears in the screenplay but was omitted from the aired episode, which conveys the mission background through dialogue and flashbacks instead.

• Detailed descriptions of Novacek's imprisonment include extended sequences about the Doral deception where Novacek believed Doral was a fellow prisoner for over a year, only to discover he was a Cylon when another identical copy walked in. The script describes Novacek being forced to play psychological "games," including being handed an empty gun and told to kill Doral or be killed himself. These sequences were significantly condensed in the aired version, likely for pacing and broadcast standards.

• The screenplay consistently uses "Daniel" for Novacek's first name throughout, indicating the name change from earlier drafts (Seamus, then Eugene) had been finalized by the October 2006 version, despite the on-screen computer display error showing "Eugene" in the final episode.

• More extensive dialogue during Tigh's confrontation with Novacek includes detailed explanations of Cylon manipulation tactics and Tigh's analysis of how Novacek was "played" by the Cylons. The aired episode streamlines this confrontation while maintaining the core dramatic beats.

• An extended conversation between Tigh and Novacek about their shared military past was removed from the final version, including Novacek's reference to a woman called "Eileen the Machine" whom he describes as having "no front teeth" and being a "gift" to Tigh during their earlier service together. This dialogue provided insight into the military culture and personal relationships between the characters during their Valkyrie service.

• Novacek's family background receives more detailed treatment in the script, including specific mention of his mother's recent move from Scorpia to Aerilon and his emotional reaction to learning of the Colonies' destruction.

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"Number Seven," also known as "Daniel," was one of eight humanoid Cylon models created by the Final Five. A favorite of Ellen Tigh, she remembers Number Seven as creative, sensitive, and an artist.

After she becomes fully-aware of her true self, Ellen reveals that the Sevens were destroyed by Number One (John Cavil) ^{(TRS: "No Exit")} decades before the second Cylon War. Cavil was angry at Ellen, their "mother," for playing favorites, and in a fit of jealousy he contaminated the amniotic fluid used to gestate the Seven copies and corrupted the genetic formula.

Ellen describes Cavil's wiping out the Sevens as more permanent than boxing, and Samuel Anders recalls that "Daniel died," confirming that no copies of Number Seven model survived. The remaining Cylon models other than the Number Ones have no memories of Number Seven. With this model no longer extant, Caprica-Six's statement, "there are twelve models," during the Fall of the Twelve Colonies was correct.

Notes

Cult of Daniel

After the episode "No Exit" aired, many fans on the official Sci-Fi Channel forum were convinced that Daniel was responsible for many of the mysteries in the show, was Kara "Starbuck" Thrace's father, was responsible for the "head" visions of Baltar and Caprica-Six, etc. This phenomenon, called the "Cult of Daniel" by Ronald D. Moore, was unintended, and Moore took the unusual step of unequivocally stating in the subsequent podcast for "Islanded in a Stream of Stars" that Daniel was not Starbuck's father and would not play a larger part in the series. Although he usually did not rule out any fan theories or explanations, he felt "the Daniel theory" had taken a life of its own and would lead many of its proponents to disappointment in the finale. He also apologized if people felt the writers were leading them to incorrect conclusions. The only purpose of Daniel was to explain the gap in the Cylon model numbers and serve as a "Cain and Abel" backstory with Daniel as Abel and Cavil as Cain.

Possible influences

• Daniel may be named after, or a reference to, Daniel Graystone, one of the original designers of the Cylon Centurions of the Twelve Colonies (Caprica). In his podcast for "No Exit," Moore mentions a connection between Daniel and the Caprica series.

Daniel BaconDaniel ColmanDaniel HallerDaniel Osaki

Daniel
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Daniel Bacon (born October 30, 1970) is a British 'reader' on the set and during auditions of the Re-imagined Series and has worked on the series since the Miniseries.

External Links

• Dan Bacon GALACTICA.TV interview

Daniel
Role:	Supervising Sound Editor / Sound Designer
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Daniel Colman is the supervising sound editor and sound designer for the Re-imagined Series and the supervising sound editor for Caprica. He is also the supervising sound editor on two other SyFy Channel series: Eureka and Warehouse 13. He won a Primetime Emmy Award and three Golden Reel Awards from the Motion Picture Sound Editors for his work on the Re-imagined Series.

External Links

• Galactica.TV Interview with Daniel Colman

Daniel
Role:	Director
BSG Universe:	Original Series and Galactica 1980
Date of Birth:	September 14, 1929
Date of Death:	December 18, 2024
Age at Death:	95
Nationality:	USA
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Daniel Haller (September 14, 1929 – December 18, 2024) is an American television and film director, active from the 1960s to 1980s.

Born in Glendale, California, Haller is sometimes credited as "Danny Haller" or "Dan Haller". In addition to directing, Haller was also an art director, producer, and production designer.

Haller directed episodes of the original Battlestar Galactica and Galactica 1980.

Director credits

• Battlestar Galactica: Season 1
  • "War of the Gods, Part I"
  • "War of the Gods, Part II"
• Galactica 1980
  • "Space Croppers"

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• Daniel article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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Daniel Osaki is the lead 3d modeler at Atmosphere Visual Effects.

Osaki' credits include:

• Cylon refinery, ep 110 ("The Hand of God"), model
• Cylon rocket launcer, ep 203 ^{(TRS: "Fragged")}, Concept design and model
• Gideon, model
• Blackbird, model
• Resurrection Ship, Concept design and model
• Prometheus, model
• Destruction of the battlestar Pegasus.

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