Kendra Shaw

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Introduced	Razor
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Death	Destroying the Guardian basestar
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Role	Executive Officer of Pegasus
Rank	Major
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Portrayed by	Stephanie Jacobsen
	Kendra Shaw is a Cylon
	Kendra Shaw is a Final Five Cylon
	Kendra Shaw is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
	Kendra Shaw is an Original Series Cylon

For a full breakdown of Kendra Shaw with information from "Razor", see: Kendra Shaw/Razor.

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Kendra Shaw is an officer from the Ministry of Defense who is assigned to Pegasus as Helena Cain's aide when the battlestar puts in for an overhaul at the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards. Never having served on a battlestar before, she quickly draws Admiral Cain's attention, initially becoming the victim of a twisted joke relating Shaw's inability to find her way around a battlestar. During the crisis, she later becomes one of her closest officers, and found her to be an exemplary officer who was able to become a "razor".

After Cain's death, she was not particularly liked by her succeeding commanding officers, Jack Fisk and Barry Garner, because she did not give them her respect. Garner disliked her so much that she was demoted and assigned to kitchen duty following his ascension to commanding officer.

Later, Commander Lee Adama chooses her to become his Executive Officer after taking command of the ship and promotes her to the rank of major, noting that she received glowing reports from Cain, but bad ones from Fisk and Garner. Adama appreciates her scathing honesty about him and his predecessors and choses Shaw because he needs someone close to him who upholds Cain's legacy to the crew, despite his aversion for that legacy. Shaw proves to be a very hard but competent XO.

Not unlike Kara Thrace, she is strong-willed and has some problems with authority, which leads the two to clash over various issues, particularly over her tactical decision that almost destroyed Thrace's and Marcia Case's Viper during their first encounter with the Guardians (Razor).

Notes

Shaw is a major character in "Razor". A The reason for Dualla being Adama's XO in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II" is because Shaw dies while manually detonating a nuclear device on the basestar housing the original Cylons (RDM) hybrid.
Shaw's shoulder patch is unlike any other seen in the series. It is yellow on yellow and reads "Ministry of Defense" at the top and "Kobol HQ" at the bottom.
Despite being a major, she wears a colonel's uniform with white/red trim. As shown on Doctor Cottle earlier, a major's uniform only has a white trim.
In early interviews, Shaw's surname was Taggart.