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| Birth Name | Barry Garner | |
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| Introduced | The Captain's Hand | |
| Death | Vacuum exposure (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 Commander 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 (The Captain's Hand), an opinion shared by Kendra Shaw (Razor). Garner holds a similar contempt for both women: he orders her eventual transfer back to Galactica, despite her work with the missing Raptors 718 and 314 (The Captain's Hand), while he demotes Shaw to mess duty (Razor).
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 both Adamas. Reports were also filed by both Major Adama and Thrace. Major Adama understands that Garner's failure was in treating people as he would a machine, whereas Thrace's assessment of him is considerably harsher (The Captain's Hand).
Notes
- 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.
- Unlike William Adama, Helena Cain, Saul Tigh and Jack Fisk, Garner does not wear flight wings, indicating that a pilot background is not a necessary prerequisite for command of a battlestar. Although Garner's background appears to be primarily in engineering, the lack of high-ranking Pegasus officers might have persuaded Admiral Adama to waive this requirement.