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| Birth Name | Peter Laird | |
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| Introduced | Pegasus | |
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| Children | Unknown (implied) | |
| Marital Status | Widower (probable) | |
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| Role | Deck Chief, battlestar Pegasus | |
| Rank | Chief Petty Officer (conscripted) | |
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| Portrayed by | Vincent Gale | |
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Peter Laird is a civilian aeronautical engineer, impressed into military service after the Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies. At the time of the attack, he is about the civilian transport Scylla which, together with several other vessels, is found the battlestar Pegasus about a week after the attack. Admiral Cain, with military priority on the mind, orders that the ships be scavenged for anything that would be of aid to Pegasus. Supplies, weapons and even people with potentially useful skills.
Laird, whose background in aeronautics would serve Cain's plan well, is selected to be drafted into her crew along with 14 other people on board. Colonel Fisk and Lieutenant Shaw take a team of Marines to the Scylla to enforce the order, where Laird acts as the passengers' spokes person and refuses to cooperate. When Fisk's intimidation of the civilians fails, Cain orders that the families of the selectees are to be shot to coerce them. While Fisk still threatens to shoot them, Shaw takes the initiative and shoots one woman in the head, upon which the Marines kill nine more. This breaks all resistance on the ship, and Laird and the others are transfered to Pegasus. Laird's wife and family are likely among the dead (Razor).
He becomes the ship's deck chief despite not being part of the Colonial military. When he comes aboard Galactica, he meets his counterpart, Chief Tyrol. Upon looking on the Blackbird, Tyrol's new stealth fighter, he is both appalled and impressed, especially because he designed the old DDG-62 engines used in the Blackbird (Pegasus).
Laird is assigned to Galactica during Admiral Cain's fleet integration and according to the the extended "Pegasus" cut replaces Chief Tyrol as deck chief even before he is charged with Lt. Thorne's murder. Also shown in the extended episode, he makes a suggestion to Galactica's deck crew that increases fuel efficiency by two percent.
Laird is having difficulty in managing the hangar deck as Tyrol's substitute and lacks military decorum, but assures Commander Adama that all ships will be ready for "the attack thing" (Resurrection Ship, Part I).
After Admiral Cain's death her crew transfers are reversed and Tyrol is re-installed as Galactica's deck chief. Laird likely returns to his previous post as the Pegasus deck chief (Resurrection Ship, Part II).
Notes
- Laird's reaction to the dead civilians in "Razor" heavily implies that the woman killed by Shaw is his wife. Especially the shot at the end when he looks at the bodies and the camera pans from him to the woman.
- Ron D. Moore said in his podcast that he was tempted to give Laird a Scottish accent as a tribute to James Doohan (Star Trek's Montgomery Scott) at his recent death at the time of the episode's filming, but reluctantly decided against it.