Boxey (RDM)
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- This article is about the young orphan from the Re-imagined Series. For more information on his Original Series counterpart, see Boxey (TOS).
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| Age | 10-13 (?) | |
| Colony | Caprica | |
| Birth place | {{{birthplace}}} | |
| Birth Name | Boxey | |
| Birth Date | {{{birthdate}}} | |
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| Introduced | Miniseries | |
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| Parents | Armistice Officer (father) | |
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| Family Tree | View | |
| Role | Orphan | |
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| Portrayed by | Connor Widdows | |
| Boxey (RDM) is a Cylon | ||
| Boxey (RDM) is a Final Five Cylon | ||
| Boxey (RDM) is a Human/Cylon Hybrid | ||
| Boxey (RDM) is an Original Series Cylon | ||
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Miniseries
Boxey is the son of the Armistice Officer at Armistice Station. Following the Cylon Attack, Boxey and his aunt[citation needed] sought sanctuary when a Raptor flown by Lieutenants Valerii and Agathon made an emergency landing on Caprica. When it became evident that the Raptor could not rescue all those who came to it, Boxey's aunt gave him up for transport back to battlestar Galactica, where he has since been unofficially adopted by members of the crew (Miniseries).
Season One
In season one, Boxey is seen following Kara Thrace around and copying her attitude and tone with Saul Tigh in "Bastille Day." Boxey is also seen eating with Boomer and other pilots on Galactica. Otherwise, the character is mostly found in deleted scenes and on the cutting room floor, with very little exposure.
Notes
- Boxey is a based on a character of the same name from the Original Series. He shares some similarities with his TOS counterpart, in that he is a young boy orphaned by the Cylon Attack who is adopted by members of Galactica's crew. While Boxey was an often recurring character in the Original Series and the main character of the follow up series, Galactica 1980, in the Re-imagined Series, he has only appeared in one episode of the first season, "Bastille Day." A number of other appearances were filmed, but they were cut from other episodes due to time considerations. By the start of season 2, the writers realized they had never used him and couldn't really think of a way to fit him into the series, and the character has been essentially abandoned.
- In the original draft of the Miniseries, Boxey would form a family unit with Sharon Valerii and Galen Tyrol, but it was then decided that Boomer would be a Cylon sleeper agent. The writers then toyed around with the idea of still having the three of them be a family unit (with Boomer completely unsuspecting that she was a Cylon) until the season 1 finale when Boomer would reveal herself. Instead, starting with the second episode, "Water" Boomer early on started suspecting that she was a Cylon, and the writers found fewer and fewer ways for Boxey to fit in. An idea toyed around with was that Boxey would become the "artful dodger" on the show; running the black market, stealing things, etc. but it was decided that there wasn't even time for that.
- Boxey appears in four deleted scenes included with the Season 1 DVD set. The first three are from "Water":
- In the first, Boxey happens upon Boomer at her locker, and rumaging through it finds a rag which she used to wipe rust off of her hands from when she was planting the bombs in the water tanks.
- This followed up on in a second scene at the end of the episode where Tyrol finds Boxey with the rag, who tells him that he got it from Boomer's locker, and Tyrol recognizes the rust as being the same residue as he found in the water tank, raising his suspicions about Boomer (this entire subplot was dropped).
- In his third deleted scene in "Water," Boxey tries to sell some ambrosia he got from an engineer to Crashdown (apparently one of the attempts to turn him into the "artful dodger" mentioned by the writers).
- Boxey's fourth deleted scene in the set is from "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I", in which Boomer is practicing drawing her weapon from its holster and pointing it, and after several times Boxey steps into the room just as she wheels around and points her gun in his direction, accidentally scaring him off.
- One of the problems with having a young character such as Boxey on the show is that while the actor naturally ages, the Re-imagined Series has progressed much more slowly; the series has covered approximately 1.6 years in fictional time from the Miniseries (2003) to the end of season 2 (2006).