Anastasia Dualla
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| Colony | Sagittaron | |
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| Birth Name | Anastasia Dualla | |
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| Nickname | Dee | |
| Introduced | Miniseries | |
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| Marital Status | Married to Lee Adama (formerly dating Billy Keikeya †) | |
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| Role | CIC officer on Galactica | |
| Rank | Lieutenant (Junior Grade) | |
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| Portrayed by | Kandyse McClure | |
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Anastasia Dualla [du.ˈɑ.lə] is the former Communications Officer of Galactica. She is the wife of Major Lee Adama and, prior to its destruction, was the Executive Officer of the battlestar Pegasus.
Biography
Dualla's father thought that her enlistment in the Colonial Fleet Reserve was crazy, and he viewed the military as a joke. She signed up anyway because she "wanted to believe in something." This rift with her father would continue throughout her service and the last time they spoke they got in a heated argument; three weeks later the Cylons attacked, and Dualla never got a chance to reconcile with him (Final Cut).
At the time of the Cylon attack she monitors fleet-wide communications. Dualla is among the first to notice the unusually high levels of shipboard malfunctions and failures aboard other battlestars (Miniseries).
After the Cylon attack, she coordinates Fleet activities like jumps with Tactical Officer Felix Gaeta. In this responsibility, she discovers that the Olympic Carrier fails to jump with the fleet after yet another jump to escape a 5-day long, relentless attack by the Cylons after their escape from Ragnar Anchorage (33).
Due to his attraction to Dualla, presidential aide Billy Keikeya "volunteers" her to join an off-ship mission to the Astral Queen (Bastille Day). Led by Captain Lee Adama, the mission is to attempt enlistment of prisoners aboard the Queen in resupplying Galactica with water following an act of sabotage (Water). During the mission, the team is taken hostage by prisoners during a jail break lead by fellow Sagittaron and political agitator Tom Zarek.
Freed without personal harm during this situation, Dualla returns Billy Keikeya's affections, and they date during off-duty periods (Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down).
When a party of Cylons boards the Galactica, Dualla suffers a concussion, but survives the engagement (Valley of Darkness). Later, Dualla aids in Laura Roslin's escape from Galactica after the President's arrest by covering up the tracks of their secret communications coordinating their movements in the Fleet, and getting Colonel Tigh to sign permission to close off a causeway which they use as an escape route. At this time, Dualla seems to take a greater personal interest in Apollo (Resistance).
Dualla is assigned to give D'anna Biers a tour around the battlestar as part of Biers' documentary of the ship (Final Cut). Lee Adama seems to return Dualla's personal attraction during a sparring exercise with the petty officer (Flight of the Phoenix).
Dualla's avionics training helps in building a stable communications package for the experimental Blackbird fighter (Flight of the Phoenix).
Keikeya, apparently attempting to solidify his relationship with the petty officer, proposes to Dualla, but she refuses. Keikeya later sees Dualla with Lee Adama on Cloud 9 and accuses her of leading him on. Shortly after Keikeya's accusation, four terrorists commandeer the lounge and its occupants and demand the surrender of Sharon Valerii. When a ruse by Admiral William Adama is discovered, the leader of the the terrorists orders Dualla's death. Keikeya intervenes and manages to shoot one of the terrorists, but his target fatally wounds Keikeya before dying. In the same battle, Lee Adama is left severely wounded from a friendly-fire incident during an ill-fated reconnaisance by Kara Thrace. Dualla promises to watch over Lee Adama until he recovers in sickbay. When he finally regained consciousness, Dualla was so happy that neither of them noticed Thrace leaving the sickbay with a heartbroken expression (Sacrifice).
A few months later, still involved with Apollo, Dualla assists in the counting of ballots for the Presidential election. Dualla conspires with Tory Foster and Saul Tigh to rig the election in Roslin's favor, indicating that she comprehends the disaster that would follow if Baltar is elected. Though the plot initially succeeds, Lt. Gaeta's curiosity leads to Admiral Adama's discovery of the duplicity. Adama covers up the plot but returns the vote, for better or worse, to its actual result, with Baltar being elected to the Presidency. Baltar's first order of business is for the colonization of New Caprica.
Colonization of New Caprica
A year later, most of the crew and fleet have settled on New Caprica. However, Dualla is married to Commander Lee Adama and promoted from Petty Officer 2nd Class to Lieutenant, serving as Communications and Executive Officer on Pegasus, part of its skeletan crew in orbit around New Caprica. She answers the communication from Kara Thrace on New Caprica, who wants to ask Lee for antibiotics for her, now husband, Samuel Anders. Dualla's reaction when handing Lee the reciever seems to indicate that he might have told her of his affair with Thrace on New Caprica. While Lee is on the phone Dualla's keen eyes pick up DRADIS contacts, which gives the Fleet advance warning to the arrival of a large Cylon fleet. The remnants of the Fleet jump away, hoping to return to liberate New Caprica another day (Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II).
The Battle of New Caprica
Four months after the Fleet has fled Dualla continues to serve as XO of Pegasus (Occupation). After Admiral Adama decides to go through with the rescue operation, Dualla is visually disturbed that he has chosen Sharon Agathon to be the liason officer with the New Caprica Resistance (Precipice).
Dualla tries to reassure here husband, Commander Adama (Exodus Part II), after Admiral Adama decides to take Galactica alone on the New Caprica rescue mission (Exodus, Part I).
Eventually Commander Adama defies orders and returns to New Caprica to assist Galactica, giving it time to jump away. Dualla, the Commander, and the crew of Pegasus escape back to the Fleet on evac Raptors after Pegasus is critically damaged (Exodus Part II).
After the Second Exodus
Dualla returns periodically to her old post in CIC, but also has greater responsibilities in shepherding civilians on Galactica during a harrowing series of journeys through a dangerous star cluster to a planet filled with edible algae (The Passage). Dualla and Samuel Anders are also witness to what appears to be both a feud and not-so-veiled affection between her husband and Anders' wife, particularly during a boxing match where Major Adama and Captain Thrace beat each other to exhaustion (Unfinished Business).
Dualla assists others in the harvesting of desperately needed algae for use as foodstuffs for the Fleet. When the Temple of Five is found and Cylon forces attempt to invade to obtain what is believed to be a special artifact, Dualla takes the lead from her husband in organizing the ground team for a defense against Cylon ground forces. With wireless communications jammed, Dualla coordinates observation points with hard-wired communication to watch for Cylon incoming, and assigns Kara Thrace airborne reconnaisance duty.
Dualla witnesses Starbuck's Raptor go down after a near-strike from a Cylon missile (The Eye of Jupiter). Major Adama soon orders Dualla to effect a rescue of the downed pilot, after being pressured by Thrace's husband, much to Dualla's irritation, given her suspicion of her husband's illicit encounters with Thrace. After a sniper attack kills her partner, Dualla makes it to Starbuck's Raptor and repairs the avionics on the Raptor. Starbuck cannot fly due to severe hand burns, so Dualla, who is not flight-trained, manages to fly the Raptor back to Galactica with Starbuck's guidance. Dualla and her husband reunite, but the shadow of Thrace's involvement with Adama continues to loom (Rapture).
After Adama's own doubts grow about the future of his marriage, Dualla confronts him after he returns home drunk one evening. She believes that their marriage is a lie, and says she will not interfere if Adama chose to pursue his relationship with Kara Thrace. Later, Adama convinces Dualla of his love and her importance in his life, choosing to fight for his marriage (Taking a Break From All Your Worries).
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Dualla recently recovered from Mellorak Sickness. She contracted this disease after she came into physical contact with a few of the 300 refugees from the Threa Sita who were infected as they boarded Galactica. Among them were 51 of her fellow Sagittarons; some of them also had Mellorak Sickness. Most of the Sagittarons, because of their religious belief which includes Pacifism and a rejection of Scientific Medicine, refused to be treated with the drug Bittamucin which cured the disease within a set time window. This unfortunately allowed the disease to spread. The Sagittarons also faced widespread prejudice due to their beliefs. The civilian doctor, Michael Robert who was ostensibly treating them shared this prejudice to murderous level. He surreptitiously kills a few via lethal injection to prevent them from depleting scare resources, including the drug itself. Captain Karl Agathon, who had detected what the doctor was doing rescued Dualla as she laid unconscious on a cot heavily sedated. However, despite Dualla being a Sagittaron Dr. Robert had spared her and gave her the Bittamucin since, in his view, she was one of the few "good" Sagittaron since she is willing to fight for the human race in the military. Prior to this incident, Dualla has actually renounced her Sagittaron heritage to the point of sharing many of the non-Sagittaron's prejudices against them (The Woman King). It is very likely this had been a major source of the estrangement between her and her father who was against her joining the military.
Dualla also has a severe dislike of Dr. Cottle, Galactica's Chief Medical Officer (CMO). She emphatically made it clear to Helo while he attempted to carry her away from Dr. Robert that she did not want to see Cottle despite her semi consciousness. Todate, it has not been revealed as to the specific source of this resentment. She has given an explanation to her feelings as to Cottle supposedly being incompetent visa-vis being unable to use a hypodermic needle properly (The Woman King).
Dualla is fully recovered from Mellorak Sickness and back on active duty.
Notes
- Dualla's counterpart in the Original Series is Rigel. According to Ron Moore's blog entry on April 18, 2006, Dualla is actually more or less directly inspired by Rigel, saying Dualla is "filling the role of another woman in the original BSG series who used to man the communication system on their bridge. That character was called "Rigel" but I didn't think that name worked in the remake, so I gave her the name of Dualla."
- Dualla was known throughout all of the first season and part of of the second season only as "Dualla" or "Dee". Her first name was finally revealed in the episode, "Final Cut" in an on screen caption during her documentary interview. "Anastasia" means "resurrection" in Greek.
- The last name "Dualla" may be derived from Latin word Dualis, which means duo or two. Another definition of the word dual is: something consisting of two parts or elements or having two like parts.
- Grace Park initially auditioned for the role of Dualla, before being asked to audition for the role of Starbuck, and finally being cast as Sharon "Boomer" Valerii.