Senior Staff of Galactica

Present Senior Staff[edit]

CIC[edit]

Admiral William Adama - Commanding officer
Colonel Saul Tigh - Executive officer
Captain Kara Thrace - Commander Air Group (acting)
Unknown (Formerly Lieutenant Felix Gaeta), Senior Officer of the Watch
Lieutenant Louis Hoshi - Communications officer

Support[edit]

Major Cottle - Chief Medical Officer

Marines[edit]

Lieutenant Terry Burrell (seen only in "Sacrifice")
Unnamed lieutenant (seen only in "Escape Velocity" and "A Disquiet Follows My Soul")

Chain of Command[edit]

The current commander of Galactica is Admiral Adama, and second-in-command is Colonel Tigh. Captain Karl Agathon has risen to third-in-command and has frequently filled in as executive officer. Beyond that the hierarchy is unclear. Major Cottle is a medical officer and outside of the chain of command, and Captain Aaron Kelly's detention ("The Son Also Rises") presumably removes him from the order of precedence.

Position Histories[edit]

Commanding Officer[edit]

Commander William Adama (Miniseries to "Scattered") - Injured after assassination attempt
Colonel Saul Tigh, Acting ("Scattered" to "The Farm") - Relinquishes command after Commander Adama returns to duty
Admiral William Adama ("The Farm" to "Sine Qua Non") - Promoted to admiral by President Roslin (Resurrection Ship, Part II)
Colonel (temporarily Admiral) Saul Tigh ("Sine Qua Non" to "Revelations") - Adama resigns position temporarily to search for Roslin
Admiral William Adama ("Revelations" to "The Oath") - Adama returns to the Fleet, is deposed in a mutiny
Lieutenant (unofficially, Commander) Felix Gaeta, de facto ("The Oath" to "Blood on the Scales") - Gaeta siezes command in a mutiny as part of a coup d'etat led by Tom Zarek.
Admiral William Adama ("Blood on the Scales" to present) - Adama regains command by force; Gaeta is executed for mutiny.

Executive Officer[edit]

Colonel Saul Tigh (Miniseries to "Scattered") - Assumes command when Commander Adama is injured during an assassination attempt
Captain Aaron Kelly, Acting ("Scattered" to "The Farm") - Returns to regular duties when Commander Adama resumes command
Colonel Saul Tigh ("The Farm" to "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II") - Relocates to New Caprica
Captain Karl Agathon ("Occupation" to "The Passage") - Colonel Tigh resumes post
Colonel Saul Tigh ("The Passage" to present. Interrupted by a short leave of absence in "Crossroads, Part I & II" and by temporary Fleet command from "Sine Qua Non" to "Revelations")

Tactical officer[edit]

Lieutenant Felix Gaeta (Miniseries to "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II") - Relocates to New Caprica (working as aide to President Baltar)
Lieutenant Karl Agathon ("Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II") - Promoted to XO
Captain Aaron Kelly ("Occupation" to "The Passage") - Gaeta resumes post
Lieutenant Felix Gaeta ("The Passage" to "Six of One") - Joined crew of the Demetrius
Lieutenant Hoshi ("The Ties That Bind" to "Sine Qua Non") - Gaeta resumes his duties after sufficiently recovering from his leg amputation
Lieutenant Felix Gaeta ("Revelations" to "The Oath") - Gaeta take command of Galactica in a mutiny.
Unknown (Blood on the Scales to present) - Gaeta is executed; no replacement yet named.

Communications Officer[edit]

Petty Officer 2nd Class Anastasia Dualla (Miniseries to "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II") - Promoted to XO of Pegasus
Unknown ("Occupation" to "Exodus, Part II")
Lieutenant Hoshi ("Collaborators" to "Six of One") - Reassigned to Tactical Officer
Unknown ("The Ties That Bind" to "Sine Qua Non") - Hoshi resumes his duties
Lieutenant Hoshi ("Revelations" to present)

Commander, Air Group[edit]

Major Jackson Spencer (Miniseries) - Killed in Action
Captain Lee Adama (Miniseries to "The Captain's Hand") - Promoted to CO of Pegasus
Captain George Birch ("Home, Part I" to "Home, Part II") - Temporary replacement for Captain Adama
Captain Kara Thrace ("Downloaded" to "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II") - Relocates to New Caprica
Captain Louanne Katraine ("Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II" to "Collaborators") - Demoted when Major Adama resumes post. Posthumous and symbolic promotion (The Passage)
Major Lee Adama ("Torn" to "The Son Also Rises") - Re-assigned as head of security for Romo Lampkin
Captain Karl Agathon ("The Son Also Rises" to "Six of One". Interrupted by a temporary stint as XO to replace Col. Tigh in "Crossroads, Part I & II") - Joins crew of the Demetrius
Unknown ("The Ties That Bind" to "Faith") - Demetrius returns
Captain Karl Agathon ("Guess What's Coming to Dinner?") - Joins Resurrection Hub strike force
Captain Kara Thrace, Acting ("Sine Qua Non" to present)

Chief Medical Officer[edit]

Major Cottle (Miniseries to present, with the exception of his relocation to New Caprica)
Unknown ("Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II" to "Exodus, Part II")

Chief of the Deck[edit]

Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol (Miniseries to "Pegasus") - Replaced by Pegasus's deck chief
Chief Petty Officer Peter Laird ("Pegasus" to "Resurrection Ship, Part II") - Laird reassigned to Pegasus
Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol ("Epiphanies" to "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II") - Relocates to New Caprica
Unknown ("Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II" to "Exodus, Part II") - Tyrol resumes post
Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol ("Collaborators" to "Escape Velocity") - Demoted by Admiral Adama
Chief Petty Officer Peter Laird ("Escape Velocity" to "The Oath") - killed by Tom Zarek
Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol ("No Exit" to present) - Reinstated by Admiral Adama

Master-at-Arms[edit]

Sergeant Hadrian (Presumably Miniseries to present, but last mentioned in "Valley of Darkness")

Landing Signal Officer[edit]

Captain Aaron Kelly ("Miniseries" to "Scattered") - Re-assigned as acting XO
Unknown ("Scattered" to "The Farm") - Aaron Kelly resumes post
Captain Aaron Kelly ("The Farm" to "Exodus, Part I") - Re-assigned as tactical officer
Unknown ("Exodus, Part I" to "Exodus, Part II") - Aaron Kelly resumes post
Captain Aaron Kelly ("Collaborators" to "The Son Also Rises") - Put in detention with charges pending
Unknown ("The Son Also Rises" to present)

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