Main characters of Battlestar Galactica
This article presents the main characters Televised series Battlestar Galactica .
William Adama
See also: William Adama
; Actor: Edward James Olmos (VF: Joel Martineau) William “Bill” Adama is the commander of the Galactica and the soldier more graded fleet of survivors. Whereas the president guide the fleet, the military decisions are of its spring. It is high with the row of admiral after the death of the admiral Helena Cain.
Its relations with his/her son Lee are conflict since the death of the second wire of Adama, Zak, that Lee allots to his/her father. They manage to be reconciled after Adama recovered from the balls drawn by Sharon “Boomer” Valerii. Adama also has another person who holds to him extremely in heart: Kara “Starbuck” Thrace, the old one been engaged of Zak, which approaches Lee rather extremely, and that he regards as the girl that he forever have.
He has been for more than twenty years a friend of his second, the colonel Saul Tigh, whom he met in the colonial merchant fleet.
When it makes a decision, it does not bend to be shown well and assumes all the consequences which they can have. It is a kind of guarantor of morals within the fleet, going even until saving Baltar at the time of its lawsuit.
Laura Roslin
See also: Laura Roslin
; Actress: Mary McDonnell (VF: Annie Balestra) At the time of the attack of the Twelve Colonies, Laura Roslin was the Minister for education under the government of Richard Adar. After this attack, it is highest representing government in life and becomes the president then making function. It thus directs the fleet, except with regard to the military decisions which return to William Adama, being the soldier more graded.
She believes being, as the Scriptures of the oracle of the Pythea predict it, the dying chief leading humanity to her new fatherland. Its beliefs are consolidated by the apparently incurable breast cancer from which she suffers.
She thus leaves to research the first indices leading to the Earth, on Caprica and Kobol, while reinforcing her capacity by naming Gaïus Baltar as vice-president, who will manage later to withdraw his cancer to him.
The presidential elections which take place seven months after the exodus do not renew Laura Roslin, but its dolphin, Baltar. On the News Caprica, it resumes its work of teaching and founds a school for the children of the colonists. After the escape of this planet, it turns over to its post of president, supported by Adama.
During its mandate, it must deal with various problems, of which strike of the technicians of the fleet. At the time of the lawsuit of Baltar, she announces publicly that its cancer returned.
Kara Thrace
See also: Kara Thrace
; Actress: Katee Sackhoff (VF: ARIANE Deviègue) At the time of the attack of the Twelve Colonies, lieutenant Kara “Starbuck” Thrace is the best pilot one of Viper of the fleet, but it has some problems to be subjected to the military structure. , It the colonel Saul Tigh does not like rebel of which she highlights her leaning for alcohol. It was promised in marriage of Zak Adama and feels guilty death of this one, since as a its instructrice of flight, it gave him its license that he did not control. Its gift for the flight however enables him to defend the fleet against the attacks of the Cylons.
On request of the president Laura Roslin, it recovers an artefact on Caprica, where it meets its second love, Samuel Anders. Once returned within the fleet, it is transferred on the Pegasus and is promoted there captain after having fulfilled successfully a reconnaissance mission, initiating the destruction of an important Cylon vessel.
It takes the function of chief of the air group when Lee Adama agrees to order the Pegasus , then is installed on the News Caprica where it marries Anders, consequently breaking occasion its friendship with Lee. During the second exodus, it becomes again a simple pilot, but its moral does not cease falling, hardly knowing to choose between Lee and Anders.
At the time of a reconnaissance mission in the atmosphere of a gas giantess, it re-examines elements of its life passed, like moments with her mother. Its vessel ends up exploding, leaving a great vacuum in the fleet. One month later, whereas the fleet is joined by a group of vessels cylons, it reappears in Apollo and affirms to have been on the Earth and to be able to carry out the fleet to it.
Lee Adama
See also: Lee Adama
; Actor: Jamie Bamber (VF: Mathias Kozlowski) Lee “Apollo” Adama is the son of William Adama, the commander of the Galactica . It is one of the best pilots of Viper of the fleet and takes the post of Commander de Air Groupe with died of this last. It is in cold with his father since the death of his brother, Zak. There exists between the two, despite everything, much of affection, which causes a complex relation. Very early, Apollo develops a great fidelity with the president of the Twelve Colonies, Laura Roslin. He becomes his adviser, in particular with regard to the relations with the soldiers. After an attack of Cylons during which the commander of Pegasus dies, Apollo is seen entrusting this vessel and the rank afférant to such a function. Once the fleet installed on the News Caprica, it marries Anastasia Dualla which comes to assist it on board Pegasus as a second, in spite of its rank of Lieutenant.
At the time of the attempt at rescue of the refugees on the colony, it assists from the Galactica which is in an annoying posture and destroyed Pegasus by sending it on a Base cylon. Later, the relations between Kara Thrace and Apollo improve, but Lee always suffers from the tacit love that there is between the two because of their respective marriage on the Caprica News. After a short connection, both decide that they do not have future together, thinking that their marriage is more important. The disappearance of Thrace forces to suffer internally, not being able to show its mourning.
Land-mark, Apollo agrees to deal with the safety of lawyer of Gaïus Baltar. During the lawsuit of this last and after one enième quarrel with his/her father, it resigns of the army and assistance the lawyer of Baltar in his defense. He manages to save the life of Baltar thanks to a speech based on morals, taking again from an unusual point of view the majority of the facts which have occurred since the exodus of the fleet.
Gaïus Baltar
See also: Gaïus Baltar
; Actor: James Callis (VF: Guy Hatter) Doctor Gaïus Baltar is a scientist of reputation within the Twelve Colonies. At the time of the attack of the Colonies, it has an adventure with a woman who acknowledges being to him a Cylon. It helped it to work out the new programme of defense of the Twelve Colonies, reaching by there information which it transmitted to Cylons. By a still unexplained chance, he manages not to succumb at the time of the attack and succeeds in reaching the Galactica . It is at this time that it starts to have visions of Numéro Six, its Cylon mistress. She shows him her implication in the destruction of the Colonies. She shows to him that the brilliant man that he is, associated with his narcissism is actually a calamity. He manages however to pursue his own goals and hiding place all information which he has on Cylons.
Baltar manages to rise at the post of vice-president, always pushed by Numéro Six, before aspiring to the presidency and carrying it by promising the establishment of a colony on recently discovered planet, the News Caprica. When Cylons discover this planet, and approach it with a crowd of vessels, president Baltar capitulates without resistance in the name of the people installed. That, cumulated with the life of debauchery to which it was carried out since their installation, Néo-Capricanais try to reverse their president.
A few months after the beginning of the Cylon occupation, Baltar is forced to sign under the threat a list of people to be carried out, written by Cylons. During the release of the Colonists by the fleet of the admiral Adama, Six takes along Baltar on a Base Cylon at the same time as Numéro Three carries Héra, the hybrid child humano-cylon. As a host of Cylons, Baltar starts a relationship to at the same time Numéro Six and Number Three. At the time of a later meeting with the human ones on a planet of algae, the fleet recovers Baltar in order to at the time judge it, since it is responsible for the events which have occurred on the Caprica News, as a president. At the time of the lawsuit, he is declared not-culprit by three votes against two, but “not-culprit” does not want to say “innocent” as the admiral Adama during a discussion with the president Laura Roslin underlines it.
Number Six
See also: Number Six
; Actress: Tricia Helfer (VF: Laura Préjean) Number Six is one of the twelve models humanoïdes Cylon of which there exist many copies. This one seems worked out to allure. She helped the doctor Gaïus Baltar to create the program of colonial defense and force thus the scientist to betray humanity. She appears to him later in hallucinations that she affirms being to him the result of a chip established in her brain. She has a faith surprising in a religion monothéïste. After having ressuscity, the Six that Baltar knew starts a kind of revolution within Cylon on the Caprica planet, occupied. What has as a consequence the reconsideration of their plan and the temporary abandonment of the Twelve Colonies.
A copy of the model Six, Gina, was discovered on the Pegasus when this one joined the fleet. This copy strongly was tortured and deceived. Baltar enables him to escape and it benefits from it to kill the admiral Helena Cain, ordering Pegasus and to join a resistance movement within the fleet. It receives from Baltar a nuclear warhead and explodes it whereas the installation on the News Caprica is imminent, which makes it possible Cylons to easily find the new colony.
At the time of the occupation, the Number Six dependant with Baltar on Caprica (known from now on under the name of Caprica ) intervenes on several occasions in favor of the colonists, in particular on the way in which its people treat those. When Athéna commits suicide and resuscite to save his/her daughter, Héra, Caprica assistance to be fled for Galactica on the condition accompanying it of.
Number Eight
See also: Number Eight
; Actress: Grace Park (VF: Marie-Eve Dufresne) Lieutenant Sharon “Boomer” Valerii is a pilot of the Galactica . She is actually a copy of the model Cylon number eight and is programmed to think that she is human, until she is activated to achieve her task. She has lapseen of memories which had with her nature and realizes gradually that she is not what she seems to be. Its conflict of personality becomes extensive until it is sure of its nature, after having shot at the commander William Adama. It resuscite at Cylons when it is killed by a cold revenge. It then carries out a revolution in the motivation of Cylons to destroy the mankind, but assimilates its new role rather quickly.
Another copy is strategically put at the sides of Karl “Helo” Agathon on Caprica. It seems to want to help the copilot to leave planet and is fully conscious of its Cylon gasoline. With time, the relation between the two evolves/moves and it falls pregnant from Helo. On its arrival on the Galactica , she is imprisoned and misses being made violate thanks to the intervention of Helo. She acouche of her Héra daughter, but believes that she is dull. She gains the confidence of top-graded fleet and is released from her prison before lending oath of allegiance to the colonists.
She receives the nickname of Athéna then, allowing a better distinction of the other copies. She takes an active part in the release of the colonists of the News Caprica. When she learns that his/her child did not die, but is on a vessel Cylon, she asks her husband to kill her for resusciter in the vessel keeping its baby. Using Caprica-Six, it turns over on the Galactica , healthy and safe with her child.
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