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* TheBigBoard: The war room is equipped with a giant table that holds little models of the various ships to plan battle strategies with. Someone even goes to the effort to make brand-new models of the Cylon Raiders.
* TheBridge: The CIC is actually buried deep inside the ship for added security and often seems more like TheWarRoom (although there is a seperate one of those). This means there's no windshield, and all information about what's outside has to be displayed on screens or relayed vocally by the crew.
* HurlItIntoTheSun: [[spoiler:The fate of the ''Galactica'' in the GrandFinale: Anders pilots her into the sun along with the rest of the remaining ships.]]
* NoPaperFuture: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] as part of Adama's rule against networks. People constantly have to pass around paper printouts for messages and reports.
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* DynamicEntry: Being able to jump into the middle of a battlefield has been put to execellent use this way, such as the Battle of New Caprica.
* EverythingIsOnline: [[DefiedTrope Defied]] at Adama's orders. None of the ships computers are networked and all communication happens via analog systems. This proves vital when the Cylons return, as the lack of networks means they can't disable the entire ship in one blow.
* EverythingIsOnline: [[DefiedTrope Defied]] at Adama's orders. None of the ships computers are networked and all communication happens via analog systems. This proves vital when the Cylons return, as the lack of networks means they can't disable the entire ship in one blow.
* PlotArmor: Being the source of the show's title, the ''Galactica'' is basically guaranteed to survive any encounter no matter how much the Cylons throw at it. This starts to run out during the final season when Tyrol discovers major structural damage deep in the bowels of the ship. [[spoiler:Kara's jump in the GrandFinale proves the last straw, severely damaging the "spine" and ensuring she can't be jumped again without being torn apart.]]
* SensorSuspense: The DRADIS system is usually the first alert that an enemy ship has arrived nearby.
* ShrineToTheFallen: One of the hallways is turned into a memorial for those who have been lost. Initially for the victims of the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, but over time those lost during the exodus are added as well. The pilots' ready room has a smaller tribute, a photograph of a man on his knees watching a city burn (presumably taken during the attacks) which pilots touch as they head out on missions.
* SensorSuspense: The DRADIS system is usually the first alert that an enemy ship has arrived nearby.
* ShrineToTheFallen: One of the hallways is turned into a memorial for those who have been lost. Initially for the victims of the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, but over time those lost during the exodus are added as well. The pilots' ready room has a smaller tribute, a photograph of a man on his knees watching a city burn (presumably taken during the attacks) which pilots touch as they head out on missions.
* UsedFuture: The ''Galactica'' is more rugged, worn down and generally "lived in" than the ''Pegasus'' of the Cylon Basestars.
* TheCavalry: Their arrival at the Colonial fleet in season two provides a much-needed (if short-lived) boost to supplies and morale. The ''Pegasus'' servies this function again during the evacuation of New Caprica, arriving at the battle just in time to save the ''Galatica'' from getting pummelled by the Cylons.
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* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Was about to ''become'' the museum when the series begins. One of the landing bays had been turned into an exhibit about the Cylon War and the launch tubes for that side of the ship had been converted into a gift shop (much to Starbuck's frustration). The squadron of ''Viper'' Mark IIs that were on board for the exhibit are brought back into service as their older software means the Cylons can't shut them down remotely.
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* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Was about to ''become'' the museum when the series begins. One of the landing bays had been turned into an exhibit about the Cylon War and the launch tubes for that side of the ship had been converted into a gift shop (much to Starbuck's frustration). The squadron of ''Viper'' Mark IIs [=IIs=] that were on board for the exhibit are brought back into service as their older software means the Cylons can't shut them down remotely.
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* MildlyMilitary: While there is a command structure and rules about conduct, enforcement of this is fairly lax. initially it's due to a relaxed atmosphere surrounding the decomissioning, and as the series goes on it becomes more a result of apathy in the face of the ongoing trauma. They simply can't afford to lock up or dismiss crew for infractions when there's so few trained servicepeople left. Apollo lampshades this at the end of season three during [[spoiler:Baltar's trial]].
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* TheBattlestar: The reboot of the TropeNamer.
* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Was about to ''become'' the museum when the series begins. One of the landing bays had been turned into an exhibit about the Cylon War and the launch tubes for that side of the ship had been converted into a gift shop (much to Starbuck's frustration). The squadron of ''Viper'' Mark IIs that were on board for the exhibit are brought back into service as their older software means the Cylons can't shut them down remotely.
* CoolStarship: ''Galactica'' may be an older model but she's still a major powerhouse and beloved by her crew.
* DwindlingParty: There's a very high turnover among the Colonial pilots thanks to the war against the Cylons. By the end of the series most of the pilots from the Miniseries are long gone.
* InappropriatelyCloseComrades: Fraternisation was rampant in the days leading up to the planned decommissioning, with Tigh openly admitting that he opted to look the other way regarding Boomer and Tyrol's relationship as they were due to be reassigned anyway. He cracks down on this once the war with the Cylons starts.
* MildlyMilitary: While there is a command structure and rules about conduct, enforcement of this is fairly lax. initially it's due to a relaxed atmosphere surrounding the decomissioning, and as the series goes on it becomes more a result of apathy in the face of the ongoing trauma. They simply can't afford to lock up or dismiss crew for infractions when there's so few trained servicepeople left. Apollo lampshades this at the end of season three during [[spoiler:Baltar's trial]].
* TrueCompanions: The crew often treat each other as an extended family rather than colleagues.
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* TheBattlestar: The reboot of the TropeNamer.
* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Was about to ''become'' the museum when the series begins. One of the landing bays had been turned into an exhibit about the Cylon War and the launch tubes for that side of the ship had been converted into a gift shop (much to Starbuck's frustration). The squadron of ''Viper'' Mark IIs that were on board for the exhibit are brought back into service as their older software means the Cylons can't shut them down remotely.
* CoolStarship: ''Galactica'' may be an older model but she's still a major powerhouse and beloved by her crew.
* DwindlingParty: There's a very high turnover among the Colonial pilots thanks to the war against the Cylons. By the end of the series most of the pilots from the Miniseries are long gone.
* InappropriatelyCloseComrades: Fraternisation was rampant in the days leading up to the planned decommissioning, with Tigh openly admitting that he opted to look the other way regarding Boomer and Tyrol's relationship as they were due to be reassigned anyway. He cracks down on this once the war with the Cylons starts.
* MildlyMilitary: While there is a command structure and rules about conduct, enforcement of this is fairly lax. initially it's due to a relaxed atmosphere surrounding the decomissioning, and as the series goes on it becomes more a result of apathy in the face of the ongoing trauma. They simply can't afford to lock up or dismiss crew for infractions when there's so few trained servicepeople left. Apollo lampshades this at the end of season three during [[spoiler:Baltar's trial]].
* TrueCompanions: The crew often treat each other as an extended family rather than colleagues.
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* TheBattlestar: Naturally. It's even larger than the ''Galactica'' with more advanced technology and armaments. It has a smaller crew than the ''Galactica'' due to extensive computer networking (which Commander Adama does not allow on his ship).
* BlindJump: They survived the attack on the Colonies this way. With the navigation system offline, Cain ordered them to activate the FTL drive and hope for the best to get away from the Cylons. Cain openly admits to Adama that it was an act of desperation.
* CoolStarship: The ''Peagasus'' is much newer and larger than the ''Galactica''. Its interior is much sleeker and more comfortable and it has several features that ''Galactica'' lacks such as double-sided landing bays and the ability to build new ''Vipers''.
* KillTally: The pilots aboard ''Pegasus'' mark the number of Cylons they've killed on [[NoseArt the nose of their ships]]. Cain allows it as a way of building morale. Apollo and Starbuck find it tasteless and a sign of how brutal the ''Pegasus'' crew are.
* MobileFactory: The ''Pegasus'' has the facilities to build new ''Viper'' ships on board, allowing it to replenish the fleet in a way the ''Galactica'' cannot do.
* RammingAlwaysWorks: [[spoiler:The ''Pegasus'' is ultimately destroyed when Apollo sets it to ram into a Cylon Basestar during the evacuation of New Caprica. It at least goes down [[TakingYouWithMe taking out two Basestars in the process]].]]
* SimilarSquad: Many members of the crew are mirrors of their counterparts on ''Galactica'', showing what they might have become if they'd followed a similar path of aggression against the Cylons instead of opting to pursue a new home instead.
* TraumaCongaLine: Not that the ''Galactica'' crew and civilian fleet have had it easy, but it's clear the ''Pegasus'' crew have paid a high price for their choice to fight back. They're near-universally much harder and more aggressive than the crew of the ''Galactica''.
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* TheBattlestar: Naturally. It's even larger than the ''Galactica'' with more advanced technology and armaments. It has a smaller crew than the ''Galactica'' due to extensive computer networking (which Commander Adama does not allow on his ship).
* BlindJump: They survived the attack on the Colonies this way. With the navigation system offline, Cain ordered them to activate the FTL drive and hope for the best to get away from the Cylons. Cain openly admits to Adama that it was an act of desperation.
* CoolStarship: The ''Peagasus'' is much newer and larger than the ''Galactica''. Its interior is much sleeker and more comfortable and it has several features that ''Galactica'' lacks such as double-sided landing bays and the ability to build new ''Vipers''.
* KillTally: The pilots aboard ''Pegasus'' mark the number of Cylons they've killed on [[NoseArt the nose of their ships]]. Cain allows it as a way of building morale. Apollo and Starbuck find it tasteless and a sign of how brutal the ''Pegasus'' crew are.
* MobileFactory: The ''Pegasus'' has the facilities to build new ''Viper'' ships on board, allowing it to replenish the fleet in a way the ''Galactica'' cannot do.
* RammingAlwaysWorks: [[spoiler:The ''Pegasus'' is ultimately destroyed when Apollo sets it to ram into a Cylon Basestar during the evacuation of New Caprica. It at least goes down [[TakingYouWithMe taking out two Basestars in the process]].]]
* SimilarSquad: Many members of the crew are mirrors of their counterparts on ''Galactica'', showing what they might have become if they'd followed a similar path of aggression against the Cylons instead of opting to pursue a new home instead.
* TraumaCongaLine: Not that the ''Galactica'' crew and civilian fleet have had it easy, but it's clear the ''Pegasus'' crew have paid a high price for their choice to fight back. They're near-universally much harder and more aggressive than the crew of the ''Galactica''.
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!!Colonel Saul Tigh
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"If the crew doesn't hate the XO, then he's not doing his job."'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/MichaelHogan
After Bill Adama was mustered out from the first Cylon war and began serving on a commercial freighter, he met a fellow veteran named Saul Tigh, and the two formed a deep friendship. When reinstated, Adama pulled strings to have Tigh brought in as his second-in-command. Tigh is an [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] who is often OffTheWagon, and is probably the series' biggest bearer of FantasticRacism against the Cylons (with Starbuck as a close second). [[spoiler:How amusing, then, that he's one himself - To be more precise, he's one of the Final Five.]]
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* AdaptationSpeciesChange: [[spoiler:The original series Tigh was human]].
* AdaptationalJerkass: A lot of characters are this compared to their original series counterparts, but Tigh is second only to Cain in this regard.
* AchillesInHisTent: After New Caprica, he becomes a drunk wreck for a while.
* TheAlcoholic: He puts the "fun" in "functional alcoholic." And his wife just makes him worse.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Saul and Ellen ''very'' much have this dynamic.
* TheCaligula: During his brief stint as commander of the fleet, he is extremely harsh, violent, and unstable, partially because he has ''no idea'' how to handle the responsibility, partially because he's [[TheAlcoholic constantly drunk]], and partially because of [[EvilChancellor his scheming, psychotic wife]]. He's painfully aware of this and makes it clear the entire time that he really doesn't want his position.
* ColonelBadass: He's certainly competent, and he serves his role well.
* TheCreon: Takes command of the ''Galactica'' [[spoiler: only when Adama is shot]], and gives it back immediately as soon as possible. He never plots against Bill Adama for a second, even when he has serious issues with his commander's behavior. He even outright says that it was always supposed to be them leading together, not him leading alone.
* EyepatchOfPower: After he loses his eye on New Caprica.
* DeadpanSnarker: "The President, Gods bless her sunny optimistic soul, thinks you might want to share how your buddies have been tracking us. So I'm here to ask the question and listen to your lies."
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Part of the reason for him [[TookALevelInJerkass Taking A Level In Jerkass]] is his anger at much of ''[=Galactica's=]'' crew's lack of acknowledgement or gratitude of everything the Resistance did during the Cylon occupation. He also gives this to ''[=Galactica's=]'' crew himself, who put themselves at considerable risk in rescuing the people on New Caprica, with the entirety of the ''Galactica'' crew nearly dying and [[spoiler:the ''Pegasus'' being destroyed in the process.]]
* FakeGuestStar: Tigh is in all but four episodes of the show. The ''only'' characters to appear more frequently were Laura Roslin and Bill Adama.
* FakeMemories: [[spoiler:His own history prior to the First Cylon War was fabricated by John Cavil]].
* FantasticRacism: Seriously rivals Starbuck in terms of utter hatred for the Cylons.
* GoodIsNotNice: Led a vigilante group that executed Cylon collaborators.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: If he and Bill Adama don't embody this trope, we don't know who does.
* HumbleHero / ThinkNothingOfIt: He's not very good at accepting gratitude, even from Adama himself. Whenever someone offers thanks or admiration, Saul just awkwardly states that he's only doing his job.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: The New Caprica arc.
* {{Jerkass}}: At times it can be really hard to sympathize with Saul.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: But he's still a good man at heart.
* JerkassHasAPoint: After the Cylons attack, he tells Boomer he was aware of her relationship with Tyrol, but let it slide because ''Galactica'' was in the process of being decommissioned and things were therefore MildlyMilitary at the time, anyways. He then tells her things have changed since then and orders her to break it off, as an officer and the ship's senior NCO being in a relationship together is just a flat out bad idea.
* TheLancer: To Bill, but is a deconstruction. He is awesome as a second in command, but almost no one (most of all him,) ever wants him to be the number one of the fleet's command. He excels at being Bill's number two, but is completely useless in any other capacity, proving politically inept at running the fleet when Adama is shot but brilliant and decisive when the Galactica is boarded by the enemy. This is inverted though, when he redeems himself by effectively leading the New Caprican resistance, even if his tactics are... [[GreyandGrayMorality somewhat suspect.]]
* ManlyTears: Most notably, when he [[spoiler: killed his wife]].
* MeaningfulName: The Biblical Saul lost his sight on the road to Damascus, only regaining it when he stopped persecuting the monotheistic Christians. Saul Tigh [[spoiler:had his eye plucked out by Cavil as punishment for his guerrilla war against the monotheistic Cylons.]]
* NumberTwo: To Adama.
* PickYourHumanHalf: [[spoiler:Deconstructed, in a sense at least, after he learns that he's a Cylon. Unlike Tyrol and the other Final Five, who learn to be more accepting of being Cylons, Saul never really embraces that part of his nature. As such, Saul isn't able to access the special Cylon abilities that they can and this puts him at a disadvantage when the Fleet forms an EnemyMine with the rebel Cylons in Season 4]].
* RaceLift: Original series Tigh was black. Saul is white.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler:Like the other members of the Final Five, he is technically well over two millennia old]].
* ReincarnationRomance: He and Ellen [[spoiler:were married originally too, and somehow found each other again after Cavil wiped their memories]].
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: While by no means evil, during the New Caprica arc, after being told that a suicide bombing would make the Resistance no better than the Cylons, he simply shrugs and proclaims, somewhat sarcastically, "Which side are we on? We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We are evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go. I'm surprised you didn't know that."
* TookALevelInJerkass: After being tortured by the Cylons, Tigh becomes even more of a {{Jerkass}}, committing countless morally questionable acts and repeatedly decreasing morale and insulting Adama and his command.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: He's kind of hell on Bill's sanity, though he really doesn't ''mean'' most of it.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Adama; case-in-point, after [[spoiler:Bill is shot by Boomer]], Tigh takes command of the fleet and begins to behave in a increasingly dictatorial fashion, but as soon as [[spoiler:Adama recovers]], Tigh ''immediately'' cedes command back to him.
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:He's a Cylon, and one of the Final Five.]]
* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler:Hates the Cylons far more than almost anyone else in the Fleet, and is understandably infuriated when it turns out that he's one of the Final Five.]]
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!!Senior Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"All I know is if there is a God, he's laughing his ass off."'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/AaronDouglas
SCPO Tyrol is in charge of keeping ''Galactica'''s birds flying. He's very much an everyman in his approach to things, and often finds himself in positions of being the OnlySaneMan. He was carrying on with Boomer for a while. [[spoiler: He's also one of the Final Five and a Cylon]].
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* AFatherToHisMen: He cares about his deckhands, and when some had to be sacrificed to put out a fire, he carried bitterness about it for a few episodes. He really loses his cool when one of his deckhands deliberately ruins his own career (by lying under oath and later claiming responsibility for a security breach he had nothing to do with) to cover for Tyrol's illicit relationship with Boomer. This finally causes him to break up with her for good:
--> '''[=Tyrol=]:''' I put everything on the line for you. Everything. I cover for you, I protect you. I risk my career, my freedom, my integrity, for what? So some innocent kid, one of ''my kids'', can take the fall for ''me''? '''NO!''' We are not worth ''that''.
* TheAloner: [[spoiler:In the series finale he decides he's had enough of both humans ''and'' Cylons. When the survivors settle on Earth he heads out on his own, telling the Tighs he wants to be as far away from ''everyone'' as he can get. It's implied that he ends up in what will become Scotland.]]
* AscendedExtra: Tyrol was originally intended as a FlatCharacter, expanding primarily due to Aaron Douglas's ability to [[ThrowItIn throw in]] dialogue, character names and other useful touches.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[spoiler:If there was any doubt that Galen really did care for Cally, then his Cylonicidal fury upon learning that Tory murdered her put it to rest]].
* ButtMonkey: Things go poorly for him, starting with his girlfriend being a Cylon.
* CallToAgriculture: Rather ironically for a mechanic, [[spoiler:it's mentioned that he takes to the Fleet's decision to LetThePastBurn on Earth-2 quite well since he wants to put as ''far'' of a distance possible between himself and his past]].
* CartwrightCurse: He is just ''not'' lucky in love.
* DespairEventHorizon: Seems to have fully crossed this by the time of the SeriesFinale.
* FakeGuestStar: Like Tigh and Helo, he's there from beginning to end, and missed only 7 episodes over the show's run.
* HotBlooded: Especially on New Caprica, where his speech to the people was modeled after real life labor speeches.
* ImportantHaircut: Shaves his head during the fourth series [[spoiler: while in mourning after Cally's death.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Tyrol can be a real hardass, but he's overall quite considerate and has a strong sense of honor and loyalty.
* NumberTwo: As the highest-ranking NCO in the fleet, Tyrol has aspects of this.
* PickYourHumanHalf: Inverted. [[spoiler:Tyrol is by far the most accepting among the Final Five of their true Cylon nature, which lets him gain more access to their abilities such as SuperStrength, MadeOfIron, and being able to hack into networked computers]].
* MrFixit: Chief mechanic.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler:Like the other members of the Final Five, he is technically well over two millennia old]].
* ReincarnationRomance: Inverted. [[spoiler:He previously had a relationship with Tory Foster on Earth-1, but he ultimately ''strangles her to death'' after he learns that she killed his current wife Cally]].
* StoicSpectacles: [[spoiler:In his original life.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: Not surprising, given the TraumaCongaLine he went through.
* TraumaCongaLine: In a very short amount of time, he finds out [[spoiler:he's a Cylon, his wife apparently commits suicide over it, he finds out that his baby isn't even his, and then he learns a former lover actually killed his wife. And then he ruins the Cylon-Human alliance by reacting to that information]].
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:He's a Cylon, and one of the Final Five.]]
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!!Lieutenant Karl C. Agathon (callsign: Helo)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Symbols matter. Uniforms, flags, banners - even mascots. They're like pieces of your heart that you can see."'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/TahmohPenikett
A GuyInBack in a Colonial Raptor, flying under Sharon "Boomer" Valerii, whom he [[AllLoveIsUnrequited kind of has a thing for]]. During the pilot miniseries, their ship lands on Caprica and Helo abandons his copilot seat to save Gaius Baltar. That was meant to be the end of this MauveShirt, but fan reaction to him was so positive that [[WordOfGod RDM and David Eick]] decided to keep following his adventures, which involve being rescued by another Sharon copy. [[spoiler:With her, he becomes the father of "Hera," the first human-Cylon hybrid; he also serves as Adama's NumberTwo while Tigh is stuck on New Caprica.]]
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* AscendedExtra: He was supposed to be written out at the end of the Miniseries.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He does kill a man for trying to rape his wife.[[note]]He didn't intend to actually kill the man in question, just beat seven shades out of him[[/note]]
* FakeGuestStar: Appears in the PilotEpisode, the GrandFinale, and all but eight episodes in between. For the record, starring actress Grace Park missed the same number.
* TheFettered: He has issues, but they make him among the most normal in the cast.
* HappilyMarried: After her HeelFaceTurn, he and Athena come to have perhaps the most stable relationship on the whole show.
* HeroicSacrifice: What he ''intended'' by giving up his seat on the Raptor to Baltar (he thought that a genius scientist was more valuable to human survival than a pilot). Of course, he survived.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Has shades of this with Lee.
* HonorBeforeReason: Like Lee, he can always be counted on to do the right thing, but with more of a focus on people than the state of Colonial law and democracy, nor is he as willing to cross certain lines, such as when Lee advocates using a virus to wipe out the Cylons and Helo not only argues against it but sabotages the effort.
* KnightInShiningArmor: Not quite as much as Lee though.
* MeaningfulName: His last name means "good", "noble", and various other meanings of one's better nature. He's one of the least morally corrupted people out of the entire series' cast of characters.
** It's unclear what the meaning of his callsign is. It could stand for "Helios", the god of the sun, or be a reference to military slang in which a "helo" is a helicopter and a "boomer" is a submarine.
* MrFanservice: Has an erotic sex scene with Athena in Season 1 and also has a HeroicBuild. InUniverse, Number Six comments on his attractiveness to Athena, who pretends to be blasé, and Racetrack suggests using him for some R&R.
* MysteriousMiddleInitial: It's never revealed what the "C." in "Karl C. Agathon" stands for.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: He's much more often called "Helo" than "Karl". In fact, when a character does call him "Karl", it usually means the situation is serious.
* NiceGuy: One of very, very few in the show.
* PapaWolf: Especially to Hera. When a dying Roslin tries to order the termination of Sharon's pregnancy Helo nearly pulls his sidearm on Adama to try and get the old man to back down.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Starbuck; notably, despite how she ReallyGetsAround. Though the actress said there may or may not have been a one-night stand at some point in the past. They've been close friends for a long time.
* ReallyGetsAround: Implied in the Miniseries when he says he was on Gemenon visiting a girl he knew, and Boomer says, "What girl don't you know?" A bit of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness because this characterization never comes up again, but after all, he does spend the rest of the series in a committed relationship with Athena, so it wouldn't. (And he wasn't originally intended to survive when the Miniseries was written.)
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[[folder: Gaeta]]
!!Lieutenant Felix Gaeta
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I started this, and I'll see it through! Now get on that frakking ship!"'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/AlessandroJuliani
First appearing as a CIC watch officer, he eventually gets assigned to Dr. Baltar as a personal aide. He's an idealist--which is a bad thing to be in ''Galactica'''s WorldHalfEmpty; losing his leg in Season 4 is only one link in a "BreakTheCutie" chain. [[spoiler:Eventually leads a mutiny with Tom Zarek, which fails.]]
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* AcheyScars: He has constant phantom limb pains after losing his leg.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: It's made explicitly clear that between [[spoiler:him and Zarek during their mutiny, Gaeta is the one with sincere motives while Zarek is in it for the power]].
* AnArmAndALeg: He loses his left leg below the knee in "Faith" when [[spoiler:Sam shoots him to keep the others from forcibly arresting Kara]] and the resulting wound gets infected.
* BerserkButton: Immediately snaps and tries to stab Baltar in the neck with a pen when Baltar [[SilentWhisper whispers something in his ear]] during an attempted interrogation. It's revealed in the webisodes that this was a mention of the Eight whom Felix knew on New Caprica, and that his over-the-top response was produced by a combination of [[IrrationalHatred blaming Baltar]] [[TheScapegoat for everything that happened on New Caprica]] and an [[SelectiveObliviousness extreme subconscious resistance to examining the situation with the Eight too closely]] (because he knows deep down that [[spoiler:she was lying to him the entire time and he inadvertently caused the deaths of almost everyone that he tried to save]]).
* BreakTheCutie: Idolizes Baltar, only to be disillusioned when the latter becomes an ineffectual, hedonistic President. He then secretly provides information to LaResistance, only to be ostracized for his role in Baltar's administration and almost executed by a secret vigilante court. And then he later discovers his Cylon girlfriend on New Caprica was using him to identify members of LaResistance so they could be executed. And ''then'' he loses his leg due to an infected wound caused by a gunshot (and not one fired by the enemy, either). And after that, he [[BrokenPedestal loses all faith in Commander Adama]] after he makes an alliance with the rebel Cylons. He then [[spoiler:launches a coup, only for it to go badly wrong, resulting in several people getting needlessly killed, and ending with him being executed]].
* BrokenPedestal: Suffers this with Baltar and Adama at different points.
* ButNotTooBi: He is canonically bisexual and has had relationships with men and women at different times, but neither of these relationships gets any screen time in the show proper (they are explored in the show's webisodes). The only hint of his sexuality in the main story is his implied crush on Gaius. (Incidentally, [[CartwrightCurse no prizes for guessing how all three of these relationships ended.]])
* TheCastShowOff: [[invoked]] After the producers discovered that Alessandro Juliani is a fully-trained and highly-regarded operatic baritone, they found a reason for him to sing. Although it's actually [[TearJerker quite sad]] when it happens in the series proper.
* DatingCatwoman: Had a romantic relationship with an Eight while on New Caprica with whom he was working to get humans out of detention and to safety. {{Deconstructed}} in that it turned out [[spoiler:she was mostly just using the lists he gave her of people to save as death lists, and she was staggered by [[LoveMakesYouDumb just how easy it was to deceive him]], specifically blaming his [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids gentle, idealistic nature and his desperation to have faith in something]]]]. This culminates in Felix [[DespairEventHorizon finally reaching his breaking point]] and deciding that humans collaborating with Cylons is unsustainable.
* DeadpanSnarker: Particularly after losing his leg in Season 4.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: His stoicism in the face of [[spoiler:his own impending execution is inspiring and heartbreaking in equal measure]].
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Joins Zarek and instigates a mutiny in the final season]].
* GameChanger: Zarek was never able to take power (despite being legitimately elected) because he never had the support of the military. Gaeta ends up being the one to provide that support.
%%* HollywoodAtheist: Averted.
* HypercompetentSidekick: During President Baltar's reign, which unfortunately makes him the fall guy for the later Cylon occupation.
* IronicName: His first name means "happy" or "lucky". Poor Gaeta goes through a hefty TraumaCongaLine leading up to his FaceHeelTurn.
* KickTheDog: Lies under oath to get Baltar executed by claiming he signed a mass-execution order with no resistance or protest, when in fact he was not present to witness Baltar doing any such thing. (In actuality, the normally cowardly and self-serving Baltar ''outright refused'' to sign the order, and only did so after the Cylons literally put a gun to his head and forced him to; Felix assumes that he made no attempt at resistance because he was [[HeroicBSOD unresponsive]] when confronted with the death list later, and doesn't really care what the truth is because he considers Gaius guilty either way.)
* MeaningfulName: He shares his last name with that of the city where the King of Naples was forced to capitulate during the War for Italian Unification, which made it the second-to-last independent city to fall before Italy was unified under one flag. As it would later turn out, [[spoiler:TheMutiny he instigates is the second-to-last conflict in the series (with that arc being followed up by the Battle of the Colony in the SeriesFinale) prior to the melding of the surviving Cylon models, Colonial-humans, and second-Earth-humans under one hybrid species]].
* MrFixit: A technological version. If the computers on board Galatica need fixing, Gaeta's usually the one to do it.
* NiceGuy: Until he loses his leg, after which point he [[TookALevelInJerkass becomes much more bitter and harsh]] except toward close friends like Dualla.
* OddFriendship: Formed one with Gaius Baltar early on in Season 1, though it sadly gets torpedoed after the New Caprica occupation in Season 3.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:After Zarek [[KickTheDog executes the Quorom of Twelve]], he's quietly horrified as he realizes that Zarek doesn't care at ''all'' for Gaeta's legitimately positive intentions regarding the mutiny and [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist is only in it for the power]]]].
* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler:His prosthetic limb only stops itching just when he decides to FaceDeathWithDignity and has accepted what he's done]].
* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: Gaeta is gradually [[BreakTheCutie broken]] by a massive TraumaCongaLine and becomes increasingly bitter as a result, which culminates in him snapping and coming to believe [[spoiler:leading a mutiny against Adama when he forms an alliance with the Cylons]] is the better way to ensure humanity's survival.
* TheStoic: Keeps a cool head under almost any situation, which is frankly a bit of a requirement for someone in his position.
%%* TragicHero
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Dualla in a number of deleted scenes.
* TraumaCongaLine: After Baltar (whom he greatly admires and becomes fast friends with) disappoints him by becoming TheCaligula as President and failing to resist the Cylon occupation, he is nearly executed by his shipmates after being falsely accused of being a traitor, accidentally loses his leg to [[spoiler:friendly fire from Anders after a standoff between Starbuck and Helo]], witnesses his closest friend's death by suicide, learns that he was unknowingly complicit in the deaths of a number of people on New Caprica due to trusting the wrong person, ''and'' Adama finally "betrays" him by allying with a rebel faction of Cylons (who, despite their change in allegiances, were still responsible for the near-genocide of the human race in the first place and, on a more personal level, actively pushed him to his DespairEventHorizon), [[BreakTheCutie Gaeta finally snaps]] and turns against his former comrades, staging a ''coup d'état'' with Zarek.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:When he leads a mutiny]], he's doing it for what he sees as the greater good.
* WhatTheHellHero: His KangarooCourt of his commander is basically Gaeta trying to force Adama to acknowledge [[BreakTheCutie what he put Gaeta through]]. Adama contemptuously refuses to play along [[JerkassHasAPoint as it's a show trial being conducted by a military coup]], while Zarek is [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim unable to convince Gaeta]] they need to concentrate on more pragmatic issues.
* WideEyedIdealist: Starts off as one, only to go through the emotional and physical wringer before ultimately snapping.
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[[folder: Dualla]]
!!Petty Officer Anastasia 'Dee' Dualla
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->'''Played By''': Creator/KandyseMcClure
A member of Galactica's crew who first appears as a Petty Officer manning the communications panel in ''Galactica'''s CIC in the Miniseries. Gets an officer's commission sometime between Seasons 2 and 3. [[spoiler:Tragically and suddenly dies by suicide midway through season 4 after seeing the destroyed Earth and experiencing a DespairEventHorizon.]]
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Downplayed. Both she and Lee do genuinely love each other, but the sad fact is that Lee still ultimately loves Kara more.
* AscendedExtra: Gets more and more screentime as the series goes on.
* BetaCouple: With Billy in season 1, although she ends up leaving him for Lee.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Normally has a very sweet disposition, but doesn't even bother trying to be nice to Kara after she and Lee begin having a very obvious and borderline-public affair that humiliates both Dee and Sam. Like Lee, she also has a bit of a hidden propensity for taking [[WellIntentionedExtremist mutinous or highly illegal actions]] when she thinks it's necessary, such as when she assists in Roslin's escape into the Fleet after the martial law declaration or helps Tigh rig the election in Roslin's favor to prevent Baltar from winning.
* BridgeBunnies: Her and Gaeta's place in the [=CIC=].
* CommunicationsOfficer: Her main job. She is later succeeded in this position by Hoshi after [[spoiler:her death]].
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:After seeing the ruined Earth, she hits the DespairEventHorizon, and ends up dying by suicide]].
* GoOutWithASmile: An extremely dark example. [[spoiler:A brief HopeSpot after her date with Lee implies that the two seem to be successfully reconnecting and that Dualla may be recovering from her extreme despair after witnessing the destroyed Earth, but only moments afterward Dualla chooses to end her own life while she is still experiencing what she believes is her final moment of happiness]].
* HeroicBSOD: When she's [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide]].
* MissionControl: Along with CommunicationsOfficer, part of her job. She's the voice that relays between the pilots and ''Galactica''.
* RankUp: Has become a commissioned officer during the stay on New Caprica.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Her first name, Anastasia, means "resurrection", suggesting that she might be a Cylon and come back after her death... but she's not, and ends up getting KilledOffForReal]].
* RomanticRunnerUp: For Apollo. It becomes especially tragic during their marriage, as both characters are aware of this issue but still can't help but play into it.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Gaeta in several deleted scenes.
* WorkoutFanservice: Engages in some with Apollo in the second half of Season 2 as part of their ShipTease.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Discussed; both she and Tom Zarek are from Sagittaron, but she is disgusted by the support he gets and considers his actions to be unjustifiable (even if it was supposedly in the name of their planet's freedom).
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[[folder: Cally]]
!!Specialist Callandra "Cally" Henderson [[spoiler:Tyrol]]
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->'''Played By''': Creator/NickiClyne
->''"I just joined to pay for dental school."''
An enlisted deckhand serving ''Galactica'''s flight wing, Cally is known for a few things: having [[NoNameGiven only one name for two seasons (her full name wasn't given until her funeral!);]] being a PluckyGirl, and [[AllLoveIsUnrequited having a thing for Chief Galen Tyrol]]. [[spoiler:Marries the Chief during the New Caprica year and becomes pregnant with a son, Nicholas; is then executed by Tory Foster after she (Cally) stumbles upon the secret of the Final Five]].
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* AscendedExtra: Just a member of the crew in the flight wing, but becomes a fairly major character.
* AttemptedRape: One of Zarek's flunkies tries to rape her in "Bastille Day" and she [[ManBitesMan bites his ear off]] to defend herself.
* BreakTheCutie: Bad things happen to her over the course of the series.
* EveryoneHasStandards: She might've [[spoiler:assassinated ''Galactica''-Sharon]] and shows a lot of FantasticRacism towards Cylons, but she and the rest of the pit crew for ''Galactica'' are still visibly horrified when the crew of ''Pegasus'' brag about making a regular pastime out of [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil the gang-rape and torture of their Cylon prisoner Gina]].
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: After learning [[spoiler:Tyrol is a Cylon, she sort of... snaps]].
* InterruptedSuicide: After learning [[spoiler:Galen is a Cylon, she considers suicide ([[MurderSuicide taking her baby with her]]). Tory talks her out of it... just to make sure that the baby is safe, and ''then'' kills her anyway]].
* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: [[spoiler:After Cally finds out that Tyrol, Tigh and Tory are Cylons and attempts to commit MurderSuicide with baby Nicky, Tory talks her down... long enough to save the baby, and then airlocks Cally herself to preserve their cover. Chief Tyrol is enraged when he finally finds out and gives Tory a NeckSnap]].
* LoveMartyr: Stayed loyal to the Chief even after he unwittingly beat her when she roused him while he was suffering from night terrors near the end of Season 2. Cally later lampshades this in Season 4 while talking to Cottle. However, she herself doesn't exactly treat him much better either.
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: [[spoiler:Turns out in Season 4 that she slept with Hot Dog, making him, not Galen, Nicky's father]].
* OnlyOneName: Up until her full name was revealed to be "Callandra Henderson", she was only known as "Cally". This led to some EarlyInstallmentWeirdness when a lot of supplementary materials from early on in the show's run gave her full name out as "Jane Cally".
* PluckyGirl: Her early characterization.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Little Nicky was believed for quite a while to be another supposedly-impossible human-Cylon hybrid. Then it was revealed that, sometime before her wedding, Cally slept with Hot Dog]].
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:She's killed by Tory early on in Season 4 to establish that now more than ever AnyoneCanDie.]]
* SanitySlippage: Upon finding out the truth about Tyrol, she snaps and [[spoiler:tries to kill herself and her baby before being talked down by Tory... who [[KickTheDog kills her immediately after she hands over the baby]].]]
* ThrownOutTheAirlock: [[spoiler:How Tory Foster kills her]].
* WrenchWench: Her role on the ''Galactica''.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Doc Cottle]]
!!Major [[spoiler:Sherman]] "Doc" Cottle
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->'''Played By''': Creator/DonnellyRhodes
A grumpy Major and the fleet's leading medic, he serves on ''Galactica'' and lectures his patients [[HypocriticalHumor in between drags from a cigarette]]. His first name, [[spoiler: Sherman]], was [[NoNameGiven only revealed during the series finale.]]
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* AscendedExtra: Was just a medic, but wound up playing a significant role in a few episodes. A young Cottle also appears as a recurring character in the PC game ''VideoGame/BattlestarGalacticaDeadlock'' (set forty years prior), when he leaves ''Galactica'' claiming that he'll never set foot on the ship again.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: A heroic variation on the trope; Cottle volunteers to take part in the Battle of the Colony in the SeriesFinale but Adama forbids him from coming along, assigning Cottle to safely stay behind with the Fleet because his medical expertise is too valuable to lose.
* CoolOldGuy: One of the oldest members of Galactica's crew and no less awesome for it. Grumpy, sarcastic and one of the few people who can withstand Adama's trademark DeathGlare.
* DeadpanSnarker: Quite possibly ''the'' snarkiest character in the series.
-->'''Cally:''' What if you gave me a sedative and I just slept here?\\
'''Cottle:''' Oh, sure. We'll just turn my sickbay into an opium den so you can have a little snooze.
-->''(And in another episode:)''
-->'''Roslin:''' Doctor, I need your help, but it's illegal, dangerous, and a violation of your oath as an officer.\\
'''Cottle:''' ''({{Beat}})'' You're a lousy salesman.
* DrJerk: He's grumpy and abrasive towards his patients and openly smokes on the job. He gets away with it because he's actually very good at his job, doesn't mean anything by his sarcasm, and is also one of the few trained doctors left.
* HypocriticalHumor: Lightly scolds Roslin for waiting so long to get checked for breast cancer while he's almost constantly smoking.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For all his grouchiness, he's completely committed to his job and will treat anyone, human and Cylon alike. When Roslin's cancer reaches its terminal stages, he's visibly upset about not being able to help her anymore and she has to tell him to resume his gruff facade. He's also absolutely '''revolted''' by the crew of the ''Pegasus'' having raped the Cylon Gina multiple times and states that Athena's near-rape by Lt. Thorne was "unforgiveable".
* TheMedic: He's the ship's resident physician and probably one of the only surviving humans with any sort of significant medical training.
* MustHaveNicotine: Is rarely seen without a cigarette hanging in his mouth.
* NoNameGiven: His first name is only given in the finale.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Hot Dog]]
!!Lieutenant JG Brendan Costanza (callsign: Hot Dog)
->'''Played By''': Creator/BodieOlmos
From the first class of rookie pilots trained by Starbuck on ''Galactica'' along with Kat and Chuckles, Hot Dog evidently flunked out of naval academy before the Destruction of the Twelve Colonies. He survives the entire series, eventually maturing into one of ''Galactica'''s best and most mature pilots. He's also the RealLife Apollo, as he is played by Bodie Olmos, EJO's son.
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* AscendedExtra: Originally just "new meat" but he winds up an important part of the ''Galactica''[='=]s defense.
* EmbarrassingNickname: He was explicitly given his callsign as a punishment.
* InstantExpert: Presumably from offscreen training, we don't really see his skills develop.
* NewMeat: How he's introduced.
* TookALevelInBadass: Went from NewMeat to a skilled pilot. [[spoiler:He's the only one of his group of "Nuggets" still alive by the series finale, by which point he's one of ''Galactica'''s most skilled pilots.]]
** In-Universe, Apollo acknowledges him taking a level when he takes his own wings and presents them to Hot Dog, telling him "I think you earned these today" because Hot Dog was still a "nugget" trainee and refused to leave Starbuck by herself when Raiders showed up during a training session.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Anders]]
!!Ensign Samuel T. Anders (callsign: Longshot)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Lighten up a little bit. It's only the end of the world."'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/MichaelTrucco
An athlete on pre-Fall Caprica, the captain and star player of the Pyramid team Caprica Buccaneers, Anders turned his team into a resistance unit after the fall of the Colonies. He was stumbled upon by Kara Thrace and Karl Agathon while the two were trying to get off-planet, and eventually rescued late in Season 2. He becomes a major figure in the resistance on New Caprica, not to mention Starbuck's husband. Oh, and [[spoiler:he's a Cylon and one of the Final Five]].
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* AcademicAthlete: Anders is a star Pyramid player and [[spoiler:like the rest of the Final Five, was a research scientist in his original life on Earth. And [[RenaissanceMan could also sing and play guitar]], apparently]].
* AscendedExtra: Joins the main cast after being rescued from Caprica.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:"See you on the other side". Although this may simply refer to the afterlife -- he's heading to his stellar grave, ''and'' addressing a dead woman...]]
* CelebritySurvivor: He was the star player of the Caprica Buccaneers, a Pyramid[[note]]A fictional sport seemingly based on basketball.[[/note]] team. He's well known enough for Helo to have gambled on his games and recognize Anders and his teammates after they introduce themselves.
* DeadpanSnarker: Not his most defining characteristic, but he can hold his own. [[SnarkToSnarkCombat No wonder he gets along so well with Starbuck]].
* DeathOfPersonality: [[spoiler:After having a bullet removed from his brain, he's left seemingly brain-dead, and when the Cylons link him up to ''Galactica'', he's left as a Hybrid who only occasionally shows flashes of memory and personality, such as when he addresses Galen by name in the GrandFinale and says goodbye to Starbuck]].
* EmergencyTransformation: [[spoiler:He's turned into ''Galactica'''s Hybrid in an attempt to save him]].
* GameOfNerds: Or the in-universe equivalent, Pyramid. Notably, in the final episode, Anders -- [[spoiler:arguably the least cerebral of the Cylons in his Colonial identity]] -- is revealed in a flashback to have a passion for the geometry and mathematics involved in sports.
* GenreSavvy: He manages to survive several months on Caprica along with his Pyramid team by [[IKnowMortalKombat copying guerilla tactics he saw in movies]]. He's also smart enough to realize that [[ThisIsReality the movies aren't real life]] and that movie tactics can only carry him and his team so far, so he seeks out professional advice from Starbuck at the first opportunity.
* GlowingMechanicalEyes: [[spoiler: His eye flashes red in response to a scan by a Cylon Raider in the Season 4 premiere]].
* HandicappedBadass: [[spoiler:He's hit in the back of the head by a stray bullet during Gaeta's mutiny and needs to have brain surgery. Afterwards, he's left brain-dead to all appearances, and later hooked up to ''Galactica'' in the manner of a Cylon Hybrid to jumpstart him but never regains the use of his legs and remains connected to the ship]].
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Takes over some of this role from Lee toward Kara after their marriage, although it never reaches the same level of codependency.
* MeaningfulName: "Anders" means "man" (or [[spoiler:"android"]]).
* MrFanservice: His sex scenes with Starbuck often make the effort to show [[FemaleGaze just as much of his]] HeroicBuild [[MaleGaze as they do]] [[MsFanservice Starbuck's]]. InUniverse, Leoben refers to him as a "face selling magazines", and a flashback in the GrandFinale shows him being interviewed in a bathtub.
* MysteriousMiddleInitial: It's never revealed what the "T." in "Samuel T. Anders" stands for.
* HeroicSuicide: [[spoiler:He flies the Fleet into the Sun both so he can see Starbuck again in the afterlife and prevent the ViciousCycle plaguing man and Cylon from repeating itself on the new Earth]].
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Trucco suffered a major spinal injury in a car crash, resulting in Anders's bullet to the head and spending the rest of the series in either a hospital bed or a Hybrid tub. Trucco went on to make a near-miraculous full recovery (to be clear, he had nearly identical injuries to Superman actor Creator/ChristopherReeve, who never recovered) and so Anders was able to become an ActionHero again in the post-series movie ''[[Recap/BattlestarGalactica2003ThePlan The Plan]]''.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler:Like the other members of the Final Five, he is technically well over two millennia old]].
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Started out as this trope (his initial importance to the plot was solely as the love interest Starbuck left behind on Caprica), but eventually grew beyond it.
* ShipTease: [[spoiler:In the last two episodes of Season 3, with Starbuck being dead at the time, he's teased with fellow trainee Viper pilot Diana Seelix, and then sleeps with Tory Foster. What with Starbuck coming back to life and all the craziness around the Final Five, neither ultimately goes anywhere. Seelix in fact becomes a mutineer and a WomanScorned]].
* SpaceshipGirl: A {{Gender Flip}}ped example - in order to [[spoiler:save his life, he gets linked up to ''Galactica'' via a tub and datastream in the same way that a Hybrid is connected to a Cylon Basestar]].
* SpannerInTheWorks:
** His interactions with the Caprica iteration of John Cavil incited noteworthy CharacterDevelopment within that version of Cavil, which would help reveal the other Cavil acting as a spy in the Fleet.
** Him serving as a fighter pilot in [[Recap/BattlestarGalactica2003S04E01HeThatBelievethInMe "He That Believeth in Me"]] [[spoiler:leads to a Raider scanning him and identifying him as a Cylon. This leads to all of the Raiders ''breaking off and letting the Colonials escape'', saving everyone's lives. Furthermore, when Cavil tries to account for this issue by lobotomizing the Raiders, it sparks an EnemyCivilWar that leads to the downfall of the loyalist Cylons and the discovery of Earth-2 by the humans and rebel Cylons]].
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:His last words before he drives ''Galactica'' and the other spaceships ("See you on the other side.") are said right before Kara [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence departs the physical plane]]]].
* TookALevelInBadass: He becomes a rather decent Viper pilot after joining the military following [[spoiler:Starbuck's death]]. After enlisting, he has the rank of ensign and the callsign "Longshot".
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:He's one of the Final Five and a Cylon]].
* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler:Along with Saul Tigh, he's probably the most reluctant of the Final Five to initially accept actually being a Cylon, which is understandable given that he was a leader in the anti-Cylon resistance on both Caprica and New Caprica and saw many of his friends killed by them up close]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Kat]]
!!Lieutenant JG Louanne 'Kat' Katraine
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[[caption-width-right:350: ''"When you come back after a successful run, lemme tell you, it is better than a great meal, better than hitting the jackpot, it's better than SEX!"'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/LucianaCarro
A "[[NewMeat nugget]]" introduced early in the first season, she soon starts competing with Starbuck for the title of TheAce and even achieves the position of Commander Air Group (previously held by such luminaries as Apollo, Starbuck and Helo) while most of the senior crew are on New Caprica, before a HeroicSacrifice in Season 3.
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* TheAce: Played with; she may well surpass Starbuck as the most naturally talented pilot in the fleet (especially considering that Starbuck had full military training, whereas Kat just had a few hastily arranged and barely-structured lessons), but her personality issues keep getting in the way of her being an outright Ace.
* AscendedExtra: Starts out as just another nugget. Grows into CAG before dying.
* TheAtoner: She dies to make up for her DarkAndTroubledPast.
* BetterThanSex: She considers a successful combat operation to be better than sex.
* ButtMonkey: Repeatedly almost dies horribly, [[DeconstructedTrope which eventually causes her to turn to drugs.]] This results in her losing her position as CAG, and then she [[spoiler:dies horribly of radiation poisoning.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Was a smuggler before the Fall of the Colonies. Decided to turn her life around by signing up for the military under an assumed name.
* DeadPersonImpersonation: Her real name is Sasha, but she's been masquerading as a dead girl, as her own identity (part of a smuggling crew that may or may not have unknowingly helped the Cylons infiltrate the colonies) wouldn't have gotten her into the military, to say the least.
* ADeathInTheLimelight: [[spoiler:"The Passage" gives her a lot of focus and explores her backstory, and she dies in a HeroicSacrifice at the end.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:It's implied that her HeroicSacrifice was partially motivated by this, since her past was about to be exposed and she had already been exposed to fatal doses of radiation.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:She continues on a mission well after she's exposed herself to a fatal amount of radiation, refusing to allow any other ships to be lost under her command.]]
* ImpersonationExclusiveCharacter: We never get to see the real Louanne Katraine.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Kat is childish, abrasive, and petty, but she's also the only person to consistently call Starbuck out on her bullshit.
* MauveShirt: She appears the most out of the non-main character Viper pilots, and gets a lot of characterization.
* NewMeat: How she's introduced.
* TookALevelInJerkass: After getting addicted to drugs, Kat becomes a {{Jerkass}} who berates and harasses pretty much everyone she sees.
* RankUp: Reaches Captain [[spoiler:before her HeroicSacrifice]].
* VitriolicBestBuds: She and Starbuck have a very complicated relationship, which alternates between being a mentor-protege relationship and mutual hatred mixed with respect. They eventually settle their differences while [[spoiler:Kat dies of radiation poisoning.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Crashdown]]
!!Lieutenant JG Alex Quartarro (Callsign: Crashdown)
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-> '''Played By:''' Creator/SamWitwer
Boomer's copilot after Helo is left on Caprica. He is later a member of the Raptor crew stranded on Kobol, and takes charge of the group.
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* GuyInBack: Introduced as Boomer's new ECO after Helo stays behind on Caprica. She's not very happy about the arrangement but eventually warms up to him. After her failed suicide attempt Crashdown takes over as pilot for the Kobol mission.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: He's described as a surviving pilot from another, destroyed, Battlestar.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Baltar shoots him to stop him from killing Cally]].
* LeaderWannabe: As the only officer present, he takes charge of the surviving members of the landing party on Kobol. He does his best, but he quickly proves to be incompetent and winds up getting two of the group killed, and his failures and the stress he's under ultimately causes him to snap.
* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: [[spoiler:Gaius reports to Apollo that Crashdown died leading the charge against the Cylons. Tyrol, Cally and Seelix don't dispute his version of events, suggesting they believe in this trope.]]
* ThePeterPrinciple: As an ECO (his actual job 99% of the time) he's competent enough, but he's a wretchedly poor command officer, struggles to think on his feet, and doesn't have the skillset or experience to know when to refrain from exercising his authority. This leads to multiple unnecessary deaths when he ends up in charge on Kobol, [[spoiler:including his own]].
* SanitySlippage: Crashdown starts to lose it after he gets two of his group killed, culminating in him [[spoiler:trying to murder Cally]].
* UnfriendlyFire: [[spoiler:Baltar shoots him InTheBack]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Nowart]]
!!Sergeant Allan Nowart
-> '''Played By:''' Creator/ColinCorrigan
A Marine aboard ''Galactica'' serving as Sergeant of the Guard, who took over the role after the previous Sergeant was killed during the events of "Rapture". Nowart goes on to have an [[AscendedExtra increasingly important background role]], being present at several key encounters during the fourth season.
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* AscendedExtra: Shows up as a Marine with no dialogue in "The Woman King". By the time the show gets to the fourth season, he has more speaking lines, and by the end of the series, he's graduated to being Lee's second-in-command during the assault on the Colony.
* TheAtoner: He decides to take part in the assault on the Colony in the series finale, seemingly out of guilt for having supported the attempted mutiny on Galactica.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Despite never appearing before the episode "The Woman King", Nowart is suddenly present at several key moments in the series, including Helo's confrontation with Dr. Robert, protecting Romo Lampkin during Gaius Baltar's trial, acting as a guard for Kara after she seemingly comes back from the dead, escorting Adama and Tigh to the brig during the mutiny, and eventually, [[RankUp acting as Lee's second-in-command]] during the assault on the Colony.
* DoomMagnet: The Marines Nowart partners with are often on the receiving end of violent incidents. As Sergeant of the Guard, his first Marine partner, Cheadle, ends up taking the brunt of an explosion meant for Lampkin. A few days later, he and his partner are incapacitated by Kara as she escapes from Colonial custody. Following that, his Marine companion during the mutiny is shot dead by Tigh, and he's very nearly killed by Kara after Adama tells him to leave.
* EscortMission: His primary role appears to be acting as an escort[=/=]guard for key characters, as he (along with a fellow Marine, who ultimately makes a HeroicSacrifice) are assigned to guard Romo Lampkin prior to Baltar's trial in the third season. At the beginning of the fourth season, he's ordered to escort Kara through Galactica. Later, he's ordered by Gaeta to escort Adama and Tigh to the brig, though he eventually flips and aids them in their escape.
* FieldPromotion: Despite being imprisoned for his role in the mutiny, he supports Adama's mission to assault the Colony and rescue Hera. As a result, he becomes Lee's second-in-command in the ground team, and aids him in breaching the Colony and giving status updates on the area.
* HonorBeforeReason: Played with. He initially supports Zarek and Gaeta's mutiny out of the belief that the Colonial Fleet shouldn't be allied with the Cylons, but becomes increasingly uneasy with his decision. When he's ordered to escort Adama and Tigh to the brig, he flips on his fellow guard, telling them that he still supports the actual command crew, and eventually, lets them go.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Although he initially supports Gaeta and Zarek's mutiny, he's not fully committed to it, and lets Adama and Tigh go after he'd been ordered to escort them to a brig. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere He flees to parts unknown]] after Kara fires some warning shots at him (though a DeletedScene shows him returning to the CIC to tell Gaeta and Gage what happened}. [[invoked]]
* RememberTheNewGuy: He shows up for the first time midway through the third season, having been a member of Galactica's Marines all through the series but never glimpsed beforehand.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: ''Narrowly'' averted. Starbuck attempts to shoot him in the back as he flees from Adama and Tigh during the mutiny, only for the latter two to stop her, saying he's not worth it.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Were it not for him deciding to flip and aid Adama and Tigh, Gaeta and Zarek's initial plan for the mutiny would have gone off without a hitch. Instead, they are able to buy enough time to get several key members of the fleet off Galactica and to the Basestar.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With fellow Marine Henry Cheadle. That is, until Cheadle [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices himself to save Romo Lampkin's life]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's left unclear if Nowart survived the Centurion boarding attempt as Cavil and the other enemy Cylons assaulted Galactica in the series finale, as he isn't seen during or after the boarding action.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Venner]]
!!Corporal Venner
-> '''Played By''': Creator/MikeShields
A Colonial Marine placed in charge of guarding Roslin when she was arrested following the military coup, though he quickly proves to be sympathetic to her and provides her aid whenever possible.
* TokenReligiousTeammate: He is the most religious person on ''Galactica'', which winds up making him ally with Roslin.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Despite playing a key role early in Season 2 by helping Roslin escape and apparently bonding with her over their faith, he's never seen again in the series.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Socinus]]
!!Specialist Alonzo Socinus
-> '''Played By''': Creator/AlonsoOyarzun
A deckhand who works with Chief Tyrol.
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* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Despite attempts to save him, his injuries from the Raptor crash prove too severe and Tyrol is forced to euthanize him with a drug overdose.]]
* TheScapegoat: He willingly takes the blame for a security breach that Tyrol would have been blamed for and lets himself be arrested. Tyrol is shocked by this and tries to confess to Adama, but Adama lets Socinus' false confession stand because regardless of his guilt or lack thereof, he still lied under oath, and Tyrol's experience and expertise make him impossible to easily replace.
* SecretKeeper: For Tyrol and Boomer.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Prosna]]
!!Specialist Prosna
-> '''Played By''': Creator/MichaelEklund
A deckhand who works with Tyrol and Cally.
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* RedShirt: Dies during the pod venting in the Miniseries.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: He burns alive during the pod venting.
* DeadStarWalking: He's played by Creator/MichaelEklund, a well-known character actor, and he winds up being one of the first of ''Galactica'''s crew to bite the dust.
* HeroicSacrifice: It's implied he was trapped in the port flight pod during the pod venting was because he remains behind to help with the evacuation.
* MauveShirt: He is prominently featured during the Miniseries, but he winds up dying before it ends.
* NiceGuy: A kindhearted fellow who stays up late to wrap a gift for Adama.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Sergeant Hadrian]]
!!Sergeant Hadrian
-> '''Played By''': Creator/JillTeed
''Galactica'''s Master-At-Arms, who is in charge of maintaining internal security.
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* InspectorJavert: During the investigation of Doral's suicide attack, she goes out of her way to harass anyone she suspects, and she winds up turning the whole thing into a witch hunt.
* {{Jerkass}}: A major hardass who goes out of her way to harass anyone she suspects of wrongdoing, whether they actually did it or not.
** JerkassHasAPoint: The people she comes down hard on are lying to her about ''something'', though, and she did tell Adama that her tribunal would require full authority and access, [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem before he withdrew it when she started inconveniencing]] ''[[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem him]]''. While there's no wide conspiracy of human Cylon collaborators, her two chief suspects, Boomer and Chief Tyrol, are respectively an actual Cylon sleeper agent and someone emotionally compromised enough to cover up damning evidence that the former is a sleeper agent.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The last we see of her in person, Adama remands her to her quarters after he gets fed up with her causing a witch hunt. "Valley of Darkness" has Tigh mention she is leading one of the military squads hunting a Cylon that had boarded ''Galactica'', so it's possible she kept her position.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Racetrack]]
!!Lieutenant JG Margaret Edmondson (callsign: Racetrack)
-> '''Played By''': Creator/LeahCairns
A cynical, somewhat nihilistic Raptor pilot.
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* TheAtoner: She's among the prisoners who volunteer for the Final Battle with the people they'd fought against.
* TheCynic: She has a very bitter outlook on life.
* DeadfootLeadfoot: [[spoiler: Armed her nukes just before she was killed. Her hand slips post-mortem and accidentally fires them.]]
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[TakingYouWithMe She wants to go out taking as many Cylon with her as she can.]] [[spoiler:She gets to do it, albeit posthumously, via a nuclear bomb she had pre-armed.]]
* FantasticRacism: She ''really'' hates Cylons, even more than Tigh.
* TheFatalist: She is not unjustifiably under the belief she'll die on a mission. [[spoiler: She eventually dies during the mission to rescue Hera from the Cylons.]]
* GuyInBack: Is introduced as a temporary ECO for Boomer after Helo is left on Caprica and Crashdown takes lead on the trip to Kobol. When Boomer is arrested Racetrack gets a promotion to the pilot's seat. During the third season she spends some time as Athena's [=ECO=] as the exodus from New Caprica means there's now more pilots than available ships.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Which side she is on fluctuates from moment to moment. Mostly she serves loyally on ''Galactica'', but she joins Roslin's side during the fleet schism and [[spoiler:later she joins Gaeta's mutiny.]]
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: [[spoiler:During the mutiny]] it's implied that she's unaware of the murderous actions [[spoiler:Zarek]] is engaging in as part of the plan.
* MauveShirt: Out of the Raptor pilots, she appears the most and gets the most characterization. She even manages to survive all the way up to the finale.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Skulls]]
!!Lieutenant Hamish [=McCall=] (callsign:Skulls)
-> '''Played By''': Colin Lawrence
A Raptor pilot who accidentally found Kobol alongside Racetrack.
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* GuyInBack: Serves this role for Racetrack.
* LackOfEmpathy: He doesn't give a damn when Zarek bludgeons [[spoiler:Laird]] to death with a wrench, and unlike Racetrack shows no hesitation when [[spoiler:Connor threatens to kill Lee.]]
* MauveShirt: He doesn't get that much characterization, but he manages to survive all the way until the series finale.
* RedShirt: [[spoiler:He dies when a piece of debris crashes into his ship.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Chuckles]]
!!Lieutenant JG Donald Perry (callsign:Chuckles)
-> '''Played By''': Creator/TerryChen
An experienced civilian pilot conscripted to be a Viper pilot.
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* MauveShirt: He's one of three trainees with speaking roles in the episode when ''Galactica'' first recruits civilian pilots and survives long enough [[spoiler:to participate in the raid on the Cylon refinery a few episodes later.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Jammer]]
!!Specialist James 'Jammer' Lyman
-> '''Played By''': Dominic Zamprogna
A deckhand who becomes a prominent supporting character during the New Caprica Arc.
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* DirtyCoward: Zig-zagged at first: when ''Galactica'' is boarded by Centurions early in Season 2 he's found by Lee Adama's group cowering in a small arms locker, though he does fight after that. Played straight later on when he begs for his life as The Circle decides to execute him for the deaths he caused while working with the Cylons.
* {{Irony}}: Early in the series, he's quick to suspect his crewmates of being Cylons when their ability to pass as human becomes public knowledge. On New Caprica, he becomes a willing collaborator with the Cylons himself.
* LesCollaborateurs: Joins the New Caprica Police, effectively turning on the rest of the humans and siding with the Cylons.
* MilitaryMoonshiner: He's introduced making homemade whiskey with Socinus and Cally.
* PetTheDog: He does save Cally's life when she's a prisoner.
* SecretKeeper: One of several crewmen covering up Boomer and Tyrol's relationship.
* ThrownOutTheAirlock: He's executed this way by The Circle once they uncover his collaboration with the Cylons.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Duck]]
!!Lieutenant JG Tucker Clellan (callsign:Duck)
-> '''Played By''': Christian Tessier
A Viper pilot who serves as a minor MauveShirt in the first half of the series. He later retires during the New Caprica arc, planning to settle down with his girlfriend Nora Farmer.
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* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Crosses it after Nora is killed by a Cylon attack, and agrees to become a suicide bomber because he has nothing else to live for.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Kelly]]
!! Captain Aaron Kelly
-> '''Played By''': Creator/TyOlsson
The Landing Signal Officer for ''Galactica'' who oversees takeoffs and landings on the ship. A senior officer and probably third-in-command after Adama and Tigh, depending on where the CAG fits into the chain of command.
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* CommutingOnABus: Despite his high rank he only appears a handful of times throughout the series. WordOfGod is that his job managing the flight deck means he's "off-camera" down at the landing bay except when he is needed for the story. When he does make an appearance in CIC it's usually because there's a major crisis and Adama is out of the picture (such as in the Miniseries or at the beginning of season two when [[spoiler: Adama is in critical condition after being shot]]) or there's a shortage of experienced CIC staff (during the rescue mission to New Caprica).
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Initially sides with Zarek and Gaeta during the mutiny and leads the squad tasked with bringing Adama and Tigh in. Being ordered to escort Adama to his execution is apparently too far as he breaks down in Memorial Hallway rather than take part. He then defects to join Lee and the others in rescuing Adama in retaking the ship.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: His last appearance is in "Blood on the Scales" and he isn't mentioned in the finale so his fate is unknown.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Barolay]]
!!Jean Barolay
->'''Played By:''' Alison Down
A member of Anders's resistance. She later joins up with the military as a civilian volunteer.
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* {{Irony}}: She died without ever learning [[spoiler:that her long-time friend, team captain and resistance leader Sam Anders was a Cylon]].
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:She's killed by a Six whom she had traumatized by drowning her back on New Caprica.]]
* LaResistance: Was a member of the resistance on Caprica and later of the New Caprica version.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Figurski]]
!!Specialist Anthony Figurski
-> '''Played By:''' Don Thompson
One of the deckhands serving under Tyrol.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: He disappears following "Escape Velocity".
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Cheadle]]
!!Henry Cheadle
-> '''Played By:''' Creator/ChrisBoyd
A Marine.
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* HeroicSacrifice: He dies rescuing Lampkin from a bomb.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Nowart until he's killed by a bomb.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He's only around for two episodes before being blown up.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Seelix]]
!!Ensign Diana Seelix (callsign: Hardball)
-> '''Played By:''' Creator/JenniferHalley
A deckhand serving under Tyrol. She later becomes a Viper pilot in Season 3.
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* AscendedExtra: She and Tarn didn't have names in the script until Creator/AaronDouglas gave them to them, which led to them receiving more characterization, especially Seelix.
* DoomedHurtGuy: Subverted. She's severely injured while stranded on New Caprica, but she's able to survive in spite of how dire things look for her.
* MauveShirt: She gets some characterization and is one of the longest lasting deckhands outside of Tyrol, frequently recurring throughout the show.
* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:She's imprisoned along with the rest of the mutineers. Unlike Racetrack and Skulls, she doesn't come BackForTheFinale.]]
* RankUp: In Season 3, she goes from a deckhand to a trainee pilot, thus ranking up from non-commissioned officer to ensign.
* RomanticRunnerUp: [[spoiler:After Starbuck dies and Seelix and Anders have both become rookie pilots, they seem rather close playing Pyramid together on the deck and she's visibly upset to see that he's slept with Tory]].
* WomanScorned: [[spoiler:Referenced by her when she and Connor capture Anders during Gaeta's mutiny]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tarn]]
!!Specialist Tarn
-> '''Played By:''' Creator/WarrenChristie
A deckhand serving under Tyrol.
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* AscendedExtra: He and Seelix didn't have names in the script until Creator/AaronDouglas gave them to them, which led to them receiving more characterization, especially Seelix.
* MauveShirt: He appears in the last two episodes of the first season before being killed off early on in Season 2.
* MultipleGunshotDeath: [[spoiler:He's shot multiple times by a Centurion on New Kobol.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Matthias]]
!!Gunnery Sgt. Erin Matthias
-> '''Played By:''' Eileen Pedde
A high-ranking Marine.
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:She randomly gets killed by a damaged Cylon Raider exploding. Starbuck later notes that her death was completely pointless; it wasn't even a trap, it was just a stupid accident.]]
[[/folder]]
!!Battlestar ''Pegasus''
[[folder: Admiral Cain]]
!!Rear Admiral Helena Cain
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Sometimes terrible things have to be done."'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/MichelleForbes
Commanding the only other (known) battlestar to survive the massacre of the Twelve Colonies, Cain adopted a much more ruthless attitude towards survival than Adama or Roslin.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Whereas her counterpart in the 1978 series tended to make questionable decisions but was ultimately a good person at heart, any redeeming qualities have long-since ceased to apply to this version.
* AxCrazy: When it comes to Cylons.
* BadBoss: Knowing humanity is on its last legs, she'll do whatever she has to, including killing civilians or crew members that disagree with her.
* DefiantToTheEnd: She curses her killer right before she's executed.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: When cornered by a rightfully vengeful [[spoiler:Gina]] holding her at gunpoint, Helena simply faces her impending death with a DeathGlare of hatred, never once crying or begging for her life.
* EvilCounterpart: She's one to Adama. ''Pegasus'' crossed paths with a civilian fleet too, but it's not with them anymore...
* FourStarBadass: She's earned her title, no doubt.
* FreudianExcuse: She witnessed her younger sister and father being abducted by the Cylons in the last days of the First War, adding to her hatred of them.
* GenderFlip: In the 1978 series her character was played by Lloyd Bridges.
* GeneralRipper: To contrast Adama's AFatherToHisMen persona.
* HangingJudge: She's obsessed with revenge. Anybody who doesn't toe the line or serve an immediately-valuable purpose gets a bullet through the head.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Some of the things done by her or on her orders are arguably more monstrous than things the Cylons have done.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** Promises her officers that she will not seek revenge against the Cylons beyond the point of reason, or sacrifice lives needlessly. When push comes to shove she does exactly that, with absolutely ''zero'' conflict or hesitation.
** She also hates it whenever others abuse or over-exert their authority, but she does this multiple times and ignores that Thorne had done so as well when he attacked Athena in her cell without permission or supervision from the ''Galactica'' crew.
** For someone who places so much importance on unquestioning obedience to one's superiors, she has very little respect for Roslin's authority as Commander-in-chief.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Has no outward remorse over the awful things she's done.
* ILied: Soon after finding ''Galactica'', when Adama informs Roslin that Cain's actually above him in the chain of command, she promises to be a ReasonableAuthorityFigure and refrain from encroaching on his command of ''Galactica''. She breaks this promise almost immediately - though Cain says she's actually saving Adama's command after learning about the numerous problems posed by his subordinates - by mixing their pilots and hanger crews (with ''Pegasus'' men in charge on both ships), and then [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope leaps off the edge entirely]] by ordering the execution of two of his crew members who, in the process of saving their Cylon prisoner from being ''raped'', accidentally killed the would-be-rapist, who was ''acting on her orders''. Notably, she never admits to deceiving Adama, [[NeverMyFault and insists she's being completely fair and just in her decisions even when everyone knows better.]]
* InsaneAdmiral: Not fully insane, just... a zealotical leader who's lost her reason and judgement. [[WordofGod Michelle Forbes]] herself stated that she was aiming for this portrayal.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Implied, as she treats everyone around her like they are expendable in her mad pursuit of revenge against the Cylons. She throws away her soldiers' lives and the lives of civilians for petty vengeance and is okay with murdering anyone who doesn't obey her orders.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Oh so many...
** Ironically, most of the things she does have a point about are things she is even ''worse'' about.
* IronLady: She's the commander of the ''Pegasus'' military ship and is a harsh and stern figure with a backbone of titanium. She is also a deconstruction, as her cold ruthlessness and willingness to cross certain lines also ultimately prove to be her undoing, making her a widely disliked figure and leading to her death at the hands of someone who has ''every'' good reason to despise her.
* KarmicDeath: Meets her end at the hands of the Cylon she [[spoiler:ordered to be raped and extensively tortured]], getting a bullet between the eyes, the same as [[spoiler:she gave to her friend Colonel Belzen.]]
* KickTheDog: Hardass that she is, her longtime friendship with her XO Colonel Belzen serves to humanize her. She is apparently close friends with his family as well. So when she shoots him in the head for disobeying her (senseless) orders, it establishes that most of the good left in her is gone.
* KnightTemplar: Athena, a Cylon prisoner who has been cooperative and saved ''Galactica'' at one point, is just another Cylon to her.
%%* LadyOfWar
* NameOfCain: The first tip-off she's not all sunshine and rainbows.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: See NameOfCain.
* NeverMyFault: She's big on this. She executes her XO personally for "insubordination" (i.e.: for refusing an irrational order that contradicted Cain's earlier promise that she would not throw away lives seeking revenge).
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Adama points out that he might have made the same decisions as Cain had Roslin, Lee, and the civilians not been there to keep him in check.
* PetTheDog: Both she and Adama come to separate decisions to have each other assassinated. (Although in Cain's instance, [[AxeCrazy she includes his entire command staff]]) Adama ultimately decides not to go through with it, which is in character for him. [[WhatYouAreInTheDark Cain]] ''[[WhatYouAreInTheDark also]]'' [[WhatYouAreInTheDark decides not to do it,]] which is pretty shocking. Her motives are left a mystery.
* RevengeBeforeReason: She's not as interested in preserving humanity and finding Earth as much as she's fixated on getting payback on the Cylons. Civilians are basically left out to die if they aren't useful and Helena has little problem with killing anyone who doesn't follow her orders.
* SanitySlippage: Her XO notes she's gone through this, becoming more ruthless and cruel.
* SmugSnake: She firmly believes she's right and will let anyone know.
* StatuesqueStunner: Comes with being played by 5'9" Michelle Forbes.
* StraightGay: If it weren't for her relationship with Gina, you'd never know.
* TragicVillain: It is rather sad what happened to this woman in her life.
* TheUnfettered: Won't let anything stop her quest, not pesky morals or human lives.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She'll ensure humanity's survival at any cost, even if it means crossing all sorts of horrible lines.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Is given the opportunity to terminate Adama and his entire command. She doesn't do it, and nobody in the series ever ends up learning about this, as [[spoiler: both Cain and Fisk are dead not two episodes afterwards.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Hoshi]]
!!Lieutenant Louis Hoshi
->'''Played By''': Creator/BradDryborough
First appearing as a ''Pegasus'' CIC officer, Hoshi continues to serve in the background throughout the rest of the series, eventually being promoted to Admiral as the ranking officer left with the civilian fleet when ''Galactica'' jumps away to fight the show's FinalBattle. Was [[RelationshipReveal revealed]] to be [[{{Pun}} gay for Gaeta]] late in the series.
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* AscendedExtra: Don't expect to remember his face in the show itself, but in the show's webisodes he was featured as Gaeta's love interest.
* CommunicationsOfficer: His initial role.
* FieldPromotion: To Admiral in the GrandFinale when Adama and most of the senior crew are on the rescue mission.
* StraightGay: As seems to be standard in the Colonies. We get no hint of his sexuality before the [[RelationshipReveal reveal]] of his relationship with Gaeta.
* TokenGoodTeammate: One of the few members of the ''Pegasus'' crew who isn't a {{Jerkass}}, which might be why he was chosen as interim Admiral in the finale.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Fisk]]
!!Colonel Jack Fisk
->'''Played By''': Creator/GrahamBeckel
-> ''"Civilians wouldn't be civilians without bitching about something."''
Admiral Cain's executive officer when ''Pegasus'' reunites with ''Galactica'' and the Fleet.
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* DirtyCop: It takes him all of five seconds to start working with [[TheDon Phelan]].
* DirtyCoward: After Cain summarily executes Belzen for refusing to carry out an order that will likely get most of their fighter pilots killed, the hastily-promoted Fisk carries out said order with only minor hesitation. Somewhat justifiable, as Cain would otherwise have probably just executed her way through her bridge crew until she found someone willing to carry out her order, with the Cylons free to carry on shooting up the ''Pegasus'' in the meantime.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:He gets killed by a random hitman at the beginning of "Black Market" in an area (his quarters) that should have been totally secure.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: An unpleasant, corrupt dick who refuses to take responsibility for his own actions.
* JustFollowingOrders: He takes no responsibility for the awful things the Pegasus' crew has done, though it's clear from his talk with Tigh that he's troubled by them nonetheless.
* ALighterShadeOfGrey: Only in the sense that he's just corrupt and cowardly rather than bloodthirsty and insane (like Cain), or morally depraved (like Thorne).
* PetTheDog: Saves Helo and Chief Tyrol from a beat down at the hands of some Pegasus crewmembers after the two of them [[spoiler:inadvertently end up killing Lieutenant Thorne]]. He says he does it more for "the sake of the uniform" and that he still does not like them since [[spoiler:Thorne apparently saved his life along with at least one other Pegasus crewmember]].
* PunchClockVillain: Of sorts. See ALighterShadeOfGrey, above.
* RazorFloss: [[spoiler:Phelan has him garroted for asking for too much money.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Kendra Shaw]]
!!Kendra Shaw
->'''Played By''': Creator/StephanieJacobsen
Originally a lieutenant and assigned to ''Pegasus'' as Cain's aide. She is eventually promoted to Major and serves as the ship's executive officer.
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* TheAtoner: No matter how she tries to rationalize it, she knows she's damned for [[spoiler:executing Laird's wife]].
* BreakTheCutie: Some of it is self-inflicted, but still ...
* EvilCounterpart: Well, maybe not quite ''evil'', but she's a counterpart to Starbuck.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Goes out blowing up an entire Cylon basestar with a nuclear bomb.]]
* HeroicBSOD: Immediately after [[spoiler:shooting Mrs. Laird]], she stares at the residual smoke drifting from her sidearm's muzzle. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone The look on her face]], like she's praying that it's all just a bad dream but knows better, is gut-wrenching.
* NewMeat: The Cylon attack kicked off within half an hour of her reporting to the ''Pegasus''.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: That story is depicted in ''Razor.''
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:She goes out blowing up an entire Cylon baseship.]]
* RememberTheNewGuy: ''Razor'' establishes that she's been part of the ''Pegasus'' crew since the Fall of the Colonies, but since she was created for the telemovie there was no mention of her during the second season.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Cain implies that Shaw's late mother (a Quorum of Twelve member) pulled strings to get her a prestigious posting on the ''Pegasus'', although it's unclear if this is true.
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[[folder: Thorne]]
!!Lieutenant Alastair Thorne
->'''Played By''': Creator/FulvioCecere
Appointed as "Cylon interrogator" after Gina Inviere is outed, he proves to be nothing more than a rapist and torturer.
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* AssholeVictim: PlayedWith. No one in the original ''Galactica'' crew remotely faults Tyrol and Helo for accidentally killing him, but the people on ''Pegasus'' are a different story, as some of them actively relished and participated in Thorne's gang-rape of the Cylon prisoner (and it was their [[EvilGloating own bragging]] that tipped off Helo and Tyrol to begin with). In fact, [[spoiler:some of the Pegasus engineers keep bringing up his death as late as Gaeta's coup arc in Season 4, where they promise to avenge him.]]
* BaldOfEvil: He's bald, and an unrepentant Cylon rapist.
* FantasticRacism: Cylons aren't people to him.
* PetTheDog: Apparently saved Fisk and one other Pegasus crew member's lives, though this happened entirely offscreen.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: His job description apparently includes raping as a form of torture.
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[[folder: Garner]]
!!Commander Barry Garner
->'''Played By''': Creator/JohnHeard
Originally the chief engineer of the ''Pegasus'', he was promoted to Commander after the deaths of Cain and Fisk.
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* ClosestThingWeGot: Admiral Adama's reasoning for the nomination: "I don't have anybody else".
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:He dies by suffocation in space vacuum after repairing a coolant leak in the FTL drive to save the ''Pegasus'' and allow the ship and her crew to escape a battle with the Cylons.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: According to Starbuck at least. She describes him as paranoid and barely competent, and butts heads with him all the time before being relieved. How right she is depends on the viewer, but Lee Adama points out that her own snarky attitude hasn't helped.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: That said, he is by no means a bad person, and eventually realizes his own failings and [[spoiler:gives his life to save the ship and crew]].
* TheParanoiac: He seems to believe that Adama and the Fleet leadership are trying to set him up, and in return does his best to make life hell for any former ''Galactica'' crew onboard.
* ThePeterPrinciple: A tragic example. The man is a very good engineer who can repair an FTL drive in the middle of battle, but he is no starship commander. He himself seems to realize this once he orders the ''Pegasus'' into a trap, as he relinquishes command to Lee, who knows more about tactics and strategy than he does, and goes down to engineering to help there.
-->'''Lee Adama:''' He was used to working with machines. Command is about people.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:After spending most of his time as commander being a paranoid {{Jerkass}}, he sacrifices himself to repair the FTL drive so the ''Pegasus'' can escape.]]
* TragicKeepsake: His watch, left in CIC when he went below decks to the engine room to solve a critical breakdown in battle. Apollo keeps it and wears it afterwards as a reminder.
* UnexpectedSuccessor: Originally the chief engineer of the ''Pegasus'', it is suggested that he was the highest-ranking officer left on board after Cain, Belzen and Fisk's deaths.
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[[folder: Belzen]]
!!Colonel Jurgen Belzen
->'''Played By''': Creator/SteveBacic
The executive officer of ''Pegasus'' at the time of the Cylon attack, and an old friend of Admiral Cain's.
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* BlindObedience: Makes clear to Cain that he'll avert this trope, with fatal consequences for him.
* BoomHeadshot: Turns out Admiral Cain doesn't care for reasonable dissent or alternative options.
* DeathByOriginStory: Fisk tries to pass it off to Tigh as a joke, but we see in ''Razor'' that he really wasn't kidding about that NoodleIncident.
* NiceGuy: A friendly and compassionate officer.
* NumberTwo: To Cain, until she shot him for refusing to follow orders.
* OnlySaneMan: Tries to stop Admiral Cain from pointlessly sacrificing the lives of her crew and air wing when the Cylon communications relay they're attacking turns out to be a staging ground far more heavily defended than they anticipated. He failed to recognize that she wasn't suffering a HeroicBSOD, she had gone straight AxCrazy. See above for the result.
* PosthumousCharacter: Already dead by the time the ''Pegasus'' first appears, his only screentime is in flashbacks during ''Razor''.
%%* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight
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[[folder: Laird]]
!!Peter Laird
-> '''Played By''': Creator/VincentGale
A civilian pressed into service by Admiral Cain as the deck chief of the ''Pegasus'', then serves the same role aboard ''Galactica'' on and off throughout the show.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: He was forced into serving on the ''Pegasus'' and [[spoiler:his family was killed by Shaw when he and the other civilians on his original ship tried to resist it being cannibalized]].
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:In spite of being one of the most prominent ''Pegasus'' crew members and surviving for longer than the other prominent ''Pegasus'' crew, he dies abruptly when Zarek bludgeons him over the head with a wrench during his attempted coup]].
* MauveShirt: Laird pops up repeatedly throughout the series, and manages to outlive most of the other prominent ''Pegasus'' characters in spite of being a more minor character than they were.
* MildlyMilitary: At least during his first appearances, having trouble running ''Galactica's'' flight deck and lacking military protocol and language (such as assuring Adama ''Galactica's'' air wing will be ready for "the attack thing"). Justified by his civilian background, and he gives a more professional bearing in later seasons.
* NiceGuy: In contrast to other senior staff from ''Pegasus'' he is polite and helpful to ''Galactica's'' crew, if somewhat haunted by his tragic backstory.
* PressGanged: He was a civilian aeronautical engineer before being forced into service as the ''Pegasus'' Crew Chief.
[[/folder]]
[[foldercontrol]]
!!Battlestar ''Galactica'' Military
[[folder: Colonel Tigh]]
!!Colonel Saul Tigh
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"If the crew doesn't hate the XO, then he's not doing his job."'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/MichaelHogan
After Bill Adama was mustered out from the first Cylon war and began serving on a commercial freighter, he met a fellow veteran named Saul Tigh, and the two formed a deep friendship. When reinstated, Adama pulled strings to have Tigh brought in as his second-in-command. Tigh is an [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] who is often OffTheWagon, and is probably the series' biggest bearer of FantasticRacism against the Cylons (with Starbuck as a close second). [[spoiler:How amusing, then, that he's one himself - To be more precise, he's one of the Final Five.]]
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* AdaptationSpeciesChange: [[spoiler:The original series Tigh was human]].
* AdaptationalJerkass: A lot of characters are this compared to their original series counterparts, but Tigh is second only to Cain in this regard.
* AchillesInHisTent: After New Caprica, he becomes a drunk wreck for a while.
* TheAlcoholic: He puts the "fun" in "functional alcoholic." And his wife just makes him worse.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Saul and Ellen ''very'' much have this dynamic.
* TheCaligula: During his brief stint as commander of the fleet, he is extremely harsh, violent, and unstable, partially because he has ''no idea'' how to handle the responsibility, partially because he's [[TheAlcoholic constantly drunk]], and partially because of [[EvilChancellor his scheming, psychotic wife]]. He's painfully aware of this and makes it clear the entire time that he really doesn't want his position.
* ColonelBadass: He's certainly competent, and he serves his role well.
* TheCreon: Takes command of the ''Galactica'' [[spoiler: only when Adama is shot]], and gives it back immediately as soon as possible. He never plots against Bill Adama for a second, even when he has serious issues with his commander's behavior. He even outright says that it was always supposed to be them leading together, not him leading alone.
* EyepatchOfPower: After he loses his eye on New Caprica.
* DeadpanSnarker: "The President, Gods bless her sunny optimistic soul, thinks you might want to share how your buddies have been tracking us. So I'm here to ask the question and listen to your lies."
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Part of the reason for him [[TookALevelInJerkass Taking A Level In Jerkass]] is his anger at much of ''[=Galactica's=]'' crew's lack of acknowledgement or gratitude of everything the Resistance did during the Cylon occupation. He also gives this to ''[=Galactica's=]'' crew himself, who put themselves at considerable risk in rescuing the people on New Caprica, with the entirety of the ''Galactica'' crew nearly dying and [[spoiler:the ''Pegasus'' being destroyed in the process.]]
* FakeGuestStar: Tigh is in all but four episodes of the show. The ''only'' characters to appear more frequently were Laura Roslin and Bill Adama.
* FakeMemories: [[spoiler:His own history prior to the First Cylon War was fabricated by John Cavil]].
* FantasticRacism: Seriously rivals Starbuck in terms of utter hatred for the Cylons.
* GoodIsNotNice: Led a vigilante group that executed Cylon collaborators.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: If he and Bill Adama don't embody this trope, we don't know who does.
* HumbleHero / ThinkNothingOfIt: He's not very good at accepting gratitude, even from Adama himself. Whenever someone offers thanks or admiration, Saul just awkwardly states that he's only doing his job.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: The New Caprica arc.
* {{Jerkass}}: At times it can be really hard to sympathize with Saul.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: But he's still a good man at heart.
* JerkassHasAPoint: After the Cylons attack, he tells Boomer he was aware of her relationship with Tyrol, but let it slide because ''Galactica'' was in the process of being decommissioned and things were therefore MildlyMilitary at the time, anyways. He then tells her things have changed since then and orders her to break it off, as an officer and the ship's senior NCO being in a relationship together is just a flat out bad idea.
* TheLancer: To Bill, but is a deconstruction. He is awesome as a second in command, but almost no one (most of all him,) ever wants him to be the number one of the fleet's command. He excels at being Bill's number two, but is completely useless in any other capacity, proving politically inept at running the fleet when Adama is shot but brilliant and decisive when the Galactica is boarded by the enemy. This is inverted though, when he redeems himself by effectively leading the New Caprican resistance, even if his tactics are... [[GreyandGrayMorality somewhat suspect.]]
* ManlyTears: Most notably, when he [[spoiler: killed his wife]].
* MeaningfulName: The Biblical Saul lost his sight on the road to Damascus, only regaining it when he stopped persecuting the monotheistic Christians. Saul Tigh [[spoiler:had his eye plucked out by Cavil as punishment for his guerrilla war against the monotheistic Cylons.]]
* NumberTwo: To Adama.
* PickYourHumanHalf: [[spoiler:Deconstructed, in a sense at least, after he learns that he's a Cylon. Unlike Tyrol and the other Final Five, who learn to be more accepting of being Cylons, Saul never really embraces that part of his nature. As such, Saul isn't able to access the special Cylon abilities that they can and this puts him at a disadvantage when the Fleet forms an EnemyMine with the rebel Cylons in Season 4]].
* RaceLift: Original series Tigh was black. Saul is white.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler:Like the other members of the Final Five, he is technically well over two millennia old]].
* ReincarnationRomance: He and Ellen [[spoiler:were married originally too, and somehow found each other again after Cavil wiped their memories]].
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: While by no means evil, during the New Caprica arc, after being told that a suicide bombing would make the Resistance no better than the Cylons, he simply shrugs and proclaims, somewhat sarcastically, "Which side are we on? We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We are evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go. I'm surprised you didn't know that."
* TookALevelInJerkass: After being tortured by the Cylons, Tigh becomes even more of a {{Jerkass}}, committing countless morally questionable acts and repeatedly decreasing morale and insulting Adama and his command.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: He's kind of hell on Bill's sanity, though he really doesn't ''mean'' most of it.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Adama; case-in-point, after [[spoiler:Bill is shot by Boomer]], Tigh takes command of the fleet and begins to behave in a increasingly dictatorial fashion, but as soon as [[spoiler:Adama recovers]], Tigh ''immediately'' cedes command back to him.
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:He's a Cylon, and one of the Final Five.]]
* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler:Hates the Cylons far more than almost anyone else in the Fleet, and is understandably infuriated when it turns out that he's one of the Final Five.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Chief Tyrol]]
!!Senior Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"All I know is if there is a God, he's laughing his ass off."'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/AaronDouglas
SCPO Tyrol is in charge of keeping ''Galactica'''s birds flying. He's very much an everyman in his approach to things, and often finds himself in positions of being the OnlySaneMan. He was carrying on with Boomer for a while. [[spoiler: He's also one of the Final Five and a Cylon]].
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* AFatherToHisMen: He cares about his deckhands, and when some had to be sacrificed to put out a fire, he carried bitterness about it for a few episodes. He really loses his cool when one of his deckhands deliberately ruins his own career (by lying under oath and later claiming responsibility for a security breach he had nothing to do with) to cover for Tyrol's illicit relationship with Boomer. This finally causes him to break up with her for good:
--> '''[=Tyrol=]:''' I put everything on the line for you. Everything. I cover for you, I protect you. I risk my career, my freedom, my integrity, for what? So some innocent kid, one of ''my kids'', can take the fall for ''me''? '''NO!''' We are not worth ''that''.
* TheAloner: [[spoiler:In the series finale he decides he's had enough of both humans ''and'' Cylons. When the survivors settle on Earth he heads out on his own, telling the Tighs he wants to be as far away from ''everyone'' as he can get. It's implied that he ends up in what will become Scotland.]]
* AscendedExtra: Tyrol was originally intended as a FlatCharacter, expanding primarily due to Aaron Douglas's ability to [[ThrowItIn throw in]] dialogue, character names and other useful touches.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[spoiler:If there was any doubt that Galen really did care for Cally, then his Cylonicidal fury upon learning that Tory murdered her put it to rest]].
* ButtMonkey: Things go poorly for him, starting with his girlfriend being a Cylon.
* CallToAgriculture: Rather ironically for a mechanic, [[spoiler:it's mentioned that he takes to the Fleet's decision to LetThePastBurn on Earth-2 quite well since he wants to put as ''far'' of a distance possible between himself and his past]].
* CartwrightCurse: He is just ''not'' lucky in love.
* DespairEventHorizon: Seems to have fully crossed this by the time of the SeriesFinale.
* FakeGuestStar: Like Tigh and Helo, he's there from beginning to end, and missed only 7 episodes over the show's run.
* HotBlooded: Especially on New Caprica, where his speech to the people was modeled after real life labor speeches.
* ImportantHaircut: Shaves his head during the fourth series [[spoiler: while in mourning after Cally's death.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Tyrol can be a real hardass, but he's overall quite considerate and has a strong sense of honor and loyalty.
* NumberTwo: As the highest-ranking NCO in the fleet, Tyrol has aspects of this.
* PickYourHumanHalf: Inverted. [[spoiler:Tyrol is by far the most accepting among the Final Five of their true Cylon nature, which lets him gain more access to their abilities such as SuperStrength, MadeOfIron, and being able to hack into networked computers]].
* MrFixit: Chief mechanic.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler:Like the other members of the Final Five, he is technically well over two millennia old]].
* ReincarnationRomance: Inverted. [[spoiler:He previously had a relationship with Tory Foster on Earth-1, but he ultimately ''strangles her to death'' after he learns that she killed his current wife Cally]].
* StoicSpectacles: [[spoiler:In his original life.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: Not surprising, given the TraumaCongaLine he went through.
* TraumaCongaLine: In a very short amount of time, he finds out [[spoiler:he's a Cylon, his wife apparently commits suicide over it, he finds out that his baby isn't even his, and then he learns a former lover actually killed his wife. And then he ruins the Cylon-Human alliance by reacting to that information]].
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:He's a Cylon, and one of the Final Five.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Helo]]
!!Lieutenant Karl C. Agathon (callsign: Helo)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TropeAgathon_1332.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Symbols matter. Uniforms, flags, banners - even mascots. They're like pieces of your heart that you can see."'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/TahmohPenikett
A GuyInBack in a Colonial Raptor, flying under Sharon "Boomer" Valerii, whom he [[AllLoveIsUnrequited kind of has a thing for]]. During the pilot miniseries, their ship lands on Caprica and Helo abandons his copilot seat to save Gaius Baltar. That was meant to be the end of this MauveShirt, but fan reaction to him was so positive that [[WordOfGod RDM and David Eick]] decided to keep following his adventures, which involve being rescued by another Sharon copy. [[spoiler:With her, he becomes the father of "Hera," the first human-Cylon hybrid; he also serves as Adama's NumberTwo while Tigh is stuck on New Caprica.]]
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* AscendedExtra: He was supposed to be written out at the end of the Miniseries.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He does kill a man for trying to rape his wife.[[note]]He didn't intend to actually kill the man in question, just beat seven shades out of him[[/note]]
* FakeGuestStar: Appears in the PilotEpisode, the GrandFinale, and all but eight episodes in between. For the record, starring actress Grace Park missed the same number.
* TheFettered: He has issues, but they make him among the most normal in the cast.
* HappilyMarried: After her HeelFaceTurn, he and Athena come to have perhaps the most stable relationship on the whole show.
* HeroicSacrifice: What he ''intended'' by giving up his seat on the Raptor to Baltar (he thought that a genius scientist was more valuable to human survival than a pilot). Of course, he survived.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Has shades of this with Lee.
* HonorBeforeReason: Like Lee, he can always be counted on to do the right thing, but with more of a focus on people than the state of Colonial law and democracy, nor is he as willing to cross certain lines, such as when Lee advocates using a virus to wipe out the Cylons and Helo not only argues against it but sabotages the effort.
* KnightInShiningArmor: Not quite as much as Lee though.
* MeaningfulName: His last name means "good", "noble", and various other meanings of one's better nature. He's one of the least morally corrupted people out of the entire series' cast of characters.
** It's unclear what the meaning of his callsign is. It could stand for "Helios", the god of the sun, or be a reference to military slang in which a "helo" is a helicopter and a "boomer" is a submarine.
* MrFanservice: Has an erotic sex scene with Athena in Season 1 and also has a HeroicBuild. InUniverse, Number Six comments on his attractiveness to Athena, who pretends to be blasé, and Racetrack suggests using him for some R&R.
* MysteriousMiddleInitial: It's never revealed what the "C." in "Karl C. Agathon" stands for.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: He's much more often called "Helo" than "Karl". In fact, when a character does call him "Karl", it usually means the situation is serious.
* NiceGuy: One of very, very few in the show.
* PapaWolf: Especially to Hera. When a dying Roslin tries to order the termination of Sharon's pregnancy Helo nearly pulls his sidearm on Adama to try and get the old man to back down.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Starbuck; notably, despite how she ReallyGetsAround. Though the actress said there may or may not have been a one-night stand at some point in the past. They've been close friends for a long time.
* ReallyGetsAround: Implied in the Miniseries when he says he was on Gemenon visiting a girl he knew, and Boomer says, "What girl don't you know?" A bit of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness because this characterization never comes up again, but after all, he does spend the rest of the series in a committed relationship with Athena, so it wouldn't. (And he wasn't originally intended to survive when the Miniseries was written.)
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Gaeta]]
!!Lieutenant Felix Gaeta
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TropeGaeta_1112.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"I started this, and I'll see it through! Now get on that frakking ship!"'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/AlessandroJuliani
First appearing as a CIC watch officer, he eventually gets assigned to Dr. Baltar as a personal aide. He's an idealist--which is a bad thing to be in ''Galactica'''s WorldHalfEmpty; losing his leg in Season 4 is only one link in a "BreakTheCutie" chain. [[spoiler:Eventually leads a mutiny with Tom Zarek, which fails.]]
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* AcheyScars: He has constant phantom limb pains after losing his leg.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: It's made explicitly clear that between [[spoiler:him and Zarek during their mutiny, Gaeta is the one with sincere motives while Zarek is in it for the power]].
* AnArmAndALeg: He loses his left leg below the knee in "Faith" when [[spoiler:Sam shoots him to keep the others from forcibly arresting Kara]] and the resulting wound gets infected.
* BerserkButton: Immediately snaps and tries to stab Baltar in the neck with a pen when Baltar [[SilentWhisper whispers something in his ear]] during an attempted interrogation. It's revealed in the webisodes that this was a mention of the Eight whom Felix knew on New Caprica, and that his over-the-top response was produced by a combination of [[IrrationalHatred blaming Baltar]] [[TheScapegoat for everything that happened on New Caprica]] and an [[SelectiveObliviousness extreme subconscious resistance to examining the situation with the Eight too closely]] (because he knows deep down that [[spoiler:she was lying to him the entire time and he inadvertently caused the deaths of almost everyone that he tried to save]]).
* BreakTheCutie: Idolizes Baltar, only to be disillusioned when the latter becomes an ineffectual, hedonistic President. He then secretly provides information to LaResistance, only to be ostracized for his role in Baltar's administration and almost executed by a secret vigilante court. And then he later discovers his Cylon girlfriend on New Caprica was using him to identify members of LaResistance so they could be executed. And ''then'' he loses his leg due to an infected wound caused by a gunshot (and not one fired by the enemy, either). And after that, he [[BrokenPedestal loses all faith in Commander Adama]] after he makes an alliance with the rebel Cylons. He then [[spoiler:launches a coup, only for it to go badly wrong, resulting in several people getting needlessly killed, and ending with him being executed]].
* BrokenPedestal: Suffers this with Baltar and Adama at different points.
* ButNotTooBi: He is canonically bisexual and has had relationships with men and women at different times, but neither of these relationships gets any screen time in the show proper (they are explored in the show's webisodes). The only hint of his sexuality in the main story is his implied crush on Gaius. (Incidentally, [[CartwrightCurse no prizes for guessing how all three of these relationships ended.]])
* TheCastShowOff: [[invoked]] After the producers discovered that Alessandro Juliani is a fully-trained and highly-regarded operatic baritone, they found a reason for him to sing. Although it's actually [[TearJerker quite sad]] when it happens in the series proper.
* DatingCatwoman: Had a romantic relationship with an Eight while on New Caprica with whom he was working to get humans out of detention and to safety. {{Deconstructed}} in that it turned out [[spoiler:she was mostly just using the lists he gave her of people to save as death lists, and she was staggered by [[LoveMakesYouDumb just how easy it was to deceive him]], specifically blaming his [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids gentle, idealistic nature and his desperation to have faith in something]]]]. This culminates in Felix [[DespairEventHorizon finally reaching his breaking point]] and deciding that humans collaborating with Cylons is unsustainable.
* DeadpanSnarker: Particularly after losing his leg in Season 4.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: His stoicism in the face of [[spoiler:his own impending execution is inspiring and heartbreaking in equal measure]].
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Joins Zarek and instigates a mutiny in the final season]].
* GameChanger: Zarek was never able to take power (despite being legitimately elected) because he never had the support of the military. Gaeta ends up being the one to provide that support.
%%* HollywoodAtheist: Averted.
* HypercompetentSidekick: During President Baltar's reign, which unfortunately makes him the fall guy for the later Cylon occupation.
* IronicName: His first name means "happy" or "lucky". Poor Gaeta goes through a hefty TraumaCongaLine leading up to his FaceHeelTurn.
* KickTheDog: Lies under oath to get Baltar executed by claiming he signed a mass-execution order with no resistance or protest, when in fact he was not present to witness Baltar doing any such thing. (In actuality, the normally cowardly and self-serving Baltar ''outright refused'' to sign the order, and only did so after the Cylons literally put a gun to his head and forced him to; Felix assumes that he made no attempt at resistance because he was [[HeroicBSOD unresponsive]] when confronted with the death list later, and doesn't really care what the truth is because he considers Gaius guilty either way.)
* MeaningfulName: He shares his last name with that of the city where the King of Naples was forced to capitulate during the War for Italian Unification, which made it the second-to-last independent city to fall before Italy was unified under one flag. As it would later turn out, [[spoiler:TheMutiny he instigates is the second-to-last conflict in the series (with that arc being followed up by the Battle of the Colony in the SeriesFinale) prior to the melding of the surviving Cylon models, Colonial-humans, and second-Earth-humans under one hybrid species]].
* MrFixit: A technological version. If the computers on board Galatica need fixing, Gaeta's usually the one to do it.
* NiceGuy: Until he loses his leg, after which point he [[TookALevelInJerkass becomes much more bitter and harsh]] except toward close friends like Dualla.
* OddFriendship: Formed one with Gaius Baltar early on in Season 1, though it sadly gets torpedoed after the New Caprica occupation in Season 3.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:After Zarek [[KickTheDog executes the Quorom of Twelve]], he's quietly horrified as he realizes that Zarek doesn't care at ''all'' for Gaeta's legitimately positive intentions regarding the mutiny and [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist is only in it for the power]]]].
* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler:His prosthetic limb only stops itching just when he decides to FaceDeathWithDignity and has accepted what he's done]].
* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: Gaeta is gradually [[BreakTheCutie broken]] by a massive TraumaCongaLine and becomes increasingly bitter as a result, which culminates in him snapping and coming to believe [[spoiler:leading a mutiny against Adama when he forms an alliance with the Cylons]] is the better way to ensure humanity's survival.
* TheStoic: Keeps a cool head under almost any situation, which is frankly a bit of a requirement for someone in his position.
%%* TragicHero
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Dualla in a number of deleted scenes.
* TraumaCongaLine: After Baltar (whom he greatly admires and becomes fast friends with) disappoints him by becoming TheCaligula as President and failing to resist the Cylon occupation, he is nearly executed by his shipmates after being falsely accused of being a traitor, accidentally loses his leg to [[spoiler:friendly fire from Anders after a standoff between Starbuck and Helo]], witnesses his closest friend's death by suicide, learns that he was unknowingly complicit in the deaths of a number of people on New Caprica due to trusting the wrong person, ''and'' Adama finally "betrays" him by allying with a rebel faction of Cylons (who, despite their change in allegiances, were still responsible for the near-genocide of the human race in the first place and, on a more personal level, actively pushed him to his DespairEventHorizon), [[BreakTheCutie Gaeta finally snaps]] and turns against his former comrades, staging a ''coup d'état'' with Zarek.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:When he leads a mutiny]], he's doing it for what he sees as the greater good.
* WhatTheHellHero: His KangarooCourt of his commander is basically Gaeta trying to force Adama to acknowledge [[BreakTheCutie what he put Gaeta through]]. Adama contemptuously refuses to play along [[JerkassHasAPoint as it's a show trial being conducted by a military coup]], while Zarek is [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim unable to convince Gaeta]] they need to concentrate on more pragmatic issues.
* WideEyedIdealist: Starts off as one, only to go through the emotional and physical wringer before ultimately snapping.
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[[folder: Dualla]]
!!Petty Officer Anastasia 'Dee' Dualla
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->'''Played By''': Creator/KandyseMcClure
A member of Galactica's crew who first appears as a Petty Officer manning the communications panel in ''Galactica'''s CIC in the Miniseries. Gets an officer's commission sometime between Seasons 2 and 3. [[spoiler:Tragically and suddenly dies by suicide midway through season 4 after seeing the destroyed Earth and experiencing a DespairEventHorizon.]]
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Downplayed. Both she and Lee do genuinely love each other, but the sad fact is that Lee still ultimately loves Kara more.
* AscendedExtra: Gets more and more screentime as the series goes on.
* BetaCouple: With Billy in season 1, although she ends up leaving him for Lee.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Normally has a very sweet disposition, but doesn't even bother trying to be nice to Kara after she and Lee begin having a very obvious and borderline-public affair that humiliates both Dee and Sam. Like Lee, she also has a bit of a hidden propensity for taking [[WellIntentionedExtremist mutinous or highly illegal actions]] when she thinks it's necessary, such as when she assists in Roslin's escape into the Fleet after the martial law declaration or helps Tigh rig the election in Roslin's favor to prevent Baltar from winning.
* BridgeBunnies: Her and Gaeta's place in the [=CIC=].
* CommunicationsOfficer: Her main job. She is later succeeded in this position by Hoshi after [[spoiler:her death]].
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:After seeing the ruined Earth, she hits the DespairEventHorizon, and ends up dying by suicide]].
* GoOutWithASmile: An extremely dark example. [[spoiler:A brief HopeSpot after her date with Lee implies that the two seem to be successfully reconnecting and that Dualla may be recovering from her extreme despair after witnessing the destroyed Earth, but only moments afterward Dualla chooses to end her own life while she is still experiencing what she believes is her final moment of happiness]].
* HeroicBSOD: When she's [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide]].
* MissionControl: Along with CommunicationsOfficer, part of her job. She's the voice that relays between the pilots and ''Galactica''.
* RankUp: Has become a commissioned officer during the stay on New Caprica.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Her first name, Anastasia, means "resurrection", suggesting that she might be a Cylon and come back after her death... but she's not, and ends up getting KilledOffForReal]].
* RomanticRunnerUp: For Apollo. It becomes especially tragic during their marriage, as both characters are aware of this issue but still can't help but play into it.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Gaeta in several deleted scenes.
* WorkoutFanservice: Engages in some with Apollo in the second half of Season 2 as part of their ShipTease.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Discussed; both she and Tom Zarek are from Sagittaron, but she is disgusted by the support he gets and considers his actions to be unjustifiable (even if it was supposedly in the name of their planet's freedom).
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[[folder: Cally]]
!!Specialist Callandra "Cally" Henderson [[spoiler:Tyrol]]
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->'''Played By''': Creator/NickiClyne
->''"I just joined to pay for dental school."''
An enlisted deckhand serving ''Galactica'''s flight wing, Cally is known for a few things: having [[NoNameGiven only one name for two seasons (her full name wasn't given until her funeral!);]] being a PluckyGirl, and [[AllLoveIsUnrequited having a thing for Chief Galen Tyrol]]. [[spoiler:Marries the Chief during the New Caprica year and becomes pregnant with a son, Nicholas; is then executed by Tory Foster after she (Cally) stumbles upon the secret of the Final Five]].
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* AscendedExtra: Just a member of the crew in the flight wing, but becomes a fairly major character.
* AttemptedRape: One of Zarek's flunkies tries to rape her in "Bastille Day" and she [[ManBitesMan bites his ear off]] to defend herself.
* BreakTheCutie: Bad things happen to her over the course of the series.
* EveryoneHasStandards: She might've [[spoiler:assassinated ''Galactica''-Sharon]] and shows a lot of FantasticRacism towards Cylons, but she and the rest of the pit crew for ''Galactica'' are still visibly horrified when the crew of ''Pegasus'' brag about making a regular pastime out of [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil the gang-rape and torture of their Cylon prisoner Gina]].
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: After learning [[spoiler:Tyrol is a Cylon, she sort of... snaps]].
* InterruptedSuicide: After learning [[spoiler:Galen is a Cylon, she considers suicide ([[MurderSuicide taking her baby with her]]). Tory talks her out of it... just to make sure that the baby is safe, and ''then'' kills her anyway]].
* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: [[spoiler:After Cally finds out that Tyrol, Tigh and Tory are Cylons and attempts to commit MurderSuicide with baby Nicky, Tory talks her down... long enough to save the baby, and then airlocks Cally herself to preserve their cover. Chief Tyrol is enraged when he finally finds out and gives Tory a NeckSnap]].
* LoveMartyr: Stayed loyal to the Chief even after he unwittingly beat her when she roused him while he was suffering from night terrors near the end of Season 2. Cally later lampshades this in Season 4 while talking to Cottle. However, she herself doesn't exactly treat him much better either.
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: [[spoiler:Turns out in Season 4 that she slept with Hot Dog, making him, not Galen, Nicky's father]].
* OnlyOneName: Up until her full name was revealed to be "Callandra Henderson", she was only known as "Cally". This led to some EarlyInstallmentWeirdness when a lot of supplementary materials from early on in the show's run gave her full name out as "Jane Cally".
* PluckyGirl: Her early characterization.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Little Nicky was believed for quite a while to be another supposedly-impossible human-Cylon hybrid. Then it was revealed that, sometime before her wedding, Cally slept with Hot Dog]].
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:She's killed by Tory early on in Season 4 to establish that now more than ever AnyoneCanDie.]]
* SanitySlippage: Upon finding out the truth about Tyrol, she snaps and [[spoiler:tries to kill herself and her baby before being talked down by Tory... who [[KickTheDog kills her immediately after she hands over the baby]].]]
* ThrownOutTheAirlock: [[spoiler:How Tory Foster kills her]].
* WrenchWench: Her role on the ''Galactica''.
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[[folder: Doc Cottle]]
!!Major [[spoiler:Sherman]] "Doc" Cottle
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->'''Played By''': Creator/DonnellyRhodes
A grumpy Major and the fleet's leading medic, he serves on ''Galactica'' and lectures his patients [[HypocriticalHumor in between drags from a cigarette]]. His first name, [[spoiler: Sherman]], was [[NoNameGiven only revealed during the series finale.]]
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* AscendedExtra: Was just a medic, but wound up playing a significant role in a few episodes. A young Cottle also appears as a recurring character in the PC game ''VideoGame/BattlestarGalacticaDeadlock'' (set forty years prior), when he leaves ''Galactica'' claiming that he'll never set foot on the ship again.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: A heroic variation on the trope; Cottle volunteers to take part in the Battle of the Colony in the SeriesFinale but Adama forbids him from coming along, assigning Cottle to safely stay behind with the Fleet because his medical expertise is too valuable to lose.
* CoolOldGuy: One of the oldest members of Galactica's crew and no less awesome for it. Grumpy, sarcastic and one of the few people who can withstand Adama's trademark DeathGlare.
* DeadpanSnarker: Quite possibly ''the'' snarkiest character in the series.
-->'''Cally:''' What if you gave me a sedative and I just slept here?\\
'''Cottle:''' Oh, sure. We'll just turn my sickbay into an opium den so you can have a little snooze.
-->''(And in another episode:)''
-->'''Roslin:''' Doctor, I need your help, but it's illegal, dangerous, and a violation of your oath as an officer.\\
'''Cottle:''' ''({{Beat}})'' You're a lousy salesman.
* DrJerk: He's grumpy and abrasive towards his patients and openly smokes on the job. He gets away with it because he's actually very good at his job, doesn't mean anything by his sarcasm, and is also one of the few trained doctors left.
* HypocriticalHumor: Lightly scolds Roslin for waiting so long to get checked for breast cancer while he's almost constantly smoking.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For all his grouchiness, he's completely committed to his job and will treat anyone, human and Cylon alike. When Roslin's cancer reaches its terminal stages, he's visibly upset about not being able to help her anymore and she has to tell him to resume his gruff facade. He's also absolutely '''revolted''' by the crew of the ''Pegasus'' having raped the Cylon Gina multiple times and states that Athena's near-rape by Lt. Thorne was "unforgiveable".
* TheMedic: He's the ship's resident physician and probably one of the only surviving humans with any sort of significant medical training.
* MustHaveNicotine: Is rarely seen without a cigarette hanging in his mouth.
* NoNameGiven: His first name is only given in the finale.
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[[folder: Hot Dog]]
!!Lieutenant JG Brendan Costanza (callsign: Hot Dog)
->'''Played By''': Creator/BodieOlmos
From the first class of rookie pilots trained by Starbuck on ''Galactica'' along with Kat and Chuckles, Hot Dog evidently flunked out of naval academy before the Destruction of the Twelve Colonies. He survives the entire series, eventually maturing into one of ''Galactica'''s best and most mature pilots. He's also the RealLife Apollo, as he is played by Bodie Olmos, EJO's son.
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* AscendedExtra: Originally just "new meat" but he winds up an important part of the ''Galactica''[='=]s defense.
* EmbarrassingNickname: He was explicitly given his callsign as a punishment.
* InstantExpert: Presumably from offscreen training, we don't really see his skills develop.
* NewMeat: How he's introduced.
* TookALevelInBadass: Went from NewMeat to a skilled pilot. [[spoiler:He's the only one of his group of "Nuggets" still alive by the series finale, by which point he's one of ''Galactica'''s most skilled pilots.]]
** In-Universe, Apollo acknowledges him taking a level when he takes his own wings and presents them to Hot Dog, telling him "I think you earned these today" because Hot Dog was still a "nugget" trainee and refused to leave Starbuck by herself when Raiders showed up during a training session.
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[[folder: Anders]]
!!Ensign Samuel T. Anders (callsign: Longshot)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Lighten up a little bit. It's only the end of the world."'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/MichaelTrucco
An athlete on pre-Fall Caprica, the captain and star player of the Pyramid team Caprica Buccaneers, Anders turned his team into a resistance unit after the fall of the Colonies. He was stumbled upon by Kara Thrace and Karl Agathon while the two were trying to get off-planet, and eventually rescued late in Season 2. He becomes a major figure in the resistance on New Caprica, not to mention Starbuck's husband. Oh, and [[spoiler:he's a Cylon and one of the Final Five]].
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* AcademicAthlete: Anders is a star Pyramid player and [[spoiler:like the rest of the Final Five, was a research scientist in his original life on Earth. And [[RenaissanceMan could also sing and play guitar]], apparently]].
* AscendedExtra: Joins the main cast after being rescued from Caprica.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:"See you on the other side". Although this may simply refer to the afterlife -- he's heading to his stellar grave, ''and'' addressing a dead woman...]]
* CelebritySurvivor: He was the star player of the Caprica Buccaneers, a Pyramid[[note]]A fictional sport seemingly based on basketball.[[/note]] team. He's well known enough for Helo to have gambled on his games and recognize Anders and his teammates after they introduce themselves.
* DeadpanSnarker: Not his most defining characteristic, but he can hold his own. [[SnarkToSnarkCombat No wonder he gets along so well with Starbuck]].
* DeathOfPersonality: [[spoiler:After having a bullet removed from his brain, he's left seemingly brain-dead, and when the Cylons link him up to ''Galactica'', he's left as a Hybrid who only occasionally shows flashes of memory and personality, such as when he addresses Galen by name in the GrandFinale and says goodbye to Starbuck]].
* EmergencyTransformation: [[spoiler:He's turned into ''Galactica'''s Hybrid in an attempt to save him]].
* GameOfNerds: Or the in-universe equivalent, Pyramid. Notably, in the final episode, Anders -- [[spoiler:arguably the least cerebral of the Cylons in his Colonial identity]] -- is revealed in a flashback to have a passion for the geometry and mathematics involved in sports.
* GenreSavvy: He manages to survive several months on Caprica along with his Pyramid team by [[IKnowMortalKombat copying guerilla tactics he saw in movies]]. He's also smart enough to realize that [[ThisIsReality the movies aren't real life]] and that movie tactics can only carry him and his team so far, so he seeks out professional advice from Starbuck at the first opportunity.
* GlowingMechanicalEyes: [[spoiler: His eye flashes red in response to a scan by a Cylon Raider in the Season 4 premiere]].
* HandicappedBadass: [[spoiler:He's hit in the back of the head by a stray bullet during Gaeta's mutiny and needs to have brain surgery. Afterwards, he's left brain-dead to all appearances, and later hooked up to ''Galactica'' in the manner of a Cylon Hybrid to jumpstart him but never regains the use of his legs and remains connected to the ship]].
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Takes over some of this role from Lee toward Kara after their marriage, although it never reaches the same level of codependency.
* MeaningfulName: "Anders" means "man" (or [[spoiler:"android"]]).
* MrFanservice: His sex scenes with Starbuck often make the effort to show [[FemaleGaze just as much of his]] HeroicBuild [[MaleGaze as they do]] [[MsFanservice Starbuck's]]. InUniverse, Leoben refers to him as a "face selling magazines", and a flashback in the GrandFinale shows him being interviewed in a bathtub.
* MysteriousMiddleInitial: It's never revealed what the "T." in "Samuel T. Anders" stands for.
* HeroicSuicide: [[spoiler:He flies the Fleet into the Sun both so he can see Starbuck again in the afterlife and prevent the ViciousCycle plaguing man and Cylon from repeating itself on the new Earth]].
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Trucco suffered a major spinal injury in a car crash, resulting in Anders's bullet to the head and spending the rest of the series in either a hospital bed or a Hybrid tub. Trucco went on to make a near-miraculous full recovery (to be clear, he had nearly identical injuries to Superman actor Creator/ChristopherReeve, who never recovered) and so Anders was able to become an ActionHero again in the post-series movie ''[[Recap/BattlestarGalactica2003ThePlan The Plan]]''.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler:Like the other members of the Final Five, he is technically well over two millennia old]].
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Started out as this trope (his initial importance to the plot was solely as the love interest Starbuck left behind on Caprica), but eventually grew beyond it.
* ShipTease: [[spoiler:In the last two episodes of Season 3, with Starbuck being dead at the time, he's teased with fellow trainee Viper pilot Diana Seelix, and then sleeps with Tory Foster. What with Starbuck coming back to life and all the craziness around the Final Five, neither ultimately goes anywhere. Seelix in fact becomes a mutineer and a WomanScorned]].
* SpaceshipGirl: A {{Gender Flip}}ped example - in order to [[spoiler:save his life, he gets linked up to ''Galactica'' via a tub and datastream in the same way that a Hybrid is connected to a Cylon Basestar]].
* SpannerInTheWorks:
** His interactions with the Caprica iteration of John Cavil incited noteworthy CharacterDevelopment within that version of Cavil, which would help reveal the other Cavil acting as a spy in the Fleet.
** Him serving as a fighter pilot in [[Recap/BattlestarGalactica2003S04E01HeThatBelievethInMe "He That Believeth in Me"]] [[spoiler:leads to a Raider scanning him and identifying him as a Cylon. This leads to all of the Raiders ''breaking off and letting the Colonials escape'', saving everyone's lives. Furthermore, when Cavil tries to account for this issue by lobotomizing the Raiders, it sparks an EnemyCivilWar that leads to the downfall of the loyalist Cylons and the discovery of Earth-2 by the humans and rebel Cylons]].
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:His last words before he drives ''Galactica'' and the other spaceships ("See you on the other side.") are said right before Kara [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence departs the physical plane]]]].
* TookALevelInBadass: He becomes a rather decent Viper pilot after joining the military following [[spoiler:Starbuck's death]]. After enlisting, he has the rank of ensign and the callsign "Longshot".
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:He's one of the Final Five and a Cylon]].
* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler:Along with Saul Tigh, he's probably the most reluctant of the Final Five to initially accept actually being a Cylon, which is understandable given that he was a leader in the anti-Cylon resistance on both Caprica and New Caprica and saw many of his friends killed by them up close]].
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[[folder: Kat]]
!!Lieutenant JG Louanne 'Kat' Katraine
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[[caption-width-right:350: ''"When you come back after a successful run, lemme tell you, it is better than a great meal, better than hitting the jackpot, it's better than SEX!"'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/LucianaCarro
A "[[NewMeat nugget]]" introduced early in the first season, she soon starts competing with Starbuck for the title of TheAce and even achieves the position of Commander Air Group (previously held by such luminaries as Apollo, Starbuck and Helo) while most of the senior crew are on New Caprica, before a HeroicSacrifice in Season 3.
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* TheAce: Played with; she may well surpass Starbuck as the most naturally talented pilot in the fleet (especially considering that Starbuck had full military training, whereas Kat just had a few hastily arranged and barely-structured lessons), but her personality issues keep getting in the way of her being an outright Ace.
* AscendedExtra: Starts out as just another nugget. Grows into CAG before dying.
* TheAtoner: She dies to make up for her DarkAndTroubledPast.
* BetterThanSex: She considers a successful combat operation to be better than sex.
* ButtMonkey: Repeatedly almost dies horribly, [[DeconstructedTrope which eventually causes her to turn to drugs.]] This results in her losing her position as CAG, and then she [[spoiler:dies horribly of radiation poisoning.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Was a smuggler before the Fall of the Colonies. Decided to turn her life around by signing up for the military under an assumed name.
* DeadPersonImpersonation: Her real name is Sasha, but she's been masquerading as a dead girl, as her own identity (part of a smuggling crew that may or may not have unknowingly helped the Cylons infiltrate the colonies) wouldn't have gotten her into the military, to say the least.
* ADeathInTheLimelight: [[spoiler:"The Passage" gives her a lot of focus and explores her backstory, and she dies in a HeroicSacrifice at the end.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:It's implied that her HeroicSacrifice was partially motivated by this, since her past was about to be exposed and she had already been exposed to fatal doses of radiation.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:She continues on a mission well after she's exposed herself to a fatal amount of radiation, refusing to allow any other ships to be lost under her command.]]
* ImpersonationExclusiveCharacter: We never get to see the real Louanne Katraine.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Kat is childish, abrasive, and petty, but she's also the only person to consistently call Starbuck out on her bullshit.
* MauveShirt: She appears the most out of the non-main character Viper pilots, and gets a lot of characterization.
* NewMeat: How she's introduced.
* TookALevelInJerkass: After getting addicted to drugs, Kat becomes a {{Jerkass}} who berates and harasses pretty much everyone she sees.
* RankUp: Reaches Captain [[spoiler:before her HeroicSacrifice]].
* VitriolicBestBuds: She and Starbuck have a very complicated relationship, which alternates between being a mentor-protege relationship and mutual hatred mixed with respect. They eventually settle their differences while [[spoiler:Kat dies of radiation poisoning.]]
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[[folder: Crashdown]]
!!Lieutenant JG Alex Quartarro (Callsign: Crashdown)
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-> '''Played By:''' Creator/SamWitwer
Boomer's copilot after Helo is left on Caprica. He is later a member of the Raptor crew stranded on Kobol, and takes charge of the group.
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* GuyInBack: Introduced as Boomer's new ECO after Helo stays behind on Caprica. She's not very happy about the arrangement but eventually warms up to him. After her failed suicide attempt Crashdown takes over as pilot for the Kobol mission.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: He's described as a surviving pilot from another, destroyed, Battlestar.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Baltar shoots him to stop him from killing Cally]].
* LeaderWannabe: As the only officer present, he takes charge of the surviving members of the landing party on Kobol. He does his best, but he quickly proves to be incompetent and winds up getting two of the group killed, and his failures and the stress he's under ultimately causes him to snap.
* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: [[spoiler:Gaius reports to Apollo that Crashdown died leading the charge against the Cylons. Tyrol, Cally and Seelix don't dispute his version of events, suggesting they believe in this trope.]]
* ThePeterPrinciple: As an ECO (his actual job 99% of the time) he's competent enough, but he's a wretchedly poor command officer, struggles to think on his feet, and doesn't have the skillset or experience to know when to refrain from exercising his authority. This leads to multiple unnecessary deaths when he ends up in charge on Kobol, [[spoiler:including his own]].
* SanitySlippage: Crashdown starts to lose it after he gets two of his group killed, culminating in him [[spoiler:trying to murder Cally]].
* UnfriendlyFire: [[spoiler:Baltar shoots him InTheBack]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Nowart]]
!!Sergeant Allan Nowart
-> '''Played By:''' Creator/ColinCorrigan
A Marine aboard ''Galactica'' serving as Sergeant of the Guard, who took over the role after the previous Sergeant was killed during the events of "Rapture". Nowart goes on to have an [[AscendedExtra increasingly important background role]], being present at several key encounters during the fourth season.
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* AscendedExtra: Shows up as a Marine with no dialogue in "The Woman King". By the time the show gets to the fourth season, he has more speaking lines, and by the end of the series, he's graduated to being Lee's second-in-command during the assault on the Colony.
* TheAtoner: He decides to take part in the assault on the Colony in the series finale, seemingly out of guilt for having supported the attempted mutiny on Galactica.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Despite never appearing before the episode "The Woman King", Nowart is suddenly present at several key moments in the series, including Helo's confrontation with Dr. Robert, protecting Romo Lampkin during Gaius Baltar's trial, acting as a guard for Kara after she seemingly comes back from the dead, escorting Adama and Tigh to the brig during the mutiny, and eventually, [[RankUp acting as Lee's second-in-command]] during the assault on the Colony.
* DoomMagnet: The Marines Nowart partners with are often on the receiving end of violent incidents. As Sergeant of the Guard, his first Marine partner, Cheadle, ends up taking the brunt of an explosion meant for Lampkin. A few days later, he and his partner are incapacitated by Kara as she escapes from Colonial custody. Following that, his Marine companion during the mutiny is shot dead by Tigh, and he's very nearly killed by Kara after Adama tells him to leave.
* EscortMission: His primary role appears to be acting as an escort[=/=]guard for key characters, as he (along with a fellow Marine, who ultimately makes a HeroicSacrifice) are assigned to guard Romo Lampkin prior to Baltar's trial in the third season. At the beginning of the fourth season, he's ordered to escort Kara through Galactica. Later, he's ordered by Gaeta to escort Adama and Tigh to the brig, though he eventually flips and aids them in their escape.
* FieldPromotion: Despite being imprisoned for his role in the mutiny, he supports Adama's mission to assault the Colony and rescue Hera. As a result, he becomes Lee's second-in-command in the ground team, and aids him in breaching the Colony and giving status updates on the area.
* HonorBeforeReason: Played with. He initially supports Zarek and Gaeta's mutiny out of the belief that the Colonial Fleet shouldn't be allied with the Cylons, but becomes increasingly uneasy with his decision. When he's ordered to escort Adama and Tigh to the brig, he flips on his fellow guard, telling them that he still supports the actual command crew, and eventually, lets them go.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Although he initially supports Gaeta and Zarek's mutiny, he's not fully committed to it, and lets Adama and Tigh go after he'd been ordered to escort them to a brig. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere He flees to parts unknown]] after Kara fires some warning shots at him (though a DeletedScene shows him returning to the CIC to tell Gaeta and Gage what happened}. [[invoked]]
* RememberTheNewGuy: He shows up for the first time midway through the third season, having been a member of Galactica's Marines all through the series but never glimpsed beforehand.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: ''Narrowly'' averted. Starbuck attempts to shoot him in the back as he flees from Adama and Tigh during the mutiny, only for the latter two to stop her, saying he's not worth it.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Were it not for him deciding to flip and aid Adama and Tigh, Gaeta and Zarek's initial plan for the mutiny would have gone off without a hitch. Instead, they are able to buy enough time to get several key members of the fleet off Galactica and to the Basestar.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With fellow Marine Henry Cheadle. That is, until Cheadle [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices himself to save Romo Lampkin's life]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's left unclear if Nowart survived the Centurion boarding attempt as Cavil and the other enemy Cylons assaulted Galactica in the series finale, as he isn't seen during or after the boarding action.
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[[folder: Venner]]
!!Corporal Venner
-> '''Played By''': Creator/MikeShields
A Colonial Marine placed in charge of guarding Roslin when she was arrested following the military coup, though he quickly proves to be sympathetic to her and provides her aid whenever possible.
* TokenReligiousTeammate: He is the most religious person on ''Galactica'', which winds up making him ally with Roslin.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Despite playing a key role early in Season 2 by helping Roslin escape and apparently bonding with her over their faith, he's never seen again in the series.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Socinus]]
!!Specialist Alonzo Socinus
-> '''Played By''': Creator/AlonsoOyarzun
A deckhand who works with Chief Tyrol.
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* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Despite attempts to save him, his injuries from the Raptor crash prove too severe and Tyrol is forced to euthanize him with a drug overdose.]]
* TheScapegoat: He willingly takes the blame for a security breach that Tyrol would have been blamed for and lets himself be arrested. Tyrol is shocked by this and tries to confess to Adama, but Adama lets Socinus' false confession stand because regardless of his guilt or lack thereof, he still lied under oath, and Tyrol's experience and expertise make him impossible to easily replace.
* SecretKeeper: For Tyrol and Boomer.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Prosna]]
!!Specialist Prosna
-> '''Played By''': Creator/MichaelEklund
A deckhand who works with Tyrol and Cally.
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* RedShirt: Dies during the pod venting in the Miniseries.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: He burns alive during the pod venting.
* DeadStarWalking: He's played by Creator/MichaelEklund, a well-known character actor, and he winds up being one of the first of ''Galactica'''s crew to bite the dust.
* HeroicSacrifice: It's implied he was trapped in the port flight pod during the pod venting was because he remains behind to help with the evacuation.
* MauveShirt: He is prominently featured during the Miniseries, but he winds up dying before it ends.
* NiceGuy: A kindhearted fellow who stays up late to wrap a gift for Adama.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Sergeant Hadrian]]
!!Sergeant Hadrian
-> '''Played By''': Creator/JillTeed
''Galactica'''s Master-At-Arms, who is in charge of maintaining internal security.
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* InspectorJavert: During the investigation of Doral's suicide attack, she goes out of her way to harass anyone she suspects, and she winds up turning the whole thing into a witch hunt.
* {{Jerkass}}: A major hardass who goes out of her way to harass anyone she suspects of wrongdoing, whether they actually did it or not.
** JerkassHasAPoint: The people she comes down hard on are lying to her about ''something'', though, and she did tell Adama that her tribunal would require full authority and access, [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem before he withdrew it when she started inconveniencing]] ''[[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem him]]''. While there's no wide conspiracy of human Cylon collaborators, her two chief suspects, Boomer and Chief Tyrol, are respectively an actual Cylon sleeper agent and someone emotionally compromised enough to cover up damning evidence that the former is a sleeper agent.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The last we see of her in person, Adama remands her to her quarters after he gets fed up with her causing a witch hunt. "Valley of Darkness" has Tigh mention she is leading one of the military squads hunting a Cylon that had boarded ''Galactica'', so it's possible she kept her position.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Racetrack]]
!!Lieutenant JG Margaret Edmondson (callsign: Racetrack)
-> '''Played By''': Creator/LeahCairns
A cynical, somewhat nihilistic Raptor pilot.
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* TheAtoner: She's among the prisoners who volunteer for the Final Battle with the people they'd fought against.
* TheCynic: She has a very bitter outlook on life.
* DeadfootLeadfoot: [[spoiler: Armed her nukes just before she was killed. Her hand slips post-mortem and accidentally fires them.]]
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[TakingYouWithMe She wants to go out taking as many Cylon with her as she can.]] [[spoiler:She gets to do it, albeit posthumously, via a nuclear bomb she had pre-armed.]]
* FantasticRacism: She ''really'' hates Cylons, even more than Tigh.
* TheFatalist: She is not unjustifiably under the belief she'll die on a mission. [[spoiler: She eventually dies during the mission to rescue Hera from the Cylons.]]
* GuyInBack: Is introduced as a temporary ECO for Boomer after Helo is left on Caprica and Crashdown takes lead on the trip to Kobol. When Boomer is arrested Racetrack gets a promotion to the pilot's seat. During the third season she spends some time as Athena's [=ECO=] as the exodus from New Caprica means there's now more pilots than available ships.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Which side she is on fluctuates from moment to moment. Mostly she serves loyally on ''Galactica'', but she joins Roslin's side during the fleet schism and [[spoiler:later she joins Gaeta's mutiny.]]
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: [[spoiler:During the mutiny]] it's implied that she's unaware of the murderous actions [[spoiler:Zarek]] is engaging in as part of the plan.
* MauveShirt: Out of the Raptor pilots, she appears the most and gets the most characterization. She even manages to survive all the way up to the finale.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Skulls]]
!!Lieutenant Hamish [=McCall=] (callsign:Skulls)
-> '''Played By''': Colin Lawrence
A Raptor pilot who accidentally found Kobol alongside Racetrack.
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* GuyInBack: Serves this role for Racetrack.
* LackOfEmpathy: He doesn't give a damn when Zarek bludgeons [[spoiler:Laird]] to death with a wrench, and unlike Racetrack shows no hesitation when [[spoiler:Connor threatens to kill Lee.]]
* MauveShirt: He doesn't get that much characterization, but he manages to survive all the way until the series finale.
* RedShirt: [[spoiler:He dies when a piece of debris crashes into his ship.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Chuckles]]
!!Lieutenant JG Donald Perry (callsign:Chuckles)
-> '''Played By''': Creator/TerryChen
An experienced civilian pilot conscripted to be a Viper pilot.
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* MauveShirt: He's one of three trainees with speaking roles in the episode when ''Galactica'' first recruits civilian pilots and survives long enough [[spoiler:to participate in the raid on the Cylon refinery a few episodes later.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Jammer]]
!!Specialist James 'Jammer' Lyman
-> '''Played By''': Dominic Zamprogna
A deckhand who becomes a prominent supporting character during the New Caprica Arc.
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* DirtyCoward: Zig-zagged at first: when ''Galactica'' is boarded by Centurions early in Season 2 he's found by Lee Adama's group cowering in a small arms locker, though he does fight after that. Played straight later on when he begs for his life as The Circle decides to execute him for the deaths he caused while working with the Cylons.
* {{Irony}}: Early in the series, he's quick to suspect his crewmates of being Cylons when their ability to pass as human becomes public knowledge. On New Caprica, he becomes a willing collaborator with the Cylons himself.
* LesCollaborateurs: Joins the New Caprica Police, effectively turning on the rest of the humans and siding with the Cylons.
* MilitaryMoonshiner: He's introduced making homemade whiskey with Socinus and Cally.
* PetTheDog: He does save Cally's life when she's a prisoner.
* SecretKeeper: One of several crewmen covering up Boomer and Tyrol's relationship.
* ThrownOutTheAirlock: He's executed this way by The Circle once they uncover his collaboration with the Cylons.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Duck]]
!!Lieutenant JG Tucker Clellan (callsign:Duck)
-> '''Played By''': Christian Tessier
A Viper pilot who serves as a minor MauveShirt in the first half of the series. He later retires during the New Caprica arc, planning to settle down with his girlfriend Nora Farmer.
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* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Crosses it after Nora is killed by a Cylon attack, and agrees to become a suicide bomber because he has nothing else to live for.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Kelly]]
!! Captain Aaron Kelly
-> '''Played By''': Creator/TyOlsson
The Landing Signal Officer for ''Galactica'' who oversees takeoffs and landings on the ship. A senior officer and probably third-in-command after Adama and Tigh, depending on where the CAG fits into the chain of command.
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* CommutingOnABus: Despite his high rank he only appears a handful of times throughout the series. WordOfGod is that his job managing the flight deck means he's "off-camera" down at the landing bay except when he is needed for the story. When he does make an appearance in CIC it's usually because there's a major crisis and Adama is out of the picture (such as in the Miniseries or at the beginning of season two when [[spoiler: Adama is in critical condition after being shot]]) or there's a shortage of experienced CIC staff (during the rescue mission to New Caprica).
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Initially sides with Zarek and Gaeta during the mutiny and leads the squad tasked with bringing Adama and Tigh in. Being ordered to escort Adama to his execution is apparently too far as he breaks down in Memorial Hallway rather than take part. He then defects to join Lee and the others in rescuing Adama in retaking the ship.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: His last appearance is in "Blood on the Scales" and he isn't mentioned in the finale so his fate is unknown.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Barolay]]
!!Jean Barolay
->'''Played By:''' Alison Down
A member of Anders's resistance. She later joins up with the military as a civilian volunteer.
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* {{Irony}}: She died without ever learning [[spoiler:that her long-time friend, team captain and resistance leader Sam Anders was a Cylon]].
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:She's killed by a Six whom she had traumatized by drowning her back on New Caprica.]]
* LaResistance: Was a member of the resistance on Caprica and later of the New Caprica version.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Figurski]]
!!Specialist Anthony Figurski
-> '''Played By:''' Don Thompson
One of the deckhands serving under Tyrol.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: He disappears following "Escape Velocity".
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Cheadle]]
!!Henry Cheadle
-> '''Played By:''' Creator/ChrisBoyd
A Marine.
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* HeroicSacrifice: He dies rescuing Lampkin from a bomb.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Nowart until he's killed by a bomb.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He's only around for two episodes before being blown up.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Seelix]]
!!Ensign Diana Seelix (callsign: Hardball)
-> '''Played By:''' Creator/JenniferHalley
A deckhand serving under Tyrol. She later becomes a Viper pilot in Season 3.
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* AscendedExtra: She and Tarn didn't have names in the script until Creator/AaronDouglas gave them to them, which led to them receiving more characterization, especially Seelix.
* DoomedHurtGuy: Subverted. She's severely injured while stranded on New Caprica, but she's able to survive in spite of how dire things look for her.
* MauveShirt: She gets some characterization and is one of the longest lasting deckhands outside of Tyrol, frequently recurring throughout the show.
* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:She's imprisoned along with the rest of the mutineers. Unlike Racetrack and Skulls, she doesn't come BackForTheFinale.]]
* RankUp: In Season 3, she goes from a deckhand to a trainee pilot, thus ranking up from non-commissioned officer to ensign.
* RomanticRunnerUp: [[spoiler:After Starbuck dies and Seelix and Anders have both become rookie pilots, they seem rather close playing Pyramid together on the deck and she's visibly upset to see that he's slept with Tory]].
* WomanScorned: [[spoiler:Referenced by her when she and Connor capture Anders during Gaeta's mutiny]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tarn]]
!!Specialist Tarn
-> '''Played By:''' Creator/WarrenChristie
A deckhand serving under Tyrol.
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* AscendedExtra: He and Seelix didn't have names in the script until Creator/AaronDouglas gave them to them, which led to them receiving more characterization, especially Seelix.
* MauveShirt: He appears in the last two episodes of the first season before being killed off early on in Season 2.
* MultipleGunshotDeath: [[spoiler:He's shot multiple times by a Centurion on New Kobol.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Matthias]]
!!Gunnery Sgt. Erin Matthias
-> '''Played By:''' Eileen Pedde
A high-ranking Marine.
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:She randomly gets killed by a damaged Cylon Raider exploding. Starbuck later notes that her death was completely pointless; it wasn't even a trap, it was just a stupid accident.]]
[[/folder]]
!!Battlestar ''Pegasus''
[[folder: Admiral Cain]]
!!Rear Admiral Helena Cain
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TropeCain_577.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Sometimes terrible things have to be done."'']]
->'''Played By''': Creator/MichelleForbes
Commanding the only other (known) battlestar to survive the massacre of the Twelve Colonies, Cain adopted a much more ruthless attitude towards survival than Adama or Roslin.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Whereas her counterpart in the 1978 series tended to make questionable decisions but was ultimately a good person at heart, any redeeming qualities have long-since ceased to apply to this version.
* AxCrazy: When it comes to Cylons.
* BadBoss: Knowing humanity is on its last legs, she'll do whatever she has to, including killing civilians or crew members that disagree with her.
* DefiantToTheEnd: She curses her killer right before she's executed.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: When cornered by a rightfully vengeful [[spoiler:Gina]] holding her at gunpoint, Helena simply faces her impending death with a DeathGlare of hatred, never once crying or begging for her life.
* EvilCounterpart: She's one to Adama. ''Pegasus'' crossed paths with a civilian fleet too, but it's not with them anymore...
* FourStarBadass: She's earned her title, no doubt.
* FreudianExcuse: She witnessed her younger sister and father being abducted by the Cylons in the last days of the First War, adding to her hatred of them.
* GenderFlip: In the 1978 series her character was played by Lloyd Bridges.
* GeneralRipper: To contrast Adama's AFatherToHisMen persona.
* HangingJudge: She's obsessed with revenge. Anybody who doesn't toe the line or serve an immediately-valuable purpose gets a bullet through the head.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Some of the things done by her or on her orders are arguably more monstrous than things the Cylons have done.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** Promises her officers that she will not seek revenge against the Cylons beyond the point of reason, or sacrifice lives needlessly. When push comes to shove she does exactly that, with absolutely ''zero'' conflict or hesitation.
** She also hates it whenever others abuse or over-exert their authority, but she does this multiple times and ignores that Thorne had done so as well when he attacked Athena in her cell without permission or supervision from the ''Galactica'' crew.
** For someone who places so much importance on unquestioning obedience to one's superiors, she has very little respect for Roslin's authority as Commander-in-chief.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Has no outward remorse over the awful things she's done.
* ILied: Soon after finding ''Galactica'', when Adama informs Roslin that Cain's actually above him in the chain of command, she promises to be a ReasonableAuthorityFigure and refrain from encroaching on his command of ''Galactica''. She breaks this promise almost immediately - though Cain says she's actually saving Adama's command after learning about the numerous problems posed by his subordinates - by mixing their pilots and hanger crews (with ''Pegasus'' men in charge on both ships), and then [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope leaps off the edge entirely]] by ordering the execution of two of his crew members who, in the process of saving their Cylon prisoner from being ''raped'', accidentally killed the would-be-rapist, who was ''acting on her orders''. Notably, she never admits to deceiving Adama, [[NeverMyFault and insists she's being completely fair and just in her decisions even when everyone knows better.]]
* InsaneAdmiral: Not fully insane, just... a zealotical leader who's lost her reason and judgement. [[WordofGod Michelle Forbes]] herself stated that she was aiming for this portrayal.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Implied, as she treats everyone around her like they are expendable in her mad pursuit of revenge against the Cylons. She throws away her soldiers' lives and the lives of civilians for petty vengeance and is okay with murdering anyone who doesn't obey her orders.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Oh so many...
** Ironically, most of the things she does have a point about are things she is even ''worse'' about.
* IronLady: She's the commander of the ''Pegasus'' military ship and is a harsh and stern figure with a backbone of titanium. She is also a deconstruction, as her cold ruthlessness and willingness to cross certain lines also ultimately prove to be her undoing, making her a widely disliked figure and leading to her death at the hands of someone who has ''every'' good reason to despise her.
* KarmicDeath: Meets her end at the hands of the Cylon she [[spoiler:ordered to be raped and extensively tortured]], getting a bullet between the eyes, the same as [[spoiler:she gave to her friend Colonel Belzen.]]
* KickTheDog: Hardass that she is, her longtime friendship with her XO Colonel Belzen serves to humanize her. She is apparently close friends with his family as well. So when she shoots him in the head for disobeying her (senseless) orders, it establishes that most of the good left in her is gone.
* KnightTemplar: Athena, a Cylon prisoner who has been cooperative and saved ''Galactica'' at one point, is just another Cylon to her.
%%* LadyOfWar
* NameOfCain: The first tip-off she's not all sunshine and rainbows.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: See NameOfCain.
* NeverMyFault: She's big on this. She executes her XO personally for "insubordination" (i.e.: for refusing an irrational order that contradicted Cain's earlier promise that she would not throw away lives seeking revenge).
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Adama points out that he might have made the same decisions as Cain had Roslin, Lee, and the civilians not been there to keep him in check.
* PetTheDog: Both she and Adama come to separate decisions to have each other assassinated. (Although in Cain's instance, [[AxeCrazy she includes his entire command staff]]) Adama ultimately decides not to go through with it, which is in character for him. [[WhatYouAreInTheDark Cain]] ''[[WhatYouAreInTheDark also]]'' [[WhatYouAreInTheDark decides not to do it,]] which is pretty shocking. Her motives are left a mystery.
* RevengeBeforeReason: She's not as interested in preserving humanity and finding Earth as much as she's fixated on getting payback on the Cylons. Civilians are basically left out to die if they aren't useful and Helena has little problem with killing anyone who doesn't follow her orders.
* SanitySlippage: Her XO notes she's gone through this, becoming more ruthless and cruel.
* SmugSnake: She firmly believes she's right and will let anyone know.
* StatuesqueStunner: Comes with being played by 5'9" Michelle Forbes.
* StraightGay: If it weren't for her relationship with Gina, you'd never know.
* TragicVillain: It is rather sad what happened to this woman in her life.
* TheUnfettered: Won't let anything stop her quest, not pesky morals or human lives.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She'll ensure humanity's survival at any cost, even if it means crossing all sorts of horrible lines.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Is given the opportunity to terminate Adama and his entire command. She doesn't do it, and nobody in the series ever ends up learning about this, as [[spoiler: both Cain and Fisk are dead not two episodes afterwards.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Hoshi]]
!!Lieutenant Louis Hoshi
->'''Played By''': Creator/BradDryborough
First appearing as a ''Pegasus'' CIC officer, Hoshi continues to serve in the background throughout the rest of the series, eventually being promoted to Admiral as the ranking officer left with the civilian fleet when ''Galactica'' jumps away to fight the show's FinalBattle. Was [[RelationshipReveal revealed]] to be [[{{Pun}} gay for Gaeta]] late in the series.
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* AscendedExtra: Don't expect to remember his face in the show itself, but in the show's webisodes he was featured as Gaeta's love interest.
* CommunicationsOfficer: His initial role.
* FieldPromotion: To Admiral in the GrandFinale when Adama and most of the senior crew are on the rescue mission.
* StraightGay: As seems to be standard in the Colonies. We get no hint of his sexuality before the [[RelationshipReveal reveal]] of his relationship with Gaeta.
* TokenGoodTeammate: One of the few members of the ''Pegasus'' crew who isn't a {{Jerkass}}, which might be why he was chosen as interim Admiral in the finale.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Fisk]]
!!Colonel Jack Fisk
->'''Played By''': Creator/GrahamBeckel
-> ''"Civilians wouldn't be civilians without bitching about something."''
Admiral Cain's executive officer when ''Pegasus'' reunites with ''Galactica'' and the Fleet.
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* DirtyCop: It takes him all of five seconds to start working with [[TheDon Phelan]].
* DirtyCoward: After Cain summarily executes Belzen for refusing to carry out an order that will likely get most of their fighter pilots killed, the hastily-promoted Fisk carries out said order with only minor hesitation. Somewhat justifiable, as Cain would otherwise have probably just executed her way through her bridge crew until she found someone willing to carry out her order, with the Cylons free to carry on shooting up the ''Pegasus'' in the meantime.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:He gets killed by a random hitman at the beginning of "Black Market" in an area (his quarters) that should have been totally secure.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: An unpleasant, corrupt dick who refuses to take responsibility for his own actions.
* JustFollowingOrders: He takes no responsibility for the awful things the Pegasus' crew has done, though it's clear from his talk with Tigh that he's troubled by them nonetheless.
* ALighterShadeOfGrey: Only in the sense that he's just corrupt and cowardly rather than bloodthirsty and insane (like Cain), or morally depraved (like Thorne).
* PetTheDog: Saves Helo and Chief Tyrol from a beat down at the hands of some Pegasus crewmembers after the two of them [[spoiler:inadvertently end up killing Lieutenant Thorne]]. He says he does it more for "the sake of the uniform" and that he still does not like them since [[spoiler:Thorne apparently saved his life along with at least one other Pegasus crewmember]].
* PunchClockVillain: Of sorts. See ALighterShadeOfGrey, above.
* RazorFloss: [[spoiler:Phelan has him garroted for asking for too much money.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Kendra Shaw]]
!!Kendra Shaw
->'''Played By''': Creator/StephanieJacobsen
Originally a lieutenant and assigned to ''Pegasus'' as Cain's aide. She is eventually promoted to Major and serves as the ship's executive officer.
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* TheAtoner: No matter how she tries to rationalize it, she knows she's damned for [[spoiler:executing Laird's wife]].
* BreakTheCutie: Some of it is self-inflicted, but still ...
* EvilCounterpart: Well, maybe not quite ''evil'', but she's a counterpart to Starbuck.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Goes out blowing up an entire Cylon basestar with a nuclear bomb.]]
* HeroicBSOD: Immediately after [[spoiler:shooting Mrs. Laird]], she stares at the residual smoke drifting from her sidearm's muzzle. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone The look on her face]], like she's praying that it's all just a bad dream but knows better, is gut-wrenching.
* NewMeat: The Cylon attack kicked off within half an hour of her reporting to the ''Pegasus''.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: That story is depicted in ''Razor.''
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:She goes out blowing up an entire Cylon baseship.]]
* RememberTheNewGuy: ''Razor'' establishes that she's been part of the ''Pegasus'' crew since the Fall of the Colonies, but since she was created for the telemovie there was no mention of her during the second season.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Cain implies that Shaw's late mother (a Quorum of Twelve member) pulled strings to get her a prestigious posting on the ''Pegasus'', although it's unclear if this is true.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Thorne]]
!!Lieutenant Alastair Thorne
->'''Played By''': Creator/FulvioCecere
Appointed as "Cylon interrogator" after Gina Inviere is outed, he proves to be nothing more than a rapist and torturer.
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* AssholeVictim: PlayedWith. No one in the original ''Galactica'' crew remotely faults Tyrol and Helo for accidentally killing him, but the people on ''Pegasus'' are a different story, as some of them actively relished and participated in Thorne's gang-rape of the Cylon prisoner (and it was their [[EvilGloating own bragging]] that tipped off Helo and Tyrol to begin with). In fact, [[spoiler:some of the Pegasus engineers keep bringing up his death as late as Gaeta's coup arc in Season 4, where they promise to avenge him.]]
* BaldOfEvil: He's bald, and an unrepentant Cylon rapist.
* FantasticRacism: Cylons aren't people to him.
* PetTheDog: Apparently saved Fisk and one other Pegasus crew member's lives, though this happened entirely offscreen.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: His job description apparently includes raping as a form of torture.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Garner]]
!!Commander Barry Garner
->'''Played By''': Creator/JohnHeard
Originally the chief engineer of the ''Pegasus'', he was promoted to Commander after the deaths of Cain and Fisk.
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* ClosestThingWeGot: Admiral Adama's reasoning for the nomination: "I don't have anybody else".
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:He dies by suffocation in space vacuum after repairing a coolant leak in the FTL drive to save the ''Pegasus'' and allow the ship and her crew to escape a battle with the Cylons.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: According to Starbuck at least. She describes him as paranoid and barely competent, and butts heads with him all the time before being relieved. How right she is depends on the viewer, but Lee Adama points out that her own snarky attitude hasn't helped.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: That said, he is by no means a bad person, and eventually realizes his own failings and [[spoiler:gives his life to save the ship and crew]].
* TheParanoiac: He seems to believe that Adama and the Fleet leadership are trying to set him up, and in return does his best to make life hell for any former ''Galactica'' crew onboard.
* ThePeterPrinciple: A tragic example. The man is a very good engineer who can repair an FTL drive in the middle of battle, but he is no starship commander. He himself seems to realize this once he orders the ''Pegasus'' into a trap, as he relinquishes command to Lee, who knows more about tactics and strategy than he does, and goes down to engineering to help there.
-->'''Lee Adama:''' He was used to working with machines. Command is about people.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:After spending most of his time as commander being a paranoid {{Jerkass}}, he sacrifices himself to repair the FTL drive so the ''Pegasus'' can escape.]]
* TragicKeepsake: His watch, left in CIC when he went below decks to the engine room to solve a critical breakdown in battle. Apollo keeps it and wears it afterwards as a reminder.
* UnexpectedSuccessor: Originally the chief engineer of the ''Pegasus'', it is suggested that he was the highest-ranking officer left on board after Cain, Belzen and Fisk's deaths.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Belzen]]
!!Colonel Jurgen Belzen
->'''Played By''': Creator/SteveBacic
The executive officer of ''Pegasus'' at the time of the Cylon attack, and an old friend of Admiral Cain's.
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* BlindObedience: Makes clear to Cain that he'll avert this trope, with fatal consequences for him.
* BoomHeadshot: Turns out Admiral Cain doesn't care for reasonable dissent or alternative options.
* DeathByOriginStory: Fisk tries to pass it off to Tigh as a joke, but we see in ''Razor'' that he really wasn't kidding about that NoodleIncident.
* NiceGuy: A friendly and compassionate officer.
* NumberTwo: To Cain, until she shot him for refusing to follow orders.
* OnlySaneMan: Tries to stop Admiral Cain from pointlessly sacrificing the lives of her crew and air wing when the Cylon communications relay they're attacking turns out to be a staging ground far more heavily defended than they anticipated. He failed to recognize that she wasn't suffering a HeroicBSOD, she had gone straight AxCrazy. See above for the result.
* PosthumousCharacter: Already dead by the time the ''Pegasus'' first appears, his only screentime is in flashbacks during ''Razor''.
%%* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Laird]]
!!Peter Laird
-> '''Played By''': Creator/VincentGale
A civilian pressed into service by Admiral Cain as the deck chief of the ''Pegasus'', then serves the same role aboard ''Galactica'' on and off throughout the show.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: He was forced into serving on the ''Pegasus'' and [[spoiler:his family was killed by Shaw when he and the other civilians on his original ship tried to resist it being cannibalized]].
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:In spite of being one of the most prominent ''Pegasus'' crew members and surviving for longer than the other prominent ''Pegasus'' crew, he dies abruptly when Zarek bludgeons him over the head with a wrench during his attempted coup]].
* MauveShirt: Laird pops up repeatedly throughout the series, and manages to outlive most of the other prominent ''Pegasus'' characters in spite of being a more minor character than they were.
* MildlyMilitary: At least during his first appearances, having trouble running ''Galactica's'' flight deck and lacking military protocol and language (such as assuring Adama ''Galactica's'' air wing will be ready for "the attack thing"). Justified by his civilian background, and he gives a more professional bearing in later seasons.
* NiceGuy: In contrast to other senior staff from ''Pegasus'' he is polite and helpful to ''Galactica's'' crew, if somewhat haunted by his tragic backstory.
* PressGanged: He was a civilian aeronautical engineer before being forced into service as the ''Pegasus'' Crew Chief.
[[/folder]]
