As his trial proceeds, Baltar's first lawyer is killed in an explosion aboard a sabotaged Raptor. His second attorney, Romo Lampkin, survives a similar attempt on his life.
Dr. Gaius Baltar is a fictional character in the TV series Battlestar Galactica played by James Callis, a reimagining of Count Baltar from the 1978 Battlestar Galactica series. He is one of the show's primary characters.
A charismatic genius and womanizer, he is initially portrayed as a self-serving opportunist, but becomes a braver and more caring character over the course of the series, expressing regret for having been "a profoundly selfish man." Baltar is initially an atheist, but ultimately converts to the Cylons' monotheistic religion.
Baltar comes to believe the only logical explanation is that God guided his hand. In the episode " Colonial Day ", Baltar, now Caprica's representative to the Quorum of Twelve, is elected Vice-President with Roslin's support.
Mark A. SheppardHe is often credited as Mark A. Sheppard. Sheppard is known for playing the demon/King of Hell Crowley on Supernatural and for his recurring roles as lawyer Romo Lampkin on the Battlestar Galactica reboot, Interpol investigator James Sterling on Leverage, and small-time crime lord Badger on Joss Whedon's Firefly.
Mark Sheppard Now He's a busy father with two children from his first marriage and a daughter, born in 2016, with his current wife Sarah Louise Fudge. Though he has worked less since Supernatural, he does have a recurring role on the HBO Max series Doom Patrol.
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Mark's character- Chris is your basic bad 'un and his character doesn't give Mr S a whole heap to work with, but he does his usual good job with what he's given. The one thing I noticed when I rewatched his bits to take screencaps is that his body language before he takes his pills is subtly very good.
Mark Sheppard was let down by the writers "Once they decided they needed to do something different [with the direction of the show], they tried to get rid of me without telling me that they were going to get rid of me," Sheppard revealed during a solo panel at 2018's New York Comic Con.
He's usually a single-episode guest star or a recurring bit player rather than a regular castmember, but his appearances are always memorable. Sheppard's roles tend towards the villainous, or at least the mysterious and morally ambiguous. (When asked, he'll mention with some pride that he's never played a "bad guy".)
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Doral is a humanoid Cylon (designated model Number Five) who first appeared as a civilian public relations specialist aboard Galactica just prior to the Cylon attack on the Colonies.
Supernatural's Mark Sheppard Joins Doom Patrol To Play A Bonkers New Character. Mark Sheppard is well-known to fans of Supernatural thanks to years of playing the demon (and later King of Hell) known as Crowley, but he left that show behind after the long-running show's twelfth season.
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Cole "Stinger" Taylor is the CAG of the Battlestar Pegasus serving under Admiral Helena Cain. Played by John Pyper-Ferguson. He appears in two episodes. Gage is a Specialist serving on the Battlestar Pegasus, and later on Galactica, played by Mike Dopud.
Main characters. William Adama, a veteran of the First Cylon War, is the commanding officer of the Battlestar Galactica, and has the longest tenure as the highest-ranking officer in the Colonial Fleet after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies.
He appears in nine episodes. Peter Laird is a civilian aeronautical engineer pressed into service on the Battlestar Pegasus by order of Admiral Helena Cain after the Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies, played by Vincent Gale. He appears in six episodes and is killed by Tom Zarek during Gaeta's mutiny.
Carmen Moore as Senior Lieutenant Nina Leotie; Moore played supporting character Fidelia Fazekas on Caprica. Toby Levins as Pilot "Sandman". Jill Teed as Commander Ozar; Teed portrayed the role of MSgt. Hadrian on Battlestar Galactica and supporting character Colonel Sasha Patel on Caprica.
Played by Michael Trucco, Anders appears in 36 episodes. Tucker Clellan ("Duck") is a Colonial Viper pilot aboard the Battlestar Galactica. He was a central character in the 2006 web series " Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance ", as well as appearing in the main series.
Barry Garner is the third commanding officer of Pegasus. Before his promotion, he was the ship's chief engineer, played by John Heard. He appears in one episode and suffocates while fixing the Pegasus FTL drive. Cole "Stinger" Taylor is the CAG of the Battlestar Pegasus serving under Admiral Helena Cain.
She is the daughter of Karl "Helo" Agathon and Sharon (Number 8) "Athena". Played in different episodes by child actors Lily Duong-Walton, Alexandra Thomas and Iliana Gomez-Martinez.
As his trial proceeds, Baltar's first lawyer is killed in an explosion aboard a sabotaged Raptor. His second attorney, Romo Lampkin, survives a similar attempt on his life. Lee Adama (now Lampkin's security adjutant) then joins Baltar's defense team.
William Adama once indicated that Baltar consistently sees himself as a "victim," allowing him to escape responsibility for his guilt. Later in the series, his most profound changes begin during his adoption (against his will) as a religious figure, and he begins demonstrating increased compassion and bravery.
At the onset of the show, he is involved in a sexual relationship with a blonde woman. Believing her to be working for a corporation in the defense industry, and desiring a more permanent relationship with her, he gives her access to the highly classified Colonial defense mainframe (an act of treason punishable by the death penalty) so her employers can have an advantage in future contract bidding. In exchange for his access to the government mainframe, she helps him design a navigation program used by Colonial warships, covertly creating backdoors in the program. When the Cylons attack the Twelve Colonies of Kobol, they use those backdoors to penetrate software security firewalls, disabling entire fighter squadrons outright and sabotaging vital capital-ship systems. On the day the Cylons attack humanity, the woman reveals she is an advanced Cylon, model Number Six (later known as Caprica Six ), and she used the information that Baltar gave her to shut down the Colonial defenses, thus making him responsible for the Cylons' successful genocidal campaign against the Twelve Colonies. Baltar manages to survive the nuclear explosion that destroys his home due to Caprica Six using her body to shield him.
Gaius Baltar claims to be from the colony of Aerilon, and that at the age of ten, finding the Aerilonian dialect to be detrimental to his career dreams, he trained himself to speak the Caprican dialect in hopes of one day being considered a citizen of one of the more respected and wealthy colonies such as Caprica.
Baltar manages to survive the nuclear explosion that destroys his home due to Caprica Six using her body to shield him. As a result of the nuclear blast, Number Six is killed, and as a Cylon her memories are automatically "downloaded" during the blast to be later resurrected, as revealed in a later episodes.
Compounding his alienation to his people, he was forced at gunpoint to sign an execution order for hundreds of humans. However, throughout the occupation of New Caprica, Baltar tried to persuade the Cylons their mission to rule over the human race could not succeed and they should leave the planet.
In the book, Baltar attempts to explain his actions as president to the public and foment class warfare by describing the fleet as a bifurcated society, accusing the elite upper class of militarism and professional civilians of exploiting the less well-educated working class.
In another controversial and unusual move, he calls on Lee Adama, who joined the defense after a falling out with his father, to take the stand and testify on Baltar's behalf, gambling that Adama's testimony would be the best chance to sway the admiral's foregone verdict of guilty.
When Adama is found "guilty" of his crimes, Zarek has marine Parr escort Lampkin away, presumably to his death, but along the way they happen upon the aftermath of Lee Adama and Kara Thrace 's rescue of the Cylon hostages.
Lampkin also codifies a set of "Lampkin's Legal Dynamics", the first of which he reveals to Lee Adama : Lampkin's First Rule of Legal Dynamics: When an irresistible force meets a movable object, stand aside and wait for the class action suit.
A part he pocketed from Captain Aaron Kelly, identical to one used in an earlier unexploded bomb, reveals Kelly is the assassin (The Son Also Rises). When Didi Cassidy, the prosecuting attorney, presents a compelling opening statement highlighting mankind's dwindling numbers, Lampkin changes Baltar's plea to "guilty".
Using Thrace as a distraction, Lampkin kills Parr by repeatedly stabbing him with a fountain pen and breaks free of his bonds. He ponders fleeing for a moment, but instead helps Thrace then carry a critically wounded Samuel Anders to Doc Cottle for medical treatment ( Blood on the Scales ).
Everyone is having to come to terms with the death of Starbuck. The Admiral reviews her file in tears and Sam Anders gets drunk but Apollo can't quite bring himself to place her photo on the wall of dead crewmen, as he had promised.
The character Romo Lampkin got his first name from the writer Michael Angeli, who combined the first two letters of creator Ronald D. Moore 's first and last names. The name also pleased co-creator David Eick, who is a die-hard fan of The Dallas Cowboys and their star quarterback, Tony Romo.
Lee suspects his father is being overprotective, not wishing to lose him as he did Kara. After two assassination attempts on Baltar's lawyer, Romo Lampkin, the culprit is discovered. Adama then reinstates Lee as CAG, not wanting to expose him to the dangers of more potential assassination attempts.
Leland Joseph "Lee" Adama ( callsign " Apollo ") is a fictional character in the television series Battlestar Galactica. He is portrayed by actor Jamie Bamber, and is one of the main characters in the series.
After his father's return to Galactica, President Adama is faced with a hostage crisis instigated by the Cylon D'Anna. She demands the Four Cylons within the Colonial fleet reveal themselves and find their way to the Rebel baseship; until then, a Colonial hostage on the baseship would be killed every 15 minutes.
While both grieve, Lee is visibly shaken by the death, while Adama does his best to move past it.
At Lee's "mustering out" party, he drinks several toasts to the Galactica, his friends, Rear Admiral Adama, the Fleet and "to absent friends.". As he leaves the Galactica, the pilots and Command staff salute him while he boards the Raptor taking him off the ship. Dualla presents Lee with his Viper wings in a frame.
Lee is present in the Galactica 's CIC shortly thereafter, when the Cylon infiltrator known as Lieutenant Junior Grade Sharon "Boomer" Valerii shoots Commander Adama twice in the chest; despite his disagreement with his father over deposing Roslin, he tries to comfort his father after being shot.
Lee is one of the five people who see firsthand the map to Earth in the Tomb of Athena on Kobol. After the Battlestar Pegasus joins the fleet, Lee is temporarily transferred to the Pegasus, given duties flying Raptors rather than Vipers, and even demoted to Lieutenant.
As his trial proceeds, Baltar's first lawyer is killed in an explosion aboard a sabotaged Raptor. His second attorney, Romo Lampkin, survives a similar attempt on his life. Lee Adama (now Lampkin's security adjutant) then joins Baltar's defense team.
Dr. Gaius Baltar was an accomplished computer scientist of Aerelonean descent. Shunning his farming background, Baltar became a celebrity figure with political connections, which enabled a successful push for the re-introduction of software networking in military vessels in the aftermath of the Cylon War. However, this got the attention of the Cylons, who successfully manipulated him into giving over access to the software. Because of this, almost the entirety of the Colonial Fleet was wiped out in mere hours in a massive Cylon strike, allowing for tens of billions of humans to be killed in an attempted genocide. Escaping with refugee survivors in a convoy led by the Galactica, Dr. Baltar lived for the next four years being manipulated further by the Messenger Six, a supernatural being seen only to him, who forced his participation in matters of science, politics and religion.
Meanwhile, the real-life Six disappears from Galactica and is nowhere to be found. In the episode "The Hand of God", Baltar successfully helps the fleet destroy a Cylon mining base on an asteroid with badly needed tylium ores for fuelling the fleet.
Head Six tells him it wasn't her job to put it in there. Baltar realizes there is a Cylon on board Galactica, but knows he cannot reveal that information, or indicate the device is not a part of the ship without implicating himself in the destruction of the Colonies.
Gaius Baltar claims to be from the colony of Aerilon, and that at the age of ten, finding the Aerilonian dialect to be detrimental to his career dreams, he trained himself to speak the Caprican dialect in hopes of one day being considered a citizen of one of the more respected and wealthy colonies such as Caprica.
Having unintentionally brought about the near-annihilation of the human species, Baltar flees Caprica when Karl Agathon gives up his place on a Raptor, feeling that his own life is less important to save than a famed scientist's. The Raptor returns to the Galactica, where Baltar attempts to endear himself to Laura Roslin, the new President of the remnants of the Twelve Colonies, and hopes to conceal his involvement in the genocide that has taken place.
Compounding his alienation to his people, he was forced at gunpoint to sign an execution order for hundreds of humans. However, throughout the occupation of New Caprica, Baltar tried to persuade the Cylons their mission to rule over the human race could not succeed and they should leave the planet.
Edward James Olmos as ( CDR / ADM) William Adama, commanding officer of Battlestar Galactica; his call sign was "Husker" when he was a young viper pilot. Mary McDonnell as President Laura Roslin, sole survivor of the former Colonial Government; was Secretary of Education before the destruction of the Colonies.
Luciana Carro as ( LT / CAPT) Louanne "Kat" Katraine, a viper pilot of Galactica. Sam Witwer as ( LT) Alex "Crashdown" Quartararo, an ECO of a raptor, paired with "Boomer" after "Helo" being stranded on Caprica. Mark Sheppard as Romo Lampkin, an appointed public defender of Gaius Baltar.
Battlestar Galactica ( BSG) is an American military science fiction television series, and part of the Battlestar Galactica franchise. The show was developed by Ronald D. Moore and executive produced by Moore and David Eick as a re-imagining of the 1978 Battlestar Galactica television series created by Glen A. Larson.
On March 17, 2009, the United Nations hosted a Battlestar Galactica retrospective including a discussion with Mary McDonnell, Edward James Olmos, Ronald D. Moore and David Eick on human rights, terrorism, children and armed conflict, and reconciliation between civilians and faiths. The Discussion was moderated by actress Whoopi Goldberg and also included Radhika Coomaraswamy, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict; Craig Mokhiber of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; Robert C. Orr, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Planning; and Famatta Rose Osode, from the Permanent Mission of Liberia to the UN.
On March 15, 2010, Syfy executive Mark Stern said that Syfy was working with Ronald D. Moore to develop a second spinoff of Battlestar Galactica, which would "mark a return to the franchise's space-opera roots" and "not necessarily be a traditional series.".
Unlike most space opera series, Battlestar Galactica has no humanoid aliens (the antagonists are man-made Cylon androids), the primary armaments used by both military forces utilize bullets, rail guns, and missiles instead of lasers, and the series intentionally avoids technobabble.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer ' s Melanie McFarland notes, " [Starbuck], played with a tomboyish swagger by Katee Sackhoff, is fast becoming the latest in a long line of feminist television icons.". The series has also received favorable reviews from other writers.