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The article discusses the Re-imagined Series character with the pilot callsign of "Apollo." For data on his Original Series counterpart, see Apollo (TOS).

Lee Adama
Proper name
Age	ca. 30 [1]
Colony	Caprica
Birth place	{{{birthplace}}}
Birth Proper noun	Lee Adama
Birth Date	{{{birthdate}}}
Callsign	Apollo
Nickname	{{{nickname}}}
Introduced	Miniseries
Expiry
Parents	Carolanne Adama (mother, likely deceased), William Adama (father)
Siblings	Zak Adama †
Children	1 unborn kid with Gianne (presumed deceased)
Marital Status	Separated from Anastasia Dualla
Family Tree	View
Office	Caprican delegate to the Quorum of Twelve
Rank	Major (ret.)
Serial Number	{{{serial}}}
Portrayed by	Jamie Bamber
Lee Adama is a Cylon
Lee Adama is a Final V Cylon
Lee Adama is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
Lee Adama is an Original Series Cylon
Additional Information
Lee Adama in the carve up continuity
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Contents

• 1 Biographical Notes
  • i.1 Background
  • 1.two Brother's Decease
  • i.3 Surprise Cylon Attack
  • one.4 Special Advisor
  • 1.5 The Inner Conflicts at Kobol
  • 1.6 Reassignment
  • one.7 Battle of the Resurrection Ship
  • 1.eight The Black Marketplace
  • 1.9 Friendly Fire
  • 1.10 A Worthy Control
  • one.xi On New Caprica
  • 1.12 Battle of New Caprica and Destruction of Pegasus
  • 1.thirteen The Second Exodus
  • one.14 Expiry of a Lover and Friend
  • i.15 The Trial of Gaius Baltar
  • 1.16 A New Kickoff
• two Family tree
• 3 Notes
• 4 References
• five External Links

Biographical Notes

Background

Lee "Apollo" Adama is the elder son of Caroline and William Adama. Together with his younger brother, Zak, he was raised largely by his mother on Caprica, following his parents' divorce when he was eight.

Despite his father'south estrangement from the family unit, Adama nevertheless inherited his passion for flying - a passion that saw him enrolling in the Colonial military reserves after graduating from college. Following his basic training, he graduated from the war machine academy third in his class and immediately applied for flight schoolhouse.

Non to be outdone by his elder brother, Zak Adama applied for military service besides, a move that eventually brought tragedy to the Adama household.

Accepted into flying school, Adama proved himself a gifted and natural airplane pilot, hampered only by his tendency to over-intellectualize things - a consequence of his upbringing with his mother, who encouraged him to read widely, and think freely (encouragement that led him to read banned texts past the renegade Tom Zarek while at college (Bastille Day).

Graduating from flight school, Adama was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Colonial Fleet Reserve, flying the Viper Mark Vii. During this time, he was too introduced to Kara Thrace, a training instructor at flight school, who was involved with his brother. While Adama was yet at flight school, the three oft spent fourth dimension together, and Adama and Thrace developed a friendship through Zak Adama (Miniseries).

Brother's Death

Tragedy struck some two years prior to the Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies when Zak Adama, recently graduated from flight school, is killed on a routine Viper mission. At the time, the crusade of the accident was put down to pilot error. However, Lee Adama chose to arraign the mishap on his father, whom he believed had pushed Zak into applying for military service and for applying for flight school (Miniseries).

Following Zak's death, Lee Adama became estranged from his father, seeking to build his career well abroad from any influence exerted by either William Adama or the legendary battlestar Galactica, his male parent's control. While he was successful in this - gaining promotion to Captain through his own abilities, the decision nevertheless placed a heavy strain on his friendship with Kara Thrace, every bit she applied for pilot duty aboard Galactica.

Adama spent much time on Caprica and becomes engaged to a adult female named Gianne. She told him she is pregnant with their kid, causing him to run from her due to his ain family issues. Earlier he can speak with her again he is assigned to take part in the decommissioning ceremony aboard Galactica (Black Market, "Razor Flashbacks"), just later on he is accustomed to test pilot schoolhouse. Despite having a natural knack for piloting and "well on his style to commanding a battlestar someday", Adama tells Frank Bruno at the Caprica Transfer Station that he is considering leaving the Colonial Fleet, as he is disinterested in achieving dreams that were his begetter'due south lone ("Razor", deleted scene).

Adama is reunited with both his male parent and Kara Thrace when Galactica is to be decommissioned as a living museum and educational eye of the Cylon War. Every bit a part of the final ceremonies mark Galactica's retirement, Lee Adama participates in a concluding Viper flyby to salute both the ship and her commanding officer — an assignment he undertakes grudgingly, doing lilliputian to hide his true feelings from the moment he arrives on the battlestar. Matters are not helped when he discovers he will fly not in his own modernistic Viper, merely in a newly-restored Viper Mark Two his father had flown during the Cylon War (Miniseries).

Things worsen after the PR official aboard Galactica, Aaron Doral, sees Captain Adama'due south presence on Galactica as a major PR opportunity and has Adama and his father pose for pictures together. Immediately following this, Adama confronts his father over his blood brother's death, venting two years' worth of acrimony and belief that his father was responsible for the loss of his brother.

Surprise Cylon Attack

Following the decommissioning ceremony, Lee Adama departs Galactica, acting equally an unofficial escort for Colonial Heavy 798, the official transport for Secretarial assistant of Instruction Laura Roslin, who represented President Adar at the ceremony. Midway through their return to Caprica, Adama and the crew of Colonial Heavy 798 hear of the Cylon attacks on the Twelve Colonies, and soon find themselves under direct attack, which he is able to thwart. Adama quickly becomes one of Laura Roslin's unofficial advisers, aiding her in her self-appointed rescue mission. Adama'south badgerer of his begetter's one-time Viper comes back to haunt him when Boomer, returning from her unexpected rescue mission on Caprica and disastrous attack on two Cylon Raiders, notes to him that other Vipers and other modern Colonial spacecraft similar his Mark VII were easily destroyed by Cylon attacks.

Adama again saves Colonial Heavy 798 from a nuclear missile attack with a failed experiment he toyed with in War College, using EMP coils kept in the cargo hold to make it look similar the transport has been destroyed. He supports Roslin in her rescue efforts, persuading her to pb the FTL-capable ships to follow Galactica to Ragnar Anchorage.

As the ranking airplane pilot aboard Galactica, and despite his relative inexperience, Adama finds himself appointed CAG past Colonel Saul Tigh.

Apollo leads a Viper squadron in the Battle of Ragnar Anchorage, keeping the Cylon Raiders at bay while the civilian Fleet jumps to safety. His send is badly damaged during in the battle, and is about to be destroyed by a Cylon missile when the missile is intercepted and shot by Starbuck's highly-accurate marksmanship. His Viper somewhen loses ability as the battle draws to a close and Galactica is preparing to retreat. Starbuck saves him with a crazy thought and her flight skills, bringing them back to Galactica shortly before the battlestar jumps away.

Special Advisor

Adama and President Roslin milk shake hands later on date as armed services counselor (Water).

Adama's work as Roslin'southward "special counselor" to further help her empathise military machine matters does not sit down well with his father, who is nonetheless harboring some reservations about Roslin (Bastille Day).

In the weeks post-obit the Cylon assault, Adama finds time to re-evaluate his relationship with his father - due in no small function to Starbuck's admission of her interest in Zak'due south acceptance every bit a fighter airplane pilot and his subsequent decease. Father and son abound somewhat closer - even standing shoulder-to-shoulder when Starbuck is missing in action and both going to great lengths to salvage her (Y'all Tin can't Go Dwelling house Over again). Even and then, Adama's sometime cocky-doubts and moodiness are not hands overcome and sometimes come back to haunt him when he is tasked to fill a role that others are unsure he tin can manage. Every bit a Viper pilot, Adama is able to escape from Starbuck'south shadow, proving himself capable in unconventional and skilled flying in the Battle for the Tylium Asteroid (The Mitt of God).

After the tylium asteroid mission, Adama matures enormously, emerging from his crush as a somewhat disillusioned officer and becomes a practical leader who now comfortably straddles his responsibilities as CAG of Galactica with his duties equally advisor to Roslin. With few bug with either Roslin or his father, Adama demonstrates his maturity particularly well in his handling of security arrangements for the initial meeting of Roslin's Quorum of Twelve aboard the luxury liner Cloud Nine (Colonial Mean solar day).

The Inner Conflicts at Kobol

Eventually, Adama's beliefs in the demand for democratic representation and civil government brings him in direct conflict with orders given him by his father. During the arrest of Laura Roslin following her interference with military operations, Captain Adama draws his gun on Colonel Tigh in a direct act of mutiny, protesting his father'south removal of Roslin from function. Arrested together with Roslin, Adama watches helplessly in CIC every bit Lieutenant Valerii shoots his father at betoken blank range, seriously wounding him (Kobol'southward Last Gleaming, Role II).

Adama is temporarily furloughed by Colonel Tigh and then that he can continue to deport out his duties. For a fourth dimension, Commander Adama's initiative lives on through his son. Young Adama leads a fight with Cylons to buy time for Galactica to detect its proper bearings to the civilian Fleet (Scattered), and leads a team of Marines to stop Cylon Centurions that boarded the transport (Valley of Darkness). After that, Adama continues his initiative and leads a SAR mission with ii Raptors to retrieve a stranded survey team on the surface of Kobol (Fragged).

Adama's want to let democracy piece of work without overt military action comes to a head once more than as he plots, with a handful of others, to free Roslin and smuggle her away from Galactica (Resistance). Before he leaves, he apologizes to his unconscious Commander Adama at his bedside for what he is about to practise: Go out with Roslin and a faction of ships to search for data on Earth on Kobol. Commander Adama begins to awaken just equally young Adama leaves his side.

On the Astral Queen, Adama is so happy to encounter Kara Thrace has returned safely from Caprica with the Arrow of Apollo that he hugs and also impulsively kisses her, pleasantly surprising Thrace. Moments later, as the Caprica copy of Sharon Valerii enters, Adama instantly grabs the known humanoid Cylon in anger and would have killed her if Helo and Roslin did not intervene.

Adama and Kara Thrace speak aboard the Astral Queen (Home, Role I).

Later, with their military protocols and attitudes temporarily relaxed, Adama playfully teases the brooding Kara Thrace by stealing a pyramid ball she took as a emblem from her time with Anders on Caprica. He returns the ball later sensing her depressed mood and tells her that he would exist happy to listen to what was on her mind. In the aforementioned conversation, he lets information technology sideslip out that he loves Thrace. Amused, Thrace thanks up a flake and teases Adama, telling him that at that place are no take-backs on what he said (Home, Office I).

Adama and Thrace join President Roslin and her other supporters on their quest to detect the Tomb of Athena on Kobol. When Cylon Centurions ambush the grouping along an ancient trail, Adama and Thrace work well together in the fight, complementing each other for their fine shooting.

Adama's reunion with his recovered father on Kobol further mends the wounds between them, both politically and personally. Like Captain Adama had done on the Queen, his male parent reacts violently to the being of a another copy of Valerii, leaving Helm Adama in the awkward position of defending her from his male parent. In the virtual planetarium created by the Tomb of Athena, Adama is the party member that completes the mystery of interpreting how to use the constellations as viewed from Earth to make a flight path. He spots the Lagoon Nebula in the heaven where the Scorpius constellation resided, a celestial body known to the Colonials which gives them a reference point to navigate to World. His begetter confirms Adama's ascertainment, noting that the nebula is far away from their electric current location at Kobol.

After the Armada'due south reunification, Lee Adama is fully restored to flight status and his position every bit the CAG (Last Cut). Apollo doubts that Tyrol could successfully consummate a epitome fighter later known every bit the Blackbird, but in the end aids in its beginning test flight with Starbuck. Around this time, Adama begins to develop an attraction to Anastasia Dualla (Flight of the Phoenix).

Reassignment

Apollo is on CAP when the battlestar Pegasus reunites with Galactica and is i of the get-go to see information technology upwardly close. Soon afterwards, friction develops between Adama and the CAG of Pegasus, Captain Cole Taylor. Taylor feels that Adama'southward pilots are undisciplined and implies that Adama has his position through his father's influence. Taylor recommends that Adama have his pilots focus on keeping a "killcount" of Raiders to encourage competition between his pilots, while Adama stresses that his outset priority is to make certain that all of his pilots but survive another day.

To Adama'due south shock, Admiral Helena Cain re-assigns him and Lt. Thrace to Pegasus, under Taylor'southward command. Cain believes that having Commander Adama'southward son in the role of CAG was a mistake that has clouded Commander Adama's judgment, as young Adama has been rebel and even mutinous in the by. For an upcoming scouting mission against the Cylon fleet following them, Taylor orders Adama to perform the humiliating task of co-piloting a Raptor. Annoyed, Adama orders Starbuck to have the Blackbird and perform the mission alone. When Commander Adama and Admiral Cain turn on each other, Apollo is away in Taylor'due south Raptor on his recon mission (Pegasus).

As the 2 battlestar commanders brainstorm sparring with Vipers, Pegasus orders Taylor to save Adama of duty. Taylor pulls his sidearm and takes away Adama's. Now weaponless and with nothing more to exercise than to ride forth, Adama asks permission to head to the rear of the Raptor. While Taylor is busy, Adama secretly communicates with Starbuck over wireless text letters. This gives away her position to the Fleet, who think her to be a Cylon Raider. When the Vipers are ordered to undo and pursue her instead, Starbuck manages to identify herself before things exit of mitt.

Cain feels that persecuting young Adama for authorizing Thrace's mission would exist odd since she is promoting Thrace for her work on her recon mission. Thrace successfully returns Adama to flight status, but demoted to lieutenant (Resurrection Ship, Role II).

Battle of the Resurrection Send

While Thrace plans an assault on the Resurrection Ship and the two basestars defending information technology, she tells Adama that his father has ordered her to kill Cain later on the battle, and asks Adama to lookout her back. Outraged, Adama confronts his father with this, shocked to learn information technology was President Roslin'southward idea. Thrace assigns Adama the specific task of disabling the Resurrection Ship's FTL bulldoze by sneaking upwardly on it in the Blackbird and destroying it with a precision missile strike. Apollo succeeds, but the Blackbird collides with a Raptor. Apollo is able to squirt, but the Blackbird is destroyed. Live, but not unscathed, Apollo floats in space watching the battle take place around him. A tear in his flight suit leaves him nigh of air. While having the ways to stop the leak, he is overcome with a sense of sadness and nihilism, having learned that the ii persons closest to him, Roslin and his father, resort to assassination to solve their conflict with Cain. Although hearing Dualla over the wireless, he decides to let go and die, but is found by a SAR Raptor and resuscitated. Adama becomes despondent and distant from his friends and family unit later on his most-death experience. In the pilot'south locker room, Thrace tells Adama "Let's just be glad that we both came back alive, alright?" to which Adama responds "That's merely it, Kara, I didn't want to make information technology dorsum alive" (Resurrection Ship, Part Ii).

The Black Marketplace

After President Roslin is saved from her disease, she begins trying to put downwards the Fleet's blackness market. New Pegasus commander Jack Fisk is soon murdered, leaving the elder Adama (now an Admiral) to assign his son to investigate. With his clan with prostitute Shevon and her daughter Paya on Cloud 9, Anastasia Dualla asks where the relationship between the 2 of them is heading. Afterward he hesitates, Dualla takes it to hateful it is over. Rushing to help Shevon subsequently her telephone call for help, the captain is ambushed by Phelan'south men. Waking upwardly from the attack, he finds the Fisk's murder weapon, and the body of Fisk'southward murderer.

With some help from Tom Zarek, unwilling to accept the neatly-wrapped up case of Fisk's murderer or the missing Shevon, Adama finds the blackness market'southward main ship, the Prometheus. He finds Paya and other children locked in a storage room. He confronts Phelan, who tells him a blackness market is necessary, since some supplies may never accomplish needy people any other way. After Phelan admits running a child prostitution band, Adama shoots Phelan, and tells his bodyguards that the market can continue operations, unless it keeps holding dorsum essential medicines, begins killing, or returns to child prostitution.

Shevon refuses to see Adama anymore, realizing that Adama has tried to use her and Paya every bit replacements in his listen for his lost fiancé Gianne and their unborn kid, proverb that she can never exist her (Black Market).

Friendly Fire

While on go out to Cloud 9 with Dualla, a group of terrorists seize a bar and demand the 2nd copy of Sharon Valerii for execution, while they hold earnest approximately a dozen people, including Dualla, Billy Keikeya, Ellen Tigh and Adama. The captain secretly sabotages the bar'south carbon dioxide sensors to appear as if it were leaking atmosphere. The demolition enables Helm Thrace to enter the bar and gather intelligence on the state of affairs, but her cover is blown past Ellen Tigh, and she is forced to draw her weapons. One shot accidentally hits Adama in the breast. After escaping, Thrace breaks down crying for having shot her friend; Dualla is able to care for Adama long enough for him to survive to Galactica's sickbay, and later sits at his bedside while he recovers. Thrace watches, but is unsure what to do and leaves (Cede).

A Worthy Command

Adama finds himself promoted to Major and assigned to Pegasus . He is assigned to the transport by Admiral Adama to assess Pegasus's crew and the the new commander Barry Garner, the ship's onetime Primary Engineer.

His relationship with Dualla has go very intimate following his promotion and recovery. Kara Thrace, all the same Pegasus CAG, presently comes to blows with Garner is confined to her quarters. When visiting her, Adama chides her for her behavior, stating that he is sick of cleaning up after her all the time. He confronts her about the friendly fire incident, resulting in a moment of uncomfortable silence, before the talk returns to business.

Against orders from Admiral Adama, Garner takes Pegasus in to search for two Raptors missing during a recon mission into a binary star system. His impulsive and unwise efforts effect in the battlestar's deadfall by three Cylon basestars. With the FTL drive damaged afterwards successive nuclear missile strikes, Garner relegates command to Major Adama and heads below to help in FTL repairs. Later a moment's hesitation (perhaps thinking what his father would do), Adama orders the forward guns to fire on the nearest basestar, critically damaging the basestar and forcing its retreat, while commanding the battlestar's fighters (led by Starbuck) to guard embattled areas damaged from nuclear pummeling. Adama's attack buys time for Commander Garner to repair the FTL drive, enabling Pegasus to escape back to the Armada and relative safety.

Admiral Adama debriefs his son, who gave Garner a lot of credit for saving the ship, despite their disagreements. When asked nearly Garner'south flaws, Lee says that he but knew machines, while command is well-nigh people. His father tells him to keep that in mind and gives him command of Pegasus, together with a promotion to commander; peradventure giving him his old rank insignia (The Captain'south Hand).

Sometime later, Adama wishes Thrace expert luck in rescuing Samuel Anders and the remainder of the resistance group on Caprica, despite his clear personal feelings towards her. After Thrace and Anders' render, Adama attempts to introduce himself politely, but is hampered by the couple's amorous and highly drunken beliefs. When Thrace gives a rude comment, Adama bows out the area, beginning a tranquility just palpable rift in their friendship (Lay Down Your Burdens, Office II).

On New Caprica

4 months later, Commander Adama and his XO, Lieutenant Dualla, are granted shore get out to attend a groundbreaking ceremony on the surface of New Caprica. After the ensuing party, with Dualla and Anders gone, Adama sleeps with Kara Thrace and suggests they break upwards with their respective partners. Thrace however, refuses to break upwardly, despite the 2 declaring their honey for each other. He wakes up lonely the next morning only to find out that Thrace has merely married Anders. The rift between Adama and Thrace has widened e'er larger. Injure, he proposes to Dualla, who accepts (Unfinished Business organisation).

Another eight months later, a twelvemonth after the settlement, a half-manned Pegasus is still orbiting New Caprica. Commander Adama has gained a considerable corporeality of weight in the intervening twelvemonth. He is in the process of deciding whether or non to supply Kara Thrace with antibiotics for pneumonia-afflicted Anders when Dualla spots a massive Cylon fleet jumping into the nebula. Adama and his male parent briefly discuss their course of activeness; young Adama argues for an immediate emergency jump. Reluctantly, the Admiral orders the orbiting remains of the Fleet, whose population consists of around two thousand citizens, to escape, thus leaving New Caprica to the Cylons for the fourth dimension beingness (Lay Downwards Your Burdens, Part 2).

Battle of New Caprica and Devastation of Pegasus

Commander Adama and his father get into a disagreement over whether or not a rescue mission should be mounted to New Caprica. Lee believes that information technology would cease with the destruction of both Galactica and Pegasus, leaving the pitiful remnants of the Fleet at the mercy of the Cylons. Lee too objects to the Admiral's decision to reinstate Sharon Agathon equally a Colonial Armada officer to deed as liaison between the New Caprica resistance and Galactica. These disagreements lead to heated arguments betwixt the 2, prompting Admiral Adama to make a comment about Lee's weight by calling him a "fatass" and saying he has grown "soft" in the past year ("Occupation", "Precipice"). Due to his son's objections, Admiral Adama decides to take Galactica to rescue the people on New Caprica lone. He gives his son orders to expect eighteen hours for his return; if he does non return by then, Lee is to resume the search for Globe with what is left of the civilian armada. Despite their disagreement, the two have a heartfelt goodbye. Lee tries to talk his father out of the programme and explain himself, simply the older Adama stops him. Instead the two embrace and the Admiral gives his son total military honors when departing Galactica (Exodus, Part I).

Lee is sure that his male parent will not return, and he is conflicted betwixt his duty to protect the civilians and his duty to his father. His wife's attempt at reassurance but serve to heighten his guilt. Leaving his send's Vipers behind to protect the civilians, he takes Pegasus to assistance Galactica, fully aware that he may very well be on a suicide mission. He joins the boxing just in time, saving his male parent's ship from sure destruction. Immediately destroying one basestar after exiting the jump, Adama uses Pegasus to draw fire, giving Galactica fourth dimension to escape. This activity damages Pegasus beyond repair. Adama orders the crew to evacuate and sets the transport'due south batteries to exist set on autofire. He is the last person to leave the CIC, thanking the send as he departs. The small crew evacuates on Raptors just as Pegasus rams a basestar, destroying itself in the process (Exodus, Part Two).

The Commander and his coiffure transfer to the last remaining battlestar, Galactica. Dissatisfied with his round appearance, he had also taken up a rigid exercise regimen and starts losing weight rapidly (Collaborators).

The Second Exodus

Lee Adama dorsum as a Major in the role of Galactica's CAG (Torn).

As of the episode "Torn", Lee has returned to the role of Galactica's CAG, with the rank of Major. When a dying basestar is discovered in the Lion's Caput Nebula, Adama leads a team of Marines on it and captures several humanoid Cylons. After Doc Cottle discovers that they are infected with a virus lethal to the Cylons, Adama advocates to apply the prisoners equally biological weapons in an try to exterminate the Cylons. The plan is approved but ultimately fails due to the intervention of Karl Agathon, who sabotages the mission (A Measure of Salvation).

When Bulldog arrives on Galactica, Admiral Adama tells Lee virtually the mission they executed together, and how he believes information technology has led to the Cylon holocaust. Lee blames the admiralty instead, saying they wanted to provoke a state of war (Hero).

Afterward most of the Fleet has arrived safely on the algae planet following a harrowing journeying, Adama leads the food harvesting operations on the surface. Fourteen days into the harvesting mission, he meets with Kara Thrace and once again suggests they divorce their respective spouses. Thrace refuses to divorce and Adama refuses to cheat on his married woman, deadlocking their relationship. When the Temple of Five is plant on the planet and the Cylons show up, Adama is ordered to protect the temple from the Cylons, destroying it if necessary. He orders Starbuck to scout the terrain in her Raptor, which gets shot down by Centurions. Subsequently having sent Dualla to rescue Starbuck, the Major and his team attempt an ambush confronting a group of Centurions passing through a valley towards the temple. The ambush fails, and Adama orders to retreat and the temple to be blown. When trying to do and so, he and his squad witness the algae planet's star going supernova, and realize that the nova is in fact the Eye of Jupiter. After the Cylon armada has jumped abroad to escape the destruction of the planetary system, the basis team is picked up past a rescue political party ("The Eye of Jupiter", "Rapture").

Later Adama is treated by his friend Galen Tyrol to a little surprise: A number of crew accept created a bar, on the starboard hangar deck, consummate with a Pyramid arcade game and an old Viper Marking 2 hanging above for atmosphere. Tyrol and Adama have a potable as they hash out their marital bug; Tyrol and his wife Cally have had an argument that has evidently left him "in the doghouse". Adama is reluctant to interact with his wife, every bit his dubiousness over his love of Kara Thrace continues to fight with him. Adama returns to his quarters, quite drunk, to find Dualla yet awake and doing some piece of work, apparently drinking some type of alcohol. She tries to confirm if they are all the same going to have dinner afterward that day as Lee dozes off, leaving Dualla disappointed. Later on Adama and Dualla take an statement about Kara Thrace and the time to come of their marriage. Dualla says that she married Adama considering she loved him, choosing to have him for as long equally he or Kara Thrace would let him. She resigns herself to her spousal relationship's failure and tells Adama that she will non stand in his way if he were to choose Thrace over her. Dualla then leaves. Thrace and Adama meet privately. When Thrace asks Adama if he loves her and would be with her if she were to leave Anders, Adama equivocates, remembering Thrace's fickleness after he declared his love a year earlier. Thrace leaves him to retrieve about the situation.

Adama returns to the bar and drinks more, toying with his wedding band. He asks Chief Tyrol if he ever thought about what his futurity with Boomer would take been like, or had whatever regrets. With a quick drinkable, Tyrol replies in the negative. Adama stumbles back to his quarters, losing his hymeneals band somewhere in Galactica's corridors. Lee Adama and his married woman run into in Joe's Bar. Adama, having since found his lost wedding ring, confesses that he loves Dualla and how dedicated she has been to him, never realizing how much he needed her affection. As the ii embrace, Adama tries to avoid looking across the bar at Kara Thrace and Anders. Thrace returns the glance before Adama breaks information technology off (Taking a Break From All Your Worries).

Death of a Lover and Friend

During refueling operations over a gas giant, Kara Thrace becomes mentally unstable, having hallucinations about Leoben and her declared destiny. When she refuses to fly another mission, Adama has a friendly talk with her. Afterward all that happened two are back where they started; Thrace being the screwup pilot and Adama having to clean up afterwards her equally CAG. He likewise tells her that his relationship with Dee is better than ever. Adama offers to fly equally her wingman to at-home her. While on CAP, Starbuck sees a Cylon Heavy Raider and goes on alarm, joined by Adama. Withal, from the vantage point of Adama, Thrace's Viper malfunctions and is drawn into the vortex of a storm. He gets sketchy information from Thrace when she says "I'll run across you on the other side." Her Viper explodes, and Adama struggles to escape the vortex (Maelstrom).

He is badly shaken past her death, as evidenced past his lack of concentration as CAG, confusing people and mission details. He is likewise shaken past a story told by Romo Lampkin. Somewhen, he begins the healing process with Samuel Anders by putting Thrace's picture into the memorial hallway (The Son Besides Rises).

The Trial of Gaius Baltar

President Roslin recommends that Major Adama be put in charge of the proceedings of the trial of Gaius Baltar. However, due to the pressures that he is under, Adama declines the position (despite his involvement in law as a child). As a token of his affection, Admiral Adama gives Lee his granddad'southward Caprican Law Code books (A Day in the Life). After, his begetter places Adama in charge of security for Baltar's lawyer, Romo Lampkin, claiming that he trusts him, but likewise pulling him off his duties of CAG after he shows that Thrace's death affects his job operation. While following Lampkin around, Adama develops a want to help Lampkin defend Baltar. His father is is not pleased with this idea, only allows him to do so (The Son Too Rises).

Later on Adama contributes to humiliating Colonel Tigh in court, he and his father have a falling out, which leads to Lee'south resignation from the Colonial Fleet and him becoming a civilian. Adama besides learns that President Roslin has resumed taking chamalla, which he confronts her about in courtroom, trying to discredit her credibility. Roslin pleads with him to not pursue his line of questioning, merely he forces her to acknowledge that her cancer has returned. Disappointed in Adama, she recollects times when the two were friends and she called him "Helm Apollo". Subsequently that, his wife packs her belongings in preparation for leaving Adama. She says that he should not have confronted the President, and that he was supporting a legal system that was trying to let a murderer walk. She leaves him alone, with him crying that she doesn't understand him (Crossroads, Role I).

In an unusual move, Adama takes the stand himself and delivers a passionate speech in defense force of Baltar. He points out a string of incidents, some involving himself, where people were forgiven for serious crimes, and defends those decisions, arguing that humanity is not a real civilization anymore. Adama thinks that executing Baltar for actions that he couldn't really prevent is not justice, and that Baltar is just the Fleet's scapegoat for everyone's misdeeds and failures on New Caprica. The spoken communication plays a major role in Baltar'south subsequent amortization. When Romo Lampkin leaves Adama later on their victory, he leaves back his pikestaff, which he used after existence injured in an attempt on his life, and walks normally, thus showing how he manipulated both Adama and the court. Ultimately, Adama'south sense of justice has once over again placed him at odds with his male parent, but this time he has alienated Roslin and his married woman besides, leaving him seemingly alone.

A New Commencement

As Cylon forces converges on the Fleet in the Ionian Nebula, Adama unofficially returns to duty and mans a Viper. Unexpectedly, he encounters Kara Thrace, whom he believed dead (Crossroads, Part II). Adama and Thrace join the ensuing battle and help to defend the noncombatant ships from the Cylons. When Thrace returns to Galactica, Adama is glad to run across her once more and believes her story to a sure degree, whereas most others are is distrustful and suspect a Cylon trap.

His father offers him his pilot wings back, and thus his commission, just Adama declines, saying that he felt the need for a change for some time, and that Baltar'southward trial was but the trigger. He thinks that he tin can gain a position in the Colonial government and make a contribution in that location (He That Believeth In Me).

Tom Zarek nominates Adama as the Caprican delegate on the Quorum of Twelve. Adama is seen off Galactica with a party in the rec room and an official ceremony on the hangar deck, where many of the coiffure salute him and wish him good luck. He embraces Dualla and tells her that she "got the house", implying that their breakup is last (6 of One). Zarek appointed Adama considering of his dedication to finding the truth during the Baltar trial, and because he wants Adama to fight against some or Roslin'due south proposed changes to the justice system, that are undemocratic in his eyes. Although in public, Roslin claims to have forgiven Adama and to admire his convictions, she snubs him by refusing to meet him and openly teases him about his inexperience in a Quorum session (The Ties That Bind).

Adama once more shows his idealism when Baltar's new cult violently clashes with other religious groups in the Fleet. Whereas Roslin wants to close down the group and pleads to the Quorum to retroactively sign off an emergency measure that restricts their correct of assembly, Adama and Reza Chronides retrieve that they are doing nothing blasphemous and illegal. The Quorum somewhen decides to rescind Roslin'southward determination. Roslin later tells his male parent, that she thinks that Adama peradventure be right, but that he is also idealistic and doesn't understand the pragmatism that is sometimes necessary in politics (Escape Velocity).

Family tree

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Notes

• From Ronald D. Moore'due south web log, in response to a fan's question:

In my get-go typhoon of the mini, Lee Adama had just been accustomed into test pilot school on Caprica and was not currently assigned to any battlestar. Presumably, he had been posted to at least a couple of battlestar Air Groups in his career, also every bit several ground assignments as well. This isn't catechism withal, notwithstanding, and I'm currently thinking of changing some elements of his specific backstory every bit I piece of work on storylines for Flavour Two. Overall, I'd say Lee was striving (perhaps too hard) to blaze a different path for himself in the fleet from that of his father. I don't recall Lee e'er saw himself equally a battlestar commander and was looking for a unlike style to make his marking.

• The caption under Apollo'south name in "Concluding Cutting" list him equally "CFR". In the podcast, Ron Moore explaines that this stands for "Colonial Fleet Reserves"; and that Apollo was a reserve officer because he wasn't sure what he was doing with his life and if he was going to pursue a full career in the Colonial Fleet.
• According to Jamie Bamber, Adama'southward official grapheme biography states that "Lee is never so happy as when he's in his kitchen cooking."
• Jamie Bamber is the husband of actress Kerry Norton, who portrays Layne Ishay, the paramedic from "Scattered" and "Taking a Break From All Your Worries".
• Bamber is actually British, however, he plays Lee Adama with an American accent (presumably to more closely match the accent of Edward James Olmos who plays his male parent).
• Bamber's natural hair color is blonde, merely his pilus is dyed chocolate-brown to play Apollo, so he will resemble Edward James Olmos more than, who plays his characters' father.
• While Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell were hand-picked for their roles, the rest of the characters were cast by audition: amidst those in the running for the role of Apollo was Farscape and Stargate SG-1 star Ben Browder, though the part ultimately went to Jamie Bamber.^[2]
• Admiral William Adama names his son to succeed him every bit commander of Galactica in his resignation letter (Hero) indicating how shut they have go prior to the events of Gaius Baltar's trial.
• Lee Adama'south scout is a Nixon Lookout.
• Lee Adama'due south Colonial Fleet ID tag is marked "L. Adama/ser 318742. ^{[citation needed]}

References

1. ↑ This date is causeless as follows: Zak Adama died 2 years before the Cylon assault. Since he graduated from some kind of military university, he would at least 22 years old, post-obit real earth models. On a photograph of William Adama with his sons, Lee seems to be about two years older than Zak, placing his birth at about 26 years prior to the Cylon set on
2. ↑ Bassom, David (2005). ed. Adam "Adama" Newell Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion. Titan Books. ISBN 1-84576-0972, p. 23.

External Links

• Creator:Bamber on Apollo article at Scifipedia, the SciFi.com Encyclopedia.

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