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List of Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series) characters

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Source revisionSep 7, 2026
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Battlestar Galactica is a 2004 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. The pilot for the series first aired as a three-hour miniseries (comprising four broadcast hours in two parts) in December 2003 on Sci Fi, which was then followed by four regular seasons, ending its run on March 20, 2009.

Battlestar Galactica follows a group of human survivors fleeing the destruction of their homeworlds aboard the titular spacecraft, searching for a new home while being pursued by the Cylons, a fearsome society of robots intent on exterminating all humans. Biological models of Cylons, indistinguishable from humans, have infiltrated what remains of the human population, and their identities are revealed over the course of the series.

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William Adama

William Adama, portrayed by Edward James Olmos, is the commanding officer of the Battlestar Galactica and military leader of the Colonial Fleet of survivors after the Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies. A veteran of the First Cylon War, during which his call sign was "Husker", Adama has the longest tenure as the highest-ranking officer in the Colonial Fleet after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies.

Laura Roslin

Laura Roslin, portrayed by Mary McDonnell, is the President of the Twelve Colonies. Serving as the Secretary of Education at the time of the Cylon attack, she is promoted to president with the deaths of everyone before her in the line of succession. Roslin becomes a religious figure to some in the Fleet, essential to the fulfillment of a prophecy that the refugees will find the mythical planet Earth.

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