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[QUOTE]Originally posted by FawnDoo: [QB] The good people of the Battlestar Wiki transcribed what was seen on screen in [URL=http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/William_Adama]this article[/URL] - Adama's service record includes the following: * D6/21311 - First commission: Battlestar Galactica fighter squadron * E4/21312 - Commendation for shooting down Cylon fighter in first combat mission * D5/21314 - Mustered out of service post-armistice * R6/21317 - Served as Deck Hand in merchant fleet and as common [...] aboard inter-colony tramp freighters * D1/21331 - Recommissioned to Fleet * D6/21337 - Major: Battlestar Atlantia * R8/21341 - Executive Officer: Battlestar Columbia * C2/21345 - Commander: Battlestar Valkyrie * C2/21348 - Commander: Battlestar Galactica So it seems that Adama was in Galactica's fighter group and, depending on how long he served aboard her, might even have risen up to CAG. That could explain why he is so fond of his ship, but I did always get the impression up to now that Adama went way back as Galactica's commander. The point made about Adama's feelings regarding wireless networks is an excellent one - the Valkyrie looked like a newer model battlestar, and from the flashback scenes I think it's DRADIS display looked more like that of the Pegasus than the Galactica, which would imply newer technology (or at the very least, newer software). Presumably, it had a network installed much like most other pre-attack battlestars, so where did the strong anti-network feelings come from in the miniseries? Unless the Valkyrie's last mission spooked Adama so badly that his attitude in the miniseries was a recently developed thing... Of course, the whole thing is made a little more harder to reconcile with the story because when you think about it, it might have made more sense to send a ship like the Galactica on such a mission: especially if there was a chance there could be contact with an enemy that could so easily take control of networked computer systems, so there was no need to include the Valkyrie at all! If the Cylons had detected the Galactica it would have given the colonials some plausible deniability - they could explain it along the lines of "Sorry, it's an old ship with faulty navigation systems, it jumped close to the armistice line by mistake" while at the same time putting a heavily armed, FTL capable ship close enough to the line to launch the stealth ship. I'm actually surprised at this sort of thing happening on BSG, which up to now has presented its characters in a solid, consistent way with good backstories. This feels like tinkering, and opens up a whole load of questions about Adama that place some of his actions and motivations over the past two seasons in a new light...which is something I thought BSG would avoid. Don't get me wrong it's a great show, I enjoy it a lot and I'm not saying I'm against the idea of characters being developed and shown in different ways to challenge our perception of them as viewers, but in this one case it just feels a bit like the oft-used Trek device of "tweaking" someone's established backstory or some element of continuity for the sake of one episode. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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