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Racetrack is a lieutenant assigned to the Battlestar Galactica, piloting Raptors and "backseating" as an Electronic Countermeasures Officer (ECO). She first appears in "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part Two" as Sharon "Boomer" Valerii's ECO, becoming the first human to see the inside of a Cylon Basestar.[1] On their return, she is a witness first to Boomer's attempted assassination of Adama and then of Cally's successful assassination of Boomer. In between these events, she is instrumental in Lee Adama's plan to jailbreak Laura Roslin.[2] During this phase of the show, Racetrack is particularly and visibly more traumatized and wounded even than the rest of the crew.[3][4]
Racetrack is a witness to the arrival of Adm. Helena Cain and the Battlestar Pegasus before we see her volunteering for a risky SAR to Caprica. On the first jump, a computer error sends her Raptor to the wrong coordinates; preparing to return to Galactica, Racetrack discovers a planet that the fleet could colonize. Presidential candidate Gaius Baltar makes colonization of this planet an issue in the election, and after his victory, settlement of the planet, now named New Caprica, begins.[5] Many crew members (but not, notably, Racetrack) muster-out and settle. When the Cylons locate and occupy the planet a year later, Racetrack is part of Galactica's remaining skeleton crew, and leads the Raptor mission to draw the Cylon forces away from New Caprica while Galactica covers the civilians' escape.[6]
With the Pegasus destroyed in the escape from New Caprica, the combined air wing embarked on the Galactica has an excess of qualified pilots. Desperate to keep up her flying hours, Racetrack volunteers to serve as Sharon "Athena" Agathon's ECO,[7] eventually reclaiming a Raptor of her own. During this period, she has repeated close-calls with death both from equipment malfunctions and assassination attempts on people in that she is tasked to transport.[8][9] At the end of season three, she seems to have won some personal respite, until one, last split-second escape in "Crossroads, Part One."[10] In "Crossroads, Part Two," there is a harsh, brittle edge to her, and by "Escape Velocity" and "The Hub"—in which she becomes the first human to have eyes on the eponymous facility—catatonia seems to be setting in.
When Felix Gaeta instigates a mutiny against Adama, Racetrack and her co-pilot Hamish "Skulls" McCall side with the mutineers,[11] and are detained.[12] But when Adama calls for volunteers for a dangerous recon mission to locate the Cylon's home base, "The Colony," Racetrack volunteers. She succeeds, becoming the first human to see it, and allowing Adama to plan an assault on the facility, but is killed in action during that assault, immediately after arming her weapons.[13] Soon thereafter, at a critical moment of events, an asteroid bumps into the Raptor, and Racetrack's hand slips onto the launch button, firing the Raptor's nukes; thus, Racetrack's last action is to save the humans and allied Cylons and to destroy the Colony.
In "The Woman King," Charlie Connor—a resistance fighter on New Caprica turned barman in the pilots' lounge–refers to Racetrack as "Marge." He and Edmondson appear to have a fractious relationship.
Laura Roslin is a fictional character in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica series, portrayed by Mary McDonnell. She is the President of the Twelve Colonies and one of the primary characters in the show.
Callandra "Cally" Tyrol is a fictional character from the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica series. She is played by actress Nicki Clyne.
William "Bill" Adama is a fictional character portrayed by Edward James Olmos in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica television series produced and aired by the SyFy cable network. He is one of the main characters, a reimagining of Commander Adama from the 1978 Battlestar Galactica series originally played by Lorne Greene.
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Leland Joseph "Lee" Adama 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.
Karl C. Agathon is a fictional character on the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica TV series, portrayed by Tahmoh Penikett.
Battlestar Galactica is a space battleship in the original and re-imagined science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica. In the series, the Twelve Colonies built approximately 120 Battlestars during their thousand-year war with the Cylons, whose own battleships are known as Basestars.
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Commander Adama is a fictional character in the 1978 movie and subsequent ABC television series Battlestar Galactica and its continuation series, Galactica 1980.
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Alex Quartararo is a fictional character in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series, portrayed by Sam Witwer. His real name, while not given in the series, is Alex Quartararo.
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"Colonial Day" is the eleventh episode of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica television series.
"Kobol's Last Gleaming" is the two-part first season finale of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica television series.
"Home" is a two-part episode of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica television series. Part 1 aired originally on the Sci Fi Channel on August 19, 2005, and Part 2 aired on August 26, 2005.
The music of the 2004 TV series Battlestar Galactica is a body of work largely credited to the composers Bear McCreary and Richard Gibbs. The music of Battlestar Galactica displays a variety of ethnic influences and generally does not conform to the "orchestral" style of many science fiction scores.
Battlestar Galactica: The Plan is a television film set in the reimagined version of the fictional Battlestar Galactica universe. It consists of newly filmed material as well as a compilation of footage from the 2004 TV series and miniseries.
"Daybreak" is the three-part series finale of the reimagined science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica, and are the 74th and 75th episodes overall. The episodes aired on the U.S. Sci Fi Channel and SPACE in Canada respectively on March 13 and March 20, 2009. The second part is double-length. The episodes were written by Ronald D. Moore, and directed by Michael Rymer. The Season 4.5 DVD and Blu-ray releases for Region 1 feature an extended version of the finale, which not only combines all three parts as a single episode, but also integrates it with new scenes not seen in the aired versions of either part. The survivor count shown in the title sequence for Part 1 is 39,516. The survivor count shown in the title sequence for Part 2 is 39,406. At the end of Part 2, Admiral Adama announces the survivor population at approximately 38,000.
Aaron Kelly is a fictional character in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica TV program. Played by Ty Olsson, Cpt. Kelly is the LSO for the Galactica's portside flight-deck.
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