Lieutenant Sheba

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Sheba
Anne Lockhart as Lieutenant Sheba in Battlestar Galactica
Race	Human
Gender	Female
Portrayed by	Anne Lockhart
Rank	Lieutenant
Affiliation	Colonials

Lieutenant Sheba, portrayed by Anne Lockhart, is a fictional character and regular cast member of the 1978-1979 ABC television series Battlestar Galactica.

Daughter of the legendary Commander Cain, Sheba first appeared as the leader of the Silver Spar Viper squadron from the Battlestar Pegasus in the two part episode "The Living Legend". Left behind on the Galactica when her father took the Pegasus off to battle, and subsequently disappeared, Sheba was assigned responsibility for a Viper squadron on the Galactica; however she continued to wear her Pegasus flight insignia for some time.

Originally intended as a foil for the character of Captain Apollo, Sheba became a friend to Cassiopeia, spurned the advances of Lieutenant Starbuck, and grew close to Apollo and his family.

She was brought under the spell of Count Iblis in "The War of the Gods", but ultimately resisted. Iblis told Sheba that she would see her father again.

Ultimately, Sheba fell in love with Apollo, and revealed this to him in the final episode of the series "The Hand of God".

Although the storyline of the Pegasus was revisited in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series in 2005, the character of Sheba does not have a true analog in the new program.