Cally Tyrol

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Cally Tyrol
Nicki Clyne as Specialist Cally.
Race	Human
Gender	Female
Portrayed by	Nicki Clyne
First appearance	Miniseries
Callsign	None
Rank	Specialist
Colony	Unknown
Affiliation	Colonial Fleet

Cally Tyrol (also known as Specialist Cally, Deckhand Cally, or Crewman Cally) is a character from the Sci Fi Channel's "reimagined" Battlestar Galactica miniseries and TV series. Played by Nicki Clyne, Cally is a regularly-appearing guest character. Cally first appeared in the opening minutes of the pilot miniseries, in the first scene set on Galactica. Originally, Cally was supposed to be little more than an extra to whom the writers assigned a name, but soon after the series began, they stated that they enjoyed Clyne's performance and expanded the role into a recurring character. In season three, Cally marries Chief Galen Tyrol and takes his last name. According to cast and crew interviews, her maiden name was Henderson and placed by the art department as a label on her locker, but that name was never revealed in dialog.

1 Duties
2 History & significant events
3 Notes
- 3.1 Cally and her name
- 3.2 Cally and FTL
4 External links

[edit] Duties

Cally is part of the flight deck crew, led by Chief Galen Tyrol, who has the admiration, respect and loyalty of all his personnel, especially Cally. On Tyrol's deck crew, she repairs Vipers and Raptors, maintaining them in working condition.

[edit] History & significant events

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[edit] Non-victim

In the episode Bastille Day, Cally is assigned to a team sent to the Astral Queen to enlist volunteers from the prisoners for water recovery from an icy moon. While the team is there, the prisoners stage a break-out and Cally becomes one of several hostages. She is shot by Mason, one of the prisoners and a friend of Tom Zarek, when she fights off Mason's attempted rape by biting off his ear. (Ron Moore has said that the original script called for the inmate to rape and kill Cally, but he and the writers, originally jokingly, asked what would happen if she bit off his ear. The script was changed and Moore & Co. decided to keep it.)

Nicki Clyne as Specialist Cally

[edit] Blackbird

In the episode "Flight of the Phoenix," she appears to be the first person (on camera) to sign her name on the new Blackbird spacecraft.

[edit] Mother-Frakker

Cally was the first character to use the Galactica-ism "frak" in the form of "mother-frakker" during a multi-part episode arc placing her and a small team, including Baltar, Crashdown, Chief Tyrol, Seelix, and a seriously injured Socinus, from Galactica on Kobol. That part of the script, specifically the use of the word, was written by series creator Ronald Moore.[1] Cally reveals in this episode that she only joined the military to pay for dental school.

[edit] Vengeance

Cally kills the Cylon Lieutenant Sharon 'Boomer' Valerii at the start of the show's second season in retribution for the assault on Commander Adama. Cally is put in the brig for 30 days for the offense of "unauthorized discharge of a firearm."

[edit] Cally and Tyrol

At the end of the second season, Cally was severely beaten by a sleep walking Chief Tyrol. Though her jaw was wired shut, she proclaimed her love for Tyrol. In the second season's final episode, we find that the two have settled on New Caprica ("one year later") and Cally is pregnant.

According to the Resistance Webisodes, Cally and Tyrol are married, have a son (Nicholas Stephen Tyrol), and are members of the resistance.

[edit] New Caprica and Afterward

Cally was one of the resistance members that were rounded up during one of the sweeps by the New Caprica Police. She is visited in prison by Sharon "Boomer" Valerii, but rejects her offer of help. Selected to be executed along with several other prisoners, Cally is freed by Jammer and is reunited with her husband and child.

The family resume their life aboard Galactica, taking turns watching over their newborn while resuming their duties on the flight deck. Cally assists Tyrol in his exploration of the Temple of Five on the algae planet, and escapes with him back to Galactica after the planet is destroyed.

Cally was trapped, with Galen Tyrol, in an airlock that was slowly venting its air into space via a damaged patch. Admiral Adama decided that the only way to get them out was to blow the outer hatch and catch the two of them in a waiting Raptor. After this was done, Cally and Tyrol were imediately brought to sick bay for treatment. Cally was more seriously injured and had to spend some time in a hyperbaric chamber. She then spent several weeks recovering from the bends.

While it was revealed in Crossroads part II, that Colonel Tigh, Samual Anders, Tori Foster, and Galen Tyrol are all Cylons, Cally is unaware of this or of the fact that her son is a Human/Cylon Hybrid.

[edit] Notes

[edit] Cally and her name

Cally was, along with Doctor Cottle, the only frequently recurring characters who had yet to be given a full name (though Cally has been in the series since the pilot, while Cottle has not), and was simply listed as "Cally" for two seasons.

The character was listed as "Specialist Cally" in the show credits, implying that "Cally" is not the character's given name. She is rarely referred to by name and rank (which would use her surname), though Tyrol referred to her to Adama as "Specialist Cally" in "The Farm", episode 5 of season 2. In the novelization of the Battlestar Galactica miniseries, "Cally" is clearly identified as the character's surname; her first name is given as Jane. However, after her marriage to Galen Tyrol at the end of Season 2 Cally is referred to as "Cally Tyrol", confirming "Cally" as her first name, assuming "Cally Tyrol" was not a reference to a compound maiden-married last name.

Some sources have stated that Battlestar Galactica writer Bradley Thompson has appeared on the Battlestar Wiki discussion pages and said that Cally is the character's first name; her (maiden) last name is Henderson. The art department reportedly used the name Henderson to label her locker, uniform, and other in-show props that belong to the character, though these have never been clearly seen on the show. Other sources have reported that Thompson has also made comments to this effect at Comic-Con. Actress Nicki Clyne herself has subsequently acknowledged in interviews that although not spoken in dialogue so far, going into season 3 new scripts have her listed as "Cally Henderson Tyrol". The Peter David tie-in novel Sagittarius Is Bleeding identifies her as "Callista Henderson."

No full name has been officially confirmed by Universal.

[edit] Cally and FTL

It appears that Cally is not fond of FTL travel, via her own comments in the miniseries and Chief Tyrol's warning to her to hold onto her lunch in "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part One."