Captain Apollo
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| Apollo | |
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Richard Hatch as "Apollo" |
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| Race | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Portrayed by | Richard Hatch |
| Rank | Captain |
| Colony | Caprica |
| Affiliation | Colonials |
Captain Apollo is the name of a fictitious character in the original Battlestar Galactica television series. He was played by Richard Hatch, who would also later appear as the character of Tom Zarek in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series in 2005.
Apollo was a Viper spacefighter pilot of the Battlestar Galactica, and the son of Commander Adama. (A diary entry from Adama in one of the novelizations based on the original television series says that he was named for one of Adama's squadron mates from his time aboard the battlestar Cerberus.) He was married to Serina, a reporter-turned-shuttle-pilot who became a reserve Viper pilot, and was killed by Cylons on Kobol. Apollo adopted Serina's son, Boxey and became a single father to him after Serina's death. His sister is Lieutenant Athena, and his mother was Ila. Ila was killed in the Cylon sneak attack on the Twelve Colonies. His brother Zac was shot down by a Cylon ambush prior to the attack. Zac's viper was damaged, and Apollo left him behind in order to warn the Galactica of the attack.
Later in the series, Apollo becomes romantically involved with Lieutenant Sheba. His best friend is Lieutenant Starbuck.
Apollo is arguably the central character of Battlestar Galactica, and storylines and character relationships revolve around him.
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[edit] Military career
Captain Apollo is the leader of Blue Squadron, an accomplished group of Viper pilots. Among his accomplishments in the series are leading the mission to destroy the Madagon minefield, leading the assault on the pulsar cannon on Arkta, removing the renegade Cylon known as Red Eye, leading the paratroop assault on the Cylon city on Gamoray, leading the resistance to Count Iblis, helping to save Terra from the Eastern Alliance, and sneaking aboard a Cylon baseship to knock out its sensors so the Galactica could destroy it.
[edit] Galactica 1980
Like many of the stars of the original series, Richard Hatch was not available to work on the short lived sequel series Galactica 1980. As a result, the series was set many years in the future of the original show, and featured a grown Boxey now known as Captain Troy. Troy comments early in the first episode of Galactica 1980 that he missed both of his parents, and displayed a picture of Sheba and Apollo, suggested Apollo had died years before.
[edit] Notes
In early drafts of the Galactica scripts the Apollo character was named Skyler.
[edit] See also
- Lee "Apollo" Adama, Captain Apollo's analog in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica.
[edit] External links
- Apollo at the Battlestar Wiki
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