Barry Garner

Barry Garner
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Geburtsname:	Barry Garner
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Erstmals in:	Mensch und Maschine
Todesursache:	durch ersticken (Mensch und Maschine)
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Rolle:	Kommandant des Kampfstern Pegasus
Dienstgrad:	Commander
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Barry Garner ist ein Zylon
Barry Garner ist einer der Letzten Fünf-Zylonen
Barry Garner ist ein menschlich-zylonischer Hybrid
Barry Garner ist ein Zylon aus der Originalserie

Commander der Pegasus, der starb, um seine Crew zu retten. Bei der Einführung von Sauerstoff und stopfen eines Lecks kam er wegen keines Sauerstoffs ums Leben. Mit dieser Tat rettete er die Crew, aber besiegelte seinen Tod. Währendessen hatte Lee Adama als Major das Oberkommando und wurde nach Garners Tod Commander.

Barry Garner ist der dritte Kommandant der Pegasus nach dem Tod von of Admiral Helena Cain und Colonel Jack Fisk. Vor seiner Beförderung war er der Chefingeneur des Schiffes.

Als Kommandant legt Garner nicht besonders viel Vertrauen an den Tag und behandelt seine Leute eher streng; als ob sie sich 100%ig ihrer Sache widmen müssten. Kara Thrace betrachtet Garner bedingt kompetent und paranoid. Garner hat eine ähnliche Meinung von Thrace und will sie deswegen so bald wie möglich zurück auf die Galactica schicken, obwohl sie noch daran arbeitet um herauszufinden, was mit den vermissten Raptoren 718 und 314 passiert ist.

As a Commander, Garner does not inspire great confidence and treats his staff rather sternly, as if they are to be 100% consistent in their behavior. Kara Thrace considers Garner paranoid and barely competent. Garner holds a similar contempt for Thrace, leading him to order her eventual transfer back to Galactica, despite her work with the missing Raptors 718 and 314.

Garner's Mangel an Befehl-Scharfsinnigkeit gefährdet die Pegasus, als er seinen Kampfstern, gegen Admiral Adama Anordnungen, in das binäre Sternsystem fliegt, um die fehlenden Mannschaften wieder zu erlangen, anstatt eine bewaffnete Staffel von Raptors einzusetzen.

Garner's lack of command insight jeopardizes Pegasus when he takes his battlestar, against Admiral Adama orders, into the binary stellar cloud to recover the missing crews instead of deploying an armed squadron of Raptors.

As Adama suspects, three Cylon basestars ambush Pegasus, forcing Garner to decide on a hastily return to aid his old engineering team to restore the damaged FTL drive (the ship's only means of escape or success), leaving Major Lee Adama in command. Garner enters a compartment which is venting to space, sealing the hatch behind him and sealing the coolant leak damaged by the attack. Major Adama's actions severely damage one of the basestars, buying Garner time to fix the leak. Garner's repair allows Pegasus's "snipes" to return the FTL drives to operation and the battlestar to escape a hopeless battle. However, Garner dies from vacuum exposure in the compartment due to a slow-leaking hull breach.

After the battle, the events surrounding Garner's death are reviewed by Lee and William Adama. Reports were also filed by both Apollo and Starbuck. Apollo understands that Garner's failure was in treating people as he would a machine, whereas Starbuck's assessment of him is considerably harsher (The Captain's Hand).

Notes

• This character was originally named "Barry Trammel", but at the last minute it had to be changed for legal reasons when the production team found that there was a real person with that name.
• In subsequent episodes, Apollo is shown wearing a wristwatch. This may be the one that Garner wears during "The Captain's Hand", and left behind when he returns to the engine room.
• Unlike William Adama, Helena Cain, Saul Tigh and Jack Fisk, Garner's uniform doesn't have any flight wings. This seems to indicate that completing flight training is not a prerequisite for commanding a battlestar. However, this can also be explained by Garner coming from an engineering background instead of the command track, and the lack of high-ranking officers, which might have made it necessary to bend the regulations.