Biography
Character Description:
Age: Ranges from late 20s to early 30s in canon of BSG. Played as old as 40-45 in various AU iterations using icons from Law and Order: UK also
Gender: Male
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 165 lbs
Eyes: blue
Hair: brown
Build: slender, muscular, well toned, his military callsign Apollo is especially relevant
Special skills: War College Graduate, Military pilot, Self Defense Instructor, budding lawyer, Leadership - Commander Air Group (CAG), Commander Battlestar Pegasus, Caprican Delegate to the Quarum of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol, Interim President of same.
Character Personality: Lee's often described as a stick-up-his-ass, by-the-book, overthinker. He is quiet and thoughtful, but can explode if provoked. He can make the hard choice if he has to. He's not good at inspiring with words. He was though able to win the trust of his crew by his actions in cleaning up the bad apples on the Pegasus who had gone as far as rape of a Cylon prisoner during the tenure of previous Commanders. However, also during his tenure as Commander, he and his father, the overall military leader, were forced to flee the Cylons with the two battlestars. The Cylons had found them with the majority of their population settled on a planet. His guilt and inability to act further after leaving the people behind caused him to descend to the depths of depression eating himself into an overweight state. He obviously remains guilt-ridden, at one point attempting suicide, about his many "crimes".
Character History:
Battlestar Wiki-Lee Adama
Lee's mother Carolanne was pregnant with Lee before she and William Adama married so it's possible the marriage was a loveless one. Lee's father was in the military so often away and in general neglected Lee and his younger brother Zak. Yet William Adama still drilled into them the axiom that a man wasn't a man until he wore the wings of a viper (space fighter) pilot. Lee's parents divorced (most probably when Lee was in his early teens) and his mother's subsequent decent into alcoholism, if not already evident, left Lee in charge of the household and a shield for his brother. He definitely suffered emotional if not physical abuse during this period.
While probably a victim both of expectation to match the performance of his war hero father and charges of success due to nepotism Lee still did well enough in his initial military training to attend War College and be promoted early to Captain. Sometime prior to the latter Lee argued with his father on his younger brother's suitability for service as a pilot. Lee lost that argument and Zak entered pilot training. Sometime during Zak's pilot training Zak became engaged to Kara Thrace who at the time was a flight instructor. Lee met Kara after she met Zak and the two were immediately attracted almost having drunken sex on her dining room table while his brother slept it off on the couch. The realization of what they had almost done was only one of the things that negatively colored their later relationship.
Lee's assessment of Zak's unsuitability as a Viper pilot was borne out when Zak failed his flight assessment but Kara's emotional involvement led to her passing him. This soon resulted in Zak's death in a flight accident. Kara's actions were unknown to Lee who, bereft at the loss of his brother, accused his father of killing Zak. This led to their estrangement. Lee went to the Atlantia while a devastated Kara was offered assignment on her perspective father-in-law's ship the Galactica.
Two years later the Galactica was set for decommissioning and Lee reluctantly reported under orders to take part in a ceremonial fly-by. The still estranged Adamas barely made it through the publicity events and renewed their argument over Zak's death. While Lee was escorting the spaceliner carrying the Secretary of Education back to their planet the Cylons, who had not been heard from in forty years, attacked. Lee eventually returned to the Galactica and though extremely young and inexperienced was thrown into the role of Commander of the Air Group (CAG). He filled this role while rebuilding his relationship with his father and forming a stronger bond with Kara.
During this time Kara met and eventually rescued Sam Anders while Lee grew closer to Anastasia Dualla (Dee). Although in love with each other Kara and Lee had many issues, including her previous engagement to his brother and they eventually married Sam and Dee. They were soon involved in a torrid affair with each other though. During this time he became Commander of the battlestar Pegasus. He lost that ship in a fight to rescue many of the survivors of the original Cylon attacks from an occupation of a new planet (New Caprica) they had settled.
Lee returned to the rank of Major and service as CAG. Following Kara's apparent death he left the military to defend Gaius Baltar who was accused as a traitor for collaborating with the Cylons while President during the occupation of New Caprica. When Kara returned two months after her disappearance, claiming to have knowledge of the route to Earth, Lee decided to remain a civilian and was offered a seat on the Colonial Quorum (legislative body). It was from here that he was appointed interim President following Laura Roslin's "kidnapping" while negotiating with a faction of the Cylons who wished to repudiate their former goal of wiping out humanity and join the humans in seeking out Earth.
To gain the release of his people from the Cylons he made an agreement to make the final leg of their journey in search of Earth together. Lee stepped down as interim President when Laura Roslin returned. Following a route based on information from Kara Thrace they find what they think is Earth, their hoped for salvation, but on landing find an apocalyptic wasteland. Lee as well as everyone else is devastated. This failure, combined with a plan to use Cylon jump technology to ensure they can keep going, leads to a rebellion in which Lee and Kara are reduced to guerrilla operations to remain alive but they eventually regain the upper hand.
When they are attacked by the faction of Cylons that still wants to destroy them Kara has a revelation about some music her father composed and is able to use it to find them another habitable planet which ends up being Earth 150,000 ago. Lee successfully argues for them to mostly abandon technology and start over and his story ends after his father and Laura Roslin go off, he tells Kara he wants to explore their new home, and she disappears after telling him her journey is over.
Character's Crimes: At heart Lee is a good character who believes in justice and doing the right thing. This has not kept him from doing questionable things when he believes it's right or when required by expediency.
Before the war Lee impregnated his girlfriend Gianne then told her that he wasn't ready to be a father. Stunned and upset she ran from him. Although he called out to her he never did try to find her again. Presumably Gianne and child died in the Cylon attacks.
At the beginning of the war, when Lee was aboard Colonial One with newly sworn in President Roslin, a Cylon raider popped in and out while Roslin was organizing the civilians escape. Lee recommended they leave non-FTL ships in order to save himself and the ships with FTL.
Shortly thereafter, when the Cylons were making attacks every 33 minutes, a passenger liner the Olympic Carrier disappeared. After an extended period it reappeared with evidence of a nuclear weapon onboard and headed for the Galactica. With the ship not responding to hails Commander Adama ordered it shot down. Aware that there were as many as 1300 civilian passengers still onboard and urged by his wingman Starbuck (Kara Thrace) not to act, Lee shot down the spaceliner.
Lee was sent to a prison transport, the Astral Queen to negotiate for prisoners to assist with obtaining water from ice after a sabotage caused Galatica to lose it's reserves. Overpowered by the prisoners he eventually gained the upper hand. A marine sniper team led by Starbuck boarded the ship with Starbuck as a sniper to kill the leader of the prisoners Tom Zarek. Lee saw the laser target mark and pushed Zarek out of the line of fire. He then negotiated to get the needed workers by leaving the prisoners in control of the transport much to Roslin's displeasure.
After Commander Adama and President Roslin had a disagreement the Commander decided to terminate her Presidency. Lee, a member of the boarding party sent to arrest her under the command of XO Col Saul Tigh, realized this jeopardized democracy and drew his gun on Col Tigh. Unwilling to permit bloodshed Roslin capitulated and she and Lee were taken into custody. On return to the ship Lee was taken to the CIC where he witnessed an assassination attempt that left his father incapacitated. With Col Tigh in charge Lee gave his parole so that he could continue to do his CAG duties stating he would not suborn support for Roslin. However, as Tigh's leadership faltered, Lee organized an escape for himself and Roslin. They were later tracked down by his recovered father and things returned to the status quo.
When the battlestar Pegasus arrived and Admiral Cain took over the fleet Apollo and Starbuck were transferred there. Lee was rebuffed when he suggested to Pegasus' CAG using a Galactica's crew built stealth fighter for a recon mission. He nevertheless provided the camera to Kara and sent her off to retrieve the fighter and fly the mission. Lee was demoted to Lieutenant as punishment but Kara got promoted to CAG for her audacity getting the photos.
Sent by the President and his father to investigate the thriving black market Lee shoots and kills the boss when he can not get him to agree to terms and negotiates the deal with the remaining henchmen. Lee's ongoing liaison with a prostitute is also revealed here, but when he wants to take her back with him she rebuffs him.
When the Cylons arrive at New Caprica Lee joined his father in withdrawing from the field taking both battlestars away from the planet. When the senior Adama planed a rescue mission Lee argued against going back for the colonists left behind.
When it was discovered that a virus, left behind in a beacon placed by the 13th tribe, has killed all the Cylons on the basestar that found the beacon Lee argued for and led a mission to place the virus to completely wipe out the Cylons despite arguments by some against this potential genocide.
Despite Kara marrying Sam Anders and Lee marrying Anastasia Dualla (Dee) the two are soon engaged in a torrid affair
During Baltar's trial Lee got Roslin to admit taking a hallucinogenic drug and that the cancer she was using it for has reoccurred thereby casting doubt on her competency and testimony.
Lee was instrumental in negotiating with the Cylons to join together to go to the devastated planet that was supposed to be Earth.
Age: Ranges from late 20s to early 30s in canon of BSG. Played as old as 40-45 in various AU iterations using icons from Law and Order: UK also
Gender: Male
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 165 lbs
Eyes: blue
Hair: brown
Build: slender, muscular, well toned, his military callsign Apollo is especially relevant
Special skills: War College Graduate, Military pilot, Self Defense Instructor, budding lawyer, Leadership - Commander Air Group (CAG), Commander Battlestar Pegasus, Caprican Delegate to the Quarum of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol, Interim President of same.
Character Personality: Lee's often described as a stick-up-his-ass, by-the-book, overthinker. He is quiet and thoughtful, but can explode if provoked. He can make the hard choice if he has to. He's not good at inspiring with words. He was though able to win the trust of his crew by his actions in cleaning up the bad apples on the Pegasus who had gone as far as rape of a Cylon prisoner during the tenure of previous Commanders. However, also during his tenure as Commander, he and his father, the overall military leader, were forced to flee the Cylons with the two battlestars. The Cylons had found them with the majority of their population settled on a planet. His guilt and inability to act further after leaving the people behind caused him to descend to the depths of depression eating himself into an overweight state. He obviously remains guilt-ridden, at one point attempting suicide, about his many "crimes".
Character History:
Battlestar Wiki-Lee Adama
Lee's mother Carolanne was pregnant with Lee before she and William Adama married so it's possible the marriage was a loveless one. Lee's father was in the military so often away and in general neglected Lee and his younger brother Zak. Yet William Adama still drilled into them the axiom that a man wasn't a man until he wore the wings of a viper (space fighter) pilot. Lee's parents divorced (most probably when Lee was in his early teens) and his mother's subsequent decent into alcoholism, if not already evident, left Lee in charge of the household and a shield for his brother. He definitely suffered emotional if not physical abuse during this period.
While probably a victim both of expectation to match the performance of his war hero father and charges of success due to nepotism Lee still did well enough in his initial military training to attend War College and be promoted early to Captain. Sometime prior to the latter Lee argued with his father on his younger brother's suitability for service as a pilot. Lee lost that argument and Zak entered pilot training. Sometime during Zak's pilot training Zak became engaged to Kara Thrace who at the time was a flight instructor. Lee met Kara after she met Zak and the two were immediately attracted almost having drunken sex on her dining room table while his brother slept it off on the couch. The realization of what they had almost done was only one of the things that negatively colored their later relationship.
Lee's assessment of Zak's unsuitability as a Viper pilot was borne out when Zak failed his flight assessment but Kara's emotional involvement led to her passing him. This soon resulted in Zak's death in a flight accident. Kara's actions were unknown to Lee who, bereft at the loss of his brother, accused his father of killing Zak. This led to their estrangement. Lee went to the Atlantia while a devastated Kara was offered assignment on her perspective father-in-law's ship the Galactica.
Two years later the Galactica was set for decommissioning and Lee reluctantly reported under orders to take part in a ceremonial fly-by. The still estranged Adamas barely made it through the publicity events and renewed their argument over Zak's death. While Lee was escorting the spaceliner carrying the Secretary of Education back to their planet the Cylons, who had not been heard from in forty years, attacked. Lee eventually returned to the Galactica and though extremely young and inexperienced was thrown into the role of Commander of the Air Group (CAG). He filled this role while rebuilding his relationship with his father and forming a stronger bond with Kara.
During this time Kara met and eventually rescued Sam Anders while Lee grew closer to Anastasia Dualla (Dee). Although in love with each other Kara and Lee had many issues, including her previous engagement to his brother and they eventually married Sam and Dee. They were soon involved in a torrid affair with each other though. During this time he became Commander of the battlestar Pegasus. He lost that ship in a fight to rescue many of the survivors of the original Cylon attacks from an occupation of a new planet (New Caprica) they had settled.
Lee returned to the rank of Major and service as CAG. Following Kara's apparent death he left the military to defend Gaius Baltar who was accused as a traitor for collaborating with the Cylons while President during the occupation of New Caprica. When Kara returned two months after her disappearance, claiming to have knowledge of the route to Earth, Lee decided to remain a civilian and was offered a seat on the Colonial Quorum (legislative body). It was from here that he was appointed interim President following Laura Roslin's "kidnapping" while negotiating with a faction of the Cylons who wished to repudiate their former goal of wiping out humanity and join the humans in seeking out Earth.
To gain the release of his people from the Cylons he made an agreement to make the final leg of their journey in search of Earth together. Lee stepped down as interim President when Laura Roslin returned. Following a route based on information from Kara Thrace they find what they think is Earth, their hoped for salvation, but on landing find an apocalyptic wasteland. Lee as well as everyone else is devastated. This failure, combined with a plan to use Cylon jump technology to ensure they can keep going, leads to a rebellion in which Lee and Kara are reduced to guerrilla operations to remain alive but they eventually regain the upper hand.
When they are attacked by the faction of Cylons that still wants to destroy them Kara has a revelation about some music her father composed and is able to use it to find them another habitable planet which ends up being Earth 150,000 ago. Lee successfully argues for them to mostly abandon technology and start over and his story ends after his father and Laura Roslin go off, he tells Kara he wants to explore their new home, and she disappears after telling him her journey is over.
Character's Crimes: At heart Lee is a good character who believes in justice and doing the right thing. This has not kept him from doing questionable things when he believes it's right or when required by expediency.
Before the war Lee impregnated his girlfriend Gianne then told her that he wasn't ready to be a father. Stunned and upset she ran from him. Although he called out to her he never did try to find her again. Presumably Gianne and child died in the Cylon attacks.
At the beginning of the war, when Lee was aboard Colonial One with newly sworn in President Roslin, a Cylon raider popped in and out while Roslin was organizing the civilians escape. Lee recommended they leave non-FTL ships in order to save himself and the ships with FTL.
Shortly thereafter, when the Cylons were making attacks every 33 minutes, a passenger liner the Olympic Carrier disappeared. After an extended period it reappeared with evidence of a nuclear weapon onboard and headed for the Galactica. With the ship not responding to hails Commander Adama ordered it shot down. Aware that there were as many as 1300 civilian passengers still onboard and urged by his wingman Starbuck (Kara Thrace) not to act, Lee shot down the spaceliner.
Lee was sent to a prison transport, the Astral Queen to negotiate for prisoners to assist with obtaining water from ice after a sabotage caused Galatica to lose it's reserves. Overpowered by the prisoners he eventually gained the upper hand. A marine sniper team led by Starbuck boarded the ship with Starbuck as a sniper to kill the leader of the prisoners Tom Zarek. Lee saw the laser target mark and pushed Zarek out of the line of fire. He then negotiated to get the needed workers by leaving the prisoners in control of the transport much to Roslin's displeasure.
After Commander Adama and President Roslin had a disagreement the Commander decided to terminate her Presidency. Lee, a member of the boarding party sent to arrest her under the command of XO Col Saul Tigh, realized this jeopardized democracy and drew his gun on Col Tigh. Unwilling to permit bloodshed Roslin capitulated and she and Lee were taken into custody. On return to the ship Lee was taken to the CIC where he witnessed an assassination attempt that left his father incapacitated. With Col Tigh in charge Lee gave his parole so that he could continue to do his CAG duties stating he would not suborn support for Roslin. However, as Tigh's leadership faltered, Lee organized an escape for himself and Roslin. They were later tracked down by his recovered father and things returned to the status quo.
When the battlestar Pegasus arrived and Admiral Cain took over the fleet Apollo and Starbuck were transferred there. Lee was rebuffed when he suggested to Pegasus' CAG using a Galactica's crew built stealth fighter for a recon mission. He nevertheless provided the camera to Kara and sent her off to retrieve the fighter and fly the mission. Lee was demoted to Lieutenant as punishment but Kara got promoted to CAG for her audacity getting the photos.
Sent by the President and his father to investigate the thriving black market Lee shoots and kills the boss when he can not get him to agree to terms and negotiates the deal with the remaining henchmen. Lee's ongoing liaison with a prostitute is also revealed here, but when he wants to take her back with him she rebuffs him.
When the Cylons arrive at New Caprica Lee joined his father in withdrawing from the field taking both battlestars away from the planet. When the senior Adama planed a rescue mission Lee argued against going back for the colonists left behind.
When it was discovered that a virus, left behind in a beacon placed by the 13th tribe, has killed all the Cylons on the basestar that found the beacon Lee argued for and led a mission to place the virus to completely wipe out the Cylons despite arguments by some against this potential genocide.
Despite Kara marrying Sam Anders and Lee marrying Anastasia Dualla (Dee) the two are soon engaged in a torrid affair
During Baltar's trial Lee got Roslin to admit taking a hallucinogenic drug and that the cancer she was using it for has reoccurred thereby casting doubt on her competency and testimony.
Lee was instrumental in negotiating with the Cylons to join together to go to the devastated planet that was supposed to be Earth.