Baltar is a fictional character in the Battlestar Galactica universe who betrays the human race, through willing treachery in the original 1978 series, and as the inadvertent result of arrogance and self-interest in the 2003 miniseries and following TV series. A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... Title card from the original Battlestar Galactica series Battlestar Galactica is a franchise of American science fiction films and television series, the first of which was produced in 1978. ... Trinomial name Homo sapiens sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Humans, or human beings, are bipedal primates belonging to the mammalian species Homo sapiens (Latin for wise man or knowing man) under the family Hominidae (known as the great apes). ... Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction television series, produced in 1978 by Glen Larson and starring Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch and Dirk Benedict. ... Battlestar Galactica is a three-hour miniseries written and produced by Ronald D. Moore and directed by Michael Rymer. ... This article is specifically about the 2004 Battlestar Galactica television series; for more information about the re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica, see Battlestar Galactica (re-imagining); for the miniseries that led to this television series, see Battlestar Galactica (TV miniseries); for other versions, see the main Battlestar Galactica disambiguation page. ...

Original continuity

Main article: Count Baltar

In the original 1978 Battlestar Galactica movie and television series, Count Baltar was a leading antagonist character who betrayed the human race to its enemy, the robot race of Cylons. Faced with execution by the Cylons following the successful attack on the humans, Baltar convinces them to let him live so he may be permitted to pursue the surviving humans. In the original 1978 Battlestar Galactica movie and television series, Count Baltar was a leading antagonist character who betrayed the human race to its enemy, the robot race of Cylons. ... Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Count Baltar was played by John Colicos. John Colicos (December 10, 1928 - March 6, 2000) was a Canadian born actor. ...

New continuity

Main article: Gaius Baltar

In the 2003 Battlestar Galactica miniseries and 2004 TV series, Gaius Baltar is a brilliant scientist and key player in the Twelve Colonies' defense research. His unscrupulous character allows a beautiful Cylon to manipulate him into granting her access to the colonies' defense systems, the resultant failure of which ends in the destruction of most of the human race during a Cylon attack. Gaius Baltar is a fictional character in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica. ... A miniseries (sometimes mini-series), in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ...

Gaius is accompanied by the Cylon model Number Six, whom only he can see. The reason why she appears to him is not yet clear, but a computer chip implant has been ruled out.

Gaius also exists inside the mind of the same Six model he fell in love with, but as a completely separate entity.

Dr. Baltar eventually becomes Vice President of the Colonies, then later assumes the Presidency after the first Post-War election, his first executive order being a move to settle on New Caprica. He surrenders the colonies over to Six one year later during the Cylon occupation.

The role of Dr. Gaius Baltar is played by James Callis. James Callis. ...