by Jonathan Harris) as Baltar's second in command. Baltar makes it his personal quest to vanquish his rival, Commander Adama, and destroy the Galactica and its fleet. Freedom In the final episode of the series, "The Hand of God", Baltar makes a deal with Adama. Baltar provides the Colonials with technical information on Cylon basestars, which Apollo and Starbuck use to render a wayward Cylon basestar "blind" to the Galactica, which then destroys it. In exchange, Adama agrees to maroon Baltar with sufficient equipment and supplies to allow him to live on the first habitable planet that the Fleet passes on its journey; Adama also reluctantly gives Baltar equipment for "short-range communications" so that he has "some hope of eventual rescue". Revival attempt In 1999, John Colicos reprised his role as Baltar for Richard Hatch's attempt to revive the series. In a short film entitled Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming, he reveals that the Colonial fleet is still in danger after a new breed of even more dangerous Cylons emerges after a civil war. Differences in other versions In the novelization In the original telefilm novelization Baltar is a rare items dealer who has grown wealthy from his business dealings, and whose title of Count is self proclaimed. Later novelizations of subsequent episodes revealed that Baltar's resentment of Adama had started when they had attended the Colonial Academy together, with Adama besting him in everything. In comics In the Marvel Comics run from 1978–80, Baltar was executed by the Cylons as seen in the treasury sized edition. In the 1990s, Baltar appears in the Maximum Press comic book series, still pursuing the Galactica, after having been freed by Commander Adama in exchange for bartering his knowledge of the Cylons. Dynamite Comics expands on this concept in a 2014 story in which Baltar is found on the planet abandoned by Adama in "The Hand of God". He remembers his life to this point and how he felt betrayed by the Colonies and thus sided with the Cylon empire, only to be betrayed himself by the Cylons and suddenly believes he himself has been transmuted by the Cylons into a cybernetic being; throughout the story he deals with one particular Centurion, as a youth, before the massacre of the Colonies. In the re-imagined 2003 version In the 2003 miniseries and 2004 series, the character is reimagined as Gaius Baltar, a scientist who