Count Baltar is a leading antagonist in the original Battlestar Galactica (1978) television series. The character betrays the human race to its enemy, the robot race of Cylons. He was portrayed by Canadian actor John Colicos. Character biography History Deleted material from the final broadcast of the series explains that Baltar had originally been a Colonial military officer, who led an expedition to discover new sources of tylium for mining. After discovering a particularly rich tylium deposit on Carillon, Baltar decides to go into business for himself, leaving the military and declaring Carillon too minimal for mining; Baltar mines the planet himself alongside the Cylons and Ovions. Traitor Towards the last years of the Thousand Year War between the Cylons and the Twelve Colonies of Man, Council-of-Twelve member Baltar acts as a liaison between the Twelve Colonies and the Cylons, and arranges for a peace conference that will bring an end to the war, with the Cylons conceding defeat. This is a ruse, Baltar makes a deal with the Imperious Leader of the Cylons: Baltar will conduct the peace conference to distract the Colonials while the Cylons orchestrate a massive attack on the Colonial military and the Twelve Colonies. In return, the Imperious Leader promises Baltar that his home colony will be spared and Baltar will be installed as its dictator. The Imperious Leader goes back on his word, and destroys all twelve Colonies in the attack. After the attack A small number of humans flee in civilian ships, under the protection of the sole surviving Battlestar, the Galactica. Baltar confronts the Imperious Leader aboard his flagship, enraged that the Cylons have not held up their end of the bargain. The Imperious Leader sentences Baltar to death. In the original theatrical version, Baltar is decapitated by a Cylon. In television screening, the scene was reshot to the Imperious Leader ordering Baltar be taken away for public execution. Shortly after the Imperious Leader is destroyed when the planet Carillon explodes. Pursuer of the Galactica and its ragtag fleet The second Imperious Leader (both played by Dick Durock and voiced by Patrick Macnee) spares Baltar's life, believing that Baltar, being human, would have a superior insight into the minds of the remnants of humanity which the Cylons are pursuing. The Imperious Leader installs Baltar as the commander of a Cylon basestar, with an "IL-series" Cylon named Lucifer (body by Felix Silla, voice