Battlestar Galactica (TV Series)

Saga of a Star World (1978)

Lew Ayres: President Adar

Quotes 

• [Zac's fighter has just been destroyed within sight, but just short, of the fleet] 

  President Adar : What was that?

  Commander Adama : [agonized, bitter]  That was my SON, Mr. President.

• President Adar : Baltar, my friend, this armistice conference would not have been possible without your tireless work. You have secured for yourself a place in the history books.

  Count Baltar : [smiling humbly]  That the Cylons chose ME as their liason to the Quorum of the Twelve was an act of... providence, not skill.

• President Adar : I see the party is not a huge success with all my children.

  Commander Adama : What awaits us out there is what troubles me.

  President Adar : Surely, you don't cling to your suspicions about the Cylons. They ASKED for this armistice. They WANT peace.

  Commander Adama : Forgive me, Mr. President, but they hate us with every fiber of their existence. We love freedom, we love independence. To feel, to question, to resist oppression. To them, it's an alien way of existing... they will never accept.

  President Adar : But they HAVE. Through Baltar, they have sued for peace.

  Commander Adama : [unconvinced]  Yes... of course, you're right

• Commander Adama : Mr. President, I request permission to leave the Fleet. I have reason to suspect our home planets face imminent attack.

  [Cylon raiders blast away at the bridge of the Atlantia and portions of the bridge explode] 

  Commander Adama : Maintain contact...

  [the communication image of President Adar distorts, then clears] 

  President Adar : [horror-stricken]  How could I have been so completely wrong? I have led the entire human race to RUIN!

  [a Cylon raider blasts one of the Atlantia's anti-assault batteries and the explosion surges into the bridge, knocking out communications] 

  Commander Adama : [alarmed]  MR. PRESIDENT!