Serina (Battlestar Galactica)

Serina
Portrayed by	Jane Seymour
Information
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Title	Pilot
Colony	Caprica
Affiliation	Colonials

Serina is the name of a fictional character in the 1978 Battlestar Galactica television series. Portrayed by Jane Seymour, Serina was a famous news reporter in the Twelve Colonies. She and her son, Boxey, survived the attack on the colonies. Serina has no direct analog on the reimagined Battlestar Galactica.

Serina was introduced as she was broadcasting coverage of the Peace Conference that was supposed to end the 1,000 yahren Cylon War. Her report was being filed from the surface of the planet Caprica, and her coverage continued during the first part of the sneak attack by the Cylons on the Colonies.

She managed to escape the attack with her son, Boxey, but Boxey's pet daggit (dog) Muffit was lost. Serina's former husband (Boxey's father) was never present in the series, and it is not made clear whether he is alive or dead or when this may have happened. Serina subsequently met Captain Apollo on Caprica when he landed his Viper and brought his father Commander Adama to the surface. Later, after the human survivors left the Colonies in a ragtag fleet, Serina asked Apollo to help with Boxey, who was refusing to eat. Apollo and Boxey established a bond, as did Serina and Apollo.

Serina was on Carillon with Apollo, in the Galactica film and in the TV episode "Saga of a Star World."

Serina and Apollo quickly fell in love and were married (sealed) by Commander Adama in the subsequent two-part episode "Lost Planet of the Gods". As after the destruction, Serina volunteered to become a shuttle pilot. When a strange disease incapacitated most of the fleet’s fighter pilots, she and all other shuttle pilots were trained to fly a Colonial Viper, despite Apollo's strenuous objections. The first space combat with the almost untrained shuttle pilots against a small Cylon outpost was won with no losses. While accompanying Adama and Apollo during the exploration of Kobol, Serina was shot by a Cylon centurion in an ambush and later died with Apollo at her side aboard the Galactica. After her death, Apollo attempted to bury his grief over the loss by accepting as many high-risk missions as he possibly could, leading Lieutenant Sheba to accuse him, in "The Hand Of God," of having a death wish.

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