She was nominated for four Saturn Awards for her work on Battlestar Galactica and won the award for Best Supporting Actress on Television in 2005. Growing Pains: In a Halloween episode, Mike claims he had met a beautiful teen-aged ghost named Kara, who had died 17 years earlier in a car accident. She has nightmares involving both Leoben and the mandala supposedly connected to her "destiny". A crisis forces Commander Adama, Lee Adama, and Kara Thrace to finally face a ghost from their past - the late Zak Adama. Kathryn Ann "Katee" Sackhoff (born April 8, 1980) is an American actress known for playing Lieutenant Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on the Sci Fi Channel's television program Battlestar Galactica (2004-2009).
She hands the gun to Roslin and insists she shoot her if she really believes she is a Cylon, to which Roslin responds to by saying "They made you perfect, didn't they?" Starbuck is thrown into the brig and has a hostile confrontation with Adama, who angrily says, "You are so stupid you couldn't wait. She responds, "Well, it certainly isn't you," and says she will fight to show them Earth's location until her death. She also accuses him of playing "wet nurse" to the president, to which he responds by throwing her to the floor and leaving her crying.During her standoff with the President, she tries to reason and appeal to the President's emotions. The series bible developed for the TV series by Ron D. Moore states that Kara Thrace was born on Picon, but because her mother was in the Colonial Marines, she grew up as a After they escape the doomed algae planet, Starbuck makes one final effort to have a relationship with Lee, this time offering to leave Anders if he will leave Dualla. Lee chooses to try to make his own marriage work instead.During her standoff with the President, she tries to reason and appeal to the President's emotions.
After an all-night celebration of the first founder's day for New Caprica, tired and hungover, Starbuck and Tigh put their differences behind them.
Roslin fires the gun, but misses Starbuck and hits a framed portrait of herself and Adama. You just lost your best ally. Now who is going to save you?"
An in-joke in the episode is that, along the way, Mike and Kara stop at a roadside bar, where a talent show — featuring all of the guests dressed as dead celebrities — is taking place. Even after she is able to move around without a cane, the injury sidelines her from flight for many episodes; when given tactical charge of a mission in one episode, she cannot fly the critical role because her knee still can't handle the G-force.Starbuck is thrown into the brig and has a hostile confrontation with Adama, who angrily says, "You are so stupid you couldn't wait. She hands the gun to Roslin and insists she shoot her if she really believes she is a Cylon, to which Roslin responds to by saying "They made you perfect, didn't they?" Now who is going to save you?" 5. She also accuses him of playing "wet nurse" to the president, to which he responds by throwing her to the floor and leaving her crying.Kara's experiences with Leoben, as well as her troubled childhood, eventually come back to haunt her. Kara Thrace is a Messenger being imprinted with the memories of Kara Thrace, a Colonial Officer who perished after being lured into a storm.
She asks an oracle about her dreams and is told Leoben understands her better than she understands herself, and he will show her "destiny." Maybe she was an angel or ghost, or maybe being the Harbinger of Death is a special role/title that is similar to the angels/messangers but not the same and thus follows different rules.
You Can't Go Home Again This video is currently unavailable Katee Sackhoff, Actress: Battlestar Galactica. You just lost your best ally. Roslin fires the gun, but misses Starbuck and hits a framed portrait of herself and Adama.Depressed by her injuries, she initially needs incentive to work on rehabilitation and is soon rubbing people the wrong way again. They even greet each other fondly following Tigh's demobilization and arrival at the colony. Either way, Kara Thrace and much of the series revolves around faith and divine intervention and so talking about it more than that is not really worthwhile. Her relationship with Lee, however, worsened to the point that they were not on speaking terms and he had little interest in helping her, even when Anders contracted a serious bout of pneumonia.After the fleet leadership denies her request to return to rescue the Caprican resistance fighters, Starbuck is depressed and guilt-stricken: she has broken her word, failed her duty, and assumes the man she is "hung up on" is either dead, or will be soon.Starbuck suffers severe hand burns in the crash and is rescued by Dualla.