Movies - Serina

	Movies - Serina

Serina is the name of a fictional character in the 1978 movie Battlestar Galactica and original Battlestar Galactica television series. Portrayed by Jane Seymour (actress), Serina was a famous news reporter in the Twelve Colonies.

The audience was first introduced to Serina when she has broadcasting coverage of the Peace Conference end the 1,000 year 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 dog was lost. His father also died in the attack.

Serina subsequently met Captain Apollo on Caprica, and 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 subsequently involved with the mission to Carillon which is depicted, along with the events previously descibed, in the Galactica film and in the TV episode Saga of a Star World.

Ultimately, Serina and Apollo fell in love and were sealed (married) by Commander Adama in the subsequent two-part episode Lost Planet of the Gods. As well, in this episode, Serina volunteered to become a shuttle pilot and later trained to fly a Colonial Viper when a strange disease incapacitated most of the fleet’s fighter pilots.

While accompanying Adama and Apollo during the exploration of Kobol, Serina was shot by a Cylon centurion in an ambush and later passed away with Apollo at her side aboard the Galactica.

Early Concept

In early drafts of the Battlestar Galactica scripts the character of Serina was actually named Lyra. She was intended to be an ongoing character. When Jane Seymour was chosen for the part, she wanted to be free to do films, and the script was rewritten to have her die of "space cancer" in the first episode. This scene was filmed but later edited away, and her death sequence moved to later in the story in the episode “Lost Planet of the Gods.”

Reimagining

Serina is one of the characters from the original Battlestar Galactica series that has no analog in the 2003 reimagined Battlestar Galactica, although, interestingly, the character of Boxey does appear.

Jane Seymour was asked to play the role of Admiral Cain in new series in 2005, but declined the part.

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