Commander Thrace?

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

frolicndetour raised an interesting point in our discussion of Kara's promotions the other day. Apparently the writers planned to make her the Pegasus commander at one point. What avenues do you think that would have lead the show down? What would her time as Commander have been like? Would she be more in the vein of Adama or Cain or her own leader entirely? What would change about canon if the only switch was that she was head of Pegasus instead of Lee (with Dee as her XO? Heh.)

ETA: Tomorrow is Friday and because of that happy reason, we will be having a Kara Love meme here! Bring yo' gifs, Bring yo' toasts, get ready to raise a glass to the incomparable Kara "Starbuck" Thrace!

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[frolicndetour.livejournal.com]

Ron and Dave allude to what they had planned a little bit on the podcast for You Can't Go Home Again - at the end they talk about how much they love the Kara/Adama relationship and that how there was a storyline comming up where they were going to put her in charge of the "thingy" (since the Pegasus was still a spoiler at that point) and how she would be interacting with Adama and challenging him in new ways. I think that would have been really interesting - I guess they tried to do that with Lee and Adama, but the fat!Lee thing ended up swallowing (no pun intended) Lee's command storyline IMO.

It would have been fun to see how her relationship with Adama changed. Season three would have been so different, at least in the beginning; I imagine she couldn't have mustered out, and they couldn't have put her on the self-destructive track after having her rise to such a strong leadership level. No captivity with Leoben. I guess she still would have had to fulfill her destiny, but I imagine it would have played differently.

Though there is the obvious question (which was Jamie's question!) of why not Lee. Maybe he would have taken longer to recover from his gun-shot wound, or Adama would have thought he was needed on Galactica. I think if not for Lee, Kara would be the next logical choice; Adama would never have put Tigh in command voluntarily , I don't think, especially not after what happened once he was shot. (And Tigh wouldn't have really wanted that).

Definitely an AU with a lot of potential. :)

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Ooh intriguing. Thanks for sharing more details (I can't listen to the podcasts anymore. Lol.)

Oh Fat Apollo. Your love of noodles totally sabotaged you. ;)

I would have loved to have seen Kara as commander (before she died) and avoid all that Leoben imprisonment stuff. Sigh.

I could see Sacrifice being slightly altered maybe where Kara does help shut down a dangerous situation but Lee still gets hit and injured and he musters out and goes into politics maybe and Kara ends up getting appointed to command Pegasus not long after? Maybe she's the one who goes over to deal with Garner and that somehow leads to good results? Who knows.

(Trying not to be sad about their insistence on turning Kara into a mess at the end of S2. Sigh.)

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

It would have been fun to see how her relationship with Adama changed. Season three would have been so different, at least in the beginning; I imagine she couldn't have mustered out, and they couldn't have put her on the self-destructive track after having her rise to such a strong leadership level. No captivity with Leoben. I guess she still would have had to fulfill her destiny, but I imagine it would have played differently.

This really fascinates me because not only does this change her relationship with Adama, but with Lee and Sam too. If Kara doesn't muster out where does Sam fit into her life. And if Lee does resign his commission for some reason it's more than logical that he would end up on New Caprica instead.

Also who would be her XO. I'm going to go with Helo because he fits nicely into my "going back for Sam" scenario because of Sharon.

And it totally changes the trajectory of her destiny. Wow.