The Engineer: Difference between revisions

* Walter in ''[[La Femme Nikita]]''.

* In the rebooted ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica]]'', Barry Garner, former chief engineer, is promoted to commander of battlestar ''Pegasus'' after the death of Commander Fisk. In a bit of a subversion, his way of running the ship is to obsessively micromanage every bit of the crew, and nearly leads to ''Pegasus''' destruction after he blindly jumps into an ambush. [[Percussive Maintenance|He saves the ship by hitting its malfunctioning FTL drive with a wrench,]] [[Redemption Equals Death|dying from lack of oxygen in the engine room.]]

'''Major Lee Adama''': He was used to working with machines. Command is about people. }}

** Chief Galen Tyrol also exemplifies this, particularly "The Mechanic". He spends most of his appearances fixing one thing or another (usually vipers), is very possessive of the vipers, and has an entire crop of newbies to mentor. The few times he does go into combat mode, its like watching Gordon Freeman.