<Tr> <Th> Colony </Th> <Td> Picon </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Affiliation </Th> <Td> Colonials / Cylons </Td> </Tr> <P> Count Baltar was a leading antagonist in the original Battlestar Galactica (1978) television series . The character betrayed the human race to its enemy, the robot race of Cylons . He was portrayed by Canadian actor John Colicos . </P> <P> Material deleted from the final broadcast of the episodes explains that Baltar had originally been a Colonial military officer, who led an expedition to discover new sources of tylium for mining . After discovering a particularly rich tylium deposit on Carillon, Baltar decided to go into business for himself, leaving the military . He falsified records, declaring Carillon too minimal for mining, and set himself up with the Cylons and Ovions, who were also mining Carillon . </P>

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