Recon camera

On the first day of cataloging the props, Santino—the awesome props guy who works for the equally awesome Ken Hawryliw—set aside some very cool props. One of them is a prop you’ve seen back in Season 2.

In the penultimate Season 2 episode “Pegasus“, Lee Adama gives Kara Thrace a recon camera in a duffel bag as part of a surveillance package. As Kara Thrace has been removed from Pegasus’s recon mission to find out about an unknown Cylon ship, she is able to use the Blackbird and this camera to take pictures of said unknown ship.

By undertaking the mission and jumping back to the Fleet, she is able to avert a crisis between Pegasus and Galactica, after Adama refuses to have Cain execute Galen Tyrol and Karl “Helo” Agathon.

Mighty little camera, eh?

A reference photo of the actual prop. Note that this is not the photo that will make it in the official catalog… that picture will be 10 times better.

The camera mounted on the Blackbird in “Resurrection Ship, Part I”.

Lee showing Kara the camera before sending her off on Blackbird in “Pegasus”.

Also, on a related matter (to the auction in general), the Original Prop Blog interviewed Alec. It is a 30 minute interview, which you can listen to here.