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Richard A. Colla is still around. Maybe he would possess the knowledge.

Richard Colla is still around, but I am not sure how to get a hold of him. I have never really tried, but lets see what type of wave I can make getting the connection going.

Very cool. Please keep us posted on that!

My money is on a member of the behind the scenes crew or possibly a girlfriend of the production designer, set decorator etc. She looks very Californian, very L.A.

Peter Noble has posted a couple of photos of the mysterious Ila in a Facebook group (Battlestar Galactica Classic 1978-80). One of these is clearly from the same photo session as the finished product. The other is the exact picture that can be seen sticking out from behind Adama's picture of Zac and Apollo.





In the DVD commentary, Herbert Jefferson Jr. says: "She was one of our stand-in extras, and they utilized her likeness."

In the Facebook group, though, Dale Thelander comments: "Glen A. Larson said in the DVD extras that she was a secretary at Universal." I don't know where that appears on the DVD, but she could have been both a secretary and an extra.

Whoever she is or was, she was a nice looking woman that's for sure!
JB

"Speak."

If that was indeed how Ila, daughter of Drusus, had looked in life, then understanding how Adama, son of Theo, might have found her that attractive was easy.
The individual in the likenesses clearly displays the strength of character that Adama found so appealing.

Drusus? Theo? Where did these family names come from? Never heard of them.

"Speak."

"Drusus" was part of the name Nero used as Roman Emperor, which in full was "Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus," and "Theo" is Latin for "God" in that Earth language.

Their usages are personal speculations, and can be perceived to be logical surmises to some extent.

"Speak."

They are NOT "family" names; they are PERSONAL names of the FATHERS of those respective characters.
Like "Apollo, son of Adama" or "Starbuck, son of Chameleon" in the said context.

M’kay...

It would be interesting to learn more about her character. I don't remember they ever went into it... did they?
Like was she a Nurse, Teacher or City Offical, etc.

"Speak."

Ila was originally a minor bureautician on Caprica, who had initially been seeking to reduce the usage of Colonial currency, specifically cubits, being expended upon the Colonial Service's facilities, when she and Adama first met; she was receiving support from her fellow Capricans and other Colonials, many of whom had tired of a war that was, by then, almost a full thousand yahrens old--too long for anyone from that time to remember any time BEFORE the said war.
Though Caprican law would not allow interference with the freedom of speech of any Colonial, the higher echelons of the Colonial Service realized that nothing in regulation books denied that young ensigns in the Colonial Service could "positively influence" bureauticians.
Adama did more than merely "positively influence" Ila; he fell for, and was eventually sealed to, her, and in turn she became the mother of his three children--Apollo, son of Adama, Athena, daughter of Adama, and the late lamented Zac, son of Adama.

Is that from a fan fiction?

Yes. None of this exists anywhere on-screen, nor I believe in any of the novels or novelizations, aside from the offspring names.