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'''Roderick Zale''' ([[Ray Walston]]) is a political dissident with a hideout on [[Aldebaran II]].
'''Roderick Zale''' is a political dissident with a hideout on [[Aldebaran II]], who specializes in political abduction to advance his aims.


[[Buck Rogers|Buck]] first encounters Zale when the dissident arranges the kidnapping of a 493 year-old, child super-genius [[Hieronymus Fox]] – the president of the planet [[Genesia]]{{#tag:ref|Originally from Earth's 20th-Century, Fox developed advanced cryogenics technology and had himself frozen before the nuclear holocaust. After being thawed in the 25th-Century, Fox helped the struggling Genesia colony and they made him their leader. <ref name="Wikipedia BRITTFC Ep Guide">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Buck_Rogers_in_the_25th_Century_episodes Wikipedia]</ref>|group="N"}} - in order to extract a ransom.
{{buck}} first encounters Zale when the dissident arranges the kidnapping of a 493 year-old, child super-genius [[Hieronymus Fox]]—the president of the planet [[Genesia]]—in order to extract a ransom of six thousand kilograms of pure [[quadrilium]] {{BR25|Cosmic Whiz Kid}}.


Zale's ultimate fate is unknown.
He is later considered as suspect in mysterious appearances of various objects in [[New Chicago]] circa 31 [[Deckel]] [[2491]] CE, but this is dismissed out of hand due to Zale's modus operandi {{BR25|A Blast for Buck}}.


=References=
{{Quote
|Zale|Greetings, Mr. President. My name is...
|Fox|Your name is Roderick Zale. Your specialty is political abduction, and your modus operandi sticks out like a sore thumb. Half the galaxy probably knows you're the one who snatched me.
|Zale| You're as perceptive as I was told.
|attribution=Zale and [[Hieronymus Fox]], {{BR25|Cosmic Whiz Kid|prose=Y}}
}}


==Notes==
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==References==
 
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Roderick Zale is a political dissident with a hideout on Aldebaran II, who specializes in political abduction to advance his aims.

William "Buck" Rogers first encounters Zale when the dissident arranges the kidnapping of a 493 year-old, child super-genius Hieronymus Fox—the president of the planet Genesia—in order to extract a ransom of six thousand kilograms of pure quadrilium (BR25: "Cosmic Whiz Kid").

He is later considered as suspect in mysterious appearances of various objects in New Chicago circa 31 Deckel 2491 CE, but this is dismissed out of hand due to Zale's modus operandi (BR25: "A Blast for Buck").


Greetings, Mr. President. My name is...
Your name is Roderick Zale. Your specialty is political abduction, and your modus operandi sticks out like a sore thumb. Half the galaxy probably knows you're the one who snatched me.
You're as perceptive as I was told.