Tau'ri characters in Stargate SG-1
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In the science fiction television shows Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, Tau'ri refers to humans who originated on Earth. Being set on Earth, SG-1 obviously has a large number of Tau'ri characters. As such, this list is not exhaustive, but lists some of the major characters of the series, or those whose role has been significant in any way. For an exhaustive list, see List of Stargate Command personnel.
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[edit] SGC military characters
[edit] Jack O'Neill
A United States Air Force officer, Colonel O'Neill led the original mission through the Stargate, and was later leader of SG-1 for eight years. Promoted to Brigadier General, took charge of Stargate Command, until promoted again and reassigned to Washington. Once in Washington he later gets promoted to Major General.
[edit] Cameron Mitchell
A USAF Lieutenant Colonel and current leader of SG-1.
[edit] Jacob Carter
General Carter (Ret.) was a USAF general and the widowed father of Samantha Carter. Terminally ill, he agreed to become a host to Selmak and became a Tok'ra.
[edit] Samantha Carter
A scientist as well as a USAF officer, Captain Carter has been a member of SG-1 from the start. Currently a Lieutenant Colonel.
[edit] Chekov
Colonel Chekov was the Russian liaison to the SGC and later became commander of the Korolev. His current fate is unknown.
[edit] Paul Davis
Major Paul Davis is the Pentagon Liaison to the SGC.
[edit] Louis Ferretti
Major Louis Ferretti was one of the men that went with Colonel O'Neill in the original Stargate mission. He was later assigned as leader of SG-2.
[edit] Janet Fraiser
Captain (later Major) Janet Fraiser was Chief Medical Officer of the SGC under Major General Hammond.
[edit] George Hammond
An USAF Major General (later Lieutenant General) who commanded Stargate Command for eight years. He replaced Major General West.
[edit] Walter Harriman
Chief Master Sergeant Walter Harriman is one of the main Stargate technicians.
[edit] Charles Kawalsky
Major Charles Kawalsky was one of the men that went with Colonel O'Neill in the original Stargate mission. One year later, he became host of a Goa'uld.
[edit] Hank Landry
Major General Landry is the current commander of the SGC.
[edit] "Sly" Siler
Senior Master Sergeant "Sly" Siler is one of the main technicians at the SGC.
[edit] Reynolds
| Stargate character | |
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| Reynolds | |
| Race | Tau'ri |
| Gender | Male |
| Rank | Major/Lieutenant Colonel/Colonel |
| Birthplace | US, Earth |
| Portrayer | Eric Breker |
| First episode | "Touchstone" |
Colonel Reynolds is played by Eric Breker. Reynolds is a Colonel in the United States Air Force, assigned to Stargate Command. He was originally stationed at Area 51 as a Major. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and assigned to Stargate Command to lead SG-16. Later He was promoted to Colonel again and is now the leader of SG-3, a marine unit who often provide back-up for SG-1.
[edit] Off-Screen Information
According to Stargate SG-1: The DVD Collection magazine Reynolds' first name is Albert and he was born September 15, 1958 in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. He studied at the University of Texas where he gained a Bachelor of Science in Physics. Reynolds took part in bombing missions over Panama and Somalia. He is a graduate of the USAF Test Pilot School which is based at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
Reynolds attended instructor school at Homestead Air Force Base and was assigned as an Test Flight Instructor. He served as a test pilot and an F-117 Nighthawk Aerial Demonstration Pilot.
In 1991 Reynolds commanded a squadron during Operation Desert Storm. He flew the F-117 Nighthawk in which he hit targets at 25,000 feet at night. In 1994 he was stationed as a Test Flight Instructor at Area 51. During his service at Area 51, Reynolds conducted the first test flights of the X-301 within Earth's atmosphere.
[edit] Episodes
- Touchstone | Transcript
- Ascension | Transcript
- Fallen | Transcript
- Evolution, Part 1 | Transcript
- Death Knell | Transcript
- Lost City, Part 1 | Transcript
- Zero Hour | Transcript
- Prometheus Unbound | Transcript
- Reckoning, Part 1 | Transcript
- Stronghold | Transcript
- Off the Grid | Transcript
- A Matter of Time | Transcript
- Arthur's Mantle | Transcript
- Line in the Sand
[edit] West
| Stargate character | |
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 Major General West |
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| West | |
| Race | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Rank | Major General |
| Birthplace | Unknown, Earth |
| Portrayer | Leon Rippy (film) |
| First episode | "Stargate" |
Major General West was played by Leon Rippy. West headed the USAF's Project Giza (also known as the Stargate Project), the forerunner of the SGC. He oversaw Dr. Catherine Langford's experiments with the Stargate until selecting, recalling, and delegating Colonel Jack O'Neil as military commander when Dr. Daniel Jackson joined the team. Upon the successful connection of the Earth Stargate to Abydos, West immediately militarized the program and locked out most of the civilian team previously under Dr. Langford. He then authorized the initial excursion to Abydos and authored Jack's special orders to destroy the Gate on the other side.
[edit] History
An United States Air Force officer with experience in the Viet Nam War and Southeast Asia (Gulf War I), Major General West wears the wings of a senior pilot and a rather uninformative rack of ribbons. He is a qualified expert with small arms and has served at least six months in Vietnam.
He has prior experience with Colonel Jack O'Neil, both trusting his judgement and his military expertise while having enough emotional distance from the man to select him for a suicide mission. He also knew Jack well enough to ask about his wife by name.
The book describes him as a "stern soldier about fifty years old" (putting his birthday around 1940) and states the following:
"Respected and feared by all who served under him, West was famous for three things: for always making the right decisions under pressure, for erupting into superhuman fits of rage when his orders were not executed exactly as he wished, and for being the best damn poker player in any branch of the armed forces." (Stargate novelization p. 56)
[edit] Ribbons and Medals
- Senior Pilot Wings
- Air Force Distinguished Service Medal
- United States Meritiorious Service Medal (with one or more clusters)
- Air Force Commendation Medal
- Air Force Achievement Medal
- Air Force Organizational Excellence Award
- National Defense Service Medal
- Vietnam Service Medal
- Southwest Asia Service Medal (device?)
- Air Force Overseas Short Tour
- Air Force Longevity Service Award (with 2 clusters of unknown type)
- Small Arms Expert Marksmanship Ribbon
- Air Force Training Ribbon
- Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
[edit] Trivia
Leon Rippy, who played General West, is a character actor who appears in many movies by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich.
[edit] References
- Stargate: A Novel by Dean Devlin & Roland Emmerich (1994)
| Preceded by None |
SGC Commander 199?–1996 |
Succeeded by Major General George Hammond |
[edit] SGC civilian characters
[edit] Daniel Jackson
A brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Daniel Jackson was shunned by the academic world due to his farfetched theories, but found out they were true when he joined the Stargate project. He was part of the original mission through the Stargate and he's been part of SG-1 since the start.
[edit] Jay Felger
| Stargate character | |
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 Dr. Jay Felger Ph.D |
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| Jay Felger | |
| Race | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Rank | Civilian |
| Birthplace | US, Earth |
| Portrayer | Patrick McKenna |
| First episode | "The Other Guys" |
Dr. Jay Felger is a guest character on the science fiction show Stargate SG-1; he is played by Patrick McKenna. He has appeared in two episodes of SG-1: "The Other Guys" and "Avenger 2.0".
[edit] Carolyn Lam
Dr. Carolyn Lam is the current Chief Medical Officer of the SGC and the daughter of Major General Hank Landry.
[edit] Bill Lee
Dr. Bill Lee is SGC's Chief Scientist.
[edit] Robert Rothman
Dr. Robert Rothman was a SGC archaeologist that unwillingly became a Goa'uld host.
[edit] NID/Trust characters
[edit] Malcolm Barrett
Agent Malcolm Barrett is is an example of the N.I.D.'s upright and legal operations.
[edit] Robert Kinsey
A former Senator and Vice-President, Robert Kinsey was a supporter and member of the rogue branch N.I.D. and, later, of The Trust.
[edit] Harry Maybourne
A rogue N.I.D. agent, Colonel Maybourne was one of SGC banes for a long time.
[edit] Frank Simmons
Colonel Simmons was a rogue N.I.D. agent with his own political agenda.
[edit] IOA characters
[edit] Richard Woolsey
A former N.I.D. agent, Richard Woolsey is now a member of the International Oversight Advisory committee.
[edit] Prometheus & Odyssey's crews characters
[edit] Paul Emerson
USAF Colonel Paul Emerson was the commander of the Odyssey.
[edit] Lionel Pendergast
USAF Colonel Lionel Pendergast was the commander of the Prometheus during seasons 8 & 9.
[edit] William Ronson
| Stargate character | |
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 Col. William Ronson in Memento |
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| William Ronson | |
| Race | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Birthplace | US, Earth |
| Portrayer | John Novak |
| First episode | "Memento" |
USAF Colonel William Ronson was the commander of the Prometheus during seasons 6 & 7. He is played by actor John Novak
[edit] Marks
| Stargate character | |
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| Marks | |
| Race | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Rank | Lieutenant/Captain/Major |
| Birthplace | US, Earth |
| Portrayer | Martin Christopher |
| First episode | "Avalon Part 1" |
Major Marks is a USAF officer aboard the Prometheus until its destruction. Afterwards, he becomes Bridge officer of the Odyssey. On the episode "Company of Thieves" he tells Daniel Jackson that he only has to push a button to fire railguns and other weapons. He is played by Martin Christopher. When there is no one else with a higher rank than him on the ship, he effectively is the first officer on board the ship.
[edit] Womack
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| Womack | |
| Race | Human |
| Gender | Female |
| Rank | Lieutenant |
| Birthplace | US, Earth |
| Portrayer | Chelah Horsdal |
| First episode | "New Order Part 2" |
USAF Lieutenant Womack is an officer aboard the Prometheus until its destruction. Afterwards, she was stationed aboard the Odyssey. She is played by Chelah Horsdal.
[edit] Erin Gant
| Stargate character | |
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| Erin Gant | |
| Race | Human |
| Gender | Female |
| Rank | Major |
| Birthplace | US, Earth |
| Portrayer | Ingrid Kavelaars |
| First episode | "Memento" |
USAF Major Erin Gant was an officer aboard the Prometheus. She is played by Ingrid Kavelaars.
[edit] Other characters
[edit] Nicholas Ballard
Nicholas Ballard is a fictional character on the television series Stargate SG-1. He was portrayed by actor Jan Rubes.
In the Stargate universe, he is a noted archaeologist and grandfather of Dr. Daniel Jackson, who followed in his footsteps. According to Daniel, he was not the greatest of grandfathers, and insisted he call him "Nick," even when Danny was a boy. Because of Ballard's busy explorations, he never had the time to stop and take the orphaned Jackson under his wing, something he would later regret.
Ballard had always been interested in the Fountain of Youth mythology, and made attempts to uncover the truth as to its origins. In 1971 he embarked upon an expedition to Belize and made a remarkable discovery inside a secure structure: a crystal skull. While looking into its eyes he was surrounded by a neutrino spike which enveloped him and transported him, unknowingly, to P7X-377 where he would see (what he would later coin) giant aliens. In shock, Ballard found himself unable to speak. Thus, the creatures sent him back. He took the skull and climbed out of the pit before it collapsed.
Neither Nick nor anyone else was able to explain how the skull was carved from a single piece of crystal against the grain given the technology of the day. He tried for years under controlled conditions to make the skull reproduce its effect, but eventually gave up. With no one believing his wild stories about teleportation to great places and seeing large, vaporous beings, Nick had himself committed to a psychiatric institute in Oregon. Daniel was a regular visitor there until he disappeared on a journey of his own in the mid 1990's.
When Jackson went missing, SG-1 paid a visit to Nick at the institution and brought him to the SGC. Through communication via an out-of-phase Daniel Jackson (who could be seen by Nick because of a similar experience on 377), General Hammond was convinced to send Ballard through the Stargate to the place he saw. This time the team interacted with the beings and the aliens, who recognized Ballard, encouraging him to remain as Earth's representative. Ballard, unlike the others, had already journeyed to the world long ago. SG-1 left Nick to remain on the planet to teach, and learn from, these beings.
[edit] Adrian Conrad
Adrian Conrad was a billionaire suffering an incurable terminal illness who was after the regenerative biological secrets of Goa'uld symbiotes, but became a Goa'uld host instead.
[edit] Henry Hayes
| Stargate character | |
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 President Hayes in Inauguration |
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| Henry Hayes | |
| Race | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Rank | President of the United States |
| Birthplace | US, Earth |
| Portrayer | William Devane |
| First episode | "Inauguration" |
Henry Hayes is the President of the United States in the fictional Stargate universe, inaugurated in the year 2004.
President Hayes first appears in the season seven episode Inauguration, when he has his first day as President of the United States. During this time he is informed about the Stargate program, however it makes him angry that his Vice President, Robert Kinsey, knew about it and he did not. Kinsey uses this chance to inform the president about several problems at Stargate Command and tells him to remove the current leadership, namely General George Hammond and SG-1. In the following days he is presented with problems about SGC, collected by NID-agent Richard Woolsey, while the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff tries to defend Hammond and his team. Although Hayes is unfazed by Kinsey's attacks on the SGC's credibility, not accepting Kinsey's claims of complete incompetence and willful treason, he recognizes that Woolsey made some valid points. However, throwing a new variable into the complicated situation, Woolsey then delivers a computer disk to the President with incriminating information about Robert Kinsey; throwing even his legitimate complaints into a new light.
Nevertheless, after SG-1 finds a Repository of the Ancients, Hayes decides to remove General Hammond from command and selects Dr. Elizabeth Weir as his successor; believing that a civilian with expertise in international diplomacy would be the perfect candidate to handle the delicate international situations that arose whenever the Stargate was concerned. Afterwards, he meets with General Hammond where it is revealed that they both knew each other in the 1960s, when they both were Lieutenants in the United States Air Force. General Hammond seems to bear no ill-will towards the President for removing him from command, and seems to briefly unofficially join his staff as an advisor on matters pertaining to the Stargate. When the Goa'uld Anubis attacked the Earth in Lost City, he spoke with a hologram of the System Lord where he attempted to bluff Anubis into (hopefully) surrendering or (likely) hesitating. Afterwards, during the actual invasion, he appointed Hammond to command of the Prometheus and, when evacuation to the Alpha Site began, decided to stay on the Earth and continue to support to the defense of the planet. Kinsey, who did not share either the Presidents courage or faith in SG-1, attempted to evacuate the planet and quickly fled to the SGC. However, Anubis quickly took steps to make sure that there was no off-world travel through the Earth's Stargate and, when Dr. Weir determined that activating the Stargate to evacuate Kinsey was low on the list of priorities, he attempted to remove her from command. Hayes, long since fed up with Kinsey's 'Holier than thou' attitude, forced Kinsey to resign (using the information delivered to him through Agent Woolsey) and returned command of the SGC to Dr. Weir.
After Anubis was defeated he put Jack O'Neill in command of the SGC and selected Dr. Elizabeth Weir as the leader of the Atlantis expedition.
He is mentioned again in the episode Bad Guys (Stargate SG-1) where he and other members of the Pentagon are briefed by Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter on the consequences of revealing the Stargate program to the public as she experienced in the alternate reality where Earth was besieged by the Ori seen in The Road Not Taken (Stargate SG-1).
[edit] Catherine Langford
Dr. Catherine Langford was the daughter of the archaeologist who discovered the Stargate in 1928. She later inducted Dr. Jackson into the Stargate program.
[edit] Ernest Littlefield
| Stargate character | |
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 Ernest Littlefield as portrayed by Keene Curtis in Stargate SG-1 |
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| Ernest Littlefield | |
| Race | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Portrayer | Keene Curtis Paul McGillion (younger version) |
| First episode | "The Torment of Tantalus" |
Dr. Ernest Littlefield first appeared in the episode "The Torment of Tantalus" and is credited for both discovering the fact that the symbols on the Stargate are actually coordinate inputs and for being the first human to have travelled through the Stargate since the Ancient Egyptians buried it. He was the fiancé of Dr. Catherine Langford, who was the daughter of his colleague, Professor Langford. In the 1940s, Ernest and the professor were part of the team that experimented on the Stargate. When the team managed to create an active wormhole in 1945, Ernest was sent through the event horizon wearing a pressurized suit and tied to a lifeline. When he went through the gate, however, the wormhole mysteriously disengaged, cutting off his lifeline and stranding him on a distant planet for the next fifty years. Subsequently, all further Stargate experimentation was halted and all related information was swept under the carpet by its overseers.
Half a century later, Daniel Jackson, of the newly formed Stargate Command, discovered tapes and other released documents from The Pentagon that detailed the Stargate experiments in the 1940s, and was able to deduce the Stargate address of the planet where Littlefield went to from the old footage. He, together with SG-1 and Dr. Langford, traveled through the Stargate to retrieve the now-aged Ernest Littlefield.
After finding Littlefield alive, SG-1 soon realized why he couldn't get home. The DHD has been damaged. While the others try to repair it, Dr. Littlefield gives his diary to Dr. Daniel Jackson and informs him that the palace (called Heliopolis) was once the meeting place of the Four Great Races, and shows Daniel a holographic 'book' device he has found. Meanwhile, Carter comes up with a solution: catch a lightning bolt and use it to power the Stargate. This proves successful, and Dr. Littlefield happily ends his 52 year exile.
Now safely back in the SGC, the team tries to dial Heliopolis again, but are unsuccessful. Apparently, the storm they used to such great effect has destroyed the palace and buried the gate. However, Ernest's personal notes from his period at that world are safe at the base and contain valuable information.
It is unclear what happens to Dr. Littlefield after the end of the episode, but seven years later, when Dr. Catherine Langford dies, he was nowhere to be seen at her funeral.
[edit] External links
- Character biography from StargateWiki. Visited May 16, 2006.
- Character description from GateWorld. Visited May 16, 2006.
[edit] Jack O'Neill (clone)
| Stargate character | |
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 Young Jack outside General Hammond's office |
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| Jonathan "Jack" O'Neill | |
| Race | Human |
| ATA | Natural carrier |
| Gender | Male |
| Birthplace | Loki's laboratory |
| Relatives | Jack O'Neill (clone of) |
| Portrayer | Michael Welch |
| First episode | "Fragile Balance" |
Young Jack O'Neill is a clone of then Colonel Jack O'Neill created by the renegade Asgard scientist Loki in the hopes of finding a solution to the problem of diminished returns that his people had been encountering with their cloning system.
Loki believed that because O'Neill was able to use the information contained in the Ancients' repository of knowledge that had been downloaded into his brain four years before, he is among the most highly evolved humans on Earth. Loki believed O'Neill's feat would have not been possible for any human only one generation ago.
The renegade Asgard captured O'Neill and kept him in stasis aboard his science vessel for seven days. To ensure O'Neill's absence went unnoticed, he created a clone to take his pace. Unbeknownst to Loki, Thor had placed a genetic marker in O'Neill's DNA to prevent any tampering. Because of this, the clone (who possessed all of the original O'Neill's knowledge and experience) matured only to a physical age of fifteen years.
The clone, not realising he was in fact a duplicate, sought help from his friends and colleagues at the SGC in "restoring" him to his original age. Tests were ran on him and it was soon discovered that he had a flaw in his DNA that would result in his death in less than a week. Having already rejected Jacob Carter's offer to keep him in stasis in the custody of the Tok'ra until a solution could be found, he fled the SGC in frustration. His SG-1 teammates, Dr. Daniel Jackson, Major Samantha Carter and Teal'c, soon found him fishing at a local creek. They informed him that Selmak had discovered his true nature.
A plan was devised to both rescue the original O'Neill and capture Loki. Mostly thanks to the clone, this plan was a complete success. They summoned Thor to Loki's science vessel and asked him to try to correct the flaw in the clone's DNA. Fortunately, he was successful. The Air Force took the clone under their wing to provide for his future and he returned to high school to live his adolescence over again. The two Jack O'Neills agreed not to keep in touch as they felt it would be "weird." The clone has not seemingly had any contact with O'Neill or the other members of SG-1 since then.
He is played by Michael Welch.
[edit] External links
- Character description from GateWorld. Visited May 28, 2006.
[edit] Pete Shanahan
A Denver police detective, Pete Shanahan was, for a while, the fiancé of Samantha Carter. He knows about the Stargate Program.
[edit] See also
| Recurring characters on Stargate SG-1 | Edit | |
| Tau'ri | Malcolm Barrett | Jacob Carter | Chekov | Adrian Conrad | Major Davis | Paul Emerson | Louis Ferretti | Janet Fraiser Walter Harriman | Charles Kawalsky | Robert Kinsey | Carolyn Lam | Catherine Langford | Bill Lee | Harry Maybourne Rodney McKay | Lionel Pendergast | Robert Rothman | Frank Simmons | Pete Shanahan | Siler | Richard Woolsey |
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| Other Humans | Cassandra | Kasuf | Linea | Ma'chello | Martin Lloyd | Sha're | Shifu | Skaara | |
| Goa'uld | Amonet | Anubis | Apophis | Ba'al | Cronus | Hathor | Heru-ur Nerus | Nirrti | Osiris | Ra | Sokar | Tanith | Yu | Zipacna |
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| Jaffa | Bra'tac | Gerak | Ishta | Rya'c | |
| Other | Adria | Chaka | Fifth | Harlan | Merlin | Oma Desala | Reese | Replicator Carter | Thor | |
| Lists by race | All | Tau'ri | Ancient, Aschen, Asgard, Goa'uld, Jaffa, Langaran, Lucian Alliance Ori, Replicator, Tok'ra, Tollan, System Lord |
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| Topics in Stargate | ||
| Story of Stargate | Stargate, Stargate SG-1 (episodes), Stargate Atlantis (episodes), Stargate Infinity (episodes), Stargate Universe Stargate: The Ark of Truth, Stargate: Continuum, Comics, Literature |
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| Stargate Universe | Alien Races, Planets, Technology, Characters, The SGC, SG-1, SG Team, Atlantis, The Stargate, Ascension | |
| Factions in Stargate | Tau'ri, Jaffa Resistance, Tok'ra, Asgard, Ancients Goa'uld, Jaffa, System Lords, Replicators, Ori, Asuran, Wraith, Lucian Alliance, The Trust, NID, IOA |
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