Ma'chello

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Stargate character

Ma'chello in Holiday
Ma'chello
Race Human
Gender Male
Birthplace Unknown
Film portrayer None
Television portrayer Michael Shanks
Key episodes "Holiday" (first appearance)

In the science fiction series Stargate SG-1, Ma'chello was a brilliant inventor who spent most of his life conducting his own personal war against the Goa'uld. He believed that he was responsible for saving billions of lives throughout the galaxy.

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[edit] History

Ma'chello invented many devices designed to combat the Goa'uld, which were encountered by SG-1 on two occasions. He developed numerous forms of technology to infiltrate and kill the Goa'uld ranks, and constructed his own unique language to classify his research. He was declared a prime target by the System Lords, and Teal'c himself was ordered to capture him once, without success.

For the most part of his life, Ma'chello was hunted by the Goa'uld. When the System Lords located his world, two billion of his people died rather than turn him over to them. However, Ma'chello's wife was secretly implanted with a Goa'uld, who then betrayed him and turned him over to the System Lords. In order to learn his many secrets, Ma'chello was subsequently tortured, and was supposed to become a host to a Goa'uld. However, before the implantation, he managed to kill several Jaffa and was able to escape.

Ma'chello went into hiding, and was able to elude the System Lords for several years. However, as his body started to age, he was forced to create a device to sustain his body through a form of suspended animation. He also constructed a machine capable of switching the consciousnesses from one person to another.

[edit] Encounter with SG-1

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Eventually, the planet on which Ma'chello chose to hide was visited by SG-1, where they found several assorted devices. Ma'chello was automatically awakened out of stasis, and introduced himself to the team of explorers. Hoping to hide his face permanently, he tricked Daniel Jackson into testing one of his machines, switching bodies and fainting in the process.

Both men were taken back to the base unconscious. However, when Ma'chello woke up, he claimed that he was not Ma'chello, but in fact Daniel Jackson in Ma'chello's body. Unfortunately, the real Ma'chello, now in Dr. Jackson's body, had gone off the base and was loose in Colorado Springs, visiting its restaurants and making friends with a homeless man named Fred.

After Ma'chello payed using one of Jackson's credit cards, Ma'chello was tracked down and arrested. He was subsequently taken back to the SGC, where he requested to be allowed to live out his life in Daniel's body. In exchange, he would teach Samantha Carter his encoding system, helping Earth to understand his anti-Goa'uld technology. However, after Daniel noted that Ma'chello, who believed he "owed" a new life because of the sacrifices he had made, was no different than a Goa'uld taking a host against his will, Ma'chello chose to return to his body. Moments after returning to his own body, he died, his last words being to thank Daniel for his 'holiday'. [1]

Several months later, one of Ma'chello's anti-Goa'uld technologies was discovered on an abandoned planet where it had claimed the lives of the Linvers, a group of nine minor Goa'uld opposing the System Lords. However, the biological weapons designed to kill symbiontes caused schizophrenia in non-hosts, and one of them infected Daniel Jackson. The remaining biological weapons were eventually neutralized by injecting a protein marker, under normal circumstances only present in former Goa'uld hosts, into the infected persons' blood stream. [2]

Spoilers end here.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Holiday" (Stargate SG-1)
  2. ^ "Legacy" (Stargate SG-1)

[edit] Trivia

  • Ma'chello was played by Michael Shanks, who also played Daniel Jackson, wearing special effects makeup to change his appearance.

[edit] External links

Recurring characters on Stargate SG-1 Edit
Tau'ri Malcolm Barrett | Jacob Carter | Chekov | Adrian Conrad | Paul Davis | Paul Emerson | Louis Ferretti | Janet Fraiser
Walter Harriman | Charles Kawalsky | Robert Kinsey | Carolyn Lam | Catherine Langford | Bill Lee
Harry Maybourne | Lionel Pendergast | Robert Rothman | Frank Simmons | Pete Shanahan | Siler | Richard Woolsey
Other Humans Cassandra | Kasuf | Linea | Ma'chello | Martin Lloyd | Sha're | Shifu | Skaara
Goa'uld Amaterasu | Amonet | Anubis | Apophis | Ba'al | Camulus | Cronus | Hathor | Heru-ur
Nerus | Osiris | Ra | Sokar | Tanith | Yu | Zipacna
Jaffa Bra'tac | Gerak | Ishta | Rya'c
Other Adria | Chaka | Fifth | Harlan | Lotan | 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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