Nirrti (Stargate)

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Stargate character
Nirrti in Fair Game
Nirrti
Race	Goa'uld
Gender	Female
Rank	System Lord
Birthplace	Unknown
Film portrayer	None
Television portrayer	Jacqueline Samuda
Key episodes	"Singularity (mentioned) Fair Game (seen)" (first appearance)

In the science fiction television show Stargate SG-1, the fictional character Nirrti is a Goa'uld System Lord who is based on Nirṛti of Hindu mythology.

[edit] Background

Nirrti was a System Lord who was interested in creating an advanced human, a so called hok'taur, to get a perfect host. For this purpose she experimented on humans on different planets. She had a vast knowledge of genetics which she also used to create living bombs. One of these living bombs was sent to Apophis, where the person blew up, destroying everything in the surrounding area. She also had a personal cloaking device, which worked by phase-shifting based on her studies of the Re'tu.

One of the planets on which she was experimenting was Hanka, where she spent years performing genetic experiments on the population from a secret laboratory in a forest. She was even able to create several humans with telekinetic abilities by the use of a retrovirus. When Stargate Command first came through the Stargate she unleashed a deadly virus, killing nearly everyone on the planet, including one SG team. There was only one survivor of this, a human girl named Cassandra.

[edit] Meeting with SGC

Cassandra was later found by SG-1, who brought her back to Earth, where she was soon found to contain the explosive elements of Nirrti's human bombs and it was only due to the quick thinking of Carter that Stargate Command wasn't completely destroyed. Meanwhile, back on Hanka, Jack O'Neill and Teal'c were engaged by Nirrti's mothership, but were able to flee through the Stargate in time. ("Singularity")

SGC met Nirrti in person when she was one of the three Goa'uld System Lords who went to Earth to negotiate a treaty with the Asgard so that Earth would be in the Protected Planets Treaty. During this meeting however she used her cloaking device to attack Cronus and Teal'c, mortally wounding Cronus. She then pretended that her attempt to heal him with a Goa'uld healing device had failed, however her lies were discovered and she tried to flee. She was quickly captured by the personnel of Stargate Command, despite her personal cloaking device and was handed to Cronus as a prisoner. ("Fair Game")

After SG-1 killed Cronus she was able to flee and continued with her experiments. When Cassandra was showing signs of telekinesis, SG-1 went back to Hanka, where they found Nirrti's laboratory. However this alarmed her and she followed the team through the Stargate on the base where she tried to come near Cassandra. However Cassandra sensed her, alarmed the base and Nirrti was then captured when she attacked O'Neill and Dr. Janet Fraiser. When she was ordered to heal Cassandra she demanded to be let free and a sample of Cassandra's blood. Although General Hammond at first refused he later agreed. The condition was that she wouldn't get Cassandra's blood. After Cassandra was healed, Nirrti left the base but told the SGC that she will continue with her experiments. She also mentioned, while she found their willingness to go along with the deal instead of merely killing her honorable, she would not have done the same herself. ("Rite of Passage")

[edit] DNA Resequencer

Nirrti later came to the world Alebran, where she found a device of the Ancients, the DNA Resequencer, which allowed her to read and alter a person's genetic code. With this device she started to experiment upon the people on the world under the guise of helping them, and gave them various mental powers such as telepathy and telekinesis. However this lead to them becoming badly mutated and deformed. After being warned of this Stargate Command sent two Stargate teams through the Stargate on a mission to kill or capture her, but both were instead captured. She performed her genetic experiments on both Carter and Jonas Quinn using the DNA resequencer and discovered that Jonas's DNA differed from normal humans due to his people being cut off from Earth 3,000 years ago. In the meantime, Colonel O'Neill convinced one of the telepathic Alebrans to read her mind, where he found out that she is only using them for her own ends, and intended to kill them all eventually. One of the telekinetic Alebrans strangled her using his power and then killed her by breaking her neck, despite O'Neill's urging to keep her alive. Another Alebran, however, first read her mind to discover how to fix the damage she had done to them all. ("Metamorphosis")