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Stargate character
Daniel Jackson as portrayed by Michael Shanks in Stargate SG-1
Daniel Jackson
Race	Human
Gender	Male
Birthplace	Greece, Earth (Olympia)
Relatives	Melburn and Claire Jackson (parents, deceased) Nick Ballard (grandfather) Sha'uri (wife, deceased) Shifu (step-son)
Portrayer	Michael Shanks James Spader (film)
First appearance	"Stargate"

Daniel Jackson is a fictional character in both the science fiction feature film Stargate and the subsequent television series Stargate SG-1. The role was played by James Spader in the film version and is played by Michael Shanks in the TV series. Shanks also played the character in the Stargate Atlantis pilot "Rising" and in "The Ark of Truth". Jackson has PhDs in Archaeology, Anthropology and Philology^[1].

Contents 1 Character's Background 2 Stargate 3 Stargate SG-1 3.1 Season 1 3.2 Season 2 3.3 Season 3 3.4 Season 4 3.5 Season 5 3.6 Season 6 3.7 Season 7 3.8 Season 8 3.9 Season 9 3.10 Season 10 4 Stargate Atlantis 4.1 Season 1 4.2 Season 5 5 Non- and semi-permanent deaths 6 Daniel's love life 7 List of appearances/absences 8 Reception 9 References

[edit] Character's Background

Born on July 8, 1965^[2][3], Dr. Daniel Jackson is an only child and an orphan. His maternal grandfather and only living relative, Nick Ballard, lives on another planet with giant aliens ("Crystal Skull"). Daniel's parents, Melburn and Claire Jackson, also archaeologists, were crushed while supervising the placement of a piece of Egyptian art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art ("The Gamekeeper"). His grandfather abandoned him after the funeral. Though placed in foster care, Jackson visited his grandfather in a mental institution until they had an argument over Daniel's failing career and Daniel left.

Daniel is an archaeologist and linguist who speaks more than twenty-three languages ("1969") (in another episode, the number is given as twenty-seven ("200"); on-screen, he has been shown speaking English, Ancient Egyptian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin Chinese and German, as well as Goa'uld, Ancient, and Unas (which he decoded).

[edit] Stargate

In the film Stargate, Daniel first appears speaking at an academic seminar, where he finds little acceptance of his theory that the Pyramids of Giza were much older than they were thought to be. Only one person, an aged woman named Catherine Langford, remains in the audience, and she offers him a job.

For Langford, Jackson uses his knowledge of ancient Egypt to open a device called the Stargate, by interpreting the cover-stones found with it, realizing that the symbols which everyone assumed were hieroglyphs were actually constellations. On the original mission through the Stargate to the planet Abydos, Daniel meets, marries, and falls in love with, a native woman, Sha'uri (she is named Sha're in the TV series Stargate SG-1).

Believing Daniel to be a messenger or representative of the System Lord Ra, the Abydonian elders give Sha'uri to him as a wife. Despite his attraction to her, Daniel rejects her initial advances because he believes she is being forced to offer herself to him. Still, she and her father Kasuf insist that she stay. After some attempts to communicate, she leads him to a place with hieroglyphs that Daniel recognizes and soon (with her help) he deciphers the Abydonian language. The glyphs inspire Sha'uri to organize and mount a rebellion against Ra after Daniel is taken prisoner. After a daring escape, Daniel sees that Sha'uri was shamed and hurt by his rejection, and he consummates the relationship. After winning the battle to free the Abydonians from the System Lord Ra, Daniel decides not to return to Earth with the rest of the team. He has finally found a family and wants to live the rest of his life learning about the culture and history of Abydos with its insights into ancient Egypt. Jack O'Neill lies in his report and says that Daniel Jackson is dead, and Daniel assures Jack that they will bury their stargate on Abydos.

[edit] Stargate SG-1

In the television series Stargate SG-1, Daniel's life changes when his wife is abducted; Daniel joins the Stargate team SG-1, to recover her, and after she dies, he remains a part of the team.

Over the course of the series, Daniel has been captured, infected with alien viruses, suffered the implantation of a dozen alien consciousnesses within him, has died and returned to life many times, used the highly addictive sarcophagus many times and experienced its withdrawal symptoms, and has ascended to a higher plane of existence twice. He has also suffered appendicitis; (The actor, Michael Shanks, suffered appendicitis during the filming of "Nemesis" and could not work, so the writers wrote his condition into the plot.)

His contributions have also been recognized by the Asgard: the Daniel Jackson, the flagship of Thor, the Supreme Commander of the Asgard fleet, was named in his honor.

It is implied in "Chimera" that Daniel attended graduate school at the University of Chicago.

[edit] Season 1

A year after the mission depicted in the film, Sha're and her brother Skaara are kidnapped by Apophis and made hosts to the Goa'uld symbiotes Amonet (Apophis's wife) and Klorel (Apophis's son). Daniel returns to Earth and joins SG-1 hoping that his missions will help him rescue his wife and brother-in-law.

Daniel works as an interpreter. Among a team of military officers, Daniel is often the voice of understanding and acceptance of different cultures. He is an optimist and believes in helping people even if it endangers his own life, as instanced when he allowed the Tollan to leave Earth despite knowing it will get him in trouble with the NID (Enigma).

During an early mission, Daniel is abducted by an alien, Nem, who seeks Daniel's help in discovering the fate of his mate, who had visited Earth centuries ago and perhaps inspired a rebellion against the Goa'uld. Nem implants false memories of Daniel's death in the rest of SG-1, leaving Jack O'Neill particularly upset by the loss of his friend. Daniel remembers the information Nem sought and is allowed to return, although the rest of SG-1 has by then managed to overcome Nem's brainwashing on their own. ("Fire and Water")

An encounter with the Goa'uld queen, Hathor, proves traumatic for Daniel. Hathor, having developed an attraction to Daniel, uses her pheromones to seduce him in order to use his DNA to create a new species of Goa'uld. When Daniel realizes this plan, he tries to stop her but she doses him with a form of pheremonal sedative. However, the women of the SGC and Teal'c are unaffected by this sedative, and Hathor is driven away. ("Hathor")

Daniel also plays a vital role in thwarting a Goa'uld invasion of Earth. During a mission ("There But For the Grace of God"), Daniel is transported to an alternate reality in which he was never part of the SGC, Teal'c did not defect, and Earth is in the midst of being attacked (and defeated) by a Goa'uld fleet. Daniel is able to work out the Stargate address from which the invasion originated, and convinces the Jack O'Neill of that reality to let him return to his world to provide advance warning of the invasion.

[edit] Season 2

When the team are trapped in virtual reality devices, Daniel, accompanied by Samantha Carter, witnesses his parents' deaths once more. Although he realizes that he cannot do anything to save them, he harshly informs the Gamekeeper (curator of the virtual reality) that he will not play the man's "sick game" any longer ("The Gamekeeper").

Daniel is briefly reunited with Sha're/Amonet when she temporarily controls her body while pregnant with the Harsesis child Shifu in the episode "Secrets". Amonet regains control after the birth, but Daniel and Teal'c manage to steal the child and trick Amonet into thinking the child was taken by a rival of Apophis. Amonet looks directly at Daniel and his team when they are hiding, but does not reveal their location. Daniel considers himself somewhat of a stepfather to the boy. (The actress portraying Sha're was actually pregnant with Michael Shank's first child, Tatiana.)

He is also briefly transferred into the body of a dying old man Ma'chello, a long-time opponent of the Goa'uld. Sam eventually restores each to his rightful body ("Holiday").

During a confrontation with a dying Apophis, Daniel's compassion is highlighted when the host is able to speak because of the weakness of the symbiote. Even though this man has the face of the person who stole his wife, Daniel harbours no resentment of the host for the Goa'uld's actions, and assures the host that he will be buried in Egypt according to the customs of his time ("Serpent's Song").

[edit] Season 3

Ma'chello haunts Daniel when Daniel is infected with Goa'uld-destroying parasites ("Legacy"); while infected, he begins to hallucinate, and is misdiagnosed as schizophrenic. When Teal'c falls ill as well, Daniel has proof that he wasn't hallucinating.

Sha're dies in the episode "Forever in a Day", when Teal'c kills her to prevent Amonet from killing Daniel. As Amonet tortures Daniel, Sha're manages to send him a message, asking Daniel to find her child, to forgive Teal'c for killing her, and she reconfirms her love for him.

During a mission to a planet whose population suffers mass amnesia ("Past and Present"), Daniel develops feelings for a woman Ke'ra, before learning that she was originally Linea, the 'Destroyer of Worlds'. The SGC are forced to prevent her taking the drug that would restore her memories, and Ke'ra returns to her adopted people.

Daniel later saves Skaara from the Goa'uld Klorel when Klorel's ship crashes on Tollana. During the subsequent trial, despite Klorel's defense that extractng him from Skaara would kill him, Skaara is allowed to regain control of his body, and the symbiote is extracted, freeing Skaara. ("Pretense")

Daniel journeys to a planet called Kheb to search for the Harcesis. He discovers the child is being cared for by Oma Desala, a being of great power and wisdom, and accepts her custody in the episode "Maternal Instinct", because she can keep him free of the Goa'uld better than he can.

In the episode "Crystal Skull", Daniel reunites with his grandfather when exposure to a crystal skull on an alien world turns him invisible and intangible. His grandfather is called in to consult because of his experience with a similar artifact, and is able to bring Daniel back into sync with reality, before deciding to remain on the planet. (It has been noted by fans that while "out of phase" Daniel's skintone is slightly off. This is because Michael Shanks was ill with appendicitis during filming).^{[citation needed]}

In the episode "Nemesis", Daniel is left behind while the rest of the crew helps the Asgards fight off a new threat. Originally he was meant to go with them but the day after Canadian Thanksgiving, Shanks' appendix ruptured and the appendectomy was written into the script to explain Daniel's minimal involvement.

The audiobook Gift of the Gods is set during the third season.

[edit] Season 4

A rift grows between Daniel and Jack during "The Other Side", when the SGC are contacted by a group of people at war who wish to share their superior technology with Earth in exchange for assistance. Daniel protests that they should get information before taking sides, but Jack ignores him until one of the men makes a racist comment about Teal'c. Having learned that they'd been about to help a people with a Nazi-like philosophy who had been attempting to commit genocide on their planet, SG-1 abandons that world to its fate.

During a mission to a planet believed to be the homeworld of the Goa'uld in the episode "The First Ones", Daniel is captured by a young Unas (whom he knows as Chaka) as part of a ritual that would allow the Unas to pass into adulthood. However, the two of them develop a friendship, and Daniel is eventually released, after learning a bit of the Unas language.

In "Scorched Earth", a people that SG-1 had relocated to another world are threatened by an artificial intelligence's attempt to recreate a long-lost species on that world. Jack favors destroying the artificial intelligence, but Daniel convinces it to delay the colonisation of the planet until the people can be relocated to a new world.

In the episode "The Curse", the death of Daniel's old professor and mentor leads to an awkward reunion with his ex-girlfriend, Sarah Gardner. This also led to the discovery that his professor had acquired a Goa'uld artifact containing the dormant Goa'uld Osiris, which possesses Sarah.

Shifu returns, much older, to teach Daniel the dangers of the full knowledge of the Goa'uld in the episode "Absolute Power", by showing him a vision of what he would become if he used the Goa'uld knowledge. In this vision, Daniel, overcome by the evil nature of the Goa'uld knowledge, takes over the planet, imprisons Sam for questioning his authority, destroys Moscow, and apparently causes Teal'c's death.

[edit] Season 5

When his Unas friend Chaka is captured by a race that enslaves Unas ("Beast of Burden"), Daniel enlists SG-1 to help him rescue Chaka, blaming himself for teaching Chaka to trust humans in the first place. However, after he is freed, Chaka remains on the planet to help his people, and eventually manages to negotiate a peace between humans and Unas.

Because of his fluency in Goa'uld, Daniel is assigned to infiltrate the System Lord summit as Yu's Lo'tar Jariol and release the symbiont poison on them. However, he is secretly confronted by Osiris. He stabs her with a Re'ol memory altering device. As he is about to release the poison, he hears that Anubis wants to rejoin the System Lords. He then plans to capture Osiris and leave, but his plan is interrupted by Yu, who has learned that "Jariol" is not to be trusted. Daniel escapes without Osiris and without releasing the poison, although Lantash releases it later to buy SG-1 time to escape.

In the episode "Meridian", Daniel Jackson dies after exposure to radiation while attempting to fix a naqahdriah reactor; attempts to cure him with Goa'uld healing devices initially fail. (The heroic sacrifice, in which he separates components of a test reactor to stop it from going critical, resembles accounts of the death of Louis Slotin) However, Jackson does not perish completely; instead, he ascends to a higher plane of existence, guided by the Ancient Oma Desala.

[edit] Season 6

While Ascended, Jackson is replaced in SG-1 by Jonas Quinn, a native of the planet that Daniel gave his life to help, although the rest of the team (particularly Carter and O'Neill) find it hard to get over Daniel's absence.

As an Ascended being, Daniel visits SG-1 on occasion, but he is not allowed to interfere, according to the laws of ascended beings. In the episode "Abyss", he offers Col. Jack O'Neill ascension as a means of escaping Ba'al's torture, but O'Neill declines. However, it is implied that Daniel planted a suggestion in Teal'c's mind to contact Yu and ask for his help in mounting an attack on the fortress, which frees Jack.

In "The Changeling", Daniel helps a delusional, injured Teal'c to return to reality after he is fatally injured and shares his symbiote with Bra'tac, whose symbiote has been killed, by playing the role of a psychologist in the delusion.

In the season 6 finale "Full Circle", ascended Daniel seeks to defeat the plans of Anubis by having SG-1 locate a device called "The Eye of Ra", which is on Abydos. The plan fails. Daniel attempts to make a deal with Anubis to safeguard the lives of the Abydonians and SG-1, but Anubis breaks his word. Daniel tries to destroy Anubis, only to be whisked away before doing anything, and Abydos is destroyed, although Oma helps Daniel by Ascending the entire population of Abydos before they are killed.

[edit] Season 7

Eventually, Daniel is discovered on the planet Vis Uban in the episode "Fallen", having violated the rules of ascended beings, which forbid interference in the lives of humans. As punishment, he is returned to human form. He is found naked on the ground, so that the people call him Arrom- "the naked one." He has total amnesia, but he recovers his memories of his corporeal life rapidly, and rejoins SG-1 full-time, while Jonas returns to his people.

Only some memories of his time of Ascension are buried in his subconscious; he taps into these memories in "Orpheus" to learn of the capture of Bra'tac and Rya'c by a Goa'uld mining colony, subsequently providing the SGC with access to the planet, saving Teal'c's son and mentor.

When mining on a planet is disrupted by the Unas ("Enemy Mine"), Daniel meets with Chaka once more to help negotiate with the local Unas, who regarded the mine as a sacred place. With Chaka's help, Daniel negotiates an alliance between the SGC and the Unas, with the Unas agreeing to mine the planet's naqahdah and give it to the SGC to create weapons to battle the Goa'uld.

With the coming of Anubis's supersoldiers, Daniel deduces the location of a device that may allow the team to develop a weapon against the supersoldiers. After finding it, he and Doctor Bill Lee are held for ransom by Honduran rebels. Both are tortured for information; Lee provides some information. The rebels are able to activate the device, but it turns them insane. Realizing they will be killed if they do not escape, Daniel diverts the rebels while Dr. Lee hides. They are rescued by Jack ("Evolution").

Daniel spends much of Season 7 trying to find the Lost City of the Ancients, which allows him to rescue Sarah when Osiris tries to trick him into revealing the location of the city ("Chimera"). This event leads to the discovery of the Ancient Outpost at Antarctica in the Season 7 finale "Lost City", contributing to the spin-off Stargate Atlantis.

[edit] Season 8

In "Prometheus Unbound", Daniel meets Vala Mal Doran when the latter seizes the Prometheus with Daniel on board. Daniel eventually recaptures the ship, though he is first shot and beaten. Daniel encounters a new alien race and introduces himself as "Hans Olo" (a pun on Han Solo). He subsequently flees to save himself, locking Vala in a brig while he reunites with the crew; Vala subsequently uses ring transporters to escape.

He dies again in "Reckoning (Part 2)", killed by RepliCarter after he is captured while attempting to recover his memories of Ascension. Daniel uses the link between them to halt all Replicators in the universe long enough for them to be destroyed, providing his friends with the crucial time they need to prepare the Dakara Superweapon.

The next episode, "Threads" reveals that Oma Desala is providing a path for Daniel to Ascend. But as he prepares, Anubis appears. Daniel persuades Oma Desala to fight Anubis (As the two are equally matched, Anubis can never escape as long as Oma fights), and Daniel is Descended back to Earth naked to live on as a human, this time with full memory of what just happened to him.

In the season finale, "Moebius", Daniel inherits many items from the Langford estate, including a book with depictions of Ra with a ZPM. SG-1 goes back in time to retrieve the ZPM, but their cloaked Puddle Jumper is discovered. They begin the original Earth rebellion against the Goa'uld, but Carter, Teal'c and O'Neill are killed by Ra in revenge, although Daniel survives. He leaves a message for the future, to help them in locating the Stargate and the Puddle Jumper, so their alternate selves can fix things. Alt-Daniel was never contacted by the SGC, and teaches English as a second language as a career. Energized by discovering what he could have become, he and Alt-Carter figure things out and SG-1 goes to Chulak to get Teal'c. Unfortunately, Alt-Teal'c is forced to shoot Alt-Daniel, because he has been taken over by a Goa'uld. When Alt SG-1 comes to 3000 B.C., they and Daniel devise a plan to free Ancient Egypt and make sure the Stargate stays. After the plan succeeds, Alt-SG-1 and Daniel must live out the rest of their lives in Ancient Egypt, and a variation of the original timeline is restored.

[edit] Season 9

Vala Mal Doran returns in "Avalon", and prevents Daniel from going on the Daedalus to Atlantis by tying him to her with linking bracelets—if they remain apart for more than a short time, they both become comatose. She is searching for a lost Ancient treasure and wants Daniel to assist her. After finding the Ancient chamber under Glastonbury Tor, England, Daniel discovers that the Ancients called themselves the Alterans and came from another galaxy. He also discovers that the Ancients had a device used for intergalactic communication. Still linked to Vala, they decide to use the device, and to their surprise find themselves in the bodies of two people, Harrid and Sallis, in another galaxy. There, they make contact with the Ori and unintentionally bring that threat to the Milky Way by alerting the Ori to another galaxy with humans.

During the subsequent search for technology to battle the Priors, Daniel confronts Khalek, a being genetically engineered by Anubis to Ascend and destroy the Ancients ("Prototype"). The Pentagon insists on keeping Khalek alive, believing that studying Khalek will let them stop the Priors of the Ori, but Daniel, knowing what Anubis is capable of, is determined that Khalek should be neutralized quickly. In the end, however, Khalek is shot by Daniel and Mitchell just before ascension, although he has provided them information that will allow them to counter a Prior's powers.

As the season draws to a close, SG-1 and several other ships descend upon an Ori supergate, and attempt to destroy it. They are defeated, however, and Daniel rings away just before his ship is destroyed.

[edit] Season 10

As the Ori battlecruisers arrive in the Milky Way, Daniel finds himself on the Ori flagship, which he ringed onto at the last moment, to escape the destruction of the Korolev. He finds Vala, but also is confronted by Vala's rapidly maturing daughter, Adria, who almost kills him. He is beamed back aboard the earth ships, and grabs Vala to bring her with him. Shortly thereafter, Daniel speaks up in support of Vala's request to join the SGC.

Shortly thereafter, Daniel attracts the attention of Adria. She hints that the Ori have plans for him; these plans arise from her belief that his Ascension means that only Daniel can use the anti-Ori weapon designed by Merlin, an Ascended Ancient who retook human form.

During "The Quest", the team discovers Merlin in suspended animation, having been frozen by Morgan Le Fay to protect him from the Ori until the time came for him to rebuild the Sangraal (a device to destroy ascended beings). Merlin dies during his attempt to build another Sangraal, but transfers some of his knowledge and powers into Daniel. Using these, Daniel begins to build another Sangraal, but the Ori attack and Daniel must force his friends to escape before the weapon is completed, leaving him behind to be captured by Adria.

In the episode "The Shroud", Daniel is turned into an Ori Prior by Adria, who believes that using him is the only way she can ever manage to convert the Tau'ri to the path of Origin. The SGC are suspicious of Prior Daniel, the IOA believing that he should be killed, although the rest of SG-1 believe him. Daniel, however, urges the SGC to adopt his plan, and kidnaps General O'Neill and hijacks the Odyssey to help in the final attack against the Ori.

At the end of the episode Daniel has returned to his normal self because when Merlin downloaded his memories into Daniel, he encoded a 'reset function' of sorts, to restore Daniel to his condition before the download. Because of this, Daniel resets to his old normal self, erasing the Prior alterations and Merlin's knowledge from his system. The Sangraal is used on the Ori's galaxy, and SG-1 believes it to have been successful. However, they have no confirmation of this, and there are still Adria and remaining Ori ships in the Milky Way to contend with. Adria again attacks the SGC, and comes close to killing Daniel. Vala attempts to kill Adria in an effort to save Daniel, but before she can act, Adria ascends. As the season closes, Daniel Jackson, along with the rest of SG-1 and General Landry, become trapped aboard the Odyssey when they are fired upon by an Ori vessel. They remain on the vessel, in a time dilation field, for 50 years, during which time Daniel and Vala fall in love and live together, with Daniel proclaiming that he wasn't with her just because they were trapped; he would have chosen her anyway.

[edit] Stargate Atlantis

[edit] Season 1

Daniel discovers the gate address to Atlantis and is dismayed when Jack O'Neill refuses to let him take part in the expedition.

[edit] Season 5

Daniel will be in the mid-season two-part episode during Atlantis' 5th season.

[edit] Non- and semi-permanent deaths

The show's staff and writers occasionally jokes about Daniel's frequent deaths on the show. In the season 7 episode "Heroes", one of the SG teams examine some ancient ruins and a scientist says "Dr. Jackson is gonna die when he sees this!" to which another member responds "What?! Again?". (At the 2006 Chicago Stargate convention, Michael Shanks joked that Daniel is "the SG-1 whipping boy".) Comparisons have also been made between Daniel and Kenny from the cartoon series South Park. ^[4]

The Film

• Killed by a staff blast defending O'Neil; resurrected by Ra with a sarcophagus.

Season One

• Presumed dead with the rest of Abydos from the nuke left behind by O'Neill in the Stargate motion picture (episode "Children of the Gods"); the cover story used by O'Neill and his team to protect the Abydonians from further visits from Earth.
• Presumed dead by the brainwashed rest of SG-1 in "Fire and Water"; in reality, false memories of his death were implanted by an alien.
• Killed by Apophis and resurrected by the Nox in "The Nox".
• Supposes his other self to be dead from the current Goa'uld invasion of Earth in an alternate universe in "There But For the Grace of God"; in fact, quite possibly putting a light hearted twist on the idea of alternate universes where everyone dies in this episode except Daniel.

Season Two

• Hit by a staff blast, remains behind on Apophis' doomed ship to use the sarcophagus and escape via Stargate in "The Serpent's Lair". Presumed dead by the rest of SG-1.
• Briefly dies of old age while in the body of Ma'chello, an ancient enemy of the Goa'uld, in "Holiday"; resuscitated and sent back to his original body.

Season Three

• In the opening of "Rules of Engagement" he appears to die along with the rest of SG-1, but is only temporarily stunned.
• Carter shoots an alien resembling Daniel Jackson, which dies later, in "Foothold".
• In "Crystal Skull", SG-1 searches for Jackson and suspected that he had died, when he was only "out of phase"--invisible to everyone but himself and his grandfather, who himself had gone through the process of the transformation, staring into the Crystal Skull. Daniel himself began to theorize he had died and became a ghost to the SGC staff.

Season Four

• Suffers cardiac arrest after becoming addicted to a Goa'uld narcotic device. "The Light"
• Shot and killed with gate-defense lasers along with the rest of SG-1 in the alternate future of "2010".
• Had his head shot off by a staff weapon in "Double Jeopardy", revealing that the SG-1 the episode had followed to that point was not the original, but rather the android SG-1.
• Was shot by an alien archeologist in Window of Opportunity. Whether or not he actually died was unclear. Since time was caught in a loop, events were undone.

Season Five

• Dies of radiation poisoning sustained while disarming a naqahdriah bomb, after psychically asking O'Neill to make the doctors and Jacob Carter stop trying to save him in "Meridian", thus Ascending to a higher plane until Season Seven.

Season Six

• Pulled away by the other Ascended as he attempts to use his powers to prevent Anubis from destroying Abydos in "Full Circle"; his teammates assume that he is dead, but he has in reality been returned to human form.

Season Eight

• Killed by Teal'c several times in a virtual reality system from P7J-989 during "Avatar", as he had been a Goa'uld spy inside the virtual reality.
• Killed by RepliCarter at the very end of "Reckoning" and is seen at a midway point between Ascension and mortality before finally being brought back to life in "Threads".
• A Goa'uld-possessed alternate timeline version of Daniel is shot by Teal'c in "Moebius". The timeline is restored by the end of the episode and Daniel is alive with all of SG-1. (In another timeline in the same episode, all of SG-1 are killed except Daniel when attempting a revolution in the past; that timeline's Daniel apparently lives out his life in ancient Egypt, along with the alternate SG-1 whose Daniel was infected by a Goa'uld, and would have eventually died as well.)

Season Ten

• In the opening episode, it is revealed that the Korolev (the ship that Daniel was on) was the Daedalus-class ship that had been destroyed in the season 9 finale. As Daniel hadn't been able to evacuate via Asgard beaming technology or by F-302, he had been presumed dead. SG-1 later discovers that he used the ring platform to escape, but arrived on an Ori ship.
• During "Unending" Daniel dies for a very short time between the destruction of the Odyssey and the ship's trip back in time.

Big Finish Productions Audio Dramas

• In Gift of the Gods an alternate reality is created. Daniel Jackson from the main reality is killed and is replaced by the Daniel Jackson from the alternate reality.

[edit] Daniel's love life

The character Jackson has been involved in a significant number of romantic plotlines during the series.

• Sha're: Married her due to a misunderstanding on the first mission to Abydos; remained with her for a year on Abydos before she was taken as a host for Amonet ("Children of the Gods"). Though there was no guarantee that Sha're could ever be restored, he remained faithful to her until her death, when Teal'c was forced to kill Amonet as well as Sha're to stop her from killing Daniel ("Forever in a Day").
• After contracting an alien virus, Daniel regressed to a primitive stage of Homo sapiens, and claimed a young woman SG-1 had rescued earlier ("The Broca Divide")
• Hathor: A Goa'uld queen, she used her pheromones to control every male in the SGC. She was particularly fond of Daniel, referring to him as her 'Beloved'. She drugged and sexually assaulted him to acquire his DNA to create a new generation of Goa'uld, but she was driven away by the women of the SGC and the offspring were destroyed ("Hathor")
• Shyla: A princess on a planet SG-1 visited, she became attracted to Daniel after he saved her life. He went along with the relationship to free the rest of SG-1 from death in the naqahdah mines, but the price of this was addiction to the sarcophagus that Shyla was using to try and keep him with her. ("Need")
• Ke'ra: Initially, Ke'ra appeared to be the leader of a planet who, about a year earlier, had contracted mass amnesia under unknown circumstances. She and Daniel developed a close relationship, but this ended when SGC discovered that Ke'ra was originally Linnea, the 'Destroyer of Worlds', who had tricked SG-1 to acquire stargate addresses. Although Daniel felt that she deserved a second chance, as her loss of memory had made her a genuinely good person, he acknowledged the dangers of her regaining her memory. After Ke'ra took some of the cure they had developed, she contemplated suicide to stop the evil part of her, but Daniel convinced her to lose her memories once more, and subsequently lied to Ke'ra when she asked if there had ever been anything between them, saying that they "never really knew each other at all" ("Past and Present").
• Sarah Gardner: Daniel's old girlfriend in college, the two broke up when Daniel was too busy working to remember their two-month anniversary. They met again in "The Curse", when Sarah was taken as a host by the long-dormant Goa'uld Osiris. Eventually, Osiris was captured when she attempted to trick Daniel into revealing the location of Atlantis, and Sarah was freed from Osiris' control ("Chimera").
• Samantha Carter: After his descension, Daniel lost his memories. When he was reunited with his teammates on SG-1, he asked Samantha Carter if there was ever anything between them; she responded that they were just really good friends. In an interview, Carmen Argenziano (Jacob Carter) stated that he favored a Daniel Jackson/Samantha Carter pairing in the series: "I like Daniel Jackson. I felt that Daniel would have been the right choice because Daniel is well-educated, is intelligent, gentlemanly and he was everything that I envisioned that my daughter would end up with." Also in the season eight finale of Moebius the alternate time line Daniel and Carter appear to have some feelings for each other.
• Leda: Having unintentionally triggered a war on a distant planet, Daniel is trapped on the planet, where he is cared for by a woman named Leda. Although married, Leda nevertheless develops feelings for Daniel, but circumstances prevent anything coming of it ("Icon"). When SG-1 returns to her planet a year later ("Ethon"), Jared, Leda's husband, reveals to Daniel that she had been killed when she refused to submit to the Ori.
• Vala Mal Doran: They have a short encounter, during which she repeatedly tries and fails to seduce him; she escapes but reappears months later when she travels to Stargate Command in Season 9 ("Avalon"), demanding to see "my Daniel". She binds the two of them together with special bracelets that cause them to pass out if separated from one another. Daniel is exasperated, but, despite their quarrels, he grows somewhat attached to her. When she goes missing in "Beachhead," he hopes that she survived. She returns almost a year later ("Flesh and Blood"), now married and pregnant. After Vala joins the SGC ("Morpheus") and later SG-1 itself ("Memento Mori"), their relationship grows less dramatic. Throughout season 10, Daniel tries to help Vala deal with her conflicting feelings about her daughter, Adria, and the two form a close bond over their shared experiences of loss. However, in "Unending," after misinterpreting Vala's intentions, Daniel gets angry at her and claims that they could never be together. He expresses his desire to finally move on from his dead wife, Sha're, but believes that Vala is just bored and toying with him ("Unending"). However, after seeing the effect his words have on her, Daniel realizes that Vala truly does care for him and kisses her. The rest of the episode shows them growing old together, still clearly in love. Only when they are about to forget the past 50 years they've spent together do they admit their feelings for one another on-screen for the first time.
• Adria: The Orici and 'daughter' of Vala Mal Doran and the Ori, Adria developed an attraction to Daniel while attempting to convert him to the path of Origin and turn him into a Prior. Any apparent reciprocation on Daniel's part was merely as a result of his plan to trick Adria into allowing him to complete the Sangraal. Her attraction might also have had a link to her mother as she tells Daniel during one of their meditation sessions in The Shroud: "In our time together, I've really come to see in you what draws Mother's affection...it's very important to me that we save her together" (to which Daniel, absorbed in meditation, replied: "Huh? Affects what?").

[edit] List of appearances/absences

• Whilst as a regular character, Daniel Jackson was absent in the following episodes of Stargate SG-1:

Prodigy (Season 4)

Revelations (Season 5)

Inauguration (Season 7) - Except for in clips from previous episodes.

Insiders (Season 10)

Uninvited (Season 10)

Line in the Sand (Season 10)

The Road Not Taken (Season 10)

• Whilst as a recurring character during Season 6, Daniel Jackson appeared in the following episodes of Stargate SG-1:

Abyss

Disclosure - in clips from previous episodes

The Changeling

Full Circle

[edit] Reception

For his portrayal of Daniel Jackson, Michael Shanks was nominated for a Leo Award in 2000 for "Best Performance by a Male in a Dramatic Series" in 2000 for the episode "Forever in a Day". After a 2004 Leo win in the category "Dramatic Series: Best Lead Performance by a Male" for "Lifeboat", Shanks was nominated for a 2005 Leo Award in the same category for the episode "Threads". Shanks was nominated for a Saturn Award in the category "Best Supporting Actor on Television" in 2001, 2004 and 2005.^[5]

[edit] References

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