List of Tau'ri characters in Stargate Atlantis
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The following is a list of Tau'ri characters in the television show Stargate Atlantis. In the Stargate universe, the Tau'ri are the humans from Earth.
Atlantis is a multi-national expedition. While on the city, each member of the expedition wears a patch on their left jacket sleeve with their country's flag. This patch is stripped off while on offworld missions. So far, the following flags have been seen, though there may be more: Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Scotland, Serbia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States and Zimbabwe.
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[edit] Major characters
[edit] John Sheppard
An USAF Lieutenant Colonel (ranked major in season 1) and the military commander of Atlantis.
[edit] Elizabeth Weir
Former commander of the Atlantis expedition.
[edit] Samantha Carter
An USAF Colonel and current commander of the Atlantis expedition from season four.
[edit] Rodney McKay
The Head Scientific Advisor of the Atlantis expedition.
[edit] Carson Beckett
The Head Medical Officer of the Atlantis expedition during seasons 1 to 3.
[edit] Aiden Ford
A USMC Lieutenant who was Major Sheppard's second in command in season one and became MIA in season two.
[edit] Recurring characters
[edit] Bates
| Stargate character | |
|---|---|
| Bates | |
| Race | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Rank | USMC Sergeant (retired), IOA special mission's operative |
| Birthplace | US, Earth |
| Relatives | Unnamed younger brother |
| Portrayer | Dean Marshall |
| First appearance | "Rising" |
Retired Sergeant Bates is a career military man who has demonstrated the abilities of thoroughness and extreme caution. A "by the book" NCO, he is highly suspicious of non-military persons and officers who don't operate "by the book" themselves, a trait which often puts him into conflict with Maj. John Sheppard.
He has a younger brother, with whom he shares an interest in the sport of basketball and one of its teams, the Los Angeles Lakers. He is a fan of Lakers' players Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant.[1]
Originally Bates was a member of the USMC security forces under Colonel Marshall Sumner, and was among the first troops who arrived in Atlantis. When Rodney McKay determined that the city's ZPM's would soon run out of power, after which the shield protecting the submerged city from flooding would fail, Bates was sent to scout for a possible evacuation site along with Colonel Sumner and Major Sheppard.
While surveying the planet Athos, he and Sumner were captured by the Wraith and imprisoned on a Hive Ship. He was subsequently rescued by John Sheppard along with several Athosian captives. When Sheppard became the highest ranking officer of the expedition, and was thus relegated to command Atlantis' premiere SG team, Bates was charged with Atlantis' base security by Dr. Elizabeth Weir.[2]
In this new role, he became highly suspicious of the Athosian refugees they had rescued, believing them to be a security threat. This belief was tested when it was discovered that the Wraith had planted a homing device in an old necklace worn by Teyla Emmagan, a homing device inadvertently activated by Sheppard upon touching it (as the device detected the Ancient gene). While the homing device didn't directly bring the Wraith to Atlantis, it did bring the Wraith to planets visited by the Atlantis Expedition, which had been seeded with subspace relay stations that broadcasted the signal to the closest hive-ship.[3]
While Teyla was absolved from being a security threat, she again became a topic of argument between Bates and Sheppard when it was discovered that Teyla had Wraith DNA, left over from unsanctioned experiments done by a Wraith scientist on her people. This DNA introduced the possibility of detecting the presence of a Wraith, as well as the possibility of communicating to them through telepathy. The Wraith, with superior psionic abilities, could use such a connection to control Teyla remotely (either as a spy or as a sleeper agent of sorts), something which Bates did not appreciate.[4]
On the eve of the first attack on Atlantis by the Wraith fleet, Bates aimed to have Teyla restricted from sensitive areas. Bates went as so far as to accuse her of collaborating with the Wraith, which Teyla took as an insult. After the incident, which almost deteriorated into a fist fight, Bates was discovered in a remote section of Atlantis, beaten to unconsciousness. As a result of his injuries, Dr. Carson Beckett placed Bates in a medically-induced coma. While Teyla was believed to be responsible for the attack, a Wraith scout (later dubbed "Bob") was found to be responsible.
Due to the actions of "Bob", Bates was unable to contribute to the defense of Atlantis.[5] Bates returned to Earth after the ZPM was installed.
In season four episode Outcast, it is revealed that Bates has been honorably discharged from the military, now working for the IOA field operations. He took key action with Sheppard and Ronon to capture the illegally-created human form replicator.
[edit] Laura Cadman
| Stargate character | |
|---|---|
| Laura Cadman | |
| Race | Human |
| Gender | Female |
| Rank | Lieutenant |
| Birthplace | US, Earth |
| Portrayer | Jaime Ray Newman |
| First appearance | "Duet" |
USMC Lieutenant Cadman came to Atlantis on the Daedalus after the Wraith Siege. Cadman was offworld with a team investigating a Wraith culling when a Wraith Dart attacked and "scooped up" herself and Dr. Rodney McKay. The team shot down the Dart, but it crashed and was badly damaged. Dr. Radek Zelenka accessed the dematerializing machine in the Dart and found two lifesigns, but could only rematerialize one with the power in the Dart's damaged energy cell. Col. Sheppard picked one lifesign at random and Dr. Zelenka rematerialized it. It turned out to be Dr. McKay, who promptly collapsed.
Back in Atlantis, Dr. McKay woke up in the infirmary only to start hearing Cadman's voice in his head. Somehow, Cadman's consciousness had been transferred into McKay, while her body was still dematerialized in the Dart. She could see and hear what he could, and could talk to him, but only McKay could hear her. McKay thus seemed to be crazy as he started talking to "himself".
Cadman started distracting McKay, talking to him while he was trying to work. Eventually, Cadman proved able to control McKay's body if he let her. She used this ability when McKay fell asleep, asking Dr. Carson Beckett to accompany McKay on a date and going for a run before heading to her room. McKay was angered that his body had been used without permission. Cadman also helped McKay out on his date (in an unusual sort of way).
Soon after, however, McKay had a seizure and fainted. It turned out that their constant fighting over control was having a negative effect on McKay's vital functions. One of them had to let go completely, resulting in death. Cadman volunteered, but McKay, in a flash of inspiration, figured out how to use one of the Stargate's control crystals to separate the two. Soon Cadman was back in her own body.[6]
Lt. Cadman enjoys running in her spare time and was a track star in high school. She was also the owner of a dog, whose picture we glimpse on her nightstand in "Duet," and enjoys sleeping in the nude (much to McKay's horror when he awakened to find himself "in the buff").
She was scheduled to leave in the Daedalus, but she asked Col. Sheppard permission to stay for a while longer. She is an expert in explosives, or, as she puts it to McKay, in high temperature and energetic materials technology.[7]
It appears that Dr. Beckett is pursuing the relationship that she struck up with him during the situation in "Duet".[8] Beckett had apparently scheduled a date with Cadman for an evening after he helped rescue Colonel Sheppard from an ancient time dilation field in "Epiphany". There is also evidence of an on going relationship in the episode "Michael"; Carson's calendar is marked with "dinner with Cadman" on it.
When the members of the Atlantis expedition were evicted back to Earth in the Season 3 episode "The Return (Part 1)",[9] Beckett is encouraged by Sheppard and Weir to call Cadman, but replies, "It didn't work out — may have something to do with our first kiss being through Rodney."
[edit] Steven Caldwell
| Stargate character | |
|---|---|
| Steven Caldwell | |
| Race | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Birthplace | US, Earth |
| Portrayer | Mitch Pileggi |
| First appearance | "The Siege, Part 3" |
USAF Colonel Steven Caldwell is the commander of Earth's battlecruiser Daedalus, and first appeared in the Season 2 premiere, "The Siege, Part 3". He has been a recurring character since.
Unlike Colonel Dillon Everett, Caldwell didn't attempt to relieve Dr. Weir of command and has been somewhat satisfied with the current chain of command.
In command of the Daedalus, Caldwell arrived just in time to save Atlantis from the Wraith. After the city was safe from attack, the Daedalus returned to Earth, while Major Sheppard, Dr. Weir, Dr. McKay and Dr. Beckett returned to Earth via Stargate to report on the Atlantis situation. Although the Pentagon wanted to make Col. Caldwell military commander of Atlantis, Weir recommended promoting Sheppard instead.
With the President and the International Committee on her side, Sheppard was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and remained military commander of Atlantis. Frustrated, Caldwell was forced to remain commanding officer of the Daedalus, making trips between Earth and the Pegasus Galaxy.[10]
Eventually, Caldwell was revealed to have been possessed by a Goa'uld working for the Trust. He attempted to destroy Atlantis by loading into the computer a modified version of the city's operating system programmed to override the fail-safes on the ZPM interface, thus catastrophically overloading the system. However, his true identity was revealed before his plan was successful and the Goa'uld was eventually removed using Asgard beaming technology.[11]
When both Weir and Sheppard were compromised by alien entities, Caldwell took command of Atlantis until the threat was removed, though Rodney McKay felt that, as the highest-ranking permanent member of the Atlantis staff, he himself should have taken the job.[12]
Appearances:
- Season Two:
"The Siege (Part 3)", "The Intruder", "Runner", "Trinity", "Conversion", "Aurora", "The Hive", "Critical Mass", "The Long Goodbye", "Inferno", "Allies",
- Season Three:
"No Man's Land", "Misbegotten", "Sateda", "The Return (Part 1)", "The Return (Part 2)", "Echoes"
- Season Four:
"Be All My Sins Remember'd", "The Kindred (Part 1)"
[edit] Abe Ellis
| Stargate character | |
|---|---|
| Abraham Ellis | |
| Race | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Birthplace | US, Earth |
| Portrayer | Michael Beach |
| First appearance | "First Strike" |
USAF Colonel Abraham Ellis first appeared as the commander of the new Earth ship Apollo, his mission being to commence a pre-emptive attack on the Asuran's homeworld as they had been building ships to attack Atlantis/Earth. The mission is successful. However, the Asurans send a satellite containing a stargate and fire an energy beam at the ship which damages the shields, and the beam is then redirected at Atlantis. In a plan to fly Atlantis away from the satellite weapon, Ellis beams up all nonessential personnel aboard the Apollo, and uses a fleet of F-302s to send an asteroid into the path of the satellite beam, allowing Atlantis to escape from the planet and hyperspace away.
However, Atlantis did not meet up with the Apollo at the predetermined planet. Realizing something had gone wrong, Ellis contacted Colonel Samantha Carter at the Midway Station, and so they begin the search for Atlantis by retracing the route the city should have taken. The Apollo successfully found Atlantis, and also provided an escape route for Lt. Colonel Sheppard's team as they tried to flee the Replicator Homeworld.
Colonel Ellis and the Apollo also make a guest appearance in The Ark of Truth as Earth's first line defense against an impending Ori Invasion Fleet, set before their first trip to Atlantis in the Season 3 Episode "First Strike".
Appearances:
- Season Three:
- Season Four:
"Adrift", "Lifeline", "Be All My Sins Remember'd"
[edit] Kate Heightmeyer
| Stargate character | |
|---|---|
| Kate Heightmeyer | |
| Race | Human |
| Gender | Female |
| Birthplace | US, Earth |
| Portrayer | Claire Rankin |
| First appearance | "The Gift" |
| Last appearance | ""Doppelganger"" |
Dr. Kate Heightmeyer is an American Atlantis expedition psychologist in the television series Stargate Atlantis. Played by Claire Rankin, she first appeared in the episode "The Gift".
Dr. Heightmeyer is the expedition's psychologist and has been very busy since arriving at Atlantis, due to the stress of many of the expedition at not being able to return to Earth.
Dr. Heightmeyer is first seen in the messhall, trying to get Teyla to arrange a meeting with her after Major Sheppard informed her that Teyla had been having many bad dreams. After discovering that the Wraith in Teyla's dreams was Teyla, Kate suggested that Teyla should try to overcome the barrier that prevented her from hearing the Wraith's thoughts. With Dr. Beckett's medical help, Dr. Heightmeyer guided Teyla through the hypnosis required to break the barrier, and helped Teyla to recover afterwards.[13]
Some time later, after an accident traps the mind of Lt. Laura Cadman in Dr. Rodney McKay's body alongside his own, he is ordered to go see Heightmeyer. She suggests that McKay should let go and try to let Cadman take over. The experiment is a success, but McKay becomes infuriated; eventually, there is a conflict over control of the body for which McKay blames Heightmeyer.[14]
She reappears some months later, trying to help Michael, the Wraith they turned into a human using Dr. Beckett's retrovirus, adapt to a life as a human. After he finds out the truth about himself, she tries to help him understand why they did it, without success.[15]
In the third season episode "Echoes", Dr. Heightmeyer counsels Teyla about the strange visions of Ancients that she and later others are seeing. She initially dimisses the visions as just a sign of stress, and their spread as the power of suggestion acting on those who have heard about them.[16]
She appears in the 4th season in the episode "Doppelganger", where she attempts to help members of the expedition understand their bad dreams. She is ultimately a victim of such a nightmare herself, which tragically leads to her death in the dream, the shock of which kills her in real life.
[edit] Dr. Kavanagh
| Stargate character | |
|---|---|
| Kavanagh | |
| Race | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Birthplace | US, Earth |
| Portrayer | Ben Cotton |
| First appearance | "Thirty-Eight Minutes" |
Dr. Peter Kavanagh is an American Atlantis expedition scientist in the television series Stargate Atlantis. Played by Ben Cotton, he first appeared in the episode "Thirty-Eight Minutes".
He was originally part of the SGC and joined the Atlantis expedition because he thought things would be more to his liking with a civilian leader instead of a military one.
When Sheppard's team's Puddle Jumper was stuck in an active Stargate, Kavanagh was part of the team working on a way to help them. He argued with Dr. Simpson about the possibility of the Jumper exploding and the burning fragments entering the Gateroom like bombs; she thought it was a very remote possibility, whereas he believed it was a likely outcome. The other scientists and Dr. Weir sided with Simpson.
After Weir told him to "Worry a little bit more about their lives, and less about your own ass," he accused her of humiliating him in front of his team. She threatened to exile him to a barren world alone if he didn't return to work.
In the end, however, his idea of blowing up the rear hatch of the Jumper to get forward momentum helped the ship come through the gate.[17]
When everybody was asked to record a personal message to send to the loved ones on Earth, he instead chose to record one to General O'Neill, detailing everything he thought Weir had done wrong since their arrival.[18]
In a discussion over whether to stay and fight, he believed that 200 people, mostly "scientists who’ve never even fired a gun before", were no match for tens of thousands of Wraith without the City's shield or primary defenses. Rodney McKay was surprised to find himself agreeing with Kavanagh.[19]
He left Atlantis after the siege. He returned a few months later but requested to leave again just three weeks later due to a feeling of being unwelcome.
Kavanagh was aboard the Daedalus en route to Earth when the message of a Trust agent having infiltrated Atlantis arrived. He was their prime suspect in sabotaging the city, but he was found innocent. Ronon Dex attempted to frighten Kavanagh into giving up the code needed to save the city (which Kavanagh did not know); however Kavanagh fainted before Ronon could do more than shout.[20]
During the episode "Midway", Kavanagh returned as a part of the Midway station crew, with a shorter hair cut. During the invasion of the Midway Space Station, the Wraith held him hostage (once again, he promptly fainted in fear). He caused and survived the destruction of the Midway Station, escaping in a Jumper escape pod with the others and rescued by the Daedalus.
[edit] Jennifer Keller
[edit] Evan Lorne
| Stargate character | |
|---|---|
| Evan Lorne | |
| Race | Human |
| ATA | Natural carrier |
| Gender | Male |
| Rank | Major |
| Birthplace | San Francisco, California   United States, Earth |
| Relatives | Unnamed mother unnamed sister unnamed two nephews |
| Portrayer | Kavan Smith |
| First appearance | "Enemy Mine" |
Major Evan[21] Lorne, played by Kavan Smith, is an Air Force officer who became a recurring character in Stargate Atlantis from Season 2 onwards. He has been in 6-8 episodes in each season of Atlantis from season two to present. His appearances range from a few lines to spending a majority of the episode on screen.
Major Lorne first appeared in Stargate SG-1's Season 7 episode "Enemy Mine", where he served in SG-11 under Colonel Edwards at the Naqahdah dig site on P3X-403.[22] Kavan Smith went to the Stargate Atlantis audition hoping that they could bring Lorne back, even if the audition was for another, but similar, character. The producers decided that bringing Lorne back was perfect and they were very open to Smith recreating the character.[23] As such, Lorne reappeared in Atlantis at the beginning of season 2 as part of the new personnel sent after the Wraith siege by the Daedalus. Lorne participated in several missions, including the investigating of the planet P3M-736 that led to the discovery of Ford in "Runner".[24] Lorne piloted the Puddle Jumper in several episodes including "Condemned" and "The Hive", however it has not yet been revealed if he naturally has the ATA gene, or if he received it through Beckett's Gene therapy.[25]
As far as it had been shown, Lorne is the second highest-ranked officer in Atlantis after Sheppard himself, although as seen in the episodes "Sateda", "Phantoms", "Tabula Rasa" and "This Mortal Coil", there are at least two other majors on the base. In the episode "Sunday", it is revealed that Maj. Lorne's mother was an art teacher and taught him how to paint on weekends when he was growing up. Though he gave it up for a while, Atlantis rekindled his muse, and he was painting an extremely detailed and colorful canvas with a view of the Atlantis skyline. He was also a pallbearer at Dr. Beckett's memorial service. In the episode "Spoils of War", Lorne tells Teyla that he has a sister who has two young boys. Then he tells her that she will be a great mom.
Lorne is one of several Expedition members that the Replicators took form of. He was among one of the leaders, as well as Drs Keller and Zelenka. They were a part of Niam's faction group who wanted to ascend, but Oberoth had them killed.
In the episode The Last Man, Lorne is seen in an alternate future as a Major General and appears to be in command of the SGC. Also made another appearance in Stargate SG-1 in the Season 10 episode "The Road Not Taken" in an alternate universe, where he was the leader of SG-1 under the command of General Hammond.
[edit] Lindsey Novak
| Stargate character | |
|---|---|
| Lindsey Novak | |
| Race | Human |
| Gender | Female |
| Birthplace | US, Earth |
| Portrayer | Ellie Harvie |
| First appearance | "Prometheus Unbound" |
Dr. Lindsey Novak initially turned down the chance to join the Atlantis expedition. Some time later, she was aboard the Prometheus when the ship was sent to discover the fate of the expedition. She was among the personnel that were offloaded to a Goa'uld ship when Vala Mal Doran hijacked it. They were later rescued by Daniel Jackson.[26]
Some months later, she was an engineer aboard the Daedalus when the ship arrived at Atlantis to help the city against the Wraith attack. She worked alongside the Asgard Hermiod, and she is the one responsible for transmitting Colonel Caldwell's orders to Hermiod, which are not always to the Asgard's liking.[27][28] She is an expert in starship engines, mainly those of the Asgard, Tau'ri, and Goa'uld.
[edit] Radek Zelenka
One of the main scientists of the Atlantis expedition. See Radek Zelenka.
[edit] Minor characters
[edit] Biro
| Stargate character | |
|---|---|
| Biro | |
| Race | Human |
| Gender | Female |
| Birthplace | US, Earth |
| Portrayer | Lindsay Collins |
| First appearance | "Hot Zone" |
Dr. Biro is a pathologist in Dr. Beckett's team. She is played by Lindsay Collins.
She performed the autopsies on the people who were killed by the nanovirus.[29] She was later in the medical meeting to figure out a way to cure Col. Sheppard of the Wraith retrovirus that was turning him into an Iratus bug.[30]
During the episode "Sunday" she was revealed to have a very effervescent personality when not focused on any particular task, as shown during Dr. Beckett's awkward conversation with her in the episode and his subsequent hasty retreat from her quarters.
[edit] Katie Brown
| Stargate character | |
|---|---|
| Katie Brown | |
| Race | Human |
| Gender | Female |
| Birthplace | Earth |
| Portrayer | Brenda James |
| First appearance | "Duet" |
Dr. Katie Brown is a botanist played by Brenda James.
Dr. Brown went on a date with Dr. Rodney McKay. Unfortunately, due to an incident with the Wraith transporter, McKay got Lt. Laura Cadman stuck inside his head. Tired of his clumsiness, she took control of his body and kissed Dr. Brown in a rather moviesque manner.[31] She was mentioned again next year, when McKay said she asked him a moral question about whether it was better to allow a train to kill ten people or a baby. The other members of McKay's team had trouble grasping the concept.[32]
During the episode "Sunday", Dr. McKay and Dr. Brown spent lunch together in the Atlantis botanical lab, nursing a series of baby ferns that could potentially provide a cure for leukemia. Dr. Brown revealed that since the Laura Cadman incident a year previously, McKay had been avoiding her. However, by the time of "Tabula Rasa" it is clear they are becoming a couple when she names a native plant after him and he waits by her bed when she is ill.
When Rodney McKay and Jeannie Miller, Dr. McKay's sister, are captured by Henry Wallace, Jeannie asks him if he wishes to get married to Katie, whom he has now been seeing for over a year. McKay becomes defensive and decides to change the subject. However, a few episodes later in "Quarantine" McKay bought a ring and tried to ask her to marry him. However the lockdown of the city changed his plans, and after the lockdown McKay decides to postpone the proposal to a later date.
In "Trio", it is revealed that Katie mistook McKay's comments from the conclusion of "Quarantine" as him breaking up with her. According to McKay, Katie has not spoken with him since, and requested transfer back to Earth.
[edit] Chuck
| Stargate character | |
|---|---|
| Chuck | |
| Race | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Rank | Sergeant |
| Birthplace | Canada, Earth |
| Portrayer | Chuck Campbell |
| First appearance | "The Brotherhood" |
First appeared during Season 1, in "The Brotherhood", and has since been a semi-regular character, clocking up 38 episodes to date and appearing 8th on the IMDB cast list.
Also appeared briefly in Stargate SG-1's "The Pegasus Project".
Chuck is the head Gate technician on the Atlantis expedition, having taken over when Peter Grodin was killed at the end of Season 1. He is played by Chuck Campbell.
For three seasons, the character did not have a name, and he was always credited as "Technician". However, in "First Strike", Weir refers to the character as Chuck, which is of course his actual name. Dr. McKay also refers to him as Chuck while effecting repairs to the city's key systems "Adrift". Speaking at the Pegasus 2 convention in the UK, Mr. Campbell stated that he thought this was a mistake on Torri Higginson's part, but the director decided to keep the scene anyway. Since this, Carter uses the name "Chuck" in "Midway", suggesting the writers have confirmed this as the character's name.
Chuck is sometimes referred to by the fans as "the Chucknician", as this was how Martin Wood referred to him on a DVD commentary.
[edit] Cole
| Stargate character | |
|---|---|
| Cole | |
| Race | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Rank | Sergeant |
| Birthplace | Earth |
| Portrayer | Doug Chapman |
| First appearance | "Michael" |
Sergeant Cole was an USMC non-commissioned officer played by Doug Chapman in the Season 2 episode Michael. He was one of the security guards for Michael Kenmore and is seen accompanying him around Atlantis, and keeping guard outside his quarters. During an initial confrontation with Ronon, Cole holds Michael back. Later, Michael escapes, injuring another guard, but Cole pursues, and is shot and killed by Michael in a standoff.[33]
[edit] Dillon Everett
| Stargate character | |
|---|---|
| Dillon Everett | |
| Race | Human |
| ATA | Gene therapy |
| Gender | Male |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Birthplace | US, Earth |
| Portrayer | Clayton Landey |
| First appearance | "The Siege, Part 2" |
| Last appearance | "The Siege, Part 3" |
Colonel Dillon Everett is an USMC officer played by Clayton Landey.
He received the ATA gene thanks to gene therapy before coming to Atlantis.
Col. Everett was sent from Earth through the Stargate to help Atlantis against the incoming Wraith attack. He came with a company of Marines and new weapons, and immediately relieved both Dr. Weir and Major Sheppard of command. A by-the-book officer, he immediately dismissed Weir and only at Sheppard's insistence told her their plans. During the attack, however, he came to respect her.
Everett asked Sheppard to show him the Ancient's holographic projection that explained their war against the Wraith. Afterwards, he told him that Colonel Marshall Sumner had been a very good friend and he disagreed with his handling of the situation. Their conversation was interrupted by an alarm.[34]
Afterwards, Col. Everett was attacked by a Wraith, but survived. The attack "aged" him considerably, leaving him old and frail. Sheppard visited him in the infirmary and Everett told him that he was being shipped out with the next batch of wounded, though he wanted to finish their conversation. Everett apologized, saying that he now had a better understanding of what happened with Col. Sumner, and that he wished Sheppard could have been there for him, too. Sheppard saluted him formally before leaving the infirmary.[35]
[edit] Brendan Gall
| Stargate character | |
|---|---|
| Brendan Gall | |
| Race | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Birthplace | United Kingdom, Earth |
| Portrayer | Richard Ian Cox |
| First appearance | "The Defiant One" |
Dr. Brendan Gall was a British civilian scientist played by Richard Ian Cox.
Dr. Gall went with Major John Sheppard, Dr. Rodney McKay and Dr. Abrams to investigate an Ancient weapon satellite he discovered in the Atlantis solar system, about 15 hours away from the city by Puddle Jumper. He got motion sickness, even in the Puddle Jumper equipped with inertial dampeners. He said knowing he was moving was enough.
Once there, they discovered a very weak Wraith distress signal and Major Sheppard and Dr. McKay convinced Dr. Weir to let them investigate, arguing that despite the signal being likely at least 10,000 years old, any scientific and military knowledge they might find may be useful.
On the planet they found a mostly intact Wraith ship. However, there was a survivor; a 10,000 year old Wraith that had survived by draining his own people, and was almost invulnerable. This "Super-Wraith" attacked Dr. Abrams and Dr. Gall when they were alone, draining Abrams to an empty husk. Sheppard and McKay found Gall alive in a cocoon, but the Wraith had drained him too, turning him into a very old and fragile man.
When Major Sheppard went outside to confront the Wraith, he left McKay behind to take care of Gall. Brendan felt McKay had changed in the previous months, and said that he was no longer the same man as before. He knew Rodney wanted to go and help Sheppard, but he refused to leave Brendan. Rodney gave him a gun to defend himself, but in the end and knowing he did not have much time left, Gall used it to kill himself, so Rodney could go and help Sheppard.[36]
[edit] Peter Grodin
| Stargate character | |
|---|---|
| Peter Grodin | |
| Race | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Birthplace | United Kingdom, Earth |
| Portrayer | Craig Veroni |
| First appearance | "Rising, Part 1" |
| Last appearance | "The Siege, Part 1" |
Dr. Peter Grodin was a British civilian scientist played by Craig Veroni.
Peter Grodin was among Dr. Weir's team, which studied the Ancient technology (of which he was an expert) in the Antarctica outpost. He was first seen studying a Drone Weapon. When the team discovered the whereabouts of Atlantis, he was among the expedition. There Dr. Grodin was usually seen in the control room of the city, acting as an aide to Dr. Weir.
In the following year Dr. Grodin often worked as a personal assistant of Dr. Weir, often informing her about the latest activities in the city. He also watched the city from his plans in the control room and guided teams if there was a problem in the city. For example, when an energy life form escaped into the city, he guided Lt. Ford and another soldier by radio, facilitating their recapture of the life form.
Dr. Grodin met his fate when he went with Dr. Rodney McKay and Lt. Miller to the Ancients' weapons array satellite they had previously discovered, 15 hours away from Atlantis. When trying to make the satellite work to defend themselves against the incoming Wraith Hive ships, Grodin got trapped inside the satellite while McKay and Miller were outside in the Puddle jumper ship.
They managed to destroy one of the Hive ships with the satellite, but McKay and Miller were unable to rescue Grodin before the Wraith destroyed the satellite, killing him.[37]
[edit] Dave Kleinman
| Stargate character | |
|---|---|
| Dave Kleinman | |
| Race | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Rank | Captain |
| Birthplace | US, Earth |
| Portrayer | Kirby Morrow |
| First appearance | "The Siege, Part 3" |
Captain Dave Kleinman, USAF, is a Bridge officer aboard the Daedalus. Most episodes show him as a weapons officer. He is played by Kirby Morrow.
[edit] Frank Levine
| Stargate character | |
|---|---|
| Frank Levine | |
| Race | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Rank | Captain |
| Birthplace | Earth |
| Portrayer | Gerry Durand |
| First appearance | "The Intruder" |
Captain Frank Levine was first seen as a Daedalus Airman played by Gerry Durand in the Season 2 episode The Intruder. He is seen again in The Long Goodbye taking an injured Ronon Dex to the infirmary. In this episode his rank was sergeant. By the episode The Ark he has been promoted to Captain, and he is again seen piloting a puddlejumper in the Season 4 episode Adrift[38]
Gerry Durand is also the stand-in for Joe Flanigan.
[edit] Markham
| Stargate character | |
|---|---|
| Markham | |
| Race | Human |
| ATA | Natural carrier |
| Gender | Male |
| Rank | Sergeant |
| Birthplace | US, Earth |
| Portrayer | Joseph May |
| First appearance | "Thirty-Eight Minutes" |
| Last appearance | "The Brotherhood" |
Sergeant Markham was a USMC non-commissioned officer played by Joseph May.
Markham was a carrier of the ATA gene and an apparently reluctant and inexperienced Puddle Jumper pilot. He piloted the puddle jumper carrying injured Maj. Sheppard back to Atlantis and along with Sgt. Stackhouse, and was trapped inside the event horizon for almost a full thirty-eight minutes when the craft became stuck in the Gate.[39]
Later, he was later chosen by Lt. Aiden Ford to pilot on a rescue mission to retrieve Maj. Sheppard's team from a planet fifteen hours away by puddle jumper.[36] Markham was killed, along with Smith, while defending the city from a Wraith dart fighter.[40]
[edit] Miller
| Stargate character | |
|---|---|
| Miller | |
| Race | Human |
| ATA | Unknown source |
| Gender | Male |
| Rank | Lieutenant |
| Birthplace | US, Earth |
| Portrayer | Rob Avery |
| First appearance | "The Siege, part 1" |
Lt. Miller is a USMC pilot played by Rob Avery.
Miller piloted the Puddle Jumper that took Dr. McKay and Dr. Grodin to the Ancients' weapons array satellite. He entered the satellite with them and later took Dr. McKay out so he could reconfigure the satellite using a space suit. He was then able to pilot the Puddle Jumper away from the besieged satellite, saving himself and McKay; but could not do anything to save Dr Grodin, who was trapped inside the satellite.[37]
Miller was also mentioned in the episode "Coup D'etat" when Teyla said that he flew a puddle Jumper and scouted out a planet.
[edit] Jeannie Miller
| Stargate character | |
|---|---|
| Jeannie Miller | |
| Race | Human |
| Gender | Female |
| Birthplace | Canada, Earth |
| Portrayer | Kate Hewlett |
| First appearance | "McKay and Mrs. Miller" |
Jeannie Miller is Rodney McKay’s younger sister. She is married to an English Major named Kaleb and has one daughter named Madison (though in a parallel universe, she also has two sons named Bradley and Robbie). She was a brilliant scientist but according to McKay was ‘out of the game’ when Kaleb got her pregnant and is now putting her family first. At the time of her first appearance, she hadn’t written any theoretical physics papers in four years, causing Jeannie and Rodney to have a long argument which resulted in him not seeing her for four years. She currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is portrayed by Kate Hewlett, David Hewlett’s real life sister.
Her first appearance was in McKay and Mrs. Miller where she was playing with her daughter. Watching a toy train cross a bridge inspired her to write a formula on how to create a bridge between universes. Sometime after mailing the formula to the California Institute of Technology, it was intercepted by the U.S. Air Force and Lt. Col Samantha Carter confronted her. She refused to take any part of what the USAF have planned to use it for. They required Dr. McKay to pay her a visit and somehow persuaded her to come to Atlantis.
The USAF and Atlantis Expedition planned to use her idea on Project Arcturus by extracting zero-point energy from a parallel universe, which could be more powerful than a ZPM. The plan worked. However, McKay from the parallel universe shows up and tells everyone to stop the experiment because it is causing a tear in the fabric of space-time in his universe. While he was stuck there, he bonded with Jeannie more that the McKay in her own universe. She and the two McKays find a way to bring the alternate-McKay back home and close the bridge, to avert the two universes completely disappearing. Towards the end of the episode, the real McKay managed to make peace with his sister, promising not to take another four years before talking to her again.
McKay kept his word, and e-mailed her one year later in Miller's Crossing because he needed help in shutting down the Replicator base code. However, an organization named “Devlin Medical Technologies” had been tracing their e-mails. One night, four heavily armed, masked men broke into her home and kidnapped her. McKay finds this out and heads to Earth with Sheppard and Ronon. They worked with the NID and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). McKay is captured. It is discovered the President of DMT, Henry Wallace, was responsible and kidnapped them because he needed help in saving her daughter’s life, by shutting down experimental nanites in her system that are killing her, rather than curing her leukemia. When they attempted to escape, they were recaptured. Wallace injected her with nanites to get the siblings to work on shutting down the nanites.
Eventually they were rescued, but discovered that the nanites could kill Jeannie by repairing her epilepsy. McKay worked with "Todd" to shut down the nanites.
[edit] Stackhouse
| Stargate character | |
|---|---|
| Stackhouse | |
| Race | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Rank | Sergeant |
| Birthplace | US, Earth |
| Portrayer | Boyan Vukelic |
| First appearance | "Rising" |
Sergeant Stackhouse is an USMC non-commissioned officer played by Boyan Vukelic.
Stackhouse was first introduced in the two-part series premiere, "Rising". He was left behind on Atlantis during the original mission to Athos, and was seen greeting the Athosian refugees when they were brought back to the city by Maj. Sheppard. He was later part of Maj. Sheppard's rescue mission, where he was left in charge of a secondary squad, guarding the Puddle Jumper and later provided a distraction while Sheppard and his team freed those taken prisoner upon the hive ship.[41]
Stackhouse was patrolling the city with Lt. Aiden Ford when an energy being referred to as the 'Entity' was trapped in Atlantis. Ford ordered Stackhouse to move away from the entity, but wasn't so lucky himself. Stackhouse later felt guilty that Ford had been badly burned by the Entity, and Ford asked Sheppard to assuage Stackhouse's concerns by confirming that Stackhouse himself could not have prevented the lieutenant's injuries.[42]
Later, Stackhouse was trapped in the event horizon with Sgt. Markham when the puddle jumper they were piloting became stuck in the Stargate.[39]
Back in Atlantis, he was placed in command of his own team[43] and accompanied Maj. Sheppard during a reconnaissance mission to a planet where they were once more attacked by the Wraith. When Sheppard was rendered unconscious, Stackhouse took command of the mission and ensured the team returned to Atlantis, debriefing Dr. Weir upon their arrival.
He was last known to have been charged with the duty of securing a suitable Alpha site to which the Atlantis expedition team could evacuate during the Wraith siege.[37]
[edit] Marshall Sumner
| Stargate character | |
|---|---|
| Marshall Sumner | |
| Race | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Birthplace | US, Earth |
| Portrayer | Robert Patrick |
| First appearance | "Rising" |
Colonel Marshall Sumner was an USMC officer played by Robert Patrick. He was the military commander of the Atlantis expedition.
Col. Sumner did not like Major John Sheppard, or the fact that he had been pushed into the expedition. He made it clear to Sheppard that he wasn't there by his own will and later admitted to Lt. Aiden Ford that he had a problem with Sheppard's record.
Shortly after their arrival at Atlantis, they found out that the power source of the shield that was protecting the underwater city by keeping the sea at bay was failing. Col. Sumner led a mission to planet Athos in search of a safe place to evacuate Atlantis personnel. Once there, he was captured by the Wraith.
In the Wraith's hiveship, the Keeper chose him as a "meal". Although he tried to resist, she found out he came from a new, big "feeding ground": Earth. She tried to force him to reveal Earth's location by draining him of his life force, but he resisted.
When Major Sheppard found him, the Wraith Keeper had already drained him of most of his life force, and he decided to end Sumner's suffering by putting a bullet through his heart.[41] It seemed a wise decision at the time, but it later earned Sheppard the temporary enmity of Col. Dillon Everett.[34] Upon Sumner's death, Major Sheppard became the highest ranking military officer in the Atlantis expedition — which made Sheppard the acting military commander of the Atlantis expedition until he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and officially put in command of the Atlantis expedition military component.
It is stated on special features of Season 1 that there was some reluctance to have Colonel Sumner die as he (Robert Patrick) was "so good" a character and actor.
[edit] Stargate Crossover Characters
Several characters from Stargate SG-1 have made appearances in Atlantis. Below is a list of SG-1 characters who have appeared in the show.
- Brig./Major General Jack O'Neill
- Dr. Daniel Jackson
- Major/Lt. Col./Col. Samantha Carter
- Teal'c
- Major General George Hammond
- Major General Hank Landry
- Dr. Bill Lee
- Walter Harriman
- Malcolm Barrett
- Richard Woolsey
[edit] References
- ^ "Letters from Pegasus". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "Rising". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "Suspicion". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "The Gift". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "The Siege, Part I". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "Duet". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "Critical Mass". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "Epiphany". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "The Return". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "The Intruder". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "Critical Mass". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "The Long Goodbye". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "The Gift". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "Duet". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "Michael". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "Echoes". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "Thirty-eight Minutes". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "Letters from Pegasus". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "The Gift". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "Critical Mass". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ Joseph Mallozzi (May 31, 2007). Thoughts and Tirades, Rants and Ruminations: May 2007. Retrieved on 2007-10-23.
- ^ "Enemy Mine". Stargate SG-1.
- ^ Kavan Smith interview in Stargate Official Magazine Yearbook 2006
- ^ "Runner". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "Condemned". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "Prometheus Unbound". Stargate SG-1.
- ^ "The Siege, Part III". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "Critical Mass". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "Hot Zone". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "Conversion". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "Duet". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "The Game". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "Michael". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ a b "The Siege, Part 2". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "The Siege, Part 3". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ a b "The Defiant One". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ a b c "The Siege, Part 1". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "Adrift". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ a b "Thirty-eight Minutes". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "The Brotherhood". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ a b "Rising". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "Hide and Seek". Stargate Atlantis.
- ^ "Suspicion". Stargate Atlantis.
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