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[edit] Ancient characters in Stargate

In the Stargate fictional universe, the Ancients, also known as the Alterans and Lanteans, are the most advanced race known to have existed, having evolved millions of years prior to the present day and reaching their level of technology long before Human life evolved on Earth.

This is a list of the Ancient characters that have appeared so far in Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis.

[edit] Aurora Captain

  • tv=Bruce Dawson| first=Aurora|

Captain of the Ancient warship Aurora during the last days of the war with the Wraith. His ship left for the outer rim of the Pegasus Galaxy after Atlantis had already been submerged during the first siege. He was ordered by the Atlantean Council to conduct reconnaissance on their enemy.

Ultimately his crew discovered a vital weakness in Wraith technology, information that could change the outcome of their war with the Wraith in the Ancients' favour. However, the information was not given to the Captain personally for fear of capture and coercion, and was instead stored in the ship's database. The Aurora was eventually attacked and severely damaged by the Wraith, and the crew were forced to enter stasis pods to save their lives.

Ten thousand years later, a Wraith scout ship discovered the vessel, and gained access to its systems. After killing first officer Trebal, a Wraith took her place inside her stasis pod, accessing the virtual reality the crew was experiencing. This Wraith's ultimate goal was to manipulate the crew of the Aurora into teaching him how to upgrade their hyperdrive technology. The captain was no longer aware that they were in fact experiencing an artificial environment, and did not realize that he was being fooled by the enemy.

When John Sheppard entered the environment, the Captain suspected that he might have been telling the truth, but the Wraith impersonating Trebal convinced him Sheppard was lying. After Sheppard revealed that Trebal was a Wraith and eventually managed to explain the situation, the Aurora captain offered the information concerning the weakness in Wraith technology to Sheppard, but it had already been deleted from the database by the invading Wraith. With two Wraith cruisers approaching the Aurora and their bodies too aged to function on their own, the Captain activated the self destruct sequence. The Aurora and all hands on board were destroyed, taking two Wraith cruisers with them. The Captain's last wish was that Sheppard and his team would keep the memory of the Aurora and its valiant crew alive.[1]

  • The name of this character was not mentioned in the episode.

[edit] Ayiana

Ayiana was the name given to an Ancient woman who lived on Earth between five and ten million years ago. When her people took the city of Atlantis to the Pegasus Galaxy, she was the one Ancient left behind in the Ancient outpost in what would later be called Antarctica.[2]

Millions of years later, in 2002 (episode "Frozen"), she was unearthed in a block of ice not far from where the second Stargate was discovered over four years before. Her name, which is the Cherokee word for "eternal bloom", was given to her by Dr. Francine Michaels, one of the researchers who found her whose grandfather was one-quarter Cherokee. (The character's true name was therefore never revealed). SG-1 and Dr. Janet Fraiser were called in to study her. They were shocked to discover upon defrosting her that she was, in fact, alive in a state of cryogenic suspension.

She was the first indication that Ancients were advanced humans who evolved (not necessarily on Earth) millions of years ago. It was later surmised that they were the first evolution of humanity while the humans currently living on Earth and throughout the Milky Way are the second. After spending only a few hours with Jonas Quinn, she was able to fully understand every word of English that he said and could even speak some herself. This was another sign of how advanced she and her people were compared to present day humans. She also possessed the ability to heal almost any injury, though she was severely weakened in the process.

Unfortunately, Ayiana carried the disease that had ravaged her people millions of years ago and infected all of the researchers, SG-1 and Fraiser. Even Teal'c, whose Goa'uld symbiote protected him from many different types of diseases and infections, eventually began to exhibit symptoms. Feeling enormously guilty for this, Ayiana used her abilities to heal them despite the huge risk to herself. She succeeded in completely healing all but Jack O'Neill before she collapsed. She was subsequently brought to the SGC where she died soon afterwards from exhaustion. O'Neill, fortunately, was soon cured when he was blended with a Tok'ra symbiote.[3]

Three years later, it became known that the virus which wiped out most of the Ancients millions of years ago, the virus Ayiana carried, bears similarities to the biological weapon created by the Ori.[4]

Ayiana is one of only two Ancients appearing both in Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis - the other being Moros.

[edit] Chaya Sar

Chaya Sar, worshipped as Athar on Proculus, a planet in the Pegasus Galaxy, was an ascended Ancient encountered by the Atlantis Expedition. She was posing as the human high priestess of Athar, living secluded from the rest of the people on Proculus. She entertained visitors from the city of Atlantis and expressed an interest in seeing the city. Sheppard allowed her to accompany them back to Atlantis in the hopes of using her planet as a sanctuary for refugees. There, she was allowed to access the human computers and learn a great deal about the spiritual beliefs of the peoples of Earth. Chaya found it disturbing that humans, even now, were at war on the Atlantis Expedition's home world. She also lit up the biometrics console, making them think she was the first human with the ATA gene they had found in the Pegasus Galaxy.

She eventually took a liking to Major Sheppard and he, not knowing what she was at first, invited her to dinner and kissed her. Rodney McKay however was convinced Chaya posed a security risk, and it was McKay who, by doing some scans during an interview between Chaya and Dr. Weir, discovered her true identity. Soon after, Chaya felt ill as her planet was being attacked by the Wraith. Taking her Ascended form again, she returned to her planet through the Stargate.

Sheppard followed her with a Puddle Jumper, and learned that she could not help them. When she ascended, she was unable to leave her people behind and used her powers to destroy the Wraith when they attacked Proculus. The other Ancients punished her by allowing her to protect her planet, but no one else. Over the millennia she had become lonely, and that was why she went to Atlantis. In the end, she shared herself with Sheppard by swirling her ascended energy around the both of them.[5]

[edit] Helia

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Helia was the Captain of the Ancient warship Tria, during the last days of their war with the Wraith.

After her ship had been damaged in battle, the Tria went to Atlantis to join the evacuation, but was forced to travel back to Earth after learning Atlantis had been evacuated. Because of the damage the ship had received, the hyperdrive failed midway through their voyage to the Milky Way. Unable to return to the Pegasus Galaxy, Helia accelerated the ship using a ZPM tied into the ship's engines, and continued on course for Earth at 0.999 times the speed of light. At this speed, the voyage would take millions of years, though the crew would only have to spend a few years in stasis due to relativity.

When the Daedalus located their ship and took them back to Atlantis, Helia locked down the city. They asked the Atlantis Expedition to leave, though they promised to eventually allow them to return, once the Ancients had time to readjust. An IOA representative, Richard Woolsey, however was allowed to remain on Atlantis. When the Asurans sent a ship to attack Atlantis, Helia ordered them to return to Asuras, believing that they would be unable to hurt the Ancients. However, the Asurans had been able to overcome this directive in their programming, attacked and captured the city, and subsequently killed all the Ancients occupying it.[6]

Megan Leitch who plays Helia, also played "Linea" when she was suffering from Amnesia from the "Fountain of Youth" Effects going by the name of Ke'ra.

[edit] Janus

Janus was an Ancient scientist who lived during the first siege of Atlantis by the Wraith.

10,000 years ago, Janus, against the orders of the Atlantean High Council, created a time machine, which was integrated into a Puddle Jumper. It is theorized that Janus intended to use the device to go back in time to either stop the Wraith from evolving or stop the Ori from unleashing the plague in the Milky Way.[citation needed]

When Dr. Elizabeth Weir, John Sheppard, and Dr. Radek Zelenka accidentally traveled back through time using Janus' time machine from an alternate version of 2004, where her expedition was stranded on a flooding Atlantis, Janus helped recover the crashed Jumper, and tended to the wounds of the only survivor, Dr. Weir.

Janus was receptive to Weir's story, and realized his time travel device could give Weir a chance to save the future Atlantis Expedition. However, the Atlantean Council, especially High Councilor Moros, was angered when they were confronted with a woman, 10,000 years from the future.

Both Weir and Janus pleaded to return her to the future, but the Council was unwilling to risk further damage to the timeline. In defiance of his superiors, and in order to prevent the drowning of the future human expedition, he reconfigured Atlantis' power systems to access the city's 3 Zero Point Modules one-by-one in sequence, rather than simultaneously in parallel, in order to marginally delay their exhaustion. He also programmed the Atlantis DHD to block all incoming wormholes except those coming from Earth. As a final fail-safe, he programmed the city to release itself from the ocean floor and rise to the surface in case of a catastrophic shield failure.

Janus disobeyed his superiors again when, as the last Ancient survivors were leaving Atlantis for Earth, he told Moros that Weir had already left the city. In truth, he had helped her to remain behind and put herself in stasis, so that she could aid her future self saving the city.[7] Before leaving, Janus tells Weir that she has given him hope that Atlantis will survive again, after Earth discovers it.

Janus had promised Weir that he would try to build another time machine, and it is believed that he did what he promised, despite the council's objections. Another Puddle Jumper capable of time travel was eventually found by SG-1 on Arkhan's planet, along with inscriptions describing the planet's history and future in Ancient, possibly written by Janus himself.[8]

  • Janus was named for Janus, the two-faced Roman god that represented time.

[edit] Melia

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Melia was a member of the Atlantean High Council during the first siege of Atlantis, some ten millennia ago.

She was first seen as the hologram upon the Atlantis expedition arrival to Atlantis, where she described the history of the Ancients in the Pegasus Galaxy.[2]

In the episode "Before I Sleep", an alternate version of Elizabeth Weir who had travelled back through time, was brought before the council. Melia explained to Weir how the Atlanteans were under siege by the Wraith. They had sunk their great city under the ocean as a measure of protection. While sympathetic to Weir and Janus, Melia agreed with the other members of the council that they could not send Dr. Weir back to her own time to protect the time line.

Janus and Dr. Weir later approached her to plead their case one last time, but although Melia appeared moved by Weir's story, she nevertheless stood by the council's decision. She offered to block the Stargate completely so the lives of the expedition would be saved, but Weir kindly refused.

Melia is last seen walking through the Stargate, returning to Earth with the final Ancients that would later ascend, die out, or interbreed with their second evolution (humans).[7]

[edit] Ganos Lal/Morgan le Fay

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Ganos Lal is an ascended Ancient who gave rise to the legend of Morgan le Fay, a character in Arthurian legend.

Morgan le Fay, or Ganos Lal at the time, was originally an inhabitant of the Ancient city of Atlantis, where she designed a holographic learning program based on her image to teach young Lantean children about Ancient technology, history and science. When it became clear that the Ancients had been defeated by the Wraith, she fled back to Earth with the other surviving Ancients. There, she secluded herself in meditation, which eventually enabled her to ascend.

When fellow ascended Ancient Myrddin descended in order to construct a weapon to fight the Ori, that could be used against the Ancients themselves, Morgan le Fay was assigned to watch him and, if necessary, prevent him from completing the weapon. For a time in Earth history, she was his rival. However, Myrddin conducted his research in another dimension, thus hiding it from the Ancients and Morgan le Fay.

Although originally a fierce opponent of the creation of an anti-Ori weapon, she eventually, like Myrddin, came to believe that the Ori could some day become a threat to the Ancients themselves. When SG-1 came to Atlantis to search for the weapon, she decided to covertly help Daniel Jackson locate the weapon by posing as a hologram in the learning program she designed ten millennia earlier.

However, Daniel Jackson and Vala recognized her as an ascended Ancient, and pushed her to reveal more information. Morgan le Fay, both believing that interfering with the lower planes of existence would make the Ancients no better than the Ori and fearing the punishment of the other Ancients, was hesitant to do so. Just when she was about to give more information about Myrddin's weapon, she was stopped by her peers. Her last words before being snatched away were "Merlin's weapon is not..."[9]

Apparently, Morgan eventually found the Sangraal and hid it on a planet where it would be safe from both the Ori and the Ancients. The planet in question was undetectable from space, and an Orici's powers were rendered useless on the surface. The Sangraal itself was protected by several Ancient riddles and challenges.[10] She also put Merlin in stasis to wait for the one day when he would rebuild it after she was forced to destroy the original.

It is revealed The Ark of Truth that Morgan was banished by the Others for the help she provided Daniel in Atlantis. However, when SG-1 travel to the Ori galaxy, she comes along with them helping them and distracting Adria to buy them time when needed. She heals Teal'c when he lays dying and also appears before Daniel in the form of Merlin after he's been tortured by a Prior. Daniel, however, sees through her disguise upon which point Morgan sheds it. Morgan later gives Vala the sequence needed to activate the Ark. Once Daniel activates the Ark, Adria's power greatly diminishes, and Morgan engages her in battle.

[edit] Moros/Myrddin/Merlin

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Moros was the High Councilor of Atlantis during the days of the first siege of Atlantis, and was one of the most influential Ancients in the series. Indirectly introducing the Ori into Stargate SG-1, he was also responsible for the design of the anti-Ori weapon that would play a pivotal role in the series' tenth season. He eventually returned to Earth and ascended, where he adopted the name Myrddin or Merlin, and gave rise to the character in Arthurian legend. Moros was named after Moros from Greek legend, the personification of impending doom and destruction, mirroring what the villagers in the village on Camelot saw him. Moros is a Greek word meaning "dumb."

During the days of the first siege of Atlantis, some ten millennia ago when it became clear the war against the Wraith could not be won, Moros and the council decided to sink the city to protect it from the Wraith, and eventually travel back through the Stargate to Earth.[9]

In the episode "Before I Sleep", an alternate version of Elizabeth Weir who had traveled back through time was brought before the council. Although he had always been a fierce opponent to Janus' time travel experiments, he listened to her pleas to be sent back to the future. He eventually denied her request in order to protect the time line, and strongly reprimanded Janus for even conducting the experiments in the first place. Convinced that Weir had traveled to Earth with the other remaining Ancients, Moros was one of the last Ancients to leave Atlantis.[7] A visual record of him still remains in the Atlantis database. [9]

In the episode "The Pegasus Project", it was revealed that Moros, who eventually became known as Myrddin, chose to seclude himself in meditation, where he learned to ascend.

However, he became convinced that the Ori, who had also learned to ascend, had become a threat to the humans in the Milky Way and even the Ancients who wouldn't even take precautions to defend themselves, and had to be dealt with. He chose to become human again on Earth, while still retaining most of the knowledge and powers he had gained through his ascension. For a time, he was the most powerful being on the planet.

During this time, Myrddin carved a tablet with an Ancient cipher leading to Avalon, which would eventually come into the hands of Vala Mal Doran and SG-1, alerting the Ori of the presence of humans in the Milky Way and setting the events of seasons 9 and 10 in motion, the very event Myrddin had hoped to prevent. [11]

While designing a weapon to fight the Ori, he entrusted his secrets to a small number of noblemen, to which he was known as Merlin. One of these noblemen was King Arthur. The weapon he sought to construct became known as the Sangraal, Blood Stone or Holy Grail.

However, the Ancients did not support his research to design weapons that could eventually be used against them, and sent the ascended Ancient Morgan le Fay to watch him.[9] Eventually, Myrddin constructed a dimension shifting device known as Arthur's Mantle to conceal his work from them.[12]

In this device he hid the address of a planet where he supposedly hid the weapon, Camelot. He completed the device on Earth and hid it there. Merlin left a holographic message of himself in the village library, along with several valuables, which were defended by forcefields, hidden doors and a holographic knight.[13]

Myrddin appeared several times before SG-1 finally met him in person in today's timeline. An alternate Elizabeth Weir had met him as Moros when he was still living on Atlantis.[9] Myrddin also appeared as a Merlin hologram to SG-1, giving them information about his background and his motivations. [11] [13]

In the episode "Camelot", SG-1 learned that King Arthur and his knights once left on a quest to locate the Sangraal, journeying to three distant lands: Castiana, Sahal, and Vagonbrei. Vagonbrei's gate address was soon after discovered by Daniel Jackson,[14] and with help from the ascended Morgan le Fay, the addresses for the other two planets were discovered in Atlantis' database. [9] The SGC subsequently searched all three planets but came up empty. Several weeks later however, with information provided to Vala Mal Doran by Adria, the gate address of a single fourth planet could be extrapolated by using symbols from each of the three worlds.[10]

The planet in question was undetectable from space, protecting it from the Ori and making it only accessible by Stargate. After overcoming several of the Ancient riddles and trials on the planet, the SG-1 team, along with the Goa'uld Ba'al, were transported to a cave on a distant planet. Having left the Orici behind, SG-1 discovered that Merlin's weapon was destroyed by Morgan le Fay, who must have known that the Ancients would send someone else to destroy it if she did not. SG-1 also found Merlin placed in stasis, so that he could one day construct the weapon again. Morgan had created an elaborate defense system around the location of Myrddin's stasis tomb, consisting of a powerful transporter that would transport the tomb chamber to a random number of worlds outside the normal Stargate network to prevent the Ori from reaching it.

Eventually, Myrddin was awakened from stasis by SG-1 and, in his daze, he believed them to be members of the Knights of the Round Table before the situation was explained to him (He mistook Samantha Carter for Guinevere, Colonel Mitchell for Percival, Daniel Jackson for Galahad, and Ba'al for Mordred). Unfortunately, his body had deteriorated too much during the 1,000 years he had spent in stasis. He attempted to build the Sangraal but, realizing that he could not complete the task, he transferred his consciousness into a modified Repository of Knowledge for Daniel Jackson to use to complete the task. His body died shortly after reconfiguring the device, after living four lifetimes while his consciousness resided in Daniel Jackson, with the device reprogrammed to restore Daniel to the state he was in, prior to looking into the repository, after a certain period of time had passed. [10] [15]

Merlin and Jackson hatched a plot together to allow for the Sangraal to be completed and then send the device into the Ori galaxy by using the Supergate at P3Y-229. Merlin protected Jackson's mind from the transformation into a Prior that Adria inflicted on him, together they fooled Adria into allowing them to complete the second Sangraal, believing that it would be used on the Ancients. Shortly after Jackson deployed the Sangraal to the Ori home galaxy with the assistance of SG-1 and Merlin's mind, the pre-programmed restoration Merlin encoded into Jackson's DNA activated, restoring Jackson to a state before he looked into the repository and destroying Merlin's consciousness, marking his death. [15]

[edit] Oma Desala

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Oma Desala, an ascended being, was played by Carla Boudreau ("Maternal Instinct") and Mel Harris ("Meridian," etc.). Going against the ways of the Ancients, who strictly believe against interfering in the lower planes of existence, Oma is convinced it is her responsibility as an ascended being to guide those beneath to the "Great Path" of enlightenment.

Because of this she has somewhat become an outcast among the other ascended beings.[16] She, and those who follow her, walk a fine line between going against the wishes of the other Ancients by interfering with other races, and maintaining their rules enough so that she does not bring down their wrath.[17] However, she is only able to open the door for them, as she can guide individuals to the path, knowing it is they, and they alone, who can make the decision of whether or not to travel the great path.[18] She acts mostly on the planet Kheb, on which some sort of Buddhist-style temple is located, in which the people learn about ascension.[19]

However, she once made a great mistake when she helped the fallen System Lord Anubis to ascend. Anubis had discovered Ancient information about ascension and thus was able to pass all of Oma's tests. When his true nature was revealed, the others decided not to completely de-ascend him (causing Anubis to gain a big advantage over the other Goa'uld) in order to punish Oma for her constant rule breaking, forcing her to watch how he brought terror upon the galaxy.[20] After this she ascends Daniel Jackson, and eventually decides to sacrifice her life and spend an eternity fighting Anubis to prevent him from wreaking further havoc on the galaxy. Oma was the self-appointed guardian of Shifu, the son of Apophis and Sha're. Through her guidance Shifu learned to deny the evil Goa'uld knowledge he possessed in his mind, and to eventually ascend himself.[21]

It is unclear if Oma was one of the Ancients, as Orlin had not heard of her. However, it is possible Orlin might have experienced some memory loss having just taken human form. [16] The Ancient Merlin, however, had known Oma when he was ascended, and told Dr. Jackson that she had been helping people ascend for over 1000 years. He also said that she focused more on the individual, but did not elaborate further.[22]

Oma Desala was first encountered by the SGC when SG-1 came to the planet Kheb in their search for Shifu, the young son of Apophis and Sha're. During their stay, the team discovered a Buddhist-style temple, where a single monk appeared to reside. The monk spoke in riddles, but spoke about a being called Oma Desala, a name Daniel Jackson translated as "Mother Nature". Also, the monk taught Daniel to use his mind in order to, among other things, manipulate fire.

However, when several Jaffa arrived on the planet, also searching for Shifu, SG-1 was forced to set up a defense at the temple. While SG-1 prepared to fight off the Goa'uld attack team, Daniel discovered that it was not his own mind that performed these amazing feats, but Oma Desala, a non-corporal being living on Kheb. With this knowledge he decides to leave Shifu in Oma's care, who in return neutralized the remaining Jaffa.[19]

Shifu appeared again one year later, now aged to the state of a young boy. He revealed to Jackson through an elaborate dream that Oma Desala had taught him how to suppress the evil Goa'uld genetic memory he possessed. Eventually, Shifu was able to ascend himself, also with the help of Oma.[21]

Several months later, after Daniel Jackson became poisoned by naqahdria radiation while preventing a cataclysmic accident on the planet Langara, Oma Desala appeared in a series of visions to Jackson while he lay on his death bed. Oma told him that although she could not heal him, she could help him to ascend. Although Jackson at first had to struggle with his own inadequacy, he was finally able to ascend with Oma Desala's help.[18]

One year later, while the ascended Daniel Jackson was helping his former team members to prevent Anubis from obtaining the Eye of Ra (a devastating weapon hidden on Abydos) Oma Desala watched while Jackson interacted with the mortal world. She helped Skaara and several other Abydonians who were killed during Anubis and SG-1's battle over the Eye to ascend. She later intervened when Daniel was about to use his ascended powers against Anubis to save the people of Abydos, and prevented him from doing so. Instead, when Anubis destroyed the planet below, she helped the entire population to ascend.[17]

As Daniel had broken the ascended's rules, Oma was forced to de-ascend him and to take away his memories. Jackson was sent to the planet Vis Uban, where he was later discovered by his former team mates.[23] However, it would later appear that Oma did not completely strip away Jackson's memories, but in fact had buried them deep in his subconscious.[24]

Oma Desala appeared one final time to Daniel Jackson almost two years later. After Jackson had been abducted and killed by Replicator Carter, who had attempted to extract the Ancient knowledge still buried in his subconscious mind, Oma brought him to an intermediate level between ascension and mortal existence where she again attempted to convince him to ascend. During his brief stay, Jackson learned about the connection between Oma and Anubis, and how he had once tricked her into partially ascending him.

Still feeling guilty about the catastrophic mistake she once had made, she sacrifices herself to enter into an eternal battle with Anubis. According to Anubis, Oma Desala could not kill him, but as she continued to fight him, he would be unable to do anything else. As the half-ascended Goa'uld was in the process of using the Dakara Superweapon to eliminate all life in the Milky Way, her benevolence and self-sacrifice saved the entire galaxy.[20]

[edit] Orlin

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Orlin, played by Sean Patrick Flanery, was an outcast Ancient, forced to remain on the dead planet Velona following a terrible tragedy. Orlin came upon the world of Velona long ago, and took pity on the people's struggle against the Goa'uld. Breaking the rules of the Ancients, Orlin gave the people Ancient technology, particularly weapon specifications to Velona materials (it is doubtful he revealed himself directly), from which they constructed an advanced Ancient space gun.

It was not long before the Goa'uld presence was destroyed, and the people celebrated. Unfortunately, this new-found technology birthed ideas of power and corruption, and they soon planned to exploit their enemies on other planets, using the weapon to conquer those worlds. The Ancients saw this possibility and killed the entire civilization, leaving their cities in rubble and Velona's people extinct. Orlin, for his disobedience, was banished for eternity amongst the wreckage he had instigated, to walk among the dead for all time.

Orlin's fate changed with the arrival of SG-1. He was immediately taken with Major Samantha Carter and tried to merge with her thoughts. The unprepared scientist, however, blacked out. Be it secretly or known, Orlin was allowed to leave the planet with SG-1, concealed in an invisible form, to walk among the humans, particularly Carter. He returned with her to her home and remained inside her residence, watching her while she slept. The next morning he showed himself to her, and almost immediately told her he had fallen in love. He proved he had come through the Stargate by crossing through a table.

Carter left the house and sent in a search team, but Orlin was not to be found. He only returned after Carter believed all of surveillance devices were gone, which was not the truth. Orlin revealed himself to be an ascended being. Carter told him of Oma Desala, but he had no knowledge of her because she had been an outcast.

For weeks Orlin seeped into Carter's confidence. They took walks together and discussed the future and his presence. Orlin eventually gave up his powers as an ascended being altogether, becoming fully human again, and planned to spend the rest of his life with her in that form. But the Pentagon had been observing him and his very real presence with Carter, observing acquisition requests being sent to Carter's home. While she was on-base, he ordered parts and equipment from the Internet and developed a miniature Stargate in her basement. When the N.I.D. finally moved in on the house, Orlin activated the Stargate and traveled back to Velona, Carter following. There he discovered the humans planned on studying the Ancient technology, and refused to accept that the same fate would fall upon Earth.

After a member of SG-16 shot Orlin, the Ancients believed he had redeemed himself. They re-ascended him as a reward for his great attempts to sacrifice himself for the Tau'ri. Once ascended, he took the core of the naqahdah reactor powering the space gun, which could not be stopped from activating, into the atmosphere, where it detonated. Immediately he (or the Ancients) destroyed the Ancient space gun so that SG-16 could never replicate the technology.[16]

Later, Orlin returned in the form of a child (played by Cameron Bright). This time, he is permanently human, and his child form is intentional; he needs to be in that form in order to retain even a fraction of the knowledge of the Ancients. He tells the SGC of the feud between Ancients and Ori, false promises of ascension and how the Ori gain power. He does succeed in developing a line of research into a cure for the Ori plague, but it requires a bit of material (namely, Prior DNA) which the SGC has not yet obtained. In addition, his gambit with taking child form fails, and he quickly loses memory. Prior to this, he does tell the SGC that Origin and its promise of Ascension are lies. He is interned in a mental institution, having lost all of his memories from his time as an ascended, and suffering significant brain damage from holding on that long.[25]

[edit] Trebal

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Trebal was the first officer of the Ancient warship Aurora during the last days of her people's war with the Wraith.

Trebal had served with the Aurora's Captain for many years, and was his trusted right hand. She, along with the rest of the crew, was sent on a mission by the Atlantean High Council to conduct reconnaissance on their enemy, the Wraith. The ship was sent to the outer reaches of the Pegasus Galaxy where it discovered a vital weakness in Wraith technology, information that could turn the tide of the Ancients' struggle with the Wraith. After the Aurora was attacked and severely damaged by the Wraith, Trebal, along with the rest of the crew, was forced to enter a stasis pod to save her life.

After the Wraith discovered the Aurora ten thousand years later, Trebal was killed by an invading Wraith when she was forcibly removed from her stasis pod. The Wraith subsequently assumed her identity in the artificial environment that networked the minds of the Ancients in stasis, as part of an elaborate scheme to discover how to upgrade Wraith hyperdrive technology. The plan eventually failed after John Sheppard and his team discovered Trebal's body and the Wraith in stasis.[1]

  • Trebal was never seen in person, as a Wraith had been impersonating her the entire episode. Still, her corpse could be seen outside her stasis pod.


[edit] Other Ancients

Name Rank/Position First Appearance Status Played by
Amelius Ancient scientist. "Ark of Truth" Unknown, most likely deceased. Fabrice Grover
Original Inventor of the Stargate system, a schematic for a Stargate in his notebook and comments "I had an amazing idea last night..." and the Ark of Truth. It is revealed during flashbacks inThe Ark of Truth that Amelius created the Ark in order to brainwash people into believing the truth, that is, that the Ori are not gods. He is stopped first by other Ancients.
Hippaforalkus Ancient general. "Inferno" Unknown, most likely deceased. None - It was only a mentioned name.
The Battleship Orion was originally named after this general, although the name was quickly changed by John Sheppard.

Numerous other ascended Ancients are seen in the "cafe" in the SG-1 episode Threads, refusing to speak to Daniel Jackson, Oma Desala, and Anubis.

[edit] Asgard characters in Stargate

In the Stargate fictional universe, the Asgard are one of the most advanced races ever encountered, and the most friendly towards Earth.

This is a list of the Asgard characters that have appeared so far in Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis.

[edit] Freyr

tv=Brian Jensen (voice)| first=Red Sky|

Freyr is an influential Asgard and member of the Asgard High Council. He does not care as much about the humans of Earth as Thor does. However, he is strong-willed and true to his word.

Freyr was first encountered by SG-1 when the team visited the planet K'Tau, a planet protected by the Asgard under their Protected Planets Treaty. The people on the planet K'Tau worship Freyr like the people on Cimmeria worship Thor. He was also presented through a viking hologram, like Thor was on Cimmeria. Freyr appeared himself when SG-1 contacted the Asgard after their attempt to dial to K'Tau damaged its sun, endangering the lives of K'Tau's population. Freyr refused to help SG-1 to return the star to normal because it would be a violation of the Protected Planets Treaty, but when SG-1 tried to undo their mistake themselves and failed, the Asgard covertly intervened, saving both K'Tau's people and upholding the Treaty with the Goa'uld. [26]

Later, after Earth was threatened by an approaching asteroid, SG-1 again met with the Asgard High Council. Freyr and the rest of the Asgard High Council again could not intervene because the Protected Planets Treaty does not allow the Asgard to protect planets against natural disasters. Although the asteroid eventually proved to be artificially set on a collision course with Earth by Anubis, and the Asgard were in their right to assist the Tau'ri, SG-1 was forced to stop the asteroid themselves. [27]

Freyr eventually visited Stargate Command to request SG-1 for the rescue of one of their scientists. He also informed them that Thor had been killed, however this turned out to be incorrect as Thor had been captured by Anubis, not killed. He later protected SG-1, the Asgard scientist Heimdall and his studies with a fleet of three O'Neill class battleships. Anubis, who was pursuing SG-1's cargoship, was forced to retreat. [28]


[edit] Heimdall

tv=Teryl Rothery (voice)| first=Revelations|

Heimdall is an Asgard scientist who was conducting research into finding a solution to the Asgard's cloning difficulties.

After an ancient Asgard ship containing three cryogenically frozen Asgard was discovered after 30,000 years being adrift, the Asgard came to believe the last perfectly preserved body might hold the key to the Asgard's failing cloning technology, and Heimdall chose to study his ancient ancestor. To prevent the Replicators from intervening, this study took place on an uninhabited planet in the Milky Way galaxy, protected by the Protected Planets Treaty. Unfortunately, his research outpost was discovered by the Goa'uld Anubis, who sent a ship under the command of Osiris to the planet. Thor attacked the invading Ha'tak according to the Treaty, but his ship was destroyed as Anubis had upgraded his fleet with Ancient technology.

As the Asgard were occupied fighting the Replicators, Freyr asked the SGC for help. SG-1, without Daniel Jackson who ascended earlier, was sent to the planet where they met up with Heimdall. He told them about his studies and asked them to help rescuing Thor. SG-1 was able to do so, although the laboratory was eventually invaded by Osiris. The team and Heimdall were able to flee on a Tel'tak together with Thor and Heimdall's research, and were finally rescued from the Goa'uld by three Asgard ships. [28]

When the Replicators were defeated, Heimdall worked hard in the Ida Galaxy to find the missing link to the flaw genome with Thor. [29] But it seems Heimdall was unsuccessful in his/her research.


[edit] Hermiod

tv=Trevor Devall (voice)| first=The Siege, Part 3|

Hermiod (named after the Norse god Hermóðr) is an Asgard technician assigned to the Daedalus.

He is tasked with operation of the ship's Asgard transporter and hyperdrive engine, working primarily with Lindsey Novak. Hermiod has been observed to mutter to himself in Asgard when he is displeased with the crew's demands, and has an uneasy relationship with some of the humans on the Daedalus.

During the Daedalus' first mission to Atlantis, he was ordered by Daedalus' commanding officer, Colonel Steven Caldwell to transport several nuclear weapons on board a Wraith hive ship. Hermiod expressed resistance to carry this order out because using the shared Asgard technology offensively by humans was prohibited by the Asgard. However, because the Wraith were constantly bombarding the ship he reluctantly agreed to do as ordered. [30]

After a Wraith computer virus was discovered interfering with the Daedalus' computer systems, Hermiod helped remove it from the Daedalus and the F-302s on board. He also transported Lt. Col. Sheppard and Dr. McKay into the hangar bay and rescued them from being blown out into space when the virus opens the hangar doors by activating the hangar shield. [31]

Hermiod also worked with Dr. McKay on the Wraith technology during Atlantis' failed alliance with a Wraith Hive-Ship. [32]

Script writer Paul Mullie says they gave him "a little bit of an attitude problem", [33] being an angry foreigner utterly convinced of his own brilliance above those around him, much as McKay would have been when he was in Siberia. [34]

[edit] Translations

Hermiod's "Asgard" dialog is actually normal English played backward.

  • The Siege, Part III

Responding to the order to beam nuclear weapons into the Wraith ships:
- Hermiod: "When will these humans learn there are consequences to action"

  • The Intruder

- Sheppard: "Is he supposed to be naked like that?" (To McKay)
- Hermiod: "These humans are infants"

- Caldwell: "It didn't work, we're still on course for the coronosphere."
- Hermiod: "The incompetence of these humans is beginning to make me angry!" (This may be a reference to Marvin the Martian.)

[edit] Kvasir

tv=Morris Chapdelaine (voice)| first=Ripple Effect|

Kvasir was an Asgard scientist and expert in their time-dilation technology.

Kvasir visited Earth in Thor's stead, who was working with Heimdall in the Asgard home galaxy. At the time, Earth had become a hub for several different alternate realities, with teams from several alternate universes arriving through Earth's Stargate.

After Samantha Carter deduced the black hole created by the Ori during their attempt to create a Supergate near Kallana was responsible for sending the alternate teams to this reality, Kvasir proposed using a time dilation device to allow SG-1 access to the black hole, hoping to seal the rift and prevent further incursions. It being a dangerous undertaking, Kvasir boasts about the merits of courage in making the mission a success; however, he then promptly wishes the team luck and beams himself off the Prometheus. Daniel quips, "I miss Thor."

After the first plan was abandoned, Kvasir loaned the SGC an Asgard energy weapon to manipulate the Stargate into returning each alternate team to their proper reality. [29]

Kvasir also assisted SG-1 during the Battle of P3Y-229, reprogramming one of the control crystals of the Supergate. After this crystal would have been reinserted, the gate would have activated, blocking the Ori's only access to this galaxy. However, this attempt failed, and his O'Neill class battleship was forced to engage the invading Ori battlecruisers.[13] While the fate of his vessel is unknown, Kvasir himself survived the battle, and was on the Odyssey helping to repair the transporters. However, the damage they received was so massive that Kvasir was forced to rewrite the basecode line by line. While he was unable to transport in Lt. Col. Carter, he was able to transport Teal'c from the Lucian Alliance mothership.[35]

[edit] Loki

tv=Peter DeLuise (voice)| first=Fragile Balance|

Loki is a rogue Asgard scientist who planned on finding a way to cure his species from the decay of their genome caused by their constant cloning. Around 1985, his actions were discovered, and the Asgard High Council stripped him of his title.

After O'Neill had downloaded the information from the Ancients Repository of Knowledge into his brain, it had become clear to the Asgard that human biology had evolved to a point beyond the assumptions of the Asgard. After this information was shared with the entire Asgard population, Loki came to believe that O'Neill's DNA could prove to be the key to solving the Asgard's cloning problems.

Four years after that, Loki got his chance. While the majority of the Asgard were searching for a new home after their previous home was destroyed by the Replicators, Loki came to Earth in order to do genetic research on Colonel Jack O'Neill. In order to accomplish this Loki cloned O'Neill so he could study the original for a prolonged period of time without arousing suspicion of the SGC. However, due to a marker placed in O'Neill's DNA by the Asgard government, the clone stopped his rapid maturation in his teens, rather than becoming fully mature.

After the cloned O'Neill remembered being abducted by the Asgard, the SGC suspected foul play and searched for a way to capture the unknown Asgard. While researching O'Neill's dream, they encountered more people who experienced the same situations as the Colonel. However, none of them ended up becoming younger. SG-1 developed a plan to capture the Asgard, and when Loki beamed up the young O'Neill, the clone was able to stun the Asgard with a Zat. Afterwards he beamed up his teammates, who discovered the Asgard's identity. Shortly thereafter, Thor arrived and revealed that Loki has been doing non-sanctioned experiments on humans for some time. A visibly angry Thor took Loki into custody, and his experiments have come to a halt. [36]

  • Loki's illegal behavior is in keeping with Loki, the Norse god of mischief upon whom he is based.
  • Although the name of Loki's ship isn't mentioned, it is of the same class as Thor's ship the Daniel Jackson.


[edit] Thor

tv=Michael Shanks (voice)| first=Thor's Hammer (humanoid hologram)|

Thor is a recurring character in Stargate SG-1. He is voiced by Michael Shanks (who also plays the regular character Dr. Daniel Jackson on the series).[37] Thor is the Supreme Commander of the Asgard Fleet.

Thor has risked his life multiple times in order to save SG-1 and Earth from both the Goa'uld and the Replicators, apparently seeing the Tau'ri as a very worthy race for an alliance. That alliance proved useful for him as SG-1 has saved him on many occasions from the Replicators [38] and once from Anubis himself. [28] Thor's friendship with SG-1 even led him to personally make an appearance at a secret meeting between members of Earth's UN Security Council taking place in the Pentagon, to speak on General Hammond's behalf. [38]

Like the rest of his race, Thor is an asexual clone, incapable of cellular meiosis (therefore infertile), and has no sexual organs. This has allowed him to cheat death on multiple occasions, by means of downloading his consciousness into a newer, younger clone body, but also makes him vulnerable to the slow, genetic degradation being suffered by the rest of the Asgard. This has become something of a running joke on the show; at one point, O'Neill remarks, "That just never gets old, does it?" [24]

[edit] Early Encounters

A holographic recording of Thor was first encountered by SG-1 in 1997. Appearing as a humanoid Viking, a holographic message awaited all Goa'uld who visited Cimmeria after they were transported to an underground cavern by Thor's Hammer. When SG-1 visited the planet, both Teal'c and Jack O'Neill were transported to the cavern, where they were greeted by the intimidating hologram.

However, during Teal'c's escape, the Hammer was destroyed, leaving Cimmeria vulnerable to Goa'uld attack. [39] Heru-ur eventually invaded the planet, forcing the Cimmerians to become his slaves and worship him. However, Daniel Jackson and Samantha Carter sought Thor's help in saving the people from the System Lords in the so-called Hall of Thor's Might, an elaborate sequence of tests to gauge whether the people of Cimmeria had advanced enough in order to see the Asgard in their true form. Thanks to SG-1's artificial advancement, they were able to inform Thor about the situation on the surface, who soon came to save Cimmeria. Thor admitted to SG-1 that his race had visited the Tau'ri on many occasions, but still considered them too young of a race to ally with against the Goa'uld. [40]

After Jack O'Neill accidentally got the Ancient information of the Repository of Knowledge downloaded into his brain, he eventually managed to contact the Asgard, developing the beginnings of a friendship. [41] Thor eventually had Earth included in the Protected Planets Treaty, safeguarding the planet from a direct Goa'uld attack. [42]

[edit] Thor and the Replicators

In 2000, Thor's ship, the Beliskner was overtaken by the Replicators, who found the location of Earth, a planet with plenty of raw materials, in the ship's database. The Replicators set a course for Earth, while Thor attempted to stop the Beliskner from reaching the planet. He managed to sabotage the outbound transporters to prevent the Replicators from beaming down, but he got severely injured in the process. Before losing consciousness, he beamed up Jack O'Neill, for whom he had left several recordings with instructions. Eventually, Jack O'Neill, with help from Teal'c and Carter (Daniel Jackson was suffering from appendicitis at the time) was able to destroy the ship and escape through the Stargate which had been beamed aboard earlier. [43]

When the Asgard homeworld was threatened by Replicators several weeks later, Thor, who was impressed by SG-1's primitive but effective tactics to destroy the Replicator-infested Beliskner menacing Earth, came back to Earth by Stargate to request help. He enlisted Carter's help and "less-advanced" ways of thinking in order to save his world. Eventually, Carter came up with the idea of luring away the approaching Replicator-infested ships by using the prototype for the extremely advanced O'Neill class battleship, and then destroying the ship, taking the chasing vessels with it. Thor subsequently rescued O'Neill and Teal'c at the last minute, who were battling Replicators on board a Russian submarine at the time. He promised to one day help the Tau'ri defeat the Goa'uld in return for saving his homeworld. [44]

[edit] Thor in SG-1's debt

When Adara II, a planet protected by the Protected Planets Treaty, was attacked by Anubis some time later, Thor was dispatched in a single Beliskner class cruiser. However, Thor's weapons were insufficient to combat Anubis' newly upgraded Ha'tak's, and he was subsequently captured. Anubis probed Thor's mind to find out about Asgard technology, However, Thor managed to tap into the ship's systems instead and render assistance to Jack O'Neill and Teal'c who had come to save him. After the two destroyed the Ha'tak's shield system, the three were beamed back and rescued by three Asgard battleships, although Thor's body lapsed into a coma. [28] Apparently, Thor had downloaded his consciousness into the Ha'tak's database, which he later commandeered and piloted to Earth, where his consciousness was salvaged and later transferred into a new body. [45]

Thor asked again for SG-1's assistance some weeks later after his people's plan to trap the Replicators inside a time-dilation field on the planet Hala backfired. Thor asked the SG-1, using the relatively primitive Prometheus, to land on the planet, discover what went wrong, and rectify the situation by resetting the time-dilation device. Although SG-1 came in contact with the first of the new generation human-form Replicators, they were eventually successful in activating the device, trapping the Replicators on the planet. [46] In return, Thor personally made an appearance at a secret meeting between the permanent members of Earth's UN Security Council taking place in the Pentagon, to speak on O'Neill's behalf and ensure the SGC retained control over the Earth Stargate. Proving that the Asgard can be canny political operators when it suits them, he used this moment to publicly give Earth advanced shield and weapons technology for the Prometheus, as a token of thanks for all of what SG1 had done. He stated that although future relations with Earth were not contingent on the status quo of SGC operations and personnel being maintained, it was "preferred". [38]

He later rendered assistance to SG-1 after Jack O'Neill had been cloned by Loki against the wishes of the Asgard High Council. [36]

[edit] Later appearances

As the Asgard realized the time-dilation device on Hala would not keep the Replicators bottled up for ever, Thor was sent to collapse Hala's sun into a black hole. However, some Replicators were able to escape before they crossed the black hole's event horizon, which later almost infested the new Asgard homeworld, Orilla. Luckily, O'Neill, who recently had the information contained in the Ancient Repository of Knowledge again downloaded into his brain, managed to come up with an effective weapon to combat the scourge, the Replicator Disruptor. The Replicators were eventually forced to retreat from Orilla. [47]

After Replicator Carter contacted the SGC with false information that Fifth had devised a way to shield the Replicators from the Disruptor, Thor delivered a Disruptor satellite to the Alpha Site, and instructed Teal'c how to position the device. However, the entire plan was an elaborate ruse so that RepliCarter could make her brethren resistant against the Replicator Disruptor. [48]

Some weeks later, the Replicators launched an all-out attack against the Goa'uld, and the SGC was forced to ask Thor for assistance. Thor and Carter devised a way to again modify the Disruptor, although the Replicators quickly adapted. They realized the only way to defeat them would be to destroy all Replicators in one strike using the Dakara Superweapon although Thor's ship was boarded before the plan could be put into action. He was forced to beam Carter down and leave Earth, although he again downloaded his consciousness into the ship's database and later transferred it to a new clone body. [24]

After the SGC became a hub for several alternate realities, Thor was unable to render assistance to SG-1 as he was dealing with a "sensitive matter" in a neighboring galaxy with Heimdall. Instead, the Asgard sent the less likable Kvasir in Thor's place. [29]

[edit] End of the Asgard Civilization

Thor summoned the Odyssey to the Asgard homeworld Orilla. When the ship arrived, Thor revealed that the last attempt to save the Asgard civilization from their genetic difficulties had failed, and that it had instead left them all with a rapidly progressing disease. He stated that "very soon, we will all...be gone." Thor installed an Asgard Computer core with the entire knowledge base of the Asgard race into the Odyssey's engine room and provided an interactive holographic program designed to assist the humans who would later use the technology. He seemed very proud of this and at first misunderstood Carter's comment that it wouldn't be the same. Before beaming away, Thor received a hug from Carter.

Although some Asgard were still wary of giving Earth such advanced technology, Thor was one of the Asgard who very strongly argued that they could be trusted, having proved themselves. Once again calling Earth and humanity "The Fifth Race", he expressed to Colonel Samantha Carter that now it was humanity's turn to take its place and preserve the future. His one regret in his species passing was that they were unable to help them further.

Thor perished along with the rest of the Asgard race when they caused their planet to self-destruct when the Ori attacked Orilla and the Odyssey.[49]

[edit] Other Asgard

Name Rank/Position First Appearance Status Voiced by
Aegir Commander of the starship Valhalla. "New Order, Part I" Unknown Michael Shanks
Aegir commanded a small fleet of ships which protected Orilla and attacked the Replicator ship as it exited hyperspace. Although Aegir destroyed the ship he could not stop massive numbers of Replicator blocks from raining down on Orilla.
Penegal Member of the Asgard High Council "New Order, Part II" Unknown Michael Shanks
A member of the Asgard High Council. He informed Thor of the Replicators, which attacked the settlement of Orilla but the communication was interrupted.

[edit] Jaffa characters in Stargate

The Jaffa are a fictional alien race, in the television series Stargate SG-1. They are a mutation of humanity, descended from genetically modified people from Earth who were kidnapped by the Goa'uld using the Stargate during antiquity. They were kidnapped and modified to serve as warriors and incubators for larval Goa'uld.

This is a list of Jaffa characters who have thus far appeared on the show.

[edit] Arkad

tv= Craig Fairbrass| first=Talion|

Arkad was a deceptive Jaffa who was a dangerous warrior and a personal enemy of Teal'c.

In his early life, he lived on a world where a Jaffa known as Ko'rak was hiding. This Jaffa was being hunted by Teal'c who, at the time, was serving Apophis as First Prime. He bombarded the planet in order to kill his target. This had the added affect of killing Arkad's family including his parents and sister. However, despite this, he respected the fearsome warrior that was Teal'c and wished to become as feared as him. He began this path by training under Master Bra'tac though Bra'tac would always be uncomfortable around Arkad as he 'sensed' that something was wrong with him.

Arkad would later become First Prime of an unspecified Goa'uld and would battle both Teal'c and Bra'tac many times. He was known to be deceptive and cowardly as in every battle he fought, he always managed to get away. One of his most despicable acts was tasking an assassin to kill Teal'c's mother whose throat was slit at night though, at the time, no one claimed responsibility for the crime.

After the fall of the Goa'uld and the beginning of the Ori crusade to convert the galaxy, Arkad would become a leader of a new group which was known as the Illac Renin. This group, whose name loosely translated from Ancient as 'Kingdom of the Path', believed in the Ori's goals in ascending their followers and thus were devout disciples of Origin. Arkad began stockpiling weapons grade naquada for his masters to stage a surprise strike against the homeworld of the Tau'ri who were a thorn in his masters side.

Before this was done, however, he became aware of a Jaffa summit that attempted to reform the Free Jaffa Nation's government. Aware that such a summit could turn his people into a force against his masters, he tasked one of his followers to place explosives at the summit to kill its leaders. He then appeared before the Tau'ri, claiming that 'despicable' radicals were staging an assault on Earth and he wished to stop them. He also claimed that his goal was that Earth was not to interfere in Jaffa politics as he simply wants his people the freedom of choice in what they wanted to worship and if they wanted to worship the Ori then so be it. This was simply a lie as he wished to gain time in order to accomplish his goal. His base would be assaulted by Teal'c, however, he would be defeated before he reached Arkad.

Arkad brought the legendary Jaffa warrior before him, wounded, and engaged him in combat using fighting sticks. He goaded Teal'c and told him how he had grown weak and how Arkad had once admired him. He would end the battle by taking his sword and stabbing Teal'c while on the floor, at which point, Arkad accepted that he was responsible for Teal'c's mothers death. Teal'c would push Arkad back and the Illac Renin leader fell upon an assortment of bladed items stored behind him. Teal'c would remove the sword from his body and 'spear' Arkad, piercing through his heart and his symbiote pouch, killing his long time nemesis once and for all.[50]

[edit] Aron

tv=Jeff Judge| first=Sacrifices|

Aron was a Jaffa warrior previously in service of the Goa'uld Moloc.

Aron was among the ranks of Jaffa that met with Ishta and Teal'c's resistance movement on the new Hak'tyl homeworld. His insistence that an attack on Moloc could not wait concerned Teal'c that he could be a traitor in their midst.

When Moloc launched a surprise attack on the meeting, killing or capturing all but Teal'c, Ishta and Aron, Teal'c believed Aron to be the informant. The following morning, after Ishta had been captured, Teal'c chose to take no more chances and disabled the Jaffa with his zat.

However, after Teal'c was captured by Moloc's Jaffa, Aron proved his loyalty by sneaking up and taking out one of the soldiers and several other Jaffa to free Teal'c. Before departing to save Ishta, Teal'c provided Aron with a Tau'ri targeting sensor to guide two missiles fired by the SGC through the Stargate directly into Moloc's chest, killing the Goa'uld and ending his tyranny over his Jaffa.[51]

During the Replicator invasion of the Milky Way and the subsequent near-collapse of the Jaffa Resistance, Aron was opposed to Teal'c's plan to retake the historic planet of Dakara. However, Teal'c was able to sway his fellow free Jaffa, and to his own amazement, Aron was eventually standing on the surface of Dakara himself. Aron later joined Teal'c aboard a Ha'tak and successfully defended Dakara from both Replicator forces and Ba'al's fleet.[24]

Aron is played by Jeff Judge, Christopher Judge's younger brother.

[edit] Bo'rel

tv=Richard Whiten| first=Counterstrike|

Bo'rel was a Free Jaffa, formerly in the service of Cronus, who attempted to take control of an Ori battlecruiser.

Bo'rel believed firmly that the Jaffa should remain independent and free from alien influence, and was therefore hostile to anyone who attempted to intervene in internal Jaffa politics. He did not have much respect or gratitude for the Tau'ri, and opposed the agreements between the two nations made by his predecessors.

In 2006, as more and more planets were conquered by the Ori, Bo'rel was a proponent of using the Dakara Superweapon to capture several Ori battlecruisers which could then be later used against them. Instead of directly attacking their armies, the weapon was used against a recently conquered planet inhabited by thousands of innocent humans on which an Ori ship had landed. Bo'rel was one of several Jaffa sent to take control of the abandoned Ori ship.

When Bo'rel encountered SG-1 on board the Ori ship, Bo'rel was hesitant to trust them and initially tried to take them captive. However, when Adria, who was protected against the effects of the Dakara weapon, retook control of the Ori battlecruiser, Cameron Mitchell was able to convince Bo'rel to work together against their common enemy, although their subsequent attacks had little success.

When Adria piloted the ship back to Dakara to destroy the only real threat to their invasion plans, the desperate Jaffa leaders, who believed SG-1 had taken over the battlecruiser, fired the weapon again at the approaching Ori vessel. Bo'rel was eventually killed by his own people.[52]

[edit] Bra'tac

tv=Tony Amendola| first=Bloodlines|

Bra'tac [ˈbɹeɪˌtæk] is one of the most frequently recurring characters on Stargate SG-1. He is a Jaffa warrior and former First Prime of the Goa'uld System Lord Apophis, and later became a leader of the Progressive faction of the High Council of the Free Jaffa Nation and an important liaison with the Tau'ri.

With an age of over 133 years old,[53] Bra'tac is one of the oldest Jaffa. He demonstrates his fighting skill in many episodes. He is Teal'c's former teacher and closest friend, and also a guardian to his son, Rya'c.

Despite being System Lord's First Prime, Bra'tac taught Teal'c to question the Goa'uld in a quest to rid the galaxy of the Goa'uld. During Season 1, it becomes evident that Bra'tac has become an outcast among the Jaffa. He helps Teal'c and SG-1 on many missions, and when they find the Harcesis child on Kheb in Season 3, he is presented with the idea of Ascension. He considers to ascend himself, finally ending his battle against the Goa'uld but in the end decides against this possibility.[54] At the end of season 6, Bra'tac and Teal'c are both badly wounded during a Jaffa meeting. They both survive but, having both lost their symbiotes, need to take the new drug Tretonin.

Bra'tac was a main contributor to the Jaffa Resistance, a rebellion aimed at overthrowing the Goa'uld and establishing the freedom of all Jaffa. At the end of Season 8, Bra'tac and Teal'c convince the other members of the Jaffa Rebellion to attack Dakara in an ultimately successful mission. The Jaffa obtain freedom, and Bra'tac receives a position of honor. Bra'tac becomes a member of the High Council, the governing body of the new Free Jaffa Nation but still stays loyal to the SGC. During the crisis caused by Gerak's conversion to Origin in Season 9, Teal'c suggests that Bra'tac would be the most qualified to succeed Gerak as leader of the Free Jaffa Nation. Some time after the destruction of Dakara by the Ori, leaders of the Free Jaffa Nation meet to consider the future, but they are ambushed by a former enemy of Teal'c. Bra'tac and Teal'c are badly injured, and when they get nursed back at the SGC, Bra'tac tells Teal'c that he is like a son to him.

[edit] Cha'ra

tv=Noah Danby| first=Sacrifices|

Cha'ra was First Prime to the Goa'uld Moloc, and most likely the head of his Imperial Guard.

Cha'ra traveled to the first planet designated as a replacement home for the Hak'tyl resistance. He aided in the torture of Ishta, and continued to guard her when Moloc and his forces returned to the Stargate.

When Teal'c arrived to save Ishta from her captors, Cha'ra held a knife to Ishta's throat. He was informed by Teal'c that the explosions nearby, as the SGC had sent several missile through the Stargate which were subsequently aimed at Moloc's chest by Aron, were sounds heralding Moloc's death.

As Cha'ra was holding Ishta hostage, he attempted to avoid being stunned by Teal'c by claiming that Ishta was weak enough to be killed by even a single zat discharge. However, he did not realize that she had managed to obtain and use her tretonin. Teal'c subsequently zatted both of them without fear, stunning the two.[51]

As his god had been killed, Cha'ra joined the Jaffa resistance. In the 10th season of SG-1, Cha'ra was attempting to recruit Teal'c into the new Jaffa Democratic government when they were attacked by a Bounty Hunter attempting to claim the reward on Teal'c that the Lucian Alliance placed on his head.[55]

[edit] Drey'auc

tv=Salli Richardson
Brook Parker| first=Bloodlines|

Drey'auc of the Cordai Plains was the former wife of Teal'c and mother to Rya'c.

Drey'auc was a loyal follower of Apophis and kept her faith even after her husband betrayed his god and joined the Tau'ri. She worked diligently to restore Apophis's faith in her and her son so the prim'tah ritual could be performed when Rya'c would reach the age of prata, or puberty.[56]

As she was unable to solely support herself and her son after Teal'c had defected to the Tau'ri, Drey'auc was forced to marry the Jaffa Fro'tak, taking refuge in Fro'tak's financial and political security, yet she had never stopped loving Teal'c. When her former husband returned to Chulak in search for his son, he and SG-1 sought refuge in Fro'tak's house. However, Fro'tak betrayed them to Apophis when he saw his wife and Teal'c embrace.

Drey'auc had permitted Rya'c to train with Jaffa master Bra'tac, who had trained Teal'c before him. It was after a sparring session that she discovered Rya'c was missing two teeth. Several days later, after the boy had been rescued from Apophis, she realized that the teeth were no longer missing. It was Drey'auc's attention to detail that saved the SGC, and all of Earth, from a virulent plague hidden by Apophis within the false teeth. Shortly afterward, she and Rya'c took refuge in the Land of Light, far from Goa'uld oppression.[57]

Eventually, Drey'auc and Rya'c moved to a Jaffa rebel camp. It was there that her symbiote matured, and she was unwilling to allow any fellow Jaffa to be killed in order to obtain a new symbiote to sustain her. Consequently, she lived for a short time without an immune system, and died at the camp. She was cremated by her former husband, Teal'c.[58]

[edit] Fro'tak

tv=Peter Bryant| first=Family|

Fro'tak was a Jaffa of fairly high standing in service to Apophis and an old friend of Teal'c.

When he was younger, Fro'tak had been in the service of Bra'tac. He maintained a wealthy home in the city on Chulak, and worked as a scribe in the Hall of Recording within the west wing of Apophis's palace. After Teal'c had defected to the Tau'ri, abandoning his former wife Drey'auc without the means to support herself and her son, Drey'auc was forced to marry Fro'tak.

When Teal'c returned to Chulak to rescue his son who had been brainwashed by Apophis, he and his fellow SG-1 members took refuge in Fro'tak's home. Believed to be trustworthy by Brakat, Fro'tak was key in aiding SG-1 in an attempt to pull Ry'ac from Apophis's control as he worked less than two hundred paces from where Teal'c's son was held by the System Lord.

However, it would eventually appear that Drey'auc, who had never stopped loving Teal'c, had given vows she could not keep. With the arrival of Teal'c, Drey'auc showed her love for him, and Fro'tak, in angered betrayal, ran to tell the guards of Apophis that the traitors were on Chulak. Jack O'Neill, having anticipated his change of heart, used a zat to kill and subsequently disintegrated him.[57]

[edit] Gerak

"Gerak" redirects here. For the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine character, see Elim Garak.

tv=Louis Gossett, Jr.| first=Origin|

Gerak, portrayed by Louis Gossett, Jr., was the former First Prime of Montu and became the first leader of the Free Jaffa Nation. He was the first head of the Jaffa High Council and, as the leader of the traditionalist faction, he was the political rival of Teal'c. He firmly believed in freedom for all Jaffa, and was hesitant to form an alliance with Earth. Gerak also attempted to bring all former System Lords to justice. He was first mentioned in the episode "Avalon, Part II", and appeared one episode later in "Origin".

Originally a firm opponent of the Ori, Gerak later became convinced that Origin should be the goal of all Jaffa. He was later transformed into a Prior, although he was eventually convinced by Teal'c to betray the Ori. As a result, a loyalty fail-safe in Gerak was triggered which caused his immediate death. His final words before his fiery demise declared that he would die a free Jaffa.

According to Rak'nor, Gerak was announced the new leader of the Free Jaffa Nation, due to his control over the majority of the Jaffa's military assets. Also, Gerak and the traditionalists had profited greatly of Teal'c's absence, who had spent most of his time with the Tau'ri. Gerak's traditionalism had also resulted in the Free Jaffa Nation initially being controlled by a High Council based on unconfirmed military strength rather than elected officials, as Teal'c and the progressive faction wanted to.[11]

When Gerak was invited to the SGC in the hopes of negotiating an official treaty between the United States and the Free Jaffa Nation, he was greeted by General Hank Landry. However, Gerak did not hide his lack of respect for the Tau'ri, and appeared to have little interest in either a treaty or the protection of humans across the Milky Way. He was also quite hostile to Teal'c, whom he considered to be on the Tau'ri's side.

A firm proponent of freedom for all Jaffa, especially regarding slavery to false gods, Gerak demanded to be introduced to the Ori Prior who had recently been brought back to the SGC by Cameron Mitchell. He listened to the tales of Origin and ensured that his people would never bow to the Ori, before the Prior killed himself.[59]

Several weeks later, Gerak sent three of his Ha'tak to Kallana to help SG-1 in thwarting a plan of the Ori to construct a Supergate. However, he was extremely hostile to the Tau'ri vessel that had already arrived, and inadvertently aided the Ori in completing a shield to compress the planet in a micro black hole by firing upon the force field already created by the invading Prior. When the first components of the Supergate came through, two of his ships were destroyed, forcing Gerak to flee.[60]

When the Free Jaffa Nation learned about Ba'al's escape to Earth, he dispatched a Ha'tak mothership to capture the former System Lord. Hidden behind Earth's Moon, the mothership sent several waves of Jaffa troops down to the surface. However, as Ba'al had threatened to explode a naqahdah bomb somewhere inside the United States if he would again be hunted by the Free Jaffa, the SGC was forced to work against Gerak. Although Gerak's actions significantly endangered the Tau'ri, most of the Council members agreed with his methods.

After the bomb, which turned out to be a skyscraper laced with naqahdah, was neutralized by beaming it into space, Gerak's forces were finally able to capture Ba'al. He was subsequently executed before the Council, scoring a big moral victory for the traditionalists. Although Gerak was unaware of this at the time, SG-1 later discovered that the Ba'al executed by Gerak was only a clone, and the real Ba'al remained alive.[61]

Several months later, Gerak was visited by a Prior, who apparently had convinced him that Origin should be the goal of all Jaffa. After accepting the oppressive religion in his own heart, he brought this before the High Council, much to Teal'c's shock, and even to the protest of his right hand man Yat'Yir. However, when the Ori realized Gerak would not willingly destroy members of his own kind for refusing Origin, a Prior brought his essence to their city on Celestis. There, Gerak was transformed into a Prior.

After Gerak was faced with a revolt led by Teal'c, and the implied possibility of protracted warfare among the Jaffa, Gerak travelled to Chulak in the hopes of negotiating a peaceful solution. There, Gerak was reminded of the sacrifices his father made for freedom for all Jaffa. Convinced, he traveled back to Earth, using his powers to heal Stargate Command of the recently introduced and extremely deadly Prior plague. In consequence for his defiance, the Ori's built-in kill switch, in case he ever turned, was set off, turning Gerak's body into a ball of fire and killing him. His sacrifice was not in vain, as his final act allowed a vaccine to be created which cured all of Earth from the plague. Gerak had expected this result, and his final words to Teal'c before his fiery demise was "If I help you I shall die, but I shall die free".[25]

[edit] Haikon

tv=Tony Todd| first=Babylon|

Haikon was a respected Jaffa warrior and leader of the Sodan people on P9G-844. He was a highly spiritual man who has led his people for over a century. For most of his life, he had worshipped the Ancients in search for ascension. Haikon spent much of his time in meditation, and was quite skilled with a stringed musical instrument.

When an Ori Prior visited the Sodan homeworld, Lord Haikon's interest was piqued. Although Haikon realized that the Ori were not the Ancients, he was convinced that they were the next best thing, and quite capable of ascending his people. He subsequently instructed the Sodan people to switch their spiritual beliefs from the Ancients to the Ori instead.

As Cameron Mitchell had neutralized the Sodan Volnek in self-defense during an ambush on the Sodan homeworld, Haikon forced the human to take part in the ritual of kel shak lo, a fight to the death as retribution for spilling Sodan blood. When Volnek's brother, Jolan, was able to falsely convince the rest of his people that he had killed Mitchell, Haikon permitted the victor to give him a warrior's passing.[62]

Several weeks later, the Prior ordered the Sodan to attack a people for rejecting the Ori. Expecting a mighty army, the Sodan only discovered a society of simple farmers, too naive to understand the consequences of rejecting the Ori. Lord Haikon refused to attack their defenseless would-be victims, and began to question the Ori's worthiness as gods. They visited another planet that had rejected the Ori, and found that it had been wiped out by a mysterious plague. Disgusted that the Ori took actions that went against the spirit of the Sodan, Haikon renounced Origin. When SG-1 arrived in search for a cure against the Prior's plague, Haikon allowed them to attempt to neutralize the Prior's powers during his next visit to the Sodan village.[25]

In response for defying the will of the Ori, a Prior later converted one of the Sodan warriors, Volnak, into an undead being bent on destroying anyone in sight. Almost impossible to kill, the deranged Volnak murdered most of the Sodan, and severely wounded Haikon. He was left to die in the burnt down Sodan village, before he was rescued by SG-12. As his symbiote had died, he was offered tretonin instead. Haikon has not been seen since[12]

[edit] Herak

tv=Michael Adamthwaite| first=The Other Guys|

Herak was a Jaffa warrior and the First Prime of Anubis.

Herak faithfully believed that Anubis was a god, and has watched him eliminate entire civilizations with the flick of his hand. He had no mercy for the enemies of his master, and had a strong, personal desire to destroy Colonel Jack O'Neill and the rest of SG-1.[17]

He was originally the First Prime of Khonsu, a Tok'ra spy posing as a minor Goa'uld serving Anubis. However, after Herak discovered Khonsu's treachery, the Jaffa turned on his former master and executed him. Apparently, Anubis was pleased with Herak's initiative as he eventually became his own First Prime.[63]

He was charged with obtaining the Eye of Ra from Abydos during his master's quest for the superweapon, although SG-1 managed to locate it before him. O'Neill subsequently handed it over to Anubis in exchange for the System Lord sparing the planet. However, Anubis did not keep his word and attacked the planet anyway, killing all Abydonians.[17]

Herak was later sent to Langara where he was in charge of a Jaffa group bent on discovering the whereabouts of a data storage crystal, vital to deciphering the instability of the element naqahdria. However, due to SG-1, he was unable to obtain the crystal, and as his master's ship was destroyed above by the collective forces of the System Lords, he escaped through the Stargate.[23]

Herak is presumed to have been killed when SG-1 used the Ancient Drone Weapons buried beneath the ice of Antarctica to destroy Anubis's attacking mothership in Earth's orbit. Herak stood on the command deck, supporting his master to the bitter end.[64]

[edit] Ishta

tv=Jolene Blalock| first=Birthright|

Meaning beloved or "greatest one" in sanskrit, Ishta, played by the actress Jolene Blalock, is the leader of the Hak'tyl Jaffa and the current romantic partner of Teal'c. She first appeared on the episode Birthright.

Ishta once served the Goa'uld Moloc as his temple high priestess. One of her duties was to keep records of birth and perform the "Ceremony of Fire". During this ceremony all female-born Jaffa are killed after they are born, because Moloc thought that they won't be needed. However Ishta couldn't watch her sisters die, so she decided to rescue as many as possible. Because she had a trusted position and thus access to the Stargate, together with other loyal female Jaffa, she brought many girls to a world which they named "Hak'tyl" (meaning Liberation). They had to do this secretly because often they couldn't even trust the parents. The Hak'tyl grew to a strong resistance group that fought Moloc and stole the symbiotes of other Jaffa so that they could survive.

Her husband was a high-ranked warrior of Moloc's Imperial Guard but was killed in a battle against a rival Goa'uld.

Because the Hak'tyl needed help as well as goods, they contacted the Tau'ri to offer them an alliance. Ishta talked with Major Carter and informed her about their situation and later came in contact with Teal'c, to whom she grew close. She also informed her people about the drug Tretonin and several of them went to Stargate Command to test the drug. Although one of them died the drug proved to be a success and Ishta and the others accepted the drug. Ishta then left and kissed Teal'c goodbye. ("Birthright")

Ishta reappears one year later. During this time she plans to finally kill Moloc, which Teal'c however doesn't like because they should at first strengthen the rebel Jaffa. During this time one of the female Jaffa disappears and so the female resistance is forced to evacuate to SGC, while they search for a new homeworld. Ishta then goes to a meeting with Teal'c to a meeting with the Rebel Jaffa but they are attacked by Moloc's Jaffa and Ishta's Tretonin goes missing. Not only that she is then kidnapped by Moloc's First Prime and brought before Moloc himself, who the proceeds to tortures her. She is then rescued by Teal'c, while Moloc is killed by SGC. At last the Hak'tyl find a new homeworld. ("Sacrifices")

[edit] Jolan

tv=Jason George| first=Babylon|

Jolan was a Sodan warrior from P9G-844, and brother of Volnek.

Jolan was, along with his brother, a member of the strike force that ambushed SG-1 who had attempted to seek out the Sodan. In self-defense, Cameron Mitchell shot Volnek in the symbiote pouch. Believing that his brother was killed, Jolan brought Mitchell back to the Sodan village and forced him to take part in the ritual of kel shak lo, a fight to the death as retribution for spilling Sodan blood.

After a Prior had visited the Sodan village and convinced Lord Haikon to worship the Ori instead of the Ancients, Jolan however felt that it was important to preserve the history of the Sodan rather than throw it all away for a new and cheap bag of tricks. Mitchell encouraged this view, informing Jolan that just because the Ori had great power didn't make them deserving of worship; it was what they did with that power that mattered.

Lord Haikon instructed Jolan to heal Mitchell's wounds and to instruct him in the Sodan fighting style in preparation of the ritual. However, Mitchell did not realize that Jolan was actually training him to fight against himself. When the ritual began, Jolan stepped forward to revenge his brother.

But he and Mitchell had conspired together to have Cameron fake his own death in the middle of the fight. Jolan asked to be the one to give Mitchell a proper warrior's passing, actually allowing him to escape back through the Eye of the Gods to Earth, promising Mitchell that he would spread the word about the true nature of the Priors and encourage the Sodan to oppose them. Volnak was later returned to Jolan, his wounds healed on Earth and his symbiote replaced by tretonin.[62]

After Volnek was driven mad by a Prior for the Sodan's rejection of Origin, Jolan was one of those killed by his own brother.[12]

[edit] Ka'lel

tv=Simone Bailly| first=Birthright|

Ka'lel was a female Jaffa warrior who had been under the service of Moloc for many years. She apparently became involved with the Hak'tyl resistance movement under Ishta.[65]

After the Free Jaffa Nation had been established, the Hak'tyl, who controlled the domain of the former System Lord Moloc, were one of the coalitions that made up the military oligarchy of the Jaffa High Council. They were granted a seat on the Council, and Ka'lel became the representative for the Hak'tyl. She eventually proved to be an ally of Teal'c, and was a member of the Progressive faction on the Council.

She was well aware of Gerak's troop movements on Earth during his search for the former System Lord Ba'al. Between council sessions she told this to Teal'c and Cameron Mitchell, who eventually used the information to commence a search by the SGC. Unfortunately, it was only later that she informed Teal'c about the presence of one of Gerak's Ha'taks and battalions of Jaffa soldiers on Earth, hoping to not harm the integrity of the High Council.[61]

As a member of the Council's Progressive faction, Ka'lal originally supported Teal'c's attempts to replace the Council by a democratically elected government. However, she was apparently brainwashed by Ba'al, and subsequently changed her opinion regarding democratic government. It is unknown what eventually happened to her as she has not been seen since.[66]

[edit] Kar'yn

tv=Mercedes de la Zerda| first=Sacrifices|

Kar'yn was a female Jaffa warrior spared from the fires of Moloc's sacrificial ceremony, and the wife of Rya'c. A member of the Hak'tyl, she was a student of Ishta.

Kar'yn became betrothed to the Jaffa warrior Rya'c, who took her as his sim'ka. When the time came for them to be married, their original homeworld, Hak'tyl, was discovered by Moloc's forces, and the Hak'tyl resistance was forced to relocate to the SGC.

Kar'yn was resistant, and frequently hated the old Jaffa ways. As Bra'tac presided over their rehearsal for the ceremony of unity, she resented the fact that she was expected to kneel before her husband, even as a simple sign of respect. Only after counsel from her teacher did Kar'yn realize that Rya'c was one-of-a-kind, let alone the son of a great warrior.

Eventually, the union proceeded as planned, with Bra'tac presiding over the ceremony. Rya'c would take them both to the same world where Teal'c and Drey'auc once had their shim'roa, the Jaffa equivalent of a honeymoon.[51]

[edit] Mala

tv=Christine Adams| first=Birthright|

Mala was a female Jaffa warrior and loyal kin'dra (second-in-command) to Ishta, leader of the Hak'tyl.

Mala was once a temple handmaiden who fell in love with a palace guard under Moloc's domain, which was forbidden. When it was discovered she was to have his child, Moloc killed him and sacrificed their daughter. She subsequently became a member of the Hak'tyl.

After the Tau'ri discovered the Hak'tyl, Mala was eager to accept their aid. She was even more impressed by tretonin, a drug which she believed would one day free her sisters from the Jaffa's reliance on Goa'uld symbiotes. When Ishta asked for volunteers to try it, she volunteered to be a test subject, taking Ishta's place, and travelled to Earth where her larval Goa'uld was taken from her body. Unfortunately, she was the only one of five Hak'tyl volunteers whose body did not respond to the tretonin. She chose not to have her symbiote replaced, as she believed that if her people were ever to be free, it would be without the Goa'uld. Unfortunately, Janet Fraiser decided to return the symbiote after Mala lost consciousness. The symbiote's reintroduction caused some sort of reaction with the tretonin, which killed Mala.

Mala's death was not in vain. Though Ishta and the others mourned her death, they agreed to stop killing other Jaffa to obtain symbiotes, but to accept the Tau'ri's offer of tretonin.[65]

[edit] Maz'rai

tv=Dakin Matthews| first=Stronghold|

Maz'rai was a free Jaffa formerly in the service of Apophis and old friend of Bra'tac.

As a member of the Jaffa High Council's Progressive faction, Maz'rai believed that democracy was key to the future of the new Free Jaffa Nation. After the initial formation of the High Council based on unconfirmed military strength, he proposed a referendum regarding the establishment of a democratically elected government. This referendum would ensure that all Jaffa would be allowed the freedom to live and to die how they wished.

Maz'rai co-authored policy measures designed to prevent voting abuses by Gerak's coalition, and later voted in favor of increasing the size of the High Council to give unrepresented Jaffa, such as the Hak'tyl, a voice. He also introduced a motion to set limits on the council's legislative power. After Gerak's death, Maz'rai supported Teal'c and Bra'tac's proposal to reform the Free Jaffa Nation with democracy.

However, Maz'rai was eventually brainwashed by Ba'al who attempted to gain control of the Jaffa Nation himself. Due to the brainwashing, he subsequently moved for the council to shelf Bra'tac and Teal'c's referendum. When Bra'tac confronted him about his sudded change of heart, Maz'rai himself concluded what had happened. He attempted to perform the Rite of M'al Sharran on himself, a dangerous ritual to overcome mind control which involves removing his symbiote, which eventually killed him.[66]

[edit] M'Zel

tv=Mark Gibbon| first=Death Knell|

M'Zel was a leader in the Jaffa Resistance formerly in the service of Heru-ur.

M'zel had strong beliefs about a Jaffa's right to make the choice of freedom for himself, and feared the ever-increasing influence of the Tau'ri over the Jaffa resistance. He himself was once in the service of Heru'ur, and was one of the many absorbed into Apophis's army when Apophis killed Heru'ur. After Apophis' death, M'zel eventually joined the young Jaffa Resistance.

He was present at Earth's second Alpha Site when it was attacked by the forces of Anubis. Along with a handful of Jaffa, Tok'ra and SGC personnel, M'zel failed to escape through the Stargate to the Beta Site, and instead hid from Anubis's forces in the woods.

After they were rescued and brought to the SGC, M'zel was questioned by General Hammond regarding the compromise of the secret off-world base. M'zel suggested that the Tok'ra had not been forthcoming in their information about covert operations, and insisted that they had a spy within the ranks of the System Lord Olokun. M'zel eventually led the Jaffa in withdrawing from the Alpha Site and the alliance with Earth.[67]

When the Trust began attacking several Goa'uld planets with the symbiote poison, killing millions of Jaffa in the process, M'Zel immediately suspected the Tok'ra instead. He later joined Teal'c in confronting a Tok'ra operative posing as a minor Goa'uld serving Ba'al, but later fell victim to the deadly substance himself.[68]

[edit] Neith

tv=Kathleen Duborg| first=Birthright|

Neith was a female Jaffa warrior, and one of the higher ranking members of the Hak'tyl. She was Nesa's older sister.

As the Goa'uld System Lord Moloc had ordered all newborn girls to be sacrificed in the so-called Ceremony of Fire, Neith was supposed to be burned alive soon after birth. She herself was saved by Ishta, who was at the time Moloc's high priestess and responsible for the ceremony. However, Ishta was unable to save the next two girls sired by Neith's father, a Jaffa stationed high in Moloc's imperial guard.

As she grew to be a strong warrior, Neith swore that no more of her sisters would die in the brutal ceremony. When she heard her mother had given birth to yet another female, Nesa, she took it upon herself to save the child. She killed her father to avoid being reported by him, and raised the young girl herself on the planet Hak'tyl.

After the Hak'tyl were discovered by the Tau'ri, Neith was fearfull of becoming dependent on them. She also believed that the drug tretonin was no better than a symbiote, as it merely changed their reliance from the Goa'uld to the humans of Earth. She challenged Ishta to jomo'sequ, a battle for the right of leadership, and was almost killed.

When Neith was sent out to capture a symbiote for her younger sister Nesa, who had reached the age of Prata, Neith was attacked by Moloc's Imperial Guard. As her symbiote was nearly dead, Nesa convinced her to survive on tretonin so that the young girl might continue to learn from her older sister. Neith eventually came to respect the Tau'ri.[65]

[edit] Nesa

tv=Kirsten Prout| first=Birthright|

Nesa was a young Jaffa girl, and member of the Hak'tyl.

Younger sister to Neith, Nesa had never seen a male until the Tau'ri arrived on Hak'tyl. She was told not to talk to the Tau'ri men, but eventually befriended Daniel Jackson. She originally believed that by acquiring a symbiote she would become a great warrior, until Jackson convinced her that she could become one without the larval Goa'uld sustaining her body, instead using tretonin.

However, her older sister, Neith, did not trust the Tauri, and did not want Nesa to participate in the experiments. As Nesa was reaching the Age of Prata, the Jaffa equivalent of puberty, her body would soon require a Goa'uld symbiote. Neith was sent on a mission to acquire one, but was injured in the process.

Left with no other option, Nesa was forced to try the tretonin so that another warrior would not have to die for her to live. As her body was eventually freed from the reliance on the Goa'uld, Nesa was then instrumental in convincing Neith, whose symbiote had died because of her injuries several hours before, to take the drug as well.[65]

[edit] Oshu

tv=Kevan Ohtsji| first=Fallen|

Oshu was the First Prime of the System Lord Yu.

Oshu remained loyal to his master, even when he knew that Yu's judgment had been compromised by old age. Oshu was forced to take charge of Yu's armies, leading them in his name, during his master's lengthy sessions within the rejuvenating sarcophagus.

However, he remained greatly concerned for the well-being of Lord Yu and his domain, and was eager to aid in the destruction of Yu's enemy Anubis. As a witness to the slow deterioration of his master, Oshu was beginning to believe that even "gods" cannot live forever.

As SG-1 temporarily cooperated with the Collective Armies of the System Lords in a daring mission to destroy Anubis' new superweapon, Teal'c was dispatched to Yu's fleet to alert him when Anubis' ship would be disabled by Jack O'Neill and Samantha Carter.[69] However, when Oshu was ordered by his master to take their battle fleet to Chodawa instead of attacking Anubis at Vis Uban, the loyal First Prime was forced to confine Teal'c to a cell.

Eventually, Teal'c was able to convince Oshu to take command of Yu's fleet as his master had become senile. He admitted that he'd begun to believe that Yu was not a god but was still willing to remain loyal to him. Though Oshu was hesitant at first, he finally agreed to follow Teal'c, and together they asked for help from Ba'al and his fleet; Oshu assured Ba'al that Yu's fleet would follow his orders, and he would obey Ba'al so long as his actions would result in the destruction of Anubis. Thus assured of backup, Oshu ordered Yu's fleet to proceed to Langara, where Anubis' mothership was presumed to have went.[23]

Oshu later visited the SGC when the System Lords chose to negotiate a treaty with the Tau'ri. He managed to convice Dr. Weir to let them go saying that his master had nothing to do with what was going on and although he knew the truth about his master not being a god he was still willing to serve him. He suggested that they be let go to fight Ba'al to the death if necessary. [47] He was last seen when his master was stabbed to death by RepliCarter at the beginning of the Replicator invasion of the Milky Way and is presumed to have been killed as well.[24]

[edit] Rak'nor

tv=Obi Ndefo| first=The Serpent's Venom|

Rak'nor was a formidable warrior who once served Heru-ur, but eventually became one of the great leaders among the Jaffa Resistance.

Rak'nor's father, a Jaffa named Del'nor in the service of Apophis, burned the Goa'uld symbol off Rak'nor's forehead in the belief that all Jaffa would soon be free, a belief inspired by Teal'c's rebellion against the false gods. Unfortunately, Rak'nor watched his father being executed because of his actions, and came to see his father's beliefs as blasphemy against the gods. He subsequently fell into the service of the Goa'uld Heru-ur.

As Heru-ur was at the time attempting to negotiate an alliance with Apophis, he had intended to capture Teal'c, Apophis' former First Prime, torture him for information and then present him to his fellow System Lord as a sign of good faith. Rak'nor was ordered to capture Teal'c by pretending to be sympathetic to his cause, and then betraying him, handing him over to the Goa'uld.

Subsequently, Rak'nor was present for much of Teal'c's torture at the hands of Terok, but eventually decided to betray his master to free Teal'c after his former prisoner had convinced him of his cause. Both Rak'nor and Teal'c escaped in a Death Glider moments before Heru-ur's ship was destroyed in an ambush by Apophis.[70]

Rak'nor subsequently joined the rebel Jaffa, and maintained faith in the goal that all Jaffa will one day be free, helping to lead the rebels on Teal'c's behalf. He had joined the ranks of K'tano's rebel army before he was exposed as a power-hungry Goa'uld,[71] and was present at the Alpha Site when an Ashrak attempted to seed mistrust between the Rebel Jaffa and the Tok'ra present. He later joined Teal'c and SG-1 on a mission to free Bra'tac and Rya'c from Erebus.[72]

Since the collapse of the Goa'uld Empire and the emergence of the Free Jaffa Nation, Rak'nor has served as one of Teal'c and Bra'tac's allies among the progressives, even serving as Teal'c's proxy during votes.[11]

[edit] Ronan

tv=Marc Worden| first=Lost City, Part I|

Ronan was a Jaffa who previously served Apophis but eventually fell into the service of the Goa'uld Anubis.

As Bra'tac had known his father, Ronan was contacted by SG-1, who were searching for a vessel to travel to the abandoned Ancient world of Proclarush. Ronan had a Tel'tak at his disposal, which was likely provided by Anubis himself in an elaborate plot to determine the location of the Ancient outpost for himself, and his reputation as a skilled pilot preceded him. Ronan agreed to lend the ship to the team on the condition that he was allowed to accompany them on their mission.

Ronan kept his allegiance to Anubis hidden to his fellow shipmates, and remained behind with Bra'tac on the cargoship when SG-1 travelled down to the Ancient outpost on Proclarush. When the team below was about to ring back to the ship, Ronan eventually betrayed Bra'tac, and stabbed the Jaffa master with a knife in his symbiote pouch.

However, Ronan was unaware that Bra'tac had been taking tretonin and no longer carried a Goa'uld symbiote. After a fight on the ship, Bra'tac took Ronan's weapon and killed him, barely surviving the ordeal himself.[64]

[edit] Rya'c

tv=Neil Denis| first=Bloodlines|

Rya'c is a character from the fictional universe of Stargate SG-1, played by Neil Denis. He is the son of Teal'c and his late wife Drey'auc.

After Teal'c defected to Earth, Rya'c and his mother were forced to live as pariahs. At 12, Drey'auc begged the priests to give her son a symbiote, but Teal'c interrupted the ceremony since he didn't want his son to have a symbiote. But Rya'c was ill, and finally Teal'c gave him his own symbiote to save him.[73]

Afterwards, Drey'auc married Fro'tak to give her son a better life. Apophis captured Rya'c and by the time Teal'c returned, Apophis had brainwashed him into publicly denouncing his father. For something he said, Teal'c thought his son was only playing along. The SG-1 rescued him and brought him and Drey'auc back to Earth (Fro'tak had been killed after betraying them). Once there, however, they discovered Rya'c really was brainwashed and conditioned to kill himself and everyone on Earth. Teal'c had to shoot him with the zat to break the conditioning. Rya'c went to live with his mother in the Land of Light after that.[74]

Rya'c grew up under the tutelage of Bra'tac, who taught him the ways of the Jaffa. He was very angry at his father after Drey'auc died, and Teal'c allowed him to go on a mission to save Earth from Anubis. After Teal'c and Bra'tac were captured, he stole a glider and saved them.[75][76]

He was captured when he went with Bra'tac to Erebus, a Jaffa penal colony, to recruit more allies for the Jaffa rebellion. They were forced into hard labor. While ascended, Daniel Jackson saw them and the memory came back to him after he descended. SG-1 went to rescue them, but the rescue attempt was unsuccessful. Teal'c was captured and hurt, and Rya'c had to face the fact his father was vulnerable. Rya'c helped spread the word among the prisoners to revolt and the second rescuing attempt was successful.[77]

On a trip to Hak'tyl with Teal'c and Bra'tac to try to convince the female Jaffa to join the Rebellion, he fell in love with Kar'yn. Even though Teal'c was against the union at first, thinking they were both too young, Rya'c went along with his plans and the wedding finally took place with Teal'c's blessing.[78] Rya'c has not appeared on SG-1 since his wedding in the show's eighth season.

[edit] Se'tak

tv=David Andrews| first=Counterstrike|

Se'tak was a leader of the Free Jaffa Nation, formerly in the service of Ba'al, who came to power after Gerak's death.

Se'tak believed firmly that the Jaffa should remain independent and free from alien influence, and was therefore hostile to anyone who attempted to intervene in internal Jaffa politics. He did not have much respect or gratitude for the Tau'ri, and opposed the agreements between the two nations made by his predecessors.

In 2006, as more and more planets were conquered by the Ori, he advocated a more harsh policy of dealing with them. He was a proponent of using the Dakara Superweapon to capture several Ori battlecruisers which could then be later used against them. Instead of directly attacking their armies, the weapon was used against a recently conquered planet inhabited by thousands of innocent humans on which an Ori ship had landed.

However, when the SGC learned about the Jaffa use of the device, General Landry confronted Se'tak about the thousands of innocent human casualties. When Adria, who was protected against the effects of the device, took control of the Ori battlecruiser and piloted it to Dakara to destroy the weapon, Se'tak believed that SG-1, who had also been on board the approaching ship, was responsible.

He fired the weapon several more times at the approaching ship, but was killed eventually when the battlecruiser targeted the Dakara Superweapon and destroyed it.[52]

[edit] Shak'l

tv=Michasha Armstrong| first=The Nox|

Shak'l was a Jaffa trainee under the command of Teal'c while he was still First Prime of Apophis.

Shak'l was guarding Apophis during his hunt for the creature known as the fenri on the Nox homeworld. When SG-1, who were also looking for the creature at the time, ambushed the System Lord and his guards, Shak'l was killed by the Tau'ri weapons fire. He was later revived by the Nox and awoke, bound with rope, in a Nox hut.

However, his new found position did not discourage his spirit, and continued to threaten his former master, whom he accused of betraying his god. Teal'c's attempts to convince Shak'l that the Goa'uld were not gods subsequently fell on deaf ears. Shak'l later escaped and rejoined Apophis' strike team. He was presumably sent back through the Stargate along with his master by the Nox.[79]

A few months later, Shak'l again encountered Teal'c on Carthago. Shak'l had planned to kill his former trainer to assure his new place as Apophis' First Prime. However, Teal'c stabbed Shak'l in his symbiote pouch instead.[80]

[edit] Shau'nac

tv=Musetta Vander| first=Crossroads|

Shau'nac from the Red Hills was a Jaffa priestess formerly in the service of Apophis. A native of Chulak, Shau'nac had once been very close with Teal'c, probably before he married Drey'auc.

Shau'nac had come to believe in Teal'c's cause, that the Goa'uld were false gods and the Jaffa should be free. While in a dangerously deep state of Kel no'reem meditation, she broke with Goa'uld taboo and attempted to communicate with her symbiote. The symbiote sensed an opportunity to gain power and, over time, convinced Shau'nac that her teachings had turned it from its genetically evil ways. Shau'nac was subsequently asked by her symbiote to allow him to join the Tok'ra resistance movement.

When it became time for the symbiote to take a host, she was sent to Earth by Bra'tac to make contact with the Tok'ra. She also wished to re-acquiant herself with Teal'c, who had recently been, for lack of a better term, divorced. Once the Tok'ra provided a new larval symbiote to sustain her life, Shau'nac and Teal'c planned to return to Chulak to help other Jaffa learn to communicate with their symbiotes.

The symbiote, Tanith, took possession of the volunteer host Hebron. However, he soon revealed to Shau'nac that he had been manipulating her in order to infiltrate the Tok'ra, and killed her. When Teal'c discovered the truth and vowed to avenge the loss of Shau'nac and wait for the perfect time when Tanith, believing he had successfully infiltrated the Tok'ra, would not be watching.[81] It was more than a year later that he finally caught up with the Goa'uld and killed him, finally avenging the death of his beloved.[34]

[edit] Teal'c

Main article: Teal'c

Former First Prime of Apophis and founder of the Jaffa Rebellion, Teal'c is one of the most important Jaffa of all time. After having betrayed his master, he became a member of SG-1 and played a large part in the eventual foundation of the Free Jaffa Nation.

[edit] Tolok

tv=Isaac Hayes| first=Reckoning|

Tolok was a Jaffa warrior formerly in the service of the Goa'uld Heru-ur.

He was among the legions of high-ranking Jaffa rebels when they met on Chulak during the Replicator invasion of the Milky Way and the subsequent near-collapse of the Jaffa Rebellion.

Tolok was originally opposed to Teal'c's daring plan to capture the holy planet Dakara to revive the nearly collapsed resistance movement, suggesting to focus on the greater threat, the Replicators instead. Tolok admitted that Teal'c's words had wisdom, but that all of the rebellion's resources would be required for this campaign, and that if they failed, the resistance would be gone. However, he could eventually be convinced and condoned the action.[24]

Days later, Tolok was standing at the Dakara temple to his own amazement, giving Teal'c and Bra'tac the highest honor any Jaffa had known. Their bravery and courage had truly ushered in an era of free Jaffa.[20]

[edit] Trelak

tv=Wayne Brady| first=It's Good to Be King|

Trelak was a Jaffa warrior, and First Prime to the Goa'uld System Lord Ares.

In 2005, the war between the System Lords and Ba'al had reached a critical stage. According to Tok'ra intelligence, Bastet and Olokun were dead, Morrigan had capitulated, and Lord Yu and Amaterasu were rallying their armies for their last stand. In the face of imminent defeat, some of the System Lords were also actively seeking out areas of refuge. Planets they abandoned long ago were again being scouted as possible sanctuaries.

As Ares also required a new homeworld, Trelak was dispatched by his god to pave the way for the reintroduction of Ares into the society of one of Ares' former planets. However, this particular planet had been chosen by the Tok'ra as a safe haven for Harry Maybourne, known as King Arkhan I to its people. In order to keep Maybourne out of Goa'uld hands, SG-1 was sent to retrieve him, although he expected them to save his people from Ares.

When Trelak arrived, Maybourne pretended to play along in the hopes that his people would not be harmed until SG-1 would defeat the invading Jaffa. Trelak, however, could not be easily fooled. When it became apparent that the villagers had outside aid from the Tau'ri, he searched the people until he found Dr. Daniel Jackson and Teal'c hiding among them. When Trelak had his chance, he broke into a knife fight with Teal'c, who eventually killed Trelak after a lengthy struggle.[8]

[edit] U'kin

tv=Don Thompson| first=Stronghold|

U'kin was a Free Jaffa formerly in the service of Cronus.

As a member of the Progressive faction in the Jaffa High Council, U'kin was a firm supporter of introducing and maintaining a democracy in the Free Jaffa Nation. However, he missed a meeting of the Jaffa High Council once, at which point he was abducted and brainwashed by Ba'al on P2M-903, part of an elaborate plot by the former System Lord to gain control of the Dakara Superweapon.

After Teal'c himself went missing, Bra'tac consulted U'kin regarding his last known whereabouts. However, U'kin lied to his face concerning the matter. Bra'tac eventually saw through this and forced U'kin to reveal that Teal'c had been taken away to another planet. This eventually led them to Ka'lel, who revealed Teal'c's location. Teal'c was rescued by the remaining members of SG-1 and Bra'tac.

Probably, U'kin's brainwashing was later reversed, as the free Jaffa would work with all Ba'al's victims to return to a rational state of mind once again.[66]

[edit] Va'lar

tv=David Lovgren| first=Threshold|

Va'lar was a Jaffa warrior from Chulak and old friend of Teal'c.

Va'lar fought in Apophis's army in the System Lord's wars against Ra. He was thrilled for Teal'c when his friend had an audience with Apophis himself for his ability in battle. A devout believer in the Goa'uld, Va'lar shunned Teal'c when he learned he had spoken to Apophis out of turn.

Va'lar commanded a battalion on a planet in dispute by the two Goa'uld forces where he and his men were forced to retreat. For this, Apophis ordered Teal'c to execute him. As Teal'c was beginning to sway from his allegiance to his god at the time, he used Va'lar as a test to determine whether or not Apophis was omnipotent. Teal'c returned Va'lar to the place of his shame, where he released him from his bounds. Va'lar still feared for Tealc's life, as he believed Apophis would know of his treachery. Teal'c ordered Va'lar to never show his face again and travel to one of the nearest villages to seek refuge without being captured by either force.

However, several years later, Teal'c was forced to destroy the village Va'lar had fled to and killed his old friend. Teal'c realized that if he had not done so, Apophis would have received word of his betrayal several years ago. This memory haunted him in his sleep for some time.[82]

[edit] Volnek

tv=Jarvis George| first=Babylon|

Volnek was a Sodan Jaffa warrior and brother of Jolan.

After SG-1 had visited P9G-844 to seek out the legendary Sodan, Volnek was a member of the strike force that ambushed the trespassers that had arrived through the Stargate. Volnak un-cloaked and attacked Cameron Mitchell. However, Mitchell was able to severely wound the attacking Jaffa, who was subsequently brought back to Earth where his wounds were healed.

However, his symbiote did not survive Carolyn Lam's surgery, although Lam was able to sustain him with tretonin instead. He was hesitant to believe that his body did no longer require the presence of a larval Goa'uld symbiote, and closed his ears to the pleas of Daniel Jackson and Teal'c to help them find Mitchell.

When it was learned that a Prior had been visiting P9G-844, and that his people were already worshipping the Ori, the remaining members of SG-1 invited Tass'an of Sartorus to visit and tell the story of his world's downfall to the Ori.

After Mitchell had been able to convince Jolan, Volnek's brother, not to kill him in retribution for Volnek's supposed death and returned to Earth, Volnek was allowed to return to P9G-844 with the story of the Prior in the hopes of sparking a rebellion alongside his brother, who also believed the Prior to be a negative presence to the Sodan.[62]

Several weeks later, as the Sodan had turned against the Ori, a Prior transformed Volnek into an undead being bent on destroying anyone in sight. Deranged and effectively invincible, Volnek murdered almost all Sodan before his body was blown to pieces by Teal'c and Colonel Mitchell.[12]

[edit] Yat'Yir

tv=Gardiner Millar| first=Origin|

Yat'Yir was a Free Jaffa formerly in the service of Montu and a member of the Jaffa High Council. He was a trusted aid of the Jaffa leader Gerak.

Yat'Yir accompanied Gerak to his first meeting with General Landry on Earth. It was hoped that this informal session would open doors for an eventual treaty between Earth and the new Free Jaffa Nation, although this hopes would apparently appear to be in vain. Yat'Yir did not trust Teal'c, and openly challenged him during table discussions.[59]

He was one of the Jaffa sent to Earth by Gerak to search for Ba'al, who was hiding on the Tau'ri homeworld at the time. Yat'Yir personally conducted a daring raid on the surface and later threatened the Prometheus when his Ha'tak was discovered behind Earth's Moon.[61]

When Gerak became convinced that the Jaffa should convert to Origin, Yat'Yir expressed his concerns about worshipping the Ori, as he had lost a cousin at Kallana, but Gerak swayed him. He was later present when Gerak, transformed into a Prior, addressed the Jaffa High Council about the benefits of converting to Origin, and was just as shocked as the others.[25]

Yat'Yir remained a member of the High Council after Gerak's death, and was present for the referendum that would eventually transform the new Jaffa nation into a democracy.[66]

[edit] Other Jaffa

Name Served First Appearance Status Played by
Adal Ramius "Evolution, Part I" Alive Craig Erickson
Rebel Jaffa hiding in the ranks of the minor Goa'uld Ramius.
Artok Heru-ur "Allegiance" Deceased Link Baker
Rebel Jaffa who was killed at the Alpha Site by an Ashrak.
Birra Cronus "Beachhead" Deceased Eileen Barrett
Resident of the planet Kallana. Killed when her people rejected Origin.
Cor'ak Moloc "Sacrifices" Deceased Steve Lawlor
Rebel Jaffa allied with Ishta.
Del'nor Apophis "The Serpent's Venom" Deceased Unseen
Rak'nor's father.
Dol'ok Khonsu "The Other Guys" Deceased Martin Sims
Rebel Jaffa in the ranks of Anubis. Killed by Jaffa still loyal to their master.
Emta Moloc "Birthright" Alive Elizabeth Weinstein
Female Jaffa of the Hak'tyl resistance.
Gar'tok Apophis "Rules of Engagement" Unknown Unseen
Supervised the training of several humans who were supposed to one day infiltrate the Tau'ri.
Ginra Moloc "Birthright" Alive Elizabeth Weinstein
Female Jaffa of the Hak'tyl resistance.
Hak'nor Unknown "The Serpent's Venom" Unknown Unseen
Member of the Jaffa resistance.
Jumar Sokar "Jolinar's Memories" Deceased Eli Gabay
Stabbed to death by Apophis as he attempted to escape from Sokar's mothership.
Latal Cronus "Beachhead" Deceased Donald Adams
Leader of the planet Kallana. Informed the Prior of their decision to reject Origin, and was subsequently killed for doing so.
Ma'kar Apophis "The Serpent's Venom" Art Kitching
Lured Teal'c to a trap alongside Rak'nor.
Moac Apophis "Maternal Instinct" Deceased Aaron Douglas
Bra'tac's apprentice who was killed during Apophis' attack on Chulak.
Nictal Moloc "Birthright" Alive Nikki Smook
Female Jaffa in the Hak'tyl resistance.
Ronac Cronus "Fair Game" Deceased Sean Millington
Teal'c's father and former First Prime of Cronus. Killed by his master after losing an unwinnable battle.
Ryk'l Moloc "Birthright" Deceased Nigel Vonas
Member of the Jaffa Resistance. Killed by Moloc's Imperial Guard.
Ryn'tak Heru-ur "Thor's Chariot" Deceased Michael Tiernan
Heru'ur ordered him to search for Sha're on Abydos when she was carrying the Harsesis. Participated in the occupation of Cimmeria.
Shaq'rel Apophis "Redemption, Part I" Alive Aleks Paunovic
Member of the Jaffa Resistance who accompanied Teal'c, Rya'c and Bra'tac to the planet Bra'tac believed to be the launching point of an attack against Earth.
Sindar Cronus "Double Jeopardy" Deceased Bill Croft
Killed by SG-1 and their robotic duplicates.
Syn'ac Moloc "Birthright" Alive
Female Jaffa in the Hak'tyl resistance.
Tass'an Heru-ur "Babylon" Alive Darcy Laurie
Leader of a Free Jaffa community on the planet Sartorus which was wiped out by a Prior of the Ori when the people refused to worship the Ori as gods.
Til'vak Ba'al "Stronghold" Alive Yan Feldman
Brainwashed Jaffa in service of Ba'al.
Vi'tak Ba'al "Off the Grid" Alive Michael Sunczyk
Brainwashed Jaffa in service of Ba'al.

[edit] Tok'ra characters in Stargate

The Tok'ra are a fictional species in the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. Although technically Goa'uld, the primary differences between them and the race they oppose is that the Tok'ra make use of a voluntary "blending" with a human host, and that they don't have a queen to create offsprings. Within each single host body, both personalities are free to speak and do what each desires in a truly symbiotic relationship. Tok'ra means against Ra.

This is a list of Tok'ra characters, both the symbiotes and their more prominent hosts, thus far encountered on the show.

[edit] Aldwin

tv=William deVry| first=The Devil You Know

Aldwin was a member of the Tok'ra who had several dealings with the SGC.

During SG-1's mission to rescue Jacob Carter from Ne'tu, Aldwin was ordered by the Tok'ra High Countil to launch a weapon at the planet's core, causing a chain reaction that, within 12 minutes, would have destroyed the moon as well as Sokar's Ha'tak in orbit. However, the plan would also claim the life of SG-1, Martouf and Jacob Carter.

Although Teal'c objected to the sacrificing of their friends, Aldwin was convinced that Sokar could not be allowed to dominate the System Lords, even if it cost their friends' lives. When they arrived at Ne'tu, Sokar was in orbit, and Aldwin launched the weapon even though Samantha Carter had just contacted them. However, Teal'c was convinced there was enough time to help the others escape.

Aldwin was relatively helpful once he realized that aiding SG-1's escape was the only option Teal'c was going to allow, shouting instructions from behind the locked door about how to properly intercept the ring-transporter matter stream so as not to miss it, since the slightest error would kill those transporting out. [83]

He was later sent to the SGC after SG-1 had discovered Shifu, the supposed Harcesis. As Shifu had rendered Daniel Jackson unconscious in an elaborate attempt to show how dangerous the Goa'uld knowledge in his subconscious really was, the other members of SG-1 were hesitant to believe that Shifu was who he said he was. Aldwin was later sent to Earth, and verified that Shifu indeed was the Harcesis by using the zatarc-detecting device. [21]

Several years later, during the Tok'ra plan to eliminate the System Lords during their high-level meeting, Aldwin guided SG-17 through the Tok'ra base on Revanna. He was later killed when Zipacna attacked the planet, destroying the Tok'ra base. [84]

[edit] Anise

tv=Vanessa Angel| first=Upgrades|

Anise was a member of the Tok'ra resistance group, and a gifted scientist and historian. She has stated that "Anise" means "Noble Strength".

She was first sent to the SGC when the Atanik armbands, which were rumored to give the user great strength and speed, were discovered by the Tok'ra. It was Anise's intention to test the devices on SG-1, and if the test proved to be successful, convince the SGC to send them on a dangerous mission to destroy Apophis' new prototype mothership.

The tests appeared to be successful, although the SGC denied the Tok'ra's request to send the improved SG-1 to Apophis' ship. However, SG-1 disobeyed their orders and left through the Stargate to sabotage the prototype. Although they were nearly killed, SG-1 eventually was successful in their mission. [85]

After Shau'nac, who believed that she had convinced her symbiote to join the Tok'ra, arrived at the SGC requesting to be introduced to the reclusive resistance group, Anise again visited Earth. She later informed her of the High Council's decision to accept her offer, and was present when the symbiote, Tanith, was given a willing host body. When Tanith's duplicity was discovered by Teal'c, she explained that by allowing Tanith to believe he has succeeded in infiltrating their ranks, they hoped to deceive the Goa'uld and feed them misinformation. [81]

Anise later assisted the SGC after a meeting between several SG teams and the Tok'ra High Council was disrupted by a Zatarc. She later attempted to uncover more Zatarcs within the SGC ranks, and then improperly diagnosed Jack O'Neill and Samantha Carter, who lied during the test (process required answering all questions as truthfully as possible; Jack and Samantha didn't want to admit they cared about each other) and therefore were identified as potential assassins. However, she eventually failed to uncover the real Zatarc, Martouf, who tried to assassinate the impostor of President of the United States during his meeting with the Tok'ra leadership, believing he met the real one.

Little is known about Freya, the host of Anise. She had revealed that she was attracted to Jack O'Neill, although her symbiote preferred Daniel Jackson. Anise stated that she kept a handwritten journal because Freya liked the tactile sensation of writing on paper. [86]

[edit] Delek

tv=Sebastian Spence| first=Allegiance

Delek was a leader among the Tok'ra resistance movement, who had limited dealings with Earth.

His first priority being the interests of the Tok'ra, Delek had grave concerns about his people's alliance with the humans of Earth and with the rebel Jaffa. He was a member of the Tok'ra High Council, and a personal friend of Selmak.

Delek visited the SGC following Anubis's attack on the Alpha Site to answer questions posed by General Hammond. He was aware of at least one Tok'ra spy deployment of which Selmak had no knowledge. He informed Selmak that, despite being a part of the High Council himself, he had been excluded from the decision. Delek believed that Selmak had been compromised, his feelings about the Tau'ri taking precedence over the Tok'ra and their goals.

He seemed to have a lower view of human hosts than most Tok'ra, expressing his concern that Jacob Carter has been exerting too much influence over his symbiote because the Tau'ri did not have their will broken by thousands of years of Goa'uld enslavement.

Delek eventually motioned for the Tok'ra-Tau'ri-Jaffa alliance to be dissolved until a new plan could be forged. [67]

[edit] Egeria

tv=Gwynyth Walsh| first=Cure

Egeria was the queen mother of the Tok'ra. Over 2,000 years before the start of the series, the Goa'uld queen Egeria realized her own wrongdoings and the fact that her species was responsible for great suffering in the galaxy. She gave birth to a new race, rebels to the Goa'uld, that she hoped would be able to stop Ra and the other System Lords one day. This new kind of Goa'uld became the Tok'ra, meaning "Against Ra".

Egeria later fought against Ra on the planet Pangar, and it was believed that she was killed in this battle. However, she was instead buried alive by Ra in a stasis jar so that she would suffer forever. Pangar was later conquered by the Goa'uld Shaq'ran, who then used Pangar as a base. The true fate of Egeria was forgotten, and the temple in which she had been imprisoned became buried over time. Eventually, Pangar was abandoned by the Goa'uld, which allowed the Pangaran society to develop naturally.

Around 1950, Egeria was discovered by the Pangarans. The Pangarans had heard of the great health caused by Goa'uld, and started experimenting on Egeria and her offspring. After years of research, they were able to develop the drug Tretonin, extracted from larval Goa'uld symbiotes. While Tretonin gave them nearly perfect health, it also destroyed their natural immune system, making the Pangarans dependent on it.

In the 21st century, Pangar was visited by SG-1, who discovered the dying Egeria. However, they did not discover her identity until Jonas Quinn and Teal'c finished translating the writings on the temple walls where Egeria was found. The Tok'ra were shocked upon discovering who she was and demanded her release. When the Pangarans refused, one of the Tok'ra sacrificed herself so that Egeria could use her host.

Egeria admitted to manipulating her offspring, in the hope that the Pangarans would stop producing Tretonin from them. After talking with the Pangarans, who apologized to her, she provided an antidote. She also stated her pride in her progeny after being told of their works. After Egeria died, she and the body of her host were then taken by the Tok'ra to their base through the Stargate, to perform a ceremonial ritual to commemorate their fallen Tok'ra Queen. [87]

[edit] Garshaw of Belote

tv=Sarah Douglas| first=The Tok'ra

Garshaw of Belote was a member of the Tok'ra High Council. Her human host was named Yosuuf.

As the most hunted Goa'uld of all time, Garshaw of Belote has successfully avoided capture to maintain her position as one of the most important leaders of the Goa'uld resistance movement. She greatly opposed to being referred to as a Goa'uld, believing the title to be a great insult against their cause. She was also very protective of the Tok'ra, ordering any who know their whereabouts to be safely detained until the Tok'ra move on. This is not without merit, as the Tok'ra are always in danger of being hunted and destroyed by the Goa'uld.

After SG-1 discovered the Tok'ra resistance movement due to knowledge buried inside Samantha Carter's subconscious mind after her forced blending with Jolinar, the team was introduced to Garshaw of Belote. However, she was hesitant to form an alliance with the Tau'ri, whom she considered to be too primitive and also because the members of SG-1 were so opposed to blending with a symbiote. Unwilling to allow them to leave, she ordered them to be imprisoned in the Tok'ra base.

However, as the Tok'ra base was attacked by the System Lords, the resistance movement was forced to relocate, allowing the Tau'ri to go free. Eventually, Jack O'Neill discovered the Goa'uld spy within the Tok'ra ranks responsible for revealing the Tok'ra location to the System Lords, who was subsequently destroyed by the Tok'ra. In O'Neill's debt, Garshaw was willing to release them. [88]

She was eventually replaced as the leader of the Tok'ra by High Councillor Per'sus. [86] Her current whereabouts or fate, especially after the devastating Goa'uld attack on the Tok'ra base at Revanna, is unknown.

[edit] Jolinar

tv=Tanya Reid,
Amanda Tapping | first=In the Line of Duty

Jolinar of Malkshur was an influential member of the Tok'ra resistance movement. According to Teal'c, Jolinar once had an army that was about to defeat a System Lord until Apophis and Ra joined the fight. [89]

Jolinar's host was, for some time, the beautiful Rosha. Rosha/Jolinar shared an intimate relationship with her fellow Tok'ra Martouf/Lantash for over a century. Rosha was described as having eyes the color of the waters of Marloon and hair the sand of Abydos.

Sokar once successfully captured Jolinar, and spent a great deal of time torturing her while she was imprisoned on the hell-like Ne'tu. However, Sokar's appointed ruler, Bynarr, took pity on Jolinar and she took this as an opportunity to escape. Seducing Bynarr, she stole the key to the Ring transporter while he slept and successfully escaped to the nearby planet Delmak, where she located transport out of the system. Ashamed of what she had done, she never told Martouf the truth and hardly spoke of her time on Ne'tu. [90]

However, eventually Cronus sent an Ashrak, a powerful Goa'uld assassin, after her. In an attempt to hide from the Ashrak, she abandoned Rosha and took refuge in the body of a Nassyan male. As the SGC was forming an alliance with the Nassyans at the time, they came to their rescue after the peaceful society was attacked by the System Lords, probably in search of Jolinar.

As the Nassyan male in which Jolinar had taken refuge was critically injured during the attack, the symbiote was forced to take Samantha Carter as a host. When the Ashrak followed her to Earth, Jolinar sacrificed her life to save Carter. The symbiote was gradually absorbed into Carter's body, leaving her with remarkable memories and abilities. These memories eventually enabled the SGC to discover the Tok'ra. [89]

Jolinar's presence in Samantha had significant effects on her. It is difficult to tell whether her personality had been completely altered or reverted back to something of the same as was before the blending. Samantha has since forgiven Jolinar for the forced blending. [91]

[edit] Lantash

tv=JR Bourne,
Courtenay J. Stevens| first=The Tok'ra

Lantash was an influential Tok'ra symbiote, and the mate of Jolinar for over one hundred years. Lantash was very passionate in his ideas, often to the point of anger. He possessed a great love for Samantha Carter, who had been the last host of Jolinar before she died. Over time, he came to love her as much as he had loved Jolinar. [91]

Lantash and his host, Martouf, had a truly symbiotic relationship and complimented each other in many ways. However, unbeknownst to Lantash, Martouf had become a zatarc, an individual secretly transformed into a Goa'uld assassin. Martouf was eventually killed by Carter when his programming forced him to try and kill the President of the United States. [86] However, Lantash survived and was removed from the body and placed in a stasis container.

Nearly two years later, he was still very weak and recovering on the Tok'ra's primary base on the planet Revanna. When the Goa'uld attacked and bombarded the base, his container was destroyed. To save both himself and the new SGC recruit Lieutenant Elliot, he blended with him to keep them both alive. Lantash's knowledge became invaluable as both he and SG-1 journeyed far from the Tok'ra base using underground tunnels, trying to avoid the invading forces.

Lantash and Elliot gave their lives to save the rest of the team when they realized that Lantash did not have the strength to repair Elliot's injuries and save their lives. Elliot/Lantash were given a vial of symbiote poison, powerful enough to eliminate the entire invasion force, and, presumably, used it on them to allow SG-1 and Jacob Carter to escape. [91]

[edit] Martouf

Martouf was a leader in the ranks of the Tok'ra and host to the symbiote Lantash. He was the mate of Rosha, host to Jolinar, for over a century.

Martouf had come to the aid of the SGC (and vice versa) on several occasions. He shared a special, personal bond with Samantha Carter, who was the last host of Jolinar before the symbiote was killed by a Goa'uld assassin. The relationship between Martouf and Major Carter was a complicated one. Sam often did not know if the feelings she felt for Martouf were hers or Jolinar's. Martouf was probably the most sympathetic and likable of the Tok'ra, and seemed to care more about the Tau'ri (humans) than his peers. (Presumably because of Samantha Carter)

He was first encountered by SG-1 during their first encounter with the Tok'ra. Martouf greeted the team, who searched for the resistance movement. Since Jolinar was once blended with Samantha Carter, Martouf developed an interest in her. [88] He was later present when Apophis sought asylum at Stargate Command and recommended that the Goa'uld should be handed over to Sokar. Although the SGC was at first reluctant, they were later forced to do as Sokar nearly destroyed the iris. [92]

Several months later, he delivered the news that Jacob Carter was imprisoned on Ne'tu, and suggested to rescue him together with SG-1. [90] While being imprisoned on the moon he was questioned by its new leader Apophis, to reveal the location of the main base of the Tok'ra. However, Martouf was able to withstand the torture and gave him the wrong planet. Later, when Ne'tu was destroyed by a new Tok'ra weapon, he barely escaped with SG-1 and Selmak. [83]

However, without knowing, Martouf had been subject to Goa'uld mind control, turning him into a zatarc. His attempt to assassinate the President of the United States ended in failure, and his friend Samantha Carter was forced to kill him. [86] Martouf did not survive, but Lantash, in possession of all his memories, was placed in a stasis chamber by the Tok'ra. [91]

An alternate version of Martouf arrived at the SGC when many SG-1s from alternate realities started coming through the Stargate. That universe's Martouf had joined the SGC, to be closer to Carter. However, their relationship did not last. According to Martouf, Carter eventually ended up with someone else, and the two eventually had a child. [29]

[edit] Malek

tv=Peter Stebbings| first=Allegiance

Malek was an influential member of the Tok'ra resistance movement who had dealt with the SGC on several occasions. Malek represented the strong-willed and determined of the Tok'ra, and had little patience with the Jaffa Rebellion. He was extremely devoted to the Tok'ra cause of defeating the Goa'uld.

Malek was the commander of the Tok'ra outpost in the Risa system. When the outpost was attacked and subsequently destroyed by Anubis, Malek and Jacob led their fellow Tok'ra operatives to the SGC's Alpha Site. However, the Tok'ra were less than amused when faced with the prospect of sharing the Alpha Site with a group of rebel Jaffa.

Soon, tension began to erupt, and when several Tok'ra and later Jaffa were murdered, the two groups came close to open conflict. However, it was eventually determined that an invisible Ashrak was responsible, who was subsequently killed by the Tok'ra-Tau'ri-Jaffa alliance. [93]

After SG-1 discovered the Pangarans, who had developed a powerful drug from larval Goa'uld, Malek was contacted by the SGC to examine the Goa'uld queen used in the Pangaran experiments. Malek was not bothered by the abuse, but when it was discovered the queen was, in fact, the Tok'ra queen Egeria, he was insistent on her release. After Egeria's death, Malek took her body back to the Tok'ra. He has not been seen since. [87]

[edit] "Raully"

tv=Samantha Ferris| first=Out of Mind

"Raully" was the undercover name of a Tok'ra spy within Hathor's ranks.

Raully, whose true name remains unknown, moved under the pretense as a Goa'uld scientist involved in Hathor's elaborate plot to extract knowledge about the System Lords from SG-1. Posing as a futuristic SGC doctor, she aided in the interrogation of Samantha Carter, Jack O'Neill and Daniel Jackson using a Goa'uld memory device. [94]

However, during the real SGC's raid on the planet, Raully revealed herself to be a Tok'ra operative to Colonel O'Neill, and helped him escape. She also put O'Neill in cryogenic stasis, insuring the Goa'uld O'Neill had just been implanted with would die in the freezing process.

When Hathor discovered her duplicity, Raully stood up against the Goa'uld, who used a hand device on the traitor. It is believed she survived the encounter, although she has not been seen since. [95]

[edit] Ren'al

tv=Jennifer Calvert| first=Enemies

Ren'al was a Tok'ra operative, member of the Tok'ra High Council, and ambassador to Earth in the absence of Jacob Carter.

After the daring plan devised by the Tok'ra to destroy Apophis' enormous fleet by destroying Vorash' sun had been a complete success, Ren'al traveled to Earth to report the news. However, she also regretfully informed General George Hammond that no trace of SG-1 or her fellow Tok'ra operative, Selmak, had been found. [96]

Ren'al later was instrumental in developing the symbiote poison which was planned to be used in an attempt to assassinate all System Lords during one of their summits. However, the poison also attracted Anubis' attention, who sent his minion Zipacna to capture it. When Ren'al's Tok'ra base of operations was bombed, the tunnels collapsed. Ren'al was killed by falling debris. Her poison was later used against Zipacna's forces to slow them down so that the surviving Tok'ra and SGC personnel could escape.

Ren'al carried the formula for the poison on a data crystal in her breast pocket, which Major Samantha Carter retrieved from her body. [84] The crystal, taken back to Earth, would later be used to develop more of the poison. [68]

[edit] Selmak

tv=Joy Coghill,
Carmen Argenziano| first=The Tok'ra|

Selmak was a Tok'ra High Council member, and one of their oldest and wisest leaders.

The death of Saroosh, Selmak's host, made it possible for Jacob Carter, Samantha Carter's father, to become host to Selmak. Jacob Carter became the link between the Tau'ri and the Tok'ra. [88] Selmak and Jacob have been helpful to Stargate Command on several occasions. His vast knowledge, experience and his access to Tok'ra resources made him a valuable ally. However, Selmak was so close to the humans of Earth, because of his host, that the other Tok'ra complained about his divided loyalties. [67]

However, it was at times implied that the division of loyalties went both ways. Jacob once refers to Teal'c as "expendable," and when he was on missions with SG-1, was usually at least initially reluctant to attempt to rescue members of the team if he thought that their survival was unlikely or that the success of a Tok'ra mission took precedence. He also refers to humanity's level of development as "infantile" and warns against human attempts to reverse-engineer Goa'uld technology.

Selmak was nearly 2000 years old when he blended with Jacob Carter and, consequently, in the twilight of his life. Due to old age, after helping the Tau'ri defeat the Replicators, Selmak slipped into a coma. He lacked the power to give his life for his host Jacob Carter (as Jacob had insisted that Selmak use the last of his power to hold on and help him against the Replicators, rather than save Jacob) and died a short time before Jacob. [24]

[edit] Saroosh

Saroosh was the previous human host to the Tok'ra Selmak.

Saroosh had been Selmak's host for most of her life, and had greatly enjoyed the Tok'ra symbiote's sense of humor. However, their years together had also been difficult, as they had also been forced to witness countless Goa'uld atrocities. When she had reached the age of 203, Saroosh grew sick, and became unable to sustain Selmak any further. A new host was sought out, and eventually arrived in the form of a Tau'ri, Jacob Carter. Saroosh spoke of Selmak's good company and sense of humor, making Jacob's acquaintance in order to make him more comfortable with the situation, as he had never been exposed to a Goa'uld or Tok'ra before.

When Selmak agreed to blend with Jacob, Saroosh had Jacob Carter kiss her, and the Tok'ra transferred into Jacob. Soon thereafter, Saroosh passed on in peace. [88]

Saroosh was played by Joy Coghill.

[edit] Jacob Carter

Main article: Jacob Carter

General Jacob Carter (Ret.) was a veteran USAF Major General and the widowed father of Samantha Carter and her brother Mark. He was a close friend of General George Hammond and was dying of cancer during the first years of the SGC's operation. When SG-1 became aware of the existence of the Tok'ra through the memories of Jolinar, it became possible to cure his cancer by him blending with Selmak.

Upon their first meeting, the members of SG-1 were asked if they would be willing to become a host to Selmak, whose host was dying. Samantha suggested that her father could fill this role, thus saving his life and Selmak's and creating an alliance between the Tau'ri and Tok'ra. This enabled Selmak to engage in Tok'ra covert operations and also provide help to Stargate Command when problems arise.

When Selmak died of old age, Jacob died soon after Selmak did. Before that, he told his daughter that he considered the years spent with Selmak as a gift, because without the blending, he would have died from the cancer years before, and that he got to do amazing things in that time.

[edit] Thoran

tv=Dorian Harewood| first=Frozen

Thoran was a loyal member of the Tok'ra resistance movement, who has had a few tense dealings with Earth.

Thoran was frequently involved in heated discussions with SGC members, and was fiercely protective of his symbiotic species. The interests of the Tok'ra were his first priority, even when it meant ignoring the Tok'ra-Earth treaty. He was a close friend of the Tok'ra Kanan.

When Jack O'Neill became infected with the Ancient plague after their encounter with Ayiana, an Ancient unearthed in Antarctica, Thoran suggested that O'Neill would allow himself to be blended with a Tok'ra symbiote, Kanan, in order to save him from the life-threatening illness. He later brought the symbiote to the SGC and supervised the blending. [3]

After O'Neill had been captured by Ba'al during a covert mission to rescue his lo'tar, Thoran arrived at the SGC to aid in the recovery of the Colonel. However, due to his unwillingness to help, Thoran was held against his will by the Tau'ri, who demanded that he turned over all knowledge regarding Kanan's previous missions. This information eventually helped SG-1 to locate their missing team member. [97]

[edit] Zarin

tv=Brandy Ledford| first=Endgame

Zarin was a Tok'ra operative who posed as a minor Goa'uld serving Ba'al on P3S-114. She controlled several garrisons and had been able to mask her true identity perfectly for some time.

After several Goa'uld planets had been attacked by the Trust with symbiote poison, attacks that not only killed all Goa'uld, but also millions of Jaffa, who relied on larval Goa'uld to sustain their lives, Teal'c and M'Zel became convinced that the Tok'ra were responsible. Desperately in search of answers, the two Jaffa arrived on P3S-114 to question her regarding the recent attacks.

Teal'c and M'Zel allowed themselves to be captured, and were brought before Zarin. She convinced her legions that she wished to torture the two Jaffa in private, and subsequently assured Teal'c and M'Zel that the Tok'ra were not responsible.

However, P3S-114 was chosen by The Trust as their next target. When a rocket carrying the deadly symbiote poison collided with the surface of 114, the gas acted quickly and killed all symbiotes on the planet, including Zarin and all Goa'uld-bearing Jaffa. [68]

[edit] Other Tok'ra

Symbiote Host Status First appearance Played by
Cordesh Unknown Deceased "The Tok'ra" Winston Rekert
Goa'uld spy. Was revealed when a long-range communication device was discovered in his quarters.
Jalen Unknown Unknown "Exodus" Kirsten Williamson
First Seen as "Tok'ra #1" in "Exodus". Last seen in "Fail Safe" when she responded to SG1's distress call.
Kelmaa Unknown Deceased "Cure" Gwynyth Walsh
Sacrificed herself so Egeria could use her host.
Kanan Jack O'Neill Presumed Deceased "Abyss" Richard Dean Anderson
Infiltrated Ba'al's secret base but fell in love with his lo'tar, Shayla. Used O'Neill's body to return to rescue her but they were pursued. Before he was captured, he left O'Neill's body.
Khonsu Unknown Deceased "The Other Guys" Adam Harrington
Masqueraded as a minor Goa'uld loyal to Anubis and sought to make contact with SG-1. Killed by his own First Prime, Herak, who then became First Prime of Anubis.
Korra Unknown Alive "Deadman Switch" Mark Holden
Posed as a minor Goa'uld loyal to Sokar using the alias Keltar. Sokar sent a bounty hunter after him after he discovered his duplicity, although he was eventually able to escape after SG-1 convinced the bounty hunter to release him.
Ocker Unknown Deceased "Allegiance" Kimani Ray Smith
A Tok'ra Security Chief who fled to the Alpha Site after their base was attacked. He was eventually killed by an Ashrak in an attempt to create mistrust between the Tok'ra and the Jaffa Rebellion.
Per'sus Unknown Alive "Divide and Conquer" Andrew Jackson
Supreme High Councilor of the Tok'ra. Was almost killed by a Zatarc during a meeting with the US President.
Sina Unknown Alive "Prophecy" Johannah Newmarch
Provided the SGC with valuable intelligence regarding Ba'al.
Thellas Unknown Alive "Avenger 2.0" Unseen
Informed the SGC that the entire Stargate network was down following the deployment of Dr. Jay Felger's "Avenger" computer virus.
Tas'eem Unknown Alive "Dominion" Unknown
Was the chief surgeon responsible with the extraction of the Ba'al symbiote from its host, the Orici Adria.
Zanuf Unknown Alive "Dominion" Unseen
Was a symbiote that would have replaced the Ba'al symbiote within the body of the Orici Adria.

[edit] Artificial human characters in Stargate

This is a list of prominent artificial human characters in the fictional universe, including human-form Replicators encountered by SG-1, and Asuran characters thus far encountered by the Atlantis Expedition. Replicators are a race of self-replicating machines. The Asurans are a race in the Stargate Atlantis that bear many similarities to the Replicator of Stargate SG-1.

[edit] Android SG-1

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They first appear in the episode "Tin Man", and then appear again in the episode "Double Jeopardy"

[edit] Android O'Neill

[edit] Android Daniel

[edit] Android Carter

[edit] Android Teal'c

[edit] Miscellaneous characters

[edit] Harlan

tv=Jay Brazeau| first=Tin Man|

Harlan the last android survivor of Altair. He was called annoying by Jack O'Neill, and was fond of saying com'traya, an Altair greeting of some sorts.

Harlan maintained the factories beneath the surface for over 11,000 years, as the facility is essential for the survival of his android form. After the surface of the planet became uninhabitable due to an unidentified environmental disaster, Harlan and many like him downloaded their consciousnesses into mechanical android bodies, allowing them to live indefinitely, as long as their power supply is not depleted. This power supply is usually maintained by a projected field of energy, however, beyond that field, he and his race rely on battery cells with a limited power supply.

However, over time, most inhabitants became disgruntled with their meaningless life, and several survivors committed suicide by intentionally allowing their power packs to run out. Others, died in accidents. After a survivor named Wallas died, Harlan remained on his own, forced to maintain the complex alone.

When SG-1 arrived millennia later, Harlan rendered the team unconscious and, unknown to them, created mechanical copies of the four. These copies were initially unaware of their true nature, and tried to return to Earth. However, after discovering their true identity, these four androids had no other choice then to remain on Altair with Harlan, and aiding him in maintaining the plant. [98] But, like their original selves, they eventually couldn't bear their isolation after burying the Stargate and, against Harlan's advice, began exploring the galaxy.

After these copies of SG-1 had been captured by Cronus, Harlan went to Earth to ask for help. The real SG-1 reluctantly agreed, but after the duplicate SG-1's death (Robo-Daniel had his head shot off, Robo-Sam gave her life to disable a security shield keeping her, Sam and Jack trapped, Robo-Jack was badly damaged in their attempts to secure the ring transporters and Robo-Teal'c died after saving Teal'c from Cronus), Harlan eventually returned to Altair without his four companions. It is unknown whether or not he recreated them. [99]

[edit] Reese

tv=Danielle Nicolet| first=Menace|

Reese has her first and only appearance in the Season 5 episode "Menace" but is mentioned several times later. She is a significant character in the Replicator stories in the Stargate universe.

Reese is an advanced gynoid possessing an internal power cell. Reese was developed for unknown purposes on her homeworld by a scientist whom Reese considered her "father". Reese provides a very realistic illusion of humanity, and even has a pulse. Her systems are maintained by millions of nanites, designed and programmed to work together as a self-repair mechanism. These microscopic machines deactivate when disconnected from the android's body, but the nanobots used for self-repair are also able to reorder matter on a microscopic level, enabling her to create a variety of objects from raw material. The civilization on Reese's world became afraid of Reese when she developed mechanical toys to counteract her boredom. They eventually tried to destroy her, but Reese programmed her toys to make more of themselves and defend her and one another. Eventually, the toys destroyed her father and the rest of the civilization, then left her alone on the planet. [100]

The personality contained within the android is flawed, and Daniel and Carter label Reese emotionally immature. Reese builds a Replicator as a present for Daniel that causes a critical Replicator situation in the SGC, but Daniel convinces Reese to deactivate the replicators, however O'Neill shoots Reese soon after thinking the replicators were still active.[100] Reese's remains were given to the Asgard, who subsequently studied her. When Freyr visited the SGC, he revealed that they finally gained the upper hand in their battle against the Replicators.[28] They later found a command inside Reese ("to come forth"), which allowed the Asgard to create a trap which captured all Replicators in the known universe in a time dilation field. However, the short encounter between the Replicators and their original creator eventually enabled them to develop nanite-based human-form Replicators.[46]

After the discovery of the Asurans in the Pegasus Galaxy, who were based on nanites not unlike those of human-form Replicators[101], who themselves were based on the nanites used by Reese [46], it was theorised that the two technologies could be related.[101] It would therefore be possible that the scientist who created Reese was one of the Atlanteans who fled back to the Milky Way after the Ancients' war with the Wraith was lost. [9]

[edit] Replicator characters

[edit] First

tv=Ian Buchanan| first=Unnatural Selection|

First was a male human-form Replicator, and was the first ever created by the replicators created by Reese. First considered himself and his kind to be superior to non-Replicators, and firmly believed it was his species' right to rule the universe. His programming was based on the corrupted programming from the android Reese.

After the android Reese, who had created the first generation of Replicators many centuries ago, was discovered and eventually killed by SG-1, her remains were given to the Asgard. The Asgard used the body to lure every Replicator in the known universe to Halla, an abandoned Asgard planet. After the Replicators came in contact with Reese, they hailed her as their creator, and found her nanite cells contained advantages that the standard Replicator blocks lacked. Using the nanites in Reese's self-repair mechanism, they were able to create the nanite-based First.

It was the Asgard's intention to trap the Replicators in a massive time-dilation field, but when the time-dilation device was supposed to activate, First could penetrate a minuscule crack in the neutronium shell protecting the time-dilation device. He subsequently stopped and even reversed the device, allowing his brethren to completely consume Halla's civilization within what appeared only days to the outside universe. Several other human-form Replicators were eventually created, including Fifth. However, First treated Fifth as a flawed creation, when in fact Fifth was the only Replicator in existence that was not governed by Reese's flawed programming.

After the Asgard contacted SG-1 to figure out what had happened on Halla and reactivate the time-dilation device, the team was captured after their landing. First probed Jack O'Neill's mind in an attempt to gain intelligence regarding the worlds the team had visited in the Milky Way. He forced O'Neill to cooperate by making him relive his worst memory, the memory of his son accidentally shooting himself, every time O'Neill refused.

Eventually, after Fifth reactivated the time-dilation device, First was trapped on Halla along with the rest of his species. [46] It is believed First was destroyed when Halla's star was converted in a black hole by the Asgard in an attempt to destroy the Replicator threat once and for all. [47]

[edit] Second

tv=Kristina Copeland| first=Unnatural Selection|

Second was a female human-form Replicator, and was apparently the second to be formed on Halla after the discovery of Reese.

Second firmly believed in the inferiority of non-Replicators, and was one of the first four who got the chance to enter the minds of SG-1 to gain intelligence about the planets the team had explored in the Milky Way. She was later trapped on Halla after SG-1 was able to activate the time-dilation field. [46]

Second was probably killed when Halla's star was converted into a black hole by the Asgard in an attempt to destroy the Replicator threat once and for all. [47]

[edit] Third

tv=Tahmoh Penikett| first=Unnatural Selection| Third was a male human-form Replicator, and was apparently the third to be formed on Halla after the discovery of Reese.

Third was one of the first four who got the chance to enter the minds of SG-1 to gain intelligence about the planets the team had explored in the Milky Way. He was later trapped on Halla after SG-1 was able to activate the time-dilation field. [46]

Third was probably killed when Halla's star was converted into a black hole by the Asgard in an attempt to destroy the Replicator threat once and for all. [47]

[edit] Fourth

tv=Rebecca Robbins| first=Unnatural Selection|

Fourth was a female human-form Replicator, and was apparently the fourth to be formed on Halla after the discovery of Reese.

Fourth was one of the first four who got the chance to enter the minds of SG-1 to gain intelligence about the planets the team had explored in the Milky Way. She was later trapped on Halla after SG-1 was able to activate the time-dilation field. [46]

Fourth was probably killed when Halla's star was converted into a black hole by the Asgard in an attempt to destroy the Replicator threat once and for all. [47]

[edit] Fifth

tv=Patrick Currie| first=Unnatural Selection|

Fifth is a fictional 'human-form' Replicator in the television show Stargate SG-1, played by Patrick Currie. For a time, he was the leader of his race.

Like other human-form Replicators, and standard Replicators for that matter, Fifth was constructed from the conjoinment of a large number of identical Replicator "blocks". Human-form Replicators, as their name suggests, take perfect human form, and are composed of much smaller blocks (i.e. nanites) than standard Replicators. [46]

Fifth is extremely strong, agile, and wears a grey outfit. He is invulnerable to both projectile and energy weaponry, and is connected to the Replicator datastream called "The Link". [48] In addition, he can also probe the mind of humans by inserting his hand into the victim's forehead, as he demonstrated on Samantha Carter on several occasions. [46]

He was the only Replicator in the human-form series in which the programming flaw discovered in the android Reese, the original creator of the Replicators, was corrected. As such, Fifth possesses a human psyche, including genuine human emotions, which make him more human, but also more fallible and, in the eyes of his fellow Replicators, weak. [46]

After the android Reese, who had created the first post-Asuran generation of Replicators many centuries ago, was discovered and eventually killed by SG-1 [100], her remains were given to the Asgard, who used the body to lure every Replicator in the known universe to Halla, an abandoned Asgard planet. After the Replicators came in contact with Reese, they hailed her as their creator, and found her nanite cells contained advantages that the standard Replicator blocks lacked. Using the nanites in Reese's self-repair mechanism, they were able to create the first human-form Replicator, First.

It was the Asgard's intention to trap the Replicators in a massive time-dilation field, but when the time-dilation device was supposed to activate, First could penetrate a minuscule crack in the neutronium shell protecting the time-dilation device. He subsequently stopped and even reversed the device, allowing his brethren to completely consume Halla's civilization within what appeared only days to the outside universe. Eventually, several other human-form Replicators were created on Halla, including Fifth.

Fifth was the first attempt at reproducing her emotions, however, he was considered a failure by the first four human-forms before him, who considered him weak. The Replicators formed a family unit of sorts, although this "family" lacked any human warmth and existed only to lead the immense army of Replicators.

After the Asgard contacted SG-1 to figure out what had happened on Halla and reactivate the time-dilation device, the team was captured after their landing. Fifth developed an interest in Samantha Carter, and because of his feelings for her agreed to help the team reactivate the time-dilation field, essentially trapping his comrades. However Jack O'Neill didn't trust Fifth and ordered Major Carter to set the time for the trap to be acivated shorter than planned. Although Carter was reluctant about this, she did as ordered and Fifth discovered that he was betrayed shortly before the field reactivated. He realized that SG-1 had used his own humanity against him. [46]

After two years passed in real time, the Asgard had collapsed Halla's sun into a black hole, which would eventually destroy the planet. However, before Halla passed the event horizon, some Replicators, led by Fifth, were able to escape the planet using the time-dilation device to counteract the black hole's gravity. As the rest of his species was destroyed, Fifth became the leader of the Replicators and commanded the ship to attack the Asgard's new homeworld, Orilla.

However, Fifth still resented Carter for betraying him on Halla, and was bent on taking revenge. At the time, Carter was seeking the assistance of the Asgard to help Colonel Jack O'Neill after his encounter with the Ancient Repository of Knowledge, and was near Halla during Fifth's escape. Fifth attacked the Asgard ship she was on and kidnapped Major Carter, using his telepathic powers to torture her and play with her mind en route to Orilla. As he tortured her, Carter said that being human was having the power to forgive, with Fifth coldly replying that he wasn't there yet. However, once he saw how much pain Carter was in, he relented.

However, when his ship arrived at the Asgard planet, it was destroyed by several O'Neill class battleships. Fifth was able to escape the destruction of his ship along with Carter and created a base on the planet, although Carter could eventually convince him to let go of his hatred and release her. After O'Neill had used the Ancient knowledge still in his mind to create an effective weapon to be used against the Replicators, the so-called Replicator Disruptor, Fifth was forced to abandon the planet. However, Fifth subsequently created another human-form Replicator which resembled Carter, who even had her memories, to be his consort. [47]

Because of the recently discovered Replicator Disruptor, the Replicators' quest to control the Galaxy had reached a dead end. In the meantime, the human-form Replicator created in the image of Samantha Carter, also known as "RepliCarter", who, like the real Samantha Carter did not share equivalent feelings for Fifth, was able to fool Fifth into believing that she was loyal to him, and maybe even shared his love. The two eventually devised a plan to discover how to immunise their race from the Replicator Disruptor.

The plan involved sending RepliCarter to the SGC, claiming that she had betrayed and fled Fifth, and expressing a wish to be destroyed by their Disruptor. Believing her, SG-1 took her to the Alpha Site to question her, where she informed them (untruthfully) that Fifth had immunised every single Replicator to the Disruptor, except her due to his spite. However, she promised to help them realign the Disruptor to overcome Fifth's immunisation. As they began work on the Disruptor, RepliCarter was able to study the weapon to discover how to immunise her race from it, and relayed reports of her progress back to Fifth. Unbeknown to the SGC and SG-1, Fifth was tracking her position, on his way to attack the planet, confident RepliCarter would upload the cipher to render the Disruptor useless before he arrived.

However, RepliCarter eventually betrayed Fifth by firing the Replicator Disruptor at his ship before she uploaded the cipher. Both he and his ship were destroyed, before RepliCarter immunised herself and her race. [48] Fifth was succeeded by RepliCarter, who became the leader of the entire Replicator race. [24]

[edit] Sixth

tv=Shannon Powell| first=Unnatural Selection|

Sixth was a female human-form Replicator, and was apparently the sixth to be formed on Halla after the discovery of Reese.

She was the only one who didn't get the chance to probe the minds of SG-1, and became later trapped on Halla after SG-1 was able to activate the time-dilation field. [46]

Sixth was probably killed when Halla's star was converted into a black hole by the Asgard in an attempt to destroy the Replicator threat once and for all. [47]

[edit] Eighth

tv=James Bamford| first=New Order|

Eighth was a human-form Replicator discovered in orbit around Orilla after the Asgard had destroyed an approaching Replicator vessel commanded by Fifth.

Eighth, who was heavily damaged and inoperable at the time, was brought on board by Thor, who attempted to access the datastream that linked all Replicators together in order to learn more about the Replicators down on the surface of Orilla. However, the attempt led Fifth to revive Eighth, who subsequently attempted to kill everyone on board. Eighth was killed by Jack O'Neill, using the newly constructed Replicator Disruptor, testing the device in the process.

Eighth broke the previously observed pattern, commented on by Colonel O'Neill in "Unnatural Selection", of odd-numbered Replicators being male and even-numbered Replicators being female.

  • Eighth was not referenced by name in the episode and was the seventh human-form Replicator encountered by SG-1. His name was revealed to be Eighth in the ending credits of the episode, but what became of the logically-existent 'Seventh' was never revealed. [47]


[edit] Replicator Carter

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tv=Amanda Tapping| first=New Order, Part II|

In the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1, Replicator Carter, commonly referred to by fans as RepliCarter, is a human-form Replicator created in the image of Samantha Carter, and posed a major threat to life in the Milky Way and other galaxies.

Notably, the only time that Replicator Carter is named on the show is when Daniel Jackson calls her by that name in a descriptive fashion. Because human-form Replicators have traditionally been named by the order of their creation, and as the human-form Replicator destroyed in the same episode was called "Eighth" in the ending credits, her actual name might be "Ninth". A trailer for the upcoming Stargate Online Trading Card Game however, lists her name as Replicator Carter[102].

Like other human-form Replicators, and standard Replicators for that matter, RepliCarter was constructed from the conjoinment of a large number of identical Replicator "blocks". Human-form Replicators, as their name suggests, take perfect human form, and are composed of much smaller blocks (i.e. nanites) than standard Replicators. [46]

She was made in the real Carter's image, even down to memory and character. [48] This information was probably collected during Carter's imprisonment by Fifth on Orilla. [47] However, the differences between Samantha Carter and RepliCarter have become quite pronounced due to Fifth's training of the latter, making RepliCarter a megalomaniacal, ruthless, dominating conqueror. She also believed that these traits were also within the original Samantha Carter, as "all humans desire power". According to RepliCarter, the only difference between the two is that Samantha never had the bravery, or means, to act upon it.

RepliCarter, like other human-form Replicators, is invulnerable to both projectile and energy weaponry. She possesses the ability to reform herself at any time, not only to heal herself but also to shape her arm into a weapon like a long sword, with which to kill enemies. She can also deactivate portions of herself, effectively enabling her to leave parts of her body behind. RepliCarter is also connected to the Replicator datastream called The Link. [48]

After the android Reese was used as bait by the Asgard to trap all Replicators in the known universe inside a time dilation field, the advanced technology, including the nanites within Reese's systems, were studied by the approaching Replicators. Based upon these nanites, the first human-form Replicator could be constructed. However, Reese's programming was flawed, which was also discovered by the Replicators, who attempted to correct the error in the creation of Fifth.

As a result, Fifth was both the first and the last human-form Replicator created with the capacity for emotion, as the others came to see the feature as a flaw. [46] This led to Fifth falling in love with Samantha Carter, and when he realised he could not have a relationship with her in the form he desired, he created a perfect replica of her intended to accept him. [47]

Fifth intended for RepliCarter to govern the Replicator race with him, and to be his consort. Due to his infatuation with Samantha, he made her exactly in her image, down to her memories and character. However, this in part led to her despising what he was trying to do as much as the original Samantha Carter would have. [48]

After Jack O'Neill had engineered a weapon able to disintegrate any Replicator in its blast-radius (the Replicator Disruptor) based upon Ancient knowledge, the Replicators' quest to control the Galaxy had reached a dead end. In the meantime, RepliCarter was able to fool Fifth into believing that she was loyal to him, and maybe even shared his love. The two eventually devised a plan to discover how to immunise their race from the Replicator Disruptor.

The plan involved sending RepliCarter to the SGC, claiming that she had betrayed and fled Fifth, and expressing a wish to be destroyed by their Disruptor. SG-1 took her to the Alpha Site to question her, where she informed them (untruthfully) that Fifth had immunised every single Replicator to the Disruptor, except her due to his spite. However, she promised to help them realign the Disruptor to overcome Fifth's immunisation.

As they began work on the Disruptor, RepliCarter was able to study the weapon to discover how to immunise her race from it. She relayed reports of her progress back to Fifth, keeping in communication with him via the datastream between all Replicators. Unbeknown to the SGC and SG-1, Fifth was tracking her position, on his way with one of his powerful Replicator ships to attack the planet, confident RepliCarter would upload the cipher to render the Disruptor useless before he arrived.

However, RepliCarter eventually betrayed Fifth by firing the Replicator Disruptor at his ship before she uploaded the cipher. Both he and his ship were destroyed, before RepliCarter immunised herself and her race. Teal'c attempts to stop RepliCarter by grabbing her arm, but the arm is detached from her body and she escapes via the Alpha Site's Stargate. Carter's attempt to violate General O'Neill's orders to terminate RepliCarter is a major factor in her escape. The arm removed by Teal'c decomposed into deactivated cells which are studied by Carter, who felt responsible for her doppelgänger's victory. [48]

RepliCarter subsequently took over Fifth's position and became the leader of the entire Replicator race. [24]

Several months later, Replicator Carter led her army back to the Milky Way, and launched a massive attack on the Goa'uld, taking over their territories and incorporating their technology into her own.

Knowing of the ascended knowledge still present in Daniel Jackson's subconscious mind, information that could possibly be a threat to her invasion, RepliCarter captured her doppelgänger's teammate. After hours of probing his mind, RepliCarter discovered the existence of the Dakara Superweapon, a device that, when altered, could be used to destroy her entire army at once.

However, the Replicator invasion, seen by many Jaffa as holy retribution for their blasphemy against their Gods, proved not only to be disastrous for the Goa'uld, but also caused many rebelling Jaffa to revert to their old religion. Teal'c and Bra'tac, along with many Free Jaffa, subsequently attempted to take over the Temple at Dakara, an act that they believed would prove to all Jaffa that the Goa'uld are not gods.

RepliCarter sent her forces to Dakara to eradicate the weapon, engaging the Jaffa rebels and Ba'al's fleet, who had turned his fleet on Dakara to drive out the Rebel Jaffa. However, Samantha Carter had also discovered the weapon, who recognised it as the only thing capable of destroying the Replicators, being based upon the same technology as the Replicator disruptor.

The Replicators eventually landed on Dakara and attempted to reach the weapon. In the meantime, Daniel, whilst allowing RepliCarter to enter his mind, was able to work his way into her mind, and was able to momentarily freeze every single Replicator in the galaxy, including those on Dakara and those invading the SGC. This gave Samantha Carter enough time to alter the weapon with help from Jacob Carter/Selmak and Ba'al to send out waves that would only cause Replicators to permanently disassemble. This wave was spread over the entire galaxy via every working Stargate, destroying all Replicators in the Milky Way galaxy, including RepliCarter. [24]

[edit] Asuran characters

[edit] Cetus

tv=Panou| first=The Return|

Cetus was an Asuran and enemy of Dr. Elizabeth Weir and her team.

Cetus was the second-in-command of the attack team sent to capture Atlantis in retribution for the Ancients' betrayal millennia ago. As the handful of Ancients who had recently retaken control over their city were still under the impression that the Asurans were unable to harm their creators, due to a directive that had been deleted from their base programming some time ago, they were unprepared for the invading Asurans. After Cetus and his team had taken control over the city, they killed the surviving Ancients after having probed their minds.

Although the SGC had decided to destroy Atlantis after the city had fallen to the invaders, Dr. Weir disobeyed orders and travelled back to the Pegasus Galaxy accompanied by John Sheppard, Rodney McKay and Carson Beckett in a Puddle Jumper. After having enlisted the help of Ronon Dex and Teyla Emmagan, the Jumper travelled through the Stargate to the fallen city.

Unable to raise the Iris shield, Cetus was present in the Gate Room when the invading Jumper emerged. Although the ship was heavily fired upon, the Jumper escaped by breaching the Gate Room's outer wall, and dropped explosives before departing, heavily damaging the Control Tower. Cetus however was able to escape before the bomb detonated.

As Talus realized that the Jumper had briefly communicated with survivors still hiding in the city, Cetus was sent to search the city for the ones Sheppard came to rescue. After the search parties discovered General Jack O'Neill and Richard Woolsey, the two were captured, and Cetus probed Woolsey's mind for information. He discovered what appeared to be information about Sheppard's plan involving destroying the city's shield emitters.

However, as Rodney McKay had fed Woolsey and O'Neill false information regarding their intentions, the Asurans were unaware that the shield had instead been modified to emit a massive energy burst similar to the wave emitted by an ARG. As Talus ordered Cetus to activate the shield upon the arrival of the Daedalus, he secured his own doom. His body was subsequently disintegrated when the wave reached his position, severing the kiron pathways between his individual cells. [6]

Though he is presumed to be dead, its entirely possible that the subspace link among the Asurans would allow them to replicate him as Oberoth himself was replicated after his destruction around Lantea. However, he is presumably permanently destroyed in Be All My Sins Remember'd when the team destroys the Asurans with help from the Wraith and the Travelers.

[edit] Niam

tv=John O'Callaghan| first=Progeny|

Niam was an untraditional Asuran and hesitant ally of Elizabeth Weir and her team.

Niam was known for believing that his people had become stagnant in their evolutionary path. He believed it was his people's destiny to eventually ascend, and finally be able to completely emulate their creators, the Ancients. However, he was convinced that the aggression in the Asuran's programming prevented them from ascending. He therefore had a philosophical disagreement with High Councilor Oberoth, who preferred the status quo. Niam nevertheless remained an adviser to Oberoth and his Council.

Niam was fascinated with the members of the Atlantis expedition who visited Asuras in 2006. When he realized their guests had knowledge about ascension, he expressed interest in learning more from them. However, Oberoth imprisoned the visitors, and after learning of Atlantis' survival decided to destroy it themselves. Niam pleaded for the survival of the captured Weir and Shepperd's team.

However, Niam, along with the few who also believed ascension was the Asurans' future, secretly struck a deal with the captured members of the Atlantis expedition: in exchange for Dr. Rodney McKay removing the base aggression from his people's programming, which they could not do themselves, Niam and his allies would do everything in their power to make Oberoth reconsider destroying Atlantis and help in Earth's fight with the Wraith. He was also the Asuran who informed Weir's team about his people's true nature and history.

Dr. Weir initially agreed, but eventually decided to betray Niam's trust and try to destroy Asuras themselves, ensuring Atlantis' safety. McKay had discovered a way to freeze the Asurans in a feedback loop for a small period of time, but because Niam's programming had been altered, he did not get stuck in this loop as his fellow Asurans were. Dr. Weir convinced him to escape along with her team, and made him even enter the access codes that permitted McKay to overload the three ZPM's powering the city, destroying Asuras just as it entered orbit around Atlantis.

Niam escaped aboard a Puddle Jumper with the Atlantis team, but when the rest of his people became aware of what he had done, his programming was reset, reverting back to his aggressive nature. Niam subsequently tried to strangle Dr. Weir, forcing Sheppard and the others to open the rear hatch of the Jumper, blowing him into space. [101] The few nanites introduced into Weir's bloodstream however became a threat to her life, before they were eventually destroyed by her own immune system and Dr. Carson Beckett's medical care. [103]

After Atlantis was overrun by the Asurans, Niam was retrieved by Sheppard and his team in an attempt to use him to transmit a program that would immobilize the Asurans and allow them to be easily destroyed. However, the ruse was discovered and Niam revived, forcing McKay to destroy him with an Anti-Replicator Gun. [6]

Though he is presumed to be dead, it is entirely possible that the subspace link among the Asurans would allow them to replicate him as Oberoth himself was replicated after his destruction around Lantea. He may have been destroyed in Be All My Sins Remember'd when the team destroys the Asurans, but there is speculation he may have been replicated to form part of the surviving faction which seems to be led by Elizabeth Weir's duplicate.

McKay managed to reactivate the dead nanites with Weir to save her life.

[edit] Oberoth

tv=David Ogden Stiers| first=Progeny|

Oberoth, played by David Ogden Stiers is High Councilor of Asuras and leader of the Asuran people. Oberoth apparently was the first of the nanite-based machines that took on the form of their creators, the Ancients [in appearance that vaguely resembles Lantean High Counciler Moros]. Like all Asurans, Oberoth was governed by the same base aggression in their programming. This aggression was built into them as the Ancients were hoping to use the nanites as a devastating weapon against the Wraith. Oberoth was a fierce proponent of maintaining the status quo, and was not interested in ascension. This made him an opponent of Niam [similar to the Lantean scientist Janus], although Oberoth frequently relied on Niam's advice, and occasionally approved some of his requests. Oberoth also accuses the Ancients of being arrogant, what in his view led to their defeat by the Wraith. However, Dr. Weir accused him of being at least as arrogant as his Lantean cousins. He was also one of the few Asurans who were not amused by visitors.

When several member of the Atlantis expedition visited Asuras in 2006, Oberoth clearly indicated they were not welcome. When Dr. Weir subsequently asked Oberoth for a number of spare ZPM's, he refused her request. However, he tried to appease her by informing Weir that the eradication of the Wraith was among his people's long-term goals, although it's doubtful he was being honest.

The aggression in his programming eventually led him to take Dr. Weir's team prisoner, and after personally invading the mind of John Sheppard and learning about Atlantis' survival, he decided to destroy the former capital of his creators himself. However, he agreed to keep his prisoners alive, as requested by his aide Niam. This eventually proved to be a mistake, when the Atlantean visitors were able to escape, and, with the help of Niam, freeze the remaining Asurans (including Oberoth) in a feedback loop.

Oberoth eventually retook control of his own programming, and tried to prevent Weir's team from reaching the Puddle Jumper bay. However, Dr. McKay, again with Niam's assistance, had managed to overload Asuras' ZPM's, and the city was subsequently destroyed in orbit around Atlantis. [101]

Oberoth was later revealed to have survived, as his consciousness was preserved in the collective of the Asurans subspace network. After the Apollo launched a massive nuclear attack on Asuras, Oberoth had a satellite carrying a Stargate sent to Lantea, where it launched a beam at Atlantis. Dr. Weir attempted to negotiate with Oberoth, but he simply tried to upload a virus into the Atlantean computers. [104]

Later, during an attempt by Sheppard's team to steal a ZPM from Asuras when Atlantis is stranded in space, Weir, infected with Asuran nanites keeping her alive, confronts Oberoth and makes physical contact with him, connecting herself to the Replicator network. She uses her access to freeze all of the Replicators and fool Oberoth into thinking he had captured the team to give them time to escape. Sheppard, not wanting to leave Weir behind, goes to search for her. However, Oberoth begins to resist Weir's control over the network and manages to physically grab her arm. Weir pleads for Sheppard to run and leave her behind. Sheppard is forced to run back to the Jumper and escape without Weir.[105] During this exchange Oberoth is clearly impressed with Dr. Weir's tenacity, even admitting to admiring it, yet seriously underestimates her.

He is presumably destroyed in Be All My Sins Remember'd when the team destroys the Asurans with help from the Wraith and the Travelers.

[edit] Talus

tv=David MacInnis| first=The Return|

Talus was an Asuran and enemy of Dr. Elizabeth Weir and her team.

Talus was in command of the attack team sent to capture Atlantis in retribution for the Ancients' betrayal millennia ago. As the handful of Ancients who had recently retaken control over their city were still under the impression that the Asurans were unable to harm their creators, due to a directive that had been deleted from their base programming some time ago, they were unprepared for the invading Asurans. After Talus and his team had taken control over the city, they killed the surviving Ancients after having probed their mind.

Although the SGC had decided to destroy Atlantis after the city had fallen to the invadors, Dr. Weir disobeyed orders and travelled back to the Pegasus Galaxy accompanied by John Sheppard and Carson Beckett in a Puddle Jumper. After having enlisted the help of Ronon Dex and Teyla Emmagan, the Jumper travelled through the Stargate to the fallen city.

Unable to raise the Iris shield, Talus was present in the Gate Room when the invading Jumper emerged. Although the ship was heavily fired upon, the Jumper escaped by breaching the Gate Room's outer wall, and dropped explosives before departing, heavily damaging the Control Tower. Talus however was able to escape before the bomb detonated.

Realizing the Jumper briefly communicated with survivors still hiding in the city, Talus sent search parties to find the ones Sheppard came to rescue. When the Jumper later reappeared, he ordered his subordinates to shoot it down, although Sheppard was able to avoid the Drone weapons fired at him. After the search parties discovered General Jack O'Neill and Richard Woolsey, the two were captured, and Talus probed O'Neill's mind for information.

As Rodney McKay had fed Woolsey misinformation in an attempt to deceive the Asurans, Talus was unaware that Sheppard's team had been able to modify the City Shield to emit a massive energy wave, similar to the wave emitted by an ARG. Talus was subsequently killed when the wave reached his position, as the kiron pathways between his individual cells were severed, disintegrating his body in the process. [6]

Though he is presumed to be dead, its entirely possible that the subspace link among the Asurans would allow them to replicate him as Oberoth himself was replicated after his destruction around Lantea. However, he is presumably permanently destroyed in Be All My Sins Remember'd when the team destroys the Asurans with help from the Wraith and the Travelers.

[edit] Atlantis Expedition

tv=Jewel Staite, Kavan Smith, David Nykl| first=This Mortal Coil|

In the episode "This Mortal Coil" it was revealed that some of the replicators can take form of several members of the Altantis, particularly Drs Keller and Zelenka and Major Lorne.

They were actually part of Niam's group of replicators who wanted to ascend, but when Oberoth turned most of Niam's group back into his collective, some members escaped from Asuras and onto another planet covered with a large ocean, where they created another Atlantis and took personas of Dr Keller, Dr Zelenka and Maj Lorne as the leaders of the group. They then created organic copies, using nanites, of Lt Col Sheppard, Teyla, Ronon and Drs McKay and Weir. They implanted them with memories obtained from Weir's mind probe by Oberoth. They also created them to learn about the human 'soul' so they could be able to ascend.

Unfortunately, the organic copies became aware of this, causing Repli-Keller to resort to wiping the organic copies' memories clean and starting again; by this time Oberoth had tracked them down, but they refused to come back to the collective. The replicator ships arrived at the planet and attacked 'Atlantis'. Keller released the organic copies with a device capable of tracking every Aurora class battleship in the Pegasus Galaxy. The remainders, including Keller stayed behind and were all killed when Atlantis was destroyed.

The real Atlantis expedition were contacted by their organic copies and were able to track down the number of Replicator ships in the galaxy, but they discover to their dismay that there are several dozen of them. (McKay: "Aw, crap.")

[edit] Tau'ri made Replicators

[edit] Ava Dixon

Human form Replicator created by scientist Richard Poole on Earth. She was given social programing and was able to pass well as a human and seemed to care. Due to her programing she had emotions and considered Richard like her father. When the other Replicator created by him got loose, she tracked down Colonel John Sheppard for help against Richard's wishes and helped him. Ultimately she ran when Sheppard learned that she was a Replicator after finding out that the real Ava Dixon had been dead for a year. She hid herself from the Apollo's sensors but returned to help Sheppard and Ronon kill the other Replicator. Using her enhanced abilities she fought him but was losing when Sheppard and the Apollo managed to beam him into the atmosphere destroying him. It was later decided to have her mind downloaded into a virtual world where she could live her life but not be a security threat and her body was destroyed.

[edit] Poole's Replicator

Human form Replicator created by Richard Poole. Had military programing and when Poole went to shut him down due to the IOA closing in he broke out and escaped. He was resistant to all Anti-Replicator technology but due to his being cut off from neutronium he had limited self-repair abilities and enough firepower could bring him down. He ultimately killed Poole but Sheppard and Ronon managed to damage him. After learning how he was being tracked from Poole, he managed to mask himself from the Apollo's sensors and headed for a warehouse where there was neutronium in order to repair himself. He engaged Sheppard, Ronon and Ava Dixon there and was winning until Sheppard stabbed him with a switch-blade knife equipped with a transmitter causing the Apollo to beam him into very low Earth orbit where he plunged into the atmosphere causing him to be incinerated and destroyed from the unprotected re-entry.

[edit] Fran

tv=Michelle Morgan| first=Be All My Sins Remember'd|

In the episode "Be All By Sins Remember'd", Dr. McKay used a Lantean machine, used to create the Asuran nanites, to create a human form Replicator and named her Fran (Friendly Replicator ANdroid) in order to assist with the project to turn the Asuran replicators into an enormous blob and then destroy them.

She was taken to Asuras and began the process by forcing all of the nanites to stick to herself.

[edit] Wraith characters in Stargate

This is a list of Wraith characters in the television series Stargate Atlantis. The Wraith are a hive-based parasitic species that drove the Ancients out of the Pegasus Galaxy around 8000 BC.

Thus far, none of the Wraith to appear on Stargate Atlantis have had their true names revealed (Ellia doesn't count because she was named by Zaddik, see below), so it is thus far unclear if they even have names. Because of their unwillingness to speak their own names to humans, Lt. Colonel Sheppard often gives the captured Wraith amusing/generic earth names.

The majority of male leader, scientist and female queens have been played by the same actors, James Lafazanos and Andee Frizzell respectively. James Lafazanos has since left the show after the end of season 2. Other male wraiths have been played by Christopher Heyerdahl (season 3 onwards), Jeffrey C. Robinson (season 2), Dan Payne (season 3), James Bamford (season 3) and Brendan Penny (season 4).

[edit] "Steve"

tv=James Lafazanos| first=Suspicion|

Steve (a.k.a Steve the Wraith) appeared in several episodes of the TV show Stargate Atlantis. "Steve" was played by James Lafazanos, who also portrayed other Wraith characters (notably "Bob" the Wraith). Steve is considered very popular amongst fans. He has several music videos mourning his loss, and has created a fandom similar to the Klingon fandom amongst the Star Trek community though admittedly not to that size.

"Steve" was a Wraith commander tasked with tracking Teyla Emmagan via a short-range homing device embedded in her necklace. Upon this discovery, the Atlantis exploration team under Major John Sheppard set a trap for the Wraith, hoping to capture one to interrogate; "Steve" was the only survivor from Sheppard's trap.[106] "Steve" was held in a force field prison in the Atlantis base and it is assumed that he was under constant surveillance by two guards. While imprisoned, "Steve" unsuccessfully attempted to use telepathic hallucinations to distract the guards.

The captured Wraith would not reveal his true name, so Major Sheppard named him "Steve" while interrogating him (The Wraith replied to the name that all Sheppard needed to know was that the Wraith would be his death, prompting Sheppard to say "I prefer Steve"). Steve died after exposure to a prototype anti-Wraith vaccine,[107] developed by Dr. Carson Beckett and the Hoffans; tested on "Steve" with the permission of Dr. Elizabeth Weir, despite being a violation of the Third Geneva Convention regarding the treatment of prisoners of war. [108] Major John Sheppard originally rationalized the experiment by claiming that, when the Third Geneva Convention was assembled, the Wraith would have eaten the attendees if they had been present. Eventually, Weir was swayed to allow Steve to be used in the experiment. Steve was unable to feed on the test subject, but the vaccine caused a toxic reaction in Steve, causing his major organs to shut down simultaneously and kill Steve.

[edit] "Bob"

tv=James Lafazanos| first=The Siege (Part 1)|

Bob (a.k.a. "Bob the Wraith" to fans) was, like most male Wraith, played by James Lafazanos.

He was named "Bob" in the same manner that Sheppard named an earlier Wraith, "Steve", since "Bob" refused to disclose his true name.

Bob piloted a Wraith Dart on a reconnaissance mission to Atlantis ahead of the Wraith assault. To throw off the scent, as it were, Bob self-destructed the dart as he feinted an escape from pursuing Puddle Jumpers. [109] Unknown to the Atlantis team, he actually used the Dart's culling beam to transport into the city. There he proceeded to commit sabotage, badly injure Sgt. Bates and appear in Teyla Emmagan's dreams, during which she also saw herself as a Wraith. However it is unknown if this happened because of deliberate use of telepathic powers on Bob's part, or if she only had nightmares because of his presence. Bob was able to hide in Atlantis for approximately two weeks. Bob was finally discovered when Atlantis's biometric sensor array was calibrated to show Wraith life-signs. When he was confronted, Bob attacked Major John Sheppard with his stunner rifle. His intention to feed on Sheppard was thwarted by the arrival of Lieutenant Aiden Ford, who stunned the Wraith. Bob was then taken to a cell and interrogated. There, he refused to disclose any information about his mission, the approaching Wraith fleet, or even his true name. Teyla attempted telepathic contact with Bob, who responded by forcing himself into Teyla's mind. Sheppard was forced to shoot him several times. Since the damage was severe, and since it is possible that Bob had not fed in some time (Wraith healing ability is thought to be linked to feeding), Bob was unable to regenerate and died. [110]

[edit] Wraith Survivor

tv=James Lafazanos| first=The Defiant One|

In the first season episode "The Defiant One," the Atlantis crew encountered a crew member of a Wraith "supply ship" that had crash landed on an uninhabited planet with no stargate, containing hundreds of captured humans in suspended animation. He had survived over 10,000 years by feeding on the cargo of humans as well as his fellow Wraith crew members. He was eventually killed after a prolonged battle with Sheppard, when a team coming to rescue Sheppard and McKay launched a drone weapon at him.

The Wraith Survivor was noticeably more durable than previous Wraith encountered, regenerating within minutes from more than 20 bullets of P90 fire and even a direct blast from a detonated wraith grenade. He was only eventually stopped when completely obliterated by an ancient drone weapon. Dr. McKay theorized that the Wraith's rapid regeneration was due to the fact it had fed recently, while Sheppard thought that there was something significant about this particular Wraith. Since similar traits where also seen in a Wraith Queen who had survived in similar circumstances for a similar timeframe, it is possible that this process had weeded out all weaker wraith leaving only the very strongest. Alternatively, the cannibalism of other wraith may have strengthened him in some way. He was also far more sadistic than other wraith and took obvious pleasure when feeding on a human, although this may have simply been a result of 10,000 years of isolation.

[edit] Ellia

tv=Jewel Staite| first=Instinct|

Ellia is a young female Wraith who has been raised as a human. Appearing in the second season episode "Instinct," Ellia is played by Jewel Staite.

Encountering a primitive people who claimed they are being fed upon by a mysterious beast, but who otherwise seem ignorant of the Wraith, the members of the Atlantis team begin to search the surrounding forest for what they have deduced is a lone Wraith soldier. While searching in the woods for the Wraith that had been terrorizing the village, the Atlantis team meets a man named Zaddik and his adopted daughter Ellia, a Wraith whom he rescued as a young child. A lone Wraith Dart had crashed on the planet years ago and, though the villagers had slain all Wraith that survived the crash, Zaddik spared the baby he found because of its apparent innocence. Raised with compassion and love, treated as no different from any human daughter, Ellia demonstrates typical human emotions and characteristics (Including fear and guilt). According to Zaddik, Ellia has never fed on a human. When she first began craving human life force, Zaddik began experimenting and developed a serum as an alternative.

Dr. Beckett visits Zaddik and Ellia's home to study the serum, and Ellia overhears him mention a retrovirus he is developing to potentially turn Wraith into humans. Ellia hates being a Wraith, and takes the drug without Dr. Beckett's knowledge, despite the fact that it isn't yet ready. The retrovirus has the exact opposite effect intended, and increases the effects of the Iratus bug on her DNA.

Ellia confesses to Zaddik that his serum has never worked and she has been feeding on humans in the village for years. Another Wraith survived the crash, an adult male, and Ellia had been following him to feed whenever he did, hiding her involvement by only picking the scraps he left behind. The effects of the retrovirus appear to grow in intensity over time, and she becomes increasingly violent. She throws Zaddik against a tree and runs away. As he is dying, he reveals that while he was developing the serum he allowed Ellia to feed on him to relieve her hunger. He was, in fact, the missing son of one of the villagers; and his apparent age is only a result of the feeding of Ellia. Colonel Sheppard tracks Ellia down, and though he tries to convince her to return with him and be treated to reverse the effects of the retrovirus, she attacks him and begins feeding on him, and he and Ronon are forced to kill her. [111] Her attack on Sheppard, though, had consequences since she infected him with the retrovirus [112].

[edit] Michael

|tv=Connor Trinneer (except "Allies")
Brent Stait in "Allies"| first=Michael|

Michael Kenmore is the name of the Wraith who was transformed into a human by the crew of the Atlantis expedition. Michael is played by Connor Trinneer, except in "Allies" where he was played by Brent Stait.

The transformation was made possible by using a retrovirus developed by Dr. Carson Beckett and his team. It suppresses the Wraith DNA and allows the human DNA that the Iratus bug absorbed to come through.

When he turned into a human, he lost all of his former Wraith memories as well. The Atlantis team thought it wiser not to divulge this information to him.

Michael eventually learned about his Wraith origins and returned to the Wraith [113], only to later return in a bid to join forces with the Atlantis team to help destroy the Wraith. It was later found out that they were not intending to join forces at all, but simply trying to learn Earth's coordinates and how to modify their hyperdrive. [32]. He was not made privy to the plans made by the Hive Queen in this regard.

His transformation back into a Wraith was not a complete process, and he resembled a human being more than other Wraith, which made him a pariah among the Wraith. Fearing for his life, he decided to help Col. Sheppard rescue Dr. McKay and Ronon in exchange for getting him off the hive ship. [114]

Following his return to Atlantis, Michael was stunned by Ronon Dex and then given an updated dosage of the retrovirus, then shipped off to a quarantine planet. Whilst there, he was one of a few of the humanized Wraith who began to revert to their original forms, contacted a nearby Hive Ship, overpowered the guards, and imprisoned Dr. Beckett. It was assumed that he and the other Wraith on the planet were killed in the ensuing attack by the then-Human-controlled Hive Ship.

It was later discovered that Michael had indeed survived the attack and was transported onto the other Wraith Hive Ship that arrived on the scene. However, after being rescued, Michael was seen with suspicion by the other Wraith who realized that he was not 'clean' or 'pure' due to the Human taint in his DNA. He barely managed to escape with his life from the Hive Ship after which he began making several bases on various worlds.

Within these locations he would begin genetic experiments on the Iratus bug with the goal of creating a powerful creature that would serve him. These creatures had the Iratus bug qualities enhanced to make them appear more insectile, vicious and ruthless in battle. He would create the creatures by feeding Humans to the Iratus bug and would then begin manipulating the eggs of the creatures. Numerous failures were done until he finally succeeded in breeding a warrior species for himself. He would journey between his bases through the use of a Wraith Dart. The Taranian people were one civilization that fell before Michael's creatures until the Atlantis Expedition arrived and discovered his work. He managed to escape from the world with several hundred of his creatures.[115]

Several months later a number of seemingly random outbreaks of a disease with a projected 30% mortality rate come to the attention of the Atlantis team, particularly when Dr. Keller's analysis reveals the disease is a variant of the Wraith-poisoning inoculation developed by the Hoffans and Carson Beckett. An exchange of information between Atlantis and "Todd" reveals that Michael is most likely behind the random seeding of the inoculation. Michael admits this to Teyla after abducting her, and reveals that it is part of his plan to oust the Wraith as the dominant species in the galaxy. Taking their place will be a Human-Wraith hybrid race with all the strengths of the Wraith, but lacking their one weakness: the need to feed on humans. While explaining his plan to Teyla, Michael reveals that he has already undergone this change, showing her that his hand no longer bears the Wraith feeding organs. [116]. Michael also reveals that he was the one responsible for abducting Teyla's people, and that he is turning them into hybrids like himself.

In the alternate future during the events of "The Last Man", he kills Teyla after she gives birth, as he had no further use for her. Using her baby, he is finally able to fulfil his plans for Galactic domination. He went on to give every human world in the galaxy the Hoffan Anti-Wraith drug. The Wraith began to fight each other and within a year, Michael had brought the Wraith to their knees, even beheading the last remaining Wraith Queen and parading the head in front of his followers. He then turned his attention back to the human worlds and turned the stronger inhabitants into hybrids, and destroyed every planet with weaker people. He succeeded in ruling the Galaxy.

However, Dr. McKay set a plan into action. Everyone believed Colonel Sheppard to be dead after he disappeared following a mission, but Rodney knew he had been sent into the future. He creates a hologram of himself and when Sheppard reaches the future, the hologram tells him where Teyla was found. Rodney knew that through doing this, Sheppard and the expedition of the past could save her and stop Michael getting his hands on her baby. When Sheppard returns from the future, he leads a team to one of Michael's main facilities where he was planning for Teyla to have the baby. But they were early, and Michael had booby-trapped the building Sheppard's team was in. The trap is triggered, causing the building to collapse, trapping Sheppard, McKay, Ronon, Lorne and several others.

[edit] Hive Keeper

tv= Andee Frizzell| first=Rising|

The first female Wraith that the Atlantis team meets is the "hive keeper". It is not clear if she is a full "Queen" or not, though she does command all of the handful of Wraith in her ship who are not hibernating. She takes one Athosian and then Colonel Sumner for questioning. Upon interrogating Sumner, she learns of Earth, with its huge population. Sumner refuses to give her Earth's Stargate address, so she starts draining his life away when he refuses to answer. Major Sheppard, who lead a rescue party onto the hive ship that their friends were taken to, finds Sumner having his life sucked out of him by the Keeper and shoots him to spare him more suffering. Sheppard is captured, and the Keeper finds the Lantean life signs detector on him. But right before the Keeper starts feeding on him, Ford appears and shoots her Wraith warriors. Sheppard frees himself and rams a Wraith stunner into the Keeper's stomach. Just as Ford and Sheppard start to leave the Keeper says that by killing her they will awaken all the other Wraith, and then she dies. Within seconds, the entire hive begins to awaken—and each one is aware that there is a rich new feeding ground available, and the only way to get to it is through Atlantis. [117]

[edit] Wraith Queen 1

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The first Queen seen in the series, appears in "The Lost Boys" and "The Hive" played by Andee Frizzell.

When Lt Col Sheppard, and former Lt Ford combined their teams to assault a Wraith Hive-Ship, they were captured and Sheppard was brought before the Hive Ship Queen [118]. Inflicting similar mind control techniques on him as the Wraith keeper used on Col. Sumner, she tried to interrogate him, wanting to know where he obtained the Wraith Dart he used to board the Hive. She left when she sensed another Hive ship had pulled up alongside her own. Sheppard and the remnants of his team later escaped, only to be captured again and put into separate cells. Sheppard was put in a cell with a young woman who appeared to be a victim, but turned out to be a Wraith worshipper and was attempting to gain information from him. When Sheppard was brought before the Queen again, he revealed that he had figured out the Queen's plan. He also claimed to be a worshipper (or rather, a business partner) of the Queen of the other Hive that was currently traveling along with them and that they were planning on attacking (a lie which worked to Sheppard's advantage later, resulting in the destruction of both Hive ships). Infuriated with Sheppard, the Queen was about to feed on him when Lt Ford, having escaped his own cell, shot her with Ronon's blaster, killing her instantly. [119]

[edit] Wraith Queen 2

tv= Andee Frizzell| first=Allies|

Appears in "Allies" and "No Man's Land", played again by Andee Frizzell.

She came to Atlantis under the pretenses of wanting the retrovirus. When Atlantis asked why they wanted to talk, the Wraith sent their jamming codes to Atlantis. They had the retrovirus tested on an enemy hive ship. When the "friendly" Wraith were searched the virus was found and the Wraith were killed. The enemy hive opened fire on the "friendly" hive. They returned to Atlantis to repair their ship. She gave the Wraith database to Atlantis in exchange for help in repairs. The Wraith later betrayed them by including a piece of spyware that forwarded the location of Earth, as well as the Aurora mission report (which contained how to convert hyperdrives to intergalactic hyper drives).[32] She later ostracized Michael by claiming him to be "polluted". She was killed by Sheppard after luring Major Lorne into a trap. [114]

The retrovirus did not work on her and she did not change into a human. Dr. McKay says that Dr. Beckett wondered that the females may be immune to the retrovirus. [114]

[edit] Wraith Queen 3

tv= Andee Frizzell| first=Submersion|

Appears in "Submersion" and played by Andee Frizzell.

This Wraith Hive Queen is over 10,000 years old and was present in the first wave of Wraith ships that laid siege to Atlantis during the time. She was said to be a Queen of a powerful alliance, however, during the battle her cruiser's drive system was damaged and crashed onto the planet Atlantis is located on. Crashing into the sea and buried at the bottom, she remained there, attempting to survive. She cannibalized her own crew in order to accomplish this and went into hibernation in hope of living long enough until a rescue could be mounted for her but none came.

This changed when she awoke and felt the presence of members of the Atlantis Expedition who were journeying to a nearby Lantean mobile drilling platform. Her mind was invaded by Teyla, through the use of her own telepathic abilities granted by her Wraith DNA. However, the Queen was the stronger mind and she 'possessed' Teyla and made her accomplish her goals. The Hive Queen swam from her cruiser, whose depth would have killed an unprotected human, however, her regenerative abilities as well as determination kept her alive. As part of a contingency plan, she activated her cruisers self destruct system which, along with being present over a geothermal vent that was weak, would have caused catastrophic devastation to the planet. Upon reaching the drilling station, she made Teyla sabotage the facility before disengaging telepathic contact. She fed on two scientists at which point she encountered a Puddle Jumper, however, she did not possess the Lantean gene that would have allowed her to pilot the craft. She attempted to force Colonel John Sheppard, through telepathy, to pilot the ship to the nearest Stargate in order for her to rejoin her kind, however, it was damaged when Ronon Dex fired at the window, letting water to surge in and leaving the Queen unconscious.

She would be drugged and probed for information by Teyla at which point her self destruct plan for her cruiser was revealed. She would goad Teyla into probing her mind and succeeded in repossessing her. However, she learns that the Atlantis Expedition had repaired her ships engines and she planned to journey back to her kind in the cruiser. She travelled by to her ship and deactivated the self destruct and attempted to feed on Colonel Sheppard however she was ambushed and killed. It was revealed that the cruisers engines had never been repaired and that Teyla had implanted a false memory in her mind in order to deceive the Queen.

She is eventually killed by Sheppard and McKay who both noted that it took a lot more fire-power to kill her than the previous Hive Queen and the Keeper they had killed. A full clip of a P90 from McKay and several rounds from Sheppard's 9mm was required to finish her. This could be an indication that the more powerful a Wraith Female's mental powers are the greater rate of regeneration they possess.

Another theory that could be taken from this character is that a Wraiths mental powers are somehow related to their age. This can't really be proven however as other documented Queen encounters has made no reference to their age.[120]

[edit] Wraith General

tv=Dan Payne| first=Sateda|

Appears in "Sateda" and is played by Dan Payne.

The Wraith General, more commonly known to fans as the "Wraith King", who appeared in the episode Sateda, was the presumed leader of a hive that captures Ronon Dex. This Wraith took a very personal interest in Ronon, offering a village exemption from all future cullings in return for Ronon's capture (a deal he later went back on, after capturing Ronon the village was culled). When Ronon was captured, the General had a new transmitter placed in Ronon's back and released him on the ruined world of Sateda, where Ronon was hunted by ever increasing numbers of Wraith. However Ronon defeated all the hunters (with some help from John Sheppard and Teyla). Eventually, after Ronon taunting him via a Wraith probe, the General engaged Ronon in a one-on-one fight. Ronon forbade Sheppard or Teyla from interfering, threatening them with death (Teyla apparently dismissed his remark, but told Sheppard that Ronon might never forgive them if they interrupted the fight). However it soon became clear that the injured Ronon was no match for the Wraith General and Rodney McKay and Carson Beckett (who were unaware of Ronon's threats to Sheppard and Teyla) ended the fight by firing a drone from their cloaked jumper and killing the General. Beckett was the one who fired the drone but once he was sure Ronon wasn't angry with them for interfering, Rodney claimed to have come up with the idea.

Before his appearance it was assumed that all Wraith Hives were run by Queens, however in the episode he was shown as a leader of the Hive, even sitting in the throne that the queen in No Man's Land had occupied. There is no Queen shown in the episode, so it is unknown if this character was the actual leader of the hive ship, or if he was simply some sort of Hunt Leader. The IMDB listing for Dan Payne records the character as "Big Wraith".

Dan Payne has appeared numerous other times in Stargate - he played the original Kull Warrior or Supersoldier and over the years made many appearances as one of Anubis' new supersoldiers. He will be playing another male Wraith in season 4 of Stargate Atlantis.

[edit] "Todd"

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"Todd" first appears in the third season episode "Common Ground", returning in the fourth season as a recurring character, which also formally introduces his "name" as Todd. He is played by Christopher Heyerdahl and distinguished by a starburst-shaped tattoo centered around his left eye. Information released by Joe Mallozzi in his blog implied that he would play a role throughout the season, and revealed the name "Todd" before it was actually used on screen.

Before his capture, Todd was a Wraith of some political standing; after being freed he is in loose command of about a dozen Hive Ships (out of at most 60 in the galaxy), and these had remained loyal to him during his imprisonment, implying that he used to command even more. He notes that his time spent in Commander Kolya's prison diminished his standing among the Wraith, further supporting the notion that he held a great deal of influence beforehand. He's also an adept scientist, having a significant understanding of nanite coding and Wraith technology in general.

Todd's personality is unusual for a natural pure-blooded Wraith, serving in many ways as the Wraith equivalent to the Goa'uld System Lord Yu, as both were known to ally themselves with humans when faced with a significant enough threat. He is reasonable, surprisingly loyal, and to a degree quite honorable, keeping his bargains rather than manipulating them. He is far more willing to make compromises and deals with humans and acts far less arrogantly in their presence. During his imprisonment with Sheppard, he commented that it would be worth escaping just to see the stars again, implying that he has a sense of beauty and appreciation of freedom. He also seems to regard the act of feeding as more of a necessity than an act of sadistic pleasure. More recently, due to his continued presence among the Atlantis teams, he seems to have developed a grudging respect for the teams' various abilities. During Teyla's telepathic struggle with a Queen, he is seen looking on with a degree of surprised admiration. It is unknown how much of his personality is due to his long imprisonment and contact with humans. He still retains considerable standing among the Wraith, although it has significantly waned.

When first introduced, Todd (then unnamed) is a prisoner of Genii forces loyal to Commander Acastus Kolya. As part of their plan to get the Atlantis expedition to turn over Ladon Radim, the current leader of the Genii, they have him periodically feed on, but not completely drain, Colonel John Sheppard. He feeds on Sheppard three times before they conspire to escape from the prison, Sheppard having given Todd a new sense of hope. Working together, the two overpower their guards and escape, only to be cornered as they approach the Stargate. In order to gain the strength to fight them off, Todd almost completely drains Sheppard, leaving him barely alive but allowing Todd to easily kill the Genii soldiers. To repay Sheppard for freeing him, he drains the three soldiers and uses their life-force to regenerate Sheppard; Doctor Rodney McKay even claims that Sheppard looks younger than he did before. Sheppard, in turn, leaves Todd on another planet to link up with his hive. Both he and Sheppard agree that, should they meet again, they would be enemies.

Todd returns in "The Seer" to forge an alliance with Atlantis against the Asurans, informing Atlantis of their new strategy of wiping out every human in the galaxy to deprive the Wraith of a food supply. Since the efforts of the Atlantis personnel have rendered the Wraith's previous virus ineffective in shutting off the Asuran Wraith-attack command, he needs their help to adjust it, jokingly offering to to secure their truce with a handshake. He is stranded on Atlantis after the Hive Ship which brought him is destroyed by another suspicious Hive. He remains in Atlantis custody for several episodes, working with McKay on the nanite coding. During this time he hacked McKay's computer and took the macro for the Carter-McKay gate bridge allowing the Wraith to attack Midway Station and Stargate Command.

In the episode "Be All My Sins Remember'd", Todd secures his freedom when he convinces seven Wraith Hive Ships to join with Atlantis' two Daedalus-class battlecruisers in an assault on the Asuran homeworld. Todd uses the battle as a distraction to covertly steal several ZPM's from the Asuran homeworld in order to power a massive Wraith cloning facility. However, he is betrayed and imprisoned by a rival hive in "Spoils of War", set to be fed upon by a Wraith Queen once he outlives his usefulness. Sheppard's team locates his damaged ship and frees Todd, and together they destroy the facility by ramming it with the damaged Hive-Ship. He escaped this hive ship on a dart separately from Sheppard's team.

Later, it is revealed that Todd provided information to a Wraith faction allowing them to attack the Midway station and Stargate Command in the episode "Midway", implying that he conducted espionage on the expedition during his stay in Atlantis, and that he is still alive. This is later confirmed in the episode "The Kindred" when random outbreaks of a modified version of the Wraith-poisoning inoculation prompt Todd to arrange another collaboration in order to stop the threat to both races. When confronted with his apparent involvement in the Midway incident Todd admits to stealing information from McKay's laptop, but insists that the Wraith who planned the Midway occupation stole the information from him in turn.

In the alternate future Sheppard learned about when he traveled forwards in time in "The Last Man", it was revealed that Todd died fighting alongside Ronon Dex in an attempt to destroy one of Michael's research facilities, the two sacrificing themselves to allow Ronon's strike force to escape before setting off the C4 explosives.

[edit] Wraith Queen 4

tv= Andee Frizzell| first=Spoils of War|

Appears in "Spoils of War" and played by Andee Frizzell.

This Wraith Queen made use of at least one captured ZPM, confiscated from Todd, to spawn newborn Wraith warriors on a massive scale, with thousands of warriors being incubated in a cloning facility. Such facilities had been instrumental in the defeat of the Lanteans. A number of Wraith warriors were born, then cloned en masse. The Queen planned to kill Todd after he he had completed his work, however her mind was overpowered by Teyla and her body was forced to release the captured Sheppard, McKay and Ronon. The Queen's consciousness discovered the presence of Teyla's baby during this connection and began to attack him psychically. She was killed by Sheppard before she could snuff out the unborn child. Sheppard made his escape and demolished her base by ramming it with a captured Wraith Hive-Ship

[edit] Wraith Queen 5

tv= Andee Frizzell| first=The Last Man|

Appears in "The Last Man" and like all Wraith Queens, was played by Andee Frizzell.

The second Wraith queen to appear in season 4, has a brief appearance during the season fianale, The Last Man. She is one of the surviving queens during the civil war between the Wraith. After Michael begins to destroy the Wraith armada, the Wraith have been brought to their knees. The queen is brought into Michael's tent, and is held down by his hybrids. Her words to Michael are: "You will pay for this," To which he responds: "You still have your pride, good for you," before he slits her throat, and decapitates her. He holds up her head to his soldiers, to show that he has beaten the Wraith.

[edit] Ori

[edit] Doci

[[Image:Doci and Prior.jpg|thumb|right|The Doci amidst two Priors in the episode "Origin"]]

The Doci represents the Ori in their home galaxy and leads the Priors.[121] The Latin word docere means to teach. The Doci is essentially a chief Prior who acts as a mediator or mouthpiece for the Ori. The Doci has brown hair and colored eyes, pale skin and facial markings of a Prior. The Doci was introduced in "Origin", where he was shown to reside in the city of Celestis, with his chambers next to the Ori's Flames of Enlightenment. In one instance, the Ori possessed the Doci to speak to Daniel.[59] The Doci had his third and last appearance in the direct-to-DVD film The Ark of Truth. Had Julian Sands not been able to come back as the Doci, the producers had planned to hire another actor as a different Doci in charge in Celestis.[122] Although Sands' availability eventually was a hindrance in The Ark of Truth, the producers felt it was better to include the Doci than to forgo the character.[123]

[edit] Priors

The Ori are served by so-called Priors, highly evolved human beings[citation needed] who act as missionaries of the Ori[121] by traveling to different planets to spread the religion of Origin.[124] As the Ori are incapable of directly affecting the material universe in the Milky Way Galaxy due to the protection of the ascended Ancients,[citation needed] they send the Priors as their representatives.[125] Cooper said the Priors have "these incredible, superhuman powers",[122] which allows them to perform miracles,[episode needed] read minds,[episode needed] and attack enemies,[episode needed] and resurrect the dead.[4] They also unleash plagues as punishment for not following the Ori.[124] The Priors believe fervently in their mission, and essentially offer a real religion with big promises.[125] Priors have been encountered on various worlds, trying to convert the local population and fight anyone who tried to stop them, including the Tau'ri and the Jaffa.

As shown in the series, priors are normal humans whom the Ori transform into an evolved state of human to serve as missionaries as a reward for loyalty and devoted service. This process drastically alters their appearance: albino skin and hair, a tracery of raised lines on the chin and cheeks, and indentation of the skull just above and behind the eyes. Their eyes appear as a misty gray pupil without an iris. In "The Fourth Horseman" and The Ark of Truth, SG-1 was able to temporarily disable a Prior's abilities by using ultrasonic sounds to deny Priors access to the advanced areas of their brains.[25]

  • Damaris, played by William B. Davis, is a Prior who makes contact with the Sodan in "Babylon". SG-1 challenges him in "The Fourth Horseman", where Damaris is killed in self-defense.
  • Gerak, played by Louis Gossett, Jr., is a Jaffa introduced in "Origin". After becoming interested in the promised path of ascension, Gerak turns into a Prior in "The Fourth Horseman" and dies in the same episode.
  • Prior #1, played by Mark Houghton, visits the village of Ver Eger and revives Vala after her Trial of Fire in "Avalon". He then brings Vala and Daniel to the Doci in the city of Celestis and back to the village to find more heretics in "Origin".
  • Prior #2, played by Larry Cedar, is the first Prior to be sent to the Milky Way after the Ori learned of the existence of humans in this galaxy. Cameron Mitchell brings him to Stargate Command in "Origin", where the prior eventually bursts into flames after he learned that he would never again leave the planet.
  • Prior #3, played by Greg Anderson, is introduced in "Avalon" as the governor of the village of Ver Eger when Daniel and Vala first came to the village. As a reward for doing his duties and putting Vala through a Trial by Fire, he was transformed into a Prior in "Origin". He is later sent to the Milky Way and makes appearances in "The Powers That Be" unleashing a plague in a defiant village, in "The Fourth Horseman" turning Gerak into a Prior, and in "Line in the Sand" ordering the destruction of a village by spaceship. He also appeared in Stargate: The Ark of Truth, in which he was killed.
  • Prior #4, played by Ian Butcher, tries to convert the people of Kallana in "Beachhead" and later transforms the planet into a micro black hole to power a Supergate.
  • Prior #5, played by Morris Chapdelaine, visits the Sodan homeworld in "Arthur's Mantle" and causes Volnek to turn on his fellow Jaffa and kill them.
  • Prior #6, played by Doug Abrahams, is introduced in "Crusade" where he visits Ver Isca and cures Tomin of his limp, also informing him that he was unable to father children. Prior #6 is on board one of the Ori battlecruisers invading the Milky Way in "Camelot" and is present during Adria's birth in "Flesh and Blood", informing her parents of her divine purpose. He also appears in "The Quest", accompanying Adria in the search of the Sangraal. He will make an appearance in Stargate: The Ark of Truth.
  • Prior #7, played by Peter Nicholas Smyth, accompanies Adria in "Counterstrike" and is killed in an attack by the Jaffa with the Dakara Superweapon.[52]
  • Daniel Jackson is turned into a Prior by Adria in "The Shroud", as part of her plan to convert the Tau'ri to the path of Origin. However, because Merlin had previously downloaded his memories into him, Daniel is able to maintain his own personality and, after exploiting his Prior powers to finish constructing and activating the Sangraal, reverts to his normal form.

[edit] Tomin and the Ori warriors

[[Image:Tomin.jpg|thumb|Tomin and some Ori warriors in Stargate: The Ark of Truth]]

The Ori warriors are conscripted men, who were trained to fight unbelievers as foot soldiers and take over the Milky Way. They are plated in metallic armor and are armed with powerful staff weapons. They are men who are actually doing the fighting.[121] They were introduced in "Crusade" and were first shown in combat in Season 10.[121] Cooper wrote "Crusade" with the intention to show that the Ori warriors are not two-dimensional, even though their strength of belief and single-mindedness makes them fight for what they want to fight for.[121] According to Cooper, the Ori warriors are a fictional mirror of the events in the real world, but he wanted people to try and understand "why people want to go to war with us, or blow up our buildings, or our airplanes".[121] Cooper also wanted to show that "there's really no winner to the argument" when it comes to "religion and belief, and gods"; according to Cooper, there is a line when a society takes up arms instead of finding a more civilized way of dialogue.[121]

Tim Guinee played Tomin, a devout Ori follower of the village of Ver Isca, who becomes an Ori commander in Season 10. Tomin is intended as a representation of the Ori warriors,[121] and Cooper described Guinee as a "fabulous actor who instantly creates that humanity and empathy ... while he's mass-murdering people"[126] Tomin is introduced in flashbacks in "Crusade", having found Vala after she was transported to the Ori home galaxy. Tomin had been crippled since childhood, and was therefore looked down on by his fellow villagers. Tomin married Vala and accepted her pregnancy as his child, not knowing that it was an immaculate conception set by the Ori. A little later, a Prior visited the village and cured Tomin of his limp, allowing him to become a warrior for the Ori. The prior also told Tomin the truth about the child as "the will of the Ori", who would later be the Orici. Tomin is later able to forgive Vala.[127] Tomin and Vala depart aboard the first wave of Ori vessels entering the Milky Way,[13] and they go separate ways in "Flesh and Blood".[35] Tomin rises to the rank of commander within the Ori warrior armies, and he and Vala meet again in "Line in the Sand". Because a Prior twists the words of the Book of Origin, Tomin begins to doubt the Priors and their interpretations of Origin's teachings, and helps Vala escape.[128] Tomin plays an important role in the film Stargate: The Ark of Truth, in which, after seeing a Prior's death with his own eyes, he learns the truth about the Ori.

[edit] Adria the Orici

thumb|178px|right|Adria, the Orici.

In Season 10, the primary antagonist switched from the Priors and the Doci to the Orici, also known by the name Adria.[121] The story presents her as a genetically advanced human infused with Ori knowledge, created to circumvent the Ancients' rules that the Ori cannot directly use their powers to conquer the Milky Way galaxy.[129] Adria is one step higher than the Doci, but equal in terms of her role in the Milky Way galaxy, which is to lead the armies of the Ori in the Milky Way galaxy,[121] converting the galaxy to Origin in the process. Adria possesses several Prior-like superhuman abilities, and leads the armies of the Ori until her Ascension in the penultimate episode of Stargate SG-1. From a creative standpoint, Adria's character was created to give Vala Mal Doran a story and personality arc as a member of the SG-1 team.[126]

Adria's story begins shortly after the events of "Beachhead", when Vala Mal Doran is impregnated by the Ori in the Ori home galaxy.[127] Vala eventually returns to the Milky Way aboard one of the Ori battlecruisers invading the Milkyway galaxy. In "Flesh and Blood", Vala gives birth to a baby girl, the Orici. Within hours of being born, the child reaches the apparent age of four and heals her mother's pain, knowing that Vala is not a believer in Origin. By the child's apparent age of seven, Vala gives her the name Adria, after her "witch of a woman" stepmother. Vala escapes when Adria is at the apparent age of twelve.[35] Adria only starts to have an impact in the second half of the first half of the season, when she has grown "into a beautiful but deadly young woman".[130][121] When Vala, who has joined the SG-1 team, meets adult Adria in "Counterstrike", Adria foreshadows her plans with Daniel.[52] In "The Quest", Adria tricks SG-1 into obtaining the Sangraal for her. Adria captures Daniel before he can complete the device.[10] Hoping to convert both Earth and Vala, Adria attempts to convert Daniel to the path of Origin and makes him a Prior. In "The Shroud" however, Daniel betrays her and uses the weapon on the Ori galaxy.[15] In "Dominion", Adria is briefly implanted with the Go'auld Ba'al. Although the symbiote can be removed, the procedure almost kills Adria and she ascends.[131] Being the only surviving Ori power after the events of "The Shroud", Adria alone controls the power generated by the followers of Origin, and continues the Ori's assault on the Milky Way in Stargate: The Ark of Truth. After an Ancient device known as the Ark of Truth affects her galaxy's believers, Adria is last seen in Stargate: The Ark of Truth in a battle with the Ancient Morgan le Fay, which in Cooper's view started as a fight in the human realm of existence and continues on the ascended level similar to what happened with Anubis and Oma Desala in "Threads". Adria is thus "eternally distracted from being able to continue her evil ways".[123]

Young Adria was played by three child actresses. Adria at age four was played by producer Robert C. Cooper's daughter Emma, who replaced the originally cast child who suffered from stage fright.[132] Morena Baccarin was offered the role of adult Adria in a phone call by the producers, who were Firefly fans. The orange contact lenses that the actress had to wear made her feel nearly blind and irritated her eyes, so the lenses were dropped during the shooting of "The Quest". Baccarin enjoyed "the whole experience [...] incredible" as she got to play a character she could learn from. In her words, "Adria was a complex character and I loved trying to make her sweet as well as totally bad."[130][133] Brad Wright called Adria "an interesting character because she's the Ori cheating",[129] and compared her to the Ori equivalent of a Harcesis.[129] Cooper considered Adria becoming host to a Goa'uld "the marriage of the old villains and the new villains" and compared it to the episode "Enemies", the first where both the Replicators and the Goa'uld first appeared together.[122] Morena Baccarin was only available for one day during the filming of Stargate: The Ark of Truth, worth six pages of script. Cooper had written more scenes between her, Julian Sands ("Doci") and the SG-1 team, but the only other option to what ended up in the film was to cut the character.[126]

[edit] Anti-Ori underground

In the second episode of season 9, its shown that not all Humans in the Ori Home Galaxy believe their gods to be benevolent as is seen in the case of the Anti-Ori Underground. This group of Humans live a dangerous life in hiding from purges and the fanatical followers. Their purpose is simply to collect enough evidence to prove to their brethren that the claims of the Ori are false. Despite this, they do believe that the Ori are very powerful; its only their intentions they doubt. Even though the group lives in the shadows of Ori society, they have shown to have collected a number of artifacts which they have hidden as such pieces of technology contradict the book of Origin and thus are destroyed when discovered. The group also has a number of followers within high positions which are even present within the City of the Gods within the ranks of the training monks there. Among this movement are Fannis, Harrid and Salis, and Seevis and Denya.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "Aurora" (Stargate Atlantis)
  2. ^ a b "Rising" (Stargate Atlantis)
  3. ^ a b "Frozen" (Stargate SG-1)
  4. ^ a b "The Powers That Be" (Stargate SG-1)
  5. ^ "Sanctuary" (Stargate Atlantis)
  6. ^ a b c d "The Return" (Stargate Atlantis)
  7. ^ a b c "Before I Sleep" (Stargate Atlantis)
  8. ^ a b "It's Good to Be King" (Stargate SG-1)
  9. ^ a b c d e f g "The Pegasus Project" (Stargate SG-1)
  10. ^ a b c d "The Quest" (Stargate SG-1)
  11. ^ a b c d "Avalon" (Stargate SG-1)
  12. ^ a b c d "Arthur's Mantle" (Stargate SG-1)
  13. ^ a b c d "Camelot" (Stargate SG-1)
  14. ^ "Morpheus" (Stargate SG-1)
  15. ^ a b c "The Shroud" (Stargate SG-1)
  16. ^ a b c "Ascension" (Stargate SG-1)
  17. ^ a b c d "Full Circle" (Stargate SG-1)
  18. ^ a b "Meridian" (Stargate SG-1)
  19. ^ a b "Maternal Instinct" (Stargate SG-1)
  20. ^ a b c "Threads" (Stargate SG-1)
  21. ^ a b c "Absolute Power" (Stargate SG-1)
  22. ^ The Quest, Part II" (Stargate SG-1)
  23. ^ a b c "Homecoming" (Stargate SG-1)
  24. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Reckoning" (Stargate SG-1)
  25. ^ a b c d e "The Fourth Horseman" (Stargate SG-1)
  26. ^ "Red Sky" (Stargate SG-1)
  27. ^ "Fail Safe" (Stargate SG-1)
  28. ^ a b c d e "Revelations" (Stargate SG-1)
  29. ^ a b c d "Ripple Effect" (Stargate SG-1)
  30. ^ "The Siege, Part III" (Stargate Atlantis)
  31. ^ "The Intruder" (Stargate Atlantis)
  32. ^ a b c "Allies" (Stargate Atlantis)
  33. ^ "Stargate Atlantis: Season Two Preview", TV Zone Special #64, Visual Imagination, 2005, pp. 76-77. 
  34. ^ a b "48 Hours" (Stargate SG-1)
  35. ^ a b c "Flesh and Blood" (Stargate SG-1)
  36. ^ a b "Fragile Balance" (Stargate SG-1)
  37. ^ Michael Shanks IMDB profile
  38. ^ a b c "Disclosure" (Stargate SG-1)
  39. ^ "Thor's Hammer" (Stargate SG-1)
  40. ^ "Thor's Chariot" (Stargate SG-1)
  41. ^ "The Fifth Race" (Stargate SG-1)
  42. ^ "Fair Game" (Stargate SG-1)
  43. ^ "Nemesis" (Stargate SG-1)
  44. ^ "Small Victories" (Stargate SG-1)
  45. ^ "Descent" (Stargate SG-1)
  46. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Unnatural Selection" (Stargate SG-1)
  47. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "New Order" (Stargate SG-1)
  48. ^ a b c d e f g "Gemini" (Stargate SG-1)
  49. ^ "Unending".
  50. ^ "Talion" (Stargate SG-1)
  51. ^ a b c "Sacrifices" (Stargate SG-1)
  52. ^ a b c d "Counterstrike" (Stargate SG-1)
  53. ^ He mentions his age as 133 years in "Bloodlines". He later said that he was 135, in the Season Three premiere "Into the Fire", and, in the Season Five episode "Threshold", that he was 137.
  54. ^ "Maternal Instinct"
  55. ^ "Bounty" (Stargate SG-1)
  56. ^ "Bloodlines" (Stargate SG-1)
  57. ^ a b "Family" (Stargate SG-1)
  58. ^ "Redemption" (Stargate SG-1)
  59. ^ a b c "Origin" (Stargate SG-1)
  60. ^ "Beachhead" (Stargate SG-1)
  61. ^ a b c "Ex Deus Machina" (Stargate SG-1)
  62. ^ a b c "Babylon" (Stargate SG-1)
  63. ^ "The Other Guys" (Stargate SG-1)
  64. ^ a b "Lost City" (Stargate SG-1)
  65. ^ a b c d "Birthright" (Stargate SG-1)
  66. ^ a b c d "Stronghold" (Stargate SG-1)
  67. ^ a b c "Death Knell" (Stargate SG-1)
  68. ^ a b c "Endgame" (Stargate SG-1)
  69. ^ "Fallen" (Stargate SG-1)
  70. ^ "The Serpent's Venom" (Stargate SG-1)
  71. ^ "The Warrior" (Stargate SG-1)
  72. ^ "Orpheus" (Stargate SG-1)
  73. ^ "Bloodlines". Stargate SG-1.
  74. ^ "Family". Stargate SG-1.
  75. ^ "Redemption (Part 1)". Stargate SG-1.
  76. ^ "Redemption (Part 2)". Stargate SG-1.
  77. ^ "Orpheus". Stargate SG-1.
  78. ^ "Sacrifices". Stargate SG-1.
  79. ^ "The Nox" (Stargate SG-1)
  80. ^ "Cor-ai" (Stargate SG-1)
  81. ^ a b "Crossroads" (Stargate SG-1)
  82. ^ "Threshold" (Stargate SG-1)
  83. ^ a b "The Devil You Know" (Stargate SG-1)
  84. ^ a b "Summit" (Stargate SG-1)
  85. ^ "Upgrades" (Stargate SG-1)
  86. ^ a b c d "Divide and Conquer" (Stargate SG-1)
  87. ^ a b "Cure" (Stargate SG-1)
  88. ^ a b c d "The Tok'ra" (Stargate SG-1)
  89. ^ a b "In the Line of Duty" (Stargate SG-1)
  90. ^ a b "Jolinar's Memories" (Stargate SG-1)
  91. ^ a b c d "Last Stand" (Stargate SG-1)
  92. ^ "Serpent's Song" (Stargate SG-1)
  93. ^ "Allegiance" (Stargate SG-1)
  94. ^ "Out of Mind" (Stargate SG-1)
  95. ^ "Into the Fire" (Stargate SG-1)
  96. ^ "Enemies" (Stargate SG-1)
  97. ^ "Abyss" (Stargate SG-1)
  98. ^ "Tin Man" (Stargate SG-1)
  99. ^ "Double Jeopardy" (Stargate SG-1)
  100. ^ a b c "Menace" (Stargate SG-1)
  101. ^ a b c d "Progeny" (Stargate Atlantis)
  102. ^ Gametrailers.com - Stargate Online TCG - Trailer HD
  103. ^ "The Real World" (Stargate Atlantis)
  104. ^ "First Strike" (Stargate Atlantis)
  105. ^ "Lifeline" (Stargate Atlantis)
  106. ^ "Suspicion". Stargate Atlantis.
  107. ^ "Poisoning the Well". Stargate Atlantis.
  108. ^ "Letters from Pegasus". Stargate Atlantis.
  109. ^ "The Brotherhood". Stargate Atlantis.
  110. ^ "The Siege, Part 1". Stargate Atlantis.
  111. ^ "Instinct". Stargate Atlantis.
  112. ^ "Conversion". Stargate Atlantis.
  113. ^ "Michael". Stargate Atlantis.
  114. ^ a b c "No Man's Land". Stargate Atlantis.
  115. ^ "Vengeance". Stargate Atlantis.
  116. ^ "The Kindred". Stargate Atlantis.
  117. ^ "Rising". Stargate Atlantis.
  118. ^ "The Lost Boys". Stargate Atlantis.
  119. ^ "The Hive". Stargate Atlantis.
  120. ^ "Submersion". Stargate Atlantis.
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  128. ^ "Line in the Sand" (Stargate SG-1)
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  130. ^ a b Eramo, Steven (January 2007), “Actress Morena Baccarin – Child's Play”, TV Zone (no. Special #74): 48–49 
  131. ^ "Dominion"
  132. ^ Audio commentary for "Flesh and Blood"
  133. ^ Audio commentary for "The Quest", Part 1