Samantha Carter

Carter is the daughter of General Jacob Carter (Air Force). She was born on December 29, 1968, although Orlin seemed to believe she was born in the month of May. (SG1: "Entity", "Ascension") She has a brother named Mark Carter, who is married and has children. Her mother died when she was a teenager. She blamed her father who was supposed to go pick her up at the airport but didn't, forcing Mrs. Carter to take a taxi and have the accident that killed her. Eventually, Sam forgave her father, although Mark didn't until after many years of estrangement. (SG1: "Seth", "The Devil You Know") Her service number is 366349.

She was exceptionally bright and went on to get a Ph.D. in astrophysics and join the Air Force. She worked at the Pentagon for two years, and logged over 100 hours in enemy space during the Persian Gulf War. She was assigned to work on the Stargate Project in 1992, two years before Dr. Daniel Jackson had the opportunity, and was a prominent member of investigating the sciences behind it and developing the Earth dialing program.

It is not known whether she was the leader or just an important member of the team that designed the dialing computer. Captain Carter believed she should have been part of the first team to go to Abydos with Colonel O'Neill and Dr. Jackson. The reason why she ended up not going was due to the urgency to complete the important first mission on time. (SG1: "Children of the Gods")

1997

A year after the first Abydos mission, however, Carter, being the foremost expert on the Stargate, was able to join Colonel Jack O'Neill, as his second-in-command, when returning to Abydos to discover if the Goa'uld attackers who arrived on Earth previously were from the planet. Though she had great scientific knowledge on the Stargate, she was not prepared for her first transport and was caught off-guard when arriving on Abydos.

However, almost immediately she started investigating the Abydos Stargate, and it’s DHD. After meeting the missing Daniel Jackson, Carter, along with him and O'Neill, visited the Abydos cartouche, discovering that the "gate" could go to several hundred worlds and the reason why Earth's Stargate could not dial any planet other than Abydos. She discovered that she could easily make the dialing computer do the necessary calculations.

Along with the rest of the team and Jackson, she returned to Earth after Apophis attacked the Abydos pyramid through the gate. After retrieving the gate address of Apophis' homeworld, Chulak, from Ferretti, she was assigned to O'Neill's SG-1 team. After the meeting, she and the team, along with Kawalsky's SG-2 traveled to Chulak. Upon discovering a village, Carter, along with the rest of SG-1, were thrown into a large cell with other Abydonians. The work of O'Neill was able to get the Jaffa Teal'c to join them and allowed Carter, along with the others, to escape and return to Earth, along with the Abydonians. (SG1: "Children of the Gods")

She remained with SG-1 after that mission and became one of the SGC's best officers. She's also their most brilliant scientist and expert on alien technology. She was engaged to Captain Jonas Hanson, later also of the SGC, but returned the ring when she realized he wasn't right for her as he had very domineering side. She was right to have broken it off as he took over a world and started acting like a god to its people. (SG1: "The First Commandment")

Carter bonded very tightly with a little girl from a planet named Hanka, Cassandra, and risked her life to provide her with some comfort when they thought Cassie was a time bomb. Cassie was eventually adopted by Dr. Janet Fraiser which allowed Sam and Janet to become really close friends over the years. (SG1: "Singularity")

1998

During her second year at the SGC, she was taken over by a Tok'ra symbiote, Jolinar of Malkshur, who sacrificed herself to save Sam from the Ashrak, a high rank assassin sent after Jolinar. This experience left her with memories of the Tok'ra and a protein marker in her blood allowing her to use Goa'uld technology such as hand and Healing Devices. (SG1: "In the Line of Duty", "Need", " Thor's Hammer")

Using the memories left by Jolinar, Captain Carter led SG-1 to a planet where the Tok'ra were hiding. She'd learned earlier that her father, General Carter, was dying of cancer. She offered him as a host for the dying Tok'ra Selmak as a show of good-will between the Tok'ra and the Tau'ri. She also made friends with the Tok'ra Martouf. (SG1: "Secrets", "The Tok'ra")

[edit] 1999

Captain Carter was later promoted to Major. (SG1: "Fair Game") Once again, Jolinar's memories were needed to go rescue her father who had been captured by the Goa'uld Sokar and put on the prison moon Ne'tu, a moon modeled after Hell. (SG1: "Jolinar's Memories", "The Devil You Know")

[e2000

Carter, along with Teal'c, was beamed up by O'Neill when Thor's ship was infested with Replicators. After they destroyed the vessel and gated back to Earth, Carter went to Othalla to help coordinate its defense against the Replicators. Carter came up with the idea of using the O'Neill to lure the Replicator ships away, and to destroy the ship in hyperspace, which also destroyed the Replicators. (SG1: "Nemesis", "Small Victories")

Shortly afterwards, the Tok'ra Anise convinced Carter, O'Neill, and Jackson to use the Atanik armband. The armbands increased their physical abilities, but also impaired their judgment. The three hijacked the Stargate, but the armbands fell off. Afterwards, it was feared that O'Neill and Carter had been made za'tarcs. It was only after they admitted that they had feelings for each other that they were absolved, but Carter was forced to zat and kill Martouf. (SG1: "Upgrades", "Divide and Conquer")

2001

After stealing Cronus's ha'tak, SG-1 intended to use the vessel to evacuate the Tok'ra. Tanith, a spy serving Apophis, sent word to Apophis, who brought his fleet. Carter and Jacob came up with a plan to destroy Apophis' fleet: they blew up Vorash's sun. The plan worked, but the ha'tak Jacob and SG-1 were on was sent to another Galaxy, along with Apophis' mothership. The Replicators managed to capture and infest both ships, but SG-1 caused the ha'tak to crash into Delmak, killing the Replicators and Apophis. (SG1: "Exodus", "Enemies")

Afterwards, Carter was doing research on a weapon on Velona, she encountered an Ascended being, who accidentally caused to faint. After returning to Earth, Carter went on leave, but the Ascended being, named Orlin, followed her to Earth, and the two began to fall in love. However, the NID was watching Carter, and Orlin returned to Velona to destroy weapon, which resulted in his death. (SG1: "Ascension")

Carter was kidnapped by men hired by Adrian Conrad, who is terminally ill with a rare disease. He had her captured because he had a Goa'uld symbiote and wanted to use it as a means to cure him. He wanted Carter because of the incident with Jolinar, believing she has a means to kill the Goa'uld without risking the host's life, not knowing Jolinar actually gave up her life to save her three years previously. She was eventually rescued by O'Neill. (SG1: "Desperate Measures")

2002

After Daniel Jackson's death, O'Neill and Teal'c retreated into themselves, causing resentment for Carter. She was not as hostile to Jonas Quinn, though still opposed to allowing him onto SG-1. Around that time, Earth was attacked by Anubis, who attempted to cause the Stargate to overload. After Jonas gave Carter the idea to send the gate into space with the X-302, Carter argued for Jonas to be allowed onto SG-1, and O'Neill finally agreed. (SG1: "Redemption")

2003

When Human Form Replicators emerged on Halla, Carter bonded with Fifth, who was convinced to help stop the other Replicators. O'Neill, however, ordered Carter to leave Fifth behind, which Carter felt guilty over. (SG1: "Unnatural Selection")

After Daniel descended and returned to SG-1, Anubis created the new Kull warriors, and Carter helped in the creation of the weapon used to neutralize them. (SG1: "Evolution", "Death Knell")

2004

Carter was set up on a date with Pete Shanahan, who knew Carter's brother Mark. Carter developed feelings for him, and the two began to see each other regularly. (SG1: " Chimera")

After O'Neill had the Ancient's repository of knowledge downloaded into his brain, he was put in stasis to preserve his life. Carter was able to convince Elizabeth Weir to allow Teal'c and herself to travel to the Ida galaxy, to seek the assistance of Thor. Carter was captured by Fifth, who tortured her and sought to convince her he loved her, but was eventually convinced to free her. She was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and given command of SG-1 as Colonel O'Neill was promoted to Brigadier General and given command of the SGC. Shortly afterwards, Pete proposed to Carter, and she accepted. (SG1: "New Order", "Affinity")

The Atlantis Expedition had an opportunity to send a very brief data transmission to Earth. The "intergalactic e-mail" is successfully sent to Stargate Command and received by Lt. Colonel Carter. (ATL: "Letters from Pegasus")

2005

When the Replicators, lead by a Replicator duplicate of Carter, invaded the Milky Way, they wiped out most of the System Lords. Carter worked with Thor to make the Replicator disruptor viable again, but was unable to succeed. After learning of the Dakara superweapon, Carter and Jacob were able to use the device to destroy every Replicator in the galaxy at once, wiping them out, which also resulted in the destruction of the Goa'uld Empire. Afterwards, Carter began to doubt her decision to marry Pete, due in part to a conversation with her father, and when her father died, she ended the relationship. (SG1: "Reckoning", "Threads")

Later, Carter was convinced to allow SG-1 to use the Time-Jumper SG-1 found on Harry Maybourne's planet to travel back in time to take a ZPM from Ra. However, Horus Guards found the Puddle Jumper they used, stranding SG-1 in the past. SG-1 attempted to form a rebellion, but Carter, O'Neill, and Teal'c were killed, and Ra took the Stargate from Earth, changing history. However, an alternate Carter, O'Neill, and Teal'c travelled back in time, and managed to repair history with the help of Daniel. (SG1: "Moebius")

With the collapse of the Goa'uld Empire, SG-1 disbanded itself. Carter did not join Cameron Mitchell's efforts to reunite the team, but came back when SG-1 tried to stop an Ori beachhead from forming on Kallana. (SG1: "Avalon", "Beachhead")

When an Ori plague descended on Earth, Orlin descended himself to help the Tau'ri develop a cure, and Carter helped him. Their efforts eventually succeeded, but resulted in Orlin suffering brain damage and amnesia. (SG1: "The Fourth Horseman")

When Dr. McKay was trapped underwater in a sinking Puddle Jumper, his only chance for survival was Samantha Carter, taken form in a hallucination. (ATL: "Grace Under Pressure")

2006

While studying Merlin's datalog, Mitchell, Carter, and Daniel were shifted into an alternate dimension. Daniel read the log, and learned of the Sangraal a weapon designed to kill ascended beings. Later, Carter went out to a Supergate to dial the Ori home galaxy, but was temporarily stranded when the gate activated. She was saved when Mitchell guided the Odyssey to bring her into the F-302 bay. (SG1: "Arthur's Mantle", "Camelot", "Flesh and Blood")

Lt. Colonel Carter approaches Jeannie Miller, Dr Rodney McKay's sister, with an offer to work for the SGC. (ATL: "McKay and Mrs Miller")

2007

She was once shot by an Ori soldier while attempting to protect a village from Ori forces by taking it "out of phase" with one of Merlin's inventions. She did make a full recovery (SG1: "Line in the Sand"). Later, she used the same device to attempt to cloak an entire planet, but accidentally travelled to a Alternate reality where Ori motherships headed towards Earth. She managed to send the entire Earth out of phase by using up to 95% of all of the USA's power. She eventually made it back to her own reality. (SG1: "The Road Not Taken")

She was part of the team to infiltrate the Alteran Home Galaxy to find the Ark of Truth and stop the Ori threat. However she had to stop the rebirth of the Replicators. (Stargate: The Ark of Truth)

Sometime after those events, she was promoted to full-bird Colonel and was responsible for the final stages of the completion of the Midway space station along with Dr. Lee. During the course of which she joined the search for the missing Atlantis onboard the Apollo. (ATL: "Adrift") After helping to locate the city, she assisted in its landing on M35-117 before returning to Earth to brief Gen. Landry. (ATL: "Lifeline") She was later sent back to Atlantis to take command of its operations after Dr. Weir went missing on Asuras.

2008

"We defeated the Replicators; we thwarted Michael's plans; and the Wraith are in a state of disarray. All of this happened while she was leader of Atlantis."

—Teyla Emmagan

She recalled both the Daedalus and the Apollo, now fitted with Asgard beam weapons to defeat the Asurans once and for all and worked with McKay to destroy their homeworld. (ATL: "Be All My Sins Remember'd")

When trying to evacuate a civilization from a planet prone to earthquakes, she ended up trapped in an old Genii mining station with Drs. McKay and Keller underground. During several attempts to escape, she broke her leg, but made it out eventually and recovered. (ATL: "Trio") During a game of "Would You Rather" with Keller and McKay while trapped, she admits that she prefers Neil deGrasse Tyson over Brian Greene, George Clooney over Brad Pitt, and Steven Colbert over Steve Carrell. She also implies that she is having an affair with General Jack O'Neill, or that they are planning to begin their relationship after his imminent retirement.

Soon after rescuing Teyla from the hands of Michael, she returned to Earth for an "exhaustive review of her first year in command", but instead she was informed that she was removed from command and being followed up by Richard Woolsey. (ATL: "Search and Rescue")

2009

Carter was left temporarily in charge of the SGC while General Landry headed a task force in Washington. During that time, she coordinated Earth's forces, along with Major Davis of Homeworld Security, when the planet was threatened by Kenny's ZPM powered hive ship. After General Landry returned to his command of the SGC, Carter took command of the new Daedalus-Class ship, George Hammond. (ATL: "Enemy at the Gate") Under her command, the George Hammond later transported a group of people to Icarus Base. Shortly following this event, the base came under attack and Carter led the George Hammond in a defensive against what they supected were Lucian Alliance. (SGU: "Air")