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talks_too_much) wrote2012-02-03 08:46 pm
talks_too_much) wrote2012-02-03 08:46 pm
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PERSONAL
NAME: Vex
PERSONAL JOURNAL:yeshallbeasgods
EMAIL: within_eternal_dreams@yahoo.com
AIM: turbotracy14
WIKI NAME: N/A
CURRENT CHARACTERS: N/A
CHARACTER
CHARACTER NAME: Samantha Carter
SERIES: Stargate SG-1
CANON POINT: A couple days after her fathers death, Season 8 episode 18
LOSS: Jolinar's memories. The memories left behind by the Tok'ra, Jolinar, have helped SG-1 on several occasions so the loss of them would not only mess with her head for awhile but she'd be a bit confused about the use of Goa'uld tech.
ABOUT THE CHARACTER:
First off, Sam is not religious. Her dog-tags identify her as Roman Catholic but, at one point in the series, Sam mentioned to Mitchell that, even after spending a decade proving to people around the galaxy that their gods were false, she hoped there was a God or something waiting for her when she died. Her actress has stated that believes Carter to be religious but not the type to follow organized religion.
She also tends to get caught up when she’s discussing anything scientific that she’s studying or caught interest in, often taking things a little too far and not realizing that the other people she’s discussing this with don’t quite speak the lingo.
Sam drinks water mostly, but she’ll also drink beer and prefers diet cola over regular. She likes herbal teas and mochaccinos as well. Her favorite dessert is blue jello and might enjoy macaroons, it’s possible that Cameron’s attempt at baking just sucked.
Sam also, apparently, has a habit of chewing her nails. We only see this in one episode I believe but it’s enough to assume there’s a habit there. Mostly likely when she’s nervous or stressed.
In her free time, Sam has admitted to having a bit of a need for speed, satisfied on Earth by riding her motorcycle. She also regularly works out at a fitness center near her home, plays chess and likes to nitpick at science fiction films when they get things wrong. Sam is also a pretty good dancer, apparently, when properly motivated. Otherwise, her work is play, she enjoys it and often spends far to much time at it.
When it comes to certain people… She’ll get stubborn and petulant, not giving up on helping them. This is often the case when anything happens to her immediate superior, Jack O’Neill. But it’s not restricted to him, Daniel and Teal’c are (almost) as important to her.
Add to that, she has a strong moral compass and if willing to sacrifice herself if it means saving others. Even if those people are complete strangers or don’t want her help, she’ll still try her damndest. She’ll also try to make sure that no one else is hurt while trying to help others.
Personality:
Sam is a focused and enthusiastic individual when it comes to her work with the Stargate program and with alien technologies they encounter. Much of her free time is spent in her lab studying the technology they find, even when SG-1 is on leave. Away from work, Sam continues to enjoy working by either working on her motorcycle or writing a book on wormhole physics.
Her responsibilities as an officer are something she takes very seriously. When meeting with a cadet at the Airforce Academy, Sam rides her until she realizes that being the best doesn’t give license to be an ass and even takes her to the SGC so the girl will realize what’s waiting for her if she doesn’t get kicked out of the academy. No slave to the rule, Sam will still respect those in her direct Chain of Command, such as Jack or General Hammond.
Sam has a problem maintaining long term relationships, likely due to the fact that they have a habit of dying. She’s very close to the rest of SG-1; sharing a fascination for new discoveries with Daniel, earning Teal’c’s respect and having strong feelings for O’Neill (feelings that she denies). In the SGC, she has grown close to Janet Frasier through her adopted daughter, Cassandra, who SG-1 found off world. And she has grown close to Hammond as well, him acting as sort of a second father to Sam.
Sam reacts to fear in a different way than most people. As a trained Air Force officer, and a member of SG-1 for ten years, Sam doesn't let fear paralyze her. Yes, she still feels fear, that increase in heart rate and maybe even a little sweat but she moves to act. Depending on the situation, she'll find cover, gather information or contact someone for backup. It all depends on the situation she finds herself in.
Anger is quite different. While Sam is typically a very collected person, and we rarely see her angry side (which says quite a lot for her patience and self control), threats against her friends and teammates can very well upset her. And to that end, she'll react a bit recklessly to help them. This may result in capture by Jaffa, goa'uld, Ori, what have you.
As I mentioned just a moment ago, Sam is extraordinarily patient. It doesn't matter who with, either but they are given all of Sam's patience. This is very good for when SG-1 first encounters new people on new planets.
When upset, sad or depressed, Sam reacts the same as anyone else. It hurts and she's not going to deny that. She will however put on a calm facade and continue about her day, mourning on her own where no one will see. She doesn't want anyone to see her upset. The exception to this being her team, SG-1, as well as anyone that she's gotten close to.
Inner conflicts, Sam has quite a few of them. Many of which involve having relationships. She can't tell them the truth about her job, can't tell them that she'll be gone for a week while she explores a planet on the far edge of the Milky Way galaxy or while she stops a strange alien disease from infection all of earths population. She also can't have that relationship with Jack O'Neill that they both want. And this is purely out of professionalism. Sam doesn't want Jack to have to retire for her, and Jack won't place her job in jeopardy. It's a conflict that has no real solution unless one of them quits.
History:
Samantha is that daughter of Air Force General Jacob Carter, her mother is unnamed but the series revealed that she was in a fatal car accident when Sam was a teenager. She has one brother, Mark, who has two children himself. His running late caused her to take a taxi and then the accident. Sam spent many years blaming her father for it, since he was supposed to pick her up at the air port. Eventually though, she forgave him and joined the Air Force Academy. She was at the top of her class all the way through the academy and earned several awards, eventually earning her PhD in Astrophysics.
During the Gulf War, Sam flew through enemy airspace, logging over 100 hours. She also worked in the Pentagon for at least two years. In 1994, Sam was assigned to the Stargate Project and was one of the prominent members of the project, developing the Dialing Computer used in the SGC. At that time, she was a captain and strongly believed that she should have been involved with the Abydos mission. While she was passed over at the time, she did remain a part of the Stargate project over the course of the next year.
It was then, in 1997, that Earth’s Stargate was activated and a member of the Air Force was abducted by Apophis. It was assumed at the time that the Stargate only connected to Abydos so a team was sent there and they reacquainted themselves with Daniel Jackson. It wasn’t an entirely happy reunion. While Daniel, Sam and Jack were studying the cartouche, the Stargate was activated. Sha’re and Skaara were abducted this time, as well as several other Abydonians, and taken to Chulak. Sam used what they learned from the Abydonian cartouche to reprogram the dialing computer so that it would compensate for stellar drift before departing for the mission to Chulak, where they met Teal’c.
Sam stayed with SG-1 after that, and not long after the Abydos/Chulak mission she assisted in developing the iris for the Stargate, which kept matter from completely reintegrating.
Their next mission brought them to a planet inhabited by people who had developed to a primitive Mongol-type people who objectified women and never allowed them to speak. Sam saved a young man from the village and he, in turn, begged his father to allowed her to live. However, she was made to wear a gown, a headpiece and a veil to cover her face. She… was not pleased at how much her teammates seemed to enjoy it.Though, I’m not saying it was bad that Jack appreciated it. Her hand-to-hand combat skills were proven very useful when she fought a Mongol tribe leader to save bother her life and the life of another girl.
When next we see SG-1, they’re visiting a planet with a light and dark side, both apparently next switching. They learn that the dark side is infested with the “Touched”, people that are diseased and revert to a primitive way of survival. When SG-1, except Daniel and Teal‘c, are all infected, and the infection spreads throughout the SGC (except for Janet Frasier), time is of the essence to discover a cure. In that time, Sam throws herself at Jack as she reverted to a more primitive state of mind.
She was briefly engaged to Jonas Hanson who later joined the SGC. She broke it off when she decided her wasn’t right for her, later proven when he visited another world with his team and became obsessed with the idea of them worshipping him as their god. He was killed by the natives when SG-1 discovered the devices that could protect the people from solar radiation and activated them.
On a desolate, desert like planet, the team discovered blue crystals everywhere but they were all destroyed by what appeared to be a staff weapon, like the one Teal’c carried. Taking one back and studying it, Sam discovered that sentient beings lived within the crystals.
On the planet Hanka, Sam and the rest of SG-1 found a race of people nearly entirely wiped out. They found a survivor, Cassandra, and took her back to Earth through the Stargate. They learned that a Naquadah bomb was placed inside Cassandra and when they tried to leave her somewhere safe that wouldn’t risk destroying the Stargate or any nearby cities. Sam discovered that it was being in close proximity to the Stargate that would trigger the bomb and stayed with Cassie when the bomb was supposed to go off, regardless of O’Neill’s orders. Sam ends up growing very close to Cassie, and Janet Frasier as well after she adopts her.
By the next year, Sam was on an evacuation with the rest of SG-1. While trying to resuscitate a fallen man, she was taken as a host by the Tok’ra, Jolinar of Malkshur. The team, when they found out, mistook her for a Goa’uld and imprison red her and Sam. It was only after the symbiote sacrificed herself to save Sam when the Ashrak tried to kill her that the team accepted that there were other kinds of Goa’uld. Sam was left with many of Jolinar’s memories and the ability to operate Goa’uld technology.
She later lead SG-1 to the planet that the Tok’ra were hiding on in an attempt to build an alliance. Earlier that same day, Sam had learned that her father had cancer and was dying. While the Tok’ra attempted to hold SG-1 there, to minimize the risk of the Goa’uld finding them. With Sam’s insistence, she returned to Earth to talk to her father and, with General Hammond’s permission, revealed information about the Stargate Program and the possibility of saving his life through a blending. This created a very strong bond between the Tau’ri and Tok’ra.
Sam and the rest of SG-1, with the help of Jacob/Selmak, searched for a Goa’uld named Setesh. It appeared that he was going by Seth then, however, and was leading a cult. Attempting to infiltrate the group, Sam, Jack and Daniel are drugged by Nish’ta. Using a slight electrical charge in an earpiece, Jacob snapped them out of it. While escaping, Sam used a Kara’kesh (ribbon device) to kill Seth.
When SG-1 encountered a race of people whose children learned at an impressive rate through the use of Nan machines, Sam worked with a young girl to learn how to develop a Naquadah generator.
That same year (1999) she was promoted to Major, and Jolinar’s memories lead her to Sokar’s moon, Netu. There she found her father and Selmak, who was in bad shape. Using Jolinar’s memories, she managed to find a way to get all of SG-1 and her father off the moon and to safety.
During a foothold situation in the SGC, the Naquadah in Sam’s blood managed to keep her from being duplicated by the aliens. She contacted Maybourne in the hopes of getting help but was apprehended there by the fake Jack and Daniel. On the way back to the SGC, she spotted a fluctuation in the fake Jack’s disguise and shot and killed him and another fake before she and Maybourne questioned the fake Daniel. She managed to figure out how to disable the aliens disguises and stopped the foothold situation.
Sam was eventually responsible for building a particle accelerator to superheat the hardened Naquadah that blocked the Stargate on Edora, where Jack was trapped for about three months.
It was after that, that Thor beamed most of SG-1 up onto his ship to deal with a new threat that was focused on the Asgard: Replicators. While they were unable to take care of the problem on their own, they managed to save Thor and set up a Naquadah bomb on the deceleration drive
During season four, Sam and Jack were mistaken for Goa’uld sleeper agents called ‘Zatarc’s’ while trying to set up a meeting between the leader of the Tok’ra and the president of the United States. Sam was the one that figured out why the machine identified them as Zatarc’s and quickly told Jack before he underwent Anise’s attempt to deprogram him. It turned out they were lying, except they were lying through omission and that was regarding their feelings about each other. Sam did discover that there was a Zatarc but it was among the Tok’ra. And that turned out to be Martouf.
Sam later visited the Air Force Academy and met a promising student there that greatly reminded her of herself when she was there. However, this girl had a much more arrogant air about her which could destroy her future. To help her understand what could be, Sam took her through the Stargate to a world where Jack and Teal’c were accompanying a group of scientists. The mission took a turn for the worst when a group of native aliens comprised of pure energy attacked them but they did manage to get back to Earth.
She was next seen on an empty planet, studying a weapon before losing consciousness. When the team returned to Earth, and Sam is given a clean bill of health from Janet, Hammond gave the team some time off. It was around then that Sam was approached by a man, Orlin, who seemed to know a lot about her. She reported the incident to the SGC and cameras were installed in her home. When no one appeared within a week, they were removed only for Orlin to appear again. This leads them to believe that Sam was going crazy. Orlin, revealed to be a (formerly) Ascended being, tells Sam that he can not longer return to his non-corporeal state. He eventually built a miniature Stargate in her basement when he discovered that the SGC intended to activate the weapon on the planet Sam lost consciousness on so he could stop them. Sam followed him and held him as he died, when he was given another chance to Ascend so he could save Sam.
Sam was later abducted in order to perform experiments on her in the hopes of curing a billionaires disease. It was several days later that Hammond authorized Jack and Teal’c to investigate. Sam attempted a couple times to escape, each time failing until the billionaire, Conrad was implanted with a Goa’uld symbiote. The scientists assisting him with this project attempted to inject Sam with a fatal injection so that they could study her brain tissue, to learn how to remove the symbiote. She was rescued just in time by Jack and Maybourne. Conrad, under the control of the Goa’uld, escaped and when confronted in the basement by Jack, he was shot and the Goa’uld escaped with a member of the NID, Simmons. Sam found Jack there.
In season six, ten months after the incident with Conrad, Sam investigated the disappearance and subsequent death of a scientist with Teal’c and Jonas Quinn. They found a town with people who acted oddly and the lab that the scientist worked at had been burned down. Investigating his home, they found a package being delivered with a syringe. That night they discovered that people were acting even more oddly and didn’t remember the events of the previous night the next morning. It was Sam that discovered that the people acting strangely had cloned Goa’uld inside them. They were captured and Sam was infested with one of the clones Goa’uld but the serum in the syringe kept it from taking control and she later explained that they weren’t fully matured which was why they only took over at night.
During ‘Paradise Lost’ when Jack and Maybourne were lost through some strange transporter, Sam spent countless hours, over the next month, on the planet it happened on to find a way to get Jack back (Maybourne too but he’s not who she was focused on). Studying pictures back at the SGC, Sam discovered that Jack and Maybourne had been transported to the planets moon. With that knowledge, they were able to rescue the two of them.
In ‘Space Race’ Sam revealed her deeply hidden need for speed. Using a Naquadah generator, she bartered her way into a Serrakin race that could very well lead to her death. Though the race was rigged, Sam was a great asset to the pilot and they came very close to winning. Sam later admitted that she was looking forward to winning the next years race.
An accident during one of the Prometheus’ flights, and an attack from an unknown vessel, leaves Sam stranded alone on the ship with a head injury. She continuously suffered from hallucinations, each one urging her to stay awake and helping her find a solution. Her hallucination of Jack actually insisted that she call him ‘Jack’ rather than ‘sir’. Daniel, Teal’c, Jacob and a little girl named Grace all appeared to her. Grace was eventually the hallucination that showed her exactly how to escape and how to save the rest of the crew. Back in the SGC, Sam woke up and accidentally called the real Jack by his name.
In ‘Chimera’, Sam started a relationship with a Pete Shanahan, a man she’d later be engaged to. Their relationship moved quickly. After sleeping together, Pete revealed to Sam that he was divorced as well as a love for classic police sitcoms. Knowing that what she did was not only top-secret but also incredibly dangerous, she refused to tell him much of anything. Not accepting that, he went to a friend of his in the FBI for a background check, which turned up nothing. Daniel revealed to Sam and Teal’c that he’d been having odd dreams and discover that Osiris had been probing his mind during the night. When attempting to capture her, Pete intervened and was injured. After the capture of Osiris and the symbiote was removed from the hosts body, Sam revealed what she was authorized to reveal to Pete.
Only a couple episodes later, ‘Heroes’, the SGC was part of documentary for high ranking officials. During an off world mission, Janet Frasier was killed. She was a close friend of Sam’s, having adopted Cassandra several years before. Sam was asked to give the eulogy for Janet though she had difficulty finding the words she wanted to say. With Teal’c’s help, Sam found what she wanted to say and announced the names of everyone that Janet had saved.
Jack eventually downloaded the Ancient database again and in ‘New Order’, Sam was determined to find a way to save him. She suggested modifying a Teltak so they could travel far enough and fast enough to contact the Asgard to help him like they did the first time. During the attempt, and after learning that the Asgard had turned their own sun into a black hole, they were saved by Thor. Not long after though, Sam was kidnapped by the Replicators who had learned how to reverse the time dilation field. She was held hostage by the human-form Replicator, Fifth, who admitted to loving her. Fifth would then manipulate her mind, creating a fantasy of living in Montana with Pete. However, Sam wasn’t fooled and Fifth revealed himself. She told him she can’t love him and he threatens to make her very unhappy. Capturing a human-form Replicator helped Thor and the rest of SG-1 find where Sam was. During the attempted rescue, Fifth threatened to kill Sam. She managed to talk sense to him shortly after though and the Replicators left Orilla. Before the end of the episode, Jack was promoted to Brigadier General and his first act was to promote Sam to Lieutenant Colonel.
During ‘Affinity’ Sam questioned whether she could have a life with Pete, whether she could have a child and go on with her duties as part of SG-1 despite Jack’s assurances that quite a few people in the SGC have families and do that very thing.
The SGC is later contact by Repli-Carter, who wished for them to end her life and informed them that Fifth is on his way to the Milky Way Galaxy. She managed to get the team on Earth to trust he, saying that the Replicators were immune to the weapon that Jack and the Asgard developed, except herself. Learning that Fifth was almost there, Jack assigned Carter and Repli-Carter an hour to get the disruptor ready. That was all the time needed for Repli-Carter to create a cipher that really gave the Replicators immunity to the disruptor and escaped through the Stargate. Teal’c managed to grab her arm before she went through but she left it behind. Carter assured them that she’d be carefully studying the Replicator blocks left behind to find a way to defeat the Replicators for good.
Next, Sam discovered that her Replicator double had captured Daniel and was attempting to probe his mind for information. Carter and Jacob managed to beat Repli-Carter to Dakara. She figured out how to decode the writings that blocked their way to the weapon then worked with her father to stop the spreading threat of the Replicators through the use of that weapon. It was only with Ba’al’s help, a Goa’uld System Lord, that they were able to make the weapon work all through the galaxy since he was the only one that could connect and open every Stargate in the galaxy at the same time.
The next episode, ‘Threads’, directly followed the defeat of the Replicators. Sam brought Pete to the SGC to meet her father and his symbiote, Selmak. The first meeting did… not go well. Pete attempted to joke about the symbiote that Jacob carried and smirked like an idiot. Sam spent as much time as possible with her father, noticing a distinct lack of appetite and noted that her father only said “He seems nice.” in regards to Pete. Later, Jack and Selmak were in agreement that nobody should hold all the power that the Dakara Superweapon holds, when the Jaffa refused to destroy it. Pete later surprised Sam with a house he had placed a down-payment on it for them for after their wedding, saying it was exactly like the one she had described except the kitchen wasn’t yellow. Already, Sam was feeling overwhelmed. She ended up visiting Jack at home, hoping to talk to him about it and to admit some of her feelings, only to find his girlfriend, the CIA agent, Kerry there. Carter to felt an obvious sense of jealousy towards Jack’s relationship with a CIA operative but suppressed it. During the visit, Sam got a call from the SGC about her father. Rushing back to the base, Sam discovered that Selmak was dying and her father was dying with him. Sam informed him not long after that many Tok’ra were coming to pay their respects and Sam tried to find a way to save Jacob but there was nothing. He gave her a small speech then about letting regulations get in her way of happiness, knowing her feelings about Jack even though neither Sam nor Jack would opening admit it. While the Tok’ra were paying their respects, Jack attempted to comfort Sam who admitted that Selmak had helped her reconnect with her father in a way she never though possible. Only moments later, she went down to give her father a final goodbye and he died. After his death, Sam talked to Pete about their engagement and broke it off, breaking Pete’s heart in the process. The episode ended with SG-1 fishing at Jack’s cabin.
ABILITIES:
Fantastic aim: She can shoot a rope over 200 feet away using an FN-P90 which is typically only barely accurate enough for combat situations.
Hand-to-hand combat: Level 3 Advanced according to Sam herself in the series.
Pilot: While she doesn’t wear wings on her uniform, she is a pilot and flew F-16’s, logging over 100 hours in enemy airspace during the Gulf War.
Naquadah in her blood: As a former Tok’ra host, Sam has Naquadah in her blood that allows her to use Goa’uld technology such as the healing device and the ribbon device as well as several other goa‘uld pieces of techonology. It also allows her to identify any Jaffa, Tok’ra or Goa’uld because she can sense the Naquadah inside them as well. Jolinar’s former residence inside Sam also left a protein marker in her blood. Due to the Naquadah in her blood, it also takes larger doses of certain types of drugs to affect her. In a couple episodes, it was difficult to keep Sam sedated because of this.
Jolinar‘s memories: Sam has retained most of Jolinar’s memories, despite how short a time the two of them were blended.
Understands Goa’uld: Pretty easily explained. Her time as a host to Jolinar allowed her to learn and understand the Goa’uld’s language.
She’s an astrophysicist, has a PhD, topped all her classes in the Air Force Academy, a strong knowledge of mathematics, physics, chemistry and engineering, helped develop Earth’s ships, built the DHD used in Stargate Command, has a doctorate in Theoretical Astrophysics, has studied wormhole theory and nanotechnology, developed the UAV used on off-world exploration missions, developed a Naquadah bomb, incredibly talented with software programming, minor mechanical expertise (works on her motorcycle during her time off) and has some medical knowledge (she’s helped Janet with medical investigations or done them by herself.) She’s also able to pick locks.
THIRD-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE:
It was supposed to be a quiet day that the SGC. Supposed to be. It wasn’t. SG-15 came in hot with a group of Jaffa on their tails. Only a couple got through before the iris was closed but it was enough to warrant concern. Sam had remained in her lab, studying a piece of technology that SG-3 had brought back the day before. It really was an amazing piece of work, possibly Asgard but there was something missing from it.
The coding behind it was similar to Asgard but only just. Just enough that, if anyone else were to study it, they’d assume it was. Sam knew better. She'd worked with Asgard technology often enough that she could recognize the subtle differences. Only a few hours of work later, Sam came to a startling discovery. It was a bomb. A very advanced bomb unlike what they'd seen before. There was a small block of naquadah in the core of it, shielded so that their preliminary scans wouldn't pick it up. How the hell had they managed to replicate enough of Asgard technology and coding to get this past them? In seconds she closed the distance between her desk and the emergency line.
"Emergency in the labs." She explained the situation as quickly as she could before grabbing the device and moving as quickly as she could to get the bomb through the gate and as far away from Earth and the SGC as possible. In a briefing following the incident, Sam accounted what had happened and how she found it.
"As far as I can tell, sir, they managed to get a hold of a piece of Asgard technology. Possibly something that wasn't destroyed with Hala or Orilla and they reverse-engineered it. Theoretically, they could have altered their shielding technology so it worked as a sort of cloak, similar to Nirrti's cloak but not to cause invisibility. It prevented us from detecting the Naquadah in the core. It wasn't until I studied some of the programming that I realized we had something completely different from what we'd hoped. I think that I can alter our methods of scanning now though, sir, so that we can prevent this from happening again."
FIRST-PERSON JOURNAL SAMPLE:
[Written]
My name Colonel Samantha Carter, I serve in the United States Air Force.
[Cover story~]
I can’t say I expected to be randomly brought to some magical castle on… what, another world? When I headed into work this morning. I can’t exactly complain, this is a fantastic opportunity to study the culture. Daniel would probably spend plenty of time studying the architecture and any book he could get his hands on.
I’ll have to take a few notes if he shows up, somehow.
[All the research now plz~]
I’m going to need a telescope. And a laptop. Star charts as well, if anyone has some. I suppose that's the best I can hope for here.
INTENT: Sam is smarter then me, that’s already an attention grabber. And she’s a member of the air force, travels to other planets. Everything I wanted to be when I was in CAP. That, and she’s awesome. Plus, castmates~
NAME: Vex
PERSONAL JOURNAL:
yeshallbeasgodsEMAIL: within_eternal_dreams@yahoo.com
AIM: turbotracy14
WIKI NAME: N/A
CURRENT CHARACTERS: N/A
CHARACTER
CHARACTER NAME: Samantha Carter
SERIES: Stargate SG-1
CANON POINT: A couple days after her fathers death, Season 8 episode 18
LOSS: Jolinar's memories. The memories left behind by the Tok'ra, Jolinar, have helped SG-1 on several occasions so the loss of them would not only mess with her head for awhile but she'd be a bit confused about the use of Goa'uld tech.
ABOUT THE CHARACTER:
First off, Sam is not religious. Her dog-tags identify her as Roman Catholic but, at one point in the series, Sam mentioned to Mitchell that, even after spending a decade proving to people around the galaxy that their gods were false, she hoped there was a God or something waiting for her when she died. Her actress has stated that believes Carter to be religious but not the type to follow organized religion.
She also tends to get caught up when she’s discussing anything scientific that she’s studying or caught interest in, often taking things a little too far and not realizing that the other people she’s discussing this with don’t quite speak the lingo.
Sam drinks water mostly, but she’ll also drink beer and prefers diet cola over regular. She likes herbal teas and mochaccinos as well. Her favorite dessert is blue jello and might enjoy macaroons, it’s possible that Cameron’s attempt at baking just sucked.
Sam also, apparently, has a habit of chewing her nails. We only see this in one episode I believe but it’s enough to assume there’s a habit there. Mostly likely when she’s nervous or stressed.
In her free time, Sam has admitted to having a bit of a need for speed, satisfied on Earth by riding her motorcycle. She also regularly works out at a fitness center near her home, plays chess and likes to nitpick at science fiction films when they get things wrong. Sam is also a pretty good dancer, apparently, when properly motivated. Otherwise, her work is play, she enjoys it and often spends far to much time at it.
When it comes to certain people… She’ll get stubborn and petulant, not giving up on helping them. This is often the case when anything happens to her immediate superior, Jack O’Neill. But it’s not restricted to him, Daniel and Teal’c are (almost) as important to her.
Add to that, she has a strong moral compass and if willing to sacrifice herself if it means saving others. Even if those people are complete strangers or don’t want her help, she’ll still try her damndest. She’ll also try to make sure that no one else is hurt while trying to help others.
Personality:
Sam is a focused and enthusiastic individual when it comes to her work with the Stargate program and with alien technologies they encounter. Much of her free time is spent in her lab studying the technology they find, even when SG-1 is on leave. Away from work, Sam continues to enjoy working by either working on her motorcycle or writing a book on wormhole physics.
Her responsibilities as an officer are something she takes very seriously. When meeting with a cadet at the Airforce Academy, Sam rides her until she realizes that being the best doesn’t give license to be an ass and even takes her to the SGC so the girl will realize what’s waiting for her if she doesn’t get kicked out of the academy. No slave to the rule, Sam will still respect those in her direct Chain of Command, such as Jack or General Hammond.
Sam has a problem maintaining long term relationships, likely due to the fact that they have a habit of dying. She’s very close to the rest of SG-1; sharing a fascination for new discoveries with Daniel, earning Teal’c’s respect and having strong feelings for O’Neill (feelings that she denies). In the SGC, she has grown close to Janet Frasier through her adopted daughter, Cassandra, who SG-1 found off world. And she has grown close to Hammond as well, him acting as sort of a second father to Sam.
Sam reacts to fear in a different way than most people. As a trained Air Force officer, and a member of SG-1 for ten years, Sam doesn't let fear paralyze her. Yes, she still feels fear, that increase in heart rate and maybe even a little sweat but she moves to act. Depending on the situation, she'll find cover, gather information or contact someone for backup. It all depends on the situation she finds herself in.
Anger is quite different. While Sam is typically a very collected person, and we rarely see her angry side (which says quite a lot for her patience and self control), threats against her friends and teammates can very well upset her. And to that end, she'll react a bit recklessly to help them. This may result in capture by Jaffa, goa'uld, Ori, what have you.
As I mentioned just a moment ago, Sam is extraordinarily patient. It doesn't matter who with, either but they are given all of Sam's patience. This is very good for when SG-1 first encounters new people on new planets.
When upset, sad or depressed, Sam reacts the same as anyone else. It hurts and she's not going to deny that. She will however put on a calm facade and continue about her day, mourning on her own where no one will see. She doesn't want anyone to see her upset. The exception to this being her team, SG-1, as well as anyone that she's gotten close to.
Inner conflicts, Sam has quite a few of them. Many of which involve having relationships. She can't tell them the truth about her job, can't tell them that she'll be gone for a week while she explores a planet on the far edge of the Milky Way galaxy or while she stops a strange alien disease from infection all of earths population. She also can't have that relationship with Jack O'Neill that they both want. And this is purely out of professionalism. Sam doesn't want Jack to have to retire for her, and Jack won't place her job in jeopardy. It's a conflict that has no real solution unless one of them quits.
History:
Samantha is that daughter of Air Force General Jacob Carter, her mother is unnamed but the series revealed that she was in a fatal car accident when Sam was a teenager. She has one brother, Mark, who has two children himself. His running late caused her to take a taxi and then the accident. Sam spent many years blaming her father for it, since he was supposed to pick her up at the air port. Eventually though, she forgave him and joined the Air Force Academy. She was at the top of her class all the way through the academy and earned several awards, eventually earning her PhD in Astrophysics.
During the Gulf War, Sam flew through enemy airspace, logging over 100 hours. She also worked in the Pentagon for at least two years. In 1994, Sam was assigned to the Stargate Project and was one of the prominent members of the project, developing the Dialing Computer used in the SGC. At that time, she was a captain and strongly believed that she should have been involved with the Abydos mission. While she was passed over at the time, she did remain a part of the Stargate project over the course of the next year.
It was then, in 1997, that Earth’s Stargate was activated and a member of the Air Force was abducted by Apophis. It was assumed at the time that the Stargate only connected to Abydos so a team was sent there and they reacquainted themselves with Daniel Jackson. It wasn’t an entirely happy reunion. While Daniel, Sam and Jack were studying the cartouche, the Stargate was activated. Sha’re and Skaara were abducted this time, as well as several other Abydonians, and taken to Chulak. Sam used what they learned from the Abydonian cartouche to reprogram the dialing computer so that it would compensate for stellar drift before departing for the mission to Chulak, where they met Teal’c.
Sam stayed with SG-1 after that, and not long after the Abydos/Chulak mission she assisted in developing the iris for the Stargate, which kept matter from completely reintegrating.
Their next mission brought them to a planet inhabited by people who had developed to a primitive Mongol-type people who objectified women and never allowed them to speak. Sam saved a young man from the village and he, in turn, begged his father to allowed her to live. However, she was made to wear a gown, a headpiece and a veil to cover her face. She… was not pleased at how much her teammates seemed to enjoy it.
When next we see SG-1, they’re visiting a planet with a light and dark side, both apparently next switching. They learn that the dark side is infested with the “Touched”, people that are diseased and revert to a primitive way of survival. When SG-1, except Daniel and Teal‘c, are all infected, and the infection spreads throughout the SGC (except for Janet Frasier), time is of the essence to discover a cure. In that time, Sam throws herself at Jack as she reverted to a more primitive state of mind.
She was briefly engaged to Jonas Hanson who later joined the SGC. She broke it off when she decided her wasn’t right for her, later proven when he visited another world with his team and became obsessed with the idea of them worshipping him as their god. He was killed by the natives when SG-1 discovered the devices that could protect the people from solar radiation and activated them.
On a desolate, desert like planet, the team discovered blue crystals everywhere but they were all destroyed by what appeared to be a staff weapon, like the one Teal’c carried. Taking one back and studying it, Sam discovered that sentient beings lived within the crystals.
On the planet Hanka, Sam and the rest of SG-1 found a race of people nearly entirely wiped out. They found a survivor, Cassandra, and took her back to Earth through the Stargate. They learned that a Naquadah bomb was placed inside Cassandra and when they tried to leave her somewhere safe that wouldn’t risk destroying the Stargate or any nearby cities. Sam discovered that it was being in close proximity to the Stargate that would trigger the bomb and stayed with Cassie when the bomb was supposed to go off, regardless of O’Neill’s orders. Sam ends up growing very close to Cassie, and Janet Frasier as well after she adopts her.
By the next year, Sam was on an evacuation with the rest of SG-1. While trying to resuscitate a fallen man, she was taken as a host by the Tok’ra, Jolinar of Malkshur. The team, when they found out, mistook her for a Goa’uld and imprison red her and Sam. It was only after the symbiote sacrificed herself to save Sam when the Ashrak tried to kill her that the team accepted that there were other kinds of Goa’uld. Sam was left with many of Jolinar’s memories and the ability to operate Goa’uld technology.
She later lead SG-1 to the planet that the Tok’ra were hiding on in an attempt to build an alliance. Earlier that same day, Sam had learned that her father had cancer and was dying. While the Tok’ra attempted to hold SG-1 there, to minimize the risk of the Goa’uld finding them. With Sam’s insistence, she returned to Earth to talk to her father and, with General Hammond’s permission, revealed information about the Stargate Program and the possibility of saving his life through a blending. This created a very strong bond between the Tau’ri and Tok’ra.
Sam and the rest of SG-1, with the help of Jacob/Selmak, searched for a Goa’uld named Setesh. It appeared that he was going by Seth then, however, and was leading a cult. Attempting to infiltrate the group, Sam, Jack and Daniel are drugged by Nish’ta. Using a slight electrical charge in an earpiece, Jacob snapped them out of it. While escaping, Sam used a Kara’kesh (ribbon device) to kill Seth.
When SG-1 encountered a race of people whose children learned at an impressive rate through the use of Nan machines, Sam worked with a young girl to learn how to develop a Naquadah generator.
That same year (1999) she was promoted to Major, and Jolinar’s memories lead her to Sokar’s moon, Netu. There she found her father and Selmak, who was in bad shape. Using Jolinar’s memories, she managed to find a way to get all of SG-1 and her father off the moon and to safety.
During a foothold situation in the SGC, the Naquadah in Sam’s blood managed to keep her from being duplicated by the aliens. She contacted Maybourne in the hopes of getting help but was apprehended there by the fake Jack and Daniel. On the way back to the SGC, she spotted a fluctuation in the fake Jack’s disguise and shot and killed him and another fake before she and Maybourne questioned the fake Daniel. She managed to figure out how to disable the aliens disguises and stopped the foothold situation.
Sam was eventually responsible for building a particle accelerator to superheat the hardened Naquadah that blocked the Stargate on Edora, where Jack was trapped for about three months.
It was after that, that Thor beamed most of SG-1 up onto his ship to deal with a new threat that was focused on the Asgard: Replicators. While they were unable to take care of the problem on their own, they managed to save Thor and set up a Naquadah bomb on the deceleration drive
During season four, Sam and Jack were mistaken for Goa’uld sleeper agents called ‘Zatarc’s’ while trying to set up a meeting between the leader of the Tok’ra and the president of the United States. Sam was the one that figured out why the machine identified them as Zatarc’s and quickly told Jack before he underwent Anise’s attempt to deprogram him. It turned out they were lying, except they were lying through omission and that was regarding their feelings about each other. Sam did discover that there was a Zatarc but it was among the Tok’ra. And that turned out to be Martouf.
Sam later visited the Air Force Academy and met a promising student there that greatly reminded her of herself when she was there. However, this girl had a much more arrogant air about her which could destroy her future. To help her understand what could be, Sam took her through the Stargate to a world where Jack and Teal’c were accompanying a group of scientists. The mission took a turn for the worst when a group of native aliens comprised of pure energy attacked them but they did manage to get back to Earth.
She was next seen on an empty planet, studying a weapon before losing consciousness. When the team returned to Earth, and Sam is given a clean bill of health from Janet, Hammond gave the team some time off. It was around then that Sam was approached by a man, Orlin, who seemed to know a lot about her. She reported the incident to the SGC and cameras were installed in her home. When no one appeared within a week, they were removed only for Orlin to appear again. This leads them to believe that Sam was going crazy. Orlin, revealed to be a (formerly) Ascended being, tells Sam that he can not longer return to his non-corporeal state. He eventually built a miniature Stargate in her basement when he discovered that the SGC intended to activate the weapon on the planet Sam lost consciousness on so he could stop them. Sam followed him and held him as he died, when he was given another chance to Ascend so he could save Sam.
Sam was later abducted in order to perform experiments on her in the hopes of curing a billionaires disease. It was several days later that Hammond authorized Jack and Teal’c to investigate. Sam attempted a couple times to escape, each time failing until the billionaire, Conrad was implanted with a Goa’uld symbiote. The scientists assisting him with this project attempted to inject Sam with a fatal injection so that they could study her brain tissue, to learn how to remove the symbiote. She was rescued just in time by Jack and Maybourne. Conrad, under the control of the Goa’uld, escaped and when confronted in the basement by Jack, he was shot and the Goa’uld escaped with a member of the NID, Simmons. Sam found Jack there.
In season six, ten months after the incident with Conrad, Sam investigated the disappearance and subsequent death of a scientist with Teal’c and Jonas Quinn. They found a town with people who acted oddly and the lab that the scientist worked at had been burned down. Investigating his home, they found a package being delivered with a syringe. That night they discovered that people were acting even more oddly and didn’t remember the events of the previous night the next morning. It was Sam that discovered that the people acting strangely had cloned Goa’uld inside them. They were captured and Sam was infested with one of the clones Goa’uld but the serum in the syringe kept it from taking control and she later explained that they weren’t fully matured which was why they only took over at night.
During ‘Paradise Lost’ when Jack and Maybourne were lost through some strange transporter, Sam spent countless hours, over the next month, on the planet it happened on to find a way to get Jack back (Maybourne too but he’s not who she was focused on). Studying pictures back at the SGC, Sam discovered that Jack and Maybourne had been transported to the planets moon. With that knowledge, they were able to rescue the two of them.
In ‘Space Race’ Sam revealed her deeply hidden need for speed. Using a Naquadah generator, she bartered her way into a Serrakin race that could very well lead to her death. Though the race was rigged, Sam was a great asset to the pilot and they came very close to winning. Sam later admitted that she was looking forward to winning the next years race.
An accident during one of the Prometheus’ flights, and an attack from an unknown vessel, leaves Sam stranded alone on the ship with a head injury. She continuously suffered from hallucinations, each one urging her to stay awake and helping her find a solution. Her hallucination of Jack actually insisted that she call him ‘Jack’ rather than ‘sir’. Daniel, Teal’c, Jacob and a little girl named Grace all appeared to her. Grace was eventually the hallucination that showed her exactly how to escape and how to save the rest of the crew. Back in the SGC, Sam woke up and accidentally called the real Jack by his name.
In ‘Chimera’, Sam started a relationship with a Pete Shanahan, a man she’d later be engaged to. Their relationship moved quickly. After sleeping together, Pete revealed to Sam that he was divorced as well as a love for classic police sitcoms. Knowing that what she did was not only top-secret but also incredibly dangerous, she refused to tell him much of anything. Not accepting that, he went to a friend of his in the FBI for a background check, which turned up nothing. Daniel revealed to Sam and Teal’c that he’d been having odd dreams and discover that Osiris had been probing his mind during the night. When attempting to capture her, Pete intervened and was injured. After the capture of Osiris and the symbiote was removed from the hosts body, Sam revealed what she was authorized to reveal to Pete.
Only a couple episodes later, ‘Heroes’, the SGC was part of documentary for high ranking officials. During an off world mission, Janet Frasier was killed. She was a close friend of Sam’s, having adopted Cassandra several years before. Sam was asked to give the eulogy for Janet though she had difficulty finding the words she wanted to say. With Teal’c’s help, Sam found what she wanted to say and announced the names of everyone that Janet had saved.
Jack eventually downloaded the Ancient database again and in ‘New Order’, Sam was determined to find a way to save him. She suggested modifying a Teltak so they could travel far enough and fast enough to contact the Asgard to help him like they did the first time. During the attempt, and after learning that the Asgard had turned their own sun into a black hole, they were saved by Thor. Not long after though, Sam was kidnapped by the Replicators who had learned how to reverse the time dilation field. She was held hostage by the human-form Replicator, Fifth, who admitted to loving her. Fifth would then manipulate her mind, creating a fantasy of living in Montana with Pete. However, Sam wasn’t fooled and Fifth revealed himself. She told him she can’t love him and he threatens to make her very unhappy. Capturing a human-form Replicator helped Thor and the rest of SG-1 find where Sam was. During the attempted rescue, Fifth threatened to kill Sam. She managed to talk sense to him shortly after though and the Replicators left Orilla. Before the end of the episode, Jack was promoted to Brigadier General and his first act was to promote Sam to Lieutenant Colonel.
During ‘Affinity’ Sam questioned whether she could have a life with Pete, whether she could have a child and go on with her duties as part of SG-1 despite Jack’s assurances that quite a few people in the SGC have families and do that very thing.
The SGC is later contact by Repli-Carter, who wished for them to end her life and informed them that Fifth is on his way to the Milky Way Galaxy. She managed to get the team on Earth to trust he, saying that the Replicators were immune to the weapon that Jack and the Asgard developed, except herself. Learning that Fifth was almost there, Jack assigned Carter and Repli-Carter an hour to get the disruptor ready. That was all the time needed for Repli-Carter to create a cipher that really gave the Replicators immunity to the disruptor and escaped through the Stargate. Teal’c managed to grab her arm before she went through but she left it behind. Carter assured them that she’d be carefully studying the Replicator blocks left behind to find a way to defeat the Replicators for good.
Next, Sam discovered that her Replicator double had captured Daniel and was attempting to probe his mind for information. Carter and Jacob managed to beat Repli-Carter to Dakara. She figured out how to decode the writings that blocked their way to the weapon then worked with her father to stop the spreading threat of the Replicators through the use of that weapon. It was only with Ba’al’s help, a Goa’uld System Lord, that they were able to make the weapon work all through the galaxy since he was the only one that could connect and open every Stargate in the galaxy at the same time.
The next episode, ‘Threads’, directly followed the defeat of the Replicators. Sam brought Pete to the SGC to meet her father and his symbiote, Selmak. The first meeting did… not go well. Pete attempted to joke about the symbiote that Jacob carried and smirked like an idiot. Sam spent as much time as possible with her father, noticing a distinct lack of appetite and noted that her father only said “He seems nice.” in regards to Pete. Later, Jack and Selmak were in agreement that nobody should hold all the power that the Dakara Superweapon holds, when the Jaffa refused to destroy it. Pete later surprised Sam with a house he had placed a down-payment on it for them for after their wedding, saying it was exactly like the one she had described except the kitchen wasn’t yellow. Already, Sam was feeling overwhelmed. She ended up visiting Jack at home, hoping to talk to him about it and to admit some of her feelings, only to find his girlfriend, the CIA agent, Kerry there. Carter to felt an obvious sense of jealousy towards Jack’s relationship with a CIA operative but suppressed it. During the visit, Sam got a call from the SGC about her father. Rushing back to the base, Sam discovered that Selmak was dying and her father was dying with him. Sam informed him not long after that many Tok’ra were coming to pay their respects and Sam tried to find a way to save Jacob but there was nothing. He gave her a small speech then about letting regulations get in her way of happiness, knowing her feelings about Jack even though neither Sam nor Jack would opening admit it. While the Tok’ra were paying their respects, Jack attempted to comfort Sam who admitted that Selmak had helped her reconnect with her father in a way she never though possible. Only moments later, she went down to give her father a final goodbye and he died. After his death, Sam talked to Pete about their engagement and broke it off, breaking Pete’s heart in the process. The episode ended with SG-1 fishing at Jack’s cabin.
ABILITIES:
Fantastic aim: She can shoot a rope over 200 feet away using an FN-P90 which is typically only barely accurate enough for combat situations.
Hand-to-hand combat: Level 3 Advanced according to Sam herself in the series.
Pilot: While she doesn’t wear wings on her uniform, she is a pilot and flew F-16’s, logging over 100 hours in enemy airspace during the Gulf War.
Naquadah in her blood: As a former Tok’ra host, Sam has Naquadah in her blood that allows her to use Goa’uld technology such as the healing device and the ribbon device as well as several other goa‘uld pieces of techonology. It also allows her to identify any Jaffa, Tok’ra or Goa’uld because she can sense the Naquadah inside them as well. Jolinar’s former residence inside Sam also left a protein marker in her blood. Due to the Naquadah in her blood, it also takes larger doses of certain types of drugs to affect her. In a couple episodes, it was difficult to keep Sam sedated because of this.
Jolinar‘s memories: Sam has retained most of Jolinar’s memories, despite how short a time the two of them were blended.
Understands Goa’uld: Pretty easily explained. Her time as a host to Jolinar allowed her to learn and understand the Goa’uld’s language.
She’s an astrophysicist, has a PhD, topped all her classes in the Air Force Academy, a strong knowledge of mathematics, physics, chemistry and engineering, helped develop Earth’s ships, built the DHD used in Stargate Command, has a doctorate in Theoretical Astrophysics, has studied wormhole theory and nanotechnology, developed the UAV used on off-world exploration missions, developed a Naquadah bomb, incredibly talented with software programming, minor mechanical expertise (works on her motorcycle during her time off) and has some medical knowledge (she’s helped Janet with medical investigations or done them by herself.) She’s also able to pick locks.
THIRD-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE:
It was supposed to be a quiet day that the SGC. Supposed to be. It wasn’t. SG-15 came in hot with a group of Jaffa on their tails. Only a couple got through before the iris was closed but it was enough to warrant concern. Sam had remained in her lab, studying a piece of technology that SG-3 had brought back the day before. It really was an amazing piece of work, possibly Asgard but there was something missing from it.
The coding behind it was similar to Asgard but only just. Just enough that, if anyone else were to study it, they’d assume it was. Sam knew better. She'd worked with Asgard technology often enough that she could recognize the subtle differences. Only a few hours of work later, Sam came to a startling discovery. It was a bomb. A very advanced bomb unlike what they'd seen before. There was a small block of naquadah in the core of it, shielded so that their preliminary scans wouldn't pick it up. How the hell had they managed to replicate enough of Asgard technology and coding to get this past them? In seconds she closed the distance between her desk and the emergency line.
"Emergency in the labs." She explained the situation as quickly as she could before grabbing the device and moving as quickly as she could to get the bomb through the gate and as far away from Earth and the SGC as possible. In a briefing following the incident, Sam accounted what had happened and how she found it.
"As far as I can tell, sir, they managed to get a hold of a piece of Asgard technology. Possibly something that wasn't destroyed with Hala or Orilla and they reverse-engineered it. Theoretically, they could have altered their shielding technology so it worked as a sort of cloak, similar to Nirrti's cloak but not to cause invisibility. It prevented us from detecting the Naquadah in the core. It wasn't until I studied some of the programming that I realized we had something completely different from what we'd hoped. I think that I can alter our methods of scanning now though, sir, so that we can prevent this from happening again."
FIRST-PERSON JOURNAL SAMPLE:
[Written]
My name Colonel Samantha Carter, I serve in the United States Air Force.
[Cover story~]
I can’t say I expected to be randomly brought to some magical castle on… what, another world? When I headed into work this morning. I can’t exactly complain, this is a fantastic opportunity to study the culture. Daniel would probably spend plenty of time studying the architecture and any book he could get his hands on.
I’ll have to take a few notes if he shows up, somehow.
[All the research now plz~]
I’m going to need a telescope. And a laptop. Star charts as well, if anyone has some. I suppose that's the best I can hope for here.
INTENT: Sam is smarter then me, that’s already an attention grabber. And she’s a member of the air force, travels to other planets. Everything I wanted to be when I was in CAP. That, and she’s awesome. Plus, castmates~