Samantha Carter

Samantha "Sam" Carter is a fictional character in the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1, played by English-Canadian actress Amanda Tapping.

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Fictional character - Science fiction - Television - Stargate SG-1 - Canadian - Amanda Tapping

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Samantha Carter joined Stargate Command from the Pentagon, having worked for several years trying to get the stargate operational. She has a Ph.D. in astrophysics and "logged over 100 hours in enemy airspace" during the 1990–91 Gulf War.

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Stargate Command - Ph.D. - Astrophysics - 1990 - 91 - Gulf War

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Carter joined SG-1 in the pilot episode, Children of the Gods, as a Captain. She was once engaged to Lt. Jonas Hansen, seen in the episode The First Commandment.

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SG-1 - Children of the Gods - Captain - The First Commandment

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Sam's family includes her father, Major General Jacob Carter, her brother, Mark Carter, and his two children. Her mother died in a car accident when she was a teenager, an incident that caused much strife between Sam, Mark, and Jacob.

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Major General - Jacob Carter - Mark Carter

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In the episode In the Line of Duty, Sam came under the control of the Tok'ra Jolinar while aiding in the evacuation of the Nasyan people, as they had come under Goa'uld attack. Jolinar was later killed by an Ashrak sent by Cronos while she was held captive by Stargate Command.

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In the Line of Duty - Tok'ra - Jolinar - Nasyan - Goa'uld - Ashrak - Cronos - Stargate Command

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Sam retained many of Jolinar's memories and in the episode The Tok'ra, those memories allowed SG-1 to travel to a Tok'ra base and gain their first true ally in the fight against the Goa'uld. Samantha Carter's father, Jacob Carter, a retired general dying from cancer, became a host to one of the Tok'ra whose host was dying at the time. Because of this, Jacob and the Tok'ra Selmak were able to serve as the liaison between Earth and the Tok'ra.

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The Tok'ra - Selmak

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She was promoted to the rank of Major in the third-season episode Fair Game.

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Major - Fair Game

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Sam's encounter with Jolinar assists her in detecting Goa'uld presence. Now having naquadah in her blood, she has also been able to activate certain Goa'uld technology which typically was Goa'uld only, specifically the Healing Device and Ribbon Device. It has also left her with a specific chemical marker only present in ex-hosts, which made her immune to Machello's Goa'uld-killing invention in the episode "Legacy".

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Naquadah - Healing Device - Ribbon Device - Machello

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While attempting to reverse the Asgard time device placed on Halla to stop the Replicator invasion, she and SG-1 were captured by humanoid replicators. She had a particular bond with the humanoid replicator Fifth, arguing that he was more human than the others, with ethics and feelings. She convinced Fifth to help them escape the others, and for him to follow. She reset the time device to freeze time down so that a few seconds to the replicators would actually be about two years to the rest of the universe. Colonel O'Neill secretly told her to set it shorter than planned, and Fifth was frozen in time with the others.

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Asgard - Replicator

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After the death of Dr. Janet Fraiser, she had the honor of giving the eulogy at the services. She spent hours trying to find the right words to fit the situation, and with help from Teal'c, the eulogy consisted of the names of the many people who Dr. Frasier had saved during her time at the SGC, beginning with Sam herself.

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She began dating Pete Shanahan (Played by David DeLuise) in the second half of Season Seven. She found it hard not disclosing her "day job" to him. What made it harder was the fact that Pete was a Police Detective. He eventually found out by secretly following Sam around up to her (and SG-1's) confrontation outside Daniel Jackson's house with Osiris.

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David DeLuise - Daniel Jackson - Osiris

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When seeking Thor's help to save Colonel Jack O'Neill from the Ancient Knowledge in his mind, she was captured by the humanoid replicator Fifth and tortured as revenge for leaving him frozen in time on Othala. She woke up to find herself on a farm in rural Montana, living with Pete Shanahan. It was, however, a simulation created by Fifth to attempt to convince her to stay with him. After she admitted that she would rather die than be trapped in such a way, he released her and escaped into space as SG-1 and the Asgard found a way to combat the replicators. Shortly thereafter, Fifth welcomed a new humanoid replicator into existence...identical to Sam.

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Thor - Jack O'Neill - Montana

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Throughout the run of the series, much speculation has been devoted to the relationship between Jack O'Neill and Carter. For example, in the episode There But for the Grace of God, the Sam from the alternate reality (and who had never entered the military) was engaged to Jack, who was the head of Stargate Command. Similarly, in the episode "Point of View," the Sam and Jack of the alternate reality had been married for over a year. In the fourth season episode Divide and Conquer, both Sam and Jack were forced to officially admit that their feelings for one another went beyond the professional. In the episode "Threads," Sam must come to grips with her feelings for Jack and cope with the loss of her father, Jacob Carter. Citing uncertainty among other reasons, she breaks off the engagement with Pete. Throughout the series, there are several other incidents that prove their feelings remain a subtle constant in their lives.

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There But for the Grace of God - Point of View - Divide and Conquer - Threads - Jacob Carter

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Upon his promotion to Brigadier General in the eighth season, Jack O'Neill's first official act was to promote Carter to Lieutenant Colonel. She assumed command of SG-1, which only had three official members without O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, Teal'c, and Sam herself.

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Brigadier General - Lieutenant Colonel - Daniel Jackson - Teal'c

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Later in the season, the Carter Replicator, now commanding the Replicators after the destruction of Fifth, kidnapped Daniel Jackson to protect herself from any remaining Ancient technology - the locations of which lie locked in Daniel Jackson's mind. After a brief mental power struggle, Daniel took control of the Replicators long enough to allow the real Samantha Carter to activate a powerful Ancient weapon that destroyed all of the Replicators, including the Carter Replicator, in the galaxy at once.

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