Vala Mal Doran

Vala Mal Doran is a fictional character in the television series Stargate SG-1 played by the actress Claudia Black. She is a "space pirate" of sorts as well as a thief notorious across the galaxy for using sex to carry out her heists. She was apparently a former host to a Goa'uld named Qetesh (fittingly, based on the sex goddess Qetesh of Chaldean and Egyptian mythology). She claimed the Tok'ra eventually incited an uprising and the Goa'uld symbiote was removed. As a consequence, Vala has naquadah in her blood and can operate most Goa'uld technology, including the Healing Device.

Related Topics:
Fictional character - Stargate SG-1 - Claudia Black - Goa'uld - Qetesh - Qetesh - Tok'ra - Naquadah - Healing Device

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Vala is first introduced in Season Eight's "Prometheus Unbound", during which she attempted to steal the Prometheus to trade it for an extremely large amount of weapons-grade naquadah, but her plans were thwarted by Daniel Jackson; as was later revealed, this gave her and Daniel a bad name with the Lucian Alliance. Vala eventually made her escape from the Prometheus on a captured Al'kesh.

Related Topics:
Prometheus Unbound - Naquadah - Daniel Jackson - Lucian Alliance - Prometheus - Al'kesh

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She later sought out Daniel on Earth after she obtained a tablet encoded with Ancient writings; she bound him with a bracelet that causes the wearers to become unconscious if they were separated too far, and eventually die if the situation was not rectified (originally used by the Goa'uld to assure that a valuable prisoner did not escape from the Jaffa guarding him), causing him to miss the Daedalus. This tablet led to the discovery of Avalon of Arthurian mythology. Together, she and Daniel Jackson use what is apparently an Ancient communicator, to encounter a village in a distant galaxy populated by descendents of the Ancients. There they encounter the Ori for the first time. Vala was killed by a Trial by Fire after she was accused of being overcome, though she was soon resurrected by a Prior. After this, she and Dr. Jackson were taken to the city of the Ori, where they were kept as prisoners; they were returned to the village to be burned. At this juncture, however, Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell and Teal'c successfully destroyed the Ancient communication device by throwing it into the "kawoosh" (unstable opening state of a wormhole) of the Stargate, obliterating it and saving the lives of both Daniel and Vala.

Related Topics:
Ancient - Jaffa - Daedalus - Avalon - Arthurian - Mythology - Ori - Trial by Fire - Prior - Cameron Mitchell - Teal'c

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Prior to meeting the Tau'ri, she had used a voice-altering device on a planet formerly ruled by Qetesh to pretend that she herself was Qetesh, thus gaining the minute quantities of naquadah still in the planet's mines. She was by and large a fair ruler, but she did employ forced labor. She invented a trial-like proceeding called a "Mal Doran" on that planet.

Related Topics:
Qetesh - Trial

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Vala appeared to die stopping the Ori from setting up a Supergate in the Milky Way, though her survival was considered possible; a fact that would appear to be confirmed by reports that she will return later in Season Nine http://www.gateworld.net/news/2005/08/blacktoreturnforseasonnine.shtml.

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