Daniel Jackson

Dr. Daniel Jackson was born on July 8, probably in the year 1965, on the planet Earth, mostly likely in New York City. He has been on SG-1 since its inception, except when he was ascended for a year and Jonas Quinn took his place.

Dr. Jackson has brown hair, which he wore long through the second season of Stargate SG-1, and he usually appears wearing glasses.

Background information
Daniel's parents, Melburn and Clare Jackson, were killed in an accident at the New York Museum of Art when he was eight years old. His grandfather, an archaeologist named Nicholas Ballard, refused to adopt him and young Daniel was put in foster care.

Jackson grew up to become an archaeologist, linguist and expert in ancient writing systems, languages and cultures. However, he was ostracized from the scientific community for his radical theories involving cross-pollination of ancient cultures and the Egyptian pyramids being landing sites for alien spaceships.

Stargate
Since his grants had all run out and he had been evicted from his apartment, Daniel was desperate for work when he met a mysterious elderly woman named Catherine Langford. She got him a job translating ancient Egyptain hieroglyphics for the United States Air Force.

Dr. Jackson's intuitive genius discovered more than cryptic message from the dusty past. Instead, he found the key to unlocking the Stargate and accompanied Jack O'Neill's team to Abydos, so he could realign the Stargate on the other side. However, they found an extremely conspicuous distraction in the form of the ruthless Goa'uld Ra. After Ra was killed, Daniel remained on Abydos with Sha're, whom he had been unknowingly married to.

Season 1
Daniel Jackson discoved an cartouche on Abydos, which he discovered charted a vast network of Stargates across the galaxy. When Jack O'Neill returned a year after the original mission, trouble also came in the form of Apophis, who kidnapped Sha're and made her a host to Amonet. Daniel was brought back to Earth and became a member of SG-1 with O'Neill and Samantha Carter. Shortly after their first mission on Chulak, Teal'c joined the team as well.

Jackson discovered that Ernest Littlefield had gone through the the Stargate in 1945 and convinced George Hammond to authorize a rescue mission. However, he was reluctant to leave the planet, even when it looked like the castle they were in was going to collapse into the ocean, when he found a meeting hall containing information about an alliance between four alien species.

His teammates were made to think he was dead by Nem, an Oannes, who kidnapped Daniel to discover the fate of his mate, Omaroka. Under the influence of her hypnotic breath, Daniel had sexual intercourse with Hathor in order for her to produce Goa'uld symbionts. He has no recollection of this, since he lost his memory of everything that happened while he was under Hathor's control.

Daniel was transported to an alternate reality, via the Quantum Mirror on P3R-233, and discovered how to prevent Apophis' attack on Earth.

Season 2
After Jackson saved Shyla, the daughter of Pyrus, from suicide, SG-1 was imprisoned. Shyla, however, took personal responsibility for Daniel, with whom she was infatuated. Daniel became addicted to the Goa'uld sarcophagus and experienced severe withdrawal symptons when brought back to Earth. Once he was returned to his normal state, he convinced Shyla to destroy the sarcophagus.

A year after joining SG-1, Jackson and Teal'c travelled to Abydos and discovered Sha're was pregnant with Apophis' child. After the birth, Amonet returned and rejoined Apophis. The child, a boy, was hidden away to prevent it from falling into Apophis' hands.

Season 3
On a planet where they were rescuing the Abydosians, Daniel again met Sha're/Amonet. However, Amonet used her ribbon device on Daniel, Teal'c was forced to kill her, but not before she giving Daniel a vision that explained how he needed to find her child, who, he discovered, was a Harcesis. He did find the boy on Kheb and discovered the Ascended, including Oma Desala, who he left the child in the care of.

Daniel was reunited with his grandfather when SG-1 discovered a crystal skull similar to one Nick had discovered in 1971. Nick chose to remain behind on the planet with the "giant aliens" they discovered there, so he could teach and learn from them.

Past and current romantic interests



 * Sarah Gardner
 * Sha're (dead)
 * Hathor (not of his free will)
 * Shyla
 * Ke'ra
 * Vala Mal Doran

Alternate realities
See: Daniel Jackson (alternate)