Lionel Pendergast

"This is Colonel Lionel Pendergast of the Earth vessel Prometheus."

- Lionel Pendergast

Colonel Lionel Pendergast replaced Colonel William Ronson as commander of the Earth vessel Prometheus from 2004.

Biography
Following Anubis's destructive assault on Earth, Pendergast and the Prometheus were given the uneasy charge of patrolling the planet for fear of Goa'uld aftershocks following the battle. During the course of this mission, Pendergast intercepted Thor's Asgard mothership, the Daniel Jackson,when it arrived in Earth's solar system, at first believing it to be a possible threat.

Some time later he conducted the search for Osiris's Al'kesh in orbit of the planet. When that ship, after being infiltrated by SG-1, attacked the Prometheus, General O'Neill hesitated to allow Pendergast to return fire; however, his crew managed to transport the Stargate and SG-1 aboard before the enemy vessel entered hyperspace.

He was also instrumental in avoiding a full-scale war between USA and Russia in 2005, destroying an Al'kesh crewed by Trust operatives who forcefully had been taken as hosts by the Goa'uld.

The following year, Pendergast was sent to pick up SG-1 on P4C-452 and head to Kallana to deliver a Mark IX warhead to an Ori beachhead. He maintained the ship's position when the Jaffa Gerak and a fleet of Jaffa motherships arrived to assault the force field, and when the Ori attempted to initialize their Supergate.

Later the Prometheus was called in to help find a Goa'uld bomb that was so powerful that evacuating five miles wouldn't be enough. The crew transported Carter from Maryland to Seattle and then beamed her team out before the bomb went off. At the last minute, Colonel Mitchell came up with a plan and contacted Pendergast and had him beam the building that was the bomb into space where it exploded harmlessly.

Pendergast was on board the Prometheus when it was lost to an Ori weapon satellite above Tegalus. After the ship was rendered defenseless and his offer of surrender was rejected, he gave the order to abandon ship, remaining onboard to ensure the safe evacuation of his crew using the Asgard transporter. He was killed when the ship was ultimately destroyed, but his leadership was credited with saving the lives of two-thirds of his crew.