Samantha Carter

Bio
Samantha Carter is the daughter of General Jacob Carter (Air Force). She has one brother named Mark Carter who is married and has children. Her mother died when she was a teenager. She blamed her father who was supposed to go pick her up at the airport but didn't, forcing Mrs. Carter to take a taxi and have the accident that killed her. Eventually, Sam forgave her father while Mark didn't.

She was exceptionally bright and went on to get a Ph.D. in astrophysics and joining the Air Force. She worked at the Pentagon for 2 years, logged over 100 hours in enemy space during the Persian Gulf War. She was assigned to work on the Stargate project. It's not known whether she was the leader or just an important member of the team that designed the dialing computer. Captain Carter should have been part of the first team to go to Abydos with Colonel O'Neill and Dr. Jackson. The reason why she ended up not going is unknown.

A year after the first Abydos mission, she was chosen to join SG-1 for the second Abydos mission as Colonel O'Neill's second-in-command. She was, and still is, the foremost expert on the Stargate. During this mission, thanks to Dr. Jackson, she discovered that the "Gate" could go to several hundred worlds and that she could easily make the dialing computer do the necessary calculations.

She remained with SG-1 after that mission and became one of the SGC's best officers. She's also their most brilliant scientist and expert on alien technology. She was engaged to Captain Jonas Hanson, later also of the SGC, but returned the ring when she realized he wasn't right for her as he had very domineering side. She was right to have broken it off as he took over a world and started acting like a god to it's people. She bonded very tightly with a little girl from a planet named Hanka, Cassandra, and risked her life to provide her with some comfort when they thought Cassie was a time bomb. Cassie was eventually adopted by Dr. Janet Fraiser which allowed Sam and Janet to become really close friends over the years. During her second year at the SGC, she was taken over for a Tok'ra symbiote, Jolinar of Malkshur, who sacrificed herself to save Sam from the Ash'rak, a high rank assassin sent after Jolinar. This experience left her with memories of the Tok'ra and a protein marker in her blood allowing her to use Goa'uld technology such as hand and Healing Devices.

Using the memories left by Jolinar, Captain Carter led SG-1 to a planet where the Tok'ra were hiding. She'd learnt earlier that her father, General Carter, was dying of cancer. She offered him as a host for the dying Tok'ra Selmak as a show of good-will between the Tok'ra and the Tau'ri.

Captain Carter was promoted to Major. She started having feelings for her commanding officer, they were returned, but neither truly realized it a this point. Once again, Jolinar's memories were needed to go rescue her father who had been captured by the Goa'uld Sokar and put on the prison moon Ne'tu, a moon modeled after Hell.

She was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and given command of SG-1 as Colonel O'Neill was promoted to Brigadier General and given command of the SGC.

Her career with the SGC has been very interesting. Sam has been possessed by an alien entity, contracted a virus that made her act like a cavewoman, brought back from the dead by the Nox, sold into slavery, met herself from an alternate reality, saved Earth from an alien incursion, thwarted a Replicator attack on the Asgard, blown up a sun to destroy Apophis' fleet, nearly destroyed the peaceful planet K'Tau, been kidnapped and nearly dissected, commanded SG-1 in O'Neill's absence, flown in an interstellar race, had a robot copy of herself made, seduced a Human-form replicator, had a Human-form Replicator made in her likeness, been to 1969, defeated a Goa'uld Queen with only the female personel of the base for help, wiped out all the Replicators in our Galaxy, gone back to Ancient Egypt, had her DNA tampered with...

Romance
During her years in the Stargate program, Sam has had several romances. Her most enduring and powerful one is with Jack O'Neill. She's also had a special intimacy with Martouf/Lantash of the Tok'ra, Narim of the Tollans, an Ancient named Orlin and a could-have-been relationship with Joe Faxon whom she would have married had they not had to abort their mission to make treaties with the Aschen because of a warning from the future (in which she was married to him) and a serious relationship with cop Pete Shanahan to whom she was engaged but broke up with. Unfortunatly, Sam's men tend to die. Jonas Hanson died, Martouf and Lantash did, Narim is presumed dead, Orlin descended himsef only to sacrifice himself and be reascended, she had to leave Joe behind with the Aschen...the only boyfriend to survive was Pete and that was because she broke up with him or who knows what would have happened.

Hobbies
During her off hours, Sam likes to work on her motorcycle (sometimes helped by Master Sergent Siler), work on her Naquadah generators, play chess with Cassie on Saturdays (when she is on Earth) and has lately discovered that she does, indeed, like fishing.