Jean Miller

Jeanne Miller is a talented physicist, wife and mother; her decision to raise a family rather than pursue her career caused a good deal of friction between her and her older brother, Rodney McKay.

Biography
Born Jeanne McKay, she initially pursued a field of study not unlike her brother's, and showed considerable promise. Her plans changed, however, when she met Kaleb Miller, an English major who would become father of her child. Despite being headed for what her brother would call some "pretty exciting" grants, she chose to marry and devote her time to raising her daughter, Madison. McKay strenuously objected to this choice, prompting a serious fight that led to them not speaking for about four years.

Then, one day in 2006, while playing with Madison, she got "a notion" which led to a revolutionary new theoretical math proof about bridging parallel universes. Though she doubted the concept would have any practical application, she sent the proof to Professor Graham Peel at the California Institute of Technology; it eventually came to the attention of Lt. Colonel Samantha Carter, who attempted to enlist Miller's assistance in developing the concept.

Although she was cleared by the Pentagon for knowledge about the Stargate program, Miller balked when asked to sign a confidentiality agreement, as she felt very strongly that it was wrong to get proprietary with scientific knowledge. When McKay returned from Atlantis to convince her of the importance of the work, she still insisted that she wouldn't sign the agreement until he told her what was going on. Eventually, McKay had her beamed onto the Daedalus. This proved suitably convincing, and she agreed to sign the agreement &mdash; though she did nonetheless tell Kaleb.

During the three weeks spent in hyperspace en route to Atlantis, she and McKay managed to refine her theory into a workable model, and planned the necessary modifications to a containment chamber already present in Atlantis. After the experiment resulted in dangerous exotic particles threatening a parallel Atlantis, she was also involved in developing a method to close the bridge before one or both universes was destroyed. Throughout the process, she was still occasionally irritated by her brother's self-centered mannerisms. They eventually did reach a reconciliation of sorts, before Miller returned to Earth on the Daedalus.