Dale Volker

"We can't all be Mozarts right? Some of us are Salieris. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I like Salieri..."

- Volker

Dr. Dale Volker is a Tau'ri astrophysicist; he considers himself a "pretty fine" one at that. He became stranded on the Ancient ship, Destiny, along with many others after the attack on the Icarus Base.

Volker was born some time in 1975. He had shown some interest in classical music, and recognized the Mozart, Salieri, Schubert and Elgar. He is also apparently claustrophobic.

2009
He later participated in the Icarus project and was stationed at Icarus Base. In 2009, the base fell under the attack by three Ha'tak ships. He was forced to evacuate to the Destiny several billion light years away instead of Earth.

In the process, he broke his right arm. He later participated in an inventory check after arriving on board the ship ment and was dismayed to find all the boxes were marked with a bar code and that it had no bar code reader. He found a bag of seeds in a crate. He was in the control room interface when Rush and Young decided which ones would be off-world team would be sent to the desert planet he was not selected to the team.

A day after he arrived at the ship beorder Everett Young him to find a solution to the ship's power shortage by helping Nicholas Rush. Rush refused to take any help Volker went reluctantly to help him. But because of Rush's caffeine and nicotine withdrawal so he threw out of the room after a brief conversation with Rush. He and Young went back to the interface control room and jumped out of Destiny FTL and discovered that all the power disappeared. Volker, Young and Rush went into the Gate room and Rush declared that all its power reserves were depleted. He recorded a message in a Kino has sent into space as a "message in the bottle". He was the observation deck when Destiny flew through the Big Bertha's atmosphere.

The day after he was in the Gate room with the rest of the expedition when Everett Young, said that the ship was on a collision course with a star and that they would have a lottery to choose 15 people who would go with shuttles to a habitable planet to survive. He was not elected in lottery and after the shuttles had left Destiny as he sat in a room with no other playing cards.

A few days later Dale was in the mess hall and talked to Jeremy Franklin, and Franklin said that forty thousand liters of water out, on the ship had disappeared. And Volker said that they had not been drinking it. Franklin said that it was not a surprise that there were more than what the military personnel are telling them. Franklin said that the ship is big and so long as the military controls the water, so check them military.

Several weeks later, when the IOA had developed a plan to get home office, he was optimistic about the plan. He was sitting in Mass when Eli was talking to Scott, TJ, Chloe Armstrong and Ronald Greer on the plan and it would take months before the force was drained. Dale asked if there was a quicker way to empty the force.

A week later he followed with off-world to a jungle planet in search of food. After three hours on the planet so he began to feel unwell and had vomited. After a few others started to feel bad so they were forced to remain on the planet during the night. Volker died of the disease from unclear water from Hoth. In another alternative timeline he died one of the four who died of the disease.

Over the next few weeks, he continued to help repair and run the ship. He was a member of Matthew Scott's training program to keep in shape. After the discovery of the archive chair, he discussed with the Park, and Brody was discovered that they could not use it. He became interviewed by Tamara Johansen about how he got on board the ship and he thought it was okay and after hearing the news of the Icarus planet Rush had found.

After Sgt. Spencer found had died, he became suspicious of the rest of the expedition. He was part of the team who tried to crack the seat interface. He was sent off to the world barren planet and found a extraterrestrial spaceship.

2010
He was in the hydroponics lab with Brody, Wray and a few others and diskuderade of Young and that it would force a. He was the observation deck when a Blue alien mothership showed up and began to attack Destiny. And when did civil revolt against military personnel as he was in the hydroponics lab with Brody. He was with the rest of the civilians in the exhibition and talked and was surprised when three Blue alien mothership attacked Destiny.

He was in the control room interface when Rush and Eli looked at Obelisk planet and its star, and he comment about that at the age of the star as the planet should be a ball of molten lava.

Some time later when Destiny had jumped out of FTL and dialed up a planet he was in the Gate room. And after that Eli and Chloe had seen the image of Kino sent back to the DHD so he told me that they were the first evidence of civilization of all the planets they visited. Then he went to the planet to rescue Scott, Eli, Chloe and Greer. But they failed, he went back to the Desitny before it jumped to the FTL

Two days later he was in the Control interface room and met with Brody, Rush, Young and Wray when Rush said that Destiny will not cope with the void between galaxies. He asked when the ship was completed in force, Rush said fifty thousand light years. When Brody suggested that it would increase engine speed as Dale replied that it could be dangerous for them did not know how the engine works.

Alternate timeline

 * Volker was part of the off-world team that went through the Jungle planet. He died of the impure water from Hoth.

Behind the scenes

 * Dale Volker began as a simple side character, but actor Patrick Gilmore's excellent portrayal of Volker impressed show-runners and Volker has subsequently been given more screen time and more back story. A similar situation occurred with the character of Dr. Carson Beckett, played by Paul McGillion.
 * Patrick Gilmore played a Genii soldier in Stargate Atlantis episode "Harmony", and also played one-shot role Bernie Ackerman in the Stargate SG-1 episode "Morpheus".