Camile Wray

Camile Wray
Biographical information
Race	Tau'ri
Home planet	Earth
Gender	Female
Political information
Allegiances	International Oversight Advisory Destiny expedition
Out of universe information
Appearances	Camile Wray - List of Appearances
Actor	Ming-Na

"Look, I'm just saying that she better stay out of my face."

―Ronald Greer

Camile Wray is a Tau'ri human resources officer with the International Oversight Advisory, and was the primary IOA representative of Icarus Base. Outside her professional life, she is a long-term partner of Sharon. In 2009, Wray and around 80 others were forced to evacuate the base after an attack. Believing she would evacuate to Earth, the group instead found themselves stranded on the Ancient vessel Destiny.

She maintained her role as human resource officer. However, in the weeks that followed, the professional relationship between her and military commander Colonel Everett Young grew strained, particularly after Young marooned Nicholas Rush on a planet. This led her and Rush to initiate an ultimately failed coup d'etat.

Biography

Before Destiny

"You are a highly trusted, well respected member of this organisation. You would not have been on Icarus in the first place if you weren't."

―Carl Strom

Her age and date of birth are yet to be disclosed. She could speak Chinese, and is a skilled sketch artist (having accurately drawn the picture of the tropical beach from her home). Twelve years before Destiny, she became involved with Sharon and began a relationship with her. She is an experienced member of the International Oversight Advisory, and became the representative on Icarus Base sometime after discovery of the planet. She requested promotion four times, but was always passed off by her superior, Carl Strom; he never gave her a proper reason why. (SGU: "Air, Part 1", "Light", "Earth", "Life")

Shortly before evacuation of Icarus Base, she was approached by Tamara Johansen, who wished to leave the Air Force after her scholarship came through. However, instead of immediately supporting her decision to leave, she had suspicions it was actually about a relationship she had and that she was hiding something to protect someone, though TJ says she wasn't. (SGU: "Air, Part 1")

Arrival on Destiny

"Everyone's very impressed with how you're holding up under the circumstances."

―Carl Strom

Sometime later, the base fell under attack from three Ha'tak vessels that were controlled by the Lucian Alliance. It was evacuated. Wray was under the impression they would be evacuating to Earth. However, Nicholas Rush changed the address to that of the ninth chevron, and was instead sent to the Destiny. She was furious when she discovered this. (SGU: "Air, Part 1")

On the Destiny, she challenged Rush's authority, when he claimed that after contacting Earth with the Long-range communication device, General Jack O'Neill put him in charge of the Expedition. She was later going through the Expedition's inventory, and noticed Ronald Greer, who was imprisoned at Icarus Base for "good reason", was free to walk around. This led to a confrontation, which Hunter Riley stopped. After Colonel Everett Young, who was injured during the evacuation, somewhat recovered, he told her to announce to the Expedition about the life support issues, and to try and increase morale to the crew. (SGU: "Air, Part 2")

After lime was retrieved from the desert planet to repair the life support, she became the sole IOA representative of the vessel, and attended the meetings between Young and other crew members, concerning several human resource issues. Those included Rush's behaviour, the water supply, what to do with Alan Armstrong's body on an Ancient shuttle, and TJ's status among the crew. After power failed, and the ship ended up on a collision course with a star, she argues with Young about selecting the crew on the remaining shuttle to evacuate; she wanted Young to select every capable person rather than just two and give the others chances on the lottery. After being threatened to have her name off the list, she stopped. Later, her name was one of the 15 selected in the lottery. She went to the shuttle to leave Destiny. When it turned out the ship went to the star to recharge, she and the other 16 occupants of the shuttle returned relatively safely to Destiny. (SGU: "Darkness", "Light")

Sometime after replenishing the water supply, she reported back to Earth by using the long-range communication device, and was informed of a plan for the crew to return to their home. However, she had doubts about the plan, citing its danger. She was coerced by Carl Strom to make the plan happen. However, she still believed it was dangerous, and told Rush to do something. Turns out, he staged a potentially fatal malfunction to drive Colonel Telford, and IOA scientists Williams and McCormack away. (SGU: "Earth")

She later used the communication stones again for a personal visit to Earth. After taking over Mooney's body, she visited Sharon's home and spent the day with her, until she had to return to Destiny. Before leaving, Wray visited her parents for a short while, even though they do not have clearance to know of their daughter's whereabouts. After returning, she was delighted to learn of a new Icarus-type planet one year away, until she learned that Rush lied. (SGU: "Life")

Strain between Wray and Young

"Next time will be different."

―Camile Wray, planning to overthrow Young with Rush

When Everett Young was suspected for the murder of Sergeant Spencer, Wray led a hearing to determine whether or not Young was guilty, since the evidence against Young were more or less circumstancial. At the time of the hearing, she pressed the witnesses into believing Young was in fact guilty. Before the Expedition could vote as to whether or not he was guilty, Young resigned his command to Wray. The move became unpopular to the military personnel, particularly to Greer, who noticed he and a few others were placed off duty. After there was visual proof that Spencer committed suicide, Young swiftly retook command. Sometime after discovering an alien space ship on a barren planet, Young conronted Rush about framing him for murder, and marooned him on the planet; Wray would learn from Young that he fell victim to a rock slide. (SGU: "Justice")

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Wray and Nicholas Rush plot a coup.

The following week, she grew suspicious of Young's story, knowing the strain between the two of them, and believed Young intentionally left him behind on the planet. When Young was about to file a report regarding the loss of Rush, Wray confronted him to tell him she was to conduct a follow up meeting on Earth, voicing her suspicions. Before she could report to Earth, Young closed down communications after he was actually transfered to an alien ship. Wray confronted Young, believing that closing down communication before she could file a report was convenient. Wray decided to conduct a meeting with some of the scientists concerning the military leadership of the ship, and wanted something to be done about it. After Destiny survived an alien attack, and Rush returned, the two were plotting to overthrow Young. (SGU: "Space")

She would form alliances with several civilian members to start the coup. Initially, their plan was to trap the military personnel in one section of the ship with no food or water. However, when Young and Lieutenant Scott were stranded on the Ancient shuttle, the docking clamps would not engage while Rush was in the process of taking control of the ship's systems. After the narrow miss that Young and Scott would vapourise as Destiny took off to FTL, the civilians took control of everything but life support. Wray was determined that their demand of allowing the civilians to take control would fall through, since although the military control civilians, it is the civilians themselves that control the military. Ultimately, the military found a way to enter the civilian section and order everyone to their quarters after a second failed alien attempt to take over Destiny. Wray admitted to Young in the end that both sides need to find a way to work together, since Young leaving Rush on the planet was a bad call. (SGU: "Divided")

Behind the scenes

• Camile Wray is the first openly non-heterosexual character in the Stargate franchise. However, Alicia Vega, who appeared in Stargate Atlantis episodes "Search and Rescue" and "Whispers" is also revealed to be a lesbian, but the scene was cut out from the release of "Search and Rescue".
• Wray was credited as a regular character in the first two episodes. However, since then she was downgraded to a recurring character. She became a regular character again from "Justice" on.

External links

• Camile Wray on the official MGM website. (backup link)
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• GateWorld's article on Camile Wray in The Stargate Omnipedia