Samantha Carter

Colonel Samantha Carter, Ph.D (born December 29, 1968 ), commonly called Sam, is a US Air Force pilot and engineer. She is a theoretical astrophysicist and expert in advanced technologies, especially alien. She became part of the Stargate project in 1993 and was a member of the flagteam called "former leader of::SG-1" in 1997 for more than ten years. In 2007, she became the operational leader of the former leader of::Atlantis expedition in the Pegasus galaxy for one year. She helped in the developpment of many Earth technology breakthroughs, including Naquadah generators, spaceships and weaponry among many others. In 2009, she was given command of the last built Daedalus-class warship, George Hammond.

Biography
Carter, daughter of Jacob Carter and an unnamed mother, is born on December 29, 1968. His father named her Samantha as he wanted a boy. She has a younger brother, Mark. When she was a kid, she played with the Major Matt Mason astronaut doll (SG1:, , , ).

When she was twelve, her mother died in a car accident as her father didn't pick her up when he was supposed to because he was to dedicated to his military carreer in the US Air Force. Carter blamed her father for that for many years (SG1:, ).

Military carreer
Carter attended classes at the Air Force Academy. She was a brilliant mind and graduated Ph.D. in astrophysics. She also became a pilot and logged over a hundred hours in enemy space during the Gulf War. She worked for the Pentagon and joined the Stargate project team leaded by Catherine Langford in 1993 where she studied the Stargate and improved the dialing computer created eleven years earlier. According to her, she should have been part of the first Abydos team when Dr. Daniel Jackson discovered the last gate symbol on the Giza cartouche. In 1997, she became the most advanced expert on Stargate technology (SG1:, ).

Stargate SG-1 Season 1 (1997)
After the revelation made by Colonel Jack O'Neill that the Stargate is still active on Abydos and Dr. Daniel Jackson alive, Major General George Hammond assigns Captain Carter to be transfered from the Pentagon to the Stargate Command on a new mission on Abydos as she is their expert on the Stargate. First reluctant, O'Neill briefs Carter, and a team leaves Earth for Abydos. There, Carter discovers the Stargate's Dial Home Device, meets Jackson and, thanks to Jackson, discovers that a vast network of Stargates exists throughout the Milky Way galaxy and the Stargate can lead anywhere in the galaxy. She records all the symbols found inside the Abydos cartouche chamber, uses them to update the SGC's dialing computer and fix the planetary shift issue avoiding them to go on other planets. General Hammond announces the creation of the SG teams, and Carter becomes part of the flagteam SG-1, leaded by O'Neill.

Other "Samantha Carters"

 * Alternate realities
 * Dr. Samantha Carter (SG1: )
 * Dr. Samantha Carter (SG1: )
 * Captain Carter (SG1: )
 * Samantha Carter (SG1: )
 * Alternate timelines
 * Colonel Samantha Carter (SG1: )
 * Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter (SG1: )
 * Doctor Samantha Carter (SG1: "Moebius")
 * Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter (SG1: )
 * Colonel Samantha Carter (SGA: )
 * Samantha Carter, Mission Commander of the space shuttle Intrepid
 * Colonel Samantha Carter
 * Samantha Carter, the android version created on Altair (SG1:, )
 * Replicator Carter (SG1:, , "Reckoning")
 * Jolinar of Malkshur (SG1: )