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'''Dr. Samantha "Sam" Carter''', ] is a fictional character in the Canadian–American ] '']'' franchise. Played by ], she appears in all three shows in the franchise: '']'', '']'', and '']''. She was a main character in all ten seasons of ''Stargate SG-1'' (1997&ndash;2007). Following a recurring role in ''Stargate Atlantis'' for three seasons (2004&ndash;07), Carter became a main character in Season 4 of ''Atlantis'' (2007&ndash;08), and also appeared in the 2008 direct-to-DVD ''SG-1'' films '']'' and '']''. Amanda Tapping accepted a starring role in '']'' and appears in only the first and last episodes in Season 5 of ''Atlantis'' (2008&ndash;09). Carter also appears in two episodes of Season 1 of ''Stargate Universe.''
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Captain Samantha Carter first appears in "]", the pilot episode of ''Stargate SG-1'', as a United States Air Force captain who joined the fictional ] team under the command of ] ]. After being promoted to ] in ], Carter remains O'Neill's second-in-command until her promotion to ] early in ], at which point she assumes command of the ] team and O'Neill is promoted to ] in order to lead ]. Between Seasons 8 and 9 of SG-1, following the defeat of the ] and downfall of the ] system lords, she accepts a position as Head of the Stargate Research and Development Program, based in ]. She is engaged in deep-space research when the ] emerge. Upon her return to Earth, she is reassigned to SG-1, now under the command of Lieutenant Colonel ]. Following the defeat of the Ori in ''Stargate: The Ark of Truth'', Carter is promoted to full ] and appointed as commander of the Atlantis expedition early in ] of ''Atlantis''. Carter is later given command of the Daedalus-class ship, the ].
'''Colonel Samantha "Sam" Carter''' is a ] in the ] ] series '']'' and '']'', played by ]-] actress ].
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==Concept and creation==
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Unofficially in the online game '']'', it is implied by visual screenshots showing a general's office with her name on the desk label that she eventually succeeds Major General Hank Landry as commander of the SGC, implying an offscreen (non-canonical) promotion to brigadier general.
==Character arc==
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Samantha Carter, born ], ],<ref></ref> joined ] from the Pentagon, having worked for several years trying to get the Stargate operational. She has a ] in ] and "logged over 100 hours in enemy airspace" during the ]&ndash;] ].


Overall, Carter is the character with the most appearances across the ''Stargate'' franchise, though ranking as second-most{{snd}}behind ]{{snd}}in the series ''Stargate SG-1''.
Sam's family includes her father, ] ], her brother, Mark Carter, and his two children. Her mother died in a car accident when she was a teenager, an incident that caused much strife between Sam, Mark, and Jacob.


==Role in ''Stargate''==
Carter is a technological ], well versed in seemingly dozens of fields from ] to ] and from ] to ], all in addition to her military role. She is the series' primary source of ] solutions, quickly able to grasp alien technologies and realize ingenious solutions to the perils faced by SG-1 no matter where. She designed and administrates the Stargate dialing system, and is one of the foremost experts on the Stargate system, along with ].
===Character arc in ''Stargate SG-1''===
Before the present-time events of ''Stargate SG-1'', Samantha Carter worked at ] for several years, trying to get the ] operational. She has a ] in ] and "logged over 100 hours in enemy airspace" during the ]. She is the daughter of Major General ], and has a brother named Mark. Her mother died in a car accident when she was a teenager.<ref>"]"</ref>


Holding the rank of ], Samantha Carter joins the ] team in the ], "]".<ref>"]"</ref> She comes under the temporary control of the ] ] in season 2<ref>"]"</ref> and retains many of her memories, leading to an alliance with the Tok'ra against the Goa'uld.<ref>"]".</ref> Carter's brief merging with Jolinar also assists her in detecting a Goa'uld presence and using certain Goa'uld technology.<ref>"]"</ref> Carter is promoted to the rank of ] early in season 3.<ref>"]"</ref> When an advanced lie detector shows they are concealing something in early season 4, it forces Carter and her superior officer, Colonel ], to admit that they care for one another "a lot more than supposed to".<ref>"]"</ref> In ] (season 4), Carter uses a stargate to destroy a star by dialing the gate on P3W-451, the planet being consumed by a black hole (originally discovered in ]), and launching the active stargate into the nearby star; the resulting imbalance in mass causes the star to go supernova and destroy ]'s fleet.
Carter is a quintessential "]": an ] and intuitively talented individual, whose mastery of advanced scientific disciplines is juxtaposed with her difficulties in leading a "normal" life. She spends her free time and leave performing experiments, pouring over data, and studying the alien technologies acquired during missions. She enjoys and is deeply absorbed in her work, much to the bewilderment of ], though he has stated that her brain may well be a national resource. She occasionally expresses regret at not being able to pursue interests outside her work, but finds herself unable to let go of her intellectual passions.


Trapped on board the Earth ship '']'' in season 7's "]", Carter realizes that her feelings for O'Neill stop her from exploring other romances. Two episodes later in ], Carter begins dating her brother's friend ], but Pete disrespects her privacy and the confidential nature of her work. Pete gaslights her and stalks her until she is forced to disclose her job to him. In the season 8 premiere, "]", Carter gets captured by a humanoid ] named ] she had first encountered in season 6's "]". Fifth eventually releases her, but keeps a replicator copy of her, known commonly as ']'. Upon O'Neill's promotion to ] in the same episode, he promotes her to ]. Carter assumes command of the SG-1 team, which includes the ] Daniel Jackson, the alien ], and herself. Shortly after the death of her father in late season 8, Carter breaks up with Pete and goes fishing with Jack, Daniel, and Teal'c to celebrate the defeat of the System Lords.<ref>"]"</ref>
=== Events of Stargate: SG-1 ===
Amanda Tapping was part of the ''Stargate SG-1'' main cast in all of its ten seasons. She did however not appear in Season 6's "]" and Season 7's "]" except for in clips from previous episodes, Season 8's "]", "]", "]", "]" and "] of Season 9 because of Tapping's maternity leave, and "]" of Season 10.


Season 9 reveals that Carter left SG-1 to work at ] after the collapse of the Goa'uld power structure. After Lieutenant Colonel ] assumes command of SG-1,<ref>"]"</ref> General O'Neill orders Carter to assist SG-1 on a mission concerning the new ] threat.<ref>"]"</ref> Carter officially rejoins SG-1 in the season 9 episode "]". Samantha Carter appears in the 2008 ] films '']'' and '']''.
==== Seasons 1-3 - Captain Carter ====


===Character arc in ''Stargate Atlantis''===
Carter joined ] in the pilot episode, "]", as a ]. She was once engaged to Captain Jonas Hansen, seen in the episode "]".
Lieutenant Colonel Carter makes her first appearance in '']'' at the end of its first season (airing in parallel to season 8 of '']''), receiving a very brief data transmission from the Atlantis expedition to Earth.<ref>"]"</ref> The ''Atlantis'' character Dr. ] (]) has a hallucination of Carter which enables him to survive while trapped in a sinking Puddle Jumper in season 2.<ref>"]"</ref> Lieutenant Colonel Carter approaches McKay's sister ] with an offer to work for ] in season 3.<ref>"]"</ref> At an unknown point after the end of the Ori conflict in ''Stargate SG-1'', Carter is promoted to a "full bird" colonel and is transferred to the Midway space station to oversee the final stages of completion. The ] appoints Carter as the new commander of the Atlantis expedition early in season 4 of ''Atlantis''.


Carter finds the Atlantis command experience quite relaxed in terms of military protocol, but enjoys it nonetheless ("]"). True to her SG-1 heritage, she conducts herself bravely by actively taking part in missions ("]", "]") and protecting and defending those under her command ("]", "]"). Carter even builds a more amicable relationship with Dr. Rodney McKay, having put their past tensions aside, and clearly respects Lt. Colonel Sheppard's command and past accomplishments in the Pegasus Galaxy.
In "Children of the Gods," she stated she played with ] dolls when she was a girl, which is clearly visible in the season three episode ], while under the influence of a ] called the "Blood of ]."


Carter is recalled to Earth at the end of the first episode of season five for a ] extraction ceremony concerning the final ] (a ceremony witnessed in '']''), followed by an exhaustive first-year command review by the International Oversight Advisory (IOA).<ref>]</ref> Upon arrival, however, ] informs her that the IOA has removed her from command, and that he will be replacing her.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.courant.com/topic/zap-robertpicardostargateatlantis,0,996344.story|work=The Hartford Courant|title=Robert Picardo Joins 'Stargate Atlantis'|date=February 5, 2008|access-date=June 12, 2009|archive-date=June 12, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612034135/http://www.courant.com/topic/zap-robertpicardostargateatlantis,0,996344.story|url-status=dead}}</ref> As of "]", she is the temporary SGC base commander while General ] is heading a task force based in Washington. After this assignment she is to be made commander of the new Daedalus Class (BC-304) battlecruiser, formerly known as the ''Phoenix'', now named the ''George Hammond'' in memory of ].
In the episode "]", Sam came under the control of the ] ] while aiding in the evacuation of the Nasyan people, as they had come under ] attack. Jolinar was later killed by an ] sent by ] while being held captive by ].


===''Stargate Universe''===
Sam retained many of Jolinar's memories and in the episode "]", those memories allowed SG-1 to travel to a Tok'ra base and gain their first true ally in the fight against the Goa'uld. Samantha Carter's father, Jacob Carter, a general dying of cancer, became a host to one of the Tok'ra. Because of this, Jacob and the Tok'ra ] were able to serve as the liaison between Earth and the Tok'ra.
Carter is in command of the ] when it ferries personnel from Earth to Icarus Base to witness the latest attempt to dial the ninth chevron. The ''Hammond'' attempts to fight off the assault on the base by a fleet of Goa'uld ships that Carter presumes belong to the Lucian Alliance. Although they are unsuccessful in preventing the destruction of the base, they are able to rescue most of the survivors stranded outside, including Colonel ], who was to command the expedition to ''Destiny''. She also appears later in season 1 where she is the officer in charge of the assault on the Lucian Alliance base.


===Relationships===
Sam's encounter with Jolinar now assists her in detecting a Goa'uld presence. Having ] in her blood, she has also been able to use certain Goa'uld technology that is designed to be used only by the Goa'uld, such as the ] and ].
Over the course of the two shows, a number of men are in love with, infatuated with, or attracted to, Carter. This includes ], the Tok'ra ], Dr. ], ], ], Agent ], ], ], Dr. Jay Felger, her former fiancé Jonas Hanson, and Joseph Faxon (her duplicitous husband of a possible future in Season 4, episode 16, "2010"). Many of these individuals have (presumably) since died, including: Martouf (and symbiote Lantash); Fifth; Narim; Hanson; and two alternate versions of Jack O'Neill. This has led many of the cast and crew of '']'' to humorously nickname her character Samantha "the Black Widow" Carter.<ref>{{cite video|people=], ] and ]|date=2005|title=Audio Commentary for "]"|medium=DVD|publisher=]}}</ref>


Asked why the series never confirmed a relationship between Carter and O'Neill, producer ] stated in his blog,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://josephmallozzi.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/december-8-2008-ships-and-what-ifs/|title=December 8, 2008: Ships and What Ifs « Josephmallozzi's weblog|last=Mallozzi|first=Joseph|date=December 8, 2009|access-date=June 17, 2009}}</ref>
Due to the remnants of Jolinar, Sam was left with a specific chemical marker only present in ex-hosts, which made her immune to ]'s Goa'uld-killing invention in the episode "]".
<blockquote>The Sam/Jack relationship was fraught with complications, given that he was her commanding officer. Pursuing any sort of relationship would have been inappropriate for both and would only have really been possible late in the series after Jack's retirement. Jack and Sam could have gotten together after Jack's retirement, but it was never made canon because, quite frankly, it wasn't my call. Still, despite the lack of official confirmation, it was only natural that they should get together after the events of ] and, in my mind, they have been together ever since. An attempt to suggest as much in season 4's Trio, unfortunately, ended up on the cutting room floor when the episode ran long.</blockquote>


In season 9, episode 7, Sam catches up with Malcolm Barrett and tells him that she and Pete had broken up. He asks if she is single, and she responds, "not exactly."
====Seasons 3-8 - Major Carter ====
She was promoted to the rank of ] in the third-season episode "]".


When Carter joins the ] as commanding officer, a framed photo of O'Neill is seen on top of a box of her personal effects. A scene was cut from the '']'' ] episode "]" in which Carter and Dr. ] discuss their love lives. When asked by Keller if she's seeing anyone, Carter initially avoids the question before admitting that "it's complicated" and that the man in question is in ] but is going to retire soon.
In the Season 4 premiere "]," Sam is taken to the Asgard homeworld by Thor, there to help him save his own world from ] attack; she succeeds by using a "stupid idea" - something the Asgard were no longer capable of thinking of.
In episode 12, season 10, Samantha is shot and reveals to Mitchell that she has a file on her laptop with letters to people who she cares for in case she dies. The password is 'fishing,' an apparent reference to O'Neill.


], the actor who plays Carter's father ], was asked in an interview who would be a good match for his on-screen daughter. He said:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.selmak.org/pages/134/|title=Carmen Argenziano ~ by M R Reed|last=Reed|first=M.R.|date=2005|access-date=June 17, 2009|publisher=Selmak.org}}</ref>
Sam and Jack are mistakenly thought to be ]s because they are found to be concealing something. Ultimately, they admit, in the episode "Divide and Conquer" that what they are concealing is that they care for one another "a lot more than supposed to", with an implication that they have romantic feelings for one another that they suppress in order to continue working together.


<blockquote>
In the episode "Prodigy," Sam's intelligence is rivaled by an arrogant cadet who is impatient with those she considers to be not as intelligent as she. Sam and SG-1 bring her off world and show her that being right is not always the most important thing when lives are at stake.
I like ]. I felt that Daniel would have been the right choice because Daniel is well-educated, is intelligent, gentlemanly and he was everything that I envisioned that my daughter would end up with.
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===SG-1 leadership===
In the episode "Entity," Sam has her entire consciousness transferred into a super computer and back into her body when an alien entity takes over her mind. In the end it leaves her to protect the rest of its kind.
Carter first assumes command of SG-1 in ''SG-1''{{'}}s season 2 episode "]" when ] is in the infirmary injured. Carter takes over command from O'Neill as SG-1 leader at the end of season 7. Hammond had instructed Carter to relieve O'Neill of duty had she deemed him too unstable while under the influence of the Repository of the Ancients. O'Neill subsequently "quits" to avoid making Carter feel guilty. When ] was on maternity leave at the beginning of season 9, ] was introduced as the leader of SG-1 who would bring the team back together.<ref name=gw_looking/> Following negative fan reactions to Carter's cancelled leadership within the team,<ref name=gw_working>{{cite web|last=Read|first=David|url=https://gateworld.net/news/2005/12/workin-man/|title=Workin' Man: GateWorld talks with Ben Browder|publisher=]|date=December 31, 2006|access-date=February 19, 2009}}</ref> ] noted the production difficulties that came with Amanda Tapping's maternity leave, and pointed out that new leaders are brought in routinely into units of the military.<ref name=gw_working/> Tapping admitted to also have been "kind of put off" upon learning that someone else would lead SG-1,<ref name=gw_looking/> hoping that the producers would make SG-1 more of an ensemble team in season 10 by removing the patriarchal line of command.<ref name=tvzones67_30>{{Cite journal|last=Eramo|first=Steven|title=Amanda Tapping &ndash; Coming Home|journal=]|issue=Special 67|pages=30–33|date=December 2005}}</ref> The writers eventually decided after an animated discussion during season 9 that Mitchell and Carter would co-command the team,<ref name=jm_070225>{{cite web|last=Mallozzi|first=Joseph|author-link=Joseph Mallozzi|url=http://josephmallozzi.wordpress.com/2007/02/26/february-25-2007/|title=February 25, 2007|publisher=josephmallozzi.wordpress.com|date=February 26, 2007|access-date=March 7, 2009}}</ref> although they left Mitchell in the official leadership position. Tapping considered the question of leadership in season 10 irrelevant; Mitchell cannot give orders to his team since he and Carter hold the same military rank, and Daniel and Teal'c are not members of the United States military.<ref name=gw_looking>{{cite web|author=Denise (Skydiver)|url=https://gateworld.net/news/2007/01/looking-backward-looking-forward/|title=Looking Backward, Looking Forward: GateWorld talks with Amanda Tapping|publisher=]|date=January 7, 2007|access-date=March 1, 2009}}</ref>


==Conceptual history==
In the last episode of the season, "Exodus Part 1," Sam and her father use a stargate to blow up a sun, which results in the destruction of much of Apophis' fleet.
]'']]
During the casting process of '']'', the producers were looking for an actress who could portray a strong woman whom the audience would accept as a soldier. The character should have had combat training and have been in wars, but should also be a brilliant scientist and a beautiful woman. Amanda Tapping at first assumed that the show would put more emphasis on intellect, but found that it was an action-adventure scifi show where the characters often got physical. Tapping described Carter as a cross between ] and ], and the conflict of her character whether to go the scientific route or with military protocol.<ref name=dvdprofile>{{cite video|people=], ]|date=2001|title=Profile On Captain Carter|medium=DVD - Stargate SG-1: Season 3|publisher=]}}</ref>


Amanda Tapping was part of the ''Stargate SG-1'' main cast for all of the show's ten seasons. She did not appear in season 6's "]" or season 7's "]" except in clips from previous episodes and was completely absent from season 8's "]" and the season nine episodes "]", "]", "]" and "]" due to Tapping's maternity leave (she appeared briefly in "]" to explain her absence); and season ten's "]".
While studying an alien device on a seemingly abandoned planet, Sam is suddenly knocked unconscious, apparently due to stress. She is given some leave, but when she returns home a man calling himself Orlin shows up in her house. He explains to her that he is a being who long ago ascended to a higher plane of existence; he has fallen in love with her and taken human form. He was exiled on the abandoned planet as punishment from other ascended beings, for giving the device to the inhabitants of the planet, which unintentionally resulted in the destruction of the entire civilization. The Ascended must follow a strict code of conduct that prohibits interference in the lives of the unascended. When Orlin learns that the SGC is planning on activating the device, he builds a mini-Stargate in Sam's basement, returns to an ascended form, and destroys the device.


While Amanda Tapping was part of the main cast of ''Stargate SG-1'', she made several cameo appearances in the first three seasons of ''Stargate Atlantis''. Amanda Tapping became a member of the ''Atlantis'' main cast for 14 episodes of Season 4. She did not appear in "]", "]", "]", "]", "]" and "]".
After ] ascends to a higher plane to escape dying of radiation poisoning (]), Sam is the one most affected by his loss; she hates the fact that they can't even have a memorial service for Daniel as they aren't sure if he's truly gone.


Tapping sat down with Robert C. Cooper at the beginning of ''Stargate SG-1'''s season 7 to discuss Carter's struggle with her demons and her life choices in regards to work and family. The events of "]" are left open for interpretation, both for the audience and the actors. Grace could be Sam's child within, her hopes and dreams for having a child, the child Sam left behind when she started her career as an astrophysicist, or Carter's potential future with a family. "]" is an offshoot of what happened in "Grace", and the writers were trying to "dispel the black widow curse that Carter has, and also to open her up for more experiences and to flesh her out just a little bit more as a human being". Tapping felt out of her element doing these two episodes, as the flirty side of the character had not really been explored in the show until then. Also, Pete Shanahan does not die, which confuses Carter. According to Tapping, Carter is oblivious what lengths Shanahan is going (stalking, background checks) to find out more about her classified life, although the character is finally free to talk about her life at the end of episode.<ref name=gw_speakout1 />
While attempting to reverse the ] time device placed on Halla to stop the ] invasion, Sam and SG-1 are captured by humanoid replicators. She has a particular bond with the humanoid replicator named Fifth, arguing that he is more human than the others, with ethics, empathy, and feelings. She convinces Fifth to help them escape the others, and for him to follow. She resets the time device to slow time down so that a few seconds to the replicators will actually be about two years to the rest of the universe. Colonel O'Neill secretly tells her to begin the slowdown sooner than planned, so that Fifth is frozen in time with the others, who are angry at his betrayal, as he is in turn angry at Sam's betrayal.


Several fans refused to watch the episode "Chimera" because Carter was getting involved with someone other than who they wanted her to be involved with. Tapping received letters of fans who said that Carter's integrity "is completely out the window, and, 'What the hell thinking.'" According to Tapping, Carter "harbors great depth of feeling for Colonel O'Neill, but because nothing can ever happen ... He's the one who let her go. He says, 'I'm a safe bet. You know you can't have me so you're just protecting your heart by, you know, hanging your hat on someone you can't have. So, let me go,' is essentially what's said at the end of "Grace"".<ref name=gw_speakout1 /> Tapping said,
After spending several days trapped on the ], Carter finds herself trapped in a sentient gas cloud ("]"), which communicates with her via hallucinations. Thanks to these hallucinations, she realises that she has been using her feelings for O'Neill as an excuse to not explore other romances; he was a safe object for her affections, because they could never act on them due to military protocol. With this in mind, she begins dating ] (played by ]) in the second half of Season 7. She finds it hard not to disclose her job to him. What makes it harder is the fact that he is a Police Detective. He eventually finds out by secretly following Sam around and witnessing (SG-1's) confrontation outside Daniel Jackson's house with ].


<blockquote>The whole episode is her sort of rethinking her life and rethinking her choices, and I don't think that she's lost integrity. I don't think that her feelings for O'Neill are any less. I think she's just placed them in a different box, if you will. It was weird, I have to say, for her to hand her heart over to somebody else. But it's baby steps for her, and this is all new for her. And I think it's ultimately O'Neill who says, 'You have to move on.' And it's her father, too, who says, you know, 'Don't give up your chance of love. You know, I would live my whole life over again even knowing that your mother's gonna die, I would do all that again.' So it's her opening up her heart as opposed to actually &ndash; it's been closed this whole time because she's, you know, been protecting it with thoughts of O'Neill, who she knows she can't have, so it opens her up.<ref name=gw_speakout1>{{cite web|last=Read|first=David|url=https://gateworld.net/news/2004/02/amanda-speaks-out-part-1/|title=Amanda Speaks Out: GateWorld talks with Amanda Tapping (Part 1)|publisher=]|date=2004|access-date=June 17, 2009}}</ref></blockquote>
After the death of Dr. ], Sam has the honor of giving the eulogy at the memorial service. She spends hours trying to find the right words, but with help from Teal'c, the eulogy ends up being composed of the names of the many people whom Dr. Frasier saved during her time at the SGC, beginning with Sam herself.


Working around ]'s reduced schedule was a challenge for Tapping. Nevertheless, Tapping, ] and ] knew going into season 7 that this allowed for their characters to be fleshed out a bit more and to have a bit more screen time. She did not think the dynamics or the chemistry of the team had suffered.<ref name=gw_speakout2 />
==== Seasons 8-10 - Lieutenant Carter ====


Unlike O'Neill and Jackson, Carter did not appear in the series premiere of ''Atlantis''. This was probably to do with the legalities of her being a character specifically created for ''Stargate SG-1''.<ref name=gw_speakout2 /> Tapping considered the elevator scene with ] in season 1's "]" to be one of the scenes to best fully capture Carter.<ref name=gw_speakout2>{{cite web|last=Read|first=David|url=https://www.gateworld.net/news/2004/02/amanda-speaks-out-part-2/|title=Amanda Speaks Out: GateWorld talks with Amanda Tapping (Part 2)|publisher=]|date=February 2, 2004|access-date=June 17, 2009}}</ref>
When seeking ]'s help to save Colonel ] from the Ancient Knowledge in his mind, she is captured by the humanoid replicator Fifth and tortured as revenge for leaving him frozen in time on Othala. She wakes up to find herself on a farm in rural ], living with Pete Shanahan. It is, however, a simulation created by Fifth to attempt to convince her to stay with him. After she admits that she would rather die than be trapped in such a way, he releases her and escapes into space as SG-1 and the Asgard find a way to combat the replicators. Shortly thereafter, Fifth welcomes a new humanoid replicator into existence&mdash;one seemingly identical to Sam (known commonly as ']').

Upon his promotion to ] in the eighth season, Jack O'Neill's first official act is to promote Carter to ]. She assumes command of SG-1, which only had three official members without O'Neill: ], ], and Sam herself.

Later in the season, RepliCarter, now commanding the Replicators after the destruction of Fifth, kidnaps Daniel Jackson in an effort to protect herself from any remaining Ancient technology, the locations of which lie locked in the formerly ascended Daniel Jackson's mind. After a brief mental struggle, Daniel takes control of the Replicators long enough to allow the real Samantha Carter to activate a powerful Ancient weapon that destroys all of the Replicators in the galaxy, including the Carter Replicator.

Selmak dies of old age, taking his host, Samantha's father, Jacob, with him, shortly after the defeat of the System Lords and victory of the ] over their Goa'uld enslavers. Uncertain about her feelings, Sam breaks up with Pete, and subsequently goes fishing with Jack, Daniel and Teal'c to celebrate the end of their struggle with Anubis. Jack had repeatedly asked Carter to go fishing with him, especially during the fourth season, but this is the first time they actually go together.

Although Carter herself strongly objects to the idea, SG1&mdash;in an ]&mdash;travel back in time to 3000 BC in order to acquire a ] from Egypt. Unfortunately, when the cloaked jumper's position is revealed to Ra's Jaffa, SG-1 becomes trapped in the past, the timeline becomes contaminated, and the future is altered. SG-1 records a video detailing these events, hoping it will fall into the hands of the Stargate program in the future. The alternate Samantha is mousy and unaggressive, and is an assistant to an inferior physicist who steals her research. But with the help of herself and the other alternate SG-1 members, she is able to incite the famous rebellion that ousted Ra, bury the Earth Stargate, and restore the timeline. The ZPM is then buried and is uncovered a few weeks before the mission would have begun, and SG-1 then never needs to go on the mission (]).

After the collapse of the Goa'uld power structure, Carter leaves SG-1 to work at ], much to the chagrin of the new leader of SG-1, Lt. Col. ]. However, (now-Major General) Jack O'Neill orders her to go to the SGC to assist Mitchell, Daniel Jackson, and Teal'c on a mission concerning a potential ] threat ("]"), though still not officially a member of SG-1. However, during the search for ], Mitchell gives Carter (as well as Teal'c and Daniel) an SG-1 badge, officially reinstating her into SG-1 as Mitchell's 2IC ("]"). At this time, ] Agent ]'s interest in her becomes clear; however, when he asks her if she is still single, she responds rather evasively with the words "not exactly," leading to speculation that she and O'Neill are carrying on an illicit affair on the down low. In any case, she and Dr. ] develop a method of using sound waves to negate the powers of the ] of the Ori. Having been tested on the Prior trying to convert the Sodan, the prototype is deemed a success, with a minor drawback; eventually a prior is able to overcome the device. ("]").

When multiple SG-1 teams arrive from parallel universes, Colonel Carter works with Dr. Lee, alternate universe versions of herself, and the Asgard ] on a way to get them all back. She encounters an alternate universe Martouf, a Tok'ra who had been Jolinar's lover, and who Carter was strongly attracted to, but who died in her reality. She finds that in another reality, she is with someone else and is on maternity leave. She is successful in returning the other teams to their own universes, with the aid of one of her alternate counterparts, who had deliberately staged the whole event just to steal a ZPM ("]").

Carter accidentally triggers a device of Merlin's that they found in Avalon, which shifts herself and Colonel Mitchell out of phase with the rest of the universe&mdash;they can see and hear everyone, but no one can see them, and they can't touch anything. Ultimately, she and Daniel discover that the device is part of ]'s secret research: to find a weapon capable of destroying Ascended beings (]). They discover a gate address that they hope will lead them to the device.

With news that the Ori crusade in the Milky Way is about to begin, SG-1 travels to that gate address, which turns out to be Camelot, to find Merlin's device, which is later revealed to be the legendary ]. It is not a chalice, though; it is a pendant stone. The search has to be cut short after the ] beams them up with the disturbing news that the Ori supergate is complete. They travel to a rallying point for the combined Tau'ri, Tok'ra, ], Asgard and ] fleets near the Ori's new ]. Carter beams out to one of the gate's modules to install a modified Ancient control crystal that would allow ] to dial out with the gate before the Ori can dial in, thus blocking them. However, the supergate activates before she can finish and four ]s come through the wormhole. She is forced to watch helplessly as the Ori destroy all but the heavily damaged Odyssey and Lucian Alliance flagship; leaving Carter floating alone in space with only a few hours of air left in her suit.

Carter is retrieved by the Odyssey ("]", "]"). She continues her work with SG-1 to fight the Ori as well as to fend off schemes hatched by Ba'al, the Trust, and the Lucian Alliance. In "]", Carter is seriously injured by an Ori soldier while in the midst of testing Merlin's phase-shifting device (from "]") by hiding a village from the Ori. She is ultimately able to successfully use the device to hide herself and Cameron Mitchell.

When further experimenting with the phase-shifting technology, she is accidentally transported to an alternate universe in which the Goa'uld threat caused the US government to publicly reveal the SGC's existence several years earlier ("]"). Carter successfully uses Merlin's device on a planetary scale to hide Earth from the Ori and, bolstered by the victory, ''President'' Hank Landry refuses to let her go back to her own reality. Chafing under the draconian restrictions on civil liberties as well as on her own research into parallel universes, Carter eventually enlists the help of her ex-husband in this reality, ], to help her get back, and is able to show Landry a bit of the error of his ways.

In the series finale, "]", General Landry and SG-1 are summoned in the ''Odyssey'' by the Asgard, who reveal that they are dying and intend to commit mass suicide immediately after transferring their entire collected knowledge to the Tau'ri. However, the plan is nearly foiled by the arrival of the Ori, and an Ori ship fires a beam weapon at the ''Odyssey'', which will destroy it. In order to save the Asgard database and themselves, Carter establishes a time dilation field around the ''Odyssey''&mdash;time outside the ship flows normally but time inside the ''Odyssey'' is radically sped up, effectively making years pass oboard relative to fractions of a second outside. With crew members having already beamed away from the ship, SG-1 and General Landry are trapped on the ship. It turns out that the Ori were able to track the ''Odyssey'' through hyperspace because of the new technology installed by the Asgard before they killed themselves. Carter tries to use the extra time she has bought them to find a way to save them, but to no avail. Confined to the ship, Carter eventually spends her time learning to play the ] (synthesized using the new Asgard technology) when not re-thinking their hyperdrive predicament. She finally figures out a way, but 50 years have passed aboard the ship and its ZPM no longer has enough power to implement the solution. Taking a suggestion from Col. Mitchell, Carter devises a plan to reverse the time dilation field by allowing the ''Odyssey'' to be destroyed and effectively sending an aged Teal'c back in time to deliver the hyperdrive solution, so none of SG-1, save Teal'c, will have any memory of their 50 years trapped on the ''Odyssey''.

=== Events of Stargate: Atlantis ===
==== Season 1-3 - Recurring ====
Samantha Carter makes several appearances in ''Stargate Atlantis'' while she is a main character in ''Stargate SG-1''. In "]", a Season 1 episode of ''Atlantis'', the Atlantis team has an opportunity to send a very brief data transmission to Earth. The "intergalactic e-mail" is successfully sent to Stargate Command and received by Lt. Colonel Carter. When Dr. McKay is trapped underwater in a sinking Puddle Jumper in Season 2's "]", his only chance for survival may be a hallucination of Samantha Carter. In Season 3's ], Lt. Colonel Carter approaches Jeannie Miller, Dr Rodney McKay's sister, with an offer to work for the SGC.

==== Season 4 - Main Cast ====

Amanda Tapping became a member of the ''Atlantis'' main cast for 14 episodes of Season 4. She did not appear in "]", "]", "]", "]", "]" and "]".

Sometime after returning from Orilla, Carter is promoted to a "full bird" Colonel.<ref></ref> Initially transferred to the Midway space station to oversee the final stages of completion with Dr. Lee, she joins the search for the missing Atlantis onboard the ''Apollo''. Both return to Atlantis with Sheppard's team, after having rescued them from Asuras, and are present during the city's uneasy landing on M35-117.

Shortly afterwards, the IOA appoints Carter as the new commander of the Atlantis expedition. In contrast to Weir, Carter - as both a scientist and a USAF Colonel - was far more capable of transcending the scientist/military bridge; this helped avoid several of the difficulties that Weir experienced with the military. Her command is generally non-intrusive to the expedition's scientists or Sheppard's position as military commander. She clearly respects Sheppard and assured him that, although she was ultimately chosen over him and McKay, his name was on a "short list". Carter is also far less hostile to Rodney McKay than she was during the mission to block the Ori supergate from the Pegasus Galaxy; likely part of an attempt to "start over" given that they would be working closely.

Her first mission on Atlantis involved a search and rescue operation after Sheppard's team were betrayed by several Satedan survivors-turned-Wraith worshippers. Carter personally commanded the operation, giving her the opportunity to bond with Ronon following a rocky introduction.

After her return to Atlantis an alarming number of disease outbreaks began to occur. During the crisis in which a crystaline entity had taken hold of dreams, Carter recalled a similar incident with Jack O'Neill ten years prior. She was saddened to announce the death of Dr. Kate Heightmeyer to the expedition but understandably relieved after McKay and Sheppard expelled the lifeform. Only a few weeks later, a kearson fever outbreak caused amnesiatic effects for most of the expedition members (except Ronon and Teyla, who were immune) and Carter was one of the civilians confined to the Mess Hall by expedition soldiers under Major Lorne's command. She managed to escape with McKay and Zalenka, free Teyla and help defuse the situation once Ronon and Sheppard arrived with a cure.

Three months after she took her position, Carter was up for review with the IOA. Shortly after Richard Woolsey arrived to conduct it, the Wraith ''Todd'' contacted the Atlantis expedition with a dire situation. The Replicators had devised a new tactic in their war against the Wraith to exploit their key weakness; they had begun to systematically exterminate human civilizations throughout the galaxy to wipe out the Wraith's food supplies. This, combined with a vision of Atlantis being destroyed by an Aurora class warship shared with her by the Videnan leader Davos, made Carter extremely skeptical about working with the Wraith. After meeting ''Todd'' in person, she worked out a tenuous deal to help him - and the orbiting Wraith hive ship loyal to him - refine the Wraith anti-Replicator virus to shut down the attack code. This eventually descended into chaos when another hive ship arrived, forcing Carter to make a dangerous gambit and delay firing on either ship. She turned out to be lucky; two hive ships started firing on each other rather than on the cloaked Atlantis.

With Todd still on base, she ordered McKay and ''Todd'' to continue with their work. Their lucky break came when duplicates of Weir, Sheppard, Teyla, Ronon and McKay provided a core drive of a Replicator ships-tracking system, before being hunted down and killed by the Replicators. Their arrival did put Carter's fears about Davos' vision to rest; the Atlantis she saw destroyed was also a copy, created by Niam's sect of non-violent Replicators.

Now that the expedition had the ability to track all of Oberoth's Aurora-class vessels in the Pegasus galaxy within a 30-minute window, Carter ordered missions to evacuate all human colonies in the Replicators' path. A delay occured on least one mission and, as a result, Lieutenant Kemp's team and the 2,000 inhabitants on one planet were lost. While these missions were taking place, the Apollo and Daedalus were outfitted with the new Asgard plasma energy beam weapons and deployed to Atlantis (possibly with ZPMs onboard). Along with Colonels Sheppard, Ellis and Caldwell, Carter agreed that the only currently available solution was to hunt down Replicator ships and destroy them, and was adamant that they proceed immediately. She was present on the Daedalus bridge during at least one of those missions.

The Replicators quickly changed strategy and marshalled their fleet in orbit of their homeworld. When McKay presented his new plan of forcing the Replicators into a super-dense blob, she was slightly skeptical about creating Replicator cells, although not so much as Sheppard. Frustrated by failure, Rodney took the initiative to create a stripped-down human form replicator dubbed ''Fran'' (friendly Replicator android). Carter voiced her concerns about knowing sending a sentient being to her death, although she eventually conceded that the ends justified the means.

Once a combined fleet composed of the Daedalus, Apollo, seven Wraith Hive ships and several Traveller ships (including Larrim's Aurora class vessel) had been assembled, Carter again took station on the Daedalus bridge monitoring the ship sensors. She offered her technical expertise when McKay's plan encountered difficulties, noticing that the land around the blob was rich in Neutronium. This gave McKay the inspiration he needed to finish the plan, allow the blob to sink to the core and destroy the planet. The Daedalus and the fleet jumped to safety prior to the explosion.

A few months later Carter found herself trapped in a transporter with Zalenka when the city was placed in automatic lockdown. Although this turned out to be a malfunction in Rodney's new viral outbreak protocols, she later hinted that she did not enjoy spending those three hours with Zalenka. She was also the one who delivered to Sheppard news of his father's death, allowing him time to return to Earth.

Carter joined Doctors McKay and Keller in travelling to a planet for negotiations when they fell into an abandoned Genii mine. She suffered a leg injury after two failed attempts to escape, but quickly recovered in the Atlantis infirmiry in time for a set of IOA interviews initiated by a new US representative. Concerned about Ronon's success in these interviews, she invited Teal'c to come to Atlantis to coach him. This culminated in an hour long "sparring session" between the two wherein most expedition members were placing bets. Carter was not amused and broke it up immediately upon entering.

==== Season 5 - Recurring ====
For as yet unknown reasons, Carter will be reassigned and will no longer be Commander of the Atlantis expedition.<ref></ref> As this season is also supposed to have the involvement of Daniel Jackson, it is suspected that the two SG-1 teammates will be reunited in Atlantis.

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==Lovelife==
* ''']''' - Throughout the run of the series, much speculation has been devoted to the nature of the relationship between Jack O'Neill and Carter. For example, in the episode "]", a Sam from an alternate reality (who has never entered the military) is engaged to Jack, who is the head of Stargate Command. Similarly, in the episode "]" the Sam and Jack of the alternate reality have been married for over a year.
:Other mentions of their relationship include: In the episode ], O'Neill resigns from the Air Force so that he can kiss Carter during one of the repeating time-loops he is trapped in. In the fourth season episode "]", both Sam and Jack are forced to openly admit that their feelings for one another go beyond the professional and are something they must conceal. In the seventh season episode "]", Samantha hallucinates an encounter with Jack in which she discusses her feelings for him and kisses him, but ultimately decides to let him go because he is ultimately unavailable due to military protocol. In the episode "]", Sam must come to grips with her feelings for Jack and cope with the loss of her father, ]. Citing uncertainty among other reasons, she breaks off her engagement to Pete. Throughout the series, there are several other incidents that prove their feelings remain a subtle constant in their lives. They marry in various alternate realities (e.g. "]"); in the main reality, they are forbidden from even expressing mutual attraction by military regulations that ban relationships between a soldier and his or her commanding officer. With O'Neill promoted to a position in which he is no longer Carter's immediate commanding officer, it is unclear if they have entered into a relationship. However, in an episode of Season 9 Samantha mentions that she's "not exactly" single, while avoiding any explanation. In one episode (]), O'Neill and Carter marry during a fantasy sequence. In ], Carter reveals that her secret computer password is "fishing", an oblique reference to O'Neill and his frequent invitations to her to go fishing with him at his cabin, especially in season 4. In the recent episode "]" from season 4 of Atlantis, in the scene where Carter is unpacking after reaching her new home, there is a visible photo in one of her suitcases: a picture of O'Neill, suggesting that there is still something between them.
* ''']''' and ''']''' - Samantha hosted ], a past lover of Martouf, and the romantic feelings seem to carry over, though Martouf eventually grows attracted to Samantha herself. In one alternate reality, they have a long-term relationship, though it has ended by the time Sam encounters the alternate Martouf in ("]"). Martouf's symbiote Lantash shared his feelings for her in ("]").
* ''']''' - Another scientist, Sam first meets him during the events of "]", when the two are assigned together to try and get Teal'c out of the Stargate when it shuts down before his matter stream is reintegrated into a person. McKay is strongly attracted to Sam, but his arrogance and rude behavior, bordering on sexual harassment, prevent them ever developing anything beyond a civil working relationship, even after he is transferred to ] and matures into a better person. Although she is now the leader of the Atlantis Expedition, she does not hint at any sort of attraction towards him - and interestingly, neither does McKay, who has a girlfriend - but she appears to respect him somewhat more than she did early on. His feelings for her may subconsciously continue, however. When Sam visits an alternate reality in "]", Sam learns that the two had been briefly married, but divorced prior to our Sam's visit to that reality.
* ''']''' - The most human of the human-form Replicators, Fifth develops feelings, of a sort, for Sam during SG-1's mission to stop the Replicators by using a time dilation device. When the Replicators escape ("]"), Fifth, hurt by Sam's betrayal, captures her and tries to make her love him. When this fails, he tried to 'win her' anyway by creating a human-form Replicator in her image that would become known as ], but he is eventually killed by his own creation.
* ''']''' - ''(Briefly reciprocated)'' - An ], Orlin falls in love with Sam when SG-1 visits the world he had been banished to for interfering in the affairs of lower beings. He eventually rejoins the other Ascended ("]"), but later Descends once more to give SG-1 vital help during the ] crisis. He takes the form of a child, in order to allow him to retain some of his Ancient knowledge, and the result is brain-damage, leaving him unable to ascend. Ultimately, he can no longer even recognize Sam.
* '''Agent ]''' - ''(not reciprocated)'' - They worked closely together in a few episodes, and his attraction to her is implied by his body language and intonation when he asks in "]" if she is seeing anyone, and she replies that she is unavailable.
* ''']''' of the ] - ("]"). She is attracted to him, but tells him she needs to work out the effects of her hosting Jolinar before she can make any decisions. His planet is then assaulted by the Goa'uld, and his people are never heard from again.
* '''Dr. Jay Felger''' - A well-meaning but inept scientist, Doctor Felger develops a crush on Sam, but she never learns of it. ("]")
* ''']''' - A police detective and friend of Sam's brother, the two date for about a year, with Pete learning about Sam's work during the final fight with ]; they are briefly engaged ("]"), but Sam breaks it off due to her uncertainty about her feelings after Daniel's apparent death, and her feelings upon discovering that Jack is having a relationship with a CIA agent ("]")
* '''Joseph Faxon''' - An ambassador sent to negotiate an alliance with the ]. In an alternate future in which the alliance with the Aschen proceeded, the two are married. However, in that future, the alliance ultimately causes the downfall of earth's civilizations, ("]"), with Faxon's complicity. The future SG-1 sacrifice themselves to successfully send a message back to the past to stop them from ever meeting the Aschen. In the present, however, Sam and Faxon still meet, due to a different encounter with the Aschen. They flirt with one another, but he apparently is killed or captured by the Aschen while saving the earth from them, in (])
* '''Jonas Hanson''' - A former fiance, Hanson was a member of SG-9 until he tried to set himself up as a god on another planet. After SG-1 exposes him as a false god, he is killed when he is thrown through the gate while the iris was closed. ("]")
* '''Graham Simmons''' - A Lieutenant at the Stargate Command that has a crush on Carter during the events of "]".
* ''']''' - After his descension for attempting to stop Anubis destroying Abydos, Daniel loses his memories of being an Ascended being. When he is ], he asks Samantha Carter if there was ever anything between them; she responds that they were just really good friends. Whether this comment of Daniel's means anything more has never been fully explored. Also, when Daniel was poisoned by radiation, Sam came and talked to him and said, " Why don't we ever tell people how we really feel?" Interestingly enough, in an interview with Carmen Argenziano, the actor who plays ], when asked who he could see as a good match for Samantha Carter, Carmen stated that he favored a ]/Samantha Carter pairing in the series; his exact words were "''I like Daniel Jackson. I felt that Daniel would have been the right choice because Daniel is well-educated, is intelligent, gentlemanly and he was everything that I envisioned that my daughter would end up with.''"
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==Development==
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Over the course of the two series, a number of men are in love with, infatuated with, or attracted to, Carter. This includes ], ], ], ], ], Agent ], ], ], Dr. Jay Felger, her former fiancé Jonas Hanson, and her husband of a possible future Joseph Faxon. Many of these individuals have since died (Martouf, Lantash, Fifth, Narim, Hanson, Faxon, two alternate O'Neill's), leading many of the cast and crew of Stargate SG-1 to label Samantha the "Black Widow Carter."<ref>Audio Commentary of ]"</ref>

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==Reception== ==Reception==
For her portrayal of Samantha Carter, ] was nominated for a 2000 ] in the category "Dramatic Series: Best Lead Performance – Female" for the episode "]",<ref name=gw_leo2000>{{cite web |url=http://www.gateworld.net/news/archive/000423_1.shtml |title=SG-1 grabs six Leo Award nominations: Shanks, Tapping among nominees for BC film and television |publisher=] |date=April 23, 2000 |access-date=January 11, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021105333/http://www.gateworld.net/news/archive/000423_1.shtml |archive-date=October 21, 2012 }}</ref> and won the Leo for "]" in 2003, for "]" in 2004, and for "]" in 2005.<ref name=leowon>{{cite news |url=http://www.leoawards.com/past_winners.html |title=Past Winners |publisher=] |access-date=March 24, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090407031849/http://www.leoawards.com/past_winners.html |archive-date=April 7, 2009 }}</ref> Tapping was nominated for a ] in the category "]" in 1999,<ref name=gw000606>{{cite web |url=http://www.gateworld.net/news/archive/000606_2.shtml |title=Stargate SG-1 wins Saturn Award |publisher=] |date=June 6, 2000 |access-date=April 15, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021154016/http://www.gateworld.net/news/archive/000606_2.shtml |archive-date=October 21, 2012 }}</ref> 2000,<ref name=gw010405>{{cite web |url=http://www.gateworld.net/news/archive/010405_1.shtml |title=SG-1 grabs four Saturn nominations |publisher=] |date=April 5, 2001 |access-date=April 15, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021154026/http://www.gateworld.net/news/archive/010405_1.shtml |archive-date=October 21, 2012 }}</ref> 2001,<ref name=variety020313>{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2002/film/awards/potter-leads-saturn-kudos-1117863902/ |title='Potter' leads Saturn kudos |magazine=] |date=March 13, 2002 |access-date=April 15, 2009}}</ref> 2002,<ref name=variety030206>{{cite magazine |last=Phillips |first=Jevon |url=https://variety.com/2003/digital/awards/towers-report-top-saturn-nominees-1117881826/ |title='Towers,' 'Report' top Saturn nominees |magazine=] |date=March 6, 2003 |access-date=April 15, 2009}}</ref> 2003<ref name=latimes_pwd>{{cite web|url=http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/ |title=Past Winners Database |work=] |access-date=April 15, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080708222057/http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/ |archive-date=July 8, 2008 }}</ref> and 2004.<ref name=variety050209>{{cite magazine |last=Puig |first=Yvonne Georgina |url=https://variety.com/2005/film/awards/potter-tops-saturn-nods-1117917722/ |title='Potter' tops Saturn nods |magazine=] |date=February 9, 2005 |access-date=April 15, 2009}}</ref> Tapping was nominated for a 2001 ] in the category "Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role".<ref name="gemini01">{{cite news|url=http://www.gateworld.net/news/archive/011109.shtml|title=Stargate comes up empty at Gemini Awards|date=November 9, 2001|access-date=April 4, 2009|publisher=]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021141823/http://www.gateworld.net/news/archive/011109.shtml|archive-date=October 21, 2012}}</ref> In 2008 Amanda Tapping was nominated for a Constellation Award nomination in the category "Outstanding Canadian Contribution to Science Fiction Film or Television in 2008".<ref name=consawa09>{{cite web |url=http://constellations.tcon.ca/v.shtml |title=And the 2009 nominees are... |access-date=June 17, 2009 |publisher=constellations.tcon.ca |archive-date=February 17, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217211300/http://constellations.tcon.ca/v.shtml |url-status=dead }}</ref>


] reviewed the ] "]", where he stated that Tapping's character was "Pushy" and her acting was "Wooden".<ref name="variety">{{cite magazine|author=Tony Scott |url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117911984.html?categoryid=32&cs=1 |title=Stargate SG-1 | date= July 28, 1997 |magazine=] | access-date=April 7, 2009}}</ref> Tory Ireland Mell, reviewer from ] said that Carter's season four presence on Stargate Atlantis was "underused" and a "slap in the face" to her character.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tv.ign.com/articles/860/860174p1.html |title=Stargate Atlantis Season 4 Review |first=Tory |last=Ireland Mell |date=March 17, 2008 |access-date=June 17, 2009 |website=IGN}}</ref> In 2008, Amanda Tapping started to produce her own ] entitled '']'' with ] and ] among others. Many reviewers have felt that Tapping accepted the role of ] ] to make a name of herself outside the ] as Samantha Carter.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/television/2008245692_tvsanctuary10.html |title=Star's new role more than a change of accents |first=Rick |last=Bentley |date=October 10, 2008 |access-date=May 10, 2009 |publisher=]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2008-10-02-tapping-sanctuary_N.htm |title=Amanda Tapping finds her comfort zone in 'Sanctuary' |first=Bill |last=Keveney |date=May 10, 2009 |access-date=May 10, 2009 |newspaper=]}}</ref> ] named her one of the 100 Most Memorable Female TV Characters.<ref>{{cite web|last=Potts|first=Kim|title=100 Most Memorable Female TV Characters|url=http://www.aoltv.com/2011/03/02/100-most-memorable-female-tv-characters/|work=]|access-date=July 16, 2012|date=March 2, 2011|archive-date=May 31, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130531022650/http://www.aoltv.com/2011/03/02/100-most-memorable-female-tv-characters/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
For her portrayal of Samantha Carter, ] was nominated for a 2000 ] in the category "Dramatic Series: Best Lead Performance - Female" for the episode "]", and won the Leo for "]" in 2003, for "]" in 2004, and for "]" in 2005. Tapping was a nominated for a ] in the category "Best Supporting Actress on Television" in 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2004, and won in 2005. Tapping was nominated for a 2001 ] in the category "Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role".<ref>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118480/awards</ref>


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==External links==
* {{cite web |url=http://www.gateworld.net/interviews/amanda_speaks_out_part_1_o.shtml |title="Amanda Speaks Out &ndash; GateWorld talks with Amanda Tapping" |publisher=gateworld.net |date=February 2004}}
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* {{cite web |url=http://www.gateworld.net/interviews/action_mom_part_1_of_2.shtml |title="Action Mom &ndash; GateWorld talks with Amanda Tapping" |publisher=gateworld.net |date=December 2005}}
* {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325002358/http://www.scifi.com/stargate/cast/carter/index.html |date=2009-03-25 }} at ].com (''Stargate SG-1'')
* {{cite web |url=http://www.gateworld.net/interviews/a_decade_with_sam.shtml |title="A Decade With Sam &ndash; GateWorld talks with Amanda Tapping" |publisher=gateworld.net |date=May 2006}}
* {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090324223924/http://www.scifi.com/atlantis/cast/carter/ |date=2009-03-24 }} at ].com (''Stargate Atlantis'')
* {{cite web |url=http://www.gateworld.net/interviews/looking_backward_looking_f.shtml |title="Looking Backward, Looking Forward &ndash; GateWorld talks with Amanda Tapping" |publisher=gateworld.net |date=January 2007}}


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Fictional character in the Stargate universe For other uses, see Sam Carter (disambiguation). Fictional character
Dr. Samantha Carter
Colonel Samantha CarterAmanda Tapping as Colonel Samantha Carter in a promotional photo for Stargate Atlantis Season 4.
First appearance"Children of the Gods" (SG-1)
Last appearance"Incursion" (Universe)
Portrayed byAmanda Tapping
Christine Kennedy (Young Sam)
In-universe information
SpeciesHuman
OccupationUnited States Air Force
Captain
Major
Lieutenant colonel
Colonel
FamilyJacob Carter (father, deceased)
Mark (brother)
Irving (uncle)
Unnamed niece
Unnamed nephew
NationalityAmerican
Accolades

Dr. Samantha "Sam" Carter, USAF is a fictional character in the Canadian–American military science fiction Stargate franchise. Played by Amanda Tapping, she appears in all three shows in the franchise: Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Stargate Universe. She was a main character in all ten seasons of Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007). Following a recurring role in Stargate Atlantis for three seasons (2004–07), Carter became a main character in Season 4 of Atlantis (2007–08), and also appeared in the 2008 direct-to-DVD SG-1 films Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum. Amanda Tapping accepted a starring role in Sanctuary and appears in only the first and last episodes in Season 5 of Atlantis (2008–09). Carter also appears in two episodes of Season 1 of Stargate Universe.

Captain Samantha Carter first appears in "Children of the Gods", the pilot episode of Stargate SG-1, as a United States Air Force captain who joined the fictional SG-1 team under the command of Colonel Jack O'Neill. After being promoted to major in Season 3, Carter remains O'Neill's second-in-command until her promotion to lieutenant colonel early in Season 8, at which point she assumes command of the SG-1 team and O'Neill is promoted to brigadier general in order to lead Stargate Command. Between Seasons 8 and 9 of SG-1, following the defeat of the Replicators and downfall of the Goa'uld system lords, she accepts a position as Head of the Stargate Research and Development Program, based in Nevada. She is engaged in deep-space research when the Ori emerge. Upon her return to Earth, she is reassigned to SG-1, now under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Cameron Mitchell. Following the defeat of the Ori in Stargate: The Ark of Truth, Carter is promoted to full colonel and appointed as commander of the Atlantis expedition early in Season 4 of Atlantis. Carter is later given command of the Daedalus-class ship, the George Hammond.

Unofficially in the online game Stargate: Resistance, it is implied by visual screenshots showing a general's office with her name on the desk label that she eventually succeeds Major General Hank Landry as commander of the SGC, implying an offscreen (non-canonical) promotion to brigadier general.

Overall, Carter is the character with the most appearances across the Stargate franchise, though ranking as second-most – behind Teal'c – in the series Stargate SG-1.

Role in Stargate

Character arc in Stargate SG-1

Before the present-time events of Stargate SG-1, Samantha Carter worked at the Pentagon for several years, trying to get the Stargate operational. She has a Ph.D. in theoretical astrophysics and "logged over 100 hours in enemy airspace" during the Gulf War. She is the daughter of Major General Jacob Carter, and has a brother named Mark. Her mother died in a car accident when she was a teenager.

Holding the rank of captain, Samantha Carter joins the SG-1 team in the pilot episode, "Children of the Gods". She comes under the temporary control of the Tok'ra Jolinar in season 2 and retains many of her memories, leading to an alliance with the Tok'ra against the Goa'uld. Carter's brief merging with Jolinar also assists her in detecting a Goa'uld presence and using certain Goa'uld technology. Carter is promoted to the rank of major early in season 3. When an advanced lie detector shows they are concealing something in early season 4, it forces Carter and her superior officer, Colonel Jack O'Neill, to admit that they care for one another "a lot more than supposed to". In Exodus (season 4), Carter uses a stargate to destroy a star by dialing the gate on P3W-451, the planet being consumed by a black hole (originally discovered in A Matter of Time), and launching the active stargate into the nearby star; the resulting imbalance in mass causes the star to go supernova and destroy Apophis's fleet.

Trapped on board the Earth ship Prometheus in season 7's "Grace", Carter realizes that her feelings for O'Neill stop her from exploring other romances. Two episodes later in Chimera, Carter begins dating her brother's friend Pete Shanahan, but Pete disrespects her privacy and the confidential nature of her work. Pete gaslights her and stalks her until she is forced to disclose her job to him. In the season 8 premiere, "New Order", Carter gets captured by a humanoid Replicator named Fifth she had first encountered in season 6's "Unnatural Selection". Fifth eventually releases her, but keeps a replicator copy of her, known commonly as 'RepliCarter'. Upon O'Neill's promotion to brigadier general in the same episode, he promotes her to lieutenant colonel. Carter assumes command of the SG-1 team, which includes the de-ascended Daniel Jackson, the alien Teal'c, and herself. Shortly after the death of her father in late season 8, Carter breaks up with Pete and goes fishing with Jack, Daniel, and Teal'c to celebrate the defeat of the System Lords.

Season 9 reveals that Carter left SG-1 to work at Area 51 after the collapse of the Goa'uld power structure. After Lieutenant Colonel Cameron Mitchell assumes command of SG-1, General O'Neill orders Carter to assist SG-1 on a mission concerning the new Ori threat. Carter officially rejoins SG-1 in the season 9 episode "Ex Deus Machina". Samantha Carter appears in the 2008 direct-to-DVD films Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum.

Character arc in Stargate Atlantis

Lieutenant Colonel Carter makes her first appearance in Stargate Atlantis at the end of its first season (airing in parallel to season 8 of Stargate SG-1), receiving a very brief data transmission from the Atlantis expedition to Earth. The Atlantis character Dr. Rodney McKay (David Hewlett) has a hallucination of Carter which enables him to survive while trapped in a sinking Puddle Jumper in season 2. Lieutenant Colonel Carter approaches McKay's sister Jeannie Miller with an offer to work for Stargate Command in season 3. At an unknown point after the end of the Ori conflict in Stargate SG-1, Carter is promoted to a "full bird" colonel and is transferred to the Midway space station to oversee the final stages of completion. The IOA appoints Carter as the new commander of the Atlantis expedition early in season 4 of Atlantis.

Carter finds the Atlantis command experience quite relaxed in terms of military protocol, but enjoys it nonetheless ("Midway"). True to her SG-1 heritage, she conducts herself bravely by actively taking part in missions ("Reunion", "Trio") and protecting and defending those under her command ("Be All My Sins Remember'd", "Search and Rescue"). Carter even builds a more amicable relationship with Dr. Rodney McKay, having put their past tensions aside, and clearly respects Lt. Colonel Sheppard's command and past accomplishments in the Pegasus Galaxy.

Carter is recalled to Earth at the end of the first episode of season five for a Tok'ra extraction ceremony concerning the final Ba'al clone (a ceremony witnessed in Stargate: Continuum), followed by an exhaustive first-year command review by the International Oversight Advisory (IOA). Upon arrival, however, Richard Woolsey informs her that the IOA has removed her from command, and that he will be replacing her. As of "Enemy at the Gate", she is the temporary SGC base commander while General Hank Landry is heading a task force based in Washington. After this assignment she is to be made commander of the new Daedalus Class (BC-304) battlecruiser, formerly known as the Phoenix, now named the George Hammond in memory of General George Hammond.

Stargate Universe

Carter is in command of the George Hammond when it ferries personnel from Earth to Icarus Base to witness the latest attempt to dial the ninth chevron. The Hammond attempts to fight off the assault on the base by a fleet of Goa'uld ships that Carter presumes belong to the Lucian Alliance. Although they are unsuccessful in preventing the destruction of the base, they are able to rescue most of the survivors stranded outside, including Colonel David Telford, who was to command the expedition to Destiny. She also appears later in season 1 where she is the officer in charge of the assault on the Lucian Alliance base.

Relationships

Over the course of the two shows, a number of men are in love with, infatuated with, or attracted to, Carter. This includes Jack O'Neill, the Tok'ra Martouf, Dr. Rodney McKay, Fifth, Orlin, Agent Malcolm Barrett, Narim, Pete Shanahan, Dr. Jay Felger, her former fiancé Jonas Hanson, and Joseph Faxon (her duplicitous husband of a possible future in Season 4, episode 16, "2010"). Many of these individuals have (presumably) since died, including: Martouf (and symbiote Lantash); Fifth; Narim; Hanson; and two alternate versions of Jack O'Neill. This has led many of the cast and crew of Stargate SG-1 to humorously nickname her character Samantha "the Black Widow" Carter.

Asked why the series never confirmed a relationship between Carter and O'Neill, producer Joseph Mallozzi stated in his blog,

The Sam/Jack relationship was fraught with complications, given that he was her commanding officer. Pursuing any sort of relationship would have been inappropriate for both and would only have really been possible late in the series after Jack's retirement. Jack and Sam could have gotten together after Jack's retirement, but it was never made canon because, quite frankly, it wasn't my call. Still, despite the lack of official confirmation, it was only natural that they should get together after the events of Threads and, in my mind, they have been together ever since. An attempt to suggest as much in season 4's Trio, unfortunately, ended up on the cutting room floor when the episode ran long.

In season 9, episode 7, Sam catches up with Malcolm Barrett and tells him that she and Pete had broken up. He asks if she is single, and she responds, "not exactly."

When Carter joins the Atlantis expedition as commanding officer, a framed photo of O'Neill is seen on top of a box of her personal effects. A scene was cut from the Stargate Atlantis season 4 episode "Trio" in which Carter and Dr. Jennifer Keller discuss their love lives. When asked by Keller if she's seeing anyone, Carter initially avoids the question before admitting that "it's complicated" and that the man in question is in Washington D.C. but is going to retire soon. In episode 12, season 10, Samantha is shot and reveals to Mitchell that she has a file on her laptop with letters to people who she cares for in case she dies. The password is 'fishing,' an apparent reference to O'Neill.

Carmen Argenziano, the actor who plays Carter's father Jacob Carter, was asked in an interview who would be a good match for his on-screen daughter. He said:

I like Daniel Jackson. I felt that Daniel would have been the right choice because Daniel is well-educated, is intelligent, gentlemanly and he was everything that I envisioned that my daughter would end up with.

SG-1 leadership

Carter first assumes command of SG-1 in SG-1's season 2 episode "Spirits" when Jack O'Neill is in the infirmary injured. Carter takes over command from O'Neill as SG-1 leader at the end of season 7. Hammond had instructed Carter to relieve O'Neill of duty had she deemed him too unstable while under the influence of the Repository of the Ancients. O'Neill subsequently "quits" to avoid making Carter feel guilty. When Amanda Tapping was on maternity leave at the beginning of season 9, Cameron Mitchell was introduced as the leader of SG-1 who would bring the team back together. Following negative fan reactions to Carter's cancelled leadership within the team, Ben Browder noted the production difficulties that came with Amanda Tapping's maternity leave, and pointed out that new leaders are brought in routinely into units of the military. Tapping admitted to also have been "kind of put off" upon learning that someone else would lead SG-1, hoping that the producers would make SG-1 more of an ensemble team in season 10 by removing the patriarchal line of command. The writers eventually decided after an animated discussion during season 9 that Mitchell and Carter would co-command the team, although they left Mitchell in the official leadership position. Tapping considered the question of leadership in season 10 irrelevant; Mitchell cannot give orders to his team since he and Carter hold the same military rank, and Daniel and Teal'c are not members of the United States military.

Conceptual history

Tapping in costume on location in the Arctic for Stargate: Continuum

During the casting process of Stargate SG-1, the producers were looking for an actress who could portray a strong woman whom the audience would accept as a soldier. The character should have had combat training and have been in wars, but should also be a brilliant scientist and a beautiful woman. Amanda Tapping at first assumed that the show would put more emphasis on intellect, but found that it was an action-adventure scifi show where the characters often got physical. Tapping described Carter as a cross between Jack O'Neill and Daniel Jackson, and the conflict of her character whether to go the scientific route or with military protocol.

Amanda Tapping was part of the Stargate SG-1 main cast for all of the show's ten seasons. She did not appear in season 6's "Disclosure" or season 7's "Inauguration" except in clips from previous episodes and was completely absent from season 8's "Prometheus Unbound" and the season nine episodes "Avalon (Part 2)", "Origin", "The Ties That Bind" and "The Powers That Be" due to Tapping's maternity leave (she appeared briefly in "Avalon (Part 1)" to explain her absence); and season ten's "Bad Guys".

While Amanda Tapping was part of the main cast of Stargate SG-1, she made several cameo appearances in the first three seasons of Stargate Atlantis. Amanda Tapping became a member of the Atlantis main cast for 14 episodes of Season 4. She did not appear in "Travelers", "Missing", "Miller's Crossing", "This Mortal Coil", "Spoils of War" and "Harmony".

Tapping sat down with Robert C. Cooper at the beginning of Stargate SG-1's season 7 to discuss Carter's struggle with her demons and her life choices in regards to work and family. The events of "Grace" are left open for interpretation, both for the audience and the actors. Grace could be Sam's child within, her hopes and dreams for having a child, the child Sam left behind when she started her career as an astrophysicist, or Carter's potential future with a family. "Chimera" is an offshoot of what happened in "Grace", and the writers were trying to "dispel the black widow curse that Carter has, and also to open her up for more experiences and to flesh her out just a little bit more as a human being". Tapping felt out of her element doing these two episodes, as the flirty side of the character had not really been explored in the show until then. Also, Pete Shanahan does not die, which confuses Carter. According to Tapping, Carter is oblivious what lengths Shanahan is going (stalking, background checks) to find out more about her classified life, although the character is finally free to talk about her life at the end of episode.

Several fans refused to watch the episode "Chimera" because Carter was getting involved with someone other than who they wanted her to be involved with. Tapping received letters of fans who said that Carter's integrity "is completely out the window, and, 'What the hell thinking.'" According to Tapping, Carter "harbors great depth of feeling for Colonel O'Neill, but because nothing can ever happen ... He's the one who let her go. He says, 'I'm a safe bet. You know you can't have me so you're just protecting your heart by, you know, hanging your hat on someone you can't have. So, let me go,' is essentially what's said at the end of "Grace"". Tapping said,

The whole episode is her sort of rethinking her life and rethinking her choices, and I don't think that she's lost integrity. I don't think that her feelings for O'Neill are any less. I think she's just placed them in a different box, if you will. It was weird, I have to say, for her to hand her heart over to somebody else. But it's baby steps for her, and this is all new for her. And I think it's ultimately O'Neill who says, 'You have to move on.' And it's her father, too, who says, you know, 'Don't give up your chance of love. You know, I would live my whole life over again even knowing that your mother's gonna die, I would do all that again.' So it's her opening up her heart as opposed to actually – it's been closed this whole time because she's, you know, been protecting it with thoughts of O'Neill, who she knows she can't have, so it opens her up.

Working around Richard Dean Anderson's reduced schedule was a challenge for Tapping. Nevertheless, Tapping, Michael Shanks and Christopher Judge knew going into season 7 that this allowed for their characters to be fleshed out a bit more and to have a bit more screen time. She did not think the dynamics or the chemistry of the team had suffered.

Unlike O'Neill and Jackson, Carter did not appear in the series premiere of Atlantis. This was probably to do with the legalities of her being a character specifically created for Stargate SG-1. Tapping considered the elevator scene with Cassandra in season 1's "Singularity" to be one of the scenes to best fully capture Carter.

Reception

For her portrayal of Samantha Carter, Amanda Tapping was nominated for a 2000 Leo Award in the category "Dramatic Series: Best Lead Performance – Female" for the episode "Point of View", and won the Leo for "Ascension" in 2003, for "Grace" in 2004, and for "Threads" in 2005. Tapping was nominated for a Saturn Award in the category "Best Supporting Actress on Television" in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. Tapping was nominated for a 2001 Gemini Award in the category "Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role". In 2008 Amanda Tapping was nominated for a Constellation Award nomination in the category "Outstanding Canadian Contribution to Science Fiction Film or Television in 2008".

Variety reviewed the pilot episode "Children of the Gods", where he stated that Tapping's character was "Pushy" and her acting was "Wooden". Tory Ireland Mell, reviewer from IGN said that Carter's season four presence on Stargate Atlantis was "underused" and a "slap in the face" to her character. In 2008, Amanda Tapping started to produce her own web series entitled Sanctuary with Damian Kindler and Martin Wood among others. Many reviewers have felt that Tapping accepted the role of Doctor Helen Magnus to make a name of herself outside the Stargate universe as Samantha Carter. AOL named her one of the 100 Most Memorable Female TV Characters.

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