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- O’Neill, The: The Asgard’s most-advanced spaceship,
named in honor of Jack O’Neill of the SGC. [SG1]
- O’Neill, Brig. General Jack: Brigadier General Jack
O’Neill helped shape the SGC, and Earth owes a great deal to his courage and
integrity. His Special Forces training has included covert operations and
infiltration, special weapons and tactics, and survival skills, and he is
a decorated parachutist and experienced pilot. As a career officer, he has
spent many years in the service of his country, much of that time in covert
Black Ops, and most of his work during these years has been classified. As
an exceptional leader, O’Neill has earned a reputation for courage and heroism.
A private person, he tends to use humor and sarcasm as a means of deflecting
tension, and to exhibit a certain denseness that belies his true intelligence.
Despite a tendency for irreverence and more than a few marks of insubordination
on his record, he is highly respected as an exceptional military strategist
and a decisive leader. Items normally found on his person include Bugaboo
glacier glasses, patches from SG-1, the U.S. Air Force, and Earth, his ID
tag #799 36 6412 and bearing notice of his blood type as B negative, and a
Beretta 92R pistol. Other favorite weapons include the MP-5 and the P-90.
He had been happily married to Sara, and together they had a son, Charlie.
Despite O’Neill’s military background, he never allowed his son to play with
guns, but two weeks after a disagreement about a water pistol, young Charlie
accidentally shot and killed himself with his father’s handgun. O’Neill never
forgave himself. He grew estranged from hiw wife, left the military, and withdrew
from the world. As a captain in 1982, he served with Capt. Kawalsky under
Col. John Michaels during Operation East Fly, a failed mission to retrieve
a Russian agent from East Germany. In Iraq, O’Neill served with Frank Cromwell.
When their mission was exposed, O’Neill was injured, and Cromwell, believing
him to be dead, made the decision to save the rest of the team. O’Neill was
left behind and spent four months in an Iraqi prison, which strengthened his
fierce determination that no member of his team should ever be left behind.
He is a destinguished and highly-decorated officer with numerous medals for
exemplary courage and heroism. Although he does not wear pilot’s wings, he
has flown several alien/hybrid craft including the F-302, for which he is
the most qualified pilot on the planet. His honors include: Airman’s Medal,
Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Air Medal 3rd Award, Air Force Commendation
Medal 3rd Award, Air Force Achievement Medal 3rd Award, Air Force Organizational
Excellence Award, Vietnam Service Medal, Southwest Asia Service Medal 2nd
Award, Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Air Force Destinguished Service
Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Air Force Longevity Service Award 4th
Award, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal, Kuwait Liberation Medal from Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia with Palm, Meritorious Service Medal 4th Award, Aerial Achievement
Medal, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
with Valor 4th Award, Combat Readiness Medal 2nd Award, National Defense Service
Medal 2nd Award, and Air Force Overseas Ribbon -- Short Tour. His two highest
honors include Master Parachutist badge, command level, and Master Space/Missile
badge, command level. O’Neill’s eclectic interests range from astronomy to
opera to pottery. An avid sports enthusiast, he enjoys hockey, baseball, football,
golf, and curling, and his taste in television includes "The Simpsons,"
for which he owns the entire collection on VHS. He loves spending time outdoors,
and for relaxation he enjoys nothing more than fishing at his cabin in northern
Minnesota, 20 miles from the nearest town. Despite his insistance that he
never actually caught a fish, he maintains that the act of fishing is more
important than the fish themselves. While he was still a colonel, the stargate
was first activated and a team was assembled for the first mission to Abydos.
Still distraught over the death of his son, he accepted the assignment, believing
it to be a suicide mission. Instead, he returned from Abydos with renewed
hope and quietly settled into retirement alone. In 1997, he was again recalled
to active duty for the return mission to Abydos, and he took command of the
newly-formed flagship team, SG-1. Born in Chicago and raised in Minnesota,
O’Neill seldom speaks of his formative years. He rarely mentions his parents,
and he has no known siblings, although he has referred fondly to his grandfather
from northern Minnesota. Occasionally addressed as Jonathan, O’Neill is identified
on his security ID as Colonel Jack O’Neill, born Oct. 20, 1952. In the line
of duty, he has suffered nine broken bones, including skull fractures, three
knee surgeries, internal injuries, hypothermia, anoxia, concussion, shrapnel,
a dislocated shoulder, and exposure to muon radiation, Hathor’s organism,
nish’ta, the Blood of Sokar, the plants of Paradise, the mind control of Nem,
the Keeper, Urgo, the memory stamp, the light, and the Ancient repository.
He has been impaled by the orb, switched bodies with Daniel and Teal’c, possessed
by Anubis, implanted by both Tok’ra and Goa’uld, infected by a histaminolytic
virus, an Ancient virus, a nanovirus, and Ma’chello’s inventions, cryogenically
frozen, and duplicated by the Unity crystals, Harlan, the aliens of P3X-118,
and Loki. He has been wounded by an arrow and by alien weapons, tortured by
the Goa’uld torture device and tal’vak acid, attacked by energy beings, and
given the abdominal pouch of a Jaffa. He has sustained two bullet wounds,
three staff weapon wounds, five incidents of a ribbon device, and eleven shots
by a zat’nik’tel, and he has been killed by Apophis, by laster fire in a future
reality, and was repeatedly tortured to death and revived in a sarcophagus
at the hands of Ba’al. On P3R-272, SG-1 first encountered an Ancient repository
which downloaded the knowledge of the Ancients into O’Neill’s mind. As the
vast database slowly began to overwrite his brain, he began to unwillingly
speak the Ancient language, to enter new stargate addresses into the SGC database,
and to build an energy generator that allowed the stargate to dial the Asgard
planet of Othala where he could seek help. He has earned the respect of Earth’s
allies including the Asgard, Nox, and Tollans. Among the Asgard, O’Neill has
become legendary due to the presence of the Ancient gene in his genetic makeup
which enables him to interact with Ancient technology such as the Ancient
repository. Thor’s admiration for O’Neill’s abilities led him to personally
select O’Neill to represent Earth in the negotiations for the Protected Planets
Treaty, and to name the Asgard’s most advanced spaceship, the O’Neill,
in his honor. A mutual respect between O’Neill and Thor has led to a firm
alliance between Earth and the Asgard. When O’Neill reluctantly agreed to
become a host to the Tok’ra, Kanan, the symbiote instead used O’Neill’s body
to return to Ba’al’s highly-fortified outpost. With no memory of what had
brought him to the secret facility, O’Neill became Ba’al’s prisoner and was
repeatedly tortured to death, then revived in a sarcophagus. Weakened to the
point of breaking, he withstood the ordeal only to protect Ba’al’s slave whom
Kanan had hoped to rescue. He never hesitated to put the fate of the planet
before his own life and proved it during the battle for Earth. When the discovery
of a second Ancient repository on P3X-439 gave SG-1 the opportunity to defeat
Anubis, O’Neill made the decision to interface with the device once again,
hoping to access the knowledge to save Earth before the technology would lead
to his death. Even as his own identity began to slip away, O’Neill accessed
the address of Praclarush Taonas, and activated the Ancient defense weapon
in Antarctica, defeating Anubis and saving Earth from annihilation. Following
the defeat of Anubis, O’Neill was promoted from colonel to brigadier general
and offered the command of the SGC. He accepted the assignment, and although
the transition to an administrative role at first caused him to question his
ability to fill Hammond’s shoes and led him to consider resignation. His somewhat
unorthodox leadership style has served him well, and he has proven himself
to be an exceptional general. (Played by Kurt Russell in the movie and
Richard Dean Anderson in both TV series.) [SG, SG1, SGA]
- O’Neill, Charlie: Jack O’Neill’s and Sara O’Neill’s
son. Despite Jack’s military background, he never allowed his son to play
with guns, but two weeks after a disagreement about a water pistol, young
Charlie accidentally shot and killed himself with his father’s handgun. Jack
never forgave himself. [SG, SG1]
- O’Neill, Sara: Ex-wife of Jack O’Neill and mother of
their son, Charlie. [SG, SG1]
- Ornithopter (Or-ni-thopter): Small aircraft capable
of sustained wing-beat flight in the manner of birds. [DUNE]
- Othala: An Asgard planet where Jack O’Neill
went to seek help after downloading the Ancients’ repository into his mind.
[SG1]
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