Elizabeth Weir (Stargate)

Elizabeth Weir is a female television character who features in Stargate.

Biography

Elizabeth Weir

She later headed the research mission that explored the Ancient Antarctic outpost and its technology there. From the database, they came to learn that the Ancient city of Atlantis once resided on Earth thousands of years ago. A plague had led to them abandoning the galaxy and heading to the Pegasus Galaxy that became their new home with the outpost containing the location for it. Thus, Weir came to head a civilian-led research expedition that was tasked with finding Atlantis. Using a Zero Point Module, they utilised its limited energy to power the Stargate for the expedition to travel to the Ancient city. In this time, she requested General O'Neill to add Major John Sheppard to their expedition who ended joining them through the Stargate. (SGA: Rising, Part 1)

Later on, an incident emerged when an Athosian child named Jinto accidentally stumbled onto a Lantean laboratory and freed an energy creature from its containment cell. The entity had been subject of Ancient experiments in Ascension and was a formless being that fed on energy. As a result, Dr. Weir ordered that all Naquadah generators to be shut down so the creature could not feed on them. When Teyla Emmagan came up with the idea of allowing the creature to go through the Stargate to M4X-337, she authorized the plan. (SGA: Hide and Seek) Another day, she was informed that a scouting mission performed by Major Sheppard's team had encountered the Wraith and were looking to escape though John was reported to had attacked by a bug that attached itself to him. Unable to remove it, an attempt was made to retreat through a Puddle Jumper but the ship became trapped in the space gate. A team of scientists that included Dr. Peter Kavanagh, Dr. Simpson, Dr. Peter Grodin and Dr. Radek Zelenka were assembled to find a way to retract the drive pods. Kavanagh came to be concerned about an overload in the Jumpers systems though Dr. Weir told him to care more about the people trapped and less about himself. Dr. Rodney McKay was ultimately able to retract the drive pod and Ford blew the rear hatch to propel the Jumper through the gate where Elizabeth checked on Sheppard in the infirmary who was recovering from the bug attack. (SGA: Thirty-Eight Minutes)

When Major John Sheppard's team encountered the Wraith for the fifth time in nine missions, she concluded there must be a spy in the city. She set up new security protocols that restricted the movement of the Athosians and set up personal interviews with all the Athosians. During a Puddle Jumper exploration of Lantea, Sheppard and Lt. Aiden Ford discovered the mainland. When Halling approached her to be allowed to move to the mainland, she was surprised they would cut themselves off from the Stargate. When the team encountered the Wraith on their first mission, Sgt. Bates accused Teyla Emmagan of working with the Wraith and had Dr. Rodney McKay search her belongings. He found the necklace that Sheppard had found in the Athosian caves and discovered it was a Wraith transmitter designed to detect Ancients. She approved a mission back to that planet to capture a Wraith which was successful. (SGA: Suspicion) When Dr. Rodney McKay brought the Zero Point Module from M7G-677 to Atlantis with the hopes of keeping it and evacuating the villagers, she refused and made him take it back and reinstall it. (SGA: Childhood's End) When Major John Sheppard's team met the Hoffans, she approved allowing Dr. Carson Beckett to help them with their drug to fight the Wraith. When Sheppard wanted to test the drug on Steve, she was hesitant because the Geneva Convention prohibits experiments on prisoners but Sheppard convinced her that it was the right course of action. (SGA: Poisoning the Well) When Major John Sheppard's team came to an agreement with the Genii to trade C-4 and medical supplies for food, she was hesitant to give another society weapons. When it was discovered that the Genii were in fact an advanced society working on nuclear warheads, she was angered by Sheppard's agreement to help them build their bombs but agreed after Sheppard insistence that they need allies. When the Genii betrayed them, she had Dr. Peter Grodin access the Wraith data storage device and they discovered there were 60 Wraith Hive ships in the galaxy. (SGA: Underground) After the discovery of M5S-224's powerful atmosphere, she traveled to Earth with Dr. Rodney McKay to brief Stargate Command on the situation in the Pegasus galaxy. She visited Dr. Simon Wallace and spent time with her dog Sedgewick. While preparing to return, there was an accident aboard the Prometheus and she was unable to return to Atlantis. Fortunately, this was all an allusion created by the inhabitants of the planet and she never left Pegasus. (SGA: Home)

During a trip to the mainland, Major John Sheppard and Teyla Emmagan discovered a storm approaching Atlantis. Dr. Rodney McKay and Dr. Radek Zelenka came up with a plan to use lightning to power Atlantis' shield. She uncoupled one of the four grounding stations and returned to Stargate Operations when an incoming wormhole was received. The incoming party was a Genii strike team under the command of Commander Acastus Kolya. Kolya took her and McKay hostage and forced her to turn over the Wraith data storage device and their supply of C-4 and medicines. After McKay was forced to tell Kolya the plan to save Atlantis, they were forced to repair the damaged grounding station. After finishing repairs they returned to Stargate Operations and tried to fake the activation of the shield to force Kolya to abandon the city. Kolya decides to evacuate but plans to take her and McKay with them. As they approach the gate Sheppard and Lt. Aiden Ford storm Stargate Operations and free her and McKay. McKay then activates the shield and stops the wave from destroying the city. (SGA: The Eye) When Major John Sheppard, Dr. Rodney McKay, Dr. Brendan Gall and Dr. Abrams went on a mission to the Lagrangian Point satellite, they detected a distress call from a nearby planet. She was hesitant to allow them to investigate but agreed. When they lost contact with Atlantis, she sent a team led by Lt. Aiden Ford on a rescue mission. (SGA: The Defiant One)

While surveying the formerly flooded sections of Atlantis for structural damage, a team of scientists were exposed to an Ancient nanovirus. She sent Dr. Carson Beckett and a medical team in Hazmat suits to assist and quarantined the city. When Dr. Peterson breached quarantine, Major John Sheppard asked to be released from the gym to stop him but she refused. He then ordered Sgt. Bates to open the gym doors. Sheppard and Teyla put on Hazmat suits and are able to find Peterson. He ran for a transporter and Sheppard shot him but not before he entered the transporter and transported to the mess hall. Once he entered the mess hall the city's sensors detected the virus and the city entered a quarantine lockdown. Once Sheppard and Teyla realized they could move through the city because of their hazmat suits, Teyla headed for the mess hall to calm everyone down and Sheppard went to McKay's lab. Fortunately, Sheppard was able to overload a Naquadah generator, causing an electromagnetic pulse, which deactivated the nanites. (SGA: Hot Zone) When Major John Sheppard's team brought Chaya Sar to Atlantis, she tried to convince her to allow them to use Proculus as a refugee sanctuary. When Dr. Rodney McKay scanned Chaya and discovered she was an Ascended Ancient, Chaya explained that she could not protect anyone other than the People of Proculus as punishment for interfering with the lower planes. (SGA: Sanctuary) While searching Atlantis, Major John Sheppard, Teyla Emmagan and Lt. Aiden Ford found a room with a women preserved in a stasis pod. Dr. Carson Beckett was reluctant to revive the woman as she was near death but she overruled him. After reviving her it is discovered that she is an alternate Elizabeth Weir. The alternate Weir explained her story and provided them with a list of five planets with known Zero Point Modules. After The alternate Weir died of old age, she poured her ashes over the city in a pot that Major John Sheppard had gotten her that day as a birthday present. (SGA: Before I Sleep)

When the Apollo and Colonel Abraham Ellis arrived in Atlantis and briefed her on his mission to use the Horizon weapons platform to attack Asuras, she objected but had no authority to stop him. After the plan was successful, the Asurans launched a satellite weapon that attacked the city. She attempted to contact the Asurans through the open Stargate in the satellite and was greeted by Oberoth. He refused a peace agreement and attempted to upload a virus so she cut the connection. After Dr. Rodney McKay and Dr. Radek Zelenka submerged the city and the shield was hours from failure, she ordered the cities Stardrive be activated. After resurfacing and lifting off the ocean's surface, they were forced to lower Atlantis' shield to save power. Before they were able to raise the shield the satellite destroyed the Asteroid that was blocking it and grazed the tower. (Episode: First Strike) She was seriously injured in the blast and suffered brain damage as a result. Dr. Jennifer Keller performed a decompressive craniectomy to relieve the swelling but her chances of recovery were slim. McKay used the deactivated nanites in her system to repair the damage. (SGA: Adrift) This had the side effect of allowing her to interface directly with the replicator collective; as a result, she accompanied Lt. Colonel John Sheppard's team on a mission to gather a Zero Point Module from Asuras, but the team discovered a code that would cause the Asurans to attack the Wraith. Weir managed to delay the Asurans, but Oberoth, their leader, physically grabbed her. Weir ordered Sheppard to take the team out, and she was left behind. (SGA: Lifeline) According to a Replicator version of Dr. Jennifer Keller, Weir was subsequently killed because Oberoth deemed her too great a threat. (SGA: This Mortal Coil) It was revealed that she was not in fact killed but somehow became a member or leader of a faction of Asurans that left the main group. Weir believed that with the Asurans dead, they could implement their plan without having to look over their shoulders anymore. (SGA: Be All My Sins Remember'd)

Tt was later revealed that her group was in fact the remnants of Niam's group that were still seeking ascension. There were only nine of them now left which included Elizabeth among their ranks. She and her group digitally ascended, but became trapped. In a desperate attempt to regain physical form she hitched a ride along with Lt. Colonel John Sheppard's and his team on a Puddle Jumper. She took control over the Atlantis computer systems and eventually used the city's technology to build herself a new body, albeit one that looks like FRAN. She explained that she was never killed but was turned into a full Replicator when she was captured. Her human self remained despite being a Replicator and it was only detected by the members of Niam's group. That group ended up on the run until the other Replicators were destroyed in the Battle of Asuras. She summoned the others in the hopes of them being able to build themselves new bodies with the same technology that gave her one and ultimately proposed that the Replicators build themselves human bodies to live in. When Koracen went rogue and tried to escape, she saved Sheppard from him and killed Koracen. She believed that the Asurans were now too much of a threat and helped the team trick the Replicators through the Stargate to a space gate, leaving all of the remaining Replicators, herself included, trapped and effectively neutralized. (SGA: Ghost in the Machine)

Overview

Powers and abilities

She was noted for being an expert in international politics and came to mediate top level negotiations for the UN. Weir came to be a skilled civilian diplomat who worked behind the scenes in the U.S. government for several years. An expert in international politics, Weir was well known for mediating for the United Nations. She brokered a dozen of the most sensitive international accords in modern history. She had two Ph.D.s, taught political science at Georgetown University, served in embassies all over the world and speaks five languages, including Russian and Latin. Though she began her career as a political activist lobbying against government spending on the military, she later decided to change things from the inside and entered the realm of government. She concluded that the best way to stop weapons proliferation was to try and end the need for them. (SG1: Lost City, Part 1)

Later on, Weir came to be converted into an Asuran where she was a mechanical being composed of a cloud of nanites assembled into a human form. Her nanites allowed her to achieve a wireless connection to the Replicator subspace network. While connected, Weir displayed the ability to access any and all information known to the Replicator collective, including being able to see through their eyes. (SGA: Lifeline)

Notes

• Elizabeth Weir was created by Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper where she featured in the Stargate television universe.
• Originally, actress Jessica Steen portrayed the character in the setting of Stargate: SG-1 but she did not return as she did not want to relocate to Vancouver to film Stargate: Atlantis.
• Actress Torri Higginson was later cast for the role once Stargate: Atlantis was filmed where she starred in the show until she was written out to allow for Amanda Tapping's character to take over as leader of Atlantis.
• In February 2008, Torri Higginson revealed that she would not be reprising the role of Elizabeth Weir in season 5 with actress Michelle Morgan being brought in to replace her for the episode "Ghost in the Machine".

Appearances

• Stargate: SG-1:
• Stargate: Atlantis:

External Links

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