Nicholas Rush

Nicholas Rush is a male television character who features in Stargate.

Biography

Nicholas Rush was a male human born in the modern age where his father worked in the shipyards in Glasgow. (SGU: Air)

Whilst working two jobs, he came to earn a scholarship to Oxford. (SGU: Air)

At some point, he was noted to had gotten married with his wife being Gloria Rush. She was a concert violinist who taught lessons privately to her students. (SGU: Human) Dr. Rush came to work at Cornell University where one of his colleagues was Dr. Andrew Covel with the two working together for a short time. Both of them later came to be recruited into the Stargate Program. (SGU: Alliances) Whilst working for the program, his wife came to be diagnosed with cancer where the prognosis was terminal. Nicholas came to devote himself to a project that looked into the mysteries behind the ninth chevron on the Stargate with this seeing him work alongside Dr. Daniel Jackson. Later on, his wife was noted to had died from her disease with Nicholas Rush experiencing a dramatic change in his personality. (SGU: Human)

Several weeks later, Rush and several others determined that the ship's water supplies were disappearing at an impossible rate. The ship stopped at an ice planet, allowing Colonel Everett Young and Lt. Matthew Scott to collect more water. Meanwhile, Rush joined the effort to discover the source of the drain, which was revealed to be a colony of dust bugs Scott had accidentally brought back with him from the desert planet. He deliberately kept this information from Young, as Young needed to focus on retrieving more water, against Eli Wallace's protests, then sternly informed Eli that grown-ups sometimes needed to lie for the greater good. While Scott was in the crevasse trapped, he expressed more concern for the ice than for the safe rescue of Scott. He also helped to develop and enact a plan to remove the bugs from the ship. (SGU: Water)

During a routine exploration of the ship, Rush and Master Sergeant Ronald Greer discovered the Destiny interface chair, a device similar in purpose to the Repository of knowledge encountered by Lt. General Jack O'Neill. Rush advocated having someone sit in the chair, reasoning that its more primitive design might not be fatal to humans as the later model was, and that the data it contained could grant them full control of the ship. Colonel Everett Young forbade any access to the chair, and asserted that the only person Rush would get to sit in it would be Rush himself. Rush attempted to force the issue by faking the discovery of a planet similar to Icarus Base, but Young remained steadfast in his refusal and Rush's deception was soon uncovered by Eli Wallace. (SGU: Life)

When Sgt. Spencer committed suicide, Rush was the first to find his body. Seeing it as an opportunity, he took Spencer's gun and hid it in Colonel Everett Young's room to frame him for murder. Rush knew the charge would never stick, but would create enough reasonable doubt to remove Young from command. This put Camile Wray in charge and gave him the freedom to research the Destiny interface chair. This in turn gave Dr. Jeremy Franklin the opportunity to sit in it, rendering him catatonic. Young blamed Rush for Franklin's state, under the belief that Rush was hoping for someone to sit in the chair out of desperation. When Eli Wallace uncovered Kino footage that showed Spencer's suicide and Rush's theft of the weapon, which Rush had tried to delete from the archive, he reported it to Young. Young confronted Rush alone on a planet with a damaged alien ship, and attacked him when Rush proved wholly unapologetic about the frame-up. Young knocked Rush unconscious and left him on the planet. (SGU: Justice)

After coming to, Rush's first act was to explore the Blue alien fighter. In doing so, he triggered a homing beacon which summoned more of the Blue aliens. They took him prisoner, probing his mind for information on Destiny. When Colonel Everett Young took control of one of the aliens through the communication device, the mothership Rush was on confronted Destiny. It attacked, and one of its fighters kidnapped Chloe Armstrong. Young attempted to use the communication device to free Chloe, but ended up freeing Rush instead. Rush instructed Young in the use of the alien mind probing technology, learning the identity of his rescuer but also breaking the communication link. Rush used the mind probe on the alien to find Chloe's location and teach himself to use their technology, then killed the alien. Unable to get back, Young tried to destroy the mothership. Rush, meanwhile, escaped the ship with Chloe shortly before it went to FTL. In private, Young and Rush decided to bury their rivalry for the sake of the crew. Rush, however, still did not trust Young to be in command, and schemed with Camile Wray to remove him. (SGU: Space)

When the opportunity came, Rush and Camile Wray launched their plan to isolate the military and force them to surrender. While Colonel Everett Young and Lt. Matthew Scott were using the Ancient shuttle to destroy an alien fighter that was attached to the hull, Rush started to transfer control from the Control interface room to a Research lab. This caused the shuttle's Docking clamps to fail. Rush was forced to stop the transfer prematurely so they could dock, losing control of life support as a result. He then bargained to have Eli Wallace brought over to his side, requiring Eli's assistance in bolstering the shields for an impending alien attack. The true reason behind his mutiny was that the aliens implanted a transmitter inside his chest, and he feared that Young might kill him trying to remove it. Young managed to end the mutiny during the attack and ordered the transmitter removed. Chloe used the Long-range communication device to switch with Dr. Brightman, who with the aid of Lt. Tamara Johansen was able to remove the device. Destiny managed to weather the assault and escaped into FTL. (SGU: Divided)

When Destiny dropped out of FTL near an Uncharted star, Rush used the time to strengthen the shield in unexplored sections of the ship. One of the teams found a robot which Rush decided to leave be while he dealt with more important matters. In his off time, he also began work on carving a chess set. Colonel Everett Young tried again to bury the hatchet with Rush, expressing his own fondness for the game. (SGU: Faith) A short time later, Rush and Dr. Adam Brody modified the Destiny interface chair so Rush could use it safely in an attempt to glean the ship's master code. Once in the chair, his experience took the form of a lucid dream of his days just prior to joining the Stargate Program. Treating it as a distraction, he ignored the vision of Gloria Rush despite her failing health, though he did take some time to comfort her. Eventually, he realized that the number 46 kept appearing everywhere he looked. Realizing that this was the key to deciphering the master code, he left the program, stopping to have a heartfelt conversation with the vision of his wife about his immoral behavior. He then devised a program to decipher the master code based on what he learned. (SGU: Human) During his time in the chair, a team consisting of Lt. Matthew Scott, MSgt. Ronald Greer, Eli Wallace, and Chloe Armstrong were stranded on a planet and unable to return to Destiny before it jumped to FTL. With the help of the other scientists, Rush was able to produce a map of the gate system in the galaxy, and Destiny's position relative to it. With the knowledge that Destiny was about to leave the galaxy, Rush and Lt. Vanessa James led a rescue mission to attempt to retrieve the lost away team. They split to cover more ground when it became clear that Destiny had bypassed numerous gates. James' team found Greer, while Rush came back empty-handed. Unfortunately, Rush's team dialed in just when Scott, Eli, and Chloe, who had managed to find an alternate route, were trying to do the same, blocking them. Destiny left the galaxy before they could dial again. (SGU: Lost)

Rush quickly discovered that Destiny lacked the power to make the trip across the void. Rush proposed using the Long-range communication device to bring aboard Dr. Amanda Perry, a hyperdrive specialist. The alien used this opportunity to take control of Lt. Vanessa James and sabotage the Faster-Than-Light engine. This gave Lt. Matthew Scott, Eli Wallace, and Chloe Armstrong the chance to dial back in. Eli gave Rush back his glasses, which he had lost on the alien fighter from which he was abducted. Eli, Rush, and Perry managed to repair the drive. The aliens attacked Destiny before the system could be restarted, but with the help of Dr. Jeremy Franklin and the Destiny interface chair, Destiny was able to enter FTL again and make the journey across the void. (SGU: Sabotage) Some time later, Rush was one of several people infected with hallucination-inducing ticks. His hallucinations took the form of an invasion by the Nakai. Meanwhile, MSgt. Ronald Greer's hallucinations took the form of another mutiny by Rush and Camile Wray. Seeing Greer as an alien, Rush fled into a supply room, followed by Greer. Greer in turn was followed by Wray. Seeing Wray as an alien, too, he stabbed her with a screwdriver before being knocked out by Greer. Greer was subdued before he could kill either Rush or Wray, and Rush was also restrained when he began attacking everyone in sight. The ticks were removed by Lt. Tamara Johansen, restoring them to normal. (SGU: Pain)

Not long after, Rush's program to break the master code worked. Using it, he gained access to the bridge, from which he could control all of Destiny's systems. However, he decided to keep this information to himself. Without a trained crew, he wanted to understand each system first. More importantly, he did not trust Colonel Everett Young, believing him unfit to lead the mission. While on the bridge, he was haunted by a vision of his wife Gloria Rush, who questioned his decisions and motives at every turn. A vision of Dr. Jeremy Franklin also appeared to him, serving to question Rush's technical deductions. With his new control over the ship, he stopped Destiny at a planet with an inactive Stargate, as the crew needed food supplies desperately. The Ancient shuttle was sent to the planet, but Rush failed to account for the severity of the atmospheric turbulence, which damaged to the shuttle and caused it to crash. While the shuttle team worked to fix the gate, Rush brought the ship out of FTL as soon as possible in order to reach them. Though successful, Sgt. Hunter Riley died from his injuries, which Rush blamed himself for. The ship then notified him of an approaching object, which it dropped out of FTL to meet. (SGU: Aftermath) The object the ship detected was a Seed ship, which for some reason was dead in space. Destiny docked with the ship, and began downloading a large amount of data. Rush was more eager to explore the ship than analyze the data, but Colonel Everett Young insisted that Rush decode the data as quickly as possible. He managed to excuse himself and visit the bridge, from which he detected a large amount of reserve power, enough to dial the Stargate to Earth. He decided not to tell anyone, reasoning that they would figure out on their own, which they did. Meanwhile, an alien was discovered on the ship. Rush was sent over to the ship to facilitate a power transfer, while Lt. Tamara Johansen was brought in to examine the alien. After it woke up, Rush gave advice in communicating with it, with little success. When the power transfer to dial the gate began, the rest of the aliens stunned Rush and reversed the transfer, threatening to drain Destiny permanently. Rush was carried out by MSgt. Ronald Greer, and upon reviving immediately went to the bridge to disconnect the two ships before the power drain reached an irreversible state. Colonel David Telford, who was attempting to counter the power drain from the Seed ship, was stranded. The vision of Gloria Rush wondered whether Rush had broken the connection out of concern for the ship or to save his dream. (SGU: Awakening)

Overview

Personality and attributes

He felt that he had earned the right to make decisions without explaining myself to anyone. (SGU: Air)

It was shown that he suffered a change in his personality following the death of his wife. This was because he saw her as being his conscience and that a part of him died with her. Nicholas claimed that her death gave him courage but in reality it made him callous. He came to believe that this led to him being capable of making hard decisions where he claimed that he had good reasons for his decisions. Rush as shown to prefer to die rather than fail in his tasks. (SGU: Human)

One of his wife's great regrets in life was that she never had children. (SGU: Human)

Notes

• Nicholas Rush was portrayed by actor Robert Carlyle where he featured in the setting of the Stargate universe.

Appearances

• Stargate Universe:

External Links

• Stargate Wiki Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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