Ronald Greer (Stargate)
Ronald Greer is a male television character who features in Stargate.
Contents |
Biography
Ronald Greer
Afterwards, Greer was detained at Icarus Base and was awaiting court-martial for assaulting Colonel David Telford. He was released by Colonel Everett Young during the attack to help defend the base and evacuated the planet through the Stargate before it exploded. He was the penultimate man to evacuate to Destiny, just ahead of Young. On arrival, he and the rest of the new crew were informed that they were on an unknown spaceship in an unknown region of space, billions of light years from home. When life support systems were failing and Dr. Nicholas Rush thought he had found a solution, Eli Wallace protested, believing that Rush's solution could destroy the ship. Greer held Rush at gunpoint, unwilling to let him make yet another decision that would hurt the Icarus personnel. Lt. Matthew Scott intervened and ordered Greer to lower his weapon, which he did. Rush tried his solution, but it had no effect on anything. When Destiny dropped out of FTL and dialed the Stargate to a planet with the necessary materials to repair the failing life support system, Greer was assigned to the team sent to explore it. He shot Dr. Jeremy Franklin on Rush's orders, as Franklin was about to leave with their only Ancient remote control. Greer then left to find Scott, who was lost in the desert. Greer found Scott and helped get him back to the gate with the Lime needed to fix the life support system. (SGU: Air) During the lottery, his name was not one of the ones chosen to escape the apparently doomed ship using the Ancient shuttle. When Sgt. Spencer, who was also not chosen, tried to argue that the shuttle could fit more, Greer quickly knocked him out with the butt of his rifle, before things could get out of hand. He chose to remain alone in his quarters for the end, watching the approaching star through his window. (SGU: Light)
A few weeks later, while Colonel Everett Young and Lt. Matthew Scott were on a mission to Hoth to replenish Destiny's water supply, he helped contain the Dust bugs which had infested the ship, devising a makeshift flamethrower to herd them. He managed to trap them in a closet, giving Lt. Tamara Johansen time to fill a barrel full of water to attract them. He helped carry the barrel to the gate and throw it through, disposing of the creatures. (SGU: Water) Several weeks later, when the International Oversight Advisory had developed a plan to bring the expedition home, he was locked up once more by Colonel David Telford, who had switched bodies with Colonel Everett Young. He encouraged Lt. Matthew Scott to rebel against Telford, knowing that Telford's rash actions could get them all killed. Though Scott was unwilling to do so, the situation was resolved by Dr. Nicholas Rush. (SGU: Earth) Some time later he was part of the team that discovered the Destiny interface chair. He also slept with Dr. Lisa Park. (SGU: Life) He discovered Sgt. Spencer's corpse when Spencer failed to report for duty. When the investigation eventually led to an informal trial, he suggested the use of force to restore Colonel Everett Young's authority. This idea was turned down by Young himself. After Camile Wray was put in charge, she took him off the active-duty list. Greer believed that she did so out of suspicion that he killed Spencer. She did not give him a straight answer, though he insisted that they would talk about it further. The situation was resolved when Spencer's death was revealed to be a suicide. (SGU: Justice) A short while later, when Destiny was attacked by an alien mothership, Greer helped Lt. Matthew Scott defend the ship from Nakai fighters using the Ancient shuttle. (SGU: Space)
A day later, the civilian personnel mutinied against the military, sealing them off in one section of the ship. Greer and Colonel Everett Young, using Ancient environmental suits, went onto the hull and re-entered the ship on the civlians' side to unseal the doors and retake the ship. Greer was posted in the Destiny mess hall with Lt. Vanessa James to keep watch on the civilians. Once the mutiny was dealt with, the civilians were dismissed, though Greer felt that the issue would come up again. (SGU: Divided) A week later, Destiny unexpectedly jumped out of FTL in the vicinity of a Uncharted star with a single planet orbiting it. Greer accompanied the first team to visit the planet, and was the first to sample a kiwi-like fruit, despite objections that it could be poisonous. He then spent a month on the planet while the ship navigated around the star, helping to keep relations between the military and civilians amicable in his own unique way. (SGU: Faith) A few days later, along with Eli Wallace, Chloe Armstrong and Lt. Matthew Scott, Greer explored a planet with ruins. There Greer was trapped when, after firing at a Giant spider, a section of the tunnel the team was exploring collapsed. The team was stranded when the Destiny jumped to FTL again. The next day, while searching for a way out of the ruins, Chloe believed she had found a map of the tunnel system. When Greer went down another tunnel to check her findings, it collapsed on him, knocking him unconscious. Unable to dig him out, Scott reluctantly left with Eli and Chloe. He awoke later on and managed to dig himself out, but by the time he reached the Stargate his companions had already left. He set up camp by the gate, awaiting rescue, and was tormented by hallucinations of his father. He was eventually rescued by Lt. Vanessa James, who brought him back to the ship, though he was dismayed when Scott, Eli, and Chloe had not been rescued. (SGU: Lost)
When Destiny was sabotaged by the Nakai, allowing with Eli Wallace, Chloe Armstrong and Lt. Matthew Scott to dial the Stargate, he was delighted to see Scott return unharmed. He would later command one of the teams patrolling the halls during the subsequent alien attack. (SGU: Sabotage) When several crew members were infected by Alien ticks that induced hallucinations, Greer suffered one of the most dangerous psychotic episodes of all victims. Convinced that Dr. Nicholas Rush and Camile Wray were plotting another mutiny, he hallucinated being ordered to stop them using deadly force, and nearly killed both. (SGU: Pain)
Shortly after the invasion, he was part of a team that was sent to an unnamed planet in the Ancient shuttle to replenish the food and water supply. During reentry the shuttle lost power and crashed on the planet. After Lt. Matthew Scott and the rest of the team unburied the Stargate, he returned to Destiny. (SGU: Aftermath)
When Senator Michaels came on board with Dr. Andrew Covel, Covel needed someone to switch with him so Camile Wray volunteered Greer as she believed he needed to use the Long-range communication device which he always refused to do. Greer was ordered by Colonel Everett Young to do so, but was mad at Wray for forcing him to do something he didn't want to do. Upon switching and learning the details of the Lucian Alliance threat, Greer offered his help in dealing with the threat to Colonel David Telford, but was refused. When the Alliance Tel'tak crashed into the building, Greer pulled Wray to safety in an office, but had his leg injured by falling debris. After Wray splints his leg, the two hook up with Airman Evans and try to make their way out of the building, getting a gun and a radio from a dead Airman along the way. After failing to find a way out and learning of the possible Naquadria bomb threat, Wray and Greer decided to try to disarm it themselves, but discovered they were exposed to a fatal dose of radiation in the process. Evans revealed himself to be Lucian Alliance and took Wray hostage, but she broke free and Greer killed him. The two made it into the ship where Wray tried to disarm the bomb, but failed as their radio was jammed by the radiation and they were not able to get the full instructions from Varro. Wray apologized to him for their differences, explaining that they stemmed from the fact that he was more into action while she was more into talking and the two got a laugh out of the fact that at the point where all they had to do was talk, Wray had nothing to say. After Dr. Nicholas Rush severed the connection, the two met on the Observation deck, worried as nothing had been heard from Earth since their return and they did not know what had happened to their loved ones. Greer admitted to Wray he missed his mother and was sorry as they were not on the best of terms because of his joining the military, but Wray comforted him with the fact that his mother probably knew how he cared about her anyway. (SGU: Alliances)
After recovering, Greer was sent on a mission to a planet where he and Lt. Matthew Scott encountered a Space deer, but Greer hesitated to kill one. When a predator attacked, Greer hesitated to fire as well, resulting in it attacking the camp and taking Lt. Tamara Johansen and Cpl. Reynolds captive. Greer returned with a rescue team, but his determination to keep after the predator put him at odds with Colonel Everett Young. Eventually Varro, Tasia and the other Lucian Alliance personnel joined the hunt to Greer's displeasure as he didn't trust them. The team fell into a trap and Young and Lt. Vanessa James were hurt while most of the Alliance team was killed and Greer admitted to James his reasons for hesitating so much: he thought he died during the operation even though James figured it was just the effets of the medicine he was under and he didn't want to ever experience that again. After laying an ambush for the creature which killed one, all of the remaining members of the team except Varro and Greer were killed, leaving the two to rescue TJ and Reynolds alone. Greer still didn't trust Varro who compared him to a friend of his who died on a suicide mission, but worked with him. After locating the two thanks to TJ fixing a radio and calling them, Greer had Varro create a distraction while he rescued the two. Even though Greer could've harmed the creature, he chose not to as it was intelligent and willing to let TJ and Reynolds go after recignizing the same about the them and they hooked up with Varro who escaped the creatures unharmed. On the way back to the Gate, the group encountered another space deer and Greer killed it to take it back to the ship for dinner. As a result of this adventure, Varro earned Greer's trust and at Greer's recommendation, Varro was set free and integrated into the crew. (SGU: The Hunt)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Greer has difficulty trusting people who are not part of the military, such as Dr. Nicholas Rush. Surprisingly, the only civilian that Greer appears to trust to any degree is Eli Wallace, this is likely either because Colonel Young trusts Eli, or because Greer perceives Eli's innocence. At first glance it seems he has anger issues, but he cares about those aboard the ship. Although he is clever and calm during a struggle, he believes that he can only count on other soldiers during combat and has a hard time trusting the non-military personnel. Greer prioritizes survival over comfort, dismissing the awful taste of an alien sweet potato for the simple reason that it will keep them alive. His sense of humor is unusual but good at mediating conflicts when they arise.
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Ronald Greer was portrayed by actor Jamil Walker Smith where he featured in the setting of Stargate Universe.
Appearances
- Stargate Universe:
External Links
This article is a stub. You can help Multiversal Omnipedia by expanding it.
