Vala Mal Doran
Vala Mal Doran is a female television character who features in Stargate.
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Biography
Vala Mal Doran was a female human who was born in the Milky Way galaxy. (SG1: Prometheus Unbound) At some point, she was taken as a host by a Goa'uld named Qetesh who ruled over several worlds. (SG1: The Powers That Be) The Goa'uld lord continued to rule her world until around 10 years ago when a Tok'ra incited a rebellion amongst the slave population. This saw the people rising up against their enslaver and overcoming the Jaffa that protected their master. This resulted in the capture of the Goa'uld who was captured alive where they were tortured and beaten for days. The slaves did not understand that Vala was simply the host to a Symbiote which was responsible for oppressing them. The Tok'ra came to feel responsible where he decided to rescue Vala Mal Doran were he removed the Goa'uld symbiote and nursed the host back to health. (SG1: Prometheus Unbound) It was said that Vala had been freed from her symbiote around 4 years ago. Left with nothing, Vala could not travel to any world without being targeted by the slaves that had turned against Qetesh. However, she came to learn that a mining outpost that came to be known as P8X-412 had not heard of their Goa'uld master's demise. This led to Vala travelling here and continuing to masquerade as Qetesh with the inhabitants made to mine the scarce supplies of Naquadah for her whilst she had them tend to her. (SG1: The Powers That Be)
Motivated by her insatiable appetite for ill-gotten gain, and quite possibly also for want of an excuse to be near Dr. Daniel Jackson, Vala came to Earth bearing a stolen tablet that only Daniel could decipher. She was convinced that the tablet held the secret to an incredible buried treasure, while Daniel was convinced that some way, somehow, she was going to make his life miserable. At Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell's request, however, Daniel consented to a meeting with her. Unfortunately, the tablet wasn't the only artifact Vala had stolen. She had also brought along some insurance — two ancient kor mak bracelets which Teal'c later explains were once used to bind prisoners to their guards, thus preventing escape. Before Daniel has a chance to argue, Vala clamps one of the bracelets onto his wrist and the other to her own, thus preventing Daniel from going on his much-desired trip on the Daedalus to Atlantis. After Dr. Bill Lee tries and fails to remove the shackles, a resigned Daniel complies with Vala's demand and cracks the tablet's code. His translation leads the pair, along with Mitchell and Teal'c, into a deep Ancient cavern in Glastonbury, England. With the treasure just out of reach, they find themselves trapped. They figure out the puzzle and find an Ancient Long-range communication device that supposedly can help them communicate with other people. However, Vala and Daniel Jackson's minds were transported to the bodies of Harrid Cicera and Sallis Cicera, a married couple in another galaxy. (SG1: Avalon) There they learn about an oppressive religion called Origin. They discover that Harrid and Sallis were part of the anti-Ori underground and meet Fannis, one of their friends who was also part of this organization, and he tells them they have a communicator device identical to the one they used in the Milky Way, which Harrid and Sallis had connected to. Not long after, they are revealed as impostors. Vala (in Sallis' body) is killed by The Administrator, and then is brought back to life by a Prior. Daniel and Vala are then both taken to the Ori City of Celestis. Daniel is taken to see the Doci, but he and Vala still reject what the followers of Origin are telling them, and are both sentenced to death by fire. Since Daniel and Vala's actual bodies in the Milky Way are responding to what is happening to Harrid and Sallis in the Ori galaxy, Stargate Command becomes quite concerned. At the last instant before Daniel and Vala would have been killed, Teal'c and Mitchell take the communication device and throw it into the unstable vortex of an activating Stargate, annihilating it and bringing Daniel and Vala's consciousnesses back to their own bodies just before Harrid and Sallis are burned to death. (SG1: Origin)
After a Prior visited P9C-882 and ordered them to build an Ara, he sent SG-1 to hide the planet with Merlin's Arthur's Mantle device. After the device failed because of power issues, the Ori army attacked the village. She and Teal'c helped the villagers defend the village but were overrun by the Ori army. The leader of the Ori soldiers turned out to be Tomin who captured her and ordered the executions of many of the villagers who resisted. She was ringed to the Ori warship in orbit and Tomin tried to train her in the ways of Origin. She tried to convince him that the Ori were not gods but he refused to believe and slapped her across the face. After Tomin protested the destruction of the village and the Prior twisted the words of the Book of Origin, he helped her escape but would not come with her. She ringed down to the village and found nothing but scorched ground until the device was deactivated and the village reappeared. (SG1: Line in the Sand) A few weeks later, Lt. Colonel Samantha Carter was accidentally transported to an alternate reality while experimenting on Arthur's Mantle. Thinking she was just stuck out of phase for two weeks before her return, Vala and the rest took shifts with Sodan Invisibility devices to keep her company. (SG1: The Road Not Taken) On a mission to unnamed planet, SG-1 encountered a Prior. When the Prior removed his hood it turned out to be Daniel. They beamed him to the Odyssey and restrained him. He explained that he and Merlin were fooling Adria into believing he had turned so he could finish the Sangraal and steal an Ori warship and send it through the Supergate to the Alteran Home Galaxy and neutralize the Ori. After Richard Woolsey decided to place Daniel in stasis, she and SG-1 went on a mission to finish Daniel's plan themselves. They boarded an Ori warship and she and Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell put together the Sangraal. When Ori soldiers boarded the ship and captured them, Daniel beamed from the Odyssey and knocked out Adria. Teal'c and Lt. Colonel Samantha Carter shot the soldiers guarding her and Mitchell with a Zat'nik'tel. She armed the Sangraal and they head to the control room were Daniel set the ship on a course to the Supergate. Carter radioed Major General Jack O'Neill and he beamed them on the Odyssey. Not knowing it actually worked, she witnessed the Supergate activating, sending an addition six Ori ships to the Milky Way, making the total up to eight. (SG1: The Shroud)
Overview
Personality and attributes
She was known to lie in order to get sympathy from others so that she could perform her cons. (SG1: Prometheus Unbound)
Vala was noted to have had a stepmother named Adria who was a witch of a woman. (SG1: Flesh and Blood, Part 3)
She came to have a daughter born through the Ori with this being the Orici where Vala suggested her child be named Adria. (SG1: Flesh and Blood, Part 3)
Powers and abilities
Vala Mal Doran was a human who came to be taken as a host to a Goa'uld symbiote named Qetesh until the parasite was removed from her by one of the Tok'ra. (SG1: The Powers That Be) As a former Goa'uld host, she had naquadah in her blood allowing her to use their technology and also retained some of the knowledge of the symbiont. (SG1: Prometheus Unbound)
Notes
- Vala Mal Doran was created by Robert C. Cooper and Damian Kindler where she was portrayed by actress Claudia Black and featured in the setting of the Stargate SG-1 universe.
Alternate Versions
Appearances
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