George Hammond (Stargate)
George Hammond is a male television character who features in Stargate.
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Biography
George S. Hammond
In July 1969, a young George Hammond came to watch the Apollo 11 lunar landing from the side of his father's hospital bed. By August 1969, Lt. Hammond was stationed at Cheyenne Mountain which suffered a breach from a group of mysterious intruders. Upon searching their gear, he came to find a note seemingly from himself that came from the future. It explained that the people that had been apprehended were a team named SG-1 who been accidentally displaced to the past where Hammond's future self urged him to help them. Lt. Hammond would set up a flat tire in the truck transporting the prisoners where they convinced him of the authenticity of the note by revealing that they knew where he was located on the day of the Apollo 11 landing. As a result, the younger Hammond helped SG-1 escape military custody where the team shot him with a Zat'nik'tel to stun him in order to protect him from a court martial for helping them in their escape. (SG1: 1969)
During the Gulf War, he was noted to had participated as part of the Coalition Forces where he received the Kuwait Liberation Medal from Saudi Arabia. (SG1: The Enemy Within)
By 1997, Major General George S. Hammond was the head of the United States Air Force's Stargate Command. He replaced Major General W. O. West who commanded Project Giza during the original excursion to Abydos. Shutting down the Stargate Program was to have been his last assignment before retirement. This changed when Apophis and several Serpent Guards came through the Stargate and killed four Air Force personnel and kidnapped Senior Airman Carol Weterings, he led a team of reinforcements to Level 28. They arrived just before Apophis stepped through the gate. He sent his second in command, Major Bert Samuels, to retrieve Colonel Jack O'Neill. He questioned O'Neill about the accuracy of his report but O'Neill insisted he set off the bomb and destroyed the Abydos gate. He then ordered a BFMB Mark V bomb be sent to Abydos but stopped after O'Neill came clean that Dr. Daniel Jackson was alive and living on Abydos. After dialing Abydos, O'Neill took a Kleenex box and threw it through the Stargate. Sometime later, it was returned with the message 'Thanks. Send More.'. Hammond authorized O'Neill, Major Charles Kawalsky and Major Louis Ferretti to return to Abydos, along with the scientist Captain Samantha Carter. After the team left, he had an iris installed on the gate. When the team returned after an attack with the discovery that the gate went to countless worlds, he established 9 teams whose duties would be to preform reconnaissance, determine threats and make peaceful contact with alien races. He placed O'Neill in charge of Jackson and Carter as SG-1 and Kawalsky in command of SG-2. After Ferretti regained consciousness, he was able to give them the address for Chulak and he sent SG-1 and 2 with a 24-hour deadline. After 24 hours, he gave Samuels the order to lock out the IDC and seal the gate but SG-1 dialed in. After the team evacuated with refugees and the Jaffa Teal'c, O'Neill requested that Teal'c be allowed to join SG-1 but Hammond was reluctant. (SG1: Children of the Gods)
During the next few days, the Goa'uld attacked through the Stargate but were stopped by Stargate Command's Iris. When he was about to send SG-2 to Prakiti, Major Charles Kawalsky began to experience headaches and so Hammond ordered Kawalsky to the infirmary. Later, he informed Colonel Jack O'Neill that his request to have Teal'c join SG-1 was denied and that Colonel Martin Kennedy of The Pentagon was arriving to interview Teal'c. After it was discovered that Kawalsky was infested with a Goa'uld, he ordered Dr. William Warner to remove it at all costs. The operation appeared to be a success but the symbiote was not removed and took full control of Kawalsky and tried to escape through the gate after setting the self-destruct. Hammond and O'Neill are able to shut down the self-destruct and Teal'c held Kawalsky's head in the event horizon and O'Neill shut down the gate killing Kawalsky. Later, Hammond approved Teal'c's assignment to SG-1 and sent them to Prakiti. (SG1: The Enemy Within) After the symbols that the refugees from Chulak saw on the Dial Home Device were entered into the Dialing computer and it came up with an address, he sent SG-1 and SG-3 to P3X-797. When they returned and began the debriefing, Lt. Daniel Johnson attacked Teal'c and he had him restrained. Later, other members of SG-1 and SG-3 began to act strangely and Dr. Janet Fraiser determined they were infected with a virus from the people of 797. He called the President of the United States and recommended that the mountain be sealed and anyone attempting to escape be shot and their body burned. When Fraiser realized Dr. Daniel Jackson and Teal'c were not infected, he sent them back to the planet to get a blood sample from the Untouched. Eventually, he became infected as well and was later cured with antihistamines. (SG1: The Broca Divide) When Colonel Jack O'Neill became infected with nanites on the planet Argos and the nanite samples almost broke containment, he ordered the samples destroyed and gate travel to Argos off limits. Luckily, Captain Samantha Carter was able to shut down the nanites. (SG1: Brief Candle)
Overview
Personality and attributes
In fact, he had said that so long as he was in command of the SGC that they would hold themselves to the highest ethical standards. (Episode: Shades of Grey)
Powers and abilities
George Hammond was born an ordinary human being with no special inherent abilities. By adulthood, he came to join the U.S. military where he served as a member of the United States Air Force. (SG1: Children of the Gods)
In his time as a General, he came to be appointed as head of the nascent Stargate Program. (SG1: Children of the Gods)
Notes
- George Hammond was portrayed by actor Don S. Davis where he featured in the setting of the Stargate SG-1 universe.
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