Robert Kinsey (Stargate)

Robert Kinsey is a male television character who features in Stargate.

Biography

Robert Kinsey

Senator Kinsey came to be the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which controlled the Stargate Program's budget. He successfully argued that the program should be shut down, citing the colossal waste of money and the threat to Earth it represented. Upon meeting SG-1 and learning of their reports, Kinsey refused to change his mind, instead ordering that the Program be shut down for good while naively insisting that the U.S. military would defeat the Goa'uld and that God was with them. (SG1: Politics)

At first, Kinsey appeared to simply be a short-sighted politician pursuing his agenda. However, his interest in the Stargate went much deeper than that. In 2000, Colonel Jack O'Neill discovered that Kinsey was the politician protecting the rogue NID agents that had been causing trouble for Stargate Command, and that he was tied to various corporate and business interests hoping to use the Stargate for financial gain first, and to defend Earth as a secondary consideration. As a result of his actions, Major General George S. Hammond was briefly forced to retire and the SGC placed under the command of Major General Henry Bauer, who placed the organization in a more aggressive stance. However, O'Neill, collaborating with Harold Maybourne, managed to acquire incriminating evidence of Kinsey's ties to the NID and his off-the-books funding. He blackmailed the Senator into allowing Hammond to take control of the program once again or the evidence would go public. (SG1: Chain Reaction)

Kinsey would later help Agent Malcolm Barrett take down the rogue NID elements. In an attempt to stop his cooperation, Agent Mark Devlin tried to assassinate him using the Mimetic imaging device to pose as Colonel Jack O'Neill. Kinsey survived the attempt and Devlin tried again this time impersonating Major Paul Davis but was stopped by Barrett and Major Samantha Carter. After he recovered, he gave a speech exonerating O'Neill and announcing his intention to run for the President of the United States. After the speech, he told O'Neill that the Colonel had just won him the election. (SG1: Smoke and Mirrors)

Later, he became chairman of the Senate Intelligence Oversight Committee, which placed him in a position of direct control over the NID. Shortly before, knowing he was about to be moved to this post, he tried to place the Stargate into the NID's hands instead of the United States Air Force. He attempted to manipulate the other nations to whom The Pentagon disclosed the Stargate into handing control of the Stargate into NID hands, citing various dangers to Earth Stargate Command caused. However, Major General George S. Hammond countered that the SGC has made allies, such as the Asgard, going so far as to contact Thor, Supreme Commander of the Asgard fleet for assistance. During his brief appearance at the SGC, Thor made it clear to Kinsey, in front of all the foreign representatives, that he was not on a name-only basis with him, and asked Kinsey to refer to him by both name and rank. Thor's presence convinced the other nations to place the SGC in Hammond's hands with Kinsey grudgingly acknowledging that Hammond's trump card had been "well played". (SG1: Disclosure)

He traveled to Stargate Command to take part in an interview with Emmett Bregman for his Stargate documentary. (SG1: Heroes, Part 1) The same year, the senator sent his ambassador, Bill Crawford, to made a deal with the Kinanhi, offering them to give them prisoners in exchange for the sheh-fet, a device to read minds. However, the Kinanhi really were planning to take the world for themselves. Only thanks to SG1 and General George Hammond made their plan fail. Anyway, Kinsey blamed the Kinanhi of all, evading all the blame. (SG1: The Cost of Honor) A short time later, he was inaugurated as Vice President of the United States of America, a position of power that he hoped would give him more control over the Stargate. He tried to convince President Henry Hayes to remove the current leadership at Stargate Command with the help of Richard Woolsey, who turned on him when he became aware of his connection to The Trust. Woolsey received a copy of the evidence of his duplicity, which O'Neill and Maybourne had taken in 2000, from Major General George S. Hammond and handed it over to the President. (SG1: Inauguration)

Overview

Powers and abilities

He would eventually get a position as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Oversight Committee that led to him having direct control over the NID. (SG1: Disclosure)

Notes

• Robert Kinsey was created by Brad Wright and was portrayed by actor Ronny Cox where he featured in the setting of the Stargate universe.

Appearances

• Stargate SG-1: "Politics"

External Links

• Stargate Wiki Entry

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