Weir and Torri Higginson from the show? Reporters and fans have asked Torri Higginson one particular question countless times, it seems, and the Stargate Atlantis star has a pointed answer. Because I think in this day and age, it should not be a thing.
You know what I mean? Picardo came in and ran it, right? Part of why Dr. Weir, and subsequently Torri Higginson, was written off of Stargate Atlantis is related to that certain lack of depth or characterization for her character. Higginson seemed to feel as if Dr. She decided that because Niam could not guarantee Atlantis' safety that they must destroy the city ship. On the way back to Atlantis, Niam was reset by the other Asurans and attacked her.
Ronon Dex and Sheppard forced him into the rear section and jettisoned him into space. She was infected with nanites, which for a time imprisoned her within her own mind, causing her to believe that her time on Atlantis was only a false memory.
Carson Beckett was able to disable most of the nanites with an electromagnetic pulse and Sheppard convinced her to fight the remaining nanites. Though she eventually overcame the experience, the nanites remained within her system. Ladon explained that the IDC they were given and used to lure Sheppard's team to the planet was trusted to two other men who were being interrogated.
Kolya contacted Atlantis and demanded Ladon be turned over to him but she refused. Kolya forced Sheppard to be feed on by a Wraith and would contact them again in three hours. She sent a team to raid a suspected Genii safe house but it was empty. When the traitor in Ladon's ranks turned over the gate address, she sent a team and they rescued him.
SGA : " Common Ground ". When Rod came to Atlantis from an alternate reality , she allowed Dr. Colonel John Sheppard 's team to search for them. When Atlantis lost contact with the team, she sent an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle by it was shot down. When they team made contact, she diverted the Daedalus to pick them up. SGA : " Phantoms ". After the Lanteans were rescued from their ship, the Tria , Captain Helia retook control of the city.
The entire expedition were requested to leave and returned to Earth. She had difficulty moving on after her experiences, ultimately attempting to write a memoir of her experiences, mostly for herself, she admitted, as few would likely be able to read it. Colonel John Sheppard , Dr. In order to gain access to the Puddle Jumper , she had to distract Dr.
After returning through the Stargate , they went into orbit and retrieved Niam in order to use him to freeze the Asurans. Upon returning to the city, the Asurans fired Drone weapons at their Jumper. Sheppard did his best to evade them but had to submerge the Jumper and enter the underwater Jumper bay. Once inside, McKay discovered he could not drain the water and the outer door was jammed.
Fortunately, O'Neill was able to manually drain the water but he and Woolsey were captured by the Asurans. After Niam was reactivated and destroyed by McKay, the team paired off and headed for the shield emitters. She teamed up with Ronon and planted C-4 and an Anti-Replicator gun crystal in the emitters.
After completing the task they were captured. Once in the brig , the Asurans activated the shield and were destroyed by the Anti-Replicator field.
After that was accomplished, she joined the rest of the expedition returning to Atlantis. Once back on Atlantis , Teyla Emmagan began to see visions of Lanteans.
A short time later, she began to see them as well. Later, it was determined that the visions were caused by a swarm of Flagisallus that was attempting to communicate.
She passed out because of the echolocation of the Flagisallus. SGA : " Echoes ". Colonel John Sheppard 's team to investigate.
SGA : " Irresponsible ". Radek Zelenka translate the Ancient logs. She discovered that if he did not ascend before the genetic manipulation reached its peak he would die. She attempted to help him ascend but he was able to reverse the machine effects at the last minute.
SGA : " Tao of Rodney ". When the Geldarans and Hallonans were on the brink of war, she attempted to negotiate a peace settlement between Nola and Baden but was unsuccessful. Later, she ordered the Society research lab room sealed. SGA : " The Game ". Colonel John Sheppard 's team was trapped on a moon base that was losing orbit, she sent a rescue Puddle Jumper. SGA : " The Ark ". On the mandatory rest day, she was doing paperwork in her office when Dr.
Mike Branton asked her to have lunch with him. After their lunch, she was kissed by him but interrupted by an explosion in the city. She returned to Stargate Operations and Dr. Rodney McKay informed her that Dr. James Watson was exposed to an Ancient tumor creation device was would exploded at anytime. Carson Beckett was killed in an explosion after removing the tumor, she gave the eulogy at his funeral.
SGA : " Sunday ". Rodney McKay discovered a geothermal mobile drilling platform , she joined Lt. Colonel John Sheppard 's team along with a group of scientists and traveled by Puddle Jumper to the ocean floor.
Once on station, Teyla Emmagan began to sense a Wraith presence. She reached out with her mind but found nothing. While McKay and the scientists worked in the control room she paired with Lt. Once Ronon was alone with Teyla, she attacked him and knocked him unconscious.
They found Ronon and awoke him. They found Teyla disorientated with no memory of attacking Ronon or shutting down power throughout the station. Teyla revealed that there was a Wraith Queen and it took control of her. After Sheppard and Ronon captured the Queen, Teyla entered her mind and discovered the self-destruct on the Wraith cruiser she came from had been activated.
After Teyla let her escape and tricked her into disabling the self-destruct on her Wraith cruiser , they returned to Atlantis. SGA : " Submersion ".
After Atlantis lost contact with the Taranian settlement , she sent Lt. After they reported in that the settlement was abandoned and they found several Bug Pods , she sent Lt. Negley 's Marine team as backup. When they returned they informed her that Michael Kenmore had killed the Taranians and escaped the planet.
SGA : " Vengeance ". When the Apollo and Colonel Abraham Ellis arrived in Atlantis and briefed her on his mission to use the Horizon weapons platform to attack Asuras , she objected but had no authority to stop him.
After the plan was successful, the Asurans launched a satellite weapon that attacked the city. She attempted to contact the Asurans through the open Stargate in the satellite and was greeted by Oberoth. He refused a peace agreement and attempted to upload a virus so she cut the connection. Radek Zelenka submerged the city and the shield was hours from failure, she ordered the cities Stardrive be activated.
After resurfacing and lifting off the ocean's surface, they were forced to lower Atlantis' shield to save power. Before they were able to raise the shield the satellite destroyed the Asteroid that was blocking it and grazed the tower. She was seriously injured in the blast and suffered brain damage as a result. Jennifer Keller performed a decompressive craniectomy to relieve the swelling but her chances of recovery were slim.
McKay used the deactivated nanites in her system to repair the damage. This had the side effect of allowing her to interface directly with the replicator collective; as a result, she accompanied Lt. Colonel John Sheppard 's team on a mission to gather a Zero Point Module from Asuras, but the team discovered a code that would cause the Asurans to attack the Wraith. Weir managed to delay the Asurans, but Oberoth , their leader, physically grabbed her.
Weir ordered Sheppard to take the team out, and she was left behind. According to a Replicator version of Dr. Jennifer Keller , Weir was subsequently killed because Oberoth deemed her too great a threat.
It was revealed that she was not in fact killed but somehow became a member or leader of a faction of Asurans that left the main group.
Weir believes that with the Asurans dead, they can implement their plan without having to look over their shoulders anymore. Elizabeth, in FRAN's replicator body, floating in space. Then it was revealed that her group was in fact the remanants of Niam 's group that was seeking ascension.
There were only nine left including Elizabeth. She and her group digitally ascended , but became trapped. In a desperate attempt to regain physical form she hitched a ride along with Lt. Colonel John Sheppard 's and his team on a Puddle Jumper. She took control over the Atlantis computer systems and eventually used the city's technology to build herself a new body, albeit one that looks like FRAN.
She explained that she was never killed but was turned into a full Replicator when she was captured. Her human self remained despite being a Replicator and it was only detected by the members of Niam's group. That group ended up on the run until the other Replicators were destroyed in the Battle of Asuras. She summoned the others in the hopes of them being able to build themselves new bodies with the same technology that gave her one and ultimately proposed that the Replicators build themselves human bodies to live in.
When Koracen went rogue and tried to escape, she saved Sheppard from him and killed Koracen. She believed that the Asurans were now too much of a threat and helped the team trick the Replicators through the Stargate to a space gate, leaving all of the remaining Replicators, herself included, trapped and effectively neutralized.
SGA : " Ghost in the Machine ". Despite this, she was later visited by an ascended Asgard named Ran , who ascended her to a higher plane of existence. SGA : " Unascended ". While telling McKay, now known as Quicksilver of Weir's actions, Dust expresses admiration for her strength. Weir later appears in McKay's dreams where he's walking through Atlantis and heading towards the Control Room to see the dialing address.
As McKay tries to get to the consoles, Weir blocks him and tells him he's dreaming and must wake up. After waking up, McKay tells Dust of the encounter and recognizes who Weir is despite having supposedly never met her before. He also has the sense that Weir was forbidding him from seeing the consoles despite standing quietly by. McKay later has a second dream of himself and Weir in the SGC and questions why he keeps dreaming her. Weir tells McKay that he dreams her because he wants to and causes the Stargate in the dream to open.
Weir tells McKay that he has to go through that Stargate alone and Weir asks him if he remembers what happened the first time she was infected with Replicator nanites and asks him where he believes the Stargate to go. McKay questions why Weir can't come with him and she tells him that its because he's not dead, only sleeping. When asked if she is dead, Weir simply hints at her Ascension by telling him to ask Doctor Jackson about it and urging him once more to step through the Stargate.
Before McKay can however, he wakes up. McKay is disturbed by his dreams of Weir and tries to put them out of his mind. SGA : " The Lost ". McKay once more dreams of himself in the SGC where he accesses the dialing computer. Weir joins him in the dream again and urges him not do it despite his insistence that he has to go home, telling McKay that its a very bad idea.
As McKay finds his way into a system that's not the Stargate at all in the dream, Weir clarifies that this is what he wants then makes them appear before the Stargate. After commenting that she should probably say something cryptic but finds it pointless, Weir makes people appear in the SGC control room in the dream and the Stargate to dial with McKay trapped in front of it before disappearing.
After the Stargate vaporizes him in the dream with its unstable vortex , McKay awakens remembering several things, including how to make shields for Wraith ships and his backdoors into the systems of Atlantis. SGA : " Legacy: Allegiance ". Eventually, she boarded a Traveler ship, traveling to a rendezvous with the Durant , another Traveler ship that could get her to Sateda.
On the Durant, she became the assistant of the doctor of the ship, Dekaas. Later, in another dream, Elizabeth had a vision of Ran, who asked her for help. She disembarked on a mining planet, where she used the Stargate to travel to Sateda.
After a few days there, she was encountered by Major Lorne and Dr. Zelenka , as her memories of them returned. Sheppard and his team made their way to Sateda to confirm she was the real Elizabeth Weir, but soon after they were attacked by a Vanir scout ship, who took Ronon and Elizabeth. McKay managed to incapacitate the Vanir ship with a Puddle jumper, preventing their escape, but the ships crashed. Elizabeth and Ronon were recovered from stasis pods with Daniel Jackson 's knowledge of the language, and one Vanir remained alive.
With Atlantis in lockdown due to an alien infection, Elizabeth suggested bringing Dekaas over. Although he was at a loss for what to do, he recognized the Vanir architecture from a structure on a Traveler outpost; deciding to look for Vanir medical equipment there, the group left Sateda.
On the planet, the group run into Todd and his Hive-Ship confronting a Traveler ship about the identity of Wolf. Once he was revealed to be Aiden Ford , Elizabeth suggested that as a compromise to Todd's demands for justice, Ford would be "exiled" back to Earth. Resolving the situation, and with the Vanir Dis healed, it was revealed they wanted to deascend Ran, an ascended Asgard, to use her genetic material to make the Asgard a viable race once again; that was the reason they captured Weir.
She, although appalled, asked Dis if they attempted to contact Ran. With the IOA considering her a security risk for Earth, it was decided that she was to return to Atlantis until such time that tests proved her to be the real Elizabeth Weir and not a Replicator. Upon her return to the City of the Ancestors, she was given a warm welcome by the expedition on the gate room as she settled for life back on Atlantis for the time being. Although allowed to rejoin the expedition while her status is determined by the IOA, Elizabeth was not restored to command and instead began working under Sheppard, the current interim leader of the expedition.
Elizabeth assisted Sheppard's team during a crisis with the Genii and the squid-like aliens that inhabit the frozen planet Atlantis landed on. Elizabeth and Sheppard came into some conflict during the situation due to their change in roles, but Elizabeth reassured him that she didn't blame Sheppard for anything that happened or him being in charge despite finding it frustrating that she no longer had the authority to play things her way.
However, Elizabeth admitted to being proud of helping shape Sheppard into the leader he became and promised to follow his orders exactly as much as he had followed hers. SGA : " From the Depths ". In an alternate timeline , Elizabeth Weir's expedition team including Dr.
Weir, along with Major John Sheppard and Dr. Radek Zelenka , managed to board a Puddle Jumper , but were thrown back in time to the siege of Atlantis by the Wraith. Sheppard and Zelenka were killed when the Jumper they were in crashed.
Weir was healed by Janus , who built the time machine , and later secured her an audience with the Ancient Council , asking them to allow her to travel back to her time with a Zero Point Module that would prevent Atlantis from being flooded. While Melia was sympathetic to her plight, High Counselor Moros refused, fearing for the timeline, and offered her a chance to return to Earth with the Lanteans.
Instead, Janus calculated that three ZPMs rotated sequentially would allow the city to survive ten thousand years. Janus programed a stasis pod for Weir to use, as well as included a Failsafe mechanism into the city. Janus told Moros that Weir went through the Stargate , when in fact she stayed behind. Every 3, years, Weir would awaken to rotate the ZPMs. Ten thousand years later, Weir was revived by the Atlantis expedition — coincidentally, on her own birthday—and told her story to them.
However, she was already weak, and died by day's end. Elizabeth Weir poured her ashes over the city in a pot that Major John Sheppard had gotten her that day. While both a human- Asuran hybrid and a full-fledged Asuran, Weir displayed several abilities common to Replicators:. While briefly Ascended , Weir gained all of the powers on Ascended being:. I guess I can blame it on that if I want to Comment by FantasyGirl — March 6, pm.
This was a great show. Quite possibly, Torri Higginson, is the worst actress active to date. She is compeltely horrible and bringing out a different actress for her role was the right call. Comment by Valaska Averia — August 2, pm. Comment by Samantha Duncan — September 12, pm. A LOT of you people here do not know what you are waffling on about.
In my opinion, Torri Higginson played her character well, good, great even. A leader needs to distance themselves from the people under their command, she did it really well. Emotions and personal problems have NO place in decision making. She knew when to smile, when to frown, and when to keep a straight face when having to chastise someone. I enjoyed the whole series, and I thought it ended way too soon.
I feel it should be continued, with guest appearances for all the main characters, I would love that, starting back on earth, then going back to the Pegasus galaxy, but NOT with some dire overlords to fight. You have to do that without smashing people down. When you 3 get to be adults, you will understand, and look back on the Higgison character with subservient awe. RSS feed for comments on this post.
TrackBack URL. Name required. Mail will not be published required. She did a terrific job, but we will not see her in season five, and it was her choice, and we respect her decision.
Comment by Adam — July 10, am Your opinion, Adam. Comment by Frankllin — August 17, am Well, what goes around comes around. Comment by Jalar — August 17, am I stopped watching after that same episode where they brought back someone else playing Weir, and gated her out into space. Season 5, Episode 5 to be exact. Stargate got raped harder than Indy 4. Comment by DZ — November 28, pm I for one am glad she was canned.
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