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[[Image:vala.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Vala Mal Doran]]
==Family==
===Parents===
[[Image:1018eg.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Vala and her father Jacek]]Vala and her father Jacek have a complex relationship. At first, Vala described her father as one who was concerned with her upbringing and ranted whenever she did something that would break his heart (10.01 "Flesh and Blood"), but then, when Jacek came back into her life, the story changed. Vala credited her mother for giving her a proper upbringing, claiming that she inherited her mother's accent, but her father's food allergies. Jacek was a con-artist and sometimes his adventures included Vala and other times she longed for his company at home. At one point, she was running for her life because Jacek got greedy in one of his dealings. She told Gen. Landry that whenever her father returned from one of his adventures, he'd give her a trinket, usually a piece of cheap jewelry, which she added to her collection in a little wooden treasure box. She fondly remembered his sleeping at the foot of her bed if she had fallen asleep before his return and how she'd wake him up so that he could tell her all about his adventure. (10.18 "Family Ties")


Vala's father was aware of some of her interests while she was growing up; however, he had been out of touch with her for a while, since the last love interest he knew about in Vala's life was Veron Karn, a childhood sweetheart she had when she was ten years old. Jacek also acted as if he didn't remember which of her "many" mothers was actually the real one, but he had no problem remembering her when he said that Vala had her "mother's uncanny ability to hold a grudge." Vala remembered at least one of Jacek's wives, Adria, whom she described as a "witch of a woman."  She named her Ori-spawned daughter Adria, describing her as a "strong woman," and Adria accepted the name because she liked the sound of it, even though she know that Vala hated the original Adria as a person. (10.01 "Flesh and Blood", 10.18 "Family Ties")
Jacek tried to insinuate himself back into Vala's life, but Vala resented his every effort, believing that he was just scamming her and her friends. Her mistrust of him was warranted, unfortunately, as he tried to steal a cargo ship of weapons grade naquadah that the Illac Renin had brought to Earth. One step ahead of his predictable nature, Vala and her team double-crossed Jacek, but he made the best of the situation with his buyer. Whether or not the buyer accepted the lead bars and packing peanuts without killing Jacek remains a mystery, but he appeared to be easily taken in by the scam when Jacek claimed the packing peanuts were "Jibbaran virility enhancers." (10.18 "Family Ties")
Secretly, Vala pulled her treasure box out from under her bed, placing the latest necklace Jacek gave her in with the others. She had told him that she had gotten rid of the box a long time ago, but it appears that she decided to hold on to her fond memories of a father who called her "sweetheart" and told her exciting stories. (10.18 "Family Ties")
During Jacek's time on Earth, neither one of them discussed Vala's time as the host to Qetesh. (10.18 "Family Ties")
===Adria===
[[Image:101903.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Vala and her daughter Adria]]
==Goa'uld==
[[Image:1004eg.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Vala and Ba'al]]
==People of P8X-412==
[[Image:90505.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Vala tries to save the stricken of P8X-412]]
The people of P8X-412 loved, adored, and feared Qetesh, even though Qetesh was oftentime a cruel ruler. When Vala was freed from the symbiote, she fled to P8X-412 and impersonated Qetesh so that she would be treated with respect. While there, she established a legal proceeding that she named after herself, Mal Doran, so that the people could establish some order in their society. Vala, posing as Qetesh, would sit in the judge's seat. (9.05 "The Powers That Be")
Vala left the people for a while, but kept her material wealth inside the temple. While she was gone, the people were not certain that she would return. They were poor and struggling to survive, hoping that their god would take care of them. (9.05 "The Powers That Be")
In the meantime, the planet had been visited by a Prior of the Ori, and Vala persuaded Mitchell to take his team to the planet to warn the people about the Ori. Vala's greedy nature was revealed when she posed as Qetesh once more and tried to take her treasures with her before the Prior returned to hear the people's decision about Origin. Daniel, Mitchell, and Teal'c pursuaded her to tell the people that she was a false god so that they would be better educated about false gods and not taken in by the Ori. As soon as she confessed, she was thrown into prison and given a death sentence. (9.05 "The Powers That Be")
The Prior returned during Vala's own Mal Doran in which the people would decide on her sentencing after Mitchell convinced their leader, Azdak, that their society needed to continue justly. The Prior inflicted the villagers with the Prior Plague and all of Vala's efforts to heal the people with the Goa'uld healing device became fruitless as the virus mutated and re-infected the people she healed. Vala's true feelings for these people emerged as she continued to attempt to cure them, even when using the healing device took longer each time and drained her. When Azdak died, Vala cried for him in front of Daniel. She sought out the Prior with a P-90 and demanded that he cure everyone, but he refused. Vala fired the weapon at him, but he used his mental powers to stop the bullets midair. After the people declared their devotion to the Ori, the Prior cured everyone and let Vala and those of the SGC go to tell others about what they had seen. (9.05 "The Powers That Be")
==Smugglers, Thieves, Con Artists, and Bounty Hunters==
[[Image:90408.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Vala introduces Daniel, Mitchell, and Teal'c to her former lifestyle]]
During the four years after being freed from Qetesh, Vala established her means of survival as a con artist and thief. She enjoyed trading on the black market, but apparently preferred theft rather than making genuine trading deals. During these years, she began stashing a treasure on P8X-412 while the people on the planet labored in the nearly depleted naquadah mines. This ill treatment of the people who actually worshipped her as their god Qetesh would come back to haunt her.
After Vala's return into Daniel's life, Daniel, Mitchell, and Teal'c came to know some of her former acquaintances in this rather immoral lifestyle. Daniel had the dubious honor of meeting Tenat and Jup, two Oranians who had made a deal with Vala to trade a case full of weapons grade refined naquadah for the ''Prometheus'' that she had just stolen. Daniel broke the deal with the buyers and left them on the planet unconscious after zatting them. Somehow, the pair lost the case of naquadah and the Lucian Alliance, their employers, never trusted them with another case after that. To make up for their loss, the two agreed to hunt Vala and her partner, Hans Olo (Daniel), and turn them over to the Alliance for bounty. When Vala's former smuggling friend Caius asked for his specially-modified cargo ship back from Vala, she had to set a trap for Tenat and Jup because they had the ship. Mitchell and Teal'c posed as bounty hunters who had caught Vala and Hans and asked for payment, but Tenat and Jup meant to double cross them. The group managed to steal the cargo ship from Tenat and Jup and escaped the wrath of the Alliance fleet using some of Caius's upgrades. Mitchell later ran into Tenat when he was undercover on the ha'tak belonging to the Alliance's leader, Netan, in his attempt to find the stolen ''Odyssey''. Tenat became a pawn in Mitchell's game to get the ''Odyssey'' back from the Alliance and was killed during this encounter. (8.12 "Prometheus Unbound", 9.04 "The Ties That Bind", 10.09 "Company of Thieves")
Another one of Vala's former acquaintances was the seedy merchant Arlos. He was considered an expert in alien technology and collected quite a few interesting devices. The Kor Mak bracelets that Vala used against Daniel were stolen from him, as well as his mother's necklace. When Daniel and Mitchell went to him to gain information about how to sever the link between Daniel and Vala that lingered after the bracelets were removed, Arlos promised his cooperation if they would bring Vala to him so that he could see her one more time. Arlos described in vivid detail his romantic liaisons with Vala and said that she had stolen his heart as well. These feelings appeared to be one-sided and Vala's treatment of him led to his using Daniel, Mitchell, and Teal'c to get back his mother's necklace before he would give them any information. They had to obtain the necklace from a Jaffa merchant named Inago, who wished to kill Vala on the spot, but decided not to because he needed something from her just like she did from him. They managed the trade and returned the necklace to Arlos, who told them that he had concluded that the link would wear off over time. (9.04 "The Ties That Bind")
When Daniel and Vala went undercover on an Alliance planet to track down the beacon box from the ''Odyssey'', they met another one of Vala's old acquaintances. Borzin and Vala might have appeared to be good friends, but Borzin sold Vala out to the Lucian Alliance for a bounty. When he asked for his payment, Vala realized that she wouldn't see him again because she saw that the Alliance leader, Anateo, had signaled to his lieutenant to kill Borzin instead. Borzin walked away thinking that he was about to become a rich man. (10.09 "Company of Thieves")
Vala's connections within this network of smugglers, thieves, con artists, and bounty hunters proved useful, but not without great risk to her new friends' lives.
==Sex, Romance, and Marriage==
===Sex as a Weapon===
[[Image:812vala-daniel-kiss.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Vala uses sex as a weapon]]
As a con artist and thief, Vala used her sexuality as a means to an end. She knew that she was physically attractive (she called herself "seductively attractive"), and didn't have any qualms about using her sexuality against men and women equally. When Vala tried to seduce Daniel, he rejected her, stating, "You live a solitary existence, you move from place to place, you never form any lasting relationships, you use sex as a weapon to prevent yourself from forming any real emotional bonds." (9.04 "The Ties That Bind", 9.05 "The Powers That Be")
At one time, however, Vala claimed that she was engaged to be married before she was taken as an unwilling host to the Goa'uld Qetesh. After the symbiote was removed, Vala found herself cut off from her people because they didn't know how to separate the actions of the Goa'uld from those of the host. Vala didn't say if her fiancé was among those who shunned her, but they apparently didn't reunite. (9.04 "The Ties That Bind")
Vala gained the ability to use and understand Goa'uld technology as a result of her blending with Qetesh. She used these attributes to conduct her trades, swindles, and thefts. She did business with other thieves, smugglers, and con artists. Many of her dealings were double crosses. She used her sexuality against a merchant named Arlos to gain access to the rare items he possessed, including his mother's necklace and a pair of Kor Mak bracelets. When Arlos asked to see her one more time, she acted like she was heartbroken when he told her it was over between them, but she clearly did not return his affections. (8.12 "Prometheus Unbound", 9.04 "The Ties That Bind")
After joining the SGC, Vala still tried to use sex as a weapon, but for the benefit of the SGC's missions instead of for her personal gain. She tried to seduce Ba'al in order to get him to reveal the location of Merlin's anti-Ascended weapon, claiming that he and Qetesh once shared a "spark", but he dismissed her advances and declared that she had grown soft with her time with the Tau'ri and had once been a better liar. (10.04 "Insiders")
Unfortunately, her constant flirting and inappropriate teasing of Daniel Jackson caused him to keep her at an emotional distance, even though he was the one who showed the most support for her making a new life on Earth. (10.03 "Morpheus", 10.20 "Unending")
===Tomin of Ver Isca===
[[Image:1001tomin-loves-vala.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Tomin loves Vala]]When Vala's ring transporter matter stream was sent to the Ori's home galaxy, she rematerialized on the ring platform of a village named Ver Isca. A local man, Tomin, took her in and nursed her back to health (she was still suffering from the lingering effects of the Kor Mak bracelets that linked her to Daniel). Vala thought that Tomin was cute and described him as "one of the gentlest, most honest souls" she had ever known. She knew that he was falling in love with her, and when she found herself mysteriously pregnant, she pursuaded him to marry her. Vala had been impregnated by the Ori themselves in order to produce an advanced human who could enter the Milky Way Galaxy without provoking the wrath of the Ascended Ancients, the Ori's rivals on the ascended planes. (9.06 "Beachhead", 9.19 "Crusade Part 1")
Vala feared that Tomin would be changed after he joined the Ori army, but he welcomed the chance to serve his gods. She witnessed his willingness to kill others in the Ori's name when he used his staff weapon against two of Vala's friends who had helped her contact Earth with the Ancient Communications Terminal that she and Daniel had used in Ver Ager. Tomin was even prepared to kill Vala, but she pursuaded him that she was not in league with the others and that she needed him to be with her during her pregnancy. (9.19 "Crusade Part 1")
Tomin witnessed the birth of Vala's daughter Adria and bowed to the infant when the Prior announced that she was the Orici — from one, all will learn. He remained with Vala as her husband on the warship and spoke to the Prior on her behalf when she wanted to see her newborn child. When Daniel Jackson boarded their warship and conspired with Vala to capture Adria, Tomin turned against Vala by capturing Daniel and telling Adria that "they" were conspiring against her. Adria commanded that Tomin kill Daniel, but Vala stood between the two men as Tomin fired his staff weapon. Tomin and Adria were horrified that Vala was wounded and lost interest in Daniel as they attended to her. Daniel stunned both of them and escaped with Vala when the ''Odyssey'' beamed them off the warship. (10.01 "Flesh and Blood Part 3")
[[Image:101208.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Tomin bids Vala farewell]]Although Vala's marriage to Tomin was one of convenience (she needed to be married once she became visibly pregnant), she had genuine feelings for him, understanding that he was a victim of the Ori because he was brought up in his beliefs that the Ori were true gods and that their cause was just. She hoped to save his soul just as much as he wished to save hers. Tomin confessed that he loved her, but she had not yet done the same until they encountered each other once again after Tomin had been promoted to commander. Vala witnessed how Tomin could easily order the deaths of those who opposed the Ori and attempted to convince him once again that he was following false gods. Vala confessed that she had fallen in love with him when they were together in his home village of Ver Isca, but she also conceded that she could no longer save him after he struck her for challenging his religious convictions. It took a Prior's twisting of the scripture of the ''The Book of Origin'' in order to support the massacre of unbelievers for Tomin to realize that some of what Vala had been saying was true. Tomin helped her escape from the Ori warship to which he had sent her, but chose to stay behind. He bade her farewell with a kiss, confessing that he still loved her, but felt that he'd never see her again because he believed that he would be killed for helping her to escape. (9.19 "Crusade Part 1", 10.01 "Flesh and Blood Part 3", 10.07 "Counterstrike", 10.12 "Line in the Sand")
Vala was happy to be reunited with her teammates and friends once Tomin helped her to escape and never mentioned him again until she was being romantically pursued by one of Mitchell's high school friends, Darrell Grimes. She told Darrell that she was married, but described Tomin as a "religious zealot, bent on total domination of every human being in this galaxy," not as the "good man" she had said that he was about a year before. (9.19 "Crusade", 10.15 "Bounty")
==Daniel Jackson==
[[Image:902eg.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Vala and Daniel]]
Vala's relationship with Daniel is probably the most complex of her relationships with anyone, including her husband and the rest of the SG-1 team. She has great affection for him, but her actions toward him have not always reflected that. Scarred by much of her past, Vala built several barriers against ever forming close relationships, and Daniel, ironically, had done the same. Their relationship is defined through a series of progressions and regressions as they struggled both separately and together in the war against the Ori.
Before she joined the SGC, Vala's treatment of Daniel was abusive. Eventually, they fell into an uneasy alliance (based on necessity because she linked them together with the Kor Mak bracelets), but they continued to throw insults at each other. Most of the time, Daniel didn't react in a way that Vala was expecting, but there were times when he'd verbally lash out at her constant sexual innuendo and insults. At least on one occasion, he left the room to avoid her witnessing his losing his temper. Because Daniel thought that Vala was using her sexuality against him, rather than demonstrating honest affection, he rejected all of her advances with varying degrees of resentment. Even though Vala's pursuit of Daniel annoyed him greatly, he recognized and appreciated her unique talents and survival abilities that she had developed as a rogue. (8.12 "Prometheus Unbound", 9.02 "Avalon Part 2", 9.04 "The Ties That Bind", 9.06 "Beachhead", 10.20 "Unending")
Vala succeeded at cracking Daniel's hard exterior on occasion. His trademark compassion was evident whenever Vala was emotionally down or physically threatened. He tried very hard to understand her and realized how valuable she was in the war against the Ori as the mother of the Orici, the leader of the Ori's crusade in the Milky Way. They shared a common bond of having been the ones to inadvertently introduce the Ori to their home galaxy, and they shared equally in their fervor to defeat the enemy. Daniel argued for Vala's staying with the SGC and joining his team on their missions because he recognized her experiences as valuable, even though she had abused his trust on a personal level. When undergoing a psychiatric examination to determine her fitness in contributing positively to the SGC's missions, Vala attributed someone's belief in her as one of the reasons why she had decided to think of others besides herself. Although she didn't mention this "someone" by name, most probably, it was Daniel. (9.02 "Avalon Part 2", 9.03 "Origin Part 3", 9.05 "The Powers That Be", 10.01 "Flesh and Blood", 10.02 "Morpheus")
Vala took Daniel's support of her to heart. She made great effort to fit in, and Daniel recognized this. He took her out to a nice restaurant as a thank-you for her rejecting her old ways and deciding to find a new home. When that accomplishment was threatened after Vala was abducted by The Trust, Daniel honored Vala's efforts by coordinating the search for her, never giving up on her just as she had not given up on making changes in her life for the better. During SG-1's search for her, they realized that she had not contacted them after her escape because she had lost her memories. When Daniel came face-to-face with a distraught and desperate-to-run Vala, he knew exactly what to do and say that would convince her that she had decided to stop running and had found a new home. The emotional ties that Vala had with Daniel appeared to have been the strongest that she had with anyone else at the SGC. (10.08 "Memento Mori")
Daniel was proud and happy for Vala when General Landry presented her with her SG-1 patches. As early as her probationary period, Vala had acted as his research assistant while on base, and it appeared that they would discuss his research projects well into the night. Vala started to take Daniel's intellectual pursuits seriously, when before, she appeared to be jealous of the time and attention he gave to his work. (9.04 "The Ties That Bind", 10.02 "Morpheus", 10.08 "Memento Mori", 10.10 "The Quest Part 1", 10.18 "Family Ties", 10.19 "Dominion")
When Daniel downloaded Merlin's consciousness, Vala never left his side. She was noticeably upset by his deterioration, and Mitchell had to remind her that this was what being part of SG-1 meant — watching their teammates risk their lives for the greater good. After Daniel returned to his team as a Prior after being in the hands of the enemy, Vala was the only one who spoke honestly and frankly to him about why the team couldn't trust him, but she promised that she wouldn't allow his execution that had been proposed by the IOA. Even though she effectively turned her back on him by walking out on him after telling him he couldn't be trusted, she trusted him enough to follow the instructions he had given to assemble the pieces of the Sangreal that he had constructed while in Adria's custody. Vala thought that she could protect Daniel and the others from Adria because she was her mother, but she found that she had very little control over her, especially after Adria singled Daniel out as someone for whom the Ori had plans. (10.07 "Counterstrike", 10.11 "The Quest Part 2", 10.14 "The Shroud")
Once in a while Daniel would tell Vala something personal about himself, but for the most part, he treated her as a co-worker. Vala appeared to accept that this was sufficient and ended her sexual advances towards him. In response to this, Daniel relaxed somewhat and began to eased up on physically admonishing her (he'd often grab her arm to steer her away from distractions), and they settled into a friendlier, more equal, relationship. Daniel no longer instantly rejected Vala's ideas (when before, he thought that everything that came out of her mouth was a lie), and she didn't take offense whenever he corrected her misuse of Earth colloquialisms (when before, she didn't want to listen to his stories or to his advice). The rest of the team knew that there was a strong bond between Vala and Daniel, and they would even lightheartedly tease Daniel because of it. (9.01 "Avalon Part 1", 9.05 "The Powers That Be", 10.03 "The Pegasus Project", 10.07 "Counterstrike", 10.08 "Memento Mori", 10.17 "Talion")
Even with these great and positive strides in their relationship, once in a while they'd slip and some of the old resentments and judgments would return and prevent further advancement. Ultimately, it appeared that Daniel was the one who defined and limited their relationship, and Vala seemed to accept his terms. Vala made some progress in understanding Daniel when she recognized that he had been holding something back in their relationship when she asked him to say what he meant, but he warned her that she really didn't want him to start doing that. Overall, Daniel seemed most comfortable with Vala if he was the one offering the emotional support, but there were times when she tried to uplift and encourage him, with varying degrees of success. (10.03 "The Pegasus Project", 10.09 "Company of Thieves", 10.16 "Bad Guys", 10.19 "Dominion")
Trust had always been an issue between Vala and Daniel, but more on a personal rather than professional level. When Teal'c experienced fifty years in a time dilation field and time was reversed for his teammates and General Landry, but not for himself, he chose not to tell Vala that she and Daniel had opened up to each other and had become life-long lovers because the circumstances were different and they were meant to choose their own paths. When Vala prodded Teal'c to reveal more information about her life in the time dilation field, she thought for sure she had hooked up with someone, and she tried to guess which of the men had become her lover, but she didn't name Daniel as a possible candidate. Instead, Vala seemed satisfied to stand by Daniel's side as they continued to journey through the Stargate as teammates. (10.20 "Unending")
==Other SG-1 Teammates==
===Cameron Mitchell===
[[Image:905 mitchell vala.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Mitchell and Vala]]
===Teal'c===
[[Image:100502.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Teal'c and Vala]]
===Samantha Carter===
[[Image:101309.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Carter and Vala]]
==Others of Earth==
===General Landry===
[[Image:101804.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Vala and General Landry]]
===Richard Woolsey===
[[Image:100209.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Vala and Richard Woolsey]]
==Biography Articles==
{{ValaBio}}

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