Lionel Pendergast

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Colonel Lionel Pendergast

Summary

Colonel Lionel Pendergast was the commanding officer of the Prometheus, introduced in the Season Eight episode, 8.02 "New Order Part 2".

Character Biography

Colonel Lionel Pendergast, who was commanding the Prometheus in ordit around the Earth after Anubis' attack, was about to prepare for war when Earth was being approached by an alien vessel. Assuming that the ship was carrying a Goa'uld to attack Earth to test the operational status of the weapon used by Colonel Jack O'Neill from the Ancient's Antarctic Outpost, he braced his crew for the possibility of an encounter and instructed his communications officer to broadcast his warning in Goa'uld. Fortunately, the approaching ship was Thor's Daniel Jackson with Teal'c onboard. (8.02 "New Order Part 2")

The Asgard were installing beaming technology as well as upgrading the hyperdrive in the Prometheus, most probably as a "thank you" for helping them save their new homeworld from the Replicators (8.02 "New Order Part 2"), so the Prometheus was placed in its hangar to undergo the upgrades. While the beaming technology was pretty much completed, the hyperdrive still had work to be done on it when Gen. Jack O'Neill called the Prometheus into action under the command of Col. Pendergast. Pendergast's mission was to locate a cloaked Al'kesh which had been obtained by rogue NID agents now working with "The Trust". This ship was the one used by Osiris when he attempted to probe Daniel Jackson's subconscious in hopes of learning the location of the Lost City of the Ancients (Osiris thought that Daniel knew of the location from the time that he was an Ascended Being, in the episode, 7.15 "Chimera").

Daniel Jackson went onboard the cloaked ship to rescue his teammate, Col. Samantha Carter, disable the cloak and the hyperdrive, and reclaim the SGC's Stargate which The Trust had beamed right out of the embarkation room. Daniel was successful at disabling the cloak and Pendergast sent the Prometheus to the Al'kesh's location near Earth's moon. Pendergast detected that the Al'kesh's energy was being brought up to jump into hyperspace and he anxiously awaited the go from Gen. O'Neill to fire upon the ship, knowing that Carter, Daniel, and the Stargate were onboard. Gen. O'Neill told Pendergast to hold fire for a few more seconds because he believed that Carter and Daniel would be successful in either stopping the ship from jumping through a hyperspace window or retrieving the Stargate. Pendergast was relieved when he obtained the beaming signal from the Al'kesh and used it to transport SG-1 (Teal'c had since joined Carter and Daniel through the Stargate) and the Stargate into the cargo bay of the Prometheus before the Al'kesh escaped. (8.10 "Endgame")

After The Trust members got away in their ship, they encounted a Goa'uld who implanted them with symbiotes and sent them back to Earth to infiltrate the governments of the United States and Russia. It was their goal to cause the two powerful countries to destroy each other with their nuclear weapons, while the Goa'uld gained access to the powerful weapon in the Antarctic Outpost. Pendergast commanded the Prometheus and located the Al'kesh. He also rescued Daniel Jackson and Robert Kinsey from being captured by the Goa'uld who had infiltrated the Russian Ministry of Defense. Kinsey, however, was also a Goa'uld host, and he managed to escape from his guard on the Prometheus and ring over to the Al'kesh which had just fired upon the Prometheus. When Pendergast realized that the Al'kesh was powering up their weapons to continue the attack, he gave the order that the ship be destroyed. Pendergast was noticeably disturbed that he had destroyed a ship full of people from Earth who had been forcefully taken as hosts. (8.14 "Full Alert")

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