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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==
Vala's relationship with Daniel is most 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.
===Adversaries===
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|valign="top"|[[Image:81205.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Vala and Daniel meet]]
|valign="top"|[[Image:902eg.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Vala and Daniel connect]]
|valign="top"|[[Image:90603.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Vala and Daniel part under poor terms]]
|}
Vala's initial behavior toward Daniel was abusive. While she held him captive on the ''Prometheus'', she bound him to a chair, struck his face as a means of interrogation, shot him at point-blank range with the Kull warrior energy weapon, healed him as a ploy to gain his trust, lied to him about why she needed the ship, took advantage of his adversion to striking a woman, and attempted to distract him with her sexuality. Daniel eventually matched her strategy by pretending to be weakened, and while she was occupied with working the controls of the ship, he zatted her and confined her to the brig. Vala eventually escaped, leaving Daniel impressed with her abilities, but cautious of her motives. (8.12 "Prometheus Unbound")
Apparently, Daniel impressed Vala as well, for when she needed an Ancient tablet translated, she immediately thought of him. She contacted the SGC and Daniel gave General Landry his approval for seeing Vala, hoping that what she had to offer was of some value. Upon arriving at the SGC after being searched by SG-12, Vala asked, "Where's ''my'' Daniel?" (9.01 "Avalon Part 1")
Vala was happy to see Daniel, but after he snubbed her, she retaliated with words meant to hurt his male ego and his honor. Most of the time, he didn't give her the reactions she was looking for, but once in a while, he'd show his frustration by insulting her ("Everything that comes out of your mouth is a lie."). Their relationship was strained even further when she linked them together with the Kor Mak bracelets and caused him to miss his ride to Atlantis. Daniel ended up doing what Vala wanted anyway — translate the tablet and find the treasure. (9.01 "Avalon Part 1")
When Vala and Daniel were psychically linked with a human married couple, Harrid and Sallis, in a distant galaxy through an Ancient long-range communications device found at Glastonbury Tor (Avalon), their interactions actually improved as they behaved like mature adults towards each other. When Vala was about to be burned to death on an altar for being "possessed", Daniel desperately tried to save her, only to witness her horrific death a few yards away, restrained by two of the villagers from freeing her. Daniel's trademark compassion was evident when he caressed her charred remains and freed her lifeless body from the chains that had held her. A Prior of the Ori resurrected her before his eyes, and he gently helped her out of the altar to follow the Prior to the City of the Gods in Celestis. (9.02 "Avalon Part 2", 9.03 "Origin Part 3")
Daniel met the Ori personally in Celestis and discovered that he and Vala had inadvertantly alerted them to the existence of humanity in the Milky Way. The Ori were rivals of the Ascended Ancients and planned to convert this humanity into worshippers for their own empowerment so that they might destroy the Ancients with their increased power. Vala knew that Daniel felt great guilt for his role in bringing this threat to the Milky Way and tried to reassure him that it was not their fault. Their struggle in the Ori Galaxy, as horrific as it was, actually created a deeper emotional connection between the two, but they both seemed to try to deny this by resuming their old ways of bickering and nagging once they were no longered linked to Harrid and Sallis. (9.03 "Origin Part 3", 9.10 "The Fourth Horseman Part 1", 9.04 "The Ties That Bind", 9.05 "The Powers That Be", 9.06 "Beachhead")
When Daniel testified in front of the Senate Appropriations Committee about the need for continued funding of Stargate Command, the chairman of the committee, Senator Fisher, basically accused him of making up the Ori threat in order to satisfy his own curiosity by continuing to explore the galaxy through the Stargate. Vala was offended on Daniel's behalf and proceeded to insult the Senator. Her words resulted in the Senator's calling the meeting over instead of being adjourned for further discussion. After this, the SGC's budget was cut to 30% of their previous operating budget and they were forced to receive both direction and funding from the International Oversight Advisory (IOA). (9.04 "The Ties That Bind")
Vala and Daniel weren't able to be separated by more than 100 feet for about half an hour before they'd feel the effects of the bracelets, so the two were with each other most of the time. Vala bugged Daniel to take her out or go on some adventure through the Stargate with her, but he tried to carry on his usual duties on the base. She resented the attention he gave to "the dust of dead civilizations." After he left her with her guard in his lab to prevent himself from showing anger at her sitting on and breaking his glasses, Vala messed up a broken tablet he had put together again so meticulously, showing that she might have actually been jealous of it because he gave it intense and seemingly loving attention. (9.04 "The Ties That Bind")
Later, to relieve her boredom, Vala tried to get Daniel to have sex with her, claiming that they needed to make the best out of a possibly permanent link, but he refused her advances because he said he knew her behavior was more about her using sex as a weapon than about any attraction she might have had toward him or any desire she had in forming lasting relationships. He was very blunt in his assessment of her behavior, and Vala was hurt by his rejection, but managed to make him believe that she was "messin'" with him so that she could avoid showing any vulnerability. (9.04 "The Ties That Bind")
Mitchell and Teal'c acted as a buffer for Daniel, who was obviously more stressed than Vala was while they were linked by the Kor Mak bracelets. The four of them would play basketball, with Mitchell and Daniel playing as one team, and the "aliens" as another. Even with this recreation, Vala and Daniel remained at odds with each other, his mistrust of her being the major contributing factor toward their discord. Vala, however, trusted Daniel enough to show her own vulnerabilities to him when her beloved people of P8X-412 were stricken by the Prior Plague. (9.04 "The Ties That Bind", 9.05 "The Powers That Be", 9.06 "Beachhead")
Already feeling like part of the team, Vala tried to contribute to the brainstorming on how to destroy the Ori's intergalactic Stargate ("Supergate"), but by this time, her constant teasing and use of sexual innuendo when in Daniel's and his team's company led to their ignoring her. She acted on her own and ended up destroying the Supergate, but being transported to the Ori's home galaxy. Although she settled into her new life as a mother-to-be and wife of Tomin, she still felt a tie to the humans of the Milky Way and did everything she could to warn them of the impending launch of several warships from the Ori's home galaxy to the Milky Way. Vala didn't get to speak with Daniel through the intergalactic communications device, since it was his body that was used as a conduit. Vala boarded Tomin's warship in order to return to her home galaxy. (9.19 "Crusade")
===Co-Workers===
{|
|valign="top"|[[Image:1001eg.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Vala and Daniel are reunited]]
|valign="top"|[[Image:1007-daniel-vala-adria.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Vala's daughter Adria has plans for Daniel]]
|valign="top"|[[Image:100808.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Vala remembers Daniel and her new home]]
|}
When Vala and Daniel were reunited on the Ori warship where she had given birth to her daughter Adria, the two of them conspired to capture the child, known as the Orici and the leader of the Ori's crusade in the Milky Way, so that they might turn her and use her as a "weapon". Tomin captured Daniel and brought him before Adria who ordered that he kill Daniel with his staff weapon. Vala stepped between the two men as Tomin fired. While Adria and Tomin were distracted with healing Vala, Daniel fired his energy weapon and rendered them unconscious. Vala insisted that Daniel take Adria, but he chose to save her instead. As he felt the Asgard beaming effects from the ''Odyssey'', he grabbed her, and they were transported to safety together, but they had to leave Adria behind. Vala heard Daniel voice his regret for not killing Adria when he had the chance. (10.01 "Flesh and Blood Part 3")
Vala was taken back to the SGC where she spent most of her time with Daniel as he researched Merlin's documents for the location of the Sangreal, Merlin's anti-Ori weapon. When he gave a presentation on the location of the planet Vagonbrei to which it was said that Arthur had gone in his quest, Vala sat dutifully by his side, opening his books to the right spot and sliding them over to him. She felt that she was becoming part of the team, but General Landry reminded her that she wasn't a member of SG-1 and that she would not go on the team's missions. Daniel talked with Landry and requested that Vala accompany the team on their search for the Sangreal, his main argument being that she could be valuable as one who knew the enemy just like Teal'c had been during the fight against the Goa'uld. Daniel hadn't forgotten that Vala had lied and stolen and done lots of terrible things against him personally, but felt that her position as Adria's mother was more important. Landry agreed to let Vala stay, but under the condition that Daniel be responsible for her. Daniel agreed. (10.02 "Morpheus")
Vala underwent a psychiatric examination and finally admitted that she had found someone who believed in her and that she had begun to think of others' needs before her own. Although she didn't mention this someone by name, it probably is fair to say that this someone was Daniel. (10.02 "Morpheus")
Vala accompanied Daniel in his search for information about the Sangreal in Atlantis. She admitted that she had only hindered his going to Atlantis twice and finally saw why Daniel so very much wanted to go there. She offered to help him locate "souvenirs", her word for "priceless artifacts". Sometime before this trip, Vala was aware that Daniel had once been an Ascended Being and realized what he had given up to return to human form. After meeting the Ascended Being Morgan Le Fay and understanding the restrictions the non-interference rules placed on an Ascended's actions, Vala tried to reassure Daniel that he had made the right decision to return to human form by saying that she would have done the same, even though this decision had cost Daniel knowledge, power, and eternal life, as well as his memories of his time while ascended. Vala tried to uplift Daniel when he felt failure after his impassioned plea for the Ancients to intercede in the war against the Ori was answered by pulling Le Fay away from him when she had tried to help. (10.03 "The Pegasus Project")
Vala stayed behind at the SGC while Daniel went to Camelot and to England to do further research into the whereabouts of Merlin's weapon. Up until this time, she had spent nearly all of her time with Daniel, so this separation might have been requested by either one of them to give each other some breathing room. Vala would have no doubt been extremely bored as Daniel did his research, so this time apart was actually beneficial to her as she spent time getting to know the rest of his team during a retreat to Jack's cabin. (10.04 "Insiders", 10.05 "Uninvited")
After Daniel returned to the SGC, the bond between him and Vala grew even stronger when they encountered Adria once more. Adria was genetically engineered to grow rapidly and had become a powerful young woman in a matter of days. As she stood before the people to encourage them to join her army, a deadly wave swept over the planet. SG-1 and Vala were beamed to the ''Odyssey'' as soon as the wave was detected. It was discovered that the Free Jaffa had used the weapon on Dakara to kill Ori followers. Vala thought that Adria had died in the wave, and Daniel tried to console her by telling her he understood how she felt. Later, as they surveyed the empty warship, Vala asked Daniel to explain what he meant. Daniel told her about his wife Sha're and how he had joined SG-1 to save her, but in the end failed. He explained that he felt great guilt for this failure, but after some time, he felt relieved that she was no longer suffering at the hands of the Goa'uld. Somehow, Daniel had managed to keep Sha're out of his conversations with Vala up to this point, even though Vala had seen her picture on the wall in his office. When Adria captured Daniel and Vala on the warship, Vala tried to bargain with her to save Daniel and the others on the ship. Adria said it was too late to save the others, but that she'd keep Daniel alive because the Ori had plans for him. Vala realized that she had less influence over Adria than she originally thought and that she wouldn't be able protect Daniel from her powerful daughter. (10.07 "Counterstrike")
Daniel took Vala out to dinner at a lovely restaurant to thank her for proving him right that she could set aside her old ways and contribute productively in the SGC's missions. It was during this engagement that Vala was kidnapped by agents of the Goa'uld-controlled Trust and lost her memories when the device being used against her to extract her Goa'uld buried memories short-circuited while it was still attached. Even though Vala came face-to-face with Mitchell and talked with him, it wasn't until she saw Daniel that her memories of the SGC returned. Daniel chose to stand unarmed in front of her as she pointed a weapon at him, trying to coax her to remember that she had decided to stop running and that she had a home. All that Vala needed was a place to call home, ever since she had been shunned by her own people, and when she was given a position on SG-1, it was the Earth's patch that she cherished the most, for it represented what she had found because of Daniel's belief in her. (10.08 "Memento Mori")
===Teammates===
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|valign="top"|[[Image:101104.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Vala tends to Daniel after he downloads Merlin's consciousness]]
|valign="top"|[[Image:101407.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Vala tells Daniel that she won't allow his execution]]
|valign="top"|[[Image:101909.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Daniel stands by Vala after Adria's death and ascension]]
|}
Because Vala still talked in terms that reflected her old life ("loot" instead of a "paycheck"), it appeared that she hadn't given up all of her old ways. Even Daniel slipped a few times in his confidence in her abilities when she obtained a poorly functioning cargo ship with the raw naquadah the SGC provided so that they could search for the ''Odyssey'' when it had been hijacked by a member of the Lucian Alliance. Vala put words in Daniel's mouth by interpreting his dismay about the poor quality of the ship as her having pocketed a portion of the naquadah. All Daniel did in response was to sigh and look away. Later, when they were aboard the ''Odyssey'', Daniel anxiously prodded Vala to make the ship's beaming technology work in order to rescue Carter from the control room where she was about to be executed. He reminded Vala that she had stolen the ''Prometheus'' all by herself to encourage her to hurry, but she was having difficulty with the ''Odyssey'''s new systems. In the end, it was Vala's unique approach to solving technological problems that saved the crew and the ship. (10.09 "Company of Thieves")
When the team came close to solving the riddles put in place by Morgan Le Fay in hiding the Sangreal, Daniel and Vala still had an uneasy relationship as she tried to learn the ways of the team. He sometimes showed impatience with her and oftentime would resort to physically pulling her back to regain focus. Eventually, his admonishments became less physical and more verbal, but they still reflected his frustration in Vala's tendency to get distracted. Vala learned to read Daniel's verbal cues and responded to them when it was appropriate, such as when he warned her to be careful around an Ancient Repository of Knowledge. (10.11 "The Quest Part 2")
After Merlin uploaded his consciousness into that same Repository and Daniel downloaded it in order to build another Sangreal, Vala stayed with him as he tried to adjust to harboring Merlin's knowledge. Vala was gentle and caring as Daniel began showing fatigue and disorientation, and she continued to try to ground him as he eventually gave into Merlin. When Adria found them on Merlin's planet, Vala tried to protect her team by demanding that Adria stop what she was doing, but Adria refused to listen to her mother. Daniel used Merlin's physical reprogramming (to become an advanced human with extraordinary powers) to defend the team against Adria as they made their escape through the Stargate, but Mitchell had to physically pull Vala away from Daniel when she realized that he was going to be left behind. Vala was heartbroken and wanted to find Daniel, knowing that Adria was extremely powerful and that Daniel appeared to be greatly weakened. (10.11 "The Quest Part 2")
When Daniel reunited with his team after being with Adria, the team couldn't trust his plan to send the Sangreal through the Supergate to be detonated in the Ori's home galaxy because he had become a Prior and had been in the hands of the enemy. His plan called for the shutting down of the wormhole the team had created to block the Supergate's use. Daniel was tied to a chair and the Anti-Prior Device was used against him. Vala tried to treat him as usual, even going so far as to sit on his lap and talk smalltalk, but when he asked if she believed him, she couldn't lie to and told him that there was too much at stake and that the risk was too great. Vala promised that she wouldn't let the IOA execute him, but told him she couldn't trust him because she was probably the only one who knew the extent of Adria's powers, since Adria was able to influence her mind easily (10.10 "The Quest Part 1"). She left him alone after saying this, basically turning her back on him, but she trusted him enough to use his instructions on how to rebuild the Sangreal once her team decided to execute his plan in his stead. (10.14 "The Shroud")
Once Daniel returned to his old self as Merlin had promised, Vala sat on his bed until he regained consciousness. They appeared to try to pick up where they left off in their relationship, but they kept some distance when Vala chose to go with Mitchell to his high school reunion as his date instead of with Daniel as he did research in a library. Tension between the two increased as they continued to argue and Daniel's words became more veiled. When the team was stuck without a working DHD on a planet, Daniel and Vala began to argue about how they spoke to each other. Vala told him he needed to say what he meant, and he warned her that she didn't want him to start doing that. (10.14 "The Shroud", 10.15 "Bounty", 10.15 "Bad Guys")
After a little while, Vala resumed helping Daniel with his research, fetching research materials for him, and they got back into the rhythm they had once before in a mentor-protégé type of relationship. When Vala's father Jacek attempted to find sanctuary on Earth, Daniel tried to encourage Vala to give the old con-artist a second (or third or more) chance by supporting Jacek's attempts to fit into life on Earth (similar to how Daniel himself had treated her). He didn't trust Jacek, just as Vala didn't, but he wanted Vala to reconnect with her father, since having a family seemed to be very important to Daniel. But when Daniel and Vala encountered Jacek meeting with an armed man who tried to kill them with a zat, Daniel quickly stepped forward and shot the assailant and then had no problem pointing his gun at Jacek when Vala found that the dead man was actually a Jaffa. (10.17 "Family Ties")
As time went on, Daniel's dealings with Vala became much more gentle. He showed more patience with her and valued her input as a teammate and co-worker. He no longer had to physically pull her along, and he discussed situations with her as an equal. Taking his role as mentor seriously, he would correct her misuse of Earth colloquialisms, and she accepted these corrections without animosity. (10.18 "Talion")
When Ba'al captured Adria and implanted one of his symbiotes into her, Daniel carefully watched Vala to make sure she was handling the situation well. The team decided to remove the Ba'al symbiote from Adria and replace it with a Tok'ra so that Adria's mind could be probed to determine the status of the Ori and to order the Ori army to stand down. Daniel wanted to make sure Vala was okay with what they had planned to do with Adria, and when the procedure went wrong, he stood with her by Adria's deathbed. When Adria regained control of her body, threw Daniel out of the room, and began to poison him with toxic coolant outside the infirmary doors, Vala tried to kill her, choosing Daniel and her teammates over her own daughter, but Adria stopped her and then ascended. (10.19 "Dominion")
On a intergalactic trip onboard the ''Odyssey'' to the Asgard's homeworld Orilla, Vala became extremely bored and tried to throw a birthday party for Daniel, recruiting the crew to decorate a room with balloons and a pinata. Daniel gently scolded her to find some other way to amuse herself. In an effort to save the Asgard's Legacy that had been installed into the ''Odyssey'', General Landry and the team agreed to being placed into a time dilation field until a solution could be made to evade the Ori warships. It took Carter fifty years to figure out the solution to this problem, and during those years, Vala and Daniel straigtened out their misunderstandings and opened up to each other as lovers (he finally spoke clearly to her about his feelings toward her ill treatment of him and realized that she truly cared for him). Because Carter figured out how to reverse time, however, neither one of them remembered the events that led to their fifty-year union, except for Teal'c, who volunteered to remain outside the time reversal so that they could prevent the ship's destruction and stop the activation of the time dilation field. Although Teal'c remembered all of those years in the time dilation field, he refused to tell Vala what happened between her and Daniel. Because of this, Vala and Daniel remain friends and teammates with many personal issues and any sexual tension unresolved. (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==
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