Evan Lorne

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Evan Lorne is a Major in the United States Air Force and team leader on the Atlantis expedition.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 2003 1.2 2005 1.3 2006 1.4 2007 2 Alternate Realities 3 Notes 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Biography

Not much about Lorne's past is known apart from the fact that he joined the United States Air Force. His mother was an art teacher and he had picked up the hobby of painting as a regular weekend activity. But after sometime, his time painting was halted when he joined and trained for the Air Force, but later picked up the hobby again after arriving on Atlantis. He has at least one sibling, a sister, who has two children, aged five and seven years old from the beginning of 2008. (ATL: "Sunday", "Spoils of War")

[edit] 2003

By 2003, Lorne was working at Stargate Command as a member of SG-11 under Colonel Edwards. After Lieutenant Ritter, a fellow team member, went missing on P3X-403, where the unit was setting up a naquadah mining operation, he was tasked with showing SG-1 around the area. His blasé attitude regarding primitive mining tools the team had discovered (and moved, contra the standing instructions of Doctor Daniel Jackson), mirrored that of his commanding officer and caused considerable consternation for Dr. Jackson. Lorne accompanied the search party that located Ritter's body. (SG1: "Enemy Mine")

[edit] 2005

As a member of the Atlantis Expedition, Lorne received command of his own team. One mission took him to P3M-736 so as to examine the local plant life, an assignment he considered something of a letdown. During the course of this, however, he discovered a dead Wraith and evidence that Lieutenant Ford, who had fled Atlantis some weeks earlier, might be on the planet. After returning to Atlantis, he was assigned by Colonel Sheppard to accompany Doctor McKay in the search. During the course of the search, Lorne appeared somewhat amused by McKay's antics, but found his personality quite trying and remarked that McKay must be quite a genius if Sheppard hadn't shot him already. Eventually he was stunned by Ford, and fell back to the Stargate after recovering to find McKay gone. There he took charge when Wraith darts came through the Stargate. (ATL: "Runner")

Lorne's team joined Sheppard's on an offworld reconnaissance mission, during the course of which a Wraith dart appeared and captured Doctor McKay and Lieutenant Laura Cadman with its dematerialization beam. He fired upon the dart with a rocket launcher but missed, hitting a tree instead. (ATL: "Duet") After Sheppard's team went missing while on a mission to Olesia, Lorne's team accompanied Doctor Elizabeth Weir to meet the Magistrate, piloting the puddle jumper and aiding Sheppard's team in their escape from the prison island on which the planet's Stargate was located. (ATL: "Condemned")

A few weeks later, upon returning from an uneventful mission to a cordial but reclusive world, Lorne was informed that Sheppard's team had again gone missing. Although he noted that Sheppard's team could be lax about checking in at times, Dr. Weir sent him out to look for them anyway. After finding no trace of Sheppard's team on the planet to which they had been sent, he remained in the vicinity of the Stargate while Doctor Zelenka attempted to interface with the planet's DHD and determine where they might have gone. (ATL: "The Lost Boys")

When Dr. McKay managed to return to Atlantis with the news that Ford was holding the rest of the team and had forced them into attempting to disable a Wraith hive ship, Lorne accompanied the Daedalus to intercept the hive. He took a cloaked puddle jumper and attempted to contact Sheppard's team, but was forced to return to the Deadalus when it engaged the Wraith. (ATL: "The Hive")

[edit] 2006

Lorne was involved in retrieving one of a pair of stasis pods from decaying orbit around a planet with a spacegate; when the inhabitants of the pods proved to be intent on killing each other, one of them, Phoebus, used Weir's body to impersonate her and enlist Lorne's help in locating Thalan, who inhabited Colonel Sheppard. Initially frustrated by the secrecy of the individual he presumed to be Weir, Lorne was notified of the situation by Colonel Caldwell and attempted to apprehend her. When he didn't accept Phoebus' suggestion that Caldwell might have been the one who was compromised, Phoebus managed to render him unconscious. (ATL: "The Long Goodbye")

Not long afterward, it was Lorne's team that went missing for a change, while escorting Doctor Lindsay offworld. When he came under fire, Lorne ordered Lindsay back to the gate; a burned body wearing Lorne's dog tags was later discovered, but soon identified as not being his. A bounty had been placed on Lorne and several other bearers of the ATA gene by the Genii, who were seeking to acquire samples of the gene. Lorne and the others were freed by Ladon Radim, along with Sheppard and McKay (who had by then been captured as well), shortly before Ladon staged a coup d'etat to take over the Genii government. (ATL: "Coup D'etat")

Lorne briefly assumed command of the recovered Ancient vessel Orion during Atlantis' brief alliance with a faction of Wraith. Lorne's first assignment was to keep the ship out of sensor range so as not to be detected; but after the Wraith reneged on their deal and set out for Earth, with Sheppard missing, Dr. Weir sent Lorne and the Orion as part of the effort to stop them. His command ended with the Orion's destruction, after he and his crew had evacuated to the Daedalus. He later accompanied a team onto the Wraith hive ship left crippled by the battle, aboard which he was nearly killed by the hive's queen. (ATL: "Allies", "No Man's Land")

[edit] 2007

He again encountered trouble offworld when his team was attacked by at least twenty gun-wielding assailants on M72-656. and cut off from the Stargate. He was rescued with the aid of Doctor McKay's newfound telekinetic powers. (ATL: "Tao of Rodney") On another mission, Lorne discovered the nation of Geldar, noting McKay's likeness on the national flag. He later assisted Doctor Radek Zelenka in examining the "gameroom" on Atlantis; eventually the two began to use the equipment to influence yet another planet, developing a quick rivalry as they did. When Weir discovered this, she immediately ordered the room sealed and the power cut. (ATL: "The Game")

When Sheppard's team was trapped on a largely decompressed base on a small moon with a failing orbit, Lorne came to their aid again; he piloted a jumper to the base after Sheppard's became lost to them. (ATL: "The Ark") And when Atlantis was attacked by an energy beam fired through an Asuran satellite, Lorne led a flight of F-302s to maneuver an asteroid into the beam's path, thereby giving the city enough time to activate its stardrive. He suggested crashing the asteroid into the satellite itself, but carried out the mission as planned. (ATL: "First Strike")

[edit] Alternate Realities

• In a reality encountered by Lt. Colonel Samantha Carter in 2007, Lorne was still at the SGC, having not been sent to Atlantis as the city was never discovered. That reality's Carter still held the rank of Major, and Lorne was in command of SG-1. (SG1: "The Road Not Taken")
• In a alternate timeline Major Lorne had been promoted to Major General and was the commander of SGC. (ATL: "The Last Man")

[edit] Notes

Lorne's first name has never been mentioned on screen, but was printed on his F-302 flight suit in "First Strike." Actor Kavan Smith and executive producer Joseph Mallozzi have both confirmed it as well. Despite this, Stargate SG-1: The DVD Collection issue 46 gives his first name as Stephen. This was fixed in Stargate Atlantis: The DVD Collection issue 75 which also confirms his name as Evan Lorne.

It is never specifically stated when Lorne joined the Atlantis expedition, but he almost certainly was a member of the expanded military contingent brought by the Daedalus in 2005. During his first appearance, in "Runner," he seems relatively unfamiliar with Doctor Rodney McKay, and was never seen during the show's first season — even at staff meetings where Lieutenant Ford, a far junior officer, was present. Also, since Lorne and Sheppard held the same rank at the start of the series, his presence would have complicated Sheppard's status as the expedition's ranking military officer.

[edit] See also

• Evan Lorne (Asuran)

[edit] External links

• GateWorld's article on Lorne, Evan in The Stargate Omnipedia
• Stargate SG-1 Solutions' article on Evan Lorne in The StargateWiki