Ronald Greer

Ronald Greer
Biographical information
Race	Tau'ri
Home planet	Earth
Gender	Male
Political information
Rank	Master Sergeant
Allegiances	United States Marine Corps
Out of universe information
Appearances	Ronald Greer - List of Appearances
Actor	Jamil Walker Smith, Cameron Shang Forbes

"...Ronald Greer. I can't think of a better way to move on from - from this world into the next, or whatever comes, than to fly into the most powerful thing in all creation ... a star. Out in a blaze of glory. I like that. That's beautiful.."

―Master Sgt. Ronald Greer

Ronald Greer is described as a strong and silent Marine, who has a mysterious and checkered past which he has created a hard shell around. He was born poor, and Rush said that Greer would probably be in jail had it not been for the military. During his mid 20's, he became part of the team that was stranded on Destiny .

Personality

Greer has difficulty trusting people who are not part of the military, such as Doctor Nicholas Rush.Surprisingly, the only civilian that Greer appears to trust to any degree is gamer/nerd Eli Wallace. At first glance it seems he has anger issues, but he cares about those aboard the ship. Although he is clever and calm during a struggle, he believes that he can only count on other soldiers during combat and has a hard time trusting the non-military personnel. (SGU: "Air, Part 1", "Air, Part 2", "Air, Part 3", "Time", "Justice") He is impulsive in trying new foods because he believes it will be the best for the survival of the crew, claiming that while the new and odd foods may not be great tasting they will keep them alive. His sense of humor is unusual but good at mediating conflicts when they arise. (SGU: "Justice", "Faith")

Biography

Early life

Greer was born to Angela Greer and Reginald Greer. His father fought in Desert Storm, and after the war was abusive as a father, locking Greer in a closet as punishment, making him stack bricks only to kick them over, and at one point leaving him in the middle of the city and forcing him to walk home. The former has given him mild claustrophobia. He saved both his mother and father from a house fire. His mother was presumably unharmed in the fire while his father suffered severe burns that left him with scars on one side of his face. When he was in his late teen years his father died of a brain infection while in a Veteran's Hospital. (SGU: "Lost") Greer joined the Marine Corps after he did not receive an athletic scholarship. He believed that by joining the military he could make a difference. (SGU: "Lost")

2009

Nicholas Rush said that Greer, as well as Lt. Scott were not the men that he had approved to be on the exploration/military teams that would go through the gate on the Icarus Base after the 9th chevron was dialed. Rush also believed that if not for the military, Greer would have gone to prison, or "worse". (SGU: "Air, Part 3") Greer was in the process of a court martial due to assaulting Colonel David Telford at the time of the Icarus attack. He was subsequently released by Colonel Everett Young during the attack to help defend the base and to later evacuate the planet before it exploded. He was the penultimate man to evacuate to Destiny, just ahead of Young.

On arrival he and the rest of the new crew were informed that they were on an unknown spaceship in an unknown area. When life support systems were failing and Rush thought he had found a solution, Eli Wallace protested, believing that Rush's solution could destroy the ship instead. Greer held Rush at gunpoint, unwilling to let him make yet another decision that would hurt the Icarus personnel. Matthew Scott intervened and ordered Greer to lower his weapon, which he did. Rush tried his solution, but it had no affect on anything. (SGU: "Air, Part 1") When Destiny dropped out of FTL and dialed the Stargate to a planet with the necessary materials to repair the failing life support system, Greer was assigned to the team sent to explore it. He shot Jeremy Franklin on Rush's orders, as Franklin was about to leave with their only Ancient remote control. Greer then left to find Scott, who was lost in the desert. Greer found Scott and helped get him back to the gate with the materials needed to fix the life support.

During the lottery in "Light", his name was not one of the ones chosen to escape the apparently doomed ship using the Ancient shuttle. When Spencer, who was also not chosen, tried to argue that the shuttle could fit more, Greer quickly knocked him out with the butt of his rifle, before things could get out of hand. (SGU: "Light")

A few weeks, when Young and Scott were on a mission to replenish Destiny's water supply, he helped contain the dust bugs which had invested the ship, devising a makeshift flamethrower to herd them. He managed to trap them in a closet, giving TJ time to fill a barrel full of water to attract them. He helped carry the barrel to the gate and throw it through, disposing of the creatures. (SGU: "Water")

Several weeks later, when the IOA had developed a plan to bring the expedition home, he was locked up once more by Colonel Telford, who had switched bodies with Young. He encouraged Scott to revel against Telford, knowing that Telford could get them all killed. The situation was resolved by Rush. (SGU: "Earth")

A few days later he followed with off-world team to a jungle planet in search of food. Some of the team fell ill and they were later besieged by squigglers. Greer survived the initial attack and helped rally the survivors in a cave. He taught Eli how to handle a rifle and took him along to destroy several squiggler nests. He was killed during the second attack. In an alternate timeline created by solar flare activity disrupting the gate, he went with Young and Scott to catch one of squigglers, as their venom held the cure to the affliction. He died again in this timeline. A third timeline was created and he survived along with everyone else. (SGU: "Time")

Some time later he was part of the team that discovered the early repository of knowledge. He also slept with Dr. Lisa Park. (SGU: "Life")

During crisis aboard Destiny caused by sergeant Spencer suspicious death, he suggested to use force and restore Colonel Young's authority. This idea was turned down by Young himself (SGU: "Justice")

A short later when Destiny was attack by alien mothership so he helped Matthew Scott of the postponement of the alien fighter. (SGU: "Space")

A day later, when the civilian staff did mutiny against the military. So he and Young, used a Ancient environmental suit and went to the outside of the ship and jumped down through the shield that covered a hole in the hull. When they came in the habitable part again opened them the door and let the rest of the military and took back control again. He was in mess hall with Lt. James and kept watch on the civilians. (SGU: "Divided")

A week later, when Destiny jumped out of FTL in the vicinity of a unexplored star and they discovered a planet. He followed with the first team and looked at the planet and he found a kiwi-like fruit. He was making a month on the planet when the ship needed a month in order to cross the star. He returned to Destiny again. (SGU: "Faith")

A few days later he explored along with Eli Wallace, Chloe Armstrong and Matthew Scott a planet with ruins. And he got stuck on the planet when they explored a tunnel system that collapsed in when he shot a giant spider. They got stuck when jumping into the Destiny FTL again. (SGU: "Human")

The day after Greer got stuck on the planet with their friends as they walked around in the tunnels after an exit. When Chloe had found a map of the subway system so he went to another tunnel to see if they were one of the map. He found another map and when he would go back to the others as he collapsed in front of the tunnel. His friends managed to find a way out and left him behind. He managed to dig themselves out and ran to the Stargate to overtake them but the second did not have time. He spent a night on the planet and was tormented by his childhood memories about his father. He was rescued by Lt.. James has found him at the Stargate and back to the ship so he was mostly in his quarters. (SGU: "Lost")

Alternate timeline

• In an alternate timeline, he and a team went to a Jungle planet on a reconnaissance mission. He survived the first wave of Nocturnal creatures' attack, but was killed during the second. (SGU: "Time")
• In another alternate timeline he joined Everett Young's party in an attempt to collect a live sample of a nocturnal creatures' venom. However, instead, the team were again attacked, this time Greer was the first to die. (SGU: "Time")

Trivia

Greer wears the insignia of a Marine Master Sergeant, yet all characters address him as plain "sergeant". Enlisted Marines are always addressed by their full rank with few exceptions.^{[citation needed]} Thus Greer would be called "Master Sergeant Greer" not Sergeant Greer.

Behind the scenes

His working name was Ron "Psycho" Stasiak, but was changed in January 2009 to Ronald Greer.

External links

• Msgt. Ronald Greer on the official MGM website. (backup link)
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• GateWorld's article on Ronald Greer in The Stargate Omnipedia