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|home planet=[[Earth]]
 
|home planet=[[Earth]]
 
|gender=Male
 
|gender=Male
|rank= [[Military rank|Master Sergeant]]
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|rank= [[Master Sergeant]]
|allegiances=[[United States Marine Corps]]
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|allegiances=[[Tau'ri]]
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*[[United States Marine Corps]]
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*[[Destiny expedition]]
 
|appearances=[[Ronald Greer - List of Appearances]]
 
|appearances=[[Ronald Greer - List of Appearances]]
|actor=[[Jamil Walker Smith]], [[Cameron Shang Forbes]]
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|actor=[[Jamil Walker Smith]]<br>[[Cameron Shang Forbes]] (''youth'')
 
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{{Quote|Yeah, I get it. You're the perfect soldier. No rest, no weakness, no fear.|'''[[Camile Wray]]'''}}
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{{Quote|Yeah, I get it. You're the perfect soldier. No rest, no weakness, no fear.|[[Camile Wray]]}}
'''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 [[Nicholas Rush|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 ]]''.
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'''Ronald Greer''' is a [[Master Sergeant]] in the [[United States Marine Corps]], who was assigned to [[Icarus Base]]. He is a member of the [[Destiny expedition|team]] sent and later trapped aboard the [[Ancient]] vessel ''[[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 [[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. Greer prioritizes survival over comfort, dismissing the awful taste of an [[alien sweet potato]] for the simple reason that it will keep them alive. His sense of humor is unusual but good at mediating conflicts when they arise. {{Cite|SGU|Air, Part 1|Air, Part 2|Air, Part 3|Time|Justice|Faith}}
 
   
 
==Biography==
 
==Biography==
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[[File:Ron.png|thumb|250x250px|Ron sees his house on Fire.]]
===Early life===
 
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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 after the latter incident. 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. 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. {{cite|SGU|Lost}}
 
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===Background information===
 
Greer was born to [[Angela Greer]] and [[Reginald Greer]]. His father fought the [[Gulf War]], 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 after the latter incident. 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. Greer joined the [[United States Marine Corps]] after he did not receive an athletic scholarship. He believed that by joining the military he could make a difference. [[Dr.]] [[Nicholas Rush]] said that Greer was not among 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". {{cite|SGU|Air, Part 3|Lost}}
   
 
===2009===
 
===2009===
 
At the time of the attack on [[Icarus Base]], Greer was awaiting [[court-martial]] for assaulting [[Colonel]] [[David Telford]]. He was released by [[Colonel]] [[Everett Young]] during the attack to help defend the base and evacuated the planet through the [[Stargate]] 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 [[Destiny|unknown spaceship]] in an unknown region of space, billions of [[light year]]s from home. When [[life support]] systems were failing and [[Dr.]] [[Nicholas Rush]] thought he had found a solution, [[Eli Wallace]] protested, believing that Rush's solution could destroy the ship. Greer held Rush at gunpoint, unwilling to let him make yet another decision that would hurt the Icarus personnel. [[Lt.]] [[Matthew Scott]] intervened and ordered Greer to lower his weapon, which he did. Rush tried his solution, but it had no affect on anything. When ''Destiny'' dropped out of [[FTL]] and dialed the Stargate to a [[Desert planet (Air)|planet]] with the necessary materials to repair the failing life support system, Greer was assigned to the team sent to explore it. He shot [[Dr.]] [[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 [[Lime]] needed to fix the life support system. {{Cite|SGU|Air, Part 1|Air, Part 2|Air, Part 3}}
[[Nicholas Rush]] said that Greer was not among 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". At the time of the attack on Icarus Base, Greer was awaiting [[court-martial]] for assaulting [[Military rank|Colonel]] [[David Telford]]. He was released by Colonel [[Everett Young]] during the attack to help defend the base and evacuated the planet through the [[Stargate]] 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 [[Destiny|unknown spaceship]] in an unknown region of space, billions of light-years from home. 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. 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. 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. {{Cite|SGU|Air, Part 1|Air, Part 2|Air, Part 3}}
 
 
 
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. He chose to remain alone in his quarters for the end, watching the approaching star through his window. {{cite|SGU|Light}}
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During the [[lottery]], his name was not one of the ones chosen to escape the apparently doomed ship using the [[Ancient shuttle]]. When [[Sgt.]] [[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. He chose to remain alone in his quarters for the end, watching the approaching star through his window. {{cite|SGU|Light}}
   
A few weeks later, while Young and Scott were on a mission to replenish ''Destiny's'' water supply, he helped contain the [[dust bug]]s which had infested 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. {{cite|SGU|Water (episode){{!}}Water}}
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A few weeks later, while [[Colonel]] [[Everett Young]] and [[Lt.]] [[Matthew Scott]] were on a mission to [[Hoth]] to replenish ''[[Destiny]]'s'' [[water]] supply, he helped contain the [[Dust bug]]s which had infested the ship, devising a makeshift [[flamethrower]] to herd them. He managed to trap them in a closet, giving [[Lt.]] [[Tamara Johansen]] 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. {{cite|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 rebel against Telford, knowing that Telford's rash actions could get them all killed. Though Scott was unwilling to do so, the situation was resolved by Rush. {{cite|SGU|Earth (episode){{!}}Earth}}
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Several weeks later, when the [[International Oversight Advisory]] had developed a plan to bring the expedition home, he was locked up once more by [[Colonel]] [[David Telford]], who had switched bodies with [[Colonel]] [[Everett Young]]. He encouraged [[Lt.]] [[Matthew Scott]] to rebel against Telford, knowing that Telford's rash actions could get them all killed. Though Scott was unwilling to do so, the situation was resolved by [[Dr.]] [[Nicholas Rush]]. {{cite|SGU|Earth}}
   
 
Some time later he was part of the team that discovered the [[Destiny interface chair]]. He also slept with [[Dr.]] [[Lisa Park]]. {{cite|SGU|Life}}
A few days later, he accompanied an off-world team to a [[jungle planet]] in search of food. As a result of solar flare activity, two alternate timelines were created by the trip. In the first timeline, some of the team fell ill, and they were later besieged by [[squiggler]]s. 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 the second timeline, he went with Young and Scott to catch one of [[squiggler]]s, as their venom held the cure to the affliction. He died again in this timeline. In the third timeline, he survived along with everyone else. {{cite|SGU|Time}}
 
   
 
He discovered [[Sgt.]] [[Spencer]]'s corpse when Spencer failed to report for duty. When the investigation eventually led to an informal trial, he suggested the use of force to restore [[Colonel]] [[Everett Young]]'s authority. This idea was turned down by Young himself. After [[Camile Wray]] was put in charge, she took him off the active-duty list. Greer believed that she did so out of suspicion that he killed Spencer. She didn't give him a straight answer, though he insisted that they would talk about it further. The situation was resolved when Spencer's death was revealed to be a [[suicide]]. {{cite|SGU|Justice}}
Some time later he was part of the team that discovered the [[Destiny interface chair]]. He also slept with Dr. [[Lisa Park]]. {{cite|SGU|Life}}
 
   
 
A short while later, when ''[[Destiny]]'' was [[Nakai attack on Destiny|attacked]] by a [[Nakai mothership]], Greer helped [[Lt.]] [[Matthew Scott]] defend the ship from [[Nakai fighter]]s using the [[Ancient shuttle]]. {{cite|SGU|Space}}
He discovered Sergeant [[Spencer]]'s corpse when Spencer failed to report for duty. When the investigation eventually led to an informal trial, he suggested the use of force to restore Colonel Young's authority. This idea was turned down by Young himself. After [[Camile Wray]] was put in charge, she took him off the active-duty list. Greer believed that she did so out of suspicion that he killed Spencer. She didn't give him a straight answer, though he insisted that they would talk about it further. The situation was resolved when Spencer's death was revealed to be a suicide. {{cite|SGU|Justice}}
 
   
 
A day later, the civilian personnel mutinied against the military, sealing them off in one section of the ship. Greer and [[Colonel]] [[Everett Young]], using [[Ancient environmental suit]]s, went onto the hull and reentered the ship on the civlians' side to unseal the doors and retake the ship. Greer was posted in the [[mess hall]] with [[Lt.]] [[Vanessa James]] to keep watch on the civilians. Once the mutiny was dealt with, the civilians were dismissed, though Greer felt that the issue would come up again. {{cite|SGU|Divided}}
A short while later, when ''Destiny'' was [[Nakai attack on Destiny|attacked]] by a [[Nakai mothership]], Greer helped Matthew Scott defend the ship from [[Nakai fighter]]s using the shuttle. {{cite|SGU|Space}}
 
   
 
A week later, ''[[Destiny]]'' unexpectedly jumped out of [[FTL]] in the vicinity of a [[Uncharted star]] with a single [[Eden|planet]] orbiting it. Greer accompanied the first team to visit the planet, and was the first to sample a [[kiwi-like fruit]], despite objections that it could be poisonous. He then spent a month on the planet while the ship navigated around the star, helping to keep relations between the military and civilians amicable in his own unique way. {{cite|SGU|Faith}}
A day later, the civilian personnel mutinied against the military, sealing them off in one section of the ship. Greer and Young, using [[Ancient environmental suit]]s, went onto the hull and reentered the ship on the civlians' side to unseal the doors and retake the ship. Greer was posted in the mess hall with Lt. James to keep watch on the civilians. Once the mutiny was dealt with, the civilians were dismissed, though Greer felt that the issue would come up again. {{cite|SGU|Divided}}
 
   
 
A few days later, along with [[Eli Wallace]], [[Chloe Armstrong]] and [[Lt.]] [[Matthew Scott]], Greer explored a [[Ruins planet|planet with ruins]]. There Greer was trapped when, after firing at a [[Giant spider]], a section of the tunnel the team was exploring collapsed. The team was stranded when the ''[[Destiny]]'' jumped to [[FTL]] again. The next day, while searching for a way out of the ruins, Chloe believed she had found a map of the tunnel system. When Greer went down another tunnel to check her findings, it collapsed on him, knocking him unconscious. Unable to dig him out, Scott reluctantly left with Eli and Chloe. He awoke later on and managed to dig himself out, but by the time he reached the Stargate his companions had already left. He set up camp by the gate, awaiting rescue, and was tormented by [[hallucinations]] of his [[Reginald Greer|father]]. He was eventually rescued by [[Lt.]] [[Vanessa James]], who brought him back to the ship, though he was dismayed when Scott, Eli, and Chloe had not been rescued. {{cite|SGU|Human|Lost}}
A week later, ''Destiny'' unexpectedly jumped out of FTL in the vicinity of a unexplored star with a single planet orbiting it. Greer accompanied the first team to visit the planet, and was the first to sample a [[kiwi-like fruit]], despite objections that it could be poisonous. He then spent a month on the planet while the ship navigated around the star, helping to keep relations between the military and civilians amicable in his own unique way. {{cite|SGU|Faith}}
 
   
A few days later, along with [[Eli Wallace]], [[Chloe Armstrong]] and [[Matthew Scott]], Greer explored a [[Ruins planet|planet with ruins]]. There Greer was trapped when, after firing at a [[giant spider]], a section of the tunnel the team was exploring collapsed. The team was stranded when the ''Destiny'' jumped to FTL again. {{cite|SGU|Human}}
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When ''[[Destiny]]'' was sabotaged by the [[Nakai]], allowing with [[Eli Wallace]], [[Chloe Armstrong]] and [[Lt.]] [[Matthew Scott]] to dial the [[Stargate]], he was delighted to see Scott return unharmed. He would later command one of the teams patrolling the halls during the subsequent alien attack. {{cite|SGU|Sabotage}}
   
 
When several crew members were infected by [[Alien tick]]s that induced [[hallucinations]], Greer suffered one of the most dangerous psychotic episodes of all victims. Convinced that [[Dr.]] [[Nicholas Rush]] and [[Camile Wray]] were plotting another mutiny, he hallucinated being ordered to stop them using deadly force, and nearly killed both. {{cite|SGU|Pain}}
The next day, while searching for a way out of the ruins, Chloe believed she had found a map of the the tunnel system. When Greer went down another tunnel to check her findings, it collapsed on him, knocking him unconscious. Unable to dig him out, Scott reluctantly left with Eli and Chloe. He awoke later on and managed to dig himself out, but by the time he reached the Stargate his companions had already left. He set up camp by the gate, awaiting rescue, and was tormented by a hallucination of his father. He was eventually rescued by Lt. James, who brought him back to the ship, though he was dismayed when Scott, Eli, and Chloe had not been rescued. {{cite|SGU|Lost}}
 
   
 
When [[Dr.]] [[Nicholas Rush]] had a [[dream]] containing residual memories from using the [[Long-range communication device]]s in conjunction with [[Colonel]] [[David Telford]], the subsequent covert operation to, again, swap consciousnesses with Telford (Rush posing as another member of the [[Destiny expedition]]) sparked an interrogation on [[Colonel]] [[Everett Young]]'s part. Greer was posted at the entrance to Telford's quarters and given strict orders to not let anybody except Young through. After a verbal confrontation by Young who accused Telford of conspiring with the [[Lucian Alliance]] against [[Stargate Command]] and expedition, Telford attacked Young. This drew the immediate attention of Greer who flew in and swiftly and brutally beat Telford, inflicting multiple facial wounds. Greer was pulled off of Telford by [[Lt.]] [[Matthew Scott]] and both of them were ordered out of Telford's quarters.
When ''Destiny'' was sabotaged by the [[Nakai]], allowing Scott, Eli, and Chloe to dial the Stargate, he was delighted to see Scott return unharmed. He would later command one of the teams patrolling the halls during the subsequent alien attack. {{cite|SGU|Sabotage}}
 
   
 
After receiving authorization from [[Lt. General]] [[Jack O'Neill]] to further the interrogation "by any means necessary", Young saw fit to order [[Dr.]] [[Adam Brody]] to vent the atmosphere in Telford's room. As the [[oxygen]] levels lowered, Young continued to implore Telford to tell them the information they needed to know. Telford refused and suffocated to death (while still inside Rush's body—causing Rush, inside Telford's body, to convulse and suffocate as well), however Telford's suffocation resulted in the breaking of the [[brainwashing]] that had been inflicted on him by the Lucian Alliance. As Telford suffocated, [[Camile Wray]] and Scott both protested Young's judgment while Greer remained calm and awaited for Young's next move. With the bonds of the brainwashing broken, Telford divulged that the Lucian Alliance was enacting a plan to dial the ninth chevron and board ''[[Destiny]]'' as they spoke. With defensive options minimal and little time to act, Young assigned Greer to a team with Scott as part of the ships infantry defenses against the Lucian Alliance's unwarranted boarding of ''Destiny''.
When several crew members were infected by alien ticks that induced hallucinations, Greer suffered one of the most dangerous psychotic episodes of all victims: Convinced that [[Nicholas Rush]] and [[Camile Wray]] were plotting another mutiny, he hallucinated being ordered to stop them using deadly force, and nearly killed both. {{cite|SGU|Pain}}
 
   
 
With control of ''Destiny'' essentially split in half between the expedition and the Lucian Alliance, Greer remained in the [[Control interface room]] of ''Destiny'', one of the soldiers who had not been captured by the Alliance. With the radiation bursts from the nearby [[Binary pulsar system]] growing more dangerous, Greer and Scott don the [[Ancient environmental suit]] and, after a negotiation between Camile Wray and [[Commander]] [[Kiva]], pass through Alliance controlled territory of the ship to a hull breach that had been sealed off by the ship's [[shield]]s. They pass through the hull and go for a space walk in order to locate one of ''Destiny's'' [[Destiny shield emitter|shield emitters]] in order to adjust it to withstand the next burst of radiation from the pulsar. While Greer and Scott are on their space walk a coup erupts between the expedition and the Alliance, affecting control of the ship's system and compromising Greer and Scott's ability to re-enter ''Destiny'' the way they exited. With the help of [[Eli Wallace]], Rush and Brody, Greer and Scott are able to run along the outside of the hull to an [[airlock]] in an unexplored area of the ship.
When Dr. Rush had a dream containing residual memories from using the [[Long-range communication stone]]s in conjunction with [[Colonel]] [[David Telford]], the subsequent covert operation to, again, swap consciousnesses with Telford (Rush posing as another member of the Destiny Expedition) sparked an interrogation on [[Colonel]] [[Everett Young]]'s part. Greer was posted at the entrance to Telford's quarters and given strict orders to not let anybody except Young through. After a verbal confrontation by Young who accused Telford of conspiring with the [[Lucian Alliance]] against [[Stargate Command]] and [[Destiny expedition]], Telford attacked Young. This drew the immediate attention of Greer who flew in and swiftly and brutally beat Colonel Telford, inflicting multiple facial wounds. Greer was pulled off of Telford by Lt. Scott and both of them were ordered out of Telford's quarters. {{cite|SGU|Subversion}}
 
   
 
However, they were not able to reach the airlock before the pulsar's next burst of radiation and were presumed dead by Rush and Brody. However, Scott radioed in moments after the burst past, revealing that he and Greer had hid themselves on the underside of the ships hull in order to block the radiation. They then returned to the airlock they were attempting to enter and were let in by Eli. After re-entering ''[[Destiny]]'' and regrouping with Eli, [[Chloe Armstrong]], Rush and Brody; Scott and Greer decide to go on a reconnaissance mission to assess the condition of the ship's personnel. While they are away a small contingent of Alliance soldiers pinpoints Eli, Chloe, Rush and Brody's location but before any prisoners can be taken Scott and Greer arrive on the scene and kill the Alliance soldiers. They decide to follow Rush's plan of sealing themselves off in the [[Hydroponics lab]], the safest location on ''Destiny'' from the radiation burst, and allow the next burst to kill off the remaining Alliance members. Scott and Greer make their way to the [[Destiny infirmary|infirmary]] in order to grab [[Lt.]] [[Tamara Johansen]] and Wray. Unfortunately, the Alliance launches an attack and pins them in the infirmary. Scott radios Rush and tells him to seal the door despite the fact that they aren't with them. Rush's true plan is effective and the threat of death by radiation burst convinces the remaining Alliance forces to surrender control of ''Destiny'' back to the expedition. Greer is among the skeleton crew aboard ''Destiny'' who welcomes back the expedition that were evacuated off ''Destiny'' by the Alliance and was congratulated by Young when he arrived in the [[Destiny Gate room]]. {{cite|SGU|Subversion|Incursion, Part 1|Incursion, Part 2|Intervention}}
After receiving authorization from [[Jack O'Neill]] to further the interrogation "by any means necessary", Colonel Young saw fit to order [[Adam Brody]] to vent the atmosphere in Telford's room. As the [[oxygen]] levels lowered, Young continued to implore Telford to tell them the information they needed to know. Telford refused and suffocated to death (while still inside Rush's body—causing Rush, inside Telford's body, to convulse and suffocate as well), however Telford's suffocation resulted in the breaking of the brain washing that had been inflicted on him by the Lucian Alliance. As Telford suffocated, [[Camile Wray]] and [[Matthew Scott]] both protested Young's judgment while Greer remained calm and awaited for Young's next move. With the bonds of the brainwashing broken, Telford divulged that the Lucian Alliance was enacting a plan to dial the ninth chevron and board ''Destiny'' as they spoke. With defensive options minimal and little time to act, Young assigned Greer to a team with Matthew Scott as part of the ships infantry defenses against the Lucian Alliance's unwarranted boarding of ''Destiny''. {{cite|SGU|Incursion, Part 1}}
 
   
 
Shortly after the invasion, he was part of a team that was sent to an [[Planet (Aftermath)|unnamed planet]] in the [[Ancient shuttle]] to replenish the food and water supply. During reentry the shuttle lost power and crashed on the planet. After [[Lt.]] [[Matthew Scott]] and the rest of the team unburied the [[Stargate]], he returned to ''[[Destiny]]''. {{cite|SGU|Aftermath}}
With control of ''Destiny'' essentially split in half between the expedition and the Lucian Alliance, Scott remained in the control room of ''Destiny'', one of the soldiers who had not been captured by the Alliance. With the radiation bursts from the nearby [[Binary pulsar system]] growing more dangerous, Greer and Scott don the [[Ancient environmental suit]] and, after a negotiation between Camile Wray and Commander [[Kiva]], pass through Alliance controlled territory of the ship to a hull breach that had been sealed off by the ship's shields. They pass through the hull and go for a space walk in order to locate one of ''Destiny's'' [[Destiny shield emitter|shield emitters]] in order to adjust it to withstand the next burst of radiation from the pulsar. While Greer and Scott are on their space walk a coup erupts between the expedition and the Alliance, affecting control of the ship's system and compromising Greer and Scott's ability to re-enter ''Destiny'' the way they exited. With the help of Eli, Rush and Brody, Greer and Scott are able to run along the outside of the hull to an [[airlock]] in an unexplored area of the ship. {{cite|SGU|Incursion, Part 2}}
 
   
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However they were not able to reach the [[airlock]] before the pulsar's next burst of radiation and were presumed dead by [[Nicholas Rush|Rush]] and [[Adam Brody|Brody]]. However Scott radioed in moments after the burst past, revealing that he and Greer had hid themselves on the underside of the ships hull in order to block the radiation. They then returned to the airlock they were attempting to enter and were let in by [[Eli Wallace|Eli]]. After re-entering ''[[Destiny]]'' and regrouping with Eli, [[Chloe Armstrong|Chloe]], Rush and Brody; Scott and Greer decide to go on a reconnaissance mission to assess the condition of the ship's personnel. While they are away a small contingent of Alliance soldiers pinpoints Eli, Chloe, Rush and Brody's location but before any prisoners can be taken Scott and Greer arrive on the scene and kill the Alliance soldiers. They decide to follow Rush's plan of sealing themselves off in the [[Hydroponics lab]], the safest location on ''Destiny'' from the radiation burst, and allow the next burst to kill off the remaining Alliance members. Scott and Greer make their way to the [[Destiny infirmary|infirmary]] in order to grab [[Lt.]] [[Tamara Johansen]] and [[Camile Wray]]. Unfortunately the Alliance launches an attack and pins them in the infirmary. Scott radios Rush and tells him to seal the door despite the fact that they aren't with them. Rush's true plan is effective and the threat of death by radiation burst convinces the remaining Alliance forces to surrender control of ''Destiny'' back to the [[Destiny expedition]]. Greer is among the skeleton crew aboard Destiny who welcomes back the expedition that were evacuated off ''Destiny'' by the Alliance and was congratulated by [[Colonel]] [[Everett Young]] when he arrived in the [[Destiny Gate room]]. {{cite|SGU|Intervention}}
 
   
 
When [[Senator]] [[Michaels (senator)|Michaels]] came on board with [[Dr.]] [[Andrew Covel]], Covel needed someone to switch with him so [[Camile Wray]] volunteered Greer as she believed he needed to use the [[Long-range communication device]] which he always refused to do. Greer was ordered by [[Colonel]] [[Everett Young]] to do so, but was mad at Wray for forcing him to do something he didn't want to do. Upon switching and learning the details of the [[Lucian Alliance]] threat, Greer offered his help in dealing with the threat to [[Colonel]] [[David Telford#Alternate timelines|David Telford]], but was refused. When the Alliance [[Tel'tak]] crashed into the building, Greer pulled Wray to safety in an office, but had his leg injured by falling debris. After Wray splints his leg, the two hook up with [[Airman]] [[Evans (Alliances)|Evans]] and try to make their way out of the building, getting a gun and a radio from a dead Airman along the way. After failing to find a way out and learning of the possible [[Lucian Alliance naquadria bomb|Naquadria bomb]] threat, Wray and Greer decided to try to disarm it themselves, but discovered they were exposed to a fatal dose of radiation in the process. Evans revealed himself to be Lucian Alliance and took Wray hostage, but she broke free and Greer killed him. The two made it into the ship where Wray tried to disarm the bomb, but failed as their radio was jammed by the radiation and they weren't able to get the full instructions from [[Varro]]. Wray apologized to him for their differences, explaining that they stemmed from the fact that he was more into action while she was more into talking and the two got a laugh out of the fact that at the point where all they had to do was talk, Wray had nothing to say. After [[Dr.]] [[Nicholas Rush]] severed the connection, the two met on the [[Observation deck]], worried as nothing had been heard from [[Earth]] since their return and they didn't know what had happened to their loved ones. Greer admitted to Wray he missed his [[Angela Greer|mother]] and was sorry as they weren't on the best of terms because of his joining the military, but Wray comforted him with the fact that his mother probably knew how he cared about her anyway. {{cite|SGU|Alliances}}
Shortly after the invasion, he was part of a team that was sent to an [[Planet (Aftermath)|unnamed planet]] in the [[Ancient shuttle]] to replenish the food and water supply. During reentry the shuttle lost power and crashed on the planet. After Scott and the rest of the team unburied the [[Stargate]], he returned to ''Destiny''. {{cite|SGU|Aftermath}}
 
   
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Greer was one of two possible candidates for a [[kidney]] transplant for [[Dr.]] [[Dale Volker]] and he agreed to be the one to donate the kidney. When [[Lt.]] [[Tamara Johansen]] needed to take bone marrow from him, he refused to be sedated due to a lack of medicine on board, even though it caused him great pain. When Volker got nervous about the operation and reminised about watching the stars in his backyard, Greer took him to the [[Destiny garden]] to look at the stars. With the help of [[Dr.]] [[Amanda Perry]], the operation was a success, but Greer developed infections from it. Even though he wasn't supposed to, Greer walked around the ship despite being in a weakened state, but eventually recovered from his infections. {{cite|SGU|Hope|Seizure}}
When Senator [[Michaels (senator)|Michaels]] came on board with Doctor [[Andrew Covel]], Covel needed someone to switch with him so Wray volunteered Greer as she believed he needed to use the communications stones which he always refused to do. Greer was ordered by Young to do so, but was mad at Wray for forcing him to do something he didn't want to do. Upon switching and learning the details of the [[Lucian Alliance]] threat, Greer offered his help in dealing with the threa to Telford, but was refused. When the Alliance [[tel'tak]] crashed into the building, Greer pulled Wray to saftey in an office, but had his leg injured by falling debris. After Wray splints his leg, the two hook up with Airman Evans and try to make their way out of the buidling, getting a gun and a radio from a dead airman along the way. After failing to find a way out and learning of the possible [[naquadria bomb]] threat, Wray and Greer decided to try to disarm it themselves, but discovered they were exposed to a fatal dose of radiation in the process. Evans revealed himself to be Lucian Alliance and took Wray hostage, but she broke free and Greer killed him. The two made it into the ship where Wray tried to disarm the bomb, but failed as they radio was jammed by the radiation and they weren't able to get the full instructions from [[Varro]]. Wray apologized to him for their differences, explaining that they stemmed from the fact that he was more into action while she was more into talking and the two got a laugh out of the fact that at the point where all they had to do was talk, Wray had nothing to say. After Rush severed the connection, the two met on the Observation Deck, worried as nothing had been heard from Earth since their return and they didn't know what had happened to their loved ones. Greer admitted to Wray he missed his mother and was sorry as they weren't on the best of terms because of his joining the military, but Wray comforted him with the fact that his mother probably knew how he cared about her anyway. {{cite|SGU|Alliances}}
 
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After recovering, Greer was sent on a mission to [[Planet (The Hunt)|a planet]] where he and [[Lt.]] [[Matthew Scott]] encountered a [[Space Deer]], but Greer hesitated to kill one. When a [[Predator (The Hunt)|predator]] attacked, Greer hesitated to fire as well, resulting in it attacking the camp and taking [[Lt.]] [[Tamara Johansen]] and [[Cpl.]] [[Reynolds (Destiny)|Reynolds]] captive. Greer returned with a rescue team, but his determination to keep after the predator put him at odds with [[Colonel]] [[Everett Young]]. Eventually [[Varro]], [[Tasia]] and the other [[Lucian Alliance]] personnel joined the hunt to Greer's displeasure as he didn't trust them. The team fell into a trap and Young and [[Lt.]] [[Vanessa James]] were hurt while most of the Alliance team was killed and Greer admitted to James his reasons for hesitating so much: he thought he died during the operation even though James figured it was just the effets of the medicine he was under and he didn't want to ever experience that again. After laying an ambush for the creature which killed one, all of the remaining members of the team except Varro and Greer were killed, leaving the two to rescue TJ and Reynolds alone. Greer still didn't trust Varro who compared him to a friend of his who died on a [[suicide]] mission, but worked with him. After locating the two thanks to TJ fixing a radio and calling them, Greer had Varro create a distraction while he rescued the two. Even though Greer could've harmed the creature, he chose not to as it was intelligent and willing to let TJ and Reynolds go after recignizing the same about the them and they hooked up with Varro who escaped the creatures unharmed. On the way back to the Gate, the group encountered another space deer and Greer killed it to take it back to the ship for dinner. As a result of this adventure, Varro earned Greer's trust and at Greer's recommendation, Varro was set free and integrated into the crew. {{cite|SGU|The Hunt}}
   
 
==Alternate timelines==
 
==Alternate timelines==
* ''In an [[alternate timeline]], he and a team went to a [[Jungle planet]] on a reconnaissance mission. He survived the first [[squiggler]] attack, but was killed during the second.'' {{cite|SGU|Time}}
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* ''In an [[alternate timeline]], he and a team went to a [[Jungle planet]] on a reconnaissance mission. He survived the first [[Squiggler]] attack, but was killed during the second.'' {{cite|SGU|Time}}
* ''In another alternate timeline he joined [[Everett Young]]'s party in an attempt to collect a live [[squiggler]]. However, the team were again attacked; this time Greer was the first to die.'' {{cite|SGU|Time}}
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* ''In another alternate timeline he joined [[Colonel]] [[Everett Young#Alternate timelines|Everett Young]]'s party in an attempt to collect a live [[Squiggler]]. However, the team were again attacked; this time Greer was the first to die.'' {{cite|SGU|Time}}
[[file:Greer and Lisa.jpg|thumb|Elderly Greer and Lisa talking, recorded on kino.]]
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*''In an [[alternate timeline]], instead of choosing to return to Earth with everyone else, Greer volunteered to remain behind on ''Destiny'' as part of the group that were staying to complete the mission. When things got too unstable, he and the rest of the volunteers headed through the Stargate too, but like everyone else except for [[Colonel]] [[David Telford]], didn't make it to [[Earth]] and was presumed dead. However, he ended on a planet that he and other survivors called [[Novus]], 2,000 years in the past, eventually marrying [[Lisa Park]].'' {{cite|SGU|Twin Destinies|Common Descent|Epilogue}}
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*''In another alternate timeline, instead of choosing to return to [[Earth]] with everyone else, Greer volunteered to remain behind on ''[[Destiny]]'' as part of the group that were staying to complete the mission. When things got too unstable, he and the rest of the volunteers headed through the [[Stargate]] too, but like everyone else except for [[Colonel]] [[David Telford#Alternate timelines|David Telford]], didn't make it to [[Earth]] and was presumed dead. However, he ended on a planet that he and other survivors called [[Novus]], 2,000 years in the past, eventually marrying [[Dr.]] [[Lisa Park]]. The two had four sons, three daughters and fifteen grandchildren in total.'' {{cite|SGU|Twin Destinies|Common Descent|Epilogue}}
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==Personality and traits==
 
Greer has difficulty trusting people who are not part of the military, such as [[Dr.]] [[Nicholas Rush]]. Surprisingly, the only civilian that Greer appears to trust to any degree is [[Eli Wallace]], this is likely either because Colonel Young trusts Eli, or because Greer perceives Eli's innocence. 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. Greer prioritizes survival over comfort, dismissing the awful taste of an [[alien sweet potato]] for the simple reason that it will keep them alive. His sense of humor is unusual but good at mediating conflicts when they arise. {{Cite|SGU|Air, Part 1|Air, Part 2|Air, Part 3|Time|Justice|Faith}}
   
 
==Behind the scenes==
 
==Behind the scenes==
 
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His working name was Ron "Psycho" Stasiak<ref name="Meet">{{MGMsite|/news_detail.php?id{{=}}128|Four new SGU Cast Members Announced}}</ref>, but was changed in January 2009 to Ronald Greer.<ref name="Change">{{GateWorld|news/2009/01/justin-louis-jamil-walker-smith-join-stargate-universe/|Justin Louis, Jamil Walker Smith join ''Stargate Universe''}}</ref>
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*His working name was Ron "Psycho" Stasiak,<ref name="Meet">{{MGMsite|/news_detail.php?id{{=}}128|Four new SGU Cast Members Announced}}</ref> but was changed in January 2009 to Ronald Greer.<ref name="Change">{{GateWorld|news/2009/01/justin-louis-jamil-walker-smith-join-stargate-universe/|Justin Louis, Jamil Walker Smith join ''Stargate Universe''}}</ref>
   
 
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"Yeah, I get it. You're the perfect soldier. No rest, no weakness, no fear."
Camile Wray

Ronald Greer is a Master Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps, who was assigned to Icarus Base. He is a member of the team sent and later trapped aboard the Ancient vessel Destiny.

Biography

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Ron sees his house on Fire.

Background information

Greer was born to Angela Greer and Reginald Greer. His father fought the Gulf War, 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 after the latter incident. 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. Greer joined the United States Marine Corps after he did not receive an athletic scholarship. He believed that by joining the military he could make a difference. Dr. Nicholas Rush said that Greer was not among 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", "Lost")

2009

At the time of the attack on Icarus Base, Greer was awaiting court-martial for assaulting Colonel David Telford. He was released by Colonel Everett Young during the attack to help defend the base and evacuated the planet through the Stargate 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 region of space, billions of light years from home. When life support systems were failing and Dr. Nicholas Rush thought he had found a solution, Eli Wallace protested, believing that Rush's solution could destroy the ship. Greer held Rush at gunpoint, unwilling to let him make yet another decision that would hurt the Icarus personnel. Lt. Matthew Scott intervened and ordered Greer to lower his weapon, which he did. Rush tried his solution, but it had no affect on anything. 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 Dr. 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 Lime needed to fix the life support system. (SGU: "Air, Part 1", "Air, Part 2", "Air, Part 3")

During the lottery, his name was not one of the ones chosen to escape the apparently doomed ship using the Ancient shuttle. When Sgt. 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. He chose to remain alone in his quarters for the end, watching the approaching star through his window. (SGU: "Light")

A few weeks later, while Colonel Everett Young and Lt. Matthew Scott were on a mission to Hoth to replenish Destiny's water supply, he helped contain the Dust bugs which had infested the ship, devising a makeshift flamethrower to herd them. He managed to trap them in a closet, giving Lt. Tamara Johansen 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 International Oversight Advisory had developed a plan to bring the expedition home, he was locked up once more by Colonel David Telford, who had switched bodies with Colonel Everett Young. He encouraged Lt. Matthew Scott to rebel against Telford, knowing that Telford's rash actions could get them all killed. Though Scott was unwilling to do so, the situation was resolved by Dr. Nicholas Rush. (SGU: "Earth")

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

He discovered Sgt. Spencer's corpse when Spencer failed to report for duty. When the investigation eventually led to an informal trial, he suggested the use of force to restore Colonel Everett Young's authority. This idea was turned down by Young himself. After Camile Wray was put in charge, she took him off the active-duty list. Greer believed that she did so out of suspicion that he killed Spencer. She didn't give him a straight answer, though he insisted that they would talk about it further. The situation was resolved when Spencer's death was revealed to be a suicide. (SGU: "Justice")

A short while later, when Destiny was attacked by a Nakai mothership, Greer helped Lt. Matthew Scott defend the ship from Nakai fighters using the Ancient shuttle. (SGU: "Space")

A day later, the civilian personnel mutinied against the military, sealing them off in one section of the ship. Greer and Colonel Everett Young, using Ancient environmental suits, went onto the hull and reentered the ship on the civlians' side to unseal the doors and retake the ship. Greer was posted in the mess hall with Lt. Vanessa James to keep watch on the civilians. Once the mutiny was dealt with, the civilians were dismissed, though Greer felt that the issue would come up again. (SGU: "Divided")

A week later, Destiny unexpectedly jumped out of FTL in the vicinity of a Uncharted star with a single planet orbiting it. Greer accompanied the first team to visit the planet, and was the first to sample a kiwi-like fruit, despite objections that it could be poisonous. He then spent a month on the planet while the ship navigated around the star, helping to keep relations between the military and civilians amicable in his own unique way. (SGU: "Faith")

A few days later, along with Eli Wallace, Chloe Armstrong and Lt. Matthew Scott, Greer explored a planet with ruins. There Greer was trapped when, after firing at a Giant spider, a section of the tunnel the team was exploring collapsed. The team was stranded when the Destiny jumped to FTL again. The next day, while searching for a way out of the ruins, Chloe believed she had found a map of the tunnel system. When Greer went down another tunnel to check her findings, it collapsed on him, knocking him unconscious. Unable to dig him out, Scott reluctantly left with Eli and Chloe. He awoke later on and managed to dig himself out, but by the time he reached the Stargate his companions had already left. He set up camp by the gate, awaiting rescue, and was tormented by hallucinations of his father. He was eventually rescued by Lt. Vanessa James, who brought him back to the ship, though he was dismayed when Scott, Eli, and Chloe had not been rescued. (SGU: "Human", "Lost")

When Destiny was sabotaged by the Nakai, allowing with Eli Wallace, Chloe Armstrong and Lt. Matthew Scott to dial the Stargate, he was delighted to see Scott return unharmed. He would later command one of the teams patrolling the halls during the subsequent alien attack. (SGU: "Sabotage")

When several crew members were infected by Alien ticks that induced hallucinations, Greer suffered one of the most dangerous psychotic episodes of all victims. Convinced that Dr. Nicholas Rush and Camile Wray were plotting another mutiny, he hallucinated being ordered to stop them using deadly force, and nearly killed both. (SGU: "Pain")

When Dr. Nicholas Rush had a dream containing residual memories from using the Long-range communication devices in conjunction with Colonel David Telford, the subsequent covert operation to, again, swap consciousnesses with Telford (Rush posing as another member of the Destiny expedition) sparked an interrogation on Colonel Everett Young's part. Greer was posted at the entrance to Telford's quarters and given strict orders to not let anybody except Young through. After a verbal confrontation by Young who accused Telford of conspiring with the Lucian Alliance against Stargate Command and expedition, Telford attacked Young. This drew the immediate attention of Greer who flew in and swiftly and brutally beat Telford, inflicting multiple facial wounds. Greer was pulled off of Telford by Lt. Matthew Scott and both of them were ordered out of Telford's quarters.

After receiving authorization from Lt. General Jack O'Neill to further the interrogation "by any means necessary", Young saw fit to order Dr. Adam Brody to vent the atmosphere in Telford's room. As the oxygen levels lowered, Young continued to implore Telford to tell them the information they needed to know. Telford refused and suffocated to death (while still inside Rush's body—causing Rush, inside Telford's body, to convulse and suffocate as well), however Telford's suffocation resulted in the breaking of the brainwashing that had been inflicted on him by the Lucian Alliance. As Telford suffocated, Camile Wray and Scott both protested Young's judgment while Greer remained calm and awaited for Young's next move. With the bonds of the brainwashing broken, Telford divulged that the Lucian Alliance was enacting a plan to dial the ninth chevron and board Destiny as they spoke. With defensive options minimal and little time to act, Young assigned Greer to a team with Scott as part of the ships infantry defenses against the Lucian Alliance's unwarranted boarding of Destiny.

With control of Destiny essentially split in half between the expedition and the Lucian Alliance, Greer remained in the Control interface room of Destiny, one of the soldiers who had not been captured by the Alliance. With the radiation bursts from the nearby Binary pulsar system growing more dangerous, Greer and Scott don the Ancient environmental suit and, after a negotiation between Camile Wray and Commander Kiva, pass through Alliance controlled territory of the ship to a hull breach that had been sealed off by the ship's shields. They pass through the hull and go for a space walk in order to locate one of Destiny's shield emitters in order to adjust it to withstand the next burst of radiation from the pulsar. While Greer and Scott are on their space walk a coup erupts between the expedition and the Alliance, affecting control of the ship's system and compromising Greer and Scott's ability to re-enter Destiny the way they exited. With the help of Eli Wallace, Rush and Brody, Greer and Scott are able to run along the outside of the hull to an airlock in an unexplored area of the ship.

However, they were not able to reach the airlock before the pulsar's next burst of radiation and were presumed dead by Rush and Brody. However, Scott radioed in moments after the burst past, revealing that he and Greer had hid themselves on the underside of the ships hull in order to block the radiation. They then returned to the airlock they were attempting to enter and were let in by Eli. After re-entering Destiny and regrouping with Eli, Chloe Armstrong, Rush and Brody; Scott and Greer decide to go on a reconnaissance mission to assess the condition of the ship's personnel. While they are away a small contingent of Alliance soldiers pinpoints Eli, Chloe, Rush and Brody's location but before any prisoners can be taken Scott and Greer arrive on the scene and kill the Alliance soldiers. They decide to follow Rush's plan of sealing themselves off in the Hydroponics lab, the safest location on Destiny from the radiation burst, and allow the next burst to kill off the remaining Alliance members. Scott and Greer make their way to the infirmary in order to grab Lt. Tamara Johansen and Wray. Unfortunately, the Alliance launches an attack and pins them in the infirmary. Scott radios Rush and tells him to seal the door despite the fact that they aren't with them. Rush's true plan is effective and the threat of death by radiation burst convinces the remaining Alliance forces to surrender control of Destiny back to the expedition. Greer is among the skeleton crew aboard Destiny who welcomes back the expedition that were evacuated off Destiny by the Alliance and was congratulated by Young when he arrived in the Destiny Gate room. (SGU: "Subversion", "Incursion, Part 1", "Incursion, Part 2", "Intervention")

Shortly after the invasion, he was part of a team that was sent to an unnamed planet in the Ancient shuttle to replenish the food and water supply. During reentry the shuttle lost power and crashed on the planet. After Lt. Matthew Scott and the rest of the team unburied the Stargate, he returned to Destiny. (SGU: "Aftermath")

2010

When Senator Michaels came on board with Dr. Andrew Covel, Covel needed someone to switch with him so Camile Wray volunteered Greer as she believed he needed to use the Long-range communication device which he always refused to do. Greer was ordered by Colonel Everett Young to do so, but was mad at Wray for forcing him to do something he didn't want to do. Upon switching and learning the details of the Lucian Alliance threat, Greer offered his help in dealing with the threat to Colonel David Telford, but was refused. When the Alliance Tel'tak crashed into the building, Greer pulled Wray to safety in an office, but had his leg injured by falling debris. After Wray splints his leg, the two hook up with Airman Evans and try to make their way out of the building, getting a gun and a radio from a dead Airman along the way. After failing to find a way out and learning of the possible Naquadria bomb threat, Wray and Greer decided to try to disarm it themselves, but discovered they were exposed to a fatal dose of radiation in the process. Evans revealed himself to be Lucian Alliance and took Wray hostage, but she broke free and Greer killed him. The two made it into the ship where Wray tried to disarm the bomb, but failed as their radio was jammed by the radiation and they weren't able to get the full instructions from Varro. Wray apologized to him for their differences, explaining that they stemmed from the fact that he was more into action while she was more into talking and the two got a laugh out of the fact that at the point where all they had to do was talk, Wray had nothing to say. After Dr. Nicholas Rush severed the connection, the two met on the Observation deck, worried as nothing had been heard from Earth since their return and they didn't know what had happened to their loved ones. Greer admitted to Wray he missed his mother and was sorry as they weren't on the best of terms because of his joining the military, but Wray comforted him with the fact that his mother probably knew how he cared about her anyway. (SGU: "Alliances")

Greer was one of two possible candidates for a kidney transplant for Dr. Dale Volker and he agreed to be the one to donate the kidney. When Lt. Tamara Johansen needed to take bone marrow from him, he refused to be sedated due to a lack of medicine on board, even though it caused him great pain. When Volker got nervous about the operation and reminised about watching the stars in his backyard, Greer took him to the Destiny garden to look at the stars. With the help of Dr. Amanda Perry, the operation was a success, but Greer developed infections from it. Even though he wasn't supposed to, Greer walked around the ship despite being in a weakened state, but eventually recovered from his infections. (SGU: "Hope", "Seizure")

After recovering, Greer was sent on a mission to a planet where he and Lt. Matthew Scott encountered a Space Deer, but Greer hesitated to kill one. When a predator attacked, Greer hesitated to fire as well, resulting in it attacking the camp and taking Lt. Tamara Johansen and Cpl. Reynolds captive. Greer returned with a rescue team, but his determination to keep after the predator put him at odds with Colonel Everett Young. Eventually Varro, Tasia and the other Lucian Alliance personnel joined the hunt to Greer's displeasure as he didn't trust them. The team fell into a trap and Young and Lt. Vanessa James were hurt while most of the Alliance team was killed and Greer admitted to James his reasons for hesitating so much: he thought he died during the operation even though James figured it was just the effets of the medicine he was under and he didn't want to ever experience that again. After laying an ambush for the creature which killed one, all of the remaining members of the team except Varro and Greer were killed, leaving the two to rescue TJ and Reynolds alone. Greer still didn't trust Varro who compared him to a friend of his who died on a suicide mission, but worked with him. After locating the two thanks to TJ fixing a radio and calling them, Greer had Varro create a distraction while he rescued the two. Even though Greer could've harmed the creature, he chose not to as it was intelligent and willing to let TJ and Reynolds go after recignizing the same about the them and they hooked up with Varro who escaped the creatures unharmed. On the way back to the Gate, the group encountered another space deer and Greer killed it to take it back to the ship for dinner. As a result of this adventure, Varro earned Greer's trust and at Greer's recommendation, Varro was set free and integrated into the crew. (SGU: "The Hunt")

Alternate timelines

Greer and Lisa

Elderly Greer and Lisa talking, recorded on kino.

  • In another alternate timeline, instead of choosing to return to Earth with everyone else, Greer volunteered to remain behind on Destiny as part of the group that were staying to complete the mission. When things got too unstable, he and the rest of the volunteers headed through the Stargate too, but like everyone else except for Colonel David Telford, didn't make it to Earth and was presumed dead. However, he ended on a planet that he and other survivors called Novus, 2,000 years in the past, eventually marrying Dr. Lisa Park. The two had four sons, three daughters and fifteen grandchildren in total. (SGU: "Twin Destinies", "Common Descent", "Epilogue")

Personality and traits

Greer has difficulty trusting people who are not part of the military, such as Dr. Nicholas Rush. Surprisingly, the only civilian that Greer appears to trust to any degree is Eli Wallace, this is likely either because Colonel Young trusts Eli, or because Greer perceives Eli's innocence. 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. Greer prioritizes survival over comfort, dismissing the awful taste of an alien sweet potato for the simple reason that it will keep them alive. His sense of humor is unusual but good at mediating conflicts when they arise. (SGU: "Air, Part 1", "Air, Part 2", "Air, Part 3", "Time", "Justice", "Faith")

Behind the scenes

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  • His working name was Ron "Psycho" Stasiak,[1] but was changed in January 2009 to Ronald Greer.[2]

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References and notes

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Prominent Destiny Expedition members
Military Ronald Greer · Vanessa James · Tamara Johansen · Hunter Riley · Matthew Scott · David Telford · Everett Young
Civilian Chloe Armstrong · Adam Brody · Lisa Park · Nicholas Rush · Dale Volker · Eli Wallace · Camile Wray