Everett Young
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- "You resigned your position as SG leader because you didn't want to make the hard decisions—the life and death decisions."
- — Nicholas Rush
Colonel Everett Young is a male Tau'ri, former Stargate Command member, Icarus Base commander and leader of the Destiny expedition.
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Biography
Early life
Young was a member of Stargate Command and led his own SG team. He was married to Emily since 2005, but due to his position they had an estranged relationship. Young resigned as SG leader stating that he didn't think he had it in him to continue to lead teams and make the life and death decisions. Lt. General Jack O'Neill offered him a position as leader of the Destiny expedition but he declined and was instead offered a command of Icarus Base which he accepted. (SGU: "Earth", "Justice")
Icarus Base
While on Icarus Base Young started an inappropriate affair with an officer in his command, Lieutenant Tamara Johansen, the affair which resulted in her becoming pregnant, Young broke off the affair at some point. Young continued to command the base and welcomed Senator Alan Armstrong when he arrived. He attended a dinner with the senior officers, Senator Armstrong, his daughter Chloe and Eli Wallace when the base was attacked by the Lucian Alliance. He released Sgt. Ronald Greer from the brig and then coordinated the defense of the base against the Alliance forces. He ordered Lt. Matthew Scott to go through the Stargate that had dialed the Ninth Chevron and start the evacuation. He was the last one to go through the gate grabbing the Long-range communication device before leaving. (SGU: "Life", "Faith", "Air, Part 1")
Destiny
Due to the unstable power source powering the Stargate, Young was flung across the gate room and receiving a concussive blow to the back of the head, cracking several ribs, several bruises which all resulted in neurapraxia and some loss of feeling in his legs. Young was placed in some quarters to help recover and wanted to see Rush, who had said he was in charge, and offered to be the one to close the door on the shuttle and sacrifice himself. He then ordered Riley to dial Earth and then assembled a team to travel to the planet that Destiny dialed to collect material to fix the CO2 scrubbers. He then used the long-range communication device to report back to Earth. (SGU: "Air, Part 1", "Air, Part 2", "Air, Part 3")
Shortly after Young had slightly recovered from his injuries and was conducting small meetings with the crew. At Rush's direction, Young orders the rest of the crew to stop turning on devices in order to conserve power and send a team to check out the other shuttle. Young then sends Volker to help Rush and then berates Volker for leaving after a few seconds. When Rush suffers a breakdown and collapses, Young calls TJ to help. Young reports back to Earth and then goes to see Emily, telling her of whats going on. Young returns to the ship to learn its preforming an aero-braking maneuver around a gas giant and then is with the others when they discover the ship is headed for a star. (SGU: "Darkness")
Young organizes a lottery to determine who will be able to use the shuttle to travel to the only habitable planet in the system in order to survive, Young, still injured, offers to take his name out of the lottery. Young draws the names of those who will use the shuttle and it leaves. He and the others watch the shuttle leave and then goes for a walk with Greer before retiring to his own quarters to await death. When it is found that the ship will not be destroyed, Young orders Rush to get the shuttle back before they jump to FTL. Young goes with Lt. Scott to an ice planet to gather water and ends up having to pull Scott out of a crevasse he falls into following a tremor. (SGU: "Light", "Water")
Young goes to report to Earth to find that the IOA scientists have come up with a plan to dial Earth while the ship recharges in a star, despite Young's reservations. Young, in Telford's body, goes to see Emily and they have sex. During which the communication stones are temporarily interrupted and Telford finds himself back in his own body during the sex. Following the IOA's plan failure, Young returns to Earth to report and then announces to the crew that despite the failed plan, they will make it home. (SGU: "Earth")
Young has a Kino watch Rush to see whats he's up to and then asks TJ to perform psychiatric evaluations on the crew. When Rush finds the Neural Interface Chair, Young refuses to let him use it or even run tests on it. Young returns to Earth to find that Telford has been visiting his wife and confronts him, which Telford calls Homeworld Command and gets them to disconnect the stones. Young later takes Volker's turn on the communication stones and goes to find Telford, assaulting him. (SGU: "Life")
When Sgt. Spencer was found dead in his quarters, the missing gun used in his death was found hidden in Young's quarters, implicating Young in his death. Camile Wray took control of the expedition while Young was put on trial. When Dr. Franklin was found using the Neural interface chair and rendered catatonic, Young blamed Rush. When Eli Wallace discovered that Rush had found Spencer, who had committed suicide, and placed the gun in Young's quarters in order to have Young taken out of a position of power, Young accompanied a group offworld where he confronted Rush before the two men fought. Young beat Rush down and then left him on the planet and returned to Destiny. (SGU: "Justice")
Many of the crew believed that Young had left Rush behind, despite his story that Rush had been caught in a landslide. He then used the communication stones to report to Earth, he found himself in the body of an alien on board a spaceship. When the connection was severed, the aliens shortly after showed up and attacked the Destiny, kidnapping Chloe. When Young used the stones to go back aboard the ship and try to rescue Chloe, he found Rush instead, freeing him from the stasis tank he was in. Rush found Chloe and the two escaped the ship, when back on board, the two men decided to forget the event for the good of the crew. (SGU: "Space")
Rush and Wray convinced the civilian crew to start a mutiny based on Young's actions are abandoning Rush. When the civilians locked down the ship, Young had the military personnel circumvent the lockdown and took back control of the ship, deciding that instead of confining and punishing the civilian crew for the mutiny that they should go back to the ways things were in order to survive. Young had TJ remove a tracking implant from Rush that the aliens were tracking in order to attack the Destiny. (SGU: "Divided")
Young decided to reconcile with Rush as he had ordered the military crew to do the same with the civilians. When the Destiny came across an idyllic world Young ordered the use of the shuttle in order to go down and gather supplies. When he discovered that several of those who went had decided to stay behind on the planet, Young used the other shuttle, no repaired, to go down and he ordered the military personnel to come back to the ship and leaves one of the shuttles behind so the few civilian crew who stayed behind have some shelter. (SGU: "Faith")
TJ reveals to Young that she's pregnant and that he is the father and he reassures her that they will make it work. Later when Rush reveals to Young that he has been seeing flashes of memories from Telford where he is meeting with the Lucian Alliance. Young lets Rush take Morrison's place on the communication stones so he can make contact with the Alliance, Young then goes to Earth to report this to O'Neill. Young returns to Destiny to talk to Telford, eventually confining him and attempting to extract information. After he has the atmosphere in the room vented and Telford dies, Young resuscitates him and discovers that the Lucian Alliance is about to dial in and attack. (SGU: "Lost", "Subversion", "Incursion, Part 1")
Lucian Alliance invasion
Young began preparations for the oncoming assault, sealing the gate room and posting guards in the hallways. He planned to vent the atmosphere in the gate room when the Alliance arrived if they did not immediately surrender, but when he saw that they had brought Telford/Rush with them and if he vented the room then Rush and Telford could die. The Alliance broke containment and in the ensuing firefight several people were injured. Young and the Alliance leader, Kiva were at a standoff neither side giving into any demands, however Desiny had dropped out of FTL in range of a binary pulsar which was draining the shields, so Young had to work with the Alliance to fix the problem and ended up having to surrender to the Alliance. (SGU: "Incursion, Part 1", "Incursion, Part 2")
Young and those captured were exiled offworld. Young ordered the military personnel to find shelter and they took refuge in some caves. Some of the Alliance personnel showed up, having been exiled themselves by the other Alliance soldiers. Rush and the others still on board managed to get the Alliance to surrender by disabling the shields so all the Alliance soldiers would die when the pulsar irradiated the ship. Young and the others returned to the ship and had the remaining Alliance personnel confined and guarded. (SGU: "Intervention")
The "mission"
Young immediately wants to drop all of the Lucian Alliance prisoners on the next habitable planet and be done with it, however Camile Wray and the IOA want to keep some of them aboard, particularly those with skills that could be useful. A team uses a shuttle to go to a nearby planet whose Stargate is not functioning, however it crashes and Sgt. Riley is pinned under a fallen console and fatally injured. When the team on the shuttle finds the Stargate, Young comes and has a final word with Riley, who asks Young to end the pain. Young holds a hand over Riley's mouth and nose and suffocates him. Several days later, Destiny comes across a seed ship and Young organizes a team to go aboard. Young is forced to leave Telford aboard the ship when a group of aliens takes control of the seed ship and intend to siphon all of Destiny's energy from it. (SGU: "Aftermath", "Awakening")
Young reports to Earth and returns to inform Eli Wallace that his mother is sick and he needs to use the communication stones to go back to Earth. Young was also ordered to release the Alliance prisoners into the general population on the ship. When they discover that Chloe is infected with a pathogen, Young wants her quarantined but the others want to monitor her progress. after reporting back to Earth, Young is asked by Emily for a divorce and soon after Young begins to have vivid dreams about the ship being attacked and eventually being destroyed. Young begins drinking heavily and doubting his leadership skills. It is later discovered that Destiny has a neural link with the crew and was testing Young's leadership of the ship. (SGU: "Pathogen", "Trial and Error")
Young and Rush go aboard a derelict spaceship and inadvertently activates the ships engines, sending it away from Destiny and with no shuttle they cannot get back. Rush suggests having Amanda Perry brought aboard to help get Destiny to move closer, which Rush secretly communicates with her and lets her know how to access the bridge. When the others find out about this they are upset and when Young discovers that Rush has been hiding it from them all he once again beats Rush down. While teams track down Simeon who killed Ginn and escaped the ship, Young brings Chloe to the bridge as he believes she can help take Destiny back to pick up the teams. (SGU: "The Greater Good", "Malice")
When the settlers from Eden make a miraculous return, Young is apprehensive of allowing them on board. When the ship discovers an energy signature off the course of Destiny, Young agrees that it should be investigated but the ship is attacked by automated drones. Destiny is saved when a seed ship shows up, the one with Telford aboard who tells them to follow. They pass through a stars corona and lose the drones, Telford tells them that the aliens who took control of the seed ship wanted their help in defeating the drones, Young agrees. (SGU: "Visitation", "Resurgence")
When Eli's plan to dial Earth within a star is approved, Rush asks for Young to ask to others to remain behind, instead opting for the minimal required. When an Rush from an alternate timeline arrives on a shuttle and tells them that plan fails, Young calls it off and has teams assembled to go to the alternate Destiny sent back in time to take all the supplies they need. Young later uses the communication stones to take the place of Administrator Halpren on Langara and allow the plan to dial Destiny to be confirmed. When TJ and Reynolds are captured offworld by an alien creature Young goes offworld to help but is injured and unable to continue. (SGU: "Twin Destinies", "Seizure", "The Hunt")
Descendants
When it was discovered that the alternate Destiny expedition that were believed to have died were in fact sent back in time 2,000 years to another planet and founded a civilization, Novus and spread out to several other worlds. Young agreed to go to Novus to determine what had happened to the planet but when the colony they were at were attacked by the drones, Young agreed to take all the people back to their planet. They found it abandoned, the people having left long ago. Young helped to investigate a shelter and had to rescue Varro when he fell during a quake. (SGU: "Common Descent", "Epilogue")
When faced with power problems, Destiny has to recharge in a blue supergiant and most of the crew go offworld to one of the Novus colonies for safety, Young organizes groups to gather supplies and picks up some clothing he finds. When faced with food and power shortages, the crew have to go into stasis to survive the journey to the next galaxy. The final stasis pod is damaged, Young offering to stay out and die, however Eli says that he can fix the pod. Young enters one of the pods and goes to sleep. (SGU: "Blockade", "Gauntlet")
Personality
Morality and Wisdom
- "Well, you're the wrong man for the job, Colonel. I'm sorry to have to be the one to say it, but I think you know it's true."
- — Nicholas Rush
Young pilots a shuttle
Young is willing to do anything to get the crew on Destiny back home, even willing to kill those who put them in danger such as the Lucian Alliance. He feels that the minor disagreements between the crew, particularly the civilian and military personnel are negligible compared to completion of the mission and getting the crew back home. Young is willing to help his crew in any means even going so far as to kill those badly injured enough to prevent them any further suffering. (SGU: "Subversion", "Incursion, Part 1", "Aftermath", "Twin Destinies")
Abilities and Skills
Despite his belief in his inabilities as a leader, Young continued to remain strong in the face of overwhelming odds and dangerous situations. His skills as a former SG team leader have helped prepare him for the challenges he faces while on Destiny. He has skills in piloting some vessels such as F-302's and the Ancient shuttles and has developed skills in using some of Destiny's systems such as weapons, communications and others. (SGU: "Justice", "Trial and Error", "Resurgence", "Deliverance")
Relationships
Family
- Emily Young - ex-wife
- Carmen Johansen - deceased daughter
Romantic
- Tamara Johansen - affair
Personal
Alternate Timelines
- In an alternate timline, Young became infected with a microorganism that was in the drinking water along with the rest of the crew. He died some time later. (SGU: "Time")
- In another alternate timeline, the crew discovered a Kino that told them of the virus in the water and how some nocturnal creatures venom would cure them, Young led a team to a jungle planet to capture some of the creatures however he was killed during the night. (SGU: "Time")
- In an alternate timeline, Young elected to stay behind on Destiny to help complete the mission. When the plan to dial Earth turned dangerous and Destiny was about to be destroyed, Young went through the gate but ended up on a planet elsewhere 2,000 years in the past. He helped set up a civilization on a planet they called Novus. He served two terms as mayor of their town, had two children with Tamara Johansen and eventaully died as an old man. (SGU: "Twin Destinies", "Common Descent", "Epilogue")
Notes
He shares at least two things in common with Dr. Rush: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Chess.
| Senior Destiny Expedition members | |
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| Military | Ronald Greer · Vanessa James · Tamara Johansen · Hunter Riley · Matthew Scott · Everett Young |
| Civilian | Chloe Armstrong · Adam Brody · Lisa Park · Nicholas Rush · Dale Volker · Eli Wallace · Camile Wray |