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Dr. Carson Beckett is the Scottish chief medical doctor portrayed by Paul McGillion in the television series '' Stargate Atlantis ''. Beckett possesses and had discovered the " Ancient Technology Activation " gene which allows humans to interact with specialized technology in the base of Atlantis and around the universe, but is often afraid to use the gene himself with Ancient technology, such as the Control Chair. He doesn't like to travel through the Stargate either, he believes it to be "bloody insanity" to convert the human body to energy and send it millions of miles through a wormhole, however he does partake when necessary. His medical expertise and the fact he discovered and possesses the Ancient gene caused him to be handpicked by Elizabeth Weir for the Atlantis expedition. Despite only being billed as a Recurring Character in the first season, Dr. Beckett's appearance in numerous first season episodes prompted his promotion to a Main Character for the second season. SEASON 1 Since he has the ATA gene, Dr. Rodney McKay forced him to sit in the Control Chair on the Ancient's outpost in Antarctica and managed to activate it. Unfortunately, he also activated a remaining drone, which took off and went directly towards the incoming helicopter carrying General Jack O'Neill and Major John Sheppard . Sheppard's evasive maneuver gave Beckett enough time to find a way to deactivate the drone seconds before it would have destroyed the helicopter. Once in Atlantis, one of his first duties was to dissect a severed Wraith arm that Major Sheppard brought back from Athos after the creature's Dart was shot down. His work on the arm provided the first information about Wraith physiology. He hypothesized that the Wraith do not die of "natural aging" the way humans do and they would be "bloody" hard to kill (" Rising "). He created a Gene Therapy that would give normal humans the ATA gene, using a mouse Retrovirus . Dr. Rodney McKay was the first human trial and it worked. However, it was later found out the therapy works in only 48% of the subjects (" Hide And Seek ", " Hot Zone "). He wasn't happy when Major Sheppard volunteered him to help the Hoffans without asking him first, but went along with it. He helped a Hoffan scientist, Perna, to develop a drug that would prevent Wraith from feeding from humans and fell for her hard. They managed to create a working drug, and, using a sick Hoffan man (who volunteered) as a human trial, they inoculated him with the drug and tested it against "). At some point, he learned to pilot a Dr. Leonard McCoy and his line "I'm a doctor, not a..."). During The Storm , he, Ford and Teyla became trapped on the mainland waiting for some Athosian hunters. He preferred to sit the storm through since he knew he wouldn't be capable of flying in such strong winds. When the eye of the storm was over the mainland, they returned to Atlantis, only to find it occupied by a Genii squad. While trying to help Sheppard retake the city, he got knocked unconscious by Sora (" The Storm/The Eye "). When Wraith darts scanned Atlantis, he was forced to fly a Jumper with Sergeant Bates since there wasn't any other pilots available (" The Brotherhood "). He later discovered that Teyla has Wraith genes in her DNA makeup (" The Gift "). SEASON 2 Dr. Beckett started to take more off-world work, accompaning military and scientific teams in off-world reconnaisance (" Duet "). Dr. Beckett has started to develop a gene therapy to turn Wraith into humans by stripping the Iratus' Bug DNA from them. When they found a young female Wraith who, it seemed, didn't feed on humans, he revealed to her adopted father the existence of the retrovirus. She overheard them and, wanting to have a life and acceptance as human, stole the not-yet ready retrovirus and injected herself with it. But the retrovirus backfired, and instead of turning her into a human, stripped all humanity from her (" Instinct "). After returning to Atlantis, Dr. Beckett found out she had infected Lt. Col. Sheppard with the retrovirus, which was slowly changing him into an Iratus' bug. In a brainstorming session with his team, Dr. Beckett decided the best way to attack the retrovirus was by using Iratus' bug Stem Cells to carry the human DNA into Sheppard's body. He went off-world with Dr. McKay, Ronon , Major Lorne and two marines to find the necessary Iratus' bug eggs, but the mission was unsuccessful, as the eggs were surrounded by live Iratus bugs. He later deduced the only person capable of retrieve the eggs was Sheppard himself. He managed to retrieve them and the therapy worked, returning him to normal (" Conversion "). He is apparently pursuing a relationship with USMC Lt. Laura Cadman , an explosives expert whom he assisted during the bizzare situation in "Duet" ( "Epiphany" ). |
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