Richard P. Woolsey | |
![]() Richard P. Woolsey | |
Full name: | Richard P. Woolsey |
Species: | Human |
Gender: | Male |
Homeworld: | Earth |
Birthplace: | Earth |
Affiliation: | Federation, Atlantis Expedition International Oversight Advisory (formerly) N.I.D. (former) |
Marital Status: | Single |
Career | |
Occupation: | Agent, NID (formerly) |
Assignment: | Advisor, Atlantis Expedition (2383-present) |
Rank: | Advisor, International Oversight Advisory representative (formerly) |
Insignia: | ![]() |
Richard P. Woolsey is a male Human who is a former agent of the National Intelligence Department and also the International Oversight Advisory, serving as the representative for the Federation.
Despite being against the program at first, Woolsey later gained respect for Stargate Command and the SGC's flagship team, SG-1, becoming an essential ally.
In 2383, Woolsey became a advisor to General Samantha Carter and continued to serve as advisor when Vice Admiral Kira took command of the Expedition and Starbase Atlantis in 2391.
Biography[]
Background information[]
Not much is known about his past life. What is known is that he was married to someone and had a pet Yorkie, a small breed of dog. He said that he loved the dog, but that his wife got the dog in his divorce. He regretted being unable to say goodbye to his dog, which he never saw again. His father suffered from Alzheimer's disease and had died by 2382. He holds an MBA and an LL.B. from Harvard University, even though Harvard stopped offering the LLB, switching to a J.D., or Juris Doctor instead,and was also on the Harvard Law Review, Chief Counsel of the Starfleet Corps of Engineers, and an appellate advocate for Hartshorn and Slaughter, a prestigious litigation boutique firm in New York City.
2367[]
He was assigned by then Senator Robert Kinsey to investigate SG-1. His investigations were adversarial and condemning of SG-1 and Stargate Command as a whole. However, after the election, upon learning of Kinsey's association with The Trust, Woolsey went to Major General George S. Hammond to seek his help in implicating Kinsey, saying that while he disapproves of how Hammond runs the SGC, he always does what he believes to be right. As a result, Hammond entrusted him a disk which contained information about Kinsey's illegal activities, which Woolsey later passed on to President Amitra.
2378[]
Woolsey was later appointed the Federation ambassador to the International Oversight Advisory. He was in charge of deciding the fate of Khalek, the "son" of Anubis. Instead of putting him in a Stasis pod, or killing him like the rest of the team wanted to, he and the IOA felt it would be necessary to study him, as his evolutionary state was similar to the Priors of the Ori, reasoning that studying Khalek might allow them to figure out a means of fighting against the Priors in the field. However, Woolsey's actions cost the life of several SGC personnel, and they were only able to kill Khalek at the last minute as he approached Ascension. He approached Dr. Daniel Jackson for his forgiveness, but Jackson didn't give it to him. Woolsey would later admit that while working as the IOA's ambassador to the United States, he was greatly frustrated with their refusal to make decisions themselves and that when they did, it took a long time.
2379[]
He accompanied International Oversight Advisory members Shen Xiaoyi, Jean LaPierre, and Russel Chapman on a tour of the Gamma Site. After a carnivorous species of insect called R-75 escaped, he demanded that SG-1 escort the IOA members to the Gamma Site research station until Colonel Stewart Pearson and his men dealt with the situation. When it was clear that the Gamma Site had fallen and the bugs were chasing them, they headed for a nearby cave. After a night in the cave, they headed for the research station to get a signal to the Odyssey to inform them they were still alive. When one of the representatives was bothering Carter in her work, Woolsey told him to shut up. They were beamed aboard just as the bugs were about to overrun the research station. Later, Woolsey discussed the events with the team and General Landry, saying it had been an eye-opening experience for him and that while the IOA officially complains a lot, they have nothing but good things to say about the team unofficially.
After the Battle of P3Y-229, he met with Major General Henry Landry about the situation. He informed Landry that the International Oversight Advisory was considering bringing the Zero Point Module from Starbase Atlantis back to Earth to use in the Antarctic outpost but Landry told him it would take three weeks for the ZPM to arrive on Earth with Landry also believing that the IOA were wasting their breath.
During Vala Mal Doran's Psychiatric evaluation, he offered to make sure she passed in exchange for her spying on Stargate Command for the International Oversight Advisory. Fortunately, she refused as his offer was just a way to determine if she was trustworthy.
2380[]
When a pair of Wraith Hive ships learned of the location of Earth, Woolsey was among the delegation that debriefed Dr. Elizabeth Weir on her actions leading up to the predicament. He was then dispatched to Starbase Atlantis to review Weir's competence as leader of the Atlantis Expedition. While there, he aggressively questioned each one of Weir's decisions, and made a poor impression on the expedition members (Lt. Colonel John Sheppard expressed a rather strong desire to assault Woolsey). However, Woolsey's report concluded that Weir was qualified to remain as leader of the expedition with him even altering it somewhat so it put her in an even better light.
2381[]
He later returned to Starbase Atlantis to negotiate with the newly returned Ancients. They forced the team to leave the galaxy but allowed him to stay as a liaison. The Ancients quickly grew tired of Woolsey, and recalled Lt. General Jack O'Neill to help. Woolsey was there when the Asurans captured Starbase Atlantis, but managed to escape into a damaged section of the starbase with O'Neill while the Ancients were murdered. He remained hidden with O'Neill and worried that he was going to die due to his inexperience. He later remained behind while O'Neill went to drain a Jumper bay of water for Sheppard's team, and when the Asurans arrived to capture them, Woolsey put up a surprisingly good fight - as indicated by the number of phaser fire strewn around the area in which he was captured - but was captured and later interrogated. Unlike O'Neill he was unable to resist the mind-probe interrogation, and the Asurans got the team's plan from his mind, but it was later revealed that the team had used his vulnerability to the mind-probe to pass on deliberate misinformation about their plans to the Asurans. As a result, the Asurans were caught off-guard by the real plan- they believed the expedition were planning to blow up Atlantis' shield generators when in fact they had reprogrammed the shields to generate a Replicator disruptor wave- and were destroyed. Woolsey was annoyed to be used in that manner, but O'Neill comforted him with the fact that he was actually useful for something during the crisis.
Shortly after Carson Beckett's death, Woolsey discovers a video of a woman acting like a Wraith and apparently feeding on his cousin Mark Payton who had recently died. Woolsey alerted the SGC which led to them uncovering the existence of the Lilith cult. Daniel Jackson later learned that the woman, Hanan, had actually been keeping Woolsey's cousin alive as he would've died as a child from a genetic disorder had she not used her Wraith-like abilities on him. After the destruction of most of the Lilin, the IOA ordered the destruction of M1M-316 and Woolsey was sent to ensure it happened. When the time came, the expedition made Woolsey detonate the bomb himself, but had really fooled him into believing that he'd destroyed M1M-316 when he instead blew up a dead world.
After Dr. Daniel Jackson was turned into a Prior, Woolsey decided that they would place Jackson in stasis, attempting to avoid the same mistakes he made when dealing with Khalek, despite Jackson telling him and Stargate Command that he had a plan to wipe out the Ori by using the Sangraal and an Ori warship to send the Sangraal through the Supergate to the Ori Galaxy to wipe out the Ori. He came up to Jackson, informing him of his plans, but Jackson overcame the effects of the Prior disruptor before Woolsey could put him in stasis, beaming Woolsey down to Earth while Jackson commandeered the Odyssey to complete his mission.
Later on, Woolsey returned to Starbase Atlantis to write a three-month review of Colonel Samantha Carter's command. He promised not to interfere this time, and admitted that his own personal review revealed that he could be overzealous with his job. He expressed distrust of the Wraith and attempted to take command of the starbase to force Lt. Colonel John Sheppard to destroy the two Hive ships in orbit. Carter countermanded his order, and ultimately the two Hive ships destroyed each other. This experience caused Woolsey to realize that he was in the habit of including too much into his reports, and subsequently apologized to Carter, agreeing that he wouldn't report Carter's decision to not have Sheppard fire due to her acting upon a hunch.