Asgard characters in Stargate

In the Stargate fictional universe, the Asgard are one of the most advanced races ever encountered, and the one who's friendlier to Earth.

This is a list of the Asgard characters that have appeared so far in Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis.

Freyr

Template:Stargate character Freyr is an influential Asgard and member of the Asgard High Council. He has no care for the humans of Earth as much as Thor does. However, he is strong-willed and true to his word.

Freyr was first encountered by SG-1 when the team visited the planet K'Tau, a planet protected by the Asgard under their Protected Planets Treaty. The people on the planet K'Tau worship Freyr like the people on Cimmeria worship Thor. He was also presented through a viking hologram, like Thor was on Cimmeria. Freyr appeared himself when SG-1 contacted the Asgard after their attempt to dial to K'Tau damaged its sun, endangering the lives of K'Tau's population. Freyr refused to help SG-1 to return the star to normal because it would be a violation of the Protected Planets Treaty, but when SG-1 tried to undo their mistake themselves and failed, the Asgard covertly intervened, saving both K'Tau's people and upholding the Treaty with the Goa'uld.

Later, after Earth was threatened by an approaching asteroid, SG-1 again met with the Asgard High Council. Freyr and the rest of the Asgard High Council again could not intervene because the Protected Planets Treaty does not allow the Asgard to protect planets against natural disasters. Although the asteroid eventually proved to be artificially set on a collision course with Earth by Anubis, and the Asgard were in their right to assist the Tau'ri, SG-1 was forced to stop the asteroid themselves.

Freyr eventually visited Stargate Command to request SG-1 for the rescue of one of their scientists. He also informed them that Thor had been killed, however this turned out to be false. He later protected SG-1, the Asgard scientist Heimdall and his studies with a fleet of three O'Neill class battleships. Anubis, who was persuing SG-1's cargoship, was forced to retreat.

• The name Freyr comes from the Norse mythology where Freyr was the male fertility god and god of love.

Heimdall

Template:Stargate character Heimdall is an Asgard scientist who was conducting research into finding a solution to the Asgard's cloning difficulties.

After an ancient Asgard ship containing three cryogenically frozen Asgard was discovered after 30,000 years being adrift, the Asgard came to believe the last perfectly preserved body might hold the key to the Asgard's failing cloning technology, and Heimdall chose to study his ancient ancestor. To prevent the Replicators from intervening, this study took place on an uninhabited planet in the Milky Way galaxy, protected by the Protected Planets Treaty. Unfortunately, his research outpost was discovered by the Goa'uld Anubis, who sent a ship under the command of Osiris to the planet. Thor attacked the invading Ha'tak according to the Treaty, but his ship was destroyed as Anubis had upgraded his fleet with Ancient technology.

As the Asgard were occupied fighting the Replicators, Freyr asked the SGC for help. SG-1, without Daniel Jackson who ascended earlier, was sent to the planet where they met up with Heimdall. He told them about his studies and asked them to help rescuing Thor. SG-1 was able to do so, although the laboratory was eventually invaded by Osiris. The team and Heimdall were able to flee on a Tel'tak together with Thor and Heimdall's research, and were finally rescued from the Goa'uld by three Asgard ships.

With the Replicators defeated, Heimdall is working hard in the Ida Galaxy to find the missing link to the flaw genome with Thor.

• He is based on the Heimdall of Norse mythology.
• Heimdall is voiced by Teryl Rothery, who also played Dr. Janet Fraiser in Stargate SG-1.

Hermiod

Template:Stargate character Hermiod is an Asgard technician assigned to the Daedalus.

He is tasked with operation of the ship's Asgard transporter and hyperdrive engine. Hermiod has been observed to mutter to himself in Asgard when he is displeased with the crew's demands, and has an uneasy relationship with some of the humans on the Daedalus.

During the Daedalus' first mission to Atlantis, he was ordered by Daedalus' commanding officer, Colonel Steven Caldwell to transport several nuclear weapons on board a Wraith hive ship. Hermiod expresses resistance to carry this order out because using the shared Asgard technology offensively by humans was prohibited by the Asgard. However, because the Wraith were constantly bombarding the ship he reluctantly agreed to do as ordered.

After a Wraith computer virus was dicovered interfering with the Daedalus' computer systems, Hermiud helped remove it from the Daedalus and the F-302's on board. He also transported Lt. Col. Sheppard and Dr. McKay into the hangar bay and rescued them from being blown out into space when the virus opens the hangar doors.

Hermiod works with Dr. McKay on the Wraith technology during Atlantis' failed alliance with a Wraith Hive-Ship.

• Script writer Paul Mullie says they gave him "a little bit of an attitude problem", being an angry foreigner utterly convinced of his own brilliance above those around him, much as McKay would have been when he was in Siberia.
• Hermiod is named after the Norse god Hermóðr.
• Hermiod's "Asgard" dialog is actually normal English played backward.

Translations

• The Siege, Part III

Responding to the order to beam nuclear weapons into the Wraith ships:
- Hermiod: "When will these humans learn there are consequences to action"

• The Intruder

- Sheppard: "Is he supposed to be naked like that?" (To McKay)
- Hermiod: "These humans are infants"

- Caldwell: "It didn't work, we're still on course for the coronosphere."
- Hermiod: "The incompetence of these humans is beginning to make me angry!" (This may be a reference to Marvin the Martian.)

Kvasir

Template:Stargate character Kvasir was an Asgard scientist and expert in their time-dilation technology. He was less likeable than Thor, prompting Daniel Jackson to note he "missed Thor".

Kvasis visited Earth in Thor's stead, who was working with Heimdall in the Asgard home galaxy. At the time, Earth had become a hub for several different alternate realities, with teams from several alternate universes arriving through Earth's Stargate.

After Samantha Carter deduced the black hole created by the Ori during their attempt to create a Supergate near Kallana was responsible for sending the alternate teams to this reality, Kvasir proposed using a time dilation device to allow SG-1 access to the black hole, hoping to seal the rift and prevent further incursions. Kvasir himself did not risk delivering the device near the black hole himself, and remained on Earth while two SG-1's departed on the Prometheus.

After the first plan was abandoned, Kvasir loaned the SGC an Asgard energy weapon to manipulate the Stargate into returning each alternate team to their proper reality.

Kvasir also assisted SG-1 during the Battle of P3Y-229, reprogramming one of the control crystals of the Supergate. After this crystal would have been reinserted, the gate would have activated, blocking the Ori's only access to this galaxy. However, this attempt failed, and his O'Neill class battleship was forced to engage the invading Ori battlecruisers. It is unknown if either he or his ship survived the battle.

• Kvasir was named after Kvasir, a Norse god and wisest of the Vanir.

Loki

Template:Stargate character Loki is a rogue Asgard scientist who planned on finding a way to cure his species from the decay of their genome caused by their constant cloning.

After O'Neill had downloaded the information from the Ancients Repository of Knowledge into his brain, it had become clear to the Asgard that human biology had evolved to a point beyond the assumptions of the Asgard. After this information was shared with the entire Asgard population, Loki came to believe that O'Neill's DNA could prove to be the key to solving the Asgard's cloning problems.

While the majority of the Asgard were searching for a new home after their previous home was destroyed by the Replicators, Loki came to Earth in order to do genetic research on Colonel Jack O'Neill. In order to accomplish this Loki cloned O'Neill so he could study the original for a prolonged period of time without arousing suspicion of the SGC. However, due to a marker placed in O'Neill's DNA by the Asgard government, the clone stopped his rapid maturation in his teens, rather than becoming fully mature.

After the cloned O'Neill remembered being abducted by the Asgard, the SGC suspected foul play and searched for a way to capture the unknown Asgard. While researching O'Neill's dream, they encountered more people who experienced the same situations as the Colonel. However, none of them ended up becoming younger. SG-1 developed a plan to capture the Asgard, and when Loki beamed up the young O'Neill, the clone was able to stun the Asgard with a Zat. Afterwards he beamed up his teammates, who discovered the Asgard's identity. Shortly thereafter, Thor arrived and revealed that Loki has been doing non-sanctioned experiments on humans for some time. Loki was taken into Thor's custody, and his experiments have come to a halt.

• Loki's illegal behavior is in keeping with Loki, the Norse god of mischief upon whom he is based.
• Although the name of Loki's ship isn't mentioned, it is of the same class as Thor's ship the Daniel Jackson.

Thor

Main article: Thor (Stargate)

Supreme Commander of the Asgard fleet and close ally and personal friend of SG-1. He assisted SG-1 and the Tau'ri on several occasions, but also asked the SGC to help his people in their fight against the Replicators.

Other Asgard

Name	Rank/Position	First Appearance	Status	Voiced by
Aegir	Commander of the starship Valhalla.	"New Order, Part I"	Alive	Michael Shanks
	Aegir commanded a small fleet of ships which protected Orilla and attacked the Replicator ship as it exited hyperspace. Although Aegir destroyed the ship he could not stop massive numbers of Replicator blocks from raining down on Orilla.
Penegal	Member of the Asgard High Council	"New Order, Part II"	Alive	Michael Shanks
	A member of the Asgard High Council. He informed Thor of the Replicators, which attacked the settlement of Orilla but the communication was interrupted.