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Som @brianOrtiz sa i sin kommentar finns svaret på detta i den licensierade stargate-roman Moebius Squared . I primäruniverset, George Hammond (vet att han överlevde i 50-talet och därför var odödlig) satte sig i yttersta risk att spara Sams fader Jacob. Hennes far och Hammonds exempel på påtaglig modighet ledde henne att gå med i USAF.
I det alternativa universet dog hennes far i Vietnam, hon visste knappt George Hammond och hennes mamma avskedade henne från att gå med i tjänsten.
“You remind me of my dad,” Carter said, without thinking.
“Really?” Sam looked faintly embarrassed. “I never knew mine. He was
killed in Vietnam when I was a baby. My mom raised me.”
“My mom died when I was in my teens,” Carter said slowly. “Dad took
care of us as best he could. That’s part of why I went into the Air
Force.”
“Mom would have had a heart attack if I’d even suggested it,” Sam
said. “I had the hardest time talking her into letting me get a car,
never mind flying a plane. I can’t imagine…” She shook her head. “She
was determined to keep me safe. She wasn’t going to lose me like she
lost Dad.”
“Did you ever know George Hammond?” Carter asked, and Sam nodded.
“He was my father’s wingman, the one who brought back his body. Danyel
said that in your time he commanded the SGC?”
“Yes.”
“I remember when I was little he used to send me Christmas presents,”
Sam said. “But Mom didn’t like having him around — too many bad
memories, I think. She lost touch. That — I’m sorry about that, from
what Danyel’s said. He must have been an amazing man.”
And that was more of what the Stargate had done, Carter thought. The time loop that had thrown the team back to 1969, when they’d given
Lieutenant Hammond a note from his future self in order to get back to
their own time — she’d wondered how that had changed him, and if it
had, indirectly, changed her father. And now she knew. In her time,
Hammond had saved Jacob Carter’s life that day in Vietnam, and maybe
he had taken a crazy risk because he knew that somehow he was going to
survive.