Qetesh is a female Goa'uld who once used Vala Mal Doran as a host before being extracted by the Tok'ra.
Biography
Background information
She has also been at war with Ba'al (although it is not stated precisely when) and killed, according to him, 10,000 of his best Jaffa.
She also declared war on the Goa'uld Athena which waged a little while but they came together to find the Clava Thessara Infinitas. Once an underling of Camulus, Qetesh ruled over at least one world, P8X-412, where she forced the inhabitants to mine the planet's sparse Naquadah deposits. When quotas were not met she instituted both mass executions and mass torture.
In 2364, a Tok'ra operative incited a rebellion on Qetesh's planet. The people rose up, captured Qetesh alive, tortured and beat her for days on end, not realizing it was the symbiote that had ruled them so harshly.
Taking pity on her, the Tok'ra rescued her, removed the Goa'uld symbiote and nursed Vala back to health. The Goa'uld took Qetesh and DNA from Vala.
In 2378, the Goa'uld cloned Vala Mal Doran and Qetesh once again used Vala as her host. During this time, Qetesh was ailled with an evil version of Samantha Carter. As of 2388 Qetesh has not been seen for ten years. Qetesh may be hiding with Samantha Carter from the Federation.
2364
The Tok'ra eventually captured Qetesh, forcing the symbiote out of Vala's body which caused Vala's original consciousness to be restored.
Alternate realities
Qetesh in an alternate reality
- In an alternate reality Qetesh was never removed from Vala Mal Doran in 2364. In this reality the Tok'ra tried to remove Qetesh from Vala but they failed. Qetesh was able to seduce Lieutenant Typhuss James Halliwell, because he was the former lover of Vala, later Qetesh and Typhuss became lovers.
Alternate timelines
- In an alternate timeline, Qetesh once again takes Vala as her host and makes Cameron Mitchell her First Prime after they travel to one of her worlds while seeking to repair the timeline in 1923. Using Mitchell and Vala's knowledge, Qetesh managed to get herself into a position of power with Ra to the point that he let her lead the attack on Earth in 1947. Qetesh planned to use Earth's atomic bombs to kill Ra, having ensured that if he died she'd be able to take his place, but Mitchell and Vala had been plotting against her during the two times she was pregnant and had to give control to Vala to ensure the safety of both Qetesh's babies. By the time of the invasion, Qetesh had grown bored of Vala's body and planned to take her daughter as her new host while Ra would take her son during which time Qetesh planned to kill him. Qetesh also intended to use Earth's photon torpedoes to kill any System Lord that didn't immediately swear allegiance to her once Ra was dead which, along with her plan to use her son as a pawn, caused Daniel to call Qetesh far worse than Ra and something that could not be risked being unleashed upon the galaxy. Mitchell aided SG-1 and An in fighting against Qetesh and she was killed when An beamed a photon torpedo on her ship, blowing it up, followed by Ra's. As Ra, Qetesh and Ra's First Prime were dead, Mitchell was able to use his position as Qetesh's First Prime to bring an end to the attack on Earth. (SG1: "Roswell")
Qetesh in an alternate timeline
- In an alternate timeline created when Ba'al changed the timeline so that Stargate Command and SG-1 never existed in the first place, Qetesh was his queen, having never been removed from Vala Mal Doran's body at all. Qetesh was as duplicitous as she had been in the original timeline, however, and being suspicious of his knowledge of Earth, she conspired with Cronus to kill Ba'al and seize his throne which Qetesh did by stabbing Ba'al and also torturing him with a Goa'uld hand device. She learned about his time-travel device beforehand and she traveled to the planet where it was located, while her fleet bombarded Earth from orbit. Her Jaffa killed Dr. Daniel Jackson, Captain Typhuss James Kira and Colonel Samantha Carter and mortally wounded a Starfleet security officer, but Colonel Cameron Mitchell had managed to escape through the Stargate into the past. Qetesh transported down to the planet containing the time-travel device but was killed by the wounded Teal'c when he detonated a grenade. The explosion killed her and any remaining Jaffa guards while also destroying the time-travel device. (Stargate: Continuum)
Personality
Like all other Goa'uld, Qetesh was power-hungry, ruthless and extremely arrogant.
She was also devious, capable of betraying those who followed her and even had a habit of double-crossing others, all for the sake of fulfilling her own agenda as well as claiming power for herself.
She also appeared to possess a sadistic nature of some sort as after stabbing Ba'al through the chest with a sword, Qetesh didn't kill him immediately, instead choosing to keep him alive for a prolonged period of time so that she could torture him via a hand device and gain the information she needed.
Equipment
Weapons
- Kara kesh: To be added
- Shikra blade: To be added
Vehicles
- Anubis' mothership: To be added
Behind the scenes
- In the end credits for Stargate: Continuum, the name Qetesh is misspelled as "Quetesh".