Walter Harriman Davis

Chief Sergeant Walter Harriman Davis is a fictional character from the science fiction series Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, played by Gary Jones.

Biography

Walter Harriman is a North American Air Force technical sergeant assigned to Stargate Command, which he joined due to his excellent navigation and automatic control flight operations during the first Gulf War. General Hammond recruited him because of his great technical skill and cool mind, conditions necessary to be able to operate the Stargate under extreme pressure circumstances. He specializes in installing, maintaining and repairing bomb navigation, weapons control, as well as automatic flight control systems. He is also an expert in radio and navigation equipment, and in maintaining high-precision measuring equipment.

Occupations

He is primarily a Stargate technician, operating the call computer and other control room equipment. His duties sometimes seem to include a task as administrative assistant to the General in charge of the SGC.

Curiosities

The name of this character has been a source of irritation for many fans of the series.

Originally it was simply "Technical" or "Sergeant". In one episode General Hammond calls him "Airman" (in English, aviator, the equivalent of an Air Force soldier), so many fans misunderstood the dialogue and considered it to be called "Harriman".

At some point the writers gave him the name 'Norman Davis', and the character had a name tag on his uniform that read 'Davis'.

In the episode '2010', Jack O'Neill calls him by the name 'Walter', so the name commonly assumed by fans was 'Walter'. Davis".

In the eighth season of Stargate SG-1, the character is called "Sergeant Harriman". This change was made because there is an authentic Walter Davis in the North American Air Force. Perhaps for this reason he is later called only 'Walter'. In the chapter where a journalist sent by the president to the Cheyenne Mountain facilities to do a report on the base, Walter parodies himself, as he says that his job only consists of saying when they mark the chevrons, " chevron one encoded", "chevron two encoded", and so on until the seventh, in which according to him, to vary a little, he says "chevron seven locked".