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[thedrowned]

Maybe it's just my mind playing tricks on me, but I feel like the SG-1 team has middle names and they were said maybe once and never again. Of course, O'neill's is Jack, but I tried researching the others and found nothing. Is this just wishful thinking, or has there ever been a mention?

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[michelel72]

If it's any help (which, really, it kind of isn't), Jack's series-canonical name (at least according to this screen capture) is John O'Neill. (His nickname (not middle name) is Jack.) A lot of people say first name is Jonathan; I don't know if that's movie-canon or just fanon, but typically "Jack" is a nickname for "John" rather than for "Jonathan".

If that link doesn't take you to the screen capture, it's supposed to lead to the Gateworld screen captures from 4x20 Entity, picture #206.

That's the only one I happen to know, and that screen cap doesn't include a middle name at all. Sorry.

[thedrowned]

Hoyeah, that's right. They just say his middle name is "J." but call him Jack. Thanks for reminding me. Now I'm even more confused whether any the SG-1 team has any middle names. XD

[michelel72]

Actually, thanks to that article, I've found the screen cap that gives his name as "John J. O'Neill". So his middle name does start with "J", at least. (And it could be "Jack"; it'd be weirdly redundant, but parents are weird sometimes.)

[thedrowned]

LOL, like my dad's name of Eric Erickson? Haha, thanks then! At least I could pretend O'Neill has one. You think, for fic purposes, people would be opposed to making middle names up if it turned out they don't have an "official" one?

[michelel72]

::shrug:: It'd probably bug me, but I get bugged when authors assign names to the unnamed parents of canon characters, yet I had to do just that recently. If you have to do it, you have to do it.

... which is why I go out of my way not to do it if at all possible. Heh. Basically, if you don't absolutely have to, don't; but if the story really doesn't work without, do what you have to, I say. (In your case, I'd probably add an author's note indicating I couldn't find canonical middle names, just in case someone does find them and can update you.)