Eli Wallace

Eli Wallace
David Blue as Eli Wallace
First appearance	"Air"
Portrayed by	David Blue
Information
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Occupation	Stargate Command personnel
Family	Maryann Wallace (Mother)

Eli Wallace is a fictional character in the Canadian-American television series Stargate Universe, a science fiction drama centering on the adventures of a present-day, multinational scientific team unable to return to Earth after an evacuation to the Ancient spaceship Destiny, which is traveling in a distant corner of the universe. He is portrayed by American actor David Blue. Blue auditioned for the role when he heard they were casting characters for the new show. Wallace is considered to be a slacker, yet at the same time a genius. Wallace made his first appearance in the pilot episode, "Air", first broadcast in the United States and Canada in 2009.

Prior to being recruited into Stargate Command, Wallace lived with his mother, was unemployed, and spent most of his time playing video games. He had dropped out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he had been studying mathematics. His last job was at a fast food restaurant. He was very concerned about his mother, Marian, who had contracted HIV from a needle stick several years earlier, when she was a nurse. The attack also caused his father to abandon them when Eli was 14 ("Time"). She was having trouble finding adequate medical coverage at the time of Eli's recruitment, and Stargate Command promised to make sure his mother's medical needs were taken care of if he joined the Stargate program.

Sometime in 2009, Wallace started playing an online game called Prometheus, and in the course of the game he solved a math(s) problem in order to advance to the game's next level. But unbeknownst to him, the problem that Eli solved was actually an Ancient mathematical proof that was procured from the Ancient Database, and that Stargate Command had created the game in an effort to find someone who could solve it. Within a day of finding the solution, Eli is visited by Dr. Nicholas Rush and General Jack O'Neill, who offer him a chance to see the fruits of his labor (but do not elaborate on the details), then beam him aboard the George Hammond after he shows some reluctance at signing the non-disclosure agreement. Rush wins Eli over by promising that the Air Force will provide his mother with the best medical care they have to offer.