Cameron Mitchell is a character from the hit series, Stargate SG1. Cameron Mitchell is a fictional character in the American Sci-Fi Channel television series Stargate SG-1, a science fiction show about a military team exploring the galaxy via a network of alien transportation devices. Played by former Farscape actor Ben Browder, Cameron Mitchell is introduced as a main character in the Season 9 premiere "Avalon" (2005), holding the military rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Ben Browder continued to play the character in Season 10 (2006–2007), and in the direct-to-DVD films Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum. Scenes in Continuum show that he has been promoted to full Colonel. After the SG-1 team has gone separate ways after the Season 8 finale of Stargate SG-1, Lt. Col. Mitchell is assigned as new commanding officer of SG-1 in "Avalon". The first episodes of the ninth season show Mitchell's struggle to reunite the former SG-1 members under his command. With the aid of Lt. Col. Samantha Carter, Dr. Daniel Jackson, the silent Jaffa Teal'c, and the alien thief Vala Mal Doran, Mitchell attempts to stop the Ori threat to the Milky Way galaxy, which started in "Avalon" and concludes in Stargate: The Ark of Truth.