Paramedic assigned to Icarus Base under Dr. Simms, now the only individual with medical training aboard the Destiny. Her friends know her as T.J.

Prior to the evacuation of Icarus Base, Johansen requested a transfer or discharge from the program, having won a scholarship to study medicine at a Seattle university.

Colonel Everett Young's severing of their extramarital affair in favor of his wife may have prompted this transfer. It is unclear if I.O.A. representative Camille Wray granted her request, as T.J. stayed at Icarus two weeks beyond her required tour of duty.

Immediately after arrival aboard the Ancient ship it was T.J. who was needed the quickest. Passing through a Stargate so far out of range of the Milky Way caused numerous injuries, most of which she was able to treat immediately.

The resources of Destiny severely limited, Johansen will have to summon all her medical knowledge to provide unconventional solutions.

DETAILS

PLAYED BY: Alaina Huffman
FIRST APPEARED: Air, Part 1

BEHIND THE SCENES

Actress Alaina Huffman is a cousin of SGU Producer John G. Lenic.

KEY EPISODES

Air, Part 1 - With the Icarus chief medical officer dead, Sergeant Tamara Johansen arrives aboard the Destiny with limited supplies and unrelenting crises.
Air, Part 2 - T.J. keeps vigil over Colonel Young, whom she believes is suffering from a form of neuropraxia.
Air, Part 3 - T.J. is forced to take drastic measures to keep a visiting Colonel Telford -- in Young's body -- from fatally injuring his host.
Light - The only medic aboard ship, T.J. is preselected by Col. Young for a seat on a shuttle which will escape Destiny's presumed destruction inside a star.
Water - While Young retrieves fresh water from an alien world, Johansen must deal with an alien intruder, officer disciplinary problems, and Dr. Rush.
Earth - It is revealed that T.J. and Colonel Young had an affair at some point in the past, and that his wife Emily ultimately became aware of it.