Episode:Children of the Gods

As powerful aliens come through the Earth's Stargate, Colonel Jack O'Neill returns on Abydos to retreive Daniel Jackson, who has discovered that the alien transit system includes much more than the two planets. This episode is also the series pilot.

Synopsis

 * More than one year after Ra's death, the Stargate is active again and it seems that Ra is still alive.
 * Following theses events, Jack O'Neill returns back to Abydos, having orders to bring back Daniel Jackson.
 * Once arrived, a discovery will change the fate of Stargate Command.
 * A new secret program rises with nine teams of cross-planetary explorers.
 * During a recon and rescue mission on an unknown planet, The newly created SG-1 team will obtain help from an unlikely allie.

Teaser

 * Stargate Command, level 28, embarkation room. The Stargate is here, covered by a tarp. At the bottom of the ramp, five airmen are playing poker. One of them, Senior Airman Weterings, worries if any officer comes here. Two of them, Airman First Class Fryatt and Staff Sergent McAtee tell her that nobody comes here as the program seems abandonned. Weterings notice that the tarp is moving, warns her colleagues, but they don't react. Curious, she leaves the hand and walks on the ramp toward the gate. Suddendly, the ramp rumbles, the poker table shakes, the tarp flies off and the Stargate activates, the inner ring spinning. Apparently, they have never seen this before.
 * Fryatt rushes to the red phone on the wall as the other stay ready. As he picks up the phone, the Stargate kawooshes. At this moment, Fryatt drops the phone, visibly scared. McAtee runs to the gun dispenser and passes out machine guns to his colleagues. Weterings, curious, walks again on the ramp to see the event horizon. Just before touching it, a metallic ball drops to her feets, activates and seems to scan her.
 * As she picks up the scanning device, a Serpent Guard steps through the wormhole, takes and holds her on the neck. More Serpent Guards come through the Stargate. One of them, in golden armor, opens his helmet, and speaks to the Serpent Guard who's holding Weterings. Opening his helmet too, Teal'c, studies the gun, drops it and passes the woman to Apophis. Apophis uses his hand device to subdue Weterings. As McAtee asks to let her go, one of the Serpent Guards opens fire and a firefight ensues. A first airman is killed, A second one kills a Serpent Guard before he's killed too. Fryatt is killed as he alerts the base by phone, and finally, McAtee is shot just after he kills another Serpent Guard. The base alarm is sounding.
 * Airmen are running for the gate room, the base is closing. The Major General Hammond arrives in the gate room and sees Apophis, Teal'c, Weterings, and another Serpent Guard standing before an active wormhole. After he orders to hold fire, Hammond sees Apophis' eyes glowing before Apophis closes his helmet and steps through the Stargate, followed by Teal'c and Weterings. Then the wormhole disengages. Hammond gets to the Stargate ramp.

Act 1

 * The Major Samuels, General's Executive Officer, arrives at Jack O'Neill's house by car. He finds Jack O'Neill, now retired, on a roof, observing stars with his telescope. After he received advice to get reaffected to N.A.S.A., Samuels tells O'Neill that he's under order to bring him to General Hammond, who replaced General West. Not interessed first, O'Neill changes his mind when Samuels tells him it has to do with the Stargate.
 * O'Neill is brought to the Cheyenne Mountain Complex by car, leaded by an officer then Samuels to General Hammond's office. After a short introduction, O'Neill introduces the Stargate reason. Hammond leads him then to the infirmary where a Doctor is already here. The doctor pulls a sheet and reveals a dead Jaffa's face and body. The doctor says they're not human as the have a pouch similar to that found in a marsupial, like a kangaroo. Hammond tells O'Neill that these aliens came here, killed four people and kidnapped another using advanced weapons. Surprised, O'Neill asks for the weapon, takes it, activates and deactivates it, and gives it back to an airman. O'Neill says that there are no creature like this on Abydos as the People of Abydos originated from Earth and were brought by Ra thousands of years ago. Hammond, aware of that, asks O'Neill if Ra is really dead because Hammond had time to see the eyes of a man the aliens protected glowing, like Ra had.
 * As they come back to Hammond's office, O'Neill sees Majors Kawalsky and Ferretti coming in the briefing room. As O'Neill asks for the reason of their presence here, Hammond asks him about Daniel Jackson. O'Neill says that, first, he didn't appreciate Daniel but he changed his mind as Daniel helped him and his team to get back to Earth.

Analysis

 * Since the return of Colonel Jack O'Neill and his team in 1995 from Abydos, the Stargate project has been completely abandonned. Only a few guards spend time to play poker in sub-level 28 with a tarp-covered Stargate as background. According to a guard, they're shipping personnel for months. Since the Goa'uld attack, Daniel Jackson's return, and the discovery of the Stargate network, the President of the United States establish a classified program of planetary exploration with nine teams, which have to detect any potential treath for Earth and, if possible, make friendly contact with the people who inhabit the visited planets.
 * Ra doesn't seem to be the last of his kind for a man comes on Earth with some soldiers and this man has the same characteristic than Ra (his eyes glow). Actually, this man is Apophis, Ra's rival.
 * Daniel Jackson discovered that Abydos wasn't the only accessible planet by the Stargate, but there are actually a full network of planets Stargate-equiped. The program scientific team, especially Samantha Carter, always believed that there was only one destination possible with the Stargate. Actually, access to those planets from the Earth Stargate was impossible because the dialing computer didn't take care of the universe expansion datas since the network installation more than 50,000 years ago.