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

 * 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.
 * Hammond reminds O'Neill about the mission brief: go trough the Stargate, detect any possible threat and if found, detonate a nuclear device to destroy the Stargate on the other side. Then O'Neill has to admit they didn't do it right away as Ra's forces ovepowered his team and took the bomb. But evnentually, they regain control and did explode the bomb. He also states that Daniel Jackson and the people of Abydos are dead. At this moment, Hammond stands up and tells O'Neill he will authorize a go ahead on a plan. They go to the Stargate room.
 * In the corridor, Hammond is startled about the toughness of the Stargate's quartz material. As they come into the Stargate room, O'Neill is aghast to see another bomb ready to be launched. As the countdown has already started, Hammond is awaiting O'Neill reaction. Then O'Neill tells that his mission report wasn't entirely accurate as Ra has been killed in orbit, not on the planet, and Daniel Jackson is still alive, living with the people of Abydos. Upset, Hammond tells a technician to send the bomb on schedule. Because O'Neill disobeyed direct orders, Hammond orders to bring O'Neill in the holding room.

Act 2

 * Major Kawalsky is already there in the holding room, sat on a bunk, when O'Neill comes in. He then stands and salutes O'Neill. O'Neill asks him to loose the salute and grabs his hand to shake it. Kawalsky tells O'Neill that him and Ferretti didn't tell a word because of the kids, especially Skaara, the one who idolized O'Neill. O'Neill admits that Skaara reminded him his son, who died just before the Abydos mission.
 * Then Hammond comes in the holding room and asks about the number of people living on Abydos. O'Neill says there are around 5,000 of them. Seeing General Hammond's open-mindedness, he asks him to let him go again on Abydos with Kawalsky and Ferretti as they know the location. Hammond is not sure even if Jackson is alive and wants to send a prototype probe from MIT. O'Neill grabs a Kleenex box on the table, tells Hammond they don't need that probe, and leaves the room to the control room. Hammond, Samuels and Kawalsky follow him.
 * During the dialing sequence, O'Neill tells that Jackson has allergies and the latter will know that it's O'Neill who's sending the tissues box and not another one. Samuels is concerned about an attack from the enemy, but O'Neill reassures him. When the wormhole is established, O'Neill gets in the Stargate room and throws the Kleenex box through the gate. The wormhole disengages. O'Neill then warns that it may take a while.
 * Later, the Stargate is rumbling, its inner ring spinning. A wormhole is established. The security defense team is ready. O'Neill rushes to the Stargate room and waits. The kleenex box is getting back covered with sand dust. O'Neill picks it up, smiles and gives it to Samuels. On the box is written: "THANKS, SEND MORE." O'Neills asks for permission to take a team through the Stargate. General Hammond needs first to get the President's authorization but assumes that O'Neill is recalled to active duty as Colonel. O'Neill and Kawalsky smile and shake hand.
 * During the next meeting, at 0800 hours, everybody is there, each military suited with "Class A" uniforms. Sam Carter, more precisely Captain Samantha Carter, a theoretical astrophysicist from the Pentagon, has been called by Hammond and assigned to the mission. After a citations-tennis match with Colonel O'Neill, the meeting can start. Samuels suggests to bury the Stargate like the Ancient Egyptians did before. O'Neill mentions that it will not work as they have spaceships, as big as the Great Pyramids. He rather suggests to use the Stargate to do another recon mission. Hammond agrees but warns them he will send a bomb if they do not manifest themselves in the 24 hours.

Act 3

 * In the embarkation room, the Stargate kawooshes. The recon team is geared, ready to go through. General Hammond asks Colonel O'Neill to follow ordrers this time and to bring back Daniel Jackson. All the team but O'Neill and Captain Carter pass through. Carter reassures O'Neill that she won't let him down. Near the puddle, Carter is amazed by the "astronomical" amount of power needed to stabilize a wormhole. Instead of listening to her, he pushes her in the event horizon, then passes through himself.
 * On the other side, in the Abydos Stargate room, all the team is checking his gearing and weaponry. Carter is sick due to gate travel. O'Neill teases her, but she stands up at once and gets back to work. The room is empty and the team starts to check the room. It's quiet but there was activity before. Suddenly, many young locals, using machine guns from the previous mission, take aim at the team.
 * Daniel Jackson then runs out and asks the Abydonians to lower their guns. Jackson greats O'Neill. O'Neill moves forward, shoves Jackson without saying a word, and gets to Skaara who salutes him. O'Neill salutes him back and the two hug each other. Then O'Neill asks Jackson how he's doing. Ferretti salutes Jackson with the "live long and prosper" salute and Kawalsky gives to Jackson a pack of tissues. Then Sha're comes near Jackson. O'Neill shakes her hand. Jackson is not surprised to see that the military know that him and the Abydonians are still alive. O'Neill asks for the militia. Jackson replies that it's just a precaution.
 * Meanwhile, unwillingly interrupting them, Carter is checking the Abydos Dial Home Device, the missing part from Earth. To replace it they took fifteen years and three supercomputers to "MacGyver" a system. Then, O'Neill interrupts her and meet Jackson to her.
 * Jackson becomes suspicious and asks O'Neill what's going on. O'Neill and Kawalsky explain the situation. Jackson tells them that the aliens didn't come from here as the boys guard the gate 36 hours a day every day. As O'Neill wants to look around, Jackson wants to help them to find who it was but they have to wait until the sandstorm is over. He propose then to have their evening meal.

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 establishes a classified program of planetary exploration with nine teams, who 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 is 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.