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Starring: Richard Dean Anderson as Colonel Jack O'Neill Michael Shanks as Doctor Daniel Jackson Amanda Tapping as Major Samantha Carter Christopher Judge as Teal'c Don S Davis as General George Hammond We begin with a shot of children playing and running. It looks like an Indian village with teepees and stuff. People and SG-1 are sitting at a table. LADY: Hundreds of villages like this one have paused to celebrate the transportation of our people to this great new land. We are especially honored (She grabs Jack's hand) today by the presence of those (Jack smiles) Responsible for finding this planet for us. (Sam smiles) and saving us from certain doom. How can we ever repay them? MAN: By not boring them with long speeches, Hedrizar. (Everyone laughs) (Jack smiles his yummy smile) HEDRIZAR: I meant what I said. You are all heroes to my people. JACK: It was our pleasure. (Jack and Sam both smile) HEDRIZAR: When my grandchild arrives, it will be the first enkaran to be born in outr new homeland. We will name the child after you, Colonel. (Jack stops pouring his coffee, and looks @ Hedrizar. Sam's next to him looking at him and smiling, Danny, and EVEN Teal'C are smiling) PREGNANT WOMAN: Eliam, It's getting cold. ELIAM: It seems to be getting colder every day since your last visit. Sam goes into technobable about the cold conditions and the naquata reactor to help with the heating of the village. Hedizar says some thing about coming back next year and the whole planet will be transformed. MAN: Help! Help me, please! HADRIZAR: Who is it? ELIAM: It is Caleb. He comes from the west. CALEB: It's so big! It destroyed our whole village! You must all flee! ELIAM: What are you talking about? Caleb! Catch your breath! CALEB: It comes this way! JACK: What does? CALEB: You must see it. (Nice picture of stargate with mountains behind it.) There. JACK: Whoa! They see a spaceship with what appears to be fire raining down from it! ELIAM: What is it? Shot of fire destroying everything in it's path! OPENING CREDITS! Back to the base. Sam says the ship looks 2 miles wide with the gasses stretching 20 miles. There's no markings on the ship. Sam says in 26 hours the ship will reach the village. But It will take out the stargate first. The breathing conditions required by the encarans are specific and not found on earth and many other planets. Sam's in her lab looking thru a microscope. Jack and Danny walk in. JACK: Hey. What da ya got? SAM: The analysis of the atmosphere in the wake of the ship shows a high incidence of sulpher dioxide. JACK: Chemical warfare? SAM: I don't think so, Sir. Take a look at this. Jack looks in the microscope and sees little fuzzy balls moving around. JACK: Oh, yeah . . . Little . . . fuzzy orange things. SAM: They're microbes, Sir. JACK: (Raises eyebrows) Ah! SAM: The Alien ship is depositing them on the planet's surface. Now, as near I can tell, they bond with sulpher leached out of the soil, and when they decay, they release sulpher dioxide. (Danny takes off his glasses <yummy!> and looks thru the microscope) JACK: So, the big mean alien ship is tryin' to stink up the planet? SAM: It's a little bit more than that, Sir. The microbes are only deposited after the native organisms have been destroyed. I think they're meant to replace them. Now, if my theory is correct, we could be looking at the first building blocks of an alien ecosystem. DANNY: It's a teriform? SAM: It's changing the environment to support an entirely different form of life - an organic system based on sulpher instead of carbon. DANNY: But, if the ship is allowed to continue the process, the whole planet will be remade? SAM: All I know for sure is the planet on the other side of that energy curtain will not surport life as we know it. Back on the planet, Teal'C says the enkarens do not wish to leave. They know that they would not have time to take every enkaren to earth. Even if they do, the atmosphere on earth would not be able to surport their life for long periods of time. They can not leave their people behind. They say that generations ago, their ansesters were taken away from their home land by the goa'uld in gient ships to their former world. They have searched for a new world, and thanks to SG-1 they have found it. They must stay here and fight for it. JACK: With what? ELIAM: Have you not weapons to aid us? DANNY: We're gonna try to communicate with who ever's on that ship. ELIAM: Clearly they intend to destroy us. JACK: We don't know that for sure. HELTIZAR: I know that if any of our people shall die, that we shall all die here, together. Sam's setting up some kind of equipment at the stargate. The men walk up to her. SAM: Transmitter is now operational, Sir. Let's hope we get a bite. JACK: Think a well-place stinger would do some damage? SAM: Well, we have no way of knowing what material the ship's made of , Sir. TEAL'C: Or if it possesses shield technology. JACK: Ah, just fantasizing. DANNY: Any intelligence capiable of enginnering something like that should be capiable of reason. SAM: Thing is, will they listen? JACK: Or the real question is, will they have ears? A beam of light comes down and transfers SG-1 up to the ship. DANNY: Somebody heard something. TEAL'C: It appears to be a storage facility of some kind. JACK: I'm going to assume we're on board that ship. Jack look up. It looks like elevators on a 20 story hotel. SAM: You know it's strange, the aliens went to so much trouble to change the atmosphere of the planet, yet in here, it's perfectly breathable. DANNY: They were expecting us. Sam's touching the wall. JACK: Carter . . . SAM: Sir? JACK: She we really be opening drawers and things? Danny pressed into the wall, and a drawer opens, scaring him. Sam points her guns @ it! LOL! JACK: (To Danny) What did I just say?! DANNY: Sorry. (He passes his hand over some writing on another drawer, opening it as well! <g>) SAM: (Picks up a petri dish) Looks like some kind of tissue sample. JACK: Of what? SAM: I'm not sure. DANNY: The ship's terraforming the planet, right? What if these are the lifeforms it's creating the new environment for? SAM: Recreating an entire civilization. DANNY: Millions of samples . . . JACK: So, everyone of these things is uh . . . what . . . ? DANNY: Plant, animal, insects. JACK: Alien? DANNY: Who knows. SAM: It's still just a guess. ROBOT: A good one! (Sam jumps, and turns, gun up.) I am Lotan. You need not fear me. JACK: Yeah . . . listen, um . . . what goin' on around here? LOTAN: I have been assembled in order to facilitate communication between this . . . ship as you call it, and yourselves. JACK: Assembled, you say? LOTAN: I am a biomechanical representation of the beings now occupying this planet. When they were first encountered, several enkarens were scanned by this ship, and a randomized, but similar appearance was selected. SAM: Wait a minute! That was yesterday! The ship annalized a new life form and created a replica in one day?! LOTAN: Yes. (Looking @ his hands) Facinating design. DANNY: I suppose that explains why you look like an enkaren. JACK: Sort of. LOTAN: (Taking a step closer. Sam, who is closest to him raises her gun) You are not. DANNY: Uh . . . No, we're from a planet called earth.(Pointing to each) This is Major Samantha Carter, I'm Daniel Jackson, Jack O'Neill, and this is Teal'C. JACK: Actually, we're friends of the people your ship seems bent on wiping out. LOTAN: Yes, that is unfortunate. I was created to deliver a message to them. However, by the time I was completed, the enkarens in the immediate vicinity seemed to have disappeared. JACK: You see, that's called runnin' away. What one does to avoid being slaughtered. DANNY: There are still quite a few enkarens living on the planet. LOTAN: Since you are friends of the Enkarens, would you deliver a message to them? JACK: THAT would depend. LOTAN: When the transfirmation process was begin, there were no life forms present. JACK: Well, there are now. LOTAN: Yes, unfortunally for your friends, once the process has begun, it must be completed. JACK: So, someone went to the trouble of making you just to tell those people "tough luck, Get out?" LOTAN: We wish no harm to come to the enkarens. However, upon examination of their physiology, we have determined that they would not be able to exist in the planet's transformed environment. JACK: So, stop transforming. DANNY: Jack, they're just trying to get their point across in the best way possible. JACK: I know what the point is! He's a PR guy! I think we should be talking to your boss. LOTAN: Assumption of Higher Archal Command Structure! Interesting. Follow me. (Sam looks back at Jack, who after about 10 seconds, gives her the go ahead.) The ship is fully automated. The beings that built it are called Gad-Meer. (You see some sort od alien) JACK: Not exactly ET. LOTAN: They placed all of their knowledge in the ship's memory. Science, Mathmatical, Medical science, arts, philosophy. 10,000 years, this civilization. This is their legacy. They were a very asvanced race compared to the enkarens. However, they were also peaseful. And fell victim to a surperior military power. So they built this ship in the hopes that their world would be born again from the reach of their enemies. DANNY: This is fascinating. I'd like a chance to study some of them. LOTAN: I can provide you with translations. Your language is simple by comparison. JACK: Excuse me. About why we're here . . . LOTAN: The ship has only enough raw material to transform one planet. Now that it has began, it must be finished here. Or the entire Gad-Meer civilization will be lost forever. The enkarens must leave, or they will die. JACK: Alright, now see, there we got a problem. TEAL'C: The enkarens can not leave. SAM: Their lives depend on the very rare and unique conditions unique to this planet. LOTAN: That is unfortunate. JACK: That's it?! LOTAN: Please explain the situation to the Enkarens. SG-1 is transported down. Jack tells the enkarens that it did not go well. Back to base. Sam explains to GH that the aliens need the same conditions as the enkarens to do the transformation. The team try to figure out what to do, to no avail Danny thinks that Lotan can be sympathetic to the enkarens. Jack wants to pose a military strike. GH says he can't. To find another way out of it. Back to the planet. Jack tell Hedrizar, she can save her people, She refuses to leave. Eliam asks if they have any way to stop the ship. Jack turns to Sam. JACK: (His hands are shaking. He looks nervous) How much Naquadah is in that reactor we gave em? SAM: Sir? DANNY: What are you doing? JACK: THINKING, Daniel. Don't worry about it too much. DANNY: Thinking of a way to blow up the ship?! I don't think that's what General Hammond had in mind! JACK: They're gonna stand there, and die. It's a no win situation. We're not gonna sit around, and watch these people get slaughtered!!! DANNY:
And, you're willing to blow up that ship to . . . The End Episode transcripts by Apophis_Queen. Used with permission. |
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