Avenger 2.0

"Avenger 2.0" is the ninth episode of the seventh season of Stargate SG-1.

Synopsis
After his job is threatened, Dr. Jay Felger desperately plans on Avenger, a computer virus that could render a Dial Home Device useless to keep his position in Stargate Command. However, the plan goes awry, as soon, every Stargate in the Milky Way is affected, caused by the virus, which puts the entire galaxy into a stand still.

Previously on Stargate SG-1
Dr. Jay Felger and Dr. Simon Coombs ring aboard Khonsu's Ha'tak in an attempt to save a captured SG-1. After arriving on Khonsu's World, Felger and Coombs release SG-1 from their cell and fight their way to the Stargate and return to Earth.

Plot
Dr. Jay Felger and his assistant Chloe Angstrom are working on some kind of Plasma weapon at Stargate Command. Felger tells his assistant about the time when he rescued SG-1 from Her'ak (see "The Other Guys"), when suddenly Colonel Jack O'Neill and Major Samantha Carter appear. He presents them his new weapon, which should be used one day on Prometheus as an energy weapon. However when he activates it burns out and causes a power failure on the whole base. Afterward, Felger talks with Major General George S. Hammond about his work and Hammond tells him that although Felger assured him that he will give them something, he created nothing in the last six months. So Felger tells him that he is working on something and Hammond tells him that he has 24 hours to present his creation.

Afterward, Felger talks with Chloe who tells him that he can't create something in 24 hours, however Felger tells her that he has Avenger and starts to work on it. On the next day he presents his idea of a computer virus which will cause chaos in the Stargate system to Carter and she is interested. Later, she decides not to take part on a mission with SG-1, although O'Neill is not interested in Felger's work.

While Felger works on a diorama at home, he is visited by Carter, who tells him that the General allows further research on the virus and that she will work with him on the virus. They then start to work on it at SGC and after some time decide to test it on a real gate in Ba'al's territory and wait on an answer from a Tok'ra spy. During the test however they contact SG-1, who missed a scheduled contact. O'Neill tells them that they can't dial the gate and they think that it is Felger's fault. While they search for the cause of this problem, the Tok'ra contact them and report about a series of malfunctions in the gate system. Afterward, Carter gets some data and finds out that the virus started to spread through the gate system thanks to the Correlative update system which compensates for stellar drift.

Later, SGC calls back all off-world teams but several teams can't come back because the entire gate system has gone offline and now only SGC can dial anywhere. Later O'Neill reports and tells them that the negotiations in which they were taking part went awry but then they are attacked and the contact breaks down. Carter, Felger and Chloe work on a solution of the problem and Carter is informed that Ba'al started to attack the other System Lords since he has the largest fleet. Afterward Carter talks with Felger about the situation and when she tells him about an incident from a few years ago he comes up with a solution, which however doesn't work.

Carter later informs Hammond that Felger has left the base since the pressure has become too much. Carter finds him at a bridge and starts to talk with him about the problem and they again try to find a solution. They then conclude that they have to go to the planet to which they sent the virus and both Felger and Carter volunteer to go there. Afterwards Felger says goodbye to Chloe who kisses him.

Both Carter and Felger then leave for the planet, where they start to work on the Dial Home Device. However Felger soon finds out that Avenger was tampered with and Carter concludes that it was Ba'al, since he gained most when the gate system went offline. Now Felger has to work on a new antivirus system when suddenly Jaffa appear, whom Carter fights. Suddenly an Al'kesh appears which fends off the Jaffa. Later, O'Neill and Teal'c ring down and are enthusiastically greeted by Felger. Felger is then able to solve the problem and they return to SGC, where they inform Hammond about what has happened.

Later Felger daydreams how Chloe kisses him passionately when suddenly O'Neill and Carter appear and see them. Carter then attacks Chloe and while the two women fight Felger's dream is disturbed by Chloe and they go back to work.

Notable Quotes
O'Neill: I told you not to trust that brown-nosing little weasel!

Felger: He doesn't know I'm standing here, does he?

Carter: Look, Jay, I know you feel bad about this.

Felger: What's to feel bad about? I mean, it probably took the Ancients a thousand years to build the gate system, and I wrecked it in a single day! Not to mention the fact that I've isolated us from all the offworld resources we're gonna need to defend ourselves, leaving us sitting ducks when the next Goa'uld attack. (laughs) But who cares.

Hammond: Have you and Dr. Felger made any progress?

Carter: I can't find him.

Hammond: Excuse me?

Carter: Apparently Dr. Felger has left the base. I think the pressure was getting to him.

Hammond: I thought you said all he needed was a little support.

Carter: Yeah. I may have been wrong about that. Okay, I admit it. He's a complete screw-up. He makes rash decisions based on sketchy evidence, he's clumsy in the lab, he's always late. And, quite frankly, it wouldn't kill him to ease up on the aftershave. But the fact is, sir, he's at Stargate Command because he's a brilliant scientist. And no one understands that virus better than he does.

Felger: We're kinda like the intellectual Butch and Sundance of the SGC.

Carter: Butch and Sundance got cornered and killed by the Bolivian Army.

Felger: That's a good point.

Felger: You know, before I joined the SGC my idea of a high-pressure situation was defending a mathematical thesis in front of a room full of middle-aged, balding men. I don't do so well when the fate of the Universe is hanging in the balance now.

In other languages

 * French: Le Vengeur (The Avenger)
 * Italian: Rete Bloccata (Blocked Network)
 * Spanish: Vengador 2.0 (Avenger 2.0)
 * Czech: Mstitel (The Avenger)
 * German: Avenger 2.0 (Avenger 2.0)
 * Hungarian: Avenger 2.0 (Avenger 2.0)
 * Japanese: 僕のアヴェンジャー (Avenger 2.0)