Crusade

"Crusade" is the nineteenth episode of the ninth season of Stargate SG-1.

Synopsis
Vala Mal Doran uses a Long-range communication device from the Alteran Home Galaxy and makes contact with Earth through Dr. Daniel Jackson to warn Stargate Command that the Ori are coming to the Milky Way and there may be no way to stop them.

Plot
A very pregnant Vala Mal Doran makes contact with Stargate Command, using the Long-range communication device to take over Dr. Daniel Jackson. She tells the surprised SG-1 what happened to her after the Battle of Kallana. She has been thrown on an Ori homeworld in their galaxy by means she does not know about and awakened in the bed of the man who found her, who thought that she was a present from the gods. She learned that the town where he lives is one of dozens building ships and providing troops for the Ori invasion fleet. To stay undercover she decided to take a role as homemaker to the crippled Tomin, the man who found her. When she found out that she is pregnant she quickly marries Tomin to make him think it's his child. However Vala didn't know who the father really was since she had no relationship with anyone but later found out that the child is in fact "the will of the Ori."

Meanwhile on Earth, Colonel Chekov informs Major General Henry Landry that Russia has no interest in participating in the Stargate program, and plans to let their agreement with the United States of America expire. This means that Russia gets the Stargate back, as they had only loaned to the USA. Russia apparently has the backup of China on this move.

Back in the interrogation room, Vala tells the rest of SG-1 that she was suspected to be a unbeliever and was chained in public for three days by Seevis, the local Administrator. Tomin rescued her without interference after this time. When she went by herself to see the ships built she was surprised by Seevis, who revealed himself to be the leader of the Anti-Ori underground movement. He planned to sabotage the ships to kill thousands of Ori followers.

In the meantime, on Earth, Landry finds out that the Russians do not really want their gate back, but are merely trying to coerce the US government. In exchange for the gate, the Americans are forced to give the next Daedalus-class battlecruiser under production (the third in the series after the Daedalus and Odyssey) to the Russians.

Meanwhile, on the Ori homeworld, Seevis' sabotage plan fails. The Ori send Tomin to kill Seevis. Tomin kills both him and Denya, and destroys the communication device, disrupting the communication from Vala. She is able to persuade Tomin that she was not part of the conspiracy, and that she will accompany him on his crusade against the nonbelievers. On Earth, the SGC does everything possible to find out where the Ori have built their second Supergate, and SG-1 decides to search for Merlin's weapon which is able to kill ascended beings. With the Ori gone, their followers will no longer see them as gods and the crusade would be unimportant.

Notable Quotes
Vala: It's funny, isn't it? Daniel always wanted to get in my pants, and now I'm in his.

Mitchel: That's not funny. He can't defend himself.

Teal'c: (Referring to Vala's mysterious pregnancy) You have been impregnated without copulation.

Vala: Yes, and I'm absolutely terrified. Have any of you ever heard of anything like it?

Mitchell: (after everyone pauses) Well, there's one.

Teal'c: Darth Vader.

(Everyone gives Teal'c a strange look)

Vala: Really!?

(Teal'c nods)

Vala: How did that turn out?

Mitchell: Actually, I was thinking of King Arthur.

Carter: You were!?

Mitchell: How is this possible? (Points at an effeminate Jackson who is actually Vala in his body)

Carter: Oh my god! It worked! I mean, you know, it's working. We didn't think we were ever going to make this work.

Mitchell: Make what work!?

Carter: Well, since you disintegrated the Alteran communication stones and the base terminal in the Kawoosh--

Mitchell: I'm sorry, the what?

Carter: The unstable vortex of a forming wormhole ... KAWOOSH!

Mitchell: Don't think I've ever heard you call it that before.

Carter: Really?

Character

 * Tomin

In other languages

 * French: La Grande Croisade (The Great Crusade)
 * Italian: Il Pericolo degli Ori (The Ori Danger)
 * Spanish: Cruzada (Crusade)
 * Czech: Křížová výprava