Kinahhi (people)

The Kinahhi are a race who featured in the ‘‘Stargate SG-1’’ novels ‘’Stargate SG-1: A Matter of Honour’’ and ‘‘Stargate SG-1: The Cost of Honour’’. Inhabiting a planet that had formerly belonged to Ba’al, the Kinahhi possessed advanced anti-gravity technology, but also existed in a very ‘Big Brother’-style civilisation, using a device known as the ‘‘sheh-fet’’ to read the minds of their people and detect any potentially dangerous thoughts before they could become a problem; in other words, people were locked up because they ‘‘might’’ rebel. When the planet was first discovered, Senator Robert Kinsey attempted to arrange an alliance with them for the ‘‘sheh-fet’’ technology, despite the fact that Colonel Jack O’Neill recognised the potential value of the anti-gravity technology as a more valuable long-term resource, particularly for rescuing the long-lost SG-10 who had been trapped on a planet as it was drawn into a black hole (“A Matter of Time” ‘’Stargate SG-1: A Matter of Honor’’).

Attempting to get SG-1 out of the way, recognising the potential threat they posed to the Kinahhi’s attempt to gain control of the SGC, a councillor claiming to disagree with his government’s actions provided Jack O’Neill with plans for the anti-gravity device, simultaneously sabotaging the plans so that they would fail at a crucial moment and prevent SG-1 from escaping the black hole. Although the plan failed in essence as Samantha Carter was able to repair the ship and depart the planet with three-quarters of SG-10, during the brief time that the field was disabled four months passed for the outside universe while the two SG-teams experienced only a few minutes.

During this time, with Senator Kinsey’s permission, the Kinahhi established a makeshift ‘’sheh-fet’’ using Earth prisoners on Level 17 of the SGC, but Kinsey was left unaware that, via the ‘’sheh-fet’’, this gave the Kinahhi essential control over the entire SGC. Despite this false ‘alliance’, Kinsey still conceded to the Kinahhi’s demands in the belief that he remained in charge, allowing them to imprison the returned O’Neill and Carter in the ‘’sheh-fet’’ on their planet, only for the efforts to be thwarted when Daniel Jackson, Teal’c, and SG-10 broke into the SGC with General George Hammond’s help to travel to Kinahhi and rescue their teammates.

The Kinahi were particularly at odds with a group of dissidents known as the Arxanti, who apparently possessed ties to the Ancients; many of them even appeared to possess the ATA gene (Although it was never expressly identified as such). The Arxanti were saved when Daniel Jackson was connected to the ‘’sheh-fet’’, his unique insight into the Ancients proving that the Arxanti were no threat to the Kinahhi, with Jack O’Neill subsequently shutting the ‘’sheh-fet’’ down for good thanks to his more powerful Ancient gene. With the former prisoners of the ‘’sheh-fet’’ now free, and with Daniel’s knowledge of their former enemy available to guide them in creating a new society, SG-1 departed, the SGC now returned to normal (Although Kinsey, as always, escaped responsibility by claiming that he’d had no idea about the Kinahhi’s true goals) (‘’Stargate SG-1: The Cost of Honour’’)