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| + | | main = [[Richard Dean Anderson]] as [[Colonel]] [[Jack O'Neill]]<br>[[Michael Shanks]] as [[Dr.]] [[Daniel Jackson]]<br>[[Amanda Tapping]] as [[Major]] [[Samantha Carter]]<br>[[Christopher Judge]] as [[Teal'c]]<br>[[Don S. Davis]] as [[Major General]] [[George S. Hammond]] |
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| guests=[[Christopher Cousins]] as [[Ambassador]] [[Joseph Faxon]]<br />[[Dion Luther]] as [[Mollem]]<br />[[Robert Moloney]] as [[Borren]]<br />[[Gary Jones]] as [[MSgt.]] [[Walter Harriman]]<br />[[Ronny Cox]] as [[Senator]] [[Robert Kinsey]]<br />[[Howard Siegel]] as [[Keel]]<br />[[Rob Lee]] as [[Major]] [[Ben Pierce]]<br>? as [[Jonathan (2001)|Jonathan]] |
| guests=[[Christopher Cousins]] as [[Ambassador]] [[Joseph Faxon]]<br />[[Dion Luther]] as [[Mollem]]<br />[[Robert Moloney]] as [[Borren]]<br />[[Gary Jones]] as [[MSgt.]] [[Walter Harriman]]<br />[[Ronny Cox]] as [[Senator]] [[Robert Kinsey]]<br />[[Howard Siegel]] as [[Keel]]<br />[[Rob Lee]] as [[Major]] [[Ben Pierce]]<br>? as [[Jonathan (2001)|Jonathan]] |
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'''"2001"''' is the tenth episode of the [[SG-1 Season 5|fifth season]] of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''. |
'''"2001"''' is the tenth episode of the [[SG-1 Season 5|fifth season]] of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''. |
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==Plot== |
==Plot== |
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| − | [[Earth]] seems to |
+ | [[Earth]] seems to have found the perfect ally in their fight against the [[Goa'uld]]: the [[Aschen]], whom [[SG-1]] met while visiting the simple, low-tech, pastoral planet [[Volia]] at P3A-194. To negotiate with the Aschen, SG-1 is accompanied by [[Ambassador]] [[Joseph Faxon]], whom [[Major]] [[Samantha Carter]] quickly starts to like. They meet with the Aschen representatives on one of their big harvester ships (which harvests Volian fields and sends the crop through the [[Stargate]]). The Aschen not only offer them their advanced technology but also membership in the [[Aschen Confederation]]. In exchange, Earth will share with the Aschen their knowledge of the Stargate network, as the Aschen claim to be ignorant of the network and know only how to access a few gates. Their biotechnology is particularly interesting because they can create a [[biogenic weapon]] that could target specific [[DNA]] combinations, and show an example with a hologram. |
| − | After [[Colonel]] [[Jack O'Neill]]'s positive introduction to the Aschen, in which they proclaim their willingness to trade, negotiations endorsed by the [[President of the United States]] begin. However O'Neill starts to feel uneasy, a feeling strengthened by the fact that the Stargate would have to be revealed to the public (because the Aschen |
+ | After [[Colonel]] [[Jack O'Neill]]'s positive introduction to the Aschen, in which they proclaim their willingness to trade, negotiations endorsed by the [[President of the United States]] begin. However O'Neill starts to feel uneasy, a feeling strengthened by the fact that the Stargate would have to be revealed to the public (because the Aschen insist that a treaty must be with all the nations of Earth) and also because the Aschen representative mentions that Earth's current population growth is unsustainable (suggesting military action to curb it). |
| ⚫ | In the meantime, [[Dr.]] [[Daniel Jackson]] and [[Teal'c]] start to investigate Volia in response to O'Neill's order to find out more about the Volians' relationship with the Aschen. After questioning a Volian farmer (who has only positive things to say about the Aschen), they offer to help him remove some "iron root" from one of the agricultural fields: he shows them some rusty scaffolding that looks akin to a radio mast on Earth. Assuring the man they'll take care of it and waiting until he walks away, Jackson starts digging and instead finds buried beneath a city of technology and complexity equivalent to Earth around the 1910s, far more advanced than that evinced by the Volians, yet that is only a few hundred years old. Teal'c determines that there is no evidence of destruction through battle, nor is there any human remains from victims of a disaster. In an underground library, the two find stored newspaper articles that reveal disturbing information about the Aschen. |
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| ⚫ | Back at [[Stargate Command]], [[Major General]] [[George S. Hammond]] and [[Master Sergeant]] [[Walter Harriman]] discover that the Aschen homeworld may be the location of a Stargate address that was locked out of the dialing computer [[2010 (episode)|seven months earlier]] when they received a mysterious note that they thought might be from the future SG-1. This note was not only in O'Neill's handwriting but also had his blood on it; it warned them away from going to [[P4C-970]]. Early in the Stargate Program, Carter had calculated that the farthest a Stargate could reach without accounting for stellar drift was 300 lightyears. The Aschen Confederation is thus only within this reach of Volia, and P4C-970 is one of these worlds. As Stargate Command has narrowed down the Aschen homeworld to one of four possibilities, Hammond decides to send teams [[SG-3]], [[SG-12]], and [[SG-15]] to the other three possible locations to determine if the Aschen world is the forbidden address. However, the search is stopped by presidential order, because if one of the teams were to find the Aschen at one of the other three locations, they might feel their privacy invaded and trust betrayed, thus stopping negotiations. |
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| ⚫ | In the meantime, [[Dr.]] [[Daniel Jackson]] and [[Teal'c]] start to investigate Volia in response to O'Neill's order to find out more about the Volians' relationship with the Aschen. After questioning a Volian farmer (who has only positive things to say about the Aschen), they |
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| − | Meanwhile, after learning of the likelihood that the Aschen are not all that they appear to be, O'Neill journeys to [[Washington D.C.]] to tell the President about his concerns. But [[Senator]] [[Robert Kinsey]], one of O'Neill's Earth-based arch rivals, beats him to it and |
+ | Meanwhile, after learning of the likelihood that the Aschen are not all that they appear to be, O'Neill cashes in on an open invitation to the White House and journeys to [[Washington D.C.]] to tell the President about his concerns. But [[Senator]] [[Robert Kinsey]], one of O'Neill's Earth-based arch rivals, beats him to it and convinced the President not to listen to O'Neill. He then intercepts O'Neill's limo ride and informing him that he knows about the note, does believe that it's from the future, as the ink used is a biodegradable formula they don't yet know of. In his arrogance, he believes that O'Neill's objection to the treaty is all about Kinsey himself, and as the senator's participation would likely assure him a presidency at a later time O'Neill is only trying to prevent that, and not out of concern for Earth. He has him returned immediately to the SGC, to O'Neill's considerable frustration. |
| − | Daniel and Teal'c find the final issue of an old newspaper in the ruins, which they assume must have the last information available before the unknown catastrophe destroyed the civilization. Daniel can translate the newspaper to the extent that he knows that a drug the Aschen gave members of the society |
+ | Daniel and Teal'c find the final issue of an old newspaper in the ruins, which they assume must have the last information available before the unknown catastrophe destroyed the civilization. Recognizing the words to be similar to an ancient Celtic text that he once found in Wales, Daniel can translate the newspaper to the extent that he knows that a drug the Aschen gave members of the society caused ''something'', but he doesn't know the translation of that one word. He writes it down on a piece of paper for Carter. In a later good-will meeting aboard a harvesting ship in which Earth will prove their good faith by sharing a few of the Stargate addresses they know, Carter tricks the distracted Aschen [[Borren]] into translating the word: "sterility". When Carter and Faxon reveal that they have figured out the Aschen's intentions, they lock Carter and Faxon in the room and dial Earth in order to send through a powerful bio-weapon, like the one they introduced earlier. |
| − | Sam sets up a rope to climb down straight into the (horizontally oriented) Stargate, but as Faxon prepares to join her, Borren walks in and Faxon attacks him. With no time left for him to get away, he tells Carter to go on without him. She falls through the Stargate and quickly orders the [[Iris]] shut behind her. Earth is saved, and Sam never learns that the man who gave up his life to save her and Earth is the man who would otherwise have been destined to be her husband. It is then revealed that what had been given to the Aschen is a list of useless gate |
+ | Sam sets up a rope to climb down straight into the (horizontally oriented) Stargate, but as Faxon prepares to join her, Borren walks in and Faxon attacks him. With no time left for him to get away, he tells Carter to go on without him before grappling with Borren once again. She falls through the Stargate and quickly orders the [[Iris]] shut behind her; moments later a loud 'whump' sounds when the biogenic weapon is stopped from coming through. Earth is saved, and Sam never learns that the man who gave up his life to save her and Earth is the man who would otherwise have been destined to be her husband. It is then revealed that what had been given to the Aschen is a list of useless gate addresses, the first one being a [[black hole]], and the rest getting "progressively darker after that". |
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'''Locations''' |
'''Locations''' |
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| − | *[[Abydos]] |
+ | *[[Abydos]] {{m}} |
| − | *[[Aschen Prime]] |
+ | *[[Aschen Prime]] {{m}} |
*[[Colorado Springs]], [[Colorado]] |
*[[Colorado Springs]], [[Colorado]] |
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| − | **[[Peterson Air Force Base]] |
+ | **[[Peterson Air Force Base]] {{m}} |
**[[Stargate Command]] |
**[[Stargate Command]] |
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***[[Briefing Room]] |
***[[Briefing Room]] |
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***[[Embarkation room]] |
***[[Embarkation room]] |
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| + | ***[[Stargate Command infirmary]] {{m}} |
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| − | ***[[Mess hall]] <small>(mentioned)</small> |
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| − | ***[[Stargate Command |
+ | ***[[Stargate Command mess hall]] {{m}} |
***[[Stargate Operations room]] |
***[[Stargate Operations room]] |
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| − | *[[P3W-451]] |
+ | *[[P3W-451]] {{m}} |
*[[Volia]] |
*[[Volia]] |
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**[[Volian city]] |
**[[Volian city]] |
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| − | *[[Wales]] |
+ | *[[Wales]] {{m}} |
*[[Washington D.C.]] |
*[[Washington D.C.]] |
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| − | **[[Andrews Air Force Base]] |
+ | **[[Andrews Air Force Base]] {{m}} |
| − | **[[The Pentagon]] |
+ | **[[The Pentagon]] {{m}} |
| + | **[[United States Capitol]] |
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| − | **[[White House]] |
+ | **[[White House]] {{m}} |
'''Events''' |
'''Events''' |
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'''Items''' |
'''Items''' |
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| − | *[[Anti-aging vaccine]] |
+ | *[[Anti-aging vaccine]] {{m}} |
*[[Aschen holographic projector]] |
*[[Aschen holographic projector]] |
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| − | *[[Aschen medicine]] |
+ | *[[Aschen medicine]] {{m}} |
*[[Aschen transporter]] |
*[[Aschen transporter]] |
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*[[Biogenic weapon]] |
*[[Biogenic weapon]] |
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| − | *[[Black hole]] |
+ | *[[Black hole]] {{m}} |
*[[Colt M16A3 rifle]] |
*[[Colt M16A3 rifle]] |
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*[[Combat knife]] |
*[[Combat knife]] |
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| − | *[[Dial Home Device]] |
+ | *[[Dial Home Device]] {{m}} |
| + | *[[Dialing computer]] |
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| − | *[[Fishing]] <small>(mentioned)</small> |
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| + | *[[Fishing]] {{m}} |
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*[[Flashlight]] |
*[[Flashlight]] |
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*[[FN P90 Personal Defense Weapon]] |
*[[FN P90 Personal Defense Weapon]] |
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| − | *[[ |
+ | *[[Garage Door Opener]] |
| − | *[[ |
+ | *[[Gas giant]] {{m}} |
*[[Iris]] |
*[[Iris]] |
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| − | *[[Iron]] |
+ | *[[Iron]] {{m}} |
| − | *[[Influenza]] |
+ | *[[Influenza]] {{m}} |
| + | *[[Laptop]] |
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| − | *[[MALP]] <small>(mentioned)</small> |
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| + | *[[Mobile Analytic Laboratory Probe]] {{m}} |
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| + | *[[Radio]] |
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*[[Rope]] |
*[[Rope]] |
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*[[Staff weapon]] |
*[[Staff weapon]] |
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| + | *[[Stargate]] |
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| + | **[[Beta Gate]] |
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*[[Sunglasses]] |
*[[Sunglasses]] |
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| − | *[[Sweet water]] |
+ | *[[Sweet water]] {{m}} |
| + | *[[Tactical vest]] |
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| − | *[[Time travel]] <small>(mentioned)</small> |
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| + | *[[Time travel]] {{m}} |
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| + | *''[[Uif Wpmjbo Wpjdf]]'' |
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| + | *[[Wormhole]] |
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| + | *[[Zat'nik'tel]] |
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'''Vehicles''' |
'''Vehicles''' |
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| − | *[[Aschen spaceship]] |
+ | *[[Aschen spaceship]] {{m}} |
*[[Harvester]] |
*[[Harvester]] |
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| + | *[[Limousine]] |
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'''Sentient Species''' |
'''Sentient Species''' |
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*[[Aschen]] |
*[[Aschen]] |
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| − | *[[Goa'uld]] |
+ | *[[Goa'uld]] {{m}} |
*[[Jaffa]] |
*[[Jaffa]] |
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*[[Tau'ri]] |
*[[Tau'ri]] |
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'''Languages''' |
'''Languages''' |
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| − | *[[Ancient Celtic]] |
+ | *[[Ancient Celtic]] {{m}} |
| + | *[[Volian language]] |
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'''Organizations''' |
'''Organizations''' |
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*[[Stargate Program]] |
*[[Stargate Program]] |
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**[[SG-1]] |
**[[SG-1]] |
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| − | **[[SG-3]] |
+ | **[[SG-3]] |
| − | **[[SG-12]] |
+ | **[[SG-12]] |
**[[SG-15]] |
**[[SG-15]] |
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*[[United States Air Force]] |
*[[United States Air Force]] |
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| − | *[[Volian Union]] |
+ | *[[Volian Union]] {{m}} |
'''Mentioned''' |
'''Mentioned''' |
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'''O'Neill''': Who, while lacking a sense of humor, make up for it in advanced technology. |
'''O'Neill''': Who, while lacking a sense of humor, make up for it in advanced technology. |
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| − | '''Carter''': So out of security concerns, the Aschen wish not to reveal the location of their |
+ | '''Carter''': So out of security concerns, the Aschen wish not to reveal the location of their homeworld until we have an agreement.<br /> |
'''O'Neill''': They're a little paranoid.<br /> |
'''O'Neill''': They're a little paranoid.<br /> |
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'''Jackson''': It seems appropriate seeing as how they don't have an iris like ours.<br /> |
'''Jackson''': It seems appropriate seeing as how they don't have an iris like ours.<br /> |
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'''Faxon''': My mistake, Colonel. |
'''Faxon''': My mistake, Colonel. |
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| − | ''(Just after arriving on Volia)''<br /> |
+ | ''(Just after arriving on Volia, surrounded by rural country)''<br /> |
'''Faxon''': It looks just like, uh...<br /> |
'''Faxon''': It looks just like, uh...<br /> |
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| − | '''O'Neill''': Oh yeah... just when you think you're not in Kansas anymore, turns out ya |
+ | '''O'Neill''': Oh yeah... just when you think you're not in Kansas anymore, turns out ya are. |
'''Mollem''': You look pensive.<br /> |
'''Mollem''': You look pensive.<br /> |
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==Notes== |
==Notes== |
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*This episode takes place seven months after "[[2010 (episode)|2010]]". |
*This episode takes place seven months after "[[2010 (episode)|2010]]". |
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| − | *The title is an homage to [[Arthur C. Clarke]]'s novel ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'', and it continues a story arc started in the episode "[[2010 (episode)|2010]]" - the title of which is an homage to Clarke's novel ''{{WPS|2010: Odyssey Two|2010: Odyssey Two}}''. The concept of turning a gas giant into a star (one of the main plot elements of ''2010: Odyssey Two'') is mentioned in both episodes, and [[Major]] [[Samantha Carter]] quotes Clarke's name in reference to it during this episode. Coincidentally, Clarke's ''Space Odyssey'' series used the term "StarGate" to refer to one of its major plot devices, the monolith. |
+ | *The title is an homage to [[Arthur C. Clarke]]'s novel ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'', and it continues a story arc started in the episode "[[2010 (episode)|2010]]" - the title of which is an homage to Clarke's novel ''{{WPS|2010: Odyssey Two|2010: Odyssey Two}}''. The concept of turning a gas giant into a star (one of the main plot elements of ''2010: Odyssey Two'') is mentioned in both episodes, and [[Major]] [[Samantha Carter]] quotes Clarke's name in reference to it during this episode. Coincidentally, Clarke's ''Space Odyssey'' series used the term "StarGate" to refer to one of its major plot devices, the monolith. |
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*The words on the newspaper found by [[Dr.]] [[Daniel Jackson]] are almost exactly the same as what he tells the others in the briefing room. The text can be transliterated into [[English]] by taking each letter in the paper and substituting it with the letter that comes immediately before it. (This cipher is a reference to HAL 9000's acronym letter-shifting to reveal IBM, albeit accidentally<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000#Origin_of_name</ref>) The newspaper name is ''The Volian Voice'' and the headline reads "Vaccine from Newcomes [sic] Causes Sterility". |
*The words on the newspaper found by [[Dr.]] [[Daniel Jackson]] are almost exactly the same as what he tells the others in the briefing room. The text can be transliterated into [[English]] by taking each letter in the paper and substituting it with the letter that comes immediately before it. (This cipher is a reference to HAL 9000's acronym letter-shifting to reveal IBM, albeit accidentally<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000#Origin_of_name</ref>) The newspaper name is ''The Volian Voice'' and the headline reads "Vaccine from Newcomes [sic] Causes Sterility". |
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| − | *When told that the negotiations may take longer, [[Aschen]] say that they are patient people, which may be a hint at the plot of "[[2010 (episode)|2010]]", in which the Aschen slowly lowered [[Earth]]'s population through sterility. |
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| + | *The fate of the [[Volian]]s was exactly what the [[Aschen]] planned to do on [[Earth]] in the episode "[[2010 (episode)|2010]]" down to sterilizing the population and igniting their systems gas giant into a second sun. |
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| − | *At the conclusion of this episode, Carter is hanging from a [[rope]] tied to the Aschen [[Harvester]] ready to cut it and fall down through the [[Stargate]]. Since it is merely gravity that would cause her to travel into the open wormhole, it is therefore plausible that the Ambassador could easy have either climbed over the railing onto the rope also, or simply jumped off. However, it could be assumed (despite having no knowledge of this fact) that the rope Carter climbs down on is intended to reduce her travel velocity at the SGC end, and therefore the Ambassador chose not to simply jump from the ship into the wormhole himself less he fly through the wormhole at fatal speeds. Another possible reason of why the Ambassador chose not to jump is that he was in the middle of a physical altercation with [[Borren]] (who had, at that time, entered the room and realized that something was amiss). Knowing that the Aschen bioweapon was about to be deployed and that Carter had to get back to the SGC as soon as possible to inform them to engage the iris in order to save Earth. By getting into an altercation with [[Borren]], he provides enough of a distraction that Carter is able to successfully escape back to the SGC. |
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| − | *This episode is followed up by the novel ''[[Stargate SG-1: Relativity]]'' which reveals that the [[black hole]] destroyed [[Aschen Prime]] (P4C-970) and killed [[Mollem]], but that at least some of the Aschen survived the disaster. These Aschen, led by Mollem's wife [[Mirris]] try to launch another |
+ | *This episode is followed up by the novel ''[[Stargate SG-1: Relativity]]'' which reveals that the [[black hole]] destroyed [[Aschen Prime]] (P4C-970) and killed [[Mollem]], but that at least some of the Aschen survived the disaster. These Aschen, led by Mollem's wife [[Mirris]] try to launch another bio weapon on [[Earth]] that in an alternate future along with the presence of [[Anubis]] devastates Earth and humanity. [[SG-1]], with the help of a future O'Neill and his daughter [[Jade O'Neill|Jade O'Neil]], defeats the Aschen and foil their plot once more. |
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==Goofs== |
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| − | *The first shot of [[SG-1]] coming through the gate is a re-use from the season 2 episode "[[Touchstone (episode)|Touchstone]]." The only problem with doing this is that [[Major]] [[Samantha Carter]] and [[Colonel]] [[Jack O'Neill]] are carrying [[H&K MP5A3 submachine gun]]s one moment and [[FN P90 Personal Defense Weapon]] |
+ | *The first shot of [[SG-1]] coming through the gate is a re-use from the season 2 episode "[[Touchstone (episode)|Touchstone]]." The only problem with doing this is that [[Major]] [[Samantha Carter]] and [[Colonel]] [[Jack O'Neill]] are carrying [[H&K MP5A3 submachine gun]]s one moment and [[FN P90 Personal Defense Weapon]]s the next. You can also see [[Dr.]] [[Daniel Jackson]]'s longer hair. |
| − | *When Carter cuts the [[rope]] and falls into the [[Stargate]] |
+ | *When Carter cuts the [[rope]] and falls into the [[Stargate]], on arrival you see her exit flying backward. However, in the next shot, she tumbles into a front roll, i.e. facing away from the gate. |
==In other languages== |
==In other languages== |
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| − | *'''French |
+ | *'''French''': Les Faux Amis ''(The False Friends)'' |
| − | *'''Italian |
+ | *'''Italian''': 2001 (dubbed in English) |
| − | *'''Spanish |
+ | *'''Spanish''': 2001 (dubbed in English) |
| − | *'''German |
+ | *'''German''': 2001 (dubbed in English) |
| − | *'''Czech |
+ | *'''Czech''': Rok 2001 ''(Year 2001)'' |
| + | *'''Hungarian''': 2001 (dubbed in English) |
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*{{Solutionswiki|5.10_%222001%22_Episode_Guide|2001}} |
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"2001" is the tenth episode of the fifth season of Stargate SG-1.
Synopsis
SG-1 makes contact with a technologically advanced race known as the Aschen (a race of people SG-1 from an alternate future tried to warn current SG-1 not to make contact with). While they form an alliance, Dr. Daniel Jackson and Teal'c find clues about the Aschen past and when the truth about the Aschen is finally revealed, SG-1 must intervene or risk history repeating itself all over again.
Previously on Stargate SG-1
Stargate Command receives a note from an alternate Colonel Jack O'Neill instructing them to not travel to P4C-970 under any circumstances.
Plot
Earth seems to have found the perfect ally in their fight against the Goa'uld: the Aschen, whom SG-1 met while visiting the simple, low-tech, pastoral planet Volia at P3A-194. To negotiate with the Aschen, SG-1 is accompanied by Ambassador Joseph Faxon, whom Major Samantha Carter quickly starts to like. They meet with the Aschen representatives on one of their big harvester ships (which harvests Volian fields and sends the crop through the Stargate). The Aschen not only offer them their advanced technology but also membership in the Aschen Confederation. In exchange, Earth will share with the Aschen their knowledge of the Stargate network, as the Aschen claim to be ignorant of the network and know only how to access a few gates. Their biotechnology is particularly interesting because they can create a biogenic weapon that could target specific DNA combinations, and show an example with a hologram.
After Colonel Jack O'Neill's positive introduction to the Aschen, in which they proclaim their willingness to trade, negotiations endorsed by the President of the United States begin. However O'Neill starts to feel uneasy, a feeling strengthened by the fact that the Stargate would have to be revealed to the public (because the Aschen insist that a treaty must be with all the nations of Earth) and also because the Aschen representative mentions that Earth's current population growth is unsustainable (suggesting military action to curb it).
In the meantime, Dr. Daniel Jackson and Teal'c start to investigate Volia in response to O'Neill's order to find out more about the Volians' relationship with the Aschen. After questioning a Volian farmer (who has only positive things to say about the Aschen), they offer to help him remove some "iron root" from one of the agricultural fields: he shows them some rusty scaffolding that looks akin to a radio mast on Earth. Assuring the man they'll take care of it and waiting until he walks away, Jackson starts digging and instead finds buried beneath a city of technology and complexity equivalent to Earth around the 1910s, far more advanced than that evinced by the Volians, yet that is only a few hundred years old. Teal'c determines that there is no evidence of destruction through battle, nor is there any human remains from victims of a disaster. In an underground library, the two find stored newspaper articles that reveal disturbing information about the Aschen.
Back at Stargate Command, Major General George S. Hammond and Master Sergeant Walter Harriman discover that the Aschen homeworld may be the location of a Stargate address that was locked out of the dialing computer seven months earlier when they received a mysterious note that they thought might be from the future SG-1. This note was not only in O'Neill's handwriting but also had his blood on it; it warned them away from going to P4C-970. Early in the Stargate Program, Carter had calculated that the farthest a Stargate could reach without accounting for stellar drift was 300 lightyears. The Aschen Confederation is thus only within this reach of Volia, and P4C-970 is one of these worlds. As Stargate Command has narrowed down the Aschen homeworld to one of four possibilities, Hammond decides to send teams SG-3, SG-12, and SG-15 to the other three possible locations to determine if the Aschen world is the forbidden address. However, the search is stopped by presidential order, because if one of the teams were to find the Aschen at one of the other three locations, they might feel their privacy invaded and trust betrayed, thus stopping negotiations.
Meanwhile, after learning of the likelihood that the Aschen are not all that they appear to be, O'Neill cashes in on an open invitation to the White House and journeys to Washington D.C. to tell the President about his concerns. But Senator Robert Kinsey, one of O'Neill's Earth-based arch rivals, beats him to it and convinced the President not to listen to O'Neill. He then intercepts O'Neill's limo ride and informing him that he knows about the note, does believe that it's from the future, as the ink used is a biodegradable formula they don't yet know of. In his arrogance, he believes that O'Neill's objection to the treaty is all about Kinsey himself, and as the senator's participation would likely assure him a presidency at a later time O'Neill is only trying to prevent that, and not out of concern for Earth. He has him returned immediately to the SGC, to O'Neill's considerable frustration.
Daniel and Teal'c find the final issue of an old newspaper in the ruins, which they assume must have the last information available before the unknown catastrophe destroyed the civilization. Recognizing the words to be similar to an ancient Celtic text that he once found in Wales, Daniel can translate the newspaper to the extent that he knows that a drug the Aschen gave members of the society caused something, but he doesn't know the translation of that one word. He writes it down on a piece of paper for Carter. In a later good-will meeting aboard a harvesting ship in which Earth will prove their good faith by sharing a few of the Stargate addresses they know, Carter tricks the distracted Aschen Borren into translating the word: "sterility". When Carter and Faxon reveal that they have figured out the Aschen's intentions, they lock Carter and Faxon in the room and dial Earth in order to send through a powerful bio-weapon, like the one they introduced earlier.
Sam sets up a rope to climb down straight into the (horizontally oriented) Stargate, but as Faxon prepares to join her, Borren walks in and Faxon attacks him. With no time left for him to get away, he tells Carter to go on without him before grappling with Borren once again. She falls through the Stargate and quickly orders the Iris shut behind her; moments later a loud 'whump' sounds when the biogenic weapon is stopped from coming through. Earth is saved, and Sam never learns that the man who gave up his life to save her and Earth is the man who would otherwise have been destined to be her husband. It is then revealed that what had been given to the Aschen is a list of useless gate addresses, the first one being a black hole, and the rest getting "progressively darker after that".
Appearances
Notable Quotes
O'Neill: Break out the fishing gear, General. Our job here is done.
Hammond: I take it your mission was successful.
Carter: In a word, sir: Yes.
O'Neill: In two words... Yes, sir.
Hammond: Your initial report said the Volians were a simple agrarian society.
O'Neill: That they are.
Jackson: The Volians introduced us to another race. Friends of theirs.
O'Neill: Who, while lacking a sense of humor, make up for it in advanced technology.
Carter: So out of security concerns, the Aschen wish not to reveal the location of their homeworld until we have an agreement.
O'Neill: They're a little paranoid.
Jackson: It seems appropriate seeing as how they don't have an iris like ours.
Carter: We do know that they've actually created a secondary star in the Volian system by igniting a gas giant, thereby doubling the Volians' growing season.
Faxon: They made a star? How?
Carter: Well, theoretically by increasing the density of a sufficiently massive gas giant until a thermonuclear reaction could take place. In fact Arthur C. Clarke posited that—
O'Neill: Ambassador, you gotta be careful about the use of the word "how" unless you really wanna know.
Faxon: My mistake, Colonel.
(Just after arriving on Volia, surrounded by rural country)
Faxon: It looks just like, uh...
O'Neill: Oh yeah... just when you think you're not in Kansas anymore, turns out ya are.
Mollem: You look pensive.
O'Neill: No, I was just thinking.
Kinsey: I swear, O'Neill. There's going to be an investigation into this. (he storms out)
O'Neill: Well that'd be fine. O'Neill. Two L's! (while holding up three fingers)
Teal'c: Senator Kinsey seems most displeased.
O'Neill: Yeah, that's a cryin' shame isn't it.
Jackson: I just hope we won't regret giving them those gate addresses.
O'Neill: I don't think we will, first one being a black hole and all. They get progressively darker after that.
Notes
- This episode takes place seven months after "2010".
- The title is an homage to Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and it continues a story arc started in the episode "2010" - the title of which is an homage to Clarke's novel 2010: Odyssey Two. The concept of turning a gas giant into a star (one of the main plot elements of 2010: Odyssey Two) is mentioned in both episodes, and Major Samantha Carter quotes Clarke's name in reference to it during this episode. Coincidentally, Clarke's Space Odyssey series used the term "StarGate" to refer to one of its major plot devices, the monolith.
- When Colonel Jack O'Neill is telling Senator Robert Kinsey how to spell his name, he says it has two Ls but he holds up three fingers. This can be interpreted as O'Neill giving Kinsey the middle finger.
- The words on the newspaper found by Dr. Daniel Jackson are almost exactly the same as what he tells the others in the briefing room. The text can be transliterated into English by taking each letter in the paper and substituting it with the letter that comes immediately before it. (This cipher is a reference to HAL 9000's acronym letter-shifting to reveal IBM, albeit accidentally[1]) The newspaper name is The Volian Voice and the headline reads "Vaccine from Newcomes [sic] Causes Sterility".
- The fate of the Volians was exactly what the Aschen planned to do on Earth in the episode "2010" down to sterilizing the population and igniting their systems gas giant into a second sun.
- This episode is followed up by the novel Stargate SG-1: Relativity which reveals that the black hole destroyed Aschen Prime (P4C-970) and killed Mollem, but that at least some of the Aschen survived the disaster. These Aschen, led by Mollem's wife Mirris try to launch another bio weapon on Earth that in an alternate future along with the presence of Anubis devastates Earth and humanity. SG-1, with the help of a future O'Neill and his daughter Jade O'Neil, defeats the Aschen and foil their plot once more.
Goofs
- The first shot of SG-1 coming through the gate is a re-use from the season 2 episode "Touchstone." The only problem with doing this is that Major Samantha Carter and Colonel Jack O'Neill are carrying H&K MP5A3 submachine guns one moment and FN P90 Personal Defense Weapons the next. You can also see Dr. Daniel Jackson's longer hair.
- When Carter cuts the rope and falls into the Stargate, on arrival you see her exit flying backward. However, in the next shot, she tumbles into a front roll, i.e. facing away from the gate.
In other languages
- French: Les Faux Amis (The False Friends)
- Italian: 2001 (dubbed in English)
- Spanish: 2001 (dubbed in English)
- German: 2001 (dubbed in English)
- Czech: Rok 2001 (Year 2001)
- Hungarian: 2001 (dubbed in English)
External links
- 2001 on GateWorld. (backup link)
- 2001 article on Stargate SG-1 Solutions' The StargateWiki
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