Woman: Hundreds of villages like this one have paused...
To celebrate the transportation of our people
to this great new land.
We are especially honored today
by the presence of those responsible
for finding this planet for us...
And saving us...
From certain doom.
How can we ever repay them?
By not boring them with long speeches, hedrazar.
(Laughter)
I meant what I said.
You are all heroes to my people.
It was our pleasure.
Woman: When my gran dchild arrives
it will be the first enkaran to be born
in our new homeland.
We will name the child after you, colonel.
Eliam, it's getting cold.
It seems to be getting colder
each day since you last visited.
Yes, our atmospheric monitoring equipment is indicating that.
We only had a shorttime
to assess the planet's conditions,
but it appears as if you may be in for
a more severe winter than we first predicted.
Hedrazar: We are a hearty people.
We will survive.
The naouada reactor we brought you
should provide enough energy
to heat your new city for a year.
Well, you've certainly accomplished a lot already.
Hedrazar: And it has only been but one cycle of the moon.
Come back in ayear,
and you will find this planettransformed.
Man: Help!
Help me, please!
What is it?
It is Caleb. He comes from the west.
It's so big.
It destroyed our whole village.
You must all flee.
What are you talking about? Caleb!
Catch your breath.
(Coughing)
It comes this way.
What does?
You must see it.
There.
Whoa.
What is it?
We estimate the ship to be about two miles in diameter.
The curtain of energy it's using to sweep the landscape
stretches for over
it seems to be depositing
a yet unknown gas—like substance
that is spreading like awake behind the ship.
Now, it extends beyond the range of the u.A.V.,
but it appears to cover hundreds of miles.
Teal'c said he hadn't seen the technology before.
We're still waiting for the analysis of
the atmospheric samples taken by the u.A.V.,
butyou can see the damage being done.
There don't appear to be any recognizable
or discerning markings on the ship.
If there's any good news,
it would appear that whoever's in control
doesn't have the specific intention
of attacking the enkarans.
Why do you say that?
Uh, it just seems there would be
a more direct approach.
What difference does it make?
Sir, the colonel is right.
Based on the ship's current speed,
I estimate it'll take approximately
26 hours to reach hedrazar's village.
But it'll take out the Stargate first.
Can we evacuate the enkarans in time?
Teal'c's preppin' them right now.
Carter: The concern is where to send them.
I mean, even low levels of radiation
can cause the enkarans to go blind.
Without the density of ozone
on this particular planet
they'll all die.
Jackson: The only other planet we know of
with similar conditions
is the original enkaran home world,
and according to enkaran verbal history,
there's no Stargate there.
Right, the Goa'uld kidnapped their ancestors with ships.
Even if we had a method of transportation,
the enkarans of today would have no concept
of where that planet is in the galaxy.
I'll put sg—5, 6, and 9 out
looking for another suitable planet.
It's doubtfulthey'll find one in time, sir.
Well, how long can we keep the enkarans
here on earth in the meantime?
A matter of days.
Their condition would degrade
the longer they were here.
There are thousands of them outside hedrazar's village,
spread a fair distance from the gate.
It took us two weeks to transplant them to p5s381
in the first place.
The point is, general, we could never save them all.
Hey... what have you got?
The analysis of the atmosphere in the wake of the ship
shows a high incidence of sulfur dioxide.
Chemical warfare?
I don't think so, sir.
Take a look at this.
Oh, yeah. Little... Fuzzy orange things.
They're microbes, sir.
The alien ship is depositing them
on the planet's surface.
Now, as near as I can tell,
they bond with sulfur leach ed out of the soil.
And when they decay,
they release sulfur dioxide.
So, the big, mean alien ship
is trying to stink up the planet?
It's a little bit more than that, sir.
The microbes are only deposited after all of
the native organisms have been destroyed.
I thinkthey're meant to replace them.
Now, if my theory is correct,
we're looking at
the first building blocks of an alien ecosystem.
It's aterraform.
It's changing the environment
to support an entirely different kind of life.
An organic system based on sulfur instead of carbon.
So, if the ship is allowed to continue the process,
the whole planet will be a remain?
Well, all I know for sure is thatthe atmosphere
on the other side of that energy curtain
will not support life as we know it.
What's goin' on?
They do not wish to leave, O'Neill.
Teal'c says you don't want to go?
If we go with you to earth
and you cannot find another world
on which we could live,
we will die there.
Give us a chance.
Hedrazar: Would there be time to take every en karan?
No.
We cannot leave our people behind.
Look, I understand how you feel.
Eliam: Generations ago,
our ancestors were kidnapped from their home world
andtaken away in giant ships.
Since then, we have all prayed for a place
that we could call home.
Than ks to you, we have found it.
We must stay here and fight for it.
With what?
Have you not weapons to aid us?
We're gonna try to communicate
with whoever's on that ship first.
Clearly they intend to destroy us.
We don't know anything for sure.
Hedrazar: I know that if the enkaran people are to die,
then we shall all die here...
Together.
Transmitter's now operational, sir.
Let's hope we get a bite.
Think a well—placed stinger would do some damage?
No, we have now way of knowing
what material the ship's made of, sir.
Teal'c: Or if it possesses shield technology.
Ah, just fantasizin'.
Any intelligence capable of engineering
something like that
has to be capable of reason.
Question is, will they listen?
Well, the real question is...
Will they have ears?
Somebody heard something.
It appears to be a storage facility
of some kind.
I'm going to assume we're on—board that ship.
Well, you know what's strange?
The aliens wentto so much trouble
to change the atmosphere of the planet,
yetthe air in here is perfectly breathable.
They were expecting us.
Carter?
Sir?
Should we really be opening drawers andthings?
What did I just say?
Sorry.
Looks like some kind of tissue sample.
Of what?
I'm not sure.
The ship's terraforming the planet, right?
What if these are the life forms
it's creating the new environment for?
Re—creating an entire civilization.
Millions of samples.
So... every one of these things is... a what?
Plant, animal, insect.
Alien?
Who knows?
It's still just a guess.
Man: A good one.
I am lotan.
You need not fear me.
Yeah. Listen, uh, what's goin' on around here?
I've been assembled in order to more easily facilitate
communication between this ship, as you call it, and yourselves.
Assembled, you say.
Lotan: I'm a biomechanical representation
of the beings now occupying this planet.
When they were first encountered,
several enkarans were scanned by the ship
and a randomized but similar appearance was selected.
Wait a second, that was yesterday.
This ship analyzed a new life form
and created a replica in one day?
Yes.
Fascinating design.
I suppose that explains why you look like an enkaran.
Sort of.
You are not.
Uh... no, we're from a planet called earth.
Uh, this is major Samantha Carter,
I'm Daniel Jackson, this is... Jack O'Neill,
an d——and this is Teal'c.
O'Neill: Actually, we're friends of the people
your ship seems bent on wiping out.
Yes, that is unfortunate.
I was created to deliver a message to them.
However, by the time I was completed,
the enkarans in the immediate vicinity
seemed to have disappeared.
Yeah, see, that's called running away.
What one does to avoid being slaughtered.
There are still quite a few enkarans living on the planet.
Since you are friends of the enkarans,
would you deliver the message to them?
That would depen d.
Lotan: When the transformation process
was first begun,
there were no sentient life forms present.
Yeah, well, there are now.
Yes.
Unfortunately for your friends,
once the process has begun,
it must be completed.
Are you saying someone went to the trouble of making you
justto come here to tell those folks,
"tough luck. Get out"?
We wish no harm to come to the enkarans.
However, upon examination of their physiology,
it has been determined
that they will not be able to exist
in the planet's transformed environment.
So, stop transforming.
Jack, th ey're just trying to get the point across
the best way possible.
I know whatthe point is. He's a p.R. Guy.
Ithinkwe should be talking to your boss.
Assumption of hierarchical command structure.
Interesting.
Follow me.
Lotan: The ship is fully automated.
The beings that built it are called the gadmere.
Not exactly e.T.
They've placed all of their knowledge
within the ship's memory:
Science, mathematics,
medicine, art, philosophy.
10,000 years of civilization.
This is their legacy.
They were a very advanced race
compared to th e enkaran s.
However, they were also...
Peaceful.
And fell victim
to a superior military power.
So they builtthis ship in the hopes
thattheir world would be born again,
far from the reach of their enemies.
This is—— this is fascinating.
I'd love a chance to study some of th e...
Lotan: I can provide you with translations.
Your language is simple by comparison.
Excuse me.
About why we're here...
The ship has only enough raw material
to transform one planet.
Now that the transformation has been started,
it must be finished here...
Or the entire gadmere civilization
will be lost forever.
The enkarans must leave or they will die.
All right, now, see, rightthere
we've got a problem.
The enkarans cannot leave.
Their lives depend on the very rare environmental conditions
that are unique to this planet.
That is unfortunate.
That's it?
Please explain the situation to the enkarans.
Carter: But...
They're back.
Well?
Did you speak with the aliens?
In a way.
It did not go well.
No...
It didn't.
Carter: The tests on the alien microbes
show thatthey are also vulnerable to U.V. radiation.
That's probably why they chose this planet.
The dense ozone layer.
Among other things, I'm sure.
The same conditions that make p5538! Ideal for the enkarans
make it ideal for the transformation.
Can this information be used
to stop the alien ship?
I'm not sure how, sir.
That's assuming we have a right
to stop them at all.
Excuse me?
I don't mean to sound insensitive to the enkarans,
but we'd be interfering with the rebirth of an entire civilization.
If you believe lotan, an incredibly advanced,
civilized, and peaceful one.
So the best society wins here?
No, I wasn't saying that.
We're talking about a bunch of freeze—dried aliens
whose civilization was lost a long time ago.
The enkarans are there now.
I don't want to see anything happen to them either.
Hammond: What about this robot?
Could he be convinced to delay the transformation long enough
for us to relocate the enkarans?
A robot is a robot, sir.
He's basicallyjust a messenger, sir.
But he was created in the image of the enkarans
so that they could relate to him,
understand his explanation
for what was happening and why.
That could work to our advantage.
How?
It might make him more sympathetic
to their plight.
It's a robot.
He is an incredibly advanced alien creation.
We shouldn't just assume that he's incapable
of reason or feelings.
Well, he didn't seem very concerned with helping.
If he's capable of learning,
we might be able to get him to think
outside of his programming.
What if he isn't and we can't?
What do you propose, colonel?
I say we th row everything we've got at that ship.
I'm sorry, I can't authorize a military strike
in this situation, colonel.
Look, general, I apologize if all this
seems to have taken on a personal edge for me.
But we spent months getting to know these people.
They trusted us, and we screwed up.
I understand your feeling.
We've all invested a lot in this operation.
No one wants to see it end up badly
for the en karans.
But you're not going to give me any effective weapons
or personnel.
Find another way out of this.
Dismissed.
The alien ship draws closer.
Hedrazar, you can still save the people of your village.
Our resolve has not changed.
We will not aban Don the rest of our people.
Did general Hammond not authorize you to bring
additional troops and weapons?
No, he didn't.
You brought us to this planet.
We trusted you when you told us it was safe.
I know.
You gave us technology to build our cities,
to provide heat.
Have you not any way to stop the ship?
How much naquada is in that reactor we gave them?
Sir? What are you doing?
Thinking, Daniel.
Don't worry about it too much.
Thinking of away to blow up the ship?
I'm not really sure that's what general Hammond had in mind.
They're gonna standthere and die.
It's a no—win situation.
But we're not gonna sit around
and watch these people get slaughtered.
And you're willing to blow up that ship—...
Give me another choice.
Well, I don't have one at the moment.
Apparently. Time is a factor here.
How do you make a naquada bomb?
Well, sir, the reactor was designed
specifically to prevent exactly that kin d—...
Carter.
Th eoretically,
if I created a feedback loop,
the energy would build up instead of being released.
It would be a big explosion, sir.
Big enough?
I think so.
Carter,
I'm making a choice to help these people.
But if you don't make that bomb,
I'm out of options.
I know.
So I have to order you to do it.
Yes, sir.
How controlled is this going to be?
The focus of the blast will be aimed upward.
This Ridge should protect th e village,
butthis is as close as iwould put it.
I modified this remote
to start the feedback loop.
About a minute after you press the button,
the reactor should reach critical overload and blow.
The ship's e.T.A.?
About 5 zero minutes, sir.
But we should detonate before it's directly overhead.
There's no telling what that energy beam will do
to th e reactor.
There's one more thing, sir.
Once you detonate the reactor, there's no turning back.
The overload can't be stopped.
All right.
Daniel Jackson.
Do you not plan on staying?
Uh, no, actually,
I'm going to go try to talk to lotan.
If you warn lotan of our plan, it will prove ineffectual.
I'm not going to give anything away.
I just...
Want to try to prevent it from being necessary.
So do you not remain until the return of colonel O'Neill
and major Carter?
Actually, Jack asked me to give him another choice,
so technically, I'm following an order.
Hello, Daniel Jackson.
Hi.
Are the enkarans going to leave the planet?
Actually, the enkarans have nowhere else to go.
That is...
Tough luck.
While you were gone, itookthe opportunity
to breathe some of the sulfur—based environment
being created by the ship.
How is it?
Not good.
(Feedback, static)
This music has not been heard in over a thousan d years.
It's nice.
It sounds very unpleasant to me.
Really?
Yes.
This is not how it should sound.
How so?
It seems the design of your ears,
my ears,
is not meant for it.
Um...
To be honest with you, I'm here to see
if you'll consider alternate solutions
to the problem faced by the enkarans.
I am not programmed to solve the problem
faced by the en karans.
Right.
Let me ask you something.
What will happen to you when this is all over?
I will be reintegrated into the ship's systems.
You mean you'll die?
Yes, I suppose that is one interpretation.
Do you want to die?
What I want is irrelevant.
Wouldn't you like to experience
a little more of what it's like
to be an enkaran before you're reintegrated?
See some of the planet
before it's completely transformed
and maybe even meetthe people.
For what purpose?
Because it might help you consider alternate solutions.
I am not programmed
to consider alternate solutions.
You said the ship will continue to process without you, correct?
Yes, as I have said,
its function is fully automated.
Well, there. Then no harm done.
We'll just—...
We'll have a look around.
Sir,
no disrespect intended, but I'm having doubts
as to whether or not we're doing the rightthing.
What is that, Carter?
The rightthing.
We brought these people here.
They depend on us. What else are we going to do?
I don't know.
Do you want to talk me out of this?
Yes, sir.
Stay in contact.
Yes, sir.
The air is not as pure as that created for me on the ship.
It's definitely different.
This is better.
I agree.
These are trees.
Yes.
Anywhere there's oxygen,
you're sure to find trees.
They're, uh...
They're kind of like nature's air filters.
Their design is most interesting.
So is their function.
Daniel Jackson has gone
to speak with lotan.
Did you tryto stop him?
I do not disagree with his intentions.
You do know we're gonna try and blow up that ship
I am aware of that,
as is Daniel Jackson.
Daniel?
Daniel, come in.
Jackson: I read you, Jack.
Tell me——tell me you're not on that ship!
Ok, I'm not on the ship
what are you doing, Daniel?
I'm talking to lotan.
Is he gonna tell him aboutthe bomb?
He said he would not reveal our plan.
Sir, we only have
Daniel, do you know whattime it is?
I am trying to give you another choice.
What?
Uh, hang on. We're on our way back to the village.
Jackson: Over and out.
You have disobeyed your superior.
No, not exactly.
You are not fulfilling your function, Daniel Jackson.
See, that's nottrue.
I'm just——I'm choosing the best way
to fulfill my true function.
See, sometimes hierarchical command structures
don't allow you to consider
all the possible options.
I see.
Let's, um...
Let's go to the village.
Daniel?
Lotan wanted to meetthe enkarans.
Carter: 10 minutes, sir.
Hello, Dr. Jackson.
Hello, eliam.
This is lotan.
He looks en karan.
Buti have not met him before.
Lotan is a representative
of the aliens who builtthe ship.
He was created in your image
in order to better communicate the ship's mission
and the danger you were in.
Yet, he does not stop it.
No.
Jackson: Lotan, this is eliam.
This is his wife, nikka, andthis is hedrazar,
the leader of the village.
Are you now able to see
the lives that will be extinguished
if your ship continues its current path?
Yes, lotan is aware of that.
She is without sight.
Jackson: It's something that was happening to them
on a planet when we first met.
They were dying.
Andthis isthe only planetwe could find
where we knew that they could survive.
I am aware of their physiological needs.
Yes, of course.
Lotan: That one is going to give birth.
Yes, to a new enkaran life.
There will be no enkaran life at all
if your ship does not stop.
Ithinkwe're all aware of the situation.
Yes, you have brought me here
to illicit sympathy for these people.
Well, actually,
they're your people in away, lotan.
You were created in their image.
I was not created to prevent their demise, Daniel Jackson.
But don't you wish you could?
The ship calls me back.
Why?
I must go.
Take me with you.
No. Daniel. No!
5 minutes, sir.
O'Neill: Lotan justtook Daniel back onto the ship.
What? Sir...
O'Neill: He asked to go.
What are we gonna do, sir? The ship is almost in position.
The ship has detected an unusual device.
It appears to be capable of emitting
great amounts of energy.
Is this device intended to try and stop the ship,
as the enkaran named eliam suggested?
Look, lotan, I don't agree with what they're doing,
but I also don't want to see you wipe outthose people.
If they will not leave,
there is no other option.
The ship is in position, sir.
If you're gonna do it, you have to do it now.
Daniel Jackson has made his choice, O'Neill.
Yeah.
The device has entered an active state.
Lotan, if you wanted to, can you stop the ship?
As I have said—...
Yes, I know what you said. It's not about what you want.
Just, please—— Just answer the question.
Can you stop the ship?
It would be possible, yes.
Ok. Then think about this.
Think about the people down there
and all the life that you will be destroying.
I am programmed to serve the life on this ship
You say that they were an advanced civilization,
10,000 years of history?
Yes.
They had laws? Justice?
Yes.
A respect for life?
Yes.
Then how can their world be recreated
through an act of mass murder?
Wouldn't that be a betrayal of everything they stood for?
You said you were made to communicate.
You're not here simplyto serve life on this ship
you're here to protect the integrity of life
on this ship.
There's a big difference.
Are you really fulfilling your true function
by allowing this to happen?
60 seconds to detonation.
The ship has stopped, O'Neill.
Daniel must have gotten through to him.
Daniel, if you can hear me,
you've got 30 seconds.
O'Neill: 3—0. Over.
Um, about that device...
It is still active?
Yes, can you do anything about that?
Do you know how to deactivate it?
No.
Intriguing design.
Uh, yeah, lotan, we really don't have time for this.
How much time do we have?
Wh—what is going on?
The ship remains.
A powerful explosive.
We were desperate.
The conflict remains unresolved.
I must eventually resume
the transformation process on this planet,
or the gadmere civilization will be lost.
I know.
Many millions of planets were scanned...
To match the right conditions for the transformation.
Only one met the specifications.
Just out of curiosity,
were any others even close?
2,634 parameters had to be exactly right in order for—...
For the transformation process, yes,
but what about for the en karans?
I do not understand.
Well, maybe the en karans
don't need exactly the same environment
as th e transformation process,
just a very similar one.
And you know their physiology
better than anyone.
Do any of the plan ets scanned by the ship
match the needs of the enkarans?
Here.
This planet would be appropriate for the enkarans.
I regretthati did not consider this possibility,
Daniel Jackson.
Well, you would have gotten there eventually.
This planet was rejected by the ship
because 3 of the parameters were not correct.
The core temperature was too warm,
the size was too large,
and there were intelligent life forms already present.
Intelligent life forms?
Based on the description, I believe they were enkaran.
So, what shall we do now?
What? What is it?
It's ok.
Don't——don't be afraid.
What's going on?
Lotan would like to offer you a compromise.
The ship has expended too many of the resources
needed for the transformation process to begin again
on another planet.
I require that you give up this world.
How is that a compromise?
We foundthe original enkaran home world.
What?
How?
It was one of several million planets
scanned by the ship before it settled on this one,
and it was rejected partly because of the presence
of intelligent life forms.
He's telling us this now?
Well, he didn't know,
and technically, he's just a day and a half old,
so give him a break.
Hedrazar: We will gladly acceptthis offer
to return to the home of our ancestors.
How do we getthem there?
The enkaran home world has no Stargate.
Well, actually, I have this friend
with a big spaceship
who is willing to take them.
Is this possible?
Yes.
Once you are safely to your home planet,
iwill be reintegrated into the ship's systems,
and the ship will return here
to complete the transformation process.
Does that have to happen?
The part about you being reintegrated?
What other option is there?
But you are enkaran. You must stay with us.
That is not contrary to my programming.
Lotan says thank you. He'd like that very much.
Spread the word among the villages.
We are going home.
(Murmuring)