Hundreds of villages like this one have paused...
..to celebrate the transportation of our people to this great new land.
We are especially honoured 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.
I meant what I said.
- You are all heroes to my people. - It was our pleasure.
When my grandchild 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 since you last visited.
Our atmospheric-monitoring equipment is indicating that.
We only had a short time to assess the conditions,...
..but it appears you may be in for a more severe winter than we predicted.
We are a hearty people. We will survive.
The naqahdah reactor should provide enough energy...
..to heat your new city for a year.
Well, you've certainly accomplished a lot already.
And it has only been but one cycle of the moon.
Come back in a year and you will find this planet transformed.
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.
- 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 20 miles.
It seems to be depositing an unknown gas-like substance...
..that is spreading like a wake behind the ship.
It extends beyond the range of the UAV, but it appears to cover hundreds of miles.
Teal'c hasn't seen the technology before.
We're waiting for the analysis of the atmospheric samples,...
..but you can see the damage being done.
There don't appear to be any recognisable markings on the ship.
It would appear that whoever's in control...
..doesn't have the intention of attacking the Enkarans.
Why do you say that?
It just seems it would be a more direct approach.
- What difference does it make? - The colonel is right.
Based on the ship's speed, I estimate it'll take 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' 'em right now.
The concern is where to send them.
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.
The only planet with similar conditions is their home world.
According to Enkaran verbal history, there's no Stargate there.
The Goa'uld kidnapped their ancestors with ships.
Even if we had transport, the Enkarans of today...
..would have no concept of where that planet is.
I'll put SG-5, 6 and 9 out looking for another suitable planet.
It's doubtful they'll find one in time, sir.
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.
It took us two weeks to transplant them to P5S-381 in the first place.
The point is, General, we could never save them all.
Hey. Whaddaya got?
The atmosphere in the wake of the ship...
..shows a high incidence of sulphur dioxide.
- Chemical warfare? - I don't think so, sir. Take a look at this.
Oh, yeah.
Little... fuzzy orange things.
- They're microbes, sir. - Ah.
The alien ship is depositing them on the planet surface.
As near as I can tell, they bond with sulphur leeched out of the soil,...
..and when they decay they release sulphur dioxide.
So the big, mean alien ship is trying to stink up the planet?
It's a bit more than that.
The microbes are only deposited after all native organisms have been destroyed.
I think they're meant to replace them.
If I'm correct, we're looking at the first building blocks of an alien ecosystem.
It's a terraformer?
It's changing the environment to support an entirely different kind of life.
An organic system based on sulphur instead of carbon.
If it's allowed to continue, the whole planet will be remade?
All I know is that the 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 wanna 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. - Is there time to take every Enkaran?
No.
- We cannot leave our people behind. - Look, I understand how you feel...
Generations ago our ancestors were kidnapped from their home world...
..and taken away in giant ships.
Since then we have all prayed for a place that we could call home.
- Thanks 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.
I know that if the Enkaran people are to die, then we shall all die here, together.
Transmitter's operational. Let's hope we get a bite.
Think a well-placed stinger would do some damage?
We have no way of knowing what the ship's made of, sir.
- Or if it possesses shield technology. - Ah, just fantasising.
Any intelligence capable of engineering that thing has to be capable of reason.
The question is, will they listen?
No, 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.
It's strange. The aliens went to so much trouble...
..to change the atmosphere of the planet, yet the air in here is perfectly breathable.
They were expecting us.
- Carter? - Sir?
Should we really be opening drawers and things?
What did I just say?
Sorry.
Looks like some kind of tissue sample.
- Of what? - I'm not sure.
Ship's terraforming the planet, right?
What if these are the life forms it's creating the environment for?
- Recreating an entire civilisation. - 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, what's goin' on around here?
I have been assembled in order to facilitate communication...
..between this ''ship'', as you call it, and yourselves.
Assembled?
I am a biomechanical representation of the beings now occupying this planet.
When they were encountered, several Enkarans were scanned.
A randomised but similar appearance was selected.
Wait a second. That was yesterday.
The ship analysed a new life form and created a replicant in one day?
Yes.
Fascinating design.
I suppose that explains why you look like an Enkaran.
Sort of.
- You are not. - No, we're from a planet called Earth.
Major Samantha Carter. Daniel Jackson. This is Jack O'Neill and this is Teal'c.
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 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 depend.
When the transformation process was begun,...
..there were no sentient life forms present.
- Yeah, well, there are now. - Yes.
Unfortunately, once the process has begun, it must be completed.
Someone went to the trouble of making you, just to say ''Tough luck, get out''?
We wish no harm to come to the Enkarans.
However, examination of their physiology has determined...
..that they cannot exist in the transformed environment.
So stop transforming.
- If I can just try and get the point across... - I know what the point is. He's a PR guy.
I think we should be talking to your boss.
Assumption of hierarchal command structure.
Interesting.
Follow me.
The ship is fully automated.
The beings that built it are called the Gad-Meer.
Not exactly ET.
They placed all of their knowledge within the ship's memory.
Science, mathematics, medicine, art, philosophy...
Ten thousand years of civilisation.
This is their legacy.
They were a very advanced race compared to the Enkarans.
However, they were also... peaceful,...
..and fell victim to a superior military power.
So they built this ship in the hopes that their world would be born again,...
..far from the reach of their enemies.
This is, uh, this is fascinating. I'd love a chance to study some of that.
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 the transformation has been started, it must be finished here,...
..or the entire Gad-Meer civilisation will be lost for ever.
The Enkarans must leave or they will die.
- Now, see, right there we got a problem. - The Enkarans cannot leave.
Their lives depend on the very rare 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.
The tests on the alien microbes show that they are also vulnerable to UV radiation.
That's probably why they chose this planet.
- The dense ozone layer. - Among other things, I'm sure.
The same conditions that make P5S-381 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? - Not to be insensitive to the Enkarans,...
..but we'd be interfering with the rebirth of an entire civilisation.
If you believe Lotan, an incredibly advanced, civilised and peaceful one.
- So the best society wins here? - No, I wasn't saying that.
We're talkin' about freeze-dried aliens whose civilisation was lost long ago.
- The Enkarans are there now. - I don't want anything to happen to them.
Could this robot be convinced to delay the transformation...
..long enough for us to relocate the Enkarans?
- Robot's a robot, sir. - He's basically just a messenger, sir.
But he was created in the image of the Enkarans so that they could relate to him.
- Now, that could work to our advantage. - How?
Well, 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 get him outside his programming.
What if he isn't and we can't?
What do you propose, Colonel?
I say we throw everything we've got at that ship.
I'm sorry. I can't authorise a military strike in this situation, Colonel.
Look, General, I apologise if 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 Enkarans.
But you're not gonna 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 abandon the rest of our people.
Did General Hammond not authorise troops and weapons?
No, he didn't.
You brought us here. We trusted you when you told us it was safe.
- I know. - You gave us technology to build cities,...
..to provide heat. Have you not any way to stop the ship?
- How much naqahdah is in that reactor? - Sir?
- What are you doing? - Thinking. Don't worry about it too much.
Of a way to blow up the ship? I'm not sure that's what Hammond had in mind.
They're gonna stand there and die.
It's a no-win situation. We're not gonna sit around and watch them get slaughtered.
- You'd 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 naqahdah bomb?
Well, sir, the reactor was designed to prevent exactly that kind...
Carter.
Theoretically, 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 gonna be? - The blast will be aimed upward.
This ridge should protect the village, but this is as close as I would put it.
I've modified this remote to start the feedback loop.
About a minute after you press the button, the reactor should blow.
- Ship's ETA? - About five-zero minutes, sir.
But we should detonate before it's overhead.
There's no telling what that energy beam will do to the reactor.
- OK. - 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?
- You do not plan on staying? - No, actually.
I'm gonna go try to talk to Lotan.
If you warn Lotan of our plan, it will prove ineffectual.
I won't give anything away. I just wanna try to prevent it from being necessary.
Should you not wait for the return of Colonel O'Neill?
He 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, I breathed some of the sulphur-based environment...
..being created by the ship.
- How is it? - Not good.
(discordant noise)
This music has not been heard in over a thousand years.
- It's nice. - It sounds very unpleasant to me.
Really?
- Yes. This is not how it should sound. - (noise stops)
- 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 Enkarans.
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 wanna die? - What I want is irrelevant.
Wouldn't you like to experience...
..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 meet the people? - For what purpose?
It might help you consider alternate solutions.
I'm not programmed for alternate solutions.
The ship will continue the 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 have doubts as to whether or not we're doing the right thing.
What is that, Carter? The right thing?
We brought these people here. They depend on us.
- What else are we gonna do? - I don't know.
- Do you wanna talk me outta 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... 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 try to 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. - I read you, Jack.
Tell me, tell me you're not on that ship!
OK, I'm not on the ship.
- What are you doin', Daniel? - I'm talking to Lotan.
- Is he gonna tell him about the bomb? - He said he would not reveal our plan.
Sir, we only have 15 minutes.
Daniel, do you know what time it is?
I am trying to give you another choice.
What?
Hang on. We're on our way back to the village. Over and out.
You have disobeyed your superior.
No, not... exactly.
- You are not fulfilling your function. - That's not true.
I'm just... I'm choosing the best way to fulfil my true function.
Hierarchal command structures don't allow you to consider all of the options.
I see.
Let's, um... Iet's go to the village.
Daniel?
Lotan wanted to meet the Enkarans.
(Carter) Ten minutes, sir.
Hello, Dr Jackson.
Hello, Eliam.
This is Lotan.
He looks Enkaran. But I have not met him before.
Lotan is a representative of the aliens who built the ship.
He was created in your image in order to better communicate the danger you're in.
- Yet he does not stop it. - No.
Lotan, this is Eliam.
This is his wife Nikka, and this is Hedrazar, the leader of the village.
Are you 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.
It was happening to them on the planet when we first met. They were dying.
This is the only planet we could find where we knew they could survive.
- I am aware of their physiological needs. - Yes, of course.
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.
I think we're all aware of the situation.
Yes. You have brought me here to elicit sympathy for these people.
Well, actually they're your people in a way, 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!
- Five minutes, sir. - Lotan took Daniel back onto the ship.
- What?! Sir... - He asked to go.
Well, 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 Eliam suggested?
Look, I don't agree with what they're doing,...
..but I also don't wanna see you wipe out those people.
If they will not leave, there is no other option.
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, it's not about what you want.
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 civilisation, 10,000 years of history?
Yes.
- They had laws, justice? - Yes.
- A respect for life? - Yes.
Then how can their world be re-created 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 to 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.
(whispers) The ship has stopped.
Daniel must've gotten through to him.
Daniel, if you can hear me, you've got 30 seconds.
Three zero. 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?
Five, four, three,...
..two, one.
- 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 Gad-Meer civilisation 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 Enkarans?
I do not understand.
Maybe they don't need exactly the same environment...
..as the transformation process, just a similar one.
You know their physiology. Do any of the planets scanned match their needs?
Here.
This planet would be appropriate for the Enkarans.
I regret that I did not consider this possibility, Daniel Jackson.
Well, you would've gotten there eventually.
This planet was rejected because three 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 is it? - It's OK.
Don't, uh... don't be afraid.
What's goin' 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 found the original Enkaran home world.
- What? - How?
It was one of several million planets scanned by the ship before this one.
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.
We will gladly accept this offer to return to the home of our ancestors.
- How do we get them there? - Their home world has no Stargate.
Well, actually I have this friend with a big spaceship who's willing to take them.
- Is this possible? - Yes.
Once you are safely to your home planet, I will be reintegrated into the ship,...
..and the ship will return to complete the transformation.
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!
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