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"The Fifth Race"

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Plot

Template:Sgspoiler SG-1 visits the planet P3R-272 and find themselves in a room with a circle inscription in the middle. Col. Jack O'Neill steps over the circle and immediately a device comes out of the wall. Teal'c takes a close look at it but only sees blackness with colored lights. Then O'Neill takes a look at it and it grabs his head for a few seconds much to the concern of his team. Once the device lets go of O'Neill's head he collapses into unconsciousness.

SG-1 travels back to Stargate Command and O'Neill is checked for injury but none is found. SG-1 is in the debriefing room with General Hammond when O'Neill replaces a common word with an unknown one. General Hammond then orders him to stay on base for a while so they can keep tabs on him. O'Neill's language condition starts getting worse and soon he is replacing common words with unknown words frequently.

Jack along with Teal'c go to Daniel's office to see if they can find out what is happening to him. They discover that he is actually speaking Ancient. O'Neill is able to read the Ancients writing that Daniel has been working on deciphering and also starts doing complex equations on a chalk board. Carter, perplexed by the equations states that not even the basic equations make sense; Jack responds by handing Daniel a paper that says 10=8, this is to state that the equations are using base 8 math as opposed to the base 10 commonly used. It turns out to be a revolutionary way of calculating the distance between planets. O'Neill is taken back to Dr. Frasier for tests and it is discovered that he is using 90% of his brain capacity compared to 10% for a normal human. They figure out that the device was a repository of the Ancients where the Ancients left their knowledge and the device downloaded it into O'Neill's brain. The information was slowly taking over his brain and eventually he was no longer able to speak English.

General Hammond is then requested in the control room. They find O'Neill writing new machine code into the computer mainframe. Gen. Hammond then orders him to stop but O'Neill replies that he can't. Teal'c is then forced to physically stop him. When O'Neill's code runs, Captain Carter informs everyone that the code he was typing into the computer, has added new gate destinations, previously not from Abydos cartouche. SG-1 besides O'Neill and Daniel are sent off on a mission to one of the new gate addresses that O'Neill has sent entered (P9Q-281), in hopes they might find some information into how to help Jack. While the rest of SG-1 are on the mission, Jack starts building a device which he himself doesn't know the purpose of.

After he completes it, Daniel tells O'Neill that SG-1 is stuck on the planet and may die since a second sun has risen up on the planet causing temperatures which are unsurvivable and the dialing device is stuck mid-dial. Jack then writes up instructions on how to fix the DHD and it is sent through the gate to SG-1. SG-1 returns home safely but were not able to find anything which could help Jack's problem. Soon after, the computer dials a gate address and cannot be overridden. Carter informs Hammond that the gate needs more power to activate. Meanwhile Teal'c and Daniel Jackson follow Jack to the power room where he hooks up the device that he had made. Carter then tells Hammond at the control room that the Gate has suddenly gotten the amount of power it needed. The Gate dials on its own, and a wormhole is established at its eighth chevron. Jack, Daniel and Teal'c then enter the control room they figure out that the gate has dialed outside of the galaxy and the eighth chevron is for a distance calculation to that galaxy.

Gen. Hammond allows Jack to go through the gate. Jack, upon arriving on the other side, makes contact with the Asgard. The Asgard remove the memory of the Ancients from his brain. They explain to him that the information was not meant for him as his brain was not developed enough for it. Though his subconscious mind brought him to Othalla, in the galaxy of Ida where he could get help. They have been monitoring Earth some time and discovered that humans have great potential. The Asgard inform him about the Ancients and how they were an alliance of Four Great Races (the Ancients, Asgard, Nox, and Furlings), and that O'Neill's race was advancing to become the Fifth Great Race and he had taken the first step. Jack is then sent home through the Stargate with none of the Ancient knowledge and has faith in humanity..

Quotes

  • O'Neill: Apparently I've lost the filatis to speak properly! (a pause) That wasn't a joke. I didn't do that on purpose.

Notes

Wikiquote has quotations related to The Fifth Race (Stargate SG-1).
  • This marks the first episode that the Ancients are mentioned.
  • Also this is the first episode in which a Repository of the Ancients is shown. The second is found in the Season 7 episode Lost City (Part 1), where it helps to find the lost city of the Ancients.
  • In this episode it is revealed that the Stargate can be used to travel to another galaxy by dialing eight symbols. However it needs massive amounts of energy.
  • It is revealed that the Ancients used the octal number system.
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