New Order (Stargate SG-1)

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Stargate SG-1 episode
“New Order (Parts 1 & 2)”
Episode no.	Season 8 Episode 1 & 2
Guest star(s)	Torri Higginson as Dr. Elizabeth Weir Patrick Currie as Fifth Kira Clavell as Amaterasu Steve Bacic as Camulus Gary Jones as Technician Kevan Ohtsji as Oshu Vince Crestejo as Yu The Great David DeLuise as Pete Shanahan James Bamford as Replicator
Writer(s)	Joseph Mallozzi, Paul Mullie and Robert C. Cooper
Director	Andy Mikita
Production no.	801 & 802
Original airdate	July 9, 2004
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"New Order" (Parts 1 and 2) are the Season 8 premiere episodes of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. The episode earned a 2.4 Nielsen Rating, a new record high for the show during its run on cable, which has since been tied, but never beaten. It also became the most-watched regular series episode ever for the Sci Fi Channel, drawing 3.22 million viewers.

Contents 1 Plot 1.1 Part 1 1.2 Part 2 2 Notes 3 Quotes 4 External links

[edit] Plot

[edit] Part 1

At Stargate Command Dr. Jackson plans to go to Antarctica but then Dr. Weir enters and tells him that the talks stalled again. He gets angry about the situation but because she can't do anything she leaves. She later talks with SG-1 and its members protest that they are not allowed to use the Stargate. She tells them that they can't use it because they want to show their goodwill to the world. Major Carter then proposes using the modified Tel'tak to get to Othala to contact the Asgard, who could help Col. O'Neill. However Weir denies that request since they perhaps need that ship in the future to fend off the Goa'uld and because the engines could burn out on the flight.

Later Carter talks with Weir privately and asks her to reconsider her request but she denies. However when Carter threatens to refuse to work on the modified cargo ship, she gets the allowance. Carter then talks with Teal'c about their flight and when Daniel enters he is informed that he has to stay because if the two fail he would be the only one left to help O'Neill. Some times later Carter and Teal'c fly through hyperspace to Halla and during the flight Carter tries to find out how O'Neill modified the engines but she can't find out how he did it. She then tries to start a conversation with Teal'c but it isn't a long talk.

At SGC Daniel again talks with Weir about the talks between the nations when suddenly the gate is activated. They receive a text message of Camulus, a Goa'uld System Lord, who wants to arrange a meeting between Earth and the System Lords. Weir is then authorized by the President to start negotiations and Daniel informs her about the System Lords, their behavior and their representatives, especially Lord Yu.

Meanwhile Carter and Teal'c reach Halla but find that the Halla sun has become a black hole and that their engines have burned out. They are unable to break free from the gravitational forces of the black hole. They try tranferring shield power to the engines without effect; the hull breaks apart as they are beamed out by Thor. He informs them that the Asgard collapsed the sun to create a black hole to permanently destroy the Replicators on Halla. They estimated that it would take the human-form Replicators two years to reach the time-dilation device used to trap them, so a more permanent solution was devised. As they talk a large block of Replicators, who have reversed the time-dilation device to speed time and their own evolution, form a ship using the energy and matter from the accretion disk of the black hole and escape just before crossing the event horizon, heading towards Thor's ship. They try to escape but the Replicators fire a Replicator-infested projectile on them and board the ship. While Carter and Teal'c start to destroy the Replicators Carter is beamed away by the Replicator ship, which then enters hyperspace.

On Earth the representatives arrive and they reveal that since Anubis' defeat, the System Lords shared his power but Ba'al took control over Anubis' forces, found Tartarus and that he plans to attack the worlds protected by the Protected Planets Treaty. They ask if they could use the Ancient weapon against Baal. After a break the System Lords offer them hyperspace engines as powerful as a Ha'tak for a fleet of Earth ships to take the fight to Baal but Weir declines. Instead she proposes that Earth gets Ba'al's territory after they defeated him but the System Lords decline this offer. Afterwards the Goa'uld contact their allies.

In the Asgard galaxy Thor follows the Replicators, which head towards Orilla, the new Asgard homeworld, rich with neutronium. It is the key component in Asgard technology, the means for the Replicators to make thousands and construct Human Replicators. Meanwhile on the Replicator ship Carter is confronted by Fifth, who is angry about her since she betrayed him. He then rams his hand in her head and starts to torture her. He does this for some time, so that Carter can fell the pain he felt at her betrayal. But once he sees just how much pain Carter is in, he relents. Meanwhile Thor proposes to self destruct his ship to destroy both ships and Teal'c agrees. However before they reach the Replicators, the ship looses power because of surviving Replicators on the ship. Teal'c destroys them while Thor warns his people. The Asgard then send a fleet to protect Orilla and six O'Neill class battleships destroy the arriving Replicator ship.

On Earth Daniel looks on the message which the System Lords got and before they leave he deactivates the gate. It turns out that the System Lords sent a ship to test Earth's defense and so Weir orders the Goa'uld to be arrested.

[edit] Part 2

Thor is informed by Penegal of the Asgard Council that several Replicator blocks rained down on Orilla and started to infest Asgard systems needed to save the minds and cloned bodies of the Asgard. And the Asgard aren't able to evacuate their new home. In the meantime the Prometheus waits in Earth orbit on the Goa'uld ship but it turns out that the ship is in fact Thor's ship and they are greeted by Teal'c. At SGC Daniel informs the System Lords that their ship was destroyed by Ba'al and he is suddenly beamed aboard Thor's ship, the Daniel Jackson. After he is greeted Thor beams up O'Neill, whose Ancient-knowledge would be the key to destroy the Replicators.

Meanwhile Carter wakes up in a bed and it turns out that she is in a large farmhouse in Montana. She is greeted by Pete Shanahan but doesn't believe that this all is real. However Pete tells her that she left SGC a year ago due to mental stress and after some time she finally agrees to eat something. After a meal she says that she still don't believe that this is real which makes Pete angry. Finally Pete transforms into Fifth who tells her that he loves her. She however tells him that she can't love him back so he threatens to make her very unhappy.

On Thor's ship he connects O'Neill's mind with the computer of his ship with a stasis pod sustaining his life and the computer translating Ancient. Finally O'Neill talks to them through the ship' communication and lets the lights flash since he has control over the ship. He then shows himself as a hologram and starts to work on something to fight the Replicators. After some time an alarm sounds because the Ancient knowledge must be erased and O'Neill is barely able to finish his work before he is woken up. When he gets up he still feels dizzy and doesn't remember what happened. Meanwhile Thor materializes the device which O'Neill created but he doesn't know what it is. Suddenly they are contacted by Penegal who informs them that the Replicators on Orilla seem to be controlled by a human-form Replicator and so SG-1 hopes that Sam survived but it turns out that the Asgard found no life signs of her. Then the communication is disrupted.

At SGC Weir visits Yu's First Prime Oshu who asks her to let them go to fight against Ba'al since he commands the full force of Anubis' fleets with which he would control the galaxy. Later she visits Camulus who wants to request asylum since his forces were destroyed. Finally the System Lords are allowed to leave but Amaterasu tells Weir to tell Camulus that he will be forever branded a traitor and a coward.

While Thor still does researches on the Ancient device he is contacted by Aegir, commander of the Valhalla, who tells him that they found the remains of a human-form Replicator in space, which Thor beams on board. He then tries to enter the Replicator communication network. Thanks to this they find out where Carter is but then the human-form Replicator wakes up, repairs itself, resists beaming and takes control of the ship. The three humans fire on him but to no avail until O'Neill uses the Ancient weapon – which turns out to be a disruptor – to destroy the Replicator. Thanks to this new information Thor will be able to generate a large version of the weapon to destroy all Replicators on Orilla.

In the meantime SG-1 beams down on the planet to rescue Carter. They are quickly attacked by Replicators which they start to destroy until Fifth appears, who threatens to kill Carter. O'Neill is then contacted by Thor but suddenly all the Replicators start to move in one direction. SG-1 tries to destroy as much of them as possible until they see a massive Replicator ship in the form of a large spider. Meanwhile Carter talks with Fifth, who tells her what is happening. She tries to talk some sense into him when suddenly the ship leaves. Afterwards Thor activates the massive disruptor which destroys all remaining Replicators on the planet. He then detects another life sign in the proximity of the three humans and it turns out to be Carter. So SG-1 is finally reunited.

Some times later O'Neill visits Weir who tells him that she will supervise the Ancient outpost. She also tell him that General Hammond will be the new commander of the new unoffical "Department for Homeworld Security" and that the new commander of SGC will be Brigadier General Jack O'Neill since the Pentagon believes he's perfect for the job. Although he is happy about the promotion he doesn't like to be in charge of something, which he also points out during his meeting with SG-1. However they assure him that he is the best for this position but that there are also new challenges for all of them.

In the end a large meeting is held in the gate room during which Weir says goodbye and presents the people their new commander. O'Neill then holds a speech and as his first command he promotes Major Carter to Lieutenant Colonel.

On the Replicator ship Fifth is very happy so see that the new human-form Replicator is completed, which has the form of Carter.

[edit] Notes

• Two promotions occur in this episode:
  • Colonel Jack O'Neill is promoted to Brig. General and assumes command of the SGC.
  • Maj. Samantha Carter is promoted to Lt. Colonel.
• Steve Bacic previously played Major Coburn, an SG Team leader, in "Maternal Instinct" and "The First Ones", and is known for playing Gaheris Rhade and Telemachus Rhade, his descendant, on Andromeda .
• Kira Clavell (Amateratsu) auditioned for the role of Teyla Emmagan in Stargate Atlantis.
• Slightly new footage in the opening credits, including Christopher Judge's cast picture showing him with his new ‘do. Don S. Davis also no longer appears in the credits or stars in the series.
• All guest cast and co-stars are listed for both episodes, although some only appear in one part or the other.
• This episode marks the first appearance of Colonel Lionel Pendergast (Barclay Hope).
• Michael Shanks plays three different characters in this episode: Dr. Daniel Jackson, Thor and Penegal.
• Torri Higginson replaced Jessica Steen as Dr. Weir beginning with this episode and continuing into the spinoff series Stargate Atlantis.
• This episode bears two similarities with the Season 3 episode Fair Game in that Samantha Carter receives her promotion to Major in that episode, and to Lt. Col. in this episode and that there is a meeting with 3 Goa'uld system lords, one of them being Lord Yu in that episode as well.
• While requesting to get help from the Asgard, Daniel noted that Halla was in a galaxy called Othalla. In The Fifth Race, the Asgard had identified their planet as Othala, in the Ida Galaxy. It is unknown if Daniel misspoke, or if the Asgard have colonies in more than one galaxy.

[edit] Quotes

• Daniel: I was just going over some research material on the delegates they're sending. Camulus was the one who sent the original message. Then there's Amaterasu, Japanese Sun Goddess, and the last one is Lord Yu.
  Weir: Yu?
  Daniel: Don't. Every joke, every pun, done to death, seriously.

• [Thor synthesises an Ancient artifact]
  Jack: Sweet, what is it?
  Daniel: We don't know, you made it.
  Jack: No.
  Daniel: Yes.
  Jack: [Pause] No.
  Daniel: Yes.
  Jack: No.
  Daniel: Yes.

• Daniel: At least you're not speaking Ancient.
  Jack's hologram: There's that.
  Thor: Actually, the computer is translating.

• Daniel: What's the last thing you remember?
  Jack: Getting my head sucked by one of those dang Ancient head suckers. And something about twins.

• Jack: Teal'c, what's with the hair?
  Thor: O'Neill.
  Jack: Thor. You got aspirin?
  Thor: You should feel better momentarily, and your memory should return.
  Jack: [Pause] Teal'c, what's with the hair?

[edit] External links

• Official Stargate SG-1 site. MGM. Visited June 8, 2006. Most of site requires Flash.
• Screenplay (PDF). Distributed by MGM. Prepared by Line 21 Media Services Ltd (2004-06-30). Retrieved on 2006-10-29.
• Episode guide of Part I from Skyone. Visited June 4, 2006.
• Episode guide of Part II from Skyone. Visited June 4, 2006.
• Summary of Part I from SciFi. Visited June 4, 2006. Requires Flash.
• Summary of Part II from SciFi. Visited June 4, 2006. Requires Flash.
• Summary of Part I from GateWorld. Visited May 7, 2006.
• Summary of Part II from GateWorld. Visited May 7, 2006.
• Review from GateWorld. Reviewed by Alli Snow. Visited May 7, 2006.
• Another review from GateWorld. Reviewed by Lex. Visited May 7, 2006.
• In the Making from GateWorld. Joseph Mallozzi. Visited May 7, 2006.