The Fifth Race (Stargate SG-1)

"The Fifth Race" is an episode from the Second season of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1.

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Science fiction - Television series - Stargate SG-1

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SG-1 visits the planet P3R-272 and find themselves in a room with a circle insciption in the middle. Col. Jack O'Neill steps over the circle and immediatly 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.

Related Topics:
Jack O'Neill - Teal'c

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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 sound. 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.

Related Topics:
Stargate Command - General Hammond

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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. 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.

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General Hammond is then alerted by Teal'c to come down to the control room. They find O'Neill rewriting and adding new information in binary 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 Samantha informs everyone that the code he was typing into the computer was a map of all the Stargates they had travelled to and also more that were not on the Abydos cartouche. Gen. Hammond orders him not to touch anything on the base and 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 onto the computer and also has ancient writing near the Gate which might hold 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.

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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 on mid-dial. Jack then writes up instructions on how to fix the DHD and General Hammond sends it through the gate to SG-1. SG-1 returns home safely but were not able to find anything which could help Jack's problem. Later Gen. Hammond is alerted to the control room. The computer is dialing a gate address and canot be overridden. Samantha informs Hammond that the gate needs more power to activate. Meanwhile Teal'c and Daniel Jackson follow Jack to the power room where he starts hooking up the device that he had made. Samantha then tells Hammond at the control room that the Gate has suddenly gotten the amount of power it needed. The Gate starts dialing 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.

Related Topics:
DHD - Wormhole

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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. 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. Jack is then sent home through the Stargate.

Related Topics:
Asgard - Four Great Races - Ancients - Asgard - Nox - Furlings

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