1969 (Stargate SG-1)
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| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 21 |
| Guest stars | Alex Zahara as Michael Aaron Pearl as Lt. George Hammond Amber Rothwell as Jenny Pamela Perry as Cassandra Glynis Davies as Catherine Langford Fred Henderson as Maj. Thornbird |
| Written by | Brad Wright |
| Directed by | Charles Correll |
| Production no. | 221 |
| Original airdate | January 27, 1999 |
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"1969" is an episode from Season 2 of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1.
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[edit] Plot
A powerful solar flare crossing the path of the Stargate's matter stream causes the SG-1 team to be propelled around the sun and travel back in time 30 years. They arrive inside a top-secret missile testing facility and are arrested by guards that think they are Soviet spies.
Whilst Colonel O’Neill is interrogated and uses comedic answers to deny any connection to the Stargate facility, a young lieutenant searches through SG-1's possessions and discovers a note stating that he should help them, a note General Hammond had given Captain Carter before they left. After escaping custody with the help of the lieutenant, they discover that he is in fact General Hammond, 30 years younger, who gives them some money to purchase disguises.
The SG-1 team must find a way home- if nothing else, Teal'c will eventually be taken over by his symbiote unless he can return to the present- but it seems apparent they are doomed to be stuck in the past. However, Carter, using the note, which includes two dates and times, grasps that the dates actually describe two more solar flares on the opposite side of the sun. And to use these flares as an effective measure in getting back to the future, they must find the Stargate.
After a bold hitchhiking maneuver by Teal'c, SG-1 is able to travel across the country with a hippie couple, Michael and Jenny, who are heading to Woodstock, in their bus. Donning a convincing German accent, Daniel Jackson learns the location of the Stargate from Catherine. SG-1 manages to activate the gate (stored in an old D.C. armory) and run through under fire from guards.
However, they arrive in an empty, dark gate room. An elderly woman walks in, who is actually Cassandra, and tells them that they stepped into the Stargate a few seconds early and were sent far into the future. She reactivates the gate and tells them that they must return to their time. The team arrives back in the normal gate room with General Hammond reminding O’Neill of the money he owes him ($539.50, after interest).
[edit] Quotes
- Soldier(In Russian): Будете вы советскими шпионками? (Are you Soviet spies?)
- Daniel: Нет! (Njet!, English "no")
- O'Neill:Daniel??
- Daniel: So we go in disguise, pretend to be foreigners.
Jack: How do we do that?
Daniel: Well, I speak twenty-three languages, Jack. Pick one.
- Michael: So your thing, that thing, on your forehead; what's it symbolize? Peace?
Teal'c: Slavery, to false gods.
Michael: Right on. So it's made out of....
Teal'c: Do not discuss it further.
Michael: I dig. It's cool. [pause] So you just go AWOL?
[Stare from Teal'c]
Michael: Hey, we're cool. After the concert me and Jenny, we're even thinking about crossing the border up to Canada.
Teal'c: For what reason?
Michael: You know, man... the war.
Teal'c: The war with Canada?
Michael: No.
- Thornbird: I'm Maj. Robert Thornbird. And you are?
O'Neill: Capt. James T. Kirk, of the starship Enterprise.
- O'Neill: I'm gonna level with you, Bob, my name's not Kirk. It's Skywalker, Luke Skywalker.
[edit] Notes
- Daniel reveals that he speaks 23 languages, though whether he is fluent in each language, or how many of these are extinct languages, is not known. Since this episode, he has also learned to speak Ancient and Unas.
- Though it is not explicit in this episode, apparently Daniel Jackson teaches Teal'c how to drive a car - he is shown driving. When Teal'c drives a car in the season 6 episode "Smoke & Mirrors", Jonas Quinn asks the obvious question, "Who taught you to drive?" Teal'c replies, "Daniel Jackson." Jonas asks when; the reply is "I believe the year was 1969."
- During the 200th episode Jackson, Carter, and Teal'c hint that O'Neill fathered Cameron Mitchell while back in time during this episode. The comments however, were made in jest and not to be taken seriously. The locked file they used as bait was in fact the "Foothold" situation.
- The 1969 Colorado license plates on the bus are designated PJ 2251, from Arapahoe County near Denver.
- When the bus approaches Chicago the Sears Tower is shown in the skyline, although its construction did not begin until 1972.
- The actual NORAD facility under Cheyenne Mountain does not, and never did house a missile training silo. The mission of Cheyenne Mountain Air Station is strictly early-warning. Training silos are only found at missile bases, such as Vandenberg AFB, California; F.E. Warren AFB, Wyoming; or Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota. Unlike its depiction in films like WarGames, NORAD does not possess a "master" ICBM launch key.
- There are two cases of Ontological paradoxes in this episode. The first being the note from present day General Hammond to his past self (which he never would have written if his past self hadn't found it, etc) and the second being Cassandra's appearance and role of sending them back to the present when SG-1 travels too far into the future.
- Teal'c is shown with his original bald head in one scene and in the next he is shown in front of the car with a 1960-70 hair cut
[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 Casablanca Continuity. Retrieved on 2006-10-15. Linked to from Official Stargate SG-1 site. Also see Google's cache.
- Summary from GateWorld. Visited May 3, 2006.
