Stargate SG-1

Woman: Hundreds of villages like this one have paused...

To celebrate the transportation of our people

to this great new land.

We are especially honored 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.

Woman: 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

each day since you last visited.

Yes, our atmospheric monitoring equipment is indicating that.

We only had a short time

to assess the planet's conditions,

but it appears as if you may be in for

a more severe winter than we first predicted.

Hedrazar: We are a hearty people.

We will survive.

The naquada reactor we brought you

should provide enough energy

to heat your new city for a year.

Well, you've certainly accomplished a lot already.

Hedrazar: And it has only been but one cycle of the moon.

Come back in a year,

and you will find this planet transformed.

Man: 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

it seems to be depositing

ayet unknown gas-like substance

that is spreading like a wake behind the ship.

Now, it extends beyond the range of the u.A.V, ,

but it appears to cover hundreds of miles.

Teal'c said he hadn't seen the technology before.

We're still waiting for the analysis of

the atmospheric samples taken by the u.Av, ,

but you can see the damage being done.

There don't appear to be any recognizable

or discerning markings on the ship.

If there's any good news,

it would appear that whoever's in control

doesn't have the specific intention

of attacking the enkarans.

Why do you say that?

Uh, it just seems there would be

a more direct approach.

What difference does it make?

Sir, the colonel is right.

Based on the ship's current speed,

I estimate it'll take approximately

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' them right now.

Carter: The concern is where to send them.

I mean, 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.

Jackson: The only other planet we know of

with similar conditions

is the original enkaran home world,

and according to enkaran verbal history,

there's no Stargate there.

Right, the Goa'uld kidnapped their ancestors with ships.

Even if we had a method of transportation,

the enkarans of today would have no concept

of where that planet is in the galaxy.

I'll put sg-5, 6, and 9 out

looking for another suitable planet.

It's doubtful they'll find one in time, sir.

Well, 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 from the gate.

It took us two weeks to transplant them to p55381

in the first place.

The point is, general, we could never save them all.

Hey.. What have you got?

The analysis of the atmosphere in the wake of the ship

shows a high incidence of sulfur 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's surface.

Now, as near as I can tell,

they bond with sulfur leached out of the soil.

And when they decay,

they release sulfur dioxide.

So, the big, mean alien ship

is trying to stink up the planet?

It's alittle bit more than that, sir.

The microbes are only deposited after all of

the native organisms have been destroyed.

I think they're meant to replace them.

Now, if my theory is correct,

we're looking at

the first building blocks of an alien ecosystem.

It's a terraform.

It's changing the environment

to support an entirely different kind of life.

An organic system based on sulfur instead of carbon.

So, if the ship is allowed to continue the process,

the whole planet will be a remain?

Well, all I know for sure 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.

Tealc says you don't want to 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.

Hedrazar: Would there be time to take every enkaran?

No.

We cannot leave our people behind.

Look, I understand how you feel.

Eliam: 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 foriit.

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.

Hedrazar: I know that if the enkaran people are to die,

then we shall all die here...

Together.

Transmitter's now operational, sir.

Let's hope we get a bite.

Think a well-placed stinger would do some damage?

No, we have now way of knowing

what material the ship's made of, sir.

Teal'c: Or if it possesses shield technology.

Ah, just fantasizin.

Any intelligence capable of engineering

something like that

has to be capable of reason.

Question is, will they listen?

Well, 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.

Well, you know what'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.

The ship's terraforming the planet, right?

What if these are the life forms

it's creating the new environment for?