Alternate timeline

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Alternate Timelines are an alteration or change in the current timeline, causing an alternate reality to form in the universe. An alteration in a timeline is usually caused by altering the past through Time Travel, which manipulates, shapes, and forms the current present and future. This results in a different outcome, and gives birth to a new alternate reality or universe.

It is possible to restore a timeline to its original state by returning to the past and correcting the damage from there, thus restoring the timeline to its original state.

Contents 1 Alternate Timelines 1.1 SG1: "2010" 1.1.1 Differences 1.2 ATL: "Before I Sleep" 1.2.1 Differences 1.3 SG1: "Moebius, Parts 1" and "2" 1.3.1 Differences 1.4 SG1: "Unending" 1.5 ATL: "The Last Man" 1.5.1 Differences 1.6 Stargate: Continuum 1.7 SGU: Time 2 Note

[edit] Alternate Timelines

[edit] SG1: "2010"

Ten years into the future, the Goa'uld have been defeated and the Stargate Program is public. Thanks to the Aschen, Earth is safe and humans are being given an anti-aging vaccine. But not all that glitters is gold. This timeline is negated due to the actions of the team from this reality. The Aschen are encountered in the present timeline, but the note sent back makes the team wary and they learn the truth early on.

[edit] Differences

• The Stargate Program has become public knowledge.
• The SGC is a museum; the Stargate is located in a large public complex not unlike an airport or train station.
• Robert Kinsey is President of the United States.
• Samantha Carter and Jack O'Neill are both retired from the United States Air Force.
• Samantha Carter is married to Joe Faxon, the ambassador to the Aschen.
• SG-1 is dismantled, with O'Neill estranged from his former teammates due to their difference in opinion on the Aschen's intentions.
• George Hammond has been dead since 2004; it is suspected by Samantha Carter,Janet Fraiser, Daniel Jackson, and Teal'c that he may have been murdered by the Aschen in order to preserve the secret behind the anti-aging vaccine.
• The Aschen were met on their homeworld by SG-1 but have been attempting to take over the Earth through attrition
• All of SG-1 is now dead. The only surviving member of the group that attempted to change the future is Dr. Janet Fraiser as she escaped through the Stargate to Chulak before the attempt began to alert Teal'c.

[edit] ATL: "Before I Sleep"

The Atlantis Expedition arrives in the Lost City to find its power supply failing, and are trapped undersea as the city floods, this is in fact the original timeline.

[edit] Differences

• All three Zero Point Modules that powered Atlantis had been running in tandem since the Ancients abandoned the city, and were all but depleted when the expedition team arrived.
• The city's control systems failed to initialize, presumably for lack of power.
• Colonel Marshall Sumner drowned along with several security teams searching the city before they could be recalled to the control room.
• Atlantis' fail-safe mechanism took the form of emergency bulkheads that sought to close off vital sections of the city; unfortunately, these had the effect of trapping still more members of the expedition with water still rising.
• Major John Sheppard and Doctors Weir and Zelenka are the only members of the expedition to escape the city, when Sheppard inadvertently activates a time-travel device inside one of the Puddle Jumpers.
  • The time machine takes them into orbit around Lantea during the siege by the Wraith; the jumper crashes and Sheppard and Zelenka are killed, but Weir is rescued by the Lanteans and lives out her days on Atlantis. These events are not part of an alternate timeline, as they are in fact in the past of "our" timeline.

[edit] SG1: "Moebius, Parts 1" and "2"

Two alternate timelines result from this episode. First, Doctor Daniel Jackson discovers that Ra was in possession of a Zero Point Module during his reign on Earth, and General Jack O'Neill takes SG-1 back in time in order to retrieve it. Then, SG-1 is stranded in ancient Egypt, where it leads the rebellion and forces Ra to leave Earth, but inadvertently causes Ra to take the Stargate with him. As a result, the Stargate program never came into being.

[edit] Differences

• Daniel Jackson teaches English as a second language.
• Samantha Carter is not a member of the Air Force, and holds little of the confidence she is very well-known to have.
• Jack O'Neill is retired from the Air Force and lives on the fishing boat S.S. Homer (named after his favorite show).
• Teal'c is still First Prime of Apophis, but still has his many doubts as to whether or not his master is a god.
• George Hammond is a brigadier general and still commanding officer of the Cheyenne Mountain facility.
• Charles Kawalsky is still alive, though he dies before he can escape Chulak with the rest of the team.
• Rodney McKay is still working for the Air Force, and is involved with research on the Puddle Jumper. He is also apparently not allergic to citrus.
• After O'Neill, Carter and Teal'c travel back once more to ancient Egypt, they manage to orchestrate the rebellion in such a way that the Stargate remains on Earth. This changes the "real" reality that exists from these episodes, onward. The timeline after SG-1 went back in time to retrieve the ZPM had these differences from the one that existed prior to these episodes:
  • The rebellion in ancient Egypt happened somewhat earlier; though it's unclear what difference, if any, this made.
  • The "original" fate of Ra's ZPM was unknown, but it's assumed that he took it with him when he left Earth. In the new timeline, it was buried with the camera, preventing any need to go back in time in the first place.
  • Because of the ZPM, Earth was able to send reinforcements to Atlantis. In the original timeline the expedition team presumably would have followed through with its original plan to abandon and destroy the city.
  • There were fish in General O'Neill's pond. At the beginning of the episodes, and in the videotape, O'Neill admits that there are no fish in his pond, and in all episodes prior to these, when shown fishing, no one has any success.
  • The fishing scene in Threads didn't happen until the end of Moebius.

[edit] SG1: "Unending"

SG-1 is trapped aboard the Odyssey for 50-60 years in a time dilation field, as the team seeks a means to prevent the ship's destruction by an Ori energy beam. During this period, Daniel Jackson and Vala Mal Doran became romantically involved, General Landry cultivated a garden in his quarters, and Samantha Carter learned to play the cello. Landry died of old age after about twenty years; all of SG-1 save Teal'c are killed when the Ori beam finally struck the ship. Teal'c used the energy to travel back in time and prevent the time dilation field from ever being established.

From Teal'c's perspective, all these events remain part of his past; but as far as everyone else in the universe is concerned, they belong to a timeline that has not and will not occur. For his part, Teal'c has declined to discuss any of these events with the rest of the team.

[edit] ATL: "The Last Man"

Sheppard travels 48,000 years into the future to find a timeline where Michael rules the galaxy and all of his friends but McKay were killed in the war that followed. This timeline was changed when Sheppard traveled back in time, rescued Teyla and destroyed Michael's crusier and army over M2S-445 and was prevented forever when Michael was later killed by Teyla.

[edit] Differences

• Sheppard is trapped in the future and presumably dies there without ever being able to return home.
• Michael is presumably still alive and has taken over everything.
• Teyla was killed by Michael after her baby was born and he was taken and used to perfect Michael's Hybrids.
• Ronon and Todd died fighting against Michael's Hybrids together.
• The next 304 is named the Phoenix (in the new timeline its renamed the George Hammond in honor of General Hammond (Don S. Davis) who died of a heart attack.)
• The Phoenix is destroyed in the Battle of the Phoenix and Carter is killed in the destruction.
• An unknown amount of humans die as a result of the Hoffan drug.
• Michael destroys the Wraith, exterminates the weak of the galaxy's human populations and turns the strong into more of his Hybrids.
• After Carter's death, Richard Woolsey orders all support pulled out of helping other worlds and focus on protecting Atlantis leaving at least one ship in orbit at all times. This causes Keller and McKay to quit.
• Keller and McKay return to Earth on the Daedalus and start a relationship. McKay gets a job with an aerospace firm and Keller starts her own medical practice until a year later she falls fatally ill from complications due to repeated exposure to the Hoffan drug and she dies.
• McKay spends the next 25 years trying to come up with a way to change the past and succeeds ultimately.
• Evan Lorne is now a General and commander of the SGC. The Atlantis Expedition is still going on and McKay convinces Lorne to help him get back there and set his plan in motion.
• McKay implements his plan and then dies at an unknown point in time of presumably natural causes.
• At some point at least 25 years after McKay left the first time, Atlantis is abandoned for unknown reasons.

[edit] Stargate: Continuum

Ba'al travels back to 1939 and sends the ship carrying the Stargate to America to the North Pole and heads out into the galaxy to create his own empire. Mitchell doesn't exist and Carter is dead here and the Stargates were never found. Carter, Mitchell and Daniel end up here due to being in transit in the Stargate at the time of the changes and are thus protected from them. Daniel loses his leg to frostbite and the team are not allowed to travel through the Stargate and set things right and are forced to lead normal lives for a year. The gate in the Antarctic is found, but is not figured out how to use. Meanwhile the Russians find and take the Gate from the North Pole. Ba'al launches an attack with Teal'c as his First Prime and Vala (as Qetesh) as his queen. He now commands all of the System Lords and with their combined forces, comes after Earth believing to be unaware of the Goa'uld as he doesn't know SG-1 is there. He attempts to present an air of benevolence to the President by calling him on the phone and setting up a time to meet face to face, but is killed by Qetesh before he can finish. He also has the Gate in Antarctica and the weapons platform destroyed under Qetesh's forcing before his death leaving Earth with no real defenses. Qetesh plans to use the time travel device to gain power herself but is thwarted by Daniel, Teal'c, Carter, Mitchell and two other Jaffa who get to the planet before she does through the Gate that the Russians have and use the time travel device to set things right, but as Teal'c dies, he kills her with a grenade. The timeline is erased when Mitchell, in 1939, sets an ambush and kills Ba'al and his soldiers before they can change time.

[edit] SGU: Time

• In the original timeline a team travels to a jungle planet and a few members of the team fall ill with an unknown fatal illness. They are unable to dial back to the Destiny due to a very unstable wormhole forming and are trapped on the planet for 36 hours. During that time, a bunch of nocturnal creatures attack and kill Chloe and badly wound Lieutenant Scott by biting him which sends him into a coma. Another member of the team dies of his illness that night while Eli Wallace records everything with a Kino. In the morning the survivors hide in a cave after still being unable to dial Destiny and Sergeant Greer kills some of the sleeping creatures. That night, the creatures attack again and everyone but Eli, the still comatose Scott and Rush are killed. Rush dials Destiny and heads through the still unstable wormhole in a desperate attempt to get help while Eli returns to the cave and is killed by the creatures. The next morning Scott regains consciousness and finds himself in pain from the wound but mysteriously cured of his illness. With little time left before Destiny leaves, he dials the ship and sends the Kino through the still unstable wormhole, planning to follow. Due to a solar flare that has been disrupting the wormhole, the Kino travels back in time and lands near Rush's dead body, creating the next timeline. In this timeline presumably everyone on the Destiny dies of the illness as they have no cure.
• Like in the original timeline, the team arrives, but this time finds the Kino from the original timeline and Rush's skeletal remains. The team returns to Destiny immediately and reviews the Kino's recordings. After learning of the illness, the team who went to the planet and everyone who came into contact with them quarantine themselves, but several people fall ill and T.J. learns that the illness is not from the planet, but from a contaminated water supply and their antibiotics won't work. After observing how the original Lieutenant Scott was cured, the crew determines that the creature's venom kills the contagion and realize that a solar flare caused the time travel. With an hour before the flare hits, a team travels to the planet to retrieve a live specimen, but are attacked by the creatures. On the ship, four people including Chloe and Vanessa James die of the illness. On the planet, Scott is the only survivor of the attack and records a message on a Kino, detailing the illness and what needs to be done before sending it back in time via the wormhole and solar flare. Again everyone on the Destiny likely dies of the illness and Scott is probably killed by the creatures.

[edit] Note

With the exception of the events in "Moebius", all these "alternate timelines" are in fact timelines lacking the intervention of a given individual or individuals — SG-1 and Doctor Janet Fraiser in "2010," Doctor Elizabeth Weir in "Before I Sleep," Teal'c in "Unending", Lieutenant Colonel John Sheppard in "The Last Man", Lieutenant Colonel Cameron Mitchell in "Stargate: Continuum" and Lieutenant Matthew Scott in "Time"— all originating from futures that their interventions have negated. (Since "Moebius" actually depicts two altered timelines, one of which is the "final" one, it could fall in this category as well). In effect, then, it might be said that the primary timeline is the "alternate" timeline, as it is the result of repeated historical interventions.