Ripple Effect

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Ripple Effect is the thirteenth episode of the ninth season of Stargate SG-1.

Contents 1 Plot 2 References 3 Notes 4 Sources

Plot

After an unscheduled Stargate activation, the first of many SG-1 teams originating from many parallel universes arrive at the SGC. While more and more alternate SG-1 teams arrive (each conveniently clothed in a different color uniform) Col. Carter and Dr. Lee, with help from alternate (brown) versions of Carter and Martouf (who never died in his world), try to find a way to bring those teams back to their own reality. When they fail to find a solution, SG-1, with help of the Asgard, decide to stop the black hole which is responsible for diverting the teams out of their realities. The native SG-1 (in green) and the first alternate SG-1 team which came through the gate (in black) use the Prometheus to reach the black hole. However, the alternate team take over the ship and heads to Atlantis to steal the ZPM. The black alternate team explain that they need the ZPM to power their defenses in their reality, and planned this entire situation to steal it from this reality. The native green SG-1 manage to retake command of the Prometheus by impersonation and turning an attempted trap back on their counterparts, and return to Earth, where they use information from the alternate team to send all the parallel universe teams home.

References

Alternate realities; Amaterasu; Asgard; Ba'al; PX7-445; PX7-455; P3W-451; Time dilation field

Notes

• This episode was overly long, so many scenes had to be edited and even cut for time. Joseph Mallozzi posted script sections of all cut scenes in his producer installment on Gateworld.
• The first Mitchell to go through the gate (in the black uniform) leaves with a cryptic remark to his counterpart in our reality; "when the time comes, cut the green one." According to Joseph Mallozzi in his blog, though the meaning of this remark will not be revealed in the series.
• While on the Prometheus, Mitchell makes a reference to the Star Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror" where the mirror Spock had a beard. "You don't have beards, so you're not from the evil twin universe."
• One of the deleted scenes shows Black SG-1's Daniel Jackson having second thoughts on stealing the ZPM, this is important as this indicated that Black SG-1 aren't evil, just driven to desperation.
• Mitchell makes a reference to Bizarro at the start of the episode "Why didn't we end up on an alternate PX7 when we gated through to check on Bizarro SG-1's…"

Sources

• 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 (2005-11-18). Retrieved on October 29, 2006.
• Summary from GateWorld. Visited May 7, 2006.

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