Solitudes

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Solitudes is the seventeenth episode of the first season of Stargate SG-1.

Contents 1 Plot 2 References 3 Notes 4 Goofs 5 Sources

Plot

Just as the SGC has an unscheduled activation and receive a GDO signal, Dr. Jackson and Teal'c come flying through the gate. A surge of energy follows, and the gate shuts off without O'Neill or Carter coming through. Jackson and Teal'c do not understand: they were in a group.

Initially unconscious, O'Neill and Carter wake to discover themselves in an icy cave. O'Neill is suffering from a broken leg, and Carter splints it with some difficulty. With O'Neill only able to move short distances, Carter begins to explore the cave and notes that she can see light at some of the fissures in the roof, indicating they are not buried very deeply, although the fissures are too narrow to reach their ends. With limited supplies of food and fuel, survival will be short. Adding to the problem is that they have a small number of batteries for their flashlights, and there is not enough light to move about easily without them.

At the SGC, Dr. Jackson and Teal'c theorize that since SG-1 was taking fire from a group of Jaffa as they tried to get back to earth, several staff weapon blasts may have struck the gate, causing the surge of energy. This created a malfunction and caused the wormhole to jump to a nearby gate, which Dr. Jackson theorizes is somewhere along the line between the planet, P4A-771, and Earth. O'Neill and Carter are trapped "somewhere out there." Several SG teams are sent to try to find the two, to no avail. General Hammond informs Jackson that he regretfully has to declare them MIA and stop the search, as they cannot endlessly search for them.

Meanwhile, in the icy cave, Carter finds DHD embedded in ice and they begin to chip it out. O'Neill has trouble doing this, and reveals that he also has a broken rib. They eventually unearth the DHD, but when Carter tries to dial Earth, the Stargate does not activate.

Back at the SGC, Jackson realizes that there was one place they should have looked to begin with - Earth. A check of recent seismic activity across the globe reveals rumblings in Antarctica at precisely the same moment SG-1 returned, and these rumblings would be explicable by the activation of a second Stargate on Earth in Antarctica. The gate cannot be dialed from the Stargate at the SGC because the addresses are too similar, the gates can only dial to other worlds, not to another gate on the same planet. The same problem is preventing Carter from activating their gate.

In the icy cave, O'Neill tells Carter to climb out of the cavern and attempt to find shelter. With some difficulty, she climbs out only to discover ice plains as far as the eye can see. Discouraged, she radios O'Neill saying, "It's an ice planet!" She returns and the two of them fall unconscious, only to be re-awakened to the sight of SGC members. It turns out, the Stargate did malfunction, but the wormhole jumped to a previously unknown second stargate in the ice of Antarctica. The second Stargate is later secured.

References

Antarctica, Castleman, P4A-771, Stargate

Notes

• The title refers to the various scenarios, including the one depicted in the episode, in which characters have been stranded when on a mission, and what got them through it - in O'Neill's case, long ago, it was the thought of his previous wife, Sarah.
• The Antarctic gate would later become the primary SGC Stargate after the original is lost in the ocean, and then recovered by the Russians, during and after the Season 3 episode "Nemesis". It would later be destroyed by an attack from Anubis in "Redemption, Part 2". It makes an alternate timeline appearance in "Moebius, parts 1 and 2".
• In a long-lasting production error, when the Antarctic Gate substitutes as the primary Earth Stargate during seasons 4 and 5, it has the standard pyramid-shaped symbol that has since come to represent the Tau'ri. Its point-of-origin symbol should be the symbol shown in this episode.
• Sergeant Siler appears for the first time in this episode.
• A famous out-take from this episode has been mentioned in the Official Episode Guide to Seasons 1 & 2, and was aired during specials by the SciFi Channel. In it, when O'Neill asks how Carter is getting along with unearthing the Stargate's DHD, Carter starts ranting at O'Neill for being completely "MacUseless" even though he spent seven years on MacGyver, referring to Richard Dean Anderson's role in both shows. The prank was organized by Tapping in cooperation with the director. Anderson was successfully bewildered for several minutes.

Goofs

• Factual errors: When the gate is fixed after the overload, the SGC redial P4A-771 to search for Jack and Sam, but on the Dialing Supercomputer, the chevrons dialed are those for Abydos [The first ever planet visited in the Stargate film - dialed with chevrons: Taurus, Serpens Caput, Capricorn, Monoceros, Sagittarius, Orion] and not that of P4A-771.

Sources

• Official Stargate SG-1 site. MGM. Retrieved on June 8, 2006. Most of site requires Macromedia Flash.
• Screenplay (PDF). Distributed by MGM. Prepared by Casablanca Continuity. Retrieved on October 28, 2006. Also see Google's cache.
• Summary. SciFi. Retrieved on June 5, 2006.

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