Space Race

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Space Race is the eighth episode of the seventh season of Stargate SG-1.

Contents 1 Plot 1.1 References 2 Notable Quotes 3 Notes 4 Sources

[edit] Plot

Major Carter is called to the SGC to meet Warrick, the Serrakin they rescued from an uncharted planet. (See Forsaken) He asks for her help to win a race in exchange for access to Serrakin ion engines. Warrick explains that it is called the Loop of Kon Garat hosted by a large corporation known as Tech Con. The race is hosted every year which anyone can enter and the winner gets a contract into Tech Con. He is able to bring the Seberus into the race since Carter recharged it with a naqahdah generator. Carter asks to fly with him because the generators are precious to humans and they know how to hook it up.

On the Hebridan/Serrakin homeworld, SG-1 is introduced to Eamon, the Seberus' creator and Warrick's younger brother. Warrick escorted O'Neill and Daniel to the Hebridan capital building while Teal'c stayed behind with Carter and Eamon to check on the Seberus. Eamon explains to Carter that since Warrick returned, work has been scarce and his wife had remarried and has children of her own. Warrick hopes to win the race to get his life back and wanted to do anything to achieve it.

The race data came in, explaining the course and who Warrick and Carter were racing with. Eamon recognized one of the racers as Jarlath who apparently is out of jail. After the work on the Seberus was done, we see some man walking up to it, carrying a tool box.

The race started and the first course was using shield to defend against weapon drones. The second was riding against the surface of the sun. Suddenly, the Seberus' systems began to shut down. Warrick did a diagnostic of the power diverter and found out that been deliberately sabotaged. Carter began to hook up the generator while Eamon and Teal'c began some investigating.

Once they were successful, the Seberus blasted out of the sun's cronosphere and used gravity to slingshot back into the race.

Meanwhile, Eamon had found out that his supervisor, Del Tynan had accessed their computer. To find evidence, he and Teal'c go to Tech Con. They got in with Teal'c as Eamon's cousin, Murray. They looked into Tynan's computer and found out he sabotaged nearly every ship in the race except a hired man named Muirios. Suddenly, they get caught by Tynan.

Back in the race, Warrick and Carter decide to rescue Jarlath and found out he had been sabotaged as well.

At Tech Con, Tynan explains to Teal'c and Eamon that he thinks that the Serrakin are destroying the human race by crossbreeding and he's making sure that the winner is a human for the first step of overthrowing the Serrakin. He contacts Warrick to drop out or else he'll kill Eamon and Teal'c. Suddenly, O'Neill, Daniel and President Hagan came with guards and arrested Tynan and his men. Hagan now has the evidence to put Tynan in jail.

With Eamon and Teal'c safe, the Seberus is back in the race but in third place. Jarlath reconfigured the communications array to freeze Muirios' ship. The winner was Lael Montrose.

Later, at the SGC, Carter receives word that Warrick had been hired by Lael to co-pilot on her new contract from Tech Con and Earth has an ion engine to study. Carter swears that next year, she's going to kick butt.

[edit] References

Hebridan, "Forsaken", Loop of Kon Garat

[edit] Notable Quotes

O'Neill: That's not our language
Carter: It's mine, sir
O'Neill: Right

Jackson: Nice outfit, you guys OK?
Teal'c: Indeed
O'Neill: How many times have I told you, don't get caught by the bad guys.

[edit] Notes

• Patrick Currie (Eamon) previously played Fifth in season six's "Unnatural Selection".
• This is the 140th episode of the series which surpasses the total for MacGyver (139 episode) (although Richard Dean Anderson's 140th episode is actually the next episode "Avenger 2.0" since he did not appear in "Nightwalkers").
• Alex Zahara takes on the role of Warrick, who was played by Dion Johnstone in "Forsaken". This marks Zahara's sixth different character that he has played on Stargate, usually under make-up. It's also the second week in a row that someone else has taken over a role originally played by Dion Johnstone. G. Patrick Currie, who plays Eamon in this episode, took over Johnstone's role as Chaka in the previous week's "Enemy Mine". Presumably Johnstone was off filming somewhere and was unavailable.
• Near the end of the episode the announcer mentions "Corso's Temporal Eatery" - The antagonist in "Forsaken", the episode where the Serrakin are first encountered, is called Aden Corso.
• This episodes main plot bears a striking similarity to the seventh season Star Trek Voyager episode "Drive", in which one or more members of the main cast participates in a "friendly" space race which eventually leads to the revealment of the episodes antagonist. Both episodes also involve the sabotage of one or more of the space race vessels.
• A still of Jonas Quinn appears in the Hebridan newscaster report announcing SG-1's involvement in the race.

[edit] 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 (2003-07-28). Retrieved on October 18, 2006. Linked to from Official Stargate SG-1 site.
• Summary from GateWorld. Visited May 7, 2006.
• Review from GateWorld. Reviewed by Alli Snow. Visited May 7, 2006.
• Another review from GateWorld. Reviewed by Lex. Visited May 7, 2006.

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