“The Fifth Race”
Stargate SG-1 episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 15
Guest stars	Teryl Rothery as Dr. Janet Fraiser Tobias Mehler as Lt. Graham Simmons Dan Shea as Sgt. Siler
Written by	Robert C. Cooper
Directed by	David Warry-Smith
Production no.	215
Original airdate	December 16, 1998
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"The Fifth Race" is an episode from Season 2 of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. It is regarded as one of the most popular episodes of the series[1]. Stargate SG-1 (often abbreviated as SG-1) is a science fiction television series, part of the Stargate franchise. ... Image File history File links This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... Teryl Rothery (born November 9, 1965 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian actress. ... Janet Fraiser is a fictional character in the Stargate SG-1 TV series, played by Teryl Rothery. ... Tobias Mehler is a Canadian actor who has appeared in television and theatre productions. ... Dan Shea (born December 23, 1954 in Ontario) is a Canadian actor who is best known for his recurring role as Sgt. ... Master Sergeant Sylvester Sly Siler is a fictional character in the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis played by Dan Shea. ... Robert C. Cooper is a Canadian writer and producer. ... -1... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... Touchstone is an episode of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. ... A Matter of Time is an episode of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. ... Season nine and ten intertitle This is an episode list for the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. ... Season nine and ten intertitle This is an episode list for the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Stargate SG-1 (often abbreviated as SG-1) is a science fiction television series, part of the Stargate franchise. ...

Plot

SG-1 visits the planet P3R-272 and find themselves in a room with a circle inscription in the middle. Col. Jack O'Neill steps over the circle and immediately a device comes out of the wall. Teal'c looks in it but only sees blackness with colored lights. When O'Neill steps up and takes a look, the device grabs his head for a few seconds, lets go and O'Neill's collapses into unconsciousness. SG-1 arm patch SG-1 (Stargate Team 1) is the primary unit of Stargate Command in the science fiction TV show Stargate SG-1, of which its members are the main characters. ... John J. Jack ONeill (born October 20, 1952)[1] is a fictional character in the science fiction feature film Stargate and the subsequent television series Stargate SG-1 played by actors Kurt Russell in the film (name spelled as ONeil) and Richard Dean Anderson in the series. ... Tealc [ˈtiːəlk] (born c. ...

SG-1 travels back to Stargate Command. O'Neill is checked for injury but none is found. While SG-1 is being debriefed by General Hammond, O'Neill replaces a common word with an unknown one. General Hammond then orders him to stay on base for a while so they can keep tabs on him. O'Neill's language condition starts getting worse and soon he is replacing common words with unknown words frequently. Cheyenne Mountains base Cheyenne Mountains entrance tunnel Cheyenne Mountains interior For more information on this series and its accompanying fictional universe, see Stargate SG-1. ... Major General (later Lieutenant General) George S. Hammond is a fictional character in the Stargate SG-1 television program, played by Don S. Davis. ...

Jack, along with Teal'c, goes to Daniel's office to see if they can find out what is happening to him. Daniel quickly realizes that the language is similar to Latin. A picture of the circular inscription is on Daniel's computer, which he immediately speaks: "Noo ani Anqueetas. Hiq qua Videum." They discover that O'Neill is able to read the writing that Daniel has been working on deciphering and also starts doing complex equations on a chalk board. Tealc [ˈtiːəlk] (born c. ... Daniel Jackson (b. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ...

O'Neill is taken back to Dr. Frasier for tests and it is discovered that he is using over 90% of his brain capacity compared to 5 to 10% for a normal human. They figure out that the device was a repository of the Ancients where the Ancients left their knowledge and the device downloaded it into O'Neill's brain. The information was slowly taking over his brain and eventually he was no longer able to speak English.

General Hammond is then called to the control room. They find O'Neill entering a software program into the mainframe computer. Gen. Hammond then orders him to stop but O'Neill replies that he can't. Teal'c is then ordered to physically restrain him. When O'Neill's program runs, Captain Carter informs everyone that it added new gate destinations, previously not from Abydos cartouche. Tealc [ˈtiːəlk] (born c. ... Samantha Sam Carter (born December 29, 1968)[1] is a fictional character in the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1, played by English-Canadian actress Amanda Tapping. ...

Back in Daniel's office, O'Neill (who has lost the ability to speak anything but the Ancient's language) and Daniel are translating the inscription. It reads "We are the Ancients. The place of our legacy". Daniel begins to speculate that these Ancients might have been the original creators of the Stargate. The Ancients, also known as the Alterans and Lanteans, sometimes calling themselves Anqueetas in their language, are a human race in the fictional Stargate universe. ... A typical depiction of a Stargate. ...

Carter, perplexed by the equations, states that not even the basic equations make sense; Jack responds by handing Daniel a paper that says 10=8, this is to state that the equations are using base 8 math as opposed to the base 10 commonly used. It turns out to be a revolutionary way of calculating the distance between planets. The SG-1 team, minus O'Neill and Daniel, are sent off on a mission to one of the new gate addresses (P9Q-281) in hopes they might find some information into how to help Jack.

Meanwhile, Jack starts building a device which he himself doesn't know the purpose of. After he completes it, Daniel tells O'Neill that SG-1 is trapped on P9Q-281 because the Dial Home Device (DHD) is stuck mid-dial. SG-1 is in trouble because a second sun has risen up on the planet, which will roast the team alive. Jack writes instructions on how to fix the DHD, which are then sent through the gate to the team. SG-1 returns home safely but were not able to find anything which could help Jack's problem. In the science fiction television Stargate universe, a DHD (for Dial-Home Device) is an Ancient machine used to control a stargate. ...

Soon after, the computer dials a gate address and cannot be overridden. Carter informs Hammond that the gate needs more power to activate. Meanwhile Teal'c and Jackson follow O'Neill to the power room, where he hooks up the device that he made. Carter then tells Hammond at the control room that the Gate has suddenly gotten the amount of power it needed.

The Gate dials on its own, and a wormhole is established at its eighth chevron (instead of the normal seventh). Jack, Daniel and Teal'c then enter the control room they figure out that the gate has dialed outside of the galaxy and the eighth chevron is for a distance calculation to that galaxy. Gen. Hammond allows O'Neill to go through the gate. Analogy to a wormhole in a curved 2D space (see Embedding Diagram) Artists impression of a wormhole as seen by an observer crossing the event horizon of a Schwarzschild wormhole, which is similar to a Schwarzschild black hole but with the singularity replaced by an unstable path to a...

O'Neill, upon arriving on the other side, makes contact with the Asgard. The Asgard remove the memory of the Ancients from his brain. They explain to him that the information was not meant for him as his brain was not developed enough for it. Though his subconscious mind brought him to Othalla, in the galaxy of Ida where he could get help. They have been monitoring Earth some time and discovered that the humans of Earth have great potential.

The Asgard inform him about the Ancients and how they were an alliance of Four Great Races (the Ancients, Asgard, Nox, and Furlings), and that O'Neill's race was advancing to become the Fifth Great Race and he had taken the first step. O'Neill is then sent home through the Stargate with none of the Ancient knowledge and has faith in humanity. In the science fiction series Stargate SG-1, the Asgard are a benevolent, highly advanced and evolved race from another galaxy, called Ida, who have visited Earth on many occasions, giving rise to the Norse legends. ... In the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1, the alliance of four great races was an ancient alliance of four advanced species that was built over many millennia and existed before the rise of the Goauld and the Wraith. ... The Nox are a fictional race on the television series Stargate SG-1. ... In the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1, the Furlings are an alien race. ...

Quotes

• O'Neill: Apparently I've lost the filatis to speak properly! (a pause) That wasn't a joke. I didn't do that on purpose.
• Daniel: Uh, w-well, my translation's a little bit vague, um, I think the circle means 'the place of our legacy'…or it could be 'a piece of our leg', but the first seems to make more sense.

• Lt. Simmons: Chevron seven... encoded? And it's not the point of origin.
• later... "Chevron eight locked."

Notes

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The Fifth Race (Stargate SG-1)

• This marks the first episode that the Ancients are mentioned.
• Also this is the first episode in which a Repository of the Ancients is shown. The second is found in the Season 7 episode Lost City (Part 1), where it helps to find the lost city of the Ancients. A variant is shown in the Season 10 episodes "The Quest, Part 2", and "The Shroud".
• In this episode it is revealed that the Stargate can be used to travel to another galaxy by dialing eight symbols. However it needs massive amounts of energy (normally a Zero Point Module).
• It is revealed that the Ancients used the octal number system. (At least in some applications)
• In the Season 10 episode Unending, Thor confirms that the Tau'ri have become the Fifth Race.

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External links

• Official Stargate SG-1 site. MGM. Visited June 8, 2006. Most of site requires Flash.
• Screenplay (PDF). Distributed by MGM. Prepared by Casablanca Continuity. Retrieved on 2006-10-15. Linked to from Official Stargate SG-1 site. Also see Google's cache.
• Summary from SciFi. Visited June 5, 2006. Requires Flash.
• Summary from GateWorld. Visited May 8, 2006.