Stargate SG1 - A Huge Fireball In The Night Sky (Season 2 Ep.1)

From The Episode "The Serpent's Lair"
Description From IMDB - As the Goa'uld attack fleet approach Earth, all four members of the SG-1 team are taken prisoner. They get help from an unexpected source when Bre'tac, Teal'c's mentor, reveals that he is on board. Apophis has delayed the attack until his son Klorel is revived, giving them some time to prepare. SG-1 has used all of the C4 on one of the two ships but must find a way to dispose of the second. Back at Stargate Command, Lt. Col. Bert Samuels arrives as a Pentagon liaison officer but also reveals a new weapon they have developed. General Hammond is dubious. They begin to transport humans to transport humans to an Alpha site in order to ensure the continuation of mankind.
- Written by garykmcd
The rights to Stargate SG-1 are held by MGM

[@TsutomuTomutsu]

Hammond of Texas. Your warriors serve you well.

[@GoranXII]

Of course if that idiot Kinsey hadn't got the shut-down order put in I'm pretty sure they'd have done a lot better. I mean, they did that with just 4 guys, can you imagine how much chaos they could have caused with at least three fully-equipped SG teams in play?

[@BurkenProductions]

indeed

[@Beyllion]

Also putting his hands over his head to show he recognized him because of his baldness lmao

[@derekwarr8567]

To this day, this show brings up emotions in me that no other show can. Greatest show ever

[@petert3355]

Hmmm on par with B5 in my book.

[@johannnuschke9445]

Yes. You're right.

[@tompson854]

Its time to rewatch, whta do you think?

[@PaiSAMSEN]

SG-1 proof that any problem can be solved by adequate number of C4.

[@Hesitatedeye]

To quote Teal'c "Indeed"

[@Ghostly_One1]

The Tau'ri have a saying; explosives solve anything. If it doesn't work, use more.

[@gn0015]

"Adequate" being the operative word.

[@PaiSAMSEN]

@@gn0015 [Image of an episode where the Tau'ri blast a Goa'uld with a mountain of C4 came to mind.]

[@estellemelodimitchell8259]

And a couple of grenades to disable the hyperdrive of the Gou’uld mothership

[@kineticdeath]

those shuttles, they are formidable vessels!

[@jeremybk54]

the shuttles have arms, that what makes them the most formidable craft in the universe

[@quoniam426]

But it used to take weeks to prepare a shuttle for launch so it is rather illogical to see a shuttle sent just to retrieve them, unless the shuttle was already on a mission that very day... In that case it is frightening to think they didn't order the shuttle back to Earth when Goa'uld motherships came in.

[@DrForrester87]

What would be the point? In an all-out Goa'uld invasion, Endeavor's crew would likely be just as dead if they landed as they would if NASA kept them in orbit. By the time they got ready for re-entry and landed, the ships would be ready to being hitting key targets. Kennedy and Edwards would likely be steaming craters fairly soon.

[@acer3573]

Oh yeah. Yeah. Bad day.

[@mariusmioc3045]

@@quoniam426 They had a warning the Goa'uld were coming, and the only chance Earth had, would have been to send a shuttle with a couple of nukes to meet them in a suicide mission. So when the mother-ships exploded, the only mission that remained for the shuttle would have been to retrieve the team. Now, how would that be possible, is another question.

[@GabrielusPrime]

This was the mission that truly started the reputation SG-1 built in the galaxy over the course of the series, in my opinion...

[@zippacna]

Oh absolutely, it would have gotten around real quick after this that if sg1 shows up on one of your planets you're about to either lose some ships or troops. Both if you're unlucky

[@sammcdonald769]

Movie quality show. Outstanding production.

[@wardoc0435]

Agreed. And Sci-Fi Channel's reimagining of Battlestar Galactica starring Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katie Sackhoff, etc was even better. Both were absolutely fantastic TV shows with feature film level special effects and superb actors and actresses.

[@AlexandreMS71]

indeed

[@CinemaScopefilms]

A barber in Indiana tried to tell everyone about it. No one believed him.

[@gerardfogarty-law6526]

They rejected O'Neill's report or reports. Maybe if he had a Sarcophagus, Symbiote or Death Glider it might have made him more credible!

[@alexpacino1]

D’Oh!

[@Tindreal]

Daniel was really awesome because even under that huge amount of pressure (you know, the ressurrection but dying again if hes not fast enough thing) he remembered to not dial Earth because since the ship was in Earth's orbit he would have got a "busy signal". (as explained in a later episode)

[@floppydisksareop]

Earlier, actually. "Solitudes" (the one where Sam and Jack are stuck in Antarctica) is the 18th episode of the first season, while this is the first episode of the second season. So, Daniel would already know that he wouldn't be able to dial Earth, as he was the one who realised what was happening with the beta gate in the first place.

[@BlackDiamond2718]

He reminded me of the movie where he saved Sha're using it.

[@suzrad6643]

I wished they finished this with Daniel coming out to meet his team; my favorite part.

[@Erekose2023]

As someone else may say... "Indeed"

[@TheOneAndOnlyMrH]

General Hammond, he is our leader, just a man, a very bald man....from Texas.

[@Bayard1503]

Ah, the mighty shuttle has arrived

[@mickeyhynes]

Bratac and Hammond - a mature bromance.

[@killbot86]

Kinda felt bad for Apophis at the beginning of this video...You can see just how pissed he was that such a simple invasion can go so wrong for him...........

[@stevepettersen3283]

Yeah, we're all crying for him! Consolation prize: we named an asteroid after him.

[@sammich4660]

Texas leads the way. We always have. We always will. USA-TX

[@blackhawks81H]

These days Twitter would have broken the news about the fireball 20 minutes before the air force found out about it. Lol

[@derianvandalsen]

Well, that's basically how they got confirmation on this one

[@WarGrowlmon18]

"We die well." "No we die free." "Or not!!!"

[@theuncalledfor]

"The best way to die, is not."

[@WarGrowlmon18]

@@theuncalledfor "Everyone dies alone, but if you mean something to someone, if you help someone, or love someone, if even a single person remembers you, then maybe you never really die at all."

[@theuncalledfor]

@@WarGrowlmon18 A silly notion, borne of the need to cope with the inevitability of death.

[@WarGrowlmon18]

@@theuncalledfor No, just a great quote.

[@theuncalledfor]

@@WarGrowlmon18 We'll have to agree to disagree on that one, because I am _not_ gonna be on board with that.

[@MrPibb23x]

Everyone's talking about how they got into the shuttle, which could maybe be reasonably explained by folding the glider wings and fitting in the shuttle docking bay, but I want to know something else. Later on Daniel assumes that Apophis must have survived by going through the Stargate AFTER he did but obviously it's not possible to disengage, dial, and walk through a gate in less than 4 seconds before the C4 went off. I'm just wondering if Apophis used a Tel'tak and the SGC/Daniel just had no idea they existed yet or if he somehow got to the gate BEFORE Daniel and the episode's cut just make it look weird.

[@brownro214]

They probably ringed over to a nearby scout ship.

[@earthorbiter5290]

STÅRGÅTE SG1 is a really good clean show. Is the world too corrupt and evil to have another spinoff? Bring the STÅRGÅTE back and let's give them some cool transportation to get around on the other side.

[@RecklessFables]

The entertainment needs of society are always in flux. Right now we're in make it dark and nihilistic and everything from the past sucks - mode. They've made Star Wars and Star Trek cynical satires. If they brought back SG1, they'd ruin it and you'd be frustrated.

[@adampender3685]

That stargate probably survived, and just floated away.

[@alantaylor846]

Or gravity pulled it in, perhaps.

[@babalarassrah]

genii favorite episode

[@stevepettersen3283]

In one of MG Hammond's rare wearings of BDUs, I thought the Air Force wore/wears black t-shirts with them. I know the Army wore OD, later brown. Hilarious that the Marines continued to wear white t-shirts with them for several years.

[@ComradeRemus]

Stargate actually changed their uniforms a couple times, to reflect real-life changes to the USAF uniforms.

[@develynseether4426]

huge fireball in the night sky, everyone cheering, meanwhile the 2 ships explode elsewhere in the sky and that fireball is an unknown asteroid hurtling towards earth. The End.

[@Freedom9X]

Rescued by the mighty and powerful earth shuttle.

[@russell5078084]

what I want to know is how they got from the deathgliders, to the shuttle without being exposed to the vacume of space and dieing?

[@spork24601]

They also got the death gliders down somehow (they become the X-301 as seen in s04e12).

[@MrJasonWell]

The shuttle has a cargo bay and an arm that extends which you can see at 4:00. I assume the gliders fit but I don't know the size of the cargo bay or death gliders.

[@kauske]

A human can withstand exposure to space outside of the sun's scorching light for a minutes with only minor ill effects. It's not pleasant, but they could have got the gliders in close, and transferred them into the shuttle's cargo bay airlock. Alternatively they may have repaired the gliders in orbit and had them land. -It's really unlikely that they could load them in, the shuttle can't land carrying much cargo, even if they cut the wings off to fit them in the bay it would have been a messy landing.- *Edit,* gliders apparently weigh far, _far_ less than expected, if they could fit them into the cargo bay, the shuttle has the payload.

[@WarGrowlmon18]

Well they used those Gliders to make the X-301 in season 4 but that was always something that bothered me.

[@Arkalius80]

There's no way even one glider would fit in a shuttle cargo bay, and it wasn't meant to land with heavy cargo.

[@christophergauthier5858]

"Indeed"

[@SpectatorAlius]

Great episode, but I really don't think they could launch the Endeavor on such short notice. It take hours to just fill the fuel tanks.

[@SoranoGuardias]

I'm sure they had a shuttle on standby during its time in the event of emergencies aboard the ISS.

[@Maeshup]

I'm also sure the space shuttle was already in orbit for satelite maintenance or something and was not just started to save them.

[@gabrielm8263]

Kierunek TARI 👽💫❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@jeremybk54]

so, what do u think of our shuttles?

[@laurencebarnes5361]

I swear they never clean on the other side of that control console

[@TotalEmul]

OLD SG ARE THE BEST

[@musicalaviator]

The Shuttle pilot sounds like Obama?

[@asianfireflie]

Rings can help a lot 🐈🐩🐕

[@1andonlyzara]

What, they’re gonna fit four extra people on a NASA shuttle? And how are they gonna get them over there?!

[@yaldabaoth2]

How did they get 4 ppl without spacesuits out of two alien vessels that don't seem to have an airlock?

[@RowenJ420]

Space shuttles have large retractable arms and cargo holds

[@VonSchpam]

@@RowenJ420 Not big enough to land a Glider in.

[@davidlewis5312]

@@VonSchpam gliders can fold up

[@SoranoGuardias]

Space shuttles were also designed to allow crew in EVA to return to Earth while in the cargo bay.

[@onkelfabs6408]

And how did they get onto the shuttle. They must have suitable hatches for that.

[@johnlove6206]

If you trans pass fast in seconds you can survive from void to boiling your blood and to became like a baloone!!!!!

[@russell5078084]

I wasn't aware that the rings could send you to another solar system like the Star gate can. If they can't then where did those two go?

[@leifdeatherage7257]

I would guess a cargo ship.

[@russell5078084]

@@leifdeatherage7257 4and where did that come from? No evidence of it leaving the ship.

[@SoranoGuardias]

@@russell5078084 Cloaked recon ship?

[@Chrisindapurplehouse]

Did they put the gliders inside of the shuttle? Would they even fit?

[@zdude0127]

Well those Gliders were used to create the X-301.

[@GrandHighGamer]

The shuttle ain't exactly tiny. You could easily fit a few cars in the cargo bay. The gliders can fold in their wings IIRC, so yeah they'd probably about fit.

[@mattsprayberry0]

I can't be the only one wondering how sg1 got out of the gliders into that shuttle without the vacuum of space ripping them a new one

[@Skyfighter64]

Similar concept to Submarine rescue vehicles. I f a Submarine becomes incapacitated, and cannot surface, then a rescue vessel would have to form a positive seal, allowing the emergency crew to force the hatch open and evacuate the crew. In this case, they jam up a seal around the glider's canopy, pressurize it, then have SG-1 crawl through the air lock.

[@mr.g67]

How did Apophis escape?

[@WarGrowlmon18]

In Season 2 they mentioned that he must've gone through the Stargate before Daniel did.

[@ShrekWallBee]

wait hold on just a sec how did Apophis and son escape if both ships were distroyed ?

[@epiendless1128]

Just a guess - transported to a Tel'tak ship that was aboard one of the ships, and launched it.

[@ShrekWallBee]

thats one possabilaty

[@amitakartok]

...food for thought: it is possible to pass a ring transporter's matter stream through a stargate?

[@lcstark]

@amitakartok It probably wasn't ever done on purpose, but that's how Vala wound up in the Ori galaxy in S9.

[@zdude0127]

There could have been a cloaked Alkesh or Scout Ship nearby.

[@josephhedges6762]

I hope everyone loved my comments and has some a lot of respectful others and keep it clean let's do that and help each other give them the helping hand to everybody thank you I had a nice day Joseph hedges

[@richardlew3667]

I was wondering why it didn't occur to anyone to just use the gate to escape the ship

[@patrickschulz2193]

A gate needs a planet as a gravimetric center to become the point of origin. Only when Daniel came upon the gate again was Apophis' ship close enough to Earth for him to even make the attempt.

[@brentbarr498]

Render wasn't that good.. lots of jumping and skipping but I'll forgive you.. THIS TIME! ;)

[@Hiraghm]

Today it would be up to Elon Musk to save them.

[@Fuhrer176]

2:46 blast doors are closing and few seconds later Hammond is running in :]

[@MAD-SKILLZ]

"I'm the general, and I want this door open! Now!"

[@Fuhrer176]

For i am Hammond of Texas!

[@xadam2dudex]

What good would the Space Shuttle do ? They can't walk over to it without space suits .. They can't open the canopy so the astronauts can hand them one ...did they have Asgard beaming tech on the shuttle ?

[@noelshrum4400]

They just tuck both gliders with wings folded into the payload bay and deorbit. The shuttle was built for that kind of work.

[@matth1589]

How did they get into the shuttles? What we aren't shown is that a glider's crew compartment can be ejected. These are much smaller and can be taken into shuttle bay, where the pilots can be extracted safely. The "survival cell" of the glider is designed to be compact so that it can fit through ring devices, and so that they can be recovered by smaller vessels. The shuttle bay can fit them. In order to increase the time for the operation to take place, attachable boosters were brought out to help maintain the gliders' orbits. Actually depicting that would have interrupted the story and the cost of the FX would have been prohibitive; so, "Yay, shuttle!" Cut to heroes returning to base.

[@geoffreydummett6841]

I've always wondered how they got into the shuttle, the detachment of the crew compartment makes perfect sense!

[@sargon6000]

Well, in Touchstone, one of the gliders studied in Area 51 is in the "fold" position, even though there's no proper reason why it should be, so maybe to fit inside the shuttle, they re-folded the glider (though even so, the shuttle would have to be slightly bigger than in real life for both gliders to fit). Or maybe, like the ceremonial Jaffa armor, the glider wings can retract to become smaller?

[@Ananamitron]

I would assume the pods detach or "eject" and those could fit in the shuttle cargo hold. But before they did that, I would also assume the shuttle pushed the death gliders into a higher orbit for recovery by area 51 later in the show.

[@rayrivera1830]

Hammond and Master Bra'tac meeting for the first time is so epic x)

[@OldfieldFan1]

The split second look from Hammond to O'Neill as Bra'tac hovers his hand over his head... He knows that O'Neill called him bald when he first told Bra'tac about him.

[@jeffanon1772]

That's Master Bra'tac....

[@rayrivera1830]

@@jeffanon1772 corrected 😅

[@WarGrowlmon18]

Everyone realizes that Sheppard's team used the same trick Daniel did to escape the Hive Ship at the end of Stargate Atlantis, right???

[@Domihork]

Yes, but I never really understood... Because the Hive Ship had a Pegasus Gate on board, so how did Sheppard knew which symbol is which to dial an adress?

[@noobster4779]

@@Domihork Maybe he used Atlantis as a point of origin. Atlantis was literally there in space :)

[@Domihork]

@@noobster4779 No, what I meant was that Sheppard dialed a Milky Way adress while being in Milky Way using a Pegasus gate. Maybe to explain better - imagine you take your regular western keyboard to Russia, you hook it up to a computer with russian setting and you want to type something in azbuka (the russian alphabet) - how do you know which key on your keyboard corresponds to which letter on your computer?

[@noobster4779]

@@DomihorkI think: a)They figured out the aphabet exchange during the midway station, otherwise it wouldnt work b) sheppard is really smart and knows that alphabetexchange c) i dont have the scene infront of my eye in total (thanks to amazon prime removing the show - .- ), but couldnt the gate simply jump to the closest gate adress by having a adress that works in pegasus but fails in milky way? Like, the gate recognizes the adress as correct, but isnt able to make a proper wormhole and jumps to a close by stargate as a emergency lock?

[@TheDjbz]

McKay was there and he works miracles when under the threat of impending death

[@zuss]

"Hammond of Texas" pure gold

[@MrLTiger]

it's funny how he never stops calling him that.

[@marianpazdzioch6632]

Ah, good old days when space shuttles was still a flying. They were the closest thing we ever had to movie like spaceships :(

[@NateSean]

00:04 Apophis: Who ate my strawberry pull and peel twizzlers!

[@doords]

lol

[@mackenzieseib8943]

what ever happened to this gate? I mean it takes a lot more then this to destroy one

[@obsidianfury5133]

1:07

[@chrisdore6387]

Do you have any more of this 4C?

[@kwastek]

So cute when they still used shuttles.

[@firedragon159]

Yeah....It did not take Daniel 7 seconds to begin a dialing sequence and have the gate open, that is some definite bullshit right there.

[@jabbba4044]

With DHD there is no need to 7 sec delay

[@asvarien]

Would C4 really have detonated the stargate? We've seen them get hit by worse, like asteroids.

[@doords]

Stargate can survive reentry too

[@Stanf954]

No explosive concussion wave in the vacuum of space. The explosion should never effect the gliders.

[@SoranoGuardias]

Wrong. The wave you see is the density of the matter being pushed ahead of the blast wave. So while the blast would physically appear as a sphere from a ways off axial views of a blast might show different.

[@yester30]

3:18 is so beautiful

[@AtomFlipper]

meanwhile in an alternate reality. Daniel dies, as the gate is active at the SGC

[@wakkywabbit5446]

Thanks

[@teles448]

Was this Stargate ever recovered? The Antarctic gate was destroyed by Anubis and Atlantis is in Earth so there's currently three Stargates in Earth's proximity.

[@davidlewis5312]

Considering there was satchet of c4 strapped to said gate, I would say No

[@teles448]

@@davidlewis5312 the gate can survive a direct meteor hit, C4 wouldn't make a dent I think

[@ganados0]

1950's society "Lets reach for the stars!" 2020's society "what gender am I? my vagina contradicts my masculinity!"

[@tyrrax]

Tell me how Daniel Jackson didn't end up as a smear on the iris. I didn't see him enter an IDC.

[@stevepettersen3283]

He went to the Alpha site first, then returned to SGC from there. Though, with such a short time for him to escape the explosion, I'm surprised there wasn't any explosive force that didn't follow him .

[@theuncalledfor]

@@stevepettersen3283 Stargate doesn't transfer explosions, though it can be overloaded and forced to jump to another gate by them, I believe. Stargates have some kind of mechanism to check for "intent", of sorts, to travel through the gate. If you dial a planet with no atmosphere, your atmosphere pushes against the event horizon, but it doesn't get transferred because it has no "intent", to prevent your atmosphere from being sent through, uselessly. I am not sure how it works/what counts as "intent" to the gate: inanimate objects can still be sent despite not having _real_ intent. It seems reasonable that explosions would not be sent through, much like wind and simple pressure aren't sent through.

[@LaDeXi]

Oh my.. didn't remember how bad the CGI was :D

[@epiendless1128]

Given when it was made, I was quite impressed.

[@tylersimons9067]

0:05 me when I finally get to the end of a really hard level of super mario bros only to die to hammer bros.

[@xadam2dudex]

They never explain how they got out of the gliders without spacesuits and into the shuttle ... Does it have beaming technology ?

[@karhedin]

they landed the glider either on or in the shuttle. they didnt needed to get out of the gliders, they needed to get on Earth. the shuttle did the job of getting them on Earth where they could get out even if it could have required some additionnal work due to forseeable problems. (jammed opening mecanism for example.) the glider could fold their wings so they could fit in the shuttle's payload and, if they couldnt, they could have used the shuttle to shield them from the brunt of atmospheric entry by flying the gliders so close to the shuttle that they are actually slipstreaming the shuttle.

[@xadam2dudex]

What good is a space shuttle ? They don't have space suits ..there is no room in the cabin for passengers which leaves the cargo bay which isn't pressurized ..do they have beaming tech on the space shuttle ?

[@W1NT3RS69]

Urmmmm urmmmmm plot? Xd

[@karhedin]

they dont need to get out of the gliders. they either fit the glider in the shuttle's payload, or land the glider on top of the shuttle. (using the shuttle to shield the gliders from the brunt of the air friction generated during the atmospheric entry. Something akin to slipstream.)

[@xadam2dudex]

@@karhedin the glider is as big as a Shuttle it can not fit into the cargo bay...

[@karhedin]

@@xadam2dudex those gliders can fold their wings. and with the image of the cockpit of a shuttle (upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Configuration_lancement_fligh_deck.jpg ) we can assume the size of the glider and the size of the shuttle payloads. they can fit in there if they fold their wings. NB: in my previous post i also assumed the folding system being damaged. that's why i offered a plan to land without folding the wings.