by David Smith

Created on: August 19, 2010

In the movie, Stargate:  Continuum, the two lead actors from the popular television series come together.  The two that I am talking about are General Jack O'Neal, played by Richard Dean Anderson of McGuyver fame, and Colonel Cameron Mitchell, played by Ben Browder.  The two of them get together with the remainder of SG-1, Teal'c, played by Christopher Judge, Colonel Samantha Carter, played by Amanda Tapping, Doctor Daniel Jackson, played by Michael Shanks, and Vala Mal Doran, played by Claudia Black, formerly an actress in Farscape. to watch the extraction and execution of the last remaining system lord of the Goa'uld Ba'al, played by Cliff Simon.  However, during the ceremony, Ba'al makes a proclamation that all present will regret what is happening.  After he says this, to snickers from SG-1, the entire team and the room itself, eventually, all disappear.

The members of SG-1 find themselves in a world where the stargate was never delivered and thus never activated.  Colonel Mitchell, Colonel Carter and Doctor Jackson find themselves on the ship that originally transported the stargate, which was sabotaged before the drop could be made.  They are fighting subfreezing temperatures and a sinking ship.  They escape the ship, but find themselves in survival mode while they try to get back to civilization, without Doctor Jackson as he was injured during the ship escape.  Teal'c finds himself as the First Prime of Ba'al while Vala finds herself as Qetesh again, wife of Ba'al.  During their escape from the ship, Colonels Mitchell and Carter again find themselves in the presence of Colonel O'Neal, a Special forces operative sent to investigate a power surge.

The team, Colonel's Mitchell and Carter and Doctor Jackson, are given new lives and told that they are not able to do anything with regards to the Stargate.  Colonel Carter finds herself as an Astronaut that died.  Doctor Jackson finds himself as the Doctor that disappeared, as he did before he got hooked up with the Stargate program.  Colonel Mitchell got the worst news, being told that he does not exist.  They get the news from a former friend, General Hank Landry, played by Beau Bridges. 

It is not until the system Lords of the Goa'uld, all of them including Ra, who was killed in the first Stargate Movie when Colonel O'Neal was played by Kurt Russell, show up to destroy the Earth.  Ba'al and Qetesh are the orchestrators of the hostilities, until Qetesh kills Ba'al and the main attack on Earth begins.  It is then that Colonel's Mitchell and Carter and Doctor Jackson are called in to fix the problem, using the Stargate in Russia.  That is when they run into Teal'c, the first prime of Ba'al, in a move to avenge his master's death by killing Qetesh.  They end up going back in time by using a solar flare to bend time in the wormhole.

Colonel Mitchell gets hired on with the ship Achilles to foil the attack that takes the ship out and changes the time line.  When the time line is fixed, the episode ends with the removal of Ba'al and his subsequent execution.  All is back to normal, and General O'Neal, in his classic fashion, offers to buy the entire team ice cream.

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