Stargate SG-1/Recap/S4/E02 The Other Side

Series:Stargate SG-1 Episode: Season 4, Episode 2 Title:The Other Side Previous: Small Victories Next: Upgrades Recapper: Insert Witty Name Here

For once, Stargate Command is being contacted by the people from another world rather than the other way around. However, these people, the Eurondans, sent three volunteers through their gate, who, of course, met Portal Slam deaths when they hit the iris. Their leader, Odo Paul Lewiston Alar, contacts the SGC by video and begs for their help against an enemy which controls most of their world. In fact, the Eurondans are confined to an underground bunker.

Daniel, of course, wants to offer humanitarian help. Hammond agrees, saying they could not commit resources which would turn the the tide of an alien world war, and O'Neill is authorized to negotiate with the Eurondans, in the hopes that the SGC might be able to get some Imported Alien Phlebotinum. It turns out the Eurondans are indeed very advanced and that they're willing to offer all their technology in exchange for heavy water, which powers their weapons. O'Neill agrees, to the moral outrage of Daniel:

"Daniel: Their world is on fire and we're offering them gasoline! Teal'c: We are in fact offering them water. Daniel: I was speaking metaphorically."

Back at the base, Daniel points out they don't even know how the war started and that Hammond did say they couldn't offer resources which would turn the war. Hammond admits he meant military assets, but nevertheless agrees they should find out more about the war. At the negotiation, Daniel asks how the war started and Alar recounts how the enemy attacked them one day. Jack considers this sufficient and closes the deal.

But on the way back to the gate, Alar says Teal'c should not return since he is "not like us", apparently meaning dark-skinned. At this point, Jack finally recognizes that he may have just made a Deal with the Devil. After some digging, the team finds out the Eurondans' enemy are the "Breeders", so named because they reject eugenics. It turns out that while the Breeders did start the war, it was a preemptive strike and the Eurondans had been preparing to exterminate them for years before. Needless to say, the crew doesn't take too well to their new allies being Space Nazis and sabotages their defenses.

As Hitler's Alar's bunker starts to collapse, the team returns to Earth. Just before O'Neill and Carter leave, Alar runs up to them, begging to go to Earth with them and offering all his knowledge of Eurondan technology. After exiting the gate in the SGC, O'Neill orders the iris closed.

"*THUMP*"

The gate deactivates with Alar presumably dead and Carter staring at O'Neill with a What the Hell, Hero? expression. The End.