"Come on Jack!" "Still no, Daniel." "It doesn't have to be on a permanent basis." "I didn't let you go in the first place." "What makes you think I'm going to change my mind?" "Because..." "Can you try to do better than that?" "Because they need someone who can translate Ancient." "I'm the most qualified person left on the planet for the mission." "Which is exactly why you're gonna stay right here." "Because I'll quit!" "Why don't you just hold your breath." "You haven't done that in a while." "General!" "Jack." "I let myself in." "Hope you don't mind." "Absolutely not." "Welcome." "Thank you." "Miss the chair?" "Actually I do." "Want it back?" "As a matter of fact, I do." "My new one just isn't the same." "That's not exactly what I mean't." "Dr Jackson." "Nice to see you again." "Likewise." "We miss you around here sir." "So!" "To what do we owe this pleasure?" "I came to ask if you'd be interested in joining the mission to Atlantis." "You did?" "He is the most qualified person on this planet, and the mission commander needs someone who can translate Ancient." "Really." "With all due respect sir, I think you should tell the mission commander, that I need Daniel, right here." "You just did." "I did." "I did?" "You sir?" "Yes." "Request denied." "Dr Jackson, you're with me." "I'll have that chair shipped to Washington." "You can requisition a new one." "I'll do that sir." "We leave tomorrow." "Oh, and I'll be taking Walter too." "Season 8" " Episode 12 Prometheus Unbound" "Transcript:" "stargatedanielfriendly. net" "Synchro:" "DjNono, frost666, greatouille" "General!" "Welcome aboard" "Thank you sir." "Again." "My motives were purely selfish Dr Jackson." "We haven't heard a word from the Atlantis expedition team, since they first left." "We have no idea what we're going to find in Pegasus." "Your knowledge and expertise will no doubt prove invaluable." "General, if you don't mind my asking." "Why am I going?" "Well, you could have chosen anyone to command this mission." "I sat back and watched you people go on a lot of adventures over the years." "I thought that when you were replaced at the SGC, you were sort of bucking for retirement." "And then I led Prometheus against Anubis' fleet." "Got your dander up." "That's why I took the job as head of homeworld security." "Then this opportunity came along." "The President put me in charge, so I could choose anyone I wanted, to lead the mission." "So why not choose yourself?" "Like I said." "I sent a lot of people into action over the years and more than a few didn't come back." "I'd like to see this one through personally." "You've never left anyone behind sir." "And we're not going to this time." "The last recorder MALP telemetry from Atlantis, indicated an enclosed space with viable life support." "Now we're going on the assumption that the expedition team found the Lost City and set up a base of operations there." "Sorry." "Dr Novak?" "The Asgard hyperdrive is functioning at 100% sir." "Thank you." "Dr Jackson." "I'm sorry." "What was I saying?" "Oh you were assuming that the Lost City was at the other end of this field trip." "Please ignore me." "It's hard to." "You disagree Doctor?" "Well, as far as we know, the Atlantis team found another outpost like the one on Antarctica." "Could be on a moon or at the bottom of some deep, dark ocean." "Which is why we're going." "If they're trapped and need help." "If they're even alive at all." "As for why they've been unable to make contact with Earth, hopefully it's just a matter of being unable to locate a viable power source." "Using information collected from the Ancient outpost on Earth," "Dr Jackson and his team have pinpointed our destination in the Pegasus galaxy." "Which is here." "Dammit to hell!" "Dr Novak." "Dr Jackson." "Daniel." "You can call me Lindsey." "I'm sorry about contradicting you in the briefing." "Oh, no." "Don't be." "You were right." "The fact that we haven't heard from the Atlantis expedition since they left, is a bad sign." "Have you tried holding your breath?" "God, I've tried everything." "Yeah, that doesn't work for me either." "It's been like this since I was a kid." "It comes on when I get scared, but this is the worst it's been since my PHD presentation." "I mean, I don't normally do well in stressful situations." "I guess that's why I turned down Atlantis the first time." "I'm sure you're gonna be fine." "General Hammond say's you're very good at what you do." "Thank you." "What's that?" "What's wrong?" "I don't know." "We're picking up what sounds like a distress call." "Where are we?" "We're still well inside the milky way." "Play it back." "Yes sir." "Help." "Require assistance..." "have failed..." "lost power to... stranded" "She sounds human." "What do you think?" "Well, as much as I'd hate to delay this trip, I think we have to check it out." "How far away is it?" "Message is originating just over 50 light years off our designated route." "We could be there in 20 minutes." "Set a course." "Yes Sir." "Set shields at maximum." "Arm weapons." "Looks like an Al-Kesh." "And a cargo ship." "Scans indicated they've suffered significant damage." "The distress signal is originating from within the Al-Kesh." "I don't understand." "A human distress call from a Goa'uld ship." "That makes no sense." "I agree sir." "It could be a trap." "Look, I know this looks suspicious, but what if there was an uprising onboard one of those ships?" "There could be human prisoners in need of our help." "Open a channel." "Yes sir." "This is General George Hammond of the Earth vessel Prometheus." "We're answering your distress call and standing ready to assist you." "We could transport a portable sensor unit onboard, learn life support viability." "General, an Al-Kesh is a potentially valuable ship." "Even if there are no survivors, we need to determine if it's spaceworthy." "If it is, we should salvage her." "Take a team." "Yes sir." "Prometheus, this is SG3." "We are onboard." "General, we're seeing some energy weapon damage." "One Jaffa." "Sir, over here!" "Make that four Jaffa." "Looks like these folks had a little onboard firefight." "Still no sign of life." "We're heading to the bridge." "Prometheus, someone just activated the..." "Colonel Reynolds." "Say again." "Sir, our rings just activated." "Security team to level four ring room." "Visuals onscreen." "Seal it off." "Controls are not responding sir." "It's no good sir." "The rings will not activate." "Security team report!" "All ship board communications are down." "Initiate emergency lockdown." "I can't sir." "It may be possible from the engine room." "Go." "It wasn't me sir." "Let's get them out of there." "Can we pursue them?" "Engines are offline." "Controls are unresponsive." "Weapons are offline too sir." "It seems like we're dead in the water." "General, I just did a head count." "Daniel Jackson is still aboard the Prometheus." "Oh crap!" "Are you ok?" "I feel like my head's gonna explode." "But on the bright side." "I think my hiccups are gone." "What do you need sir?" "I need this ship operational now." "Yes sir." "Near as I can tell, we're lucky that life support systems are still working sir." "How much time do you figure we have?" "That's hard to say." "I've got some secondary systems online, including some short range sensors sir." "Scans of the cargo ship indicate that it's in worse shape than this Al-kesh." "Strange isn't it sir?" "That a Goa'uld super soldier would go to this much trouble to keep us alive?" "Hey, how's it going?" "Guess it's just you and me huh?" "It's a little strange isn't it?" "See, that weapon I shot you with, should have killed you." "What's even stranger is that you guys usually don't take prisoners either." "It's kinda kill first and... no, that's generally just about it." "Just the killing." "I'm just going to talk to myelf here for a while, cos you're not going to talk to me." "Not that you guys are very talkative, but uh..." "You may prove useful." "Ok, now we're getting somewhere." "Where's everybody else?" "I transported them onto the Al-Kesh." "Well, you kept the wrong guy, cos I don't know anything about this ship." "But you are very attractive." "What?" "Hey guy." "I'm flattered, really I am, it's just that, you're not my type." "I'm more than a little disturbed that I might be yours." "Don't, don't don't!" "Oh!" "Don't worry." "I'm not going to hurt you." "Thank God." "Much, I hope." "I wish to send a long range transmission, using the communication systems." "Sorry, I don't have a clue." "You lie." "In general?" "No, yes, well I try to be honest, but occassionally a little white one slips out every now and again." "Ow!" "Shall I kiss it better?" "Um, no." "Just don't do it again." "Look, even if I knew what it is you wanted me to do, what makes you think I'd tell you." "How the hell do you think you can steal a ship, when you don't know how it works?" "I got the sublight engines going." "Yeah, so you did." "You really expect me to believe you don't know how your own ship works?" "Ok, um, look, my name is Daniel Jackson." "I'm an archaeologist, historian." "I study ancient cultures, histories of the past, ancient civilisations." "Have you heard of Earth, Tauri?" "No." "Well we were on our way to rescue a few friends who were trapped..." "I really don't care." "Look, this really isn't necessary..." "Can I have the ship?" "No." "Ok." "Discussion over." "Oh." "Here we go." "Tennet of Voran." "Tennet this is Vala, if you can hear me please respond." "I managed to procure a vessel, bigger and better than what I'd hoped for." "Tennet, if you get this message, I apologise for the delay and will meet at the designated co-ordinates in one day." "Vala out." "Now, about the hyperdrive" "Colonel, Doctor." "I've re-routed remaining power to shields and life support for the time being, but as far as the engines go..." "The control crystals for both sublight and hyperdrive engines are totally fried." "Looks like they were deliberately sabotaged." "Can they be repaired?" "In a word?" "No." "We need a new one." "I was thinking about that cargo ship sir." "Sergeant Harriman says that life support over there is minimal." "Barely enough to sustain one person for a few moments." "And if we don't get new crystals?" "Sorry, coming out." "I'll go sir." "No, I'll go." "With all due respect..." "Colonel!" "Someone took my ship." "I want it back." "Access is restricted by a code." "Yeah." "Too bad." "Ah!" "God." "Hot?" "Yeah." "I can fix it." "I don't know the code!" "Feel better?" "You're a Goa'uld." "No." "But I was once a host to one." "Which would explain the naquadah in your blood that let's you use Goa'uld technology." "And how I can quickly learn to use this rather primitive ship." "Yeah, so primitive, you have to wonder if it was worth the bother." "Well in this case it's the size that matters." "Actually, pretty much in every case." "Give me the code." "Please." "Don't know it." "Fine." "How much time do we have?" "I'm guessing a few minutes." "Or maybe less." "Sir?" "Not another word Colonel." "Do it now." "General." "God's be." "General, General can you hear me?" "I aknowledge." "Open the third panel down on the central column." "Done." "You want the blue one, it should be located at the center of the panel." "Got it." "One panel up, you should find a clear one." "It's hard to tell, lots of fumes." "Something." "General, General can you hear me?" "It's only been two minutes." "There was a firefight on board." "If the life support is not recycling in there..." "What?" "Staff blasts give off carbon dioxyde in a small counted space." "General." "General, Sir." "Is he breathing?" "He may need mouth to mouth." "Excellent." "Excellent waking up sir." "Good job with the crystals too." "Get the ship moving." "What did he say?" "He said get the ship moving." "Come on up General." "That's good job." "Much better." "Lose the weapon and move away from the console." "I liked you better tied up." "Against the wall." "Lose the weapon." "This suit still absorbs zat blasts." "How about your head?" "Still, you should probably let me take it off." "You should probably turn the ship around, first." "I don't know." "If I had me at gunpoint, that wouldn't be my first choice." "Yeah, well." "What's going on?" "I rewrote the access codes, so I'm the only one who can use the navigation systems." "Undo it." "Listen, hundreds of lives are at stake." "I'm trying to save the last of my people, and this ship is their only hope." "Maybe if you'd mentioned that off the top." "Would you really have helped?" "Look, as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, we were also on a rescue mission." "What is it?" "A ship just appeared on our radar." "It's an Al-Kesh." "This quadrant is crawling with Goa'uld vessels." "Chances are it's not your friends." "I made sure that ship was fully disabled when you showed up." "We'll see." "We have to raise shields and arm weapons." "I'll try and hail them first." "Oh." "You hit me." "You hit me." "You know, we could just have sex instead." "Feeling better sir?" "Yes." "We've just caught up to the Prometheus." "Nice work" "It was all Novak sir." "They're not responding to our hails sir." " Are we done?" " I am." "You're a freak." "Weapons?" "Online." "We are in range." "Target the rear thrusters." "Take out her sublight capabilities." "She's just jumped into hyperspace." "Oh, that's just great." "I see you." "Did you have fun taking off my clothes?" "It was your idea." "No I mean't when I was conscious, so that I could distract you and kick you in the head." "I kept my eyes closed the whole time." "I'm sure you did." "So, where we going?" "I told you, to save my people." "Can you please let me out of here." "Oh... no." "You know, I haven't eaten in days." "Could you please tell me how to access the navigation controls." "It's not very nice you know." "Starving a prisoner to death." "Come on, Daniel, you've seen me naked." "Least you can do is cook me dinner." "Aren't you hungry?" "No." "Thank you." "Have you heard of the Tokra?" "Yeah." "Ten years ago, the Tokra incited a rebellion on my planet." "The people rose up against the ruling Goa'uld." "Once the Jaffa had been overcome, the Goa'uld was captured alive, tortured and beaten for day's on end." "I was host to that Goa'uld at the time." "The people didn't understand that it was the symbiote that had ruled over them so harshly." "I guess the Tokra felt responsible." "They rescued me, removed the Goauld symbiote." "Nursed me back to health." "You said your people were in trouble now." "It was only a matter of time before another Goa'uld showed up." "A system lord named Camulus." "That's when the Tokra disappeared." "The people still refused to surrender." "Camulus ordered that they be wiped out." "We controlled several ships." "Troop transports, cargo ships, Al-Kesh." "Many people were saved." "Flown to any habitable nearby moon system." "And the ships made several trips before most of them were intercepted and shot down." "Camulus never knew there were any survivors, so we were safe." "Only problem was, the moon didn't have a Stargate." "So you were trapped." "We only had a few ships left." "Not enough to relocate everyone again." "It wasn't a problem, Camulus seemed to have little interest." "The other planets in the system he left behind were small or without a Stargate." "We used the ships to keep appraised of what was happening and to steal supplies and technology wherever we could." "You know that Camulus is gone now." "He was beaten by Baal." "And Baal's forces are searching every inhabitable world in Camulus' territory." "His ships are everywhere, it's only a matter of time before my people are found." "You got desperate and tried to steal that Al-Kesh." "It was damaged in a firefight." "I was hoping that one of my ships would answer my distress call." "I'm sure you can imagine how lucky I felt when this ship showed up." "It's big enough to rescue all my people and take them to a world far away." "Free from the Goa'uld." "You don't have to lock me up." "Oh, I think I do." "What difference is it going to make?" "The ship is automatically flying to my homeworld." "You can't stop it." "Well when I get to your planet, I'll just explain the situation to your people." "Maybe there's something we can work out." "My people are not going to trust you." "You have to let me talk to them." "No." "Daniel." "This is bad." "Vala this is Tennet, we have you on our scanners." "Uh, yeah... hi." "Where is Vala?" "She's here, she's just indisposed at the moment." "She did not mention she was working with someone." "No, I guess not." "Look, I realize I owe you an explanation and it's a bit of a long story really." "We will hear it in person and inspect your vessel." "That's good, because apparently we're coming in for a landing." "We will meet you at the designated co-ordinates." "Okie dokie, see you there." "You want the truth?" "I'll tell you the truth." "Daniel, are you there?" "I hope you can hear me." "The planet we just landed on is not my homeworld." "Whatever you do you must not go out there." "Hi guys." "Who are you?" "My name is Solo, Han Solo." "Where is Vala?" "She's inside." "We will only do business with Vala!" "Business, yeah that figures." "Not that I'm surprised or anything, I don't look surprised to you do I?" "What?" "It's just I was expecting some refugees in need of transport to another planet." "Human sort of refugees." "Not that there's anything wrong with you guys that I know of." "We have the Naquadah." "Refined weapons grade." "Ooh, that's nice." "This was the price we agreed upon." "This ship is impressive in size, but we cannot..." "Okay, you know what?" "Seriously, there's been a big misunderstanding." "I don't care what you've got, but I'm not going to sell you the ship." "You know what, that is not necessary." "We had a deal." "We must have this ship." "Goa'uld gliders!" "Fool, you were followed!" "Of course we were." "OK, you know what, I'd love to stay and chat but..." "Daniel, what's going on?" "We're being attacked by gliders, tell me how to access the ships systems." "Let me out and I'll help you." "You gotta be kidding me!" "Let's go." "No funny stuff." "Didn't you hear my advise?" "We'll talk about that later." "And the naquadah?" "Move!" "Do you have any idea what that's worth?" "Alright, raise our shields." "What are you waiting for, let's go to hyperspace." "I can't, it's not working." "We've already taken too much hull damage." "But we have incoming Alkesh, arm weapons." "Shields are failing." "And shields are down, we're almost out of weapons." "What just happened?" "An Alkesh just took out one of its own." "Nice work Seargent, target the second Al-kesh, fire at will." "Roger that Sir." "Dr Jackson, this is General Hammond." "Do you copy?" "Uh General, it's me." "Good to hear your voice Sir." "Likewise." "You alright son?" "We're fine Sir." "Are we clear to ring aboard?" "Stand by." "Unlock the system." "Those gliders most likely retreated to a nearby mothership, we need to get out of here now." "Unlock the system." "You're all clear Sir." "What are you going to do with me?" "I'm not sure." "Look Daniel, whatever happens I just want you to know..." "We managed to get the shields and hyperdrive back online, but there was significant hull damage." "I wouldn't recommend a long journey in hyperspace." "I'm afraid but we have no choice but to return to Earth." "How long before the ship's ready to go again?" "It's hard to say." "Good work Doctor, both here and on the Alkesh." "Thank you Sir." "Hey, hiccups are gone huh?" "I didn't even notice, I guess I was having too much fun." "Security to level four, the prisoner has escaped." "Status?" "Security team one unresponsive." "And the rings on level four just activated Sir." "General Hammond, SG3 was just transported here." "She's on the Alkesh." "Lock weapons on it's engines." "Aft thrusters targeted." "Target is.." "It's gone Sir." "Can we track it?" "No Sir, our long range scanners are being scrambled." "She's good."