2020-12-24

The movie starts when the SG-1 team is witnessing the extraction of the Goa’uld from Ba’al. General Jack O’Neill is there also to witness this. He had a special relation with Ba’al! Ba’al even now is smug and warns the Tauri about a plan he has set in motion.

Meanwhile we go to 1939 where we see a ship where the captain, who turn out to be Mitchell’s granddaddy, is transporting a big object, the Stargate. Ba’al uses the Stargate in the cargo hold, arrives on the ship, his Jaffa kill every member of the crew, except Mitchell’s grandfather, who disposes of the bomb that was planted by the Jaffa. Back at the extraction ceremony, Vala first disappears, then Teal’c. Jack is murdered by Ba’al who is then shot to dead by Mitchell. Meanwhile Tok’ra people and buildings disappear while the remaining members of SG-1 escape through the Stargate.

They gate to that same ship from 1939, into the cargo hold, where the Stargate still is. While trying to escape the ship it sinks and SG-1 manages to escape the ship. But Daniel’s leg has been in the frozen water and can not go with Sam and Mitchell in search for help. Mitchell and Sam walk for miles and miles and just when Sam is about to give up, they see men in white outfits coming for them. It’s Jack O’Neill who is now with special forces. They got rescued with a submarine and turns out they also found Daniel. He was found only a half hour after Sam and Mitchell had left to search for help. Daniel’s leg has to be amputated.

Of course I have to say very convenient that they are found so quickly, even as it has been explained it’s still very convenient but it’s a movie, just go with it.

Of course O’Neill has a hard time believing their stories, even when they know certain details. Of course when Daniel tells that Jack’s son has died, O’Neill gets pissed because apparently in this timeline this hasn’t happened. Carter, Mitchell and Daniel ask for General Landry and he comes, he says he believes them but they are not to be allowed to ever go through the Stargate again to because they might want to change the timeline and that is not authorized because in 70 years no one has ever heard of Ba’al. They each get a new life in a different part of the country and aren’t allowed to see each other for obvious reasons.

A year passes, Ba'al arrives with a massive fleet in tow, Qetesh as Queen, and Teal'c as First Prime, he appears to control all the Goa'uld. Qetesh turns on Ba’al after she notices some peculiar actions from Ba’al which suggest he knows this world and probably lived here too. After witnessing Qetesh killing Ba’al, Teal’c escapes to a cloaked Al-Kesh through the ring transporter. Qetesh orders the bombardment of Earth from Orbit and she then leaves on the mothership to go to find the time travel device Ba’al held secret from her.

Sam and Mitchell go to Russia, they arrive shortly before Teal’c arrives with his Al-Kesh. After a short stand-off they tell Teal’c about their universe, that the Jaffa are a free people, that the Goa’uld are no longer a threat. He agrees to work together and they gate through to where Ba’al has his secret base, where his failsafe machine is, besides a Stargate and a ring platform. Sam tries to calculate solar flare activity, thus allowing the wormhole to travel back through time by passing through a solar flare.

While doing that, Qetesh’s Jaffa come down via the ring platform and a firefight begins. Sam succeeds with the plan to go back in time but 1929 is the only option. Meanwhile Daniel and Teal’c are showdown and just as Sam opens the wormhole, she is killed. Teal’c last act is activating a granate that kills Qetesh and destroys the time travel device. Only Mitchell gets to go through the Stargate, back to 1929, 10 years before Ba’al comes through the Stargate on his grandfather’s ship.

10 years later, Ba’al comes through the Stargate but he and his Jaffa gang are killed by Mitchell and a co-worker of his grandfather. Then we go back to the extraction ceremony scene where the symbiote is removed from Ba’al. Vala stays behind to help Ba’al host cope what just had happened. The rest of the team goes back to Earth and O’Neill wants lunch, he’s buying! Carter, Jackson and Mitchell discuss what the ominous message from Ba'al was all about, as we see a picture of Mitchell, standing with the Captain of the "Achilles" in 1939 taped to the inside of his locker at the SGC.

Best Moments:

1. Ba'al being smug as always in the opening scenes

2. How Qetesh surprises Ba'al with a sword, till that point we've seen little of Qetesh but that changes here

3. That look on Ba'al's face when he arrives on that ship in 1939 the second time when he's being shot in the head

4. The whole scene on that ship in 1939, when the SG1 team arrives. You could almost feel how cold it had to be

Fun movie, although you get the feeling it’s done before in some kind of form within Stargate itself. Still it’s enjoyable 90 minutes. Pity is was the last movie! Strange thing though, I (incorrectly) remembered that here Don S. Davis already had passed away and that in this movie there was a brief moment it was mentioned in the SGC. Obviously I was wrong because Don S. Davis has a small role in this movie as well. So that moment will come in a future SGA or SGU episode. Of course there are people who can tell me already but that would mean this blog would actually be read by this someone! 😐

Screencaps: GateWorld -  ReWatch Blog with the help from synopsis on IMDb