Watergate - Eposode #72
After a research team from Russia opens their Stargate, they discover a species that has taken on the appearance of water, and has the ability to control the minds of whoever encounters them.
NOTES OF INTEREST:
- The original mission was to transplant the Enkarans to a new home world.
- An energy spike and corresponding seismic tremor indicate the activation of a second gate.
- The Russians recovered the alpha gate from the bottom of the ocean two months ago, after the crash of Thor's ship, and before their Foxtrot sub was lost. The DHD from Giza was confiscated from the Germans after World War II. They were set up in a decommissioned experimental power station on the Siberian Plateau, at 97 degrees E longitude, 72 degrees N latitude, near the Kuybyshev Airbase.
- Dr. Svetlana Markov, chief science officer and second in command to Colonel Sokalov, helped establish the Russian program against the wishes of powerful people in the government who wanted to expose the US program to force the sharing of technology. The program was in operation for 37 days and had explored 7 planets when the malfunction would not allow the gate to close.
- The Russians have access to extensive files on the SGC. Colonel Maybourne has been in contact with the Russian Stargate program.
- The combination of the strong signal from the drone aimed at the event horizon, and the energy emitted by the water, maintained the connection and wouldn't let the gate shut down.
- Explanations of wormhole physics:
- A stargate cannot activate when buried, but it can engage under water.
- The wormhole only allows matter to travel one way, but radio signals can be transmitted both ways.
- A wormhole can remain active for a maximum of 38 minutes unless it is able to draw energy from an alternate source.
- The gate has the ability to use density, molecular structure, and the force being exerted on the event horizon to determine whether something is trying to pass through.
- The alpha gate supercedes the beta gate as long as the DHD is connected. If it is connected only when in use, it will prevent crossover to the beta gate.
- The water sample had unbelievable properties, spontaneously emitting energy in the form of heat. The heat was due to countless microscopic intelligent life forms in the water that are capable of entering and controlling a human body, and leaving it again.
- The Extreme Measures Protocol releases Substance 35, a non-persistent nerve gas, into the facility.
- Forty seven people at the Russian base were killed and 7 SG teams were trapped offworld by the gate malfunction.
- O'Neill has parachuted hundreds of times.
Injuries:
- Teal'c: Taken over by the water life forms
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