A Hundred Days

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“A Hundred Days”
Stargate SG-1 episode

Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 17
Guest stars	Michelle Greene as Laira Julie Patzwald as Naytha Gary Jones as Walter Harriman Shane Meier as Garan Marcel Maillard as Paynan
Written by	Brad Wright
Directed by	David Warry-Smith
Production no.	317
Original airdate	February 2, 2000
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"A Hundred Days" is an episode from Season 3 of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1.

[edit] Plot

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SG-1 is visiting the planet Edora to view an annual meteor shower. During the "show" it becomes evident that the meteors are large enough to pose a serious threat to the planet. Laira, the leader of a local village, notes that the shower has been building in strength for several years.

SG-1 returns to Stargate Command to discuss the situation. Carter determines the annual shower is due to the planet passing through its system's asteroid belt, and that every 130 years it passes through a denser section. Because of this the planet is periodically bombarded with meteors that destroy the planet's surface and wipe out almost the entire population.

This time around, however, SG-1 is able to evacuate the Edorans back to Earth with the intention of transferring them back to Edora following the shower. Unfortunately, during the final evacuation, O'Neill and several dozen Edorans become trapped on the planet when a meteor hits the Stargate. The Edorans who escaped to Earth are forced to stay there until an alternate home can be found for them.

On Earth, Stargate Command discovers that the Stargate on Edora has survived, though it is buried underground with a layer of rock covering the event horizon much as the Iris covers the Earth Stargate. Carter, however, develops a plan to free the Stargate.

Carter's plan is a spin-off of the method used by Sokar to attack SGC's iris. Although the iris prevents any sort of object traveling through the Stargate, Sokar bombarded the iris with subatomic particles which heated it up to near destruction. Using the same basic idea, Carter plans to melt the rock surrounding the Stargate, then reinitialize the wormhole and create a pocket large enough for one person to enter when the wormhole activates. This plan, however, will take many months to complete in order to build the particle beam, though it is faster than having the Tollan get a ship to the planet which would have taken almost a year.

Back on Edora, however, all is not lost though much of the village is destroyed. Over the following months O'Neill helps the survivors rebuild their homes and replant their crops. O'Neill falls in love with Laira. After spending weeks attempting to dig out the Stargate he begins to settle into the fact that he may be trapped here forever. After three months have passed, O'Neill has become an integral part of the new community.

At the same time, however, Carter has finished her particle beam and is implementing her plan to save O'Neill. After completing the "excavation" process a MALP is sent through the gate, but is destroyed, to everyone's chagrin. However, while reviewing the telemetry that survived, it becomes apparent the gate is lying flat "on its back", and the MALP simply fell back into the wormhole after arriving intact. Carter and Teal'c develop a plan to deal with this problem.

Once the gate has been established, Teal'c shoots a harpoon through the gate, which lodges itself into the rock above the buried gate. Attaching himself to the trailing rope, he pulls himself through the wormhole, ending up suspended in the cavern above the gate. The wormhole is left active while he digs, allowing him to stay in contact with Stargate Command. The wormhole cannot be kept active indefinitely however, and the wormhole cannot be re-activated with Teal'c in the cavern, as the expanding surface will kill him while the gate is being established. Adding to the problems is the fact that Teal'c has a limited supply of air, supplanted by a small oxygen bottle which will last only a few hours.

Just prior to the Stargate disengaging, Laira happens to turn on O'Neill's radio and overhears the conversation. She mentions this to O'Neill. O'Neill tracks to Teal'c's location and begins to dig, eventually pulling Teal'c free. Once they dig out the Stargate, O'Neill has to make the painful choice of whether to remain on Edora with the woman he loves, or return home to his old life. Ultimately he chooses to return home and the Edorans trapped on Earth can, too, return to their home. Carter winces upon seeing that her boss is in love.

[edit] Notes

This show was originally considered to be created as a two-part episode, but this never happened after co-creator and writer Brad Wright said he could fit it all into one part.
This episode bears similarities with the Stargate Atlantis-episode Epiphany, in which John Sheppard gets stuck in a field that makes the time flow much faster than in the outside world, which forces him to stay in there for months.

[edit] External links

Official Stargate SG-1 site. MGM. Visited June 8, 2006. Most of site requires Flash.
Screenplay (PDF). Distributed by MGM. Prepared by Casablanca Continuity (1999-11-09). Retrieved on October 15, 2006. Linked to from Official Stargate SG-1 site. Also see Google's cache.
Summary from GateWorld. Visited May 3, 2006.