Grace (Stargate SG-1)

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“Grace”
Stargate SG-1 episode
Episode no. Season 7
Episode 13
Guest stars Carmen Argenziano as Jacob Carter/Selmak
Ingrid Kavelaars as Maj. Erin Gant
John Novak as Col. William Ronson
Sasha Pieterse as Grace
Craig Veroni as Weapons Officer
Written by Damian Kindler
Directed by Peter F. Woeste
Production no. 713
Original airdate January 16, 2004
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"Grace" is an episode from Season 7 of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1.

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[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The Prometheus is traveling back to Earth with a Hyperspace engine from a Al'kesh. Every couple of hours, the Prometheus has to jump out of hyperspace to cool the Al'kesh hyperspace engine. The Prometheus comes near a nebula that Samantha Carter thinks doesn't conform to nebulae she has previously studied. When they jump out of hyperspace, the Prometheus is attacked by an unknown vessel. They can't jump into hyperspace because the engines need to cool down. The Prometheus is chased into a gas cloud by the alien ship. Samantha Carter is knocked out when she tries to convert power from auxiliary to the hyperspace engine to make a small hyperspace jump into the cloud. When she wakes up, all the crew members other than her have disappeared. She alone must get herself and them to safety. She has visions of a little girl running around the ship, playing with bubbles and of her friends, who vocalize her worries and theories about her predicament.

The hallucination of Daniel Jackson frankly confesses that he is unreal but he is present because there is something she has overlooked. The hallucination of Teal'c warns her that this whole scenario could be a result of the hostile alien species mind-probing, with a view to her inadvertently surrendering information about the Prometheus' engine technology, which is based on Asgard design. Daniel then reappears and tells her that the 'nebula' may be a living being which is why she and the alien ship are stuck inside.

The hallucinations of Jacob Carter and of Jack O'Neill serve as a means by which Carter confronts her personal life and her relationships (in particular when talking to 'Jack', her feelings for him). 'Jack' tells her he will always be there for her, no matter what.

After an encounter with the small girl who is playing with bubbles Carter hits on a solution. She engages the hyperspace engines with only a fraction of the usual amount of power. This has the effect of rendering the ship partially intangible.

She contacts the alien ship and offers them the solution to escaping the nebula in exchange for safe passage. She then creates a hyperspace bubble large enough to encompass both the Prometheus and the alien ship and they are able to exit the nebula safely. The aliens keep their end of the bargain and jet away. Carter collapses and is woken by a recently returned, and very grateful crew.

[edit] Notes

  • According to an interview with Robert C. Cooper, the race which owned the alien ship is known as The Shippers.[citation needed]
  • Craig Veroni (the weapons officer) would later play the recurring character of Dr. Peter Grodin on Stargate Atlantis.
  • This episode's plot is similar to the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Night Terrors", in which the crew is unable to go into deep sleep, experience halluncinations, and are ultimately rescued from their predicament by interpreting odd visions to discover a scientific solution to their predicament.
  • The Season 2 Stargate Atlantis episode "Grace Under Pressure" also involves a similar situation (except in a Puddle Jumper under the ocean) with Rodney McKay stuck inside. It is likely that the title of the Atlantis episode is a reference to this one (Grace) and to the fact the Jumper is at the bottom of the ocean (Under Pressure).
  • It is possible that Carter was not hallucinating, and that her visions actually were the cloud trying to communicate with her, as hypothesised by the apparition in the form of Daniel Jackson.
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[edit] See also

  • "Nightmare as a Child", an episode of The Twilight Zone that included salvation by an apparition of a small child. Like this episode, the appartion sings "Twinkle-Twinkle Little Star".

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