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“Small Victories (Part 2)”
Stargate SG-1 episode

"It was your stupid idea."
Episode no. Season 4
Episode 1
Guest stars Colin Cunningham as Major Davis
Teryl Rothery as Dr. Fraiser
Dan Shea as Sergeant Siler
Yurij Kis as Yuri
Dmitry Chepovetsky as Boris
Written by Robert C. Cooper
Directed by Martin Wood
Production no. 401
Original airdate June 30, 2000
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"Small Victories" (Part 2 of 2) is the Season 4 premiere episode of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1.

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details for Season 4 follow.

Confident that the destruction of Thor's ship in the atmosphere had ended the Replicator threat to Earth, SG-1 had managed to return when SGC had put up the second Stargate. They are shocked when they hear news that a Russian nuclear submarine has been hijacked by creatures with descriptions matching the Replicators. As the team prepares to move out, Thor arrives through the Stargate and enlists SG-1 to aid him. The war with the Replicators is going badly, and the robotic invaders are at the doorstep of the Asgard homeworld. As O'Neill, Jackson and Teal'c go to deal with the hijacked submarine, Major Carter goes with Thor to help find a way to stop the Replicators.

At the submarine, O'Neill, Jackson, and Teal'c decide to penetrate the submarine and try to obtain some intelligence on how to stop the Replicators before they can take control of the submarine. Unfortunately, the Replicators begin to attack, and the team is forced to fall back. Teal'c is injured and at least one member of the scout team is killed. Meanwhile, at the Asgard homeworld, Carter sees the incomplete Asgard ship, dubbed the O'Neill, designed to fight the Replicators and witnesses a short, one-sided naval battle in an attempt to stem the advance of the Replicators. Currently, five Asgard ships are in battle with three Replicator controlled ships. Unfortunately, she still cannot come up with a way to defeat them. They are then contacted that the five Asgard ships have been destroyed. The Replicators aren't attacking them because Thor's ship has less advanced techonology than the ones the Replicator control.

After some study from video recordings and Replicator samples extracted from Teal'cs wound, Jackson theorizes that the Replicators are made out of the same materials as the objects they consume, and since most of the Replicators are made out of the submarine, contact with the water will cause them to rust and deteriorate and short out. Unfortunately, at least one of the Replicators is the survivor from Thor's ship, and would be made from materials resistant to seawater, so the team must go back into the submarine and ensure that the surviving Replicator is destroyed before sinking the sub. Back on the Asgard homeworld, Carter suddenly comes up with a daring plan. Because Replicators are attracted to new technology, she decides to use the O'Neill as a lure to draw the Replicators into hyperspace and destroy them by making the O'Neill self-destruct. Thor balks at the plan, but eventually relents. The Replicators take the bait and are destroyed. Thor admits that the Asgard homeworld is now safe for the time being, but adds that Replicators are never fooled the same way twice, and that they will return.

Back on Earth, O'Neill and Teal'c penetrate the submarine and find the original Replicator. They destroy the Replicator, but when they try to escape, the other Replicators block their path. At the same time, the Replicators finally manage to take full control of the submarine and attempt to steer it into the open sea. O'Neill orders the forces outside to destroy the submarine and prepares for the end, but before they are overwhelmed by Replicators, Thor beams them onto his ship, saving their lives. The Replicator threat is over for now. Thor promises that when the Asgard defeat the Replicators, he will come to assist them in their war against the Goa'uld. Jack offers for Thor to come fishing but he beams them down.

[edit] Notes

  • This is not the last time a ship is named after a member of SG-1. In "New Order", it is revealed that Thor's new ship is named the Daniel Jackson.
  • The two crew members of the Russian submarine at the beginning of the episode speak real Russian - although with terrible pronunciation. At some point, one of them asks the other "what could that noise be", and the other answers "maybe these are bugs from the previous episode". In the DVD commentary for this episode, the director noted that they didn't provide subtitles for the Russian because they liked the idea of this in-joke.

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