Children of the Gods - Season 1, Episode 1

First Airing (USA)
July 27, 1997
Written By
Jonathan Glassner and
Brad Wright
Directed By
Mario Azzopardi

Guest Stars
Jay Acovone - Kawalsky
Vaitaire Bandera - Sha're
Robert Wisden - Samuels
Peter Williams - Apophis
Brent Strait - Ferretti
Gary Jones - Technician
Alexis Cruz - Skaara

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Daniel Jackson's History/Linguistic/Mythology Lesson:

Sam Carter's Physics Lesson:

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Quotes:
Samuels: "I'm Major Samuels."
O'Neill: "Air force?"
Samuels: "Yes, Sir. I'm the General's executive officer."
O'Neill: "Want a little piece of advice, Sir? Get reasked to NASA. It's where all the actions going to be. Out there."

Samuels: "General Hammond, Colonel Jack O'Neill."
O'Neill: "Retired."
Hammond: "I can see that."

Hammond: "Me, I'm on my last tour. Time to start getting my thoughts together, maybe write a book. You ever think of writing a book about your exploits in the line of duty?"
O'Neill: "Ah, I've thought about it. But then I'd have to shoot anyone that actually read it." Neither Samuels nor Hammond laughs. "That's a joke, Sir. Most of my work the past ten years was classified."

Hammond, about a Jaffa: "Anyone you know, Colonel?"
Doctor: "They're not human."
O'Neill: "Ya think?"

Hammond, about Ra: "Are you sure he's dead, Colonel?"
O'Neill: "Unless he can survive a tactical nuclear warhead blown up in his face, positive."

Hammond: "You didn't like Daniel Jackson, did you?"
O'Neill: "Daniel was a scientist. He sneezed a lot. Basically he was a geek, Sir."
Samuels: "So you didn't have a lot of time for him."
O'Neill: "I didn't say that. He also saved my life and found the way home for my men and me. A little thing like that kinda makes a person grow on you, if you know what I mean."

O'Neill: "I'm retired, Kawalsky. Lose the salute."

O'Neill: "General, we don't need that probe."
Kawalsky: "We don't?"
O'Neill: "Nope. This'll do." He grabs a box of Kleenex.

Hammond: "Now what?"
O'Neill: "Now we wait. If Daniel's still around he'll know what the message means."
Samuels: "So what if the aliens get it?"
O'Neill: "Well, they could be blowing their noses right now."
Samuels: "They could be planning an attack."
O'Neill: "Oh, come on, Samuels. Let me be the cynic around here, ok?"

Hammond: "Where's Captain Carter?"
Samuels: "Just arriving, Sir."
O'Neill: "Carter?"
Hammond: "I'm assigning Captain Sam Carter to this mission."
O'Neill: "I'd prefer to put together my own team, Sir."
Hammond: "Not on this mission. Sorry. Carter is our expert on the Stargate."
O'Neill: "Where's he transferring from?"
Carter: "She is transferring from the Pentagon. I take it you're Colonel O'Neill. Captain Samantha Carter reporting, Sir."
Kawalsky: "But of course you go by Sam."
Carter: "You don't have to worry, Major. I played with dolls when I was a kid."
Kawalsky: "G.I. Joe?"
Carter: "Oh, Major Matt Mason."
Kawalsky: "Oh. Who?"
Ferretti: "Major Matt Mason. Astronaut doll. Did you have that cool little backpack that made him fly?"
Hammond, interrupting: "Let's get started. Colonel."
O'Neill: "Thank you. For those of you on your first time through the gate, you should be prepared for what to expect."
Carter: "I practically memorized your report from the first mission. I'd like to think I've been preparing for this my entire life."
Kawalsky: "I think was the Colonel is saying is, have you ever pulled out of a simulated bombing run in an F-16 at 8-plus Gs?"
Carter: "Yes."
Kawalsky, taken off guard: "Well...it's way worse than that."
Ferretti: "By the time you get to the other side you're frozen stiff, like you've just been through a blizzard...naked."
Carter: "That's a result of the compression your molecules undergo during the millisecond required for reconstitution."
O'Neill: "Oh, here we go. Anther scientist. General, please."
Carter: "Theoretical astrophysicist."
O'Neill: "Which means...?"
Hammond: "Which means she is smarter than you are, Colonel. Especially in matters related to the Stargate." Kawalsky and Ferretti laugh.
Carter: "Colonel, I was studying the gate technology for two years before Daniel Jackson made it work and before you both went through. I should've gone through then. But Sir, you and your men might as well accept that fact that I am going through this time."
O'Neill: "Well, with all due respect, Doctor, I..."
Carter: "It is appropriate to refer to a person by their rank, not their salutation. You should call me Captain, not Doctor."
Hammond: "Captain Carter's assignment to this unit is not an option, it is an order."
Carter: "I'm an Air Force officer just like you are, Colonel. And just because my reproductive organs are in the inside instead of the outside, doesn't mean I can't handle whatever you can handle."
O'Neill: "Oh, this has nothing to do with you being a woman. I like women. I've just got a little problem with scientists."
Carter: "Well, Colonel, I logged over 100 hours over enemy air space during the Gulf War. Is that tough enough for you...or are we going to have to arm wrestle?"

O'Neill: "With all due respect, Mr. Glass Is Half Empty over here, don't you think maybe we should use the Stargate to do a little reconnaissance before they decide to come back? Again?

Hammond: "I'll give you exactly 24 hours to either return or send a message through. No Kleenex boxes this time. Otherwise we'll assume the worst and send another bomb through."

O'Neill: "Captain?"
Carter: "Don't worry, Colonel. I won't let you down."
O'Neill: "Good. I was going to say ladies first."
Carter: "You know, you really will like me when you get to know me."
O'Neill: "Oh, I adore you already, Captain."

Carter: "I think I'm going to be sick. Uhhhh..."
O'Neill: "Maybe you shouldn't have had that big lunch, huh?"

Carter: "Amazing. This is what was missing from the dig at Giza. This is how they controlled it. It took us 15 years and 3 superconductors to MacGyver a system for the gate on Earth. Look how small it is!"
(The look RDA gives at the MacGyver reference is priceless!)

Carter: "Dr. Jackson I presume. I'm Doctor Samantha Carter."
O'Neill: "I thought you wanted to be called Captain."

O'Neill: "Moonshine."
Skaara: "Moon...shine?"
O'Neill: "Yeah. Moonshine, as in booze. Daniel, what are you teaching these kids?" Daniel gives him an innocent glance.
Skaara: "Try it."
O'Neill: "Alright." He smells it, then "Moonshine. Shocker." He takes a sip, then spits it out. "WHOA!" Everyone laughs. "Smooth. Very smooth."
Skaara: "Moonshine!"
Kawalsky: "Our little soldiers are all grown up, Colonel."
O'Neill: "I'm so proud."

Daniel: "Captain Doctor, you're going to love this."

Daniel: "Well, the cartouches seem to be separated clearly into groupings, each grouping is attached to the others with a series of lines. And each grouping of glyphs contains seven symbols so you can see where this is going, of course."
O'Neill: "Tell us anyway."

Daniel, about the glyphs in the "address book": "Some of them somewhere must still exist."
Carter: "I don't think so."
Daniel: "Then where did your Ra look alike come from?"

Daniel: "Look, ah, I don't pretend to know anything about astrophysics but couldn't the planets change? I mean, ah, drift apart or something to throw this map off?"
Carter: "I knew I'd like you."
Daniel: "You mean I'm right?"

Kawalsky, to Carter who's ranting (again) to Daniel about technological astrophysics stuff: "So what did we just figure out?"

O'Neill: "Hey."
Daniel: "They don't know what to do with me. And I don't know what to do with myself."
O'Neill: "Come on. Let's get out of here." They go to O'Neill's house. O'Neill walks into his living room with a beer. Daniel sneezes. "Nice catch."
Daniel: "Thank you. Gate travel always seems to make my allergies..." He blows his nose. "Sorry. Thank you."
O'Neill: "You were saying...?"
Daniel: "Anyway. As soon as you were gone they realized they were free. I mean, Abydos was their world for the taking."
O'Neill: "Had a little party, did you?"
Daniel: "Oh yeah. A big, big party. They treated me like their savior. It was, uh, embarrassing."
O'Neill: "It's amazing you turned out so normal."
Daniel: "Well, if it wasn't for Sha're I probably..." He cuts himself off, thinking of Sha're. "She was the complete opposite of everyone else. She practically fell on the floor laughing every time I tried to do some chore they all took for granted. Like, um, grinding yafetta flour. I mean, have you ever tried to grind your own flour?"
O'Neill: "I'm trying to kick the flour thing." Daniel laughs.
Daniel, about the beer: "This is going straight to my head. What time is it, anyway? I must have gate lag or something."
O'Neill: "Daniel, for crying out loud, you've had one beer. Cheaper date than my wife was."
Daniel: "Yes, when am I going to meet your wife?"
O'Neill: "Oh. Probably, ah, uh, never." Daniel stares at him. "After I came back from Abydos the first time she'd already left."
Daniel: "I'm sorry."
O'Neill: "Yeah. So was I. I think in her heart she forgave me for what happened to our kid. She just...couldn't forget."
Daniel: "And what about you?"
O'Neill: "I'm the opposite. I'll never forgive myself. But sometimes I can forget. Sometimes."

Hammond: "Colonel, what do we know about these hostiles we didn't yesterday?"
O'Neill: "Not a hell of a lot, General. The Abydian boys who survived the attack on the base camp thought it was Ra."
Hammond: "I thought he was dead, gentlemen. Which is it?"
Daniel: "Oh, he's dead. He's definitely dead. I mean...the bomb...I mean, he's got to be dead, right?"
Hammond: "Then who's coming through the Stargate?"
Daniel, realizing something: "Gods."
Hammond: "What?"
Daniel: "Not as in God God. Ra played a god. The sun god. He borrowed the religion and culture of the Egyptians he brought through the Gate and then used it to enslave them. You see, he wanted the people of Abydos to believe he was the only one."
Carter: "So you're saying Ra's not the only one left of his race after all?"
Kawalsky: "Maybe he's got a brother Re."
O'Neill: "That's what we need."
Daniel: "Wait a minute. The legend goes, Ra's race was dying. He survived by taking over the body of his human host, and Egyptian boy. But who's to say more of his race couldn't do the same thing? I mean, this could happen anytime, anywhere there's a Gate. I mean...this could be happening right now."
Hammond: "Colonel, you've had the most experience fighting this hostile. Assuming you have to defend yourself in the field, are you up to it?"
O'Neill: "We beat them once."
Hammond: "I'll take that as a maybe. Captain Carter, you're confident the Stargate will take us where we want to go with this new information?"
Carter: "Well, they're feeding the revised coordinates into the targeting computer right now. It'll take time to calculate but should spit out two or three destinations a month."
Hammond: "People, let's not fool ourselves here. This thing is both fast and dangerous and we are so far over our head we can barely see daylight. We would all be much better off if the Stargate had been left in the ground."
Carter: "With respect, Sir, we can't bury our heads in the sand. I mean, think of how much we could learn, think of what we could bring back."
Hammond: "What you could bring back is precisely what I'm afraid of, Captain. However, the President of the United States happens to agree with you. In the event your theories pan out he has ordered the formation of nine teams whose duties will be to perform reconnaissance, determine threats and, if possible, to make peaceful contact with the peoples of these worlds. Now these teams will operate on a covert, top-secret basis. No one will know of their existence except the President and the Joint Chiefs. Colonel O'Neill?"
O'Neill: "Sir?"
Hammond: "Your team will be designated SG-1. The team will consist of yourself, Captain Carter..."
Daniel: "...and me?"
Hammond: "Dr. Jackson, we need you to work as a consultant with the other SG-1 teams from here. Your expertise in ancient cultures and languages are far too valuable..."
Daniel: "No, um, look, uh, I mean, I know this is your decision but, ah, I really have to be on their team. My wife is out there, General, I need to go."
Hammond: "I'll take that into consideration. Major Kawalsky, you will head SG-2."
Kawalsky: "I will?"
Hammond: "Colonel O'Neill keeps telling me it's about time you had a command." Kawalsky stares at O'Neill.
O'Neill: "I had a moment of weakness."

Samuels: "I kinda wish I was going with you."
Kawalsky: "I'm kinda glad you're staying behind."

Daniel sneezes: "Anybody have a Kleenex?"
(When did they cut back on Daniel's allergies? I'm not complaining, just wondering...did all those times in the sarcophagus do that?)

Daniel: "It must be some sort of ceremonial place. The Gate is, has to be an integral part of their spiritual culture. I'd say this place was built for worshippers."
O'Neill: "Well, let's just try to be out of here before the worshipees show up, huh? You figure out yet how to align this gate to get back home?"
Daniel: "Yeah. The device is the same as the one on Abydos. This symbol represents the..."
O'Neill: "You brief Kawalsky's team yet?"
Daniel: "Yes. This symbol represents the..."
O'Neill: "Good job."
(Grrrr...let him finish for once, Colonel!)

O'Neill: "Hold down the fort."
Kawalsky: "Bring me back a T-shirt."

O'Neill, as Daniel runs off to meet the Goa'uld monks: "Oh for crying out loud."
Daniel, to the monks: "Hi."
O'Neill: "The man has not changed."
Daniel: "We just came through the Stargate...Chaapa'ai?"
Monk: "Chaapa'ai!" He and the rest fall to their knees.
Daniel: "No, please don't do that..."
O'Neill: "Friends of yours?"
Daniel, seeing O'Neill and Carter with their guns raised: "Unless we want to give ourselves a bad reputation, I think we should avoid shooting the first people we meet on a new planet." He turns back to the monks. "Oh, please, you don't have to do this."
Monk: "Chula lasla?"
Daniel: "Lasla...choose! They want to know if we're here to choose." O'Neill shrugs. "Ah, sure. We can choose. Choosing is good." He turns back to O'Neill. "It's a derivation of Arabic combined with..."
O'Neill: "Yeah, yeah. Whatever."

Daniel: "Chu'lac. Sounds good."
O'Neill: "I hear it's nice this time of year."

Carter: "Why are they treating us like this?"
Daniel: "They think we're gods."
O'Neill: "Ok. We're gods. Now what?"
Daniel: "I have no idea."

Daniel bows as a horn sounds: "When in Rome..."

O'Neill: "Welcome back to the land of the conscious."

Teal'c: "What is this?"
O'Neill: "It's a watch."
Teal'c: "This is not Goa'uld technology. Where are you from?"
O'Neill: "Earth. Chicago if you want to be specific."
Teal'c: "Your words mean nothing. Where are you from?"
Daniel: "Ah, excuse me." He draws a symbol on the ground. "This is where we're from." Teal'c looks at it, then leaves.

Kawalsky: "The sun...suns are coming up."

Skaara: "They are going to choose."
Carter: "Choose what?"
Skaara: "Who will be the children of the gods."

Daniel, offering himself to the Jaffa picking: "How much would I remember if you chose me?"
O'Neill: "Daniel, what are you doing?!"
Daniel: "Something of the host must survive."
(Compare his reaction in this scene to
Tok'ra Part 1!)

O'Neill, to Teal'c who's walking around the wreckage: "Hey, come on!"
Teal'c: "I have no where to go."
O'Neill: "For this you can stay at my place. Let's go!"

Hammond, about Teal'c: "What's he doing here?"
O'Neill: "General Hammond. This is Teal'c. He helped us."
Hammond: "Do you know what he is?"
O'Neill: "Yes, Sir. I do. He's the man who saved our lives. And if you accept my recommendation, Sir, he'll join SG-1."

Daniel: "She's out there somewhere, Jack."
O'Neill: "I know. So's Skaara."
Daniel: "So what do we do?"
O'Neill: "We find them."

The Enemy Within

The Enemy Within