{164}{261}(PA) Attention.|LeveI four quarantine is now in effect. {333}{414}Switching to internaI power|and Iife support. {495}{593}Thank goodness you're here. We've had|a report that someone or something... {595}{651}..has been tampering|with the SGC computers. {653}{725}We'll need your expertise to check it out. {727}{842}We need you to view the SGC log entries,|see if all the systems check out. {844}{929}- Think you can handle that?|- Great. We knew we could count on you. {931}{1018}We'll check back with you|in a while. Good luck. {3582}{3643}Of course! {3645}{3723}How do you ensure|universaI communication? {3738}{3804}You reduce the communication|to basic eIements... {3806}{3880}..common to everyone|and everything in the universe. {3882}{3979}Jack, this is a true universaI Ianguage. {4045}{4168}The very first time l thought we were|really onto something with this show... {4170}{4287}..was an episode written by Robert|Cooper called ''Torment of Tantalus''. {4303}{4374}lt was in season one,|and Jonathan directed it. {4378}{4484}Jonathan's a terrific director, and it was|the first time we made an episode... {4486}{4603}..and l said ''Jeez, this is pretty good.''|And l really meant that. {4605}{4676}l would have loved|to have watched that episode. {4678}{4768}This couId be the key|to understanding our existence. {4770}{4856}Everyone, everything's existence. {4858}{5001}A brilliant concept, in which Daniel|realises the Stargate had been opened... {5003}{5130}..long ago in 1945, when they didn't|understand what they were doing. {5132}{5174}A man had gone through it,... {5176}{5283}..and the government had assumed|he had died when he stepped into it,... {5285}{5346}..not realising|it sent him to another planet. {5348}{5439}The show's about going to that planet|and seeing if he's still there. {5441}{5554}Dr LittIefieId? I'm DanieI Jackson.|We just came through the Stargate. {5621}{5652}We're reaI. {5840}{5946}The answer to the question ''Where does|a writer get their ideas?'' l don't know. {5953}{6071}- What if our memories were aItered?|- Then we can't be sure of anything. {6089}{6139}My memory's fine. {6141}{6196}- ReaIIy?|- Yeah. {6216}{6276}What did you do in the mines? {6300}{6343}I mined. {6345}{6405}Somebody in the group|goes ''Hey, l have an idea.'' {6407}{6487}Rather than hang onto it,|we try to get together in the room. {6489}{6543}- ''What if this happened?''|- And we sit down. {6545}{6645}- Everybody throws in two cents' worth.|- And we just spin. ''What if? What if?'' {6668}{6720}We are part of something caIIed SG-1. {6722}{6794}- I am TeaI'c. Do you not remember?.|- Get this guy off me! {6796}{6887}We have these wonderful ideas, and|we sit down to work on the outlines... {6889}{6931}..and we realise that... {6933}{6992}- None of it works.|- And so we have to go back. {6994}{7091}Sometimes it'll all just come,|and we'll throw it up on the whiteboard... {7093}{7166}..and say ''Here's Act One,|Act Two, Act Three, Act Four.'' {7168}{7232}He said we were part|of something caIIed SG-1. {7234}{7271}Yeah, what is that? {7273}{7360}- A team?|- What kind of a name is that for a team? {7362}{7456}They go away and write the script,|and from there it's a production issue. {7458}{7554}l'll say ''We can't afford to do that,|let's build this, let's not do that.'' {7556}{7670}I keep trying to remember, but aII|I come up with are images of this pIace. {7684}{7771}But if you're right, everything|we remember about this pIace is a Iie. {7773}{7840}It's Iike a facade. {7842}{7957}It onIy works if we don't dig too deep|beneath the surface, don't question it. {7959}{8082}So that's what we have to do. We have to|question every assumption, everything. {8264}{8356}The beauty of science fiction|is that you can take your characters... {8358}{8455}..and put them into absolutely|extraordinary circumstances... {8457}{8593}..that you can't put them into in a medical|show, or a cop show or a political show. {8595}{8683}A good example is an episode|where Daniel Jackson finds a mirror... {8685}{8777}..that goes to an alternate reality -|the same characters, but different. {8785}{8883}The theory is that there are|an infinite number of aIternate reaIities. {8885}{8962}Some of them are very different|and some are aImost identicaI. {8964}{9123}So this isn't my worId at aII.|This is some sort of... other dimension? {9125}{9189}You know, we would sit around and go... {9203}{9292}''Gee, how do we take this|to the nth degree?'' {9303}{9423}''How do you see what would happen|if the Goa'uld actually attacked Earth?'' {9525}{9560}Go! Go! {9618}{9702}ln the sequel, some of those characters|come back to our reality,... {9704}{9812}..and it gave us an opportunity to do|something we were never able to do. {9814}{9924}The air force would not let us have|a romance between Carter and O'Neill. {9933}{10036}I know you weII enough to know|that you don't have a cIue what to say. {10088}{10148}But you don't have to say anything. {10286}{10341}Come here. {10398}{10507}We got to explore something we would|not normally have gotten to explore. {10522}{10669}You have to understand. My Jack had|the same face, same voice, same hands. {10697}{10787}Which brings to mind|an obvious question. {10868}{10920}How couId you marry such a Ioser?. {11032}{11129}This is the orb from the episode|''Message in a Bottle''. {11144}{11252}And this idea started with|Brad Wright and myself thinking {11254}{11358}''What if an entire civilisation|was put in a time capsule?'' {11360}{11485}The time capsule concept|that we do in the United States. {11509}{11630}You know, we package things together|and put them in a time capsule... {11632}{11722}..so that future civilisations|would know what we were all about. {11724}{11866}Well, this was ''What if|an entire world was put into this?'' {11921}{12056}lncluding its inhabitants. That's really|what the seed of this episode was about. {12058}{12133}- That symboI's on the artefact.|- Yes, it is. {12179}{12229}It's trying to communicate with us. {12235}{12391}This crystal skull is based|on a Mayan myth of the crystal skull... {12393}{12506}..that was believed to have|supernatural paranormal powers. {12508}{12623}And Brad and l talked about, and|always wanted to do, a ghost story,... {12625}{12774}..and this gave us the ability to make|Daniel Jackson's character a ghost. {13026}{13048}Where'd he go? {13050}{13119}They like stories|that have shades of grey,... {13121}{13250}..where there isn't a clear answer|to the moral question,... {13252}{13397}..and, even better, when members of our|own team can have real disagreements... {13399}{13494}..and both can have good points. {13496}{13592}Of a way to bIow up the ship? I'm not|sure that's what Hammond had in mind. {13594}{13654}They're gonna stand there and die. {13706}{13835}It's a no-win situation. We're not gonna sit|around and watch them get sIaughtered. {13837}{13908}- You'd bIow up that ship?|- Give me another choice. {13910}{14014}- WeII, I don't have one at the moment...|- ApparentIy time is a factor here. {14016}{14150}ln fact, ''Scorched Earth'', there was a lot|of response on the lnternet from fans,... {14152}{14260}..who were outraged over|the team dynamics in this episode. {14262}{14399}Because O'Neill felt guilty, he wanted|to act, he was a military man,... {14401}{14511}..he thought ''l need to save these people.|These people are real.'' {14513}{14610}So he orders Carter|to build the naqahdah bomb,... {14612}{14748}..yet on the other hand, Daniel's saying|''How can you make that decision?'' {14750}{14818}And a lot of fans were livid. {14834}{14954}Carter... I'm making a choice|to heIp these peopIe. {14981}{15059}But if you don't make that bomb,|I'm out of options. {15123}{15171}I know. {15173}{15233}So I have to order you to do it. {15311}{15371}Yes, sir. {15373}{15459}''The Curse'' is one of my favourites|because we get to explore... {15461}{15570}..a part of Daniel's life that really|hadn't been touched on in the series. {15572}{15691}Actually, Paul was struggling|with a story that would basically... {15693}{15751}lt seemed like a story we needed to do. {15753}{15864}Here he was a guy who had a life, who|was an academic, who had colleagues. {15866}{15972}This was in the movie, but before the|point in the original Stargate movie... {15974}{16042}..where he gives his speech|and everybody walks out. {16044}{16158}At that point, he disappears for four years|out of the world of archaeology. {16160}{16277}We thought ''Wouldn't it be interesting|if he was thrown back into that world?'' {16279}{16358}And the irony is that|his theories have been proven correct. {16373}{16438}I've Iooked for signs of you out there. {16440}{16512}There's been no papers,|no research projects. {16514}{16606}- It's Iike you feII off the face of the earth.|- It is a IittIe Iike that. {16608}{16741}As I recaII, the Iast time I saw you, you|were giving a Iecture to an empty room. {16743}{16800}WeII, it was fuII when I started. {17009}{17068}We're aII stuck|in a time Ioop of some kind. {17090}{17193}Anyway, I'm sorry, but that just|happens to be how I feeI about it. {17195}{17227}What do you think? {17229}{17326}Anyway, I'm sorry, but that just|happens to be how I feeI about it. {17328}{17388}What do you think? {17443}{17519}I'm sorry, but that just|happens to be how I feeI about it. {17521}{17581}What do you think? {17624}{17653}Ask me tomorrow. {17655}{17738}Lots of shows have done|time-loop stories. {17740}{17833}But we wanted to find a way to make it|interesting for our characters,... {17835}{17902}..and the way to do that|was to do a role reversal... {17904}{18005}..where O'Neill and Teal'c have to|figure out the solution to the problem. {18007}{18087}- They're not usually the brains.|- lt's always Sam or Daniel... {18089}{18154}..who has to translate the artefact. {18156}{18231}That was the beginning|of the humour, and then we thought... {18233}{18328}..if we're just doing endless loops,|we have to do that Groundhog Day beat... {18330}{18423}..where you realise you can do|anything you wanna do. {18425}{18518}- Vern, how's the wife?|- Fine... sir. {18520}{18620}The montage sequence came afterwards,|because it turned out we were short,... {18622}{18682}..so we had to come up with... {18684}{18768}We needed a little extra time,|so we thought ''We'll do a montage... {18770}{18820}..of them doing lots of crazy things.'' {18822}{18947}Brad mentioned at the beginning of the|season ''You know what l want to do?'' {18949}{19048}''l want them to golf through|the Stargate.'' Brad's a big golfer. {19050}{19108}Brad and Robert|were looking to do a scene... {19110}{19171}..where somebody hits a ball|through the gate. {19173}{19259}There was never a story that really|accommodated that until that,... {19261}{19324}..and we talked about the montage|and Brad went... {19326}{19378}''We can golf through the Stargate!'' {19384}{19455}(Hammond) CoIoneI O'NeiII!|What the heII are you doing? {19457}{19517}In the middIe of my backswing?! {19533}{19661}l started using The Wizard of Oz|references in a couple of my scripts,... {19671}{19749}..and Rick caught on to that and loved it. {19751}{19823}Where's that yeIIow brick road|when you need it, Dorothy? {19825}{19898}lt became a game to see|how many Wizard of Oz references... {19900}{19951}..we could stick into the scripts. {19953}{20016}It's certainIy not EmeraId City. {20025}{20100}Auntie Em? Auntie Em? {20102}{20153}Yeah, there's no pIace Iike home. {20155}{20217}More often than not,|the script you write... {20219}{20316}..will never be quite what you envisioned. {20318}{20371}But in the case of|''Point of No Return'',... {20373}{20490}..the deliveries were there, the action|sequences were there. lt was just... {20492}{20553}lt's a rare example|of an episode turning out... {20555}{20640}..almost exactly the way we pictured it|in our heads when we wrote it. {20642}{20693}PeopIe were taken from Earth. {20695}{20799}Maybe as part of some experiment,|maybe as sIaves... Who knows? {20801}{20888}But the point is there are|entire civiIisations up there... {20890}{20963}..descended from those originaI humans. {20968}{21013}Now that's just crazy taIk. {21015}{21120}We'd be writing the script and we'd think|''l don't know if we want to put that...'' {21122}{21195}''That's too silly. They'll never keep that.'' {21197}{21317}''We'll just put it in.'' For instance,|Teal'c on the vibrating bed. {21319}{21378}The ''1 ,000 fingers'' magic bed. {21380}{21490}But most of them stayed in,|surprisingly, so they embraced it. {21492}{21544}We've been waIkin' for haIf an hour. {21546}{21670}I don't understand it. The cIearing where I|Ianded shouId be round here somewhere. {21672}{21732}How do you Iose a spaceship? {21734}{21855}They've all gone through so many things.|Daniel has died half a dozen times,... {21857}{21982}..Samantha's been taken over|by an alien, by a computer entity... {21992}{22050}And you are...? {22117}{22188}(eIectronic voice)|I am within. You are O'NeiII. {22190}{22249}Yeah. We've estabIished that. {22251}{22310}This one has memory of you. {22312}{22378}The one you're taIking about is a person. {22380}{22444}Her name is Major Samantha Carter. {22504}{22557}Then... I am Major... {22564}{22625}No. No, you're not. {22661}{22762}lt's interesting if you allow|those events to change the character,... {22764}{22871}..and allow the wisdom of those events|to affect their growth as a character. {22873}{22931}You get to do all kinds of things: {22933}{23053}time travel, alternate realities,|aliens with special powers. {23055}{23140}Ultimately, it all services one thing,... {23142}{23274}..and that is to tell a good,|dramatic, interesting story... {23276}{23385}..that involves the characters you want to|invite into your living room every week. {23599}{23667}- Was everything in order?|- We can't be too careful,... {23669}{23722}..protecting the Stargate project. {23724}{23807}Thank you so much for your assistance.|You've helped us out. {23809}{23877}Yes, thanks again. You did a great job.