Stargate: Continuum Page #5

took the damnedest picture

you ever did see.

How did you get here so fast?

I was already on my way up here to

supervise a training exercise on the ice,

and then I got orders to make a drop

to determine what caused this.

Whatever that was is gone.

- And you have no idea what this is?

- You're the astronaut, you tell me.

The device that made

what you see in this picture,

an energy vortex created

prior to the establishment

of a stable wormhole,

is called a stargate.

Now, normally, we use it

to travel to other planets,

but this time we came through it

from an alternate timeline,

one where, amongst other things,

I'm not an astronaut.

Yeah, that's pretty much

how I had it figured.

Actually, she's telling the truth.

And who are you?

Daniel Jackson.

In the timeline where we come from,

we've actually traveled

to several hundred planets together.

- "We," as in you and...

- Yeah, in fact, in our timeline,

I'm the closest thing you have

to a best friend.

Yeah. Yeah, I'd buy that.

- Okay, you're from Minnesota.

- Yeah.

Eleven years ago,

your son accidentally shot himself

with a loaded 9mm

he found in your closet...

All right. Stop it, right there.

My kid is fine.

He's at home, and he's fine!

What the hell's wrong with you?

Obviously, some things are different

in this timeline,

- but what you have to understand is...

- No, I don't!

I don't have to understand anything!

More importantly, I don't want to.

As far as I'm concerned,

you people are nothing

but a pile of paperwork

waiting to happen.

- Jack, please...

- And stop that!

Jeez.

You should at least warn your superiors

that this planet is in great danger.

I'll get right on that.

All right, they can have access

to food, water,

and any medical attention

they might need,

but they cannot go past this door

except to use the head.

And nobody comes in or out

until we can surface, and

- deal with these freaks.

- Aye, sir.

- Samantha Carter?

- Yes.

It's common knowledge

that four years ago

a computer failure forced

the space shuttle Intrepid's main engines

to shut down

before it could reach a safe orbit

or a secondary landing site.

When the autopilot also failed,

Mission Commander Samantha Carter

stayed behind to fly it,

while her crew bailed out

of the escape hatch.

The orbiter went down over the Atlantic,

and her body was never recovered.

- It wasn't me.

- You just said your name...

- I was recruited into the Stargate...

- Stargate Command is a branch...

...not NASA.

...of the United States Air Force.

Founded in 1990-something,

I forget the exact year,

for the purposes of exploration and...

Actually, it was less an altered timeline

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