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“1969”
Stargate SG-1 episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 21
Guest stars	Alex Zahara as Michael Aaron Pearl as Lt. George Hammond Amber Rothwell as Jenny Pamela Perry as Cassandra Glynis Davies as Catherine Langford Fred Henderson as Maj. Thornbird
Written by	Brad Wright
Directed by	Charles Correll
Production no.	221
Original airdate	January 27, 1999
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"1969" is an episode from Season 2 of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1.

Plot

A powerful solar flare crossing the path of the Stargate's matter stream causes the SG-1 team to be propelled around the sun and travel back in time 30 years. They arrive in the gate room, which was then a top-secret missile testing facility, and are arrested by guards that think they are Soviet spies because Daniel can speak Russian.

While Colonel O’Neill is being interrogated and using comedic answers (i.e. Star Trek references) to obscure their true identities, a young lieutenant searches through SG-1's possessions and discovers a note stating that he should help them, a note General Hammond had given Captain Carter before they left. While escaping custody with the help of the lieutenant, they discover that he is in fact General Hammond, 30 years younger, who recognised the note as in his own handwriting. He gives them some money to purchase disguises, they swear him to secrecy, and hit him with a zat blast to make it look like he fought them.

The SG-1 team must find a way home—if nothing else, Teal'c will eventually be taken over by his symbiote unless he can return to the present—but it seems apparent they are doomed to be stuck in the past. However, Carter sees that the note includes two dates and times, and grasps that the dates actually describe two upcoming solar flares on the opposite side of the sun. To use these flares as an effective means of getting back to the future, they must find the Stargate.

After a bold hitchhiking maneuver by Teal'c, SG-1 is able to travel across the country with a hippie couple, Michael and Jenny, who are heading to Woodstock in their bus. Late in their trip, the couple reveals that Michael has been drafted, and they are trying to decide whether or not to flee to Canada. Colonel O'Neill begins an angry response to Michael, but Sam stops him in order to prevent them from influencing the past. Michael is never mentioned again in the series, and his choice is not known. Donning a convincing German accent, Daniel Jackson learns the location of the Stargate from Catherine. SG-1 manages to activate the gate (stored in an old D.C. armory) and run through while under fire from guards.

However, they arrive in an empty, dark gate room rather than in the SGC that they know. An elderly woman walks in, who, it turns out, is Cassandra, and she tells them that they stepped into the Stargate a few seconds early and were sent far into the future. Long ago, Sam told her that she must rendezvous with them. She reactivates the gate to return them to their time. The team arrives back in the normal gate room with General Hammond reminding O’Neill of the money he owes him ($539.50, including interest).

Series continuity

• When SG-1 originally travels to the year 1969 in the teaser of the episode, they emerge in the past time frame at the same location where they were in the present: the interior of Cheyenne Mountain. However, in all later instances of Stargate time-travel, including the conclusion of this episode, those individuals traveling through time emerge through the Stargate of the destination time frame, rather than simply appearing in the new time.
• Though it is not explicitly stated in this episode, Daniel Jackson teaches Teal'c how to drive a car. When Teal'c drives a car in the season 6 episode "Smoke & Mirrors", Jonas Quinn questions him, "Who taught you to drive?" Teal'c replies, "Daniel Jackson." Jonas asks when; the reply is "I believe the year was 1969."
• During the 200th episode Jackson, Carter, and Teal'c hint that O'Neill fathered Cameron Mitchell while back in time during this episode. The comments, however, were made in jest and were not to be taken seriously.

Character revelations

• Daniel reveals that he speaks 23 languages. Since this episode, he has also learned to speak Ancient and Unas.

• Daniel also reveals that he was four years old in 1969, which would have put his birth in 1965. Michael Shanks, the actor who plays Daniel Jackson, was in fact born in 1970.

Production notes

• The 1969 Colorado license plates on the bus are designated PJ 2251, from Arapahoe County, near Denver.
• When the bus approaches Chicago, the Sears Tower is shown in the skyline, although its construction did not begin until 1970.
• The actual NORAD facility under Cheyenne Mountain does not, and never did, house a missile training silo. The mission of Cheyenne Mountain Air Station is strictly early-warning. Training silos are only found at missile bases, such as Vandenberg AFB, California; F.E. Warren AFB, Wyoming; or Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota.

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External links

• Official Stargate SG-1 site. MGM. Visited June 8, 2006. Most of site requires Flash.
• Screenplay (PDF). Distributed by MGM. Prepared by Casablanca Continuity. Retrieved on 2006-10-15. Linked to from Official Stargate SG-1 site. Also see Google's cache.
• Summary from GateWorld. Visited May 3, 2006.

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