- General Hammond mysteriously retires from the SGC and a new general is brought in, who breaks up SG-1: Daniel and Sam are scientists, Teal'c is with SG-3 and O'Neill commands a new SG-1. O'Neill tries to convince Gen. Hammond to return, but he finds out that someone ordered Hammond to leave or they would hurt his grandchildren. While the others are occupying the new general, O'Neill tries to find out who that "someone" is. Thereto he must place his trust in the one person he hates most: Maybourne.—Chris Green
- To SG-1's surprise, General Hammond announces his immediate resignation, allegedly having a gut full of sending good men to an uncertain fate each time they go through the stargate. His successor, General Bauer, barks that the Pentagon considers the Stargate program unsatisfactory, reassigns Sam (to work on Naquadah use), Teal'c and Daniel and warns Jack his verbal impertinence will henceforward be treated as insubordination. In private, Hammond tells Jack he was blackmailed by threat to his granddaughters' lives by a covert organization as dangerous as the CIA, so Jack sees disbarred NID traitor Harry Maybourne in jail, and agrees grudgingly to team up, helping him escape to a safe-house, and when Maybourne finds his Internet access cut off they use a party to intrude into Senator Robert Kinsey's home. After SG-3 (now including Teal'c) returns with enough pure Naquadah, Sam is ordered to test a bomb without safety simulations on an uninhabited planet. Only too late she learns the test site has an old Naquadah mine, implying extreme risks, even for Earth itself through the wormhole.—KGF Vissers
- Everyone at the SGC is saddened and more than a little puzzled when General Hammond suddenly announces his retirement. It doesn't help that his replacement, Maj. Gen. Bauer, begins to shake things up. Sam is assigned to a science project and Daniel is told he is to work as a advisor, meaning he will only rarely go on missions. Jack O'Neill can't quite understand why the General quit and so visits him at home where he learns the truth: he was forced to resign by the secretive NID, who had threatened to harm his grandchildren. Jack sets out to make things right and enlists the help of the imprisoned Harry Maybourne. A visit to Senator Robert Kinsey starts to unravel the mystery. At SGC meanwhile, General Bauer makes a decision that could prove fatal.—garykmcd
- When General Hammond suddenly retires from the SGC, the arrogant General Bauer assumes command. His first action is to split the SG-1: Daniel and Sam are assigned as scientists, Teal'c is sent to join the SG-3, and Jack is put on leave. Jack visits General Hammond, expecting to convince him to return to the SGC, and he learns that his granddaughters have been threatened to force him to quit the SGC. Soon, Jack finds that the éminence grise is Senator Robert Kinsey, who has sent the NID to force the renounce of Hammond. Further, Jack depends on the traitor Maybourne to stop Kinsey. Meanwhile, Sam is forced to develop a powerful Naquadah bomb, and Bauer wants to use it to destroy an entire planet.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- When Gen. Hammond announces he is stepping down as head of Stargate Command, Col. Jack O'Neill suspects that there is more to Hammond's decision than he is letting on. O'Neill is right; as he discovers, the National Intelligence Department (NID) the quasi-governmental agency that, among other things, runs the classified Area 51 alien-research facility was behind the change of command. Fed up with the general's inability to acquire alien technology through whatever means necessary, it pressured him into resigning. When Hammond's replacement, the hawkish Gen. Bauer, breaks up SG-1 and assigns Maj. Samantha Carter the task of building a planet-killing Naquadah bomb, O'Neill decides to take on the NID. However, O'Neill's only hope of restoring Stargate Command to its proper condition rests in the hands of a most unlikely ally: the traitorous Col. Maybourne.
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