In the year 8000 BC, it’s the middle of the night when a huge spaceship suddenly appears
in the sky and begins descending over a tribal community.
All the villagers immediately flee in fear except for one guy that can’t stop staring
at the beam of light coming out of the ship.
Later in Egypt in the 1920s, an excavation is taking place at the foot of the pyramids.
When an important foreign professor arrives with his daughter Catherine, one of the excavators
immediately takes him to see what they’ve found: a series of mysterious cover stones.
Meanwhile Catherine’s looking at some smaller artifacts and becomes fascinated by a gold
necklace with the eye of Ra.
At that moment, the crowd begins yelling when the excavators hoist up an even bigger object:
a giant circular metal ring with a jackal-headed figure buried underneath.
Years later in 1994, an older Catherine is in the USA to attend a lecture by Daniel,
an expert on ancient Egypt and its languages.
He’s telling a bunch of academics to consider his theories on how the pyramids were first
constructed, but he’s only made fun of and everyone leaves before he can finish.
Afterward when Daniel is trying to leave the hotel, Lieutenant Kawalski approaches him
and makes him get into a car where Catherine is waiting.
She offers Danial a job without giving him any details, and when Daniel hesitates, she
points out that he’s been evicted from his apartment, his grants have run out, and this
is the chance to prove his theories, so Daniel accepts.
Meanwhile in a peaceful suburb, two officers go looking for Colonel O'Neil, who is currently
in his dead child’s bedroom.
It turns out his kid died while playing with his dad’s gun, and O’Neil never moved
on.
The officers interrupt O’Neil’s depression to tell him he’s been reactivated.
Moments later in Colorado, Daniel and Catherine enter an air force base under a mountain.
Daniel is taken to a lab where they have the cover stones found in 1928, which Daniel finds
very impressive.
However when he sees the translation on the board, he immediately begins fixing all the
mistakes.
The resulting sentence says “a million years into the sky is Ra, sun god, sealed and buried
for all time in His Stargate”.
Two weeks later, Daniel is still working hard on translating the rest of the tablets, yet
he still can’t find a language that matches the symbols on them.
Needing a break, he goes out to grab a drink and finds a guard reading a newspaper with
an article about the Orion constellation.
The picture inspires Daniel and he grabs the newspaper before running back to the lab,
where he grabs a marker and starts filling in the lines between the stars of the constellation.
He then climbs the stair-ladder to compare his drawing with one of the glyphs, confirming
they match.
Moments later, Daniel attends a meeting with all the scientists and the officers and spreads
a star chart on the table, explaining all the symbols on the tablets were constellations
placed in a unique order to form a map with seven points to outline a course to a position.
Then he makes a drawing to explain that to find a destination within any three-dimensional
space, one needs six points to determine the exact location, and the seventh point is the
origin, which he indicates with another drawing of two humans next to a V symbol.
The others point out the symbol isn’t on the device and when Daniel wonders what they
mean, the wall goes up to reveal they have the Stargate found in Egypt, which is made
from a mineral not found on Earth.
In the control room, they activate the Stargate, which begins spinning around.
A screen shows close-up images of all the constellation glyphs, and Daniel notices one
that looks like a pyramid with a circle above it.
He grabs a marker and adds two little stick figures next to it, proving his theory right.
They immediately program the seventh symbol into the gate and this activates Condition
Red, so they make all the personnel evacuate.
Suddenly a shaking starts and the computer monitors go crazy as Earth is marked as the
point of origin.
The shaking keeps getting worse and suddenly the Stargate activates with a giant vortex
streaming outwards front and back, leaving a vertical wall of water.
Orders are given to send in a probe, which moves up the ramp and stops in front of the
gate to send through an arm.
The arm continues to extend, then the probe is pulled through the Stargate.
The computer analyzes the information and they discover the probe has locked itself
onto a point somewhere in the Kaliam galaxy.
Daniel checks the map and reveals that’s on the other side of the known universe just
before they start losing signal and the wormhole shuts down.
Sometime later, they analyze the pictures sent back by the probe, which show a room
and another Stargate, so they assume both gates are connected.
Readings also indicate the planet is an atmospheric match for humans.
Daniel looks at the symbols on the other gate and points out they aren’t the same as theirs.
The officers want to abort the project because to use the other gate they’d have to do
a reconnaissance mission, but Daniel tells them he doesn’t mind going and doing the
work himself.
The team begins preparing for the mission, and O'Neil goes to look at the fossil of the
jackal-headed men while a superior gives him a secret goal.
Meanwhile Catherine approaches Daniel to gift him her Ra necklace as a token of good luck.
Once everyone is ready, the team enters the gate room, where the wormhole is already active.
First they send the equipment rover, which easily goes through the vortex.
Then the men cross the gate too, amazed by all the lights that surround them as they
are teleported across the universe.
Suddenly the team finds themselves in a very dark room with the other gate.
With the help of a few flares, they inspect the room and make their way out through a
corridor, where they discover the building is a replica of the great pyramid of Giza
and they’re in the middle of a desert.
Daniel is supposed to realign the Stargate, but he reveals he can’t do that yet because
he needs an order of alignment.
He had assumed this gate would also have tablets, but they aren’t there, so they need to find
those symbols first.
The soldiers get angry with Daniel for getting them stuck here and Kawalski shoves Daniel
to the ground, but O’Neil stops him before things escalate.
While the team sets up camp, O’Neil goes back into the pyramid and opens a hidden panel
on the rover, where he sets a cylindrical device and begins arming it to make a bomb.
Once it’s done, he adds a timer, pausing when he sees someone approaching.
He closes the panel as Kawalski announces the camp is ready.
Back in the camp, the other soldiers bother Daniel and throw his suitcase out on the dunes
for getting them stuck here.
Daniel starts the tedious task of picking his stuff up, only pausing to get a snack.
While he looks around, he notices some large animal pawprints in the sand and starts to
follow them, which takes him to a large creature munching on desert vegetation.
The animal has a harness, but there aren’t any people around.
Daniel approaches the animal and gently pets it, offering his candy.
At that moment O’Neil and the others arrive and tell him to stay away from potential danger,
but Daniel tells them the harness indicates it’s domesticated.
However the arrival of the soldiers spooks the creature and causes it to start running
away, getting its harness entangled with Daniel’s feet.
As the beast runs, a screaming Daniel is dragged through the hot sand for many miles until
he eventually passes out.
Moments later, Daniel is woken up when the beast licks his face and the soldiers finally
catch up to him, freeing him from the harness.
Suddenly they hear some noises and the team walks to the top of the dune to discover some
tall rock pillars and lots of people mining them.
A boy named Skaara notices the soldiers and yells a warning, making all the other people
freeze as the team decides to approach them.
When the people see Daniel's necklace, they all bow to him.
O’Neil approaches Skaara to shake his hand as a sign of peace, but Skaara yells and runs
away.
One of the soldiers scans the mineral that is being mined and discovers it's the same
mineral used for the gate.
At that moment, Skaara comes back bringing the leader Kasuf with him.
Kasuf says a few words and bows, but although Daniel recognizes some of the sounds, he can’t
understand him.
Then Kasuf’s daughter Shau’ri and other women offer the team some bowls with a drink.
In return, Daniel gives Kasuf some candy, which he hesitantly bites and finds delicious.
Thanks to this exchange, the team is invited to stay with them.
O’Neil accepts but also makes sure to tell the soldiers that stayed in the camp to secure
the area.
Moments later, the team is walking through the desert with the caravan until they reach
an expansive stone city.
When Daniel sneezes because of his allergies and blows his nose, the others find it amusing,
and Skaara even takes his handkerchief as a joke.
Once they’re inside the city, all the people bow again as they reveal a large disk of the
Eye of Ra.
Daniel explains that the people think that the Egyptian Sun God Ra sent the team here.
Suddenly all the people begin running around and O’Neil gets a call from camp, but it
can’t be heard because of all the static.
At the camp, the soldiers are getting surrounded by a sandstorm, so they decide to pick up
their things and run inside the pyramid.
In the city, people are running to the gates to close them up.
Thinking they’re being captured, the soldiers run after them and punch a few people before
taking two men hostage.
Skaara cuts in to take O’Neil to the top of the wall, where he shows him that a sandstorm
is approaching.
O’Neil finally understands the citizens had only been protecting the city and tells
the team they’re going to be stuck here for a while.
In the evening, the citizens throw a big party and the team is given some new food to try.
Daniel tries a weird-looking animal and is delighted to announce it tastes like chicken.
Afterward, Daniel tries to communicate by drawing some Egyptian symbols on the sand
but Kasuf immediately obliterates the writing with his foot, apparently drawing the symbols
is forbidden.
Then Daniel is taken to another room, where they clean him up before leaving him alone.
Suddenly Shau’ri comes in and begins undressing, making Daniel freak out.
He explains that’s not necessary and tries to make her leave, but outside Kasuf is waiting
for them to do the dirty.
Not wanting to insult Kasuf or get Shau’ri in trouble, Daniel takes her back into the
tent and waits around to make it seem they’re busy.
Daniel draws the pyramid on the sand and Shau’ri adds a circle to it, revealing she’s seen
the circle before.
Daniel convinces her to take him to it.
Meanwhile the soldiers in the pyramid still can’t make the radio work.
Suddenly a bright light shines down on the pyramid and everything starts to shake.
A huge spaceship appears above, slowly engulfing the pyramid until it’s completely covered.
The soldiers get nervous and with their weapons out they spread out to investigate, however
something begins attacking them in the darkness.
One by one the soldiers are knocked out without a single noise until there’s only one man
left.
He falls to the ground and when he turns around he sees a guard with Anubis’ face.
This mysterious person and another guard drag the soldiers into another room, where there’s
a glowing sarcophagus from which a hand comes out.
Back in the city, Skaara sees O’Neil smoking and is impressed by the fire.
O’Neil gifts him the lighter and some cigarettes, and Skaara tries to smoke by copying O’Neil
only to end up coughing.
Then Skaara tries to grab a gun, but O’Neil slaps him away and Skaara runs out in fear.
In the meantime, Shau’ri takes Daniel to a cave where they find a bunch of Earth glyphs
written on the wall.
Daniel begins reading them in the Egyptian he knows, and Shau’ri corrects his pronunciation,
which finally allows him to learn the local language.
Back to O’Neil, he asks Skaara and the other boys about Daniel by making hand gestures
to describe him.
The boys just keep copying the gestures without understanding, but when O’Neil mentions
chicken and pretends to sneeze, Skaara finally understands and offers Daniel’s jacket to
its creature, which begins tracking the scent and everyone follows it.
Minutes later, O’Neil finds Daniel in the cave, and Daniel begins explaining everything
he’s learned from the writing.
A space traveler escaped from a dying world looking for a way to extend his own life.
He arrived on Earth and found the very primitive humans, which is the scene from the beginning.
This traveler was Ra, who took over a human body and appointed himself ruler.
He used the Stargate to bring thousands of people to this planet as workers for the mines,
and with that ore, he could build all the technology to sustain eternal life.
Then a rebellion happened back on Earth and the Stargate was buried there.
Wanting to avoid another rebellion here, Ra outlawed reading and writing so people wouldn’t
remember the truth.
While Daniel talks, Kawalski is looking around the cave and finds a round stone like the
one in the center of the Earth Stargate.
Daniel is excited because this is what he’s missing, and he thinks the citizens must’ve
hidden it here in hopes the Earth Stargate would someday be reactivated.
Unfortunately the stone is broken and worn out, so Daniel can’t see the seventh symbol.
Tired of all this, O’Neil announces they’re returning to the pyramid, and the team takes
off while Skaara and his friends follow them.
When they find the spaceship they immediately get worried, so they enter the area with their
weapons out while Skaara’s group sneaks around to look through the windows.
Inside they find the team’s camp things, but not a single body.
Suddenly the mysterious guard appears and before the soldier can react, he gets knocked
out by the guard’s staff.
This staff is capable of shooting like a gun, so the guard begins shooting all over the
room while the rest of the team runs away.
Daniel and O’Neil make it to the room with the bomb, only to find it gone.
Suddenly the circular section of the ceiling opens and rings lower as a light beam begins
glowing.
Three guards show up and aim their staff weapons.
Daniel and O’Neil put their guns down and are taken through the beam of light until
they reach a throne room with walls that are now opening to let in the sunlight.
At that moment the leader shows up, bringing up the bomb with him.
Then everyone takes off their masks, revealing they’re just human and not supernatural
beings.
The leader turns out to be Ra, and when the guards kneel to him, O’Neil quickly moves
to knock the guard back and take his staff.
Then he fires and kills one of the guards, but before he can turn around, the other guard
has his weapon aimed.
Daniel jumps between them and gets shot instead while a bunch of children surround Ra to protect
him.
Then a guard takes his staff back and begins beating O’Neil up before Ra tells him to
stop and approaches Daniel to look at the necklace.
Afterward, O’Neil is thrown into a water pit with all the other soldiers.
Outside, Skaara’s group is searching the soldiers’ bags for weapons when they notice
two gliders coming out of the pyramid and flying away.
In the city, Kasuf sees the gliders too and raises the alarm, so people try to run and
hide.
The gliders fire down on the city, shooting blasts all over the place.
Kasuf kneels to ask for mercy, but the gliders continue to blast away, killing many people
and doing great damage to the town.
After a few passes, the gliders leave.
Then Skaara’s group comes back and sees all the death and destruction.
Kasuf tells Skaara this is Ra’s punishment for having helped the strangers.
Moments later in the pyramid, Daniel wakes up in the sarcophagus and discovers his wound
has been healed.
When he comes out, the sarcophagus closes on its own, and a kid with a cat comes to
check on Daniel before running away.
Daniel follows him until he arrives at Ra’s chambers.
When Daniel asks if he had been dead, Ra explains he chose humans precisely because their bodies
are easy to repair.
He says they shouldn’t have reopened the gate because now he’ll send the bomb back
with a shipment of the special mineral that will increase the bomb’s destructive power
a hundredfold.
He created civilization but now he wants to destroy it for their betrayal and prove he’s
the only God, starting by taking Daniel’s necklace.
In the cave, Skaara and his group go looking for Shau’ri to tell her that Ra has called
for an assembly with an execution..
However Shau’ri proceeds to share the story Daniel revealed so they can finally know the
truth about their people.
Moments later, all the citizens surround the pyramid for the assembly.
Ra and his guards appear wearing their masks and they give Daniel a staff, ordering him
to kill the soldiers.
At that moment, Shau’ri, Skaara, and the boys mingle in the crowd.
Skaara uses the lighter to reflect the sunlight and get Daniel’s attention, showing him
that they’ve got the soldiers’ weapons.
Catching on the plan, Daniel pretends he’ll kill his friends only to turn around and shoot
the throne instead.
The boys shoot their weapons too and everyone begins running around in panic as the guards
shoot their staffs at them.
A few people die in the process, including one of the soldiers, but everyone else gets
to escape.
However moments later, the team gets stuck in a sandstorm and Daniel collapses.
Luckily Skaara and his friends show up, helping Daniel up before they guide the team out of
the storm.
Eventually they reach a cave where everyone is hiding.
Skaara shows the soldiers the weapons they recovered, and O’Neil wants to take them
all back.
Kawalski says the boys could help them fight and this makes O’Neil furious for no reason,
so Daniel makes him talk about the bomb.
O’Neil explains he had secret orders to track down signs of any possible danger and
if he found any, he had to blow up the Stargate.
Daniel tells them about Ra’s plan and points out it’s Earth’s gate that poses the threat
and should be shut down, but Daniel still hasn’t got the seventh symbol so they can’t
do that.
O’Neil promises he’ll intercept the bomb before it can be sent through.
Meanwhile Ra is furious because his guards failed to capture the team, so he puts a special
device in his hand and proceeds to use it to kill a guard in a slow and painful way.
Back in the cave, Daniel learns that everyone thinks Shau’ri is his wife.
When he asks her about it, Shau’ri explains he didn’t tell anyone that Daniel didn’t
want her, and to prove her wrong Daniel kisses her.
The next morning, Daniel finds Skaara making a drawing of their victory.
Seeing the three moons, Daniel tries connecting them and realizes this is the symbol for this
planet and therefore the point of origin.
Now they can go home.
Afterward, the group goes to the mines where the citizens are being used as slaves again
and shoots a guard, causing Kasuf and his people to panic.
Daniel rushes to take the guard’s mask off, revealing it’s just a tyrant human slaving
them and not a god, shocking everyone.
In the pyramid, the guards are getting the bomb ready.
The team arrives pretending to be slaves carrying ore, and once they’re inside, they reveal
their weapons and open fire.
A firefight begins as more people enter the pyramid to help.
Some men fall during the fight and one of the guards shoots at the door to seal the
entrance, but O’Neil shoots back to kill him.
Suddenly gliders leave the pyramid again and attack the people outside, so Kawalski guides
them on how to hide and retaliate.
They lose a few men in the process, so Kawalski decides to give up as a few guards approach.
In his chambers, Ra is furious that he’s losing the battle and orders his men to send
the bomb to Earth now.
At that moment the team reaches the bomb and O’Neil activates it, explaining he’ll
stay on this side to blow it up after everyone returns to Earth.
Suddenly a guard shows up and shoots Shau’ri, deadly wounding her before Daniel shoots back
to kill him.
Desperate, Daniel picks her up and takes advantage of the opening ceiling to take her to the
sarcophagus, which instantly heals Shau’ri.
Meanwhile from the opening ceiling, another guard comes out and starts to fight O’Neil
at the same time Ra finds Daniel and begins hurting him with his artifact glove.
With only three minutes left on the bomb, O’Neil keeps hitting the guard until he
manages to overpower him and activates the gem on his hand, which makes the rings come
down.
O’Neil puts the guard under them so the rings kill him.
The rings also activate in the other room and distract Ra, giving Daniel the chance
to take the necklace back before the rings take him and Shau’ri back to the bomb room.
Outside, the guards are about to capture all the rebels when suddenly Kasuf arrives with
all his people and surrounds the guards to kill them in seconds.
Seeing this defeat, Ra activates his spaceship, which starts raising to take him away.
In the pyramid, O’Neil tries to disarm the bomb but can’t because Ra rigged it, but
luckily he gets an idea.
When the rings activate again, they send the bomb through them and it shows up in the spaceship,
where it explodes and finally kills Ra.
Everyone on the planet celebrates and Skaara and the boys salute for O’Neil, who salutes
back to thank them with respect.
Moments later, Daniel activates the Stargate and gives the necklace to O’Neil so he can
take it to Catherine because he’s decided to stay here with Shau’ri.
The soldiers cross the gate and through the bright lights, they finally go home.