History Recap / StargateSG1S4E162010

Today happens to be the day of a celebration of SG-1's contact with the Aschen who are so advanced that they can protect Earth from the Goaul'd, do all sort of neat stuff, and have this wonder drug that cures just about anything. There are all the honors and cheering, since the Stargate is now out in the public at a terminal in Washington, and President Kinsey, who ''somehow'' got elected, makes a few remarks.

Joe, however, catches wind of it, and confronts Sam about it. It turns out he knew about the Aschen scheme, but went along because it was better than being conquered by the Goaul'd. Sam says it's the same thing, the Aschen just take longer with theirs. He eventually relents but insists that Sam stay out of it.

The Aschen would turn up again the very next season in [[Recap/StargateSG1S5E102001 2001]].

* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: Daniel, Carter and Teal'c are awarded medals for their work in securing the alliance with the Aschen near the beginning of the episode.

* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: Discussed when Carter first proposes her plan to alter the timeline. Fraiser points out that they would be effectively changing the lives of everybody on earth and asks whether they have the right to do that; Carter responds that if they don't, they will see the ''end'' of human life on earth.

* ItsAllAboutMe: When giving a speech at the ten-year-anniversary of the Earth/Aschen alliance that defeated the Goa'uld and guaranteed him the presidency, President Kinsey thanks Sam, Daniel and Teal'c for what they did for him, and the country, ''in that order''.

* LongGame: The Aschen plot, which involves forming an alliance with earth, secretly sterilizing everybody, and then waiting two hundred years for the remaining humans to die of natural causes.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Said by Carter when she realizes that the team inadvertently doomed the earth by making contact with the Aschen. Faxon also gets a moment of this later on when he realizes the birth rate decrease is a much higher percentage than it's supposed to be and the Aschen are actively killing the humans off.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Upon receiving a bloodstained warning through the stargate written in O'Neills handwriting (which he claims not to have written), General Hammond doesn't dither about; he ''immediately'' orders the address on the note to be locked out.

We find Sam sitting at outside at a cafe, waiting for...wait, who's this guy? Ambassador Joseph Faxon, her...[[MarriedInTheFuture husband]]? When did that happen? Several years ago it seems, as this is the year 2010. They have a discussion about having children, as their doctors, from a people called the Aschen, say they just need to keep trying.

* KillEmAll: The entire team are wiped out by the automated defense system guarding the stargate in their efforts to send the note back in time.

General Hammond doesn't even consider the possibility that it's a hoax, other than telling Dr. Frasier to test the blood, and immediately orders the address locked out of the dialing computer.

* WeWillHavePerfectHealthInTheFuture: Thanks to the Aschen, cancer and several other human ailments have been cured, and there's even an anti-aging vaccine that doubles the human lifespan. Frasier actually laments this, as it's effectively rendered her obsolete.

General Hammond doesn't even consider the possibility that it's a hoax, and immediately orders the address locked out of the dialing computer.

Joe, however, catches wind of it, and confronts Sam about it. IT turns out he knew about the Aschen scheme, but went along because it was better than being conquered by the Goaul'd. Sam says it's the same thing, the Aschen just take longer with theirs. He eventually relents but insists that Sam stay out of it.

* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Global sterility is the kind of thing that would get noticed within a couple months of beginning. There's too much infrastructure based on procreation to miss it, from fertility clinics to abortion clinics, most of which would not be very affected by the Aschen cure-all. By the time of the episode, a decade into the plan, the empty elementary school classrooms would have long ago caused a massive response.

* LawOfInverseFertility: Carter mentions that she and Faxon had been trying to conceive for ''three years'' before it's revealed that she's infertile. This is a justified use of the trope, however, due to the Aschen vaccine sterilizing the entire planet.

* ShoutOut: To TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact. The title of the episode, and the plan to transform Jupiter into a star.

* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: Discussed when Carter first proposes her plan to alter the timeline. Fraiser points out that they would be effectively changing the lives of everybody on earth and asks whether they have the right to do that; Carter responds that if they don't, they will see the ''end'' of life on earth.

* GenreSavvy: Hammond immediately strikes the coordinates for the Aschen planet from the computer when the note comes through the stargate.

General Hammond doesn't even consider the possibility that it's a hoax, and immediately orders the address locked out of the dialing computer.

Joe, however, catches wind of it, and confronts Sam about it. IT turns out he knew about the Aschen scheme, but went along because it was better than being conquered by the Goaul'd. Sam says it's the same thing, the Aschen just take longer with their's. He eventually relents but insists that Sam stay out of it.

At the Stargate Terminal Teal'c comes through and begins blasting the security defenses with his staff weapon. Daniel and Jack join in and they try to get a written note to the Stargate, in time for the solr flare to send it back to the time they want. As the fight goes on, all of them fall, but Sam, not able to take it anymore, runs in, grabs it and manages to get it to the 'gate right before she's cut down too.