Stargate SG-1 · Season 2, Episode 16
“A Matter of Time” · Season 2, Episode 16
In this episode: Jack O'Neill (4), Samantha Carter (4), Colonel Cromwell (3), Teal'c (1), George Hammond (1)
Look, I know I should know this by now. I swear it'll be the last time I ask. These wormholes we go through, they're not always there, right?
No, sir. They can only form between two open gates.
What's with the worm part? The worm thing. I-I don't get that.
That's just a metaphor.
Right. I knew that.
Do you know anything about quantum gravity?
No.
Apparently, neither do I.
[Watching the video feed from the doomed men and women of SG-10, slowed by the time dilation effects of the black hole's gravity]
There's nothing we can do to save them?
They've had it, sir.
You know that for a fact, Colonel?
No, sir, I don't. But have a look at Major Boyd's face. What does that tell you?
Very well. Disengage the Stargate.
Sir, by some fluke of Stargate technology, we are witnessing something that the laws of physics say we can't possibly witness.
(angrily) We are witnessing good men dying in slow motion, Captain.
(embarrassed) You're right, sir.
Shut it down.
Man, she is--
Way smarter than we are. I know.
Keep your distance, Lieutenant. Sir, for some reason, the warping of our space-time seems to be in advance of the gravitational field rather than as a result of it. It's probably a lensing effect generated by the Stargate itself, but I can't be sure.
(to Colonel O'Neill) Don't even pretend you understood that.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. We're pulling some major gees now.
I feel like I put on a couple hundred pounds.
I wasn't going to say anything.
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