User talk:69.65.123.206/Unending
Carter: I did it.
Mitchell: You did what?
Carter: I figured out how to reverse time in a localized field.
Jackson: What?
Vala: What's the matter?
Carter: Maintaining the time dilation field for all this time has almost completly depleted the ZPM and the power source in the Asgard core.
Mitchell: We don't have enough power to make it work.
Carter: Mmmm. There's irony for you, huh. I create the field to buy us more time, finally figure out how to undo it all and the extra time is what makes it impossible.
Jackson: Are you sure? I mean, if you had some more time, could you...
Carter: I'm sure.
Mitchell: Hey Sam. Do you remember when we were stuck out of phase?
Carter: Which time?
Mitchell: When you got shot and you thought you were going to die and the Ori were going to destroy that village.
Carter: Vaguely.
Mitchell: You had me use the power source from an Ori staff weapon to power Merlin's device.
Carter: We don't anything even close to a power source that would be required to keep a reverse time field working for long enough?
Mitchell: Really? Come with me.
What about that?
Carter: That? There's no way, I mean.
There's no way to absorb the blast and channel the energy into the Asgard core.
Mitchell: Unless?
Carter: Unless we reroute the power condiutes throughout the ship into the core and let the blast hit us.
Vala: The ship will explode.
Carter: Yes, but hopefully enough energy from the blast will be channeled into the core to activate the reverse time field before everything is totally destroyed.
Vala: But we'll be dead.
Carter: If this works, we'll only be dead for a milliseconds and time within the bubble will reverse and we won't be dead and the ship won't be destroyed.
If this works.
Yes. I'm not promising anything.
It's alright. It's a shot and I say we take it.
How far back can we go?
Only to the point where the time dialation was created. We can't reverse time for the entire universe. If we go back any further then that, we are outside normal space time again and we create a paradox that the technology couldn't handle.
Is that going to be good enough?
I might be ourselves some more time. Maybe a minute. But one of us is going to have to stay old.
Oh.
Oh.
We're talking about reverseing time within the field. Everything - our age, our memories - will be undone.
Jackson: If this works, we'll be doomed to repeat history.
Carter: Unless we can exclude someone from the field who can steer events in a different direction.
You created the time dialation field to prevent us from being hit by that blast in the first place. You had no choice.
Right. We have to sever the Asgard core from the hyperdrive controls or else the Ori will be able to follow us into hyperspace. A long time ago, in the event that I ever did solve the time issue, I created a program that would achieve that very quickly. I'll load it onto a crystal. That way, it will only take me a few a seconds to shut down the core and make the jump into hyperspace.
Who says it's going to be you?
It makes sense that it be me.
I will do it.
Teal'C - you've lost as many years as the rest of us. What are you, 130, now?
I don't know - he doesn't look a day over 120 to me.
I have many more years to live. I am the only logical choice.
Teal'C.
I have but one question. If this should not work, then the shields will fail and you will die along with the rest of us.
Then it is settled.
I want you to know - even if you aren going to forget that I wasn't with you all these years because we were trapped on this god awful ship - I was with you because...
I know. And I want you to know...
I don't. I know.
I'm ready.
Do it, Sam.
Shields are off line.
One more hit will take us out.
Col. Carter.
Teal'C - what are you doing?
Then they go back to Earth.