Stargate: Continuum
Movie, 2008, SG-1, Set in A rewritten timeline
Stargate: Continuum is #6 of 8 in release order and #6 of 8 in chronological order in the Stargate.
The story
Ba'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.
Stargate: Continuum recap
The Tok'ra prepare to remove Ba'al, the last System Lord, from his host, while SG-1 and Jack O'Neill attend. Ba'al says he is a clone and the real Ba'al has a plan. In 1939, the real Ba'al travels back in time and boards the Achilles, the ship carrying the Stargate to the United States, killing the crew; the captain, Cameron Mitchell's grandfather, dies after throwing his bomb overboard. In the present, people begin to vanish: Teal'c, Vala and then O'Neill. Carter, Daniel and Mitchell escape through the gate and arrive inside the frozen wreck of the Achilles in the Arctic, where an alternate O'Neill rescues them. In this timeline there was no Stargate program, Carter died in a shuttle accident, and Mitchell was never born. A year later, Ba'al's Goa'uld fleet, with Qetesh in Vala's body as his queen and Teal'c as his First Prime, attacks Earth.
Stargate: Continuum ending explained
Mitchell travels back to 1929, waits ten years, and kills Ba'al aboard the Achilles in 1939, restoring history. Qetesh kills Ba'al in the alternate timeline and seizes his time machine, and Carter and Daniel die in Russia getting Mitchell through. Teal'c, mortally wounded, takes Qetesh with him. In the restored present, SG-1 watches the extraction go normally with no memory of what happened, and Daniel wonders aloud what Ba'al meant by his fail-safe.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
Where to watch Stargate: Continuum
Stargate: Continuum is streaming on Hoopla, YouTube (free), and Tubi in the US. You can rent or buy it on Amazon, Apple TV, and Google Play.
Ratings
IMDb 7.5/10
Where it fits
- Release order: after Stargate: The Ark of Truth, before Stargate Universe.
- Chronological order: after Stargate: The Ark of Truth, before Stargate Universe.
What to watch before Stargate: Continuum
In release order, the essentials before Stargate: Continuum (2008) are Stargate (1994), Stargate SG-1 (1997), Stargate Atlantis (2004), and Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008).
Cast
- Ben Browder as Colonel Cameron Mitchell
- Amanda Tapping as Colonel Samantha Carter
- Christopher Judge as Teal'c
- Michael Shanks as Dr. Daniel Jackson
- Claudia Black as Vala Mal Doran
- Beau Bridges as Major General Hank Landry
- Richard Dean Anderson as Major General Jack O'Neill
- Cliff Simon as Ba'al
- Don S. Davis as Lieutenant General George Hammond
- William Devane as President Henry Hayes
- Steve Bacic as Camulus
- Gary Jones as Chief Mst Sgt. Walter Harriman
Directed by Martin Wood.