Odyssey
Summary
The U.S.S. Odyssey, most likely named after the Greek poet Homer's The Odyssey, is the second Earth-built ship in the Daedalus Deep Space Carrier class. Its maiden voyage was to rescue SG-1 after the elite team had been stranded on a planet without a Stargate. The Odyssey's shakedown cruise came very soon after the destruction of the Prometheus, the ship's prototype predecessor. (9.16 "Off the Grid")
Stargate References
9.16 "Off The Grid"
Col. Paul Emerson and his crew were conducting their shakedown cruise when the call came in to rescue SG-1 from the planet P6G-452 after connection to the planet's Stargate was lost. Operating with 90% of their primary systems running, the Odyssey set out on its first mission to reach the planet within the next 22 hours from Earth's orbit.
Based on the mishap with Daniel's separation from his locator beacon on the planet Tegalus (where the Prometheus was destroyed, 9.15 "Ethon"), SG-1 team members were the first to receive transmitter implants. These implants broadcast their signals in subspace and are virtually undetectable by enemies. Using these beacons as locators, Emerson successfully extracted SG-1 with his ship's Asgard beaming technology right before SG-1 were about to be executed by members of the Lucian Alliance.
The reason the Lucian Alliance was holding SG-1 prisoner and torturing them was because they thought that SG-1 was behind the disappearance of their Stargate. Eventually, however, the leader of one of the Alliance's fleets, Netan, discovered that the true thief was the Goa'uld Ba'al, and through the use of his vast information network, he discovered the whereabouts of Ba'al's ha'tak within which Ba'al was storing a least a dozen stolen Stargates and DHDs. The SGC also had discovered that Ba'al was behind the Stargate thefts, and tagged one of Ba'al's Goa'uld scientists, Nerus, to find Ba'al's location. Gen. Landry sent the Odyssey, with the rescued SG-1 onboard, to intercept Ba'al's ship and recover the stolen technology.
The Odyssey found Ba'al's ship first and sent SG-1 onboard after Nerus inadvertantly uploaded a computer virus, designed by the SGC, on the ha'tak and rendered their sensors, weapons, and shields useless. Expecting only about a handful of Stargates, SG-1 was surprised to find at least a dozen. They quickly set out to place locator beacons on each Stargate and DHD, but soon were detected and came under heavy fire by the Jaffa guards stationed on the ship.
If being under personal attack wasn't bad enough, Netan arrived with three fully-operational ha'tak and began firing upon Ba'al's ship while SG-1 was still onboard. Both the firefight within the corridors of the ship and the one in space forced SG-1 to escape from the ha'tak through one of the stolen Stargates. Emerson succeeded in beaming all the stolen technology onto the Odyssey, except for the Stargate used by SG-1, before Ba'al's ship was destroyed by the Alliance assault. During the firefight, Emerson actually had the Odyssey use its rail guns against the Lucian Alliance ships to distract them from Ba'al's ship as a way to buy more time for SG-1 to complete their mission. After Ba'al's ship exploded, and Netan didn't get his Stargate back, the Alliance ships targeted Earth's vessel and Emerson quickly ordered a retreat through hyperspace.
9.17 "The Scourge"
The Odyssey was sent to the Gamma Site to eradicate the R75 bugs, also known as the Prior Bugs, which had overcome the base. Communications with the base and access to the Stargate were cut off when the base systems were infiltrated by the bugs and the self-destruct was accidently initiated. Because Gen. Landry believed there to be no survivors, he ordered the Odyssey to go to the Gamma Site to use a deadly toxin which would kill the bugs so that they could salvage whatever was left at the Site. SG-1 and four members from the International Oversight Advisory (IOA) were taking a tour at the Site when the carnivorous bugs got loose. They were ordered to flee from the base and head for the research facility which was about 10 miles away. Knowing that Gen. Landry would send the Odyssey on its deadly mission, Carter rigged the communications equipment in the research building to broadcast their location through the planet's subspace-jamming ionosphere since their transmitter implants were useless. Just when the research building was about to be overrun by the bugs, the Odyssey beamed everyone to safety.
9.20 "Camelot Part 2"
With the warning that a "Day of Reckoning" was approaching and that the Ori had successfully constructed massive warships (9.19 "Crusade Part 1"), the SGC, Tok'ra, Free Jaffa, and Asgard searched the galaxy for a completed Supergate. The Free Jaffa found one at the former location of the planet P3Y-229 which had been collapsed into a micro-singularity to power the intergalactic Stargate. With the Daedalus still in the Pegasus Galaxy, the Odyssey was the only ship fully operational from Earth. The Russian's Korolev was rushed into service even though it had another year left in construction.
Emerson coordinated the efforts of Carter and the Asgard Kvasir to disable the Supergate. Carter proposed that she be permitted to replace a control crystal on the Supergate with one which Kvasir programmed to engage a wormhole from the Milky Way Galaxy to the Ori's home galaxy, thus preventing the Ori from forming a wormhole in the other direction. Kvasir and Carter planned to form the outgoing wormhole so that they could activate Merlin's anti-Ori device and send it through, but SG-1 failed in finding the device. Even so, they felt they could at least prevent the invasion if they could form the wormhole first.
Right before Carter was able to activate the crystal, the Ori formed their wormhole and sent four warships through. Carter's magnetic boots lost their grip and she was sent to drift helplessly in space. All she could do was watch as the allied fleet was quickly decimated by the powerful warships.
The Odyssey took on tremendous damage, even though the Asgard shields held somewhat through the initial blasts of the Ori's energy weapons. Eventually, several systems failed, including sublight engines, making the ship "dead in the water". But, the Odyssey still had weapons, and Emerson ordered that all weapons remaining be fired upon the warships.
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Related Characters
- Dr. Daniel Jackson
- Lt. Col. Samantha Carter
- Gen. Hank Landry
- Ba'al
- Col. Paul Emerson
- Kvasir
- Maj. Marks
- Nerus
- Netan
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Keywords
- Asgard
- Asgard Beaming Technology
- Daedalus
- Dial Home Device (DHD)
- Free Jaffa Nation
- Gamma Site
- International Oversight Advisory (IOA)
- Korolev
- Lucian Alliance
- P3Y-229
- P6G-452
- Prior Bugs (R75)
- Prometheus
- Rail Guns
- SG-1
- Stargate
- Supergate
- Tegalus
- Tok'ra
- Transmitter Implants
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--DeeKayP 12:19, 19 February 2006 (PST)