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Prometheus

Summary

The crew of the Prometheus consists of USAF personnel. The X-303 battle cruiser was named in the Season Six episode, 6.11 "Prometheus".

Season Six

When the ship was still being built and hadn't been launched, it was called the X-303. In the episode, 6.11 "Prometheus", the ship was stolen by a group with ties to the Goa'uld Adrian Conrad and the NID's Colonel Frank Simmons. This group posed as members of a news crew which was able to gain access to the ship by threatening to go public with it. In exchange for seeing the ship, the news crew was promised that they would have the exclusive if it were ever deemed by the government to be made public. Showing the ship to the crew were Major Samantha Carter, Jonas Quinn, and two SF's, Gibson and Finney.

The thieves were Smith, Jones, Reynolds, and Sanderson. They were joined later by Colonel Simmons and Adrian Conrad. They took captive the reporter, Julia Donavan, and her editor, Al Martell, as well as Carter and Jonas. They killed Martell and thought that they had been successful at killing Carter, but she was able to escape to a portion of the ship which was still under construction. The thieves were able to take the ship into orbit and plot a course for a location said to be rich in weapons.

Colonel Jack O'Neill and Teal'c were able to get onboard the ship with the use of gliders that they had obtained from a Goa'uld ship which had crashed into the ocean off of the coast of Alaska (6.03 "Descent"). Together, they were able to gain control of the ship which was stranded out in the middle of the unknown. Fortunately, Thor found them. He needed their help to stop the Replicators, so he towed them back to Earth, deposited the good and bad guys, and then took SG-1 to Hala where they had been able to assemble every Replicator out there in one place. SG-1 was successful in their mission to help Thor capture the Replicators in a time-dilation bubble where time would advance much slower than usual. This bought the Asgard some time in developing a plan to rid the universe of the Replicators once and for all.

The naming of the ship was one thing that O'Neill couldn't agree on. He wanted to name it Enterprise, but Carter said that they couldn't do that. The project code name for building the X-303 was Prometheus, so they decided to name the ship that.

After SG-1 was able to bring the Prometheus home from helping the Asgard, it was given a staff of Air Force personnel. The first commander of the ship was Colonel William Ronson. The Prometheus had the following bridge crew:

They took the ship out, with SG-1, to test the hyperspace engines, powered by naquadria. The test failed and left the ship stranded "dead in the water". Jonas knew about the stargate addresses nearby and they were able to take the ship to the planet Tagrea so that they could use the planet's stargate to get home and get new parts for the crippled ship. After helping the Tagreans find their stargate (it had been buried), they were able to fix the engines enough to start home. SG-1 went back to Earth via the stargate and the Prometheus continued on its course back home with small jumps into and out of hyperspace (6.20 "Memento").

Season Seven

The first appearance of the Prometheus in Season Seven's episode, 7.13 "Grace", has been left to interpretation by the program's viewers. Whether or not all of the events specific to the crew of the Prometheus which are portrayed in this "dream" episode happened or were in Major Samantha Carter's mind is of great debate. The Prometheus was said to be about four jumps away from home and Major Samantha Carter was onboard to study a nearby "cloud", something which would interest the astrophysicist in her. They were near the cloud when they encountered a very large alien vessel which attacked them without provocation or warning. Carter advised Colonel Ronson to escape the alien vessel by taking cover in the cloud. She suffered a concussion in the attack and fell into unconsciousness. When she awoke, she discovered that all of the crew has been transported off of the Prometheus and only she remained. Since the cloud was distorting the space-time continuum, she felt that she was alone on the ship for more days than she actually was. She was visited by an illusionary version of each of her teammates, her father, and a little girl named Grace who gave her the idea of how to break free of the cloud in which both the alien vessel and the Prometheus were trapped. In her providing a solution to the problem, the aliens onboard the attacking ship returned the Prometheus crew and went their merry way without saying a word. We are left not knowing who they were or what dangers they posed to Earth.

There was a race to find the Lost City of the Ancients and Colonel Jack O'Neill held the knowledge of the Ancients in his mind once again after taking the download from a Repository of Knowledge on the planet P3X-439. When it was apparent that Anubis was hot on the SGC's heels in finding the Lost City as well, the Prometheus was called into action from its subterranean bay (it had already reached home by this time) to protect SG-1's efforts to get to the Antarctic outpost where the weapons existed to overpower Anubis' fleet. While SG-1 and Master Bra'tac used a modified ring transport beam from an acquired Goa'uld cargo ship, the Prometheus hovered over them to protect them from Anubis' attack vessels. Along with the Prometheus were the entire fleet of F-302's. The President of the United States, Henry Hayes, had asked that General George Hammond take command of the Prometheus, so the bridge crew consisted of the following:

The battle was desperate and the Prometheus left the Antarctic when SG-1 had successfully penetrated the ice and entered the outpost. General Hammond took the Prometheus into orbit, targeting Anubis' mothership. The Prometheus lost its shields and it was determined that the next round from Anubis' weaponry would be the ship's last. General Hammond set the Prometheus on an intercept course in order to ram into Anubis' ship, presuming that the impact would destroy Anubis at the same time the Prometheus was destroyed. Fortunately, Jack was able to activate the Ancient's weapon from the outpost and the powerful weapon eliminated all thirty or so of Anubis' ships. The Prometheus was saved along with all those left on Earth (7.21 "Lost City Part 1" and 7.22 "Lost City Part 2").

Season Eight

Colonel Lionel Pendergast started the season as the commander of the Prometheus in the Season Eight episode, 8.02 "New Order Part 2". We are not given the name of the female crew member who opened channels to broadcast a message for the Colonel as he saw an alien vessel approach Earth. Fortunately, for all concerned, the alien vessel turned out to be Thor's Daniel Jackson with Teal'c onboard. Since the close of Season Seven, the Prometheus must have been assigned to keep watch from Earth's orbit for additional attacks following Anubis' attempt to destroy Earth.

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--DeeKayP 12:48, 14 Jul 2004 (PDT)