Editing Stargate (film) (section)

==Plot==
In 1928 at [[Giza]], [[Egypt]], archaeologist Professor Paul Langford, accompanied by his daughter Catherine, unearths cover stones engraved with [[Egyptian hieroglyphs]] and other markings. Beneath he discovers a large metallic ring of unknown purpose.

In 1994, the now-elderly Catherine invites [[Egyptology|Egyptologist]] and [[linguistics|linguist]] [[Daniel Jackson (Stargate)|Daniel Jackson, Ph.D.]] to translate the hieroglyphs. The stones, located underground at a military installation in Colorado, are now part of a [[classified information|classified]] [[United States Air Force|U.S. Air Force]] project overseen by [[Air Force Special Operations Command|Special Operations]] [[Colonel (United States)|Colonel]] [[Jack O'Neill|Jack O'Neil]]. Jackson determines that the hieroglyphs refer to a "stargate" which uses star [[constellation]]s as spatial coordinates. He is then shown the Stargate, the ring device from Giza. They use his coordinates to align the Stargate's rotating inner track with V-shaped markings (or "[[Chevron (insignia)|chevrons]]") along its outside. When all seven chevrons are locked in, a [[wormhole]] opens, connecting the Stargate with a distant planet. Jackson joins O'Neil and his team (Reilly, Porro, Freeman, Brown, Ferretti, and Kawalsky) as they pass through the wormhole.

They emerge inside a [[pyramid]] on the arid desert planet of [[List of Stargate SG-1 characters#Abydonians|Abydos]]. Jackson attempts to locate the symbols required for the return journey through the Stargate but fails. O'Neil orders Kawalsky to set up camp. Jackson sees a mastadge, a large animal with a harness, which drags him off when he approaches it to investigate. O'Neil, Kawalsky and Brown follow and they discover a tribe of humans working to mine a strange mineral, which Brown identifies as the same material the Stargate is made of. O'Neil radios the others to secure basecamp. Following them back to their city, Jackson realizes that the people speak a variant of [[Egyptian language|Ancient Egyptian]] and is able to communicate with them. He learns that the tribe sees him and his comrades as [[wikt:emissary|emissaries]] of their god [[Ra]] due to an amulet given to him by Catherine. The tribe's chieftain Kasuf presents Jackson with his daughter [[List of Stargate SG-1 characters#Sha're|Sha'uri]] as a gift, and although Jackson initially refuses her, he later becomes romantically attached to her. O'Neil befriends Kasuf's teenaged son Skaara and his friends. That night, Ra's ship lands atop the pyramid structure, and his soldiers capture Ferretti and Freeman while killing Porro and Reilly.

Through hidden markings and discussions with the tribe, Jackson learns that Ra is an alien being who came to Earth during the Ancient Egyptian period to possess human bodies to extend his own life. Ra enslaved these humans and used the Stargate to bring some of them to Abydos to mine the mineral that is used in the alien technology. Humans on Earth revolted, overthrew Ra's overseers, and buried the Stargate to prevent its use. During this investigation, Jackson comes across a [[cartouche]] containing six of the seven symbols needed to configure the Stargate for the return to Earth, but the seventh has been broken off and has worn away.

When Jackson, O'Neil, Brown, and Kawalsky return to the pyramid, there is a firefight against Ra's soldiers. Brown is killed and Kawalsky is injured. Jackson and O'Neil are captured and brought before Ra and his guards, who are revealed to be humanoids when they retract their armored head-pieces. A firefight ensues and Jackson is killed; O'Neil is incapacitated and is incarcerated with the others. Ra places Jackson's body in a [[sarcophagus]]-like device that regenerates him. Ra then shows Jackson a nuclear bomb  which O'Neil had secretly brought with him. Perceiving their arrival as an act of war, Ra declares his intentions to send the bomb back through the Stargate to Earth, along with a shipment of the mineral, which will increase its explosive power a hundred fold—essentially creating a world-ending event. Ra then orders the human tribe to watch as he prepares to force Jackson to execute the others to demonstrate his power, but Skaara and his friends create a diversion that allows Jackson, O'Neil, Kawalsky, and Ferretti to escape, while Freeman is killed. They flee to nearby caves to hide from Ra. Skaara and his friends celebrate, and Skaara draws a sign of victory on a wall, which Jackson recognizes as the final Stargate symbol needed for the return to Earth.

O'Neil and his remaining men aid Skaara in overthrowing the remaining overseers and then launch an attack on Ra, who sends out fighter ships to [[strafe]] the humans while he orders his ship to depart. The humans outside run out of ammunition and are forced to surrender to the fighter ships' pilots, but the rest of the tribe, seeing that their false gods are really humanoid, rebel against the guards and overthrow them. Sha'uri is killed, but Jackson takes her body and sneaks aboard Ra's ship using a teleportation system, leaving O'Neil to fight Ra's guard captain, Anubis. Jackson places Sha'uri in the regeneration device, and she recovers, but Ra discovers them and attempts to kill Jackson. O'Neil activates the teleportation system, killing Anubis and allowing Jackson and Sha'uri to escape the ship. O'Neil and Jackson teleport the bomb to Ra's ship, destroying the ship and killing Ra. With the humans freed, the remaining team—O'Neil, Kawalsky, and Ferretti—return to Earth while Jackson chooses to stay behind with Sha'uri and the others.