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RATINGS SCORECARD GATEWORLD - * * FAN POLL - 6.34 SCI FI RATING - 1.9 SYNDICATION RATING - 2.1 Season Ratings EPISODE NUMBER - 709 DVD DISC - Season 7, Disc 3 ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 08.08.03 SYNDICATION AIR DATE - 11.01.04 WRITTEN BY - Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie DIRECTED BY - Martin Wood GUEST STARRING - Patrick McKenna (Jay Felger), Gary Jones (Technician) An S.G.C. scientist creates a computer virus to be used to disable enemy Stargates -- but succeeds in shutting down the entire gate network.

PRODUCTION "[Felger] invents a virus capable of infecting a specific gate and scrambling its D.H.D., effectively shutting it down. It seems like a good idea, but when the virus is tested, it spreads rapidly throughout the gate network, shutting down the entire system. Teams are stranded off-world, a certain System Lord is taking advantage of the situation to make a major power play, and O'Neill is somewhat ... displeased. It's a race against time to restore the gate network before its too late." (Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi, in his Season Seven production diary) "I suggest the title: 'Domino Effect.' Paul [Mullie] counters with: 'System Crash.' On we go, through: 'Deadlock,' 'Paralysis,' 'Gridlock,' 'No Way Back.' We go back and forth for what seems like forever. Frustrated, fatigued, and borderline giddy, we begin scraping the bottom of the barrel. The titles grow increasingly ridiculous, bearing little if any relation to the story: 'Flashpoint!' 'Dark Gambit!' 'Twilight of Nevermore!,' then so ridiculously all-encompassing they could apply to most any story ever written: 'Conflict!' 'Stuff Happens!' 'Crossroads!' (Oh, we already used that one in Season Four.) It's not until the day after we hand in our script that Robert [Cooper] comes up with the title to our script: 'Avenger 2.0.'" (Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi, in his Season Seven production diary) "What happens is, [Felger] tests the virus, and it appears that the virus is self replicating, because in a matter of hours, the entire gate system is shut down. And you've got teams stranded off-world. You've got Daniel stranded on a planet where he was helping to relocate a civilization, and basically their planet was wracked with these seismic disturbances, heavy rains and flooding, so he's trapped off-world. O'Neill and Teal'c were trying to broker a truce between some rival Jaffa, and basically everything went to hell in a handbasket, and he's trapped off-world. "So Carter has to help Felger, who's suffering his own crisis of conscience, to come up with a patch, or a solution, to fix the virus before the off-world teams are wiped out and the top Goa'uld of the moment presses his advantage and makes effective use of the gate shutdown to consolidate his hold over the System Lords." (Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi, in an interview with the Stargate SG-1 Explorer Unit)