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In present day Egypt, Egyptologist Daniel Jackson is approached at a symposium by an old woman wearing a Ra necklace and is offered the chance to translate Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs that may prove his theories that the pyramids were used by aliens. Curious, Jackson accepts before being given tickets to an Air Force installation. At a U.S. military base inside Creek Mountain, Colorado, Jackson meets the old woman, who introduces herself as Catherine Langford. Jackson correctly translates the hieroglyphs on the coverstones, which reads: "A million years into the sky is Ra, Sun God. Sealed and buried for all time, his Stargate." Formerly retired Air Force Colonel Jonathan “Jack” O'Neil then arrives to take command of the project and declares all information regarding it classified.

Daniel makes an accidental breakthrough after noticing that star constellations on a newspaper are identical to the symbols on the coverstone. Daniel reveals his findings and theorizes that the constellations on the coverstones are coordinates for a location within space, while the seventh symbol represents "a point of origin". The Stargate is revealed to Daniel, who identifies the seventh symbol after looking at the symbols on the Stargate. The seven symbols are then entered into the computer, which opens a wormhole. A probe is sent through the Stargate to track it's location. The probe sends back images of the planet before the wormhole disconnects. The images sent by the probe reveal that the world it was sent to has an atmosphere similar to Earth and that the Stargate on that planet has a different set of symbols on it, making a return to Earth impossible unless the symbols on the other Stargate are translated. Jackson convinces the military to send a team through the Stargate and let him go with them, as he will be able to translate the symbols on the other Stargate.

O’Neil leads a team to go through the Stargate. Langford gives Daniel her necklace as a good luck charm. On the other side, the team finds themselves inside a pyramid, which they exit to reach outside. Outside, Daniel notices tracks and follows them back to a domesticated alien beast, only to get caught in its reins and dragged off to a nearby village, with some of the team following. The team approaches the villagers, who assume them to be gods sent by Ra and bow before them. The team is forced to stay in the city after a sandstorm hits it. At the base camp, the other members of the team head into the pyramid for shelter.

Daniel attempts to communicate by writing, but discovers that this practice is forbidden. A young woman, Sha'uri, is presented to him as a wife, the villagers believing he is the leader because of his Ra amulet. Sha’uri shows Daniel catacombs full of hieroglyphs after he attempts to communicate with her. Daniel learns that the language of the people is a dialect of Ancient Egyptian, which he can understand fluently because of his research background. O’Neil locates Daniel, who manages to translate the hieroglyphs. The hieroglyphs reveal that the Egyptian god Ra was actually an alien lifeform, the last of his kind, who was attempting to extend his own life. Ra traveled to Earth and encountered humans, whom he enslaved with his advanced technology. Ra used a young boy as a host and appointed himself ruler of Earth. Humans were transported from Egypt to the other planet through the Stargate and used to mine the mineral on which all of Ra’s technology is based, including the Stargate. The humans on Earth rebelled when they discovered Ra was not a god and buried the Stargate. Fearing the same thing would happen on this planet, Ra outlawed reading and writing to prevent the humans there from learning the truth. After explaining this to the others, the team locates a center stone similar to the coverstone on Earth that has symbols from the other Stargate on it, with the seventh symbol eroded away. O’Neil then orders the team to return to the pyramid.

Going back inside the pyramid, now housing a pyramidal spacecraft on top of it, the team is attacked by one of Ra's guards. O’Neil notices that the bomb he brought has disappeared. Suddenly, nine rings descend from the ceiling and bring three more guards, which promptly capture O’Neil and Jackson, who are taken into the craft. O’Neil and Jackson are escorted to the throne room, where they meet Ra, who reveals he has the hydrogen bomb. It is brought in by his child servants. During a critical scene, Ra motions to his guards. Each presses a hidden stub and their armor retracts to reveal they are mere humans and not gods. O’Neil attempts to disarm the guards and kill Ra, but relents when Ra uses the children as a human shield. Daniel is killed during the altercation. After O'Neil's surrender, he is thrown into a dungeon with the captured team members. Daniel is regenerated in Ra's sarcophagus, then returns to the throne room where Ra reveals that he intends to send the bomb, which he has enhanced with the mineral, through the Stargate to Earth. Ra states that he will kill Daniel and everyone who has seen him unless Daniel kills the rest of the team as an example.

The people in the city gather before the pyramid craft to witness the execution of the people from Earth. Skaara signals to Daniel that he and the rest of his friends have recovered the team's weapons. Daniel then shoots at Ra while the kids fire into the air to create a distraction. O’Neil, Jackson and the rest of the team flee Ra's ship and take shelter in a cave with the boys. Jackson confronts O’Neil about the bomb, and O’Neil reveals that he was given orders to destroy the Stargate if any threats were found. Jackson reveals Ra’s plan to send the bomb back to Earth, and O’Neil declares he’s going to stop it.

Later, Jackson prepares some food at a campfire and is laughed at by the locals, who mention that "husbands don't do this work." He realizes that Sha'uri, the young woman given to him, is his wife. Sha'uri feels that she wasn't wanted, but Daniel demonstrates to Sha'uri that he wants her very much. The next morning, Skaara draws a picture of the people's victory against Ra, which depicts three moons over a pyramid. Daniel realizes that this is the seventh symbol.

O’Neil, Daniel, Sha’uri and several locals infiltrate the pyramid and defeat the guards, but most of the team are blocked outside the pyramid and are attacked by Ra's aircraft. O’Neil, Daniel and Sha’uri make it to the Stargate, although Sha’uri is shot and killed. O’Neil sets the timer on the bomb to seven minutes. Just then, the transporter rings activate and Jackson uses them to transport onto the ship with Sha’uri’s body. Jackson uses the sarcophagus on the ship to revive Sha’uri. The two of them then attempt to beam down using the rings, although Ra attempts to stop them. When the team runs out of ammunition, they surrender to the guards, who land their aircraft and prepare to kill them. The locals, lead by Kasuf, overpower Ra’s guards and save them. Ra decides to retreat and prepares his ship for takeoff. Inside the pyramid, O’Neil discovers that the bomb cannot be turned off due to tampering. O’Neil and Jackson then decide to transport the bomb to Ra’s ship, which has now left orbit. Ra watches impotently as the bomb detonates, destroying the ship and himself. The people are now free, and the team is able to return to Earth.

Jackson decides to remain on the planet with Sha'uri and help the locals build a new society. O’Neil returns to Earth with the rest of the team, a changed man given a purpose and a new reason to live. Jackson gives O'Neil Langford's amulet and instructs him to tell her it did bring him luck.

The movie covers SG-1's attempt to recover the “Ark of Truth”, an Alteran device designed to brainwash whoever looks into it. Even though the Ori's promise of Ascension is a lie, the Ancients believed that people should be free to believe it if they wished. SG-1 discovers a box that they believe to be the Ark while digging on Dakara, but before they can open it, Ori soldiers arrive, led by Tomin. Daniel tricks them into opening the box, but it is revealed to be a fake. When Tomin is ordered by a Prior to kill them, he refuses, and Mitchell is able to kill the Prior, whose powers are being blocked by the Anti-Prior device.

Back on Earth, General Landry and Mitchell meet James Marrick, an IOA representative sent to interrogate Tomin. When Daniel Jackson realizes that the Ark is still in the Ori galaxy, Marrick is assigned to accompany them on board the Odyssey through the Supergate. In the Ori galaxy, a member of the anti-Ori resistance tells the team that according to legend, the Ark is on Celestis. When SG-1 beams down to the planet, Marrick activates the Asgard computer core which alerts the Ori to the ship's location.

Mitchell and Carter beam back to the Odyssey and discover that Marrick has used the core to build a Replicator, intending to plant it on an Ori ship and let it spread to their entire fleet. When Mitchell attempts to destroy it with an anti-Replicator Gun, the replicator escapes, and Marrick reveals that the IOA removed that weakness from the design. Marrick is placed in the ship's brig. With several Ori ships approaching, Mitchell attempts to beam Daniel, Teal'c, Vala, and Tomin up from the planet, but the replicator takes over the system and keeps Mitchell from doing so. With no other option, the Odyssey jumps to hyperspace to escape, leaving the others on the planet.

Daniel finds the Ark in a set of catacombs, and after several ground tremors, decides to bring it to the surface. When the team emerges, they are ambushed by Ori warriors, and Teal'c is shot in the back. When the rest are brought to the city, Vala discovers that the Ori were indeed killed by the Sangraal during the events of The Shroud. Adria has ascended and taken over all of their power. Teal'c, who has been walking toward the city of Celestis since he was shot, collapses from his back wound within sight of the city. He is subsequently revived by Morgan le Fay and continues on to free Daniel. Morgan le Fay then arrives in Daniel's cell and tells him if he can turn one Prior, the others will be turned by a link in their staffs. This will weaken Adria enough so that Morgan will be able to defeat her.

In the meantime, a Prior arrives on Earth, offering a last chance to convert to Origin. When General Landry refuses to even listen to him, the Apollo detects a fleet of Ori motherships waiting on the edge of the solar system. On the Odyssey, Marrick is attacked by Replicators who infest his body. In the ensuing battle, Mitchell is able to briefly disable the Replicator connection to Marrick's brain who then informs Mitchell the shut down code for the Replicators is located on the other side of the chip used to create them. Mitchell activates an explosive charge which kills Marrick.

When the Ark is activated and opened, the Doci is caught by the beam and made to believe that the Ori are not gods. In Adria's new weakened state, Morgan is able to engage Adria in an eternal battle, similar to Oma Desala's eternal battle with Anubis in Threads. SG-1 exposes the Prior on Earth to the Ark, transmitting the knowledge about the Ori to all of the Priors in the Milky Way, and thus turning all known priors in the Universe.

In the aftermath, Tomin departs for the Ori galaxy as the new leader of his people, he and Vala agreeing that, while the Ori themselves were liars, Origin itself has a powerful message (Vala personally recommends omitting the part about burning people alive for disagreeing with the religion). Tomin asks Vala to come with him, but Vala apologises and says that she cannot, feeling that her place is with the SGC. Despite Daniel's objections, the Ark is taken away to Area 51 to study, leaving SG-1 to travel to another planet and see what wonders (and treasure, in Vala's case) it holds.

SG-1 and Jack O'Neill attend a Tok'ra extraction ceremony for Ba'al, the last of the Goa'uld System Lords. He gloats that he is merely the last clone, and that the real Ba'al has a failsafe plan in the works. The real Ba'al travels back in time to 1939 Earth and massacres the crew of the Achilles, the ship carrying the Stargate to the United States; the captain (Mitchell's grandfather) manages to survive long enough to keep the ship from being destroyed. In the present, people and objects begin disappearing, starting with Teal'c and Vala. Carter, Daniel and Mitchell manage to reach the Stargate, but Jack is killed by Ba'al. They emerge inside the derelict Achilles, which has drifted to the Arctic — Ba'al's actions have created an alternate timeline in which the Stargate Program never happened. After escaping from the sinking Achilles, they are rescued by a team led by Colonel Jack O'Neill, though Daniel loses his left leg to frostbite. Although General Landry believes their story, permission is denied to change the timeline. The three are separated and given new lives to lead.

USS Alexandria (SSN-757) carries SG-1 from the Arctic. A year passes, and SG-1 is called back into action when Goa'uld scoutships appear. Ba'al has defeated the System Lords and now stands ready to conquer Earth, with Qetesh (still residing in Vala's body) as his Queen and Teal'c as his First Prime. SG-1 is brought to President Hayes and General Hammond, who inform them that, based on their accounts, they have recovered the Antarctic Stargate and are excavating the Ancient outpost. SG-1 is sent on a mission to retrieve a ZPM to power the outpost. Above Earth, Ba'al's armada arrives. To the displeasure of his lieutenants, Ba'al announces that he will treat the Tau'ri leniently. Suspicious about Ba'al's knowledge of Earth, Qetesh betrays him and forces him to tell her everything. She has her ships destroy McMurdo Station and the Ancient outpost, and she kills Ba'al after Teal'c discovers her treachery. As Teal'c escapes to a cloaked Al'kesh, Qetesh orders the fleet to begin the bombardment of Earth while she goes to secure Ba'al's time machine.

Amidst the massive Goa'uld attack, SG-1 is rerouted to Russia, as the Russians have retrieved the Achilles' Stargate from the ocean floor. Teal'c arrives at the facility as well, seeking to use the Stargate to reach the time machine before Qetesh does. The two sides form a tentative truce and arrive together at Ba'al's time machine: a vast underground supercomputer that monitors solar flares that can affect the wormhole formed by the Stargate. SG-1 must wait for the right flare with which to go to the past, but Qetesh's forces begin ringing in. Teal'c, Sam, and Daniel are all mortally wounded in the firefight, and only Mitchell reaches the Stargate. In the past, he stows away on the Achilles on its trans-Atlantic voyage and kills Ba'al when he appears. Back in the present of the now-restored timeline, SG-1, completely unaware of the previous events, watch the extraction proceed without incident. On Earth, Daniel wonders what Ba'al meant by his failsafe, but they decide not to dwell on it. The final shot shows a close-up of a picture in Mitchell's locker, which has his alternate self standing alongside his grandfather.