Carter's dimensional-shifting device has shown promise against the Ori, but it still needs a lot of work. Accordingly, at Stargate Command, Carter runs another test on the complicated piece of technology. Unfortunately, her test coincides precisely with another test on an extremely dangerous power generator built by another Carter in an alternate universe. As both devices interact, an explosion kills the second Carter. Then a trans-universal bridge pulls the original Carter into the other universe

Carter is trapped in a strange new world. Gen. George Hammond leads Stargate Command, and Hank Landry is President of the United States. The Stargate program has been public on this Earth since a Goa'uld attack forced the United States to endure riots and international anger by revealing its cosmic secret. Worse, this Earth is under an immediate threat of Ori attack: A fleet is only days away, and everyone fears that the planet's last hope to defend itself died with this world's Carter

As President Landry hunkers down in Stargate Command for safety and billions of humans turn to SGC for protection, Carter steps in to save the day. In a spectacular feat of science and engineering, she hides the entire planet from the Ori's ships with her dimensional-shifting device. Earth is saved

Overnight, Carter becomes an international hero. President Landry drags her to press conferences and swanky cocktail parties, using her to seize even more political power. Soon, however, Carter notices that Landry has seriously compromised American freedoms for the sake of security. The Secret Service carries Goa'uld torture devices, and elections have been suspended. Furthermore, Landry refuses to allow Carter to construct a trans-universal bridge back to her own Earth � because he wants her by his side as a figurehead for his increasingly dictatorial administration

With presidential goons shadowing her every step, Carter seeks out two unlikely allies. The first is Cameron Mitchell, who's been confined to a wheelchair since his F-302 accident in Antarctica. He's deeply embittered by the shabby way his government has behaved, toward him and its citizens. The second is the ex-husband of this world's Carter: an eccentric, quick-witted and successful businessman � named Rodney McKay. Both men are very different than the men Carter knows, and if she can't persuade either one to help her, she may never escape from this world-gone-wrong

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