After communicating a plea for help, delegates from Jonas Quinn's otherplanetary homeland, Kelowna, are due to arrive through the stargate at Stargate Command

Jonas is nervous about meeting his fellow Kelownans because they consider him a traitor for taking Naquadria � a derivative of Naquadah, the metal that allows stargate teleportation � from their planet, P9Y-4C3. The Naquadria could help Earth create shields and weapons capable of repelling the Goa'uld, but the Kelownans consider the metal a proprietary resource

The delegates � Commander Hale, Ambassador Dreylock and Jonas' old teacher, Dr. Kieran � arrive and explain that the uneasy peace between Kelowna and P9Y-4C3's, other two governments, Tirania and the Andari Federation, is in danger of collapsing. The Tiranians and the Andaris are about to sign a non-aggression pact that would leave Kelowna open to attack

The Kelownan delegation asks Stargate Command to provide them with superior offensive weaponry in exchange for a surplus of Naquadria the Kelownans possess. If SGC refuses, the Kelownans will have no choice but to use a doomsday device that Dr. Kieran has developed � a Naquadria bomb � as a preemptive first strike

Unwilling to give the Kelownans any military hardware, lest they one day decide to turn their defensive advantage into an offensive one, Gen. Hammond orders SG-1 to go to Kelowna and trade much-needed antibiotics for Naquadria � and also to make contact with a secret resistance that Dr. Kieran told Jonas about. The resistance is planning to overthrow all three governments on P9Y-4C3, in the name of peace

But the Kelownan Defense Council, led by First Minister Valis, is only interested in Stargate Command's weapons, not its medicine. They are willing to offer Earth roughly three hundred pounds of Naquadria for better armaments. Valis also has a private proposal for Jonas: His record would be wiped clean and he could come back to Kelowna if he will spy on Dr. Kieran, whose behavior, like those of the other scientists working on the Naquadria bomb, has become erratic of late

SG-1 is about to leave Kelowna because negotiations are going nowhere, but Dr. Kieran convinces Col. Jack O'Neill to stay by telling him he has smuggled a large quantity of Naquadria into Resistance headquarters and SG-1 can have it if they help his cause

Later, just as Dr. Kieran is about to put SG-1 in touch with the Resistance, he is found unconscious, apparently attacked by Kelownan agents on the trail of the Resistance. Jonas convinces the council that Stargate Command can give Dr. Kieran better medical care than he can get in Kelowna, and the council agrees to let Dr. Janet Fraiser take charge of Kieran on Earth. Jonas then tries to convince the Council that exploding a Naquadria bomb is like ringing the dinner bell for the Goa'uld, who literally have Naquadah in their blood

At the same time, SG-1 tries to track the Naquadria to the Resistance's headquarters. They find the Naquadria that Dr. Kieran had stockpiled and send it to Stargate Command. However, it was in an empty warehouse � there is no Resistance. Kieran is suffering from advanced schizophrenia � a side-effect of exposure to Naquadria. Although Jonas had also worked on the Naquadria project, he fortunately has no trace of the disease, according to Dr. Fraiser

Before he is transferred to a top facility, Dr. Kieran asks Jonas if the Resistance stopped the Naquadria bomb from being used. Although war is, at this very moment, probably breaking out between the Kelownans and the allied forces of the Tiranians and Andaris, Jonas tells his old teacher that he has saved the world

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