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* BlatantLies: General Landry tells Nerus that chicken is a "rare delicacy" on Earth.
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* IWarnedYou: Before leaving on the mission, Vala specifically singles out Landry to tell him that he'll come to regret not listening to her warnings about Nerus.
-->'''Vala''': (Pointing at Landry) Oh, and ''you''. You'll wished you had listened to me when I said letting the Goa'uld come here was a mistake.
-->'''Vala''': (Pointing at Landry) Oh, and ''you''. You'll wished you had listened to me when I said letting the Goa'uld come here was a mistake.
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* ExactWords: At the end, Gen Landry tells Nerus that he will be keeping Nerus on Earth until he lives up to his part of their deal, namely to come up with a way to defeat the Ori.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Nerus is ''incredibly'' friendly for a Goa'uld, fanboying over the original members of SG-1 and even casually dropping his "Goa'uld voice" to talk more normally once he starts cooperating with the SGC in earnest. He's also complimentary and impressed by Earth food, particularly seedless grapes and chicken, whereas previous Goa'uld guests like Cronus rudely dismissed the SGC's attempts at hospitality as "pathetic". However, he turns out to be just as malicious and power hungry as any other Goa'uld, having been acting to trick the SGC to play right into the Ori's hands.
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* HideYourPregnancy: Amanda Tapping has baggy uniforms and jackets, as well as boxes to obscure her torso.
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* HideYourPregnancy: Amanda Tapping has baggy uniforms and jackets, as well as boxes to obscure her torso.
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* LesCollaborateurs: Nerus helps for the Ori to come into the Milky Way, hoping that he will be ascended.
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* UnrealisticBlackHole: The Prior uses one to power the supergate. Notably, the time distortion effects that were so crucial to the plot in [[Recap/StargateSG1S2E16AMatterOfTime "A Matter of Time"]] don't really come up, even when the team is stood on the surface of the planet just meters away from a stargate connected to a black hole.
** To be fair, time dilation around a black hole doesn't become significant until you approach the event horizon, and the Schwarzschild radius of an Earth-sized planet is less than a '''centimeter'''.
** To be fair, time dilation around a black hole doesn't become significant until you approach the event horizon, and the Schwarzschild radius of an Earth-sized planet is less than a '''centimeter'''.
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* UnrealisticBlackHole: The Prior uses one to power the supergate. Notably, the time distortion effects that were so crucial to the plot in [[Recap/StargateSG1S2E16AMatterOfTime "A Matter of Time"]] don't really come up, even when the team is stood on the surface of the planet just meters away from a stargate connected to a black hole.
** Tohole. However, to be fair, time dilation around a black hole doesn't become significant until you approach the event horizon, and the Schwarzschild radius of an Earth-sized planet is less than a '''centimeter'''.
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* ShownTheirWork: Surprisingly given the [[UnrealisticBlackHole frequently somewhat goofy depiction of black holes in this series]], this episode isn't inaccurate: if compressed sufficiently, any amount of mass will become a black hole (it's just that large stars are the only objects likely to become one ''naturally''). Although a black hole with the mass of an Earth-sized planet would be [[http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+earth+mass+black+hole less than 9 mm across]].
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* NotSoHarmlessVillain: With the exception of Vala, no-one takes Nerus particularly seriously as he cuts a rather comical figure, but then he manages to trick them into playing right into the hands of the Ori.
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* BatmanGambit: The force field was strengthened by the very weapons the Ori knew the Tauri and Jaffa would use to try to stop them.
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the black hole in this episode isn\'t so unrealistic when you look at the actual numbers
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* UnrealisticBlackHole: The Prior uses one to power the supergate. Notably, the time distortion effects that were so crucial to the plot in [[Recap/StargateSG1S2E16AMatterOfTime "A Matter of Time"]] don't really come up, even when the team is stood on the surface of the planet just meters away from a stargate connected to a black hole.hole.
**To be fair, time dilation around a black hole doesn't become significant until you approach the event horizon, and the Schwarzschild radius of an Earth-sized planet is less than a '''centimeter'''.
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-->'''Nerus:''' What could possibly compel me to do that?
-->'''Landry:''' Hunger.
-->'''Landry:''' Hunger.
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-->'''Nerus:''' I have helped the Ori, and when you kill me, I shall ascend.\\
'''Landry:''' No, you will ''descend'' to a small, dark room at the bottom of Area 51, and you stay there until you come up with a way to defeat the Ori.\\
'''Nerus:''' What could possibly compel me to dothat?
-->'''Landry:'''that?\\
'''Landry:''' Hunger.
'''Landry:''' No, you will ''descend'' to a small, dark room at the bottom of Area 51, and you stay there until you come up with a way to defeat the Ori.\\
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'''Landry:''' Hunger.
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* OminousLatinChanting: After repelling the Jaffa attacking him, the Prior at Kallana switches from chanting in English to Latin/Alteran while raising a force field around himself and the stargate.
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* EvilSoundsDeep: Played with; Nerus stops using his "Goa'uld voice" while he's working with the team and states that they don't ''have'' to turn like that, but he briefly turns it back on once Landry realizes he's been playing them.
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* EvilSoundsDeep: Played with; Nerus stops using his "Goa'uld voice" while he's working with the team and states that they don't ''have'' to turn talk like that, but he briefly turns it back on once Landry realizes he's been playing them.
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->''"Detonating the largest warhead ever built by man is not exactly the historical footnote that I had in mind."''
-->'''--Lt. Col. Cameron Mitchell'''
The Goa'uld Nerus warns the SGC of a plan by the Ori to establish a [[TitleDrop beachhead]] on the Jaffa planet Kallana from which to launch their invasion of the Milky Way. The team plans to sabotage the attack with the help of Colonel Carter, who returns from Area 51, but Vala believes they are mistaken to trust Nerus's intel.
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!!"Beachhead" provides examples of the following tropes:
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Throughout the episode, Vala is frustrated by the others constantly dismissing her, which ultimately results in her taking matters into her own hands and sacrificing herself to stop the supergate from forming.
* AndMissionControlRejoiced: Several technicians on the bridge of the ''Prometheus'' do this when Vala succeeds in destroying the Ori supergate.
* BigEater: The Goa'uld Nerus, to the extent that it's practically his defining character trait.
* TheBusCameBack: Carter returns from her five-episode stint at Area 51.
* CassandraTruth: Vala repeatedly warns the others that Nerus is bad news and more than likely lying to them, but they don't pay her much attention since they don't see him as a threat. Sure enough, it turns out Nerus is working for the Ori and deliberately feeding them false information so that the energy from their weapons ends up powering the Ori force shield.
* ContinuityNod:
** Nerus claims that he helped the team [[Recap/StargateSG1S8E17ReckoningPart2 defeat the replicators]], as he was the one who figured out who to dial all the stargates at once.
** Vala reminds Daniel that she's [[Recap/StargateSG1S8E12PrometheusUnbound stolen the Prometheus before]].
** Carter realizes that the only thing capable of powering a stargate indefinitely is a [[Recap/StargateSG1S2E16AMatterOfTime black hole]].
* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: Landry informs Nerus that this will be his incentive to cooperate after he's outed as a traitor.
-->'''Nerus:''' What could possibly compel me to do that?
-->'''Landry:''' Hunger.
* EnemyMine: The team are willing to work with Nerus to prevent the Ori from gaining a foothold in the galaxy, though this turns out to be a subversion when Nerus is revealed as a mole.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Played with; Nerus stops using his "Goa'uld voice" while he's working with the team and states that they don't ''have'' to turn like that, but he briefly turns it back on once Landry realizes he's been playing them.
* FamedInStory: Nerus is extremely excited to meet SG-1 after hearing of their accomplishments and is rather disappointed that O'Neill and Carter aren't around, though he still spends some time gushing over Teal'c and Daniel.
* FriendshipMoment: Daniel tells Carter that he's glad to have her back, even if it's only temporary.
* GadgeteerGenius: Nerus is apparently a gifted scientist and inventor, which is the only reason Landry accepts his offer of help in the first place.
* HeroesGoneFishing: The start of the episode shows Mitchell, Daniel, Teal'c and Vala in unusually high spirits, playing a friendly earthlings-versus-aliens game of basketball on the base.
* HeroicSacrifice: Vala pulls one by maneuvering a cargo ship into position to replace the last piece of the supergate, stopping the event horizon from forming but getting herself sucked into the Ori galaxy in the process.
* LampshadedDoubleEntendre:
-->'''Vala:''' ''(about the force shield)'' My god, it's enormous!
-->''(Daniel gives her a look)''
-->'''Vala:''' Not everything I say is innuendo.
* MadeOfExplodium: The Mark IX naquadria-enhanced warhead, specifically designed for the purpose of destroying stargates.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The heroes end up accelerating the expansion of the Ori force shield by detonating the Mark IX and then repeatedly firing on it from orbit, feeding it with more energy.
* NomDeGuerre: Mitchell reveals that he went by the call sign "Shaft" back in his piloting days.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Vala gets [[TheStoic Teal'c]] to lift her into the air and bump hips with her during the basketball game.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: With the exception of Vala, no-one takes Nerus particularly seriously as he cuts a rather comical figure, but then he manages to trick them into playing right into the hands of the Ori.
* NukeEm: Pretty much what the team's initial plan boils down to.
-->'''Mitchell:''' Oh, boy. And here I was trying to have a nuke-free career.
* OrbitalBombardment: Gerak's forces show up to bombard the force shield from space, which is exactly what the Ori were hoping for.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Though she doesn't actually die, Daniel's -- and to a lesser extent, the rest of the team's -- repeated shutting down of Vala when she's trying to tell them about her idea prompts her to make a sacrifice that might have been avoidable otherwise.
* PutOnABus: Vala is shipped off to the Ori galaxy.
* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: Mitchell gleefully proclaims that he's got the band back together with Carter's return.
* RayOfHopeEnding: Things are still looking pretty bleak, and Daniel in particular is initially quite despondent at Vala's disappearance, but the team manage to thwart the Ori's first attempt at full-scale invasion and Carter thinks it's likely that Vala is still alive in the Ori galaxy.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: SG-1 remains a one-woman team, with Vala departing just as Carter makes her return, though this would be subverted in the following season.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Amusingly lampshaded when Nerus is introduced to the "new" SG-1.
-->'''Mitchell:''' Lieutenant Colonel Cameron Mitchell. Leader of SG-1.
-->'''Nerus:''' But you're not...?
-->'''Mitchell:''' No.
-->'''Nerus:''' Will he be here?
-->'''Mitchell:''' Nope.
-->'''Nerus:''' ''(to Vala)'' And you're not even Colonel Carter, are you? This isn't at all the way I imagined it would be.
* TerritorialSmurfette: Subverted; it seems like this will be the case when Carter makes an uncharacteristically snide comment about the "extra back-up singer", but she and Vala don't really have any problems for the rest of the episode and they eventually end up becoming good friends after Vala officially joins the team.
* TwoOfYourEarthMinutes: Mitchell warns the Prior that he has "thirty of our earth minutes" to shut down the gate before the Mark IX is detonated.
-->'''Daniel:''' "Earth minutes"?
-->'''Mitchell:''' Yeah, [[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat I always wanted to say that]].
* TrashTalk: The team basketball game descends into this, with Daniel and Vala being the worst offenders.
-->'''Vala:''' You boys aren't gonna let two people from different planets beat you at your own silly game, are you?
-->'''Daniel:''' This silly game isn't over yet.
-->'''Mitchell:''' That's my wingman!
-->'''Vala:''' You need a new wingman.
-->'''Daniel:''' I'm gonna kick your ass!
-->'''Vala:''' Promises, promises.
* UnrealisticBlackHole: The Prior uses one to power the supergate. Notably, the time distortion effects that were so crucial to the plot in [[Recap/StargateSG1S2E16AMatterOfTime "A Matter of Time"]] don't really come up, even when the team is stood on the surface of the planet just meters away from a stargate connected to a black hole.
-->'''--Lt. Col. Cameron Mitchell'''
The Goa'uld Nerus warns the SGC of a plan by the Ori to establish a [[TitleDrop beachhead]] on the Jaffa planet Kallana from which to launch their invasion of the Milky Way. The team plans to sabotage the attack with the help of Colonel Carter, who returns from Area 51, but Vala believes they are mistaken to trust Nerus's intel.
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!!"Beachhead" provides examples of the following tropes:
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Throughout the episode, Vala is frustrated by the others constantly dismissing her, which ultimately results in her taking matters into her own hands and sacrificing herself to stop the supergate from forming.
* AndMissionControlRejoiced: Several technicians on the bridge of the ''Prometheus'' do this when Vala succeeds in destroying the Ori supergate.
* BigEater: The Goa'uld Nerus, to the extent that it's practically his defining character trait.
* TheBusCameBack: Carter returns from her five-episode stint at Area 51.
* CassandraTruth: Vala repeatedly warns the others that Nerus is bad news and more than likely lying to them, but they don't pay her much attention since they don't see him as a threat. Sure enough, it turns out Nerus is working for the Ori and deliberately feeding them false information so that the energy from their weapons ends up powering the Ori force shield.
* ContinuityNod:
** Nerus claims that he helped the team [[Recap/StargateSG1S8E17ReckoningPart2 defeat the replicators]], as he was the one who figured out who to dial all the stargates at once.
** Vala reminds Daniel that she's [[Recap/StargateSG1S8E12PrometheusUnbound stolen the Prometheus before]].
** Carter realizes that the only thing capable of powering a stargate indefinitely is a [[Recap/StargateSG1S2E16AMatterOfTime black hole]].
* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: Landry informs Nerus that this will be his incentive to cooperate after he's outed as a traitor.
-->'''Nerus:''' What could possibly compel me to do that?
-->'''Landry:''' Hunger.
* EnemyMine: The team are willing to work with Nerus to prevent the Ori from gaining a foothold in the galaxy, though this turns out to be a subversion when Nerus is revealed as a mole.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Played with; Nerus stops using his "Goa'uld voice" while he's working with the team and states that they don't ''have'' to turn like that, but he briefly turns it back on once Landry realizes he's been playing them.
* FamedInStory: Nerus is extremely excited to meet SG-1 after hearing of their accomplishments and is rather disappointed that O'Neill and Carter aren't around, though he still spends some time gushing over Teal'c and Daniel.
* FriendshipMoment: Daniel tells Carter that he's glad to have her back, even if it's only temporary.
* GadgeteerGenius: Nerus is apparently a gifted scientist and inventor, which is the only reason Landry accepts his offer of help in the first place.
* HeroesGoneFishing: The start of the episode shows Mitchell, Daniel, Teal'c and Vala in unusually high spirits, playing a friendly earthlings-versus-aliens game of basketball on the base.
* HeroicSacrifice: Vala pulls one by maneuvering a cargo ship into position to replace the last piece of the supergate, stopping the event horizon from forming but getting herself sucked into the Ori galaxy in the process.
* LampshadedDoubleEntendre:
-->'''Vala:''' ''(about the force shield)'' My god, it's enormous!
-->''(Daniel gives her a look)''
-->'''Vala:''' Not everything I say is innuendo.
* MadeOfExplodium: The Mark IX naquadria-enhanced warhead, specifically designed for the purpose of destroying stargates.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The heroes end up accelerating the expansion of the Ori force shield by detonating the Mark IX and then repeatedly firing on it from orbit, feeding it with more energy.
* NomDeGuerre: Mitchell reveals that he went by the call sign "Shaft" back in his piloting days.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Vala gets [[TheStoic Teal'c]] to lift her into the air and bump hips with her during the basketball game.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: With the exception of Vala, no-one takes Nerus particularly seriously as he cuts a rather comical figure, but then he manages to trick them into playing right into the hands of the Ori.
* NukeEm: Pretty much what the team's initial plan boils down to.
-->'''Mitchell:''' Oh, boy. And here I was trying to have a nuke-free career.
* OrbitalBombardment: Gerak's forces show up to bombard the force shield from space, which is exactly what the Ori were hoping for.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Though she doesn't actually die, Daniel's -- and to a lesser extent, the rest of the team's -- repeated shutting down of Vala when she's trying to tell them about her idea prompts her to make a sacrifice that might have been avoidable otherwise.
* PutOnABus: Vala is shipped off to the Ori galaxy.
* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: Mitchell gleefully proclaims that he's got the band back together with Carter's return.
* RayOfHopeEnding: Things are still looking pretty bleak, and Daniel in particular is initially quite despondent at Vala's disappearance, but the team manage to thwart the Ori's first attempt at full-scale invasion and Carter thinks it's likely that Vala is still alive in the Ori galaxy.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: SG-1 remains a one-woman team, with Vala departing just as Carter makes her return, though this would be subverted in the following season.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Amusingly lampshaded when Nerus is introduced to the "new" SG-1.
-->'''Mitchell:''' Lieutenant Colonel Cameron Mitchell. Leader of SG-1.
-->'''Nerus:''' But you're not...?
-->'''Mitchell:''' No.
-->'''Nerus:''' Will he be here?
-->'''Mitchell:''' Nope.
-->'''Nerus:''' ''(to Vala)'' And you're not even Colonel Carter, are you? This isn't at all the way I imagined it would be.
* TerritorialSmurfette: Subverted; it seems like this will be the case when Carter makes an uncharacteristically snide comment about the "extra back-up singer", but she and Vala don't really have any problems for the rest of the episode and they eventually end up becoming good friends after Vala officially joins the team.
* TwoOfYourEarthMinutes: Mitchell warns the Prior that he has "thirty of our earth minutes" to shut down the gate before the Mark IX is detonated.
-->'''Daniel:''' "Earth minutes"?
-->'''Mitchell:''' Yeah, [[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat I always wanted to say that]].
* TrashTalk: The team basketball game descends into this, with Daniel and Vala being the worst offenders.
-->'''Vala:''' You boys aren't gonna let two people from different planets beat you at your own silly game, are you?
-->'''Daniel:''' This silly game isn't over yet.
-->'''Mitchell:''' That's my wingman!
-->'''Vala:''' You need a new wingman.
-->'''Daniel:''' I'm gonna kick your ass!
-->'''Vala:''' Promises, promises.
* UnrealisticBlackHole: The Prior uses one to power the supergate. Notably, the time distortion effects that were so crucial to the plot in [[Recap/StargateSG1S2E16AMatterOfTime "A Matter of Time"]] don't really come up, even when the team is stood on the surface of the planet just meters away from a stargate connected to a black hole.
