 An alien similar to Ra appears out of the Stargate, killing five soldiers and kidnapping another, a year after the original Stargate mission. A new team communed by Air Force Colonel Jack O Neill is assembled, including some old members and Captain / Doctor Samantha Carter, and they go in search of the missing soldier who was taken. Traveling to the planet Abydos they encounter Daneil Jackson who has discovered that the Stargate can go other places besides Abydos and that the alien could have come from anywhere. But the alien attacks Abydos via the stargate, kidnaps Jackson s wife and her brother and wounds one of the team members, forcing Jackson to return to Earth and leaving O Neill and Jackson determined to follow the aliens and to save their loved ones and the missing soldier.