Somehow, the original Stargate translation team manages to open the "Doorway to heaven" without Daniel, and avoid killing the Abydonians (AKA, everything goes more or less the way it did in canon, but with even more translation problems--maybe the military people are really good at Charades, or something). And then they head out into the galaxy to fight the Goa'uld, but with tons of comedy moments because their translators aren't Daniel, or even Daniel-trained.