It has been a year since the first mission to Abydos. Suddenly the evil Goa'uld Apophis emerges from the Earth Stargate, killing the guards and kidnapping a female soldier. Colonel Jack O'Neill is called out of retirement and confesses that the Abydos Stargate was not destroyed, and that Daniel Jackson is still alive and living on the planet. O'Neill leads a rescue mission through the gate to Abydos. There he is reunited with Daniel, who reveals an amazing discovery. An ancient cartouche is a map of many gates throughout the galaxy. The Stargate can go anywhere...
When the Goa'uld Apophis emerges from the Abydos Stargate and kidnaps Daniel's wife Sha're and her brother Skaara, Daniel returns to Earth to join SG-1 and assist in their rescue. Their mission takes them to Chulak where Sha're and Skaara have been selected as Goa'uld hosts. SG-1 is captured, but they are aided in their escape by Teal'c, the Jaffa warrior and First Prime of Apophis who turns his allegiance to Colonel O'Neill. In the ensuing battle, SG-1 is unable to free Sha're or Skaara in time, and they return to Earth determined to find Apophis once again.
1x3) "The Enemy Within" (1AUG97)
Earth faces threats on many fronts following SG-1's return from Chulak. Teal'c, the Jaffa who risked his life to rescue SG-1, is met with suspicion and interrogated by military intelligence. Meanwhile, Major Kawalsky has been taken as a host by a Goa'uld larva which is demanding to be returned through the Stargate. Kawalsky's only chance is surgery, and with Teal'c's guidance, the larva is removed, but not in time to prevent the Goa'uld's control of the host. In a final confrontation, Kawalsky loses his life as Teal'c must prevent his return through the gate.
1x4) "Emancipation" (8AUG97)
SG-1 visits Simarka, home to the Shavadai, descendants of the ancient Mongols of Earth. Their strict code of laws grants all women, including Captain Carter, only second-class status. SG-1 is welcomed after saving the life of Abu, son of the Shavadai chief Moughal, but Abu kidnaps Carter, hoping to offer her to rival chieftain Turghan in trade for the hand of his daughter Nya. SG-1 launches a rescue, but to gain freedom for both herself and Nya, Carter must face Turghan in hand-to-hand combat, to the death. Her victory brings a new way of life for the people of Simarka.
1x5) "The Broca Divide" (15AUG97)
When SG-1 visits P3X-797, they discover a world with a unique rotation that results in a light side and a dark side. In the Land of Light live the Untouched, a people descended from ancient Minoans, but on the dark side are the Touched, violent primitives resembling early man. When members of the SGC, including O'Neill, Carter, and even Hammond, begin a startling transformation to the same primitive appearance and behavior, Daniel and Teal'c return to the planet to find a cure for the planet's virus that is threatening to spread to Earth.
1x6) "The First Commandment" (22AUG97)
When SG-9 is declared missing in action, SG-1 is sent on a rescue mission to P3X-513.There they find a world with deadly solar radiation and the primitive cave-dwelling inhabitants worshipping SG-9 leader Captain Jonas Hanson as a god. Hanson believes in his own divinity, and even Captain Carter, who was once romantically linked with him, is unable to break his harsh rule. SG-1 must use his own technological discovery against him to help the people overthrow his ruthless grip, and to restore the solar shield that will allow them to safely live in the light.
1x7) "Cold Lazarus" (29AUG97)
On P3X-562, the team discovers a valley of blue crystals. When O'Neill touches one, he is struck down by its powerful energy, and a duplicate O'Neill appears. Returning to Earth, the duplicate seeks out Sara, O'Neill's estranged wife, and their son Charlie who died years earlier. Meanwhile, the real O'Neill returns through the gate, and SG-1 learns that the crystals are really energy beings. In a final encounter, the duplicate explains that he wanted only to heal the injured O'Neill, but that his greatest pain was the loss of his son, a grief that O'Neill is only now able to accept.
1x8) "The Nox" (12SEP97)
Searching for the legendary invisible Fenri, SG-1 gates to P3X-774 where they encounter Apophis, also seeking the creature. In an ambush, SG-1 is killed, only to be revived by the Nox, the whimsical fairy-like inhabitants with mystical powers. It is they who make the Fenri invisible, and they can revive the dead. However, the peaceful people refuse to accept SG-1's offer of help to defend against the threat of the Goa'uld. For appearances can be deceiving, and the Nox reveal that their simple ways are far beyond either the Goa'uld or the "young" people of Earth.
1x9) "Brief Candle" (19SEP97)
SG-1 travels to Argos where they find a civilization of beautiful happy people who worship the Greek god Pelops and celebrate all day, but mysteriously drop to sleep at dusk. More mysteriously, they age very rapidly. A lifespan is only 100 days. When O'Neill, too, begins to age at an alarming rate, SG-1 discovers the cause. Nanocytes, microscopic robots spread through the bloodstream, were part of Pelops' cruel experiment on the population. The team has only days to find a way to deactivate the nanocytes and prevent their deadly effect on both O'Neill and the Argosians.
1x10) "Thor's Hammer" (26SEP97)
Cimmeria is a safe world, protected from the Goa'uld by Thor's Hammer, a device at the end of a long underground labyrinth which kills any Goa'uld, leaving only the host alive. When SG-1 arrives, a mysterious device detects the Goa'uld within Teal'c, and sends both Teal'c and O'Neill to the underground maze. There they must fight for survival against Unas, a vicious creature who was the first Goa'uld host. Meanwhile, Kendra, a former Goa'uld host who survived her own journey through the Hammer, aids Daniel and Carter in finding a way to rescue O'Neill and Teal'c, and destroy the Hammer.
1x11) "The Torment of Tantalus" (3OCT97)
Daniel Jackson discovers remarkable archival film footage showing that early experiments in 1945 had activated the Stargate, and a young professor, Ernest Littlefield, had been sent through. Catherine Langford, Ernest's former fiancée, joins SG-1's mission to the same destination, P3X-972. There they find Ernest, now grown old, and an ancient deserted fortress that was the meeting place of four great alien races. However, the dial home device is damaged, and a violent storm threatens to destroy the fortress and all its stored alien knowledge before SG-1 can find another way to power the gate and return home.
1x12) "Bloodlines" (10OCT97)
When Teal'c joined the SGC, he had left behind a wife and son on Chulak. Now his son Rya'c has reached the age when he will receive his own larval Goa'uld and become a true Jaffa, and Teal'c is determined to prevent this. With help from SG-1, Teal'c returns to Chulak in search of his family, where he is joined by Bra'tac, his former mentor. Teal'c's reunion is bittersweet, however. His family has been outcast, and his son is dying. Teal'c's own larval Goa'uld would save Rya'c's life, but Teal'c must also replace his symbiote to survive.
1x13) "Fire and Water" (17OCT97)
SG-1 returns from the planet Oannes without Daniel Jackson, who was last seen being consumed by flames. But as his teammates mourn his passing, they struggle with the inexplicable feeling that Daniel isn't really dead. In fact, Daniel is still alive on the planet, captured by Nem, an amphibious creature who hopes that Daniel's memories will be the key to finding his lost mate, Omoroca, who had lived on Earth in ancient Babylon. As Daniel strains to remember his history, SG-1 fights to overcome their falsely implanted memories and to find a way to rescue Daniel.
1x14) "Hathor" (24OCT97)
Hathor, a powerful Goa'uld goddess, is awakened from an Egyptian sarcophagus within a Mayan pyramid where she had been imprisoned in stasis for thousands of years. She makes her way to the SGC, where she begins her plan to regain control of Earth. She uses a pheromone-like drug to seduce the men, and makes O'Neill the first of her new Jaffa army who will support the larval Goa'uld she produces. It falls to Carter and the women of the base to prevent her control of the SGC, but as her plans are thwarted, Hathor manages to escape through the stargate.
1x15) "Singularity" (31OCT97)
When SG-1 travels to Hanka to assist SG-7, they find that a strange disease has killed everyone on the planet except for one little girl. The girl, Cassandra, returns to Earth with Carter and Daniel, but they soon find that the chest pains she is experiencing are caused by a metallic device implanted by the Goa'uld Nirrti as part of a Trojan horse scheme to destroy the Earth stargate. Carter has grown to love the little girl, and as time ticks down, the SGC must find a way to save both the Earth and Cassandra from destruction.
1x16) "Cor-ai" (23JAN98)
When SG-1 arrives on Cartago, Teal'c recognizes the planet as home to the Byrsa, a planet the Goa'uld often visit to harvest human hosts. Teal'c is recognized too, by Hanno, a young man who claims Teal'c killed his father years before. Hanno demands cor-ai, the Byrsa system of justice, but with Teal'c's confession, the trial quickly finds him guilty and sentenced to death. As Teal'c accepts his fate, SG-1 launches a vigorous defense. But it is during a Goa'uld attack that Teal'c's actions prove he is a changed man, and Hanno is persuaded to overturn his decision.
1x17) "Enigma" (30JAN98)
Arriving on Tollan, SG-1 finds a world in chaos. A violent volcanic eruption is destroying the planet, and the few survivors are barely alive. The Tollan refugees, however, are not grateful for their rescue. They view Earth as primitive, and fear Earth's theft and misuse of their advanced technology. Their fears may be realized when Colonel Maybourne arrives seeking weapons technology for the NID. SG-1 must risk court-martial to find the Tollans a new home world, and help arrives in the form of Lya, who appears at the SGC and invites the Tollans to join the Nox.
1x18) "Solitudes" (6FEB98)
A Stargate malfunction separates SG-1 and sends Colonel O'Neill and Captain Carter to a glacial crevasse on a barren ice planet. With O'Neill badly injured, it falls to Carter to repair the dial home device and find a way to return home. Meanwhile, the SGC launches an extensive search across the galaxy, hoping to find the planet to which the team members were sent. But their search leads to an amazing discovery. O'Neill and Carter had emerged not on a distant planet, but through a mysterious second Earth Stargate, long since forgotten, buried in the ice of Antarctica.
1x19) "Tin Man" (13FEB98)
On Altair, SG-1 is rendered unconscious and awakens to find Harlan, the odd but cheerful sole inhabitant of the planet. Harlan has made the team "better", but they soon learn what this means. Their bodies are now machines, implanted with their own consciousness, and they must remain on Altair to maintain their power supply. When they demand that Harlan return them to their original bodies, they discover the horrifying truth. Their consciousness has not been transferred, but rather copied, and while the original SG-1 team is free to go, the duplicates must remain on Altair for an eternity.
1x20) "There But For the Grace of God" (20FEB98)
A deserted lab on P3R-233 contains a mysterious shimmering mirror. When Daniel touches it, he finds himself transported to an alternate reality where nothing is quite the same. The Earth of this reality is under attack by the Goa'uld, and billions have already died. General O'Neill is in command of the SGA, and must confront Teal'c, still the First Prime of Apophis. Earth is unable to defend against the attack, and Daniel's only hope is to escape through the stargate and return through the mirror with a warning to prevent the same fate from happening in his own reality.
1x21) "Politics" (27FEB98)
Daniel Jackson returns from an alternate reality to the SGC with a desperate warning of an imminent Goa'uld attack. However, the SGC faces a more immediate threat from Senator Kinsey, powerful Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, who oversees the multi-billion dollar budget for the Stargate program. He views the program as wasteful and risky, and as he reviews the past missions with SG-1, he dismisses both the benefits of the Stargate and the danger presented by the Goa'uld. Nothing will sway his position, and he is determined to shut down the program for good.
1x22) "Within the Serpent's Grasp" (6MAR98)
The Stargate program has been shut down, but fearing that Daniel's warning of a Goa'uld attack could be true, SG-1 defies orders and takes one last trip through the gate to the point believed to be the origin of the attack. They find themselves on a Goa'uld pyramid ship headed for Earth and commanded by Klorel, the Goa'uld son of Apophis in the host body of Skaara. As Carter and Daniel wire the ship with explosives, O'Neill and Teal'c confront Klorel, hoping to reach Skaara instead. But O'Neill is forced to shoot Skaara, just as Earth comes into view.
2️⃣~Season 2~2️⃣
2x1) "The Serpent's Lair" (26JUN98)
Trapped on a Goa'uld attack ship headed for Earth, SG-1 prepares to destroy it until they are joined by a second ship. As Earth braces for an attack, SG-1 joins forces with Master Bra'tac, who is also on board, and plants explosives to destroy both ships and save Earth. In the ensuing battle, Daniel is badly injured and makes his way to the stargate as the rest of the team barely escapes in death gliders before the ships explode. Earth is safe, but a space rescue from their suicide mission seems unlikely, until the shuttle Endeavor appears on the horizon.
2x2) "In the Line of Duty" (3JUL98)
The planet Nasya is under Goa'uld attack, and SG-1 is on a rescue mission. During the rescue, Carter's body is taken over by a Goa'uld symbiote, and when the team realizes what has happened, Carter is confined to a cell while O'Neill must bargain for Carter's life. The Goa'uld is Jolinar of Malkshur, one of the Tok'ra, a resistance group opposed to the System Lords. But Jolinar is also the target of the Ashrak, a skilled Goa'uld assassin. The Ashrak nearly succeeds in his mission, and Jolinar, too weak to heal itself, gives up its life to save Carter's.
2x3) "Prisoners" (10JUL98)
On a routine mission, SG-1 unwittingly aids a fleeing criminal and is condemned to life imprisonment on the penal world Hadante. Strangely, the most powerful person on Hadante is Linea, a gentle and educated woman with an unusual influence over the violent inmates. SG-1 strikes a deal with Linea, to help her escape in exchange for using her cold fusion to power the stargate. It is only after their escape that SG-1 learns the true story behind Linea. Accused of causing global plagues, she has come to be known as "The Destroyer of Worlds." And SG-1 has just set her free.
2x4) "The Gamekeeper" (17JUL98)
SG-1 visits P7J-989, a beautiful garden world, and finds people sleeping in strange metallic chambers. When they too are caught in the chambers, they awaken to find themselves reliving pivotal and painful events in their lives in the hope of changing the outcome. A shadowy figure, the Keeper, explains that they are part of an elaborate game of virtual reality being played for the residents in the chambers. He is lying when he says that his planet is uninhabitable, but SG-1 must first escape from their virtual world in order to convince the residents to leave their own chambers.
2x5) "Need" (24JUL98)
While exploring planet P3R-636, Daniel encounters Princess Shyla, the melancholy daughter of King Pyrus. He prevents her suicide attempt, but in doing so, SG-1 is captured as spies and forced to work as slaves in the naquadah mines. When Daniel is injured, Shyla nurses him back to health with a sarcophagus. She sees him as her "destiny", and Daniel hopes to use his favored position to negotiate the release of his team. But already he is becoming dependent on the sarcophagus, and when their release does come, Daniel faces an even greater battle at home to overcome his powerful addiction.
2x6) "Thor's Chariot" (31AUG98)
Since Thor's Hammer was destroyed, Cimmeria has been vulnerable to the Goa'uld, and now it is under attack by the ruthless System Lord Heru'ur. SG-1 offers assistance, but they are no match for the Jaffa armies. Seeking help, Carter, Daniel, and Gairwyn go in search of the legendary Hall of Thor's Might, but instead of weapons, they find a series of tests they must pass. Help comes in an unexpected form when they solve the riddle of the runes, and for the first time they meet face to face with the Supreme Commander of the Asgard fleet, Thor himself.
2x7) "Message in a Bottle" (7AUG98)
On the now dead planet P5C-353, SG-1 finds a small orb with an amazing power source. They bring it back to Earth for study, but the device activates, anchoring itself in the facility with metal spikes, one of which pierces O'Neill's shoulder, pinning him to the wall. Worse, a microscopic organism is infecting not only O'Neill but the facility itself. As the base's self-destruct mechanism counts down, the organisms begin to communicate through O'Neill. Having slept for millenia, they seek only a living world, and a compromise with Earth so that both may survive.
2x8) "Family" (14AUG98)
Bra'tac arrives at the SGC with disturbing news. Apophis has survived and kidnapped Teal'c's son Rya'c. SG-1 returns to Chulak to rescue Rya'c, but there they find that much has changed. Teal'c's wife, Drey'auc, has married his old friend Fro'tak, and Rya'c, now brainwashed, has denounced his father as a traitor. Attempts at a rescue are further complicated by Fro'tak's betrayal, and suspicion that Rya'c may be part of an elaborate trap. In fact, Rya'c is hiding a powerful virus that could destroy Earth. But even after averting this crisis, Rya'c's brainwashing must still be reversed.
2x9) "Secrets" (21AUG98)
O'Neill and Carter are in Washington to receive medals for bravery. There Carter is reunited with her father, General Jacob Carter, who is dying of cancer, and O'Neill encounters a reporter who plans to reveal inside information about the Stargate program. Meanwhile, Daniel returns to Abydos with Teal'c as he had promised, and is stunned to find Sha're there, pregnant with the child of Apophis. Apophis' enemy, Heru'ur, arrives seeking the child as Sha're gives birth. But Heru'ur is turned away and the child safely hidden on Abydos as Amaunet, the Goa'uld within Sha're, reawakens and returns to Apophis.
2x10) "Bane" (25SEP98)
The cities of BP6-3Q1 are deserted except for giant insects which attack SG-1 and sting Teal'c. Back on Earth, Teal'c begins a horrifying metamorphosis as the insect venom begins transforming his DNA into its own. Colonel Maybourne arrives to take custody of Teal'c, seeing the potential for biological weapons in the venom. However, Teal'c escapes and, befriended by young Ally, hides out on the streets of the city. Meanwhile the rest of SG-1 returns to the planet to retrieve another insect for study as they frantically work to find an antidote and to find Teal'c before Maybourne does.
2x11-12) "The Tok'ra" (2-9OCT98)
Captain Carter has vivid dreams and memories as seen through the eyes of Jolinar, the Tok'ra who had briefly inhabited her body. Despite the progression of her father's cancer, Carter joins the mission to P34-353J to seek out the Tok'ra. There SG-1 meets the Tok'ra leaders, including Martouf, who had been Jolinar's mate, and they learn much about the ways of the resistance group. But trust is fragile, and the Tok'ra are unwilling to form an alliance. In fact, when word arrives that Jacob Carter's condition is critical, the Tok'ra refuse to permit SG-1 to return home.
In part two, the Tok'ra see little advantage in an alliance with Earth. What they need most are hosts. However, Carter's father, General Jacob Carter, is dying of cancer, and he is willing to act as a host for Selmak, a Tok'ra leader who is dying, in order to save both his life and Selmak's. As he is brought to the planet, the Goa'uld attack the base. O'Neill helps to identify Cordesh as the Goa'uld spy who tipped off the enemy, but the Tok'ra must complete the blending of Jacob and Selmak and evacuate the base before they are destroyed by the Goa'uld.
2x13) "Spirits" (23OCT98)
SG-11 has not returned from PXY-887, where a valuable new element, trinium, has been discovered. O'Neill is injured, and Captain Carter is left to lead SG-1 to the planet to investigate. There they meet Tonané, a plainspoken Coast Salish Indian who explains that Xe'ls the raven and T'akaya the wolf are the "spirits" who protect their land and people. When the teams return to Earth with Tonané, negotiations for a mining treaty break down. Angered, the spirits reveal themselves as shape-shifting aliens who will destroy the SGC for its deception, until O'Neill can convince them to reconsider.
2x14) "Touchstone" (30OCT98)
The planet Madrona depends on the Touchstone to control its weather. But when the device is stolen, the inhabitants claim that the SGC is responsible. An elaborate investigation reveals that Colonel Maybourne of the NID is involved in high level orders to reactivate the second Earth stargate, and that top-secret missions through the gate are responsible for the theft. SG-1 is able to recover the device in time to save Madrona from destruction, but the mysterious agenda of the NID and the whereabouts of the agents who escaped through the second gate before it was resealed, remain unknown.
2x15) "The Fifth Race" (22JAN99)
After O'Neill peers inside an ancient viewer on P3R-272, he begins speaking an alien language and using concepts of complex science and mathematics. Daniel is convinced that the alien device contained the knowledge of the Ancients, the builders of the stargates, which it downloaded into O'Neill's brain. Unable to control the changes that are happening to him, O'Neill's subconscious leads him to build a peculiar device which powers the stargate to a far distant destination where he can seek help. There he meets the Asgard, who speak of the four great races, and of Earth - the fifth race.
2x16) "A Matter of Time" (29JAN99)
While attempting to rescue SG-10 from a black hole on P3W-451, the stargate begins to draw power from the black hole itself and cannot be shut down. As the intense gravity field begins warping the space/time continuum and threatens to swallow the entire facility, the Pentagon sends O'Neill's former comrade, Colonel Cromwell, to investigate. Cromwell is tormented by guilt for deserting O'Neill on an earlier mission. As time nearly stands still, Cromwell volunteers to stay behind with O'Neill to save Earth, but he is drawn through the wormhole before an explosive can break the connection and close the gate.
2x17) "Holiday" (5FEB99)
P3W-924 is home to Ma'chello, an eccentric old man, and his unique inventions. One invention is a body-swapping device which is activated on an unsuspecting Daniel. Daniel finds himself in the body of a dying old man while Ma'chello, in Daniel's body, experiences Earth for the first time. O'Neill and Teal'c also fall victim to the device as their bodies are switched. When Ma'chello is finally returned to the SGC, he shows no remorse and insists the device is irreversible. SG-1 must convince him to cooperate in an elaborate reversal, even though his own fragile body won't survive.
2x18) "Serpent's Song" (12FEB99)
On PB5-926, the SG-1 team finds their sworn enemy, Apophis, fleeing Goa'uld death gliders. He has been tortured and is slowly dying, and he is granted sanctuary on Earth in return for information. But his information is alarming. Apophis is being pursued by an ancient and powerful Goa'uld named Sokar, who will destroy all of Earth to find him. The team's Tok'ra ally, Martouf, warns that Apophis must be returned. As Sokar attacks through the gate, Apophis dies of his injuries, and his body is returned to Sokar. But Sokar has a sarcophagus that could revive the dead.
2x19) "One False Step" (19FEB99)
An SGC probe crashes into a large plant on PJ2-445. When SG-1 goes to retrieve it, they meet the planet's inhabitants, gentle, curious, and simple beings, human in form, and silent except for an entrancing song. Shortly after the team's arrival, however, the aliens begin falling ill, and soon a global plague is threatened. Even SG-1 begins to feel ill, but the cause remains a mystery until a video recording reveals the presence of inaudible sound waves. These sounds, produced by the plant life, are necessary for the aliens' survival, and SG-1 must restore the symbiotic balance they unwittingly upset.
2x20) "Show and Tell" (26FEB99)
A young boy enters through the stargate with a warning for the SGC. The boy, Charlie, explains that his home planet, Reetalia, was destroyed by the Goa'uld, and now Reetou rebels plan to destroy all humans to eliminate possible hosts. Further, he adds that he was genetically engineered to deliver his warning because the Reetou are invisible, and that "Mother" is with him. Carter's father, Jacob, now a Tok'ra ambassador, verifies the boy's story, but already Reetou rebels have infiltrated the facility. In a battle for control of the base, the SGC is victorious, but the rebel threat remains.
2x21) "1969" (5MAR99)
General Hammond gives Carter a note before SG-1's new mission, but a solar flare propels the team back in time to 1969, into a top-secret military facility. There they encounter a young Lieutenant Hammond, who recognizes his writing in the note, and helps them to escape. Hitchhiking across country, SG-1 seeks out Catherine Langford, hoping to find the stargate. Carter realizes that Hammond's note contains the key - the time of the next solar flare that will return them to their own time. But a slight miscalculation gives the team a glimpse of the future before returning them home.
2x22) "Out of Mind" (12MAR99)
O'Neill is awakened from cryogenic suspension and finds himself in an SGC of the future. He is told that he has been frozen for 79 years, and that everyone he knows is gone. However, the war with the Goa'uld continues, and the SGC needs his knowledge to find allies capable of defeating the Goa'uld. When O'Neill's suspicions are aroused, he escapes and discovers that the base is really a Goa'uld replica, and that Carter and Daniel are also there. It is Hathor who has arranged the deception, and now she plans to implant one of the team with a Goa'uld. Part one of two.
3️⃣~Season 3~3️⃣
3x1) "Into the Fire" (25JUN99)
Trapped on Hathor's planet, Carter and Daniel can only watch helplessly as Hathor implants O'Neill with a Goa'uld symbiote. However, the blending is prevented when a Tok'ra spy secretly returns him to the cryogenic chamber. Meanwhile, Colonel Makepeace leads a rescue mission which succeeds in locating SG-1, but their escape through the stargate is cut off. Help comes from an unexpected source when Teal'c returns to Chulak and is reunited with Bra'tac. There they are joined by General Hammond, and together they plan a daring rescue that leads to the death of Hathor and the defeat of her forces.
3x2) "Seth" (2JUL99)
Jacob Carter returns to the SGC seeking help to eliminate the Goa'uld Seth, who has been hiding on Earth for thousands of years. The team traces Seth to a religious cult in a heavily armed compound near Seattle. The ATF has also been investigating the cult, and ATF Agent Hamner reluctantly cooperates with SG-1's plan to infiltrate the compound. Once inside, O'Neill, Carter, and Daniel must overcome the brainwashing effects of Seth's biological weapon, nish'ta. The team succeeds in rescuing the cult members, and Seth meets his death when Carter realizes the ability to activate the Goa'uld ribbon device.
3x3) "Fair Game" (9JUL99)
As Captain Carter is being promoted to Major, Colonel O'Neill is whisked away to Thor's ship, where the Asgard leader warns him of a Goa'uld plan to attack Earth. Thor offers to help negotiate a peace treaty, and three System Lords attend the conference, Cronus, Yu, and Nirrti. During the negotiations, however, Teal'c and Cronus are found badly beaten. Yu and Nirrti blame Teal'c and vow retribution until SG-1 uncovers evidence that Nirrti herself was behind the scheme to seize power. Enraged by Nirrti's deception, Cronus and Yu turn against her, and Earth's fate is spared by the fragile treaty.
3x4) "Legacy" (16JUL99)
On PY3-948, the SG-1 team finds the bodies of the Linvris, a league of lesser Goa'uld. The cause of death is unknown, but after returning to Earth Daniel begins experiencing hallucinations and is diagnosed with schizophrenia. Soon afterward Teal'c collapses, and the cause is traced to an artifact from the planet, a tablet containing tiny Goa'uld killing parasites created by Ma'chello. However, when the parasites are examined in the lab, they infect O'Neill, Carter, and Fraiser as well. A unique protein marker in Carter provides immunity, but she must find a way to transfer this immunity to the others.
3x5) "Learning Curve" (23JUL99)
The planet Orban is anxious to exchange knowledge with Earth, however it is the children of Orban who are capable of learning and passing on knowledge. When Merrin, a young Orbanian girl, comes to Earth to teach about a naquadah reactor, SG-1 is horrified to learn the truth behind her intelligence. Artificial nanites in her system acquire knowledge, and their removal will leave her nearly vegetative. O'Neill defies orders to take Merrin off base, trying to convince her to leave Orban, but although Merrin does return home, she changes the fate of her people in a way no one expected.
3x6) "Point of View" (30JUL99)
Samantha Carter and Major Kawalsky emerge from an alternate reality through the quantum mirror in Area 51. In their world, the Goa'uld have conquered Earth, and they are seeking refuge, but Samantha begins suffering from temporal distortion, and remaining would be impossible. SG-1 must find a way to return them to their universe and to defeat the Goa'uld. Together the two Carters are able to reconstruct the alien energy generator to power the stargate, and SG-1 sets off through the mirror, hoping to contact the Asgard in the other reality, and to save the alternate Earth from destruction.
3x7) "Deadman Switch" (6AUG99)
On a routine mission to PJ6-877, the SG-1 team is captured by Aris Boch, an alien bounty hunter. Boch's true objective is a Goa'uld named Kel'tar, who is wanted by Sokar, and Boch offers the team their freedom in exchange for their help. SG-1 reluctantly cooperates, but when they capture Kel'tar, they learn that he is not a Goa'uld at all. He is a Tok'ra spy named Korra, and he will be tortured by Sokar for information. Boch is unsympathetic, but SG-1's refusal to risk more Tok'ra lives by turning over Korra, eventually brings about a change of heart.
3x8) "Demons" (13AUG99)
The SG-1 team discovers a Christian culture with Medieval European origins, but the inhabitants live in fear of their powerful Canon, and the demon who demands periodic human sacrifice. The "demon" is an Unas, gathering hosts for Sokar, but when SG-1 offers to rid the village of the threat, they themselves are condemned as evil and offered in sacrifice. Only Simon, a young man of the village, has the courage to defy the Canon and come to the aid of SG-1. With his help, the team is able to defeat the Unas and its Goa'uld symbiote, and free the village.
3x9) "Rules of Engagement" (20AUG99)
SG-1 comes upon a battle, and provides assistance against an army of Jaffa, but they are overwhelmed. They awaken later to learn that they have arrived at a training camp and that the soldiers are following standing orders from Apophis to engage in war games in preparation for an invasion of Earth. O'Neill explains that Apophis is dead, but the young soldiers refuse to believe him. Only when the camp's leader, Captain Rogers, is wounded and returned to Earth for treatment, is he convinced of Apophis' death, and disbands the war games for a battle that will not come.
3x10) "Forever in a Day" (8OCT99)
Daniel finds his wife, Sha're, but when he comes near, her Goa'uld symbiote, Amaunet, holds him in the grip of a ribbon device, just as Teal'c approaches. Daniel awakens to learn that Sha're is dead, and in his grief, he withdraws from his friends and resigns from the SGC. But in vivid dreams Sha're urges Daniel to seek the Harsesis, the child she bore on Abydos. As her plea finally becomes clear, the visions cease, and Teal'c fires his staff weapon, killing Sha're. For only moments have elapsed as Sha're's message reached Daniel through the ribbon device before her death.
3x11) "Past and Present" (15OCT99)
On Vyus, the inhabitants have no memory of their lives before an event they call the "Vorlix." Ke'ra, a brilliant young woman and leader among her people, returns to Earth with SG-1 in hopes that their joint research will find a cure for the mass amnesia. But their research reveals something more. Before the Vorlix, Ke'ra was Linea, the "Destroyer of Worlds" whom SG-1 met on Hadante, now a victim of her own experiments to reverse aging. Although a cure is found, it must be denied to Ke'ra, who returns to Vyus with no memory of her destructive past.
3x12) "Jolinar's Memories" (22OCT99)
Martouf arrives at the SGC with word that Jacob Carter has been captured by the Goa'uld System Lord Sokar, and is being held on a moon called Netu which has been transformed into a literal Hell. Martouf and SG-1 plan a rescue, but no one has ever escaped from Netu except Jolinar, and Martouf must use a Tok'ra memory device to access any of Jolinar's memories that might remain in Carter's mind. The team infiltrates the hellish underground prison, and their escape nearly succeeds, until one of the prisoners masterminds a coup, and reveals his true identity: Apophis.
3x13) "The Devil You Know" (29OCT99)
During an attempt to rescue Jacob Carter, SG-1 and Martouf have been captured by Apophis on the hellish moon Netu. Apophis needs information to overthrow Sokar, and to get it he uses technology and the hallucinogenic "Blood of Sokar" to force each of the team to relive painful memories. Meanwhile, the Tok'ra insist that Netu must be destroyed. In an explosive battle, both Netu and Sokar's ship are annihilated, but with seconds to spare, SG-1, Jacob, and Martouf are transported to safety. Unknown to them, Apophis, too, makes an escape, and is now left in control of Sokar's massive forces.
3x14) "Foothold" (5NOV99)
During a routine medical exam, SG-1 is sedated and left unconscious. Teal'c awakens to find that the base has been taken over by aliens capable of taking the form of SGC personnel. No one on base can be trusted. Carter escapes to report the foothold situation to Colonel Maybourne, but alien doubles of O'Neill and Daniel catch up with her. Their identity is revealed when Carter discovers the device that enables their physical transformation, and uses its technology against them. Returning to the SGC, she joins the real O'Neill and Major Davis to expose and defeat the retreating aliens.
3x15) "Pretense" (21JAN00)
Klorel, the Goa'uld in the host body of Skaara, crash lands on Tollana, the new Tollan home world. There he is detained for "Triad," an ancient ceremony of justice, to determine which personality will retain control of his body. O'Neill and Daniel will argue in defense of Skaara, while the Goa'uld Zipacna will speak for Klorel. But during the proceedings, SG-1 suspects that the Goa'uld are preparing for an attack, and they must fight to defend not only Skaara, but all of Tollana. With help from Lya, of the Nox, Skaara is victorious, and the Goa'uld attack is successfully thwarted.
3x16) "Urgo" (25JAN00)
When SG-1 returns from P4X-884, they begin experiencing intense cravings, and they see and hear the image of a man whom no one else can see. The cause is traced to microscopic implants in their brains, but the man identifies himself as Urgo, and explains that his mission is only to record new experiences through them. Urgo is gregarious and ebullient, both endearing and annoying, but the implants cannot be removed, and SG-1 returns to the planet for a solution. There they meet Togar, Urgo's stern creator, and convince him to reluctantly transfer the implant, and Urgo, into himself.
3x17) "A Hundred Days" (4FEB00)
During SG-1's visit to the planet Edora, a catastrophic meteor shower occurs, and the team begins an evacuation of the inhabitants. O'Neill remains behind to help Laira and her son, but when a meteorite strikes and buries the stargate, he is stranded on the planet. Unable to recover the stargate, a distraught O'Neill slowly begins to build a new life with Laira and the other survivors, as SG-1 works feverishly to provide a rescue. It is three months before SG-1's plan is successful, enabling them to finally reactivate the Edora gate, and provide O'Neill with a way home.
3x18) "Shades of Grey" (11FEB00)
O'Neill's erratic behavior and theft of Tollan technology results in his forced early retirement from the SGC. Soon afterward, Colonel Maybourne appears, offering him a position with his special NID unit. O'Neill agrees, and is introduced to an entire rogue operation, operating beyond the SGC, which steals alien technology for Earth defense. But O'Neill's involvement is part of a secret and elaborate plan, at the request of the Tollans and the Asgard, to terminate the rogue operation and restore diplomatic ties. Colonel Makepeace is among the agents who are apprehended, but Colonel Maybourne manages to avoid capture.
3x19) "New Ground" (18FEB00)
The Bedrosians and the Optricans of P2X-416 have been engulfed in an ideological war for decades. The Bedrosians believe that life evolved independently on their planet, and the arrival of SG-1 through the stargate threatens their entire belief system. The Bedrosian Commander Rigar captures SG-1 and cages them, interrogating them as spies. Teal'c manages to flee, but is injured and blinded in the escape. With the help of Nyan, a sympathetic young scientist, Teal'c's vision improves, and the two are able to orchestrate a rescue of their comrades before Rigar can destroy SG-1 and all evidence of a stargate.
3x20) "Maternal Instinct" (25FEB00)
Bra'tac arrives with word that Apophis has attacked Chulak, searching for the Harsesis, his child by Shar're/Amaunet. The forbidden child contains all the knowledge of the Goa'uld, and was hidden away by Sha're on Kheb. SG-1 travels to Kheb and finds a serene world with an enigmatic monk who guides Daniel through a spiritual awakening. In his enlightenment, he meets Oma Desala, an ethereal being who is caring for the Harsesis. She holds unimagined powers as well, and it is she who destroys the pursuing Jaffa armies before carrying the infant Harsesis away through the stargate to safety.
3x21) "Crystal Skull" (3MAR00)
A vast Mayan pyramid on P7X-377 contains a strange crystal skull, identical to one found by Daniel's grandfather, Nicholas Ballard, years before. Ballard claimed the skull transported him to see aliens, but was laughed out of academia. When SG-1 investigates, the skull emits an energy which renders Daniel invisible to the others. SG-1 seeks out Ballard, hoping he is the key to finding Daniel, and together they return to the planet. This time, Quetzalcoatl, a giant ghostly alien, rises from the mist. He invites Ballard to remain behind to study, and gives the others the way to return home.
3x22) "Nemesis" (10MAR00)
O'Neill is unexpectedly transported aboard Thor's ship where he finds Thor weak and dying, and the ship overrun by menacing metallic bugs called Replicators. The Replicators, enemy of the Asgard, are now a threat to Earth, and O'Neill must destroy the ship to prevent their spread. Against orders, Carter and Teal'c transport aboard, and together they wire the ship with explosives. With no means of escape, the team transports the stargate itself aboard in the last desperate seconds before the ship breaks apart in reentry and crashes into the Pacific. But at least one of the Replicators has survived.
4️⃣~Season 4~4️⃣
4x1) "Small Victories" (30JUN00)
Thor's ship has been destroyed in an uncontrolled reentry through Earth's atmosphere, crashing into the Pacific Ocean, and taking the Replicators and the stargate with it. The beta stargate is established at the SGC, allowing SG-1 to return home, but they are met with disturbing news. At least one of the Replicators has survived, and has found its way to a Russian submarine, killing everyone on board, and replicating at an alarming rate. O'Neill suggests destroying the sub with nuclear weapons, but the Pentagon faces a delicate diplomatic situation with the Russians.
Hoping to avoid an international incident, O'Neill and Teal'c lead a small combat team to face the deadly bugs aboard the submarine and to eliminate the threat to Earth. Their conventional weapons have a limited effect against the enemy, especially against the original Replicator, which has mutated into an enormous and nearly indestructible "mother bug". Destruction of the submarine is the only solution, and O'Neill and Teal'c find themselves trapped aboard the sub as they plant the explosives and desperately try to find a means of escape before the sub is destroyed.
Meanwhile, the Asgard also face defeat by the Replicators in their home galaxy. Thor arrives at the SGC, hoping that the "less sophisticated" human approach may lead to the solution that eludes the Asgard. Carter's human knowledge provides a clever deception, using the Asgard's premiere ship, the "O'Neill", to lure the Replicators to their destruction. For now, both Earth and the Asgard are spared, but these are only small victories, and the Replicator threat remains.
4x2) "The Other Side" (7JUL00)
An unexpected offworld transmission reaches the SGC from Alar, leader of the planet Euronda. The Eurondans are kindred of Earth, but their planet is devastated by war, and they are on the verge of annihilation. Desperate to save his people, Alar offers advanced Eurondan technology in return for aid from Earth, and SG-1 travels to the planet on a diplomatic mission to negotiate an agreement. There they find a desperate people, living for generations in a maze of underground bunkers from which they are fighting a losing battle against an unseen Enemy on the surface.
The Eurondans are a technologically advanced people, and they have much to offer Earth. Their nuclear fusion reactors, advanced weapons systems, and medicine are far ahead of anything on Earth, and they are willing to share all of it in exchange for humanitarian aid and a supply of heavy water which will power their generators. O'Neill willingly agrees to the exchange, but Daniel is suspicious of the Eurondan agenda, and he confronts O'Neill with is doubts. Clues begin to suggest that the Eurondans are concealing something.
An investigation reveals disturbing information. The unseen Enemy is the focus of Eurondan hatred because they reproduce with no regard for genetic purity. The Eurondans themselves were the aggressors who initiated the war by deliberately poisoning the planet's surface in an attempt at racial genocide. Horrified by their discovery, SG-1 turns against the Eurondans and retracts their agreement. As the defense shields begin to crumble, they depart through the stargate, leaving the dying Eurondans to their fate.
4x3) "Upgrades" (14JUL00)
Among the ruins of the distant homeworld of the Ataniks, the Tok'ra have discovered unusual armbands which are purported to give the wearer amazing powers. However, the presence of a symbiote renders the armbands ineffective and useless to the Tok'ra. Anise, an expert in ancient cultures, and a new Tok'ra representative to Earth, approaches the SGC, seeking human test subjects. The mysterious devices could be a powerful new weapon in the war against the Goa'uld, and O'Neill, Carter, and Daniel volunteer to test them.
Once fitted with the alien armbands, O'Neill, Carter, and Daniel begin experiencing dramatic changes. They are endowed with incredible speed and strength, and revel in their newfound abilities despite Dr. Fraiser's concerns. The devices rely on a virus which increases metabolism and presents a serious health risk, but even more unsettling, they cannot be removed. They also affect judgment, and the three find themselves defying orders and leaving the base, even becoming involved in an altercation in town, despite being confined to quarters.
As Dr. Fraiser searches for a solution, O'Neill, Carter, and Daniel are anxious to put their new abilities to the test. When Anise brings word that Apophis is building a new class of battleship that could ensure his dominance over the Goa'uld, they see their opportunity. Again they defy orders and travel through the stargate to sabotage the new ship. During the mission, however, the devices fail, and in their weakened state, SG-1 barely escapes with Teal'c's help as the enemy ship is destroyed.
4x4) "Crossroads" (21JUL00)
Shan'auc, a Jaffa priestess of Chulak, is sent to the SGC on behalf of Bra'tac. She brings important news, and explains that she believes she has found a way to communicate with her symbiote. In a deep state of kelno'reem, she and her symbiote have shared images and feelings, and she is convinced that she has turned it against the evil ways of the Goa'uld. Her symbiote is willing to share all its knowledge with the Tok'ra, and Shan'auc has come seeking the SGC's help to find a willing Tok'ra host.
Teal'c is skeptical of Shan'auc's claims. However, Shan'auc is an old acquaintance, someone he has known for many years on Chulak, and the two of them still share an affection for one another. Teal'c attempts to test her theory by entering a deep state of kelno'reem, and he, too, shares primitive images with his own symbiote, images of evil and the death of his own father at the hands of Cronus. Convinced that Shan'auc may indeed have found a new way to defeat the Goa'uld, Teal'c promises his support.
The Tok'ra agree to help Shan'auc, and a willing host is found for her symbiote. The transference takes place, and the symbiote, Tanith, pledges his allegiance to the Tok'ra. However, once Tanith has taken a host, his deception becomes clear. Shan'auc is found murdered at Tanith's hands, and Teal'c vows revenge. Returning to Vorash to confront Tanith, SG-1 demands justice, but the Tok'ra have a different solution. They see the value in protecting Tanith, and using him instead as an unwitting counterspy.
4x5) "Divide and Conquer" (28JUL00)
SG-1 and SG-14 are on Vorash preparing to sign a treaty of alliance between Earth and the Tok'ra, when Major Graham, of SG-14, suddenly begins firing a weapon uncontrollably before taking his own life. Anise determines that Graham was a zatarc, a victim of a new kind of Goa'uld mind control technology. Zatarcs are programmed as suicide assassins, and their programming is covered by false memories. Only new and unproven Tok'ra technology is able to detect zatarc programming, of which even the victim is unaware, and Anise brings the device to Earth to test members of the SGC.
Anise begins her testing procedure, and Lt. Astor, another member of SG-14, is also identified as a zatarc. However, an attempt to reverse her programming causes her to lose control and take her own life. More troubling still, the device determines that both O'Neill and Carter may also be victims. With the signing of the treaty imminent, O'Neill and Carter are faced with the choice of indefinite sedation and confinement as possible security threats, or submitting to the same risky deprogramming technique that led to Astor's death. O'Neill agrees to the experimental procedure.
As O'Neill prepares for the dangerous deprogramming, Carter realizes the flaw in the zatarc technology. The device can misread emotions, interpreting omissions as lies, and giving a false reading. O'Neill and Carter are retested, admitting feelings they had previously concealed, and they are cleared as zatarcs. It is not until the real zatarc attempts to assassinate the Earth and Tok'ra leaders that his identity is discovered. It was Martouf who was the unknowing victim of zatarc programming, and who dies as he attempts to carry out his suicide mission.
4x6) "Window of Opportunity" (4AUG00)
On P4X-639, SG-1 meets Malikai, an explorer from another world studying the planet's ruins, including an ancient alien computer that seems to hold the key to the planet's mysteries. The computer draws its power from geomagnetic storms caused by increased solar activity, and as Malikai begins to activate the device, O'Neill and Teal'c are caught with him in a strange blue energy field. Suddenly, O'Neill finds himself back at the SGC, ten hours earlier, eating breakfast, and preparing for the mission to P4X-639 from which he has suddenly just returned.
No one can explain why O'Neill and Teal'c insist that events are repeating themselves, but when the phenomenon occurs again, and again, it becomes apparent that all of the SGC is caught in a time loop. Time after time, O'Neill returns to the same bowl of Fruit Loops as the previous ten hours are repeated, but only O'Neill and Teal'c retain any memory of the previous loops. First they must convince the other members of the SGC that the time loop is real, and then they must find a way to decipher the alien device in order to break the cycle.
The writing on the device holds the answers. Built by a colony of the Ancients as a means of time travel to save their dying world, the device had never worked. However, Malikai is convinced that he will find the solution that eluded the Ancients, enabling him to travel back in time to be reunited with his deceased wife. SG-1 must convince him to accept the inevitable, to abandon his quest and deactivate the machine, thus releasing thirteen worlds from an endless loop in time.
4x7) "Watergate" (11AUG00)
The stargate won't engage, and an investigation leads to the discovery of a second stargate in Siberia. The Russians had recovered the alpha gate from the floor of the Pacific following the destruction of Thor's Asgard ship, and had begun their own stargate program. Now, however, the Russian gate is locked open, inexplicably maintaining a perpetual wormhole to a planet submerged in water. Brilliant Russian scientist, Dr. Svetlana Markov, turns to the SGC for help, and SG-1 travels to Siberia in an attempt to shut down the gate.
At the Siberian facility, SG-1 makes a horrifying discovery. All of the soldiers and scientists are found dead. A sample of the water, which had been retrieved earlier from the planet and found to have the amazing ability to emit energy, is missing, and the gate remains connected to the water planet, apparently drawing its power from the water itself. Dr. Markov, Carter, and Daniel travel through the wormhole in a miniature submarine, and are successful in shutting down the gate, but the water prevents the sub's return, and begins to crush it.
Meanwhile, back at the facility, O'Neill and Teal'c discover the frozen body of Colonel Maybourne locked in a freezer. Even more astounding, as the body begins to thaw, Maybourne comes back to life, coughing up water, and bringing a dire warning. The water is alive. Having left Maybourne, the water enters Teal'c and forces him to dial the stargate. Now able to return to the planet, the water vanishes through the gate, just as Dr. Markov, Carter and Daniel are returned to the facility in what appears to be an improbable exchange of hostages.
4x8) "The First Ones" (18AUG00)
During an archaeological dig with SG-11 on P3X-888, Daniel Jackson and his associate Robert Rothman discover the remains of an ancient predatory Goa'uld symbiote. The planet is the original home world of the primordial Goa'uld and the aboriginal Unas race they eventually took as hosts. Suddenly, an Unas enters the dig site and attacks the team, capturing Daniel and dragging him deep into the wilderness. Rothman brings word back to the SGC, and O'Neill heads a joint rescue mission to the planet.
The rescue team arrives to find that only Major Hawkins of SG-11 has survived, and the primitive Unas are not the planet's only threat. The rivers are teeming with Goa'uld symbiotes, and the team fears that any one of them could have been secretly taken as a Goa'uld host. Unknown to them, their fears are justified, and in fact two of them have already been victims of the Goa'uld. Both Hawkins and Rothman have unwittingly become hosts, and both are killed when they turn against the other team members.
Meanwhile, Daniel is dragged further into the wilderness. As he struggles to communicate with his captor in the creature's primitive language, he comes to understand that the young Unas, named Chaka, has captured him as part of a right of passage. Slowly they begin to form the bonds of understanding and trust as Daniel tries to negotiate for his freedom. When the rescue team finally reaches Daniel, they witness a confrontation between Chaka and the Unas leader, a battle in which Chaka protects Daniel, and finally allows him to go free.
4x9) "Scorched Earth" (25AUG00)
The Enkarans had been captured from their homeworld and enslaved by the Goa'uld long ago, but thanks to SG-1, the race has been transplanted to a new planet. P5S-381 is a new and safer world, unique in that it provides precisely the environmental conditions and protection from radiation that the Enkaran physiology requires. However, as the Enkarans prepare to celebrate the rebirth of their civilization on their new homeworld, a mysterious ship appears on the horizon and begins to systematically destroy the landscape.
SG-1 investigates, and meets Lotan, a bio-mechanical liaison created by the ship, who explains that the ship has no hostile intent. The ship belongs to the Gadmeer, an advanced but long dormant alien species which had been conquered by a powerful enemy and which only seeks a new world. The Gadmeer physiology is based on sulfur, and the ship is merely terraforming the planet. Once the process has begun, it must be completed, or the Gadmeer will face extinction. However, the Enkarans cannot be relocated in time, and to stay would mean their own certain death.
Faced with choosing extinction for an entire race, SG-1 must struggle with an ethical dilemma. O'Neill makes the difficult decision to destroy the ship, and orders Carter to program a naquadah bomb. Before his plan can be completed, however, Lotan diverts the bomb, then makes a promising discovery. The ship's computers locate the original Enkaran homeworld, long since forgotten, and Lotan offers a compromise. If the ship transports the Enkarans to their ancestral home before the terraforming is complete, both races will have a chance to survive.
4x10) "Beneath the Surface" (1SEP00)
SG-1 awakens in a mysterious facility on P3R-118 with no memory of their former lives. A memory stamp procedure has given them new identities. No longer O'Neill, Carter, Daniel, and Teal'c, they are now Jona, Therra, Carlin, and Tor. Unaware of the prosperous domed city above them on the surface, they are doomed to live a dreary existence as workers within a massive underground complex providing energy for a planet in the midst of an ice age.
At the SGC, General Hammond attempts to solve the mystery of his team's disappearance. He refuses to accept the possibility that they could have perished on the planet's icy surface, but repeated rescue missions turn up no sign of SG-1. On the planet, it is Administrator Calder who is determined to prevent a rescue. Outraged by SG-1's criticism of the slave labor used on the planet, it is his intent to entrap the team in the very system they condemned. Brenna, the supervisor of the workers, questions his decision, but she is powerless to help on her own.
The memory stamp is not permanent, and slowly SG-1 begins to experience vague and fleeting glimpses of memories hidden just beneath the surface, memories that convince them that they don't belong there. As their work within the underground facility earns them Brenna's respect, the fleeting glimpses become more pronounced, and the gradual recall of their identities begins to threaten Calder's plans. Brenna offers them a means of escape, and in overthrowing Calder, SG-1 reveals the surface city to the workers below, offering them freedom from their harsh existence.
4x11) "Point of No Return" (8SEP00)
The SGC is contacted by a conspiracy theorist who claims he has full knowledge of a host of government cover-ups, including the Stargate Program. O'Neill arranges a meeting and travels to Billings, Montana, where he finds Martin Lloyd, a meek and hapless character who explains he is not only interested in outer space, he is from outer space. Martin insists he is an alien who came to Earth in his spaceship, and now only wants to return home through the stargate.
O'Neill is prepared to dismiss Martin as a harmless eccentric, but suspicious circumstances raise more questions. Carter and Daniel, investigating Martin's background, learn that his medication is affecting his memory, and that there are four other men who are also anxious to locate Martin. When Carter and Daniel disappear altogether, and Martin presents O'Neill with a set of gate coordinates, O'Neill begins to take him seriously. As Martin leads O'Neill and Teal'c to his buried spaceship, it becomes apparent that there just may be some truth to his story.
Martin's gate coordinates may hold the key, and a trip through the stargate reveals a deserted and devastated planet. As Martin's memory returns, he recalls his home world before it was destroyed by the Goa'uld. He and his comrades had been sent to find allies in defense of their planet, but realizing they were losing the war, they had abandoned their ship on Earth, and had gone into hiding. Now with no place else to go, Martin returns to Earth, where he and his missing comrades continue to live in secret.
4x12) "Tangent" (15SEP00)
The SGC develops the X-301 Interceptor, an experimental hybrid craft made from two captured Goa'uld death gliders. However, during its test flight, a hidden Goa'uld device causes O'Neill and Teal'c to lose control of the craft, and sends them hurtling into space. Carter and the SGC desperately try to find a way to return the ship to Earth, but when an attempt to slingshot around Jupiter fails, and the craft is further damaged in a collision, the situation looks hopeless.
Daniel tries to contact off-world allies for help, and learns that the Tok'ra have a single ship within range, but it is engaged in a covert mission in Goa'uld territory. Carter and Daniel gate to that region of space, hoping to intercept the Tok'ra ship, and are surprised to discover that the Tok'ra operative they are seeking is Jacob Carter. When Jacob learns of the situation, he abandons his mission, and with his help, Carter and Daniel race across the galaxy, hoping to reach O'Neill and Teal'c before it is too late.
As the X-301 streaks toward the edge of the solar system, O'Neill and Teal'c try to conserve their resources in the faint hope of a rescue. Jacob's ship is barely able to rendezvous with the disabled craft in time, but O'Neill and Teal'c are already suffering from oxygen deprivation and the deep cold of space, and are barely conscious. With only moments of oxygen remaining, they coordinate a daring rescue. O'Neill and Teal'c must enter the emptiness of space in order to be transported aboard the safety of the Tok'ra ship.
4x13) "The Curse" (22SEP00)
Daniel returns to his alma mater when he learns of the death of his former archaeology professor in a mysterious lab explosion. There he is reunited with his former colleagues, Sarah Gardner, with whom he once shared a relationship, and Steven Rayner, who resents his return. The professor had been studying a collection of Egyptian artifacts, but the circumstances of his death are suspicious. The explosion may not have been an accident, and rumors of an ancient curse begin to spread.
Daniel and Sarah begin an investigation, despite Steven's resistance. The artifacts had included two identical jars, and Daniel discovers that one of them contains the dead symbiote of Isis. Designed as a stasis chamber, the jar had kept the Goa'uld alive until the seal had recently been broken. However, the second jar containing Osiris is missing, and the Goa'uld is unaccounted for. When two more deaths occur on campus and another artifact turns up missing, suspicion begins to point toward Steven, who has boarded a flight for Cairo.
Daniel, Carter, and Dr. Fraiser follow Steven to Egypt, to the temple where the artifacts were found. Hoping to claim the discovery in the temple, Steven had arrived before them. However, they find him badly injured, and they learn the true fate of the missing Goa'uld. Osiris had indeed survived, and it was Sarah Gardner whom he had taken as a host. He appears at the temple, demanding obedience, and the location of the stargate, but when his demands go unanswered, he vows vengeance before uncovering a buried ship and escaping from Earth.
4x14) "The Serpent's Venom" (29SEP00)
While visiting Chulak to raise support for the Jaffa rebellion, Teal'c is betrayed by Rak'nor, a fellow Jaffa, and is captured by the Goa'uld. He is imprisoned on a ship belonging to Heru'ur, but despite repeated torture, he remains defiant, refusing to retract his condemnation of false gods. Meanwhile, unaware of his fate, the rest of SG-1 joins Jacob Carter in an attempt to thwart an alliance between Apophis and Heru'ur. As the two most powerful System Lords, an alliance between them could topple the balance of power among the Goa'uld.
The meeting is to be held in neutral territory, an ancient floating minefield orbiting the Tobin System, and SG-1 plans to sabotage the negotiations. Carter and Daniel attempt the delicate procedure of capturing and reprogramming one of the mines to recognize the energy signal of Apophis's ship. When released from the cloaked cargo vessel, the mine will target Apophis, who, believing Heru'ur to be responsible for the treachery, will return fire. All is in place when Heru'ur reveals that he has brought along an offering to Apophis to seal their agreement, a beaten but determined Teal'c.
SG-1 is faced with the horrifying choice of completing their mission, or saving their friend. An attempt to rescue Teal'c by intercepting the matter stream between ships fails, but Teal'c has found another unlikely ally. Witnessing Teal'c's strength, Rak'nor has a change of heart, and helps Teal'c to escape in a death glider, just as the programmed mine targets Apophis's ship. However, Apophis reveals a surprise of his own, an entire cloaked fleet, which materializes and overpowers Heru'ur's forces, making Apophis an even more formidable threat.
4x15) "Chain Reaction" (5JAN01)
General Hammond abruptly resigns from the SGC, and is replaced by General Bauer, who promptly dismantles SG-1, reassigning the team members and placing O'Neill on temporary leave. O'Neill suspects that there is more to Hammond's sudden decision than he is saying, and an investigation reveals that he is right. Powers within the NID were behind the change of command, resorting to blackmail to remove Hammond, in order to force a more aggressive approach toward acquiring alien technology.
General Bauer's first project is to assign Carter the task of building a naquadah-enhanced nuclear weapon. Despite her warnings of the devastating chain reaction such a device could cause, a prototype is developed and tested off-world. The destructive power is enormous, and begins to translate back through the gate, posing a threat to Earth, until the gate can finally be disengaged. Meanwhile, O'Neill begins an investigation into the powers behind the NID, and he turns for help to an unlikely source: Colonel Maybourne, who has been serving time in prison for treason.
In exchange for temporary release from prison, Maybourne agrees to use his contacts to assist O'Neill. Their investigation through a covert chain of command leads to Senator Kinsey and the very highest echelons of political power. A confrontation with Kinsey reveals only the tip of the iceberg of a conspiracy that reaches far beyond the NID itself. However, the evidence they uncover from Kinsey's own computer sets the wheels in motion to restore Hammond's command, and also provides Maybourne with an opportunity to guarantee his freedom.
4x16) "2010" (12JAN01)
The year is 2010. Ten years ago, Earth allied itself with the Aschen, an advanced and benevolent race which has cured disease, extended life expectancy, and ensured Earth's safety by defeating the Goa'uld. No longer a secret government program, the SGC has been closed down, O'Neill has retired to Minnesota, and the stargate is now used routinely for civilian travel. The Aschen have freely shared their technology, and have won the gratitude and respect of all humanity.
As Earth prepares to celebrate its tenth anniversary as members of the Aschen Confederation, Carter discovers that she and her husband Joe are unable to conceive a child. Her Aschen doctors assure her that nothing is amiss, but Dr. Fraiser's examination reveals that the Aschen have been lying, and their own medical practices may be the cause of her condition. Further investigation uncovers the sinister truth. The Aschen medical advances have eliminated population growth and the human race is facing extinction. With the Aschen holding the reigns of power, there is no way to reverse their insidious plan.
Earth's only hope lies in the past, and SG-1 reunites from its retirement to carry out a daring plan. Using Aschen computers to predict the solar flares that could allow stargate travel through time, SG-1 intends to brave the deadly security system protecting the gate to send a message ten years into the past, in order to prevent the Aschen alliance from ever happening. As each team member dies in the attempt to reach the gate, a note of warning is passed through the wormhole. Ten years earlier, the mysterious message flutters through the gate at the SGC.
4x17) "Absolute Power" (19Jan01)
On Abydos, SG-1 encounters a whirling sandstorm that seems to whisper Daniel's name, then dissolves to reveal a young boy. The boy is Shifu, the Harsesis child of Sha're and Apophis, who has been raised by Oma Desala, and now seeks to learn about his own mother. Shifu is wise beyond his years, and he possesses the genetic knowledge of the Goa'uld, which could prove a valuable weapon against the System Lords. SG-1 returns with him to Earth, but once there, Shifu's touch causes Daniel to pass out. "Dreams teach," he explains. "I'm teaching him."
Through the power of Shifu's touch, Daniel comes to see the mysteries of the Goa'uld, the means for new technology, and the designs for weapons of mass destruction. Such weapons could benefit Earth, and Daniel oversees a plan to construct an elaborate orbiting network of enormous power. However, as Daniel's influence increases, so does his mistrust and alienation. Even Carter and O'Neill begin to question his motivation, and try to find a way to stop him as he uses his knowledge to bring the world to the brink of destruction.
As Daniel awakens, he comes to realize the danger of absolute power, and to understand Shifu's warning that when confronted with great evil, "the only way to win is to deny it battle." It is Shifu's wisdom, not his knowledge, that Daniel has gained in his dream. His spiritual journey complete, Daniel must convince the others that Shifu is not the key to a military victory over the Goa'uld. Having accomplished his mission, Shifu ascends to his ethereal state, and departs once again through the stargate.
4x18) "The Light" (26Jan01)
When Daniel and SG-5 visit P4X-347, they return to Earth experiencing severe physical and emotional symptoms. Lieutenant Barber commits suicide, and Daniel and the others fall into a deep debilitating depression that leaves them near death. SG-1 investigates the planet and finds a strange Goa'uld temple containing a beautifully mesmerizing light, and the planet's only inhabitant, a young boy named Loran. The light is strangely compelling, and as SG-1 are drawn to it, they begin to lose all sense of time. Yet its purpose, and its effects, remain a mystery.
When O'Neill returns to Earth, he too begins experiencing the symptoms of depression, and tests reveal that a chemical imbalance is the cause. The members of SG-5 have died, and Daniel has slipped into a coma, moments from death. The answer appears to lie with the enigmatic light, and desperate to save Daniel's life, O'Neill carries him back through the gate to P4X-347. Once there, both men begin to recover, and it becomes apparent that proximity to the light's radiation causes euphoric highs, while distance results in critical withdrawal and death. SG-1 is trapped on the planet.
Young Loran holds the key. Long since deserted, the temple on P4X-347 had once been a Goa'uld pleasure palace, and Loran's parents had been explorers who had come to the planet and fallen victim to the powerful addiction of the light. Only by avoiding the light had Loran eluded its irresistible hold. There is no escape, however Carter discovers that the intensity of the light can be adjusted. Time will provide the solution. As the light's effects gradually diminish, SG-1 and Loran will be able to safely return to Earth.
4x19) "Prodigy" (2FEB01)
While lecturing at the Air Force Academy, Carter meets Jennifer Hailey, a young cadet. Hailey is a brilliant student, but she is also opinionated, resentful, and rebellious, and a confrontation with an upperclassman nearly results in her expulsion from the Academy. Major Carter, however, recognizes her brilliance and her potential to become a genuine asset to the SGC, and is determined to give her a taste of what her future could hold. She arranges for Cadet Hailey to join SG-1's mission to M4C-862, a moon orbiting a gas giant.
On M4C-862, Carter and Hailey join O'Neill and Teal'c, who have been providing security for a team of scientists at an off-world research base. The peaceful moon appears to have no indigenous threat, and the scientists resent the interference of the military, especially when they encounter an alien life form composed of pure energy. The tiny flying beings appear as small glowing lights and are entirely benign during the first encounter, but after one of them is captured, hundreds more attack the team, a threat made far more dangerous by their ability to pass through solid objects.
Cut off from the stargate and surrounded by beings able to penetrate the walls of their research station, the team struggles to determine the reason for the creatures' aggressive behavior and to find a means of escape. A makeshift electromagnetic field is their only protection against the glowing creatures, and O'Neill must rely on the residual charge from a zat gun and the energy field of the stargate itself, in a race to the gate that will secure a way home for the team.
4x20) "Entity" (9FEB01)
The MALP sent to P9C-372 is returning peculiar transmissions when suddenly a bolt of energy is sent back through the gate, shorting out the controls and the base computers. When the systems are online again, it is discovered that the unexpected energy was an alien probe which has infiltrated the computers and is accessing sensitive data. It is successfully eliminated from the mainframe, only to transfer itself to the MALP room where it begins building itself an electrical "nest" in which to expand and contain the immense amount of data it is accumulating.
O'Neill wants to destroy the nest, but Carter and Daniel believe that the probe exhibits the intelligence of a living entity, and they want to try to communicate with it. However, as Carter attempts communication, she is overcome by the probe's energy, and the entity takes over her body instead. Attempts to negotiate with the entity for the release of Carter's body fail. The entity explains that Earth's MALP had been lethal to its world, and now it has come to the SGC in order to destroy Earth in retaliation.
With the SGC and all of Earth facing annihilation, O'Neill must make the traumatic decision to kill Carter in order to stop the entity. However, as the team mourns Carter's death and prepares to eliminate the alien nest in the MALP room, an enigmatic message appears on the computer monitors: "I am here." Carter's consciousness lives on in the entity's nest, transferred there by the entity before its destruction. There is still a chance that an untried procedure will successfully return Carter to her own body.
4x21) "Double Jeopardy" (16FEB01)
SG-1's robot duplicates from Altair arrive on Juna, only to find that SG-1 had preceded them there, and the inhabitants have mistaken them for their human counterparts. Earlier, SG-1 had helped the people of Juna to overthrow Heru'ur, but now Cronus has arrived in his ship and claimed the planet instead. The duplicate Carter, Daniel, and Teal'c are captured, and Daniel is destroyed, revealing to the astonished Goa'uld that the team is not human. O'Neill hopes to rescue his team, but he finds little support from the people of Juna who are unwilling to face another rebellion.
Meanwhile, Harlan of Altair arrives at the SGC, pleading for SG-1's help. The duplicate team, he explains, has been going on missions, however they are long overdue from their mission to Juna, and are dangerously near the limit of their portable power packs. SG-1 feels a sense of responsibility toward the people of Juna whom they had once liberated, only to be conquered again, and so they reluctantly agree to return to the planet in order to face the forces of Cronus and set things right once more.
On Juna, SG-1 meets up with the duplicate O'Neill, who is also in contact with his team members being held prisoner by Cronus. Together, the two teams orchestrate an elaborate plan to defeat the Goa'uld forces. As the duplicate O'Neill and Carter provide cover, and Teal'c faces Cronus, each of the robot doubles gives his life in the deadly battle, but it is through their sacrifice that SG-1 succeeds in killing Cronus, capturing his pyramid ship, and freeing the planet once again.
4x22) "Exodus" (23FEB01)
Now in possession of Cronus's pyramid ship, SG-1 travels to Vorash where they plan to lend the Goa'uld vessel to their Tok'ra allies in order to help them relocate to a new and safer homeworld. Tanith, now revealed as a traitor and a spy, is to be removed from his host and left behind, but before he can be dealt with, he escapes to the planet's surface, and signals Apophis. With Apophis's fleet approaching Vorash, SG-1 must find an alternative plan to evacuate the Tok'ra via the stargate, and use their Goa'uld ship to destroy their enemy.
Carter and Jacob devise a plan in which the Tok'ra stargate will be connected to a black hole and jettisoned toward Vorash's sun in an attempt to cause a supernova and wipe out the entire solar system, taking Apophis's fleet with it. The gate is dialed and released, but before the plan can be completed, a Goa'uld fighter craft decloaks and attacks their ship, crippling them. O'Neill and Teal'c pursue the craft in a death glider, but they are shot down, and stranded on Vorash. In an ambush, Teal'c is wounded, perhaps fatally, and captured by Tanith.
Carter, Jacob, and Daniel race to complete their repairs, and succeed in restoring power to their ship and rescuing O'Neill from the planet's surface, just as the sun explodes. However, as SG-1 enters hyperdrive, they are caught in a shock wave that instantly sends their ship four million light years away. Even at maximum speed, it will take 125 years to return home. They are alone in an unknown region of space, until a second ship appears, also thrown far off course by the shock wave. It is Apophis.
5️⃣~Season 5~5️⃣
5x1) "Enemies" (29JUN01)
The mothership carrying SG-1 and Jacob has been badly damaged. Their attempt to create a supernova succeeded in destroying Apophis's fleet, however his mothership has survived, Teal'c may be captured or dead aboard it, and the blast wave has left both ships stranded in space four million light years from home. As Apophis prepares to destroy his enemy, an unidentified alien ship approaches and engages Apophis in battle, allowing SG-1 the chance to seek cover. After affecting repairs to their shields, SG-1 reemerges to discover that only Apophis's ship remains, and there are no life signs aboard.
SG-1 transports aboard Apophis's deserted ship, only to discover that the mothership is teeming with Replicators, and the self-destruct sequence has been activated. They are barely able to seize the hyperdrive crystals and escape before the ship's destruction. When a cargo ship appears, a message is received from Teal'c, who reports that he was revived in the sarcophagus, and has escaped. The cargo ship is brought aboard, but Teal'c is not alone. Apophis and his Jaffa are aboard, and Teal'c's exposure in the sarcophagus has returned him to the belief that he is once again Apophis's loyal First Prime.
SG-1 become prisoners of Apophis as he plots a course to his new homeworld of Delmak. However, he has unwittingly brought Replicators aboard, and before long the mothership has become infested, and the Replicators have taken control. Now capable of traveling 800 times maximum speed, the ship is rapidly approaching our galaxy. SG-1's only hope is to destroy the sub-light engines, forcing an uncontrolled reentry, and to make their escape in the cargo ship. As the mothership crashes into Delmak, Apophis and the Replicators are presumed destroyed, and SG-1 returns home with Teal'c, now a prisoner, and still loyal to Apophis.
5x2) "Threshold" (6JUL01)
Although SG-1 has rescued Teal'c's body, his mind remains loyal to Apophis. Having been revived from death in the sarcophagus, Teal'c has returned to the belief that he is once again Apophis's First Prime. SG-1 must take drastic action to free his mind from the hold of the Goa'uld, and Bra'tac demands the Rite of M'al Sharran. The risky and ancient ritual, similar to a Last Rite, would save Teal'c's soul by taking him to the very threshold of death, and as his memories wash over him, he would be forced to remember, and to choose his true path.
Teal'c's symbiote is removed, and his immune system begins to fail, bringing him ever closer to death. As his friends remain by his bedside, Teal'c begins to relive his life's journey. He recalls his days in training on Chulak as an apprentice under Master Bra'tac and a member of Apophis's personal guard. He remembers his friend, Va'lar, whom he was ordered to kill for failure in battle, but whom he set free, only to later burn his village under orders from Apophis. He relives his indecision as his mentor spoke of false gods, even as he became Bra'tac's successor and rose to First Prime.
As Teal'c reaches the moment of death, his memories return him to the dungeon on Chulak, and his first encounter with SG-1. There he had seen a strength, and had tasted a first hope for freedom. He had taken to heart his master's teachings of false gods, and had put his faith in Jack O'Neill. This memory is the turning point. In that instant, the flood of memories returns, and once again Teal'c rediscovers his true path. He chooses freedom. The Rite of M'al Sharran is successful, and Teal'c's mind and body are restored as a member of SG-1.
5x3) "Ascension" (13JUL01)
On Velona, SG-1 finds a deserted world and the ruins of an ancient civilization. As Carter begins to examine an unusual alien device, she inexplicably passes out, and is ordered to take some time to rest. At home she is confronted by an enigmatic young man who is able to pass through solid objects and who explains that he is Orlin, from Velona. He exists in a non-corporeal state, and has followed Carter back through the gate, professing his love for her. Surveillance cameras are set up at Carter's home, but because Orlin appears only to Carter, the others are doubtful that the alien exists.
At the SGC, Colonel Simmons has arrived from the Pentagon to demand testing of the alien device on Velona, which has been determined to be a weapon of great power. Orlin takes human form in an attempt to remain close to Carter, but he warns her against testing the weapon. He had been banished by the Others of his race for breaking their most sacred rule. He had helped the people of Velona to build the advanced weapon for self-defense, but their use of the device for conquest led to their destruction by the Others. Now SG-1 is about to repeat their mistake.
As SG-16 prepares to power the alien device on Velona for testing, Simmons continues unauthorized surveillance of Orlin, whom he is determined to take into custody. In an attempt to prevent further destruction, Orlin builds a small working model of a stargate in Carter's garage, and uses it to escape to Velona. However, SG-16 prevents him from deactivating the device, and he is mortally wounded. As his spirit fades, the Others grant him a second chance. He is allowed to ascend once again, and as he returns to his non-corporeal form, he carries the weapon away moments before its detonation.
5x4) "The Fifth Man"
On P7S-441, SG-1 is under attack by Jaffa. Tyler has been wounded, and O'Neill has gone back for him. Now the two are pinned down, and Carter, Daniel, and Teal'c are ordered to return through the gate to bring reinforcements. Arriving at the SGC, they urgently request a rescue mission for O'Neill and Tyler, until Hammond insists that no Lieutenant Tyler exists. No one can explain why only SG-1 seems to be aware of Lieutenant Tyler, but Carter, Daniel, and Teal'c are confined to the infirmary for evaluation, while O'Neill remains trapped on the planet with a teammate who may not exist.
As Hammond organizes an aerial search of the planet by UAV, and Carter begins a search of her own through the base computers, Colonel Simmons returns from the Pentagon with orders to conduct an investigation into the possible security compromise of SG-1. Daniel, Teal'c, and Carter are each brought before Simmons for interrogation, but the sessions prove fruitless. It is Dr. Fraiser who discovers an important clue in a residue found on Teal'c's jacket. As she touches it, she too begins to remember Lieutenant Tyler, and her analysis suggests that Tyler is simply an anomaly, the result of a chemical suggestion.
On the planet, as the Jaffa close in, Tyler confesses to O'Neill his true nature. He is Reol, a race that uses a chemical defense mechanism which causes a sense of familiarity, and which is sought by the Goa'uld. The confession no longer matters, however, as O'Neill and Tyler engage the Jaffa in battle side by side, just as SG-1 returns with support. Tyler tries to surrender to the Jaffa to provide SG-1 with a means of escape, but SG-1 does not leave their people behind. A final ambush of the Jaffa rescues Tyler, and allows safe access to the gate, and home.
5x5) "Red Sky" (27JUL01)
SG-1 arrives on K'tau, an Asgard protected planet under the protection of Freyr, where they are greeted warmly as messengers of the gods and friends of Thor. Shortly after their arrival, however, the sun grows dim, with a shift in the light spectrum toward infrared. Even worse, SG-1 had needed to override certain dialing protocols to get a lock on K'tau, and it may have been their interference which caused the light shift that could now threaten life on the planet. Elrad, K'tau's leader, puts his faith in Freyr, however Malchus holds SG-1 responsible as harbingers of doom.
As the people of K'tau prepare themselves for the fate their gods have planned, SG-1 seeks to find a solution. The Hall of Wisdom provides holographic communication with Freyr and the Asgard High Council, however the Asgard explain that specific terms of the Protected Planets Treaty forbidding the use of Asgard technology must prevent them from interfering. Carter proposes that the introduction of a superheavy element into the sun could restore its balance, and the SGC begins building a rocket as a delivery system. However, Malchus, still resentful of SG-1's interference, sabotages the plan and destroys the rocket.
With few options remaining, O'Neill and Daniel try to convince the K'tau to relocate, but the K'tau refuse all help, and put their faith in prayer. As a final option, Carter attempts to carry out her plan, delivering the superheavy element instead by prematurely disengaging the wormhole. The prayer of the K'tau has brought no change, the Asgard are unable to help overtly, and Carter's plan has not yielded the expected results. As the K'tau refuse further assistance, their planet appears to be doomed. Reluctantly, SG-1 prepares to leave the K'tau to their fate, when miraculously and inexplicably, the sun begins to clear.
5x6) "Rite of Passage" (3AUG01)
Cassandra was 12 years old when she became the only survivor of her home planet of Hanka, and was adopted by Dr. Fraiser. Now turning 16, she suddenly begins experiencing seizures and a high fever, and generating a low-level electromagnetic field resulting in telekinesis. The symptoms are similar to those experienced by other children her age on Hanka, and her condition is attributed to a retrovirus which remains dormant for years before manifesting itself. Children on Hanka would go into the forest and return cured, and SG-1 travels to Hanka in an attempt to find a cure for her condition.
On Hanka, SG-1 finds Nirrti's underground lab. Here the sick children had been drawn as part of her experiment, to be cured in a kind of initiation rite. Her experiments were designed to engineer a new host for herself by altering the DNA of successive generations of children, thus manipulating the evolution of an advanced human, known as "hok'tar". She had destroyed the population of Hanka to hide her scheme, but now she has returned to follow through on her experiment. As SG-1 explores the evidence within Nirrti's lab, the mysterious activation of the transporter rings suggests an invisible presence.
At the SGC, Cassandra's condition continues to deteriorate. Her fever and telekinesis cannot be controlled, and she is slipping out of consciousness. Using her invisibility device, Nirrti has been able to return undetected through the stargate with SG-1, but her presence is discovered as she tries to approach Cassandra. In a search of the base, Nirrti is apprehended, but SG-1 must face the moral dilemma of negotiating for Cassandra's life. Nirrti agrees to perform the rite to cure Cassandra, and in return she is granted her freedom to leave through the gate, where she will continue her experiments once again.
5x7) "Beast of Burden" (10AUG01)
Following SG-1's visit to P3X-888, the homeworld of the aboriginal Unas, Daniel continued to observe and study the Unas race, particularly the one known as Chaka. When his video footage shows Chaka being captured by men from off-world, carrying Goa'uld weapons, and taking him prisoner through the stargate, Daniel convinces SG-1 to follow. There they discover a world where Unas are domesticated as slave labor. Burrock, a slave trader, explains that generations ago the beasts had enslaved his forefathers, in service to the Goa'uld, but there had been an uprising, and in the bloody Beast Wars, the masters had become the slaves.
O'Neill and Daniel hope to recover Chaka peacefully, and present themselves as dealers of Unas, proposing a trade. However Burrock recognizes the value of his captured slave and refuses a trade, even when Chaka recognizes Daniel and calls him by name. Hoping to avoid a confrontation, O'Neill and Daniel return at night to break Chaka out of the cell where he is imprisoned, however Chaka refuses to leave without other captured Unas. The delay alerts Burrock, who captures O'Neill and Daniel and imprisons them as well. He uses torture for information, and it becomes apparent that no peaceful compromise will provide a solution.
Carter and Teal'c have remained outside the village, keeping in contact by radio and awaiting orders to initiate a rescue. They create a diversion, and break into the cells, releasing their teammates and three imprisoned Unas, who all escape toward the stargate. There they encounter several villagers, and in a bloody skirmish, Chaka kills Burrock. He is free now to return home, but he refuses to leave through the gate. Knowing freedom, Chaka makes the conscious choice to remain behind and to fight to free the other enslaved Unas, bringing a possible return to the planet's Beast Wars.
5x8) "The Tomb" (17AUG01)
On P2X-338, SG-1 finds an ancient Babylonian ziggurat dedicated to the god Marduk. The planet appears to have been deserted for millennia until evidence points to a recent visit to the planet by the Russians. Using the Siberian stargate before their program had been shut down, a Russian team had been searching for the Eye of Tiamat, a jeweled artifact believed to have endowed Marduk with great magical abilities. The team has been missing for months, however, and so a joint US-Russian rescue mission is launched under the command of Colonel O'Neill and his Russian counterpart, Colonel Zukhov.
The team enters the ziggurat, however a booby trap soon seals them inside, and the mystery of the Russian team's fate begins to unfold. An ancient sarcophagus contains a skeleton, and the writings reveal that Marduk had been such an evil tyrant that he had been sealed in the sarcophagus with an alien creature that had repeatedly eaten him alive. Marduk's symbiote had entered the creature and escaped, and now it is missing. However, when the creature is found and killed, and the body contains no symbiote, it is clear that one of the team has now been taken as a host.
As suspicion spreads, Marduk reveals himself within the body of Russian Major Vallarin, and demands the return of the Eye of Tiamat. Zukhov refuses to turn over the artifact, and uses a grenade, dying in the collapse of the passageway. The remaining members of the team use explosives to destroy Marduk within his temple, and are barely able to make their escape through long-hidden transporter rings as the ancient structure crumbles. Marduk is presumed dead, but the valuable artifact is gone, and the loss of the Russian team members leaves US-Russian relations on shaky ground, despite expectations of future cooperation.
5x9) "Between Two Fires" (24AUG01)
SG-1 is invited to Tollana to attend the funeral of Omoc, a respected member of the Curia. Following the service, Narim secretly passes a message to Carter, a holographic image which warns that Omoc had believed Earth to be in grave danger. It had always been the Tollan policy not to share technology, and when Chancellor Travell speaks off the record of a shift in Tollana's isolationist ways, and offers to provide Earth with an ion cannon, Narim becomes suspicious. His investigation suggests that Omoc may have been murdered to make way for the new shift in policy.
SG-1 begins to share Narim's suspicions when their request to expand the trade agreement to 38 ion cannons is accepted, and missing Curia records suggest a government conspiracy of massive proportions. Despite his fears of treason, Narim is convinced to assist in the investigation. He breaks into Travell's office, discovering disturbing secret records of a Goa'uld ship with advanced shields that had been impervious to the Tollan ion cannons. It had left the planet peacefully, but shortly afterward, the Curia began overseeing the production of weapons of mass destruction which use phase-shift technology, making them capable of passing through solid matter.
When SG-1 is apprehended, the reason for the Tollan deception becomes clear. Tanith arrives, now serving a powerful but unnamed Goa'uld whose advanced technology has made Tollana vulnerable for the first time. To prevent their destruction, the Tollans had agreed to build weapons for the Goa'uld, and Tanith's first demand is that a test weapon be sent through the stargate to penetrate Earth's iris. Risking the destruction of his planet, Narim destroys the facility of weapons, allowing SG-1 to escape, and making Tollana a target. The Goa'uld attack, and the Tollan defenses crumble, leaving the fate of Tollana unknown.
5x10) "2001" (31AUG01)
On P3A-194, SG-1 encounters the Volians, a peaceful agrarian society, who introduce them to the advanced and benevolent race with whom they share membership in an interplanetary confederation, a race which is possibly a formidable ally against the Goa'uld. They are the Aschen. The Aschen are anxious to share their technology in exchange for full disclosure of the stargate network, and negotiations begin between Mollem of the Aschen, and Ambassador Joseph Faxon. Meanwhile, the SGC is troubled to discover that the Aschen homeworld may be in the vicinity of P4C-970, the planet named in the mysterious message that was a warning from the future.
The trade negotiations proceed so smoothly that O'Neill becomes suspicious of the Aschen agenda. Meanwhile, Daniel and Teal'c explore the planet and discover the remains of a buried city, once a flourishing urban community. Daniel is able to partially translate newspapers found there, and learns that the Volians were once a thriving urban civilization. When a flu pandemic killed millions, the Aschen arrived and offered a vaccine that saved their world. They were seen as heroes until it was discovered that the vaccine had a side effect. The urban society abruptly ended, all evidence was buried, and the past was forgotten.
O'Neill tries to warn the President against an alliance, but he is thwarted by Senator Kinsey, who takes the negotiations out of his hands. Faxon and Carter return to the planet, and under the pretense of requesting a translation, they learn the sinister truth behind the newspaper headline: "Vaccine Causes Sterility." The negotiations have been an Aschen ploy to wipe out humanity. Furious at being discovered, the Aschen prepare to send a bio-weapon to Earth, but Carter escapes through the gate in time to give warning and close the iris. The Aschen's only victory is the acquisition of coordinates to a black hole.
5x11) "Desperate Measures" (7SEP01)
On a deserted road, a Russian military convoy is stopped, and a Jaffa prisoner is taken into custody. On a street in Colorado, Major Carter is kidnapped and taken away in an unmarked van. Days later, the search for Carter has turned up no clues, and O'Neill turns to Maybourne for help in finding her. However, Maybourne can only suggest that User 4574, Colonel Simmons, is behind Carter's disappearance. O'Neill travels to the Pentagon to confront Simmons, who insists that the NID is not involved, and he returns suspicion to Maybourne, who has recently received a sizable payment from a secret private corporation.
O'Neill tracks down Maybourne once more, and learns the nature of his involvement. Maybourne had been hired to deliver a symbiote, captured from the Russian military, to Zetatron Industries, a multimillion-dollar corporation headed by the reclusive Adrian Conrad. He claims no knowledge of the motive behind Zetaron's clandestine acquisition, but clearly there is a connection to the disappearance of Carter, and he teams with O'Neill to find her. Meanwhile, Carter finds herself restrained in a deserted hospital, the subject of medical tests by doctors who have full knowledge of the stargate program, and of her past experience as a Tok'ra host.
Adrian Conrad is in the final stages of Burchardt's Syndrome, an incurable disease, and his intention is to allow himself to be implanted with a Goa'uld symbiote and to use the information learned from tests on Carter to safely remove it once he is cured. He proceeds with the implantation, but SG-1 finds and rescues Carter before the tests are completed. Conrad, now a Goa'uld, escapes. He is confronted by O'Neill, who is shot in the back, as Colonel Simmons emerges from the shadows. Simmons takes Conrad into custody, where he is detained in an NID holding cell, in negotiation for the exchange of information.
5x12) "Wormhole X-treme!" (8SEP01)
Martin Lloyd, Dr. Tanner, and their compatriots, refugees from an alien world, had been living incognito in Montana. However, their encounter with SG-1 had alerted the NID to their presence, and the time has come for their backup plan, the spaceship which they had left on a timer and which is due to reach Earth in three days. In the meantime, Martin has left Montana behind for the bright lights of Hollywood. He has sold a script entitled "Wormhole X-Treme!" which bears an uncanny, if exaggerated, resemblance to SG-1 and the Stargate Program, and he is currently working as the creative consultant for the project.
Investigating the spaceship headed for Earth, SG-1 travels to Hollywood to conduct surveillance on Martin's house, and O'Neill goes undercover as the Air Force technical advisor for the program. However, Martin doesn't recognize O'Neill. In fact, he has no memory at all of Montana or of the events of last year. The vitamins he has been taking are laced with chemicals that suppress his memory, and even when O'Neill confronts him with the truth, he refuses to believe it. Further complications arise when O'Neill and Martin are captured by Tanner, and Carter and Daniel are detained by the NID, who now control the investigation.
Tanner injects Martin with an antidote to restore his memory. It had been his choice to forget his past and begin his new life on Earth, but now his friends need his help, and the location of the mobile computing device in his possession that will control the approaching ship. As television filming proceeds, the device is located among the props, and O'Neill agrees to turn it over to Tanner, allowing them to make their escape just as the enormous ship appears overhead, and the NID forces arrive on the scene. However, Martin chooses to stay behind on Earth, having already found his new path.
5x13) "Proving Ground" (8MAR02)
A team of Air Force Academy graduates, including Elliot, Hailey, Grogan, and Satterfield, is participating in a series of training scenarios at the SGC under Colonel O'Neill. Lapses of judgment among the young trainees are giving O'Neill cause for concern about the future of the program, just as his scenario is interrupted by an urgent message from Carter. There is a foothold situation at the SGC. An attack by SGC personnel is thwarted by O'Neill, but leaves him wounded, and no one can be trusted. It falls to the young recruits to overcome the alien incursion and restore the SGC.
Using exterior access, O'Neill and his young team enter the SGC and establish a base in Carter's lab. There they witness Teal'c and Daniel, both under alien influence, in control of the facility, and they discover a mysterious alien device in the briefing room which seems to be a power source. They devise a plan to eliminate the device and deactivate the gate, but as the team prepares to launch its attack to neutralize Teal'c and Daniel, it becomes apparent that Hammond and the SGC are monitoring their progress. The foothold situation is part of a new training scenario.
The alien device is accessed, but the explosive charge fails, and when the team reenters the room to investigate, they are greeted by the truth. The entire emergency had been staged. However, Hailey has remained behind in the gateroom, attempting to manually override control of the iris, just as deadly radiation begins to threaten the facility. An evacuation of the base is ordered, but Elliot risks his life to return for Hailey and to shut down the gate. He is successful, and finds himself being congratulated for the final phase of the training mission. The scenario is now complete. Or is it?
5x14) "48 Hours" (15MAR02)
On P3X-116, SG-1 comes under attack by death gliders and an al'kesh piloted by Tanith. Teal'c shoots down the ship before following his teammates through the gate, but the explosion prematurely disengages the wormhole, leaving Teal'c behind. Attempts to re-dial the gate are met with gate protocol errors, and Carter's analysis determines that Teal'c's energy signature is still trapped within the gate itself. A permanent iris prevents further use of the gate, while Daniel and Major Davis travel to Russia to liaison with the Russian stargate program, and Carter works to find a solution that will rescue Teal'c from the gate.
Colonel Simmons arrives at the SGC with Dr. McKay, an arrogant scientist considered by the Pentagon to be the world's foremost expert on the gate, and he brings word that the Pentagon has imposed a 48-hour deadline to find a solution. A DHD may provide the only answer, but the Russians have the only working DHD, and they are unwilling to cooperate without a significant offer in return. As both negotiations with the Russians and cooperation between Carter and McKay reach a stalemate, Simmons makes his move. He blackmails Hammond by offering the information to save Teal'c in exchange for a Goa'uld hand device.
O'Neill turns once again to Maybourne, hoping to find the source of Simmons' information. Together they locate the NID safe house where Adrian Conrad, now a Goa'uld, is being held in secret, and they are able to obtain not only the information to save Teal'c, but also evidence incriminating Simmons. As the 48-hour deadline is reached, the Russians agree to a temporary loan of their DHD, and Carter is able to use the device and the information from Conrad to resume the stargate's reintegration process. A power surge destroys the Russian DHD, however, Teal'c is safely restored, with no awareness of his ordeal.
5x15) "Summit" (22MAR02)
The recent deaths of Cronus and Apophis have left the System Lords fighting among themselves for power, and a mysterious and unknown adversary has been sowing discord among them and exacting heavy losses. Now seven key System Lords have arranged for a summit to discuss a truce and the establishment of a new order. Ren'al arrives at the SGC with a proposal from the Tok'ra. An undercover operative at the summit could eliminate all the key System Lords at once, and a human volunteer, well versed in the ways of the Goa'uld, is needed. Daniel Jackson accepts the mission.
SG-1 and SG-17, including the new recruit Lieutenant Elliot, travel to the Tok'ra base on Revanna for an orientation. There they learn that Lantash, the symbiote within Martouf before his death, has been kept alive in stasis awaiting a new host. Shortly after their arrival, however, a fleet of motherships, under the command of Zipacna, arrives at Revanna and begins an aerial bombardment of the planet. There is no escape, and in the attack, all the Tok'ra of the base are killed. Lieutenant Elliot is gravely wounded, and Lantash takes him as a host in an attempt to heal him.
Meanwhile, Jacob travels with Daniel to the Goa'uld summit as he prepares to go undercover as Lord Yu's loyal slave. The System Lords have arrived, but there is word that a mysterious guest is also expected. Daniel prepares to carry out the Tok'ra plan to release a virulent poison, deadly only to symbiotes, which will eliminate the System Lords. However, he hesitates when the final guest arrives. It is Osiris, within the host body of Sarah, and Osiris recognizes him. As SG-1 is trapped in the tunnels below Revanna, Daniel is confronted by a triumphant Osiris.
5x16) "Last Stand" (29MAR02)
The forces of Zipacna continue to attack Revanna, searching for prisoners and the formula for the Tok'ra poison which targets symbiotes. SG-1 is trapped in the planet's underground tunnels with a gravely wounded Lieutenant Elliot. Lantash, previously the symbiote within Martouf, has taken Elliot as a host in an effort to heal him, which grants him the opportunity to find closure with Carter over the death of Martouf. Seeking a means of escape, SG-1 uses the Tok'ra crystals to grow new tunnels and make their way to the surface, hoping for a rescue from Jacob and Daniel.
Meanwhile, Daniel remains undercover at the summit of System Lords. Osiris has come representing Anubis, an ancient, evil, and powerful Goa'uld long believed to be dead, who has been exacting heavy losses among the System Lords as an unknown adversary. Anubis wishes to be restored to the status of System Lord, and in return, he vows to destroy Earth. A vote is taken, and the System Lords agree. Recognizing the potential threat of Anubis as a single power, Daniel abandons his mission to eliminate the other System Lords with the Tok'ra poison, and he prepares to make his escape.
Daniel plans to capture Osiris in an attempt to rescue the host, Sarah, however his plan goes awry and he barely escapes with his life as he rejoins Jacob. They return to Revanna, but their ship is detected and comes under attack, crashing to the surface. SG-1 is reunited, but surrounded, and there is no means of escape by ship or stargate. Lantash is unable to heal Elliot, and both are dying. They volunteer to stay behind, to make the sacrifice to release the Tok'ra poison, thus providing SG-1 and Jacob with a means of escape, as the Jaffa forces close in.
5x17) "Fail Safe" (5APR02)
An enormous asteroid is spotted on a collision course for Earth, threatening all life on the planet in a matter of days. A naquadah-enhanced nuclear warhead would be capable of deflecting it, and the damaged cargo ship left behind on Revanna is the only viable means of delivery. The ship is repaired, and SG-1 arrives at the asteroid just hours before it reaches the fail-safe position. However, the ship's approach is at too great a velocity, the thrusters are ineffective, and to those on Earth it appears the ship has crashed, as it barely manages to come to a stop within a deep crater.
As O'Neill and Teal'c set the bomb outside the ship, the asteroid enters a meteor shower against which the ship's damaged shields offer no protection. The hull is breached, and Carter and Daniel must seal themselves within the escape pods until repairs can be made. Carter's analysis of the asteroid's anomalies shows that its powerful gravity is due to a core made almost entirely of naquadah. The asteroid was sent by the Goa'uld as part of a scheme to destroy Earth by circumventing the Protected Planets Treaty. Furthermore, SG-1's bomb will cause a naquadah-enhanced reaction that will ignite Earth's atmosphere and boil the oceans.
O'Neill and Teal'c must now deactivate the bomb, however the keypad has been damaged, forcing a manual override. The asteroid reaches the fail-safe position, and SG-1 is out of time and options. In a final gamble, Carter expands the ship's hyperspace field to encompass the entire asteroid, taking it out of normal space long enough to ride it through the Earth, appearing on the other side. The gamble pays off, and the Earth is spared, but SG-1 has lost all power, and is left drifting in space, until they are approached by a Tok'ra cargo ship offering assistance and a way home.
5x18) "The Warrior" (12APR02)
K'tano, a charismatic leader, claims to be the former First Prime of Imhotep, a minor Goa'uld. Now a free Jaffa, having killed the Goa'uld he served as a false god, K'tano is gathering an army on Cal Mah, a planet of sanctuary for rebel Jaffa. Bra'tac and Teal'c believe that K'tano may represent the salvation they have been seeking, and they approach the SGC with a request for support. In a token gesture, SG-1 delivers food, supplies, and weapons to Cal Mah in the hope of forming an alliance with the growing rebel army against the Goa'uld.
On Cal Mah, SG-1 finds a growing alliance of Jaffa, joining with former enemies in a common cause. However, their ways are different from those of Earth, and O'Neill is particularly troubled by the fanatical allegiance and indifference to death shown by K'tano's followers. His concerns are overlooked, however, especially by Teal'c, even when K'tano's army takes dangerous risks during a raid of Nirrti's planet. When a young follower blindly accepts a suicide mission through the gate, O'Neill fears that K'tano is amassing power for personal gain. He withdraws his support of an alliance and prepares to leave, however Teal'c chooses to remain.
K'tano plans to attack Lord Yu's homeworld, and Teal'c volunteers for the mission. However, Teal'c is captured, and Yu reveals a surprising truth to him before setting him free. Teal'c returns to Cal Mah with word that they have been deceived. He challenges K'tano in a battle to the death, and the truth is revealed. K'tano is really the Goa'uld Imhotep, who used his false identity to raise an army that could guarantee him true power. Teal'c is victorious, and Imhotep dies as Yu's mothership attacks from the air. The rebel army must escape through the stargate to continue their cause on another world.
5x19) "Menace" (26APR02)
SG-1 visits a planet with signs of a long-deserted civilization. Alone among the ruins is a sleeping figure, a young woman who, readings indicate, is an artificial life form. She is a highly sophisticated android based on nano-technology, and back on Earth, SG-1 finds a way to activate her. The android's name is Reese. She exhibits confusion and a childlike innocence, but reveals little information about the fate of her world, and she doesn't seem to know that she is a robot. Searching for clues, O'Neill returns to the planet and makes an alarming discovery. The planet is littered with the building blocks of Replicators.
If Reese's planet was destroyed by Replicators, she may hold the key to the salvation of the Asgard. However, when Daniel confronts her with the truth, she becomes enraged and violent, then offers him a gift as an apology, a toy that she has made herself. It is a Replicator. Reese has the power to create Replicators through nano-technology and to control them with her mind. The people of her planet had feared her, and she had taught her toys to reproduce and to defend themselves until she lost control and the Replicators destroyed her world. Hammond orders that Reese must be shut down.
Reese fears that SG-1 will try to destroy her. She creates more Replicators, which she controls with her mind, and which multiply and begin to overrun the base. She seals herself in the gateroom, and Daniel enters in an attempt negotiate, but Reese is confused and frightened and is beginning to lose control. Conventional weapons are hardly effective at keeping the Replicators at bay, and Hammond resorts to the final option of setting the self-destruct mechanism. Finally O'Neill gains entrance to the gateroom, and fires upon Reese, disabling her. Instantly the Replicators disassemble, averting the threat to the base and to Earth.
5x20) "The Sentinel" (3MAY02)
During the operation of NID off-world teams, Colonel Grieves and Lieutenant Kershaw had visited Latona in an attempt to steal the technology for the Sentinel, a defensive weapon capable of protecting the entire planet. Since then, Grieves and Kershaw have been convicted of high treason, and SG-9 has tried to restore diplomatic relations with the Latonans. However, the planet is now under attack by Jaffa forces, and the Sentinel fails to activate. The earlier NID mission may have disabled the device, rendering the planet defenseless, and SG-1 must find a way to rescue the Latonans from attack.
O'Neill visits Grieves in prison, but Grieves insists that the Sentinel is undamaged, and he demands that he and Kershaw join the return mission to Latona. On the planet, Grieves and Kershaw begin the process of breaking the code to the force field protecting the Sentinel, while O'Neill goes to the city to meet Marul, the Latonan leader, to convince him of the danger. The planet is overrun by Jaffa patrols, but Marul has complete faith that the Sentinel will not fail to protect his people. Even as Svarog's mothership attacks the planet from the air, O'Neill cannot convince him to evacuate.
The Latonans have technologically regressed since the Sentinel was built long ago. No one knows how it works, but the Caretaker has always watched over it. When Daniel translates the symbols on the device as "Life Energy, Two as One," Kershaw recalls the Caretaker, a hermit encountered on their earlier mission. He had taken them by surprise, and Grieves had killed him. Now Grieves comes to understand the mysteries of the Sentinel. As Jaffa forces surround them, Grieves touches the device, two life forces, man and machine, joined as one, and the Sentinel activates. The Goa'uld invaders are enveloped in a blinding light, and vanish.
5x21) "Meridian" (10MAY02)
Daniel has been exposed to a lethal dose of radiation, and SG-1 struggles to uncover the circumstances that led to the accident. The team had been visiting Kelowna, one of three major countries on P2S-4C3. The Kelownans had recently discovered an ancient temple containing artifacts and naquadria, an unstable radioactive variation of naquadah with enormous potential as an energy source. The Kelownans are using the naquadria to develop a powerful weapon, and are anxious to trade technology with Earth. However, diplomatic relations ceased when Daniel was injured in a lab accident, and accused of sabotage by the Kelownans.
Because of the enormous potential of naquadria for defense technologies, the SGC attempts to reopen diplomatic relations with Kelowna to trade for the mineral. Despite his resentment over the accusations against Daniel, O'Neill delivers a message to Jonas Quinn, the Special Advisor to the High Minister, and forces him to examine his conscience in covering up the actions of his government. Jonas makes the decision to tell the truth, that Daniel was a hero who had risked his life and saved the planet during the accident, and he brings a sample of naquadria to Earth, leaving his planet behind and risking dishonor as a traitor.
As Daniel's condition continues to deteriorate, each of his teammates visits him with words of farewell. In a plane between life and death, Daniel also has another visitor, Oma Desala, who offers him a chance for enlightenment through ascension. Daniel hesitates to face the new journey she offers, but as Jacob arrives and makes one final attempt to heal him through the healing device, Daniel chooses enlightenment and convinces O'Neill to let him go. Surrounded by his friends, Daniel passes to a higher plane of existence, his body takes on the non-corporeal form of the Others, and he ascends.
5x22) "Revelations" (17MAY02)
SG-1 is still mourning the loss of Daniel Jackson when Freyr arrives at the SGC with word that Thor has been killed in a confrontation with the Goa'uld, and SG-1's help is needed to rescue an Asgard scientist. The team travels to the Adara system and is transported to an underground laboratory, where they meet Heimdall, an animated and amiable Asgard scientist whose research into Asgard genetics is vital to the future of the Asgard race. However, Heimdall insists that they cannot leave. Thor is not dead. He is a prisoner of the Goa'uld aboard the mothership in orbit above the planet.
O'Neill and Teal'c transport aboard the mothership to rescue Thor as Carter monitors their progress from the lab through holographic images. However, they are captured and detained in a holding cell, just as Anubis arrives to join his ally Osiris. Anubis has gained technology previously unknown to the Goa'uld, and he implants a device into Thor's brain that will download all information pertaining to Asgard technology directly into the ship's computers. However, through the mind link, Thor is able to override security and release O'Neill and Teal'c from their holding cell, and they prepare to disable the mothership's shields from within.
Meanwhile, Osiris traces Carter's signal, and transports to Heimdall's lab, capturing her, and holding her in the grip of a ribbon device. As the mothership's shields are finally disabled, Heimdall safely transports Thor and all of SG-1 aboard the cargo ship. The cargo ship attempts to launch, but the Goa'uld fire upon it, rendering it defenseless, until three Asgard motherships suddenly appear. The Goa'uld retreat in the face of superior numbers, and SG-1 escapes. Anubis remains an ominous threat, however, as the three members of SG-1 retire for the evening, a whispering breeze suggests that they will not face it alone.
6️⃣~Season 6~6️⃣
6x1-2) "Redemption" (7JUN02)
It has been three months since the loss of Daniel Jackson. O'Neill has resisted nine unsuccessful attempts to replace him, as well as pressure to add a Russian to the team. Since settling on Earth from Kelowna, Jonas Quinn has dedicated himself to mastering Daniel's work, and he is anxious to prove himself to O'Neill and to continue Daniel's work as a member of SG-1. The naquadria which Jonas brought with him from Kelowna has been used to create the first human-built spacecraft capable of achieving hyperspace for interstellar travel, and now the prototype X-302 is ready to be revealed.
Bra'tac arrives at the SGC bringing the sad news that Teal'c's wife, Drey'auc, is seriously ill. Teal'c returns with him to the base of the Rebel Jaffa, but arrives to find that Drey'auc has died, and a bitter Rya'c blames his father for her death. A second incoming wormhole activates at the SGC, but this time there is no incoming traveler, and the gate cannot be shut down. Carter determines that small amounts of energy are being transmitted through the open gate causing an energy buildup that will overload the stargate and result in an explosion capable of destroying all life on Earth.
Word reaches Bra'tac and Teal'c that Anubis has discovered an ancient device that can use one stargate to destroy another, and Earth is his target. With the stargate inaccessible, Earth's only hope is to contact off-world allies for help using the only means of interstellar communication remaining to them, the prototype X-302. O'Neill and Carter pilot the craft, but the instability of the naquadria triggers a built-in safety feature, forcing the ship to auto-abort and return to Earth. With Earth facing annihilation, a holographic image of Anubis appears in the gateroom, warning the Tauri to prepare to meet their doom.
With 54 hours before Earth's destruction at the hands of Anubis, Dr. McKay suggests a desperate plan. An electromagnetic pulse sent back through the stargate should destroy the source of the energy buildup that threatens the gate. However, as Carter feared, when the plan is implemented, the energy feedback causes a power surge that destroys the generator and cuts Earth's remaining time in half. Meanwhile, Bra'tac and Teal'c determine the origin of the wormhole connected to Earth, and with Rya'c they arrive by ship at Anubis's planet. There they find technology of alien design sending a beam of energy through the stargate.
Anubis's alien weapon is under heavy guard by his loyal Jaffa, and Bra'tac, Teal'c and Rya'c come under attack. Rya'c is wounded and ordered to stay behind, and Bra'tac and Teal'c are captured. In the gateroom on Earth, Jonas considers how the stargate was lowered into the facility, which leads to the idea that the gate can be removed and jettisoned from Earth before it explodes. The gate is attached to the X-302, and O'Neill pilots the craft toward space, but a malfunction sends him plummeting back toward Earth. O'Neill risks using the naquadria-powered hyperdrive once more, and this time the hyperspace window activates.
Just as the X-302 enters hyperspace, O'Neill ejects, leaving the stargate to detonate safely over three million miles away. Meanwhile, Rya'c steals a death glider and destroys Anubis's weapon from the air. Earth has been saved, but the SGC must be shut down until Teal'c sends word that Anubis's weapon is no longer a threat. The second stargate is negotiated from the Russians in exchange for technology and a Russian presence at the SGC, but the presence will not be on SG-1. O'Neill makes the decision to acknowledge Jonas's contributions in saving Earth from destruction by welcoming him to the fourth position on SG-1
6x3) "Descent" (14JUN02)
A Goa'uld mothership appears in Earth's orbit, and SG-1 approaches in a cargo ship to investigate. The ship may be Anubis's mothership which had captured Thor, but it is now apparently deserted, and the self-destruct sequence has been initiated but halted in mid-count. The ship may not be deserted after all, however, as three of Anubis's Ninja Jaffa warriors appear, killing Dr. Friesen, wounding Jacob, and locking the ship's controls into a collision course with Earth. The Jaffa are subdued by Teal'c and Jonas, but the transporter rings are damaged, and the others have no means of escape as the mothership hurtles into the Pacific.
Teal'c and Jonas join a rescue mission using a DSRV to retrieve the survivors from the submerged mothership. The ship has suffered structural damage, and O'Neill and Carter are trapped on a level that has begun to flood. There is no way to release the doors to free them, but just as they are about to drown, the doorway opens on its own, allowing them to escape. They discover that Thor's consciousness has remained within the ship's computer, and that it was Thor who forced the Goa'uld to abandon the ship, halted the self-destruct, brought the ship into Earth's orbit, and rescued O'Neill and Carter.
SG-1 determines to rescue the crystal matrix containing Thor's consciousness, however, removing the crystals allows the self-destruct sequence to resume. Now SG-1's only means of escape is by using the death gliders, but the force field that would prevent the glider bay from flooding must be activated by a control panel that is now under water. Holding his breath, Jonas maneuvers through the flooded corridor and resets the controls allowing SG-1 access to the glider bay. With only moments left, SG-1 escapes from the submerged ship in the death gliders, just as the destruct sequence detonates, destroying the mothership.
6x4) "Frozen" (28JUN02)
A team of scientists has been working at a research station in Antarctica since the discovery of the second stargate there. After four years of study, they make an even more incredible discovery. A young woman, frozen in the Antarctic ice, appears to be perfectly preserved, and SG-1 joins the scientists to investigate. As the body is slowly defrosted, the scientists are stunned to find signs of life, and the woman miraculously revives. They name her Ayiana, and believe that she may be as much as three million years old, perhaps predating the stargate itself. In fact, she may be a living Ancient.
Ayiana cannot offer any answers to the mystery of her origins, but when the scientists on the base begin to fall ill to a mysterious disease, indications are that Ayiana may be unwittingly carrying a virus. When Dr. Woods becomes lost in a blizzard and is rescued, barely alive from severe hypothermia, Ayiana demonstrates an even more incredible ability to cure him completely through touch alone. As SG-1 also contracts the strange illness, Ayiana touches and cures each one, but her body grows weaker with each attempt until she too falls victim to the virus before she is able to heal O'Neill.
The team returns to the SGC where Ayiana grows steadily weaker and finally succumbs to the virus. She dies before she can help O'Neill, who is now critically ill, and his only hope for survival seems to be implantation by a symbiote. The Tok'ra offer the symbiote of a recently fallen comrade who carries vital information which must be passed on. They vow that the blending will be temporary since a symbiote would not remain in an unwilling host. O'Neill is presented with the only alternative that will save his life and preserve the vital information, and reluctantly he agrees to the blending.
6x5) "Nightwalkers" (12JUL02)
O'Neill remains with the Tok'ra following his implantation with a symbiote to cure an alien virus. Carter receives a suspicious late night phone call from a Dr. Flemming, who warns of Adrian Conrad's experiments with Goa'uld symbiotes before he is apparently killed, and Carter, Teal'c, and Jonas are sent to the tiny seaside town of Steveston, Oregon to investigate. There they find the sheriff, who suspects that Flemming has been murdered. A search of Flemming's home turns up no clues until a package, which he had apparently mailed to himself, arrives. Inside, SG-1 finds a large syringe filled with an unknown serum.
Jonas notices that the townspeople seem to be unusually withdrawn, and clues suggest recent activity at the abandoned shipyard. SG-1 investigates and finds computer disks, blueprints, and the partially completed construction of an alien spacecraft. That night, as Carter analyses the serum and computer disks, Teal'c and Jonas observe the townspeople, apparently sleepwalking, arriving at the shipyard to continue construction of the alien craft. Teal'c and Jonas are captured by an undercover NID agent who reveals that immature cloned symbiotes, strong enough to exert their control only at night, have entered the townspeople. The NID has been monitoring the situation.
Carter is captured by the townspeople who implant her with a symbiote clone, and the Goa'uld reveal their plan to infiltrate both the NID and SGC. However, Carter had gambled that Flemming's syringe contained an antidote, and had injected herself with it before her capture so that the clone within her could not survive. As NID forces sweep into town, Carter works undercover to apprehend the compromised NID agents and to bring an end to their operation. The cloned Goa'ulds are susceptible to a particular antibiotic, and as the townspeople are injected with the drug, the sleepy little town returns to normal.
6x6) "Abyss" (19JUL02)
Near death from a mysterious contagion, O'Neill had agreed to be implanted with a Tok'ra symbiote. However, the Tok'ra, Kanan, travels to the secret outpost of the System Lord Ba'al, where he is captured, and flees the body as O'Neill dies. O'Neill awakens in a sarcophagus with no memory of events since the implantation. He is a prisoner of Ba'al, held in his secret outpost which uses anti-gravity chambers as prison cells and a means of torture. Ba'al demands to know the reason for O'Neill's mission, and when O'Neill is unable to answer, he is tortured to death and revived again in the sarcophagus.
At the SGC, the team realizes that Kanan had used Ba'al's slave, Shallan, as an informant and had fallen in love with her. Blending with O'Neill had awakened a sense of duty in Kanan not to leave her behind. As O'Neill endures repeated torture, Daniel appears to him in his prison cell. Daniel warns that the cycle of torture and resurrection will continue until O'Neill loses his own identity. As an ascended being, Daniel cannot intervene, but he offers O'Neill an escape through ascension. O'Neill refuses ascension as an option, but he asks Daniel to use his power to make his next death the last.
Ba'al's stronghold is too heavily fortified for an attack from SG-1, but in a moment of enlightenment, Teal'c suggests informing Lord Yu of Ba'al's secret outpost, certain that the Goa'uld will attack. O'Neill has begun to remember Shallan, and fearing that he no longer has the strength to withstand the torture to protect her, he begs Daniel one last time to let him die. Daniel promises that his ordeal is almost over, and as Yu's forces attack, O'Neill has an opportunity to break free and escape. As O'Neill recovers at the SGC, Daniel appears to him once more to promise that everything will be alright.
6x7) "Shadow Play" (26JUL02)
A special Kelownan delegation from Jonas's home planet arrives at the SGC hoping to reopen trade negotiations. The planet's two other superpowers are about to sign a non-aggression pact, placing Kelowna in a vulnerable position. The Kelownans seek military technology from Earth, and offer valuable naquadria in exchange. Without Earth's help, Kelowna will be forced to use its naquadria bomb in a preemptive strike against its neighbors. The Kelownan delegation includes Dr. Kieran, Jonas's former teacher and mentor, who returns later to speak with Jonas alone. He is part of a resistance movement preparing a coup that will bring peace to his planet.
SG-1 travels to Kelowna to begin negotiations for non-military aide, but the Kelownans demand only military assistance. The Kelownan First Minister approaches Jonas, offering him a full pardon to return home to his position with Dr. Kieran, whose behavior has become increasingly more erratic. However, Jonas believes he can do more good by remaining with SG-1, and together they quietly pursue the Resistance, which Dr. Kieran promises has stored naquadria that they are willing to share. Dr. Kieran intends to meet with Resistance leaders, but he is apparently ambushed by Kelownan guards and badly injured in a fall from a building.
The Kelownans insist that Dr. Kieran was not attacked, and when he is returned to the SGC for treatment, Dr. Fraiser discovers that he is suffering from advanced schizophrenia, a result of his years of exposure to the unstable naquadria. SG-1 searches for the Resistance headquarters by tracing the hidden naquadria, but in a deserted building they find that although the naquadria is real, the Resistance existed entirely in Dr. Kieran's delusional mind. SG-1 returns home with the naquadria, as Dr. Kieran is given the care he needs on Earth, and his troubled home planet faces its bleak future alone.
6x8) "The Other Guys" (2AUG02)
SG-1 accompanies three scientists, Drs. Felger, Coombs, and Meyers, as they study ring technology on an apparently long-abandoned planet. When they receive an urgent message from the SGC, O'Neill orders Felger to return to Earth if trouble arises, and SG-1 leaves the scientists behind to investigate. However, Dr. Felger, who idolizes SG-1, disobeys orders and follows the team, only to witness their capture by enemy Jaffa. Certain that his heroes need his help, an enthusiastic Felger is determined to mount a rescue mission. Dragging a reluctant Coombs with him, Felger rings aboard the mothership and finds SG-1 in a holding cell.
O'Neill is furious, and explains to the bewildered Felger that SG-1 had allowed themselves to be captured as part of a secret mission to make contact with Khonsu, a Tok'ra spy masquerading as a minor Goa'uld, who has vital information about Anubis. En route to Khonsu's planet, SG-1 is contacted by Khonsu's Jaffa, but as Felger and Coombs wait in hiding, they witness the murder of those Jaffa by forces loyal to Khonsu's First Prime, Herak. Realizing they are in danger of discovery, the scientists disguise themselves as Jaffa and ring down to the pyramid on the planet to warn SG-1.
Herak reveals Khonsu's treachery as a spy, and kills him before taking command of his forces and imprisoning SG-1 once again. However, Felger and Coombs make their way to the control room of the pyramid and disable the force field that is holding SG-1. Together they must fight their way through waiting Jaffa, and rescue a terrified Coombs who has become trapped within the pyramid, before finally making their way back to the stargate. Once safely back on Earth, Felger and Coombs are awarded the Air Force Civilian Award for Valor for their bravery in rescuing SG-1… as Felger is roused from his daydream.
6x9) "Allegiance" (9AUG02)
Rebel Jaffa have found a temporary refuge at the Alpha Site, and when a Tok'ra base under the command of Malek is overrun by Anubis, the surviving Tok'ra also flee to the Earth's secret base. The Tok'ra and the Jaffa have long been enemies, and the peace between them is an uneasy one. Tension is high, and suspicion increases when acts of sabotage begin to occur. Someone tampers with a naquadah reactor which, left undetected, could have destroyed the base. O'Neill orders the base secured, and the Tok'ra offer the use of their zatarc detector in an attempt to identify the saboteur.
Suspicion grows when Ocker, the Tok'ra head of security, is found murdered. The prime suspect is a Jaffa warrior named Artok, until he too is found murdered in his holding cell. A search is initiated beyond the compound, but the mysterious attacks continue, and one of the search parties is also found dead. Bra'tac is attacked by an invisible force and is dragged off into the forest as Malek delivers the horrifying news that he fears Bra'tac is dead. Evidence suggests that the unseen enemy is an Ashrak, a Goa'uld assassin in the service of Anubis, who possesses a personal cloaking device.
The stargate is heavily guarded, and Carter and Malek construct a high frequency generator to counteract the cloaking technology to make the assassin visible. The Ashrak attempts an escape through the gate, and in the firefight, many are wounded. As the Ashrak shimmers into visibility, he lunges once more for the gate, but is struck by staff weapon blasts to the back. He collapses, revealing that the shots came from Bra'tac, weakened but alive, who has returned to the base. Bra'tac exhorts the Jaffa, the Tok'ra, and the Tauri to put aside their ancient differences at last and to unite in fighting their common enemy, the Goa'uld.
6x10) "Cure" (16AUG02)
When SG-1 makes first contact with the planet Pangar, the Pangarans are anxious to initiate trade with Earth. They seek stargate technology and gate addresses to known Goa'uld worlds and in exchange they offer a miraculous drug called tretonin which strengthens the immune system and allows them to live in almost perfect health. Their interest in Goa'uld worlds is suspicious, and Jonas is convinced that the Pangarans are hiding something. At night, he and Teal'c break into a guarded facility where they find vats teeming with Goa'uld symbiotes, and the Pangarans admit that the symbiotes are critical in the manufacture of tretonin.
Many years ago, archaeological excavations on Pangar had uncovered a Goa'uld queen in stasis, and she had been bred in captivity to produce the offspring for the manufacture of tretonin. However, a genetic flaw in the offspring has limited the effectiveness of the drug, and because it suppresses the natural immune system, the population has become dependent. Furthermore, the queen is dying, and if another cannot be found, the Pangarans will face death. SG-1 seeks help from their allies, and Malek and Kelmaa of the Tok'ra arrive to assist, hoping that an antidote for the tretonin can be found.
Teal'c and Jonas, who have been assisting with the excavation of temple ruins, make a horrifying discovery. The Goa'uld queen whom the Pangarans have been breeding is in fact Egeria, the founder of the Tok'ra. Kelmaa frees the Tok'ra queen and gives her life so that Egeria might use her host. Egeria explains that the genetic flaw in the symbiotes had been deliberate in order to convince the Pangarans to end their experiments. However, Egeria knows that she is dying, and in a final act of compassion she shares with the Pangarans the knowledge to produce an antidote to the tretonin and to save their people.
6x11) "Prometheus" (23AUG02)
A reporter approaches Carter for a statement regarding a story she intends to run about the highly classified Prometheus Project. As SG-1 tries to find the information leak, it is decided that the best compromise is to allow the reporter and her team exclusive access in exchange for sharing her source and waiting to run the story. Carter and Jonas escort the news team to Prometheus, which turns out to be the code name for the new prototype X-303 spacecraft. However, it soon becomes apparent that the camera crew are rogue NID agents who are part of a plot to hijack the X-303.
Carter is ambushed by the hijackers and trapped in a storage area as the ship's systems come online. The hijackers demand the release of Colonel Simmons and Adrian Conrad, and threaten to destroy the ship unless their terms are met. Simmons and Conrad are allowed to board the ship and Prometheus launches into orbit. As Carter escapes and attempts to sabotage the ship from within, O'Neill and Teal'c use a death glider to come aboard. As a Goa'uld, Conrad has the knowledge to correct the error in the hyperdrive system, and with the system online, the ship enters hyperspace, bound for an unknown destination.
Simmons gains the upper hand in a confrontation with Conrad, and kills him. However, the Goa'uld within Conrad takes Simmons as his new host. Simmons then faces O'Neill and Teal'c, and as they struggle, O'Neill opens an airlock, sucking Simmons from the ship to die in space. The X-303 comes out of hyperspace, but with no familiar reference point, Carter is unable to plot a course for home. Suddenly, Thor transports aboard the ship, but he has not come to rescue them. He brings word that the Asgard homeworld has been overrun by Replicators, and SG-1 may be their only hope of salvation.
6x12) "Unnatural Selection" (10JAN03)
The Asgard have summoned all the Replicators to the planet Hala, where they had constructed a time dilation device that would entrap the Replicators for thousands of years. However, the device did not activate as planned, and Thor seeks the help of SG-1 to use the inferior technology of the new X-303 to penetrate Replicator space and reset the device. SG-1 reluctantly agrees, but on Hala they discover that the Replicators have used the device to speed up time, and have evolved into human form. The leader, First, explains that the six individuals have taken the names of the order in which they were created.
The Replicators had exploited the design of their creator, Reese, and had since eliminated the flaw of compassion that appears in Fifth. Now they intend to use the time dilation device to allow themselves to create an army with which to conquer the universe. With SG-1 as their prisoners, they invade the minds of the team, forcibly drawing upon their thoughts and memories of other worlds. Fifth shows signs of sympathy toward SG-1, and although the team is unable to prevent the torturous and repeated probing of their minds, Carter volunteers to endure the painful process once more in order to access Fifth's humanity.
Fifth probes Carter's mind, and offers to help SG-1 to escape if they will take him with them. He makes the necessary alterations to the time dilation device, leaving Carter to set the timer. They allow enough time for each of them to return to the ship before activation, however, O'Neill signals Carter to alter the timer, leaving insufficient time for Fifth to join the team. To protect the galaxy from the Replicators, SG-1 is forced to betray Fifth and to use his humanity against him, trapping him within the time dilation bubble with the others as they make their escape.
6x13) "Sight Unseen" (17JAN03)
SG-1 returns from P9X-391 with an unusual alien artifact. Shortly after their return, Jonas sees what appears to be an enormous flying insect-like creature in the gateroom, capable of passing through solid matter. Despite a full search of the base, no one else sees the creature, and Jonas submits to medical tests, but is found to be in perfect health. Carter and Jonas study the artifact, and ascertain that it is emitting energy, but they are unable to determine its purpose. However, when Teal'c and Jonas both see another of the creatures, it seems that the alien device may be responsible.
O'Neill is on leave and heading for a weekend of fishing when he stops at a gas station, and he, too, witnesses a large flying creature. Jonas and Carter speculate that the creatures are native to Earth, but exist in another dimension, and that the device merely makes them visible. However, as reports of similar sightings begin coming in from both the base and the community, it appears that person-to-person contact is spreading the phenomenon, and it is feared a public panic will result. Returning the device to P9X-391 does not eliminate the sightings, and the SGC must now contain the situation around Colorado Springs.
Carter and Jonas search for a way to reverse the effects of the alien device as O'Neill coordinates a quarantine of the area. However, when Vernon Sharpe, the gas station attendant, sees the creatures, he fears he is a victim of government experimentation following the Gulf War, and he flees to a small airfield, spreading the effect as he goes. Carter and Jonas finally determine that realigning the crystals will reverse the effect, which can also be passed on by touch. As the antidote is spread, O'Neill tracks down Vernon Sharpe and appeals to his sense of duty and patriotism, to keep the incident quiet.
6x14) "Smoke & Mirrors" (24JAN03)
As Senator Kinsey is greeting well-wishers, he is shot by an assassin's bullet. News of his death comes as a surprise to O'Neill when he returns from a fishing vacation, but when a surveillance videotape places O'Neill at the scene, he is unable to prove his alibi. O'Neill is arrested as the prime suspect, and the rest of SG-1 is determined to unravel the mystery and prove his innocence. Carter suggests that duplicating technology, such as the mimic devices retrieved after the foothold incident at the SGC, could be used to frame O'Neill, and she travels to Area 51 to investigate.
At Area 51, Carter discovers that the alien mimic devices have been stolen, and she turns next to the NID in Washington, DC. There she meets with Agent Barrett, who explains that he has been assigned to expose rogue agents within the NID and that Kinsey had been cooperating with the investigation when he was shot. Meanwhile, Jonas and Teal'c trace Dr. Langham, a scientist who had access to the mimic technology, and who reveals under interrogation that rogue NID agents have been working with a shadow organization of powerful businessmen known as the Committee, in order to use alien technology for commercial profit.
Carter and Barrett track the murder weapon and discover a set of fingerprints which point to an NID agent named Devlin, and Barrett also reveals that Kinsey is alive and in a coma. Devlin, using a mimic device to appear as Major Davis, infiltrates hospital security and makes a second attempt on Kinsey's life. When Devlin later appears before the Committee, he morphs into Carter, who had apprehended Devlin and used a mimic device to conceal her identity and obtain a confession. The Committee is brought down, and O'Neill's name cleared, as a recovered Kinsey greets the press, and takes credit for the entire operation.
6x15) "Paradise Lost" (31JAN03)
Colonel Maybourne appears at O'Neill's home, claiming to have information about a planet with advanced technology that he is willing to share in exchange for a pardon. SG-1 investigates, and finds a temple on a deserted world, probably once home to the Furlings, but the control to a doorway requires a key in Maybourne's possession. Maybourne insists that he accompany the team, and they reluctantly agree, but once on the planet, Maybourne activates the alien device, disables Carter and O'Neill, and leaps through the doorway. O'Neill dives after him, and the two find themselves in a beautiful wilderness with no sign of a doorway.
Trapped in paradise, Maybourne admits that the world is a lost Utopia in which he had hoped to retire, but as they explore their surroundings, Maybourne and O'Neill find only an ancient deserted village, with no signs of life, and no means of escape. They must await a rescue as Carter and a team of scientists try desperately to unlock the mystery of the secret doorway. O'Neill survives on rations and fish, but Maybourne begins eating a native plant, and as the days pass, Maybourne grows increasingly paranoid, fearing the planet may not be deserted. Finally, he steals O'Neill's weapon and prepares to defend himself.
O'Neill discovers skeletons and an artifact which reveal that a Goa'uld had come to Paradise, and that the plant he brought had caused paranoia in the villagers until they rose up and killed each other. The plant has also affected both O'Neill and Maybourne, and in repeated confrontations in the forest, both are wounded. Meanwhile, SG-1 realizes that the doorway sent O'Neill and Maybourne to the planet's moon, and they send a cargo ship to rescue them. Maybourne would rather stay in the deserted wilderness than go to jail, however, and O'Neill offers him the option of a new life on a Tok'ra world.
6x16) "Metamorphosis" (7FEB03)
Colonel Evanov and SG-4 return to the SGC with Alebran, an alien who claims that Nirrti has been using a device to experiment on his people. SG-1 fears that Nirrti has continued her genetic experiments to alter DNA in an attempt to create a hok'tar, an advanced human host, and their fears are realized when Alebran's body suddenly dissolves into liquid. SG-1 and SG-4 return to the planet and enter Nirrti's fortress. There they find that Nirrti's treatments have left the inhabitants profoundly disfigured, but also with formidable side effects. Eggar has developed psychic abilities, and Wodan has remarkable telekinetic powers.
Nirrti's DNA device may have been built by the Ancients, and SG-1 must capture her alive in order to force her to reverse the effects of her experimentation. However, the inhabitants are convinced that Nirrti is a god who is helping to heal them, and when Eggar reads O'Neill's mind and fears he has come to kill their god, the inhabitants turn against the team and imprison them in the dungeon. Nirrti returns and continues her experiments, first taking Colonel Evanov. He eventually dissolves in the same horrible death as Alebran, and Carter is taken as the next victim for Nirrti's machine.
Nirrti subjects Jonas to the DNA device, however, she discovers that his genetic structure is already highly advanced, and she tries instead to seduce him with promises of power. Nirrti turns next to O'Neill, who makes one final attempt to convince Eggar to look into Nirrti's mind. In doing so, Eggar realizes the truth behind Nirrti's experiments. Wodan uses his telekinetic abilities to snap Nirrti's neck, killing her. However, Eggar had also been able to retrieve from Nirrti's mind the knowledge necessary to reverse the effects of the DNA device, and he is able to safely heal Carter and the rest of his people.
6x17) "Disclosure" (14FEB03)
As alien encounters, such as a mothership crashing into the Pacific, become harder to conceal, and the threat of Anubis continues to grow, the Pentagon makes the decision to reveal the existence of the Stargate Program. Ambassadors from Great Britain, France, and China join representatives from Russia and the US, including Colonel Chekov, General Hammond, and Major Davis, in a top secret meeting at the Pentagon. Their goal is to form an international coalition that will better enable Earth to defend itself against Anubis. However the ambassadors are skeptical to learn of the existence of the stargate, and of the Goa'uld threat.
When Senator Kinsey arrives, he accuses the SGC of contributing to Anubis's rise to power, and of repeatedly placing Earth at risk. Hammond points out that it is the SGC that has saved Earth from destruction, and he asks for the cooperation of the other represented nations, stipulating that the existence of the stargate must remain secret. However, the ambassadors are outraged to learn of captured alien technology used in such programs as the X-303, and they are suspicious of the US-Russian alliance and distrustful of the military involvement. They insist that their governments will demand full disclosure of the program.
Senator Kinsey reveals his true agenda when he attempts to use international pressure to move the SGC from the authority of the Air Force to the NID, over which he has direct control. However, Hammond has one remaining ace up his sleeve. He contacts Thor, who materializes before the astonished ambassadors, and credits the SGC with saving both Earth and the Asgard. Thor insists that as allies of Earth, the Asgard believe that Earth's interests are best served if the stargate remains under the command of Hammond and the Air Force. His words convince the ambassadors, who readily agree to support the Stargate Program.
6x18) "Forsaken" (21FEB03)
SG-1 discovers the wreckage of an alien craft, and three armed survivors. Aden Corso introduces himself as the captain of the Seberus, from the planet Hebridan, and explains that he and his crew, Reynard and Pender, had been blown off course by an asteroid storm. Suddenly, humanoid creatures open fire from the woods, but as they are driven away, Reynard is wounded. Corso describes the creatures as savage natives who have been hunting his crew, and he asks SG-1 for help. Jonas returns to the SGC with Reynard for medical treatment, as Carter cooperates with Corso in an attempt to make repairs to the ship.
As Jonas searches historical records for ties to the Hebridans, he grows suspicious of Reynard. She is anxious to learn all about the stargate, and when she is left alone in his office, she finds that she has access to secret computer files and gate addresses. Carter makes the disturbing discovery of a recorded distress signal identifying the Seberus as a prison transport vessel, and O'Neill and Teal'c also begin to doubt the Hebridans' story as they track the alien creatures. When they finally apprehend one of the elusive humanoids, he makes the startling claim that he is Warrick, the true captain of the Seberus.
Warrick explains that Corso and his accomplices were his prisoners who had overpowered his crew and taken his vessel. When Jonas and Reynard return to the planet, Reynard tells the others what she has learned on Earth, and entices them with the riches beyond the stargate. Realizing they have been found out, the Hebridans hold Jonas hostage and attempt to make an escape as Reynard dials the gate. However, the address she acquired had been planted, and the prisoners step through the gate into the SGC where they are taken into custody. With his ship repaired, Warrick returns to Hebridan with his prisoners.
6x19) "The Changeling" (28FEB03) Teal'c awakens from a nightmare and faces himself in the mirror. However, the face in the mirror has no tattoo, and belongs to a firefighter named T who serves on a fire and rescue squad with Chief O'Neill, Captain Carter, and Jonas Quinn. T is preparing to donate a kidney to his stepfather, Brae, and his friends believe his nightmares could be a sign of his anxiety. However, when T imagines that he sees Brae's face on an accident victim, and he is injured during the rescue, the concern grows, and the surgery is postponed, as O'Neill recommends that T speak to his friend, Dr. Daniel Jackson, the resident psychologist.
Teal'c awakens in the SGC infirmary and reports that he has been unable to complete his kelno'reem and has been experiencing very realistic but disturbing dreams of another life as a firefighter. Teal'c and T continue to slip in and out of each other's nightmares, but when Teal'c finds himself wounded on a battlefield littered with hundreds of dead Jaffa, and removing a symbiote from Bra'tac to place in his own pouch, T awakens and confides that he can no longer distinguish which reality is the dream. Dr. Jackson suggests that perhaps neither is real, and as T ponders his words, Dr. Jackson promises, "I haven't left your side, Teal'c."
Suddenly Teal'c is back in the gateroom. He and Bra'tac have been rescued by SG-1, and both are badly injured following an ambush of the Rebel Jaffa. By sharing his symbiote with Bra'tac, Teal'c had kept them both alive for three days until help could arrive, but now the symbiote is beyond the ability to heal. Jacob arrives bringing a refined version of tretonin, the Pangaran drug with the restorative powers of a symbiote. The experimental drug is administered to both Teal'c and Bra'tac, saving their lives and ending the nightmares, but Daniel appears once more to Teal'c to assure him that everything is going to be fine.
6x20) "Memento" (7MAR03)
The Prometheus X-303 spacecraft is preparing for its shakedown cruise under the command of Colonel Ronson. SG-1 has been assigned to join the mission should their expertise be needed in the event of an emergency, and an emergency does occur when the ship unexpectedly drops out of hyperspace more than 40 light years short of its target. A malfunction of the unstable naquadria-powered hyperdrive has left the ship stranded in space, light years from home. Jonas suggests risking a short burst of energy from the hyperdrive to reach an alternate destination, P3X-744, a planet which may have a buried stargate.
The Prometheus reaches P3X-744 just as the naquadria reactor goes critical, and the apprehensive inhabitants permit SG-1 to land on their planet, Tagrea. There SG-1 meets Chairman Ashwan, the political leader who welcomes SG-1 as guests and long-lost brethren, and Commander Kalfas, the military leader who is deeply suspicious of their arrival. SG-1 seeks the stargate, but the Tagreans inform them that the Ring of the Gods is simply a myth. Tagrean historical records go back no more than 300 years, to a dark period when all historical evidence was destroyed in an act of defiance. The Tagreans are a race without a past.
Tarek Solamon, a Tagrean professor who secretly worships the ancient gods, offers his artifacts which lead SG-1 to a vast desert where the stargate was buried long ago. However, just as the gate is uncovered, Kalfas arrives with the military and attempts to take back the ancient relic. Ashwan risks a civil war by arriving with the Prometheus to face Kalfas. He proclaims that neither the past nor the future is something to be feared, and he orders Kalfas's arrest. With Ashwan's promise of cooperation, SG-1 has found not only a way to return home and to repair their vessel, but also a valuable new ally.
6x21 "Prophecy" (14MAR03)
The inhabitants of P4S-237 are a poor people who labor in the naquadah mines to pay tribute to Ba'al through his emissary, Lord Mot. However, the leader, Ellori, tells of an ancient prophecy that states that one day strangers would arrive through the chaapa'ai to slay the gods and free the people. While visiting the planet, Jonas begins experiencing strange precognitive visions that come true. He collapses and is rushed to the SGC where medical tests reveal a rapidly growing brain tumor that may be directly related to Nirrti's experiments with genetic manipulation and Jonas's experience in the DNA device on P3X-367.
SG-1 makes the decision to launch an attack against Lord Mot and free the people of P4S-237. Meanwhile, Jonas struggles to find a way to control his precognitive abilities in the hope of offering tactical intelligence. When his vision shows Carter wounded on a mission, Carter remains behind as a precaution, but his vision still comes true when Carter is injured instead on the base. On P4S-237, Ellori offers his support against Mot, but Chazen, still loyal to the Goa'uld, reveals their plans to Lord Mot, and SG-1 is captured. At the SGC, Jonas's tumor has become critical, and he is rushed into surgery.
In one final vision, Jonas witnesses an ambush of SG-1 on the planet, and an attack of the SGC through the gate. Acting on Jonas's vision, Hammond tries to warn SG-1, but the message is intercepted by Chazen, who sounds the alarm. Ellori's daughter frees SG-1 and kills Mot as the alarm provides warning of a possible ambush, and SG-1 successfully secures the gate. Meanwhile, the surgery on Jonas is successful, and the strange precognitive visions cease. SG-1 had altered the events of Jonas's visions, suggesting that the future is not predetermined, yet in doing so they fulfilled an ancient prophecy and freed the people of P4S-237.
6x22) "Full Circle" (21MAR03)
Daniel appears to O'Neill and warns that Anubis is en route to Abydos to find the Eye of Ra, an ancient relic of enormous power. As an ascended being, Daniel is forbidden to interfere, and he urges SG-1 to find the Eye and stop Anubis. SG-1 arrives on Abydos, where they are reunited with Skaara, and they prepare to defend the planet and find the Eye of Ra hidden within the pyramid. Daniel reappears and assists in finding a secret chamber which contains an ancient tablet. It reveals that the Ancients were once humans who learned to ascend, and that the legacy of the ascended Others of their race lives on in an ancient Lost City.
SG-1 recovers the Eye of Ra as the forces of Anubis arrive and overwhelm the Abydonians. In the battle for Abydos, Skaara is wounded and ascends, and SG-1 is trapped within the pyramid as O'Neill attempts to negotiate their freedom by threatening to destroy the Eye. Meanwhile, Daniel learns that Anubis is a Goa'uld who has become trapped between existence and ascension. Daniel summons the collective forces of the System Lords, and offers to bring Anubis the Eye in exchange for sparing Abydos. However, when he persuades O'Neill to turn over the Eye, Anubis uses its unimagined power to drive the System Lords into retreat.
Anubis turns his destructive power on Abydos. Daniel risks the wrath of the Others by facing Anubis in battle, however, a higher power draws him away. SG-1 escapes through the gate with the Ancient tablet, but they sense the massive energy behind them as Abydos is destroyed. When at last a wormhole to Abydos can be established, SG-1 steps through to find the planet intact, and Skaara and his people alive. However, Skaara explains that what they see is not real. The Abydonians have all ascended through the power of Oma Desala, and their lives will continue on another plane as SG-1 departs Abydos for the last time.
7️⃣~Season 7~7️⃣
7x1) "Fallen" (13JUN03)
On a distant planet, in a blinding flash of light, the body of a naked man appears lying amid ancient ruins inhabited by wandering nomads. It is Daniel Jackson, but he has no memory of his identity or his past. Meanwhile, on Earth, Jonas believes that the Ancient tablet recovered from Abydos points to a planet called Vis Uban as the location of the Lost City of the Ancients for which they have been searching. SG-1 journeys to the planet, and finds instead the ancient ruins and nomadic tribe that had taken in Daniel Jackson as one of their own.
Reunited with his teammates, Daniel hesitantly agrees to return to Earth. He has no memory of his life as an ascended being, but he may have been expelled by the Others and returned to human form for interfering in the battle against Anubis. Once on Earth, memories of his life before his ascension slowly begin to return, and he assists SG-1 in their plan to lure Anubis to Vis Uban in order to destroy his superweapon. Daniel and Jonas ring aboard Anubis's mothership to relay coordinates to O'Neill and Carter, who prepare to pilot an F-302 to destroy the weapon's ventilation shaft.
Teal'c approaches Lord Yu, who agrees to bring the full force of the System Lords against Anubis, but Yu's mind is failing, and as O'Neill and Carter engage Anubis's death gliders, Yu turns his fleet away and takes Teal'c into custody. Left to face Anubis alone, O'Neill and Carter use a subspace window to penetrate his defensive shields and target the ventilation shaft, forcing Anubis to power down his superweapon. Daniel and Jonas attempt to make their escape from the ship, but Jonas is captured by Anubis, who displays the spiked mind probe he will use to acquire Jonas's knowledge.
7x2) "Homecoming" (13JUN03)
Anubis has used a mind probe on Jonas, and has learned of the existence of naquadria on Jonas's homeworld. The Kelownans contact the SGC with word that Anubis's mothership is hovering above their capital, and the destruction of their world has begun. O'Neill and Carter meet Ambassador Dreylock and Commander Hale in an underground bunker beneath Kelowna, and they agree to offer assistance only with the cooperation of the planet's three major powers. Meanwhile, Teal'c remains a prisoner of Lord Yu, but he convinces Yu's First Prime, Oshu, to seek the cooperation of Ba'al to lead the System Lords against Anubis.
Aboard Anubis's mothership, Daniel locates Jonas, who is able to escape his prison cell when a failed test of the captured naquadria disrupts the ship's force fields. Meanwhile, on the planet below, Kelownan, Tiranian, and Andari ambassadors have formed an uneasy alliance in the defense of their world as Anubis continues his destruction of the planet and his search for valuable antiquities. A crystal containing vital records of naquadria research is his likely prize, and Carter leads a search of a warehouse to recover the artifact. However, they are cut off by Anubis's Jaffa, and both they and the crystal are apprehended.
Jonas and Daniel escape from Anubis's mothership in time to rescue SG-1, however they learn that Commander Hale has betrayed his own planet in a deal with Anubis, and he demands the crystal as he turns SG-1 over to Herak for execution. Just then, Ba'al's fleet arrives and the battle for Kelowna begins. Anubis is defeated, but an escape pod enters hyperspace just before his mothership is destroyed. Kelowna has been saved, and Jonas prepares to bid farewell to the SGC. As he returns to Kelowna a hero, and Daniel remains to continue his work with SG-1, both have come home.
7x3) "Fragile Balance" (20JUN03)
A 15 year old boy arrives at the SGC, claiming to be Jack O'Neill. He has O'Neill's security ID, his knowledge, his attitude, and his DNA is a statistical match. Adding to the puzzle, the colonel is missing. As SG-1 attempts to unravel the mystery, Young O'Neill begins to have flashes of memory of an abduction by the Asgard. Daniel and Teal'c pursue the investigation by interviewing other people who have reported similar experiences of alien abduction and memory loss. Meanwhile, however, Dr. Fraiser has disturbing news. Her analysis of Young O'Neill's DNA reveals that his genetic structure is breaking down. He is dying.
Carter informs Young O'Neill that his body is dying, and Jacob Carter offers suspended animation by the Tok'ra as a possible alternative, but the boy vanishes from the base instead. Meanwhile, Selmak recognizes the significance of the genetic anomaly in Young O'Neill's DNA. He is, in fact, a clone, and the evidence suggests that the Asgard have been abducting humans for research and replacing them with clones until the original can be returned. SG-1 is able to track down Young O'Neill, and together they devise a plan to apprehend the Asgard by intercepting the next attempt to exchange O'Neill for his clone.
Late at night, Young O'Neill is suddenly beamed up from his bedroom and replaced by a sleeping Colonel O'Neill, who is unaware that he has been missing for seven days. Aboard an Asgard ship, Young O'Neill overcomes his Asgard abductor and beams up the rest of SG-1. The Asgard is Loki, who admits to conducting unsanctioned experiments on humans, and when Thor appears, he reprimands Loki, then agrees to O'Neill's request to spare the life of his young clone. With a new life ahead of him, Young O'Neill returns to high school, determined to embrace the opportunity to live his life a second time.
7x4) "Orpheus" (27JUN03)
SG-1 returns through the stargate under fire, and Teal'c collapses with a gaping staff weapon wound to the abdomen. Although the wound is critical, Teal'c is expected to make a full recovery, however he confesses to O'Neill that his weakness has made him incapable of being the warrior he once was. Meanwhile, Daniel begins to have unsettling flashes of memory which seem to suggest that during his ascension, he had been a helpless witness to the capture and enslavement of Bra'tac and Rya'c on a Goa'uld prison world. SG-1 contacts Rak'nor for help to locate and rescue Teal'c's son and Jaffa master.
Rak'nor identifies Erebus as the likely planet where Jaffa prisoners of Ba'al are worked to death. SG-1 leads a rescue mission to the prison world, and after nightfall, Teal'c and Rak'nor infiltrate the prison camp. Before they are able to make their escape with Bra'tac and Rya'c, however, they are captured by the Jaffa Commander, and tortured. In his weakened state, Teal'c is prepared to give up, and when Rya'c is caught away from his work station and sentenced to die, Teal'c offers to take his son's place. The Jaffa Commander willingly accepts the opportunity to make an example of the shol'va.
O'Neill needs a distraction to effect a rescue, and Carter and Daniel plant explosives to sabotage an anti-gravity dry-dock near the camp. Just as the Jaffa Commander prepares to execute Teal'c, an explosion sends the Goa'uld ship in dry-dock crashing to the ground, and the prisoners organize a revolt, supported by mortar and rifle fire from the SG teams. In hand-to-hand combat, Teal'c kills the Jaffa Commander, and the camp is liberated. O'Neill informs Teal'c that he officially has his mojo back, and both Teal'c and Daniel, having faced their demons, come to accept that their decisions have made them a part of something important.
7x5) "Revisions" (11JUL03)
The MALP indicates that P3X-289 contains a large dome structure enveloped by a toxic atmosphere. SG-1 travels to the planet and finds within the dome a quaint village within a pristine garden. There they meet Kendrick and his young son Nevin, Pallan and his wife Evalla, and the three men and one woman who make up the village's Council. All are warm and welcoming, and invite SG-1 to stay. They also willingly share their technology, including the "link", a small device worn near the temple of each villager that provides a direct neural interface with the computer that controls and protects their village.
During the night, the councilwoman awakens and walks in a trance beyond the dome. The next morning, Pallan shares computer technology with Carter, who notices a drop in the dome's power, and fears it is on the verge of collapse, but Pallan insists she is mistaken. When the computer performs an update, each villager pauses to receive information through the link. Afterward, however, no one has any memory of the missing councilwoman, and when Evalla also walks in a trance beyond the dome, and Pallan denies he was ever married, it becomes clear that the village holds a dark secret.
When Daniel discovers an ancient document indicating that the village once held a population nearly 100 times as large, the sinister truth becomes clear. The dome is not collapsing. It is shrinking. To compensate for its power loss, the computer is systematically eliminating the population. As the computer undergoes another revision to direct the villagers against SG-1, Carter and Daniel frantically convince Pallan to perform a manual update that will free the villagers from control of the link. Now aware of the fate of their world, the villagers accept SG-1's help to evacuate their doomed planet for a new homeworld.
7x6) "Lifeboat" (18JUL03)
On P2A-347, SG-1 finds a crashed spaceship containing hundreds of people in cryogenic suspension. Suddenly, a bright light races toward them, rendering them unconscious. When Daniel awakens, he becomes hysterical, and once returned to the SGC, he claims to be Martice, Sovereign of Talthus. His EEG suggests that Daniel has entered a coma, and that at least a dozen distinct personalities now inhabit his body. The arrogant sovereign is soon replaced by Tryan, the capable and cooperative engineer of the Stromos, and by Keenin, a frightened young boy who tells of the destruction of his planet that led to their journey.
Tryan explains that the cryogenic process has failsafes that will not allow a consciousness to be separated from the body, unless the body dies. Carter and Teal'c return to the Stromos where they find Pharrin. It was he who had awakened when the ship crashed, and who had bypassed the failsafes to use Daniel as a lifeboat in a desperate attempt to save his dying race. He, too, carries a dozen souls. Carter offers a naquadah power source to save the rest of his race if he will agree to restore Daniel. But one of the precious souls within Daniel is his own son, Keenin.
Pharrin agrees to a heartbreaking sacrifice for the survival of his race, and he returns to the SGC. There, however, he is confronted by Martice, who demands that there will be no sacrifice. Suddenly, Keenin emerges, and father and son share a poignant goodbye, and a promise to be together forever. Aboard the Stromos, the power has been restored, and the transference is performed. In removing the personalities from Daniel, Pharrin attempts to absorb them within himself. There it is hoped the lost souls can survive as the last of their race continues their journey to their new homeworld.
7x7) "Enemy Mine" (25JUL03)
Colonel Edwards commands the geological exploration of P3X-403 where significant deposits of naquadah have been discovered. However, when Lieutenant Ritter disappears, SG-1 and SG-3 are sent to aid in search and rescue. Daniel examines artifacts that suggest the planet was once populated by Unas enslaved by the Goa'uld, and when Ritter's body is discovered, brutally killed and strung up in a sacrificial display, it becomes apparent that Unas remain on the planet, and see the humans as intruders. Edwards and Daniel clash over the handling of the situation, and a skirmish between SG teams and Unas brings more casualties on both sides.
At the SGC, General Vidrine agrees to authorize Daniel's proposal to negotiate with the native Unas with the help of Chaka, the Unas from P3X-888. He insists, however, that if Daniel cannot reach a settlement, the Unas will be forcibly removed. As darkness falls on the planet, Daniel and Chaka are approached by the Unas leader, who calls himself Iron Shirt. Through primitive communication, Daniel learns that the naquadah mine rests on sacred land. Uneasy negotiations proceed, but when a soldier mistakenly kills another Unas in the forest, violence erupts again. Hundreds of Unas converge and surround the SGC encampment.
Iron Shirt approaches the humans alone, and Daniel urges Edwards to save his people by showing respect and bowing in submission. Hopelessly outnumbered, Edwards reluctantly agrees, and orders his men to kneel. Iron Shirt is appeased, and agrees to negotiate a compromise. To prevent the desecration of their sacred ground, the Unas will work the mine themselves and turn the naquadah over to the SGC. In doing so, they will assist the humans in defeating the Goa'uld and bring honor to their dead. Edwards grudgingly admits that O'Neill was right about Daniel. He is a pain in the ass, but worth it.
7x8) "Space Race" (1AUG03)
Warrick, the Serrakin encountered on P2X-005, arrives at the SGC with an intriguing proposition. He offers access to an ion propulsion engine in exchange for a naquadah generator and Carter's assistance to win the Loop of Kon Garat, a spaceship race on his home planet of Hebridan which awards a lucrative contract to the winner. Carter jumps at the chance, and Hammond approves a "diplomatic mission." On Hebridan, SG-1 meets Warrick's brother, Eamon, who has helped to refit his ship, the Seberus, for the race. They also learn of Warrick's competition, racing legend Muirios, beautiful La'el Montrose, and Jarlath, an arrogant ex-con.
The race begins, with full broadcast coverage, and Warrick and co-pilot Carter negotiate the attack drones with ease. As they enter the sun's coronasphere, an explosion in the power diverter suggests sabotage, but Carter's repairs keep them in the race. Jarlath's ship has also been sabotaged, and despite his refusal to accept assistance, he is rescued when Warrick diverts the Seberus to take him aboard. Meanwhile, Eamon discovers that his supervisor, Del Tynan, has accessed his computer. Suspecting that he is behind the sabotage, Eamon and Teal'c break into his office to search for proof, but they are apprehended by Tynan himself.
Del Tynan reveals that he has rigged the race in the interest of racial purity so that Muirios, a full-blooded human, will defeat all Serrakin opponents. Tynan contacts Warrick and threatens to kill Eamon and Teal'c unless he drops out of the race. However, when O'Neill and Daniel arrive in the office with Miles Hagan, the company president, Tynan is taken into custody, and Warrick is free to pursue the race. Too far behind to win, Jarlath instead sends a transmission that disables Muirios's ship, giving the victory to La'el Montrose. La'el offers Warrick a partnership in her winning contract, and Carter looks forward to kicking butt next year.
7x9) "Avenger 2.0" (8AUG03)
Jay Felger and his research assistant, Chloe, demonstrate a prototype plasma weapon, but the test goes awry, and with too many screw-ups on his record, Felger is about to be fired. In desperation, he promises that he's on the verge of a major breakthrough, and Hammond grants him 24 hours to prove it. Felger has no choice but to grasp at a previously discarded idea, Avenger, a computer virus that will allow the SGC to target and disable a remote stargate. Hammond approves the project with Carter's collaboration, and Felger is ecstatic. His infatuation with Carter is so powerful he doesn't even notice Chloe's interest in him.
Hammond authorizes a test of Avenger on P5S-117, a mining planet controlled by Ba'al, and at first all seems to go well. However, problems soon arise. O'Neill and Teal'c, under fire from an al'kesh on P3C-249, cannot establish an outgoing wormhole. Daniel, trapped amid rising flood waters on P3L-997, also cannot dial out. The Tok'ra report that multiple gates are shutting down. Apparently Avenger has triggered an automatic system-wide correlative update of all DHDs, and the entire gate network is soon offline. All attempts to reverse the virus's damage fail, and only Earth's dialing computer is capable of dialing out.
Carter and Felger determine that their only option is to travel to Ba'al's planet and neutralize the virus at the source. On P5S-117, Felger discovers that someone, probably Ba'al, has tampered with his original program. The new virus, not Avenger, caused the gate network to shut down, but now the unexpected modifications must be neutralized as Felger and Carter come under fire from Ba'al's Jaffa. Suddenly, O'Neill and Teal'c arrive overhead in a commandeered al'kesh, and defeat the advancing Jaffa. Felger is able to redeem himself, and he successfully modifies and uploads the antivirus that restores the gate network, and his reputation, at last.
7x10) "Birthright" (15AUG03)
SG-1 encounters a group of Jaffa warrior women who request that SG-1 accompany them to their planet. The women call themselves Hak'tyl, meaning "liberation", and have given their planet outpost the same name. Their leader, Ishta, high priestess of Moloc, explains that Moloc has condemned all female newborns to death, and the Hak'tyl have been secretly rescuing the infants and raising an army of female warriors. However, they must raid Jaffa patrols to steal symbiotes for implantation in the young girls at puberty, or they will face death. Young Nesa is approaching the age, and requires a symbiote to live.
Ishta seeks an alliance with SG-1, and Carter offers her tretonin as a way to eliminate the dependence on symbiotes. At first the women refuse to consider the drug, but as Ishta and Teal'c grow to respect each other as worthy adversaries, Ishta relents and asks for volunteers to return to Earth and test the drug. Nesa's older sister, Neith, finds the idea detestable, and refuses the drug for herself or her sister, but Mala and three others volunteer to return with Carter to the SGC. The three women show improvement with the drug, but Mala does not respond well, and despite her courage, she dies.
Daniel strikes a friendship with Nesa and tells her of tretonin. Neith is outraged and gathers support among the warriors to challenge Ishta for leadership. As they engage in battle, Daniel brings word of Mala's death, and both women unite instead in their determination to procure a symbiote for Nesa. Ishta and Neith ambush a Jaffa patrol, but Neith is shot from behind and badly wounded. At the SGC, Neith refuses the tretonin that could save her life, but Nesa has accepted the drug and convinces her sister to choose life. At last, the Hak'tyl come to accept the tretonin, and a new alliance with Earth is forged.
7x11-12 "Evolution" (22AUG03 - 9JAN04)
Teal'c and Bra'tac come upon the slaughtered armies of System Lords Ramius and Tilgath, and a single warrior, cloaked in black armor that resists all energy weapons, fires at them before collapsing. At the SGC, Carter and Jacob study the fallen warrior, which appears to be a featureless synthetically engineered host to a Goa'uld symbiote, the perfect soulless foot soldier. Selmak theorizes that the creature may have been created by Anubis and given life using technology similar to an Ancient healing device once discovered by the Goa'uld Telchak, and research suggests that the device may be hidden in the jungles of Honduras.
Telchak's device could be used to defend against Anubis's new warriors, and Daniel and Dr. Lee travel to Honduras to search for it. Meanwhile, O'Neill leads SG teams to Ramius's planet with a plan to capture a living warrior. Soon a warrior does appear, bent on assassinating Ramius, but he is unaffected by force fields, tranquilizers, or weapons, and in the battle, the SG teams are captured by Ramius's forces, and imprisoned. The warrior completes his mission, and as Ramius and his Jaffa are slaughtered in battle, the SG teams make their escape by cargo ship, and capture the indestructible warrior by ringing him aboard.
In the jungles of Honduras, Daniel and Dr. Lee stumble upon an ancient buried temple, and discover Telchak's device. Almost immediately, however, they are captured by a band of revolutionaries led by Rafael, who marches them through the jungle to his camp in Nicaragua. There he threatens to kill them unless ransom is paid. Meanwhile, at the SGC, interrogation of the captured warrior reveals his loyalty to Anubis, and the location of his homeworld. SG-1 prepares to plan a mission there when word arrives from the State Department that Daniel and Dr. Lee have been kidnapped, and their fate is unknown.
Rafael is confident that the torture of Daniel and Dr. Lee will provide the information he seeks about Telchak's device, the artifact Daniel had recovered in Honduras. When Rafael discovers how to activate the device, its life-giving energy fills him with a sense of invincibility that frightens even his own men. Chalo begs him to turn it off, and Rafael kills him. Meanwhile, in a delicate rescue operation, O'Neill travels to Honduras and joins CIA operative Burke, with whom he shares a dark history, and they form an uneasy alliance in their search for Daniel.
Hoping to find a way to defend against Anubis's new warrior drones, Carter, Teal'c, Jacob, and Bra'tac journey to Tartarus where they infiltrate Anubis's base. There they discover that Anubis has used Jonas's memories of Egeria to spawn thousands of symbiote drones. In Rafael's encampment, the life-giving power of Telchak's device revives the dead body of Chalo. He arises and attacks the other men, and continues to revive despite repeated weapons fire. Daniel and Dr. Lee use the opportunity to break out of their prison, and they escape into the jungle with Rafael and his men in close pursuit.
On Tartarus, Carter, Teal'c, and Jacob are horrified to witness the gathering of an army of thousands of warrior drones who pledge their allegiance to Anubis. The team destroys the base with C4 and barely makes their escape by cargo ship, closely pursued by one of the warriors. Deep in Central America, Daniel is wounded and surrounded, just as O'Neill and Burke emerge from the jungle and kill Rafael and his men. Despite injuries, SG-1 is safely reunited at the SGC. Telchak's device has been recovered, and may provide the key to defeating Anubis's new army, which has grown to a formidable threat.
7x13) "Grace" (16JAN04) The battleship Prometheus had been left behind on Tagrea, and Carter has joined Colonel Ronson and his crew to bring the ship home using short hyperdrive bursts and regularly scheduled cool-down periods. During one such period, Carter hopes to investigate a nebula-like gaseous cloud, but the ship comes under attack by an unknown alien vessel, and must enter the cloud for cover. Carter attempts to reroute power, and is knocked unconscious when the ship suffers a hit. She awakens to find the crew gone, the escape pods jettisoned, and the badly damaged ship stranded within the cloud.
As Carter fights to stay alive, she is visited by those who are close to her, and though she realizes they are only figments of her own mind, each has an important message to share. Teal'c warns that she must stay awake, and that the aliens may be probing her mind. Daniel advises her to study the cloud, suggesting that it might be alive. Jacob urges her to allow herself to find love, and O'Neill encourages her to reexamine her feelings, promising to always be there for her. But she also repeatedly sees an enigmatic young girl named Grace, who appeals to her inner child, and then vanishes.
Carter discovers that the corrosive cloud is eroding the ship, and a hull breach is imminent. As Grace blows bubbles, Carter gets the idea to create a hyperspace bubble that will allow the subspace engines to function. She contacts the alien vessel, which is also trapped within the cloud, and offers to tow them to safety if her crew is returned. Instantly, the Prometheus crew materializes on board, and Carter activates the engines. Both ships emerge from the cloud, and the alien vessel retreats. In the SGC infirmary, Carter recovers from her concussion, knowing that she will be fine, as the memory of Grace lingers.
7x14) "Fallout" (23JAN04)
Jonas Quinn arrives from Kelowna bringing urgent news. His research has determined that naquadria, thought to be native to his planet, is in fact the result of a chain reaction that is converting naquadah deep underground, and the instability of the expanding mineral threatens to obliterate Kelowna and render the entire planet uninhabitable. Delegates from the three major powers of the planet, now known as Langara, arrive at the SGC to discuss the future of their world. However, the historic animosity among the three nations frustrates even Daniel's diplomatic skills, and the negotiations deteriorate almost immediately.
Carter returns to Kelowna and joins Jonas and his research assistant, Kianna, in finding a means to avert the crisis. Carter suggests setting off an explosion along a fault line to block the chain reaction, and the Kelownans have just the device to deliver the bomb: a Deep Underground Excavation Vehicle. Carter notices that Jonas is clearly attracted to Kianna, but she is suspicious of Kianna's knowledge of Goa'uld technology, and when confronted, Kianna reveals herself to be a Goa'uld. However, her expertise is vital, and Kianna joins Jonas, Carter, and Teal'c in piloting the DUEV through layers of rock and magma toward the naquadah vein.
The DUEV stops one kilometer short of its target, unable to proceed. Kianna volunteers to use Tok'ra crystals to create a tunnel large enough for one person to pass through and position the bomb. After arming the bomb, however, she is too weak to make the climb back, but the team refuses to leave her behind. Just as the DUEV reaches the critical point, an exhausted Kianna returns through the portal. The vehicle is piloted toward the surface as the bomb is successfully detonated and the planet is saved. Kianna is dying, but the Goa'uld sacrifices its life to allow the host to live, and Kianna returns with Jonas to her life on Kelowna.
7x15) "Chimera" (30JAN04)
Carter is enjoying a blossoming romance with Pete Shanahan, a cop from Denver. There have been several dates, and from the playful flirting it's clear that the attraction is very mutual. In fact, everything about the relationship seems right until the subject of Carter's work with "deep space telemetry" comes up. Pete knows a covert operation when he hears one, but the obstacle of security clearance is one Carter finds difficult to overcome. Meanwhile, Daniel is having relationship problems of his own. His dreams are filled with images of Sarah Gardner, images that alter the past and make no sense.
Before Sarah was taken as a host by Osiris, she and Daniel had shared a relationship that ended when work became his priority. Yet in Daniel's dreams, Sarah shares his passion, urging him to translate the Ancient texts. His restless sleep has left him exhausted, but slowly he and his teammates come to realize that more is at stake than lost sleep. Osiris has been visiting Daniel at night, probing his subconscious mind for a key to the Lost City. SG-1 devises a plan to jam her beaming technology and capture her, but only after she has succeeded in uncovering the subconscious memories from Daniel's mind.
Pete has pursued SG-1 to the stakeout of Daniel's house, and he observes as Osiris reappears. But the memories she seeks are not in Daniel's mind, and O'Neill and Teal'c move in as she draws her ribbon device. A firefight erupts in the quiet suburban neighborhood. Osiris is safely tranquilized and captured, but Pete is badly wounded. At the SGC, the symbiote of Osiris has been removed, and Sarah shares a tender reunion with Daniel. Pete, too, is recovering, and Carter, having been granted special security clearance, reveals the truth behind "deep space telemetry", and shares with him the classified details of the SGC.
7x16) "Death Knell" (6FEB04)
The Alpha Site has been relocated to a new planet for additional security, and Carter has been working in the lab to use the technology of Telchak's device to create a prototype weapon effective against Anubis's Kull Warriors. Yet despite the precautions, the Alpha Site comes under attack, and the SGC learns that the base has been obliterated and 90 people are unaccounted for. O'Neill leads the rescue mission to the planet and finds a handful of survivors, including Jacob, but Carter is still missing. Badly wounded, and with no means of defense, she is being relentlessly pursued by a Kull Warrior.
O'Neill and Teal'c continue the search for Carter, aided by aerial surveillance from a UAV, while survivors return to the SGC, and Hammond begins an investigation into the security leak that led to the attack. M'zel, leader among the Rebel Jaffa, speaks of his growing distrust of the Tok'ra, of a secret mission, and a Tok'ra spy. Delek, a Tok'ra leader, refuses to acknowledge the existence of a spy, and when Jacob confronts him, he declares that many among the Tok'ra High Council believe Selmak's ties to Earth have compromised his loyalties. Jaffa and Tok'ra blame each other, and the alliance begins to crumble.
The Kull Warrior shoots down the UAV, and Carter rewires the rockets from the downed craft as a weapon against the drone soldier. Her plan works, but only temporarily. As the creature revives and turns on her, O'Neill and Teal'c arrive with the prototype weapon, and with Carter's new power unit, the Kull Warrior is killed. At the SGC, both the Tok'ra and Jaffa feel they can no longer afford to be a part of the alliance, and they prepare to take their leave. Jacob hopes the alliance can yet be salvaged, but as he bids farewell to his daughter, neither knows when they will see each other again.
7x17-18) "Heroes" (13FEB04-20FEB04)
The outgoing president, aware that the Stargate Program will one day be made public, uses the occasion of the 1000th trip through the stargate to authorize a documentary film chronicling the SGC. Filmmaker Emmett Bregman finds a less than warm reception at the SGC, and Hammond agrees to cooperate only to the letter of his orders. Daniel is unable to elaborate about the experience of ascension, Teal'c's stoic silence and Carter's enthusiastic technobabble hardly make for riveting footage, and O'Neill manages to deftly avoid the camera at every turn. Most frustrating of all, Bregman is absolutely denied access to any ongoing activity.
SG-13, under the command of Colonel Dixon, arrives on P3X-666, and archaeologist Balinsky is ecstatic to find the ruins of an Ancient city. As he works, Airman Simon Wells passes the time with his teammates and shares a sonogram image of his unborn child. Suddenly, a hovering probe appears and fires at the team. SG-13 returns fire, disabling the device, and sends it back to the SGC for study. Meanwhile, Dr. Lee and Sergeant Siler demonstrate a prototype ceramic polymer vest, and Senator Kinsey offers a hypocritically grand prepared speech as Bregman continues his futile attempts to capture the SGC on film.
Unable to document ongoing missions, Bregman approaches Daniel and suggests that he take the opportunity to occasionally use his video camera to record action rather than artifacts, but he only seems to find cooperation from Dr. Fraiser, with whom he develops a rapport. Carter and Daniel study the recovered alien probe and discover that it had sent a remote transmission before it was destroyed. However, the warning to SG-13 comes too late. They come under fire from Jaffa ships, and Airman Wells is severely wounded. Despite fear of an ambush, Hammond authorizes a rescue mission, and the teams depart through the gate.
O'Neill leads three SG teams and Dr. Fraiser on a rescue mission to P3X-666 where SG-13 is engulfed in a firefight with an army of Jaffa. As the battle rages, O'Neill is struck in the chest by a staff weapon blast and falls to the ground, unmoving. When the teams return to the SGC, Carter is visibly distraught, and there is word of casualties, but filmmaker Emmett Bregman's inquiries meet a wall of silence. Richard Woolsey of the NID is sent by Senator Kinsey to review Hammond's command decision in ordering the rescue, but he too finds little cooperation as he interrogates Carter, Daniel, and Teal'c.
Bregman requests access to Daniel's videotape, in which he captured his and Dr. Fraiser's desperate attempts to save the life of Airman Wells. However, when Hammond is finally ordered to turn over the tape, Bregman watches in horror as the critically wounded Wells pleads to say goodbye to his wife, a staff weapon fires - and Dr. Fraiser is struck. Now, days later, Airman Wells is recovering, a prototype vest has saved Colonel O'Neill, but Dr. Fraiser is gone. At the memorial service, Carter honors Fraiser's memory by recalling the names of the many people who are alive today because of Janet Fraiser.
Airman Wells has nearly recovered, and Daniel visits him at his home. There he meets Wells's wife and newborn daughter, whom they have named Janet. At the SGC, the first cut of Bregman's documentary is completed, and it is not the invasive reality piece that Hammond expected. It is instead a powerful and touching homage to the men and women who serve their country. With profound respect, Hammond promises his cooperation in obtaining the final piece that would make the film complete. Finally, a deeply moved Colonel O'Neill willingly sits before the camera to add his support to Bregman's tribute.
7x19) "Resurrection" (27FEB04)
A Los Angeles warehouse is the scene of a horrific massacre. Agent Barrett explains to Carter, Daniel, and Teal'c that the site had been used for research by a rogue NID sleeper cell, but now 32 are dead, a singularly smug and uncooperative scientist named Keffler is the only survivor, and the murderer is in custody, a fragile young woman in a glass cage. The warehouse contains a lab with human-like fetuses, and a room full of artifacts belonging to the Goa'uld Sekhmet. An ornamental ark, in particular, holds a frightening discovery, a bomb set to go off in a matter of hours.
Daniel speaks to the shy young woman, named Anna. She insists she is innocent, but has no memory of the murders. She adds that Keffler is the one who made her, and the frightening drawings she has made reflect the nightmarish images of her dreams. The team learns that Anna is in fact an experiment, a human-Goa'uld hybrid intended as a conduit to the secrets of the Goa'uld, but instead she has developed a second personality, that of Sekhmet herself. As Teal'c and Dr. Lee desperately try to disarm the Goa'uld bomb, Daniel hopes that Anna's Goa'uld memories will hold the key.
Daniel discovers a small remote device which Keffler had used to force Sekhmet to emerge, and which could also kill her. With it, Keffler had used Anna to orchestrate the murders, and now she will soon die a horrible death as her DNA is rewritten. Daniel finds the deactivation code for the bomb among Anna's drawings, but Sekhmet emerges and sets fire to her cell in order to escape. Seizing a gun and the remote device, Sekhmet confronts Keffler, but it is Anna who pulls the trigger, killing him, then uses the remote to take her own life and spare the world from the evil that had created her.
7x20) "Inauguration" (5MAR04)
Newly elected President Hayes is enjoying his first day in office when he is briefed by General Maynard, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and learns for the first time of the existence of the Stargate Program. Immediately he confronts Kinsey, now his vice president, furious that his own running mate hadn't shared the information with him. Kinsey, however, shares instead his determination to remove Hammond and SG-1, and take control of the SGC. It's a decision that the president needs time to consider, and he meets with Kinsey, Maynard, and Woolsey, who has completed his investigation of the SGC, to hear their evidence.
As Woolsey presents evidence of poor judgment and misconduct at the SGC, and Kinsey cites incidents of insubordination and alien influence, Maynard strongly defends the men and women of the SGC as heroes. In fact, Maynard insists, with the rise of Anubis and his powerful new warriors, Earth's best hope is to allow SG-1 to do their job and save the planet once more. President Hayes is suspicious of the motivations and shady connections of his running mate, but he is also keenly aware of the political implications of the situation. Even as the Commander in Chief, he may not be able to protect SG-1.
Woolsey begins to have concerns about the sinister liaisons of the vice president, and he returns to the SGC to meet with Hammond. He believes that Hammond's abrupt retirement and return to duty three years earlier suggests blackmail, and that evidence must exist of Kinsey's nefarious connections. Hammond considers carefully, then passes him a copy of the computer disk containing incriminating evidence against Kinsey that O'Neill and Maybourne had retrieved from Kinsey's computer. Returning to Washington, Woolsey delivers the computer disk to President Hayes, hoping that one day history will show that he tried to do the right thing.
7x21-22) "Lost City" (12MAR04-19MAR04)
Ancient writings on P3X-439 speak of an Ancient repository which could be similar to the device found on P3R-272. Hammond authorizes a mission to extract the device and return it for study, hoping that it will hold the key to the Lost City and technology that could save Earth from Anubis. As SG-1 searches the ruins, the repository device materializes, but when Anubis's fleet launches an attack on the planet, SG-1 can't allow the vital information to be lost, nor to fall into the hands of Anubis. With no option remaining, O'Neill places his head in the device, and the Ancient knowledge is downloaded into his mind.
SG-1 hopes that the knowledge within O'Neill will reveal the location of the Lost City, but they know that unless a way is found to reverse the technology, the Ancient knowledge will overwrite O'Neill's brain and eventually kill him. Meanwhile, in Washington DC, Dr. Elizabeth Weir, an expert in international politics, meets with Vice President Kinsey and learns of the Stargate Program. She is even more astounded, however, when President Hayes, recognizing the political need to shift from military to civilian control of the SGC, relieves General Hammond of command, and offers command of the Stargate Program to her.
As Dr. Weir attempts to come to terms with the immense task of running the SGC, Bra'tac arrives through the stargate bringing ominous news. Anubis is gathering the full force of his fleet and will arrive in three days. Weir meets with SG-1 and Bra'tac, as well as Kinsey, who scoffs at Bra'tac's warning. Kinsey threatens that Weir mustn't cross him, but Weir refuses to be a puppet to his agenda. She recognizes O'Neill's sacrifice, and agrees to allow O'Neill and SG-1 the time to draw on the Ancient knowledge in O'Neill's mind that could be the last chance to save the planet.
As the knowledge of the Ancients that could save Earth begins slowly rewriting Colonel O'Neill's brain, random words from O'Neill provide a clue. Praclarush Taonas may be the Lost City they seek, but when SG-1 journeys to the distant planet, they find a world lost in fire beneath lava flows. However, a preserved subterranean chamber holds a unique power source and a throne-like chair which O'Neill activates to create a holographic map that leads back to Earth. The key to the Lost City, "Terra Atlantus," lies beneath the ice of Antarctica.
Anubis's fleet has arrived in Earth's orbit and has begun testing the planet's defenses. President Hayes meets with his advisors in the Oval Office, but without the Ancient technology, Earth is defenseless. As SG-1 returns from Taonas with the power source retrieved from the planet, O'Neill's condition grows more advanced. He possesses both the knowledge and the healing power of the Ancients, but has lost the ability to communicate. Kinsey attempts to relieve Dr. Weir of command, but the President dismisses him and supports Weir's recommendation to defend SG-1's ship at all costs. He launches Prometheus, with Hammond at the helm.
As Prometheus and a fleet of F-302s engage Anubis's fleet in a mammoth battle above Antarctica, SG-1 rings down to a familiar chamber beneath the ice. With the new power source, O'Neill activates an identical chair, and summons the power of the Ancients. The ground opens, and a stream of thousands of flying glowing energy drones swarms to the surface and annihilates the enemy fleet. Earth has been saved, but O'Neill is near death. A cryogenic chamber encases him, but the small outpost provides no answers. O'Neill and the Ancient knowledge he possesses are lost, held in suspended animation beneath the Antarctic ice.
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8x1-2) "New Order" (9JUL04)
O'Neill's activation of the Ancient defense weapon had destroyed Anubis's fleet in the battle to save Earth. Now his mind has succumbed to the Ancient knowledge, and he remains in stasis in Antarctica as Ba'al, taking advantage of the power vacuum, dominates the System Lords. SG-1 hopes the Asgard can restore O'Neill, and Carter and Teal'c journey to Hala, hoping to make contact with Thor. There they learn that Thor has created a black hole to destroy the Replicators on Hala. Thor beams Carter and Teal'c safely aboard his ship, but they watch in horror as the Replicators escape the black hole's event horizon.
At the SGC, a transmission arrives from Camulus, who proposes a treaty between Earth and the System Lords in an attempt to prevent Ba'al's conquest of the galaxy. Dr. Weir, in command of the SGC, agrees to pursue negotiations despite her mistrust of the Goa'uld's motives, and Camulus, Amaterasu, and Yu arrive at the SGC. They offer an alliance if Earth will agree to use the Ancient weapon to defeat Ba'al, unaware that only O'Neill can activate the device and Earth is vulnerable without him. Weir counters with a bluff, and the Goa'uld send a coded message before abruptly breaking off negotiations.
As Thor pursues the Replicators, Carter is suddenly beamed onto the Replicator ship, a prisoner of Fifth. Although Fifth's humanity had granted him compassion, his betrayal by SG-1 had taught him cruelty and revenge, and he reaches into Carter's mind with horrific images of torture. At Orilla, the Replicator ship encounters an Asgard fleet and is destroyed, and there is no sign that Carter has survived. Meanwhile, at the SGC, the System Lords prepare to leave, but their departure is prevented when an incoming message reveals that a Goa'uld ship approaches to test Earth's defenses. It will arrive within the hour.
At the SGC, Camulus, Amaterasu, and Yu are held as prisoners as they await the arrival of the Goa'uld ship sent to test Earth's defenses, but the ship instead falls to Ba'al. Dr. Weir determines that her prisoners are of more value battling Ba'al, but when offered freedom, Camulus instead requests asylum on Earth. Meanwhile, the Asgard homeworld of Orilla is threatened with annihilation when debris from Fifth's destroyed Replicator ship rains down upon the planet and begins to replicate. Believing that the Ancient knowledge stored in O'Neill's mind may be the key to eliminating the Replicators, Thor and Teal'c return to Earth.
Thor beams both Daniel and O'Neill aboard his ship. From within a stasis pod, O'Neill's mind merges with the ship's computers and he uses the knowledge of the Ancients to create a disruptor device, a weapon effective against the Replicators, before his condition deteriorates and Thor must revive him from stasis. On Orilla, Carter remains a prisoner of Fifth, who has entered her mind and created the illusion of a tranquil life with Pete Shanahan. Carter realizes the fantasy isn't real, and, startled by Fifth's admission that he loves her, she rejects him and appeals to his compassion to let her go.
By tapping into the Replicator network, Thor locates Carter on Orilla, and SG-1 battles the Replicators on the planet as Thor synthesizes a larger version of the disruptor weapon. A tearful Fifth releases Carter, and escapes by ship as the weapon successfully eliminates the Replicators on the planet. Back at the SGC, both Hammond and Weir have been promoted, and O'Neill accepts a promotion to brigadier general, taking command of the SGC and promoting Carter to lieutenant colonel. Meanwhile, aboard the Replicator ship, Fifth watches in awe as he welcomes his new creation, a human-form Replicator in the image of Samantha Carter.
8x3) "Lockdown" (23JUL04)
Cosmonaut Anatole Konstantinov pilots the International Space Station as a shadowy black cloud emerges from space debris and enters the craft. Alexi Vaselov, a highly decorated Russian officer, arrives at the SGC, hoping for a position on SG-1, but while speaking with Daniel he mysteriously collapses. Dr. Brightman suspects a contagion, and O'Neill shuts down the gate, preventing Daniel and his team from departing. However Daniel suddenly becomes violent, demanding that the gate be activated, and he wounds two airmen before being shot himself. Daniel, Vaselov, and Konstantinov exhibit similar symptoms, and O'Neill initiates security precautions. The SGC is under lockdown.
Both Daniel and Vaselov recall vague flashes of memory as if an alien presence had taken control of their bodies, and it is Daniel's memories that provide the key to identifying the intruder. The non-corporeal entity of Anubis had survived the battle over Antarctica and is now taking hosts in an attempt to escape from Earth. The shapeless entity continues to move among SGC personnel before finally retreating into the walls of the facility, and although the hosts he claims are left unharmed, Vaselov's condition continues to deteriorate due to the length of his exposure. He is not expected to survive.
SG-1 establishes security zones within the base that will prevent Anubis from escaping through the gate and will force him to risk using his ascended powers, revealing himself to the Others. Anubis makes his move, first entering Carter to override the security protocols, then taking O'Neill as a host to escape through the gate. However Vaselov, aware of his terminal condition, sacrifices himself and demands that Anubis take him as a host instead. Anubis obliges and escapes through the stargate, however Carter had altered the dialing sequence, sending him to an unexpected destination, the barren, frozen wasteland of KS7-353.
8x4) "Zero Hour" (30JUL04)
The President is due to visit the SGC in five days, and recently promoted General O'Neill has his hands full. Personnel files, bunting samples, and menu items demand his attention, Mark Gilmor, a new administrative aide, arrives at the base, as do quarrelling delegates from Amra, an alien plant from P6J-908 has been brought back for study by Dr. Lee, and SG-1 proposes a mission to P2X-887, which may hold weapons technology. O'Neill delays SG-1's mission, investigates the seedling in Dr. Lee's lab, locks the bickering Amrans in a room for a "time out," and, overwhelmed, begins to draft a letter to General Hammond.
It's four days to zero hour, and SG-1 and SG-3 embark for P2X-887, but shortly after SG-1 rings into a secret facility, SG-3 comes under attack by an alkesh. Meanwhile, Dr. Lee's plant has grown to enormous proportions, and even a machete and a blow torch fail to hold it at bay. As O'Neill orders backup for SG-1, Ba'al appears as a hologram, claiming to have captured SG-1, and offering to exchange them for Camulus. Camulus is willing to leave Earth, and offers a gate address for his freedom, an address that leads to a ZPM. Suddenly, the base loses power as the encroaching alien plant infiltrates the walls, and O'Neill's letter becomes a resignation.
Zero hour approaches, and Dr. Lee eradicates the plant using gamma radiation, which also reveals an anomaly in the ZPM. It has been booby trapped and could have destroyed the planet. O'Neill sends Camulus through the gate to Ba'al, but the exchange is made and SG-1 is not returned. Suddenly SG-1 dials in under fire. They had never been Ba'al's prisoners, but had been trapped in the secret lab. Once they are safely returned, the SGC prepares for the President's arrival, and Gilmor confesses he has come to respect O'Neill's leadership. O'Neill leaves for the ceremony, having completed his letter of resignation: "Never mind."
8x5) "Icon" (6AUG04)
Daniel awakens in a farmhouse on another world where he is recovering from serious injuries. It has been three months since SG-1 first arrived on the planet, and he has only vague recollections of the events that led to his injuries and the destruction of the city. The Rand Protectorate had considered the stargate a museum relic until it had suddenly activated and SG-1 made first contact. Commander Gareth and his aide, Jared Kane, had welcomed them, but SG-1's arrival also sparked the rise of religious fundamentalists who followed a zealot named Soren and who believed their gods would one day return through the gate.
The Rand Protectorate and the Caledonian Federation had been locked in a cold war for decades, but when Soren and his rebels seized control of Rand, he initiated a global war which devastated both nations within days. Both Daniel and Kane had been wounded in the attack, and now Daniel is recovering under the care of Kane's wife, Leda, as SG-1 tries desperately to learn if he is alive. SG-1's attempts to negotiate with Soren fail, but they learn Daniel's fate when an open wormhole allows Daniel to make radio contact with the SGC and to send a message coded with Goa'uld words.
As Soren's rebels execute all nonbelievers throughout the countryside, Kane and a handful of followers return to the farmhouse, and Daniel appeals to Leda to convince her husband to accept the SGC's help to defeat Soren. Four SG teams arrive through the gate and join Kane and his men in a coordinated attack on Soren's bunker. Soren refuses to surrender, and as his command crumbles, he emerges from the bunker to face his attackers alone. Kane fires the single shot that kills Soren, and fear lingers that the madman will be seen as a martyr as the nation faces the long task of rebuilding.
8x6) "Avatar" (13AUG04)
A Kull Warrior has breached the gateroom, and there are many casualties, including O'Neill. When Teal'c succeeds in eliminating the warrior, there is a brilliant flash of light, and Teal'c awakens from the virtual reality chair in which he has just completed a training scenario under the supervision of Dr. Lee. However, the chair's programming doesn't provide a sufficient challenge, and Teal'c agrees to help test the system, allowing it to learn and adapt its programming to his experience as a warrior. Teal'c reenters the game, but when he is killed by a virtual warrior, the chair administers an electric shock as it resets.
With each reset of the game, the scenario adapts. One warrior becomes two, and then a third is cloaked, the armor adapts to the energy weapon, and a naquadah reactor is set to overload by a Goa'uld whose identity continually changes. Only Teal'c can initiate the safety protocol to remove himself from the game, but as the cumulative effect of the pain stimuli becomes critical, Dr. Lee and Dr. Carmichael begin to fear that the game might kill him. Exhausted, Teal'c activates the failsafe, but the game will not let him quit. It has learned that in reality Teal'c would never give up.
With no way to release Teal'c from his virtual world, the only option is to win the game. Carter connects a second chair to the matrix, allowing Daniel to enter the game with Teal'c, and together they defeat the Kull Warriors and are joined by O'Neill and Carter. In the final challenge, they must determine the identity of the Goa'uld to prevent the overload of the naquadah reactor, and SG-1 faces each other in a tense standoff as the device becomes critical. Carter aborts the overload, but it is Siler who is the Goa'uld, and Teal'c fires his weapon. The game ends, and they have won. Responds O'Neill, "It's what we do."
8x7) "Affinity" (20AUG04)
Teal'c has been granted permission to live off base on the condition that he maintain a low profile. His neighbor, Krista James, has struck up a friendship and asks him to teach her the martial art form of lok'nel. However, Krista is in an abusive relationship with her boyfriend, Doug, and when Teal'c threatens to kill Doug if he ever hurts Krista again, a neighbor witnesses his warning. In fact, someone with a surveillance camera has been watching Teal'c ever since he moved off base. One evening, Teal'c returns home to find Krista very upset, and she begs him to take her away.
Teal'c and Krista spend the night together in a motel, but the next morning Krista is gone, and officers, acting on a tip, arrest Teal'c for murder and kidnapping, informing him that Doug was found dead in Krista's apartment. Meanwhile, Carter is taken by surprise when Pete Shanahan produces a ring and asks her to marry him. She needs time to consider his proposal, but she later turns to him for help in investigating the case against Teal'c. At the SGC, Daniel receives a mysterious phone call offering evidence of Teal'c's innocence in exchange for his translation of text written in Ancient.
Daniel meets with members of the rogue NID, now calling themselves the Trust. It was the Trust who had been shadowing Teal'c, who had framed him for murder after Krista had accidentally killed Doug in self-defense, and now they have kidnapped Krista and are threatening to kill her unless Daniel cooperates. He reluctantly completes the translation, and once it is uploaded and confirmed, his captors vanish in a beam of light, just as SWAT teams move in. As Teal'c, bids farewell to his neighbors and returns to his quarters on the base, Carter has considered her answer to Pete, and she accepts his proposal.
8x08) "Covenant" (27AUG04)
Billionaire industrialist Alec Colson calls a press conference and announces to the world that he has proof of extraterrestrial life and a political cover-up. Insisting that the people have a right to know the truth, Colson gives the governments of the world 24 hours to reveal the truth or he will do it for them. Carter and Daniel fly to Seattle to meet with Colson, hoping to convince him not to go public, but neither they nor Colson's business partner, Brian Vogler, can dissuade him. After 24 hours, Colson again addresses the media and presents his astonishing proof - a living Asgard.
SG-1 determines that Colson's lab must have used Asgard DNA to grow a clone, but to put a stop to the media speculation, O'Neill calls in a favor from Thor, and instantly Colson's clone and his research vanish in a beam of light. To discredit Colson's claims, Carter appears on Julia Donovan's news broadcast and gives the world the impression that Colson's clone was nothing more than holographic special effects. Meanwhile, Colson prepares to fly to Washington, but his plane is sabotaged and forced to land. Carter proposes a new strategy, to tell Colson the truth, hoping he'll recognize the need for secrecy.
Carter gives Colson the tour of both the SGC and the Alpha Site and offers a warning about the Trust, but Colson is more determined than ever that the world should know the truth. Upon returning to Earth, Colson learns that he has been framed for securities fraud, and his corporate empire is on the verge of collapse. Even worse, it was Brian who had been blackmailed by the Trust to turn him in. Despondent, Brian commits suicide, and a guilt-ridden Colson contemplates taking his own life until Carter offers him an opportunity to enter her world of secrecy and begin his life again off-world.
8x9) "Sacrifices" (10SEP04)
Teal'c is in a foul mood. Ishta, leader of the female Hak'tyl warriors, refuses to wait for the Jaffa rebellion to gather strength and insists that the Goa'uld Moloc must be defeated now. Of greater concern to Teal'c, however, is that his son, Rya'c, is betrothed to Kar'yn, a Hak'tyl warrior, and plans to be married in three days. Soon Ishta arrives with word that the Hak'tyl must evacuate their world. O'Neill offers them temporary sanctuary, and the entire Hak'tyl nation arrives at the SGC. There the wedding rehearsal proceeds, but neither Kar'yn nor Rya'c will kneel in respect, and they declare their engagement is broken.
A message from Ishta's contact requests a summit, and she and Teal'c travel off-world to meet with Rebel Jaffa leaders. However, the summit is ambushed by Moloc's Jaffa. Although Teal'c, Ishta, and Aron narrowly escape, they have no supply of tretonin, and Teal'c and Ishta grow weaker. During the night, Ishta is captured by Moloc and tortured mercilessly. Teal'c is uncertain if Aron can be trusted, but he contacts the SGC and plans a coordinated attack. The SGC launches a UAV with a supply of tretonin and a laser-targeting device for a guided missile attack, but the craft is shot down by Moloc's Jaffa.
Aron proves his loyalty when he rescues Teal'c from an ambush, and they salvage the tretonin and the laser from the downed UAV. As Moloc prepares to return to his homeworld, the stargate suddenly activates. Teal'c single-handedly rescues Ishta as Aron points the laser beam directly at Moloc and guides the SGC missiles that arrive through the gate to their target. Moloc is defeated, but his domain will soon be claimed by Ba'al. At the SGC, Rya'c and Kar'yn have reconciled, Bra'tac presides over their wedding ceremony, and the Hak'tyl depart to their new homeworld where they will be safe to continue their fight for freedom.
8x10) "Endgame" (17SEP04)
In a brilliant flash of light, the stargate suddenly vanishes from the gateroom. Surveillance footage suggests that the theft may be the work of the Trust, who may be using locator beacons with Asgard beaming technology and operating from a base aboard Osiris's abandoned alkesh. SG teams trace a locator signal to a warehouse where they find a stockpile of rockets and vials of liquid later determined to be symbiote poison. It seems that the Trust intends to use the rockets and the poison to launch a full scale chemical attack through the stolen stargate against Goa'uld worlds without regard for the loss of Jaffa lives.
Teal'c has been off-world meeting with Rebel leaders. He is reunited with M'zel, and together they make the horrifying discovery that several Goa'uld worlds have been targeted by symbiote poison and millions of Jaffa are dead. They seek to contact Zarin, a Tok'ra operative on P3S-114, but shortly after their arrival, missiles come through the gate and everyone but Teal'c is instantly killed. Meanwhile, at Area 51, Carter and Daniel encounter Dr. Bricksdale. Eventually he confesses to having used Osiris's wrist device to help the Trust gain access to the alkesh, and he is reluctantly persuaded to cooperate with the SGC.
When Carter is mistakenly beamed aboard the cloaked alkesh, Daniel uses the wrist device to gain access to the ship and to disable it so that it can be targeted by Prometheus. However, both Carter and Daniel become prisoners of the Trust aboard the ship, as Prometheus awaits O'Neill's order to fire. Suddenly Teal'c arrives through the onboard stargate, SG-1 subdues the enemy and signals the locator beacon, allowing Prometheus to beam both the team and the stargate aboard as the alkesh vanishes into hyperspace. The stargate is restored, but the Trust remains at large with beaming technology, symbiote poison, and a fully functional alkesh.
8x11) "Gemini" (21JAN05)
The SGC receives an unscheduled off-world gate activation, and as SG-1 gathers to view the incoming video transmission, they are astonished to see an image of Colonel Carter. The image explains that she is a Replicator, made by Fifth in Carter's image, and she has come to warn of Fifth's arrival in the galaxy. She fears Fifth, who has found a cipher to make all the Replicators but herself immune to the disruptor technology, and she wishes to be destroyed. Carter recommends that SG-1 gain useful information from the Replicator duplicate before destroying her, and O'Neill reluctantly agrees to a meeting off-world.
At the Alpha Site, Teal'c and Carter meet the Replicator double and offer her protection for her cooperation in finding a cipher that will make the disruptor effective again. The Replicator agrees, but as she accesses the subspace link to seek the information, she instead contacts Fifth and assures him that his plan is working and the humans have begun to trust her. As Carter and her double cooperate in running simulations, Thor sends a disruptor satellite which Teal'c deploys in orbit. When the cipher and the modification are found and uploaded, the satellite will be capable of defeating Fifth's forces.
As Fifth's ship approaches the Alpha Site, Replicator Carter announces that she has located the cipher and completed the modification of the disruptor. Before it can be uploaded to the satellite, however, the Replicator fires the unmodified weapon and Fifth's ship is destroyed. Fifth had never been immune. Replicator Carter had deceived them all, used the cipher herself, and destroyed her creator, whom she saw as pathetic and weak. Intent on ruling the galaxy herself, Replicator Carter easily overcomes the security on the base, escapes through the stargate, and reunites with her brethren, who are now immune to Earth's only defense against them.
8x12) "Prometheus Unbound" (28JAN05)
There has been no word from the Atlantis expedition since their departure. With the Prometheus now capable of intergalactic travel, General Hammond, the new head of Homeworld Security, has named himself commander of the first Prometheus mission to Atlantis, and he selects Daniel to join the mission. En route, Prometheus picks up a distress signal and diverts to investigate. They find a disabled alkesh and cargo ship, but suddenly the rings activate and a Kull Warrior transports from the alkesh aboard Prometheus. The Warrior systematically disables the Prometheus crew and rings them aboard the stranded alkesh before escaping in Prometheus.
Only Daniel remains aboard the Prometheus with the Kull Warrior as Hammond's crew struggles to repair the alkesh. Hammond rings aboard the cargo ship with minimal life support to retrieve crystals that will enable Dr. Novak to make repairs to the alkesh. Meanwhile, Daniel awakens aboard the Prometheus where he has been subdued and restrained, but to his surprise, the Kull Warrior removes its helmet, revealing an attractive woman in the armor. Her name is Vala, and she claims she was once host to a Goa'uld and she now needs the Prometheus to rescue the last of her people.
Daniel manages to free himself and battles Vala for control of the ship, however she has already programmed the ship's destination, and Prometheus enters hyperspace, arriving at the planet Vala had designated. There are no refugees there, only an alien with whom Vala intended to do business, and as the ship comes under attack by Goa'uld vessels, Prometheus attempts to escape under fire. Suddenly, Hammond's crew arrives in the repaired alkesh and eliminates the enemy ships. The Prometheus has been recovered, but must return to Earth for repairs. En route, however, Vala escapes custody, rings aboard the alkesh, and disappears into hyperspace.
8x13) "It's Good to Be King" (4FEB05)
SG-1 receives word that the System Lord Ares has fled Ba'al's forces and plans to reclaim a planet in his former domain as a refuge. However, the planet is now home to Harry Maybourne, and O'Neill sends SG-1 to fetch Maybourne before Ares arrives. On the planet, however, SG-1 discovers that the simple people know Maybourne as King Arkhan, a prophet and beloved leader. King Arkhan has foretold the arrival of the enemy as well as the offworlders who will save their planet, and Maybourne later confesses to SG-1 that his prophecies come from temple ruins with Ancient writings that reveal events that have yet to happen.
The temple writings reveal that an Ancient had once used a ship to travel through time, and a search of the area uncovers a small spacecraft containing a time travel device. The ship can only be operated by someone who possesses the Ancient gene, and O'Neill arrives through the gate, hoping to recover the technology. Carter attempts to make the ship flight worthy as O'Neill and Maybourne unsuccessfully attempt to convince the people to abandon their world. Time is running out, however, and as Ares's mothership appears in orbit, his Jaffa and First Prime, Trelak, arrive through the stargate to conquer the planet.
Trelak and his Jaffa take control of the village and investigate the area around the Ancient temple. Carter completes the repairs to the ship just as they are discovered and are fired upon, while in the village, Teal'c, Daniel, and Maybourne battle the Jaffa, and Trelak faces death at the hands of Teal'c. Through the power of his mind, O'Neill pilots the Ancient ship into orbit and destroys the mothership with a well placed shot. The prophecy has come true, and the offworlders have defeated the enemy of old. SG-1 prepares to depart, but Maybourne has chosen to remain, unwilling to abandon his new home, his people, and his wives.
8x14) "Full Alert" (11FEB05) O'Neill arrives at home to find ex-Vice President Kinsey in his living room. Kinsey has been approached by members of the Trust and he insists that the fate of the planet depends upon O'Neill's cooperation to take down the clandestine organization. Kinsey wears a wire and meets with the Trust, who want him to arrange a meeting with Russian Defense Minister General Kiselev, but the surveillance signal is jammed, and when SG-1 moves in, Kinsey and the Trust have vanished. Knowing that the Trust possesses a cloaked alkesh, O'Neill orders the launch of Prometheus and sends Daniel to Moscow to coordinate with the Russians.
In Moscow, Daniel attempts to meet with General Kiselev, but he is detained by the Russian military and held for questioning. He is informed that Kinsey has been arrested for an assassination attempt on Kiselev, and that Kinsey is now a Goa'uld. Meanwhile, as the Russians go on heightened alert, the US goes to DEFCON 3, and Colonel Chekov arrives at the SGC to coordinate with O'Neill. Carter theorizes that the Trust has been implanted with Goa'uld symbiotes and is intent on infiltrating government and military leaders. Both the Russians and the Americans believe the other has been compromised, and the nations go to DEFCON 2.
Daniel meets with Kinsey, and they are transported aboard the Prometheus, but Kinsey escapes from custody and rings himself aboard the cloaked alkesh. There he acquires a wrist device and vanishes before the Prometheus fires and destroys the ship. Meanwhile, as the nations reach DEFCON 1, O'Neill and Chekov attempt to convince the Russian president that Kiselev has been compromised by the Goa'uld who intend to instigate a global war and gain control of the Ancient weapon in Antarctica. Kiselev prepares to launch missiles, and the world waits on the brink of war. Then the SGC receives word. The Russians are standing down.
8x15) "Citizen Joe" (18FEB05)
For the second week in a row, O'Neill finds an intruder in his home. The nervous man pointing a gun at him is Joe Spencer, a barber from Indiana, who declares that O'Neill has ruined his life. Seven years ago, Joe had purchased an unusual etched black stone at a garage sale, and the instant he touched it, his mind saw vivid flashes of the stargate activation, and SG-1. He began sharing the adventures of the stone's images with his family and customers, and soon the whole town had heard the stories of a team of explorers known as SG-1 and their fearless leader Colonel Jack O'Neill.
Over the years, Joe continued to share the saga of SG-1, which was met at first with great enthusiasm, but as his customers began to lose interest, his wife, Sharlene, encouraged him to write the stories down instead. However, she became increasingly concerned as his obsession grew, his customers dwindled, and he began to insist that SG-1 and Colonel O'Neill were real. Seven years of writing and submitting his stories had only yielded 326 rejections, and eventually Joe lost his house, his business, and his wife, who pleaded with him to seek help for manic psychosis combined with grandiose delusions.
As Joe stands in O'Neill's kitchen, he insists he is not crazy, that he knows about the SGC, the Goa'uld, and O'Neill's fondness for the Simpsons. O'Neill brings Joe to the SGC where it is discovered that his stone matches one recovered from P3R-233, and that the pair works as a long-range communication device. Both Joe and O'Neill possess the Ancient gene, making their psychic link possible, and as Joe had witnessed O'Neill's adventures, O'Neill admits to experiencing visions of the life of a barber for seven years. Joe is reunited with Sharlene, but this time General O'Neill joins them, and begins to tell Sharlene an incredible story.
8x16-17) "Reckoning" (25FEB05-4MAR05)
Ba'al commands the System Lords, but now faces an even more formidable enemy in the Replicators. Even as Bra'tac and SG-1 prepare to launch a Rebel attack against the Goa'uld, their ship is attacked by Replicators, and Daniel is beamed away. Jacob arrives at the SGC and informs O'Neill that an all-out war has begun, and the Replicators will overrun the galaxy in a matter of weeks. The Jaffa rebellion also faces collapse as many rebels, fearful of the new menace, are repledging their loyalty to the Goa'uld. To revive the Jaffa rebellion, Teal'c proposes recapturing the most holy and symbolic temple of Dakara.
Carter and Thor cooperate to modify the disruptor weapon, however the Replicators quickly adapt and are once again immune to the technology. Meanwhile, Daniel finds himself a prisoner aboard Replicator Carter's ship, and she probes his subconscious mind, seeking the knowledge of the Ancients buried there. The sacred planet of Dakara falls quickly to the Rebel Jaffa forces, and Ba'al brings word to the Goa'uld lord whom he secretly serves. It is Anubis, who has survived his frozen banishment and taken a new host. Anubis orders his forces to disengage the battle with the Replicators and retake the temple at Dakara.
Replicator Carter succeeds in accessing the knowledge of the Ancients in Daniel's mind and learns that the one weapon in all the galaxy capable of destroying her is hidden within the ruins on Dakara. As the Rebel Jaffa prepare to defend Dakara from Ba'al's advancing fleet, Ba'al appears as a hologram at the SGC. He too has learned of the weapon on Dakara but he warns O'Neill that it must be destroyed before his fleet arrives to reclaim it. The weapon is capable of annihilating all life in the galaxy, and there is only one who would use it and survive such pervasive devastation - Anubis.
Anubis intends to use the Ancient device on Dakara to annihilate all life in the galaxy, and he has ordered Ba'al's fleet to reclaim it. Carter and Jacob gate to Dakara to locate and destroy the device before Ba'al arrives, and together they access the temple's chamber. Readings indicate that the device is similar to disruptor technology, and before destroying it, Carter and Jacob consider that it may be possible to modify the output of the device to be effective only against Replicators. However, to prevent the Replicators from adapting, the device would need to be activated throughout the entire stargate network simultaneously.
Ba'al's fleet arrives at Dakara where he is presented with an unusual proposition. With his cooperation to reprogram the stargate network, the Ancient weapon can defeat the Replicators in every corner of the galaxy at once. Ba'al agrees as Jacob continues to recalibrate the device. Meanwhile, Daniel remains a prisoner of Replicator Carter, who probes his mind to assimilate the knowledge of the Ancients. However, as she accesses his subconscious, he begins to access hers, and she struggles to maintain control as her brethren sweep across the galaxy. Replicators invade the SGC, and O'Neill orders the evacuation and destruction of the base.
As Replicators overwhelm the SGC and Dakara, Daniel reaches inside the mind of Replicator Carter and gains control. For an instant, every Replicator is held motionless, allowing time for Jacob to complete the recalibration of the weapon. To release his grip, Replicator Carter stabs Daniel in the heart, and as he slowly dies, the Replicators resume their invasion. Jacob activates the weapon, and a wave of energy translates through every stargate in the network. Instantly, Replicators across the galaxy disintegrate. The Replicators have been defeated, and the Goa'uld retreat. However, Daniel has vanished in a brilliant flash of light, his fate unknown.
8x18) "Threads" (11MAR05)
The victorious Rebel Jaffa have claimed Dakara, with its formidable Ancient weapon, as the new homeworld of the Free Jaffa Nation. Elsewhere, Daniel enters a familiar diner where Oma Desala appears as a waitress and explains that he is on another plane of existence. He must make the choice between ascension and death, however he has no memory of why he chose to reject ascension once before. The only patron in the diner to acknowledge Daniel is Jim, a personable businessman who cautions him with the news that Anubis's grand design is to retake Dakara and use its weapon to destroy all life in the galaxy.
At the SGC, Carter and O'Neill face personal issues. O'Neill's romantic relationship with Kerry Johnson is gently ended when she realizes that his heart lies elsewhere. Meanwhile, Carter begins to have second thoughts as she prepares for her wedding to Pete Shanahan, and she learns that Selmak is dying, and her father, Jacob, will die with him. Jacob quietly slips away, and Carter cancels her wedding to Pete. In the diner, Daniel finally learns the terrible truth, that Oma Desala had been the one to help Anubis ascend, and her punishment is to watch powerlessly as he wreaks havoc across the galaxy.
As Anubis conquers Dakara and prepares to activate the weapon, Daniel makes another horrifying realization: Jim is Anubis. At last, Oma makes the decision to interfere. She confronts Jim as glowing energy, and they are both engulfed in radiance, locked in battle for all eternity. In that instant on Dakara, Anubis vanishes and his forces are easily overcome. At the SGC, the inexplicable victory becomes even more puzzling when Daniel suddenly reappears, naked once more, and in human form. With the galaxy saved, SG-1 retires to O'Neill's cabin for a relaxing afternoon of fishing, even though there are no fish in the pond.
8x19-20) "Moebius" (18MAR05-25MAR05)
Following the passing of Catherine Langford, Daniel finds among her possessions documentation of the existence of a ZPM on Earth at the time of Ra. A ZPM is essential to power Earth's Ancient defenses, and O'Neill reluctantly agrees to Daniel's proposal to travel back in time to recover it. SG-1 uses the Ancient spacecraft to travel to Egypt in 3000 BC, and their mission to steal the ZPM from Ra's temple succeeds. However, they are unable to return to the present without the risk of altering history. Forced to remain in the past, the team inadvertently sets into motion a spiral of events that will play out exactly as it was meant to.
Scientists Dr. Daniel Jackson and Dr. Samantha Carter are summoned from their mundane jobs to meet with General Hammond at Cheyenne Mountain. An archaeological expedition in Egypt has uncovered a ZPM and a videotape with their images, claiming to be part of a team that has traveled in time, and offering details of their world so that history can be corrected if necessary. A search of the Giza Plateau reveals no stargate, only a tablet inscribed with hieroglyphics which Daniel translates. The tablet tells of a rebellion against Ra in 2995 BC which forced him to abandon Earth by ship, and he took the stargate with him.
The Egyptian tablet also describes a second stargate in Antarctica. Hoping to be included in any mission through the gate, Daniel and Carter seek the support of Jack O'Neill, who has no interest in their story or in returning to the military. Back at the base, Daniel and Carter are shown the Ancient spacecraft that was also recovered in Egypt. Dialing coordinates from the ship triggers seismic activity that Carter uses to locate the Antarctic gate. However, as the stargate is installed in the facility and a team is assembled to embark, Daniel and Carter are dismayed to learn that they will not be included on the mission.
Major Kawalsky coaxes his friend, Jack O'Neill, out of retirement for the mission to correct history. O'Neill accepts civilian scientists Carter and Daniel on the team, and they fly the Ancient spacecraft through the stargate to Chulak to find Teal'c. On Chulak, however, they are captured, and Daniel is tortured by Apophis before Teal'c is convinced by their videotape that his destiny lies with SG-1 and the free Jaffa. He helps the team to escape, but Daniel has become a Goa'uld spy, and in the firefight with Jaffa, only O'Neill, Carter, and Teal'c survive to make their escape in the spacecraft.
Unable to elude the death gliders, and realizing that Apophis has used Daniel's knowledge to launch an attack against Earth, the team must use the ship's time travel device to escape from Chulak and repair their own history. They arrive in Egypt in 2995 BC, where they meet the original Daniel Jackson. SG-1 had attempted a rebellion against Ra five years earlier, but O'Neill, Carter, and Teal'c had been killed. Now Daniel and his Egyptian allies are preparing a second revolt that will succeed, but this time the team must use the cloaked spacecraft to prevent Ra from taking the stargate with him.
O'Neill and Carter repair the spacecraft's cloak as Teal'c and Daniel coordinate battle plans. A Jaffa patrol discovers the ship, but quickly surrenders to thousands of armed Egyptian rebels. Just as history was meant to be, SG-1 leads the rebellion that frees Earth from the Goa'uld. At the SGC, it is the current timeline, and SG-1 views a videotape recovered with a ZPM from a dig in Egypt. This time, the videotape coincides with history, and the original mission to the past is not necessary. With the timeline repaired, SG-1 retires to O'Neill's cabin for a relaxing afternoon of fishing, as a fish leaps from the pond. Close enough.
9️⃣~Season 9~9️⃣
9x1-2) "Avalon" (15JUL05-22JUL05)
With General O'Neill's reassignment, General Hank Landry has taken command of the SGC, and SG-1 has been disbanded as Teal'c works to build the new Jaffa nation, Carter has taken a research position at Area 51, and Daniel prepares to depart for Atlantis. Lieutenant Colonel Cameron Mitchell arrives at the facility, having been promised his choice of position following his arduous recovery from wounds received during the dogfight over Antarctica, and he asks to join SG-1. He is disappointed by the news that he will instead lead a newly formed SG-1, and he makes it his goal to reunite the flagship team.
Daniel's departure for Atlantis is delayed by the arrival of Vala Mal Doran, who seeks his help in translating a tablet that promises Ancient treasures hidden on Earth. However, she has also brought a pair of kor mak bracelets which bind the wearers physiologically, and to guarantee her fair share of the treasure she slips them on herself and Daniel. Unable to be separated from Vala for any length of time without risking death, Daniel must find the Ancient treasure, and his translation of the tablet reveals the legend of Avalon. Merlin was an Ancient, and his treasure may be buried under Glastonbury Tor in England.
From Prometheus in orbit, Mitchell, Teal'c, Daniel, and Vala beam into a previously undiscovered cavern deep beneath Glastonbury Tor. There they find a sword mounted in a stone, and a holographic image of Merlin delivers a cryptic message, "Prove ye worthy, and all will be revealed." Unable to draw the sword from the stone, the team separates to search for clues. Vala follows Daniel as Mitchell joins Teal'c, and in two separate caves they discover the tests that will determine their worthiness. Sealed within the chambers, they struggle to solve the Ancient riddles as the ceiling begins to lower, threatening to crush them alive.
With only moments to spare, Daniel and Mitchell solve the Ancient riddles that release them from the collapsing caves, and Mitchell successfully draws the sword from the stone, hoping that the Ancient mystery will be revealed. Instead, a holographic knight appears and engages Mitchell in mortal battle. Only after defeating the chamber's guardian and returning the sword to the stone does the vast treasure miraculously appear. Among the riches is an Ancient communication terminal and an Ancient text which tells the story of the Alterans, a race from a distant galaxy who made their home on Earth.
Convinced that the Alterans were the ancestors of the Ancients, Daniel urges General Landry to activate the communication device to seek out the distant galaxy where Alterans may yet exist. Still linked by the kor mak bracelets, Daniel and Vala activate the device and immediately collapse as their consciousness spans the galaxies, and they find themselves inhabiting the bodies of a young couple living in a medieval village on a distant world. As their bodies remain unconscious at the SGC, Daniel and Vala must pretend to take on the identities of Harrid and Sallis, unable to access their thoughts or to communicate with Earth.
Daniel and Vala learn that the village of Ver Ager is one of many ruled by the Ori, an ancient and powerful race that demands blind obedience and worship, but Harrid and Sallis and their friend Fannis have come to question the religion of Origin and are suspected of heresy, a crime punishable by death. Indeed, when Vala is accused as an unbeliever, she is sentenced to be burned alive at the village altar, and Daniel watches in helpless horror as the flames consume her. Suddenly an enigmatic figure appears, a ghostly Prior of the Ori, whose glowing staff restores Vala to life as he bids Daniel and Vala to follow him.
9x3) "Origin" (29JUL05)
On the shimmering Plains of Celestis, Daniel and Vala follow a Prior to the glistening City of the Gods. There Daniel is brought before the Doci, who preaches the word of the Ori, powerful ascended beings who manifest themselves in fire and seek to destroy all who do not worship them. The Doci explains that it is the Ancients who are evil for abandoning the path and shielding their new galaxy from enlightenment. Now, however, Daniel's arrival has revealed the existence of our protected galaxy, and Priors have already been dispatched to spread the word of Origin and to destroy all those who will not follow the path.
On a desert world, a Prior steps through the stargate and preaches the word of Origin to the simple villagers. Mitchell is sent to investigate, and he returns with the Prior to the SGC where Landry is involved in uneasy negotiations with Gerak, the volatile new leader of the Jaffa Nation. Meanwhile, Daniel and Vala are returned to Ver Ager where another communication terminal allows them a brief instant of contact with Earth. Their warning prompts Landry and Mitchell to confront the Prior at gunpoint, but he mysteriously vanishes in flames. For their heresy, however, Daniel and Vala are captured and brought before the village altar to be burned.
At the SGC, the bodies of Daniel and Vala go into critical arrest as they face the altar flames in Ver Ager. Desperate to break the communication link, Mitchell and Teal'c activate the gate and toss the terminal into the developing kawoosh, severing the connection. Daniel and Vala are restored, and Vala at last agrees to remove the kor mak bracelets, breaking her bond with Daniel. However, the warning they have brought from the distant galaxy is a grave one. The Ori have pledged to raise great armies that will fight all who embrace evil, and our galaxy will soon face a holy crusade from a fearsome and powerful enemy.
9x4) "The Ties That Bind" (5AUG05)
No longer linked by the Kor Mak bracelets, Vala departs through the stargate, but within an hour Daniel collapses and Vala returns. Combining the bracelet technology with the communication terminal may have made the bond more permanent, and Mitchell and Daniel travel through the gate in search of Arlos, from whom Vala stole the bracelets, hoping that he can provide a solution. Arlos, however, will only cooperate if Vala is brought before him, and once she arrives, he demands that she return a necklace which she had also stolen from him. The necklace, however, has already been traded to a merchant on another world.
Mitchell, Daniel, and Vala confront Inago, offering a deal to recover the necklace, but Inago demands the return of a power coil that Vala has already traded to Caius, a former smuggler posing as a monk and exhibiting the power coil as a priceless relic. He will only agree to help if his cargo ship is returned, but Landry refuses to approve the mission since SG-1's presence is required in Washington to testify for SGC funding. Vala's counterproductive comments at the hearing, however, make Landry more determined than ever to be rid of her, and he approves the mission to recover the cargo ship, now in the hands of the Lucian Alliance.
Mitchell, Daniel, Teal'c, and Vala arrange a rendezvous with Tenat and Jup of the Lucian Alliance, a coalition of unscrupulous smugglers and mercenaries. Posing as bounty hunters, their deception to trade Daniel and Vala succeeds and the team acquires the cargo ship, escaping under fire from the Alliance. Exchanging the ship for the power coil, and the power coil for the necklace, the team returns to Arlos, only to learn that he has no solution to counter the bond of the bracelets. Their mission had been for naught, and the team must return to the SGC, hoping that in time the effect will wear off on its own.
9x5) "The Powers That Be" (12AUG05)
Priors have been reported on 43 different worlds, and Vala convinces the team to visit P8X-412, one of the worlds in which she has a particular interest. The reason becomes apparent upon their arrival when the simple villagers bow down to Vala as their benevolent god Qetesh. Once a host to the Goa'uld Qetesh, Vala had sought refuge on the planet after the symbiote was removed, and had continued to pose as a god. Now she had hoped to collect her riches and convince her people to turn against the Ori, but some have already begun to accept the word of the Prior, who has healed the villager Vachna for his faith.
Daniel insists that the only way to save the villagers from the Ori is for Vala to tell the truth about herself and false gods, but instead her admission is met with anger, and Azdak, the village leader, orders her arrest and execution. Persuaded to grant Vala a hearing, Azdak agrees to a trial, but as Daniel argues in her defense and warns of the danger of the Ori, the Prior returns and promises that the Day of Reckoning approaches. Soon, many villagers begin to fall ill from a mysterious contagion, and even Vala's powers through the Goa'uld healing device cannot slow its rapid spread.
The plague of the Priors has swept through the village like wildfire, claiming even Azdak and Mitchell as victims. A medical team from Earth is powerless to stop it, and even those whom Vala heals succumb once again. When the Prior returns, the desperate villagers bow to his power and plead for mercy. The Prior plants his staff, and a blue wave of healing energy spreads throughout the village. Instantly, the ill are healed, and the dead are revived. The village has been restored, but the planet has fallen to the Ori, and the Prior admonishes SG-1, "Tell others what you have seen today."
9x6) "Beachhead" (19AUG05)
The Jaffa of Kallana refuse to embrace the Ori as gods, but a Prior warns that the planet will serve the Ori's purpose, and through the power of his staff, a force field envelopes a dome around the gate. Meanwhile, the SGC is visited by Nerus, a minor Goa'uld known for his treachery and his many appetites, who proposes an alliance with Earth. Nerus warns that the anomaly on Kallana signals the formation of an Ori beachhead in our galaxy, and he urges the SGC to destroy it. Carter returns to rejoin the team, and in Prometheus they proceed to Kallana, armed with a nuclear warhead.
At Kallana the team discovers that the force field is expanding, and the toxic atmosphere within the dome has destroyed all life except for the Prior at the active stargate. Protected by space suits, they beam to the planet's surface with the warhead, but attempts to negotiate with the Prior fail. Suddenly, a fleet of ha'tak vessels arrives under the command of Gerak, the new Jaffa leader, and as the fleet fires on the planet, the team activates the weapon and departs. Too late, they realize that the force field feeds upon the energy of their weapons, and in the final expansion phase the force field engulfs the planet.
From Kallana's stargate, objects emerge and accelerate into orbit, forming an enormous ring large enough for the passage of an entire armada, and the planet begins to collapse into a micro-singularity capable of powering the "supergate" from the Ori galaxy indefinitely. Acting on her own, Vala commandeers a cargo ship and pilots it into the position of the ring's final link, disrupting the energy field holding them together. As the singularity forms, the energy wave shatters the supergate. The enemy beachhead has been destroyed, but Vala has vanished, perhaps into a matter stream drawn into the Ori galaxy.
9x7) "Ex Deus Machina" (26AUG05)
A lone Jaffa turns up on a remote Virginia road, the victim of a hit-and-run, and an investigation reveals that Alex Jameson, CFO of the nearby aeronautics firm, Farrow-Marshall, has been reported missing. The SGC suspects a link to the Trust and to Gerak, the leader of the Jaffa Council, but inquiries at Farrow-Marshall and on Dakara turn up nothing. Gerak is hiding a dark secret, however. Jameson, now a Goa'uld host and Gerak's prisoner on Dakara, is being tortured for information, and Ka'lel offers Mitchell and Teal'c a cryptic warning. It is Ba'al whom Gerak seeks, and the answers are on Earth.
Ba'al has sought refuge on Earth, posing as a businessman within Farrow-Marshall Aeronautics, and SG-1 must find him before Gerak does. Carter and Daniel coordinate with Barrett and the NID in a search for Ba'al while Mitchell and Teal'c, aboard the Prometheus, search for Gerak's Jaffa. Ba'al eludes capture, however, escaping from a midnight raid by Jaffa on his office headquarters, then warning the SGC that any further attempts to capture him will result in the detonation of a naquadah bomb. As the SGC prepares to seize Ba'al's secret compound, he announces that a bomb in Seattle's Halcyon Tower will be detonated in 45 minutes.
With time running out, Gerak's forces attack Ba'al's compound as SG-1 prepares to launch symbiote poison into the facility and begins a desperate search of the Halcyon Tower. Readings indicate, however, that the entire tower is a bomb, and with seconds to spare, Prometheus beams the building into space before detonation. Meanwhile, on Dakara, Gerak triumphantly delivers his prize, the prisoner Ba'al, whom he kills before the Council, gaining the allegiance of his people. However, documents discovered at Ba'al's compound suggest research in genetic replication. The prisoner may have been a clone, and the real Ba'al may still be at large.
9x8) "Babylon" (9SEP05)
The Sodan overthrew the false god Ishkur 5000 years ago and have lived in isolation on P9G-844 seeking the path to true enlightenment. SG-1 hopes to form an alliance with the legendary Jaffa warriors, but when they visit the planet, they are ambushed by weapons fire that seems to come from nowhere. Mitchell battles a Jaffa warrior and both are badly wounded, but before SG-1 can rescue their teammate, the Sodan recover Mitchell and vanish in a cloak of invisibility, leaving their wounded comrade behind. When Mitchell awakens in a distant village he is told that he will be kept alive only to face kel shak lo, ritual battle to the death for spilling the blood of the Sodan.
SG-1's search for Mitchell proves fruitless. A stone pillar of Ancient design, known as the Eye of the Gods, may be a transportation device, but Volnek, the wounded Sodan warrior who was brought back to Earth for treatment, defiantly refuses to cooperate. Among the Sodan, the warrior Jolan begins training Mitchell for the ritual battle he must face, and the two begin to form an uneasy mutual respect. However, Mitchell recognizes a greater threat. A Prior of the Ori has visited the Sodan, and Mitchell is powerless to convince Haikon, the Sodan leader, that the Ori are not the true gods they have sought for generations.
As the Sodan ritual of kel shak lo is about to begin, Jolan steps forward as blood kin who will seek recompense against Mitchell in the name of Volnek, his brother. The hand-to-hand combat is brief. Mitchell falls to his opponent and is declared dead by Lord Haikon. Later, however, Mitchell awakens in the forest where Jolan has brought him. Having come to respect Mitchell's determination and his warnings about the Ori, Jolan had used an elixir to simulate Mitchell's death, and the deception had succeeded. Mitchell is free to return to Earth, but there he faces Volnek, who returns to his world with the promise, "We will meet again."
9x9) "Prototype" (16SEP05)
A gravitational anomaly near P3X-584 may be an Ori supergate, but when SG-1 attempts to visit the planet, a security code reroutes them to an alternate address. By overriding the code, SG-1 reaches the planet and discovers the secret worthy of such precautions, an underground laboratory containing a DNA resequencer and a man preserved in stasis. When the man is brought back to Earth and revived, he claims his name is Khalek and explains that he is a prisoner and a victim of genetic experiments. Lab records on the planet prove otherwise, however. The lab belonged to Anubis, and Khalek is his creation, a genetic hybrid - the son of Anubis.
As a human/Goa'uld hybrid, Khalek poses a formidable threat, especially when tests reveal that he is evolving before their eyes. Despite restraints and high security precautions, he has already demonstrated powerful telekinetic and healing abilities, and has nearly succeeded in escaping. If he evolves to the level of ascension, he will be unstoppable. SG-1 considers returning the prisoner to stasis, despite Daniel's insistence that he is too dangerous to be kept alive, but when IOC representative Woolsey arrives at the SGC, he orders that Khalek must be kept alive and studied as a key to defeating the highly evolved Priors.
Against Woolsey's demands, Landry orders that Khalek be returned to stasis on P3X-584. When Carter makes the horrifying discovery that Khalek's goal is to use the DNA resequencer to achieve ascension, Landry reverses his order, but Khalek uses his telekinetic abilities to break free and escape through the stargate. Immediately, however, he is rerouted by the security system, and is returned through Earth's gate. Focusing his mind to deflect the bullets from Mitchell's gun, Khalek is vulnerable to Daniel's weapon behind him, and he collapses, bleeding, as both continue firing until the threat from Anubis's son has at last been eliminated.
9x10-11) "The Fourth Horseman" (16SEP05-6JAN06)
SG-6 returns from P2X-885 with word that the planet has fallen to the Ori. Dakara, too, has been visited by the Priors. Gerak has embraced their teachings, proposing that Origin be adopted by the Jaffa as law, and Teal'c and Bra'tac travel to Chulak to seek support against Gerak's proposal. Meanwhile, Carter believes that research from Khalek may hold the key to developing a device that could neutralize the Priors' powers. However, when a member of SG-6 falls ill, and others with whom he had been in contact exhibit similar symptoms, it becomes apparent that a Prior plague has already begun to spread on Earth.
As Carter works to develop a means to combat the Priors, a familiar presence appears. It is Orlin, who has taken human form as a young boy in order to retain the knowledge of the Ancients as long as possible to offer assistance in defeating the Ori. Orlin warns that the Ori draw their power from those who relinquish their will to worship them. No longer an Ancient, he has no healing power to cure the plague, but he believes that a medical solution can be found using a sample of blood from the Prior who caused the plague. Time is running out, however. With thousands of confirmed cases, the plague is out of control.
The prototype of Carter's anti-Prior device may provide an opportunity to collect a blood sample. The Prior is expected to return to the Sodan world, and Mitchell takes a team to P9G-844. Meanwhile, Gerak confronts his adversaries on Chulak, but he cannot bring himself to fire upon his brother Jaffa. His weakness angers the Prior, who allows Gerak's mind to travel to Celestis where he is brought before the Flames of Enlightenment. Teal'c seizes the opportunity to address the Council at Dakara, but he is interrupted by Gerak's return. Gerak has been transformed into a Prior, and he boldly declares that it is the destiny of all Jaffa to follow Origin.
As a Prior of the Ori, Gerak hopes to use his powers to convert the Jaffa to Origin, but Teal'c and Bra'tac prepare to force his hand by gathering a fleet at Chulak and forcing him to choose between the Ori and his own brethren. Among the Sodan, Mitchell and Daniel gain the support of Haikon and his people. They have seen the evil of the Ori for themselves and they vow to cooperate with SG-1's plan to test the new anti-Prior device and to capture a Prior alive. Meanwhile, on Earth, Orlin and Carter struggle to find a cure for the Prior plague, but the weight of Orlin's Ancient knowledge has taken its toll, and his mind is irreversibly failing.
The Prior returns to the Sodan village, and uses his powers against Mitchell and the defiant warriors as Daniel desperately struggles to activate the anti-Prior device. When at last his powers are neutralized, SG-1 obtains a blood sample and attempts to turn him against his gods. He remains unmoved, however, even when Orlin arrives to confront him with the truth, that Origin does not lead to enlightenment or ascension. Spouting parables, prophecies, and rhetoric, the Prior begins to regain his powers, but he falls instead to Mitchell's weapon, and Orlin explains the meaning of his words. The Ori are coming to this galaxy to destroy the Ancients.
The plague on Earth has become a global pandemic, and Landry is among those who have fallen ill at the SGC. Meanwhile, with their fleets in orbit above Chulak, Gerak and Teal'c meet face to face on the planet in an effort to avoid more bloodshed. As Gerak begins to waver in his devotion, he agrees to come with Teal'c to Earth. There he plants his Prior staff, and a wave of light penetrates every corner of the SGC as Gerak vanishes in flames. The patients are miraculously cured, and using Orlin's research, a vaccine can be synthesized against future plagues. However, their victory is only a minor setback to the Ori's ultimate goal.
9x12) "Collateral Damage" (13JAN06)
On the planet Galar, Mitchell regains consciousness as officers inform him that he is under arrest for the murder of Dr. Reya Varrick. Only 24 hours before, SG-1 had been welcomed to the planet and Mitchell had volunteered for a demonstration of new Galaran technology which allows an individual's memories to be spliced into the mind of another. Anxious to open a relationship with Earth, the Galarans had invited SG-1 to a reception that evening, from which Mitchell had escorted Reya Varrick home. However, when Mitchell awakened the following morning with blood on his hands and memories of a violent confrontation, he confessed to the murder.
SG-1 suspects that Mitchell's memory of the murder was implanted, and the Emissary is willing to drop all charges, but Mitchell insists on an investigation that will clear him and identify the real killer. Dr. Amuro and his colleague Dr. Marell, who had been Reya's husband, agree to use the implant technology to detect false memories, but after three trials, the analysis indicates that Mitchell's memories are genuine. Only by drawing upon a memory with similar emotional resonance, a tragic incident years before in which Mitchell's bombing raid had unintentionally targeted a civilian convoy, are the scientists able to prove that the memory was implanted.
Determined to find Reya Varrick's murderer, Mitchell again submits to the technology as the scientists seek anomalies that would target the killer. As he relives the murder again in his mind, Mitchell glances at himself in a mirror, but the face he sees is that of Dr. Marell. Stunned, Marell professes his innocence and agrees to the procedure himself. However, the analysis indicates that Marell had spliced his memory of the murder into Mitchell's mind and then erased it from his own. The device can also remove the violent memory from Mitchell's mind, and he is free to go, as Dr. Marell returns to his research. With no memory of the incident, his crime will be forgotten.
9x13) "Ripple Effect" (20JAN06)
An irregular energy spike accompanies an unscheduled off-world activation, and SG-1 steps through the gate at the SGC. During their briefing, SG-1's report contains peculiar discrepancies, but before they can be explained, the gate activates again, and another SG-1 team arrives. Carter suggests that the explanation lies in the multiverse theory of quantum physics. The first team is probably a duplicate that arrived from a parallel universe when a black hole ruptured subspace and created a bridge between universes. However, as they seek a way to return the duplicate team to their own world, the gate activates again and a third SG-1 team appears.
Carter theorizes that a subspace tear has caused a ripple effect across several realities, making our universe a convergence point, and soon over a dozen SG-1 teams have arrived on the base. One team includes Dr. Fraiser and Martouf, whose bittersweet reunion with SG-1 is accompanied by a plea for help in curing the Ori plague on their world. However, Carter's proposal to seal the rupture between universes would prevent any of the teams from returning home. Nevertheless, Landry approves the mission. With the help of the Asgard Kvasir, the first two SG-1 teams depart on Prometheus to deliver a warhead into the singularity.
At their destination, the alternate SG-1 team hijacks the Prometheus and locks SG-1 in the brig. It had been their mission from the beginning to enter an alternate universe, commandeer a ship to Atlantis, and steal a ZPM with which to fight the Ori. What's more, they have a way to return home. Instead, however, SG-1 regains control of the ship and scraps the mission. Now with a means to invert the subspace rupture, the team returns to the SGC where a directed energy weapon through the gate reverses the convergence effect. As each team is sent home, Landry provides Fraiser and Martouf with the cure to the plague that will save their world.
9x14) "Stronghold" (27JAN06)
On Dakara, both Maz'rai and Ka'lel have shown strong support for the proposal of Bra'tac and Teal'c to dissolve the council in favor of democracy, however, when they suddenly reverse their positions, Bra'tac and Teal'c suspect brainwashing. Meanwhile, Mitchell visits his old friend, Bryce Ferguson, in the hospital where he is undergoing tests for an old shrapnel wound to the head sustained during a mission in which he saved Mitchell's life. Now consumed by guilt that he got the position at the SGC over his friend, Mitchell is further devastated to learn that Ferguson has developed an aneurism from which he is not expected to recover.
Bra'tac brings word to the SGC that Teal'c had left for Chulak to gather support and has not returned. As Carter and Daniel join Bra'tac's search, Teal'c awakens in a Goa'uld stronghold where he faces torture and is confronted by his captor. It is Ba'al who has brainwashed many among the Jaffa, intending to offer himself as a leader capable of uniting the Jaffa against the Ori, but his repeated attempts to persuade Teal'c are futile. As Mitchell prepares to rejoin his team, he first obtains permission for a final gesture of support for his friend. The Galaran memory device will allow Ferguson to experience Mitchell's missions with SG-1.
Mitchell joins his team as a joint rescue mission engages Ba'al's defenses with aerial support from Bra'tac. However, Bra'tac is captured and brought before Ba'al just as Teal'c appears to have succumbed to the mind control techniques. Ordered to kill his Jaffa master kneeling before him, Teal'c pauses, and instead turns his weapon on Ba'al, killing him. Following their escape, the Jaffa Nation successfully votes to embrace democracy, but Mitchell returns home to the news that his friend has died, and Teal'c reminds him that "To resist the influence of others, knowledge of oneself is most important." Mitchell takes the words to heart. He is working on it.
9x15) "Ethon" (3FEB06)
Jared Kane arrives at the SGC with word that his homeworld, Tegalus, again faces a global crisis. As the Rand Protectorate and the Caledonian Federation struggled to rebuild following the war, a Prior visited the planet. In exchange for embracing Origin, the Prior offered Rand a powerful satellite weapon, and now President Nadal has offered the Caledonians five days to surrender or be destroyed. Fearful of a return to global destruction, Jared pleads for SG-1's help to destroy the weapon. Daniel proposes diplomacy as an alternative, but when he and Jared return to Tegalus, they are promptly arrested for treason.
Aboard Prometheus, SG-1 approaches Tegalus, intending to destroy the weapon. However, as the satellite powers up, and Prometheus fires a preemptive strike, the weapon returns fire, easily piercing the ship's defenses and causing Pendergast to order an evacuation and offer his surrender. Instead, Nadal orders the ship's destruction, and those who had not escaped are lost as Prometheus is annihilated. Remnants of the Prometheus crew are reunited in Caledonia, and Carter proposes an alternate approach to Minister Chaska. An EM pulse would disable communications and allow an F-302 a second chance to destroy the weapon.
With communications disabled, Rand's satellite is vulnerable, and Mitchell and Teal'c, in an F-302, prepare to fire. However, Daniel makes a final attempt at a peaceful compromise. In exchange for leaving the satellite intact, Rand will offer Caledonia the stargate and the option to evacuate their world. Chaska calls off the attack to consider the offer, but when power is restored, Nadal orders the destruction of the Caledonian capital. Only when his own officers revolt and Nadal is killed, is the weapon shut down. Soon after SG-1 returns home, however, war ignites between the enemies once more. The stargate is presumed buried in the rubble.
9x16) "Off the Grid" (10FEB06)
A highly addictive corn-like crop called kassa may be the work of the Priors, and SG-1 travels to P6G-452 to investigate, posing as prospective buyers. There they encounter Worrel, an unscrupulous operative who supplies the planet's crop to the Lucian Alliance. The meeting does not go well, however events turn even worse when SG-1 attempts to flee under fire and the stargate is suddenly beamed away before they can make their escape. As Worrel's prisoners, SG-1 is beaten for information about the missing gate, but back on Earth an intelligence report indicates that stargates on at least four other planets have also vanished.
With SG-1 out of touch and overdue, Landry orders Colonel Emerson and the Odyssey to extract the team. Then he pays a visit to Area 51 where the deceitful Goa'uld, Nerus, remains a prisoner. Offered a feast in return for information, Nerus divulges that the theft of the stargates is the work of Ba'al, who seeks to rebuild his empire, but he will only disclose Ba'al's location in return for his freedom. Landry consents and Nerus is released, unknowingly tagged with a locator beacon. Meanwhile, Worrel is recalled by the Alliance and orders SG-1 killed, but just as they are to be executed, the Odyssey arrives and beams them aboard.
As Nerus arrives aboard Ba'al's mothership, his coordinates are relayed to Odyssey, and SG-1 plans to beam aboard his ship, tag the stolen gates, and beam themselves and the gates back out. However, within Ba'al's cargo hold the team discovers many dozens of stargates must be tagged, and they come under fire from Ba'al's Jaffa. Suddenly, three motherships of the Lucian Alliance arrive and fire upon Ba'al's ship. Odyssey acquires the tagged gates but is unable to extract SG-1 before Ba'al's mothership is destroyed. However, a gate and a DHD aboard the ship had provided an alternate escape, and SG-1 safely returns home through Earth's stargate.
9x17) "The Scourge" (17FEB06)
The Pentagon has requested that SG-1 escort Richard Woolsey and three representatives of the International Oversight Advisory on their first off-world public relations tour of the Gamma Site. During the routine visit of the scientific research facility, the group is introduced to Dr. Myers, who shares his research on an unusual insect species known as R75. However, when the lethargic bug specimens suddenly become carnivorous and rapidly multiply, killing Dr. Myers and swarming the gateroom, the routine mission becomes deadly. Colonel Pearson orders the facility on lockdown, and SG-1 escorts the representatives to the surface until the situation is contained.
The insidious R75 species is most likely the work of the Priors, and they have breached containment, traveling underground and emerging to feed. As SG-1 escorts the group through the forest, suddenly thousands of insects swarm from the ground and devour an SF in seconds. Unable to continue to the safety of a research station, the terrified group races toward rocky terrain and seeks shelter in a cave, temporarily deterring the advancing swarm with the percussive fire of their weapons. Returning for the F-302s might be their best chance for escape, but a massive explosion signals that the self-destruct has been triggered. The Gamma Site is gone.
Odyssey has been dispatched with orders to launch a neurotoxin that will wipe out R75. Unable to communicate with the ship, however, the humans will be killed as well. Hoping to use the transmitters of the research facility, the group begins a treacherous trek through the woods with the subterranean swarm in close pursuit. Upon arriving at the facility, Carter desperately attempts to broadcast a signal as the team's diminishing ammunition keeps the bugs at bay and the perimeter tightens. Suddenly, in a brilliant flash of light, the group is beamed to safety aboard the Odyssey. However, the threat remains. R75 has been reported on two more worlds.
9x18) "Arthur's Mantle" (24FEB06)
As Carter studies an Ancient device recovered from the cave at Glastonbury, it suddenly emits a blinding flash of light, and both Carter and Mitchell vanish. From their perspective they are still in the lab, but when Dr. Lee unknowingly passes right through them, it becomes apparent that they have entered an alternate dimension. As Carter and Mitchell desperately try to find a way to communicate with their teammates, an offworld distress signal arrives from the Sodan. With no sign of Mitchell, Teal'c assembles a team and visits the Sodan world, but there they find the village in smoldering ruins, and only Haikon is barely alive.
Haikon warns Teal'c that Volnek was responsible for the devastation. For turning against the Ori, a Prior had caused an illness in him, and armed with the Sodan cloaking shield he had laid waste to the village. Teal'c pursues Volnek, but the curse of his illness has made him nearly indestructible. Meanwhile, Daniel's research into Arthur's Mantle, a legendary cloak of invisibility, may explain the Ancient device and the disappearance of Carter and Mitchell. The device's keyboard becomes a link, and through a painstaking series of coded taps, Carter communicates with her teammate, but when Dr. Lee attempts to reverse the energy field, Daniel also vanishes.
With Teal'c overdue, Mitchell joins a rescue mission to the Sodan, despite his invisibility, however he is astounded to discover that Teal'c can see him from within the Sodan cloak, and together they devise a trap to eliminate Volnek. Meanwhile, Daniel deciphers Merlin's writings which tell of his need to conceal his research for a device capable of destroying ascended beings. Suddenly a power drain threatens to strand Daniel, Carter, and Mitchell in the alternate dimension, and Daniel is forced to reverse the technology to restore them. A single gate address grasped from Merlin's device is their only key to the location of a secret weapon that could defeat the Ori.
9x19) "Crusade" (3MAR06)
A link through an Alteran communication terminal allows Vala to suddenly appear at the SGC in the body of Daniel Jackson. Communicating from the Ori galaxy, she speaks through Daniel and relates the story of her fate. Since being drawn into the Ori galaxy through the black hole, she had awakened in the village of Ver Isca where she was taken in and cared for by Tomin, a gentle and compassionate man and a devout follower of the Ori. Shortly afterward, she discovered that she was pregnant, but the child could not have been conceived in the usual way, and in fear for her life Vala had married Tomin, hoping that he would believe the child was his.
For months, the Ori had been preparing a vast army to vanquish the wicked, and Tomin was among the loyal followers to be joyously conscripted. When Seevis, the leading citizen of Ver Isca, had arrested Vala as an unbeliever and chained her at the village altar for three days without food or water, she had barely survived the ordeal, only to learn that it had been a test, and that Seevis and his followers were members of an anti-Ori underground movement determined to sabotage the Ori ships before they could be launched on their crusade. Even more terrifying than the armada, however, was the Prior's revelation that Vala's child was "the will of the Ori."
As Vala reveals to the SGC the failure of Seevis's plan to destroy the Ori starcraft, her communication link is suddenly severed in mid sentence. Tomin, outraged at finding his wife among the unbelievers, had killed Seevis and destroyed the terminal. Vala tearfully pleads for his compassion, and convinces Tomin that she and her child must be spared so that she may join him in his quest and they may walk the path of enlightenment together. But her words of warning have reached Earth, and the SGC begins to prepare for the Day of Reckoning. The Ori ships have launched, the crusade has begun, and somewhere out there, the Ori have a working supergate.
9x20) "Camelot" (10MAR06)
On a world known as Camelot, SG-1 seeks Merlin's weapon that will destroy ascended beings, believing it to be Earth's best hope to defeat the Ori. Merlin's library in the village is forbidden, however, protected by the curse of its holographic guardian, the Black Knight. Nevertheless, SG-1 gains access to the sealed archive and discovers an Ancient control console, but when the Black Knight materializes to terrorize the villagers, they demand that SG-1 leave them. Instead, SG-1 is beamed aboard the Odyssey, which is preparing to join the Korolev and an alliance of ships to face the Ori. In a far corner of the galaxy, an Ori supergate has been discovered.
Aboard the Odyssey, Carter and Kvasir cooperate to find a means to dial the supergate and deliver Merlin's weapon to the Ori galaxy. Meanwhile, Daniel and Mitchell return to Camelot to search for the device, and Teal'c departs to seek the assistance of the Lucian Alliance. In Camelot, Mitchell is forced to do battle with the Black Knight as Daniel attempts to activate the control console and disable the knight. Suddenly, a vast treasure materializes, but writings suggest that the weapon they seek is not among the riches. The "Sangreal" is Merlin's blood-red pendant, the artifact for which Arthur's knights have quested for generations.
Daniel and Mitchell are beamed aboard the Korolev to rendezvous with the alliance of ships near the supergate. Carter and Kvasir have completed their calculations and Carter dons a spacesuit for an EVA to replace the supergate's control crystals. Before she can complete the procedure, however, the enormous gate activates and four massive Ori ships enter the galaxy. Floating in space, Carter can only watch helplessly as the enemy ships easily pierce the defenses of the allied armada. Aboard one of the Ori ships, Vala also watches in horror, witnessing the devastation and knowing that the child of the Ori is about to be born.
🔟~Season 10~🔟
10x1) "Flesh and Blood" (14JUL06)
Ori starcraft have entered our galaxy, bent on converting or destroying all unbelievers. No match for the vast enemy ships, the remnants of the defeated allied armada now drift in space. Odyssey is badly damaged, and Carter, who witnessed the devastation during an EVA mission, now floats helplessly in space. Teal'c, aboard a Lucian mothership, is taken prisoner by a vengeful Netan, and the fate of Daniel, who was aboard the Korolev when it exploded, is unknown. Meanwhile, aboard the Ori flagship, Vala gives birth to a daughter, the Orici in flesh and blood who will be the beacon of light to the Ori warriors who will vanquish all unbelievers.
Vala's daughter is brought before her, but the genetically altered infant is already a child with uncanny powers, and she accepts Vala's offer of a name - Adria. Daniel is also hiding aboard the Ori ship, having escaped through Korolev's rings before its destruction. Carter is rescued as Mitchell pilots Odyssey in a delicate maneuver to scoop her up from space and bring her aboard. Meanwhile, Odyssey faces Netan who orders their surrender, but when Bra'tac arrives with ships of his own, the Lucian Alliance retreats, just as Odyssey beams Teal'c aboard. Bra'tac brings grave news, however. The Ori ships have emerged from hyperspace over Chulak.
Teal'c, Carter, and Mitchell join Bra'tac aboard his mothership to defend Chulak, hoping to reunite with Daniel and to plant an explosive device aboard an Ori ship. Meanwhile, as the battle over Chulak rages, Daniel and Vala plan to escape from the Ori and to take young Adria with them. However, Bra'tac's weapon fails to detonate, and Vala and Daniel are apprehended and brought before Adria. As Bra'tac attempts to ram the Ori ship with his own, and Daniel and Vala attempt to make their escape, all are beamed aboard the Odyssey. Safe for the moment, the team must now consider a new plan against a powerful enemy and seemingly insurmountable odds.
10x2) "Morpheus" (21JUL06)
The SGC's only hope to defeat the Ori seems to be Merlin's Ancient weapon capable of destroying ascended beings. When Daniel's research uncovers an address for Vagon Brei, a legendary planet associated with the Sangreal, SG-1 departs immediately, but Vala is ordered to stay behind to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. On the misty, eerie world, SG-1 and the team find records of a mysterious sleeping sickness and a village of skeletons who seem to have died in their beds. However, when Ackerman falls asleep and cannot be awakened, it becomes apparent that they all suffer from the same infection, and if they fall asleep, they may not wake up.
Vala meets with Dr. Hutchison, who will determine her fitness for the SGC, but Vala's attempts to outwit the ink blots and polygraph only complicate the evaluation. Discouraged, she is approached by Woolsey, who offers her a place at the SGC in exchange for providing inside information to the IOA. Meanwhile, on Vagon Brei, Mitchell and Teal'c explore a nearby cave for clues as Carter and Dr. Reimer conduct medical tests which reveal a microscopic parasite that feeds on melatonin and grows dramatically in the brain, killing the host. When Dr. Reimer suddenly dies of a heart attack, the team must depend on each other to stay awake and find a cure.
In the cave, Mitchell and Teal'c find a lizard which seems to have a natural immunity to the illness, and Teal'c manages to capture the elusive creature. As the team slips ever closer to an endless sleep, a hazmat team arrives to return them to the SGC, where the alien creature and Dr. Reimer's research provide the key to a serum that will kill the parasite. The team recovers, but an angry and hurt Vala insists she is leaving Earth, until she is informed that she has passed her test. Woolsey's offer was part of the test, and she has proven herself trustworthy. As a probationary member of the SGC, she is anxious to celebrate, and to gather her share of the "loot."
10x3) "The Pegasus Project" (28JUL06)
Aboard Odyssey, Mitchell, Carter, Daniel, and Vala watch the shimmering city of Atlantis come into view below them. They have come to the home of the Ancients on an urgent mission, to prevent the Ori from sending more ships through the supergate, and to find the location of Merlin's weapon. Dr. McKay joins Mitchell and Carter aboard Odyssey as they depart for a black hole in the Pegasus galaxy, hoping to establish a wormhole that will jump to the supergate in the Milky Way where Teal'c is waiting with a secondary gate. Meanwhile, Daniel and Vala hope that the secret to Merlin's weapon lies in Atlantis's Ancient database.
Daniel and Vala access the holographic avatar of the Ancient library to begin their meticulous search, but Daniel's suspicions grow when the hologram immediately offers the names of the planets they seek, then turns to address Daniel directly before vanishing in the ethereal glow of an ascended being. The image returns in response to Daniel's impassioned plea for an alliance against the Ori, but the being is Morgan Le Fay herself, an ascended Ancient who risks breaking the Ancients' highest law by interfering in the affairs of humans. She can only offer the warning, "Merlin's weapon is not…" before she is drawn away by the Others.
Odyssey releases a stargate near the black hole and opens a connection to the secondary gate, but twice their attempts to aim a warhead at the gate fail to force the wormhole to jump. Suddenly, an Ori ship arrives at the supergate, while in Pegasus a Wraith hive ship fires at Odyssey. In a final desperate attempt, Odyssey slingshots around the black hole and beams the warheads aboard the Wraith ship. The explosion destroys the ship, and causes the wormhole to arc. As the massive supergate activates, the Ori ship is annihilated in the developing kawoosh. A great victory has been achieved this day, but it is clear that we are in this battle alone.
10x4) "Insiders" (4AUG06)
An alkesh enters Earth's atmosphere on a heading for Cheyenne Mountain. F-16s engage the craft, bringing it down, and at the crash site SG-1 encounters its only occupant - Ba'al. Held in custody at the SGC, Ba'al confides his intentions. His clones have turned against him, and now he seeks SG-1's cooperation to eliminate them. In return, he offers his assistance. Merlin's weapon, he insists, will be found on a planet among those retrieved from the Ancient database, and only with his help will SG-1 be able to narrow their search. Suspicious of Ba'al's motives and his information, SG-1 agrees to capture the clones for the intelligence they might provide.
SG teams use the locator beacons implanted in each Ba'al clone to track and apprehend them. Nearly 20 clones are captured, but each clone prisoner insists that he is the real Ba'al. What's more, they refuse to cooperate under interrogation. Meanwhile, Agent Barrett of the NID arrives at the SGC with authorization for the transfer of prisoners to NID custody for questioning. His request is denied, and as his patience wears thin, he becomes uncharacteristically outraged and demands to see one of the prisoners. However, Ba'al overpowers Barrett and escapes, releasing the other clones. As containment is lost, Landry orders the base under lockdown.
As the SGC prepares to release symbiote poison, Ba'al captures Carter and orders her to download the Ancient database. To spare the hostages, Carter cooperates, but as the poison is released, it is already too late. The clones retreat and congregate, where the combined signal of their locator beacons overrides the base's jamming technology, and they are beamed away to a waiting ship. It had been Ba'al's plan all along, and Barrett's participation had been guaranteed through Goa'uld mind control. The clones are once again at large, with knowledge that could lead them to a weapon capable of destroying not only the Ori, but the Ancients themselves.
10x5) "Uninvited" (11AUG06)
To escape the pressures of saving the galaxy, General Landry has arranged for SG-1 to join him for some R&R at O'Neill's isolated Minnesota cabin. Landry and Mitchell are the first to arrive, and they make an awkward attempt at relaxing, but the rest of the team has been delayed by an offworld crisis. On P9J-333, a large monstrous creature is responsible for the grisly deaths of several villagers. Teal'c and Vala join Colonel Reynolds and his team to investigate, and they too come under attack but are able to kill and capture the alien creature. However, an autopsy reveals a leech-like parasite still very much alive within the carcass of the dead alien monster.
With roads and phones cut off by a storm, Landry and Mitchell contend with their own crisis. A hunter has been killed and badly mutilated in the woods, and the sheriff and anxious hunters gather to search for the predator. At the SGC, autopsy results reveal that the alien creature was once a docile herbivore whose DNA was drastically altered by the parasitic leech. When similar gruesome deaths occur on P2R-866, the team realizes that the common element among the planets seems to be visitations by stealth SG teams using Sodan cloaking technology. The Sodan devices are recalled and tested, and a mysterious leech materializes within the invisibility field.
Tests of the Sodan device suggest that adjustments to the radiation level have allowed parasitic creatures to bleed through from another dimension and enter indigenous hosts, causing horrific mutations. When Mitchell discovers a wounded Trust operative using the Sodan cloak near the cabin, it becomes apparent that the parasites have also been released on Earth, and SG teams arrive to join Landry and Mitchell. As night falls, the teams search the woods and converge on not one, but two hideous creatures, bringing them down with heavy gunfire. With no further signs of alien mutants, SG-1 at last retires to the cabin for some poker and relaxation.
10x6) "200" (18AUG06)
Martin Lloyd returns to the SGC with the news that his short-lived television series based on SG-1 will become "Wormhole X-treme: The Movie." At the request of General O'Neill, SG-1 grudgingly meets to give notes on the script to be certain that the Air Force is properly represented. However, from the opening sequence in which the homeworld of Ewok-like Furlings explodes, to an implausible escape from swarming Replicators, a Star Trek homage aboard the Prometheus, and the complete destruction of Cheyenne Mountain, the script is jam-packed with every science fiction cliché imaginable, not to mention the premise that explosions make better trailers.
When a gate malfunction prevents the team from embarking on Mitchell's 200th trip through the stargate, SG-1 must remain with Martin, offering scenarios to resolve his budget cuts, cast negotiations, and studio visions of an SG-1 "Mod Squad." The mission in which O'Neill became invisible could provide a solution to a missing lead actor, or puppets could exist in a parallel universe. Mitchell proposes an attack by zombies, Teal'c suggests "Teal'c P.I.," and Vala pitches story ideas from "The Wizard of Oz," "Gilligan's Island," and the more obscure "Farscape." As they contemplate a plot twist that no one will see coming, General O'Neill arrives at the SGC.
Martin needs a new movie ending to appease the focus groups. Vala suggests that everyone loves a wedding, but O'Neill insists that the team should go fishing, since anything after that would seem pointless. However, the script spinning ends when the stargate is repaired, and O'Neill, Landry, and even Sgt. Harriman accompany SG-1 on Mitchell's 200th trip through the gate, where cake, balloons, and streamers await. Meanwhile, Martin receives word from the studio that the movie has been canceled, but the series has been renewed instead, a series that will last for 10 years and 200 episodes before spawning yet another movie. It seems art imitates life.
10x7) "Counterstrike" (25AUG06)
In the shadow of an Ori ship, villagers cheer as they are addressed by Adria, now a young woman of extraordinary powers. She promises enlightenment to all believers, but suddenly an energy wave emanates from the stargate and sweeps across the planet. SG-1, hidden in the crowd, is beamed aboard Odyssey just in time, as every living person is instantly extinguished. Only one known weapon has such devastating powers, and Bra'tac's arrival at the SGC confirms their suspicions. Se'tak, the new leader of the Jaffa, believes that the Ancient device on Dakara is the only means to eliminate the armies of Ori followers, and he has put his plan into effect.
The abandoned Ori starcraft on the planet provides SG-1 with an opportunity, and they beam aboard to commandeer it. However, Jaffa have also come aboard, and they too lay claim to the ship as three ha'tak vessels appear in orbit. The Jaffa capture SG-1, but they are not alone on the ship. Adria is also aboard. Protected by the pendant of Celestis, Adria had survived the energy wave, and her telekinetic powers effortlessly overcome the Jaffa and force them to reveal the location of their weapon - Dakara. With SG-1 aboard, Adria powers the starcraft. Easily annihilating the ha'tak vessels, the Ori ship takes flight and departs for the Jaffa homeworld.
General Landry and Bra'tac have gated to Dakara to meet with Se'tak. However, despite Landry's insistence that incidental genocide is not a means to victory, the Jaffa leader will not be swayed. What's more, he blames the Tauri for the destruction of the ha'tak ships and the arrival of the Ori starcraft at Dakara. He activates the Ancient device in reprisal, but as the energy wave expands, Landry and Bra'tac escape through the stargate, and SG-1 beams aboard Odyssey. Adria fires her ship's weapons, and Dakara begins to crumble. At the SGC, news has arrived. Dakara is no more, and Merlin's weapon remains the only hope. "Find it," orders General Landry.
10x8) "Memento Mori" (8SEP06)
Daniel and Vala's plans for an evening out are interrupted when Vala is suddenly abducted from the restaurant. She awakens to find herself strapped to a gurney, the prisoner of Charlotte Mayfield of the Trust. In fact, Charlotte is the Goa'uld Athena, once the rival of the Goa'uld Qetesh. As the former host to Qetesh, Vala may hold the memory of a code to an Ancient tablet, and as SG-1 desperately searches for their missing teammate, Athena and her fellow Trust operatives prepare to subject Vala to the excruciatingly painful process of retrieving the memory they believe will lead them to the Clava Thessara Infinitas - the key to infinite treasure.
SG teams raid the warehouse where Vala is imprisoned, but in the ensuing shootout, a zat blast causes a power surge in the memory recall device. Vala escapes, but with no memory of her identity. Confused and alone, she comes upon a diner where Sal, the soft-hearted owner, offers her a job as a waitress and a place to stay. Her past returns to haunt her, however, when two armed thugs attempt to rob the diner, and Vala, acting on instinct, easily overpowers both of them. Detective Ryan investigates the robbery, but he becomes suspicious of Vala's vague answers and issues a bulletin for her identification, a bulletin that is received by both the SGC and the Trust.
Trust operatives arrive at the police station moments before SG-1 and take custody of Vala. Mitchell pursues on a motorcycle, but his attempted rescue goes awry when he is shot in the arm and becomes Vala's prisoner, handcuffed in a hotel room. Vala finds his explanation of aliens and abductions hard to swallow, and she sets out on her own once more. The team locates Mitchell, and SG-1, Vala, and the Trust converge on a warehouse. As a shootout rages, Daniel confronts Vala, and flashes of memories begin to return. Vala has come home. Back at the SGC, there is one more surprise awaiting her - team badges. Vala has become an official member of SG-1.
10x9) "Company of Thieves" (15SEP06)
Carter joins Colonel Emerson and his crew aboard the Odyssey, but their mission is compromised when they are ambushed and boarded by forces of the Lucian Alliance. Their leader, Anateo, orders Carter to disable the ship's subspace beacon, and when she refuses, Emerson is killed. SG-1 pursues the ship's transponder signal, only to find that it has been removed to lure them to a nearby planet where Daniel and Vala are also captured and brought aboard Odyssey. Mitchell and Teal'c devise another plan to rescue the ship and its crew. Mitchell will use the Reol chemical as a disguise to impersonate Kefflin, Netan's trusted lieutenant, and infiltrate the organization.
There has been mounting dissent within the Lucian Alliance over Netan's leadership, and Anateo believes his capture of the Odyssey and SG-1 will guarantee Netan's downfall, leaving him in command. As Carter, Daniel, and Vala undertake a risky plot to retake the ship, Mitchell rings aboard Netan's ship and is welcomed as Netan's ally, Kefflin. However, Teal'c is discovered and captured by Netan and tortured for information. Meanwhile, Netan addresses his suspicious lieutenants and orders that the traitor, Antaeo, and the Odyssey, his prize, be recovered. Just as Mitchell and Teal'c prepare to escape, Tenat arrives with word that the Odyssey has been found.
Daniel, Vala, and Carter escape the ship's hold and retake the Odyssey by beaming Anateo into space. Tenat has recognized Mitchell, but offers his silence for a price, as the ships of Tenat and Netan arrive at Odyssey's position. Netan demands Odyssey's surrender, then he appears on Tenat's ship, ordering Tenat to fire upon his own ha'tak. Tenat obeys, only to discover too late that "Netan" is Mitchell, once again concealed by the Reol disguise. Mitchell and Teal'c are beamed aboard Odyssey as Netan returns fire and obliterates Tenat's ship. Odyssey completes repairs and makes its escape, safe for the moment, but now at war with the Lucian Alliance.
10x10-11) "The Quest" (22SEP06-13APR07)
A sudden revelation comes to Vala in a dream - a combination of the addresses for Castiana, Sahal, and Vagon Brei will lead to a new planet on which the Sangreal will be found. Once on the medieval world, SG-1 learns that Ba'al had arrived three days before, and the villagers warn of enchanted forests, cursed by Morgan Le Fay herself. Osric, the village librarian, shares the Parchment of Virtues, which urges prudence, wisdom, charity, kindness, and faith on the perilous quest. When soldiers of the Ori invade the village, Osric offers his assistance to SG-1 and begs to accompany them as they make their escape and begin their quest for Merlin's weapon, the Sangreal.
On their journey, SG-1 encounters Morgan's tests. First is a time distortion maze for which prudence is required to navigate the circuitous path through temporal fluctuations. Next is a force field in which Ba'al has already been trapped. Through charity, the team deactivates the field to free themselves, and Ba'al joins the quest as an unlikely ally. Finally arriving at the cave, the team confronts Osric, suspicious of his ties to the Ori. His deception is exposed when Osric's true identity is revealed - it is Adria. Knowing Morgan's safeguards would neutralize her powers, Adria had sent the dream to Vala that would bring SG-1 to her and allow her to claim the Sangreal.
The enchanted cave holds still more challenges to determine truth of spirit. Kindness to a crying child opens a hidden passage. The cave begins to tremble, but wisdom to solve a series of riddles prevents the cave from collapsing. At last a wall of fire blocks their way until Daniel accepts the final virtue, faith, and walks through the flames unharmed. Ahead lies a vast cavern with a narrow causeway above a bottomless abyss, leading to a pedestal on which rests the glowing red stone that is the Sangreal. However, it is a hologram, and as Daniel tries to grasp it, the final challenge rises from the depths of the cavern - an enormous fire-breathing dragon.
The Sangreal shall belong to he who speaks the guardian's name, but as SG-1 is pursued by the fire-breathing dragon, it is "Ganos Lal," Morgan's name in Ancient, that causes her guardian to vanish. However, the Sangreal in the cavern remains a hologram, and this time the team's attempt to claim it activates an Ancient obelisk. Instantly, they are transported to a cave on another planet, a lifeless desert world, leaving Adria behind. Within the cave is a stasis chamber, concealing Morgan's true treasure. Unable to protect the Sangreal from the Others, she had preserved in stasis for over 1000 years the one man capable of building another - Merlin.
Morgan's elaborate security system activates the stargate at regular intervals as the obelisk sends Merlin's cave through a circuit of planets outside the gate system. As the team is transported to a frozen world and a temperate rain forest, Adria and her soldiers are in close pursuit, and Carter and Ba'al collaborate to reprogram the dialing system to enable them to dial home. Meanwhile, Merlin has been revived and he agrees to build his weapon once again, using an Ancient repository to construct it virtually. However, his weakened body is failing him. With one final task before him, he wishes Daniel luck, then steps to the repository, and collapses. Merlin is dead.
Daniel recognizes Merlin's plan. Knowing death was near, Merlin had left the answers in the repository before he died, and as Daniel interfaces with the device, he acquires Merlin's abilities and the knowledge to complete the weapon. The work is draining, however, and Daniel grows weaker as each phase is completed. Carter and Ba'al succeed in reprogramming the DHD, but suddenly Adria and her army arrive on the planet. Calling on the powers of nature, Daniel strikes down Adria's soldiers and allows SG-1 to escape through the gate, but his powers are no match for Adria, who triumphantly returns to her ship with the device and with Daniel as her prisoner.
10x12) "Line in the Sand" (20APR07)
The people of P9C-882 have been visited by a Prior and have sought the aid of the SGC in resisting false gods. It is the perfect opportunity to test Carter's modifications to Arthur's Mantle, Merlin's inter-dimensional cloaking device. On the planet, the team is welcomed by Matar and Thilana, the village leader, and Carter succeeds in activating the device, expanding the field to shift the entire village into another dimension before the Prior's return. However, a power fluctuation triggers a failsafe, and as Carter struggles to stabilize the power and reactivate the device, soldiers of the Ori ring to the planet's surface and begin their conquest of the village.
SG-1 and the villagers resist the invading army, but they are easily overcome, and Carter is gravely wounded by an Ori staff weapon. Desperate to shield themselves and protect the device, Mitchell activates the cloak in a smaller field, and only the room in which he and Carter are hiding vanishes. The Ori Commander approaches, and Vala is startled to discover that it is Tomin. Mystified by what appears to be magic, he demands to know how the building was concealed, and in retaliation he orders that the prisoners be killed. Vala, however, is to be transported to his orbiting ship where he has been ordered to instruct her until she accepts the ways of Origin.
As Mitchell struggles to keep Carter alive, Teal'c, Thilana, and Matar face the interrogation of the Ori soldiers. Meanwhile, Vala's attempts to appeal to Tomin's compassion fail, but when the Prior distorts the scriptures to justify the obliteration of the village, Tomin begins to question his blind faith. Mitchell and Carter use an Ori crystal to boost power to Merlin's device, just as the Ori ship fires its weapons. Consumed by guilt, Tomin helps Vala to escape before the ship leaves orbit, but on the planet she finds only a smoldering crater. Suddenly, in a brilliant flash of light, the village reappears, spared by the phase-shifting device from the Ori's wrath.
10x13) "The Road Not Taken" (27APR07)
Hoping to expand the range of Merlin's phase-shift cloaking device, Carter is running tests when she and the contents of the lab are unexpectedly drawn into an alternate universe. There, her counterpart had been attempting to extract energy from parallel universes, but had been killed in the accident that had pulled Carter through. In this reality, General Hammond commands the SGC, and Hank Landry has been president since the attack by Anubis three years ago had revealed the stargate program to the world and forced the government to declare martial law from its base at Cheyenne Mountain. Not only that, the Ori have attacked Earth and will return within five days.
Carter's research might provide the means to defend Earth from the Ori, and Hammond offers the resources of the SGC to return Carter to her own universe in exchange for her help. As five Ori ships appear in orbit, Carter and Dr. Lee draw upon the US power grid to activate Merlin's device and expand the inter-dimensional field to shift the entire planet out of phase. Ori weapons fire passes harmlessly through the planet, and Earth is spared. For her role in saving Earth, Carter is hailed as a hero by President Landry, who presents her at press briefings and formal receptions, but also detains her in an attempt to secure his presidency.
As Carter comes to recognize the loss of freedom under martial law, she turns for help to Rodney McKay, her ex-husband in this reality, and to Cameron Mitchell, now an embittered alcoholic veteran confined to a wheelchair. Despite their warnings, Carter uses her position to speak out about the need to restore civil liberties, but she is quickly silenced by the administration, who finally decides she is more of a liability than an asset. At last, Landry permits her to return home, and with McKay's help she recreates the inter-universal bridge. Urging McKay to be the voice of change after she has gone, Carter returns to her reality from the world that might have been.
10x14) "The Shroud" (4MAY07)
A village has been visited by a Prior, but when SG-1 investigates they are stunned to learn that the Prior is Daniel Jackson. Despite the danger he poses, SG-1 beams Daniel aboard the Odyssey where he is held in restraints and his Ori-given powers are suppressed by the anti-Prior device. Daniel insists, however, that he has not fallen under Adria's control, but that his appearance and his capture are all part of an elaborate scheme he has put into place. Using Merlin's knowledge still locked within his mind, Daniel intends to complete Merlin's weapon and deliver it through the supergate to the Ori galaxy. His plan, however, rests on whether SG-1 believes him.
General O'Neill arrives at the SGC and confronts his friend. Daniel's body will soon begin to revert, and both Merlin's knowledge and his Prior's powers will be lost. Time is running out, and O'Neill and SG-1 agree to take the risk, but the mission is canceled when Woolsey arrives with a directive from the IOA. Daniel Jackson is to be terminated. As Landry and O'Neill attempt to delay Woolsey's order, SG-1 makes the decision to use Daniel's information to complete his mission themselves. However, as Woolsey prepares to place Daniel in stasis, Daniel at last overcomes the effects of the anti-Prior device, escapes from his restraints, and commandeers the Odyssey.
Aboard Odyssey, Daniel and O'Neill prepare to join SG-1. On an Ori ship, Carter works to override the ship's controls as Vala completes Merlin's weapon. At the supergate, however, Adria retakes the ship. The transformation that will rob Daniel of his powers has begun, but he overpowers Adria, and as O'Neill orders Daedalus to shut down the wormhole from Pegasus that blocks the supergate, Daniel summons the last of his powers to dial the Ori galaxy. Merlin's weapon is activated, and SG-1 beams aboard Odyssey as the Ori ship slips through the gate. The fate of the Ori is unknown, but as the supergate opens again, new ships of the Ori enter the galaxy.
10x15) "Bounty" (11May07)
A cargo transport carrying kassa for the Lucian Alliance is destroyed by SG-1, the third such case of sabotage, and with each incident Netan's position within the Lucian Alliance grows weaker. In retaliation, Netan places a bounty on the heads of SG-1, and an assortment of bounty hunters heads for Earth to claim the prize. Meanwhile, SG-1 enjoys some down time as Carter and Dr. Lee present hologram technology and plasma weaponry at a scientific conference, Daniel conducts research at a museum, Teal'c travels offworld with the Jaffa, and Vala pleads with a reluctant Mitchell to take her as his date to his upcoming high school reunion in Kansas.
Offworld, Teal'c is ambushed by staff weapon fire, but his assassin is captured when he is lured at night to finish the job. On Earth, Daniel's research is interrupted by a beautiful woman who suddenly draws an alien hand weapon and pursues him onto the street where she is hit by an oncoming bus. As Carter steps on stage to present the Chimera holographic system, she appears as a hologram, and an assassin's shot passes right through her, but she uses the plasma weapon to dispatch her assailant in the balcony. Meanwhile, at his high school reunion, Mitchell's attempt to rekindle his relationship with Amy Vandenberg is interrupted by bounty hunter Odai Ventrell.
Carter, Teal'c, and Daniel are already on their way to Kansas, and Ventrell confesses that Mitchell is only the bait for the true prize, all of SG-1. Ventrell has sealed the high school building, holding all the alumni hostage, when suddenly Carter, Teal'c, and Daniel appear to beam into the gym. Ventrell activates a set of rings, but aboard his cargo ship, Carter, Teal'c, and Daniel are already waiting. Chimera had provided a holographic diversion in the gym, allowing the team to capture Ventrell in his own ship. But Ventrell may still be of use. Aboard Netan's ship, a would-be assassin approaches, but he is killed by Ventrell, who then turns his weapon toward Netan.
10x16) "Bad Guys" (18MAY07)
Daniel's research into the Clava Thessara Infinitas suggests that the Ancient treasure may be found on P4M-328, and when SG-1 steps through the gate, they find themselves in a museum exhibit. In the lobby, many dignitaries have gathered for a party, and SG-1 attempts an inconspicuous departure, but while the stargate is genuine, the DHD is not, and dialing home is impossible. When the team's presence is accidentally discovered, the party guests panic, assuming the armed intruders to be religious rebels. Guards open fire, an alarm is triggered, and the building is sealed, leaving SG-1 the unwitting captors of dozens of terrified hostages.
Among the hostages is Cicero, a museum researcher who believes SG-1's story of a portal for interplanetary travel, and he offers his cooperation. As Daniel maintains radio contact with Quartus, the Council's chief negotiator, Cicero escorts Mitchell and Vala through the museum. There they find among the exhibits a Goa'uld naquadah bomb which could provide the power source they need to manually dial the gate. Their attempt to steal it, however, is hampered by Jayem Seran, an over eager security guard who seizes his opportunity to become a hero. To compel Seran to cooperate, Vala activates the bomb, only to discover that it can't be turned off.
Manual dialing may deplete the bomb's energy, and with less than an hour before detonation, Vala connects its power source to the stargate and prepares to dial. However, Quartus has been ordered to end the standoff, and swarms of police officers retake the building. The gate activates, but the police prevent SG-1's escape. Despite his orders, Quartus is persuaded by reason, and he allows the team to pass through the event horizon. The nation will never know what transpired, however. In a world unready for alien visitors, the news will report that Jayem Seran is a hero, having single handedly foiled a rebel plot, saving the hostages and killing all rebels.
10x17) "Talion" (1JUN07)
The peaceful Jaffa leadership summit at Dar Eshkalon is shattered when explosions rip through the camp, killing 32 and leaving Teal'c and Bra'tac among the gravely injured. Weeks later at the SGC, Teal'c has made a slow recovery, and intelligence suggests that Arkad is responsible. A Jaffa warrior without honor, Arkad may have also been responsible for the murder of Teal'c's mother many years before, and he is now gathering power as a new leader who would deliver the Jaffa into the hands of the Ori. When Landry won't authorize a mission, Teal'c offers his resignation and leaves Earth, determined to exact vengeance for the deaths at Dar Eshkalon.
Vowing that those responsible will pay with their lives, Teal'c single handedly tracks down and eliminates Lizan, the unscrupulous arms dealer, and Ba'kal, the ruthless assassin responsible for the massacre. Meanwhile, intelligence suggests that Arkad is organizing a coordinated attack on Earth, but instead Arkad requests safe passage to the SGC. There he insists that he is not involved with the events of Dar Eshkalon or the cowardly planned attack on Earth, and he offers his cooperation. Despite SG-1's suspicions, the IOA insists that for the moment no action must be taken against Arkad. In fact, SG-1 is ordered to find Teal'c, and to stop him at all costs.
At Arkad's base of operations, SG-1 awaits Teal'c's arrival, hoping to deter him from his revenge. However, Teal'c overpowers his teammates and takes on Arkad's guards. Badly wounded, he is brought before the waiting Arkad, who admits to the attack on Earth and his mother's murder, taunting him with each blow, and pinning him to the ground with his sword. In one final blow, Teal'c thrusts Arkad against the wall, where he is impaled by the mounted weapons, and breathes his last. At the SGC, Mitchell files his report: Arkad had captured SG-1, but fortunately Teal'c had been there to rescue them, during which time Arkad had been accidentally killed.
10x18) "Family Ties" (8JUN07)
The SGC receives a video transmission from an affable character whom Vala recognizes as her father, Jacek, a charming con artist. Despite Vala's warning that Jacek is not to be trusted, SG-1 agrees to consider his offer of information about Arkad's attack on Earth in exchange for sanctuary. Jacek provides the location of the naquadah loaded cargo ships intended for the attack, and when his intel checks out and the ships are destroyed, Jacek is granted passage to Earth. Despite his promise to strive for a fresh start, Jacek quickly falls back on his old ways, running one con after another, from phone scams to the sale of genuine stardust over the internet.
Vala wants no part of reconciliation with her father, and she insists that she has discarded her happy memories along with the box of trinkets he would bring her as a child. Her suspicions about Jacek appear to be true when he arranges a clandestine meeting with a Jaffa. His intention all along had been to come to Earth, where one of Arkad's cargo ships was already in position, in order to arrange a deal with Arkad's Jaffa to sell the naquadah for a profit. SG-1 intervenes, however, and reluctantly they accept Jacek's help to locate the cloaked ship and to recover it from Arkad's warriors. What Jacek doesn't know, however, is that SG-1 has a scam of their own.
Near the SGC, SG-1 battles the Jaffa guarding the cloaked cargo ship, allowing Jacek to go aboard. He warns that the ship is rigged, and he bids a gentle farewell to his daughter, offering her a necklace in case he doesn't return, before launching and making off in the ship. However, the ship is a decoy, and the real ship with its cargo of naquadah is secured by SG-1. On a distant world, Jacek is left with lead bars and packing peanuts, but true to his nature, he finds a buyer for them as "Jibbaran virility enhancers." Meanwhile, on Earth, his daughter gently places his necklace in the box full of trinkets that she has kept hidden all these years under her bed.
10x19) "Dominion" (15JUN07)
Adria encounters Vala, traveling alone and embittered by the betrayal of her teammates. Vala's dreams about the location of the Clava Thessara Infinitas were deemed a security risk, and before she could be confined by the IOA at Area 51, she had fled through the stargate. Adria sees this turn of events as an opportunity to recruit her mother and find the Clava for herself, but when they gate to the planet from Vala's dreams, they find SG-1 waiting to take Adria prisoner. In fact, Vala's dreams were part of an implanted false memory to lure and capture the Orici, and all has gone according to plan, until Ba'al's Jaffa appear and beam away with Adria.
At the SGC, Carter and Daniel convince an angry Vala that her memories of betrayal were not true. Their plan had been to deceive and capture Adria in order to control her army, but now they must first find Ba'al. Recent intelligence suggests that Ba'al's clones are gathering on P3R-112, but when the team arrives, they find dozens of clones dead by Ba'al's own hand, killed by symbiote poison. Ba'al has his own intentions for Adria, but SG-1 beams aboard Ba'al's mothership to recapture his prisoner and return to Odyssey. There, however, they discover Ba'al's plan. As Adria awakens, her eyes glow. Ba'al's symbiote has taken her as a host, and he now controls her power.
Ba'al attempts to negotiate his cooperation for their mutual benefit, but SG-1 opts instead to replace his symbiote with a Tok'ra who will order the Ori armies to stand down. Ta'seem arrives to perform the surgery, but during the extraction Ba'al's symbiote releases a deadly toxin making implantation impossible. Adria is dying. Additional toxin would allow her a humane death, but Adria awakens and uses her remaining telekinetic powers to prevent the injection of toxin and seal the infirmary. Holding SG-1 at bay with her mind, Adria uses the time she has left to prepare. When at last SG-1 enters the infirmary, they are too late. Adria has ascended.
10x20) "Unending" (22JUN07)
Summoned by the Asgard, the Odyssey arrives at Orilla where Thor explains that the Asgard race is dying from a rapidly progressing disease. Before they take their own lives, they have turned to their allies from Earth, the Fifth Race to whom they wish to bequeath their legacy, all their technology and their knowledge. As the Asgard install a new power core and extensive upgrades to the Odyssey, suddenly three Ori ships drop out of hyperspace and open fire. With the new Asgard energy weapons, Odyssey is able to destroy one of the Ori ships before escaping into hyperspace, but on Orilla a massive buildup of energy destroys the planet. The Asgard race is gone.
As Odyssey heads home, SG-1 makes the unsettling discovery that their new Asgard upgrades seem to allow the Ori to track them through subspace, and they face an Ori attack each time they emerge from hyperspace. Unwilling to sacrifice the Asgard legacy, Landry and SG-1 beam the crew to safety on P3X-474, then face the Ori in battle. Carter envelopes the Odyssey in a time dilation bubble, and the Ori weapon blast that would destroy the ship is frozen in time. However, despite the time they have bought for themselves, the Asgard technology provides no solution, and no simulation offers a means of escape. As decades pass, the team is trapped in time.
Fifty years have passed aboard the Odyssey, but a risky plan might allow SG-1 to undo the past. To prevent history from repeating, Teal'c volunteers to remain old, shielded within a force field, as Carter deactivates the time dilation field. The ship is struck by the Ori blast and disintegrates as the weapon's energy is channeled to activate a reverse time field. Suddenly, time works backwards to the moment of the initial battle, but this time Odyssey escapes into hyperspace. At the SGC, the team prepares to depart through the gate. Only Teal'c recalls the events of the past 50 years, yet all seem to sense that, despite the manipulation of time, life is too short.
🎬~Cast~🎬
Richard Dean Anderson - Jack O'Neill
Michael Shanks - Daniel Jackson
Amanda Tapping - Samantha Carter
Christopher Judge - Teal'c
Don S. Davis - George Hammond
Gary Jones - Walter Harriman
Teryl Rothery - Janet Fraiser
Dan Shea - Siler
Ben Browder - Cameron Mitchell
Beau Bridges - Hank Landry
Claudia Black - Vala Mal Doran
Corin Nemec - Jonas Quinn
Tony Amendola - Bra'tac
Carmen Argenziano - Jacob Carter-Selmak
Fraser Aitcheson - Jaffa
Peter Williams - Apophis
Cliff Simon - Ba'al
Colin Cunningham - Paul Davis
Dan Payne - Ashrak
Tom McBeath - Harry Maybourne
Ronny Cox - Robert Kinsey
Lexa Doig - Carolyn Lam
David Palffy Anubis-Sokar
Garry Chalk - Chekov
Robert Picardo - Richard Woolsey
David Hewlett - Rodney McKay
JR Bourne - Martouf-Lantash
G. Patrick Currie - Fifth
Anna-Louise Plowman - Sarah Gardner-Osiris
Morena Baccarin - Adria
Alexis Cruz - Skaara-Klorel
John de Lancie - Frank Simmons
Steve Bacic - Camulus
Eric Steinberg - Netan
Michael Adamthwaite - Her'ak
Kevan Ohtsji - Ohsu
Kevin McNulty - Warner
Mark Gibbon - Thor
Douglas Arthurs - Heru'er
Eric Schneider - Mackenzie
Vanessa Angel - Anise-Freya
William Devane - Henry Hays
Torri Higginson - Elizabeth Weir
Suanne Braun - Hathor
Willie Garson - Martin Lloyd
Julian Sands - Doci
Vaitiare Hirshon - Sha're-Amaunet
Jacqueline Samuda - Nirrti
Garwin Sanford - Garwin Sanford
Marie Stillin - Travell
Ron Halder - Cronus
Bill Marchant - Adrian Conrad
Patrick McKenna - Jay Felger
Cameron Bright - Orlin
Jay Brazeau - Harlan
Tamsin Kelsey - Gairwin
Peter LaCroix - Ashrak-Kendrick
Katie Stuart - Cassandra
Robin Mossley - Reimer-Malikai
Winston Rekert - Cordesh
Isaac Hayes - Tolok
Elizabeth Hoffman - Catherine Langford
Vince Crestejo - Yu-huang Shang Ti
Tom Butler - Trofsky
Joy Coghill - Saroosh-Selmak
Tanya Reid - Jolinar
Dwight Schultz - The Keeper
Dom DeLuise - Urgo-Togar
Jan Rubes - Nicholas Ballard
Ian Buchanan - First
Sasha Pieterse - Grace
Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe - Nya
Kyle Graham - Charlie O'Neill
Tahmoh Penikett - Third
William Atherton - Varta
Rebecca Reichert - Fourth
Linnea Johnson - SGC Tour Guide
Shannon Powell - Sixth
Colby Johannson - Finney
Loyd Bateman - Chapman
🔎~Trivia~🔍
Unusual for a series, Showtime ordered forty-four episodes (a second season) before showing the pilot. Halfway through the first season, they ordered another forty-four episodes.
Christopher Judge (Teal'c) and Amanda Tapping (Samantha Carter) are the only cast members to stay with the series throughout its entire run and, consequently, to appear in 200 or more episodes.
Although the SGC is a fictional location, its home base at the Cheyenne Mountain Complex is an actual Space Force installation belonging to the Air Force at the time of this series. The exterior shot of the main entrance tunnel to the mountain base is the actual entrance, and the blast doors (seen closing in any episode which features the SGC going into Lockdown) do exist at the facility in real life.
The character "Jack O'Neill" was ranked number ten in TV Guide's list of the "25 Greatest Sci-Fi Legends" (August 1, 2004 issue).
Stargate SG-1 and its spin-offs are the only television series endorsed and supported by the United States Armed Forces, particularly the Air Force Space Command (the predecessor to the modern-day U.S. Space Force).
The Asgard were voiced by creative staff, cast, and crew of the show. Thor was voiced by Michael Shanks, Heimdall was voiced by Teryl Rothery, and Loki and Kvasir were voiced by Peter DeLuise.
According to Carter (Amanda Tapping) in Season six, the Stargate, made from Naquadah, weighed 64,000 pounds (roughly twenty-nine metric tons). The primary on-set Stargate prop was made out of steel and fiberglass though, and was twenty-two feet (6.7 meters) in diameter. It was fully automated, and capable of rotating and emitting light. This was achieved by the use of a specially-designed twenty-two foot (6.7 meter) circular gear, which turned the inner ring on a precise pinion drive wheel, using an eight horsepower electric motor.
99942 Apophis is a large asteroid that was named in 2005 by astronomers David Tholan and Roy Tucker, both fans of this show. At one time, there was concern that the asteroid might strike the Earth in 2029, causing widespread devastation. However, more accurate analyses followed over the years, which came to the conclusion that the asteroid will miss.
Sergeant Walter Harriman was loosely based on Walter "Radar" O'Reilly from "M*A*S*H (1972)." Throughout the series, we see Walter display many Radar-like qualities, particularly his ability to respond the requests of his superiors before being asked. Coincidentally, both characters were portrayed by actors named Gary.
Running for ten seasons, the show held the record for longest-running American live-action science fiction television series, until it was surpassed by "Supernatural (2005)." Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks and Teryl Rothery also appeared on this show.
The series had four different opening credits sequences. The first is the original non-clip version, which was used for the premiere and Showtime airings of the show. It was based on the Stargate (1994) movie opening credits, panning around a statue of Ra. The second opening credits sequence and set was the one used for syndicated airings. It includes clips from the series. The third opening credits sequence was used on the Syfy Channel. It is similar to the first sequence, though not showing clips, but pans in and out on an activating Stargate. It ends showing SG-1, from the back and in a row of four, entering the Stargate. The fourth version appeared on episodes during the first half of the ninth season. It shows a stargate floating in space, and footage of SG-1 walking towards the stargate at the SGC. The stargate then becomes active, and the camera goes into the stargate, showing the footage used for travelling trough the stargate. The third version of the credits returned for the second half of season nine.
Certain concepts of Stargate travel were phased out over the course of the first season, such as the travellers feeling extremely cold, and arriving with frost on their faces. Also, the concept of the travellers unable to keep their balance and always tumbling out of the Stargate (unless, of course, they tumbled into the Stargate to begin with). This was explained within the show as a result of more precise dialing of the Earth Stargate, and sometimes these effects are brought back, when the wormhole is disturbed during transit.
The prop used to portray the device that controls the Tok'ra memory recall device, which looks like a "wand", is actually an electric nose hair trimmer, and is used unaltered.
Christopher Judge (Teal'c) appeared in 212 of the series' 213 episodes, being absent only from Prometheus Unbound (2004). In second place is Amanda Tapping (Samantha Carter) who appeared in a total of 207 episodes.
In several episodes, Carter can be seen using a scanning device which is actually an unaltered Philips "Pronto" universal remote control. The half moon shaped section at the top is the infrared emitter.
Peter DeLuise directed, wrote, and produced numerous episodes, and was creative consultant for nearly all of them. Many times, he found a way to appear in front of the camera (à la Alfred Hitchc**k). He has played several airmen and villagers, "man leaving café", "shouting Jaffa", and even a younger, more handsome version of a character played by his father, Dom DeLuise. Peter's brother, Michael DeLuise, played the role of "Replacement Actor" on season ten, episode six, "200".
Apophis was a "real" Egyptian god, despite many fans' difficulty in finding any information on him. "Apophis" is an obscure Greek name for Apep, the Egyptian god of darkness and night. The native names of Egyptian deities are not widely known, except to Egyptologists, because most Egyptian mythology was brought to the Western world by the Greeks, who altered Egyptian words and names to conform to Greek phonology. For example, the name of Bast, the cat-god, was probably pronounced something like "Pasht" or "Bast" (the latter according to Gardiner's "Egyptian Grammar").
Alexis Cruz (Skaara) and Erick Avari (Kasuf) are the only actors to appear in both "Stargate (1994)" and "Stargate SG-1 (1997)" and the only to reprise their Stargate (1994) roles in any subsequent Stargate production.
Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Don S. Davis, Gary Jones, and Dan Shea are the only cast members to appear in all ten seasons.
Dan Shea (Siler) was also the Stunt Coordinator for the show.
Several elements and characters from Stargate (1994) also appeared throughout the series, and although some retained their original characteristics, many have been changed or altered entirely. Here are some of the primary differences between movie and show:
Aside from the obvious difference in the actors playing the characters, the character Sha'uri from the movie appeared several times in the series, but her name on the show was Sha're.
In the movie, Colonel O'Neil's name was spelled with one L, but in the series, it's spelled with two Ls (which O'Neill himself emphasizes on a couple of occasions).
Colonel O'Neill's son was named Tyler in the movie (his name could be seen on various awards hanging on the wall of his room), but in the series, his name was Charlie.
The Stargate was located inside a military installation inside Creek Mountain in the movie, but in the series, it was located at the military installation inside the Cheyenne Mountain Complex.
The planet Abydos was supposedly located "on the other side of the known universe" in the fictional Kaliam galaxy, millions of light years away, but in the television series, it is located inside our own Milky Way galaxy, and said to be the nearest planet to Earth with a working Stargate.
In the movie, each Stargate had a distinct set of symbols (represented by star constellations on Earth's gate), which differed from gate to gate. In the series however, each of the symbols on each of the gates are very similar, with the point of origins being the only unique symbols for each gate.
The wormhole effect for the Stargate was different in the movie and the series. In the movie, the effect appeared as a spinning vortex coming out from behind the gate. However, this was absent from the series.
Many actors and actresses associated with "Star Trek" have had been on the show, including Rene Auberjonois, John Billingsley, Jolene, Ronny Cox, John de Lancie, Robert Picardo, Dwight Schultz, Armin Shimerman, and Marina Sirtis.
Despite being injured on many missions during his military career, all of which are mentioned by the character, Jack O'Neill wears many ribbons, but no Purple Heart Ribbon (combat related injury) on his Class A/B Uniform.
The series was known for occasionally poking fun of itself. In particular, the 100th episode (Wormhole X-Treme! (2001)) and the 200th episode (200 (2006)) involved story lines that were self-referential on multiple occasions and had numerous in-jokes.
Each planet or moon with a Stargate is designated with a six-digit designation (for example, P3X-989), with the first digit always being a P, an M, a K, or an X.
It was originally planned to end the series after seven seasons, and make a feature film, which would be the show's finale. But the show's ratings on Syfy led to it being renewed for an eighth season, and the film turned into the seventh season two-parter Lost City: Part 1 (2004) and Lost City: Part 2 (2004).
The Stargate's ring had thirty-nine glyphs and seven chevrons.
The large device that is sent through the Stargate prior to each mission is called a M.A.L.P., which stands for "Mobile All-terrain Laboratory Platform".
The character of Sergeant Walter Harriman was created without the name in the beginning of the series. His rank was possible to determine, due to markings on the uniform. Firstly, General Hammond referred to him as "Airman", which was mistakenly heard as Harriman by fans of the show. The name Walter was added later on. Harriman's original name was supposed to be "Walter Davis". However, it was changed by the show's producers later on, after it was discovered there was an actual person named Walter Davis enlisted in the U.S. Air Force.
The "Tollan Homeworld" shows were shot at Simon Fraser University.
Michael Shanks (Daniel Jackson), Amanda Tapping (Samantha Carter), Christopher Judge (Teal'c) and Gary Jones (Walter Harriman) are the only actors to appear in both the first and last episodes of the series: Children of the Gods (1997) and Unending (2007).
Daniel Jackson's birthday is July 8, 1965. In Season 2's 1969 (1999), Jackson tells O'Neill that he was four and a half years old in 1969, and in Season 3's Forever in a Day (1999), he tells Sha're and Dr. Fraiser that his birthday was July 8th.
In Stargate (1994), Jackson explained to the military personnel that for any space travel, seven symbols are necessary to mark the coordinates. Six of them indicate the destination, signing stars or constellations to locate the place to go. The seventh and last symbol indicates the point of origin. In the television series, an extra glyph was added to indicate the destination galaxy.
Although they wrote the original movie, on which the series was based, Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich refused an on-screen credit. They are credited, however, in the series of novels based on the series.
The characters mention that the Stargate has thirty-nine symbols, seven glyphs, or chevrons, being necessary for any travel across the galaxy. Applying mathematical combinatorics, the number of unique permutations (and therefore gate addresses) without re-using any symbols to locate other planet or starship is 77,519,922,480.
If symbols can be used more than once in an address, the number jumps to 137,231,006,679. For comparison, there are an estimated four hundred billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. In effect, the design of the Stargate network could reach less than half the star systems in the Milky Way, and far less than half the planets.
In addition, using eight glyphs for an address (extragalactic voyage), a stargate can locate 2,480,637,519,360 places throughout the universe, increased to 5,352,009,260,481, if one or more glyphs can be re-used.
For comparison, there are an estimated one hundred billion galaxies in the universe. In effect, the design of the Stargate network could reach any galaxy, but less than one thousandth of the star systems, counting all them of all galaxies.
Major Carter always had a Volvo as her personal car throughout the run of the series, from a vintage 1800 model, to a then-new model S60 sedan.
When Air Force Chief of Staff Michael Ryan guest starred in the episode "Prodigy", he was asked by Richard Dean Anderson if there were any Colonels as irreverent as Col. Jack O'Neill in the Air Force, Gen. Ryan replied, "Son, we have Colonels like you and worse."
Michael Shanks, who played the character of Dr. Daniel Jackson in Stargate SG-1, left the show after the fifth season due to creative differences with the show's producers. He returned to the show in season 7, after negotiations between the producers and Shanks' representatives resulted in a new agreement that allowed him to return to the show in a reduced capacity. Shanks continued to appear on the show as a recurring character for the remainder of its run, and also appeared in the show's two direct-to-DVD movies, Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum.
Peter DeLuise tries to work the name "Penhall" into every script he directs. This was the last name of his character from 21 Jump Street (1987). In season seven, episode seven, "Enemy Mine", a Colonel calls out to two soldiers, Hanson and Penhall. Hanson was the name of Johnny Depp's character.
"Jonas Quinn" is from the country Kelowna on the planet Langara. Langara is a golf course, where some of the producers and directors went to play golf. Kelowna is a town near Vancouver, British Columbia, where the show was filmed.
Don S. Davis had performed with Richard Dean Anderson on MacGyver (1985). He was a cement truck driver in Blow Out (1987) and a poacher in The Endangered (1988).
Jack's awards are: The two badges are Master Parachutist; and Master Space and Missile Command. His medals and ribbons (reading from the viewer's left to right and top to bottom):
Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Airman's Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Air Medal, Aerial Achievement Medal, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal, Air Force Achievement Medal, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award, Air Force Organizational Excellence Award, Combat Readiness Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, South West Asia Service Medal, Air Force Overseas Ribbon - Long Tour, Air Force Longevity Service Ribbon, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal, and Kuwait Liberation Medal - Saudi Arabia. (Note that he does not wear pilot's wings of any level.)
Michael Shanks guest starred in the season one episode of Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda entitled Star-Crossed as the love interest of Rommie played by Lexa Doig the two fell in love off screen and married. Lexa eventually had a recurring role on Stargate SG-1 as Dr Carolyn Lam in eleven episodes.
When someone would go through the Stargate on their first trip, the audience would see the long version of the travel sequence.
In this show, Amanda Tapping played an Air Force scientist, who explored other worlds through the stargate. In Starman (1996), she played an Air Force scientist, who was apparently studying U.F.O.s on Earth.
Twelve characters from Stargate (1994) appear in some form: Jack O'Neil/O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, Kasuf, Skaara, Sha'uri/Sha're, Kowalski, Ferretti, Catherine Langford, Professor Langford, Ra, Anubis, and Sarah O'Neil/Sara O'Neill. Only Kasuf and Skaara are played by the same actors in both the film and series.
Many of the main cast and guest actors have portrayed more than their original characters in.one form or another. Some played as many as 6 separate characters throughout the series, including voice roles and characters in SGA.
Richard Dean Anderson and Christopher Judge appeared in Live and Learn (1990).
The order of episodes 6 through 18 on the Season 1 DVDs differs somewhat from the broadcast order.
Louis Gossett Jr. and Stacy Keach were considered for the role of General Hank Landry.
The sound of the Goa'uld Hatak mothership's main weapons firing is strongly reminiscent of Soviet WW2 Katyusha rockets.
Many actors and actresses in this show also made appearances in The X-Files (1993), often in recurring or guest roles.
In General Landry's office, there is a framed board that is filled with all U S Navy patches with the exception of a NASA Apollo 11 patch.
The SGC is an Air Force installation (at the time of the series) and there were no Navy personnel who were members of any team. Lt Gen Landry wears Command Air Force Pilots Wings. The Navy patches make no sense in the grouping they are in.
They includes 3 ships, one being the USS Enterprise CVN 65 (which may be a tip of the hat to Star Trek) and another appears to be the USS Wichita LCS13. There is a Grumman A6 (aircraft) and a F14 Tomcat patch to go along with a Blue Angels Hornet patch.
There are several F14 Tomcat squadrons: VF 211 Fighting Checkmates, VF 24 Renegades, VF154 Black Knights. There is also a VAW 124 Bear Aces patch, an E2 Hawkeye squadron. A Persian Gulf Cruise patch. There is also 2 patches that were from the movie Top Gun (1986).
A Top Gun patch that was only used in the movie and a 3rd Marine Air Wing patch that Tom Cruise wore on his jacket.
Ben Browder and Claudia Black played a couple on the sci-fi series Farscape. Ben played a human character on Farscape while Claudia played an alien on that series.
The seasons four and five DVD sets use the Showtime opening credits.
Other than Earth, Teal'c's homeworld Chulak was the most frequently seen planet on the series with twelve appearances: Children of the Gods (1997), Bloodlines (1997), Family (1998), Into the Fire (1999), The Serpent's Venom (2000), Threshold (2001), Lost City: Part 2 (2004), Reckoning: Part 1 (2005), Moebius: Part 2 (2005), The Fourth Horseman: Part 1 (2005), The Fourth Horseman: Part 2 (2006) and Flesh and Blood (2006). Season Six was the only one in which it did not appear.
This is not the first time that Ben Browder and Claudia Black collaborated on a Sci-Fi Show Project. In fact, they also collaborated on the Sci-Fi Show Farscape.
Earth is seen in all but seven episodes of the series: Emancipation (1997), The First Commandment (1997), Deadman Switch (1999), Demons (1999), Exodus (2001), Last Stand (2002) and Camelot (2006).
Vaitiare Hirshon who played Sha'uri on the series auditioned for the same role in Stargate (1994) which went to Mili Avital.
Jonas Quinn is the only regular character whose family was never seen.
In Stargate SG1 Jack O'Neill always finishes his introduction as "O'Neill, 2 L's" In the film Stargate O'Neil is spelt with 1 L
The title's name "Stargate SG-1" is repeatedly mistaken as an example of a common linguistic error known as "RAS Syndrome" (Redundant Abbreviation Syndrome Syndrome).
Accurate examples of this are "ATM machine", "SINCGAR radio" or "PIN number" where the last word is included in the name, usually as the last in an abbreviation or acronym.
"Stargate SG-1" is not RAS as it is two proper names in order, not the doubling of wording. It is in a common military naming pattern (and civilian in many cases).
It should be read as "Stargate (program name), (unit name) Stargate-1" rather than "Stargate Stargate 1".
The title of the show specifies that the Stargate Program's unit "SG-1" is the focus of the show (vs. units "SG-2", "SG-3", and so on).
