Family
An incoming wormhole brings Master Bra’tac to the SGC, bearing bad news – Apophis is still alive, and has captured Teal’c’s son, Rya’c. Bra’tac believes that Apophis has lost his status among the Goa’uld System Lords as a result of SG-1 thwarting his attack on Earth. To regain his standing, Apophis hopes to lure Teal’c into a trap with his son as the bait. And another unpleasant surprise awaits Teal’c on Chulak when he discovers that his wife, Drey’auc, as declared their marriage dissolved in his absence, taking his old colleague Fro’tak as her new husband. When the team tries to rescue Rya’c, he betrays their presence to the guards and runs. It appears that Apophis has brainwashed Rya’c, but before he can be recovered and brought back to Earth, Teal’c and his teammates will have to endure other painful betrayals as well.
written by Katharyn Powers
directed by William Gereghty
music by Joel Goldsmith, Kevin Kiner and Richard BandGuest Cast: Tony Amendola (Bra’tac), Brook Parker (Drey’auc), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Peter Williams (Apophis), Neil Denis (Rya’c), Peter Bryant (Fro’tak), Jano Frandsen (Dj’nor), Laara Sadiq (Female Technician)
LogBook entry by Earl Green
In August 2010, Wikus Van De Merwe’s life changes forever. He is chosen to head up the effort by MNU to relocate a population of aliens to a new settlement. Since their ship appeared in 1982 in the sky over Johannesburg, South Africa, the aliens – generally known by the racial slur “prawn” – have been corraled into an inner city ghetto known as District 9. Johannesburg’s human residents have finally railed against the aliens enough that a very expensive and very risky resettlement has been undertaken. During the search of one alien residence in District 9, Wikus is exposed to some sort of seemingly makeshift biological weapon. Initially it only makes him nauseous, but within 36 hours of his exposure, he’s no longer entirely human. This is of particular interest to MNU, which is also one of the world’s largest arms dealers, and has long been frustrated by the inability of any human to use the aliens’ advanced weaponry. Wikus demonstrates – under duress – that he is the first human who can activate the aliens’ weapons. This makes him a hot property at MNU – though his employers now want to dissect him so they can corner the market on alien weapons, even if it means genetically re-engineering those who will wield them. Wikus is left with no choice but to escape, and now the only place where he has any hope of hiding is District 9 itself…but neither fully human nor fully alien, friends and allies will be hard to come by.