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Season 03 SG-1 Stargate

Maternal Instinct

Stargate SG-1Bra’tac emerges through the SGC’s stargate with a wounded Jaffa, and bearing news that Apophis is still alive and fighting. An entire Jaffa world has been razed to the ground as Apophis searches for his child by Sha’re, a child which Daniel has pledged to find for much more benevolent reasons. Bra’tac admits that he may be growing too tired to single-handedly lead the Jaffa’s fight for freedom from the Goa’uld, and urges Teal’c to take over for him. But first, their immediate mission involves finding the child before Apophis does, and Bra’tac has a clue that leads them to a world whose name the Goa’uld dare not even speak. The child is there, but Daniel is the first to realize that something else is too – a higher life form that won’t let either side take the baby. But as immensely powerful as it seems to be, is this being enough to stop Apophis’ advancing army?

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directed by Peter F. Woeste
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Tony Amendola (Bra’tac), Terry Chen (Monk), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Aaron Douglas (Moac), Steve Bacic (Coburn), D. Harlan Cutshall (Jaffa Commander), Carla Boudreau (Oma Desala)

Notes: This is the first episode to feature Oma Desala (though played by a different actress), and marks the first hint of the plotline that will eventually result in Daniel’s ascension in season five.

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Season 03 SG-1 Stargate

Crystal Skull

Stargate SG-1On the planet designated P7X-277, an enormous pyramid – big enough to hold all of the pyramids in Egypt combined – is found. If its sheer size is staggering, what it contains is even more surprising – radiation that’s capable of slowing neutrinos, and, on a pedestal in the pyramid’s center, what appears to be a human skull made of crystal. More surprisingly, it’s identical to one that Daniel’s grandfather, archaeologist Nick Ballard, found in Belize. Ballard claimed at the time that the skull teleported him to another world where he was greeted by gigantic aliens, but that claim destroyed his career and left him institutionalized. When Daniel looks into the eyes of the skull, just as Ballard did, the radiation level spikes and energy begins to glow throughout the cavern. Teal’c fires his zat gun at the skull, but in that moment, Daniel seems to disappear. Daniel manages to return to Earth through the stargate, but no one can see or hear him. Desperate for clues about Daniel’s whereabouts, his teammates turn to the one other person who has gazed into the eyes of the crystal skull…even though, as far as the rest of the world is concerned, that man is insane.

Order the DVDsstory by Michael Greenburg & Jarrad Paul
teleplay by Brad Wright
directed by Brad Turner
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Jan Rubes (Nick Ballard), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Jason Schombing (Rothman), Dan Shea (Sgt. Siler), Russell Roberts (Psychiatrist), Jacquie Janzen (Nurse), Daniel Bacon (Technician), Tracy Westerholm (Surveillance SF), Christopher Judge (voice of Quetlzelcoatl)

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Season 03 SG-1 Stargate

Nemesis

Stargate SG-1An appendectomy puts Daniel out of action, and sidelines the rest of SG-1 temporarily. As he sets about completely failing to interest his teammates in a fishing trip, O’Neill suddenly finds himself transported aboard an Asgard ship orbiting Earth. But instead of finding himself among the Asgard themselves, O’Neill is surrounded by large mechanical insects. When he finally finds Thor, the Asgard is on the brink of death, and directs O’Neill to watch a recorded message explaining that the mechanical creatures, discovered by the Asgard in another galaxy and known as replicators, infested the ship, learned of Earth from its navigational charts, and have come to take over the planet for themselves. The Asgard consider the replicators to be a far greater threat than the Goa’uld. Thor is too weak to help, however, and it’s up to O’Neill and SG-1 to figure out if the replicators can be destroyed before they reach Earth.

Order the DVDswritten by Robert C. Cooper
directed by Martin Wood
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Colin Cunningham (Major Davis), Gary Jones (Sgt. Walter Harriman), Guyle Lee-Fraizer (Technician #2)

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Season 04 SG-1 Stargate

Small Victories

Stargate SG-1Thor’s ship slams into the Pacific Ocean in pieces, but some of the replicators survive the ship’s re-entry. One replicator tries to single-handedly commandeer a Russian submarine, but the sub makes it back to harbor. SG-1, after two weeks missing in action, finally returns home from delivering Thor back to the Asgard. But despite O’Neill’s wish for a hot shower and a fishing trip, the team gets new assignments almost immediately. Thor asks for the team’s help in the Asgard’s ongoing war with the replicators, and Carter goes to offer her expertise. The rest of SG-1 boards the Russian sub, discovering that the replicator has made copies of itself, which are now making copies of themselves – but after their first firefight with the replicators, Daniel detects a defect: the new replicators, created from the raw material available in the submarine, are susceptible to Earth’s corrosive seawater. But the information may not be enough to save O’Neill and Teal’c’s lives.

Season 4 Regular Cast: Richard Dean Anderson (Colonel Jack O’Neill), Michael Shanks (Dr. Daniel Jackson), Amanda Tapping (Major Samantha Carter), Christopher Judge (Teal’c), Don S. Davis (General Hammond)

Order the DVDswritten by Robert C. Cooper
directed by Martin Wood
music by Joel Goldsmith
main theme adapted from music by David Arnold

Guest Cast: Colin Cunningham (Major Davis), Gary Jones (Sgt. Walter Harriman), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Dan Shea (Sgt. Siler), Yurij Kis (Yuri), Dmitry Chepovetsky (Boris)

Notes: This episode offers the first-ever glimpse of the Asgard homeworld, as well as their new command cruiser, the O’Neill, to say nothing of Teal’c’s new “soul patch” beard grown by Christopher Judge during the between-season break in filming. Some of Joel Goldsmith‘s music is reminiscent of the themes he and his father Jerry composed for another SF enemy that won’t consider you a threat unless you threaten it first: Star Trek: First Contact‘s Borg.

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Season 04 SG-1 Stargate

The Other Side

Stargate SG-1The SGC is on high alert after several unexpected offworld activations. Finally, a message is received from a colony of descendants of human slaves taken from Earth by the Goa’uld, which reveals that with each previous attempt to open the stargate, a volunteer stepped through and fatally slammed into the iris protecting the SGC’s gate. Their leader, Alar, pleads for assistance in his people’s war with an unknown enemy, and General Hammond dispatches SG-1 on a purely humanitarian mission. Alar’s people fight a war by remote control from a besieged underground headquarters, on a world whose surface has been left permanently uninhabitable by the ongoing war. After seeing their remote combat technology in action, and learning about their controlled fusion reactors, O’Neill pledges Earth’s assistance to ensure a technology exchange. What Alar wants from Earth is deuterium-infused heavy water to power both his defenses and offensive weapons. But this raises troubling questions about the war being fought – how did it start, who is the enemy, and is O’Neill getting in over his head?

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directed by Peter DeLuise
music by Kevin Kiner

Guest Cast: Rene Auberjonois (Alar), Anne Marie Loder (Farrell), Gary Jones (Sgt. Walter Harriman), Dan Shea (Sgt. Siler), Stephen Park (Controller), Kyle Cassie (Eurondan Soldier), Kris Keeler (Zombie Pilot)

Notes: Guest star Rene Auberjonois is a familiar face to SF TV fans, having spent seven years on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as the shapeshifting security officer Odo prior to this episode.

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Season 04 SG-1 Stargate

Upgrades

Stargate SG-1Two representatives from the Tok’ra arrive, bearing gifts – relics of an extinct race that, according to the Tok’ra’s best minds, should give their wearers superhuman strength. However, due to the Tok’ra’s symbiotes, the irony is that they’re incapable of using the devices. O’Neill, Carter and Daniel are chosen to be the guinea pigs for this experiment, and as the Tok’ra promise, the alien armbands give all three of them superhuman strength and speed and mental agility – but there’s also a price, such as a superhuman appetite and what Dr. Fraiser warns is an unsafely high body temperature. On Fraiser’s advice, General Hammond orders the use of the alien gear discontinued, only to find that O’Neill and the other test subjects are physically unable to remove them. Dr. Fraiser suspects that the Tok’ra knew this would happen, and her suspicions are confirmed – and the Tok’ra now admit that they would like to “borrow” the new and improved SG-1 for a mission to take out Apophis’ powerful new warship, a feat that the Tok’ra have thus far failed to accomplish for themselves.

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directed by Martin Wood
music by Joel Goldsmith, Richard Band and Kevin Kiner

Guest Cast: Vanessa Angel (Anise), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Dan Shea (Sgt. Siler), Kristina Copeland (Waitress), Frank Topol (Big Guy), Bill Nikolai (Technician #1), Laara Sadiq (Technician #2), Daniel Melles (SF#1), Tracy Westerholm (SF#2), Fraser Aitcheson (Jaffa Commander), Shawn Reis (Jaffa)

Notes: Guest star Vanessa Angel is best known for starring as Lisa on the TV series based on the movie Weird Science; she was later cast as a warrior princess named Xena in a three-episode stretch of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, but fell ill before the filming dates and was replaced by a New Zealand actress named Lucy Lawless. Daniel deciphers the inscriptions on the alien devices to mean “with great power comes great responsibility” – apparently this alien culture once read The Amazing Spider-Man.

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Season 04 SG-1 Stargate

Crossroads

Stargate SG-1The gate is activated with Bra’tac’s ID code, but the woman who steps into the SGC is obviously not Bra’tac. She is Shau’nac, an old flame of Teal’c, who claims to have developed the ability to separate her consciousness from that of her symbiote and can use that ability to convince the Goa’uld within her that its agenda is evil. Bra’tac has sent Shau’nac to teach this ability to the Tok’ra so that they may use it against the Goa’uld. At first, General Hammond is suspicious, and the Tok’ra scientist Anise is contacted, so that the Tok’ra can assess the situation without revealing their current base of operations. As she awaits the Tok’ra’s decision, Shau’nac shows Teal’c how to communicate with his symbiote – and urges him to leave SG-1 to help her spread this knowledge among all Jaffa.

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directed by Peter DeLuise
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Vanessa Angel (Anise), Musetta Vander (Shau’nac), Peter Wingfield (Hebron), Gary Jones (Sgt. Walter Harriman), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Ron Hadler (Cronus), Sean Millington (Ronac)

Notes: Genre fans may remember guest star Peter Wingfield better as Methos, the oldest surviving Immortal from Highlander: The Series.

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Season 06 SG-1 Stargate

Disclosure

Stargate SG-1The ambassadors of almost every major country are summoned to the United States for a top secret briefing. As the incredulous representatives listen, General Hammond reveals, at long last, the Stargate program, the existence of aggressive alien species known as the Goa’uld and the Replicators, and even the existence of allies such as the Asgard. General Hammond warns that an imminent Goa’uld attack may require international cooperation to defend Earth. But then Senator Kinsey arrives, trying to turn the ambassadors’ distrust of the SGC to his own advantage – on behalf of the NID. General Hammond is in the perilous position of losing what little support he has won by coming clean on the existence of the Stargate program, and has only one card left to play.

Order the DVDswritten by Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie
directed by William Gereghty
music by Joel Goldsmith and Kevin Kiner

Guest Cast: Francois Chau (Chinese Ambassador), Colin Cunningham (Maj. Davis), Garry Chalk (Colonel Chekov), Martin Evans (British Ambassador), Paul Batten (French Ambassador), Ronny Cox (Senator Kinsey),

Notes: Essentially a clip show with a framing story shot inexpensively with a small cast on a single set, Disclosure is notable for featuring only one regular cast member – Don S. Davis as General Hammond – in its new footage; the rest of the show’s stars appear only in clips from older episodes.

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Season 08 SG-1 Stargate

New Order Part 1

Stargate SG-1With O’Neill still frozen in the Antarctic Ancient outpost after Anubis’ attack, an international controversy has arisen over the that battle – and until treaties can be worked out, no one nation can lay claim to the outpost, making it off-limits to the SGC. Carter and Teal’c set off on a mission to contact the Asgard in the hopes that they can remove the Ancients’ knowledge from O’Neill without killing him in the process. Daniel stays on Earth with Dr. Weir to await word from Carter, but they’re surprised when the first message they receive is from a representative of the Goa’uld System Lords, all of whom apparently now want to negotiate a treaty of their own after the apparent destruction of Anubis. Weir gets the President’s permission to open talks with the System Lords, but Daniel is skeptical of their motives. The modified Goa’uld ship carrying Carter and Teal’c into Asgard space comes out of hyperspace right on top of a black hole, and it torn to pieces by the gravitational forces – just moments after Thor transports them to his ship. But their troubles are just beginning: Thor caused the stellar collapse that led to the black hole in order to defeat an onslaught of Replicators. But to Thor’s surprise, the Replicators seem to have overcome the black holes’ gravity, and when Carter and Teal’c defend Thor’s ship from a Replicator boarding party, Carter is kidnapped.

She finds herself in the clutches of Fifth, who forces his way into her mind to extract information. And on Earth, the negotiations with the System Lords break down – one of the System Lords, Baal, is trying to take advantage of the void left by Anubis to propel himself into a position of power.

Season 8 Regular Cast: Richard Dean Anderson (General Jack O’Neill), Michael Shanks (Dr. Daniel Jackson), Amanda Tapping (Colonel Samantha Carter), Chirstopher Judge (Teal’c)

Order the DVDswritten by Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie
directed by Andy Mikita
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Torri Higginson (Dr. Elizabeth Weir), Patrick Currie (Fifth), Kira Clavell (Amaterasu), Steve Bacic (Camulus), Gary Jones (Chief Sgt. Walter Harriman), Vincent Crestejo (Shang Ti), Kevan Ohtsji (Yu’s First Prime), Barclay Hope (Col. Pendergast), Chelah Horsdal (Comm Officer), Buddy Dolan (Commander Langley)

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Season 08 SG-1 Stargate

New Order Part 2

Stargate SG-1Though the Asgard successfully destroy the massive Replicator ship in orbit of the new Asgard homeworld, many Replicator blocks survive to reach the planet’s surface and begin replicating anew. No trace has been found of Carter, dead or alive, in the Replicator debris, and yet Carter awakens in an idyllic setting – on a farm with her fiancee, Pete. But she’s aware that it can’t be real, and challenges the illusory environment at every turn, until “Pete” reveals himself to be Fifth, still intact, and proclaiming that he’s in love with Carter. Earth, in the meantime, braces for an invasion by Baal, but in the midst of the ongoing negotiations Daniel is snatched away by Thor, who also has no problem extracting O’Neill from the Antarctic base.

Thor is concerned only with saving the Asgard’s new planet, and enlists O’Neill – and his Ancient knowledge – in the race to create a new weapon to fight the Replicators. Just before Thor has to purge the Ancient knowledge from O’Neill’s mind, the design for a new weapon appears in the Asgard ship’s main computer. Thor is able to generate a working physical copy of the weapon…but no one is quite sure how to use it.

Order the DVDswritten by Robert C. Cooper
directed by Andy Mikita
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Torri Higginson (Dr. Elizabeth Weir), Patrick Currie (Fifth), Kira Clavell (Amaterasu), Steve Bacic (Camulus), Gary Jones (Chief Sgt. Walter Harriman), Vincent Crestejo (Shang Ti), Kevan Ohtsji (Yu’s First Prime), Barclay Hope (Col. Pendergast), Chelah Horsdal (Comm Officer), Buddy Dolan (Commander Langley)

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Season 1 Stargate Stargate Atlantis

The Rising

Stargate AtlantisAt the Ancient site discovered in Antarctica, Daniel Jackson and Dr. Elizabeth Weir, along with a team from Stargate Command, are still trying to determine the location of the Ancients’ lost city and learn more about their leftover technology. One such experiment, with a control chair that can only be activated by those humans who possess a rare Ancient gene, launches a drone weapon into the sky over Antarctica – and straight at a helicopter bringing General Jack O’Neill to the base. O’Neill only makes it safely to land due to the quick thinking of his pilot, Major Sheppard. But that’s not the only skill Sheppard brings to the table – completely by accident, it’s discovered that he has the Ancient gene, and a more instinctive rapport with Ancient technology than anybody on the team Dr. Weir has assembled. Weir asks General O’Neill to assign Sheppard to join the expedition, despite a colorful service record.

That expedition, Daniel believes, will lead to the lost Ancient city of Atlantis – and there is now evidence that the city is not just on another planet, but in another galaxy, a trip requiring enormous power. Dr. Rodney McKay, the leading authority on the stargate outside of the SGC, thinks that an Ancient power device known as a Zero Point Module, will be the only way to open a wormhole that can reach another galaxy – and in all likelihood it will prove to be a one-way trip. When Weir’s team arrives at Atlantis, the dormant but intact city awakens – especially when Major Sheppard sets foot anywhere near Ancient technology, including a hologram that tells of how the Ancients abandoned the city after years of being besieged by an enemy known as the Wraith. But the activation of all of that technology comes at a price: Atlantis is submerged beneath hundreds of feet of ocean, and the only thing that has kept the water pressure from crushing Atlantis is a shield that has operated for thousands of years. Now that the city is awakening, power is being drained from the shield. Dr. Weir assigns Colonel Sumner, the military commanding officer of the expedition, to use Atlantis’ stargate to visit a nearby world to find more ZPMs.

Sumner’s team, including Sheppard, find a primitive society on the planet on the other side of the gate, and despite Sumner’s misgivings, Sheppard befriends a local woman named Teyla, who promises to tell him more about the Wraith. But the Atlantis team gets to see the Wraith first-hand – for the first time in generations, the Wraith attack Teyla’s people without provocation, abducting many of them, along with Sumner and several of his men. Sheppard orders a hasty retreat back to Atlantis, bringing refugees from Teyla’s village with him, and begins to make plans to rescue Sumner. Dr. Weir only reluctantly gives him permission to go, but Sheppard manages to find Sumner just in time to see him being interrogated – and consumed – by the Wraith. Sheppard shoots Sumner himself to give the Colonel a relatively merciful death, but when he kills the Wraith that was interrogating Sumner, the entire Wraith hive awakens. Now the Wraith know that the Ancient city is occupied again, and thanks to what they learned from Sumner before his death, they know that the city’s new occupants come from a rich new feeding ground in another galaxy.

Season 1 Regular Cast: Joe Flanigan (Major John Sheppard), Torri Higginson (Dr. Elizabeth Weir), David Hewlett (Dr. Rodney McKay), Rainbow Sun Francks (Lt. Aiden Ford), Rachel Luttrell (Teyla)

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazon's Unboxwritten by Robert C. Cooper and Brad Wright
directed by Martin Wood
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Richard Dean Anderson (General Jack O’Neill), Michael Shanks (Dr. Daniel Jackson), Garwin Sanford (Simon), Paul McGillion (Dr. Beckett), Andee Frizzell (The Keeper), Craig Veroni (Dr. Grodin), Christopher Heyerdahl (Halling), Robert Patrick (Colonel Sumner), Reece Thompson (Jinto), Boyan Vukelic (Sgt. Stackhouse), Dean Marshall (Sgt. Bates), Geoff Redknap (old Colonel Sumner), Casey Dubois (Wex), Melia McClure (Female Ancient), Dan Shea (Sgt. Siler), James Lafaznos (Wraith), David Milchard (SGC Technician), Bro Gilbert (Scientist), Peter Grasson (Scientist), Ona Grauer (Ayiana), Dan Payne (Wraith Warrior), Aaron Dudley (Male Ancient), Edmond Kato Wong (Atlantis Technician), Stefano Colacitti (Toran), Mary Joan Buchanan (Beckett’s Mom)

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Season 08 SG-1 Stargate

Lockdown

Stargate SG-1General O’Neill has a bit of trouble adjusting to his new desk job, and one of his first duties in the office is to turn down a Russian Air Force colonel’s request to fill his open slot on SG-1. When Daniel tries to smooth things over with the new arrival, the Russian collapses and Daniel rushes him to the infirmary. O’Neill is warned that the colonel’s symptoms could be contagious, and when he calls off an offworld mission, Daniel reacts violently and has to be subdued. When Daniel awakens, he has no memory of trying to force his way through the stargate. O’Neill orders a lockdown at the SGC, while Carter theorizes that this could be a case of non-Goa’uld alien possession – but Daniel seems certain that Anubis is involved, and now that he can move at will from body to body, nobody is above suspicion.

Order the DVDswritten by Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie
directed by William Waring
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Gavin Hood (Colonel Vaselov), Alisen Down (Dr. Brightman), Aaron Pearl (Major Kearney), Arvydas Lebeliunas (Konstantinov), Holly Ferguson (Lt. Evans), Dan Shea (Sgt. Siler)

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Season 1 Stargate Stargate Atlantis

Hide And Seek

Stargate AtlantisDr. McKay becomes the first human trial of Dr. Beckett’s experimental gene therapy to allow even those without the Ancient gene to use Atlantis’ technology. But McKay’s first test of an Ancient device encases him in an impenetrable shield – one that won’t even allow him to eat or drink. But soon, Dr. Weir and the rest of the team face an even bigger problem – the newly-occupied city seems to be experiencing random power failures and malfunctions. Worse yet, Teyla has brought her fellow Athosian villagers to Atlantis from the mainland, and several of them report seeing a “shadow” that they associate with sightings of the Wraith. Sheppard and Ford each have their own close encounters with the mobile shadow, and Ford’s meeting with it is nearly fatal. Sheppard and McKay then discover a trap that may have used by the Ancients to capture the shadow before – but the only bait that may lure the creature into captivity may be a living human…perhaps someone wearing a shield that makes him invulnerable.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazon's Unboxstory by Brad Wright & Robert C. Cooper
teleplay by Robert C. Cooper
directed by David Warry-Smith
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Paul McGillion (Dr. Beckett), Craig Veroni (Dr. Grodin), Christopher Heyerdahl (Halling), Reece Thompson (Jinto), Casey Dubois (Wex), Boyan Vukelic (Sgt. Stackhouse), Meghan Black (Marta)

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Season 1 Stargate Stargate Atlantis

Thirty-Eight Minutes

Stargate AtlantisA recon mission to a Wraith-occupied planet ends with Sheppard’s team under fire, their puddle jumper damaged, and Sheppard himself out of commission with a parasitic alien insect attached to his neck. Lt. Ford winds up with his first, and very nervous command, and keeps it simple by simply trying to get back to Atlantis. But one of the jumper’s engine pods, damaged in the fight, doesn’t retract completely, leaving the ship stuck halfway in and halfway out of the stargate. It’s a situation that McKay, stuck in the rear compartment of the jumper with Teyla, Ford and Sheppard, knows all too well from one of his collaborations with SG-1: if the entire jumper doesn’t go through the gate, the gate will close in 38 minutes, shearing off the forward compartment (and killing the two pilots), and exposing the rest of the jumper to hard vacuum. McKay tries to work out a solution while the brightest minds on Atlantis try to come up with ideas on their end, but even if they can figure out a way to nudge the jumper through the gate, for Sheppard it may only mean the difference between dying at Atlantis or dying in deep space as the parasite digs in.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazon's Unboxwritten by Brad Wright
directed by Mario Azzopardi
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Paul McGillion (Dr. Beckett), Craig Veroni (Grodin), Christopher Heyerdahl (Hallan), Ben Cotton (Dr. Kavanagh), Fiona Hogan (Simpson), Joseph May (Sgt. Markham), Boyan Vukelic (Sgt. Stackhouse), Edmond Wong (Technician)

Notes: The 38-minute theoretical limit on an open stargate’s wormhole was established in the second season of Stargate SG-1 in A Matter Of Time. However, as worried as McKay was about this time limit, it was exceeded both in A Matter Of Time and in the SG-1 sixth season premiere, Reckoning.

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Season 08 SG-1 Stargate

Icon

Stargate SG-1Daniel awakens in unfamiliar surroundings, suffering from injured that he barely remembers receiving. Three months earlier, SG-1 emerged – quite publicly – through a stargate that was treated as a museum relic. The planet onto which the team stepped is in the grip of a cold war, but the suspicions that result from the reports of the stargate’s activation heat up hostilities quickly. While he was still trying to learn about the planet’s people and culture, Daniel became trapped when an all-out intercontinental war broke out – and as O’Neill and the rest of the team try to secure Daniel’s release from a rapid succession of leaders rising to power and falling again, no one can be sure that SG-1’s appearance wasn’t the spark that ignited decades of smoldering hostilities.

Order the DVDswritten by Damian Kindler
directed by Peter F. Woeste
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Amy Sloan (Leda Kane), Timothy Webber (Commander Gareth), Matthew Bennett (Jarrod Kane), James Kidnie (Soren), Gary Jones (Chief Sgt. Walter Harriman), Richard Side (Guide), Christopher Redmond (Tian), Preston Cook (Radio Man), Charles Zuckermann (Rebel Soldier), Leanne Adachi (Rebel Aide)

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