Category: SG-1

After months of trying to remember something from her brief joining with the Tok’ra Jolinar, Carter has a vision of Tok’ra resistance fighters escaping from the Goa’uld through a stargate – a vision that’s clear enough that she can remember the gate coordinates used. Following those coordinates leads SG-1 to an arid desert planet, and they find the Tok’ra quickly enough, though it takes time before there is enough trust between the two parties to establish a dialogue. Even once the Tok’ra explain what makes them different from the System Lords – they do not force others to become hosts, and they do not use the Goa’uld sacrophagus technology to extend the lives of joined hosts – O’Neill can’t quite bring himself to trust them. Nor are the Tok’ra content to simple let SG-1 return home with what they know. And when Carter’s father – who only recently admitted to her that he was battling cancer – begins to lose his battle, SG-3 is sent through the gate to bring Carter back to Earth, but the Tok’ra interpret the new arrivals as an invasion force.

written by Jonathan Glassner
directed by Brad Turner
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Carmen Argenziano (General Jacob Carter), Sarah Douglas (Garshaw), J.R. Bourne (Martouf), Winston Rekert (Cordesh), Joy Coghill (Selmak), Laara Sadiq (Technician Davis), Steve Makaj (Col. Makepeace), Tosca Baggoo (Tok’ra Councilwoman), Roger Haskett (Doctor), Stephen Tibbetts (Guard)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Carter proposes an unusual solution to the Tok’ra, offering to return to Earth and bring her father back as a prospective host for a dying Tok’ra named Selmak. The lack of willingness by anyone among the SGC teams to serve as Selmak’s new host has proven to be a sore point with the Tok’ra – but first, Jacob Carter has to meet the symbiont and find out if they’re even compatible. In the meantime, the other Tok’ra are evacuating their hidden compound because the System Lords have found them and sent a fleet to destroy their base. O’Neill believes there’s a spy among the Tok’ra, and thinks he knows who it is. By the time any of the SGC teams or the Tok’ra escape through the stargate, the System Lords’ death gliders are already waiting to pick them off.

written by Jonathan Glassner
directed by Brad Turner
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Carmen Argenziano (General Jacob Carter), Sarah Douglas (Garshaw), J.R. Bourne (Martouf), Winston Rekert (Cordesh), Joy Coghill (Selmak), Laara Sadiq (Technician Davis), Steve Makaj (Col. Makepeace), Tosca Baggoo (Tok’ra Councilwoman), Roger Haskett (Doctor), Stephen Tibbetts (Guard)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

SG-1 returns from a visit to a planet where a device regarded as a mystical object called the Touchstone has given its inhabitants precise control over their climate. Carter is eager to return and study the device, which could be the team’s most valuable alien technology find yet. But when they go back, SG-1 is accused of stealing the Touchstone. O’Neill asks General Hammond point-blank is another SGC team was ordered to take the device, but Hammond says he hasn’t given any such orders. SG-1 pays a visit to Nellis Air Force Base at Area 51, where O’Neill accuses SG-1’s adversary, Colonel Maybourne, of stealing the device – especially now that freak weather conditions are affecting life on Earth. Maybourne dodges every question and accusation, and for some reason General Hammond can’t get through to the President. With disastrous weather wreaking havoc on two worlds, SG-1 discovers that the Antarctic gate has been moved and used by an unknown agency, possibly one acting under civilian authority. Even when they find a way to track the other stargate, General Hammond and SG-1 are keenly aware that any steps they take to retrieve the rogue gate (and its hijackers) puts the entire program, and their lives, in jeopardy.

written by Sam Egan
directed by Brad Turner
music by Kevin Kiner

Guest Cast: Tom McBeath (Colonel Harry Maybourne), Matthew Walker (Roham), Jerry Wasserman (Whitlow), Tiffany Knight (La Moor), Eric Breker (Major Reynolds), Conan Graham (NID Man)

Notes: Major Carter refers to “N.O.A.A. satellites,” referring to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…but anyone, military or civilian, routinely referring to that agency would pronounce it “Noah” rather than spelling out the acronym.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

SG-1 explores a destination where a remote probe recently discovered symbols matching a language that Daniel saw on the walls of the alien Rosetta stone discovered by Ernest Littlefield. But the stargate deposits them in a room with no visible exits. When O’Neill steps across a circle of similar runes on the room’s floor, a device suddenly erupts from one wall. Teal’c looks into it and sees only glowing lights, but when O’Neill peers into it, the device seems to grow until it envelops his head, and after he struggles to escape it, he falls to the ground, catatonic. Back at SGC, he seems to recover quickly, though his speech is increasingly peppered with words that no one can understand, until finally he loses the ability to speak or understand English. Daniel is convinced that O’Neill has somehow absorbed the knowledge of the Ancients, a race who he believes built the stargate network. But as O’Neill continues to lose his grasp of English, finally slipping into an entirely alien dialect (and hell-bent on building an alien device of unknown function), no one can figure out what he’s doing – or if it poses a threat to the SGC and Earth.

written by Robert C. Cooper
directed by David Warry-Smith
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Tobias Mehler (Lt. Simmons), Dan Shea (Sergeant Siler), David Adams (Expert)

Notes: This episode introduces the concept of dailing a gate address with an eighth chevron to reach a location outside the Milky Way galaxy, as well as introducing the zero point module. Though the Asgard’s true form was glimpsed in Thor’s Chariot, this is the first time anyone from the SGC meets them in person; the Asgard’s claim that his race has studied humanity may be an allusion to the Asgard’s resemblance to the “Grays” of UFO lore.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

The stargate opens at the SGC, and an unusual signal is received – a signal which the SGC computers have to speed up 600% before it’s recognized as the ID signal for the SG-10 team led by Major Boyd. Boyd’s team, however, never comes through the gate – and the gate doesn’t shut down. A remote probe transmits, at an even slower rate, a horrifying picture: Boyd and his team screaming in utter terror as a black hole fills the sky of the planet they were exploring. No rescue mission can be mounted without sharing SG-10’s fate. But when the gate stays open longer than 38 minutes, Carter realizes there’s a problem. The black hole’s gravity is affecting the SGC through the open wormhole, and even the intense gravity is being felt, affecting time and physical space. If the stargate can’t be closed, everyone and everything on Earth may experience the same fate as SG-10.

story by Misha Rashovich
teleplay by Brad Wright
directed by Martin Wood
music by Joel Goldsmith, Richard Band and Kevin Kiner

Guest Cast: Marhsall Teague (Colonel Frank Cromwell), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Tobias Mehler (Lt. Simmons), Colin Cunningham (Major Davis), Dan Shea (Sergeant Siler), Biski Gugushe (SF Guard), Kurt Max Runte (Major Boyd), Jim Thorburn (Watts)

Notes: Marshall Teague is a recurring mainstay of another popular SF franchise, Babylon 5. A former law enforcement officer, Teague was involved in that show from its first filmed episode (Infection), though he became best known for the recurring role of Narn bodyguard (and later ambassador) Ta’lon.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

In a seemingly abandoned, museum-like structure on another world, SG-1 encounters the eccentric Ma’chello, a frail old man who Teal’c says is renowned for creating weapons that have freed many from Goa’uld oppression. But the rambling man who stands before the team hardly seems like a threat now – until he asks Daniel to help him move a piece of his equipment, which sends an electrical charge through both of them. O’Neill orders them both brought back to the SGC, where Daniel begins to act strangely, and Ma’chello awakens and claims that he is Daniel. His teammates quiz him on knowledge that only Daniel would have, and it appears that his claim of a body switch is true. And to make matters worse, when SG-1 returns to Ma’chello’s planet to retrieve the device that he used to steal Daniel’s body, it performs the same procedure on Teal’c and O’Neill.

written by Tor Alexander Valenza
directed by David Warry-Smith
music by Joel Goldsmith, Richard Band and Kevin Kiner

Guest Cast: Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Alvin Sanders (Fred), Melanie Skehar (Waitress), Darryl Scheelar (Cop)

Notes: Ma’chello was played by Michael Shanks in makeup, rather than by a guest actor.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

The SGC receive a cryptic signal from the Tok’ra asking for a meeting, but O’Neill and his team wait at the appointed location for hours without making contact. A Goa’uld death glider soars overhead and crashes into the ground near the stargate, and SG-1 recovers the pilot – a badly injured Apophis. Other gliders attack, and O’Neill makes the call to bring Apophis back to Earth, where their dying Goa’uld adversary requests asylum. Apophis asks for O’Neill by name, and demands a new host in exchange for information that could propel humanity into the stars as a major power. O’Neill’s first inclination is to tell Apophis to go to hell, and he says exactly that. O’Neill and General Hammond see an opportunity to interrogate Apophis to gain intelligence on the Goa’uld, while Daniel sees an opportunity to pump the prisoner for information on Sha’re’s whereabouts. Then a delegation from the Tok’ra arrives, with a warning – they didn’t signal the SGC, and they demand Apophis be released and turned over to the Goa’uld. One of Apophis’ rival System Lords, Sokar, demands that Apophis be handed over to him, and swears vengeance on the entire Earth if the SGC doesn’t comply.

written by Katharyn Powers
directed by Peter DeLuise
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Peter Williams (Apophis), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), J.R. Bourne (Martouf), Tobias Mehler (Lt. Simmons), Peter Lacroix (Ashrak), Dan Shea (Sergeant Siler)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

SG-1 follows a brief visit to a habitable but seemingly undeveloped planet with an unmanned air reconnaissance vehicle, which surveys an area around ten miles beyond the gate before crashing into an unusual form of plant life. Shortly before the transmitter on the remote-controlled probe stops sending, however, Carter and O’Neill watch as an inquisitive, unclothed, but undeniably humanoid male examines the new arrival. SG-1 returns to the planet, finding its people harmless and incapable of communicating verbally. But after O’Neill and his team have spent some time with them, the natives begin falling seriously ill. As much as no one wants to admit it, Dr. Fraiser says that the inevitable may have finally happened – SG-1 may have set the extinction of an entire race in motion simply by setting foot on their world. But that doesn’t explain why O’Neill, Daniel and Teal’c are the next ones to show signs of the disease…

written by Michael Kaplan & John Sanborn
directed by William Corcoran
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Colin Heath (Alien), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Daniel Bacon (Technician), David Cameron (Elder), Richard DeKlerk (Joe), Shaun Phillips (Jim)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

An unscheduled, unauthorized incoming wormhole puts the SGC on full alert. Despite every effort to close and lock down the iris, the gate remains open and a single small, cloaked humanoid emerges – a young boy with a shaven head. The first words out of the boy’s mouth are “I am here to warn you.” In the SGC infirmary, the boy says his mother told him to speak only to O’Neill – and then points to an empty bed. The boy claims his mother has observed SG-1’s activities and has determined the team to be honorable enough to help him. The boy not only knows who O’Neill is, but even knows about his son, and asks to be named after O’Neill’s son, Charlie. “Charlie” describes a Goa’uld attack on his people fairly accurately, and panics at the sight of Teal’c. Unusually, Teal’c has a strong reaction to Charlie as well – when he gets close to the boy to demonstrate he means no harm, a strange nauseous sensation overwhelms both Teal’c and his symbiote. When O’Neill and the others question Charlie, they learn that his mother is a survivor of the Re’tu race, whose more militant rebel faction has taken it upon itself to rid the galaxy of the Goa’uld by ridding the galaxy of every potential host life form. Carter calls her father, now fully integrated with the Tok’ra known as Selmak, to get the Tok’ra’s help. The Tok’ra know the Re’tu well, and even have weapons capable of detecting and elimintating them – and they quickly find that the boy’s “mother,” an insectoid Re’tu, is indeed in the SGC. Charlie gives O’Neill the coordinates to the rebels’ staging area, where SG-1 and SG-12 find the rebels preparing for a massed attack on Earth. O’Neill and his teams return to Earth, only to discover that they’ve brought their new enemy home with them.

written by Jonathan Glassner
directed by Peter DeLuise
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Carmen Argenziano (Jacob Carter / Selmak), Jeff Gulka (Charlie), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Daniel Bacon (Technician)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

SG-1’s latest mission is slightly delayed when Carter has to run more calculations than usual due to solar flare activity, and before she goes, General Hammond hands her a folded note and cryptically tells her to open it on the other side of the gate. But when O’Neill and his team finally step through the gate, they seem to go nowhere, arriving at the gate room at the SGC again. That environment seems to melt away, and SG-1 finds itself standing under a Titan II missile whose engines are about to be tested – incinerating them in the process. When no one else can find an escape, Teal’c takes a gamble on disabling the missile with his zat gun, but that gets even more attention. O’Neill and the others are captured by soldiers and interrogated by U.S. officers who accuse them of being Soviet spies. The solar flare has thrown SG-1 30 years into the past, and the note given to Carter by General Hammond shows the team how to return to 1999. But first, they’ll have to convince a young Lieutenant George Hammond that their fantastic story is true – and that they need his help.

written by Brad Wright
directed by Charles Correll
music by Joel Goldsmith
montage music by Bruce Turgon

Guest Cast: Alex Zahara (Michael), Aaron Pearl (Lt. George Hammond), Amber Rothwell (Jenny), Pamela Perry (Cassandra), Daniel Bacon (Technician), Glynis Davies (Catherine), Fred Henderson (Major Thornbird), Sean Campbell (Sergeant), Efosa Otuomagie (Security Police)

Notes: Jack’s choice of aliases is only partly anachronistic; in early August 1969, the original Star Trek had just aired its final episode mere weeks before SG-1’s capture, so his “Captain James T. Kirk” alias could have been spotted right away; Jack wisely corrects this and claims to be “Luke Skywalker” instead.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

O’Neill awakens in a facility he’s never seen before, surrounded by strangers. The last thing he remembers is going through the gate with his teammates to visit a world that intelligence reports said had been attacked by the Goa’uld. O’Neill is told that the year is 2077, that he’s awakened in the SGC, and that he is the only survivor of SG-1. He’s also told that, even now, Earth is fighting a losing battle against the Goa’uld, and anything from his memory of races or technologies encountered by SG-1 who could fight the Goa’uld is desperately needed.

Carter awakens in a facility she’s never seen before, surrounded by strangers. The last thing she remembers is going through the gate with her teammates to visit a world that intelligence reports said had been attacked by the Goa’uld. Carter is told that the year is 2077, that she’s awakened in the SGC, and that she is the only survivor of SG-1. She’s also told that, even now, Earth is fighting a losing battle against the Goa’uld, and anything from her memory of races or technologies encountered by SG-1 who could fight the Goa’uld is desperately needed.

Teal’c awakens in the SGC, where Dr. Fraiser and General Hammond tell him he’s been unconscious for three weeks. The last thing he remembers is going through the gate with his teammates to visit a world that intelligence reports said had been attacked by the Goa’uld. When Teal’c is told that he is the only survivor of SG-1, he refuses to believe it; when General Hammond says the search for SG-1 has ended unsuccessfully, Teal’c tenders his resignation and asks to be sent through the gate one last time.

Carter is awakened from her recovery by O’Neill, and they also find Daniel alive and well. They disocver that they’re not at the SGC at all, but aboard a Goa’uld ship commanded by Hathor. On the run from the rest of the Goa’uld, Hathor does need their memories – and she’ll implant one of them with a Goa’uld symbiote to gain access to those memories.

story by Jonathan Glassner & Brad Wright
teleplay by Jonathan Glassner
excerpts written by Hart Hanson, Katharyn Powers, Robert C. Cooper, James Crocker, Jonathan Glassner, Brad Wright, Terry Curtis Fox, David Bennett Carren & J. Larry Carroll, Michael Greenburg & Jarrad Paul
directed by Martin Wood
music by Joel Goldsmith and Kevin Kiner

Guest Cast: Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Suanne Braun (Hathor), Tom Butler (General Trofsky), Samantha Ferris (Dr. Raully)

Appearing in footage from The Nox: Armin Shimerman (Anteaus), Frida Betrani (Lya)

Appearing in footage from The Torment Of Tantalus: Elizabeth Hoffman (Catherine Langford), Keene Curtis (Ernest Littlefield)

Appearing in footage from The Serpent’s Lair: Tony Amendola (Bra’tac), Peter Williams (Apophis), Alexis Cruz (Klorel / Skaara)

Appearing in footage from Secrets: Douglas H. Arthurs (Heru’ur)

Notes: As a result of her brief merger with Jolinar, Carter apparently has naquadah in her bloodstream.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

One of the other SG teams returns to General Hammond with news from the Tok’ra about SG-1’s capture. The General finds no shortage of volunteers willing to mount a rescue mission. On his own after taking his leave of the SGC, Teal’c tries to go home to Chu’lak through the gate and finds Master Bra’tac of the Jaffa resistance, tortured and starved; Bra’tac tells Teal’c that even without Apophis, the Free Jaffa movement has faltered. Aboard Hathor’s ship, Hathor decides O’Neill will become a Goa’uld host, and Daniel and Carter are powerless to do anything but watch. Moments after the symbiote burrows into the Colonel’s neck, SG teams arrive on the ship and begin taking out Hathor’s mixed force of Serpent and Horus guards. Hathor leaves to personally take command of her guards, and one of O’Neill’s caotirs reveals herself to be a Tok’ra operative – and promptly subjects him to the cryogenic freezing process again, claiming it will prevent the symbiote from integrating itself into his consciousness. But O’Neill is on his own – when Colonel Makepeace loses contact with his men at the planetside stargate, he orders Carter and Daniel to join his team and leave O’Neill behind. On the planet, they find themselves overwhelmed by Goa’uld forces. When General Hammond is able to briefly make contact with the team before the MALP relaying his transmission is destroyed, he discovers his people are in trouble – but when he tries to follow Teal’c to Chu’lak to ask for help from the Free Jaffa, he finds that Teal’c is struggling to keep the resistance alive, let alone organized as a fighting force.

Season 3 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)

written by Brad Wright
directed by Martin Wood
music by Joel Goldsmith
main theme adapted from music by David Arnold

Guest Cast: Tony Amendola (Bra’tac), Suanne Braun (Hathor), Tom Butler (Trofsky), Colin Cunningham (Major Davis), Samantha Ferris (Raully), Gary Jones (Technician), Steve Makaj (Colonel Makepeace), Kelly Dean Sereda (Lieutenant), Oliver Svensson-Tan (Marine), Alicia Thorgrimsson (Jaffa)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Jacob Carter visits the SGC on behalf of the Tok’ra, bearing a holographic projection identifying and ranking the Goa’uld System Lords. One of the symbols, representing a System Lord named Setesh – also known in ancient Egyptian mythology as Set or Sutekh, the god of chaos – and the Tok’ra believe Satesh is living incognito on Earth. Daniel finds a promising lead, a cult that has worhsipped Setesh down through the ages; the most recent derivative of that cult is now led by a man named Seth, who leads his followers from a heavily armed compound north of Seattle. According to ATF files on the cult, Seth is rumored to be able to make his eyes glow, and heal his followers (or kill his enemies) with a device worn on his hand – a description that seems to fit a rogue System Lord perfectly. It turns out that others are heavily armed as well – an ATF task force is setting up shop nearby, preparing to storm Seth’s compound, as O’Neill and the others discover when they conduct an initial survey. Though the ATF resists the idea of an Air Force presence in his operation, a phone call from the President puts O’Neill in charge of the mission. Teal’c and Jacob remain at the ATF command post, since Seth would quickly detect a Goa’uld host, but the rest of SG-1 is captured and become Seth’s disciples via an unusually persuasive method of Goa’uld mind control.

written by Jonathan Glassner
directed by William Corcoran
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Carmen Aregenziano (Jacob Carter / Selmak), Robert Duncan (Seth), Mitchell Kosterman (Special Agent Hamner), Stuart O’Connell (Tommy), Lucia Walter (Disciple), Greg Michaels (Joe Levinson), Rob Morton (Sheriff)

Notes: Sutekh is no stranger to science fiction – though not connected in any way to the Stargate saga, another being claiming to be the Egyptian god of chaos did battle with Doctor Who in the 1976 classic Pyramids Of Mars.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

At a ceremony attended by the Secretary of Defense, Captain Carter is promoted to Major, but as O’Neill steps up to the podium to offer a few words of congratulation, an energy beam whisks him away to a ship orbiting Earth. An Asgard greets him and introduces himself as Thor – the real Thor, not a holographic projection. Thor brings a warning – the Goa’uld System Lords have decided, after the death of Hathor, that Earth needs to be “dealt with.” Thor offers to negotiate with the System Lords to try to gain protected planet status for Earth; if he fails in his negotiations, Earth could be facing an attack far more devastating than anything humanity has experienced at the hands of Ra, Hathor or Apophis. O’Neill appreciates the offer of help, but is less than thrilled when Thor decides that O’Neill should speak on behalf of Earth. A briefing reveals that the three Goa’uld representatives are among the most treacherous of the System Lords, including the Goa’uld who wiped out the population of Cassandra’s planet. After a bumpy start, the talks are underway, but it begins to look like the System Lords are only willing to grant Earth protected status in exchange for humanity leaving itself open to slavery.

written by Robert C. Cooper
directed by Martin Wood
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Michael David Simms (Arthur Simms), Ron Halder (Cronus), Jacqueline Samuda (Nirrti), Vince Crestejo (Yu), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), T.M. Sandulak (Sergeant Ziplinski), Laara Sadiq (Technician)

Notes: The weapons used by Carter to thwart the cloaking device was given to the SGC by the Tok’ra for use against the Re’tu in Show And Tell.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

A visit to a Goa’uld outpost reveals nothing but dead, decaying bodies – possibly due to a disease – sending SG-1 scrambling for their hazmat gear. When the team returns to Earth, Daniel begins hearing things and even seeing things, including a vivid by unlikely vision of one of the Goa’uld corpses emerging from a stargate in his quarters. Further hallucinations force Daniel to undergo a medical and psychiatric evaluation, and the latter reveals classic signs of schizophrenia. Another incident, in which Daniel thinks he sees a Goa’uld infest O’Neill, leaves little choice but to institutionalize Daniel. When his teammates visit him next, Daniel is locked in a padded cell, and is certain he sees something emerge from his body and enter Teal’c. Daniel slowly begins to recover, but can’t get anyone to listen to him when he says he’s heard the voice of Ma’chello, the inventor of anti-Goa’uld weaponry who once swapped bodies with Daniel. And if Daniel is right, Teal’c is in mortal danger.

written by Tor Alexander Valenza
directed by Peter DeLuise
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Kevin McNulty (Dr. Warner), Eric Schneider (Dr. Mackenzie), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser)

Notes: SG-1 met Ma’chello in the second season episode Holiday, and he was played in both episodes by Michael Shanks in age makeup.

LogBook entry by Earl Green