Category: Season 02

Though O’Neill and Teal’c manage to wound Apophis’ son and delay the attack, though SG-1 is captured by the Goa’uld shortly afterward. On Earth, General Hammond is incensed when Lt. Colonel Samuels – an old aversary who has aligned himself with Senator Kinsey – reports to the SGC as the Pentagon’s liaison. Samuels reveals a plan to attack the Goa’uld ships with warheads enhanced with naquahdah (the material of which the stargate is made), but he’s not the only one with a desperate plan in motion. SG-1 is liberated by Master Bra’tac, Teal’c’s old mentor and fellow opponent of the Jaffa’s false gods, but Bra’tac assumes that Earth has advanced space-based defenses of his own. Once O’Neill lets him in on the fact that the U.S. space shuttle fleet isn’t up to fending off the Goa’uld ships, Bra’tac’s plan becomes more desperate – bordering on a suicide mission. And when Samuels’ missile attack fails to even slow down the Goa’uld advance, he suggests new strategies – which, if Daniel was there, he would recognize as mistakes made in the alternate reality which led to the fall of Earth.

Season 2 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 Jonathan Glassner
music by Joel Goldsmith
main theme adapted from music by David Arnold

Guest Cast: Tony Amendola (Bra’tac), Robert Wisden (Lt. Col. Samuels), Peter Williams (Apophis), Gary Jones (Technician), Alexis Cruz (Klorel / Skaara), Laara Sadiq (Technician), Douglas H. Arthurs (Kah’l), Michael Brynjolfson (Jaffa), Phillip Mitchell (Jaffa #2), Bernie Neufeld (General’s Aide)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

A desperate battle with Goa’uld death gliders near the stargate on an alien world leads SG-1 to beat a hasty retreat back to Earth with many refugees in tow. Trying to perform CPR on a fallen refugee, Carter’s mind is inhabited by a Goa’uld without receiving a symbiont through the usual means. The alien girl Cassandra, who has been adopted by Dr. Frasier, is the first to spot the change, and when confronted by O’Neill, Carter puts up a fight and is finally imprisoned. The Goa’uld in Carter’s mind claims to be one of the Tok’ra – a legendary group of Jaffa who fight against the domination of the Goa’uld System Lords. Carter also warns of the presence of another Goa’uld, inhabiting one of the refugees: an assassin hunting own the Tok’ra who lives in her mind now. O’Neill and the SGC can do nothing to stop the two aliens from playing out their final duel, but if the Tok’ra dies, Carter will die with it.

written by Robert C. Cooper
directed by Martin Wood
music by Richard Band

Guest Cast: Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Peter Lacroix (Ashrak), Katie Stuart (Cassandra), Laara Sadiq (Technician), Tracy Westerholm (Technician #2), Judy Nortin (Talia), Joe Pascual (Medical Technician), Nicole Rudell (Nurse), Benz Antoine (Driver), Woody Jeffreys (SF Guard), Jim Thorburn (SF Guard 2), David Allan Pearson (Quinta), Ian Robison (Security Officer), Reg Tupper (Doctor)

Notes: General Hammond reveals that three new teams – SG-10, SG-11 and SG-12 – have been formed and are just embarking on their first missions.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

SG-1 is about to finish their survey of a jungle-like world when a disheveled man emerges from the forest, warning of the coming of Taldor. Moments later, the team – and their new acquaintance – are snatched away by a blinding beam of light. The voice of Taldor speaks, sentencing O’Neill and his teammates to life imprisonment on a distant world. When they arrive, the almost all-male population of the prison makes a beeline for Carter, until an older woman intervenes and declares Carter “off-limits” – and the men seem to heed her warning. O’Neill and Carter begin discussing an escape plan with the woman, but it’ll be quite a feat to engineer an escape through a stargate that has no dial-home device. But even if SG-1 can pull it off, the question remains: why was their co-conspirator imprisoned on this world, and what will happen if they free her?

written by Terry Curtis Fox
directed by David Warry-Smith
music by Joel Goldsmith, Richard Band and Kevin Kiner

Guest Cast: Bonnie Bartlett (Linea), Laara Sadiq (Technician), Mark Acheson (Vishnoor), David Bloom (Scavenger), Kim Kondrashoff (Roshure), Colin Lawrence (Major Warren), Michael Puttonen (Simian), Andrew Wheeler (Stan Kovacek), Colleen Winton (Dr. Greene)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

SG-1 finds a planet where an advanced civilization has obviously set up shop, with several locals apparently encased in some sort of technology that has trapped them and connected to their brains. When they find some empty apparatus similar to those units, SG-1 is ensnared and forcibly plugged into the gear as well. O’Neill and Teal’c awaken to find themselves in some sort of virtual reality scenario that O’Neill recognizes as a mission he served on in 1982 in West Germany, a mission that didn’t turn out well for his teammates. Daniel and Carter find themselves reliving Daniel’s most painful childhood memory, the death of both of his parents. But in both scenarios, even when the sequence of events can be altered, it quickly becomes apparent that someone is watching – a group of hooded observers, and a man who claims to be the Keeper. But while the Keeper is controlling the team’s surroundings, he can’t control their actions, and they soon stop cooperating and find themselves being released from the machines. But even that is no guarantee that they’ve found their way to safety again.

story by Jonathan Glassner & Brad Wright
teleplay by Jonathan Glassner
directed by Martin Wood
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Dwight Schultz (The Keeper), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Jay Acovone (Captain Kawalsky), Michael Rogers (Col. John Michaels), Laara Sadiq (Technician), Lisa Bunting (Claire Jackson), Robert Duncan (Melburn Jackson), Diane Brown (Docent), Gillian Barber (Resident #1), Cathy Weseluck (Resident #2)

Notes: Dwight Schultz is known to TV viewers the world over as The A-Team’s “Howling Mad” Murdock, and to SF fans as the bumbling, neurotic Lt. Reginald Barclay from Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager. He also has an extensive list of voice acting credits, ranging from The Family Guy and The Animatrix to video and computer games such as Destroy All Humans!, Everquest II, Star Trek: Elite Force II and the Battlestar Galactica game.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

On an offworld mission, SG-1 watches from hiding as Goa’uld force the members of a primitive society to mine naquahdah and offer it up as tribute to their masters. When Daniel spots a young woman about to jump from a precipice, he breaks his cover to save her, and the entire team is captured and sent to labor in the naquahdah mines. When O’Neill and Teal’c launch an escape attempt, it’s nearly successful until the Goa’uld guards cause a tunnel to collapse on top of Daniel. The daughter of the local ruler – the same woman Daniel saved – rejuvenates Daniel with a Goa’uld sarcophagus. But her father does not carry a Goa’uld symbiont – he is revered as a god simply because he has continually used the sarcophagus himself, extending his life by hundreds of years. After he is healed, Daniel isn’t returned to slave labor, but instead becomes consort to the princess, who convinces him to begin using the sarcophagus on a regular basis as well.

story by Robert C. Cooper & Damian Kindler
telelplay by Robert C. Cooper
directed by David Warry-Smith
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Heather Hanson (Shyla), George Touliatos (Pyrus), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Gary Jones (Technician), Andrew Guy (Jaffa #1), Michael Philp (Jaffa #2), Jason Calder (SF Guard)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

On the world where SG-1 encountered and destroyed the Goa’uld-killing device known as Thor’s Hammer, a Goa’uld attack force led by Heru’ur – the child of Ra and Hathor – has overrun the planet. Without Thor’s Hammer to stop them, the indigenous humans have been forced underground, or have been captured and enslaved. Gairwyn, who has survived the attacks, leads O’Neill and his comrades to a place called the Hall of Thor’s Might, and Carter and Daniel join Gairwyn in trying to decipher the Hall’s puzzles. Teal’c and O’Neill try to prepare the decimated local population to do battle with an overwhelming invasion force. But whether the mysteries of Thor’s hall provide them with a new means of doing battle with the Goa’uld, O’Neill and the others are keenly aware that whatever happens to this world and its people are a direct result of SG-1’s intervention, and the team is prepared to pay the price.

written by Katharyn Powers
directed by William Gereghty
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Tamsin Kelsey (Gairwyn), Andrew Kavadas (Olaf), Douglas H. Arthurs (Heru’ur), Mark Gibbon (Thor), Laara Sadiq (Technician), Michael Tiernan (Horus Warrior)

Notes: This is the first time the true form of the Asgard is seen in the series, even though it’s only via hologram.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Exploring a lifeless world – one which Teal’c is certain once supported abundant life – SG-1 encounters an unusual artifact which seems to be emitting a power signature, despite being at least a thousand years old. Carter and Daniel both set about trying to explore the object’s mysterious nature, with a definite deadline: the NID organization wants to study its power source. When the artifact finally activates, it seems determined not to let anyone interfere with it. O’Neill and Teal’c rush it to the gate room to dispose of it, but the object fires metal spikes into the walls and floors, impaling O’Neill through the shoulder and the concrete wall behind him. General Hammond orders a lockdown of the base, and Dr. Fraiser discovers an alien organism is also being released by the device, infecting the entire base. Even when Hammond sets the base’s auto-destruct, he may be unwittingly providing the organism with the means to overrun the entire Earth.

story by Michael Greenburg and Jarrad Paul
teleplay by Brad Wright
directed by David Warry-Smith
music by Kevin Kiner

Guest Cast: Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fasier), Tobias Mehler (Lt. Simmons), Gary Jones (Technician), Kevin Conway (SG Leader), Dan Shea (Sgt. Siler)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

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 Band

Guest 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

As promised, Daniel returns to Abydos, one year to the day after he left, to tell his wife’s father that he has not found her yet. But Daniel is shocked to find that Sha’re has been returned to Abydos already, apparently under her own control – and very pregnant. She is bearing the child of Apophis, bred to be the future host of his Goa’uld symbiont. Teal’c wants to bring Sha’re back to the SGC as soon as possible, since she knows whatever strategic information her Goa’uld symbiont knows, but before they can get her through the stargate, a Goa’uld ship arrives – a rival of Apophis who wants to steal the child. Unable to travel to Abydos due to an appointment in Washington D.C., O’Neill, Carter and General Hammond are dealing with a crisis of their own. O’Neill has been approached by a reporter who has far too much knowledge of the stargate program, and Carter’s father, who has no knowledge of what she really does, is trying to pull strings to get her into NASA.

written by Terry Curtis Fox
directed by Duane Clark
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Carmen Argenziano (General Jacob Carter), Vaitiare Bandera (Sha’re), Peter Williams (Apophis), Douglas H. Arthurs (Heru’ur), Chris Owens (Armin Selig), Erick Avari (Kasuf), Michael Tiernan (Ryn’tak)

Notes: This is Jacob Carter’s first appearance in the series.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

SG-1’s latest journey takes them to an advanced, civilized world – one with pollution-free air, beautiful architecture…but no advanced civilization. The only life they do find there is insect life hundreds of times bigger than anything on Earth, and one of them stings Teal’c. O’Neill and the others get Teal’c back to the stargate and escape back to the SGC, closing the iris just in time to deflect hundreds of similar insects. Even with his Goa’uld-enhanced immune system, Teal’c is helpless. Carter contacts an old friend of hers who has the necessary security clearances to visit the SGC, but when he arrives, he’s part of a package deal – Colonel Maybourne of NID comes with him, with orders to transfer Teal’c to their facilities for study. Teal’c quickly breaks out of Maybourne’s custody en route, and even remove his own Goa’uld symbiont before disappearing into the nearest city. In the meantime, another trip through the stargate to the insect-ridden world nets a live specimen for SG-1 – as well as evidence that the enormous insects use humans (or Jaffa) as walking nutrient vats for their larvae. And if Teal’c “hatches” the larvae inside him, it will not only kill him, but could cause what happened on that world to happen on Earth.

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

Guest Cast: Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Tom McBeath (Colonel Maybourne), Scott Hylands (Dr. Timothy Harlow), Colleen Rennison (Ally), Alonso Oyarzun (Punk Leader), Richard Leacock (Sergeant), Laara Sadiq (Female Technician)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

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