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An archaeological expedition makes an astonishing find – the sarcophagus of an Egyptian goddess named Hathor, inexplicably hidden in a secret chamber in Mayan ruins. Hathor awakens, kills the explorers, and makes her way to the SGC, where she overcomes the willpower of the base’s entire male population one by one. Carter raises objections when General Hammond offers Hathor the free run of the entire base, but she is overruled. She takes her case to Dr. Fraiser, the SGC’s doctor, who agrees that something has happened to all of the men on the base. To the possessed Daniel, Hathor reveals her true identity: she is a Goa’uld “queen bee,” and needs to obtain human DNA to produce a new breed of symbionts compatible with – and intended to enslave – the human race. Hathor selects O’Neill as the first recipient of a larval Goa’uld, and now all that stands between Earth and total domination is Carter, Dr. Fraiser, and the sparse female population of the SGC.

story by David Bennett Carren & J. Larry Carroll
teleplay by Jonathan Glassner
directed by Brad Turner
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Suanne Braun (Hathor), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Dave Hurtubise (Dr. Kleinhouse), Amanda O’Leary (Dr. Cole), Bob Frazer (Airman), Ikkee Battle (S.P. Guard), Tracy Westerholm (Female Soldier)

LogBook entry by Earl Green with notes by Dave Thomer

Reviewing classified film footage from 1945 dating back to the discovery of the stargate, Daniel discovers something disturbing: the government researchers trying to activate the gate managed to not only activate it, but to send a man through – after which a power overload traps that man at his destination. Daniel pays a visit to Catherine Langford, the woman who originally brought him in on the secret of the stargate project, and lets her in on a secret of his own – by examining the 1945 film, he’s figured out where the man, Catherine’s fiancee, was sent. Daniel infuriates General Hammond by not only bringing Catherine to the SGC, but by drawing up a mission plan to save Ernest Littlefield – a mission on which Catherine insists on joining SG-1. Once through the gate, they find Ernest quickly, in a crumbling tower where he’s been trapped for 50 years thanks to a broken dial-home device. But Ernest has spent that half-century studying a device containing knowledge of undiscovered elements and secrets of the Ancients, the race who built the stargate network. When an approaching storm completely destroys the DHD, the team must devise a way to power the gate for a one-shot trip back home, and the only power source left is being used by the Ancient device – something which Daniel refuses to allow to be shut down.

written by Robert C. Cooper
directed by Jonathan Glassner
music by Kevin Kiner

Guest Cast: Elizabeth Hoffman (Catherine Langford), Keene Curtis (Ernest Littlefield), Gary Jones (Technician), Duncan Fraser (Professor Langford), Nancy McClure (young Catherine), Paul McGillion (young Ernest), Sheelah Megill (Martha – Maid)

Notes: Paul McGillion would later join the regular cast of the spinoff series Stargate: Atlantis as Dr. Carson Beckett.

LogBook entry by Earl Green with notes by Dave Thomer

SG-1 visits a planet that Teal’c recognizes as a frequently-used harvesting ground for new Jaffa hosts. The team enters what appears to be an abandoned building, but they are ambushed by the locals, who seem to be human or closely related, and while they warily establish some trust with O’Neill and even tell him he can leave unharmed – but they recognize Teal’c as a Jaffa and refuse to allow him to leave. One of the men claims that Teal’c killed his father, and declares a ritual called the Cor-Ai. O’Neill volunteers himself to represent Teal’c at the trial, and when Daniel raises concerns that perhaps O’Neill lacks diplomatic skills, Daniel and Carter join Teal’c’s makeshift legal team. There’s only one problem – in the opening moments of the trial, Teal’c readily admits his guilt. O’Neill tries to save Teal’c’s life by recounting SG-1’s adventures with Teal’c, shifting the blame to Apophis, who ordered Teal’c to kill a prisoner at random. When this legal tactic doesn’t seem to be helping, O’Neill decides that the team will have to fight their way out to help Teal’c escape.

written by Tom J. Astle
directed by Mario Azzopardi
music by Joel Goldsmith and Richard Band

Guest Cast: David McNally (Hanno), Peter Williams (Apophis), Paulina Gillis (Byrsa Woman), Christina Jastrzembska (Female Elder), Kirby Morrow (Militia Man), Michasa Armstrong (Shak’l), Devon Finn (Young Hanno)

LogBook entry by Earl Green with notes by Dave Thomer

SG-1 visits the planet Tollan, where volcanic activity has buried that world’s entire civilization beneath ash. Only ten survivors are found in the immediate vicinity of the stargate, and they’re hurriedly brought back to the SGC. When one of the refugees, Omac, recovers from his ordeal, he seems less than grateful to the SG-1 team, referring to them as primitives who shouldn’t even be able to use the Stargate. The Tollan refugees are an advanced human species who are paranoid that the people of Earth only want to enslave them and exploit their advanced scientific knowledge and technology. When Colonel Maybourne from the NID arrives with orders from the President to take the Tollan into custody, however, it seems to confirm all of Omac’s fears – and even when O’Neill tries to contact some of the worlds SG-1 has helped before to ask them to provide a safe refuge, it seems the Tollan are even less interested in seeking asylum from other “primitives” than they are in serving the darker side of U.S. intelligence.

written by Katharyn Powers
directed by William Gereghty
music by Joel Goldsmith, Richard Band, Kevin Kiner and Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Tobin Bell (Omac), Garwin Sanford (Narim), Tom McBeath (Colonel Maybourne), Gerard Plunkett (Tuplo), Gary Jones (Technician), Frida Betrani (Lya), Tracy Westerholm (Airwoman), Woody Jeffreys (Guard)

Notes: Tuplo and his people first appeared in the episode The Broca Divide.

LogBook entry by Earl Green with notes by Dave Thomer

A power overload during gate travel hurls Daniel and Teal’c through the gate with unusual force, stranding Carter and O’Neill in an ice cave, and O’Neill is critically injured. Carter finds a dial-home device but can’t get its stargate to power up. In the meantime, Daniel and Teal’c join SG-3 in several missions to other worlds, looking for their missing teammates, and finding nothing but trouble along the way. Nobody can figure out where O’Neill and Carter are – and their situation is growing more desperate by the hour. What no one realizes is that they’re closer to home than anyone can imagine – and whether they realize it or not, they’ve made a very important discovery.

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

Guest Cast: Gary Jones (Technician), Dan Shea (Sgt. Siler)

Notes: Dan Shea, who makes his first appearance in the recurring role of Sergeant Siler in this episode, plays another important role in Stargate SG-1 – he’s Richard Dean Anderson’s stunt double.

LogBook entry by Earl Green with notes by Dave Thomer

A visit to the planet PX-939 quickly becomes terrifying for SG-1. They are immobilized by an energy discharge near the stargate, awakening later in new uniforms. A man named Harlan claims to have made the team “better,” but when they insist on returning to Earth, Harlan tells them they’ll be back. During the routine post-mission medical exam, Dr. Fraiser discovers that all four of the members of SG-1 now appear to be robotic rather than human, despite having all of their memories intact. General Hammond has SG-1 confined until they begin to malfunction. SG-1 returns through the gate, where Harlan reveals that he, too, is a synthetic – and has been for 11,000 years. He has recreated SG-1 as synthetics to help him in the daunting task of maintaining the planet, and also to keep him company. But even as they learn the advantages and abilities of their new bodies, O’Neill and the others can’t help but wonder…what happened to their organic bodies?

written by Jeff King
directed by Jimmy Kaufman
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Jay Brazeau (Harlan), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Dan Shea (O’Neill alternate)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

When their most recent destination turns out to be a world that has been conquered by the Goa’uld, O’Neill orders SG-1 to make a hasty retreat back to Earth. Daniel’s investigation of some relics at the site is cut short, so he decides to bring some of the pieces back with him. Before he joins the others at the stargate, Daniel notices a mirror that reflects everything in the room – except for him. When he touches it, he experiences a brief energy surge and then runs to meet the rest of the team for the trip home, only to find they’ve already gone. When he returns through the gate himself, no one at the SGC recognizes him, and he is quickly arrested and interrogated. Daniel’s friends and colleagues are all here, but apparently in different roles; Carter, now the SGC’s resident astrophysicist, gives Daniel a clue that the mirror may have transferred him to a different reality. In this reality, the Goa’uld have besieged Earth, killing over a billion people and laying waste to countless major cities; a select handful of scientists, leaders and others are preparing to mount a “genesis” mission to an offworld site via the stargate when the Goa’uld attack the SGC. Daniel has to convince these alternate versions of his teammates to use that last precious window of opportunity to help him return to his own reality – because he must warn his Earth that the same Goa’uld attack could be imminent for them as well.

story by David Kemper
teleplay by Robert C. Cooper
directed by David Warry-Smith
music by Joel Goldsmith, Kevin Kiner and Richard Band

Guest Cast: Elizabeth Hoffman (Catherine Langford), Gary Jones (Technician), Stuart O’Connell (Marine), Michael Kopsa (News Anchor), Laara Sadiq (Technician #2), Shawn Stewart (Jaffa)

Notes: Daniel is able to convince Catherine of his story by mentioning her lost fiance Ernest, whom Daniel learned about in The Torment of Tantalus.

LogBook entry by Earl Green with notes by Dave Thomer

Safely returned from his alternate reality nightmare, Daniel’s attempts to warn the SGC of an impending Goa’uld attack are a hard sell, even where his own teammates are concerned. What his teammates are concerned with is an equally imminent invasion by Senator Kinsey, who has learned of the SGC’s existence – and its annual $7 billion price tag – but still isn’t cleared to know of its purpose. Kinsey’s aim is to shut down the SGC permanently, but the President has told him to interview the SG-1 team before making his decision. The Senator believes that the explorations through the stargate have exposed Earth to unimaginable danger, and that the gate should be closed forever. When Daniel tries to back up SG-1’s defense with the incredible news of the coming Goa’uld attack, it may not help the case for keeping the SGC’s lights on.

written by Brad Wright
directed by Martin Wood
music by Joel Goldsmith, Richard Band, Kevin Kiner and Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Ronny Cox (Senator Kinsey), Robert Wisden (Lt. Col. Samuels)

Appearing in footage from Children Of The Gods and The Nox: Peter Williams (Apophis)

Notes: Daniel’s sarcastic reference to “uploading a computer virus to the mothership” is a sly nod toward the 1996 movie Independence Day – which was, of course, the brainchild of Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich, who also wrote and directed the original Stargate film. Since Devlin and Emmerich have expressed that Stargate SG-1 – and MGM – took the Stargate universe in a direction that they would not have chosen for future movie sequels, it may be that this is the producers’ response to those comments. (Maybe the producers would’ve been on firmer ground to fire that kind of shot if this episode wasn’t a “clip show” consisting largely of excerpts from not just past episodes, but the movie as well.)

LogBook entry by Earl Green with notes by Dave Thomer

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