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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

SG-1 establishes friendly contact with the planet Orban, whose people Daniel believes to be the descendants of an Aztec civilization that died out in the 8th century. O’Neill is caught a little off-guard with the discovery that the scientific, technical and historical knowledge of the Orbanians seems to reside with their children. But after Teal’c briefs a little boy on the offensive strength of the Goa’uld, and Carter gets a crash course in the design of naquahdah reactors from a little girl named Merrin, an even more disturbing fact comes to light – the children’s bodies are laced with nanites in their infancy, allowing them to accumulate and process vast amounts of information, and then the nanites are extracted in a ceremony to distribute the collected knowledge to the rest of the population. But O’Neill is horrified to learn that those children who serve in this capacity are often left in a zombie-like state. He offers Merrin the chance to request asylum on Earth, but she refuses. O’Neill decides the time has come for drastic action, even if it creates a rift between Earth and Orban.

written by Heather E. Ash
directed by Martin Wood
music by Joel Goldsmith, David Arnold & Richard Band

Guest Cast: Andrew Airlie (Kalan), Brittney Irvin (Merrin), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Lachlan Murdoch (Tomin), Stephanie Shea (Solen), Diane Stapley (Mrs. Struble), Rob Farrell (SF Guard), Sarah Goodwill (Student), Laara Sadiq (Technician)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Not far from the stargate on a distant world, SG-1 is captured within a force field by a man named Aris Boch, who proclaims himself to be the galaxy’s greatest bounty hunter…and declares SG-1 his latest catch, wanted alive by the System Lord, Sokar. Boch is willing to set O’Neill’s team free, however, if they help him capture an even more valuable prize who happens to be another Goa’uld. After an unsuccessful attempt to ditch their captor and escape in his ship, the team reluctantly agrees to help Boch capture his next quarry. But when they do find the renegade Goa’uld, he gives himself up to O’Neill willingly and confides that he is not Goa’uld, but a Tok’ra agent whose capture could provide Sokar with the information needed to wipe out the Tok’ra. Of course, Boch is only watching his bottom line, regardless of the ethics of helping a System Lord who helped to enslave the bounty hunter’s own people. To Boch, the Tok’ra are no better than the Goa’uld. To Teal’c, the Tok’ra are fighting a noble cause – and saving this one might be worth a supreme sacrifice.

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

Guest Cast: Sam J. Jones (Aris Boch), Mark Holden (Korra)

Notes: Sam J. Jones played the title role in the 1980 big-screen version of Flash Gordon.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

SG-1 finds the first instance of a Christian society in their travels, but it’s a primitive, superstitious village whose people live in fear of demons. The appearance of O’Neill’s team sends the villagers running, and they find a young woman chained up in the village square, waiting to be sacrificed. By freeing her, the members of SG-1 anger the “demon” who comes on a regular schedule to collect sacrifices – an Unas collecting victims to serve as host bodies for the System Lord known as Sokar. O’Neill tries to discuss the possibility of ridding this village of the Unas, but the leader of the village instead decides that the strangers are demons themselves, and puts Teal’c to a number of tests whose outcome will either “prove” his demonic nature or kill him. The guardian of the girl chained up for sacrifice tries to challenge his leader, certain that SG-1 can help them keep the demon away…but the village’s leader has become far too accustomed to power for anyone’s good, and the Unas will still come for his sacrifice.

written by Carl Binder
directed by Peter DeLuise
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: David McNally (Simon), Alan C. Peterson (Canon), Laura Mennell (Mary), Richard Morwich (Unas), John R. Taylor (Elder), Christopher Judge (voice of the Unas)

Notes: The Unas, the first being to become a Goa’uld host, was first encountered in the first season episode Thor’s Hammer, though that episode implied that its Unas was unique; this story rewrites the mythology a bit and makes the Unas an entire species.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

SG-1 stumbles across what appears to be a pitched ground battle between Jaffa warriors and an SGC team. Believing it to be SG-11, a team which has been missing from Earth for nearly a year, O’Neill and SG-1 try to assist, but are quickly ambushed and shot by snipers who are also wearing SGC uniforms. SG-1 awakens, only fired on with stun weapons. O’Neill notices their captors’ unit patches – “SG-X” – and everyone notices that their captors are all very young men, the oldest of which are barely of enlistment age. Teal’c bluffs the leader of the “SG-X” unit, Captain Rogers, learning that these young humans – none of them even hosts to Goa’uld symbiotes – were taken from their own worlds and trained to infiltrate the SGC on Earth. Teal’c and O’Neill try to tell Rogers and his team the truth: that Apophis has died and the battle they’re training for will never happen…but that only intensifies the warlike fervor of the would-be soldiers.

written by Terry Curtis Fox
directed by William Gereghty
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Peter Williams (Apophis), Aaron Craven (Captain Rogers), Dion Johnstone (Captain Nelson), Jesse Moss (Lt. Hibbard), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Josh Byer (Sergeant)

Notes: The videotape of the dying Apophis is from the episode Serpent’s Song. The information on SGC uniforms and customs was obtained from the missing SG-11 team by Apophis; SG-11 went MIA somewhere between The Tok’ra Part II and Spirits in the second season.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

SG-1 responds to a distress call from Kasuf and the other Abdyonians, under siege by the Goa’uld. Kasuf and the other prisoners are freed, but Daniel catches a glimpse of Sha’re and follows her as the rest of the team engage a massive Jaffa ground force. Teal’c follows Daniel into Sha’re’s hut and finds the archaeologist at Sha’re’s mercy. Left with no choice, Teal’c blasts Sha’re with his staff weapon at point-blank range, inflicting enough damage that even her symbiote can’t prevent her death. When he awakens in the SGC, Daniel doesn’t remember Sha’re’s death until O’Neill shows him her body in the morgue. Daniel resigns from the SGC, feeling that the only goal he hoped to achieve by remaining with the stargate program has been taken away from him. But in his dreams, Daniel still sees Sha’re, and hears her imploring him to save her child. Daniel can’t bring himself to speak to Teal’c, much less forgive him, though he does ask about the offspring of two possessed Goa’uld and learns that the resulting child, a human with no symbiote, would still carry his parents’ knowledge – and could provide the SGC with an enormous tactical advantage in their next showdown with the System Lords.

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

Guest Cast: Erick Avari (Kasuf), Vaitiare Bandera (Sha’re), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Jason Schombing (Rothman)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

SG-1 arrives on a world where amnesia has swept the populace, leaving a human society in ruins. Some of the confused locals introduce O’Neill and his team to Ke’ra, a woman who has assumed a leadership position in the wake of the disaster. But while going over the written history of the planet in search of clues about that disaster, Daniel learns that the person responsible may have been Linea – an old enemy whose previous encounter with SG-1 left little doubt that she would use her enormous scientific talents for her own ends without regard to the consequences for others. Ke’ra and some of her people return to the SGC so Dr. Fraiser can try to find out what caused their memory loss and reverse it. But when she uncovers evidence that Ke’ra may be Linea herself – a victim of her own mass memory wipe – can they afford to restore her to her true personality?

written by Tor Alexander Valenza
directed by William Gereghty
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Megan Leitch (Ke’ra), Marya Delver (Layale), Jason Gray-Stanford (Omer), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Luisa Cianni (Woman)

Notes: Teal’c was named by his father; it translates to “strength.” SG-1 encounter Linea in the second season episode Prisoners.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Apophis makes his ambitions known – he intends to overthrow Sokar and resume his place among the System Lords. Apophis begins brutal interrogations of SG-1 to find information, including the current location of the Tok’ra resistance base, that he can trade to lure Sokar to his prison. Teal’c, in the meantime, has retreated to safety, consulting with the other Tok’ra on a new course of action now that the entire team must be rescued. But the Tok’ra only see an opportunity to rid themselves of both Apophis and Sokar in one shot, and Teal’c discovers that his allies are more than willing to sacrifice the lives of everyone in SG-1 to do it.

written by Robert C. Cooper
directed by Peter DeLuise
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Carmen Argenziano (Jacob Carter / Selmak), J.R. Bourne (Martouf), William deVry (Aldwin), Bob Dawson (Bynarr), Peter Williams (Apophis), Dion Johnstone (Na’onak), Peter H. Kent (Kintac), David Palffy (Sokar), Daniel Bacon (Technician), Eli Gabay (Jumar), Tanya Reid (Jolinar), Christine Kennedy (young Carter), Dillon Moen (Charlie)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

After SG-1 receives a rather cool reception from General Hammond upon returning to the SGC from their latest mission, they’re sent into quarantine and hear about a chemical spill affecting the entire Cheyenne Mountain complex. In the infirmary, all four are drugged, though it wears off early for Teal’c because of his Goa’uld symbiont. Teal’c discovers that an alien species has taken over the SGC, and quickly escapes from his guards, also rescuing Carter. Teal’c stays behind to fight and rescue Daniel and O’Neill while Carter escapes, but he is soon overcome. Once outside, Carter contacts Maybourne, one of the SGC’s most hated enemies, to inform him of a foothold situation and requests a meeting in a public place – but at that meeting, Maybourne hands her over to O’Neill and Daniel to be taken back to the SGC. Maybourne promises to accompany her as well. But it’s only on the return flight to the SGC that either Carter or Maybourne realizes that the alien incursion may have already spread as far as the Pentagon.

written by Heather E. Ash
directed by Andy Mikita
music by Joel Goldsmith & Kevin Kiner

Guest Cast: Tom McBeath (Colonel Harry Maybourne), Colin Cunningham (Major Davis), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Richard Leacock (Colonel Brogan), Colin Lawrence (Sergeant Warren), Dan Shea (Sergeant Siler), Alex Zahara (Alien Leader / Alien #1), Dion Johnstone (Alien #2), Tracy Westerholm (Surveillance SF), Biski Gugushe (SF Guard)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

The Tollan make an appearance, overpowering the SGC’s defenses and stepping right through the closed Iris, informing General Hammond that SG-1’s presence has been requested by someone who is on trial in a Tollan Triad. When O’Neill and the others arrive on Tollana, they discover that the defendant is Skaara – and so is the plantiff. Both Skaara and his Goa’uld symbiont have argued for control over Skaara’s body, and the Triad is to determine which of them will keep control. To O’Neill’s dismay, the counsel for the symbiont is a Goa’uld System Lord, and his minions who have accompanied him to Tollana have their own orders – to prepare to deliver the Tollan to their own judgement day.

written by Katharyn Powers
directed by David Warry-Smith
music by Joel Goldsmith & Richard Band

Guest Cast: Alexis Cruz (Skara), Frida Betrani (Lya),
Marie Stillin (High Chancellor Travell), Garwin Sanford (Narim), Kevin Durand (Zipacna), Bill Nikolai (Technician)

Notes: Lya’s first appearance was in The Nox, while Narim and Tollan first appeared in Enigma, both in the first season.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

SG-1 steps through the gate, believing they’re about to visit a planet with a tropical paradise that they’ve just seen transmitted back via MALP, only to return through the gate instantaneously. But General Hammond tells them they’ve been gone, with no contact, for 15 hours, and has them report to the infirmary. Everything checks out normal at first, but they begin to notice that their senses are heightened – even to the point that the base’s standard-issue cafeteria food actually tastes good. A closer examination reveals that each member of SG-1 has received a kind of brain implant, and this device’s purpose becomes clear when they begin to collectively hallucinate a man named Urgo – who no one else can see. Urgo can’t control their actions, but he can make fairly powerful suggestions…and it appears that he can’t be removed. When SG-1 begins trying to figure out who created Urgo, though, he frantically warns them that his creator could be more of a threat to their lives than he is.

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

Guest Cast: Dom DeLuise (Urgo), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Nickolas Baric (SF Guard), Bill Nikolai (Technician)

Notes: Guest star Dom DeLuise is the father of frequent-flyer Stargate director Pete DeLuise; the younger DeLuise is also an actor who has appeared with his father and brothers in such shows as seaQuest DSV and 3rd Rock From The Sun.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

A visit to a peaceful planet to establish relations becomes more serious when SG-1 discovers that the eagerly anticipated annual “fire rains” are actually meteor storms that occur when the planet passes through its solar system’s asteroid belt. A near-miss convinces Carter and Daniel that this society’s time is almost up, and that an extinction-level event can’t be far off. The next day, for the first time that any of the planet’s inhabitants can remember, the fire rains begin again during broad daylight – and this time, the blazing lights slam into the ground. The team begins evacuating the people of the village they’re visiting through the stargate back to the SGC for their own safety, but the entire planet can’t be saved – and when the next meteorite takes out the gate, O’Neill finds himself trapped with no way home.

story by V.C. James
teleplay by Brad Wright
directed by David Warry-Smith
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Michele Greene (Laira), Julie Patzwald (Naytha), Gary Jones (Sgt. Walter Harriman), Shane Meier (Garan), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Marcel Maillard (Paynan)

LogBook entry by Earl Green