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SG-1 follows a distress call from another stargate team, SG-9, that hasn’t returned from a distant world. O’Neill’s team finds only one survivor, and he tells them that Captain Hanson, the previous team’s commander, has assumed the role of a god among the planet’s indigenous people. Hanson has even executed those under his command who haven’t accepted his self-imposed godhood, and isn’t showing much more compassion for the natives. Carter, who was at one point engaged to Hanson before they were both assigned to the stargate project, can’t even talk him out of his subjugation of the planet and its people. Worse yet, when SG-1 makes its presence felt among the locals, they discover that Hanson has already warned them of “evil” beings with godlike powers similar to his own. Now O’Neill isn’t just up against a fellow commander – as far as the primitives are concerned, he’s trying to dethrone a god.

written by Robert C. Cooper
directed by Dennis Berry
music by Tim Truman

Guest Cast: William Russ (Captain Hanson), Roger R. Cross (Lt. Cooper), Zahf Hajee (Jamala), Adrian Hughes (Baker), D. Neil Mark (Frakes), Darcy Laurie (Cave-Dweller)

LogBook entry by Earl Green with notes by Dave Thomer

Examining crystalline formations on an unexplored world, O’Neill is knocked out cold by a burst of energy – and then a duplicate of him appears to accompany SG-1 back to Earth. The duplicate goes through O’Neill’s personal effects, finding a picture of what he believes is O’Neill’s home, and then goes there, and a disturbing encounter with O’Neill’s ex-wife ensues. It quickly becomes apparent that this duplicate knows nothing of what happened to O’Neill’s son Charlie, who died after accidentally shooting himself with O’Neill’s gun. When the real O’Neill recovers and comes through the stargate, he’s treated as a duplicate until he can prove who he really is – but before the team can figure out what has happened, the ersatz O’Neill, actually a being composed of energy, has begun to lose his human form, endangering everyone around him.

written by Jeff King
directed by Kenneth J. Girotti
music by Richard Band

Guest Cast: Harley Jane Kozak (Sara O’Neill), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Gary Jones (Technician), Wally Dalton (Sara’s Father), Kyle Graham (Charlie O’Neill), Marc Baur (Senior Cop), Jane Spence (Nurse), Carmen Moore (Lab Assistant), Charles Pyne (Guard NCO)

Notes: In another example of changed spellings, Jack’s wife is listed as “Sara” in the series, but as “Sarah” in the credits to the movie.

LogBook entry by Earl Green with notes by Dave Thomer

A representative from the White House visits the SGC to express the President’s misgivings that the Stargate program has yet to reap any useful technological benefits. When Teal’c mentions a planet where the indigenous life form has the power of invisibility, that world becomes SG-1’s next destination – despite the fact that Teal’c once hunted this creature without any success. When the team arrives, the stargate they traveled through seems to disappear after their arrival. Worse yet, they spot Apophis and a squadron of Goa’uld there as well, and the team’s attempt to ambush him is painfully unsuccessful. They awaken in what looks like a primitive village, apparently healed by the locals. But these primitives have also saved one of Apophis’ guards, not comprehending that he is an enemy of the others. The creatures, who call themselves the Nox, make a quick study of SG-1’s language and begins to communicate. But when O’Neill tries to offer his help in ridding the Nox of their Goa’uld problem, the pacifistic creatures refuse. But the Nox are hiding a secret of their own – a secret that could bring all of Apophis’ merciless force to bear on them, with O’Neill and his team in the middle.

written by Hart Hanson
directed by Charles Correll
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Armin Shimerman (Anteaus), Peter Williams (Apophis), Ray Xifo (Ohper), Gary Jones (Technician), Frida Betrani (Lya), Terry David Mulligan (Swift), Addison Ridge (Nafrayu), Michasa Armstrong (Shak’l), Zoran Vukelic (Jaffa)

Notes: Armin Shimerman played Quark for all seven seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as well as frequently guest starring as the principal of Buffy’s high school on Buffy: The Vampire Slayer.

LogBook entry by Earl Green with notes by Dave Thomer

O’Neill and his team arrive in a temple, where they find a man in a panic because his wife is about to give birth. Daniel turns out to be the most experienced member of the team in these matters, and helps to deliver the baby. The local villagers welcome SG-1 with open arms, particularly O’Neill himself. One of the village’s women, Kynthia, seems to take a special interest in him, and manages to lure him into her bed after he samples some of the local cuisine. At sundown, the entire village goes indoors and simultaneously falls into a deep sleep – and to the rest of the team’s alarm, O’Neill is powerless to keep himself from joining the villagers in their sleep. Major Carter asks around among the natives, and discovers that their lives are lived out at an extremely accelerated rate – they live and die in a matter of weeks. O’Neill’s metabolism has somehow synchronized with theirs, and where the natives show almost now physical signs of their accelerated age, O’Neill begins to wither before his teammates’ eyes – and they don’t believe he’ll survive if he goes back through the stargate.

story by Steven Barnes
teleplay by Katharyn Powers
directed by Mario Azzopardi
music by Kevin Kiner

Guest Cast: Bobbie Phillips (Kynthia), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Harrison Coe (Alekos), Gabrielle Miller (Thetys), Gary Jones (Technician)

LogBook entry by Earl Green with notes by Dave Thomer

On a hunch that the Goa’uld may have enemies more advanced than humans, SG-1 goes to a planet whose coordinates are taught to every Goa’uld – as a place to avoid at all costs, according to Teal’c. When the team emerges from the stargate, an obelisk near the gate activates and probes all four of them, finally settling on Teal’c. O’Neill leaps toward Teal’c to push him out of the beam, but both of them vanish in a flash of light. The primitive human locals tell Daniel and Carter that the obelisk – Thor’s hammer – only singles out Goa’uld hosts. This is also what a hologram, claiming to be Thor of the Asgard tells O’Neill and Teal’c, who find themselves in a sprawling underground maze. The image also warns that only the host of a Goa’uld can escape alive, but the symbiont will try. The only way Carter and Daniel can find the maze themselves is to follow a woman who claims to be a liberated Goa’uld host, a concept which intrigues Daniel, who hopes that his wife can be found and freed in the same way. When Teal’c encounters the device, it quickly becomes apparent that it will kill him in the process of eliminating the symbiont – and he must depend on Daniel to destroy it.

written by Katharyn Powers
directed by Brad Turner
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Galyn Gorg (Kendra), Vincent Hammond (Unas), Tasmin Kelsey (Gairwyn), James Earl Jones (voice of Unas), Mark Gibbon (Thor)

Notes: James Earl Jones is known to SF fans everywhere as the voice of CNN – oh, and Darth Vader, too.

LogBook entry by Earl Green with notes by Dave Thomer