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General Henry "Hank" Landry (Beau Bridges);
Lieutenant Colonel Cameron Mitchell (Ben Browder);
Vala (Claudia Black);
Chief Master Sgt Walter Harriman (Gary Jones)
Dr. Carolyn Lam (Lexa Doig);
Dr. Lee (Bill Dow)
Gerak, sometime leader of the Free Jaffa (Louis Gossett, Jr.)
Lord Haikon, leader of the Sodan (Tony Todd)
Khalek, a Goa'uld-Human hybrid (Neil Jackson)
Ori Prior (Larry Cedar)
Orlen, a descended Ancient (Cameron Bright)
+++ Season 9 (2005) +++
901 Avalon, Part 1
Colonel Cameron Mitchell (formerly astronaut John Crichton in Farscape) is now leader of a non-existent SG1, as everyone else has retired or been reassigned, and he has to pick a new team. Col. Carter is working at Area 51, Daniel Jackson is about to go to Atlantis and Teal'c is in an Iraq-type situation, trying to turn the Jaffa into a nation now the Goa'uld are in retreat. Lots of flashbacks to Mitchell's part in the battle with Anubis' forces over Antarctica.
Vala [alias Erin of Farscape, first seen in Episode 811 Prometheus Unbound] turns up with a tablet which, she reckons, describes a treasure on Earth. She stole it from someone who bought one of the artefacts which the retreating Goa'uld are selling to maintain their lifestyle. Vala puts a high-tech handcuff on Daniel. Then Teal'c announces that it's one of Chronos's devices, it was used to transport prisoners, and Vala and Daniel will now die if they are ever separated.
The tablet was created by Merlin; an Ancient who returned to Earth from Atlantis; so we were off into the King Arthur mythos. Prometheus scans Glastonbury and finds tunnels under the Tor. Mitchell, Teal'c, Daniel and Vala ring down there and find a sword stuck in a stone.
A Merlin hologram appears to greet them. Soon, Mitchell & Teal'c are trapped in one chamber while Daniel & Vala are trapped in another. Both teams have to solve a puzzle; and as an added complication, the ceiling starts to descend . . .
901 Avalon, Part 2
Daniel and Mitchell both solve their puzzles, Mitchell draws the sword from the stone and finds himself fighting a holographic knight in armour, which can still hurt him. After another flashback, Mitchell zaps the knight. Daniel suggests leaving Mitchell alone in the tunnel system and a fabulous treasure appears. Daniel finds a book which suggests that the Ancients came from another galaxy, so he wants to go and look for them.
There is also a communication device among the treasure, which is activated by the stones which linked O'Neill and Joe Spencer in Episode 818 Citizen Joe. Daniel and Vala are transported to other bodies in a mediaeval setting while their earthly bodies end up in the medical centre. Daniel tells a 'heretic', who knows his host, what has happened. Meanwhile, Teal'c isn't happy with the newly elected Jaffa leader, who took power on the basis of having the largest available fighting force.
The other society is oppressed by a religious cult and Vala ends up on the wrong end of an ordeal by fire. She goes up in flames and her body on Earth flat-lines beyond the reach of the electric shock machine. But a weird bloke, looking like something out of a Holman Hunt painting, uses a staff carrying an Ancients' crystal to repair Vala.
903 Origin (3)
Daniel and Vala are ringed to The City of the Gods, where some Ori live. At the SGC, General Landry wants to shut down the Ancient gadget which has moved Daniel and Vala out of the bodies, and he wants to meet the new head of the Jaffa. He is also worried about the Ori Priors, who are working miracles to bamboozle people freed from the Goa'uld.
Daniel learns that the Priors intend to get a jihad going and kill everyone who won't submit. When Daniel talks to an Ori, he finds they're Ascended beings who are as fanatical as they're crazy and powerful. The Ancients have been protecting humans from them but they won't protect anyone from the followers of the Ori.
Col. Mitchell brings a Prior back to the SGC and he ends up in the briefing room with Gen. Landry, the head Jaffa & Co. Meanwhile, a heretic shows Daniel and Vala another Ancient communicator than a Prior arrives to kill the heretic and put Daniel and Vala in the ordeal by fire system. The Prior on Earth is taken prisoner briefly but he goes up in flames.
Daniel and Vala go 'code blue' in the medical centre so Mitchell and Teal'c take the communicator to the gate room and chuck it into the initial vortex as the gate establishes a wormhole. Daniel and Vala wake up in their own bodies and right at the end, General O'Neill shows up to take Mitchell for a stooge around in an X-302 fighter.
904 The Ties That Bind
Vala leaves the SGC and Daniel collapses an hour later. Dr. Lee thinks the combination of the bracelets and the Ancients' communicator has created a permanent bond between them. The guy Vala stole the bracelets from agrees to help them separate if Vala returns his Mom's necklace, which she also stole, so Daniel, Vala & Mitchell have to undo a string of trades. Vala is also in trouble with the Smugglers' League for naquadah theft and she irritates Daniel by hanging around while he's trying to work.
Meanwhile, the US government wants to run down the SGC and concentrate on Atlantis. The chairman of a Senate committee doubts the threat from the Ori. He wants to build lots of big spaceships like Daedalus and cut the SGC's budget by 70%. So Vala tells him wanting to build spaceships is a sign that he has a midget dick, which doesn't help any.
General Landry sends Daniel, Vala, Mitchell & Teal'c off to undo the trades, which involves recovering an alkesh from a couple of aliens, who try a double-cross and find themselves swindled. But once the deals have been undone and Mom's necklace is back with the rightful owner, he admits he can't break the bond between Daniel and Vala but adds that it will probably wear off in time.
At the end, General Landry learns that the only way to keep the SGC's funding coming it to accept a civilian oversight committee, so lots of scope for new characters to staff the Senate's watchdog.
905 The Powers That Be
Vala takes SG-1 to a planet where the people think she's a god – mainly because she used to be the host for the Goa'uld Katesh. She hasn't told the people she's had the symbiote removed and she still has them slaving in the naquadah mines. Vala hopes to prevent the Priors taking over the planet, and she also hopes to steal the planet's treasure and run before a Prior, who made a visit there, returns.
Meanwhile, back at the SGC, General Landry is trying, and failing, to be friends with Dr. Lam, who's his daughter.
Daniel gets Vala to admit she's an imposter and she ends up in gaol sentenced to death. Mitchell persuades the locals to give her a trial and Daniel asks for only offences committed in the last 4 years, after the symbiote was removed, to be considered. The Prior crashes the trial and gets into an argument with Daniel, who realizes he hasn't worked out why the Ori need to be worshipped. Vala gets imprisonment for life.
A man falls ill and Vala cures him with a Goa'uld device, which Mitchell tells the locals is only technology, not a sign of godhood. The people start dropping like flies and Dr. Lam arrives with a team. Mitchell gets the bug and the people Vala healed go down with it again. Dr. Lam admits defeat as people start dying but the Prior returns and brings everyone back to health, including the ones who died.
The team from Earth has to retreat and leave the planet to the Priors, having no answer to enemies who are prepared to kill everyone on a planet if they won't worship the Ori.
906 Beachhead
The Jaffa on Kalana defy a Prior so he blasts them off into the distance and sets up a forcefield around the stargate. A Goa'uld called Nerus arrives at the SGC claiming to be Baal's chief scientist and an inventor, and offering his services. He's big and fat, he's greedy and he enjoys Earth food, and he can talk without doing the Goa'uld voice. He says he can crack the forcefield on Kalana, which he can monitor via his satellite.
Nerus says the Ori are keeping the stargate open permanently; it's not subject to the 38 minute activation limit; and he advocates an all-out attack right away. Col. Carter arrives at the SCG and SG-1 join Prometheus for a trip to Kalana. They beam down with a Mk 9 naquadah-enchanced nuke when the forcefield is in an expansion phase. Jaffa motherships arrive and start bombarding the forcefield and SG-1 is beamed out. The weapon doesn't destroy the forcefield and Carter works out that it is drawing power from the bombardment.
Object start shooting into orbit from the planet and Prometheus and the other ships retreat. At the SGC, Nerus predicts that the forcefield will envelope the planet, making the Ori unstoppable, and he announces that he is working for the Ori. Kalana starts shrinking and Carter realizes the Ori are assembling a supergate in orbit; 300 metres in diameter; and the planet will form one of the black holes needed at either end of an always-open stargate.
Vala rings to a cargo ship left behind by the Jaffa and uses it to disrupt the construction of the supergate. She tries and fails to ring back to Prometheus as the Ori beachhead is destroyed. Gen. Landry tells Nerus that his next stop is a black hole somewhere in Area 51. At the end, Carter decides that Vala could have been beamed to the Ori home galaxy, to which Daniel adds the comment, "Wow! We wanted to send them a message!"
907 Ex Deus Machina
Previously: Col. Carter suggested that the entire Trust could have been taken over by the Goa'uld and its members could have returned to Earth, now controlled by symbiotes.
A Jaffa was found dead near the site of a closed down defence plant on Earth. Teal'c decided the Jaffa was now working for Gerak, the Jaffa leader, so Teal'c and Mitchel went to Dakara to question Gerak, who was sounding off against having anything to do with the Tok'ra. Teal'c decided Gerak lied to him. And Gerak was questioning a captive Goa'uld under torture.
Alex Jamieson, a general manager of the defence plant's parent firm, was missing and Daniel questioned his wife. She said she'd hired a private eye, who had been frightened off after 2 days. Col. Carter got the bum's rush at the defence company's HQ when she asked why people have been going to the closed down plant recently. Daniel warned Gen. Landry that the Goa'uld are still on Earth and they've been making high-powered businessmen disappear.
A female member of the Jaffa High Council told Teal'c that Baal has been on Earth for the last 9 months and a race to capture him developed between the Earthers and Gerak. Using information from his prisoner, Gerak tried; but failed; to capture Baal, who offered Gen. Landry a deal involving permission to live on Earth. And by the way, he's planted a naquadah bomb in a US city.
Carter suggested using the Tok'ra symbiote poison to kill Baal. Prometheus found a Jaffa mothership behind the Moon. Baal went on TV to announce his purchase of Hammel Technologies, making his arrest impossible as it would cause a media circus. Baal warned the SGC against using the Tok'ra poison and said the bomb is in Seattle.
Gerak's Jaffa closed in on Baal again and Gen. Landry launched a missile loaded with the poison. Carter found that the bomb was built into the structure of a building, so Mitchell got Prometheus to beam it into space before it exploded. Gerak killed Baal for the High Council, Teal'c saw no point in telling the Council that it was probably a clone that was killed and the Council fell under Gerak's spell.
908 Babylon
SG-1 walks into an ambush, Col. Mitchell is wounded and captured, and SG-1 returns home with a wounded prisoner. The planet is the home of the Sodan, who broke away from the Goa'uld 5,000 years ago. They have the secret of an Ancients' transporter device, which they use to take Mitchell to their very Japanese village, and 'cloaks of invisibility'. Dr. Lam saves Volnek, the Jaffa wounded by Mitchell, and puts him on tratonin when his symbiote croaks.
Prometheus joins the hunt for Mitchell but Lord Haikon, the Sodan leader, tells Mitchell that the Eye of the Gods took him thousands of miles from where he was captured. Mitchell finds that he will be trained to fight another Sodan warrior; and die. Lord Haikon is not impressed when Mitchell tells him the other Jaffa need decent leadership and the Sodan. The reason why becomes clear when a Prior arrives. Haikon thinks the Ori will show him the path to enlightenment.
Teal'c gets nothing out of Volnek after 2 weeks and he won't believe the Ori will destroy worlds which decline their domination. Gen. Landry starts making noises about having to call off the search on cost grounds and declaring Mitchell M.I.A. Surprise! Volnek's brother has been training Mitchell and he gets to fight him. But it's all a sham. Mitchell is drugged, declared dead and sent home. Some of the Sodan don't believe the Ori, Volnek's brother among them, and Volnek himself is sent back to his planet.
909 Prototype
SG-1 went through the Stargate and found themselves on a different planet from the one which a MALP had reached. Col. Carter decided that the stargate on P3584 needed a security authorization code, and if it didn't get it, the gate would store the incoming travellers in a buffer and send them on to a random destination. Carter cracked the problem then she found a new gadget in the DHD on 584.
Daniel found a ring system, which went to a science lab like Nirrti's. Col. Mitchell, messing about, revived a man in a stasis tube. Kalek said he'd been experimented on and he wanted to go home. But Daniel found that the lab belonged to Anubis, Khalek was grown there and he was a hybrid containing Goa'uld DNA from Anubis. In fact, Khalek was very like a pre-ascension Ancient.
Daniel thought that Khalek was planning to ascend, when he found out how, and become another Anubis, and he was too dangerous to keep alive. Mr. Woolsey, the SGC's paymaster, wanted to keep Khalek alive to see if studing him could help to fight the Priors. He said if Khalek was put back in stasis, the leadership and the role of the SGC would have to be re-evaluated.
Mitchell shot Khalek when he woke up during tests but he healed with amazing speed. He had telekinetic and other super-human powers, and he was evolving and getting closer to ascending. Carter decided to find out where Kalek's changes would go and Gen. Landry decided to defy Woolsey and have Khalek put back into stasis.
Daniel said taking him back to 584 was a bad idea as he would be able to get the further treatments from the machine there, which Kalek needed to ascend. Kalek broke out of the medical centre and dialled the gate using his telekinetic powers. Only moments after he left the SGC, he was back and he ended up shot to bits.
910 The Fourth Horseman (1)
Gerak is eager to become a follower of the Ori but he thinks many Jaffa will take a lot of convincing. Col. Carter is working on an ultrasound device to disrupt a Prior's special powers. It's based on her research on Kalek in the previous episode and she wants Dr. Lee to work round the clock to help her throw something together 'in a couple of days'. Bra'tac doesn't think much of making the Ori religion compulsory for all Jaffa. Gerak says the Ori are the true gods which the Jaffa have sought for many generations.
Col. Barnes ends up in the infirmary. SG-6 has brought a Prior plague back to Earth and Lt. Fisher nearly gives it to Gen. Hammond! Dr. Lam decides Fisher is a carrier, who's not affected by the plague. The plague starts to spread and the official cover story is that it's a new strain of influenza. Dr. Lam thinks the virus may be airborne and persistent.
Teal'c reports that a Jaffa civil war may be on the way if Gerak sways the Council. Carter is under observation, by someone. It turns out to be Orlen [see episode 503, Ascension]. He's now in the body of a teenage boy. He tells Carter that the Ori don't help their followers to Ascend. What they really do is tap their life force, so the more worlds the Ori take over, the more powerful they become. The Priors don't know this.
Orlen starts to work on a cure for the Prior plague, which has spread all over the USA. He's stuck in the kid's body, he can't Ascend again and he's not happy because he's apparently too young to chase after Carter. He needs a blood sample from the Prior who created the plague by modifying his DNA and infecting Lt. Fisher. The Prior neutralization device is needed for this job and Daniel thinks it would be a good idea to try to enlighten a Prior about the true nature of the Ori.
Gerak threatens to bombard Chulak from orbit to make Bra'tac, Teal'c and their allies give in. Orlen's break starts to break down physically under the strain of holding too much knowledge. Gerak's mind gets to meet one of the Ori when he hesitates over attacking Chulak. SG-1 are captured when they go after their Prior. The USA closes its borders and goes into quarantine. And at the end, Gerak has become a Prior!
911 The Fourth Horseman (2)
Teal'c tells the Jaffa Council that the Ori are vampires and no better than the Goa'uld, then he and Bra'tac head for Chulak, where they hope that presenting Gerak, who is now a Prior and has the power to levitate things, with the prospect of a Jaffa civil war will make him think again about ordering the death of everyone who opposes the Ori.
The Prior plague is spreading all over Earth, Orlen's brain is degenerating and he's killing himself through trying to hold on to his Ancients' knowledge in an attempt to find a cure for the virus. Col. Mitchell & Daniel take the Prior-neutralizing device to the homeworld of the Sodan, who have decided not to side with the Ori. Mitchell is stranded in mid-air until Daniel finds the right frequency.
Teal'c tells Bra'tac he should be the next Jaffa leader. A blood sample from the Prior is no help in creating a cure for the plague. Gen. Landry takes Orlen to see the Prior, who reveals that the Ori are coming to this galaxy to destroy the Ancients before he gives Gen. Landry the plague and Mitchell shoots him.
Gen. Hammond gives the new SG-1 his seal of approval at the SCG. Dr. Lam begins to understand her dad, Gen. Landry, as he's lying helpless in the isolation room. Deus ex machina – Teal'c brings Gerak to Earth, he cures the plague victims in the SGC and then he goes up in flames. But, as he says before initiating the cure, he dies free. Dr. Lam uses Orlen's work and the plague survivors' blood to build a vaccine. And at the end, Orlen is on the way out.
912 Collateral Damage
Col. Mitchell is arrested at a murder scene. Jump back 24 hours to find out how he got there. Mitchell was involved in a memory transplant demonstration on an Asgard-protected planet. The technology was adapted from a Goa'uld device, and as the Asgard are no longer around much, the Galerans are looking for allies.
The US government is interested in the device as a way of training fighter pilots, etc., by supplying them with implanted memories. Dr. Verrek, the Galeran civilian head of the project, saw a military takeover coming. Mitchell offered to help her, he got friendly with her, he was framed for murder and he confessed to the crime.
The Emissary, the head Galeran, tried to boot Mitchell back to Earth but Mitchell insisted on a proper investigation. The rest of SG-1 joined in. Dr. Verrek's colleagues checked Mitchell's memories but found no evidence that his memories of the murder had been grafted. But a sample of Mitchell's blood taken when he was arrested suggested that he had been zatted.
Mitchell had to remember bombing some refugees on the basis of faulty intelligence as an aid to proving his innocence. Then he insisted on finding the real killer; who turned out to be Dr. Verrek's ex-husband, who had erased his own memory of the murder. Mitchell had his own memory of the murder erased. Then he was horrified to find that the Galeran military had edited the killer's memories to remove his guilt and put him back to work on the memory project.
913 Ripple Effect
There's an unusual energy spike before SG-1 returns early from a mission; but they're not the right SG-1. Then the right SG-1 arrives on time. Dr. Lam concludes that neither SG-1 is an imposter. Col. Carter suggests the first team are from an alternate universe, so the men interrogate one another while the Carters put their heads together and try to figure out what happened. They conclude that the black hole created when the Ori beachhead was destroyed has caused a space/time rupture.
Another SG-1 arrives under fire. Carter's next theory is that a ripple effect, with this Earth as the focus, is affecting several parallel universes. More SG teams arrive, not all of them SG-1, and one team includes the dead Dr. Fraiser, who reports that her Earth is being devastated by the Ori plague. Then Martouf of the Tok'ra arrives, to Carter's delight.
One of the Carters suggests zapping the troublesome black hole. The Asgard are called in to help. As a consequence of the plan, all of the SG teams will be stuck where they are and Dr. Fraiser challenges Gen. Landry's right to give his Earth priority over all of the parallels. He refuses to postpone the operation until a return solution has been found.
Prometheus plus the home SG-1 and a set of counterparts heads off to deliver a time dilation bomb to the black hole. But the other SG-1 team has a plan. They want to go to Atlantis to steal the ZPM to power up their Ancients' weapon in Antarctica to defend their Earth. The home SG-1 spend some time locked up but outwit their counterparts.
By then, Carter has worked out how to solve the black hole problem and also let everyone return to where they belong. Col. Mitchell says, "Hey, Mitchell, cut the green one!" before he gates off to his parallel universe. And Dr. Fraiser can go home with the cure for the Ori plague.
914 Stronghold
Teal'c and Bra'tac's faction of the Jaffa High Council want to go for democracy and a referendum on abolishing the Council. But they suddenly find that Kal'el, a former ally, wants to hold things up until Jaffa women have right. She zats another member of the council, who proposed the referendum, and he turns against it. Meanwhile, Col. Mitchell visits his buddy Ferguson in hospital. Ferguson is going to die as a result of injuries received in the battle over Antarctica and Mitchell blames himself for putting him in danger.
Teal'c disappears from Dakara and Bra'tac goes to Earth for help. While Teal'c is being 'taught' under duress, Bra'tac forced his former ally to admit he helped with the kidnapping of Teal'c. Bra'tac realizes someone is brainwashing members of the Council and Teal'c is the latest candidate. Baal is behind the scheme but his man has to admit that the method isn't working on Teal'c.
Half of the High Council could have been brainwashed and Daniel suggests using the ritual, which was used to release Teal'c from Apophis's brainwashing [episode 502 Threshold], on Council member Masrai to get information on who's behind the brainwashing. Meanwhile, Baal tells Teal'c that the Jaffa need him as a leader in the battle against the Ori, not as a god but more as a chief executive.
Masrai can't remember what happened 2 nights earlier, which suggests he was brainwashed then. He removes his own symbiote as part of the near-death ritual and croaks; but he leaves behind a gate address. Mitchell gets a device from Carter, which lets Ferguson share some of his memories and find out what he's been doing that's so important and so top secret. Then he joins the expedition to save Teal'c.
Michell does a lot of 'Kamikaze Kid' moves in a fire-fight with the Jaffa guarding the stargate near where Baal's ship is parked. Bra'tac is shot down and captured. Baal tells Teal'c to kill him but the brainwashing didn't take and Teal'c kills Baal instead. The Jaffa are saddled with democracy and a general election and at the end, Teal'c offers Mitchell a few words of wisdom about knowing himself.
915 Ethon
Jared Kane from Tegalus [Episode 805 Icon] arrives at the SGC looking for help. His side in a planetary war has received a satellite weapon from the Ori and they've given the Caledonian Federation a 5-day ultimatum. Kane wants the war to end and, when he's been clued up about the Ori, he concludes that his people would have been better off letting themselves be wiped out rather than embracing the Doctrine of Origin.
Daniel says the war is Earth's fault and they have to help. Kane tells him that a Prior unleashed the plague on the Rand Federation to make them accept Origin. Daniel tries to speak to the Rand leaders and ends up in gaol. Prometheus goes to Tegalus and tries to beam Daniel aboard – but gets only his locator beacon. The ship waits too long before taking a shot at the satellite and finds that it has shields which protect it from Earth missiles. Worse, the weapon can fire shots through Asgard shields.
The captain of Prometheus tries to surrender but the ship is destroyed and only 76 of 115 crew, including Col. Carter, are beamed down to Caledonian territory. Carter suggests delivering an EM pulse to the Rand control centre for the satellite will give Mitchell a chance to fly up to the satellite and destroy it. Daniel persuaded Mitchell not to fire his missiles as the Rand are offering the Caledonians the stargate and a chance to relocate to another world.
Mitchell stands down and the Rand president aims the satellite at the Caledonian capital. The head of the Rand military objects and he is shot, along with the president. Both croak, the satellite is shut down and everyone from Earth returns to the SGC. But at the end, they learn that the Caledonians couldn't resist firing off some missiles before they left Tegalus and the stargate on that planet is now presumed to be buried in the rubble of a nuclear war.
916 . Off the Grid
SG-1 arrived at a stargate under fire; only to have the gate and the DHD beamed up before they could use them! Eight hours earlier, the team had been investigating casa, a type of sweet corn containing an addictive compound, possibly created by the Ori. The Jaffa reported erratic behaviour on several planets and the Lucian Alliance was buying up casa crops. Mitchell approached a farmer, posing as a drug dealer, and he fell into the clutches of Worrel. But, with one bound, he was free and at the stargate with SG-1; only to be captured when the gate was beamed up.
At the SGC, Dr. Lee decided that the drug in casa was engineered. The SGC couldn't dial the gate on P6G452, where SG-1 went. On that planet, Worrel blamed SG-1 for nicking the stargate, he wanted it back and he was happy to beat up SG-1 until they co-operated. General Landry sent the new hyper-drive ship Odyssey to rescue SG-1, who now have implanted locator chips for easy beaming-up.
The Tok'ra reported that someone was stealing stargates using Asgard technology. Gen. Landry headed for Area 51 for a chat with the Goa'uld Nerus [Episode 906 Beachhead]. The Alliance told Worrel to terminate SG-1. While feeding his face, Nerus told Gen. Landry that Baal was stealing the stargates (so he must have survived being blasted by Teal'c last week). Odyssey beamed SG-1 up in the nick of time.
Nerus said that Baal was rebuilding his empire. He could move stargates to new planets and prevent them from reporting the new position to the network. Nerus exchanged a gate address for his freedom and returned to Baal, not knowing (1) that Gen. Landry had decided that the address would be useless and (2) that he had scoffed a cup-cake containing a tracking device.
When Nerus attached his gadgets to the computer system on Baal's ship, he gave it a virus, which attacked the power system, including the power supply to the shields, and let SG-1 beam aboard and attach locators to the stolen stargates. The Lutian Alliance arrived and started shooting, Baal was fixing to shoot Nerus before an ad break, Odyssey beamed aboard all but one of the stargates before Baal's ship was destroyed and SG-1 used the remaining stargate to return to the SGC.
917 The Scourge
The Priors are talking about a big fight on the way and SG-1 is diverted from a mission to escort a gang from the International Oversight Committee, including Mr. Woolsey, to the Gamma Site. There, Dr. Myers was studying destructive insects found only on planets visited by the Priors. The Chinese delegate pals up with Daniel and suggests that the US Military might not stay in charge of the stargate.
The bugs multiply explosively after Dr. Myers gives them some meatloaf, showing that they are omnivorous. They breach containment and have to be exterminated en mass, but one of them bites Dr. Myers before being squashed. He is checked by the infirmary and seems okay but he collapses. He is in the gateroom, about to be sent back to the SGC, when bugs start pouring out of his body.
The Gamma Site is put on lockdown, the bugs escape from the gateroom and Woolsey insists SG-1 takes the IOA group to safety. They head for a research station 10 km away on foot. The bugs eat one of the airmen escorting the party and the rest end up in a cave. Shooting drives the highly sound-sensitive bugs away for as long as the bullets last.
Back at the SGC, Dr. Lee reveals that Dr. Myers was trying to find out if the bugs could be used to eat up the Lutian Alliance's highly addictive casa. Odyssey is sent to deliver a neurotoxin to the Gamma Site planet to wipe out the bugs; and any humans left there. Communications with the surface are difficult and it's doubtful whether the ship will be able to find anyone to beam them aboard.
The Gamma Site main base self-destructs, Woolsey starts threatening SG-1 and the French delegate goes to pieces. Daniel reminds Carter that the other research station has communications gear that she can use, but vibrations from the beefed-up system attract the bugs. So there's a last ditch defence until Odyssey can beam everyone aboard. Back at the SGC, Woolsey goes off the record to say that the IOA thinks the SGC is doing a good job. Two more planets are hit by the bugs. And Mitchell picks Starship Troopers [see film guide, M-Z] as that night's movie for SG-1.
918 Arthur's Mantle
While messing about with a gadget found at Glastonbury [episode 901 Avalon parts 1&2], Carter sends herself and Col. Mitchell to an alternate dimension. They can see and hear what's happening at the SGC but no one can see them. The same happened to Daniel earlier [episode 321 Crystal Skull] but he can't see Carter and Mitchell either. Luckily, surveillance tapes prove they didn't leave the base and they disappeared while using the Glastonbury device.
Meanwhile, General Landry tells Teal'c that the doomsday, about which the Priors keep talking, may be just days away. The Sodan send a message to the SGC saying they're under attack. Teal'c takes a team to investigate and finds just Lord Haikon left alive in a wrecked village. He says a single Sodan killed everyone else and he has a cloaking device. Teal'c finds that the killer took the crystal from the transporter which links the camp with the stargate, so he puts on a cloak himself and goes hunting.
At the SGC, Dr. Lee considers miniaturization as a reason why Carter & Mitchell disappeared. He mentions lepton radiation, which sets Daniel thinking. He establishes communication with Carter & Mitchell via an interdimensional keyboard and starts to translate some of Merlin's records one letter at a time. Then Dr. Lee makes him invisible, too. Which makes the translation process easier.
Teal'c shoots the rogue full of lead but he comes back to life. Lord Haikon says Volnek met a Prior on another world and he turned into a raging beast of a killer several days later. SG-3 and SG-22 arrive as backup; along with the invisible Col. Mitchell. Lord Haikon says Volnek's body has to be smashed to bits to kill him. The leader of the backup team suggests an ambush with 2 Claymore mines and Teal'c takes on the job of bait.
Daniel works out that Merlin created the device to conceal his research from his fellow Ascended beings. He created a weapon capable of killing them! Merlin completed the weapon on Earth and moved it. There is a gate address in his notes.
Teal'c sees Mitchell when he's cloaked. Dr. Lee screws up again at the SCG but Daniel returns himself and Carter to the right dimension. The same happens to Mitchell, so staff blasts no longer go right through him! Teal'c lends a hand with the Claymore trap, Volnek is blown to bits, and Mitchell took the crystal for the 'Eye of the Gods' while grappling with him. So everything is okay and the SGC is on the trail of a weapon to use against the Ori.
919 Crusade
Vala returned to the SGC but inhabiting Daniel's body. She was sending an update from the Ori galaxy, where she was hurled in Episode 906 Beachhead. She ended up at a village like the one which she and Daniel visited, and married to a bloke with a limp. She's also pregnant, but not via the usual method, which means she has been impregnated. A Prior blessed her husband and removed his limp, and he was conscripted for the coming Ori crusade against their enemies.
As an added complication, Gen. Landry found that the Russians wanted their stargate back and they were apparently planning to set up their own SGC funded by the Chinese. Vala was chained up for 3 days without food and drink by Serus, the jobsworth headman of the village. Her husband then rescued her and suffered no consequences. Gen. Landry worked out that the Russians were looking for a better deal.
Vala found out that Serus was the head of the anti-Ori resistance and he'd been testing her. He was planning to blow up a fleet of ships built for the crusaders. He also had the communication device and the stones, which he had saved from destruction. A Prior told Vala's husband that the baby wasn't his but it was 'the will of the Ori'. Vala warned the SGC that the crusade was about to begin and the Ori had a working supergate somewhere.
The sabotage plan failed. The gang at the SGC were asking for information on the ships when Daniel became himself again and the link failed. Her husband started shooting at Vala's end, Serus was killed but Vala talked her way out of trouble. Gen. Landry found that the Russians wanted X304, the new hyperdrive spaceship.
As the Tok'ra and the Asgard began scanning for the Ori supergate, SG-1 decided they had to find Merlin's weapon as it would be easier to convince their followers that the Ori are false gods if they weren't around any more.
920 Camelot
SG-1 arrives in a mediaeval village with a sword in a stone – Camelot, but not as we know it. Here, Arthur defeated Mordred and went in search of the Holy Grail, and no one talks about Merlin because he was a wizard of darkness. No one has seen either Arthur or Merlin for many years. Merlin's library is in the village but it is protected by the Black Knight. There's a key in the village archive so Daniel recruits the village historian to open the door.
Note: If Merlin were such a great wizard, would he have let spiders and dust run riot in his library?
Mitchell finds a secret passage leading to a chamber containing a control device. When Daniel approaches it, it switches on, the Black Knight appears in the village and slays the historian. So the village headman tells SG-1 to beat it. Daniel deduces there's an off-switch for the Black Knight but SG-1 is beamed aboard Odyssey while arguing with the head man.
The Jaffa have found the supergate so everyone is going there. Daniel & Mitchell stay behind to crack the secret of the library. Daniel activates the Black Knight again and Mitchell tries to fight it. Valencia, a girl whom Mitchell befriended, pulls the sword from the stone and throws it to Mitchell, who is still struggling when Daniel finds the power source for the control device and shoots it to bits. Then Daniel realizes Merlin's device for neutralizing Ascended beings is the pendant shown in pictures of him.
Teal'c lets himself be captured by the Lutian Alliance to get them to join the battle against the Ori. The Asgard think activating the weapon and sending it to the Ori galaxy will eliminate the Ori. Except, they don't know where the Ori galaxy is. The pendant isn't in the secret chamber. The headman recognizes it as the Blood Stone, a.k.a. the Holy Grail, for which Arthur and his knights are searching. And Valencia's drawing the sword from the stone means Arthur will be back soon.
At this point, Daniel & Mitchell are beamed aboard Korolyev, the Russian starship. Carter decides that dialling out with the supergate will stop the Ori using it and she volunteers to do a space-walk to install a replacement dialling device. She has just done the job when the gate activates and 4 Ori ships come through it. Korolyev and Teal'c and the Lutian Alliance arrive for a battle. And as the season ends, Col. Carter (on the supergate) and Vala (on one of the Ori ships) are left watching the forces from this galaxy getting the crap kicked out of them.
+++ End of Season 9 +++
+++ Season 10 (2006) +++
1001 Flesh And Blood
Vala has her daughter as 4 Ori ships arrive through the super gate and destroy the fleet waiting for them. The Ori remove the child, Adria, which is an Ori in human form, their Messiah/Führer, and a device for getting round their non-interference pact with the Ancients. Col. Carter is drifting in space near the gate with her air running out. Col. Mitchell escaped in a fighter from Korolyeb before it exploded. Col. Emerson of Odyssey retrieves him.
Daniel Jackson is missing and Teal'c is captured by the Lutians, who try to bluff Odyssey into surrendering. The next time Vala sees Adria, a few hours later, the child looks about 4 and she is able to heal her mother's birth trauma. Bra'tac reports to the SGC what happened at the super gate. Col. Mitchell pilots Odyssey to pick up Col. Carter in a docking bay.
Daniel ringed off Korolyev onto Vala's Ori ship. At the SGC, Gen. Landry tells Mr. Wolsey that the IOA is wasting its breath again with its plans to bring a ZPM from Atlantis to power the Ancients' weapon in Antarctica. Her child is about 10 when Vala sees her again, and throughly brainwashed by the Ori. Daniel finds Vala.
Bra'tac arrives to chase the Lutians away from Odyssey and Carter manages to beam Teal'c aboard, saving him from further revenge torture. The Ori arrive at Chulak, so Carter, Mitchel, Teal'c & Bra'tac head there. Vala plans to kidnap her daughter. Carter contacts Daniel, who is in an Ori ship on the ground, at an inconvenient moment. An attempt to ring a bomb aboard an Ori ship fails.
Daniel is captured and Bra'tac sets a ramming course with the Ori ship in orbit but everyone is beamed aboard Odyssey in the nick of time. Daniel doesn't get to shoot the child. And at the end, Col. Mitchell decides they need a new plan to tackle the Ori. A damn good one!
1002 Morpheus
Teal'c reports to the SGC that 6 more worlds have fallen to the Ori, who are led by a young woman of extraordinary powers. Daniel finds the gate address of a planet involved in the search for the Holy Grail, a.k.a. Merlin's weapon. He persuades Gen. Landry to let Vala join the SGC, but she has to pass a psychological evaluation first.
On the planet, SG1 finds a village full of ancient skeletons. After a good dose of the King Arthur legend for the audience, Teal'c notices there are no animals or birds. Then Ackerman goes missing and he is found fast asleep. The doctor with the expedition concludes that everyone has been infected with something deadly, and if they fall asleep, they may never wake up again.
On Earth, Vala makes a mockery of the inkblot tests and Mr. Woolsey of the International Oversight Advisors offers to help her pass the test in return for being an IOA spy. Then she has fun with a lie detector. On the planet, Daniel finds that the villagers blamed Morgan le Fey for the sleeping sickness. Carter finds a doorway in a cave, which Daniel thinks is important. A soil sample contains dormant parasites, which come back to life in contact with human tissue.
Ackerman dies. An autopsy finds a parasite, now 1,000 times bigger, in his head. Vala accepts Woolsey's offer. Mitchell and Teal'c chase a live creature, hoping that it will provide a means of destroying the parasites. The doctor dies next. A rescue squad eventually puts everyone in isolation pods and with one bound, they are all okay at the end of the episode.
Vala is storming out of the SGC in disgust when Gen. Landry tells her she passed the evaluation but she needs to go through the training programme before she can go off-world.
1003 The Pegasus Project
Odyssey arrived at Atlantis with SG-1 and Vala aboard. The Priors had promised to send reinforcements and Col. Carter had a plan to make a wormhole jump to the Ori supergate to keep it permanently open. SG-1 borrowed Dr. McKay for this project and Daniel got to play with the library on Atlantis and, with Vala's help over the questions, found out the locations of the two planets, which are Merlin's weapon could be.
Carter's plan involed sending a stargate towards a black hole while Teal'c deployed another gate near the supergate, and letting off nuclear weapons near Carter's gate. Daniel became suspicious of the 'hologram', which was the library's interface, which told him that Merlin visited Atlantis, and discovered that it was an Ascended being pretending to be a hologram.
A Wraith ship headed for the black hole after the first nuclear explosion wasn't powerful enough. Dr. Weir had to relay a warning via the SGC and Teal'c's ship, which detected an approaching Ori ship. Daniel decided the 'hologram' was really Morgan le Fey, who said she no longer opposed Merlin. Teal'c had to go radio silent and cloak his ship and his stargate from the Ori.
Vala kept asking Morgan awkward questions. Daniel told her that the Ascended are the Ori's next target so helping the humans and their allies to stop the Ori would be sensible. Odyssey came under attack from the Wraith ship. Carter's next move was to lure it closer to the black hole. Morgan was retrieved by the other Ascended. Carter's next nuclear explosion took out the Wraith ship, and also the Ori ship when the supergate became active.
Daniel ended up with the gate addresses of 2 places to look for Merlin's weapon, and the knowledge that the Ascended aren't going to help with stopping the Ori.
1004 Insiders
Both planets which Daniel identified last time have been searched, but no clues were found to the location of Merlin's weapon. So Daniel is having a trawl in Merlin's library instead of appearing in this episode. An alkesh is shot down as it heads for Cheyenne Mountain. The pilot is Baal, who says his clones want him dead. As he planned to wipe out all life in the galaxy (apart from himself and his staff) using the weapon on Dakara so the Ori would lose interest in the galaxy, nobody is pleased to see Baal. But he says he can help to find Merlin's weapon.
Agent Bennett of NID turns up to claim Baal but General Landry stalls him. Baal says the information is in the material which was overloaded into O'Neill's mind on P3R2782. Every Baal clone knows about the weapon, and that its location is in the SGC computer. Although there is a locator in his body, this Baal says he's the real deal and he offers help in rounding up the clones.
The SGC starts to fill up with Baals as the others are captured. Then Agent Bennett lets them loose. Three levels are sealed off and Dr. Lee says using the symbiote poison gas will kill some of the clones, but the results will be patchy as the gas won't be distributed evenly. There is a risk that the Baals will kill their prisoners, including Col. Carter.
Baal tells Carter he aims to kill the Ancients as well as the Ori. Then he blackmails Carter into giving him a download of the O'Neill data. A fire-fight starts, the gas is released but enough Baals congregate to allow their locator chips to be used to by-pass the Asgard shielding, as Baal planned, and they are beamed out. Barrett was brainwashed, Carter decides, and he is led off under guard.
1005 Uninvited
Col. Mitchell got to spend some time in the woods with Gen. Landry at Gen. O'Neill's retreat as a break from the pressues of the SGC. Everyone else had other things to do. Teal'c, for instance, was looking for missing villagers off-world. They turned up torn apart and Col. Carter thought it was an Ori boogeyman sending a message to Earth. Vala thought the SGC should just track down the killer creature.
Col. Carter, in charge of the SGC in Gen. Landry's absense, sent Vala and Teal'c to find out if the killings were Prior related. Vala wanted to catch and sell the predator. SG-25 was attacked as Mitchell was playing chess with the general and Teal'c fed the creature a grenade.
A storm blacked out the cabin, which was under observation, and washed out the access road. During disection, the dead creature was found to have a slug-like bug in it, which Teal'c had to zat as it made for the pathologist. In the woods, a hunter was ripped to bits near the cabin and a whole bunch of guys came out to hunt the 'killer bear'.
The black bug was mutating the DNA of native creatures. Col. Carter noticed it was turning up only on planets visited by SG teams on covert surveillance missions. And it turned out that the Sodan cloaks which the SG teams were using were bringing the bugs through from another dimension – the cloaks having been modified to reduce their radiation, which the Goa'uld symbiote-containing Sodan could tolerate.
Col. Carter found that a cloaking device was missing from Area 51 – a spy from the Trust was using it to spy on Gen. Landry and Col. Mitchell. Another guy was grabbed under the noses of Landry & Mitchell. Col. Carter arrived mob handed and the creature was blasted. And a second one got the same treatment, thanks to Vala.
1006 200
SG-1 meet Wormhole Xtreme and Martin the alien again. The gang have been detailed to advise on a TV movie about their alter egos. Vala isn't in it and Martin is in charge of the production. Some titles and the SGC is invaded by zombies. Memories of the invisible O'Neill. SG-1 gets ready for a recon mission; it's Mitchell's 200th trip through a stargate. But the gate breaks down and it's back to the movie.
Vala offers Martin story lines allegedly based on her life, but which are remarkably like the Wizard of Oz and Farscape. Martin proposes blowing up the SGC to end Act II, followed by a Star Trek rip-off. Then he loses his budget. So cue the Thunderbirds puppet version. Teal'c suggests he could star in a Private Eye series.
O'Neill suggests everyone goes fishing at the end. Martin wants something with more impact. Like a wedding. The stargate starts working again so exit SG-1 at the run. The movie is cancelled by the studio decides to revive the TV series. So jump 10 years to Episode 200 and reminiscences from the cast. And guess what!! The movie is back on!!!
1007 Counterstrike
Vala saw her daughter, Adria, on another conquered world then she and SG-1 were beamed aboard Odyssey before an energy pulse from the stargate wiped out all life on the planet. Bra'tac arrived at the SCG to report that the Jaffa Council had decided to use the weapon on Dakara; they saw it as their only means of fighting back against the Ori.
SG-1 went back to the planet to inspect the Ori ship, which brought Adria. Col. Mitchell put a bomb in the engine room. Col. Carter found the control room, which contained a chair like the ones used by the Ancients. Carter accidentally switched the shields on. Jaffa arrived to claim the Ori ship, and they captured Teal'c and Mitchell.
Odyssey left as 3 Jaffa warships arrived. Gen. Landry confronted the Jaffa leader, who was hoping to capture enough Ori ships to be able to fight back. He is not bothered about preserving the alliance with the Tau're. Daniel and Vala were captured next. Vala's daughter, who wasn't killed by the weapon, zaped the Jaffa. Carter, messing about, switched the lights off.
Adria took control of the Ori ship and zapped the Jaffa ships. Odyssey's captain assumed that the Ori ship was heading for Dakara and followed to rescue SG-1. Bra'tac and Gen. Landry were taken prisoner. Adria announced that enough Ori ships were coming to convert the galaxy within a year. Mitchell's bombs failed to go off. The Jaffa tried to use their weapon on the ships in orbit. Odyssey beamed SG-1 off just in time and left.
Adria zapped the weapon. Bra'tac and Gen. Landry escaped through the stargate. Everyone on Dakara was wiped out. Five more planets fell to the Ori. The only hope left, the Earthers decided, was Merlin's weapon.
1008 Memento Mori
Vala is a waitress, who surprises herself by taking out 2 thieves when they try to rob her diner. 3 weeks earlier, she was kidnapped while having dinner with Daniel. She was taken prisoner by Athena, a rival of Qetesh, the Goa'uld who used to inhabit her body. Athena is a member of the Trust and she is after Qewtesh's Ancient treasure map. As a Trust agent searches through Vala's memories, Agent Barrett gives SG-1 a list of their safe houses. Lots of raids, then one which meets armed existence.
The memory machine is zatted and Weaver, the Trust agent doing the interrogation, shoots the soldier who frees Vala. She escapes just ahead of a huge explosion. SG-1 are told that Vala escaped and they wonder why she failed to contacted them. Vala wanders to a diner. Daniel tries to interrogate Weaver then he turns him over Teal’c, who is much more persuasive. Vala tells the owner of the diner that she has no cash and her memory is out to lunch, so he offers her a job.
SG-1 work out who Athena is and Daniel concludes that she is looking for the Clava Thessara Infinatis, an Ancient treasure trove, which Qetesh made Athena believe that she had. Meanwhile, the ruins of the Trust base are searched for signs of Vala, and Athena orders that her Trust agents to find her.
Back to the present day. Vala starts to recover memories. After zapping the thieves, she tries to get away when Ryan, a nosy copper, asks questions which she can't answer. Ryan puts out a missing person report on her, which reaches both Gen. Landry and Athena. Col. Carter is sent to pick up Vala. She tells Officer Ryan that she has amnesia but he believe her. A fake Colonel Carter strolls off with Vala. Col. Mitchell grabs a motorcycle and sets off in pursuit.
Vala causes a car crash, Mitchell is shot in the shoulder. He says Vala's name and she takes him with her in handcuffs. Vala questions Mitchell in a hotel room. She doesn't believe anything he tells her, such that she’s an alien. Mitchell tells her about the Trust device, which was exploring her memories, scrambled them. Vala doesn’t believe that either.
SG-1 find Mitchell at the hotel. They eventually catches up with Vala. Daniel talks to her, Vala has more memories and she recognizes him and returns to the SGC. After Vala gets a clean bill of health, Gen. Landry makes her an official member of SG-1. So the gang goes out for a celebration and Daniel has to explain that he and Vala aren't an item.
1009 Company Of Thieves
Odyssey goes looking for a second supergate and falls into a trap. A faction of the Lutian Alliance led by Anateo attacks with 3 Goa'uld ships, traps Odyssey against a minefield and takes everyone prisoner. Anateo tells Col. Carter to shut down the subspace beacon, and he shoots Odyssey's Captain to make her the ranking officer.
At the SGC, Vala says she can get hold of a ship to look for Odyssey, and she comes up with an ancient alkesh which is a piece of junk. Vala takes Daniel along to a chop-shop for spaceships, where they find Odyssey's subspace beacon and fall into a trap. General Landry tries to contact Natan, the leader of the Lutian Alliance to negotiate.
Col. Mitchell suggests infiltrating the Alliance HQ. He plans to impersonate the reclusive Keflin and bamboozle Natan with the drug that Daniel used to infiltrate a Goa'uld System Lord conference [Episode 515 Summit]. Anateo thinks that capturing Odyssey and SG-1 will persuade the others to make him the leader of the Alliance.
Teal'c is captured when the alkesh's shield fails and interrogated with violence. Vala & Daniel escape from custody and Vala beams Anateo into space. With one bound, the crew is back in control of Odyssey, which has no shields, weapons, communications & hyperdrive. The Alliance finds Odyssey as Natan is about to shoot Teal'c.
An alien who knew him as a bounty hunter blackmails Mitchell. Natan reveals that he knew all along that Mitchell isn't Keflin! When Natan arrives, Daniels surrenders Odyssey to give Carter some time to make repairs. Mitchell bamboozles the aliens into shooting at each other, and he and Teal'c are beamed back to Odyssey.
Vala gets the hyperdrive working by random insertion of crystals into a control matrix and everyone heads for home. And Earth is now at war with the Lutian Alliance as well as the Ori.
1010 The Quest, (Part 1)
SG-1 were out looking for the 'Sangral' as part of the search for Merlin's weapon. They found themselves trailing 3 days behind Baal. They were in a library looking at documents when the Ori hit town for a spot of book-burning, which included the details of where to find the Sangral. But the old librarian said he had the map in his head.
SG-1 had to shoot some Ori troops to escape. They found some people stuck in a time distortion field. Col. Carter reckoned the field was a maze, which she could crack using one of her gadgets. The gadget failed, Teal'c & Daniel decided that there had to be a simple solution so Sam started tossing rocks to find the safe path.
SG-1 caught up with Baal in a trap. Daniel found a way out of it and SG-1 took Baal along with them. The Librarian was exposed as an Ori infiltrator – Vala's daughter, Adria! The group had to go through a series of challenges to find the weapon; solving riddles in caves in a peculiar mountain. Daniel realized that Adria's powers didn't work inside the mountain; but her shield did. The sangral turned out to be a hologram then the group found themselves shut in and at the mercy of a dragon!
1011 The Quest, (Part 2)
Adria was able to protect everyone from the Dragon with her shield but it followed the group out of the mountain. Bullets bounced off it and Teal'c had no luck with C4. But Daniel was able to make it disappear. The group went back into the mountain. Suddenly, everyone but Adria was transported to another chamber in a cave on another planet via the stargate. Merlin was in stasis there.
Daniel thought Morgan le Fey had destroyed the sangral but preserved its creator. Col. Carter found that the DHD on the stargate wouldn't work. Adria wiped out the village on the first planet and prepared to follow SG-1 and Baal. Carter decided that Morgan had isolated a group of gates from the system and they were being shuttled around these planets.
Merlin started work on another sangral but croaked. Baal & Carter tried to gain control of the DHD. Daniel found that Merlin had set up his interface so that it would download the sangral info into him and he started building it. Everyone but dead Merlin was moved to another planet. Adria reckoned she could catch the fugitives. Daniel was telekinetic and Carter got to punch Baal on the nose for being arrogant.
Baal & Carter came up with a command override for the DHD just before Adria's troops arrived; so lots of shooting. Adria found Daniel, who zapped her troops and then held her off for long enough to let the others escape through the stargate. He ended up Adria's prisoner.
1012 Line In The Sand
SG-1 get to test a new cloaking system, which Col. Carter has developed from Merlin's device. A village threatened by the Ori has asked for help. The people were slaves of the Goa'uld and they don't want to lose their freedom. The plan is to make it disappear by shifting it into another set of dimensions just before the Ori Prior arrives. But the device has an unstable power supply, which makes it unreliable.
Ori troops arrive while Carter is working on the device. Cue a fire-fight and Carter is shot. Mitchell makes just one building disappear with himself, Carter and the cloak. Vala's former boyfriend is leading the Ori troops. He takes her prisoner and has the villagers who resisted killed. Mitchell sews up Carter's wounds.
The ex-boyfriend tries to re-educate Vala, and he clobbers Vala when she tries to re-educate him. Teal'c is betrayed to the Ori troops. Unable to neutralize Carter's cloak, the Ori Prior orders the destruction of the village. Vala's ex-boyfriend objects, realizing that he's twisting the meaning of a story in the Book of Origin.
Carter comes up with an alternative power source for the cloak. Her ex-sets Vala free and rings her down to the planet after the village area has been blasted. The village duly reappears after the Ori have gone, and Carter gets to spend some time in hospital at the SGC.
1013 The Road Not Taken
Col. Carter was extending the range of Merlin's device when she disappeared and materialized in an alternate universe, where she was only a major and General Hammond was still in charge of the SGC. Major Carter had been trying to extract power from other universes [see Stargate Atlantis, 3/08, McKay And Mrs. Miller] and Col. Carter concluded that she had been dragged from her universe to this one by simultaneous experiments.
The other Earth had just fought off an attack by the Ori but the ZPM in the chair from Antarctica was seriously depleted, which was why Major Carter had been looking for other power sources; and killed herself. The rest of the world had found out about the stargate after the attack by Anubis, the United States was under martial law and at odds with Russia and the other major powers, and this Earth had isolated itself from the rest of the universe and there was no Atlantis base.
Col. Carter was told that another Ori attack was expected in 5 days so she needed to come up with something PDQ. Carter said her gadget could put the entire Earth out of phase with the rest of the universe and make it invisible to the Ori. President Landry, who was living at the SGC, told her that there was a system in place for blacking out the entire country and feeding the power to the chair, which was in Area 51, so Carter took her device there.
The Ori were frustrated when they couldn't find Earth, Carter became a hero, and she found that Prometheus had become Air Force One when she and the president were beamed out of a reception when a demonstrator busted in. She learned that the US Air Force bombed IRA terrorists in Ireland and she disapproved of the suspension of elections and the permanent martial law.
The DotCom billionaire Rodney McKay, who used to be married to Major Carter, told her that the president wouldn't let her go. She met a wheelchair-bound and bitter Mitchell, and when she tried to tell the truth on TV, the president had the plug pulled on her. Then the Secret Service kidnapped her and McKay got her job as presidential advisor. But McKay was able to use the resources of Area 51 to create an inter-universe bridge, and Col. Carter got back to her universe after an unconfortable 2 weeks away.
1014 The Shroud
SG-1 goes to a planet where an Ori Prior is recruiting without making threats. Surprise! It's Daniel! Even though they suspect it might be a trap set by Adria, SG-1 beams Daniel aboard Odyssey. He says becoming a Prior is part of his plan to use Merlin's weapon to wipe out the Ori.
Adria seemed to know everything about him after his capture so Daniel let her believe she had converted him to her cause. But he still had Merlin's consciousness inside him, and he relied on it for protection. Adria saw converting Daniel into a Prior as her best hope of gaining control of Earth.
Daniel's plan is to fly into the Ori galaxy through the supergate and destroy the Ori. He has to be a Prior to operate the ship. But first, Earth has to shut down the wormhole which is keeping the supergate permanently dialed out. General O'Neill is sceptical, thinking this may just be a plan to let more Ori ships through to his galaxy.
Daniel tells Teal'c that Adria took him off finishing Merlin's weapon as the Ori want to recruit more followers, and gain more power, before they try to use the weapon to destroy all Ascended beings. Teal'c believes him but Mr. Woolsey of the IOA arrives to say the IOA wants Daniel to have killed. General Landry decides that if Daniel reverts to himself after Merlin's consciousness leaves him, that will prove he's telling the truth.
Col. Mitchell suggests going after the Ori ship, on which the weapon is being built. Daniel supplies the information needed to let SG-1 get aboard the ship. Mr. Woolsey tells Daniel that he is to be put in stasis in Antarctica. "Not part of my plan," he returns and dashes off in Odyssey with just Gen. O'Neill for company.
Vala completes the weapon on the Ori ship but Adria arrives to retake the ship. Then Daniel arrives and zaps Adria. The wormhole is disconnected from the supergate, Daniel takes it through the supergate; but wakes up in hospital on Earth. Merlin's consciousness is gone and no one knows if the weapon worked and destroyed the Ori.
Meanwhile, the Priors and their armies already in Earth's galaxy still have to be dealt with, and at the end of the episode, 4 more Ori ships arrive through the supergate to make that job even harder.
1015 Bounty
SG-1 boards a Lutian Alliance cargo ship carrying kasa beans and destroys it. The Lutian warlord, whose supply is running dangerously low, puts a bounty on the heads of SG-1. Vala, who has nothing to do, decides that she will let Col. Mitchell take her to his high school reunion. She gets to meet his parents but fails to shock Mrs. Mitchell, who is a child of the Sixties.
Aliens trying to catch SG-1 are bumped off in Earth orbit by a rival bounty hunter. Teal'c is shot and slightly wounded in an ambush. Daniel acquires a female stalker in a library, but she is wiped out by a bus! An assassin takes a shot at a projection of Col. Carter at a conference. Luckily, she is able to make work, the weapon which Dr. Lee was trying to showing off.
Teal'c zats another bounty hunter. Then the one on Earth disguises itself as one of Michell's schoolmates in the class of 87. Meanwhile, he is trying to catch up with the girl he never dated at school while Vala messes him about. Carter realizes that SG-1 have been tagged with low-level radiation, which lets them be tracked but which will wear off in a few days.
The bounty hunter lets Mitchell dance with his ladyfriend then Vala recognizes the bounty hunter. He takes the class prisoner so the rest of SG-1 beam into the hall and surrender. The bounty hunter rings everyone out but finds that Carter, Daniel and Teal'c were only projections and he's their prisoner on his alkesh. But they release him to go after the bounty which the Lutian Alliance places on the warlord who put the bounty on SG-1.
1016 Bad Guys
On the trail of more Ancients' technology and knowledge, SG-1 (minus Col. Carter) find themselves in a place that looks like a museum; with a party going on next door. Mitchell decides they have to return home right away. Problem; the DHD is only a non-working model. A female guest starts screaming the place down when she and her boyfriend find the visitors and SG-1 find themselves in a hostage situation when the locals assume they're rebels (who are religious nutters) and start shooting the museum to bits.
The museum is locked down and the locals don't believe Daniel's story about the stargate. They tell him they have sent for a hostage negotiator. Mitchell decided that all they have to do is stall the locals until the SGC dials them up to ask them what's happening; in 6 hours' time.
A man called Quartus takes over the negotiating. A museum researcher tells SG-1 that the real DHD is in bits and he provides some rebel-type demands to keep the stall job going. Then Quartus is contacted by a security guard, who is still loose in the museum and available for causing trouble.
Cicero, the researcher, has a history of telling the authorities his theories about the stargate and being dismissed as demented; just like Daniel on Earth. He shows Mitchell and Vala to a security area, where Vala tries to liberate a naquadah bomb so that they can use its power source to dial the stargate manually. The security guard interrupts them so Vala activates the bomb to make him unlock the security gate. Then she finds that she can't switch the timer off.
Cicero sneaks out of the museum and tells Quartus that the visitors aren't rebels, they came through the 'pyramid ring'. Quartus ignores him and as the Viceroy has rejected the rebels' demands, he sends the troops in. SG-1 retreat to the gate room, where they are captured after the stargate has been activated.
Mitchell tells Quartus that if he lets SG-1 go, the next contact will be on his terms. But if he doesn't release the team, Earth will come looking for them. SG-1 are allowed to leave and Cicero is outraged when Quartus starts putting a cover-up in place. And the next time the SGC dials up the gate on his planet, they find that Quartus has buried it.
1017 Talion
Teal'c and Bra'tac end up in the SCG medical centre after an agent of Arkad, a former pupil of Bra'tac's and Teal'c's long-term rival, blows up an attempt to set up a new Jaffa leadership. Teal'c tells Gen. Landry that Arkad wants to be their new leader, and he plans to hand the Jaffa nation over to the Ori. Then he goes off looking for revenge. Bra'tac reveals that Arkad is the prime suspect for the murder of Teal'c's mother.
Arkad is building weapons on an Ori planet and the SGC learns that he is planning to attack Earth for the Ori. Teal'c takes Arkan's assassin prisoner, he lets him know that the Ori don't Ascend their minions, then he blows him up. Arkad calls the SGC, saying he can stop the attack on Earth. The IOA wants to hear his story.
At the SCG, the Cockney Arkad says he had nothing to do with blowing up Teal'c and Bra'tac, and he can step on the people responsible. He wants the Tau're to stay out of his way, and he'll stay out of theirs. Meanwhile, Teal'c catches and questions Arkad's weapons supplier.
Gen. Landry wants to know Arkad's real strategy and he sends SG-1 and SG-3 to stop Teal'c 'at all costs' on the orders of the IOA. Their trap fails. Teal'c has a scrap with Arkad's guards then he ends up in a duel with the man himself, who reveals that Teal'c killed his family and killing Teal'c's mother was his revenge. Being stabbed with a big sword doesn't stop Teal'c and he takes out Arkad.
Teal'c ends up back in the SGC medical centre, Col. Mitchell cooks up a report saying that Arkad was behind the planned attack on Earth, and Bra'tac tells Teal'c he is the son he never had.
1018 Family Ties
Carter & Vala arrive back from a shopping trip in time for a call from a guy called Jasek, who has information which could impact on Earth's survival. He's Vala's father, and she refuses to vouch for him because he was never there when she was a child. He says Arkad's plan is still in motion so SG-1 goes to meet him. Jasek wants sanctuary on Earth. He knows where Arkad put several naquadah-loaded cargo ships. Meanwhile, General Landry tells his daughter, Dr. Lam, that he wants to get back in touch with her mother.
SG-1 takes out the cargo ships. Vala tells Gen. Landry he should stick her old man in gaol but he is let out into the community, where he starts running various scams, including taking cash off old ladies in rigged bingo games and selling 'genuine stardust' on the internet. Mitchell tells him no more scams, so Jasek sheds his tag and does a runner. But he can be tracked via a second, subcutaneous tag.
There's another naquadah ship on Earth and Jasek is hoping to sell the naquadah and split the take with the Jaffa in charge of the cargo ship, which is parked just 30 miles from Cheyenne Mountain. The Jaffa decide to cut Jasek out of the deal but they don't survive a fire-fight with SG-1. Then Jasek strolls off with the alkesh. But it's one planted by SG-1 and they get the alkesh loaded with naquadah.
At the end, Gen. Landry manages to get to a dinner with his ex-wife and Dr. Lam; Vala adds a trinket from her dad to a box of others, which she claimed she had thrown away, proving she's not as estranged from her old man as she makes out; Jasek carries on scamming and Teal'c goes to a show where there's a female audience and some woman going on about vaginas on stage.
Sky service to Virgin Media ended at the end of February 2007 after Sky asked for twice the money despite a falling audience.
The final episodes were eventually to be seen on Sky Two in 2011 when Sky jumped from reshowing Season 8 to reshowing some episodes from Season 10 with no reason given for the omissions.
1019 Dominion
Vala was busy scamming in an inn when her daughter strolled in. Earlier, Vala had come up with a gate address, via a dream, for the planet where the Ancients' weapons were stashed, but SG-3 lost 2 men in an ambush on the planet. When Vala had another dream, the SGC decided that Adria was manipulating her and Vala was locked up. So Vala used an invisibility cloak to escape from Earth.
SG-1 set a trap for Adria at the 2nd gate address, and they brought an anti-Prior device to block her powers. But they walked into an ambush and Baal got Adria. Back at the SGC, Vala was shown a recording, which told her that she, herself, had come up with the idea of having her memories altered to lure Adria into a trap.
SG-1 went to meet an undercover agent but found lots of dead Jaffa and Baal clones killed by symbiote poison. A survivor, on tritonin, gave them the location of Baal's mothership. SG-1 sneaked up on it and grabbed Adria, only to find that Baal had transferred his Goa'uld self to Adria and make her his new host!
Baal poisoned Adria when the Tokra tried to replace him with one of their own so the armies of the Ori could be ordered to leave the galaxy. Adria took back her body; she was stronger than ever but dying. With the Ori all dead, she intended to Ascend and take over all their powers. And worse, there may be more Baal clones around.
1020. Unending
Thor beamed aboard Odyssey to announce that the Asgard were about to go extinct but the ship would be fitted with their knowledge and technology. Their next step was mass suicide. 3 Ori motherships arrived just before their planet exploded. Odyssey took one out with an Asgard weapon then zipped off into hyperspace, but the Ori could track their Asgard drive and they were there every time Odyssey dropped back into normal space.
Col. Carter had to take the new Asgard drive off-line. Gen. Landry wanted to dash to the nearest planet with a gate, destroy Odyssey and gate home to keep their new technology out of the hands of the Priors. The ship took a pounding and Carter put it in a time bubble after the shields failed.
The bubble would give Carter time to figure out a solution. Everyone was expecting to be in it for months, but they found that they could replicate food and other supplies, Vala & Daniel got friendly, and 20 years went by before Carter gave up. But the dying general persuaded her to continue.
Carter worked out how to reverse time after the ZPM was too depleted to power the process. But they could use the power of the Ori energy beam, which was about to destroy Odyssey. But someone had to be excluded from the 'reset' of time to make it work. Teal'c got the job as Jaffa age more slowly than humans. And when SG-1 got back to Earth and resumed saving the galaxy, he upset Vala by not sharing his memories of what hadn't happened during the lost years.
The Ark of Truth (to DVD movie, 2008) In a galaxy far, far away and long, long ago, Ancients under threat from the Ori hid some technology. In the present day, SG1 was looking for the legendary Ark as a way of defusing the Ori's Priors. Daniel & Val found something in ruins on Dakara then Tomin, Vala's husband and Adria's father, and his gang of Ori arrived. Then a Prior.
Daniel told him not to open the box, so the Prior got Tomin to open it; but there was just a scroll inside, not a weapon which could be used against the Ori's troops. The Prior told Tomin to kill SG-1, he refused, Col. Carter used a neutralizer on the Prior and Col. Mitchell killed him; confronting Tomin with the fact that he was serving a false god.
Tomin revealed that the Ori were planning a new assault through the Supergate. He was told that the Tau're had sent a weapon through the gate to destroy the Ori but the needed the Ark to tackle the Ori troops in this galaxy. Mr. Marrick, Mr. Woolsey's replacement on the Oversight Committee, authorized a trip by Odyssey into the Ori galaxy in search of the Ark. SG-1 found that the Ori were all dead, thanks to Merlin's weapons, but the Priors were still alive & kicking.
Marrick, a total nutter, was planning to let loose Replicators on the Ori. Back on Earth, a Prior tried, and failed, to persuade Gen. Landry to surrender. Replicators took over on Odyssey and Marrick's shut-down program didn't work. Daniel found the Ark but he couldn't get it to work. Ori troops attacked and Teal'c woke up to find himself alone and unable to contact Odyssey.
Mitchell went after the Replicator queen, and found himself up against a Marrick Replicator. Carter began writing a new shutdown code. Adria told Vala that the Ori were all dead but she was an Ascended being, who could feed off their supporters. Ori motherships launched attacked on Odyssey and 7 of them arrived at Earth.
Carter zapped the Replicators but Odyssey was still being pounded by the Ori. But SG-1 managed to activate the Ark under Adria's nose and that neutralized all of the Priors and also Adria. Tomin decided he still believed in the teachings of Origin; but he planned to revise them. The Ark ended up at Area 51.
Stargate Continuum (to DVD movie, 2008) SG1, General O'Neill and Vala went watch the Goa'uld Baal being extracted from his host. Only back in 1939, Baal took over the ship bringing the stargate from Egypt to Boston, people started disappearing, including Teal'c, at the extraction, O'Neill was killed and Mitchell, Carter & Jackson ended up on the freighter carrying the stargate, stranded somewhere in the Arctic.
When they were rescued, they found themselves in an alternate time line where the stargate programme hadn't happened. No one wanted them to restore the time line. A year later, a Goa'uld fleet arrived at Earth to take over. Baal had become leader of the System Lords and he ordered Teal'c, his first prime, to destroy the stargate in the Antarctic.
Quetesh, Vala's Goa'uld, killed Baal and headed for Praxion and Baal's time machine. Teal'c joined forces with SG-1 to get there ahead of her via the other stargate, which the Russians had found. Carter fired it up while the others had a shooting match.
Only Col. Mitchell got out alive. He went back to 1929, and foiled Baal in 1939 to make sure that the stargate got to Boston, and the extraction of the Baal Goa'uld from his host went ahead.
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