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[Season 2, Episode 1] Serpent's Lair
Shown Second Week, September 2000
Shown 31st January 2002 [Thursday]

The SG-1 team are still trapped on the Ghoul ship. However, they discover that Teel'c is not the only disaffected Jaffa. This leads to yet more action-adventure, as opposed to proper SF.

At the climax, someone reports that people all over the USA are apparently reporting a huge fireball in the night's sky. How there can be fire in a vacuum is unknown, and how something 300 miles up can be called huge is also a mystery.

It turns out lucky for Daniel that he visited the alternate reality in a previous episode.

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Stargate SG-1 [Season 2, Episode 2] In the Line of Duty
Shown Third Week, September 2000
Shown 1st February 2002 [Friday]

The team rescue some civilians from a lo-tech world under Ghoul attack. Captain Sam Carter [ Amanda Tapping ] is taken over by a Ghoul.

References are made to a couple of Season One episodes - Kowalski was taken over by a Ghoul, and Colonel Maitland would willingly disect a team-member if he could gain info on the aliens by doing so.

After all the security risks that have passed by, they are only NOW considering the installation of bio-sensors! Also, the General announces the introduction of 3 new SG teams [10-12].

The alien claims to be a good ghoul - part of a Resistance set up to fight the ruling System Lords. But there is another Ghoul on Earth, a specialist assassin ...

Stargate SG-1 [Season 2, Episode 3] Prisoners
Shown 4th Week Sept 2000
Shown 4th February 2002 [Monday]

The 4 main characters fall foul of a highly advanced civilisation. They are sent through the Stargate to an underground prison colony on a barren world called the Dante. There they are taken under the wing of the head prisoner, played by Bonnie Bartlett. However, the other prisoners - even the most violent ones - are terrified of her. Yes, there is more to her than first appears. The General takes his first step through the gate, to personally negotiate with the aliens.

Stargate SG-1 [Season 2, Episode 4] The Gamekeeper
Shown First Week, October 2000
Shown 5th February 2002 [Tuesday]

The team go through the Stargate to explore a luxurious garden. They discover living bodies in stasis, in some hi-tech seats. The team themselves then get ensnared in the machines ...

Colonel McGuyver and Teel'c find themselves in 1982, on a Green Beret mission to capture a Russian agent. McGuyver's best friend was killed on the mission, and now he is forced to re-live it. He repeatedly ties to change it, but every time he fails. He also has to suffer Teel'c's horrible haircut.

Dr Jackson is given the chance to show Captain Carter to his parents. Instead he shows her the parents dying in a horrible accident.

The team realise they are being watched by cloaked observers. Dwight Shultz pops up, introduces himself as the Keeper, and tells them they have the chance to relive their worst experiences and see if they can make a difference.

Stargate SG-1 [Season 2, Episode 5] Need
Shown Second Week, October 2000
Shown 6th February 2002 [Wednesday]

The team land on a world inhabited by Teel'c's people, the Jaffas. Daniel saves their Princess from jumping off a cliff, but by doing so he blows their cover and gets them captured.

They are thrown into the mines, but because Daniel saved the Princess she chooses him as her consort. After a couple of sessions in the Ghoul healing sarcophagus, Daniel decides he wants to stay and marry the girl.

The story is a metaphor for drug addiction - like the typical 1980s just say no message about recreational substances.

Stargate SG-1 [Season 2, Episode 6] Thor's Chariot
Shown Third Week, October 2000
Shown 7th February 2002 [Thursday]

This is a sequel to a Season 1 episode, Thor's Hammer. They get a message from friendly aliens they discovered in the other episode. It turns out that the aliens have been invaded by the Ghouls. Naturally, SG-1 decide to lend a hand. Yes, the top 4 SG experts head off into a Ghoul-infested warzone with no kind of backup!

Because she was once host to a Ghoul, Carter can use Ghoul technology. She and Daniel try to activate an ancient piece of Alien weaponry. Although Daniel is an Egyptologist he can read Norse runes! Meanwhile, O'Neill and Teel'c ambush Ghoul patrols.

Stargate SG-1 [Season 2, Episode 7] Message in a Bottle
Shown 7th January 2001 [Sunday]
Shown 8th February 2002 [Friday]

The team discover an alien fungus, and when they bring it back to base they discover it is capable of exponential growth. It feeds on energy, which is a bit of a bummer considering the nuclear bomb codenamed Wildfire has accidentally been activated. Aound familiar, anyone?

The good thing about this episode is that it gives Captain Carter [ Amanda Tapping ] something to do.

Stargate SG-1 [Season 2, Episode 8] Family
Shown 14th January 2001 [Sunday]
Shown 11th February 2002 [Monday]

Teel'c's son has been taken by Apophis, and the team have to rescue him. However, the boy has been brainwashed ...

The babelicious female doctor [ Teryl Rothery ] pops up again.

Stargate SG-1 [Season 2, Episode 9] Secrets
Shown 21st January 2001 [Sunday]
Shown 12th February 2002 [Tuesday]

Daniel returns to the homeworld of his wife Shauri, because a year has passed since the events of the Pilot episode and the natives will have uncovered the stargate. He discovers that she has returned there too. Her human personality has returned, but only because she is pregnant with Apophis' child.

Meanwhile, Colonel O'Neill and Captain Carter attend a function in Washington. O'Neill discovers that a journalist is investigating SG-1. Carter bumps into her father, a General who is dying of cancer. Lots of foreshadowing for future episodes.

[Season 2, Episode 10] Bane
Shown 28th January 2001 [Sunday]
Shown October 2001 []
Shown 13th February 2002 [Wednesday]

Teel'c is stung by a giant insect. The creature's venom makes him undergo a genetic transformation.

A rival military organisation commandeers Teel'c and takes him off to Area 51 to be dissected - err, healed. He escapes en route, and gets to the city. Yes, so much for Stargate secrecy.

Our heroes race against time to save Teel'c - if the venom kills him, his body will be transformed into a swarm of the insects. This could become an infestation of global proportions.

[Season 2, Episode 11] The Tok'Ra: Part I
Shown 4th February 2001 [Sunday]
Shown October 2001 []
Shown 14th February 2002 [Thursday]

SG-1 go to a new world, and contact the Tok'Ra, the rebel Ghouls led by Sarah Douglas . This is a direct sequel to previous episodes.

[Season 2, Episode 12] The Tok'Ra: Part II
Shown 11th February 2001 [Sunday]
Shown October 2001 []
Shown 15th February 2002 [Friday]

SG-1 are held prisoner by Sarah Douglas . Carter's father has terminal cancer, and one of the Tok'Ra parasites needs a new host. Hmm, I wonder how they'll sort this one out.

[Season 2, Episode 13] Spirits
Shown 18th February 2001 [Sunday]
Shown 29th October 2001 [Monday]
Shown 18th February 2002 [Monday]

SG-1 go looking for a mining exploration team that went missing on a supposedly uninhabited world. They discover a group of Coastal Salish indians who were transported there centuries ago from North America.

Earth needs a vital mineral that is plentiful on the new world, so they can build defences in case another Ghoul invasion fleet attacks. However, in order to get the vast quantities necessary, environmentally unfriendly strip-mining would have to be employed. The natives, and their guardian spirits, are none too pleased about this.

General Hammond decides that the ends justify the means. Bad mistake.

[Season 2, Episode 14] Touchstone
Shown 25th February 2001 [Sunday]
Shown 30th October 2001 [Tuesday]
Shown 19th February 2002 [Tuesday]

SG-1 re-visit a friendly planet. The weather-control system has been stolen - the planet is facing a huge natural disaster, and SG-1 are held responsible.

It turns out that the NID has been using the second gate to steal technologies from friendly planets. SG-1 head over to Area 51 to investigate.

[Season 2, Episode 15] The Fifth Race
Shown 4th March 2001 [Sunday]
Shown 1st November 2001 [Thursday]
Shown 20th February 2002 [Wednesday]

Colonel O'Neill [Richard Dean Anderson] looks through an alien viewer and somehow his mind is affected. His brain works at 90% capacity [far more than the average human], and he can only speak in a form of latin. Daniel, supposedly the world's top ancient linguist, needs to look up a book to translate. Even stranger, it is implied that aliens [the Gate-Builders] spoke Latin! However, since one alien race, the Asgard, apparently influenced the Vikings [a thousand years after Rome was founded] this is not so surprising.

In his quest for a cure, O'Neill discovers a race of non-humans who appeared in a previous episode.

[Season 2, Episode 16] A Matter Of Time
Shown 31st October 2001 [Wednesday]
Shown 21st February 2002 [Thursday]

SGC receives an ultra-slow communication through the Stargate. The transmission is from a world that is on the event horizon of a Black Hole, and the SG team on it are doomed. Worse, the Stargate is jammed open and the Black Hole's gravitational field is permeating through the wormhole ...

[Season 2, Episode 17] Serpent's Song
Shown 2nd November 2001 [Friday]
Shown 22nd February 2002 [Friday]

Attacked by rival Ghoul System Lords, Apophis seeks sanctuary on Earth.

Apophis is dying, and there is nothing Fraser can do about it. The Tok'Ra advise the SGC to give Apophis to his enemy.

[Season 2, Episode 18] Holiday
Shown 18th March 2001 [Sunday]
Shown 5th November 2001 [Monday]
Shown 25th February 2002 [Monday]

This is the body-swop episode - yes, as in every SF TV show there had to be one sooner or later. Here it happens because of a device created by a civilisation on another world. O'Neill and T'eelc swop, which allows Christopher Judge to play a more interesting character than the usual T'eelc!

The problem is that Daniel has swopped with the device's creator. The creator's body [played by Michael Shanks, under lots of makeup] is old and dying, and he wants to stay in Daniel's young, healthy body.

[Season 2, Episode 19] One False Step
Shown 1st April 2001 [Sunday]
Shown 6th November 2001 [Tuesday]
Shown 26th February 2002 [Tuesday]

SG-1 land in a desert populated by naked human-looking types who have streaks of silvery body-paint.

For the first time so far, SG-1's presence causes illness among an alien culture.

[Season 2, Episode 20] Show And Tell
Shown 7th November 2001 [Wednesday]
Shown 27th February 2002 [Wednesday]

The team retrieve a small boy, who claims that his invisible mother speaks to him. He knows things such as the events in the episode Spirits, and the team are perplexed. Especially when he claims that his mother came to warn them of an imminent attack by an army of invisible aliens ...

Since the boy's Mother is of a species that only Ghouls can detect, the SGC call in the Tok'Ra for support.

The final shootout happens when SG-1 go up against a team of the invisible aliens. Luckily the SG guys have Tok'Ra technology and regular troops to back them up. However, the troops' camoflage seems to be the equivalent of Star Trek redshirts: all the troops get blasted to hell, while the SG-1 get through it without a scratch. Hmm ...

[Season 2, Episode 21] 1969
Shown 8th April 2001 [Sunday]
Shown 8th November 2001 [Thursday]
Shown 28th February 2002 [Thursday]

This episode was written by series co-creator Brad Wright. The team go through the stargate when it is affected by a solar flare, and find themselves back in 1969. Since last season made possible travel into parallel dimensions, this is a natural step. The take on time travel here is that, as in the film Terminator , the timeline is already set in stone. Towards the end it smacks a bit of the logic used in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure , but it's all good clean fun.

The team are interrogated by a Cigarette Smoking Man, who apparently has a videotape of Teel'c using his hand-blaster. This reviewer was under the impression that videotape was not widely used back in 1969, even by Cheyenne Mountain CCTV security, but this is a small quibble. They break out, and despite the fact they have inside help the security is still unbelievably lax. Then they hitch a lift with a couple of hippies on their way to some concert in upstate New York. Yes, SG-1 head for Woodstock and disguise themselves as hippies. Teel'c in particular is hilarious!

There are a couple of Star Wars references - Jack claims he is Luke Skywalker [and the CSM seems to recognise the name, 8 years before ANH was released!], and Daniel uses the term A galaxy far, far away in a subtle yet hilarious scene.

[Season 2, Episode 22] Out Of Mind
Shown 8th April 2001 [Sunday]
Shown 9th November 2001 [Friday]
Shown 1st March 2002 [Friday]

Jack is cryogenically unfrozen and discovers that he is in the year 2077. The officer in charge tells Jack that he is the only survivor of SG-1. Jack has amnesia, so the medics stimulate his memories as an excuse to show clips from previous episodes. There is a theme, however - the questioners want to know about the Nox and the Asgard, the super-powerful alien races who defeated the Ghouls.

Jack may be brain-damaged, for that is the only explanation for his inability to spot odd discrepancies. In a prior episode we see the future, where the Stargate is active but mothballed and the iris is nowhere in sight. Secondly, the team is debriefed after every mission. Therefore General Hammond's records would have included full details of everything SG-1 encountered, along with findings of follow-up missions by other teams.

This is a flashback episode with a difference. To start with, it actually has a plot. Secondly, as a Season finale it is actually the first half of a 2-part story.

Jack is not as stupid as he seems. Not quite, anyway. The plot is stolen from a 1960s James Coburn film, and was used to similar effect in Battle of the Planets. We also get to see more of Hathor [ Suanne Braun ] - her name is in the start credits so this is hardly a spoiler!

Stargate SG-1 [Season 2, Episode ]
Shown th March 2006 [Tuesday]