ORBzine Stargate SG-1

[Season 5, Episode 1] Enemies
Shown 11th December 2001 [Tuesday]
Shown 3rd May 2002 [Friday]

SG-1 discover that they are in a different galaxy. Worse, this is the Replicators' galaxy! Worse still, when SG-1 try to help Teel'c they discover that his loyalties lie elsewhere!

[Season 5, Episode 2] Threshold
Shown 12th December 2001 [Wednesday]
Shown 6th May 2002 [Monday]

Teel'c is still brainwashed into believing that Apophis is his god. Only Master Breytag can deprogram him - by removing Teel'c's symbiote and allowing him to descend into a coma. Teel'c has a number of flashbacks that depict his gradual fall from Apophis' worshipper to his enemy.

[Season 5, Episode 3] Ascension
Shown 13th December 2001 [Thursday]
Shown 7th May 2002 [Tuesday]

Carter gets a love interest of a sort, though given her record [and Daniel's, and Teel'c's] he doesn't have much of a life expectancy.

The team discover a desvastated world, and an energy being attaches itself to Carter and follows her home. It turns into Sean Patrick Flannery [Young Indiana Jones Chronicles].

The NID, in the form of eeevil John DeLancie [ Star Trek: TNG ] keep Sam under surveillance and try to capture her BF for dissection.

[Season 5, Episode 4] The Fifth Man
Shown 14th December 2001 [Friday]
Shown 8th May 2002 [Wednesday]

Teel'c, Daniel and Carter retreat through the Stargate. O'Neill has stayed behind with the fifth member of the team. Yes, SG-1 has memories of a fifth member - but nobody else does.

O'Neill is injured, hunted by Jaffas and partnered by someone who may be an alien with a secret agenda. Meanwhile, SG-1 are interrogated by the NID, in the form of eeevil John DeLancie [ Star Trek: TNG ].

[Season 5, Episode 5] Red Sky
Shown 17th December 2001 [Monday]
Shown 13th February 2002 [Wednesday]
Shown 9th May 2002 [Thursday]

SG-1 arrive on a new world where the people dress like the Amish, and attend a Christian-style Church where they worship the Asgard. However, to get to the planet the SGC had to bypass several security protocols on the dialling computer. As a result, SG-1's wormhole affected the planet's sun and shifted the visible light to the red spectrum. As a result, photosynthesis becomes impossible - all plant life will die, and then the oxygen will run out ...

O'Neill petitions the Asgard High Council for help, but they say that the treaty forbids them from interfering. Carter's option is to build a rocket, Daniel tries to persuade the locals to relocate, and O'Neill tries to convert them to Atheism.

[Season 5, Episode 6] Rite of Passage
Shown 18th December 2001 [Tuesday]

Cassandra, now a teenage girl [and Doc Frasier's adopted daughter] is undergoing certain ... changes. Her body's bio-electric field is affecting electrical appliances.

It turns out that Cassandra was part of a Ghoul experiment to create super-humans for use as hosts.

[Season 5, Episode 7] Beast of Burden
Shown 17th October 2001 [Wednesday]
Shown 19th December 2001 [Wednesday]

The episode starts with some stone-age ugly lizard men [great make-up] getting captured by redneck slave-traders, led by Larry Drake [ Darkman ]. The rednecks have Ghoul weaponry, and have set out to enslave and domesticate the non-humans.

The problem is, the lizard that Drake captures is a friend of Daniel's. Daniel convinces the General to send SG-1 through the Stargate so they can retrieve the lizard-man. Luckily Drake and his people speak American English. However, things don't go smoothly ...

The episode was written by Peter DeLuise, possibly the guy from SeaQuest DSV .

[Season 5, Episode 8] The Tomb
Shown 24th October 2001 [Wednesday]
Shown 20th December 2001 [Thursday]

SG-1 discover that a Russian team has been exploring an alien ziggurat. They team up with a small Ruskie Special Forces unit, but paranoia sets in.

The episode is more or less an Aliens rip-off, with lots of stalking through shadows, heavily-armed and paranoid soldiers against an unseen flesh-eating monster.

[Season 5, Episode 9] Between Two Fires
Shown 31st October 2001 [Wednesday]
Shown 21st December 2001 [Friday]

SG-1 are summoned to a highly-developed human society similar to the Trek Federation. They have a Prime Directive that forbids them from giving technology to less developed societies such as Earth. Since this technology includes phase-shift bracelets [so they can walk through walls] and Ion cannons that can take out a Ghoul mothership in orbit.

The society's leader is dead and the new rulers have decided to give Earth some Ion cannons. However, Samantha Carter's male friend is suspicious. He believes that the the leader was murdered - and worse, that the new rulers are part of a Watergate-style cover-up.

Peter Wingfield [ Highlander ] pops up as a Ghoul.

[Season 5, Episode 10] 2001
Shown 7th November 2001 [Wednesday]
Shown 24th December 2001 [Monday - Xmas Eve]

SG-1 has discovered some new allies, a highly advanced race of humans. However, O'Neill doesn't trust the allies, who are unemotional [like Vulcans].

SGC sends an ambassador through the Stargate to make a treaty. The allies insist on making a deal with ALL Earth, a nice acknowledgement of the dubious nature of American Imperialism.

The General discovers that the allies are hiding something, tipped off by a message from the future that O'Neill had apparently sent to them seven months earlier. Or something like that.

Teel'c and Daniel discover the allies' secret. O'Neill tries to convince the US President not to make the treaty, but Evil Senator Ronny Cox [ Robocop, Total Recall ] is way ahead of him.

[Season 5, Episode 11] Desperate Measures
Shown 14th November 2001 [Wednesday]
Shown 25th December 2001 [Tuesday - Xmas Day]

Carter is kidnapped by a group of black-clad ninja-looking types. O'Neill calls upon the assiatance of ex-Colonel Mayborne, who was formerly a villainous NID Agent and now on the run.

The first suspect is Mayborne's slimy ex-boss, John De Lancie [ Star Trek: TNG ]. However, it turns out that the villain is a Bill Gates type Billionaire, who is suffering from a disease that only a Ghoul symbiote can cure.

[Season 5, Episode 12] Wormhole X-Treme!
Shown 21st November 2001 [Wednesday]
Shown 26th December 2001 [Wednesday - Boxing Day]

This is the 100th episode of the show, and the production team took the opportunity to do an excellent parody of their own show. The only problem with the episode is that it is the sequel to a previous episode.

An alien spaceship is discovered approaching Earth. Its pilot, Martin [Willie Garson - X-Files ], was located by SG-1 in a previous episode. They track him down again, and discover he is creative consultant to a TV show named Wormhole X-Treme!.

Peter DeLuise and his brother Michael last worked together on SeaQuest DSV . While Peter is the show's Creative Consultant, he managed to get cameos for himself and his brother as the director and star of Wormhole X-Treme!.

O'Neill is assigned as the show's technical advisor, while Teel'c is employed among the catering crew. Daniel and Carter keep surveillance on Martin, in order to pick up on the NID MIBs who are up to no good.

On the TV production set, we get stacks of in-jokes. People note that the aliens all speak English and the phase-shift devices don't let the wearer fall through the floor.

[Season 5, Episode 13] Proving Ground
Shown 28th November 2001 [Wednesday]
Shown 27th December 2001 [Thursday]

SG-1 are tasked with training a bunch on new recruits. For some reason, the Top Brass haven't assigned Special Forces veterans. No, they've chosen a bunch of sub- Space: Above & Beyond teenagers as the new line-up!

The kiddies are coping badly training sequences. Worse is to come - O'Neill is attacked by some SF guards who have apparently been taken over by Ghoul nanites. Yes, O'Neill and 4 teenagers must take on the entire Ghoul-controlled SGC. Good job they have some MP5-looking Jaffa training weapons with a stun setting.

[Season 5, Episode 14] 48 Hours
Shown 5th December 2001 [Wednesday]
Shown 28th December 2001 [Friday]

SG-1 make a quick retreat through the Stargate. Teel'c lingers a second to take a pot-shot at Peter Wingfield [ Highlander ]. However, something goes wrong with the Stargate [hmm] and he gets trapped in the pattern buffer. Very Trek!

General Hammond has to deal with the devil - well, NID [in the shape of John De lancie].

Colonel O'Neill has to deal with his personal devil - Colonel Maitland! Yes, this is a sequel to the episode Desperate Measures [Season 5, Episode 11] . We get to find out what happened to that episode's Ghoul.

Daniel is sent to Moscow to bargain for access to the Russian Stargate. Yes, we get conclusion to that arc as well.

Carter has to work with Area 51's top theoretical physicist, an arrogant nerd who thinks he knows more about the Stargate than she does!

[Season 5, Episode 15] Fail Safe
Shown 12th December 2001 [Wednesday]
Shown 31st December 2001 [Monday]

An astronomer detects a gigantic asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. The Asgard and Tok'Ra can't intervene, so SG-1 retrieve and refit a crashed Ghoul cargo ship. Their plan is to land on the asteroid, then plant a naquata-enhanced nuke. However, things don't go smoothly.

[Season 5, Episode 16] Summit
Shown 19th December 2001 [Wednesday]
Shown 9th January 2002 [Wednesday]

Daniel Jackson has had awful luck with women. In the pilot episode his wife was taken as a host for a Ghoul. Recently his ex-girlfriend was taken as host for Osiris, who has been recruited by Anubis.

The Ghoul System Lords have arranged a top-level Summit. The Tok'Ra send Daniel as a spy, posing as Hu's slave. Carter's father tags along, keen to use a Ghoul-killing poison. Apparently the Tok'Ra's long-term plan has always been [for the last 2000 years] to wipe out the entire Ghoul species, starting with the leaders. Of course, Anubis sends Osiris as his personal representative.

O'Neill, Carter and Teel'c hang out in the Tok'Ra base. We also find out what happened to the symbiote of Martouf, Carter's male Tok'Ra friend. However, the base falls under attack from Anubis' forces.

To be continued ...

[Season 5, Episode 17] Last Stand
Shown 9th January 2002 [Wednesday]
Shown

[Season 5, Episode 18] The Warrior
Shown 16th January 2002 [Wednesday]
Shown

A charismatic Jaffa Prime has started his own army of free Jaffa. He is a bald African-American, and he gets on well with Teel'c. However, in this kind of story such a character is usually too good to be true.

O'Neill is a typical cultural supremacist.

The story was written by Christopher Judge, though the Teleplay was written by Peter DeLuise [who also directed].

[Season 5, Episode 19] Menace
Shown 16th January 2002 [Wednesday]
Shown

SG-1 visit a planet with the remains of a long-dead civilisation. The only survivor is a teenage girl who is actually an android. They take her home and manage to start her up, only to discover that she refuses to accept she is an android.

[Season 5, Episode 20] The Sentinel
Shown 23rd January 2002 [Wednesday]
Shown

The episode starts with a flashback to an episode where SG-1 and the Asgard defeat the NID's off-world team. The team were arrested for High Treason, as was Colonel Mayborn.

A planet [ruled by Henry Gibson] that the NID team visited is under attack by the Ghouls. The planetary defence network, The Sentinel, was somehow accidentally taken off-line by the NID. Now SG-1 have to get two NID officers from Death Row [!!!] and repair the Sentinal.

[Season 5, Episode 21] Meridian
Shown 30th January 2002 [Wednesday]
Shown

Daniel Jackson is evacuated through the Stargate with lethal radiation poisoning. In a flashback it is explained that SG-1 travelled to a world technologically and politically similar to Earth in the 1940s. The natives are building a super-nuke, and they are accusing the dying Daniel of sabotaging it.

Daniel ascends to a higher plane of being, where he must decide whether he deserves enlightenment.

[Season 5, Episode 22] Revelations
Shown 6th February 2002 [Wednesday]
Shown

Thor of the Asgard confronts Osiris [Daniel's ex-GF Ghoul]. However, her ship has now got shields strong enough to survive his weapons. Thor ends up MIA.

The Asgard have nobody to spare for the rescue, so they call in SG-1. The main priority is to rescue the scientist and information that Thor was protecting. The scientist's mission is to secure the genetic future of the Asgard species.

We finally get to see Osiris' boss, the arch-enemy Ghoul Artemis. Sort of. His face is hooded, masking some hideous disfigurement, but the fact that he has such incredible technology means that there is only one person this can be.

Stargate SG-1 [Season 5, Episode ]
Shown th March 2006 [Tuesday]