Stargate SG-1

8.3
199742m

Production

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The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the Stargate can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets. SG-1 is an elite Air Force special operations team, one of more than two dozen teams from Earth who explore the galaxy and defend against alien threats such as the Goa'uld, Replicators, and the Ori.

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Seasons

22 Episodes • Premiered 1997

A military-science expedition team discovering how to use the ancient device, named the Stargate, to explore the galaxy. However, they encountered a powerful enemy in the film named the Goa'uld, who are bent on destroying Earth and all who oppose them.

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1. Children of the Gods (1)

7.6

When powerful aliens come through Earth's Stargate, Colonel Jack O'Neill returns to Abydos to retrieve Daniel Jackson, who has discovered that the alien transit system includes much more than the two planets.

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2. Children of the Gods (2)

8.3

Colonel O'Neill, leading the new SG-1, track Apophis back to the planet Chulak to rescue Sha're and Skaara, and befriend one of Apophis' Jaffa guards.

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3. The Enemy Within

7.4

Major Kawalsky is possessed by a Goa'uld, and the SGC must find a way to remove it without killing him.

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4. Emancipation

6.3

An alien civilization is forced to reconsider their views on women when Carter rebels against their social customs.

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5. The Broca Divide

6.9

Members of SG-1 become infected with an alien virus that turns them into primitive beings. Dr. Fraiser must find a cure to save the team and the alien population from whom it was contracted.

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6. The First Commandment

6.5

SG-1 must stop a renegade Stargate commander, who has gone mad and set himself up as a god on an alien planet.

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7. Cold Lazarus

7.5

During an off-world assignment, Jack is struck down by energy from a blue crystal... which creates a duplicate of him that returns to Earth in Jack's place.

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8. The Nox

7.9

Pressed by the government to acquire new technologies, SG-1 is led to a world inhabited by a seemingly primative race. When Apophis arrives, SG-1 ambush him with disasterous consequences.

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9. Brief Candle

7.2

SG-1 discovers a race of attractive people who age extremely rapidly. The situation becomes personal when O'Neill begins to suffer from the same accelerated aging, and must live out the rest of his life on the planet.

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10. Thor's Hammer

7.7

Teal'c and O'Neill are transported to an underground cage designed by the Asgard to protect an alien world from the Goa'uld.

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11. The Torment of Tantalus

7.9

SG-1 tracks down Catherine Langford's fiancee, who took the first Stargate trip in 1945, and discovers an ancient meeting hall that may hold the secrets of the universe itself.

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12. Bloodlines

7.0

Teal'c returns to Chulak to stop his people from implanting his son with a larval Goa'uld.

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13. Fire and Water

6.9

Daniel is taken captive by an alien with a hidden agenda, while SG-1 is made to believe he is dead.

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14. Hathor

6.9

The banished Goa'uld Hathor is found in an ancient sarcophagus Earth, and takes over the S.G.C. with hopes of raising a new army against the System Lords.

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15. Singularity

7.2

A mysterious affliction wipes out the entire population of a planet, plus an SG team -- except for one young girl. Carter befriends her, but learns that she is being used by the Goa'uld.

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16. Cor-Ai

7.3

Teal'c must stand trial for a crime committed while he served as first prime of Apophis when a villager on an alien world identifies him as the Jaffa who killed his father.

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17. Enigma

7.9

The SG-1 team rescues a group of advanced humans from a planet near destruction, and must find a new home for the refugees before the Pentagon gets their hands on them.

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18. Solitudes

8.1

Colonel O'Neill and Captain Carter are separated from Jackson and Teal'c during a Stargate journey, and are trapped on a desolate ice world with no way of escape.

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19. Tin Man

7.3

The members of SG-1 arrive on P3X-989 and are knocked unconscious. They wake up and return to Earth only to find that they are not quite themselves.

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20. There But For the Grace of God

8.5

An alien artifact transports Daniel to an alternate reality, where he is not a part of the Stargate program and the Goa'uld -- led by Teal'c -- are invading Earth.

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21. Politics (1)

5.5

Senator Kinsey arrives at the SGC to investigate the program and determine whether the great drain on the U.S. budget is worthwhile, prompting the team to recall missions from the past year.

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22. Within the Serpent's Grasp (2)

8.1

SG-1 escapes through the Stargate before it is shut down, and learns that Daniel's alternate reality vision is true: Apophis is moving to attack Earth from above. The team must stop Apophis and his son, Klorel, who inhabits the body of their friend Skaara.

Cast

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Ben Browder

Cameron Mitchell

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Amanda Tapping

Samantha Carter

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Michael Shanks

Daniel Jackson

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Claudia Black

Vala Mal Doran

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Beau Bridges

Hank Landry

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Reviews

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GenerationofSwine

10/10

Well, sort of honest. I mean, I love MacGyver just like everyone else... well, I love the original MacGyver just like everyone else. Sort of hate the remade political MacGyver.

And, i loved MacGyver in a Science Fiction show too. I mean, sure, he never defused a bomb with hockey tickets, but this was still a great show.

And it was decent Science Fiction, as in it took a current social, political, economic, philosophical issue and it examined it through the veil of another world, and then it offered commentary on that examination without really taking a side... and it did it in a way that was entertaining and accessible to BOTH sides of whatever issue it was.

All while staring MacGyver... who didn't really act like MacGyver and offered next to nothing in the way of voice over narration.

But then, as one reviewer here so aptly noted "it kept going."

I mean, SG1 ran for 10 YEARS, which is about 6 years longer than most of the best science fiction shows... even though it was sort of like Star Trek with different tech and in a different era.

After a while it got a bit long. It kept the same winning format, but for science fiction, it just sort of stayed a bit long.

You've reached the end.