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Stargate SG-1 Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
21 Episodes 1997 - 1998
Episode 1
Children of the Gods
Sun, Jul 27, 199792 mins
An alien similar to Ra appears out of the Stargate, killing five soldiers and kidnapping another, a year after the original Stargate mission. A new team is assembled, including some old members, and they go in search of the missing soldier in order to find out how Ra could still be alive. Meanwhile, the alien Gou'ald kidnap Sha're and Skaara, implanting them with symbiotes and making them Gou'ald hosts.
Episode 2
The Enemy Within
Fri, Aug 1, 199744 mins
The team, now designated SG-1 are planning their next foray through the gate as they try to map out the variety of sites available to them and locate their missing friends. O'Neill asks that Teal'c be allowed to join his team but Gen. Hammond thinks that will be unlikely given that he is the host for a Goa'uld. Unknown to anyone, however, is that O'Neill's close friend, Maj. Charles Kawalsky, leader of SG-2, has been infected by a Goa'uld, an immature version that has not yet taken complete control of the host. Kawalsky is having regular blackouts during which the Goa'uld is trying to return to the gate. An MRI reveals what is wrong but it's unlikely the creature that has fused itself to Kawalsky's spine can be surgically removed. Meanwhile, Col. Kennedy arrives to question Teal'c who has pledged his loyalty to his new world.
Episode 3
Emancipation
Fri, Aug 8, 199744 mins
The SG-1 team travels to a planet that is populated by what may be the descendants of Mongol tribesmen relocated from Earth. The warriors are brave and fierce but the object of their interest is Sam Carter. In their society, woman are not permitted to show their face in public and are not even allowed to speak, on pain of death. She is kidnapped by a young man who trades her to an opposing tribe in the hopes of getting the chieftain's daughter, Nya, in return. He is refused as Nya has been promised to another chieftain in marriage but Sam tries to get the young woman to refuse the marriage and go against her father's wishes.The result is that Nya is sentenced to death by stoning.
Episode 4
The Broca Divide
Fri, Aug 15, 199744 mins
SG-1 visits a nameless planet which fascinates Daniel as a casus of the "Broca divide", the cohabitation of stone- and bronze-age people: the Touched, aggressive cavemen, and the Untouched, a Minoian urban civilization, but with a twist: it's one population. A disease can turn anyone into one of the Touched, who is then banished for life, to prevent contagion, even the king's daughter. Dr. Jackson's frustration when Jack decides to return to Earth because no Goa'uld threat is found, won't be repeated as the President has added scientific research to the priority objectives; but in this case they didn't leave fast enough: very soon members of the team develop symptoms of reversal to an animal state, infecting others on the base. General Hammond is forced to have the whole mountain quarantined. As both Teal'c and Daniel are found to be immune, they return to get a blood sample from the Untouched, while Dr. Fraiser searches frantically for an explanation and cure.
Episode 5
The First Commandment
Fri, Aug 22, 199744 mins
SG-9's anthropologist Frakes is captured during a mission on a planet of cave-dwellers, where direct sunlight is unbearable, and killed by their own Captain Jonas Hansen, who became a murderous tyrant after being treated like a god by the primitive inhabitants, drunk with power, and has them build a temple in his honor well beyond their primitive means and manpower. His escaped teammate, Lieutenant Connor, refuses to return with SG-1, which soon finds him captured and tied up in the sun with other non-collaborating team survivors. Captain Samantha Carter allows herself to be captured trying to free them, so she can talk to Hanson, an ex of hers, who claims the temple should save the people when he, as 'their god,' installs an old Goa'uld device he expects her to repair. When Teal'c hears about it from local escapee Jamala, he warns that technology can only create a field between two devices, so SG-1 must find a second one, then overpower the false god.
Episode 6
Cold Lazarus
Fri, Aug 29, 199744 mins
When Jack is injured unintentionally by a crystal alien, the alien duplicates Jack's form and out of fear of retribution tries to heal Jack. He returns to Earth in place of Jack, while Jack is still unconscious on the planet, to find the one thing he feels will accomplish this; the one thing that cannot be found again. Meanwhile, the 'real' Jack has returned and is trying to convince SGC that he is who he says he is.
Episode 7
The Nox
Fri, Sep 12, 199744 mins
With the Stargate program in danger of being terminated, the team is under pressure to find new technology. Visiting a planet where they believe there is a creature that possesses the secret of invisibility, they encounter Apophis and his guards. Both sides receiving mortal wounds, they are aided by the planet's inhabitants, the Nox, a gentle people with a very large secret.
Episode 8
Brief Candle
Fri, Sep 19, 199744 mins
On planet Argos SG-1 arrives at a stargate inside the Mycenean temple of the mythical founding hero Pelops, whose return is awaited. There Daniel delivers the baby of a Chosen couple. After eating a piece of the special cake at the celebration, Jack wakes up, having laid with Kynthia. At sunset all natives fall into a deep sleep. Teal'c and Daniel discover a temple archive in linear A, a Minoan era script which is an archaic goa'uld dialect. The team finds the life cycle on Argos is incredibly fastened: factor 250, as a genetic experiment set up by Pelops. It must be somehow contagious, as Jack also starts to age terrifyingly fast. Dr. Fraser and Sam find it's something in the blood, but not a virus: replicators, and Jack has more of them: he's aging even faster, to die in about two weeks. Finally Jack investigates the importance of Pelops' first law that nobody may leave the village and it's link with a goa'uld device found when his statue breaks...
Episode 9
Thor's Hammer
Fri, Sep 26, 199744 mins
SG-1 goes to the planet Cimmeria in search of allies against the Goa'uld. Upon arrival, Jack and Teal'c are trapped in a labyrinth, where the only exit is through Thor's Hammer, a device to destroy Goa'uld, but preserve the host. Daniel Jackson must destroy the device that could someday have saved his wife in order to free his friends.
Episode 10
The Torment of Tantalus
Fri, Oct 3, 199744 mins
Daniel Jackson discovers that the Stargate was activated in 1945 and a young professor went through, never to return. Together with his still living fiancée, the SG1 team discover the now aged professor, naked and trapped in a decaying fortress, containing the secrets of an Ancient alliance. Will they be able to rescue him and escape to earth in time?
Episode 11
Bloodlines
Fri, Oct 10, 199744 mins
An experimental drug to replace Teal'c's Goa'uld as his immune system is unsuccessful, and gives him nightmares about the traumatic implantation in his own body during his Prim'ta, which turns a Jaffa child into a Goa'uld drone, and it's impending for his son, Rya'c, about whom he never told the USAF. Now he tells Jack and proposes a mission to retrieve symbiotes on his home planet, Chulak, where they are plentiful, but their last visit made them many enemies. Once informed, the general orders a team mission rather than virtual suicide by Teal'c going alone. They pretend to be a legation from Apophis, bluff their way past priests guarding the Stargate, and find Teal'c's home burned down as part of his disgrace as shol'va (traitor) but meet Jaffa Master Bra'tac, his mentor, who expected him to return to his family for Rya'c's Prim'ta ceremony and shows him and Jack where they live as kresh'ta (outcasts) in a slum, just in time to prevent the ceremony, to his wife, Drey'auc's, fury, as she told Rya'c he was an orphan; Jack sees the boy is suffering from scarlet fever, but can't guarantee full healing even on earth. In the meantime, Teal'c implants his own symbiote. Daniel and Sam trace a real party of Apophis's priests who deliver symbiotes to a temple, and they steal a sample; then Daniel destroys the rest over Sam's protests. Although it's not quite mature, Bra'tac uses the symbiote to save Teal'c, who must return to earth if possible.
Episode 12
Fire and Water
Fri, Oct 17, 199744 mins
O'Neill, Carter and Teal'c return through the Stargate shell-shocked and distressed to announce that Daniel Jackson was killed. But Jackson was captured by the last survivor of an aquatic race, who planted false memories in the other members of SG1. Can the team remember and return to rescue Daniel?
Episode 13
Hathor
Fri, Oct 24, 199744 mins
The Goa'uld Hathor (one of the mothers of all Goa'uld), brainwashes the men of the SGC with pheromones, and nearly makes Jack a host to a larva conceived with Daniel. She flees after the unaffected women of Stargate Command retake the facility.
Episode 14
Singularity
Fri, Oct 31, 199744 mins
On an astronomical black hole observation mission, SG-1 finds a fatal bacterial mass-epidemic on a planet where the natives told then-incredulous Daniel months ago that the coming solar eclipse would bring disaster. They also take back to the Cheyenne Mountain Base a surviving, fairly healthy, orphaned young girl named Cassandra, and awakes Sam's maternal instinct. The Naquadah traces found in her blood turn out to have made her immune, but after she has a seizure they are diagnosed to constitute a huge bomb, somehow triggered by rescuing her; the whole thing must be planned as a 'Trojan Horse' by the Goa'uld. Sam takes the prospect of sacrificing Cassie personally and is prepared to take personal risks.
Episode 15
Cor-ai
Fri, Jan 23, 199844 mins
SG-1 travel to a planet where Teal'c is recognised as once having been head Jaffa to Apophis. He is arrested for the murder of a villager and put on trial for his life. Then other Jaffa attack the village. Will SG-1 be able to save Teal'c and prove that he has changed allegiance?
Episode 16
Enigma
Fri, Jan 30, 199844 mins
On their first visit to a new planet, SG-1 finds it subject to totally destructive volcanic activity and saves ten natives, the Tollan, a far more technologically advanced society. Their leader Omoc isn't grateful, nor interested in such a primitive race as the earthlings or any of the 'even more primitive' planets which are prepared to host them. Only one Tollan, Narim, shows an active interest in life on earth, especially in captain Samantha Carter and the cat Schrodinger she gives him, explaining his planet was destroyed after the Tollan supplied an unlimited energy source to a primitive neighboring planet which abused it for a cataclysmic weapon. Meanwhile, the White House authorized NID colonel Maybourne to take charge over the Tollan for military purposes, exactly Omoc's nightmare.
Episode 17
Solitudes
Fri, Feb 6, 199844 mins
When SG-1 arrives on a mission to P4A-771, Goa'uld troops are waiting to fire at them; only Teal'c and Dr. Daniel Jackson, who gets hurt, escape back to earth, and the stargate is damaged, temporarily out of order. Captain Carter realizes she and colonel O'Neill, who has a broken leg and rib, must be on the wrong planet, probably a mis-dialed address or stargate malfunction: they are stuck next to a Stargate in a cave on an icy wasteland. Her attempts to get the stargate working properly are all frustrated as she can't figure out what's wrong with it, just as Daniel's efforts to guess where they can be, till he has a radical, yet simple idea ... .
Episode 18
Tin Man
Fri, Feb 13, 199844 mins
When SG-1 lands on Altair, they are automatically processed by the incredibly advanced machinery of the sole surviving native, Harlan, who insists they are 'better' and can never go back. They return, only to be incarcerated when it becomes clear they are not themselves but cyborg copies. Once their energy runs out, they must return, but once again Harlan insists they can't ever leave. He needs needs help to keep the underground biosphere running under a planet totally non-viable above ground.
Episode 19
There But for the Grace of God
Fri, Feb 20, 199844 mins
While collecting artifacts on a distant planet, Daniel Jackson is knocked out after touching a mirror-like object. He awakens in the same room but is unable to locate the other members of SG-1. Assuming that they left without him, he dials up his return home but gets there to find that he is in a different reality. In this world, General Jack O'Neill and Catherine Langford are in charge of the Stargate program; Hammond is a Colonel reporting to O'Neill; and Sam Carter is a civilian scientist working on the project (and also engaged to O'Neill). More importantly, Earth is under attack from the Goa'uld who have already killed over 1 billion people. Carter believes that somehow, Jackson is from a parallel dimension. When Jackson learns the point of origin of the Goa'uld attack, he wants to return to his own universe, believing that his Earth will be similarly attacked.
Episode 20
Politics
Fri, Feb 27, 199844 mins
Daniel Jackson was eager to warn Earth about the probable massive Goa'uld attack threat, but finds the Starbase is under a more down-to-earth threat: Senator Kinsey, the ambitious chairman of the Senate Committee which must approve the program's annual $7.4 billion budget, was not impressed when the President disclosed its extraterrestrial mission reports. Arriving for a visit, Kinsey tells the team he's most unlikely to be persuaded, and indeed while SG-1 points out its merits and dangers from events on various planets, Kinsey and his military aid, USAF Lt. Colonel Bert Samuels, question or belittle both systematically and focus on costs and risks they contend outweigh the benefits, even when Daniel's theory is presented.
Episode 21
Within the Serpent's Grasp
Fri, Mar 6, 199844 mins
General Hammond has tried everything to get the Senate's decision to shut down his Stargate program undone, but the President personally refuses to 'commit political suicide': the Stargate will be buried. Daniel's insistence -that the danger for Earth as a whole outweighs everything- convinces his colleagues to ignore Hammond's command and dial the address that the Goa'uld invasion started from in the alternate reality that he visited. They arrive not on a planet but a new, superior type of starship, already launched by hyper-drive. A 'video' proves it belongs to Apophis, who gives command to his son Klorel, whose host is none other than the team's young Abydonian friend, Skaara. Overpowering Skaara seems their best move, while Sam installs explosives in the death glider deck with a 24-hour timer just in case, but the Jaffa manage to liberate Klorel. Jack discovers that the ship goes far faster than expected.
