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Stargate SG-1 Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1998 - 1999
Episode 1
The Serpent's Lair
Fri, Jun 26, 199844 mins
As the Goa'uld attack fleet approaches Earth, all four members of the SG-1 team are taken prisoner. They get help from an unexpected source when Bra'tac, Teal'c's mentor, reveals that he is on board. Apophis has delayed the attack until his son Klorel is revived, giving them some time to prepare. SG-1 has used all of the C4 on one of the two ships but must find a way to dispose of the second. Back at Stargate Command, Lt. Col. Bert Samuels arrives as a Pentagon liaison officer but also reveals a new weapon they have developed. General Hammond is dubious. They begin to transport humans to an Alpha site in order to ensure the continuation of mankind.
Episode 2
In the Line of Duty
Fri, Jul 3, 199844 mins
During a visit to the Nasyan planet, under the first Goa'uld attack in centuries, a victim's breath given during mouth-to-mouth infects Sam, at first unnoticed. Soon, her behavior changes, more military and assertive, and she seems to suffer from amnesia. Cassie senses immediately that Sam really hosts a Goa'uld, which is confirmed by her attempt to escape via the stargate at gunpoint, and since the aliens now seem able to enter via small skin wounds as in her throat, Dr. Fraiser points out that there may be others on the base. Sam is jailed, but allegedly hosts Jolinar, a 'Tok'ra' or good, anti-warlord Goa'uld/underground rebel, being chased by an 'Ashrak', a Goa'uld 'hit man', who has already started his deadly assignment on earth.
Episode 3
Prisoners
Fri, Jul 10, 199844 mins
SG-1 inadvertently help a desperate criminal and are charged and sentenced as accessories to his crime. They are banished to a desolate, brutal penal colony and strike a deal with a powerful female prisoner to help them escape. But is this prisoner hiding something from them?
Episode 4
The Gamekeeper
Fri, Jul 17, 199844 mins
Exploring a strange and beautiful garden, SG-1 comes across a dome containing a race that are connected to machines. The team are captured by the machines and rendered unconscious, but awake to find themselves reliving pivotal moments of their lives, over and over again. Then they discover it is virtual reality and a mysterious keeper appears to persuade them to try different outcomes for the moments. But can the team escape his clutches, when they don't know what is real and what is not?
Episode 5
Need
Fri, Jul 24, 199844 mins
While walking through a forest on another planet, Jackson saves the life of a beautiful princess who is about to kill herself. SG1 is taken prisoner, but Daniel is freed by the ruler when he finds out that he saved his daughter. The rest of SG1 is sent to work in the mines for the rest of their lives. Jackson falls in love with the princess, but also becomes intoxicated by frequent use of a Sarcophagus. Will he come to his senses before the rest of SG1 are worked to death?
Episode 6
Thor's Chariot
Fri, Jul 31, 199844 mins
O'Neill and the team return to Cimmeria, the planet where they destroyed Thor's Hammer to help Teal'c escape. They find that the Goa'uld have invaded and many of the people are dead. Can they help to find Thor's weapons to fight off the invasion before they are all captured or killed?
Episode 7
Message in a Bottle
Fri, Aug 7, 199844 mins
On a mission SG-1 finds an ancient, apparently lifeless metallic sphere-shaped object and brings it home to study the minute, elaborate writing on it, hoping they can then open it. Jack was eager to get away from the tedious examination, which seemed to be going nowhere, on yet another planetary mission, when the sphere suddenly 'warms up' and surprises everyone by sprouting long spikes in various directions, one of which happens to go straight trough Jack's body which soon infects. A staff-weapon doesn't even affect it, Sam fears it is only being fed energy. The fast-spreading infectious organism causes necrosis even on dead material, such as Jack's uniform and, worse, the computer system; yet it is slowed down by an antibiotic, tetracycline; UV-light shows it even got trough the walls, sneakily infecting everyone, starting with young control chamber Lieutenant Graham Simmons, who is allergic to the tetracycline (and clearly has a timid crush on Carter), only Teal'c is protected by his symbiont. When a blow-torch is about to sever the spike trough Jack, the sphere suddenly sprouts length shifting trough him. Carter suggests limiting the oxygen supply which the organism needs, but auto-destruct kicks in with a 3 hours count-down, and can no longer be overrode because of the damage to the computers. Then Daniel notices a symbol in the gibberish it causes on the computer screens, and believes the sphere is trying to communicate: is it really an aggressor? Sam agrees to try making contact by stopping Jack's medication, he agrees. Indeed this rapidly turns him into the conscious medium of an ancient, otherwise dormant race, which is eager to spread and consume earth, but is now offered an alternative planet to consider...
Episode 8
Family
Fri, Aug 14, 199844 mins
Master Bra'tac makes a surprise visit to star-base and tells that Apophis and Klorel managed to escape just before their starship exploded and has Rya'c, Tealc's son, in his power. To maintain his position as system-lord he must restore order on Chulac, so SG-1 goes there, also to look for 'sholva' (outcast) Teal'c's family. They find his wife Drey'auc has remarried with high-ranking Jaffa Fro'tak. Teal'c vows to shun her forever after Rya'c's salvation from Apophis's palace, but the boy refuses to come with his 'hataka' (traitor) father and calls the guards so they must retreat without him and soon see him in Apophis' propaganda, however a deliberate wrong detail suggests he has not completely changed sides yet. A search of Fro'tac's house doesn't find the team; Jack follows their host to the palace and prevents him betraying them. Now Jack mistrusts the return of Rya'c too, Teal'c refuses to doubt his son; the others hesitate, and after their return on earth with the boy...
Episode 9
Secrets
Fri, Aug 21, 199844 mins
While O'Neill and Carter head to Washington to be decorated by the President and find a security leak, Jackson and Teal'c go to Abydos (after they unbury their stargate) to see Sha're's father. They arrive to tell him that they have been unsuccessful in finding Sha're, only to discover that she is already on Abydos. But they find that she is pregnant by Apophis and the baby holds the secrets of the Goa'uld.
Episode 10
Bane
Fri, Sep 25, 199844 mins
While off-world, the team is attacked by giant insects, one of which stings Teal'c on the back. The bug has actually implanted a virus that converts Teal'c into a living incubator for hundreds of more insects and Teal'c is being eaten alive. The only way to save him is to capture another venomous bug and create an antidote, but time is running out.
Episode 11
The Tok'ra: Part 1
Fri, Oct 2, 199844 mins
When Teal'c makes Sam Carter realize how valuable the knowledge left by Tok'ra Jolinar in her brain and the chance for an alliance can be, they convince General Hammond to let SG-1 attempt a meeting. They arrive on a planet which is deserted on the surface, but are awaited by well-camouflaged, armed Tok'ra who bring them to tunnels which they create by means of a mysterious crystal, which can also undo them afterward. Both parties are quite suspicious, the team feels like captives, and indeed, the Tok'ra leader Yosuuf fears they cannot be released, at least until the whole site is moved. Meanwhile, the Tau'ri barely overcome their suspicion against the Tok'ra Goa'uld biology (with symbiote), when asked to volunteer themselves as 'hosts', and Carter learns Martouf (and his symbiote, Lantash) was Jolinar's lover, hence has a special connection with her.
Episode 12
The Tok'ra: Part 2
Sun, Oct 11, 199844 mins
The attempt to forge an alliance with the Tok'ra seems a miserable failure, as SG-1 is practically imprisoned as a security risk and considered virtually hostile because 'blending', by agreeing to host a symbiote, is a bridge too far for each of them. When SG-3 arrives and informs Sam about her terminally ill father General Jacob Carter's quickly worsening condition, she realizes the symbiote's healing powers, confirmed to apply to cancer, make hosting an offer to good to refuse for him. Garshaw allows Sam and Jack to return and convince both generals to allow the plan, which is achieved. Meanwhile, the Tok'ra must hastily evacuate, destroying tunnels behind them, because a large-scale attack by Apophis's troops is expected soon, while Jacob meets his potential symbiotic partner Selmak and his equally terminal predecessor to help him decide. Jack verifies his strong suspicion there is traitor among the Tok'ra who is communicating with the Goa'uld.
Episode 13
Spirits
Fri, Oct 23, 199844 mins
SG-11 failed to report regularly while mining trinium, a vital mineral for earth's defense against the Goa'uld. SG-1 finds them missing, and all traces cease at the site of arrow-heads made from trinium. Then they are all sedated by such arrows and brought to the village of Tonané, whose earthly tribal ancestry Daniel identifies by its animal totems. However, they are soon awake and released, their guns even returned, and promised to get their friends back, too, from the wolf spirit T'akaya, and the raven-shaped supreme spirit Xe'ls. The council of elders refuses to allow resuming of the mining, which is disrespectful to nature, but Tonané is delegated to be shown alternatives on earth. Both teams return to SGC, or so it appears; in fact, SG-11 is a series of incarnated spirits, who are soon convinced the earthlings are most untrustworthy.
Episode 14
Touchstone
Fri, Oct 30, 199844 mins
A climate control device is stolen from a planet and SG-1 is accused of the theft. They have to find it and restore it before the planet freezes. Then weather on Earth starts to unexpectedly change and the team believes that the device has been stolen by rogue NID agents. Will they find it in time and how did the NID travel off world?
Episode 15
The Fifth Race
Fri, Jan 22, 199944 mins
SG-1 travels to a Stargate where O'Neill looks into a strange device that downloads information into his brain. Back on Earth, he starts to speak using a strange language. Carter and Teal'c try to find a solution and become trapped on a burning hot planet when the Stargate fails to dial out. O'Neill solves the problem by designing a solution, but then he designs a device. But for what purpose?
Episode 16
A Matter of Time
Fri, Jan 29, 199944 mins
SG-10 are on a planet when one of the binary stars becomes a black hole. They try to escape by dialing Earth, but fail to get back. The SGC sends a probe and sees the black hole, but then they find they cannot disengage the wormhole and the gravitational effects are starting to affect Earth.
Episode 17
Holiday
Fri, Feb 5, 199944 mins
The next planet visited by SG-1 holds an unusual surprise: the only person by its stargate is an old, sick man, known to Teal'c as Ma'chello, famous for decades for being an adversary of the Goa'uld, who even developed his own technology to fight them, was captured and tortured but escaped. Ma'chello returns with SG-1 to earth, but Daniel, who touched his recording device, wakes up in the dying body of Ma'chello, which is only discovered after the alien walked off, given a clean bill of health by Dr. Fraiser, in Daniel's body, determined to enjoy life as an earthling, teaming up with homeless Fred, which soon turns bad. While Ma'chello is searched for on earth, the rest of SG-1 travel back to retrieve the device, but in the process Jack and Teal'c get body-switched, too, and Sam fails to figure out on her own how to reverse the process.
Episode 18
Serpent's Song
Fri, Feb 12, 199944 mins
Following on a Tok'ra tip, SG-1 goes to a planet where they find the hated Apophis, nearly dying and under attack by death-gliders. They get back with him, realizing he was tortured by a rival system-lord with lasting harm. Apophis demands sanctuary, provided Dr. Fraiser can save his life, at least on account of the human host, but without a sarcophagus the prognosis for his symbiont is lousy; he offers all his Goa'uld knowledge in exchange for a new host, i.e. his life, revealing he was defeated by the terrible Sokar, once supreme system lord till an alliance lead by Ra and Apophis unseated him. The confrontation with Daniel, on account of Amaunet/Sha're and their son Klorel, and with former prime Teal'c, is bitter for all three. The Tok'ra send Martouf to warn the Tau'ri must hand over Apophis, but their warning is ignored- until Sokar proves he can bombard the iris with accelerated particles and ultimately cut through it, so the White House orders his extradition, but before they can he dies, unlike his host, an Ancient Egyptian temple scribe of Amun.
Episode 19
One False Step
Fri, Feb 19, 199944 mins
A UAV glider crashes on PJ2-445 against what looks like a giant mushroom; before the camera gives out, a humanoid is seen. SG-1 is sent to retrieve the flight recorder and finds lots of young mushrooms among the dwellings of the humanoids, naked except for white paint, who seem naively friendly but don't speak, so Daniel has to try scribbling or sign language. When several natives faint, the others chant, apparently in vain, and the team calls medical help, fearing to have initiated an epidemic. Even taking one native to the base, Dr. Frazier fails to find their functioning or cure. Fearing to be infected, Jack and Daniel return too; Teal'c has only a short attack, while minding the strange plant as Daniel asked, and precisely it's symbiosis proves crucial...
Episode 20
Show and Tell
Fri, Feb 26, 199944 mins
When an incoming wormhole is established at the SGC, the iris is over-ridden and opened. A young boy appears and tells the SGC that they are in terrible danger from a group of terrorists. But these terrorists are invisible creatures and they are determined to wipe out all humans to prevent them being used as hosts to the Goa'uld.
Episode 21
1969
Fri, Mar 5, 199944 mins
Through a flaw in stargate travel, SG-1 lands back in Cheyenne mountain in 1969, and only Teal'c's Zat prevents them from being incinerated by a Titan rocket test. They are captured by their own US Air Force, and Carter realizes they can't do or say anything for fear of irreparably altering their own future and creating an alternative reality. Yet someone at the base finds on the team an anonymous note to help them - it's Lieutenant George S. Hammond, their future general - who wrote it to his past self and succeeds in allowing them to recover their equipment and escape during prisoner transport, so they can search for a stargate to return. The only other help the note offers them are two consecutive dates and exact times. Daniel decides their best chance is meeting Catherine Langford, in New York, without telling the truth or getting caught on the way. While they get a ride from gullible hippies, posing as anti-establishment aliens, Carter realizes the nature of the times listed in the note: two otherwise impossible to predict sun flares.
Episode 22
Out of Mind
Fri, Mar 12, 199944 mins
Colonel O'Neill awakens and is told by new staff everything in the SGC is different because he was just revived after 79 years of cryogenic hibernation, as sole survivor of a disastrous SG-1 mission on a Goa'uld-ruled planet. He accepts to undergo a 'high tech hypnosis' to retrieve information of use in the present war against them, which is going badly, involving earth's ten endangered colonies on other planets. However Major General Trofsky, the new base commander, and his female assistant tell Daniel and Sam, in different sections, that each of them is the sole survivor: it's all make-believe to probe their brains about the weaknesses of earth and the Alliance of the four races. Meanwhile, Teal'c awakes on earth, where it took Dr. Frasier months to save him from death; there was no trace of his teammates, and he resigns when General Hammond refuses permission to keep searching. O'Neill hears Goa'uld language, gets himself free and discovers he's on a fake SGC, frees Sam and Daniel, only to be stopped by the female Goa'uld system-lord Hathor, who employs both Horus and Serpent Jaffa and demands the humans' help against her rival system-lords.
