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Stargate SG-1 Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1999 - 2000
Episode 1
Into the Fire
Fri, Jun 25, 199944 mins
Col. O'Neill, Sam Carter and Daniel Jackson have been taken prisoner by Hathor, who wants one of them to become a host. O'Neill is the one chosen but he gets help from an unexpected source. Teal'c, who has formally resigned from SG command, returns to Chulak where he seeks out his mentor Master Bra'tac and tries to convince the locals to rebel against their captors. At SG command, General Hammond learns of the prisoners' location but after an unsuccessful attempt at rescuing them, joins Teal'c and Bra'tac in a second rescue mission.
Episode 2
Seth
Fri, Jul 2, 199944 mins
Stargate Command is visited by General Jacob Carter on a mission - actually requested by his symbiote Selmak, who wants him to deal with his long-repressed rift with Sam's brother Mark - to ask SG-1's help in the hunt for the sole system-lord the Tok'ra never tracked down, Seth, the Egyptian god of chaos and total evil, who plausibly never left earth but hides as Ra put a high price on his head. Daniel finds a plausible series of Seth-cults, each ending in a blood-bath for followers, the latest being outside Seattle, led by Seth Fargo. Jacob and SG-1 arrange to take over the case jurisdiction from the ATF by presidential intervention. As Daniel predicts, they find escape tunnels and get in, but are awaited and disarmed, to be exposed to nish'ta, a powerful biological submission drug, and when Seth senses Jolinar's traces, destined for elimination.
Episode 3
Fair Game
Fri, Jul 9, 199944 mins
Just when Jack was to speech, in the Secretary of Defense's presence, for Sam's promotion to major, he is suddenly beamed up directly into the space-ship in undetectable earth-orbit of Asgard Thor, who warns him the Goa'uld system-lords have decided after Hathor's defeat to launch an attack on earth hundredfold Apophis's and offers Asgard help to propose alternatively Earth's inclusion in the Protected Planets Treaty, then returns Jack. Thor instructs Jack alone to represent the entire planet, on star-base, against a System-lords delegation of three: the Ancient first supreme Greek god Cronos, who once toppled Sokar, Yu the Great or Yu-huang Shang Ti, the first Chinese dragon Emperor, and Nirrti, the Hindu goddess of darkness. The system-lords are rude and difficult. Teal'c hates Cronus above all because his father, once his prime, was killed as punishment for failure and Sam believes he ordered Jolinar's execution. Thor explains the Asgard really bluff against the feudally divided Goa'uld as they must reserve their main forces for a far worse enemy in their own galaxy. The Goa'uld demand recognition of their race's superiority, the right to limit earth's technological development to any level they consider threatening and both earth's start-gates, the Secretary is inclined to advice the president to accept. Then Teal'c is found badly wounded, Cronus worse, with his symbiont dying. Yu and Nirrti want to take Cronus away immediately as he needs a sarcophagus but are retained at gunpoint. Teal'c wakes up and says they were attacked by an invisible third party, Sam proves a theory of deceit by Nirrti, who when exposed is attacked for it by Yu, who proves grateful as well as Cronus...
Episode 4
Legacy
Fri, Jul 16, 199944 mins
SG-1 discover nine Goa'uld corpses in a sealed chamber, and Teal'c identifies the crest as the nine Linvris, minor rivals of the system lords. While reading a tablet containing page one of some war plan, Daniel unknowingly gets infected by a parasite which gives him visual and auditive delusions back on earth. An epidemic of migraines causes the general to keep all SG teams on the base for examination. Daniel was already in a padded psych ward cell when, during a visit from his colleagues, he hears Ma'chello's voice say the parasite has left to enter its real target, a Goa'uld: Teal'c, for whose symbiont it is lethal. During examination of the page turner which released the designer organism, Jack, Dr. Fraiser and Sam get infected by several parasites, only Sam is found immune, even able to kill it by hosting it. The race is on to find how and hopefully use that mechanism to save the other three infected.
Episode 5
Learning Curve
Thu, Jul 22, 199944 mins
The planet Orban, with Precolumbian Teotihuacán-culture antecedents and Aztec type pyramids, has made impressive scientific progress, and brings Sam a Naquadah reactor to study; when she requires an instructor, Orban official Kalan surprises SG-1 by saying that he does not know what an instructor is, but 11 year-old Merrin stays on base to teach Carter. On Orban, Kalan's son Tomin, another 'Urrone' (apprentice) is assigned to exchange knowledge about the Goa'uld with Teal'c and Daniel. SG-1 and Dr. Fraiser are astonished to discover the Orban Urrones know neither fun nor school: a mass of useful new information is acquired while they are young and stored in the easily reproducible form of nanites, which are implanted in every Orbanian's brain after the Urrone's 'Averium', a coming of age ceremony at age 12, which extracts the knowledge from the individual and ends their ability to function mentally, so those children are 'retired' for life and from the active society. The Orbanians are furiously insulted by any suggestion to avoid an Averium for the child's sake, yet Jack retains Merrin to let her experience how earth children spend their youth in schooling and play, offering it to her as an alternative to the Averium, with a remarkable result.
Episode 6
Point of View
Fri, Jul 30, 199944 mins
The quantum mirror Daniel found in There But for the Grace of God (1998) brings to Area 51 a Kawalsky and Dr. Carter from another reality, this time one where Sam never joined the military but became Jack's wife and the Goa'uld just overran earth. Dr. Carter begins suffering from temporal entropic cascade failure, a paradoxical effect of having two versions of the same person in the same reality, and realises that she must return to her own reality or both Sams will eventually perish. SG-1 embark to the alternate reality to intercede and prevent the Goa'uld from conquering Earth before our General Hammond has the mirror disabled. The alternative Teal'c remained Apophis's loyal first prime, so the 'real' one can assume his identity to infiltrate the invading force, but they are discovered and captured, but this only serves as the ideal diversion while the Sams also contact the alternate Asgard.
Episode 7
Deadman Switch
Fri, Aug 6, 199944 mins
While on a mission to recover a UAV, SG-1 are captured by the bounty hunter Aris Boch who is working for the System Lord Sokar. He tells them there is a bounty on their capture, but offers to let them go if they help him capture a Goa'uld. The Goa'uld turns out to be a Tok'ra. Can the team persuade Aris Boch to release the Tok'ra and prevent themselves from being handed over to Sokar?
Episode 8
Demons
Fri, Aug 13, 199944 mins
SG-1 arrives on a planet where a culturally 'medieval Catholic' community lives in fear of an Unas they believe to be a demon, which regularly collects human sacrifices to Satan - in fact hosts for System Lord Sokar's army. When Simon implores SG-1 to spare his beloved Mary and take him instead, they even nurse her chicken pox. Simon hopes they are sent by God to deliver them from the satanic burden, but the canon who rules the village as 'spiritual' leader is faithful to Sokar and fears his authority, which rests on his right to select the 'damned soul' to be sacrificed, has been challenged, so he declares Teal'c a demon and incarcerates all SG-1. Witch-trial-type ordeals see the Jaffa 'proven' a demon and executed by drowning, and Daniel refuses the canon's warning to leave immediately. When Teal'c's symbiote allows a resurrection even Sam hadn't expected, they are all designated possessed and sacrificed, along with Mary. Simon follows the Unas with a staff weapon to liberate them, but he's not alone.
Episode 9
Rules of Engagement
Thu, Aug 19, 199944 mins
SG-1 come across another SG team being attacked by Jaffa. They offer to help but are shot by the SG team members. When they awake, they find out that the other SG team are Jaffa, loyal to Apophis, who are planning to infiltrate Earth. Can SG-1 convince them that Apophis is dead before the Jaffa fight to the death?
Episode 10
Forever in a Day
Fri, Oct 8, 199944 mins
Responding to a help cry from Kasuf, SG-1 and more USAF wipe out a Goa'uld Jaffa guard to save most of the slaves on Abydonia. When Amaunet turns her hand device on Daniel, he can't bring himself to shoot his beloved wife Sha're, but Teal'c saves him by fatally staff-shooting her, and Abydononian funeral tradition squashes his hope of a sarcophagus resurrection. Crushed by grief, Daniel has apparitions of Sha're and, once released from hospital, resigns from SGC claiming the quest for his wife was his reason to join. Daniel's former research assistant, Dr. Robert Rothman, succeeds him in SG-1; but Jack is sure he'll be back. Sha're (or Amaunet's posthumous manual spell?) keeps appearing to Daniel life-like, telling him to forgive Teal'c and together find their boy who, as Harsisis, has all the Goa'uld knowledge in his genetic memory, which, to the Goa'uld, means he must be killed. Daniel agrees to return, but has a secret agenda, too.
Episode 11
Past and Present
Fri, Oct 15, 199944 mins
On the planet Vyus, SG-1 discovers an entire early industrial society suffering from collective amnesia since an unspecified event about a year ago known as the Vorlix. The most lucid local, scientist Ke'ra, develops an almost amorous relationship with Daniel while she shows the team the fascinating diary of a deceased scientist, which also mentions a pesticide (Dargol) which had to be banned because it affected fertility and a 'visitor,' named Linea, who fits the description of the Destroyer of Worlds, whom SG-1 inadvertently helped escape with them from a penal planet (in Prisoners (1998)). Ke'ra and a Vyus couple, Orner and Layale, come to SGC where Dr. Fraiser proves that Ke'ra has Linea's DNA, and the amnesia is caused by a physical block in their brains caused by Dargol, which Linea developed into an experimental fountain of youth which apparently suddenly went wrong. Manufacturing a medicine within a reasonable time, before ignorance ruins the planet, is hopeless without Ke'ra/Linea, but shouldn't she rather be incarcerated than given the chance to play another diabolical trick if she remembers her evil persona?
Episode 12
Jolinar's Memories
Fri, Oct 22, 199944 mins
Martouf leads a Tok'ra delegation with crushing news for Carter: her father Jacob/Selmak has been captured by Sokar and imprisoned on Netu, an Egyptian name for hell, on a moon of planet Delmak. Prisoners are sent there to suffer eternal torture. Only Jolinar has ever escaped from Netu. SG-1 mounts a rescue operation with Martouf, top-priority being any information Selmak can offer about Sokar's plan to subjugate the other System Lords, an unprecedented threat for the galaxy. Teal'c must pilot a Goa'uld ship and keep it in orbit as landing is impossible except by small pod. Martouf first taps into Jolinar's memories, which is partially blocked by some trauma beyond physical torture. Only when they're down and in the custody of Netu's lord Bynarr does Sam realize he is the key, in a 'personal' way, but not voluntarily, as she had thought. Sokar learns of their presence from Bynarr and orders the team and craft destroyed, but this also means there must be a way out. Bynarr's First Prime, Nao'nak, has, and is himself, a major surprise.
Episode 13
The Devil You Know
Fri, Oct 29, 199944 mins
Now that Apophis has revealed himself, he promises the prisoners to overturn Sokar, which requires extracting an irresistibly valuable secret, to which end he drugs Sam with the truth serum 'blood of Sokar.' Apophis also implants a memory device in, and gives the drug to, Jack to torture him using the persona of his young son that died, and Daniel for the location of his Harsesis son. Martouf's love for Jolinar makes him betray that the Tok'ra are on planet Entac - a convincing lie, so Apophis's plan to earn Sokar's gratitude, and then kill him when rewarded with the lordship of Netu, is on a shaky basis. Teal'c must help the Tok'ra Aldwin prepare a nuclear weapon to explode the whole moon when his ship arrives as their last chance to eliminate Sokar, but he decides to rescue SG-1 instead, by flying in the path of the rings device on Sokar's ship when he arrives.
Episode 14
Foothold
Fri, Nov 5, 199944 mins
After a vain search for the Harsesis boy on an unexplored planet, SG-1 is told there is a chemical leak and gets sedating injections in the infirmary. In fact, the SGC has been taken over by body-snatching aliens, as Teal'c and Sam discover, who are immune because of his symbiote and her Jolinar-remnants. Teal'c is captured while giving Sam the chance to escape; she meets with Colonel Harry Maybourne, who believes them and brought the alien-possessed Jack and Daniel, who claim it's paranoia caused by the leaked chemical; during a flight back, Sam is able to see trough the game because of a 'flicker' and discovers it's done by two electronic devices to assume a human shape and voice. Meanwhile the real Jack and Major Paul Davis awake in an organic web where every human is tied into tentacles, soon meeting up with Sam and liberating Teal'c, in a hurry to try Sam's sound-idea before Maybourne sends in troops with orders to shoot and kill.
Episode 15
Pretense
Fri, Jan 21, 200044 mins
The iris brings surprise visitors to Starbase: the cat Schrödinger as sign of friendliness, next Narim, the Tollan admirer Sam gave him to, who brings a unique invitation from the curia, the highest Tollan authority: an invitation to attend on Tollana, their new home planet, the 'Triad', a judicial ceremony, learning only there as requested by seeker (trial party) Skaara, to act a his his 'Archon' (attorney), a job jointly assigned to Daniel and Jack, his claim being his desire to be separated from the Goa'uld Klorel, Apophis's son, who refuses to give up his host; they crashed on Tollana after the Tollans destroyed both mother-ships Heru'ur sent after Klorel. Klorel's archon is the Goa'uld lord Zipacna, reason enough for Jack to be frantically mistrusting of the Tollan assurance all visitor weapons are automatically disabled. The third, neutral archon is Lya, a Nox; the Tollan Travell presides. While the human doctrine of birthright opposes Zipacna's claim of Ra's jurisdiction on Abydos and species superiority, like humans practice on lower animals, Teal'c and Sam fear his Serpent guards are locating the Tollan defensive ion guns to disable them, a nightmare scenario arrogantly laughed away by Travell, so Teal'c asks Lya for help. After Zipacna invoked that ruling against Klorel would be an effective death sentence, forbidden under Tollan law, Skaara's side that being a host is no valid life, a Goa'uld mother-ship is reported approaching; the Nox decides the sentence.
Episode 16
Urgo
Fri, Jan 28, 200044 mins
SG-1 embark on a trip to visit a planet with an idyllic beach, but as soon as they step through the Stargate, they find they are back in the SGC. They thought that they just left, but have been missing for hours. They soon discover that an alien device has been implanted in their brains and a being called Urgo reveals himself to the team. But no one else can see him and he is extremely irritating. Will they be able to extract him before they lose their minds?
Episode 17
A Hundred Days
Fri, Feb 4, 200044 mins
Whilst on a planet to negotiate a trade treaty, SG1 are shown a meteor shower called the 'Fire Rain' by the locals. They are very concerned, when one of the larger meteors enters the atmosphere in a near miss. Carter checks the astronomical data and Jackson the archaeological finds and they discover that the meteorites may hit the ground with incredible force. They try to evacuate the villagers, but in the process, the meteorites start striking the ground and whilst O'Neill is away trying to find some stray villagers, the Stargate is hit by a large meteorite. The SGC try to dial back to the planet, but find that the gate is buried and is lying flat. Can Carter come up with a way to get back to the planet, or will O'Neill be trapped there forever?
Episode 18
Shades of Grey
Fri, Feb 11, 200044 mins
While negotiating on the new Tollan home world, SG1 are refused any technical weapons help, so O'Neill steals a defense device. He returns to the SGC and is suspended by Hammond. While on suspension, he is visited by Maybourne and told that there is a team off-world that illegally captures technology for Earth. He offers O'Neill command of this team. O'Neill uses the pretense of retiring off-world to leave through the Stargate. But once off-world, he meets Maybourne's team. Is everything as it appears though?
Episode 19
New Ground
Fri, Feb 18, 200044 mins
While redialing old Stargate addresses, the SGC discovers that a gate that was previously buried has become uncovered. They send a probe through and find two archaeologists. However, when they travel through the Stargate, they find that it is located in a society in civil war: one continent believes that the people were created by a Goa'uld, whilst their enemy believes that humans arrived from another planet - by the Stargate. O'Neill, Carter and Jackson are captured by the authorities and questioned, but Teal'c is wounded and blinded. Can he help SG-1 escape the hostiles and get back through the Stargate?
Episode 20
Maternal Instinct
Fri, Feb 25, 200044 mins
Teal'c's Master Bra'tac arrives unannounced, carrying his dying apprentice, Moac - rare survivors of a massive ground attack on planet Chulak by Apophis, who now controls the late Sokar's massive armies. As he could have wiped out the Jaffa by weapons from space, he must be looking for something or someone - his consort Amaunet's Harcesis child. Daniel only knew the boy was in Osiris's hiding place from Seth, Kheb, which he nor Teal'c can locate, but Bra'tac knows that is a legendary planet the Goa'uld fear and loathe. Combining that information with Daniel's Pharaonic mythology knowledge, it must be one of the Loc'na ko, exhausted mining planets. Daniel even has a gate address, the only one the Goa'uld never listed on their space maps, but Apophis may be mad enough to brave the ancestral fear. When SG-1 arrives, Bra'tac reads tracks of eight Jaffa, all burned as if by lightning, and a priestess they shot, but who took the Harcesis from her? To their surprise, Kheb is not a fortress but an oriental temple, where only one Zen-type monk lives, who amazingly efficiently teaches Daniel supernatural powers ascribed to Oma Desala, sort of a transcendent Mother Nature. When the others rush off to face a 2,000-strong force of Apophis' troops, Daniel stays and is shown the Harcesis by Oma, only then comprehending the whole truth.
Episode 21
Crystal Skull
Fri, Mar 3, 200044 mins
The SGC send a MALP to a huge pyramid and inside they discover a crystal skull like the one Jackson's grandfather found many years before. SG1 visit the planet and whilst Daniel is looking into the eyes of the skull, as his grandfather did, an energy field envelops him. Teal'c fires his Zat at the skull, but Daniel has disappeared. Carter collapses and the team minus Daniel return to the SGC. Teal'c returns to collect the crystal skull, but will he be able to find Daniel?
Episode 22
Nemesis
Fri, Mar 10, 200044 mins
While taunting Carter that leave means leaving to have fun, not staying behind for more research, Jack is suddenly beamed aboard the spaceship of the Asgard Thor, who explains he is dying, and his ship is falling victim in the war against the Replicators, all-infesting mechanical bugs which literally devour to multiply; the ship's transport and self-destruction mechanisms are now also disabled, but their next target will be earth if they manage to land. Jack contacts SGC, asking advice and forbidding SG-1 to join him, but they do after the general overrules the colonel, assuring him they have a way back. After Sam makes sense of Thor's notes about the 'techno-bugs' and discusses them with him, she comes up with a plan to explode the ship and the bugs and escape by stargate, but it depends on meticulous timing and Teal'c placing explosives at the outside, which proves even more dangerous than it sounds.
