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Stargate SG-1 Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 2001 - 2002
Episode 1
Enemies
Fri, Jun 29, 200144 mins
The surviving members of SG-1 are lost in the unknown darkness of space and are being chased by Apophis. But before Apophis destroys them, an unknown ship attacks and gives SG-1 a chance to escape. Apophis's mother ship finds them again, but they soon find out that there are no lifeforms aboard. Instead they find an army of replicators aboard the ship and the self-destruct system has been activated. They escape the mother ship just as it explodes. Soon after, they receive a message from Teal'c who has been brought back to life and has escaped the attack on the mother ship. But SG-1 soon finds another problem: Teal'c has been brain washed.
Episode 2
Threshold
Fri, Jul 6, 200144 mins
At the SGC, Teal'c has been undergoing rehab but it soon becomes apparent that the brainwashing he underwent when in the service of Apophis still has hold of him. They call on Master Bra'tac to help them out. They remove Teal'c's symbiote and he is obviously in great pain. Bra'tac insists that this is all part of bringing him back and that Teal'c must suffer in order to break his conditioning. It doesn't at all sit well with Dr. Fraiser, but General Hammond agrees with the process. In flashbacks, Teal'c's earlier life is revealed.
Episode 3
Ascension
Fri, Jul 13, 200144 mins
SG-1 finds a weapon on planet P4X-636. As Carter is inspecting it, a spirit alien interacts with her. But Carter passes out. So the alien follows them back through the Stargate. Hammond believes there may be something wrong with Carter and sends her home. The alien takes the form of a man and calls himself Orlin. He lives with Carter for a while and the rest of SG-1 think she's going crazy. In time, Orlin and Carter fall in love. But the Pentagon finds out about the alien and surround Carter's house.
Episode 4
The Fifth Man
Fri, Jul 20, 200144 mins
In escaping a large contingent of Jaffa, SG-1 is forced to leave behind Jack and Lt. Tyler, a new member of the team. Back on Earth no one can recall Lt. Tyler, so Sam, Teal'c, and Daniel must find a way to save Jack while they are quarantined. Meanwhile Jack and Lt. Tyler struggle to escape the enemy Jaffa.
Episode 5
Red Sky
Fri, Jul 27, 200144 mins
After a rough ride through the stargate to P39-865, the sun of that planet turns red. Carter deduces that an override of stargate protocols allowed them to create a wormhole through the sun, starting a reaction that will cause the sun to die. SG-1 must now make up for their mistake or P39-865 will become incapable of supporting life.
Episode 6
Rite of Passage
Fri, Aug 3, 200144 mins
When Cassandra collapses at home, she is taken to the SGC for treatment. A retrovirus is causing her to emit an EM field and she expresses a need to return to her planet for an initiation ritual. SG-1 investigates and finds a Goa'uld laboratory, probably having belonged to Nirrti, meant for experimentation on the planet's population. They find that the ritual is part of the experiment, a time when Nirrti studies her subjects and cures them when she is done. SG-1 has found a way to cure Cassandra, but now all that remains to be found is Nirrti.
Episode 7
Beast of Burden
Fri, Aug 10, 200144 mins
When Chaka, the Unas Daniel previously befriended, is captured by humans bearing Goa'uld weapons, SG-1 go to rescue him. There they find a society in which Unas are treated as slave labor and, in an attempt to free Chaka, Jack and Daniel are taken prisoner.
Episode 8
The Tomb
Fri, Aug 17, 200144 mins
SG-1 teams up with a Russian task force to investigate the disappearance of a Russian SG team on P2X-338. They discover that the Russian SG team released a creature that killed Marduk, a Goa'uld, in his sarcophagus. SG-1 must trust their Russian partners in order to escape the ziggurat alive.
Episode 9
Between Two Fires
Fri, Aug 24, 200144 mins
After the death of Omoc, the Tollan assert that they are now ready to trade technology with the Tau'ri. Negotiations go smoothly, a little too smoothly. SG-1, with the assistance of Narim, investigate the death of Omoc and the Curia's deception of the Tollan people.
Episode 10
2001
Fri, Aug 31, 200144 mins
SGC has met the Volians, a simple, peaceful people which trades its agricultural produce with the technologically more advanced Aschen, whose envoy Mollen accepts to negotiate an elaborate treaty aboard one of their amazing ships, which process an entire harvest in a minute, with earth's delegation: Presidential Ambassador Joseph Faxon, Jack and Sam. Remaining on the Volian planet, Teal'c and Daniel discover the ruins of a suddenly abandoned city, from which Daniel deduces that their once advanced civilization and demography were abruptly broken about the time the Volians met the Aschen and received a vaccine from them. In SGC, Jack's note from the future warning against the Aschen is found, but the White House and, especially, ambitious Senator Robert Kinsey refuse to listen to any objection to a treaty about joining the Aschen confederation promising valuable technology.
Episode 11
Desperate Measures
Fri, Sep 7, 200144 mins
Carter gets kidnapped and taken to an abandoned hospital where two doctors work to study the remains of Jolinar. She finds out that they have a Goa'uld, taken from the Russians, which they are planning to put inside a man named Adrian Conrad to heal his sickness. They need Carter to tell them how to get the Goa'uld out after he's healed. O'Neill believes the government is involved with Carter's disappearance and contacts Maybourne. Together, with Daniel and Teal'c, they find Carter but also find out that the Goa'uld has escaped inside Conrad's body.
Episode 12
Wormhole X-Treme!
Sat, Sep 8, 200144 mins
A strange ship is headed towards Earth, and the SGC suspects that Martin Lloyd and his companions may have something to do with it. O'Neill is sent to speak to Martin and is assigned as a military consultant on Martin's new show, "Wormhole X-Treme!", which uncannily resembles SG-1 despite Martin once again losing his memory. His former shipmates stall Carter and Daniel by throwing them off the trail and into the hands of the NID.
Episode 13
Proving Ground
Fri, Mar 8, 200244 mins
It's SG-1's turn to start testing a quartet of US Air Force cadet prodigies for SGC recruitment. After an imperfect performance by the kids, Sam pleads their potential but Jack is most critical, especially because cadet Lieutenant Grogan was left behind (pretending to be wounded). A new problem arises (aliens try and take over SGC) and the cadets are unsure whether this is staged or not. This time their CO, Lieutenant Elliot, proves himself to be a born leader and gives everything he has to get the job done. They almost seem to have pulled it off until Hailey pulls a "Sam-stunt" which changes the scenario for the worse again.
Episode 14
48 Hours
Fri, Mar 15, 200244 mins
When SG-1 returns from planet P3X116 under fire, only three of them make it back to SGC safely: O'Neill, Carter and Jackson. Teal'c entered the gate but it was destroyed before completing the trip and the signal was lost. Carter believes that Teal'c's "signature" is still in the gate's buffer but she's not sure how to retrieve him. Meanwhile, Jackson and Major Paul Davis head to Moscow to negotiate an agreement with the Russians to use their gate for SGC activities. Col. Frank Simmons informs General Hammond that they have only 48 hours to retrieve Teal'c and introduces the brilliant but arrogant Dr. Rodney McKay to help Sam with the problem. For his part, O'Neill turns to a new ally for information after Simmons tries to blackmail Hammond.
Episode 15
Summit
Fri, Mar 22, 200244 mins
Ren'al of the Tok'ra arrives at SGC to seek their assistance in a strike against the Goa'uld, whose leaders are to hold a summit in an attempt to overcome their differences. It provides the Tok'ra a rare opportunity to strike at the entire Goa'uld leadership. Security will be very tight but each system Lord will be allowed to bring with them one human slave and Jackson agrees to participate as Yu-huang Shang Ti's personal servant. The plan is that once there, he would release a poison gas to kill the Goa'uld symbionts. The Goa'uld lords have to deal with a new unseen foe. While Daniel is at the summit, the Tok'ra base comes under attack.
Episode 16
Last Stand
Fri, Mar 29, 200244 mins
As the Goa'uld summit continues, Daniel finds himself face to face with Osiris. He fools him in the same fashion as he did with Yu, but cannot bring himself to cause the death of Sarah, Osiris's host. He remains to uncover information about the unknown master of Osiris. Lantash, having taken Lt. Elliot as a host, guides the rest of SG-1 in escaping the fallen Tok'ra base.
Episode 17
Fail Safe
Fri, Apr 5, 200244 mins
A large asteroid is discovered on a heading straight towards Earth. If it hits, all life on Earth would likely be destroyed. SG-1 initiates a plan to repair a crashed Goa'uld cargo ship and deliver a Naquadah bomb to destroy the asteroid before it hits.
Episode 18
The Warrior
Fri, Apr 12, 200244 mins
On Master Bra'tac's advice, SG-1 agrees to visit and help the Jaffa rebels training camp of K'tano, former First Prime of Imhotep, a Goa'uld they soon find wasn't even an actual system lord. While the humans grow increasingly suspicious of his cruel and wasteful training methods, Teal'c considers them traditional and agrees to be recruited for a mission to eliminate the system lord Yu-huang Shang Ti, aboard whose ship an uprising is planned. The team does a great job in the camp, demonstrating the value of earthling weapons the Jaffa originally scorned, but learns there is more and worse to K'tano.
Episode 19
Menace
Fri, Apr 26, 200244 mins
On an alien planet, SG-1 discovers that an inactive android is the only survivor of the destruction of her civilization. They bring her back to the SGC for study and manage to reactivate her. Things take a turn for the worse when she "makes" a Replicator for Daniel.
Episode 20
The Sentinel
Fri, May 3, 200244 mins
SG-1 is sent to planet Latona, which is under attack from Goa'uld System Lord Svarog because its Ancient defense system, the Sentinel, stopped working after Maybourne's rogue NID team secretly disassembled and reassembled it. Colonel Sean Grieves and his rude assistant, Lieutenant Kershaw, are taken from death row to join the rescue mission to repair it and/or evacuate the Latonans. Planetary leader Marul refuses to accept facts, despite the rule of terror already being installed by a Jaffa battalion, even when Svarog's starship arrives and Jack insists it's time to leave with or without the Latonans, claiming the Guardian must be alive and alert as a flame signifies. When Sam joins the repair team, which Daniel helped pass the ingenious protection field, the gruesome story of how the NID thieves got to it the first time proves crucial.
Episode 21
Meridian
Fri, May 10, 200244 mins
SG-1 returns from an off-world mission to P2S-4C3 with Daniel Jackson suffering from what is likely a fatal dose of radiation. On the planet, they dealt with the country of Kelowna and their representative Jonas Quinn. That country was at the same stage of development as the United States in the 1940s and well on their way to creating an atomic weapon using Goa'uld technology found in an ancient temple. Daniel argued against the Kelownans developing such a weapon and is accused of attempting to sabotage the project. As members of the team sit by his deathbed, Daniel receives an unexpected offer from someone they once met off-world.
Episode 22
Revelations
Fri, May 17, 200244 mins
Osiris engages in space combat with Thor over a violation of the protected planets treaty. Freyr arrives at the SGC bringing news of Thor's death and asking SG-1 to mount a rescue mission to retrieve an Asgard scientist from the planet in question. Upon their arrival Heimdall informs them that Thor still lives and has been taken captive by the Goa'uld. O'Neill and Teal'c transport over to the mothership to rescue him from the clutches of Anubis.
