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Equal to the Fourth
This season is very similar in format and feel of the fourth season, and it is slightly better-not for the amount of great episodes, but for the greatness of the great episodes. In this season, we tie up four loose ends and continue several story arcs, and add the greatest villain of all time. This season is awesome-though the two-parter that creates build-up for Anubis is just mediocre. Sadly, in this season we see the departure of Daniel Jackson, the best character on the show, for a season-maybe if the episode that he left in wasn't so emotional I wouldn't be so sad. Great episodes include: Enemies, Threshold, Ascension, The Fifth Man, 2001, Desperate Measures(Maybourne is so cool!), Wormhole Extreme!, Proving Ground, 48 Hours, Summit, Last Stand, Fail Safe, The Warrior, Menace, Meridian, Revelations. Stupendous season(that's a funny word).

Big Changes
Season five sees some major changes. New story lines are introduced. New characters and mythologies are introduced and an old character dies off. Maybe I am just suffering some from fatigue after watching 5 seasons straight through but the show does not seem as exciting any more. It is still highly enjoyable, however. I'm going to see the series through to the end. <
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>Enemies - Last season ended with a bang when the SG1 crew with a captured Ghoul ship blew up a star in an attempt to destroy Apothis and his fleet. They did blow up the star and the fleet but all is not well. The team was entering hyperspace as the star blew up and they were blown a LONG way away. Just to keep things interesting, Apothis and his personal ship were blown to the same destination. Apothis has Teal'c as a prisoner and is about to destroy the humans when "help" shows up. The new ship engages the ghoul mother ship but they turn out to be worse than Apothis. It is a replicator ship. That is the situation. The SG1 team has a set of simple tasks: Get home, keep the replicators from threatening home, escape from Apothis, and contend with a brainwashed Teal'c who is now loyal to Apothis. It's not going to be easy. <
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>Threshold - The SG1 team managed to make it back alive from the mission of the previous episode but there is still a big problem. Teal'c's brainwashing is still in effect and he still considers Apothis to be his god. The prognosis is not good and Teal'c's old mentor, Braytac, comes up with the only possible cure. It is an ancient Jaffa right which involves removing the symbiote and letting the patient remember past experiences. Most patients do not survive the procedure but it is the only hope. Teal'c proves as stubborn in illness as he is in life. There are a few flashbacks to earlier episodes but most of the flashbacks concern his days before the coming of the Earth people. It is an interesting piece of character development for the big guy. <
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>Ascension - The team is investigating a new planet which shows signs of high development and signs of destruction. They also find what appears to be a gigantic weapon. While she is investigating it, Maj. Carter is knocked unconscious. When she comes to, she seems to be fine but a little snippy. After going home, she encounters a strange man who keeps popping up. It seems that Maj. Carter has a stalker. He has the hots for her but there is something more. He is an alien who is only visible when he wants to be. He only wants to be visible for her. After a while, he becomes so enthralled with her that he permanently takes human form. Without others of his kind, he cannot return to his ethereal state. All of this takes place as the Pentagon is further investigating the weapon found on the planet. It is a BIG one. It turns out, the alien is the one originally responsible for building it. It destroyed the civilization of the planet and he was left behind as punishment. Now, he will do anything to stop it from being activated again. <
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>The Fifth Man - The SG1 team makes it through the Stargate in the middle of a firefight. Daniel, Maj. Clark and Teal'c get through to earth but O'Neill is left behind with the new lieutenant who had been wounded in the firefight. The rest of the team promises to return quickly with reinforcements. Those reinforcements will be a long time in coming. Nobody back at SGC has any idea who the mystery lieutenant is. They have never heard of him. They rightly fear that the SG1 team has come under the influence of alien mind control. They have, in a manner of speaking but it is not the alien who is the really dangerous one. The real rat is a government investigator with a political motive. <
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>Red Sky - The SG1 team visits a new planet. It is not quite primitive but it is several centuries behind earth's level. The people there are worshippers of the Asgard. Freyer is their particular deity. They enjoy protection from the ghouls and everything seems fine until the team's visit. The SGC Stargate apparently bypasses a few safeguards. In this instance, their wormhole passed through the local sun, transporting some heavy elements that are destabilizing the star, thus dooming the locals. When they realize this, the SG1 team wants to help. They contact the Asgard only to find that Thor is unavailable, Freyer is not as likeably and that a treaty clause prevents them from helping. It is up to the SG1 team to save the planet. Unfortunately, they are hundreds, if not thousands, of years behind the technology curve to do so. <
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>Rite of Passage - Puberty is never easy. It is especially tough when you are the last member of your race and the ghouls once tried to blow up the earth by planting a bomb inside you. When you are also the result of a genetic experiment designed to make a better host for ghouls things just go from bad to worse. Cassandra was the young girl in whom a bomb was planted several seasons ago. Since that time, she has lived as the adopted daughter of Doc Frasier. She's becoming a young woman now and her body is changing. Its changing in even more ways that your average, hormone drenched teenager. There was a strange rite of passage for girls of her age back on her planet. When girls became fevered, they would go into the woods where they would be zapped into a ghoul lab for examination. They come back cured. Now, Cassandra can't get to the woods. She is dying. The only one who can help is a ghoul prisoner. It's a deal with a devil. <
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>Beast of Burden - "It is our custom to welcome visitors with a drink," says the alien. "It is our custom to drink," says Col. O'Neill. It's a hilarious line when it takes place but, unfortunately, there is little else that is truly enjoyable about this episode. Last season, the SG1 team visited the Unas home world where Daniel managed to make friends with an Unas that was planning on eating him. Since that time, Daniel has been studying the primordial Unas world by means of hidden video cameras. When reviewing the tapes, he is shocked to find that human visitors from another world have conducted a raid and have kidnapped Daniel's friend, Chaka. When they go to investigate, they find that he has been taken by slavers who use the Unas as beasts of burden on a planet that has all of the worst qualities of the American south. The slavery is ugly but the solutions are not as simple as one would hope. It's a good episode but it is not very much fun. <
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>The Tomb - The SG1 team investigate a new planet and this one has a few new twists. It has a Babylonian mythos instead of an Egyptian one. They also find a package of Russian cigarettes. This is troubling. It seems that while the Russians had a working gate for a few weeks, a team went missing. They were not an "authorized" team. They were up to some political skullduggery in the same manner that such things happen with all too much frequency to the American crew. A joint mission is sent out to rescue them. This seems to please nobody. Russians and Americans do not exactly have a good track record of working together. Things are made worse when they get locked inside the ziggurat (Babylonian pyramid) and find themselves stuck with a ghoul infesting an alien bug. Things probably could work better if there were not so many hidden agendas. <
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>Between Two Fires - The Tollans, an advanced race who have show a disdain towards earth, are showing signs of changing their policy of not trading technology to inferiors. In fact, they are willing to exchange a large number of ion cannons capable of destroying ghoul mother ships. Things are not as simple as they seem, however. There are vague warnings that the Tollan's offers will lead to the destruction of earth. There are competing factions at work within the Tollan government. Some of them seem to be in league with the really bad guys. The threats against Earth might be official Tollan government policy. <
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>2001 - The episode opens with the SG1 team coming home through the Stargate with good news. They have found an advanced race which wants to share technology with earth. In return, they want access to the Stargate system. They have a gate but not a dialing device. It seems to be a deal which is too good to be true. Nobody is really suspicious except for Col. O'Neill. An embassy is sent to arrange a treaty. While the officials are doing the negotiating, Daniel and Teal'c do some background snooping. They learn that the race they are dealing with is the same one that was so dangerous that, an alternate reality version of O'Neill sent a warning back from the year 2010 to warn them. This raises the suspicion level. Unfortunately, the politicians get involved and mess things up for political gain. The aliens are out for conquest and a US senator is determined to help them to ensure his own election to the presidency. <
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>Desperate Measures - Major Carter is kidnapped and it happens right here on earth. Within the first few minutes of the episode, almost all of the old earth standard bad guys put in an appearance. So does a Jaffa, on earth. It is not Teal'c. It so happens that while the Russians had an active program, they captured a live ghoul in a jaffa. The ghoul has since matured and needs a new host. A rich American has arranged the kidnapping of Carter so that his private scientists can figure out how her ghoul was successfully extracted. The rich guy is dying and hopes to infest himself with a ghoul in order to get healed and then have the alien removed. Things do not go according to plan. Everyone has his own agenda. Very few of them are on the side of goodness and light. <
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>Wormhole X-treme - In an extremely fun episode last season, the team encountered a dweeb who thought he was an alien stranded on earth and who seemed to know way too much about the Stargate program. It turns out that he was right. He was an alien. He was part of a crew which deserted their own forces just before their final defeat and was hiding out on earth. His crewmates were not quite in the same league of dweebishness and neither were they taking part in his memories. The episode ended with the dweeb realizing who he really is and the others disappearing. This time they're back. The dweeb is now the technical advisor on a cable TV show that is WAY too similar to the Stargate program. Meanwhile, an alien ship is heading towards earth and it is identified as being made by the same race as the dweeb. SGC wants to know what is going on and the SG1 team is dispatched to find out. The problem is, the dweeb doesn't remember anything. He thinks he is just a TV writer. His former crewmates are lurking in the background, however, and it is certain that something is going on. It has its serious moments but, mostly, it is a comedy. Its great tongue in cheek stuff! <
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>Proving Ground - The SG1 team is assigned to train and evaluate a group of candidates for the Stargate program. The testing is brutal and Col. O'Neill is not will to cut any slack. He is just about to flunk his group of candidates when he gets a terrible message. The SGC has been overrun by aliens. Worse, he is wounded by some SG personnel who have been taken over. Now, he has to take back the facility with a bunch of trainees he was getting ready to flunk. A lot is riding on this one and things are not what they seem. <
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>48 Hours - While beating a hasty retreat from a ghoul controlled planet, Teal'c takes one last shot at the ghoul ship piloted by Tanith. The shot is good but the ship crashes into the gate just after Teal'c steps through. The rest of the team has already made it home safely but Teal'c is still in transit when the connection is cut. Everyone fears that he is lost for good. Maj. Carter realizes, though, that the Earth gate has received the transmission. They just need the machine to put him back together again. Meanwhile, any activation of the gate will empty the buffer containing Teal'c. Everyone works on a solution. One team tries to negotiate with the Russians for a gate control device. An NID idiot tries to blackmail Gen. Hammond and offers the needed information in exchange for some ghoul devices. Maj. Carter tries to work out a technical solution while being impeded by a self righteous idiot. It is Col. O'Neill who saves the day, however. He lacks the finesse or style of the others but he has his own way of getting things done. <
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>Summit - The Ghoul system lords are in disarray as they struggle for supremacy amongst themselves. In an effort to divert their efforts into something more beneficial for themselves, they hold a summit meeting to try and divvy up the galaxy. This can be frightening but it yields opportunities as well. The Tok'ra conceive a plan to kill all the major players of the system Lords. They plan to infiltrate Daniel Jackson as a servant of one of them and let him release a poison that will kill them all. It's a workable plan but the plans do not survive contact with the enemy. There is a ghoul puppet master behind the scenes, Anubis, who has his own plot to wipe out the Tok'ra and take control of the System Lords. Having Daniel encounter his former lover as the host for one of the System Lords was not in the script either. It's a cliffhanger. <
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>Last Stand - The ghoul summit is not going as well as it could. They don't trust each other. They are further thrown into confusion by the appearance of Osiris who is serving as the proxy of Anubis. Anubis was so evil that even the System Lords would not deal with him. A deal has been offered to get back into their good graces, however. He offers to destroy the Tok'ra and take on Earth. The Tok'ra have pretty much been destroyed. Just a part of SG1 is left alive. Daniel, who is posing as the servant of one of the system lords, comes up with a plan to capture Osiris (who possesses his former girlfriend) and use her to find Anubis. Rescuing SG1 and what is left of the Tok'ra information base also seems like a good idea. It's hard to picture Daniel doing all this covert op stuff but he seems to be doing well at it. <
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>Fail Safe - This one seems to be strictly a local episode. An astronomer discovers a huge asteroid on a collision course with earth. It is big enough to extinguish all life and there are very few options for dealing with it. The Asgard won't help because of treaty considerations. The Tollans have been wiped out. The Tok'Ra are on the run after the last few episodes. Its looks like the Earth is doomed. Maj. Carter comes up with a plan to use a ghoul ship shot down on a distant planet to get a bomb to the asteroid. This will require getting to the planet, fixing the ship, getting it back to the solar system and placing the bomb. None of these steps is simple. Things get even more complicated when they learn some of the strange properties of the asteroid. Blowing it up might just make things worse. <
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>The Warrior - Teal'c and his old mentor, Bray'tac hear of an army of rebel Jaffa. They go to check things out and it is almost too good to be true. The army does exist and it is led by a First Prime who killed his own master, Imhotep. This guy is a charmer and has a way with words. Listening to him inspires all those who hear. He is preparing an army of rebel Jaffa. The SG1 team is sent to meet with this newcomer and see if an alliance can be reached. They offer food and weapons but the rebels are strangely disdainful of them. They prefer their own ways even though they border on suicidal. Col. O'Neill begins to trust the rebel leader less and less. He thinks that the guy is just trying to amass a personal power base. He is going to recommend against an alliance. Teal'c, though, is sucked in. He wants to believe. He is set to leave the SG1 team until he learns a terrible secret. <
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>Menace - The SG1 team finds a new planet that was at one time highly advanced but is now destroyed. The only thing of worth they find is an inactive android. It is lying on top of a slab in a "laboratory". They take it (her) back to SGC and manage to revive her. They want to learn what happened to her world. When the android is revived, she is incredibly human but shows the emotional maturity of a small child. Even so, she is still incredibly advanced. She also has an incredible ability. She can build replicators. She thinks of them as toys and she will defend her toys. Her toys will also defend her whenever she gets hacked off. She gets hacked off easily and throws tantrums like any small child. <
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>The Sentinel - Back when the NID was running its own renegade Stargate program, they visited a world which had an advanced ghoul defense system. The renegades wanted to investigate the system but the locals refused because it would violate religious taboos. They go to investigate it anyway. They think the left everything exactly like it was before but something has gone wrong. The Sentinel device is not working. The ghouls have invaded and are trying to get access to the same equipment. So far, a force field has stymied everyone but the planet and its people are being destroyed. The SG1 team is sent back to try to repair the matter. They take with them one of the renegades who is now sitting on death row. It is a race to see who can decipher the system first. <
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>Meridian - The team comes back from visiting a new world and Daniel is in trouble. The world they visited is at about the level of the US in the 1940s and they have just found their Stargate and a bunch of other neat stuff. Included in this stuff is a completely new element that makes what the gate is made of look weak in comparison. They are trying to make a bomb. The SG1 team has misgivings over this. They fear that they can destroy their entire planet. Still, the locals persist and the reaction goes out of control. Daniel saved the day, prevented the destruction of the planet and got himself a fatal does of radiation in the process. Most of the episode involves conversations between Daniel and the strange light being met several seasons ago. The discussions are about his future and whether he will live or transcend to something else. <
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>Revelations - The SG1 team is still in disarray over the loss of Daniel Jackson. Part of the trouble is that nobody is sure if he is dead or really gone on to something better. While the team is trying to come to grips with the loss, the Asgard finally put in an appearance after being incommunicado for several episodes where their help would have been invaluable. Thor has been captured by the ghouls. A renegade group of ghouls led by the shadowy Anubis and aided by Osiris have attacked an Asgard research outpost. The future of the Asgard depends on preventing the information contained there from falling into enemy hands. The SG1 team is enlisted to help gather the research and escape. Then they learn from Heimdall that Thor is still alive. A major rescue mission is mounted and, of course, nothing goes according to plan. The season ends on a different note, however, since this episode is not a cliffhanger. <
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