Season Four revisited
Ive decided to rewrite Season Four of SG1, although i have left some episode intact. Give me your thoughts.
Stargate SG1 : Season Four
Richard Dean Anderson as Jack O’Neill
Michael Shanks as Dr Daniel Jackson
Amanda Tapping as Samantha Carter
Christopher Judge as Teal’c
Don S Davis as General Hammond
1. Small Victories
While Carter helps the Asgard fight the replicators galaxies away, Teal'c, Daniel, and O'Neill must contain them on Earth.
2. Fallen Angel
On a mission to a planet ruled by a goa’uld named Khepri , Major Carter discovers the former host of Jolinar, Rosha living as one of the goa’ulds harem, Carter driven by a loyalty to Jolinar tries to rescue her against the orders of O'Neill but is captured. SG1 call Martouf from the tok’ra, Jolinar’s former lover to assist, but when Rosha recognises Martouf she orders the Jaffa to capture him, In prison Carter learns the Rosha was once a Prisoner of Khepri, but was tortured and when dying her symbiote jumped from her body into another body. Rosha was then chosen by Khepri as one of his Harem and revived in a sarcophagus. SG1 must escape from the confines of the Goa’uld, whilst Carter and Martouf plan to capture Rosha and take her back to the Tok’ra.
When Khepri's Jaffa bring food to the prisoners, O'Neill and Teal'c jump them, and steal thier body armour and helmets. O'Neill and Teal'c lead Jackson, Carter and Martouf out of the dungeon, and try to sneak out of the palace undetected, but when Carter see's Rosha, her and Martouf run after her. O'Neill is forced to leave them behind and he , Teal'c and Dr Jackson make it out unharmed.
Meanwhile Carter and Martouf follow Rosha to her room, and she climbs into a sarchophagus. Martouf and Carter overide the controls of the sarchophagus and when she climbs out , they Zat her. They then try to get her out of the Palace, but are surrounded by Jaffa. Rosha is woken and her eyes glow, She has been infected by a Goa'uld. She orders the Jaffa to kill Carter and Martouf, but just in time O'Neill, Teal'c and Daniel kill the Jaffa, and rescue thier team-mates, Rosha disappears into the Palace. Carter insists they go back for her but Martouf and O'Neill disagree, but Martouf is adament that when the time comes, they will retrive her.
3. Upgrades
The Tok'ra ask the SG-1 to test some mysterious alien armbands, but it soon becomes clear the armbands have lethal side effects that endanger the team in the midst of a critical mission.
4. The Rise and the Fall of Robert Rothman
Whilst Teal'c and Bra'tac are on Chulak gathering support for thier cause, Dr Daniel Jackson, Nyan, and Dr Robert Rothman catelogue artefacts brought back through the stargate over the past 4 years. One device that Rothman unknowingly activates begins to affect his mind, giving him a newfound confidence and belief in himself, whilst first all is good, Rothman soon becomes irritable and begins to show signs of Goa'uld like arrogance.
When Rothman suddenly looses conciousness Dr Fraiser finds naquada in his system along with an unknown chemical. When Daniel and Nyan trace the cause of Rothmans illness to a glowing artefact in Jacksons office, O'Neill, Carter and Dr Jackson revisit the planet where it was found to find a cure.
O'Neill and Carter discover and labratory containing technology that is similar in design to the repositary of knowledge that O'Neill looked into 2 years previously. Carter sumises that it might be Ancient technology. She finds a database and locates the device that did this, and Daniel decifers enough to learn that once the device is switched off Rothman will be okay. With this knowledge they are able to save his life, and his personality returns to normal. With Rothman back to normal and fearing that everyone will hate him after his Goa'uld like behaviour, Daniel says they will always be friends.
5. Divide and Conquer
During a meeting of the Tok'ra High Council, one of the SGC soldiers goes berserk and attacks them before taking his own life. It soon becomes clear that the Goa'uld have a new weapon - a mind control technique that can turn anyone into a preprogrammed assassin. SGC soon realizes that Jack and Sam may be the next programmed assassins. But as Jack and Sam are proved innocent, Martouf pays the ultimate price.
6. Window of Opportunity
When an alien scientist activates an Ancient device that the Ancients tried to use to travel back in time, Jack and Teal'c get caught in a time loop.
7. Scorched Earth
SG-1 helps transfer the residents of a Goa'uld slave planet to a new world, but soon find the planet is the target of a terraforming effort that will wipe out its new inhabitants.
8. The First Ones
An archaeological team makes an amazing discovery - a planet holding primordial Goa'uld symbiotes. But the planet also is home to the Unas, the first race that acted as a host to the symbiote, and the team and SG-1 are soon in danger from the symbiotes.
9. Faceless
On a mission to P4X - 757 , SG1 are witness to a meeting between Jolinars former host Rosha and Zipacna, Apophis's underling. It seems that Rosha is betraying Khepri, giving Zipacna the details of Khepri's modest army of Jaffa. As SG1 begin to leave to share this information with the Tok'ra, Zipacna orders his Serpent Guards to kill Rosha. Carter intervenes Killing the Jaffa but Zipacna escapes, and it is too late. Rosha has been severely wounded, her Goa'uld has left her body and is dead. Rosha is dying.
SG1 take Rosha back to the SGC and call the Tok'ra who regret that they are unable to help her, and that she must do this on her own if she is to survive. Major Carter and Dr Fraiser work to save her life. As she recovers it becomes apparent that Rosha has no memory of her life prior to waking up in the SGC, as Carter tries to rebuild her memories, it is not until she mentions Martouf's death that Rosha suddenly remembers all that has gone before, and mourns his death.
Meanwhile the rest of SG1 along with Jacob Carter visit the world of Khepri in a cloaked cargo ship, and witness Apophis obliterating Khepri's front line forces, and the rest of his army joing Apophis. Jacob says that Apophis has killed serveral minor Goa'uld like Khepri, his forces are growing, and he is becoming a serious threat.
10. Beneath the surface
SG-1 are brainwashed and given memories of new lives and put to work as mining slaves on an alien world. While Hammond tries to find out if they're still alive, the SG-1 must struggle with their returning memories and plot their escape.
11. Point of no return
Martin Lloyd, a conspiracy nutjob, calls up the SGC but has accurate knowledge of the Stargate. Martin claims to own a spaceship and is dismissed as a crackpot, but a series of incidents suggests that there may be more to his claims.
12. The Curse
When Daniel Jackson's old archeology professor, Dr. Jordan, dies in a mysterious lab explosion, Daniel pays a return visit to his old academic stomping grounds. But as he reacquaints himself with his former colleagues, he begins to suspect that Dr. Jordan's death may not have been an accident. He discovers that one of the items the professor was studying, an ancient Egyptian jar, contains a perfectly preserved Goa'uld symbiote. Apparently, a crack in the vessel compromised the sedative solution within, killing the creature. But further investigation reveals a second jar may have existed. With a Goa'uld apparently stalking the campus and the local community abuzz with talk of an ancient curse, Daniel must unravel the mystery before it's too late.
13. Chain Reaction
When General Hammond announces he is stepping down as head of the SGC, O'Neill suspects that there is more to his decision than he is letting on. And, as it turns out, O'Neill is right as he discovers that the NID was behind the change of command. Fed up with the general's inability to acquire alien technology through whatever means necessary, it pressured him into resigning. When Hammond's replacement breaks up SG-1 and assigns Carter the task of building a planet-killing Naquadah bomb, O'Neill takes matters into his own hands. He decides to take on the NID, but his success will rest in the hands of a most unlikely ally: Colonel Maybourne.
14. 2010
Nine years in the future, the Goa'uld have been defeated thanks to an alliance with an advanced alien race. Transportation technology and off-world Stargate travel is now commonplace. However, Carter finds out that most of the human race has secretly been rendered sterile by Earth's new allies. She and the other SG-1 team members must rig the Stargate for time travel (first done in the episode "1969") and send a message back to their counterparts in 2001 to prevent contact with the alien race.
15. Tangent
O'Neill and Teal'c are thrown into Deep Space whilst testing a new craft built from 2 goa'uld death gliders
16. The promised one
On a routine trip to Abydos, Kasuf shows Daniel some recently discovered catacombs, and hieroglyphs that tell of the promised one, a being of pure energy who will save the Abydonians when thier futures are threatened.
As Daniel and Skarra explore deeper into the catacombs, A Goa'uld mothership commanded by Heru-ur comes out of hyperspace and lands on the pyramid that houses the stargate. Horus Guards begin to attack the abydonians and Kasuf is captured, and tortured, Daniel and Skaraa try to leave the catacombs but are spotted by Jaffa, who shoot at Dr Jackson and cause a cave in, Daniel and Skaara are trapped in the cave.
Back in the SGC Daniel is 2 hours overdue for communication, General Hammond sends a M.A.L.P to Abydos to be greeted by the end of a staff weapon. Jacob, who is visiting Sam, suggests that they take the Cargo Ship he came in, and help Daniel. Jack agrees and they leave for Abydos. Meanwhile, unable to leave the catacombs Daniel and Skaraa begin to translate some of the writings , and discover an ancient device, they use it and a glowing light appears , Daniel and Skarra follow it as it punches through the cave in allowing them to exit, The glowing light seems to make the Horus Guards disapear and Kasuf is restored to health, Heru-urs ship disapears, and Heru-ur makes his escape by Stargate.
The glowing light then stops in front of Daniel and Skaara, and transforms into a young boy. "I am harcesis" he says "Thankyou for calling on me, I have paid back that, i owe to this world and its people, and my mother". Daniel is stunned, and as a Goa'uld cargo ship begins to land, The boy disapears. Jack, Carter, Teal'c and Jacob exit the cargo ship and are shocked to find that thier help isnt needed.
17. Prodigy
During a visit to the Air Force Academy, Carter makes the acquaintance of Jennifer Hailey, a promising young cadet with a rebellious streak. Carter sees great potential in her, but Jennifer seems determined to sabotage her future with the Air Force. She is fiercely independent, opinionated, and resentful of Carter to whom she is constantly being compared. On the other hand, Hailey is brilliant and Carter eventually decides to show her what she can look forward to if she stays the course - by bringing her through the Stargate. The two of them visit an offworld research base where O'Neill and Teal'c are on security detail, "babysitting" a group of ungrateful scientists. But the seemingly routine mission takes a deadly turn when they are attacked by alien life forms composed of pure energy. Trapped and cut off from the Stargate, SG-1 must make a desperate gamble to reach freedom before it's too late.
Stargate SG1 : Season Four
Richard Dean Anderson as Jack O’Neill
Michael Shanks as Dr Daniel Jackson
Amanda Tapping as Samantha Carter
Christopher Judge as Teal’c
Don S Davis as General Hammond
1. Small Victories
While Carter helps the Asgard fight the replicators galaxies away, Teal'c, Daniel, and O'Neill must contain them on Earth.
2. Fallen Angel
On a mission to a planet ruled by a goa’uld named Khepri , Major Carter discovers the former host of Jolinar, Rosha living as one of the goa’ulds harem, Carter driven by a loyalty to Jolinar tries to rescue her against the orders of O'Neill but is captured. SG1 call Martouf from the tok’ra, Jolinar’s former lover to assist, but when Rosha recognises Martouf she orders the Jaffa to capture him, In prison Carter learns the Rosha was once a Prisoner of Khepri, but was tortured and when dying her symbiote jumped from her body into another body. Rosha was then chosen by Khepri as one of his Harem and revived in a sarcophagus. SG1 must escape from the confines of the Goa’uld, whilst Carter and Martouf plan to capture Rosha and take her back to the Tok’ra.
When Khepri's Jaffa bring food to the prisoners, O'Neill and Teal'c jump them, and steal thier body armour and helmets. O'Neill and Teal'c lead Jackson, Carter and Martouf out of the dungeon, and try to sneak out of the palace undetected, but when Carter see's Rosha, her and Martouf run after her. O'Neill is forced to leave them behind and he , Teal'c and Dr Jackson make it out unharmed.
Meanwhile Carter and Martouf follow Rosha to her room, and she climbs into a sarchophagus. Martouf and Carter overide the controls of the sarchophagus and when she climbs out , they Zat her. They then try to get her out of the Palace, but are surrounded by Jaffa. Rosha is woken and her eyes glow, She has been infected by a Goa'uld. She orders the Jaffa to kill Carter and Martouf, but just in time O'Neill, Teal'c and Daniel kill the Jaffa, and rescue thier team-mates, Rosha disappears into the Palace. Carter insists they go back for her but Martouf and O'Neill disagree, but Martouf is adament that when the time comes, they will retrive her.
3. Upgrades
The Tok'ra ask the SG-1 to test some mysterious alien armbands, but it soon becomes clear the armbands have lethal side effects that endanger the team in the midst of a critical mission.
4. The Rise and the Fall of Robert Rothman
Whilst Teal'c and Bra'tac are on Chulak gathering support for thier cause, Dr Daniel Jackson, Nyan, and Dr Robert Rothman catelogue artefacts brought back through the stargate over the past 4 years. One device that Rothman unknowingly activates begins to affect his mind, giving him a newfound confidence and belief in himself, whilst first all is good, Rothman soon becomes irritable and begins to show signs of Goa'uld like arrogance.
When Rothman suddenly looses conciousness Dr Fraiser finds naquada in his system along with an unknown chemical. When Daniel and Nyan trace the cause of Rothmans illness to a glowing artefact in Jacksons office, O'Neill, Carter and Dr Jackson revisit the planet where it was found to find a cure.
O'Neill and Carter discover and labratory containing technology that is similar in design to the repositary of knowledge that O'Neill looked into 2 years previously. Carter sumises that it might be Ancient technology. She finds a database and locates the device that did this, and Daniel decifers enough to learn that once the device is switched off Rothman will be okay. With this knowledge they are able to save his life, and his personality returns to normal. With Rothman back to normal and fearing that everyone will hate him after his Goa'uld like behaviour, Daniel says they will always be friends.
5. Divide and Conquer
During a meeting of the Tok'ra High Council, one of the SGC soldiers goes berserk and attacks them before taking his own life. It soon becomes clear that the Goa'uld have a new weapon - a mind control technique that can turn anyone into a preprogrammed assassin. SGC soon realizes that Jack and Sam may be the next programmed assassins. But as Jack and Sam are proved innocent, Martouf pays the ultimate price.
6. Window of Opportunity
When an alien scientist activates an Ancient device that the Ancients tried to use to travel back in time, Jack and Teal'c get caught in a time loop.
7. Scorched Earth
SG-1 helps transfer the residents of a Goa'uld slave planet to a new world, but soon find the planet is the target of a terraforming effort that will wipe out its new inhabitants.
8. The First Ones
An archaeological team makes an amazing discovery - a planet holding primordial Goa'uld symbiotes. But the planet also is home to the Unas, the first race that acted as a host to the symbiote, and the team and SG-1 are soon in danger from the symbiotes.
9. Faceless
On a mission to P4X - 757 , SG1 are witness to a meeting between Jolinars former host Rosha and Zipacna, Apophis's underling. It seems that Rosha is betraying Khepri, giving Zipacna the details of Khepri's modest army of Jaffa. As SG1 begin to leave to share this information with the Tok'ra, Zipacna orders his Serpent Guards to kill Rosha. Carter intervenes Killing the Jaffa but Zipacna escapes, and it is too late. Rosha has been severely wounded, her Goa'uld has left her body and is dead. Rosha is dying.
SG1 take Rosha back to the SGC and call the Tok'ra who regret that they are unable to help her, and that she must do this on her own if she is to survive. Major Carter and Dr Fraiser work to save her life. As she recovers it becomes apparent that Rosha has no memory of her life prior to waking up in the SGC, as Carter tries to rebuild her memories, it is not until she mentions Martouf's death that Rosha suddenly remembers all that has gone before, and mourns his death.
Meanwhile the rest of SG1 along with Jacob Carter visit the world of Khepri in a cloaked cargo ship, and witness Apophis obliterating Khepri's front line forces, and the rest of his army joing Apophis. Jacob says that Apophis has killed serveral minor Goa'uld like Khepri, his forces are growing, and he is becoming a serious threat.
10. Beneath the surface
SG-1 are brainwashed and given memories of new lives and put to work as mining slaves on an alien world. While Hammond tries to find out if they're still alive, the SG-1 must struggle with their returning memories and plot their escape.
11. Point of no return
Martin Lloyd, a conspiracy nutjob, calls up the SGC but has accurate knowledge of the Stargate. Martin claims to own a spaceship and is dismissed as a crackpot, but a series of incidents suggests that there may be more to his claims.
12. The Curse
When Daniel Jackson's old archeology professor, Dr. Jordan, dies in a mysterious lab explosion, Daniel pays a return visit to his old academic stomping grounds. But as he reacquaints himself with his former colleagues, he begins to suspect that Dr. Jordan's death may not have been an accident. He discovers that one of the items the professor was studying, an ancient Egyptian jar, contains a perfectly preserved Goa'uld symbiote. Apparently, a crack in the vessel compromised the sedative solution within, killing the creature. But further investigation reveals a second jar may have existed. With a Goa'uld apparently stalking the campus and the local community abuzz with talk of an ancient curse, Daniel must unravel the mystery before it's too late.
13. Chain Reaction
When General Hammond announces he is stepping down as head of the SGC, O'Neill suspects that there is more to his decision than he is letting on. And, as it turns out, O'Neill is right as he discovers that the NID was behind the change of command. Fed up with the general's inability to acquire alien technology through whatever means necessary, it pressured him into resigning. When Hammond's replacement breaks up SG-1 and assigns Carter the task of building a planet-killing Naquadah bomb, O'Neill takes matters into his own hands. He decides to take on the NID, but his success will rest in the hands of a most unlikely ally: Colonel Maybourne.
14. 2010
Nine years in the future, the Goa'uld have been defeated thanks to an alliance with an advanced alien race. Transportation technology and off-world Stargate travel is now commonplace. However, Carter finds out that most of the human race has secretly been rendered sterile by Earth's new allies. She and the other SG-1 team members must rig the Stargate for time travel (first done in the episode "1969") and send a message back to their counterparts in 2001 to prevent contact with the alien race.
15. Tangent
O'Neill and Teal'c are thrown into Deep Space whilst testing a new craft built from 2 goa'uld death gliders
16. The promised one
On a routine trip to Abydos, Kasuf shows Daniel some recently discovered catacombs, and hieroglyphs that tell of the promised one, a being of pure energy who will save the Abydonians when thier futures are threatened.
As Daniel and Skarra explore deeper into the catacombs, A Goa'uld mothership commanded by Heru-ur comes out of hyperspace and lands on the pyramid that houses the stargate. Horus Guards begin to attack the abydonians and Kasuf is captured, and tortured, Daniel and Skaraa try to leave the catacombs but are spotted by Jaffa, who shoot at Dr Jackson and cause a cave in, Daniel and Skaara are trapped in the cave.
Back in the SGC Daniel is 2 hours overdue for communication, General Hammond sends a M.A.L.P to Abydos to be greeted by the end of a staff weapon. Jacob, who is visiting Sam, suggests that they take the Cargo Ship he came in, and help Daniel. Jack agrees and they leave for Abydos. Meanwhile, unable to leave the catacombs Daniel and Skaraa begin to translate some of the writings , and discover an ancient device, they use it and a glowing light appears , Daniel and Skarra follow it as it punches through the cave in allowing them to exit, The glowing light seems to make the Horus Guards disapear and Kasuf is restored to health, Heru-urs ship disapears, and Heru-ur makes his escape by Stargate.
The glowing light then stops in front of Daniel and Skaara, and transforms into a young boy. "I am harcesis" he says "Thankyou for calling on me, I have paid back that, i owe to this world and its people, and my mother". Daniel is stunned, and as a Goa'uld cargo ship begins to land, The boy disapears. Jack, Carter, Teal'c and Jacob exit the cargo ship and are shocked to find that thier help isnt needed.
17. Prodigy
During a visit to the Air Force Academy, Carter makes the acquaintance of Jennifer Hailey, a promising young cadet with a rebellious streak. Carter sees great potential in her, but Jennifer seems determined to sabotage her future with the Air Force. She is fiercely independent, opinionated, and resentful of Carter to whom she is constantly being compared. On the other hand, Hailey is brilliant and Carter eventually decides to show her what she can look forward to if she stays the course - by bringing her through the Stargate. The two of them visit an offworld research base where O'Neill and Teal'c are on security detail, "babysitting" a group of ungrateful scientists. But the seemingly routine mission takes a deadly turn when they are attacked by alien life forms composed of pure energy. Trapped and cut off from the Stargate, SG-1 must make a desperate gamble to reach freedom before it's too late.
(who rates S4 as probably her favourite, but is happy to see alternative universes now and then)
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