Spirits (213)

[Seaboe Muffinchucker]

However, I must add that the prop-department did an outstanding job with the props and statues.

Helps that they had local sources.

Seaboe

[Falcon Horus]

Helps that they had local sources.

What do you mean?

[kimberlyrose]

The Salish are indigenous to the Pacific Northwest.

[Falcon Horus]

The Salish are indigenous to the Pacific Northwest.

Ah, like that... now, I get it.

However, they still have to build the props, doing a pretty good job too.

[Seaboe Muffinchucker]

Ah, like that... now, I get it.

However, they still have to build the props, doing a pretty good job too.

I don't know the business, but they may have borrowed some. There's a good museum in Vancouver with a lot of artifacts, ancient and modern.

Seaboe

[Falcon Horus]

They probably were allowed to view them in a more close-up way -- however, artifacts from museums are rarely let out of their glass cages.

[Vagabond Serpent]

An average episode. A moral message coming through every little minute, a new culture to explore, not just your typical ex-Egypt civilization. It was nice to see some alien aliens again, and quite a powerful ones to that matter.

Sam's first command went smooth enough for her, I think, though I found the episode quirky a little until I read here that RDA needed to be written out of the screen nearly in the last few hours before the shooting. A pity that those aliens were never explored again, hence a lower rating.

And Tonane is a great guy, the actor did a real great job on putting on the role for the episode. The Indians look like they never even were touched by the West, so they're very trusting and faithful. Well, makes sense, as seemingly they were taken when Rome was collapsing

Rating: 5/10.

[Anja]

I always like it when there are some animals. But poor doggie - it had its tail tied down to make it look like a wolf. Anyway the dog didn't seem to feel troubled.
Nice plot and back to the base.

[Falcon Horus]

Poor dog, indeed... but without it we wouldn't have had a wolf in the first place, since there's a ban on wolf animal actors.

[jelgate]

Poor dog, indeed... but without it we wouldn't have had a wolf in the first place, since there's a ban on wolf animal actors.

There is? I have never heard of this.

[Anja]

Yes, in British Columbia it's forbidden to use wild animals on set - so the dog had to be made wolf-like and wolves don't carry their tails high.

[garhkal]

Since i am doing a re-watch of SG1 from start to finish i am currently just past this ep and was wondering..

Later on iirc in S5-6 area, when we get introduced to the Promethus project, we hear the ship's been built with trinium in it.. BUT IF the Sallesh buried their gate, HOW did we get the trinium?? Did any later ep ever make mention of that?

[Seaboe Muffinchucker]

I seem to recall that they found at least one other planet with trinium on it, but don't recall the specifics.

Seaboe

[garhkal]

Well, it wasn't soon after the Spirits ep, cause when Sokar was bombarding the IRIS in "Serpents song" they had reinforced the Iris with a Trinium/steel blend...

[Xaeden]

Another trinium mine is mentioned in "Between Two Fires" (S5E9). At that point, their supply was apparently large enough for them to regularly provide the Tollan with the trinium they needed for the phase shifting tech.

TRAVELL
Our scientists will work out the specifics, but given that you now have an offworld trinium mine, I am sure it's within your capabilities.

We have no idea when this occurred since it happened off-screen, but regarding their use of trinium in making a new iris two episodes after "Spirits," my assumption is that it was built using trinium from their initial mining operation, prior to being shut down by those spirit posing aliens. It was mentioned that Sg-11 had increased output...

"Currently extracting an average of 47 pounds of Trinium ore per day to increase our production four-fold as the engineers have requested…" It's a requisition request from Captain Conner. He just stops in mid-sentence.

So apparently they had been successfully mining smaller amounts for an unknown period of time before being stopped when they amped up their efforts. We don't know how long they had been at it for or what amounts were sent back through the Stargate previously. The episode starts with Hammond showing Sg-1 an impure sample that came from Sg-11's initial reconnaissance, but it's never stated that that was the only trinium they had. I would expect that that was just one of multiple samples they initially brought back with them and, regarding their mining operation, Hammond simply said that Sg-11 had been sent back to the planet to extract more and mentions them being late for a weekly check-in. How long they had been at it for and what the results were are things that were never mentioned.