The essential episodes of Stargate SG·1
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Stargate SG·1 — each pick states its reason.
- 01
The System Lord Apophis launches an attack through the Stargate, tucked away by the military after the events of the movie, and the SGC program is reactivated and given a new objective - seek out and find the alien invaders and defeat them. Jack O'Neill is called out of retirement and sent to locate Daniel Jackson on Abydos.
- 02
There But for the Grace of God
While investigating P3R-233, Daniel stumbles across a device that projects him into a parallel dimension. The parallel SGC (known as the SGA) must somehow dial out of their Stargate and get Daniel back to the planet so he can return to "his" universe.
- 03
With the Stargate being shut down, SG-1 decide to take one last trip through the 'gate to stop the Goa'uld attack that is imminent.
- 04
Through a dream, Captain Carter sees herself as Jolinar of Malkshur, running through a maze of blue walls and brightly coloured people. She stops at a DHD to dial an address. This, so she claims, is the Tok'ra base. So, SG-1 goes off the contact the Tok'ra. Meanwhile, Captain Carter's father, Jacob, has cancer and it is getting worse.
- 05
When the Tollan refuse to share technology, even after SG-1 saved the planet from a Goa'uld attack, Jack gets angry and steals a device from them. As a result, Jack is forced into early retirement.
- 06
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.
- 07
When an alien scientist activates a device that the Ancients created for time alterations, Jack and Teal'c get caught in a time loop.
- 08
On an agrarian planet, SG-1 meets the Ashen Confederacy, who propose a trade accord with Earth.
- 09
SG-1 attempts to rescue an Asgard scientist from the Goa'uld.
- 10
Rya'c insists that Teal'c allow him to join in battle, so he can see for himself what the war is all about. Together with Bra'tac, they deduce the planet Anubis is attacking Earth from, and set out to make a strike at his weapon. Meanwhile, on Earth, the efforts continue to find a way of preventing the destruction of the Stargate.
- 11
SG-1 must defend Abydos from Anubis, who has come to take the Eye of Ra, an object of fabled power.
- 12
Using Jack's Ancient knowledge, SG-1 goes to a planet in search of Ancient weapons but soon learn that the weapons are actually hidden on Earth. Will SG-1 be able to make it back in time before Anubis' attack begins?
- 13
Ba'al sends his fleet back to retake the planet Dakara, pitting his ships against Teal'c and the Jaffa. The RepliCarter tries to probe Daniel's mind to find all the Ancients' knowledge, while Jacob and Carter discover the Ancient weapon on Dakara and try to figure out how to use it to destroy the Replicators.
- 14
Stargate Command encounters missionaries for a race of "gods" known as the Ori, who have zero tolerance for disbelievers.
- 15
The SG-1 team extends a small time frame to several years to survive an attack of the Ori and tries to find a solution to solve their problem.
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