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The 1994 movie
Stargate was originally intended as the start of a franchise, but creators Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin were distracted celebrating their
Independence Day. Episodic TV treatment was the natural next step. Replacing the Kurt Russell and James Spader roles of Colonel Jack O'Neill and Dr Daniel Jackson respectively are Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks. They are joined by Captain Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and guilt-stricken former alien baddie Teal'c (Christopher Judge) to form the teacher's pet primary unit SG-1 With a seemingly endless network of Stargates found to exist on planets all across the known universe, their mission is to make first contact with as many friendly races as possible. Chasing their heels at almost every turn are the "overlord" pharaoh-like Goa'uld--the ancient Egyptian Gods who are none too chummy after the events of the original film. The welcome notion of a continued plot thread sees offshoots that follow the reincarnation of Daniel's wife; Sam's father literally joining a renegade faction of the Goa'uld; and Jack in an unending quest to out-sarcasm everyone. There's something of
The Time Tunnel to the show's premise, but amid a dearth of derivative look-a-likes,
Stargate has held its own with stories that put the science fiction back into TV sci-fi. The episodes are not always properly sequenced on the tapes, making the order of events potentially confusing, something that ought to be taken into account when viewing.
"The Enemy Within" illustrates the problem of releasing these episodes out of sequence, since it continues the thread left dangling from Volume 1. Here you're introduced to Teal'c having seen him in four episodes already. Things are less confusing in the rather direct look at sexism presented in "Emancipation", when the Shavadai race are put to the test by Captain Carter's beliefs. And vice versa. --Paul Tonks
Synopsis
Featuring the episodes: 'Enemy Within' in which the SG-1 team discover that Kawalsky has become infected. In 'Emancipation' the home of a hostile race called the Shavadai meet their match in Carter.
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