SG-1 Season 3

AsTrapped on Hathor's planet, Carter and Daniel can only watch helplessly as Hathor implants O'Neill with a Goa'uld symbiote. General Hammond sends Colonel Makepeace and six Stargate units to reclaim SG-1, but when the units are defeated, Hammond decides to do the job himself. Meanwhile, Makepeace succeeds in rescuing Carter and Daniel, but Hathor's army has created an Energy Barrier blocking them from the Stargate. Back in Hathor's facility, a Tok'ra spy closes O'Neill in a cryogenic chamber to kill his goa'uld host. As Carter rescues her freezing teammate, they come face to face with the enraged queen.

Carter's father, Jacob, enlists the SG-1 team in his hunt for the ancient Goa'uld Lord Seth, whom he believes is hiding on earth. A computer search reveals Seth has maintained power on earth for thousands of years using false religion and the SG-1 team trace him to a heavily armed compound in Washington State. Outside the compound they clash with a team of action-happy ATF men led by the adversarial Hamner, and they meet Levinson, a frantic father who's desperate to rescue his son Tom from Seth's cult. O'Neill, Carter and Daniel break into the compound but within minutes they fall victim to the biological agent Seth uses to brainwash his followers into doing his bidding.

As guard leader, Thor tells O'Neill that the Goa'uld System Lords plan to attack Earth, and offers his help in negotiating a peace deal. Three System Lords attend the session, Yu, Nirrti and Osiris - the Lord responsible for killing Teal'c's father. The three initially agree to the Asguard's peace proposal on the condition that Earth gives up the Stargate. But when Teal'c and Osiris are discovered badly beaten, Teal'c is blamed and the two remaining Lords vow to attack Earth as retribution. Despite Nirrti's claim that she tried the healing hand technique on Osiris and it didn't work, Carter uses it and manages to save the Lord. Realizing that Nirrti orchestrated the beating to seize power, Yu and Osiris turn their rage toward their former comrade giving Earth a temporary reprieve.

During a routine mission, the SG-1 team discovers a room containing the corpses -- a league of Goa'uld who challenged the System Lords. One is holding a tablet, and after Daniel touches it, he begins to hear voices and see nightmarish visions. Medical tests indicate schizophrenia. Whatever is interfering with Daniel's mind, however, soon transfers to Teal'c with far more deadly consequences. As the parasite leaves his body, Daniel hears the voice of the dead Machello declaring death to the Goa'uld. Daniel realizes he was infected by Machello's Goa'uld killing parasite, a theory borne out by Teal'c's rapid deterioration. Believing the tablet holds the key to Teal'c's survival, the team brings it to the lab, but as they open it, the parasites ooze into Dr. Frasier, Carter and O'Neill. Carter proves immune, but with parasites inside them, Frasier and O'Neill deteriorate rapidly and Hammond has no choice but to seal the lab off with the three inside.

: In the pursuit of knowledge, Jack O'Neill, Teal'c and Daniel Jackson travel to the planet Orban as part of an exchange program. Daniel and Teal'c remain on the planet -- Daniel to study an ancient mosaic pattern on the floor of their Stargate room that he hopes will explain the origin of the Orbanian people, and Teal'c to prepare the Orbanians, should they ever encounter the Goa'uld, by sharing his knowledge with them. O'Neill travels back to earth with a young Orbanian girl, Merrin, and her chaperone, Kalan, to present the SGC with a valuable Naquadah reactor. All are surprised when it is the young Merrin who volunteers to stay at the SGC and teach Samantha Carter how to build such a complicated technical device. As Carter and O'Neill spend more time with Merrin, they become aware that she is not a typical eleven-year-old. She is incredibly knowledgeable, but has no understanding of fun or play.

SGC is taken aback when an alternate reality version of Samantha Carter and the deceased Major Kawalsky are found in a secured building in top secret Area 51. To transport themselves to our present day Earth, they used the Quantum Mirror (previously seen in &There But For The Grace of God"). When the alternate Carter and Kawalsky are taken to SGC for debriefing, they can't believe how different everything is in this reality. Here Colonel Jack O'Neill is alive, whereas in their alternate reality he was married to Dr. Carter before his recent death at the hands of the Goa'uld. Teal'c is an ally rather than the enemy, Major Kawalsky has been dead for several months, and their Samantha Carter is a Major who is identical in appearance with the exception of her short hair.

SG-1 travels to planet PJ6-877 for a routine exploration. Almost immediately after arriving, they are captured in an invisible force-field by alien bounty hunter Aris Boch. Aris takes them to his cargo ship, which is completely invisible from the outside. He has come to this planet to hunt a Goa'uld named Kel'tar who is wanted by the evil system Lord Sokar. He attempts to solicit help from SG-1, in exchange for their freedom. He informs them that should they refuse to participate, he will take them to Sokar. There are sizable bounties on the heads of Teal'c and Samantha Carter, a reasonable bounty on the head of Jack O'Neill, but Daniel Jackson could probably only be traded for a day's rations.

: SG-1 arrives at a medieval village and frees Mary, a young woman who has been left outside tied to a stake. Simon, friar of the village and Mary's friend, explains that Mary is a sacrifice for the demon that plagues their village. The Canon chose her when he mistook her illness for an evil possession. When the demon arrives and finds no sacrifice, he promises to destroy the village the next day unless five humans are left for sacrifice. SG-1 recognizes this "demon" and plot to destroy it, but the Canon pronounces SG-1 evil and condemns them to be sacrificed. SG-1 must convince Simon to go against everything he believes in order to save themselves and rid the village of their demon forever.

Upon exiting the Stargate, SG-1 finds itself in the midst of battle. A group of SG soldiers battles a Jaffa army. Believing the soldiers to be the missing-in-action SG-11 team, O'Neill and the others provide assistance. Much to their surprise, the mystery SG team turns their weapons on SG-1! SG-1 wakes up in the soldier's training camp with headaches and no weapons. The camp's leader, Captain Rogers, assumes them to be from a rival camp until he recognizes Teal'c as Jaffa. Rogers presumes that SG-1 has been sent by the camp's long-gone Jaffa leaders to test their battle readiness. The Captain explains that the soldiers' standing orders are to practice battle using non-lethal Earth weapons until the return of Apophis.

During a rescue of captured Abydonians, including his father-in-law, Kasuf, Daniel Jackson sees his long-lost wife Sha're watching the activity from a nearby tent. He follows her inside, where Sha're -- who is actually the Goa'uld Amaunet -- takes Daniel in the grip of a Goa'uld ribbon device. Teal'c enters the tent with his staff weapon as Daniel falls unconscious.

SG-1 travels to a planet whose inhabitants seem to be suffering from mass retrograde amnesia. They have no memory of their lives before the unknown event they call the "Vorlix," and report that their elders and children are missing. The planet faces complete devastation unless the people's memories can be restored. The inhabitants introduce SG-1 to Ke'ra, a brilliant and personable young woman who has come to be the leader of her people. She and Daniel Jackson develop a mutual attraction. Ke'ra returns to Earth with SG-1 in hopes that her existing research on the Vorlix may help them find a cure. But as the investigation progresses, SG-1 begins to suspect that Ke'ra may not be who or what she appears.

The Tok'ra Martouf arrives at the SGC with troubling news: Major Carter's father, Jacob, and his Tok'ra symbiote Selmak have been captured by the evil Goa'uld System Lord Sokar. Jacob/Selmak is imprisoned on a moon called "Netu" - which Sokar has transformed into a literal Hell. The Tok'ra believe that Sokar plans to launch an attack against the other System Lords, gaining full control for himself. Martouf will try to rescue Jacob/Selmak, but his first priority is finding out how much Selmak knows about Sokar's plan. Unfortunately, no one has escaped from Hell. No one except Jolinar, and she never told anyone else.

During an attempt to rescue Jacob Carter, SG-1 and Martouf have been captured by one of Hell's denizens who is determined to use the information they possess to overthrow Sokar. With the aid of the Tok'ra memory technology and a hallucinogenic drug nicknamed "the blood of Sokar," each prisoner is forced to relive vivid, painful memories. But this time, they are unable to distinguish between memory and reality.

En route to the infirmary after an extended mission, SG-1 learns that part of the SGC has been sealed off due to a chemical leak. Soon after, during their routine examinations, Dr. Fraiser injects each member of the team with a sedative, rendering them unconscious. Teal'c is the first to awaken, and secretly observes Dr. Fraiser and General Hammond talking with two aliens. The General orders Teal'c and Carter placed in holding cells. Feigning unconsciousness, he waits until he and his escorts are away from the infirmary before overpowering the guards and waking Major Carter.

The Tollan Narim pays an unexpected visit to the SGC, inviting the members of SG-1 to participate in "Triad". Only when SG-1 shows up on the new Tollan home world do they learn that the Triad is an ancient ceremony of justice, and the person on trial is their old friend Skaara. The Goa'uld Klorel's death glider crash-landed on the Tollan planet. Klorel was injured, which allowed the host personality, Skaara, to emerge and request amnesty. This Triad will determine which of the personalities will forever have control over the host body: the Goa'uld Klorel, or Skaara. Daniel and O'Neill will argue for Skaara's position, while another Goa'uld named ZIPACNA will argue for Klorel's.

SG-1 steps through the Stargate on their way to a paradise planet and end up at the SGC. Adding to their confusion is Hammond's assertion that the team was gone for fifteen hours, not the mere moment that the SG-1 perceived. Dr. Fraiser's examinations of the team members are inconclusive, but an analysis of the MALP data reveals a brief initial image of an alien lab just before the paradise view. They theorize the paradise image is a means to lure people to the planet. But for what reason? As they try to figure this out, each member of the team begins to experience intense cravings.

Colonel O'Neill and the rest of the SG-1 team have established ties with a small village on the planet Edora, and their leader LAIRA - with whom O'Neill shares a mutual and quiet attraction. Everyone gathers to watch the annual meteor shower referred to by the natives as "fire rain." At first, it's a pleasant light show, but an extra-large shooting star prompts Carter and Daniel to conduct further research. Their results indicate that Edora travels through an asteroid belt every year, but every century and a half the orbit hits a particularly dense section of debris. Those meteors hit the surface of the planet to cataclysmic effect, and apparently this is one of those years.

SG-1 travel to Tollana to negotiate a trade. O'Neill becomes extremely annoyed when the Tollans refuse to cooperate due to their fear that any weaponry given to Earth would more likely be used on itself than to protect against the Goa'uld. In an act that shocks the rest of his team, O'Neill steals a Tollan device as they are departing back to Earth. Upon hearing of Col. O'Neill's deed, an outraged General Hammond relieves O'Neill of his command. When the Tollans pay a visit and announce that they intend to break all ties with Earth, Hammond has no choice but to offer O'Neill an early retirement. Col. Maybourne, hearing of O'Neill's indiscretion, pays him a visit at his home to make him an interesting offer.

The SG-1 team travels to the planet Bedrosia where, unbeknownst to them, the planet's two cultures have been at war over their opposed beliefs regarding the Stargate. Upon their arrival, they are met by the curious Nyan, a scientist. Nyan explains to them that their arrival through the Stargate proves that the beliefs of his rival culture, the Optricians, is true and that humans were brought to this planet by aliens through a gateway. His culture, the Bedrosians, believe that human life evolved without a gateway and was created by their God, Nefertum.

When Bra'tac arrives at the SGC pleading for medical assistance, his battered Jaffa apprentice is accompanying him. He announces that Chulak, the home planet to himself and Teal'c, was brutally attacked by Apophis, and goes on to tell that it was as though Apophis was looking for something. Daniel deduces that "something" to be Harsesis, the child Apophis fathered with Sha're/Amaunet. This forbidden child would contain all the knowledge of the Goa'uld and, if he were to fall into the wrong hands, could be the Goa'uld's undoing.

Daniel Jackson becomes intrigued when the video transmission from the M.A.L.P. reveals a huge Mayan pyramid with a glowing crystal skull in its center. He tells the rest of SG-1 and General Hammond that the skull appears to be identical to one his grandfather, Nicholas Ballard, found in Belize in 1971. He goes on to tell that his grandfather claimed that the skull possessed a power to teleport you to a place inhabited by Aliens. When the academic community shunned Nicholas because of his seemingly ridiculous claims, he never recovered.

While preparing for a week of leave, O'Neill is engulfed in a white glow and disappears. Carter immediately recognizes that O'Neill has been transported away by the Asgard. O'Neill suddenly finds himself a little disoriented on Thor's ship. He begins to hear a strange sound and moments later is faced with hundreds of menacing looking metallic bugs. He freezes as they swarm past him. O'Neill heads in the direction the bugs came from and comes upon a very weak Thor. Thor tells O'Neill that he is dying and directs him to a control panel for further information as he is too weak. O'Neill learns that these bugs called replicators are artificial organisms that have overtaken the ship and have directed it to Earth. The effects of the replicators reaching Earth would be devastating.