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Some more sources of info:
The Official Stargate SG-1 site linked off of the showtime homepage
Heliopolis, the fanfic site where these might end up posted.
The Stargate, SG1 episode guide. If I end up linking episodes names below, this is the site those links will go to.
The Nitpicker's guide to SG1 which I haven't used as much as I should.
Gate addresses
Acronyms and names:
SGC: StarGate Command. A military installation below NORAD in Cheyenne Mt, in Colorado Springs, CO. This is where the Stargate is located, deep in the mountain. Also used to refer to all the members of the military who work there.
SG-1: The premier team of people who travel through the Gate. 'Our Heroes.'
Tau'ri: The name for humans currently living on Earth. Humans have been taken off of Earth all through history, so we find cultures of all sorts on other planets. The Tau'ri were mythical everywhere else, and are supposed to be the civiliation that will overthrow the
Goa'uld: a race of parasitical beings who use humans (and other races) as 'hosts.' They're a reptilian snake race which incubate in modified humans called Jaffa. Once the snake (symbiote, or prim'ta) has matured in the Jaffa, it takes a human host, and wraps itself around the brain stem, effectively taking control of the human. They pass theirselves off as gods, mostly of Egyption decent (Ra, Isis, Osiris, etc.) They are the dominant race in our galaxy, and have taken humans from earth for 10,000 years, and have made them slaves on all sorts of other worlds.
Tok'ra: A resistance movement within the goa'uld. They too are humans with snake symbiotes, but these snakes are 'good.' They're working to overthrow the Goa'uld and change the way the empire is run.
The story starts in the theatrical movie "Stargate," in which some archaeologists find, in a dig at Giza some time in the '20's, a large, two story ring made out of some alien material. The ring has a bunch of odd symbols on it, and it covered by a cartouche on which are a series of Egyptian-like hieroglyphs. Not much in the movie tells about what happens between then and the present, although the series covers that later. But that isn't relevant here.
In the '90's, the military starts to study the ring again, and bring in an archaeologist / Egyptologist, to study the cartouche. Dr. Daniel Jackson has some wild theory about how the Pyramids were actually built by aliens, they're much older than we originally thought, and that many old cultures were much more connected than we originally thought. He's mocked by most of the academic community, just lost his job and is broke, and has nowhere else to go. So he takes the military up on their offer.
He ends up translating the cartouche, which says something about a "Stargate," which confirms the military's idea that this is a gate to another world. They've rigged up a computer to rotate the inside of the ring, and 7 of the symbols, which resemble constellations, of the 'Gate make up an address in space, 6 for star coordinates, the 7th for the "point of origin."
They get one of the addresses to work, and Daniel, accompanied by a bunch (platoon?) of Air Force guys, let by a Colonel Jack O'Neill, go through the Gate to determine what's on the other side.
Prior to the events of the movie, we discover slowly, O'Neill's son accidentally shot himself with O'Neill’s gun. He's devastated, and is nearly suicidal. A perfect person to lead a team to a planet which poses a large threat to Earth.
The planet, Abydos, is a desert planet populated by humans. Daniel, the geek scientist, is not at all respected by the military guy he's with, but he proves crucial in contacting and communicating with the locals. Daniel at some point is offered the daughter of the chief, Shau're, as a wife, and both he and Jack befriend Shau're's younger brother, Skaara (the geek gets the girl!)
The Abydonians are enslaved by the Egyptian Sun-God, Ra, who is alive and well on this planet, arriving by a huge ship which lands on the pyramid in which the Abydonian 'Gate resides. The earthers help to free the Abydonians, and during the battle Daniel is killed, while saving O'Neill. However Daniel is placed in a sarcophagus which has miraculous healing powers, and emerges alive. During the final battle, much of which takes place in orbit on Ra's ship, Our heroes detonate a nuclear bomb that O'Neill brought through the gate on the orders of the General, which he was supposed to detonate on the planet to protect Earth from any threat on the new planet. The bomb detonates in orbit as well, destroying the ship and killing Ra. Skaara and a bunch of his young friends at some point help to rescue the Earth contingent. So the Abydonians are free, but the soldiers and Daniel still have to get home.
The gate on this side has a device attached to it which later becomes known as a "Dial Home Device," or DHD, on which there are the 39 symbols which are also on the 'Gate. Daniel figures out which of the 39 symbols on the Abydonian DHD is the Abydonian "Point of Origin," which they need to get home. However, Daniel, who is seriously in love with Shau're, stays behind to live on Abydos. The rest of the surviving troops go back to Earth, where they report that the bomb was deployed, destroying any threat, and that Daniel is dead. Daniel has earned the respect of the soldiers, and they keep his secret.
We also know that Ra is actually a human inhabited by a second intelligence, a very long lived being which invaded the young body of an Egyptian boy thousands of years ago, and took the Egyptian mythology and used it to rule the Egyptians as Ra. He left through the gate later. He's extremely long-lived, can heal in the sarcophagus, he can make his eyes glow, and he speaks in a very low voice. The story behind this being changes with the series, however, so I won't go in to more detail about the movie version here.
Befriending Skaara and learning to respect Daniel has brought O'Neill out of his suicidal depression, but he remains fairly gruff. He's a sarcastic, somewhat insubordinate smart-alec in the series, but slowly warms up to his team.
Hm. What have I forgotten?
The series starts (ep. Children of the Gods) when the 'gate, which was mothballed after the movie, is activated from the other side. Some bad guys come through the gate, where it's located in Cheyenne Mt. below NORAD, and kill a few AF guys and kidnap a female officer. A new General, Hammond, orders O'Neill out of retirement to go back to Abydos and blow it up again. Captain Samantha Carter, Ph.D in Astrophysics and hardened combat pilot, joins the team. She, O'Neill and some of the original AF guys from the movie go through to Abydos, after admitting to Hammond that Daniel isn't dead.
On Abydos, they find Daniel alive and happy, married to Shau're and a respected member of the community there. They find that the kidnappers didn't come from Abydos, and that indeed the 'Gate system could lead to thousands of planets. Daniel has found a map room with thousands of 7-symbol gate coordinates. They take pictures of all the symbols. However, while they're off doing that, Bad Guys come through the gate and kidnap Shau're and Skaara.
During the attack, Daniel sees the head Bad Guy and identifies him as Apophis, another Egyptian god, and Apophis becomes one of the main bad guys for much of the series. We see that Shau're is implanted with a parasitical Goa'uld, a snake-like critter which is incubated in pouches located in the abdomen of modified humans, called Jaffa. Once the larval goa'uld are old enough, they are removed from the Jaffa and infest the brain of their new host, taking over their personality. This is when the human host's eyes glow and their voices get all low. The goa’uld also have incredible healing abilities, and they make the host much stronger. Shau're's goa’uld is named Amonet, and becomes Apophis’ queen. Daniel spends much of next three seasons looking for her and trying to free her.
The goa'uld also have access to very advanced technology, including ships that travel significantly faster than light. They've taken on the mythology of ancient earth Egypt, and rule much of the Galaxy, which is populated by the ancient cultures of earth which the goa’uld took through the 'gate before the ancient Egyptians revolted and buried the 'gate, and Earth was lost to the goa’uld.
During the attack in which Apophis kidnaps Shau're, one of the AF soldiers sees the gate coordinates to which Apophis escapes. O'Neill, Carter and Daniel, with some others, go to that planet, Chulak, to try to rescue Shau're, the AF officer who was kidnapped much earlier, and some other Abydonians who were kidnapped. The AF officer dies before they get there, because she was chosen for Amonet before Shau're but was refused. The SG (StarGate) team gets caught as well and are thrown in with the Abydonians. Apophis comes to choose more hosts, and at his side is Shau're as Amonet. Skaara is also taken and implanted with a goa’uld named Klorel, Apophis' son. O'Neill convinces Apophis' Jaffa "First Prime" (first thug) to revolt and help them escape. Teal'c has been bitter about the enslavement of his people, the Jaffa, for a long time, and believes the goa'uld are false gods. He's has been looking for a way out. However, O'Neill is the first he believes can actually threaten the Goa’uld, so he turns. Teal'c helps them escape and O'Neill convinces him to accompany them back to Earth, where the big Jaffa becomes a valuable source of information on the Goa’uld and their empire. With him, SG-1 team is complete: O'Neill, Carter, Daniel and Teal'c. The military decides to send teams through the gate to addresses found by Daniel on Abydos looking for allies and technology with which to fight the Goa'uld.
Other important things we learn as we go:
Teal'c is married and has a son. After a few close calls, he gets his family off of Chulak and into neutral territory.
O'Neill's wife, Sara, divorced him after the first Abydonian mission, because he wouldn't forgive himself and wouldn't let her forgive him either. She was gone when he returned.
Carter is a brilliant astrophysicist, as well as being a battle-hardened soldier. She was key in creating the computer which dials the Stargate, as the SGC (stargate command) doesn’t have a dial-home device.
There was a second earth Stargate, which was abandoned in Antarctica, but is discovered by SG-1. It's brought back to the states and causes all sorts of havoc in various ways.
The Goa'uld have a feudal society, with a few dozen "system lords" who are the most powerful squabbling over the galaxy. Ra was the most powerful, but now that he's dead the system is flux. Apophis is very strong, and we deal with him a lot. He and Daniel are especially enemies because they both love Shau're/Amonet. Apophis also hates Teal'c for betraying him. Teal'c is hunted everywhere in the galaxy.
There is a goa'uld resistance, the "Tok'ra." The parasites find human hosts who are willing to bond with them. The SGC encounters them when one of them, Jolinar of Malkshur, takes over Carter (In the Line of Duty and on-going) in desperation to try to escape being assassinated. Jolinar dies, saving Carter. Carter retains many of the memories of Jolinar, along with an ability to use advanced goa’uld weapons. From the memories, Carter leads them to the Tok'ra base, where they meet Martouf, a Tok'ra who was Jolinar's lover for 100 years. Carter is very confused, because she can remember the love, but they're obviously not her feelings. Martouf is also fairly confused, because he's desperate to interact with Jolinar's memories, but recognizes that Sam was NOT Jolinar's willing host, and Sam doesn’t love him.
We also learn that Carter's father, General Jacob Carter, is dying of cancer. Sam convinces him to go to the Tok'ra, and he gets a symbiote, Selmac, who saves his life, and therefore lets the Tok'ra trust the humans (eps The Tok'ra parts I and II). The human revulsion to having a symbiote confuses the Tok'ra, and therefore they were unwilling to trust the humans. Jacob joins the Tok'ra, and becomes a recurring character. The Tok'ra are actively planning the overthrow of the system lords, and act via infiltration and sabotage, guerrilla warfare.
Despite their value as allies, the Earthers, (the Tau'ri, in the language of the Jaffa) don't really trust the Tok'ra, and the Tok'ra don't really trust the Tau'ri. We don't trust them because they have an annoying habit of not telling the SGC everything they need to know, and keep dropping surprises on them. Jacob is better than most, and Martouf is fairly good, but some of the Tok'ra, it's clear, don't think much of the humans. Jack, especially, takes offense at this, and is very touchy around them.
We encounter the extremely technologically advanced Asgard, of Norse legend. They're the Roswell Greys (the stereotypical small, grey aliens with big heads and eyes, who are also seen in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."), and have been observing Earth for a long time, and are sympathetic to Earth's plight against the goa'uld, but they have problems of their own in their own galaxy, and so can't come and whup the goa'uld. We do find out what that problem is. Thor is the most often seen Asgard. Yes, as in Thor's Hammer.
Shau're dies in the third season (Forever in a Day), after bearing Apophis' son (Secrets). The son is intended to become Apophis' new host, and because he's the offspring of two "goa'ulded" hosts, the child has all the memories of the goa'uld, because the goa'uld have genetic memory. Therefore, this child, the harsisis child, is being sought both by the Earthers, who want to save him (and Daniel swore he'd protect the child to Shau're right before she died) and by the goa'uld who want him dead. We've seen the infant child once since then (Maternal Instinct), but he's missing again.
Daniel's parents, archaeologists themselves, died in an accident in a museum when he was small (The Gamekeeper) . He watched them get crushed under a falling artifact. I don't think the show explains how he grew up after that.
In season two, in the episode Show and Tell (the other website has a better summary than mine), a small boy comes through the stargate warning the SGC that a rebel faction of a race called the Reetou (Rhi'tu?)are out to destroy them. The Reetou were nearly wiped out by the Goa'uld, and so the rebels (terrorists) think the only way to destroy the goa'uld is to destroy all potential hosts, which would be billions of humanoids all over the galaxy. The Reetou Central Authority sends the boy, who they have genetically created (cloned, grew? We don't know) along with a Reetou named "Mother," to earth to warn them. The reetou, however, are invisible, their matter is out of phase with ours. Teal'c larval goa'uld can sense when they're around, so the SGC send for Jacob. He confirms all of this, and brings along 3 weapons called T.E.R.'s which can illuminate and destroy the Reetou terrorists. Jack bonds with the kid, who takes the name Charlie, after Jack's dead son. Charlie communicates with Mother through telepathy, but is very unhealthy, because of the method of his creation. He's about to die, due to multiple organ failure.
The SGC sends a team to the staging planet of the rebels, and rather than a few teams of 5, which Jacob thinks they'll find, there are thousands of Reetou, presumably readying an attach against host worlds, Earth among them. The SG teams return, bringing a 5-being suicide squad of reetou back with them accidentally. The SGC manages to kill them all, Jack and Jacob are both hurt, and Mother is killed as well. The Tok'ra take Charlie, saying that a symbiote can heal him, and he'll grow up with the advantage that wisdom brings. Very few Tok'ra are joined at Charlie's age, but apparently it's been done before.
In the Third season, during the episode Urgo, the team comes back from a planet with mind implants which they were never supposed to notice. However, the implant becomes sentient, after a fashion, and the four of them see Urgo, a projection of a guy who just wants to experience their world. Urgo can sense their surface thoughts, and can make strong suggestions about what they do, but can't affect them directly. Only Our Heros can see Urgo, and the rest of the base wonders if they're bonkers. They eventually get him out, and there's a nice Trekish scene where they debate whether Urgo is merely a malfunctioning bit of hardware or an alive, sentient being. Read the ep. summary linked in above, it's much better. A very funny episode, not at all as dark as the short story I wrote about it (Quasimodo).
During the first three seasons, hints are dropped that Sam and Jack are slowly developing feelings for each other. However since he's her direct commanding officer, neither of them consciously admit it. Until a beautiful Tok'ra, Anise, come to the SGC (ep. Upgrades) with some armbands she wants to test on the humans (they won't work on Jaffa or Goa'old/tok'ra). Jack, Sam and Daniel all put them on, and they become exceedingly fast and strong. It also acts something like a narcotic, affecting their better judgment. Anise tells them that Apophis has a new ship that needs to be destroyed. Disobeying orders, the three go off to the planet to destroy the ship, with nothing but some explosives and snacks for their heightened metabolism. No guns, no gear. They're so fast they can run right through the goa’uld protective force fields, so they make quick work of the defenses and plant the C-4 (explosives). While they're trying to escape the armbands come off, and both Jack and Sam are knocked out, one on each side of a force shield. When they awake, they realize Sam can't get out, and Jack won't leave her. The C-4 goes off, the force shield drops, and they all escape.
Later, during negotiations for a formal treaty between the Tok'ra and the Tau'ri (ep. Divide and Conquer), a red-shirt (short for expendable character on sci-fi shows, after the Original Star Trek kept on killing off the red-shirted security they'd send down to planets with Kirk and crew) SGC member goes nuts and tries to assassinate the Tok'ra leader. Anise declare the red-shirt is a Za'tark, a victim of goa'uld mind control. But since he committed suicide (blew up the conference room) they can't know for sure. However, Anise thinks she can detect the za'tark programming, and finds that indeed, yes, another member of the red-shirt's team is a za'tark. During a procedure which is suppose to deprogram her, the za'tark goes nuts and kills herself as well. The za'tark testing detects when someone remembers something incorrectly. The za'tark woman was programmed while on a different planet, and during the testing clearly remembers shooting a Jaffa, while instead the Jaffa was reprogramming her. So the test compares the subconscious memory/feelings against what the person consciously remembers. If the two version don't agree, you're a za'tark.
During the testing, both Sam and Jack turn up za'tarks, from the armband mission. Apparently both were reprogrammed while they were knocked out. Sam realizes that no, indeed, the reason she and Jack's memories don't jive is that they're not admitting that he wouldn't leave her because he has more than professional feelings for her. They're retested, admit their feelings, and are confirmed that they're not za'tarks. They agree that nothing they said has to leave the room. It was heard by Teal'c, Dr. Janet Fraiser (the Chief Medical officer), and Anise, whose earlier pass at O'Neill was nicely deflected. However, the testing missed Martouf, who is a za'tark. Martouf tries to assassinate the US president, who is there for the treaty negotiations. Sam has to kill Martouf, whom part of her (jolinar) is still in love with, 10 minutes after admitting under forced testing her feelings for O'Neill.
Next episode (ep. Window of Opportunity). The SGC gets caught in a 10 hour long time-loop, but only Jack and Teal'c can remember things from previous time-loops, because they got caught in a weird beam emanating from an alien machine which started the time loop on another planet. In order to escape the loop, the SGC must translate some 400 pages of alien text, which only Daniel can do. So Teal'c and Jack spend over three months living the same 10 hours over and over again, learning the language and helping Daniel with the translation, having to explain again every time to the SGC what's going on. Seeing them stressed, Daniel, in his infinite(?) wisdom, asks if it's occurred to Jack that he could do anything he wants, for as long as he wants, with no fear of consequences. A series of pretty funny scenes follow, as Jack teaches Teal'c to golf, using the open gate as the driving range (that drive went billions of miles!), teaches Teal'c to juggle, rides around the base on a bike, resigns and kisses Carter in the control room, in front of everyone. The loop resets and they're back at the beginning again. There are also a few scenes of Jack working with a pottery wheel. How he got it into the base is never explained, so maybe he's at home?
In the episode The Curse, Jack and Teal'c go off to fish in northern Minnesota while Daniel goes off to his graduate school advisor's funeral, and gets into trouble. There is a thus-far unexplained scene back at the base with Carter (Carter never goes on vacation, she's turned down at least two and maybe three fishing invites, but rather she stays on base to work on her various projects), and Sgt. Siler, an engineer and small recurring character on the show, working on a motorcycle in her lab.
There are recurring references to The Wizard of Oz, including a scene where Daniel claims to be "the Great and Powerful (System Lord) Oz," while bluffing his way past a Goa'uld mother ship (Tangent).
Jack is a huge Simpsons fan.