1 00:01:03,207 --> 00:01:08,235 Hi. l'm Amanda Tapping at the Bridge Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia. 2 00:01:08,327 --> 00:01:12,115 Join me for an exciting look at the adventures that await SG-1 ... 3 00:01:12,207 --> 00:01:16,837 ..and the rest of the members of the SGC during the fifth season of Stargate SG-1. 4 00:01:16,927 --> 00:01:19,646 Since its first season Stargate SG-1 has become... 5 00:01:19,727 --> 00:01:23,037 ..one of the most successful sci-fi series in production,... 6 00:01:23,127 --> 00:01:26,483 ..capturing the imaginations of audiences around the world. 7 00:01:26,567 --> 00:01:29,923 Prepare to go beyond the Stargate for an unprecedented journey... 8 00:01:30,007 --> 00:01:34,444 ..with the people who have shaped Stargate over the last four seasons,... 9 00:01:34,527 --> 00:01:39,760 ..and get a fascinating glimpse of what lies ahead in the fifth season for all of us. 10 00:02:02,647 --> 00:02:05,525 From the dangers and challenges of distant worlds... 11 00:02:05,607 --> 00:02:07,757 ..to the mysteries of inner space,... 12 00:02:07,847 --> 00:02:11,920 ..the Stargate has propelled us to the most spellbinding corners of its universe. 13 00:02:12,007 --> 00:02:16,762 Here's a look at some of the new worlds and cultures awaiting SG-1 in season five. 14 00:02:34,607 --> 00:02:38,156 The fifth season of Stargate SG-1 will challenge all the characters... 15 00:02:38,247 --> 00:02:42,638 ..with adventures that even the most experienced members find surprising. 16 00:02:42,727 --> 00:02:47,562 ln terms of the broader arc of Stargate and our ongoing battle with the Goa'uld,... 17 00:02:47,647 --> 00:02:50,207 ..we are introducing a new villain. 18 00:02:50,287 --> 00:02:53,279 ApparentIy the one he serves has no name. 19 00:02:53,927 --> 00:02:55,918 (distorted) Oh, he has a name. 20 00:02:57,327 --> 00:03:00,319 The Iikes of you are simpIy forbidden to know it. 21 00:03:01,127 --> 00:03:04,802 We haven't given him a name and we may not give him a face for some time. 22 00:03:04,887 --> 00:03:08,402 Not just to build the suspense and build the mystery,... 23 00:03:08,487 --> 00:03:14,960 ..but this is gonna be our last big bad guy and he is, so far, far more powerful. 24 00:03:15,047 --> 00:03:17,766 We've just decided to bring in a bad-guy Goa'uld... 25 00:03:17,847 --> 00:03:20,725 ..more formidable than any we've met so far. 26 00:03:20,807 --> 00:03:27,599 We're gonna find a lot more humour in our show and more situations where... 27 00:03:27,687 --> 00:03:31,202 And you can only save the Earth and the universe every other week. 28 00:03:31,287 --> 00:03:34,359 This week you gotta save the Earth, next week the universe,... 29 00:03:34,447 --> 00:03:37,757 ..then regroup and just save the Earth the week after that. 30 00:03:37,847 --> 00:03:42,363 Teal'c, as the shol'va, the one who defied his god,... 31 00:03:42,447 --> 00:03:46,599 ..has become a famous figure amongst the Jaffa - an infamous figure - 32 00:03:46,687 --> 00:03:51,761 ..and some of them are starting to think maybe there is something to this idea... 33 00:03:51,847 --> 00:03:54,361 ..that we don't have to be slaves to the Goa'uld. 34 00:03:54,447 --> 00:03:58,281 He's becoming a heroic figure, and in season five we explore that more... 35 00:03:58,367 --> 00:04:02,679 ..and see the development of a ground swell of a movement amongst the Jaffa... 36 00:04:02,767 --> 00:04:07,079 ..to be in a permanent state of rebellion against the Goa'uld. 37 00:04:07,167 --> 00:04:09,840 Nobody really dies on Stargate,... 38 00:04:09,927 --> 00:04:12,919 ..but when a character really does die,... 39 00:04:13,887 --> 00:04:17,960 ..when someone disappears and doesn't come back,... 40 00:04:18,047 --> 00:04:22,802 ..then it adds a pall to everything that you do from that point on. 41 00:04:22,887 --> 00:04:26,038 lt gets darker and the question is always there: 42 00:04:26,127 --> 00:04:30,518 OK, now we're in a situation where this person might disappear. 43 00:04:30,607 --> 00:04:34,839 ln year five, more than any other time, people start to disappear... 44 00:04:34,927 --> 00:04:36,724 ..and they don't come back. 45 00:04:36,807 --> 00:04:41,562 ln season five's opener ''Enemies'' - the conclusion to ''Exodus'' in season four - 46 00:04:41,647 --> 00:04:43,956 ..the stakes have never been higher,... 47 00:04:44,047 --> 00:04:47,005 ..as SG-1 battle two of their most dangerous enemies... 48 00:04:47,087 --> 00:04:51,239 ..and deal with the fact that they may have seen Earth and Teal'c for the last time. 49 00:05:00,927 --> 00:05:03,521 Less than four minutes before the sun supernovas. 50 00:05:03,607 --> 00:05:05,996 DanieI, just get me the heII outta here. 51 00:05:12,247 --> 00:05:13,362 Engaging hyperdrive. 52 00:05:18,127 --> 00:05:21,563 - Sir, where's TeaI'c? - I think he's dead. 53 00:05:21,647 --> 00:05:25,162 Teal'c in the very first show... 54 00:05:25,247 --> 00:05:29,160 ..has a change that happens to him that the audience will not expect. 55 00:05:29,247 --> 00:05:33,445 When it happens it leads itself from a two-part series into a three-part series... 56 00:05:33,527 --> 00:05:35,757 ..just to resolve this problem he's got. 57 00:05:35,847 --> 00:05:38,441 I am picking up a ship on the sensors. 58 00:05:39,407 --> 00:05:42,797 Someone must have escaped Apophis's ship before the bugs took him. 59 00:05:42,887 --> 00:05:45,685 - Who? - It's a Goa'uId cargo ship. 60 00:05:49,367 --> 00:05:51,164 Hey! 61 00:05:54,607 --> 00:05:56,404 Buddy! 62 00:06:01,127 --> 00:06:02,924 What you got going here, TeaI'c? 63 00:06:09,847 --> 00:06:12,919 Throughout the series the team has seen alien technology... 64 00:06:13,007 --> 00:06:15,840 ..vastly more advanced than anything Earth possesses. 65 00:06:15,927 --> 00:06:19,203 ln the episode ''2001'' we glimpse what could happen... 66 00:06:19,287 --> 00:06:22,085 ..if some of that technology was made available to us. 67 00:06:22,167 --> 00:06:26,240 What kind of defence technoIogies are we taIking about? 68 00:06:26,327 --> 00:06:30,240 Space guns, force fieIds, motherships? 69 00:06:30,447 --> 00:06:33,678 This is an exampIe of a bio-weapon... 70 00:06:33,767 --> 00:06:36,156 ..we can make avaiIabIe to you. 71 00:06:36,247 --> 00:06:38,966 A Iiving, radioactive genetic materiaI... 72 00:06:39,047 --> 00:06:43,837 ..that may be designed to attack and destroy the specific DNA of your enemy. 73 00:06:46,607 --> 00:06:49,075 We have a number of efficient deIivery systems. 74 00:06:49,167 --> 00:06:54,161 You've got shades of They Live, First Wave, Earth: FinaI Conflict,... 75 00:06:54,247 --> 00:06:56,920 ..in so far as an alien race is going... 76 00:06:57,007 --> 00:07:01,364 ..''We're here to help you. Look, we've got trinkets and baubles.'' 77 00:07:01,447 --> 00:07:03,597 And they're really there to take over. 78 00:07:03,687 --> 00:07:06,679 Why have these friends of Earth not aIready provided you... 79 00:07:06,767 --> 00:07:09,804 ..with the defence technoIogies that you seek from us? 80 00:07:09,887 --> 00:07:14,119 Most of the races we befriended hesitated to share their technoIogy with us... 81 00:07:14,207 --> 00:07:17,802 ..for fear that we couId use it to destroy ourseIves. 82 00:07:19,087 --> 00:07:22,318 True friends wouId endeavour to prevent that. 83 00:07:22,407 --> 00:07:25,399 You have changed the way in which we view the universe. 84 00:07:25,487 --> 00:07:28,718 Do not underestimate what we offer in return for that gift. 85 00:07:33,767 --> 00:07:38,682 Extraordinary civilisations, fascinating new worlds and dangerous adventures... 86 00:07:38,767 --> 00:07:42,919 ..have taught all who step through the Stargate to expect the unexpected. 87 00:07:43,007 --> 00:07:46,795 For SG-1 this can often mean the difference between death or survival. 88 00:07:53,167 --> 00:07:56,079 ''Beast of Burden'', l think, is my favourite this year... 89 00:07:56,167 --> 00:08:01,082 ..because it addresses some concerns that the audience members have had,... 90 00:08:01,167 --> 00:08:03,635 ..which is we always win. 91 00:08:03,727 --> 00:08:07,163 And in ''Beast of Burden'' it becomes a question ''Are we gonna win?'' 92 00:08:16,127 --> 00:08:18,595 (Iow growI) 93 00:08:25,247 --> 00:08:28,205 Do not fear. It's dead. 94 00:08:28,287 --> 00:08:32,439 Generations ago the beasts ensIaved our forefathers through oppression. 95 00:08:32,527 --> 00:08:35,121 They served the one with the gIowing eyes. 96 00:08:36,807 --> 00:08:38,843 And what happened to him/her?. 97 00:08:39,687 --> 00:08:43,316 No one knows. One day he went away, did not return. 98 00:08:44,247 --> 00:08:49,082 Our forefathers Iearned how the beasts' weapons worked and Ied an uprising. 99 00:08:49,167 --> 00:08:52,603 The war was bIoody. It waged for many years,... 100 00:08:52,687 --> 00:08:57,078 ..but eventuaIIy the sIaves triumphed and the masters became the sIaves. 101 00:08:57,167 --> 00:09:00,557 Since then the beasts have served us. 102 00:09:03,687 --> 00:09:08,841 Daniel Jackson has a very different take on things in a couple of episodes,... 103 00:09:08,927 --> 00:09:12,715 ..that are not standard textbook Jackson ways of looking at things. 104 00:09:12,807 --> 00:09:16,766 You don't understand. This one's name is Chaka and he is coming with me. 105 00:09:21,047 --> 00:09:22,446 - DanieI. - Jack. 106 00:09:22,527 --> 00:09:26,406 Why don't we discuss what we can offer the man in return? 107 00:09:28,207 --> 00:09:33,327 l think too often in this kind of show when you go into a self-destruct sequence... 108 00:09:33,407 --> 00:09:37,559 ..the audience sits there and says ''They're not gonna blow up the base.'' 109 00:09:37,647 --> 00:09:40,639 ''You're not gonna kill that character.'' 110 00:09:40,727 --> 00:09:42,718 ln ''Beast of Burden'' we don't know. 111 00:09:42,807 --> 00:09:47,005 All through ''Beast of Burden'' you ask yourself ''Who's right? Who's wrong?'' 112 00:09:47,087 --> 00:09:49,681 ''Who's the good guy? Who's the bad guy in this?'' 113 00:09:49,767 --> 00:09:53,123 And we have real trouble figuring it out until the very end. 114 00:09:53,207 --> 00:09:58,725 ln the end we come up with an answer but it may not be the one the audience wants. 115 00:10:04,527 --> 00:10:06,802 What begins as a tense partnership... 116 00:10:06,887 --> 00:10:10,004 ..becomes a mission requiring two sides to work together... 117 00:10:10,087 --> 00:10:13,124 ..if anyone plans on getting out of the tomb alive. 118 00:10:13,847 --> 00:10:16,919 Look, Zukhov, Iet's get something straight here. 119 00:10:17,007 --> 00:10:19,965 I'm the ranking senior officer in this mission. 120 00:10:20,047 --> 00:10:23,642 This is a joint operation, and we are of equaI rank. 121 00:10:23,727 --> 00:10:27,481 Which means you shouId appreciate the need for a cIear chain of command. 122 00:10:27,567 --> 00:10:30,127 - Of course. - CoIoneI. 123 00:10:31,807 --> 00:10:34,958 - Is there a probIem? - (in unison) No, sir. 124 00:10:35,247 --> 00:10:42,597 Directing ''The Tomb'' was fun because it drew upon lots of classic horror formulas. 125 00:10:42,687 --> 00:10:47,761 Two factions coming together to defend themselves against a common enemy. 126 00:10:47,847 --> 00:10:51,965 We have the Russians, who ran their own Stargate programme. 127 00:10:52,047 --> 00:10:57,075 Now we've come together with them to figure out how to rescue their comrades,.. 128 00:10:57,167 --> 00:11:00,921 ..who have gone on a mission and gone missing for quite a long time. 129 00:11:01,007 --> 00:11:06,001 And we find ourselves stuck in this ziggurat,... 130 00:11:06,087 --> 00:11:09,921 ..which is the name of just a very cool ancient building,... 131 00:11:10,007 --> 00:11:15,001 ..and there's a creature that eats people that's stuck in there with us. 132 00:11:20,887 --> 00:11:23,196 There it is again. 133 00:11:23,487 --> 00:11:25,478 (Carter) I don't see anything. 134 00:11:27,807 --> 00:11:30,241 It's around here somewhere. 135 00:11:43,287 --> 00:11:46,165 ln ''Ascension'' my character, Samantha Carter,... 136 00:11:46,247 --> 00:11:49,239 ..becomes an object of intense alien desire,... 137 00:11:49,327 --> 00:11:53,923 ..and must choose between her personal feelings and her loyalty to SG-1 . 138 00:11:56,647 --> 00:11:58,524 How are you? 139 00:12:00,247 --> 00:12:02,317 Fine. How are you? 140 00:12:02,407 --> 00:12:04,284 Good. 141 00:12:04,367 --> 00:12:06,039 Nice to meet you. 142 00:12:07,647 --> 00:12:09,524 Yeah... Are you from around here? 143 00:12:09,607 --> 00:12:13,805 Sam Carter is stretching in ways that we've never seen her stretch,... 144 00:12:13,887 --> 00:12:17,197 ..not just being brilliant, she's more than just brilliant. 145 00:12:17,287 --> 00:12:23,317 She's coming up with new character things that are not standard things. 146 00:12:23,407 --> 00:12:26,524 We go to her house. We see her relationship. 147 00:12:26,607 --> 00:12:30,885 My kind use a IeveI of communication that shares our innermost essence. 148 00:12:31,207 --> 00:12:33,198 TeIepathy. 149 00:12:34,167 --> 00:12:37,921 Reading someone's mind is an invasion of privacy. 150 00:12:38,007 --> 00:12:40,805 It's not about specific thoughts or memory. 151 00:12:41,407 --> 00:12:44,763 It's a sort of exchange of spirit. 152 00:12:44,847 --> 00:12:49,477 There is a love scene in it, which we don't normally do on Stargate. 153 00:12:49,567 --> 00:12:53,799 And that love scene is startling in the way that it transpires. 154 00:12:53,887 --> 00:12:58,278 We get to see parts of Sam that are not military, that aren't staid. 155 00:12:58,367 --> 00:13:02,599 She's not the cut-and-dried person that we thought she was. 156 00:13:04,647 --> 00:13:07,002 What? 157 00:13:07,087 --> 00:13:11,638 I'm sorry. If you haven't turned me in by now, there must be a reason. 158 00:13:11,727 --> 00:13:15,242 I'd feeI bad betraying you - that's aII. Nothing more. 159 00:13:15,327 --> 00:13:17,318 - You Iike me. - OrIin. 160 00:13:18,807 --> 00:13:20,604 You Iike me. 161 00:13:20,687 --> 00:13:22,484 I can teII. 162 00:13:22,567 --> 00:13:24,558 You Iike me a Iot. 163 00:13:33,927 --> 00:13:37,920 Although Stargate SG-1 is on the cutting edge of modern science fiction,... 164 00:13:38,007 --> 00:13:42,125 ..the inspiration for stories sometimes comes from the most surprising places... 165 00:13:42,207 --> 00:13:46,359 ..and often draws on subtle elements of ancient and classical mythology,... 166 00:13:46,447 --> 00:13:48,836 ..as seen in the episode ''Red Sky''. 167 00:13:52,527 --> 00:13:56,361 I am Freyr. For what reason have you come before me? 168 00:13:56,447 --> 00:14:01,282 Oh, Lord Freyr, forgive us for disturbing you, but we seek your wisdom. 169 00:14:01,367 --> 00:14:05,280 The arrivaI of these outsiders has caused the Eye of Odin to grow dim. 170 00:14:05,367 --> 00:14:07,198 We fear it is Ragnarok. 171 00:14:07,607 --> 00:14:10,519 You are wise to seek my counseI,... 172 00:14:10,607 --> 00:14:13,997 ..but onIy through faith wiII you prove worthy of my benevoIence. 173 00:14:14,087 --> 00:14:18,160 The probIem grows ever worse as Iong as you are here. 174 00:14:19,367 --> 00:14:24,202 If you can't see that the gods wish you to Ieave, we'II make it cIear on their behaIf. 175 00:14:24,287 --> 00:14:30,442 Jack O'Neill is getting more and more a curmudgeon with some things he does,... 176 00:14:30,527 --> 00:14:34,884 ..but also more of what he does as a Special Forces person comes out... 177 00:14:34,967 --> 00:14:38,004 ..because he's having a struggle internally with... 178 00:14:38,087 --> 00:14:42,205 ..''Can l be a Special Forces military and a humanitarian at the same time?'' 179 00:14:42,287 --> 00:14:46,326 - You stupid son of a bitch! - The gods have spoken. 180 00:14:46,407 --> 00:14:49,524 You just kiIIed two of my men and screwed your whoIe pIanet! 181 00:14:49,607 --> 00:14:53,395 Two of our brothers aIso gave their Iives to serve the gods. 182 00:14:53,807 --> 00:14:55,843 You coward! 183 00:14:55,927 --> 00:15:00,205 - Why didn't you do it yourseIf?. Why? - I wouId gIadIy die to serve the gods. 184 00:15:00,287 --> 00:15:02,118 Maybe you shouId. 185 00:15:02,407 --> 00:15:04,443 - No! No, Jack! - Sir! 186 00:15:08,767 --> 00:15:13,124 Bringing a series like Stargate SG-1 to life poses very unusual challenges,... 187 00:15:13,207 --> 00:15:17,246 ..demanding the best from the imagination of our special-effects team. 188 00:15:39,887 --> 00:15:44,119 Year five for Stargate, more than any other, we've been experimenting a lot. 189 00:15:44,207 --> 00:15:47,995 ln the first show of the year, ''Enemies'',... 190 00:15:48,087 --> 00:15:53,161 ..the script was huge in terms of visual effects... 191 00:15:53,247 --> 00:15:55,966 ..and we looked at it and said ''Can we do this?'' 192 00:15:56,047 --> 00:16:00,006 And we got the thumbs up to do it and to do what we wanted to with it,... 193 00:16:00,087 --> 00:16:03,124 ..which means doing something never done on TV before. 194 00:16:03,207 --> 00:16:06,438 lt's a hand-held shot with CG bugs in it. 195 00:16:06,527 --> 00:16:12,124 All we do is we run with them in the halls, look back at what they're shooting,... 196 00:16:12,207 --> 00:16:17,327 ..and this dust is shaking out of the walls because these guns have such a power. 197 00:16:17,407 --> 00:16:20,717 lt's one of the most spectacular sequences of visual effects... 198 00:16:20,807 --> 00:16:27,883 ..mixed with physical human activity that incorporates so many different elements. 199 00:16:27,967 --> 00:16:31,755 lt incorporates explosions. lt incorporates gunfire. 200 00:16:31,847 --> 00:16:37,046 lt incorporates cameras running with our characters, who are running to get away. 201 00:16:37,127 --> 00:16:41,086 And imagine you're a camera operator running with the hand-held camera. 202 00:16:41,167 --> 00:16:43,635 He was padded out like a riot policeman. 203 00:16:43,727 --> 00:16:48,562 And they're being chased by creatures that don't seem to have an end... 204 00:16:48,647 --> 00:16:50,763 ..and don't seem to die. 205 00:16:50,847 --> 00:16:56,001 Over four seasons Stargate has pushed the boundaries of science fiction,... 206 00:16:56,087 --> 00:17:00,478 ..lifting the veil on a universe limited only by the imagination of those who create it. 207 00:17:04,527 --> 00:17:09,203 The beauty of science fiction is the palette is so broad. 208 00:17:09,287 --> 00:17:15,396 There are so many ways, we can go so much farther and explore so much more... 209 00:17:15,487 --> 00:17:19,082 ..because we can go to the extremes of the human and alien conditions. 210 00:17:19,167 --> 00:17:22,477 We can look at the human condition from an alien point of view. 211 00:17:22,567 --> 00:17:24,523 Just fix the damn sun! 212 00:17:25,047 --> 00:17:27,800 UnfortunateIy we cannot. 213 00:17:28,647 --> 00:17:30,638 Why not? 214 00:17:31,847 --> 00:17:34,566 (converses in foreign tongue) 215 00:17:34,647 --> 00:17:38,083 It wouId be in vioIation of our treaty with the Goa'uId. 216 00:17:39,807 --> 00:17:41,604 What? 217 00:17:42,447 --> 00:17:46,679 The treaty states that the peopIe of a pIanet categorised as protected... 218 00:17:46,767 --> 00:17:49,679 ..wiII be free from Goa'uId domination. 219 00:17:49,767 --> 00:17:53,726 However, subsection 42 states that the peopIe on those pIanets... 220 00:17:53,807 --> 00:17:58,801 ..cannot be artificiaIIy advanced through Asgard technoIogicaI means. 221 00:17:58,887 --> 00:18:01,765 Using our technoIogy to prevent a naturaI disaster... 222 00:18:01,847 --> 00:18:06,716 ..wouId be a vioIation of that order and wouId nuIIify the treaty as a whoIe. 223 00:18:06,807 --> 00:18:10,959 The Goa'uId wouId be free to invade any of the protected pIanets,... 224 00:18:11,807 --> 00:18:14,002 ..incIuding Earth. 225 00:18:15,207 --> 00:18:17,004 Oh. 226 00:18:17,247 --> 00:18:22,002 Season five of Stargate SG-1 also marks another great milestone for our series,... 227 00:18:22,087 --> 00:18:25,318 ..with the filming of SG-1's 100th episode. 228 00:18:25,407 --> 00:18:29,446 For everyone involved the making of our 100th episode, ''Wormhole X-treme'',... 229 00:18:29,527 --> 00:18:32,121 ..was an occasion that will always be remembered. 230 00:18:32,207 --> 00:18:35,404 I wanted to caII the show ''Going To Other PIanets'',... 231 00:18:35,487 --> 00:18:39,958 ..but research says that shows with x in the name get higher ratings. 232 00:18:40,247 --> 00:18:43,125 Why aren't the aIiens ever in camouflage? 233 00:18:44,567 --> 00:18:46,922 No. Look at my Iips: bigger. 234 00:19:06,407 --> 00:19:10,559 l'm Amanda Tapping. From everyone at Stargate SG-1 we thank you. 235 00:19:10,647 --> 00:19:14,765 And we hope you enjoy watching season five as much as we've enjoyed making it.