- Do what you can, Doctor. - Yes, sir.
There you are, right on time. Allow me to introduce you to Dr Janet Fraiser.
She's our chief medical officer at the SGC.
Pleasure to meet you. l'm told you're our newest addition.
l hope things are going very well for you so far.
l'm going to leave you in Dr Fraiser's hands for the time being.
She'll brief you on the many things that you will encounter...
..here at the Stargate programme.
l'll check back with you in a few minutes.
Sir.
OK! Let's get started.
The mythology of the show,...
..which is that ancient cultures have been kidnapped by the Goa'uld,...
..taken to other planets and had their cultures kept down and primitive,...
..but that ultimately the universe is populated...
..by humans who originated from Earth.
Come.
LoveIy.
FuII of Iife.
You couId be the vesseI for my future queen.
Apophis is the nemesis of Stargate SG-1 .
He has stepped into the void left by Ra.
Ra, who got nuked in the movie.
According to ancient Egyptian mythology, Ra was the sun god, ruler of the day,...
..and Apophis was the serpent god, ruler of the night.
The two would enjoin battle every night,...
..upon which Ra would emerge victorious, Apophis would be vanquished,...
..and therefore day would yet dawn.
Does she pIease you, my Iove?
(screams)
Jaffa incubate young Goa'ulds into maturity.
After they reach maturity, they seek a human host.
The strongest and meanest go into my service.
I am a Jaffa. Bred to serve, that they may Iive.
I don't understand.
(screaming)
The Jaffa are the warrior class, Apophis's warrior class.
They are basically his storm troopers, his SS.
They are his might.
The deal is that the people on Chulak, the elite, if you will, receive this symbiote.
There are different classes. The first primes have gold tattoos.
The other guys have the black, almost ash-like, tattoos.
They're waiting to become upgraded, if they prove themselves in battle.
ln the beginning, Teal'c was very focused on his people and their plight,...
..and freeing his people, and his wife and son,...
..and didn't care to assimilate much...
..with human beings or anyone else that he came across.
l think that he was very single-minded in his quest to help his people.
With or without you, O'NeiII, I must return to ChuIak.
Either way, it's suicide, my friend.
Within days my son wiII come of age.
He wiII be caIIed to the reIigious Iife of our worId.
He wiII undergo the ceremony of impIantation, the Prim'ta,...
..the day when a young boy receives his first Goa'uId symbiote...
..and becomes a true Jaffa,...
..just as aII other Jaffa before him.
Teal'c comes back because he knows his son is gonna have the same rite.
There's a rite where the symbiote is placed into him.
Teal'c comes back, trying to stop that.
He doesn't want his son to be polluted, to be burdened.
I am not the onIy one among my peopIe who beIieves this.
My first teacher, the Jaffa master Bra'tac,...
..he knew very weII the Goa'uId are faIse gods.
And l'm introduced.
l'm guarding his house. lt's almost like l go back because he was my prime pupil.
l go back and visit there. lt's like a shrine to something that l've lost...
..that's been really important to me, on a certain day.
l initially try to guard the home, the ashes of this home,...
..from O'Neill and from the SG-1 unit.
lt's only later that l see that Teal'c is there.
You're over a hundred years oId?
God, I'm sorry.
- 133. - You must work out.
lt's sort of an Obi-Wan Kenobi.
l tried to describe it early on when l first got the part, and they said ''Who is he?''
l said ''He's sort of a...
..medieval futuristic Roman samurai warrior.''
- Not bad for a man of 133. - Not bad at aII.
ln season two, in the episode ''ln the Line of Duty'',...
..Carter gets a Goa'uld inside her.
We initially think ''This is terrible. Carter's been possessed.''
But it turns out it was by a good Goa'uld,...
..and that was sort of a twist for us.
We had suddenly invented this new rebellion within the Goa'uld,...
..that maybe not all Goa'ulds are bad.
Not aII Goa'uId are the same.
There are a few that oppose the System Lords and their ways.
You have heard of the Tok'ra.
Every Goa'uId seeks power and wouId betray his own brother to achieve it.
Some seek power for a greater purpose.
Not every Goa'uId is an enemy to the peopIe of this pIanet.
We started to explore the reasons why Goa'ulds are bad,...
..and there's this whole idea of genetic memory, that they pass on their...
lmagine if Jack the Ripper passed all of the things that made him who he was...
..on to his next generation. That's why the Goa'uld are evil.
This is a line of the symbiotes that never had those elements.
So they fight against the Goa'uld to try and wipe them out.
The Tok'ra are reaI, no matter what Apophis has toId you.
- I have yet to meet one. - You have now.
I am JoIinar of MaIk-shur.
So these are the aIiens you were teIIing me about?
WeII, I don't know if I'd caII them aIiens.
Sort of haIf aIien, I guess.
The outside is human and the inside is shared between a human and a symbiote.
Martouf is two different souIs, I guess, sharing the same body.
And that's what you want me to become?
ln an episode called ''Tok'ra'', which is a two-parter,...
..we meet Jacob Carter, who is Samantha Carter's father.
lt turns out he's got cancer and is dying.
And the Tok'ra have a member of their rebellion who is also dying. The host.
The symbiote can only keep the host going for so long,...
..and then the human qualities take over.
And this Tok'ra's host was dying and she needed a new one. He needed a new one.
We're never sure about the she/he thing.
So that was the way that Jacob's life got saved.
This Tok'ra went into him and so now he's off fighting the Goa'uld...
..as a member of the Tok'ra - in fact, one of its highest-ranking members.
He continues to have this odd relationship with his daughter.
HeIIo, Sam.
Dad, we have a situation and we may need SeImak's heIp.
SeImak, SeImak, SeImak.
- I thought maybe you wanted to see me. - I do, Dad.
The Tok'ra are different from the Goa'uld in that they equally share the body.
They allow the host to speak, they allow the host to have feelings.
Pretty much a real symbiotic relationship,...
..as opposed to the Goa'uld, who just take you over.
Your father asked that I shake your hand...
..and give CoIoneI O'NeiII a big kiss from him.
Greetings, Jack O'NeiII.
Greetings.
- Have we met? - I am Thor.
He's developed quite a relationship with Jack O'Neill over the years.
Richard Dean Anderson will tell you he's one of his favourite actors.
Do you ever say one thing and mean another?. Kinda speak between the Iines?
- I do not. - Do not what?
Speak between the Iines or understand?
''Fair Game'' was the first time they really started to bond together on screen.
The chemistry was just wonderful.
Oh, come on! Gimme something. Anything!
I won't hoId you to it. A IittIe head nod if there's another way around this.
It is your pIanet at stake.
I beIieve you have it within you to make the right decision.
They were very advanced, more so even than the Goa'uld,...
..and seemed to have our interests at heart.
AII right. Send me back.
Wait! Right there!
Is that a head nod? A nod is usuaIIy down, then back up.
You kinda just went down.
Wait!
The more you thought about it, the more you had problems...
..with the idea that, if they're such great guys, more powerful than the Goa'uld,...
..why are the Goa'uld such a problem?
Why haven't the Asgard gotten rid of them?
So we needed to come up with an explanation for that.
So the explanation was maybe they've got their own problems in their own galaxy...
..and they're just not telling us about that.
So that problem was the replicators.
They are the enemy of the Asgard.
Carter!
We've had several puppets. The first Thor, which appeared in ''Thor's Chariot'',...
..was the first one we had built.
He was really only meant to just stand there.
Then, as the demands for the character of Thor increased,...
..we had to build more and more sophisticated puppets.
The most sophisticated one was made, l believe, for ''Small Victories''.
He had quite a bit to say in that one.
We needed to build one with a fully articulated mouth, and expressions.
Where are we going exactIy?
Five Asgard ships are engaging three ships controIIed by the repIicators,...
..which are on their way here.
One of the interesting tidbits l'm not sure most viewers are aware of:
Michael Shanks, who is Daniel Jackson, is the voice of Thor.
lt's treated in such a way that you...
Well, l think, if you listen very carefully, you can hear that it's him,...
..but l'm not sure most viewers would be aware of that.
- We need your heIp. - I have come here to seek your heIp.
At the time when we first started shooting the Asgard,...
..for our budget, we could only have the puppets sitting there and talking.
Now, of course, with some of the advancements that have been made,...
..we've got Thor walking around, and holding people's hands and stuff.
ln ''Small Victories'' he walks up the ramp and goes into the Stargate with Carter.
That's obviously not the puppet. That's a CG Thor.
One of the most interesting things about Stargate...
..is the fact that it's taking place now.
We're going out into a universe that is partly primitive and partly advanced...
..and we're stuck in the middle, very much at our own level.
But rarely do we suddenly take that leap forward,...
..even though all these aliens out there are so much more powerful than us.
When we do meet one, like the Nox, or the Asgard,...
..it becomes a very delicate balance in terms of creating a relationship,...
..and yet not having them give us everything that they know.
A good example of that is the Tollans,...
..who look completely human but are very advanced,...
..and once gave a race of people very much like us advanced technology...
..and they destroyed themselves, so it's their policy not to do that any more.
We'd Iike to arrange for a trade.
- What wouId you Iike to trade? - TechnoIogy.
I'm sorry. You know that is the one thing we cannot give you.
ToIIan Iaw strictIy forbids it.
l did an episode called ''Bane'' where there were these gross bugs,...
..one of which bites Teal'c and starts turning him into an alien.
You don't Iook so great.
One of the ones that is becoming a running through-line in the show...
..are the aliens that were introduced in the show ''Maternal lnstinct''.
They were these white, glowy, very pretty...
ln that case, it was mother nature,...
..but as it turns out, it is a part of an alien race of beings...
..that has very close ties to Earth.
I'II see both of you again someday, right?
They were seen again in ''Absolute Power''.
The Harsesis boy, which has another through-line throughout the show,...
..he was taken in by the mother nature alien in ''Maternal lnstinct''...
..and ultimately ascended to their level.
- It's time I chose a new path. - It is time for me to continue on mine.
- How did it go, Doctor? - l think we did just fine, sir.
Good.
Actually, SG-1 brought back a specimen for dissection from their last mission.
l thought it would be a perfect opportunity for some first-hand experience.
l don't see why not.
Perfect. Thank you, sir.
You sure you're up for this?
OK, don't say l didn't warn you. You have to change. Lab coats, gloves.
Ohh.