Stargate S.G -1: Season 5 (Vol. 24) [DVD] [1998] by Richard Dean AndersonDVD
Stargate S G-1 is the T V spin-off from the 1994 big-screen movie. In the roles of Colonel Jack O' Neill and Dr Daniel Jackson respectively are Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks. They're joined by Captain Samantha Carter ( Amanda Tapping) and guilt-stricken former alien baddie Teal'c ( Christopher Judge) to form the primary unit S G-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. Episodes on this D V D: Fail Safe, The Warrior, Menace and Sentinel. Before now, this show has managed to skirt around the edges of the technological implausibility that plagued the latter Star Trek incarnations. But in Fail Safe, Sam's surreal solution to the problem of an asteroid on collision course with Earth has to be seen to be disbelieved. Teal'c and his old master Bra'tac have always wanted an inspiring leader to assist in making the other Jaffa realise their mistaken allegiances. Kytano ( Rick Worthy) sure looks like The Warrior for whom they've been waiting. But everyone's patience and beliefs are put to the test when Jack questions what he sees as a situation that's too good to be true. The discovery of a Data-like android poses all sorts of questions for the S G C, especially as the dormant machine is the only thing left of a desolated world. Dr Jackson persuades everyone to turn it on, and boy do they regret it! Reese ( Danielle Nicolet) turns out to have the mental maturity of a child, and a stroppy one at that. Worse, she's responsible for the greatest Menace the galaxy has ever known. Former crimes by the sinister N I D have to be rectified on a doomed world. Led by the timid Marul (a fantastic turn by Henry Gibson), the planet believes in the mystical protection of The Sentinel. Regrettably two turncoat agents destroyed that protection and it's up to the team to put something in its place. -Paul Tonks
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