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Season five of the science fiction series Stargate Atlantis kicks off with a boom as an off-world explosion leaves countless innocents in harm's way, and Carter spearheads a rescue mission to save the survivors. The season also includes such twists as awakened clones, scientists developing "digital" ascension, and debilitating illness with the ability to destroy the minds of the most powerful men. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide

The Stargate saga continues as an elite military unit races back to Earth following the mysterious disappearance of two key team members, only to find themselves in an alternate reality where the Stargate has never been invented. Somewhere in deep space, the SG-1 team is in serious trouble. Two team members have vanished without a trace, and now the SG-1 unit's only hope for survival is to get back to Earth as quickly as possible. Upon touching down the team is relieved to be home, but deeply disturbed to learn that the reality they just returned to isn't the same one they departed from. In this reality, the Stargate has never been discovered and neither the government nor the military has never even heard of the SG-1 unit. But who altered the Earth's timeline, and why? Upon discovering that a malevolent alien known as Ba'al has been meddling with the planet's timeline in an attempt to conquer Earth, the team must race against time to defeat the most powerful adversary that they have ever faced. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

The Stargate is an intergalactic gateway, developed by an ancient civilization, that links other planets from other solar systems to ours. The U.S. Air Force assembles a Stargate team for interstellar peace-keeping missions. Boasting incredible special effects sequences, rapid-fire pacing and awesome scenes of alien warfare, STARGATE SG-1 is your gateway to pulse-pounding, sci-fi action!

Inasmuch as longtime regular Michael Shanks has returned to Stargate SG-1 after a one year absence, the series' seventh season opens with the SG-1 crew, headed by Jack O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson), literally bringing Shanks' character Daniel Jackson back from the dead, rescuing his soul from the City of the Lost. Although he has no memory of his past life, Jackson proves indispensable to the team during their showdown with all-purpose villain Anubis (David Palffy). In the course of the action, the crew becomes separated from Jackson's temp replacement Jonas Quinn, who won't show up again until midway through the season (actor Corin Nemec is no longer a regular, and will hereafter be billed as a "special guest star"). In later episodes, Jack regresses to a teenager thanks to a cosmic disturbance involving alien abductees. Jaffan crew member Teal'c (Christopher Judge) must save his son Rya'c (Neil Denis) from a Jaffa death camp--but becomes a prisoner himself; the crew comes across a biodome on a toxic planet, populated by people who may be figments of a computer's imagination; Jackson is possessed by the souls of dozens of hibernating space travelers; the efforts by Sam Carter (Amanda Tapping) to help an alien society enter the "race for space" is compromised by a saboteur; and a virus originally designed to disable unfriendly Stargates accidentally spreads throughout the Gate Network. Also: in the two-part "Evolution", a new enemy race determined to systematically destroy all System Lords appears just as Jack is off elsewhere, attempting to rescue a kidnapped Jackson. A later two-parter, "Heroes, begins with the arrival of a documentary crew prepared to spend a few days filming Star Gate Command--and ends with the unexpected death of one of the series' longest-lasting regulars. And in the season finale, the SG-1 crew must journey way, WAY back in time to retrieve the ancient weaponry required to defend Mankind against the latest assault from Anubis. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Physicist Eva Soderstrom (Amanda Tapping) discovers greedy industrialist Thomas Abernathy (Malcolm McDowell) is on the verge of creating an artificial black hole on in a laboratory on Earth. It's the same experiment that killed her father years earlier, except bigger. With the help of Dr. Price (Adrian Paul), Eva tries to stop Abernathy and, possibly, save the planet. ~ Buzz McClain, All Movie Guide

As Season Three of Stargate SG-1 gets under way, Jack O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) and the SG-1 team manages to wriggle out of the trap set at the end of season two, and to save the world from being overtaken by Replicator bugs -- but they still may have to destroy a bug-infested Russian submarine, which act could forever damage US-Soviet relations. In a later episode, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine regular René Auberjonois shows up as the self-proclaimed leader of an advance race who offers to share his technology with the Earth -- but at what price? Later still, the SG-1 crew briefly takes on superhuman powers and finds that they're far beyond their capabilities...but then they can't shake those troublesome powers to save their lives. And even later than that, Jaffan crew member Teal'c (Christopher Judge) has a less than fond reunion with his lost love. Also: another of those pesky time loops in space forces O'Neill and Teal'c to continue reliving the same ten hours over and over again; the SG-1 tries to intervene in a planetary war that is destined to totally annihilate both sides of the conflict; and a mass attack of amnesia has O'Neill, Teal'c, Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) convinced that they are lifelong slave laborers in an underground alien power plant. Plus: Stargate Project leader Gen. Hammon (Don S. Davis) is replaced by warhawk Gen. Bauer (Lawrence Dane), who has no patience with SG-1 peaceful mission and is determined to destroy all "unfriendly" planets, real or imagined; and in a story set ten years in the future, SG-1 is deactivated when the "benign" Aschen race established universal peace -- but of course, someone in these parts has an ulterior motive. In Season Four's two-part cliffhanger finale, SG-1 undertakes the secret evacuation of the Tok'ra, a Goa'uld resistance group. But evil Goa'uld chieftan Apophis (Peter Williams) tumbles to the secret -- and to prevent Apophis from wiping out the Tok'ra, the crew must take action so drastic that it could result in an apocalyptic chain reaction! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Season two of Stargate SG-1 begins with a resolution of the cliffhanger which closed out season one, as SG-1 leader Jack O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) is imprisoned on an enemy war vessel as the Earth braces for an attack from those parasitic predators, the Goa'uld. When the dust settles, it seems as though the good guys have scored a clear victory and that Goa'uld leader Apophis (Peter Williams) is dead. The remainder of the season chronicles the aftermath of the attack, and the efforts by the SG-1 team to rescue survivors and set things aright by journeying from one Stargate portal to another throughout the galaxy -- despite the usual roadblocks, setbacks, death traps, false allies, and a variety of "possessions" in which the main characters undergo startling personality changes. Season two's perils include a "virtual-reality" trap which forces the team to relive the worst moments of their lives over and over again; a lengthy imprisonment in the Naquadah mines, where O'Neill and his crew are enslaved for the purpose of replenishing the Goa'uld's energy supply; a return visit to the Norselike planet Cimmeria, which, of course, is also under siege by Goa'uld forces; and the heroic efforts by the team to counteract the effects of a lethal virus they have accidentally unleashed on the universe. Also: O'Neill accidentally absorbs the accumulated advanced knowledge of the Ancients who created Stargate -- and may suffer a literal mental meltdown as a consequence of "knowing too much." Jaffan crew member Teal'c (Christopher Judge) is laid low by the news that his wife Drey'ac (Brook Parker), believing Teal'c dead, has married his best friend -- and worse still, Teal'c's son Rya'c (Neil Denis) has been brainwashed by the villainous (and not as dead as assumed!) Apophis. In the same vein, Daniel Jackson's (Michael Shanks) alien wife Sha're (Vaitiare Bandera) announces she is pregnant with Apophis' child. And back on Earth, an unexpected journey back to the year 1969 finds the SG-1 team proving to be quite a "trip" for a pair of wide-eyed hippies. Other highlights include the two-part "The Tok'ra," in which a Goa'uld resistance movement proves to be a mixed blessing when they are obliged to take human "hosts" to survive, while at the same time SG-1er Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) agonizes over the imminent death of her cancer-ridden father Jacob (Carmen Argenziano). And in the season's traditional cliffhanger finale, O'Neill, Carter, and Jackson awaken from 79 years' suspended animation to be told that they're the last survivors of the Stargate team, and that their combined memory banks are sorely needed to continue the fight against the Goa'uld -- but appearances in this case are deceiving. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Called back to active duty by Gen. George Hammond (Don S. Davis), Col. Jack O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) emerges from the retirement he'd imposed on himself after vanquishing Ra, despotic leader of the hideous Goa'uld race, in the "alternate universe" planet Abydos. Word has reached Hammond, head of the top-secret Stargate project, that O'Neill's former associate Dr. David Jackson (Michael Shanks), who'd discovered that the universe is festooned with Stargate "portals" enabling alien civilizations to pass from one plane of reality to another and back again, and who'd evidently perished during the battle with Ra, may still be alive. Blasting off from Stargate Command's headquarters in the Air Force's Cheyenne Mountain Complex, where the Earth's Stargate is located and carefully guarded, O'Neill and his Stargate 1 team, including scientist Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) manage to cross over into Abydos and rescue Jackson from Ra's vicious successor Apophis (Peter Williams). Armed with a map drawn up by Jackson, the SG-1 personnel dedicate themselves to journeying to as many Stargates in the galaxy as possible, the better to protect a variety of alien races from hostile invasion. And thus begins the first season of the enormously popular cable sci-fi series Stargate SG-1. Before long, O'Neill et al. have taken on a new ally, Jaffa soldier Teal'c (Christopher Judge), who refuses to fall in line with his people and blindly accept the Goa'uld as gods. Though Teal'c seems to be trustworthy, the rest of the crew cannot forget that he, like all Jaffan males, carries a larval Goa'uld in his stomach. The SG-1's intergalactic perambulations brings the team in contact with the Shavadi warriors on the planet Simarka; with planet P3X797, where a strict caste system is determined by who lives on the "dark" and "light" side of the plane; and with Samantha Carter's former lover (played by William Russ), who rules Kurtzlike as a god on a faraway planet. In one startling episode the entire crew is actually killed by the predatory Apophis, only to be brought back to life by the invisible Fenri race. Elsewhere, O'Neill undergoes an accelerated aging process on the planet Argos; the crew uncovers disturbing evidence of Stargate activation as far back as 1945 -- but they may never live to tell about it; SG-1 takes the first of many trips to the Planet Cimmeria, ruled by Holographic Norse deities; Teal'c tries to save his son Rya'c (Neil Denis) from being inseminated with a Goa'uld larva; Samantha bonds with a little girl who may have to be killed before she can destroy all humankind, and later Sam and O'Neill are marooned on a frozen planet where she is forced to assume command; and Dr. Jackson is whisked into an alternate reality where all the familiar characters undergo radical changes of personality. Season one ends as all subsequent seasons will, with a cliffhanger that will remain unresolved until the beginning of the next season. In this case, Jackson must alert the team of his foreknowledge that Earth is due for an attack by the Goa'uld -- just as the Stargate Project's funding is slashed to the bone by an anti-military politician. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Introduced in the first-season episode "The Man Who Knew Too Little", compulsive liar Ian MacDonald (Rino Romano) returns to make the lives of Fraser (Paul Gross) and Ray (David Marciano) miserable. This time out, Ian claims that extraterrestrials kidnapped his girlfriend Audrey (Amanda Tapping) just as he was about to propose to her. This turns out not to be the case--but even so, the story somehow ends up at Hangar 57 in Roswell (Roswell, Illinois, that is!) First broadcast on Canadian television, this episode made its US debut on February 23, 1996. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide