Between Two Fires
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| Stargate SG-1 episode | |
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| “Between Two Fires” | |
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| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 9 |
| Guest star(s) | Garwin Sanford as Narim Marie Stillin as High Chancellor Travell Peter Wingfield as Tanith Gary Jones as Walter Harriman Ryan Silverman as Tollan Guard |
| Writer(s) | Ron Wilkerson |
| Director | William Gereghty |
| Production no. | 509 |
| Original airdate | August 24, 2001 |
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| ← Previous | Next → |
| "The Tomb" | "2001" |
"Between Two Fires" is an episode of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1.
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[edit] Plot
The death of the Tollan, Omoc, and the reversal of the Tollan isolationist ways sparks an investigation by SG-1 into a deeply rooted conspiracy. After years of refusing to give Earth any of their technologies, Tollana's ruling body, the Curia, offers to give Earth as many "ion cannons" as it wants. At the same time, Narim alerts SG-1 to the strange circumstances surrounding Omok's death, suggesting that he may have been murdered.
As it turns out, Tanith, in the service of another Goa'uld, has learned to break through the Tollan defenses and is now manipulating them with threats. Tanith has been sent to oversee a project of building powerful weapons with the Tollan's phase-shifting technology. The Goa'uld plans to use one of the devices to penetrate the iris on the Earth Stargate. SG-1 manages to foil the plan and destroy the research facility, which results in Tanith attacking Tollana.
[edit] Quotes
- Sam: Narim, we understand why you're concerned, but those ion cannons could save Earth one day.
Daniel: You're just going to have to trust our people won't blow each other up with them.
Jack: And if we do, we won't blame you. Promise.
[edit] Notes
- In this episode some insight is given into the Tollan homeworld and political system and their practice of making all of the Curia (The Tollan legislative body) processes transparent.
- This episode also includes the first mention of Anubis, who Tanith (who is manipulating the Tollan) alludes to as his mysterious new "master".
- The urban outdoor scenes of Tollana were shot on the main campus of Simon Fraser University (S.F.U.) in Burnaby, a small city just east of Vancouver. The unique concrete architecture, known in campus as the "Academic Quadrangle", was planned by the now internationally famous architect Arthur Erickson during the "forward-thinking" 1960s when this university was first built with the intention of being different and distinct from more traditional campuses such as the older and existing University of British Columbia (U.B.C.) in Vancouver. The same university location was previously used for the Third-Season episode Pretense when the SG-1 team visited Tollana for the first time. This building was also used in the Battlestar Galactica Mini Series as Riverwalk Market in Caprica City.
- One of the issues that the Curia was discussing was the genetic modification and introduction of earthworms (as seen on one of Narim's computer displays). This is a reference to Matthew Broderick's character in the ill-received Godzilla film, who studied the effects of the Chernobyl radiation disaster on Earthworms. Both the Godzilla remake and the original Stargate film were produced by film executive Dean Devlin. Other parodys of Dean Devlins work have appeared in SG-1; in the Season I episode "Politics," Daniel Jackson makes a snide remark about uploading a virus into the mothership. An obvious reference to the unlikely climax of Independence Day.
- The Tollan are apparently wiped out by Tannith (and possibly Anubis) at the end of this episode. The last that is heard from them is a garbled mayday from Narim, sent through the Stargate. In it, Narim states that the survivors are attempting to leave the planet. It is likely that they were killed in the attempt, as the Tollan have made no new appearances in the show since (Garwin Sanford, who played Narim, would go on to appear as Elizabeth Weir's husband in Stargate Atlantis).
[edit] External links
- Official Stargate SG-1 site. MGM. Visited June 8, 2006. Most of site requires Flash.
- Screenplay (PDF). Distributed by MGM. Prepared by Casablanca Continuity (2001-08-20). Retrieved on 2006-10-15. Linked to from Official Stargate SG-1 site.
- Summary from GateWorld. Visited May 4, 2006.
