Children of the Gods

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Stargate SG-1 episode
“Children of the Gods”
Episode no. Season 1
Episode 1
Guest star(s) Jay Acovone as Major Charles Kawalsky
Vaitiare Bandera as Sha'uri
Robert Wisden as Major Samuels
Peter Williams as Apophis
Brent Stait as Major Ferretti
Gary Jones as Walter Harriman
Alexis Cruz as Skaara
Writer(s) Jonathan Glassner and Brad Wright
Director Mario Azzopardi
Production no. 101A, 101B
Original airdate July 27, 1997
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"Children of the Gods" (Parts 1 and 2) are the pilot episodes of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1.

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[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details for Stargate SG-1 Season 1 follow.

[edit] Part 1

One year previously, in the events of the movie Stargate, Colonel Jack O'Neill led a team through the Stargate to the planet Abydos. After killing Ra by teleporting a nuclear bomb onto Ra's ship as it left Abydos, O'Neill returned to Earth with everyone in his team except Dr. Daniel Jackson, who remained with his new love Sha'uri and her brother Skaara.

In the present, Apophis and his Jaffa come through the Stargate, killing several people and kidnapping a female airman. Soon after this event, Jack O'Neill is recalled to Cheyenne Mountain by Major General George Hammond. He, along with his former teammates Ferretti and Kawalsky, is questioned about the events leading up to their return to Earth from Abydos. When they refuse to reveal anything other than what is in their reports, General Hammond chooses to send a nuclear bomb through the Stargate to Abydos, believing that the aliens could only have come from Abydos and hoping to destroy whoever came through.

With this threat hanging over his head, O'Neill reveals that he had lied about using the bomb to destroy Abydos. He admits that while the alien Ra was destroyed, the people of Abydos are still alive and living in freedom, with Dr. Daniel Jackson living among them. After talking to his superiors, Hammond allows O'Neill to send a tissue box through the Stargate. When the box is returned by Daniel with "Thanks. Send More," scribbled on it, O'Neill is recalled to active duty, regains his rank of Colonel and is given permission to take a team through the Stargate to Abydos to investigate the alien invaders.

A team is assembled and includes Colonel O'Neill, Kawalsky, Ferretti, and, much to O'Neill's reluctance, the astrophysicist Captain-Doctor Samantha Carter, along with several others. When the team arrives, they find a group of Earth weaponry-armed Abydonians waiting for them. They are reunited with Daniel, Sha'uri, and Skaara.

Daniel leads O'Neill, Kawalsky, and Carter to a large cavernous room that has innumerable hieroglyphs on the walls. The archaeologist reveals that he believes that the hieroglyphs of the cartouche match the various symbols on the Stargate, leading him to believe that the walls are actually a map of the coordinates of a vast network of Stargates across the galaxy.

While O'Neill and the others are gone, the Abydos Stargate is opened and the camp is attacked by the same invaders that attacked Earth earlier in the episode. The leader's eyes glow, leading many of the survivors to believe that he was Ra. The invaders take Sha'uri and Skaara with them.

Determined to save his wife and brother-in-law, Daniel accompanies O'Neill and his team back to Earth. When the injured Ferretti is able to reveal the symbols that the invaders used to leave Abydos, General Hammond is given permission by the President to form nine teams who will use the Stargate to gather information about threats to Earth. O'Neill is given command of SG-1, with Sam Carter as his second-in-command and Daniel Jackson accompanying him, due to his determination to find his kidnapped wife. Kawalsky is given command of SG-2.

[edit] Part 2

Spoiler warning: Related plot and/or ending details about Season 2/3 follow.
The Goa'uld that takes Sha'uri is called Amonet, Apophis' Queen, and later Sha'uri is made the mother to Apophis' son. Daniel and Sha'uri meet a few more times before the Season 3 episode "Forever in a Day" in which Sha'uri is killed to stop Amonet from killing Daniel.

Both SG teams leave Earth to the planet where the invaders went to. As SG-1 forges ahead, they meet a group of monks that escort them to the nearby town of Chulak (a name which, incidentally, soon begins to apply to the entire planet). During a meal they find out that Sha'uri has been taken as a host for Apophis' Goa'uld queen and when Daniel runs to her they are taken prisoner.

The team discovers Skaara and Daniel explains that it was not Ra who kidnapped Skaara and Sha'uri, but Apophis, named for the Egyptian serpent god of night. Before Skaara and the team can escape, Apophis and the possessed Sha'uri enter with several guards, including the leader of the guards, the First Prime Teal'c. Several other Goa'uld come forth and begin to pick people out of the crowd of prisoners who will become hosts to the children of the Goa'uld. Skaara is among the few to be chosen and is dragged away, screaming frantically for O'Neill. Also Daniel wants to be picked to be with his wife but he isn't chosen.

Apophis orders that the rest of the prisoners be killed and departs which causes panic among the prisoners. As the serpent guards prepare to execute his orders, O'Neill shouts desperately to Teal'c that he can save the people. Teal'c believes him and turns on his fellow guards, helping the prisoners escape. Although he is shocked about what he has done, he decides to go with SG-1.

O'Neill, Carter, Daniel, and Teal'c lead the prisoners away from Chulak and back towards the Stargate while being pursued by many more serpent guards. While escaping the town, Teal'c tells shows them that he has a Goa'uld in his stomache, much to the shock of the others. He is Jaffa, a servant of the Gods. The larva gives him long life and perfect health. If he would to remove it, he would shortly die. They were attacked by a ship that ringed Apophis. Their staffs weren't effective enough to pierce its hull and the staff cannons on it were too powerful. But thanks to Kawalsky and SG-2, they brought the ship down with a missile. At the gate they see Apophis who leaves with his wife and the other Goa'uld families - and Skaara is among them. O'Neill calls for him and the boy confronts him. However it turns out that a Goa'uld already blended with him and Skaara uses a Hand device to throw O'Neill back. Afterwards he leaves through the gate.

Meanwhile more Jaffa arrive. While O'Neill, Teal'c, Kawalsky, and the rest of SG-2 provide cover, Carter and Daniel lead the prisoners through the Stargate and back to Earth. Just before Kawalsky goes back through the Gate, he is infected with an infant Goa'uld who left a killed Jaffa who was strangled by one of the refugees.

After everyone has made it safely through the Gate, Daniel and O'Neill reaffirm their determination to find Sha'uri and Skaara and rescue them before reporting to their debriefing. O'Neill also asks General Hammond that Teal'c should become a member of their team but the General only says that this isn't his decision. As everyone leaves the gate room, Kawalsky's eyes glowed.

[edit] Notes

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  • The title refers to the taking of Skaara as a host for Apophis' son Klorel.
  • In the first half of this episode, Samantha Carter mentions playing with a Major Matt Mason doll when she was a child. Later, in the Season 3 episode "The Devil You Know," the Major Matt Mason doll is clearly visible on her bedstand during a flashback.
  • This was the first ever episode of Stargate SG-1, and was intended to be a direct canon from the film.
  • This episode, despite the claims of some fans, does not include inconsistencies with laws of wormhole physics established in later episodes: While it is true that the velocity of objects travelling through the Gate is not maintained between origin and destination Gates (when SG-1 and SG-2 first arrive on Chulak, we see several members tumble through the event horizon, when they had simply walked through the other side) and Gate travel is reported to be painful and distressing, this is true of Gate travel from Earth at this particular time. The "rough ride" and frost effect of wormhole travel is an after-effect of several thousand years of stellar drift, the addresses dialed by the Earth Stargate no longer being precisely accurate, and the result is the unpleasant travel. (As an analogy, imagine that you're driving to a friend's house with the roads changed slightly since your last visit; if you follow the same route, you're going to end up driving on the bare ground instead of the pavement.) However, this is corrected in later episodes (accompanied by in-show explanations from the various scientists) by calculating the current correct positions of other Gates and adjusting the dialing appropriately.
  • When Carter sees the DHD for the first time, she comments on how it took years to "MacGyver" a way to dial the Stargate on Earth. Richard Dean Anderson, who plays Colonel Jack O'Neill, starred as the lead character on MacGyver. It is said that Amanda Tapping ad-libbed the line during her audition and that it was what solidified her position.
  • The episode's original airing on Showtime featured one scene of brief full frontal nudity. Many fans were critical of this as were parent groups, due to the misconception that science fiction is only "for kids." This has never been repeated and future airings would have the nudity cut out for syndication. The DVD version, however, retains this scene.

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