Demons (Stargate SG-1)
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| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 8 |
| Guest stars | David McNally as Simon Alan C. Peterson as The Canon Laura Mennell as Mary Richard Morwich as Unas Christopher Judge Voice of Unas John R. Taylor as Elder |
| Written by | Carl Binder |
| Directed by | Peter DeLuise |
| Production no. | 308 |
| Original airdate | August 13, 1999 |
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"Demons" is an episode from Season 3 of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1.
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[edit] Plot
The SG-1 team arrives on a primitive planet with basic Christian beliefs. They fear a demon from the Stargate, which they call the circle of darkness, and appease it with human offerings. The "demon" is actually an Unas Goa'uld host in the service of Sokar, posing as Satan to these Christian believers. The Canon is the one to choose those to be given to the Unas and blatanty abuses the position. He wears a "magical" ring, that seems to be of Goa'uld technology, that allows him to summon lightning to strike others.
Teal'c is subjected to witchcraft tests on the basis of his forehead mark ("a mark of the devil") and appears to drown in the last of these tests. Due to his symbiote and entering meditation, Teal'c is able to "return to life", which is deemed to be a sign of Satanic influence. SG-1 is sentenced to be offered to the demon along with a young girl deemed to be "possessed", when in reality, she only has chicken pox.
SG-1 manages to escape from the Unas and after receiving their weapons from a sympathetic villager they are able to stop the Unas, but not before the Goa'uld takes the Canon as a host. Carter discovers that the Canon has been possessed by the Goa'uld and both host and Goa'uld are killed. SG-1 then encourages the villagers to bury their gate and they return to Earth.
[edit] Quotes
- O'Neill: (After his throat is grabbed by the Unas) Oh my apple!
- Daniel: They didn't call it the Dark Ages because it was dark. (The prevailing ignorance gave the name "Dark Ages")
- O'Neill: "You read the Bible, Teal'c?"
Teal'c: "It is a significant part of your western culture. Have you not read the Bible, O'Neill?"
O'Neill: "Oh, yeah, yeah. Not all of it. Actually, I'm listening to it on tape. Don't tell me how it ends." - O'Neill: [after Teal'c returns from the dead] "WAY TO GO, JUNIOR!!!" [To Teal'c's symbiote]
[edit] Notes
- This is Carl Binder's first and (as of yet) only contribution to Stargate SG-1. He would later become a staff writer on the spin-off series Stargate Atlantis.
- This was David McNally's second appearance on Stargate SG-1. His first appearance was in the Season 1 Episode Cor-ai, as Hanno.
- In this episode, the same place was used for the stargate as in the episode "The Nox"
- The episode mentions Trepanation as a way to ward a person of demons, but in fact this was a medical procedure that had high rates of survival in the Middle Ages.
- Don S. Davis does not appear in this episode.
[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 (1999-08-05). Retrieved on 2006-10-15. Linked to from Official Stargate SG-1 site. Also see Google's cache.
- Summary from GateWorld. Visited May 5, 2006.
- Review from GateWorld. Reviewed by Penfold. Visited May 5, 2006.
