Stargate SG-1 (season 7)

Stargate SG-1 Season 7
Region 1 DVD cover art
Country of origin	United States,  Canada
Network	SCI FI
Original run	June 13, 2003 (Sci Fi Channel (United States)) – March 9, 2004 (Sky One)
No. of episodes	22
DVD release date	Region 1: October 19, 2004 Region 2: February 28, 2005 Region 4: March 16, 2005
Previous season	Season 6
Next season	Season 8

Season seven of Stargate SG-1, an American-Canadian television series, began airing on June 7, 2002 on Sci Fi Channel (United States). The seventh season concluded after 22 episodes on March 9, 2004 on British Sky One, which overtook the Sci-Fi Channel in mid-season. The series was developed by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner. Season seven regular cast members include Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Michael Shanks, and Don S. Davis.

Main cast

• Richard Dean Anderson as Colonel Jack O'Neill
• Amanda Tapping as Major Samantha Carter
• Christopher Judge as Teal'c
• Michael Shanks as Dr. Daniel Jackson
• Don S. Davis as Major General George Hammond

Episodes

#	#	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original airdate
133	701	"Fallen (Part 1)"	Martin Wood	Robert C. Cooper	June 13, 2003 (Sci Fi Channel)
Daniel is found living on Vis Uban ("place of great power", P4T-3G6), a planet where the Ancients began building their greatest city when they were struck by a plague. Although Daniel has total amnesia, he helps SG-1 to destroy Anubis' superweapon.
134	702	"Homecoming (Part 2)"	Martin Wood	Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie	June 13, 2003 (Sci Fi Channel)
With knowledge of naqahdriah, Anubis attacks Kelowna and SG-1 must come up with a plan to save them.
135	703	"Fragile Balance"	Peter DeLuise	Peter DeLuise and Michael Greenburg	June 20, 2003 (Sci Fi Channel)
O'Neill wakes up one morning to find himself 30 years younger, much to the annoyance of the Colonel. It is soon learned that the same process that caused him to get younger is also causing him to die.
136	704	"Orpheus"	Peter DeLuise	Peter DeLuise	June 27, 2003 (Sci Fi Channel)
Teal'c is shot by a Jaffa as they retreat through the gate and his self-confidence is greatly wounded. Meanwhile, Jackson remembers that Rya'c and Bra'tac are held prisoner on the planet Erebus where Jaffa prisoners of war must build Ha'tak ships. Teal'c must regain his confidence if they are to be saved.
137	705	"Revisions"	Martin Wood	Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie	July 11, 2003 (Sci Fi Channel)
P3X-289 has a toxic atmosphere but there is a forcefield dome protecting an idyllic village. That is, idyllic except for the fact that its inhabitants are disappearing one by one without noticing it themselves.
138	706	"Lifeboat"	Peter DeLuise	Brad Wright	July 18, 2003 (Sci Fi Channel)
While exploring P2A-347, SG-1 encounters the crashed alien space ship Stromos containing a plethora of cryogenic pods. The team separates, and Daniel's mind becomes host to many different minds of the ship's crew. When SG-1 investigates the alien ship to find a way to cure Daniel, they discover that the minds of the passengers from the planet Talthus are being saved in the ship's computer. They also find that one of the crew is awake and he was the one to download the other minds into Daniel's body. The crewman also carries many minds within himself. When a pod would fail he would download the person's mind into his own. Since he was becoming delirious he wanted to save more of the crew by putting them into Daniel. With his help, SG-1 is able to remove the other minds from Daniel and awaken the passengers of the ship, sending them to a planet named Ardena.
139	707	"Enemy Mine"	Peter DeLuise	Peter DeLuise	July 25, 2003 (Sci Fi Channel)
SGC have found a planet with rich deposits of Naqahdah but the local population of Unas do not welcome the mining team.
140	708	"Space Race"	Andy Mikita	Damian Kindler	August 1, 2003 (Sci Fi Channel)
Carter helps the Serrakin Warrick (season 6's "Forsaken") to enter his spaceship in a dangerous race on his planet Hebridan (P4X-131). The prize is a lucrative contract.
141	709	"Avenger 2.0"	Martin Wood	Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie	August 8, 2003 (Sci Fi Channel)
Felger ("The Other Guys") is about to be fired and desperate to persuade General Hammond to give him another chance. He invents a computer virus able to deactivate a Stargate, and targets one of Baal's principal naquadah mining sites on P5S-117 () to test of the virus. However the virus spreads on its own and the entire network is shut down.
142	710	"Birthright"	Peter DeLuise	Christopher Judge	August 15, 2003 (Sci Fi Channel)
SG-1 meet a group of all female Jaffa from a planet named Hak'tyl (meaning "liberation"), who have set up their own rebel base.
143	711	"Evolution (Part 1)"	Peter DeLuise	Damian Kindler, Michael Shanks and Peter DeLuise	August 22, 2003 (Sci Fi Channel)
Teal'c and Bra'tac are attacked by a black armoured warrior who is found to be a human Goa'uld mutant created by Anubis. Daniel visits Honduras to find a hidden artifact which may hold the key to defeating them.
144	712	"Evolution (Part 2)"	Peter DeLuise	Damian Kindler, Michael Shanks and Peter DeLuise	December 15, 2003 (Sky One)
O'Neill goes to Honduras to rescue Jackson and in the meantime Carter, Jacob/Selmak and Teal'c must destroy the facility on the planet Tartarus () where Anubis is creating the new warriors.
145	713	"Grace"	Peter F. Woeste	Damian Kindler	January 6, 2004 (Sky One)
Carter is on the Prometheus while the ship is on its way to Earth, and is attacked from a spaceship of a type they have never seen before. They try to escape by hiding in a nebula but all the crew except Carter disappear.
146	714	"Fallout"	Martin Wood	Corin Nemec, Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie	January 13, 2004 (Sky One)
Jonas informs SGC that Naqahdriah is created in a catalytic reaction and the process is ongoing on Kelowna. If the reaction goes deep enough, heat and pressure will destabilise the Naqahdriah and it will blow the planet apart.
147	715	"Chimera"	Will Waring	Robert C. Cooper	January 20, 2004 (Sky One)
Osiris has been visiting Jackson by night and using a mind control device to try and find the Lost City of the Ancients. SG-1 decide to attempt to capture her. However, Carter's new boyfriend Pete might get in the way.
148	716	"Death Knell"	Peter DeLuise	Peter DeLuise	January 27, 2004 (Sky One)
The Alpha Site, where a prototype anti-supersoldier weapon is being created, is attacked by one of Anubis's drones, Carter escapes but she is on her own and the drone is hunting her.
149	717	"Heroes (Part 1)"	Andy Mikita	Robert C. Cooper	February 3, 2004 (Sky One)
A film crew arrive at SGC to make a documentary but find their welcome less than enthusiastic.
150	718	"Heroes (Part 2)"	Andy Mikita	Robert C. Cooper	February 10, 2004 (Sky One)
Help is sent to rescue of an SG member who is unable to get to the gate. However, on the mission, a member of the SGC is killed.
151	719	"Resurrection"	Amanda Tapping	Michael Shanks	February 17, 2004 (Sky One)
SGC find the base of a rogue NID operation which has been attempting to mix the DNA of humans and Goa'uld, but all the agents except one have been killed.
152	720	"Inauguration"	Peter F. Woeste	Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie	February 24, 2004 (Sky One)
A new President has been elected and must be briefed on the Stargate Program. However, as usual, the new Vice President Kinsey has his own agenda. (This episode is a clip show.)
153	721	"Lost City (Part 1)"	Martin Wood	Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper	March 2, 2004 (Sky One)
The SGC locates a Repository of the Ancients on P3X-439 and when Anubis attacks, O'Neill downloads their knowledge into his brain again. Finally, Bra'tac warns SG-1 that Anubis plans an attack on Earth. Hammond is replaced by Dr. Elizabeth Weir.
154	722	"Lost City (Part 2)"	Martin Wood	Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper	March 9, 2004 (Sky One)
As Anubis' fleet arrives, SG-1 flies to Proclarush Taonas (), a planet with an Ancient outpost and a ZPM. SG-1 locate another outpost in Antarctica back on Earth, from where O'Neill is able to destroy Anubis' fleet using the Ancient weapon.

Production

• With "Fallen", Michael Shanks (Dr. Daniel Jackson) rejoins the cast, and Corin Nemec (Jonas Quinn) gets billed as a "Guest Star" (he would have his only guest appearance later in "Fallout"). George Touliatos previously played Pyrus, Shyla's father, in "Need." The scenes with the Goa'uld motherships flying in hyperspace are actually stock footage from the Season 2 episode "The Serpent's Lair."
• Peter DeLuise, who directed "Fragile Balance", provided the voice of Loki in the same episode.
• Christopher Heyerdahl, who played Pallan in "Revisions", would later play the recurring characters of Halling and the Wraith 'Todd' on Stargate Atlantis. Peter LaCroix previously played the Ashrak in "In the Line of Duty".
• In "Space Race", Alex Zahara takes on the role of Warrick, who was played by Dion Johnstone in "Forsaken". This marks Zahara's sixth different character that he has played on Stargate, usually under make-up. It's also the second week in a row that someone else has taken over a role originally played by Dion Johnstone. G. Patrick Currie, who plays Eamon in this episode, took over Johnstone's role as Chaka in the previous weeks. Patrick Currie (Eamon) previously played Fifth in season six's "Unnatural Selection".
• The weapon Carter uses in "Avenger 2.0" (referred to as the Carter Special) was created as the show could not use P90's as the war in Iraq made getting hold of the cartridges difficult.^[1]
• "Chimera" was alternatively entitled Black Widow Carter. In the episode, Carter mentions how all of her boyfriends in the past are dead, which is accurate. David DeLuise appeared as the fourth DeLuise on Stargate - Dom, Michael, and Peter have all appeared in the past. Although Carter hums the Stargate SG-1 theme tune in the elevator in the episode, Amanda Tapping actually wanted to hum the MacGyver theme but couldn't remember the melody.^[2] Carter also says that Colorado Springs has no zoo, when it in fact does, the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Producer Joseph Mallozzi said that this was supposed to be a subtle hint that Carter spends too much time at work to notice what her city has to offer.^[3] At the beginning of the episode, there is a shot of what should be the University of Chicago, in fact the shot is of the University of Chicago Lab School, a lower school affiliate.
• "Heroes, Part 2" was the 150th episode of Stargate SG-1 to be aired. Adam Baldwin, who plays Colonel Dave Dixon, commander of SG-13, in this episode, is well-known among sci-fi fans for playing Jayne Cobb in the cult hit Firefly and its big-screen adaptation Serenity and also Marcus Hamilton in Angel. Mitchell Kosterman previously played a different character, Special Agent James Hamner, in "Seth". "Heroes" also marks the first appearance of Agent Richard Woolsey (Robert Picardo) on the series. Picardo is most well-known for playing the holographic Doctor on Star Trek: Voyager.
• "Resurrection" is the first SG-1 episode directed by Amanda Tapping. It is also the only SG-1 episode to have both been written by an actor on the show (Michael Shanks) and to be directed by one as well.
• The White House interior set in "Inauguration" and "Lost City" is the same one used in X-Men 2. Along with "Disclosure", "Inauguration" is one of only two episodes where none of the regular characters except General Hammond are featured.
• This is the only season of Stargate SG-1 to air on the Sci-Fi Channel to feature the original Showtime cast.

Cultural references

• A scene in "Fallen" of the F-302 destroying the power core is a humorous homage to episode six of Star Wars, Return of the Jedi, complete with similar visuals and terminology. There is also a subtle Star Wars reference in the dialogue as they prepare to launch the F-302: "Airstrike, this is command base, you are go for takeoff", O'Neill: "Yeah, I thought we were going with Red Leader on this one" (Red 5 was the callsign of Luke Skywalker's X-wing squadron at the battle of Yavin), and when Carter congratulates O'Neill on his great shot, just like Han Solo did with Luke Skywalker in episode 4.
• In "Avenger 2.0" , Dr. Felger (Patrick McKenna), who first appeared in Season 6's "The Other Guys", prominently packs a roll of duct tape during his preparation for going offworld. This is a reference to the Red Green Show, which featured Patrick McKenna in a regular role.^[1]

DVD releases

Awards

• For the episode "Lifeboat", Michael Shanks won a Leo Award in the category "Dramatic Series: Best Lead Performance - Male", and Teryl Rothery was nominated for a Leo Award in the category "Dramatic Series: Best Supporting Performance - Female".^[4]
• "Enemy Mine" won a Leo Award in the category "Dramatic Series: Best Make-Up"^[4]
• For the episode "Grace", Amanda Tapping won a Leo Award in the category "Dramatic Series: Best Lead Performance - Female".^[4]
• "Heroes" was nominated for a Hugo Award in the category Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form.^[4]
• For "Heroes, Part 2", Andy Mikita was nominated for a Leo Award in the category "Dramatic Series: Best Direction", and Don S. Davis was nominated for a Leo Award in the category "Dramatic Series: Best Supporting Performance - Male".^[4]
• "Lost City, Part 2" was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series and for a Gemini Award in the category Best Visual Effects.^[4]

References

External links

• Season 7 on stargatesg1.com (Official site)
• Season 7 on GateWorld
• Season 7 on IMDb
• Season 7 on TV.com
• Season 7 on Wikia