“You know, I’m not a big fan of that bark like a chicken, cluck like a dog stuff.”
- Release Date: 17th October 1997
- Season 1
- Episode 13
- Director: Allan Eastman
- Writers: Katharyn Powers
Returning from a mission in complete distress, Jack, Sam and Teal’c reveal to Hammond that Daniel Jackson is dead (again). They claimed he died in a volcanic eruption while everyone else managed to jump into the nearby ocean to protect themselves. They give him a full military funeral and send a flag through the Stargate in place of a body. When asked if they want to go back, SG-1 are absolutely horrified by this idea – his death has hit them far more than you would expect – Jack even smashes Hammond’s car window during Jackson’s wake.
Meanwhile, Daniel wakes up in some underwater lab. A very Star Trek looking alien – who we later know as Nem – wants him to translate some ancient Babylonian text, which just references someone called “Omoroca”, a figure that Jackson read about once many years ago. She was his mate and has been on missions on Earth for thousands of years. Nem is convinced that Daniel can remember if he tries harder, especially after Daniel makes it clear that they do not work for the Gou’ald (despite having a Jaffa with them).
Back on Earth, Jack, Teal’c and Sam struggle with their thoughts. They get flashes of Daniel’s death, but also somehow just know that he’s still alive. It’s a contraction, which they all realise, with them coming to the conclusion that someone is messing with their heads. Carter agrees to be hypnotised to try and uncover the truth, getting memories of Nem knocking them out and taking Daniel.
As Daniel pleads to be let go, he suggests that Nem might be able to extract the memory from him using the technology he used to implant memories into the rest of SG-1.Nem says that Daniel could be damaged by it, but Daniel thinks that’s better than being trapped there forever. He starts the procedure, which is painful, until Daniel reveals that the passage he read says that Omoroca had died. Nem is distraught, but lets Daniel go.
Right when SG-1 returns to the planet, Nem surfaces in the water followed by Daniel, with Daniel suggesting an alliance in the future, which Nem says that perhaps “in time” they could. The species is never mentioned again. This episode really just feels like half an episode that has been dragged out. It’s not bad, but not that much happens in it. It also seems to be a bit early for a serious fake death episode.
