Episode 114
First aired on 31/10/97
Directed by Mario Azzopardi
Written By Robert C. Cooper
Also Starring: Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Katie Stuart (Cassandra), Gary Jones (Technician), and Kevin McNulty (Dr. Warner).
Music by Joel Goldsmith
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Episode Review by Amethyst
Summary
SG-1 gated to a less advanced planet where SG-7 were setting
up a telescope to
photograph a total eclipse and a black hole. They arrived to find everyone
dead except a girl.
After Dr. Fraiser pronounced the girl uninfected they took her back through
the stargate to the
SGC. The girl, Cassandra, became very attached to Samantha and Samantha
became more than
a little attached to her. Cassandra began having chest pain, went into
 arrest, and was discovered
to have a Goa'uld device implanted in her chest. It could not be removed
without killing her.
Jack and Teal'c had stayed behind on the planet to record the astronomical
event. While looking
through the telescope a Goa'uld attack vessel was spotted and they fled
back through the stargate
while under attack from Goa'uld death gliders. Teal'c speculated that
the girl Cassandra was
being used by the Goa'uld in an attempt to blow up the stargate. Back
at the SGC it was decided
the girl must be taken back through the gate but Cassandra went into
a coma. Jack and Teal'c
came through in time to prevent them from taking her through the gate.
General Hammond ordered the girl to be taken to an abandoned nuclear
facility, because when
the tissue between the two halves of the object in her chest decayed
there would be a massive
nuclear explosion. As Samantha carried Cassandra in the elevator down
to the lower levels of
the facility the girl awoke. Sam led her into a room and told her she
had to leave but would be
back. She sealed the door but in an emotional scene she took the elevator
back down.
Up above, Daniel, Teal'c and Jack waited for an explosion which did not
happen. Getting
Cassandra away from the stargate had caused the Goa'uld device to begin
dissolving. Away
from the gate the device deteriorated and was reabsorbed into Cassandra's
system.
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Goofs
- Disappearing scaffold--now you see it, now you don't.
There was some kind of framework or scaffolding over the ramp in front
of the stargate. In the
first scene when SG-1 went through to Cassandra's planet the scaffolding
was not there. When
they brought Cassandra back to the SGC the scaffolding was present.
On the ramp when they
were preparing to take Cassie back through the gate the scaffold was
there but when Jack and
Teal'c opened the gate from the other side it was gone again. Then in
the next shot as Teal'c
and Jack came through the gate the scaffold reappeared.
- In the tale Teal'c related to Jack of how the Goa'uld Nirti once
sent a false emissary of
peace who destroyed a stargate, Nirti was referred to as "he." In a
later episode Nirti was a
female.
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Character Development
We got to see a maternal side of Samantha's
in this
episode. She discovered a need within herself to protect this child
and that seemed to surprise
her. Daniel's friendship for Sam was evident in his support of her throughout
the episode. The
closeness of the entire team was shown when both Daniel and Teal'c refused
to leave as the
clock counted down. The allusions to Jack's hobby of astronomy created
continuity with
"Children of the Gods" where we saw him on the roof with a telescope.
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Music
In scenes with Cassandra the music was sweet and somewhat melancholy.
In the
briefing room when Janet announced that they had one hour and fifty-two
minutes before the
object in Cassandra exploded the music was appropriately ominous. And
during Sam's elevator
scene the music was quite emotional.
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Enigmas
- Cassandra's culture was apparently quite a bit less advanced than
ours but....they never
heard of swings?
- How was Teal'c able to identify the Goa'uld ship seen through the
telescope as
belonging to Nirti? Do ships belonging to different Goa'uld have distinctive
designs?
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Personal Reaction
The scenes with Sam and Cassandra were very touching
and I liked
this nurturing side of Samantha. The elevator scene showing Sam's anguish
was powerful and
well acted. I liked the humor--Jack trying to describe a black hole
to Teal'c and the comment
about him having a telescope to watch the neighbors. Overall one of
my favorite episodes..
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