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All righty then...this tv series has taken the initial premise of the movie
and gone, oh, all kinds of crazy ways with it--some better, some not--but
in essence, as pertains to this particular episode, the story is as follows:
There are three powers in play here: the Tau'ri, the Tok'ra, and the Goa'uld.
We are the Tau'ri, Earthers. including the SG1 team of, O'Neil (MacGyver
in fatigues, NOT the dark character he was in the movie), Daniel (pretty
much the same, but not nearly so charming), and a sweet blond, Carter.
Except for the General, we've no real military personalities in the crew,
except for the alien, Tealc--about him in a moment.
The Goauld--you remember "Crying Game" Ra from the
movie--are the main bad guys. They are nifty little dragonets with
enormous 'tude who start out in a larval stage, move to Slave/Warrior Jaffa's
for the maturation portion of their life cycle, and then on to other biped
hosts--humans, in the case of Ra. They revive their hosts by means of a
Sarcophagus, and they fight like tigers among themselves...power hungry
with a way negative Ruth factor.
The Tok'ra (literally, "against Ra") are Goauld who rebelled in the distant
past. They don't use Jaffa and they only "infest" voluntary hosts. Needless
to say, their numbers are dwindling. They also don't use the sarcophagus,
because they are convinced it is addicting or evil-making, or something
like that. Instead of taking over their host, they share the flesh, unlike
the Goauld, who pretty much destroy the host personality.
Tealc used to be the Prime General, or the equivalent, to a real baddie,
Cronos, no less. He defected to the Tau'ri, is carrying a dragonet babe--a
Symbiote--and is far and away the only military person in the immediate
crew, except for all that eye shadow.
The Tok'ra have an alliance of convenience (inconvenience, according to
O'Neil) with the Earthers, partly through the transference of one of the
Symbiotes to Carter's father, Jacob, who would otherwise have died of cancer.
They don't think much of humans, but tolerate them, both for host potential
and tactical moxy. They believe the best way to defeat the Goauld is to
let the Systems Lords kill each other. They tend to give up information
on a "need to know" basis...basically their attitude is the Tau'ri don't
need to know.
This episode concerns a Jaffa friend of Tealc's who claims to have communicated
with the Symbiote she carries and convinced it to defect to the Tok'ra
cause. The incubation period, however, is over and the Symbiote overdue
for the transfer to his ultimate host. They meet with the Tok'ra, who bring
a volunteer, Hebron (Pete's character). Time runs out precipitously and
a chaotic transfer takes place. Hebron announces he is Tanith (the Goauld's
name) and that he is pleased to join the Tok'ra in their rebellion against
the Goauld. Tealc's friend goes off to receive a young symbiote that the
Tok'ra have procured for her.
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