Warning! Spoilers ahead. Read at your own risk!

Boy, the longer I put off writing these SG-1 reviews, the harder they get, chiefly because it feels like forever ago that Lady Jessica and I watched this season. At this point we’re actually already working our way through season one of Stargate Atlantis. At least I have the fabulous GateWorld to remind me what happened.

Overall I feel like this was a pretty good season. Lady Jessica isn’t a big Daniel Jackson fan, but I was glad to see his return as a regular character, though I’m sad that it meant we’d have to say goodbye to Jonas Quinn. Seriously, after the first couple of episodes that wrap up his stint with SG-1, Jonas only comes back for one more episode later in the season, never to be seen (or I think even mentioned) again. That’s a shame. I felt like Corin Nemec took over for Michael Shanks very ably and put his own stamp on the series.

Episodes that stood out to me:

First there’s Lifeboat wherein SG-1 discovers a crashed ship full of people in stasis. Daniel is attacked by the lone awoken crew member who downloads the consciousnesses of several passengers and crew into Daniel’s brain, using him as a lifeboat since their bodies have perished since the ship crashed. For one thing this episode was pure sci-fi in its finest “way out there” form, and it felt very much like a Star Trek episode. According to Wikipedia, Michael Shanks won an award for his performance in the episode.

Jumping ahead to the end of the season, you’ve gotta love the two-part Lost City. I’ve actually forgotten a tremendous amount of the details of this one, and it sets up some major changes in the series, but the final action is fantastic. I loved the scenes involving the Prometheus and the F-302s doing battle over the icy plains of Antarctica.

Finally, there’s Heroes, Part 2 I really think this is quite possibly the finest episode of SG-1. Out of the whole series it is by far the best written. The episode is set against a backdrop of a film crew that is documenting the actions of the SGC for posterity by order of the president. Everyone at the base feels very uncomfortable about this. The leader of the film crew (played by Warehouse 13’s Saul Rubinek), encourages Daniel to actually shoot some compelling footage on one of his missions. While under attack from Jaffa on an alien world soon thereafter, Dr. Janet Fraiser (Teryl Rothery) takes a direct hit from a staff weapon and dies. Jackson’s camera recorded the whole thing. It’s an emotionally powerful episode as the team copes with the loss of a friend and colleague, and as Daniel and the film crew wrestle with whether or not to include the footage in the documentary.

Also of note this season we run across a tribe of Jaffa warrior women led by Star Trek: Enterprise’s Jolene Blalock. It’s always great to run across Trek alumni, and the Stargate franchise has its fair share, albeit mostly in small roles.