Top 50 Stargate Episodes
This is a list of my 50 favorite Stargate episodes. The list contains 32 SG-1 episodes, 12 SGA episodes and 6 SGU episodes.
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- DirectorDavid Warry-SmithStarsRichard Dean AndersonMichael ShanksAmanda TappingSG-1 travels to a planet whose people are allies of the Asgard.
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsRichard Dean AndersonAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeVice President Kinsey briefs Dr. Weir on the Stargate program before her meeting with the president. SG teams 1, 3, and 5 go off-world to attempt the extraction of a newly found Ancient repository device. Upon arriving at the location of the device, SG-1 comes under fire from Goa'uld ships. With no other way to disallow Anubis from claiming the knowledge for himself, Jack submits himself to the dangerous device.Parts 1 and 2
- DirectorAndy MikitaStarsJoe FlaniganRachel LuttrellJason MomoaDr. Daniel Jackson comes to Atlantis in search of a lost Atlantian room. The discovery reveals a new race. Daniel and McKay are kidnapped by the new race and are forced to finish a device which may kill the Wraith. Todd feels betrayed and takes the Daedalus."First Contact" and "The Lost Tribe"
- DirectorAndy MikitaStarsRichard Dean AndersonAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeDaniel finds himself in a strange time and place - a diner where Oma is working as a waitress. She gives him a clear choice - he can choose to die or to ascend but if it's the latter, he will not be able to help his friends fight Anubis, who has yet to be disposed of. He strikes up a conversation with another patron, Jim, who has his own take on the situation. Meanwhile, Sam decides the time has come for her fiancé to meet her father, Jacob. Jacob is not well, however, something he has kept from Sam for several weeks. After Pete surprises her - he thinks he's found the perfect house for them - Sam realizes she has to come to grips with her feelings for someone else. Teal'c and Master Bra'tac have information that Anubis may be gathering what remains of his forces for an attack on Dakara.
- DirectorDavid Warry-SmithStarsRichard Dean AndersonMichael ShanksAmanda TappingWhile collecting artifacts on a distant planet, Daniel Jackson is knocked out after touching a mirror-like object. He awakens in the same room but is unable to locate the other members of SG-1. Assuming that they left without him, he dials up his return home but gets there to find that he is in a different reality. In this world, General Jack O'Neill and Catherine Langford are in charge of the Stargate program; Hammond is a Colonel reporting to O'Neill; and Sam Carter is a civilian scientist working on the project (and also engaged to O'Neill). More importantly, Earth is under attack from the Goa'uld who have already killed over 1 billion people. Carter believes that somehow, Jackson is from a parallel dimension. When Jackson learns the point of origin of the Goa'uld attack, he wants to return to his own universe, believing that his Earth will be similarly attacked.
- DirectorAndy MikitaStarsBen BrowderAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeDaniel Jackson, who was left behind fighting off Adria while the other SG-1 members escaped through the Stargate, is found working as a Prior: the best in the business, who doesn't need to use any threats to talk people into conversion to Origin. Hoping there is still some of his personality left, the team (plus General Jack O'Neill) kidnaps him. Daniel explains how he temporarily has Merlin's personality and knowledge in himself, and had deliberately allowed Adria to turn him into a Prior, while delaying to finish Merlin's weapon she'd wanted, and hoping to get an Ori ship for Earth's side. But time is running out since the team took unexpectedly long to rescue him. Still, the generals, Carter, and Vala are most reluctant to go along with releasing him and opening the wormhole he needs to bring the weapon through. Even the White House wants to kill Daniel, or at best, keep him in stasis until he is reverted to his human nature by Merlin's genetic manipulation. But then his plan is wasted - unless the others can be trained to do it in his place (so only they are at risk, not the entire galaxy in case Daniel is Adria's Trojan Horse). After giving them the necessary information, Daniel suddenly frees himself while Richard Woolsey is with him and takes control of a space ship after beaming up Jack too, just after the others have undertaken their mission to Adria's lair, where Daniel, about to be genetically reverted, arrives just in time to tip the balance in their favor.
- DirectorPeter DeLuiseStarsRichard Dean AndersonAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeAfter a long absence, Jacob Carter returns to the SGC to tell Jack that the galaxy is under threat of takeover by the Replicators. The Goa'uld are under attack from the Replicators and are quickly being eliminated. Ba'al's armies are being destroyed and he arrives at SGC to suggest they work together to defeat their common enemy. Carter's doppelganger, RepliCarter, is leading the attack and she has kidnapped Daniel Jackson in the hope of learning of any weapons the Ancients may have created that could defeat them. Jackson gets help from an unexpected source - the Ancient, Oma Desala - or so he thinks.Parts 1 and 2
- DirectorAndy MikitaStarsJoe FlaniganAmanda TappingRachel LuttrellThe Atlantis team decides to attack the numerous ships of the Replicators, with the help of uneasy alliances."This Mortal Coil" and "Be All My Sins Remember'd"
- DirectorAndy MikitaStarsRichard Dean AndersonAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeThe president has asked that a documentarian go to SGC to create a film about its operations. His arrival is unwelcome to most and he begins to clash with the base personnel. Nevertheless, he conducts his interviews with SG-1 and the scientists in the employ of SGC. Meanwhile, an off-world SG team finds the remains of an Ancient city.Parts 1 and 2
- DirectorPeter DeLuiseStarsRichard Dean AndersonMichael ShanksAmanda TappingCol. O'Neill and Teal'c realize they and their friends are trapped in a time loop.
- DirectorAndy MikitaStarsRichard Dean AndersonAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeIn a last ditch effort, O'Neill activated an Ancient weapon in the Antarctic to defeat Anubis. With Jack still in stasis in the Ancient outpost buried in Antarctica, SG-1 tries to contact the Asgard. Meanwhile their new leader, Dr. Elizabeth Weir, tries to decide what to do about a request for peace talks from the Goa'uld System Lords.Parts 1 and 2
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellAfter learning the Asurians are building a fleet of ships, Earth sends its newest ship, the Apollo, under the command of Colonel Abe Ellis to initiate a preemptive first strike to stop them from attacking Atlantis or worse, Earth itself."First Strike", "Adrift" and "Lifeline"
- DirectorAndy MikitaStarsRobert CarlyleLouis FerreiraBrian J. SmithEli and Rush have found a way to identify the location of drone mother ships using Destiny's long range sensors. The bad news is that the drones seems to be awaiting them at every possible stop along Destiny's path. They find a temporary solution to neutralize the mother ships but realize that they cannot engage in a major battle every time they need to re-supply. Eli suggest that they use the stasis pods for the crew and jump to the next galaxy, a trip that will take three years. All goes well until they realize that one of the pods has been damaged and one person will have to stay behind in the hopes of fixing the unit in the short time available or die.
- DirectorAndy MikitaStarsRichard Dean AndersonMichael ShanksAmanda TappingIn 2010, Robert Kinsey is president of a brave new world since he concluded the alliance with the Aschen, a race discovered by SG-1 which lets humanity enjoy its far advanced science and technology, including a vaccine against aging. Sam is now a civilian scientist, married to ambassador Joe Faxon, whose only worry is failing to get pregnant. When she double-checks the Aschen doctor Mollem's computer with Dr. Fraiser, who felt superfluous given superior medicine, they discover human fertility is down 90% worldwide in three years. Sam, Daniel and Teal'c turn to retired General Jack, who always warned against handing over technological control, for a daring plan to turn the clock back like General Hammond did once, sending a message to their past with the exact time of a solar flare, which Sam can calculate using the Aschen computer. Only one ingredient is out of their reach: the GDO device to control the Stargate's iris, which is in the White House. Sam implores her husband Joe to steal it, but he has a secret as well as sincere objections.
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsRichard Dean AndersonMichael ShanksAmanda TappingReady to go on vacation, O'Neill is beamed away by the Asgard. Thor tells him that Earth is faced with an enemy even worse than the Goa'uld.
- DirectorWilliam WaringStarsBen BrowderAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeWhile Daniel and Vala search for Merlin's anti-Ori weapon in Atlantis' library, Mitchell, McKay and Carter try to to dial the Ori Supergate in the Milky Way.
- DirectorAndy MikitaStarsBen BrowderAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeDuring their quest for the Sangraal, SG-1 must join forces with their enemy and face a real-life dragon.Parts 1 and 2
- DirectorPeter DeLuiseStarsRobert CarlyleLouis FerreiraBrian J. SmithDestiny is in poor shape following its recent battles and has virtually no back up systems remaining. As the ship approaches a star for refueling, Eli wants to test his theory that he can dial Earth. While the simulations suggest that it will work fine, Rush is dead set against, arguing there are too many anomalies in a star for it to work. Most are suspicious of his motivation however. With most of the crew in the gate room waiting to leave through the gate they receive a message - from a second Dr. Rush coming toward them in the shuttle. He claims to have traveled back in time 12 hours and relates what happened. The anomaly and time shift also present a solution to their need for redundant systems.
- DirectorDavid Warry-SmithStarsRichard Dean AndersonMichael ShanksAmanda TappingSG-1 delivers their newly confiscated Goa'uld mothership to help the Tok'ra evacuate their planet and deal with their disinformed Goa'uld spy in their midst.
- DirectorWilliam WaringStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellJohn Sheppard is kidnapped by the Genii and is in the company of a Wraith.
- DirectorAndy MikitaStarsRichard Dean AndersonAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeGeneral Hammond returns to SGC to take Dr. Jackson with him on a trip to Atlantis onboard the Prometheus. In the middle of their trip, the Prometheus picks up a distress signal and Hammond decides to investigate. Things get sticky when a Kull Warrior takes control of the Prometheus, leaving Hammond and his crew, minus Daniel Jackson, behind in a damaged Alkesh.
- DirectorAndy MikitaStarsRichard Dean AndersonAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeHaving regained control of the X-303, the SG-1 team finds itself in an unknown part of space. Rescue comes in the form of the Asgard, specifically Thor, who needs their help. The Asgard home world has been overrun by the Replicators and they require SG-1's help as well as the relatively low tech X-303. The Asgard had set a trap for the Replicators and hoped to use a time dilation device that would give them the time they need to find a way to defeat them. The problem is that the Replicators have turned off the device and the Asgard want SG-1 to go in and activate it. They accept the assignment but to meet their objective, O'Neill will face a moral dilemma.
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsRichard Dean AndersonMichael ShanksAmanda TappingStranded in another galaxy while fleeing their attack on Apophis' fleet proves only the beginning of SG-1's problems as multiple enemies appear.
- DirectorAndy MikitaStarsJoe FlaniganRachel LuttrellJason MomoaRodney is infected with a deadly illness known as "second childhood" which diminishes his mind capabilities and makes him lose his memory gradually.
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsRichard Dean AndersonMichael ShanksAmanda TappingStargate Command opens a wormhole to a planet with a black hole in orbit.
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsBen BrowderAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeBased on the information Vala gave them, SG-1 travels to the planet where Merlin may have hidden his secret weapon to defeat ascended beings. There they find an appropriately medieval village and learn that Merlin kept a library there. The locals have never been inside owing to a curse on anyone who dares enter, but SG-1 finds a way in. Once inside, they find a secret chamber that may reveal the location of the weapon. The SGC, meanwhile, has located the Ori's Supergate. Sam's attempt to get control of it is too late, and four Ori ships make their way through. In the ensuing battle, much of Earth's fleet is destroyed, and the future of several SGC members is left in doubt.
- DirectorAndy MikitaStarsJoe FlaniganRachel LuttrellJason MomoaAn empty Daedalus is found orbiting the planet. The team goes to check it out and they are transported to an alternate universe.
- DirectorAlex ChappleStarsRobert CarlyleLouis FerreiraBrian J. SmithThe shuttle lands on Novus and the recon team explores a bunker where they find an extensive library and archive that cataloged virtually all of the activities of the original colonists. The kinos and other recordings reveal the key events in their alternate lives - people die, they marry and they have children. For some however, knowing what happened to their alternate selves raises doubts in their minds as to their own future. The planet is clearly not stable and earthquakes are getting more severe forcing an immediate departure. They do learn that the population managed to evacuate Novus successfully.
- DirectorDavid Warry-SmithStarsRichard Dean AndersonMichael ShanksAmanda TappingGeneral Hammond has tried everything to get the Senate's decision to shut down his Stargate program undone, but the President personally refuses to 'commit political suicide': the Stargate will be buried. Daniel's insistence -that the danger for Earth as a whole outweighs everything- convinces his colleagues to ignore Hammond's command and dial the address that the Goa'uld invasion started from in the alternate reality that he visited. They arrive not on a planet but a new, superior type of starship, already launched by hyper-drive. A 'video' proves it belongs to Apophis, who gives command to his son Klorel, whose host is none other than the team's young Abydonian friend, Skaara. Overpowering Skaara seems their best move, while Sam installs explosives in the death glider deck with a 24-hour timer just in case, but the Jaffa manage to liberate Klorel. Jack discovers that the ship goes far faster than expected.
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsRichard Dean AndersonAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeMaster Bra'tac arrives with bad news: Teal'c's wife is deathly ill, and Teal'c leaves to be with her. Shortly thereafter, the gate is opened but nothing comes through. Then Carter discovers a very low power signal that is slowly building an overload powerful enough to destroy the Earth.Parts 1 and 2
- DirectorBrad TurnerStarsBen BrowderAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeA Prior of the Ori has established an ever-growing forcefield on a Jaffa-controlled planet called Kalana. A minor Goa'uld named Nerus, who engineered the multiple Gate connections required for the defeat of the Replicators, comes to the SGC with information on the event and offers his help.
- DirectorCharles CorrellStarsRichard Dean AndersonMichael ShanksAmanda TappingWith the Stargate program in danger of being terminated, the team is under pressure to find technology. Visiting a planet where they believe there is a creature that possesses the secret of invisibility, they encounter Apophis and his guards. Both sides receiving mortal wounds, they are aided by the planet's inhabitants, the Nox, a gentle people with a very large secret.
- DirectorPeter DeLuiseStarsRobert CarlyleLouis FerreiraBrian J. SmithDestiny once again comes under attack from the drones they previously encountered leading them to wonder just how the drones and their control ship manage to find them so soon after virtually every jump. More intriguing to everyone however are the people they find on a planet who claim to be the descendants of Destiny's crew who founded their civilization nearly 2000 years ago. They are only a small party from their home world but have been unable to return there. Eli surmises that the alternate Destiny that they believed was destroyed by falling into the sun may in fact have been thrown even further back in time, leading them to be the founders of the new civilization. After the drones again find them and the descendants camp is destroyed, they are all taken aboard Destiny for the return trip to their home world but are disappointed with what they find when they arrive.
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsRichard Dean AndersonAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeA group of nomads on an alien planet find Daniel Jackson naked in the middle of ruins and take him in. Jonas translates the tablet Daniel said was important and discovers that it describes the last city the Ancients were building before the plague. He surmises that the list of addresses Jack put into the computer while storing the Ancient data were Ancient outposts in temporal order. Thus the last of the addresses should be the "City of the Lost". SG-1 visits the planet and happens upon the nomadic people, now inhabiting the ruins of the Ancient city. There they find Daniel, but discover his memory is gone. They must recover his memories in order to discover the secret to defeating Anubis.
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsRichard Dean AndersonMichael ShanksAmanda TappingCol. O'Neill is dismissed from the SGC for stealing alien technology, and is subsequently approached to participate in an even more covert Stargate operation.
- DirectorAndy MikitaStarsRobert CarlyleLouis FerreiraBrian J. SmithDestiny needs to be refueled, but every time they come out of FTL, the drones seem to be waiting for them. It's not obvious how the drones know they're there, but it doesn't matter a great deal since they have only one more try before running completely out of fuel. Eli suggests they go through a Blue Super Giant star, though the heat it creates might destroy the ship. They have little choice so Col. Young evacuates everyone to the only planet available with the exception of Eli and Rush. Lisa Park also stays behind to collect some of the medicinal herbs they've grown only to be trapped just as Destiny goes through the star. On the planet, Young and the others find evidence of a destroyed civilization - and the drones which destroyed it.
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsJoe FlaniganAmanda TappingRachel LuttrellAfter yet another fruitless search for the missing Teyla, Sheppard returns to Atlantis, only to find it deserted. Worse yet, the city isn't just abnormally hot, but the entire ocean has completely dried up, leaving a sandy desert! Sheppard then finds a hologram of an aged Dr. McKay, telling him that a solar flare had sent him 48,000 years into the future. Once he learns the demise of Atlantis and everyone on it, and worse yet that the sun in the solar system is dying and he won't survive there much longer, he and the holographic McKay must find a way to send Sheppard home and potentially change all of this.
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsRichard Dean AndersonMichael ShanksAmanda TappingWhile still dealing with the loss of Daniel Jackson the SGC is contacted by the Asgard who require assistance dealing with Anubis, who seems to have new shield technology that can repel Asgard weapons.
- DirectorPeter DeLuiseStarsBen BrowderAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeVala is kidnapped by agents of the Trust who are trying to find an ancient treasure when an accident causes her to forget who she is.
- DirectorWilliam GereghtyStarsRichard Dean AndersonMichael ShanksAmanda TappingO'Neill and the team return to Cimmeria, the planet where they destroyed Thor's Hammer to help Teal'c escape. They find that the Goa'uld have invaded and many of the people are dead. Can they help to find Thor's weapons to fight off the invasion before they are all captured or killed?
- DirectorBrad TurnerStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellThe Atlantis expedition must turn to an old friend for help as the Asurans prepare to invade the city.Parts 1 and 2
- DirectorAndy MikitaStarsJoe FlaniganRachel LuttrellJason MomoaA hive ship turbo-charged with a ZPM has received the Wraith's message from a alternate universe containing the location of Earth. The ship is now heading for Earth.
- DirectorPeter DeLuiseStarsRichard Dean AndersonAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeWith the threats of both the Replicators and the Goa'uld greatly diminished and the sister ship to the Prometheus, the Daedalus, now under construction, SG-1 is anxious to get a ride on the new ship. However, the mood is somewhat darkened by a phone call informing Dr. Jackson of Catherine Langford's death. After the funeral, Catherine's niece gives Daniel "a few odds and ends" that her aunt wanted him to have. Upon delivery it is discovered that almost her entire collection was shipped to Daniel's lab. He finds in one of her books a possible location of a ZPM, but scans of the area showed that it was no longer there. Daniel proposes that they use the Ancient's time machine to take it from Ra at Giza in 3000 BC.Parts 1 and 2
- DirectorRobert C. CooperStarsRobert CarlyleLouis FerreiraBrian J. SmithDr. Rush relives his past life by sitting in the alien chair in an attempt to download critical data. A university professor, his wife's cancer returns and he is recruited by Dr. Daniel Jackson for what will be called the Icarus project. He's avoiding dealing with his wife's situation and throws himself into his work. In his dream-like state, he's trying to make sense of all the information he is accumulating. Back on the ship, the Destiny comes out of hyperspace and some of the crew investigate the planet below. They find an ancient archaeological site but are trapped when part of the site caves in. Digging them out is a slow process and the next jump is quickly approaching.
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellWhen Rodney uses an Ancient device, he gets special powers, but soon Dr Weir discovers it's a double-handled gift: if he doesn't ascend, he'll die.
- DirectorWilliam GereghtyStarsRichard Dean AndersonMichael ShanksAmanda TappingOn their first visit to a new planet, SG-1 finds it subject to totally destructive volcanic activity and saves ten natives, the Tollan, a far more technologically advanced society. Their leader Omoc isn't grateful, nor interested in such a primitive race as the earthlings or any of the 'even more primitive' planets which are prepared to host them. Only one Tollan, Narim, shows an active interest in life on earth, especially in captain Samantha Carter and the cat Schrodinger she gives him, explaining his planet was destroyed after the Tollan supplied an unlimited energy source to a primitive neighboring planet which abused it for a cataclysmic weapon. Meanwhile, the White House authorized NID colonel Maybourne to take charge over the Tollan for military purposes, exactly Omoc's nightmare.
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsRichard Dean AndersonMichael ShanksAmanda TappingThe SGC is visited by a Tok'ra named Anise who brings some armbands used by the soldiers of a long extinct race, which are supposed to increase the abilities of the wearers. O'Neill, Carter and Jackson put the armbands on and it increases their physical strength, but it also causes them to make rash decisions. Can they get the armbands off before they cause their deaths?
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsJoe FlaniganAmanda TappingRachel LuttrellRodney McKay awakens in his lab, tied to a chair and with no memory of who or where he is. He did seemingly leave himself a video message telling him to look for Teyla. The problem began some 14 hours before when Dr. Katie Brown returned to Atlantis with plants from a planet she had visited. The plants had been cleared through the normal quarantine procedure but she is soon afflicted with severe headaches and loss of memory, eventually falling into a coma. Memory loss begins to afflict other members of the crew but they soon become distrustful of one another, making conclusions based on false assumptions and a misreading of the situation. Fortunately, there are two members of the team who seem to be immune.
- DirectorPeter DeLuiseStarsBen BrowderAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeSam manages to activate an Ancient device they found at the Glastonbury site and she and Mitchell are shifted into a phase that makes them invisible to everyone. Daniel soon figures out just what is going on but Dr. Lee's proposed solution sends Daniel to the same plane as Sam and Mitchell. There he is able to translate information explaining that Merlin had created a weapon against the Ori - and provides a gate address where it can be found. Meanwhile, Teal'c travels to a Jaffa planet that has sent out a distress call. The two events are related.
- DirectorAndy MikitaStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellThe hive ship approaching Atlantis is Michael's. He wants a trade: the retrovirus for not revealing the secret of Atlantis and insights on Wraith technology.