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Threads (Stargate SG-1)
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"Threads" is an episode from Season 8 of the science fiction
television series Stargate SG-1
. Amanda Tapping
won a Leo Award in the category "Dramatic Series: Best Lead Performance - Female" and Michael Shanks
was nominated for a Leo Award in the category "Dramatic Series: Best Lead Performance - Male" for this episode.
. At the Temple of Dakara, Teal'c
and Bra'tac are awarded the title Bloodkin by the new Free Jaffa Nation. This is the highest honor that can be bestowed on a Jaffa. When the Jaffa bow to them in respect, Bra'tac makes them stand and says that no Jaffa shall ever bow before anyone, and never again to a false god.
Now that the Replicators
have been destroyed and the Goa'uld are finally defeated, the SGC
is a little more peaceful. However, Anubis is still out there, somewhere. Jack O'Neill
refuses to accept that Daniel Jackson is dead, believing that Daniel has managed to Ascend once again. Because they know Daniel was on RepliCarter's ship when it was destroyed, there is little chance he is still alive.
As the previous episode showed, Daniel was indeed killed. However, Daniel finds himself in a strange ethereal diner full of people, Daniel recognizes the waitress who approaches him; it is Oma Desala. He learns that this place is a meeting place for Ascended beings and that his mind cannot comprehend his true location and so manifests something he can understand, a diner.
As Daniel talks to Oma, she explains she has once again given him the choice to Ascend and live, or die. If he Ascends, he must accept that he can never help his friends again because of the Ancients' non-interference rules. If Daniel leaves the diner, he will die. The choice is difficult for Daniel because he knows that the last time he Ascended, he could not resist breaking the rules.
The diner is full of other Ascended Ancients
. None of these beings will speak with Daniel because of the rules of the Ascended. One other man seems to be arguing with Oma. Daniel speaks to this man and he replies. The man calls himself Jim. Jim seems to dislike the rules that the other Ascended beings follow. As Daniel converses with Jim, the man reads a newspaper called The Ascended Times, which details events taking place in the lower plane of existence. One of the stories on the front page reveals that Anubis is tricking the Free Jaffa Nation so that he can take back Dakara. Anubis wishes to capture Dakara, so that he can use the Dakara Superweapon to kill all life in the galaxy. Daniel is enraged that the other Ancients refuse to interfere in this matter, even yelling at them to no avail.
The Free Jaffa Nation's hold on Dakara is weakened as they attack a decoy of Kull Warriors. Despite being warned to destroy the Dakara Superweapon, the Jaffa have kept it intact, allowing Anubis to regain the weapon when he recaptures Dakara.
Meanwhile, Samantha Carter
is having a difficult time. Her father, Jacob Carter, and his symbiote, Selmak, die. Shortly after this, she ends her relationship with Pete. Before Jacob died, he said some things to her that cause her to reevaluate her feelings for Pete and also for Jack.
Back in the Ascended Diner, Oma explains she has been punished for helping people, like Daniel, Ascend. There are deep-seated rules in the Ascended universe, that not even she would dare to break. There also seems to be something sinister about Oma's connection with Jim. Finally Daniel realizes that Anubis is half-Ascended, and it was Oma that helped him Ascend. Anubis tricked her into believing he was not evil. The other Ancients refused to completely de-ascend Anubis as part of Oma's punishment for breaking the rules, despite the fact that he is still a threat to the galaxy. Daniel then realizes Jim is Anubis - Anubis' chosen manifested form in his half-protrusion into the Ascended realm.
Back on Earth, the gate dials, and they can't stop it. Anubis has dialed every gate in the galaxy and prepares to unleash the superweapon. O'Neill, Teal'c and Carter can do nothing but wait for their fate. O'Neill begins the SGC's auto destruct sequence. It looks like it's the end.
However, back in the Ascended realm, Daniel has persuaded Oma. She must take responsibility for the mistake she made which caused Anubis to be able to unleash so much evil, and she will not allow him to commit this greatest evil now. She stands up to fight Anubis, and all of the other ancients turn in surprise. Anubis laughs, saying that she cannot possibly defeat him, since it's not allowed to get him killed because keeping him alive is part of her punishment by the Others. Oma knows this, but also knows that so long as she is fighting him then he'll have to fight back, taking him out of the cosmos and locking him into an eternal ethereal battle with her. The two of them collide and disappear in a flurry of light, locked in eternal combat. Anubis is gone from the universe forever.
Two unexpected events happen at this moment. The Dakara Super weapon shuts down, and the autodestruct at the SGC stops and shuts down, followed by the wormhole closing.
Back in the briefing room in the SGC, they can't understand what's happened. Anubis just disappeared. Teal'c and Bra'tac tell Sam and Jack that the Kull Warrior
s the Free Jaffa Nation were fighting suddenly became confused, as if their master were no longer there to tell them what to do. Anubis' forces are destroyed, leaving the team wondering if it was Daniel's work and thinking he might have ascended again.
At that moment, they hear his voice in the other room. Jack goes to inspect and finds him naked (as before). He gives him a flag to cover himself up. All is right after all.
SG-1 celebrates with a fishing trip to Jack's cottage. Sam says they should have done it years ago as the episode ends.
, whereby people could send the DVD with the shortened episode to receive a DVD with the original episode. When the season was re-released in the slimline cases, it contained the full 63-minute episode as did the standard Region 2 version of the Season 8 boxset. Neither version has a commentary featured on any of the Season 8 Box sets. The 45-minute version omits the following:
won a Leo Award in the category "Dramatic Series: Best Lead Performance - Female" and Michael Shanks
was nominated for a Leo Award in the category "Dramatic Series: Best Lead Performance - Male" for this episode.
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
television series Stargate SG-1
Stargate SG-1
Stargate SG-1 is a Canadian-American adventure and military science fiction television series and part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Stargate franchise. The show, created by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner, is based on the 1994 feature film Stargate by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich...
. Amanda Tapping
Amanda Tapping
Amanda Tapping is an English-born Canadian actress, producer and director. She is best known for portraying Samantha Carter in the Canadian-American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis...
won a Leo Award in the category "Dramatic Series: Best Lead Performance - Female" and Michael Shanks
Michael Shanks
Michael Garrett Shanks is a Canadian actor who achieved fame for his role as Dr. Daniel Jackson in the long-running Canadian-American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1.-Early life:...
was nominated for a Leo Award in the category "Dramatic Series: Best Lead Performance - Male" for this episode.
Plot
Ba'al is still missing, but the Jaffa have finally won their freedom after millennia of enslaved service to the Goa'uldGoa'uld
The Goa'uld are a fictional symbiotic race of ancient astronauts from the American-Canadian military science fiction television franchise Stargate. The Goa'uld are parasites from the planet P3X-888, integrated within a host, most of the time human. The resulting creatures are a powerful race bent...
. At the Temple of Dakara, Teal'c
Teal'c
Teal'c is a fictional character in the military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. Played by Christopher Judge, Teal'c is a Jaffa warrior from the planet Chulak. As a Jaffa, Teal'c is a genetically modified human with an abdominal pouch that serves as an incubator for a larval Goa'uld...
and Bra'tac are awarded the title Bloodkin by the new Free Jaffa Nation. This is the highest honor that can be bestowed on a Jaffa. When the Jaffa bow to them in respect, Bra'tac makes them stand and says that no Jaffa shall ever bow before anyone, and never again to a false god.
Now that the Replicators
Replicator (Stargate)
In the military science fiction series Stargate SG-1, the Replicators are antagonistic self-replicating machines that propagate by ingesting the metals that make up civilizations and use them to create either blocks that form the bug-like version or smaller cells that compose the human-form...
have been destroyed and the Goa'uld are finally defeated, the SGC
Stargate Command
The Stargate Program is a fictional top-secret program that plays a key role in the Stargate franchise: it surrounds the operations of the Stargate on Earth. The core of the Stargate Program is Stargate Command , based at the Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station near Colorado Springs, Colorado...
is a little more peaceful. However, Anubis is still out there, somewhere. Jack O'Neill
Jack O'Neill
Jonathan J. "Jack" O'Neill is a fictional character in the Canadian-American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe, three science fiction shows about military teams exploring the galaxy via a network of alien transportation devices...
refuses to accept that Daniel Jackson is dead, believing that Daniel has managed to Ascend once again. Because they know Daniel was on RepliCarter's ship when it was destroyed, there is little chance he is still alive.
As the previous episode showed, Daniel was indeed killed. However, Daniel finds himself in a strange ethereal diner full of people, Daniel recognizes the waitress who approaches him; it is Oma Desala. He learns that this place is a meeting place for Ascended beings and that his mind cannot comprehend his true location and so manifests something he can understand, a diner.
As Daniel talks to Oma, she explains she has once again given him the choice to Ascend and live, or die. If he Ascends, he must accept that he can never help his friends again because of the Ancients' non-interference rules. If Daniel leaves the diner, he will die. The choice is difficult for Daniel because he knows that the last time he Ascended, he could not resist breaking the rules.
The diner is full of other Ascended Ancients
Ancient (Stargate)
The Ancients are a humanoid race in the fictional Stargate universe. They are called "Ancients" in the Milky Way, but are also known as Lanteans or Ancestors in the Pegasus galaxy and as the Alterans in their home galaxy, and they sometimes call themselves Anquietas in their language...
. None of these beings will speak with Daniel because of the rules of the Ascended. One other man seems to be arguing with Oma. Daniel speaks to this man and he replies. The man calls himself Jim. Jim seems to dislike the rules that the other Ascended beings follow. As Daniel converses with Jim, the man reads a newspaper called The Ascended Times, which details events taking place in the lower plane of existence. One of the stories on the front page reveals that Anubis is tricking the Free Jaffa Nation so that he can take back Dakara. Anubis wishes to capture Dakara, so that he can use the Dakara Superweapon to kill all life in the galaxy. Daniel is enraged that the other Ancients refuse to interfere in this matter, even yelling at them to no avail.
The Free Jaffa Nation's hold on Dakara is weakened as they attack a decoy of Kull Warriors. Despite being warned to destroy the Dakara Superweapon, the Jaffa have kept it intact, allowing Anubis to regain the weapon when he recaptures Dakara.
Meanwhile, Samantha Carter
Samantha Carter
Samantha "Sam" Carter is a fictional character in the Canadian-American military science fiction Stargate franchise, appearing in television series Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Stargate Universe. SG-1 and Atlantis are both about a military team exploring the galaxy via a network of alien...
is having a difficult time. Her father, Jacob Carter, and his symbiote, Selmak, die. Shortly after this, she ends her relationship with Pete. Before Jacob died, he said some things to her that cause her to reevaluate her feelings for Pete and also for Jack.
Back in the Ascended Diner, Oma explains she has been punished for helping people, like Daniel, Ascend. There are deep-seated rules in the Ascended universe, that not even she would dare to break. There also seems to be something sinister about Oma's connection with Jim. Finally Daniel realizes that Anubis is half-Ascended, and it was Oma that helped him Ascend. Anubis tricked her into believing he was not evil. The other Ancients refused to completely de-ascend Anubis as part of Oma's punishment for breaking the rules, despite the fact that he is still a threat to the galaxy. Daniel then realizes Jim is Anubis - Anubis' chosen manifested form in his half-protrusion into the Ascended realm.
Back on Earth, the gate dials, and they can't stop it. Anubis has dialed every gate in the galaxy and prepares to unleash the superweapon. O'Neill, Teal'c and Carter can do nothing but wait for their fate. O'Neill begins the SGC's auto destruct sequence. It looks like it's the end.
However, back in the Ascended realm, Daniel has persuaded Oma. She must take responsibility for the mistake she made which caused Anubis to be able to unleash so much evil, and she will not allow him to commit this greatest evil now. She stands up to fight Anubis, and all of the other ancients turn in surprise. Anubis laughs, saying that she cannot possibly defeat him, since it's not allowed to get him killed because keeping him alive is part of her punishment by the Others. Oma knows this, but also knows that so long as she is fighting him then he'll have to fight back, taking him out of the cosmos and locking him into an eternal ethereal battle with her. The two of them collide and disappear in a flurry of light, locked in eternal combat. Anubis is gone from the universe forever.
Two unexpected events happen at this moment. The Dakara Super weapon shuts down, and the autodestruct at the SGC stops and shuts down, followed by the wormhole closing.
Back in the briefing room in the SGC, they can't understand what's happened. Anubis just disappeared. Teal'c and Bra'tac tell Sam and Jack that the Kull Warrior
Kull Warrior
In the fictional universe of the science fiction TV show Stargate SG-1, the Kull Warriors are creatures created by the Goa'uld Anubis for use as his personal army.-Concept and production:...
s the Free Jaffa Nation were fighting suddenly became confused, as if their master were no longer there to tell them what to do. Anubis' forces are destroyed, leaving the team wondering if it was Daniel's work and thinking he might have ascended again.
At that moment, they hear his voice in the other room. Jack goes to inspect and finds him naked (as before). He gives him a flag to cover himself up. All is right after all.
SG-1 celebrates with a fishing trip to Jack's cottage. Sam says they should have done it years ago as the episode ends.
Production
The episode originally aired as a 63-minute piece, but an edited 45-minute version exists for syndication. When the season was initially released on DVD, the release contained the shortened 45-minute version. Due to complaints, MGM offered a rebateRebate (marketing)
A rebate is an amount paid by way of reduction, return, or refund on what has already been paid or contributed. It is a type of sales promotion marketers use primarily as incentives or supplements to product sales. The mail-in rebate is the most common...
, whereby people could send the DVD with the shortened episode to receive a DVD with the original episode. When the season was re-released in the slimline cases, it contained the full 63-minute episode as did the standard Region 2 version of the Season 8 boxset. Neither version has a commentary featured on any of the Season 8 Box sets. The 45-minute version omits the following:
- The "Previously on Stargate SG-1..." that is present in the 63-minute version.
- The opening scene between Ba'al and the decaying Anubis where he says Ba'al has betrayed him.
- The scene when Daniel first enters the diner, along with Oma explaining where exactly Daniel was and how he got there.
- The entire scene of knighting Bra'tac and Teal'cTeal'cTeal'c is a fictional character in the military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. Played by Christopher Judge, Teal'c is a Jaffa warrior from the planet Chulak. As a Jaffa, Teal'c is a genetically modified human with an abdominal pouch that serves as an incubator for a larval Goa'uld...
on Dakara - nothing is mentioned of Jaffa freedom save they have control of the weapon. - Some bantering between Pete and SamSamantha CarterSamantha "Sam" Carter is a fictional character in the Canadian-American military science fiction Stargate franchise, appearing in television series Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Stargate Universe. SG-1 and Atlantis are both about a military team exploring the galaxy via a network of alien...
when they walk down the corridors of the SGCStargate CommandThe Stargate Program is a fictional top-secret program that plays a key role in the Stargate franchise: it surrounds the operations of the Stargate on Earth. The core of the Stargate Program is Stargate Command , based at the Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station near Colorado Springs, Colorado...
and the bantering between Sam, Pete and Jacob. - All scenes of Bra'tac and Teal'c on a ship.
- JackJack O'NeillJonathan J. "Jack" O'Neill is a fictional character in the Canadian-American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe, three science fiction shows about military teams exploring the galaxy via a network of alien transportation devices...
waking up with Kerry in his bed. - Daniel trying to talk to the other Ancients in the diner.
- The phone call from Pete, the florist scene and driving to the new house.
- Sam waiting in the car outside Jack's house.
- Daniel says "No syrup?"
Reception
Amanda TappingAmanda Tapping
Amanda Tapping is an English-born Canadian actress, producer and director. She is best known for portraying Samantha Carter in the Canadian-American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis...
won a Leo Award in the category "Dramatic Series: Best Lead Performance - Female" and Michael Shanks
Michael Shanks
Michael Garrett Shanks is a Canadian actor who achieved fame for his role as Dr. Daniel Jackson in the long-running Canadian-American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1.-Early life:...
was nominated for a Leo Award in the category "Dramatic Series: Best Lead Performance - Male" for this episode.
External links
- Threads at mgm.com
- Threads at scifi.comSci Fi Channel (United States)Syfy , formerly known as the Sci-Fi Channel and SCI FI, is an American cable television channel featuring science fiction, supernatural, fantasy, reality, paranormal, wrestling, and horror programming. Launched on September 24, 1992, it is part of the entertainment conglomerate NBCUniversal, a...