Demons

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Demons is the eighth episode of the third season of Stargate SG-1.

Plot

The SG-1 team arrives on a primitive planet that they soon discover has medieval Christian beliefs. At first, they speculate whether or not a Goa'uld is posing as the God of Christianity. However, it is soon discovered that Sokar had taken people from medieval Europe and was posing as Satan. He sends Unas through the Stargate to collect hosts, people who are thought to be possessed by demons. The Canon is the one to choose those to be given to the Unas and blatanty abuses the position. He wears a "magical" ring, that seems to be of Goa'uld technology, that allows him to summon lightning to strike others. Feeling threatened by SG-1, he uses this ring to incapacitate them and rallies the townspeople against them by calling them demons (since they came from the "Circle of Darkness", the local name for the Stargate).

Teal'c is subjected to witchcraft tests on the basis of the mark of Apophis on his forehead ("a mark of the devil") and appears to drown in the last of these tests. Due to his symbiote and meditative state when drowned, Teal'c is able to "return to life", which is deemed to be a sign of Satanic influence. SG-1 is sentenced to be offered to the demon along with a young girl deemed to be "possessed" (she only has chicken pox).

SG-1 manages to escape from the Unas and after receiving their weapons from a sympathetic villager they are able to stop the Unas, but not before the Goa'uld takes the Canon as a host. Carter discovers that the Canon has been possessed by the Goa'uld and both host and symbiote are killed. SG-1 then encourages the villagers to bury their gate and they return to Earth.

Notes

• This is Carl Binder's first and only contribution to Stargate SG-1. He would later become a staff writer on the spin-off series Stargate Atlantis.
• Alan C. Peterson, who plays the canon in this episode, would go on to play a similar character in an episode of Stargate Atlantis called "Condemned"
• This was David McNally's second appearance on Stargate SG-1. His first appearance was in the Season 1 Episode Cor-ai, as Hanno.
• When Maj. Carter enters the coordinates of Earth, she enters the first one in advance. Then when she continues, the film shows the second to fourth chevrons (correctly). But after the fourth one, we hear four more of the well-known "push-a-button-on-the-DHD sounds while we see the characters talking to each other.

Sources

• Official Stargate SG-1 site. MGM. Visited June 8, 2006. Most of site requires Flash.
• Screenplay (PDF). Distributed by MGM. Prepared by Casablanca Continuity (1999-08-05). Linked to from Official Stargate SG-1 site. Also see Google's cache.
• Summary from GateWorld. Visited May 5, 2006.
• Review from GateWorld. Reviewed by Penfold. Visited May 5, 2006.

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