Demons

Demons
Production
Series	Stargate SG-1
Episode	3.08
Production #	308
Original air date	August 13, 1999
Written by	Carl Binder
Directed by	Peter DeLuise
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Preceded by	Deadman Switch
Followed by	Rules of Engagement

Template:SG1-3 "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 Yahweh/Jesus of Judaism and Christianity. The team enters the village and sees a girl chained up to a pole, they release her and Simon, a monk from the village, comes up to them and beg for the girls life. He is told by the team that they are not demons, and the girl is not possesed, she is just sick (she only has chicken pox). As he tells them of the demon that comes to the village, a Unas enters, and demands five sacrifices by the next day, as there was no one for him to get now. SG-1 realises Sokar plays Satan in this world. The Canon arrives at the village, and is told about the happening. The Canon is the one to choose those to be given to the Unas and blatantly 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 Mary, the girl .

The "demon" comes to the village and takes the team and the girl, SG-1 manages to escape from the Unas, and after they recieve their weapons from Simon, 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.

Reference

Aerial Zat'nik'tel Platform; Afterlife; Bible; Christianity; Canon's ring; Dark Ages; Devil; Hell; Middle English; The Tests; Unas

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 the Stargate Atlantis episode "Condemned"
• This was David McNally's second appearance on Stargate SG-1. His first appearance was in the 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 dialing sounds.
• When O'Neill shoots the canon, the background music sounds remarkably similar to the soundtrack later heard often during the Ori story arc.
• O'Neill's first line in the episode is "Trees, trees and more trees. What a wonderful green universe we live in, eh?", a reference to the fact that most of the filming for other planets is done in Vancouver forests. This could also be due to the fact that the Goa'uld terraform many of the planets they put humans on, making the planets look similar.
• O'Neill gets a wound that cuts through his left eye brow in this episode and is clearly seen with a wound there. In all subsequent episodes, he has a scar cutting through his left eye brow.
• The medieval Christian beliefs of the humans means that their ancestors must have been taken from Earth after the first council of Nicaea in AD 325 that established the said belief system and likely after the fall of the Roman empire and into the dark ages given their belief in demons, which makes it highly likely they were the last group of humans to leave Earth until the rediscovery of the stargate and Ernest Littlefield's 1945 trip though the gate and the last group of human ever to be taken off-world as Goa'uld slaves. This puts their departure well behind the known date of the rebellion against the Goa'uld, especially after SG-1's involvement in "Moebius, Part 2".

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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