Legacy

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Legacy is the fourth episode of the third season of Stargate SG-1.

Plot

On the planet PY3-948, SG-1 comes upon a closed chamber. Upon opening it, they discover the dead bodies of the Linvris, a group of nine lesser Goa'uld who fought against the System Lords. However the cause of their death is unclear. Jackson looks at a tablet that one is holding and then takes it and a page-turner for it back to Earth.

Back at Stargate Command, Jackson suddenly starts having hallucinations. At first he sees one of the dead bodies of the Linvris coming out of an activated Stargate in his closet and later he sees a member of an SG team as a Linvris. However Dr. Fraiser can't find anything physically wrong with him, and relieves him of duty, suspecting that he is developing schizophrenia (it is even believed that the cause for this may be the Stargate itself). While playing cards with O'Neill, Jackson suddenly sees a Goa'uld sneak up and then implant itself in O'Neill. Panicked, Jackson jumps on his friend and tries to stop the symbiote. This final outbreak causes Jackson to be sent into a nearby mental hospital, where he spends the next few days in a white cell, still having hallucinations.

Some time later the rest of SG-1 visits him, shocked at what is happening to their former comrade. During their visit, Jackson sees a Linvris walk into his cell and tries to attack it, but is stopped by Teal'c. However, when he comes in contact with Teal'c, he sees a small, glowing blue thing climb out of him and into the Jaffa. However, when he says this, it is thought to be just another hallucination. He is then stunned, and as he collapses, he says the name "Machello."

Later Teal'c suddenly falls ill. His symbiote is dying, so there is no help for him. Daniel in the meantime begins to recover and decides that the cause of his insanity is a Goa'uld killing weapon designed by Machello, with whom SG-1 came into contact earlier (see "Holiday"). He tries to explain this to Dr. MacKenzie, the leading psychologist of the hospital, who naturally believes that Jackson is still hallucinating. Jackson then challenges MacKenzie to find out if Teal'c is sick. When MacKenzie discovers that Jackson is right, he releases Jackson back to SGC.

One of the tablets similar to the one found on PY3-948 is brought to SGC from Area 51 (where all of Machello's weapons were stored) in hopes of finding a cure. However, when the device is activated, the ten blue things inside it emerge, break out of containment, and infect Carter, Dr. Fraiser and O'Neill. While Dr. Fraiser and O'Neill start to suffer the effect of the weapon very quickly (since they were infected with three of the beings), the weapons inside Carter fall out and die, as she has markers left over from when she was blended with a Tok'ra. With Dr. Fraiser's help she uses some of the proteins from her blood to create an antidote, which is able to fool the weapons. The creation is injected into Dr. Fraiser and O'Neill, then into Teal'c, and all of the weapons die.

Notes

• Ma'chello first appeared in the season two episode Holiday, wherein he transferred his consciousness into Daniel Jackson's body.
• Dr. Fraiser's comments about there being no history of mental problems in Daniel's family would be retconned later in the episode Crystal Skull.
• This episode shares its name with a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode

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 (1999-07-19). Linked to from Official Stargate SG-1 site. Also see Google's cache.
• Summary from GateWorld. Visited May 7, 2006.
• Review from GateWorld. Reviewed by Penfold. Visited May 7, 2006.

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