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"Rules of Engagement" is the ninth episode of the third season of Stargate SG-1.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Plot 3 References 4 Notable Quotes 5 Notes 6 In other languages 7 External links

SynopsisEdit

SG-1's efforts to retrieve SG-11 thought to be MIA gets them stunned and captured. They work out that the "SG team" is actually made of slaves who work for Apophis to invade Earth. SG-1 must convince them that Apophis is dead and to stop them from carrying out their mission.

PlotEdit

SG-1 discovers a planet where Stargate Command look-alikes are in the middle of a pitched battle. After a few minutes of confusion they discover that in reality they are a team of young boys in a boot camp, and are practicing war games. They are using replica weapons that inflict no real harm on the opponent, but instead deliver a nasty jolt. This is trouble though, because SG-1's weapons are recirculated into the fake ones. After a call to the central area, they are revealed to be soldiers of Apophis, trained to infiltrate the SGC. The search for the weapons continues, but it is too late. A soldier is accidentally seriously injured with one of the real weapons, but instead of stopping, the recruits see this as a sign to upgrade to real weaponry in their war games.

In order to prevent the boys from pointlessly slaughtering themselves, the team hatches a plot to prevent both the invasion of Earth through the SGC and to convince the boys that Apophis is a false god. A recording of Apophis's death proves his lack of godhood, and the soldiers disband and return to their planets of origin.

ReferencesEdit

Apophis' training planet; Intar; Corn; Cotton; FIM-92 Stinger missile; Gar'toc; Hell; M60 machine gun; M72 LAW; Colonel Harold Maybourne; MIA; Mortar; MP5; NID; P89-534; SG-11; SG-X; Shol'va; Sokar; Staff weapon; Stargate Command infirmary; Tuna; UAV; Vo'cume projector

Notable QuotesEdit

Hammond: Colonel, I want to debrief ASAP.
O'Neill: Yes, my lord.

Fraiser: He won't eat, he won't speak... except to call me a "shol'va".
O'Neill: Then you must be doing a good job.

O'Neill: The doctor said you haven't eaten.
Rogers: It's poison.
O'Neill: Of course it is. It's hospital food.

Rogers: Go to Sokar!
O'Neill: It's "go to hell", actually.

Rogers: My true name is Rophiapgisy, sir.
O'Neill: Your Earth name is Kyle. Can we call you Kyle?

O'Neill: You will listen to everything I tell you and you will do everything I tell you or I will shoot you myself, is that clear!

O'Neill: Get the vacuum.
Rogers: Vo'cume.
O'Neill: Whatever.

An explosion occurs nearby.
O'Neill: Rogers! What the hell was that?!
Rogers: Mortars.
O'Neill: What else is in that cave?

NotesEdit

• This is the first appearance of this particular training weapon, called an Intar. It appears again in Season 5's "Proving Ground", where it is used by young SGC recruits for training.
• This episode is also the first episode to translate the word "tek'me'tae". When Teal'c is talking to Captain Kyle Rogers he calls himself "tek'me'tae jaffa" and Kyle puts him in authority. Later at Stargate Command Kyle says the camp was run and they were taught by Master Jaffa. Meaning tek'me'tae translates to master.

In other languagesEdit

• French: Règles de Combat (Rules of Combat)
• Italian: Regole di Combattimento (Rules of Combat)
• Spanish: Reglas de Batalla (Rules of Combat)
• Czech: Bitevní řád (Rules of Combat)
• German: Regeln der Kriegsführung (Rules of Combat)

External linksEdit

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