Tin Man

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Tin Man
O'Neill appears to be a robot.
Production
Series	Stargate SG-1
Episode	1.19
Production #	119
Original air date	February 13, 1998
Written by	Jeffery F. King
Directed by	Jimmy Kaufman
Cast
Guest stars	Jay Brazeau as Harlan Teryl Rothery as Dr. Janet Fraiser Dan Shea as O'Neill Alternate
Chronology
Preceded by	"Solitudes"
Followed by	"There But for the Grace of God"

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"Tin Man" is the nineteenth episode of the first season of Stargate SG-1.

1 Synopsis
2 Plot
3 References
4 Notable Quotes
5 Notes
6 Goofs
7 First Appearances
- 7.1 Characters
- 7.2 Race
8 In other languages
9 External links

SG-1 arrive on the seemingly abandoned planet of Altair and are soon knocked out. When they awaken with seemingly no ill-effects, they hastily return to Earth. There, they discover that they've been turned into androids. To ensure their survival, they are forced to return to Altair to work with the last remaining Altairan, Harlan, who maintains the power systems of the underground city, but soon learn Harlan is hiding something.

SG-1 arrives on P3X-989 and finds themselves in a huge complex and are, moments later, knocked unconscious by a mysterious light. They wake up dressed in new clothing and lacking their equipment, and soon meet a strange character named Harlan who claims that SG-1 are now "better." Harlan takes them through the complex to retrieve their equipment and then prepare to leave, ignoring Harlan's strenuous protests that they must stay.

The team returns to Earth where they eventually find out they are robots. They are confined on Earth until they convince Major General George S. Hammond to allow their return to P3X-989. Upon arrival, Harlan confesses to making them into robots but is not willing to "transform them back" to their human form.

Harlan himself is in fact also a robot, the last member of an extinct race that was programmed to keep the giant facility on P3X-989 running. After helping Harlan to solve a malfunction in the facility they eventually find out why Harlan refuses to change them back; SG-1 wasn't transformed into robots but have been duplicated from the real SG-1 team, which is restrained and kept prisoner by Harlan. Harlan confesses his plan in which he would eventually release the real SG-1 team so that they would not know of their robot duplicates. He hoped that the robot SG-1 would remain with him and help maintain the facility.

After a small period of confusion between the real and robot SG-1 team, the robot team decides to stay with Harlan and bury the Stargate while the real SG-1 team returns home, despite the hesitancy of the robot Jack O'Neill, who naturally sees himself as human even though he knows he is not.

Altair; Altairan android creator; Altairan computer; Altairan consciousness transfer; Android; Bareeth; Comtrya; Goa'uld; Margaret Hammond; Hubald; Hubbald; Kayla; Marith; Section 2; Section 3; Section 4; Sekura; SG-5; Stargate Command infirmary; Tessa; Tira; Wallace; X-ray

O'Neill: Ladies and gentlemen, this is your Colonel speaking. Welcome to P3X-niner-eight-niner where it's a balmy...room temperature.

Robotic O'Neill: And don't even think about trying to send a bomb to make sure.
O'Neill: I wasn't!
Robotic O'Neill: Yes you were - I know you!

Teal'c: Was not a copy made of me?
Harlan: Oh yes, yes...but I had to disintegrate you.
Teal'c: I see.

Robotic Carter: We are identical, right down to the mole on our...
Carter: Hey! Shut up!

Harlan: All will be well, you will see. And your friend too.
Carter: What? Teal'c?
Jackson: You killed him!
Harlan: He was malfunctioning.
Jackson: How will all be well with him if he is dead?

Harlan: Ah...Cumtraya! Cumtraya!
O'Neill: Daniel?
Jackson: I think that's a greeting.
Harlan: Yes, it is.
Jackson: Oh, well, then...Cumtraya! We are explorers from a place called Earth. I am Daniel. Hello. (tries to shake hands)
Harlan: Oh, this is your custom, yes? Hello. You are the leader?
Jackson: Oh, no. That will be...
O'Neill: Me! Colonel Jack O'Neill. Kum-bi-yah.
Harlan: Cumtraya.
O'Neill: Whatever.

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The perceptive viewer will notice something awry the moment the team steps through the wormhole, in that they are equipped with MP-5s (their previous standard issue SMG) and Te'alc has an AA-12, instead of their current primary weapon, the P-90 and staff weapon, respectively. Upon noticing this, the rest of the subtle hints of their true origin become clearer much sooner.
The title (and the plot of a bewitched person trapped in a metal body) is one of many Stargate references to The Wizard of Oz.
The robotic SG-1 team reappears in the fourth season episode "Double Jeopardy."
By the ninth season, Stargate Command has at some point recovered an android body from PX3-989. SGC scientists (who want Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell's backing) have modified the android, and hope to one day program it with the knowledge and memories of all SGC personnel. They are currently in need of funding for the ambitious project.
The set of PX3-989 is the same as in "Watergate", "Beneath the Surface" and "Proving Ground".
The idea of replacing the body with robot or cybernetic parts was originally proposed for the Doctor Who villains, the Cybermen.
Major General George S. Hammond's granddaughters, Tessa and Kayla, are named after Brad Wright's daughters.

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When SG-1 first steps through the Stargate, Jack welcomes everyone to "P3X-989", but in the scene after the opening credits, he calls the planet "PX3-989". This name seems to be correct as later in the episode, General Hammond calls the planet "PX3-989".
After the machine has been shut off in the process of creating the synthetic of Teal'c, and the synthetic Jack is looking in at him, Christopher Judge is seen to be breathing.
At the end of the episode, the synthetic Teal'c is standing with the rest of the synthetic team, although he was supposed to be rendered useless once the machine was cut off. Harlan never said the robot was "useless", merely that it was "incomplete." He never gave any indication that the process couldn't be restarted, but even if it were true, he never stated how he got their consciousnesses into the machines. They could be in the computer so that he could have easily made another.