Teal’c and Bra’tec have discovered from which planet Anubis is attacking, with Ry’ac they go to the planet to destroy the weapon, wherein Ry’ac is instrumental. Meanwhile Sam tries to come-up with a plan, McKay is there too and still is obnoxious but he does get his plan approved which backfires and injures Sam. He feels responsible and comes groveling and apologizes. Jonas has an idea, remove the gate, Sam devises a plan, and they succeed in bringing the gate out of Earth’s atmosphere, in space, where it detonates. McKay says goodbye to Sam, admits he is jealous of her. When she kissing him on the cheek, he is happy. Sam messes with him saying that she no longer hates him, is bad for him because she was attracted to him when she hated him! Jonas joins SG-1, Russians get their own team, USA gets to buy the Russian Gate. Note – A fantastic season opener, split in two parts. Some great humor, mainly from O’Neill of course.

In “Decent” SG-1 finds an abandoned Goa’uld mothership, even the escape pods are gone. Jack really wants to salvage it. It turns out to be the ship where Anubis held Thor prisoner. Sam downloads Thor’s consciousness so the Asgard can be put back into a new clone, now he is in coma. They escape in gliders where Jonas is the one who saves the day, SG-1 escapes before the ship explodes. Note - Good episode, at first I was convinced this was a Replicator episode, I was happy it wasn’t. “Frozen” is kind of an exciting premise, although not original. SG-1 travels to the Antarctic science station where scientists have discovered an ancient body on ice which predates mankind! When they thaw the young woman, she comes alive. But soon as this happens, those around her fall ill. The woman, Ayiana has healing powers and she is able to save everyone except for Jack. The Tok’ra is asked to help Jack. There is only one possibility, by becoming a temporary host! Note - This episode shows almost no humor, except The Simpsons remark, Jack forgot to tape the Simpsons. Guest stars: Bruce Harwood; Ona Grauer. In “Nightstalkers” Jack is still out of commission. Sam, Jonas and Teal’c are in a small town investigating a disappearance of a scientist, geneticist Dr. Richard Flemming, after he contacted Sam saying it is of great importance to speak to her. SGC learns that he has been working for Immunotech, a company owned by Adrian Conrad, who implanted himself with a Goa'uld symbiote in order to cure himself. Apparently they have been cloning immature symbionts, who took over at night, to build a space ship to get out of here. NID has been following this for 3 months already. Note - Small town episodes like this, are these people really always so weird? RDA is absent of the episode, story-wise because no host has yet been found for the Tok’ra symbiont that healed O’Neill.

In “Abyss” O'Neill's symbiont Kanan drags him to a planet ruled by the Goa'uld Ba'al, where Kanan was undercover. Ba’al is torturing Jack and puts him back in the sarcophagus regularly. Daniel is there with him in prison, trying him to convince him to help him ascent because there is no other way, he says to Jack, he isn’t allowed to intervene in any other way. Fortunately, Sam, Teal’c and Jonas come up with a plan. Jack escapes and takes the human slave with him. Note – Some really great Jack – Daniel moments. These two characters work so well together. Quote - Ba'al: I am Ba'al. Colonel Jack O'Neill: That's it? Just Ball? As in bocce? In “Shadow Play” Jonas’ people contact the SGC and ask for their help, they want military support in exchange for naquadria because the two other nations have signed a non-aggression pact. SGC does accept to talk with them but beforehand they decide they won’t give them military support. Jonas’ former professor (Dean Stockwell), tells him of a newly formed resistance, but it turns out that the professor is suffering from dementia and that there is no resistance and that other scientists, who worked with the naquadria also had the same symptoms. Nothing will change, the Kelownan government aren’t planning on peace but rather attack.

“The Other Guys” is a fun episode, one of my favorites of the season, guest starring John Billingsley as Simon Coombs and Patrick McKenna as Jay Felger. A fun episode where the nerds are saving the day…sort of. Jay Felger is in awe of SG-1 and while he is a scientist SG-1 is babysitting, he dreams of joining them. His friend and colleague Simon Coombs is like him, a nerd but definitely has not the same dream as Felger. But when SG-1 gets kidnapped, Felger acts at once and plans on rescuing them. He takes Coombs with him. Thing is, this was a set-up, the kidnapping, SG-1 was suppose to come in contact with a Tok’ra Khonsu who was impersonating a Goa’uld. Note – Hilarious episode, yes the Felger character is funny, but Coombs steals the show in every scene he is in with his whining and complaining and he still saves the day at the end. Quote - Simon Coombs: Oh, come on, Felger. We might as well be wearin' red shirts. Jay Felger: I don't get that.

In “Allegiance” The Tok’ra, the Jaffa and the Tau’ri have fled to the SGC's Alpha site after an attack. It appears the attacker has traveled with them but is invisible. Tensions rise between the allied factions, the Free Jaffa, Tau'ri, and Tok'ra. Note – Not my favorite episode, it is okay, but it is not an episode I look forward to, like I do with the previous episode “The Other Guys”. Although an important remark of Jacob / Selmak: they feel the end of the Tok’ra is near. Guest starring Peter Stebbings as Tok’ra Malek. In “Cure” SG-1 makes first contact with the planet Pangar. It seems to be a peaceful world that have recently discovered ancient Goa'uld ruins. They offer Earth their greatest discovery, a drug called Tretonin, which they say keeps them entirely disease free. In return they want Gate addresses, not friendly ones but Goa’uld addresses. Turns out the Tretonin is based on Goa'uld symbiotes and the Pangarans reveal another secret - they have a symbiote queen, found in the ancient ruins. When a Pangaran guard is seriously injured, SG-1 asks the Tok'ra for help. They soon realize that the queen is the founder of the Tok’ra race. Note - Entertaining episode with a twist at the end when it turns out it is a Tok’ra. Even though she has been abused all these years, she still wants to help the Pangarians.

The two-parter “Prometheus / Unnatural Selection” in itself is an exciting episode. I however do have some issues with it. A television news crew has unearthed information about an Air Force project called "Prometheus". They believe it to be a generator, but know it uses Trinium, an element not found on Earth. SGC shows them the ship but the camera crew aren’t who they say they are. Note - This of course could never had happened. First, why even give them access to the ship, the moment they do something against their orders, you can arrest them for treason! 2^nd, in Heroes the Military has their own film crew or at least military who can operate a camera, it would be more than logical to the same in this situation? O’Neill’s outcry about it, is just so the creators of the show can say to the audience: Yes, we have thought about it… In Part Two Thor asks SG-1 to help the Asgard in battling with Replicators. The Asgard are using a time dilation device so that one day for the rest of the universe is 1 year for the Replicator home world. It would give the Asgard more time to come up with a solution but the Replicators manage to reverse it, now 1 days for them is 1 year for SG-1 and the rest. Note – I didn’t like the machine Replicators, but I think I like this human looking version is less! Still it is a good episode. To me, The Replicators have become the Daleks of Stargate!

For me “Sight Unseen” is one of three weakest episodes this season. The other ones are “Disclosure” & “Metamorphosis”. SG-1 brings back an Ancient device, the purpose of which is unknown. When Jonas touches it, the device activates. Upon reaching the SGC, Jonas sees a large red insect fly into a wall, but no one else can confirm his sighting. At first they think Jonas is hallucinating, but soon others begin to see these creatures as well. “Smoke and Mirrors” is another entertaining political episode, Jack is being accused of killing Senator Kinsey. There even is proof he was in the building were the shots came from. Jack was on holiday, so he couldn’t have done it. SG-1 team investigates this and soon find out it has to do with the devices used at the Foothold situation 3 years back. The NID thought to get rid of Jack and Kinsey at the same time. Kinsey isn’t dead, he’s in a coma. Note - Killer is an NID officer named Devlin….inside joke perhaps? Reference to episode 1969 where Daniel learned Teal’C how to drive.

In “Paradise Lost” Jack and Maybourne are put together which usually is always fun. This turns out a bit differently. Maybourne comes to Jack with a proposition: Jack gets him a presidential pardon and Harry shows them the advanced weapons cache that Simmons was trying to get to. But it turns out to be a key to paradise, at least, that is what perhaps what it used to be. Maybourne and Jack are stuck there and Sam is full with guilt because she ‘allowed’ Maybourne to get her gun. Note - Best thing of this episode I thought was Sam’s desperation of losing another dear friend. Acting out on colleagues because of it. As said earlier, I thought “Metamorphosis” was one of the weaker episodes. The Russian SG team brings back a man who claims that his people are being experimented on by Nirrti. SG-1 investigate where the experiments are conducted, with the Russian SG team as backup. SG-1 attempts to use the same device Nirrti used on the people to reverse the mutations, but the people turn on them at the arrival of Nirrti. Nirrti also experiments on Sam, she is about to die but is saved by the mutated men. Note - Happy we are finally rid of Nirrti.

“Disclosure” is another ordinary clip show where Earth’s leaders have been invited to be informed about the Stargate. Senator Kinsey is also present but like always, has his own agenda. He wants to take the program away from the military. Thor makes a surprise visit, supporting the SGC. I kinda liked the subterfuge from Kinsey, did find the meeting somewhat entertaining but I HATE clip shows. In “Forsaken” SG-1 finds a crashed ship and its three human survivors. At first glance good people perhaps, but we soon learn that this is not the case, Turns out that these humans were prisoners on a prison ship, the aliens, that were attacking them, where their guards. Note - To me it is not much more than an okay episode. After 2 episodes 5/10 this is a tick up yes, but still average at best.

“The Changeling” is (co) written by Christopher Judge, a very decent story. Teal’c is critically injured, lying on a battlefield with Bra’tec who is also critically injured. They have been ambushed and only have one symbiont to survive. Teal’c is trying to save Bra’tec and himself by sharing the symbiont. While doing this he is having a series of strange dreams. In those dreams, he is a human who, along with the other members of SG-1, are firefighters in Coquitlam. Others are in his dream including friend Bra’tec and his wife Shauna. He faces major surgery as he's decided to donate one of his kidneys to his friend Brae. Daniel Jackson is watching over him, trying to support him and promises to keep watching over him. SGC asks the Tok’ra for help and they have an untested medicine, tretonin (episode “Cure”), which has been refined by the Tok’ra, which means that the Tok’ra (and Teal’c & Bra’tec, would no longer be depended on the Goa’uld.

In “Memento” the Prometheus is having problems on its shakedown cruise. The ship’s hyperdrive regulator becomes irreparably damaged. After a short jump towards a planet, the Naquadria reactor overloads and must be jettisoned. After the reactor explodes above the planet causing damage, the fate of SG-1 and the crew of the Prometheus is in the hands of a once Goa'uld-controlled world that they're off to a rough start with. These people need to be convinced that the explosion was an accident. Chairman Ashwan (Robert Foxworth) is excited in a good way but Commander Kalfas is very suspicious of SG-1 and the others. Note - Best episode since “Paradise Lost”. Besides Stargate SG-1, Robert Foxworth was also on Babylon 5 and Star Trek: DS9. In “Prophecy” SG-1 encounters a civilization desperate to be freed from the clutches of a Goa'uld. While on the planet, Jonas falls ill and is suspended from active duty. His mysterious illness is diagnosed as a brain tumor but gives him the unbelievable ability to glimpse into the future, a future where O'Neill and SG-1 are walking into a trap. Nirrti is most likely responsible for Jonas’ condition. After dr. Fraser has operated on him, he no longer has this ability.

In “Full Circle” O’Neill is being visited by Daniel, he asks him for help, telling him that Anubis is on its way to Abydos, to look for the Eye of Ra, a relic that would make Anubis all-powerful. It is essential that SG-1 goes there to find it before Anubis does. They meet up with Skaara and with Daniel’s help they find it. They also find a tablet that speaks of a lost city of the ancients. Daniel makes a deal Anubis, the Eye for Abydos, although Anubis say yes to this he still destroys Abydos anyway. SG-1 can barely escape. When they return to Abydos after trying several times to get a lock, they meet Skaara and he tells SG-1 that Abydos is gone, Oma ascended them all, she also makes it possible for SG-1 to come to Abydos while the planet is destroyed. Note – Fantastic episode, great season finale, shame we already have to say goodbye to Jonas after one season. Elevator scene between Jack and Daniel is really fun.

Final Word:

I would grade season six an 8/10. It had some great episodes this season, I counted 11 episodes which got an 8/10 or higher. I was especially fond of “Redemption”, season opener, “Abyss”, “The Other Guys”, “Memento” and the season finale “Full Circle”. What I mentioned earlier, I really liked the character Jonas and I would have liked if he could stay on, even if only as a recurring character. Yes, I know he drops by once or twice after season six, but I would have preferred him staying connected to the SGC or even to SG-1. Anyway he made a good contribution to the sixth season and I would like to thank Corin Nemec for that!  

With the help of IMdB, Screencaps taken from Gateworld.