The Warrior

"The Warrior" is the eighteenth episode of the fifth season of Stargate SG-1.

Synopsis
SG-1, especially Teal'c, join a camp full of rebel Jaffa, led by K'tano, who wish to stop the Goa'uld, and have more Jaffa join their rebellion. Teal'c decides to change his allegiance to his people, and the rest of the team suspect that K'tano, the former First Prime of Imhotep, is hiding something from them.

Plot
K'tano, First Prime of Imhotep, announces to a group of rebel Jaffa that the Goa'uld are not gods and they shall fight for their freedom. In the crowd, Teal'c and Bra'tac are listening to his speech.

They report back to Stargate Command and tell them that K'tano has gathered an army culled from several different System Lords and that he strongly believes in Jaffa traditions. However, K'tano is incredibly reckless. In addition to attacking targets that include civilians as well as Goa'uld, he uses terrorist tactics such as s in order to spread dissent throughout the ranks of his enemies. SG-1 decides to make an alliance with them because the Tok'ra are weakened.

Upon arriving, they learn that K'tano is raiding Zipacna. When he returns, he praises SG-1 for their killing of several System Lords. He then asks what SG-1 has to offer in exchange for an alliance. They show FN P90 Personal Defense Weapons and supplies. K'tano thinks it is generous but he was expecting Zat'nik'tels and Staff weapons, true weapons. They do a weapons test and show the Jaffa that though their weapons are less advanced technologically, they are superior in battle. This earns K'tano's trust.

The next day, K'tano and SG-1 raid one of Nirrti's Tel'taks and K'tano convinces her Jaffa to come to their cause, by marching straight through and all out firefight. Colonel Jack O'Neill believes that K'tano was suicidal and reckless and, after witnessing K'tano send a force of Jaffa on a suicide mission, decides not to form an alliance with him due to his tactics and beliefs.

Teal'c leads an attack on Lord Yu at the behest of K'tano, along with several other rebel Jaffa to destroy the "weak" System Lord and acquire all of Yu's Jaffa. Teal'c is captured and the other rebel Jaffa are killed. For his own reasons, Lord Yu decides to let Teal'c go, but first he tells him that the attempted mutiny on one of Yu's Ha'taks has failed, as well as one other piece of information.

Teal'c comes back through the Stargate and heads to the Jaffa camp to challenge K'tano to Joma secu, the Jaffa rite of leadership to the death. Teal'c feigns exhaustion until K'tano thinks him beaten, at which point he gloats in Teal'c's ear. In doing so, he reveals himself as Imhotep, a minor Goa'uld. K'tano/Imhotep raises his staff for a killing blow, leaving himself open for Teal'c to utilize a quick jab with his broken staff point. The jab kills Imhotep. When Rak'nor goes to save the symbiote for use on other Jaffa, he finds no pouch revealing Imhotep to be a Goa'uld. Lord Yu's mothership begins its attack, and the Jaffa flee to the relative safety of Earth with SG-1. Bra'tac vows that their day will come.

Notable Quotes
K'tano: My name is K'tano. The once first prime of Imhotep. A false god. A false god who has died by my own hand. Now I am free. I am a free Jaffa. If you have come to this place, then you wish to know freedom as I do. If you have come to hear me, then you know in your heart and in your mind that the Goa'uld are not gods. Still, I am but one warrior. Only together, we are an army of warriors!

Jaffa: An army has weapons! An army has food!

K'tano: In time, we should have weapons, and enough food and drink to sustain us for as long as it takes to achieve victory. Until then, we have our freedom. We have our brothers and sisters. I do not say this will be easy. There will be sacrifice. But for each of you who dies in the name of freedom, your souls shall be sent to Kheb, the place of freedom everlasting. Until then, if you seek freedom, if you seek sanctuary, know that this place is sanctuary. This is Cal Mah. (the crowd cheers) I declare this world a free world for all Jaffa! Let no Goa'uld challenge us. The time has come for Jaffa to claim their rightful place among the stars as warriors who live and as warriors who die free!

O'Neill: Deliverance. Do you have any idea what happened to the guys in that movie?

Bra'tac: I do not.

Rak'nor: (to Teal'c) Tek ma te.

Jackson: (to O'Neill) "Tek ma te" is a greeting of respect.

O'Neill: Okay.

Jackson: I'm just saying.

O'Neill: I don't care.

Jackson: Okay.

Rak'nor: These are among the great warriors of the Tau'ri. Daniel Jackson, Major Carter, and their leader, Colonel O'Neill. (to O'Neill) Tek ma tek.

O'Neill: Back at'cha.

Rak'nor: (slightly confusedly) Back at'cha.

K'tano: I honor he who would kill his god,and to his brethren of the Tauri, slayers of Ra, Hathor, Setesh, Heru'ur, Sokar, Cronus, and Apophis.

O'Neill: Well someone's been keeping score. Colonel Jack O'Neill.

K'tano: A familiar name, cursed by every System Lord. Imhotep himself declared your days were numbered.

O'Neill: Well that's fine, as long as its a really big number.

K'tano: I see you are one who speaks your mind O'Neill.

O'Neill: Yes, which is why I don't say much.

Carter: K'tano's managed to collect Jaffa from at least six different System Lords. He must be doing something right.

O'Neill: Well they have no problem with dying. I have a problem with that.

Jackson: You have a problem with dying or you have a problem with the fact that they don't have a problem with dying?

O'Neill: Both. I think.

(K'tano stands and walks directly into the middle of a firefight between Nirrti's Jaffa and his own warriors, everyone is surprised and confused)

O'Neill: (to K'tano) Hey!!

Rak'nor: He does not know fear.

O'Neill: Well, he knows stupid!!

O'Neill: Alright, so let me see if I get this straight. You assassinate one System Lord after another, you take all their ships and warriors—all of whom are willing to die for you—and this is different than the way things are now... how?

K'tano: The Jaffa will be free.

O'Neill: To follow you.

Teal'c: I die free.

K'tano: (whispering into Teal'c's ear) You die at the hands of your god, (Goa'uld voice and eye flash) Imhotep.

Goofs

 * In the final battle, Teal'c is shown with his training staff already broken immediately before his training staff is actually broken.
 * In the scene where K'tano steps onto the battlefield against Nirrti's Jaffa, one of the enemy Jaffa challenges him. The Jaffa proceeds to place his Staff weapon against K'tano's chest, but when the camera switches to an angle behind K'tano, he is standing with the staff pointing at him from further away.  The shot changes again, and the staff is immediately up against K'tano's chest again.
 * Nirrti is referred to as a System Lord by K'tano. However, in "Summit", only a few episodes previously Jacob Carter indicated that Nirrti was an exile among the Goa'uld. He also states this in "Allegiance" and in "Metamorphosis" it is shown that Nirrti in fact has very little power with only a few Jaffa and subjects who are tricked into worshiping her.
 * Despite that it was stated that the phrase "Tek ma te" was a greeting of respect, an offended Jaffa in training repeates that phrase multiple times at O'Neill, with Teal'c saying it means the Jaffa was challenging him.
 * Neither Carter nor Teal'c notice there is a Goa'uld in K'tano. However they might have sensed a Goa'uld, but chose not to say anything as they thought it was a Prim'ta. Later episodes have also showed that the Goa'uld are able to mask this from Carter.
 * Imhotep calls SG-1 the slayers of Heru'ur. However, while their actions did lead to his death, Apophis actually killed him.
 * O'Neill tells the Jaffa that they've used the FN P90 Personal Defense Weapon to win almost every skirmish they've ever had with the Goa'uld and their Jaffa. However, before a little over a year prior, they had been using MP5's as their main weapon so this is not true until the weapon was put into service.

Nominations

 * Nominated Leo for "Dramatic Series: Best Overall Sound" (David M. Cyr, Sina Oroomchi, Iain Pattison and Dave Hibbert)

In other languages

 * French: Le Guerrier (The Warrior)
 * Italian: Il Guerriero (The Warrior)
 * Spanish: El Guerrero (The Warrior)
 * Czech: Bojovník (The Warrior)
 * German: Die Jaffa-Rebellion (The Jaffa-Rebellion)