Template:SG1-3 "Rules of Engagement" is the ninth episode of the third season of Stargate SG-1.
Synopsis
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.
Plot
Upon exiting the Stargate on an unnamed planet, SG-1 finds a group of SG soldiers in the midst of battle with a Jaffa army. Believing the soldiers to be the MIA SG-11, Colonel Jack O'Neill radios them but receives no response. O'Neill decides to assist them but the SG soldiers shoot them with their weapons.
SG-1 wakes up in the soldier's training camp with headaches and no weapons. They are taken to the camp's leader, Captain Kyle Rogers, who assumes they are from a rival camp. When Rogers accidentally refers to the Stargate as the Chappai'ai, Teal'c recognizes that he is a Jaffa being trained by Apophis to infiltrate Stargate Command. Teal'c tells the soldiers that they were sent there by Apophis to test them.
Major Samantha Carter and Dr. Daniel Jackson go to the weapons tent to retrieve their weapons but they find replica weapons called Intars 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 and are missing.
Teal'c uses the Vo'cume projector to summon all the soldiers to the campsite and O'Neill tries to call off the training by telling them that Apophis is dead so they are all dismissed, but they believe it is just a test of their loyalty. Unable to convince them not to participate in the battle, SG-1 goes looking for their missing weapons. Rogers 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.
SG-1 convinces Rogers to come back to the SGC for treatment of his wounds by telling him he is going to meet Apophis. When they arrive at the base and Rogers realizes that he is not being taken to Apophis, he loses control and must be restrained. In the Briefing Room, Teal'c explains how, in a Jaffa's training they use the nonlethal weapons until blood is shed for the first time, then the soldiers are issued real weapons and do battle to the death until one side is victorious.
O'Neill visits Rogers in the infirmary and tries to convince him that Apophis is not a god and is dead. Rogers is not convinced until he is shown a video of Apophis on his death bed. Rogers agrees to help SG-1 stop the final challenge.
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. After returning to the planet and stunning many soldiers with Intars, SG-1 and Rogers hold off the remaining soldiers until Carter can upload the recording of Apophis' death into the Vo'cume. His fear followed by his death proves his lack of godhood, and the soldiers disband and return to their planets of origin.
References
Apophis' training planet; Intar; Corn; Cotton; FIM-92 Stinger missile; Gar'toc; H&K MP5A3 submachine gun; Hell; M2 Browning; M224 mortar; M60 machine gun; M72 LAW; Colonel Harold Maybourne; MIA; NID; P89-534; Sandwich; SG-11; SG-X; Shol'va; The Simpsons; Skirmish with SG-X; Sokar; Staff weapon; Stargate Command infirmary; Tuna; Unmanned Aerial Vehicle; Vo'cume projector
Notable Quotes
Hibbert: Hello, boy are you guys gonna get it.
O'Neill: Get what? from whom?
Hibbert: Hey! You can't talk!
O'Neill: And why not?
Hibbert: Because you're dead!
O'Neill: Dead?
Hibbert: Pretending not to be dead will just get you into more trouble.
O'Neill: More trouble than dead?
Hibbert: C'mon Colonel you know better, stop breaking the rules.
O'Neill: Sorry... Who's in charge here?
Hibbert: Casualties don't ask questions.
Carter: Uh, what rules are we talking about exactly?
Hibbert: (walks to carter and points the MP5 at her) I said, stop!
Jackson: We just trying to understand, if we're supposed to be dead, how are you supposed to kill us again?
Hibbert: You wanna find out four eyes, huh? (points weapon at daniel)
Jackson:...Four eyes?
O'Neill: Easy big fella... just, play dead.
Teal'c: Indeed.
Carter: Teal'c, what about these?
Teal'c: They are Intar.
O'Neill: Short for...?
Teal'c: Intar.
(the vo'cume projects a 30-foot hologram of Apophis)
Apophis: Warriors of Apophis, assemble before me and listen to he who possesses the vo'cume.
Carter: (runs out from inside the armory) Sir!?
O'Neill: Just a huge, honkin' Apophis, Major. Nothing to worry about.
O'Neill: Master Teal'c, if I may?
Teal'c: (to the warriors) This is Colonel O'Neill. He is much loved by Apophis. (to O'Neill) You may address the warriors.
O'Neill: Apophis wanted me to tell you that you've all been doing a wonderful job. Couldn't ask for more. Well done. But, he also wanted me to tell you that the whole "invasion of the Tau'ri" idea has been cancelled, due to... rain. So, the war games are officially over as of right... (looks for his watch, which is now missing)... now.
Nelson: You speak more like a Tauri than a warrior of Apophis.
O'Neill: Well, thanks. You're not so bad yourself. Who taught you?
Nelson: If you are who you say you are, you already know the answer to that, sir.
Teal'c: Warriors of Apophis, hear me. Apophis has been slain in battle with his enemies.
(no response)
O'Neill: Hey! He's telling you the truth. The battle you've been preparing for is never gonna happen. He's not coming back. Hello, is this mike on? We're trying to tell you something important here!
Rogers: Apophis is a god. And gods cannot die.
Nelson: Therefore Apophis cannot be dead. Any anyone who says otherwise is either testing us or is a traitor, sir.
Hammond: What happened, Colonel?
Rogers: My lord?
O'Neill: Actually, we just call him General Hammond.
Hammond: I'd like to debrief ASAP, Colonel.
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: Ol' Doc Frasier says you haven't been eating/
Rogers: It's poison.
O'Neill: It's hospital food, of course it is.
(O'Neill starts to eat half of the sandwich)
O'Neill: Mmm... Tuna.
Rogers: Go to Sokar.
O'Neill: It's "go to hell", actually. Which, by the way, is a very rude thing to say to a person offering you a sandwich.
Rogers: It means the same.
O'Neill: You've got a point.
Rogers: I will reveal nothing. You may begin torturing me.
O'Neill: Oh, I've already begun. This is the infamous "tuna torture."
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. Get it.
(An explosion occurs nearby.)
O'Neill: Rogers! What the hell was that?!
Rogers: Mortars.
O'Neill: What else is in that cave?
Rogers: Stingers, M60s, M72s.
O'Neill: You're telling me this now! What the hell? Get down! Dammit! Carter!
Notes
- This is the first appearance of this particular training weapon, called an Intar. These weapons were collected and used by young Stargate Command recruits for training in the season 5 episode "Proving Ground".
- 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.
- This episode reveals that SG-11 was captured by Apophis on a mission to P89-534 and taken to Apophis' training planet. They were forced to train the Jaffa in Stargate Command tactics and Earth culture before they were killed and hung in the center of the camp. Captain Laurence Conner is confirmed to have been killed at this time.
- This is the last of three episodes of Stargate SG-1 written by Terry Curtis Fox.
- This is the first episode where Teal'c says the word "Indeed".
Goofs
- The time on the video of Apophis continues counting after the video has been paused.
- The video was never shown to be paused on camera.
- The amount of sandwich Colonel Jack O'Neill is holding changes between shots without him eating any of it.
- Both Jack and Teal'c tell Captain Rogers that they witnessed Apophis' death in "Serpent's Song". While Jack was present, Teal'c was in the Stargate Operations room when Apophis died.
- This could have been intentional for effect, or because he watched it on the video, hence, he "witnessed" Apophis' death, even if he was not in the room when it happened, in addition to the fact that Teal'c was the one who sent Apophis' body through the Stargate to Sokar.
- When SG-1 returns with Rogers to the planet, the stargate can be seen in the reflection of the glass with chevrons lit but with no active wormhole.
- In the scene where SG-1 assault the encampment just before Roger's reveals himself to the gunner a man in a jacket and jeans can quite clearly be seen behind the tent in the background. In the next view of the tent he disappears.
In other languages
- 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)
- Hungarian: A hadviselés szabályai (Rules of Warfare)
External links
- Template:SciFi
- Rules of Engagement on the official MGM website. (backup link)
- Rules of Engagement on GateWorld. (backup link)
- Rules of Engagement article on Stargate SG-1 Solutions' The StargateWiki
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