Season four of Stargate SG-1 began airing on June 30, 2000 on Showtime. The fourth season concluded after 22 episodes on February 14, 2001 on British Sky One, which overtook Showtime in mid-season.
Broadcast Episodes
| Image | Title | Number | Airdate | Planet(s) | Race(s) | Enemies |
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"Small Victories (Part 2 of 2)" | 401 | June 30, 2000 | Earth, Othala | Asgard, Replicator | Replicators |
| Despite the defeat of the Replicators, one survived the crash and managed to infest the Russian submarine Blackbird to replicate a new army. Meanwhile, Thor returns to Earth and wants Major Samantha Carter's assistance to defeat the Replicators from taking over Othala, by using "stupid ideas" as a means of stopping them. | ||||||
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"The Other Side" | 402 | July 7, 2000 | Earth, Euronda | Eurondan, Breeder | Alar, Farrell |
| The Eurondans, who have an ancestral history with the Tau'ri, contact Earth and request their assistance to win a generations-long war. However, the lack of intel about their "enemy" and their shady behavior arouses a lot of suspicion from Dr. Daniel Jackson. | ||||||
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"Upgrades" | 403 | July 14, 2000 | Earth, PX9-757 | Atanik, Jaffa, Tok'ra | Serpent Guards |
| Anise of the Tok'ra arrives on Earth to test Atanik armbands on SG-1, and notices that they cause the team to be physically augmented. With their new powers evident, SG-1 urges Major General George S. Hammond to let them fight the Goa'uld with them. However, the armbands also make the team more irrational. | ||||||
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"Crossroads" | 404 | July 21, 2000 | Earth, Vorash | Chulakian, Goa'uld, People of Paraval, Tok'ra | Tanith |
| Shan'auc, one of Teal'c's old flames and priestess of Chulak claims to have taught her symbiote to despise the Goa'uld. The Tok'ra seem convinced of this, but there is still a reasonable amount of doubt from the others. | ||||||
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"Divide and Conquer" | 405 | July 28, 2000 | Earth, P6Y-325, PX9-757, Vorash | Jaffa, Tok'ra | Za'tarc, Martouf |
| The Tok'ra and Tau'ri plan a treaty for their alliance. Unfortunately, mind-controlled assassins who work for the Goa'uld, known as Za'tarcs are among them. Anise invented a device, similar to a lie detector, to determine who is a Za'tarc, but can hardly believe when Major Samantha Carter and Colonel Jack O'Neill are confirmed to be Za'tarcs. | ||||||
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"Window of Opportunity" | 406 | August 4, 2000 | Earth, P4X-639 | Malakai's people | Malakai |
| On a routine mission to P4X-639, SG-1 meets an alien archaeologist Malakai operating an Ancient device. Malakai has his own motives and causes a time loop, where only Colonel Jack O'Neill and Teal'c notice. Furthermore, convincing the rest they are trapped in a time loop and that they have to return to the planet to stop it proves difficult when the same few hours from breakfast to the mission is repeated over and over again. | ||||||
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"Watergate" | 407 | August 11, 2000 | Earth, Water planet | Water-based life form | Water-based life form |
| Stargate Command is unable to activate their Stargate. They soon discover that the Russians have their hands on one, after they recovered one from the wreckage of the crashed Biliskner. Another problem is that their Stargate is somehow still activated indefinitely. | ||||||
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"The First Ones" | 408 | August 18, 2000 | Earth, P3X-888 | Goa'uld, Unas | Robert Rothman, Unas |
| Dr. Daniel Jackson is captured and taken prisoner by an Unas later to be known as Chaka on P3X-888. While he learns more about the Unas, the rest of SG-1 and other teams plan a rescue operation. However, Teal'c stops them, after he senses that one of the team members is taken host by a Goa'uld. | ||||||
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"Scorched Earth" | 409 | August 25, 2000 | P5S-381, Earth | Gadmeer, Enkaran | N/A |
| SG-1 has relocated the Enkarans to a planet suitable for them. However, at the same time, the Gadmeer, a sulfur-based lifeform also claims the planet, by igniting the planet with their terraformer. | ||||||
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"Beneath the Surface" | 410 | September 1, 2000 | Earth, P3R-118 | People of P3R-118 | Calder |
| Major Samantha Carter, Dr. Daniel Jackson, Colonel Jack O'Neill and Teal'c are somehow working as miners on the ice-age ridden planet of P3R-118, and are known as Thera, Karlan, Jonah and Tor respectively. Meanwhile, the SG teams are searching all over the ice covered planet for any signs of SG-1, who have gone missing. | ||||||
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"Point of No Return" | 411 | September 8, 2000 | Earth, Martin's world | Martin's people | Peter Tanner |
| Stargate Command is contacted by Martin Lloyd, who needs to speak to Colonel Jack O'Neill. SG-1 goes to Montana to see who he is, as he claims to be from outer space, and insists that a crashed spaceship is nearby. Meanwhile, more of his people wish to silence him. | ||||||
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"Tangent" | 412 | September 15, 2000 | Earth, Jupiter, P2C-257 | Tok'ra | N/A |
| Teal'c and Colonel Jack O'Neill test a Death Glider they acquired from Apophis in the past. However, the Glider has a life of its own, when a Recall device installed by Apophis sends the ship back to Chulak, which will take several hundred years at their current speed, and they only have a few days of oxygen. | ||||||
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"The Curse" | 413 | September 22, 2000 | Earth | Goa'uld | Osiris |
| After Dr. Daniel Jackson learns that his old archaeology professor has died in an explosion, he soon suspects that it may not be an accident, and that one of the professor's colleagues is responsible for his death. Meanwhile, he finds out a shocking secret about the Ancient Egyptian artifacts they're studying. | ||||||
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"The Serpent's Venom" | 414 | September 29, 2000 | Chulak, Earth, Tobin system | Goa'uld, Jaffa, Tok'ra | Apophis, Heru'ur, Terok |
| SG-1 and Selmak receive solid intel that Apophis and Heru'ur are forming an alliance to rule the galaxy. They plan to use one of the mines from the Tobin system to attack the fleet. Furthermore, Teal'c is captured by his old friend Rak'nor, and is imprisoned on board Heru'ur's vessel. | ||||||
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"Chain Reaction" | 415 | December 13, 2000 | Earth, Unnamed | N/A | Robert Kinsey, NID |
| Major General George S. Hammond is apparently forced to retire, and replaced by a Major General Henry Bauer. There is nothing SG-1 could do about it, since they will fight someone high up in government. However, Colonel Jack O'Neill enlists the help of Harold Maybourne to stop the NID, and Senator Robert Kinsey to return Hammond to his office. | ||||||
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"2010" | 416 | January 3, 2001 | Earth | Aschen, Jaffa | Aschen |
| In an alternate timeline version of the year 2010, the Stargate Program has been made public, and Earth has formed an alliance with the Aschen, who helped wipe out the Goa'uld and provided the people of Earth with numerous advanced technologies. Soon, Samantha Carter learns that she cannot conceive a child, and realizes the Aschen have something to do with it. | ||||||
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"Absolute Power" | 417 | January 10, 2001 | Abydos, Earth | Abydonian, Tok'ra | N/A |
| The Harcesis, named Shifu, has been found on Abydos and taken to Earth by SG-1, where they ask him how to defeat the Goa'uld once and for all. However, Shifu instead shows Dr. Daniel Jackson a vision of what would happen if he gives him the power to defeat the Goa'uld. | ||||||
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"The Light" | 418 | January 17, 2001 | Earth, P4X-347 | Loran's people | N/A |
| After Lt. Dean Barber kills himself by running into the Stargate's unstable vortex and the rest of his team are mysteriously dying, SG-1 links the team's routine mission to P4X-347 to be responsible, as they find a highly beautiful, yet very addictive light. | ||||||
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"Prodigy" | 419 | January 24, 2001 | Earth, M4C-862 | Small energy being | Small energy beings |
| Cadet Jennifer Hailey gets Major Samantha Carter's attention after noticing her intelligence, which rivals Carter's. She decides to send her on a mission with an expedition team on M4C-862. There, the teams manage to anger a group of Small energy beings, which can literally pass through solid matter with fatal consequences for the teams. | ||||||
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"Entity" | 420 | January 31, 2001 | Earth, P9C-372 | Entity | Entity |
| An "entity" from P9C-372 invades the computer at Stargate Command through the MALP transmission. It starts controlling cameras and learning. When Major Samantha Carter starts communicating with it, it invades her and takes control of her. | ||||||
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"Double Jeopardy" | 421 | February 7, 2001 | Earth, Juna | Altairan, Goa'uld, Jaffa, People of Juna | Cronus |
| SG-1 arrives on Juna, where they are captured by Cronus' forces, where Cronus himself doesn't take the reunion well. However, unknown to him, SG-1 is actually the robot copies from the real SG-1's encounter on Altair three years ago. | ||||||
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"Exodus (Part 1 of 3)" | 422 | February 14, 2001 | Vorash | Goa'uld, Jaffa, People of Paraval, Tok'ra | Apophis, Tanith |
| SG-1 returns to Vorash in a Ha'tak vessel that once belonged to Cronus to help the Tok'ra move to a new planet. After learning Apophis and his fleet are coming to Vorash, Major Samantha Carter has a daring plan to send the planet's sun into a premature supernova, to defeat Apophis once and for all. However, Teal'c's need for revenge against Tanith could not only to be Teal'c's undoing but it could prove fatal for SG-1 as well. | ||||||
Cast
Main characters
- Richard Dean Anderson as
- Colonel Jack O'Neill (22/22 episodes)
- Jack O'Neill (1/22 episodes)
- Jack O'Neill (android) (1/22 episodes)
- Michael Shanks as
- Dr. Daniel Jackson (21/22 episodes)
- Voice of Thor (1/22 episodes)
- Daniel Jackson (1/22 episodes)
- Daniel Jackson (android) (1/22 episodes)
- Amanda Tapping as
- Major Samantha Carter (22/22 episodes)
- Samantha Carter (1/22 episodes)
- Samantha Carter (android) (1/22 episodes)
- Christopher Judge as
- Teal'c (22/22 episodes)
- Teal'c (1/22 episodes)
- Teal'c (android) (1/22 episodes)
- And Don S. Davis as Major General George S. Hammond (21/22 episodes)
Recurring characters
- Teryl Rothery as
- Dr. Janet Fraiser (12/22 episodes)
- Dr. Janet Fraiser (1/22 episodes)
- Gary Jones as
- MSgt. Walter Harriman (12/22 episodes)
- Walter Harriman (1/22 episodes)
- Dan Shea as MSgt. Sylvester Siler (10/22 episodes)
- Peter Kufluk as TSgt. Connor (10/22 episodes)
- Martin Wood as Major Wood (7/22 episodes)
- Peter Williams as Apophis (3/22 episodes)
- Carmen Argenziano as Jacob Carter/Selmak (3/22 episodes)
- Vanessa Angel as Anise/Freya (3/22 episodes)
- Russell Ferrier as Captain/Major Michael Griff (3/22 episodes)
- Colin Cunningham as Major Paul Davis (3/22 episodes)
- Daniel Bacon as SMSgt. Russell Benson (3/22 episodes)
- Bill Nikolai as TSgt. Vern Alberts (3/22 episodes)
- T.M. Sandulak as TSgt. Ziplinski (3/22 episodes)
- Ronny Cox as Senator Robert Kinsey (2/22 episodes)
- Peter Wingfield as Tanith (2/22 episodes)
- Tom McBeath as Harold Maybourne (2/22 episodes)
- Ron Halder as Cronus (2/22 episodes)
- Steven Williams as Lt. General Maurice Vidrine (2/22 episodes)
- Peter DeLuise as SF Guard (2/22 episodes)
- Rob Farrell as MSgt. Farrell (2/22 episodes)
Trivia
- This is the only season in which Tony Amendola (Bra'tac) does not appear.
- This season, along with SG-1 Season 1 are the only two seasons of Stargate SG-1 not to have a mid-season two-parter.
Awards
Nominations
- Nominated Saturn Award for "Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series"
- Nominated Saturn Award for "Best Actor in a Television Series" (Richard Dean Anderson)
- Nominated Saturn Award for "Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series" (Michael Shanks)
- Nominated Saturn Award for "Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series" (Amanda Tapping)
- Nominated Gemini for "Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role" (Amanda Tapping)
- Nominated Gemini for "Best Production Design or Art Direction in a Dramatic Program or Series" (Bridget McGuire, Ivana Vasak, Mark Davidson, Brentan Harron, Robert Davidson, Richard Hudolin and Doug McLean)
Media
DVD
Novels
- Stargate SG-1: Alliances (just after the episode "The Other Side")
Short Stories
- SG-1 Season 4 on Wikipedia
- SG-1 Season 4 at the Internet Movie Database
- SG-1 Season 4 on GateWorld. (backup link)
- SG-1 Season 4 article on Stargate SG-1 Solutions' The StargateWiki
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