Hathor (Stargate SG-1 episode)

"Hathor" is an episode from Season 1 of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1.

Plot

In Mexico, a team of archaeologists uncover an ancient tomb, with a sarcophagus inside. The sarcophagus opens and a female who speaks like a Goa'uld emerges. She angrily asks the archaeologists where Ra is, and when they cannot answer, she kills them with her Hand Device.

The sarcophagus is then relocated to Stargate Command, and following behind it, Hathor, the Goa'uld from the sarcophagus, appears before the base and somehow knew where the Stargate was. She is detained by base guards, and put in a cell. General Hammond informs SG-1 about this, and Daniel Jackson goes down to talk to her. Using a pinkish, airborn smokey substance, she causes Daniel Jackson to believe every word she tells him. Jackson then goes back up, and under the influence of the substance, tells the team that he does not believe Hathor to be their enemy. Using the pink smoke, Hathor is then able to get around the guards up to the conference room, where she begins to infect other members of SGC, including General Hammond and Colonel O'Neill. Being immune to the effects of the powder, Captain Carter is the only one who objects to letting Hathor roam free. After all the men in the base have been brought under her influence, she calls Daniel Jackson to her room (because of the knowledge that he was partially responsible for killing Ra), where she reveals to him that she is a Goa'uld queen, and then gets him to impregnate her with his DNA so that she will be able to create Goa'uld symbiotes.

Meanwhile, Captain Carter and Dr. Fraiser come together with other women on the base, as they are able to see the effect that Hathor is having on the men. After a Web search, Carter learns that Ra sent Hathor to kill humanity but hesitated. They confront Teal'c, believing him under Hathor's control. But Teal'c's Goa'uld protects him from Hathor's powers. Hathor plans to use the base as her nest to spread out. Eventually, the entire Earth will be filled with Goa'uld. They confront her in a locker room, where she is laying larva Goa'uld in a tub. However suddenly several of the men from the base enter, and all of the SGC women are then confined to cells. By seducing the male guards (pink-powdered into susceptibility) they manage to escape and make their way to the weapons storage, where they team up with Teal'c.

Meanwhile, Hathor has finished laying her larva Goa'uld and using a device on her stomach, she turns Colonel O'Neill into a Jaffa, because she wants him to be her First Prime. He is then taken to the tub and placed in, where Hathor intends for him to have a strong larva Goa'uld enter his new Jaffa pouch. Before this can happen, Carter, Fraiser and Teal'c are able to rescue O'Neill and get him to the sarcophagus, which undoes the effects of Hathor's stomach device. Later the other males on the base are all hit with tranquilizers. Hathor is then encountered in the locker room again, where Carter shoots her. The tub lights on fire, however, Hathor manages to escape, and makes her way to Chulak through the Stargate. The effects of the pheromones then go away.

Trivia

This episode was heavily criticized, and the series' writers themselves acknowledged that it was one of the weakest episodes of the series, particularly during the Season 8 episode "Citizen Joe" in which characters self-referentially point out the goofiest moments in the series.

External links

"Official Stargate SG-1 site". MGM. Retrieved 2006-06-08. Most of site requires Flash.
"Screenplay" (PDF). Distributed by MGM. Prepared by Casablanca Continuity. Retrieved 2006-10-28. Also see Google's cache.
"Summary". SciFi. Retrieved 2006-06-05.
"Episode guide". Rdanderson. Retrieved 2006-05-06.