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{{Infobox Television episode | Title = The First Commandment |
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| Production = 105 |
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| Guests = ] as Captain Jonas Hanson<br>] as Lieutenant Connor<br>Zahf Hajee as Jamala<br>Adrian Hughes as Lieutenant Baker<br>D. Neil Mark as Frakes<br>Darcy Laurie as Cave-Dweller |
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{{TVep|The First Commandment|Stargate SG-1}} |
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==Plot== |
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The episode starts with two members of an ] running away frightened. However one of them is then captured and shot by a person with a gun. Later ] is sent to the planet P3X-513 after SG-4 is declared ]. ] is soon thereafter attacked by the frightened, Lieutenant Connor, the one who survived in the beginning, looking terrified. After they set up a camp, he explains that SG-4's leader, Captain Jonas Hanson, has convinced the planet's primitive inhabitants that he is a God, and now has them working for him to build him a temple. Anyone who goes against him is set up to being burned to death under the high UV rays that burn the planet. It originally began as "playing along" for anthropological reasons, but after he dissappeared for two days Jonas went too far with it and actually came to believe himself to be a God as well. He even killed the rest of SG-4. |
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], having previously been romantic involved with the Captain, tells Daniel that Hanson is a man who always needs control. In the night, Connor is captured and tied in the sun to die. While ] investigates, Sam helps a young boy and is also captured. When she is brought before Jonas, he is too insane to talk sensibly to, utterly convinced that he is doing something right as he works "his people" to death building a temple for him ("There have to be sacrifices!"). It turns out that he has found an old ] device that, apparantly, when activated, will "turn the sky orange" (ie raise an energy shield over the settlement) that will block out the harmful UV rays. By making his people build a temple he is buying time to work out how to turn on the device and prove himself a God when he "turns the sky orange" and saves them. He gets Carter to look at the device. |
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Meanwhile, the rest of SG-1 is informed by the boy who Sam resuced about Jonas' plan. Jackson and ] go off into the forest and find the second half of the device: it is actually one of two generators that bounce the energy between them, thus raising a shield over the valley. Jonas' one doesn't work, because both must be activated. |
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Later Jack plans to free Connor but then he is also captured. Hanson decides for the two being sent back through the ] - however he doesn't send the signal to deactivate the iris. They are all taken to the Stargate, which Hanson has put on its side, so that it faces upwards. After he had sent them through he plans to bury the gate. Before this plan can be carried out, however, Jackson arrives and tells the natives that Hanson is not a god. When the captain activates the device, nothing happens until ] activates the second one. The shield works, and the people of the planet understand that Hanson was an imposter, and that anyone could have turned the deviced on. In their fury, they throw him into the Stargate, killing him. |
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Later SG-1 and Connor return to Earth but Carter is troubled by the fact that she did not kill Hanson when she had the opportunity to do so. |
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==Quotes== |
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* Jackson: "This tastes like chicken..."<br />Carter: "So what's wrong with it?"<br />Jackson: "It's Macaroni and Cheese..." |
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:''The chicken is a reference to Daniel Jackson's comments about the taste of ] food in the Stargate film.'' |
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==Notes== |
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* The title refers to the ] ], the first of which is standardly accepted as "Do not worship false Gods." |
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* This episode sets up many of the strong themes throughout all seasons of SG-1, those of what it is to be a God, to deserve worship and reverence, and what it is to be a false God. |
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