Stargate SG-1/Enigma

Enigma
Season 1, Episode 17
Airdate	January 30, 1998
Written by	Katharyn Powers
Directed by	William Gereghty
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Stargate SG-1 — Season One

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Enigma is the seventeenth episode of the first season of Stargate SG-1.

Richard Dean Anderson (Colonel Jack O'Neill), Michael Shanks (Dr. Daniel Jackson), Amanda Tapping (Captain Samantha Carter), Christopher Judge (Teal'c), Don S. Davis (Major General George S. Hammond)

Tobin Bell (Omoc), Garwin Sanford (Narim), Tom McBeath (Colonel Harry Maybourne), Gerard Plunkett (Tuplo)

Gary Jones (Technician), Frida Betrani (Lya), Tracy Westerholm (Airwoman), Woody Jeffreys (Guard)

Plot Overview

O'Neill and the SG-1 team arrive on the planet Tollan to find a scene of chaos and death. A volcano is erupting, spewing choking ash and burning lava, and bodies litter the ground around the stargate. The team gathers up a few survivors and returns through the gate to Earth. The Tollans, however, are not grateful for being rescued. Their leader, Omoc, dismisses human society as primitive, refuses to answer any questions about his planet's highly advanced technology, and demands to be relocated to a similarly advanced world. Narim, another Tollan, reveals the reason for Omoc's suspicion. Years earlier, Omoc's father shared the Tollan technology with a civilization like Earth's, setting off a war that destroyed the more primitive planet and destabilized Tollan. With military intelligence sniffing around and threatening to put the Tollans to work on weapons systems, Earth seems to be heading down the same path. Having saved the Tollans from death, the SG-1 team must risk court-martial to save them from slavery and to save Earth from self-destruction.

Notes

• Syndication airdate: February 15, 1999.
• This is the first of several episodes to feature the Tollans.
• Tollana was designated as P3X-7763.

Trivia

The Show

• The Tollan:

The Tollan are a very technologically advanced race and are capable of altering the molecular structure of matter. They shared their knowledge with a neighboring planet, Sarita, but it resulted in a man-made disaster which led to the destruction of their planet. The man-made disaster on the neighboring planet, Sarita, causing its orbital instability leading to environmental changes, and eventual intense volcanic activity on Tollan. It is unknown if Tollan was destroyed by the volcanic activity.

Allusions and References

• Schrodinger's Cat:

Physicist Erwin Schrodinger theorized that a cat in a box with a can of poison gas activated by the decay of a radioactive atom would, at any one instant, be both dead and alive at the same time.

Quotes

• Jack: General Hammond, request permission to beat the crap out of this man.