Stargate SG-1/Politics (1)

Politics (1)
Season 1, Episode 21
Airdate	February 27, 1998
Written by	Brad Wright Excerpts by Jonathan Glassner & Brad Wright, Hart Hanson, Jeff King, Robert C. Cooper, Brad Wright, Jonathan Glassner, Steven Barnes, Katharyn Powers
Directed by	Martin Wood
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Stargate SG-1 — Season One

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Politics (1) is the twenty-first 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)

Ronny Cox (Senator Robert Kinsey), Robert Wisden (Lt. Colonel Bert Samuels)

"CHILDREN OF THE GODS" & "THE NOX" Excerpts Starring: Peter Williams (Apophis)

Plot Overview

Having escaped marauding Goa'ulds in another Earth reality, Daniel Jackson warns that it is only a matter of time before they launch an attack in this one. But, the Stargate program faces a more immediate threat - - this from Senator Kinsey, powerful Chairman of the Appropriations Committee and the man who oversees Stargate's multi-billion dollar budget. Kinsey sees the program as a wasteful fat cat with dubious goals and he vows to shut it down. As he reviews the past missions with Hammond, O'Neill and the SG-1 team, he dismisses the danger presented by the Goa'uld, despite warnings from Teal'c of their power. Even Daniel's desperate warning of an imminent attack won't sway the Senator, who is determined to bury the gate and put the program out of business.

Arc Advancement

Characters

• Major Samuels has been promoted to Lt. Colonel and transferred to the Pentagon for Stargate Mission Analysis.

Trivia

The Show

• Syndication airdate: May 10, 1999.

• The full name of the Zat gun is spelled "Zat'n'ktel".

• The SGC is an unofficial project. It has been designated by the Pentagon as "Area 52", it costs $7.4 billion per year to operate the facility.

• SG-2 had returned to Argos and found that the people of Argos are living free of the nanocytes and leading long healthy & productive lives.

• This is the only episode to be based entirely within the SGC.

• The show's first clip show episode.

Allusions and References

• Daniel: "Oh, you're right. We'll just upload a virus into their mothership."

This is, of course, a reference to the movie Independence Day where Jeff Goldblum's character comes up with an idea of uploading a virus into the enemy mothership which would in turn disable the shields on all of their ships. The reference may be a nod to the fact that Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich wrote both Independence Day and the Stargate film the series is based on.

Quotes

• Hammond: It costs nearly a billion dollars just to turn the lights on around here.

Jack: How about a bake sale? Yard sale? Garage...?

Hammond: This is what I look like when I'm not laughing, Colonel.

Jack: Car wash?