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Stargate SG-1: Season Five
In the last exciting episode of Stargate SG-1: Season Four,
the SG-1 team were trapped in a damaged ship, floating in a far away
galaxy, as Apophis (Peter Williams) and his evil fleet of Goa'uld
ships were closing in. Eek! In Season Five's opener, a ship arrives to
help them out just in the nick of time (of course), but Teal'c
(Christopher Judge) is nabbed by Apophis and the team must battle to
save him. Season Five was chock-full of such derring-do, with the SG-1
gang engaging in Jaffa rituals, the System Lords fiddling with the
order of things by negotiating an alliance, those pesky Replicators
still scuttling about, Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) dying only to
be reborn as a higher being (allowing Shanks to leave the show and be
replaced by new cast member Corin Nemic) and "Star Trek"'s Q, John de
Lancie, popping in for a couple of episodes. Season highlights include
"The Fifthe Man," in which O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) fights
side-by-side with a soldier who, it turns out, doesn't really exist,
"Red Sky," with the SG-1 team visiting a world in which the Amish-like
inhabitants have been forsaken by the Asgard, "Beast of Burden," with
O'Neill and Daniel Jackson working to free the enslaved Unas and
threatening to bring a civil war to their home world, and the
hilarious "Wormhole X-treme!" (the show's 100th episode) which brings
back season three's Martin Lloyd, who's now working as a scriptwriter
for a sci-fi TV show whose plot is suspiciously like Stargate
SG-1. The now-obligatory season-ending cliffhanger finds Thor
kidnapped by Osiris, who's closing in on a top secret Asgard
laboratory. MGM's boxed set of Stargate SG-1: Season Five
includes all 22 episodes on five discs in crystal clear letterboxed
widescreen (1.78:1) with rich Dolby 2.0 Surround audio. Extras include
optional commentaries on each episode by directors and crew as well as
— finally — cast members, with Amanda Tapping offering
comments on "Ascension" and "Red Sky," and Christopher Judge yakking
on "Threshold." Also on board are short "video diaries" (each about
ten minutes long) by Tapping, Judge and Shanks, offering
behind-the-scenes looks at stunts, sets and more; "Inside the Tomb,"
(6 min.) with director Peter Deluise showing off one of the show's
more elaborate sets; and "Dr. Daniel Jackson: A Tribute," an homage to
fans' favorite now-he's gone, now-he's back, now-he's gone-again
character. Five keep-cases in a paperboard slipcase.
—Dawn Taylor
