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SG1 encounters slavery by humans of aliens that were previously feared. Jack Baruzzini, Fr. Cory Sticha, and Victor Lams discuss the story’s nuances and shortcomings in its exploration of the morality and the dignity of sentient species.

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Adolescence among aliens. Jack Baruzzini, Lisa Jones, Fr. Cory Sticha, and Victor Lams discuss the return of Cassandra, the mother-daughter teen dynamic, and the growth of the characters’ lives beyond offworld missions.

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The power of prayer? Jack Baruzzini, Lisa Jones, Fr. Cory Sticha, and Victor Lams discuss this story of impending doom, religious extremism, simple faith, and a drive to help even when it’s not appreciated.

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Saving Lt. Tyler! Jack Baruzzini, Lisa Jones, Fr. Cory Sticha, and Victor Lams ask if the show has gone to the well of “deceptive alien influence” too often. Plus the always fun to watch John deLancie and fine performance by Dion Johnstone.

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Cool space weapon! But creepy space boyfriend. Jack Baruzzini, Lisa Jones, Fr. Cory Sticha, and Victor Lams discuss Orlan, who’s either real creepy or the least manipulative of Carter’s boyfriends, depending on who you ask.

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How Teal’c became Teal’c. Jack Baruzzini, Lisa Jones, Fr. Cory Sticha, and Victor Lams discuss this story that walks us through Teal’c’s journey from Jaffa to First Prime to Shol’va and SG. How does one learn to betray his false god?

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Replicators and Go’auld and traitors, oh my! Jack Baruzzini, Lisa Jones, Fr. Cory Sticha, and Victor Lams discuss the fun action, the farewell to a longtime nemesis, betrayal, and the possibilities if the show had gone in a different direction.

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Wrapping up season 4, Jack Baruzzini, Fr. Cory Sticha, Lisa Jones, and Victor Lams discuss the season finale, with its grand spectacle and big cliffhanger, plus Teal’c talking to Daniel about their desires for revenge.

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Comtreya again! Jack Baruzzini, Lisa Jones, Fr. Cory Sticha, and Victor Lams discuss the return of the replicants, whether the duplicates are real people, and how roboJack became a real boy.

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When you set aside the computer-related ridiculousness, Fr. Cory Sticha, Lisa Jones, Victor Lams, and Jack Baruzzini agree that this “bottle” episode gave the actors room to explore their characters beyond the usual.

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Planet of the angry Tinkerbells! Fr. Cory Sticha, Lisa Jones, and Victor Lams discuss an episode that is better then they remembered, where SG1 has to deal with some brainy scientist types whose arrogance get them in trouble, including a Carter cadet clone.

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Don’t do drugs, kids! Fr. Cory Sticha, Lisa Jones, and Victor Lams discuss this story where the SG team gets addicted to a Goa’uld device with an involuntary rehab on an alien planet and a lonely alien child with a message worthy of an after-school special.

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If you had absolute power, could you still be a good person? Fr. Cory Sticha, Lisa Jones, and Victor Lams discuss this story that illustrates that you can’t use evil means to bring about a good end and absolute power tends to corrupt.

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Ten years in their future (and 12 years in our past)! Fr. Cory Sticha, Lisa Jones, and Victor Lams look at this episode that examines a dystopian possible future for our SG team and their time travel efforts to stop it.

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Intrigue! Fr. Cory Sticha, Lisa Jones, and Victor Lams discuss the O’Neill/Maybourne friendship; everyone’s favorite villain Kinsey, and the clueless general who nearly destroys earth with his blundering about.

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False gods and minefields! Fr. Cory Sticha, Lisa Jones, and Victor Lams discuss apostasy, converts, and reverts among the worshippers of the Goa’uld; tricky minefields; and counting from zero.

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Another Daniel love interest goes Goa’uld. Fr. Cory Sticha, Lisa Jones, and Victor Lams discuss this story that dives deep into Daniel’s backstory and introduces a new villain in Osiris.

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Cheyenne, we have a problem. Fr. Cory Sticha, Lisa Jones, and Victor Lams discuss Jack and Teal’c’s misadventure in a former Goa’uld ship, including the many references to other space scifi, the comedy and drama, especially in facing death.

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Sometimes conspiracy theories are real! Fr. Cory Sticha, Lisa Jones, and Victor Lams discuss the story featuring Martin Lloyd, a man who thinks aliens are real and yet knows things about the Stargate; plus the real world theories that the Stargate show was itself disinformation.

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Amnesia! Fr. Cory Sticha, Lisa Jones, and Victor Lams dioscuss whether this is a classic SG-1 story with a scifi premise built around the relationships in the team or it’s yet another amnesia episode recycling old scifi tropes.