After SG-1 encounters the strange and eccentric Harlan (Jay Brazeau) they return to Earth, better, but discover that despite their memories and personalities, they aren’t human… they’re androids?

Tin Man was written by Jeff King and debuted on 13 February, 1998.

When they begin to falter at Stargate Command, they have to return to the distant planet to recover, even while Hammond (Don S. Davis) and Frasier (Teryl Rothery) try to understand what happened.

Harlan transferred their consciousness to synthetic beings, and it allows each character to reveal a little of who they are, and how they deal with things. O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) is angry and wants to be restored to his prior state, though Harlan says that can’t be done.

Teal’c (Christopher Judge) no longer carries a goa’uld hatchling, and it seems to be having an adverse effect on him, and Carter (Amanda Tapping) and Jackson (Michael Shanks) are able to look at things from a scientific perspective though neither is keen to stay like this.

As Harlan reveals his story, things are revealed about his sad existence, but when Teal’c turns homicidal the complete truth is revealed, including the fact that their bodies are still alive and that they are nothing more than copies, and have to come to terms with who and what they are, and what that means for them, and their originals.

It’s a solid episode that could have been really goofy, but is handled really well, and raises lots of questions about self. And hey, that means there’s another SG-1 team out there now, somewhere… will we see them again?

There But for the Grace of God gives us an alternate universe story. Written by Robert C. Cooper from a story by David Kemper, this episode was first broadcast on 20 February, 1998.

While SG-1 investigates a strange planet, that Teal’c warns them must be left immediately, Daniel Jackson makes the mistake of touching a strange mirror that is activated by a handheld device. Without realizing it, he finds himself in an alternate reality, with some familiar faces but in some strange roles.

Finding himself alone, he returns to the SGC, and he encounters a Colonel Hammond who wants to know who he is! And that’s just the first reveal. O’Neill is general and in charge (and Anderson is letting his grey come through), Catherine Langford (Elizabeth Hoffman) works for the SGC, Carter is a doctor of astrophysics, and Teal’c still serves Apophis.

And there’s a war going on. After the Abydos mission, the goa’uld have launched an all-out assault on Earth. And thanks to Daniel sharing information with this version of the SGC, they are going to send a bomb through to Chulac.

After the attack the gate is kept engaged by the goa’uld as the attacks on Earth continue, even as Jackson tries to figure out how to make an escape back to his own reality with the information he’s learned about the goa’uld home world and their attack.

The SGC in this alternate reality sacrifice themselves so that Daniel can get to the quantum mirror and return to his reality with the warning that they are coming…

Next time, we finish season one of Stargate SG-1!