While on a mission, Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) gets body-swapped with an ancient inventor Ma’chello (also Shanks), but that’s just the beginning of the problems . Ma’chello takes over Daniel’s body, and just uses it as an opportunity to take a reprieve from life, and travel around the city.

But when Teal’c (Christopher Judge) and O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) also swap with one another, it lets Anderson and Judge shine as they play one another’s characters.

Holiday was written by Tor Alexander Valenza and debuted on 5 February, 1999.

As O’Neill learns what it is like to exist as a Jaffa, and deal with junior inside him, Carter (Amanda Tapping) attempts to work with Daniel who is trapped in Ma’chello’s body, which may not last longer.

They’ll have to find Ma’chello, bring him back to Stargate Command, and figure out how to rotate everyone back into their proper bodies.

It’s a fun episode, there’s a ticking clock because Ma’chello’s body is dying, but there is a lot of enjoyment to be had as the actors get to deliver impersonations of one another, while honoring the characters, and the universe they inhabit.

This one was probably a lot of fun for the actors, as they got to portray their fellow actors and bring their quirks to life.

We also learn that Ma’chello has been fighting the goa’uld for a long time, and he defintiely needed a bit of a break. But refusing to go back, would cause problems for all the SGC. Happily with a little figuring, Carter and Daniel Jackson is able to get it all sorted.

Serpent’s Song sees the return of Apophis (Peter Williams) but not the way we’ve seen him before. Written by Katharyn Powers, this episode first debuted on 12 February, 1999.

When the SGC receives a tip from Tok’ra they go to investigate, and find Apophis escaping from another goa’uld system lord, the brutal and sadistic Sokar. Apophis has been tortured, and is sinking sanctuary.

O’Neill authorizes taking the goa’uld back to the SGC, but the unseen Sokar is in pursuit, and triggers a device that could cause the destruction of the Earth gate, and maybe more.

Daniel interrogates Apophis, taking his turn alongside O’Neill and Teal’c. Daniel threatens and argues with the dying Apophis, and the goa’uld’s host, over his missing wife, but Apophis will not be swayed. He demands a new host, revealing, finally he’s scared of dying.

Martouf (JR Bourne) of the Tok’ra is able to get to Earth, and advises that they turn Apophis over to Sokra, dead or alive.

When Apophis dies, they send his body through the gate, which stops Sokar’s assault, Martouf reveals that Apophis can be returned to life with the sarcophagus and tortured endlessly.

It’s a somber note to end the episode on, and all we really know that Sokar may be more of a threat than Apophis. It’s a big bad universe out there. Will SG-1 be able to keep Earth safe?

We are racing to the end of season two already, and man, I forgot how much I loved this show, and how expansive the universe is and will become.