The penultimate episode of season two gives us a little bit of time travel. Written by Brad Wright, one of the showrunners, 1969 first aired on 5 March, 1999.

Carter (Amanda Tapping) is updating a gate’s address, working to account for solar gravity, and General Hammond (Don S. Davis) gives Carter a note without a real explanation.

When she, O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson), Jackson (Michael Shanks) and Teal’c (Christopher Judge) step through the gate, they step back out into the Cheyenne Mountain complex, but it’s no longer Stargate Command, or it isn’t yet. SG-1 is in 1969.

They escape the base with some help from Hammond’s younger self (Aaron Pearl), courtesy of the note he wrote for himself in the future.

Looking for a way to get back to their own time, with Hammond’s cryptic note in hand, the team travels with a pair of hippies. They are headed for New York, as Daniel figures their best option is to track down Catherine Langford (Glynis Davies) who may know where the gate is.

And Carter realizes that the times in Hammond’s note are the times of the next solar flares that could help send them back to their own time.

It’s a light-hearted episode, and it’s a lot of fun. It makes for an enjoyable break from all the goa’uld storylines. While those serve as the driving force for the series right now, sometimes you need a break, and this one serves it up nicely, and also gives us a nice breather before plunging us into the season finale.

Out of Mind wraps up the season, and sets things up for the next one, which means you know there’s a To Be Continued at the episode’s close.

It’s also a clip-heavy show, which as anyone whose visited the blog knows I’m not a big fan of. The episode’s narrative tissue written by the other showrunner Jonathan Glassner from a story he concocted with Brad Wright, season two ended on 12 March, 1999.

Colonel Jack O’Neill awakens in what he is told is seventy-nine years in the future. Stargate Command has changed, with most things overseen by Major General Trofsky (Tom Butler), Trofsky and Dr. Raully(Samantha Ferris) work to get him adapted to the year 2077 as the sole survivor of SG-1.

In their debriefs, they are hoping to get information about Earth’s plans for the war with the goa’uld.

In other sections of the same base, Daniel Jackson and Samantha Carter are being told, separately, that they are the sole survivors of SG-1, and they are being asked for information as well. We get lots of clips, even as everyone begins to suspect that there’s more going here.

Teal’c is the only one who wakes up in the real SGC, he’s been in a coma for three weeks, watched over by Fraiser (Teryl Rothery). He’s determined to go after SG-1, but Hammond refuses to let him go. Since the two of them can’t agree, Teal’c quits the SGC, and returns home to Chulak.

O’Neill is able to escape his room, only to discover he’s on a goa’uld mothership, and find his teammates. But they may not be able to find a way out because it’s all a gambit, organized by Hathor (Suanne Braun), who is attempting to probe the minds of SG-1 to find ways to beat and conquer Earth, and what plans and defenses they have to fight the goa’uld.

She’s building her forces, and working to get all the info she can to beat the other system lords, and now that she’s been revealed, she holds their lives in her hands and plans to infect one of them with a goa’uld that is ready for implantation!

Which gives us a To Be Continued!!! Good thing I’ve got season three ready to go.