Terry Curtis Fox pens Rules of Engagement which first debuted on 19 August, 1999.

When SG-1 arrives on a distant world they find another SG team under assault by jaffa. But it’s not a real SG team, and they turn their weapons on O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson), Teal’c (Christopher Judge), Daniel (Micheal Shanks), and Carter (Amanda Tapping).

Stunned, they are confused when they wake, but soon learn that these SG teams are actually put together by Apophis (Peter Williams) in an attempt to infiltrate Stargate Command. They have to convince these jaffa that Apophis is dead, and that their plan will fail.

The groups are still prepared to carry on with their wargames training, and some of them are armed with actual weapons, not the stun versions they are supposed to carry. When one of them is injured, the team brings him back to the SGC to heal him, and hopefully find a way to convince the jaffa of the truth.

O’Neill comes up with the plan to go into the wargames, and take all the players down with the stun weapons they have, recover their own weapons, and perhaps save some innocent lives by broadcasting Apophis on his death bed.

The action beats are solid, and this makes for an entertaining episode allowing O’Neill and SG-1 to exhibit their military training, something they don’t always get to do in the show. I quite enjoyed this one.

Forever in a Day sees Daniel finding Sha’re (Vaitaire Hirshon), or at least the Goa’uld using her, but he can’t bring himself to shoot her. Somthing Teal’c does instead.

Written by one of the showrunners Jonathan Glassner, this episode was first aired on 8 October, 1999.

Awakening in the SGC, Daniel clings to the belief that Shar’e could have survived, but has trouble forgiving Teal’c. Even her father, Kasuf (Erick Avari) understands what had to be done. Soon Daniel begins having visions of Sha’re.

It’s pretty apparent that Daniel is being held by the Goa’uld ribbon device used by Amaunet who is controlling Sha’re. Sha’re, in turn is trying to communicate with Daniel through the device all in the one moment that his life is hanging in the balance. She wants to tell him about the child.

Daniel, living this dream, quits the SGC, now that the search for his wife is over. But it’s all to help him come to terms with the loss of his wife, and the fact that Teal’c killed her. Maybe he’ll be able to forgive his friend for doing the right thing.

It’s a solid episode and one that ties up the Sha’re/Daniel Jackson storyline, which needed to be taken care of, and allow the character and the narrative to move forward. Will they go looking for the boy, is this the start of a new narrative arc for Jackson?