Carter (Amanda Tapping) is kidnapped by a medical team that has recovered a Goa’uld from the Russians, and O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson), Daniel (Micheal Shanks) and Teal’c (Christopher Judge) are racing against the clock to find her.

Desperate Measures was written by Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie and it first debuted on 7 September, 2001.

Despite being drugged, Carter does what she can to survive, and find a way to escape. O’Neill runs down Maybourne (Tom McBeath) and Simmons (John de Lancie) to find her. But could Maybourne and his people be behind it?

It seems the doctors are hoping to heal an oligarch, Adrian Conrad (Bill Marchant) with the Goa’uld by letting the alien take him over. They need Carter to tell them how to get it out after the man has been healed.

Of course, things are not going to be that easy.

As the implantation goes ahead, O’Neill is able to track them down and work to stage an assault to break into a locked-down hospital and rescue Carter before Conrad’s doctors go too far!

It’s a fun little thriller of an episode, low on visual effects, which probably helped save a bundle on the budget, and it shows that there are parties that know about the Stargate program despite its secrecy, and in typical capitalistic fashion are looking for a way to exploit it.

The episode sets up some governmental threats, Simmons continues to be a tool, and honestly, it’s fun seeing SG-1 execute some military tactics.

Wormhole X-Treme! is just damned fun.

The series is 100 episodes in, and it’s time to celebrate!

Written by Mallozzi and Mullie from a story by them and Brad Wright, this hoot of a tale premiered on 8 September, 2001.

A ship is on its way to Earth, and Stargate Command believes that Martin (Willie Garson) and his fellow aliens may be responsible for it. O’Neill is sent to talk to Martin, who is now a producer on a show called Wormhole X-Treme! that seems to be a lot like SG-1.

O’Neill is assigned as military consultant, and starts sniffing around, and this allows for tons of in-jokes, cameos and little jabs at the tropes of the series.

Martin insists that he has no memory of what O’Neill is talking about. While Teal’c works craft services, Daniel and Carter run afoul of Martin’s cohorts and the NID.

This one is just a delight, and shows, once again, that Stargate can be really, really funny, but also tell an engaging story. This one is right up there with Window of Opportunity as one of my favorite episodes, and it’s so much fun to see that the show doesn’t take itself incredibly seriously, and that it can help poke fun at itself.

Let’s buckle up and see where the franchise goes from here!