SG-1 discovers an deactivated android, Reese (Danielle Nicolet) on a planet whose civilization has been destroyed. She may have the key to it, if Daniel (Michael Shanks) and Carter (Amanda Tapping) can only find a way to get answers from her.

On the planet, O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) and Teal’c (Christopher Judge) may already have an idea of what caused the planet’s fall, replicators…

Menace was written by Peter DeLuise from a story by James Tichenor. It first aired on 26 April, 2002.

As Hammond (Don S. Davis) and the team discuss Reese, who seems to have taken a shine to Daniel, things escalate when she makes him a gift… a Replicator! And he confronts her with her artificial nature.

Reese insists the replicators are just toys, tools, but when she feels those in Stargate Command no longer like her, she takes over the SGC with a number of the destructive ‘toys.’

Can Carter and Daniel find a way to shut her down? And will that shut down these replicators, or is the SGC in over its head?

The Replicators have shown themselves to be a dangerous, unstoppable enemy (almost like the Borg of the Stargate Universe), this doesn’t take that menace away from them, but it does hint that perhaps they were made for a different reason initially and have become the terror they are now.

And by bringing them into this episode, it reminds us that they are still out there, and pose a big threat to the safety of our heroes and the galaxy.

It’s fun. But if the team had done a little more investigation around the site where they found Reese they would have found evidence of the Replicators and maybe they wouldn’t have been in a rush to bring her to Earth.

And we see that O’Neill will make the tough call when he has to, and he’ll do it without pause.

The Sentinel was directed by Peter DeLuise, though he doesn’t show up in a cameo as far as I can tell. It was written by Ronald Wilkerson and was first broadcast on 3 May, 2022.

It seems some fake SG teams run by the NID have been causing havoc out there in the galaxy, and one of them has disassembled and reassembled a device known as the Sentinel. It’s a defence system that has kept a civilization safe from the Goa’uld.

SG-1 will have to deal with the planetary leader, Marul (Henry Gibson!), as well as two NID agents, Grieves (Frank Cassini) and Kershaw (Christina Cox) on death row, who were the ones who oversaw the Sentinel’s disassembly.

Can SG-1, with some help from the convicts get the Sentinel up and running again, and stop the Jaffa from overrunning the planet?

It’s a fairly standard episode, but much like the previous episode keeping the Replicator arc alive, this one keeps the NID thread going, and hey! Henry Gibson!

Next time we finish up season five!