At Stargate Command’s Alpha Site, problems are arising between the free Jaffa, Earth, and some newly arrived Tok’ra. Tensions that are raised when a naquadria bomb is discovered and suspects start dropping like flies.

Written and directed by Peter DeLuise, no time for a cameo though, this episode was first broadcast on 9 August, 2002.

Personality and culture clash causes everyone to distrust everyone else. O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) and Carter (Amanda Tapping) find themselves stuck in the middle despite being drawn to other sides.

Carter’s father, Jacob (Carmen Argenziano) is Tok’ra while Teal’c (Christopher Judge) is drawn to his fellow Jaffa, especially his mentor, Bra’tac (Tony Amendola) who is taken after an attack! And dead?!

Their enemy is invisible. But Carter has a plan to make them visible, and everyone else, Tok’ra, Jaffa, Earth, are going to have to cooperate and get along. And thankfully, Bra’tac survives!

And with his survival, and the death if their unseen enemy, the three groups are able to unite, hopefully once and for all, in their fight against their common enemy.

It’s a fairly basic story, one that’s been done before, but actually does a nice job of cementing some of the interplanetary politics that are at play in the Stargate Universe. It’s an interesting little story thread, and I’m glad the series takes the time to explore all of these little corners of the growing mythology.

And can you believe this is the first time Bra’tac and Jacob are in the same episode, sharing screentime?

Cure was written by Damian Kindler and first aired on 16 August, 2002.

Jonas Quinn (Corin Nemec) and the rest of SG1 head to a planet known as Pangar, the overture in a new diplomatic relationship and first contact with the people there.

The denizens of Pangar have recently discovered their stargate, and Goa’uld ruins. In return for knowledge of how to use the stargate, and access to some addresses, the Pangarans offer them a wonder drug, a cure that keeps them in perfect health.

This perfect health is tied to the gate addresses they want – Goa’uld held worlds. It seems the cure is created from symbiotes. The Pangarans hand a Goa’uld queen.

Can SG1 find a way to wean Pangar of the drug, and the use of symbiote? The Tok’ra show up to help, led by the extremely unlikable Malek (Peter Stebbings).

Things are complicated when it’s revealed that the queen the Pangarans have is actually the originator of the Tok’ra. Of course, they want her, and Panagar may not be willing to let her go.

As things unravel, things could get really bad for diplomacy and the team, not to mention their relations with Panagar.

It’s a solid episode, it’s nice that Jonas Quinn was a little more involved in this episode having been mostly sidelined for the previous tale. And already, we are already coming up on the mid-point of season six, and there are more changes coming for the season on the horizon.