When SG-1 learns of an imminent Goa’uld attack, O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) authorizes the team to go and rescue Harry Maybourne (Tom McBeath) from his exile.

Written by Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie from a story they created with Michael Greenburg and Peter DeLuise, It’s Good to Be King first debuted on 4 February, 2005.

Carter (Amanda Tapping), Teal’c (Christopher Judge) and Daniel (Michael Shanks) are shocked to find that Maybourne has installed himself as king in a medieval era civilization. He holds his power with prophecy and predictions, all of which he gets from a column covered in Ancient writing.

The team discovers a puddlejumper (though they don’t know it’s called that) that may have been used by one of the Ancients to travel through time, and catalog the civilization’s past and future.

To activate the puddlejumper, they need someone with the Ancient gene, so O’Neill does his first off-worlding in quite some time. And he can’t let the puddlejumper fall into Goa’uld hands.

Things will get complicated when the Goa’uld in the form of Trelak (Wayne Brady) arrive, and Maybourne has plans of his own. Despite the fact that O’Neill doesn’t believe or trust Maybourne, he wants to do right by his people.

Will SG-1 be able to stop First Prime Trelak, and make sure the puddlejumper is destroyed, or at least safely away from the Goa’uld?

As an aside, it’s fun to see Anderson and McBeath riff on one another. Maybourne gets a nice send-off, and perhaps that will be the last we see of him.

And speaking of continuity and narrative threads Full Alert works on that as well. Written by Mallozzi and Mullie, it debuted on 11 February, 2005.

O’Neill is troubled to discover ex-Vice President Kinsey (Ronny Cox) in his home. Kinsey it seems has learned that The Trust (they used to be the NID) may be concocting a plan for the Russians to reclaim the Stargate they lent Stargate Command.

But that’s only the tip of the iceberg for the Trust. To find out what is going on, and possibly get into the government’s good graces, O’Neill uses Kinsey to be his insider in The Trust.

Outfitted with a wire and a camera, Kinsey goes undercover to learn what is going on, and how much of a threat The Trust is to the government and the SGC. But things don’t go as planned. The surveillance signal is jammed and the Trust and Kinsey are beamed away to…?

Daniel has to be diplomatic and go deal with the Russians while Carter, Teal’c and the Prometheus attempt to find Kinsey. Things get complicated real fast, Chekov (Garry Chalk) comes to see O’Neill, Daniel gets grabbed by the Russian military and hit with a shock…

Is Kinsey a Goa’uld?

Who in each government can be trusted? Is The Trust under Goa’uld control?

The Kinsey Goa’uld is lying to the Russians to push conflict between Russian and American forces. Is there an easy way out? It’s going to come right down to the wire and wraps up Kinsey’s storyline.

Having said that, I wasn’t completely engaged in this episode. It was okay, but I didn’t love it. I did like that in the past two episodes we’ve seen more of O’Neill than we have in awhile.