Series creators Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie penned Awakening, which first aired on 12 October, 2010.

The object the Destiny was headed towards at the end of the last episode? An almost identical ship. The ships connect, without any help of the Destiny crew, and begin information dumps. But the other ship is entirely empty.

They discover a hold filled with gates, and they are also not alone on the ship. Something has woken and gotten out of a pod.

Some of the crew believe that there may be enough power between the two ships to power the gate to Earth.

Meanwhile, the Lucian Alliance prisoners are asking Young (Louis Ferreira) to set them free to become part of the crew, and help. But he is reticent.

There are more character narratives developing and each of the characters are getting their moments to shine. It is cool to see Young and Telford (Lou Diamond Phillips) getting along, and Rush (Robert Carlyle) is still keeping secrets about the Destiny and what he’s learned.

When the strange alien collapses, Telford, and TJ (Alaina Huffman) investigate. Unfortunately, there are more of them than initially thought…

The crew need to disconnect from the seed ship, something that Rush does from Destiny’s bridge. But it traps Telford on the seed ship.

And the revived aliens, whoever they are… are there as well.

Will we see Telford again?

I like this episode. Once again, there is a lot going on. There are changes in narrative, characters are evolving and growing, and we now have a new alien species in the franchise.

Pathogen was directed by Carlyle from a script by Carl Binder. It debuted on 19 October, 2010.

Eli (David Blue) uses the communication stones to race to his mother’s (Glynnis Davis) side. She’s ill and depressed, and her health is declining. He has to decide whether or not to ell her what is really going on, even if it means violating regulations.

Camille (Ming-Na Wen) also goes home to see Sharon (Reiko Aylesworth), but things seem off.

And Chloe (Elyse Levesque) seems to be behaving oddly, both Eli and Scott (Brian J. Smith) are concerned for her, but Scott isn’t prepared for what he finds in her journal. What is going on with her? Is she changing?

And Rush, he keeps experimenting with the Destiny’s contols, and still interacting with the ghosts in his imagination, particularly, his late wife, Gloria (Louise Lombard). And people are beginning to suspect something.

And what happens when members of the Lucian Alliance try to integrate with the Destiny crew? And will the ancient chair be able to help her or hurt her? Can Rush help? There is so much going on with characters in this one. It’s really well done.

Carlyle proves he’s an able director, getting wonderful performances from his fellow cast-mates, and Blue really gets to shine in this. This is a solid episode, and once again illustrates that it’s a completely different kind of Stargate when compared to what we’ve seen before.