The Enemy Within (1 Aug. 1997)

The team, now designated SG-1 (there will be nine exploration teams in all) are planning their next foray through the gate as they try map out the variety of sites available to them and ... See full summary »

Director:

Dennis Berry

Writers:

Brad Wright (developed for television by), Jonathan Glassner (developed for television by),

Stars:

Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping

Cast

Episode cast overview:
Richard Dean Anderson	...	Colonel Jack O'Neill
Michael Shanks	...	Dr. Daniel Jackson
Amanda Tapping	...	Captain Samantha Carter
Christopher Judge	...	Teal'c
Don S. Davis	...	Major General George Hammond
Jay Acovone	...	Major Charles Kawalsky
Kevin McNulty	...	Dr. Warner
Gary Jones	...	Sgt. Walter Harriman
Alan Rachins	...	Colonel Kennedy
Warren Takeuchi	...	Young Doctor

Storyline

The team, now designated SG-1 (there will be nine exploration teams in all) are planning their next foray through the gate as they try map out the variety of sites available to them and locate their missing friends. O'Neill asks that Teal'c be allowed to join his team but Gen. Hammond thinks that will be unlikely given that he is the host for a Goa'uld. Unbeknown to anyone however is that O'Neill's close friend, Maj. Charles Kawalsky, leader of SG-2, has been infected by a Goa'uld, an immature version that has not yet taken complete control of the host. Kawalsky is having regular blackouts during which the Goa'uld is trying to return to the gate. An MRI reveals what is wrong but it's unlikely the creature that has fused itself to Kawalsky's spine can be surgically removed. Meanwhile, Col. Kennedy arrives to question Teal'c who has pledged his loyalty to his new world.

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

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Details

Release Date:

1 August 1997 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bridge Studios, The, MGM Worldwide Television Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Did You Know?

Trivia

There is a scene in which Kawalsky is given a medical scan with his head inside a large ring device - approximately 6ft x 6ft x 2ft. This device is a real medical tomographic device manufactured in the early 1990s in Knoxville TN, USA. This device is a PET (positron emission tomography) medical imaging device - likely a model 953. As the radioisotope undergoes positron emission decay (also known as positive beta decay), it emits a positron, an antiparticle of the electron with opposite charge. Such equipment can actually show unusual biological activity in the body as a 3D volume image. At the same time the 3D medical images in the next scene showing the parasite wrapped around Kawalsky's neck vertebra are at least partly made-up computer animation.

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Goofs

The second doctor ordered an MRI; however, the machine used was a CT (CAT) scan.

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Quotes

Jack O'Neill: Permission to barge in, sir?

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Connections

References The Wizard of Oz (1939)

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Soundtracks

"Main Title"
Composed by David Arnold and Joel Goldsmith

User Reviews

A dark episode

In this sad and dark entry, Teal'c's character and background is further developed. He's nothing if not stoic and unemotional – but not wooden, oddly. General Hammond will not grant O'Neill's request that Teal'c be allowed to join his SG-1 team. Air Force higher ups want to study Teal'c since he is the first alien they have captured. We know from the pilot episode that Major Kawalsy has been invaded by a Goa'uld and in this episode after suffering terrible headaches and blackouts, the doctors discover this and decide to undertake a very risky operation to remove the alien. There is a touching scene between O'Neill and Kawalsy just prior to the operation. One thing that was somewhat amusing (I am a bit ashamed to say) was when the aliens trying to breach the door of the star gate made a sound like a splat and the nonchalant reaction of those who witnessed (heard) it.