This episode is unique from the others in the series as it seems to conclude the role of Daniel Jackson in the SG-1 team. In Season 1 at the start of the series, Daniel loses his wife to Apophis and strives to get her back to him which is his main objective in joining the SG-1 team. In this episode, he finds her, but ends up losing her for good. When you look over the episode from the start to the end, you realize that everything that happens in between was part of Daniel's dream. He has what is in essence, a dream within a dream. As his wife attacks him with a beam projecting into his head, he experiences what could be called future timelines that would have happened after his attack. During the dream experience, his wife is able to communicate to him her request for him to find and protect her baby created by the joining of two Go'auld hosts. At the end of the episode, she is killed by Teal'c who intervenes on her attack on Daniel. Daniel's dream allows him to avoid repeating the experiences in his dream and to focus on finding his wife's baby. The search will climax in the episode "Maternal Instinct" later in the season.
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Likeable
student_points12 March 2020
Goodbye Sha're
jmmw022 February 2024
Warning: Spoilers
In this episode Sha're communicates with Daniel through the Goa'uld hand device while her Goa'uld Amaunet is killing him. Teal'c saves him at the last moment and Daniel spends the rest of the episode processing her passing.
I think Sha're knew Teal'c was going to have to kill her so she used her last moments to help Daniel cope with her passing, forgive Teal'c and tell Daniel of the child.
I think with this interpretation it's actually quite a touching episode and moves the story along quite quickly. I must agree with the other reviews in which the Sha're story line felt as though it had stalled.
This interpretation has only occurred to me after several series watches.
I think Sha're knew Teal'c was going to have to kill her so she used her last moments to help Daniel cope with her passing, forgive Teal'c and tell Daniel of the child.
I think with this interpretation it's actually quite a touching episode and moves the story along quite quickly. I must agree with the other reviews in which the Sha're story line felt as though it had stalled.
This interpretation has only occurred to me after several series watches.
The Episode - Forever in a Day
AMysticSeer12 August 2006
Warning: Spoilers
Daniel Jackson resigns from the SGC!
Daniel experiences the possibility that his wife Sha're didn't die, she instead survived and had her symbiote removed. After, Daniel realizes that it was merely a dream, he gives his resignation letter.
The Letter reads: "I Daniel Jackson for reasons of a personal nature do hereby on this day give my notice of resignation from the STAR GATE project. I withdraw completely from all responsibility and knowledge of it; and do remove myself from any association with the Military as a Civilian Employee."
This episode is one of my personal favorites because it explores many possibilities of what could happen as a event is redone in someones mind.
Daniel experiences the possibility that his wife Sha're didn't die, she instead survived and had her symbiote removed. After, Daniel realizes that it was merely a dream, he gives his resignation letter.
The Letter reads: "I Daniel Jackson for reasons of a personal nature do hereby on this day give my notice of resignation from the STAR GATE project. I withdraw completely from all responsibility and knowledge of it; and do remove myself from any association with the Military as a Civilian Employee."
This episode is one of my personal favorites because it explores many possibilities of what could happen as a event is redone in someones mind.
Unexpected
Calicodreamin31 January 2022
Definition of Harsesis
Parfyc17 December 2007
Warning: Spoilers
In this episode, the writers introduce and define the term 'Harsesis'.
Dr. Daniel Jackson finds out Sha're's son is Harsesis.
Harsesis is a child of 2 Goa'uld hosts.
This child holds all the secrets of the Goa'uld.
The genetic memory that the Goa'uld have in their DNA is passed down to their human offspring.
Because of this, Haresis child are hunted down and killed by the Goa'uld.
This Harsesis child, (yet to be named), is the son of the Goa'ulds Sha're / Amaunet and Apophis.
Dr. Daniel Jackson finds out Sha're's son is Harsesis.
Harsesis is a child of 2 Goa'uld hosts.
This child holds all the secrets of the Goa'uld.
The genetic memory that the Goa'uld have in their DNA is passed down to their human offspring.
Because of this, Haresis child are hunted down and killed by the Goa'uld.
This Harsesis child, (yet to be named), is the son of the Goa'ulds Sha're / Amaunet and Apophis.
Strange reviews for such an emotional episode
jbnwf16 December 2023
I noticed a lot of reviews are mostly technical, and criticize the content and the plot. Not sure why. It was all relevant to future episodes. The "setup", so to speak.
For me honestly, the entire episode brought me to tears. (Several times.) Sha're is gone, and Daniel has to go though a lot of emotional turmoil, nightmares, and has to finally make a decision about carrying on without her. It was very moving.
Excellent sci-fi productions need to have an episode like this once in a while. You can't have it nerdy technical all the time. Or it would get boring and tedious, and viewers would lose interest. There are many examples of great sci-fi shows (that need not me mentioned) that only lasted 2 or 3 seasons, simply because they didn't break away from the monotony of technical jargon and overly detailed plot ideas once in a while. (As in, can't get the point across in 3-4 lines, and you have to keep rewinding/replaying a scene to understand it.)
In order for a series to succeed and endure for several seasons, the "human element" must be retained. And this episode certainly did that here.
For me honestly, the entire episode brought me to tears. (Several times.) Sha're is gone, and Daniel has to go though a lot of emotional turmoil, nightmares, and has to finally make a decision about carrying on without her. It was very moving.
Excellent sci-fi productions need to have an episode like this once in a while. You can't have it nerdy technical all the time. Or it would get boring and tedious, and viewers would lose interest. There are many examples of great sci-fi shows (that need not me mentioned) that only lasted 2 or 3 seasons, simply because they didn't break away from the monotony of technical jargon and overly detailed plot ideas once in a while. (As in, can't get the point across in 3-4 lines, and you have to keep rewinding/replaying a scene to understand it.)
In order for a series to succeed and endure for several seasons, the "human element" must be retained. And this episode certainly did that here.
Maybe the Worst Episode so far
claudio_carvalho18 January 2016
The SG-1 and the SG-3 travel to a planet to rescue a group of Abydonian slaves including Kasuf. They are attacked by a Jaffa army while Daniel tries to rescue his son from Sha're in a tent. But she attacks him with a powerful weapon in her arm and Teal'c saves him shooting Sha're. When Daniel wakes up in the SGC infirmary, her learns that Sha're is dead and he blames Teal'c for her death. Then Daniel sleep and when he wakes up, he sees Sha're talking to him in the infirmary. What is happening to Daniel?
"Forever in a Day" is a complete mess and maybe the worst episode so far of "Stargate SG-1". The situation of Daniel Jackson living the same day many times with different alternatives is totally boring. My vote is three.
Title (Brazil): "Forever in a Day"
"Forever in a Day" is a complete mess and maybe the worst episode so far of "Stargate SG-1". The situation of Daniel Jackson living the same day many times with different alternatives is totally boring. My vote is three.
Title (Brazil): "Forever in a Day"
Huh?
acharrell22 December 2020
Warning: Spoilers
So, if the end part when he re-joins SG1 was all in Daniel's head then why do we still see Jack and Sam and Teal'c after Daniel leaves them through the Stargate? This episode was a mess, and it's pretty disappointing that after everything Sha're is killed. Pretty crappy way to end that for Daniel's character.
What a mess.
mars3750-511-85237514 July 2022
This episode is so disjointed. It doesn't even gain anything by being this way either. It feels very much like they needed to wrap up this storyline and were trying to be creative with the storytelling. But also that they didn't know how to do it.
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