The Gamekeeper

Episode aired Jul 17, 1998
TV-PG
44m

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

1.4K

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Exploring a strange and beautiful garden, SG-1 comes across a dome containing a race that are connected to machines. The team are captured by the machines and rendered unconscious, but awake... Read allExploring a strange and beautiful garden, SG-1 comes across a dome containing a race that are connected to machines. The team are captured by the machines and rendered unconscious, but awake to find themselves reliving pivotal moments of their lives, over and over again. Then the... Read allExploring a strange and beautiful garden, SG-1 comes across a dome containing a race that are connected to machines. The team are captured by the machines and rendered unconscious, but awake to find themselves reliving pivotal moments of their lives, over and over again. Then they discover it is virtual reality and a mysterious keeper appears to persuade them to try d... Read all

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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

1.4K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
In the opening scene, Daniel said the dome looks pretty advanced. Bloedel Conservatory and Aviary in Vancouver was built for the Canadian Centennial in 1967. It has been a filming location for Battlestar Galactica (2004), Fringe (2008), Andromeda (2000), Supergirl (2015) and others.

Goofs
When the museum exhibit collapses, some of the "stone" pillars flex and bend.

Quotes
Jack O'Neill: Um, General. Without meaning - this time - to sound like... a smartass... are you cracked?

Connections
Featured in Stargate SG-1: Threshold (2001)

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Written by Joel Goldsmith and David Arnold

User reviews9

Review

Featured review

8/10

Good Yarn

I thought this was a fun episode. Dwight Shultz provides his typically brilliant, typically comedic theatrical style to the Keeper character.

Star Trek TNG and Star Trek Voyager fans will immediately recognize and appreciate his unique style.

This episode also provides another angle to time, in which the SG-1 team experiences traumatic episodes from their history over and over again. It's kind of like a first-person reality video game, in which the player fails in a mission and gets to reload and try again.

This is good storytelling. It's well acted and well written. I think it's one of the better episodes in Season 2, even if it does take a while for the story to "get there."