11 Point of No Return
9/8/00
SG-1 responds to an incoming wormhole with their ally Bra'tac's signal. Instead of Bra'tac, they greet Shan'auc, who tells them that she has come on behalf of Bra'tac.Teal'c goes to Shan'auc and it is immediately evident to all that the two share chemistry and history. Shan'auc claims to have discovered a way to communicate with her symbiote, and it, in turn, has shared memories with her. These memories, she believes, could be the means to defeat the Goa'uld.Shan'auc claims that through their communications, she has convinced her symbiote that the Goa'uld are evil. The symbiote is prepared to tell all it knows to the Tok'ra. Teal'c is skeptical of Shan'auc's claim — until he, himself, shares a memory with his symbiote.The Tok'ra agree that Shan'auc's symbiote is of great value, and they find a willing host for it. Will the symbiote continue to tell its secrets and offer a method to defeat the Goa'uld — or has it cleverly deceived Shan'auc, SG-1 and the Tok'ra into letting it inside their defenses?While exploring planet P4X-639, the SG-1 team meets Malikai, a human explorer from another world who shares Dr. Daniel Jackson's interest in an alien computer covered in a strange Latin-like script.As solar flares flash from the red sun overhead, Malikai warns Daniel that the geomagnetic disturbance may be dangerous to the SG-1 team and tells him to leave. When Daniel ignores him, Malikai zaps him with a weapon and begins to program the alien computer.Maj. Samantha Carter and Teal'c rush to Daniel's aid and are caught, with Malikai, in a mysterious blue light. Suddenly, they find themselves back at Stargate Command, ten hours earlier, preparing to head off on the mission from which they've just returned.And then it happens again. And again. And again.As Col. Jack O'Neill returns to eat the same plate of Froot Loops over and over again, he realizes that SG-1 is caught in a time loop and that only he and Teal'c retain their memories through each ten-hour cycle. It's up to them to decode the message on the mysterious machine and figure out a way to break the loop.While conducting an archeological dig on planet P3X-888, Dr. Daniel Jackson makes a remarkable discovery: a primordial Goa'uld symbiote, an ancient, predatory version of SG-1's parasitical enemies.Before he can bring back his sample however, his team is attacked by an Unas. One team member is killed, and Daniel is dragged off into the wilderness by the giant primitive creature.Learning of Daniel's disappearance, Col. Jack O'Neill leads a rescue mission to the planet. Upon his arrival, he discovers that SG-11 has been almost wiped out — only Hawkins survived — and the planet's water supply is teeming with Goa'uld symbiotes.While O'Neill and Teal'c struggle with the possibility that one of their men might have been inhabited by a Goa'uld, Daniel is dragged further into the wilderness by his captor. Gradually, he begins to understand a few words of the creature's language.The Unas, a juvenile whose name seems to be Chaka, saves Daniel's life when he's attacked by a symbiote. As the rescue team struggles to catch up, however, the question remains: Has Daniel become the Unas' newest friend? Or is he simply being brought home as dinner?