Legacy

Stargate SG-1 Season 3 Episode 4 - Plot: A parasite infects Daniel Jackson, leading to him experiencing visual and auditory hallucinations.

Daniel Jackson committed to mental institution

Upon returning from an off-world mission, SG-1 team member, Daniel Jackson began showing symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia. These symptoms included hallucinations of a group of dead Goa'uld's found by SG-1 during their last mission.

SGC medical personnel had little choice but to confine Dr Jackson to a mental institution as he became a threat to himself and others.

Gate travel suspended for mental health review

A review by SGC medical personnel led to a conclusion that Dr. Jackson's medical condition was as a result of gate travel over an extended period of time. Following this, General Hammond took the decision to recall all off world teams and initiate a review of the health of all SG-team members.


Reason for death of Linvris discovered

While being held in an air force mental institution, Dr. Jackson came in to contact with fellow SG-1 team member, Teal'c. During this contact, an organism was transfered from Daniel to Teal'c. Teal'c became very ill soon after, while Daniel's condition quickly improved.

An investigation revealed that the organism was actually a weapon designed by Ma'chello, a man encountered by SG-1 during a mission off-world last year. The organism attacks the Goa'uld symbiote, resulting in death of the parasite and of the host. It appears to cause insanity in humans without a host as a side effect.


Goa'uld weapon wreaks havoc at StarGate Command

During research in to the source of the weapon, Major Carter, Colonel O'Neill and Dr. Frasier all become infected by it. O'Neill and Frasier quickly began to succumb to insanity, but Carter was unaffected. The organism soon left her body and she saw a vision of Ma'chello, informing her that the Goa'uld that held her has already been removed.

This led to an assumption that a protein left by dead Goa'uld in a host's body was being used by the weapon to determine who it should attack. Sam Carter worked quickly to inject the protein in to Dr. Frasier, Colonel O'Neill and Teal'c. The three all made a quick recovery.

The review

I enjoyed the link back to Ma'chello. His inventions did seem to have a lot of potential at the time and it was good to see the research in to them being referred back to. It was his page turning device that was being used to deliver the weapon. One of which was in storage at Area 51 and had been found with the Linvris.

The Linvris were also quite interesting. Teal'c describes them as a second tier of Goa'uld that opposes the System Lords. Seemingly with little success, as there were only nine of them. They now pose no threat at all, having been killed by Ma'chello's weapon.

The episode seemed to ebb and flow. Daniel's descent in to insanity was fun to watch. Sam figuring out how to develop a cure for Jack and Dr. Frasier wasn't. Teal'c was pretty much forgotten about until the very end. Poor guy.

This is the third main episode of this series and we've yet to really see SG-1 out and about in the StarGate network. A great deal of the action has taken place on Earth and at the SG-C so far. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it is a marked change from the two previous seasons. It's understandable, as if the show was to survive then it would need to show growth of the StarGate programme as a whole, not just of SG-1.

7 out of 10