• “Brief Candle”

•             Episode 9

•             Broadcast Date: September 19, 1997

•             Syndication Broadcast Date: November 2, 1998

 Plot Outline:

            The team encounters a woman in labor on an alien planet. Carter and Jackson help deliver the baby. The team is accepted into the village. Kynthia (Bobbie Phillips) hands O’Neil a pizza—like food, and he sleeps with her. The people fall asleep as the sun sets. Everyone falling asleep at the same time startles SG-1, thusly, they investigate the situation under the assumption that the cause is a virus. The symptoms, of the virus, include no fever; shallow breathing; and a slow heart rate. The team discovers that the sleep is induced by nanites which rapidly advance the infected to the age of one—hundred years old in just a one—hundred day period. A Goa’uld impersonating the Greek god Pelops created the contagion to speed up human evolution in order to create a better host for the Goa’uld. O’Neil contracts the disease and has two weeks to live before he reaches the equivalent of one—hundred years old. Hammond orders all work to find a cure for O’Neil to cease after the nanites attempt to infect the base. The people of Pelops destroy the statue of him. O’Neil with Kynthia leaves the village, and they do not fall asleep at sun set. The statue is a device that puts people to sleep and wakes them up again. The machine malfunctions leaving the people stuck in slumber. The team returns to awaken the sleeping. Everyone, including O’Neil, is cured. à Plot Outline by Chad C.

 Guest Cast:

• Gary Jones as Technician Walter Harriman
• Teryl Rothery as Dr. Janet Fraiser
• Bobbie Phillips as Kynthia
• Harrison Coe as Alekos
• Gabrielle Miller as Thetys

 Recurring Actors & Characters:

• Gary Jones (Walter Harriman) à [Episode 7]
• Teryl Rothery (Janet Fraiser) à [Episode 3]

Production Crew:

• Developed for Television: Brad Wright & Jonathan Glassner
• Co—Executive Producer: Michael Greenburg
• Producer: Ron French
• Story: Steven Barnes
• Teleplay: Katharyn Powers
• Director: Mario Azzopardi
• Executive Producers: Jonathan Glassner & Brad Wright
• Executive Story Consultant: Katharyn Powers
• Executive Story Editor: Robert C. Cooper
• Production Manager: Ron French
• First Assistant Director: Bill Mizel
• Second Assistant Director: Matthew J. Blecha
• Music: Kevin Kiner
• Original Stargate Theme: David Arnold
• Director of Photography: Peter Woeste, C.S.C.
• Production Designer: Richard Hudolin
• Editor: Brad Rines
• Art Director: Bridget McGuire
• Costume Designer: Christina McQuarrie
• Make—Up Artist: Jan Newman
• Assistant to the Co—Executive Producer: John G. Lenic

 Destination:

• Argos --- is designated P3X—8596 by the SGC computer. The people are called the Argosians or “The Chosen.” The Argosian culture resembles the Mycenaean or Greek culture of Earth. Argos has a temperate Mediterranean climate.

Plot Outline is copyright 2002 by Sci-Fi Corner.

Stargate SG-1 is copyright 1997 -- 2007 by MGM Corporation.