Season Two

Episode Number: 37

Episode Title: The Fifth Race

Air Date: 01-22-99

Syndication Air Date: 01-31-00

First Sci-Fi Syndication Air Date: 12-02-02

Chad's Summary: SG-1 gates to a world with a possible connection to the planet that Ernest Littlefield was stranded on in 1945. The planet may be the home to a race of aliens who are friends to the Asgard. An alien device grabs a hold of Col. O'Neill's head. After the device releases him, the team returns to Earth. Dr. Fraiser examines him, and she can find nothing wrong with O'Neill. At a mission debriefing, O'Neill becomes increasingly impatient and begins speaking in an alien language. Daniel thinks he is speaking Medieval Latin and discovers that O'Neill can read the alien language from Ernest's planet. After some tests, Dr. Fraiser realizes that O'Neill's brain is operating at 90% of maximum. O'Neill inputs new Stargate addresses into the base's computer. He loses the ability to speak English. Daniel believes that the people who built the Stargate system, the Ancients, also put their language into O'Neill's head. Part of SG-1 go in search of answers on a planet with similar writings. Using a computer, O'Neill tells Jackson that he needs to go through the Stargate. O'Neill builds a strange device. Carter and Teal'c get stranded on the planet which has two suns. Jackson informs O'Neill about the dangerous situation, and O'Neill finds a solution. O'Neill attaches the device he made to the Stargate power grid fixing a power shortage problem. The gate begins to dial out, automatically, to a planet that is so far away that the gate uses eight chevrons to connect to it. O'Neill goes through the gate. Arriving at his destination, the Asgard remove the Ancient's language from O'Neill's mind. The Asgard tell him that the human species has the potential to become the fifth race in an alliance that opposes the Goa'uld. Jack O'Neill returns home.

Guest Cast:

Teryl Rothery as Dr. Janet Fraiser

Dan Shea as Sgt. Siler

Tobias Mehler as Lt. Tech. Graham Simmons

David Adams as Expert

Michael Shanks as The Voice of Thor

Production Credits:

Developed for Television: Brad Wright & Jonathan Glassner

Co--Producer: Robert C. Cooper

Producer: N. John Smith

Writer: Robert C. Cooper

Director: David Warry--Smith

Executive Producers: Michael Greenburg Richard Dean Anderson 

Executive Producers: Jonathan Glassner & Brad Wright

Story Editor: Tor Alexander Valenza 

Production Manager: Andy Nikita

First Assistant Director: Bill Mizel

Second Assistant Director: Kathy Houghton

Music: Joel Goldsmith

Original Stargate Themes: David Arnold

Director of Photography: Peter Woeste, C.S.C.

Production Designer: Richard Hudolin

Editor: Daria Ellerman

Art Director: Bridget McGuire

Costume Designer: Christina McQuarrie

Make-Up Artist: Jan Newman

Assistant to Producer: John G. Lenic

Recurring Characters:

* This is Teryl Rothery's (Janet Fraiser) 15th Episode.

* This is Dan Shea's (Siler) 3rd Episode.

* This is Tobias Mehler's (Graham Simmons) 2nd Episode.

Destinations:

* Planet P3R--272's Stargate is located within a sealed room or enclosure. The room is also the location of a repository or archive of the Ancients wisdom and knowledge. SG-1 did not find people on the planet. However, the archive of knowledge represents a technically advanced culture superior to the technology of Earth.

* Othala is located in the far reaches of the Ida Galaxy. Othala is also the home of the technologically superior Asgard. The Asgard are little gray skinned aliens who masquerade as Viking gods to protect people from the Goa'uld. 

Chad's Summary copyright 2002 by Sci-Fi Corner.

Stargate SG--1 is copyright 2005 by MGM Corporation.