Season Three
Episode Number: 51
Episode Title: Dead Man's Switch
Air Date: 08-06-99
Syndication Air Date: 11-13-00
First Sci-Fi Syndication Air Date: 12-30-02
Chad's Summary: While searching for the UAV plane on an alien planet, SG-1 is taken hostage by a bounty hunter named Aris Boch (Sam J. Jones). He leaves SG-1 in a cloaked ship and later returns injured needing first aid. Boch informs them that he is trying to capture a Goa'uld named Keltar for Sokar. O'Neill and Jackson are conscripted to help Boch capture Keltar. Carter and Teal'c stay behind on the ship. After some time, O'Neill fires a Zat gun at Boch, and O'Neill and Jackson return to the ship. Shielded by his armor, Boch was not knocked out by the Zat gun blast. Boch returns to the ship; SG-1 and Boch continue their search for Keltar. Meanwhile, SG-1 try to convince Boch not to be a slave to the Goa'uld. Carter stays with Boch while O'Neill, Jackson, and Teal'c find Keltar who turns out to be a Tok'Ra named Korra (Mark Holden). Boch is immune to becoming a host for the Goa'uld. Boch kept Carter away from Korra to sustain Boch's lie about Korra being Keltar. Carter tries to convince Boch that the Tok'Ra are different from the Goa'uld. Boch's plan is to trade all the hostages to Sokar for more Roshna. The Goa'uld got Aris Boch's race hooked on a drug named Roshna, because Boch's people can not be taken as hosts. Discarding their Goa'uld weapons, SG-1 and Korra return to carter's last known location. They are, again, taken hostage by Boch. Korra attempts suicide to protect other Tok'Ra. Boch stops him and realizes there is a difference between the Goa'uld and the Tok'Ra. Teal'c Volunteers to take Korra's place. After a conversation with Teal'c, Boch decides to blow up the ship. Using escape pods, on the ship, Boch and Teal'c escape to the surface of the planet. Boch hands Carter a sample of Roshna in order to free his people from their dependency on the drug. SG-1 and Korra head toward the Stargate.
Guest Cast:
Sam J. Jones as Aris Boch
Mark Holden as Korra
Production Credits:
Developed for Television: Brad Wright & Jonathan Glassner
Producers: Robert C. Cooper & N. John Smith
Writer: Robert C. Cooper
Director: Martin Wood
Executive Producers: Michael Greenburg Richard Dean Anderson
Executive Producers: Jonathan Glassner & Brad Wright
Senior Story Editor: Tor Alexander Valenza
Story Editor: Heather E. Ash
Production Manager: Andy Mikita
First Assistant Director: Matthew J. Blecha
Second Assistant Director: Michele E. Dutka
Music: Joel Goldsmith
Original Stargate Themes: David Arnold
Director of Photography: Jim Menard
Production Designer: Richard Hudolin
Editor: Allan Lee
Art Director: Bridget McGuire
Costume Designer: Christina McQuarrie
Make-Up Artist: Jan Newman
Unit Manager: John G. Lenic
The Name Game:
* This episode of Stargate SG-1, "Dead Man's Switch," shares its' title with a season Three episode of The Outer Limits (1995 to 2002) which was originally broadcast on April 04, 1997.
Actor Tracker:
* Regular cast actor Don S. Davis (General George S. Hammond) does not appear in this episode.
Destination:
* Planet PJ6--877 is the location where SG-1 search for a crashed UAV plain. The planet has woodlands or a forest near the Stargate. The people who inhabit the planet are unknown to SG-1. Their culture is also not known to SG-1.
Chad's Summary is copyright 2003 by Sci-Fi Corner.
Stargate SG--1 is copyright 2005 by MGM Corporation.