Season Four

Episode Number: 68

Episode Title: The Other Side

Air Date: 07-07-00

Syndication Air Date: 11-12-01

First SciFi Syndication Air Date: 01-27-03

Chad's Summary: The SGC receives an impassioned plea for help from an Eurondan named Alar (Rene Auberjonois). SG-1 gate to Euronda to give the people humanitarian assistance and to negotiate for advanced technology to defend against the Goa'uld. On the planet, the team are taken to a room containing thousands of people placed in stasis. Alar allows O'Neill to test a virtual reality device capable of controlling several fighter drones at once. However, the device has a serious side effect. After prolonged exposure to the neural interface, the operator becomes a zombie. The Eurondans use controlled fusion as a means to generate power. O'Neill makes a deal to provide the Eurondans with heavy water--the substance that powers their defense shield--in return for instructions on how to build aero fighters, stasis devices, and power generators. Jackson has reservations about the deal. He and Carter return to Earth to tell General Hammond about the deal and to get the water. During a battle with the Eurondan enemy, O'Neill and Teal'c man aero fighters while Jackson and Carter return with the water. After the battle, O'Neill has regrets about killing people--not an unmanned drone like he had shot down earlier. Jackson has more questions for Alar, but O'Neill tells him to shut up. O'Neill, then, realizes that Alar is racist against Teal'c. O'Neill tells Jackson to ask more questions while he and Teal'c look around. O'Neill and Jackson independently realize that the Eurondans are clones. The conflict on Euronda is a conflict between the clones and the humans on the planet. Jackson tells O'Neill that the clones started the war. O'Neill and Teal'c get back into the aero fighters to attack the clones' fighters. They crash the aero fighters into the base. SG-1 return home and are followed by Alar who dies when he impacts the Iris. 

Guest Cast:

Rene Auberjonois as Alar

Anne Marie Loder as Farrell

Gary Jones as Sgt. Tech. Walter Harriman 

Dan Shea as Sgt. Siler

Stephen Park as Controller

Kyle Cassie as Eurondan Soldier

Kris Keeler as Zombie Pilot

Production Credits:

Developed for Television: Brad Wright & Jonathan Glassner

Executive Consultant: Jonathan Glassner

Creative Consultant: Peter DeLuise

Co--Producers: Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie

Co--Executive Producers: Robert C. Cooper & N. John Smith

Writer: Brad Wright

Director: Peter DeLuise

Executive Producers: Michael Greenburg Richard Dean Anderson & Brad Wright

Production Manager: Andy Mikita

First Assistant Director: Bill Mizel

Second Assistant Director: Ryan Kosmynka    

Music: Kevin Kiner

Original Stargate Themes: 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

Unit Manager: John G. Lenic

Actor Notes:

Rene Auberjonois played Col. West in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). He played the regular role of Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993 to 1999). Auberjonois played Ezral in the Enterprise (2001 to 2005) episode "Oasis." He appeared as Milo Javits in the Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996 to 1999) episodes "Irish Jug" and "Wishful Thinking." Auberjonois played Dlaven in The Outer Limits (1995 to 2002) episode "Promised Land." He appeared as Dr. Dicketts in The Burning Zone (1996 to 1997) episode "St. Michael's Nightmare." Auberjonois played Kimball in the Wonder Woman (1976 to 1979) episode "Spaced Out." He appeared in an episode of Rod Serling's Night Gallery (1970 to 1973) entitled "Camera Obscura" as William Sharsted. He appeared in The Man from Atlantis (1977 to 1978) episode "Crystal Water, Sudden Death" as Havergal. As a director, Auberjonois directed eight episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993 to 1999). The eight episodes are as follows: "Prophet Motive," "Family Business," "Hippocratic Oath," "The Quickening," "He Who Is Without Sin," "Ferengi Love Songs," "Waltz," and "Strange Bedfellows."

Recurring Characters:

* This is Gary Jones (Walter Harriman) 23rd Episode.

* This is Dan Shea's (Siler) 9th Episode.

The Name Game:

* This episode of Stargate SG-1, "The Other Side," shares its' title with a season five episode of The Outer Limits (1995 to 2002) which was originally broadcast on February 19, 1999.

Destination:

* Euronda is a planet in the midst of a civil war which destroyed the above ground surface of the planet. The civil war is between the human population of the planet, and the clone population of the planet. Both populations of people are called Eurondans and have a high level of technical capability.

Chad's Summary is copyright 2003 by SciFi Corner.

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