Season Four

Episode Number: 81

Episode Title: Chain Reaction

Air Date: 01-05-01

Syndication Air Date: 02-04-02

First SciFi Syndication Air Date: 02-17-03

Chad's Summary: After an enemy attack on the SGC, General Hammond decides to retire. He is replaced by General Bauer (Lawrence Dane). General Bauer reassigns Carter and Jackson to other projects at the SGC. Carter's new task is to combine Naquadah technology with a nuclear weapon while Jackson gets a desk job. O'Neill takes a vacation after a confrontation with the new general. Hammond tells O'Neill the real reason for his early retirement -- Hammond's family was threatened with harm by the NID. O'Neill teams up with a former prison inmate named Harry Maybourne to assist him in helping Hammond. Maybourne was imprisoned for treason stemming from the events of the episode Watergate. The unlikely team's search for evidence, on the NID, leads to Senator Kinsey. The new weapon is to be tested on a planet with plant and animal life. Jackson and Carter urge the new general to stop the test, because Naquadah is already present on the planet in question. If the test is to go forward, the resulting explosion could be more destructive than originally thought. Bauer overrules their objections and goes forward with the test which causes an evacuation of the SGC. Meanwhile, O'Neill and Maybourne crash a party given by Senator Kinsey. O'Neill bribes Kinsey at gunpoint. He then uses the information, obtained by Maybourne from Kinsey's computer, to get General Hammond back in command of the SGC. The Stargate is still connected to the test planet, and then shuts down a little after the thirty--eight minute window that a Stargate can normally remain open. General Hammond gets his job back.

Guest Cast:

Lawrence Dane as General Bauer

Tom McBeath as Harry Maybourne

Gary Jones as Sgt. Tech. Walter Harriman

Ronny Cox as Senator Robert Kinsey

Dan Shea as Sgt. Siler

Patti Allan as Kinsey's Wife

Gina Stockdale as Maid

Mark Pawson as Reporter #1

Norma Jean Wick as Reporter #2

Jacquie Janzen as Aide

Production Credits:

Developed for Television: Brad Wright & Jonathan Glassner

Executive Consultant: Jonathan Glassner

Creative Consultant: Peter DeLuise

Producers: Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie

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

Writers: Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie

Director: Martin Wood

Executive Producers: Michael Greenburg, Richard Dean Anderson, & Brad Wright

Production Manager: John G. Lenic

First Assistant Director: Matthew J. Blecha

Second Assistant Director: Ryan Kosmynka    

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

Recurring Characters:

* This is Gary Jones' (Walter Harriman) 28th Episode.

* This is Dan Shea's (Siler) 13th Episode.

* This is Tom McBeath's (Harry Maybourne) 7th Episode.

* This is Ronny Cox's (Kinsey) 2nd Episode.

SG Teams:

* Team SG-3. including Major Wade and  Lt. Morrison, are sent to planet P3S--452 seeking a test site for the Naquadah enhanced nuclear weapon.

Actor Notes:

Lawrence Dane appeared as Lt. Preston in the horror film Bride of Chucky (1998). He played the part of Charlie in the Highlander: The Raven (1998 to1999) episode "So Shall Ye Reap." Dane portrayed two different roles in two different episodes of Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996 to 1999). First, he appeared as Sir Edmund Tremain in the episode "A Traitor Among Us." Secondly, Dane played Ned Gregson in the episode "Silent Partner." He portrayed General Covington in The Outer Limits (1995 to 2002) episode "Trial By Fire." Dane also portrayed two different characters in two different episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985 to 1989). First, he appeared as Mr. Adams in the episode "If the Shoe Fits." Secondly, Dane played the part of Joe Metcalf in the episode "Prosecutor." In yet another anthology series, The Hitchhiker (1983 to 1991), he appeared in the roles of Surgeon and Cop in the episode "Out of the Night."

Connections:

* Actors Lawrence Dane  and Ben Bass (From The Curse) both worked together on the horror film Bride of Chucky in 1998.

Location:

* The events of this episode take place on planet Earth at the SGC and in Washington D.C.

Chad's Summary is copyright 2004 by SciFi Corner.

Stargate SG--1 is copyright 2004 by MGM Corporation.