Chimera (Stargate SG-1)
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| “Chimera” | |
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| Stargate SG-1 episode | |
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| Episode no. | Season 7 Episode 15 |
| Guest stars | Anna-Louise Plowman as Sarah/Osiris David DeLuise as Pete Shanahan |
| Written by | Robert C. Cooper |
| Directed by | Will Waring |
| Production no. | 715 |
| Original airdate | January 30, 2004 |
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"Chimera" is an episode from Season 7 of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1.
[edit] Plot
The episode starts with Daniel sitting in a room full of artifacts and books, studying them. A woman appears in the room to help. She introduces herself as Sarah Gardner. Suddenly, we see Daniel sleeping with a strange device attached to his temple, while Osiris sits at his side, having the same device attached to her temple.
In a coffee shop, Samantha Carter is sitting at a table when a man appears and starts flirting with her. After some time, she kisses him, and it is revealed that they already know each other. After some additional talk, she leaves. At Stargate Command, Sam talks with Daniel, who tells her about his strange dream. Next, she enters an elevator and starts talking with Jack about her new friend, Pete Shanahan, and that her relationship with Pete was set up by her brother.
That night, Osiris again appears and enters Daniel's dream. In this dream, she (as Sarah) starts to develop a relationship with Daniel and represents herself as a great fan of him and his work. Abruptly, she ends the connection and uses an Asgard transporter to leave the room, confusing Daniel, though he doesn't wake up.
The next day, Sam has a date with Pete at her home. When he kisses her, she nervously breaks it up. In Daniel's dream later that night, Sarah shows him a tablet with strange symbols (the same tablet in reality which revealed the existence of a lost city of the Ancients to SG-1) and tells him about it. Enthusiastically, he starts translating it.
The next morning at the SGC, Daniel is extremely tired and talks with Sam and Teal'c about his dream. They think it possibly has something to do with his time as an ascended being. In his next dream, Daniel finds out more about the tablet and tells Sarah about it. In reality, he talks with Teal'c again about his dream.
That evening, Sam has a date with Pete. She goes dancing with him, and afterwards they spend the night together at Sam's house. In the meantime, Daniel has another dream about the tablet and Sarah. In the morning, Pete talks with Sam about his past but later leaves frustrated because Sam doesn't talk about hers. In his car, Pete contacts a friend in the FBI and asks him to find out more about Sam, who later reveals to Pete that Sam's background information has been blocked.
At the SGC, Daniel again talks with Sam and Teal'c about his dreams and Sarah. This time Teal'c reveals that there is a Goa'uld device which allows them to enter other people's dream. They talk with Jack and Gen. Hammond about it and develop a plan to capture Osiris. Sam later talks with Jack about her relationship with Pete.
At night, SG-1 supervises Daniel in his bedroom from a nearby truck, when suddenly Osiris appears. Jack and Teal'c enter Daniel's house but keep quiet until morning. Sam continues surveillance from the truck while she, in turn, is watched by Pete who has secretly been following her. In his dream, Daniel finally gives up, admitting he never knew the location of the city. Osiris ends the connection and attacks him with her hand device, but the others intervene. When Osiris can't use her transporter she leaves the house while attacking SG-1 with a small laser. Outside Pete appears, but he and Sam are attacked by Osiris, who has activated a personal shield and blows up the truck. Osiris is stunned by Jack, but Sam realizes that Pete was critically wounded.
At the SGC, Sarah wakes up, after finally being freed from Osiris, and cries on Daniel's shoulder. In another room, Pete is visited by Sam, who finally tells him the truth about her work and the Stargate.
[edit] Notes
- Daniel says of his dreams "Everything was weird, my hair was different." This is a reference to any omissions the show may have made in scaling back the timeline to before the start of the show or the movie for these dreams. Daniel's hair was longer in both early seasons and the movie, one assumes that years before in the timeline it was long as well.
- Carter is humming the Stargate SG-1 theme tune in the elevator. In a gateworld interview, Amanda Tapping said she actually wanted to hum the MacGuyver theme but couldn't remember the melody.
- David DeLuise is the fourth DeLuise to appear on Stargate - Dom, Michael, and Peter have all appeared in the past.
- This episode was alternatively entitled Black Widow Carter. In the episode, Carter mentions how all of her boyfriends in the past are dead, which is accurate.
- Colorado Springs does in fact have a zoo, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Joseph Mallozzi said in an interview at stargate-sg-solutions.com that this was supposed to be a subtle hint that Carter spends to much time at work to notice what her city has to offer.
- This episode shares its title with a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode.
- Neither Sarah nor the Osiris symbiote return to the series after this episode.
[edit] External links
- Official Stargate SG-1 site. MGM. Visited June 8, 2006. Most of site requires Flash.
- Screenplay (PDF). Distributed by MGM. Prepared by Line 21 Media Services Ltd (2003-10-01). Retrieved on October 18, 2006. Linked to from Official Stargate SG-1 site.
- Review from GateWorld. Reviewed by Alli Snow. Visited May 4, 2006.
- Another review from GateWorld. Reviewed by Lex. Visited May 4, 2006.
