09-16: Off the Grid

[Colonel Carter]

EPISODE NUMBER - 916
ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 02.10.06
SYNDICATION AIR DATE - 02.19.07
WRITTEN BY - Alan McCullough
DIRECTED BY - Peter DeLuise
GUEST STARRING - Cliff Simon (Baal), Matthew Glave (Colonel Paul Emerson), Vince Corazza (Worrel), Eric Steinberg (Netan), Gary Jones (Sergeant Harriman), Erik Breker (Reynolds), Maury Chaykin (Nerus)

SG-1 is captured after a deal with the Lucian Alliance goes bad ... and the planet's Stargate goes missing. Meanwhile, a former System Lord attempts to rebuild his empire.

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Finally, and episode I truly liked. Well, except for the beginning which I thought was rather lame. I thought it was lame to show the action of them running up to the Stargate and seeing it beamed up and then back track and go for about 10 minutes until we see the scene again. I mean seriously, how lame is that? It would be one thing if the action we saw at the beginning was maybe 45 minutes into the show, but that was just lame.

I'm not a fan of that technique though so when I see it, I normally think it's lame, but I think this was lamest use of that tactic ever on the show.

But other than that, I thought it was a good episode. I really liked the comments from SG-1 at the very end when they got home, Cameron's enthusiasm being shot down by Daniel and Sam.

So, do you suppose Baal is really gone? At least the original?

[Anissa T]

I really like this show. I loved the team interaction when they were tied up after the gate was beamed away. I found that little scene rather amusing. I also really liked when they were argueing about who would make a better drug dealer.

No, I don't even think that was the real Baal. I think it was one of his clones. But, rather cocky he is getting if you ask me. Especially when he didn't have any shields. I think because he was a clone, he was rather indifferent about dying.

And, did I miss an episode? Who/what is the Allutian Alliance? I don't think I've heard of them before.

[Colonel Carter]

I don't know who this Alliance was. I couldn't remember an episode where we met them.

[cb49747]

I think it was the second episode, they had to steal a ship from them. It was the one where vala had to get all these things to appease old friends

[John Hayward]

It's Lucian, and yes they were introduced in The Ties that Bind. As we found out in Off the Grid, they're basically an interstellar crime syndicate that's been gaining power as a result of the demise of the Goa'uld System Lords. We'll definitely be seeing more of them in the future.