Enigma (episode 17) mostly pretty dull. I can basically tell you the entire plot in one sentence: SG-1 find some technologically advanced humans who won't share their knowledge. That's pretty much all that happens.
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| Pity they don't stay long, this place looks cool. |
SG-1 arrives on a planet where there's just a ton of volcanoes erupting all around (that weren't there when they sent the probe through - which is odd) and Daniel asks the absolute dumbest question imaginable. Seeing volcanoes erupting, lava flowing, etc. he asks what all the grey stuff in the air is like as though he's never seen ash or heard of a volcano before. I think I probably missed the next ten minutes of the episode because I couldn't stop making fun of Daniel for being so dumb. Anyway, they find some people (mostly dead but some living), one of whom mysteriously asks them not to help. So they ignore that and bring them back to Earth.
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| Hey, what's all that red stuff coming out of that weird mountain? |
These people, the Tollan, turn out to have technology well beyond our own, which Daniel - idiot that he is - puts down to the "dark ages". General Hammond questions their leader, who reveals that they are aware of the Goa'uld but do not interact with them. Hammond somehow interprets this to mean that the Goa'uld are their enemies, because I guess he's spending too much time with Daniel.
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| I know, right? |
But one of the other Tollan, Narim, takes an immediate liking to Sam, and Hammond has her take him up to the surface and show him around. Normally Hammond's much more security conscious, so I guess he just psychically knows that these people aren't dangerous. But he does insist they stay in SGC until somewhere can be found for them to go.
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| There's a very obvious joke that I'm not making because I'm classy. |
Problem is, they absolutely will not stay on any planet inhabited by a less scientifically advanced culture (including Earth) but they also can't go home since their planet's fucked and their people all left on space ships. They had just stayed behind to destroy the stargate, apparently to stop anyone from dialling it and ending up on their shithole of a planet. They also don't like being confined and use their advanced technology to come and go as they please (by walking through walls).
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| This guy has absolutely no time for your shit. |
Then Col. Maybourne shows up, and I love him. He's such a smug arsehole. And he has the authority (direct from Hammond's BFF the president) to take the Tollans away to be forced to work for the US government. So the good guys have to come up with a way to stop him. And Daniel has to do it because he's a civilian and therefore can't be court-martialled.
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| So glad this guy's going to be a recurring character. |
The plan's quite simple. Call the Nox, because they're the only friendly advanced civilisation they know of. They hadn't tried them earlier because, of course, the Nox also wanted nothing to do with Earth and sealed their stargate. Fortunately, the Tollan have a communicator that can get a message across interstellar space instantly and Daniel has the coordinates of the Nox's planet.
So the Nox send someone for them and they leave. And there are absolutely no consequences for Daniel or anyone else. This episode does actually set something up that will pay off later, but it doesn't really serve any purpose of its own. And I do have to wonder why they didn't just use the stargate to get as close as possible to their people's new planet and send a message from there for them to come pick them up in a spaceship. Earth was too far away, but surely there must be some other stargate close enough.
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| They didn't have the budget for Armin Shimerman |
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