Stargate SG-1/Season Nine

Season Nine
Stargate SG-1
Season Premiere	July 27, 2005
Season Finale	March 10, 2006
Episode Count	20
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Season Nine of Stargate SG-1 premiered on July 27, 2005.

Richard Dean Anderson leaves the show and Amanda Tapping takes maternity leave for the first five episodes. Ben Browder and Claudia Black replace them each respectively. Beau Bridges joins the cast replacing Don S. Davis who left the previous year.

Stargate's first foray into Arthurian mythology starts off mysteriously.

Michael Shanks did not mince his words when he mentioned that the ninth season would be akin to starting over. With new cast to replace some and supplement other old ones, one would expect a completely different dynamic from what was seen in the first eight seasons of the episode. This marks the debut of Browder and Bridges into the realm of Stargate. These, combined with the fact that this season starts with a trilogy indicates that the first episode of the ninth season is nothing short of a pilot with a strong emphasis on character development, especially that of Colonel Mitchell played by Ben Browder and Vala played by Claudia Black.

With the most of the Gao’uld killed or defeated and the remaining in hiding, one is left pondering over the storyline of the ninth season. In keeping with its tradition that implies all mythology is true with a strong alien influence, this episode draws a connection between realm of Arthurian mythology and the Ancients. The adventure starts off with Browder being incorporated as an integral part of stargate even before. When Vala forces Daniel Jackson to miss the trip to Atlantis on board the Daedalus, he is forced to help her translate a coded Ancient scroll to find what Vala believes, is a source to buried treasure.

Claudia Black is charming as usual and keeps up the traditional sci-fi humor. Ben Browder successfully teams up with Black again and there is even a smart reference to their previous involvement in the hit Sci-Fi series, Farscape. On the whole, it seems that season nine has got off to a good, but mysterious start. However, only time will tell if the cast comes together as well as they did in the previous eight seasons.

Episodes

#	#	Title			Airdate
175	1	Avalon (1)			July 15, 2005
176	2	Avalon (2)			July 22, 2005
177	3	Origin (3)			July 29, 2005
178	4	The Ties That Bind			August 5, 2005
179	5	The Powers That Be			August 12, 2005
180	6	Beachhead			August 19, 2005
181	7	Ex Deus Machina			August 26, 2005
182	8	Babylon			September 9, 2005
183	9	Prototype			September 16, 2005
184	10	The Fourth Horseman (1)			September 16, 2005
185	11	The Fourth Horseman (2)			January 6, 2006
186	12	Collateral Damage			January 13, 2006
187	13	Ripple Effect			January 20, 2006
188	14	Stronghold			January 27, 2006
189	15	Ethon			February 3, 2006
190	16	Off the Grid			February 10, 2006
191	17	The Scourge			February 17, 2006
192	18	Arthur's Mantle			February 24, 2006
193	19	Crusade			March 3, 2006
194	20	Camelot			March 10, 2006