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	Written By	Directed By	Airdate
175	1	Avalon (1)	Robert C. Cooper	Andy Mikita	July 15, 2005
Lieutenant Colonel Cameron Mitchell, the newest member of the SG-1 team, sets out on a mission with Daniel Jackson, Teal'c and Vala to uncover a stash of hidden ancient riches.
176	2	Avalon (2)	Robert C. Cooper	Andy Mikita	July 22, 2005
Still bound together by the Jaffa bracelets, Daniel Jackson and Vala are transported to a galaxy populated by worshippers of a potentially threatening authority called the Ori.
177	3	Origin (3)	Robert C. Cooper	Brad Turner	July 29, 2005
Daniel and Vala learn that their reactivation of an ancient communications device has inadvertently exposed Earth to the wrath of the group of unforgiving deities called Ori.
178	4	The Ties That Bind	Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie	William Waring	August 5, 2005
Daniel Jackson and Vala embark on a series of dangerous missions in their quest to unlock the frustrating Jaffa bracelets that seems to have bound them together for eternity.
179	5	The Powers That Be	Martin Gero	William Waring	August 12, 2005
When Daniel and Vala attempt to undo the teachings of the Ori on a distant planet, they and the planet's inhabitants find themselves subject to their foe's vengeful wrath.
180	6	Beachhead	Brad Wright	Brad Turner	August 19, 2005
The brilliant astrophysicist and former member Samantha Carter returns to SG-1 to join the team on a mission to free a distant planet called Kallana from the Ori's control.
181	7	Ex Deus Machina	Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie	Martin Wood	August 26, 2005
The SG-1 team must intervene when a major ongoing conflict between the strident Jaffa Gerak and their former enemy Ba'al puts the entire United States at risk of destruction.
182	8	Babylon	Damian Kindler	Peter DeLuise	September 9, 2005
Lieutenant Colonel Cameron Mitchell disappears while trying to contact the Sodan, a band of legendary Jaffa warriors who escaped Goa'uld rule and colonized their own planet.
183	9	Prototype	Alan McCullough	Peter DeLuise	September 16, 2005
Hank Landry and his government overseers disagree over what to do about what they found in a lab: Anubis' dangerous, genetically engineered Goa'uld creation.
184	10	The Fourth Horseman (1)	Damian Kindler	Andy Mikita	September 16, 2005
As SG-1 tries to stop the spread of a deadly virus that was caused by the devious Ori, the Jaffa Gerak works on converting the rest of the Jaffa to worshippers of the Ori.
185	11	The Fourth Horseman (2)	Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie	Andy Mikita	January 6, 2006
As the Jaffa Gerak amasses forces to rise against them, the Stargate team races to find an antidote to stop a deadly Ori plague from becoming a devastating global pandemic.
186	12	Collateral Damage	Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie	William Waring	January 13, 2006
Complications arise when lieutenant Colonel Cameron Mitchell becomes the victim of powerful and dangerous technology that allows individuals to share memories with each other.
187	13	Ripple Effect	Brad Wright	Peter DeLuise	January 20, 2006
Stargate Command is baffled by the arrival of several virtually identical SG-1 teams and must find a way to return them to their respective universes before calamity occurs. Teleplay by Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie
188	14	Stronghold	Alan McCullough	Peter DeLuise	January 27, 2006
Daniel fears the worst when Teal'c mysteriously disappears after investigating corruption. His fears are confirmed when he finds that Jaffa have been kidnapped and brainwashed.
189	15	Ethon	Damian Kindler & Robert C. Cooper	Ken Girotti	February 3, 2006
SG-1 sets out to destroy a massive and deadly weapon invented by their increasingly powerful foe, the Ori. If not, the Caledonian Federation and its people will be destroyed. Teleplay by Damian Kindler
190	16	Off the Grid	Alan McCullough	Peter DeLuise	February 10, 2006
Hank Landry and the rest of the Stargate team plan an offensive when they learn that the Goa'uld Ba'al is in the United States and is once again regaining power.
191	17	The Scourge	Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie	Ken Girotti	February 17, 2006
A crop of genetically engineered insects turns deadly, forcing the SG-1 team to destroy them before they and the visiting international diplomats becoming their next victims.
192	18	Arthur's Mantle	Alan McCullough	Peter DeLuise	February 24, 2006
While Teal'c sets off to investigate foul play on a Jaffa planet, Mitchell, Carter and Daniel become out of phase while experimenting with a powerful and ancient device.
193	19	Crusade	Robert C. Cooper	Robert C. Cooper	March 3, 2006
Vala returns to Stargate Command to deliver startling news: the Ori have been building military forces, and plan to launch crusades against their dissidents in the near future.
194	20	Camelot	Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie	Martin Wood	March 10, 2006
As the Ori's all out assault. looms closer, lieutenant Colonel Cameron Mitchell and Daniel Jackson race to locate a device that will obliterate the evil enemy once and for all.