Season 10, Episode 7
Original U.S. Air Date - August 25th, 2006
Guest Starring - Morena Baccarin (Adria), Tony Amendola (Bra’tac), Matthew Glave (Colonel Emerson), Richard Whiten (Bo’rel), Gary Jones (Walter Harriman), David Andrews (Se’tak), Martin Christopher (Marks)
Overview
SG-1 finds themselves on a planet being converted to Origin when a wave of radiation kills everyone and leaves an Ori ship unmanned and unprotected. SG-1 takes the opportunity to learn more about the ship, and hopefully even pilot it away, but they are not the only ones. The Jaffa also want the ship, but what they don’t know is that Ardria isn’t effected by the ancient weapon. Chaos ensues, and the weapon on Dakara is destroyed.
My Thoughts
Not a bad episode, a fair bit of action and a good amount of forward motion in the Ori plot. We finally get to see the Ancient weapon on Dakara used again, but by the end of the episode everything is so fractured, and it really does seem like Adria and the Ori ships are unstoppable.
It will be interesting to see how the Jaffa do now that the planet that bound most of the different clans/groups is basically in ruins.
I found it interesting how little Carter was used in this episode, focusing more on Daniel, Valla, Ardria, as well as Teal’c and Colonel Mitchell. Carter was used as a plot device to keep things moving, but the story really did not give her much other focus.
I would have liked to see some sign of a limitation in regards to Adria’s powers, or some sign that the Ori ships are not “invincible”, but this was not the episode for that.
I give Counterstrike a 4.5 out of 5.
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