Season 4: Episode 9
Original Airdate: August 25, 2000
People need to be moved as the planet is being terraformed and once complete it will not support the Enkaran people. Moving them is also difficult as the planet they need is very specialized to the Enkaran physiology.
The aliens terraforming the planet are sulfur based life forms rather than carbon based life like we are used to.
The residents of the planet don’t wish to leave though, feeling as they are always being pushed aside to new planets. They were taken from their home planet a long time ago by the Goa’uld.
Lotan, a biomechanical robot created to represent the ship. SG-1 talks to Lotan about what is going on. Jack O’Neill is hilarious in this episode as he can’t understand why the ship can’t just stop transforming the planet.
The Gadmeer are the ones who created the ship, and they put everything into making it so they could recreate their society at some point. It can only terraform one planet, and once it starts, it can’t stop.
I know it is a little bit cold to think this way, but if they let the Gadmeer society be re-created, they could have an ally. While they were peaceful, and thus their weapon technology might not be the greatest, they could have advanced propulsion systems, and their terraforming technology could be very useful for humanity.
Daniel goes to try to talk the aliens out of terraforming the planet, while O’Neill orders Carter to convert a Naqahdah generator into a bomb to blow up the ship.
In the end Lotan, with guidance from Daniel Jackson find the Enkaran home-world in the ship’s database and the ship helps the Enkaran people get back to the planet of their ancestors.
A good episode for Daniel Jackson as you get to see his problem solving abilities which are the focus of many episodes. Again this episode does not focus on the main plot line of the show, but its a nice deviation and a decent episode to watch.
I give Scorched Earth a 3.5 out of 5.
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