1x20 There But For the Grace of God - Stargate SG-1 Episode Guide

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- Episode 01x20

Episode: 01x20
Title: There But For the Grace of God
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 119
First Aired: Feb. 20, 1998

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Stargate SG-1 - 01x20 There But For the Grace of God

Summary: While on an alien planet Daniel touches a weird mirror and is knocked unconscious. When he wakes up he finds himself alone and thinks that the rest of SG-1 has left him behind and are back on Earth. But as soon as he goes through the Earth's gate he finds out that he is in a parallel universe and that the Goa'uld are attacking.

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Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Captain Samantha Carter	played by Amanda Tapping
Senator Robert Kinsey	played by Ronny Cox
Lt. Colonel Bert Samuels	played by Robert Wisden
Apophis	played by Peter Williams (IV)
Jaffa	played by Zoran Vukelic
Warren	played by Colin Lawrence
Chief Master Sergeant Walter Harriman	played by Gary Jones
Primitive	played by John Bear Curtis
Shak'l	played by Michasha Armstrong

Season 1 / Episode 20: - There But For the Grace of God

Major General: It costs nearly a billion dollars just to turn the lights on around here.
Jack O'Neill: How 'bout a bake sale? Yard sale? Garage...?
Major General: This is what I look like when I'm not laughing, Colonel.
Jack O'Neill: Car wash?

Season 1 / Episode 20: - There But For the Grace of God

Samantha Carter: Daniel, when you were in this alternate reality, were there differences?
Dr. Daniel Jackson: Yes. Uh, Teal'c was leading the attack on Earth, I wasn't even part of the program, you and Jack were engaged to be married...
Jack O'Neill: Excuse me?
Samantha Carter: What... okay, uh, even if you did actually experience this alternate reality, doesn't the very fact that there were differences mean that we won't face the same fate?
Dr. Daniel Jackson: Yes. But the defining event, the death of Ra, took place in both worlds.
Teal'c: An attack of retribution.
Dr. Daniel Jackson: Yes. And the same thing is gonna happen here unless we stop it.
Jack O'Neill: All right. Wait a minute. Let - let me get something straight here. Engaged?
Samantha Carter: It is theoretically possible.
Jack O'Neill: It's against regulations.
Samantha Carter: I'm talking physics, sir.

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When Col. O'Neill and Daniel Jackson try to convince Sen. Kinsey of an impending Goa'uld attack on earth, Sen. Kinsey responds that the Goa'uld will regret taking on the U.S. military. Jackson then responds, somewhat sarcastically, "Oh, you're right. We'll - we'll just upload a computer virus into the mothership." Uploading a computer virus into the mothership (of the invasion force) was the somewhat unlikely technique used to defeat the aliens in the blockbuster Independence Day (1996) Jackson's comment is a nod to Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich, who co-wrote both "Independence Day" and Stargate (1994), the movie on which this series was based; Emmerich was also the director of both "Independence Day" and the movie version of "Stargate".
In a season 1 episode Daniel makes a sarcastic remark that they will be able to upload a computer virus into a Goa'uld mothership to stop an invasion. This is an obvious reference to the film Independence Day (1996) which was directed by Roland Emmerich, who also directed the original Stargate (1994) film.
Features parts of several previous episodes of season one.