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Fragile Balance (Stargate SG-1)
"Fragile Balance" is the 3rd episode from the seventh season of military science fiction television show ''Stargate SG-1'' and is the 135th overall. It was first broadcast on June 20, 2003 on the Sci-fi Channel. The episode was written by Peter DeLuise and Michael Greenburg, with Damian Kindler writing the teleplay. DeLuise also directed the episode. In the episode, a teenage boy who claims to be Colonel Jack O'Neill ( Michael Welch) shows up at Stargate Command. Believing that the Asgard are involved, the team tries to find the culprit in order to unravel what has happened to Jack. The episode was originally developed for season 4, and was then moved into season 5 and would have originally centred around a half-human, half-Asgard character called Odin. Eventually "Fragile Balance" was redeveloped as part of season 7, exploring themes such as alien abduction, human cloning as well as expanding upon the Asgard mythology. Michael Welch's performance as Jack O'Neill was particularly ...
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Stargate SG-1
''Stargate SG-1'' (often stylized in all caps, or abbreviated ''SG-1'') is a military science fiction Adventure fiction, adventure television series within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Stargate, ''Stargate'' franchise. The show, created by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner, is based on the 1994 science fiction film ''Stargate (film), Stargate'' by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich. The television series was filmed in and around the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The series premiered on Showtime (TV network), Showtime on July 27, 1997 and moved to the Syfy, Sci Fi Channel on June 7, 2002; the final episode first aired on Sky1 on March 13, 2007. The story of ''Stargate SG-1'' begins about a year after the events of the feature film when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the Stargate (device), Stargate can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets and in space. SG-1 is an elite United States Air Force special operations t ...
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Military Science Fiction
Military science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that features the use of science fiction technology, mainly weapons, for military purposes and usually principal characters who are members of a military organization involved in military activity, usually during a war; occurring sometimes on Earth in the future, or in outer space or on a different planet or planets. It exists in literature, comics, film, and video games. A detailed description of the conflict, the tactics and weapons used for it, and the role of a military service and the individual members of that military organization form the basis for a typical work of military science fiction. The stories often use features of actual past or current Earth conflicts, with countries being replaced by planets or galaxies of similar characteristics, battleships replaced by space battleships, and certain events changed so the author can extrapolate what might have occurred. Characteristics Traditional military values of ...
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Michael Shanks
Michael Garrett Shanks (born December 15, 1970) is a Canadian actor, writer and director. He is best known for his role as Daniel Jackson in the long-running military science fiction television series ''Stargate SG-1'' and as Charles Harris on the Canadian medical drama ''Saving Hope''. He is also known for his work on low budget, genre work filmed in Canada. Early life Shanks was born in Vancouver, and grew up in Kamloops, British Columbia. He attended the University of British Columbia and was in the BFA Acting Program from 1990 to 1994 and later appeared in several stage productions, serving a two-year apprenticeship with the prestigious Stratford Festival in Ontario. He made guest appearances on TV series like '' Highlander'' and ''University Hospital'', appeared in the TV movie ''A Family Divided'' and had a small role in ''The Call of the Wild'', before winning the role of Daniel Jackson on ''Stargate SG-1''. Career ''Stargate'' franchise Shanks played archaeologist Dr ...
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Daniel Jackson (Stargate)
Daniel Jackson, PhD, is a fictional character in the military science fiction franchise '' Stargate'', and one of the main characters of the 1997 series ''Stargate SG-1.'' He is portrayed by James Spader in the 1994 film ''Stargate'', and by Michael Shanks in ''Stargate SG-1'' and other ''SG-1'' derived media. Jackson is the only ''Stargate'' character to appear in all of the films and series in the franchise (not including the non-canonical ''Stargate Infinity''); the main character Jack O'Neill did not appear in the 2008 film '' The Ark of Truth''. In the 1994 film, Dr. Jackson is an archaeologist who is a part of the first team to go through the Stargate on a reconnaissance mission, led by Colonel Jack O'Neil. He then becomes one of the main characters of the subsequent television series ''Stargate SG-1'', where he, Jack O'Neill, Samantha Carter and Teal'c make up SG-1, a part of the Stargate Program whose goal is to explore the galaxy and defend against alien threats. ...
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Don S
Don, don or DON and variants may refer to: Places *County Donegal, Ireland, Chapman code DON *Don (river), a river in European Russia *Don River (other), several other rivers with the name *Don, Benin, a town in Benin *Don, Dang, a village and hill station in Dang district, Gujarat, India *Don, Nord, a ''commune'' of the Nord ''département'' in northern France *Don, Tasmania, a small village on the Don River, located just outside Devonport, Tasmania *Don, Trentino, a commune in Trentino, Italy * Don, West Virginia, a community in the United States *Don Republic, a temporary state in 1918–1920 *Don Jail, a jail in Toronto, Canada People Role or title *Don (honorific), a Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian title, given as a mark of respect *Don, a crime boss, especially in the Mafia , ''Don Konisshi'' (コニッシー) *Don, a resident assistant at universities in Canada and the U.S. *University don, in British and Irish universities, especially at Oxford, Cambridge, St An ...
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George Hammond (Stargate)
Lieutenant General George S. Hammond, USAF (Ret.) is a fictional character in the '' Stargate franchise''. Played by American actor Don S. Davis, General Hammond serves as the commander of Stargate Command (SGC) in the first seven seasons of the 1997 television series ''Stargate SG-1''. He is relieved of command in the series' season 7 finale "Lost City", but becomes head of the new Homeworld Security department at the beginning of season 8. Hammond's off-screen retirement is confirmed in ''SG-1''s season 10, and the character's death is mentioned in the series finale of ''SG-1''s spin-off series ''Stargate Atlantis'', " Enemy at the Gate". Don S. Davis left the regular role after the seventh season of ''SG-1'' due to health problems, but appeared in later seasons as well as in a season 1 episode of ''Stargate Atlantis''. Davis died from a heart attack in June 2008, making his appearance in the 2008 direct-to-DVD film '' Stargate: Continuum'' his last. For his portrayal of Hammon ...
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Amanda Tapping
Amanda Tapping (born 28 August 1965) is a British-Canadian actress and director. She is best known for portraying Samantha Carter in the Canadian–American military science fiction television series ''Stargate SG-1,'' ''Stargate Atlantis,'' and ''Stargate Universe.'' She also starred as Helen Magnus in the science fiction-fantasy television series ''Sanctuary''. Early life Born in Rochford, Essex, England, Tapping moved with her family to Ontario, Canada, when she was three years old. She attended North Toronto Collegiate Institute, where she excelled in environmental science and drama. However, when she finished in 1984, she decided to focus her attention on drama, attending the University of Windsor School of Dramatic Arts in Windsor, Ontario. Career After graduation, Tapping continued to study theatrical arts while performing in several stage productions. She appeared in several television commercials and played a variety of roles in television and film productions, suc ...
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Samantha Carter
Samantha "Sam" Carter, United States Air Force, USAF is a Character (arts), fictional character in the Canadian–American military science fiction ''Stargate'' franchise. Played by Amanda Tapping, she appears in all three shows in the franchise: ''Stargate SG-1'', ''Stargate Atlantis'', and ''Stargate Universe''. She was a main character in all ten seasons of ''Stargate SG-1'' (1997–2007). Following a recurring role in ''Stargate Atlantis'' for three seasons (2004–07), Carter became a main character in Season 4 of ''Atlantis'' (2007–08), and also appeared in the 2008 direct-to-DVD ''SG-1'' films ''Stargate: The Ark of Truth'' and ''Stargate: Continuum''. Amanda Tapping accepted a starring role in ''Sanctuary (TV series), Sanctuary'' and appears in only the first and last episodes in Season 5 of ''Atlantis'' (2008–09). Carter also appears in two episodes of Season 1 of ''Stargate Universe.'' Captain Samantha Carter first appears in "Children of the Gods", ...
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Asgard (Stargate)
Over its decade of existence, science fiction TV series ''Stargate SG-1'' developed an extensive and detailed backdrop of diverse characters. Many of the characters are members of alien species discovered while exploring the galaxy through the Stargate, although there are an equal number of characters from offworld human civilizations. While ''Stargate SG-1'', ''Stargate Atlantis'' and '' Stargate Universe'' are separate shows, they take part in the same fictional universe, so no character is internally show-specific. Main characters Except for the commanders of the top-secret Stargate Command military base (SGC), all main characters of ''Stargate SG-1'' are members of the SG-1 team, the primary unit of the SGC in the show. SG-1's duties include first contact, reconnaissance and combat, diplomacy, initial archaeological surveying, and technological assessment. The composition of SG-1 changes several times during the series run and varies in several alternative universes. Jack ...
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Human Cloning
Human cloning is the creation of a genetically identical copy (or clone) of a human. The term is generally used to refer to artificial human cloning, which is the reproduction of human cells and tissue. It does not refer to the natural conception and delivery of identical twins. The possibility of human cloning has raised controversies. These ethical concerns have prompted several nations to pass laws regarding human cloning. Two commonly discussed types of human cloning are ''therapeutic cloning'' and ''reproductive cloning''. Therapeutic cloning would involve cloning cells from a human for use in medicine and transplants. It is an active area of research, but is not in medical practice anywhere in the world, as of . Two common methods of therapeutic cloning that are being researched are somatic-cell nuclear transfer and (more recently) pluripotent stem cell induction. Reproductive cloning would involve making an entire cloned human, instead of just specific cells or tissues ...
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Alien Abduction
Alien abduction (also called abduction phenomenon, alien abduction syndrome, or UFO abduction) refers to the phenomenon of people reporting their experience of being kidnapped by extraterrestrial beings and subjected to physical and psychological experimentation. People claiming to have been abducted are usually called "abductees" or "experiencers". Most scientists and mental health professionals explain these experiences by factors such as suggestibility (e.g. false memory syndrome), sleep paralysis, deception, and psychopathology.Appelle, 1996 Skeptic Robert Sheaffer sees similarity between some of the aliens described by abductees and those depicted in science fiction films, in particular '' Invaders From Mars'' (1953). Typical claims involve forced medical examinations that emphasize the subject's reproductive systems.Miller, John G. "Medical Procedural Differences: Alien Versus Human." In: Pritchard, Andrea & Pritchard, David E. & Mack, John E. & Kasey, Pam & Yapp, Claudia. ...
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Stargate Command
Over its decade of existence, science fiction TV series ''Stargate SG-1'' developed an extensive and detailed backdrop of diverse characters. Many of the characters are members of alien species discovered while exploring the galaxy through the Stargate (device), Stargate, although there are an equal number of characters from offworld human civilizations. While ''Stargate SG-1'', ''Stargate Atlantis'' and ''Stargate Universe'' are separate shows, they take part in the same fictional universe, so no character is internally show-specific. Main characters Except for the commanders of the top-secret Stargate Command military base (SGC), all main characters of ''Stargate SG-1'' are members of the SG-1 team, the primary unit of the SGC in the show. SG-1's duties include First contact (science fiction), first contact, reconnaissance and combat, diplomacy, initial archaeology, archaeological surveying, and technological assessment. The composition of SG-1 changes several times during the ...
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