The Best Episodes of Stargate SG-1 Season 1
Every episode of Stargate SG-1 Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Stargate SG-1 Season 1!
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 can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets. SG-1 is an elite Air Force special operations team, one of more than two dozen teams from Earth who explore the galaxy and defend against alien threats such as the Goa'uld, Replicators, and the Ori.
Season 1 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Stargate SG-1" season 1 is "Children of the Gods (1)", rated 8.1/10 from 3857 user votes. It was directed by Mario Philip Azzopardi and written by Brad Wright, Jonathan Glassner. "Children of the Gods (1)" aired on 7/27/1997 and is rated 0.5 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Children of the Gods (2)".
8.1/10 3,857 votes#1 - Children of the Gods (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/27/1997
When powerful aliens come through Earth's Stargate, Colonel Jack O'Neill returns to Abydos to retrieve Daniel Jackson, who has discovered that the alien transit system includes much more than the two planets.
Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi
Writer: Brad Wright, Jonathan Glassner
7.6/10 1,927 votes#2 - Children of the Gods (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/27/1997
Colonel O'Neill, leading the new SG-1, track Apophis back to the planet Chulak to rescue Sha're and Skaara, and befriend one of Apophis' Jaffa guards.
Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi, Dennis Berry
Writer: Brad Wright
5.9/10 2,064 votes#3 - The Enemy Within
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 8/1/1997
Major Kawalsky is possessed by a Goa'uld, and the SGC must find a way to remove it without killing him.
Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi, Dennis Berry
Writer: Brad Wright
7.0/10 1,788 votes#4 - Emancipation
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 8/8/1997
An alien civilization is forced to reconsider their views on women when Carter rebels against their social customs.
Director: Jeff Woolnough, Dennis Berry
Writer: Brad Wright, Katharyn Powers
6.6/10 1,711 votes#5 - The Broca Divide
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 8/15/1997
Members of SG-1 become infected with an alien virus that turns them into primitive beings. Dr. Fraiser must find a cure to save the team and the alien population from whom it was contracted.
Director: Jeff Woolnough, Bill Gereghty
Writer: Jonathan Glassner
7.5/10 1,775 votes#6 - The First Commandment
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/22/1997
SG-1 must stop a renegade Stargate commander, who has gone mad and set himself up as a god on an alien planet.
Director: Bill Gereghty, Dennis Berry
Writer: Robert C. Cooper, Jonathan Glassner
8.1/10 1,909 votes#7 - Cold Lazarus
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 8/29/1997
During an off-world assignment, Jack is struck down by energy from a blue crystal... which creates a duplicate of him that returns to Earth in Jack's place.
Director: Dennis Berry, Ken Girotti
Writer: Robert C. Cooper, Jeff King
7.3/10 1,693 votes#8 - The Nox
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 9/12/1997
Pressed by the government to acquire new technologies, SG-1 is led to a world inhabited by a seemingly primative race. When Apophis arrives, SG-1 ambush him with disasterous consequences.
Director: Charles Correll, Ken Girotti
Writer: Jeff King, Hart Hanson
8.0/10 1,776 votes#9 - Brief Candle
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 9/19/1997
SG-1 discovers a race of attractive people who age extremely rapidly. The situation becomes personal when O'Neill begins to suffer from the same accelerated aging, and must live out the rest of his life on the planet.
Director: Charles Correll, Mario Philip Azzopardi
Writer: Hart Hanson, Katharyn Powers
8.2/10 1,766 votes#10 - Thor's Hammer
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/26/1997
Teal'c and O'Neill are transported to an underground cage designed by the Asgard to protect an alien world from the Goa'uld.
Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi, Brad Turner
Writer: Katharyn Powers
7.3/10 1,551 votes#11 - The Torment of Tantalus
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 10/3/1997
SG-1 tracks down Catherine Langford's fiancee, who took the first Stargate trip in 1945, and discovers an ancient meeting hall that may hold the secrets of the universe itself.
Director: Jonathan Glassner, Brad Turner
Writer: Robert C. Cooper
7.1/10 1,547 votes#12 - Bloodlines
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 10/10/1997
Teal'c returns to Chulak to stop his people from implanting his son with a larval Goa'uld.
Director: Jonathan Glassner, Mario Philip Azzopardi
Writer: Robert C. Cooper, Jeff King
7.3/10 1,604 votes#13 - Fire and Water
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 10/17/1997
Daniel is taken captive by an alien with a hidden agenda, while SG-1 is made to believe he is dead.
Director: Allan Eastman, Mario Philip Azzopardi
Writer: Jeff King, Katharyn Powers
7.4/10 1,544 votes#14 - Hathor
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 10/24/1997
The banished Goa'uld Hathor is found in an ancient sarcophagus Earth, and takes over the S.G.C. with hopes of raising a new army against the System Lords.
Director: Allan Eastman, Brad Turner
Writer: Jonathan Glassner
7.1/10 1,498 votes#15 - Singularity
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 10/31/1997
A mysterious affliction wipes out the entire population of a planet, plus an SG team -- except for one young girl. Carter befriends her, but learns that she is being used by the Goa'uld.
Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi, Brad Turner
Writer: Robert C. Cooper, Jonathan Glassner
8.0/10 1,653 votes#16 - Cor-Ai
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/23/1998
Teal'c must stand trial for a crime committed while he served as first prime of Apophis when a villager on an alien world identifies him as the Jaffa who killed his father.
Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi
Writer: Robert C. Cooper, Tom J. Astle
8.1/10 1,611 votes#17 - Enigma
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/30/1998
The SG-1 team rescues a group of advanced humans from a planet near destruction, and must find a new home for the refugees before the Pentagon gets their hands on them.
Director: Bill Gereghty, Mario Philip Azzopardi
Writer: Tom J. Astle, Katharyn Powers
7.5/10 1,535 votes#18 - Solitudes
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/6/1998
Colonel O'Neill and Captain Carter are separated from Jackson and Teal'c during a Stargate journey, and are trapped on a desolate ice world with no way of escape.
Director: Martin Wood
Writer: Brad Wright
8.6/10 1,707 votes#19 - Tin Man
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/13/1998
The members of SG-1 arrive on P3X-989 and are knocked unconscious. They wake up and return to Earth only to find that they are not quite themselves.
Director: Jim Kaufman
Writer: Jeff King
6.0/10 1,568 votes#20 - There But For the Grace of God
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/20/1998
An alien artifact transports Daniel to an alternate reality, where he is not a part of the Stargate program and the Goa'uld -- led by Teal'c -- are invading Earth.
Director: David Warry-Smith
Writer: Robert C. Cooper
8.3/10 1,572 votes#21 - Politics (1)
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/27/1998
Senator Kinsey arrives at the SGC to investigate the program and determine whether the great drain on the U.S. budget is worthwhile, prompting the team to recall missions from the past year.
Director: Martin Wood
Writer: Brad Wright
8.1/10 29 votes#22 - Within the Serpent's Grasp (2)
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/6/1998
SG-1 escapes through the Stargate before it is shut down, and learns that Daniel's alternate reality vision is true: Apophis is moving to attack Earth from above. The team must stop Apophis and his son, Klorel, who inhabits the body of their friend Skaara.
Director: David Warry-Smith
Writer: Brad Wright, Jonathan Glassner