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The Best Episodes of Stargate SG-1 Season 2

Every episode of Stargate SG-1 Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Stargate SG-1 Season 2!

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...
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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"The Serpent's Lair (3)" is the best rated episode of "Stargate SG-1" season 2. It scored 8.6/10 based on 1609 votes. Directed by Jonathan Glassner and written by Brad Wright, it aired on 6/26/1998. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "In the Line of Duty".

  • The Serpent's Lair (3)
    8.6/101,609 votes

    #1 - The Serpent's Lair (3)

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 6/26/1998

    With SG-1 trapped on Klorel's ship, it seems that Earth is doomed as the Pyramid Ships prepare to destroy Earth.

    Director: Jonathan Glassner

    Writer: Brad Wright

  • In the Line of Duty
    7.9/101,490 votes

    #2 - In the Line of Duty

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 7/3/1998

    Carter is possessed by a Goa'uld who claims to be an enemy of the System Lords.

    Director: Martin Wood

    Writer: Robert C. Cooper

  • Prisoners
    7.3/101,430 votes

    #3 - Prisoners

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 7/10/1998

    SG-1 is put on trial and exiled to a prison world, where a woman maintains a strange control over her fellow prisoners.

    Director: David Warry-Smith

    Writer: Terry Curtis Fox

  • The Gamekeeper
    7.0/101,445 votes

    #4 - The Gamekeeper

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 7/17/1998

    SG-1 is imprisoned in a virtual reality realm and forced to relive the worst moments of their lives over and over.

    Director: Martin Wood

    Writer: Jonathan Glassner, Brad Wright

  • Need
    6.8/101,428 votes

    #5 - Need

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 7/24/1998

    Jackson becomes addicted to the effects of a Goa'uld sarcophagus, and falls for the planet's manipulative princess.

    Director: David Warry-Smith

    Writer: Robert C. Cooper, Damian Kindler

  • Thor's Chariot
    8.3/101,530 votes

    #6 - Thor's Chariot

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 7/31/1998

    SG-1 returns to Cimmeria, and finds that without protection from the Asgard the planet has been invaded by the Goa'uld.

    Director: William Gereghty, Bill Gereghty

    Writer: Katharyn Powers

  • Message in a Bottle
    7.4/101,434 votes

    #7 - Message in a Bottle

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 8/7/1998

    SG-1 discovers an ancient artifact that takes O'Neill and the S.G.C. hostage.

    Director: David Warry-Smith

    Writer: Michael Greenburg, Brad Wright, Jarrad Paul

  • Family
    6.7/101,357 votes

    #8 - Family

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 8/14/1998

    The SG-1 team attempt to rescue Teal'c's son, who has been kidnapped and brainwashed by Apophis. Teal'c learns disturbing news about his wife.

    Director: William Gereghty, Bill Gereghty

    Writer: Katharyn Powers

  • Secrets
    7.6/101,382 votes

    #9 - Secrets

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 8/21/1998

    Jackson discovers that his wife has returned to Abydos, and is nine months pregnant with the son of Apophis. O'Neill must keep the secret of the Stargate program from being uncovered.

    Director: Duane Clark

    Writer: Terry Curtis Fox

  • Bane
    7.1/101,407 votes

    #10 - Bane

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 9/25/1998

    Teal'c is infected with deadly venom from a giant insect, and begins a terrible transformation. When he escapes the S.G.C., SG-1 must find him before Colonel Maybourne does.

    Director: David Warry-Smith

    Writer: Robert C. Cooper

  • The Tok'ra (1)
    8.0/101,459 votes

    #11 - The Tok'ra (1)

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 10/2/1998

    SG-1 locates the Tok'ra, a Goa'uld resistance movement who oppose the System Lords, and attempt to form an alliance. Jacob Carter's cancer brings him near death.

    Director: Brad Turner

    Writer: Jonathan Glassner

  • The Tok'ra (2)
    8.3/101,483 votes

    #12 - The Tok'ra (2)

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 10/9/1998

    While SG-1 tries to form an alliance with the Tok'ra, a spy betrays the rebels to the Goa'uld. Jacob Carter finds that the Tok'ra may be his only hope of survival

    Director: Brad Turner

    Writer: Jonathan Glassner

  • Spirits
    7.2/101,421 votes

    #13 - Spirits

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 10/23/1998

    SG-1 finds a planet inhabited by Native American Indians, protected by spirits who are actually advanced alien shapeshifters.

    Director: Martin Wood

    Writer: Tor Alexander Valenza

  • Touchstone
    7.6/101,342 votes

    #14 - Touchstone

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 10/30/1998

    SG-1 is accused of stealing an important weather-controlling device, sending a primative planet into chaos. The team discovers that Earth's second Stargate is being misused.

    Director: Brad Turner

    Writer: Sam Egan

  • The Fifth Race
    9.1/101,961 votes

    #15 - The Fifth Race

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/22/1999

    O'Neill becomes the unwilling receptacle for a library of alien knowledge.

    Director: David Warry-Smith

    Writer: Robert C. Cooper

  • A Matter of Time
    8.5/101,562 votes

    #16 - A Matter of Time

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/29/1999

    After gating to a world on the edge of a black hole, the S.G.C. cannot disengage the Stargate. All of Earth becomes endangered by the time-distorting gravity field.

    Director: Martin Wood, Jim Kaufman

    Writer: Brad Wright, Misha Rashovich

  • Holiday
    7.4/101,379 votes

    #17 - Holiday

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/5/1999

    SG-1 discovers an elderly man known for developing technology to fight the Goa'uld. Daniel is tricked into switching bodies with the man, Ma'chello, who believes he is "owed" for all the good he has done.

    Director: David Warry-Smith

    Writer: Tor Alexander Valenza

  • Serpent's Song
    7.8/101,343 votes

    #18 - Serpent's Song

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/12/1999

    Apophis, SG-1's greatest enemy, seeks sanctuary from Sokar and ends up near death in the S.G.C. infirmary.

    Director: Peter DeLuise

    Writer: Katharyn Powers

  • One False Step
    6.7/101,361 votes

    #19 - One False Step

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/19/1999

    A group of primitive aliens begin to fall deathly ill after SG-1 arrives.

    Director: Bill Corcoran

    Writer: John Sanborn, Michael Kaplan

  • Show and Tell
    7.5/101,329 votes

    #20 - Show and Tell

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/26/1999

    A young boy arrives through the Stargate, and warns of plot by invisible aliens to kill all of the human race in order to rob the Goa'uld of potential hosts.

    Director: Peter DeLuise

    Writer: Jonathan Glassner

  • 1969
    8.7/101,790 votes

    #21 - 1969

    Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 3/5/1999

    A cosmic accident causes SG-1 to be sent back 30 years into Earth's past, where they must locate the Stargate and find a way home.

    Director: Charles Correll

    Writer: Brad Wright

  • Out of Mind (1)
    7.1/101,340 votes

    #22 - Out of Mind (1)

    Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 3/12/1999

    O'Neill, Carter and Jackson awaken from stasis in what appears to be the S.G.C. -- almost 80 years in the future.

    Director: Martin Wood

    Writer: Jonathan Glassner, Brad Wright