8.6/101,616 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
7.9/101,497 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
7.3/101,436 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
7.0/101,451 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
6.8/101,434 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
8.3/101,536 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
7.4/101,438 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
6.7/101,363 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
7.6/101,390 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
7.1/101,414 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
8.0/101,466 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
8.3/101,491 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
7.2/101,431 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
7.6/101,349 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
9.1/101,968 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
8.6/101,570 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
7.4/101,386 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
7.8/101,350 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
6.7/101,370 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
7.5/101,337 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
8.7/101,798 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
7.1/101,348 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
The Best Episodes of Stargate SG-1 Season 2
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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 1616 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".