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One False Step

During a routine reconnaissance mission, the UAV plane crashes into a cactus-like plant. Sent to recover the plane, SG-1 discovers that the inhabitants have begun falling ill, and before long a plague of illness sweeps the race.

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Episode Discussion

StevenJDickie posted 2 months ago

Goofs... 

The organism on the planet is more a fungus than a plant. Despite the blooming at the end of the episode, the organism is not green, so it can not feed by photosynthesis. On the other hand, it has threads in the soil, similar to the vegetative body of fungi.

StevenJDickie posted 2 months ago

Goofs... 

When Teal'c returns through the Stargate the announcement can be heard declaring off world activation followed by the noise of the Unstable vortex but the Stargate can already be seen active in the background.

StevenJDickie posted 2 months ago

Goofs... 

At around 34:50 mark, Captain Samantha Carter mentions there are long amplitude waves. Judging by the image on the screen, she is talking about long wavelength, which also has high amplitude, but the terms are not interchangeable - wavelength represents frequency, and amplitude is the strength of the signal, in this case the volume of the sound at a particular wavelength/frequency. Also, consumer grade camcorders do not have a dynamic range larger than that of human senses, in case of sound the range humans can hear is, at best, from 20 Hz to 20 kHz, and camcorders do not really go as low as that, more like 200 Hz, and definitely not to subsonic range (below 20 Hz). That said, it is not possible for the camera to record sub bass frequencies.

StevenJDickie posted 2 months ago

Goofs... 

Despite Dr. Janet Fraiser's discovery that the aliens' hearts are located in their abdomens, when one of them needs Cardiopulmonary resuscitation it is performed on his chest.

StevenJDickie posted 2 months ago

Goofs... 

We rarely see the Pod people close-up for extended periods of time in this episode. However, early on in this episode, a camera catches the back of some of them, and invisible zipper seams running up the back of the costumes are clearly visible.

StevenJDickie posted 2 months ago

Goofs...

As Dr. Daniel Jackson attempts to communicate with the aliens inside one of their huts, his jacket patches switch from the usual SG-1 and Earth symbol designs to two Earth symbols between shots.

StevenJDickie posted 2 months ago
This is the first of two episodes of Stargate SG-1 directed by Bill Corcoran.
StevenJDickie posted 2 months ago
This is the only episode of Stargate SG-1 written by Michael Kaplan and John Sanborn. According to The Companion, it was substantially rewritten by executive producer Robert C. Cooper.
StevenJDickie posted 2 months ago
The Pod people were taught how to move by acrobat Colin Heath, a performer with the Cirque du Soleil and a student of the National Circus School in Montreal.
StevenJDickie posted 2 months ago
Stargate SG-1 co-creator Brad Wright described filming the episode as one of his scariest moments, saying: “We were putting these people that were dressed in virtually nothing but makeup outside in temperatures that were pretty much zero and asking them to act and act in an alien sort of way […] And I thought, ‘Oh my God, we’re going to kill somebody. They’re going to freeze to death.”
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