Demons

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SG-1 stumbles on a village that is about to sacrifice a young woman to the demon that plagues their village for being possessed. When the village leader discovers SG-1, their lives are threatened as he believes them also to be possessed, and they must fight for their lives.

Episode Info

Number: Season 3, Episode 8
Airdate: Friday Aug 13, 1999 at 20:00
Runtime: 60 minutes

Writer: Carl Binder
Director: Peter DeLuise

7.2 (18 votes)

Guest Cast

Alan C. Peterson

as The Canon

David McNally

as Simon

Christopher Judge

voices Unas

Laura Mennell

as Mary

John R. Taylor

as Elder

Rick Morwick

as Unas

Peter DeLuise

as Screaming Villager

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Cast Appearances

Richard Dean Anderson

as Jack O'Neill

Michael Shanks

as Dr. Daniel Jackson

Amanda Tapping

as Samantha Carter

Christopher Judge

as Teal'c

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Episode Discussion

StevenJDickie posted 4 months ago

It is worth noting that Trepanning was used historically as an effective relief for intracranial swelling resulting from brain trauma, as well as the somewhat less sound releasing evil spirits routine. Both contemporary accounts and signs of healing around the holes on skulls from the prehistoric to medieval periods suggest that the survival rate was, in fact, relatively high.

StevenJDickie posted 4 months ago

O'Neill's first line in the episode is "Trees, trees and more trees. What a wonderful green universe we live in, eh?", a reference to the fact that most of the filming for other planets is done in Vancouver forests. This could also be due to the fact that the Goa'uld terraform many of the planets on which they put humans, making the planets look similar.

StevenJDickie posted 4 months ago

When Colonel Jack O'Neill shoots the Canon, the background music sounds remarkably similar to the soundtrack later heard often during the Ori story arc.

Dredzone71 posted 3 years ago

Alec Peterson is amazing as The Canon & is utterly villainous! And seeing another Unas was a treat, too.

Although the show is a regular indictment of organized religion in many ways, I think it's admirable that they sometimes put Christianity on trial too. This was one of those episodes. Not that the show shies away from examining Governments or the Military, but those are other episodes...