"Stargate SG-1" Review Season 01, Episode 08, Brief Candle
9/10
19th September 1997
Written By: Jeff F. King
Directed By: Kenneth J. Girotti
When SG-1 visits a world of seeming bliss, things turn for the worse when O'Neill is infected with nanocites which is present in all the natives. "Unto every man/woman the Creator gives a hundred blissful days." To start with the assumption is that this refers to a hundred day celebration, but when it becomes apparent that the locals age one year per day, time is running out for O'Neill who has already lived for thousands of days.
Colonel O'Neill prefaced his own plight upon entering the village after being told by his comrades that the world they were on looked like paradise, stating "Sure, have an apple, what could happen?"
There is a near breech of containment when the nanocites brought back to the SGC attempt to spread. For once prudence is the course taken, even at the expense of the life of an Officer, and the samples are destroyed.
The plot is intricate, the acting talent is good, the effects are mostly make-up and props.
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