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The Goa'uld commander, Osiris, is defiant and for good reason: when Thor opens fire, his weapons fail to penetrate the Goa'uld ships' shields. At Stargate Command, still grieving Daniel Jackson's recent death, the Asgard Freyr arrives with the news of Thor's defeat and that the Goa'uld have developed advanced technologies that threaten all of ...
As Jack, Sam and Teal'c struggle to come to terms with losing Daniel, an Asgard scientist Heimdall is stranded on Adara II, a planet under attack by the Goa'uld. As the Asgard have no spare ships, they ask Stargate Command, particularly SG-1 to help, using their salvaged Goa'uld cargo ship. Anubis is finally revealed.
Despite Apophis's death in the beginning of Season 5, the Goa'uld Empire remains a major foe in Stargate SG-1 until the end of Season 8. The only influential Goa'uld in the last two seasons of Stargate SG-1 is the System Lord Ba'al (Cliff Simon), who is defeated in the direct-to-DVD film Stargate: Continuum.
Stargate SG-1 creators Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner established in SG-1 ' s 1997 pilot episode "Children of the Gods" that the film's unnamed alien race and the Goa'uld are the same. As such, the look of the series' Goa'uld, including the early archvillain Apophis , was based on Ra in the feature film. [ 17 ]
The Goa'uld are the dominant race in the Milky Way and the primary adversaries from seasons 1 to 8 of Stargate SG-1. The most powerful Goa'uld in the galaxy are collectively known as the System-Lords. They are a parasitic species that resembles finned snakes, which can burrow themselves into a humanoid's neck and wrap around the spinal column.
At Stargate Command, Rak'nor identifies the planet as Erebus, a world controlled by the Goa'uld System Lord Ba'al where prisoners are forced to mine materials for the construction of Goa'uld Ha'tak motherships. Rak'nor also tells them that Erebus' Stargate is protected by an energy shield, which Daniel recalls how to penetrate in another visions.
"Resurrection" is the only episode of Stargate SG-1 to be both written and directed by members of the main cast, with Michael Shanks who portrays Dr. Daniel Jackson writing and Amanda Tapping, who portrays Major Samantha Carter directing. It is also the first and only episode of the show to be directed by a woman.
SG-1 visits the planet Cimmeria (P3X-974), a planet inhabited by Viking descendants, in search of allies against the Goa'uld. Upon arrival, O'Neill and Teal'c are trapped in a labyrinth, where the only exit is through Thor's Hammer, a device to destroy Goa'uld, but preserve the host. Goa'uld weapons are rendered inoperative but not earth guns.