I know from about ten seconds of Google searching that Hathor is an Egyptian goddess; goddess of the cow it seems. My thinking is that we’re going to meet another Goa’uld this episode. Maybe she won’t be evil. Maybe she won’t have a freaky, deep voice. (Hey, one can hope.) If anything, I hope it’s interesting!
We open up at a temple, which looks more South American than Egyptian. It’s a step-pyramid. Indeed, they’re in Mexico, and it’s a Mayan temple. There are hieroglyphs inside – Egyptian! These tourists start talking about Jackson and why he was considered crazy for thinking ancient civilizations were connected.
(It’s okay, Daniel, we still love you. Except for Carter. She’ll just tell you to shut up.)
The archaeologists open up a tomb, and a woman sits up and asks them “where is Ra”? (DANGIT, she does have a freaky, distorted, low voice!!) When she realizes they are not Goa’uld, she… kills them.
The tomb gets sent to Jackson and the others. While they talk, they learn that a woman who knows about the Stargate – and the tomb – was apprehended and she’s been sent to the base.
The woman says she - “we” – is/are Hathor. She’s a redhead, though, and doesn’t look anything like the Hathor we saw in the tomb. She blows a strange substance onto his hand. She continues to speak in third-person, and does the blow-on-hand-thing with Hammond. Something tells me there’s more to that than it looks. She doesn’t seem innocent at all.
She’s indeed the Goa’uld, and her eyes glow, voice distorting for a brief time. She learns that SG-1 killed Ra, her husband, and announces that she would take Jackson to be her mate. Then she kisses him and… oh man, I hate where this is going.
Jackson comes down and tells them who she really is and that she’s been in stasis for 3000 years. It turns out that Jackson believes Hathor wants to help them defeat the other Goa’uld. I think this is a load of bull’ and that when she blew on their respective hands she gained a sort of mind control over these two gentlemen.
Hathor comes down and approaches them. She blows on O’Neill’s hand now, and Teal’c’s as well. I think she’s trying to win them over and the only person who is in her right mind is Carter.
Okay, this is super-creepy. Surely she can’t be a good guy – er, girl. She’s clearly influencing all of them with her breath’s creepy abilities. I think she’s going to go back to Chulak and is going to side with Apophis or something like that. I think she’s just using them to get to the Stargate, and it will be up to Carter to save the day.
See? No need to even watch the episode. But I will anyways.
She’s particularly infatuated with Jackson and calls him her “chosen one”. He says, spellbound, that he would die for her.
Carter talks to O’Neill and voices her concerns. O’Neill brushes her concerns off, but she’s obviously not convinced.
Jackson and Hathor go to the Stargate and talk about her prowess, and that she is the “Queen Bee” of sorts. She gives birth to all the Goa’uld larvae.
Carter and Doctor Fraiser (I finally figured out her name) discuss how all the men have been acting strangely. They figure that she has seductive powers, and that’s how she’s controlling everyone on the base. Fraiser and Carter resolve to get rid of her before she takes over everything.
Hathor seduces Jackson, even though he seems to resist at first, and presumably they’re going to have a good time together… in bed.
Like I said, I don’t like where this is going.
Carter gets all the women together and they arm themselves as if going into combat – which they kind of are. (Yeah! Girl power!) It’s her feminist side showing again, but not as ridiculous as earlier in the season. Teal’c approaches and it turns out that since he has a Goa’uld larva, he is unaffected by her powers. He predicts that this place will be her nest, and here she will start to create more Goa’uld that will populate this world.
I love you, Teal’c, but don’t you ever bring good news?
She hands him a gun and they head out.
Carter finds Jackson entranced on his bed (fully clothed I should add) but he’s unresponsive. The women and Teal’c find Hathor in a hot tub, and is guarded by all the men, who stand in her path. So they leave, and try to hypothesize what is going on.
O’Neill tries to talk to Hathor, but she just seduces him, too, and tells him that he will be her first Jaffa. There’s the tell-tale “X” on his stomach and… yeah, I hate where this is going again.
Fraiser tries to convince the men to come in and “get some” per se, and it works for a couple of the guards… and then the girls take them hostage! Yeah! They tie the guys up and go after more, knocking them out as they go along.
In the hot tub they find many Goa’uld larvae (oh, nasty), and Hathor inside, with O’Neill lying unconscious next to it. She sets him in the tub and Carter and the others move in once she leaves to pull him out. He’s still largely sub-concious, but Teal’c figures out that since he no longer has an immune system, he may day without a Goa’uld.
They try setting him in the sarcophagus Hathor was found in and hope for the best. However, the men come in and start shooting, hitting Teal’c and Fraiser, but their wounds don’t appear fatal. Hathor storms out, realizing she no longer has hold of O’Neill, who came out of the sarcophagus back in his right mind. The sarcophagus has now exploded and seems largely useless, but his “X” is gone.
Carter and O’Neill go back to the hot tub with tranquilizer guns and Hathor tries once more to seduce her. Carter shoots her with a pistol several times and she sets the tub aflame before exiting and going straight to the Stargate. And she… goes to Chulak through it.
Well, darn it anyways.
But she no longer has the men under her control, and none of them recall anything of what happened since they became spellbound. Hammond says he’s going to put each of them up for commendation, recognizing their respective ways of keeping their heads straight while all the men were out of it.
Final thoughts… this wasn’t an excellent episode by any means, at least not to me, but it was certainly an interesting one for the ladies. What I thought was neat was getting to see Fraiser in so much action. Usually she’s just getting after some crewmen for not taking care of themselves or just in general running the infirmary, but she had a gun! That was epic!
More than that, though, I rather liked the implications of the episode. It showed that women can and often do have the upper hand – or at least an equal hand. It’s just sometimes in a different way. Hathor was able to control all the guys (except for Teal’c, because he’s amazing… er, because he’s a Jaffa) but she likely underestimated the other women. In the end, though, it was in fact Carter who shot her and pretty much saved the day. The only bad thing is that now there’s one more Goa’uld to deal with over on Chulak. Darnit anyways!
Oh, and it should be noted that her deep, freaky voice only came in occasionally. Hopefully Apophis will turn his off in the future, too.
PREDICTION FOR NEXT EPISODE, “Singularity”
Hey! This episode has the same title as the Star Trek: Enterprise one! Maybe SG-1 will meet the Enterprise NX-01 crew and they’ll all be obsessive-compulsive!
(The SG-1 team materializes in the transporter room of the Enterprise, due to some malfunction of their Stargate or some other fan-fiction-like B.S. I come up with.)
O’Neill: Uh… guys, where are we?
Teal’c: It appears to be a ship of some sort. However, since we have not yet reached the adventure where we find out what Goa’uld or other space ships look like, I cannot tell you anything more.
Jackson: Told you he was trollin’ us.
(The ship’s security chief, Lieutenant Reed, runs in and sees the strangers on the transporter pad.)
Reed: I TOLD you people we need better security! The klaxon didn’t go off! This is a major breach of security!
(He grabs a conveniently-placed phaser rifle from somewhere and Commander “Trip” Tucker runs in.)
Tucker: Malcolm! Put that thing down and help me build the stupid captain’s chair!
Carter: Uh, hi guys, we don’t mean any harm, we’re just here by accident, so if you could direct us to where your Stargate is—
(Doctor Phlox rushes in with a handful of syringes.)
Phlox: THERE IS A DEADLY DISEASE ON BOARD AND EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE TESTED NOW.
O’Neill: Well, this is awkward…
Jackson: Teal’c, isn’t there any way out of this?
Teal’c: I would not know. This series has not even aired. From what I hear, they are still completing Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Carter: I thought we turned off the cable in his quarters!
Teal’c: Indeed you did, Captain. But Star Trek is on broadcast.
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