Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Don Davis

Summary: Features the episodes 'A Hundred Days', 'Shades Of Grey', 'New Ground' and 'Maternal Instinct'.

Colonel Jack O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) leads the SG-1 military team on missions across the universe via a map of the galaxy's various "stargates," or portals through which space and time travel is possible. This collection from season three of the sci-fi television series presents episodes 17-20: "A Hundred Days," "Shades of Grey," "New Ground," and "Maternal Instinct."

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The 1994 movie Stargate was originally intended as the start of a franchise, but creators Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin were distracted celebrating their Independence Day. Episodic TV treatment was the natural next step. In the roles of Colonel Jack O'Neill and Dr Daniel Jackson respectively are Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks. They're joined by Captain Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and guilt-stricken former alien baddie Teal'c (Christopher Judge) to form the teacher's pet primary unit SG-1.

With a seemingly endless network of Stargates found to exist on planets all across the known universe, their mission is to make first contact with as many friendly races as possible. Chasing their heels at almost every turn are the "overlord" Goa'uld--the ancient Egyptian Gods who are none too chummy after the events of the original film. The welcome notion of a continued plot thread sees offshoots that follow the reincarnation of Daniel's wife, Sam's father literally joining a renegade faction of the Goa'uld and Jack in an unending quest to out-sarcasm everyone. There's something of The Time Tunnel to the show's premise, but amid a dearth of derivative look-a-likes, Stargate has held its own with stories that put the science fiction back into TV sci-fi. --Paul Tonks

On this DVD: the first two episodes of this volume spotlight O'Neill. "A Hundred Days" is the three months he spends stranded on planet Edora by the fire rain of a passing asteroid belt. Then in "Shades of Grey" he appears to suffer a total personality switch when he steals technology from the Tollan and is insubordinate in the extreme. Both these are terrific concepts but are scarcely enough story to have stretched across more than one episode. A little more teamwork is required to break "New Ground" on a planet fighting a war of ideology. Finally, the storyline concerning the Harcesis child from Volume 10 elicits a "Maternal Instinct" in Daniel after the discovery of mystical planet Kheb. But ultimately his agenda only brings them more trouble.

As well a trailer for the next volume, the disc includes a nine-minute interview with Michael Shanks on his character of anthropologist Dr Daniel Jackson. He reveals his acting career was inspired by Richard Dean Anderson. There's also seven minutes with production designer Richard Hudolin explaining how the on-location Stargate takes an entire day to set up. --Paul Tonks

Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Designing New Worlds Featurette, Profile On Daniel Jackson, Volume 13 Episode Preview
Subtitles:	Danish, English, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
Year:	1999
Release Date:	May 21, 2001
Runtime:	180 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	21713 D V D
Keywords:	General, Series, Wide, Screen, Fiction, Science, Tv, Horror, Episodes, Stargate, Vol, Sci, Fi, Sg, Sg1
Genre:	Science Fiction