Stargate SG1

Urgo

What appears to be a routine mission to a world that looks well lovely the team enter the gate and to them step out into the SGC, they find out that 15 hours have passed and they are immediately sent to the infirmary. Dr Fraiser discovers that each of the team have an alien device embedded in their brains and it is radiating energy and very soon they begin to hear someone talking to them and then a man appears (only seen by them) and introduced himself as Urgo (Dom DeLuise). They learn his some sort of alien intelligence that is learning and experiencing humanity throw them and thus while he claims he can control them he had a level of suggestion at his disposal. Sam of course comes up with a solution based on using an EMP device and after a few days of believing she has vanquished the entity he returns more annoying than ever.

Urgo is a very funny and entertaining episode made so by the having Dom DeLuise as the titular character and allowing him to have free reign with his lines, the guy was made for comedic improvisation and while we do have a DVD commentary much has been said in interviews to how difficult it was to work alongside Dom and keep a straight face. The humour aside the story proposes an alien race as desperate to learn about the galaxy as humanity but employs an avatar to search our knowledge. The idea that this AI could begin to search for experiences and answers for itself was well portrayed and overall added some more depth to an episode. A highly recommended episode but we know that the Stargate fanbase can be fickle and humour is selective.

My thanks to Jeff for joining me just before christmas to record this episode he chose and boy did we have some technical issues. Skype refused to work correctly and since Jeff is a teacher and has been using Zoom during the pandemic I downloaded and installed the app and used the recording function. I also ran an PC audio recorder as back up so was confident everything would be fine, it wasn’t. Zoom recorded only seven seconds and the backup only recorded Jeff so that left with the interesting task of recording my side of the conversation as I didn’t want to bother Jeff during the festivities. I think it came out ok but the length of the podcast is shorter than expected but a strong reminder, double check everything before recording.

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