THE TOK'RA - PART 1 - Eposode #32
After Samantha has a dream involving the Tok'Ra, she convinces the team to go explore the planet, and find out if the Tok'Ra do in fact exist. Meanwhile Sam's father's Cancer is getting worse. SG-1 then become "prisoners" of the Tok'Ra, even after Sam gets word that her father's near death. She then discovers that her father would make the perfect host for a dying Tok'Ra, and is allowed to return to Earth. There she tries to talk him into becoming a Tok'Ra to save his life.
NOTES OF INTEREST:
- "Tok'ra" means "Against Ra." According to Jaffa legend, the Tok'ra are Goa'uld resistance, their stated goal being the dstruction of the System Lords and a change in the ways of the Empire. They are despised and hunted by the Goa'uld and must continually flee to new planets. When they arrive on a planet, they go deep underground and use technology to plant crystals and grow tunnels, similar to a geode. When they move on, the tunnels are destroyed.
- The Tok'ra are infiltrators. They had operatives who died aboard Apophis' ships during the attack on Earth. Grand Counsel Garshaw of Belote is the most hunted Goa'uld of all time.
- The Tok'ra do not take hosts by force. The symbiote blends with a host by choice, resulting in a truly symbiotic relationship. The symbiote and host share a body, knowledge, and feelings. The life span is double that of a human, but they do not use a sarcophagus to extend life further. Thus they have zero to negative population growth.
- Symbiotes do not have a gender, but take on the gender of the host. Jolinar had always been in female hosts, and was the mate of Martouf/Lantash for over 100 years.
- Lantash is the symbiote within the host body of Martouf. Garshaw is the symbiote within the host body of Yosuuf. Selmak is the symbiote within the host body of Saroosh. Jolinar was the symbiote within the host body of Rosha.
- Jacob Carter's lymphoma has spread to his liver, and he was admited to the USAF Academy Hospital, not expected to live much longer.
- SG-3, under Colonel Makepeace, was sent to extract Carter to return to Earth.
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