This is a wonderful episode of SG1. It is one of the few "first contact' episodes, which are always interesting, and always potentially important to earth and the newly met planet.
This episode has several important connections to past and present episodes.
This episode tells the story of how the Tokra came to exist, and why their numbers are in permanent decline.
This episode also introduces the trutonin drug, which eventually Stargate Command figures out how to tweak into a drug that can wean Jaffa from their Goa'uld symbiotes by providing immune system support that can replace that of their Goa'uld symbiotes.
The discovery of the Tokra queen presented different, very fundamental, and seemingly incompatible dilemmas to the three parties involved (tokra, humans, pangarans). Yet they managed to work them out in mutually satisfactory manner.
The logical flaw is this: If the queen had just produced regular offspring then eventually one of them would surely have been able to take a pangaran as host. Once this was achieved the new Tokra could have explained the situation to the pangarans before they got a huge portion of the population hooked on trutonin. But also, all those thousands of offspring could have taken hosts and vastly increased the population of Tokra... which is the most crucial, central and fundamental problem for the entire Tokra race. Woops! I thought Tokra were smarter than this!
Nonetheless, I didn't notice this logical flaw until my second viewing (dumb me), and in any case, this was a truly excellent episode of SG1.
This episode has several important connections to past and present episodes.
This episode tells the story of how the Tokra came to exist, and why their numbers are in permanent decline.
This episode also introduces the trutonin drug, which eventually Stargate Command figures out how to tweak into a drug that can wean Jaffa from their Goa'uld symbiotes by providing immune system support that can replace that of their Goa'uld symbiotes.
The discovery of the Tokra queen presented different, very fundamental, and seemingly incompatible dilemmas to the three parties involved (tokra, humans, pangarans). Yet they managed to work them out in mutually satisfactory manner.
The logical flaw is this: If the queen had just produced regular offspring then eventually one of them would surely have been able to take a pangaran as host. Once this was achieved the new Tokra could have explained the situation to the pangarans before they got a huge portion of the population hooked on trutonin. But also, all those thousands of offspring could have taken hosts and vastly increased the population of Tokra... which is the most crucial, central and fundamental problem for the entire Tokra race. Woops! I thought Tokra were smarter than this!
Nonetheless, I didn't notice this logical flaw until my second viewing (dumb me), and in any case, this was a truly excellent episode of SG1.