Stargate SG-1 (TV Series) Cure (2002) User Reviews

One of The Best Episodes

[claudio_carvalho · 9/10 · 14 May 2017]

He SG1 arrives at the planet Pangera for a meeting with the amicable people. While O'Neill and Sam meet with Dollen and Commander Tegar for commercial business, Quinn and Teal'c help the scientist Zenna Valk to decipher an ancient Goa'uld ruins that they have recently found. The Pangerans offer a drug called Tretonin that keeps the user healthy and they ask for the address of dangerous Goa'uld worlds without explanation. Dr. Fraiser analyzes the drug and concludes the Pangerans are using symbiote to prepare Tretonin. However Teal'c and Quinn snoop around and find another secret that will affect the relationship with the Tok'ra.

"Cure" is one of the best episodes of "Stargate SG-1". The show could have been longer since the story is great and deserved a better development. But anyway it I worthwhile watching. My vote is nine.

Title (Brazil): "Cure"

Why am I in my feels?!

[Calicodreamin · 7/10 · 15 March 2022]

I'll give this episode the award for the most surprisingly heartfelt storyline, I was kind of in my feels at the ending. A well developed and interesting plot.

How did Queen Egeria get into Kelmaa?

[XweAponX · 10/10 · 5 September 2014]

Don't get me wrong, I love that this episode deals with two important issues: A Possible way for Teal'c and all Jaffa to finally be free of the need to carry an Infant Goa'Uld, and the actual personal history of the Tok'Ra.

New potential allies are found who offer a gift horse to SG-1: The Pangera. In exchange for a drug called "Tritonin" that can cure all ills and give people the perfect health of a Jaffa, all they want are the gate addresses... To Goa'Uld home worlds! Why would they want those? Who in their right mind would deliberately GO to a Goa'Uld world? Jack tries to explain to them, "Bad Idea", but they are fairly insistent. And then the other foot drops when Janet Fraser discovers that anyone who takes the drug, will have to take it forever or die horribly with no immune system.

The question being, how are they making this goo? Quinn basically falls into the answer: From squished up Symbiote-Juice. But, that is not even the big question, which is WHO are the Symbiotes coming from? This is one of the first times we ever get to see a Goa'Uld Queen, and this one is in very sorry shape. The Tok'Ra send two operatives to scope it out, and a secret is revealed that may jeopardize this new alliance, even the future of the alliance of the Tok'Ra with the "Tauri" (aka, Earthers).

Gwynyth Walsh (Be'Tor, of the "Duras Sisters" from Star Trek) is "Kelmaa" and she makes a great sacrifice in order to resolve a genetic problem with the Symbiotes: One that this queen is uniquely able to resolve, and her way of evoking the Queen's help in this matter is very honorable.

We've met another Queen, "Hathor", but she was inside of a Host. We have to ask, how in blazes can a queen fit into a Human Host without the Host looking oddly pear-shaped? Suspension of disbelief is required for this one story, because it is one of the best of the Quinn-Season stories, and becomes a pivotal episode in the scheme of all things SG-1.

awesome episode with unimportant logical flaw

[annyard1960 · 10/10 · 3 January 2018]

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.

A Logical / Ethical Flaw

[dejeanlaw · 22 December 2018]

In addition to the logical flaw about Queen Egeria simply producing one unflawed symbiote that would blend with a person from that world and become a Tokra, once again we see that the Tok'ra symbiotes really don't care that much about their human hosts: it's perfectly acceptable for a Tok'ra symbiote to sacrifice itself for its Queen, and to convince the symbiote's human host to take on a new symbiote in its place (though no one knows how something that big would fit inside a human), but then when the Queen dies, why does the human host have to die along with it? Wouldn't the Tok'ra have found another symbiote to enter the human host and keep her alive? You just see them carrying her body back.