Tähevärav SG-1 Red Sky (1997–2007) Online

The SG1 arrives on a planet with a primitive and superstitious population that worships Thor. The Stargate was blocked and the SG-1 has overridden the protocols creating a wormhole through the sun to go to the planet. They find a dying planet with a mysterious red sky. Samantha researches and finds that they have caused the phenomenon bringing a different mineral that has caused the modification of the sun. The SG-1 tries to revert the situation and contact the Asgard that explain that the Stargate was blocked to protect the civilization from the Goaul'd. However, the Asgardian refuse to help the people as part of the treat they made with the Gouaul'd of not interfering with the civilizations under their protection. Now the SG-1 has to find a means to save them.

"Red Sky" could have been one of the best episodes of "Stargate SG-1". But the episode is strange and without explanation about who saved the inhabitants of the planet. The SG-1 caused the problem; tried to help the locals; offered to bring them Earth; once they do not accept, Jack is right and they should have gone away. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil: "Red Sky"

This episode could be better if it didn't have obvious plot holes.

Plot: SG-1 travels to a planet named K'Tau by overriding certain Stargate safety protocols. As a result, they accidentally create a life- threatening problem for the inhabitants of K'Tau by altering their sun's chemistry. SG-1 manages to get in contact with the Asgard Freyr, who brought the people to that planet.

Freyr says that K'Tau is under the Protected Planets Treaty, so the Asgard can't help SG-1 fix the problem they caused, despite being capable of fixing the problem. Otherwise the Treaty will be void, leaving the Goa'uld free to attack Asgard planets.

Now, this is where the first plot hole appears. The Asgard say they aren't allowed to "artificially advance" people by nullifying "natural disasters." While O'Neill accepts this explanation, it doesn't make any sense at all - especially considering that the problem was caused by humans and would never naturally occur. It's not a natural disaster. The Asgard should therefore be free to help SG-1 without voiding the Protected Planets Treaty, yet for some reason they claim otherwise. (Since this is a really obvious hole, it seems like lazy writing in creating this episode.)

The next plot hole appears when people begin traveling between K'Tau and Earth. Since this is exactly what caused the problem in the first place, wouldn't continued travel from Earth's Stargate result in the problem with the sun worsening?

O'Neill asks - several times - how the Asgard pretending to be gods is any better than the Goa'uld lies about being gods. There are some interesting directions that could be taken here, but these questions pretty much get ignored in favor of advancing the plot (which is already flawed).

There are some other issues with this episode but they're mostly forgivable considering they require suspension of disbelief or happen off-screen so we don't understand exactly what happened.

At the very end, SG-1 believes the Asgard helped after all, but it's entirely possible that they didn't. It's open to speculation, however it doesn't matter since the Asgard could have intervened at any time. Instead, they told SG-1 that they'd rather condemn the people of an entire planet to death instead of help with a small issue, which seems very out of character.