Season 1, Episode 18 - Tin Man
Original Air Date: February 13, 1998

O'Neill and the SG-1 team arrive on P3X-989, only to be zapped by an electrical trap that renders them unconscious. When they awake, they find themselves in an underground lab with Harlan, a strange but apparently peaceful native of P3X-989 who claims to be 11,000 years old.

"on, contria" i love harlen hes such a sweet little dude. this episode was so great cause we get to see how talented thew actors are by playing doubles of themselves.

o'neill:what, this is better-im dead?

this was a great episode, also it must have been hard to pull off

yeah but i suppose because those actors have great abbiliteas when it comes to acting they find it a ok challenge to pull off.

Was a funny ep and I like how Harlen (man he was annoying with his I'm the last person here but I'll be annoyingly ****** cheerful anyway attitude) disintergrated Teal'c. And I love how they did visuals when Jack cut open his arm to find that he had become a machine/robot/artifical sinificant other.

And wasn't Daniel just so cute when he realised that they could live forever

Why don't they make a lot of "SG1" teams and let them go fight the Goa'uld?? Never mind the ethics, if you can wipe out the enemy without risking a human life, isn't that what it's all about?!?!??

I'm afraid Iraq is out of our hands, as frustrated and angry as I am about it, there's nothing I can do. But if it's not him, I guess we'd go after someone else.

But really when you think of the technology used to create these robots, that's pretty amazing, sure beats the replicators. Sudden thought, who's with me here, Reece... Harlem... why we never made this connection before???

yeah but if we had robots like that on earth then i think some ppl word abuse them like use them for their power and all that crap.

Isn't that the idea? To use them instead of endangering human life? Don't humans come above all other beings? (slightly sarcastic)

no as much as wed hate to say it we are just like those robots just like them we are abbused by our govement like telling us that we are going to war with iraq and that we have to deal with petrol prices going up and they are ordered about just like us and they do have their own oppinions just like us.

AND therein lies the irony; America is fighting for what it believes, for freedom and democracy, to extinguish the dictator. Yet the one thing it can't control is its own leaders. But, this is neither the time nor the place for that.

I still say create some robots and send 'em after Anubis (and anyone else we don't like). Or at the very least have a Carter or two in reserve in case the original gets sick or something.

i dont think theyd be able to posses all the knowledge sam has or the witty cheerful humour she has.

Why not? I mean they are exact replicas. But anyway, so noone thinks Harlen could be Reece's father? Awww I thought I was on to something there.

ok i know you dont think im any expert or anything cause im not but i think that no robot can ever be a replica of the person it cant have the memories or have the feelings that the person was feeling at that time.

I wonder why they never go back there, make a shitload of copies of themselves and attack someplace.

well im sure alot of ppl are wondering that i know ive thought about it now and again.

what if harlens only got technology which just clones ppl?

The reason is simple. If you watch the episode again they quickly run out of power if they are away from the plant for too long.
Launching any kind of attack with these would have to use some massive power source.

Also, Harlem said that the 'others' left with smaller power generators that they made themselves - exploiring the universe and getting rid of a nasty case of cabin fever I bet...

So it may be possible that they helped to create Reece, although the technology she has seems far more superior.(i.e. ability to absorb metal and create her 'toys' and also a self sustaining power source.

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Actually...I'm watching DoubleJepardy (Ep 421) right now...and the robot sam made a power pack that lasts for 48 hours...

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i didnt really like reece she annoyed me

gee for such an advanced race, and with all that time the robot guy had on his hands, I would think he would have invented a way to make his battery last longer.

just like how the goa'uld or any of the races have thought of putting an Iris on their gate. Don't any of the races care who comes through the gate.
Earth seems to be one of the most heavily guarded gates and we're primative.

Ahhh there's the answer!! The power issue! They can't make a zillion SG1's to fight snakes as they'd run outa power. Hmm Naquadria???

Oh well I guess Harlen couldn't have had anything to do with Reece then either as she was that much more advanced - damn, a good theory out the window there.

well he was lonely wasnt he and im sure he just wanted company and the battery thingy didnt really occur to him at the time.
kind of feel sorry for the guy