Season 1, Episode 17 - Solitudes
Original Air Date: February 6, 1998

The Stargate malfunctions, and as a result, Teal'c and Daniel make it back to the SGC, but Jack and Sam find themselves trapped near a Stargate in an icy crevasse on an unknown planet. O'Neill is badly hurt, and Dr. Carter must try to dig the nearby gate device out of the ice and find a way to make it work.

now i know its not going to happen but this is the episode which made me think that sam and jack should be a couplwe they look so cute and comfy when they were snuggling in to each other and im getting all soppy and emotional.

It was very telling how Jack was thinking about Sarah when he was almost gone... He still loves her, but because he feels so responsible for the death of their son he's unable to be with her.

I do agree this is the one that made Sam and Jack a little closer then they are aloud. If Jack had not said Saras name she might had said something she would had regreated .Then maybe that is what Jack whated her to beleave. Even if he is dieing he will not confess that he loves her. That Zatart thing he was forced to say I care for her more then I am suppost too. Jack said I love you behind that wall, and only Sam saw it, and even she forgot she saw him say it. All in all this one was a must.

Yes it's true I did love this episode but doesn't it make you wonder just how lucky Sam and Jack were to have landed in Antarctica during the summer when the barren ice land is accessable?? I mean come on, it's public knowledge that there are only certain times of the year that you can actually get access to McMurdo and any of the other stations. But I won't spoil it any further for you. I did love it even tho it was a tiny bit unrealistic

i think this is a geneuin episode which most stargate fans like cause it was a little surprise to see that there were 2 stargates on earth and when i think of this episode it always makes me think of how talented richard dean anderson and amanda tapping are its great cin those 2 together and actually excepting each other as team members and sams dedication wow she is one strong character.

What makes you wonder though is how did the second gate suddenly decide to activate, and why just 2 of them transported there

I forgot, what made the gate malfunction???????

They didn't know the gate was busy, otherwise they would have gone to Abydos or someplace I guess.

But here's a question (kick in the teeth at least) for you shippers out there: is it really a turn on when a guy is lying in the arms of girl #1 and is moaning and crying out girl #2's name??

no that really wouldnt turn me on i would actually try and sufficate the guy with the pillow if he said some1 elses name.

ROTFL... seriously, laughed my head off....

Then why do shippers think this the be-all-to-end-all moment between Jack and Sam? I'm not criticising, someone please help me understand.

even if the guy was seriously drugged and said some1 elses name id still try and sufficate them seriously all u guys out there heres a tip its not a turn on foir us girls when you say another womans name especially if its you x-flippin wife, girlfriend or fiancee.

I never suggested it was a turn on - same as for a woman calling out another man's name would not be a turn on for a guy. All I was saying was that he was barely lucid and was likely hallucinating.

Here's a thought, given more time would Carter have left him there like he wanted? I know she did sorta, but came back, but would she have stayed and died in his arms???

A different womans point of view I liked this one too, like I said before. My husband called me his X-wife before, I did not care I was married to him now, not her. When your sick, or hurt in Jacks case, your not in your right mine. . The reason the gate jumbed from one gate to another, was a power surge, to much power coming though the gate with a stafe wepon.

so it was the goulds fault then......cause if your saying that then im right

Oh your right, it was the jaffa's falt, they fired the staff wepond.

A staff weapon? Are you sure? Is that all it took to do this??? Perhaps we should shoot the gate more then, who knows who else on Earth has a gate....

I don't think it was a staff weapon. It was some fairly intensive high powered energy weapons that were too far away from the Stargate to identify the actual source. So for all we know it could have been a bunch of Stormtroopers with those tripod mounted heavy lasers! Or perhaps a bunch of dudes in red (or gold if you're a TNG fan) shirts?

Now you don't see it all that clearly, but it definitely looked like several shots hit the gate as they were passing through. So it was not a single shot from a staff weapon - at least it's not made to look that way anyway.

And I think that once Carter saw that there was nothing up there above the crevasse, she fully intended to come back and die with O'Neill. There really wasn't anywhere for her to go. She had no idea what planet she was on. And it was freezing cold. Even though she'd live for a good deal longer than O'Neill would, she definitely has a "Leave nobody behind" mentality.

And I also think that at this point there really wasn't anything between Carter and O'Neill. Perhaps the makings of something in the future, but nothing at this point. So that wouldn't be the reason she would have stayed.

The energy the gate absorbed caused a powersurge which resulted in the gate jumping to the next closest functioning gate. I guess if we didn't have the beta gate they would have popped up at Abydos.

The guy was drugged and seeing things...nothing he said mattered