Hathor

   An archeology team exploring an ancient Mayan Pyramid in Mexico discovers an Egyptian sarcophagus deep inside a hidden chamber.  From it emerges Hathor, an ancient Egyptian god who kills the archeologists then disappears.

   The empty sarcophagus arrives at the SGC, having been sent to Doctor Jackson.  O'Neill and Daniel instantly reconise the sarcophagus as a Goa'uld healing device like the one Ra had.  But it couldn't have killed the archeologists.  So who did it contain, and who is the woman the guards have detained for demanding access to the Stargate?

   As Hathor uses her charms to control the men on the base, it is left to Carter and a few other women to save the base from the Eygption goddess of Love.

Great Quotes:

TEAL'C: "I have served the Goa'uld.  I have yet to meet a good one."
HAMMOND: "Perhaps that's because you served the wrong one."

Review:

   We have got though six episodes, including a visit to Apophis' strong hold, Chulak, without meeting a Goa'uld.  So this episode reminds us what this series is about in the broader sense.
   The opening is wonderful, with the surprise discovery of a Goa'uld on Earth.  It is also fairly scary without actually showing anything.  The episode does something that is very rare for a television programme, starting off mild and getting increasing more dramatic and violent.  Culminating in Carter shooting Hathor.
   Perhaps the only disapointing thing is the casting of Hathor, who doesn't maintain interst for very long and bears little resemablance to pictures/statues of either Hathor or Aphrodite.  [2 out of 5]

Watch Out For:

• The special effect where Hathor steps out of the flames.  (And you will really have to watch hard, blink and you'll miss it.)

Plot Holes:

• This episode features a priceless artifact involved in a murder investigation, belonging to the Cuba government, and it just gets set to Doctor Jackson, merely because he published a paper on cross-fertilisation of cultures.  You make up your mind which is the least plausible bit.

• The general interupts Daniel to stop him mentioning Ra and the stargate.  Then soon after, O'Neill mentions Chulak.

• No-one seems suprised that Daniel obviously told Hathor about killing Ra.

• The guard's would have searched her before locking her up, so where did she hide the palm weapon.  On the same subject, where did the cloak and headress come from?

• Interestingly, Hathor doesn't have entry scars from the Goa'uld taking possession.

• In Bloodlines, Bra-Tac was worried about how young the larvae they had to place in Teal'c was.  This was apparantly unfounded are Goa'uld larvae can go in only hours after leaving Hathor.

Bloopers:

• Why did they put the sarcophagus in the gate room?  It can't be the only room big enough in a 28 level nuclear silo.  (What budget?  It's real I tell you.)

• Look closely and you can see the Internet address bar starts  file://  which means the website Carter was reading was stored on that computer's hard drive.