Introduction

The ninth season of Stargate SG-1, an American-Canadian television series, began airing on 15 July 2005 on Sci Fi.

The ninth season concluded on 10 March 2006, after 20 episodes on the same channel.

The series was originally developed by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner, and Brad Wright, Robert C. Cooper, Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie served as executive producers.

The season arc centres on the new threat of the Ori, a race who Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) and Vala Mal Doran (Claudia Black) unleash in an unknown galaxy, and who are threatening to prepare for a crusade into the Milky Way galaxy to convert the beings to their religion called Origin.

Season nine regular cast members included Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Beau Bridges, and Michael Shanks. Claudia Black appeared in a recurring role for eight episodes.

The ninth season begins with General Hank Landry (Beau Bridges) having assumed command of Stargate Command, and newcomer Lieutenant Colonel Cameron Mitchell (Ben Browder) trying to regroup the SG-1 team after the events of the eighth season.

Outline

The Ori have engineered a bioweapon of bugs (known as R-75 or “Prior bugs”), asexual, fast-reproducing, omnivorous insects

When given meat, its numbers increase dramatically and they become voracious swarming predators, able to strip a human to the bone in moments.

They prefer darkness and spend most of their time underground, where they hunt via echolocation.

When a group of Earth diplomats go on a tour on the off-world Gamma Site research base, R-75 overrun the base and consume most of the base personnel.

Cut off from the Stargate, SG-1 is forced to flee to a research site and set up a message to alert the Odyssey to rescue them when it arrives.

The Odyssey rescues SG-1 and the delegates and destroys the bugs with a toxin, but the bugs are spreading on other planets and are revealed to be another tactic of the Priors in submitting the people of the galaxy in worshipping the Ori.

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Production & Filming Details

• Director(s): Ken Girotti.
• Writer(s): Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie.
• Release Date: 17 February 2006.
• Running Time: 45 minutes.
• Country: US.
• Language: English.