03E03 - Fair Game

Just when Jack was to speech, in the Secretary of Defense's presence, for Sam's promotion to major, he is suddenly beamed up directly into the space-ship in undetectable earth-orbit of Asgard Thor, who warns him the Goa'uld system-lords have decided after Hathor's defeat to launch an attack on earth hundredfold Apophis's and offers Asgard help to propose alternatively Earth's inclusion in the Protected Planets Treaty, then returns Jack. Thor instructs Jack alone to represent the entire planet, on star-base, against a System-lords delegation of three: the Ancient first supreme Greek god Cronos, who once toppled Sokar, Yu the Great or Yu-huang Shang Ti, the first Chinese dragon Emperor, and Nirrti, the Hindu goddess of darkness. The system-lords are rude and difficult. Teal'c hates Cronus above all because his father, once his prime, was killed as punishment for failure and Sam believes he ordered Jolinar's execution. Thor explains the Asgard really bluff against the feudally divided Goa'uld as they must reserve their main forces for a far worse enemy in their own galaxy. The Goa'uld demand recognition of their race's superiority, the right to limit earth's technological development to any level they consider threatening and both earth's start-gates, the Secretary is inclined to advice the president to accept. Then Teal'c is found badly wounded, Cronus worse, with his symbiont dying. Yu and Nirrti want to take Cronus away immediately as he needs a sarcophagus but are retained at gunpoint. Teal'c wakes up and says they were attacked by an invisible third party, Sam proves a theory of deceit by Nirrti, who when exposed is attacked for it by Yu, who proves grateful as well as Cronus...