The Pegasus Project

Love the addition of Atlantis.

The McKay Character is a distraction.

Most Military would take him to a obscure location and blanket party him. He is not a comic relief.

You could have done without him.

Still a great show.

The SG-1 suspects that Merlin's weapon might be in Atlantis and Daniel and Vala head to the base. They are welcomed by Dr. Elizabeth Weir that shows the library to them and explains that they should question a hologram. But soon Daniel notes that the hologram is indeed Morgan le Fay. Meanwhile Sam and Mitchell are on board of the Odyssey with the scientist Dr. Rodney McKay expecting to change the route from the superstargate using nuclear warheads to send any new Ori warship to a distant place.

"The Pegasus Project" is another good episode of "Stargate SG-1" with two storylines. They are entertaining but with nothing new. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "The Pegasus Project"

Cool to see a full on SG1 and Atlantis crossover and with a well developed storyline. The concept was interesting and the effects and CGI looked good.

I've been extremely skeptical about Ben Browder in the lead of this iconic show of science fiction -- even my long time favorites as Michael Shanks (Daniel Jackson), Amanda Tapping (Colonel Carter), and Teal'c (Christopher Judge), and most of his appearances have been forced, trying to fill Richard Dean Anderson's (General Jack O'Neill, two L's) formidable shoes, which is entirely forgivable. But this episode is in a league of its own and Browder (Colonel Mitchell) manages to integrate himself (at least in my eyes) into the universe of the Stargate.

The Pegasus Project has rejuvenated the series for me and hints at much more to come. I was especially pleased with everybody's performance and the reclamation of Stargate in my eyes as the top of its class in writing, imagination, and concept. My hat's off to everyone responsible for this, thank you!

I always thought those Ori ships looked like Pool Tables. Well, here in this Ep, Carter and Mitchell with the help of Rodney Mackay sink one into the side pocket, and snatch a Wraith-Ship-Boobie-Prize on the way out.

Back then, I was mostly P'd off that Sci-Fi had sunk Farscape in order to elongate Stargate SG-1, and I was non-plussed when Ben Browder and Claudia Black magically showed up. But now that I have seen all of their Stargate Eps, this was a smart move, and they fit right in, Claudia being perfect to bounce off of Mike Shanks- And bounce she does.

But the magic of this episode is the magic of connecting two shows and two galaxies: Stargate SG-1 and Stargate: Atlantis. If only there had been more crossovers like this, and there were in fact many crossover Eps. But this is possibly the best combined Ep of SG-1 and Atlantis that ever was.

As SG-1 arrives in the Pegasus Galaxy, the one thing that stands out is the magnificent image of Atlantis from the spaceship "Odyssey's" Bridge, you can see the full production value of the SG-1 Matte Painters and Digital Artists, who were just a few notches higher than Atlantis- Not to infer that Atlantis was done badly, but SG-1 had grown as a series and so they had the digital and Matte shots perfected, while it took Atlantis a few years to "rise up" to that level of quality.

That said, this story is a two-headed giant: While Vala (Claudia Black) and Daniel have a Tete-A-Tete with what they initially think is the Atlantis "Teaching Hologram" - Mitchell (Browder) and Carter drag Rodney Mackay off with them in the Oddysey so they can ignite one of the Ori's "SuperStarGates"- So they head out to the first black hole accretion disk they can find and start lobbing bombs through a regular Mini-Stargate to try to fire up the Superdupergate.

Teal'c has carefully chosen his donuts while he waits in the Milky Way for the bombs to show up, so now, we have a perfect 360 from Pegasus to Stargate Command to Teal'c and back to Pegasus via Teal'c. But the discussion can only travel one way because of the black hole! So Dr Weir (Torri Higgens) has to call Stargate Command who has to call Teal'c who can then call up the Odyssey - To tell em a Wraith ship is on the way!

Even if I had not said, you know there would have been a Wraith ship on the way, because they always show up.

Well - This episode cleverly disposes of both Wraith and Ori ships, and crimp the Ori's Galactic Domination plans until the end of the season - And all it took was One 8-Ball into the Side Ori Pocket!

Possibly the best written episode of the series, and I did not even hit on Daniel and Vala's adventures in Holography.