While Col Young (Justin Louis) and Lt. Scott (Brian J. Smith) went in search of drinkable water on a planet resembling Hoth - Empire Strikes Back - Star Wars - I'm not going to say episode 5 - TJ (Alaina Huffman) was left in charge and had to deal with problems aboard ship. The specific problem? Weird alien bugs, likely those that had befriended Scott in the desert in Air part 3, were on the Destiny, drinking the water supply dry at an alarming rate.
They also became violent when provoked...not unlike those spots of light SG1 encountered while giving young spitfire Hailey a chance to see the wonders of the Stargate. Another member of the crew died as a result.
TJ and Greer (Jamil Walker Smith) didn't agree on how to solve the problem. TJ thought of more useful methods, while Greer defaulted to violence, as always. In the end, TJ lured the bugs into a canister of water, which was then thrown through the stargate onto the ice planet. The crisis averted.
Young and Scott had their own set of problems on the planet. Dealing with poisonous air and freezing conditions, they wore space suits as they dragged ice from a waterfall back to the gate. There was no fear about leaving them behind when the Destiny returned to FLT because they'd run out of air before that happened. And then Scott fell in a crevice and got stuck. Young refused to leave him, and waiting just long enough, a tremor freed Scott from the crushing conditions that had torn his suit and Young was able to get him, as well as the ice, back to the ship.
The water crisis is not completely over, with the ice only replacing a fraction of what the bugs drank, but the situation is no longer dire. What crisis will have to be averted next week? I don't know, but the episode title is Earth.
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