Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7187 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-02-02
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
The biggest change for Stargate's sixth season was its move to the Sci-Fi Channel. Financial rescue or genre haven from cancellation? Whatever the behind-the-scenes politics, the departure of Daniel Jackson (actor Michael Shanks) the previous year most certainly contributed to the need to run a tighter ship somewhere. With the addition of his replacement, Jonas Quinn, the new show dynamic (hinted at by the new title theme tune) meant far more convoluted arc-stories and less individual focus.

One of very few solo spotlights came from Christopher Judge writing his own show, when "The Changeling" saw Teal'c act out a life as a fireman. One reason for being a fan favourite was its cameo from still-alive-after-all Daniel Jackson. There'd be several more through the year, culminating in a finale that tested how much attention you'd been paying to that all-important back-story.

Other kooky cameos included Dean Stockwell in one of the many spotlights on the energy resource n'quadria, Ian Buchanan as one of the devilish Replicators (and hopefully the end of that plotline) and regular spots from John DeLancie, Ronny Cox and Tom McBeath as the Earth-bound series baddies. More pertinently, we also saw Byers from The X-Files (Bruce Harwood) as a scientist involved with the Antarctic Gate. Lest we forget, there are other portals on Earth. Is that an already planned spin-off on the horizon? --Paul Tonks

DVD Description
Episodes:

• Redemption, Part One
  
• Redemption, Part Two
  
• Descent
  
• Frozen
  
• Nightwalkers
  
• Abyss
  
• Shadow Play
  
• The Other Guys
  
• Allegiance
  
• Cure
  
• Prometheus
  
• Unnatural Selection
  
• Sight Unseen
  
• Smoke And Mirrors
  
• Paradise Lost
  
• Metamorphosis
  
• Disclosure
  
• Forsaken
  
• The Changeling
  
• Memento
  
• Prophecy
  
• Full Circle

Special Features

• The Director Series
  
• SG-1 Video Diary
  
• Still galleries
  
• Fan club spots
  
• Episode previews
  
• Trailers
  
• Audio commentaries

DVD Technical Information:

• Running Time: 900 mins
  
• Region Code: 2
  
• Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  
• Anamorphic Wide Screen
  
• Audio: Dolby 5.1 Surround
  
• Soundtrack languages: German, English, Spanish
  
• Subtitles: German, English for the hearing impaired, Finnish

Customer Reviews

Marmite for fans.
So, Season 6 arrives and Daniel Jackson, Stargate's oft-sneezing Archaeologist, is Brown Bread.
( Cue hysterical sobbing from females earthwide...)

As Jonas Quinn, Corin Nemec had the literal and metaphorically thankless task of filling a dead man's shoes. Or possibly an ascended man's sandals, but we won't quibble...
And Like Marmite, you either loved him or hated him, poor lamb.

Having been an SG-1 fan since its beginning, I was sad the Daniel/Jonas debate seemed to eclipse what was for me, one of SG-1's stronger series'.

Throughout Season 6, the scriptwriters certainly hiked up the quality of the guest stars:-
David Hewlett's wondrous creation Rodney MacKay makes a welcome return in the opening two parter, 'Redemption'.
Happily for his fans, MacKay is now whingeing away on Atlantis - but at this juncture in Season 6, the scriptwriters were playing 'guess Daniel's replacement' and MacKay made a supremely entertaining red herring.

Meanwhile, Jonas drinks a lot of Tea and eats more fruit than is probably healthy, as lots of anxious boffins stare anxiously at PC screens and attempt (anxiously) to defeat Anubis. Booo!

Jonas is also equipped with a photographic memory. (Must be all that fruit) This makes him aware of all SG-1's past missions Therefore preventing cast members re-explaining storylines for the sake of the new guy. Hooray!

Fruit guzzling aside, there are some little gems contained in this season:

'The Changeling' is penned by Teal'c's alter ego Christopher Judge and niftily provides Michael Shanks a "surprise" cameo as - gasp! - a Doctor!
Teal'c ("T") gets to snog a human girl! Double gasp! And we get to see Apophis again. (Yay!)
This episode also sees the back of 'Junior'- Teal'c's symbiote. Thus allowing Teal'c thenceforth to take "Tritonin" and Christopher Judge to finally grow his hair.

'Cure' and 'Allegiance' are also strong episodes, due largely to the calibre of guest stars.

Carmen Argenziano as Tok'ra leader Jacob Carter and Tony Amendola as Jaffa head honcho Bratak, are always great value. In 'Allegiance' Bratak gets to go all Henry V about the nature of trust in battle, as the Tok'ra and Jaffa try not to kill eachother while stuck on a 'safe' planet.(Why don't they just play Sudoku like normal people?)
'Jeremiah' actor Peter Stebbings plays the commanding Tok'ra warrior Malek. Easily as charismatic as the late lamented Martouf and thankfully, turns up in the next episode.

In 'Cure' Jonas gets to flash his winning smile at a pretty laydee, but sadly she is terminally ill. Aww!
At least she has the good manners not to peg out before helping our intrepid team locate Tok'ra Queen Aegaea. Missing Presumed killed by those pesky Goa'uld.
Unfortunately the Tok'ra find their Queen pickled in brine in a large tank and somewhat unable to reclaim the Throne.
Anguished looks from Malek and brave acts of self-sacrifice ensue. Lovely.

'Paradise Lost' is another corker and finds O'Neill and his sort-of Nemesis, Maybourne trapped on the moon of a planet. Naturally, it's left to Super-Sam to crunch the exponentials, While Jack and Maybourne (the wonderful Tom McBeath) go fishing, then native, then mental, in that order. Great script, great one-liners, great chemistry. More please.

'The Other Guys' is an affectionate 'Geek-fest' in the vein of 'Wormhole X-treme!' Both fun and funny.

'Nightwalkers' invokes the 60's sci-fi of 'The Invaders'and is genuinely creepy.

In short, Season 6 has a bit of everything: Ba'al, Anubis, Apophis, Nerti and Yu (not You) all turn up to the party.
We make new Tok'ra friends. O'Neill rides a snow bike in Antartica and Jonas gets his DNA tampered with. Heck, Daniel even shows up 3 times! (More if you count his work as Asgard voiceover artist)

Which brings us - as the final episode title rightly predicts - 'Full Circle.' (Clever these scriptwriters aren't they?)
Neatly allowing Michael Shanks to un-ascend Daniel Jackson in time to discover the lost city of Atlantis, give Rodney MacKay a regular job on the spin-off series, take his tool set back from Jonas and set up season 7 by possibly defeating Anubis. Whattaguy!

Meantime, the much-maligned Jonas gets a one-way ticket to Planet P45. Bless him.

Who'd be an intergalactic space warrior, eh?

Stargate Season 6
As Season five will always be thought of as the season where Daniel Jackson leaves, season six picks up the pieces and produces a very watchable result. Jonas Quinn becomes slightly less 'wet behind the ears' and whilst Daniel is not there he has obviously not been forgotten. With good episodes throughout, the last five episodes shine, with some very powerful acting and incredible special effects.
Some episodes in the middle are a little slow, but this is definitely a very dramatic departure from season five's sad ending.
With several Gou'ald episodes and plenty of focus on the Asgard the quality is definitely very good. The last episodes also plants the seeds for what is to come in season seven...
Definitely, what I would term very worth watching.

Go the Team
By the opening episode of Season 6, we have lost Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) after he had been allowed to ascend. His place on SG1 has been replaced by Jonas Quinn, an off world human.
We have the by now usual combination of off world adventures and adventures taking place on Earth. A particularly nice touch this season is the development of their very own space capable craft. The Russians, too, force their way into the operations of Star Gate Command. Another major plus for the series is the way that they will give a brief overview of things in previous episodes that may be relevant to the activities of the current episode.
Some of the particular highlights of the season include the episode where Jack was framed for the apparent assassination of Senator Kensy and the town that had been taken over by gou'ald that could only control their hosts at night. Jack also gets to, sort of, make friends with colonel Maybourne when they were trapped together in a hidden paradise that had its own sting in the tail. There are moments of true horror as well, particularly where Jack has been captured by Ba'al and is being interrogated for answers he can't possibly give but the gou'ald sarcophagus makes sure death isn't the last word....
Although it was an ensemble episode, built up from clips taken from earlier episodes, 'Disclosure' was good in its own right - the framing story had the secret of the SGC passed on to the permanent members of the Security Council not already in on the secret. This was revealed as an attempt by Senator Kensy to take SGC away from the airforce and put it under NID control. Fortunately general Hammond had some big guns of his own!
One of the most powerful episodes was where the to'kra, jaffa had to learn to trust each other to over come a hidden assassin.