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| {{Infobox Television episode | Title = The Torment of Tantalus | |||
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| | Series = Stargate SG-1 | |||
| | Season = 1 | |||
| | Episode = 10 | |||
| | Airdate = ], ] | |||
| | Production = 110 | |||
| | Writer = ] | |||
| | Director = ] | |||
| | Guests = ] as ]<br />] as Dr. Ernest Littlefield<br />] as ]<br />] as Professor Langford<br />] as Young Ernest Littlefield | |||
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| "'''The Torment of Tantalus'''" is an episode from ] of the ] ] '']''. It is often referred to by fans as "the Meaning of Life Stuff episode". | |||
| ==Plot== | |||
| Daniel Jackson watches a film from ] of scientists successfully turning on the Stargate device. A man steps through the gate, but the wormhole then collapses. Jackson visits Catherine Langford, daughter of the lead scientist and fiancée of the trapped man, Ernest Littlefield, who she thought had died during an explosion in the lab. | |||
| After a briefing of events, including the discovery of the address of the Stargate destination, General Hammond agrees that SG-1 should attempt to bring Dr. Littlefield home. Catherine insists on joining the mission. | |||
| On the other side of the wormhole, they find Dr. Littlefield, emaciated but alive but that the Dial-Home Device is broken and hence they are stuck. While she works on a solution, Catherine and Ernest reconcile after years of separation. Ernest reveals a special room where a central device displays representations of atoms and basic elements. On the walls are a "book" in four types of writing and Jackson realises that the atoms are a kind of universal language. | |||
| Obsessed with copying the "book," Daniel wishes to stay. Ernest dissuades him, however, and Jackson leaves the book. They escape through the Stargate just before the wormhole destabilizes and shuts down. | |||
| Later, an attempt is made to open another wormhole to the planet to see if a return is possible. The attempt fails, but Ernest tells Daniel that one day he might meet the ones who wrote the book and tell him what it means. | |||
| ==Production== | |||
| *The title refers to the ] of ], who could never reach what he kept grasping out for, and who is the origin of the word "tantalise", as Jackson is tantalised by the enormity of the "Meaning of Life Stuff" which he cannot possibly reach. | |||
| *] (Young Ernest Littlefield) would go on to play the recurring and later main character ] in '']''. | |||
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| ==Reception== | |||
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| == External links == | |||
| {{wikiquote|Stargate_SG-1/Season_1#Torment_of_Tantalus_.5B1.10.5D|The Torment of Tantalus (Stargate SG-1)}} | |||
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| * {{cite web | |||
| | url = http://www.stargatesg1.com/SeasonOne | |||
| | title = Official ''Stargate SG-1'' site | |||
| | accessdate = 2006-06-08 | |||
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| }} Most of site requires ]. <!-- There is a synopsis of the episode in there, but it cannot be linked to directly to our knowledge. Though the URL above contains links to the rest of the site (which is Flash), it in itself is not Flash; hence this link is in accordance with WP:EL. Even if it were, it is acceptable because it is the official Stargate site and is being used as a reference. --> | |||
| * {{cite web | |||
| | url = http://media.dave.tv/sites/stargatesg1/screenplays/s01e10.PDF | |||
| | title = Screenplay | |||
| | accessdate = 2006-10-28 | |||
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| | publisher = Distributed by ]. Prepared by Casablanca Continuity | |||
| }} Also see . | |||
| * {{cite web | |||
| | url = http://www.scifi.com/stargate/episodes/season1/0110episode.html | |||
| | title = Summary | |||
| | accessdate = 2006-06-05 | |||
| | publisher = ]|SciFi]] | |||
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