SG-3

Col. Reynolds of SG-3 covers SG-1's six in Season Seven

Summary

SG-3 was one of the original nine units formed in the pilot episode, 1.02 "Children Of The Gods Part 2".

Season One

The unit was first organized as a Marine combat unit, going on missions deemed hazardous for SG-1 to go on alone.

In the Season One episode, 1.05 "The Broca Divide", there were four members of the team, two members known to us were:

Col. Robert Makepeace

Lt. Johnson

When SG-1 and SG-3 went to P3X-797 (Land of Light), all of the members of the teams except for Daniel Jackson and Teal'c, were immediately the victims to the curse of the "Touched" virus. Lt. Johnson was the first to show signs of this virus when he attacked Teal'c during the mission debriefing. The other members of SG-3 eventually showed the debilitating effects of the virus soon afterward. Fortunately, Dr. Fraiser found a cure for the disease.

In the Season One episode, 1.18 "Solitudes", SG-3 was sent to look for Jack O'Neill and Sam Carter when they failed to return with Daniel Jackson and Teal'c from P4A-771. Major Castleman was on the team and possibly its leader during this search mission because General Hammond instructed Teal'c to coordinate his rescue efforts with him. After their first mission together, Major Castleman returned to the SGC injured after he fell several meters from a rock ledge in a cave.

Teal'c carrying an injured Maj. Castleman

Sometime during Season One, SG-3 had brought back a small amount of raw naquadah, but it was not revealed from which planet it was taken, who was on the team at the time, or how many members were on the team. This information was given to us by Captain Carter when SG-1 had travelled to P3R-636 and saw some raw naquadah being sent through the stargate by the people of the planet in the episode, 2.05 "Need".

Seasons Two and Three

Next we hear that Major Warren is the commanding officer of SG-3 in the episode, 2.03 "Prisoners". SG-3 was assigned to rescue SG-1 after they had not reported back from their mission. They went to the planet, but were only able to come back with SG-1's equipment and to report that SG-1 had been sent to the prison planet Hadante. Major Warren wanted to pursue the rescue, but General Hammond asked that they continue on their regular mission schedule which was to the planet P2A-509. It was fortunate that General Hammond had them continue on their regular schedule because SG-1 was able to escape from Hadante and had travelled to P2A-509 to meet up with SG-3 knowing that they were supposed to be there. SG-1 had to do this because they no longer had a GDO and Major Warren allowed them to use his to send a signal to the SGC so that they would be able to go home.

Major Warren

The SG units must go through some sort of personnel rotation, because the next mission we hear about involving SG-3 was led by Col. Robert Makepeace. General Hammond sent SG-3 to the Tok'ra secret base on the planet designated P34-353J to extract Captain Carter because her father, General Jacob Carter, was dying of cancer. The Tok'ra kept SG-3 as an exchange for allowing Captain Carter and Colonel O'Neill to return home. When the Tok'ra base was betrayed by a traitor in their midst, the remaining members of SG-1 and SG-3 were released because the Tok'ra had to abandon the base. SG-3 helped the Tok'ra with their evacuation (2.11-2.12 "The Tok'ra").

Col. Makepeace continued on as SG-3's commanding officer at the beginning of Season Three. On a mission they obtained information from several Tok'ra that SG-1 had been taken prisoner on P3X-254. Col. Makepeace reported this to Gen. Hammond and Hammond put him in charge of the rescue, leading SG-3, SG-5, SG-6, and SG-11. SG-3 stayed at the stargate on the planet, while Makepeace took the rest of the soldiers into Hathor's base. SG-3 was captured by Hathor's Jaffa and several men from the other units were killed. SG-1 was successfully extracted and the rest of the men were able to go home after a daring rescue by Teal'c and Gen. Hammond himself (3.01 "Into The Fire Part 2").

SG-3 went with SG-1 to rescue the Abydonians taken by Amaunet in her kidnapping of the Harsesis. She was able to send the boy away with one of her trusted aides, but Amaunet, and Sha're, were killed by Teal'c with his staff weapon when he found her killing Daniel with the ribbon device (3.10 "Forever In A Day).

SG-3 lost Col. Makepeace in the episode, 3.18 "Shades of Grey", when he was temporarily assigned as the new leader of SG-1 after Col. Jack O'Neill was forced into retirement because he stole a piece of Tollan technology. This was really a precurser to a sting operation of which Col. Makepeace was not aware and it was discovered by Jack that Makepeace was a NID mole. He was placed under arrest for treason.

Seasons Four Through Six

In the Season Four episode, 4.15 "Chain Reaction", Gen. Bauer replaced Gen. Hammond as the commander of the SGC. He made changes to many of the SG units, including SG-1 and SG-3. Bauer dismantled SG-1 and sent its members to other positions. The only member of the team still allowed to go on missions was Teal'c and he was assigned to SG-3. Gen. Bauer sent SG-3 to P3S-452, a planet known to be a Goa'uld stronghold, in order to obtain refined naquadah for a bomb he wished to test. The unit lost their leader, Major Waite, and another member, Lt. Morrison, sustained serious injuries while laying cover fire in their escape. They were successful in obtaining the naquadah, but it had been at a very high price.

When SG-1 returned from the planet P3A-194 (the Volian homeworld), they thought that they had found the advanced ally Earth needed in order to successfully defend itself against the Goa'uld threat. This ally was known as the Aschen, and it was up to the SGC to determine if they could locate the Aschen homeworld since it was known that the Aschen did not have a DHD to compensate for stellar drift so they were limited to 300 light years from the Volian homeworld. One of the four possible candidate planets was P4C-970, the planet locked out of the SGC dialing computer when General Hammond received a note from the future from Jack that said not to go there under any circumstances (4.16 "2010"). General Hammond decided to send out SG-3, SG-12, and SG-15 to the other three candidate planets, but the mission was scrubbed by the President because he didn't want to risk a potentially rewarding alliance. The members of SG-3 were not identified for this mission (5.10 "2001").

SG-3 was identified as being a Marine unit when Col. Jack O'Neill complained that they came back through the stargate at the SGC and interrupted a training exercise, in the episode, 5.13 "Proving Ground". SG-3's unexpected arrival was due to being under heavy fire from a Goa'uld, but details of the mission were not provided, neither was the composition of the unit.

Episodes

• 1.02 "Children Of The Gods Part 2"
• 1.05 "The Broca Divide"
• 1.18 "Solitudes"
• 2.03 "Prisoners"
• 2.11 "The Tok'ra Part 1"
• 2.12 "The Tok'ra Part 2"
• 3.01 "Into The Fire Part 2"
• 3.10 "Forever In A Day"
• 3.18 "Shades Of Grey"
• 4.15 "Chain Reaction"
• 4.16 "2010"
• 5.13 "Proving Ground"

Related Characters

• Col. Jack O'Neill
• Dr. Daniel Jackson
• Maj. Samantha Carter
• Teal'c
• Amaunet
• Gen. Bauer
• Maj. Castleman
• Hathor
• Lt. Johnson
• Col. Robert Makepeace
• Lt. Morrison
• Major Waite

Related Articles

• Abydos and the Abydonian People
• Aschen
• Dial Home Device (DHD)
• GDO
• Goa'uld
• Naquadah
• National Intelligence Division (NID)
• P34-353J
• P3A-194
• P3S-452
• P3X-797
• P4A-771
• P4C-970
• SG-1
• SG-5
• SG-6
• SG-11
• SG-12
• SG-15
• Tok'ra
• Tollan
• Volians

Actors

• Steve Makaj as Col. Robert Makepeace
• Danny Wattley as Lt. Johnson
• Colin Lawrence as Maj. Warren

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--DeeKayP 19:02, 4 Jul 2004 (PDT)