Wormhole X-Treme! (Stargate SG-1)

"Wormhole X-Treme!"
Stargate SG-1 episode
Episode no.	Season 5 Episode 12
Directed by	Peter DeLuise
Written by	Brad Wright, Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie
Production code	512
Original air date	September 8, 2001
Guest appearance(s)
Willie Garson as Martin Lloyd Michael DeLuise as Nick Marlowe Jill Teed as Yolanda Reese Robert Lewis as Tanner Christian Bocher as Raymond Gunne Herbert Duncanson as Douglas Anders Peter Flemming as Agent Malcolm Barrett
Episode chronology
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List of Season 5 episodes List of Stargate SG-1 episodes

"Wormhole X-Treme!" is an episode from Season 5 of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. The title also refers to a camp fictional science fiction series named Wormhole X-Treme!, a show-within-a-show that is portrayed in the episode. This was the 100th episode of Stargate SG-1, and as such was produced as a "special" episode laden with large numbers of in-jokes, cameo appearances, and heavy use of metafictional elements for comedic effect.

This episode is a continuation of the Season 4 episode "Point of No Return". A spaceship that had been hidden in the outer solar system activates and begins approaching Earth, and its energy signature is matched to that of Martin Lloyd's escape pod suggesting that this is its mother ship. The military tracks down Lloyd (played by Willie Garson) and discovers that he has become the creative consultant for a television series whose concept he sold to a Hollywood studio, Wormhole X-Treme!. The parallels between Wormhole X-Treme! and the real SGC are clear. The Air Force had decided that while being a breach of secrecy, the show could prevent any future leaks of information about the Stargate program from being taken seriously.

Jack O'Neill is given the position of the Air Force technical advisor to the show in order to covertly confront Lloyd about both the secrets he has leaked and the approaching spacecraft. He discovers that Lloyd has resumed using memory suppressants and does not consciously remember his previous encounter with them or his own extraterrestrial origin. O'Neill initially suspects Lloyd's associates of drugging him again, but in fact Lloyd started taking them on his own so that he could feel more comfortable with living on Earth.

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