Stargate SG-1

The Nox

Season 1, Episode 8, Aired 9/12/97

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SG-1 travels to a planet with a creature that possesses the power of invisibility, but run afoul of Apophis and meet the mysterious Nox.

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Richard Dean Anderson

Colonel/Brigadier General Jonathan J. "Jack" O'Neill (Seasons 1-8)
Christopher Judge

Teal'c
Don S. Davis

Major General George S. Hammond (Seasons 1-7)

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Can't sleep ? Watch this !

5.5

"Mediocre"

By Kadodian, Jun 02, 2011 Report Abuse

What do you call a show that can't maintain excitement and average performances over the episodes. Stargate has seriousley failed me. I always used to think that shows like Star Trek and Battle Star Galactica were boring shows for people with no lives but then Stargate came along and I was proved deeply wrong. Showed me that I was an ignorant person who didn't really try these shows before judging them. So all the episodes in season one have been almost perfect until this one. The Stargate team go to this world to find this invisible thing and end up finding the nox who turn out to be the invisible things they were looking for and now a battle between our team who are protecting the nox and the enemy who want to pocess the Nox's power. Bad acting !!! Terrible costumes ! Ubelievably abysmal sound effects like when the weapons were shooting, sounded like aracade games but then again t.v wasn't that developed back then. The whole episode was boring and useless to the storyline. I did not like it at all. The only reason this episode got a 5.5 was because I liked the ending.moreless

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By THEICEFIRE, Mar 30, 2011 Report Abuse

In search of new technology on September 12, 1997 SG-1 are sent to P3C-117 on a critical mission to capture a creature that possesses the power of invisibility but run afoul of Apophis and meet the mysterious Nox. When the mission changes to a plan to capture Apophis and kill his Jaffa it goes quickly and terribly wrong, O'Neill, Carter and Jackson find themselves defeated and literally killed in action. My only criticism with the episode is SG-1's first incounter with the Nox is a little boring and definitely a little werid. Otherwise The Nox is a knockout of an episode that I Tracey K. Nameth call "an uncompromising vision that is awesome!"moreless

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I've seen this episode before

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By MichaelJohnso4, Mar 30, 2011 Report Abuse

I've seen this episode before... It was called Errand of Mercy on Star Trek: The Original Series. Same exact plot. The crew visits a planet and find a seemingly inferior race who is threatened by their mortal enemy (in Star Trek's case the Klingons). They see the threat to the indigenous people and try to protect them, but they abhor violence and don't seem to want to be helped. The crew believes that this is due to naivete, but it turns out that the people actually have hidden technology that makes them superior to both them and their enemies. Not original at all, but they did pull it off well.moreless

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We meet the Nox - the first advanced race we have met so far (except for the Goa'uld).

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By zampognaro, Mar 29, 2011 Report Abuse

Sam, Daniel and Jack are dead! No ... wait. Here come the Nox to save the day. Who are the Nox? Well, they can control the power of invisibility and they have a unique healing ability (which comes in very useful when Apophis kills the SG1 members) as well as some incredible mental abilities. They are the first advanced race of the Stargate series - though you wouldn't have thought so at the beginning of the episode, with their wooden huts and their bad hair. But it's all a ploy to keep strangers away from their planet. They believe in peace and life and even manage to save Apophis' life from Jack's wooden bow and arrow. Great episode! It's the best since the pilot.moreless

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A strange race of seemingly helpless creatures encounters SG-1.

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By MurrayTheJaffa, Jun 04, 2008 Report Abuse

This was a fantastic episode with a very strange group of aliens. For the first time the show mentions that certain elements in Washington DC are unsatisfied with the policies of the SGC and the progress it's made in retrieving alien technology. Teal'c speaks of a creature with stealth capabilities that even the Goa'uld do not possess. The first twist comes when the team learns that the creature has no abilities whatsoever, and it is in fact the Nox who hid the creature. It was a well written episode, and there was some true wisdom in what the Nox say, that made it believable when the Nox revealed how advanced they truly were to SG-1. I was disappointed however, that the Nox never return after Season 3. Afterall, having an entire episode named after them, you would think they would get used more.moreless

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- Trivia: The Nox are one of the four advanced races (along with the Ancients, Asgard, and Furlings) who used to meet on P3X-972, the planet where Ernest Littlefield was marooned since 1945. See "The Torment of Tantalus" for more information. Edit
- Trivia: SG-5 went to P3C-117. Edit
- Trivia: Up to this episode the SGC have visited 20 separate worlds, (including the Nox homeworld), since the establishment of the Stargate Command. Edit
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- Joel Goldsmith was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore) in 1997, for the musical score in this episode. Edit
- Armin Shimerman is the first of many Star Trek regulars to appear on Stargate SG-1. He plays the Nox, Anteaus, and was Quark on Deep Space Nine. Edit
- This is episode 13 in the DVD chronological order of release. Edit
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- Anteaus: Maybe one day you will learn, that your way, is not the only way. Edit
- Anteaus: I will take you to your doorway. Jack: Whoah! Daniel: You understand what I'm saying. Anteaus: It took time to learn your speech. Sam: Not much time. Edit
- Teal'c: It appears they possess a form of technology far greater than that of the Goa'uld. Sam: They looked so helpless. Daniel: And now they're going to bury the Stargate and we can never come back. We should have listened. Jack: "The very young do not always do as they're told." It's a little something the Nox told me one time. Something worth taking home. Edit
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