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"Space Race" is the 8th episode from the seventh season of the science fiction television series Stargate SG 1 and is the 140th episode overall. It was first broadcast on the Sci Fi Channel on August 1, 2003. The episode was written by Damian Kindler and was directed by Andy Mikita. In the episode, Warrick (Alex Zahara) comes to Stargate Command to ask for their assistance in winning a race on his homeworld, Hebridan. After agreeing to provide him the power generator he requires, Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) convinces Warrick that she should be his copilot for the race. The episode is a sequel to the season 6 story "Forsaken", also written by Kindler and directed by Mikita. For "Space Race", Kindler wanted to revisit the character of Warrick and journey to his planet for the first time. The episode was one of the most visual effects heavy and expensive episodes of the show so far. The response from both audiences and critics was extremely mixed.

Warrick (Alex Zahara) arrives at Stargate Command to ask for their help in winning a race on their homeworld, Hebridan. Warrick asks to use one of Stargate Command's naqahdah power generators on his ship, the Seberus, having previously used one to great effect. In exchange Warrick promises to provide specifications for his peoples ion engine technology. Major Carter (Amanda Tapping) agrees and asks to accompany him as his copilot. SG 1 travel to Hebridan, where they are introduced to Eamon (Patrick Currie), the Seberus' creator and Warrick's younger brother. Jack O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) and Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) leave to meet with members of the Hebridian government, whilst Teal'c (Christopher Judge), Carter and Eamon work on the Seberus. After the group leave the Seberus' hanger, a man sneaks in and heads towards the ship. As the race begins, the first stage tests the competitors shields and weapons against weapon satellites, which Warrick and Carter successfully handle. The second stage involves passing around a sun, however as the Seberus approaches it, her systems shut down and Warrick discovers they've been deliberately sabotaged. As Carter and Warrick try to fix the issue, Teal'c and Eamon begin investigating who might have sabotaged them. After successfully fixing the Seberus, they perform a gravitational slingshot and head back into the race. Meanwhile, Eamon discovers that his supervisor Del Tynan (Allan Lysell) had accessed his computer. To find the evidence they need, he and Teal'c go to Tech Con and manage to access Del Tynan's computer, helping them unravel the fact that he's sabotaged nearly every ship in the race except one, Muirios (Benjamin Ayres). Suddenly Tynan returns to his office and catches the pair. Back in the race, Warrick and Carter decide to rescue Golon Jarlath (Scott MacDonald) after his ship is also disabled. At Tech Con, Tynan explains to Teal'c and Eamon that he thinks that the Serrakin are destroying the human race by crossbreeding and he's making sure that the winner is a human for the first step of overthrowing the Serrakin. He contacts Warrick to drop out or else he'll kill Eamon and Teal'c. Suddenly, O'Neill, Daniel and President Hagan arrive with guards and arrested Tynan and his men. Hagan now has the evidence to put Tynan in jail. With Eamon and Teal'c safe, the Seberus is back in the race but in third place. Jarlath reconfigures the communications array to freeze Muirios' ship, with the Seberus taking second place. Later, at the SGC, Carter receives word that Warrick had been hired by Lael to co pilot on her new contract from Tech Con and Earth has an ion engine to study.

In early pitch meetings for season 7, showrunner Robert C. Cooper told writer Damian Kindler that he would like to revisit the character of Warrick from the episode "Forsaken" which Kindler wrote. Cooper specifically wanted to visit Warrick's homeworld, Hebridan and learn more about the Serrakin and human people. Across all of season 7 Kindler was "very focused on" writing stories centred around Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping), commenting that "I had kind of a mini agenda coming into season seven, which was I really wanted to write some good Carter stories". The Serburus was originally going to be redressed as the drill in "Fallout", however McGuire made the petitioned to instead build an entirely new set. For the race sequence, each of the competing spaceships was independently designed, predominantly by production designer James Robbins, with Kindler noting that he wanted the ships to appear similar to each other, as if they'd been customised referencing the NASCAR Cup Series as influence. The Laguna Seca race track in Central California was also cited as the basis for the race layout in the episode. As Warrick was central to the story, the part was recast to frequent guest actor Alex Zahara, who had played numerous roles across Stargate SG 1. Zahara spent some time watching Johnstone's performance in "Forsaken", but Kindler rationalised that the character would be somewhat different, commenting "when we first met Warrick he was on a planet for 3 years, fighting off people, barely able to eat anything decent. Since he's gotten back, he's back to his fighting weight". The part of Eamon, Warrick's brother and the creator of the Serburus, was cast to Patrick Currie. Currie who also portrays the Replicator character Fifth elsewhere in the series, also took over the character of Chaka (also from Johnstone) in the previous episode "Enemy Mine". Currie had originally been approached to take on the role of Warrick but declined as he had no previous experience in prosthetic makeup and was unsure he could handle playing an already established character, commenting that he didn't want to let the shows producers down. He believed having to turn the role down was a "blessing in disguise", as he was then offered the slightly smaller part of Eamon, which whilst requiring prosthetic makeup, he would have "free rein" as far as the character was concerned. Additionally Scott MacDonald plays Golon Jarlath, Terence Kelly features as Miles Hagan, Allan Lysell as Del Tynan, Benjamin Ayres as Muirios, Nick Misura as Taupen and Lindsay Maxwell as La'el Montrose. Showrunner Robert C. Cooper's wife, Hillary Cooper plays the receptionist. On set visual effects supervisor James Tichenor commented that trying to portray the sense that they're in an "intense race in an environment that doesn't lend itself to intensity" proved "especially challenging". The episode was one of the most effects heavy and expensive of the show so far. Wes Sargent noted that as the original ship model had not been seen in much detail, therefore the Image Engine team "changed the look somewhat" as well as adding additional detail". The completed effects were delivered on July 14, 2003. In order to give a sense of position in space and speed, the race course was littered with objects, such as satellites, planets, asteroids, buoys to give a sense of speed and position. The episode originally came in six minutes under time and had to be lengthened by new scenes, such as the alien media and race commentary scenes which were shot later during pick ups. The pick ups and new scenes resulted in the episode then coming in over time. In the United Kingdom, the episode was first shown on Sky One on November 17, 2003 and drew an estimated 690,000 viewers, making it Sky One's 7th most popular broadcast that week. Writer and producer Joseph Mallozzi commented that "Space Race" "to no one's surprise, was a little divisive when it came to fan opinion. Some fans loved it. Others hated it". Starburst praised the episode, writing "Fast paced and bolstered by convincing special effects, Space Race is a terrifically entertaining hour of Stargate". The reviewer felt that it gave Amanda Tapping and Christopher Judge the chance to shine, commenting that "Tapping keeps a sly grin on Carter's face, even in the most dangerous of spots" and that "Judge plays it cool, as always". Writing a glowing review, Darren Rea of Sci fi Online commented that "this episode has so much going for it", awarding 10 out of 10. Rea praised the episodes visual effects, believing that they "some of the best that SG 1 has to offer", as well as highlighting the quality of the comedic writing. WhatCulture described the episode as "standard", "fun episode". Julia Houston for About. com felt that although the episode was centred around "a seemingly unimportant event", it was instead "for fun and a little Girl Power". Houston praised the episode's humour, particularly enjoying the race commentators, believing that they "pretty much steal the show, especially with all the Tech Con ads and the floating Jumbo Tron". Dreamwatch reviewer Brigid Cherry called the episode "all rather dull and predictable", noting similarities to the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Drive" which had aired in 2000. Cherry felt as though Carter was "shoehorned into the story" but did respond positively to the subplot, enjoying Teal'c reprising his "Murray" alias. Writing for TV Zone, Jan Vincent Rudzki called the "Space Race" a "real dud" going so far to say that "nothing is right" with the episode, awarding it 2 out of 10. The reviewer questioned where Samantha Carter's interest in racing had come from, feeling as though the character had shown "no hint of this interest before, and she doesn't seem very interested for the rest of the episode". Vincent Rudzki continued to criticize "Daniel the cypher", feeling as though the character only appeared from time to time to ask Sam questions and called the race itself "barely interesting", believing that "any tension that might have been built was stopped dead in the tracks by splitting the race story with another plot". DVD Talk writer John Sinnott placed the episode amongst his "low points" of season 7, writing that he felt it was "terribly clichéd, almost to the point of being painful". Tor. com reviewer Keith R. A. DeCandido declared "Space Race" the worst episode of Stargate SG 1's seventh season, believing it was the sort of story and quality found in the original Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. DeCandido found on redeeming moment, commenting "Christopher Judge manages the biggest laugh of the entire season just by identifying himself as Murray". Featured reviews on fansite Gateworld. net were mixed. Contributor Alli Snow praised the episodes "motion picture worthy" visual effects, as well as highlighting Christopher Judge's performance. Awarding 3 out of 5 stars, Snow noted that the episode "doesn't even go close to taking itself seriously, which also contrasts sharply with the last few episodes aired", but as with previous episode felt the lack of Richard Dean Anderson's Jack O'Neill was continuing to have a negative impact on the season. Another contributor criticised the episode for being "littered with caricatures, jokes that simply weren't funny, and scenes that were, quite frankly, a waste of screen time", believing the main redeeming feature to be the exploration of Samantha Carter being a "speed junkie". A "SG 1 Directors Series: Space Race" is included amongst the DVD's special features, providing a behind the scenes look at the film of the episode, whilst the DVD audio commentary was provided by director Andy Mikita, director of photography Jim Menard and writer Damian Kindler. After the episode first aired, a deleted scene was made available on the Scifi Channel's website, involving Teal'c & O'Neill discussing sabotage. The episodes along with the rest of season 7 were first made available digitally in January 2008 through iTunes and Amazon Unbox. The episode, along with every other episode of the series, were made available to stream for the first time through Netflix in the USA on August 15, 2010. Along with the rest of the series, the episode has been upscaled for releases on various streaming platforms and the 2020 Blu ray release.