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"Children of the Gods" is the premiere episode of the American science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. Directed by Mario Azzopardi and written by series creators Jonathan Glassner and Brad Wright, "Children of the Gods" first aired on Showtime on Sunday, July 27th, 1997. This two-hour episode continues the storyline first presented in the 1994 film Stargate. It expands on the alien antagonists from the film, who are now identified as the Goa'uld and reveals that they are a parasitic race, whose true forms are small serpentine symbiotes that reside in human hosts. The System Lord of the Goa'uld, Apophis, finds a way to access the Stargate on Earth and abducts an Air Force Sergeant. In response, General George Hammond calls Colonel Jack O'Neill back to active service. Along with astrophysicist Captain Samantha Carter, O'Neill and the rest of his team must track down Doctor Daniel Jackson who is still living on Abydos and bring him back to Earth to help them face this new and awesome threat. Read more...