- Arrive on a nice looking, jungle type planet. “Welcome to the jungle.”
- Off to collect food.
- Eli, the pesky interviewer when not trying out scary alien bug stories or sampling alien foodstuff.
- Some start getting sick: dizzy, fever, neck pains.
- TJ decides to quarantine everyone on the planet to see if contagion is related or not rather than risk ship.
- Greer rockin’ out.
- Strange mound like structure. Bet there are critters about.
- Scott falls ill.
- Yep, alien critters begin to attack.
- Seems a lot of people just got killed by the critters.
- Eli sums it up well: “What the …”
- So the crew went to the planet, found the kino and some bodies and came back to see what was on the device. T.J. recommends quarantining the ship. Everyone starts watching again:
- Eli and some others alive.
- Rush notes something wrong with the gate. A stable wormhole won’t form.
- Creatures are nocturnal.
- Little ammo left.
- Scott ill, Volker died from illness.
- Headed for a cave.
- We learn about Eli’s mom having HIV while talking with TJ
- Sgt Greer blames himself for what he claims didn’t happen. Heh. Episodes like this make the head ‘splody sometimes. I’m betting on time travel or parallel universe for the reason we have the kino footage.
- Chloe gets dizzy.
- Greer showing Eli how to shoot.
- Alien bugs attack. “Don’t ask, just shoot.”
- Kino in night vision mode.
- Rush runs off. Jumps through the unstable wormhole, refers to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid. Naturally Eli is clueless.
- Eli returns to see Greer killed.
- Microorganism from ice planet got into the water.
- Scott wakes up to find everyone dead.
- Sends kino through unstable wormhole. It comes back out.
- Rush figures out gate went wonky thanks to solar flare sending the kino back in time to them.
- Creature’s bite may be cure for illness given what they saw of Scott on the kino.
- Scott, Young, Greer, nameless red shirt go back to recover some of the critters.
- Rain, night, bugs. Yep this is gonna end badly.
- Informed of who had died: Volker, Chloe.
- Bug hunt goes bad, but Scott survives.
- Scott records final message telling the crew what they need to do to survive.
TV Reviews: Stargate Universe “Time”
Warning: Spoilers below the cut!
Stargate Universe 1.08 “Time”
Plot: After visiting a jungle planet and finding a kino, crew members start to fall ill aboard the Destiny.
Note for the following: italics refer to commentary based on the kino footage.
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