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* BittersweetEnding: The Pangarans are saved from the crippling side effects of tretonin, but the only known Tok'ra queen Egeria dies.
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* DyingRace: Malek refers to the Tok'ra as such, stressing that this is why it's so important for them to free their queen.
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* DyingRace: Malek refers to the Tok'ra as such, stressing that this is why it's so important for them to free their queen. Sadly, thanks to the death of Egeria at the end of the episode, they seem to be only further stuck on this path.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Kelmaa gives Egeria its host in hopes of saving her and subsequently dies. The unnamed host willingly blends with the dying Egeria so she can communicate with the others and give the Pangarans the cure.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Kelmaa gives Egeria its host in hopes of saving her and subsequently dies. The unnamed host Additionally, Egeria - who has been fatally injured by the decades of medical torture she has endured - willingly blends with the dying Egeria unnamed host of Kelmaa so she can communicate with the others and give the Pangarans the cure.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Most of the Tok'ra shown elsewhere in the series are TheStoic. As such, them being visibly on the verge of tears as they watch their mother essentially pass away right in front of them is particularly effecting.
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* SealedGoodInACan: After TheReveal that the queen is Egeria.
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* SealedGoodInACan: After TheReveal that the queen is Egeria.Egeria.
* SoProudOfYou: Rather heartbreakingly, Egeria's final words are reassuring her Tok'ra children that they have succeeded beyond her wildest dreams from when she originally founded the Tok'ra.
* SoProudOfYou: Rather heartbreakingly, Egeria's final words are reassuring her Tok'ra children that they have succeeded beyond her wildest dreams from when she originally founded the Tok'ra.
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* AllLovingHeroine: Egeria. She spent 60 years being medically tortured by the Pangarans (who, to be fair, had no idea that she was anything other than an ordinary Goa'uld), yet she died to save them.
* BlankSlate: The symbiotes used for the production of the tretonin are this, as the GeneticMemory is not passed on by the queen.
* BlankSlate: The symbiotes used for the production of the tretonin are this, as the GeneticMemory is not passed on by the queen.
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* AllLovingHeroine: Egeria. She spent 60 years being medically tortured by the Pangarans (who, to be fair, had no idea that she was anything other than an ordinary a typical evil Goa'uld), yet she died to save them.
* BlankSlate: The symbiotes used for the production of the tretonin are this, as the usual GeneticMemoryis was not passed on by the queen.
* BlankSlate: The symbiotes used for the production of the tretonin are this, as the usual GeneticMemory
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* LaserGuidedKarma: The general opinion, particularly by the Tok'ra (to SG-1's mild surprise), of the fate of the symbiote Queen prior to TheReveal that she's not a Goa'uld, but Egeria.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: The general opinion, particularly by the Tok'ra (to SG-1's mild surprise), of the fate of the symbiote Queen prior to TheReveal that she's not a Goa'uld, Goa'uld but Egeria.Egeria, given the Goa'uld's own ruthless exploitation of human bodies.
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* MainliningTheMonster: The tretonin is ''somehow'' made from Goa'uld -- or more accurately, Tok'ra -- symbiotes. The exact process is never really described.
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* GreaterScopeParagon: Egeria, who literally spawned the Tok'ra resistance.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Kelmaa gives Egeria its host in hopes of saving her and subsequently dies. The unnamed host willingly blends with the dying Egeria so she can communicate with the others and give the Pangarans the cure.
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* GovernmentDrugEnforcement: A variation; the government doesn't ''force'' its citizens to take the tretonin, but once someone starts on it they have to keep taking it every day. Also, Zenna mentions that it's not available to everyone; it's a "privilege", and it can be revoked.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: Egeria explains that tretonin's crippling side effects are this; she sabotaged her childrens' genes in the hope that the Pangaran gavernment would eventually give up this line of research once the drug proved untenable. Instead, they doubled down and effectively milked her dry.
* GovernmentDrugEnforcement: A variation; the government doesn't ''force'' its citizens to take the tretonin, but once someone starts on it they have to keep taking it every day. Also, Zenna mentions that it's not available to everyone; it's a "privilege", and it can be revoked.
* GovernmentDrugEnforcement: A variation; the government doesn't ''force'' its citizens to take the tretonin, but once someone starts on it they have to keep taking it every day. Also, Zenna mentions that it's not available to everyone; it's a "privilege", and it can be revoked.
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* OhCrap: Once Jonas says the name Egeria Teal'c has this reaction written all over his face as he realizes who that Goa'uld queen really is. Basically becomes a MassOhCrap once they share the news with everyone else even the Pangarans who realize they have been basically slowly torturing the mother of the very people who are now trying to help them.
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* OhCrap: Once Jonas says the name Egeria Egeria, Teal'c has this reaction written all over his face as he realizes who that Goa'uld queen really is. Basically becomes a MassOhCrap once they share the news with everyone else even the Pangarans who realize they have been basically slowly torturing the mother of the very people who are now trying to help them.
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* NotSoDifferent: O'Neill accuses the Tok'ra of this in regards to the Goa'uld, claiming that for all their talk, they still view humans as nothing more than "a nice place to live".
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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: O'Neill accuses the Tok'ra of this in regards to the Goa'uld, claiming that for all their talk, they still view humans as nothing more than "a nice place to live".
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* SealedGoodInACan: After TheReveal that the queen is Egeria.
* WhamLine:
-->'''Teal'c:''' The queen the Pangarans are breeding is not Goa'uld. She is the origin of the Tok'ra.
* WhamLine:
-->'''Teal'c:''' The queen the Pangarans are breeding is not Goa'uld. She is the origin of the Tok'ra.
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* SealedGoodInACan: After TheReveal that the queen is Egeria.
* WhamLine:
-->'''Teal'c:''' The queen the Pangarans are breeding is not Goa'uld. She is the origin of the Tok'ra.Egeria.
* WhamLine:
-->'''Teal'c:''' The queen the Pangarans are breeding is not Goa'uld. She is the origin of the Tok'ra.
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* OhCrap: Once Jonas says the name Egeria Teal'c has this reaction written all over his face as he realizes who that Goa'uld queen really is. Basically becomes a MassOhCrap once they share the news with everyone else even the Pangarans who realize they have been basically slowly torturing the mother of the very people who are now trying to help them.
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** Teal'c states that Apophis was killed [[Recap/StargateSG1S5E1Enemies some time ago]].
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** Teal'c states that Apophis was killed [[Film/{{Stargate}} Ra]] and [[Recap/StargateSG1S5E1Enemies Apophis]] were killed some time ago]].ago.
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* FreezeFrameBonus: When Jonas is flipping through Zenna Valk's notebook, a sketch of a Goa'uld canopic jar nearly identical to the ones [[ContinuityNod Osiris and Isis were trapped in]] can be seen for about a second or so. A sharp-eyed viewer can thus figure out the origin of the Pangarans' symbiotes in the next scene before the Pangarans reveal the existence of Egeria.
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* AllLovingHeroine: Egeria. She spent 60 years being medically tortured by the Pangarans (who, to be fair, had no idea that she was anything other than an ordinary Goa'uld), yet she died to save them.
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* DescriptionCut:DescriptionCut: PlayedForLaughs at the start of the episode.
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* FirstContact: Shown from the perspective of the Pangarans, who are nervous at the prospect of meeting the team as Earth is apparently more technologically advanced than they are.
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* FirstContact: Shown from the perspective of the Pangarans, who are nervous at the prospect of meeting the team as Earth is apparently rather more technologically advanced than they are.
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* HazardousWater: Teal'c and Jonas discover a large pool at the tretonin production plant filled with infantile symbiotes. Jonas and a random security guard fall into the water shortly afterwards.
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* HazardousWater: Teal'c and Jonas discover a large pool at the tretonin production plant filled with infantile symbiotes. Jonas and a random security guard fall into the water shortly afterwards.afterwards, and the guard is possessed by an infant symbiote. However, said symbiote is a BlankSlate, operating on autopilot, which is key to the resolution of the episode.
* LaserGuidedKarma: The general opinion, particularly by the Tok'ra (to SG-1's mild surprise), of the fate of the symbiote Queen prior to TheReveal that she's not a Goa'uld, but Egeria.
* MommasBoy: All the Tok'ra are demonstrated to be devoted to their mother, and visibly heartbroken when she dies. It gets them major sympathy points.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The Pangarans are horrified when (having encountered the Tok'ra and knowing the difference between them and the Goa'uld) they find out that the symbiote queen they've spent the last 60 years milking for symbiotes is not a Goa'uld getting what even the Tok'ra consider to be LaserGuidedKarma, but Egeria - the mother and founder of the Tok'ra.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The Pangarans are horrified when (having encountered the Tok'ra and knowing the difference between them and the Goa'uld) they find out that the symbiote queen they've spent the last 60 years milking for symbiotes is not a Goa'uld getting what even the Tok'ra consider to be LaserGuidedKarma, but Egeria - the mother and founder of the Tok'ra.
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* {{Retcon}}: The ability of Goa'uld queens to spawn infant symbiotes is retconned to be achievable through asexual reproduction, while in the season one episode [[Recap/StargateSG1S1E13Hathor "Hathor"]] it required fertilization via the DNA of the host species. Of course, Hathor being Hathor, that could have been a matter of personal preference - and there was something very different about the symbiotes Egeria spawned under those circumstances.
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* {{Retcon}}: Possibly. The ability of Goa'uld queens to spawn infant symbiotes is retconned to be achievable through asexual reproduction, while in the season one episode [[Recap/StargateSG1S1E13Hathor "Hathor"]] it required fertilization via the DNA of the host species. Of course, Hathor being Hathor, that could have been a matter of personal preference - and there was something very different about the symbiotes Egeria spawned under those circumstances.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: The Tok'ra queen Egeria was medically experimented on and then kept in a tank and forced to breed against
her will for decades so that her offspring can be used to in the production of tretonin. She is finally freed only to die shortly afterwards, and her last act is to save the people who experimented on her in the first place.
her will for decades so that her offspring can be used to in the production of tretonin. She is finally freed only to die shortly afterwards, and her last act is to save the people who experimented on her in the first place.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: The Tok'ra queen Egeria was medically experimented on and then kept in a tank and forced to breed against
against her will for decades so that her offspring can be used to in the production of tretonin. She is finally freed only to die shortly afterwards, and her last act is to save the people who experimented on her in the first place.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: The Tok'ra queen Egeria was medically experimented on and then kept in a tank and forced to breed against her will for decades so that her offspring can be used to in the production of tretonin. She is finally freed only to die shortly afterwards, and her last act is to save the people who experimented on her in the first place.
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: The Tok'ra aren't precisely bad, more GoodIsNotNice, but they have a massive soft spot for their mother, Egeria, whom they revere - something which gains them major sympathy points.
* FateWorseThanDeath: The Tok'ra queen Egeria was medically experimented on and then kept in a tank and forced to breedagainst against
her will for decades so that her offspring can be used to in the production of tretonin. She is finally freed only to die shortly afterwards, and her last act is to save the people who experimented on her in the first place.
* FateWorseThanDeath: The Tok'ra queen Egeria was medically experimented on and then kept in a tank and forced to breed
her will for decades so that her offspring can be used to in the production of tretonin. She is finally freed only to die shortly afterwards, and her last act is to save the people who experimented on her in the first place.
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* {{Retcon}}: The ability of Goa'uld queens to spawn infant symbiotes is retconned to be achievable through asexual reproduction, while in the season one episode [[Recap/StargateSG1S1E13Hathor "Hathor"]] it required fertilization via the DNA of the host species.
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* {{Retcon}}: The ability of Goa'uld queens to spawn infant symbiotes is retconned to be achievable through asexual reproduction, while in the season one episode [[Recap/StargateSG1S1E13Hathor "Hathor"]] it required fertilization via the DNA of the host species. Of course, Hathor being Hathor, that could have been a matter of personal preference - and there was something very different about the symbiotes Egeria spawned under those circumstances.
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* SealedGoodInACan: After TheReveal that the queen is Egeria.
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-->''(The team enters through the stargate)
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-->''(The team enters through the stargate)stargate)''
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->''"Tretonin makes our immune systems impervious to any ailment. We live in perfect health."''
-->'''-- Dollen'''
SG-1 visits a world called Pangar, whose citizens take a drug called tretonin that they claim grants them immunity to any disease. After further investigation, the team discover that the drug is made using symbiotes harvested from a captive Goa'uld queen.
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!!"Cure" provides examples of the following tropes:
* BlankSlate: The symbiotes used for the production of the tretonin are this, as the GeneticMemory is not passed on by the queen.
* ContinuityNod:
** Teal'c states that Apophis was killed [[Recap/StargateSG1S5E1Enemies some time ago]].
** Jonas likens the situation on Pangar to his own government's [[Recap/StargateSG1S5E21Meridian less than ethical handling of new scientific discoveries]].
* DescriptionCut:
-->'''Dollen:''' They are sending their most respected team of representatives. No doubt the leader of this group will be a brilliant and savvy negotiator.
-->'''Tegar:''' We must be at our best to meet the challenge.
-->'''Dollen:''' Personally, I cannot wait to meet a man of such genius.
-->''(The team enters through the stargate)
-->'''O'Neill:''' Howdy, folks!
* DyingRace: Malek refers to the Tok'ra as such, stressing that this is why it's so important for them to free their queen.
* FateWorseThanDeath: The Tok'ra queen Egeria was medically experimented on and then kept in a tank and forced to breed against her will for decades so that her offspring can be used to in the production of tretonin. She is finally freed only to die shortly afterwards, and her last act is to save the people who experimented on her in the first place.
* FirstContact: Shown from the perspective of the Pangarans, who are nervous at the prospect of meeting the team as Earth is apparently more technologically advanced than they are.
* GovernmentDrugEnforcement: A variation; the government doesn't ''force'' its citizens to take the tretonin, but once someone starts on it they have to keep taking it every day. Also, Zenna mentions that it's not available to everyone; it's a "privilege", and it can be revoked.
* GratuitousFrench: When O'Neill is first presented with the tretonin he asks, ''"qu'est-ce que c'est?"''
* HazardousWater: Teal'c and Jonas discover a large pool at the tretonin production plant filled with infantile symbiotes. Jonas and a random security guard fall into the water shortly afterwards.
* IdealIllnessImmunity: The tretonin grants this to those who take it; unfortunately, it works in much the same way as the symbiotes carried by the Jaffa, replacing the body's natural immune system so that if a person stops taking the drug, they will quickly die.
* MainliningTheMonster: The tretonin is ''somehow'' made from Goa'uld -- or more accurately, Tok'ra -- symbiotes. The exact process is never really described.
* NotSoDifferent: O'Neill accuses the Tok'ra of this in regards to the Goa'uld, claiming that for all their talk, they still view humans as nothing more than "a nice place to live".
* {{Retcon}}: The ability of Goa'uld queens to spawn infant symbiotes is retconned to be achievable through asexual reproduction, while in the season one episode [[Recap/StargateSG1S1E13Hathor "Hathor"]] it required fertilization via the DNA of the host species.
* TheReveal: The Goa'uld queen that the Pangarans have been using to produce their tretonin is not a Goa'uld at all, but is in fact the Tok'ra queen Egeria.
* SealedEvilInACan: The Pangarans mention that Egeria was found sealed inside a canopic jar, similar to that which [[Recap/StargateSG1S4E13TheCurse was used to imprison Osiris on Earth]]. This turns out to be a subversion, however, once it's revealed that Egeria is actually Tok'ra.
* WhamLine:
-->'''Teal'c:''' The queen the Pangarans are breeding is not Goa'uld. She is the origin of the Tok'ra.
-->'''-- Dollen'''
SG-1 visits a world called Pangar, whose citizens take a drug called tretonin that they claim grants them immunity to any disease. After further investigation, the team discover that the drug is made using symbiotes harvested from a captive Goa'uld queen.
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!!"Cure" provides examples of the following tropes:
* BlankSlate: The symbiotes used for the production of the tretonin are this, as the GeneticMemory is not passed on by the queen.
* ContinuityNod:
** Teal'c states that Apophis was killed [[Recap/StargateSG1S5E1Enemies some time ago]].
** Jonas likens the situation on Pangar to his own government's [[Recap/StargateSG1S5E21Meridian less than ethical handling of new scientific discoveries]].
* DescriptionCut:
-->'''Dollen:''' They are sending their most respected team of representatives. No doubt the leader of this group will be a brilliant and savvy negotiator.
-->'''Tegar:''' We must be at our best to meet the challenge.
-->'''Dollen:''' Personally, I cannot wait to meet a man of such genius.
-->''(The team enters through the stargate)
-->'''O'Neill:''' Howdy, folks!
* DyingRace: Malek refers to the Tok'ra as such, stressing that this is why it's so important for them to free their queen.
* FateWorseThanDeath: The Tok'ra queen Egeria was medically experimented on and then kept in a tank and forced to breed against her will for decades so that her offspring can be used to in the production of tretonin. She is finally freed only to die shortly afterwards, and her last act is to save the people who experimented on her in the first place.
* FirstContact: Shown from the perspective of the Pangarans, who are nervous at the prospect of meeting the team as Earth is apparently more technologically advanced than they are.
* GovernmentDrugEnforcement: A variation; the government doesn't ''force'' its citizens to take the tretonin, but once someone starts on it they have to keep taking it every day. Also, Zenna mentions that it's not available to everyone; it's a "privilege", and it can be revoked.
* GratuitousFrench: When O'Neill is first presented with the tretonin he asks, ''"qu'est-ce que c'est?"''
* HazardousWater: Teal'c and Jonas discover a large pool at the tretonin production plant filled with infantile symbiotes. Jonas and a random security guard fall into the water shortly afterwards.
* IdealIllnessImmunity: The tretonin grants this to those who take it; unfortunately, it works in much the same way as the symbiotes carried by the Jaffa, replacing the body's natural immune system so that if a person stops taking the drug, they will quickly die.
* MainliningTheMonster: The tretonin is ''somehow'' made from Goa'uld -- or more accurately, Tok'ra -- symbiotes. The exact process is never really described.
* NotSoDifferent: O'Neill accuses the Tok'ra of this in regards to the Goa'uld, claiming that for all their talk, they still view humans as nothing more than "a nice place to live".
* {{Retcon}}: The ability of Goa'uld queens to spawn infant symbiotes is retconned to be achievable through asexual reproduction, while in the season one episode [[Recap/StargateSG1S1E13Hathor "Hathor"]] it required fertilization via the DNA of the host species.
* TheReveal: The Goa'uld queen that the Pangarans have been using to produce their tretonin is not a Goa'uld at all, but is in fact the Tok'ra queen Egeria.
* SealedEvilInACan: The Pangarans mention that Egeria was found sealed inside a canopic jar, similar to that which [[Recap/StargateSG1S4E13TheCurse was used to imprison Osiris on Earth]]. This turns out to be a subversion, however, once it's revealed that Egeria is actually Tok'ra.
* WhamLine:
-->'''Teal'c:''' The queen the Pangarans are breeding is not Goa'uld. She is the origin of the Tok'ra.
