Brief Candle

Sci-Fi & Fantasy • TV-PG • Directed by: Stargate SG-1 • 44 minutes

O'Neill and the SG-1 team travel through the Stargate to Argos where they come across a young woman giving birth. After Daniel delivers the child the team is invited to a festival where they find a civilization of beautiful happy people who celebrate while the sun shines and mysteriously drop to sleep the minute that it sets. More mysteriously they seem to age very rapidly - a lifetime is 100 days - an effect that O'Neill unwittingly inherits when he is seduced by Kynthia a stunning Argosian woman. As O'Neill's hair turns grey and life races past the rest of the team return to base to try to discover a cure for whatever is making O'Neill and the Argosians grow old so fast. Dr. Samantha Carter discovers the culprit: nanocytes or microscopic robots that circulate in the blood stream apparently placed there as part of a cruel experiment by Pelops a Goa'uld whom the Argosians worship as a god. But the team can't figure out how to turn them off and unless they can O'Neill will soon be dead.