If the gate was destroyed in the movie how did Daniel get back to Earth? What are the Tocra? Why does Tilk have a symbioat in him? Why isn’t it active and how do you spell it? Thanks
The gate wasn’t destroyed, just buried on Abydos and mothballed on Earth.
The Tok’ra are Goa’uld who have rejected Goa’uld culture and only take willing hosts who they share their bodies with, rather than dominating them. The name means ‘Against Ra’. They’re, honestly, only a little less disturbing than the normal Goa’uld.
Teal’c is a Jafa - humans genetically altered to serve 2 purposes for the Goa’uld - soldier-slaves, and hosts for immature symbiotes. He can’t survive without his symbiote, but as long as he has it, he will have a long lifespan (measured in centuries, rather than decades), heal fast, be highly resistant to injury, and mostly immune to disease, and any poison that doesn’t affect the Goa’uld.
Thank you. And a few more questions when you have the time.
How was Teal’c able to go against his genetic programing?
What is the biological story of the Goa’uld; how they evolved, how they reproduce, etc.
Why are they now eating other symbioats?
I work at home now and have gotten sucked into the series but the reruns are all out of order.
The programming is cultural rather than genetic. He was able to rebel because his teacher (whose name I can’t remember) planted the seed of the thought that the Goa’uld aren’t gods.
There’s not a whole lot of knowledge about the history of the Goa’uld before they took their first hosts (the Unas), but two things are known for sure of their biology: a) they are parisitical in nature, b) they have a sort of Genetic memory - anything a Goa’uld, or any of its hosts knew, any offspring it has will know. They advance technologically by stealing technology from other races.
The Goa’uld eat immature symbiotes because…they’re evil bastards. Probably comes from a primative instinct…kill the other larvae, take the resources for yourself. It’s more complex to do that with the other adults, but killing the immature ones reduces the number who could rise to oppose them. Or it could be removing ones that fail to meet a particular standard from the gene pool.
The Jaffa aren’t really programmed ‘genetically’ to serve the Goa’uld; the G act as tyrannical overlords in the names of gods. It’s a religious/cultural thing to serve them, although once the Jaffa gets a symbiote the larva takes over the immune system, so it’s a biological imperative to keep on serving them once you get it in you. At the moment Teal’c survives on a drug that I can’t recall the name of because his worm died. This drug was invented with much collaboration between Earth and the Tokra, and is a major tool to help convince other Jaffa groups to leave their G masters.
Teal’c was First Prime (chief soldier) for the Goa’uld Apophis. Teal’c was commanded by Apophis to blow away a village’s worth of prisoners (including Sg1 at the time), and his conscience made him subdue his own troops and blow an escape hole in the wall. O’Neill invited him back to Earth for being such a stand-up guy.
The Goa’uld were a fishy, wormy thing that lived in ponds. Apparently the worms themselves need to get out and about to reproduce more worms, and Goa’uld Queens produce thousands of larvae over the course of their epic lifetimes. The first creatures they posessed were called the Unas, a race of primitive bony guys that evolved on the same planet the worms did. The Unas have a tribal culture on their own, but those under the guidance of the G thrived and eventually scavenged enough technology to use the remains of the Gate systems and interstellar ships. Why do they prefer human hosts over stronger, tougher Unas? I don’t know. Worm aesthetics. When two G-possessed humans mate the resulting child carries with it all the knowledge of all its predecessors (which is why such a mating is strictly verboten, but happened anyway at one point).
Dang it, Tengu! 
When’d this happen? Season 6 or 7? What happened to his snake?
The drug is called Tretonin. I may be confusing some storylines but I believe SG-1 found it on a planet where the inhabitants had developed it as a super cure wonder drug. SG-1 were naturally interested until they found out that it was being made using the ancient Tokra Queen (who was the progenitor of all modern Tokra) they had found in a stasis chamber in their own archeological digs. The Tokra were a bit miffed at having their Goddess/ancestral mother essentially being tortured to make medicine. It also turned out to have some bad effects on non Jaffa in the long run IIRC.
Long story short, tokra queen died heroically, alien people had to find a new drug ( one that does what it should), and SG-1 managed to figure out how to synthesize tretonin to act as a symbiote substitute.
That’s essentially correct. The Tretonin planet guys didn’t look for a working version; they got a drug from the Tokra queen that basically weaned them off of tretonin. Teal’c got the transplant from the Tok’ra, who found a way to synthesize it.
Ra in the movie said that he prefered humans because they were so easy to heal. {And to slightly hijack, I like how there aren’t too many differences between the movie and the series. Except that O’Neill’s name is spelled differently. And everyone throughout the Universe speaks colloquial English, Still, it beats the continuity errors between the BTVS movie and series.}
Teal’c and Master Braetac (sp?) were ambushed by a system lord’s forces on a mission to recruit some more Jaffa rebels (it was a setup.) Teal’c had to keep switching Junior between himself and Braetac until help arrived. It was the episode where he hallucinated that he was a fireman, and Jonas was the “new guy” at the station in the fantasy, so it would be inside season 6.
What happens to a Jafa when the Symbiont matures? Do they become a full fledged Goa’uld?
(and why does O’Niel pronounce Goa’uld different than everyone else?)
O’Neill calls them Ghouls because he is generally lazy about facts, though he is great at tactics. He generally doesn’t want to know any more about the culture of the galaxy than is absolutely necessary to his mission of protecting Earth and freeing the oppressed peoples of other planets.
Richard Dean Anderson has said in interviews that he actually requested two things when he took on the role. One, he didn’t think he could pull off Kurt Russell’s silver crewcut from the movie, so they’d need to change the hair. Two, O’Neill could not be the smart guy in the team. Basically, he didn’t want to do someone too MacGyver-like.
Which is great, because that meant they needed Major Carter to be the big brain, and Amanda Tapping is one of the top babes of all SF TV. I love the smart girls.
No. The Jaffa are incubators for immature Goa’uld symbiotes, not hosts for mature ones. When the symbiote matures, the Jaffa simply gets given a new one (unless he is too old, in which case he dies). The symbiote itself is either destroyed by the Goa’uld the Jaffa serves, or is implanted into a selected human host.
Then she had to go and host Proof Positive and ruin the illusion. Grrr…
Don’t pretty much all the Earth people pronounce it the way he does? And isn’t it more like “Gould”?
I’ve always pronounced it in three syllables. Goo-ah-uld
Uh it’s O’Neill with TWO Ls, the O’Neil with one L has no sense of humour … 
I think the pronunciation of Goa’uld depends on the person’s accent …
I liked Terry Rothery even more, but then they had to whack Dr. Frasier last season…