Stargate SG-1 - "The Game Keeper" - season 2 episode 4 - Friday 17 July 1998
Exploring a strange and beautiful garden in a distant world, the team members are trapped, knocked unconscious, and awakened to find themselves reliving the most pivotal, traumatic moments of their lives. A mysterious Keeper explains that it is all a virtual-reality type game. Forced to watch friends and family dying, SG-1 only wants to escape.
DANIEL
Then why do you lie to your people? Why don't…why don't you give them the option to come out with you?
THE KEEPER
Because it was our kind that damaged the planet in the first place. If I let them out, they will only hurt it again.
CARTER
You're kidding.
TEAL'C
Perhaps your people will not make the same mistakes again.
O'NEILL
(Snidely)
Yeah, you're big on giving people a second chance, aren't ya?
THE KEEPER
(Indignant)
No one is preventing them from leaving. Portals such as the one you've used are everywhere within.
DANIEL
So, you mean we could've left anytime we wanted? All we had to do was go through one of those doors?
THE KEEPER
Anyone may leave at any time. Portals are always open.
O'NEILL
Of course, people have to know they exist to use them.
THE KEEPER
(Contemptuously)
Which you have now shown them.
CARTER
And they have to know that there's somewhere to go.
THE KEEPER
And you have told them *that*. You have ruined everything, poisoned their minds. The damage is done.
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https://www.sjdictionarysources.org/horace.html
spell;
Thus Horace uses words:
Sunt verba & voces quibus hunc lenire dolorem
Possis. [Horace Epistle I. 1, lines 34-35]
(Translation from the Loeb Classical Library LCL 194, pp. 252-253)
"There are spells and sayings whereby you may soothe the pain ....")
Google translate
This quotation comes from Horace, Epistles I.1.34. It is part of a passage where Horace advises his friend Maecenas that philosophy and literature (words and songs) can cure the "diseases" of the mind, such as greed or desire.
Translation
"There are words and sounds by which you can soothe this pain, and remove a great part of the disease."
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Release dates May 18, 2012 (United States)
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Stargate SG-1 - "The Game Keeper" - season 2 episode 4 - Friday 17 July 1998
CARTER
So, we're trapped with our…our brains hooked up like computers to some sort of network?
THE KEEPER
Yes, and your minds are very valuable to my residents because you enrich and add value to our own.
DANIEL
Well, wait a minute, wait a minute. How long have your residents been in this virtual world?
THE KEEPER
Roughly one thousand of your years.
O'NEILL
Well, we're certainly not going to stick around for the next thousand of anyone's years.
DANIEL
So, until we came along you've only had your own minds, your own experiences to provide scenarios for your virtual lives?
THE KEEPER
You're beginning to understand.
DANIEL
So, so, wh…what, we're like…we're like new software?
[The Keeper nods as O'Neill looks at Daniel to explain.]
DANIEL
(To O'Neill)
I mean, imagine if you were locked in a room for a thousand years with only a VCR, a TV and five movies. How long could you watch those five movies until you were bored silly? What you wouldn't give for just four more.
CARTER
So you're using our minds, our memories, imaginations, dreams for…for some sort of programming?
THE KEEPER
Actually, I can remove information from only two of your minds.
(Regarding Teal'c)
This species' mind seems to protect against output, as does yours, madam.
(Regarding Carter.)
CARTER
It does?
TEAL'C
Perhaps because of the change in your mind the Goa'uld, Jolinar of Malk-shur, left behind.
THE KEEPER
But fear not, there is no block against *input* into your minds. You two can enjoy our adventures and these two minds,
(referring to O'Neill and Daniel)
they provide more than enough rich experience and imagination to provide years of entertainment for my residents.
O'NEILL
Well, I'm sorry.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 1:58 PM Pacific-timezone USA Friday 02/20/2026
