STARGATE SG-1 Trial by Fire

SG-1 rarely took experts through the stargate in the television series. But in this book, an British archeologist (Dr. Kelly) seems to be casually added to the SG-1 team. Dr. Kelly is written very well, being intentionally annoying and thus consistently annoying at every possible moment, in addition to uttering a few British-isms that probably aren't overly familiar to American readers. Taking place between seasons 7 and 8, the storyline makes abundant references (some slightly obscure) to previous events in the lives of the characters. Since Jack is captured and tortured (in detail) twice in this book, much of what we see in his thoughts are recollections of being tortured by Baal and how he copes with those thoughts by avoidance. The plot is sufficiently twisted, with the characters trusting different civilizations at various points. Most of the dialog feels close to the TV series in tone and wording, but I liked "Sacrifice Moon" (book 2 of this series) better for its dialog.

I am almost done reading this book, I kind of stopped for a while because I found the Dr. Kelly character, some-what obnoxious. Overall the detail in the book paints a perfect picture of the scene of the story. The characters also seem true in terms of the TV series. Because of this book I am looking forward to reading the rest of the books that follow, while trying to cope with my Stargate withdraws. But to cut to the chase, I do recomend this book to all Stargate fans!

When I read this one I thought it was a really good story, but the background from O'neill's point of view made it pretty clear that what happened to him during the season 6 episode" The Abyss" had affected him more deeply then show made it seem.I think that the only thing in the story that was un-necessary was bringing in that arrogant archeologist and since she seemed to go along the lines of what Daniel's college rival was like in the season 4 episode" The Curse" and continued not to take things to seriously throughout the entire book was what had made things even worse. For Daniel's point of view most of the story involved him getting most of his memories back and then this came up and that made you pretty sympathetic to his feelings on the matter, especially since it dug into the roots of his friendship with O'neill that was never mentioned in the show too much. I have to say that this is one of the best in the new stargate series and I recommend this one to any who like the series.

Trial by Fire is a good book for those rainy afternoons. Good use of the character profiles from the show in developing the plot. The timeline of this book is consistent with season 7 when Daniel Jackson has returned.