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This is actually another story that Peter wanted to do last year, but it didn't make sense to do it because it involves the Unas, specifically Chaka. We just felt it didn't make sense to do an Unas or Chaka story without the Daniel character. Once again, with Daniel back, we dusted off the pitch and Peter wrote it. The SGC, or members of the military, are looking for an off-world naquadah mine. They think they found one, and it's while they're basically searching this mine area that one of their members is attacked. SG-1 comes to check out what's happened, and of course it turns out to be the Unas. In order to deal with the threat, Daniel suggests they use Chaka as an intermediary. So the character of Chaka comes back, and with Daniel's help, tries to mediate a peace between the Unas and the military. It's essentially almost like a cowboy/Native American type of setup where it's their land, and we come in, and we need the naquadah, and while we may respect their needs up to a certain point, the bottom line is our needs will take precedence over theirs. So Daniel has his work cut out for him in an attempt to broker a truce.
This is actually another story that Peter wanted to do last year, but it didn't make sense to do it because it involves the Unas, specifically Chaka. We just felt it didn't make sense to do an Unas or Chaka story without the Daniel character. Once again, with Daniel back, we dusted off the pitch and Peter wrote it. The SGC, or members of the military, are looking for an off-world naquadah mine. They think they found one, and it's while they're basically searching this mine area that one of their members is attacked. SG-1 comes to check out what's happened, and of course it turns out to be the Unas. In order to deal with the threat, Daniel suggests they use Chaka as an intermediary. So the character of Chaka comes back, and with Daniel's help, tries to mediate a peace between the Unas and the military. It's essentially almost like a cowboy/Native American type of setup where it's their land, and we come in, and we need the naquadah, and while we may respect their needs up to a certain point, the bottom line is our needs will take precedence over theirs. So Daniel has his work cut out for him in an attempt to broker a truce.
Season Seven's Enemy Mine Sis the third in a series of episodes featuring the Unas, the first race of aliens used by the Goa'uld symbiotes as hosts. "In this story, [written and directed by Perer Deluise], our people are on a planet where they encounter a hostile group of Unas", explains Paul Mullie. "These Unas are resisting our efforrs to mine a site containing a rich vein of naquadah. Daniel has the bright idea of going to get Chaka, who we last saw in Beast of Burden. In that episode, he was dealing with a civil war situation between Humans and enslaved Unas. Apparently, Chaka helped resolve that issue, so we think he's the perfect one to hopefully negotiate a peace on this planet as well.
[Director/co-producer] Peter DeLuise really has an affinity for two aspects of our series: one is the Jaffa culture and the other is the Unas. He seems to really love doing Unas stories". "Sometimes, when we're coming up with stories, we look at the ongoing mythology of the show and ask ourselves, 'where are we getting our resources from? Where are we getting our naquadah?' We decided we must have an off-world mine, we we must be moving this stuff, and from that we started to spin this story. We also wanted to address the repercussions of what we did in an episode two years ago called "Beast of Burden", where we liberated Chaka and his planet from slavery. We wanted to see how they had grown since then and this episode was basically about going back and finding that Chaka had become far more civilised, to the extent where he helps us broker, or attempt to broker peace with the Unas who are indigenous to the planet where we're mining the naquaduah.
Enemy Mine, written and directed by Deluise, reintroduces an old friend of Daniel's and continues the exploration fan alien culture familiar to longtime Stargate SG-1 viewers. "The Unas are back and they're mad," he says. "They consider an area we're mining as sacred ground and want us to leave. However, we need the naquadah. the mine to power spaceships that will help us defend Earth against a Goa'uld attack. Daniel suggests we bring in Chaka to act on our behalf as a liaison to his fellow Unas. Chaka has become far more sophisticated since we last saw him [in Season Six's Beast o f Burden]. He's dressed in Human-type clothes and speaks better English. Dion Johnstone was performing onstage when we did this episode and therefore was unable to reprise his role of_ Chaka. So we asked Patrick Curne [Fifth in last year's Unnatural Selection] to play the part and he did a terrific job.
At the time of this interview in early May, the cast and crew of Stargate SG-1 were filming two episodes side-by-side, Avenger 2.0 and Enemy Mine.
The impressive mid-valley area in North Vancouver, before and transformed into a camp for Enemy Mine
We filmed a big battle scene recently for Enemy Mine. Christopher Sayour, who's also the stunt double for Tom Welling in Smallville, did this cool stunt using an air ramp. He co-ordinated it with one of our Unas characters, who made it look like he struck Chris as he jumped into the shot. Chris probably went 25 feet into the air and then slammed down onto a pad. For another shot, James 'Bam Bam' Bamford jumped off a mini-tram, hit a tree headfirst and then spun off it. We weren't sure how or where he was going to spin off so we had the poor guy do it eight times before the cameras even started rolling.
Enemy Mine is mundane fare in which Daniel tries diplomacy with Unas
I gave a sigh when I heard this was another Unas episode. They've not really caught my imagination, but they fit into the story well and their actions all make sense. What doesn't really make sense is the idiot colonel in charge of the mining. How did he ever get promoted? We've fallen into the Star Trek syndrome that everyone in authority, apart from our heroes, are complete fools. So the colonel just wants to blast everything in sight and a visiting general more or less wants to do the same. Essentially this is a Western, with the invading Humans seeing the Unas as savages and wanting to move them off somewhere less inconvenient. Daniel is the 'Indian lover' trying to help both sides, but being the 'worth it' "pain in the ass" he manages.to sort things out. I just wish someone had shown these military types a John Ford Western in training, and we wouldn't have had this trouble. 6.
