It gets four stars for some pretty good acting. But overall the story is a tired re-hash of the old science fiction "character commits a murder but can't remember it". In this case, the scenario is turned upside down. Col. Mitchell remembers a murder he didn't commit.
After the credits, the episode flashes back to two days earlier, then proceeds. It would have been better to start at the beginning, but maybe the producers wanted a more dramatic opening scene.
SG-1 Farscape already repeated the SG-1 crew member on trial. It's at least something that this episode didn't proceed to a trial. But the scenes of Mitchell's past, drawing a generic "strong" character, are tiring. They're almost as tiring as the repeating scene of the murder.
The Ori are coming. This episode doesn't even pretend to be connected to the main story line. The Joint Chiefs are interested in technology that writes memories, so they can train pilots in a few weeks. Fighter planes aren't going to stop the Ori.
Given the Ori threat, a real, "strong" person would say "who cares, remove the memory, we have important things to do."
After the credits, the episode flashes back to two days earlier, then proceeds. It would have been better to start at the beginning, but maybe the producers wanted a more dramatic opening scene.
SG-1 Farscape already repeated the SG-1 crew member on trial. It's at least something that this episode didn't proceed to a trial. But the scenes of Mitchell's past, drawing a generic "strong" character, are tiring. They're almost as tiring as the repeating scene of the murder.
The Ori are coming. This episode doesn't even pretend to be connected to the main story line. The Joint Chiefs are interested in technology that writes memories, so they can train pilots in a few weeks. Fighter planes aren't going to stop the Ori.
Given the Ori threat, a real, "strong" person would say "who cares, remove the memory, we have important things to do."