- While employing the help of a planet's highly intelligent children for a project, the team discovers their horrific imposed fate when they reach a certain age.
- The planet Orban, with Precolumbian Teotihuacán-culture antecedents and Aztec type pyramids, has made impressive scientific progress, and brings Sam a Naquadah reactor to study; when she requires an instructor, Orban official Kalan surprises SG-1 by saying that he does not know what an instructor is, but 11 year-old Merrin stays on base to teach Carter. On Orban, Kalan's son Tomin, another 'Urrone' (apprentice) is assigned to exchange knowledge about the Goa'uld with Teal'c and Daniel. SG-1 and Dr. Fraiser are astonished to discover the Orban Urrones know neither fun nor school: a mass of useful new information is acquired while they are young and stored in the easily reproducible form of nanites, which are implanted in every Orbanian's brain after the Urrone's 'Averium', a coming of age ceremony at age 12, which extracts the knowledge from the individual and ends their ability to function mentally, so those children are 'retired' for life and from the active society. The Orbanians are furiously insulted by any suggestion to avoid an Averium for the child's sake, yet Jack retains Merrin to let her experience how earth children spend their youth in schooling and play, offering it to her as an alternative to the Averium, with a remarkable result.—KGF Vissers
- On the planet Orban, SG-1 is excavating a site that shows the Goa'uld had been to planet many years before. They are being assisted by highly gifted children, referred to as the Urrone. One of them, 11 year-old Merrin, travels to Stargate Command to deliver a small reactor and agrees to stay on to show Sam Carter how the device works. A routine medical examination, however, reveals that there are nanites in her system and she explains that this is how her people acquire knowledge. They are all taken somewhat aback when they learn that Teal'c's young friend Tomin has had his nanites removed and distributed among the population, something that happens to all Urrone when they reach the age of 12. Jack O'Neill has a problem with that.—garykmcd
- The SG-1 is exchanging experience with the inhabitants of the scientifically developed planet Orban. The representative Kalan gives a Naquadah reactor to Sam to study and she requests someone to coach her. Kalan does not understand the request, but the girl Merrin offers to train Sam. Meanwhile, Kalan's son Tomin learns from Teal'c the danger of the Goa'uld. Merrin is submitted to medical examination by Dr. Fraiser, and she finds that she has nanites implanted in her brain. Soon, Merrin explains that when they reach twelve years old, they have a ceremony called Averium when all their knowledge is removed together with the nanites to be implanted in the scientists to bring progress to their people. Further, the children become slow with the removal of the nanites. Jack has become attached to Merrin and does not accept the explanation. However, Daniel understands the explanation of Kalan and tries to explain to Jack that Merrin must return to her planet. But Jack abducts Merrin to show her something on the surface and outside of the SGC. What will Jack do with Merrin?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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