The SG-1 team is sent after the SG-9 team that has failed to return. They find that SG-9's captain, having been treated like a god by planetary inhabitants, is drunk with power and is tyrannizing them. Can they overcome him?

SG-11 failed to report regularly while mining trinium, a vital mineral for earth's defense against the Goa'uld. SG-1 finds them missing, and all traces cease at the site of arrow-heads made from trinium. Then they are all sedated by such arrows and brought to the village of Tonané, whose earthly tribal ancestry Daniel identifies by its animal totems. However, they are soon awake and released, their guns even returned, and promised to get their friends back, too, from the wolf spirit T'akaya, and the raven-shaped supreme spirit Xe'ls. The council of elders refuses to allow resuming of the mining, which is disrespectful to nature, but Tonané is delegated to be shown alternatives on earth. Both teams return to SGC, or so it appears; in fact, SG-11 is a series of incarnated spirits, who are soon convinced the earthlings are most untrustworthy.