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When the younger team members reminesce about birthday’s, Ec’co thinks back to his own torn life. The team convinces Gus to take Ec’co to his homeworld. An electrical storm shorts out their Stargate while Gus and Ec’co get taken into custody by the hostile Hrathi, who know of Gus’ alleged betrayal. The rest of the team rig a way to recharge the Stargate using lightning while the Tlak’khan launch an attack on the Hrathi. Gus helps to drive them off and then are taken to a cache of data crystals. It turns out the crystals are a fake, but one of the Hrathi reveals he is a shapeshifter. Gus and Ec’co pass the test and receive the real Tlak’khan data crystal they need.

While completing a job on a backwater world, Mal is married to a village girl without his knowledge. The girl, Saffron, gets onboard and the crew does not find her until they’re already in the air. Mal is not sure what to do with her, but let her come along.

The team arrives with a planet with a mysterious “”Guide”” stone which is immediately endangered by an earthquake. The team helps the natives, the Mou’a’dash, to recover it. While Harrison deals with being “”owned”” by a local native that rescued him, the Tlak’khan launch an attack. Gus, Draaga, and Seattle get captured and taken through the Stargate along with the Guide, which they use to travel to the Ancients’ home planet. They end up in a hellworld trap set by the Ancients, where the Stargate has no controls and they are stuck. Draga manages to use her powers to open the Stargate, leaving the Tlak’khan stranded. Gus realizes the Tlak’khan must have access to his travel record through the traitor and heads off to a planet he hasn’t been on before.

On a salvage mission aboard a drifting colony ship, the Serenity crew find signs that the crew were killed by the cannibalistic Reavers. They find one survivor, but things take a turn for the worse when an Alliance ship looking for an unspecified Firefly-class ship with brother-and-sister stowaways shows up and takes them in.

The team stay on a jungle planet, cut off by Nephestis who has framed Gus as a traitor. The local Thorn aliens are dying of a disease which Gus believes he left there on a previous expedition. The others choose to head out with the Ancient chrysalis but are ambushed by the Tlak’khan but escape…as the chrysalis hatches and the winged Ancient escapes. The Tlak’khan leader De’kyll takes the Thorn village hostage and Bonner surrenders but the Ancient intervenes and the cadets take them prisoner (except De’kyll escapes). The Ancient learns English through Seattle and asks the team for help, and after being named Draga. Draga heals the ailing Thorn but knows nothing about the Stargates and remains with the team.

Serenity continues to travel through space conducting illegal runs across the star system, which is under the control of The Alliance. A powerful and fearsome mobster named Adelei Niska demands that the crew of Serenity pull a train robbery. The train is carrying medical supplies for a community, and Reynolds and Zoe get held on suspicion. They get free with Inara’s help but realize they were tricked and try to return Niska’s money. His henchman isn’t too happy, but Mal “persuades” the next guy to take the money back. Meanwhile, two blue-handed, black-suited operatives close in on River.

A group of trainees and their leader, veteran gate traveller Gus Bonner, must help an alien named Draga, who is being pursued by both alien forces and bounty hunters from Earth, get back to her homeworld.

A news reporter threatens to expose a top-secret military project, but when Carter and Jonas
give her a tour of the X-303, they discover that she is a pawn in a much larger plot.

An alien world offers Earth a medicine with the power to cure any illness — but the hidden price may be too high to pay.

Tensions rise between the Tok’ra and rebel Jaffa at the S.G.C.’s offworld base when they are attacked by an invisible enemy.