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Carter couldn't keep her so Dr Fraiser adopted her , they have a real good episode in season five (rite of passage) which really goes into Dr Carter's relationship with Cassandra (she goes all crazy protective Mom on Nirrti at one point). Her and Carter act more like buddies (or a favorite aunt/neice relationship) in the episode than mother/daughter, Dr Fraiser is definatly in the Mom role.Kahuna Burger said:
As far as strong female roles I think Sam's main strength is that she is the absolute smartest person on the whole base by a pretty wide margin, not to mention she is a intrigal part of a trained combat unit (well except for Daniel). I've seen quite a few episodes where she gets into plenty of physical situations (there is the episode from the first season witht he Mongols for instance where she beats the Tribal leader in a knife fight). There are also plenty of female Goa'ulds out there who are System Lords. I think they play up the bit with her and O'Neill for comedy from time to time (she's a girl and he's a moron).
On the Christianity bit, I ain't going to go into that here (for the obvious reasons) but I've have seen it covered a couple of times (check out "politics" in season one for example; O'Niell and Senator Kinsey have a go around on God not stopping the Goa'ulds from blowing Earth up). It doesn't come up often but the couple of times I've seen it come up they don't pull any punches, they really don't take a "wussy" approach to that topic at all.
SciFi.com has a decent episode guide, it's full of character typos and spoilers but all and all it gives a decent overview of every episode. Arduinna's Stargate Handbook, is a pretty good site too: http://trickster.org/arduinna/stargate/
darn my longwindedness, somebody beat me to the Cassandra episode while I was typing.
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It is too bad that the show's premise is never fully carried out to its logical conclusions re current religions. I could see Daniel as an archeologist playing the skeptic, carter as the warm and fuzzy spiritual type and Jack as the quintesential unexplored christian (ie, he probably considers himself to be whatever religion he was raised in, with possibly a bitter lapse arounf the time of his son's death). The characters wouldn't neccassarily come to the conclusion that christianity was impossible - though it would likely knock down any biblical literalist hanging out. 
Kinsey was kinda embarrassing... though I suppose his fervant belief might be part of his hostility to the stargate program... if they were going to play the Bible banger trope, it would have been funnier if he or some other high up type decided we needed to send missionaries through the gate. 
