Your Bra'tac icon always makes me grin. :)

The guy survived 130 years before he met the Tau'ri, so I guess it's the proximity to SG-1's insanity that makes him reckless?

I think there were six escape pods, or people beaming out, or something. We never find out who. You are welcome to join me on my little floating raft on the D'Nile and decide that Chekov was one of them. ;)