Stargate SG-1 Season 10 *Discussion Thread* 9/15

[Truth Seeker]

EPISODE NUMBER - 1009
ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 09.15.06
WRITTEN BY - Alan McCullough
DIRECTED BY - Will Waring

Cast: Beau Bridges, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Ben Browder.

GUEST STARRING - Eric Steinberg (Netan), Matthew Glave (Colonel Paul Emerson), Martin Christopher (Major Marks)

Cameron Mitchell must go undercover inside the deadly Lucian Alliance to prevent his teammates from becoming casualties of an Alliance civil war.​

Sorry sir, but to enter the guild, one must acknowledge first, that we don't exist.

 

[Wycen]

Liked the SG-1 episode better than Atlantis. Was hoping to see more Ori, rather than just hear about them, but it was interesting seeing the Daedulus and the minefield. Is that the first (space) minefield ever in Stargate?

 

[Shag]

No its not, there was one way back when SG-1 teams up with Jacob Carter to reprogram a mine field. They had to beam it onto a cloaked cargo ship and reprogram it.

Oh man watched like the first 3 minutes and had to turn it off. I'm really starting to get mad at the way they bend the strength of the shields to suit the plot, I HATE it when shows do that. I seem to remember the Prometheus which has way less powerful shields taking far bigger beatings. Remember the Ori first batttle? So now in like 1 minute 3 Gould motherships can take down the shields and crack the hull open???

Even in Atlantis the Deadalus can take a couple of minutes of sustained fire from multiple wraith hive ships, which are BTW like 8 times bigger.

This goes right on top of last weeks Atlantis were they can rebuild project arcturus, but can't make a regular old zpm which is an easier tech.

 

[SkidAce]

Carter said something before the attack about being near a neutron star and that it was affecting their shields.

Plausible? But at least they thought about your concern.

 

[Darthjaye]

Carter said something before the attack about being near a neutron star and that it was affecting their shields.

Plausible? But at least they thought about your concern.

Yeah, she said the star would severely weakened their shields and started to mention what else (I'm assuming their detection as they did not see 3 motherships until they were on top of them) and then right on cue they were attacked. I guess we'll be seeing a new ships captain now since they offed the recent one in this episode. Man, SG officers are the new red-shirts nowadays. Man, if your in the AF or Marines in their world you'd be happy with the amount of quick promotions happening. I think they lost 2 between the two shows last night. A Colonel and a Major if my count is right.

 

[DMH]

This goes right on top of last weeks Atlantis were they can rebuild project arcturus, but can't make a regular old zpm which is an easier tech.

But they failed. Making a duplicate of the physical machinery is "easy" when you have the basis of the technology all around and Rodney to explain how. Making the machinery work is a different story.

As for SG-1, I wonder how Netan survived the assassination attempt the last time we saw him. Both Hatak from the alliance were trying to kill him.

 

[Shag]

Actually no, they didn't fail, they just about destroyed an inhabited parallel universe is all. The actual energy generation was successfull. So the technology works, and if they tried it in uninhabited subspace, then they would have a Zero point generator...not really a ZPM but a clunky precursor.

 

[DM_Matt]

Actually no, they didn't fail, they just about destroyed an inhabited parallel universe is all. The actual energy generation was successfull. So the technology works, and if they tried it in uninhabited subspace, then they would have a Zero point generator...not really a ZPM but a clunky precursor.

Even better, actually. They successfully completed project Arcturus, which the ancients failed to do. PA isnt a clunky precursor to ZPMs, its the nexct step. It can draw on an entire alternate universe instead of a smaller-self-contianed region of subspace. The issues withPA were more ethical than technological.

 

[Volaran]

I suppose the main difference in terms of practical use is that the ZPM, which they describe as drawing vaccum energy from subspace, seems to have a limited charge like a battery, whereas Project Arcturus seemed to be more along the lines of a power plant.

They've been sort of vague regarding the ZPM itself, so maybe manufacturing the container itself has been their problem. I'm not even sure a depleted ZPM can be 'recharged', or if a new one has been constructed.

One would think that with the entire ancient database, there would be information on exactly how to do so, so I hope there is more reason than lazy storytelling for why they have not been looking. As I think about it, Atlantis is probably the most likely place for a ZPM manufacturing facility to be located.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I liked this episode.

Especially Carter (sheding a tear) and Teal'c (striking onto his torturer) showing emotion was nice to see. And it's always fun if the character's are not only running into ambushed, but also see them tricking their foes, too.

Mitchells plot, though, could have been a plan by Crichton, too. (Remember their "raid" on the Shadow Depot?)