Stargate Universe - Who fired first?
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LightPhoenix
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I think what they were going for in the battle scene was the chaos and confusion in battle. Even if Destiny did fire first, it seems relatively justified; they had every indication that the alien ships were boarding parties.
It's good to know that Useless Chloe and Deus Ex Stones are back in action. Seriously, there's boarding parties and she just walks up to them? Ugh, the stupid, it burns.
Aside from that, I thought it was a passable, if not stellar, episode. Nothing terribly surprising - obviously Rush's return was going to be via the ship in some way. The Wray-Rush team-up I saw coming from a mile away. The bit with the tomatoes was amusing. Hopefully next week picks up a little more.
From a meta standpoint, Rush was always going to be back on the ship. He is, after all, a main cast member. It would have been cool to have him gone longer, but I can accept the relatively quick resolution.
It's good to know that Useless Chloe and Deus Ex Stones are back in action. Seriously, there's boarding parties and she just walks up to them? Ugh, the stupid, it burns.
Aside from that, I thought it was a passable, if not stellar, episode. Nothing terribly surprising - obviously Rush's return was going to be via the ship in some way. The Wray-Rush team-up I saw coming from a mile away. The bit with the tomatoes was amusing. Hopefully next week picks up a little more.
From a meta standpoint, Rush was always going to be back on the ship. He is, after all, a main cast member. It would have been cool to have him gone longer, but I can accept the relatively quick resolution.
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Actually there is one big problem with trying to get back home.
The problem is relative time.
They are billions of light years away from earth.
That means they are billions of years from earth without faster than light speed travel.
Even if they actually find a ship that has ftl travel, it would still take them more than ten thousand years to get back to earth.
Which means whenever they use those communication stones they are speaking with people who are long gone.
There is only one way that I can think of that they can get back to their rightful time.
In one episode of SG 1 the original team was stranded on an asteroid in an Al Kesh frieghter with a Naquadah enriched nuclear bomb, which was powerful enough to reduce the earth to rubble.
So my idea has two steps.
Use a Naquadah enriched zero point module (zpm). It takes about three of them to fully power Atlantis, but I personally believe that one that is Naquadah enriched ZPM would be enough to fully power Atlantis and provide the power for the earth based Stargate to reach the Destiny. Because it took the power of a fully enriched naquadah planet to operate the Stargate to get them there in the first place.
But, in order to get back to their own time, they'd have to find a solar flare that would allow them to time travel to their rightful time.
But personally, I hope they recognize the problem of relative time and learn to overcome their petty differences and learn how to work together so they can survive.
Actually there is one big problem with trying to get back home.
The problem is relative time.
They are billions of light years away from earth.
That means they are billions of years from earth without faster than light speed travel.
Even if they actually find a ship that has ftl travel, it would still take them more than ten thousand years to get back to earth.
Which means whenever they use those communication stones they are speaking with people who are long gone.
There is only one way that I can think of that they can get back to their rightful time.
In one episode of SG 1 the original team was stranded on an asteroid in an Al Kesh frieghter with a Naquadah enriched nuclear bomb, which was powerful enough to reduce the earth to rubble.
So my idea has two steps.
Use a Naquadah enriched zero point module (zpm). It takes about three of them to fully power Atlantis, but I personally believe that one that is Naquadah enriched ZPM would be enough to fully power Atlantis and provide the power for the earth based Stargate to reach the Destiny. Because it took the power of a fully enriched naquadah planet to operate the Stargate to get them there in the first place.
But, in order to get back to their own time, they'd have to find a solar flare that would allow them to time travel to their rightful time.
But personally, I hope they recognize the problem of relative time and learn to overcome their petty differences and learn how to work together so they can survive.
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catsclaw227
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I am pretty sure that the Destiny is flying FTL when they show it with an aura of light streaming around the ship. They drop from FTL only briefly when it's time to refuel and/or if the Destiny wants to.
Mark
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I envisioned Rush teaming up with outsiders to take the ship (over the course of the season) for his own purposes (maybe a full season of this), perhaps leaving the rest of the Earthlings to find a way to retake the ship (yet another season), then finalize the series with true attempts to get home (last season).
This. That was what I was hoping for as well. I guess having two shooting teams would increase production costs, but this reunion felt like dues ex machina to me.
Now, a question that popped into my mind. Remember the pod from the premiere that we see flying off at the end? Are these aliens the source of that pod or was that a different strand of the story they'll leave hanging?
Also, was it my television or did the alien mother ship look somehow shadowy and indistinct?
Viking Bastard
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The pod we had seen leave the ship earlier and the smaller alien pods did seem to look the same.
catsclaw227
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We need visual proof! Anyone have some frames we can compare?
We know the stones don't work this way from how they were used in SG-1. They don't transmit a slower-than-light signal. Most likely have some kind of point-to-point link that obviates transmission through space, like a wormhole on a micro level.
Honestly? Sounds like a painful rut for the show to swerve into. The great thing so far is how they've told some excellent self-contained one-hour stories, and side-stepped elephantine arcs. I think this series works better as a disaster movie in space. The wrong people in the wrong place. I certainly hope they don't turn this show into another run-of-the-mill military sci-fi show with evil aliens bent on galactic domination and the invariably boring scenes of spaceships shooting other spaceships.
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