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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 2187169" data-attributes="member: 707">MacGyver saving the world from all manner of alien threats I could buy into.  Col. O'Neil is another matter.  He's a complete idiot, who needs technobabble explained to him--sometimes repeatedly--that even I, an English Major who hasn't taken an advanced science class in his life--can easily understand.  He's a bad tactician, a bad leader, and a moron.  And he's in charge of the most important combat/diplomatic special ops team in history?  Riiiight.As far as Trek and Special Ops teams, I'd always thought they did have them, but that the command crew of the Enterprise, being officers on the Federation Flagship, where simply more qualified for many of the "secret missions" than those SpecOps teams.  Most of the crew were believable experts and command officers, as well as away team members.  Sure, you'd have the SpecOps guys do most of the secret missions, but for some of the particularly important ones (the ones, coincidentally, that got episodes <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />), you go to the best.The only one I can remember that broke credibiity for me was Dianna Troi posing as a Romulan Tal'Shiar, but then Dianna Troi was a problem character from the beginning...The fact that it's family friendly doesn't make it good sci-fi, though.  It makes it family-friendly sci-fi.  Full House was family friendly too, but that doesn't mean it was a good comedy.Now The Incredibles is both family friendly, and a good movie.  My contention is that while it may be family friendly and great "entry level" sci-fi for young viewers, SG-1 is still bad sci-fi.  Obviously, YMMV. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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