It looks like it’s about vampires, so… maybe.
I think Ian said in the first episode that there was a machine that spat them out.
I found myself wondering how fast and how maneuverable the kinos are. I can imagine them being used as bludgeoning weapons- ram your target with 'em. It’d be amusing if Ian wrote a program to allow them to do it- if they go fast enough, they’d do a heck of a lot of damage.
And Destiny is a pretty old example of Ancient tech, anyway. There are far better caches of Ancient technology scattered around the Milky Way galaxy, at least. I’d really expect them to want to get to the Andromeda galaxy, since that seems to be the height of the Ancient civilization.
Well, there was that one episode where they showed that Go’a’uld tech was pretty much all flash and bang, designed to impress the stupid slaves. Human projectile weapons are much more effective, particularly the P-90 when being fired by Samantha Carter. However, one weapon which IS much better would be the stun/kill/disintegrate guns, and they seem to be pretty common… so, yeah, it’s surprising we didn’t see them using those.
Are there different writers for SG:U than the previous series, or something? Because all the chicks in this show are Women In Peril. SG-1 had Samantha Carter, who could technobabble with the best Starfleet engineers. And SG:A had leader-lady, and alien-sorta-like-Deanna-Troi-lady, (and later, Samantha Carter).
Those women actually did stuff. And were interesting.
Chloe exists to get into peril. The medic is there to angst over how she’s not up to the task of playing doctor, and to worry about her baby. And Camille is only there to demonstrate how shocking! Young’s latest scheme is – only to be immediately proven wrong in the very next scene.
Meanwhile, the audience gets Eli the walking doormat shoved in our face as the POV character. The writing on SG-1 and SG:A was pretty poor, but at least they were fun.
Does she play Kate Beckinsale’s long lost lesbian lover? Because if so…I know what I’ll be doing this summer.
I wonder if I could install a TV in mah bunk.
Having studied Goa’uld and Wraith technology, besides also having Atlantis, and then finally becoming the inheritors of the Asgard’s knowledge, Earth humans really don’t need Destiny for much, except gate addresses and figuring out how to power jumps to them. That could open up countless galaxies to exploration. The only other thing would be how Destiny can travel FTL without using hyperspace.
Yes, Earth weaponry has proven many times over to be much more practical and efficient, at least for ground combat. The Zats are pretty handy, but who knows? Without living Goa’uld to build them, maybe they’re hard to make and maintain. We saw Daniel with one, though. Most former Goa’uld worlds aren’t really very heavily populated, so I’d bet Earth actually has the greatest manufacturing capabilities for churning out hand weaponry and selling it cheap.
That part only bugged me slightly that in the Stargate universe, you only saw mostly Earth weapons or the “flashy” Go’auld weapons. I can’t think of too many examples of frequent use of third party weapons.
Did they stick with the third shot from a Zat being a disintegrating shot? I remember from either the Wormhole Xtreme ep or the 200th ep that someone mouthed off that it was a dumb idea.
This reminds me of another thread around here talking about how some sci-fi shows either underestimate or overestimate numbers, including population. I griped about how Star Trek Next Generation tended to underestimate population sizes of planets and colonies. Now that you mention this tidbit, seems like they did the same on SG1. You’d think some of the worlds would’ve gotten huge after several thousand years.
It was made clear that the Lucian Alliane has become the de facto government for much of the former slave worlds in the Galaxy, and as such they’re interested in new tech that could give them an edge over the Free Jaffa (or have they gone the way of the aliens from Andromeda in ST:TOS?) or Tau’ri.
In fact, what the Tau’ri need to do to ensure their continued supremacy in the Milky Way is colonize other planets, eventually former slave worlds will industrialize and grow, exponentially, in population. But Ive digressed…
Destiny is more important to the Alliance than Tau’ri. We’ve already got one ancient cityship to play with, and the entire ancient database which will likely keep us busy for decades. All the alliance has is the scraps that the goauld managed to decipher. They want, they need, much more than that if they are going to compete on a level playing field with an organization like the SGC which has Ancient, Asgard and Original tech (not to mention reversed engineered Wraith and Goauld) under their belt. Even Destiny alone won’t be enough, but it’ll be a start.
This can be fankwanked by saying the Goa’uld prevented them from growing in population, so they’d be easier to control.
I must have missed that bit. Why is the Andromeda galaxy the height of Ancient civilization?
The writing on this show has never been particularly strong. Re how they handle women, as much as I like a nice rack, the ham handed exploitation of the hard nippled twin terrors of Sgt. Boobs make me feel cheap when I ogle them on the show. Chloe is just an annoying character on multiple levels, and yet she gets huge face time. I can’t figure it out.
The Andromeda Galaxy is where the Ancients went after they left the Milky Way. They established Atlantis there, and that was their last physical home (before a brief return to Earth after being smacked around by the wraith). Shortly after returning to Earth, they discovered teh secret of Ascention and had no use for further development of material technology.
There’s no need to fanwank it. In the episode where Thor hosted a summit in the SGC between him, the humans and Nirrti, Cronus, & Yu one of Nirrti’s first comments after arrival is “they should never have been allowed to breed in such numbers”. It’s pretty clear that the Goa’uld prefer their subject worlds to be mostly agrarian and depopulated. Ditto for the Aschen.
I don’t remember that episode, or at least that bit of the episode… When was that specified?
Atlantis was in the Pegasus galaxy, not Andromeda.
Which galaxy were the Ori from?
I think it’s the Ori galaxy. The Ancients were from there originally too, weren’t they?
I think that only happened in the one episode, then they realized it would just lead to huge problems and never mentioned it again.
Oops.
Which galaxy were the Asgard from?
Ida.
Hate to be a wet blanket but SGU has been a huge disappointment to me.
When it started I thought that it was great, it was dark and realistic, and you never knew what was going to happen next and all of the main characters were at risk of being killed off which obviously heightened the tension .
But what do we get?
You’ve got a whole mysterious universe out there, a veritable world of wonder and adventure…
And the whole series spends its time concentrating on squabbles between the main characters, or squabbles between GROUPS of the main characters.
Sorry, but when I’m (figuritively) in an exotic, unknown environment I couldn’t care less about people using this as a pretext to play power games or petty politics.
If I want to see that I can go round to my local working mens club any day of the week, not have to get stranded on an alien spaceship, destination unknown.
IIRC the Ancients were from Earth as the “first evolution” of humans long before our version of humanity.
As for how they ended up in the Ori galaxy, I’m in the dark about it.