That wasn’t really my point. From a writer’s perspective, there’s nothing interesting about making this *Stargate: Atlantis: II *by putting the series within one new galaxy. It’s called *Stargate: Universe *for (hopefully) a good reason - they’re travelling galaxy to galaxy each episode.
That was my point as well. It’s just hard to make it fit with what we know so far. If Destiny can FTL to a new galaxy within hours or days or a few weeks then not only is her drive pretty spectacular, but where is she now after hundreds of thousands of years or possibly millions of years? Let’s say she covers one galaxy/week. 52 galaxies/year, 26,000,000 galaxies per 500K years… One of my earlier questions was whether the gate-builders are really still out there, building gates and moving on fast enough to have kept ahead of Destiny this whole time, or has Destiny already overtaken the gate-builders and now she’s just sort of diddling around from galaxy to galaxy waiting for those slo poke gate-builders to just hurry it up already!
The latest Asgardian tech sure. They seem to be about 8 galaxies away so I would think it’d take at least 6 months to catch up with them. Hopefully they’ll address this issue soon.
This hasn’t been fully explained yet. But it seems like when they dropped out of FTL, only 4 gates were ‘within range’ for some reason (and three were locked out for some reason). These gates also don’t have DHDs - they only work by remote. I think we have to wait and see exactly what the issue is.
Where did you get the idea that it’s thousands of galaxies away? Andromeda is 2.5 billion ly away for example, and that’s the closest galaxy to Earth. Did they actually say how far out they were? In any case the flightpath graphic seemed to indicate the Destiny had traveled around 8 galaxies so far.
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So here’s a question: how much time does she typically spend inside galaxies gossiping with the local stargates and generally getting into trouble?
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It seems to be implied that the Destiny is following the same path as the original seeding and gating ship - so it should visit every planet that got a gate, unless it’s somehow consolidating visits.
Pegasus gates not only work in the Milky Way (without being reprogrammed), but they also take priority if there are both Pegasus and Milky Way gates in close proximity. This was a fairly important detail in the Atlantis finale.
Here’s a neat list of sorta kinda known galaxies within 11.7 million light-years of Earth. There’s also a link in there for M31/Andromeda. Can’t remember where I read it, but the average distance between galaxies (not clusters) is 20-40 times their diameter, which works out to about 2 million light-years in our case, and fits nicely with our distance from M31, about 2.5 million light-years away. There are 115 galaxies less than 12 million light-years from us. That includes dwarf galaxies, and all the galaxies we can detect in a spherical space around us, but I don’t think the writers are too concerned about little details like that.
When I take the 3 billion or so light-years away Dr. Rush states at the beginning of the show, divide it by let’s say the 2.5 million light-years which is the spread between us and Andromeda, I get 1200 galaxies along the more or less straight line Destiny is following away from the Milky Way. Again, we’re not counting dwarf galaxies or all the galaxies that would fill a spherical space around the Milky Way. Someone else can do that math, 'cause I suck at it.
I already talked about Destiny’s visual log of her journey. What we saw was only the very beginning of her travels, certainly not the whole log.
In the show Rush talks about how the Ancients sent out gate-building ships (plural) ahead of Destiny, then Destiny follows, stops when she detects a stargate, downloads “pertinent” information from the stargate and uses that to help plot her course further. Previously, we’ve learned that gates can update each other with information. At first, I figured all Destiny had to do was stop once in each galaxy, download all the info from the gates in that galaxy, then move on. That makes sense, because Destiny already had information about that last desert planet, and that it had what they needed. Destiny couldn’t have known that if she hadn’t previously been there, or got the info from an earlier stargate in the same galaxy.
ok…I made an error of scale and was thinking Andromeda was 2.5 billion ly away but it’s million…lol I still thinkg the Destiny made a beeline out of the Milky Way and visited about 8 or so galzies on it’s way. It’s not clear whether it’s just Destiny that is following the multiple seeing ships or not. I guess time will tell…
Relevant script:
RUSH (continuing to gaze out of the window): The design is clearly Ancient, in the truest sense of the word –- launched hundreds of thousands of years ago.
RUSH: Faster than light, yet not through hyperspace.
RUSH: Who knows how far it’s travelled?
SCOTT: What are we looking at?
RUSH: It’s a star map.
PARK: That’s the Milky Way.
RUSH: I believe it’s a visual log of the ship’s journey.
(Eli points to a flashing light close to the edge of the spiral.)
WALLACE: So this is where we are now?
RUSH: No. That’s where the ship originally embarked from.
BRODY: Earth.
(The map begins to pull out and a line shows the route of the ship as the Milky Way fades into the distance.)
PARK: It’s leaving the galaxy.
RUSH: It did –- long ago.
(They watch as the line continues to travel through the stars, stopping at a couple of points and then continuing onwards. Brody recognises a constellation as the line whizzes away after a stop-off.)
BRODY: That was Pegasus.
(The line moves on, indicating many more points where the ship stopped.)
SCOTT: So those points are more stars?
WALLACE: No –- they’re galaxies.
(Shocked, Scott walks over to Rush.)
SCOTT: Rush. Where the hell are we?
RUSH (quietly): Several billion light years from home.
Damn, that bugs me. Constellations are only recognizable from Earth. From the vantage point he had on that screen, and at that scale/distance, constellations would’ve been completely unrecognizable.
Well that’s not an official transcript. I suspect they assumed “Pegasus” in dialogue meant the constellation where in actuality it was the galaxy Pegasus. Since the scene only showed galaxies and not any constellations that makes more sense.
Episode 4, Darkness:
Really liked it. They’re doing a pretty good job with the more serious tone, and focusing on the interpersonal stuff. They’re throwing in lots of sci-fi goodness that isn’t just babble. Who wouldn’t be absolutely awed by the gas giant flyby, even if doom did seem pretty certain?
Rush’s breakdown from sleep deprivation and caffeine & nicotine withdrawal was a nice touch.
It wasn’t “planet of the week” nor did they neatly resolve the week’s dilemma. Instead, they just decided to make it even worse. Great tension.
Col. Young knows TJ & HR woman were a thing. Has to.
Speaking of Young, his wife (?) is kind of a bitch. I mean sure, “poor me, my husband is career military and now I need to adjust to weirdness and my widdle feewings are all hurt and stuff.” Wah, wah. LIE TO THE GUY. He’s at least three billion light years from home. Lie to him and tell him you’ll be there when he gets back you self-absorbed bubble-head. Dump him when he gets back!
I didn’t mind the confessionals. BSG did it too, but it wasn’t a constant thing.
I was hoping for more crumbs about the Ancients and Destiny herself, but I suppose they’re going to ration that to keep nerds like me glued to the TV. That was a nice little tidbit about Destiny predating the Ancient’s introduction of the Ancient Technology Activation (ATA) gene.
I wouldn’t normally bring it up in most shows, but the guys should need shaving by now. The show is being pretty good at realism and little touches like people still being sunburned from the desert planet shows attention to detail.
Any bets on whether someone’s going to get pregnant, and when?
BTW, did anyone notice if the two AWOL scientists from last week were there? I’ll have to watch again.
Has anyone else noticed that the dark-haired female soldier has some MAGNIFICENT guns? 
Yeah. I also noticed that while the rest of group are content to wear their clothing or uniforms, our freakishly large-breasted special forces ninja seems to have lost her clothing, except for a pair of skin-tight shorts and even tighter t-shirt. Seriously, everyone is around trying to do something useful, and Boobzilla spends all day in her underwear.
Well, the senators daughter also felt the need to undress for us. 
Next week: Contrived reason forces Scott and Greer to play shirtless volleyball. It’s only fair.
Going out on a limb and making a prediction about next week’s epi.
End of -this- week shows them heading right for a large star. They are all doomed, except for those picked by the lottery to escape in the last shuttle.
No, wait. Probably much more likely that they will blather on about who gets to go on the shuttle, when someone finally tells Rush or Eli about the battery recharging mat, and they put that thing into reverse, so it replenishes the ships power from the great big ol electro-magnet they are heading right for.
Viola’, fully powered ship. End epi 5. Complete with carbon dioxide scrubbers from last week. Now, just need food and water.
I see in the previews/trailers that someone is swimming in a lush tropical waterfall setting. I bet that’s epi 6.
I’m kinda hoping Eli will say something along the lines of, “It’s a damn shame the ship screwed up the slingshot around that planet back there. Now we’re all going to die as the ship dives straight into that sun ahead of us- that sun, composed of lots and lots of hydrogen, and lots and lots of radiant energy.”
And then Rush says, “Hey, look what I just found! Ramscoops and solar panels!”
But you’re probably right. 'Cause your solution allows them to reverse the polarity.
On the plus side (besides Corporal Bigboobs), a Peter Deluise cameo.
And of course when she realizes that the kino is focusing on her, uh, “assets” she goes all Rambette with “I can, and will, kill you.”
I’m giving this show one, maybe two more episodes before I pull it off my DVR.
I was wondering when Carter’s ex-fiance joined the Air Force.
Different Deluise. There’s been 4 or 5 of them.
As a voice of gay sic-fi fans…I would like to second that motion
I also want to see the weird romantic threesome of Scott, Eli, and Chloe…I get the vibe between Scott and Chloe, and the one between Eli and Chloe, but does anyone else see the potential between Scott and Eli (and as “Modern Family” on ABC show us, some gay relationships are between the hottie and the nottie)
Yeah, I know.
At the time Pete was introduced as Carter’s love interest, I was thinking this is the biggest Mary Sue in the history of television.
I’m generally optimistic of where this show is heading.
I too think the star ship is going to recharge off the sun.