OT: The irony of SG1
 

In Stargate SG1, they send out explorers through intersteller wormhole devices on planetary surfaces. Unless you are supremely disinterested in sci-fi shows, you alredy know this.

However, there is something utterly ironic about all this that has been getting my attention.

The SGC sends out unnanounced exploration teams through the stargates.

However, they have an iris which closes over their gate, disallowing unnanounced exploration teams from other planets.

(Yes, I know about Malps. I just thought it was really ironic.)

Re: OT: The irony of SG1
 

Don't forget every world speaks english without the need of dr. jackson to translate it.

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Well all of the humans were taken from earth so they must speak some earth language so the entire team is just multi-lingual. I mean its not that hard to believe that each member knows 4 or 5 different languages.

Re: OT: The irony of SG1
 

In the early seasons, they often had communications problems with the natives. But as the show dragged on, it seems as if the writers (and everyone else) got tired of that angle, over and over. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Re: OT: The irony of SG1
 

They start out using the Stargate then end the series flying a large man made space ship with beam weapons, hyperdrive, shields, and a cloaking device. Ya it was time to say good bye.

As for everyone speaking english, hey, ITS A TV SHOW. Duhhhhhhhh.

Re: OT: The irony of SG1
 

I believe they explained the 'everyone speaking modern English' this way: If they had to spend a quarter of each episode learning the language of the people of the world, it wouldn't leave much time for anything else to happen (a very valid point, in my opinion.) Suspension of disbelief is what Sci-Fi is all about.
Technically, they don't have any beam weapons on their ships (railguns and missiles, which we today could build), the hyperdrive was supplied by the Asgard (not human made), shields also supplied by the Asgard, and I can't remember anything about a cloaking device http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

I still think it's a lot better show than most of the vacuous crap that's on TV today, even if it has departed somewhat from its previous premise.

Re: OT: The irony of SG1
 

I thought we had our own Hyperdrive going based on G'ould technology using the unstable Naquadria. The Asgard sent a representative to help with that instabilty to make the Earth ship hyperdrives more efficent and thus able to leave the Galaxy (hence Stargate Atlantis).

The shield Technology was a direct gift from the Asgard for Earth stopping the replicator threat.

The Transporter is another gift or was it scavenged from the Asgard??

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They had a Asgard engineer running the beam and trying to fix it after it took plot damage once...

Re: OT: The irony of SG1
 

Stop talking about SG1 I am barely able to keep myself from spoiling the episodes most of you haven't seen yet.

Re: OT: The irony of SG1
 

A heaping pile of dung is already spoiled, my friend.