Well my question is the following...

because as rush said

There are a lot of potential gaps here:

There are several points I think I need to hit:



The aliens Although if they had, I'm sure strong alcohol was involved,

So are you saying they are afraid, or the atmosphere was toxic or just they hadn't been drinking enough?

I agree that there are gaps in the plot. But
Or and finally,

*snicker*

We have no idea on even if those 'fighters' were manned. All we do know is that one of the ships detached off in Air, and one latched on, created a hole in the hull, and through it sucked Chloe into it, then left... Maybe it's automated? I mean look at the other ships we've had so far. Death gliders: crew of 2. Wraith dart: crew of 1. this alien' fighter: crew of none perhaps? Destiny itself doesn't require a crew....


What? It's a valid point.

and if they were attached to the hull (only 'not drilled into' until 1x11) for long periods of time serving as tracking devices, then I very much doubt they'd send one of their own just to sit there for ages.

OK really good point.

Rewatched the episode.



CB

So what did everyone think about the latest episode?

Shuttles:


The Planet:


Exploring Destiny:


Interactions:


Captain Bashir

Shuttles:


The planet:


Exploring Destiny:


Interactions:


Bottom line:

Alrighty, I have to chime in here, even though I'm not a big fan of SGU .

Not really a spoiler but it feels like proper format for this thread:

Shuttle:



Interactions:



Atlantis:



Anyway, I think the show is getting more interesting.

First on Atlantis:



now SGU:

Planet:


Shuttle:

Seconded.

[spoi- Ah damnit...

Well, ok, granted. If they lost all of their planets, they technically lost the war. The replicators were not just a failed experiment, they're the experiment that eventually destroyed the last of the Ancients. Or did the ancients fully ascend before being completely destroyed? I can't remember. I think some ascended, and then the others were simply killed by the replicators. But I guess technically the Ancients "lost" their war.... well, back to work...

The war lost against the wraith.

The last remaining (known) ancients in the galaxy were killed by the Replicators.

The group previously thought "last remaining" blew up their ship to prevent the wraith getting uberfast hyperdrives.

Episode -- "Faith" What if the planet....


This episide gives a "Battlestar Gallactica twist" to SGU (Oop - corrected "who the frack" indeed ). What background element is manipulating the chessboard?

CB

Stu?

Who the frack's stu?


SGU.

And I doubt it. The surface of Abydos was basically destroyed, and the team went to a fake abydos' created by Oma in 'Full Circle', but then the planet itself was still there. She just altered the surface or maybe never did that, or it wasn't even her, but the abydonians, and when SG-1 went to abydos, they were shifted out of normal space/time to the same plane of existence that Daniel went to when he was on the replicator ship when it went *really quiet* puff.

You know, the half way up the ladder Diner.

I didn't see the SG-1 episode you are referring to so I would have to accept that you are correct.

Captain Bashir

What needs mentioned is in SG-1, it was strongly implied that there were *that* many inhabitable planets because of extensive terraforming... and also implied it was the Ancients who did that.

Just as either they and/or the wraith did in Pegasus.

But Destiny and those gate ships are in galaxies not visited by the Ancients. And we don't know if those aliens are space nomads, or what. Only that in several months, there have only been a handful of star systems found with inhabitable planets, and even then one was *barely* inhabitable, the one they were gonna evac to that time the destiny lost power and had to go for refuelling, and theyd also had that not-at-all-inhabitable ice planet.

And not to mention the breathable-atmo-but-definitely-not-inhabitable "Air" planet. Sun Stroke would hit pretty quick there if they stayed longer than the team had.

And we don't know the range of the destiny's Gate. Given that even the ice planet got one, I would say that the range is only short, definitely nowhere near the range of the MW galaxy stargates given the same power level. You know, efficiency of power used directly in maintaining a wormhole, we know longer distance needs a lot more power, yet we don't know if Pegasus stargate was that much more efficient or just 'digital' as the only change between version "2" and pegasus' version "3".

So the destiny stargate **definitely** can't reconnect to earth without ***far far far*** more juice than even the Icarus' base' used in connecting *to* the destiny.

Anyone wanna fault my logic?

No, makes sense.

I'm gonna bet that the group gets back some other way than gating. OR, the ancients did something on the gate ships where there was a final gate with an incredible power supply that could get them back.

So the episode "Human"

I'm curious if they might find the "Transporter through Stargate" tech aboard, the stuff Merlin had in place for his trifecta planet thing from 'The Quest'.

And about "human"

Holy ****.

Spoilers for 'Lost'. Big end-of-episode spoilers.


I do feel vindicated in my continued insistence that the mk1 gates had a very short range, and the graphics featured in this episode does confirm this. I also haven't said so in spoilers as its not so much a specific spoiler, as a logical deduction made from first-half-season episode's comments and the entire premise of "one or two" stargates per stop.

So...



In the beginning, like a lot of other people I did not like all the "Stone Journeys" back to earth. However, I am starting to appreciate the importance of the back story. We have a much better feeling for Greer and why he has an anger problem. Same holds true for Rush.

Wow I missed...


Captain Bashir

Don't worry Captain, Starfleet Intelligence has sent me some intel (Captain's clearance and above needed):


Also, about the...