Comments on: Stargate: Universe Discussion – “Time”

By: kscharf

kscharf — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:39:01 +0000

Actually, the ship is so old that these might be first generation stargates. Atlantis had the newer ones.

By: quantaman

quantaman — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:03:08 +0000

Damn, now that I remember the keyno was the only thing to go back in the final iteration. So there wouldn’t have been any crew on the planet beforehand in the last (and final) timeline to set up the cure.

Was a cool idea though :(

By: quantaman

quantaman — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:14:30 +0000

Hah! Awesome!

Note that in the last iteration is wasn’t Rush but the lieutenant who went back, same effect though.

That solves the problem of the suspiciously convenient cure.

By: TwistyHat

TwistyHat — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:57:36 +0000

Or: A sick rush goes through the gate back in time – perhaps 10 years back, is killed either by the disease or the critters on the planet.
The critters eat him, thereby also getting the disease from his body, some of them may die from it, but those who survive reproduce and future offspring will carry the antidote in the blood.
Don’t forgot he found a human skull next to the gate in one iteration.

By: Fozzy_Bear

Fozzy_Bear — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:38:43 +0000

Quote: … perhaps it’s fatal to use the gate like that? …
nope. See SG1 episode named 1969 (and one other, but I cant rememebr the neme). Our fatefull band of heores have used this before; that’s how the current band of adventurers knew exactly what caused the phenomonon. – It’s in the mission reports.

quote: …The ship must be re-tracing a route that the ancients explored before, otherwise it wouldn’t know about the antidote.
This was addressed explicitly in the pilot (or was it second episode…) . They mentioned that there are some sort of recon drones traveling ahead of the ship finding that kind of thing.

By: bitbangerok

bitbangerok — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:28:59 +0000

Correct! And these are next generation (cough) stargates too!

By: valen1260

valen1260 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:16:07 +0000

Wasn’t the solar-flare-time-travel-gate problem a result of the human written dialing program, with actual DHD’s having safeguards against such?

By: kscharf

kscharf — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:15:36 +0000

Yeah those flying snake things eating their way through people did look like the alien young, and there was that scene where Eli commented on the “termite mounds” holding face huggers.

By: valen1260

valen1260 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:17:04 +0000

No… but they could duplicate supplies. Send half your (non contaminated) water and food back through the timegate. Retrieve with a friendly “Here you go. Love, us.” note, and now you have 150% of your previous supply. Lather, rinse, and repeat until you throw cosmic constants out of whack and the universe cancels itself out.

By: valen1260

valen1260 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:13:28 +0000

I was reminded more of Pitch Black (as Fez stated), as well as Aliens (which Eli even “hung a lamp post on”) and a ridiculous episode of Voyager titled “Macrocosm”. I was really excited, too, because this was the first episode that started with a team walking out of the gate. Too bad it quickly descended into kino voyeurism.

The second reset, which I’m betting on, is an awful thing to do to the characters and viewers alike. I thought the Eli development, minus the teary bedside stuff, was well done.

Also, why is TJ such a cry-baby medic? She should take her Dr. Izzie Stevens clone back to Seattle Grace and make room for a real military medic.