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Great answer courtesy of Vala on Stargate SG1.

I bet the Microsoft representative was named "Lucius Lavin".

> (Saberhagen even had some berserkers that masqueraded as humans at some points, and used time travel, which Stargate hasn't gotten around to, mercifully, though I couldn't tell you why.)

Er, the Replicators have in fact done both.

SG-1 attempted to stop the human form replicators with a time-distortion weapon that the replicators had previously mastered and turned to their own ends (the evolution of the human-form replicators, for one). (Not time-travel, I suppose, but we've already crossed the line into needlessly pedantic here. :)

There are human-form replicators in the Asgard galaxy. Time travel has happened in SG-1, but not extensively, for obvious reasons.

To you, and the AC that also replied with this... err, yes, I know. That's why I mentioned it, to point out the similarities, right down to the "twists". Not accusing SG-1 of stealing, either; everything you see done on TV today was pretty much covered 30-40 years ago in book form, since books don't need multi-million-dollar special effects budgets.

So the current question in my mind is what will happen when the Ori meet each of the following groups: wraith (from atlantis, who now have our coordinates)

I am hoping that they are actually leading up to this. The Wraith are on their way to Earth as of the end of the last season and the Ori are already in our galaxy.

However, I expect them to wimp out and have Atlantis narrowly prevent the Wraith from ever making it to this galaxy somehow, and thus remaining oblivious to the Ori.

I note that the Ori and the Wraith are, interesting, basically both vampires, just at a slightly different level. (Just thought of this.)

replicators (from the asgard galaxy, who have our coordinates BUT are stuck (IIRC, AFAIK) in a time distortion field)

They were mostly destroyed in the time distortion field. The ones that got out all came here, where they were destroyed in the Great SG-1 Reboot that took out the Goa'uld, Anubis, and the Replicators in the space of a handful of episodes. See here.

Don't forget Dr. Carolyn Lam, fresh from the crew of Andromeda [well, I guess she WAS Andromeda itself].

By the way, this past Monday night, they replayed Heroes Part I and Part I; boy, after a couple of years, you kinda forget what a cutie pie Dr. Janet Fraiser was.

Don't forget Dr. Carolyn Lam, fresh from the crew of Andromeda [well, I guess she WAS Andromeda itself].

By the way, this past Monday night, they replayed Heroes Part I and Part I; boy, after a couple of years, you kinda forget what a cutie pie Dr. Janet Fraiser was.

It kinda looks like a Goa'uld

So are they using these UAV's?

http://www.gateworld.net/omnipedia/technology/link s/u.a.v..shtml

I thought of this episode (Atlantis actually)

http://www.gateworld.net/atlantis/s2/202.shtml

or this one.

http://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s4/420.shtml

Both of them 'hide' to avoid being clobbered when the system is restored from backup. Or this one, which is more a trojan than a virus

http://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s4/412.shtml

Don't get me wrong, part of the charm of the series is that they use sci fi cliches but have a character comment on this.

My favourite, on The Sentinel ( http://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s5/520.shtml ) was when the bad guys attack a planet, and a booming Mysterons style voice threatens annhilation unless the planet capitulates whilst bombarding the planet. A character, played by the excellent Henry Gibson says

"What's that terrible voice? Where are the meteors coming from"

To which Jack says

"It's a Goa'uld ship in orbit. With really big speakers"

Or this

http://www.tv.com/point-of-view/episode/7368/trivi a.html

where the 'evil' Teal'c has a goatee, in a Star Trek reference.

Jack: (to Carter2) For all we know, you could be her evil twin. But, then we'd be dealing with cliches, and you know how I feel about those. Or, rather, you don't.

Which is pretty damn funny in context.

I thought of this episode (Atlantis actually)

http://www.gateworld.net/atlantis/s2/202.shtml

or this one.

http://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s4/420.shtml

Both of them 'hide' to avoid being clobbered when the system is restored from backup. Or this one, which is more a trojan than a virus

http://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s4/412.shtml

Don't get me wrong, part of the charm of the series is that they use sci fi cliches but have a character comment on this.

My favourite, on The Sentinel ( http://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s5/520.shtml ) was when the bad guys attack a planet, and a booming Mysterons style voice threatens annhilation unless the planet capitulates whilst bombarding the planet. A character, played by the excellent Henry Gibson says

"What's that terrible voice? Where are the meteors coming from"

To which Jack says

"It's a Goa'uld ship in orbit. With really big speakers"

Or this

http://www.tv.com/point-of-view/episode/7368/trivi a.html

where the 'evil' Teal'c has a goatee, in a Star Trek reference.

Jack: (to Carter2) For all we know, you could be her evil twin. But, then we'd be dealing with cliches, and you know how I feel about those. Or, rather, you don't.

Which is pretty damn funny in context.

I thought of this episode (Atlantis actually)

http://www.gateworld.net/atlantis/s2/202.shtml

or this one.

http://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s4/420.shtml

Both of them 'hide' to avoid being clobbered when the system is restored from backup. Or this one, which is more a trojan than a virus

http://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s4/412.shtml

Don't get me wrong, part of the charm of the series is that they use sci fi cliches but have a character comment on this.

My favourite, on The Sentinel ( http://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s5/520.shtml ) was when the bad guys attack a planet, and a booming Mysterons style voice threatens annhilation unless the planet capitulates whilst bombarding the planet. A character, played by the excellent Henry Gibson says

"What's that terrible voice? Where are the meteors coming from"

To which Jack says

"It's a Goa'uld ship in orbit. With really big speakers"

Or this

http://www.tv.com/point-of-view/episode/7368/trivi a.html

where the 'evil' Teal'c has a goatee, in a Star Trek reference.

Jack: (to Carter2) For all we know, you could be her evil twin. But, then we'd be dealing with cliches, and you know how I feel about those. Or, rather, you don't.

Which is pretty damn funny in context.

I thought of this episode (Atlantis actually)

http://www.gateworld.net/atlantis/s2/202.shtml

or this one.

http://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s4/420.shtml

Both of them 'hide' to avoid being clobbered when the system is restored from backup. Or this one, which is more a trojan than a virus

http://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s4/412.shtml

Don't get me wrong, part of the charm of the series is that they use sci fi cliches but have a character comment on this.

My favourite, on The Sentinel ( http://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s5/520.shtml ) was when the bad guys attack a planet, and a booming Mysterons style voice threatens annhilation unless the planet capitulates whilst bombarding the planet. A character, played by the excellent Henry Gibson says

"What's that terrible voice? Where are the meteors coming from"

To which Jack says

"It's a Goa'uld ship in orbit. With really big speakers"

Or this

http://www.tv.com/point-of-view/episode/7368/trivi a.html

where the 'evil' Teal'c has a goatee, in a Star Trek reference.

Jack: (to Carter2) For all we know, you could be her evil twin. But, then we'd be dealing with cliches, and you know how I feel about those. Or, rather, you don't.

Which is pretty damn funny in context.

Just to throw this out there, there was a nice Star Trek: TNG episode (The Drumhead) about just this. It even had the nice additional issue of racism thrown in (well, that and lying about it). Of course it's just a replaying of the McCarthy era witch-hunts. The only real sad part is how some people seem to not learn from history; or perhaps they simply believe other people are stupid and haven't. In either case, I would say that such remarks are really a grounds for dismisal at minimal.

I'll throw in another sci-fi reference--this time from Stargate SG-1 (Between Two Fires)--to justify it, One crucial point to the episode is that a lack of transparency in government and further lying about it is considered even worse than murder. Now, one might at first think this to be silly, but one of the things that seems clear about witch-hunts as well as all other unconstitutional acts is that the courts in the USA rarely do more than announce the laws as void. In the span until that point, the government gets to abuse people however it pleases and very often not only does the whole act not fully become voided--it is, afterall, these repeated sorts of cases that have pressured more latitude to protecting against "eminent threats" at the expense of liberty--but new laws with altered language but similar effect are passed by the legislature--look no further than the many censorship laws aimed at stopping pornography on the internet.

It is sad that legislatures are not punished for writing unconstitutional law nor police or other executive branch individuals for following an unconstitutional law. It is also sad that people do not value liberty over life, disregarding that a life without liberty is not living at all. It is almost certainly this reason that the people of the USA do not consider a violation of government worse than murder. With great power comes great responsibility. Sadly, there doesn't seem great accountability, and so the most one can hope to obtain is an apology or possibly money. Neither of these punishments fit the crime.

Not to nitpick, but the current season is actually Season Nine, though Season Ten has been signed on for 20 episodes.

Not to nitpick, but the current season is actually Season Nine, though Season Ten has been signed on for 20 episodes.

10th season has already been confirmed and is in production. Gateworld Season 10. Also, the entire original cast is still there with the exception of Richard Dean Anderson. Sam and Daniel were gone for about 2 episodes at the beginning of S9.

My understanding of the incident was a software upgade to a router that "self-propagated" to update other routes of the same type... or some server somewhere that updated them on a scheduled rollout or something.

And the event was later adapted into an episode of Stargate SG-1 ?

Decided my sanity would be better off not going there.

Led by Ghost Hunters, the SCI FI Wednesday block of "alternative reality series" also drew big numbers, with double- and triple-digit increases among young adults. The channel's Saturday action movies helped out with such hits as "Pterodactyl," which became SCI FI's highest-rated original movie ever with more than 3.1 million viewers.

In spite of stiff competition from network premieres, the Stargate SG-1 finale and a new episode of Battlestar Galactica were the top two cable entertainment programs among persons 25 to 54 on September 16. A week later, the mid-season finale of Galactica drew 2.3 million viewers and became the number one entertainment program on cable for the night in the same demographic.

Even more interesting is that two seasons MAY be released on a single disc....

http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/01/iatlantisiam ongsonysfirstb.shtml
Stargate Atlantis will become the first television series released on Blu-ray, one of two competing next generation, high-definition DVD formats, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment announced today. The complete series (presumably all of Seasons One and Two) is being readied for a summer 2006 release.

You must have missed the news, Farscape is back: Claudia Black Joins Stargate SG-1

Sometime in Season 11, Ka D'Argo will replace Teal'c as the muscle / Apostrophied name character.

Mystery no more, indeed!

that we are the second evolution of the Ancients, who left the galaxy several millenia ago.

Even in popular American mythology the planets are named things like P3X-403 ;)

Stargate sarcophaguses anyone?

Again, I don't know if this even makes sense since I know very little bio. And maybe regeneration isn't slower. But interesting.

I know that this sounds really odd to a lot of rational people, but I have reason to believe that an alien invasion of earth has already begun and been in progress for the past thirty three years. There have been many signs, but the evidence I've found with a simple Google search reveals the presence of aliens on earth hiding in plain sight. Here is a perfect example:

The actor called "Vincent Hammond" is most obviously not from Earth. I was watching the Outer Limits the other night and something seemed very wrong about the evil alien characters. Rather than the usual bad FX that the SciFi channel is so ready to use at a moment's notice, the evil character, Koltok, seemed far too real. Even more telling is that this supposed human actor named Vincent Hammond not only played one, but two aliens in that episode. As if that weren't enough, when I researched this "Vincent Hammond" I could only find pictures of him in various TV shows portraying very similar looking aliens. See here and here. Now could it be that the reson for this is that the same designers were involved in multiple productions? This is highly unlikely. It's a lot more likely that "Vincent Hammond" is an alien and that they really aren't using much makeup on him when he is featured in these programs.

Also, those Hollywood types are weird enough that they wouldn't even give the idea of employing a space alien, if it makes them money, a moment of thought. We've got major problems. Aliens are among us and they are slowly weaving their way into our collective unconsious. This is highly risky and could lead to an acceptance of their villainous treachery. So keep you're eyes out for space alien scum and make sure that if you see one in person to notify the authorities. THe more warnings like this that the police and military get, the more likely it is that they will begin to take the warnings seriously.

Apple is testing a new version of their Reality Distortion Field that possesses visual enhancements on an entirely new level. I always knew that Apple has some great technology.

Yeah, clearly Apple's headquarters is protected by a cloaking device recovered from the lost city of the Ancients, probably to guard against industrial espionage.

For the Canadians in the audience, Gateworld has a list of non-US airdates; however, checking the Global and TQS websites for the local listings here in Montreal, I see no mention of either Stargate or Battlestar Galactica. I guess it is bittorrent for me.

Yo-ho, yo-ho.

Every time I see a commercial for one of these cinematic disasters (and I don't just mean the actual disaster films) I cringe, and ask myself why are they wasting money on this crap. To this say I miss 'The Invisible Man' the series. I donno if they ran out of money or budget, but it was clever deep and well written, instead we get another snake of the week movie.

On top of this, SciFi is cutting out the Stargate opening credits to get more advert time. I know *I* want sci fi to stay 'on air' so i can keep watching Stargate and BSG, but I feel like I'm getting the poo from a 1 million Genetically modified monkeys on typewriters thrown at me with these movies.

PS. Dear SciFi. the idea of mutant screenwriting monkeys is available for a modest sum.

Looks like a cross between an Asgard control panel and Professor Chronotis' abacus-controlled time machine. Good thing neither of them have patents.

Dude, don't you ever watch Stargate?

Boy, even when you think you have an original idea for a post, someone beats you to it on Slashdot. C'mon people: stop hitting Refresh waiting for new stories to appear! *sigh*

Anyway, for those geeks among us who have missed out on the great Sci-Fi show that is Stargate SG-1, and don't know what the Replicators are, check out this link: http://www.gateworld.net/omnipedia/races/links/rep licators.shtml.

I take no quarrel with SG-1 or Farscape, or the forthcoming assimilation of the latter's lead actors by the former.

We've seen a lot of the MGM Stargate universe, but I'm curious about the other two movies in the Stargate triology:
http://www.gateworld.net/news/archive/0206_moviene ws.shtml

Emmerich and Devlin are wonderfully talented individuals who make mostly good films (ID4, 13th Floor, The Day After Tomorrow) so I'd like to see where they intended to go with one of my favourite movies.

SFU was used for all kinds of SF shows. It was the FBI headquarters on the X-Files, that always makes me chuckle. My favourite was watching it get pummeled by a Goa'uld bombardment in Stargate's season six.

Arthur Erickson is a well loved/despised modernist architect who plays with massive spaces. I have a friend who calls it archetorture. He gets to design some pretty trippy buildings and spaces.

They're creating "Replicators"! Although lego based ones should be easier to destroy (and presumably will only go on feeding rampages to eat plastic bricks).

Dude, zero point modules are science fiction. Fiction. You can't extract work from the quantum vacuum, even in theory; the zero-point energy is the lowest possible energy state (hence the name); to make use of it you'd have to be able to drop lower than the lowest possible energy.

(Now, if the vacuum was really a metastable false vacuum, and not truly the lowest energy, things might be different. Then extracting "vacuum" energy to do work would merely be practically impossible, not theoretically impossible.)

That's just not any alien head, it's the alien head from another classic sci-fi series from the 1960's you may have heard of -- Star Trek.

Specifically, it's from the The Corbomite Maneuver episode.

Chip H.

I have seen every episode and don't recall one time they have resolved the English problem. GateWorld is a good site. (I vaguely recall them making a joke about the English problem once. Does anyone remember what episode that was?) Even the show Farscape had a great idea with injecting the translator microbe. Not to mention hordes of novels with interesting ideas. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy had the Babel fish worm. I just cannot understand why Stargate cannot come up with any idea of how to explain them understanding Alien speak. I think they realize it is to late to explain it now. Otherwise, a terrific show, SG1, that hasn't lost any humor over the years either.

Trek must work on having great storylines, new ideas, more Romulans, things it's been lacking. I'd like to see Star Trek back to the level it should be someday. I think it will be back because it's how we envision the future to be.

Sorry, I meant Dr. Gaius Baltar. I'm lousy at names. But while I'm at it here's his girlfriend Number Six.

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Sorry, I meant Dr. Gaius Baltar. I'm lousy at names. But while I'm at it here's his girlfriend Number Six.

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Do the Gou'ald count?

this would be a more disturbing result IMO, since at least the Borg might keep you alive.

I am such a geek. Posting anon.

Man... you totally forgot about the X-302 and the X-303

Man... you totally forgot about the X-302 and the X-303

She played Ishta in a couple episodes.

She played Ishta in a couple episodes.

Where's the X-303?

I watch too much TV :D

Also, perhaps the Egyptians know it's really home to a Goa'uld Symbiote.

This wireless chips integrated for a purpose thing reminds me of Replicators

Either way, I'm thrilled and spooked.

It is when the copied files contain information on a Weapon of Mass Destruction . :-)

Yes, you are missing something. RDA plays Jack O'Neil, the Air Force colonel. He looks right for the part. The "befuddled scientist" is Dr. Daniel Jackson, played by actor Michael Shanks. In the first two seasons, he had long unkempt hair, and usually acted awkardly around others. After about season three, he cut his hair short and built up a lot, until now he looks like more a jock than the military officers. If you look around enough on gateworld.net you can find some pictures of him from the beginning of the series, and some from the end to see the difference.