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I still have a P90... has a dual 3.5"/5.25" floppy drive and a 2X CD-ROM drive.

I too, love my P90. Although mine has a 5.7x28mm cartridge and a 900rpm fire rate. Beats the heck out of staffs and zats.

If the Gadmeer and Sekkari are any indication, non-carbon-based life seems to have really bad luck. At least they were smart enough to send out seed ships. http://stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/Gadmeer http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Gadmeer http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Sekkari

that sounds a lot like a certain Stargate SG-1 episode...

. Replicator! .

as power is used an open mesh section of battery draws in oxygen from the surrounding air

Next thing you know, they'll be inventing a battery that draws power from empty regions of subspace.

That is one of those jokes where if you have to explain it, it is worthless, but the specific episode I was referring to is Failsafe

A thing that sets this apart, at least for me, is that it isn't a weapon by its self. It's solely defensive. Don't want to be attacked? Just cloak!
It's like kevlar, it can be used for a more effective offense, but its real shining is in its defense.

Basically, I hope we end up hiding from threats instead of preemptively attacking them.

I propose we call it naquadah.

Now, dig out the gate and get me off this rock :-)

The suspension of disbelief comes from the fact that they're interacting with aliens who all speak English. Requiring anything beyond that is just insulting. A bunch of whales surrounding a city? Maybe that was Atlantis, but it's the same crap, different actors.

All I can really say is that some of us are more willing than you are, for the sake of some entertainment.

I don't know, of course, but everything that happens is implausible and/or impossible. And I don't mean the circumstances -- although they are implausible to be sure, but that's where suspension of disbelief comes in -- I mean what happens inside of those circumstances.

Again, they obviously had to decide whether to stick to real science (which, as your rant mentions, pretty much torpedos most of the show) or toss in some technobabble and real-world impossibilities.

Either the characters are all idiots who just assume they're home, or they realize the very real possibility that they're not home, but don't think it's worth mentioning at all.

Seems to be the second one, generally. I seem to remember the two-parter at the end of the 8th season dealing with restoring the timeline from an alternate ala Back to The Future. Everything's back to normal except for a minor change or two, the characters realize this, and take the attitude of "Eh. Close enough".

6 years in the military which, as any booter can tell you, is not even remotely similar to what is depicted in SG1.

A fiction show about a secret military program involving travel to other planets & galaxies doesn't match your personal experience as a "booter"? Shocking!

I would note also that the show has actually been honored by the US Air Force for its portrayal of the military, and two of their Chiefs of Staff have actually had cameo roles as well.

They almost killed off Sam's dad, but couldn't quite bring themselves to do it.

If you can get to the end of this transcript and prove the character is still alive, give yourself a cookie.

And as for the rest of the events you mention -- it's all abstract. There are "world wars, biological warfare, and lots of murder/torture/enslavement," but it all happens to other than major characters, or completely off-screen (such as the world wars), and in any case, it's generally over within an episode or two, with a nice, tidy, happy resolution.

Yeah, the various episodes where Teal'c gets tortured, Daniel gets his brain scrambled so many times by a ribbon device that he actually starts to get used to it, the 6th season episode where O'Neill basically spends the entire time getting tortured and killed over and over, etc....All figments of my imagination. I'm not going to waste any more time finding specific examples for you, look for it yourself.

And on that note, since you don't even seem to be able to keep SG-1 and Atlantis straight, much less have anything but scattered viewing of the show, debating you further is pointless. Have a nice life :)

http://stargate-sg1-solutions.com/blog/?p=720 Shanks approached to star in 3rd Stargate series! "Now Stargate SG1 Solutions can exclusively reveal that SG1's Michael Shanks, who plays Dr. Daniel Jackson on the show, has already been approached to star in the third Stargate series! We were informed by a source close to the production that Shanks would be lead actor and Daniel Jackson the main character in the spinoff." So, the scoops aren't so exclusive anymore ;) It will be interesting to see how some portions of fandom react to this tidbit.

Thank you for the (albeit tiny) hint of hope. Despite it's ups and downs, SG1 consistently had the best writing, characterization, and cinematics of its genre (albeit, also tiny). I hope that the effect of the letter writing campaign is not diluted by less effective calls to action (emails, the poll, etc.).

For those who missed it above, here is SG1-Solutions commentary with the network exec's mailing addresses:

http://stargate-sg1-solutions.com/blog/?p=650

So, fans... listen up! Go sign the petition. Then send a few letters (actual paper letters, with stamps). Say something like "Please bring back the show, make an excellent miniseries, or even an awesome feature film, and I promise to buy the DVD's!!!".

It would probably help to write "ATTN: Save Stargate SG-1" or some such on the outside of the envelope itself (like on the line after the recipient's name). That way, if they are just counting letters without opening them, the letter count will grow more quickly.

Then print up about fifty copies and get your buddies' names on them. Ask them to mail them ("Pretty please!!! It's only fifty cents!!").

Then go to a bar and bitch about the Sci-Fi channel over scotch (everyone will stare, I promise... but it might be cathartic).

The real question is how the hell I'm gonna break the news to my wife...

The plan was to make a cut that would let us just fold open the skin over the implant and remove it either by excision, scraping it off, or irrigating it out depending on the consistency

Season 10 SG-1 according to the rumors

Yeah, that episode of Stargate: SG-1 was pretty good, wasn't it?