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I don't think you can rely on NORAD.

Hey, if you couldn't rely on NORAD, they wouldn't keep the Stargate there.

(By the way, did you see the Has Santa Changed? page on the website? Looks like Santa stopped to pose with Carter at NORAD in 2002. Hmm...)

where the main bad guy was prevented by a treaty from destroying the main good guys. But, they decided to try to destroy the good guys in a way that would appear to be legitimate.

Ok, fine, so it was Stargate-SG1, and the episode name was Failsafe (scroll down to 5.17).

It mirrors this situation surprisingly well.

In other words, MS is just copying ideas from a TV show now -- maybe MGM, SCI-FI channel, etc, should sue Microsoft for IP theft.

-CPM

Keep your shotgun handy though, as they are more than likely going to open up a portal into another dimension and all sorts of nasties are going to come pouring out.

dear lord, haven't we learned our lesson from Doom, Stargate and Half-Life ?!

science, it's done nothing but cause trouble.

Mike

That gives me hope. What would your average MetaFilistine do?

Rumors have it that in the 1st episode of Stargate next season, MacGyver builds a new stargate out of three tablets of XTC and a paper clip, and Kurt Russel (from the original StarGate movie) comes back as Tango and gives MacGyver some Cash.

While this is obviously a joke, it *would* make some sense for Kurt Russell to do a cameo spot on SG-1, since the show is shot here in Vancouver, and Kurt and Goldie are living here so their son can go to hockey school.

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The Stargate!

That extra door is just a plaster mockup the technicians from Cheyenne Mountain left behind.

I don't think making these things is such a good idea. TV has taught us that they will eventually take over a Russian submarine and almost destroy Thor's home world.

What, you didn't see "Small Victories" from the fourth season of Stargate SG1?

No final decision has been made yet whether Showtime will pick up a 6th season.

The movie and early episodes were occasionally painful to watch as a writer tried to include some pseudoscientific nonsense, but they seem to have put that past them.

The benefits of Stargate SG-1?

• Excellent continuity, but with a good mix of new material. A welcome change from Star Trek, which alternates between total amnesia and years-long story arcs.
• Solid backstory. They have a USAF advisor to make sure the military procedures make sense - and even had a brief appearance by an USAF general on active duty. They do enough research into ancient cultures that watching the History Channel is surreal - all of the names are familiar.
• Sane technology. A lot of bad SF lets the technology dominate the story. Stargate SG-1 generally uses standard (or near standard) contemporary technology. Alien tech is rarely used by the SG teams, and aliens generally only use a handful of devices. No sudden solution to the problem by generating an inverse tachyon pulse or other crap like that.
• Strong characters. There's only a half-dozen major characters, each with well-defined roles (the four members of the team, General Hammond, and the doctor.) There's maybe a dozen recurring minor characters, each well-defined. There's no sense of having seen the same character a dozen times before, only with a slightly different forehead.
• Most importantly, a good sense of humor. Some of the episodes are deliberately over the top (Urgo), but there are also a lot of serious episodes with extremely funny, but totally natural, sequences. (E.g., the alien who constructed a new stargate in Sam's basement with hundreds of pounds of titanium(?), 7 100kW lamps,... and her toaster.)