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2* One for the series as a whole. How did the Tau'ri defeat the galaxy spanning Goa'uld empire? HumansAreSpecial and Goa'uld infighting helps, but consider what we've seen of Goa'uld controlled worlds: They usually have a handful of villages or a small city near the stargate, with little indication of any settlement beyond that. Against a fully industrialized world of billions, the Goa'uld never stood a chance, and they didn't see it coming, because they're so used to counting their prestige amongst each other by number of worlds controlled.
3* It was never made clear why SGC never used the Wraith stunners after they made contact with Atlantis. After all, they're quieter than zats and can hit the same target several times without killing it. Perhaps "series stylistic differences". But in the ''Atlantis'' episode "Sateda", made it make sense. The Satedans had body armor that blocks Wraith stunners. What does this armor look very similar to? Jaffa armor. Turns out it actually does protect the user from something. Something only used in another galaxy, but still. The SGC won't standard-issue Wraith stunners because the chances of fighting a Jaffa (or possibly an Ori soldier) are very high, and the weapon could be useless.
4** On the other hand, Zats are able to both disable ''and'' kill and are a lot more compact than a weapon that can merely stun. While Wraith Stunners are cool, [[BoringButPractical Zats are more effective]].
5*** SG-1 encountered a Bounty Hunter named Aris Boch in season 3 who had armour that was capable of blocking a ''kill'' shot from a Zat in a very similar way Ronan's armour blocked a Stunner. Clearly its easy enough to do with the right know how. In fact in another piece of FridgeBrilliance could be that both devices may share a similar mother weapon as both the Goa'uld and the Wraith have had plenty of opportunities to adapt some Ancient technology over the years.
6* For all that they are allies, the Tok'ra are awfully arrogant and heavy-handed with the Tau'ri. Then it hits you, they're still technically Goa'uld. Asshole is the Goa'uld hat. ''Evil'' is where the Goa'uld and Tok'ra differ.
7** However much O'Neill and the humans complain about the Tok'ra not telling them anything and taking advantage of them, and the Tok'ra being arrogant and stilted, when you think back you realize that the Tok'ra are constantly giving the Tau'ri information, helping them out and doing whatever they can to be there for them. There are very ''very'' few times the humans do the same, and only if they've got something to gain. They ''never'' are as selfless as the Tok'ra and are ''far'' more secretive and manipulative. This is something you only realise when you look back on their relationship as a whole.
8** The arrogance of both sides is aptly demonstrated in ''Upgrades''. Tok'ra arrogance manipulates the Tau'ri as uninformed guinea pigs, yes. However, Hammond locks up SG-1 and does not give them permission to go on the mission to destroy Apophis's ship. They break prison and orders to sneak off on the mission. Had they obeyed orders, Anise's biosensor information would have come through in time to highlight the flaw in the armbands before anyone went off planet. However, Anise was portrayed as the bad guy for SG-1's mistake as well as for the Tok'ra mistake. The first half of the episode might have been full of Tok'ra arrogance, but the last part of the episode was Teal'c fixing the mistakes of Tau'ri arrogance, not just Tok'ra arrogance.
9*** The arrogance of the team was due to the armbands' affect on them. They were locked up because they went AWOL to go to a restaurant to get steak and proceeded to get into a bar fight. Their judgment was already being affected by that point. Did Anise and the Tok'ra know beforehand about the new ship being built by Apophis? That is left ambiguous, but Hammond forbade them from going because they already had shown poor judgment before.It wasn't Tau'ri arrogance but a concern about the well-being of their prime team.
10** When O'Neill's symbiote leaves him in "Abyss" it looks like it's trying to flee and betray him... it's only afterwards that you realise that leaving O'Neill would have ''killed'' the symbiote (he had nowhere to go and would have died out of O'Neill's body), but leaving O'Neill allowed him to claim innocence from the symbiote's actions and stop Baal from torturing him indefinitely for information on the Tok'ra. The symbiote stopped both Baal finding out about the Tok'ra by remaining in O'Neill and spared O'Neill a ''lot'' of pain. Comparatively.
11** The Tok'ra's glacially slow progress in their revolution makes a lot more sense when you remember that they're a DyingRace; no Egeria means every dead Tok'ra is irreplaceable. They're conservative and risk-averse because their every action is overshadowed by the fear that they could die out before they overthrow the Goa'uld, and for thousands of years as far as they knew if they failed the tyranny of the System Lords would continue forever.
12*** Also, while the hosts will eventually die without sarcophagi, the Tok'ra themselves seem to be more or less immortal. Even if they aren't, they can certainly count their lifespan in centuries. Their revolution only looks slow from [[WeAreAsMayflies a human's point of view]]. I'm thinking in particular of an instance were Jacob browbeats Jack, telling him that SG-1 is acting like a bunch of kids kicking over anthills, not taking the big picture into account.
13** The Tok'ra's true colors are shown off a bit in the episode "Death Knell", when the symbiote Delek explains that many Tok'ra don't like earthlings because, as he put it "Their will has not been eroded by thousands of years of slavery". Basically meaning Tau'ri are dangerous because they have more willpower. So basically the Tok'ra are all about equal rights between host and symbiote, symbiotes are just "more equal".
14** Whether or not the Tok'ra are decent folks doing the best they can to fight the Goa'uld, or arrogant jerks who think humans are something just above unintelligent animals is a subject of some debate in the fandom. On the pro side, the Tok'ra have been fighting for a very long time, have to be very conservative because of their negative population growth, and the Tau'ri's attempts to fight the Goa'uld had a long history of making things worse. On the con side, the Tok'ra are arrogant, usually only give the SGC usable information when they want them to take all the risks, and never teach Earth to make "big honkin' space guns." Though it should be noted that the Tok'ra don't exactly have big honkin' space guns of their own, but even if their Goa'uld genetic memory is several centuries out of date, it should still be helpful to the SGC, from a technical standpoint.
15* Carter often calls O'Neill "colonel" instead of "sir" when speaking to him. In military culture, this is like calling someone by their first name, and O'Neill's allowance of it highlights the UST the pair have. Almost a GeniusBonus for military viewers.
16** Then again, this may be just an honest mistake.
17*** With the tight relationship the series' production has with the real USAF, this is unlikely.
18** Definitely the UST, considering how they seem to have hooked up in every reality where Carter is not in the military.
19** Well, in the Air Force at least, it is entirely acceptable to refer to a superior by their rank, including abreviated forms for cases like calling a Lieutenant Colonel a Colonel. That said, it's faster just to say "Sir" or "Ma'am". Maybe calling him Colonel instead of "Sir" is just a light holdover from the borderline StrawFeminist version of Sam in the pilot, in this case, Sam preferring to use a gender-neutral form of address for a male superior.
20*** Actually, she addresses him as "Sir" far more often than she ever says Colonel? It as even lampshaded in the episode when they lost their memories, when she's confused ''why'' she referred to him as "Sir", simply because it was a force of habit.
21* The AncientGrome example in "Cor'ai", with Daniel confused that their native tongue would use both Latin and Greek for its root. My theory? The original settlers were harvested from pre-Roman Empire Italy, which contained Greek settlements. (We got the idiom "{{Pyrrhic victory}}" from a war fought between Greece and early Rome during this period, over these settlements.)
22* A justification for ExplosionsInSpace when ships blow up. Most known spacefaring cultures use naquadah in their hull materials. Naquadah is known to be highly explosive under the right circumstances.
23* Why couldn't they name the ''Prometheus'' the ''[[Franchise/StarTrek Enterprise]]''? Possibly due to the simple reason that the Navy still had a ship in service by that name (the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS ''Enterprise'' (CVN-65)) at the time.
24** This didn't stop NASA from naming the first shuttle Enterprise in the late '70's even though the very same nuclear wessel was in service at the time. They're just leaning on the fourth wall; they can't call the ship Enterprise because of that other sci-fi show.
25*** Well NASA isn't part of the military.
26*** Actually it is, and it also isn't. NASA is a government run organization that can best be described as being shared by the military and civilians, which is why there are regular rocket launches which are not part of the public itinerary that can be publicly accessed, as they are ones done by and for the US military.
27*** NASA frequently launches military or NRO payloads. No need to sugar coat it.
28* At the end of ''Window of Opportunity'' it is said the Tok'ra have been trying to reach them for over three months. No set values are given, and we don't know when the Tok'ra began to try to contact Earth. With this, considering an average of 30 days to a month: 30(3 months)= 90 days. 90(24 hours)=2,160 hours. About ten or so hours per loop, so 2,160/10=216. Teal'c and O'Neill experienced a ''minimum'' of 216 loops, possibly many more.
29* The reason the Asgard and the Tau'ri get along so well isn't because the Asgard are so benevolent but rather because they share the trait of humility. Every other species, no matter how intelligent or well intentioned, believes themselves to be invincible or that their moral philosophy for one reason or another is superior.
30** Also, a Cimmerian (from Thor's personal protected planet) tells Heru'ur that "Thor taught us to stand as equals!" when Heru'ur tells him to bow before his new god. The attitude that would value that trait in those Thor protects would also find O'Neill's irreverent, take-no-shit attitude endearing.
31* From every Goa'uld mothership we've ever seen, the walls are either solid gold or plated/covered with it. Guess what one of the greatest known metals to block radiation is? Yup. Gold. NASA even used it for the visors of spacesuits!
32** With the ability of symbiotes to treat/prevent radiation sickness in their hosts, it's likely this is less to provide radiation shielding and more because it looks opulent and decadent, both traits the Goa'uld have in spades.
33*** Why do the two possibilities have to be mutually exclusive? Why can't the Goa'uld have decorated their ships with gold for reasons of both form and function?
34* Besides a common base culture, why do the Goa'uld have an overarching Egyptian motif even though most of their number take their identities from non-Egyptian deities? While probably done by the producers for cost effectiveness and visual consistency, it's worth noting the Goa'uld are parasites by nature, who rose to dominance in the Milky Way by discovering technology left behind by the Ancients, which they then adapted to facilitate their rise to power, while taking credit for creating them to add to their mystique. Where the FridgeLogic comes in is that this is exactly the kind of thing certain Egyptian pharaohs did - probably most (in)famously Amenhotep II who, during his co-regency with this father Thutmose III, destroyed or defaced numerous monuments built during the reign of Hatshepsut, Thutmose's stepmother and predecessor, as well as one of the most prolific builders in the history of ancient Egypt. Current theories suggest that this was done to ensure a smooth succession for Amenhotep over any remaining relatives of Hatshepsut, whose own claims to the throne might have superseded his own. So in essence, the Goa'uld are the logical extreme of this pharaonic practice in a sci-fi setting.
35* In "Shadowplay," [[spoiler: look closely when "Jonas is rescuing Dr. Kieran from the people following him." You can clearly see an Intar "crystal" on the butt of his sidearm, but it shoots like a regular gun? So, the prop department screwed up, right? Wrong! It makes total sense that Jonas would request an Intar instead of a lethal sidearm when visiting his homeworld, so he could still defend himself (or just comply with SGC regulations stating all offworld personnel must be armed) without killing anyone. Dr. Kieran doesn't know that Jonas' gun is an Intar, or even what an Intar is, so he assumes it's a regular gun, and it behaves that way. Wonderfully subtle sign of his growing delusions.]]
36* When Daniel descends after trying to stop Anubis, he keeps calling O'Neill "Jim." At the end of season 8, "Threads" shows us that [[spoiler:Anubis]] calls himself Jim while in the higher planes. Maybe that's why Daniel keeps thinking of that name?
37* At the start of the ninth season of ''Series/StargateSG1'', I was expecting Mitchell to be nothing more than a flawless O'Neill clone to try and buy our affection. It got bad when Landry talked about how Mitchell apparently had no flaws as far as he could tell. But after getting to know Mitchell, it hit me. The writers were ''reassuring'' us that Mitchell would have flaws and like Landry, we would figure them out. The very fact that they were aware of the fear of Mitchell being flawless was a great comfort to me. -- Green Dragon
38** On the subject of Mitchell, we see a noticeable change in the way SG-1 operates from Season 9 onwards. In these seasons, they walk out in the open a lot more, get jumped by the bad guys a lot more, are more hesitant to use force, and we never see them carry anything heavier than P-90s for personal defense. But then we realize that this is because Mitchell is not O’Neill - while O’Neill was a seasoned Special Ops veteran with honed skills in “infantry” warfare, small unit tactics in enemy territory and covert action such as stealthy reconnaissance, along with a history of having done some morally questionable dirty work, Mitchell was just a fighter pilot fanboy who was given SG-1 as a reward billet. Mitchell didn’t have Special Ops training and experience, which is why he is initially lacking in ground tactics. He is also less trigger happy because career fighter pilots in the age of BVR missile based dogfights are trained to not escalate into a shooting conflicts without a lot of provocation. Also, Mitchell is seen as a “Boy Scout” good guy with even some hint of religiosity. Compared to O’Neill who spent his career in black ops, Mitchell is more of an IdealHero. And finally, there is the fact that unlike O’Neill who was the undisputed team leader and wasn’t afraid to exert his authority, Mitchell doesn’t command SG-1 because he was an AscendedFanboy who only wanted to serve in SG-1. Therefore, they tend to operate more by consensus, which ends up getting them into some sticky tactical situations indeed!
39* It only just occurred to me that in the fan favorite, groundhog day-inspired episode "Window of Opportunity", every time time resets O'Neill finds himself in the cafeteria eating a bowl of froot loops. Froot LOOPS! -- {{Tropers/NoSoup4Me}}
40* And hey, I can have two FridgeBrilliance moments at once. In ''Continuum'', Ba'al goes back in time and alters history so that he becomes lord over all the Goa'uld system lords. At first this just seemed to me to be an easy way to bring back some of the dead villains for a cameo in the film, especially Yu and Apophis, but then I realized which of the Goa'uld Ba'al uses as his default lieutenant -- Cronos. Basically, Ba'al built himself a time machine and then used it to make the self-proclaimed god of time his bitch! -- {{Tropers/NoSoup4Me}}
41** Sorry to be a wet blanket, but to be accurate, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronus Cronos]] (in mythology) was the former lord of the universe (the Titan equivalent of Zeus, essentially) before his sons Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon overthrew him - no relation (surprisingly, for ancient mythology) to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronos Chronos/Chronus]], the personification of time.
42** Given the proliferation of both spellings for an intended meaning of "time," this is more likely to be writers not knowing that there's a difference between "c" and "ch" as far as Ancient Greek is concerned.
43** Ancient Greek doesn't have a "C". It has a "K" (kappa) and a "Ch" (chi).
44* In Episode 6.19: "The Changeling", Teal'c drifts between obvious hallucinations and less obvious hallucinations. It took me a second time watching the episode to realize, that his hallucinations of Daniel Jackson were different, mostly because he appeared independent of the other characters. At that moment it was suddenly obvious, that this is strongly hinted to be the real ascended Daniel Jackson playing an apparition like he did to O'Neill in "Abyss" earlier that season.
45** Pretty much spelled out, this troper though, when Daniel (visiting Teal'c in his firefighter delusion) tells him that if both lives seem equally really, then perhaps they're both equally ''un''real.
46* While the Ancients were definitely NeglectfulPrecursors overall, the Anubis situation [[FridgeBrilliance wasn't the horrible neglect it looks like at first glance]]. The seemingly intractable problem - a disembodied Goa'uld with all the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien scientific knowledge]] of the Ancients - was finally solved by [[SealedEvilInADuel Oma Desala moving directly to fight him]], meaning that she would be bound fighting him forever. Sounds horrible, but remember, she ''helped him ascend in the first place''. All the ancients were demanding was that she clean up her own mess. Sure, that's hard on all the mere mortals oppressed or killed by Anubis until then, but there is a certain symmetry to it that godlike beings generally like and there's no reason Oma couldn't have done it right away.
47** Though I wouldn't worry about Oma having to fight Anubis forever, mostly because no matter how much he's changed in some ways he'll always suffer from the one flaw that all the snakes have, a total lack of patience...
48* It always bothered this troper how wildly the Goa'uld power dynamics grew during the course of the series. At the end of the first season, everyone seems flabbergasted that Apophis has two motherships, and then a few years later apparently you're just not even cool unless you're running around with fleets of thirty. Then it hit me: the Goa'uld had been living for centuries under a single Supreme System Lord, who was probably limiting their fleet strength the same way he was preventing all-out feudalism from breaking out. Which makes, again, pretty much the entire series [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Jack and Daniel's fault]].
49** Before Ra was killed, the Goa'uld had a feudal system of government, with one ruler with many rulers below that controlled their own domain. After killing Ra all the Goa'uld wanted to take his place, because they are Goa'uld and that's what they do. Apophis sent two ships because that's all he had left, he had few Jaffa left after that battle according to the next few episodes. In the two-parter, "Moebius", at the end of season 8, Ra was not dead so Apophis had lots of ships to send and attack Earth. Because Earth was running around killing Goa'ulds left and right but not their fleets, the remaining Goa'uld were able to take their fleets and Jaffa. However, because gods cannot die, yet Jaffa just kept getting new bosses every time the last one died, they started figuring out that all that talk about false gods was right.
50* The "feudal limitation" theory would also justify why motherships were considered to be slow. Teal'c says that a Hatak can travel ten times the speed of light, but that same episode Apophis' ships are shown doing at least a thousand times that.
51* In "[[Recap/StargateSG1S2E9Secrets Secrets]]", Jacob Carter doesn't believe the "deep space radar telemetry" cover story for a minute, and for good reason: something of that nature would more logically be commemorated by, for example, a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritorious_Service_Medal_(United_States) Meritorious Service Medal]], but Jack and Sam are being given the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Medal Air Medal]], which is reserved for achievements in aerial flight. (Under the circumstances of the actual mission, a more logical award would be a Distinguished Flying Cross with "V" Device or Legion of Merit[[note]]the Air Force doesn't use the "V" device for the Legion of Merit[[/note]], or the Medal of Honor, but those would be even harder to explain away than the Air Medal.)
52** Why the decorations aren't simply given ''secretly'' (in keeping with the secrecy of the Stargate program) is a mystery. They could easily go in the service jackets under a classified section (as they frequently do in real life).
53* At first, Hathor's turning O'Neill into a Jaffa seems like an odd thing to do. However, she presumably wouldn't have done it if she thought she'd lose control of him once he got his symbiote. Teal'c however, as a naturally born Jaffa, was outside her ability to influence. It's likely Hathor's method of turning humans into Jaffa created a type of Jaffa which wasn't immune to her powers. However, since their DNA wasn't changed, their children would still be human. So Hathor would need to keep using this method to get her Jaffa whereas all the other Goa'uld (who would actually want their Jaffa to be immune to Hathor) could do it the normal way.
54* Anubis was apparently only allowed to operate in his half-Ascended state if he never used any knowledge or power he couldn't have gained as an ordinary Goa'uld. His use of technology such as the Telchak device- the predecessor of sarcophagus technology- may appear to contradict this rule as the SGC assume he could have only built it with the knowledge of the Ascended, but there are ways that Anubis could find loopholes around that. If his available Ancient knowledge gives him at least a ''general'' idea of where he can find certain technologies, all he has to do is find a semi-plausible reason to send his forces into that part of the galaxy with generic orders to find something "interesting"; if they find the Ancient technology, Anubis can basically argue that he didn't use his Ancient knowledge to find it as he never explicitly ordered his forces to look for such technology.
55* In ''[[Film/StargateContinuum Continuum]]'' Qetesh mentions being by Ba'al's side for 50 years. Yet we saw Vala's father in ''[[Recap/StargateSG1S10E18FamilyTies Family Ties]]'' and he wasn't old enough to have had an adult daughter fifty years ago. Qetesh must have changed hosts at some point. Normally, Goa'uld will only change hosts when forced into it or our of necessity. It's unlikely the same event would have happened by chance in both timelines given everything that changed to require it. However, given Ba'al's fondness for Qetesh in Vala's body, it's likely he made sure it did.
56** Granted, Vala lies a lot, but little of what we had of her back story seems to make sense once we meet Jacek. She spoke fondly of her mother and has bad childhood memories with her father and especially stepmother Adria - but where was he when she was "sold as a domestic servant to a weapons smuggler named Fierenze" (who she later killed) or was, apparently very briefly, made a host of Qetesh? Her anger in that episode is a lot more justified if he *sold her*!
57* When SG-1 first brings back Teal'c in "Children of the Gods, Part 2", Hammond objects at first but is won over incredibly quickly. This may seem odd, but he had previously met Teal'c in "1969" when SG-1 traveled to the past.
58* Throughout this series and spinoffs, we never see anyone emerge from the stargate at an obviously incorrect angle, such as if they emerged from a stargate rotated 90 degrees from upright. Unlike the movie where the distinct point-of-origin chevron provided an orientation reference, here the chevrons are identical in appearance. Extrapolation: the gate is self-leveling while in a gravity field and the point-of-origin chevron is merely whichever chevron is highest at the given moment. When lying flat or in null gravity, it would default to a specific chevron.
59* Naquadah is not native to Earth or the solar system. This even became a plot point in "Failsafe"; the naquadah core of the meteor was proof that it originated from Anubis. But the mineral is so prevalent, why isn't it here, esp. when the Ancients and Goa'uld focused on Earth for so long? Because both mined all the naquadah in our system.
60* The events of ''Moebius'' are one of those great pre-destination paradoxes that was never planned but actually makes a lot of sense in hindsight. Because as Teal'c notes when he discovers that Earth is in fact Tau'ri, if the people of the 20th century were outmatched by the Goa'uld, then the people of Ancient Egypt shouldn't have had any chance at all to defeat Ra. But throw in future knowledge of events and technology, a special forces team with experience of taking down multiple System Lords and a Puddle Jumper that can one-shot Hatak motherships; and suddenly it makes complete sense.
61* The ancient Egpytians really should not have had the power to expell someone like Ra from their country, much less their planet. Even if they somehow managed to do it, several thousand years ago, what would have stopped Ra - or any other Goa'uld, for that matter - from coming back at a later date once the original rebels were dead and forgotten? Seems nonsensical, until you realize how that is exactly what happened. Several gods in the show are "younger" than those of old Egypt, so the Goa'uld did in fact continue culling Earth for milleniae. The earliest accounts of the Norse Gods on the other hand come much later, and once they did, no new religions were created, the cullings apparently stopped. It was the Asgard that eventually stopped the Goa'uld from coming back and forced them to abandon the First World for good "hundreds of years ago", and the reason why the Egypt based Pantheon itself never returned was because they came first. Being the oldest, they had the most time to acquire slaves and at the time of the rebellion, they already had so many more people living in their offworld holdings that Earth, a system without Naquadah deposits, was mostly useless to them anyway.
62* From the episode "[[Recap/StargateSG1S4E5DivideAndConquer Divide and Conquer]]", the first scenes of the episode seem a bit different if you've already seen it and know that [[spoiler:Martouf is the za'tarc. Note how initially dismissive he is of Anise/Freya's theories about za'tarcs, despite the pretty obvious evidence for them, and how skeptical he is of her proposed cure. While this could be mere academic disagreement, it could also be a programmed downplaying of the threat he represents.]]
63* In "[[Recap/StargateSG1S5E20TheSentinel The Sentinel]]", Jack states that the rogue SGC personnel who were caught working for Maybourne's operation in "[[Recap/StargateSG1S3E18ShadesOfGrey Shades of Grey]]" ended up on death row. It's not exactly clear what they would have been charged with (the Stargate Wiki's notation of "treason" is actually unconstitutional), but conveniently, many charges in the Uniform Code of Military Justice are punishable with "death, or other such punishment as a CourtMartial may direct", especially in time of war.
64* The asteroid in "Failsafe" likely remained in the solar system, and possibly stayed in a stable or semi-stable orbit near Earth. The SGC could easily have begun mining it for naquadah.
65* The Jaffas' minor super strength? Likely a result of UninhibitedMusclePower. Their symbiote is capable of repairing the resulting muscle damage quickly so they have much less instinctive inhibition against using their muscles to their full potential.
66* In "Reckoning, Part 2", Ba'al smugly claiming he knows which buttons to press on the Ancient console because as a god he is omniscient comes across as him just being a dick, as he has dropped the AGodAmI act around those who don't believe it. But at the time, he is talking to Sam and Jacob through a hologram projected from the bridge of his flagship, surrounded by loyal and faithful Jaffa who will all hear any denials of godhood.
67* The "Touched" virus in [[Recap/StargateSG1S1E4TheBrocaDivide The Broca Divide]] was invented by Nirrti. She's definitely the EvilutionaryBiologist System Lord due to her obsession with creating the perfect host.
68** The leader of that civilisation said that they had "good gods" and "bad gods," and that neither had visited in about a generation, which seems to be when the virus originated. So Nirrti infected some people with the virus, set up some monitoring equipment and left them to it.
69** This also explains her quick response to [=SG1=]'s presence in [[Recap/StargateSG1S1E14Singularity Singularity]]. It's mentioned that SG teams had only been present on the planet a matter of days, yet she was all ready with ThePlague (to disguise her experiments with the population) and a chest bomb for Cassie (to stop these meddlesome Tauri from screwing up any more of her experiments). She'd already seen them on the Touched planet monitor, and planned what to do if they turned up again.
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72* In the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "Reckoning", a device is used which has the potential to destroy all life in the galaxy. It does this by activating all Stargates at once, and sending a certain signal. Since the Replicators were also destroyed in their home galaxy, we know this extends to the entire gate network. However, ''Series/StargateUniverse'' reveals that this gate network is not limited to a few galaxies, but to a very large part of the universe. This means that not only can a device be built to end all life in a galaxy, but it can destroy all life that has ever existed in the universe. Not just the Goa'uld, Jaffa, humans, Asgard and lesser races, but every intelligent species in the entire universe. And any species which survives for 20 million years can build this sort of thing. The chance of nobody finding the same {{Phlebotinum}} in the entire universe is next to none. So even given the miraculous chance that nobody activated such a device yet, it's activation can't be far away. The death of every being in the entire universe is imminent, and can't be prevented. If our galaxy doesn't destroy the universe as we know it, one of the other 10^40 will.
73* ''[[http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Marduk#Starts_of_a_Rebellion Marduk]]'s poor damn host.'' Hell, ''anytime'' a Goa'uld faces some sort of terrible fate or punishment while still in their host body.
74** While we're on the topic, the Tok'ra claim that any System Lord's host is going to be long since corrupted by sarcophagus addiction, so Daniel is doing them a favor by killing them instead of finding a way to free them. But we've seen Apophis' host emerge, and psychologically he seems all right in that respect (and thoroughly miserable and despairing).
75*** It could be the host was a corrupted as the Goa'uld, and was playing the sympathy card in a last ditch effort to get SG-1 to help him.
76*** Just because the host emerges doesn't mean that they're still going to be rational after thousands of years of torture.
77* At the end of "Fragile Balance", the young O'Neill turns out to be an Asgard-created clone of the original (who's still alive), but possesses all of his memories. He gets set up with a new identity, and decides to redo his high school years. Think about this for a second: He may look like a teenager, but he has the mind of a man in his mid-forties, and will be mingling among a bunch of 15-year olds, possibly even [[{{Squick}} dating some of them]]. He's even shown getting an interested look from a bunch of high school girls.
78** Also in this episode, it was stated that there were many other people in the past who were abducted by Loki and temporarily replaced by clones. However, as Loki also stated, the cellular degradation of the clones was not a problem as they were not meant to survive. That meant all those clones were killed after their usefulness was over. Only Clone Jack was allowed to live a normal life after Thor helped to fix his issues.
79* In "2001", SG-1 provide the Aschen with several extremely dangerous gate addresses, including one that led to a black hole, which had nearly destroyed the earth when they encountered it, along with others which O'Neill claims are worse. If the Aschen travel there, their civilization could be destroyed. Sure, they're bastards, but annihilating them like this seems extreme.
80** It's one of the more extreme things that the SGC has ever done but you should keep in mind that the Aschen [[PlanetOfHats racial hat]] is ''genocide''.
81** Besides, the SGC eventually figured out how to shutdown the black hole connection. The Aschen, with their higher technology, will probably do the same after a while.
82*** The novel spin-offs disagree, as one of them centers around a fleet of refugees from Aschen Prime. Even ignoring the possible canonicity of the work, the lack of their appearance after that episode does give a strong case in and of itself that they are dead due to the SGC having explored all the gates from the ancient database in the galaxy, at least 3 of which are Aschen colonies at the time of the episode.
83*** Either way, the fact remains that when those addresses were handed over there was a good chance that their entire planet would be destroyed. While it's possible every human on the Aschen homeworld is in favor of the genocide they're committing, it's equally possible they don't even know about it. Maybe it's only one country that has access to the Stargate on their world and they keep what they're doing a secret from the rest of the world like on Earth. Or maybe what they're doing is known but there's a large force rebelling against them trying to put an end to it. Either way, there'd certainly be children who have absolutely nothing to do with the genocide but who'd be killed by the black hole just the same.
84*** Even worse, if the Ashen were smart, they might have set up their Stargate proram on one of their colony worlds, maybe even on the world of one of their client races. So not only would it have been THAT world and species that got axed, imagine if you will what would happen to a society comprised of several planets with each having populations in the billions - if you suddenly cut the food supply by an entire AgriWorld worth of the stuff. Rather than going out in an EarthShatteringKaboom, the entire Ashen Empire would rapidly degenerate into an interstellar CrapsackWorld.
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86* In "Moebius" SG-1 all die in ancient Egypt. Now, it's not unusual for a time travel episode to involve the characters being killed (in fact, it's unusual for it not to). However, in this case we had three timelines. Timeline one was the original timeline which we watched for the first eight seasons, in which O'Neill's pond has no fish in it (as was referenced in previous episodes). Timeline two is the timeline in which the Stargate is never discovered. Timeline three is the one that results at the end of the episode in which O'Neill's pond has fish in it. Though most of what happened in this timeline was probably identical to what happened in the original timeline, that doesn't change the fact that if you watch any pre-Moebius episode you know these characters all eventually end up being killed in ancient Egypt.
87** This does however work very well for those people who hate seasons 9 and 10 - almost to the point of it perhaps being deliberate. ''Hate the retool? We've just given you a reason to forget about it.''
88* Imagine what Harrid and Salice must have experienced when inhabited by Daniel and Vala. Assuming the stones work the way they do in SGU,[[note]]the stones obviously aren't working both ways. For all we know, they could be experiencing everything. This would be especially frightening for Salice who experienced Vala making mistakes she never would have made, then being (correctly) accused of being possessed and being burned to death before being revived.[[/note]] they both would have been going about their daily lives before suddenly being in a completely different place, then a split second later being about to be burned to death. Given that Daniel doesn't apparently experience or remember being occupied by Vala in S9:E13, they probably knew nothing until they were burned.
89** The scene in the same episode where Daniel cradle's Vala's charred body - when the prior revives her, we see what's left of her singed hair is restored to her familiar black curls, then the rest of Vala likewise. It's a nice scene except she would have appeared as the blonder, rounder Salice at the time, at least as far as Daniel/the viewer was concerned.
90* During "Window of Opportunity" Earth was one of 14 planets that were caught in a time loop and thus cut off from the planets outside. We saw [=SG-12=] get into trouble and need to gate home, but we never learn if there were other teams on non-time-loop planets. If there were, they would have been stranded without help. For 3 months.
91** On the other hand, there's the Alpha Site. And on the gripping hand, any number of allied planets.
92* In ''Emancipation'' the idea that Carter beating up a single warlord is going to bring about equal rights for these women in a culture ''this'' misogynistic is shockingly naive. Even if Turghan sticks to his word, which is extremely doubtful as we have no reason to believe that either he or his men would be honorable enough to uphold the results of their duel once SG-1 leaves, the other tribes have no reason to listen to a single thing he says; if anything they'll see him as weak for being defeated by a woman and Moughal as weak for treating the women as equals and use the excuse to go to war. And by the standards of such a primitive society, Moughal is an old man. What about after he dies and his successor takes charge of his tribe of newly freed women? If [[KarmaHoudini Abu]] is anything to go by, then at least some the men under his command see no problem with selling women to known violent rapists if it helps themselves in some way, and the idea that the women would go from second class citizens to commanding enough respect to become his successor in such a short space of time is ridiculous. There is a reason why in real life that it took so long for women to gain equal rights with men (and still don't in certain parts of the world) and that is because these no-nonsense simple approaches to complex problems simply do not work.
93* The solution in "A Matter of Time" was to cause the wormhole to jump to another gate. That would mean that the solution to saving Earth is to doom another planet to being sucked through the wormhole and into a black hole. Let's hope the planet was uninhabited.
94** You've got it a little backward. It didn't jump the ''Earth'' side to another gate. It jumped the ''black hole'' end of the wormhole to another planet.
95-->'''Hammond:''' Leaving us connected to some other Stargate?\
96'''Carter:''' Yes, but then all we have to do is cut the power!
97* Based on the size of the explosion in "Descent" where the Ha'tak crashes in the North Pacific, there should have been a large tsunami that would have hit Alaska, Canada, and possibly the Northwest of the US as well as Russia and China.
98* We know the N.I.D., and later the Trust keep tabs on aliens who are on Earth, including Martin and Teal'c. Does that mean Cassie has operatives keeping tabs on her? Considering she has Naquadah in her blood and in "Rite of Passage", she gained telekinetic powers, albeit temporarily, they might be interested in her. Same for Clone teen-aged Jack from "Fragile Balance". He was a creation of the Asgard and also may be of interest to the N.I.D./Trust.
99* In season one, episode 108 "The Nox," it is explicitly stated that the Goa'uld don't have invisibility tech. Two seasons later, in episode 307 "Deadman Switch," the bounty hunter Aris Boch pilots a Goa'uld cargo ship equipped with an invisibility device, which Boch describes as "an upgrade" but which soon becomes ubiquitous on all Goa'uld ships. So what happened in between these two events? Episode 218, "Serpent's Song," in which Apophis (who personally witnessed the Nox's invisibility) is given into the custody of Sokar (Aris Boch's boss who is consolidating territory and power throughout the galaxy). Doesn't exactly bode well for our friends the Nox, does it? Especially since we only ever see them one more time, and not as an intact society but just Lya by herself.
100* In season 1's "There But For The Grace Of God", Daniel touches the Quantum Mirror, and is transported into an alternate universe where Earth is being invaded by Apophis. He manages to escape back through the gate by ''seconds'', but if he hadn't? From the perspective of the rest of SG-1, Daniel would have simply disappeared without a trace, and they never would have had a hint what had happened to him.
101* At the end of "Scorched Earth", the Gadmeer ship offers to fly the Enkaran refugees back to their original homeworld. Yay, we're going home! Everyone's happy! Except... how can we be sure they'll be welcomed back with open arms? These people are ''generations'' removed from their former society. They are strangers to the people there. They've probably grown apart from them culturally, especially with having spent so long as slaves to the Goa'uld. Now, stop and think how the average human nation tends to react to a sudden influx of foreign refugees, and suddenly that ending doesn't necessarily look so happy after all.
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104* How are people who follow NASA going to feel when they find out that while they have had to wait for years patiently for probes to get to the solar system planets to learn about them, Humans have been crossing interstellar distances in moments and didn't bother dropping off a probe on the way?
105** Really impressed that we now have hyperdrives.
106** NASA itself is already in on the Stargate Program. Remember how they sent the space shuttle ''Endeavor'' to rescue SG-1 and Bra'tac in the season 2 premiere? They also had a shuttle on standby in "Nemesis" to get SG-1 off the ''Beliskner''.
107** Honestly in the Stargate universe I bet NASA will probably experience a huge boost in exploration since they need to explain all the off-world activity increasing.
108*** Speaking of, how the hell did they explain the sudden emergency launch of a space shuttle to the public?
109*** Simply put, they wouldn't need to. Just as with any other means of launching people and equipment today, the shuttle would, though much less regularly then unmanned rockets, be launched without any public explanation. This was due to the military being involved, though unlike in the series it was usually due to a satellite needing repairs that couldn't be done remotely.
110* If the Goa'uld larva in a Jaffa takes seven years to mature and Goa'uld can live for thousands of years, why don't the adult Goa'uld outnumber the Jaffa by a huge margin? This question is [[EatsBabies answered]] in "Summit".
111** Also the fact that since the Goa'uld fight among themselves a lot, a lot of larvae die with their Jaffa hosts.
112** Hell, this is probably why Goa'uld produce so many offspring.
113*** The ''real'' problem is ''why'' they eat the larvae in the first place. They never once try to explain it.
114*** Plenty of creatures on earth eat their young. It's very much survival of fittest indeed.
115*** Because the Goa'uld don't enjoy having competition. Eating the larva is essentially eliminating a future competing system lord. Which makes this Fridge Brilliance.
116** Crossing over into FridgeHorror, but think about it a second. The Goa'uld put their ''infants'' into the bodies of their ''disposable foot soldiers.'' The Goa'uld already really don't care if their young live or die, cannibalism is just icing on the cake.
117* If the military's best-of-the-best are assigned to off-world bases and starship duties, imagine how the poor guys who are instead assigned to normal, boring earth posts will feel when they find out they were passed over for an awesome adventure.
118** Probably thankful they didn't have to go up against the false gods, technological terrors, and ascended demonic beings.
119* In the fourth season episode "Prodigy", Carter and Cadet Haley disagree on why the energy insects are attacking. Carter states that it was due to retribution for one of them being studied and held in an energy field. Haley states it was due to the moon where they were passing its planet's pole, thus making them more aggressive. Carter says the two hypotheses are mutually exclusive but in reality, they weren't. Both could be the reason.
120** It's been a while, but I think her point was that the theories are mutually exclusive in ''how they can be handled.'' If Haley is correct, all they have to do is sit tight until the moon passes over the planet's magnetic pole, if Carter is correct, sitting tight just pointlessly risks the lives of everyone there because the creatures won't stop, therefore they have to make a run for the gate to survive.
121* At the end of the tenth season episode "Line in the Sand", the Ori shoot at the then out-of-phase village made possible by the team. When Vala beams down, she finds herself in a large burned crater caused buy the Ori weapons. However, when the village is brought back in phase, nothing seems amiss and the buildings are unaffected by the change in topography.
122* In "Right of Passage" the tension of the episode revolves around whether or not Cassandra is going to die. But they already know she can't, because [[spoiler: when the team overshot on their return from 1969 and ended up in the future, she was there waiting for them]].
123** Generally it's always advised to avoid using time travel as evidence that people will be alive or dead in the future in case it makes them overly complacent (they think they can't die because they "know" they survive) or overly paranoid (they're always wondering if this will be the day they get killed), so SG-1 probably operate on the premise to treat any threat to [[spoiler:Cassie]] as serious in order to preserve the aforementioned events.
124* In the episode ''Emancipation'' there is some validity to the argument that they force the women to cover up because the Goa'uld only want the most attractive hosts - we saw this in ''Children of the Gods'' with Sha're. The FridgeLogic comes in however when you realise that said episode ''also'' shows us with Skaara that this also applies to the men. Not to mention the fact that the Goa'uld could still just round the women up and take the masks off if that was what they were after. So in effect, the men of this world are either too dumb to realise that their excuse makes no sense or don't care.
125* In ''The Nox'', Teal'c says that he had never seen a Goa'uld personal shield like the one Apophis used before. Yet we know it's not a new piece of technology - Seth had one despite being trapped on Earth for thousands of years. Is it really plausible that Teal'c could have served Apophis for so many years without seeing or even hearing of such a common device?
126** Yes actually, if you consider most Goa'uld are not front line fighters. They send their army of Jaffa into battle led by a First Prime while they wait safely on a home world somewhere. Those personal shields may be a defense of last resort that they don't WANT the Jaffa to know about so if a Jaffa guard suddenly betrays them they have one last ace up their sleeve to protect themselves. Apophis was always well protected by skilled guards like Teal'c and Bra'tac during Teal'c's lifetime so it is plausible he never did see such a shield used.

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