Michael Shanks didn't like this episode according to him. But I thought it was pretty funny somehow. But IMO, there have been worse episodes by far. If you exclude boring clip shows. Sure, "Citizen Joe" had Dan Castellaneta in it. Which was a nod to Jack being a fan of The Simpsons. But it IMO it still didn't do it for me.
SG-1: We keep telling you we're peaceful, why do you keep threatening us?! Aliens: In the hour since we we've met you you've changed our understanding of the universe, taken hostages, and shot up our museum. GO AWAY ALREADY
God they were so lucky most of the planets they ran into spoke English. Imagine how awkward it would've been if they had to learn a new alien language every episode.
And how boring if we have to wait for the language people to learn their language and one of them to “learn” ours. Thank heavens we could see James Spader marry and honeymoon the beautiful girl in the movie, up to the pilot (with Michael Shanks playing him playing “Daniel Jackson”), all off camera.
Daniel was the linguistics expert. But as already stated it becomes a bit harder on TV. For the last few seasons most of where they went were medieval (European) in nature and while broad would limit the spoken languages. The people here had Roman names so if they would have explored that then they'd be speaking Latin or a variation of it.
My favorite episodes are the Groundhog Day inspired episode and the episode involving multiple versions of the main characters (I can’t remember the episode but the plot involved the Stargate and the gravitational pull of a local star which caused various versions to the team to appear.)
Strange? I think it was Aeryn's medical training which kicked in, exactly the same type thing if he had gotten a sea urchine stinger wound, wense she would have had to, ah, umm, ... on the injury.
Still a miracle that in all other worlds English is spoken. Or whatever language they dubb in other countries. Strange that not even on earth we can communicate freely without learning other languages. But hey, the USA really are the cream on top of the milk.
A Welshman pointed out the meaningless of that, a few years ago, by starting his address to Parliament, not in Welsh but in Old English, to lots of complaints from other Members that only “English” should be spoken on the floor of Parliament, due to centuries old rulings. I saw it on CSPAN, but can no longer remember when it was done, by whom, or in what “Matter”.
Yeah I think they mentioned about this, basically they think that it won't be that interesting to have Daniel decipher every single unique language every week so they just go with whatever. Beside, the gate is Ancient technology , it probably has a translation feature or something.
Papa Tom -- According to the stargate lore , the goa'uld kidnapped peoples from Earth and deposited them on other planets as slaves to do their bidding . Once the goa'uld lost interest in a planet the people would be left to fend for themselves and develop whatever society they deemed best . Some societies fell or regressed while some societies advanced , Daniel Jackson explains ," that while Earth buried their Stargate and went into the ' Dark ages ' where science became ' evil ' other planets may not have had that setback " . Thereby an English capable society ' off world ' wouldn't be that far fetched . Star Trek created a Universal Translator that was preprogrammed with all of the languages already in existence on Earth and could adapt to ' off world ' languages readily .
Actually it is implied that sokar took people from midevil england allowing both Christianity and English to spread around the galaxy and all the goa'uld speak it it is possible that English could have become a lingua franca. Don't ask me how it got to pegasus or the altaren home galaxy.
@@Jason_Wilhelm Considering that the legends about King Arthur and Merlin made it to Earth or from Earth to other planets (like the planet where Camelot was located on) one could assume that there was regular interaction between the people on Earth and other worlds well into the middle ages, when modern day english started to take form. I wouldn't be surprised if Merlin had a Stargate somewhere in England at that time, that was "removed" by Morgan later on - after all, Orlin was able to build a stargate out of a toaster and a microwave, so conjuring one up out of thin air wouldn't have been that hard for Merlin.
What gets me is, why does the stargate remain active during that whole conversation, and only shut down once those four have gone through? What if it shut down early? What if it remained active?
They are programmed to stay open for a half-hour or until something goes through, with a slight delay on the deactivation after the latter in case more things go through.
@@terrantabula9847 No, the maximum time a Stargate in the Milky Way Galaxy opened by the Tau'ri under normal circumstances can be open for is 38 minutes, the Stargate simply remains open till either a signal is no longer being sent through, generally a radio signal, or that time has elapsed though the actual mechanics in the show are a bit iffy.
@@psoma_brufd I think most DHD's or at least the ones the Goa'uld operate can open for 44 minutes with the exception of Anubis & the Replicators keeping gates open for longer!
@@seriascannain6675 it is stated on numerous occasions that the maximum time a wormhole can stay open is 38 minutes, it's even an episode title, other factions such as the Goa'uld have managed to find ways to keep it open longer perhaps up to the 44 minutes, but those are with special power sources and in the case of the system lords, usually limited to just a few of them. (I was expressly talking about the Tau'ri in the comment you replied to since they are the relevant faction anyway, making any other possibility meaningless here)
Love the: "It could well be our worst" Looks at Daniel Daniel mimics: Meehhh, it is up there. But you missed a couple, you are still relatively new. (ok, my interpretation, but it seems likely to me ^^)
@@Foebane72 What are you talking about? It is English, look it up or believe in my search and copy skills: Could very well be meaning? phrase. DEFINITIONS1. 1. used for saying that something is fairly likely to be true or is fairly likely to happen. What you say may very well be true.
@@Foebane72 Ha, you are right thanks (though you where and ass about it), but since I am dyslectic and not English I don't feel bad about it. You on the other hand might want to distinguish between writing and speaking.
Well, they are. They go out on exploration mission, try not to interfere with local cultures, are Always open to alliances... Even on Earth people generally want peace and only get into fights when they feel threatened first. There are exceptions to that, agressive empires and idéologies, but the thing everyone agree on is that we want propserity, and prosperity is best achieved when the guns are silent. It is worth noting that most war are born from individual ordering people to kill and those people obeying. Very rarely are they the result of people banding together on their own.
When he says that, he means the people of the SGC. Everyone is aware of the wars and disagreements of the planet Earth, even in the realisation of the Stargate and the promise it holds, the world was still poised on being against itself. The SGC however, is as 'neutral' as it can be when going off world to other cultures. They always do their best to respect the other's culture, and co-exist along side them as graciously as possible. The one thing the SGC never tolerates though, is violation of human rights, such as violence, murder, or otherwise detestable acts. All in all, Mitchell wasn't lying when he said they were peaceful. But he was only referring to the SGC and those the people of that world would directly interact with.
We were told in Season 1 that the United States was not in the business of interfering in other peoples affairs. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2dn6NUKvMGs.html
Could someone tell me what episode is this? Also I remember an episode where the people of a planet had the Stargate in the park of a museum and then the team came through the Stargate. Some people wear the gate as necklace
They are showing the potential for truth here they have break away young scientists engineering teams soldiers who are trained in all sorts of situations and they are being transported anywhere for research purposes and they have the intelligence and the amazing opportunity to travel to other worlds but they cannot come back to earth and they are the hope of humanity to become a better society than the ones on earth they are incredibly capable and intelligent resourceful and ingenious to the extent that they are unstoppable and powerful
I was always pissed that they didn't ask Cicero to join them. They would've at least though to ask him if he was likely to be arrested or killed after they left and offered him some new digs for a while. They could've even brought him back later by ship.
I always wanted this episode to be a 2-parter. They never did enough of these First Contact episodes for my taste and when they did, they always went the old Star Trek/Twilight Zone route, which got preachy and boring. The only exception to this was the 2 episodes with The Aschen.
The entire first couple of seasons were almost exclusively first contact episodes. This first contact episode was actually a bit of a surprise, by this point, most watching had forgotten that there were teams out there doing this sort of thing all the time, the fact that they had a protocol for first contact that they immediately knew to follow meant this sort of thing happened frequently.
"I've got a masters degree in a system that is completely useless when you are in the woods". Magnets are the alignment of fields (for my younger self, a field is the wrong word, it is the up down motion in 3D round space, standing wave from a very very small magnetic hole in our universe) in atoms that come near plasma state and revert back very quickly. There you go. The question no adult could ever answer.
