Its funny that Sam says "oh yeah, the gate lights up with steam and everything". Fast forward a few years and Stargate Universe introduces a gate that does exactly that.
Although it is played for laughs, if you think about it, he really does have an important job. He is the last line of defence in many ways and the teams trust him.
@bye130 the guy who was talking about "disqualified for being a smart ***" was the actor who played Jayne in the tv show Serenity, I commented on that about 2 months ago
Men, the reference went right over your head, didn't it? "Jane" as in Jayne Cobb of Firefly, played by actor Adam Baldwin seen in the foreground at 3.15.
I really was upset by the way the team treated the documentarians. They should have recognized how important what they were doing was. Especially Daniel. Being an archeologist, wouldn't he have given anything for a documentary made by the Ancients about their original construction of the Stargates?
I think it's less on the importance of it, and more on how it feels like their selling themselves out for a tv documentary that might not ever go public, plus having all the camera crew people shoved in your face 24/7 while you're trying to do important work is also another reason they treated them so harshly. (And only now do I realize your comment is over 10 years old.)
