@Kunth All he did was prove the Airman's assumption that he was a Soviet spy, which was likely why he asked the question in the first place. You should probably also take into account the fact that these guys found them in a secret military base they shouldn't have had access to, at the height of the Cold War.
@Kunth You can prove someone's assumption, even if it's wrong. Again, perhaps you should remember that they didn't just pick these guys up off the street, but discovered them in a secret military base. The knowing Russian bit leads to a much bigger assumption under those circumstances. Also, paranoia is an actual thing, you know.
You gotta love how Daniel is so used to interpreting that he forgets they're on earth... and in America, the second somebody speaks a foreign language.
Answering "Nyet" like that was funny! Daniel answered automatically because he speaks fluent Russian. It would have been funnier if someone speaking German\Spanish asked a question also and he answered them in that language!
@Patrick Cossack Not really. At least about the Empire=USA part. While the Empire is mostly just a representation of fascism, especially Nazi Germany, the Emperor was modelled by Lucas on Nixon and the final defeat of the Empire happened on a forest planet by a group of comparatively primitive guerilla fighters is a pretty obvious Vietnam allegory. That does not mean that the Rebels in general represent the Vietcong or communist in general, in fact the circumstance that one of the leaders is royalty, albeit adopted, is pretty much runs counter to most communist and Marxist theories. I'd argue that the Rebel Alliance is supposed to represent everyone and is more a stand-in for liberalism than communism or socialism, hell in some regards they are more representative of conservatism than progressivism.
@@GermanLeftist Horse shit... Lucas was a student of Regions and Greek History... He used them as a premise for his Good vs Evil story line...He even tells you that. As he used a mix of the Hebrew Bible. Greek\Roman history... As the Empire was modeled after the Roman Empire. The Rebels were the Christians. That believed in a high power. That were being hunted down for their faith... Hell even Darth Vader tells you that. Give into the Dark Side. The Dark Side was Lucifer and Satanic realm... So get an education.
And when the 2 hippies read the intro "A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away..." and remember Daniel's words will shit their pants. Hell, they would think the aliens made the movie!
Dwight Stewart at that time not everyone had seen it, and not every network had Star Trek. It slowly built its fan base over time and these guys likely didn’t have an opportunity to watch it while being in the military at that time.
Timothy .. Guy, I was there. There were only three networks at that time (ABC, CBS, & NBC), and perhaps one or two local channels. Star Trek aired in the evening (so-called prime time). It would have been virtually impossible to not come across the show, even if just flipping through the channels.
Dwight Stewart I realize you were there, but I also know that not everyone watched television back in the day, especially for that long. My grandfather still barely knows who Kirk was despite its popularity and he had a television then. My mother’s parents disallowed her and her sister to even watch Lost in Space much less Star Trek. And I know many people, both older and younger who I’ve mentioned a simple Star Trek or Star Wars character or phrase to and they stand there saying that they have no clue who or what I’m talking about.
@@Rikard_Nilsson You don't need to be able to speak Russian to repeat a phrase verbatim. You *do* need to be able to speak Russian to understand it and reply.
@@Rikard_Nilsson Nope, but if you're found in the the middle of a top secret American military base in the 60s - you're not likely to be a tourist who got lost.
It strikes me watching this again now: there was a Stargate program back in the 40s, though it was scrapped. SG1 could have honestly claimed to be part of a top secret government program that the people in 1969's Cheyenne Mountain didn't have clearance to know about, and asked to be put in contact with someone still alive who was involved with that program, and worked with them to get back to the future under the same veil of secrecy that the entire Stargate program was kept under, and then a second super-extra-top-secret classification within even the SG files to avoid disturbing the future that they knew.
"SG-1 could have honestly claimed to be part of a top secret government [stargate] program" ... true. And then what? "Oh, we can't tell you why we can't tell you where or when we're from, why we're invading your top secret military base, that's cool, right?"
they didnt knew that they mess with stargate in 40s back then. I still think that time travel in sci-fi is terrible idea but stargate did it right mostly, not atlantis they did it teribly and so did SGU.
funny thing is, remembering that Carter referenced MacGyver in the pilot episode, meaning that MacGyver was a TV show within the SG1 universe, so Richard Dean Anderson would have existed also.
It sounds funny, but actually that might have been a bad idea. It reveals that he is from the future. He also mentioned Kirk who was already known in the year 1969 another sci fi character. And actually, I don't think that there is anybody with the name Luke Skywalker in the US in the fist place.
Staff Sergeant: "Vy sovetskiye shpiony?" Dr Jackson: "Net." Colonel O'Neill: "Daniel?" Dr Jackson: "He just asked if we were Soviet spies, I just..." I always laugh out loud when I see this scene.
TangomanX2008 well it did take time for him to progress, and most of his combat development occurs off-world, so still left him a little behind when it comes to a lot of earth type situations like that one.
As others have mentioned, there was a secret Stargate program back in the 40s. Colonel O'Neil should have given his name and rank, as well as those of his companions, explained that they were part of the top secret research program, and list the names of people involved in that program's management .
However, until Jaffa came through the Stargate, I think it happened in the mid 1990s, no one would have known the importance of the gate and no program would have been developed. Before it was apparent that the Gate was a travel device it would have been dismissed as a intricate round monument that had to be stored somewhere just like it was in the episode "Bad Guys" (Season 10, Episode 16) where the SG-1 team were mistaken for terrorists when they appeared in a museum.
This scene always gets me as you can tell the Staff Sergeant probably didn't learn that line phonetically. I took four years of Russian in college as well as four years of French in high school and an additional two years of Japenese. I always regret not taking Spanish.
@@vovac8915 I know some words and have friends that speak Spanish, but I am never going to Spain nor Latin America/California. There is very little point in becoming fluent myself.
Eh, there are several parts of "Window of Opportunity" that beat it out. The scene where Daniel yells at a group of hostages they've taken for fighting over a man while they're being held hostage is really memorable too. This show is full of hilariously memorable scenes, honestly.
The major doesn't actually believe his name is Kirk (as he mentioned, they have O'Neill's dog tags), but he keeps calling him that because he doesn't think O'Neill will give him his real name regardless.
Seeing those Security Police wearing the old tan 1505 uniforms....brings back memories. 1505s and the old cotton fatigues were so comfortable. Who cares if you had to iron them frequently? I did see those SPs being out of uniform in the interrogation room: fatigue sleeves were not rolled up in those days and when they were allowed they had to be rolled up above the elbow. ---old USAF NCO.
Interrogator #1: Vy sovetskiye shpiony? Daniel: What? Interrogator #2: How did you get onto this base? Daniel: Pardon, no able Ingles. Interrogator #3: De donde eres? Daniel: Ich verstehe nicht. Interrogator #4: Wo kommen Sie her? Daniel: Desolee, je ne vous comprend toujours pas. Interrogator #5: Quelle est ton nom? Daniel: Nani? Interrogator #6: Anata no namae wa nan desu ka? Daniel: zhe jinzhan bu shunli... (credit to *Hiccup Hufflepuff* for this awesome multilingual joke xD)
O'Neill should've gone in reverse to determine which decade he was in. Luke Skywalker was 1977 while Kirk was 1966. If Kirk is a miss then so is Skywalker. Assuming this dude never saw Star Trek or Star Wars, it's even possible they were in the 1980s. They ended up in 1969 so Kirk was a good shot but ST:TOS was just not popular then so it's very possible he's not in 1970s or 1980s given Kirk and Skywalker are both a negative. So he would've known he's in mid 1960s or late 1960s based on the clothes, uniform, weapons, cigarettes etc.
@@lkrnpk I don't think so. Why do you think the Russian he used is "poor"? Вы is second person plural for "you" (English uses second person plural for both singular reference as well as plural reference although in some dialects (southern, for example), they use You'all or the contraction y'all to indicate plural); советских is an adjective but in the plural form to agree with the noun, шпионов which is also in the plural form. Also, this is the way Google translated the phrase, which, I think, is pretty close to accurate. I'm not a fluent Russian speaker, however, and I certainly am not familiar with colloquial Russian.
@@kalinystazvoruna8702 Russian is not my native language, but I'm fluent in Russian and even if this might be grammatically correct in some context, it sounds unnatural. Вы советские шпионы? would be the correct translation. The phrase he used would be ''are you of the soviet spies'' or ''do you belong to soviet spies''
I think it would have been funny if there was a follow scene, down the road with an older Robert Thorton, Thorton sees the team and is like "Wait a minute, I know you."
Jack mentioning Star Wars and Star Trek was a little Easter egg. Back then people would always ask what the better “Star” was between Star Trek and Star Wars but they always forgot about Star Gate lol
But I think Star Trek didnt have the following that it has now - it was cancelled twice think think due to poor ratings, so maybe not so many watched it back then.
0:17. I am Russian. One of my English teachers was ex kgb agent. They were trained to spoke English in any situation, even if they high. As result, when my teacher was drunked, he forgot Russian, and spoke only English
The order O'Neill offers Kirk and Skywalker is confusing. If the colonel didn't react to Kirk, then there's no way he would react to Skywalker because it's clearly before 1964. Maybe he should have tried rod serling 😅
If Daniel had had the presence of mind to pretend they had a nuclear bomb, he would have just said "what"? in English. Or better yet, since this is Daniel, he could really troll them and say "sorry, I don't understand you" in a different language every time he's spoken to... Interrogator #1: (speaks Russian) Daniel: What? Interrogator #2: How did you get onto this base? Daniel: Pardon, no able Ingles. Interrogator #3: De donde eres? Daniel: Ich verstehe nicht. Interrogator #4: Wo kommen Sie her? Daniel: Desolee, je ne vous comprend toujours pas. Interrogator #5: Quelle est ton nom? Daniel: Nani? Interrogator #6: Anata no namae wa nan desu ka? Daniel: zhe jinzhan bu shunli...
@@hiccuphufflepuff176 like it, however someone who speaks Spanish would notice pardon. It's perdón. Per of Perry the platypus, don of Donelly. Well, with Spanish r. If you need help with finding a match in pronunciation in Spanish English, send me a message at pgumgo@gmail.com Also, impressive message.
I feel like in a situation like that I would have used a Time Traveller name as kind of an Easter Egg. Something like Martin McFly, Bill Preston or Theodore Logan.
Reading comments makes me sad. Seems like a lot of people here ignore what was going on in the world and USA during 1969' . Woodstock and VietNam war were not the only events. That was the summer of the 1est man on the moon. There were a lot of scyfy shows. Star Trek, Journey to the bottom of the sea, Time Tunnel, Dr. WHO?, etc, etc. The way people here describe TV at that time is incorrect. I was 13y/o , and those were my favorite shows. TV was great in those times. You had music shows, drama, commedy, realscientific shows and science fiction.. Not like now. Good shows are scarce at present, not then.
I f*** love this scene/episode/everything about it..... they just don't make shows like this one :)) Stargate origins or anything similar to it won't be like that that's for sure.... they can try but they won't be able to be even a little as good as at least these first few seasons of this show.
Excellent deadpan humor. Enjoyed the bit with the cigarette. One thing that bothers me: it's 1969 & Star Trek has been around for nearly three seasons. "James T. Kirk" should have jumped right out at them.
He specifically says "Captain James T. Kirk of the *starship* Enterprise" so I doubt Jack expected the commander to believe him. Whether the commander recognized the reference or thought it was just a BS fake name, it is plausible he would play along to move the interrogation forward.
[A couple of years later Colonel Robert Thornton meets a CIA Agent] Robert: "man.. that interrogation back then with "Kirk" was weird" Agent: "i know what u mean. Just 10 minutes ago i questioned a guy who claims his name is Pavel Chekov"
I always wonder - what is the issue with answering in Russian? Yes, I understand, spies are supposed to be stupid enough to react to their mother tongue. However, Daniel speaks, what, 23 languages (just counting Terran ones)? If I spoke 23 languages Russian would definitely come rather soon in my list. English, Mandarin and/or Cantonese, Spanish, German, French, Russian, Japanese, Arabic, Italian, Hindi (not in any specific order). Yep. I'd absolutely speak Russian, too, and I would not hesitate to make that clear. And that's ignoring the fact that 'Soviet spies' is rather recognizable even when spoken in Russian and I don't speak that language (it helps that German for 'spy' is 'Spion'), I just know maybe half a dozen words. Among which are, who would have guessed, 'da' and 'nyet'.
