"Stargate Universe" Revealed (Spoilers)

Johonebesus · Post by **Johonebesus** » 2008-04-09 11:13pm

Zac Naloen wrote:
SilverWingedSeraph wrote:
Themightytom wrote: My understanding ws taht not every stargate could dial the eigth chevron because they would need a ZPM. have they ever said that some stargates can't use the eigth chevron either way? I feel like its a waste of effort to build a chevron that doesn't work which is why I am pretty sure taht the gate in the SGC can dial chevron 9 because... It has a Chevron 9.
I'm pretty sure all the Stargates in the Milky Way Galaxy can dial the eighth chevron as long as they have the necessary power source, but it has been established in Stargate Atlantis, I believe, that the Atlantis gate is the only one in the Pegasus Galaxy that can dial Earth, and presumably, the rest of the Milky Way Galaxy, or any other galaxy. I may be wrong, though.

That's pretty much how i've understood the dialogue in atlantis as well.

I had assumed the same would be true of the Milky Way.

It would appear you can make other DHD's dial earth. But you need a specific dialling chip.

O'neill reprogrammed the earth DHD software to allow it to dial 8 chevrons in The Fifth Race, unless I'm misunderstanding the purpose of all that machine code.

The Ancients programmed the limitation into the Pegasus network as a security measure. Normally the only limitation is power. O'Neil had to program SGC's dialing computer because the Earthling programmers hadn't realized there was a use for the other two chevrons. It appears that the original DHD's only activate the final chevron when the user places his hand on the red dome, so one could presumably enter seven or eight coordinates before activating the gate.

Themightytom · Post by **Themightytom** » 2008-04-09 11:53pm

I'm still supicious that this is an ill considered cash cow personally because it smacks of false escalation, where the premise has to be bigger and better and more amazing than the last in order to be wonderous.

My theory that the ship is already in a very distant place following the drone ship and they will dscover some formula for determining the gate address or something. That is assuming the ninth chevron is STILL a distance calcuation, It could also mean that the ninth chevron somehow tells all the gates to locate the ship and forward the people entering to the ship wherever it is.

I wonder if the drone ship terraforms worlds like the one in SG-1. it seems stupid to LOOK for earth type ships and they have constantly restated taht the Ancients did a lot of terraforming "Trees wonderful trees, waht a leafy green universe we live in."

I'm not sure about "Writing" beause pre season five there were a lot of stupid SG-1 episodes but Richard Dean anderson did a lot of work to hold it together with his wit. What they really need are actors who can have an amazing experience and still be the Everyman.

Crazedwraith · Post by **Crazedwraith** » 2008-04-10 02:02pm

This sounds like utter shit.

I hate how the role of the ancients got bigger and bigger and bigger. If they Ancients were so damn awesome, why the fuck was there a Grand Alliance? (didn't "Torment of Tantalus" say it was an Alliance against the Goa'uld? Or was that just Daniel's assumption) What do the Nox or the Asgard actually add to the Ancients in an alliance? Non-plot device tech that actually works as advertised?

Travelling around galaxies in a supership is not Stargate. Indeed where do Stargates come in at all? I feel sorry for Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, turns out they were right about the series after all.

PREDATOR490 · Post by **PREDATOR490** » 2008-04-10 07:11pm

Bring up the grand allinace does happen to identify who the possible 'menacing villan' will be. It would be more sensible to write in these 'Furlings' rather than some new power that has access to technology capable of making them a threat. I suspect this wont be the case and we will get some new race to encounter. At the very least, they wont fuck it up as much as Atlantis did with the Wraith.

Themightytom · Post by **Themightytom** » 2008-04-10 09:15pm

PREDATOR490 wrote:Bring up the grand allinace does happen to identify who the possible 'menacing villan' will be. It would be more sensible to write in these 'Furlings' rather than some new power that has access to technology capable of making them a threat. I suspect this wont be the case and we will get some new race to encounter. At the very least, they wont fuck it up as much as Atlantis did with the Wraith.

if those furlings end up being Ewoks then so help me...
just use the GIant Aliens and Daniel's crazy grandfather we never ehard from again.