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- benitojuarez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+63WHAT ABOUT THE ***** FURLINGS????!??!
- FatherTom, on 10/12/2007, -3/+38Parallel universes? Stargate meets Sliders? That would be a bit lame...
- xbasilx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28filling up the suv takes at minimum 50 chevrons
- Angostura, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26The ninth chevron is clearly a 'scaling factor'. That's right Jim, we appear to be inside a ameoba.
- camintmier, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26If I remember correctly, dialing an 8th chevron was essentially like dialing a different area code. In my opinion, I think that dialing a 9th chevron would basically equate to dialing a different country. With the working title being "Stargate Universe", I think my idea could be very possible. How they'd power the gate for a 9 chevron address, I have no clue.
Also, a question. In Stargate SG1 and/or Atlantis, was all the travel done in the Milky Way galaxy, or were they going to other galaxies in our Local Group? I'm thinking that 8th chevron could equal going to a different galaxy, and 9th could equal going to a different local group. - Konrad9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22Trying to in any case..
- Dustin00, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25Still no reason as to why people in other galaxies speak modern English...
- pauleric, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20The extra chevron is obviously for traveling to the Farscape alternate galaxy where half of the actors can meet their alternate selves.
- FlameThr0wer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20The ninth chevron can't be for time travel, they already said that the new series will be set in our time.
Maybe it's for parallel universes?
Who knows? - DarknessGP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Actually, they somewhat explain it with the Goa'uld playing a key role in colonizing planets, as well as the Ancients. However I do agree with you that there is no reason that they should speak English, but I think it would make the show harder to watch and probably to harder to produce if they HAD to speak a different language... i.e. it's not realistic but it makes things easier.
- allyant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Yeah that would be good if they were introduced in it!
Plus I want more BIG battleships. - Paal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15it's a mystery of the gates!!
- DarknessGP, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Detritus, personally I think you are wrong. 1) we already did time travel with dialing the gate and passing through a solar flare. 2) The time "loop" machine that the ancients built but could never get working, they made it so they could travel back in time to stop some major event from basically killing off the Ancients. Had the machine worked correctly or had they had another way to travel back in time they could have saved themselves.
Honestly, I'm not sure what it could be. The possibilities for it end up either going against the offical release about the third show or have already been set in someway by an existing show that would cause fans to cry in outrage for the conflict (i.e. time travel )
We should really try to reason out all of this. Let's assume that a 7 chevron address creates a point in space, the 8th chevron shifts that point within our universe to a different set of locations within a single galaxy... One way to expand on that would be to have the 9th go to a different set of galaxies... This makes sense, assuming that there are more than 39 glyphs (seen in Milky Way, 36 for Pegasus) but if there are fewer than that there would be no reason to have another chevron to go to a collection of galaxies...
Also, In the Milky Way, the Dial-Home-Device contains 38 of the 39 symbols on the Stargate. There is always one glyph that each dhd can not dial on a stargate in the milky way galaxy... perhaps it is connected? - Detritus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17I agree that would be a horrible setting to pigeon hole a series in. They explored parallel universes about as far as they reasonably could already. I'll put $50 on time travel, no matter what has already been said, it is the only logical dimension to add that could yield enough interesting plots to fill a series. The whole temporal cold-war of Enterprise (at least the few episodes I saw) was a neat idea that never got fleshed out, there is still a lot of interesting stuff to explore in a temporal conflict. This is, after all, first and foremost a show about exploration.
- etnu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14The 9th chevron will probably charge $3.50 for unleaded.
- Ryac1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11@Cam
The 7 chevrons were used for travel within a given galaxy. The 8th was used for travel to another galaxy. - abhorsen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11It will just be to galaxy far far far far far far away, inhabited by firblogs who are fighting a war against, "insert Alien bad guy".
- stinssd, on 10/12/2007, -8/+18The 9th Chevron is to fill up the tank in your SUV.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Who ***** cares? It's a TV-series not some what-if documentary.
- supermanred, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Good point. Star Trek had the "Universal Translator" everyone had shoved up their ear. Doctor Who has the TARDIS which translates everything telepathically for you.
Stargate has yet to explain this, could make for an interesting episode. - benitojuarez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Atlantis takes place in the Pegasus galaxy, I assume SG-1 was all in the milky way.
- twylight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Bring back Jack!
- catchphrase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7SG1 is my favorite fantasy show. There is a great joke played on Richard Dean Anderson here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mok4x4Q5L0E
Catch - LavaHot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I think that series is considered clearly non-canonical. I watched half of one episode and wanted to gouge out my own eyes, just so I could survive.
- bbhh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7i remember seeing this and thinking it was really funny based on how questions 4-7 are answered like the show is non-fiction.
Q: Why do the aliens speak English?
A: Practical reasons that come with television production. The time constraints of an hour-long episode mean that it would become a major hindrance to the story each week if the team had to spend the first 10 minutes of each episode learning to communicate with a new species.
http://www.stargateatlantis.com/faqs/index.html
in other news, im glad my grilfriend doesn't read my digg comments. - zephc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I seem to recall that the first few episodes of SG-1 tried to use Daniel's linguistic talents to translate, but I'm sure the writers, producers et al. decided at least one of:
1) this will become tiresome to viewers
2) it will take time away from the story line
3) its hard to think up new words and dialects etc for each new people they meet. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7How about multiple gates on the same planet - the ninth selects the specific gate you want to arrive through?
hey, it's no more far fetched than time travel or alternate dimensions. - xbasilx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6my guess: the 9th chev goes to the ascended sphere of existence
- leewbradley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Not only not far fetched, but I think plausible. After all, earth had two gates...
- Matri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The 8th chevron already did that.
- drlha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yeah, that would make sense, especially as Richard Dean Anderson is actually older than Kurt Russell.
- adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yes, but only one could be used at a time.
- Yez70, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Time Travel is the basis for one of the upcoming Stargate SG-1 movies, so it is a possibility. They have also said the 3rd series will have no direct correlation to the current series, as well.
Then again, a movie is not part of the series, or is it? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I for one, hope for more exploration.
My favourite types of episode are ones where they they end up gateing through to some empty desolate planet. I think I remember one where they came through to some sort of warehouse - lovely episode, where O'neil grew old, if I remember. - pebcake, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7"Third Stargate television series" - have they forgotten about Infinity already?
- Rocketmac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Dustin00: "Still no reason as to why people in other galaxies speak modern English..."
I agree, they covered this 2 years ago with a Behind the Scenes at SG:! and Atlantis.
I like how Farscape handled this, the translating microbes that the droids injected into you (remember 1812?).
They all suffer from the Star Trek syndrome "Let's do interstellar travel, but man is it going to be a PitA to create 20 different languages! So let's just use English"
I hope this new series doesn't go "Star Trek: Enterprise" on us...
/nerd-hat off - NeoCortex, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Yeah, at least the movie went the direction of having people on a different world speak a different language. The TV show pretty much chickened out on that concept. I'm not really complaining, though. I think language is part of that suspension of disbelief when you're watching a show about travelling through the galaxy using a millenia-old ring left by aliens that live in people's stomachs.
On a side note, I still want to see a true sequel to the original movie. It really was a completely different atmosphere than the TV show. - jubba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It can be set in the current time and still have time travel. Stargate SG-1 dealt with travelling to other planets, doesn't mean it wasn't set on Earth.
- g30ph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The 9th Chevron is Top Tier, and it's got Techron.
- adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"On a side note, I still want to see a true sequel to the original movie. It really was a completely different atmosphere than the TV show."
I thought the guys who were behind the movie talked about that a few months ago? They said they wanted to carry on the movie series separate from the TV show? With the second movie being a direct sequel to the first one, and ignoring the TV series. - xkrwlng, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3***** yes stargate is awesome, among the coolest scifi shows ever. right up there with star trek and battlestar galactica. long live scifi
- Matri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Only the gate connected to the DHD is primary. Maybe the 9th is to redirect to the other gate(s)?
- stepnet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It's obviously a transformers tie in, to explain the link between earth and cybertron.
(well it's not like transformers can get any worse...) - DarknessGP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"When you come out the other side of the stargate you're made of wool and polyester stuffing."
It's the Improbability engine... so you might be made of wool and polyester or any number of other things could happen. - h4mx0r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It's in the same time period? WOO HOO! I don't want a possibly non-canon stargate to pop up out of nowhere. It's all good now, as long as they make references back to other stargate events and characters.
- LavaHot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Did the Ancients even go to a different galaxy, besides Pegasus, the Milky Way, and maybe the Ori home galaxy?
- hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The idea makes a little more sense when you realize that the movie is said to have time travel in it.
- xkrwlng, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3ST: Enterprise's only problem I could tell of, is their gaddamned INTRO music...WTF kind of idiot puts POP LYRICS into a Star Trek theme
Other than that, Enterprise, was doing just as good as TNG - g30ph, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4The 9th Chevron activates the Improbability engine. When you come out the other side of the stargate you're made of wool and polyester stuffing.
- Avalontor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I'm glad most people here realize it's just a TV show.
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