I thought there was some kind of translator mechanism built into the Stargate network?
I don't recall any ever being mentioned.
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I don't recall any ever being mentioned.
dupersuper's right. The fact that Daniel spoke 23 different languages was the show's handwavium version of the universal translator. Essentially, you're supposed to imagine that Daniel is translating all the conversations, and the show was presented with that part edited out to save time.
I know, it's stupid, but an actual translation device was never even hinted at.
The idea that travelling through the Stargate could translate languages comes from interviews with the writers, but was never stated in the show itself. And even then, the writers have admitted the theory doesn't hold up to any kind of scrutiny, like why languages still translated on planets visited by ship and not the gate, or, shouldn't a Goa'uld symbiote be resistant to whatever the Stargate supposedly does to a brain to allow the person to understand everyone on the planet they go to?
You can't go by the writers. These are the same guys who invented zat'n'ktels without considering all the dead bodies double zat blasts would leave behind, so one of them said, "Well look, the third blast just disintegrates the bodies, right?" Obviously, they didn't think through the logic all the time.
It's mentioned at least once in the series that Goa'uld weapons are meant to strike terror and human weapons are meant to get things done.
Except, the Goa'uld weapons are shown to be less effective at times, especially against their own tech. Bearing in mind that the Goa'uld often short change their Jaffa to ensure no slave uprisings. The kinetic style weaponry of the humans is something a bit more foreign to them. Goa'uld work off of fear, rather than necessarily weapons designed to kill. Everything is around ceremony and fear of "the gods."
Carter demonstrates this perfectly in "THE WARRIOR", while O'Neill does the explanation.
One of the best episodes and really like the titular character. Also, the combat stylings and camera work were top notch.
Projectile weapons work better in the Stargate universe and even if we go with this as a mistake it was in the pilot episode and things might not have been figured out just yet in term of how they are going to handle power levels with weapons.
Seems hardly enough reason to not like a show for when Star Trek and frankly all tv shows have tons of these kind of mistakes. Which tends to happen when you have different writers writing or the plot needs something fudged or someone just simply forgot what was done 5 years ago in a episode.
Kind of like how in Force of Nature it’s built up like everyone will have to make these grand sacrifices of personal convenience. Then a couple months later they install filters that just fix the whole problem completely.
Yep. The sacrifices were a couple of scenes of Picard asking to break the new speed limit law and even the filter thing I don't think was every acknowledged onscreen. It was just background stuff I think people mentioned in interviews. I think that was the official explanation for Voyager having gel packs and the nacells moving up and down.
Agreed, and it's always been a favorite episode of mine. Strong message about cult of personality, too.
Peter DeLuise directed this one and did the teleplay from a Christopher Judge story. There's a reason why Peter directed the second most amount of episodes of the franchise, with 68 episodes. I think 57 were SG1. Definitely more SG1 than Martin Wood, who did 47 episodes. Those two literally directed half of SG1.
Also technically they should have been able to wipe out the SGC just by capturing literally anyone who has a valid GDO code and putting a gu’ald in them, then sending a big ass bomb through. They did not question valid GDO codes even when all people with that code were on Earth.
I've always wondered how long you have to wait between blasts for it to reset to stun.
On the other hand, it does fit the optimistic view of the Federation that when presented with a climate change metaphor they have the sense and political will to just get to work fixing it.
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But that doesn't satisfy the ego.
So you’re saying the gu’ald’s downfall was a pathological need to do everything in an overwrought, needlessly performative way?
Yes.
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