I know it was used in the last episode of Atlantis to save Earth. But since it worked, how come in SGU they don't just use a deadulus class ship, have it installed on it, have the ship jump back in forth to Destiny's position to take off civilians and put on an expidition, re-supply it, so on and so forth.
Mckay's Wormhole drive?
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Because that would end the series.
It would fundamentally change the nature of the series, namely that these people are far from home and cut off in terms of resupply and reinforcement. That'd be a highly unusual move for a TV series and would normally signal the end of the show.
That's kind of happening anyway...
But I agree, it is annoying that McKay's wormhole drive hasn't been at least mentioned on SGU. I don't care if they just throw some half-assed illogical reason why it can't be done, just have it addressed in some way.
Maybe they'll do just that when McKay appears in season 2.5.
Nope, McKay is there to figure out how to use Langara's naquadriah core to dial Destiny without blowing up the planet.
Langara doesn't have a naquadria core. Only a few veins of it. Unless they plan to retcon it.
If you can set up the wormhole drive, why not simply use that power to dial your regular stargate? The wormhole drive is just a supergate without the gate, so it's only useful for moving ships between two arbitrary locations very quickly. They don't need to move the Destiny, just the people, and they've got a stargate for that.
Technically, it isn't McKay's...he found the research in the database and Zelenka pulled it out of thin air at the last possible moment. Also keep it mind that the city's stardrive is the largest engine they've ever come across...It's doubtful that they could simply build a scaled down version for the 302s that would have the same range and power that Atlantis has.
Indeed. My guess is that Atlantis itself is the only thing powerful enough to actually make the wormhole drive work, at least for now. They'd need lots and lots of ZPMs.
Destiny is 60+ million years old. It has nothing of technological value worth risking Atlantis over. If they want the info the ship has obtained, well, they better make those damn stones transmit data instead of swap consciousnesses.
They say a million on the show, but their descriptions are consistent with it predating the first stargate on Earth, which is 50 million years old. Most fans take the larger guess, rather than assuming that Destiny is actually the single newest piece of Ancient technology we've ever found.
What I meant was maybe that episode will have a throw away line establishing that they can't use the wormhole drive to retireve Destiny, not that they were going to spend the episode doing just that.
