Ernest

[Finn]

I just watched Torture of Tantalus and I thought about how they didn't find Ernest in the reality Daniel visited later in the first season.

I wonder what happened to the reel in the alternate reality. SGC's getting that video in the "prime universe" had nothing to do with Daniel. Pentagon was declassifying a whole bunch of things and found it and sent it over to the SGC.

The alternate Catherine Langford's reaction implied her Ernest had the same fate. I wonder what prevented the reel from arriving at SGC. Or did it? Perhaps nobody pay attention to it (I'd find it insane not to check it out). It would have been a bit before the Goa'uld started attacking Earth in that reality.

 

[DonIago]

If Daniel's counterpart in the AU wasn't as methodical about going through all of the material, it's possible it got overlooked, or was tagged for later review or such.

Speaking of which, it's been a while since I've seen the episode...was Catherine Daniel's counterpart on SG-1? I'd assume she's a less energetic sort, so maybe was handling the largely-boring video watching in smaller doses.

 

[The Wormhole]

It's possible that in that alternate reality, no one at the Pentagon bothered going through the old material and therefore it was never sent to the SGC, or SGA as it was known there. It's possible that Prime Universe's Pentagon had a slow day that the alternate universe's Pentagon didn't have.

And Catherine was not part of SG-1 in the alternate reality. She seemed to be a high-up consultant within the SGA. Of course, if it weren't for the fact that the SGA's gateroom computers recognized Daniel's iris code as an SG-1 code, we wouldn't have proof there was an SG-1 there. O'Neill was a general and the SGA's commanding officer, Hammond was a colonel, but didn't wear the insignia of any specific team. Carter was a civilin scientist. Daniel never got involved in the Stargate program, and Teal'c was serving Apophis. Since they did have an SG-1 (otherwise the iris computer wouldn't have recognized the code) it likely consisted of people we never heard of.

 

[David cgc]

Isn't it lucky that of all the things that were different, a randomly-generated, constantly revised string of numbers was the one thing that was exactly the same, right down to corresponding to the exact same unit?

 

[DonIago]

Clearly it was only pseudo-random.