Incursion Part 1: simple solution (spoilers)

[Brent]

Sucking air or not, they could have planted explosive devices in the gate room, and remote detonated them once everyone was inside.

 

[The Wormhole]

Yes, when they arrived... but it has been a long time now, and he has proven he is not up to the task, so they need to appoint a new commander. Shoot, they could have someone brain swap with him for most of the day and issue orders. That would actually be a GOOD use of the stones.

Stone swapping Young with someone on Earth to take command is not really a solution at all. So Young is incompetant and his punishment is to be sent back to Earth? That won't go over well with anyone else on Destiny, and if anything no one on the ship would be motivated to do their jobs. After all, slack off enough and they too might be sent back home. Sure they might be in someone else's body, but you think that's going to matter? From their perspective, it's probably the closest they'll ever get to going home.

Young didn't know who was gating to Destiny. There was a chance that SGC successfully took over the planet and are sending supplies.

If it were an SG team, one would think they would radio through first to let Destiny know friendlies were coming through.

 

[Gepard]

If Young was truly worried about Rush, he probably wouldn't have nearly suffocated him to death (while Telford was in his body) now would he? Taking that into account, there's no reason why his character shouldn't have ordered the gate room ventilated before the Lucian Alliance came through.

And what's really dumb is that there's no reason that would need to stop the writers from doing the story they wanted to: have Young vent the Gate room, and the LA -- warned previously by Telford of what Young would probably do to stop them -- step through the gate in spacesuits. Young doesn't look like an idiot, the LA look like they can think strategically, and the story carries on as normal.

 

[Harvey]

Spacesuits were probably outside of their budget, since even the ones used by the Destiny crew are refurbished props from the final season of SGA. I suppose they could have dropped a pop-song montage or two from the series and used that money on props, but it is pretty clear how attached the producers are to such sequences.

 

[Gepard]

Fair enough. But my point is they needn't have painted Young as an idiot in order to have the LA takeover story. I mean, heck, they could have rented some spacesuit costumes like they used to for SG-1 and just dropped in some dialogue about the LA raiding an Earth outpost to get them or something.

 

[Harvey]

Oh, agreed. A line of dialogue from Young to Wray about the brainwashing technology could have also fixed some holes, but then the writers couldn't have they're beloved cliffhanger.

 

[Sisko_is_my_captain]

Okay, the space suits don't work for budgetary reasons - so the LA tosses a big compressed air supply through the gate. When it emerges, it busts open and dumps a ton of air into the hold, repressurizing it. When they come through, they quickly open the doors to the rest of the ship and proceed from there.

 

[Meredith]

Space 'em, Several minutes of chewing hard vacuum would do the gene pool a world of good. ~ Michael Garibaldi

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