SG-U – Epilogue - (2x18) - (Discuss – Grade | SPOILERS)
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I thought it was a fun episode, but one big thing irked me:
Destiny has a stargate.
Why are they talking about flying FTL to the evacuation colony, when Destiny has a working stargate? Based on what I saw, only Novus lost its stargate (which they had been using to evacuate the planet). Destiny should still be able to dial in and get the evacuees to their new home.
They may have said they had tried to connect to the colony but failed, but I don't recall that.
The complete oversight of the stargate and the somewhat stupid decision to stay and wait for the upload irked me.
Destiny has a stargate.
Why are they talking about flying FTL to the evacuation colony, when Destiny has a working stargate? Based on what I saw, only Novus lost its stargate (which they had been using to evacuate the planet). Destiny should still be able to dial in and get the evacuees to their new home.
They may have said they had tried to connect to the colony but failed, but I don't recall that.
The complete oversight of the stargate and the somewhat stupid decision to stay and wait for the upload irked me.
The drones can detect the wormhole created by a stargate and used that to track down the Destiny and the settlement in Common Descent.
The drone argument makes sense. I would also think that the black hole impact on the Novus system could make stargate operations iffy.
However, I do think they know which planet to head for. They were able to to do calculations on distance, etc. There would also be some Novians on that planet. IIRC, they said that they started to evacuate the planet to the other expedition world, but had to resort to ships after they lost the stargate.
However, I do think they know which planet to head for. They were able to to do calculations on distance, etc. There would also be some Novians on that planet. IIRC, they said that they started to evacuate the planet to the other expedition world, but had to resort to ships after they lost the stargate.
Didn't the gate on the evacuation world get destroyed by a drone in the first part of the two parter (I can't remember the name of that episode).
Best episodes yet. I wish I could learn more about how that society came to be and there eventual evolution into an intelligent race. Question, if these people are as technologically advanced to repair destiny, how come they couldn't give their ships FTL, unless the ships were far bigger than destiny and the power requirements were just too great.
Best episodes yet. I wish I could learn more about how that society came to be and there eventual evolution into an intelligent race. Question, if these people are as technologically advanced to repair destiny, how come they couldn't give their ships FTL, unless the ships were far bigger than destiny and the power requirements were just too great.
maybe they didn't have the materials needed, maybe they didn't have the knowledge, they didn't have Destiny's database or anything
they probably would have been able to in another 100 years, or even less, but at their current knowledge level they just didn't yet, like we don't know
Best episodes yet. I wish I could learn more about how that society came to be and there eventual evolution into an intelligent race. Question, if these people are as technologically advanced to repair destiny, how come they couldn't give their ships FTL, unless the ships were far bigger than destiny and the power requirements were just too great.
maybe they didn't have the materials needed, maybe they didn't have the knowledge, they didn't have Destiny's database or anything
they probably would have been able to in another 100 years, or even less, but at their current knowledge level they just didn't yet, like we don't know
I would say more than a hundred years for us as well. Its been how many years since that indian kid wrote down math equations that make things like stargate, wormholes, and FTL possible?
But in the episode it was clearly stated that they would be able to bring back destiny to her original condition, which with the time clock would be hard.
Best episodes yet. I wish I could learn more about how that society came to be and there eventual evolution into an intelligent race. Question, if these people are as technologically advanced to repair destiny, how come they couldn't give their ships FTL, unless the ships were far bigger than destiny and the power requirements were just too great.
maybe they didn't have the materials needed, maybe they didn't have the knowledge, they didn't have Destiny's database or anything
they probably would have been able to in another 100 years, or even less, but at their current knowledge level they just didn't yet, like we don't know
I would say more than a hundred years for us as well. Its been how many years since that indian kid wrote down math equations that make things like stargate, wormholes, and FTL possible?
But in the episode it was clearly stated that they would be able to bring back destiny to her original condition, which with the time clock would be hard.
They said "might" they didn't know for sure, it was a possibility. But their FTL doesn't need fixing or repairing, it is fine. Destiny's main problem is its power system, they need to replace those capacitor things and so forth, something these people might have been able to help them with.
Seems to be working fine that FTL
IIRC, there was dialog stating that they had begun evacuating the planet through the stargate until it was destroyed. That's when they built the massive ships to finish the job.
The expedition party discovered by Destiny did not know this (and, thus, their expedition planet wasn't used for the evacuation).
It sorta makes sense and it sorta doesn't make sense. Maybe Novus was too focused on evacuating via the stargate to do more than provide basic support to the other expeditions until contact was lost. It's still a little goofy.
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Something I just thought about while I was watching Epilogue again. The gate seeder ships must be about 2000 years ahead of the Destiny. Cause they went back in time 2000 years, and there were already Stargates on the planets in that system. So that means the Seeder ships came through that area at least 2000 years ago. Meaning, the seeder ship are 2000 years or more in front of the Destiny. That's quite a distance.
