Is there an intelligence test TV writers have to fail?

[--Pete]

Hi,

Stargate is a target-rich environment for this game. There's the scene where Col. O'Neill makes fun of a Russian commando having a gun that was made in Yugoslavia, not Russia. In of itself, it's a smarmy line, but you really shouldn't say such things after showing the guy your own weapon, which came from Belgium.

I guess that could go either way. There's a lot of subtle humor in SG-1 -- that could go either way.

When the Prometheus had to eject its faulty hyperdrive power core, the captain of the ship ordered the crew to pull away from the exploding device at full military power. Which does explain why they took damage from the energy wave, I guess.

Except for the redundancy, I don't get it. Isn't full military power the maximum power without afterburners? And the Prometheus doesn't have afterburners, AFAIK. Or is that the joke?

Then there was the destruction of the aforementioned Prometheus: in order to save the ship, you need to bypass a battle-damaged circuit and tie in an auxiliary power source so the ship can escape. Do you instruct a damage control team that is already stationed nearby? No, you waste several minutes watching Sam Carter and a redshirt climb down some ladders before they reach the repair point.

Yeah, that's a common peeve of mine, too. Not just in the SG universe, but all over. In all the cop shows, when the main characters figure out where the victim/villain/bomb is, they rush to the scene, racing against time. It never occurs to them to call on the cops already patrolling the area who are probably hours closer.

--Pete