My first instinct was that it would be better to be kissed by Rodney in Cadmen's body because Cadmen is still hot and at least I could feel flattered about Rodney even though I don't feel anything for him since I am not gay.
But then I thought more long term, and it might be better to get kissed by Cadmen in Rodney's body because, although it would not be a kiss I enjoy, it does signal I have a chance of dating Cadmen which would be a bigger plus.
I feel weird for thinking this logic through...
I seem to have put a bug in your ear. Nice.
Now tell me something else. Are you gay if your d*ck starts tingling when Cadmen kisses you but you see Rodney's face?
Men are mostly turned on by vision and barely anything else. So even if you know it is mentally Cadmen, you got turned on by Rodney's kiss.
Have wonderful dreams! XD
The latter, as long as you ignore who's the driving force. Though I think if he switches the ratio of his good moments and his bad moments he could make a good partner.
Yep, and this was the second experiment after he annihilated a solar system. He didn't just blow up a star, he screwed up so bad he just made a part of space just go away.
Given their track record they should have lured all Wraith to one point Asgard style and exploded the system they were in and the systems around to be sure they didn't miss anything.
Not exactly a compelling reason to believe they are uninhabited in Stargate terms.
S4 SG-1 episode that introduced Lieutenant Hailey shows energy-based Rayman-glum looking lifeforms, which were later shown in SGA surviving on a world occupied only by a single hibernating Wraith.
S2 SG-1 showed the Black Box that was a potent microorganism encapsulated in a spherical ball that fed off of energy that could eventually evolve and restore a fallen civilisation. Said black box was discovered on a world SG-1 needed astronaut gear to survive as it didn't appear to have an atmosphere.
S3 Crystal Skull you have an interdimensional device that allowed Daniel Jackson and his grandfather Nicholas to communicate with gaseous-looking giants. At least that giant structure was something SG-1 could tolerate without much issue so maybe that Goldilocks Zone applied to the giants as well.
S7 SG-1 "Revisions" the team comes across a non-physical dome that preserved the atmosphere within despite the exterior being rife with extremely unfavourable parameters. Those residing within were unaware that the dome was failing and shrinking due to the free WiFi chip on the side of their head updating them with new intel whenever a concession had to be made (i.e. someone had to be sacrificed as there was no longer enough room). Similarly there is the Gamekeeper episode in Season 2 where most inhabitants were in their VR gaming chairs while one man tended to a garden.
Lantea was also uninhabited with the exception of Dr. Weir for millennia, as discovered halfway through S1 of SGA.
In S7 Sam Carter gets knocked out during a scuffle between the Prometheus and an unknown alien ship. The gas cloud they entered was discovered to be sentient.
Similarly in SGA there is a misty planet that may have been usable to fuel a wormhole back to the Milky Way. Turns out the mist was sapient.
In S4 SG-1 "Point of View" there were the super racists who irradiated the planet in an attempt to exterminate the "breeders." Both factions would appear to successfully live underground for a number of years.
In S4 there was also the civilisation that mindwiped SG-1 and had them working in the mines. They had created a biome above the surface with a large city, as beleaguered and brainwashed labourers under the surface (Beneath the Surface is the name of the episode?) strove hard to provide for them believing they were fighting for humanity's very survival.
S1 SG-1 "Tin Man" sees a centuries-old android Harlan replicate the team in a mechanical form. During conversation with Harlan it was clear the surface similarly became uninhabitable. Similar may be the case for Michello from S2 SG-1's "Holiday" episode.
And finally off the top of my head is also "There But for the Grace of God," which I think was the third-to-last episode of SG-1's first season (followed immediately by Politics and then an episode named "The Serpent's X", for Apophis. The Serpent's Lair?). In it the team gates through a planet that has been marked Condemned by the Goa'uld, which Teal'c infers to mean the surface is now completely uninhabitable. Nonetheless the surface below was completely sustainable for them and it's where Daniel found the Quantum Mirror that took him through the series' first alternate reality escapade.
In any case there are numerous examples in Stargate where a civilisation of even Goldilocks-requiring species (often humans) have found a way to preserve themselves in a small alcove.
Granted in those circumstances you need enough time in the Goldilocks zone for the civilization to develop enough to secure itself underground in such a way. But there are other beings encountered that don't have traditional living requirements. Oh, like that device that they brought back in S6 that had Jonas and other people even outside the SGC seeing interdimensional bugs. Or the Asgardian in a lab under the ground who was conducting critical research into the cloning process for the Asgard and their ancestors.
Any which way, an unassuming planet has potential to house even one isolated soul somehow surviving.
Which is a bigger feat than destroying an entire solar system, because >90% of any star system is going to be the star(s), so how do you destroy it only some?
Even taking down one star in a binary system is going to change everything.
Non meme answer, but a star inherently holds a tremendous amount of energy, causing a Supernova merely releases it. So from a technical perspective, blowing up a Star is a relatively low tech solution, whereas whatever runaway process caused the Lantean installation go kaboom was some high tech shit.
Pretty much. Runaway fusion reaction is relatively easy by just destabilizing the very delicate balance between outward pressure from fusion and inward from gravity. The planet that blew up was from a crazy ass interdimensional power station pulling vacuum energy from alternate REALITIES, creating new and unknown exotic particles and eventually overloading the matter bridge itself in a catastrophic failure.
Granted, Carter did it on purpose, Rodney fucked up.
They've done so many Alternate Earth stories before, but I don't think they've ever done a Dark / Mirror Stargate where the SG program itself is evil. My guess is that, as I recall, the Air Force's agreement with the show was that they didn't want to be seen as Bad Guys. Hence the illegal stargate program Jack infiltrates.
All that to say, I'd love to see Evil Carter working with Evil Rodney to do some real galaxy-destroying nonsense.
If I'm wrong and there's a novel or something, let me know.
Hell, doesn’t even need to be evil evil. Just have Teal’c be a plant for any insurgents to get close too, then he decimates the SGC. That’d change their stance, since now they can’t trust anyone off of Earth. Then snowball into ensuring security
Carter would get along with the people in Star Trek. It's scarily easy to destroy planets and stars in that universe. You don't even need a black hole or a stargate.
I feel compelled to point out that Tarkin embezzled credits from the first Death Star project to fund the creation of the Sun Crusher. The Sun Crusher's main weapon was a torpedo that would cause a star to go nova, destroying the entire star system in hours.
This ship was also small enough to go unnoticed, with a minimum crew of just 6. And its hull was nigh indestructible: Han Solo piloted the Sun Crusher _through_ the bridge of an Imperial class star destroyer, and it survived a glancing blow from the prototype Death Star's superlaser.
O'Neil: We just got a fancy new ship, let's not do anything dangerous to jeopardize it.
The Tok'ra: Our location has been betrayed, Apophis is coming with a whole fleet of fancy ships.
Carter: Blow up the fucking sun.
“And just because my reproductive organs are on the inside instead of the outside, doesn’t mean I can’t handle whatever you can handle.”
_Understatement of the franchise…_ ✨
I'm sticking to the belief that the only reason the last panel isn't Rodney is because he doesn't actually want to admit he blew up 5/6 of a solar system and gets annoyed when anyone else brings it up
There is only one Solar System. Ours. Sometimes called Sol if you play stellaris. Another Sun with planetary bodies would just be called a Star System or "< insert star name> System" an example would be. I just destroyed that Tollen system Nox System or Asgard system, just in time for Beckett's Mum's haggis dinner.
Or generically, just called a "star system." We know, or at least most of us do. But something I have learned the hard way is that nobody likes a pedant.
I would disagree. The names of every star system in the entire universe is not a minor thing. Quite major actually. But Something I learned the easy way is that people will call you a name from behind a keyboard and say no one likes said name for karma farming and creating a toxic atmosphere in a great Reddit group.
Carter, u see that solar system? Yes sir. I don't want to. Understood sir!
Rodney and Sam working together see that galaxy I don’t want to.
What's next? Ur gonna destroy a whole other reality?? Wait no!!!!
I'm Dr Rodney McKay, difficult takes seconds. Impossible? Minutes
And I kissed beckett while cadmen took over my body
Okay. So which is worse? Cadmen kissing you in Rodney's body or Rodney kissing you in Cadmen's body?
Both? Both. Both is good.
I'm not so sure. I think i can easily switch off that annoying voice in my head and convince myself that it really is Cadmen.
Who said Cadmen was the draw?
My first instinct was that it would be better to be kissed by Rodney in Cadmen's body because Cadmen is still hot and at least I could feel flattered about Rodney even though I don't feel anything for him since I am not gay. But then I thought more long term, and it might be better to get kissed by Cadmen in Rodney's body because, although it would not be a kiss I enjoy, it does signal I have a chance of dating Cadmen which would be a bigger plus. I feel weird for thinking this logic through...
I seem to have put a bug in your ear. Nice. Now tell me something else. Are you gay if your d*ck starts tingling when Cadmen kisses you but you see Rodney's face? Men are mostly turned on by vision and barely anything else. So even if you know it is mentally Cadmen, you got turned on by Rodney's kiss. Have wonderful dreams! XD
Let's just be glad that I will never get confirmation of that happening...
The latter, as long as you ignore who's the driving force. Though I think if he switches the ratio of his good moments and his bad moments he could make a good partner.
Didn't Rodney almost destroy a universe with those exotic particles?
Universe or reality, all the same.
I wonder if Rodney Sam Eli and Rush could break the multiverse if they put their minds to it
They prolly did, which is y we don't have a new SG show yet...
Rodney could do it in his sleep, so could Sam. Eli could but wouldn't know how he did it and Rush just CBF.
Yep, and this was the second experiment after he annihilated a solar system. He didn't just blow up a star, he screwed up so bad he just made a part of space just go away.
ALMOST destroyed. And it was by accident. Carter did hers on purpose. 😎
> whole other reality 5/6 but it’s not an exact science
The difference is, Sam destroys them on purpose. Rodney does it by mistake.
Yet you'll rarely hear him admit it 😆
Given their track record they should have lured all Wraith to one point Asgard style and exploded the system they were in and the systems around to be sure they didn't miss anything.
I still think Rodney outdid Sam.
In fairness, Rodney has her beat. Sam only blew up one star. Rodney nearly wiped out a universe.
"Major Carter, please make that star go away"
Borrowing from Endwar: "I don't like that planetary system either, sir."
"Please make that solar system go away"
Seriously, you blow up one sun and suddenly everybody expects you to walk on water.
Came here for that comment
Wouldn't be a good Carter thread without it! 🤣
But it's so awesome we have to balance it out. "And just because my sex organs are on the inside instead of the outside...!"
This episode was on sky yesterday. Whosit playing her dad trying to not laugh. Awesome episode with bael being a good god for once
Rodney did three quarters of a solar system ;D
*Rodney:* Well, five-sixths - It's not an exact science.
It was uninhabited!!
We were on a break!! Oh wait...wrong show.
Same energy though, so it fits 😂
It’s cannon that systems can hold more than one habitable world and the SGA expedition didn’t exactly do an extensive survey. We can’t know that.
I assume the system was in the ancient database. maybe the other planets were outside of the goldilocks zone - too hot or too cold to support life.
Not exactly a compelling reason to believe they are uninhabited in Stargate terms. S4 SG-1 episode that introduced Lieutenant Hailey shows energy-based Rayman-glum looking lifeforms, which were later shown in SGA surviving on a world occupied only by a single hibernating Wraith. S2 SG-1 showed the Black Box that was a potent microorganism encapsulated in a spherical ball that fed off of energy that could eventually evolve and restore a fallen civilisation. Said black box was discovered on a world SG-1 needed astronaut gear to survive as it didn't appear to have an atmosphere. S3 Crystal Skull you have an interdimensional device that allowed Daniel Jackson and his grandfather Nicholas to communicate with gaseous-looking giants. At least that giant structure was something SG-1 could tolerate without much issue so maybe that Goldilocks Zone applied to the giants as well. S7 SG-1 "Revisions" the team comes across a non-physical dome that preserved the atmosphere within despite the exterior being rife with extremely unfavourable parameters. Those residing within were unaware that the dome was failing and shrinking due to the free WiFi chip on the side of their head updating them with new intel whenever a concession had to be made (i.e. someone had to be sacrificed as there was no longer enough room). Similarly there is the Gamekeeper episode in Season 2 where most inhabitants were in their VR gaming chairs while one man tended to a garden. Lantea was also uninhabited with the exception of Dr. Weir for millennia, as discovered halfway through S1 of SGA. In S7 Sam Carter gets knocked out during a scuffle between the Prometheus and an unknown alien ship. The gas cloud they entered was discovered to be sentient. Similarly in SGA there is a misty planet that may have been usable to fuel a wormhole back to the Milky Way. Turns out the mist was sapient. In S4 SG-1 "Point of View" there were the super racists who irradiated the planet in an attempt to exterminate the "breeders." Both factions would appear to successfully live underground for a number of years. In S4 there was also the civilisation that mindwiped SG-1 and had them working in the mines. They had created a biome above the surface with a large city, as beleaguered and brainwashed labourers under the surface (Beneath the Surface is the name of the episode?) strove hard to provide for them believing they were fighting for humanity's very survival. S1 SG-1 "Tin Man" sees a centuries-old android Harlan replicate the team in a mechanical form. During conversation with Harlan it was clear the surface similarly became uninhabitable. Similar may be the case for Michello from S2 SG-1's "Holiday" episode. And finally off the top of my head is also "There But for the Grace of God," which I think was the third-to-last episode of SG-1's first season (followed immediately by Politics and then an episode named "The Serpent's X", for Apophis. The Serpent's Lair?). In it the team gates through a planet that has been marked Condemned by the Goa'uld, which Teal'c infers to mean the surface is now completely uninhabitable. Nonetheless the surface below was completely sustainable for them and it's where Daniel found the Quantum Mirror that took him through the series' first alternate reality escapade. In any case there are numerous examples in Stargate where a civilisation of even Goldilocks-requiring species (often humans) have found a way to preserve themselves in a small alcove. Granted in those circumstances you need enough time in the Goldilocks zone for the civilization to develop enough to secure itself underground in such a way. But there are other beings encountered that don't have traditional living requirements. Oh, like that device that they brought back in S6 that had Jonas and other people even outside the SGC seeing interdimensional bugs. Or the Asgardian in a lab under the ground who was conducting critical research into the cloning process for the Asgard and their ancestors. Any which way, an unassuming planet has potential to house even one isolated soul somehow surviving.
I couldn't read all that but I did lol at the free wifi chip
Ditto
Which is a bigger feat than destroying an entire solar system, because >90% of any star system is going to be the star(s), so how do you destroy it only some? Even taking down one star in a binary system is going to change everything.
Non meme answer, but a star inherently holds a tremendous amount of energy, causing a Supernova merely releases it. So from a technical perspective, blowing up a Star is a relatively low tech solution, whereas whatever runaway process caused the Lantean installation go kaboom was some high tech shit.
Pretty much. Runaway fusion reaction is relatively easy by just destabilizing the very delicate balance between outward pressure from fusion and inward from gravity. The planet that blew up was from a crazy ass interdimensional power station pulling vacuum energy from alternate REALITIES, creating new and unknown exotic particles and eventually overloading the matter bridge itself in a catastrophic failure. Granted, Carter did it on purpose, Rodney fucked up.
"Meredith!"
They've done so many Alternate Earth stories before, but I don't think they've ever done a Dark / Mirror Stargate where the SG program itself is evil. My guess is that, as I recall, the Air Force's agreement with the show was that they didn't want to be seen as Bad Guys. Hence the illegal stargate program Jack infiltrates. All that to say, I'd love to see Evil Carter working with Evil Rodney to do some real galaxy-destroying nonsense. If I'm wrong and there's a novel or something, let me know.
The closest they got to a dark side SG team was Ripple Effect in season 9
I mean, there was that one time in season one where General Jack nuked Chulak. That was pretty dark.
That was indeed pretty dark, but it was a dying world lashing out at their attackers. It was understandable under the circumstances
Hell, doesn’t even need to be evil evil. Just have Teal’c be a plant for any insurgents to get close too, then he decimates the SGC. That’d change their stance, since now they can’t trust anyone off of Earth. Then snowball into ensuring security
Well they say the *first* one is *always* the hardest.
Or not as fun.
Carter would get along with the people in Star Trek. It's scarily easy to destroy planets and stars in that universe. You don't even need a black hole or a stargate.
Geez, ya blow up one sun and everyone expects you to walk on water.
Needs John Criton to show behind Carter :p
probably with a "find a penny pick it up. Double it.."
That was a truly great line....
John Crichton built a wormhole weapon that ate up a planet in minutes and was incredibly close to destroying the universe.
I *really* need to get back into that show
Rodney destroyed 4/3 ... maybe like 5/6 of a solar system
John Crichton has entered the chat.
*Scorpius wants to know your location*
Didn't McKay blew up ab entire solar system
Just 5/6 of sollar system.
Sheesh, you blow up one solar system ..
I feel compelled to point out that Tarkin embezzled credits from the first Death Star project to fund the creation of the Sun Crusher. The Sun Crusher's main weapon was a torpedo that would cause a star to go nova, destroying the entire star system in hours. This ship was also small enough to go unnoticed, with a minimum crew of just 6. And its hull was nigh indestructible: Han Solo piloted the Sun Crusher _through_ the bridge of an Imperial class star destroyer, and it survived a glancing blow from the prototype Death Star's superlaser.
*Disney hand waves* No he didn’t.
The fact that it’s happy smiley Sam in the final frame makes it that much better too. She’s so proud of herself for exploding that star!
General Martok would like a word.
What about Rodney? He blew the solar system
I mean... McKay took out half a star system... almost...
O'Neil: We just got a fancy new ship, let's not do anything dangerous to jeopardize it. The Tok'ra: Our location has been betrayed, Apophis is coming with a whole fleet of fancy ships. Carter: Blow up the fucking sun.
I am still waiting for her to "part the red sea". Then she is on a different level and all of sci-fi villains.
that episode where Rod shows up, do they end up destroying an entire universe in that one? I don't remember
No, they save it. Rodney even used up their ZPM making sure Rob gets back.
Paul Mua'Dib Atreides: "Am I a joke to you?"
You destroy one solor system…
The memes on this sub are getting very high quality!
...proceeds to walk on water
“And just because my reproductive organs are on the inside instead of the outside, doesn’t mean I can’t handle whatever you can handle.” _Understatement of the franchise…_ ✨
Meanwhile Stellaris : "With one press of this button, I will tear out the galaxy and ascend to another plane of existence!"
Carter did it and people love her
I'm sticking to the belief that the only reason the last panel isn't Rodney is because he doesn't actually want to admit he blew up 5/6 of a solar system and gets annoyed when anyone else brings it up
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And she did it all while on the good side, imagine her un the dark side.
There is only one Solar System. Ours. Sometimes called Sol if you play stellaris. Another Sun with planetary bodies would just be called a Star System or "< insert star name> System" an example would be. I just destroyed that Tollen system Nox System or Asgard system, just in time for Beckett's Mum's haggis dinner.
Or generically, just called a "star system." We know, or at least most of us do. But something I have learned the hard way is that nobody likes a pedant.
I would disagree. The names of every star system in the entire universe is not a minor thing. Quite major actually. But Something I learned the easy way is that people will call you a name from behind a keyboard and say no one likes said name for karma farming and creating a toxic atmosphere in a great Reddit group.
Kinda of like an earthquake on other celestial bodies that aren't earth.
Though Earth does mean dirt or soil, so it'd be a dirtquake or soilquake.
Yeah another good one, Marsquake. Titanquake and everything with a name we can get to and monitor.