r/Stargate

What is your favorite weird quote?

The wraith depend on the human population of the Pegasus Galaxy to satisfy their feeding requiremnents. They allow human populations to grow until a point at which they can be culled, leaving behind a sufficient group to allow for population growth in the future. By the team the Atlantis expedition arrives to Pegasus, the wraith have grown in numbers to the point that the human population is not able to sustain them and they must “sleep” internittently to allow for human reproduction. When they learn that the Milky Way galaxy hosts human populations that have grown unchecked, the wraith make a desperate attempt to reach this “new feeding ground.”

It seems well within the scope of wraith science and motive to farm humans in captivity and increase their numbers rather than allowing the population to grow naturally. Even if they didn’t literally breed humans, methods like IVF could also be an option.

In the thousands of years the wraith have existed, it seems like this would have been an optioned they should have explored early on. It would be a darker plot plot line which is maybe why the producers avoided this. Curious if anyone had any other thoughts or if I missed something.

I just enjoy the fact that it makes sense that they don't kill you and always capture instead of kill. They want to eat you after all.

It happens so often in SG1 when they get captured for seemingly no reason only to escape later. It's just a good plot device.

I fired up Netflix the other day and I’ll be damned, SG-1 is on Netflix. I figured well what the hell, I may as well go ahead and do a rewatch now that it’s on Netflix, but why does it look like shit?

It’s all blurry and fuzzy, almost like watching a VHS tape that is worn out with bad tracking.

WTF.

If Apophis has his trainees so well educated that they know corn and cotton are indigenous to North America, how do they not know Teal'c is the sholva? Every random person SG1 meets seems to know that.

So going by both episodes where atlantis is submerged, they use a subsystem or whatever to sink the city, which is fair enough

But how the bloody hell did the city manage to float when the submerge system wasn't activated

I know there's probably a few options, ancient tech etc, just wondering what everyone thinks on how they did it?

Greetings. I must have watched this episode of SG-1, "Pretense", dozens of times since it aired in the late '90s. But it wasn't until I was thinking about it while doing some chores outside that I came to this realization:

The original cataclysmic world of Tollan was found by SG-1 based on the Abydonian cartouche, but Omac states that their new world, Tollana, has no stargate, and we know that, with the help of the Nox, one was eventually constructed there. So then, it wouldn't have been known to the Goa'uld, as the Tollan likely also wouldn't have chosen a world that the Goa'uld would any interest in, nor one that would have other inhabitants. It was effectively off the grid, as it were.

So I wondered, how did Klorel, or the Ha'taks belonging to Heru'ur that were chasing him, know of the location of Tollana? We know that a glider couldn't have made it there on its own, since it's too small to have a Goa'uld hyper drive as mentioned when the X-302 was later introduced. Klorel, possibly influenced by Skaara, had to have been onboard one of those Ha'taks and someone onboard had to have known to set a course to Tollona, and once there or near there, Klorel would gave taken a glider before the Ha'taks were destroyed.

I simply do not understand how anyone on those two ships could have known of the existence of Tollana in the first place, let alone its location or what defenses it had.

Lord Zipacna makes some sense, as the Tollan likely contacted the System Lords (and I assume that Klorel specifically asked for Zippy) but before that, Tollana should have been completely unknown to them.

Is there something I have missed, or is there something that I have not considered? I have also tried finding past threads about this but came up empty, so I also find it curious that no one seems to have discussed this before (unless I just didn't word things well enough, though I tried several variations.)

I welcome any insights and thoughts. Thank you and happy Easter and Passover.