[Mr. Vega]

Originally posted by Maeglamor

[color=66ff00]Actually I'm a big fan of Asimov and Clarke because they write interesting hard scifi (or hard as I see it) the reason it's interesting is not the actual events but how they are broken down and percieved by the characters, usually scientists, placed in unusual scenarios and relying on their understanding of the physical world.
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Yeah, I haven't read Clarke but Asimov does a great job at explaining the hard science pretty clearly. The more I think of it, the more something like Psychohistory could actually be possible.

[an0n]

Originally posted by karajorma
You never saw anyone flying backwards shooting at an enemy behind them.

Yeah ya did. Most notably, when McQueen went after Chiggy von Richthofen.

And as far as hard sci-fi goes, methinks Alien takes the cake.

[Turnsky]

HR GIGER

[Stryke 9]

GAH! Meant Bester, not Miller. Normally, I wouldn't belabor the point, but The Stars my Destination is just plain mandatory reading, seeing as it's easily in the top... say, fifteen best books written in the last century, well above any other SF book. Miller's good, too, but I couldn't stand A Canticle for Leibowitz, and he isn't exactly careful about his science, in the same way a crackhead isn't very careful with a 2x4 in a mirror shop.

[J.F.K.]

Originally posted by karajorma
Unfortunately B5 screwed up the biology badly. Almost everyone is humanoid.

That's one of the things I like about SG: it provides a plausible backstory which explains why SG-1 meets so many humans on their missions. It's difficult making up truly inventive races, though. I didn't think the Shadows and the Vorlons were too shabby.

[Turnsky]

aint that the truth

[karajorma]

Originally posted by J.F.K.


That's one of the things I like about SG: it provides a plausible backstory which explains why SG-1 meets so many humans on their missions. It's difficult making up truly inventive races, though. I didn't think the Shadows and the Vorlons were too shabby.

I loved that about SG-1. It was such a nice plot point. Then they did what they did with the ancients in series 6 (I won`t say what for those who still haven`t seen it) which makes NO sense whatsoever. The ancients should have been completely alien since they were around 3 million years before humankind came onto the scene.

Originally posted by Maeglamor

[color=66ff00]Actually I'm a big fan of Asimov and Clarke because they write interesting hard scifi (or hard as I see it) the reason it's interesting is not the actual events but how they are broken down and percieved by the characters, usually scientists, placed in unusual scenarios and relying on their understanding of the physical world.
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Then you'll know exactly what I mean. IIRC they were planning to make Rendezvous with Rama into a movie. The first Rama book was excellent and would have made a kick arse movie yet that got canned while Battlefield Earth got the go ahead!

If you`re going to read Niven I VERY highly reccomend Protector. Niven got the evolutionary biology wrong but if you`re willing to forgive that everything else is spot on including what a battle at half of light speed would really be like.

[Turnsky]

ah, battlefield earth truly Not a defining moment for john travolta all in all, the worst movie i'd seen for quite a while..

[RangerKarl]

I still don't get why everyone in SG-1 can speak English so fluently......

[an0n]

Goa'uld is the language of the Gods, and English is the language of the slaves (and subsequently that of most of the transplanted humans in the galaxy).

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Originally posted by Bobboau
if that was the last episode why didn't they just cut the last five seconds off?
at least get rid of the to be continued thing,
 

Why should they have pandered to the network that cancelled them?
It's excellent the way it is.

[an0n]

It would've been excellent, if half the granules hadn't fallen into the water.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by an0n
It would've been excellent, if half the granules hadn't fallen into the water.

Who says they need them all? Maybe the beam generates it's own equivalent of .par files while it granulates them

[Bobboau]

or maybe there magnetic or something so the ship can hover and pick them up easily
there's been technology sort of like this in the earlier episodes (one of the few I've seen) remember when Jhon was turned into that statue and then had his head choped off and droped into a vat of acid, and they were still able to bring him back

[Grey Wolf]

Ack! Enterprise! Someone mentioned the evil show! That thing contradicts all of the other Trek series! Not to mentione the fact that a good deal of the episodes I've seen look like they're trying to mimic the worst episodes from the other 4 series.

[Vertigo1]

Originally posted by RangerKarl
I still don't get why everyone in SG-1 can speak English so fluently......

Not everyone speaks english.  Some speak ancient egyptian, some use latin or are latin-based (the ancients for example), and then you have the people that are descended from the mongols, the norse, etc...

[Bobboau]

yes, one of the things I always liked about SG-1, especaly the earlier episodes, was that not everyone spoke english (every now and then they were actualy suprized that some people could be understud, though not that much anymore)

[Grey Wolf]

Originally posted by Vertigo1


Not everyone speaks english.  Some speak ancient egyptian, some use latin or are latin-based (the ancients for example), and then you have the people that are descended from the mongols, the norse, etc...

I haven't seen that many episodes, I remember I saw one episode that had some sort of Celtic-based theme...

[ZylonBane]

Wormhole Extreme!

But seriously, one of my favorite things about SG1 is that whenever they come across some incredibly useful piece of alien technology... they actually use it in future episodes. Unlike all Trek, where all the cool alien crap is completely forgotten by the next episode.

[Liberator]

Absolutely, Zat's have replaced the Standard Issue .45 caliber sidearms for all SG teams.

One of my favorite lines is when,after Carter demostrates the superior accuracy of a P-90 versus a Staff Weapon against a target.  She cuts the log in half under full-auto, then switches to single fire and proceeds to cut the still moving rope with a single shot, Jack holds a staff weapon up and says,"This is a weapon of terror.  It is made to subdue through fear.", then holding up his P-90,"This is a weapon of war, it is made to kill people"  I was giggling uncontrolably for several minutes.

As far as everyone speaking english, it's probably a widespread language among the Goa'uld placed human colonies as it's relatively easily learned and can transfer a larger amount of information per word.  Or they could have Universal Translators,  one of the biggest gripes about Star Trek is how everyone speaks english.  They don't, they use UTs.  ST just removes the step of the UTs providing a translation.