Stargate Universe -- 2 Hour Series Premiere -- "Air" -- 10/02/09 - Page 4

Jedi Master 33 · 10-06-09, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by rw2516

The transport rings have been around since the theatrical feature film.

I think he's refering to the Asgurd beaming technology.

wmansir · 10-06-09, 11:40 AM

The Goa'uld, who were from the movie and the series nemesis for most of the first few seasons, always had hyperspace travel and a more primitive form of ring transporter technology seen in the movie. It was later revealed that those technologies, like the stargate system, were actually developed by the ancients and co-opted by the Goa'uld.

Earth eventually befriended an ET-like race called the Asguard, who had been contemporaries of the Ancients. Over the years they shared their technology with Earth, eventually leaving most of it to Earth as they went extinct due to a combination of irreversible genetic defects and a long running war with a nano-machine "race" call the Replicators.

Despite these massive technological developments the general population is unaware of the SG program. The SG program has slowly been releasing some of the technology on earth, without revealing its true origins of course. Some episodes have focused on the unauthorized use or industrial espionage of the technologies on Earth.

milo bloom · 10-07-09, 03:23 PM

Well, browsing around iTunes the other day for free stuff, I found the first two parts of "Air" for free download and I've spend my last two lunch hours at working watching them on my iPod.

I enjoyed the original movie, but was never really able to click with SG1 or Atlantis, and I wanted to like SG1 when it first started up with RDA being on it, but it just never grabbed me.
But this one did. Maybe cause it's a blend of Voyager and BSG, I don't know, but it just felt different to me. Yes, a lot of the characters are cardboard props, and the parallels between the military and civilian leader clashing is pretty standard, but it really grabbed me when Rush started intimating that the ship was trying to help them. I was so afraid it was going to go down the "the ship is trying to kill us" road instead, and I rather like the idea of the humans and the ship's AI slowly growing and learning together.

10-06-09, 11:40 AM	#77
wmansir DVD Talk Limited Edition Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Land of the Lobstrosities Posts: 5,881	Re: Stargate Universe -- 2 Hour Series Premiere -- "Air" -- 10/02/09 The Goa'uld, who were from the movie and the series nemesis for most of the first few seasons, always had hyperspace travel and a more primitive form of ring transporter technology seen in the movie. It was later revealed that those technologies, like the stargate system, were actually developed by the ancients and co-opted by the Goa'uld. Earth eventually befriended an ET-like race called the Asguard, who had been contemporaries of the Ancients. Over the years they shared their technology with Earth, eventually leaving most of it to Earth as they went extinct due to a combination of irreversible genetic defects and a long running war with a nano-machine "race" call the Replicators. Despite these massive technological developments the general population is unaware of the SG program. The SG program has slowly been releasing some of the technology on earth, without revealing its true origins of course. Some episodes have focused on the unauthorized use or industrial espionage of the technologies on Earth. __________________ wes

10-07-09, 03:23 PM	#78
milo bloom DVD Talk Hall of Fame Join Date: May 2001 Location: Chicago suburbs Posts: 7,674	Re: Stargate Universe -- 2 Hour Series Premiere -- "Air" -- 10/02/09 Well, browsing around iTunes the other day for free stuff, I found the first two parts of "Air" for free download and I've spend my last two lunch hours at working watching them on my iPod. I enjoyed the original movie, but was never really able to click with SG1 or Atlantis, and I wanted to like SG1 when it first started up with RDA being on it, but it just never grabbed me. But this one did. Maybe cause it's a blend of Voyager and BSG, I don't know, but it just felt different to me. Yes, a lot of the characters are cardboard props, and the parallels between the military and civilian leader clashing is pretty standard, but it really grabbed me when Rush started intimating that the ship was trying to help them. I was so afraid it was going to go down the "the ship is trying to kill us" road instead, and I rather like the idea of the humans and the ship's AI slowly growing and learning together. __________________ OAR (Original Aspect Ratio) is not about more image, or less image. It's about the right image. "...and a table made of cheese, and a chair made of cheese..."