Borrowing a gate

[Major Gambit]

When they blew up the gate in season six's Redemption, why didnt they just go get a gate from an uninhabited planet instead of doing that stupid russian borrowing deal? maybe they could just go get a bunch of gates as backups

[walterIsTheMan]

Because they didn't have a ship.

[Major Gambit]

o ya, prometheus was jsut after that

[Inty]

And symbols on different gates are different... I don't really know why is that important but i guess it could be

[npattis]

When they blew up the gate in season six's Redemption, why didnt they just go get a gate from an uninhabited planet instead of doing that stupid russian borrowing deal? maybe they could just go get a bunch of gates as backups

Prometheus was almost complete. But the Gou'ald who had Adrian Conrad was the one who finished the hyperdrive.

[Chutzpah]

It also makes for more interesting stories.

[gkyun]

Well now they have ships they don't have to borrow the gate from the Russians anymore, saving all the rental. If they do it earlier they could've kept the Korelev.

[jhkplaya888]

the writers are stoopid lol

[Ancient_Chemist]

What about the 17 gates and DHDs SG1 recovered from Baal in season 9 eposide Off the Grid. I am sure that they could set one of those up and Carter could probably integrate it into the Dailing Computer.

[Kirath]

another thing to remember is that if we rent their gate then the russians don't have one. It insures that they don't try to covertly run they're own program. Ther problem wasn't them taking their gate back, its them and china starting their own gate program and all the complications havving to active gates on one planet creates.

[Major Gambit]

they cant run a program, they no longer have a DHD.


Russia doesnt want its own program anyway

[AtlantisRising]

they cant run a program, they no longer have a DHD.
Russia doesnt want its own program anyway

You dont need a DHD to run a program. You need a few supercomputers that are able to interface with the gate. Like how the current SGC operates the gate.

Maybe not, but who says China doesnt? With the current political position, Russia could decide to start up a program because they know that they would be backed by another country. Remember, the only real reason the USA is still in control is becuase of Thor. The asgard "prefer" them to be in charge currently becuase they have a (what I would assume is) good track record.

Well, thats just my two cents.
Thanks for reading. . .

[pleed]

Because then they would have to give the Russians their gate back and only one gate would work on Earth.

[Ancient_Chemist]

I am going to play devil's advocate for a moment; say we return the Russian rented stargate so the Russia and China can run their own program. I guess it would then be up to the Russia and China's government to be the ambassador for Earth and that also includes the responsible of defending the planet. Ya know what, they should return the gate and then the US can finally relax not have to worry about the troubles of the verse... thats up to Russia and China.

Uttoh, we're trouble. May fate be on outside.


Even if there are two gates on earth ... the gate that gets the most traffic would still remain the active of the two gates in relation to the DHD.

[Wonky Bob]

And symbols on different gates are different... I don't really know why is that important but i guess it could be

I sure that all the gates have the same symbols. it's like a telephone you can take it and use it anywhere but you still have the 0 to 9 buttons. its all about the combination that you press them in.

but if we are worried about the china and russia getting there hands on stargates then it should be just as easy to get a dhd from another planet as it will be to get a stargate

[talyn2k5]

Stargate precedence is decided by the presence of a DHD.
If one gate has a DHD and another doesn`t, then any incoming wormhole will go to the one with the DHD.
If both, or none have DHDs I`m not sure exactly how precedence would be determined.
If the planet's location in space is determined by three lines intersecting the center of the planet, then it is possible that whichever gate is closer to the center of the planet would receive precedence. If that gate was active, any incoming wormhole would be redirected to the second gate.
And these rules of precedence would work regardless of how many gates are on a planet.

But borrowing a Stargate from another planet is no problem. The Giza gate had to come from somewhere, plus in 'Off The Grid'

Spoiler:

Ba`al was collecting gates to create his own closed network

wouldn`t be much point doing that if it wasn`t going to work.

We know Russia isn`t interested in running its own program, but I wonder if China or Britain might want to, would be interesting to see something along those lines in the future - China or Britain backstabbing the US and trying to discredit them so they can get the/a gate. Maybe they paid the Russians to get them one during their shortlived possession of a ship.

[petey]

what about the dhd in order to stop the russians having priority over the sgc computer dial up is simple just gate to an uninhabitated planet with a dhd disengage it from the gate then take a couple of trucks through use the power from the engines to open a manually dialled wormhole then drag the dhd through the gate! hey presto instant earth dhd

[Major Gambit]

what about the dhd in order to stop the russians having priority over the sgc computer dial up is simple just gate to an uninhabitated planet with a dhd disengage it from the gate then take a couple of trucks through use the power from the engines to open a manually dialled wormhole then drag the dhd through the gate! hey presto instant earth dhd

The russians dont have a DHD, it exploded in "48 Hours"

[Wonky Bob]

what about the dhd in order to stop the russians having priority over the sgc computer dial up is simple just gate to an uninhabitated planet with a dhd disengage it from the gate then take a couple of trucks through use the power from the engines to open a manually dialled wormhole then drag the dhd through the gate! hey presto instant earth dhd

Why go through all that trouble when we can just get the deady to pick one up one its next trip to the MW

[talyn2k5]

Just out of curiosity what happened to the Antarctic DHD?

Antarctic DHD.
Antarctic Gate - Found by SG-1, destroyed in Redemption
Giza DHD - Owned by the Russians, destroyed in 48 Hours
Giza Stargate - Owned by the Russians, currently in use at SGC.

I`m sure i`ve known this in the past but I can`t remember for the life of me.