A Thought About Goa'uld Evolution

[Mike]

We all know that the Goa'uld originated from the waters of a planet. Their natural instinct appears to be to take a host (we saw the primitive goa'uld take that scientist (forget his name) as a host) and live on land.

Let's say the Goa'uld slowly do this over time. They build civilizations on the planet and such, when one day, one Goa'uld makes a discovery. The Stargate.

For years the Goa'uld study the gate. Now, keep in mind the Goa'uld right now have not had the God like powers yet, so they might be actually not that bad of people. Kind of like Earth is now? Sort of bad, sort of good, but mostly with good intentions?

The Goa'uld finally learn to use the Gate. They start traveling around. They want to find more advanced technology ( of course ), like Earth does.

Then they come across a race that is below them. Their weapons, armor, etc. makes the primitives think they are some type of a God. They take advantage of this.

We all know humans are well capable of corruption, very easily, very fast. Anyone remember the season 1 episode, "The First Commandment"?

I think this is an interesting theory. Earth and the ancient Goa'uld aren't so different afterall. They both probably had the same desire to obtain new, more powerful technology at any rate/cost. Overtime, the Goa'uld corrupted themselves and started impersonate gods more and more.

[Champos]

Makes sense.

[Supreme Commander Thor]

man, that was way too deep for the likes of me...

[Bagpuss]

Tend to agree with your theories,Mike!

Sadly the more power humans get,the more corrupt they seem to become.No reason why the Goa'uld evolution shouldn't be similar in structure!

I've always seen the Goa'uld as similar to Hitler and Stalin, and other Dictators of that ilk.

To sum up: "Absolute power corrupts absolutely". (Can't remember source of that loose quotation)

The scientist's name was Dr Robert Rothman,btw.

[Champos]

man, that was way too deep for the likes of me...

That doesn't really say much though, does it?

[Champos]

To sum up: "Absolute power corrupts absolutely". (Can't remember source of that loose quotation)

Lord Acton, if memory serves.

[Bagpuss]

Probably!
Thanks ,Champos!

[the_fours]

i like your theory and you could have it in this order:
Humans-get tech but maintain morallity
Rogue NID: Get tech whatever it takes
Goa'uld: do what the hell we want we are GODS

this is how i see your theory translating into the modern world. The rogue NID are half-way to where the Goa'uld are today

[SGSlugger]

Interesting thought.

I'd like to see a story arc where a couple rouge NID members have set themselves up as gods using stolen tech, and are sending the members of another race on a 'holy quest' to obtain new technologies.

[veneticuss]

Lord Acton, if memory serves.

I think it was Lord J.E. Acton, English historian, 1887

[dorien]

We all know that the Goa'uld originated from the waters of a planet. Their natural instinct appears to be to take a host ... and live on land.

Let's say the Goa'uld slowly do this over time. They build civilizations on the planet and such, when one day, one Goa'uld makes a discovery. The Stargate.

I always figured the change happened rapidly. A gate on the Unas/Goa'uld homeworld indicates that the Ancients were more than visitors there. A goa'uld taking one unsuspecting Ancient as a host would have the gate/tech knowledge immediately. If that goa'uld was a queen who left behind spawn to blend with the Unas...well it would help explain their advancement from their little pond to the big galactic waters. My theory anyway.

The rest of the theory about how the goa'uld came to act like and believe themselves to be gods seems most reasonable. As does the idea of how humans could follow down the same path.

[Bast]

The Goa'uld are alot like the Yeerks in animorphs.

[Mio]

A goa'uld taking one unsuspecting Ancient as a host would have the gate/tech knowledge immediately.

That's what I thought had happened as well.

[Mr Prophet]

It's an interesting theory, but remember that from a human perspective, the Goa'uld would always have been somewhat evil because they attain self-expression by hijacking the bodies of others. If you're Goa'uld of course, this is just survival, but to a host species it will look like evil.

[the_fours]

It's an interesting theory, but remember that from a human perspective, the Goa'uld would always have been somewhat evil because they attain self-expression by hijacking the bodies of others. If you're Goa'uld of course, this is just survival, but to a host species it will look like evil.

yeah but its how the host is treated and how the gouald acts with other humans