Being a physicist with a healthy "Willing Suspension of Disbelief", especially with the rather excellent writing that I have come to expect from the entire Stargate Franchise, I find a rather large inconsistency with SGU with regards to SG1 and SGA.
From the original movie and underlined in more detail with SG1 and SGA, one of the more noted principles outlined about how the Stargates work when making connections are that they can only make wormhole connections over interstellar distances. Along with this constraint the rules concerning connections between gates that are relatively close to one another (such as within the same solar system or on the same planet) cannot be made because of their proximity, because of their relatively close point of origin.
Why is it then that in SGU, the stargaze on the ship can seemingly only make connections to planets only after the ship has dropped out of FTL within the solar system that the planet resides. For example, in the episode called "Water", why is it the ship had to travel to the solar system where the Water was located before it could make a wormhole connection to the Stargate on that planet?
I have watched each episode for the first half of the first season at least twice, in in most cases three times, but I have not heard any dialog which might explain this apparent contradiction from previous SG franchise episodes. While it is true that the character Dr. Nicholas Rush has stated that the "Ship simply does not have the power to dial Earth" may indicate that hay can only make relatively short connections, it does not explain how they are able to dial the gate on a planet in the same solar system which has been clearly declared as "Simply not Possible" (Dr. Rodney McKay, Episode 417 - Midway).
Am I missing some information?
JCam
From the original movie and underlined in more detail with SG1 and SGA, one of the more noted principles outlined about how the Stargates work when making connections are that they can only make wormhole connections over interstellar distances. Along with this constraint the rules concerning connections between gates that are relatively close to one another (such as within the same solar system or on the same planet) cannot be made because of their proximity, because of their relatively close point of origin.
Why is it then that in SGU, the stargaze on the ship can seemingly only make connections to planets only after the ship has dropped out of FTL within the solar system that the planet resides. For example, in the episode called "Water", why is it the ship had to travel to the solar system where the Water was located before it could make a wormhole connection to the Stargate on that planet?
I have watched each episode for the first half of the first season at least twice, in in most cases three times, but I have not heard any dialog which might explain this apparent contradiction from previous SG franchise episodes. While it is true that the character Dr. Nicholas Rush has stated that the "Ship simply does not have the power to dial Earth" may indicate that hay can only make relatively short connections, it does not explain how they are able to dial the gate on a planet in the same solar system which has been clearly declared as "Simply not Possible" (Dr. Rodney McKay, Episode 417 - Midway).
Am I missing some information?
JCam
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