One False Step (219)

[Anja]

Because they suddenly met with a situation unknown to them.

Advanced races should at least try!

[Falcon Horus]

Advanced races should at least try!

And what makes you think they didn't try? They didn't use enough technology to your liking?

[Anja]

And what makes you think they didn't try? They didn't use enough technology to your liking?

It was said in the ep that they were helpless. So I think they didn't try - at least not visible. Maybe they cast some spell off screen - nobody knows.

[Seaboe Muffinchucker]

They're alien. Their "try" might look nothing like ours, and the characters in the show would not necessarily recognize it for what it was.

I ultimately agree, this was not an advanced (in the commonly accepted, techno-oriented meaning) race. However, part of the point of this episode is that (g)you can't tell from a few brief interactions whether a species is advanced or not (of course, the Nox demonstrate this even more clearly).

Seaboe

[Falcon Horus]

The Nox just rub our noses in it...

[Seaboe Muffinchucker]

Yeah, they do. But all of the more advanced races on the show (with the exception of some individual Asgard) are arrogant.

Seaboe

[jelgate]

By that merit, don't the less advanced races think the Tauri are arrogant?

[Falcon Horus]

By that merit, don't the less advanced races think the Tauri are arrogant?

Yes, so the Tauri shouldn't be moping around when others don't want to share. Cause they don't either.

[Anja]

By that merit, don't the less advanced races think the Tauri are arrogant?

Absolutely and it's not even a lie. Before SG1 discovered the complete powers of the Nox one of them told the Earthlings that their ways are not the only ways - one of the best lines in 10 seasons.

[acpiper]

Here's what got stuck in my craw... SGC launches a UAV, allowing them to survey farther than normal foot traffic would provide. They must have figured at some point that a ground vehicle would ultimately be necessary if their intent was to venture out away from the gate. Apparently not - so, there's a 10 mile (16 km) trek that SG-1 has to make on foot to the UAV's crashsite. They arrive without incident, not the least bit weary, sweaty, or dirty. Then they have to locate the UAV, find the village, watch the villagers drop, go back to the gate (10 more miles), get Frasier, who dresses in MOPP4 (more or less), and then trudges, with her team, AND CRATES, 10 miles back to the original village. If there was ever a need for a jeep, I would say that that was probably the episode that could have used it. Something customized - made to the specs of the gate, with trailer and hitch.

[Falcon Horus]

They had the ... what's it called again... the thing with the 6 wheels?
Damn it, I can't remember. Not enough caffeine on the brain yet...

[lgm89]

In real life they probably didn't have the budget to afford a jeep/ custom vehicle that wouldn't have been used every episode. As for in the show itself... maybe general Hammond forgot to make room for vehicles in the sgc's first year budget and after that decided not to bother, because all that long marching probably did wonders for the sgc personal's health and it wouldn't do have a chubby sg team....

[discodiva]

They had the ... what's it called again... the thing with the 6 wheels?
Damn it, I can't remember. Not enough caffeine on the brain yet...

M.A.L.P. ?

http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/M.A.L.P.

[Falcon Horus]

M.A.L.P. ?

http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/M.A.L.P.

Yes, thank you.

[Seaboe Muffinchucker]

Hso, there's a 10 mile (16 km) trek that SG-1 has to make on foot to the UAV's crashsite. They arrive without incident, not the least bit weary, sweaty, or dirty.

10 miles isn't really that far if you hike regularly and aren't carrying a heavy load. I can see them arriving without being weary, sweaty or dirty (depending on pace and terrain). That said, I do agree with the rest of the post, concerning the lack of vehicles.

What happened to the Fred? That even-more-than-six wheeled luggage carrier they have in some of the episodes to carry stuff?

Seaboe (who walks 4.5 - 5 miles every day)