So Perry ..not McKay or Carter .

[The Swarm]

They cant all be Marry Sue's like Carter and McGay you know...

[xxxevilgrinxxx]

They cant all be Marry Sue's like Carter and McKay you know...

thank you!
*bold is my edit*

[natyanayaki]

By this logic, Hawking isn't one of the leading experts in astrophysics.

All Perry would need is to be able to understand the concepts and physics behind hyperdrive and be able to visualise/conceptualise how they would work in reality. Moreover, since she has been in a wheelchair most of her life, she wouldn't have been called to go galavanting across two galaxies needing to study a bit of everything, which would leave her more time to hone her knowledge of one scientific field.

Well Hawking was much older, 21, when diagnosed with ALS while we were told that Perry has been disabled since she was 9, so it is a tad different I think. Though I found the character fascinating, and would have liked to know much more about her. How is it that she was able to accomplish so much, though she's been a quadriplegic since she was a child? I assume some sort of homeschooling etc, wonderful that she didn't "give up" even at a young age. Her story could be fascinating, and I hope we see her again and learn more about her.

I can't see anything short of threats of impending death by citrus convincing McKay to use the stones. He would freak out over the idea of someone else in his body and all the possible complications which could result from using the device.

At least someone would!

If people really want to see either Carter or McKay, they have 15 seasons of episodes to watch. But neither has a place on this show, especially McKay. The tone and style just does not fit, it would be akin to having Seinfeld crossover to Law and Order SVU, yeah that would work wonders.

At best any past characters should have very limited cameos, such as they have done so far with O'Neil and Jackson. Say the lines and exist stage left.

I agree with this, but like others have mentioned before me, I think Sam and/or Rodney should have been mentioned, just a line that they're unavailable, or something. As another poster mentioned, Sam was instrumental in the creation of Earth's ships, and Rodney has years of experience of living off of Alteran technology. I'm glad that they weren't brought on to be the heroes, I just wish that they'd been mentioned.

At the end it Carter, Perry or Mckey doesn't matter. It seems Perry did more work on Rush than actual scientific work on the ship's hyperdrive (the alien and robot took care of the actual work).

Yeah, that confused me too, LOL!

[pipi]

Even if there's a same sex policy. What do you do if you find blood in your stool after a stone swaps? It can be very awkward and disease prone.

Are you speaking from experience?

[Puddle-Jumper]

Are you speaking from experience?

Blood in the stool normally indicates a gastrointestinal disorder, perhaps bacillary dysternae

[EllieVee]

Call me paranoid, but I think Rush picked Perry for more than one reason. He figured she was outstanding for this particular job, she was his friend, and because she's a specialist, she's less likely to show him up in other areas, or notice other things he might be doing. Rush is really good at one thing, doing what is best for Rush. Perry help gets them out of this mess, but doesn't replace him as general know-it-all.

Given Rush has already acknowledged Eli is better than he is, this seems a bit of a silly accusation. Rush has never shown himself to be an egotist.

That is paranoid though, I admit. I assume SGC agreed with his assessment because they actually sent her. If they didn't, they would have picked someone else, no?

You're paranoid about a fictional character?

ThePlut,

What would she miss? Rush's incipient plan to use Destiny to become High Overlord of the known Universe? Oh, that would be obvious to anyone. Just look at the size of his head and his accent. He's Pinky and the Brain in one body!

*splurk*

[latvian_stargatefan]

According to Joe Malozzi blog, McKay wasn't available for SGU season1 because of events in Atlantis movie and Carter now, as we can see, goes around the galaxy in her ship... so I doubt they can just call her whenever they want. I guess Carter has decided to be a cool ship's captain and leave science to others...

[garhkal]

So, have they greenlit extinction yet?? Or is it still on the backburner?

[Astrofighter]

If they really needed Carter, all they would have to do is call and she could fly to the nearest gate and be home instantly. That and it takes our ships about a day to cross the entire milky way galaxy.

[droid327]

How exactly can anyone be an expert on a technology that heretofore was unknown? Its been established, AFAIK, that Destiny's FTL isnt based on hyperdrive technology or any other FTL principles that have been shown so far. As Volcker (I think) said, "we dont know how it works". If anything, Rush/Eli/et al are the foremost human experts on Destiny's FTL, just because they've spent the most time with it.

And it wasnt as though they were dealing with theoretical principles of FTL travel, they werent authoring a paper, they were bypassing a drive, which requires more engineering skill than anything - they should have sent Siler!!! And then we could have gotten to see him getting blown up again!

[Commander Zelix]

How exactly can anyone be an expert on a technology that heretofore was unknown? Its been established, AFAIK, that Destiny's FTL isnt based on hyperdrive technology or any other FTL principles that have been shown so far. As Volcker (I think) said, "we dont know how it works". If anything, Rush/Eli/et al are the foremost human experts on Destiny's FTL, just because they've spent the most time with it.

As mention before. It will be later revealed that Perry wasn't an expert on anything. Rush just invited one of his old student flame to bounce ideas off her and make out a bit. He felt a bit lonely after all this "Human" trip down the memory lane.

[JustAnotherVoice]

Well Hawking was much older, 21, when diagnosed with ALS while we were told that Perry has been disabled since she was 9, so it is a tad different I think. Though I found the character fascinating, and would have liked to know much more about her. How is it that she was able to accomplish so much, though she's been a quadriplegic since she was a child? I assume some sort of homeschooling etc, wonderful that she didn't "give up" even at a young age. Her story could be fascinating, and I hope we see her again and learn more about her.

So? Age and physical ability has very little to do with either's mental acuity, which was the point I making.

Yeah, needing someone to turn pages in textbooks, or a voice-to-text interface to use a computer would make things more complicated, but it has no bearing on how intelligent or driven she is. She doesn't need her hands to be able to understand the physics behind her work, just as Hawking doesn't need his.

[J_schinderlin56]

I don't know, at some point I would like to se Mckay on the show. I would love to see him go at it with Rush. That would be fun to watch!

[Major_Griff]

I don't know, at some point I would like to se Mckay on the show. I would love to see him go at it with Rush. That would be fun to watch!

That would be fun to watch, and on top of that maybe we could get a line of dialogue that explains exactly where Atlantis is. You know is it still in SF bay, is it in antarctica, back in Pegasus, or another planet in MW? That would be nice to find out.

[Tuvok]

That would be fun to watch, and on top of that maybe we could get a line of dialogue that explains exactly where Atlantis is. You know is it still in SF bay, is it in antarctica, back in Pegasus, or another planet in MW? That would be nice to find out.

We proberly found out that Mckay found some unfineshed Atlantean prototype. Took him a couple of hours and TELEPORTED Atlantis back to the Pegusus Galaxy using the never before mentioned Warp Gate Teleporter.

Seriously, they need to get that Atlantis movie up and running stat. Or AT LEAST post some answers somewhere for the fans.