Originally posted by thekillman
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You may want to watch Redemption, Prometheus and other episodes dealing with Earth ships' hyperdrives again.
I totally understand why Carter, or McKay for that matter, weren't used. IMO Lahela said it best; each show has its own resident genius(es) and even if another one is brought in, s/he is written in the way so as not to steal spotlight from that show's regulars. Personally, as much as I love Sam, I wouldn't want her to come to Destiny to help out - it's not her show, for one. Besides there are very good in-universe reasons for it: she's in command of Hammond, she's busy, she has other duties and priorities now.
Having said that, however, I object to her not being even mentioned, especially in the light of all her work on hyperdrives on SG-1. That, for me, was a glaring mistake. I already said it on the Episode Discussion thread: SGU's been very successful with blending in with the previous shows' mythology and universe and ignoring Sam in this case pulled me out of the ep for a moment. Seriously, one line like "Well, there's Col Carter obviously, but since she isn't available, I'd recommend..." would solve the problem.
Btw, does somebody know what is McKay's area of expertise? He was introduced as a Gate/wormhole expert in SG-1 but I don't remember if something changed on SGA in that regard.
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