622 "Full Circle"
DANIEL: I’ll be back. Don’t lose that tablet; it talks about a lost city that’s more valuable than anything.
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DANIEL: I’ll make sure he keeps it. The Goa’uld are going to fight it out over the Eye and hopefully destroy each other in the process but even if they don’t, while they’re licking their wounds, you’re gonna find the lost city of the Ancients.
O’NEILL: The lost city?
DANIEL: Didn’t tell him about that either, huh?
CARTER: Daniel found a tablet talking about a lost city.
DANIEL: Where there are powerful Ancient weapons capable of giving you a big advantage over Anubis.
721 "Lost City"
Daniel: Why wouldn't we wanna gain access to the greatest repository of knowledge in the known universe. Once and for all finding the Lost City of the Ancients, and use their advanced technology to save the entire galaxy from the evil oppression of the Goa'uld?
Okay we have the promise of Atlantis. What has been the reality?
Weapons?
We already had drones, and all of the directed engery weapons that we have found have been destroyed, apparantly without the ability to construct more.
Shields?
We already had effective ship shields, and it doesn't seem that the knowledge of atlantis has been helpful in creating better ship shields. The city shield is new, but not necessarily helpful, and it does not seem that the technology is transferable to other sites. Internal shields have been useful on Atlantis to maintain confinement cells. However this has not been used in any other context. (Actually I imagine that a recently seen shield within the SGC that was described as a tok'ra shield is actually a shield from or using knowledge from Atlantis.)
Transporters?
The transporter technology found in atlantis has not been used in other places. Earth still uses Goa'uld ring transporters or Asgard transporters.
Medicine?
Atlantis has life sign detectors and advanced medical scanning equipment. This has not been deployed beyond atlantis. The only known use for a life signs detector outside of Pegasus has been on board the Daedalus. We have not seen the use of medical knowledge or treatments gained from Atlantis either in Pegasus or MW.
General Knowledge?
We have not seen any knowledge but historical knowledge gained or used.
Ships?
We already had access to ships capable of travleing through stargates, and ships capable of cloaking. The Puddlejumpers have not be used in MW. The Remote DHD technology has not been used apart from puddle jumper activities or otherwise implemented in a different device. We have not acquired better hyperdrives, shields, sensors, or weapons.
Apparantly Nothing has been gained. No new Ancient technology that does not have an analogue to that which was already possessed. The mission to Atlantis has not in anyway helped people in MW. No new scientific knowledge has been gained. Access to Ancient manufacturing or production techniques and facilities has not been discovered.
Why is this? If the Sodan can use an Ancient teleporter, and construct invisibility devices simply be reading the inscriptions on a few rocks. Why can the atlantis team with access to an apparantly functioning Ancient city, with an apparantly functioning and voluminous computer record of the Ancient knowledge and records, in the city that was apparntly the base from which the Ancients established themselves within Pegasus; why have they not acquired non-trivial technologies and knowledge?
DANIEL: I’ll be back. Don’t lose that tablet; it talks about a lost city that’s more valuable than anything.
...
DANIEL: I’ll make sure he keeps it. The Goa’uld are going to fight it out over the Eye and hopefully destroy each other in the process but even if they don’t, while they’re licking their wounds, you’re gonna find the lost city of the Ancients.
O’NEILL: The lost city?
DANIEL: Didn’t tell him about that either, huh?
CARTER: Daniel found a tablet talking about a lost city.
DANIEL: Where there are powerful Ancient weapons capable of giving you a big advantage over Anubis.
721 "Lost City"
Daniel: Why wouldn't we wanna gain access to the greatest repository of knowledge in the known universe. Once and for all finding the Lost City of the Ancients, and use their advanced technology to save the entire galaxy from the evil oppression of the Goa'uld?
Okay we have the promise of Atlantis. What has been the reality?
Weapons?
We already had drones, and all of the directed engery weapons that we have found have been destroyed, apparantly without the ability to construct more.
Shields?
We already had effective ship shields, and it doesn't seem that the knowledge of atlantis has been helpful in creating better ship shields. The city shield is new, but not necessarily helpful, and it does not seem that the technology is transferable to other sites. Internal shields have been useful on Atlantis to maintain confinement cells. However this has not been used in any other context. (Actually I imagine that a recently seen shield within the SGC that was described as a tok'ra shield is actually a shield from or using knowledge from Atlantis.)
Transporters?
The transporter technology found in atlantis has not been used in other places. Earth still uses Goa'uld ring transporters or Asgard transporters.
Medicine?
Atlantis has life sign detectors and advanced medical scanning equipment. This has not been deployed beyond atlantis. The only known use for a life signs detector outside of Pegasus has been on board the Daedalus. We have not seen the use of medical knowledge or treatments gained from Atlantis either in Pegasus or MW.
General Knowledge?
We have not seen any knowledge but historical knowledge gained or used.
Ships?
We already had access to ships capable of travleing through stargates, and ships capable of cloaking. The Puddlejumpers have not be used in MW. The Remote DHD technology has not been used apart from puddle jumper activities or otherwise implemented in a different device. We have not acquired better hyperdrives, shields, sensors, or weapons.
Apparantly Nothing has been gained. No new Ancient technology that does not have an analogue to that which was already possessed. The mission to Atlantis has not in anyway helped people in MW. No new scientific knowledge has been gained. Access to Ancient manufacturing or production techniques and facilities has not been discovered.
Why is this? If the Sodan can use an Ancient teleporter, and construct invisibility devices simply be reading the inscriptions on a few rocks. Why can the atlantis team with access to an apparantly functioning Ancient city, with an apparantly functioning and voluminous computer record of the Ancient knowledge and records, in the city that was apparntly the base from which the Ancients established themselves within Pegasus; why have they not acquired non-trivial technologies and knowledge?
Teal'c--what's with the hair?
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