Now that Stargate SG-1 is ending(or has ended, depending on where you live), there are a few questions I wished the series had answered or at least explored. This thread was spurred on by watching "Mythology" last night and realizing there were a bunch of things I wished the show had tackled. I suppose this is tangentially related to the 9th Chevron thread, so please bear with me if I cover ground already discussed.
In any case, here are some questions I thought the series could have answered, or at least touched on, instead of perhaps doing some of their "one-shot" episodes. Maybe some of this will be explored in Stargate Universe. Add your own questions and musings.
1) Delve more into the "Alliance of the Four Great Races". This drum has been beat multiple times, but some more information on the Furlings would have been good--this was a plotline they could have explored in depth. But beyond the obvious Furling bit, there are simply questions about the Alliance that would have made for great story:
A) How/when did the alliance form? B) Were the races all roughly equally advanced? C) Did the Alliance face any enemies/threats? D) Why didn't the Nox, Asgard and Furlings assist the Ancients in dealing with their plague and/or the Ori(I mean, in the case of the plague, I imagine the uninfected Ancients could have taken refuge with other races)? If anything, the alliance seems barely an alliance at all, since there was little evidence in the series about overlaps/exchange in knowledge, military aid, etc. Did the Alliance collapse due to some political/philosophical disagreements? Etc.
2) How did the Goa'uld evolve, at least technologically? The basics on the Goa'uld have been covered: The Goa'uld were parasites, jumped into Unas hosts and were scavengers of technology. But which races did the Goa'uld scavenge from? The Ancients to an extent, in the form of the Stargate and the rings(were the rings a development of the Ancients or just the Goa'uld?)--yet, they clearly never actually took an Ancient as a host. But the Goa'uld were originally water-borne parasites--in terms of an evolving intelligence, they probably weren't much more capable than dolphins or whales.
They moved into Unas who may or may not have been more intelligent and "stole" their knowledge. From there, where did they go? Perhaps they puzzled out how to use the Stargate from trial and error, but moving from the Unas's spear-based technology to the massive starship empire they established would have required a few intermediary steps--other races that were more advanced than the Unas, but less advanced than the Ancients before they came to Earth and began posing as gods. It has been repeatedly stated that the Goa'uld were scavengers, and while the series showed them creating their own original technology or altering existing technology, they would have had to "steal" the intelligence to do so from other hosts along the way. I think a few episodes that focused on dead or dying civilizations that the Goa'uld stole from/evolved from would have been interesting to fill in the gaps between the Unas and their current state.
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In any case, here are some questions I thought the series could have answered, or at least touched on, instead of perhaps doing some of their "one-shot" episodes. Maybe some of this will be explored in Stargate Universe. Add your own questions and musings.
1) Delve more into the "Alliance of the Four Great Races". This drum has been beat multiple times, but some more information on the Furlings would have been good--this was a plotline they could have explored in depth. But beyond the obvious Furling bit, there are simply questions about the Alliance that would have made for great story:
A) How/when did the alliance form? B) Were the races all roughly equally advanced? C) Did the Alliance face any enemies/threats? D) Why didn't the Nox, Asgard and Furlings assist the Ancients in dealing with their plague and/or the Ori(I mean, in the case of the plague, I imagine the uninfected Ancients could have taken refuge with other races)? If anything, the alliance seems barely an alliance at all, since there was little evidence in the series about overlaps/exchange in knowledge, military aid, etc. Did the Alliance collapse due to some political/philosophical disagreements? Etc.
2) How did the Goa'uld evolve, at least technologically? The basics on the Goa'uld have been covered: The Goa'uld were parasites, jumped into Unas hosts and were scavengers of technology. But which races did the Goa'uld scavenge from? The Ancients to an extent, in the form of the Stargate and the rings(were the rings a development of the Ancients or just the Goa'uld?)--yet, they clearly never actually took an Ancient as a host. But the Goa'uld were originally water-borne parasites--in terms of an evolving intelligence, they probably weren't much more capable than dolphins or whales.
They moved into Unas who may or may not have been more intelligent and "stole" their knowledge. From there, where did they go? Perhaps they puzzled out how to use the Stargate from trial and error, but moving from the Unas's spear-based technology to the massive starship empire they established would have required a few intermediary steps--other races that were more advanced than the Unas, but less advanced than the Ancients before they came to Earth and began posing as gods. It has been repeatedly stated that the Goa'uld were scavengers, and while the series showed them creating their own original technology or altering existing technology, they would have had to "steal" the intelligence to do so from other hosts along the way. I think a few episodes that focused on dead or dying civilizations that the Goa'uld stole from/evolved from would have been interesting to fill in the gaps between the Unas and their current state.
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