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Field Remote Expeditionary Device.
FRED was the automated equipment carrier that they'd roll through the gate whenever they had to take a lot of stuff.
I believe that they've used the MALP before on Atlantis...
from memory, the first time they encountered a space gate (Season 1 I think), they have the feed from the MALP as it falls towards the planet... with Mckay remarking something along the lines of "The gate's in orbit"
Also from memory, they sent a MALP through on first contact with the Asurans... I think?
I believe that they've used the MALP before on Atlantis...
from memory, the first time they encountered a space gate (Season 1 I think), they have the feed from the MALP as it falls towards the planet... with Mckay remarking something along the lines of "The gate's in orbit"
Also from memory, they sent a MALP through on first contact with the Asurans... I think?
It would be boring if they featured the MALP in every single episode. Come to think of it, I don't remember a single time the MALP was used for seasons 9 and 10 of SG-1. I might just be going senile, but it's not like they were using it every single episode.
Nowadays, we don't see the team 'til they've already gated offworld, anyway, so we can safely assume that the MALPs are deployed and then pulled back before the episodes begin.
I think they should have something more modern as a MALP too. For instance, in season 1 when the MALP floats away from the space gate someone makes a remark like "there goes another MALP..."
It would be better if they had one that could recover from such things, maybe with thrusters on so it could stay hovering next to a space gate and a jumper could collect it. (I seriously doubt that the SGC just left all the MALPs they sent lying around on planets. It'd be quite a waste of money and would make the galaxy look messy!)
We know from in the serpents lair they tend to send the malps back to home once the team gets there... but with teams that don't get to go (due to the malp showing hostiles, or some other reason not to go, i cannot say how they would get it back.
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