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    So Perry ..not McKay or Carter .

    I enjoyed this episode immensely . The most surprising thing about this episode was the SGC most brilliant expert on FTL is someone we never heard of before.

    It would have been lazy writing to just to shove Mckay or Carter as the best and the brightest into the slot. But this way it shows that while they are definitely brilliant in their fields. I found that there are others better then them in different fields more realistic.

    By the by I'm just assuming but was McKay an expert on Atlantis tech and engineering. Does the fact that Destiny is a prototype older then Pegusus tech make his expertise moot or not?

    A fridge brilliance moment that got me . Was while Perry was the best in her field , one due to her disability she could not serve out on the field so she never got to be at the brunt of the action. And two despite being the best of the best took weeks to fix instead of the usual couple of hours.

    SGU may be a touch slow, but none the less a touch more realistic.


    #2
    I think the disability was the main reason she was never considered for other duties. I totally saw it as a "Stephen Hawking" type situation.

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      #3
      mckay and carter wouldn't have added anything to the story. having mandy in the ep made thng much interesting
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        #4
        Was kinda strange that neither Mckay or Carter were not called to assist. Mckay's had experience with Alteran tech such as Atlantis, a few ancient warships, etc. While Carter's worked with hyperdrive tech, and even worked directly with asgard such as Thor. So it was abit strange that their experience wasn't even drawn on. Who knows they might've been able to rig the old ftl to work more efficiently like a hyperdrive.

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          #5
          See carter is an overall genius, but daft as it sounds that doesn't mean she is necessarily a specialist at any field in the lvl's of 'best at.' I also always found it slighty silly how mckay could always find an answer for anything!
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            #6
            Rush just wanted to give Perry a chance to walk and stuff

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              #7
              Frankly I think Mckay would of ended up blowing up the galaxy they were heading to if he was brought in....

              And carter is in command of a ship and isn't that much of a FTL expert, maybe hyperdrive
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                #8
                Originally posted by General Jumper One View Post
                Rush just wanted to give Perry a chance to walk and stuff
                This. I kinda expect an episode down the line to feature Rush using her again as a favour to her and him more than anything.
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                  #9
                  carter, mckay and zelenka are by far the 3 biggest experts, hands on experts, perry has been in a wheel chair since she was 9...how many hyper drives do you think she has actually done real work with .... its a story! it wouldnt be all that dramatic for mckay or anyone else we know to go in there the basis of the story was a person in a wheel chair gets to walk and help the crew

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                    #10
                    I am so glad it was not McKay. Carter would have been fine, but you have to realize that neither of those characters would have added anything interesting to the story.

                    It would have been the easy solution to just bring McKay and Carter on board from the start and have them fix the ship in a few hours, as per the previous Stargate standards were any impossible problem could be fixed by those two.

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                      #11
                      all i have to say is i really hope they get on the ship at some point in time...

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                        #12
                        Don't you realise actors like Mckay, Carter and Zelenka have a real life outside Stargate, which has finished for them and they have moved on and are doing other things. I've already noticed budget cuts with limited character exposure such as James, the producers are not going to pay the extra premium to get them to guess star whenever Destiny has an emergency.

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by pipi View Post
                          Don't you realise actors like Mckay, Carter and Zelenka have a real life outside Stargate, which has finished for them and they have moved on and are doing other things. I've already noticed budget cuts with limited character exposure such as James, the producers are not going to pay the extra premium to get them to guess star whenever Destiny has an emergency.
                          Pfft. Logic like that doesn't work on the collective fandom.
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                            #14
                            I love how people assume just because Carter, McKay, Zelenka, and co. were major characters automatically means no one else in the Stargate Program can ever have any more expertise than them in one specific area.
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                              #15
                              Originally posted by Astrofighter View Post
                              perry has been in a wheel chair since she was 9...how many hyper drives do you think she has actually done real work with ....
                              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.

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