Our Heroes wanted to establish an active wormhole to the Supergate, one way or the other, permanently. This would keep the Ori from coming through (so long as it wasn't a wormhole from their galaxy, obviously). Sam and the Asgard couldn't find a way to dial the supergate out, and the supergate would only accept incoming connections from another galaxy. So they took a gate to Pegasus, and Teal'c put another gate right next to the supergate. The Pegasus team put their gate in orbit of a black hole, since the time dilation allows the wormhole to remain open indefinitely, instead of the 38 minute limit. They dialed Teal'c's gate, thus establishing a wormhole that would never close so long as both gates remained intact. The Pegasus team then made a big boom on their outbound gate, making the incoming wormhole jump from Teal'c's gate to the nearest inactive gate, i.e. the supergate. Thus they created a permanent incoming wormhole to the supergate, preventing the Ori from dialing our galaxy, or from dialing home for that matter. Basically, that took the supergate entirely out of play, short of more wormhole-jumping shenanigans.
It all hangs together very well (unlike "Unending"...). The only real hole I've noticed is that they never address the fact that they've basically created a permanent gateway from Pegasus to the Milky Way, meaning the Wraith can send darts through! Of course, they'd have to know about it, and all the darts in the world really aren't a great threat with no hyperdrive...
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And it's not the time dilation that keeps it open - it's the unlimited power OF the black hole that gets absorbed by the gate, allowing it to remain open indefinitely.
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Hang on the boom at the Pegasus end causes the gate to jump at the Milky Way end?? When they first used the jumping technique - was that the first Antarctica episode - where was the 'boom' from??
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They nuked it. Several times, actually, but then the combination of a nuke plus an exploding Wraith ship (long story) finally caused the intergalactic wormhole to jump to the supergate. The small gate in the black hole then kept the supergate permanently open. For whatever reason, the Ori forces apparently could not create another supergate while this one was occupied, so no further ships could come through to reinforce the four already in the Milky Way, one of which was also destroyed in that episode. It was quite a high body count between the Ori and the Wraith that week, really...
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mm I'd forgotten the one-gate-in-one-region thing. I would think that would be a software safety feature, though, not a law of physics - I mean, it seems kind of arbitrary (as in, plot device *cough*). Actually it's probably to do with the limitations of the coordinate system (although they seemed to quietly let the six-points-in-space thing slide for awhile...) That's another post, though.
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All wormhole jumps I recall had the blast on the outgoing end and the jump on the receiving end. The discovery of the Antarctic gate (Jaffa fire), the dialing of the black hole (purposeful bomb), tracking down the renegade NID group (special device, I think), and this one (uberbomb). Were there any others?
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