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Firstly I'd like to apologise if I am repeating old stuff - tried the search but it came up with nothing.
OK, the question(s):
What is all this stuff about P4C-970? I've been catching up on my taped episodes of Stargate (the latest 2 - keep forgeting to set the damned video) and I don't get the reference to it. Which episode did they go to that place and why is it significant that they don't go there?
If someone could please enlighten me I'd appreciate it as I plan on joining my new local video store and renting the videos/DVDs and do a lot of catching up (like from the start).
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I thought this was one of the cooler continuing storylines. I thought it was neat how these guys kept popping up. I haven't seen any of the most current episodes, so I don't knwo if they pop up again or not.
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Can someone tell me whatever happened to the Antarctic DHD? The last time I saw it was in the second season episode Touchstone. I would have thought that it would have been secured along with the Antarctic gate, yet in the fifth season episode 48 Hours, the SGC borrows the Russian DHD.
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The Russian DHD they borrowed was the DHD from the original Stagate recovered at Giza. The Russians got it from the Germans at the end of the war.
I'm not sure what happened to the Antarctic DHD, as I've not seen all the episodes. However, I believe the Russians have the DHD to the Stargate that the SGC is currently using. Therefore they would need the correct DHD to operate their gate.
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Nope; they made a goof in "48 Hours" by forgetting they had the Antarctic DHD, and made an offhand comment in a later episode that they had it, but that it had degraded and run out of power in the interm (since the NID last used it).
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I don't think it's ever come up. We don't tote gates around THAT often.
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Well, at least they corrected the 48 Hours flub later on.
Anyone ever notice that, in the movie, not only is there no DHD on Abydos, but there is no means whatsoever of dialing out. But then, in the series, there is a DHD in the center of the room where the Gate is located.
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Assuming that the Gate Room on Abidos is about the size of the base of a pyramid - there is plenty of room for one in an ante chamber (supposition).
Or it might have been destroyed.
Either might make sense, as Ra wouldn't want his slaves accessing the system.
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Well, if Ra had destroyed the DHD, how did they dial out to leave at the end?
BTW, the book continuity is kinda vague on it as far as I've read, but it looks like in them you just manually turn the wheel and lock the chevrons by hand. How exactly you're supposed to reach the one that's 25' in the air, I really don't know. The original creators of the movie didn't think that part out too well, apparently.
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Nope; at the time they were using the Antarctic gate, which they eventually lost at the top of season 6. The Russians had the Giza gate in cold storage, not being able to afford their own program.
The (inferior IMO) novels usually mentioned someone merely "realigning" the gate without really explaining how. But in order to fit the DHD into the movie continuity, it could always have been merely tucked around a corner or in a closet somewhere. There is no physical connection between the gate and DHD, and both can be moved pretty much at will (see "Touchstone" for when the DHD was used from the back of a truck!). There's probably a range limit of some sort, but this is hardly explored. the SGC has complete plans for the DHD courtesy of the super smart O'Neil in "The Fifth Race", but no means to build one themselves. Only the Tollans have shown the ability to build new stargates.
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