Stargate really does do a good job with stringing out storylines though. Things like bringing back the Beta Gate, or other plot points from a whole seasons ago almost never happened in Star Trek. DS9 was the best at it, but even they didn't do it alot.
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I meant to mention this earlier: Try the season-six episode "Disclosure" for a recap of the first 5.5 years of the show. It was a clip show where the US gov't decided to inform Britain, China, and France about the Stargate, and they pretty well summed up the whole series to that point.
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Don't forget the Canadian government. According to the commentary track, the Canadian ambassador was consistently off getting coffee for the rest of the guys.
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The S7 reply was an Atlantis giveaway, given that at that time they were planning a character named Dr. Benjamin Ingram of African-Canadian descent. The Canadian angle was supposedly to accent the more international (read: less US military) feel of the Atlantis team.
Of course, unable to find an appropriate actor for Ingram, they figured they really wanted a character like McKay, and so performed a character transplant when they found David Hewlett was available. Suddenly McKay was a Canadian (though in previous episdoes it was never established where he was from), and gained the character point that his genetic structure prevents him from interfacing with Ancient technology.
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Y'know, I can understand Canada not being informed in Disclosure, but not Germany or Japan. In terms of "military capacity", those two are at least as bulky as France, so...
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The five that were in "Disclosure" have two major things in common: they're the permanant members of the UN security council, and they're the legal nuclear powers. (I'm not exactly sure why the site I saw classified India and Pakistan as illegal ones, but...)
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Has anything come of the other powers knowing about the Stargate? I saw "Disclosure" rerun on FOX, but haven't seen enough afterwards to know if there's been any fallout.
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Not especially, though the continued Russian involvement in the SCG program is proof that international involvement isn't dead. The real consequence will be the Atlantis team, which is deliberately an international endeavour: McKay from Canada, etc.
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Right, I remember they formed a Russian SG Unit. It was O'Niell's suggestion in order to keep them off of SG-1, IIRC. What unit number did they get?
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It would explain why that Jeep with "SGT MACK" written on the windshield has been parked in the same spot outside the entrance for seven years.
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