Re: 4th Season Stargate Atlantis - Trio - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !

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>>>>> From the Collected Witterings of Ken from Chicago, volume 23:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I thought there was some kind of long-term damage / danger to using

>>>>>> the
>>>>>> sarcophagi repeatedly, to explain why they didn't. Or it makes a 
>>>>>> person
>>>>>> addicted to it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Both.  The Goa'uld turned evil because repeatedly using a
sarcophagus 
>>>>> turns you into a sociopath.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry but that myth has been done to death. Both Daniel and Jack were

>>>> put into them multiple times, in fact Daniel did have some effects
but 
>>>> he's clearly back to normal. Hey, if you were dying what would you 
>>>> choose? It's not like you'de be in it every week is it?
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>>> Couldn't agree more.  The key word here is repeatedly; the occasional 
>>> use clearly does no harm, or very little. This just hasn't been
thought 
>>> through very well by the SG-1 writers; they were left with the movie's

>>> legacy of a sarc and while they had decided to leave it in the series 
>>> (would have been easy to leave it out, had they wanted to) they forgot

>>> to come up with good enough reasons for SGC not obtaining one at some 
>>> stage.
>>>
>>> Eva
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>> Agreed. The Writers sometimes create problems for themselves that they 
>> don't need to. The zats for example. Why have them kill at all? Why 3 
>> shots disintergrate? What does that do that two shots don't?
>
> I think it was re****ted it was a fluke to get rid of the bodies in a 
> script. But that created headaches of it's own: The SG1 members have
been 
> zatted more than once. The simple out for that is that once someone 
> regains consciousness it "resets" the zat count. However I don't think 
> they've ever said that on the show.
>
>> Same with all the "healing technology" the military would have wanted 
>> that stuff and they captured enough Gou'lds to tell them how the stuff 
>> worked. And didn't the Asgard have similar abilities?
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> The Asgard tech made them sterile, ala Golden Age sf story, HAMMER OF
GOD, 
> CHILDHOOD'S END, THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE or something. In fact, there was 
> one SG1 where an alien race was offering similar cures and help to Earth

> only they discovered a previous alien race that have been "help" only to

> discover they were sterile. Oh and it killed off yet another in a long 
> line of love interests for Carter.
>
> -- Ken from Chicago

But in the episode (can't remember the name) but the one where Sam comes 
back with Jack's old sidekick, if you remember we see Hammond being killed

(twice by a Zat) but the Asgard beam him away then bring him back alive.