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

"Jeffrey Kaplan" <nomail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Previously on alt.tv.stargate-atlantis, Anim8rFSK said:
>
>> > Not quite.  SGA predates anything to do with the Ori.  It was placed
in
>> > another galaxy to initially make it a "lost colony" type show, where
>> > they're completely cut off from home, at least for a while.
>>
>> And obviously the other side of THIS galaxy would have worked just as
>> well as it did for Voyager, which SGA seemed intent on copying all the
>> mistakes of.
>
> Um, have you forgotten the gate network within this galaxy?  Or the
> fact that within this galaxy, even if the gate on the other side went
> missing/broken, Earth had at least one FTL star****p, was in the process
> of building more, and in a pinch could ask for a lift from either the
> Tok'ra or the Jaffa?
>
> It worked with Voyager because the physics of FTL travel are VERY
> different in the two shows.
>
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You could look at the time of flight as a string held between two hands 
pulled straight.Everything at anty speed going from one side to the other 
you get relatavistic problems.Bring the two ends of the string together to

get from one end to another, and you have hyperspace window and wormhole.