They really would have been much better off never opening the Stargate in the first place

I know they never talk in detail about the advances in technology and medicine they've made due to stargate travel, since that'd make their universe even more divergent from ours, but even not counting the whole "they'll get to us later rather than sooner, but they'll get to us" I think I disagree with you.

Or perhaps regard it as inevitable. I doubt if Kinsey had been put in charge at the git go that he wouldn't have opened it. Severely doubt.

Huh. I thought it was really, really, really bad.

Never said the ep was great. I said the last few seconds with the shots and the words got me.

Although it's interesting that they placed the future scenes within the time frame of the ST: TNG episode "The Pegasus," which aired 11 years ago (S7, episode 12).

I wouldn't want to pull out the episode and compare the two actors...

I know they never talk in detail about the advances in technology and medicine they've made due to stargate travel, since that'd make their universe even more divergent from ours, but even not counting the whole "they'll get to us later rather than sooner, but they'll get to us" I think I disagree with you.

Depends on how you weight risk, I guess. They hadn't gotten to us in the past two thousand years; if the gate had stayed buried, Apophis would've given it a look, said "oh, still not working," and moved right along to the next. Sure, they might've tripped over us eventually, but you're trading a potential threat down the line for several near-world-destroying threats right now. (Not to mention the completely legit issues around public knowledge and consent.)

There are a whole bunch of AUs out there for which the decision to open up led to the destruction of Earth.

There are a whole bunch of AUs out there for which the decision to open up led to the destruction of Earth.

I'm sure there could be a whole bunch for whom the decision resulted in patently better life for everyone -- they just don't make as tense television.

I'm also not of the opinion that public knowledge and consent are required. Couple that with the human inability to investigate, I think it's like inventing the wheel. Sure, there are a whole lot more auto accidents now, but we were going to invent the wheel sooner or later anyway.

When I was listening to Kinsey, I was thinking "Yeah? And we had some troubles with all that coming to the Americas from the European continent, but it happened, and we're dealing with it."

The djin is out of the bottle, and whining about opening it isn't all that constructive.

ETA: or what ita said.

What is Rommie? Andromeda::Rommie as Ship::AI?

Then what's the personality on Andromeda herself called? I mean -- isn't it a tri-fold entity? Is it ship, personality of ship, robot?

I was under the impression that Rommie is to Andromeda as the projections of Pilot in the clamshells are to Pilot. Same person, just differently expressed.

Wouldn't that whole mess with Doyle indicate that the Rommie android/robot does have some individual identity apart from the larger ship's consciousness?

Rommie has disagreed with Andromeda on many occasions, so she's not just an expression. She even fell in love -- wasn't she going to leave?

then I get grumpy, because he gets the "oh, really under all that he's vulnerable!" fannish edit

I have never watched enough of the show to have a strong opinion of the matter, but I was watching one night when McKay said, "I don't know if you've noticed, but I'm an extremely arrogant man. Of course I think it's going to work."

Which made me laugh and laugh. Most of the extremely arrogant people I know are totally unaware that they're arrogant.