Rygel contains a fusion reactor.

::does hand jive::

Oh, I loved the bit where they had Rygel piss on the Peacekeepers and the urine acted like liquid dynamite. The whole Hinerian physiology bit was so delightfully surreal that I was all, "O-kay! Logic, out, wacky hijinks, in. Bring it on!"

Too bad FS never quite got big enough for a merchandizing blitz. I'd have shelled out $$ for a Rygel plush toy like *that*.

I loved that episode where Sikozo was yelling that it wasn't physically possible to safely shrink people to a few inches height (as had just been done), and Rygel basically gave her the Basil Exposition "don't think about it too hard" speech.

I loved that episode where Sikozo was yelling that it wasn't physically possible to safely shrink people to a few inches height (as had just been done), and Rygel basically gave her the Basil Exposition "don't think about it too hard" speech.

That was hysterical.

I'd just like to say how much I love the term "Basil Exposition". I was reading something somewhere where the one character told the other about something that had happened to the two of them and muttered to myself, "Thank you, Basil Exposition."

What exactly was the science of the slingshot effect on Farscape?

It's a little vague, but Crichton seems to be theorizing not that a gravity well and a washing machine will do the same thing to an object placed in them, but that the friction of an outer atmosphere layer will somehow increase one's speed.

Which, anybody who has skidded down a concrete incline on their hands and knees can tell you that friction actually causes time to expand infinitely.

Would somebody care to try to explain "Moebius" to me? Again?

SG-1 finds a time machine. Daniel finds something that he believes to be a reference to a ZPM (yay lite-brite power source!) in 5000 BC. "Wanna go back in time?" he says. "Sure!" everyone else says. So SG-1 goes back in time to ancient Egypt. They get the ZPM. Yay! Their time machine is found, and Sam is all party-pooper about "we can't change the timeline" so they don't take it back. Boo! Instead, they get a nice tent to live in and bury the ZPM somewhere where it will be found in 2005, along with a wildly classified taped message from them to the future.

Fast-forward to 2005. Turns out that in the new timeline, the Stargate was taken offworld when the Egyptians rebelled, so there is no Stargate Program! The tape is found, along with a tablet carved by original!timeline Daniel explaining the location of the other Stargate, and the previous members of SG-1 are rounded up. They go to pick up Teal'c, during which time Daniel is snaked and killed. Then Jack and Sam and Teal'c go back in time to Ancient Egypt.

Back in Ancient Egypt, they meet up with the original timeline's Daniel, who is the only surviving member of the original SG-1. Together, they plan a new rebellion, during which they will use the new SG-1's time machine to steal the Stargate, in the hopes that this will get them back to the original timeline. Jack thinks Daniel is gay, Sam and Jack get it on, and alas, Sam is kidding about wanting Daniel instead of Jack. Sigh.

Fast-forward to 2005. SG-1 now has a spiffy ZPM, along with the tape from the first version of SG-1. "Huh," they said, "that was the best mission ever. We didn't even have to do anything!" And then they go fishing. The end.

Which SG-1 team are we now dealing with? What happened to the original timeline's Daniel? Does anybody remember all the alternate timelines?

Also, a diagram.