Comments on: Languages in Stargate SG-1

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:36:59 +0000

@ D.P. Roberts:
“According to one of the writers on the show, the Goa’uld predicted this problem with languages, so they made the Stargates embed translation nanites (or something like that) into users of the Stargates.”
Hi, this is an interesting explanation which I would like to discuss. How to explain the language in the pegasus-galaxy (or did the SG-1 writer a mistake, and actually the ancients invented the translation nanites in stargates, like Johnny Relentless meant) ?
There are also some episodes, in which sg-1 come to a planet with a spaceship, where a nanite translation from a stargate wouldnt be possible, or would it somehow?
By the way, who is this SG-1 writer ? He or she seems to be the first one, who tries to give an explanation!

By: Gand

Gand — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:36:34 +0000

correction: thats a diff episode when comp is translating
So one of the asgards explain to the other that he is speaking the language of the ancients, and he is from earth wanting help

By: Gand

Gand — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:34:31 +0000

Yeah well…

The stargate (nanite) translating languages wouldnt really work i guess.

Check out, ‘The Fifth Race’:

First Oneill speaks Ancient when he gets to the Asgard planet Othala (Aida galaxy), computer is translating in that case.

Once he gets the knowledge of the ancient removed from his head he goes back to English.

But after saying ‘Hello’ and Asgards replying with ‘Hello’…comes the part ‘You understand me?’, ‘Yes – we speak many languages’.

+ Given the Asgard ‘language’ which Humans dont understand (little grey bugs).

As for ethnicities…well its not only whites, and as per the universe should be equally (PG Galaxy, Aida galaxy, Ori galaxy,etc) colored…well im surprised to see as many humanoids, couldve been a bit more diversified:)

But yeah, thats just missing the point, use some of your imagination:)

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:52:11 +0000

Hah, Meredith. I’m just about done with Season 4 at this point, and for the most part, I’ve let the issue go; it doesn’t bother me much anymore. It does bug me occasionally though, when Dr. Jackson will stress that such and such people on such and such planet are the direct descendants of Vikings or whatever. It’s at those points that I’m yelling “Then why aren’t they speaking a derivation of Old Norse?!” at the TV.

By: Meredith

Meredith — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:10:23 +0000

I lie to my family when I watch Stargate Atlantis, my favourite show of the franchise. It’s a lot easier, with it being a spin-off of a spin-off, to convince them that all that language stuff was sorted out with technology in SG-1, which they never watched.

Now all I have to do is convince myself.

By: Akhen

Akhen — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:44:20 +0000

Season 1 wasn’t the best season. But be rest assured, it does get better. They didn’t stick around for 10 seasons for nothing. Trust.

By: Ladyhawk

Ladyhawk — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:24:35 +0000

I have to agree with Axis. Stargate SG1 has lost me at “Emancipation.” I’m not sure I will bother watching more of it. I might try a few more episodes, but if Axis has made it through most of season 1 and is still as disappointed as I am, SG1 is off my list.

Of course, the first season of ST:TNG pretty much sucked and I stuck with it. Maybe because Star Trek meant something to me and Stargate only had one movie before SG1.

By: Albert

Albert — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:09:22 +0000

Missing the point guys n_nU

By: Joshua J. Slone

Joshua J. Slone — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:22:38 +0000

“Anyway, I just want to say that maybe the Goa�uld only took humans from areas that happened to be white people inhabited?”

In the case of Stargate television productions, Canada.

By: Morpheus2Z

Morpheus2Z — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:18:56 +0000

Lol, Fluidic Albuquerque?

Anyway, I just want to say that maybe the Goa’uld only took humans from areas that happened to be white people inhabited?

Well, that is all I have to say fro now… eh, bye