Is there an intelligence test TV writers have to fail?

[Rhydderch Hael]

... But we are not speaking of uneducated people here. The person who wrote this is a professional writer. Language is his tool, his material. By misusing words, he shows himself to be a poor workman, incompetent in his profession. Of course, it could have been a good writer keeping a character in persona. However, those sentences were uttered by Dr. Daniel Jackson in an episode of SG-1. A mistake like that, in the mouth of the world's greatest linguist, is probably not done intentionally to develop the character.

--Pete

Stargate is a target-rich environment for this game. There's the scene where Col. O'Neill makes fun of a Russian commando having a gun that was made in Yugoslavia, not Russia. In of itself, it's a smarmy line, but you really shouldn't say such things after showing the guy your own weapon, which came from Belgium.

When the Prometheus had to eject its faulty hyperdrive power core, the captain of the ship ordered the crew to pull away from the exploding device at full military power. Which does explain why they took damage from the energy wave, I guess.

Then there was the destruction of the aforementioned Prometheus: in order to save the ship, you need to bypass a battle-damaged circuit and tie in an auxiliary power source so the ship can escape. Do you instruct a damage control team that is already stationed nearby? No, you waste several minutes watching Sam Carter and a redshirt climb down some ladders before they reach the repair point.




The F-302s take the title, though. When the prototype was first introduced, Carter said it had four propulsion systems: a experimental hyperdrive, two air-breathing scramjets, a center-mounted rocket engine, and (wait for it) aerospike engines for high-altitude flight.

As the series progresses, the twin "scramjets" suddenly become the fighter's primary motor system, even in space. To be honest, it is consistent with the story's progress, though: by that time, Earth had bartered for ion drive technology from an alien race, and you can assume the 302's scramjets were replaced by ion drives for all-around propulsion.

But, be it a scramjet or an alien drive, there's no clear reason for a backseater on one of these birds to cry out "We've lost a turbine!" when they take a hit during the battle over Antarctica.