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I started watching SG-1 recently and season one really is just Daniel's horrible, no good, very bad day over and over again, isn't it?

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Star Trek: We mustn't interfere with this nascent civilization lest they fall into chaos. Stargate: here take this gun

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Of course!

Okay, so, just wondering, is the Stargate Fandom still a thing? SG-1 is my favorite show, and I was just wondering if there were still Gaters out there.

All SG teams report! I want to know you're still out there!

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Daniel Jackson (season 3): The Ancients are amazing and powerful, and we have much to learn of their technology and philosophy

Daniel Jackson (season 10): *throwing back a shot of whiskey* I’m telling you, the Ancients are assholes who could never clean up their own messes

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according to his translations

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TIL that the writer of the fourth episode of TNG, about a planet of primitive misogynists who kidnap Tasha Yar, wrote the fourth episode of Stargate SG-1, which is about a planet of primitive misogynists who kidnap Samantha Carter. The shorter runs of TV shows these days are depriving this one writer the chance to make every sci-fi franchise's fourth episode a weird racist one no one likes

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"if you immediately know the candlelight is fire, then the meal was cooked a long time ago"

I used to think it was a nonsense, semi-cryptic spiritual nonsense the writers simply made up.

And years ago, when I looked up the meaning, everyone had a different interpretation. Quite a few people on random forums calling each other stupid for not getting it right.

And to be fair, the quote is just about vague enough that the following interpretation might not even be intentional. But the influence for this, and the other cryptic things Oma Desala said, was Buddhism. Daniel even said that they resemble Zen Koans. So in this context the meaning seems to be very clear:

"Once you know the true nature, you realize you were always ready". That's what it says. It conveys the nondualistic concept of awakening, of realizing your true nature, and indeed the true nature of existence. Once you wake up to this reality, you realize that you were always awake in the first place, and had simply forgotten. It was right there the whole time, you only had to look. And you also see that the journey to attain this spiritual goal of awakening or enlightenment was pointless. Hence why one tends to laugh once faced with this realization.

So in summary, a nondualistic interpretation of what Oma says: Candlelight is analogous to your perception, fire is analogous to awareness. Once you realize that the light is actually coming from the fire (or in plain English, once you realize the world is born of awareness), you also realize that it has been so all along (the meal was cooked a long time ago).

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about to ruin everyone's day with the realization that Daniel Jackson voices Thor

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I love when characters in tv shows wear obvious cosmetics, and then the plot gets them into a situation where they go for days/weeks/months when they surely have no feasible way to apply those cosmetics, but they are still wearing eyeliner/shadow/lipstick.

Like, sometimes, I just imagine Teal'c and Sam Carter, in their third week on some primitive planet, when they only packed for four days, huddling together over a tiny mirror they borrowed from Jack's shaving kit, checking each other's eye makeup, Teal'c is annoyed because he had to use Sam's brush and eyeshadow after his pack fell down a ravine, and it just doesn't give those nice precise wings that he likes, not to mention it's just not the right color, and Sam is frustrated because this new mascara clumps too much in the heat...

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SG-1 + incorrect quotes

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SG-1 doing what they do best.

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The way Stargate goes from deploying a biological weapon on hundreds of people to a crack episode where people get infatuated with the village idiot because of some stupid pheremone is absolutely fucking wild

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I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHO THE ACTUAL FUCK ACTUALLY CAME UP WITH THIS IDEA. WHO THOUGHT. IT WAS A GOOD IDEA. TO. LEAK SGC SECRETS. IN A. VIDEO. GAME.

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Jfc, Daniel

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“I’ll be as succinct as possible.” Stargate Atlantis S01E01 Rising

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I didn’t expect to wake up this morning to see Daniel Jackson willing to punch drumpf in the face repeatedly, but hot damn am I Here For It™.