r/Stargate • u/hunyadikun • 10d ago

Discussion The Fifth Race Spoiler

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The room that they gate into could very well be just a box in space, and I'm wondering if there's anything later to contradict this.

If the only purpose is to hold the Ancient archive then it wouldn't need to be ON a planet, right?

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u/AlmightyThorian 10d ago

They say much later that they had expeditions there to figure out some stuff about that room, but nothing came of it. What's really annoying that this reminds me of is that they can calculate the position from the gate adress. Why didn't they go and check what's outside the room when they eventually got hyperdrive capable ships?

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u/PoeTheGhost UN Lantean Research Team 10d ago

The same can be said for a lot of planets on the Abydos cartouche that wouldn’t dial, especially Heliopolis, but the show intentionally glosses over the more complex parts of interstellar space (and time) travel for the writing to work at all.

Perhaps the writing will lead to something equivalently awesome in the upcoming series.