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Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote2009-10-07 10:46 am
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SGA canon question

In mid season five, did Atlantis have the capability to dial back to Earth? I'm trying to figure out how Jeannie got home after Shrine ... would she have had to go back on the Daedalus or could she have gone back directly?

I just don't remember what their ZPM situation was at the time.
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[identity profile] kurosau.livejournal.com 2009-10-07 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I believe they still had ZPM(s) from the opening of season 3. As I recall, they didn't have any of those 'zomg we've blown up/drained/accidentally misplaced the ZPM' episodes after that.

[identity profile] sqweakie.livejournal.com 2009-10-07 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Didn't they have a ZPM during Prodigal? Something about how it was off line. I doubt that answers you're question because who knows if it had enough energy or not to dial Earth.

[identity profile] ladyoflisquill.livejournal.com 2009-10-07 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Not v helpful but what I remember from Shrine is that jeannie was coming in on the Deadalus but was dropped off at the first Pegasus planet with a gate so she could get to Atlantis quicker because Woolsey wasn't sure she'd have a chance to say goodbye otherwise.

I doubt her return to Earth would have been given urgent priority so she would have had to return on the Deadalus too.
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[personal profile] leesa_perrie 2009-10-07 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm pretty sure they had a working ZPM throughout Season 4 and 5 (the one they stole from the Replicators in Lifeline). Whether Jeannie would have warranted using the ZPM to send her back to Earth or not, I don't know. In Brain Storm, we get the impression that Rodney and Jennifer gated back to Earth for a vacation, but perhaps that's because they didn't want to be without their Head of Science/Chief Medic (or whatever her title is!) for longer than necessary? Hmm... Anyway, they certainly could have gated Jeannie back.

[identity profile] ga-unicorn.livejournal.com 2009-10-07 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
They got really free-and-easy with the 'gating-back-to-Earth thing the last couple of seasons. Supposedly keeping it open long enough to send a person through used up an exponentially larger amount of power than just sending the weekly data-burst. And yet people kept being sent back to the Milky Way that way.
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