Look, I'm trying to make sense of 'gateverse tech. Again.

[ultranos]

Okay, LJ hivemind, I've got a 'gateverse question maybe you could help me out on:

Consider ring transports from ship to planet and vice versa. Does this method of transportation from planet to ship require at minimum two people: one to beam up and one at the controls? I know we've seen on the show the reverse can be done with only one person (set it and then dive for the rings). But I can't seem to remember if we've seen one person be able to beam themselves up. (If so, probably via remote control.)

Of course, the absence of this capability would kind of explain the overall superiority of Asgard beaming tech, except I thought the rings were yet another piece of Ancient tech cannibalized by the Goa'uld. I could, of course, be wrong.

(Why, yes, I have nothing better to think about at 9:45AM on a Monday morning right before class.)

Comments

[surreallis.livejournal.com]

Hmm. In The Devil You Know, Bynarr had a hidden control section in his quarters, for rings up to a ship. (Apparently any ship that passed?) And that's how Jolinar escaped his clutches.

I'm trying to remember how the Tok'ra did it on that sand planet when we first met them. I remember they had to try and find the exact place in the sand... I don't remember controls though.

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

Maybe the controls were hidden under the tripe?

[surreallis.livejournal.com]

Possibly? I haven't watched that ep in ages, but possibly those rings were going from the sand down into the tunnels, and were activated from within the tunnels. And you communicated by radio (or those little ball thingies) to tell them when. Which, in that case, would require two people.

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

So, Bynarr had a hidden control section in his quarters, but I thought Jolinar hacked it on a time-delay for her to get to the rings. But it wasn't remotely done.

Like, we have a ship. Empty. We know it has rings on it to transport (let's say because that's how we got onto the planet). Can we activate them planetside to get back to the ship?

[surreallis.livejournal.com]

She did. And Sam had to do the same thing. I wasn't really trying to infer that it was remote. Just adding in another instance I hadn't seen mentioned. This was early on in the series, and this series has a remarkable ability to just change things for their own convenience.

I don't remember them ever activating rings from planetside to get back to a ship. It always seemed to be by messaging by radio back to the ship. But I haven't seen any eps in a while. I'm trying to think of eps in which there are specific ring problems, so you can figure it out.

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

I wasn't really trying to infer that it was remote. Just adding in another instance I hadn't seen mentioned.

Ah. Okay, I parsed that wrong. Sorry.

this series has a remarkable ability to just change things for their own convenience.

You'd think these things are "plot devices" or something. :)

Yes! Specific ring problems are good. Gives me more data points to puzzle it out. (And then share with the rest of you.)