Samantha Carter

Ronan Dex is next.

Colonel Samantha Carter worries his temper will blow the interview, so she brings in Teal'c to coach him.

Ronan does not want the help.

The two warriors circle each other in the mess hall, and Teal'c deliberately needles him about Satita to show how Coolidge will try to provoke him.

And it's impossible to tell whether her memory is being suppressed, overwritten, or erased entirely.

General Havoc, I recommend that Major Carter be placed under armed guard.

If an alien entity has somehow invaded her body, then she has a security risk and must be treated as such.

He's not wrong.

Yeah, they probably can't communicate with them without the Stargate,

right? Perhaps the entity that possessed her.

Since that Major Carter's mind was a more efficient memory storage vessel.

It was a trap.

So today we're discussing TRIO, which is Stargate Atlanta Season 4, Episode 16.

Dr. Iradi McKay, Dr. Jennifer Keller, and Colonel Samantha Carter traveled to M5V801 to help evacuate a settlement built on dangerously unstable ground.

The planet has suffered earthquakes for generations, and its history with the Janai has left the population dealing with poor living conditions and serious respiratory problems.

But before the evacuation can even begin, the three discover the unstable ground.

So, like, why do they always sanitize women's sexualities? Like, I don't get that.

Like, you mean to tell me there are these two young kids and they're not banging each other all the time? It was kind of like in Stargate, you know, Samantha Carter, she never had a boyfriend.

She never did it.

She was like these, like, virginal pillars and, like...

So it wasn't like, hey, I'm going to bring you in.

Everyone wants to see Sam Carter again.

It was nothing like that.

It was, you know, we're starting fresh,

Yeah.

Yeah.

Do you have a little Sam Carter that lives inside your head? Sometimes.

Yeah.

You could cite this as evidence of that, but it wouldn't be conclusive evidence because even if God chooses to purify people in an instant, that doesn't prevent God from allowing that instant purification to manifest here on earth in a way that we would perceive it in terms of time.

So we have to be careful about how we map these two different domains on each other, as Samantha Carter would say.

Mark, thank you very much for the question.

That brings us to the break.

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good um So in this episode, an experiment gone wrong pulls Samantha Carter into a parallel reality where she must save Earth from an Ori assault before she will be allowed to return home.

I needed something.

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Yes.

Um, okay.

So we start with Sam working on Merlin's device when Mitchell enters and runs face first into a force field before she can stop him.

She turns it off.

Okay.

It was a play on Samantha Carter.

I just sort of swapped the like.

Oh, I see.

But Rodney's just been calling him a whale because apparently the ancients were horrible about naming things.

He also gave the whale a name, Sam, after Samantha Carter for personal reasons he's not going to get into.

Anyway, since Rodney's doing all this in his free time, he can carry on poking around the database and doing whatever he wants.

Mm-hmm.