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[bluflamingo]

Quick question...



At the start of the episode, John says that the SGC doesn't have a ZPM, so a trip home means three weeks on the Daedalus as well, to get back to Atlantis. And in Echoes, Elizabeth says that, of the three ZPMs from when the Ancients were on Atlantis, Atlantis got one, one went to the Antarctic outpost, and one went to the Odyssey.

The Odyssey was destroyed, I think (ETA: all right, not the Odyssey. I'm mixing it up with the Prometheus, which really was destroyed), so now there's only one on Earth, but then how have they been dialling Atlantis, like in Miller's Crossing when they, presumably, dialled Atlantis to ask them to send the Wraith? Also, Sam came through the gate when she came to Atlantis, so how did they dial the gate to send her?

I only ask, because that one sentence totally derailed a major plot point in my santa fic and I need a fix. Not that I couldn't come up with one, probably, but if canon already supplied one, since they just supplied the problem, that would be nice :)

Grr, just one more thing not to like about that episode.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Remember that earth does have lots of those souped-up naquada generators with a lot more power capacity than what Atlantis used for their initial databurst in "Letters to Pegasus." I doubt they could establish a stable enough wormhole for a person to make the crossing, but they do theoretically have the ability to contact Atlantis through the gate with a databurst from the SGC.