hey, Stargate experts!

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What do we know, in the Stargate universe, about time travel?

I asked Mary, who usually remembers these details, and she says there was definitely an episode where SG-1 went back in time, but she doesn't know what episode or how it happened.

So how did it happen? Any paramaters, that we know of?

*cough* No reason....

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[tripoli8.livejournal.com]

There was a second(?) season episode called 1969, where...God, let me see if I get this right. It had something to do with a solar flare bumping into a wormhole. I think.

Then there was the Moebius, the season 8 finale, where they made use of an Ancient space shuttle that they'd found, well, that's actually way more complicated than we need to go into, but the important part is that they had an actual time machine (because THAT could never end badly).

There were also assorted time-loops and whatnot, but those were the important ones, as far as I remember.

[eruthros]

Yeah, the solar flares come up in the episodes 1969 and 2010. They can make you travel backwards or forwards in time, based on, um, which side of the sun the solar flares are on. Because of the "rotational differential." (I don't make this shit up, I just report it.) And I quote: "If the wormhole itself was redirected closer to the sun because of the flare’s magnetic field, the increased gravity could slingshot us back to Earth." ... right. What Sam said. Okay.

[settiai]

"1969" involved SG-1 actually traveling to the past, while "2010" involved a message being sent into the past. Both of those involved solar flares and the wormhole, but I'm a little shaky on the details.

An Ancient time machine was used on Stargate Atlantis, in "Before I Sleep," and a similiar one was used on SG-1 in "Moebius."

Also on SG-1, there was "Window of Opportunity," which was technically more of a time loop than time travel. It involved a device created by the Ancients as well.

[ratcreature]

Yeah the time machine was in Moebius, and they went back to Ancient Egypt to get that ZPM from the Goa'uld who weren't supposed to know what that was so it wouldn't damage the timeline, right? Only then they go mixed up with the anti-Goa'uld uprising and then something went wrong and the reality changes, and the alternate team had to go back or something. Rodney appeared in the alternate reality too. I don't remember all the details because I think trying to make sense of it broke my brain so my recollection is sketchy. Mut their AU counterparts were a lot of fun to watch.

[j00j.livejournal.com]

stargatehandbook.org (http://www.stargatehandbook.org/sg1/) might help? They're a season behind, I think, but I don't remember any time travel stuff this season. What can I remember... yeah, "1969" is where they go back to 1969 due to solar flare oops, and then "Moebius" was where they had a time machine (the time machine in a puddle jumper, same kind as in that Atlantis ep uh... "Before I Sleep," no?). The time loop one was "Window of Opportunity." That was also caused by a stupid toy the Ancients left lying around, yes?

[dsudis.livejournal.com]

No, they needed the ZPM to send to Atlantis--that was the end of season 8 of SG-1 and season 1 of SGA, that's the ZPM that shows up to save the day.

SG-1 gets trapped in the past when the puddlejumper they took gets buried/discovered by Jaffa guards, so they resign themselvs to staying for good, and then screw up the timeline, giving rise to a world where Earth has no Gate and Rodney is not allergic to citrus (canon! seriously!)

In the lemon!Rodney timeline, the ZPM and a message are found in a canopic jar, where the initial SG-1 placed them to be found by their future selves, and the lemonverse group winds up *also* going back in time and fixing what the first SG-1 screwed up, snapping the timeline back into place: the last scene is an SG-1 which appears to be "our" SG-1, watching the message from the past found in a canopic jar along with a desperately-needed ZPM. Everything seems fine, and, hey! they've got a ZPM! so they don't travel into the past at all.

[souliesoul.livejournal.com]

But the final SG1 lives in a world where O'Neill's pond has fish! heh, that little detail always makes me wonder what else is different :)