It's 10 years in the future and Utopia has come. But at what cost? In an episode that is just as entertaining as it is chaulk full of messages, we dive in to a timey-whimey adventure, and in the process, finally find out the name of the Gateguy...or do we?

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[1:36] Now, interesting, that was actually the air date on Sky One, which is the British sci-fi channel. It wouldn't air here in America until one week later on Showtime on January 10th. Sky One is going to start getting these first from now on for the most part. So that's probably the date. I'm just going with whatever date it was first thrown out there. That works. This one is written by Brad Wright. Jeff, pop quiz. Who is Brad Wright? Brad Wright is a little guy. He's got a buddy. I think his name was Jonathan Glasner, and they started this little TV show that we happen to be watching right now. Show creator Brad Wright. I remember that. Directed by Andy Makita. Now, we last saw Andy's work on the episode The Curse just a few episodes ago.

[4:07] It's a beautiful day to wait. Wait. That's Sam with a new boyfriend? Yeah, I'm sorry, honey. I had to. They're calling each other honey. What? Oh, he's about to propose. I'm not for sure this time. They said it isn't either one of us. We just have to keep trying. I thought I might try. Me either. I thought we'd be working on our second child by now. Me too. Walk me to the terminal. I'm glad they're not going too... Oh, never mind. I said, I'm glad they're not going too super-futury, and there we go. Maybe we should get a second opinion. Thea Shen are hundreds of years more advanced in medicine than we are. Ah, because of the Stargate and the tech... They actually got technology. Okay. How long will you be done? Well, I'll have to visit that new embassy on the southern continent. He's just going to gate somewhere. It's not a plane he's going to. I'm kidding. Well, he said he has to be off-world. anniversary ceremony. No, it's no big deal. Aye, it's no big deal. It wasn't for you, we'd never even met the issue.

[5:20] What a difference a decade can make. Yeah, right? We're going to be buried at the bottom of a mountain and then just, you know, hey, over here in Concourse C. You know, what's really interesting to me is looking at how they have this whole, like, thing around the Stargate. And you have the, it very much feels like an airport. Hey, people departing for such and such world meet here at this time. And they're going to open the gate and everybody goes through. And they're just letting people go in and out. And people coming in, people going out. No big deal. Normal, ordinary, everyday thing. For all the worlds we've ever been to, Jeff, we've never seen a Stargate as a terminal like that being used for commercial purposes. No, it's it's always just this random. Most of the time it's an artifact or it's unknown or it's hidden in a warehouse or whatever. Like it's out in the middle of the field. It was like the toll in or something. And it's just like they have it in a guarded area that, you know, you can't get into and it's controlled. This is this is the Ferengi get.

[6:18] Gate technology capitalization honestly this is humans get gate technology yeah there's no allegory really what that is you know it's just and then we use we use that same technology for transporting and people all over the world you know just little hey i'm gonna go to paris i'll be there in five minutes you know which is an awesome way to travel by the way i want your understanding of they've kind of filled us in a little bit on what's happened in the intervening 10 years to how we've got here what do you got so far so sam has a partner sam has a partner now they've been trying to have a kid not working out they've met this race called the ashen they've got some ashen who they've got some pretty good.

[6:57] Stuff with and they've been trading technology or something apparently they've got not ring technology but just straight up transporter technology yeah and and are using the gate for travel to go to the confederated worlds which means there's been a lot of work happening out in the world of the stargates with people coming together i'm going to imagine that the sgc was kind of at the forefront of making that stuff happen that's what humans do we build communities right one little detail i think you might have missed is tomorrow in in the show is the anniversary of something the 10-year anniversary of a thing a thing with sg1 like okay and whatever that i did miss that so good thank you for that Yeah. All right. Here we go.

[7:58] Ten years ago this very day, a team codenamed SG-1, then working in secret, came upon an alien race. Look up. The SG-1. No, you missed it. That's not tilting. That introduction, I was able to forge the greatest alliance this country, indeed, this world, has ever known. Oh, just the three of them. Daniel's got the same haircut. He's got 50 new glasses, then. from Colonel Jack O'Neill's mission report of that first contact. One thing's for sure. The Gould are coming. The Gould. Your shin could save our asses. May he rest in peace. Well, guess what, Jack? They did. Dr. Samantha Carter. Dr. Daniel Jackson. Teal, would you please step forward? No Dr. Teal. Look at Teal's forehead. Though our nation's business has kept me from being with you in person, nonetheless, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for what you have done for me and for our country. So we still have countries as a thing. God bless you all. A lot of questions about Kinsey.