1969

StevenJDickie posted a year ago

In the book Stargate SG-1: Roswell, it's revealed that the device Cassandra Fraiser uses is both a remote Dial Home Device and a time travel device that works by the user focusing on the time and place they wish a wormhole to be opened to. It can only be used by someone with Naquadah in their blood which Cassandra does have, allowing her to use it.

StevenJDickie posted a year ago

The cut on Carter's hand, which told Hammond which mission would cause the jump, occurred in the episode "One False Step" when Carter tried to retrieve Jackson's knife from one of the aliens, but accidentally gets cut. Although when she tried to retrieve the knife she appeared to be cut on the palm of her hand.

StevenJDickie posted a year ago

In the German version, Jackson uses a French accent instead of a German one while talking to Catherine Langford about the Stargate.

StevenJDickie posted a year ago

The New Jersey Star O'Neill buys to check the date (August 10, 1969) shows two headlines, "Nixon to Vacation at the Summer White House" and "Sharon Tate, Four Others Murdered". The latter refers to the infamous Charles Manson murders which had occurred the day before, August 9.

StevenJDickie posted a year ago

The only difference to this solar flare time traveling event is a program Carter wrote prior to their gate travel "to upgrade the computers drift calculation to include gravitational space-time warping" due to the matter stream's proximity to the Sun. It is possible this could have led to the strange circumstance where "for a second or two [SG-1] we were in both time-frames simultaneously", which caused them to phase out of the SGC in 1999 and into the missile test facility in 1969, similar to how the Tok'ra, Teal'c and Vala Mal Doran phased out in Stargate: Continuum, although this is only conjecture.

StevenJDickie posted a year ago

The concept of time travel in this episode is similar to that in the Terminator franchise; a self-fulfilling time loop where the event of traveling back in time is both the cause and the effect at the same time with no identifiable beginning.

StevenJDickie posted a year ago

Concept of time travel in this episode is different from others featuring time travel. In it, travelers from the past do not create an alternate timeline, as Major General George S. Hammond had memories of interacting with SG-1 before he sent them into the past and altered his own past as well and sent a note with them because he received a note in the past.

StevenJDickie posted a year ago

During his questioning, O'Neill first claims his name is James T. Kirk, a reference to Star Trek, and later Luke Skywalker from Star Wars. Star Trek first aired in 1966, 3 years before this episode took place. The name James T. Kirk would have been known, though it is possible that the base commander had not heard of it, since the show was obscure and had a cult like audience in the 1960s. However, the first Star Wars film, was not released until 1977.

StevenJDickie posted a year ago

O'Neill mentions a desire to get to the Interstate; however, during the montage section the party is shown to be traveling on US Route 66 (which ran from Chicago to Los Angeles). US 66 was never a part of the Interstate Highway System, however, since 66 did not run through Colorado they may have traveled on the Interstate to get to 66.

StevenJDickie posted a year ago

Carter only half way explains the Grandfather Paradox. It holds that if a man travels in time to before his father was conceived and murders his grandfather then he himself would never be born, but because the murderer was never born then there was no reason for his grandfather to be killed, hence the killer will still be alive. In SG-1's case had they stopped the development of the Stargate Program there would therefore be no reason for SG-1 to have traveled back in time and stop it, hence the program would happen.

Guest Cast

Aaron Pearl

Amber Rothwell

Alex Zahara

Daniel Bacon

Pamela Perry

Glynis Davies

Fred Henderson

Sean Campbell

Efosa Otuomagie

Cast Appearances

Richard Dean Anderson

Michael Shanks

Amanda Tapping

Christopher Judge

Don S. Davis

Episode Discussion