I’ve always wondered … Is there really any point to enabling or disabling a gateway in movies and TV shows that use this plot device? Most of Stargate’s gates, for example, seemed to be dialable from the remote end unless a stargate connection was already established, irrespective of whether the owning party wished the gate to be dialed into.
I’ve always wondered … Is there really any point to enabling or disabling a gateway in movies and TV shows that use this plot device? Most of Stargate’s gates, for example, seemed to be dialable from the remote end unless a stargate connection was already established, irrespective of whether the owning party wished the gate to be dialed into.
Well for Stargate specifically, burying a gate would prevent it from working. Except for that one time it didn’t.
I’ve watched some Stargate SG-1 but not that one. Also, there was that shield that only doesn’t work if a particle accelerator is used to heat it up.
There were a number of occasions in which the iris didn’t work quite as advertised, but most of the time it worked fine.