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Timecodes
0:00 – Splash Screen
0:20 – Opening Credits
0:49 – Welcome and Episode Outline
2:58 – Welcoming Our Guests
5:18 – Our Host, Simone Bailly
5:56 – Simone’s Artwork
9:02 – Adam Cahill’s AI Artwork
13:24 – Simone’s Stargate AI Art Idea
17:53 – David’s Stargate AI Art Idea
20:28 – Sonia’s Stargate AI Art Idea
23:14 – William’s Stargate AI Art Idea
25:40 – Allan’s Stargate AI Art Idea
28:58 – Nicole’s Rodrigues-Galdo’s Stargate AI Art Idea
33:18 – Yvie’s Stargate AI Art Idea
35:25 – Frederick’s Stargate AI Art Idea
38:24 – Remington’s Stargate AI Art Idea
39:42 – Nicole West’s Stargate AI Art Idea
41:08 – Jenny’s Stargate AI Art Idea
42:13 – Linda’s Stargate AI Art Idea
44:34 – Sommer’s Stargate AI Art Idea
46:44 – Adam’s Surprise Stargate AI Art Idea
48:18 – Stargate Trivia (Rules)
49:44 – “Must Love Christmas” with Simone Bailly
57:27 – Guess the Price: Asgard Puppet
1:05:13 – Question 1
1:06:30 – Question 2
1:07:34 – Question 3
1:08:47 – Question 4
1:09:48 – Question 5
1:11:57 – Question 6
1:14:11 – Question 7
1:15:29 – Question 8
1:17:12 – Question 9
1:19:32 – Question 10
1:21:18 – Question 11
1:24:21 – Question 12
1:25:36 – Question 13
1:28:12 – Question 14
1:28:50 – Question 15
1:30:17 – Question 16
1:32:17 – Question 17
1:33:26 – Question 18
1:34:28 – Question 19
1:36:06 – Question 20
1:37:11 – Question 21
1:38:36 – Question 22
1:40:38 – Question 23
1:41:48 – Question 24
1:42:35 – Question 25
1:43:54 – Question 26
1:45:26 – Question 27
1:46:28 – Question 28
1:48:04 – Question 29
1:48:44 – Question 30
1:50:18 – Question 31
1:51:24 – Question 32
1:53:22 – Question 33
1:55:05 – Question 34
1:56:29 – Live Viewer Question 1
1:57:32 – Live Viewer Question 2
2:00:56 – Live Viewer Question 3
2:02:23 – Live Viewer Question 4
2:03:00 – Live Viewer Question 5
2:04:17 – Lightning Round. Live Viewer Question 6
2:05:18 – Lightning Round. Live Viewer Question 7
2:06:03 – Live Viewer Question 8
2:06:46 – Is Nicole Being Treated Unfairly?
2:09:04 – Thank You, Guests!
2:11:09 – Thanks to Tracy, Antony and the Mods!
2:13:24 – End Credits

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TRANSCRIPT
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David:
Hello, everyone. My name is David Read and welcome to Dial the Gate, Trivia Challenge Eight, our last show of 2022. Thank you so much for tuning in. Rob Cooper, he had to reschedule with me so he is gonna be talking with me over the Christmas break and we will be having our first episode with him premiering in 2023 on January 7th. We’ve got a lot to run through here, so I’m going to be pretty quick about this. If you enjoy Stargate and you would like content like this to continue to be produced on YouTube, click that Like button now. It makes a difference with YouTube and will definitely help the show grow its audience. If you have a Stargate friend out there, please consider sharing this with them. If you wanna get notified about future episodes, click the Subscribe icon. Giving the Bell icon a click will notify you the moment a new video drops and you’ll get my notifications of any last-minute guest changes. This is key if you plan on watching live, because sometimes these guests have to duck out and we have to make other arrangements. Clips from this livestream will be released over the course of the next several days on the Dial the Gate YouTube channel. As this is a live show, we have Simone Bailly with us who is gonna be organizing the questions for us. No specific questions will be asked of Simone, however, this is a trivia challenge so you are gonna be able to submit trivia for the last round of questions and if we have enough, we’ll make it the final round of trivia for the group. But in this episode, it is no ordinary trivia. They must involve a why. Why did the Asgard name the first O’Neill-class ship the O’Neill, for instance? Well, because they like O’Neill. Or for what reason did such and such, and because. You can submit those to the moderators and if it qualifies as a why question, the moderators will get them over to me. So that is the game plan there. Let me go ahead and introduce our lineup. Great group of people here. I need to turn on their labels. How y’all doing? Let me jigger this for a moment here, everyone’s gonna see my own settings. OK, participant names in there, there we go! Now I have names because I don’t remember all of you. I have William Murphy. How are you, my friend? I am well. Sommer Roy, moderator extraordinaire, how are you? I’m very good, and you guys were muted, you’re no longer muted.

Sommer:
Yay!

David:
But William did say that he’s good. Allan Gowen of Gatecon and Ausgate, how are you?

Allan:
I’m good, David, how are you? I’m missing everyone.

David:
Missing everyone, absolutely. Frederick Marcoux of Concepts Web, our Dial the Gate Webdev, how are you?

Frederick:
I’m doing pretty good, and you, my friend?

David:
I am well. Thank you for being with us. Nicole Rodriguez-Galdo of Wormhole X-tremists, how are you, Nicole?

Nicole:
I’m all right. Hope everyone’s excited.

David:
Yvie Cahill, also of Wormhole X-tremists, how are you?

Yvie:
Hi. I’m pretty good for 5:00 AM.

David:
Thank you for being with us.

Yvie:
Pleasure to be here.

David:
It’s 7:00 in Sydney with Allan?

Allan:
No, it’s 8:00.

David:
Goodness, OK.

Allan:
It’s way better than the last time we did this.

David:
Geez. Remington Phillips of SG-1 Props?

Remington:
Howdy.

David:
How are you?

Remington:
Outstanding.

David:
You’re outstanding. I appreciate you joining. Adam Cahill. Hello, sir, how are you doing?

Adam:
I’m awake.

David:
He is our artist, who has submitted the content and I have given you control, Adam, so that when the time comes, you can pull up your screen. I hope you’re ready for that. Producer Linda Fury. Hello, Linda.

Linda:
Hello.

David:
Welcome. And Sonja Melenkoff, Nerdy Novelty Design. Hello, Sonja.

Sonja:
Hi, David, it’s been too long.

David:
It’s been too long and happy Hanukkah to you.

Sonja:
Thank you. It starts tomorrow.

David:
All righty, there we go. Simone Bailly, Ka’lel from Stargate SG-1 and our host. Welcome back, Simone, it is so good to have you.

Simone:
Thank you, I am so thrilled to be here.

David:
Thank you all, our audience, for tuning in and submitting questions for the final round of trivia here. I don’t know why but my camera is shaking like a leaf.

Nicole:
It’s excited, David.

David:
It’s so excited. Geez. All right. I’m gonna dive right in because we’ve got a lot of stuff going on here. Simone. My Ss are screwing up. Thank you again. We are making this episode about art as much as trivia and art is gonna start this off. You have been doing these portraits for the last little while now. Tell me about this.

Simone:
I have been an artist forever. I love painting so when I do conventions I offer paintings at my table usually. I do Stargate paintings and I also do ones that I love, like lotus flowers. I also do Star Wars paintings. I have this giant AT-AT painting that I absolutely adore.

Allan:
Nice.

Simone:
Every time people see it they’re like, “Oh my God, I wanna buy it.” I’ve been on the cusp of should I sell it, should I not? I think I am gonna make it available. It’s from the Battle of Hoth.

David:
Yes, the best scene in all of cinema, if I dare say.

Simone:
Yes.

William:
Worthy? Worthy?

Simone:
Absolutely. Yup.

David:
I’ve just shown them all of your artwork that you submitted to me today, Simone. Where can people reach out to you to see about pricing and shipping?

Simone:
I need to put it onto Jemi, which is the equivalent of a Cameo, but it’s spelled J-E-M-I. I believe people can go to jemi.so/simonebailly. Those links are also in my Instagram bio link and also my Twitter link, so it’s pretty easy to find it also on my website. SimoneBailly.com. Now currently, it needs to be updated, ’cause I just sold the paintings that are on there. Also, I’m gonna have to update with the new stuff. I am going to try to get to that tonight or this weekend, so look out for that. If people have any questions about that, they can feel free to message me on Twitter or whatever and I can let people know what’s available.

David:
If anyone has trouble with that, reach out to me at [email protected] or text me through Twitter or one of the available sources. We will get you in touch with Simone one way or the other. These are great, thank you. I still want a piece for my background, Simone.

Simone:
Yes. I need to do that. I have to do a series of that. So, we’ll talk about that as well.

David:
We must. Absolutely.

Simone:
What’s great is when people do purchase a painting, I offer a personal inscription on the back. Sometimes people either want it for themselves or their partner or for a gift. You get a little personally inscribed something, something.

David:
Thank you. Thank you for bringing these to our attention. These are fantastic. I have been on a bit of an art kick lately because Adam Cahill, who is Yvie’s husband, Yvie is our producer and co-host over at Wormhole X-Tremists. He has been on this computer AI trip. Adam, for the cars, what were you using to make these?

Adam:
What cars have you got?

David:
The cars that you posted on Facebook. What’s that?

Adam:
Probably Stable Diffusion.

David:
Stable Diffusion. This is AI artwork and I’ve got this pulled up on the screen here, cars that look like they’re made of crochet.

Adam:
Yes, that’s Stable Diffusion.

David:
Stable Diffusion. Right down to the little fuzzies on the cars that you would have from the cotton. It is absolutely mind-blowing that a computer has generated these, because it looks like a physical object because you’ve got the fuzzies hanging off of them. I love the DeLorean. That’s the only way that I know how to really describe it. Then he posted Emperor Palpatine in stained glass.

Adam:
That’s my favorite.

David:
The only reason that I know about it is because you said, “Yvie said you might like this.” I responded, “You told the computer how to make that?” He of course says, “Yes. Why are you so shocked every time I show you these?” I said, “Why are you not?”

Simone:
Wow.

Adam:
It feels like you never believe me.

David:
No, I believe you. OK, you have to understand, I’m blown away by microwaves, OK? I’m blown away by the fact that I can fly from Vancouver to Nashville in six hours. So, the fact that a computer can generate these images is just extraordinary to me. All you have to do is give it a handful of inputs. So, what I did was I reached out to Adam and I said, “We’ve gotta do these for Stargate.” So, the contestants here, a few weeks ago, I reached out to each of you and I asked you to submit an input to give to Adam.

Sommer:
Before we continue, I’m so sorry. The audience is saying that the panel volume isn’t as loud and you’re very, very loud.

David:
I’m very loud? OK.

Sommer:
Tracy just sent me a message, yes.

David:
OK, I’ve adjusted the volume to this. Let me see here. All right, thank you for bringing this up, guys.

Sommer:
Sorry about that.

David:
No, this is important. Hang on just a second.

Simone:
Happy holidays, everyone.

Sommer:
Happy holidays, everybody.

Yvie:
Happy holidays, Simone.

Nicole:
Happy holidays, everybody. Actually, no, it’s not happy holidays, it’s happy Halo days.

Sommer:
Halo days.

Simone:
Halo.

Nicole:
Funny.

David:
I’ve adjusted down my volume, so I should be relative to you guys. I’m not exactly sure what’s going on. My microphone occasionally likes to be extremely loud. I usually have the other one standing by, but I brought it with me to Gatecon, so that’s in storage. I’ve brought down the volume extensively on mine, although I may still sound weird. I shouldn’t be blowing everyone’s ears out now. OK. I wanted Adam to create a series of these and I asked you guys for inputs in terms of sentences to give to this AI. So, Adam, do you have them in a particular order?

Adam:
It was in the order that you gave me on the spreadsheet. I hope you haven’t changed names around.

David:
I hope I haven’t either. That’s good to know.

Adam:
No, I don’t think you have. No, I think we’re OK.

David:
Does it start off with Simone?

Adam:
Yeah.

David:
OK.

Adam:
Do you want me to start with Simone? I can not start with Simone.

David:
We can. So, is your plan to do the original input and then the tweaked one?

Adam:
I think so.

David:
Simone, what was your phrase for Adam for a starting computer image?

Simone:
I’m so excited, by the way. I’m so excited. I put leather-clad Ka’lel sitting by the fireplace petting a symbiote on her lap, with a staff weapon leaning up against the mantle.

Sommer:
Wow. That’s gonna be so cool.

Nicole:
That’s quite magical. I am excited.

David:
Adam, can you take over?

Adam:
Man. I really don’t wanna disappoint people. OK. Yep. Lemme just… Which screen is gonna be…

Nicole:
Are we gonna be able to see them on stream from our end?

David:
Yes.

Sonja:
Us? OK.

Adam:
Hopefully you can all see my screen.

David:
Yes.

Nicole:
Nice car.

Adam:
Thank you. The original image was that. I did a group of four. This is literally just with your input, Simone.

Simone:
Holy smoke.

Adam:
We’ve got the leather clad; we’ve got the fireplace.

Nicole:
I was gonna say.

Sommer:
Look at that.

Sonja:
Look at that leg.

Adam:
We don’t really have symbiotes, we don’t have a staff. It’s not really Stargate.

David:
Are the faces deliberately cut off from the top on there?

Adam:
No, not deliberately.

David:
I’m not seeing the ones on the top. So, are you seeing that?

Adam:
Unfortunately, the AI does cut people. It does like to cut people’s faces off.

David:
OK, as long as you know that.

Adam:
Because we probably haven’t referenced that I wanted to see a face, it’s just gone, “Well, you want a leather-clad woman. Here you go.”

Nicole:
Women aren’t allowed faces. They’re objectified.

Adam:
Obviously, the two to three AIs that I ended up using don’t have a great grasp on what Stargate is. Hell, they didn’t have a really great grasp on what some really basic stuff was and I can talk about that in a second. But with a little bit of editing and a little bit of tweaking, I got close to what you were after, Simone, and I came up with this.

Nicole:
Wow.

Yvie:
That is so cool.

Sommer:
That’s amazing.

Adam:
So, AI doesn’t know what a symbiote is. So, I went “big snake.” Apparently, it also doesn’t know what a snake is, because it took forever to get anything close to what a snake head looks like. I like to think I’m nailing leather clad, fireplace. This is as close to a staff as I could get here. I’m not sure if you can see my mouse?

Nicole:
Yeah.

Adam:
But in the corner here, that’s about as close to a staff as I could make it. The problem I have is if you try and do minute changes with the AI, ’cause I got a base structure. So, I got something similar to this and then I’m able to go and delete parts and ask it to redo certain areas. Originally, this circle was a big window. I actually really liked it, but we didn’t have a fireplace. So, I went, “Be cool if the fireplace maybe went there.”

David:
Adam, this is nuts.

Nicole:
It looks like a Stargate with fire instead. It’s awesome.

Adam:
Really pleased with that one.

David:
Like an Ori Stargate almost.

Nicole:
That’s what I was thinking. That’s just Adria hanging around in there.

Adam:
Does it meet the brief, Simone? I hope.

Simone:
That’s amazing.

Adam:
Thank you.

Simone:
Could you imagine that? An “enter-through-the-fire Stargate?” A fire Stargate instead of a woosh.

Nicole:
Like an uncomfortable tickle when approaching.

Sommer:
That’s so cool. It could be a Sokar planet.

David:
That’s just mind-blowing. My mind is completely blown, man. Good work. The snake, the image that we have here, I can only see the top half of the snake head. Is there more of the image of the snake than that?

Adam:
Yeah. You’re not seeing all of it, are you?

David:
No.

Simone:
I’m seeing all of it.

Adam:
There we go. OK.

Nicole:
I’m seeing all of it.

David:
Keep that there.

Allan:
I saw it all.

David:
For me, please ’cause it’s how it’s coming through on my end here. That’s exceptionally cool. Well done.

Adam:
Thank you.

Simone:
Amazing.

David:
All right. What else you got? Now, we need to move through these a little bit quicker.

Adam:
The next one should be yours.

David:
The next one is mine. I asked Jack O’Neill and John Sheppard golfing through Stargate with Roswell gray alien as the caddy. So, a caddy is someone who helps you with your William: clubs.

Sommer:
That’s really good.

David:
What does that literally look like?

Adam:
Without any extra editing or prompting, it looks like nonsense. I’m gonna be honest. We get gray, we get golf. It understands that we needed two people, but none of it looks like John Sheppard.

David:
No.

Sonja:
Or people.

Adam:
Or an alien or really a William: course.

William:
More like the Twilight Zone aliens actually.

Adam:
It’s a little bit nonsense, unfortunately.

David:
These people don’t exist?

Adam:
These people don’t exist, no.

Yvie:
God, I hope not.

David:
That’s extraordinary. That’s extraordinary to me.

Adam:
This is one of the bastards I was telling you about, David. This was difficult to get a hold of. In hindsight, I probably did it to myself a little bit by doing it in this particular art style. I couldn’t get two people on the William: course, so I’ve done one person. Trying to do a gray alien as well is very hard to do. But I think I nailed this to a degree. I’m very proud of the Stargate. Here it is.

Nicole:
Wow.

Sommer:
Ah. Look at that.

Nicole:
That’s adorable.

Adam:
It’s very cool.

Sommer:
Wow.

Nicole:
I like the way the gate looks.

David:
It’s exceptionally cool. That is insane. Wow.

Adam:
That Stargate, to get this watery blue, took forever. I tried to put a horizon. You can see that it’s tried to put some sort of horizon.

Nicole:
Hey, it’s an event horizon

Sonja:
True.

Adam:
But it wanted to do a sun and I had to keep giving… You can do what’s called negative prompting. So, I can tell it what I don’t wanna see. So, I kept saying, “I don’t wanna see a sunrise. I don’t wanna see a sunset, sunrise, suns, lights.”

David:
That’s insane.

Adam:
“I just wanna see blue puddle. Give blue puddle.” This guy really didn’t wanna appear at all. Trying to do a gray alien was next to impossible.

David:
He looks like he’s in some kind of a little kid’s jacket.

Adam:
That’s about as close as I could get.

David:
That’s so cool.

Adam:
As soon as that came up, I was “done.”

David:
Well done, Adam.

Sommer:
Beautiful.

David:
Very good. All right. Now we’ve got Sonja.

Sonja:
My sentence was, “Teal’c lights a Hanukkah menorah with a plate of potato latkes next to him,” ’cause tomorrow’s Hanukkah. Home theme.

Adam:
This one was also a little difficult at the start. It wouldn’t play ball. But without any prompt editing, this is what we got.

Linda:
I love it.

Adam:
You can see it knows who Teal’c is because the face is consistent. We got the potatoes, but we didn’t really get the, what is it again, the menorah.

David:
The menorah. No, you got a Christmas tree there.

Sonja:
There’s a Christmas tree?

Adam:
There’s a Christmas tree.

David:
Isn’t that interesting?

Nicole:
The intensity in the bottom right one is scaring me.

Adam:
The edited version I did as a bit of a painting, and I literally had to paint. It gives you a feature that you can literally, like MS Paint, put some colors in so I could get… It’s nine candles. So, I could get all nine candles, ’cause it did not wanna give me the right amount of candles. I actually had to go in and paint and then over the top of itself.

David:
Are you painting, or is the computer ultimately creating the image?

Adam:
Ultimately, it ends up creating the image. I give it the really basic stick-figure MS Paint.

David:
“I want it to look like X.”

Adam:
“I want it to look like this,” and then it goes ahead and does that.

Sonja:
Aw, that’s cute.

Nicole:
Oh my God, I love it.

Adam:
I really liked it because I think it almost nailed Teal’c’s face. The only thing still original from this prompt is this candle and his face. Everything else was re-edited, redone, over and over again.

Sommer:
Wow.

David:
I don’t like his face and that match put together. I have a real problem with that.

Adam:
It’s a bit hard to move the plate. I’ve only recently become aware there’s a copy-paste function, so I coulda probably cut this out, moved it across without too much drama and fixed it. But I’ve only been able to do that.

David:
What do you think, Sonja?

Sonja:
It’s cute, I love it.

Adam:
I think when I asked it to do a symbol on Teal’c’s head, it nailed that almost.

David:
An HP logo almost.

Nicole:
That’s what I was thinking.

Yvie:
That’s what I thought.

Adam:
When you see one of the other Teal’c ones…

David:
That’s not bad.

Nicole:
First prime of HP.

Adam:
… it’s pretty good. Prime of HP. Ha, ha, ha.

David:
It’s a computer interpreting this.

Sommer:
Amazing.

David:
That’s funny. All right; we have William.

William:
All right, my understanding is that this was a possible storyline early in SG-1, but it was deemed too sensitive to American audiences. My sentence is, “Goa’uld System Lords attack Earth to steal all the pumpkin spice lattes.”

David:
Oh, boy.

Allan:
I wish they would.

Nicole:
Mine seems so boring now. My goodness.

Adam:
The unedited stuff is interesting.

Nicole:
What is happening?

Adam:
It obviously understands pumpkin and spice. It almost seemed to understand System Lords. Something’s going on with some of these pictures here.

Nicole:
And they look like they’re stealing it, so…

David:
That’s crazy.

Adam:
With your prompt in mind, I started making something. For some reason I thought it had “attacking from space” and I’ve been going with that. I realized that I could have probably done an army marching on a coffee shop or something like that. Anyway, I went with this.

Sonja:
It’s like a jack-o-lantern.

David:
Isn’t that something? You’ve got your own design of a Ha’tak going.

Adam:
I used what’s called image-to-image. I took a still of a Ha’tak, and you all might know the one I used to get a base idea for the AI of what I wanted, which was basically just a pyramid on a spaceship. It kinda gave me this to some degree, sort of probably gave me the middle bit. I’ve out-painted and done this section.

David:
It’s basically Attacking Seattle, so there you go.

Adam:
It wasn’t quite hitting the brief for me. So, I obviously went ahead and made it. I put a pumpkin obviously there for the pumpkin spice.

Sommer:
That’s so cool.

Nicole:
I was gonna say.

Adam:
With constellations. Egyptian hieroglyphic-lookingness to make it more Stargate-y. You’ve got some constellation-looking things along here which look very Stargate Universe. If you haven’t all noticed yet, there’s a little Starbucks symbol up the top there as well.

Nicole:
That’s amazing.

Adam:
Had to really nail the coffee brief.

David:
Jeez.

Adam:
That one ended up being pretty fun in the end too.

William:
Excellent, well done, Adam.

David:
Well done.

Adam:
Thank you.

David:
Allan Gowen.

Allan:
Yes. Mine sounds not as elaborate as everyone else’s, but mine is Schrodinger, possessed by Anubis, rules the universe.

David:
So, I have to say that this was the first one that I saw from Adam when he de-tweaked it to the point where I saw it last tweaked. This image told me that it was working. I’ll just say that.

Adam:
So, unedited, all the unedited ones are coming off Stable Diffusion. So, we started with this.

Nicole:
These are all really funny.

Adam:
I’m not sure what kind of cat Anubis propaganda poster this is. Something’s going on there. I didn’t end up using Stable Diffusion for the starter image. I actually used Midjourney, which was much better and actually didn’t require a lot of editing at all. It kinda hit the brief pretty much straight on and I’ve done only very little editing. I ended up coming with this. You can see he looks obviously possessed with his eyes. There’s some sort of Egyptian collar going on here. I changed the collar here. The original image was cut off about here. In fact, you might be able to see the seam, which is a bit unfortunate. I’ve added in extra height.

Nicole:
I can barely tell. It’s great.

David:
Now, when he says he’s adding or anything, he’s not doing it outside of the functions of what this software can do. He’s just prompting it to do additional things.

Adam:
To make the image larger. Because it’s so big though, Stable Diffusion works in a 512 by 512 dimension, and this had already been upscaled quite large, if I try and do it all in this size, my computer will have a heart attack and die. There are some unedited prompts that I could show at another point in time. It kept putting a cat’s face here and it annoyed me. I was trying to get this ear. So, the only real edit I did was make it a bit bigger then I tried to put the super soldiers down here, but do you think the AI would understand what a formation is? Like army and that? A nice little grid. No, didn’t want it, so tested out a few things.

David:
It’s like demons rising from hell. It’s really something.

Adam:
So, I got to that point and I was like, “Yeah, it’s pretty cool. We’ll keep it.”

David:
What do you think, Allan?

Allan:
I love it. I think it’s great. Adam, can we get copies of some of that stuff?

David:
So, I’m gonna discuss that in a minute.

Nicole:
I want wallpaper.

David:
We’ll discuss that in a little bit here. Nicole Rodriguez Galdo.

Sommer:
Before we continue, one more note from the audience. The panel is perfect, but you’re a little too low still.

David:
I’m low?

Sommer:
Yes. But the panel’s perfect.

David:
I need to raise myself now?

Sommer:
Yes.

David:
OK.

Nicole:
I’ll wait for David to do that before I carry on.

David:
Thank you, thank you, Sommer. All right, I think I’ve…

Sommer:
You’re welcome.

David:
My orange is next to your orange on the timeline here, so sorry everybody. This is last show of the year. This is how it goes.

Nicole:
There’s a lot of us, OK.

David:
All right, Nicole Rodriguez Galdo. Nicole, you have not seen this one yet.

Nicole:
No, not at all.

David:
So, this is the promotional one that I used on Twitter. If you’ve been on Twitter, you’ve already seen the final product.

Nicole:
This is why you told me not to go on Twitter.

David:
Correct, yes. I banned her from Twitter for the last 24 hours.

Nicole:
I was not happy. Mine was Rodney McKay surfing on surfboard with Atlantis on surface of ocean in background.

David:
What’s the original input?

Adam:
So, the original input is this.

Nicole:
I’m not gonna lie, I am impressed.

Yvie:
Wow. Look at Rodney on the top left.

David:
That’s amazing.

Linda:
Rodney is ripped.

David:
David Hewlett is ripped.

Sommer:
Hey, Rodney. Woo.

Sonja:
That’s how I see Rodney.

David:
I like the one on the lower left.

Nicole:
Isn’t that guy mutated in the top right?

Yvie:
Yeah, I was gonna say.

Sommer:
More hands in the lower.

David:
Man. Geez.

Nicole:
Looks like anyone ripped from Warehouse 13, that is now an amputee, surfing.

Adam:
So, I actually ended up using Midjourney again as the base for the images. Then, really strongly, heavily asked it for not just Rodney McKay, but David Hewlett as well, to try and get as close to his face as we could get, without the AI really, again, not understanding quite what Stargate is, what Atlantis is. So, I’ve really had to try and craft the prompts in such a way that we get as close as possible. But of all the ones I nailed, this is probably the…

David:
I can’t wait for Nicole’s reaction.

Nicole:
Oh my god. It’s everything I dreamed it would be. Oh my god.

Sonja:
This is the best thing ever.

Nicole:
There’s another Atlantis flying around…

David:
It’s some kind of…

Nicole:
Wow.

David:
It is David Hewlett.

Nicole:
Even the central tower has the Stargate. ‘Cause you can see the window and the gate and the central tower.

Sonja:
Has David seen this?

David:
No, I don’t think he’s been on Twitter for the past couple three days. I was really hoping he would promote it and he never logged… I could’ve called him, but I wasn’t gonna push it. He’ll see it.

Nicole:
I feel like he should see this and then thank me and Adam. Wow, he looks fabulous as well.

David:
He looks great. He’s never looked better.

Adam:
The main image was probably about this sort of big so I’ve done a lot of out-painting. But I really like the…

David:
Some kind of ship.

Adam:
That Earth recently made. I did try and put a little sneaky lemon sticker underneath the surfboard. It wasn’t really working out that great.

David:
He couldn’t get it to work.

Adam:
It wasn’t coming out great so I scrapped that idea.

Nicole:
They were always talking about surfing on Atlantis, so I was always like, “Man, we never got to see it.”

Adam:
Be cool to see.

David:
Adam, that’s exceptionally cool.

Nicole:
It is.

Adam:
Thank you.

Nicole:
I love it so much.

Adam:
This one’s been heavily edited. This one was really fun actually, because it was flowing nicely. It was doing everything I asked.

Nicole:
You are welcome, Adam.

Adam:
It was very fun to play with. It would do everything I asked, it wasn’t being a pain in the ass, like the William: one. “Do you think the AI would understand what William: is or what a snake is?”

David:
OK, so this is the point where I’d like to say, Adam and I have been talking and we’ve got a few more to show. If you want Adam to create one for you, put a prompt. Put “Adam” at the beginning of it in the YouTube chat and give your phrase. Adam will pick a few and on January 7th he and I are gonna get together live and show off a few more and announce something else. I will say that. If you’re in the audience and you like what Adam has created and you’d like a Stargate image of your own, he will pick two or three, maybe more, I’ll leave it up to him. He’ll pick at least two or three for January the 7th when we get back together to announce something, a contest shall we say. I will start letting you guys think about that now. For the rest of the chat, you can continue to insert that. Moderators, don’t worry about that. Adam will go back through and re-read at his leisure. Well done. Are you still with us Simone?

Simone:
Yes.

David:
What do you think?

Simone:
I am so impressed. Even the wave in this is amazing. Every single thing is amazing.

David:
Absolutely.

Simone:
I love it.

David:
Yvie Cahill.

Yvie:
Yes, hello.

David:
Hello.

Yvie:
My prompt. So, mine was an active Stargate in downtown Vancouver in the art style of Vincent van Gogh, ’cause obviously judging by my background.

Sommer:
Obviously!

David:
Have you seen this, Yvie?

Yvie:
No, I haven’t. He’s been working on it in secret.

David:
All right, so let’s see what that looks like raw.

Adam:
Raw, again, purely through stable diffusion. It’s not really nailing that at all.

David:
Interesting.

Yvie:
Still close.

Nicole:
It knew what you were trying to do though. In a way.

David:
It definitely picked up Vincent van Gogh.

Nicole:
That’s very cool.

Adam:
The problem I found is that it wanted to do Starry Night again and again and again and again.

David:
That’s true.

Adam:
Only wanted to do Starry Night-

David:
But it’s a cool Starry Night.

Yvie:
It is.

Adam:
So, the actual edited prompt was the only one I used with DALL-E 2 because it was the closest I could get to this prompt. It’s not active, but it is a Stargate-looking thing in a city of some description.

David:
Let’s see it.

Adam:
This is as good as I can get.

Nicole:
Wow. I actually love it.

Sonja:
That’s really cool.

David:
I do too.

Yvie:
It does look like his brushstrokes.

Sommer:
That is awesome.

Yvie:
It looks like his brushstrokes.

Nicole:
Wow.

Adam:
Again, because of the size of the image I could only… I sort of did a little editing down here and I did a little bit of out-painting here and that was about all I was able to do.

David:
Adam, you’re gonna get a good dinner tomorrow night and maybe something, something.

Yvie:
That’s really good. I really like it.

Adam:
I thought you’d like that.

Simone:
I love it.

Yvie:
It’s cool.

David:
You got sort of like these peacock patterns on the outer edge. It’s really neat.

Yvie:
It does have peacock patterns. You’re right.

Adam:
I should probably mention as well though-

Yvie:
Very awesome.

Adam:
… because I didn’t mention to you this beforehand, but I actually did make a prop myself, which I’ve put at the end.

David:
You did? You finally did? OK, good.

Adam:
Off the basis of Sommer’s prompt actually, ’cause it inspired me.

David:
We went back and forth and I couldn’t get Adam to make one of his. He’s like, “I’ve got enough of the others, please, and thank you.” All right; I’m looking forward to that. So, we’ve got Yvie’s. Frederick, you still with us, buddy?

Frederick:
Yes, I’m still here.

David:
You ready for yours?

Frederick:
Yeah. So, my sentence was Rodney, Sam and Eli playing chess while discussing the fabric of spacetime.

David:
I’m interested to see an image interpret the fabric of spacetime.

Frederick:
That was my curiosity.

Nicole:
I want it to be like black bed sheets.

Adam:
Every time we reference, ask for people, it seems to want to do it in photos.

Yvie:
That’s frightening.

Sonja:
I like their eyes.

Adam:
I’m not sure why children kept cropping up. I don’t quite understand what was going on there.

Sommer:
It’s like Orlin, maybe.

Nicole:
I was thinking Orlin.

Adam:
Maybe. I didn’t use this. I did use it all on Stable Diffusion, so I didn’t go to Midjourney for this one. Really Frederick, only two people play chess and the AI doesn’t like doing lots of faces so I stuck to two people. The two who I could get the closest look were Rodney and Samantha. I hope I’ve nailed the brief.

Nicole:
I love it.

David:
Wow.

Nicole:
That’s cool.

David:
How elegant.

Nicole:
I love it. It almost looks like he’s explaining chess to her.

Adam:
Her face is not quite the original. In the original, she looked like she was fed up with his shit. He was just mansplaining to her. She was rolling her eyes.

Frederick:
That’s how it should be.

Nicole:
Adam swore twice now. Am I allowed to swear twice during this?

Adam:
Sorry.

David:
It’s not a competition for the love of Pete.

Sommer:
You could, Nicole, to make it one.

Adam:
Also, please don’t look at the chess board, the definitely very accurate chess board.

David:
They look like they’re melting, so that’s something.

Nicole:
It’s back through space-time. It’s melting.

David:
No, I’m impressed.

Adam:
That’s definitely what I intended 100%.

David:
I didn’t know if the background would be a cosmic scape of some sort. You could have interpreted it that way, but it was cool.

Frederick:
A whiteboard with math and stuff.

David:
This is terrific, Adam.

Adam:
Thank you. I will admit, this was one of the last ones I worked on so I didn’t have as much time.

David:
If it looks like them in principle, that’s the thing. If you’re giving it to a computer, it’s them.

Adam:
I could spend hours working on this stuff, doing the really finer details. The original image was basically their face and half a chess board. I’ve out-painted a whole bunch of this to get a really nice wooden chess board. By the way, I want this table, whatever this table is.

David:
Yes, I do too. It’s beautiful.

Nicole:
Me too.

David:
All right.

Adam:
Gave her a chair to sit in.

Nicole:
She deserves it. She needs a rest from him. She does.

Linda:
She’s gonna clock him.

David:
She’s just a couple of moments away. Remington Philips, SG-1 props.

Remington:
Yes. It was the mouth in front of the moon pulled by reindeer.

Yvie:
Festive theme.

Adam:
Yes, completely unedited, I think we get reindeer.

Nicole:
It understood, though.

Adam:
Not much else. But I think I nailed this brief pretty hard, I’ll be honest.

Nicole:
We’ll be the judge of that, Adam.

Adam:
I nailed it.

David:
Wow.

Nicole:
You definitely did the that. That’s good.

Sommer:
Wow.

Adam:
The only thing I missed with the mouth was a little arm under… I tried grabber arm, jousting arm, a whole bunch of things to try and get the little claw bit.

David:
That is so cool.

Adam:
About as good as I get.

Yvie:
That would make a sweet T-shirt.

Adam:
I was really impressed by that moon.

Sonja:
Or a holiday card.

David:
Like a Christmas card. Exactly. You’re right, like a holiday card. Absolutely, Sonja. Well done. Nicole West is not here, but Remington, do you know what Nicole’s prompt was?

Remington:
It was something about…

David:
OK, I’ve got it. Samantha Carter cuddling orange fluffy cat in a Christmas room.

Sonja:
It’s a Schrodinger. Schrodinger’s cat.

Nicole:
Aw.

Sonja:
Aw.

David:
Top left, I could buy that as Sam.

Sonja:
Bottom right is the old Weir.

David:
Or just Christine. Very much so. I like the Christmas lamp. That’s cool.

Adam:
This is one of the ones I had a lot of fun with.

David:
He showed me several versions of this and any number of which could have been workable.

Adam:
Again, I ended up using a still of Amanda Tapping from Stargate.

David:
That one. That narrows it down.

Adam:
I don’t wanna say exact words but it’s part of the questions. “Which photo did Adam use as an image?” I really enjoyed this one, I think. It’s got the Stargate. It’s got a cuddling cat.

Nicole:
Wow.

Yvie:
That’s pretty cool.

Adam:
Not in a Christmas room, but we’ve got Christmas themes.

Yvie:
I think it’s got the hair down. It looks like her hair.

Adam:
It’s about as close to Samantha Carter.

David:
It’s no one else. It’s Samantha.

Nicole:
Damn.

David:
That’s crazy.

Sonja:
Beautiful.

David:
Well done, Adam. Well done, Nicole West. Jenny Stiven. Jenny cannot be here. Send happy thoughts out to Jenny, please. Jenny Stiven’s input was Teal’c as a detective investigating Stargate artifacts. Adam, what did that originally look like?

Adam:
Again, it seems to know who Teal’c is, to a degree ’cause the face is…

Nicole:
Why does it look like a weird Billy Dee Williams almost?

William:
Looks like Doctor Who.

David:
I see a little Laurence Fishburne.

Adam:
I eventually ended up with this though.

David:
Wow.

Nicole:
Ooh.

Adam:
Looks like a hostage situation.

Yvie:
It’s like a soap dish.

David:
“Let me leave or I will blow this to smithereens.”

Adam:
But it’s like Atlantis colors in the background as well.

David:
Like he’s on Atlantis, in Firefly.

Nicole:
That’s what I was thinking.

Sonja:
Becca.

David:
Well done. That is cool. All right. Adam, yours is moved to the end?

Adam:
Yeah, I put mine at the end.

David:
OK. Linda, what’s yours?

Linda:
Mine was, and you said these were elements that gave you problems. Gray alien Thor with a Stargate on taco Tuesday.

Adam:
I thought it was gonna give me issues. The unedited one is so weird. I need to prepare you for how not that prompt at all this is. There are no tacos. There is no Stargate. There’s no alien. I thought maybe Thor from the Marvel Comics or something. There’s none of that. I have no idea why it’s a car.

Sommer:
Thor’s chariot.

Nicole:
That is awful. I’m so sorry, Adam.

David:
Is it drawing on your car inputs from prior? Does it know that you’re the same author that submitted them?

Adam:
Nope.

David:
I don’t get it. I don’t get it at all.

Adam:
Unless there’s a car, like a Swedish car brand out there that I’m unaware of.

Nicole:
Thor’s territory.

Sommer:
Thor thunder.

Adam:
Thor Tuesdays. I can’t work out why it got gray.

David:
That’s about it. You massaged this for how long and then turned into what?

Adam:
This was Stable Diffusion. Midjourney absolutely nailed this. It required zero editing ’cause I just went, “That’s it. That’s the one.”

Nicole:
Whoa.

David:
Whoa.

Yvie:
That’s so cool.

Sommer:
Wow.

David:
On the first try.

Adam:
Not quite first try, but eventually…

Nicole:
I want a taco now.

David:
Pretty close? I wanna eat that.

Nicole:
Me too. I’d eat that. Take out the avocado, eat the rest of it.

David:
Take out the avocado.

Nicole:
Yum.

Yvie:
Sommer’s got a taco.

Nicole:
Sommer!

David:
The idea of it, that’s so cool, man.

Nicole:
That is amazing.

David:
Well done.

Nicole:
That’s great.

David:
What do you think, Linda?

Linda:
I love it. Let me square one for right there.

David:
Exceptionally cool. All right, Sommer. Yours would lead into Adam’s ultimately and yours was a last-minute addition.

Sommer:
Yes, it was an aurora borealis Stargate in the Antarctic sky.

Adam:
The unedited stuff just got… Antarctica. I don’t know.

Nicole:
Hey, it knows what it wants.

Adam:
I have no idea why I didn’t even do aurora borealis. It’s capable of doing it, but I don’t know why.

David:
It just didn’t want to.

Adam:
I don’t know what’s happened there. But again, this one went to Midjourney that just nailed this prompt. It required a couple of re-rolls and a little bit of tweaking word-wise, because I can’t edit anything, I can’t remove and redo things with Midjourney. So, I just played with the wording.

David:
The wording.

Adam:
And a couple of other things, but that nailed that image.

David:
That is so cool.

Nicole:
Lighting.

Sommer:
That is beautiful. I want that so bad. That’s so cool. I wanna put it on my wall.

David:
That reminds me a lot of 1899. If you guys haven’t seen it, check it out. It’s good.

Nicole:
On my list, so I’m gonna do it.

Linda:
I’m halfway through, so no spoilers.

David:
It’s great. Well done. Sommer, what do you think?

Sommer:
I love it. I absolutely adore it. That is beautiful. I want that framed and on my wall. That’s so cool.

Adam:
I have so many other generations or versions of that. I had lots of fun. You could just hit re-roll and it would just spit out gold. I had to land on something and I just went, “Uh.”

David:
Let’s do this one.

Adam:
Because it had the pyramids and the aurora borealis is really good.

Sommer:
I love the pyramids.

David:
Very cool. Adam, you were inspired after all of this, working in other people’s play pens for prompts. You made one of your own?

Adam:
I did a sneaky on you. Sorry, David.

David:
Yes, you did.

Adam:
There was a certain style that I had found that I could get the AI to do. After having done Sommer’s Stargate, I did an image with another generation that I’d done of hers that looked very Stargate-esque as well, did what’s called a paper-cut art style. I’m not sure if anyone’s fully aware of that. I ended up with this that I thought was pretty cool.

Nicole:
It looks like chevrons around the side, that’s so cool.

Yvie:
That’s awesome.

David:
Made out of construction paper. Look at the depth. Look at the shadows.

Adam:
The only thing I touched here was I added another – because something else was here – so I added another pyramid.

Nicole:
It looks almost like one of those 3D art boxes.

Sommer:
Sure does.

David:
Adam, this is really, really good.

Sommer:
This is brilliant.

Adam:
I rolled that and went, “Oh, that’s amazing.” There were a couple of other really good ones. I showed Yvie some of the draft ones that I was doing and they were all really good.

David:
So, Stable Diffusion is out there and you used that for a lot of this content. What else did you use?

Adam:
Midjourney and DALL-E 2.

David:
DALL-E 2? Or DALL-E as well?

Adam:
No, DALL-E, it’s the second generation, so DALL-E 2.

David:
Got it. DALL-E 2. Cool. Wow, guys. Very well done. Adam, applause to you. Absolutely.

Sommer:
Beautiful. Absolutely gorgeous.

Adam:
I hope everyone enjoyed it. I enjoyed making this.

David:
Really extraordinary, man. All right. Thank you so much for that. If you could close that out.

Adam:
Yep.

David:
Hey, trivia. All right. Simone, you ready to go?

Sommer:
Yeah, let’s do this.

David:
Remington was looking at something else. Remington’s bored out of his mind.

Remington:
I’m here.

David:
“I’m here, sort of.” All right, guys. You ready to go?

Simone:
Yeah. So, we know who we’re asking first?

Nicole:
No.

David:
By the way, everyone, they’re going in groups. Your groups are gonna be Sonja and William, Allan and Nicole.

Nicole:
Woo.

David:
Yvie and Frederick, Remington and Linda, and Adam and Sommer. All right?

Nicole:
Yes.

Sommer:
Sounds great.

Adam:
[inaudible]

David:
What was that?

Nicole:
Adam’s running back.

Adam:
OK. Sorry, I ordered this at four o’clock in the morning and it only decided to show up now.

David:
Like a pizza?

Adam:
No, it’s McDonald’s.

David:
McDonald’s at 4:00 AM? You have a 24-hour McDonald’s down there? That ceased to exist in America after COVID. OK, anyway. All right.

Adam:
I’ll be quiet.

David:
You guys have the Asgard image that I sent you?

Yvie:
Yes.

Adam:
No.

Sommer:
No.

David:
It’s in the chat. If you pull that up, you can download that image. Before we get into trivia, I apologize, who all saw the film Must Love Christmas?

Nicole:
I have not seen it yet.

Allan:
I have not seen it.

Sommer:
I have it on my list to watch.

Nicole:
I’m planning on watching it with my grandma, who I live with, after this.

David:
We’ve got Simone Bailly, who is in this film.

Sommer:
Woo-hoo.

David:
What was it like to make that, Simone?

Simone:
It was really interesting because firstly it was directed by Martin Wood, who had directed me in one of my Stargate episodes. That was pretty awesome. I will tell you this fun fact…

David:
Should we watch the clip first and then do the fact?

Simone:
No, I’ll tell you first. This is interesting. I did not know I was gonna be acting that day. I got a text from the producers that morning saying, “Simone, we need you to head to hair and makeup immediately, for our show, Must Love Christmas.” I believed that the actress that they had hired was sick and could not perform. They emergency-called me to act. I had no idea what the lines were, I didn’t know anything. They handed me my sides, which is the script for the day. It was just me and the lead actors all day and I was like, “OK.” They put me into hair and makeup, got me all dressed and ready and basically, I was running the lines with the actors right until we filmed.

David:
Did you not know you were in the picture? Had you auditioned for it and they passed?

Simone:
I did not audition for it. Luckily, the producers knew that I was an actor and I had worked with Martin before. They put me in as an emergency substitute and it was a real early Christmas gift. We filmed it in July.

David:
This past year?

Simone:
It was sweltering hot in Vancouver, Canada at the time, and we were playing it as Christmas. There you go. There’s the setup for the clip.

David:
Let’s check it out. That’s taken right out of Must Love Christmas by CBS. Well done, Simone. William, you saw the movie?

William:
Yeah, after you sent us the link, I was able to pull it up.

David:
What’d you think?

William:
It was a fun Christmas movie. It was great to see a lot of familiar faces, including yours, Simone. It was great to see you acting and fun for the season.

David:
I love Martin’s directing. Some of those shots, there’s a drone shot flying backwards with the sunset and the snow and the car below. I think it’s done in camera. I don’t know how he did it. Martin was genius.

William:
I’m guessing drones are the new rage.

David:
Simone, congratulations on the movie.

Simone:
Thank you.

David:
What do you think of this AI artwork that we just showed off earlier? There is an argument being made, and I apologize for the delay in the trivia folks, we’ll get to that in just a moment here. There is an argument being made that it’s usurping regular art. What do you think?

Simone:
I don’t know. I tip my hat to real artists, obviously. I also think that it’s an interesting way to unlock a lot of things that maybe we wouldn’t have conceptualized or envisioned. Even from looking at those incredible images, I could even think of stories. Even my image of Ka’lel in the fire, with the fireplace and all that.

David:
And the snake.

Simone:
I couldn’t even conceptualize that. That’s really impressive.

David:
It’s opened creative doors for you, you’re arguing.

Simone:
I think it’s really interesting.

David:
I remember when Photoshop came out and there was, “This is ridiculous. It’s gonna make people artists who shouldn’t be artists.” Now it’s a tool that’s regularly used.

Sommer:
Look at all the editing that Adam has to do to make it work.

Nicole:
Adam’s a different kind of artist.

Adam:
I was gonna say, the artist’s problem is that you can reference artists. You can say, “I want Vincent van Gogh.” While the man’s obviously been dead for a while, you can reference current alive artists and they’re getting upset that they think their art is being stolen. What it’s really doing is using that as inspiration.

David:
Which every human does. No artist is in a vacuum all their own.

Adam:
All it’s doing is going, “OK, that person does their lights and their darks and they use these kinds of colors,” and it’s usually a fantasy artwork or something along those lines. They’re obviously understandably upset that they feel like their income’s being taken from them.

Linda:
But that’s why you get art movements. I mean, you’d have artists doing the same thing anyway.

Adam:
They’re understandably upset. We’ve done this at the height of their upsettedness really at the moment.

Nicole:
That’s what I was thinking about as well. It’s all over Twitter at the moment.

Adam:
We won’t go into great detail about it. All I’ll say is that the ones who want to still remain artists, they’re looking at this as a tool, because that’s what it is. If you can do something that’ll get you 50, 70% of the way there of what you want to do, then you go and make… If you go and look back at my images, you can see seams, you can see little minute details that are wrong. That’s where the human element comes in and you would go and fix those details. I’m searching for an AI in my own line of work that will do 50% of my job for me.

David:
If the tool exists, why not use it to encourage you to up your game and continue to improve on your art?

Adam:
That’s how I view it.

David:
Interesting. All right.

Simone:
Can I add one thing?

Adam:
Mm-hmm.

Simone:
So, there was this recent wave of people doing Lensa app, which is basically you put your photo and then it generates you into these beautiful images. My acting union actually sent us all an email just saying, “Be very, very careful with those apps,” because in the fine print, when you give them your image, as an actor, the fine print is, “you’ve now given them access to that image.” To protect your own identity, and I’m sure people out there might want to protect their own identity as well, you should be careful with things like that. I was like, “Oh, that’s very…”

David:
That’s a good way to look at it.

Nicole:
Simone Bailly has reminded us not to go down and accept all the…

David:
Don’t just click accept.

Nicole:
Don’t just click yes. Don’t click, read the thing.

David:
That’s good, Simone. I appreciate it. All right.

Nicole:
Thank you.

David:
So, we’re gonna get into Stargate trivia at this time. Once we give out a question, the next person can’t guess it if you guess wrong. We’ll give out the answer and we’ll move on. There’s 36 of these things so we’re gonna be pretty quick. There’s no steals. Does that make sense to everyone?

Yvie:
Yes, it does.

Nicole:
Mm-hmm.

David:
OK. So, before we get started, we’re gonna do a Price is Right theme in order to divide everyone up like we did last time. I sent you all a link to this. You can still see it in the chat. We are going to guess the price of the sale of the Asgard puppet from the Propworx auction in September of 2010. Lot 590 from Stargate auction one, fully articulating animatronic Asgard puppet portraying Thor and numerous other Asgard throughout the most recent years of SG-1 in the Atlantis Season Five two-parter, “First Contact” and “The Lost Tribe.” This was the final version of the puppet to be created by the special effects team. He still features props applied to his body for the two-parter in Atlantis for Season Five. The lot estimated price was $8,000 to $10,000. Sonja and William, will you please give me your estimate for what the sale price of the puppet was?

William:
Sonja? You go ahead.

Sonja:
I’m thinking around 15. What are you thinking?

William:
I was gonna say closer to 30 or something like that.

Sonja:
Ooh.

William:
It’s a hot item. That auction was insane.

Yvie:
Wow.

Sonja:
Was it?

William:
Yeah.

Sonja:
How about 20,999?

William:
I love it.

David:
So, $21,000?

William:
28,999.

David:
28,999?

William:
That’s correct, $28,999.

David:
OK. All right. That’s just gonna make it interesting to count for me. Allan and Nicole Rodriguez Galdo.

Nicole:
I have some lucky numbers, Allan, but do you wanna go first? Give me a good thing.

Allan:
Look, I’m thinking my price is based on running Stargate charity auctions.

Nicole:
I was gonna say, you should know.

Allan:
The most expensive thing we ever sold was a crystal skull and it went for 10,000.

Yvie:
Ooh.

Nicole:
OK, so this would be a lot.

Allan:
So, I’m actually thinking it’s not gonna be too much more than that. My thought is 12,000.

Nicole:
Really?

Allan:
Yeah.

Nicole:
I was gonna go 69,000 ’cause I’m immature.

Adam:
49,420.

Nicole:
You raise a good point, Allan. However, what if you’re an idiot? I don’t know.

David:
Ah! Come on.

Allan:
We will find out soon enough.

Nicole:
Let’s go for a healthy one. So, you said you want 12,000. That’s what you’re aiming?

Allan:
12, yeah.

Nicole:
I like the number three. So, should we go for 13,000 as a close to what I like and you like?

Allan:
Let’s do it. Yep. We’re hitting it for the same.

David:
Sweet. All right. Very good. OK, 13,000. Yvie and Frederick, what are your thoughts?

Frederick:
What are you thinking, Yvie?

Yvie:
I don’t know. I’m thinking maybe around the $15,000 mark.

Frederick:
I was thinking-

Nicole:
Don’t copy us.

Frederick:
… somewhere around that thing too, 14, 15. That’s what a puppet probably be worth.

Yvie:
Let’s split the difference. We’ll go 14 and a half.

Frederick:
I like it.

David:
14,500?

Allan:
We should have went last, Nic, I think.

Nicole:
We should have analyzed all their answers first.

David:
Allan, you’ve participated in how many auctions? You should have a leg up. All right, Remington and Linda.

Linda:
I think it would have gone for a lot, so I’m wanting to go high, 20,000 at least. What are you thinking, Remington?

Nicole:
Prop master. What you got?

Remington:
I’m gonna throw 7,400 out there.

David:
So, you’re gonna low ball it?

Remington:
Gonna low ball it.

David:
What do you think, Linda?

Linda:
Huh. I don’t know. I know that at the time I never found out that the auctions were happening, so it is possible they went low. But Thor! I wanna go high.

David:
So, you guys should split the difference?

Linda:
Yeah. You wanna say 16? Or you want lower?

Nicole:
He’s unsure.

Sonja:
He’s like, “$1.”

Linda:
I could go for $7,500.

Remington:
Sure. I’m more comfortable putting it around the seven or eight mark, but we can edge it up if you’d like.

Linda:
No, let’s go low. We’ll be different. Seven-and-a-half.

David:
That’s not a bad thought process, to be different.

Nicole:
That’s a safe.

David:
OK. All right. 7,500. Adam and Sommer.

Sommer:
I was thinking at first 15,000, but maybe it could go up even to 20. I don’t know, what are you thinking?

Adam:
I was probably thinking somewhere between 11 and 18,000 maybe.

Nicole:
11 and 18, between the two.

Adam:
Somewhere in that range.

Nicole:
We’re all going for the same range, guys. Let’s all be wrong.

Sommer:
Let’s try 18 then. You wanna try that?

Adam:
Yeah, let me do the maths on that.

David:
Carry the four.

Adam:
Let’s do 17 and a half.

David:
17,500?

Sommer:
All righty. That works.

Nicole:
If we lose Allan I won’t judge you.

Yvie:
You won’t judge?

Nicole:
Yes. I’m gonna be really harsh.

David:
All right. The realized price for the Asgard puppet was $15,000.

Sonja:
William, that’s what I said.

David:
See?

Nicole:
All right. Who was the closest?

William:
I said I apologize in advance. I apologize in advance.

David:
So, the closest was Yvie and Frederick. There you go.

Linda:
We learned something.

Nicole:
Who was second closest?

David:
The second closest was Allan and Nicole Rodriguez Galbo. Yvie and Frederick guessed 14,500, Nicole and Allan Rodriguez Galdo guessed 13,000.

Nicole:
You like saying my full name a lot, David. I like it.

David:
Because Nicole West was gonna join us. Adam and Sommer guessed 17,500.

Adam:
I’ll take third.

Sommer:
Third place is good.

Sonja:
Price Is Right rules, if you go over you lose.

David:
Let me see here. Remington and Linda guessed 7,500. So, Linda was right on the money I think, pretty much.

Remington:
She was.

David:
And Sonja and William went for 28,999.

William:
I count neutrons for a living. I know all this. Leave me alone.

David:
So, the order of play is gonna be Sonja and William, Allan and Nicole, Yvie and Frederick, Remington and Linda, and Adam and Sommer.

Nicole:
That’s good. Allan, we’ve gone second so the pressure’s slightly off now.

Allan:
That’s good.

David:
All right, gang.

Allan:
I don’t wanna be first, I don’t wanna be last.

David:
Thank you everyone who submitted all these why questions, I love it. All right, here we go. Thank you once again, Simone Bailly, for lending us your time for trivia. All right. Yvie and Frederick, number one. Each of these questions are two points. If we ever do a bonus, they are worth one point. That is the plan. I’ve got the chart here to maintain it. So, Yvie and Frederick. Simone, give them number one.

Simone:
All right. Question number one. Prior to the episode “Scorched Earth,” why did the Gadmeer terraformer ship skip one planet which would have been suitable for itself?

Frederick:
Because it was inhabited.

David:
More information.

Frederick:
I don’t remember their name, but the same race that are on the other planet that they’re actually terraforming at that moment.

David:
Work with your partner as well. Don’t just spit out the answer. Work with your partner as well.

Frederick:
I’m trying. Yvie, do you remember the race name? I don’t remember.

Yvie:
No idea.

Frederick:
They have the special eyes and they have environment…

Nicole:
The yellow eyes.

Yvie:
They did have yellow eyes, didn’t they?

David:
Simone, what’s the answer?

Yvie:
Maybe it’s a more sensitive skin or something.

Simone:
That planet was already populated with a sentient species.

David:
The Enkarans.

Yvie:
Enkarans, that’s right.

David:
Very good, guys. Give you two points. Allan and Nicole.

Nicole:
I wanna apologize. We are really good fans and usually know 99% of the things. If I fudge it up.

David:
All right. Allan and Nicole, next question is to you.

Simone:
All right. Question number two. What is the reason behind why the Ori demand worship from followers?

Nicole:
There’s an easy answer. Allan, how would you state it?

Allan:
I would state it as the Ori get their power from the number of followers. The more followers they have, the more powerful they become.

Nicole:
They become stronger the more people follow them. They’re just eternally greedy. Do I have to phrase it differently or is that…

David:
Simone, the answer?

Simone:
I think that’s great. I wouldn’t overthink it. There is an energy transference from worshipers to the beings they worship.

Nicole:
Woo-woo.

Allan:
Well done.

David:
Very well done. Two points.

Nicole:
High-five across the continents.

David:
All right. Adam and Sommer.

Simone:
Question number three. In “Redemption Part One and Two,” why is the wormhole able to stay open for longer than 38 minutes?

Nicole:
Great episode.

Adam:
There’s a couple of episodes I can think of but I don’t know if they’re “Redemption.”

Sommer:
That’s what I’m thinking too. I can think of all the scenarios.

Nicole:
Are we allowed to specify season and episode?

Adam:
No, I know which one it is. It’s the Anubis one, isn’t it? It’s the Anubis one ’cause I think that goes over two episodes.

Nicole:
I’m not helping.

David:
Don’t help. Go on mute.

Adam:
I think it’s that one.

Sommer:
If that’s the one, then Anubis locked the gate somehow.

Adam:
He’s firing a particle laser or something into the Stargate and Teal’c and his son have to go in and shut it off. I’m pretty sure it’s that episode.

Sommer:
If it’s that episode, then yes.

David:
What’s the answer, Simone?

Simone:
The answer is, Anubis’ ancient super weapon was maintaining the worm hole.

Nicole:
Good job, Adam. Good job, mateys.

David:
That’s funny.

Nicole:
I’m so proud of you right now.

David:
Two points. Remington and Linda?

Simone:
In the episode, “The Broca Divide,” why, according to Janet Fraiser, were people from the Land of Light ending up in the Land of the Dark?

Linda:
It was the histamines. What kept Daniel and herself from catching it right away was the fact that Daniel was taking antihistamines and she was too for allergies. So, they held out longer than everybody, but Daniel’s antihistamines ran out when he went back to the planet and got captured. It was histamines that were making them…

David:
Remington?

Remington:
Perfect. Sounds perfect to me.

Simone:
Correct.

Remington:
Absolutely.

Simone:
An organism in their body’s feeds on histamine. People in the Land of Light have very little histamine for the organism to feed on. Nice work.

Nicole:
So proud of you guys.

David:
Very well done.

Nicole:
Good. Good job. We’re doing great.

David:
All right. Sonja and William. Why do Jack O’Neill and Kanan return to Ba’al’s compound in “Abyss?”

William:
Sonja, what do you think?

Sonja:
Is Abyss the one with the… Kanan is that girl.

William:
No, Kanan was the Tok’ra that possessed Jack to save him after his incident in “Frozen.”

Sonja:
Because he had the Tok’ra in him that…

William:
I believe that Kanan fell in love with a slave of Ba’al called Shallan.

Sonja:
And was like, “You never leave, you never leave a man behind.”

William:
He went to go get her and Kanan was influenced by O’Neill’s intention to never leave anyone behind, went to rescue a woman.

Sonja:
That was the episode where Daniel came back.

William:
Correct.

David:
Sommer? Sonja? God darn it. Simone. I’m all my S’s for Pete’s. I’m sorry, guys.

Simone:
What’s so funny is the top name that I get mistaken for is always Sonia. For some reason. Which I don’t know why.

Sonja:
Sorry.

Simone:
Anyway, ding, ding, ding. You are correct. He had fallen in love with Ba’al’s slave. Does anyone know her name? Team?

David:
Anyone?

William:
I do not remember. I do not remember.

Sonja:
Been too long.

Nicole:
I don’t remember.

David:
I’ll give you a bonus if anyone can remember it.

Adam:
I’ll remember she had a bushy haircut.

Nicole:
Give us a letter?

Simone:
Nope. It’s the one we’ve been dealing with.

Nicole:
Gosh.

David:
It’s Shallan.

Nicole:
Damn it.

Sonja:
Shallan. I wouldn’t have gotten it.

David:
Shallan. OK. Two points. Everyone’s got two points. Well done.

Nicole:
Good job team.

Allan:
Excellent. Well done.

David:
Well done everyone. No one is leading ahead. All right.

Nicole:
I like that they’re not specific enough but give us leeway to find the answer.

David:
I think the “why” questions shake it up because it’s a broader. It’s not a specific thing that you have to answer. You can work your way into the answer.

Sommer:
Situational.

Nicole:
Yep. I appreciate it.

David:
I’m glad you do. Yvie and Frederick.

Yvie:
Yes.

Simone:
In “Childhood’s End,” what was discovered as the reason why the inhabitants of M7G-677 killed themselves before turning 25?

Nicole:
Can we specify which show it is?

Frederick:
Yeah.

Nicole:
Atlantis.

Frederick:
Stargate Atlantis.

Nicole:
It’s Atlantis.

David:
Before you guys answer, I randomized the questions using a randomizer so they were originally SG-1, Atlantis, Universe.

Nicole:
OK.

David:
And now we gotta lump of SG-1, a lump of… it’s the randomizer’s fault, not mine.

Frederick:
Do you remember that episode, Yvie?

Nicole:
No, I don’t actually.

Frederick:
It’s the episode where they have kids living in trees and they’re all below 25 because there’s a reason why they kill themselves. It’s Season One Atlantis, early on. I think fourth or fifth episode.

Yvie:
God, no, I’m blanking on this. I’m so sorry.

Frederick:
All I remember is that they had to keep the population low because of the electromagnetic shield that was basically shrinking and shrinking and shrinking without even them knowing it.

Yvie:
Isn’t that an SG-1 episode?

Frederick:
That’s all I remember. I watched this episode 20 years ago.

Sommer:
There’s one similar.

David:
Save them, Simone. Save them.

Simone:
You’re correct. To prevent the population from growing so large that they would leave the confines of a ZPM power shield.

Yvie:
Wow. It’s very similar to the SG-1 episode.

Frederick:
McKay’s gonna come back and the shield’s powered by a ZPM.

Nicole:
Isn’t it “Revisions” in Season Seven?

David:
In that case, the shield was shrinking.

Nicole:
They’re all having to off themselves in order to…

Sommer:
They would wipe their memory and….

David:
That’s “Revisions.”

Nicole:
If that’s an answer coming up, we’re gonna have a good time ’cause we’re gonna remember.

David:
No. Well done, guys. Well done.

Yvie:
Good job, Frederick.

David:
Ah, dang it.

Nicole:
Good job remembering, Fred.

David:
Four points. All righty. Allan and Nicole.

Nicole:
Ugh.

Allan:
Go, Nic.

Nicole:
Dream team.

Simone:
Why did the whales…

David:
Say again, Simone?

Simone:
Why did the whales travel to Atlantis in “Echoes?”

Nicole:
I love this episode. I love the whales. McKay and the whales. Go, Allan.

Allan:
No, I’m glad you… wait there.

David:
“I may know this one.”

Nicole:
It’s the one where Teyla’s seeing the ghosts on Atlantis, ’cause they’re warning her about the incoming solar flare and…

Allan:
They make that awful noise.

Nicole:
… McKay’s watching the whales because the puddle jumper, when he was sinking, that whale made friends with him. The whale came and all the other ones came.

Allan:
He gets sunk in the puddle jumper?

Nicole:
No. It continues on from that point in terms of recognizing the whales.

David:
That’s when he meets the whales.

Allan:
I’m not familiar with that episode. I’m only familiar with the one where McKay’s stuck and he talks to Sam, doesn’t he? In his head.

Nicole:
That’s fine. I will take the lead on this one which is…

Allan:
Thank you.

Nicole:
… the whales know that it’s all heating up and the solar flare’s gonna hit, so they start taking cover under Atlantis in order to make sure they don’t all die and boil alive, I believe. If I’m wrong, I’m sorry.

Simone:
The answer is to warn of an impending solar flare. Excellent work.

Allan:
You rock, Nic.

Nicole:
Thank you. Great episode. I love whales.

Sonja:
That episode was scary.

David:
It was.

Nicole:
The ghosts really creeped me out.

David:
They’re burned. Adam and Sommer.

Simone:
Why did Simeon murder Ginn?

Adam:
Who?

Sommer:
Who?

Nicole:
William should’ve gotten this question.

David:
Stargate Universe.

William:
I don’t know why you’d say that.

Sommer:
I’m not a Universe person, so I hope you know.

Nicole:
Adam, we didn’t subject you to this. We watched it on the plane.

Adam:
Everyone shut up. Let me think.

David:
Sommer, I hope you know that it’s 40 episodes long and you’re regularly invited to do these every six months. So, could you please work it into your schedule to watch these 40 episodes?

Sommer:
Yes, sir. I will.

David:
There you go.

Nicole:
Homework. You’ve been told.

Sommer:
I’ve seen it, but I don’t re-watch it like the others.

David:
Please do. Just once.

Nicole:
Adam, I believe in you. You can find it in your Universe-loving brain.

Adam:
So, Ginn was the girl who was interested in Eli and Simeon believed that she was revealing secrets about their group whose name I can’t think of off the top of my head right now. The Lucian Alliance.

Sommer:
I remember her getting killed.

Adam:
Did it.

Sommer:
Yup.

David:
Lucian Alliance.

Adam:
At the time it wasn’t actually Ginn in her own body. It was the other professor from memory.

David:
Simone?

Simone:
That is correct, for betraying the Lucian Alliance.

Sommer:
Good job, Adam.

Nicole:
Good job Adam, a Universe one.

Sommer:
Good job.

David:
Remington and Linda.

Yvie:
Nicole, you look so proud.

Adam:
As soon as you said Universe I was like, “Ah, yes.” Those names, I was like, “Oh, no. I’m sorry, Sommer. I’m gonna…”

Sommer:
No, go for it.

Simone:
All right. Why did a Wraith Hive claim to enter into an agreement with Atlantis in “Allies?”

Linda:
Remington, do you remember this one?

Remington:
I’m struggling here.

David:
I’ll be right back, guys. Keep talking.

Linda:
“Allies.” OK. Was this one of the ones where Teyla was being a Wraith queen, or no? Do you remember?

Remington:
I can’t place the name “Allies.” I’m thinking it could be that one or it could be where they had crafted the genetic virus.

Linda:
Do we wanna go with the genetic virus?

David:
Guys, how do I sound now?

Remington:
Gorgeous.

Allan:
Great. Fine.

David:
I sound, OK? Do I sound any different?

Adam:
Nope.

Yvie:
No, not really.

Sonja:
Not to us.

Linda:
My thoughts are either Remington’s right and it’s the genetic virus situation, or it’s the bit where Teyla’s tricking them. Let’s go with the virus. I think you’re probably more on track. Can you describe it better?

David:
Don’t google it.

Linda:
If I were googling it, I’d know the answer.

David:
Simone, what do you think based on the answer there?

Simone:
This one is tricky, but I will say they wanted Dr. Beckett’s Wraith retrovirus. So, who’s the virus king?

Nicole:
Wasn’t “Allies” the one with Michael and his Wraith ship, his Hive?

David:
It’s that one.

Sonja:
Is it the one with Christopher Heyerdahl, “Allies?”

David:
It’s “Allies.” What do you guys think? You think they got it?

Linda:
I think we only got it halfway.

Sommer:
Yes.

Nicole:
I don’t wanna be mean-

David:
I’ll give you one point.

Nicole:
… but I’m gonna say at least half the points.

David:
I’ll give you a point. All right. Sonja and William.

Simone:
Why did Daniel Jackson reason in the episode “Point of View” that it was important to help the alternate Sam Carter and Charles Kawalsky?

Sonja:
It’s a very specific…

Nicole:
I watched it two days ago and even I’m like, “What?”

William:
I just finished a rewatch of the first half of SG-1.

David:
This will be a hard one.

Adam:
What was the question again? Sorry.

Simone:
Why did Daniel Jackson reason in the episode “Point of View” that it was important to help the alternate Sam Carter and Charles Kawalsky?

Sonja:
My initial answer, William, tell me if you agree, is because we would want them to help us if we needed their help?

William:
Here’s what I’m gonna go with. His experience in an alternate universe and what they did for him in “There Before the Grace of God.” He’s arguing that they should do the same thing because he once needed help in another universe. That’d be my guess.

David:
Simone, what’s the answer?

Simone:
Next time I’m gonna wear a sticker saying, “Hello, my name is Simone.”

David:
But you are already. There’s a sticker next to you.

Simone:
The answer we have here is an alternate reality gave up its last hope to help us in our time of need. In the grand scheme of things, they owe it to help another reality.

David:
That’s the line. “In the grand scheme of things”

Nicole:
I’m so happy for you guys.

David:
… is used in both episodes. You’re right. Good work, William.

Nicole:
You were both on the right track, but William nailed it in the end.

David:
Yvie and Frederick.

Simone:
Why did the Stargate skip from the SGC to the Antarctic Gate in “Solitudes?”

William:
My favorite episode of the whole franchise.

Sonja:
So good.

Frederick:
I already know the answer, I just wanna know if Yvie remembers.

Yvie:
I kind of remember.

Nicole:
It’s Sam and Jack cuddling so Yvie loves this episode.

Sonja:
MacGyver reference.

Yvie:
I’m having trouble phrasing it.

Frederick:
“And I’m the one who speaks English as my native language.”

Yvie:
That’s true. I have no excuse.

Nicole:
It’s true. Fred with the liner roast, love that.

Yvie:
You probably need to…

David:
You’re not gonna try for it?

Yvie:
No, I honestly can’t think of how to phrase it.

David:
OK, Frederick, go ahead.

Frederick:
Basically, the Stargate has a surge of energy on the starting side, I would say. The end gate jumped from one gate to the other one.

David:
Why?

Frederick:
Which was, in this case, from the SGC gate to the Antarctica gate, from the surge of power from the weapon of the civilization that we never knew about on the other planet.

David:
Are you sure a civilization we never knew about?

Frederick:
It’s “Solitudes.”

David:
So, Simone, what’s the answer?

Simone:
Staff weapons fire forced the wormhole to jump to the next nearest gate in the system, like a lightning strike.

David:
Staff weapons.

Nicole:
It was a planet we didn’t really know well, but there were definitely staff weapons.

David:
I’ll give you one point.

Yvie:
That’s right.

David:
‘Cause it was a surge.

William:
I love your lightning strike.

David:
You couldn’t identify what it was.

Frederick:
I said weapons, but I don’t think it was staff weapons.

Allan:
So, if it was staff weapons, why didn’t it happen in almost every episode they visited the Goa’uld?

William:
It was specifically that much staff weapon fire.

Nicole:
The Stargate is selective with its purpose.

Yvie:
‘Cause they were in the wormhole when it hit, didn’t it?

David:
Yeah, it was specifically staff weapon fire in this particular case.

Nicole:
The number of times they’ve been in a wormhole and things have gone wrong on one side and different things happen every time is great. I love it.

David:
We’ve seen staff weapons hit the Stargate before, for instance, in “The Other Guys,” it’s one shot. Whereas in this case, you can surmise-

Yvie:
Multiple.

David:
… that it was getting shot repeatedly.

Adam:
You could also argue that it was early in the season and they’d only recently made their own…

David:
Early in the show.

Frederick:
… dialing device. So, they will have learned from that and had their computers compensate in the future.

David:
That’s true too. Or tell their enemies, “Please don’t shoot at the Stargate while we’re fleeing from you so as to reach the planet we intended to go to.”

Nicole:
“Chill out.” “We’ve already fled, stop shooting.”

Linda:
Us, not the gate.

David:
That was Yvie and Frederick, yes? Allan and Nicole.

Nicole:
Dream team.

Allan:
Let’s go.

Nicole:
Same every time.

Simone:
Why did we eventually learn Colonel Telford betrayed Icarus Base to the Lucian Alliance?

Nicole:
God, they gotta get specific, don’t they? Can you repeat it again, Simone? Just for my brain to work.

Simone:
Why did we eventually learn Colonel Telford betrayed Icarus Base to the Lucian Alliance?

Nicole:
Thank you. Why? Why? How, why? OK.

Allan:
Don’t overthink it, Nicole, come on.

Nicole:
Allan, do you know the answer?

Allan:
No, I don’t. This is all on you, Nic. Sorry.

Nicole:
I rewatched it with Adam recently in Canada. Telford was being big sus and Colonel Young was being like, “This man is sus, he’s sleeping with my wife.” Then you find out that he’s been brainwashed by the Lucian Alliance using dirty tactics and he has been selling out the SGC and the Icarus Project to the Lucian Alliance, which is how they get onboard.

David:
Simone?

Simone:
Simply put, he was a victim of mind control. That is correct.

Allan:
Well done, Nic. You rock.

Nicole:
Thank you.

David:
Well done. All right.

Nicole:
Thank you, Adam, for making us watch Universe in Canada. Appreciate it.

David:
Adam and Sommer.

Simone:
In “Ripple Effect,” why does evil SG-1 hijack the Odyssey?

Adam:
Evil SG-1?

Sommer:
Yes.

David:
That’s the shorthand.

Sommer:
Because the Comtrya guy created…

Adam:
Evil. OK. Got it.

Sommer:
They took the ship and I remember that they fought over the ship. They put ’em in the brig and they had to try to escape to take back over the ship. But I can’t remember the narrowed-down reason.

David:
The evil SG-1 team did put our SG-1 team in hack on the ship, but why were they wanting the Odyssey?

Sommer:
It might be for their survival. I know at one point they were having battery issues or continuation issues, so they needed a certain thing so they wouldn’t run down. I think one of them was injured or something?

David:
Simone, what’s the answer please?

Simone:
They need the Atlantis ZPM to power their Antarctic weapon.

Nicole:
Sommer, you’re combining two episodes there.

Sommer:
I am? OK.

David:
I’ll give you one point. They were needing something, so I’ll give you one point for that.

William:
David, I gotta call you out on something here. You mentioned them being put in the brig in Odyssey, they were still on Prometheus.

David:
They were on Prometheus?

Sommer:
You’re right.

William:
I think for sure it was Prometheus.

Nicole:
‘Cause it was Season Nine still, wasn’t it?

David:
They were in the Prometheus. Are you sure?

Nicole:
No, Prometheus had already blown up by that point.

William:
I’m 99% sure it was Prometheus.

Nicole:
Prometheus had already blown up by that point.

David:
You’re thinking of “The Road Not Taken.”

Allan:
Wasn’t Ripple Effect the multiple SG teams?

Nicole:
Yeah, had lots of them.

David:
In “The Road Not Taken,” Sam went to an alternate reality where Prometheus still existed.

Sonja:
We’re all gonna watch this episode later.

William:
I’m reading the GateWorld summary as Prometheus, but OK.

Nicole:
I’m pretty sure it’s Odyssey.

Sommer:
I get the two mixed up, so I don’t remember.

David:
‘Cause we’re in our reality. They’re arriving to ours and by then in ours Prometheus is gone.

William:
“Ripple Effect” was Prometheus.

Nicole:
William’s gonna hold onto that. I’m gonna go watch the episode afterwards and see which one he is right.

David:
Remington and Linda.

Simone:
Why does Anubis travel to Abydos in “Full Circle?”

Linda:
He’s looking for the Eye of Ra? He was collecting all of the eyes to power his big honkin’ ship weapon and he needed the Eye of Ra for his collection.

Remington:
I like the way you described it.

Sonja:
Big honkin’ ship weapon.

Simone:
He needs the Eye of Ra to complete the set of eyes to power his super weapon, yes.

Nicole:
Nice!

David:
Well done.

Adam:
Big honkin’ space gun.

Remington:
Word for word.

David:
Well done.

Simone:
Perfect.

David:
Sonja and William, with a pen in his mouth.

Simone:
Why did Jack O’Neill kidnap Merrin in “Learning Curve?”

William:
Do you know this?

Sonja:
What year was “Learning Curve?”

William:
“Learning Curve” is the episode where a Race implants their youth with nanites to allow them to learn.

Sonja:
Because he wanted the kid to have a real childhood and experience what it was like to be a child.

William:
O’Neill did not want Merrin to undergo the process to have her nanites removed, which would basically turn her into a proto-infant.

David:
We didn’t know. Simone?

Simone:
To prevent her from going through a procedure which would take away her personality and memories.

David:
What is the procedure called? I’ll give a bonus point to the team who can get it.

Allan:
The ovarium.

Nicole:
Who said that?

Sonja:
I was gonna say that, the ovarium. Who said that?

Allan:
Me.

Nicole:
That was Allan. Yes, Allan!

David:
Allan said that?

Nicole:
We both remembered. I love you, my man.

William:
Allan got it before I did.

Nicole:
My man.

David:
Allan said it first, OK.

Nicole:
I was saying right after that, “Damn.”

David:
Yvie and Frederick, five points. Nicole and Allan, seven points. Adam and Sommer, five points. Remington and Linda, five points. Sonja and William, four points.

Nicole:
Hey, Allan, high five across the ocean, my dude.

David:
Wait. Sonja and William have …

Sonja:
Six.

David:
They have six points. I’m sorry guys. Got it. My apologies to you. OK.

Nicole:
Still winning. That’s something …

David:
Yvie and Frederick.

Yvie:
Yes?

Simone:
The question is, why does Nicholas Rush conceal his discovery of the bridge to the Destiny crew?

David:
The Destineers.

Yvie:
I would’ve partially watched this episode in Canada.

David:
And only partially.

Yvie:
Only partially.

Frederick:
Awakening.

Adam:
Psst, maybe you should’ve watched it with us when we were watching it in Canada.

Yvie:
Like I said, I partially watched it in Canada.

Nicole:
This was an episode you probably watched on the plane with Adam.

Frederick:
And I literally watched this episode two weeks ago.

Yvie:
Did you? So, it’s nice and fresh.

Frederick:
Yes.

Yvie:
That makes one of us. I’m trying to think why he was being so sneaky.

Frederick:
He says it, I think, the wife is his imaginary wife.

Yvie:
It was a big power struggle really, isn’t it?

Frederick:
Basically, because he didn’t trust anyone.

Yvie:
He did definitely have trust issues.

Frederick:
Trust issues but also, he wanted to learn everything about the Destiny before anybody could touch any buttons. He could fix everybody’s mistakes because he didn’t trust anyone to actually know what they’re fricking doing.

Simone:
Simply put, he wishes to maintain control of the ship.

Nicole:
This was one of the ones that had me sobbing ’cause it was series of episodes.

Frederick:
That counts as both definitions. OK.

Nicole:
No, you got it.

David:
You got it.

Nicole:
I was on the plane with my face mask on watching this episode and I was literally like [sobbing] ’cause it’s really sad. There were really sad ones and I had to stop Universe after that ’cause I was too upset.

William:
He said he didn’t trust most people to have the level of commitment necessary to see Destiny’s mission through.

Frederick:
Exactly.

David:
There you go.

Nicole:
William, look at you.

David:
Allan and Nicole.

Allan:
Let’s go.

Nicole:
I’m gonna mess one up.

Simone:
In “Common Descent,” why did many of the inhabitants of Novus react so poorly to Nicholas Rush?

Nicole:
Wasn’t he their version of the devil or something? He was totally against all of the beliefs that everyone else had. He was remembered as, I don’t wanna say Satan and the devil, but basically Judas. Let’s go with Judas. He was Novus’ Judas to a degree. David, do you need me to elaborate any further for the two points?

David:
Allan? I would like Allan to participate in the trivia.

Allan:
All right. I’m throwing this one right over to Nic. She’s the expert on Universe here.

Nicole:
Hey, I might not be. Do you have anything else you wanna pitch in, Allan?

Allan:
I have nothing at all. I don’t recall watching that episode.

Nicole:
I didn’t think you did, which is why I took it.

David:
Simone?

Simone:
They believed he’s a demon who rips souls from human bodies and takes them to hell, where they suffer for all of…

Nicole:
I was right, the devil. I didn’t wanna be so cruel.

David:
Two points, all right.

Allan:
Nice, Nic.

David:
Adam and Sommer.

Nicole:
Great episode.

Simone:
Why did Apophis request asylum with Stargate Command in “Serpent’s Song?”

Adam:
He did and it wasn’t Apophis? Asylum?

Sommer:
Was it Apophis? I thought it was the guy…

Adam:
Camulus. I thought it was Camulus.

Sommer:
I thought it was the guy that killed Teal’c’s father?

David:
Apophis, “Serpent’s Song.”

Sommer:
Wait. “Serpent’s Song,” that’s when he was dying or that’s when they…

Adam:
Apophis not Anubis. Yep, sorry. I’m with you. He requested asylum because he was being chased by Sokar, was gonna be killed and tortured.

David:
Simone.

Sommer:
That’s it.

Simone:
The answer is so Earth would be destroyed along with him. He knew Sokar would attack Stargate Command in an attempt to get him back.

David:
Well done.

Yvie:
Good job.

David:
Remington and Linda. Linda, give Remington a shot.

Simone:
Why was Michael given the last name Kenmore?

Sommer:
I know this one.

Frederick:
That’s a good one, though.

Nicole:
That’s really good.

Sommer:
It is.

David:
Remington?

Remington:
Colonel Sheppard had chosen the name.

David:
The first name, but the last name.

Remington:
Last name Kenmore.

Linda:
It’s a brand of dishwasher, but does that have anything to do with it?

Remington:
I thought it was someone that Sheppard knew, but maybe that was the first name.

David:
Team, is that your final answer?

Remington:
You have any ideas?

Linda:
I don’t know. I don’t remember why he gave him the last name. He got cute with the first names and…

David:
Yes.

Simone:
… named them all really disarming things that nobody could possibly be afraid of.

Frederick:
He knew from the office of Dr. Beckett. That’s all I remember.

David:
Yes, but Simone, what’s the answer?

Simone:
Very close. Dr. Beckett’s Scottish calendar.

Sommer:
Calendar.

Simone:
Kenmore, and if anyone can remember the month and year.

David:
I’ll give a bonus point to anyone who can remember the month and year.

Sonja:
No.

Yvie:
No way. Month and year.

Frederick:
August? I don’t remember the year. Could be August?

Simone:
Close.

William:
April 2003.

Simone:
Nope.

David:
What is it, Simone?

Simone:
July 2005.

Sonja:
2004?

Yvie:
Close.

David:
All right. Sonja and William.

William:
Yes.

Simone:
In “Meridian,” why does Jack O’Neill give as the reason Earth wants Kelowna’s naquadria?

William:
Just watched the show two weeks ago.

Sonja:
Which one… I’m sorry, I’m really bad with the episodes.

David:
“Meridian?”

Sonja:
Which one? “Meridian?”

William:
I know. They want it for defense shielding. He specifically says that. For the record, he’s arguing with Jonas because they’re making the naquadria bomb. He says, “And for the record…”

Sonja:
Is that the one where he meets Jonas?

David:
Yes.

William:
He talks about weapons of mass destruction and says, “Trust me, it will only be effective if you use it once.” He says, “And for the record, Carter thinks it could be used for better defense shielding.” So, final answer.

David:
That’s it.

Simone:
Excellent answer.

Nicole:
William.

Yvie:
Yay.

Simone:
To help us construct defense shields.

Nicole:
Amazing.

David:
All right.

Sonja:
Thanks for being on my team, William.

William:
Thank you.

David:
All right, Yvie and Frederick. Simone, what’s the number right now?

Simone:
We’re on question number 21.

David:
The quiz number? 21.

Simone:
Why did Rodney serve tea to Teyla in “Tao of Rodney?”

David:
Yvie and Frederick.

Frederick:
I remember, but I don’t remember exactly all the details.

David:
In this case, details…

Yvie:
Is that the episode where she’s having difficulty sleeping or something? It’s one of those.

Frederick:
No, I don’t think so. If I remember correctly, that episode is where McKay becomes super intelligent, more than he’s usually…

David:
“Tao of Rodney.”

Frederick:
I know it’s to celebrate an anniversary of something related to her father, either death or being…

David:
Man, did you pull that out of the jaws of death? Simone?

Simone:
That is it, anniversary of her father’s death.

Yvie:
Wow, good job.

Allan:
That’s pretty good.

Nicole:
Man, that was close.

Frederick:
I thought it was the anniversary of him being grabbed by the wraith because they’d never know exactly when they died, the year.

Nicole:
Everyone’s stumbling onto the answer. I love it. We’re getting there.

David:
You got the option.

Simone:
Good instincts.

David:
OK, Allan and Nicole.

Allan:
Do it.

Nicole:
I’ve been waiting to get one wrong. This might be the one.

Simone:
Here we go. In “Legacy,” why did Janet Fraiser think Samantha Carter was possessed by a Goa’uld?

Nicole:
Did you say “Legacy?”

Simone:
Yeah, “Legacy.”

Nicole:
Am I crazy and not remembering what episode that is right now?

Allan:
I’m thinking “Legacy,” this is one of the Ma’chello episodes, isn’t it?

Nicole:
Of course. Sorry, Simone, repeat the question again now that he’s triggered it.

Simone:
In “Legacy,” why did Janet Fraiser think Samantha Carter was possessed by a Goa’uld?

Nicole:
OK, cool. I know the answer. Allan?

Allan:
I don’t know the answer, but I know the episode. Is this the ear one or the…

Nicole:
The little ear worm, the white ones.

Allan:
This is the ear one. This is the Search for Spock one.

Nicole:
Don’t want Star Trek mate.

Allan:
No, sorry, Wrath of Khan.

Nicole:
OK.

Allan:
The ear one.

Nicole:
Do you wanna do the honors, Allan? Or should I?

Allan:
No, because I don’t know why Janet thinks Sam…

Nicole:
OK. So, Ma’chello’s goa’uld-killing device in the form of the little white worms goes inside people. And because of the fact that Janet and Jack don’t have Goa’ulds same as Daniel, they all start going stir crazy. But because they have three, Janet has three in her, it makes her go even crazier. She’s seeing visions. Look at how Fred just got really impressed with me. So, Janet’s looking at Sam and ’cause Sam has the old Goa’uld naquadah in her from Jolinar, she doesn’t have any effect and she’s not even bothered by it. So she’s like, “Janet, let me help you” and Janet’s like, “No, get away from me, you’re a Goa’uld!” and her eyes glow.

David:
That’s great. That’s great. But Simone, can you please be succinct?

Simone:
She was infected with Ma’chello’s Goa’uld killing organisms.

David:
Yes. All right, guys.

Nicole:
I could’ve been that simple.

David:
“The more words that I give, maybe the better answer will be.”

Adam:
Basically, explained half the entire episode.

David:
That’s funny. Adam and Sommer?

Simone:
Why does Nicholas Rush pursue Simeon into an alien desert in “Malice?”

Adam:
Ah, Simeon.

Nicole:
Didn’t they just do one like this earlier?

David:
Yep.

Adam:
I do know the episode, I just can’t remember why. No, I remember why. It’s ’cause he killed…

Sommer:
Even though they went…

Adam:
Sorry, go.

Sommer:
No. If she said something similar, then maybe he went there ’cause he thought it would get them killed. I don’t know.

David:
Adam?

Sommer:
She said something similar, but I have no…

Adam:
No, I think Nicole was saying we got a similar question.

Sommer:
I see.

Adam:
From memory, it was because Simeon had killed Ginn, which had the personality of the professor that he was interested in and he followed that person and did the killing.

Sommer:
I’ll go with that. Yes.

David:
Simone?

Simone:
To take revenge for Amanda Perry’s death.

Sommer:
There.

Nicole:
You guys got a part one and two of the same question, you lucky dogs.

Adam:
We did, yes.

David:
Was it the same group?

Nicole:
Yeah, Adam said earlier…

David:
Isn’t that interesting? All right.

Nicole:
… the exact same thing.

David:
Wow, OK. Remington and Linda?

Simone:
Why was Jack O’Neill prepared to shoot Brother Malchus in cold blood in “Red Sky?”

Sommer:
Again, why can’t I…?

Remington:
He got upset when they blew up the rocket that they were supposed to use to save the plant.

David:
Was it just the rocket?

Remington:
It killed some SG personnel as well, I think.

David:
Simone?

Simone:
Malchus was part of a group of K’tau people who destroyed a rocket and two men from Stargate Command, as well as two of their people.

David:
There you go. Well done, guys.

Nicole:
Good job, guys.

Yvie:
Good job.

David:
Nice teamwork makes the dream work. Sonja and William?

Simone:
Why does Daniel quote scripture from the Book of Origin to the Ori warships in “Camelot?”

William:
Is this the Battle of P3Y-299, Sonja? Episode?

Sonja:
This is the one with where they’re taking over those two people.

William:
Is it “Camelot?” No, I’m thinking the finale with the Supergate. He tries to talk down the Ori ships by citing the Book of Origin and saying… I might be confusing the episodes, though. But it’s basically the whole pseudo-Bible verse of, “Don’t go look for evil. Lest it find purchase in your own house.”

David:
Simone?

Simone:
He hopes it might encourage them to call off their attack on the galaxy.

David:
There we go. There you go.

Nicole:
William, I’m so impressed right now, my dear. You’ve nailed it so perfectly.

Yvie:
You can tell. You were practically dancing, Nicole.

Nicole:
I was trying not to. I was like, “Oh, no.”

David:
Allan and Nicole are on top with 11, Sonja and William with 10. Yvie and Frederick, and Adam and Sommer are tied at 7, Remington and Linda with 7. Well done everyone.

Yvie:
Same.

Adam:
Not doing too bad.

David:
Yvie and Frederick, please.

Simone:
Why did John Sheppard say he selected War and Peace as his only personal item to take to Atlantis?

Yvie:
The first thing that comes to mind is, he’s always wanted to read the book and he hasn’t gotten around to it yet and maybe he thinks it’s gonna help him strategically. I don’t know.

Frederick:
That’s all I remember, too. I don’t think there is any reason besides he just brought it.

David:
There’s a specific reason.

Frederick:
It’s been so long since I watched this episode. I don’t remember. I know the episode is “The Return Part One.” That’s all I remember.

David:
Simone?

Simone:
He figured the mission would last a long time.

David:
By “The Return,” does anyone know? I’ll give a bonus point. Does anyone know how far through the book he’s gotten?

Frederick:
A quarter?

Yvie:
Two chapters?

Sommer:
Chapter three?

Allan:
He’s never started it.

Sonja:
I’d say a third.

Nicole:
I was gonna say zero.

David:
Simone?

Simone:
That was correct, that he had gone a quarter through the book by “The Return.”

David:
Who said one quarter?

Frederick:
I said a quarter.

Nicole:
Pulling it back. Nice.

David:
All right. Yvie and Frederick, one extra point, so 10. All right. OK. Simone?

Simone:
All right. Why does the IOA give Ronon Dex an automated passing grade in the episode “Midway?”

Nicole:
Allan, this is ours?

Allan:
Yeah, this is ours, I think.

Nicole:
Allan, do you know?

Allan:
No, I’m not sure of this one, Nic.

Nicole:
OK. They give him a passing grade because he saves the IOA douchebag who was supposed to be reviewing him and he saves the SGC base from the Wraith taking over, due to the complete incompetence, but also the fact that their info got robbed during the previous siege they had on the replicators.

David:
Simone?

Simone:
He and Teal’c just saved them from a Wraith invasion of Stargate Command.

David:
There you go.

Allan:
Well done, Nic.

David:
Well done. Two points. 13. Adam and Sommer. Fredrick, what’s that?

Frederick:
I like Nicole’s version better ’cause he saved the douchebags. So, I think it’s better.

Nicole:
He was a douche. What can I say?

Frederick:
It’s true, it’s true.

Yvie:
That’s how he’s described in the script.

Nicole:
IOA douchebag.

David:
Adam and Sommer.

Simone:
All right, here we go. Question number 28. Why did Colonel Young go shopping for clothing in “Blockade?”

Sommer:
Why! Sorry. It’s like another Universe. No.

Yvie:
Another universe.

Nicole:
William’s dying inside.

David:
Randomized. I’m sorry guys.

Nicole:
This is a question we had a while back for another trivia night and William got it last time.

Sommer:
What was the question? I didn’t hear. I’m sorry. Repeat it, please.

Simone:
Question: why did Colonel Young go shopping for clothing in “Blockade?”

Adam:
I don’t remember that episode specifically.

Sommer:
I think the body switching maybe. Was it the body switching and they did body swapping and he had to go buy clothes to suit his character who was in his body. The stones.

Adam:
I’m trying to remember an episode where Colonel Young’s done that. I don’t remember him going shopping specifically. I don’t quite remember what happens in that episode. They just don’t have a lot of clothes on Destiny. I don’t remember them ever finding somewhere else that has clothes.

Sommer:
I know he goes to visit his wife, or ex-wife.

David:
That’s all at the other end of the stones. Simone?

Simone:
The answer is: Camille Wray commented that she wanted a new outfit.

David:
I will give them one point because…

Nicole:
‘Cause Adam had the right thing.

David:
… because Adam did say new clothes. Yep.

Nicole:
I remember William got really excited about answering this last time.

David:
“I’d kill for a new outfit,” he said. Remington and Linda.

Simone:
Why didn’t John Sheppard succumb to Lucius Lavin’s pheromone in “Irresistible?”

Nicole:
Good one.

David:
Good stuff.

Sonja:
Love Richard Kind.

David:
Tried to get him on Dial the Gate. He said no.

Sonja:
What?

Remington:
I’m thinking it’s to do with the ancient gene.

Linda:
Let’s go with that ’cause I can’t remember exactly why.

David:
Simone?

Simone:
He had a cold.

Remington:
He had a cold. All right.

David:
Sonja and William. ‘Sup?

Simone:
In the episode “Outsiders,” why are the village’s refugees shunned?

Sonja:
Which one is “Outsiders?” Do you remember that, William?

David:
Atlantis.

William:
Village’s refugees are shunned.

David:
Or as Sheppard would say, “Atlantis.”

Sonja:
Can you repeat the question?

Simone:
In the episode “Outsiders,” why are the village’s refugees shunned?

William:
I don’t remember, to be honest. I’m blanking. Do you have a guess, Sonja? No, that’s “Condemned,” I’m thinking of.

Nicole:
I was thinking of that, too, the prisoner planet

William:
My only blind guess would be they’re survivors of Wraith attack and that’s somehow taboo, but I don’t think that’s correct.

David:
Simone?

Simone:
They were of Hoffan descent and incapable of being culled by the Wraith. This has historically led to the destruction of entire planets.

Nicole:
If that was mine, I would’ve said the Hoffan drug.

David:
Hoffan Drug, specifically.

Nicole:
What a great storyline that was.

William:
I forgot they even had that length to it, man, that’s good. Man, sorry Sonja, couldn’t pull that one out.

Sonja:
I didn’t know either.

David:
Yvie and Frederick. Simone, what number are we at?

Simone:
31.

David:
This is the last round before we go to fan questions.

Simone:
In “Upgrades,” why was SG-1 going out for dinner at O’Malley’s considered disobeying orders?

Yvie:
Because they were locked down.

Frederick:
‘Cause they were hungry.

Yvie:
They were locked down. They got in trouble and they were sort of put in isolation.

Frederick:
Then they grew hungry for a steak.

Yvie:
They were hungry because of the influence they were under.

David:
From?

Yvie:
It made them hungry, from the armbands.

David:
I’ll give it to them.

Yvie:
‘Cause they were needing more energy.

Frederick:
Intercede with their judgements.

Simone:
They were under the effects of the alien armbands.

David:
Who invented the armbands?

Frederick:
That’s the official historical record.

William:
Atonieks.

David:
Who said that?

Nicole:
No, William!

David:
William said Atonieks?

Nicole:
Yeah.

William:
Yeah.

David:
All right; I’ll give him one point.

William:
I need that point.

Sonja:
Sam just likes the taste of Diet Coke.

David:
That’s exactly right.

Nicole:
She does. Diet soda. They gave her a weird look.

David:
I love soda for that reason.

Sonja:
She’s like, “What? I like the taste better.”

David:
That is exactly right. All right. Allan and Nicole Rodriguez-Galdeau.

Simone:
Why does John Shepherd scale the side of Atlantis in “Quarantine?”

Nicole:
Great episode. Allan?

Allan:
Is that the one with the plant tentacle thingy growing everywhere?

Nicole:
No, that’s Season Five.

Allan:
OK, I’ll let you go there, Nic. You should know.

David:
That’s Season Eight.

Nicole:
No, hold on. That is Season Eight. Sorry, I was thinking about Season Five with the Wraith ship spreading. OK, so you want me to take it, Allan, do you?

Allan:
Yes, please.

Nicole:
OK. In this episode, they’re under quarantine because McKay accidentally heightened up the quarantine procedures due to the “Tabula Rasa” episode. Him and Taylor are locked in McKay’s lab due to the quarantine and Sheppard wants to scale the building in order to get up and I think the active beacon was going out, trying to alert the Wraith to their position? So, Sheppard’s like, “No, let’s turn that off,” and he got up there and did that, I believe.

David:
Is that your final answer?

Nicole:
Shoot, David, I’m missing something.

David:
Then I’m encouraging you. So, that is incorrect.

Nicole:
Christ.

David:
Simone.

Simone:
To terminate the self-destruct, but there is a bonus.

Nicole:
To disable the self-destruct! Damn it.

David:
All right.

Simone:
You know how many floors he climbed?

Linda:
47.

Nicole:
Did you say 47?

Sonja:
38.

Nicole:
I’m gonna say 23.

David:
Simone?

Allan:
12.

Simone:
Four.

Nicole:
Damn it.

David:
And what comic book character was referenced?

Nicole:
I’m sorry I missed the self-destruct. I’m sorry I missed that. I put up 47.

David:
What comic book character was referenced in this scene?

Sommer:
Spider-Man?

David:
Batman.

Sommer:
Batman. OK.

David:
All right. Adam and Sommer.

Adam:
The famous wall crawler, Batman.

Sommer:
Please don’t be a universe question.

Simone:
All right. Why do King Arkhan’s people refuse to allow him to give up his crown in “It’s Good to Be King?”

Sommer:
Because it’s written on the tablets on the planet. That’s with Maybourne?

David:
Simone, please give the question again. King Arkhan I?

Simone:
Why do King Arkhan’s people refuse to allow him to give up his crown in “It’s Good to be King?”

Sonja:
I love that episode.

Sommer:
That’s Maybourne.

Adam:
It’s Maybourne. It’s the one where they predict his future.

Sommer:
It’s Maybourne because there’s a prophecy written on the tablets on the planet that said that he would come.

Adam:
But that wasn’t the reason that they said they wouldn’t accept him removing the crown, though. The reason I think was because he was trying to be good and tried to explain why he was gonna remove the crown. ‘Cause he’s like, “I’m actually a bad dude,” and they’re like, “Well, but wasn’t it you who gave us this and did this for us?”

Sommer:
If they’re looking for that answer.

Adam:
And they’re like, “Well, then you must still be our king.”

Sommer:
I agree with you on that.

David:
Simon?

Simone:
He had proven himself to be a true leader.

Nicole:
Can I be an absolute douche for a second and be like, is my one not worth half a point for at least knowing that he was gonna go up to turn off a thing? I at least got that; I didn’t get which one it was. Can I at least beg for that?

Yvie:
You’re still in front, Nicole.

Sommer:
She can’t take it.

Nicole:
I’m not ahead of all of you. We’re tied with William.

David:
People in front should not be beggars. Remington and Linda.

Simone:
In addition to raising their son, why does Matthew Scott wanna give his ex-girlfriend his military paycheck?

Remington:
It’s because he doesn’t think he’ll ever need it ’cause he’s not gonna return.

Linda:
He can’t use it ’cause he’s not on Earth and he’d rather she and the boy have the money so that they can have brighter future and send the kid to college. I think you’re right.

David:
Simone?

Simone:
I like this answer. It’s to quit her exotic dancing job and go to law school.

David:
I’ll give them one point.

Simone:
And that concludes our questions here.

David:
Yep. So, Sonja and William.

William:
Yes.

David:
From the live viewers… Oh?

William:
Uh-oh?

David:
Do you want an in-canon question, or can I give you a question that’s from the special features.

William:
I’m a super fan. We’re super fans. Let’s do it. Let’s have fun. Let’s do it.

David:
OK, that’s the policy? All right. Why did Amanda Tapping hum the theme to SG-1 in the elevator when she was with Colonel O’Neill in “Chimera?” This was “Chimera.”

William:
Because they wanted to hum the theme to MacGyver, but no one on set could remember it.

David:
That’s it.

Sommer:
Damn. Damn.

Sonja:
Thank you, William.

David:
All right; Allan and Nicole and Sonja and William are tied at 13. Yvie and Frederick and Adam and Sommer are tied at 12.

Nicole:
Should’ve given me that extra point.

David:
And Remington and Linda are eight. Well done, everyone. OK.

Nicole:
I don’t like tiebreakers, David. I feel like I should’ve gotten something for that, goddammit.

David:
We’re gonna have to have some.

Nicole:
Now I’m stressed. Now you’re stressing me out.

David:
OK, all right and Simone, thank you so much for getting us this far. I really appreciate it. Very well done.

Adam:
Thanks for all the questions.

Sommer:
You’re amazing. Thank you.

Simone:
You’re amazing. Thank you, that was my first trivia, so thank you all.

David:
Yvie and Frederick, all right. Why does O’Neill complain that people should know his name is spelled with two L’s in the episode “Secrets” specifically?

Yvie:
I know he says at one stage that the other O’Neill has no sense of humor.

David:
I’ll take it. There’s another Colonel Jack O’Neill with only one L and he has absolutely no humor.

Nicole:
Which is the Jack O’Neill from the original movie, ironically.

David:
All right.

Allan:
“Jack O’Neill with two L’s.”

Nicole:
I wanna say, Allan, I’m really sorry for accidentally saying the Wraith thing.

Yvie:
Read between the lines.

Nicole:
I wanna apologize right now. Don’t hold it against me.

Allan:
Nic, you’ve done me proud.

Nicole:
Thanks, Dad.

David:
All right, Allan and Nicole. Why didn’t Sheppard go fishing with Carson Becket in “Sunday?”

Nicole:
Why are you giving me questions I don’t remember the answer to?

Allan:
Wasn’t he golfing with someone else? I know that he was golfing at the time instead of going fishing.

Nicole:
But what’s so tragic is everyone’s too busy to go fishing with Carson. So, when he ends up dying, it’s really sad.

David:
Correct.

Nicole:
That’s the point of the episode. Oh my God.

Allan:
Because they’re up golfing and he’s actually saying why he didn’t wanna go fishing and I can’t remember what he was saying.

David:
Nicole, any other help?

Nicole:
I know the episode so well, I don’t really know that. Sorry, my throat’s…

David:
All right. I’ll give you one point. That’ll tie you with Yvie and Frederick for the front. He’s golfing with Ronon.

Nicole:
Didn’t we just say that he was golfing?

David:
Not with Ronon.

Nicole:
I knew it was Ronon. I thought that was part of the answer.

Allan:
No, he was golfing with one of the other doctors or someone.

Nicole:
No, he was golfing with Ronon where they had the bucket on the side and the little fake green and they were batting it out to sea. I didn’t expand on it ’cause I thought that was sufficient, David. I was told to bring it down.

David:
Why is it always you who is pitting yourself on the questions?

Nicole:
‘Cause I wanna get the points.

David:
Why is it always you?

Nicole:
I got it.

David:
It’s never anyone else. It’s always you.

Nicole:
You know what, David? You’re being like, “It’s “Serpent’s Song,” Adam, let’s help you out.” You should’ve been like, “Who was he golfing with?” and I would’ve been like, “Ah, Ronon.” Then I would’ve gotten the two points.

William:
My violin’s right here in the box. Let me go get it for you.

Nicole:
Play a violin for me. I’m sad.

David:
I’m sorry that you were in the lead, Nicole. I’m sorry. All right.

Adam:
I’ll generate a tiny little AI violin for you, Nicole.

David:
God. OK, let me see here. Adam and Sommer.

Allan:
What was the half of the question that we missed?

Nicole:
The fact that it was Ronon.

David:
Who he was with.

Nicole:
But I knew that. I knew that and that’s why I’m like, “Oh.”

David:
All right, you will have a chance to win this thing. You are a contender to win.

Nicole:
Good.

David:
If that kicked you out, we would have a conversation about that, for sure.

Nicole:
Good, good.

David:
But you’re co-leading.

Nicole:
Until William takes it.

David:
You know what? Go fly a kite. All right. OK, all right. Adam and Sommer, what prompts O’Neill to declare, “Holy frozen bad guys?” What was the episode? These guys are not submitting the episodes, so I’m having to think of them.

Nicole:
Isn’t it “Watergate?”

David:
It’s “Watergate.” “Watergate,” thank you.

Adam:
It’s the Russian episode and it’s Colonel Maybourne.

Sommer:
‘Cause he opens the freezer and they’re in the freezer.

David:
14. You have 14 points now. All right, very good.

Sommer:
Woo!

David:
OK. I’m going to hang onto this one for the end. That’s hard. All right, but it’s good. I haven’t been reading the names and I apologize. So I must give thanks to Elihu Who, HOGW1ld, Theresa MC and Antony, for those questions so far. So thank you guys. Lockwatcher, I’ll get to that one in just a second here. Some of these are interesting. OK. Who did I announce is next? Remington and Linda?

Linda:
I think so.

David:
Remington and Linda. HOGW1ld also asks, “Why was Shifu unwilling to remember any of his Harcesis knowledge?”

Linda:
It’s the whole power corrupts thing and absolute power corrupts absolutely. If he had all that evil knowledge, he would become evil. He wouldn’t be able to help it. I think.

David:
Yes. OK. I will give that to you guys. The evil in his subconscious was too strong to resist and the only way to win was to deny it battle.

Sommer:
Deny it battle, yes.

David:
That’s absolutely right. OK, guys, 10 points for you. Sonja and William. All right, Sonja and William, Urius Tosh says, “Why did Teal’c use an avocado as a weapon?”

Adam:
Literally just watched this last night.

William:
He chucked it at someone robbing somebody.

David:
That’s it.

Sommer:
That’s it.

Yvie:
The purse snatcher.

Sommer:
I love that scene.

David:
15 points. Absolutely.

Nicole:
Solid avocado.

David:
OK. Remington and Linda, thank you guys very much. Sonja and William are one point ahead. Yvie and Frederick, Allan and Nicole, and Adam and Sommer are at 14 points. This question, whoever tells me the correct answer, wins the match.

Nicole:
Wait, so it’s about speed basically?

David:
Yes, whoever can provide it to me first.

Nicole:
God.

David:
Remington and Linda, thank you guys.

Nicole:
God.

David:
Your answer will not be taken into consideration.

Linda:
I did way better the last time. I had a great partner, so I am content.

David:
Well done, guys.

Remington:
You did very well.

David:
OK. Anyone else can shout this out and you and your partner win the trivia to answer.

Nicole:
I’m not gonna get it, Allan. I’m sorry.

Adam:
I’m gonna put the mic closest to my face so you can hear me the loudest.

David:
All right. Lockwatcher asks, “Why was Jack working on a crossword puzzle in his truck while the fate of the world-”

William:
Double or nothing!

Nicole:
Because he had a bet with Sam to see if he could win it.

David:
Who said, “Double or nothing?”

William:
That was me!

Allan:
It was Nic.

Nicole:
Bullshit. Bullshit.

William:
Fuck you, it was me!

David:
Hey, hey.

Nicole:
Fuck you! I started saying it first.

David:
William and Nicole.

Nicole:
I started saying it first.

David:
William and Nicole!

Nicole:
Play it back.

David:
I’m giving you both double or nothing for that one.

Nicole:
Bull!

David:
William, 17 for that. Nicole and Allan, 16.

Nicole:
Bull, that was a win.

David:
All right.

Nicole:
I had it.

David:
The next round is only going to William and Nicole because you guys seem to be the most…

Nicole:
This is bull.

Allan:
Come on, Nic.

Nicole:
No, William.

Yvie:
Oppressive.

David:
All right.

Nicole:
I’m gonna watch this back and see it and I’m gonna be so mad. Carry on.

William:
You’re one of my favorite people. I want you to know that right now.

Nicole:
Same.

David:
All right.

Nicole:
I love you, William.

David:
OK. William and Nicole, you ready?

Nicole:
No.

William:
Yes.

David:
For the glory of the Milky Way galaxy, why doesn’t Teal’c like warm milk?

Nicole:
‘Cause it makes sense for us to be warm?

William:
The symbiote doesn’t like it.

Nicole:
Is that it?

William:
I don’t know.

Nicole:
Symbiote doesn’t like it? I thought he didn’t like alcohol.

David:
Why won’t Teal’c drink warm milk?

Sonja:
He doesn’t wanna…

David:
Sorry, guys. Nicole and William.

William:
I don’t know.

Nicole:
I don’t know.

David:
He will not drink bovine lactose at any temperature.

Sonja:
At any temperature.

David:
Brownie points for Sonja. All right.

Sonja:
That was a good one.

David:
That’s great.

Nicole:
Sorry I’m burpy. All this excitement’s got me. I’ve got the gases flowing.

David:
All right. Nicole and William.

Nicole:
God.

David:
What is President Hayes’ response when Dr. Weir says, “What if I refuse your offer?”

William:
“Not a chance.”

Nicole:
“It’s not a guarantee!” “This is not a joke,” something.

William:
“Not a chance.” “Never gonna happen?”

David:
Yes! William’s got it.

Nicole:
He said exactly that.

William:
He uses that phrase twice. He says it to Weir and he also uses the same phrase to Anubis when he’s talking to the hologram.

David:
“Never going to happen” was the phrase.

Nicole:
I wanna say, if I play it back and see I got it before William, which technically meant I win, then I’m calling this a, what’d you call it, a hung jury or something?

Adam:
Nicole, be a humble loser.

David:
You are a poor sport.

Nicole:
I’m not a humble loser. This is a hung jury. This is bull.

David:
Simone, thank you so much for joining us.

Nicole:
Simone, I’m so sorry. I love you. I’m usually better than this.

Yvie:
You’re really not, Nicole. You’re pretty consistent.

Sommer:
No.

Nicole:
You’re supposed to be my friend.

Allan:
Lay off my teammate.

David:
Yes or no, chat. Does Nicole have a point? Yes or no?

Nicole:
Can we please.

David:
Let’s see your responses.

Nicole:
‘Cause I think I got it first.

David:
I’m really curious. If you’re with Nicole and you think that I’m unfair, mark it as a yes. If you think that William won it-

Nicole:
I think I deserve the one because I didn’t say Ronon.

David:
… mark it as a no. I’m curious, everybody. Report back.

Nicole:
I knew it was that and I got it before William a second ago, not for that one, but for the earlier one.

David:
Well done, Mr. Murphy.

William:
Thank you.

Nicole:
William’s always like, “I’m not gonna get this. I’m not gonna win.”

William:
It’s all good. I had a great time.

Sommer:
I pass my crown to you, sir.

Nicole:
Hey, we have a yes. We have a yes.

David:
We have one yes from Liebchen.

Adam:
I didn’t realize that was up for grabs.

David:
Liebchen is the holdout.

Nicole:
Three people said no, they just hate me.

David:
They don’t. They don’t hate you. That is so much bunk. That is ridiculous.

Nicole:
Hold on. Are they saying no to the Ronon thing, or no to the point of me being against William?

David:
No to you.

Nicole:
Just me in general.

David:
So, Antony and Liebchen say, yes, I’m not being fair to you. Everyone else is giving you a no.

Nicole:
I trusted you. I trusted you.

David:
Well done, guys.

Nicole:
Excuse me, Adam, you don’t get to jump in there after telling me I got it and then jump in and say no to Nicole.

David:
Paul Brickler says, “I think the controversy is winning.”

Nicole:
You said Nicole got it ahead of William with the earlier thing.

Adam:
I did not. I bloody did not.

Nicole:
You bloody did. I heard you say it. Would you like a coin? Look, I’m gracious, I’m humble. I’m humbled now.

David:
Pigs fly.

Sommer:
You’re right. It was mummy and daddy fight.

Nicole:
I gotta say though, for real, William is one of the people I respect most in this world. Him and I have a lot of shared love and knowledge of certain things. Out of everybody that was gonna win today, I’m really glad it was William/Sonja, ’cause technically they were a team.

Adam:
Well done. Will, can we play the music to send her off stage?

David:
I’ll play music to send her somewhere.

Nicole:
Christopher Judge’s speech at the Game Awards.

David:
Jeez. Christopher, man, that was great.

Nicole:
Congratulations to Christopher Judge, by the way, everybody.

David:
Absolutely.

Nicole:
Stargate family.

David:
Guys, thank you so much. Remington, is Remington even in the room with us still? Is he there?

Allan:
He’s still there.

Sommer:
He’s here.

David:
I know he’s in the room but… Hey.

William:
I’m here.

David:
Awesome work, dude. Awesome work, everyone.

Nicole:
Lockwatcher.

David:
Simone, did you enjoy yourself?

Nicole:
I said something funny.

Simone:
I had so much fun. This is great.

Sommer:
Same.

Simone:
Everyone did so well.

William:
I have to say this. I can’t understate how awesome it is that we had an opportunity to meet you and talk to you and play a trivia game. If you’ve been seeing it, you’re an absolute treasure. For you to make time for us is nothing short of an honor. So, thank you so much for that.

Sommer:
Yes, thank you. Absolutely.

Nicole:
I’m sorry for my behavior. I wanna say I’m really glad I met you and I’m glad you signed my boob at Gatecon.

David:
All right, and with that note, thank you guys so much.

Simone:
Consensually signed it.

David:
You have a wonderful holiday, all of you. Please be safe.

Nicole:
Merry Christmas, everyone. Happy Hanukkah.

David:
Stay warm in the cold areas.

Allan:
Merry Christmas.

David:
Stay cold in the warm areas and we’ll see you for more in the new year, especially Adam Cahill. We’re gonna be back for much more. Adam?

Allan:
No.

David:
All of your work. Thank you so much.

Allan:
Thanks, Adam.

David:
Such a great job.

Adam:
Do you wanna tell people if they can go find… Are you putting it up on the website still?

David:
Yes. I will be putting a link below in the description. Give me a couple of hours here if you wanna download the artwork. It will be more than likely a zip file, so accept the fact that it’s gonna be a zip file. Trust me that I’m putting only images in there. If you want that, you will have access to that in very short order. So, thank you again, Adam, for your work.

Adam:
No problem. It was fun.

Simone:
Adam, can I post it on my social media if I give you credit?

Adam:
Of course. Go for it.

Simone:
OK.

David:
All right.

Simone:
That’s awesome.

David:
Stargate trivia team did a wonderful job. Congratulations to William Murphy for that win. My name is David Read. Thanks so much for tuning in to this episode. Tracy, are you there, Tracy?

Tracy:
Yeah, I’m still here, David.

Nicole:
Active in the chat as well.

David:
Thank you. Who else was in the chat here? Antony? OK.

Sommer:
Antony.

David:
Thank you, guys, so much both for making this possible. This was terrific, being on that side of the screen. I was actually gonna have you ask the questions and I completely forgot that you were there. I am sorry.

Tracy
It’s OK. You guys have been a blast to listen to. This is phenomenal.

David:
It’s a blessing to have you as part of the team.

Adam:
With that voice though.

Sommer:
It’s great to hear you.

Nicole:
Thanks for all your hard work.

Sommer:
You’re definitely a wonderful mod and so glad to have you and Antony both. Thank you.

Nicole:
I’m really glad I got to meet you, Tracy. OK.

David:
Frederick, is that your outside right now?

Frederick:
Yes, it’s my outside. It’s in front of my door.

Yvie:
That’s beautiful.

Nicole:
We just found out where you live.

Frederick:
If would like to see Canada in the winter, that’s what it looks like. We had a snow storm yesterday, so that’s what it looks like right now.

Yvie:
Ugh, so jealous.

David:
Thank you, Antony.

Frederick:
Don’t be jealous. Don’t be jealous. It sucks. Don’t be jealous.

David:
It sucks. All right, guys. I’ll speak to you in a minute. Thank you, Antony and Tracy, for making this final round possible and the tiebreakers as well. If you enjoyed the show, please give us that Like button. If you like the artwork, we’re gonna be bringing more to you in very short order. Keep an eye on Dial the Gate on Christmas Eve. That’s all I’m gonna say. Thanks so much for my producer, Linda, who got to take part in this tonight, Gate Gabber Fury, as well as my moderating team, as always, Sommer, Tracy, Keith, Jeremy, Rhys and Antony. Big thanks again to Frederic Marcoux at Concepts Web, keeping Dial the Gate up and going. Dialthegate.com has the latest information for all of our episodes. You can keep an eye on it right there. We’ve got tomorrow, “Brief Candle” and “Thor’s Hammer,” at a special time tomorrow morning, two hours earlier than normal. It’s gonna be at 8:00 AM Pacific Time, 11:00 AM Eastern Time. My name is David Read for Dial the Gate. Thanks so much to Simone Bailly for making this episode possible and thanks again to our wonderful trivia panelists. We’ll see you on the other side and happy New Year.