• Major Warren (2nd season, Prisoners), Sgt. Warren (3rd season, Foothold -- I assumed this was a rank error, and listed this under Major Warren), Major Lawrence (5th season, Menace and Sentinel) -- all played by Colin Lawrence.

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• Medals:
  • Jack wears at least two different sets of medals.
    • In first season (Children of the Gods), there are no Vietnam medals, which makes sense given his canonical birth year of 1947 -- the last Vietnam war medal that he could have been given was granted no later than early 1973, when Jack would have been 16 years old, and far too young to have served at all, let alone long enough to earn a medal. This set also includes a marksmanship medal (given Jack's accuracy with weapons, this seems likely) and an AF training ribbon.
    • As of second season, the marksmanship medal and training ribbon are gone, and he wears a Vietnam service medal and a Republic of Vietnam campaign medal. (He also adds the Air Medal that he was granted in Secrets.) This set can be seen here -- while it's the one he wears most often, it's the one that makes the least amount of sense given his age.
  • Sam was given the Air Medal for heroism in 1998 (Secrets); prop canon inconsistency in that it doesn't later appear on her uniform. (Sam's medals)
  • Jacob appears to be the most underdecorated general of all time; I'm not sure how he made it to general with so few medals, and apparently no devices on any of the ones he has. (Jacob's medals)

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• Internal continuity glitch: Sam, Janet, and Teal'c (carrying the unconscious Jack) walked down a corridor past a door clearly marked Level 25 (restricted access - door used earlier in the ep), then continued down the same corridor to the C-2 door to the gateroom -- on level 28.

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• Canon glitch: Teal'c refers to Nirrti as "he".
• At the abandoned nuclear facility, Jack, standing on level 1, says Sam will be going down 30 floors; the elevator brings her down to level 28, as though she were still at the SGC.

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• Canon glitch: when Lya is coming through from the Nox homeworld, the technician counts off the chevrons as they engage. On in incoming wormhole, all chevrons are supposed to engage at the same time.

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• Canon glitch: The stargate on Hadante lit up one chevron at a time for incoming wormholes, rather than lighting up all at once as it should have done. (Prisoners)

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• Teal'c calls the world PJ7-989; Carter later calls it P7J-989 (more likely to be right, since it follows the traditional naming pattern) (Gamekeeper)

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• Editing glitch: When Daniel is explaining what the writing on the ziggurat's door says, he says "it's just a standard retelling of the Babylonian creation myth" and goes to explain that Marduk slew Tiamat and used the two halves of her body to form the sky and earth. Major Vallarin asked "how does that happen" and Daniel explained that only the priests would see the anomalies in the retelling that made it possible to see where to push to open the door, and demonstrated by doing so -- but he'd never mentioned any anomalies, and Vallarin's question appeared to be about how Marduk could have used Tiamat's body to form anything. Clearly, they cut out a bit of the dialogue here.

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• Where did the trinium mine come from? It's never been mentioned before (or since, as of the end of sixth season), and something like that is huge for the SGC. We should know who found it, where, what the general circumstances surrounding it were. We should at least have evidence that Area 51 is using more trinium in its experiments.

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• McKay was working with a virtual model that was built when the second gate was at Area 51.
  • When exactly was the model built, and by whom? The gate was originally supposed to have arrived sealed up, and the second time it was sealed almost immediately with SG-1 in attendance.

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I am flatly convinced that this entire episode, barring the very last minute in the lab, was a MarySue fantasy on the part of Felger. In Full Circle, Jack made some references that made it appear that Other Guys was actually canon, but I still can't bring myself to believe it; I believe that some of the events of the ep may have happened offscreen, and that Felger reworked them into his own fantasy, which is what we saw. Given that, I have no idea how much of it was and wasn't taken from reality, so there's not much I can do about putting it into the reference page. Here's why (this is rather personally slanted, obviously!):

• The credits.
  • The opening scenery during the credits uses the Vorash landscape, which is extremely distinctive (unlike other planetary landscapes that get recycled a lot, to the best of my memory we've never seen those rock formations anywhere else), with just a few changes tacked on. I find it extremely hard to believe that they decided what the hell, let's toss them onto another planet now. They were a tip-off. I figure Felger kept looking at "alien" landscapes that looked like North American forests and deserts, and latched onto pictures of Vorash as distinctively alien looking, and used that to paint his mental landscape.
• Crystals.
  • The crystals in the ring transporter at the beginning were completely wrong. The colors were off, and they looked like air-brushed holograms (that lit up/appeared one by one, sheesh), rather than hard-edged actual crystals. Felger was probably working on theoretical ring research, and had never actually seen a ring transporter with his own eyes, let along actual Goa'uld crystal technology, so was mentally extrapolating from mission and science reports. Close, but no cigar.
• Ring transporter.
  • No one on board the ship noticed that the ring transporter was being used (the signals are trackable, and none of the Jaffa were using the extremely old rings, so someone should have picked up on the fact that there were intruders on board -- but there were no search parties looking for them). No one noticed that someone shot up the ring room, either. (Granted, this is the iffiest bit of "proof", since it's never certain when Jaffa will actually show up -- but it adds to my conviction.)
• Air vents.
  • I absolutely, positively, refuse to believe that there are huge air vents running alongside the holding cells on any Goa'uld vessel, and especially that those air vents can be accessed by simply lifting a screen out of place, apparently without so much as loosening a bolt. There's just no way. And if they were standard issue, why would SG-1 never have discovered this? None of them are likely to have failed to check for possible escape routes. Or why would Teal'c not have known about it in the first place? Plus, if the vents do exist, and the shoji-screen covers are as sound-permeable as we're shown, why didn't any Jaffa notice Felger and Coombs wandering about and bickering? They weren't exactly unobtrusive. Finally, if those vents exist, Jack and Teal'c should just go die in shame now, for having sat in a basically identical cell during Revelations waiting for the captured Thor to set them free, rather than shifting a simple, lightweight screen and freeing themselves. (The ship in OG was sent out for the express purpose of capturing enemies, so presumably it had what the Goa'uld and Jaffa considered appropriate holding facilities, so it can't have been a fluke on that one ship.)
• Jaffa.
  • The Jaffa who ran into Felger and Coombs on the planet completely ignored the fact that Coombs was wearing glasses, even though there's no way he could ever have seen such a contraption, and certainly not on a Jaffa warrior. "Coombs" even went to the trouble of not wearing them to ring down to the planet and begin the walk away -- then after putting them on, he failed to take them off before turning to face the Jaffa. Felger lost track of that detail in his fantasy, too busy setting his friend up to be the nervous wreck as he managed to shoot the bad guy himself.
• Jonas.
  • Jonas, who has an opinion about everything, barely said anything at all in this one -- just what you'd expect, in a fantasy from someone who doesn't know much of anything about him. He's practically a non-entity (I had to go back and watch the battle where the team is captured about four times before I even spotted him, he's such a complete background figure). All Felger would know is that the rest of SG-1 spent a few months not liking him much, and that they tend to snark at and about him; none of them had been exactly subtle about it. I'm not happy with the "why aren't you smiling?" line, but have to believe that Jonas came back from Descent and told someone what Jack said to him, in his standard failure to understand American cultural norms. Also, Jonas goes from not having any clue why they're there ("So what now? Shouldn't we escape?" and being honestly puzzled when Jack says to just wait) to being completely in the know about the plan, down to explaining to Felger and Coombs why Khonsu couldn't get the information to the SGC directly. Felger was rewriting the story as he went along.
• Set design.
  • Something I got from a friend: there was a Klingon weapon hanging over Khonsu's "throne" (I can't confirm this personally, since I was never that much into the detail side of the fandom, but this friend is as obsessive about Trek as I am about SG, and I trust him on this). The SG effects people would never make a mistake like that; they're proud of not being Star Trek, of coming up with different things. But Felger, trapped with a Trekkie in a lab all day (and apparently not an SF fan himself, per se), might very well have just plunked in something "alien" he'd seen as a result of being around Coombs.
• Khonsu as a Tok'ra.
  • The Tok'ra never go in at such high ranks; they go undercover as very minor Goa'uld in various service, so they can move around without being noticed all that much. A Tok'ra as one of Anubis' lieutenants? Not bloody likely. Certainly not without some sort of explanation. That would make him a player in Goa'uld politics at Zipacna's or Osiris' level.
• Characterization.
  • Slightly off-kilter behavior from everyone, getting more pronounced as the ep went on. Particularly Jack (whom Felger hero-worshipped most and was least likely to actually know personally, given the way he avoids scientists): using hockey as his sports reference, which he's never done before (he uses curling and occasionally football or golf, not hockey); his perfect timing on the "wait for the minion of evil" thing; his absolutely OTT, oh-so-heroic attack on the roomful of Jaffa, who badly outnumbered his team, rather than waiting for a decent opportunity to make a break for it; his pose in front of the stargate to taunt the Jaffa (no way in hell -- Jack may love to stick it to the Jaffa, but no way would he stand there, completely still, and make such a perfect target of himself, when a horde of Jaffa were chasing him with live weapons.); etc. Just -- too many little things, all adding up to a hero-worshipper's view of perfect!snarky!hero!Jack.
  • Jack and Teal'c take out the masses of Jaffa trapping Coombs in grand action-hero sound effects. That whole thing felt like a cartoon (as did the fight around the stargate, to a slightly lesser degree). Felger didn't know how they were going to be able to save Coombs, but they're His Heroes, and they never leave anyone behind, so, voila, a few sound effects and Coombs is saved!
• Other fantasy eps.
  • The SG PTB have always been really good about giving "in" and "out" points to fantasy experiences (the gun dropping in FIAD, the flashes in Absolute Power...), and there was no "in" point in this ep, just an "out" point (Felger being poked), so I'm sticking with the entire thing being a fantasy.

I just can't find any way to justify the bizarre ring crystals, or the air vents (seriously, those were the worst thing ever!), or Jack deliberately making a target of himself for no better reason than to thumb his nose at someone, or any of the rest of it. So that's my reasoning.

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• Where did the humanoid Replicators find a white, male template to use to base themselves on? Reese was black and female, and their only basis for making themselves human.
• Time-dilation bubble extends 0.16 lightyears -- how in god's name did the X-303 escape its effects? It would form a sphere with a radius of about 939 billion miles (in comparison, the average distance of Pluto from the sun is about 4 billion miles). (Note to science types who write to me to explain this: I won't understand a word. <g> I'm a Physics for Poets type; I like the concepts, but I can't do the math. But if you can give me a clear explanation, in layman's terms, that I can put up here, I'll add it.)
• The speeded-up bubble was functioning at a factor of 10 squared, which as Sam explains, means one hour takes four days (more or less; four days is 96 hours, just under the correct duration of 100 hours). She later suggests the Replicators have been on the planet for hundreds of years, local time. This is very unlikely, since just over a year (380 days) in normal realtime would have to pass for 100 years of speeded-up local time to pass, given the speed factor of 10-squared, and from things the Asgard say in the episode, it seems more likely that only weeks, or possibly months, have passed in normal realtime.

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• Where did Maybourne get hold of all the grenades he was using?

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• If each season is a calendar year, "Disclosure" happened more or less in fall 2002. Major Davis said Daniel Jackson unlocked the stargate "eight years ago" -- which would be late 1994. This fits perfectly with movie canon, but slightly screws up show canon; in the show, Daniel is brough back from Abydos in early 1997, where he'd been for "more than a year", but not yet two years -- so the earliest he could have gone there is mid-1995.
• Kinsey has completely snapped, or something.
  • No US politician would ever insult the US military in front of allies or anyone else, and certainly not in a situation where the military was sitting right there to hear it, and the conversation was about clear and present threats to safety.
  • No US politician with a speck of political savvy -- which the chairman of the Senate Appropriateions Committee has to have -- would ever air dirty family laundry in public; he'd present a united face to outsiders no matter how much he hated Hammond et al.
  • No US senator would be stupid enough to switch Senate committees at a time when he's fully expecting to be named, any day now, as either vice-presidential or, he hopes, presidential candidate for his party -- Kinsey clearly does expect that, given the events of "Smoke & Mirrors". If he gets the nomination he expects, he'll be campaigning full time, and staying on a committee, while allowed, would make him look less than committed to the presidency (or even worse, give the impression that he expects to lose, so is hedging his bets). So actively switching committees at such a point is lunacy, unless he's withdrawn completely from the presidential race. If he hasn't, and if he wins (as he clearly expected to in Smoke & Mirrors), he'll have the power of presidential directive to change the way the SGC functions, and who it reports to. He won't need the NID, he'll have all the power himself.
    • No one hoping to become president would go out of his way to antagonize the military, of which he's hoping to soon be commander-in-chief, so badly.
  • Basically, not a single one of his actions in this episode make any remote sense, either realistically in terms of what a senator in his position would do, or in terms of his character as its been written so far. This man was an utter, certifiable, lunatic.
• The ambassadors ask if it's possible to negotiate with the Goa'uld; Davis replies that it's not, because the Goa'uld "don't negotiate". But Earth is already technically under treaty protection, after the Asgard negotiated it for us in 1999. (It's true that Anubis shows no sign that he feels bound by that treaty, or that he wants to negotiate another, but we have been under treaty protection for years at this point.)
• A meeting of such importance should/would have had higher-ranking participants; the ambassadors were all proxy heads of state, and it was pretty much insulting not to have included at least a member of the joint chiefs of staff, and someone higher ranked in the executive branch of the government. A major, a major-general, and a senator doesn't really cut it for something of this magnitude. Likewise, there should have been a higher-ranked Russian representative -- at least the Russian ambassador to the US, to provide someone of equal rank to the other ambassadors present. (Even though Chekhov did a fantastic job, this whole meeting seemed sadly lacking in diplomatic protocol.)

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• In Metamorphosis, Sergei is frowned upon for bringing a refugee back through the gate to earth without prior permission; in Forsaken, Jack decides to bring all of the refugees back (without checking with Hammond first), and when Corso refuses to leave his ship, he sends Reynard back for medical attention, again without checking with Hammond.
  • -- Possible spackling: It could be that Jack's SGC status is high enough that his approval counts as clearance, so he's the only SG leader that doesn't need to talk to Hammond specifically about bringing people back through the gate before he does it.
• Corso asks Sam what "Samantha" means; she replies "that my father wanted a boy". Either Sam's the eldest child, or the writer forgot about her brother Mark (Cold Lazarus, Seth). (Personal opinion: Given Damian Kindler's track record to date, I'm guessing he forgot, or never bothered to find out, about Mark.)
• Language: While I'm used to other races/species speaking English, and am perfectly willing to pretend that it's supposed to be translations, really, because they just don't have time to show us the tedium of translating everything, the language in this one bothered me. Most of it was fine, but Reynaud, speaking with Jonas on the base, used too many modern American casual-use terms; things like "fall for the guy who saved my life" -- it should have been "the man" and possibly "become attracted to" or "fall in love with"; "I thought you were cute way before I got shot" -- should have been "attractive" or "good-looking" or "handsome" or "pretty", and it should have been "long before"; "okay" -- it may be a fairly ubiquitous word on Earth, but I doubt it's spread across the entire galaxy just yet.

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• According to SG-1's report, Bra'tac was the only Jaffa whose symbiote was left untouched; but also according to their report, Teal'c saved them both by sharing Junior back and forth.
• New strain of tretonin:
  • How long do its effects last?
  • Can Teal'c be offworld for extended periods without it?
    • What if he gets captured?
  • How much of it do they have available, and is it possible to synthesize without actually using symbiotes?
  • If not, where are the Tok'ra getting the symbiotes to use?

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• Hyperdrive buffer:
  • Why would the SGC have sent the Prometheus out with a critical system (the hyperdrive's buffer) that was impossible to repair or replace from ship's stores, even by cannibalizing the rest of the ship? This is ridiculous; they've had nothing but problems with the hyperdrive system since they started experimenting with it, and to leave the ship that vulnerable to being stranded or, worse, blown up, makes no sense at all. (If Sam hadn't been on board, the person in charge of the hyperdrive system would probably have just bypassed it -- she sincerely suggested doing so -- which would have either gotten them even more lost because they couldn't control the energy from the naquadria, or possibly even pushed the naquadria reactor into going critical, killing them all. Even the tiny hop that Sam approved pushed the reactor into critical, and they had to dump it immediately.)
• Prometheus crew:
  • During a battle drill, Ronson addresses the other male command-crew member as "weapons officer"; later, when they're actually under attack by missiles, he calls out for weapons to be armed, and Major Gant, the female member, replies that weapons control is down.
• Where did the transport rings come from?

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• Why did Hammond wait so long to open the iris? Teams expect that as soon as they send their code, the iris will be opened and they can go through immediately. By waiting as long as he did, Hammond risked the deaths of SG-1 and SG-15. He should either have opened it immediately, or not at all.

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• Why would the Goa'uld have broken up the six Eyes in the first place? It seems more likely that whoever had original control would have maintained it, and secured him/herself a ruling position, unchallenged.
• Why would Oma Desala bother reburying the stargate on Abydos after SG-1 left? (Skaara said it would be there only long enough for SG-1 to return home, and that blast, while powerful, wasn't enough to destroy a stargate, so it was likely buried.) There would be no particular reason to return to Abydos with everyone dead (nb: this is an assumption -- it's remotely possible that those hiding in the caves survived, but I doubt it), but no particular reason to ensure that no one could, either. The only explanation I can think of is that she didn't want to leave any evidence that she had tampered there at all, but unburying a stargate seems to be much less damning proof of intervention than having ascended everyone in sight.

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