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Further to Dougal_95's noting of the stargate on the Wraith ship, it should also be noted that tthis is not the first instance of an operational stargate being found on a ship (Season 1, Episode 21 - Within The Serpent's Grasp). N:B - it is also worth noting that there was a functioning Stargate on-board a Wraith Hive Ship in the final episode of Stargate Atlantis (Enemy at the Gate), so SGU is 'not' the first example of a Stargate being on-board a spaceship.

Unfortunately, we never have the chance to see this happen, so all we really know for certain is that the Stargate on-board Destiny is a very early version created by the Ancients and is able to connect with other, similar models when they are in-range. This is due to the low levels of power that Destiny has after hundreds of thousands of years of floating adrift if, however, the power levels were to be restored to their maximum, a wormhole could possibly be established to Earth. Simply put, the Stargate on-board Destiny only works when the ship is within range of a planet that also has a Stargate. Rush (although it isn't 'directly' explained - it's simply meant to be one of those things that you pick up on: 'If I'm right, the Gate should begin to dial any moment'). This is a common cause of confusion, explained at an early stage by Dr. 'New Kind of Crazy' which aired on November 19, 2009. On the Offical Stargate website there is a web episode that resolves the issues in 'Time' It is Kino Diary 18 called

successfully used the venom to cure the infection before it spread beyond control. There was no second part to the episode 'Time', and viewers were expected to assume from it's ending that the Destiny received Scott's message and T.J. Some viewers seemed to feel that the resolution of the issues in 'Time' needed to be explicitly spelled out and detailed on screen. When the episode 'Life' aired there was no mention of the infection, the time loops, or the jungle planet. The episode ended with Young and Greer having been killed by the creature and Scott sending a message back in time through a malfunctioning stargate. This would explain the 'in range' situation nicely, as stellar drift would not matter if you are in the vicinity of these seeded gates.Дuring the episode 'Time', it was revealed that the entire crew was infected with a virus picked up from the ice planet but that the venom of an alien creature from the jungle planet they were on could cure the infection.

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It could also be possible that, lacking a DHD, these stargates would not be included in the automatic update process to compensate for stellar (and galactic) drift, as mentioned in Stargate: SG1. Destiny has at least one handheld device which can be used to dial the gate from a planet. It should be noted, however, that the world bound gates lack a DHD and seem to operate independently of any external power source. In the episode Lost, it is shown that the planetbound gates are similarly limited in range. Apparently the gate on Destiny is only able to dial gates within a limited distance (similar in concept to the reimagined Battlestar Galactica's 'Red Line'). The gates in the Milky Way and the Pegasus galaxy were subtly different from each other and it makes sense that the gates for Destiny, which were developed at a different time than the other gates, would be different as well. The stargate on Destiny, and the ones on the planets she encounters, would seem to be different. The stargates seen on Stargate: SG1 and Stargate: Atlantis have galactic ranges, and are able to dial any other gate in their galaxy regardless of distance. When Young sees his reflection in the window of a car it is Telford's body he sees. While we typically see the actor whose personality is in that body everyone else sees the body itself. Young is in Telford's body on Earth and Telford is in Young's on Destiny. So when Colonel Young uses the stones he has switched personalities with Colonel Telford.

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The producers show the effect of the stones by showing us the person whose personality is in that location (this is along the same lines as the way we see the body of Sam Beckett instead of those of his hosts on the '90s TV show Quantum Leap). Colonel Young and Dr Rush have used the stones to communicate with Earth. They work by switching personalities between the person with the stone and someone with another stone.

These devices, known as communications stones, were made for instantaneous communication across interstellar, and even intergalactic, distances.

The group stuck on destiny have a set of five devices created by the alien species the Ancients.

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