We never see the wormhole in Stargate, at least under SG1 canon. It's microscopic and simply used for transporting a matter stream. The ring field is a matter destabalizer and recombinator, pretty much the same thing as Star Trek transporters. Thats why radio waves can move two-way but matter is one-way.
Now if you're using Movie canon, yeah, it's broke.
Also, Marvel? Those aren't wormholes, they're magic portals.
It seems that Stargates are not only responsible for forming and maintaining wormholes (but only for 38 seconds and only one-directional!) but also the same concept as Star Trek transporters, as far as deconstructing everything to sub-atomic levels, "pattern buffers" to store them all, and reconstituting them on the other side.
Stargate SG-1 and its precursor film were interesting distractions for me, but the lore was too complex and it all just relied so, so heavily on that Stargate network and the USA being in control of a central one.
I am currently rewatching Babylon 5 as it drops on YouTube for free, and I enjoy the jump gates and hyperspace as a highly-simplified plot device for how they can ship stuff, and transport people, around the solar system and around the galaxy. Also, Babylon 5 retains a Star Wars-inspired dichotomy of capital ships that can form own jump points, vs. support vessels that can't.
Interestingly, the two contemporary series shared the lore of being "found technology" created by ancient races who ascended long ago.
Isn't the whole CG effect of flying through a magical tube seeing the wormhole?
Although the explanation of how it all works is rather inconsistent in Stargate. Initially, gate travel was something that people experienced and it was only later changed to being dematerialised.
I don’t think so, or maybe it was… IDK anymore. Now I’ll have to go rewatch it.
It definitely is explained as described above. The gate itself, the “event horizon” is all part of the apparatus for accessing the wormhole, not the wormhole itself. I forget the episode, but there is one where something happens due to the fact that they recreated/reverse engineered the “brains” of the device with human design (missing some key failsafes) and some of them get stuck in the “buffer” (dematerialized state) until it’s figured out how to reconstitute them.
Yeah, that's right and I believe that was the episode that introduced McKay. I've been binging Stargate over the last month or so, so it's pretty fresh.
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We never see the wormhole in Stargate, at least under SG1 canon. It's microscopic and simply used for transporting a matter stream. The ring field is a matter destabalizer and recombinator, pretty much the same thing as Star Trek transporters. Thats why radio waves can move two-way but matter is one-way.
Now if you're using Movie canon, yeah, it's broke.
Also, Marvel? Those aren't wormholes, they're magic portals.
There is a whole lot of technical mumbo-jumbo in the Fandom Wiki: https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Stargate#Technical_specific...
It seems that Stargates are not only responsible for forming and maintaining wormholes (but only for 38 seconds and only one-directional!) but also the same concept as Star Trek transporters, as far as deconstructing everything to sub-atomic levels, "pattern buffers" to store them all, and reconstituting them on the other side.
Stargate SG-1 and its precursor film were interesting distractions for me, but the lore was too complex and it all just relied so, so heavily on that Stargate network and the USA being in control of a central one.
I am currently rewatching Babylon 5 as it drops on YouTube for free, and I enjoy the jump gates and hyperspace as a highly-simplified plot device for how they can ship stuff, and transport people, around the solar system and around the galaxy. Also, Babylon 5 retains a Star Wars-inspired dichotomy of capital ships that can form own jump points, vs. support vessels that can't.
Interestingly, the two contemporary series shared the lore of being "found technology" created by ancient races who ascended long ago.
Isn't the whole CG effect of flying through a magical tube seeing the wormhole?
Although the explanation of how it all works is rather inconsistent in Stargate. Initially, gate travel was something that people experienced and it was only later changed to being dematerialised.
I don’t think so, or maybe it was… IDK anymore. Now I’ll have to go rewatch it.
It definitely is explained as described above. The gate itself, the “event horizon” is all part of the apparatus for accessing the wormhole, not the wormhole itself. I forget the episode, but there is one where something happens due to the fact that they recreated/reverse engineered the “brains” of the device with human design (missing some key failsafes) and some of them get stuck in the “buffer” (dematerialized state) until it’s figured out how to reconstitute them.
Yeah, that's right and I believe that was the episode that introduced McKay. I've been binging Stargate over the last month or so, so it's pretty fresh.