That quote is one of my favorite moments of SG1. It defines the series imo: this is not Star Trek. The captain can’t just ask Scotty to get it done.
The commentaries on regular episodes are fantastic, and if you’re able to find them I highly recommend checking them out. There are a ton of them and by the end you feel like you know the creative team personally. You get a very different view of the show, with a lot of great film/tv tradecraft being shared too.
One of the best things about the DVD commentary tracks was how much love Siler got.
“But Charlie, don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted.”
“What happened?”
“He lived happily ever after.”
At the late great Robert Anton Wilson would say when making the motion of the cross: “Spectacles, testicles, brandy, cigars.”
One adjacent term is “frisson”: when it’s so sublimely awesome it gives you chills.
It says so much that on July 9, 2026, the aspect of Platner she decided to highlight as problematic was…his support for Ukraine?
I just saw one earlier this afternoon:
You seem like someone who would be prepared if gravity reversed itself.
Love this line from the wiki article: ‘A secretary he had interviewed for the piece said that a technical representative from Xerox had warned her "not to be afraid of the 914 because the machine would sense her fear and, like a mischievous child, misbehave."’
Pretty sure you’re thinking of tzdb, the time zone database: https://onezero.medium.com/the-largely-untold-story-of-how-one-guy-in-california-keeps-the-worlds-computers-on-the-right-time-a97a5493bf73
An adjacent and thematically resonant story is the volunteer effort that powers curl, which so many people use: https://thenewstack.io/the-world-runs-20-billion-instances-of-curl-wheres-the-support/
When the first DVD cracking util was released, DeCSS, it violated the DMCA and people were getting sued and threatened with felonies for sharing it. Very quickly people figured out loopholes to make it an archivable creative work, like putting it on tshirts and encoding it as a prime number: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime
The scariest part is this lack of safety culture spans multiple national labs.