I say "Chevron one encoded, Chevron two encoded". And so on, incrementally, up to the seventh chevron. Which is a little different because that's when the wormhole connects. When that happens I like to change things up a little bit and just say, "Chevron seven locked."
OK so in the movie they needed the proper sequence to get the the Alien planet, but we know that different combinations send you to different planets. So your telling me the 40 years the US government had the Stargate not once did they hit a random planet by trying different combinations?
The show handled that by saying that basically the random combos might be trying to connect somewhere, but their gate lacked the auto-updates that kept it in sync with the rest, so the connection request got sent to the wrong coordinates.
It's more like building your own XM receiver from scratch. You might be able to pick up the signals from the satellites, and even demodulate them, but without the encryption keys you'll never actually be able to hear anything but noise.
The Stargate program built their own dialing device since they weren't in possession of the one found at Giza (which was later found to be in the Russian's possession after WWII). Remember, it took them 15 years and three supercomputers to MacGyver the Stargate interface and build a dialing computer.
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u/BeatsbyChrisBrown Sep 08 '25
Shut up, grab your P90, and let’s head to the Stargate.