Rising - Before the gate

[melagan.livejournal.com]

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This picture makes me smile. The expressions! The body language! Bonus: John Sheppard - virgin gate traveler.

You'd think the SGA would have given him some gate practice ahead of time. Not so. The dialogue makes it clear that this is Major Sheppard's first trip through the Stargate. He's got every reason to have that expression on his face.

What's less clear is who else makes that 'virgin' list. Dr. Weir? Rodney McKay?

Is there a story out there about that? Because that would be cool.

Comments

[busaikko]

Poor John... he's also the only one wearing those particular BDUs, isn't he? It's like a visual form of ostracism... I loved how Ford teased him about going through the gate, though you're right, John should have been trained before he was sent off. I guess people were busy, but still.

[melagan.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Priorities seemed a little off.

Although, I suppose walking into a city that lights up for you isn't exactly a bad first time. *g*

[timespirt.livejournal.com]

I remember Rodney going through the gate with Sam once in an SG-1 episode and they were rescued by the rest of SG-1.

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[melagan.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I felt fairly sure he had experience with spaceship travel but I was uncertain about the gate travel.

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[timespirt.livejournal.com]

Oh, I remember that ep because he was acting like the old arrogant Rodney and was trying to hit on Sam in that ep.

[melagan.livejournal.com]

I've just read through the transcripts of 48 hours, Redemption 1 and Redemption 2. These are the only episodes of SG-1 that Rodney McKay appears in.

Sorry hon, there's absolutely no reference, by any of the characters, of Rodney ever traveling through the Stargate. Is it possible you're remembering fanon not canon?

[timespirt.livejournal.com]

He is listed in all of these on the IMDB


48 Hours (5 December 2001)
Redemption: Part 1 (7 June 2002)
Redemption: Part 2 (14 June 2002)
Moebius: Part 1 (15 February 2005)
Moebius: Part 2 (22 February 2005)
The Pegasus Project (28 July 2006)
The Road Not Taken (23 January 2007)


I remember him being on another planet with Sam and the rest of SG-1 coming to the rescue in a pel'tac I think the ship was called. It was not a fanon thing. I can see it in my mind. I'm just going to have to watch those eps to check...such a hardship. LOL

[melagan.livejournal.com]

Thanks hon.

I hadn't thought of the Pegasus Project because it took place after they went to Atlantis but maybe there's an reference to earlier. I'll check out the transcript.

Moebius: Part 1, Moebius: Part 2, and The Road Not Taken are all alternate universes. I love their Rodneys just as much, but it's not what I'm currently looking for.

[timespirt.livejournal.com]

Cool.

[popkin16]

At first I thought, "A lot of fics mention how it was Rodney's first time through the gate too," but the more I think about it, the more I doubt myself. Hm...

Still, it's something that should be fully explored :P

[melagan.livejournal.com]

Did you see the above comment? timespirt mentioned that he went through the gate in SG. I'm going to have to rewatch that episode. *g*

We do know it's his first time as part of a gate team and the first time in another galaxy.

(love your icon)

[popkin16]

I did! I don't remember that episode, to be honest? Is timespirit sure it wasn't an AU episode? Hmmm.

Yess. I REALLY wish we could have seen John invite Rodney to be on his gate team :P

[melagan.livejournal.com]

I don't trust my memory. I have to do a rewatch and see if I missed a something. Oh the hardship.

I too would have loved to see that moment when John asked Rodney to be on his team.

[popkin16]

I've seen all of Rodney's appearances up to s8 (I just finished the s7 finale. And s8 of SG1 is where SGA comes in). I don't recall Rodney going through the gate? But my memory may be failing me too.

Yeaah. Part of me thinks John would have told Rodney to be in the gateroom, geared up, at the appropriate time. But that means John wouldn't have taken the time to pre-train Rodney, and that's just not John. John would teach Rodney to shoot, first.

[melagan.livejournal.com]

Good memory!

I've gone through the transcripts of all the SG-1 episodes Rodney appeared in and can't find any reference from any of the characters that Rodney McKay ever went through the Stargate.

[popkin16]

It was perhaps an AU episode then, maybe.

[fanarts-series.livejournal.com]

In my headcanon Liz and Rodney aren't virgin gate, they gone a few times, Rodney for science with SG1 for exemple and Liz to deal diplomatic missions with our allies.

But in canon i don't remember Rodney having already gone on mission.

[melagan.livejournal.com]

I am reading through the 48 Hours, Redemption 1 & Redemption 2 transcripts while I have my morning coffee. I could very well miss something onscreen, what with all the Rodney McKay ogling I tend to do when watching the show, which is why I'm reading instead of watching. *g*

I'll let you know what I find out.

[fanarts-series.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much Melagan.

[melagan.livejournal.com]

I've gone through the transcripts and can't find any reference from any of the characters that Rodney McKay ever went through the Stargate.

I haven't checked for Elizabeth, but she did seem very comfortable about walking through the gate with Col. Sumner.

[fanarts-series.livejournal.com]

It must happened off screen or it's so fanon that we think of this as a really.

[falcon-horus.livejournal.com]

Belgian flag in the back! (between Stackhouse and the Colonel)

Sheppard was barely cleared to fly O'Neill from McMurdo to the Antartic base so he was not even aware there was such a thing as a stargate, let alone an actual city called Atlantis (not the mythical one by Plato).

I always assumed Rodney had gate experience. Don't know about Elizabeth. Ford obviously did. Laura Cadman perhaps as well (another one of my assumptions, I might add, so fanon not canon).

Kate was a couple's therapist at some point in her lifetime so I have to say n00b at gate travelling.

[melagan.livejournal.com]

Belgian flag in the back

I always love when we get glimpses of the international component of the expedition.

As for Rodney's gate experience, after going through the SG-1 McKay episode transcripts, I can honestly say that there's no canon support for any previous gate travel.

In Rising Elizabeth seemed very prepared to walk through the gate so I have to wonder if she had some off-world diplomatic experiences under her belt.

Could be there's some stories here that need to be written *g*