Rewatch: Trinity

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The away team visits Doranda, inhabited according to the Ancient database. McKay doesn't detect any life signs however. In orbit they find a large destroyed Wraith fleet, on the surface everything is turned into dust. Only one building is left standing and McKay recognizes it as Ancient. It looks like an improved ground based version of the weapons satellite. McKay and Zelenka find out the ancients were experimenting with high-energy physics to find the ultimate power source, harnessing vacuum energy from our own space-time. McKay is one hundred percent convinced he can finish their project. Meanwhile Teyla travels to the planet Belkan to obtain a disease-resistant strain of flaxseed. Ronon joins her and one of the Belkan negotiators tells he's not the only surviving Satedan.  [Poll #1798215]

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Back to Teyla and Ronon, they are moving through a busy section of town, probably looking for the other Satedan survivor. Yep. They are. They find him in a bar, boasting about how brave he is. Isn't it a coincidence that from a whole planet, Ronon and he recognize each other, and have a history?

He reveals that 300 other Satedans survived! Wonderful news, although it still seems like a pitifully small number, to me. But, none of these planets have a very big populations, so I guess 300 is bigger than it seems.

Only, someone has survived that it seems that Ronon wished hadn't. Ronon is playing it close to the vest, though.

Back on the outpost, Rodney is going ahead with experiments. Some people are concerned but he's brushing them off. He sends a man in to do something, and I have a bad feeling about it...oh, yeah - this isn't good.

Spike in power knocks the guy out that Rodney sent in. He doesn't survive. That's got to be hard - to have an order you gave lead to someone's death. Everyone is very subdued and trying to figure everything out. rodney is insisting that there needs to be more tests.

John doesn't like that idea, but Rodney is obsessed with this discovery, and isn't willing to let it go, no matter what. I do like the tiny break in his voice when he talks about being responsible for Collins' death. Very beautifully done. The rest of what he's saying is scaring me, because he's lost all his reason. He can only see one tiny, narrow, viewpoint of this project, and can't see the failings. Or that the ancients abandoned it, which they had to have a very good reason to do. He thinks he knows better than they do, and that is very dangerous thinking.