Rewatch: Trinity
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
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::giggles:: Oh, wow. Rodney, as a team veteran is giving the newbie (Ronon, who else) advice that it's better to fly on an empty stomach, inertial dampeners or not. Though I didn't quite catch what Rodney was saying about frozen dinners.
Teyla's smiling ... to herself. And she's in the co-pilot seat again. ::sighs:: It was really wonderful to see her being used in different functions in S2, aka the good old days.
Rodney's nutritional advice is interrupted by John who wants to know if he's actually doing his job. The nerve. No matter, he's not reading any life signs. Teyla informs them (and us) that the Dorandans, according to the Atlantis database, were a "wonderful race of people". Rodney dismisses the current-day application of the database, considering that it IS 10,000 years old.
Something grabs Ronon's attention. He warns John who spots what's ahead. Debris just floating in space including, according to Teyla, a Hive ship. So ... there was a great battle here. There are a lot of holes in the hull of the Hive ship. So what could have done such damage? John says they're going to check it out.
Rodney doesn't care for those instructions because what if whatever put holes in the Hive ship puts holes in them. John looks wary but reassures Rodney that "a lot's changed in 10,000 years" before heading down to the world.
The ship flies over the burned out surface under a murky sky. Ronon says that's what "usually happens when you fight back". He would know. Teyla looks sad, but - hey - she knows too.
This isn't making sense to John, considering "these folks" (the Dorandans?) "took out a fleet of Wraith ships" which would indicate a "pretty good job of fighting back".
Then Rodney starts picking up "faint energy readings" and points to where they were coming from. Everybody looks at something we can't see very intently. And Rodney explains why they were able to put up such a good fight. "Because they were Ancients." Huh? John turns to give him a perplexed look as lightning crackles and lights up the sky. The jumper continues towards its destination. Now that TPTB have all of us confused, let's hit the opening credits.
When the action resumes, we see the outside of a low squarish building, the lower levels are a long oblong with a shorter rectangle finally topped by what looks like a Star Wars weapons firing assembly.
They climb down a ladder, flashlights on. Rodney says it's definitely Ancient and the latest stuff. Mind you, that's still 10,000 years old. John says it resembles the labs they found on Atlantis and Ronon figures it was one of their outposts. Which leads Teyla to wonder why the presence of the "Ancestors" wasn't recorded in the database. Why indeed.
John wants answers and asks if Rodney can power it up. Hey, Rodney's always eager to learn about new stuff.
At this point we see this episode was written by Damian Kindler. He's the single guest on the audio commentary, along with one of TPTB. I may rewatch (but not tonight) and add additional comments if he reveals some interesting tidbits.
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John looks wary but reassures Rodney that "a lot's changed in 10,000 years I liked that John basically says the same thing Rodney did to reassure him.
*sigh* and now my husband is home. Hopefully I'll be able to steal a few more minutes before the rewatch commences tonight.
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