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

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Meanwhile, on Balkon, Teyla's dealing with touch negotiators. The Balkons want the approximation of "indentured servitude" since they can't get any technology or weapons and indicate an end to negotiations. Well, Ronon's got a point to make about that. The point of a knife striking the tabletop. Ronon insists that Teyla's offer is fair. After a tiny standoff, we see Teyla and Ronon striding off, carrying some sacs. So Ronon was being helpful, it seems. Well, not according to Teyla. She's pissed at him. Did Ronon think he was coming to her rescue? Ronon claims they were taking advantage of her, but Teyla disagrees. She "wanted" them to think that. She insists that the process is a delicate one even if the words spoken are "often meaningless". They're interrupted as Teyla's friend shows up to say it was a "mistake" to force the leader's hand. Teyla sighs and says she knows. She mentions that Ronon is not Athosian but the only survivor of Sateda. Her friend indicates that Ronon is not the only survivor of Sateda. Her friend mentions there's a man in the same village who claims to be from there.

Back on Atlantis, Liz approaches Chuck. John's checking in but lets Rodney do the talking. Now we see Rodney's face all lit up, because of "the greatest discovery of all time". John adds, "He's pretty excited." And then there's another familiar screencap of Rodney mid-chuckle (I have an icon of it that I call "Rodney-beautiful"). Rodney sends a databurst in a transmission directly to his lab. Liz sees stuff flash across the large display screen and wants to be filled in. John says it's a weapon but Rodney says it's much more than that. He says it's "the ultimate power source, something that would make Zero Point Modules seem like alkaline batteries". The music grows in intensity as Liz ponders the magnitude of such a discovery.

Now, a shot of the city from another angle. In a meeting somewhere within its walls, Rodneys giving a mini-lecture on "Project Arcturus" whose "ultimate goal was to render ZedPMs obsolete". Liz asks the question everybody wants answered. "How?" Okay, time for more sciencebabble from Rodney. Just as he starts, we see Col. Caldwell is present, too. Radek adds his own explanation, aka "making it potentially as powerful as the scope of the universe itself".

Well, Steven's skeptical about the order in which the Ancients tried to do stuff like it before ZPMs. Rodney replies that they may have, but it's a lot trickier with ZedPMs. Liz wants to know why it's "trickier". Radek jumps in, "Because we actually have to live in our universe, it presents a whole range of problems."

After a tiny remark from Steven and John, Rodney cuts back in, because he said he wanted to do "all the talking". And we get the first crack in the wall of solidarity between John and Rodney. More talk.

Then Rodney holds his thumb and index finger only an inch apart to indicate that the Ancients were "this close" to finishing the weapon. Okay, so John's back to looking intrigued at the possibilities. Liz ask the question whether Rodney believes he can finish their work. Rodney says, "I do." Radek corrects him, "We do." John offers a handy summary to Steven. "They do."