Stargate SG-1 "Covenant" Talkback (Spoilers)

[Duke]

Season 8 of Stargate SG-1 is here, and it may be the final ride for General Jack O'Neil, Colonel Samantha Carter, Dr. Daniel Jackson, and Teal'c. Can they protect the Earth from the Gao'uld and the Replicators?

After years of keeping the Stargate, and any activity around it, a secret, the SGC has been revealed to the public! I guess Wormhole X-Treme bombed. A nosy reporter named Alec Colson, tired of watching MacGuyver reruns, has uncovered the secrets of what's inside the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, and has revealed just what has been hidden for years. Was this an accident, or intentional? Will this affect how the SGC will work from now on?

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[Wounded_Dragon]

While I don't think the general public would be ready for the news, what conditions are they actually using? If people waited for the "right time" to do something as huge as revealing the Stargate, nothing important would ever get done.

[Duke]

I really liked this episode (partially because I love it when Earthlings get introduced to the Stargate and are amazed), but something bothers me.

Where's Ba'al? I thought he was supposed to be the big, bad Gao'uld this season, yet he hasn't shown up since the premiere (wait, he didn't show up in that, did he?).

Also, where's Chronos? I thought he surrendered to the SGC...

[Master Moron]

I really don't think telling the public about the Stargate would create mass panic. I think it would give people a newfound sense of wonder. Just knowing that there's other, possibly better worlds out there may give some people a reason to live. As for the threat of total annhilation, well, there were a lot of documentaries made during World War II that were partly propaganda that made very real the threat that Germany and Japan could take over the U.S. I don't think the entire country panicked.

[Wounded_Dragon]

I really don't think telling the public about the Stargate would create mass panic. I think it would give people a newfound sense of wonder. Just knowing that there's other, possibly better worlds out there may give some people a reason to live. As for the threat of total annhilation, well, there were a lot of documentaries made during World War II that were partly propaganda that made very real the threat that Germany and Japan could take over the U.S. I don't think the entire country panicked.
And yet there was enough fear to create concentration camps for Japanese Americans...

Germany and Japan were still human based threats. Threats we could wrap our minds around. Threats limited by our experience (they're only human).

There'd be no such limitation on the fear alien invaders would cause. "The sky is the limit" would no longer be the case when people would imagine how dangerous the aliens could be.

In addition, if the truth had come out in Colson's scenario, the general public's trust in the government would take a massive hit, especially if the govt. tried to say they had everything under control.