This is why people need to just stop being lazy. Representative democracy is monarchy and dictators with extra steps and leeches. The only democracy that can actually exist is if everyone votes on everything and to effect any change you need a high percentage of people voting. Government is there to be your servant, not your leader. Anyone who calls for or calls themselves leaders deserves to be put in a hole in the ground and nothing else. All you need is people to do what the people have decreed. Any process in between those two steps is not actual democracy. How people let themselves be convinced that representative democracy should be a thing and that it isn't just the same thing they already had with extra garbage attached, I have no idea. It's literally just a series of kings and despots telling you they're the best one, and to please let them have power over you. But if you don't give people power over you, they don't have it to use. Stop being lazy and take your power back and there won't be power to corrupt. Stop pretending Russia and China and North Korea isn't just more obvious about it. Different country same flavor.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely

"It's easier to pretend at virtue and acquire power than it is to demonstrate morality and earn authority."

He's wrong. It's both... kind of. Those who seek power are attracted by positions of power, no question. But holding a position of power also carries with it the temptation of using it to achieve one's ends, and thus it reveals the corruption inherent in the human soul.

Power enables. I believe it was Lincoln who said that anyone could face adversity. If you want to know a man's true nature, give him power.

Right to the heart too.

*Listen, we all know Jack has always been a asinine, dumbass who's only intellectually capable of pulling triggers on weapons, but Daniel allowed Jack to stay alive long enough to see him become the new system lord Anubis who destroyed Earth after starting WW3 first by killing all of the Russians, because it's 2021& its been long overdue time to get the WW3 party started, we prophecy believing doomsday group long for the fire.*

........ and Daniel shielded the chair because he already knew how this would play out.

@@mnomadvfx He likely had it shielded no matter what.

*Our Business Is Life Itself*

I feel like it was the ten thousand years of narcissistic goa'uld memories that corrupted more than the power.

Everyone is capable of doing evils, just look at the stanford prison experiment. Power definitely corrupts even more

The people who could handle the power without being corrupted are also generally the people who reject it to begin with.

What is "power" though? Telling other monkeys to act like whatever monkey instincts you come up with? Or is it having a lot of wealth, so that your procreation and offspring well being monkey instincts could be satisfied? I disagree, I believe no life form in the history of earth has achieved real power, yet. It's all just instincts that boil down to; procreation and survival. We are close to creating something that has actual power. When we will create nanotechnology capable of matter conversion, and combine it with self improving general AI, then whatever will emerge, will have power, to do anything, be anything, and create everything.

@@Effect-Without-Cause If you had the opportunity to live in a perfect sanctuary without bothering anyone else, would you seize that opportunity? That is a kind of power.

Yeeeee

He emphasizes education!

@@Ragitsu And for those who prove to be disloyal, re-education!

Daniel probably selected them for exactly that purpose from the beginning. He and Carter had episodes demonstrating that if given absolute power in some form they were scary smart with it Daniel's moment being this episode, and Carter's being her replicator clone.

@@benjaminbierley2074 Ironically Daniel actually did beat RepliCarter. If he had been set on controlling her rather than so many replicators she would have been unable to leave the 'dream space' and would have remained unable to kill him.

@@mnomadvfx SG1 Carters weakness was pretty clear. She was always hesitant when it came to making decisions. Battle is one thing your on auto pilot mode but in power situations where you can think she always needed help to steer in the right direction. This is the main reason carter is a lovable character. She has flaws like any other person. Shes super smart but she has very basic weakness anyone can exploit. Its a good lesson in writing a strong female character. All characters need weakness as well as strengths to be enjoyed by many. Jackson's weakness are pretty well shown also.

Which whilst he's ascended means literal eternity

Multiple life sentences? Danny boi just became supreme ruler of Earth, didn't you know? Give it a few generations and he would become like Kim Jong Un in absolute power/control. Except for the entire planet.

he just has to sell some illegal weapons to 3rd world countries to be forgiven.

Advanced weapons are easily the worst plot hole in SG1. If they could engineer an entire new destroyer class space ship then they could have done away with those projectile guns and missiles. Literally the only reason to keep projectile guns was replicators - and considering what the replicators were capable of that was easily the dumbest vulnerability in sci fi ever.

They'd slowly learned, between "Tangent" and "Absolute Power" the Tau'ri have learned what to use and what not to use. To quote/paraphrase Sel'mak from "Tangent;" "You can't just stick a US Air Force sticker on it and say 'this is ours.'" After each season and episode they learn lessons from each piece of advanced technology, unlike the AG satellites here the Prometheus and Daedalus were Earth-built with selective non-human systems

@@mnomadvfx like Thor said on the show, "The Asgard have tried to stop them. You have demonstrated their weakness may be found from a less sophisticated approach. We are no longer capable of such thinking."

Prometheus didn't have the most powerful Asgard weapons they weren't as strong as proper Asgard ships. Just enough to take on threats in the Milkyway. Even replicators weren't interested in Prometheus. The other ships were more powerful, that got developed in the series. But they had an Asgard on board the ships.

It wasnt about the weapons tech, it was about the genetic memory of the aliens and how our personalities are shaped by our memories. 30 years of Jacksons memories vs 50,000 years of G'ould memories x2 altered his personality

Even Jack doesn't want to see a city of Russian people vaporized.

He dislikes Russia, understandable given that he fought in the Cold War, however, Jack is a good person he would never condone death on that scale.

A scholarly overlord, at that.

Don’t blame me! ~I~ voted for Jonas

A HOT overlord.

Hahaha, I wouldnt mind him being a system lord , at all.

Agreed

That is the thing about power, it can cloud your judgment. That is why you must be grounded to principles and basic truths that you don't break. You must be anchored to something, because you can't be anchored to yourself.

This outcome was in some way foreshadowed in the episode, if in the cryptic language of a being ascended at Keb. In his conversation with Shifu earlier in the pisode, Daniel asks for the knowledge of the Gua'ould, stating that the music doesn't play the musician. Shifu's answer; normally there's truth in that. So basically, this music, i.e. this knowledge, WILL play the musician, i.e. Daniel.

Actually, that was a part of Daniel’s true nature. One of Daniel’s side is more alike with the gua’uld than the humanist side we see usually. Jack is fully aware of that side of Daniel. Jack even shot him dead because of it, in one of the alternate realities episode.

@@bobbiusshadow6985 Well, that fits within the episode too I suppose, Shifu again refers to this; the evil on one's minde being to great to resist. I think there's very little further evidence for this thoughout the episodes of SG1 though, but does fit within this episode.

The only thing wrong is that he took out Moscow. How do your enemies leaders cowtow when you’ve killed them. Should have blown up st Petersburg

lol, didnt the actor of here also played another goauld later

The point of the episode was not that power corrupts, it was that it was impossible for Shifu to use his genetic Goa'Uld knowledge for good, because he also had all the bad stuff that came with said knowldge. Even if he wanted to be good, he would eventually succumb to his endless memories of other Goa'Uld taking great pleasure in torturing and killing people. He would be influenced by, and slowly become like all the other Goa'Uld. "The true nature of a man is determined in the battle between his conscious mind and his subconscious, and the evil in my subconscious (the Goa'Uld genetic memory), is too strong to resist. The only way to win, is to deny it battle" as Shifu and Daniel states when he comes out of the dream sequence after this scene.

No the point wasn't power per se - the point was that the knowledge of the Goauld comes with the price of the memories that contain it, and the corrupting influence of the personality that those memories belonged to. Oma Desala (through the harsesis) was showing Daniel that the knowledge to defend Earth would come at a price he would not care to pay prior to it.

Here here.

Shooting down the ICBM's would not make it clear to the Russians. They would try to find other ways and war would still happen. Think of it as cancer, you just don't cut out the tendrils, you cut out all of it, even the healthy tissue around the cancer to prevent any future events. By targeting Moscow, Daniel removed all leadership in an instant that could commence war onto him and his allies. Sure, in WW2 we could of used only one nuke, but using two was a display of power that no one else had. It served as a message, telling your enemy you can remove them from this planet or they can submit to total defeat. It was biblical in every sense that type of power, and when you have the power of the gods, everyone will obey. Besides, for you socialist's out there, with Daniel knocking out every opposing countries military, they now can sink those funds that would of been for the military, into health care and homes. In a way, Daniel was saving the planet from itself. Even though the means was morally corrupt and evil.

Far too many of them, from far too many places. Most out of range.

There was no GOOD reason. It was a show of force and a warning to others not to try anything. It makes perfect sense within his plan and current mindset.

Would you be ready to risk millions of lives on that hypothesis

If they were targeting the US, certainly. But you can do sub-orbital shots on targets in Europe that might be much harder to intercept. Or similar short-range shots using forward-deployed ballistic-missile submarines. Or cruise-missiles. Lots of delivery options that aren't easy targets for orbital weapons.

Galadriel, as well.

@@Ragitsu Touché.

@@Ragitsu Tolkien Galadriel or Bezos Galadriel?

Didn't she die in an "accident" in this episode, I'm sure she died after protesting the weapons dangers.

"Cater" ?

@@claudecalgarySarm Cater.

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Target has been eliminated😎

Remember Anubis's super weapon?

Because while the Goa'Uld have the technology to build incredibly devastating weapons, it doesn't fit their idea of warfare. Weapons of terror, and all that. They would rather take a thousand shots to level a city than only one. Objectively it's less dangerous, but subjectively it means many of the survivors will remember seeing a rain of fire from the sky as explosions go off all around them. And they'll tell others about that experience. They want to dominate, not annihilate. Except Anubis. Anubis was built different.

It's honestly a bit of a forgettable episode, part of the also-forgettable Harcesis arc. Basically everything that happens in this episode is just Daniel being shown a spooky vision of a hypothetical future, which means we get a "It was all a dream"-ending, which makes the whole Harcesis storyline kind of pointless. It's an easy episode to forget as a result.

@@HellbirdIV That said, that shock factor of Emperor Daniel destroying Moscow helps to keep it at least _somewhat_ memorable.

It really was forgettable. Daniel centric episodes usually are and this was no exception 🙄

@@melissadavis18 Ouch.

it just revealed Daniel’s true nature

He's got advanced shielding; he's going to be fine.

@@Ragitsu Yes "he" would be fine. What about the rest?

I’m 100% sure Daniel planned for that.

@@LEDC5000 fixed ... lol 😅

you miss the point entirely

Pocket Nuke in Sub-Basement 4, inside the locked cupboard labelled “Uninterruptible Power Supply Annexe”. Give it both a command detonate and timed capacity; if the carrier wave is lost it starts a 24h countdown.

This what happens when you trust a higher intelligent alien being with this much power.

Very few people can authorize a nuclear strike, and the codes they would use would take a few minutes to relay. They didn't have a few minutes.

@@ThePathStrider The balance of power became *very* one-sided.

This system base on sattelitetes rocket to inform launch silo. Sattelitetes can easily be terminated by goauld laser station.

But modern version using Hypersonic maneuver nuclear reactor engine complex. It's now can't be normal tracking because of ping and light diffraction causes some desynchronized image. That's why hypersonic so deadly - 10min, mark 20, and possibly high energy resistance.

@@ThePathStrider I think he was referring to a dead man's hand system .

Awesome sail.

Why are you fond of Season 8?

@@Ragitsu Well, first off, it was a very Anubis-centric season. Also, it was the introduction of Tealc's hair (which I loved by the way) It was also the dramatic return of the replicator Fifth and the introduction of Repli-Carter. The Jaffa finally broke free from their enslavement to the Goa'uld and started their own fledgling nation. We finally learned why Anubis was allowed to run amuck in the Milky Way Galaxy (being used to punish Oma for breaking the rules of the Ancients) We saw Anubis in his original host body 'Jim' which none of us saw coming. We also saw how ascended beings brawl with each other for the first time. We learned about the super weapon built by the Ancients on Dakara. And everything came full circle when the 'great' Lord Ra (tho in an old timeline) made one last return reminding us all how cool he is or was (whichever) Season 8 rocked! The perfect Swan-song for that original show before the rise of the Ori. ✌️

@@QoQabai658 I find it difficult to stick with _Stargate SG-1_ past the first quarter of Season 7.

It's gone, however.

That has more to do with his near compatibility to Ancient physiology than his intelligence which still isn't so great. The act of doing so would have killed him on both occasions. Both times it was the intervention of the Asgard prevented it - ie a super advanced alien race. Also Daniel had a similar level of knowledge unload into his brain while under duress from RepliCarter and ended up using it to temporarily control not just her, but the entire replicator horde thereby giving Carter and Selmac time to finish tuning the Dakara superweapon to wipe out replicators. To say that the feats are WILDLY different in difficulty is a dramatic understatement. I doubt Daniel would have survived the Ancient repository downloading into his brain much longer than Jack if he was compatible - but I do think that he would have retained more control over himself.

What I've wondered since "The Fifth Race" was whether O'Neill would have actually been able to acquire the data from the Repository if he didn't possess the ATA gene (or it granted better control). All that was made clear was that Teal'c could only see "colored lights" likely because the Repository sensed the Goa'uld presence

@@andrewmalinowski6673 Daniel was able to access an Ancient repository.

I always felt that this Goa'uld-obtained knowledge was tainted by the megalomania of the species.

I think the point was to show that the Goa'uld can not change, or be harnessed for good. The knowledge gained from their genetic memory is not just technical specs, but also centuries of existence at the apex of power. They are not built for compromise, coexistence, or collaboration with any but equals, few of which even exist in their minds. And they can't break out of this pattern because they carry all their mistakes, misconceptions, and character flaws forward every time a new Goa'uld is born. It's like trying to teach an old dog new tricks. Essentially it was not Daniel anymore. Power corrupting was not a new lesson for the audience. It was Daniel who needed to understand that, in this case, the music can indeed play the musician. You can also argue that this was one of Oma's lessons to try to help him understand that having power does not necessarily mean it should be used.

The idea that power corrupts is a misnomer. Power enables. It's a tool, a magnifier like a lever or a pulley. It amplifies everything, good and bad. a hammer in the hands of a craftsman builds, in the hands of a murderer it kills. Daniel wasn't corrupted. This darkness was always there but without the power to influence anything. And this was the lesson. That the evil exists, and that we are not ready for this power. It is thanka to this lesson that Daniel was able to later ascend having faced his darkness, dispelled it, and become pure of heart enough to ascend beyond mortality.

This was not "Power Corrupts". This was "The Knowledge held by the Harsiesis will corrupt you." The kid itself could not teach the knowledge, as he had purposefully blocked that memory to have a chance at having his own personality. And any transfer would brainwash you into a Goauld just as well as it would him. Omah taught him "how to forget" this knowledge.

But we see in the episode that Daniel envisions himself as a Goul'd in moments of anger, he has Teal'c killed, the knowledge of the Gouald came with their genetic memory - their personality

Based

"peace under my iron boots" say what?

@@DarkNexariusAwesome boots.

except Daniel didn't seek it

It’s in all of us, like it or not, that “thing” that wants to conquer over others, that “urge” to squash things to smithereens. It has nothing to do with one’s level of intellect. .. tho someone intelligent would be fully aware of it.

@@Revkor Are you sure about that? In one of the episodes, Jack said that he always knew that Daniel has that “thing” I spoke of in previous comment.

@@bobbiusshadow6985 note that is in the vision. the REAL Daniel is not like that

Absolute power corrupt.i don't want power just for it self but if I would have it. Then probably I would do anything to acheave my goals.

Goauld came for Earth and got their asses handed to them. Daniel's revamped and more aggressively expansionist SGC became the controlling force across the galaxy. Daniel becomes absolute ruler on Earth. The end.

Target has been eliminated.

Danny has always had a bit of a dark side to him.

@@Ragitsu We all have dark sides.

@@JSolar590 mine is made of fudge

@@Ragitsu He became the Senate

Actually the lighting is excellent in this, great shadows and contrast while main tingling some ambient light that gives the whole place a futuristic look and feel

Why?

I'd wager it is equally matched by Ori shields.

@@Ragitsu so it would be ineffective?

@@thehistoryguy4277 *If* the orbital weapons we witnessed in this extended dream _do_ in fact originate from the Ancients, chances are this technology would be equal to whatever the Ori possess.

It's Goauld technology. We've seen Goauld ships vs Ori ships. The Goauld lost.

@@DarkNexariusThis weapon is a designed to destroy even shielded Gould ships without effort so it could probably stand a chance against 1 Ori ship if taken by surprise.

I think the premise is that the Goa'uld genetic memory amplifies even the smallest of (dark) ambitions in a man such as Daniel.

@@Ragitsu that could be. i am still unconvinced due to his expereanceses but i like the what if stuf.

@@willofone2120 Power corrupts, Absolute power corrupts absolutely

@@Ragitsu Im thinking because the goauld has genetic memory and they have been using the sarcophogus for thousands of years, it has corrupted them and made them all evil, because of the genetic memory the evil is transferred to future generations, It would make sense it would include memories of being evil transferred to daniel as well, as he was having "flashbacks" of being a goauld.

​@@matis9118 i do not believe that overused saying as a universal truth. those who seek and find power are more likely. but when power is forced on sumone who dues not seek it, they behave and adapt very differently to that new power.

We don't have the same advanced shielding that Daniel does.

@@Ragitsu I know right! My brother told me "they want them to do that". It's all rehearsed, planned and scripted. Don't get me wrong, it still makes for a movie, but one must remember Freddy Kruger, Toy Story, Titanic, Bad boys, etc are all made up. Avatar and the avengers are real though, I've got a pic with spider man.

@@brucewelty7684 people of the boomer generation yes, they know what it is like when a nuke drill took place, I don't know how the country thought that ducking under your desk or in the hallway with your heads between your knees were going to make you impervious to a nuclear blast, but you do you. This was made after, well after the fall of the USSR, so this whole story line must be from another dimension.

That was five years later (give or take).

@@Ragitsu Yeahhhhh 5 years to become altruistic??? Not buying it.

@@cb-gz1vl They had nothing to lose?

Was there any indication that it _is_ the ending?

He'll be happy to assume control once the bombs stop falling.

@@Ragitsu Exept, there will be nothing to controll. And there will be no resources to maintain his own life support system.

@@user-zv6th8fh8v If he gets to the Stargate, he can begin constructing his empire off-world.

​@@Ragitsu Tere are a lot of problems with this teory. First, He wont gets there without receiving a lethal dose of radiation.. Second, she nuclear powerpland which supplies energy to stargate is blown off. And main is: outside the planet, a loner will not build an empire. He could try to take power in a small medieval village, maybe even successfully due to the difference in the technological level, but the first guauld that comes along will simply crush his "empire". And if the guaulds will not search for him purposefully, the residents of the Alpha base... And so on.

You mean the one that had collapsed and was non functional by that point?

Peace through a naquadah grip.

@@temperedglass1130 At what making more enemies and ruing the already damaged food and power chains

Yikes.

I understand that the particular leader of that neck of the woods is residing in some hollow mountain in the Urals.

@@Ragitsu this is literally what Russia is doing to Ukrainian cities right now

@@xaiano794 And?

@@Ragitsu given that you seem so concerned about people suggesting that this be done to Russia don't you think it's a little odd you don't care that Russia is actually doing this for real?

Would these point-defense energy weapons be able to take care of the retaliatory strike?

@@Ragitsu .. That's the whole point of the current strategy of mutually assured destruction - so many nukes, fired from so many directions, defense is impossible. The premise is to make nuclear war terrifyingly unfathomable. Of course, flaws include the dependency on everything working perfectly, nobody making a mistake, and so on.

@@robinstewart6510 It assumes that both sides in a conflict are more-or-less evenly matched concerning their defensive technologies, yeah? Clearly, the United States under Daniel has a massive advantage; then again, he'd probably be content to sit in his shielded fortress and let Earth turn to ashes before he rises up to take ultimate control.

Actually, the Russian dead-hand system would need to detect radiation similar to a nuclear blast, but in the video it's stated that no nuclear fallout would occur, thus implying in no radiation. The dead-hand would not automatically activate in this scenario. Although I do believe Russian army would do it.

The current nuclear strategy is "launch on warning." Like us, the Russians are watching for missile launches and incoming missiles, prepared to launch on detection. They most certainly would respond in full if Moscow itself were destroyed.

Killing innocents _en masse_ ?

@@Ragitsu Got to crack a few eggs to make an omelote.

@@dvasavertik7629 Good god please, I hate this city.

Disturbing.

Congrats. You've been brainwashed.

@@bigben8502 who me brainwashed 😆 yeah as if they could lol

Because this need large resources, and save period of time to build. It easy cyber pray to Asgard. They in civil war sustain. And that's this system be only on strategic place.

Goauld wasn't really thinking in defensive strategy. They were all offense and terror. Their military didn't really have any variety. No long ranged weapons for the troops. No mines, no artillery, no troop support vehicles. They didn't want to give the Jaffa too much toys. They might used that against them. They had the automated firing platforms that one Tokra operative used while hiding in a cave, that was in only one episode. Even those towers we seen in season 3 were an idiotic concept and never seen again. I mean the stuff is underground, so the operators were just sitting inside them all that time, waiting it to be raised? And their accuracy... Oh boy.

Also for all we know they probably do not have this technology. This is more ancient level and since this whole thing is basically a lesson the ancients are trying to teach Daniel about the dangers of having more tech than your ready for perhaps they have him access to their knowledge as well not just the goauld

Overconfidence. They only had to deal with uneducated slaves and each other. So there was never really a need to innovate or be efficient. And even if they did develop anything, they jealously hoarded it to themselves from the other system lords. This is why Earth stood any chance at all.

​@@darwinxavier3516 They didn't have to deal with only "uneducated slaves". There were plenty of advanced civilization out there, the Nox, Asgard, Tollan. They somehow developed weapons to combat the Reetou. So they were innovative if they tried hard enough. They feared the Asgard like crazy, but didn't really tried to come up with new weapons until Anubis returned. In one episode, the Goa lost 3 Hataks to the Tollan ion cannons. If anything, arrogance was their downfall, for the Tollan aswell. Such an advanced civilization, they know an enemy empire is out there yet they never thought how boned they will be if the Goauld develops new shields or just gates in and send an army.

Why?

It sounds bad.

DARK DANIEL.

Why?

@@Ragitsu So that they could taste their own medice? Ain't it obvious?

@@Arcord10 Kill more innocent people?

@@Ragitsu one thing that always comes from violence. Pain.

Musk openly states he wants competition, hes just racing ahead to force the space industry to catch up.

@@danielboatright8887 I mean, he can say whatever he wants to. Doesn't mean he's honest.

@@AdamantLightLP So far he’s been more honest than his competition.

@@danielboatright8887 he doesn't want competition, it's just a means to an end. Same with Tesla. Same with Twitter. Same with Starlink. The only thing that Musk actually cares about is getting to Mars. Everything he does is in service of that one goal.

Agree with you all

"customers"? There is no profit in this endeavor.