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Originally posted by Atomix
The reason season 8 wasn't so good is because it wasn't supposed to exist. Season 7 was supposed to be the final season and the Lost City 2-part episode was supposed to be a feature film. But Sci Fi renewed SG-1 and the film became the two-part episode Lost City and the writers did some random pointless episodes for season 8...
Does that make Stargate the longest running TV series, now it has a tenth season ?
Originally posted by kenshiro2012
where did you hear that the ancients created the wraith?
I am a pretty faithful watcher of the series and I never heard this mentioned or alluded to in the series.
Origin
While it remains unknown exactly how the Wraith evolved, two things are known:
1. The Wraith are related to the Iratus bug, a tick-like life-form that was encountered by Major John Sheppard. When it latched onto Sheppard, the pursuing Wraith soldier left Sheppard to die as a form of spite, knowing that the Iratus would drain the life force from Sheppard. ("Thirty-eight Minutes")
2. The Wraith may have evolved due to some form of intervention from the Ancients or by too many encounters with the Ancients. The Wraith have language similar to this race and their technology Wraith employ may be similar. Therefore, it was theorized that the Iratus bugs fed off the humans that evolved in the Pegasus Galaxy and a genetic mutation was gradually introduced in either human subjects or the Iratus bugs.
* It should be noted that this is a theory put forth by Dr. Carson Beckett in "Thirty Eight Minutes" and subsequently confirmed in "The Gift" by Dr. Elizabeth Weir, after deciphering the Wraith's language.
* It should be noted that this is a theory put forth by Dr. Carson Beckett in "Thirty Eight Minutes" and subsequently confirmed in "The Gift" by Dr. Elizabeth Weir, after deciphering the Wraith's language.
The Ancients accidentally created the Wraith by unwittingly allowing humans to evolve on a planet with a dangerous insect species on it. At some point the insect race fed upon the humans and somehow incorporated our DNA into theirs. The Wraith are an evolution of that combination.
Originally posted by snafu7700
from the scifi.com page for stargate atlantis:
The Ancients accidentally created the Wraith by unwittingly allowing humans to evolve on a planet with a dangerous insect species on it. At some point the insect race fed upon the humans and somehow incorporated our DNA into theirs. The Wraith are an evolution of that combination.
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Originally posted by I_s_i_s
Right but the Ancients did not directly manipulate the Wraith DNA. The Iratus bug was able to evolve into the wraith because of the human DNA present at the time.