I Would Never Do Zat Again
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There's probably a residual charge or something left in the trunk after ane shot which takes time to misemploy. Adding a second charge from another shot would so be too much for the body to have, and hence leads to death for the target.
Of course, this and so opens up questions on things similar torso mass... shouldn't a bigger person be able to absorb more hits than a smaller person?
Also - I call up the ridiculousness of the weapon was lampshaded in the Wormhole X-Treme episode ;)
answered May 8, 2011 at 23:23
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The writers realized this was a problematic thought. As mentioned by others, they hung a lantern on their own bad ideas in the cocky-parody episode Wormhole X-Treme!
Manager: The reality of the scene dictates there exist dead aliens ... because yous just killed them.
Caput Writer: Nosotros could always go back to the manner information technology was in the script.
Director: No we can't. We've already established that ane shot stuns and 2 shots kills. Nick only shot everybody twice.
Martin: So three shots disintegrates them!
Director: Okay, you know what? I'm gonna pretend yous didn't say that, because that is quite perhaps the stupidest thing I've ever heard you say.
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I always thought it was funny how that never came back. They used it way back in Flavour ii when Jack shot the box of hereafter stuff... simply when sneaking around within of ships they didn't shoot the bad guys three times to but make them disappear?
Apr 15, 2016 at 23:52
It'south one of those "Hitchcock-ian" things...left up to the viewer to decide the fourth dimension frame...of course i'd go with my usual couple minutes dominion. If they get shot one time they got a couple minutes or and then earlier they tin be shot again as that is unremarkably the case in nigh of those scenarios.
answered Jul eleven, 2011 at 20:06
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As a viewer, who never idea I could ask the question, I'd always assumed a minute or two was all that was needed.
May 8, 2011 at 23:29
I think your body mass thing makes sense, notwithstanding there'southward also the concept that the zat'southward energy is probably really close to the threshold of death for a smaller person, and not closer to not killing a larger person on two shots (what I'm trying to say is that a smaller person would probably more likely die from one shot than a big person not dying from two shots, these are the Goa'ulds)
May ix, 2011 at 2:08
@DKuntz yeah, that was something I was trying to put beyond, but manifestly not that well.
May 9, 2011 at 2:12
In improver, y'all seem to build up a resistance to the Zats later on existence shot with them frequently. Initially, it was lights out for SG-1 for a few hours any time they were struck. More recently, the squad has been able to role finer seconds later, admitting obviously in extreme pain.
May nine, 2011 at 13:05
Too, the whole three-shots disappears y'all thing was ultimately ret-conned out, because someone realized just how ridiculous it was.
May 9, 2011 at 17:01