DevDave

I had written SG1 off as silly for so long until getting hooked on season 2. Definitely a “don’t judge a book by its cover”.

Also the variety of stories worked so well. That said, nothing will top “How far is Alaris anyway?” /Several billion miles O’Neill/ “That’s gotta be a record.”

Or the free tickets to the “Virginia Dialogs or something like that”

You left out the horror of how the machine balanced the books of citizens vs available resources.

Reminds of the SG1 episode where the super advanced aliens turn to humanity for help against a constantly adapting AI scourge because humans are skilled at solving problems in unpredictably stupid but effective ways.