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Sanford posted:The little snakey ones that fire blue lightning? I think they carried them as sidearms pretty exclusively in later series. Yes, but they were introduced as weapons that could stun, kill, or disintegrate. The first shot stunned a person. Just straight up knocked them unconscious. A follow up shot would kill them. A third shot would disintegrate the remains. I don't recall if the show ever specified how close together the shots had to be in order for that to work. Three shots to an inanimate object would also get rid of the object. Early on in the show, the writers mostly stuck to that standard, and there was at least one point where the SG-1 team used their zat guns to destroy evidence of advanced future technology, in an episode where they were temporarily stuck in the 1960s. Later in the show, the zat guns were pretty exclusively used as stun guns, and the duration of that stun varied. Sometimes people would get zapped and knocked out cold. Sometimes they'd only get knocked out for a few seconds. Sometimes they'd just grimace and fall over but remain conscious. Whatever the plot required. Sometimes, a person would get zapped, get back up a moment later, and get zapped again, which really should have killed them, going by the rules set out in the earlier seasons. This wasn't really a case of the writers forgetting about a capability. I recall reading a couple of interviews when the show ended where the writers admitted they hated the wide range of zat gun functions and purposefully avoided using them, because they could wrap up too many plots with "Hey, just disintegrate this locked door" or whatever.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:New Jersey isn't a city. It's the New Jersey City 
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