I've been thinking about the differences between the 3 types of Stargates: Milky Way, Pegasus, and the SGU gates. The SGU gates are the earliest, and they have some limitations compared to the later gates. For example, a limited range. The Milky Way gates were built second, and lastly the Pegasus gates. But both the SGU gates and the Pegasus gates support remote dialing, with SGU even having a directory of gates in range on their remote dialing tablets. It seems bizarre that when designing the second model of gates, the Milky Way gates, that the Ancients would remove such a useful feature. Has there been any indication of why this choice was made?
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Actually every DHD is a remote dialer, just a very large and durable one. There are no physical connections between a DHD and a stargate, they just need to be in close enough proximity for the DHD to communicate and transmit power. The reasons they are large, heavy, pedestals instead of portable devices are:
- They don't want them to get lost, you don't want some primitive species to misplace it (Looking at you Tau'ri)
- They need to be able to produce power to the gate for multiple millennia without recharge or refueling.
- They need to be nearly as durable as the gate.
The Puddle Jumpers are equipped with remote dialing devices, and in Moebius we see it working on Milky Way gates. Also there are indications that the Goa'uld may have portable dialing devices. In SG1 "Children of the Gods", Apophis is able to dial out from the SGC even though the facilities had been mothballed, one would assume mothballing included cutting off the gate's power. Later in the series Hammond rants to O'Neill about "How expensive it is to dial that thing" when there is talk of the SGC being shut down. It is also possible the Needle Threader from SG1 "Into the Fire" is equipped with such a device even though it is not called out.
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