Am I using the Earth logic again?

[tielan]

Let's say you have a warship going into what is a known warzone. Casualties are expected. Every man and woman on the warship is aware of this - and that the warzone is their homeland. Whatever they have made of themselves, they came from the warzone, even if they don't live there any more.

You have two combatants on the warship. They have worked with the warship personnel in the warship's current location for somewhere between three to five years. They are proven combatants. They are trusted colleagues and allies.

You also have two non-combatants on the warship. A man and an infant who are connected with one of the combatants in the warship. Neither is known for any military or physical acumen - the infant is, at most, one year old. We don't see them, but they're presumed to be there.

At the edge of the warzone, the commander of the warship tells the two combatants that they have the option to leave. This is not their fight, it's not their homeland, if they chose to stay behind in their homeland, nobody would fault them. Naturally, the two combatants choose to stay and throw their lot in with the warship, even though they don't have a personal stake in the fight.

My brain says that, by this stage, all non-combatants have long since gotten off the warship. It says that since the commander of the warship only offered the two combatants the option of leaving, the non-combatants were already off the warship when it started its journey. It says that anyone who wasn't bound to this fight was left back when the commander decided they were going into the warzone.

Earth logic? Y/N?

Comments

[rhianona]

*nods* You've articulated a part of the view I have on Teyla. Hence my confusion as to what happened. *shrugs* my gut feeling is the writers didn't even think of it. I'm sure they meant that scene with Woolsey and Ronon and Teyla to be more of a "oh look, the friendly alien allies really love Earth and its people so of course they'll abandon everything they know for them" than anything else.

[tielan]

I'm not sure where the confusion comes in.

Teyla and Ronon go to Earth thinking they're going to be coming back. The degree of the fight is unimportant - this is nothing they haven't risked before. It's the fact that "this isn't their fight" that makes Woolsey think they might baulk, not the "dangerous nature of the situation."

So Teyla leaves Torran behind just as she has done every other mission she's gone out on.

But she does leave Torran behind in Pegasus, because to take a Pegasus child into a warzone would be irresponsible. It's like leaving her child in Atlantis when she goes out on a mission: Atlantis is usually a 'safe spot' for Torran - except that in this instance, it's not.

[rhianona]

I read the scene differently; I thought the implication was that they weren't sure if they would return to Pegasus, though the SGC/IOA would do their best to get them home.