McKay: Watch who you're correcting, Science Guy! My Ph.D. is not honorary.
Bill Nye: Hey, look, I'm an engineer; I can do math!

So I be-bopped on over to Stage 6 and viewed their preview for the upcoming episode of Stargate: Atlantis.

( BIG HONKING SPOILER )

It feels to me that Rodney's reputation for weapons inadequacy is undeserved, so I went through all the episodes I could remember him using a gun.

( Includes spoilers for Common Ground )

Details gathered from transcripts at Gateworld, where it's way too easy to see spoilers for much of Season 3.  However, I'm not particularly sad about this.

One of the things I learned back in EFM yr 1 was that in some (ancient) cultures the practice of giving captives new names was in order to demonstrate power and control over the captives.  E.g., Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah were assigned new names Belteshazzar, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednigo when they were captured by Nebuchadezzar (Daniel 1:1-7).

( Contains spoilers for SGA: Common Ground (and others) )