Fuck that Entertainment Weekly rag, the most insightful critique they could come up with was that "every new alien culture on the TV series speaks English". Guess they've never seen Star Trek, even in its beloved Next Generation era, which, go back and watch sometime, it's for the most part just as awful. (Didn't Doctor Who once explain away the language barrier as an effect of the traveling in the TARDIS? So why can't the gates do the same? So what if it doesn't work on Jaffa? The Federation universal translator Babel Fish implants never seemed to threaten sales of Klingon dictionaries.) Maybe it did go on for longer than it should, but what show hasn't?