Any Stargate fans?

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Your favorite?

  • SG-1

    Votes: 134 86.5%

  • Atlantis

    Votes: 13 8.4%

  • Universe

    Votes: 8 5.2%

  • Origins

    Votes: 0 0.0%
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Tsukasa Kadoya said:
Teal'c is so based he gets a pass for being bl*ck.
Also one of the few season 1 episodes to be watchable. I love SG-1 but man....what a dogshit first season lmao
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It's not that bad, though some of the very early episodes are absolute stinkers mostly due to being spec-scripts from established writers that got turned down by different shows like Star Trek and were hastily repurposed to get into production without having to wait on new material. The back half of the season really picks up though, and has some of the best episodes of the entire show (and the awful one where they get turned into robots). Torment of Tantalus and Solitudes are fantastic.
 
Goodbye Horses said:
It's not that bad, though some of the very early episodes are absolute stinkers mostly due to being spec-scripts from established writers that got turned down by different shows like Star Trek and were hastily repurposed to get into production without having to wait on new material. The back half of the season really picks up though, and has some of the best episodes of the entire show (and the awful one where they get turned into robots). Torment of Tantalus and Solitudes are fantastic.
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I kinda agree. Out of the 22 episodes I like about half. Seasons 2 onward are so much better its not even funny.
 
Goodbye Horses said:
It's not that bad, though some of the very early episodes are absolute stinkers mostly due to being spec-scripts from established writers that got turned down by different shows like Star Trek and were hastily repurposed to get into production without having to wait on new material.
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Wasn't an early episode just TNG's "Code of Honor" with a fresh coat of paint?
 
Goodbye Horses said:
It's not that bad, though some of the very early episodes are absolute stinkers mostly due to being spec-scripts from established writers that got turned down by different shows like Star Trek and were hastily repurposed to get into production without having to wait on new material. The back half of the season really picks up though, and has some of the best episodes of the entire show (and the awful one where they get turned into robots). Torment of Tantalus and Solitudes are fantastic.
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Isn't "Emancipation" so fucking bad half the rerun lineups drop it?
 
Miller said:
It might have been Blade Trinity, my bad. That was indeed the catwalk set.
The set that they used for the Battlestar Pegasus in BSG was originally built for a Lost in Space tv show directed by John Wu. They only shot the pilot, the network never picked up the show. I believe you can find the pilot in very low quality on Youtube with temp tracks.
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I remember at the time thinking the Pegasus set seemed way too elaborate. At some point I have gone down repurposed set rabbit holes online. lol
 
DavidS877 said:
I'm watching Universe, again, and most of the way through the first season.

I'm sort of realizing I really don't like it. Too much interpersonal crap, 1/3 of some episodes are just flashbacks to a characters previous trauma.

I don't remember if I liked it the first time.
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I started rewatching it and realised that I actually really like it. Which is odd. But I may just be starved of any Stargate themed stuff. I like how much of a cunt Rush is, and while implausible, I appreciate how genuinely schizo Greer is. He get left alone on a planet and within 45 minutes he's hallucinating his abusive father demanding he murder people. Actual comedy gold. The implication that if he managed to accidentally lock himself in a portapotty on base he'd immediately have a schizoid meltdown and kill people is very funny to me.
 
Good news everyone... maybe.

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Amazon is officially moving forward with a new “Stargate” TV series, Variety has learned.

The new project hails from Martin Gero, who began his career in the original “Stargate” TV franchise. Exact plot details for the series are being kept under wraps. The series will be produced by Amazon MGM Studios and air on Prime Video.

“Twenty years ago, my first real job in television was as a Story Editor on ‘Stargate: Atlantis,'” Gero said. “I spent five years at the franchise working across all three series, ‘Stargate’ taught me everything about making television — it’s written into my DNA. I’m beyond thrilled that Amazon MGM Studios has entrusted me with guiding this incredible franchise into its next phase. For those who’ve kept the gate active through conventions, rewatches, and unwavering faith — this one’s for you. And for those that are new to our world — I promise you’re in for something extraordinary.”

Gero will serve as writer, executive producer, and showrunner on the new “Stargate.” Executive producers also include Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell for Safehouse Pictures as well as Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich, who co-wrote the original film which Emmerich directed. Brad Wright and Joe Mallozzi, longtime creative leaders within the “Stargate” universe, will serve as consulting producers.

“‘Stargate’ is an enduring, iconic franchise that has captivated audiences for decades with its bold exploration of humanity’s place in the cosmos,” said Nick Pepper, Head of US SVOD TV development for Amazon MGM Studios. “In partnership with our extraordinary creative team of Martin, Tory, and Joby, we’re honored to open this next gate to bring a visionary new chapter of this beloved franchise to our global Prime Video audience, one that honors the series’ rich legacy while propelling it into an ambitious and emotionally resonant future.”

It was first reported back in 2022 that Amazon was looking to develop new projects in the “Stargate” universe following the company’s acquisition of franchise producer MGM Studios. “Stargate” originally launched as a 1994 movie starring James Spader and Kurt Russell. The film was followed by the hit series “Stargate SG-1,” which aired for 10 seasons and starred Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, and Christopher Judge among others. The spinoff “Stargate Atlantis” then aired for five more seasons between 2004 and 2008.

There have also been two direct-to-video “Stargate” movies and three other TV shows, with the most recent being “Stargate Origins” in 2018.

In addition to his work in “Stargate,” Gero is known for creating the NBC series “Blindspot” starring Jaimie Alexander, which aired for five seasons. He was also the showrunner on NBC’s reboot of “Quantum Leap” and has produced shows such as The CW’s “Kung Fu” reboot and the limited series “Keep Breathing.”

He is repped by TFC and Ziffren Brittenham.

It's Amazon, so the chance of suck is very very high.

 
Not a reboot. Takes place in current era.

This bit has me worried
And, in a surprise twist, Stargate’s original creators Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich (Stargate, Independence Day) have signed on as executive producers, alongside Safehouse Pictures’ Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell (Obi-Wan Kenobi, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters).
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God, it's been 18 years since SG-1 ended.
 
The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
Everything is quite sus in current year. Brad Wright is on the outskirts of this production:

What do you even call it after "Universe"?

How about STARGATE DISCLOSURE to jump on the current thing? https://kiwifarms.st/threads/uap-uf...-academia-event-analysis-ongoing-news.113946/
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I've always wanted to see how they would portray the public reaction to the Stargate program. There's no way they would dump the entire saga at once; the public couldn't handle it. My guess is after Atlantis landed on earth people started seriously asking questions and they eventually revealed at least some parts of the Stargate program. That process probably accelerated after the Lucian Alliance ship crashed into the homeworld defense building. I think they could've kept the somewhat light tone while addressing that subject matter, but it would've taken some tight writing.
 
Clown College 2nd Year said:
I've always wanted to see how they would portray the public reaction to the Stargate program. There's no way they would dump the entire saga at once; the public couldn't handle it. My guess is after Atlantis landed on earth people started seriously asking questions and they eventually revealed at least some parts of the Stargate program. That process probably accelerated after the Lucian Alliance ship crashed into the homeworld defense building. I think they could've kept the somewhat light tone while addressing that subject matter, but it would've taken some tight writing.
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That was a major part of Brad Wright's shelved pitch:

November 2021: https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/stargate-revival-latest-news
"I think the trick to anything would be that it's high time the world found out about the Stargate program, for better or for worse," he says. "Keeping all of that technology from the world at a time when we could really use it, at a time when climate change is a genuine threat, at a time when there was a pandemic that we sure could have used a fix for, for example. The world needs to find out. The secret needs to get out especially since we have come so far and will have come so far after another 11 or 12 years."
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June 2025: https://www.gateworld.net/news/2025/06/stargate-tv-co-creator-confident-franchise-return/
“Yes, there probably will be another Stargate,” Wright said. “No, I don’t know when. … These are smart people. They know that they don’t want to piss of the people that love the existing franchise that they just spent a ton of money on. And they learned the lesson from another show recently (that I won’t mention) that they should stick to what the fans already love a little bit.

“I don’t know — I have not had this conversation — but I’m pretty confident that they’re going to try to find a new audience while not alienating the old audience. … I think they would be crazy [to] alienate the existing fan base, and not to keep in mind that Stargate belongs in the here-and-now.”
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"I think the trick to anything would be that it's high time the world found out about the Stargate program, for better or for worse," he says. "Keeping all of that technology from the world at a time when we could really use it, at a time when climate change is a genuine threat, at a time when there was a pandemic that we sure could have used a fix for, for example. The world needs to find out. The secret needs to get out especially since we have come so far and will have come so far after another 11 or 12 years."

I don't want to see this addressed at all, way too much space to inject TDS into it. Keep the current day politics out of it.

“Yes, there probably will be another Stargate,” Wright said. “No, I don’t know when. … These are smart people. They know that they don’t want to piss of the people that love the existing franchise that they just spent a ton of money on. And they learned the lesson from another show recently (that I won’t mention) that they should stick to what the fans already love a little bit.

“I don’t know — I have not had this conversation — but I’m pretty confident that they’re going to try to find a new audience while not alienating the old audience. … I think they would be crazy [to] alienate the existing fan base, and not to keep in mind that Stargate belongs in the here-and-now.”

This is encouraging way too many modern studios have driven their core audiences away either on purpose or through misguided idealism. Yes, Stargate had some progressive themes and what not, but it was never super preachy about it.
 
It's almost comical that it's still a secret by the time Universe comes around. They have fleets of space ships, multiple off-world bases, every government of the world is involved via the IOC, multiple alien invasions at that point, and basically every family member of the destiny crew gets security clearance to body swap.
 
Clown College 2nd Year said:
I don't want to see this addressed at all, way too much space to inject TDS into it. Keep the current day politics out of it.
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SG-1 (1997-2007) arguably addressed current day geopolitics (at a fantastical, surface level), but Russia and China of the show are unrecognizable today. We wouldn't be in a hurry to give both of them spaceships with beam weapons.
Clown College 2nd Year said:
This is encouraging way too many modern studios have driven their core audiences away either on purpose or through misguided idealism. Yes, Stargate had some progressive themes and what not, but it was never super preachy about it.
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I wouldn't read too much into that. He has little control and it's Amazon.

I wondered if he's talking about Rings of Power. I think the execs convinced themselves there was no issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Rings_of_Power#Audience_response
 
indomitable snowman said:
It's almost comical that it's still a secret by the time Universe comes around. They have fleets of space ships, multiple off-world bases, every government of the world is involved via the IOC, multiple alien invasions at that point, and basically every family member of the destiny crew gets security clearance to body swap.
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ok this reminds me of something that really fucking bothered me about SGU and im gonna sperg a bit
the whole body swap thing was handled really really badly. these people are slipping into other people's bodies like they're rental cars and using them to fuck their loved ones. on its surface this is already a greay area, but when you look deeper it's really fucked up. these are not their bodies, they are someone else's that has volunteered to be a "host" for lack of a better term but with no limits on what they're actually allowed to do with them. they briefly fuck around with how this can go wrong when the other guy fucks greer's wife pretending to be him, but it never seems to go deeper than that. one idea i had that i knew they'd never do would be if one of them swapped bodies with someone on earth and went on a huge hedonist streak doing drugs and fucking hookers, then that host has to come back and live with a drug addiction and/or STDs that he had no control over getting. that would be an interesting plot point but nobody would ever ever write that.
the interracial disabled lesbian couple was beyond parody.
 
sodaboard said:
ok this reminds me of something that really fucking bothered me about SGU and im gonna sperg a bit
the whole body swap thing was handled really really badly. these people are slipping into other people's bodies like they're rental cars and using them to fuck their loved ones.
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I haven’t seen any of the SGU stuff, but the episode you described? That sounds like some Torchwood-ass plotline. (And then RTD would act surprised Pikachu. “What, nobody finds our interstellar rape funny?”)
 
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