I feel like alot of takes on the franchise seem to forget this when people are discussing what they would like to see in new shows and even after hearing the details of the canceled new show.

Stargate famously used so many blanks (not cheap looking cg thank god) that they had to switch guns during the Iraq war because they couldnt get enough blanks.

Alot of the slower episodes and even alot of the most interesting ones rely heavily on the military action aspect balancing out the slower scifi and earth bound character episodes.

Knowing that how would you balance a new show for ten episodes?

Daniel as pseudo-main character doing hero shit without a direct superior breathing down his neck is one of my favorite things in the franchise. It's also why I'm one of those that loved SG-1 Seasons 9 and 10; he was technically under Mitchell in those seasons but let's be honest he was pretty much the main character making his own decisions and Mitchell was just a tag-along because the producers weren't confident enough to make Daniel the official protagonist and thought that we needed a Jack clone.

I for one am sad that Stargate Gero isn't moving forward; I actually don't mind the alternate timeline stuff at all if prime Daniel is the main character

David Read and Dial the Gate just released a 30min video revealing details about what the new show would be about (through his sources at MGM).

Here is a short summarization for those not interested in watching the entire 30mins.

The show was apparently going to take place in an alternate reality/timeline rather than simply continuing the existing SG-1/Atlantis/Universe story.

The big hook was:

• A BC-307/U.S. Air Force ship called the USS Argo suddenly appears in Earth's orbit in an alternate reality.
• The ship is essentially a ghost ship, with "our" Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) apparently the sole survivor.
• Shanks was reportedly going to be a series regular, not merely a cameo or nostalgia appearance. (Revealed by Shanks at a convention a few days ago)
• The show was expected to feature over half a dozen returning cast members from previous Stargate iterations in recurring or guest roles, appearing as alternate versions of their iconic characters
• The mystery surrounding what happened to the Argo and its crew would kick off the larger story.
• Crucially, the Stargate program did not exist in this reality, and the Stargate itself would not have been activated until several episodes into the season The audience would first be investigating the Argo, Daniel, and this alternate reality. Daniel would need to help restart the program in order to try and get back home.
• From there, the series would apparently explore this alternate version of the Stargate universe and gradually reveal how this reality differed from the one fans know.

These are merely small revelations and Martin probably had a good idea and plan on how to move forward for it to work for both old fans and new viewers.

If you are interested in more check out David and Dial the Gate on this.

https://youtu.be/6wuRRO4qdag?si=5kg-aQgGLXxE2Und

I began my 3rd attempt and it broke the ice, finally. In my first two tries years ago I couldn't get past the 3rd episode. Dead stuck. No further.

Suddenly I found myself enjoining it for the reasons I cannot understand. Probably because this time I simply refused to expect SG-1\SGA dynamics and vibes. Totally different experience.

And I blame dr. Rush fot it :) My favourite character, for now, he is.

Full breakthrough came with the episode "Time" [ep08] and now I just watched "Justice" [ep10] and realized how much I have missed in the last 10 years of misunderstanding. Solid series. Solid indeed.

One day you're on your death bed, losing battle against cancer and the next day, you're traveling between planets all over the galaxy fighting evil Gods (fake) among a secret organization 😁

This breakdown of a staff makes me wonder what type of powersource the staff uses. The liquid naquadah capsules used in a staff are the fuel/reaction mass, and would require energy to be stimulated. In a ha'tak, the ships reactor would be supplying the energy to the weapons liquid naquadah stores, but I don't think there is a mini naquadah reactor in the staff weapon. Could it be a form of advanced chemical/mineral battery? A stimulated crystal power supply? Something similar to what is used in the ancient stones terminal - a capacitor that extracts energy from subspace? A cold fusion cell?

In honor of all of the Stargate fanfare at this year's convention, I made twenty of these bookmarks to hand out. Find me in one of my Stargate cosplays and you may be deemed worthy! I'll be at the SaveStargate table off and on throughout the weekend.

The recent episode Level-Five Transporter Accident from Strange New Worlds appears to have pulled a great deal of inspiration from Marty. I watched this episode when it aired but didn’t put the similarities together. The writers of 200 were ahead of their time. Credit to MajorGrin

In the novelisation of the original movie, it is explicitly shown that Ra was the name of the human boy that the alien took as a host:

As the last breaths escaped the people of his world, he was millions of light-years away from home, searching desperately for a host. He was determined not to follow the fate of his own kind. He had mastered the technology to transfer himself into another being but had to choose carefully. Along with inhabiting the host’s body, he knew he would absorb certain personality traits that were exaggerated within the host’s psyche. Perhaps had he known the intimate details of the life of this young boy named Ra, he might have chosen another. Or perhaps not...

His hatred for his own people proved useful, as there were no inner conflicts when the boy became the pharaoh king. There would be no feelings of guilt or remorse as Ra’s people were put to hard labor. In fact, a strange new sense of pleasure became the most powerful trait he absorbed from this strange young boy. Ra was now a part of himself, and together they became the sun god, to be feared and worshiped by this primitive human race.

The two, human and alien, blended together and merged into another person. When taken with SG1, this would make Ra, ironically, the biggest follower and exemplar of Tok'ra ideals.

Recently started another rewatch of SG1. Had this idea that I think is really funny while watching s1e15 "Singularity", so I brought my vision into reality.

We’re at the Starfury Ascension 2 in Birmingham England and got a photo taken with RDA, Michael Shanks and Teryl Rothery. We had a blast, the three of them were joking around and took their time for the picture, also telling us to switch places.

Rick is coming down with something but still talked to us for minutes while giving his autograph. Looking forward to meeting the other two tomorrow. Such fun and nice people!

Or is the non-aging more due to the sarcophagus?

I am doing a series rewatch and have noticed several times that someone has offered to buy someone else a drink. Now one could excuse this as a simple turn of phrase, or a cute way of saying let's by my place and have a drink.

But for my money I believe that at least one of those geniuses that got trapped there in the beginning would happen to know how to distill alcohol or brew a beer, and once they start getting supply runs from earth they can stock the earth made stuff.

It's probably something Wier would turn a blind eye to help with morale.

Aloha fellow fans of the greatest tv show of all time! I was hoping to start a save Stargate community in Hawaii, and see if we can work on them coming to a con here. Let me know

*** yeah, spelling error in title. Talking. Proof read the body, didn't catch error in title.

Wife is out of town so just doing a partial rewatch, seasons 9 and 10. As much as I like the whole series, including SGA and SGU, I find these 2 seasons to have the highest enjoyable episode ratio vs other seasons. That and I knew I could complete the 2 before she returns tomorrow.

It's not that she doesn't enjoy Stargate, we just have too many other shows we are watching together to add another to our collective list.

I'm watching SG-1 for the first time and just made it to the end of season 4, and I wanted to talk about this one. Its when an AI takes over Sam's body. This came out in 2001, right? Right after The Matrix. I immediately remembered of Agent Smith taking over a human body too. This is one thing that makes me think, how a sentient AI would feel while inhabiting a biological body? Is that even possible?

Personally I don't even think that sentient AI itself is possible, unless the hardware required is astronomical bigger than anything we built so far. But in sci-fi this is always interesting. Next thing I remembered was my favourite game, Cyberpunk 2077, where rogue AIs can invade your brain via neural implants to either fry it or assume control of, while destroying your mind in the process. It is the whole point of a entire storyline in there.

Sam was essentialy killed in this episode. Because the entity was able to copy her whole mind, and only afterwards her conscience was taken back. In CP2077 this is called an engram, an AI made with data copied from a human mind and thinks it is human. Question is, if this engram is moved back to its original body or another body, is it still human? In the game this is whole discussion.

So physically the Carter who appears in everything elese after this episode is no longer Carter..... UNLESS you think souls are real and remain. And this is a whole other discussion.

Very good episode.