It opens a wormhole to the unmanned starship Destiny. Its an experiment launched by the Ancients hundreds of millennia ago. A team of explorers from Earth is sent to investigate this starship. They are led by Dr. Nicolas Rush and Colonel Everett Young. When they enter the ship by the stargate they get trapped. Unable to call back home or too change its programmed mission, they are forced to complete its original mission.
On Destiny they travel far out into the universe, in a distant galaxy, encountering new races and enemies. An ancient alien race filled our galaxy with stargates.
Portals that can create artificial wormholes between each other. Making it easier and faster to travel our galaxy. One of those stargates is found on earth. The United States Military forms a task force to explore these new planets that have open up for us. Stargate SG-1 has plenty of episodes exploring scientific theories and old religions.
This show has a good mix of seriousness and humor. It has episodic content andlong-term story arcs. Stargate Universe is a spinnof from Stargate SG-1 , so they have lots in common. Stargate SG-1 is not as dark and has a little more humoristic elements. Ther are also based on earth and use the stargates much more.
Only a ragtag fleet of refugees lead by President Laura Roslin remains. Their only defense is the historic ship Battlestar Galactica , commanded by Commander Adama. They are searching for the fabled lost thirteenth colony , Earth. But they also has to avoid the Cylon army and infiltrators and deal with political intrigues.
They both have a crew living on space ships far out in space with enemies lurking around them and no safe harbor. Commander Sinclair commands a giant five-mile-long cylindrical space station. It orbits a planet in neutral space and has become a diplomatic center for different interstellar empires. Commander Sinclair has to soften the troubles between different empire's ambassadors.
But it's not only trouble between different races he has to handle. Ther is also plenty of internal strife in the Earth Alliance that takes up his time. In addition to the political troubles, there is also plenty of petty crimes and other more ordinary problems for Sinclair to solve.
A few times there are also threats from external sources. The life of a commander on an interspecies diplomatic space station is not an easy one. I can't understand why Sheldon Cooper hates Babylon 5, it's an absolutely terrific series. One of the best space series. So much tension and drama between the different sides. A complex and excellent show. I guess one thing that makes it so great is that this is a five season-long continuous tale.
All the seasons were planned out to make one story before they started producing it. I wish more series could try that. A trio of bounty hunters lives in a solar system ruled by a tyrannical corporation known only as The Company. The Company is a class-based corporation that rules the system with an iron fist.
The bounty hunter trio lives hard, party all night, and they work for an Independent interplanetary organization of assassins and retrieval experts called R. People working for R. Killjoys only follow one law, and that is "The Warrant is all". Warrants are official documents issued by the R. The whole system is verging on revolutionary war against The Company and the trio's own bloody pasts is starting to catch up with them.
In this chaos, the three Killjoys struggle daily to maintain their R. C neutrality. Killjoys is an exiting space western kind of show. Character development can sometimes take second place to world-building. Personally I would prefer more focus on character development, but the story is stellar. Initially, it reminded me a little of Firefly , only not as good. But even if it is not as good as Firefly it is still a must-see show for science-fiction fans. Astronaut John Crichton is on an experimental space mission.
Its goal is to test a new spacecraft slingshotting around the globe. He is accidentally sucked into a wormhole. When he emerges he is in the midst of an intergalactic conflict far out in the universe. John joins the crew on Moya. A living sentient bio-mechanical space ship. They picked him up after his unfortunate wormhole ride. He has to get to grips with living among alien creatures wielding deadly technology.
And if that was not enough, they are being hunted by the Peacekeepers , a merciless military race. I could for some reason not stomach the actor playing John Crichton. I had problems with him when he was on SG-1 also. This is probably just me, and many will likely disagree with me on this. If you have no problems with him, then this show is pretty good. Michael Burnham is second in command on a starship that stumbles upon a Klingon ship.
She brakes command and commits treason in an attempt to stop a war against the Klingons, but she fails and she ends up getting the blame for the war. On her way to prison, she is picked up by the research vessel Discovery and given a new chance.
I love this new Star Trek series, but I know many others hate it. I have not seen too much of the other Star Trek series, just an episode here and there, so that might be a reason why I don't hate it. As far as the concept, the idea of a ship traveling all alone far away and only reachable via a nine-symbol gate address, it would have been interesting if a planned expedition had been able to be sent out, and this is the only goal that Dr.
Rush and Col. Young share, that a proper scientific team should somehow be sent out. This ship is incredibly cool with it's ability to recharge by dipping into a Sun. But the fact that the people who ended up on this ship "Destiny" could be anyone you meet, makes this a more interesting, and conflicted story.
An interesting and conflicted story that was chopped off, hacked off, and abandoned by it's host the "SyFy" channel before it's time and before a proper resolution of the series had been concocted.
As SyFy does with all of it's good shows, it's a wonder SG-1 lasted ten years, but in fact that show's success was due to Richard Dean Anderson and Showtime, and Stargate's years on the SyFy channel was nothing but Brownian Motion if you consider the only 5 year stint of Atlantis and this show, which was brutally murdered by SyFy way before it's time. As others have pointed out, there is a touch of Lost In Space: The Movie in the early episodes of this production, and that is just fine with me as I am a Lost In Space fan.
But anyway, I am giving the early episodes ten out of ten. The scripts, effects, sets and acting were just fine. Something went a bit wrong after the beginning, I may have to re-watch the later episodes to see if I was in the wrong frame of mind when watching the other episodes. It is too bad Stargate seems to be dead and gone in , we need space shows, we need good space shows like the early days of Stargate Universe.
Easygoer10 15 May This series is okay. It had everything to be very good, except for the most important things: Decent writing and casting. The scripts are woeful. I knew what everyone was going to do before it occurred. The only exception is Robert Carlyle, who is ideal cast as the antagonist scientist.
Unfortunately, Louis Ferreira is awful cast as the protagonist colonel. The other characters are mediocre to woeful. I don't blame the actors. Many are quite good. Instead, I suggest watching the first 7 seasons of Stargate SG1 skip 8 through 10 and all 5 seasons of Stargate Atlantis. The writing and casting is much better in both of these. Easygoer10 3 June For fans of of "Stargate SG1" seasons 1 through 7; skip 8, 9,10 and "Stargate Atlantis" seasons 1 through 4; skip 5 : The special effects are good.
The plot is okay. Unfortunately, the casting director blew it here. With the exception of Robert Carlyle who is great , this series was woefully miscast. Carlyle is superb. On the other hand, Louis Ferreira is terrible in his role as one of the lead characters.
I never believe him as a leader. It's too bad as I'm sure many are good actors. I also see too much over acting. The producers wasted a lot of money on this show. The budget for this must have been 5 times if not more what Amanda Tapping had for her series "Sanctuary" and it is far more entertaining. Skip this adolescent trash. Like some reviewer said, mainly melodrama. The Universe is getting better! Finally, some serious and great writing is back in a Stargate series.
SG-U has the key elements of strong actors, characters, and story lines -- and it's all happening with great backdrop of the Stargate theme. The show is well cast with actors who'd make you want to see what happens next even if it weren't sci-fi. Equally as important are the scripts - and they are very well written with conflict, suspense and unpredictability.
What remains to be seen is if the series can keep its current breadth of script ideas fresh - this tough task for any new series. It doesn't seem like it will win over die-hard SG-A fans, so it will have to develop a new base of it's own.
If haven't checked out the series yet, it's definitely worth a look. Rob-O-Cop 4 November Really, who wrote this stuff? This is supposed to be Sci Fi, where you use your unusual situation to explore the human condition. The characters could be interesting if they were given something to do instead of trying to create drama in half sketched traced-from-countless-other-plots story lines. This is supposed to be the same writing team that gave us plenty to think about in Atlantis and SG1, so what's going on?
Come on guys!! AngelHonesty 19 January I am a big Stargate Fan. I love SGI and Atlantis! I tried to watch Stargate SGU, but it was pure torture. The actors are extremely annoying because they have very little acting talent. And that camera that moves all of the place was absolutely terrible! If this could have been filmed properly with better actors It would have been much more enjoyable to watch.
Thought I'd finally review Universe, after getting over my mad I'm a die hard SG1 fan, so take this as you want to You cannot really say that this excursion belongs in the Stargate Universe pun very intended , simply because it doesn't.
The starship Destiny is an Ancients "Locator Ship", that was sent out millenia ago to find suitable worlds to use, in order to build the Stargate "Grid" Brad Wright thought it would be cool to call Destiny a "Seed Ship" as a result, thereby creating confusion from almost episode 1.
The premise of the series was not very well thought out, and evolved from Episode to Episode it seemed. The entire series departed from the Stargate foundations, just as Destiny departed different Galaxies. There was never any continuity, and actually devolved into nothing more than a cheap "Survivors" show, with virtually all the characters bickering between themselves in every episode Where fans were tantalized constantly with scientific theories in both precursors, SG1 and Atlantis, Stargate Universe literally departed the science scene entirely after a number of epps, even though they had their own unlikeable resident physicist, and snarky smart kid My review is why I said earlier that th premise was not well thought out, and that's true; but the concept could have been outstanding if they had taken the time to actually 'flesh it out' LouieInLove 4 September I tried Stargate Universe because I noticed the lead was Robert Carlyle; who is one of the best actors of his generation.
Dare I say it? The last great sci-fi show. Another awful series to debut on the SyFy channel. Stargate Universe is a complete mess and has no redeemable qualities. The direction is awful, the writing is pitiful and uninspired, and the acting is dreadful. Robert Carlyle is a real candidate for worse actor in a TV series.
His performance is abysmal and his character is the typical mad scientist you see in every single bad TV show ever made. His decisions are ridiculous, his dialog is juvenile and his actions are completely unwarranted for the situations. This show is proof that Stargate should be put to rest once and for all. SyFy needs to stop making remakes or sequels that are a waste of viewers time.
The show comes from a strong source sg And the infighting amongst crew is less about character development and team building, and more about trying to find a way to create the mega drama found often in reality tv. Stargate did well, when you had 1 foe that was well developed. Universe was all over the place and developed the goes very little.
Show had such potential and it was squandered. But given how little sci-fi shows out there And it's way better than yet another cop or medical drama that's rehashed every year. It's sad that many of the negative reviews of this utterly brilliant show were posted by people who watched only a few episodes, filtered through a hatfull of preconceptions. It's a very different kind of show, set in the same fictional universe.
Deal with it. If you have to, pretend there's no "Stargate" in the title. Stretch your tastes a bit. Go on, it won't hurt too much. Yes, it's dark. Very dark, at times. Like when the ostensible 'hero' of the series commits a brutal murder, in one of the early episodes. That's dark. So what? You can't handle dark, don't watch. But don't criticize either, just because it's not the show YOU would have made.
How much truly dark, gritty, brutally emotional SF has there ever been on TV? You just provided the reason why everything usually gets candy-coated. Yes, the show is about the characters.
It's an attempt to get even more intimate with a continuing cast, in an even more trying situation. This show is about how people act when they're stressed beyond all reasonable limits. The setting, the characters, the amazing premise not the lost-in-space part, but the reason for the Destiny's existence Furthermore, starting later in Season 1, and continuing into Season 2, the writing is some of the most amazing I've ever seen on TV. One show after another that left me breathless, head spinning with ideas and emotions.
The final episode, even though not intended as such, is one of the most moving single episodes of any show I can think of. All the previous two seasons'-worth of characterization pays off, big time.
Unfortunately, we can only imagine how great Season Three would have been. It's a horrible tragedy, and a damnable crime, that this series was murdered by the bean-counters at 'SyFy' the network that hates science fiction so bad, it had to change its name. But, where Fox deserves all the blame for wrecking Firefly, much of the blame for killing SGU must be shared by the so-called fans who never gave it a chance. Go back and watch all the shows, with an open mind, so you can see the brilliance you missed.
And had a hand in killing. May it haunt you forever. Rabh17 4 October My initial reaction to the concept of Stargate: Universe was "Ho-Hum". After all, we already knew Who and What the Ancients are, so what mystery is left-- unless they gonna dredge up another semi-vampiric Baddie. Either way, I thought it would be a shameless franchise re-hash. But the Premiere was an Eye-Opener. They go straight to the Punch. Refugees are crashing through the Gate in darkness, crying and screaming and getting smashed by more flying bodies and cases.
Blood and broken bones and chaos! Then we get the tightly managed back-flashes of the lead characters before the attack-- but the segues are smart and snappy. No 'Glowing Retrospectives' and 'reverential homages'. Then it's back to the Ship, the darkness and the chaos and the immediate crisis at hand. Script, Acting and Visuals all have a more cinematic quality compared to the previous TV serials.
Even the Space Attack sequence with its shifting camera style looked like something you would see in a movie-- not on a franchised TV serial. I was impressed.
And a side note-- that scene between the two marines sneaking a quickie in the pantry closet: dirty socks, sweaty grunts and all!! That was SO real! I took this as a sign of more mature subject material to come. In short-- there will be Dirt.
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