I knew I should've went with space Mongols. I was only being silly, anyway. Earlier in the video I said we don't know the prevailing ideology of Nakai civilization, so it should've been clear that when, in the next sentence, I go ahead and pretend to know their prevailing ideology by calling them "space Nazis," I wasn't being serious.
I want to believe that Destiny's crew is still in sleeping pods, and that Eli was successful in fixing his own pod. I hope one day they'll all wake up and this fantastic story will continue.
bradwolf07 yes it did, but the problem was they didnt capitalize on that. It was just too much interpersonal crap. And characters i kinda hated like chloe.
You and me both. I remember being so angry at all the hatred it got from so-called "Stargate-fans" because it was different, darker, newer and not the SG-1/Atlantis-type they wanted. If they'd only shut it, watch it, and hope it turned out better (as it did) it would probably have lasted longer. I remember thinking that this show wouldn't last long, not because of the show itself, but because those that calls themselves fans. The irony is that when the show got canceled, and years after. Many of those complaining then is the same complaining about it being canceled.
Henrik Skjolden true. I hoped it would last longer, but I wasn't surprised when it was cancelled. It wasn't given a chance because of its darker tone. Such a shame.
It wasn't stargate fans that killed it while there were many it wasn't them, I know I looked. By the end of season2 SGU had more than enough viewers to keep it going instead Syfy simply pulled funding right underneath their feat without telling anyone in advance much to the dismay and confusion of the actors and producers. Since Syfy came under new management they've been going threw one series after another, So Don't blame fans, blame the execs at Syfy. Also it took a miracle just to keep the Expanse going.
SyFy, and Sci-Fi before, cancelled many great shows. They always complain they cost too much to make. Farscape, then SG-1, SG-Atlantis, SG-U, Eureka and many more Although, SyFy is owned by NBCUniversal->Comcast, so maybe this is all coming down from above. Either way, I won't watch their network. You'd be foolish to get hooked on their shows, when they could be abrupted ended. Never again.
mgm is trying to see our reaction to orgins before they commit to a larger seriers... shut your mouth! people like you are the cause of all our problems
Sypher HA! What problems are those you crybaby? If they cared about the fans they would make a good show or another film not that trash . Now off you go basement dweller.
I still watch the Stargate series all the way through to SGU, from time to time including the movies. Kinda like a stargate movie show marathon. As a fan I'm sad they canceled the show.
I'm surprised whenever anyone mentions Stargate, t'was never in public conversation in my country, but when asked, a lot of people actually watched large parts of the show.
What kinda confuses me in regards to the Nakai and their inability to get aboard Destiny is the fact that... well... they've managed to get aboard before. Be it the ship that was locked onto Destiny's hull at the end of "Air" or the ship that lasered its way through the hull to kidnap Chloe in "Space." It's clear that they have the ability to physically get on board if they so choose. Yet they don't. Which makes me wonder if there are other, more subtle, defenses Destiny employs when it's main defenses, the gun batteries and the shield, are bypassed. Or perhaps it's the simple fact that Destiny is locked with a master code they had no way of breaking. Until the Icarus expedition came aboard that is.
Tom Shore From what I understood from what Rush said in "Divided", Destiny's automated defenses were able to prevent the Nakai from boarding the ship, we don't know what those defense systems may be but we know that the shield was one of them. Rush goes onto say that now that they occupy Destiny the Nakai are hoping they make a mistake. What I took from that was the as soon as they arrived on board they took control of Destinys defenses, weapons, shields, and other defenses they probably didn't even know they had, limiting Destinys AI. Ability to automatically employ defensive strategies
I agree with David Willis. It also might have had something to do with the Crew's familiarity with the Ancient's technology, philosophy and language both mathematical and written communication. And perhaps their physical limitations and visual range, as far as we know, they might not be able to see some of the information on the Destiny's displays and interpret that as a defense lockout.
lol, yea or... and I know this may be far-fetched, but bear with me... it may also have something to do with, you know, the fact that it's a TV show. Plot devices, the need to keep things interesting and entertaining for an episodic weekly scifi show are all things I have this dubious feeling, may have something to do with it. But what do I know, I'm just speculating.
Tom Shore all depends,probably managed to do so because the ship isn't on full auto anymore. The other aliens managed to get a seed ship so anything is possible
I really think they gave up on a good thing with SGU. would love to see it continue. I know it wasn’t the feel good thing as with SGA and SG1 but I liked it gave us something new and the like of these characters, the drones, the higher power that brought the other crew back for a day, destinies mission, the hidden signal etc. I was really looking forward to exploring them 😢😢
Season 2 of SGU was good! The leftover robots, the nakai, the human civilization they accidentally founded. If the story writers kept focusing on external story like that, rather than internal politics/conflict/drama, teenage angst, etc that they focused on in season 1. SGU could’ve survived.
Sooner Jon The Conservative not really it s more like in sg1 you found out that there were once ancients in ,sga u learn about them and their city and sgu is about one of the last unsolved mysteries that they have left behind
Yes, Yes, Yes. I am the Universe was open for story writing. I didn't want to see some kisses on earth all over again. There could have been so many things where the Destiny could have flown to. I mean, there is a species who could build a planet. There could have been episodes about black holes, galaxy clusters and their formations for example the eridanus supervoid, ringworlds, dyson spheres, teleporting ships that can move to a far away galaxy in a second without stargates etc, or to phenomena far far away of the known universe(Like the episode "Where no man has gone before" in TNG). Who says there isn't a civilization that lived for millions of years with technology far beyond our understanding. My head would explode if I was the story writer...
They should never have cancelled this. It really started gaining momentum in series 2. I think it would have just got better. Hated not knowing how they ended up. I know there was a comic or novel or something and they survived because there ended up being ancient engineers on board in another part of the ship or something but that was a shit explanation which I don’t think would have been the outcome had the series been renewed. I thought they’d maybe have went with Eli dying. Maybe getting his pod fixed but realising he’d spent more power on it so a bittersweet moment. Where he fixed the problem but was too late and would have to let himself die to ensure the others made it. I’d love to think Netflix or something would pick it up but dare say too much time has passed for actors appearances etc 😢
I thought they could always say that the stasis pods kept them in a state of hibernation. They didn't require food or air, but the pods did little to prevent the progression of aging.
Im so glad i found ur channel. The SG series has been my favorite tv shows for over 2 decades now almost (im only 25 to) and iv watched SG, SGA SGD countless times and know pretty much every single thing in the star gate universe i love the show soooo much i still like watching these vids even tho im not really learning anything new lol. Great videos man n its awesome to see someone who likes the shows as much as me
Yea as mentioned, SGU won't come back... There MAY be a total SG revamp in the future as attempted by Origins, but this Story Arc is history... Shame, because I LOVED serious SG, unfortunately at the time it was airing EVERYONE compared it with BSG (with good reason may I add) and those long time SG fans started to cry about the serious subject matter and atmosphere of the show and so the ratings dropped! SGU could have easily become a world renowned scifi show if it had just 1 more season to prove itself.... Or if majority of viewers weren't so f'in childish and whiny accepting the new atmosphere of the show and allowing for the show to develop further.... oh well... RIP SGU
Holy crap people, Syfy did NOT cancel the show! Syfy tried to work with the producers to continue the show. MGM owned the rights to the show and had just gone through a restructuring, in other words, bankruptcy. They laid off most of the people that worked on the show and no one that was left knew anything about what was going on. Go watch the interviews that Brad Wright did, they’re here on YT, you just have to look.
After SG-1 and Atlantis I had trouble switching into the SGU world but began to Love it more and more unto the end of S2 in which I could cry forever this Great series was ended. It deserves a wholly revival with the same cast as they did all splendid work!!! Really miss them. The Nakai should be back, more should be learned and known about them. Where did they originate from? What's their real motivation going after Destiny? And much more. The series deserve at least 5 or more seasons. With new enemies and allies as well, other than the Nakai and Ursini. Hope it's going be resumed.
Since Stargate always had a sense of religion and worship of gods theme to it, I thought it would be interesting if the Nakai worshiped the Destiny much like how some indigenous people of uncontacted tribes perceived modern aircraft as gods or heavenly objects.
This series was about " I WANT MY MOMMY , I WANT TO GO HOME " I still didnt get one thing why earth didnt mount a rescue, they had asgard hyper drive which would take like a month or two to get to thm.
The asgard drive wasn't fast enough. In the first episode you can see how far they went. It took the Prometheus 1month to reach the Pegasus galaxy. Just imagine how long would it take them to reach Destiny...
@@mitjah.509 so they were not 10 galaxies far they were 2 or 3 galaxies away from milkyway . Asgard homeworld was in another galaxy when they try to fight the replicators , and how much time it took to reach atlantis during the fight with wraiths of final episode of season 1 atlantis. if it was this fast then it wouldnt take more thn a month or two . Removing the whinning crew from destiny and leave someone more capable.
Endless possibilities and I think whenever the end it, it will still not cover enough of them - It could be like a Marvel multiverse with intertwined stories, teams and human/other efforts.
Unfortunately the reason they canceled this show is that the studio went bankrupt, I loved SGU it was unique from the others and sadly it’s not with us anymore. R.I.P
Watching this short video has reminded me of the pain of seeing this show cancelled after only two sessions. SGU was such a fresh take on the Stargate franchise, and while it may not have been to the taste of those more accustomed to SG1 fayre, it was a phenomenal venture nonetheless. All these years later and I'm still upset that we'll never find out what would have happened had Destiny crossed the Galactic void...
I always had the hunch that the Destiny somehow destroyed the Nakai homeworld, and that's why they're trying to capture it. I have absolutely no idea why I think that, but it's the first impression I got, and I never could shake it, despite there being no evidence onscreen to support my weird idea. I assume they've been following it for generations. Maybe longer.
The Nakai want the destiny because of it's technologies perhaps for war or defend themselves, We know for sure that the destiny successfully defend itself against the Nakai so they knew at this moment they can win the war and if they are as curious as Humans are, they will follow the Destiny across the entire universe. Have a Good Day/Night.
I like the idea of an aquatic species that gains space faring technology. Though thinking about it some more, it's funny they fill they spaceships with an oxygen atmosphere rather than swimming around some liquid lol
Noce video. You capture the atmosphere of the show nicely. Thanks for doing. Have been re-watching this recently. Easy not to bother with videos after the time that has passed but despite what's said on a lot of SGA vids this show was and hopefully will be fantastic in the future
I didn't have the patience for this show. I only recall their being too much duplicity, not enough sci fi (other than living on a space ship). I think I need to give it another watch.
Would of thought rush meant destiny level, as those blueberries can't even capture or get past defences of destiny so they'd have zero chance with atlantis lol destiny is the oldest ancient tech still around so if they can't beat it then it's clear
The aurora class ships would easily shrug off any attacks made against them. Even the deadelus class ships with their asguard shields would be more advanced then the blueberries
elemantal i should think so considering they are designed for battle lol 304's are op which kinda pissed me off in sgu when the Hammond got damaged by alliance ships.
I liked this show much because it took place in the same film universe that the previous two SG series took place in but they were so distant they didn't have to use all the nonsense technology that ruined the other shows.
I had always theorised that they actually succeded, in probing his mind, and actually planted the information he gained, as well as possibly planted hidden command "subroutines" in his mind as well.
The eyes are amazing. From a scientific background I would like to think their inner eye layer absorbs all light in the spectrum but that of blue. Perhaps an adeptation to living in a n ocean with mostly blue light near a blue star. The outermost layer is primarily made up of a chemical that is defusing the blue light as it is reflected back giving them a luminous glow.
In the episode where two Nakai's ship were destroyed, the aliens sent the message ''Agreement'' about Chloe's transfert. Not only Surrender and No Escape
This was one of the chief faults of SGU, the alien bad guys were so alien we couldn't really get behind them. They never communicated in any way we could understand, their motives were always fuzzy, a good villain is one we the viewers can identify with and we couldn't do that with bad guys like the Nakai. Of course the good guys weren't much better, everyone had their flaws and hang-ups, and they didn't even have the decency to give us a new Ronan or Teal'c. If it ain't broke don't fix it, the previous two series were good, trying to mix Stargate with Star Trek Voyager and duct-taping them together with the new Battlestar Gallactica production techniques was fixing a problem that didn't exist.
Although this appears to be a fictional form of audio visual art (Star Gate), I think it is of some importance to know that a population has policy leaders and individuals who are (forced) followers. _Most_ of the individuals are not driven by hunger for power over others nor do they have violent tendencies by nature/logic/logos. Look at our own species, and you know what I'm talking about; basically most individual people hate their leaders because they are doing protection policy the wrong way. Just my two cents. :)
Amazing video. One small correction tho: the total number of messages received is three. They also sent a single word: "AGREEMENT" when they decided to agree to remove the pathogen from Chloe's body - Episode 11 of season 2
It always struck me as absurd that the Destiny was still (mostly) intact after all these years, considering how frequently it comes under attack, even just in the short time the humans are aboard it.
I think it would be easy to continue Destiny's story on with a new cast that arrives years later to find Eli dead and everyone in sleeping pods or even all dead.
SGU was canned just as it was really getting going =( The first season was just a warm-up, sadly it didn't gather enough momentum. Maybe it was just a bit too different and dark compared to SG-1 and Atlantis, that was my initial complaint. It didn't really feel like a Stargate series, Atlantis and SG-1 were way more alike. I might have to re-watch SGU soon, but it's still sad that it was canned.
They run out of ideas pretty quick. The Ancient ship and the overall idea of that Universal mystery that the ship was going after on auto-pilot was so good... They could go metaphysical, philosophical. Go into some reaally new places. But they didn't. They just choose to fill it with some random aliens that were after them and trying to kill them. As we haven't seen that plot for the 1000th time.
I wonder if the Nakai ever planned on revisiting the Destiny later. and what exactly did they want? Did they find a Seed Ship or did they want to learn something about the Stargates?
I really would've liked SGU if it had been its own unique thing instead of a Stargate series. It just never felt like Stargate to me. Except for the original boarding, the only use of the titular stargates could've easily been telemats.
What I don't get is the Nakai was studying Destiny for a long time then we see Destiny goes through the next Galaxy in like a few months... and a lot shorter to get from one galaxy to the next.
I found it interesting they could attach to and cut a hole in Destiny but apparently not board it...plus in Air part 3 their ship detaches while Destiny in FTL and didn't vaporise....Still i found them interesting, held their end of the deal and reversed Chloes condition. Seem to be good at maths...
I personally am a subscriber to the belief of the seed ships dropped a Stargate they found it they were the first to figure it out in their home Galaxy then other ships start coming by and they take notice that hey these are what drop Gates that motivates them to try and figure out who sent it and all of the technology because it gave them power in the first place colonizing in the wake.
Also noteworthy in being pretty much the only alien race that's really encountered. Aside for animal-like ones and that non-corporeal ghost we see in the desert.
I mean when you really think about it they are Researchers who probably been following destiny way before the humans figured it out. So why were they treated like they didn’t deserve to learn destiny’s secrets when that’s exactly what the humans had been doing? Still loved this show sad it ended:(
The Nakai are native to another galaxy, perhaps several galaxies back. This was likely first, perhaps their only encounter with the Drones. Where as both the Ursini and the Drones are native to the season 2 galaxy.
Ed S that maybe true, but the drones were quite tenacious. They may have gone after the Nakai after this. It has been a while since I went back and rewatched the series, so my memory is a bit fuzzy
bradwolf07 It’s possible. How they started to track the Destiny was by homing in on active Gate connections and later began to “blockade” every type G, K and M stars along the Destiny’s flight path (I’m a bit skeptical of that claim as these would be the most common stars in the Universe.)
I will always love Stargate and I stuck it out with this show from beginning to the bitter end and I knew it always had potential and just when the show was hitting it stride, good for nothing not Sci Fi SyFY channel cancelled it...
I always though the Nakai was a clone species. That was why they did not valve life and risked some many getting killed. When needed they just ran off more copies.
Were these the ones referred to as the Blueberry aliens? Before I started watching the show I was reading a Stargate fan wikia about aliens on the show and there were constant references to a species called that. I thought it was ridiculous that the fans gave them such a dumb name. Years later I watched the series and couldn't find a reference to this name.
Yeah, it was SyFy of course. They became crap ever since they changed to the current ridiculous name. If a series is considered to be good sci-fi, it will be canceled. Sharknado on the other hand will survive forever. Basically, if there is a new series for them, wait until it either get picked up by another network (or netflix or amazon) or cancelled so you won't waste your time.
i feel the same as many of you S.G.U. should not have been cancelled, but i wonder if it came to soon after SG1 and S.G.A. which i personally feel SG1 probably ran to long should have ended after defeat of the goa'uld and i don't remember SGA to much. i guess without Colonel O'niel it wasn't the same for me. somtimes i like when they wait on spinoffs and make them good or let it breath, take a break, i don't know for sure. So what do ya'll think, open to constructive critisism?
It's a shame this show was cancelled. It was so much better than the later seasons of SG-1 and Atlantis. The crew being stranded on a ancient alien ship they barely understood was refreshing and more realistic (for sci-fi) then the nonsense in the last few seasons of the other shows. Star gate was always supposed to be in a setting of modern humans interacting with alien world's, life forms and technology and being in way over their heads. Not the nonsense of building giant space warships in weeks/months or reverse engineering and mastering alien tech in months, sometimes days or hours like they did in the later seasons of the other shows.
yeah, but this show sucks. Stargate has always been about a positive future for the human being with a few moments of seriousness. This show, except for a few last episodes, was like the space version of the Kardashian, way too much drama, no fun and really old crappy tech. and for the record, they build 1 ships in a year with huge budgets, the effort of multiple nations and help from the Asgard. The first one even took 6 years to build. not that ilogical.
I both love and miss this series, as well as the rest of the stargate franchise. Too bad syfayl felt pro wrestling was a better move. I hate the channel so much now i refuse to even watch the expanse or any of their reality tv bullsh*t.
What if they needed access to destiny in order to get access to the Stargate’s network inside of the galaxy that they are inhabiting because there’s no DHD that you can use on the planets only way you can access the Stargate is the device that is used on destiny itself
Did he say space nazis? this everyone is a nazi thing, is out of control
I knew I should've went with space Mongols. I was only being silly, anyway. Earlier in the video I said we don't know the prevailing ideology of Nakai civilization, so it should've been clear that when, in the next sentence, I go ahead and pretend to know their prevailing ideology by calling them "space Nazis," I wasn't being serious.
You should have said Moon Nazi's because that is where they live.
People getting offended over fictional characters getting called names, is out of control !
Infact people getting offended over nearly anything now a days is, out of control !
I know. It looks aquatic. Hmm, water, Space Naquii? Nazi and so many other words that are terrible. Make general conversation.
I want to believe that Destiny's crew is still in sleeping pods, and that Eli was successful in fixing his own pod. I hope one day they'll all wake up and this fantastic story will continue.
These is a continuation of some chapters in the comic book .
Still pissed this show was cancelled.
Same here. It had potential for so many interesting stories
bradwolf07 yes it did, but the problem was they didnt capitalize on that. It was just too much interpersonal crap. And characters i kinda hated like chloe.
You and me both. I remember being so angry at all the hatred it got from so-called "Stargate-fans" because it was different, darker, newer and not the SG-1/Atlantis-type they wanted. If they'd only shut it, watch it, and hope it turned out better (as it did) it would probably have lasted longer. I remember thinking that this show wouldn't last long, not because of the show itself, but because those that calls themselves fans. The irony is that when the show got canceled, and years after. Many of those complaining then is the same complaining about it being canceled.
Henrik Skjolden true. I hoped it would last longer, but I wasn't surprised when it was cancelled. It wasn't given a chance because of its darker tone. Such a shame.
It wasn't stargate fans that killed it while there were many it wasn't them, I know I looked. By the end of season2 SGU had more than enough viewers to keep it going instead Syfy simply pulled funding right underneath their feat without telling anyone in advance much to the dismay and confusion of the actors and producers. Since Syfy came under new management they've been going threw one series after another, So Don't blame fans, blame the execs at Syfy.
Also it took a miracle just to keep the Expanse going.
SGU's cancellation is why I no longer watch anything on SyFy
SyFy killed that too though. Amazon rescued it at least.
When only money matters,
quality is forgotten.
I feel ya...they have cancelled way too many great shows.
Toucan SonofSam yeah, me as well
SyFy, and Sci-Fi before, cancelled many great shows. They always complain they cost too much to make.
Farscape, then SG-1, SG-Atlantis, SG-U, Eureka and many more
Although, SyFy is owned by NBCUniversal->Comcast, so maybe this is all coming down from above.
Either way, I won't watch their network. You'd be foolish to get hooked on their shows, when they could be abrupted ended.
Never again.
Compared with todays TV series this was a masterpiece.
Expanse is an exception :) look at Picard or Discovery.
@@volkhen0 oh man , i am cringing just reading about these 2 shows... disaster 😥
It was a good show ya, but I could go with about 80% less needless backstory/flash backs.
Compared to SG1 or Atlantis
Universe is crap
It truly was brilliant.
SGU had some much potential. It must be brought back.
did you help us tweet #stargaterising
That "new" stargate was garbage.
mgm is trying to see our reaction to orgins before they commit to a larger seriers... shut your mouth! people like you are the cause of all our problems
Sypher
HA! What problems are those you crybaby? If they cared about the fans they would make a good show or another film not that trash . Now off you go basement dweller.
why are you being rude to me? shut your mouth
=)
say one more thing to me.. i dare you
I still watch the Stargate series all the way through to SGU, from time to time including the movies. Kinda like a stargate movie show marathon. As a fan I'm sad they canceled the show.
I really wish this show had lasted. The detail and mystery put into it was astounding.
I'm sitting here shaking my head that this was cancelled. Damn I miss this and all SG shows. I must be seen 10 years of SG-1 three times over.
I still miss it, even now.
They obviously could not construct additional pylons
"You must construct additional pylons!"
LOL! That never gets old.
i just watched this meme for 1 hours.. thanks alot
Carrier has arrived.
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lol!
I'm surprised whenever anyone mentions Stargate, t'was never in public conversation in my country, but when asked, a lot of people actually watched large parts of the show.
Man I miss SG.
The Nakai almost resembles the protomolecule from the T.V. show The Expanse in true alien form
What kinda confuses me in regards to the Nakai and their inability to get aboard Destiny is the fact that... well... they've managed to get aboard before. Be it the ship that was locked onto Destiny's hull at the end of "Air" or the ship that lasered its way through the hull to kidnap Chloe in "Space." It's clear that they have the ability to physically get on board if they so choose. Yet they don't. Which makes me wonder if there are other, more subtle, defenses Destiny employs when it's main defenses, the gun batteries and the shield, are bypassed.
Or perhaps it's the simple fact that Destiny is locked with a master code they had no way of breaking. Until the Icarus expedition came aboard that is.
Tom Shore From what I understood from what Rush said in "Divided", Destiny's automated defenses were able to prevent the Nakai from boarding the ship, we don't know what those defense systems may be but we know that the shield was one of them. Rush goes onto say that now that they occupy Destiny the Nakai are hoping they make a mistake. What I took from that was the as soon as they arrived on board they took control of Destinys defenses, weapons, shields, and other defenses they probably didn't even know they had, limiting Destinys AI. Ability to automatically employ defensive strategies
I agree with David Willis. It also might have had something to do with the Crew's familiarity with the Ancient's technology, philosophy and language both mathematical and written communication. And perhaps their physical limitations and visual range, as far as we know, they might not be able to see some of the information on the Destiny's displays and interpret that as a defense lockout.
lol, yea or... and I know this may be far-fetched, but bear with me... it may also have something to do with, you know, the fact that it's a TV show. Plot devices, the need to keep things interesting and entertaining for an episodic weekly scifi show are all things I have this dubious feeling, may have something to do with it. But what do I know, I'm just speculating.
Patrick Metzdorf Can never discount that with any TV show, of any genre.
Tom Shore all depends,probably managed to do so because the ship isn't on full auto anymore. The other aliens managed to get a seed ship so anything is possible
I really think they gave up on a good thing with SGU. would love to see it continue. I know it wasn’t the feel good thing as with SGA and SG1 but I liked it gave us something new and the like of these characters, the drones, the higher power that brought the other crew back for a day, destinies mission, the hidden signal etc. I was really looking forward to exploring them 😢😢
Season 2 of SGU was good! The leftover robots, the nakai, the human civilization they accidentally founded. If the story writers kept focusing on external story like that, rather than internal politics/conflict/drama, teenage angst, etc that they focused on in season 1. SGU could’ve survived.
Stargate = my childhood.
they had a new galaxy to explore, and ran out of stories, sounds like poor writing or a lack of imagination.
Sooner Jon The Conservative not really it s more like in sg1 you found out that there were once ancients in ,sga u learn about them and their city and sgu is about one of the last unsolved mysteries that they have left behind
Yes, Yes, Yes.
I am the Universe was open for story writing. I didn't want to see some kisses on earth all over again. There could have been so many things where the Destiny could have flown to. I mean, there is a species who could build a planet. There could have been episodes about black holes, galaxy clusters and their formations for example the eridanus supervoid, ringworlds, dyson spheres, teleporting ships that can move to a far away galaxy in a second without stargates etc, or to phenomena far far away of the known universe(Like the episode "Where no man has gone before" in TNG). Who says there isn't a civilization that lived for millions of years with technology far beyond our understanding.
My head would explode if I was the story writer...
They should never have cancelled this. It really started gaining momentum in series 2. I think it would have just got better. Hated not knowing how they ended up. I know there was a comic or novel or something and they survived because there ended up being ancient engineers on board in another part of the ship or something but that was a shit explanation which I don’t think would have been the outcome had the series been renewed.
I thought they’d maybe have went with Eli dying. Maybe getting his pod fixed but realising he’d spent more power on it so a bittersweet moment. Where he fixed the problem but was too late and would have to let himself die to ensure the others made it.
I’d love to think Netflix or something would pick it up but dare say too much time has passed for actors appearances etc 😢
actors appearances could be easily explained with an accident with the deep void travel took longer than it should.
Did season 2 end with the crew going into the cryo pods?
I thought they could always say that the stasis pods kept them in a state of hibernation. They didn't require food or air, but the pods did little to prevent the progression of aging.
Don't worry - they're going to revive the show in a thousand years, when the crew of Destiny wakes up :)
yep and with it ended StarGate.... Seeing as how utterly shit Origins was....
Im so glad i found ur channel. The SG series has been my favorite tv shows for over 2 decades now almost (im only 25 to) and iv watched SG, SGA SGD countless times and know pretty much every single thing in the star gate universe i love the show soooo much i still like watching these vids even tho im not really learning anything new lol. Great videos man n its awesome to see someone who likes the shows as much as me
Happy to see more video explained about SGU. thank you.
this show needs to come back
It was the best Sci-Fi show I've seen in a long time.
it's all just a part of history now, the world has moved on. there is no comeback.
It needs to come back yesterday
Yea as mentioned, SGU won't come back... There MAY be a total SG revamp in the future as attempted by Origins, but this Story Arc is history... Shame, because I LOVED serious SG, unfortunately at the time it was airing EVERYONE compared it with BSG (with good reason may I add) and those long time SG fans started to cry about the serious subject matter and atmosphere of the show and so the ratings dropped!
SGU could have easily become a world renowned scifi show if it had just 1 more season to prove itself.... Or if majority of viewers weren't so f'in childish and whiny accepting the new atmosphere of the show and allowing for the show to develop further....
oh well... RIP SGU
Animation.
I could remember the wraith and goa'uld, but for the life of me I couldn't remember the name of these beings from SGU.
Holy crap people, Syfy did NOT cancel the show! Syfy tried to work with the producers to continue the show. MGM owned the rights to the show and had just gone through a restructuring, in other words, bankruptcy. They laid off most of the people that worked on the show and no one that was left knew anything about what was going on. Go watch the interviews that Brad Wright did, they’re here on YT, you just have to look.
6:13 could the nakai have learned our language from Dr Rush while they were probing his mind?
That was the implication I'm pretty sure.
After SG-1 and Atlantis I had trouble switching into the SGU world but began to Love it more and more unto the end of S2 in which I could cry forever this Great series was ended. It deserves a wholly revival with the same cast as they did all splendid work!!! Really miss them. The Nakai should be back, more should be learned and known about them. Where did they originate from? What's their real motivation going after Destiny? And much more. The series deserve at least 5 or more seasons. With new enemies and allies as well, other than the Nakai and Ursini.
Hope it's going be resumed.
Since Stargate always had a sense of religion and worship of gods theme to it, I thought it would be interesting if the Nakai worshiped the Destiny much like how some indigenous people of uncontacted tribes perceived modern aircraft as gods or heavenly objects.
Ooooo, that would be a twist but it seems that they attacked it in order to take it over or prevent humans from desecrating it.
This series was about " I WANT MY MOMMY , I WANT TO GO HOME "
I still didnt get one thing why earth didnt mount a rescue, they had asgard hyper drive which would take like a month or two to get to thm.
The asgard drive wasn't fast enough.
In the first episode you can see how far they went. It took the Prometheus 1month to reach the Pegasus galaxy. Just imagine how long would it take them to reach Destiny...
They couldn't pick them up for the same reason a taxi driver from Moscow can't pick up someone from Buenos Aires.
@@mitjah.509 so they were not 10 galaxies far they were 2 or 3 galaxies away from milkyway .
Asgard homeworld was in another galaxy when they try to fight the replicators , and how much time it took to reach atlantis during the fight with wraiths of final episode of season 1 atlantis.
if it was this fast then it wouldnt take more thn a month or two .
Removing the whinning crew from destiny and leave someone more capable.
I really wish we'd gotten at least a third season. So many questions unanswered. So many more adventures to have.
Very very disappointed that the show cut off.. Was very good show!!!
Endless possibilities and I think whenever the end it, it will still not cover enough of them - It could be like a Marvel multiverse with intertwined stories, teams and human/other efforts.
wow, I liked this show but it ended 8 years ago.
Unfortunately the reason they canceled this show is that the studio went bankrupt, I loved SGU it was unique from the others and sadly it’s not with us anymore. R.I.P
Watching this short video has reminded me of the pain of seeing this show cancelled after only two sessions. SGU was such a fresh take on the Stargate franchise, and while it may not have been to the taste of those more accustomed to SG1 fayre, it was a phenomenal venture nonetheless. All these years later and I'm still upset that we'll never find out what would have happened had Destiny crossed the Galactic void...
I always had the hunch that the Destiny somehow destroyed the Nakai homeworld, and that's why they're trying to capture it. I have absolutely no idea why I think that, but it's the first impression I got, and I never could shake it, despite there being no evidence onscreen to support my weird idea. I assume they've been following it for generations. Maybe longer.
Guess we will never know, since the show was cancelled.
The Nakai want the destiny because of it's technologies perhaps for war or defend themselves, We know for sure that the destiny successfully defend itself against the Nakai so they knew at this moment they can win the war and if they are as curious as Humans are, they will follow the Destiny across the entire universe.
Have a Good Day/Night.
I like the idea of an aquatic species that gains space faring technology. Though thinking about it some more, it's funny they fill they spaceships with an oxygen atmosphere rather than swimming around some liquid lol
Noce video. You capture the atmosphere of the show nicely. Thanks for doing. Have been re-watching this recently. Easy not to bother with videos after the time that has passed but despite what's said on a lot of SGA vids this show was and hopefully will be fantastic in the future
Some great stuff here. I miss the show. I probably didn't find out about till 2015.
On episode 1 one of their ships detached from the back of Destiny at the end of the episode
I didn't have the patience for this show. I only recall their being too much duplicity, not enough sci fi (other than living on a space ship). I think I need to give it another watch.
Would of thought rush meant destiny level, as those blueberries can't even capture or get past defences of destiny so they'd have zero chance with atlantis lol destiny is the oldest ancient tech still around so if they can't beat it then it's clear
The aurora class ships would easily shrug off any attacks made against them. Even the deadelus class ships with their asguard shields would be more advanced then the blueberries
elemantal i should think so considering they are designed for battle lol 304's are op which kinda pissed me off in sgu when the Hammond got damaged by alliance ships.
I liked this show much because it took place in the same film universe that the previous two SG series took place in but they were so distant they didn't have to use all the nonsense technology that ruined the other shows.
I had always theorised that they actually succeded, in probing his mind, and actually planted the information he gained, as well as possibly planted hidden command "subroutines" in his mind as well.
Still cut up this was cancelled. The mystery, drama, music score, acting was all brilliant. Bring the show back!
The eyes are amazing. From a scientific background I would like to think their inner eye layer absorbs all light in the spectrum but that of blue. Perhaps an adeptation to living in a n ocean with mostly blue light near a blue star. The outermost layer is primarily made up of a chemical that is defusing the blue light as it is reflected back giving them a luminous glow.
In the episode where two Nakai's ship were destroyed, the aliens sent the message ''Agreement'' about Chloe's transfert. Not only Surrender and No Escape
This was one of the chief faults of SGU, the alien bad guys were so alien we couldn't really get behind them. They never communicated in any way we could understand, their motives were always fuzzy, a good villain is one we the viewers can identify with and we couldn't do that with bad guys like the Nakai. Of course the good guys weren't much better, everyone had their flaws and hang-ups, and they didn't even have the decency to give us a new Ronan or Teal'c. If it ain't broke don't fix it, the previous two series were good, trying to mix Stargate with Star Trek Voyager and duct-taping them together with the new Battlestar Gallactica production techniques was fixing a problem that didn't exist.
Although this appears to be a fictional form of audio visual art (Star Gate), I think it is of some importance to know that a population has policy leaders and individuals who are (forced) followers. _Most_ of the individuals are not driven by hunger for power over others nor do they have violent tendencies by nature/logic/logos. Look at our own species, and you know what I'm talking about; basically most individual people hate their leaders because they are doing protection policy the wrong way. Just my two cents. :)
Amazing video. One small correction tho: the total number of messages received is three. They also sent a single word: "AGREEMENT" when they decided to agree to remove the pathogen from Chloe's body - Episode 11 of season 2
I've always thought they were similar to fish and their limbs are a bio mechanical "dry suit".
pete sampson yep
It always struck me as absurd that the Destiny was still (mostly) intact after all these years, considering how frequently it comes under attack, even just in the short time the humans are aboard it.
I think it would be easy to continue Destiny's story on with a new cast that arrives years later to find Eli dead and everyone in sleeping pods or even all dead.
Its such a pity the cancelled it when it was finally getting interesting
or of course if Rush told the truth?
Nakai - Surrender
Eli - Blow me
Nakai - As in air coming out of my mouth?... What??? 👽???
SGU was canned just as it was really getting going =( The first season was just a warm-up, sadly it didn't gather enough momentum. Maybe it was just a bit too different and dark compared to SG-1 and Atlantis, that was my initial complaint. It didn't really feel like a Stargate series, Atlantis and SG-1 were way more alike. I might have to re-watch SGU soon, but it's still sad that it was canned.
They run out of ideas pretty quick. The Ancient ship and the overall idea of that Universal mystery that the ship was going after on auto-pilot was so good...
They could go metaphysical, philosophical. Go into some reaally new places. But they didn't. They just choose to fill it with some random aliens that were after them and trying to kill them. As we haven't seen that plot for the 1000th time.
A master piece this stargate saga!
Those fishy guys looked like a race introduced in sg1. A water planet fish guy. But the sgu version was cgi and translucent like...
I wonder if the Nakai ever planned on revisiting the Destiny later. and what exactly did they want? Did they find a Seed Ship or did they want to learn something about the Stargates?
That alien thing looks like what Leonardo drew in St. John the baptist mirrored image with the fingers pointing up
The Nakai could of had hyperdrive.
I do not recall anyone clearing that up in any episode.
Did someone state the Nakai actually used FTL ?
I feel that the nakai were underused and there should have been more of them
He tried to forget them probing his "mind".
It's not his mind they probed.
Great video!
I really would've liked SGU if it had been its own unique thing instead of a Stargate series. It just never felt like Stargate to me. Except for the original boarding, the only use of the titular stargates could've easily been telemats.
What I don't get is the Nakai was studying Destiny for a long time then we see Destiny goes through the next Galaxy in like a few months... and a lot shorter to get from one galaxy to the next.
this show should be back NOW
The mesages from them reminds me of the Covenant from the Halo universe. "Your destruction is the will of the Gods... and we are their instrument."
I found it interesting they could attach to and cut a hole in Destiny but apparently not board it...plus in Air part 3 their ship detaches while Destiny in FTL and didn't vaporise....Still i found them interesting, held their end of the deal and reversed Chloes condition. Seem to be good at maths...
@1:11 Love the show but did no one think to bring rakes and leaf blower to hide the man made tracks in the "Alien" gravel pit?
I personally am a subscriber to the belief of the seed ships dropped a Stargate they found it they were the first to figure it out in their home Galaxy then other ships start coming by and they take notice that hey these are what drop Gates that motivates them to try and figure out who sent it and all of the technology because it gave them power in the first place colonizing in the wake.
Amazing videos! ☆☆☆
I just realise that they have the same voice sound effect as the aliens in the game Xenonauts.
Also noteworthy in being pretty much the only alien race that's really encountered. Aside for animal-like ones and that non-corporeal ghost we see in the desert.
old forgotten stuff, those had possibilities but ended young .....
Feel like this story was a real documentary from another time
I mean when you really think about it they are Researchers who probably been following destiny way before the humans figured it out. So why were they treated like they didn’t deserve to learn destiny’s secrets when that’s exactly what the humans had been doing? Still loved this show sad it ended:(
I wonder how the Nakai dealt with the Berzerker Drones long term...Have they fared better than the Ursini?
The Nakai are native to another galaxy, perhaps several galaxies back. This was likely first, perhaps their only encounter with the Drones. Where as both the Ursini and the Drones are native to the season 2 galaxy.
Ed S that maybe true, but the drones were quite tenacious. They may have gone after the Nakai after this. It has been a while since I went back and rewatched the series, so my memory is a bit fuzzy
bradwolf07 It’s possible. How they started to track the Destiny was by homing in on active Gate connections and later began to “blockade” every type G, K and M stars along the Destiny’s flight path (I’m a bit skeptical of that claim as these would be the most common stars in the Universe.)
Ed S fair enough.
I will always love Stargate and I stuck it out with this show from beginning to the bitter end and I knew it always had potential and just when the show was hitting it stride, good for nothing not Sci Fi SyFY channel cancelled it...
I always though the Nakai was a clone species. That was why they did not valve life and risked some many getting killed. When needed they just ran off more copies.
Lanikai are like the ones Daniel Jackson encountered and probed his mind in fire and water
Were these the ones referred to as the Blueberry aliens? Before I started watching the show I was reading a Stargate fan wikia about aliens on the show and there were constant references to a species called that. I thought it was ridiculous that the fans gave them such a dumb name.
Years later I watched the series and couldn't find a reference to this name.
Blueberries is the fan given name for the nakai lol
And it's because their blue
Why did Atlantis end?!? It was the best, even over sg1
Syfy pulled funding without telling them which they tend to a lot.
Andrew Davidson na sga was just a sg1 copy...had potential but wasted it. Sg1 and sgu are the best.
Yeah, it was SyFy of course. They became crap ever since they changed to the current ridiculous name. If a series is considered to be good sci-fi, it will be canceled. Sharknado on the other hand will survive forever. Basically, if there is a new series for them, wait until it either get picked up by another network (or netflix or amazon) or cancelled so you won't waste your time.
Stephen Eilert the expanse cough cough
Yeah, that's exactly what happened to The Expanse. Dark Matter wasn't similarly saved, though.
nakai: WE WANT THAT SHIP
not excuses?
I definitely missed an episode or two. I don't remember most of this!
Truth be told, we should've anticipated them and made them our allies
i feel the same as many of you S.G.U. should not have been cancelled, but i wonder if it came to soon after SG1 and S.G.A. which i personally feel SG1 probably ran to long should have ended after defeat of the goa'uld and i don't remember SGA to much. i guess without Colonel O'niel it wasn't the same for me. somtimes i like when they wait on spinoffs and make them good or let it breath, take a break, i don't know for sure. So what do ya'll think, open to constructive critisism?
It's a shame this show was cancelled. It was so much better than the later seasons of SG-1 and Atlantis. The crew being stranded on a ancient alien ship they barely understood was refreshing and more realistic (for sci-fi) then the nonsense in the last few seasons of the other shows. Star gate was always supposed to be in a setting of modern humans interacting with alien world's, life forms and technology and being in way over their heads. Not the nonsense of building giant space warships in weeks/months or reverse engineering and mastering alien tech in months, sometimes days or hours like they did in the later seasons of the other shows.
what parody episode are you referring to?
yeah, but this show sucks. Stargate has always been about a positive future for the human being with a few moments of seriousness. This show, except for a few last episodes, was like the space version of the Kardashian, way too much drama, no fun and really old crappy tech. and for the record, they build 1 ships in a year with huge budgets, the effort of multiple nations and help from the Asgard. The first one even took 6 years to build. not that ilogical.
It was just finding it’s stride to
I both love and miss this series, as well as the rest of the stargate franchise. Too bad syfayl felt pro wrestling was a better move. I hate the channel so much now i refuse to even watch the expanse or any of their reality tv bullsh*t.
I guess now they cancelled The Expanse and Amazon takes it on, you can at least watch that?
Dude you're missing out on the Expanse.
Wrestling is cheaper than well made science fiction shows
absolutely missing out on the expanse dude
God I miss this show.
Nakai Ship or Earth Battle Cruiser???
Fight!
I miss this show it would do well in the age of netflixs original series we live in now.
For some reason The SyFy channel has a real issue with canceling good scifi shows like SGU and Dark Matter.
They ruined SG universe and Doctor who. Maybe Netflix could fix those in the future. İf they smart.
@Abdullah Z. not very likely anymore with the pedophilia they got themselves into. They put their agenda above profit and lost. Maybe Amazon?
they had something here... too bad they tried making it too much of a soap opera.
Exactly the reason I stopped watching it mid season 1. I wanted Stargate, not Dallas or whatever lolss
@🐦MrSoTiredOfTheNewUA-cams😅 Because SGU as a whole was more of a Scifi Drama than anything else.
What if they needed access to destiny in order to get access to the Stargate’s network inside of the galaxy that they are inhabiting because there’s no DHD that you can use on the planets only way you can access the Stargate is the device that is used on destiny itself
I think that maybe we allowed our perception of the species to be too tainted by the testimony of Rush.