@wessnyder117 You have to see the scene in the context of the last handful of episodes. Long story short: Eli had developed a theory on how to get them home. Before they tried it, an alternate version of Rush comes through warning them not to do it because he claims it killed the whole crew when they tried it. In reality, however, the crew wasn't killed they were just shot onto a planet in their current galaxy in the distant past. They then established an entire civilization. Powerful stuff
What's happened to me? I keep watching this clip. I can't stop! The more times I watch, the more I want this show come back. Hope that SGU continues in another timeline.
This and a handful of other episodes of season 2 showed the potential of what SGU could have become. A shame the show runners fumbled the show's direction early on. :(
This isn't just the best episode of Stargate Universe. This is easily one of the best episodes in the entire Stargate franchise. So sad to see Stargate Universe fully realize its potential only to be cancelled anyways.
This episode is SGU's best. So many emotional scenes in this episode, the funeral scene almost made me cry so too did the flashback where we see young on his deathbed, saddest flashback however is TJ's and seeing Colonel Young and his 2 kids sitting at the table with 1 chair empty. Epilogue is to SGU what The Shrine is to Atlantis, ie the best episode from each series i would have picked an SG-1 episode but with so many great SG-1 episodes it was hard to pick an SG-1 episode.
@TheAlterans True but then if this episode had been the last then we wouldn't have had that very emotional final scene with Eli putting the crew into stasis then that music playing as destiny powers down all non-essential systems and then seeing Eli on the observation desk before we get to see the Destiny for the last time
juiuffophiguo Technically it’s also the first Tau’ri colony to develop computers, gunpowder and all sorts of fun things. You have to love that while Earth was in medieval times, being ravaged by plague, crusades and all kinds of awful things, there was a colony of Earthers on the other side of the universe with a prosperous modern interstellar society.
The Hippy Griff pretty sure they weren’t able to rediscover FTL/Warp/whatever. It was a plot point that someone on Destiny had a disease and that this civilization had a cure, but had evacuated on a ship that would take 100s of years to arrive at it’s new planet.
such an epic and emotional scene. it had me balling like a baby cause i knew that only 2 episodes were remaining until the end of the stargate universe
One of the best "Tying up of a loose end" sequences ever. Hopefully someday the Children of Earth will meet the Children of Novus and guide the Novan's generation ships to a new home.
I hope some how that they come back sometime and look at these episodes and think to themselfs that the show must go on but I have to say they did have a head start on "Novis" cause they advanced pretty quickly which is what SG.U should do; Advance further into the story.
Destiny could've easily found the Novus ships. Eli said it is 10 days in FTL with Destiny but Novus ships take 200 years without hyperdrive. He explained that ships can't be found because space is large. That is a mistake. Rush found a seed ship while Destiny were in FTL. If Destiny followed the same course, they could easily detect Novus ships and could offer an assitance to reach to new homeworld.
Ormi Ader the seed ship was likely directly in the path of destiny, but you are correct, from some things they were able to detect, those ships should have also been detectable
The fact that Destiny didn't detect the Novan generation ships makes me think that the Berzerker Drones might have destroyed them. It was established that Destiny's sensors do work in FTL, which is different from hyperspace as Destiny moves through regular space, just faster than light. The Novan ships and Destiny left the same planet, and were headed towards the same planet, so assuming they all went in a straight line, which is probable since the Novans didn't have hyperdrives and the trip would take hundreds of years for them. The fastest way to get there would be a straight line. Destiny should've detected them.
I absolutely loved the Novus plot line. One thing that seemed off was the scale of their civilisation. Can 80ish Earthlings and a few Lucian Alliance people breed to that scale without inbreeding etc? Seems too few to me.
The Amish community are around 300.000 today but almost all of them come from the original few hundred settlers and they suffer from terrible inbreeding. So you're right they could not breed to that scale without suffering from terrible inbreeding. Had they been around 5000 or so it would have been much more doable.
Provided there wasn't any overlap in gene pools it's doable, the colony would have to keep track of who bred with who and make sure no one bred with their closest cousins, but it's easy enough to use specific family names. Say you have 30 unique couples, 20 have kids, some have a couple to each family, each boy could mate with any one of 19 different family lines or the odd people from people who weren't coupled up earlier when he reaches maturity. You could have a pretty big population relative to your starting colony after a few years and within 18 years kids mature enough to breed again. You've just got to stop any overlap to avoid inbreeding. Population increases would be slow to begin with, but if you keep the core blood lines pure enough you shouldn't have any issues. The fact the survivors would be aware of the problems that can arise from inbreeding it means they'd be less likely to have those issues. 80 odd people is a small starting point, but you could have multiple guys having offspring with multiple females as along there's no overlap in your offspring's offspring's conception.
Most women in reproductive age to have and survive say, at least two children from different fathers. Keep close track for two subsequent generations and ... might work. Might work. After all, all of us are descendants of 800 or so... there was similar TNG episode with small colony and further parts of A. C. Clarke "Rama" series pondered the question.
A great program and a shame it was never continued but one thing that got me about the ending of this EP was that they said the population escaped the plannet in one huge ship yet the ship you see at the end is small not much bigger than a dedelas class. They should have made the ship at the end much bigger >.
Actually, the script is: "The Stargate was destroyed in one of the eruptions, buried in lava decades ago. Most of the people left the planet before then, but after they lost the Gate they needed to figure another way out. Both of the countries realized they stood a better chance of survival if they worked together. So they pooled their resources and they built ships, huge, huge ships - not capable of FTL, but big enough to evacuate the rest of the population." So, most of the people had already left, and there was more than one ship.
I don't even think it was one of the ships used for the evacuation, rather something like a helicopter used in dailey lives before the calamity striked.
I find this episode somewhat unsatisfactory because their descendants may have relocated. They are still in a galaxy full of drones, it somewhat lack closure.
Honestly, because of this drones issues, stargate universe can make its own separate franchise about novus war against the drones. Just, dont call this "stargate".
Wait...wait...wait. I'm confused. I thought the last scene of the last episode was of Eli looking out into space after he put everyone to sleep. What's this clip?
Wes Rodriguez No, they remain on Destiny. This civilization was founded by an alternate crew who were accidentally catapulted, 2000 years into the past. The Destiny crew meets the descendants of their alternate selves.
The journey is not the most important part. How you finish the journey is the most important part. The journey is only important if you do not like or cannot appreciate the result.
Leaving aside the whole techno improbabilty, they would never have been able to survive due to the lack of genetic diversity. Only a few dozen people would and could NOT survive beyond a few generations before genetic destruction would occur. Slow and small at first but would get massive after just a couple centuries!
Literally everything about SGU is amazing, except for some of the scenes that focus on Scott and Chloe's relationship, that was underdeveloped and boring to watch.
