Stargate Universe - The Crew Decide Between Home Or The Mission 

And that is precisely what SyFy did, and precisely what happened.

Fuck bro… what a waste.

Yep, me too. SyFy leaders responsible for cancellation of SG-U should burn in hell. Ratings weren't really poor, season 2 caught really great drive, and was violently ended in it's best times. Also budget wasn't too high (about 2M $/ep, while Marco Polo has 9M $/ep).

darkydrone I do too. This wasn't the only great show to be cancelled. Firefly was another. On the subject at hand, damn straight I would have stayed lol

Same here, I was a huge SG fan and find myself watching bits and pieces of it from time to time recently.

I miss the franchise. I hope Stargate Origins work out and eventually led to a reboot of the franchise and giving Universe a proper ending.

+SuperSlapek The Expanse is SyFy's highest rated current show, at 0.7 at its best for season 2. SGU at its worst for season 2 was 0.8.

The mission continues, it's just the progress reports that have stopped.

Dude that ship was launched like over a million years ago, even with stasis they were unlikely to see any mission completion in their lifetime and it would probably end up being underwhelming either way.

@@hammertlme This was the true premise of the show, although it took them two seasons to actually come out and say it. And they wouldn't have chosen this course if they didn't intend to solve it within an acceptable timeframe in the show. I am fairly certain it would be the underlying message within the show and it would go on like.. well.. kinda like Star Trek Voyager. Their mission WAS to get home, but it was just what drove the show forwards. It was the adventures WHILE doing that which made it worth watching. It would probably be the same here. And in the end, they would discover what they were there for. Underwhelming or not is irrelevant.

@@michaelvedal1907 Anything Stargate related should not be underwhelming

The new series exec said that universe is part of the canon so at minimum we will have some updates about the crew.

ikr, I had to watch it again :D and that expression too...:D

He was one of my fav characters besides Rush.

Greer was the best

Also didn't want to leave him with Park :P

Notice a few extras did join up.

@@theblackwidower must have needed the appearance fees. 😁

I like how Greer didn't waste time thinkinkg.

​@@petrfedor1851 He was one of my favorites, no questions asked loyalty, sounds and looks tough, but honorouable and decent.

Dr. Zippy Mcscoots if they were actually in space for real getting ready to hop back now if they were up on the state of affairs I think if there I'd stay for that reason alone and I'd bet most of them would stay vs coming back to the fiasco this world's turning into

Seeing these arcs resolved in such a fulfilling way through the two seasons is one of the reasons I love the show, although conversely it's one of the main detractors for many as well. The show took its time, and it was long enough for many viewers to give up on the show :(

It was the SG-1 and Atlantis fans who turned on this show and got it cancelled. For me it was the best of the three and I'm still gutted it was stopped. I'll take character development over one-off individual episodes anytime

@@allanmoncrieff5579 Speaking as an SG1 and Atlantis fan, I wasn't a huge fan of SGU at the start, but damn did it grow on me as the series went forward. Season 1 ended up pretty decent in my eyes and season 2 really took off in quality. I was super disappointed when they canned it.

@@mattshannon3526 I was a fan of SG-1 but never watched Atlantis. Sgu was more of my type of thing and I was also disappointed when it was cancelled. Obviously not all SG-1 fans turned on it but the majority did and its a shame because I think they would eventually have grown to like it if it was given more time. Usual story with networks - drop something if the ratings are low.

@@allanmoncrieff5579 I've always been a huge fan of SG-1 and Atlantis. I grew up on them. And while SGU was a great show at its core, the pointless love triangles, Chloe's entire character, and the creepy mind swap sex scenes were a huge detractor from the show early on. It got a lot better as it went, but a few terrible decisions dragged the whole show down and cost it its audience. A shame, really. Once SGU started living up to its potential, I was hooked.

Yep. I can say 3 good things about Origins - original music is great, setting too and Elie Gall is nice to look at. However it's not because of her acting... :/

Although the idea of staying aboard for a "Magical Mystery Tour" might have appealed to some, I'd have just been bored whizzing through space for possibly many more years without end.

Lol.I thought the same thing at first too. While it is the same actor in both series, he is not playing the same character. Kind of ironic thought that both of his characters in SG1 and SGU were both Lucian Alliance members. He also played a Russian military officer in the SG1 episode "Full Alert" as well as Kiryk in the Stargate Atlantis episode "Tracker"

Also, at one point he was in the Russian mafia and helping Oliver Queen to overtake their leader :D

Many actors had multiple roles in Stargate franchise. Dark haired female USAF Lieutenant from this scene was also one of Lucius Lavin's girlfriends in Stargate Atlantis Episode Irresistible

@@tomaszwitkowski9507Julia Benson

So say we all!!!

I'd go. Second star to the right and straight on till morning.

This is where all the fan hated drama actually pays off. It justifies this choice. Maybe in a parallel universe Destiny arrived to next galaxy 7 years ago...

@@nopens I think the "fan hatred" is overstated. There was, and still is, a handful of very loud malcontents, but their critiques never held up to even the mildest of scrutiny and were never widely accepted. To this day, a tiny minority of people have similar complaints about the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica. While any sane person will acknowledge the reboot far exceeds the pitiful source material, a very angry cadre still complains they didn't get the show they wanted back. TNG also had loud opponents. These sad and pitiful individuals will always exist - but never imagine they are anything of significance.

@@erentheca I loved the premise of the show. But it started off bad. The gratuitous sex scenes, Chloe's entire character, some VERY uncomfortable moments with the communication stones, and rather disgusting portrayal of the military turned me off to the show at first. I did come back and watch the whole thing, but if they'd crunched the first season down to about half its existing length it would've been received better. Keep in mind I'm not one of those people who hated it just because they cancelled Atlantis for it. Atlantis was starting to slip and a sixth season of that would probably have been just as bad as the first season of SGU. There was also some dubious things like the Lucian Alliance suddenly becoming more than dirt under the boot of the planet that defeated the Goa'uld, the Replicators, a half-ascended System Lord with the knowledge of the ancients, AND THE FRIGGIN' ORI! This is late-era Stargate. Earth are literal god slayers. And you expect me to believe a couple of relatively garbage-tier Ha'taks could last longer than a few seconds against a ship that at this point in the series could sink an Ori mothership in four shots? If the Alliance were smart, they'd run for the hills at the mere mention of a BC-304. There are nonsensical things like this all over the first season. And in a show with serialized progression, these are mistakes you can't afford to make. Stargate Universe needed another go around the table in the writing room before anything hit the screen. To offer another example, the show hammers you with emotional moments before you can even figure out who these characters are, let alone endear yourself to them. The audience either needs time to care about these people, or something to latch onto right off the bat. Take a whole episode and set it on Icarus. Establish what "normal" is to these people before throwing them to the other side of the universe, ESPECIALLY with a cast this large. But alas, the times when the show had its priorities straight, it got damn good, and season 2 was absolutely fantastic. It cut out the fat and got to the meat of the story. I genuinely wish they'd gotten a third season. If season 2 was as much of an improvement as it was, imagine the heights the show could've reached!

This show's downs - and those were few and far between - were leagues ahead of most shows' greatest triumphs.

''We live in a world where everything and ever great frontier within our technological ability has already been explored'' Uhm... no we don't... there's A LOT left.

@@Exunary Not that's reachable with our current level of technology. Which is what BYERE is saying. Some of these Frontiers may be just beyond the technological horizon, such as the surface of Mars (in terms of manned missions) or the frozen-over oceans of Europa. Others are a bit further out, such as Alpha Centauri or the deepest parts of Earth's own oceans. And yet other still may never be reachable any time soon, such as other galaxies or Earth's core, or the internal structure of a star. We may reach these eventually. But we need to make some technological progress to do so.

@@VestedUTuber Our technological progress is increasing RAPIDLY, every year new species are uncovered, new details of how life may have formed on earth is uncovered, new scientific breakthroughs in medicine and genetic engineering is uncovered, we are at the PEAK of technological progress. You're fixating on space and not seeing how vast our world is already. Even though It is only recently we discovered merging blackholes. As but a science student, there is never a dull moment or lack of subjects to explore. There's new research and technology everyday. Technological progress is not defined by simply landing on other worlds...

I didn't feel anything

@@saquist No one cares what you think.

@@erenthecacorrection, you mean YOU dont care what I think, and yet if even that were true you would have completely ignore the comment. Instead you were compelled to simultaneously express your annoyance and demean my opinion just to make yourself feel more meaningful. It's not that big of a deal...and to be blunt...its just a show and it's just emotions.

gregthebaritone how did rush ruin destiny. ever since they stepped foot on the ship he embraced destiny's mission. most people on that ship didn't belong there and didn't want to be there. rush convinced young to embrace the mission not too long before this scene and his speech convinced others to stay as well. this scene expresses how people feel about the choices between earth and destiny. withoutbrush constantly emphasizing the importance of destiny's mission everyone else would have let that ship burn.

It's a Simpsons reference. Rush always acted so contemptuous to pretty much everyone else in the crew, that I found it amusing that when dealing with himself, he was basically equally contemptuous: Rush: "Look, I'll go and I'll bring back the proper tools. Be careful not to touch the damaged one. About a thousand volts running through that." Alternate Rush (testily): "Do you think I might know that?" He could have literally become his own worst enemy. It just reminded me of the Simpsons' scene, especially since it came from Groundskeeper Willie: "Brothers and sisters are natural enemies. Like Englishmen and Scots! Or Welshmen and Scots! Or Japanese and Scots! Or Scots and other Scots! Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!" Skinner: "You Scots sure are a contentious people." Willie: "You just made an enemy for life!" This dialog became the template for a lesser meme.

Damned Scots!

That what makes religion that Rush become saviour of some people on Novus so brilliant.

@@RenegadeShepTheSpacer They ruined Scotland!

HeeroYuy911 I'm pretty sure they can tell how many Chevrons were dialed so I'm pretty sure if they see more than 7 chevrons locking the SGC will know who it is

I'm pretty sure they always had the communication stones throughout the series...perhaps they planned to use that as a form of confirmation to open the iris.

Using the stones would make sense but he literally said in this clip that he was going to go ahead first to warn them they're on their way.

Okay, so they dial the gate to Earth. On Earth's side, the standard protocol would be to close the iris until it was confirmed friendlies were coming through the gate. The argument was that since radio signals can't be transmitted over a 9 chevron address, there would be no usual way to send an IDC. After re-watching the clip, though, I seem to have missed the part where he states "Eli has warned them to expect us" so they likely used the stones for that purpose, and I'm guessing they'd either have set up a certain time frame when the iris wouldn't automatically close, or they'd use the stones as confirmation for who's coming through.

I'm going to assume since the Replicators and Goa'uld are gone, they keep the iris open all the time now. Plus, they know the Destiny crew are going to arrive some time today. I mean, who's going to attack them? The Lucian Alliance? HA!

more like fan movie inspired from original 1994 stargate but with budeget of few thousands

SG-1 and Atlantis were much better than Universe

i literally found this video because of the sidebar while I was watching another video about tips and tricks for D&D DMs using Roll20... pretty sure that would be stumbling on to something. However, this clip did get me interested in learning about Stargate Universe. I stopped watching Stargate after the first season of Atlantis.

S2E12 Twin Destinies

Did you ever watch the show? Still want a run-down of what it's about?

Do. It’s good.

jac bas Families, not dying in space, being captured/experimented on by aliens, etc.but I feel I would go

best of luck being experimented upon by aliens.

You can't understand why people would want to go home to their families and friends, fresh air, food, and water? 🤔

@@EdTowel-ww7yh i can't understand why you would leave this mission with all its importance for the whole universe

to quote rush, "that's the problem, you don't know any better." what he said to to camille wray about her misguided perception of rush.

Kinda late with this response but I feel like this is a serious question so ill answer it anyways. Your question is exactly the point of this scene. The crew have no idea what the background radiation is, when they will reach it, or even if it is something that is physically reachable. It could be a mystery that takes in another million years to answer or something they can find out within a year. The only thing that is for certain is that if they leave then there is a 100% chance they will never find out. However, even if it will take the ship another million years to reach its destination that doesn't mean that the crew would be wasting their time by staying on the ship. Even if they will never reach the background radiation in their lifetime, the best way to continue research on this is to stay aboard the ship. You gotta remember the crew on board Destiny are in a part of space that the Ancients themselves never even got to explore. The whole point of the Stargate Program throughout the three series is to send people to as many places as possible to explore in order to learn new things, gain new experiences, and possibly acquire new medicines, skills, and technologies to better earth and the human race, and while this was not the ideal group of people to take on this particular mission, the things the crew learns out here across the universe still has potential to better life on earth.

they go Into cryosleep

@George Jones and they will never wake up, because the ship can't repair itself... If only ancients think about some sort of selfrepair programs...

@@GogaPartizan True, but the ship will be okay until at least until Eli dies. He stayed out if I recall?

He just needs to stay alive till he fixes the ship. Then he can die and it won't affect the ship) They knew he can easily do it. It actually was their plan. He wouldn't remain awake if they didn't know he could really do it) But I'm afraid we'll never see what happens next...

no

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The radiation fallout from the big bang is spread out and constantly moving away from wherever it originated from rush said in a previous scene that the destiny is traveling the universe, and recording the radiation, hoping to record almost the entire wave so that they can put the entire pattern together.

hope the actors will come back into series after like... 5-7 years? P.S. screw the comics!

not even sure if youll ever see this, but the show went to comic books, if you search a little, you can find out how it turns out

You have to keep in mind that Destiny wasn't originally built to find "the truth of the universe". It was a seeding ship, creating and placing stargates on habitable worlds (creating the Gate Network) so that the Ancients could inhabit these new places. They likely built the ship for that main purpose, after which they detected this other civilisation from the beginning of time and worked on heading towards it, converting Destiny-class ships into multi-generational ships (ie, the cryo-stasis pods, the regenerative energy supply by flying through stars, etc) to allow them to built a gate network towards this other civilisation so that all their people could visit and learn from this primordial species and/or their ruins. However, in the time it took them to do all this, they realised it's something that couldn't be achieved easily in a thousand lifetimes, so they lost interest and left Destiny to go on its own programming, with no way or reason to retrieve it. Instead, they focused on knowledge and the attainment of ascension. Basically, they did exactly how you said... It STARTED as work towards the goal of finding this other intelligent life, but gave up when they learned about and achieved ascension. SGU is setting lore from LONG before what SG-1 and Atlantis is based on.

I didn't like the ascension idea, I'm glad they didn't use this nonsense in SGU.

Only in a different timeline

Anyway I don't trust Rush at all, he wants to stay aboard and track down "god" or whoever, but most of the others just want to get back to earth.

Yes at least Rush finally admitted he wanted to fulfil Destiny's "true mission" of finding "god" or whoever, instead of trying to do it behind their backs like before.....:)....PS- We saw his untrustworthiness right from episode one where he tried to pin the blame on Eli for his own failure to unlock the 9th quadrant- "Eli you might want to re-check your calculations", and Eli said "Not my fault!"...Young heard the exchange and no doubt realised that Rush would have to be watched from then on.

I've got the boxed DVD set to analyse, and its hard to determine exactly how many of them want to go back to earth, it all depends who's got loved ones on earth, and who hasn't..Rush and Eli for example have got nobody, so staying with Destiny is naturally their preferred choice.

Not beef stroganoff...why each intelligent race has a version of Swedish Meatballs!

Same. Part of me would have regretted it, but...not that ship.

aver muradin if that's the way you think then you wouldn't even be in the Stargate program. these people are scientists and explorers. Things​ may have gone off the rails a bit but this is still more or less what they signed up for.

you do know it's a t.v show right ?

aver muradin and your point is?

to do what? you have something important to do at your home? like drinking alcohol, going to work and watching porn?

they all died but one of them lived.

Col. Telford was the only person to make it back to earth. The rest of the crew were sent back millions of years in time. They eventually built a society that was far more advanced than we are now. Perhaps even to the level of the Asgard or the Ancients. All of this is explained in the episode Epilogue which in my opinion may be in the top ten episodes of all three Stargate series. Highly recommend you watch it, although I would say the episode is in some ways the second part of a two part episode so I recommend you watch the episode before that one called "Common Decent" before watching "Epilogue". Also this scene from SGU is called "Twin Destinies."

@@jackoniell9468 I believe it was only 2000 years.