Whoops. I intended to do this earlier but I had a job interview, donated plasma, and then had to take care of something I can’t talk about right now. Anywho, I mentioned before that I was going to talk about how working in Stargate Universe to a new series. If I were so fortunate to be involved with a new Stargate series. And again, if anyone can point out my posts to Martin Gero, please do so. All I need is an opportunity to talk him into hiring me so I can be a part of Stargate.
Now, here’s what I’m thinking to tie in Universe with a new series. To start, Destiny jumping to the next galaxy didn’t quite go according to plan. As I imagine it, Eli managed to fix the stasis pod in time. However he’s woken up early per a new protocol he programmed that would revive him when a viable star enters sensor range. This protocol works perfectly except it happened just nine or ten months in. A rogue star born on the very edge of a fledgling galaxy and flung into the void barely grasped by the galaxy’s gravity. Now awake again, Eli manages to steer Destiny into this star and having a considerable boost of power, he programs some orders into the repair robots and sets them about their work. He takes some time to check in with Homeworld Security and working with MacKay they set up some plans for regular check-ins, and with recent developments in the advancement and progress of the naqudah generators, they manage to open wormholes from Atlantis to Destiny, sustaining a stable wormhole for 3.8 seconds using a dozen MK. 15 generators and effectively burning them out in the process. This is not long enough to deploy fresh personnel but they do work up a process of sending through a care package. Some supplies like food and water, newer tablets with accessible portions of the Ancient database, and possibly a generator or two.
Eli goes in and out of stasis over time. Researching whenever he has a moment, repairing what he can, working out. If you haven’t seen David Blue lately that last bit will make more sense later. As the robots repair things the overall condition of the ship improves and gradually the power issues become more manageable. But by that time it’s been closer to fifteen years.
The stasis pods on Destiny are at best first generation. More likely they’re prototype in production. Bètatest in a sense. While life function is sustained, the whole aging problem isn’t entirely worked out. Anyone comes back for this part of the story simply aged somewhat. Anyone who doesn’t come want to come back, their characters are either locked in their stasis pods or their pods malfunctioned in one way or another and their lost. Again, very old technology and such flaws were anticipated.
I would write this as an episode later in the season to answer the obvious questions that arise from viewers seeing an established plan and process for communicating and supporting Destiny. All of that introduced in the end of the first episode when MacKay transmits a care package to Destiny. We then cut to Destiny in homage to the pilot episode of Universe with the gate spinning toward activation. Then Eli is revived and when he goes to the gate room we see an apparatus set up by Eli to catch travelers and cargo coming through the gate, as he walks into the room to look over the fresh supplies and that’s when we reveal the new Eli. He reads a note from MacKay and it’s time for him to get to work.
Yeah, that’s how I envision, and only I envision it seeing as I’m not involved with any Stargate projects as it is. Again, if anyone can put me in touch with Martin Gero, maybe we can make this a reality.
