Stargate Universe Season 1

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"Destiny is where you make a stand."

—SGU Season 1.5 official trailer

The first season of Stargate Universe consists of a total of 20 episodes, a trend with every Stargate season since 2004. This includes a special three-part premiere that aired on October 2, 2009, on Syfy in the United States and SPACE in Canada. Sky1 in the United Kingdom and Ireland began airing the series on October 6. Australia's Sci Fi network first aired the series in October 9, followed by Network Ten on December 18.

Stargate veterans Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping and Gary Jones appear in a few episodes:

• Richard Dean Anderson returns as Jack O'Neill in "Air, Part 1" "Air, Part 2" (Deleted Scene) and "Air, Part 3" "Earth" "Subversion" and "Incursion, Part 1"
• Amanda Tapping reprises her role as Samantha Carter in the first episode, "Air, Part 1", and "Incursion, Part 1".

• Michael Shanks makes appearances as Daniel Jackson in "Air", "Human", and "Subversion".
• Gary Jones had a cameo appearance as Walter Harriman in "Air, Part 1" he also made an appearance in "Air, Part 2" albeit in a deleted scene

The first season broke for a mid-season finale after the tenth episode, "Justice", and returned in April, 2010 with the episode, "Space". During the hiatus, the first season of Caprica - a spin-off of Battlestar Galactica - aired in the SGU timeslot Friday nights on both Syfy and SPACE, airing opposite the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.

Cast

File:Stargate Universe Season 1.5 MGM Trailer

Stargate Universe Season 1.5 trailer.

Main characters

• Robert Carlyle as Doctor Nicholas Rush (20/20 episodes)
• Louis Ferreira as Colonel Everett Young (20/20 episodes)
• Brian J. Smith as Lieutenant Matthew Scott (20/20 episodes)
• Elyse Levesque as Chloe Armstrong (20/20 episodes)
• David Blue as Eli Wallace (20/20 episodes)
• Alaina Huffman as Lieutenant Tamara Johansen (20/20 episodes)
• Jamil Walker Smith as Master Sergeant Ronald Greer (20/20 episodes)
• Ming-Na as Camile Wray (16/20 episodes)

Recurring characters

• Peter Kelamis as Adam Brody (19/20 episodes)
• Patrick Gilmore as Doctor Dale Volker (19/20 episodes)
• Julia Benson as Lieutenant Vanessa James (18/20 episodes)
• Jennifer Spence as Lisa Park (17/20 episodes)
• Haig Sutherland as Hunter Riley (14/20 episodes)
• Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman as Airman Darren Becker (11/20 episodes)
• Mark Burgess as Jeremy Franklin (10/20 episodes)
• Josh Blacker as Sergeant Spencer (9/20 episodes)
• Lou Diamond Phillips as Colonel David Telford (8/20 episodes)
• Darcy Laurie as Airman Dunning (4/20 episodes)
• Andrew Dunbar as Corporal Gorman (4/20 episodes)
• Michael Karl Richards as Major Peterson (4/20 episodes)
• Ona Grauer as Emily Young (4/20 episodes)
• Christopher McDonald as Alan Armstrong (3/20 episodes)
• Anna Galvin as Patricia Armstrong (3/20 episodes)
• Tygh Runyan as Robert Caine (3/20 episodes)
• Bradley Stryker as Sergeant Curtis (3/20 episodes)
• Ryan Booth as Corporal Marsden (3/20 episodes)
• Christina Schild as Andrea Palmer (3/20 episodes)
• Glynis Davies as Maryann Wallace (3/20 episodes)
• Ian Butcher as Dannic (3/20 episodes)
• Rhona Mitra as Commander Kiva (3/20 episodes)
• Mike Dopud as Varro (3/20 episodes)
• Gordon Grice as Matthew Balic (2/20 episodes)
• Dominic Zamprogna as Doctor Boone (2/20 episodes)
• Sean Blakemore as Reginald Greer (2/20 episodes)
• Mar Andersons as Major Green (2/20 episodes)
• Sandy Sidhu as Doctor Mehta (2/20 episodes)
• Zak Santiago as Corporal Rivers (2/20 episodes)
• Carlo Rota as Carl Strom (2/20 episodes)
• Conan Graham as Calvos (2/20 episodes)
• Ken Tran as Chen (2/20 episodes)
• Primo Allon as Koz (2/20 episodes)
• Reiko Aylesworth as Sharon Walker (2/20 episodes)

Guest Stars

• Richard Dean Anderson as Lieutenant General Jack O'Neill (6/20 episodes)
• Michael Shanks as Doctor Daniel Jackson (4/20 episodes)
• Gary Jones as Chief Master Sergeant Walter Harriman (2/20 episodes)
• Amanda Tapping as Colonel Samantha Carter (2/20 episodes)
• Bill Dow as Doctor Bill Lee (1/20 episodes)
• Martin Christopher as Major Kevin Marks (1/20 episodes)
• Kirby Morrow as Captain Dave Kleinman (1/20 episodes)
• Alisen Down as Doctor Brightman (1/20 Episodes)

Episodes

Image	Title	Number	Airdate	Planet(s)	Race(s)	Enemies
File:IcarusBase12.jpg	"Air (Part 1 of 3)"	101	October 2, 2009	P4X-351, Earth	Lucian Alliance	Lucian Alliance
	A team of scientists and soldiers from the Icarus Base uncover the mysteries of the ninth chevron of the Stargate. As they are forced to evacuate when the base is under attack from the Lucian Alliance, after activating the ninth cheveron, they end up on the Destiny, an Ancient ship, stranded several billion light years from Earth.
File:Airpart1.jpg	"Air (Part 2 of 3)"	102	October 2, 2009	Desert planet, Earth	N/A	N/A
	While they are stranded on-board the Destiny, the new reluctant crew discover that their life support system is worn out, and they have to repair it fast or they will all suffocate in a matter of hours.
File:Desertplanet.jpg	"Air (Part 3 of 3)"	103	October 9, 2009	Desert planet, Earth	Dust bugs	N/A
	Lieutenant Matthew Scott leads a team to a desert planet to find a mineral capable of fixing Destiny's life support system. Colonel Telford uses a long-range communication device and takes temporarily control of Colonel Young's body. Chloe visits her mother on Earth.
File:SGUDarkness11.jpg	"Darkness (Part 1 of 2)"	104	October 16, 2009	"Big Bertha", Earth	N/A	N/A
	Rush tries to figure out why the ship's power reserves are critically low. Young orders everyone to limit the power consumption. Eventually everything apart from the life support goes down. Fortunately, Destiny reaches a solar system with three planets, giving the crew hope to live another day.
File:DestinyStarLight.jpg	"Light (Part 2 of 2)"	105	October 23, 2009	Goldilocks zone planet	N/A	N/A
	On a seemingly unalterable collision course with a nearby star, and despite finding three suitable planets, Young tells everyone that only seventeen people can go in the shuttle and that a lottery will determine their fate.
File:Iceplanet.jpg	"Water"	106	October 30, 2009	"Hoth"	Dust bugs	Dust bugs
	Much of Destiny's water reserves mysteriously disappears. The ship then reaches an ice planet, where the crew attempt a harvest in order to replenish the supply. However, the atmosphere and the ice around the area of the Stargate is poisonous, and they'd have to expand their search with limited air in the environmental suits. Meanwhile, Tamara Johansen works to catch an intruder believed responsible for the lost water.
File:Eli Chloe and Young Earth.jpg	"Earth"	107	November 6, 2009	Earth	N/A	N/A
	The consciousnesses of some of the crew of the Destiny arrive back on Earth by means of a Long-range communication device. Colonel Young, Eli, and Chloe's consciousnesses are on Earth, and while Eli and Chloe visit their families, Young meets with Williams and O’Neill about a potentially dangerous plan to bring the crew home. Back on the ship, Telford takes over Young's command in order to ensure the plan is enacted.
File:SGUTime.jpg	"Time"	108	November 13, 2009	Jungle planet	Squigglers	Squigglers
	An away team finds a kino beside a Stargate on a jungle world, which contains video footage of the team that was shot prior to their arrival. Then, an illness cripples the team, forcing them to quarantine themselves on the planet.
File:DestinyFitness.jpg	"Life"	109	November 20, 2009	Earth	N/A	N/A
	While searching the ship, the crew finds an Ancient device, similar to, but predating the Repository of knowledge from the Milky Way that may hold the promise of getting them home, and using the communication stones, Scott and Wray visit loved ones back on Earth. Scott is stunned to find out that he has a son, and Young gets overly angry at Telford for seeing his wife. Rush also manages to gain access to the subspace link to the seeding ships.
File:Trial.jpg	"Justice"	110	December 4, 2009	Gravel pit planet	N/A	N/A
	Colonel Young cedes command to Wray after Sergeant Spencer is found dead from a gunshot wound and the gun is recovered from his quarters. Meanwhile, a planet harbors a secret that threatens the Destiny, and Dr. Nicholas Rush gains access to the Ancient interface.
File:3 fighters vs Destiny.jpg	"Space (Part 1 of 2)"	111	April 2, 2010	Purple plants' planet	Nakai	Nakai
	Colonel Young uses the Long-range communication device, but it malfuntions, and he finds himself aboard an alien ship, thereby provoking the aliens into attacking Destiny. During the attack, which proves a diversion, the aliens kidnap Chloe, and Young decides to use the stones again, during which he finds and frees Rush, who is aboard the alien ship.
File:112 divided 03.jpg	"Divided (Part 2 of 2)"	112	April 9, 2010	N/A	Nakai	Nakai
	Rush and Chloe suffer nightmares following their ordeal on the alien vessel, and Rush suspects that a tracking device may have been placed on the ship's hull. Later, a splinter group of the civilian crew on Destiny executes a coup with life-threatening consequences.
File:ShuttlePlanetSpire.jpg	"Faith"	113	April 16, 2010	Eden	N/A	N/A
	When an uncharted star interrupts Destiny's FTL drive, it is forced to make a slingshot around the star, the process of which takes a month. The only planet orbiting the star is surprisingly like Earth, with food, water, and breathable air, which makes some of the crew consider staying.
File:Sgu0114-0621xe.jpg	"Human"	114	April 23, 2010	Ruins planet	Giant spider	N/A
	Nicholas Rush risks his life in a dangerous experiment involving Destiny's interface chair, in which he relives his wife's final days and his recruitment into the Stargate program. Meanwhile, Destiny drops out of FTL and dials a planet which shows signs of a past civilisation.
File:Lost111.jpg	"Lost"	115	April 30, 2010	Ruins planet, Foggy planet, Crystal planet, Desert planet, Winter planet, Gravel pit planet, Forest planet	Giant spider, Dinosaur-like creature	N/A
	While Greer is trapped in a cave-in on a desolate planet and left for dead, Scott, Chloe and Eli try to reach Destiny via the Stargate network, and Rush tries to locate them before the ship leaves the galaxy for good.
File:Sabotage.jpg	"Sabotage"	116	May 7, 2010	Forest planet, Earth	Nakai	Nakais
	As Destiny travels away from the galaxy, leaving Eli, Chloe and Scott behind, one of the ship's sixteen FTL-drives explodes. While the expedition uses the communication stones to call a brilliant mind from Earth to help repair the engines, two Nakai motherships appear and begin to attack the ship. Facing an incursion, the ship and its crew make preparations to protect themselves and attempt to repair the drive.
File:Large-FullSize-sgu0117-0083xe.jpg	"Pain"	117	May 14, 2010	N/A	Alien tick	N/A
	When the crew suffers from vivid hallucinations that tap into their personal fears, Tamara Johansen isolates the affected from the rest and then tries to seek out the cause of the affliction as it spreads and becomes life-threatening.
File:Subversion.jpg	"Subversion"	118	May 21, 2010	Earth, Icarus-like planet	Lucian Alliance	Kiva
	Rush suspects Telford of spying for the Lucian Alliance after he has a disturbing dream about a meeting with them. Young soon begins an investigation into the matter, aided by General O'Neill and Daniel Jackson.
File:LAIncursion.jpg	"Incursion (Part 1 of 3)"	119	June 4, 2010	Earth, Icarus-like planet	Lucian Alliance	Kiva
	Commander Kiva of the Lucian Alliance manages to board Destiny and holds several of the crew hostage in a bid to gain control of the ship.
File:Radiation emission.jpg	"Incursion (Part 2 of 3)"	120	June 11, 2010	N/A	Lucian Alliance	Kiva
	The standoff between the Lucian Alliance and the Destiny Expedition continues, but a problem arises which threatens the safety of both groups.

Critical reception

• In an early review of the series premiere, "Air, Part 1", "Air, Part 2", and "Air, Part 3", Joseph Dilworth Jr. of popculturezoo.com wrote:

This is a very strong and exciting debut and if the following seventeen hours build upon the high quality presented here then we are all in for one hell of a season. Stargate Universe would be the series I see as the spiritual successor to Battlestar Galactica except that I see it surpassing the previous Syfy magnum opus in that it is not cruel or unnecessarily grim. On all levels I would say that this is the finest three hours that Syfy has produced to date and considering that includes the likes of Farscape, Eureka, the aforementioned Battlestar Galactica, Sanctuary and the previous two Stargate series, take that as you will. (Read more)

• Another early positive review from Curt Wagner of chicagonow.com:

"SGU" marries many familiar sci-fi conventions with relatable emotional stories to create a non-genre spectacular. If you root for the underdog, you'll love this completely enthralling, heartbreaking and inspiring epic. (Read more)

• The shows premise focussing on the crew of a starship trapped far away and trying to get home as well as the producers desire to focus on a younger edgier cast earned the series the widespread derogatory nickname 'Stargate Voyager 90210' before it even aired. This fan perception that the show had attempted to go mainstream to attract more casual or non genre viewers and in the process lost what attracted its core fanbase in the first place was a major talking point which persisted throughout the shows life and it never met the viewership success of SG-1 or even Atlantis. The show was ultimatley cancelled half way through its second season.

Awards

• The first season of SGU was nominated for several Leo Awards in 2010. It won six awards, including Best Dramatic Series; Julia Benson won for Best Supporting Actress ("Pain").

• Mark Savela and the visual effects team received two Emmy nominations for their work on "Air" and "Space".

Also see

• Kino webisodes

Media

DVD/Blu-ray

• Stargate Universe: Season 1.0
• Stargate Universe: Season 1.5
• Stargate Universe: The Complete First Season

Novels

• Stargate Universe: Air

External links

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Season 1

Season 2