Universe Season 1
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The first season of Stargate Universe will air a total of 20 episode, a trend with every season since 2004. This includes a special three-part premiere starting October 2, 2009, on Syfy in the United States. SPACE in Canada will air the series in tandem with Syfy. Sky1 in the United Kingdom and Ireland will start airing the series on October 6. Australia's Sci Fi network will air the series one week after the original broadcast, in October 9.
It has been confirmed that Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping and Gary Jones will be appearing in a few Universe episodes. Gary Jones and Amanda Tapping have been confirmed to make cameo appearances as Walter Harriman and Samantha Carter respectively in the first episode, "Air", while Anderson has been confirmed to play Jack O'Neill in "Air", "Earth" and sporadically throughout the first season. Shanks is confirmed to appear as Daniel Jackson in "Air" and "Human".
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[edit] Known cast
[edit] Main characters
- Robert Carlyle as Doctor Nicholas Rush (7/7 episodes)
- Louis Ferreira as Colonel Everett Young (7/7 episodes)
- Brian J. Smith as Lieutenant Matthew Scott (7/7 episodes)
- Elyse Levesque as Chloe Armstrong (7/7 episodes)
- David Blue as Eli Wallace (7/7 episodes)
- Alaina Huffman as Lieutenant Tamara Johansen (7/7 episodes)
- Jamil Walker Smith as Sergeant Ronald Greer (7/7 episodes)
[edit] Recurring characters
- Haig Sutherland as Hunter Riley (7/7 episodes)
- Patrick Gilmore as Doctor Dale Volker (7/7 episodes)
- Peter Kelamis as Adam Brody (6/7 episodes)
- Mark Burgess as Jeremy Franklin (6/7 episodes)
- Julia Anderson as Lieutenant Vanessa James (6/7 episodes)
- Jennifer Spence as Lisa Park (6/7 episodes)
- Josh Blacker as Sergeant Spencer (6/7 episodes)
- Ming-Na as Camile Wray (6/7 episodes)
- Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman as Airman Darren Becker (4/7 episodes)
- Andrew Dunbar as Corporal Gorman (4/7 episodes)
- Lou Diamond Phillips as Colonel David Telford (4/7 episodes)
- Bradley Stryker as Sergeant Curtis (3/7 episodes)
- Christina Schild as Andrea Palmer (3/7 episodes)
- Glynis Davies as Maryann Wallace (3/7 Episodes)
- Ona Grauer as Emily Young (3/7 episodes)
- Christopher McDonald as Alan Armstrong (2/7 Episodes)
- Anna Galvin as Mrs. Armstrong (2/7 Episodes)
[edit] Guest Stars
- Richard Dean Anderson as Lieutenant General Jack O'Neill (3/7 episodes)
- Amanda Tapping as Colonel Samantha Carter (1/7 episodes)
- Gary Jones as Chief Master Sergeant Walter Harriman (1/7 episodes)
- Michael Shanks as Doctor Daniel Jackson (1/7 episodes)
- Bill Dow as Bill Lee (1/7 episodes)
- Martin Christopher as Kevin Marks (1/7 episodes)
[edit] Episodes
[edit] Aired
| Image | Title | Number | Airdate | Planet(s) | Race(s) | Enemies |
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| "Air (Part 1 of 3)" | 101 | October 2, 2009 | Icarus Base, Earth | N/A | N/A |
| 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 an alien race, they end up on the Destiny, an Ancient ship, stranded several billion light years from Earth. | ||||||
| "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. | ||||||
| "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. | ||||||
| "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. Colonel Everett 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. | ||||||
| "Light (Part 2 of 2)" | 105 | October 23, 2009 | "Goldilocks" | 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. | ||||||
| "Water" | 106 | October 30, 2009 | "Hoth" | Dust bugs | Dust bugs |
| Much of Destiny'swater 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. | ||||||
| "Earth" | 107 | November 6, 2009 | Earth | ||
| The consciousnesses of some of the crew of the Destiny arrive back on Earth by means of an Intergalactic communication device. Colonel Young's conciseness is on Earth and meets with Williams and O’Neill about a potentially dangerous plan to bring the crew back to Earth. | ||||||
[edit] Upcoming
| Image | Title | Number | Airdate | Planet(s) | Race(s) | Enemies |
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| "Time" | 108 | November 13, 2009 | Jungle planet | ||
| 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. | ||||||
| "Life" | 109 | November 20, 2009 | Earth | ||
| The crew finds a device that may hold the promise of getting them home. Lt. Scott and Camille visit their loved ones using the communication stones. | ||||||
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| "Justice" | 110 | December 4, 2009 | |||
| After a heinous crime is committed aboard Destiny, the crew struggles with the concepts of crime and punshiment as they apply to an isolated, shipboard community billions of light years from home. | ||||||
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| "Space (Part 1 of 2)" | 111 | 2010 | |||
| No plot revealed yet. | ||||||
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| "Divided (Part 2 of 2)" | 112 | 2010 | |||
| No plot revealed yet. | ||||||
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| "Faith" | 113 | 2010 | |||
| No plot revealed yet. | ||||||
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| "Human" | 114 | 2010 | |||
| Nicholas Rush risks his life in a dangerous experiment involving the ship's computer, and flashes back to the time when he was first recruited into the Stargate program. | ||||||
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| "Sabotage" | 115 | 2010 | |||
| The crew calls upon a brilliant mind from Earth to help after one of Destiny's FTL drives is destroyed; a quadriplegic scientist who temporarily takes over Camile Wray's body. | ||||||
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| "Lost" | 116 | 2010 | |||
| Sergeant Ronald Greer is trapped in the rubble of a desolate planet, and left for dead. | ||||||
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| "Pain" | 117 | 2010 | |||
| No plot revealed yet. | ||||||
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| "Subversion" | 118 | 2010 | |||
| Rush believes someone in the crew has been spying on them for the same group of people who attacked Icarus Base. | ||||||
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| "Incursion (Part 1 of 2)" | 119 | 2010 | |||
| Commander Kiva of the people who attacked Icarus Base manages to board Destiny and holds several of the crew hostage. | ||||||
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| "Incursion (Part 2 of 2)" | 120 | 2010 | |||
| No plot revealed yet. | ||||||
[edit] Critical reception
- In an early review of the series premiere, "Air", 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)
