Stargate SG-1 or Atlantis spoilers?

[Wycen]

For anyone who watched the Conan O'Brian show Thursday night, you may have seen this as well. This may be a spoiler so you are warned.

Sometime ago they started a new skit, one of their behind the scenes guys sits in a reclining chair and babbles about something. One of those skits was about how Stargate SG-1 was better without Daniel Jackson.

Apparently the Stargate show saw that and invited the guy to appear in an episode. So Conan had a camera crew tag along on his guys walk on role.

During the tour of the place, he talks to some Stargate crew and asks, "is this the Atlantis set?" and they answer yes. He then asks "is the new villain a ghoal?" and they say no.

Finally they get to the filming. He is a technician and sitting in the booth in front of the gate. His job is to report that Major Carter needs to retreat through the gate. O'Neil walks into the glass booth and is not wearing a uniform, he's in civies and tells Mr. Technician to open the gate. Gate opens and 2 blasts impact on the shielding, and we see a quick shot of a firefight on the other side. Scene ends.

So, I'm wondering if Jack is in charge of the abandoned Stargate until the General or whoever takes over. Or did they already show this and I missed it?

 

[Dragonblade]

From what I understand, Don Davis (General Hammond) left the show. Dr. Elizabeth Weir, who takes over the Stargate program goes on the Atlantis mission. Col. O'Neill is promoted to General and he takes command of the SGC.

SG-1 will not be getting a replacement member. It will be Teal'c, Daniel Jackson, and Samantha Carter as the core members. Occasionally, O'Neill will come on a mission.

The SG-1 show is winding down. I have heard that the new season which begins in July is their last season (season 8). Unless the show is still really popular. In which case there is a chance that Sci-Fi may try for a 9th season.

However, the good news is that Stargate Atlantis will now carry the torch forward. So far the premise is really cool:

The Atlantis team discovers a gate address that leads to another galaxy and takes them to one of the bases of the Ancients. That base is literally the lost city of Atlantis. Left from the time the Ancients disappeared from the universe(or ascended). Unfortunately, the energy required for intergalactic gate travel is so immense, they have no way of getting back home, and Earth has no way of reaching them. Something about their trip makes it one way.

Anyway, they are off in another galaxy fighting a whole 'nother evil alien race with a big empire called the Wraith. No more Goa'uld as the main bad guys. And like in the original SG series, these upstart humans from a primitive backwater world, come out of nowhere and start kicking tail and taking down the evil empire.

The cool thing is they are upping the sci-fi aspect of the series a bit. The Atlantis team meets more aliens with psionic powers and also some cool new tech, including orbiting stargates that spaceships can travel through, and hand-held DHDs. I guess they even find these sleek personal transport ships left over by the Ancients that are designed for stargate travel, etc.

 

[Wycen]

Cool. I've not done much research into the new series, I figured I'd be less diappointed or more enthusiastic that way.

Makes sense with the new SG-1 idea, if O'Neil is a general, he can then retire and marry Carter at the series finale.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Man I can't wait for this...I also want to see what they do with the (maybe last) season of SG-1. Only have to wait until July...nearly there!

 

[LightPhoenix]

The Atlantis team discovers a gate address that leads to another galaxy and takes them to one of the bases of the Ancients. That base is literally the lost city of Atlantis. Left from the time the Ancients disappeared from the universe(or ascended). Unfortunately, the energy required for intergalactic gate travel is so immense, they have no way of getting back home, and Earth has no way of reaching them. Something about their trip makes it one way.

It's been well-established, even way back in the movie IIRC, that matter can only travel through the gate one way. Even if Earth opened the gate again from their end, the only travel would be from Earth to Atlantis.

Also, there has been travel to other galaxies with SG1... notably to contact the Asgard, in which there was an eighth chevron to be locked, or some such, I don't remember everything. It requires more power than the Tau'ri can produce... the one time it was done O'Neill was being controlled, IIRC. Other times it was the Asgard that activated it.