Stargate Universe
Series, 2009, Destiny, Set in An Ancient ship, far away
Stargate Universe is #7 of 8 in release order and #7 of 8 in chronological order in the Stargate.
The story
The adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient spaceship Destiny many billions of light years distant from the Milky Way Galaxy. They evacuated there and are now trying to figure out a way to return to Earth, while simultaneously trying to explore and to survive in their unknown area of the universe.
Stargate Universe recap
In season 1, an attack by the Lucian Alliance forces people at Icarus Base, a secret site researching the ninth chevron of the Stargate, to flee through the gate. They arrive aboard Destiny, an Ancient ship launched millions of years ago and now billions of light years from Earth, unable to get home. The survivors include Colonel Everett Young, the obsessive scientist Nicholas Rush, the young genius Eli Wallace, Lieutenant Matthew Scott, Senator Armstrong's daughter Chloe, Sergeant Ronald Greer and the civilian Camile Wray. They fight over leadership, scrounge supplies on planets as the ship drops out of faster-than-light flight, and visit Earth by swapping bodies through Ancient communication stones. Rush hides that he has found the ship's bridge. The season ends with the Lucian Alliance boarding Destiny. In season 2, the Alliance is defeated and its survivors join the crew, Rush learns that Destiny's mission is to study a message hidden in the cosmic background radiation, Chloe is changed by an alien infection, and an army of hostile drones blocks every stop the ship makes.
Stargate Universe ending explained
In the final episode, the crew enter stasis pods for a three-year jump to escape the drones, but one pod is broken, and Eli stays awake alone with two weeks of life support to fix it. The series was cancelled, so it ends with Eli looking out at the stars. The story was never continued on screen, so the crew's fate and the meaning of the message stay unknown.
Where to watch Stargate Universe
Stargate Universe is streaming on Prime Video in the US. You can rent or buy it on Amazon, Apple TV, and Google Play.
Ratings
IMDb 7.6/10, Rotten Tomatoes 70%
Where it fits
- Release order: after Stargate: Continuum, before Stargate Origins.
- Chronological order: after Stargate: Continuum, before Stargate Infinity.
What to watch before Stargate Universe
In release order, the essentials before Stargate Universe (2009) are Stargate (1994), Stargate SG-1 (1997), Stargate Atlantis (2004), Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008), and Stargate: Continuum (2008).
Cast
- Robert Carlyle as Nicholas Rush
- Louis Ferreira as Everett Young
- David Blue as Eli Wallace
- Elyse Levesque as Chloe Armstrong
- Brian J. Smith as Matthew Scott
- Alaina Huffman as Tamara Johansen
- Jamil Walker Smith as Ronald Greer
- Peter Kelamis as Adam Brody
- Patrick Gilmore as Dale Volker
- Jennifer Spence as Lisa Park
- Julia Benson as Vanessa James
- Ming-Na Wen as Camille Wray
Created by Robert C. Cooper, Brad Wright.