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    The new Stargate show I'd write, were it up to me.

    Were I to achieve an opportunity to design and write a new Stargate franchise television show, for starters, the central military character and commander of the show would be Major Evan Lorne, except I'd have it written with him just promoted to colonel at the beginning of the show. Perhaps, for a working title at least, I'd call it something like Stargate: Darkspace or Stargate: Coalsack.
    As a basic initial premise, an SG team making an excursion back to the Pegasus Galaxy a few years after the return of Atlantis to the Milky Way at the end of Stargate: Atlantis discovers a small Ancient outpost on some backwater planet with an repository containing unique information. This information includes data which hints at there being more in the dark Coalsack region of the Milky Way galaxy than just darkness and dark matter nebulae, including odd bursts of illumination, as well as very old records which suggest a debate among the Ancients of that time period over launching an exploratory expedition to that region of space or not.
    Deciding to themselves explore that region of space, the SGC and Homeworld Defense, under General O'Neill, decide to promote Major Lorne to Colonel and assign him command of the mission. His lead team is to be commanded by the also recently promoted Major Laura Cadman, whom we all no doubt remember from Duet and Critical Mass. Cadman's team members are: 1. Lieutenant Jennifer Hailey (from the SG-1 Season 4 episode Prodigy), acting as her team's science specialist, 2. an as yet unnamed Tok'ra operative who handles security and intelligence work for her team, and 4. the freed former host of Baal from Continuum, who has taken on a new name and life for himself and who fills a role as the team's Ancient technology expert.
    One source of tension among the characters is suspicion and distrust, and even some dislike, between the team's Tok'ra member and the former Baal host, despite the freed host's complete embracing of the mission and goals of the SGC as he forms his new life. Another is the discussion of how to handle relations with a mysterious new race encountered in the Coalsack region, a very old race, perhaps even older than the Alterans themselves, living in that region which are beings of illumination without and a seething darkness within. As the show intros, Lorne has been given command of a mission to explore that region of space, learn if the Ancient expedition ever actually went there and, if so, what happened when they did as well as make first contact with any intelligent beings which made be there in the unexplored mass of the Coalsack region. Needless to say, an aura of mystery about everything would be one of the intended hallmarks of such a show were running and designing it my bailiwick.
    Thoughts, anyone? Critique of the idea?

    I think it'd be fun having Lorne command a mission as the principal character of a show as well as seeing Cadman return and be able to be explored completely as a character, plus the ever-present tension and distrust between the Tok'ra operative and the former Baal clone on the episode would provide opportunities for interesting and fun story elements.

    #2
    One thing in question is how Lorne jumps straight from a Major to a full bird colonel. There's no way the Air Force (or any other military branch) allows rank jumping.

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      #3
      Originally posted by hedwig View Post
      One thing in question is how Lorne jumps straight from a Major to a full bird colonel. There's no way the Air Force (or any other military branch) allows rank jumping.
      I could be wrong but didnt they rank jump for samantha at some point

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        #4
        Nope. She started as Captain, went to Major in SG1 S3, Lt Colonel in SG1 S8 and full bird for Atlantis S4!
        I SURF FOR THE FREEDOM!

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          #5
          You're probably correct, Hedwig. By "colonel", to clarify, I meant lieutenant colonel, not full bird.

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            #6
            Originally posted by tomaso88 View Post
            I could be wrong but didnt they rank jump for samantha at some point
            No.

            She started out as a Captain. Then got promoted to Major after the events of Out of Mind/Into the Fire. She got promoted to Lt. Colonel at the beginning of Season 8. And promoted to full bird Colonel right before she was reassigned to Atlantis. So no rank jumping there.

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              #7
              I think that the name of any new Stargate show should probably avoid the use of the word 'sack'. It would be cool to see a return to the Pegasus galaxy, although without Sheppard or Rodney it wouldn't feel the same.

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                #8
                And why is that about the use of the word sack, Linuxbrandon?

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                  #9
                  Typo in the first post, btw. "Made be there" in the fourth paragraph is meant to say "may be there".

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                    #10
                    That's not a bad idea...

                    I think that if they start a new stargate series they need to start completely fresh, for example.

                    The show starts and we find that all former enemies are mostly gone, none would ever be silly to attack us but there are still small pockets of races out there who don't like us. Earth lives with basically no fear of being attacked. We've been working on our ships and our off world bases for a couple of years, and time has come to tell the people of earth what the stargate is all about.

                    The show is set in three different time lines/locations (bear with me) the present timeline deals with how nations deal with their people finding out about what is happening and how the secret has changed the world. The past timeline deals with the politics of nations debating how to tell the people and how those past decisions/mistakes are slowly making sense in the present timeline. The third is also the current timeline, but it's set on different planets, one in which we are migrating people because of over-population/starvation, plus different farming/mining outposts that have problems with security/greed/lawlessness.

                    Different arcs you could have are.
                    Labor disputes
                    Trade sanctions
                    Technology the people suddenly have access to them being too dangerous and irrisponsible to use.
                    Forced population migration.
                    Different nations on earth being unable to have access to stargate technology.
                    Disappearance of people who are earth citizens who are enemies of the controlling nations of earth.

                    Over time you would see how people of earth are greedy/manipulative, and unable to cope with the brave world the secret uncovered. The enemy is basically ourselves... Which has been the case since the beginning of society anyway.

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                      #11
                      You seem to have a few interesting ideas there, anonmatel.

                      I do think some nations and some interest groups would be tremendously roiled by the knowledge of the Stargate and the new reality.

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                        #12
                        I liked the characters you had picked for your roles, Lorne was definitely underused, as was Hailey, there was one other episode she was in, that training day episode.... I thought she would have been perfect for SGU too.

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                          #13
                          Thanks. I agree that Lorne, Cadman, and Hailey do have a lot of untapped potential as characters.

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                            #14
                            I think it's an interesting idea. Why don't you write it and put it on fanfiction or create an audio series or something.

                            I wouldn't call it Coalsack though.

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                            Stargate spin off series: Stargate Millennium
                            https://www.fanfiction.net/u/5580179/StargateMillennium

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                              #15
                              I would start the show with a Lucian Attack on earth. An asteroid is suddenly moved into earth's path, and a mission to destroy it is thwarted when they discover it to be a complete fortress. Following the impact on Earth, a dust cloud covers the skies and people start to evacuate by ship and by gate. The Jaffa send a ton of ships too. Dethroned, the show is more about Earth finding out what's really going on in the galaxy including the absolute mess it's left in.

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