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.
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.
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