So usually I don't get involved with these kinds of threads cos I don't see the point in dwelling, but just by chance I saw this in New Posts when I got up and... Well I had some inspiration. This is what I came up with in about five minutes flat. It's not complete and there are some ways the plot comes together that has some gaps but there we go. Call this say the first half of an opening two parter. Or possibly just first quarter of an opening two parter.
We open on our new main character. I don't have a name for them so let's call them... Hunter. Maybe his callsign.
So we start with just flashes of memory. Hunter in SGC gear. Flashes of light from the kawoosh and puddle. The sound of the chevrons locking and then cut to black.
Hunter wakes up and starts his day. He has a wife and a young child who he greets and has breakfast. All pretty mundane. He is an Airforce Officer. A Captain. And you see a lot of military regalia around the house. Through dialogue we can work out that he is a reservist and is on his way for his month's duty. He gets in his car and heads out to report in at his base.
We see a glimpse of who he is at home and what he is like when he gets to work. He's a good, strong officer who has the respect of his peers. His actual personality I haven't got nailed down but in the grand scheme it doesn't really matter for the purposes of the outline here.
Then there's an accident. If we want a bit of action it could be while he is flying. There's a burnout in his engine say and his F-16 basically flies apart and he's forced to eject. He lands hard, maybe into the side of a mountain or through some trees as there's a strong wind carrying him and he receives a pretty severe head injury.
He's out cold and we see more of the Stargate. We see a clearer memory as he's geared up with his unit and at the bottom of the ramp as the Stargate comes to life. We may see a familiar character in his team (Not in the sense of someone in the old show but maybe someone from his base who we saw him interact with). We do also see, Dr. Jackson in the background, nodding for him to go on ahead through the gate, and we see him and his team step through.
Hunter wakes up. He's in hospital and a nurse checks in on him. Apparently he's been out cold for several days and his wife quickly turns up to do the usual "oh thanks god bit." Hunter however is confused. He can't remember the last several years. He does know his wife, but he can't remember them being married and he doesn't remember their child. It's all very typical and cliche drama up to this point. All the "Your memory might come back eventually" and "Let's just get you home. I promise we'll work this out." etc. He does wonder where they are now though because the last thing he remembered they were living in Colorado. The wife says "oh yeah we moved from there about fives years back" or something along those lines and Hunter nods and just kinda tries to adjust. It seems to affect him a little more than some of the other stuff they've talked about so far though and she asks if that's ok to which he says "Yeah, it's just... I dunno. I was happy there. Can't really imagine why I'd want to leave."
He gets home and we see that on the whole he's a bit more stiff than he was before. Not just because things are unfamiliar, including his kid, but in the sense that he carries himself far more like he's still full military whereas in the beginning he came across far more casual about his time in the airforce. He is still trying to get back into his life though and we may see a brief moment where he is playing happily with his kid and clearly they still share a bond even if Hunter doesn't remember it.
The guy we see at the airforce base and in his flashback comes knocking. He's just there to check on how Hunter is doing and they sit down and share a beer. THey're old friends and the wife even says how she's pretty exhausted over catching Hunter up so now it's his buddy's turn. They get left alone and they talk and kid around and when Hunter is sure they're alone he goes "man, why did we leave Colorado? We loved it there." Not saying it out loud but obviously talking about the gate program. His buddy laughs and says "Yeah, right! Come on man. Analysing deep space radar telemetry? Since when was that fun?"
Hunter is obviously kind of confused and does a double take to make sure his wife hadn't come back inside but they're completely alone. He looks his buddy in the eye and kinda says something, I'm not sure what but his Buddy's response kinda gives him a hint that he should just drop the mention even though he's still confused.
When he's alone later Hunter waits until he has moment and tries making a call. He gets through to the operator at Cheyenne Mountain and gives his access code and requests to speak to General Carter. But he gets rejected. His code isn't accepted. On the one hand that isn't unexpected given how long it's been so he just is a little annoyed and moves on.
He does some digging online and finds out that Cheyenne Mountain is now closed down as a base. General Carter is now posted to Washington at the Pentagon and for a moment he kinda is accepting because well if they closed the base and moved the gate then that explains why he's no longer in the program. But something is still gnawing at him. We kinda get the sense that this was something he loved doing. Like Jack he may have a telescope in his back garden and he spends a lot of his time looking up at the stars.
the next days he goes to DC. He either makes an appointment with or intercepts General Carter and her personal aide on their way into work. Either way he introduces himself and she cuts him off with "Ah yes, Captain Hunter. I heard about you accident. How are you doing?"
She definitely knows him and he's pretty relieved. "I don't know, Ma'am. I lost the last five years of my life. I guess I'm just trying to piece together the gaps." All in all this seems like our Sam. Reasonable, warm but professional. She shows what seems to be an honest concern for him, but once again she mentions Deep Space Radar Analysis. He kinda ignores it in the conversation he says,
"I'd just really like to know... What happened to the Stargate? Do you know why I left the program?"
She blinks and says, "I'm sorry, the what?"
"Ma'am," he says, "I understand, I'm sure it's still all classified. But I earned my place in the program. It's all I can think about. The last thing I remember before waking up in that hospital bed is stepping through that Gate. I just want to know... something to help me move on."
Carter bristles and reinstates that she has no idea what he is talking about and brusquely tells him that she has work to do. She then walks off with her aide in tow who takes a quick glance back at Hunter.
It cuts to night time back at Hunter's family home. He's laying in bed with his wife and hears a noise. He gets up to investigate but she is saying it's probably nothing and should come back to bed. He goes anyway and finds a team of black ops in his home with guns. We see his own skills come out now and he basically hunts them down in the house, arming himself and either gunning down or silently dispatching the rest. He yells for his wife to grab their kid and get dressed but his wife is there already with a gun pointed at him. She says something along the lines of mentioning that she was hoping that they could make it look like he'd died in a break in but she'll settle for being the wife protecting her child from their poor damaged father. Their kid then walks in wondering what all the noise was and Hunter takes the opportunity to knock his wife down, grab the kid and bolt out of the house, taking his car and just driving. He's lost and has no idea where he's going or what to do but he knows he has to get out.
That's when his car just stops. Stone dead. He gets his gun ready as he hears someone approach the car and he is ready to protect himself and his child. There's a something that gives him pause. A knock on the window. Maybe a voice that calls out not to shoot. "if I wanted you dead I could have just shot you through the door." comes the voice. Or something like that.
It turns out it's General Carter's aide, who greets him by his rank and apologises for being too late at the house. They urge Hunter to get out of the car and come with them to their truck. He does haven't much choice in the matter as it seems they aren't alone and soon he is in the back of a truck with his kid and a number of other guys who are obviously military in plain clothes.
The next part gets fuzzy.
They drive for quite a long time. They may or may not end up using a Asgard Transporter or a set of rings to where they're going next but one way or another they reach a new base. In my mind this is on Earth but if you really REALLY wanted a moon base this would be the moon base.
Hunter is surprised to find that the base is pretty run down and rag tag but it's clearly still run like a military. He meets up with the apparent leader of the group which is obviously Dr. Jackson who reveals to him that a lot has changed in the time he forgot. Most notably because everyone has seemingly forgotten about or is choosing to cover up the Stargate program ever exists. Somehow (Again not come up with the why yet) this base of Daniel's does have the gate and they are able to still use it without anyone's knowledge. But something happened to the point where all of Earth's ships and colonies and so on were just disbanded seemingly over night. Daniel remembers because he was once ascended (though for the purposes of beginning a new show this would be said straight off the bat) but most other people have no clue. Those who do remember seemingly only do so as dreams or as moments of insight and it took years just for this new group to figure out how to use the gate again. Hunter however, is the first person that they know of who has ever seemingly remembered it all... Though Daniel does wonder about others, and he momentarily takes a moment to remember Jack, who is dead. Again, seemingly over night in some accident or another. Ever since then the World has seemingly been on the down turn. More wars. More diseases. Climate change. Less Freedoms. Fake News. Etc. Etc. It's like the world just forgot what it was working towards one day.
After this the gate is revealed and it's stated that this shadow group's remit is to keep using the gate and try to figure out what happened on Earth. Figure out if they were attacked and by who. Why? When? And if nothing else, Daniel says "Just to still keep feeling... Human... To explore. To Figure out why we're all here... You know... Meaning of life stuff..."
That's as far as I'm up to. But the general idea is for the show to kinda have that surreal X-Files like tone that SG-1 had in its NID and Earth based episodes. It's a case of not knowing who to trust and why things are the way they are. There's also a kind of duality as life out in the real world on Earth is kinda bleak and confusing for our characters while then they get to the base and it's an exciting adventure and dangerous but also kind of a relief. Thematically this is a show about conspiracies and why humanity matters even more when you feel all alone in the world. It's definitely a show that spends its fair share of time on Earth but it isn't locked there. These people still use the gate to go out and explore, not just to figure out what might have happened to Earth. A lot of the group are just regular people who just stumbled into this so being on alien planets is just kinda spectacular to them.
We open on our new main character. I don't have a name for them so let's call them... Hunter. Maybe his callsign.
So we start with just flashes of memory. Hunter in SGC gear. Flashes of light from the kawoosh and puddle. The sound of the chevrons locking and then cut to black.
Hunter wakes up and starts his day. He has a wife and a young child who he greets and has breakfast. All pretty mundane. He is an Airforce Officer. A Captain. And you see a lot of military regalia around the house. Through dialogue we can work out that he is a reservist and is on his way for his month's duty. He gets in his car and heads out to report in at his base.
We see a glimpse of who he is at home and what he is like when he gets to work. He's a good, strong officer who has the respect of his peers. His actual personality I haven't got nailed down but in the grand scheme it doesn't really matter for the purposes of the outline here.
Then there's an accident. If we want a bit of action it could be while he is flying. There's a burnout in his engine say and his F-16 basically flies apart and he's forced to eject. He lands hard, maybe into the side of a mountain or through some trees as there's a strong wind carrying him and he receives a pretty severe head injury.
He's out cold and we see more of the Stargate. We see a clearer memory as he's geared up with his unit and at the bottom of the ramp as the Stargate comes to life. We may see a familiar character in his team (Not in the sense of someone in the old show but maybe someone from his base who we saw him interact with). We do also see, Dr. Jackson in the background, nodding for him to go on ahead through the gate, and we see him and his team step through.
Hunter wakes up. He's in hospital and a nurse checks in on him. Apparently he's been out cold for several days and his wife quickly turns up to do the usual "oh thanks god bit." Hunter however is confused. He can't remember the last several years. He does know his wife, but he can't remember them being married and he doesn't remember their child. It's all very typical and cliche drama up to this point. All the "Your memory might come back eventually" and "Let's just get you home. I promise we'll work this out." etc. He does wonder where they are now though because the last thing he remembered they were living in Colorado. The wife says "oh yeah we moved from there about fives years back" or something along those lines and Hunter nods and just kinda tries to adjust. It seems to affect him a little more than some of the other stuff they've talked about so far though and she asks if that's ok to which he says "Yeah, it's just... I dunno. I was happy there. Can't really imagine why I'd want to leave."
He gets home and we see that on the whole he's a bit more stiff than he was before. Not just because things are unfamiliar, including his kid, but in the sense that he carries himself far more like he's still full military whereas in the beginning he came across far more casual about his time in the airforce. He is still trying to get back into his life though and we may see a brief moment where he is playing happily with his kid and clearly they still share a bond even if Hunter doesn't remember it.
The guy we see at the airforce base and in his flashback comes knocking. He's just there to check on how Hunter is doing and they sit down and share a beer. THey're old friends and the wife even says how she's pretty exhausted over catching Hunter up so now it's his buddy's turn. They get left alone and they talk and kid around and when Hunter is sure they're alone he goes "man, why did we leave Colorado? We loved it there." Not saying it out loud but obviously talking about the gate program. His buddy laughs and says "Yeah, right! Come on man. Analysing deep space radar telemetry? Since when was that fun?"
Hunter is obviously kind of confused and does a double take to make sure his wife hadn't come back inside but they're completely alone. He looks his buddy in the eye and kinda says something, I'm not sure what but his Buddy's response kinda gives him a hint that he should just drop the mention even though he's still confused.
When he's alone later Hunter waits until he has moment and tries making a call. He gets through to the operator at Cheyenne Mountain and gives his access code and requests to speak to General Carter. But he gets rejected. His code isn't accepted. On the one hand that isn't unexpected given how long it's been so he just is a little annoyed and moves on.
He does some digging online and finds out that Cheyenne Mountain is now closed down as a base. General Carter is now posted to Washington at the Pentagon and for a moment he kinda is accepting because well if they closed the base and moved the gate then that explains why he's no longer in the program. But something is still gnawing at him. We kinda get the sense that this was something he loved doing. Like Jack he may have a telescope in his back garden and he spends a lot of his time looking up at the stars.
the next days he goes to DC. He either makes an appointment with or intercepts General Carter and her personal aide on their way into work. Either way he introduces himself and she cuts him off with "Ah yes, Captain Hunter. I heard about you accident. How are you doing?"
She definitely knows him and he's pretty relieved. "I don't know, Ma'am. I lost the last five years of my life. I guess I'm just trying to piece together the gaps." All in all this seems like our Sam. Reasonable, warm but professional. She shows what seems to be an honest concern for him, but once again she mentions Deep Space Radar Analysis. He kinda ignores it in the conversation he says,
"I'd just really like to know... What happened to the Stargate? Do you know why I left the program?"
She blinks and says, "I'm sorry, the what?"
"Ma'am," he says, "I understand, I'm sure it's still all classified. But I earned my place in the program. It's all I can think about. The last thing I remember before waking up in that hospital bed is stepping through that Gate. I just want to know... something to help me move on."
Carter bristles and reinstates that she has no idea what he is talking about and brusquely tells him that she has work to do. She then walks off with her aide in tow who takes a quick glance back at Hunter.
It cuts to night time back at Hunter's family home. He's laying in bed with his wife and hears a noise. He gets up to investigate but she is saying it's probably nothing and should come back to bed. He goes anyway and finds a team of black ops in his home with guns. We see his own skills come out now and he basically hunts them down in the house, arming himself and either gunning down or silently dispatching the rest. He yells for his wife to grab their kid and get dressed but his wife is there already with a gun pointed at him. She says something along the lines of mentioning that she was hoping that they could make it look like he'd died in a break in but she'll settle for being the wife protecting her child from their poor damaged father. Their kid then walks in wondering what all the noise was and Hunter takes the opportunity to knock his wife down, grab the kid and bolt out of the house, taking his car and just driving. He's lost and has no idea where he's going or what to do but he knows he has to get out.
That's when his car just stops. Stone dead. He gets his gun ready as he hears someone approach the car and he is ready to protect himself and his child. There's a something that gives him pause. A knock on the window. Maybe a voice that calls out not to shoot. "if I wanted you dead I could have just shot you through the door." comes the voice. Or something like that.
It turns out it's General Carter's aide, who greets him by his rank and apologises for being too late at the house. They urge Hunter to get out of the car and come with them to their truck. He does haven't much choice in the matter as it seems they aren't alone and soon he is in the back of a truck with his kid and a number of other guys who are obviously military in plain clothes.
The next part gets fuzzy.
They drive for quite a long time. They may or may not end up using a Asgard Transporter or a set of rings to where they're going next but one way or another they reach a new base. In my mind this is on Earth but if you really REALLY wanted a moon base this would be the moon base.
Hunter is surprised to find that the base is pretty run down and rag tag but it's clearly still run like a military. He meets up with the apparent leader of the group which is obviously Dr. Jackson who reveals to him that a lot has changed in the time he forgot. Most notably because everyone has seemingly forgotten about or is choosing to cover up the Stargate program ever exists. Somehow (Again not come up with the why yet) this base of Daniel's does have the gate and they are able to still use it without anyone's knowledge. But something happened to the point where all of Earth's ships and colonies and so on were just disbanded seemingly over night. Daniel remembers because he was once ascended (though for the purposes of beginning a new show this would be said straight off the bat) but most other people have no clue. Those who do remember seemingly only do so as dreams or as moments of insight and it took years just for this new group to figure out how to use the gate again. Hunter however, is the first person that they know of who has ever seemingly remembered it all... Though Daniel does wonder about others, and he momentarily takes a moment to remember Jack, who is dead. Again, seemingly over night in some accident or another. Ever since then the World has seemingly been on the down turn. More wars. More diseases. Climate change. Less Freedoms. Fake News. Etc. Etc. It's like the world just forgot what it was working towards one day.
After this the gate is revealed and it's stated that this shadow group's remit is to keep using the gate and try to figure out what happened on Earth. Figure out if they were attacked and by who. Why? When? And if nothing else, Daniel says "Just to still keep feeling... Human... To explore. To Figure out why we're all here... You know... Meaning of life stuff..."
That's as far as I'm up to. But the general idea is for the show to kinda have that surreal X-Files like tone that SG-1 had in its NID and Earth based episodes. It's a case of not knowing who to trust and why things are the way they are. There's also a kind of duality as life out in the real world on Earth is kinda bleak and confusing for our characters while then they get to the base and it's an exciting adventure and dangerous but also kind of a relief. Thematically this is a show about conspiracies and why humanity matters even more when you feel all alone in the world. It's definitely a show that spends its fair share of time on Earth but it isn't locked there. These people still use the gate to go out and explore, not just to figure out what might have happened to Earth. A lot of the group are just regular people who just stumbled into this so being on alien planets is just kinda spectacular to them.
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