What would be your ending for SGU

[Brent]

So you have control of SGU, you get one or two more seasons to wrap it up, how would you wrap it up? Would everyone get home? Would the ship be lost, or would they bring the ship back to Earth? Would they find out the meaning for whatever the ship was headed for? Would everyone just keep going on forever and never make it home?

Me personally, if I were to end SGU. I'd bring most of everyone home, at least all the civilians, maybe with some lives lost, as was the darkness and realism of the show. I'd have them be rescued by the most advanced Earth spaceship yet.

I'd have had Earth send off one of their most advanced ships, the next generation of ship, fully equipped with all the technology of the Asgards they can manufacture based on the database of the Asgards, plus a few Ancient things thrown in based on what they've been able to learn about Atlantis. This ship would be powered by multiple ZPMs, allowing them to catch up to the ship in about a years time, for one season, or if they had 2 seasons, then make it 2 years to catch up to them.

What I'd have them do is do dual kind of episodes, where we go back and forth between the Destiny and Earth's new ship. They could have stories both on the Destiny, and this new ship headed on its way to the Destiny. Perhaps they come across strange worlds to explore, strange ships in space, alien races, and just an endless amount of story possible there with this ship trying to catch up with the Destiny. Imagine the amount of stuff between us and the Destiny for this ship to run into and explore, so they could have stories on both the Destiny, and this new ship. Heck, maybe they could even figure out where the Furlings went along this journey!

Then, when it all sums up toward the end, our new ship catches up with them, and they have the capacity to take everyone home, except for the Destiny. They would have to leave it there, or set it on a course to get back to Earth on its own, or leave it to keep heading where it was going. In the end, most people decide to go home, but a select few decide to stay on board, with no hope of future rescue because they want to see the mission of the Destiny through. Let's say it's Rush, Eli, and most shockingly of all, Colonel Young who wants to stay on the Destiny.

So, they leave plenty of food and supplies with our small team on the Destiny, the rescue ship revs up its hyperdrive and heads back to Earth and the show ends with our small team on Destiny continuing the primary mission of Destiny as it FTL's off into the sunset!

It would then leave room for followup movies where we come back to the Destiny after a few years, and see where they are, and what is going on. Perhaps in the future movies they've come across other worlds, and have a few new crew members because of it.

 

[TiberiusMaximus]

This ship would be powered by multiple ZPMs, allowing them to catch up to the ship in about a years time, for one season, or if they had 2 seasons, then make it 2 years to catch up to them.

I don't think you comprehend just how far away from Earth they are. The Destiny has been traveling for at least several thousand years, probably more. It's just too far away for a "rescue" or even a meet-up to make sense, even if they had fifty ZPMs.

The only way I could imagine the Tau'ri "catching up" to Destiny is with wormhole drive, for two reasons. 1) It involves instantaneous travel and 2) we do know that wormholes are capable of traveling that distance. Hyperspeed, though? Not a chance. Not with what we know about how far away Destiny is.

How would I end SGU? Exactly the same way it did end.

 

[The Wormhole]

Colonel Young wakes up in a Nazi field hospital with a Sombreroid wearing a Nazi uniform.

 

[Brent]

This ship would be powered by multiple ZPMs, allowing them to catch up to the ship in about a years time, for one season, or if they had 2 seasons, then make it 2 years to catch up to them.

I don't think you comprehend just how far away from Earth they are. The Destiny has been traveling for at least several thousand years, probably more. It's just too far away for a "rescue" or even a meet-up to make sense, even if they had fifty ZPMs.

The only way I could imagine the Tau'ri "catching up" to Destiny is with wormhole drive, for two reasons. 1) It involves instantaneous travel and 2) we do know that wormholes are capable of traveling that distance. Hyperspeed, though? Not a chance. Not with what we know about how far away Destiny is.

How would I end SGU? Exactly the same way it did end.

Thor's ship was able to get from Ida galaxy to Earth in 10 minutes.

Earth's ships could get to the Pegasus galaxy in 3 days with 1 ZPM.

If we consider Destiny is 50 galaxies away, with such technology that can travel between galaxies in days, it's possible they could catch up to them in a year or two. 50 galaxies, 3 days each of travel = only 150 days, and that's with just 1 ZPM. The Asgard could go even faster.

So what I'm saying is, use the Asgard's latest hyperdrive technology plus what has been learned in Atlantis, and it's feasible they could catch up to them in years worth of time, with multiple ZPMs.

It does depend on how far away they are, but in the beginning of SGU remember how the computer was computing how far they were, each blip on the computer was a galaxy, I listened very carefully to each blip and there were around 50 blips, or 50 galaxies. Now this could be way off. But even if they are extremely extremely far away, I still feel they could make it work in the show and explain how they are able to catch up to them within years worth of time. The Ancients and the Asgard had really fast Hyperdrives towards their end, the Asgard even more so as they had more time to evolve hyperdrive.

Remember, in that one episode where the replicators are infesting the sub, Thor is able to get Sam back to Earth, FROM the Ida galaxy where they were fighting the replicators, in 10 minutes. I'd call that pretty darned quick. With tech like that, and boosted with a few ZPMs, why wouldn't it be possible to catch up to them in years time. That in itself would make an excellent series to watch.

 

[TiberiusMaximus]

Like I said, the only way I could believe a Tau'ri ship could catch up with Destiny is using wormhole drive. You could still have it take a long time, though. Perhaps the wormhole drive can't jump all the way to Destiny's current location but only a fraction of that distance. So they jump into one galaxy and stick around for about a week (perhaps they're exploring, or maybe the drive takes time to recharge) and then jump into the next galaxy. That could make an interesting story.

 

[MacLeod]

I thought the inferrence from SGU that Destiny preceded the City Ship of Atlantis, If that is the case it has been travelling for millions of years and is potentially billions of light years from earth.

Now my Maths might be off but if we say a ZPM powered ship can cover 70 000ly in a day.

It would take 100 days to cover 700 000
A thosand days to cover 70 000 000
Ten Thousands days to cover 700 000 000
So over 14 000 days to cover just 1bn light years, and remember the Destiny is still in motion

So just to cover 1bn ly it would take almost 40 years.

To quote The Hitchickers guide "

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."

 

[AJ86]

I wouldn't have them get home, that's for sure. I'd have the message in the background radiation as some sort of instruction of how to save the universe in some way that required the crew going back in time, then I would have them found the Alteran civilization, which I think would be a nice "full circle" for the franchise, and also deal with the stupid "second evolution" nonsense. Maybe throw in a reveal that the "Eden" aliens are actually the ascended Furlings, and have been watching over Earth, knowing it's Destiny, since day one.

 

[Sindatur]

I thought the inferrence from SGU that Destiny preceded the City Ship of Atlantis, If that is the case it has been travelling for millions of years and is potentially billions of light years from earth.

Now my Maths might be off but if we say a ZPM powered ship can cover 70 000ly in a day.

It would take 100 days to cover 700 000
A thosand days to cover 70 000 000
Ten Thousands days to cover 700 000 000
So over 14 000 days to cover just 1bn light years, and remember the Destiny is still in motion

So just to cover 1bn ly it would take almost 40 years.

To quote The Hitchickers guide "

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."

psssst, 70,000 LY/Day, times a hundred days would be 70,000 x 100 = 7,000,000 not 700,000

I think it may have been interesting to somehow rescue the Civillians who didn't want to be trapped aboard Destiny, and have them replaced with voluteers (most likely scientists and Military personnel), but, I don't think you could ever reveal Destiny's true purpose, because I believe any attempt to do that would be anti-climatic.

 

[MacLeod]

I thought the inferrence from SGU that Destiny preceded the City Ship of Atlantis, If that is the case it has been travelling for millions of years and is potentially billions of light years from earth.

Now my Maths might be off but if we say a ZPM powered ship can cover 70 000ly in a day.

It would take 100 days to cover 700 000
A thosand days to cover 70 000 000
Ten Thousands days to cover 700 000 000
So over 14 000 days to cover just 1bn light years, and remember the Destiny is still in motion

So just to cover 1bn ly it would take almost 40 years.

To quote The Hitchickers guide "

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."

psssst, 70,000 LY/Day, times a hundred days would be 70,000 x 100 = 7,000,000 not 700,000

I think it may have been interesting to somehow rescue the Civillians who didn't want to be trapped aboard Destiny, and have them replaced with voluteers (most likely scientists and Military personnel), but, I don't think you could ever reveal Destiny's true purpose, because I believe any attempt to do that would be anti-climatic.

Whoops,

Bu netherless my point is that it was to far out to effect a rescue with ships.

 

[Sindatur]

I thought the inferrence from SGU that Destiny preceded the City Ship of Atlantis, If that is the case it has been travelling for millions of years and is potentially billions of light years from earth.

Now my Maths might be off but if we say a ZPM powered ship can cover 70 000ly in a day.

It would take 100 days to cover 700 000
A thosand days to cover 70 000 000
Ten Thousands days to cover 700 000 000
So over 14 000 days to cover just 1bn light years, and remember the Destiny is still in motion

So just to cover 1bn ly it would take almost 40 years.

To quote The Hitchickers guide "

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."

psssst, 70,000 LY/Day, times a hundred days would be 70,000 x 100 = 7,000,000 not 700,000

I think it may have been interesting to somehow rescue the Civillians who didn't want to be trapped aboard Destiny, and have them replaced with voluteers (most likely scientists and Military personnel), but, I don't think you could ever reveal Destiny's true purpose, because I believe any attempt to do that would be anti-climatic.

Whoops,

Bu netherless my point is that it was to far out to effect a rescue with ships.

Yea, far more likely to have Earth or Atlantis find a "Dues Ex Machina" stash of ZPMs and find a way to Inter-Galactically gate into Destiny with some ZPMs, so they could gate back the Civillians

 

[Brent]

I guess it just depends how far away it is, which we really don't know. We do know it has slower FTL than hyperdrive though, so even though it's been going for as long as it has, it can't move as fast as hyperdrive. So it's possible it might be within a range of the latest hyperdrive technology powered by ZPMs. I guess we'll never find out. I'm hopeful though that it could be reached.

 

[RoJoHen]

I would definitely NOT have them make it back home. Their destiny (pun-intended) is to be on that ship and go wherever it is taking them.

 

[Agent Richard07]

I probably would have had the crew get home, but not Dr. Rush. He'd ascend or something.

 

[TemporalFlux]

Well, they were following the signal to an origin point; and given the belief that the signal had something to with the formation of the universe, I believe their ultimate destination was the center of the universe (with the name of the series being Stargate Universe).

What I would expect is that the ancients were not the only beings in the universe to find and follow this signal. I don't think they'll find a source; but they'll find a massive civilization of diverse cultures and species who built around the center as they tried to understand it both spiritually and scientifically.

 

[AJ86]

Well, they were following the signal to an origin point; and given the belief that the signal had something to with the formation of the universe, I believe their ultimate destination was the center of the universe (with the name of the series being Stargate Universe).

They were never following a signal to it's point of origin, in fact hey explicitly state that that's not the case. There's no such thing as the centre of the universe, either. The big bang didn't happen at a point in space, it happened everywhere. That's why from our perspective (and almost certainly any other in the universe), it appears that we are the fixed point everything is expanding away from.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

I like the idea that the ultimate Destiny was for the ship to somehow be involved in the creation of the universe. All things being circular, the Ancients originally built Destiny to figure it out but ultimately found out through ascension anyway; they thus left it to whoever would succeed them as the Fifth Race (with their assistance from time to time, thus explaining the wierd stuff happening on the ship).

Through whatever process the crew would use to create the universe, they'd end up founding the Alteran civilization afterwards (as noted above) and completing the circle. The fans would be thus satisfied enough, though the Galactica diehards would have a field day. :P

Mark

 

[backstept]

I would have continued the pace of the show towards unraveling the background signal, discovering evidence of other ancient civilizations, and the continuing conflict with the drone ships and Lucian alliance in the Milky Way.
I would resolve the ending of season 2 so that Eli did fix the final stasis pod and the crew has oddly prescient dreams while in stasis that allows Eli and Rush to fix the life support when they wake up, while giving the other characters some interesting experiences in the dreams.
Midseason 3 cliffhanger would again be about Destiny being broken down and decrepit because it's old and somehow the hyperdrive craps out but the ship can still travel at near lightspeed. This happens while they're between galaxies again, but this time they were able to send a message that reached another group of colonists from Novus. So Destiny slowly crawls through the galactic void at near lightspeed such that time dilation and stasis allows the crew to survive for several hundred years while the people from Novus catch up and help Destiny get to the next galaxy. The Earth the crew knows would be long gone, but they've survived to colonize Novus in the alternate timeline, so they know they can survive this time.
The next galaxy however has very few stargates, as if the ancient seed ships never completed their mission there. Destiny finds many massive arcologies similar to Dyson spheres, Ringworld, Halo, Rama etc that have a stargate-like travel system between them that's incompatible with the stargates. The aliens they encounter are truly alien, unlike the Nakai(nasty blue dudes) or Ursini, a sentient moon around a gas giant for instance, or 'space whales'
some aliens they encounter would also be in search of the mystery behind the pattern
along the way Destiny finds another Alteran ship which surprise surprise was sent out ahead of Destiny to make repairs to seeder ships and other ships like Destiny which of course makes Destiny good as new blah blah blah
turns out the Pattern is a manifestation of the laws of physics and can be read like a map to show, among a myriad of other things, where hyperspace activity/wormholes/advanced 'lawbreaking' has occurred and can serve as a literally infinite library
this universal library can only be read in the broadest strokes by humans, but for ascended Alterans they can deduce patterns of evolution, technological progress etc and also to a limited extent detect where our universe contacts the multiverse
now this doesn't matter too much to the Destiny crew, but they are able to 'read the universe' to see where Destiny is heading which is farther out than any previous ship from any civilization has ever gone . . . farther than the farthest galaxy our telescopes can see . . . they discover that the universe is far older than previously thought . . . the the light from galaxies they come across won't reach earth for billions of years
Imagine a crystalline entity looking map with red lines spreading out in a sphere where ships have gone, and Destiny's route is mapped out in white and extends farther out than any other line of travel . . . all the way out in the the truly unknown
meanwhile Destiny has become a Generation Ship where the families of the original crew continue the mission, and they discover things even the Ancients couldn't dream of

 

[JarodRussell]

The actual purpose of the Stargate system is to create a giant machine that can prevent the destruction of the universe. The Destiny was looking for some sort of signal or signature in the structure of the universe. It is the key, because the structure of the universe is instable. A natural flaw. The Ancients recognized that long time ago and created the stargate system that, if every stargate is activated all at once, would "repair" that flaw.

And after they manage to do that, the Stargates get destroyed in the process.

Or something.

 

[MadOnion]

They arrive at the source of the signal and find an interstellar poker tournament in progress. A Furling asks, "Well did you bring the Doritos like we asked?"