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Casting announced for Stargate Origins

I wonder who plays Ernest Littlefield.

Also very curious how they will have offworld exploration when it was supposed to have been activated only once in the 40s and once in 1969 prior to the movie.
 
JirinPanthosa said:
I wonder who plays Ernest Littlefield.

Also very curious how they will have offworld exploration when it was supposed to have been activated only once in the 40s and once in 1969 prior to the movie.
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Do we know if this series is even in continuity with SG-1/SGA/SGU?
 
JirinPanthosa said:
I wonder who plays Ernest Littlefield.
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I am not sure he needs to be in it since it probably takes place long before Catherine and he met.

Also very curious how they will have offworld exploration when it was supposed to have been activated only once in the 40s and once in 1969 prior to the movie.
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Maybe there won't be any off world travel and Origins will simply tell the story of how Paul Langford discovered the gate in Giza?
 
Possibly there won't be any offworld travel but in that case I wonder how they intend to entertain the bulk of the scifi audience. :)

True we don't know if it's in continuity with the TV shows or just the movie, but if it's not in continuity with the TV shows there's a lot less emotional investment.

If they do decide to make it not in continuity I hope they just kick off offworld travel in the 30s. I could get into that, but I don't know if I could get into a series that is not in continuity and also does not have any offworld travel. Then it's just, hey, here's an alien transportation device, let's study it and hypothesize what it might do. :)

If you want to tell a period piece about women's scientific accomplishments being not taken seriously in the 30s, they can make a miniseries about Marie Curie or one of the many real life examples. If your show involves a giant alien transportation device, it's silly not to go through it.
 
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Predicted circumnavigation of established facts: they'll use the gate and get tangled up in an adventure in the future (involving one or more SG1 characters), and be told to preserve the timeline by not talking about it.
 
tharpdevenport said:
Predicted circumnavigation of established facts: they'll use the gate and get tangled up in an adventure in the future (involving one or more SG1 characters), and be told to preserve the timeline by not talking about it.
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That would also work, except it would raise potentially uncomfortable Enterprise parallels. And happen to follow a Stargate spinoff that was a Voyager parallel.
 
Kemaiku said:
It's being treated by the studio as a prequel to SG-1, so yes.
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I thought it was a prequel to the Roland Emmerich movie?

Also the episodes are 10 minutes long. How do you have an adventure in 10 minutes? These will probably feel more like a "mini-episode" leading up to an hour long episode like Doctor Who
 
Wow, I forgot this was happening. And coincidentally, about a week or so ago I was reminiscing about Treks gone by, and randomly began wondering what Connor Trinneer was up to these days.
JirinPanthosa said:
I wonder who plays Ernest Littlefield.
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Paul McGillion, of course. We'll just ignore the fact he's aged twenty years. Or hell, may we can just randomly have a scene of Ernest twenty years into his exile where he's had an argument with imaginary Catherine and is venting to Wilson about it.
Samurai8472 said:
Also the episodes are 10 minutes long. How do you have an adventure in 10 minutes? These will probably feel more like a "mini-episode" leading up to an hour long episode like Doctor Who
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A more apt comparison, IMO, would be BSG's Blood and Chrome, a two hour-ish story that gets chopped up into five to ten minute minisodes.
 
The Wormhole said:
A more apt comparison, IMO, would be BSG's Blood and Chrome, a two hour-ish story that gets chopped up into five to ten minute minisodes.
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Wow, I hope this is better than that was. Although I don't have much interest in a Catherine Langford prequel anyway.
 
Hopefully I'm wrong, but I have a feeling this is gonna suck balls. It's such a shame the big budget reboot movie never happened.
 
King Daniel Paid CBS Plant said:
Hopefully I'm wrong, but I have a feeling this is gonna suck balls. It's such a shame the big budget reboot movie never happened.
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The big-budget reboot was from Devlin and Emmerich, which means it probably would've been stupid as hell -- or just remarkably boring and a waste of potential, like the original Stargate movie.


I found a GateWorld article about the show, and it does say "Origins will respect 17 seasons of established Stargate canon." And it's basically a 100-minute movie in 10 parts. https://www.gateworld.net/news/2017/09/stargate-origins-decoded/
 
tharpdevenport said:
Predicted circumnavigation of established facts: they'll use the gate and get tangled up in an adventure in the future (involving one or more SG1 characters), and be told to preserve the timeline by not talking about it.
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They'll use the gate, but they need to torture a giant Tardigrade to dial other gates. Later they'll just decide it's not worth it and never mention it ever again.





Too soon?
 
Starfury said:
They'll use the gate, but they need to torture a giant Tardigrade to dial other gates. Later they'll just decide it's not worth it and never mention it ever again.

Too soon?
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Too late. That should have been dropped at the first production meeting.
 
Samurai8472 said:
I thought it was a prequel to the Roland Emmerich movie?

Also the episodes are 10 minutes long. How do you have an adventure in 10 minutes? These will probably feel more like a "mini-episode" leading up to an hour long episode like Doctor Who
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https://trekmovie.com/2017/10/11/co...gins-returning-to-franchise-as-new-character/

"Star Trek: Enterprise alum Connor Trinneer is set to return to Stargate in the new digital series, Stargate Origins. Today MGM announced the the full cast for the series, including Trinneer. Origins is a prequel to Stargate SG-1 and the first entry in the franchise since Stargate Universe ended six years ago."
 
10 10 minute episodes? They may have as well just released it as a TV movie.

Stargate Origins will debut on MGM’s new digital platform Stargate Command
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Not sure what that means. Is it another streaming service, or are we supposed to download and watch?
 
I was just looking around on the site, and it also has the movies and the series, so it's not just Origins. For a one time $20 fee, that's not that bad, it's at least several hundred dollars of worth of content if you were to buy it somewhere.
I'm still not quite sure what to make of this, we've been lucky with the other Star franchises' returns, and I'm hoping we will be with the third now.
I can't see how they can do this and not include off world travel, it'll probably just end up being a secret mission or something that they don't talk about afterwards.
 
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