STV = SGU?

[Bry_Sinclair]

I've just gotten through watching Stargate Universe. As I was watching it (especially in the beginning), all I could think was: this is how Voyager should've been!

The shows concepts of a lone ship, stranded at impossible distances are similar, but where SGU excelled was that they were ill-prepared and ill-equipped, where they had to struggle to even breath in the pilot, after which they have to face continual hardships to gather supplies, find out more about where they are, and the morale-crushing prospect of never seeing home. Added to that are characters who don't fully trust one another, the tension that comes to a head and is put aside to save the ship but never fully resolved, whilst the narrative structure meant that things could be left open from one week to another, that damage remained and impaired them further.

 

[F. King Daniel]

*Cough!* *cough!*

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Mods, apologies I didn't notice that thread. If possible can you shift my comment over there?

Cheers.

 

[Lynx]

Please read my comment about SGU and its characters in the other thread. here I just have to state that SGU was the worst show I've ever watched.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Two threads at the same time?

So it must be true.

 

[Melakon]

Both shows are ripoffs of Lost in Space.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Lost in Space was a rip off of Swiss Family Robinson.

All thought is theft.

 

[Melakon]

Swiss Family Robinson was a ripoff of Robinson Crusoe.

 

[Guy Gardener]

You really want to take this all the way back to the Odyssey?

 

[Melakon]

Nah, I never took that class.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Berman did.

The siege at Troy began because the three most powerful goddesses (Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite.) asked a prince of Troy named PARIS to pick out of the three of them which one was "best".

 

[Melakon]

I figured Tom's name had some sort of significance other than the city, but I didn't consider ancient literature.

 

[Guy Gardener]

It's probably a coincidence.

Jeri Taylor will probably say something like "Our Tom Paris is modelled after Tom Sawyer because they are both such scamps."

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I assumed he had some french connection because of Sandrines.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I read Sardines not Sandrines for a second there.

Owen was a Paris too, and his mother it would seem does not matter?

Dead or run away?

There was some internal movement within the family to set Owen and Miral up.

(Might have been a novel?)

The real importance of his name is the term "Tom, Dick and Harry" which nestles Richard Berman himself as "one of the guys" having a gay ol' time Star Trekking.

Kathleen Murnoe just takes my breath away.

 

[8472]

Shouldn't have been as dark as SGU but just a touch. The difference between Voyager and Stargate U universes would make a difference. Voyager takes place in the Star Trek canon, where the galaxy is literally riddled with civilizations all over. In SGU the other galaxy was barren except for those scant aliens that were never defined before the show got cancelled.

 

[Guy Gardener]

We saw them.

Pretty nice CGI.

We just didn't know why they wanted the Destiny, or for how long they had been trying to get it before the Earthers showed up.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

They wanted it because it was shiny and ancient.

 

[Guy Gardener]

They pursued it through two galaxies, that we saw, and jumping to a third may not have stopped the chase.

They had communicator stones and they had the physical might to take the Destiny if it would just stay put for another 15 minutes rather than run.

Maybe the Destiny's Stargate Factory?

But honestly they were already pretty advanced.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Maybe it was a religious artifact to them. A piece of the one true starship.