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Stargate Universe
''Stargate Universe'' (often abbreviated as ''SGU'') is a military science fiction television series and part of MGM's ''Stargate'' franchise. It follows the adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient ...
'' is a Canadian-American
military science fiction
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television series created by
Brad Wright
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and
Robert C. Cooper
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as a
spin off from its sister shows, ''
Stargate SG-1
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'' and ''
Stargate Atlantis
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''.
The show has stand-alone episodes as well as multi-part episodes, and it also has more season-long story and character arcs running through every episode than any other ''Stargate'' series.
Brad Wright was hopeful that the show would last three or more seasons.
On December 16, 2010, ''
Entertainment Weekly
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'' reported that the show would end after the second season.
Series overview
Episodes in bold are
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episodes, where the story spans over 2 or more episodes.
Television series
Season 1 (2009–10)
The first season consists of 20 episodes.
Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper wrote the three-parter series opener named "Air", which was originally planned to be a two-parter.
The first two parts of "Air" premiered on Syfy on October 2, 2009, with regularly weekly airing beginning on October 9, 2009.
"Fire" was originally going to be the title for episode four, but the story and script was too big to be able to fit into one episode, so the producers changed it to become a two-parter called "Darkness" and "Light", therefore pushing all future episodes forward one slot. "Justice" was the mid-season finale. The back half of the first season aired on Friday April 2, 2010 on Space and Syfy.
British channel
Sky1
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acquired the exclusive UK rights to ''Stargate Universe'' and began airing the series from October 6, 2009. The series currently airs on
Space
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in Canada.
In Australia ''Stargate Universe'' commenced airing on free-to-air-TV on
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from 20:30 on Monday 14 December 2009, broadcasting the first two episodes: "Air (Part 1)" and "Air (Part 2)" as a movie-length premiere. However, Network Ten dropped the series after just three weeks. All available episodes were however fast-tracked from the US and broadcast on the
Sci Fi Channel
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on
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screening in Australia only 'days' after the US.
The final episode of Season 1, "Incursion (Part 2)", had World Premiere on the German TV channel "RTL2". RTL2 aired the episode one week ahead of Syfy, in combination with "Incursion (Part1)".
Season 2 (2010–11)
The second season of ''
Stargate Universe
''Stargate Universe'' (often abbreviated as ''SGU'') is a military science fiction television series and part of MGM's ''Stargate'' franchise. It follows the adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient ...
'' was announced by
Syfy
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on December 13, 2009. Like the first season, the second season consisted of 20 episodes. Nine episodes had already been reserved by the primary series writers. The series was moved from the franchise's usual time on Friday to Tuesday, along with ''
Caprica
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''. This was due to Syfy picking up
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.
The series resumed on September 28, 2010, USA.
In Ireland & UK the series resumed on October 5 at 9pm on Sky1 and Sky1 HD. Syfy announced the series cancellation during the mid-season hiatus. Syfy aired the remainder of season two consisting of the final 10 episodes which were all filmed before the series was cancelled. The second half of Season 2 began airing on Mondays as of March 7.
[ In Canada, the second half of Season 2 began airing on Tuesdays as of March 8 at 10pm on the Space Channel.
]
Webisodes
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s have also been released to tie into the series. The webisodes use "SG·U Stargate Universe KINO" as their title card. They center on the Kino (described by Mallozzi as an Ancient version of the MALP) following around the crew of the ''Destiny''. The webisodes are available for viewing at th
Kino
character profile.
DVD and Blu-ray releases
See also
* List of ''Stargate SG-1'' episodes
* List of ''Stargate Atlantis'' episodes
References
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External links
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