I give this turkey maybe 1 season. It's a shame Scifi (sorry SyFy) would come up with something decent. Maybe someone will some day come up with a real Science Fiction channel... Cause this one sure as heck isn't anymore.

Stargate meets Voyager. I'll still watch it.

It will do 4 or 5 seasons on the basis of the Stargate fanbase alone. I agree that the SciFi channel needs to keep working to give us more interesting original programming, but if Atlantis could do 5 seasons, then this show is a lock.

Carlyle Looks like a dork But I will watch and hold my opinion until after the show. I am not sure what the problem with Voyager is But I loved Voyager. I really wish they would have continued like they did from SG1 to Atlantis having ties with the characters.I would love to see them both continue. I also would like to see more scifi and not as much Horror shows like they have been showing on the scifi channel

This could be a cool show as long as they stay away from the usual character stereotypes (the scientist, the warrior, the big warrior and the civilian). Robert C will be a good choice as long as they let him use his real accent and not some phoney English or US one. The idea of less aliens is good, they can spend a bit more on make up and fx than the usual prosthetic nose and daft wig a la Star Trek. I'd also like to see characters making decisions that are not always the 'good guy' thing to do, Voyager would have been home after the first series (I wish) if Janeway had just nuked a few aliens and stolen what she needed to get home in the first place. Stargate hasn't shied away from darker paths before and I hope they don't now. I'm going to give this one a chance and I hope its more Stargate meets Lost than Stargate meets crappy Voyager. Don't let me down 'Syfy" (like you haven't already with that name change).

Perhaps Atlantis became a bit of a yarn over the years, but they never wavered in their brilliant comedy writing and clever exposition.

If this show will have the same sense of humor, I'll watch it for that reason alone -- and if it turns out to be great Sci-Fi, well, bonus.

A ship.....lost in space.....trying to get home....maybe while they are out there they can find life that can finally come up with an original idea. Whats next sci-fi? a remake of battlestar 1 week after it finishes? give me a job i can rehash old stuff for stupid money too. heaven forbid you take a chance on an original idea

let s hope it s successfull like Caprica

He wont have to worry about working on the show for 5 years,it wont last with those types of stories.
Time to bury the Stargate series.

another link from the scifi sausage grinder

The article didn't even get the name of one of the movies Carlyle has been in right! (28 weeks later, not days) How the hell are they going to get the show itself right?

There does seem to be a lack of originality in the franchise as it progresses. SG-1's 10th season tried to reboot the series back to season 1 by the creators' own admissions. And Atlantis didn't know what to do with itself once the Wraith and the Replicators stopped being the focus of every show.

Star Trek = Stargate (movie)
Star Trek TNG = SG-1
Star Trek DS9 = Atlantis (both are stations)
Star Trek Voy = Universe (both are stranded)
Star Trek Animated = Stargate Infinity (the less said the better)
Star Trek Ent = ? (Can you do a prequel?)

I don't think the show will be bad, but I do wish that they had found a different direction. Oh, and I'll go ahead and predict one last thing.

There will be soldier/leader character, a smart scientist, an alien, and a rookie. At least one will be a hot female lead.

So far this version of stargate sounds a lot like Space 1999 except we have a spaceship taking people along and not the moonbase
By the way when is Sci Fi going to Air Space 1999 ????

what iritates me is that they canceled atlantis becasue it was Cheaper to start a new series. Atlantis still had some legs left to it, and i'll miss Rodney! As for this one, as always i'll give it a chance, its not this shows fault, so as always I walk in with an open mind to new realities. But i agree with the above.... Syfy should have more SciFi on it... Bring back Farscape, and maybe a new babylon 5 series... Now That would make me happy..

@Seanbtwo ... You're right about the title of the movie. We've fixed it. But don't blame it on the show: That was SCI FI Wire's mistake.

Lets see a remake of Space:1999 Sci-Fi channel! Or at least show the reruns of the original Space:1999.

I wish they would have brought the cast from Atlantis to this one. I really cannot understand why they cancelled Atlantis. It was a great show, with great writing and cast. Still very upset they took it off the air. Seems like Scifi just cant stand to have a successful show on for a few years without wanting to cancel it. Wierd.

they had waited enought to do sgu..they saw atlantis could potentially do exceptional with movies and they moved on...im done trying to figure that out but this show will be good...i have no doubts anymore

Space: 1999 + Stargate = Stargate Universe

In fact, I once suggested to someone at Paramount that they try something precisely like this in the Trek Universe in that you'd have a self-sustaining ship the size of Spacedock or Babylon 5 or Atlantis heading OUT into the Universe to explore without fear of being destroyed, starving to death, not getting any action, nor going extinct.

Instead, they have us Enterprise.

Exectuted properly, this has been the grand premise that no Sci-Fi show has ever delivered on properly.

A show about a well-armed/well-provisioned multi-generational deep space exploratory mission that they do just for the hell of it.

As long as they find a way to create believable relationships (included real romances and real sex) and don't recycle storylines this show has the potential to be big and stay big.

The premise may be new for Stargate, but by keeping the same tired pedantic writing staff they've already doomed the show to failure. That staff lost it's creativity way back in Season 7 of SG-1 and they have continued the same tired storylines since then onto Atlantis. If they continue with the same crappy unimaginative plots and characters then I think the fanbase will turn on them. The same thing happened with Voyager- all the lackluster burn outs from TNG transferred over and turned an interesting premise into TNG-lite. Too bad, it sounds like an interesting premise.

Lou Diamond Phillips? Forget all those other reasons...If there was ever a reason this is going to fail, it's going to be because of him. lol

Character Driven? So SG-1 and Atlantis were not character driven?

I'm not sure if the decision to end Atlantis and then to Universe was Syfy's or the team at SG, but either way, as a long time fan I'll give them one shot, but it's really taxing my patience with their stupidity.

Hey you may think this guy sucks now, But, if someone told u McGyver was going to take over for Kurt Russel 15 years ago you would say they were crazy then too

I'm actually looking forward to this.

Though they're going to do the obligatory time-wasting what's happened to us(?), we can't go home(!), we've been marooned here(!), we don't have enough supplies(!) exposition episodes, the concept of a pure "outward bound" exploration show in brand new areas of The Stargate Universe should be refreshing. My only gripe is that they had to be trapped into this mission.

Imagine doing a show where a well-provisioned and well-armed and well-people convoy WILLINGLY departs the known Galaxy to explore the stars!

It's a shame that Star Trek hasn't had the balls to do something like this despite being on the air twice as long.

Face it, as long as the bean counters at NBC-Universal are in charge, SciFi channel is basically dead. They took the promise of quality science fiction, and with the exception of Fridays have shoved that promise when the sun don't shine. Bring back the original format along with new shows. Wrestling is fiction not sci fi

Elrond, I agree whole heartedly. There is quite a bit of potential with this concept, more potential even than SGA had.

Personally, I think that there is just too much negativity in the realm of geekdom nowadays. People just have to bitch about something.

It doesn't matter whether this show is good or not, SyFy will just cancel it after 5 years anyway. If a show (Atlantis) can win a People's Choice Award and get cancelled the following season why should anyone invest the time to become a fan of another series?

SyFy you need to prove to us Stargate fans that you're not going to reward our loyal viewership with a premature cancellation.

It's people like you guys that make it a struggle to get ANY sci-fi these days. All you do is bitch and bitch. It I were a studio exec. I wouldn't make any sci-fi either. Cuz, the supposed fan-base for these shows will just bitch about it. Why don't you guys try and support some things instead of calling things crap before you even see it. Geez, I'm so sick of you people.

The only thing I see wrong at this point is that Mr. Carlyle needs a haircut and shave. I certainly hope he doesn't look like the picture above in the series.

i can never understand why people take such strong stands on somethig they ahvent seen yet? it boggles my mind really, basing everything off of them most general and broadest desription of the show. If your s a stargate fan you will be pleasntly surprised as long as the actors deliver the characters the premise will not fail.

i dont know why people are so affraid of character driven stories?? Stargate needs some grit to keep itself freshor it will die.

"character-driven and feature fewer aliens than its Stargate predecessors"

I guess the new name will be in effect when this new series about a ship going to different planets across the galaxy. having just read this article it seems the world they will be going to (or passing by) will be unpopulated , if so why go off world? The adventure seem to me comes from dealing from folks that happen to live on these planets. I will give it a fair view but SYFY may not be my place to watch tv anymore.

I have to admit, I angry with NBCU and will likely never trust them again. I watched 10 years faithfully eveything they produced hoping to support more Science Fiction shows and when you think about it they only gave our programs Friday nights the worst possible time to try and be successful on tv. You would have thought the programs about the name of the channel would have been treated better but now even the name has been changed to Polish garbage. or the identification smell of sewage in Polish.

I will with gritted teeth record the new shows on my DVRS but never again will I give the satisfaction of my "LIVE" viewing time so the advertisors will never know or count me as a viewer..

I'm not holding my breath that this will be a good series. It was more important to me that there were character connections with the old shows. It's always hard to get used to new characters. It sounds from what they are doing they are going to follow the battlestar direction and spend too much time on character and make it like a soap opera. This is just a way to make the show take up more time without as much of the story progressing. A sick a boring way to take all our favorite sci-fi shows. I think they could go back decades and resurrect a bunch of the old shows with some new twists and pick up a whole lotta viewers. There are so many people in their 20's and 30's who have never seen Dune, or Planet of the Apes, etc... I know they've made some movies, but come on we need more good stories. Surely we haven't exhausted the possibilities with time travel, multiple dimensions, and futuristic worlds. Maybe we need some series based on Greg Bear's writings. A few less symentrical aliens would be nice.

It is a mistake to allow humans to pontificate on something they have not even seen yet.

Dudes who ever dis stargate are fools....and the sci fi channel is great as is stargate sg-1, atlantis. I'm dying to see universe!

Sounds more like SG meets Space 1999. Hope it works! First one that thinks, "What's Space 1999"? can bite me!