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There is a star trek vs babylon 5 movie

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It was actually pretty good.

Agreed. Research showed that operating systems with the letter X are more popular.

Windows X-treme!

So let's just become a horde of locusts jumping from planet to planet

Humans don't consume 'planets.' At best we make it inconvenient for other humans to live near us in the tiny rind on a huge orange. Not really even a rind, but the zest layer that we favor. This is what we get for being slobs, though. No matter how many cute cuddly pandas we kill off, if there is a niche for them something just as cute and cuddly will be back once humanity loses the Russian Roulette we play every time someone craps in public or throws trash in the streets.

But this is Planetary Chauvinism at its worst. Planets are inconvenient accumulations of resources down a deep gravity well. Heck, all the good minerals are locked deep down underground. Most the planet is useless to us. Sure, baring major collisions or inconvenient changes in stellar output they are neigh invulnerable (outside pure Science Fantasy.) But I'd much rather be out there in a comfortable station, craft or other human-friendly bubble with the rich resources of the Solar System than suck on a rock.

Too many people are mentally stuck on a rock. Literally and figuratively. Hawking is stuck in a chair and yet he gets this.

Actually, MGM is interested in doing a sequel to Stargate. But it isn't SG-1--it's completely different.

Here's a screenshot from the said SGU episode: http://i.gateworld.net//gallery/albums/uni_season2/207-TheGreaterGood/screencaps/sgu_207_0205.jpg

SGU is one of the dumbest "sci-fi" shows on TV and it's graphics are pathetic... You're completely insane if you think it has good graphics compared to lets say Firefly, or a 2 year old playing with crayons.

Here's a screenshot from the said SGU episode: http://i.gateworld.net//gallery/albums/uni_season2/207-TheGreaterGood/screencaps/sgu_207_0205.jpg

Or the time they accidentally opened onto a black hole gate (Never understood why they were not able to rescue the other SG team.)

Apparently you didn't like the show enough to understand why they couldn't rescue the other team. It had to do with the gravity well of the black hole causing time dilation. What they were seeing had already taken place.

In fact, the event horizon got into the SG center and was in the process of doing its thing until a small nuclear device was dropped into the Stargate, severing the connection.

The complete rundown.

Apophis? No problem. If it had been called Anubis I would've been worried that it was filled with Naquadah or something.

Even better, it happened in SG1 here, with added time travel:
http://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s4/406.shtml

A CME happened in a Stargate Atlantis episode too.

http://gateworld.net/atlantis/s3/312.shtml. Useful info links right above the episode banner.

You're forgetting that we also found a frozen ancient in the ice that was still infected with the plague that drove the ancients to Atlantis several million years ago.

Until they can't turn it off!

Are we talking about Stargate Atlantis, Season 5 Episode 16, "Brain Storm"? I don't think I've seen this one. There were some gaps in my viewing of Atlantis, and I suspect this may have been one of them.

Mckay did it.

That's not the SG:U ship, that's the Hammond (Or any other ship in the same class). This is the SG:U Ship a sort of bastard child of the Millennium Falcon and that ship from Crusade.

to check the figures... Oh wait, no, he managed to destroy three quarters of a solar system! Actually five sixth. Well it's not exact science ;) http://www.gateworld.net/atlantis/s2/206.shtml

Maybe it's some kind of experimental gene therapy. I hear it's legal in the Pegasus galaxy. Maybe it's legal in orbit, too?

That was actually Anubis in Fail Safe of season five.

They also had pyramid ships

http://gateworld.net/omnipedia/ships/p/pyramidship.shtml

So you are saying that every site like this should be sued by the IP owner?

The Harry Potter Lexicon is no different than Gateworld and every other site out there that is basically a well done fan site.

She should be happy that there is that much interest in her books and that the site isn't some half-assed, inaccurate piece of crap.

What's next, will she sue Wikipedia over their Harry Potter pages?

'We could have one big hive mind with all of the knowledge or have a distributed system where the knowledge is distributed among our brains. Also, only the most advanced researchers could access the core to change the official knowledge database. We could always have a core that works like the current Wikipedia too. Who knows what's the best way to manage a hive mind?"

The first season is fine, the second season is largely 'ok' (the filler episodes are actually tolerable, for the most part).

It is season 3 where you may feel the need to skip out a large chunk (the middle). Id suggest looking at an episode guide and check out the ratings per episode. A good guide is here: http://www.gateworld.net/galactica/s3/index.shtml - All the ones with **'s are totally skipable, the few significant events that occur within them are summarised later on in intros anyway, so you don't really miss a thing. Out of the 20 S3 episodes, half are utter pish sadly. It does end on a high though.

According to http://www.gateworld.net/news/2007/03/iuniversei_d eals_with_ninth_chev.shtml the show will deal with the ninth chevron. (for the uninitiated, 7 chevrons are used for travel within the galaxy, 8 chevrons are required to go outside the galaxy, I can only assume that 9 chevrons would be outside our universe or galaxies farther away within our universe than what 8 chevrons would be able to handle. (or perhaps time travel, the ancients, or at least one ancient, have already experimented with that)

According to Gateworld, they will start filming in April.

shooting on the two 'Stargate SG-1' movies finishes in June

Given the constraints of the budget, I thought the SciFi channel did a darned good job with the movie that ended the Farscape series - they took the concept about as far as it could be taken [I mean, seriously, it's hard to top an out-of-control wormhole that threatens to swallow up the entirety of space-time as we know it], and tied up most of the loose ends [boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy regains girl plus newborn baby].

I hope they take these Stargate movies at least as seriously - the SG-1 franchise deserves to go out with a bang.

I'd like to see all the species in our galaxy [The Asgard, the Nox, the Oannes, Ba'al & his gang, etc etc etc], teaming up a la Justice League of America, or Avengers/Defenders, and going head to head with the Origin armies, in a four-hour epic maelstrom of a battle, with blood and guts and iron and ash and fire and brimstone, and finally wiping those rat bastard Ori off the map forever.

And speaking of going out with a bang, after they've dealt with the Ori once and for all, the male leads could then turn to fighting over who gets to bang Inara Serra.

And it would be really neat if they could convince Kurt Russell & James Spader to come back and play some roles - maybe president & vice president of the USA?

Or perhaps they could be in the cast of "Wormhole X-Treme!".

[And if you wanna get really cynical, it could be revealed that the entire Stargate franchise was merely the fantasy of a writer for "Wormhole X-Treme!" - kinda like how Bobby Ewing just reappeared in the shower one morning.]

shooting on the two 'Stargate SG-1' movies finishes in June

Given the constraints of the budget, I thought the SciFi channel did a darned good job with the movie that ended the Farscape series - they took the concept about as far as it could be taken [I mean, seriously, it's hard to top an out-of-control wormhole that threatens to swallow up the entirety of space-time as we know it], and tied up most of the loose ends [boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy regains girl plus newborn baby].

I hope they take these Stargate movies at least as seriously - the SG-1 franchise deserves to go out with a bang.

I'd like to see all the species in our galaxy [The Asgard, the Nox, the Oannes, Ba'al & his gang, etc etc etc], teaming up a la Justice League of America, or Avengers/Defenders, and going head to head with the Origin armies, in a four-hour epic maelstrom of a battle, with blood and guts and iron and ash and fire and brimstone, and finally wiping those rat bastard Ori off the map forever.

And speaking of going out with a bang, after they've dealt with the Ori once and for all, the male leads could then turn to fighting over who gets to bang Inara Serra.

And it would be really neat if they could convince Kurt Russell & James Spader to come back and play some roles - maybe president & vice president of the USA?

Or perhaps they could be in the cast of "Wormhole X-Treme!".

[And if you wanna get really cynical, it could be revealed that the entire Stargate franchise was merely the fantasy of a writer for "Wormhole X-Treme!" - kinda like how Bobby Ewing just reappeared in the shower one morning.]

The 9th Chevron is set to play a big role in the show. Im guessing they get stuck in some random universe, unable to travel home, ala Atlantis season 1. Doesn't really look like anything new; so im betting on it being axed within 2-3 seasons.

Jack O'Neill can do anything.

Now the numbers above are completely fictional, I have no idea what the average viewership of BSG is, or the average cost per episode. If anyone can find these two items of information, we can calculate the minimum cost per episode to a viewer for BSG to be produced. I'm guessing it'll be closer to $1.99/episode than $0.12/episode.

It's harder to do with cable than broadcast, because cable channels get per-viewer subscriber fees for their revenues in addition to advertising. The subscriber fee is for the whole channel, so they can decide how the apportion it to a particular show.

For broadcast, it's basically around 60 to 80 cents that advertisers pay per viewer for a popular show. For broadcast, a solid popular show gets around 10 million viewers. Cable ratings are much lower. Battlestar Galactica specifically gets around 2 million viewers on a good night. But since it's on cable, they can still afford it since they have those subscriber fees.

Subscriber fees for the Sci-Fi channel are 16 cents per month per subscriber, and they have 79.88 million total subscribers, so $12.8 million a month. How much of that to apportion to Battlestar Galactica? That's what makes this hard. Flat per hour division gives you roughly $18,000 per hour. Cable ad rates are like $6500 per 30-second spot (who knows if the Sci-Fi channel can command a higher rate?), and assuming about 20 paid 30 second spots per hour (don't include promos, PSAs and the like), you get $148,000 revenue for an episode of BSG.

So: ~$150,000 revenue per show / ~2 million viewers = $0.075. Seven and a half cents per viewer is what they are happy to take in to show you BSG (they haven't canceled it, so they must think it's worth it). So it seems closer to your guessed at 12 cents than the $1.99. Don't worry for the media companies, they're swimming in profits.

Check Gateworld, before you believe anyone else.

http://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s10/index.shtml

They usually (but not always) have it right.
[Not always because the back-half of this year's Atlantis are out of order.]

Season 10 is in mid-season hiatus. Just to confuse matters, the SciFi network often refers to the last episode before the hiatus as a "season finale" and the first episode after the hiatus as a "season premiere."

According to the official website for SG-1, new episodes are "coming soon." Looks like the UK already got to see episodes we're currently waiting for, if comments in the Gateworld forum are to be believed.

So far, I haven't been able to pin down an exact air date for the US. The Wikipedia entries for SG-1's episodes only give the original airdate for "The Quest part 2" as January 9th, which appears to be the airdate for the UK. This kind of scheduling idiocy is why season 1 of Battlestar Galactica was well underway in the UK by the time it started airing in the US.

Best I can say: According to this forum thread, the second half of season 10 will begin airing here in the States in April. Kind of a long time to wait, IMHO.

And end up failing miserably like every other sci-fi tv to big screen endeavour outside of Trek TOS?

I doubt it, since it seems atm that they'll either be direct-to-DVD or TV-only. Slashdot and the linked site are woefully behind, these movies have been known about for at least a few weeks now.

Since then, MGM have confirmed that they hope to continuing SG1 as Ongoing Movies instead of a season 11. Hopefully this means the ongoing success of Stargate, and the cast.

The following is quoted from www.GateWorld.net:

"Following the success of the 1994 film "Stargate," Stargate SG-1 debuted in 1997, and spun off Stargate Atlantis in 2004. The two shows return to SCI FI Channel in the U.S. with new episodes in April. The spring run of 10 episodes each will mark the series finale of SG-1, and the third season finale of Atlantis.

Stargate Atlantis returns for its fourth season later in 2007.

Meanwhile, SG-1 will continue with two movies, presumably direct-to-DVD, currently aiming for a fall 2007 release."

http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/12/exclusive_th ird_istargatei_serie.shtml

I wouldn't be surprised if that did happen. From what I have read the original movie writers had wanted to make a trilogy, but the movie didn't do very well and the idea fell by the wayside. Now that the series have boosted the movie's popularity, distributors are more willing to finance a new movie. Of course, the series went a different direction than what the movie writers intended so the movie sequel will follow a different history. Here and here are a couple of the interviews with Devlin (original producer).

I wouldn't be surprised if that did happen. From what I have read the original movie writers had wanted to make a trilogy, but the movie didn't do very well and the idea fell by the wayside. Now that the series have boosted the movie's popularity, distributors are more willing to finance a new movie. Of course, the series went a different direction than what the movie writers intended so the movie sequel will follow a different history. Here and here are a couple of the interviews with Devlin (original producer).

No, that would be this guy seeing as he's played by Chris Eccleston. :P

When I grew up in the Milky Way, the dialer actually lived up to its name.

I bet most of today's Pegasus Kids have never seen a good old-fashioned dialer.

Here.

i wonder how much of an issue this would be if this weren't such a good show/season for scifi.
"The show saw bigger gains in the viewers age 25 to 54 demographic (seven percent), and viewers 18 to 49 (4 percent)." http://www.gateworld.net/galactica/news/2006/10/se ason_three_premieres_with_strong_ratings.shtml
seems like everyone was cool with the arrangement last month. or else, why would the first three have gone up without a problem?

The last ten episodes of SG-1 are coming this March. And then, even though our hopes of season 11 were dashed by Hammer and Stern, we get (at least) two direct-to-DVD movies.

http://gateworld.net/omnipedia/ships/links/orion.s html

Oh look, some straws... I must clutch at them wildly.

Neither. The network cancelled their airing of the show. It wasn't the choice of the SG-1 team.

See here for more info: http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/08/cooper_isg-1 i_will_go_on.shtml

Dean Devlin, who wrote the original Stargate movie, still wants to do sequels to the original movie with Kurt Russell and James Spader reprising their roles (as opposed to Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks who took over the O'Neill and Jackson characters for the TV series).

I'd rather them finish the Ori story reasonably quickly and end the show on a moderately high note (probably not as high as season 8, but high nonetheless) rather than dragging it on and on. While it's commendable how they've handled the transition to the new cast, it's not something that can be kept up indefinitely.

And that was the problem I had with the timeing of Sci-fi canceling the show. Everything I had read, from scifi channel and from fan sites, said that the actors and writers had both signed on for both the 10th and 11th seasons. Canning the show in the middle of the 10th season like this, with summer left for filming the second half of the season, I can't help but expect an ending much like Farscape. As the folks over at gateworld.com have said, "Ironically, this is the first year since Season Four that plans were already in place, both creatively and in signed actor contracts, for another year. The show has lived on year-to-year since moving to SCI FI, with the writers forced to write a possible series finale every year -- only to find the show renewed once again." http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/08/istargate_sg -1i_cancelled_iatlan.shtml

At least Devlin has said there are serious plans for a movie sequal. http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?id=37194

>>I'd rather them finish the Ori story reasonably quickly and
>>end the show on a moderately high note

Unlikely that this will occur :(

http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/08/cooper_isg-1 i_will_go_on.shtml

Don't count Stargate SG-1 out just yet. Though SCI FI Channel has cancelled the long-running series, the show's producers are hard at work looking for a new outlet for the story to continue, executive producer Robert C. Cooper told GateWorld exclusively.

The only thing I hate more then series I like being cancelled, is being left hanging, possibly indefinately.

http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/08/cooper_isg-1 i_will_go_on.shtml It should be noted, as in the above article, that this is not the first time that Stargate SG-1 has had the network cancel. While it may be just blind fanboyism, I trust that there's a good chance that these fairly talented and motivated people may be able to sell Stargate SG-1, in some form, to another media outlet, be it another network or as a movie.

http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/08/cooper_isg-1 i_will_go_on.shtml
Cooper: SG-1 will go on

Monday - August 21, 2006 | by Darren Sumner

Don't count Stargate SG-1 out just yet. Though SCI FI Channel has cancelled the long-running series (story), the show's producers are hard at work looking for a new outlet for the story to continue, executive producer Robert C. Cooper told GateWorld exclusively.

"As far as the future I can't comment yet because nothing has been confirmed," Cooper said. "What we want to emphasize is that the franchise is not dying. SG-1 will go on in some way. We're just not ready to announce how."

A formal announcement from the studio and the network is expected later this week.

Cooper also emphasizes that, though emotions are running high among Stargate fans who have just learned the news, it is important to keep the show's ratings strong throughout the remainder of its run on SCI FI. "What's most important is that fans don't take out their frustration with SCI FI by not watching," he said. "In fact, what they need to do is watch both SG-1 and Atlantis LIVE and make sure the ratings stay strong.

"That helps prove to other outlets that might be interested in SG-1 that the show is still as strong as we think it is."

Could Stargate SG-1 find its way to yet another network in 2007? Or might the SG-1 team be headed for a TV movie, mini-series, direct-to-video feature ... or the big screen? Stay with GateWorld for the latest developments.

Ah well. I suppose this is a blessing in disguise though as it means:

1) We'll get to see the Ori beaten (hopefully, according to gateworld.net the last few episodes aren't set in stone yet).

2) At the end of Episode 200 Martin Lloyd announces to the 10-season cast of Wormhole X-treme that "the movie's back on!". I like to think this extends back to that Stargate SG-1 movie, but I guess we'll have to wait and see. Now that the series is over there's more hope for it, at least according to gateworld...

I wonder how long the SG-1 writers/producers etc knew the 10th season would be the last. Episode 200 makes a BIT more sense if you realize "hey, they knew they would never have another chance to pull stuff like this again".

I assume you didn't hear this.