“I’m heartened by the fact that Martin is very respectful of what came before,” Mallozzi said. “We’ll build stories … [and] it’s very easy to find solutions that run counter to canon. And there will be times when we’ll go a certain way and then I’ll point out, ‘Actually, SG-1 established this.’ And rather than hand-wave and say, ‘This is a new show,’ Martin has said, ‘OK, we have to consider this,’ and found a way to work around it or incorporate it.”
I do as well. I watched the interview with Nathan Crowley and I'm heartened that they seem to really appreciate his design work and philosophy about design. I refuse to be excited about the show...
I do as well. I watched the interview with Nathan Crowley and I'm heartened that they seem to really appreciate his design work and philosophy about design. I refuse to be excited about the show (personal reasons: I've been hype about things in the past and let down before, usually I prefer to go in neutral and be pleasantly surprised) but I'm just not far off from it.
Yeah, I got the sense that they understood why Universe was bad. I’m hoping for something closer to Atlantis, which sounds (perhaps only to my optimistic ears) like where they want to go.
Yeah, I got the sense that they understood why Universe was bad. I’m hoping for something closer to Atlantis, which sounds (perhaps only to my optimistic ears) like where they want to go.
I had assumed this was going to be a full reboot, so I’m pretty excited to hear the news. I didn’t watch much Atlantis (I want to say that was late high school and college, and I was just not...
I had assumed this was going to be a full reboot, so I’m pretty excited to hear the news. I didn’t watch much Atlantis (I want to say that was late high school and college, and I was just not watching much of anything), but certainly watch a lot of SG-1 and even SGU. My favorite part of SGU was the first time I heard Mumford and Sons in the season 1 finale.
I clipped out a little bit from most sections below, the stuff I found interesting at any rate. The whole article is worth a watch along with YouTube embeds of various things like interviews.
I clipped out a little bit from most sections below, the stuff I found interesting at any rate. The whole article is worth a watch along with YouTube embeds of various things like interviews.
The working title is “Stargate” … and that might end up being the title of the show.
Stargate‘s production designer is Nathan Crowley, who worked with Christopher Nolan on films from The Prestige and Batman Begins to Interstellar and Dunkirk. On television, he worked on the first season of HBO’s Westworld. In 2025 Crowley won the Academy Award for Wicked.
Along with him comes artist Phillis Lehmer, Crowley’s wife and long-time creative partner.
Stargate‘s VFX supervisor is Mohen Leo, whose credits with Industrial Light & Magic include Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Andor. Along with the announcement, Gero confirmed that ILM will be one of Stargate‘s visual effects partners.
Consulting producer Joseph Mallozzi is also writing an episode for the first season — currently at the outline stage. “I don’t know what I’m allowed to say about that, mostly for guild rules,” Gero said … “but yeah, he’s going to write a script. Absolutely. … Joe just sent me an outline, and it was just great.”
When the new series was announced last November, Gero assured fans that it is not rebooting the story but will stick to the universe that viewers came to love over more than 350 episodes of television. Now that vision is being worked out, practically, in the writers’ room — and it means taking the time to find the right solutions to pesky story problems.
Casting Has Begun
As scripts are written and production moves toward rolling cameras this fall, Gero confirms that the team has begun looking at actors for the show’s key roles.
“We are in the preliminary stages of casting,” he confirmed. “That stuff leaks very quick, for some reason. You’ll hear it as close to those deals getting done as possible.”
Don't forget the promised new ship design, which was apparently part of the pitch for the show! Maybe a new alien species? Or perhaps just an iteration on the Prometheus an Daedalus classes? I...
Don't forget the promised new ship design, which was apparently part of the pitch for the show! Maybe a new alien species? Or perhaps just an iteration on the Prometheus an Daedalus classes?
I have high hopes for the series, as a longtime Stargate fan. It makes me very happy to see GateWorld involved; I cracked up a little reading about the new showrunners consulting the Omnipedia (some of which they wrote!) while researching ideas and Gate mechanics. As someone who hasn't loved the new Star Trek shows, and grew up as more of a Stargate fan... it makes me very happy to imagine more Stargate in my future. There isn't much fun adventure scifi out there these days!
I really appreciate them keeping the fandom in the loop. I just hope they keep the humor that they allowed to crack into the edges of all three TV series. That was part of why I had a hard time...
I really appreciate them keeping the fandom in the loop. I just hope they keep the humor that they allowed to crack into the edges of all three TV series. That was part of why I had a hard time getting into SGU: the humor was a lot more subtle, but it was there by the end of season 2. But even SGU eventually became something I enjoyed over time. I just hope this new show doesn't take me 10 years to get around to watching.
Stargate‘s production designer is Nathan Crowley, who worked with Christopher Nolan on films from The Prestige and Batman Begins to Interstellar and Dunkirk. On television, he worked on the first season of HBO’s Westworld.
I’m excited for a new Stargate series. I hope it’s more about adventure, exploration, and the team(s) involved instead of interpersonal drama. I had a really hard time getting into SGU. It felt...
I’m excited for a new Stargate series. I hope it’s more about adventure, exploration, and the team(s) involved instead of interpersonal drama.
I had a really hard time getting into SGU. It felt more like a worse version of battlestar.
I hope its more like SG1 too. I watched Atlantis and SGU once through but SG1 I grew up with and have seen every episode many many times. Its my comfort show. I watch it every night before bed. I...
I hope its more like SG1 too. I watched Atlantis and SGU once through but SG1 I grew up with and have seen every episode many many times. Its my comfort show. I watch it every night before bed.
I like that pretty much every episode ends on a high note and they’re all okay. I’m not a fan of the Ori arc because sometimes things seem pretty hopeless for a few episodes until they get a win and I really need a win at the end of most episodes.
SGU was for sure a tough sell. It took me about a decade before I was finally able to watch and enjoy it. But I had to look for the Stargate at the edges of the drama for sure. But as it rolled...
SGU was for sure a tough sell. It took me about a decade before I was finally able to watch and enjoy it. But I had to look for the Stargate at the edges of the drama for sure. But as it rolled along it got to be more like the other shows, and by the end I was sad about it ending.
I'm one of those rare weirdos who preferred SGU over the rest of the franchise (except for the movie). I was pretty damn sad when it ended, especially given the story note on which it closed out.
I'm one of those rare weirdos who preferred SGU over the rest of the franchise (except for the movie). I was pretty damn sad when it ended, especially given the story note on which it closed out.
I'm with you. I enjoyed all of the Stargate series, but SGU hit the sweet spot for me. For context, I'm also a big fan of ST: Voyager, so I think the formula of "crew being stranded and having to...
I'm with you. I enjoyed all of the Stargate series, but SGU hit the sweet spot for me. For context, I'm also a big fan of ST: Voyager, so I think the formula of "crew being stranded and having to figure things out" really appealed to me.
Funnily enough, I'm doing a run through all of Voyager right now, and planning on an end to end Stargate re-watch afterwards. Looking forward to all of it. I am struck by how much I enjoy Voyager...
Funnily enough, I'm doing a run through all of Voyager right now, and planning on an end to end Stargate re-watch afterwards. Looking forward to all of it. I am struck by how much I enjoy Voyager after a diet of more recent so-called Star Trek. Proper stories being told. Character development and everything. Imagine that.
I'm also making my way through Voyager again! I just started Season 6. I might have to attempt a Stargate run as well prior to this new show if time permits. :)
I'm also making my way through Voyager again! I just started Season 6. I might have to attempt a Stargate run as well prior to this new show if time permits. :)
I got a torrent of some upscaled versions. They're really good, was looking for the best I could find as there's no actual remasters or better official versions.
I got a torrent of some upscaled versions. They're really good, was looking for the best I could find as there's no actual remasters or better official versions.
This makes me happy, I quite enjoyed SG1 and watched a medium amount of Atlantis back in the day (I still think of any small vehicle as a puddle jumper) and I'd be very pleased to watch some more...
This makes me happy, I quite enjoyed SG1 and watched a medium amount of Atlantis back in the day (I still think of any small vehicle as a puddle jumper) and I'd be very pleased to watch some more stuff from the same universe.
I lived in the Vancouver area about 20 years ago, and when I was looking for a place to live, one of the landlords was very enthusiastic in telling me how close the place was to the restaurant where Richard Dean Anderson used to eat all the time (it was an Earls on Kingsway somewhere near Metrotown mall, but it's no longer there). While I didn't end up renting that particular place, I did rent in the area, but sadly I can't report having run into RDA.
I call any small vehicle a puddle jumper as well. I'm very much looking forward to giving this new series a chance, but I'm planning to give it wide latitude. There's some lore stuff they need to...
I call any small vehicle a puddle jumper as well. I'm very much looking forward to giving this new series a chance, but I'm planning to give it wide latitude. There's some lore stuff they need to deal with and I'm curious to see how they do it.
What’s the best way to watch Stargate SG-1 in 2026? It popped up on Netflix for me recently and air was excited to start, but it is rough. The compression on top of the expectedly low resolution...
What’s the best way to watch Stargate SG-1 in 2026? It popped up on Netflix for me recently and air was excited to start, but it is rough. The compression on top of the expectedly low resolution is particularly bad. The dialogue volume relative to the rest of the audio seems even worse than recent shows that people complain about. I could swear there’s some occasional sync issues between the audio and video too.
It really depends on how much money you’re willing to spend. If you’ve got hundreds of dollars to throw at the problem and a Blu-ray player, buying the complete series on Blu-ray would probably do...
It really depends on how much money you’re willing to spend. If you’ve got hundreds of dollars to throw at the problem and a Blu-ray player, buying the complete series on Blu-ray would probably do it.
If you’re willing to spend considerably less money, you can get an Amazon Prime subscription, I believe they’ve got the full series there as well.
If you want to stick with Netflix, check to see if you can download a better quality version of it and watch the downloaded playback.
If you have Hoopla from your local library, they might also carry it, but that’s rather doubtful.
I very much appreciate that.
I do as well. I watched the interview with Nathan Crowley and I'm heartened that they seem to really appreciate his design work and philosophy about design. I refuse to be excited about the show (personal reasons: I've been hype about things in the past and let down before, usually I prefer to go in neutral and be pleasantly surprised) but I'm just not far off from it.
Yeah, I got the sense that they understood why Universe was bad. I’m hoping for something closer to Atlantis, which sounds (perhaps only to my optimistic ears) like where they want to go.
I had assumed this was going to be a full reboot, so I’m pretty excited to hear the news. I didn’t watch much Atlantis (I want to say that was late high school and college, and I was just not watching much of anything), but certainly watch a lot of SG-1 and even SGU. My favorite part of SGU was the first time I heard Mumford and Sons in the season 1 finale.
It helps so much that they’re fans and this is a labor of love
I clipped out a little bit from most sections below, the stuff I found interesting at any rate. The whole article is worth a watch along with YouTube embeds of various things like interviews.
Don't forget the promised new ship design, which was apparently part of the pitch for the show! Maybe a new alien species? Or perhaps just an iteration on the Prometheus an Daedalus classes?
I have high hopes for the series, as a longtime Stargate fan. It makes me very happy to see GateWorld involved; I cracked up a little reading about the new showrunners consulting the Omnipedia (some of which they wrote!) while researching ideas and Gate mechanics. As someone who hasn't loved the new Star Trek shows, and grew up as more of a Stargate fan... it makes me very happy to imagine more Stargate in my future. There isn't much fun adventure scifi out there these days!
I really appreciate them keeping the fandom in the loop. I just hope they keep the humor that they allowed to crack into the edges of all three TV series. That was part of why I had a hard time getting into SGU: the humor was a lot more subtle, but it was there by the end of season 2. But even SGU eventually became something I enjoyed over time. I just hope this new show doesn't take me 10 years to get around to watching.
Oh my goodness that's a good résumé!
I’m excited for a new Stargate series. I hope it’s more about adventure, exploration, and the team(s) involved instead of interpersonal drama.
I had a really hard time getting into SGU. It felt more like a worse version of battlestar.
I hope its more like SG1 too. I watched Atlantis and SGU once through but SG1 I grew up with and have seen every episode many many times. Its my comfort show. I watch it every night before bed.
I like that pretty much every episode ends on a high note and they’re all okay. I’m not a fan of the Ori arc because sometimes things seem pretty hopeless for a few episodes until they get a win and I really need a win at the end of most episodes.
SGU was for sure a tough sell. It took me about a decade before I was finally able to watch and enjoy it. But I had to look for the Stargate at the edges of the drama for sure. But as it rolled along it got to be more like the other shows, and by the end I was sad about it ending.
I'm one of those rare weirdos who preferred SGU over the rest of the franchise (except for the movie). I was pretty damn sad when it ended, especially given the story note on which it closed out.
I'm with you. I enjoyed all of the Stargate series, but SGU hit the sweet spot for me. For context, I'm also a big fan of ST: Voyager, so I think the formula of "crew being stranded and having to figure things out" really appealed to me.
Funnily enough, I'm doing a run through all of Voyager right now, and planning on an end to end Stargate re-watch afterwards. Looking forward to all of it. I am struck by how much I enjoy Voyager after a diet of more recent so-called Star Trek. Proper stories being told. Character development and everything. Imagine that.
I'm also making my way through Voyager again! I just started Season 6. I might have to attempt a Stargate run as well prior to this new show if time permits. :)
I got a torrent of some upscaled versions. They're really good, was looking for the best I could find as there's no actual remasters or better official versions.
I disliked SGU until I did a full Voyager rewatch and it gave me a new appreciation for SGU. I'd like to see their story resolved.
It certainly appealed to some folks more than others, I'll grant. It was a far more personal story in a lot of ways.
This makes me happy, I quite enjoyed SG1 and watched a medium amount of Atlantis back in the day (I still think of any small vehicle as a puddle jumper) and I'd be very pleased to watch some more stuff from the same universe.
I lived in the Vancouver area about 20 years ago, and when I was looking for a place to live, one of the landlords was very enthusiastic in telling me how close the place was to the restaurant where Richard Dean Anderson used to eat all the time (it was an Earls on Kingsway somewhere near Metrotown mall, but it's no longer there). While I didn't end up renting that particular place, I did rent in the area, but sadly I can't report having run into RDA.
I call any small vehicle a puddle jumper as well. I'm very much looking forward to giving this new series a chance, but I'm planning to give it wide latitude. There's some lore stuff they need to deal with and I'm curious to see how they do it.
What’s the best way to watch Stargate SG-1 in 2026? It popped up on Netflix for me recently and air was excited to start, but it is rough. The compression on top of the expectedly low resolution is particularly bad. The dialogue volume relative to the rest of the audio seems even worse than recent shows that people complain about. I could swear there’s some occasional sync issues between the audio and video too.
It really depends on how much money you’re willing to spend. If you’ve got hundreds of dollars to throw at the problem and a Blu-ray player, buying the complete series on Blu-ray would probably do it.
If you’re willing to spend considerably less money, you can get an Amazon Prime subscription, I believe they’ve got the full series there as well.
If you want to stick with Netflix, check to see if you can download a better quality version of it and watch the downloaded playback.
If you have Hoopla from your local library, they might also carry it, but that’s rather doubtful.