Stargate: The Movies

STARGATE ATLANTIS: LOST CITY

Eight chevrons once meant another galaxy.

The address still works.

The city isn't there.

When a Langaran expedition follows a forty-year-old trail into the Pegasus Galaxy, they discover abandoned outposts, impossible technology—and evidence that Atlantis did not simply disappear.

It went somewhere.

Someone knows where.

Someone has been waiting.

And one member of the expedition is becoming increasingly irritated that everyone keeps insisting the city is lost.

VOICE FROM THE DARK:
“I never said it was lost.”

TITLE:

STARGATE ATLANTIS
LOST CITY

Some addresses are not places. They're promises.

 

 

STARGATE UNIVERSE: BEYOND DESTINY

Nine chevrons.

Langara once nearly went to war to prevent them from being used.

Now they know why.

An impossible signal has crossed the darkness between galaxies.

It is old.

It is human.

And it should not exist.

Far beyond any known Stargate, an Ancient ship continues a journey begun before humanity had a name.

Some aboard went to sleep expecting to wake in three years.

They were wrong.

Some never woke.

Some woke to find strangers wearing their friends' faces.

And somewhere ahead of Destiny is the reason the Ancients sent her into the universe in the first place.

The Langarans have found a way to open the door.

They can do it once.

A battered man looks back through an unstable event horizon.

VOICE:
“You still think this ship is trying to get us home?”

Silence.

VOICE:
“It never was.”

TITLE:

STARGATE UNIVERSE
BEYOND DESTINY

The mission continues.

 

STARGATE SG-1: THE LAST CHEVRON

For generations, the Stargates connected worlds.

Then Earth closed the doors.

There was a reason.

Now the doors are opening again.

Langara has found Earth.

Atlantis has been found.

Destiny is still traveling.

The Jaffa are free.

The Goa'uld are gone.

Mostly.

And something that has waited decades for the network to awaken has begun dialing back.

An old Langaran notebook contains part of the answer.

An Ancient database contains another.

And somewhere on Earth, a handful of people remember why humanity once decided that the safest Stargate—

was one that never opened.

BLACK.

Sound of a Stargate beginning to rotate.

VOICE:
“Chevron one encoded.”

BLACK.

An older man's voice:

“You sure about this?”

A woman's voice:

“No.”

“Good.”

The gate continues turning.

“Chevron six encoded.”

BLACK.

Another voice, almost a whisper:

“Jonas?”

Jonas looks up.

We don't see who spoke.

“Chevron seven—”

CUT TO BLACK.

Silence.

Then:

“Indeed.”

THE AUDIENCE LOSES ITS MIND.

One final mechanical CLUNK.

VOICE:
“Chevron eight locked.”

Pause.

Another CLUNK.

“Chevron nine…”

CUT.

 

STARGATE SG-1

THE LAST CHEVRON

Every journey began with an address.

This one ends with a choice.

Sometimes .. they do.. come back

STARGATE: LANGARA

The Gate has been closed for forty years.
Nobody knows why.

On Langara, an aging Jonas Quinn still remembers Earth.

He remembers SG-1. Daniel Jackson. The Goa'uld. The Tok'ra. The Jaffa. Atlantis. He remembers when stepping through the Stargate meant discovering that the universe was larger, stranger—and more hopeful—than anyone imagined.

But Earth no longer answers.

Now a new generation of Langarans has inherited the Gate, an old notebook filled with addresses, and a question no one has been able to answer:

What happened out there?

They begin dialing.

At first, we discover new worlds, new civilizations and new characters who must become our SG team—not replacements for the people we loved, but successors worthy of them.

And slowly, over years rather than episodes, the old universe begins answering back.

A Tok'ra.

A free Jaffa.

An abandoned Earth outpost.

A name in an ancient computer.

ATLANTIS: STATUS UNKNOWN.

Eight chevrons.

Nine.

Destiny.

And eventually—

Earth.

Stargate: Langara doesn't reboot Stargate.

It rediscovers it.

Every story happened. Every sacrifice mattered. Forty years have passed, and the universe did not stop simply because we stopped watching.

New viewers need know only one thing:

That ring takes you somewhere.

Old viewers know what it means when the seventh chevron locks.

Give us time to love these new explorers. Give them worlds of their own. And then, when an older Teal'c finally walks from the shadows and says “Indeed,” let that moment have been earned.

Something old.

Something new.

Something unknown.

After all these years, there's only one thing left to do.

Open the Gate.

Stargate: Crescendo

 Season Five — Home

 16 episodes. Now we finally hunt Earth.

At this point we can become absolutely merciless with titles because the audience knows the game.

Then:

#	Title	What the audience thinks / what we're doing
1	Blue Marble	They find an Earth-like planet. Not Earth.
2	1969	Everyone loses their minds. It refers to a Langaran historical event.
3	Carter	Nope. It's a completely unrelated person's surname. Fans threaten the writers.
4	The Hammond	They find wreckage bearing the name. Now the joke stops being funny.
5	Disclosure	The Langaran governments finally tell their own population about the Stargate.
6	Area 51	An old database coordinate. They can't reach it.
7	Sol	First hard evidence that the Solar System still exists.
8	Eight Minutes	That's approximately how long light takes to reach Earth from the Sun. The entire episode takes place aboard a Langaran ship entering the Solar System.
9	Third Rock	Earth.
A	.Samantha	No "Carter." No explanation. The episode doesn't even begin with her.Our Langarans are investigating Earth. They're following some ancient bureaucratic trail. Someone gives them the address of an elderly woman. Door opens. Amanda Tapping.
B	Window of Opportunity	Never put it on the production schedule where it can leak under its real name. Give it a fake production title. The audience immediately assumes time travel. It isn't. The "window" is a brief astronomical opportunity during which the Langarans can reconnect a portion of the isolated Stargate network. Carter is there. McKay is there. Jonas is there. The new Langaran characters are running the operation.Something goes wrong. .. And from behind Carter: "How long?" She turns. We don't see him yet. Carter smiles in a way we haven't seen her smile in forty years. "About two minutes."  That familiar voice: "Plenty of time."

 

Stargate: We're not in Kansas Anymore

 Season Four — Destiny

 14 episodes. Now the franchise starts exploding outward.

The first half is still primarily Langaran.

Then:

#	Title	What the audience thinks / what we're doing
1	After Atlantis
2	The Ninth Symbol
3	Seizure	I'd actually reuse the SGU title deliberately because that's the episode in which Langara and the Destiny dialing problem collided originally.
4	An Acceptable Risk
5	Meridian	The fandom expects Daniel. Instead this is finally the episode where our younger characters learn what happened to Jonas and Daniel all those years ago
6	600 Megaton	The horrifying physics of what they're contemplating.
7	Chevron Nine
8	Incoming

And Incoming is the Rush episode.

No Robert Carlyle in publicity.

No trailer shot.

The gate establishes.

Facility begins coming apart.

A human silhouette appears in the event horizon.

Rush comes running through.

"SHUT IT DOWN!"

Cut to opening titles.

And for the first time in four seasons, The Notebook title sequence changes.

A new page has appeared.

DESTINY.

Then:

 

9	The Long Way Home
A	Young	Ohhhh, this one would be wicked. Is it Colonel Young? Is it about somebody young? You don't know.
B	The Signal
C	Gauntlet	Another deliberate SGU echo; Gauntlet was its televised endpoint.
D	The Edge of Everything
E	Unending
And Unending is where Daniel Jackson appears. Not because Unending was Daniel's episode specifically, but because it's an SG-1 title carrying exactly the sentiment we want: the journey didn't end when the television series did.

 

STARGATE UNIVERSE: DESTINY

That's when you've earned the next feature.

Stargate: Where we've never been before

Season Three — Lost

12 episodes. This is where McKay enters.

And I'd have enormous fun with these titles.

#	Title	What the audience thinks / what we're doing
1	Not Atlantis	Yes. Literally call the premiere that. The expedition follows its first lead and finds something completely different.
2	The Man Who Knew Everything	Rodney McKay appears. Obviously.
3	Approximately	McKay discovers that Langaran mathematics reached some Ancient solutions by a completely different route. This drives him insane.
4	Eight	Eight-chevron dialing becomes the season objective.
5	Grace	Fans immediately think Samantha Carter because Grace was her great character episode. Absolutely no Carter. It's the name of a Langaran ship.
6	Pegasus	And still no Atlantis. They're establishing the intergalactic bridge.
7	Sunday	This one is borderline evil because Atlantis fans know exactly why that word hurts. Nothing whatsoever to do with that episode—until McKay reacts strangely when somebody casually uses the word.
8	City of the Ancestors	They find an Ancient city. Wrong city.
9	Dr. Jackson	Internet melts down. Daniel does not appear. They find an archaeological paper in a Tau'ri archive authored by him. But it contains a handwritten annotation dated after Earth supposedly disappeared.
A	Where We Left It	McKay realizes Atlantis moved.
B	Lost City	Now I'm being cruel. That's one of SG-1's most famous titles and its mythology led directly toward Atlantis. They finally establish an eight-chevron wormhole.
C	Splash	They step through. Ocean. No Atlantis. End season.

 

STARGATE ATLANTIS: LOST CITY

That's when you've earned the first feature.

Stargate: I've got friends in high places

Season Two — Old Friends

10 episodes. The Milky Way gets bigger.

Teal'c is in perhaps three episodes, not ten. A Tok'ra character becomes the first genuine legacy semi-regular because Tok'ra longevity lets us do something wonderful with elapsed time.

#	Title	What the audience thinks / what we're doing
1	Forty Years	Jonas and Teal'c compare what happened after they last knew one another.
2	Children of No Gods	Young Jaffa who regard Goa'uld slavery as ancient history.
3	Host	Sounds ominously Goa'uld. Instead, our first encounter with a consensually blended non-Tok'ra symbiote.
4	Homeworld	Which homeworld? That's the entire trick.
5	The Other Side	Deliberately reuses an SG-1 title. Fans expect the old episode to matter. It doesn't—until one tiny detail at the end suggests someone has been cataloguing Langara's gate activity. The original SG-1 used the same title in Season 4, making the reuse itself an Easter egg.
6	The Tau'ri	Huge ratings-bait title. No Earth. Instead we discover what other civilizations believe happened to Earth.
7	The Fifth Nation	Echoes The Fifth Race without copying its story. A political episode about Langara joining a new interstellar compact.
8	Lights On	They discover the abandoned Tau'ri installation.
9	Unknown	They access its surviving database. Final shot: ATLANTIS — STATUS UNKNOWN.

Stargate: Hide and Seek

Season One — The Notebook

8 episodes. Small, mysterious, Langaran.

This season should contain almost no overt crossover marketing. HBO/Max sells it as a new Stargate story, not SG-1 Season 11.

#	Title	What the audience thinks / what we're doing
1	No Connection	Perfect pilot title. Earth won't answer. But we don't yet know whether that's technical, political or catastrophic.
2	The Notebook	Establishes Jonas's records and the series' central artifact. One address has been deliberately removed.
3	Point of Origin	Sounds like basic Stargate terminology. Actually about the Langaran team's competing national identities and who gets to represent their planet.
4	Visitors	First successful contact with a civilization that remembers the Tau'ri. They don't remember them fondly.
5	After the Gods	A world abandoned by its Goa'uld ruler generations ago. What happens to a civilization after its "god" simply never comes back?
6	The Eighth Symbol	Fandom goes insane. Atlantis?! Nope. The eighth symbol appears in an old Langaran document for an entirely different reason. First magnificent troll.
7	Do Not Dial	Jonas discovers that somebody has been modifying his address database. Ends with a recognizable Tok'ra phrase/symbol.
8	Indeed	Don't announce Christopher Judge. Don't put him in the trailer. The title itself causes speculation. For 42 minutes it appears to be another fake-out. Then: Teal'c.