Stargate: Prime

 

  

Series Theme

 

#	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.

 

 

 

#	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. (Aschen..)
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.

 

#	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 reach 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.

 

 

 

#	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	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	Incoming	And Incoming is the Rush episode. No Robert Carlyle in publicity. No trailer shot. The gate establishes. The facility begins coming apart. A human silhouette appears in the event horizon. Rush comes running through. "SHUT IT DOWN!" Cut to opening titles.
8	The Long Way Home
9	Young	Ohhhh, this one would be wicked. Is it Colonel Young? Is it about somebody young? You don't know.
A	The Signal
B	Gauntlet	Another deliberate SGU echo; Gauntlet was its televised endpoint.
C	The Edge of Everything

 

 

#	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."