Stargate: The Next Deep Original Space Voyager Enterprise Generation Nine?

I don’t hang out in the GateWorld forum, so I don’t know whether or not this has been discussed to death, but… Doesn’t this make it sound like Stargate is trying to be more like Star Trek than less? Seriously?

Or maybe it’s a brilliant Star Trek/Quantum Leap mash-up! Yeah. Every week, the plucky team visits another planet and have to solve a problem before the ship tells them it’s time to go. Maybe the ship won’t let them leave until they’ve solved the problem, or maybe they have to solve the problem in an allotted amount of time (43 minutes, give or take) or the ship leaves them behind, stranded forevar!

I dunno, I should probably give the writers and producers more credit (and so long as Peter “Hey Look! The stars are Christmas lights in a sheet of black velvet! Isn’t this whacky Sci-Fi!” DeLuise isn’t involved, I probably can), but I always thought the strength of Stargate was that they shared less with Star Trek rather than more. Not that Trek is bad on its own, but, well, it’s been done, man. Let them reinvent themselves.

Oh, and here’s a great money-quote: “We really don’t want to be more of the same. It’s going to build clearly off the existing franchise but with a cast that gives it a younger vibe.” From the article over at Gateworld. So…. the joke about the WB-esque Stargate from the 200th episode is becoming reality? Sweet.

Crossposted with klech.net