The writers for Stargate Universe have finished their scripts for the remainder of Season One! Now, that’s not to say that there won’t be edits and such, but at least now all twenty of the slots have been filled and all of the episodes have intriguing single-word names!
Check out our Season One guide in the Stargate Wiki (stay away if you’re avoiding any and all spoilers)! For some of the episodes, we know the general plot, but for the most part, the first season of the new show will be a surprise for even the most active spoiler collectors among us.
Filming for the first season is still taking place and won’t be completed until late October. Fans were given a “spy” video of the fourteenth episode, “Human”, as it was filming on location at the University of British Columbia last week, and the producers and directors are already prepping for the next episodes.
Concerning the remaining episodes, consulting producer Joseph Mallozzi wrote in his weblog, “The guest casting on these final three should be a lot of fun.” These final three are “Subversion”, written by Paul Mullie, and “Incursion” parts 1 and 2, written by Mallozzi himself. Could one of those guests be Michael Shanks? MSOL reports from the Chicago Official Stargate Convention, “Michael *may* be filming another episode of Stargate Universe on his return from filming Arctic Blast in Tasmania.” Filming for that movie is starting August 24 and ending sometime in September.
After filming is complete, there are still the post-production processes to be done, such as adding visual effects and a soundtrack. To illustrate how long that takes, it was just announced that the first three episodes (“Air” parts 1, 2, and 3) have been totally finished and that the cast will be given a special private screening in September.
But for the fans, Stargate Universe will have its two-hour world premiere on Friday, October 2, at 9 PM (ET/PT) on the Syfy Channel. Soon thereafter, fans in the UK will be seeing the premiere on Tuesday, October 6, on Sky One, and it’s been bandied about that fans in Australia will be treated to the premiere on their Sci Fi Channel affiliate on Friday, October 9. The date for the Canadian SPACE Channel premiere hasn’t been announced yet.