SGU 1.05 "Light" Episode Guide

Précis

With the Destiny on a collision course with a star, the crew considers abandoning the ship. A grim lottery is held to choose 17 passengers to escape in the Destiny's only working shuttle.

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MGM/SciFi.com Official Summary

Official summary is not available as this episode has not yet aired in the United States.

Cast

• Robert Carlyle as Dr. Nicholas Rush
• Louis Ferreira as Col. Everett Young
• Brian J. Smith as 1st Lt. Matthew Scott
• Elyse Levesque as Chloe Armstrong
• David Blue as Eli Wallace
• Alaina Huffman as 1st Lt. Tamara Johansen
• Jamil Walker Smith as MSgt. Ronald Greer

Production

• Story by Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper
• Teleplay by Brad Wright
• Directed by Peter DeLuise

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Keywords

• Ancient Shuttle
• Destiny

Other

• Stargate Universe: Season One
• Previous: SGU 1.04 "Darkness" Episode Guide
• Next: SGU 1.06 "Water" Episode Guide

Related Links

Official

• MGM Official Website: Search Results for "{{{MGM_search}}}"
• Syfy: 1.05 "Darkness" Guide

Fan

• Solutions News and Spoiler Blog
• Solutions at LJ: Universe Tagged Entries
• Solutions Universe Forum

Galleries

• Sci Fi Wire: Exclusive: Stargate Universe Concept Art!, October 24, 2008.
• Mallozzi's Weblog: Director Peter DeLuise, March 20, 2009.
• Mallozzi's Weblog: Director Peter DeLuise, March 20, 2009.
• Mallozzi's Weblog, Director Peter DeLuise and actor Justin Louis on Destiny set, April 29, 2009.

Production Notes

• "Brad has laid claim to #4, a story that is right up his alley." — Joseph Mallozzi (November 11, 2008).
• "Of the first ten episodes broken, we have a grand total of 0 forested planets. I’m not saying we won’t, eventually, come across one but, for the time being, the emphasis is on the ship and some locations atypical of Stargate. As a matter of fact, Executive Producer Robert Cooper and Director Andy Mikita are in New Mexico as we speak, scouting a cool-looking alien setting." — Joseph Mallozzi (December 19, 2008)
• "Brad, meanwhile, is motoring along on Fire." — Joseph Mallozzi (January 30, 2009)
• "Brad is working on Fire and, from what I hear, is very happy with the way it’s coming along. It’s a great story and, as I’ve already said, right up Brad’s alley. Looking forward to reading the first draft. This episode will see a certain fan favorite retake the director’s chair." — Joseph Mallozzi (February 12, 2009)
• "Brad reports he should have a first draft of Fire sometime next week." — Joseph Mallozzi (February 17, 2009)
• "We received a visit from a Stargate veteran who will be making a return to the franchise with Stargate Universe’s fourth episode: Fire." — Joseph Mallozzi (February 27, 2009)
• Ytimyona writes: "Would this be a *different* veteran than the guest star you chatted with like 3 days ago? Or the same one?" Answer: "This one will be working behind the camera. The other one will appear in front of it." — Joseph Mallozzi (March 1, 2009)
• "Reading "Fire"...BW sure can spin a yarn. Can't wait to start seeing cuts." — Martin Gero (March 9, 2009)
• "Brad’s script, Fire, is also out and it is pure BW: action, humor, and enough angst to trigger an anxiety attack in even the most composed of viewers. The scene about halfway through with the characters when the thing happens (sorry, I can’t be anymore specific) is a real nailbiter!" — Joseph Mallozzi (March 13, 2009)
• "A good day today. I spent the entire morning sitting in Director Peter DeLuise’s office talking about past experiences on the Stargate franchise and looking ahead to Universe - and the episode he’ll be directing, Fire, in particular." — Joseph Mallozzi (March 18, 2009)
• "Yesterday, I was over on Stage 2, watching Peter DeLuise direct the shuttle sequences in Fire. Boy, that shuttle is a beauty. Someone referred to it as “a puddle jumper on steroids”. Anyway, enjoy some shots of Peter in action." — Joseph Mallozzi (March 20, 2009)
• "Peter DeLuise is in the editing room working on Fire..." — Joseph Mallozzi (April 2, 2009)
• "Later in the afternoon, we sat down to watch the director’s cut of Fire. Now I usually dread watching cuts after 4:00 p.m. as, late in the day, my mind tends to wander while my eyelids seem to put on about six pounds a piece, but this episode was absolutely riveting. GREAT - except for the fact that it’s about twenty minutes too long, and this isn’t even taking into consideration a bunch of scenes that Brad actually wrote but had to cut at the script stage for fear that the episode would run long - which it has anyway. And yet even though the running time is long, the episode is tight, moving along at a surprisingly brisk pace. So congrats to Director Peter DeLuise on his triumphant return to the Stargate franchise." — Joseph Mallozzi (April 7, 2009)
• Ytimyona writes: "Any chance Fire might turn into a 90 minute episode? If it’s a tight script, why not? I hate to see significant parts of the story disappear because of a time limit! If all 20 minutes end up being cut, any chance it’ll be put on the special features of the DVD (like with Morpheus in SG-1)?" Answer: "We’re looking at all possibilities. Like I said, the episode is pretty damn tight and even feels like it’s missing a couple of scenes and sequences I would love to see." — Joseph Mallozzi (April 8, 2009)
• PG15 also writes: Fire, being so over the time limit, was split into 2 episodes. Those 2 episodes were renamed Darkness and Light. Question: Am I right?” Answer: Yes, you are. Congratulations, Columbo. — Joseph Mallozzi (May 24, 2009)

Further Reading

• Joseph Mallozzi's Blog
• Martin Gero's Twitter

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--DeeKayP 14:28, 14 February 2009 (PST)