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Update Your Calendars for Stargate Stars

Here’s the list of a week’s worth of upcoming events to add to your calendars concerning our Stargate stars! (This article might be updated if new information is made available after publishing.)

Television:

  • Ming-Na – Kai-Lan’s Great Trip to China on Nickelodeon, Friday, August 14, at 10 AM (ET/PT). She provided the voice to the title character’s Great Aunt Gu Nai Nai.

Conventions and Other Appearances:

John Scalzi

Congratulations to creative consultant John Scalzi, who won the Best Related Book Hugo for Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded at the Anticipation: 67th World Science Fiction Convention this past weekend in Montreal! If you get a chance, stop by his blog to extend your well wishes.

Make sure to follow what’s happening right now in the world of Stargate by visiting Solutions’ new Stargate Twitter Superfeed that shows the Twitter accounts of actors, producers, network and studio reps, and the press who are all about the franchise.

For an informal summary of what’s happened this past week, please visit our LJ Companion’s Stargate Friday News Roundup.

Got anything to add? Leave us a note in our comment section. Thanks. 🙂

[Thanks to the folks at Stargate Actor Appearances for keeping up with most of the convention/public appearances information used above.]

HDR: Stargate’s 15th Anniversary Blu-Ray

Daniel goes through the Stargate (from Movie)

According to The HD Room, “Lionsgate Home Entertainment is using the upcoming premiere of SyFy’s Stargate Universe debut … and the 15th anniversary of Roland Emmerich’s original Stargate film to answer the call of Stargate fans who weren’t satisfied with the first release of Stargate on Blu-ray Disc.”

The new release will have both the theatrical and extended cuts, as well as over four hours of supplemental features, including a never-before-seen gag reel! The new disc set also includes “a new 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio track and a ‘newly remastered’ 1080p video transfer.” The release is scheduled for October 13, not too long after SGU’s premiere on the Syfy Channel on October 2 at 9 PM (ET/PT).

More than likely Amazon.com and other online sources will have the new release for pre-order soon, with the suggested retail price of $29.99 USD.

Update Your Calendars for Stargate Stars

Here’s the list of a week’s worth of upcoming events to add to your calendars concerning our Stargate stars! (This article might be updated if new information is made available after publishing.)

Television/Interviews/Releases:

  • Rachel Luttrell – Audio interview with Sci Fi London, Monday, August 3. James Swallow, who has written some of the Big Finish Audio Drama stories (for both SG-1 and SGA), will also be interviewed.
  • Joe Flanigan – Warehouse 13 episode “Elements”, Syfy, Tuesday, August 4, 9PM (ET/PT).
  • Stargate Atlantis Fans’ Choice Blu-ray – Tuesday, August 4.
  • Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods – Final Cut – Wednesday, August 5, in Region 4 (Australia)

Conventions and Other Appearances:

Make sure to follow what’s happening right now in the world of Stargate by visiting Solutions’ new Stargate Twitter Superfeed that shows the Twitter accounts of actors, producers, network and studio reps, and the press who are all about the franchise.

For an informal summary of what’s happened this past week, please visit our LJ Companion’s Stargate Friday News Roundup.

Got anything to add? Leave us a note in our comment section. Thanks. 🙂

[Thanks to the folks at Stargate Actor Appearances for keeping up with most of the convention/public appearances information used above.]

Update Your Calendars for Stargate Stars

Here’s the list of a week’s worth of upcoming events to add to your calendars concerning our Stargate stars! (This article might be updated if new information is made available after publishing.)

Releases:

  • Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods – Final Cut – Monday, July 27, in Region 2 (Europe)

Conventions and Other Appearances:

Make sure to follow what’s happening at the San Diego Comic Con by visiting our Stargate Superfeed that shows the Twitter accounts of actors, producers, network and studio reps, and the press who are in attendance.

For an informal summary of what’s happened this past week in the world of Stargate, please visit our LJ Companion’s Stargate Friday News Roundup.

Got anything to add? Leave us a note in our comment section. Thanks. 🙂

[Thanks to the folks at Stargate Actor Appearances for keeping up with most of the convention/public appearances information used above.]

Stargate Universe Panel at Comic Con

SCI FI WIRE has a brief report on the Stargate Universe panel that was held at 10:30 this morning (Pacific time) at the San Diego Comic Con. Also, make sure to visit theirs, Syfy’s Craig Engler’s, and MGM’s Twitters for pictures taken during the experience.

If you’d like to catch up on the Twitters as a whole, make sure to visit our San Diego Comic Con 09 Stargate Superfeed (which will possibly feature Sanctuary’s panel that’s being held tomorrow at 12:30 pm Pacific).

ETA Additional Reports:

Stargate Universe: Destiny’s Stargate


Destiny’s Stargate (image by Joseph Mallozzi)

In the July 21 entry in his weblog, creative consultant Joseph Mallozzi published two video clips of the early testing of the Stargate for Stargate Universe’s Destiny! They are really great to watch and show how this Stargate differs from the ones in the Milky Way (Stargate SG-1) and Pegasus (Stargate Atlantis).

Mallozzi also published in an earlier entry a picture of the concept drawing for the Stargate, which details the Stargate’s operation.

Each symbol has a name rather than a constellation glyph, which makes sense since the Destiny is moving through several galaxies and constellations change. First impressions after seeing the Gate Symbols have ranged from Morse Code to the counting beads found on an abacus. Like the Stargate of Atlantis, Destiny’s Stargate has 36 symbols versus the original Stargates’ 39. And instead of having an inner ring that spins, the entire Stargate spins!

According to the design document, “The lights on the chevrons ALL power when the Gate is activated; the ‘star names’ light as each one ‘locks’ under the floor.” A flatscreen on the floor in front of the Stargate lights up with the symbol as it is locked. The symbols’ panels on the Stargate itself remain lit as well. Steam vents open as the Stargate “kawooshes”.

A second design document shows the stages of the Stargate’s dialing, leading up to activation. (Click on the image to the left to get a closer look.)

Close-up examination of the Stargate can be found at MGM’s new Stargate website where you can interactively tour the Gate Room aboard the Destiny, but seeing Mallozzi’s video clips brings the Stargate even more to life!

[Many thanks to Joseph Mallozzi for his images of Stargate Universe. You can see them all by visiting his weblog.]