Newest Stargate Set for Takeoff on Syfy

Syfy is taking a third trip through the Stargate and fans will want to go on the voyage.
The new series, starting Friday night, called Stargate Universe. As on Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, a combination of soldiers and scientists are thrown together on a mission to explore the universe using the space portals left behind by an ancient, advanced civilization.
Richard Dean Anderson, of the original Stargate series, is on hand, just to remind his posterity that no one is really trained for what the Stargate will throw at them.
In addition to the soldiers and scientists, this newest Stargate crew has been joined by a video-game playing kid. Project mastermind Dr. Nicholas Rush, played by Robert Carlyle, embeds one of the mysteries of powering the Stargate into a game and the geek—David Blue as Eli Wallace—unravels the riddle.
The military shows up at his door and literally beams him into space.
Just as they plug is formula into the equipment, the base is attacked, and the gang escapes through the Stargate, but not to earth.
Instead they wind up on a spaceship built by the ancients. It’s beat up but has a mind of its own and its name is Destiny. And even though it’s 7 billion light years Earth, it might be powerful enough to take them home.
But first, in order to affect repairs, find food, and other necessities, it will fly by a number of other of Stargates strewn through the cosmos. And, apparently, on each planet where one of these Stargates is found, so is another weekly adventure and another insoluble problem. Fortunately, there’s a slacker on hand to figure things out.
Stargate lands on Syfy after the network took a lot of guff for changing its name from Sci Fi. The NBC Universal owned channel might be having the last laugh.
Syfy says it had its best-ever third quarter after adopting its new moniker, setting records for total viewers, adults 18 to 49 and household ratings. Viewership of the channel was up 18% among 18 to 49 year olds.
The growth was powered by the new original series “Warehouse 13,” plus gains by “Eureka,” “Ghost Hunters” and “Destination Truth.”
The network is also starting its promo campaign for “Caprica,” a new chapter in the “Battlestar Galactica” saga, with screening at film festivals around the country, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Do you still think Syfy was a terrible idea?