Stargate: Destiny - Spacedock
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2017
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Spacedock I liked this video before I even watched it. I already knew it was quality work. Keep'em coming!
Spacedock I liked this video before I even watched it. I already knew it was quality work. Keep'em coming!
FINALLY! thank you so much for this one.
You should do a video on Deep Space 9
Spacedock we need the ori ships and maybe the midway space station
This one hurts. They killed the show too early
Well, it kinda had a rough start. I personally was really disappointed with the first season, I understood that they wanted to try something new, but the charm and wits of the original and Atlantis spinoffs was just kind of missing.
Then the seconds season came around and it had changed for the better. The crew became less split, the outlook more brighter and the stories more interesting. Sadly, the damage had already been done...
I feel the series was in a way trying to copy Battlestar Galactica, by having a much darker, grittier take on Soace Opera and you must admit it borrow heavily from BSG in terms of its visual style, writing and cinematography. I really liked this series and wish it had continued, especially given the way the second season ended.
Too much focus on the crew's back home on earth personal issues, griping about not wanting to even be on the ship to begin with and who is sleeping with the senators daughter at the expense of lore and universe building.
It had a good premise, but they were clearly trying to have their own Battlestar Galactica.
Dark dreary ship, with antagonistic crew, rationing resources and being jerks to one another.
It wasn't very fun at first, no surprise people gave up on it before it could shine.
worst part is it ended when it actually got really damn good , it helped haveing a main atagonist as well to build it up , the whole new things was a good step just shame it had less humor to
Like the burning of the Library of Alexandria and the cancellation of Firefly, mere mentioning SGU fills you with intense nostalgia on what could have been.
I meme, therefor I am.
Love it
They shouldn't have farted around for a year and a half. Nobody wanted BSG except in Stargate in a pointless quest for bad tech.
Yeah this show had soooo much potential, just like firefly.
I didn't care for Firefly, but I know what you mean.
"we have shuttles.."
"and they are a formidable craft, yes?"
"oh yeah, very!"
One of the greatest moments in sci-fi anything for me was when the Destiny appeared on course for destruction. Its course was plotted directly into a sun and the crew couldn't do anything to stop it. Facing death, the crew isolated themselves in various locations on the ship to reflect on their lives. During these last moments, Destiny, battered and depleted, plunged into said star. Instead of being destroyed, Destiny began to power up. It was at that moment that the crew realized that Destiny was "powered by the stars themselves, solar power quite literally". The effects and music in that scene, coupled with the build up /mystery of Destiny's purpose, was on par with anything awe-inspiring I had seen
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This show was just coming into its own by season 2's end, such a shame it was cancelled.
I wish they would bring it back -.-
YES! That was an awesome moment. Probably my favorite of the series. Just thinking about a race that would use a sun in such a manner to power their ship... beggars the imagination.
Both the sun dive and the aerobrake are in my opinion 2 of the greatest television CG sequences of all time. Both were so beautiful and powerful and amazing that they brought a tear to my eye.
Back in a time when shows were testing the grounds, switching from episodic styles like SG-1 and Atlantis to serial storytelling. Some shows just unfortunately don't survive the switch, despite the switch being what is needed to keep people tuning in. Like the old Star Trek. TOS through DS9 (maybe even ENT was a bit hybrid) was mostly episodic. At the end of DS9 they started getting more serial, and now both DIS and PIC are serial style stories, which I really enjoy. Stargate just didn't survive that switch between Atlantis and Universe.
It did get a bit dark and depressing though. The feeling of hopelessness as they ran out of materials, ate awful food, and realised that those raider ships were waiting for them, made the series hard to view as light entertainment. And the lighting was so gloomy...and no-one laughed. Everyone was so sensible. It just wasn't as escapist as, say, Enterprise.
"The Destiny of all things" one of the coolest lines from the franchise.
The gate address is even more impressive. Consider that addresses actually stand for coordinates, the DHD's do occasional updates across the network within the galaxy in order to keep all gates working as planets and stars orbit the galaxy and move, drifting away from their previous known locations. Destiny has been gone for many millions of years and has traversed dozens of galaxies. The ancients considered it so important that they essentially hard-coded it's address into the gate system and each galaxy must update (and reach out to it's neighboring galaxy) to relay on Destiny's current position all the way back to the Milky Way. Not only that but it has to do this frequently enough that they were able to dial Destiny up with no issue during the show.
David Baxter Well... There's the massive power requirement and the instability of the wormhole, but those are just because of distance.
And lack of ZPM's (said the correct, Rodney way of course). If they had a couple of those lying around with a full charge it would be child's play.
TalesOfWar Luckily they found a few dozens in the comics.
@@freshFerdinand What comics? There are comics?!?!?
@@firekingM101 Stargate Atlantis back to Pegasus
Generations of most advanced civilisation effort, monumental purpose to discover the origin of the Universe, 50.000.000 millions years of travelling thought countless galaxies...
Ended by god damn Syfy channel
Ended by Metro Goldwyn Meyer, SyFy was just licensing the rights to air on TV :(
They also canned a final Atlantis movie
@@TiddyTwyster let's be honest we should still be enjoying both series still Atlantis had a shit tone of directions it could have gone and sgu well it only just began really love them both dare I say more than SG1 definitely the same love lol
I love SG1 more than the other two
But only before Richard Dean Anderson left, after that Atlantis is better imo
Still love sg1 with Cam Mitchell but not as much as Atlantis
I never did get into SGU, and I don't want to cause it's just gonna be heartbreaking when it ends abruptly
@@TiddyTwyster couldn't agree more pal every word you said apart from I had the torment of sgu ending on a cliff hanger like that same with Atlantis so much more they could do with that they still have loads to do in the pegasus galaxy on gatenews.com there is a big 50 minute pod cast with one of the writers who talks about MGM showing massive interest in possibly rebooting one of the shows witch I hope its atlantis
As much as i love stargate, one thing that really annoyed me was the ancient timeline. 50M years is just way too long and what did they do those 50M years? Couse ancients left atlantis only 10k years ago at witch point they accended (this was one mistake in the video by the way)
I just started playing Elite Dangerous a couple weeks ago and was delighted to see that you can refuel your ship by buying a Fuel Scoop module and fly close enough to a star. Really made me nostalgic for Destiny.
Just watch out that your ship doesn’t overheat and stay away from pulsars unless you wanna use em to slingshot
that game is junk.
Rick is wrong when he said Destiny's FTL drive is unique.
Destiny's FTL drive isn't unique, the stargate seed ships also use the same form of FTL drive!
I still remember fondly the early episode where Destiny cuts the power.
After an epic aerobreaking around a gas giant came the amazing sun diving sequence. I was sitting at home grinning with glee by the sheer awesomeness. ^^
YES! I still watch that first sun-dive sequence whenever I need some goosebumps in my day.
Yeah i guess, but i'm pretty sure that not how solar energy works. Sun is basically super heated plasma. I don't see how storing that somehow give you more power then a ZPM? frankly the entire ship makes no sense. wich is why i ingore SGU as cannon
Zuzo's corner the goal was not to get more power than a ZPM the goal was to get some power and conserve resources.
Zuzo's corner What?
It's a nuclear fusion reaction. The ship flies on borrowed fusion.
Nice video. Interesting is also that the Destiny was launched relatively early on. It does not have the latest Ancient Warfare technology like Drones for example.
Manni-Gaming And could still kick-ass
Doesn't even have a transporter system, Eli should work on that; that is if he ever got his hibernation stasis pod working. :P
I think about this, too. Also how funny it must be to the Ancients that ascended. I wonder if anyone ever forgot that they launched that ship... I suppose it'd be hard to forget with the 9th chevron being a constant reminder. So imagine waiting around for however long, thousands, maybe millions, of years, only to ascend and probably instantly understand what the signal was lol.
@@Galiant2010 If i remember correctly didnt daniel say being ascended doesnt make them all knowing? hence why they choose not to interfere. Orlin an ascended ancient himself didnt know that by giving the planet a weapon they would choose to use it to conquer the galaxy, this once again suggests they are not all knowing.
@@hfjtrytry9216 That shows that they can't tell the future. But the signal is from the past.
Probably my favorite ship design out there.
It's sleek, yet bulky. It's modern, yet has a steampunk feeling to it. And it looks utilitarian, not just designed to be beautiful.
In general, the Stargate ships build by the Tau'ri are my favorite ones. They look like actual war-ships, build for combat, not looks. And while it can be argued that the design of TNG ships is justified by the warp-drive, they just look too stylized imho.
I know it's a late reply, but I agree wholeheartedly.
This ship has so much to offer, in fact you can see certain... Aspects of the ancients in these ships.
Lack of a shield or protection around the gate signifies they were at such a stable and that the gate technology was so unique, they never thought of anyone infiltrating the ship from the gate.
The hull was made with an arrowshape design as it needed to be at least partly aerodynamic when entering planetary atmospheres of any level to slingshot into stars.
I almost miss the show.
The expanse has the pure utilitarian ships that are nothing but boxes with engines and guns strapped to them. Then there's star gate with it's utilitarian ships that have some shape. And then there's star trek where form seems just as important as utility. As i designer i cannot help but prefer the latter, but i respect the hell out of the gritty reality of the former... And star gate ships are nestled neatly in the middle...
I think the only ship in star gate that was built more for shape than function was atlantis itself. ;)
Yeah as much as I like flying pyramids......the alien races really need more love for detail.
The unexplained dim internal lighting OF destiny was annoying though.
@@johanwittens7712 Late, but whatever.
I remember the first time a Donnager-class ship was described in Leviathan Wakes. (Paraphrasing) "a skyscraper with guns and engines strapped to it". They translated that fairly well into the show while giving the ships some degree of unique design.
Also love the way you describe (some) of Stargates ships being in the middle with Expanse and Trek. They have the common Sci-Fi features of FTL & artificial gravity while often looking utilitarian. Especially the Aurora-class with it's protrusions and such was a beauty. They looked ancient (pun not intended), but you had a feeling that they were competent.
A ship and a show with a great purpose... gets cancelled. RIP SGU.
Great video, spacedock! Keep up the great work!
SGU was left of a massive cliff hanger i really want to know what happens next i hope it gets a season 3 or a reboot.
I love Destiny, she's a beautiful shape and she really stands out against every other starship in the Stargate universe, especially the later Asuran/Ancient ship designs.
Fantastic. But you forgot the seed ships that support it
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Man, I was SOOOOO excited to see a serious brawl with Deatiny and Seed ships working together. But nah, it's cool. Just cancel it all.
@@operator8014 Yeah I'm still a little bitter about the cancellation too but, if we're honest, the writers could have and should have done better. SG:U had a glacier slow burning narrative and it was too dark both with the narrative and it was literally too dark on screen.
@@Voltaic_Fire Nonsense. What about it was "too dark?" A little psychological distress? An occasional death? Please.
@@xXscreamingkoalaXx It was the lack of humour, what there was of it was very dry indeed. Death, distress, and darkness need to be counterbalanced with light hearted moments otherwise it gets very samey and dull, just as a comedy needs balance. You should know this, the tonal difference between SG:U and the other two shows put that need in stark relief though you seem to have missed the message.
What hurts about this series is they were building up to a big reveal.
That we'll never see.
Kinda puts a downer on everything building up to that point.
If we found out the truth about "God", and all the universe (Which we dont know), the writers didnt know what to add and would receive hate for that fact because they were going to uncover the mysteries of the universe. Nobody will know
There is a comic that takes place after the last episode that is cannon. Not the same but it still works.
Thanks I didn't know there was a comic. It is for sale on amazon.
SiXiam dose it give a satisfying ending?
They were? I always got the impression the writers had no clue what they were doing.
I am not Commander Shepard but this is my favorite channel on RUclips.
Damn you.
I'm Colonel John Shepherd, and this is my favorite comment in the Pegasus Galaxy
When Stargate Universe came out, I hated it. It wasn't the Stargate I'd have know for a decade.
HOWEVER: when I re-watched it a year ago..I loved it. I entered the series again knowing that it *wasn't* the same as SG-1 or SG-A. It wasn't ever attempting to be.
It was an exciting and 'lonely' (only way I can describe it) experience.
*SPOILERS:* even the purpose of 'Destiny' Is incredibly exciting and impressive. Going as back as the beginning of the Universe (where big bang started) in order to find out why the background radiation was essentially a message before time.
Unfortunately they never finished the series, instead it was made into a comic, one (which I've been told) wasn't nearly as impressive as we'd hope.
Commissar Dog yeah the background story was imaginative, but the attitudes of Rush and a decent chunk of the scientists was terrible.
Spoiler:
Seriously when The mutiny happened, I was hoping that the military personnel would shoot a couple of them to put them in line. It was like they were trying to re-create the character dynamic that far scape had but it kept falling flat on its face. If they bring the show back, I hope that a fair number of the scientist pods had a "malfunction", including Rush's (although I'm glad that he was cast as the devil in the alternate timeline, LOL fitting.)
Broken Eyes Rush>most of the other characters
Stargate Universe was way too emo for me
@@OrbusS yup. Try hard Battlestar Galactica.
I loved this series and it's a shame it got canceled. But I at least got one awesome thing out of it: I was introduced to one of my current favorite actors: Robert Carlyle. He gave the best performance out of everyone in this show.
I been waiting for this for so long. I clicked so fast my screen cracked. I asked for this for so long that i cant believe i got to watch it. Thank You SO MUCH.
A few months ago i said that i would rewatch this video until my hands give out. You got your self a like and as many views as i can give you.
This is the one I’ve been waiting for
Youtupewacher yes! finally! awesome video as always :D
YESSS
Ikr? Destiny is so freaking cool
Youtupewacher exactly
Awesome video. A ship just passed by earth.
My FAVORITE Stargate ship. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
Has another sci-fi program had as much spaceship-porn as SGU? The 3-D modelling and sweeping shots were really impressive, as well as the shots against galaxies, nebulae, and gas giants with their moons.
The opening sequence in the very first episode is just... jaw dropping. It's a shame the first season was so poorly done, especially episodes like Air Pt. 3, Earth, Life, and Pain. The Lucian Alliance attack arc was pretty good, but after that I think is when the show really started to take off.
That's not to say all episodes in the first season were bad though. Darkness is good, Light is just an incredible episode especially when you're watching the show for the first time, and Space has the best depiction of a first encounter in the entire franchise.
@@mscheese000 The mutiny episode was also insanely dumb. Hey, there's these aliens after Destiny who will do anything to take the ship for themselves, including killing all of us. What should we do about that? Oh, I know! DOWN WITH THE MILITARY!
@@jaffarebellion292 That was actually, still, quite realistic - look at the streets if you have doubts.
@@piotrd.4850 I expect a little more out of people who've been cleared by the SGC for offworld travel.
@@jaffarebellion292 It's dumb takes like yours that created what everyone is calling one of the greatest tragedies in science fiction history. The situation was a lot more complex than your caricature. The episode made very clear that SGC training did not cover missions like the Destiny mission. It's also a long-standing question of whether Stargate operations should be civilian lead or military lead, and there's a lot of complex reasons supporting each case. A unique situation on a unique mission with only a handful of unstable people present to represent each side. What if the only military authority on the ship might be mentally or emotionally compromised? Isn't a time of crisis exactly the time when its most important to fix that problem?
Man. I love your channel. I've binged watched everything on it, and am always on the edge of my seat waiting for new content. I love how much time and research you put into every episode. Thanks for such an awesome show, bro.
what a truly spectacular Starship thanks for finally doing this one sure do miss the show
The most beautiful ship in any sci-fi in my opinion.
I completely agree!!
Until you look close and realize it looks like a garage-made kitbash.
That's pretty much every ship pre CGI with few exceptions. ILM was famous for doing it with Star Wars.
I will respectfully disagree.
I find the Seaquest DSV the most beautiful vessel in all Sci-Fi, even if the show generally sucked after the first season.
...but kitbashes are so cool!!!! :-)
I've been waiting for this video. and you have delivered it! thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
could not have asked for a better description of destiny.
I have curently binge-watched the entire playlist of this series and I can possitively say I am in love. This is precisely the type of content I love when I have some time on my hands but not enough to watch an entire episode of my currently-craved sci-fi series. I applaud you, you have my undivided attention and I NEED MORE, those 70 episodes were gone in an instant!
Oh, and any plans for the Goa'uld ships of Stargate? Some of the Tel'tak cargo ships were heavily modified so there would be lots to talk about...
Thanks for watching and for your kind words, absolutely planning to cover some Goa'uld ships eventually. :)
Man, this examination really does give this ship the gravitas and sheer sense of mystery and awe properly deserved by something made by people called 'the ancients'. Your words in this short video gave me a greater sense of respect for the Lanterians then the vast majority of episodes of the actual series featuring them.
We're a long way from home...
Yes, stargate! Love the sound when this goes to hyperspace thingy
Thank you for doing this!!! I LOVED this ship and the show.
I love how the shape of the Destiny is on all of the Goa'uld Sarcophogi, meaning the design got passed down somehow or that this shape was important to the ancients.
Anyone else watching this in 2020?
What I would give to be back in 2020 😂
Finally, Thank you
Loved this show when it originally aired. Loved even more when I researched (binged) it a couple weeks ago on Amazon Prime.
Breaks my heart this was cut so short
By far my most favorite stargate series of all of them. It was more focused on characters and inter-personal relations and conflicts as the ship made its way across the galaxy and unraveling its mysteries with very interesting characters and drama in it. All the other ones are basically just more of the same, over and over each episode with every series having the same set of roles for each character to fill. Now, Universe, that series really held my interest far, far better.
I loved Stargate Universe = very disappointed when it got cancelled..
This is one of my favorites! Thanks.
thankyou, sgu was one of my favorites.
Destiny became my favorite Stargate ship from the moment I first seen it on SGU.
I learned a lot listening to this video as SGU was cancelled too soon for me to really appreciate the show. The ship was the most spectacular aspect of it and when it flew into the star's corona to refuel, I got goosebumps.
Thank you so much for this one!!!!!!
Really dropped the ball when they canceled this show - exploring that ship alone could have yielded a whole nother season of Eli showing the doctor up and...aliens. Seriously though the least-dumb of all the stargates and they killed it because it wasn't super-cheese.
I mean, this was a real ship with damage and limitiations they couldn't just fix with a macguffin. I'd say it was one of the most powerful ships across the board given it's known cpaabilities - and we haven't seen a version outfitted for combat...as far as we know. They couldn't even enter whole sections of the ship and they had limited power so who knows what else they missed, even from, the command deck.
SGU was "Dawson's Creek In Spaaaaace". I'm glad the show was cancelled. The overarching plot was really cool, but I wanted to strangle every single person in the original crew and replace them with people who could keep their goddamn feelings under control and do their goddamn jobs.
@@deusexaethera oh God thank you i thought i was the only one who thought that. Everyone else is like oh the tone was too dark for Stargate, bullshit it's just needlessly soapy.
@@deusexaethera Agreed. I loved the idea of the ship and its incredible mission, but that all took a back seat to a bunch of needless human drama. I never even finished the series because I got so frustrated.
SG:U is the PC SJW version of Stargate, filmed like it was an addition to Battlestar Galactica. There was nothing good about this show other than the tech and lore. The acting was bad, the characters were terrible AND stereotypes, And it just felt like, as Shawn Elliott said, Dawson's Creek in space. I don't know why they thought this would be a good idea.
@@BardGriffin Seriously, the show was legit incredible when it was focusing on the exploration of the ship. Like even in the first episode, when the ship is diving toward the star and the crew doesn't know how to stop it. Then everything just powers up and starts running. One of the best moments in all of Stargate, period.
Would be interesting to feature the Seed ships as well.
It's about time you did this!
thank you so much for this upload
I never realized the repair bots synthesize their own materials but it should've been obvious....I really wish they did continual repairs, and repaired that ftl drive instead of outright cutting it off...too bad they couldn't control the bots and collaborated with SGC to build an Atlantis/Asgard intergalactic drive...make the trip shorter by factors of thousands...
When you travel in FTL space you are cut off from our reality and you learn nothing. Discovery was built to learn so no FTL. Still, I wonder if it has an advanced FTL drive waiting for.... something... that can jump them home in a couple weeks. Nice thought.
Honestly, the bots _probably_ could've repaired the FTL drive, at least early on in Destiny's journey. Considering that they were millions of years old by the time we first see them, they were probably in just as poor shape & in just as much need of maintenance as Destiny itself was.
@@MrOmegatronic actually funnily enough in the comics set after the show if my memory is correct those robots actually do repair huge parts of the ship
I miss the show :( The principle of the show was truly unique among science fiction.
I've been waiting a while for this video. thank you! it is by far my favourite ship design. such a sad thing the series didn't take off...
Thank you so much.
this ship is a badass
Hi, would you be able to do a ship from the Honorverse. The Nike for example or the Shrike LAC
I really enjoyed this video! Thanks!
That you so much!!!
still waiting for Omega-class destroyer and Warlock-class
Also waiting for the Omega class
Thirding Omega-class Destroyer. One of the most realistic capital ships in any sci-fi, along with the Expanse ships.
Why not take a look at Space Battleship Yamato?
General Jimmies cause its not very interesting
I second Spacedock doing profiles on the Omega and Warlock.
Pride of hiigara
OMG now you made me want to re watch this entire show UwU thank you so much for compelling me :D
I'm a massive die-hard fan of Stargate, I've watched all of it a number of times and I thought I had a great understanding of most of the universe it fleshed out, yet this video not only taught me things I did not know (such as the Destiny gate perhaps being the first constructed) it explained the premise of the series better then the series did itself.
I feel like the script in this video, changed into a trailer format, would have been compelling enough to keep the ratings going, rather then showing characters and their drama, the mission of Destiny is far more exciting.
Will you be doing the Andromeda Ascendent anytime soon?
This show was excellent. Why did everyone hate it so much.
I really have to disagree with this misconception. If you look anywhere shows are rated, like IMDB, Amazon, etc..., a clear majority of people rate this show at "really liked it" to "loved it". The "didn't like it" to "hated it" numbers are always less than 10%. The biggest problem is a very loud minority of cyber bullies that seem to have convinced people to feel badly about enjoying this show, when it should be the other way around.
Hate was a strong word. I don't really think many people hated it. Most people just thought it was mediocre. It was just that it seemed really directionless, and the plot never seemed to go anywhere. I mean... season one was essentially just them fixing one problem but causing another repeatedly. There weren't much in the way of memorable villains the way SG-1 had the gould and Ori. I mean it'd been traveling for literally millions of years and didn't seem close to its ultimate destination, so basically you got the idea that the show just had nowhere to go plot-wise. Nothing they really did seemed to matter. They're on a ship on an endless voyage that would keep going regardless of their presence, pretty much all the problems with the Destiny happened as a result of them arriving.
That's it exactly. The show was boldly going nowhere. It had a ton of potential, but was bogged down with some unlikable characters and terrible plot decisions (body switching communication stones anyone?)
Dan Howard I loved the communication stones.
A lot disliked it because season 1 was slow, but season 2 was when it started to get very good.
i get ghosebumbs every single time
I miss this show sooooo much
Do the Omega class destroyer from B5.
SGU was cancelled way to early. It finally gotten interesting at the end. Hope they will start it up again someday.
SGU was "Dawson's Creek In Spaaaaace". I'm glad the show was cancelled. The overarching plot was really cool, but I wanted to strangle every single person in the original crew and replace them with people who could keep their goddamn feelings under control and do their goddamn jobs.
@@deusexaethera Couldnt agree more. I loved the characters on SG1 and Atlantis but just couldnt like anyone except maybe Ellie. I wanted them all to die.
you made me cry this time...
You are the best Spacedock.
Let's See...(Great Video as always!)
The Ghost
Lexx
Slave 1
USS Voyager
Such a tragic loss of a series that had so much potential. I always preferred Universe to SG1 and Atlantis, more grounded and realistic characters
Thank you! I adored SGU. They finally made a grown up's version of SG only to cancel it when it seemed to really find its feet.
you call characters that all hated one another 'realistic?' Everyone lied and treated each other like shit for the weakest of reasons. They're all alone on a ship, billions of lightyears away and yet all they can manage to accomplish is non-stop confrontations between one another.
If this was actually realistic, they would have gotten there on their own accord. Having two of the weakest ships in the series fly out of nowhere, only to have the BC-304 not just one-hit-kill them for no reason whatsoever is stupid, and bad writing. It actually would have been more fitting to have anubis come out of nowhere with his ghostly ass and trip the planet into exploding himself, since the thing was already practically a planet sized time bomb.
The whole logic behind how they got onto the destiny was by itself really retarded, and it leaves a real 'fanfiction' sort of taste in my mouth. From this point on in the show, everyone hates themselves and each other for no reason. Nobody's willing to fight for anything other than themselves - its amazing how nobody killed the crew out of sheer angst and autistic emo rage
RedMatter: If your argument against SGU is that humans will do the logical thing and put aside their differences in order to pursue common cause, I offer in rebuttal the whole of human history.
My counter to that is every single war, ever.
I'm confused. Are you making my argument now? I put forward that humans very frequently don't band together. War would seem to be on point.
Damn.. your intro sounds like the Battlezone II intro.. it reminds me of it everytime.
Season 1 was weak, but Season 2 really got me hooked and left me wanting for more. That series could have been the best SG series ever. RIP
the ship in my opinion is the most graceful and best design of a star ship even better looking than Voyager which is a favourite to
awesome and ty :) is it possible for u to do another with more specifics about its current condition and its condition as it would have been when new? for instance i know that its shields are functioning at only 5 % and yet still dives into stars and ftl and alien ships attacking etc...
your webisodes are always awesome and informative. ty .
Man I was really looking forward to more SGU before it was cancelled... the scope of the mission and the writers starting to get their legs, as well as that damn cliffhanger, made season 3 sound fucking amazing
Can anyone tell us what method of FTL this uses ? As it wasn't hyperspace? It looked more like a warp drive. (The bubble round the ship) also was she launched before the Alterans left the ori galaxy ?
Nobody knows how does it works. I believe it was said right in the show it wasn't hyperspace. I also believe she was launched after departure from the Ori galaxy - directly from Earth.
Ptrk Hrnk this is so geeky but the secret to the universe wouldn't the ascended alterans gain access to that knowledge when they ascended?
Probably... one of the reasons the ship was abandoned
I thought Destiny did use the same Hyperdrive system as other ships in the stargate universe. The blue flickering light when travelling at FTL is consistent and I don't recall any mention of the drive being odd in the show.
Maybe spacedock is pulling this detail from additional media.
Matthew Rye no 100% it's said in the show the line is "faster than light but not through hyperspace" also when it jumps it doesn't leave our space time like hyperspace does by opening a window, it just hyper accelerates, (theirs so much wrong with that in actual theory which leaves me to think it's some kind of spatial distortion drive "warp drive") as it's mentioned the ship needs its shields to jump, and if your still in normal space a rock would destroy the ship if it collided with it hence why it needs needs the shields the Ancients abandoned this method because hyperspace is much much faster and safer as the Daedalus could go from one end of the galaxy to another in a matter of days if not hours but took destiny weeks
Sorry for babbling lol I did a lot of research on it haha
It makes me so sad that this show is gone they all went to the cryo-sleep Chambers to cross the vast distance between galaxies and we’ll never know what happened best Stargate ever
I like that they could technically use the cryo stasis as a way to bring the show back (though I seriously doubt they would at this point) no matter how long. Spout some sci-fi gibberish about the stasis pods being bugged, or old, or prototypes, or something to explain that they continued to age but were otherwise suspended and not needing nutrients.
Old, she may have been, but by God, Destiny was an elegant ship. Fitting that it was built by people that conjure up images of an elegant civilisation. This and the Seed Ship are what I had in mind when there were mentions of the Ancients having warships.
Much as I love the Aurora-class, they were utilitarian by Ancient standards, but these designs were truly magnificent.
At 4:25 it even has a smiley face on the square building
I hate to be *that* pedant, but the while the Ancients may have constructed Destiny 50million years before the Tau'ri arrived, they only ascended 10,000 years previously.
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Sooo, exactly what he said ? So why's he an idiot when you literally reworded what he already said?
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At the end of the video, he says that the Tauri are carrying on Destiny's missions 50 million years after the Ancients ascended. the Ancients ascended only around half a dozen million years ago. The Lanteans ascended around 10,000 years ago after returning to Earth.
I'm wondering where he got the 50 million year figure. I remember in the show, they kept acting as it Destiny was only around a million years old when it had to be older. The technology was much older than Atlantis and that city was 6-7 million years old.
I meant that Destiny was built 50 million years before present, but the ancients (at least the Lantean branch) ascended only 10,000 years before present.
The show was inconsistent with how old the ancients were or when they ascended. The numbers went from millions of years, to thousands to in one case only a couple hundred years in the past (Merlin) but he was the exception.
I agree, the timeline is very weird. I mean to think there were literally tens of millions of years between the Destiny's launch and Atlantis traveling to Pegasus, that just doesn't make sense.
can you do the Hive Dreadnought from Destiny?
No, Destiny is garbage.
Great video
Nice one
I like this ship. Like much in the stargate however I do think they should had cut down on the "millions of years ago"-things. Destiny included. It so incredible long time. A couple of hundred thousand years is enough & problably a bit more believable.
That was my issue with the whole series. Even if something is built to last, it needs maintenance and repairs. Over MILLIONS of years, it was utterly improbable that the ship would still be space worthy unless there were prior "crews" who did repairs. Even a self-repair protocol would need raw materials brought on board by the "crew." Nothing was ever said about that, which was what hurt the credibility of the concept. Clearly the ship was built to handle a crew, but we learned nothing about that.
Yeah, Atlantis may have been a few million years old, but it was consistently staffed and serviced. Even sitting 10,000 years at the bottom of an ocean, it was just sitting there with a force field protecting it.
@qdllc - Ahh yes... I can see how the maintenance of the ship is the most unbelievable part... wtf? :\
Couldn't it get all the materials it needs because of E equals MC squared from the star refueling trips?
It also possible the ship travelled with a relativistic velocity and much less time passed within .
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a spaceship from a tv show that the creators decided to leave their viewers, their audience...the FANS..high and dry. they cancelled a good show. because of sinful reasons.
MGM was going bankrupt and syfy made several attempts to get another season but people where being fired and moved so much syfy couldn't do anything about it .
My man, what a great video !
May I ask where you found those beautiful pictures/artworks of the ship ?
Thanks :)
My favorite sci-fi space ship along with the Atlantis and Asgard O'Neil class battleship.
This beauty is 60.000000 years old and still can dive a blue giant like diving into a pool :D.
I always thought this ship seemed too primitive considering who made it.
SPACETV This is one of the first ships they built. You cant expect it to be as elegant as the ships they built later. It was built to last not to be comfortable.
Even the ancients had to start from scratch. Destiny was build way before the great city of Atlantis.
LtCWest what he said.
SPACETV what exactly do you find primitive?
Ptrk Hrnk Off the top of my head, the ship had basic Co2 scrubbers that had serious capacity problems which was never a problem with later Lantian ships. All of the ship interior airlocks used mechanical locks and as far as I remember the ship did not run on control crystals again like later Lantian ships.
The onboard Stargate had a big range problem and seemed to only be able connect to local gates likely due to the ship's comparatively primitive reactor, while designed for endurance had nothing like the output of Zero Point modules.
It's likely that if the Destiny had been constructed in the same era as cityships it probably would have had ZPM manufacturing plant or a functional version of the perpetual energy bridge that was never quite perfected.
There is more but that's all I can think of.
such a shame they cancelled this show. Had a lot of potential.
Love it.
I’d love to see more on the ships of the various Stargate TV series.
What a beautiful ship.
God this makes me want to watch the show again, so badly.
That ship is amazing...
SGU was probably my favorite Stargate show outside if the original movie. So much potential tossed away
Awesome
Thank you, love that shit's my favorite of them all.
What I like about this ship, and im unsure if it was intentional, is that it has several features that might indicate where the Goauld got the "inspiration" for some of their technology. Im not saying from Destiny itself but from other Ancient ships from when it was built (far older and less advanced than the Aurora or Atlantis). Im specifically talking about the pyramid like superstructure and the weapons (yellow pulse weapons). The Gould could have feasibly gotten their hands on some old wreckage from that era and reverse engineered it.
i love the fact it's shape is that of a chevron. im pretty sure that's a hidden message in its self, the ancients symbol prehaps? they shape alot of things like chevrons.
i hope this show comes back one day ...