Join our panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2024 as we look back on 30 years of the Stargate franchise and the fandom it inspired — with a special introduction by Erick Avari!

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Timecodes
0:00 – A Thank You from Erick Avari
1:27 – Opening Credits
2:02 – Welcome (Nicole Rodrigues Galdo)
3:27 – Colin Bowman (Stargate Merchandising)
3:51 – Linda “Gate Gabber” Furey (Fan Fiction and Creative Fans)
4:56 – Remington Phillips (Fan-Made Props)
6:23 – Dean Newbury (Costuming)
8:18 – David Read (Fandom Web sites)
10:31 – What Keeps Stargate Fandom Going
17:14 – When Stargate Gripped You
27:34 – We Need More Stargate!
28:07 – Hollywood Collectibles Eye of Ra Pendant
31:01 – Stargate Cosplayers in the Crowd
34:34 – Questions In Exchange for Concept Art
35:20 – Stargate Props You Could Own
38:48 – Interviewing the Cast and Crew on Set
41:13 – Impressions of “Unending”
43:44 – Roleplaying Game Unused Storylines
45:06 – Reboot or Continuation
47:10 – Impactful Quotes
49:07 – How to Get Into Stargate
51:45 – Stargate Technology to Make Real
53:00 – Favorite Episodes
54:06 – Things We Wanted To See But Didn’t
55:00 – Military Servicemen and Women
55:30 – Passion Because of Stargate
56:49 – Favorite Characters
57:32 – End Credits

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TRANSCRIPT
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Erick Avari:
[clip starts] Hello, Stargate fans. It’s pretty remarkable. Here we are, 30 years later, still ticking. I have to thank the fans for passing the torch on to the next generation and hopefully the next. Wow, what a humbling experience when you think about it. 30 years, that’s an awful long time. Thank you. Thank you, Roland Emmerich, Dean Devlin, cast, and most importantly, the crew who slogged through that shoot. It was such a bonding experience and one I will never forget and cherish all my life, so thank you. Thank you, fans. Thank you, David Read, for getting the word out and putting it out there. I am at a loss for words. [clip ends]

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Hi, everybody, welcome to Comic-Con. Happy final day of Comic-Con, everybody. San Diego. Mental.

David Read:
Hello, Comic-Con.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Can I get a louder woo? More enthusiasm. I know it’s Sunday. Thank you. I’m not your initial host. I was the lovely replacement for the Jenny Stiven, so everyone wish her well. I’m hoping that I can do a good job today.

David Read:
You’re doing great.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Thank you, David. Thank you, Yvie, my lovely co-star. I work on Wormhole X-Tremists with the lovely David Read here. I started my journey officially in the Comic-Con space with this lot back at WonderCon in 2019 with a competition. David decided to drag me on permanently because he can’t get rid of me and that’s quite nice. My lovely co-star Yvie is down there. It’s the 30th anniversary of Stargate, so huzzah. I wasn’t born when it came out. I was born in 1998, so minus four years old at the time, which is… Sorry, guys, I keep bringing that up. Apologies.

David Read:
It’s fine.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I got started at five years old because of my dad, so, yay, Dad. I’ve got a lovely group of friends with me today. I’m gonna go ahead and start introducing them from the end backwards. So, firstly, we have the lovely Colin Bowman.

Colin Bowman:
Hey, everyone.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Colin is gonna be talking to us about merchandising.

Colin Bowman:
Yes. I’m from Hollywood Collectibles Group. We are now with the licensees for all Stargate merchandise, so you will see a lot coming out soon.

David Read:
His stuff kicks ass.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Then we have the lovely, my fan favorite, sorry, everyone else, Linda “GateGabber” Furey, who is gonna be talking to us about fan fiction, creative fans, and et cetera, et cetera. So, please, go on, my dear.

Linda Furey:
You want me to say something now?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Yes, darling. Please.

Linda Furey:
I especially like to follow the fan art and the fan fic online. I did a deep dive recently on some of the really cool art that’s out there produced by Stargate fans. Our fandom believes in going big on the art. We have some slides, or do we…

David Read:
Not right now.

Linda Furey:
Not right now.

David Read:
I didn’t get them together. Sorry, guys.

Linda Furey:
We’ll get them up on the show soon to show you some of the 20-foot-high and taller stuff that’s out there.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Also, I wanna say Linda’s incredibly creative and makes some great outfits and she really loves cats. So, everyone go follow her on social media. Then we have the lovely Remington Phillips. Hello, my dear.

Remington Phillips:
Hello.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Is holding a very cool ZPM. He works with our props perspective, so please go ahead, my dear.

David Read:
That is fan made.

Remington Phillips:
Good morning, everyone. I’m Remington Phillips. I’m from sg1props.com. We’re the largest Stargate prop and costuming collectors community in the world. Our members are all around the world. We focus on building and collecting the props and costumes from the show. Our members represent pretty much the totality of what happened, everything after David Read sold all of it. Our members collect all the original stuff. We focus also on helping fans build their own costumes and replicas, much like the ZPM that you see here today, which is a 1:1 cast off of one of the originals that David sold.

David Read:
Hold it up.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Magnificent. How much do I have to pay to buy this?

Dean Newbury:
Those are priceless and hard to find.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Goddammit.

Remington Phillips:
You could power a small continent with this.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Very helpful.

David Read:
Or a city the size of Manhattan.

Dean Newbury:
He’s just sitting it on a table.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I’d save a lot of money on my electricity in the UK, so that’d be very helpful.

Remington Phillips:
Just think of your electric bill.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Also, we have, who I just met, Dean Newbury, who does costuming. Look how dapper he looks in his Stargate outfit. So, please, tell us about it.

Dean Newbury:
I do a lot of costumes, but this was my first one.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Your first one?

Dean Newbury:
First one. That was, I think I wanna say 2004. Syfy Channel. Some of you might remember Syfy Channel had that liquid booth, the silver liquid booth. Before that. The two years before that, two of my great heroes, Samantha Carter and General Hammond, were signing autographs at the Syfy booth and there were guys dressed like me surrounding it. I was like, “I have to do this.” That was the beginning of many, many costumes. A whole lot of them are Stargate. David and I were part of the auctions, of the official auctions that Remington was just referring to. And gosh, Dave, we’ve done…

David Read:
It was a brilliant few years.

Dean Newbury:
We’ve done so many Stargate things, so many conventions. Like I said, lots of different costumes. We got to go to Vancouver and visit the sets because we were working for the convention there.

David Read:
Got to go to Vancouver and tear down the sets.

Dean Newbury:
That’s right. You were there for that.

David Read:
That was that was bittersweet, very bitter. But some Bahni-wae.

Dean Newbury:
I know we’ll talk more.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
How old is the costume you’re wearing now?

Dean Newbury:
How old?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Yeah.

Dean Newbury:
There are some bits and pieces now, but it started in probably 2005.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I was seven.

Dean Newbury:
There was a group then called sgcommand.net, which is now sgcommand.com. They’re also a great resource. If anybody’s interested in these costumes or learning what something is, or if you can find these very screen-accurate patches. The fans are making incredible stuff. It sounds like he’s gonna be making more incredible stuff, though. Official merchandise.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
It’s competition.

Dean Newbury:
The resources are out there if you’re interested in any of this. They’re there.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Last but not least, my beloved, my brother from another mother, who’s way too old to be my brother, we have David Read.

David Read:
Could be your dad.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Thank you. Yes. David Read has worked on many great things. He is our lovely leader. You have worked on GateWorld with the brilliant Darren Sumner. You run Dial the Gate, which is what we’re here for, and you also run Wormhole X-Tremists with me and the lovely Yvie.

David Read:
We do Stargate re-watches pretty much every Sunday. Right now, we’re at Season Five of the show. I started with the franchise back when I was working as a staffer on GateWorld.net. Do any of you guys know GateWorld?

Audience:
Woo.

David Read:
There’s a few in here. OK, good. Darren and I got together, started working. He started it in 1999; I joined him in 2002. I went up to Vancouver pretty regularly from 2003 onwards to do reporting and creating content for the show and interviewing the cast and crew and everyone else. Got involved in Stargate, the magazine, around that time frame as well. Propworx picked me up and then I later picked Dean up for the Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis auctions and that was in 2010. Then went over to Stargate Command, may it rest in peace, the defunct website that was an official MGM-branded website for Stargate called Stargate Command.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
That’s how we met.

David Read:
Until they canceled it.

Linda Furey:
I still have the icon on my phone. I can’t bear to take it off.

David Read:
No. I’m totally with you. They canceled that and now we’re doing Dial the Gate. I’m at, what, 278 episodes?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Yes.

David Read:
So, interviews with the cast and crew and fans. Thank you for making that possible.

Audience:
Woo.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Thank you.

David Read:
Like, share, subscribe. YouTube Dial the Gate.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Or as I call them, pity likes for our channel, because we don’t get many views. That’s what I call them. We are gonna be doing conversations, talking with everybody at some point, so please start thinking about what you’d wanna talk about in the Stargate fandom. While I’m standing here, trying to live this moment and not let my anxiety take over, Stargate’s been around for 30 years, which is a long time. Older than me, the joke I’m gonna keep pulling out because I’m not very funny. Sorry, David. Stargate has been with us for ages. We’re all friends, different backgrounds, different things. We all love each other in our own ways because this fandom has brought us together. Why do you think that Stargate has survived as long as it has? What keeps it going for us as a fandom?

Dean Newbury:
May I? Because of what you just said.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I am asking the question.

Dean Newbury:
When I first started coming to Comic-Con, it was like, “Oh, look, there’s so many pretty things. There are celebrities. There’s this, there’s that, and the other.” But I found out really quick that’s not why I’m here. It’s ’cause of people. We’re gonna make new friends today. Everybody?

Audience:
Yeah.

Dean Newbury:
Hopefully. It’s hard to see. There are some houselights. There are probably some familiar faces in the crowd, I hope. That’s why, because it is a good group of people that love the show and we have this common thing and then we all become lifetime friends because of it.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
This is a question for the whole table, by the way. Please keep going, my guys. Keep doing your thing.

Colin Bowman:
I’ll take it. This is why every one of these shows survive. This is why my company goes out of its way to create merchandise for the underserved. So many franchises out there that never get the respect they deserve. Since 2005, we’ve brought things from Fifth Element, Alien, Ghostbusters. The Predator, which is, Predator’s now a big one. We are so proud that we finally managed to tie down all the bits and pieces to get Stargate. For a movie that came out in ’94 with the budget, cast, crew, and the whole look of it, to have been treated so badly in the merchandise community over the years is a crime and we’re here to rectify it.

Remington Phillips:
I think Stargate brings together so many different elements of fandom from obviously pure science fiction. You’ve also got a heavy Egyptian theme, which so many people love. There’s that military aspect that brings so many people into the community as well. You’ve got so many different aspects; you’ve got great characters, great storytelling. There’s almost something for everybody with Stargate, from the movie into the series. The fans love that. A lot of properties are somewhat limited or siloed. Stargate’s not like that; Stargate brings a lot of different stuff and great humor, too.

David Read:
The humor’s key. Linda?

Linda Furey:
The fact that the team on SG-1 is so diverse, they all come from backgrounds that you don’t expect that in everyday life these people would even meet each other. Then they become sort of a family unit and the “We leave no man behind” is such an important recurring theme. I really feel that the fandom has adopted that attitude as its own, that if any of our friends who are in this fandom need a shoulder to cry on, need a little bit of support, need a pad to crash in for the weekend, some other fan is gonna step up and say, “Come stay with me. I got you, babe.” It’s that. It’s the energy of the people who are involved in the fandom that’s kept me in it so long. Yes, I was hooked by the Anubis helmet in the movie. Yes, I fell in love with Daniel Jackson and the whole romance with Sha’uri. As soon as they cast Richard Dean Anderson in SG-1, I was, “Whoa, I’m here for life.”

David Read:
Spank me, Rosie.

Linda Furey:
I’ve watched every episode of MacGyver about 85 times, so that was the marriage of two things that I already loved. From Episode One, the casting of it, I was on board for the duration. But then the fans are what have kept me in it for so long.

David Read:
I think there’s a lot of elements to it. The humor, I think Remington mentioned humor. That is so key and I think that that comes from Richard Dean Anderson. If there wasn’t his whimsy and his wink and nod at the audience, I don’t think it would have worked. He also, and Michael Greenburg, set a precedent that “we’re gonna love what we do. If we stop loving it, we’re not gonna do it. We’re gonna show up for work every day and be thankful that we’re here,” and that influenced that production of 150 people. I think we feel it in the material, that they really love what it is that they’re doing and that filters down to all of us. There is a genuine nature to it. The other part of it is it’s contemporary. It’s happening right now; we can relate to it. The US Air Force openly says that it was a huge recruitment tool for them and there are so many people in so many STEM fields as well who are there because of Stargate. That can’t be overlooked. So many of us have careers in some really important fields – and not so important, some entertainment – some really big earth-changing fields because of this franchise.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I for one was heartbroken when Stargate got canceled. I know that Universe wasn’t for everybody. I personally loved it and I would have loved to see more.

David Read:
I did, too.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I’m sad to see Stargate end. It was what, 2011?

David Read:
Yeah.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
That it said goodbye and we haven’t had Stargate fully back in ages. I would love to have it return. Stargate was such a huge part of my upbringing. It was a huge part of why I am who I am today. I went through a lot growing up and the comedy and the family, the unity in the show was so phenomenal, so emotional, and it brought me and my family together in different ways. I managed to drag lots of friends and family with me and that was fun. Do you have a defining moment over the last 30 years where you knew this was it? This was the moment from Stargate or from your friends or family where you knew this was something special? This is to everybody.

Remington Phillips:
I’ll start. For me it was when I saw the original feature film when it came out. Honestly, it was a big moment for me. I was pretty young, but in terms of fandom, Stargate and maybe one or two other blockbuster movies that came out in the early ’90s were a turning point for me, got me into fandom. I still remember the merchandising and all of the graphics and posters and everything that would come out for the movie. Even things like the interactive CD-ROM, which was, I think, one of the first times that they did that for any movie, was for Stargate. There are so many interesting things that came out and it pulled me into that world. Flash forward to 1997 when they announced SG-1 was coming out, I was hooked, again, immediately from the moment that happened. A few short years later, I got involved with costuming, along with Dean here, through the Stargate Command project that he mentioned. We got to do some great stuff when SG-1 was still on the air. As Dean mentioned, going to events and meeting the celebrities and escorting them. His groups would do things like that. I was on the other side of the country, going to some of the official Stargate Cons out there and we did some stuff for MGM. They opened up a Stargate theme park ride at Six Flags at one point. We were involved in that. So many things happened throughout my life. Most of the dear friends I have are within the Stargate community or because of the Stargate community. The work I do for a living is because of Stargate, getting involved in fabrication and manufacturing and props. Everything is from Stargate. So, for me, it’s been a huge part of my life. I talk to so many people, also as a photographer going to these events and working with fans and the celebrities. I’ve talked to so many of you one on one and I’ve heard so many stories. There are people in this fandom from Stargate who are rocket scientists because of Samantha Carter. There are people who are Egyptologists because of Daniel Jackson. Or of course, there are people in the military because of Jack O’Neill and the other characters. There are so many people who made life choices based on the influence of Stargate. You can’t get that out of every fandom. It’s like if you’re a Star Wars fan, you can only become a Jedi so far professionally. There aren’t too many jobs. But with Stargate, you can almost follow the career path of your favorite character.

Colin Bowman:
I am old and I admit it and I’m very proud to be old. Which means I really remember the ’90s, kind of remember the ’90s. It really was the era of the blockbuster super movies. I don’t understand why, but somewhere along the line, Stargate didn’t pop out as much as other ones that came through. But for me, my moment of, “Oh, I really like this,” came during the first season of the TV show, when she mentions she played with her Major Matt Mason doll. That’s what I spent the whole of the ’60s doing, playing with my Major Matt Mason doll. I felt a connection right there and then. Plus, she was very easy on the eyes.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
They were all very easy on the eyes. It helped a lot.

Linda Furey:
This is very true. My discovering Stargate moment was at Starlog Magazine. The movie was just in theaters or maybe just about to be in theaters. It was a six- or seven-page article, it was really long for them, with photos that were like screen captures from the film.

Remington Phillips:
That was such a great issue.

Linda Furey:
It was. It’s got Earth 2 on the cover. I still have the magazine. It’s on my bookshelf back at my apartment and I was looking at it the other day in prep for this panel. I was, “This is really a good article still.” Seeing the characters, reading the premise of the story, but mostly it was the costumes. It was the Anubis and the Horus guards and the sort of Egyptian look. I was: “All right. I have gotta see this.” I dragged some boyfriend to it, I don’t remember who.

David Read:
Don’t remember the guy, but you remember the movie.

Linda Furey:
But I remember the film because I went four more times. Not with him, though, because once was enough. Probably why he’s still not my boyfriend.

Dean Newbury:
I loved Stargate when I first started watching it. I’m gonna say I really enjoyed the movie, et cetera. Started watching the show and, “Cool! sci-fi show. I love sci-fi.” What actually made it special to me and I’m gonna go back to relating with fans. I’m gonna say it was Dragon Con 2007, maybe 2008. I was actually sitting at our fan table and this older woman rolled up to our table in a wheelchair. I wanna go back to: this is a cool show I wore costumes for. She was not just in a wheelchair. She had some sort of mental issues. I don’t know how to define that. I was wearing this costume, by the way, so there’s a little… But she thought I was John Sheppard. Not Joe. John Sheppard. She wanted to come over to me and thank me for saving Earth so many times and defending the galaxy, et cetera.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
What a beautiful compliment.

Dean Newbury:
Not for me, obviously, for…

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
No, but you must look damn good.

David Read:
“It is my privilege to save the Earth.”

Dean Newbury:
The thing is, you meet a lot of fans, you meet a lot of fans at Role Play. It took me a second to catch on that she really believed this. I wasn’t about to disavow her belief. I wasn’t about to ruin her day, ’cause she’s having the best day ever. Honestly, even right now, I’m a little weepy about it because that woman believed this to be real and it meant something incredibly special to her. Because of that, that’s my moment where I was like, “OK. Stargate means something.” It means something deeper to some people than others. I think that’s where I recognize it, right there.

David Read:
That’s awesome. Geez. How do I follow that? The only thing that this meant to me was it was sitting next to The Fifth Element on the VHS rack at Walmart for two or three years. I was a huge Fifth Element fan. This program was coming on Saturday night that was interrupting The Outer Limits or Poltergeist: The Legacy. I’m like, “What is this big ring? What is this thing?”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Get out of the way.

David Read:
It’s very expensive, whatever it is. Then it exploded open and it’s like, “Ooh.” I watched the first hour and it didn’t stop. It kept on going. I taped the second hour and watched it the next day after church. That Sunday night, Stargate aired. I knew what it was. I knew that it was something related to the film. The film aired that night and I fell ass-backwards into the fandom and from then, I was hooked. My father and I have a fairly complicated relationship, as do you with yours. Sci-fi has always been our number one connection with one another. The show brings people together. Not just people who don’t know each other, but people who do and have complicated relationships. They can explore complicated ideas through the lens of this hour-long allegory. So, it’s pretty awesome.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I remember, I think it was my 16th birthday. My dad got me the Stargate DVD collection after years of me not being able to get it. He was like, “You’re not going to school tomorrow.” So, we watched Stargate all night long. I think we got pancakes in the morning and then he was like, “Don’t worry about it. We’ll watch Stargate. It’s great.”

David Read:
This explains so much.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
It’s great. Stargate means so much to me. With the show, I think that somehow it didn’t overstay its welcome. It went 17 seasons and three movies and then we had Stargate Origins, which came out a short while ago.

David Read:
Don’t forget Infinity.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Don’t forget it. It’s there. Watch it.

David Read:
The kids will love it. You’re gonna go, “What?”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
It’s a damn good time. It goes 17 years and you’ve got so many oversaturated things now, in my opinion. You’ve got things that have gone on for so long and I want Stargate to come back and have a comeback moment. There are so many people here who have seen the show, who enjoy the show, who would love to see it come back. We need to beg Amazon to bring it back to us because I want it.

David Read:
Who wants a new show?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Who wants a new show?

Audience:
Whoo!

David Read:
No kidding.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Hey, can send that to Amazon right after this. Whoever’s got that on video, we could put it on social media and tag them like crazy, do a whole thing. We have some things to give away at some point later on.

David Read:
Colin, can you share the story of this? Can we get a close-up here, guys, of this pendant that you guys created?

Colin Bowman:
This should have been something that you think is really simple to do, but then you realize there’s not much reference material. You spend months trying to hunt it down. Then you get to the point where you’re trying to make the necklace that holds it. That has to become important. Then people have their opinion as to whether there should be aging on the lines, whether there should be a black dot or not a black dot in the middle. Over the years, a lot of the pieces get lost. I actually have a sample in my office that I can’t look at because the gold on it is so bright, it hurts my eyes. That’s not a lie. When I first opened it, I have all these different samples that we have to choose from, and this one here, I couldn’t see the detail. That’s how bright it was. Nobody will ever see that apart from me, but it’s a lot more complicated to get these things out to the market than people believe because there’s so many people involved in the approval processes, sourcing, and then, as I say, getting the samples right. I actually believe this is perfect. If you wanna see it closer, you can come downstairs, it’s at our booth and you can get a good close look at it. It’s far different than what we had last year as the initial prototype. Some lines were a little bit at the wrong angle. You think, “That’s easy. Just draw it.” But we’re talking about engraved pieces that have to match.

Linda Furey:
What booth number are you?

Colin Bowman:
2845. You can look at yourself in the Stargate mirror and then you’ll know you’re in the right place.

David Read:
This thing is huge. It is enormous. I wanna go through it.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
The passion and creativity that comes out of the fans is always astonishing to me, ’cause I have no talent. Thank you for the one laugh, David. No one else laughed at me. Good to know.

David Read:
I know, because it’s true.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
You don’t have a talent.

David Read:
You have a gift of gab.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I just talk a lot. One of my favorite things, looking at this table, is the amount of people that have brought so much talent to this fandom. You guys have doubled down on what you’re good at and it’s absolutely beautiful to see. What are we doing with these?

David Read:
Does anyone have Stargate cosplay on right now?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
We’ve got a gentleman up there.

David Read:
Would you please come up to the front?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Or is that a lady?

David Read:
Anyone who’s wearing Stargate cosplay, come on up.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Can we get a round of applause for the Stargate cosplay? You don’t see them often.

David Read:
There’s a staircase over here to my right.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
There’s a staircase right there. Don’t trip. I’m gonna try my best to advertise how fantastic everyone looks. So, we’ve got one, two, three… You’ve got a mask on as well.

Linda Furey:
I only know one of these people, so this is fantastic.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
So, we’ve got Sandy garb.

Linda Furey:
I have a new friend.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Sandy garb. Standard SG uniform. What on earth? Can you come to the middle for a second? I can’t really see you guys very well. So, that says SGP-1. Can you please explain why?

Guest 1:
It’s based from the role-playing game that Linda and I did test running and she wrote for. It’s the Phoenix galaxy.

Linda Furey:
Phoenix galaxy.

Guest 1:
I created our own patch for our team.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Which is absolutely adorable. I love that. I’m incredibly jealous.

Linda Furey:
I’ve got one of those.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Brilliant. Round of applause. Thank you very much.

Linda Furey:
If you want a patch designed, this is the woman.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Which SG team member are you? SG-12. How long did that take you to put together?

Guest 2:
I just sewed it.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
You just sewed it all yourself? I can’t do that. I’m absolutely useless.

Guest 2:
I bought the patch. Everything, I just sewed the patch on.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Absolutely fantastic. Thank you very much. Can we get a lovely clap for this lovely individual right here? Thank you. Now, you’ve got the whole boots getup, the whole sand getup and you’ve got your face mask as well. How did you put that one together?

Guest 3:
This has been coming together in pieces for far more years than I care to admit.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
So, coming together pieces for far more years than they care to admit. That’s OK, though, ’cause talent takes a long time sometimes. Absolutely fantastic. I love the mask as well. Very conscious of being sick. Have you gotten sick yet?

Guest 3:
No.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
See, look, it works. It works. Amazing. We have the next one over here, which is SG-1? Fantastic. The jacket as well, and the cap. Where’d you guys get the caps from?

Guest 4:
Army Surplus.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Army Surplus.

David Read:
Army Surplus. Man.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I will say, I don’t have an Army Surplus near me, or I would have done this years ago. I’m lazy and poor. How are we doing this?

David Read:
I have a little something for everybody. There are two in complete costume. Do they get the amulets? Colin, do you want to bestow on? There you are. I have concept art from SG-1.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
That is beautiful. Look at that. Is that the end of Season Three?

David Read:
That’s the end of Season Three. This is all Ken Rabehl’s work. May he rest in peace. He was pretty extraordinary. For you. The monsters. Remember the fish guys? Nicole?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Is that “Foothold?”

David Read:
Yes.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
OK. I’ve got a thing for fish men, specifically Doug Jones from The Shape of Water and Hellboy. Thank you. Or the Baron, if anybody’s seen What We Do in the Shadows.

David Read:
So, thank you guys so much.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Thank you so much, guys. How much more do we have left, David? What are we doing with these ones?

David Read:
For questions.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Excellent. OK, so you ask us questions or say something cool to the mic, and we will provide you with this concept art. So, please, I guess come up and start harassing us appropriately. What is the mic situation for questions? How are we doing this?

Remington Phillips:
No stampeding, please.

David Read:
Do we have a mic?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Do we have a mic or do I start pulling people out of the audience aggressively? There doth be a mic. I can’t see them. There it is. The power I feel right now is extraordinary.

David Read:
I’m a little worried about that.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
It’s going right to my head.

Guest 5:
Hello.

David Read:
Hello.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Hello. What is your name?

Remington Phillips:
We have rules.

Guest 5:
I’m here because of Stargate. My grandma got me into it.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
And what’s your name, darling?

Guest 5:
My name’s Oliver.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Oliver.

David Read:
Hello, Oliver.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Nice to meet you, Oliver. Can we get a round of applause for Oliver? I’m copying Kevin Smith’s thing from yesterday. Thank you.

Guest 5:
I always love 5th Avenue bars because of the movie. If I ever see one, I buy it. My question’s a little basic. If you could have any prop from the film or any of the series, the more in the background, the better. What prop would you have?

David Read:
I want each of us to take one. So, Remington, do you wanna take this one?

Remington Phillips:
You should see my house. I’ve got crates in my garage. We had a van show up the other week and it took him about an hour to unload it. But seriously, there are a few random items that I’m still trying to track down. I’m mostly on the costuming side. I’ve managed to get most of the props that I’ve got a heavy interest in. There is a specific Naquadah generator, Mark III, that I’m still interested in, if you have one.

David Read:
They went up to the Mark III?

Remington Phillips:
They did.

David Read:
Wow. Man, the things that they invent, they never tell you about.

Dean Newbury:
Can I go?

David Read:
All right. You wanna answer that one?

Dean Newbury:
You own them. We got to sell them.

David Read:
That’s a fair point.

Linda Furey:
I’d want the Goa’uld ribbon device. I’ve cosplay built this twice now and it never stays put together.

Remington Phillips:
That’s a tough one to make.

Linda Furey:
Sculpey clay does not work. My next try was out of the foam that everybody’s using. The attachments for the rings keep falling off. I’m gonna have to go full metal on it next time.

Remington Phillips:
Be careful with the full-metal route. Having the original, I can tell you, it is extremely heavy. Hard to wear.

Linda Furey:
Make aluminium?

Remington Phillips:
Yes.

Dean Newbury:
Dave, what do you think? Probably my favorite piece overall was the Ra helmet.

David Read:
That was a good one.

Dean Newbury:
Beautiful, absolutely beautiful. In terms of the thing that I enjoyed the most, everybody probably remembers the episode of Atlantis where Sheppard goes onto the ship, the Aurora ship. He was in the hibernation thing. He’s meeting the people inside the computer, The Matrix.

David Read:
Aurora.

Dean Newbury:
Aurora. Yes, there you go. They had their weapons. The Aurora… ice-cream-cone-looking – if everybody remembers that? Cool prop. When we were writing the descriptions, I started translating all the Ancient that I was finding on all the props. This is my favorite thing ever. So, I started writing it down…

David Read:
There’s font substitution.

Dean Newbury:
… a pattern started emerging. I was starting to chuckle. I was like, “They did not do this. No way did they do this.” Anyway, the Aurora blasters say “made in China.”

David Read:
Thank you for your question. Who’s gonna get this one from “Thor’s Hammer?”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I’m gonna make this snappy because we’ve got nine minutes to do this and I want everyone to get cool stuff. I do wanna say that my prop would be the bedsheets that David Hewlett slept naked in. We’ve got 20 minutes. I’m gonna make it less snappy.

David Read:
We’re gonna hang out a little bit longer.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Anything that David Hewlett’s bare ass touched, I will go for. Sorry, David. Who do we have next? Hello.

Guest 6:
Hello. I’m Dina. I wanted to say really quick-

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Dina, lovely. Nice to meet you.

Guest 6:
I’m here with one of my best friends and we became best friends because he introduced me to Stargate back when…

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
This is adorable.

David Read:
This is awesome.

Guest 6:
…we were in middle school.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
See, this is why we love Stargate.

Guest 6:
I was in middle school when I was introduced to it. Most of it had already come out, so I didn’t know about all those websites and those interviews that you were doing. I am actually really curious if you could speak a little bit more about that experience, being able to interview the cast as it was being made, ’cause I wasn’t around when that was happening.

David Read:
Thank you for that. It broke the illusion. They were wonderful. Everyone was exactly as you expected. It broke the facade. Being there with them on set, in production, was one of those surreal things where you’re actually stepping into the television set. Being able to touch the concrete walls of the SGC and it’s like, “No, this isn’t concrete.” Was it plaster? What is it?

Dean Newbury:
Plywood with plaster on it.

David Read:
Just painted plywood. But to be there watching them do all the technobabble…I remember one night on the set of SG-1. This had to have been Season 9 or 10 at this point and one of the actors wasn’t getting the material; it wasn’t clicking for them. You had 100 people waiting for this actor to get through the technobabble. Everyone joined around them. One of the caterers brought in this huge vat of soup. It was raining, pouring outside, so he brought this hot soup in for everybody. They got the material done, they got her through it and they pulled together. So, beginning to see things like that, behind the scenes, was surreal. It’s the only word for it.

Dean Newbury:
You start to appreciate that it’s actual work. As much fun as it would be on those sets, it’s work.

David Read:
They work long hours.

Dean Newbury:
I’ve had a lot of interaction too with the actors and also, I’ve actually worked in film for a little bit. You’re coworkers really quick. The magic is gone, like you said. Really fast.

David Read:
But you’re in the trenches.

Dean Newbury:
But also you become friends with people.

David Read:
That’s true.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Thank you so much for that. Appreciate it.

David Read:
“Solitudes.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Thank you. We’ve got “Solitudes” next. Yes. This one is one that I really want because Sam and Jack shipper to my call.

Yvie Cahill:
Whoo.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Thank you, Yvie, for the one whoo. You guys clearly don’t love romance.

Audience:
Whoo.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Hello.

Guest 7:
Hi. My name is Glen.

David Read:
Hello, Glen.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Glen. My stepdad’s called Glen. Great name.

Guest 7:
Thank you. My youngest daughter has joined the Stargate club.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Can we get a big clap for that? Thank you. Great job.

David Read:
Get them when they’re young.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Indoctrinate them.

Guest 7:
We actually catch it almost every day on Pluto TV these days.

David Read:
That’s a great service. It’s free.

Guest 7:
Here’s my question. In the pantheon of famous series finales, I think for me, “Unending” stands out just like the end of Mash or Sopranos. I wondered what your thoughts on that episode are in particular.

David Read:
What’d you guys think of “Unending?” They killed the freaking Asgard off. I’ll never forgive them for that.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
They brought them back in Atlantis.

David Read:
The Vanir. The cousins, the evil cousins.

Dean Newbury:
It’s a great episode. I think it’s bittersweet because the cancellation of the show was so shocking and out of nowhere. We get to the 200th episode. “This is one of the coolest things they’ve ever done.

David Read:
“By the way, your show’s canceled.”

Dean Newbury:
What?

David Read:
That was their reaction, too.

Dean Newbury:
You can correct me if I’m wrong here, Dave. They were writing that episode before they knew it was ending, correct?

David Read:
The 200th episode party, Syfy Channel goes up there and says, “Congratulations, guys, on 200. By the way, we’re canceling the show.”

Dean Newbury:
Was there already either writing or plans for “Unending” before…

David Read:
No, they hadn’t nailed it down. They were gonna do a Season 11. That was the first time that a lot of the contracts were renewed.

Dean Newbury:
Was it meant to be a cliffhanger?

David Read:
No. They had plenty of runway to get it right.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
David has all the gossip. Go watch his show.

Dean Newbury:
The encyclopedia right here. It’s a great episode, but it’s super bittersweet, ’cause that was it. Although we got the two movies.

David Read:
That’s true

Dean Newbury:
I love “Continuum” so much.

David Read:
We’re pretty lucky as a fan base to have had 17 seasons of television. We’re pretty darn lucky.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
And “Unending’s” great because it never truly ends. Stargate goes on forever, as we can see in this room right now.

Dean Newbury:
It’s unending.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Is that “Watergate” next?

David Read:
“Watergate.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
“Watergate.”

David Read:
Bottle a water.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Bottle a water. Sorry, guys. I’m annoying now. Next question, please.

Guest 8:
Hello, my name is Steven.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Hi, Steven.

David Read:
Hi, Steven.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Can we get a clap for Steven, please? And if we didn’t clap for Glen, I’m sorry. Clapping for Glen as well.

David Read:
Thank you, Glen.

Remington Phillips:
Whoo.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Go, Glen. Go, Steven.

Guest 8:
I was actually able to watch the film as a teenager. Me and my mom used to watch movies together. My question is for Linda. I hear that you worked on the RPG and I was curious. Is there a storyline that you wish you’d gotten into that guide that maybe can get in in the future or an inspiration perhaps?

Linda Furey:
Yeah. I had a storyline idea that would’ve dealt with Cassandra, that was gonna give her a little cameo, but the idea got shot down, unfortunately. Someday I will sit down and write that for my little home RPG group and we’ll get to play that on the side.

David Read:
I wanna read this. Absolutely.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Gimme. Publish it, please.

Linda Furey:
We’ll play via Zoom or something.

David Read:
You believe this was what the Tollan were supposed to look like originally?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
It’s a bit weird, innit?

David Read:
How wild is that? Someone took one look at that and went, “Yeah, no.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I’m not gonna lie. Narim wouldn’t have been as good-looking.

David Read:
Can you imagine Garwin Sanford in that?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I cannot.

David Read:
Yes. Who do we have?

Guest 9:
Hi. My name’s Michelle.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Little clap for Michelle, please.

Dean Newbury:
Welcome, Michelle.

Guest 9:
I think I speak for everyone when I say I’d love to see Stargate back on the screen again. My question is, would you guys prefer to see a reboot of SG-1, or would you like to see new content? If the latter, what story would you like to see told?

David Read:
Reboots over here.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
What, are you asking people to put their hands up?

David Read:
Or continuation? I would like a hybrid of both. I think they can do it.

Dean Newbury:
When they announced Universe and we had no idea what it was, there was some conversations I had with some other fans and was like, “What if this was an anthology show, where every episode or every season is about some other aspect of Stargate or the Stargate universe as a whole?” We got the show that we got. It’s fine. I’d like to see something like that, actually. I’d like some shorts. Revisit some old characters. Revisit some places. Go to some new places. New stories.

David Read:
The Stargate’s infinite.

Linda Furey:
I follow 300 different Stargate fan groups on Facebook, so I’m afraid I don’t remember which one, but a fan said, “Hey, what do you think of this? General Hammond’s granddaughters are old enough to be in the military now. Do you think they’re on an SG team?” I was like, “That could be the new series.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I would like to finish that up by saying, to quote Jack in the first episode, “The Stargate can go other places.” So, that’s pretty great.

David Read:
Absolutely.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Infinite world of possibilities. Very exciting.

David Read:
Here’s the Gadmeer.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I was gonna say, is that the “Scorched Earth” one?

David Read:
Yep. Look at those brains.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
So, who do we have next?

Guest 10:
Hi. I’m Lauren. Actually, your comment leads into my question.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Beautiful. Hi, Lauren.

David Read:
I love it when that happens.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Clap for Lauren, please. Thank you so much for asking a question.

Guest 10:
Stargate’s been a big part of my life. I even did a quote in my wedding vows from Teal’c when he said “Undomesticated equines could not remove me.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Brilliant.

Guest 10:
I was wondering if there were any quotes from the movie or the shows that really have stuck with you since you heard them.

David Read:
Spank me, Rosie. Not sure.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Indeed.

Remington Phillips:
I always tell people, “Why don’t I get my memos?”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
What do we have, guys?

David Read:
There was a line Lucius Lavin had in Stargate Atlantis, with “Irresistible.” I laughed so hard when … I think it was a Carl Binder episode. “I’ve healed the sick, those who had to crawl can walk again. Well, actually, they don’t walk, but they crawl a lot faster.” I thought that was so funny.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Anything else?

Linda Furey:
The Janet, “What could possibly be in my eye that would explain this?”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Every doctor’s appointment.

David Read:
“In the middle of my backswing.”

Colin Bowman:
I can’t even remember what I said to my son this morning.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I am gonna say that I live by the McKay’s in Atlantis when he has to do the review of all his staff, and he goes, “Look, if it helps, I’ll take you down the hallway and point to the people who annoy me more than the rest, but that’s the best I can do.” That’s what I do at work every day. I hope my bosses aren’t watching. Thank you so much for your question.

David Read:
Thank you. Martin Lloyd’s ship.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
This is from “Wormhole X-treme,” which is our namesake for the Wormhole X-tremists podcast. Please watch it. Hello.

Guest 11:
Hi there.

David Read:
Hi.

Guest 11:
My name’s John from the UK as well.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Hello, darling. Can we get a clap, please? Fellow Brits, big win.

Dean Newbury:
Were we clapping for John or the UK?

David Read:
All of it.

Guest 11:
My long-suffering wife has had to put up with my interest in sci-fi and a lot of things over the years.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Long-suffering, pah.

Guest 11:
She’s seen the movie and she really enjoys it. She loves Egyptology. What would the panel recommend I say to her to convince her to go home tonight and start watching the entire series, binge-watching?

David Read:
Ooh. How do you eat an elephant?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
You what?

David Read:
One bite at a time. That’s right. I’d start with “Urgo” and work my way around it. The nice thing about this is it’s episodic. It’s not, most of it, not like Universe. You pick the ones that you think that they’ll like and if they like it, they like it. If they don’t, they don’t. There’s nothing wrong with that, except that they’re wrong.

Dean Newbury:
I think you mentioned, “not in my backswing.” I had some friends that like sci-fi, but they didn’t understand Stargate, or they hadn’t seen it, hadn’t gotten it. I mentioned, I was like, “But you gotta watch this one episode ’cause it’s like Groundhog Day.” They’re like, “Whatever. Everybody’s done Groundhog Day.” Then they actually, “All right, fine.” They watched that episode. That was it. Then they were fans. They were like, “This is great.” Went back and started from the movie. There you go.

David Read:
It’s her episode too. It’s daunting. It’s 350 hours of TV.

Dean Newbury:
Legit.

David Read:
That’s a huge commitment. Jeff Gulka, who played Reetou Charlie…

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
He’s my bestie.

David Read:
She met him two years ago. They’ve hung out ever since.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Every day.

David Read:
He finished Universe…

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Last night.

David Read:
… two days ago.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Weeping profusely.

David Read:
It’s a big-time commitment. So, I get it.

Colin Bowman:
I’m fortunate. My wife is a bigger sci-fi fan than me.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
You got a great wife.

Colin Bowman:
No excuses needed. She’s got all the cosplays. She makes me watch Aliens over and over and over again. She loves Stargate so I’m fine.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I would pick a top five, my friend. That’s what I usually do.

David Read:
Orlin’s Stargate with microwave and toaster parts.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Get a new toaster.

Guest 12:
Hi, my name’s Danni.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Hi, Danni.

David Read:
Hi, Danni.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Please can we have a clap for Danni?

Audience:
Woo!

Guest 12:
Shout-out really quick to the microphone operator. Thank you so much.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
What a guy. Clap for the microphone operator. Woo.

Guest 12:
My husband, very early in our relationship, introduced me to Stargate. I didn’t take much convincing for the sci-fi bit. I do wanna thank him for getting me involved because we are both such big fans.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Thank you, husband. Clap for the husband very quickly.

David Read:
Really. What’s your question, Danni?

Guest 12:
Drew.

David Read:
Drew?

Guest 12:
So, we are D&D.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
That’s adorable.

Guest 12:
Sci-fi gets a lot of credit for influencing technology and development in our current world. If you could pick a piece of technology from Stargate to have in our current life, what would it be?

Linda Furey:
Naquadah generator. Clean energy.

Dean Newbury:
Transporters.

David Read:
Asgard transporters?

Dean Newbury:
So, that’s cheating.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Communication stones.

David Read:
No, that’s not really cheating.

Dean Newbury:
Transporters for sure.

Remington Phillips:
I’ve got it right here. A funny side note, the city of Cleveland is currently without power because I brought this.

Dean Newbury:
It was you!

David Read:
Gosh, that’s funny.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Thank you very much for your question, Danni.

Guest 12:
Thank you, guys, so much.

David Read:
Apophis’ experimental mothership which got blown up in “Upgrades” and then was suddenly perfectly OK a few episodes later, in this episode. He’s got those things hammered out everywhere.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Stargate has holes. We like it, though. It’s OK. What’s your name, my dear?

Guest 13:
Hi, my name’s Analise.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Hi, Analise.

David Read:
Analise, hello.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Clap for Analise.

Guest 13:
Actually, shout-out to my twin older sisters. They’re in this room right now.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Woo!

Guest 13:
They’re the reason why I even got into Stargate. They showed it to me and it literally changed my whole perspective on sci-fi and I opened the whole world for sci-fi.

David Read:
Wow.

Guest 13:
I was wondering what your favorite episode was. Mine is when Teal’c has to replay getting slammed in the face by a door.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
“Window of Opportunity.” We’ve got four minutes, guys. Let’s snap through this. Let’s go.

Dean Newbury:
“Window of Opportunity.”

Remington Phillips:
“Cold Lazarus.”

David Read:
“The Curse.” Very Agatha Christie.

Colin Bowman:
The pilot. It was nice to see everyone back even though they had changed.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Are we going to say the same?

David Read:
God, 41. Man, I’m missing it. Ernest’s planet.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
“Torment of Tantalus.”

David Read:
“Torment of Tantalus.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
It’s either that one or “There But For the Grace of God.”

David Read:
Great one. I watched that and I was like, “I am in.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
It’s a fantastic time. Thank you so much.

Guest 13:
Thank you, guys.

David Read:
Lieutenant Tyler.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
We have three minutes. So, let’s go fast. Thank you, my dear.

Guest 14:
Hi, my name’s Rebecca.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Hi, Rebecca. Quick clap for Rebecca. Speedy clap.

Guest 14:
I was cosplaying as Osiris on Thursday.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
And you missed it. That’s quite sad.

Guest 14:
I know. So sad.

David Read:
No, she was my favorite.

Guest 14:
She’s pretty epic.

David Read:
Seriously.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
He will not stop talking about how she’s his favorite.

Guest 14:
My question is, is there something that’s alluded to throughout the show that never actually shows up that you would have liked to have seen?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Furlings.

Linda Furey:
Furlings.

David Read:
Stargate manufacturing plant. Seed ships. Milky Way and Pegasus Galaxy seed ships. We know that they had them.

Dean Newbury:
It wasn’t just Destiny?

David Read:
No. They came first. How else would you have gotten the Stargates planted all around the galaxies? You would have used seed ships.

Dean Newbury:
I don’t know. I guess I always pictured the Destiny Stargates as being the upgrade. They sent the upgrade to them at some point.

David Read:
You hang a lantern on it, like the writers would say.

Remington Phillips:
That rogue NID team that the Tollan or Asgard dealt with.

David Read:
“Wormhole X-treme!” Stargate.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Hello.

Guest 15:
Good morning, panel. My name is Michael and I was in the Air Force.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Quick clap for Michael.

David Read:
Thank you for your service, Michael.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Thank you.

David Read:
Thank you.

Guest 15:
When the show came out, that changed my trajectory ’cause it gave me more passion for serving in the military. This show, what has it given you more passion in in your life?

David Read:
Anyone have military service? Would you please stand? Thank you.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Thank you.

David Read:
Very much. Thank you.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
All right. Passion, guys.

David Read:
No hard question there.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
What you guys got?

Dean Newbury:
I think the sense of family, camaraderie, teamwork, all the things that are exemplified in the teams. That’s probably everybody’s answer, I’ll be honest.

David Read:
Redemption. I love the theme of redemption. It’s threaded throughout the series.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Agreed.

David Read:
There’s always a second chance.

Remington Phillips:
Adventure has become my motto because of Stargate.

Linda Furey:
I went artistic with it. I started dabbling in lots of different art forms and it all came out Egyptian and Stargate-y.

Colin Bowman:
I remember as a kid, my fascination with everything to do with Egypt and believing that, I don’t know how they got here, but it’s pretty spectacular. Of course, Stargate reignited all my feelings and to go back out and study Egyptology again.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Thank you so much. We have 20 seconds left, we wanna give you guys your artwork. Say what you have to say very quickly and then we gotta shoot. So, please, go nuts.

Guest 16:
What’s your favorite character?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Daniel Jackson and David Hewlett, McKay.

David Read:
Osiris.

Dean Newbury:
Jack O’Neill.

Remington Phillips:
Carter.

Linda Furey:
Jack.

Colin Bowman:
Jack.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Excellent. Thank you so much, Michael.

Dean Newbury:
Great question.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Thank you. There’s the last guy. Finish up.

David Read:
We gotta stop.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
That’s it.

David Read:
We gotta stop.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
That’s it.

David Read:
We gotta stop.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Come up here, my friend. Come up.

David Read:
He’s got one.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
That’s fine. You got one?

David Read:
Yep.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
What did he get?

David Read:
I don’t remember.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Which one did you get?

David Read:
We gotta go.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Cool. That one. In particular.

David Read:
It’s “Enemies,” the replicator ship from Enemies.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Thank you. OK. Wormhole X-treme, Dial the Gate, this whole crew, thank you very much. 30th anniversary.

David Read:
Happy 30th birthday, Stargate.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
We got this.

David Read:
Thank you.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Tell Amazon you want more. Done.