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After more than a decade of sci-fi adventures as a SYFY fan favorite, the Stargate franchise has been on a bit of a hiatus the past several years after the end of SYFY’s Stargate Universe in 2011 — but one of the stars had a wild idea for how the series could’ve picked up after its open-ended series finale.
In an interview with GateWorld, Universe star David Blue (who played Eli Wallace, a young video game genius who cracks the code to dial the ship) looked back a bit at the series’ legacy and how he reflects on the series finale now, all these years later. For those who may need a refresher, the series ran for two seasons from 2009-2011, and followed an unprepared crew who end up on an Ancient ship on the other side of the known universe.
The show ended with the ship at the heart of the adventure, the Destiny, preparing to make a three-year trek between galaxies — with much of the crew heading into stasis pods to survive the journey. The only problem? They were short one pod, so Eli stayed awake with the hopes of fixing the pod, or finding a way to survive that three year period on his own.
“it’s kind of cool in a way, because it puts it in the audience’s hand. It became a ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’: what do you think happened next? And especially with the whole ‘three years or more,’” Blue explained in the 2022 interview. “Is it going to come back? Is it happening right now? What’s going on? I loved that, because it made people’s imaginations spark. So in a way I kind of loved it.”
David Blue’s pitch for resolving Stargate Universe’s open-ending
Though that open ending of Eli staring off into the void between galaxies would prove to be the coda for the series, and the franchise as a whole, that doesn’t mean Blue didn’t have a few ideas for how things could’ve gone if the show would’ve continued on into a third season.
Blue explained he started losing weight when filming on the series began, as a nod to the realism of being stranded on a spaceship with limited food and resources (as one would lose weight anyway in that type of situation), and he thought he could use a potential time jump in a third season to make for a major change for his character Eli:
“And so I joked with {producer] Brad [Wright] about two or three weeks before we finished, and I was like, ‘I have a pitch for Season 3.’ And he’s like, ‘Jesus Christ … What?’ And I said, ‘Okay, so they’re all asleep in their stasis pods,” Blue said. “They wake up three years later and nobody can find Eli. And they’re like, he’s got to be here somewhere because we’re all still alive, right? And they just go room to room to room and they can’t find him anywhere. And they finally get to this one room and they open it, and for no reason fog pours out of the room. They can’t see anything! Finally it clears and they just see this person doing pull-ups – you just see their back!’”
Blue went on to explain, he’d love to have gotten a full Rambo moment with a new version of Eli who had been through the wringer across those three years and found a way to survive and thrive.
“I wasn’t even remotely fit at the time, but I was just like, ‘… doing pull-ups, and then drops down and turns with like a peg leg, a gun, maybe an alien on his shoulder, patch, and he goes, ‘It’s been a long three years.’’ I liked this idea that you see him and he’s different,” he said. “What happened? We never had to do that, which was funny. But that’s why that hiatus between what would have been [Seasons] Two and Three I started working out even harder, because I just liked the idea of, ‘Ooh … what now?’”
As fun as it might’ve been to see grizzled, peg leg Eli, fans will have to be content with simply knowing the Destiny is still out there zipping across the universe, slowly winding its way toward unraveling the great mysteries of the universe.
Stargate creators back on SYFY with The Ark
For fans looking for some more modern sci-fi action, several creatives behind the Stargate franchise created the new SYFY original series The Ark, which is officially returning for a third season in 2026. The show was created by Dean Devlin, one of the minds behind the original Stargate film, along with longtime Stargate SG-1 producer Jonathan Glassner.
The series, which stars Christie Burke, Reece Ritchie and Richard Fleeshman, focuses on the rag-tag crew of a space ship 100 years in the future searching for a new planet to call home.
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