This was the first Stargate series I watched from the start and I would love to see a continuation of the series.

Imagine the shock of the rest of the crew when they see how much weight he's lost

I really wanted this adventure to continue. I loved all the Stargate series.

Eli fixed the pod but didn't go in straight away. He started learning more about Destiny and fixing other important areas of the ship after repairing the other repair drone and sending them out only going into stasis as necessary. To think otherwise says his character development didn't happen. 0:20 That look on his face, he knows what he has to do and that he can do it.

you miss a big plot device from early season 2 the Seed Ship, either Eli or the Destiny itself contact the next seed-ship and it comes to the 'RESCUE'.... if it can build star gates it can build spare parts for the destiny.

One big option you forgot: he went to the chair and uploaded his conscious and his body died when he couldnt repair the pod and out of options (and is there together with what was her name? Gin, his love interest, and theres already another woman in there if i remember correctly?)

Eli survived, got himself strong and fit, and managed to repair parts of the ship including the status pod with the help of Gin and Amanda. but chose not to use the pod and he had found something deeper into the ship that had him curious. and the fact that he had Gin and Amanda to talk to help him from suffering loneliness or going nuts because there's just him alone in a big ship. I really want it to come back it's my favourite stargate show.

Not sure how others see SGU but I always considered it to be Eli Wallace's story as it started with him and finished with him. And given he was the one documenting what was going on with the use of the keynotes, it kinda makes sense this was his story.

The only get-out I could think of was that he fixed the pod eventually, but at the cost of changing some power systems around, so the ship went a little slower to its destination, and the pods didn't do their jobs as well. So everyone has aged a little bit ... thus fixing the fact its been over a decade since we've seen them.

I would think Eli survived bc: 1- He's super intelligent, 2- His character is an integral part to the storyline & 3- His character is so well loved by so many that it would be blasphemous to kill him off. (Imo) 🖖 I loved Eli! ❤

There is a comic book that goes over what happens to Eli. He did survive. You can find it online.

Start the episode with Eli in a space suit (he'd been spending time in a space suit to conserve rss as it takes a lot less energy/air to make a suit livable than an entire room or shuttle). He's been on his own for years now (easy explanation for the aging of the actor), Destiny came out of FTL short of the next galaxy and has just been coasting through the remainder of the void. While he's been wearing the suit, he would have been exploring portions of Destiny that had been closed off due to hull breaches. His motivation to do this could be curiosity, boredom, or just a desire to do something useful with the limited time he knows he has. Maybe he's even been making some repairs along the way as well to keep busy. During his exploring, he could find a McGuffin that would move the story forward. It could be something that provides additional power, maybe even enough for a single trip through the Stargate back to Earth. That could be made to be a dilemma for Eli. He'd have the choice to use up the power source to get Destiny the rest of the way to the next galaxy, and remain trapped on it, or he could selfishly use it to get home. It would be a selfish dilemma because maybe the wormhole would only have power enough to safely allow a single person to make the trip, or say Destiny no longer had the power to maintain life support between the stasis area and the gate room leaving Eli no way to take anyone with him. Knowing the type of person Eli was, he'd of course choose to use the power to shorten the trip. But you can't make it that simple. To make it interesting there could be a new enemy, or some natural threat to the ship, that shows up as Destiny is coasting in the void between galaxies. That would put Eli under a time crunch to interface the power source with Destiny's systems, raising the tension. There's a bunch of different ways to take the end of that story, depending on the threat against the ship that's used. I think it would make for an entertaining first episode of a new season. Even if they don't want to green-light an entire season, I hope they will at least give us a miniseries or a movie to tie up that story.

Another option is that Eli finds several repair drones ( like the attack drones in SG, although Alantis.) . He fixes them , and although slow, they allow him to repair sections of the ship that are sealed due to hull breaches, giving him access to more storage of materials, food stuff, and databases. He even finds a data file for an Ai intelligence and a biological android body for it.

I think that little grin at the end was him figuring out how to fix either the ship or the pod.

I always thought that crew would defrost from the cryopods and Eli would be missing. Not dead, missing. Destiny would be in better repair, Eli had done a lot of work on his endeavors to save himself. The chair was put off limits by a restored Gin. The crew goes over his vlogs, there are hundreds of entries. It would be the central mystery of the season.

Remember when Teal'c got caught mid-transit in the Stargate buffer? Eli could do the same...basically a Stargate version of Scotty's solution to upload himself into the transporter buffer in the Star Trek TNG (S06E04). The whole first episode drama could be the crew trying to figure out what Eli had done and retrieve him before they cycle the Stargate. For what it is worth, it was stupid to sacrifice the best person capable of getting them back to Earth if he couldn't get the pod working.

I hope Eli lives. Because I want to see what happens to the show.

Would live love to get another shot at this show. Was so bummed it ended

Honestly. Best music in any show I've seen. This music used to make me tear up loads. You really feel you know the characters well through the tune. Feel like it represents them well and their situation.

We didn't see the planet builders in SGU but we did see their influences, the planet with the tower that group stayed at, the solar flare sending them back in time to save themselves and returning the crew that was left behind. And my theory is the planet builders are actually descendants of the Destiny crew. We don't know how many times they were sent back in time and if one group was sent back 1,000 years, who's to say another group wasn't sent back millions?

The ancients sent a remote self aware repairship that the ship finds and docks with it then repairs the ship completely. So that all 100% of the ship can be explored.

Don't forget he also has the stones, so he has the ability to communicate with SG Command and Atlantis and loan his body to others. In the short term this could help with the "fixing the pod" scenario by allowing SG command to basically replicate the CO2 filter troubleshooting scene from Apollo 13 with the stasis pod. Alternatively, in the long term if he has to take refuge in the shuttle he can use time with the stones to maintain his sanity by taking "time-outs" on earth interacting with others while also getting help with finding solutions to any challenges, maybe even taking up some new hobbies (like maybe he receives combat training during his time visiting the SGC), or helping figure out how to power a resupply gate-mission. It'd be kind of funny to if at the end of the two year crossing everybody wakes up to find that not only is Eli much more buff and is suddenly able to strip/maintain weapons and operate with the military crew, but he actually knows all the latest news and trends back on earth, and they wake up to find that the stargate has just shut down from receiving its first resupply mission from the milky way so Eli is walking them through all the cool parts and supplies they just got.

How about: the crew wakes up, in a galaxy they AREN'T supposed to be in and ELI is missing. The first season is figuring out what happened to Destiny and Eli. Clues are randomly scattered throught the ship. Eli has accessed most of the ship. Evidence of a fight. New defensive weaponry is on the ships exterior. New offensive weapons are designed but not completed. Blaster marks and debris are scattered throughout. Eli is shown in flashbacks and recordings negotiating with an unknown species. Fighting another using newly gained tech. The ship is adrift near a blackhole, preventing or limiting stargate activity to 1 planet. Bring back a race from SG1, there are a few to choose from the 5 that would make sense. The crew has to decide to go home or keep looking for Eli. Some leave, some dont. The ancestors of the Destiny planet have caught up to Destiny and assume control or provide assistance. Merge the crew out of necessity. Soo many ideas.

The whole issue was that, if even a single person was alive and not in one of the pods, Destiny would run out of power before getting to the first star in the next galaxy. There were only a couple of days that Eli had in order to fix the pod before he had to commit suicide, that’s why Rush was forced to get into the pod because the Colonel refused to think that Rush in the end would kill himself in the allotted timeframe or risk the entire crew and ship drifting for centuries to maybe drift into the next galaxy. So, unless Eli fixed the pod in those few days, he should be dead from suicide.

My theory was that Eli figured out how to use the energy scoops in the space between galaxies.

Maybe the writers will use a little known Astronomical fact....The 'void' between galaxies isn't really empty, there are star systems between galaxies. you can use these star systems as steppingstones. to the next galaxy.

Eli only had two weeks worth of excess power to use before Destiny shut down life support to keep the stasis pods running. Two weeks to either fix the broken one or not and find another way to survive. Personally I would want him to explore the ship (he & Chloe had done this accidentally) and find either more working pids or a way to survive.

Just like Destiny has/had seed ship(s) to build gates ahead of it, it would be cool if Destiny had a tender ship that while in between galaxies put Destiny into "dry dock" and perform automated repairs. The tender ship would have gathered resources from the previous galaxy to fabricate repair parts. This way Destiny would be able to continue indefinitely.

Of course Eli lives, he met Q along the way, they became great buddies, and made Eli a Q too. And they all lived happily ever after. The end. I just saved everybody from all that angst worrying about him, and saved the production companies a lot of money from trying to do a remake.

I´m partial to a Wormholedrive using Rescue Ferry from Earth, as it is the most logical Way for Earth to keep a semblance of Control over the Destiny. The SGC or rather Homeworld Command would want to keep Tabs on the Ship and the result of it´s Mission, so building a Ship that can reach that far would be smart.

I always liked the idea that Eli survived by rigging stargate into some sort of feed back loop, the crew are trying to search for him only to find the gate acting strange when they touch the controls and it actives and Eli appears walking out like nothing happened, making reference to how Scotty saved himself by using the transporter on star trek next generation and no one gets it

There is also the chair (I forget the actual name of it), which uploads the person's consciousness into the mainframe, which Eli could have used. A crazy thought is that using it and parts from the broken stasis unit Elis creates a hybrid system to keep him alive and also understand more about Destiny's mission. And when everyone comes out they find him linked up to the system, and as he comes out he has to adjust to deal with people again as well convey what he now has learnt. Effectively a way of enforced social isolation and social readjustment

I remember reading a online comic book about the undisclosed script for the next series, eli solves the power problem by setting up a kind of dynamo where the ship traveling through hyperspace created power, now that power wasnt an issue he realised that the ancients ships was designed to hold hundreds of ancients so why were there so few hibernation pods, he realised that there must be more pods on a unexplored part of the ship, he eventually found more pods after searching for a few months - the pods were already filled with ancients in hibersleep, it turned out they went into hypersleep when preparing for the launch of the ship, but before launch the project was abandoned and they were forgotton about, he managed to wake them up and explain the problems to them, they then got him to wake up his leader"Colonel Young" and they treat the earthings like insects, thats all that happened in that episode of the comic and I couldnt find the next one

Atlantis used their "Worm Hole Drive" to instantly go to any spot in the Universe in seconds. High power cost, yes, but still. It is a fiction, thus open to a plethora of ideas.

sorry, it's easier to fix it. astronomically, approximately half of all stars are in galaxies. the other half is not. they are somewhere in between. the destiny just needs a few stars on the trip to recharge. the only thing why the writers of SGU did not explore that: in reality, finding those stars is rather difficult.

Eli figures out how to bypass part of one of the working pods to take the component he needs to initiate the freeze cycle. Repairs his pod and goes into cryo. Then when they reach their destination and Eli wakes up he tries to restore the pod he took the component from and he can't get that cryo pod to unfreeze whomever is in that pod. For several episodes they are looking for what they need to fix the remaining cryo pod then either they do and Eli is relieved, or they break the pod and the person dies leaving Eli with guilt. Alternatively he could figure out how to get the ship to absorb his mind and he frees his red headed girl friend from the computer memory and they have fun for a couple years in virtual space. While he tries to figure out how to restore both their bodies.

It is definitely a better story if he does survive, and not just by fixing the pod, but instead by his own epic journey, maybe involving stuff from the unexplored sections of the ship. Maybe a few days in, as he is working on the pod, realizing it cannot be fixed without jeopardizing the others in stasis, a warning signal from the ship goes off, and he has to put on an environment suit and go see what it is…

3:11 My PERSONAL theory, how eli survived the journey _AND_ how all of them aged accordingly .. and why it took _that_ long finally is. Eli was unable to fix the Pod at first.. But then discovered, that he could manipulate the ships systems so that _all_ pods would lose a tiny amount of energy, on top of driving the hyperspace with less power. So he actually became able to restore the function of the final pod he needed. In effect, all of them would start to age normally while in stasis and the journey could take longer than 2 years. But they all would survive as they were. At least. ;)

Three options: 1: Eli dead 2: Eli came up with an ad-hoc solution to stow away for the 3 years without breaking things. His brain is probably half broken in this scenario. 3: Eli pulled a Franklin and is no where to be found, except maybe to come haunt Rush.

Well, the writers certainly intended for him to survive somehow. They've all said as much. They just never got the chance to make it happen (yet).

Eli wouldn't survive without outside assistance... I started a fanfic that included the end of Destiny where he decides he can't fix the pod so uses the stones to go to Earth and see if there's any news on help. Eli was given access to the SGC database which includes all Asgard and Ancient data obtained and comes up with a plan, use the Ori Supergate to establish a link to Destiny; but that will take months. I wrote a lot more, but he does survive and everyone wakes up shocked to discover Destiny is full of personnel from the SGC and Eli (now leaner) having accessed the Destiny's control chair, has the Destiny's knowledge that's aided in getting Destiny ready for the SGCs arrival.

I always imagined that the planet builders could possibly be ascended beings.

i honestly always thought they were implying by the look on eli's face in that last shot that eli was lying about his confidence to fix that pod and was simply sacrificing himself.

Eli sat in the chair. I know, power. Plot armor. The chair has its own power supply. The chair is basically a stasis pod. The rest of the crew wake to find Eli there to greet them. Some did not survive of course. But one of the crew goes to embrace Eli and goes right through him. He is a projection of himself. First few episodes are figuring that out as the chair room door is closed and a figure can be scene through the smoke in the chair.

Just finished the last episode :C If the show were to be picked up again, today, and I had a say in the story, I would say of course Eli survived. He repaired the pod... somewhat. He knew when entering and activating it, he would survive, but because he couldnt repair the pod to 100% functionality, it would drain much more power. Destiny would fall short after 3 years of FTL travel and then drift another 150 years before reaching the next galaxy (with just enough energy left to recharge in the next star). Eli enters the pod anyway. Better they wakeup 150 years too late than not at all. About 25 years after Destiny started the long journey, the crew is woken up. And of course they still havent reached the next galaxy. Col. Young wakes up and looks into the face of some unknown colonel. It is busy, loads of people opening stasis pods. People not from the Destiny. But people from earth. As it turns out SGC found another Icarus type planet. Langara (from S2E15) was unfortunately destroyed when the Lucian alliance tried to conquer the planet and Earth defended it. In those 25 years a lot has changed. The people of Earth know about the Stargate program. Earth has become a new economic super power in the Milky way galaxy. The Lucian alliance just couldnt compete with companies such as VW, Audi, Shell, Exxon Mobil, Walmart, Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook. xD It took a 10 year long war between Earth and the Lucian alliance as well as another 12 years to find another Icarus type planet, and 3 more years to build the facility and all to run the 9th Chevron program safely and have a permanent supply line. SGC already knew that Destiny would drift for a long way since just before Eli entered the stasis pod, he informed SGC about everything using the communication stones. So, as the Tauri could finally send another expedition to Destiny, they brought with them a few new power sources which are compatible with Destiny's systems (e.g. McKay and Zelenka found a way to build ZPMs). Since so much time has passed, the people we know from SGC have already retired and are now civilians. SGC is run by completely different people now. Except Telfort. He has been promoted to general.... The Destiny crew has aged by about 15 years (2009 - 2024). As it turns out the stasis pods could not put a person fully into stasis, so they still aged but much slower. Which also explains how Eli lost so much weight.

Option 2 isn't an option. He would likely deplete their resources so when the crew woke up there would be nothing left for them. That and two years of solitary confinement would likely make him completely mentally unhinged.

i personally like the idea of Eli having uploaded himself into Destiny after doing such, he realizes that they didn't have to skip the galaxy he accustoms himself to his new conditions, and then wakes up the first few crew members....we'll say, Rush, Young, Chloe, Scott, Greer, and maybe a few others He comes over the ship's com and tells them to meet him on the bridge, which is where he explains his idea they will go to another star with a command ship, and all of the drones, they will take control of and magnetize them to the haul. And from that point on, they will continue to do this, any time they need to recharge, or just stop for fun he will take every effort to not make physical contact, so that no one realizes he isn't physical anymore they come to a point, we'll say about 50 drones, where Destiny simply won't jump....it could be 100, but i will say 50. Now, Eli knows that they can store more IN the ship, but rather than always having the answers, he allows someone else to come to the realization......he is trying to keep up the charade as long as possible.....for what reason.....i haven't gotten to yet......but part of the reason will be, a growing consciousness in the ship's network of course, the command ships come to realize what is happening, and so they start teaming up. the crew comes to realize that to really deal with this properly, they need to destroy the place where these ships are being made the fun bit, is that the audience wouldn't even be aware of Eli's condition until the ending of the 3rd season....sure there would be hints throughout the season.....but there is always an explanation Eli essentially becomes as secretive as Rush.....and even has his own corridor, that we get a first look at in episode 3, but the rest of the crew doesn't find out about until atleast episode 15.....always "sneaking away" not being able to be found...ACTING LIKE Rush During this time, Rush and Young actually become close confidants for each other.....and Young regularly asks Rush, you had done this, what was your motivation.....obviously, not exactly asked like that, but in a manner that would show the two of them becoming, even, friends Greer......he doesn't want to think anything negative about Eli, but there would be an event that would sit wrong, even for Greer about episode 8 to 10 maybe, somewhere around there, Eli would say that he needed to think about something, saying that to Greer, and turn to walk away. Greer would be certain that Eli took a specific turn, and head that same way to say something to him......but it would be a dead end. Greer would be outrightly confused. That would probably be episode 8, and then Eli gives a plausible explanation in episode 10, of taking a different path. Greer, thinking Eli isn't a liar, accepts the idea, and moves on from it there would be other hints up to this point. He gets out of sight, for a second, having turned a corner, and someone runs to try to stop him, and literally only a second or two from him turning the corner, to the person trying to catch him, and he is gone nothing solid, but all of these little hints then, the final episode of season 3, either Eli is alone, and he misses making physical contact, and we see him put his hand on a console, and we see it go into the console.....or, he looks at the console, deep in thought, and then disappears.....one of those two season 4 would pick up as a flashback, showing Eli trying to figure out the stasis pod, and then back to regular time.....then another flashback, the regular time, the another flashback......kind of like the first episode. There would be about 5 flashback moments, culminating on the eventuality that we already know, he sits in the chair.....but it would explain WHY he came to that point. And season 4 would be, by episode 10, young and rush finding out. I am debating if they find out BECAUSE of chloe, or if she remains in the dark for a bit longer.....but rush and young will keep it a secret until Eli is ready to show the rest of the crew, which he does by the end of the season......but, in a strange way. Everyone is gathered together, with the intention of Eli telling everyone.....but then some catastrophe, where everyone has to jump into action, and it is severe enough, that Eli says that he will do the calculations and meet them on the bridge, and he simply vanishes, leaving all the rest of the crew shocked......and the episode ends on that cliffhanger

What if the most unlikely attacker in SG:U saved him: The Berzerker Drones. The drones contact their owners about the attacks from the Destiny and this information is processed, and some alien entity decides to go visit Destiny to find out what really happened and investigate the situation. They are pretty powerful drones maybe their owners did not intend for them to do what they did to the Destiny and want to set things right?

The logical solution, Eli repairs the maintenance bots/system, slowly without constant interruption from the crew he gets more of the ship working, discovers more stasis pods, when they arrive and wake up they find the ship almost fully working.

My idea would be Eli can't solve the pod issue fast enough (as he only had 2 weeks) so he develops something that siphons power from the rest of the pod system to buy him more time to solve the problem with his pod, this causes everyone to stay asleep and not need food but their bodies still age at the normal rate so if the show returned 5-10 years later you could explain the characters aging. Alternatively the same concept but at a slowed aging rate and the Destiny ran out of engine power before reaching the next galaxy so everyone was in stasis for some amount of time (like couple hundred or thousands of years) and their descendants come and rescue them

The ship have more than 80 living quarters, so there had to be more than 80 pods.

I think that the ship finds a rogue star between galaxies and resupply itself and begin repairs.

Eli searched the ship and found another pod.. somehow he survived.

I like to think so.

I like the “Finding his own solution” option. Maybe he’s poking around the computer core (since Rush had it opened) and he finds research on food replication and power generation. Of course it can’t all be that easy so there would need to be some small issue at least. Maybe the power generation isn’t as simple as it seems…

Necessity is the Mother of Invention. Desperate necessity is a Great Motivator. Life & Death necessity is the Greatest of all Motivators. Captain Kirk was a firm believer that there is no such thing as a No Win Scenario, I ascribe to such a belief. If anyone aboard the Destiny would "Solve" this problem, Eli is that guy.

If they come back with SGU, maybe they can have aged appropriately to real life and throw in something like, "Eli took 1 day longer than he was supposed to to fix the pod which caused them to drift for X years."

Here is what you are not taking into account. How much food and water does one human require for two years? How much fresh breathable air or sanitation needs does one human require in two years? The only way he would be able to survive would be to either fix the problem or a more exciting choice would be to stumble across the source code for the machines and upload a virus into them as they over specialized thus breading in that weakness that they simply would not be able to overcome. One thing you seem to have forgotten is all the life support needs to be shut down in something like two weeks for the ship to be able to have enough power to make the trip. If he doesn't allow the ships systems to shut down he kills everyone which is why Russ would have never been allowed to stay and attempt to fix the broken pod as Russ would just do the wrong thing to save himself even if it meant killing someone in a pod as they slept so that he could take their place.

SGU without Eli or Rush just wouldn’t be the same.

Well, since you asked:I like the version where the survivors find the dead body of Eli. But the mind of Eli is still on board. In exploring the ship, while resources last, Eli finds an unusual communication stone (interface). In a race against time, around when the last morsel of food is consumed, he exchanges his mind with that of the ship. After he has kept them safe for the rest of their jump, the survivors mourn the body that was Eli, but Eli is still with them. If I recall correctly he might not even be alone in there, but I'd have to rewatch to be sure about that.

Eli choose the crewman that he hated the most, tossed them out the airlock and took their pod.

What was the size comparison between the Destiny and Atlantis. I can see there being loads of space on Atlantis not opened, but not so much on Destiny. Note, after Atlantis landed next to the Golden Gate bridge, I reevaluated it's size as well. It basically straddles a slightly greater than 1 mile body of water, so not tremendously huge when talking about the size of a city. I admit, I am not sure at all about the size of Destiny though, I did not know whether to compare it to one of the Ancient Atlantean ships that used to dock at Atlantis or was it bigger. Note, I do recognize the difference in Atlantis Tech and Asgardian Tech.

Telford was so enamored with that Ursini hibernation pod that he secretly brought one aboard when he rejoined the crew. Eli found it in a storage room and tied its computer into the quarantine partition of the ship's computer where he and Ginn could be together for the long haul. The End.

Elli was interesting alright. A lovable weasel; Constantly flip sides to whom ever he wanted and no one ever questioned him about it.

Comeon its SGU we all know how it goes. Rush uploaded a secret command code which woke him up 1 week after all went to the pods. He gets Eli stabbed and into his pod, after which Rush uploads himself to the mainframe. When the crew wake up, they realize, that Rush is gone, but the ship doesnt exactly accept their commands in each situation, which takes awhile while Eli figures out, that Rush is in the mainframe and has total control over Destiny, then Young orders him to gain back control at any price. They seemingly succeed, just to realize that the system remains infected, until they get into deep sht which they only get out by some divine interaction by Rush to save them from a perilous situation. Young and Rush makes a truce, albeit Young secretly orders Eli to find a way to get rid of him, which Rush captures in a kino footage. Sometime later a few accidents happen which all targeting Young, so he orders Eli to get rid of him permanenty, which Eli realize is only possible with a total system wipe, which would not only get rid of Rush, but the two quarantined sweethearts as well. Regardless they make the system wipe, which goes wrong, because ancient operating systems are too advanced for Eli, so the ship remains stranded without power and life support. Season 3 ends. Season 4 they get into contact with SGC via the communication stones, where McKay is working on the situation. He search Atlantis's archives, and although still unable to relaunch the ships OS, finds the way to relaunch the chair, although someone has to sit into it in order to get back the ship into functional order. Theres a little bit of fight going on between Young and Eli, so who to do it, Young takes it upon himself. By getting into the OS Young meets Rush in person, who tells him, that he is the onlyone who can do it, which turns out to be a lie, since Young can switch back enough systems so that Eli can restart the mainframe. Then Rush tells him, that if they switch on the ship, then all the data Destiny ever collected is gone, make its mission moot and he not only knows how to rematerialize himself, but also how to dial back to Earth by having complete access to Destinys sensors during the solar refuelling process, so Young has to trust him, not to take over Destiny again, because he can relaunch the ship completely intact. They do it, and Rush returns into his body stating that the objective is too important to risk it again. Young throws him into the brig, from where he gets out when he cures TJ, with the help oft the ancient database.

My guess: Eli would have survived alone for a long time, maybe showing signs of mental breakdown. Then, one day, he encounters an alien race, he goes on some grand adventures with them and he's a better man than ever. The aliens help him repair a hibernation pod and the ship and then he goes to hibernate with the crew because he misses them. When they wake up, he recounts his tale with the crew.

the Destiny was NOT left between galaxies.......they were only a third of the way through that galaxy now yes, Eli said, "out and around this galaxy" indicating the idea of, we are going to change course the make an immediate exit out of the galaxy, and then we will change course again to go around the galaxy to reach the next however, presumably, Eli had just put the last few in the pods, and then within the first day, went to the observation deck. technically, it could very well have been that, the scene of him being at the observation deck's windows, that COULD have been meant for, if they were able to pick up a season 3, and we find out that, that was 2 weeks after Rush and Young went in......that could be when he figures out how to fix the pod, or when he decides to upload himself into Destiny

I have to disagree on one point. The Ancients didn't need a planet with a Naquadria core as a power source. Remember when Eli cracked it during the base attack? It was meant to be dialed from Earth. They would have likely done it with a ZPM. We needed a planet because of how far away Destiny had gotten. If it had gone that far and the Ancients tried to get to it, they probably would have hooked up a few ZPMs in series. One of the things Eli could have done is use one of the space suits to explore the areas they couldn't get to if it was just an issue of atmosphere.

I always assumed that he was pretty sure he couldn’t fix the pod. He would try, but assuming he failed, he would upload his consciousness to Destiny and become part of the ship. That smile on his face on the observation deck at the end said it all to me. He knew what was going to happen. And he was at peace with it.

i have a head canon for Eli to survive. it involves the beings that created the Drone ships to appear. my theory is the Drone ships are made by Guardians that limit people who want to access the origin of universe ( from the signal that the ancients detected and created the Destiny to reach) the planet builders have move on just like how the ancients have ascended. but the Guardians who understood that the Galactic reset/creation device should only be activated after the end of Everything. these guardians also gave the ancients ZPM tech, which for some reason in the whole SG franchise, humans never found the tech for, we seen ZPMs scattered and tech to create alternative power source , but nothing that makes zpm. the Asurans could make ZPMs because they copied everything the ancients had. so only Repli-Weir can make ZPMs for humans. that's a can of worms. an extra race in shadows that seem good is bad or bad is actually good. first Unas, seemed evil in Thor's hammer, but Shakka and other tribes was good. the Tollan was neutral, then good then foolish. Asgard was good but SG:A now have the malicious rouge faction. so having The drone makers that appears to be very strict/evil, turn out to be the saviour would fit with SG. why else would the Ancients leave Destiny empty? they acquired an informal alliance that gave them ZPMs, a near infinite power source compared to destiny Solar scoops. and they can move the city ships through hyperspace using 3. but the Ancients got caught up with the Wraith, and the Drone makers wouldn't allow more ZPMs risk falling into wraith control. thus the Ancients were left to fend for themselves.

Water is all he needs, he’s got a few months of reserves in body fat and he’s smart enough to make water into breathable air.

They missed out on making a really cheep episode, or several episodes with just 1 actor in it. He was also the only character that was not annoying.

I always wondered why they didn't have pairs of people who rotate in and out of hibernation? Thay is why no one is alone and no one is forced to stay way up for decades?

I don't the Eli would die on Destiny. I think if he knew there was no was of surviving he would have left an automated message for the crew and left on a pod. I don't think he would want his friends to wake up and find his body and have to deal with his remains.

He finally opened the dang crates and had everything that would be needed to repair the equipment. I never understood why they werent opening the crates that they found on the ship at the beginning.

It’s hard to believe it’s been 15 years since the series ended. He could’ve survived with some alien intervention.

Wasn't a big fan of SGU at first but I stuck with it because I'm a big stargate fan. By season two it was my favorite SG series. SGU was cancelled just when it was getting good.

The SGC potentially has access to Ori technology as well.

Here's the unavoidable problem: David Blue and the rest of the cast have all aged far more than 2 years. Those characters in stasis pods would not have aged at all, while Eli ... well, have you SEEN him lately? Something has to have happened whereby approximately the same amount of ageing has occurred for everyone. tais It also seems clear that not all of the original cast will be available. You can't avoid that either. Their absence needs to be explained. So, I am suggesting that a power issue causes the stasis pods to malfunction. Some die, others simply don't get the full stasis effect ... they are kept alive but they age.

Maybe when Ship hits a critical level of damage, it activates an auto repair system.. Maybe he finds a way to activate the old auto repair system. That has emergency power supplies.. However to do so he must awaken his Blood line.. And become someone who uses his mind to play with things around him... Even to the point he uses his new powers to animate a puppet he made, to walk and talk, as a second personality of his grows.. In other words, he would be on his way to ascending, but only 50%. As he does so with ship's info and guidance. The story could then revolve around his mental growth, and failures, as a side story! This way writers could use the idea that hopeless events can cause him to grow! And hint that this was the plan of the ship's AI all along.. Making one realise the pod failure was the ship's doing.. All to make him start to awaken...

i like my idea that some of the ancients got together secretly built a repair/resupply/upgrade ship for the destiny and had it clocked and waiting for the ship to arrive and since they did into know where it was at the had to send it far enough ahead that the two ships could join up on destiny journey

Did anyone think about hopping galaxies and crossing each galaxy like Baal . You can use something like a ZPM or Jack O'Neal power booster. You can use pudding jumpers so you don't have to check the air. You can even install a beaming device so you can bring more materials with you in the jumper. Instant solution.

they did have atlantian space suits on the ship maybe eli managed to fix one up enough that he could have traversed to previously unaccessable sections of the ship cause he would have had to vent oxygenated compartments, and with eli being alone he didnt have to worry about that as much so with the suit he can travel the ship more freely.

Eli went cannibal while the victims were in suspended animation. They were revived missing arms and legs when they finally reached their destination. Eli had gained a considerable amount of weight.👍

He had 2 Weeks to fix the pod. At the conclusion of 2 weeks if the pod was still damaged he had to kill himself. If he chose to stay alive, the power drain from running Life Support would have extended the ship’s travel time markedly. And when the crew finally revived, he would still have died, but from old age.

Personally i thought there were 3 solutions ranked high likely to feverdream. Option 1 high likely eli can't repair the pod but uploads his concience into the destiny and appears in tje minds of the crew and the crew figures that out across half or 3/4 of the season. Option 2 normal likely, eli repairs the pod and is there after 3 years like everyone else. Option 3 feverdream, eli... somehow ascends but isn't as restricted as other ascended since he is the only one in this part of the galaxy but this will be important later when they reach the destination of the destiny.

The most 'true-to-the-series' solution is one you didn't explore. Eli would be missing. And the first 3 episodes would be about finding him, getting him back. Followed by an obligatory half season of him not being 'quite the same'

Hopefully they find him well, big n buff not dead in the corner, shrivelled and rough💪👽

I personally don't care if Eli survives, but most likely he would if they finish the story they need to finish. Destiny's purpose. It was a very brief scene when Rush explains what Destiny's true purpose was, what the Ancient's discovered and wanted to explore. If they don't finish that story then there is no purpose to ever bring back SGU, or any SG that could explain what happened. They can skip thousands of years into the future for all I care and the entire crew of the Destiny is dead and still finish the story. If fact killing off the crew of the Destiny might be the way to go. Earth does send help but it's to late, total power failure all the pods go down and the entire crew is dead. They get the ship going again and finish the journey. Then I can stop being pissed off they didn't finish the story.

my headtheory was always that the pods sustained but wasnt true stasis and the people inside still aged so when the series eventually restarted they could explain their 10+ years aged

Consider... The pods required material;s to repair them, and just enough could be repaired to cater for everyone... Bit of a stretch... but then One pod is found to have some obscure fault that just refuses to work. Everyone gets a pod except for one. One person has to vol;unteer to remain awake while the ship shuts down. Doesn't that sound like some sort of test? Maybe the ship messing with the pod to see how the crew react to this stress, a bit like the Colonels dream sequences of a battle scenario? And Eli passed the test. So maybe in a future series, they would have awoken to find Eli had found the pod working again, but no one could figure out how come. OR second option. Unknown to all, a second project was under way, with an inhabitrated Icarus planet, where the Alliance was trying to gain control. The SGC was negotiating, and part of the negotions was to allow them to use the gate to recharge some ZPM's. but, McCAy who was in charge of this side of things had his own little side project. When the Alliance tried a coup, which was repulsed, the Stargate was in an overload which would destroy it, but before then, they dial Destiony, and as McCay and co get beamed back to their ship, a Puddle Jumper piolot takes supplies, and a recharged ZPM through to Destiny. AND ALSO Seed Ship STargates have ponly a limited range to dial out. However, Destiny has contact with all the gate, since they detected the damaged gate turning on and off with Morse Code. Hence it would seem that Destiny could in fact dial out to any gate due to having more power than a planet side gate. Ones outside rangte would be 'locked out' because if anyone went thorugh they would have no means to dial back to Destiny, until it came within range. BUT it would be possible to actualkly dial out to Destiny from any gate within a galaxy. How? Using a modified McCay dialling system which was used for the Intergalactic Gate system in SG:Atlantis. Uploaded into the local galactic gate syste, all you need to do is activate the program, dial Destiny, evenm if out of range, and let the algorithm wortk out the best route of gates to take. and Bingo AND ALSO There are who knows how many more Seed Ships out there, after all at least one is still ahead of thgem as the Gates have been laid. Gates have a power source of some type. If they find another Seed Ship they could [possibly salvage some of these power units to augment the power system of Destiny. StarGAte:Universe still had so much to offer.

It would be cool to go through the crates where the robot was found and find an early version of a ZPM and other repair supplies that they just didn't have the time capacity to look for but were likely there the whole time. I was always waiting for that to happen and it would make sense with the storyline. It would make perfect sense for the ancients to have pre-staged those supplies for their future occupation of destiny That never came to pass

The cliffhanger was THE most rivetting thing on tv for that decade. Loved it. Miss it. Watch the DVDs occ

he survived in the comic...found a room with frozen ancient builders woke them up they knew how to auto repair the ship to like new woke everyone up ect....it was a decent few comics

A runway star. Web has found several of them

He read all of the SG1 mission logs, so he rigged the gate to store himself in the buffer.

My head cannon is at the end when he smiles then frowns is him finally having a chance to look around looking out at the swirling colors and realizing what it was, it was light. If he dropped the collectors that would be enough light to keep life support running for him. But he frowns realizing that he’d still have to spend the time alone.

I'm surprised there wasn't more spinoffs of SG1. Like SG2, SG7, etc. with the character dynamics and different worlds that could have been explored. There could have been crossover episodes where they met up with SG1. There were so many wasted opportunities.

The best and grittiest SG series, but there was only two seasons.

SGC befriends the Ori priests and they share tech and a power drive that can fit through the gate and get them all home.