I had to laugh when this episode really seemed to turn into an SG1 crossover episode, despite the fact that SG1 has now been off the air for 3 seasons. Between Daniel (Michael Shanks) and Jack (Richard Dean Anderson), and the Lucian Alliance, the plot really did connect Universe with the rest of the Stargate franchise, and I can't but help thinking that this is a REALLY good thing, even though the cliffhanger of the season finale is likely to be that the decisions of the Universe team will save an endangered Earth, even though they are so far away from home.
Still, it's also nice to loop back to the start. For those who weren't familiar with the earlier series, the Lucian Alliance, who blew up planet Icarus, was another enemy of Earth's. Apparently Col. Telford (Lou Diamond Phillips) has some sort of connection with them, which Rush (Robert Carlyle) discovered. Now he is somewhere in our galaxy, in Telford's body, while Telford is being tortured into revealing that location by Young (Justin Louis) while in Rush's body.
But don't worry, despite all the crazy stuff going on, the crew of the Destiny still had time to thrown TJ (Alaina Huffman) a baby shower. And I really liked the sense that day to day life was continuing on the ship.
I am excited to see where we go from here, assuming of course that they do resume where the cliffhanger left off (unlike episode 8), and to see how it is that another Stargate team, not from the SGC or Atlantis, will save the planet Earth from Alien races out to do us harm. Then again, maybe they will only have to defend the Destiny, and Earth will merely be helped by indirect aid? An interesting twist.
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